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The Montgomery Manuscripts: 
 
 (1603—1706) 
 
 Compikb from jTamtlg Jlapets 
 
 BY 
 
 WILLIAM MONTGOMERY OF ROSEMOUNT, ESQUIRE; 
 
 AND 
 BY 
 
 I^E V. GEORGE HI L-L-. 
 
 JSclfast: 
 
 JAMES CLEELAND, 26, ARTHUR STREET; 
 THOMAS DARGAN, 17, CASTLE LANE. 
 
 MDCCCLXIX. 
 
BOSTOII COLLEGE LIBMRt 
 CHESTNUT H4U. MA 02167 
 
 SEP 2 4 1990 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 
 
 PACES 
 
 I. 
 
 FIRST VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF THE GREAT ARBS, 
 
 
 -150 
 
 2. 
 
 THIRD VISCOUNT, FIRST EARL OF MOUNT-ALEXANDER, . 
 
 '51- 
 
 -259 
 
 3- 
 
 FOURTH VISCOUNT, SECOND EARL OF MOUNT-ALEXANDER, . 
 
 260- 
 
 -302 
 
 4- 
 
 SIR JAMES MONTGOMERY OF ROSEMOUNT, KNIGHT, 
 
 303- 
 
 -347 
 
 5 
 
 CAPTAIN GEORGE MONTGOMERY OF DUNBRATLY, 
 
 • 34S- 
 
 -355 
 
 6. 
 
 NARRATIVE OF GRANSHEOGH, 
 
 356- 
 
 -362 
 
 7- 
 
 HUGH MONTGOMERY OF BALLYMAGOWN, 
 
 • 363- 
 
 -384 
 
 8. 
 
 SEVERAL FAMILIES OF THE MONTGOMERYS, .... 
 
 385- 
 
 -403 
 
 9- 
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR, 
 
 404 
 
 -439 
 
 10. 
 
 MONTGOMERYS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, 
 
 440- 
 
 -472 
 
 INDEX 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 HE MONTGOMERY MANUSCRIPTS were written by William Montgomery of Rose- 
 mount, in the county of Down, between the years 1696 and 1706, or during the last ten 
 years of the author's life. Of this learned old gentleman's personal history 
 nothing is known to the editor beyond the several curious autobiographical notices to be found in 
 this volume, and to which the reader may have easy access by means of the Index at the 
 end. His memoir of the first viscount Montgomery contains a vivid sketch of the Scottish settle- 
 ment in the territory of Ard-Uladh, at the commencement of the seventeenth century, and of the 
 events which led to the extinction of the great house of O'Neill in Upper or Southern Clannaboy. 
 The memoir of the second viscount is unfortunately lost, at least for the present, having been 
 probably carried away to Australia by the author's lineal descendant, captain Frederick Campbell 
 Montgomery, who settled in that colony about the year 1835. The memoir of the third viscount 
 has reached us almost complete (although evidently wanting its introductory chapter), and is a truly 
 valuable contribution to the history of Ulster, from the outbreak of the great Irish rebellion in 1641, 
 until the period of the Restoration in 1660. The third viscount, who had a commission as com- 
 mander-in-chief of the royalist forces in Ulster, was advanced to the dignity of an earl by Charles 
 II., and took Mount-Alexander as the name of his earldom, from the family residence 
 near Comber, in the county of Down, which had been so called in honour of his mother, Jean 
 Alexander, daughter of the first earl of Stirling. The memoir of the fourth viscount, second 
 earl of Mount-Alexander, who died in 17 16, appears to be complete, at least to the year 1706, the 
 date of the author's death. This second earl was appointed general of the northern Protestant 
 forces in 1688, and his memoir, containing some curious particulars of the revolutionary struggle 
 in Ulster, will be read with deep interest. The memoir of Sir James Montgomery is quite imperfect- 
 We have here only a copy of portions of the original. In a MS. account of the Savages 
 to which the editor had access, there is a marginal reference to pp. 209, 210, of the Life of Sir 
 James Moittgomery, but the fragment which has been preserved would not occupy, probably, more 
 than fifty of the closely written quarto pages of William Montgomery's original memoir. The 
 transcriber, however, has fortunately copied from the original such portions of the memoir as refer- 
 red to Sir James's public life, including an account of his military operations in 1641, which preserved 
 the inhabitants of the Ards from pillage and massacre, and kept that district open as an asylum for 
 multitudes who had escaped the fury of the insurgents in other localities, throughout Down, and the 
 adjoining counties. For the memoirs above-mentioned the author derived his materials from 
 such family papers as had not been stolen or destroyed when Rosemount House was burned, in 
 February, 1695, 
 
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 Preface. 
 
 The author appears, generally, to have committed to the then representatives of the several 
 leading families in the Ards, of the surname of Montgomery, such portions of his Manuscripts as 
 specially treated of the branches to which they respectively belonged, — an arrangement by which 
 these documents were widely dispersed, and, in some instances, valuable collections irrevocably 
 lost. His memoirs of the main branch, with one exception, were preserved at Mount-Alexander 
 House, and afterwards at Donaghadee, kinsfolk and connexions occasionally borrowing them 
 for consultation on important family matters. The memoirs of the author's father, sir James 
 Montgomery, of his father-in-law, the second viscount, and of the author himself, lay in Rosemount 
 House, and afterwards at Killough, from which they, with others, were removed on the mar- 
 riage of the author's great grand-daughter, Helena Montgomery, with Conway Heatley, esq., of 
 Riversdale, in the county of Wicklow. This lady's eldest son was permitted, in the year 1820, to 
 assume the name and arms of Montgomery. Her grandson, Frederick Campbell Montgomery 
 above-named, carried with him many of the Papers relating to the history of his family, which are 
 supposed to be in the possession of his children, who reside in Australia. Among the Papers thus 
 removed were probably the author's Opei-a JiiveniUa and Opera Senilia, two distinct volumes, 
 referred to at pp. 412, 416. He mentions that his Dispiitaiions Avere bound up in the former 
 volume, and his Treatise on the office of Gustos Rotulorutn in the latter. In the latter, also, 
 was probably included his Treatise on Funerals, mentioned at p. 384. Copies of the Incidental! 
 Remembrances of the Savages were made by Abraham Holm, at Rosemount, and sent to Patrick 
 Savage, of Portaferry, esqr., and Captain Hugh Savage of Ardkeen. The Narrative of Gransheogh 
 was transcribed by Mr. Robert Watson from the original, the transcript being sent to William Mont- 
 gomery of Gransheogh, who was then (1701) residing at Maghera, in the county of Londonderry. 
 The original, however, and the copy made from it, are both in the possession of Hugh Montgomery, 
 esq., the present proprietor of the Rosemount or Greyabbey estate, and the lineal representative of 
 the gentleman for whom it was drawn up by the author. In the same keeping, also, is the original 
 of the author's curious treatise on the Montgomerys of England and Scotland. The memoir of the 
 influential family then represented by Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagown, afterwards Springvale, 
 was committed to that gentleman's keeping as it came from the author's hand, and has been since 
 very carefully preserved. It was found not many years ago, in the possession of the family of the 
 late Rev. William Montgomery, presbyterian minister of Ballyeaston, county of Antrim, who was a 
 native of Castlereagh, and probably the representative of Hugh Montgomery of Ballymago\vn, 
 the original owner. Nothing is now known of the memoirs of the Blackstown and Creboy 
 branches, mentioned at p. 385, the representatives of those families having, most probably, carried 
 them to Scotland on their return to occupy their ancestral lands in that kingdom. The Description 
 of the Ards, written several years prior to his memoirs of the Montgomerys, appears to have been 
 the only portion of the author's writings printed in his own lifetime, with the exception of two 
 College Exercises published at Leyden, in the year 1652. His account of the Ards was, no doubt, 
 much appreciated when it first appeared, one copy having been purchased, some years afterwards, 
 for sir William Petty, at the price of ^£"3 13s. 6d. It was published at Dublin, folio, pp. 16, in the 
 year 1683. 
 
Preface. 
 
 V 
 
 When the remnant of the Mount-Alexander estates passed, at the death of the last countess 
 in 1764, to the families of De la Cherois and Crommelin, the Montgomery Manuscripts, preserved at 
 Mount-Alexander, together with other family papers, were transferred to Samuel De la Cheiois, esq., 
 cousin of the countess, to whom her ladyship had bequeathed the half of the property. His son, 
 Daniel De la Cherois, esq., of Donaghadee, kindly permitted extracts from the M'^jtuscripts to be 
 printed in the columns of the Belfast News-Letter. These extracts appeared in the years 1785 and 
 1786, and were followed by others, published by the same journal, in the year 1822. It was after- 
 wards found that there existed a very general desire to have the whole contents of this valuable 
 collection printed in a more permanent form. Hence the duodecimo volume published at the 
 News-Letter office in the year 1830. In reference to that publication, the editor has received the 
 following interesting particulars from James M'Knight, Esq., LL.D., Londonderry, whose valuable 
 Preface to the first edition requires now from its distinguished writer not one apologetic word : — 
 
 " After the late Dr. James Stuart, the historian of Armagh, had removed from Newry to Belfast, to 
 undertake the editorship of the News-Letter, he obtained from Mr. Joy a perusal of the MS. in his 
 (Mr. Joy's) possession; and he strongly urged its publication, offering to supply notes, illustrations, ad- 
 denda, &c., from his own immense stores of historical and local information. Mr. Joy did not like to 
 incur the total expense of the work; but, by way of economy, Dr. Stuart and he suggested to Mr. Mackay 
 its publication by instalments in the News-Letter, keeping up the types till a sufficient number of pages 
 had been formed, when the sheets were struck off, and so on in succession. Dr. Stuart, by anticipation, 
 as you will see in the early sheets, inserted references to his intended appendix, though this appendix was 
 never finished — perhaps indeed was never written. By this slow process, a considerable portion of the MS. 
 was struck off in sheets when the work had to be discontinued. These printed sheets lay in the News-Letter 
 office for many years as waste paper ; Dr. Stuart had left the establishment, and started the Giiardian, 
 and I — then a young student in my second year at college — became his successor. Mr. Joy, a short 
 time before his death, determined to complete the publication, made pecuniary arrangements with Mr. 
 Mackay, and had the remainder of the I\IS. printed, together with the account of the ' Savages.' His 
 hand was so tremulous that he could not write at any length, though he managed to correct all the 
 proofs. The task of writing a preface consequently fell upon me, though ill-qualified for it from defective 
 information ; but I put together a few pages, which Mr. Joy corrected, and which were printed at the 
 beginning of the volume. This is its history, so far as I have any knowledge of it. 
 
 " November 27, 1866." 
 
 It would thus appear that. the publication of the first edition was urged forward by the late 
 Henry Joy, esq., of Belfast, soon before the close of his long and honourable life, and whilst his feeble 
 health permitted him to do little more than simply to see that the printing of the Manuscripts was 
 in progress. It is gratifying to know, however, that he lived to witness the accomplishment of the 
 work, and also to receive, among many other acknowledgments, a very cordial letter of thanks 
 from sir Walter Scott, to whom he had transmitted a copy. The following is an extract from this 
 letter, written in Edinburgh, on the 4th of February, 1830 : — " I am honoured with a copy of your 
 edition of the Montgomerys, which interests me in the highest degree, and is one of those works 
 which carry us back to the times of our ancestors, and give us the most correct ideas of their cus- 
 
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 Preface. 
 
 toms and manners. I am very sorry the condition of the copies you made use of obliged you to 
 omit the appendix, which must have contained much that was curious and interesting." 
 
 When preparations were to be made for the new edition, no trace of the original Manuscripts 
 from which the volume of 1830 had been printed could be found, and the present editor was 
 reluctantly compelled to adopt the modernized orthography of that volume, without having thus 
 the best means of correcting misprints, or of supplying many words and even whole sen- 
 tences that have been omitted in the first edition without explanation. The reader will observ^e 
 that in the new edition the contents of the Manuscripts have been re-arranged, being now placed 
 according to the order in which they were written, and so as to preserve, as much as possible, 
 the continuity of the author's narrative. To the memoirs contained in the first edition, three 
 others of much interest and value have been here added, two of which arenow printed for the 
 first time, the third being a reprint from the ninth volume of the Ulster Jountal of ArchcBology. 
 The history of these three additional memoirs, so far as known to the editor, will be found in the 
 notes, and need not be repeated here. 
 
 Without entering into any recapitulation of the subject matter of the Montgomery Mafmscripts, 
 it may be stated, generally, that the reader will here meet with'many curious illustrations of the 
 sentiments and manners of the age in which they were written. Among such illustrations may be 
 mentioned — the bloody and protracted feud between the Montgomerys and Cunninghams of 
 Scotland ; the escape, or rescue, of Con O'Neill from Carrickfergus Castle ; the return of that chief- 
 tain to Castlereagh, from London, after kissing the king's hand, and obtaining a royal grant of the 
 third part of his own estates ; the commencement and progress of the new Scottish colony at 
 Newtown in the Ards; the massacre, by woodkern, of the whole family, save one, of the Montgo- 
 merys of Gransheogh ; the meeting of bishop George Montgomery and Dr. James Ussher in Lon- 
 don, and their interviews with James I. ; the rencounter of the fat (first) earl of Clanbrassill with 
 the Brownie at Newtown-house ; the violence of sir Bryan O'Neill in the house of parliament and 
 in the court of king's bench ; the heraldic display observed at the funerals of the first and third 
 viscounts Montgomery ] the author's re-entry into Rosemount after being excluded from it, by the 
 officers of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, for the space of nine years ; his hunt after his 
 reprizals throughout various counties of Ireland ; his interview with primate Bramhall on the way 
 to Lisburn ; his meeting with the duke of Ormond at Carrickfergus in 1666 ; and his preparation 
 of his own tomb, including the several curious inscriptions for it, two of which have been only 
 recently discovered, and are recorded at page 405 of this volume. 
 
 The editor has now only, in conclusion, to express his gratitude for much friendly aid received 
 in the course of his labours. The kind offices of the Rev. Dr. Reeves of Tynan have been un- 
 wearying and pre-eminent, this very distinguished scholar and writer having read over and assisted 
 in the correction of every proof-sheet of the entire work. Among many others, whose assistance 
 was always promptly rendered when required, the editor's acknowledgments are especially due to 
 the Rev. Dr. Macllwaine, Belfast; colonel F. O. Montgomery, of the North Down Rifles; Daniel 
 De la Cherois, esq., Donaghadee ; Hugh Montgomery, esq., of Gransheogh and Greyabbey; 
 R, B. Houston, esq., Orangefield, Belfast; the Rev. James Graves, Kilkenny; J. W. Hr^nna, esq.. 
 
Preface. 
 
 Holywood; William Pinkerton, esq., F.S.A., Hounslow, London; M. J. Barrington Ward, esq., 
 Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; the Rev. Dr. Killen, Belfast ; R. S. Nicholson, esq., Ballow, county of 
 Down; the Rev. Classon Porter, Larne; Charles Scott, esq., Grovefield, Belfast; John P. Pren- 
 dergast, esq., Dublin; sir J. Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms ; James M'Knight, esq., LL.D., 
 Londonderry; the Rev. J. A. Chancellor, Belfast; the right honourable the earl of Enniskillen; 
 John Temple Reilly, esq., Dublin ; Richard Cunningham, esq., Castle Cooley, County Donegal ; 
 Maurice Lenihan, esq., Limerick ; brigadier-general George Montgomery of the Bombay Army ; 
 James Paterson, esq., Edinburgh; and the Rev. Dr. Rogers of Greenwich. 
 
 Belfast, January, 1869. 
 
 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION- 
 
 CONSIDERABLE portion of the Montgomery Manuscripts was printed in the Belfasi 
 JVews-Letter, so early as 1785 and 1786,* when their publication was suspended in con- 
 sequence of their extent, which in some degree unfitted them for the columns of a news- 
 paper. Besides, it was suggested that their intrinsic interest and importance to a large proportion 
 of the Nobility and Gentry of the Counties of Down and Antrim, required their publication in a 
 permanent and portable form, and hence the origin of the present undertaking. The influential 
 part which the family of Montgomery acted in the affairs of Ulster after its colonization by the 
 Scots, is matter of historic record, and will be found minutely detailed in the subsequent pages ; 
 while, in consequence of the matrimonial and other alliances, that were gradually formed between 
 the several branches of that distinguished family and other families of rank at the time, there are 
 not a few gentlemen in the counties referred to, who will naturally feel an interest in recurring to 
 these simple, but authentic memoirs of their ancestorial dignity. The gratification which the re- 
 corded fame of ancestry may fairly minister to the ambition of posterity, is not, however, the only 
 advantage derivable from the publication of these Memoirs. Their importance as historical docu- 
 ments will be readily recognised by those who have studied the transactions of the agitated period 
 to which they refer, while, as illustrative of manners and customs and habits of thought, that are 
 now comparatively antiquated, their value cannot fail to be estimated even by those who have no 
 hereditary interest in their details. In this view, it is hoped, that though the locality of the scenes 
 that are described, and the individuality of the personages who are chiefly engaged in them, may limit 
 to a portion of the community, the specific interest of the volume; yet it will possess independent 
 merit sufficient to engage the attention of the majority. 
 
 In the early parts of the volume, references have been made to an Appendix, which has not 
 been printed, and the omission of which requires explanation. The reasons of its omission were 
 
 * They were again re-printed in pari in the Neivs-LetUr in 1822. 
 
viii 
 
 Preface. 
 
 these — after a considerable portion of the Montgomery Manuscripts had been printed oflf, a second 
 Manuscript by the author of the former, was discovered. It contained an interesting history of the 
 family of the Savages, formerly the Lords of the Little Ards, and its publication was found to be 
 necessary, not merely to complete the narrative of the former, but for reasons equally cogent with 
 those which had originally induced the determination of publishing that Manuscript. Hence, the 
 omission of the proposed Appendix became indispensable, as the size of the work had been limited. 
 Besides, no great inconvenience can result from this omission, as there are numerous sources of in- 
 formation accessible to those who may be inquisitive regarding matters of mere antiquarian 
 curiosity; while the full insertion of the Appendix v/ould have required either a separate volume, 
 or would have enlarged this to an inconvenient size, and would, besides, have proportionably in- 
 creased its price. 
 
 The orthography of the original manuscripts, with its incidental peculiarities of contraction, 
 has been strictly preserved.* The printer has even followed the occasional defects of his copy, 
 without attempting their correction, which, in many instances, might have been easily done. It 
 now remains that we close this preface with a brief notice of the author of the following memoirs. 
 He was the son of Sir James Montgomery, and was born at Aughaintain, in Tyrone, on the 27th 
 of October, 1633. He represented the borough of Newtownards, in the Irish Parliament, which, 
 shortly after the restoration, passed the celebrated act for the settlement of military adventurers in 
 Ireland. In his habits he appears to have been studious, to have possessed persevering industry', 
 extensive knowledge, and acuteness of observation, notwithstanding the quaint, parenthetical style 
 of his composition — a fault which is attributable, not to him, but to the age in which he lived. He 
 wrote these memoirs in the interval between the years 1698 and 1704. In a historical view, their 
 authority is indubitable. It has been alluded to by Lodge, in his Irish Peerage, and as they have 
 never before been printed entire, it is presumed that the present publication will furnish valuable 
 hints to the national annalist, as well as acceptable information to the northern public in general. 
 Copious extracts from the original MSS. of the Lords Mountalexander and of Captain George 
 Montgomery, were first published in the Belfast News-Letter of the years 1785 and 1786, with the 
 consent of the late Daniel Delacherois, of Donaghadee, Esq. (in whose family they had been pre- 
 served), when a great portion of the Original MS. became missing, and after repeated searches to 
 recover them, it was found that a copy of them had been taken, which, being traced out, was oblig- 
 ingly communicaLed. When compared with the parts printed in 1785 and 1786, they were found 
 exactly to corre:pcnd, and have been used in completing the present publication. 
 
 * This ai rangemenl has beou only partially adopted. — Editor- of N'evj Edition. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts; 
 
 SOME FEW MEMOIRES OF THE MONTGOMERIES'^ OF IRELAND. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 EING to wite of the Montgomeries of Ireland (now planted therein), recourse must be 
 first had to what I have credibly heard, as truth never doubted of (that my enquiry could 
 find out). And secondly, to those authentick papers and parchments, which I have care- 
 fully perused, and which came to my hands among those left to me by my father, many others of 
 them being lost or embeazled, or burnt in Rosemount House :3 out of the remainder whereof, of 
 from such as I have seen elsewhere, relations shall be made. Thirdly, and lastly, I must, in this 
 
 ' Manuscripts. — On the title-page of the vohime printed 
 in 1830, it is stated that the I'llaiiuscripls contain "me- 
 moirs of the first, second, and tliird viscounts Mont- 
 gomery." There are memoirs of the first, third, and fourth 
 viscounts ; but we have no notice of the second viscount, 
 excepting a brief reference to his marriage, which occurs in 
 the memoir of his father, and an equally short announce- 
 ment of his death in the memoir of his son, the third vis- 
 count, who was created first earl of Mountalexander. The 
 memoir of the second viscount is probably lost, which is 
 the more to be regretted, as its details were, no doubt, 
 ample, the author having been both his nephew and 
 son-in-law. In a MS. copy of the author's Incidentall 
 Kemembrances of the Two Ancient Familys of the 
 Savad^es, he refers to page 92 of his memoir of the 
 second viscount. In the first edition, the memoir of sir 
 James Montgomery, of Rosemount, has been introduced 
 after that of the first viscount, although it was intended 
 by the author to succeed that of the fourth viscount, 
 or second earl of Mountalexander. 
 
 It is also stated on the title-page that the author, William 
 Montgomery, was "second son of sir James Montgomery." 
 Although sir James was thrice married, the author was 
 his only soU' — indeed his only sumving child. His 
 first wife, Catherine, Avho died in 1634, was a daughter 
 of sir William .Stewart, of Tyrone. In her Funeral Fjitry, 
 it is stated that " she had issue by the said sir James one 
 son, named William, of the age of 18 months." Sir 
 James Montgomery's second lady was Margaret, eldest 
 daughter of sir William Cole, of Enniskillen ; and his 
 third was Francesse St. Laurence, third daughter of 
 Nicholas, twenty-third baron Howth. The inscription 
 on the monument erected by William Montgomery, in 
 Greyabbey, to his father's memory, refers to these ladies 
 in the following terms, which show that they had left 
 no children : — " His (sir James's) other two virtuous 
 ladies and their children (which died before them) lie 
 
 buried over against this monument." The author, who 
 wrote this inscription, which is now quite defaced, de- 
 scribes himself as primi veiitris sola proles. — Harris, An- 
 tient and Present State of the Connty of Down, p. 51. 
 
 ^ Alontgomeries. — This surname is here so written accord- 
 ing to a modernised orthography adopted in the first edi- 
 tion, from the commencement of the volume to page 169. 
 In the original manuscript, however, the plural form of 
 the surname was invariably written Montgomerys, a spell- 
 ing from which the author never appears to have deviated. 
 In such of his manuscripts as are still preserved, the sur- 
 name is always Montgomery in the singidar number, and 
 Montgomerys in the plural. In a letter of the author to 
 his kinsman, William Montgomery, of Gransheogh, dated 
 November, 1701, he says: — "I wold have your son 
 take notice, that our sirname, in ye pattents of our family, 
 and in ye acts of parliament, both of England and Ire- 
 land, and in all printed books, historys, and others, in 
 our three kingdoms, (wch I can show you, ) is spelled as 
 I subscribe it, as divers gentlemen of estate doe, and as 
 the count Montgomery, in Normandy, did, and yet doth, 
 as I have prooved in a paper I wrot to that purpose, and 
 concerning ye rectifying of ye subscription of sirnames ; 
 of wch many persons h.T ve heedlessly taken upon custom to 
 write them ye wrong way, w^h imports an ignorance occa- 
 sioned by carelessness. " In the text we have the simple but 
 comprehensive title prefixed by the author to his Manuscripts. 
 
 ^ Rosemount House. — Rosemount is the name invariably 
 used by the author to designate the family residence ad- 
 joining Greyabbey. In the form of Mountross it is so 
 applied in the year 1634, as appears from the Funeral 
 Entry Katherine Stewart (sir James Montgomery's first 
 lady), already quoted in a preceding note. On the 20th 
 of April, 1629, the first viscount Montgomery granted 
 lands at Greyabbey to his second son, sir James; but the 
 name Rosemount is not mentioned in this grant. On the 
 19th March, 1638, sir James received a grant from the 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 treatise, make use of my own certain knowledge and memory in those affairs, having had conver- 
 sation or concern with most of their familys (both the dead and yet surviving of them), to whom I 
 have been a contemporary within the space of above those fifty years now last past,* wherein I 
 did more or less make observations as I best could, whilst I grew up in age, and acquaintance with 
 them; and thus furnished, I begin this following narrative (as near as I can) according to the order 
 of time, wherein the several events came to pass, the like not having been attempted that I can 
 any ways learn e.s Therefore, Imprimis (as in duty I am bound), with the Montgomeries of the 
 great Ardes, who were the first and chiefest of all that sirname that came from Scotland, and mostly 
 the procurers of other Montgomery families, and of many of divers sirnames besides them; to follow 
 and plant in this kingdom, of whom the most conspicuous and powerfull, and the first introducer and 
 
 crown of all the lands then mhis possession; the lands in 
 Greyabbey being erected into the manor of Roscmonnt, 
 whilst those on the opposite side of the Lough, in the 
 parishes of Killinchy and Kilmood, constituted the manor 
 of Florida. In the author's Dcsci-iptioyi of the Ardes (see 
 p. 308, first edition), he states that the whole manor of 
 Rosemount "taketh name" from the House, to which, 
 therefore, the designation must have originally been applied. 
 From the peculiar names of Rosemount axid Florida, given 
 by sir James Montgomery to his two manors, it is inferred 
 that he had a love for flowers, and was devoted to their cul- 
 ture. Mountross and Rosemount are translations of the 
 Latin Mons Rosanim, and it would seem that this word, in 
 some form, was a popular name for places of residence in 
 Ireland as well as in Scotland. A place near Ardquin 
 and Portaferry is called Mountross. There is a Rose- 
 mount (formerly called Goldring), in the parish of Syming- 
 ton, Ayrshire, which belonged, in the sixteenth century, 
 to an old family of the Schaws. — -Paterson, Account of the 
 Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, voh ii., p. 481. It is 
 curious that the motto on the town-arms of Montrose is 
 mare ditat, rosa dccorat, which would imply the same 
 origin for this name. — New Stat. Account of Forfarshire, 
 pp. 271 — 2. Besides the Rosemount at Greyabbey, and 
 another in Lower Iveagh, there are family residences of 
 the same name in the counties of Antrim, Westmeath, 
 Tipperary, Wexford, and Waterford. — Parliamentary Ga- 
 zetteer of Ireland, vol. i., p. 293 ; vol. ii., pp. 26, 81, 290, 
 393 ; vol. iii., pp. 183, 317. 
 
 * Now last past. — The author was bom at the residence 
 of his grandfather Stewart, in the county of Tyrone, and 
 continued to live there until the month of May, 1644, 
 when he was brought to Rosemount, in the eleventh year 
 of his age. " The space of above fifty years," mentioned 
 in the text, was the interval between 1644 and 1697 the 
 latter being the date at which the author commenced to 
 compile the Alontgomeiy Manuscripts. 
 
 5 Any ways learne. — It is supposed that there had existed 
 at Eglinton Castle a MS. account of the Montgomery 
 family in Scotland, which was destroyed when that old 
 pile was burnt by the Cunninghams, in 1528. Our 
 author's work, therefore, on this subject, is the earliest 
 existing attempt to illustrate the family history, and it is 
 especially valuable, because treating of persons who came 
 within the reach of his personal knowledge, and events 
 that had occurred during the period of his own life. 
 Since these memoirs were written, the following compila- 
 
 tions have been made, intended by their authors chiefly 
 to illustrate the genealogical histoiy of the Montgo- 
 merys : — I. Hugh Montgomerie, of Broomlands, in the 
 parish of Irvine, compiled, prior to the year 1760, what 
 is known as the Broomlands Alanuscript, containing re- 
 cords of the Montgomei-y family from an early period. 
 The author of this work, which is still in MS., died in 
 1766, aged eighty years. 2. John Hamilton Mont- 
 gomery, of Barnahill, in the county of Ajt, who was cap- 
 tain in the 76th regiment, wrote a Genealogy of the Family 
 of Montgomery, compiled from various authorities, which 
 also remains in manuscript. — Paterson, Account of the 
 Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., p. 229, note. 
 3. Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly printed for private circulation, in 
 1842, A Genealogical History of the Family of Alontgomery, 
 comprising the lities of Eglinton and Braidstatie in Scot- 
 land, and Mount- Alexander and Grey- Abbey in Ireland. 
 This lady was the daughter of the Rev. Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, of Rosemount, who died in 1815, and a descen- 
 dant, through John of Gransheogh, in common with the 
 author of the Montgomery Manuscripts, in the Braidstane 
 line. 4. William Anderson printed, at Edinburgh, in 
 1859, A Genealogical Account of the Family of Mont- 
 gomerie, formerly of Brigend of D0071, Ayrshire, male and 
 lineal representative of the ancient and noble families of 
 Eglinton and Lyle. This account commences only with 
 the commencement of the sixteenth century. 5. James 
 Eraser published, at Edinburgh, in 1859, two volumes, 
 4to, entitled. Memorials of the Montgomeries Earls of 
 Eglinton. This is a most valuable work, principally be- 
 cause in it are printed many original letters, chartere, 
 and marriage contracts. The letters contain much im- 
 portant information on public as well as family affairs, 
 between the years 11 70 and 1728. 6. Thomas Harrison 
 Montgomery published, at Philadelphia, in 1863, A Genea- 
 logical History of the Fafiiily of Montgomery, including the 
 Montgomery Pedigree, — a work which contains much in- 
 formation respecting the families of this surname who emi- 
 grated to the United States. In his preface, the author 
 says : — " Many years ago, my attention was drawn to the 
 examination of records and doings of tlie generations of 
 the Montgomerys, immediately preceding that one which 
 came to America. This was due chiefly to the perusal 
 of documents and papers brought from Scotland to this 
 country by the first one of the family who crossed the 
 ocean. William Montgomeiy, of Brigend, now more 
 than one liundred and sixty years ago, came with his wife 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 3 
 
 encourager was Hugh Montgomery, the 6th Laird^ of Braidstane,? whose genealogy is as next followeth, 
 viz. — The said Hugh was the eldest son of Adam (the second of that name), the fifth Laird, who 
 married the daughter of Montgomery, Laird Haislhead^ (an ancient family, descended of the Earls 
 of Eglintoune).9 This second Adam (besides breeding his four sons) purchased land from one of 
 the said Earles (I have the deed thereof); which Adam was the eldest son of Adam (the first Mont- 
 gomery of that name), and 4th Laird of Braidstane. This Adam married Colquhoun's sister, the 
 
 and children, and settled in the province of East New- 
 Jersey, on the lands of his father-in-law, who was one of 
 its largest proprietors. He brought, with much care, 
 many valuable manuscripts relating to his ancestry, the 
 majority of which are preserved by his representative at 
 this day ; many are undoubtedly missing, as no special 
 attention seemed to be paid to their preservation by his 
 descendants, until within the last thirty years." 
 
 ^ The sixth Laird. — Hugh Montgomery, who after- 
 wards became first viscount Montgomery of the Great 
 Ards, is here and in other portions of these Memoirs 
 styled sixth laird of Braidstane. On the authority of 
 the Broomlands Manuscript, he has been represented by 
 Scottish genealogists as the seventh Laird. But Mr. 
 Paterson, in his admirable Account of the Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, admits (vol. i., p. 280) that the 
 author of the BroomUmds Manuscript " only states the 
 origin, and a few of the most prominent facts in the 
 descent of the families of Braidstane, Hessilhead, and 
 Skelmorlie." Our author, William Montgomery, was 
 grandson of the person whom he invariably styles sixth 
 laird of Braidstane, and he is not likely to have been 
 mistaken in a matter respecting which he had the best 
 means of being accurately informed. 
 
 7 Braidstane. — The ancient lordship of Braidstane, in 
 the bailliary of Kyle, county of Ayr, was possessed by an 
 influential branch of the Montgomery family from 1452 
 to 1650. The founder of this branch was Robert Mont- 
 gomerie, second son of Alexander, master of Mont- 
 gomerie, and grandson of Alexander, first lord Mont- 
 gomerie, from whom this Robert received a grant of the 
 lands of Braidstane in 1452, the year of his father's 
 death. His son, also named Robert, obtained a re-grant 
 of the estate from his uncle, the second lord Montgo- 
 merie, in 1468. In 1478, Robert Mungumery of Brad- 
 Stan, witnessed a grant from Alexander, first lord Home, 
 to Thomas Home, of the frank tenement of the lands of 
 Castiltowne. In the same year, he is also a witness to an 
 Instrument of Delivery of forty-eight cows, by the pro- 
 curator for Alexander, lord Home, and Margaret, his 
 spouse, to Thomas Home, their son. Robert's son, 
 Alexander Montgomery of Bradstan, was one of thirteen 
 commissioners who held an Inquisition on the lands of 
 Giffen, in Beith, on the 26th of November, 1501. The 
 author, William Montgomery, states that Robert, not 
 Alexander, was third laird. The same gentleman was 
 one of a commission appointed in 15 15, to hold an In- 
 quisition on the lands of Pottarstown and Dyconisbank. 
 In 1561, there was a Revocation by Hugh, third earl of 
 Eglintoun, of charters granted, and acts done by him in 
 his minority. Among other lands temporarily affected 
 by this Revocation were those of Braidstane, which, how- 
 ever, were soon afterwards re-granted to the family repre- 
 sentative, and held by his descendants until 1650, when 
 
 they were sold to sir John Shaw of Greenock, by the 
 third viscount Montgomery of the Ards. Until the middle 
 of the seventeenth century, the parish of Beith, in which 
 these lands are situated, consisted of two divisions, known 
 as the lordship of Braidstane and the lordship of Giffen, 
 but, in the year 1649, about 500 acres were annexed to 
 Beith from an adjoining parish, to suit certain presbyterial 
 arrangements adopted by the Synod of Glasgow. — 
 Eraser, Metnorials of Mofitgomeries Earls of Eglinton, 
 vol. ii., pp. 35, 42, 62, 81, 116; Paterson, Account of 
 the Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 279. 
 
 ^ Laird Haislhead. — The mother of the first viscount 
 Montgomery of the Ards was daughter of John Mont- 
 gomery, fourth laird of Hessilhead or Hazlehead. The" 
 estate so called was a part of the barony or lordship of 
 Giffen, in the parish of Beith ; and the first laird of 
 Plazlehead was a younger brotlier of the first laird of 
 Braidstane, being Hugh, third son of Alexander, master 
 of Montgomery. In 1521, there is a discharge from 
 Hugh Mungumery of Heslet, to John Maxwell of Pollok. 
 In 1560, Hew Mungumery of Hessilheide, is one of the 
 witnesses to a contract between Robert, lord Boyde, and 
 Neil Mungumery of Langschaw, at Glesgu (Glasgow). 
 In 1562, Hew Montgomerie of Hessilheid, signed the 
 " Band subscrivet be the Noblemen and Gentrie of KyU 
 (Kyle), Carricke, and Cunninghame, for mentinence of 
 religion." The same laird witnessed, in the following 
 year, signing himself LLugo Montgumery de Heslheide, an 
 Instniment of Assignation by Hugh, third earl of Eglin- 
 toun, to Robert, lord Boyde, of the bailliary of the 
 canon lands in Cunninghame. In 1565, a Remission is 
 given by Henry Darnley, king of Scots, to Archibald, 
 earl of Ergyll, and others, among whom was Hugh 
 Mungumery of Heslait. In 1576, Hew Montgomery of 
 Ilesilheid, was witness to a contract of marriage between 
 Hugh, master of Eglinton, afterwards fourth earl, and 
 Gelis Boyd, daughter of Robert, lord Boyd. In 1582, 
 Hew Montgomerie of Hessilheid, was one of the securi- 
 ties, in a bond of marriage, between Robert, master of 
 Setoun, and Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Hugh, 
 third earl of Eglinton. In 1589, Hew Montgomery of 
 Hessilheid, witnessed an Assignation and Disposition by 
 Robert, master of Eglintun, to Robert Montgomeiy of 
 Skelmorlie, in the name and behalf of Jeane Montgomerie, 
 his sister, of the gift of Robert Montgomerie's marriage 
 for 1000 merks. — Eraser, Memorials, vol. ii., pp. 93, 
 157, 193, 200, 215, 222, 229. 
 
 ^ Earls of Eglintoune. — The first laird of Hazlehead 
 was uncle to the first earl of Eglinton, the two families 
 thus being closely allied, and derived from a common 
 stock ; but the Hazlehead branch could not be truly de- 
 scribed as descended from any carl of Eglinton, although 
 it sprung from the Montgomerys of Eglinton, which is 
 probably what the author meant to express. 
 
4 Thl Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Laird of Luss'° (chief of his ancient sept). This Adam the first (last mentioned) was son to Robert, 
 the 3d Laird of that name, who was the son of Robert, the 2d Laird of that name, who was the son 
 of Robert, the ist of that name, and ist Laird of Braidstane, who was the 2d son of Alexander, 
 one of the Earles of EgHngtoune," all of them Montgomeries; which Earles are (in a little book 
 called Indiculum Scotiae, or the present state of Scotland, written by A. M.," in Anno, 1682,) placed 
 the nth in that degree of nobility, which agrees with the list next spoken of, tho' in King Charles 
 the Martyr's reign, rivalled (as I have heard said), for precedency, by the Conninghams, Earles of 
 Glencairne;'3 whom I find by an antient list (of the Scottish Peers) written in King James the 6th 
 
 Laird of Ltiss. — Genealogists derive the name and 
 family of Colquhoun from Galgacus, the Caledonian gene- 
 ral, who gallantly resisted the Roman legions under Agri- 
 cola. But, without the aid of legends or traditions, it can 
 be shown from documentary evidence that the Colquhouns 
 are a very old family. Originally, or rather when first 
 known, there were three branches, those of Colquhoun, 
 Kilpatrick, and Luss, who held a large part of Dumbar- 
 tonshire by charters from the crown. These gradually 
 merged into the one family of Luss, by marriage, succes- 
 sion, or othenvise ; and it is in connexion with this dis- 
 trict that the Colquhouns are known from the commence- 
 ment of the fourteenth century. In 13 16, Robert Bruce 
 confirmed to "jfohn De Luss, knight, a charter from Mal- 
 colm, earl of Lennox, in which he granted, for the honour 
 of his patron, the most holy St. Kessog, to his beloved 
 and faithful bachelor, sir John of Luss, freedom from exac- 
 tions for the royal household, during the King's progresses 
 within the lands of Luss, and exemption from appearing 
 as witnesses before the King's Justiciar. An Indenture 
 made at Dumbarton, on the 1 8th of December, 1400, is 
 witnessed by V^mfray Colqtihffivtie ; and another made at 
 Balloch, on the l8th October, 1405, is witnessed by Vmfry 
 of Colq'iohovc, lord of Luss. Between 1426 and 1432, John 
 Cameron, bishop of Glasgow, erected the church of Luss 
 into a prebend of his cathedral, with consent of fohn de 
 Colleqiihone, lord of Luss. James III. granted to sir yo/^w 
 Cttlqnhone of Lusse, about the year 1474, the lands of 
 Strone, Kilmone, Invercapill, and Cayvelad, in Ergill. 
 In 1497, John Colquhone of Luss, sold to Archibald, earl 
 of Ergill ( Argyle), a part of the territory of Inverquhapill, 
 held by the Kfeeper of the Staff of St. Munde. The 
 tenure of this land, held in right of the custody of St. 
 Munde's crozier, is curious, but not singular, as similar 
 tenures existed in Glendochart and Lismore. — Origmes 
 ParocJtiales Scoti<v, vol. i., pp. 30, 502, and vol. ii., pp. 
 72, 73. The Colquhouns are still the leading race in 
 Luss, having survived through many vicissitudes, which 
 would probably have overwhelmed most other fami- 
 lies. Their native district, which lies on the banks of 
 Loch Lomond, and comprehends Glendouglas, Glenluss, 
 and Glenfruin, has always been celebrated for the pictur- 
 esque beauty of its scenery. It is also rich in historical 
 associations ; and the ruins at Banochar, Inchgalbraith, 
 and Rossdhu, are evidences of its territorial importance at 
 an early period. The famous clan-battle of Glenfruin, 
 between the Colquhouns and Macgregors, in 1602, is a 
 comparatively modem event in the histoiy of the district. 
 — Arclucolcgia Scotica, vol. iv., p. 153 ; Procecdbtgs of the 
 Society of A7itiquaries of Scotland, vol. i. , p. 142. In the 
 Funeral Entry of the first viscount Ards, his grandmother 
 
 is stated to have been a daughter of " Jervice Colchoune, Esq., 
 of Lusk, in the county of Kerry." It thus appears that the 
 laird of Luss owned lands in Ireland, which he had named 
 after his Scottish property, — a custom usual at the period. 
 
 " One of the earls of Eglingtonne. — In the Funeral Entry 
 referred to in the preceding note, it is also stated that 
 Robert Montgomery, first laird of Braidstane, was a son 
 of the first earl of Eglinton. This statement was supplied 
 to the Herald's Office by the second viscount Ards, and was 
 evidently accepted by that branch of the family as correct. 
 But, in truth, the first laird of Braidstane, instead of being 
 son of "one of the earles of Eglingtoune," was nnclt to Hugh 
 Montgomery, created first earl of Eglinton in the year 1506. 
 The mistake of supposing that the first laird of Braidstane 
 was a son of one of the earls, and that the first laird of 
 Hazlehead was 2l descendant, — when in fact they were both 
 uncles of the first earl, — is remarkable, and no doubt arose 
 from the uncertainty of the date on which the earldom was 
 created. Paterson, Account of the Parishes and Families 
 of Ayrshire, vol. ii. , pp. 233, 234, conjectures that the 
 Eglinton Peerage was created so early as 1445 ; but 
 Eraser, Alemorials, vol. i., p. 28, thinks that the creation 
 must have taken place bet\veen the 3rd and 20th of 
 January, 1 506. We are disposed to believe, however, that 
 the author's words, when speaking of the Braidstane and 
 Hazlehead descent, have been incorrectly given in the 
 printed Manitscripts. This suspicion is strengthened by 
 another document left by the author. In a pedigree of the 
 descent of Gransheogh from the Braidstane family, given 
 on the dexter side of the coat of arms of William Mont- 
 gomery of Gransheogh and Maiy M'Gill his wife, 
 the author says "the first of which lairds (of Braidstane) 
 was second brother of Alexander, earl of Eglmton's 
 ancestor, the laird of Ardrossan. — MS. N^oteof Col. Francis 
 0. Montgomery. Thus William Montgomery', in the docu- 
 ment above-named, which will be printed in its proper 
 place, clearly states that the first laird of Braidstane was 
 second brother of that Alexander, who was in reality 
 father of the first earl of Eglinton. 
 
 Written by A. M. — A. A/, are probably the initials 
 of some Alexander Montgomery, Wiio compiled the 
 Indiculum Scotice, containing, among other matters, a list 
 of the Scottish earls according to the order of precedenc}'. 
 
 Earls of Glencairne. — The contest for precedency 
 between the earls of Eglinton and Glencairn was fre- 
 quently a subject of discussion in the Scottish Pri^•y 
 Council and Parliament. Sir Alexander Cunningham, 
 lord Kilmaurs, was created first earl of Glencairn by James 
 III., in May, 1488 ; but both the king and the newly- 
 created earl were slain in a battle near Stirling, in the 
 month of June following. James's successor immediately 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 5 
 
 his time, left to me by my father (who was expert in the heraldry of both kingdoms, having given 
 me Guillim's book'4 and some notes of his own of that science), I say I find by the said list (now 
 by me), that Glencairne was but the 15th Earle, yet at this present time, and many years before 
 it, he might arrive to be 12th, and so next after Eglintoun — the said list runs thus, viz. : — 
 
 The Sirnames, Earles of The Title's as foUcmieth. 
 
 1. Duglas Angus. 
 
 2. Campbell Argyle. 
 
 3. Lindsay Crawford. 
 
 4. Hay Errol. 
 
 5. Keith Marreshall. 
 
 6. Gordon Southerland. 
 
 7. Arreskin Marr. 
 
 8. Lesley Rothes. 
 
 Q. Duglas Mortoun. 
 
 llie Sinta77ies, Earles of The Titles as followeth. 
 
 10. 
 TI. 
 
 IS- 
 
 Graham Monteith. 
 
 Montgomery Eglintoun. 
 
 Graham Montrosse. 
 
 Kennedy Cassills. 
 
 Sinclair Caithness. 
 
 *Conyngham Glencairne. 
 
 Arreskin Buchan. 
 
 &c., to ye No. of thirty in all. 
 * Precedency of Eglintoune'^5 
 
 issued a proclamation which was afterwards embodied in 
 an Act of Parliament, annulling all grants and dignities 
 ■ conferred by the late king, from the month of January 
 preceding. The title of Glencairn, therefore, remained in 
 abeyance until the time of William Cunningham, the eighth 
 in descent from sir Alexander, when Charles I., in the 
 year 1637, granted a revival and confirmation of the 
 original patent of 1488, " In the long interval between these 
 two dates, the earls of Glencairn made many protests in the 
 sittings of Parliament in reference to precedency, arising 
 out of this hiatus between the two patents. In 1606, the 
 earls of Eglinton and Cassilis obtained a decree of the 
 Privy Council, preferring them in the order of Parliament ; 
 but in 1609, the earl of Glencairn obtained a decree of the 
 Court of Session, annulling that preference." — Paterson, 
 Account of the Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., 
 pp. 214, 215 and 7iote. All disputes on this question of 
 precedency among the nobility are determined by an 
 appeal to the College of Arms, and the decisions are 
 accepted as being founded on the authority of certain 
 statutes enacted for the regulations of such disputes. 
 
 GuilliiiCs hook. — "Guillim's book" is still considered 
 the best book on Heraldry ever written in the English 
 language. The first edition, folio, was published in l6lo; 
 the second in 1632, folio ; the third in 1638, folio ; the 
 fourth in 1660, folio ; the fifth in 1679, folio ; and the 
 sixth, with large additions, in 1742, folio. — Lowade's 
 Bibliographe!-' s Manual. In connexion with the history 
 of this remarkable book, the following extract informs us 
 of a curious fact : — "This book being mostly com- 
 posed in his (Barkham's or Barcham's) younger years, 
 he deemed it too light a subject for him to own, being 
 tJien (at the date of its publication in 1510) a grave divine, 
 chaplain to an archbishop, and not imlikely a dean. 
 Whereupon being well acquainted with John Guillim, an 
 officer of Arms, he gave him the copy, who, adding some 
 trivial things to it, published it, with leave from the author, 
 under his own name, and it goeth to this day under the 
 name of Gitillim^s Heraldry." — Anthony a Wood's 
 Athence Oxonienses, as quoted in Allibone's Critical 
 Dictionary, vol. i. , p. 1 16. 
 
 '''^ Precedency of Eglintoune. — The following is a list of 
 Scottish earls, printed in 1603, and extracted from a rare 
 
 book (only two perfect copies of which are supposed to 
 exist), entitled Cei-tayne Matters Concerninge the Realme 
 of Scotland, composed together as they were. Anno Domini, 
 1597- This list forms a curious record of the Scottish 
 nobility at the period to which it refers, presenting, as it 
 does, their surnames, titles of honour, marriage connexions, 
 and principal residences. Its author, whoever he may 
 have been, gives Glencairn precedence of Eglinton, the 
 former occupying the 1 2th, and the latter the 13th place : — 
 " Earles. 
 
 Javies Hajtunilton, Earle of Arran, unmarried: his chiefe 
 house, Nnmmilton Casite. 
 
 ** 2 Witliam Do'wgtasse, Earle of Aji£usse, married the eldest 
 daughter of Lawrence, now Lord Olephant ; his chiefe house, the 
 Castell of Doivgtasse. 
 
 " 3 George Gordon, Earle of Huntley, married the eldest sister of 
 Lodoviclie, now D. oi" Lennox : his chiefe house, StrattL-bogy. 
 
 '* 4 Cotone Caj}ipbeil, Earle of Argyle^ Lord-Justice-Generall of 
 Scotland, married a daughter of William Douiglcisse, now Earle of 
 Morton : his chiefe house, Inuer-aray. 
 
 " 5 Datiid Lindsay, Earle of Craufurd, married the sister of 
 Patriclie, now Lord Druniinond : his chiefe house, J^yn-Zteaiiin. 
 
 " 6 Fjancis Hay, Earle of Arroll, Constable of Scotland, 
 married the daughter of William, Earl of Morton : his chiefe house, 
 Slaynes. 
 
 "7 Jotin Stewart, Earle o{ Aiholt, married the sister of jtokn, 
 Earle of Gowry : his chiefe house, Blayre-A thole. 
 
 " 8 George Keyth, Earle of iMa7'sJLell, married the sister of Alex- 
 ander. Lord Home : his chiefe house, Dnnnotter Castell. 
 
 "g Francis Steward, Earle Bothwell, married the sister of 
 Arclibald, Earle of Angus ; his chiefe house, Creichto7i. 
 
 " ID Andrew Leisly, Earle of Rothes, married the daughter of 
 Sir James Hamilto}i : his chiefe house, Bambreich. 
 
 " II jtames Stewart, Earle of Murrey, unmarried, his chiefe 
 house, Tar^ieway. 
 
 *' 12 Alexander C^tnningham, Earle of Glencarne, married the 
 eldest sister of Campbell of Glenorcliy , Knight ; his chiefe house, 
 Kilmawres. 
 
 ** 13 Hiigh Mont-gomery, Earle of Eglinton, yong, unmarried: 
 his chiefe house, Ardrossan. 
 
 " 14 Ja/in Kennedy, Earle of Cassilis, unmarried : his chiefe 
 house, Dttn-vre. 
 
 "15 Jolin Grahame, Earle of Moniroze, married the sister of Pat- 
 ricke. Lord Drummond, that now is : his chiefe house, Kincardin. 
 
 *' 16 Patrilz Stewart, Earle of Orlenay, yong, unmarried : his 
 chiefe house, Kirk-wall. 
 
 "17 John Brskin, Earle q{ Mar, married the second sister of 
 Lodovicke, now D. of Lennox : his chiefe house, Ersliin. 
 
 *' 18 /^^////ViwZ'iJ^f^/rt.r.ri', Earle of yi/£7r/^7«, married the sister of the 
 Earle of RotJies, that now is : his chiefe house, the Castle of Dallieith. 
 
 " 19 James Dowglasse, Earle oi Bitqidian, yong, unmarried : his 
 chiefe house, Auchter-House. 
 
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6 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Since the said King James his time of living in Scotland, when he went into England, he 
 created (by advancement) divers Lords to be Earles,'^ as also did King Charles the ist and 2d. 
 There were likewise divers earles, as Argyle and Montrose, advanced to be Marquises. The old 
 Earldomes of Rothes, Southerland, and Monteith, are also extinct for want of male heires, by which 
 events, it seems to me, that Eglintoun should have the 7th place among the Earles, and Glencairne 
 the 9th, unless by special grants (in the letters patent) others, now at present earls, had prece- 
 dency given them, being favourites; but as the precedency of Eglintoun was complained of by 
 Glencairne, the debate might have been occasioned thus, viz., one of the earles of Eglintoun, I 
 think that Hugh who was insidiously slain at the river of Annock;'? 2d Adam, Laird of Braidstane, 
 
 " 20 George Sijiclair, Earl of Caith/ies, married the sister of the 
 Earle of Huntley that now is : his chiefe house, Girnego. 
 
 "21 Alexander Gordon, Earle of Sutherlande, married the 
 father's sister of the Earle of Huntley that now is: his chiefe house, 
 Ditnrobene. 
 
 " 22 John Grayme, Earle of Monteit/i, married the sister of 
 Campbell o{ Glenore/iy, Knight: his chiefe house, Kirk-bryde. 
 
 " 23 John Rtithvene, Earl of Gowry, yong, unmarried : his chiefe 
 house, Ruthven. 
 
 " 24 The Earle of March. The rents thereof are annexed to the 
 Crowne." 
 
 '"5 Divers Lords to be Earles. — " The 4 of Marche, this 
 yeire (1605), Alexander Settone, Lord Fynie, was created 
 Earle of Dumferlinge; Alexander, Lord Home, was created 
 Earle of Home: and James, Lord Dmrnmond, was created 
 Earle of Perth, with grate solemnitey. Eache of them 
 had 4 knights." — Sir James Balfour, Annals of Scotland, 
 vol. ii., p. 5. Among the creations of Charles L, on his 
 visit to Scotland soon after his accession, were the follow- 
 ing, made, says Balfour, " to honour his coronation, first 
 parhament, and place of liis birth :" — " George Hay, 
 Viscount Duplaine, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, created 
 Earle of Kinnoul ; William Crighton, Viscount of Aire, 
 Lord Sanquhare, created' Earle of Dumfries; William 
 Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrick, created Earle of Queens- 
 burrey; William Alexander, Viscount Canada, Lord 
 Alexander of Menstrie, Principal Secretary to His Ma- 
 jesty for Scotland, created Earle of Streueling; John Bruce, 
 Lord Kilross, created Earle of Elgyne ; David, Lord 
 Carnegie, created Earle of Southescke ; John Stewarte, 
 Lord Traquare, created Earle of Traquare; Sir Robert 
 Ker, created Earle of Ancrum; John, Lord Wymees, 
 created Earle of Wymees; and William Ramsay, Lord 
 Ramsay, created Earle of Ramsay." — Balfour, Annals 
 of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 202. 
 
 T/ie river Annock. — Hugh Montgomery, fourth earl 
 of Eglinton, was assassinated by the Cunninghams at the 
 ford of Annock, a small stream which flows from the White 
 Loch in the parish of Meams, forms the western boundary 
 of the parish of Dreghorn, separates the latter from the 
 parish of Irvine, and falls into the river Irvine at Stewar- 
 ton. The atrocities of the well-known feud between the 
 Montgomerys and Cunninghams appear to have culminated 
 in the murder of the nobleman above-named. The best 
 account of this assassination and its bloody consequences 
 is preserved in a MS. History of the Eglinton Family, 
 from which the following extract is quoted by Paterson, 
 Accoimt of tke Parishes and P'am Hies of Ayrshire, vol. i., 
 p. 88 : — " The principal perpetrators of this foul deed were 
 John Cunningliam, brother of the Earl of Glencairn ; 
 David Cunningham, of Robertland; Ale.xander Cunning- 
 
 ham, of Corsehill ; Alexander Cunningham, of Aiket ; 
 and John Cunningham, of Clonbeith. The good earl, 
 apprehending no danger from any quarter, set out on the 
 19th of April, 1586, from his own house of Eglinton, to- 
 wards Stirling, where the Court then remained, in a quiet 
 and peaceable manner, having none in his retinue but his 
 own domestics, and called at the Langschaw, where he 
 staid so long as to dine. How the wicked crew, his mur- 
 derers, got notice of his being there, I cannot positively 
 say. It is reported, but I cannot aver it for truth, that the 
 Lady Langschaw, Margaret Cunningham, who was a 
 daughter of the house of Aiket (others say it was a sers'ant 
 who was a Cunningham), went up to the battlement of the 
 house, and hung over a white table napkin as a signal to 
 the Cunninghams, most of whom lived within sight of the 
 house of Langschaw, — which was the sign agreed should 
 be given when the Earl of Eglinton was there. Upon that 
 the Cunninghams assembled to the number of thretie-four, 
 or thereby, in a warlike manner, as if they had been to 
 attack or defend themselves from an enemy, and concealed 
 themselves in a low ground near the bridge of Annock, 
 where they knew the earl was to pass; secure, as he appre- 
 hended, from every danger ; when, alace! all of a sudden, 
 the wliole bloody gang set upon the earl and his small 
 company, some of wlrom they hewed to pieces, and John 
 Cunningham of Clonbeith, came up with a pistol, and shot 
 the earl dead on the place. The horror of the fact struck 
 everybody with amazement and consternation, and all the 
 country ran to arms, either on the one side or other, so 
 that for some time there was a scene of bloodshed and 
 murder in the West that had never been known before. 
 . . . The friends of the family of Eglintoun flocked to 
 the master of Eglintoun, his brother, to assist in revenging 
 his brother's deatli, from all quarters ; and in the heat of 
 their resentment killed every Cunningham without dis- 
 tinction they could come by, or even so much as met with 
 on the highways, or living peaceably in their own houses. 
 It woukl make a little volume to mention all the bloodshed 
 and murders that were committed on this doolful occasion, 
 in the shire of Renfrew and baihewick of Cunningham. 
 Aiket, one of the principal persons concerned, was shot 
 near his own house; Robertland and Corsehill escaped. 
 Robertland got beyond the seas to Denmark, and got his 
 peace made by means of Queen Ann of Denmark, when 
 she was married to King James VI. Clonbeith, who had 
 actually embued his hand in the earl's blood, and shot him 
 with his own hands, was, by a select company of the friends 
 of the family of Eglinton, with the master at their head, 
 hotly pursued. He got to Hamilton, and (they) getting 
 
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 and was purchased from him a.d. 1586'^ (as hath been mentioned out of John Johnston's book'9 
 of Encomiums on the Scottish heroes aforesaid), and his brother Robert dying a.d. 1596, both 
 without male issue to inherit the honour and title of Earl, the same being extinct (or asleep) for 
 divers years; nevertheless, the said Hugh left one only daughter, who succeeded him in the estate. 
 This lady was marry'd to Seaton, Earl of Winton the 20th, according to the said list in that de- 
 gree, and was his 2nd Countess. She bore to him Alexander, restored to his honour and degree, 
 which had always been prior to Glencairne.^° 
 
 I well knew this Alexander (he was commonly called Grey Steel^' for his truth and courage) 
 
 notice of the house to which it was suspected he had fled, 
 it was beset and environed, and John Pollock of that Ilk 
 — a bold, daring man, who was son-in-law of the house of 
 Langschaw at that time — in a fury of passion and revenge, 
 found him out within a chimney. How soon he was 
 brought down, they cut him to pieces on the very spot. 
 The resentment went so very high against eveiy one that 
 was suspected to have any the -least accession to this hor- 
 rid bloody fact, that the Lady Langschaw, that was a Cun- 
 ningham of the house of Aiket, was forced, for tlie security 
 of her person and the safety of her life to abscond. It was 
 given out that she was gone over to Ireland ; but she was 
 concealed in the house of one Robert Barr, at Pearce Bank, 
 a tenant and feuar of her husband's, for many years. But 
 before her death, she was overlookt, and returned to her 
 own house, which was connived at ; but never durst present 
 herself to any Montgomerie ever after that. This is a 
 genuine account of this long lasting and bloody feud, and 
 it is nowhere else extant, in all it cirumstances, but in this 
 memorial." 
 
 A.D. 1586. — There is here evidently a gap in what 
 the author had originally written. The date 1586 is that 
 of the murder at the Ford of Annock above-mentioned, 
 which occurred On the 1 8th of April in that year. Mrs. 
 E. G. S. Reilly, at p. 20 of her Genealogical History, states 
 that the event occurred on the 19th ; T. Harrison Mont- 
 gomery, Genealogical History, p. 61, mentions the 12th of 
 April as the date ; while Fraser, Memorials, vol. i. , p. 49, 
 agrees with the author of the Montgomery Manuscripts in 
 placing it on the 1 8th. See first edition, p. 92. 
 
 John Johnston^s book. — ^John Johnson, or Johnston, 
 of Aberdeen, published a volume of excellent poems, en- 
 titled Heroes ex otnni Historid Scoticd Lectissimi, 4to, 
 Lugd. Batav., 1603. His "Encomiums on the Scottish 
 Heroes" commence with Ferchard, who lived at the 
 close of the third century, and end with an account of 
 the valorous Scottishmen who fell in the civil wars of 
 the Netherlands, during the author's own time. To each 
 poem he prefixed a short history of the hero therein cele- 
 tirated, which added very much to the interest of the 
 general work. — Nicolson, Scottish Historical Library, 
 fol., 1786, p. 20. 
 
 ^° Prior to Glencairne. — The author had here entered 
 into a somewhat lengthened statement of the cause or 
 causes which induced the earl of Glencairn to dispute the 
 precedency with the earl of Eglinton ; but a portion of 
 this statement is evidently wanting, and what remains, re- 
 ferring to the family of the fourth earl, is as evidently un- 
 founded, — if, indeed, we have his words correctly given, 
 which is very doubtful. Hugh, slain at Annock, was 
 fourth Hugh in succession, and fourth earl ; by his death, 
 
 and that of his brother Robert, the title could not have 
 become "extinct," or "asleep," for Hugh, the fourth 
 earl, left a son also named Hugh, the fifth earl. The 
 latter married his cousin-german, Margaret, daughter of 
 his uncle Robert, master of Giffen ; but having no issue, 
 he, Hugh, fifth earl, settled his estates on Alexander, son 
 of his aunt Margaret, countess of Wintoun, and by charter 
 had the titles so settled on him also, with former prece- 
 dency. The author supposes that Margaret, countess of 
 Wintoun, was daughter of the fourth earl of Eglinton ; 
 but she was daughter of the third earl, and sister of the 
 fourth earl slain at Annock. These transactions are so 
 well known, that (provided the author's statement be cor- 
 rectly given) his confounding the families of the third and 
 fourth earl cannot be easily accounted for. — MS. Notes of 
 Col. F. O. Montgomeiy. Lady Margaret Montgomerie, 
 who became countess of Wintoun, was celebrated for her 
 great beauty and amiability, her charms fomiing the theme 
 of many of the effusions of her cousin, Alexander Mont- 
 gomery, the poet. Her son, Alexander Seton, who suc- 
 ceeded to the earldom of Eglinton in 161 5, took with that 
 title the name and arms of Montgomery. James VI. 
 ordered the Scottish Privy Council to forbid him using the 
 title of earl of Eglinton, as he was not the heir-male of 
 that family. The Council summoned him as I\Ir. Alexander 
 Seton, but he refused to appear by that title, stating that 
 he had been sei-ved heir to the estates and titles of the 
 late earl. But, besides denying him the title, the Court 
 attempted to deprive him of the more substantial rights of 
 property, by conferring the lordsliip of Kilwinning, which 
 belonged to the late earl, on sir ]\Iichael Balfour of Bur- 
 leigh. After repeatedly remonstrating against this injus- 
 tice, the sixth earl appeared suddenly before Somerset, 
 the king's chief favourite, telling him that, although he 
 (Eglinton) was little skilled in the subtleties of law, or the 
 niceties of court etiquette, ht kne'o the use of his s-Mord. 
 After that interview, Seton's rights of property and claims 
 to the title were quickly and fully acknowledged by the 
 king. — Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. 
 ii. , p. 237; Fraser, Memorials, vol. i. , p. 61. 
 
 Gi-ey Steel. — Family, tradition aflirms that the sbcth 
 earl of Eglinton obtained this epithet, not so much from 
 the colour of his armour, as from liis well-known readiness 
 to appeal to the arbitrament of the sword in the settle- 
 ment of all weighty disputes, public or private. He is the 
 greatest, and certainly the most historical, of all the earls 
 belonging to his family, with, perhaps, the exception of 
 the first lord Eglinton. Of him (Greysteel) there is the 
 following notice in the Broomhnids MS.: — "This earl 
 was among the number of those peers who engaged them- 
 selves against the king (Charles I.) in the year 1638, upon 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 in King Charles the 2d's 'time; as also I was intimately acquainted with Hugh, his eldest son," 
 who succeeded him, as I had been in Ireland with Colonel James,=3 the said Alexander's 2d son, 
 whose regiment of foot came over into this kingdom with the Scottish army Ac. 1642, and was quartered 
 in and about Newtown of the Ards. I knew also Major-Gen eral Robert Montgomery, the said 
 Alexander's 3d son,^4 in Scotland, before Dunbarr fight,=s and in London also, Ano. 1665; but most 
 of all I am known to Alexander, the present Earle of Eglinton,^^ having often many years ago con- 
 
 the first commencing of our bloody civil war. He had 
 the command of a regiment of the army that was sent to 
 Ireland in tlie year 1642, towards the suppressing of the 
 rebellion there. He was likewise personally engaged in 
 the battle of Long-Marston-Moor, which was in the year 
 1643, in the service of the parliament of England against 
 the king, where he behaved with abundance of courage ; 
 yet his lordship still retained a respect and affection for 
 his majesty's person, and no man more abominated the 
 murder of the king than he. He heartily concurred in, 
 and was extremely satisfied with, the restoration of King 
 Charles the Second, by whom he was constituted captain 
 of his guards of horse, in the year 1650; and next year, 
 while he was raising forces in the western parts for the 
 king's services, he was surprised at Dumbarton by a party 
 of English horse, and sent prisoner to the town of Hull, 
 and afterwards returned to Berwick-on-Tweed, suffering 
 likewise the sequestration of his estate, till the Restoration 
 reponed in the year 1660. He died in 1661: by his first 
 wife, lady Ann Livingston, who died in 1632, he had five 
 sons; by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Walter, 
 lord Buccleugh, who died in 165 1, he had no issue." — 
 Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayrshi?-e, vol. ii., p. 
 
 237- . . ^ 
 
 Hugh, his eldest son. — This Hugh was born in 161 3, 
 succeeded his father, as seventh earl of Eglinton in 1661, 
 and died in 1669, aged fifty-six years. 
 
 Colonel Javies. — This was the fourth son of the sixth 
 earl of Eglinton, and the founder of the Coilsfield branch. 
 He died in 1674. His great grandson, Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, became twelfth earl of Eglinton, on the death of 
 his cousin Archibald, the eleventh earl, without issue, in 
 1796. This Hugh had, previously to his succession to 
 the earldom, been a captain in the 78th foot, and served 
 in the American war. In 1780, he was elected member 
 of parliament for Ayrshire, and was re-elected in 1784. 
 The poet Burns complimented his gallantry at the expense 
 of his oratory, in the following lines of his Ear)iest Cry 
 and Prayer to the Scottish Representatives : — 
 
 " See, Sodger Hugh, my watchman stented, 
 If bardies e'er are represented ; 
 I ken that if your sword were wanted, 
 
 Ye'd lend a hand, 
 But, when there's ought to say anent it, 
 Ye' re at a stand." 
 
 Eraser, Memorials, vol. i., p. 132, note; Chambers, 
 Life and Works of Robert Burns, vol. I., p. 206. 
 
 Said Alexaitder'' s third son. — The names of the sixth 
 earl's sons were : — l, Hugh, his successor in the earldom; 
 2, sir Henry, who died in 1644 ; 3, sir Alexander; 4, James 
 of Coilsfield ; and 5, Robert, a well-known general in the 
 army, who died in 1684. James, the founder of the Coils- 
 field Montgomerys, was not the second son of the sixth 
 earl, as represented in the text, but the fourth son ; and 
 Robert was the ffth, not the third son, as the author as- 
 
 serts. Sir Alexander Montgomery, the third son. died at 
 Newtown, in July, 1642. There is preserved, at Eglinton 
 Castle, the following just account of the moneys that was 
 found in sir Alexattder Montgomerie's tronk and purses, in 
 prese7ice of my lord of Ardes and the said sir Alexander's 
 two brethi-en, at Newtown, the ^th day of August, 1642 : — 
 
 "Imprimis, of tuentie tuo shillings peeces — three score and eight. 
 
 Item, of tuentie shilling peeces — nyneteene. 
 *' Item, one ten shilling peece — one. 
 
 " Item, another peece of gold with a crosse and foure crounes vpon 
 the one syde. 
 
 " Item, of English moneys, eight pounds five shillings two pence 
 sterling, and 8 Scotts pennyes. 
 
 " Item, three gold woups (rings) oneof them being set in rubies. 
 
 " Item, tuo silver casketts and an etuy. 
 
 " Item, a mounter. 
 
 " Depursed out of the moneys and gold abovewritten. 
 
 '* Imprimis, of the English money abovewritten, the whole thereof 
 is delivered equallie to captaine James and captaine Robert betwixt 
 them. 
 
 " Item, deliuered to them of the gold abovewritten, to either of 
 
 them a tuentie shillings peece. 
 
 Item, to William Shaw, by a particular accompt, delivered to 
 William Hoome for things bought for the funerall, elleven pounds 
 ten shillings tuo pence ster. 
 
 *' Item, delivered to William Seton, which he gave out at theColo- 
 nell's direction, as appears by the particular accompt thereof, fifteene 
 shillings and three pence sterling. 
 
 " Item, to the tuo footemen, seventeene shillings and sex pence 
 sterhng the peece, which pays their dyet till Tuesday next, being the 
 ninth day of this instant August. 
 
 " Item, to John Peebles for some accompts which was resting to 
 him, and for his dyet till Tuesday next, tuentie foure shillings and 
 elleven pence sterling. 
 
 " Item, to my Lord of Ardes' servants of the house, tuo pounds 
 fifteene shillings ster. 
 
 " Summa of the depursements abovewritten is— 281bs. ss. 6d. ster- 
 ling. 
 
 " Item, to the young man that doubled these accompts, one shil- 
 ling eight pence sterling. 
 
 " So remaines of the whole charge of moneys, threescore and seven 
 tuentie tuo shillings peeces, which is laid into the tronk. 
 
 " AUowit to the compter for debursingis in Ireland at the buriall 
 of unquhill sir Alexander Montgomerie — iii'". Ixviij^. viijd." — Account 
 of William Home, /actor at Eaglesliame, 1641-2. — Eraser, Memo- 
 rials, vol. i., pp. 78, 79. 
 
 Baillie {Letters, vol. ii., p. 59) mentions that the earl of 
 Eglinton left the meeting of the General Assembly, at 
 St. Andrews, on the 29th July, 1642, being much afflicted 
 with the death of his noble sonne, sir Alexander the 
 colonell." 
 
 Dunbarr Fight. — This battle was fought on the 3rd 
 September, 1650. 
 
 Present Earle of Eglinton. — This eighth earl, bom 
 about 1640, and described in the text as the ''present 
 earl," in 1689, is only known as having made two rather 
 remarkable marriages — his first and his third. His first 
 marriage appears to have been considered but an indiffe- 
 rent matrimonial adventure. Lamont refers to it in his 
 Diary as follows: — "In 1658, January, the lord Montgo- 
 merie's Sonne being at London about his father's business 
 in Parliament, in reference to his fyne, with consent of his 
 
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 versed with him, and last of all in Edinborogh, Ao. 1689 (I being a voluntary exile during the 
 troubles then in Ireland), in which year his Lordship told me there had been seventeen Earles of his 
 ancestors, all Eglinton, of the name Alexander (which in English is a worthy helper of men), and none 
 of them all of any other proper name, but the two Hughes and the said Robert aforesaid (who enjoyed 
 the honor those ten years, in which he revenged and survived his said brother slain at Annock as 
 aforesaid); yet his ancestors, whilst Lords Montgomeries of Ardrossan, had divers other names.^7 
 
 Now none of the Earles of Eglintoune did forfeit their honour by treason, and so could not 
 lose their degree in the file of Earles, and, therefore, and for the reasons aforesaid, as well as for the 
 said 2d list, the rivalship of Glencairne is (in my opinion) injurious, and a tort done to the family of 
 Eglintoune, and much more will it be so, if in any Parliament a protestation be entered by Glen- 
 cairne against the other Earle's precedencys. I hope there is not, nor will be any such protestations, 
 because the difference about it (as I have been credibly reported) was ended and taken away by King 
 Charles 2d upon his happy restoration. This much I have written as in part belonging to the said 
 6th Laird's genealogy, and in honor to our Chief in Scotland. 
 
 Now this 6th Laird (by which title I will design him till he was knighted) had three brothers,- 
 who Hved to be men respected for their abilities, viz., George, of whom (because his happy Hving 
 was in England and Ireland) I will especially remember hereafter. He was (as my father writes), 
 for his worth and learning, by the late Queen Elizabeth, prefer'd to the Parsonage of Chedchec,^^ and 
 Deanery of Norwich Patrick also, who by his prowess and conduct (going from Scotland, a Captain 
 of a regiment of foot, into France) did arise to great credit, and a colonel's post under King H. the 
 4th, and was killed in a fight where he had commanded five hundred horse ;3° he had no wife, neyther 
 
 parents married privately the lord Dumfrice hisMaughter, 
 a gentlewoman bred in England, but having little or no 
 portion." Baillie also mentions this marriage as " one of 
 the sundry unhappy incidents among us." " The earlj of 
 Eglintoune's heir," he continues, " the master of Montgo- 
 mery, convoying his father to London, runns away without 
 any advice, and maries a daughter of my lord E>umfries, 
 who is a broken man, when he was sure of my lady 
 Balclough's (countess of Buccleucli) marriage, the greatest 
 match in Brittain. This unexpected pranckis worseto all his 
 kinn than his death would have been. " — Letters, vol. iii. , p. 
 366. By her the earl hadafamily of three sons and two daugli- 
 ters. She died in 1673, and the earl next married Grace, 
 daughter of Francis Pojiley, and widow of sir Thomas 
 Wentworth of Bretton. This lady died within a year 
 after her marriage, and the earl married, in 1698, Catherine, 
 lady Kaye, daughter of sir William St. Quintin, of Harp- 
 ham, in the county of York. She had been three times 
 married previously, and was niticty years of age when she 
 married her fourth husband, the earl of Eglinton ! She 
 died in 1700, and her husband followed in 1701. — Fraser, 
 Memorials, vol. i. pp. 98, 100. 
 
 ^''Divers other names. — This paragraph is evidently 
 imperfect, or very incorrectly given. That there were 
 seventeen earls of the name of Alexander previous to 
 Alexander, the eighth earl, in 1689, is a statement which 
 the latter could hardly have made, or the author repeated. 
 There were five Hughs in succession immediately pre- 
 ceding Alexander Scton, surnamed Greysleel, who was 
 
 sixth earl. The seventh earl also was Hugh. Robert 
 of Giffen, brother of Hugh, the fourth earl, slain at 
 Annock, was never earl. — AIS. Notes of Col. F. O. 
 Montgomery. 
 
 "® Chedchec. — This is probably a misprint for Chedzoy, 
 or Chedder, in Somersetshire, although it is copied as in 
 the text by Lodge, who had a loan of the Montgomery 
 Matiiiscripts. Chedder might readily be mistaken for 
 Chedchec in the original ; but, from the loss of the MSS. , 
 it is impossible to determine the correct reading. In 
 1660, Jeremy Taylor had a controversy with a divine 
 located at Chedzoy, named Henry Jeanes, on the doc- 
 trine of original sin. Heber, Life of Taylor, vol. i., 
 p. Ixx. ; vol. ii., p. 571, seq. Leland has no mention of 
 Chedzoy, but he notices Chedder (vol. ii., p. 93) as a 
 "good husband tounelet to Axbridge, lying in the rootes 
 of Mendip hilles." Tourists visit this place to view the 
 stupendous chasm, called Chedder Cliff, which is said to 
 be the most striking scene of its kind in Great Britain. 
 Camden, Britainiia, edited by Gough, vol. i., p. 109. 
 
 ^'^ Deanery of Norwich. — George Montgomery, S.T. P., 
 born in 1563, was installed dean of Norwich on the 7th 
 of June, 1603, — an appointment which he retained until 
 the 28th of September, 1614. 
 
 ^° Five hu?idrcd horse. — Many Scottish men were in- 
 duced to enter the French service, from time to time, 
 through the attractions of the celebrated Scots Guard, 
 supposed to be organised so early as the days of Charle- 
 magne, but which was certainly established by Charles VII, 
 
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 had John, his youngest brother, who was graduated Doctor in physick, in a French University or 
 College; he returning homewards came to London, where, having practised his art (with good 
 repute), he died of that sweating imoveable sickness which raged in Queen Elizabeth's reign.3» 
 
 _ But I return to the history of the said 6th Laird, who leaving Glasgow CoUedge'and his parents 
 at home, he travelled into France, and after some months' stay at Court there, he settled himself in 
 Holland, and became a Captain of foot in a Scottish Regiment, under the Prince of Orange, grand- 
 father to our present gracious Sovereign King William. 3^ He was in service some years there, till 
 hearing of his mother's and (soon afterwards) of his father's death,33 and that his sisters were dis- 
 posed of in marriage, 34 and knowing that there were debts on his estate, on that account (his brothers 
 having formerly received their portions), he then obtained leave to dispose of his command and ar- 
 rears of pay, and so returned to Braidstane, and appearing at the Court in Edenborough, he was 
 respected as a well-accomplished gentleman, being introduced to kiss King James the 6th hand, by 
 divers Noblemen, on whose recommendation he was received into favour (and special notice taken 
 of him), which encreased more and more, by reason of a correspondence he had with his brother 
 George (then Dean of Norwich in the Church of England), whereby he received and gave frequent 
 intelligence to his Majesty of the Nobility and State Ministers in' Queen EHzabeth's Court and Coim- 
 cil, and of the country Gentlemen, as they were well or ill affected to his Majesty's succession. 
 
 The said Laird upon his return above said, having paid the said debts and settled his estate (his 
 
 as a permanent institution of the French court. The 
 first captain of this guard, after its re-organisation, was a 
 count de Montgomery, descended, it is supposed, from 
 the family of this suniame anciently owners of Largs. 
 
 ^' ElizabeMs Reign. — ^John Montgomery was a student 
 at Padua, probably after leaving the French university. 
 Paterson, Account of the Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, 
 vol. i., p. 280. His death may have, probably, occurred 
 in 1597, as in that year no fewer than 17,890 persons are 
 said to have died in London. Chambers, Domestic 
 Annals of Scotlajid, vol. i., p. 292. Camden describes 
 the disease mentioned in the text as ' ' the English sweat, 
 which made great mortality of people, especially those of 
 middle age ; for as many as were taken suddenly with this 
 sweat within one foure and twenty houres eyther dyed or 
 recovered. But a present remedy was found, namely, 
 that such as in the day-time fell into it, should presently 
 in their clothes as they were goe to bed ; if by night and 
 in bed, should there rest, lye still, and not rise from thence 
 for foure and twenty houres ; provided always that they 
 should not sleepe the while, but by all means be kept 
 waking. Whereof this disease first arose, the learned of 
 physicians know not for certaine." This account was 
 written of an outbreak of the disease in 1551. The great 
 mortality in 1597 would prove — supposing the complaints 
 were exactly similar — that the simple remedy here men- 
 tioned was of little avail in the latter instance. Camden, 
 Britannia, vol. i., p. 7. 
 
 King William. — Maurice of Nassau, stadtholder at 
 the time referred to in the text, was grand-uncle of 
 William IIL of Nassau, Prince of Orange, ultimately 
 king of England. Maurice succeeded in 1584, became 
 Prince of Orange in i6i8, and died in 1625. He was 
 succeeded by his younger brother, Frederic Henry, who 
 
 was grandfather of William IIL, king of England. The 
 sixth laird of Braidstane probably served in Holland dur- 
 ing the last few years of the life of William 1. of Orange, 
 great-grandfather of William III. of England, so that 
 grandfather in the text must be a mistake, or a misprint, for 
 great-grandfather. William I. of Orange, sumamed the 
 Silent, and founder of the Dutch Republic, was assassinated 
 in 1584. The author states that the sixth laird was mar- 
 ried in 1587, after liis return from Holland "where he had 
 been in service some years," — a form of expression wluch 
 would imply a longer period than from the date of the 
 assassination in 1584. 
 
 ^'^ Father's death. — His father had died before 1 587, the 
 year of the sixth laird's marriage. 
 
 Disposed of in fnarria^e. — One of the sixth laird's 
 sisters was married to Patrick Shaw, a son of John Shaw 
 of Greenock. The following is an account of their burial- 
 place in the old church of Largs: — "West of the Skel- 
 morlie aisle, stands the funeral vault of the ancient family 
 of Brisbane of Brisbane. It is constructed entirely of stone 
 and its only chiseled adornments are two shields of arms 
 built in the gable over its well-secured portal. The shield 
 on the right bears two mullets in fesse, between three cups 
 covered, for Shaw, impaling three fleurs de lis, and parted 
 per fess, three annulets, for Montgomery. On the upper 
 part of the shield are cut the letters P. S., and in the flanks 
 y. AL, with the date 1634 below. The other shield bears 
 only Shaw, as above, and the initials y. S. It would 
 appear from these armorials, that the vault was built by 
 Shaw of Kelsoland, or his heirs, considerably prior to that 
 property becoming part of the estate of Brisbane, in which 
 its name was subsequently merged. The letters on the 
 right-hand shield are the initials of Patrick Shaw; second 
 son of John Shaw of Greenock, and those of his wife Jean, 
 
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 friends advising him), he marryed about Ano. 1587, the Laird of Greenock's daughter,3S with content 
 to the said earle and all his relations in kindred, and lived in peace and amity with all his neighbours, 
 
 till grossly injured by Maxwell, Laird of New Ark,3^ near Greenock ; which abuse his martial soul 
 
 could not brook. This occasioned divers of the 6th Laird's attempts against the said Maxwell, 
 who declined to give him gentlemanly satisfaction, but the bickering on both sides surceased on a 
 reconciliation (made by their friends) between them. 
 
 The said Laird having now acquired or conciliated an interest in the bonnes graces of his Prince, 
 as above said, it happened he had an aifront put upon him by the earle of Glencaime's eldest son, 
 
 daughter of Adam Montgomery of Broadstone, and sister 
 to Hugh, Lord Viscount Ardsin Ireland." — Scottish "Jour- 
 nal of Topography, A ntiquities, S^c. , vol. i. , p. 308. 
 
 3^ Greenock's daughter. — This laird is called James Shaw 
 in the first viscount's Funeral Etitry, and Joh?i Shaw by- 
 Crawford, vi\\v\'s, Description of the Shire of Renfrew, 1818, 
 p. 125. His family had possessed the lordship or manor of 
 Wester Greenock from tlie time of King Robert IH. He 
 married his cousin Jean, daughter of John Cunningham of 
 Glengarnock, by whom he had a family of five sons and 
 six daughters. The eldest of the latter, named Elizabeth, 
 married Hugh, sixth laird of Braidstane, as mentioned in 
 the text ; the second, Isabel, married John Lindsay, of 
 the Dunrod family ; the third, Marian, married Camp- 
 bell of Dovecoathall ; the fourth, Christian, married Pat- 
 rick Montgomery of Blackhouse, in Largs, and Creboy, 
 in the parish of Donaghadee ; the fifth, Geeles, married 
 James Crawford of Flattertown ; and the sixth (whose 
 Christian name we cannot discover) married Andrew 
 Nevin, second laird of Monkrodding, in the parish of Kil- 
 winning. Crawford has no mention of John Shaw's 
 daughter married to Nevin ; in the enumeration of the sons 
 in Greenock's family, he has omitted John, who came 
 with sir Hugh Montgomery to the Ards, and erroneously 
 states that Robert Shaw was founder of the family of this 
 surname in the County of Down. The old castle of the 
 Shaws, or as much of it as could be made available, was 
 incorporated with the handsome family residence of the 
 Shaw-Stewarts, which occupies the original site, on an 
 elevated terrace, at a little distance west of Greenock. This 
 structure may be described as both old and new, the old 
 portions being easily distinguished by their narrow win- 
 dows and peaked gables, and the modern additions by their 
 superior arrangements for domestic comfort. Over an en- 
 trance to the house is the date 1637. This castle con- 
 tinued to be the residence of the Shaws, and more recently 
 of their representatives, the Shaw- Stewarts, until the year 
 1754, when the family removed to Ardgowan, which is 
 still their favourite abode. Macdonald, Days at the Coast, 
 pp. 91, 92. '* On the death of Sir John Shaw, the last of 
 the name, in 1752, Mr. Shaw-Stewart, afterwards Sir John 
 Shaw-Stewart, eldest son of Sir Michael Stewart of 
 Blackball, succeeded to these estates in right of his mother 
 and grandmother, then deceased; the latter, wife of Sir 
 John Houston of Houston, being the daughter and heiress 
 of entail of Sir John Shaw, the father of the baronet of 
 that name above mentioned, and sister of the last Sir 
 John. Sir John Shaw Stewart died in 1 81 2, and was 
 succeeded by his nephew. Sir Michael Stewart, at that 
 time Mr. Nicolson, of Carnock. On his death in 1825, 
 
 he was succeeded in the possession of his estate by his 
 eldest son, the late Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart ; and at his 
 death, on the 19th of Dec, 1836, he was succeeded by his 
 eldest son, the present Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, 
 a minor. " — Nevj Stat. Account of Renfretushire, p. 412. 
 
 Laird of Newark. — This was Patrick Maxwell, laird 
 of Newark at the time referred to in the text, an active 
 partisan of the Cunninghams in the great feud between 
 them and the Montgomerys. The quarrel here noticed 
 between the lairds of Braidstane and Newark had, no doubt, 
 arisen from this unhappy source. Maxwell's mother was 
 a Cunningham, of the family of Craigens, and, in 1584, 
 Patrick Maxwell of Stainlie, a near connexion of the Max- 
 wells of Newark, was slain in a conflict with the Mont- 
 gomerys of Skelmorlie. In another fight, which occurred 
 only three months aftei-wards, Robert Montgomery, laird 
 of Skelmorlie, and his eldest son, were slain by the Max- 
 wells. Montgomery's second son, Robert, thus suddenly 
 became, as Maxwell of Newark expressed it, " Young laird 
 and old laird of Skelmorlie in one day." Patterson, 
 Accvicnt of the Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii. p. 
 310. It was in preparation, no doubt, for some of the con- 
 flicts above mentioned, that Patrick Maxwell penned the 
 following letter to his kinsman, the laird of Nether PoUok, 
 on the 27th of January, 1585 : — 
 
 " Rycht Honorable, — Eftirharthecommendatioune : laminformit 
 of swm interpryse of my enemeis a-gins me, and at the Raid of 
 Stirling mony of our hagbitis \v.is taine fra ws : Quhair for I pray 
 zow, sir, to lat me haif the lame (loan) of ane cwpple of hagbitis, 
 and ze sell haif thame againe within twentie days. As also, gif ony 
 occasiowne fortownis that I maun chairge freindis, I haif no dowt, 
 upon my nixt adverteisment, bot that ze will be reddie in defence of 
 my lyif and honcstie : As ze sell find me reddie to requyt zour guid- 
 wiU quhen occasiowne serwis, as knowis God, qwha mot preserwo 
 zou eternallie. — From Newark ; thexxvii. day of Januar, 1585. 
 " Zour lowyng freind at power, 
 
 "P. Maxwell, of Neverk. 
 "To the rycht honorabill and my special frend, the Laird of 
 Nether Pollok, Knycht." — Fraser, Memorials, vol. i., p. 180. 
 
 The old castle of the Maxwells of Newark stands on the 
 banks of the Clyde, in the immediate vicinity of Port 
 Glasgow, and consists of a "keep," built about the year 
 1400, with several additions of a later period. Some of 
 the walls still exhibit armorial bearings, and over several 
 of the elegantly carved windows are still to be seen the 
 letters P. M., the initials of almost all the lords of the 
 Castle, for each in succession bore the Christian name 
 of Patrick. In a comer of the court, over an old doorway, 
 is the following inscription, originally intended as a pious 
 consecration of the building: — The Blessingis of God be 
 hci-cin. Only the two figures 97 remain of tlie date accom- 
 panying this inscription. It was probably 1497. Above one 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Mr. Conningham,37 for reparation whereof he challenged the same Gentleman to a combat, but Mr, 
 Conningham avoided the danger by a visit to London (the Queen being still and for some years 
 thereafter alive tho' old) : yet was soon followed by the said Laird, who came to the city; and his 
 errand for satisfaction was told soon enough to Mr. Conningham, whereupon he went clandestinely 
 into Holland on pretence to improve his parts at the Court in the Hague.s^ The said Laird being 
 thus twice disappointed of his purpose (stayed a few days at the English Court), and then rode to 
 his brother George, Dean of Norwich, and instructed him how to continue his said intelligence, to 
 be communicated to King James by one of their near kinsmen ;39 which affairs adjusted (undervaluing 
 costs, toyle, and danger), the Laird took ship at Dover, and arrived in Holland, going to the 
 Hague (unheard of and unexpected), where lodging privately, till he had learned the usual hours 
 when Mr. Conningham and the other gentlemen and officers walked (as merchants do in the inner 
 courts of the palace, called Den Primen Hoff'to), the said Laird there found Mr. Conningham, called 
 him coward, fugitive, and drew his sword (obliging his adversary to do the like); but the Laird press- 
 ing upon him, made a home thrust (which lighted on the broad buckle of his sword belt), and so 
 tilted Mr. Conningham on his back; yet it pleased God that the buckle (like a toorget) saved his 
 life. This was a sudden and inconsiderate rash action of the Laird, who thought he had killed Mr. 
 Conningham. Putting up his sword quickly, and hastening out of the Court, he was seized on by 
 some of the guard, and committed to the Provost-Marshall's custody, where he meditated how to 
 escape, and put his design that night in some order (an hopeful occasion forthwith presenting itself) 
 for no sooner was the hurry over, but one Serjeant Robert Montgomery*' (formerly acquainted with 
 the Laird) came to him; the condolement was but short and private, and the business not to be 
 
 of the windows, in a more modem portion of the castle, is 
 the date 1599. The oaken beams and massive fire-places of 
 the great Hall remain, and such is still its comparative state 
 of preservation, that three poor families make the old pile 
 their place of residence. At the commencement of the last 
 century, George Maxwell sold his property in Newark to 
 William Cochrane of Kilmarnock. The barony, includ- 
 ing the castle, passed afterwards into the possession of lord 
 Belhaven, who, in turn, sold it to Mr. Farquhar, from 
 whom it came by inheritance to its present owner, sir 
 Michael Shaw-Stewart. — Original Parocluales Scotia, vol. 
 i., p. 87; Macdonald, Days on the Coast, pp. 62, 63. 
 
 Air. Conningham. — This was William Cunningham, 
 eldest son and successor of James, seventh earl of Glen- 
 caim, by his wife, Margaret, a daughter of sir Colin 
 Campbell of Glenurchy. The quarrel here mentioned 
 was, no doubt, another result of the feud between the 
 Montgomerys and Cunninghams, which seems to have 
 been somewhat allayed after the assassination at the ford 
 of Annock, although the excitement consequent on that 
 event continued. In 1606, an encounter took place be- 
 tween them in the streets of Perth, where the rival earls, 
 Eglinton and Glencaim, had gone to attend a meeting of 
 the Scottish parliament. Tlie fight lasted from seven 
 until ten o'clock at night, and was only quelled after pro- 
 digious efforts made for that purpose by the citizens. 
 Lord Semple was involved on the side of the Montgomei-ys, 
 and it was not until the year 1609 that a reconciliation 
 
 could be effected between him and Glencaim, which was 
 only at last accomplished at the command of the Privy 
 Council. — Chambers, Dornestic Anitals of Scotland, vol. i., 
 P- 395- 
 
 In the Hague.- — The Hague, which is the capital of 
 South Holland, was the usual residence of the court, and 
 the seat of the States-General, or Dutch parliament. It 
 takes its name Gravenhage, "Count's Hedge," from the 
 house originally forming part of the enclosure surrounding 
 the coimt's park, the house having been a hunting lodge, 
 which, in 1250, became a palace of the counts of Holland, 
 and the commencement of the large and beautiful city of 
 Hague. 
 
 Near kijtsman. — This near kinsman was, most pro- 
 bably, their uncle (mother's brother), Alexander Mont- 
 gomery, the celebrated poet, who, for a time, was a 
 frequent visitor at the court of James VI. 
 
 Den Primen Hoff. — Primen Hoff is no doubt a mis- 
 print for Binnttihoff, the name of an irregular old pile of 
 various dates, having a handsome Gothic hall, which is 
 now the only remaining portion of the original residence 
 of the counts of Holland. The States-General hold their 
 meetings in the Binnenhoff, part of which is also occupied 
 by the government offices. 
 
 Serjeant Robert Montgomery. — The sixth laird did 
 not forget the useftd services of his humble kinsman, as 
 will be seen in the author's concluding account of several 
 persons bearing the surname of Montgomery. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 delayed. Therefore the Laird gave the serjeant a purse of gold, and said, I will call you cousen and 
 treat you respectfully, and you must visit me frequently, and bring me word from the officers (my 
 former comerades) what they can learn is resolved against me, entreating them to visit me. Then 
 he employed him to bespeake some of them that night to come to him the next morning, giving 
 him orders at fit times to deal liberally with the Marshall (then a widower) and his turnkeys, letting 
 words fall (as accidentally) that he had such and such lands in Scotland to which he designed (in 
 six months) to return, and also to talk of him as his honourable cousen then in restraint, for no 
 worse deed then was usually done, in Edinborough streets, in revenge of any affi-ont, and especially 
 to magnify himself, to make love secretly and briskly to the Marshall's daughter (to whom the keys 
 were often trusted), giving her love tokens and coined gold, as assurances of his intire affection, and at 
 other times to shew her the said purse with the gold in it, telling her a Scotch kinsman had brought 
 it to him, as rent of his lands in Scotland, and sometimes also to shew her handfulls of silver, urging 
 her to take it (or at least a part of it) ; often persweading her to a speedy and private contract in 
 order to a marriage between them. The serjeant thus instantly pursuing his love suit, he ply'd his 
 oar so well that in a few nights he had certain proofs of the bride's cordial love and consent to 
 wed him. 
 
 In the mean time, while the Laird engaged many of his comerades (and they their friends) to 
 intercede for him, likewise (with great secrecy as to his concern) the serjeant procured a Scottish 
 vessel to be hired, and to be at readiness to obey orders, and weigh anchors when required. And 
 now it remained only to facilitate the escape ; wherefore the Laird had divers times treated the 
 Marshall and his daughter in his chamber, both jointly and severally, and one night a good oppor- 
 tunity offering itself of her father being abroad, the Laird (as the design was laid) had the daughter and 
 his serjeant, into his room, and there privately contracted or espoused them together by mutual pro- 
 mises of conjugall fidelity to each other, joining their hands, and making them alternately repeat 
 (after him) the matrimonial vow used in Scotland, they exchanging one to the other the halves of 
 a piece of gold which he had broken and given to them to that purpose. So, no doubt, the serjeant 
 kissed his bride and she him, and drank a glass of -wine to each other on the bargain. Then the 
 Laird carressed them both, and revealed to them his design of getting out of restraint, to abscond 
 himself till he might get King James' letter to the Prince, that his hand should not be cut off; but 
 that receiving on his knee the Prince's reprimand, and making due submissions, and humbly craving 
 pardon and promising reconciliation and friendship to Mr. Conninghame, he should be absolved 
 from the punishment due for his crime. But this was a pretence to the bride only; all this was con- 
 trived, carried on, and done without the knowledge of the Laird's servant, who was only employed 
 to cajole and treat the Marshall and his turnkeys liberally, and to perform menial attendances and 
 offices about the Laird's person when called ; so that the intrigues prospered (with admirable conduct) 
 without the least umbrage of supicion, either to the household or to the comerades aforesaid, lest 
 any of them should be taxed with compliance or connivance to the escape. 
 
 In this little history I have been the more exact to give the reader (at least) one single instance 
 of the Laird's bold resolution, and of his sagatious ingenious spirit, as well as of his great prudence 
 (which appeared also in the sequel of this affair); as likewise to be briefe in my future report of 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 another like escape for Con O'Neil,*^ which the Laird devised and got done (almost in the same 
 manner), as shall in due place be remembered. And now there remained only to appoint the night 
 when the Laird was to leave his lodgings (and the preparatorys for it to be advized on) ; all which 
 being concerted between the Laird, the sergeant and his bride, a treat of a dinner was made for 
 some of the said officers and for the Marshall, which almost being ended, the sergeant came into 
 the room and reported, that, in consideration of the Laird's valorous services and civil behaviour 
 whilst Captain in the army, and of the officers' intercessions, Mr Conninghame, having received no 
 wound (for divers respects on his own account, and to make amends to the Laird), joining with 
 them, the Prince was pleased to pardon the Laird's rash passionate crime, and to restore him to his 
 liberty; he making submission, and craving remission for his fault, and promising not only recon- 
 ciliation, but friendship to Mr Conninghame as aforesaid was pretended — all which was to be per- 
 formed solemnly two days thence. These news were welcomed by all at table mth their great joy 
 and applause given of y* Prince, 43 who thereby should endeare the Scottish forces the more to serve 
 his highness; then the healths went round and the glasses set about the trenchers (like cercoletts), 
 till run off, the meat being removed, and sergeant gone to feast with the Laird's servant, who treated 
 him and his sweet bride with the officers' and Marshall's men, where there was no want of Avine for 
 sake of the good news. After eating was done, the Laird and officers and Marshall (who no doubt 
 had his full share of drink put upon him) continued at the wine (as their attendants also did below 
 them, both companies being answered by the bride and her cookmaid, when wine was called for 
 
 Con O'Neill. — This chief, of whose affairs we shall have several curious details in the following pages, is known 
 in the Inquisitions as Con M'Neal-M'Brian-Fertagh, more zoxx%z\\y Fagartach. Brian, styled by the Four Masters 
 "Brilliant Star," was surnamed Fagarlach because he was fostered in MacCartan's country of Cinel-Faghartaigh, 
 ' ' race of Fagartach, " now Kinnelarty. For the following statement of Con O'Neill's descent from Aod/i Buidhe (Hugh 
 Boy) II., the editor is indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Dr. Reeves : — 
 
 AoDH Buidhe II., slain in 1444. 
 
 I 
 
 Con, whose abode was the Castle of Edendufifcarrlck ; died in 1482. 
 
 NiALL MoR == Inneenduv-ny-Donnell. Lord of Trian Congail ; died in 1512. 
 
 Fedhlim Bacach ; died in 1533. Nial Og, Lord of Trian Congail ; died 1537. 
 
 Brian, chief of Trian Congail and Clannaboy ; murdered in 1574 or 1575. Brian Fagartach, "a Brilliant Star" (4 Masts.) ; slain 
 
 I . I [ia 1548. 
 
 John or Shane MacBkian : died in 1617. Niall. 
 
 I I 
 
 I I Con, mentioned in the text. 
 Sir Henrv. Phelim Duff, ancestor of Lord O'Neill of Shane's Castle. 
 
 See also Reeves, Eccl. Antiquities, pp. 343, 347; Reeves, Ulster journal 0/ ArcJueology, vol. ii., p. 57, Notes. 
 
 ♦3 This Prince was Maurice of Nassau, second surviving son of William I. of Orange. Maurice succeeded his father 
 in 1584, when he was only seventeen years of age. He was named after his maternal grandfather, the celebrated 
 elector of Saxony, whose military genius he inherited. See note 32, supra. The Principality of Orange, on the left 
 bank of the Rhone, after having several ruling families in succession, during the middle ages came into the family of 
 Nassau. That branch of the family represented by William I. succeeded to this principahty by the death of his cousin 
 Rene, who perished before the walls of St. Dizier, when William was only eleven years of age. On the death of the 
 great-grandson of the latter, William HI. of England, the king of Prussia, as his heir, claimed and obtained the 
 Principality of Orange — afterwards ceding it to the King of France in exchange for the town and territory of Guelder. 
 It was then annexed to Dauphine until the establishment of that division in departments, after which this celebrated 
 principality became an aiTondissement belonging to the Dejiartment of Vaucluse. Its principal town, also named 
 Orange, stands on the leading road from Paris to Avignon, being thirteen miles from tlie latter. Tlie tille of prince of 
 Orange is still retained by the family of Nassau, and is now borne by the heir to the throne of Holland, 
 
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 then the reckoning was paid as daily before then had been done frankly, without demurring at all, 
 or even examining how the particulars amounted to the total sum charged by the bride. In fine the 
 Marshall and his man minded no more the keys or to look after the Laird being secured, by reason 
 of the news and wine, and the trust they reposed in the bride. 
 
 And now the play was in its last scene, for the sun being a while set, the Marshall was led (as 
 a gouty man) to his bed, and after him his two men (as manners and good breeding required) led to 
 their garrett; and the officers with their servants being gone to their lodgings, and night come, the 
 sergeant and his bride packed up her necessaries, and as much of the money and gold as she could 
 find, the maid being then busy in the kitchen, and at the same time the Laird and his servant put 
 up their linens ; which done, the bride sent the maid a great way into the towne on an Aprill or 
 speedless errand, and the sergeant called the Laird and his servant down stairs. So the four went 
 forth, leaving candles burning in the room, and locking the street door, putting the key under it into 
 the floor. They went away incogniti; which transaction amazed the Laird's servant, as not having 
 perceived the least of the whole design till that minute — though he was trusty enough, yet perhaps 
 the Laird did not think his discretion capable to retain such a secret in his drinking with the Mar- 
 shall and his men, to which he was obliged by the Laird (as the sergeant had been) as is aforesaid 
 What needs more discourse of the feats, but that the Laird and his company (though searched for) 
 got aboard, and safely landed at Leith, without any maladventure or cross fortune. All which par- 
 ticulars concerning the Laird's quarrell at Mr. Conninghame, and the events following thereupon, 
 and the sergeant's courtship, with the debauches at the treats, and the escape aforesaid, might afford 
 matter for a facetious pleasing novell, if they were descanted on by one of the modern witty com- 
 posers of such like diversions (as they call them), which I think is not an appellative name expressive 
 enough of their nature, because they are instructives and recreatives also. 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 EXT day or two after arrival, the Laird, with his retinue, mounted on hired horses and 
 journeyed to Braidstane, where receiving the visits of friends and neighbours congratulat- 
 ing his return (which had prevented the news of his adventures then also unknoAvn to the 
 mariners), he minded his affairs, and getting an account of all the intelligencies his brother George 
 had sent to his friends (pursuant to their agreement at last parting, when the Laird went to Holland), 
 he sent a footman (for there was no conveyance by post' between the kingdoms before King James' 
 accession to the English crown) with letters of intelligencies and of business and advice, and in re- 
 quittal he received more and fresher informations (touching the English Court and the Queen from 
 his said brother), who was lucky to be well furnished, and therefore his said brother sent back speedily 
 the messenger, who, coming safe to Braidstane, delivered his packet. In perusal whereof the Laird 
 thought it necessary (and conducing to his designs for lands in Ireland) that he should forthwith 
 
 ' No conveyance by post. — From the year 1603, the date 
 of James's accession to the English throne, a system of 
 posts was appointed between London and Edinburgh, 
 consisting of a number of estabhshments at regular inter- 
 vals along the main road, which provided horses for tra- 
 velling, and performed the occasional duty of forwarding 
 letters on public affairs. This system^continued until the 
 year 1635, but was unsatisfactory, and sometimes proved a 
 very unsafe means for the transmission of letters. It was, 
 therefore, abolished, and an improved plan introduced, 
 which secured regularity for the convenience of private 
 persons as well as in the public semce. "Till this 
 time (1635), there had been no certain nor constant 
 intercourse between England and Scotland. Thomas 
 Withering, Esq., his majesty's postmaster of England 
 for foreign parts, was now commanded 'to settle one 
 running post, or two, to run day and night between 
 Edinburgh and London, to go thither and come back 
 again in six days, and to take with them all such 
 letters as shall be directed to any post town in the said 
 road; and the posts to be placed in several places out of 
 the road, to nm and bring and carry out of the said roads 
 the letters, as then shall be occasion, and to pay twopence 
 for every single letter under four score miles ; and if one 
 hundred and forty miles, four pence; and if above, then 
 six pence. The like rule the king is pleased to order to 
 be observed to West Chester, Holyhead, and thence to 
 Ireland; and also to observe the like nile from London to 
 Plymouth, Exeter, and other places in that road; the like 
 for Oxford, Bristol, Colchester, Norwich, and other places. 
 And the king doth command that no messenger, foot-post, 
 or foot-posts, shall take up, carry, receive, or deliver any 
 letter or letters whatsoever, other than the messengers ap- 
 pointed by the said Thomas Withering, except common 
 known carriers, or a particular messenger to be sent on 
 purpose with a letter to a friend.'" The post thus estab- 
 lished was conducted invariably on horseback, and was 
 
 usually sent twice in the week, sometimes only once. — 
 Rushworth's Collections, as quoted in Chambers's Domes- 
 tic Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., pp. 85 — 7. While the 
 earl of Crawford was imprisoned in the Tower in 1652, 
 his countess, who was a sister of the duke of Hamilton, 
 visited him. She travelled in a stage-coach recently es- 
 tablished, and described by Lamont as the "journey coach 
 that comes ordinarily between England and Scotland." 
 This conveyance did not go oftener than once in three weeks, 
 and charged for a seat fully as much as a first-class rail- 
 way fare of the present day. In May, 1658, stage-coaches 
 were advertised to go from the George Inn, without Al- 
 dersgate, to sundry parts of England thiice a week; and 
 to "Edinburgh, in Scotland, once in three weeks, for £\ 
 los; in all cases with fresh horses on the roads." — 
 Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., pp. 218, 
 247. So late as the year 1755, the Edinburgh stage-coach 
 was advertised to go to London in ten days in summer, 
 and twelve days in winter; and this was after the machine 
 had been in some way renovated, and brought out with 
 various additional attractions for travellers, one of which 
 was that the old coach "hung on steel springs, exceeding 
 light and easy. " — The Caledonian Mercury, Aug. 21, 1755) 
 as quoted in Eraser's Memorials, Preface, p. xiii. In 1758, 
 a memorial relating to the post between London and 
 Edinburgh, was presented to the committee for the Royal 
 Burghs, by the merchants of Edinburgh and other places. 
 This memorial represents that the course of the post from 
 London to Edinburgh is performed at a medium through- 
 out the year, in about eighty-seven hours, and suggests 
 certain arrangements by which the two capitals would 
 ' receive returns of letters from one another in seven days 
 and a-half, which, at present, do not come sooner than in 
 ten days and a-half, and twelve days and a-half. The 
 memorial further stated that the plan thus suggested, was 
 highly approved by the Scottish nobility and the merchants 
 of London, and was expected to be put into execution, 
 
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 17 
 
 go to the Court and impart to the King what his brother had sent : and so the Laird hastening thither 
 he was graciously received, but not without a severe check given him by his Majesty, who never- 
 theless enjoyned him to beg pardon of the Earle of Glencairne (then in Edinborough), and to 
 promise friendship to his Lordship's son and family, which submission being made in his Majesty's 
 presence, that sore was plaistered and afterwards fully cured. As soon as Mr. Conningham came 
 back to Scotland, his father caused him to confess to the Laird, that he had wronged him and was 
 sorry for it, desiring his forgiveness, and promising his own friendship to the Laird and his family 
 whilst he lived; and thus by his Majesty's care was the revival of the old bloody fewd between the 
 Montgomeries and Conninghams fully prevented;^ the like reconciliations between all other families 
 having already been made by the industrious prudence of that King, who being in the yearly ex- 
 pectation he had of the Queen's death, would leave all quiet at home when he was to go to receive 
 the English crown. 3 
 
 Scottish Journal of Topography, Antiquities, vol. ii., 
 
 p. 208. The arrangements for persons travelling in their 
 own conveyances were, as may be supposed, not par- 
 ticularly convenient. We have a curious illustration in 
 the following letter from Eleanor, countess of Linlithgow, 
 to her daughter Anna, countess of Eglinton : — 
 
 "Lynlithgow Palic, the xxiiii. of November, 1612. 
 *' Madame and loving dochter — My werie harthe commenda- 
 tions rememberit. I haif resavit zour letter, quharas ze haif writ- 
 ten for some oarage hors to bring zour carage out of Craigiehall heir, 
 I haif spoken me (my) lord for that effect; and there will be ane 
 doson of hors thair on Thursday tymouslie at morne. As for tumeler 
 cairtis, there is nan heir. As for my cairt it is broken ; but I haif 
 causit command thame to bring hoclumes, creills, and tedderis 
 
 (tethers) witli thcin Nocht farther, but remember my 
 
 commendatiouns to me Lady Seton, zour gud mother, and me Lady 
 Perthe. Committis zou to God, and restis your ever assurit loving 
 mother." 
 
 In the year 1619, the sixth earl of Eglinton was at Seton, 
 his native place, and before setting out on his return to 
 Eglinton castle, although at the season of midsummer, he 
 wrote to his countess to send the "kotch (coach) cist to 
 me efter the reset of this, and caus sax of the ablest ten- 
 nentis coum with her to Glasgow to pout hir by all the 
 straitis and dangeris." — Eraser, Memorials, vol. i., pp. 
 184, 210. 
 
 = Fully prevented. — The interposition of the king had 
 the effect of allaying that fatal strife for a time, but did not 
 eradicate the fierce passions by which it was sustained. 
 Several years after this date. Sir James Balfour made the 
 following record in his A nnals of Scotland, vol. ii. , p. 16 : — 
 "During this Parliament ther fell out grate stirre betwixt 
 the Earles of Eglinton and Glencairne, and their friends. 
 Many were hurte on both sydes, and one only man of the 
 Earle of Glencairne's killed. I5ot this with the old feeid 
 betwixt these two families, by hes majestie's especiall com- 
 mandiment, was submitted to sex of either syde toreconceill 
 all matters, which if tliey could not be reconceilled by the 
 mediation of friends, then did thesse Lords absoutly sub- 
 mitt all ther debaitts and contrawersies to the king's 
 Majestie's decisione; which hes Majesty and counsaill fully 
 composed and agried by the industrious negotione of the 
 Earle of Dunbarr, hes Majestie's Comissioner for that 
 effecte, in the moneth of February, in the following zeire, 
 the Earle of Eglinton himselve being dead, and Alexander, 
 the Lord Settone's third soune, having succidit him." The 
 
 fifth earl of Eglinton died in 1612, so that the conflict here 
 mentioned must have occurred about the close of 1610. 
 The author truly describes this feud as "old," for it had its 
 origin so early as the year 1366, when sir Hugh of Eglinton 
 obtained a grant from the crown of the offices of baillie in 
 the barony of Cunningham, and chamberlain of Irvine. 
 This grant was renewed and enlarged from time to time, 
 the Cunninghams, however, claiming the offices now 
 mentioned as belonging, from ancient and long-established 
 right, to the representatives of their family or clan. In 
 1448, James II. renewed the grant to lord Montgomery, 
 and from that date the feud continued without much 
 interruption for upwards of two centuries. In 1488, the 
 strong castle of Kerrielaw, a residence of the Cunninghams, 
 in the parish of Stevenston, was sacked and destroyed by 
 the Montgomerys, under the command of that warlike 
 Hugh, afterwards created first earl of Eglinton. In the 
 year 1528, the fall of Kerrielaw was avenged by the burning 
 of Eglinton castle, together with all the important family 
 records therein. During the interval between 14S8, and 
 1528, many terrible collisions had occurred, especially in 
 the years 1505, 1507, 1517, 1523, and 1526. Although .an 
 arbitration, held by the earls of Angus, Argyle, and 
 Cassilis assisted by the bishop of Moray, had decided in 
 1509 in favour of Eglinton's claims, and although in 1523 
 the first earl of Eglinton had been honourably acquitted of 
 the charge of murdering Edward Cunningham of Auchin- 
 harvie, the feud continued with increasing fury until the 
 Cunninghams assassinated the fourth earl at the ford of 
 Annock. From that date (1586) the strife began gradually 
 to subside, but had not entirely ceased until the close of 
 the seventeenth century. — Paterson, Parishes and Families 
 of Ayrshire, vol. i., pp. 51, 53, 54; Fraser, Memorials, vol. 
 i-. PP- 27, 31- . 
 
 2 The English croivn. — This was a politic work on the 
 part of the king, but his efforts to reconcile his nobles to 
 each other stiddenly before leaving for England did not 
 produce any marked results. The first and greatest 
 attempt of James to accomplish this object, and the one 
 no doubt to which our author refers, occurred in the month 
 of May, 1587, when he was "in yearly expectation of the 
 Queen's death," an event for which he had longer time to 
 prepare than he would have wished, it being no less than 
 fifteen years in coming from the date last named. The 
 
 D 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 And now halcyon days shined throughout all Scotland, all animosities being compressed'* by 
 his Majesty (who in a few months afterwards) having certain intelligence of Queen Elizabeth's sick- 
 ness, and extreme bodily weakness, and not long thence of her death, which was on the 24th of 
 March (according to the English computation) Ao. Do. 1602,5 James the 6th being proclaimed King 
 in London and Westminster, by the Lord Mayor, with the Lords of the Privy Councill, and by 
 them solemnly invited to take progress and receive the crown, with the kingdoms of England, &c., 
 into his gracious protection.^ Accordingly his Majesty (as soon as conveniency would allow) went 
 
 "other families " referred to in the text beside those of 
 Eglintoii and Glencairn requiring to be reconciled were, 
 principally, the master of Glammis and the earl of Craw- 
 ford, the earls of Angus and Montrose, and the earls of 
 Huntly and Marischal. These, together with many others 
 of the nobility, were invited by the king to a grand banquet 
 in Holyrood, on .Sunday, the 15th of May, at which the 
 king drank to them thrice, loudly calling on them to be 
 reconciled to each other, and uttering threats against the 
 first who should disobey the injunction. " Next day, after 
 supper, then an early meal, and after 'many scolls' had 
 been drunk to each other, he made them all march in 
 procession, in their doublets, up the Canongate, two and 
 two, holding by each other's hands, and each pair being 
 a couple of reconciled enemies. He himself went in front, 
 with lord Hamilton on his right hand, and the lord 
 chancellor Maitland on the left ; then Angus and Mont- 
 rose, Huntly and Marischal, Crawford and the master of 
 Glammis. Coming to the Tolbooth, his Majesty ordered 
 all the prisoners for debt to be released. Thence he ad- 
 vanced to the picturesque old market-cross, covered with 
 tapestry for the occasion, where the magistrates had set 
 out a long table well furnished with bread, wine, and 
 sweetmeats. Amidst the blare of trumpets and the boom 
 of cannon the young monarch publicly drank to his nobles, 
 wishing them peace and happiness, and made them all 
 drink to each other. The people, long accustomed to 
 sights of bloody contention, looked on with unspeak- 
 able joy, danced, broke into songs of joy, and brought out 
 all imaginable musical instruments to give additional, 
 albeit discordant, expression to their happiness. All 
 acknowledged that no such sight had ever been seen in 
 Edinburgh. In the general transport, the gloomy gibbet, 
 iisually kept standing there in readiness, was cast down, 
 as if it could never again be needed. Sweetmeats, and 
 glasses from which toasts had been drunk, flew about, 
 from the tables of the feast. When all was done, 
 the king and nobles returned in the same form as they 
 had come." — Moysie, Memoirs of the Affairs of Scot- 
 land ; Birrel, Diary ; Calderwood, History of the 
 Kirk ; Historic of King James the Sext, as quoted by 
 Chambers, in his Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 
 i., pp. 177-8. These exciting ceremonies would seem to 
 have been comparatively worthless, as in the year I595i 
 the king summoned the following parties into his presence, 
 under the disagreeable conviction that "the commonweal 
 was altogether disorderit and shaken louss by reason of 
 the deidly feids and controversies standing amang his sub- 
 jects of all degrees," viz., "Robert, master of Eglinton, and 
 Patrick Houston of that Ilk ; James, earl of Glencairn, 
 and Cunningham of Glengarnock ; John, earl of Montrose, 
 and French of Thoniydykes ; Hugii Campbell of Louden, 
 
 sheriff of Ayr, Sondielands of Calder, sir James Sondielands 
 of Slamannan, Crawford of Kerse, and .Spottiswoode of 
 that Ilk ; David, earl of Crawford, and Guthrie of that 
 Ilk ; Sir Thomas Lyon of Auldbai', knight, and Garden 
 of that Ilk; Alexander, lord Livingstone, sir Alexander 
 Bnice, elder, of Airth, and Archibald Colquhoun of Luss; 
 John, earl of Mar, Alexander Forester of Garden, and An- 
 dro M'Farlane of Arrochar ; James, lord Borthwick, Pres- 
 ton of Craigmillar, Mr. George Lawder of Bass, and 
 Charles Lawder, son of umwhile Andro Lawder, in WjTid- 
 park ; sir John Edminstone of that Ilk ; Maister William 
 Cranston, younger, of that Ilk ; George, earl Marischal, 
 and .Seyton of Meldrum ; James Cheyne of Straloch, and 
 William King of Barrach ; James Tweedie of Drumelzier 
 and Charles Geddes of Richan. " — Chambers, Domestic 
 Annals of Scotland, vol. L, p. 267. 
 
 •* All animosities being compressed. — On the contrary, 
 .Sir Thomas Kennedy of CoJzean was murdered in the wi- 
 cinity of Ayr, a short time before the king left for England, 
 and in the same year, a terrible feud raged between the 
 Mackensies of Kintail and theMacdonnells of Glengarry. — 
 Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol i., pp. 363, 
 369- 
 
 5 Ao. Do. 1602. — The English of that period, and for 
 more than a century later, commenced the )'ear on the 
 25th of March, so that according to this computation, the 
 Queen died on the last day of the year 1602 ; whereas, 
 according to .Scottish computation, she died on the 24th of 
 March, 1603, the Scotch commencing the year on the 
 1st of January, as we now do. 
 
 * His gracious protection. — Elizabeth died early on the 
 morning of Thursday, the 24th of March, and James had 
 intelligence of the event on Saturday evening, after he had 
 retired to rest, in Holyrood-house. The news was brought 
 to him by a young aspirant to court favour, named Robert 
 Carey, who had thus made a rapid journey upon horse- 
 back, from London to Edinburgh, in less than three days. 
 On the 5th of Aprill following, the king commenced his 
 journey to England, " at which time," says Birrel, "there 
 was great lamentation and mourning amang the commons 
 for the loss of the daily sight of their blessid prince." 
 Birrel records also that "the queen and prince (Henry) 
 came from Stirling to Edinburgh on the 28th May. 
 There were sundry English ladies and gentlewomen come 
 to give her the convoy." On the 30th, "her majesty and 
 the prince came to .St. Giles kirk, weel convoyit with 
 coaches, herself and the prince in her awin coach, whilk 
 came with her out of Denmark, and the English gentle- 
 women in the rest of the coaches. They heard ane guid 
 sermon in the kirk, and thereafter rade hame to Haly- 
 rood-house." — Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, 
 vol. i. pp. 381 — 2. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 19 
 
 to Westminster, attended by divers Noblemen and many Gentlemen, being by greater numbers con- 
 veyed to the borders, where he was received by English Lords, Esqrs., and Gentry in great splendor. 7 
 Among the Scottish Lairds (which is a title equivalent to Esqrs.) who attended his Majesty to 
 Westminster, he of Braidstane was not the least considerable, but made a figure, more looked on 
 than some of the Lords' sons, and as valuable in account as the best of his own degree and estate in 
 that journey. 
 
 When the said Laird had lodged himself in Westminster, he met at Court with the said George 
 (his then only living brother), who had with longing expectations waited for those happy days.^ They 
 enjoyed one the others most loving companies, and meditated of bettering and advancing their pecu- 
 liar stations. Forseeing that Ireland must be the stage to act upon, it being unsettled, and many 
 forfeited lands thereon altogether wasted, they concluded to push for fortunes in that kingdom, as 
 
 In great splendor. — As James passed on to take pos- 
 session of his new throne, immense multitudes assembled 
 to see liim at various places on his line of progress, the 
 magnates of each county, after he had passed the border, 
 preparing entertainments for him at their houses. At 
 Newcastle and York, civic banquets of unusual grandeur 
 awaited him. ' ' With splendour equally profuse, sir 
 Robert Carey received him at Widdrington, the bishop of 
 Durham at Durham, sir Edward Stanhope at Grimston, 
 lord Shrewsbury at Worksop, lord Cumberland at Bel- 
 voir castle, sir John Harrington at Exton, lord Burghley 
 at Burghley, and sir Thomas Sadler at Standen. With 
 princely hospitality, sir Oliver Cromwell regaled him at 
 Hinchinbrook ; and there the sturdy little nephew and 
 namesake of sir 01i\'er received probably the first impres- 
 sion of a king, and of the something less than divinity that 
 hedged him round Nearer and nearer Lon- 
 don, meanwhile, the throng swelled more and more ; and 
 on came the king, hunting daily as he came, incessantly 
 feasting and drinking, creating knights by the score, and 
 everywhere receiving worship as the fountain of honour. 
 Visions of levelling clergy and factious nobles, which had 
 haunted him his whole life long, now passed for ever from 
 him. He turned to his Scotch followers, and told them 
 they had at last arrived in the land of promise." — Fors- 
 ter. Grand Remonstrance^ p. lOO. Stow has given full 
 details in his Annals, of the king's grand progress from 
 Berwick to London, among a people who had been go- 
 verned by queens for more than fifty years, and to whom 
 a Icing had then become a wonder to behold. The first 
 proclamation issued Ijy James was one to prohibit the 
 crowding of the people on his line of march, for the dust, 
 as he approached London, became somewhat too oppres- 
 sive for the royal cortege. He reached the great city on 
 the I ith May, and on the 1 6th issued his second proclama- 
 tion forbidding the killing of deer, and of such wild-fowl 
 as served hawking. James was crowned on the 25th 
 July, and had previously ordered the money intended for 
 distribution on that occasion to be struck with the inscrip- 
 tion Casar Cccsarum. — Irvine, Lives of the Scottish Poets, 
 vol. ii., p. 229, note. 
 
 8 Those happy days. — From the hour that James had 
 actually attained to the throne of Great Britain and Ire- 
 land, he was never left at peace for a day by his Scottish 
 subjects, who believed that he had now l^ecome the pos- 
 sessor of inexhaustible resources, and were determined to 
 
 assist him to the Utmost in the development and enjoyment 
 of the same. A small number of those who accompanied 
 him into England, and who appear to have been special 
 favourites with him in Scotland, soon felt the genial ui- 
 fluences of the change. Among the latter may be espe- 
 cially mentioned sir George Home, created earl of Dun- 
 bar ; sir John Ramsay, created earl of Haddington ; sir 
 John Hay, created earl of Carlisle ; and Mr. Robert 
 Ker, aftervv'ards earl of Somerset. The English nobility 
 were, of course, very jealous of these and many other 
 Scottish courtiers, calling them "beggarly Scots," of 
 which indignity the latter complained to the king, who is 
 said to have jocosely replied — "Content yourselves; I 
 will shortly make the English as beggarly as you, and so 
 end that controversy." A ballad written at the time, and 
 afterwards printed in Ritson's Country Chorister, thus 
 notices the Scottishman's very much improved appearance 
 after his residence for a few years in England : — 
 
 " Bonny Scot, we all witness can 
 That England hath made thee a gentleman. 
 Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, 
 Could scarce keep out the wuid and weather, 
 But now it is turned to a hat and feather ; 
 Thy bonnet is blown, the devil knows whither. 
 Thy shoes on thy feet, when thou caniest from plough. 
 Were made of the hide of an old Scot's cow; 
 But now they are turned to a rare Spanish leather, 
 And decked with roses altogether. 
 Thy sword at the back was a great black blade, 
 With a great basket-hilt of iron made ; 
 But now a long rapier doth hang at thy side. 
 And hufBngly doth this bonny Scot ride." 
 Chambers, Domestic Annals, vol. i., p. 433. 
 
 A .Scottish lady, who accompanied her husband across the 
 Border in the month of June following, has left a curious 
 record of her expenses by the way, and during some time after 
 her arrival in London. This document is printed by Eraser 
 among the family papers at Eglinton Castle, and although 
 he gives no account of it, we may reasonably infer that it 
 was originally written by some member, or connexion, of 
 the family. When this lady got so far as Newcastle, on 
 her journey, she was obliged to expend "iiii. s. for ten 
 quarters of tefeni, to be me ane skarf." On her arrival in 
 York, she incurred the following expenses : — " For mend- 
 ing of my coffer, vi. d. ; for ane par of shouis, ii. s. vi. d. ; 
 for tha wysching of my chlos, xii. d. ; for prines (pins), 
 xii. d. ; for tou par of gloufes, v. s. " In Lester, among 
 other matters, she purchased certain trimmings "to make 
 
2o 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 the laird had formerly done; and so selling a correspondence between them, the said George resided 
 much at Court, and the Laird returned to his Lady and their children in Braidstane, and imploying 
 some friends who traded into the next adjacent coasts of Ulster, he by them (from time to time) 
 was informed of the state of that country, whereof he made his benefit (though with great cost and 
 pains, as hereafter shall be related), giving frequent intimation of occurrences to his said brother, 
 which were repeated to the King. After the King was some months in his palace at 'WTiitehall, 
 even in the first year of his reign, the affairs of Ireland came to be considered, and an office of 
 inquest by jurors was held before some judges, whereby the forfeited temporal lands, and abby lands, 
 and impropriations, and others of that sort, were found to have been vested in the Queen, and to be 
 now lawfully descended to the King; but the rebellion and commotions raised by O'Dohertys and his 
 associates in the county of Donegal, retarded (till next year) the further procedures to settlement 
 
 my quhyt (white) setting (satin) gown," for which she 
 paid XX. d. ; thrid, vi. d. ; clespes, iiii. d." Arrived at 
 IVondisoiw, she required " ane tyer of prell (pearls) to ver 
 on my haed," which cost " x. s. ;" and "ane corldit 
 wyer, to ver on my haed," which cost the same price. In 
 Oullandis fOatlands), the following were among several 
 items of expense: — "x. s. gifin to my lady Harintow's 
 man, quhan she sent me ane peticot ; x. s. to my lady 
 Harintow's man quhen I cem to Hamtoncourt ; ii. s. to 
 the botman for taking me oup and doun the vatter ; v. s. 
 to ane woman in Outislands that suor that Robert Stouert 
 vas owen hir so much monie ; iii. s. for two par shous to 
 my pag (page). " At Nonsuch, among other outlays, were 
 the following : — "Ane par of welluit pantlones, xii. s. ; 
 ane quar of gilt peper, i. s. ; two chandeliers, iiii. s.; ane 
 par bellicis, i. s. ; two besimis (besoms), vi. d. ; to my lady 
 Killders vagenman, for the caring of my sedell, v. s. ; ane 
 plen pykit vyr, coverit with heir, to ver on my haed, x. s. ; 
 ane par of worsit schianks to my pag, iii. s. ; to my lady 
 Loumlis man quhan he broght me frat, v. s. ; for the len 
 of ane bed to Margrat Middletown sa lang as we ver in 
 Nonsuch, X. s. ; gifin to James Dounkans man quhen he 
 broght my gouns from Vinchester to Nonsuch, x. s. ; gifin 
 to my lady Edmunts man quhan he broght me frut, v. s. ; 
 to Johne Michell, quhan my lady Killderes void not lat 
 no boyes stay, becaus of the plag, x. s. ; gifin to the man 
 that kipit the Prences silkier vork, for lening me silluer 
 vork so long as we var at the Prince Court, v. s. ; gifin for 
 vyching my cloths and my pag cloths from my coming to 
 Ingland quhill Martimes, xx. s." At Ciimhe, the following, 
 among many items of expense, are worthy of notice : — 
 " For ane Bybell, xii. s. ; for ane French bouk, i. s. ; for 
 two reing, the on vith ane rubbi, and the other vith ane 
 turkes ; the on to the man that teichis me to dance, and 
 the other to the man that teichis me to vret ; the pryce of 
 the rubbi xx. schillings, prys of the turkes, xxiiii. schil- 
 lings ; gifin to ane pure Skotis man quhan all the rest gef 
 him, v. s. ; for two skins to line my masks, viiii. d. ; for 
 fyve yardis of nmd hollan to be me byg sokis, x. s." — 
 Fraser, Memorials, vol. ii., pp. 245 — 51. 
 
 9 By O '' Doherty. — The author here refers to the sudden 
 and desperate movement of sir Cahir O'Doherty, which 
 was supposed to have been a deeply premeditated rebel- 
 lion, but which, in tinth, was nothing more than an out- 
 burst of rage on the part of that unfortunate chieftain, 
 caused by gross personal provocation. On the death of 
 
 his father, sirJohnO'Dohert)', who was slain in the year 1660, 
 the brother of the latter, named PhelimOge, succeeded (by 
 the tanist law, and with the consent of Hugh Roe O'Donel, 
 lord of Tyrconnel), to the chieftainship of Inishowen. Al- 
 though Cahir, being then but a boy, was eonsidered too young 
 to succeed to the leadership of his sept, sept, his foster- 
 brothers, the MacDavitts, or MacDavids, were determined 
 that he should not thus be set aside. They forthwith made 
 known the case to sir Heniy Docwra, offering to place the 
 boy under his care, and moreover to renounce allegiance 
 to Phelim Oge, the recognised head of their clan, on con- 
 dition that sir Henry would procure from the cro\vn, for 
 their young chief, a grant of the lands of Inishowen. Sir 
 Henry, naturally rejoicing at so signal an opportunity of 
 assisting to abolish the Irish tanist law, and of substituting 
 the English law of succession in its stead, accepted the 
 proposal of the MacDavitts, and forthwith proclaimed 
 Cahir as the queen's O'Doherty. The latter grew up 
 under English influence, the pride of his foster-brothers, 
 and the faithful assistant of sir Henry in all his skirmish- 
 ing against the insurgent forces of O'Neill. His bravery 
 on the field of Augher, where sir Henry encountered and 
 defeated Cormac O'Neill, Tyrone's brother, was rewarded 
 by the honour of knighthood, conferred by Mountjoy, the 
 lord-lieutenant. On the final suppression of Tjnrone's re- 
 bellion in the spring of 1 603, sir Cahir went to London, 
 was received as a distinguished visitor at court, and had a 
 new gi-ant from James I. of all his lands, free from the 
 exactions that had been ever previously claimed by his ter- 
 ritorial superiors, the O'Donnells and the O'Neills. On his 
 return from court, sir Cahir married Mary, daughter of 
 Christopher, fourth viscount Gormanstown. After his 
 marriage, he resided occasionally at the castles of Burt 
 and Buncrana, but more frequently at Elagh, near Derry, 
 where the family mansion had been rebuilt for the recep- 
 tion of his bride. He seems to have had no regrets aris- 
 ing from his abandonment of Irish customs and traditions, 
 or his alienation from Irish leaders, knowing only his 
 faithful foster-brothers, the MacDavitts, and associating 
 with English settlers and officials in and around the 
 city of DeiTy. Sir Cahir was known as decidedly hos- 
 tile to the unfortunate earls of Tyrone and T)TConne], 
 and served as foreman of the jury at LifTord, where, after 
 their flight, they were indicted for high treason. Only 
 a month, however, after this zealous exhibition of his 
 loyalty to the Government, sir Cahir appears to have 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 21 
 
 In the mean while, the said Laird in the said first year of the King's reign pitched upon the 
 following way (which he thought most fair and feazable) to get an estate in lands even with free 
 consent of the forfeiting owner of them, and it was thus, viz. : — The said Laird (in a short time after 
 his return from the English Court) had got full information from his said trading friends of Con 
 O'Neil's case and imprisonment in Carrickfergus towne, on account of a quarrell made by his servants 
 with some soldiers in Belfast, done before the Queen died, which happened in manner next follow- 
 ing, to witt: — The said servants being sent with runletts to bring wine from Belfast" aforesaid, "unto 
 the said Con, their master, and Great Teirne'^ as they called him, then in a grand debauch at Cas- 
 
 resolved suddenly to leave Ireland without asking the 
 English authorities for a license to do so, which was in 
 itself at that period a treasonable offence. The deputy, 
 Chichester, instantly, on hearing this rumour, summoned 
 him to Dublin, where sir Cahir, his father-in-law, and 
 another gentleman, named Fitzwilliams, were required to 
 enter into recognisances, himself for ;^iooo English, and 
 the others for fifty marks Irish each, binding him not to 
 leave Ireland during the next twelve months without the 
 deputy's license, and requiring him to appear personally 
 in Dublin at any time during that term, on receiving 
 twenty days' notice. Soon after the arrangement of this 
 affair, sir Cahir sold some lands to sir Richard Hansard, 
 and, as it was necessary to have governor Pawlet's name 
 affixed to the deed of transfer, the parties called on the 
 latter for this purpose. It is more than probable that 
 Pawlet had been the means of arousing the government's 
 suspicions respecting sir Cahir's contemplated departure 
 from Ireland, and it may be the latter charged him with 
 some underhand influence on this occasion. At all events, 
 during this interview, a furious controversy arose bet^veen 
 them, in the course of which Pawlet, who was a man of 
 violent temper, struck sir Cahir in the presence of the 
 others. The Inishowen chief did not instantly retaliate, 
 but went to relate the affair to his foster-brothers, who 
 told him that blood only could atone for such an insult. 
 The people on sir Cahir's estate were unanimously of the 
 same opinion, and declared their readiness to espouse the 
 quarrel of their lord. Sir Cahir having got a promise of 
 assistance from his brother-in-law, the young chief of the 
 O'Hanlons, proceeded to seize the fort of Cuhnore by 
 stratagem, where he left a garrison, and then marched rapidly 
 on Derry. Pawlet was amongst the first to fall beneath 
 the pikes and skeines of the O'Doherties. To plunder 
 thehousesof the wealthy inhabitants, collect arms, and burn 
 the town was the work of only a few hours. When this 
 was done, the insurgents proceeded to the palace of bishop 
 Montgomery, who, fortunately for himself, happened 
 to be in Dublin. Among the spoils removed were two 
 thousand volumes from his library, for the restoration of 
 which the bishop soon afterwards offered a hundred pounds 
 weight of silver — but in vain; for the books were burned 
 in Culmore fort by Phelim Reagh M'Davitt. So soon as 
 Chichester heard of the outbreak, he sent a force of 3000 
 men against the O'Doherties ; under the command of sir 
 Richard Wingfield, sir Toby Caulfeild, Josias Bodley, and 
 others. The first and only skirmish took place on the 5th 
 July, at the rock of Doon, in the vicinity of Kilmacrenan, 
 where sir Cahir was shot by a common soldier. His head 
 was struck off, sent to Dublin, and there exposed "on a pole 
 on the east gate of the city, called Newgate." — Meehan, 
 
 Fate and Fortunes of the earls of Tyrone and Tyrcotinel, pp. 
 287 — 300; see also Annals of the Four Masters' 1608, with 
 Dr. O'Donovan's notes, vol. vi., p. 2359. On the 7th, 
 Chichester issued his proclamation in which he announced 
 that "O'Dohertie was happily slain near a place called 
 Kilmacrenan, in the county of Tyrconnel, wherein God 
 hath not only showed his just judgment upon this treacher- 
 ous creature, but doth plainly declare to this nation and 
 to all the world, that shame and confusion is the certain 
 and infallible end of all traitors and rebels." By this pro- 
 clamation all O'Doherty's adherents were proscribed, and 
 all who presumed to receive, or in any manner afford them 
 relief, were to be "adjudged traitors in as high a degree 
 as the said O'Dohertie himself or any of his adherents." 
 The whole territory of Inishowen, which from time im- 
 memorial had been the abode of the sept of O'Doherty, 
 was handed over by James I. to Chichester, by grant dated 
 22nd February, 1610, excepting 1300 acres reserved for 
 the better maintenance of the city of Londonderry and the 
 fort of Culmore. By the terms of this grant, sir Arthur 
 was authorized to divide the whole territory into several 
 precincts, each containing 2000 acres, erecting them into 
 so many manors, and setting apart 500 acres, as demesne 
 lands, to each manor. He was also empowered to hold 
 fourseveral courts, leet and baron, viz. : "oneat Boncranagh, 
 withintheislandof Inche, and territory of Tuogh-Cranoche; 
 one within the Tuogh of Elagh; one within the lordship or 
 manor of Greencastle; and one within the island of Malyne" 
 (nowMalin). — Calendar of Patent KoHs, James I., p. 161, 
 Belfast. — The progress of Belfast dates from the year 
 1612, when the castle, town, and manor, were granted to 
 sir Arthur Chichester. The name does not appear in 
 Holinshed's enumeration of the principal seaports in the 
 counties of Down and Antrim. In the year 1610, it is 
 noticed in Speed's maps, but only as an unimportant 
 village. It had been previously, in 1582, recommended 
 by sir John Perrot as the " best and most convenient place 
 in Ulster, for the establisliment of shipbuilding;" but Bel- 
 fast was not then within the English pale, and its natural 
 advantages, including the magnificent woods of the district, 
 were permitted, during several years afterwards to remain 
 unimproved. 
 
 " Create Teirne. — Teirne, from the Irish Tighearna, 
 denotes a chief ruler in a district. From this title is 
 derived Oeliiern or Oigthierna, a term applied in Scotch 
 law to the heir-apperent of a lordship, from Oig, " young," 
 and tierna "lord." — Logan, Scottish Gael, vol. i. , p. 189. 
 On the Latin form Tigherna, Dr. Reeves has the follow- 
 remarks: — "A Latin transformation of the Irish noun 
 tigherna, a 'lord' — proving that the^in the word is a radi- 
 cal letter; and pointing to tig, a house, as the derivation, 
 
 E 
 
22 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 tlereagh, with his brothers, his friends, and followers; they returning (without wine) to him battered 
 and bled, complained that the soldiers had taken the wine, with the casks, from them by force- 
 Con enquiring (of them) into the matter, they confessed their number twice exceeded the soldiers, who 
 indeed had abused them, they being very drunk. On this report of the said servants. Con was vehe- 
 mently moved to anger; reproached them bitterly; and, in rage, swore by his father, and by all his 
 noble ancestors' souls, that none of them should ever serve him or his family (for he was married 
 and had issue'3) if they went not back forth\vith and did not revenge the affront done to him and 
 themselves, by those few Boddagh Sasonagh'4 soldiers (as he termed them). The said servants (as 
 yet more than half drunk), avowed to execute that revenge, and hasted away instantly; arming them- 
 selves in the best way they could, in that short time, and engaged the same soldiers (from words to 
 blows), assaulting them with their weapons; and in the scuffle (for it was no orderly fight), one of 
 the soldiers happened to receive a wound, of which he died that night, and some other slashes were 
 given; but the Teagues's were beaten off and chased, some sore wounded and others killed; only the 
 best runners got away Scott free. The pursuit was not far, because the soldiers feared a second 
 
 like domimis, from doimts, rather than to tyranniis, which 
 O'Brien proposes. In the narrative ( Life of St. Columba ) 
 these princes are called regii generis viri and nobiles viri. 
 In the Lives of the Irish Saints, Dux is the usual repre- 
 sentative of this word. The founder of Clones was called 
 Tighernach, "quia muUorum dominorum et regum nepos 
 est." — ( Act. SS. Apr., torn, i., p. 401. ) The word appears 
 in the old Welsh ibiTn of tigirn, and the Cornish 
 teyrn, as also in the proper names, Giiorthigerti, Eiitigern, 
 liariia?!, Mae/tiem. — (Zeuss, Cram. Celt, i., p. 100, 151, 
 158, 162.) .So Kentigern is interpreted Capitalis Domi- 
 nus. — (Pinkerton, Vit. Ant., p, 107)." Adamnan's Zy^' 
 of St. Colitinba, edited by the Rev. Dr. Reeves, p. 8i, 
 vote a. Teirne is translated by the Scottish word laird, de- 
 noting a landowner holding directly from the crown, and 
 not from a feudal superior. The author defines laird as 
 equivalent to an esquire, but until the sixteenth century, the 
 laird was much the more important personage of the two. 
 
 Had issue. — His wife was a kinswoman, her name being 
 Ellis-ny-Neill. They had at least two sons, namely Hugh 
 Boy and Con Oge, whose son Domhnall (Donnell) was in 
 1623, a claimant of a portion of his grandfather's lands. 
 This Donnell, commonly known as sir Daniel O'Neill, was 
 a gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles I. and II. 
 
 Bodagh Sasonagh. — Or rather, Bodach Sassenach, a 
 phrase used by the Irish to mark the coarse manners and 
 cold reserve of the English, especially of such as had not 
 been residents in Ireland. These were generally super- 
 cilious in their demeanour to the Irish, calling them 
 Teagucs ; and not less so to the English of the l^irth of 
 Ireland, whom they called /r/j/^ Doggs, and who did not fail 
 to fling back upon them the opprobrious name of '■English 
 liobbe,'' or churls. This use of invidious names among the 
 English in Ireland required to be checked by Act of Par- 
 liament at an early period. The ifith of Edward III. , 
 cap. 4, enacted "that no difference of allegiance shall 
 henceforth be made between the English born in Ireland 
 and the English bom in England, Ijy calling them Eng- 
 lish hobbe, or Irish dogge ; but that all be called by one 
 name, the English lieges of our lord the king." The 
 native Irish rarely, if ever, applied the term Bodach 
 
 Sassenach to the English of the birth of Ireland, but re- 
 served it, as in the instance mentioned in the text, for 
 such English as had newly arrived, either as soldiers, or 
 in some official capacity. — Prendergast, Cromwellian 
 Settlement of Ireland, Introduction, pp. Ixii. — iiL 
 
 '5 The Tcagues. — The Irish Christianname 7i>^(Tadhg), 
 now represented by Thaddeus or Thady, was formerly so 
 common that it was used to designate Irishmen generally, 
 just as the term Paddy at the present day. This use of the 
 name was probably introduced by English settlers, who 
 spoke of the mere Irish who had no free or English blood as 
 Teagiies. Under the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, 
 landlords were bound to see that their Irish tenants should 
 learn to speak English within a limited time, and also 
 abandon tlieir Irish names of Tiege and Derynot, then 
 almost universally used, calling themselves by the English 
 translations of such names. — Prendergast, Cromwellian 
 Settlement of Ireland, p. 119. The former, "which, 
 according to all Irish glossaries, signifies z. poet, . . , 
 was first anglicised Thady, and the editor (O'Donovan) 
 is acquainted with individuals who have rendered it Thad- 
 dosus, Theophilus, and Theodosius." — Topographical 
 Poems of John C Dubhagain and Giolla Kfa Ahwmh 
 0' Huidhrin, edited by Dr. O'Donovan, Introduction, p. 
 52. The term Teague ceased to be used as a contemp- 
 tuous epithet in modern times. During the seventeenth 
 and early part of the eighteenth century, it is often intro- 
 duced in plays, jest-books, and comic writings generally, 
 and sometimes preceded by the adjective honest. An 
 illustration is found in the poems of Matthew Prior: — 
 " His case appears to me like honest Teague's 
 When he was run away with by his legs." 
 
 The Hon. Daines Barrington, Obsei-vations on the more 
 Ancient Statutes from Alagna Charta to the twenty first 
 of James I., Cap. XXVII., conjectures about the deri- 
 vation of Teague as follows: — "In the laws of Hoel 
 Dda, the villeyns are called Tacagua. From hence 
 Teague is probably a tenn of reproach among the Irish ; 
 though the \illeyns which they had anciently, seem to 
 have been more commonly styled betaghii, or betaghs." 
 — P. 302, and note. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 assault from the hill of Castlereagh,'^ where the said Con, with his two brothers/7 friends,and followers 
 (for want of more dorgh'^), stood beholders of the chase. Then in a week next after this fray, an 
 office of enquest was held on Con, and those of his said friends and followers, and also on the 
 servants, and on all that were suspected to be procurers, advisers, or actors therein, and all whom 
 the Provost Marshall could seize (were taken), by which office the said Con, with some of his friends, 
 were found guilty of levying war against the Queen. '9 This mischief happened a few months before 
 her death; and the whole matter being well known to the said Laird, and his brother, and his friends, 
 soon after the King's accession to the English Crown, early application was made to his Majesty 
 for a grant of half the said Con's lands, the rest to Con himself, which was readily promised; but 
 could not, till the second of his reign, by any means be performed, by reason of the obstacles to the 
 settlement of Ireland aforesaid. 
 
 But I must a little go retrograde, to make my report of their affairs better understood. The 
 Laird having met with his brother, and returned from London (as before mentioned), came home, 
 (his second son'° being then about the third year of his age), and industriously minded the affairs 
 
 Hill of Castlereagh. — The site of Castlereagh, — cais- 
 lean riabhach, "grey-castle," is somewhat over two miles 
 in a south-eastern direction from the Long Bridge of Bel- 
 fas:. This castle gave name to one of the nine sub-divi- 
 sions of the ancient Clannaboy, a name which is now 
 applied to the whole territory as comprised in the two 
 modern baronies of Castlereagh. Chancellor Cusacke, 
 writing on the 8th of May, 1552, to the earl of Northumber- 
 land, has the following statement in reference to this dis- 
 trict : — "The same Hugh (O'Neill) hath two castells, one 
 called Bealefarst, an ould castell, standing uppone a fifourde 
 that leadeth from Arde to Claneboye, which, being well 
 repayred, being nowbroken, would be good defence betwixt 
 the woodes and Knockfergus. The other, called Castell- 
 rioiighe is fower miles from Bealefarst, and standeth uppone 
 the playne in the midst of the woodes of the Dufferin. " 
 Reid, Hist, of the Pres. Chmxli, vol. i., p. 485. Of the 
 latter castle, Dr. Reeves remarks: — "It had been occu- 
 pied successively by Bryan Fagartach O'Neill, his son 
 Neill, and his grandson Con, when Bryan MacArt O'Neill, 
 a relative of the earl of Tyrone, seized upon it. In 
 l6oi, it was taken by sir Arthur Chichester, and restored 
 to Con O'Neill, who, in the preceding year, had been 
 taken, with his retainers, into the Queen's pay. He 
 held it, however, but a very short time, for a few months 
 before the Queen's death, on occasion of his indulging in 
 a grand debauch at Castlereagh with his brothers, his 
 friends, and his followers, a riot occurred between his ser- 
 vants and some soldiers, in which one of them received a 
 mortal wound. This affray was pronounced the fol- 
 lowing week to be a 'levying war against the Queen;' 
 Con O'Neill was imprisoned in Carrickfergus, and cir- 
 cumstances put in that train which eventuated in the entire 
 transfer of the south Clannaboy estates to other posses- 
 sors." — Eccl. Antiquities, p. 347. 
 
 Two brothers. — The two brothers were Hugh Mergagh 
 O'Neill and Toole O'Neill. 
 
 More dorgh. — The phrase, " for want of more dorgh," 
 simply meant, for want of something else, or something 
 better, to do. The word dorgh or dargh is evidently a con- 
 traction for day's work. In tlae county of Antrim, dargh. 
 
 pronounced do! ark, is used in the sense of day's work, but 
 only in turf-cutting time. The tenant farmers in the 
 parish of Alloa "are subject to a dargh (or day's work) 
 for every acre, or lod per annum," in addition to the 
 regular rent. — New Stat Account of Scotland, vol. viii. , p. 
 602. These days are known as dargh-days. A Scottish 
 proverb affirms that "he never wrought a good dark that 
 went grumbling to it. " Another common proverb is "tine 
 needle, tine dai-g," — said to girls who lose their needles. A 
 da?g of peat-moss means as much as can be converted into 
 turf in a day. Love-dargh is work done for affection or 
 good-will instead of payment. DargJiing or darghening 
 is used in Scotland for working by the day. Thus, 
 
 " I wish they'd mind how many's willing 
 To win by industry a shilling — 
 Are glad to fa' to wark that's killing — 
 
 To common darghhi^. — Gatioway Poems, p. 9. 
 
 Dargher is used in Scotland, but not in Ulster, for a day 
 labourer. Thus, in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 
 vol. iii., p. 357, we have the following illustration : — 
 
 " The croonin kie the byre drew nigh, 
 The dargher left his thrift." 
 
 See Jameson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish 
 Language. 
 
 War against the Queen. — The act on which Con's 
 enemies depended, in his contemplated destraction, was 
 doubtless the \oth Henry VII., c. 13, entitled. An Act 
 that no persoti stir any Irishry to make war, and providing 
 that "whatsoever person or persons fro' this day forward 
 cause assemble, or insurrection, conspiracies, or in any 
 wise procure or stirre Irishry or Englishry to make warre 
 against our sovereign lord the king's authority — that is to 
 say, his lieutenant, or deputy, or justice, or else, if any 
 manner person procure or stirre the Irishry to make warre 
 against the Englishry, be deemed traytour, atteynt of high 
 treason, in likewise such as assemble an insurrection had 
 been levied against the king's own person." — Irish 
 Statutes, vol. i., p. 51. 
 
 20 His second son — Afterwards so well known as sir 
 James Montgomery of Rosemount, born in the year 
 1600. 
 
24 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 in Ireland; and, by his said brother gave frequent intimations to the King, or his Secretary for Scot- 
 land,=' of all occurrences he could learne, especially out of Ulster (which had never been fully made 
 subject to England); which services of the Laird, and the King's promise, were by his brother re- 
 newed in the King's memory, as occasion served to that purpose. And the effects answered his 
 pains and expectations, which was in this manner, viz. : — The Queen being dead, the King filling 
 her (late) throne, O'Doherty soon subdued, and the Chief-Governors in this kingdom of Ireland 
 foreseeing alteration in places, and the King's former connivance of supplies, and his secret favor to 
 the O'Neils and M'Donnells, in counties of Down and Antrim (being now well known^^) as to make 
 
 ^' Secretary for Scotland. — This official was sir William 
 Alexander of Menstrie. 
 
 Being now well knormt — Although James had been 
 lavish in professions of friendship to Elizabeth, and more 
 especially towards the end of her life, he really connived 
 with the Ulster insurgents, headed by O'Neill, and actively 
 assisted by sir James Macdonnell, of Dunluce. The king 
 even sent supplies secretly from Scotland; in gratitude for 
 which, O'Neill, after his victory over the English at the 
 Bkckwater, sent O'Hagan, his secretary, to Holy rood, to 
 negotiate for additional means, which would enable him to 
 march at once on Dublin, and proclaim liis majesty king 
 of Ireland, without longer waiting for Elizabeth's death. 
 But the question of the succession on the queen's death was 
 to James the most serious problem of his life, and he feared 
 above all things, to take any steps, or adopt any policy, 
 which might tend to thwart his eagerly-cherished hopes. 
 Whilst conniving with O'Neill, therefore, he feared to 
 accept his offer just then. His encouragement of the rebel 
 chieftains, James and Randal Macdonnell, was more pub- 
 licly given. He was well aware that these powerful Scots 
 could do much either to oppose or facilitate his succession 
 to the English throne. Whilst, therefore, he persecuted the 
 Macdonnells of Isla and Cantire, because of their known 
 leanings towards the English government, he cultivated the 
 most friendly relations with the Macdonnells of Dunluce, 
 because of their equally well-known hostility to that gov- 
 ernment. Sir James Macdonnell of Dunluce, the eldest 
 surviving son and successor of the celebrated Somhairle 
 Buidhe (more familiarly known as Sorley Boy), visited the 
 Scottish court in 1597, and received a distinguished wel- 
 come. This visit is noticed in Patrick Anderson's MS. 
 History of Scotland &i follows: — "At this time, one sir 
 James MacBuie (sir James MacSorley Macdonnell), a 
 great man in Ireland, being here for the time to complain 
 of our chief islenien, was knighted, and went with his train 
 and dependers to visit the castle and provision therein, and 
 gave great and noble rewards to the keepers." Birrel's 
 Diary speaks of his leaving EdinlDurgh thus : — "The 7th 
 of May, he went homeward, and for honour of his bojialley 
 (bon aller, an entertainment at the commencement of a 
 journey) the cannons shot out of the castle of Edinburgh." 
 The Chronicle of the Scottish Kings, published by the Mait- 
 land Club, has the following record of Macdonnell of 
 Dunluce: — "This sir James was ane man of Scottis bluid, 
 albeit his lands lies in Ireland. He was ane braw man of 
 person and behaviour, but had not the Scots tongue, nor 
 nae language but Erse (Irish)." After the suppression of 
 the rebellion, the King's evident partiality for these rebel 
 chieftains was apparent. No sooner had he succeeded to 
 the English throne than he wrote to Mountjoy, informing 
 
 him that O'Neill's pardon had been arranged, and that all 
 the other grants promised by Mountjoy at O'Xeill's sur- 
 render should be fully accorded to the latter. The King 
 concluded his letter by requesting Mountjoy "to induce 
 Tyrone to repair personally to London, as we think it 
 ver)' convenient for our sers'ice, and require you so to do; 
 and if not, that you at least bring his son." When O'Neill, 
 soon afterwards, visited London, his distinguished recep- 
 tion by James astounded all men, but none more than sir 
 John Harrington. "I have lived," writes the latter, to 
 the bishop of Bath and Wells, "to see that damnable 
 rebel, Tyrone, brought to England honoured and well 
 liked. Oh, what is there that does not prove the incon- 
 stancy of worldly matters. How I did labour after that 
 knave's destruction. I adventured perils by sea and land, 
 was near starving, eat horse-flesh in Munster, and all to 
 quell that man, who now smileth in peace at those who 
 did hazard their lives to destroy him; and now doth T}Tone 
 dare us, old commanders, with his presence and protection'" 
 O'Neill was restored in blood, obtained the restoration of 
 his lands (excepting such as had been granted to sir Henry 
 Oge O'Neill, and sir Turlough MacHenrie O'Neill), and, 
 in addition, was given authority for the exercise of martial 
 law "to be executed upon all offenders, the better to keep 
 them in obedience." The representative of the Macdon- 
 nells fared equally well, and, as it turned out, with much 
 greater good fortune. Sir James MacSorley the elder 
 brother had died in 1601 at Dunluce, but his brother, 
 Randal, obtained a grant, in the first year of James' reign, 
 of the territories known as the Route and Ghirnes, in 
 the county of Antrim, extending from Lame to Coleraine, 
 and containing upwards of three hundred thousand statute 
 acres. The exceptions reserved from this immense estate 
 were only three parts in four of the fishing of the river 
 Bann, the castle of Olderfleet with its appurtenances, the 
 lands belonging to the see of Down and Connor, the 
 lately dissolved abbey or monastery of Coleraine, and the 
 interest of all free tenants who had any estate in the 
 premises. The "Informations" of Nial Garse O'Donnell 
 represent sir Randal as aftenvards holding veiy intimate 
 relations with the King. " He (O'Donnell) saith further, 
 that it is a common opinion among all them in the north, 
 that sir Randal Macdonnell is a party with them (O'Neill 
 and O'Donnell, earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel), in all 
 plots and devices, and that he had given out, that he cares 
 not for sir Arthur Chichester more than for an ordinary 
 person, knowing the King will hear him and further his 
 desires, and if he should not, he would show him another 
 trick." Ch.s.mhexs, Domestic Annals of Scotland, xoL i., 
 pp. 286-7 ; Meehan, Fate and Fortunes of the earls of 
 Tyrone and Tyrconnel, pp. 36, 39, 40, 7 1 . 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 theiT^ his friends, and a future party for facilitating his peaceable entry and possession in those northern 
 parts of the country (if needful), it so came to pass that the said Con had liberty to walk at his 
 pleasure (in the day time) in the streets of Carrickfergus, and to entertain his friends and tenants in 
 any. victualling house within the towne, having only a single sentinel to keep him in custody, and 
 every night deUvered him to the Marshall.^3 And thus Con's confinement (which lasted several 
 months after the Queen's death) was the easier, and supportable enough, in regard that 
 his estate was not seized by the escheators,^* and that his words (at his grand debauch aforesaid) 
 were reputed very pardonable, seeing greater offences would be remitted by his Majesty's gracious 
 declaration of amnesty, which was from time to time expected, but delayed on the obstacles 
 aforesaid, 
 
 °3 To the JlIarshaH. —Tht maishall, at that date, was 
 probably Thomas Dobbin, who resided at the rere of an 
 antique building in Carrickfergns, then the prison of the 
 county of Antrim. — M'Skimin, Histoiy of Carrickfergus, 
 3rd edition, p. 113. 
 
 The fW/f^jforj.— Escheators from the French Es- 
 cheoir, were officers appointed in every county to make 
 inquests of titles, which inquests were, in all cases, to be 
 taken by the good and lawful men of the county, impan- 
 nelled by the sheriff. (14 Edivard III., f. 8 ; 35 Edward 
 III., c. 13.) Escheat lands or tenements were such as 
 casually fell to the king, or to the lord of the manor, by 
 some unforeseen contingency, such as forfeiture for treason, 
 or the death of a tenant without heir general or special. — 
 Wishaw, Law Dictw)iary, p. 108. From the original 
 verb cacr — the Provengal form of the Latin cadere, came 
 the old French cliaeir, chcoir, escheir, to fall; and the nouns 
 chaet, chcitc, a fall; and also the English words, a cheat, or 
 cheater, the escheators ha\'ing, by the very nature of their 
 office, so many opportunities of fraud and oppression. 
 The abuses to which this office was liable are stated as 
 follows, in the preamble of the statute, I Hen. VIII., c. 
 8 — " Forasmuch as divers of the king's subjects have been 
 sore hurt, troubled, and disherited by escheators, and com- 
 missioners causing untrue offices to be found, and some- 
 times returning into the courts of record offices inqui- 
 sitions that were never found, and sometim.es changing the 
 matter of the offices that were truly found, to the great 
 hurt, trouble, and disherison of the king's true subjects, 
 &c. " — See Bisset's History of the Commonwealth of Eng- 
 land, vol. ii., p. 16. 
 
 Obstacles aforesaid. — The first act of James I. in relation 
 to Ireland was an act of general oblivion and indemnity. 
 Theking's utter failure afterwards, through the evil influence 
 of Chichester and Davies, in carryingou this loudly-professed 
 purposes of good towards Ireland, is well stated by Mr. 
 Prendergast, as follows : — "He restored the earl of Tyrone 
 to Ws estates; he promised the Irish that they should 
 henceforth hold their lands as English freeholders, instead 
 of under the law of tanistry, and assured the degenerate 
 English that their estates should be confirmed to them for 
 the future against the claims of discoverers, on easy terms 
 of com.position. By these measures the perpetual war, 
 which had continued between the nations for four hundred 
 and odd years, and was caused, says sir John Davies, by 
 the purpose entertained by the English to roote out the 
 Irish, was to be brought to an end. But before many years 
 
 were past these first good resolutions were abandoned. 
 Tlie right of the Irish to their lands was derided; and we 
 find sir John himself sharing in the spoil. In the mean- 
 time, the king's design with regard to the Irish was to 
 restore to the chiefs and principal gentlemen such demesnes 
 as they kept in their own occupation, to hold as tenants 
 by knight's service under the king; and to fix the inferior 
 members, of the clan, hitherto living the wandering life of 
 the creaghts, in settled villages, paying certain money rents 
 to their lords, instead of their former uncertain spendings, 
 — the object being to break up the clan system, and to 
 destroy the power of the chiefs. This plan seems to have 
 been matured by the. summer of 1607. On the 17th of 
 July, in that year, sir Arthur Chichester, lord-deputy, 
 accompanied by sir John Davies and other commissioners, 
 proceeded to Ulster, with powers to inquire what lands 
 each man held. There appeared before them in each 
 county which they visited the chief lords and Irish gentle' 
 men, the heads of creaghts, and the common people, the 
 Brehons and Shannahs, a kind of Irish heralds or chroni- 
 clers, who knew all the septs and families, and took upon 
 themselves to tell what quantity of land every man ought 
 to have; they thus ascertained and booked their several 
 lands, and the lord-deputy promised them estates in them. 
 'He thus,' .says sir John Davies, 'made it a year of jubilee 
 to the poor inhabitants, because every man was to return 
 to his own house, and be restored to his ancient posses- 
 sions, and they all went home rejoicing.' Notwithstanding 
 these promises, the king, in the following year, issued his 
 scheme for the Plantation of Ulster, urged to it, it would 
 seem, by sir Arthur Chichester, who so largely profited by 
 it, though the highest councillor in the kingdom told him 
 to his face, in the king's presence, that it was against the 
 honour of the king and the justice of the kingdom. It 
 could not be said that the flight of O'Neill and O'Donnell, 
 earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, gave occasion to this 
 change ; for the king immediately issued a proclamation 
 (which he reversed on taking formal possession of the earls' 
 territory), assuring the inhabitants that they should be 
 protected and preserved in their estates, nothwithstanding 
 the flight of the eaids ; nor the outbreak of sir Cahir 
 O'Doherty, in the month of May, 1608, as it was confined 
 to the neighbourhood of Londonderry, which he attacked, 
 killing the governor, who had dared to strike him. Manors 
 of 1000, 1500, and 3000 acres were offered by this project 
 to such English and Scottish as should undertake to plant 
 their lots with British Protestants, and engage to allow no 
 
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26 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 In the mean time, the Laird used the same sort of contrivance for Con's escape as he had here- 
 tofore done for his own ; and thus it was, viz.: — The Laird had formerly employed, for intelligence 
 as aforesaid, one Thomas Montgomery of Blacksto^vn,^^ a fee farmer (in Scotland, they call such 
 gentlemen feuers=7); he was a cadet of the family of Braidstane, but of a remote sanguinity to the 
 Laird, whose actions are now related. This Thomas had personally divers times traded with grain 
 and other things to Carrickfergus, and was well trusted therein; and had a small bark, of which he 
 was owner and constant commander; which Thomas being a discreet, sensible gentleman, and having 
 a fair prospect given him of raising his fortune in Ireland, was now employed and furnished with 
 instructions and letters to the said Con, who, on a second speedy apphcation in the affair consented 
 to the terms proposed by the Laird, and to go to him at Braidstane, provided the said Thomas would 
 bring his escape so about as if constrained, by force and fears of death, to go with him. These 
 resolutions being, with full secrecy, concerted, Thomas aforesaid (as the Laird had formerly advised) 
 having made love to the Town Marshall's daughter, called Annas Dobbin^^ (whom I have often seen 
 and spoken with, for she lived in Newtown till Anno 1664), and had gained hers and parent's con- 
 sents to be wedded together. This took umbrages of suspicion away, and so by contrivance with 
 his espoused, an opportunity, one night, was given to the said Thomas and his barque's crew to take 
 on board the said Con, as it were by force, he making no noise for fear of being stabbed, as was 
 reported next day through the town. 
 
 The escape being thus made and the bark, before next sun-set, arriving safe at the Larggs,'9 in 
 
 Irish to dwell upon them. For the security of the Planta- 
 tion, all Irish wlio had been in arms were to be transplanted 
 witli their families, cattle, and followers, to waste places in 
 Minister and Connaught, and there set down at a distance 
 from one another; while those who should be suffered to 
 remain were to remove from the landsallotted to planters, to 
 places where they could be under the eye of the government 
 officers. . . . The Irish gentlemen whodid not forfeit their 
 estates received proportions intended to be three-fourths of 
 theirformer lands, but often only one-half orone-third (as the 
 English were 'their own carvers'), as immediate tenants 
 of the king Their lands were liable to forfeiture if the 
 chief took from any of his former clansmen any of his 
 ancient customary exactions of victuals; if he went coshering 
 on them as of old; if he used gavelkind, or took the name 
 of the great O, whether O'Neill or O'Donnell, O'CarroIl 
 or O'Connor. On his death, his youthful heir was 
 made ward to a Protestant, to be brought up in Trinity 
 College, Dublin, from his twelfth to his eighteenth year, 
 in English habits and religion — often after this enforced 
 9onformity all the more embittered, like sir Phelim O'Neill, 
 against English religion. The wandering creaghts were 
 now to become his tenants at fixed money rents. He 
 covenanted that they should build and dwell in villages, 
 and live on allotted portions of land, 'to them as grievous 
 as to be made bond slaves.' Unable to keep their cattle 
 on the small portions of land assigned to them, instead of 
 ranging at large, they sold away both com and cattle. 
 Unused to money rents, though of victuals they formerly 
 made small account because of their plenty, they were 
 unable to pay their rents; and, their lords finding it im- 
 possible to exact them, and being thus deprived of their 
 
 living, numbers of them fled to Spain." — Cromwellian 
 Settlement of Ireland^ Introduction, pp. Ixix. — Ixxii. For 
 a list of persons pardoned in the County of Down soon 
 after the king's accession, see Appendix B. 
 
 Blackstown. — Blackstown was the name of a farm 
 adjoining the lands of Braidstane. 
 
 Gentlemen feiieis. — In Scotland a feu fanner was one 
 who held lands by a vassal tenure instead of by military 
 tenure. The mode of tenure is called feii-ferme, the rent 
 feii-de'ivtie, and the person holdingyiv/tT'. "In case it sail 
 happen in time cummin ony vassal or fewar, holding lands 
 in feu-ferme, shall failye in making of pa)Tnent of his few- 
 dewtie, he sail amittand tine his said feu, or his said lands 
 conforme to the civil and canon law. " — {Act Jcu. vi. c. 
 246. 1 597-) "Lands holden in feu-ferme, payand ane 
 certaine yearly dewtie, nomine fciudi-fe?-nuc, may ht 
 recognosced by the superior for non-pa)Tnent of few- 
 dewtie." — Skene, quoted in Jamieson's Etymological Dic- 
 tionary. 
 
 Annas Dobbin. — For notices of the family of Dobbin 
 of Carrickfergus, see M 'Skimin, History of Carrickfergus, 
 .3rd edit., pp. 40, 113, 114, 115, 119, 319, 322, 323, 331. 
 
 Larggs. — Timothy Pont, the well-known Scottisli to- 
 pographer, who wrote at the beginning of the seventeenth 
 century, has the following notice of Largs: — "Neir this 
 town did ye Scotts obtain a memorable \-ictory under 
 Alexander ye III., against Acho, king of Nonvay, quhose 
 armies they utterly overthrew. It is a burgh of barony; 
 it is a fyne plot, extended on ye bank of the great occeane, 
 laying lowe. It hath also a small porte for botts on ye 
 mouth of ye river Gogow. Upon ye north side of ye 
 toune there is a part called by ye vulgar ye prison fold, 
 
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 Scotland, on notice thereof, our valorous and well-bred Laird kept his state, staying at home, and 
 sent his brother-in-law, 3° Patrick Montgomery (of whom at large hereafter, for he was also instrumental 
 in the escape), and other friends, with a number of his tenants, and some servants, all well mounted 
 and armed, as was usual in those days, to salute the said Con, to congratulate his happy escape, and 
 to attend him to Braidstane, where he was joyfully and courteously received by the Laird and his 
 Lady with their nearest friends.31 He was kindly entertained and treated with a due defference to 
 his birth and quality, and observed with great respect by the Laird's children and servants, they 
 being taught so to beheave themselves. In this place the said Con entered into indenture of articles 
 of agreement, the tenor whereof was that the said Laird should entertaine and subsist him, the said 
 Con, in quality of an Esq., and also his followers, in their moderate and ordinary expenses; should 
 procure his pardon for all his and their crimes and transgressions against the law (which indeed were 
 not very heinous nor erroneous), and should get the enquest to be vacated, and the one-half of his 
 estate (whereof Castlereagh and circumjacent lands to be a part) to be granted to himself by letters 
 patent from the King; to obtain for him that he might be admitted to kiss his Majestie's hand, 
 and to have a general reception into favour; all this to be at the proper expenses, cost and charges 
 of the said Laird, who agreed and covenanted to the performance of the premises on his part. In 
 consideration whereof, the said Con did agree, covenant, grant, and assign, by the said indenture, 
 the other one-half of all his land estate, to be and enure to the only use and behoof of the said Laird, 
 his heirs and assigns, at which time the said Con, also signing and registering; but no sealing of 
 deeds being usual in Scotland, he promised by an instrument in writing to convey part of his own 
 
 quher thei" was a grate number of Danes enclosed and 
 taken prisoner at yebattail of ye Lairgs." Fair lie Castle, 
 now in ruins, Pont describes as, in his time, "a strong 
 toure, and very ancient, beautified with orchards and gar- 
 dens." Kelburne Castle, he states, "is a goodly building, 
 veil! planted, having very beautiful orchardes and gardens, 
 and in one of them a spatious roume, adorned with a 
 christalin fontane, cut all out of the living rocke." Knock 
 Castle is "a pretty dwelling, seatted on the mane occeane, 
 and vein planted." Skelmorlie Castle, "seated on the 
 mane occeane, is a fair veill bidlt house, decorred with 
 orchards and woodes, the inheritance of Robert Mont- 
 gomerie, laird thereof, who holds it off ye earles of Glen- 
 cairn." The following notice of Largs parish is abridged 
 from the Old Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 
 360: — "No parish in the west of Scotland, and few in 
 the Highlands, can afford such a variety of beautiful and 
 romantic scenes. The hills which begin to rise in the 
 neighbouring parishes of Greenock, Kilmalcolm, Loch- 
 winnock, Kilbirnie, and Dairy, meet in a kind of general 
 summit at the eastern boundary of Largs, from which they 
 gradually descend as they approach the shore, till they 
 terminate at last in a variety of abrupt declivities, some 
 of which are almost perpendicular, as if part of their base 
 had been torn away by force." — Paterson, Account of the 
 Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 298, 301. 
 
 ^" His brother-in-law.— V^XxizXs. Montgomery had mar- 
 ried Christina Shaw of Greenock, sister to the si.xth 
 laird's wife. 
 
 ^' Nearest friends. — The following account of Con's 
 escape is preserved in a manuscript written by the Rev. 
 
 Andrew Stewart, who was Presbyterian minister at 
 Donaghadee from 1645 to 1671 : — "On these begin- 
 nings they proceed. The wife endeavours her hus- 
 band's delivery, and Montgomeiy to have a vessel ready 
 to send for him upon notice given. The woman, there- 
 fore, returning with what speed she could to Ireland, had 
 access when she would into the castle of Carrick Fergus, 
 where her husband was ; sometime to bring in clothes, 
 sometime drink, sometime meat, and never, almost, with- 
 out some appearance of a good errand. At last she had 
 appointed a boat to come from Bangor, which, being 
 light, might even come under the castle, and receive Con 
 out at a window at a certain hour, and thus to effect it. 
 For one day she came into the chamber with two big 
 cheeses, the meat being neatly taken out, and filled with 
 cords, well packed in, and the holes handsomely made 
 up again. Those she brought to him without any sus- 
 picion of deceit, and left him to hank himself down from 
 the window at such a time when, by moonshine, he might 
 see the boat ready, and so begone as it was already con- 
 trived. All this is done accordingly, and Con brought 
 over to the church of Bangor, where, in an old steeple, 
 he is hid, and kept till such time as Hugh Montgomery 
 might be advertised to send a relief for him. And indeed 
 it was not long till, wind and weather serving, there is a 
 boat sent with Patricic Montgomery, afterwards of Creboy, 
 in Ireland, to carry Con away. And away he went, and 
 was well and kindly entertained in Scotland by the 
 family of Broadstone, till Hugh made ready and went to 
 London, to do what he could to bring his desires to 
 pass." 
 
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 moiety unto the said Patrick 3= and Thomas,33 as a requital of their pains for him, which he afterwards 
 performed, the said Laird signing as consenting to the said instrument, the said agreements being 
 fully indorsed and registered (as I was told) in the town council book of the Royal Burgh of Air or 
 Irwine, the original of that indenture to the Laird I had, and shewed to many worshipful persons, 
 but it was burnt with the house of Rosemount, the i6th February, 1695.34 
 
 Upon the said agreement the said Laird and Con went to Westminster, where the said George 
 had been many months Chaplain and Ordinary to his Majesty, and was provided with a living in 
 London, in Coramendum,35 worth above ^200 per annum, and the Laird was there assumed to be an 
 
 3= Said Patrick. — Patrick Montgomery is more than 
 once mentioned afterwards by the author in these manu- 
 scripts. Scottish genealogists represent him as a }iej>hew 
 of sir H\igh Montgomery; but William Montgomeryspeaks 
 of him only as brother-in-law to sir Hugh. He obtained 
 a grant of lands from sir Hugh at Creboy, or Craigbuye, 
 about a mile and a half southward from the town of 
 Donaghadee. We can find no mention of Con O'Neill's 
 granting lands directly to Patrick Montgomery. Sir 
 Hugh granted to him, by deed dated 19th July, 1616, 
 the lands of Ballyhannode and Ballygortcvil, which he 
 held in 1623, as appears by the Inqiiisilion taken at Dozuii- 
 patrick ill that year. These lands lay in Con's division, 
 but afterwards passed' into the hands of sir Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, and the deed received by Patrick from the latter, 
 in 1616, was, most probably, a confirmation of the grant 
 originally derived from O'Neill. The report of the com- 
 mission appointed to hold the Inquisition abovenamed was 
 delivered into Chancery on the 22nd of June, 1624, and ori- 
 ginally filled twenty-one membranes. This most valu- 
 able document has, unfortunately, been mutilated, the 
 halves of all the leaves, from eleven to twenty inclusive, 
 having been cut away. — Supplement to Eighth Kepoi-t of 
 the Irish Record Commission, p. 468, 7iote. See Reeves, 
 Eccles. Antiquities, p. 347, note p., where this record 
 is first noticed. Extracts from this mutilated original have 
 been printed in Morrin's Calendar'of the Patent and Close 
 Rolls of Chaiicery in Ireland of the Reign of Charles I. , 
 1863, pp. 225 — 233; and its whole contents have been 
 published in the Appendix to the Hamilton Manuscripts, 
 1867, pp. x.xix — Ix. The copy to which the editor of the 
 Montgomery Mamiscripits had access belongs to J. B. 
 Houston, Esq., Orangefield, near Belfast. It is probably 
 an almost complete copy of the original MS., and contains, 
 in addition, as appears from marginal notices, several most 
 interesting documents described as not being in the manu- 
 script, but supplied from papers in the possession of Dean 
 Dobbs. By the kindness of Mr. Houston we are enabled 
 to print its entire contents, including the documents above- 
 mentioned, which the reader may find in Appendix A, 
 at the end of this volume. 
 
 " 'Jhomas. — This gentleman's name is not after- 
 wards mentioned by the author. In return for his very 
 important services, he received grants of lands in the 
 Ards from Con O'Neill and Sir Hugh Montgomery. 
 The former gave him an enfeoffment, dated 25th April, 
 1606, of the lands of Ballyrossbuye, in the Gallough, be- 
 tween Castlereagh and Belfast, with all the appurtenances 
 and privileges belonging thereto. — Inquisition of 1623. 
 Among the Rolls of Chancery is an indenture, whereby 
 
 Thomas Mountgomery, of Scotland, dwelling in the 
 Newtowne, in the higher Clandeboys, granted and 
 conveyed to James Cowper, of Neither Manes, then 
 (1609) residing at Comber, and Alice, his •\\'ife, half 
 of the lands of Ballyhosker, in the Great Ardes — to 
 hold in fee-farm and heritage of the right worshipful sir 
 Hugh Montgomery, one of the esquires of his majesty's 
 body, as of the manor of Gray Abbey, for ever. — Feb- 
 ruary 6, 1609. — Morrin's Calendar, Reign of Charles I., 
 P- 397- 
 
 3^ The i6th February, 1695. — At page I, the author 
 states that he lost by this conflagration several " authentic 
 papers and parchments," among which, we are now told, 
 was the original indenture between Con O'Neill and the 
 sixth laird of Braidstane. The loss of this document is 
 to be regretted, as, imfortunately, the copy of it which 
 was registered in the "town-council Book of the Royal 
 Burgh of Air or Irwine," does not now exist. The Town 
 Council Minutes of Ayr were carefully searched, but in vain; 
 and, on the editor's application to the proper authorities 
 in the sherift's court, he received the following reply : — 
 "County Buildings, Ayr, 19th Dec, 1866. 
 
 "Dear Sir, — I have made a complete search for the document 
 referred to by you in your letter of the 15th current, but b.ave failed 
 in finding any trace of its having been recorded in the Sheriff Court 
 Books of this county. — I am, dear sir, yours truly, 
 
 " Thomas Kerr." 
 
 James Paterson, Esq., 3L\\t\\or of Account of the Par- 
 ishes and Families of Ayrshire, made a diligent search at 
 Irvine for the indenture, but without success, as the fol- 
 lowing note from him will explain : — 
 
 " I went to Irvine on Thursday, and retunied yesterday, and I am 
 sorry to say that there is not a vestige of the contract between Con 
 O'Neil and the iaird of Braidstane to be found. Mr. Gray, the 
 town clerk, g.ave me every facility of search. The Record of Deeds 
 and tlie Town Council Minutes have not been preserved farther back 
 than 1659 ; but he thought it might be among the loose papers. 
 These consist of documents of various kinds — deeds, accounts, por- 
 tions of Town Council Minutes, &c.. some of them dating back to 
 1594, 1601, &c. ; but although I looked carefully over them all, no 
 trace of the contract could be found. I regret this result : but it is 
 at all events satisfactory to ascertain that the record does not exist. 
 
 " Edinburgh, 15th June 1867." 
 
 I71 Commendum. — Cf otw^7/(/i7 was a tenn of the canon 
 law, which, in its original sense, was applied wlien the 
 custody of a vacant benefice was committed to one who 
 \\'ould discharge the spiritual duties without meddling with 
 the profits, and who was thus said to hold the office or 
 trust in commettdam. This practice of lionoran,' custody 
 soon degenerated, however, into an actual reception of the 
 profits, and the device of holding livings /;/ commendam 
 \\ as found to be a convenient method of entirely evading 
 the canon law against pluralities. The dispensation to 
 
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 Esq. of the King's body, and after this was knighted, and therefore I must call him in the following 
 pages by the name of Sir Hugh Montgomery, who made speedy application to the King (already 
 prepared), on which the said Con was graciously received at Court, and kissed the King's hand, and 
 Sir Hugh's petition, on both their behalfs, was granted, and orders given, under the Privy Signet, 
 that his Majesty's pleasure therein should be confirmed by letters patent, under the great seal of 
 Ireland, at such rents as therein expressed, and under conditions that the lands should be planted 
 with British Protestants, and that no grant of fee farm should be made to any person of meer Irish 
 extraction ;36 but in regard these letters took no effect, as in next paragraph appears, I shall make no 
 further mention thereof, but will proceed to what afterwards happened to the said Sir Hugh and 
 Con. 
 
 hold a commendam could only be given by the crown, and 
 was generally granted to favourites, as a means of supple- 
 menting small livings. But now, by 6 and 7 William IV., 
 c. 77, sec. 18, no ecclesiastical dignity, benefice, or office 
 can be held in commendam. — Wharton, Law Lexkon, p. 
 15; Penny Cyclopedia, vol. vii. , p. 398. 
 
 Aleer Irish extraction. — The meer Irish, or such of the 
 Iri% as had no free or English blood, were forbidden by 
 law to purchase land. "Though the English might take 
 from tlie Irish, the Irish could not, even by way of 
 gift or purchase, take any from the English. In every 
 charter of English liberty, as it was called, granted to an 
 Irishman, besides the right to bring actions in the King's 
 Courts, there was given an express power to him to pur- 
 chase lands to him and his heirs ; without this he could 
 not hold any so acquired. The exchequer officers con- 
 stantly held inquisitions for the purpose of obtaining a 
 return that certain lands had been aliened to an Irishman, 
 in order thereupon to seize them into the hands of the 
 crown as forfeited. . . . The Parliament Rolls are 
 full of cases where the inquisitions are set aside for the 
 finding having been malicious and untrue, the parties 
 
 complained of not being Irish, but English. They prove, 
 however, that no Irishman could take lands by convey- 
 ance from an Englishman ; and this continued to be the 
 law until the year 1612, when sir John Davies framed an 
 Act abolishing the distinction of nations. But the prohi- 
 bition practically prevailed after the passing of the 
 Act ; for, by plantation rule, the English were for- 
 bidden, under pain of forfeiture, to convey any of the 
 lands taken from the Irish in the extensive plantations of 
 Munster, Ulster, and Leinster to any Irishman, and the 
 Irish there could only aliene to English ; so that the Irish 
 must be always losing, and the English gaining, by any 
 change. The prohibition was again extended to the 
 whole nation by the Commonwealth government ; and 
 when the lands forfeited for the war of 1690 came to be 
 sold at Chichester House, in 1703, the Irish were de- 
 clared by the English Parliament incapable of purchasing 
 at the auction, or of taking a lease of more than two 
 acres. Shortly afterwards, another Act disqualified them 
 for ever from purchasing or acquiring any lands in Ii'eland, 
 and declared the purchase void." — Prendergast, Crom- 
 wellian Settlement in Ireland, Introduction, pp. 1. — lii. 
 
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The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 OW these affairs, as also Con's escape and journey with Sir Hugh, and their errand, took 
 time and wind at Court, notwithstanding theirs (and the said George's) endeavours to 
 conceal them from the prying courtiers (the busiest bodies in all the world in other men's 
 matters, which mayprofit themselves), so that in the interim one Sir James Fullerton,' a great favourite, 
 who loved ready money, and to live in Court, more than in waste wildernesses in Ulster, and after- 
 wards had got a patent clandestinely passed for some of Con's lands,^ made suggestions to the King 
 that the lands granted to Sir Hugh and Con were vast territories, too large for two men of their 
 degree,3 and might serve for three Lords' estates, and that his Majesty, who was already said to be 
 
 ' Sir yames Fidleiion. — It is rather remarkable that 
 the particular branch of the Fullerton family to which sir 
 James belonged has not been discovered, although he was 
 probably a native of the parish of Dundonald in Ayrshire, 
 where the Fullertons have resided numerously since the 
 time of David II. He was, no doubt, of humble origin, 
 and had made his own way into a distinguished position, 
 else we should have certainly heard something of his 
 family histoiy. Commencing in the humble capacity of a 
 teacher, in connexion with his friend, James Hamilton, he 
 became eminently distinguished as a political agent of 
 James I., occupying several high and lucrative places, 
 after the accession of that king to the English throne, and 
 receivmg extensive grants of lands both in this country 
 and in England. In establishing his school at Dublin in 
 1587 (to which he appears to have brought Hamilton as 
 an assistant), there is no evidence that he had any other 
 object or design, than simply to discharge the duties of a 
 teacher. When Fullerton and his associate had become 
 well-known in Dublin, and by their talents and popularity 
 contributed in some degree to make Scotland and Scots- 
 men respected in this country, James VI. secured their 
 service as political agents, and through them, smoothed 
 the way for his acceptance by the Irish leaders, when he 
 should be admitted, on the death of Elizabeth, to the Eng- 
 lish throne. In both cases the king was most fortunate in 
 the clioice of his men, and he afterwards acknowledged 
 their services in a very liberal manner. Fullerton 
 received the honour of knighthood on the accession of 
 James, and lived at the English court, holding among other 
 appointments those of gentleman of the bed-chamber, 
 master of the privy purse to the duke of York, governor 
 to the young prince, and master of the court of wards 
 and liveries. For notices of the various offices to which 
 he was appointed in Ireland, and of the very extensive 
 grants received by him, of lands in this country, the reader 
 may consult Ercl-c's Repertory of the Inrolirients of the 
 Patent Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, vol. i., part ii. , pp. 
 22, 39, 40, 41, 78, 90, 102, 249, 262. Of Fullerton's 
 marriage, we have the following notice, in a letter written 
 
 by Margaret Hay, countess of Dunfermline, to the countess 
 of Eglinton, on the 2nd March, 1614: — "No newis (news) 
 for sartintie, but ser James Fullartine is to be merit with 
 my ladie Kellos, it is dowin or now. " — Eraser, Memorials, 
 vol. i., p. 195. Sir James died in 1630, without issue, 
 and bequeathed his property to his "deareand well-beloved 
 wife, the lady Bruce. " Her brother, Thomas, lord Bruce, 
 baron Kinloss, was his sole executor. — M'Crie, Life of 
 Melville, vol. ii. , p. 294. Thomas Bruce above-named was 
 the third baron Kinloss. His father, Mr. Edward Bruce, 
 of Clackmannan, obtained a grant of the lands which had 
 belonged to Kinloss Abbey, and was created baron Kin- 
 loss in 1601. His elder son, Edward, the second baron, 
 was killed in a duel, at Bergen-op-Zoom, by sir Edward. 
 Sackville, in 1 61 3. The narrative of that celebrated and 
 bloody affair, as given by Sackville, aftersvards earl of Dor- 
 set, may be found in the Guardian, Nos. 129 and 133. 
 On the death of lord Edward, without issue, his title and 
 estates went to his younger brother Thomas above- 
 mentioned, who, in 1633, was created earl of Elgin. New 
 Stat. Account of Scotland, County of Elgin, p. 205 ; 
 Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. i., pp. 447 
 —450. 
 
 ^ For some of Con^s lands. — We have not been able to 
 discover the names of these lands. Sir James Fullerton 
 had lands and tenements granted by the crown, in the 
 counties of Westmeath, Cork, Antrim, Tipperarj', Water- 
 ford, Shgo, Dublin, Roscommon, Kildare, Queen's County, 
 Limerick, and Donegal, but none in the county of Down. 
 His Antrim grants lay principally in the towns of Car- 
 rickfergus and Larne. Calendar of Patent Rolls, James I. , 
 pp. 7, 8. The absence of any record of such lands in the 
 Patent Rolls, as those referred to in the text, may be 
 accounted for by the gi'ant having been irregularly or 
 clandestinely obtained. 
 
 5 For two men of their degree. — This argument of sir 
 James Fullerton was probably the one which had most 
 weight with the king in making up his mind to set aside 
 the original compact between Con and sir Hugh at Braid- 
 stane. P. 27, supra. It was found that a grand 
 
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 ■overhastily liberal, had been over-reached as to the quantity and value of the lands, and therefore 
 begged his Majesty that Mr. James Hamilton* wlio had furnished himself for some years last past 
 with intelligencies from Dublin, very important to his Majesty, might be admitted to a third share 
 of that which was intended to be granted to Sir Hugh and Con. Whereupon a stop was put to 
 ^he passing the said letters pattent, which overturned all the progress (a work of some months) that 
 
 mistake had been made by preceding sovereigns in granting 
 lands in Ireland too liberallyand extensively to individuals, 
 and that the grants thus made had altogether failed in the 
 objects they were originally intended to promote. In the 
 provinces of Leinster and Munster, where favoured indi- 
 ■viduals had obtained immense tracts of forfeited lands, it 
 was found that the grantees soon forgot or ignored the 
 terms of the contracts by which they held their possessions, 
 building castles, and assuming a semi-royal state, whilst 
 the unfortunate natives, whom they were Isound to protect 
 and encourage, were driven into the woods and mountain 
 fastnesses of the land. There they lived without security, 
 or industry, or improvement of any kind, and were thus 
 absolutely driven into conspiracies and insurrections. This 
 great mistake in former Plantations determined James I., 
 and his advisers, to offer the forfeited lands in Ulster to 
 imdertakers, in comparatively small proportions, and to 
 impose such conditions on the holders as would tend to 
 the mutual benefit of all classes. Such was undoubtedly 
 the original plan contemplated in the Plantation of Ulster, 
 -althougli it was afterwards unfortunately abandoned. 
 
 ■* James Hamillon. — James Hamilton was eldest son 
 ■of Hans Hamilton, the first Protestant minister, after 
 the Reformation, settled in the parish of Dunlop, Ayr- 
 shire. The Alaitlaiid Club has published a curious old 
 Register of mitiisters, exhorters, and readers, and of their 
 stipends, after the period of the Reformation, and in this regis- 
 ter the following entry occurs in reference to the parish of 
 Dunlop: — "John Hamilton, vicar and exhorter, the thryd 
 ■of the vicarage, extending to xxvi li., providing he wait 
 on his charge betym, 1567." As there is no doubt among 
 Ayrshire genealogists that this John was the identical 
 Hans above-named, it is presumed that Hans or Hants 
 Hamilton, the name by which he is usually known, is a 
 corruption of the Latin fohannes. — Paterson, Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii. , p. 43. The Hamilton 
 j^/.y.S'., which were written about the close of theseventeenth 
 century by some member of the Hamilton family in Ulster, 
 describe James Hamilton, at p. 4, "as one of the great- 
 est scholars and most hopeful wits of his time, insomuch 
 that he was noticed by King James and his grave council 
 as one fit to negotiate among the gentry and nobility of 
 Ireland for promoting the knowledge and right of King 
 James's interest and title to the crown of England, after 
 Queen Elizabeth's death, and on this account was advised 
 to write a book of his said interest, which was done to 
 
 very good effect Therefore he was called 
 
 to keep a public Latin school in Dublin, being in- 
 structed in the meanwhile, and creditably supplied for con- 
 versing with the nobility and gentry of Ireland, for the 
 king's service above-mentioned, as he was very serviceable 
 and acceptable therein." This account embodies the 
 now generally accepted story that both Hamilton 
 and Fullerton, two humbly-born young men, were 
 specially appointed to Ireland as political agents of James 
 
 VI., on their leaving college, and that they opened a 
 school in Dublin only to conceal the real purpose of their 
 residence there. Neither of them has left any record from 
 which this representation could be sustained. Ussher, who 
 knew them well, and intimately, never hints at any such 
 improbable arrangement ; but, on the contrary, speaks 
 of them as coming to settle originally at Dublin " by 
 chance'^ (M'Crie, Life of Melville, vol. ii. , p. 292), or, 
 as other young Scotchmen had settled, as teachers, in 
 other localities. John .Strype, author of the Life of that 
 sir Thomas Smith, to whom Queen Elizabeth granted (lie 
 territory of the Ards, speaks of James Hamilton, p. 182, 
 as " once a schoolmaster, tho' afterwards made a person 
 of honour;" and the author of the Montgomery Maiiii- 
 scripts, evidently using the language of some family docu- 
 ments left by his grandfather, the first viscount, describes 
 Hamilton in the text as "furnishing himself for sojtie years 
 last past with intelligencies from Dublin, very important 
 to his majesty. '' In Birch's Life of Henry Prince of Wales, 
 there is a reference to the school taught by Fullerton and 
 Hamilton in Dublin, but no hint that these gentlemen 
 were originally sent there in the capacity of political 
 agents. On the contrary, he describes them as simply the 
 channel through which certain English lords sent their 
 letters, containing professions of allegiance to King James, 
 immediately prior to the death of Elizabeth. "There 
 was," says Birch, "a Scots gentleman of great learning 
 and parts, sent out of Ireland to be chief governor for the 
 duke (afterwards Charles I.). This gentleman, whose 
 name was sir James Fullerton, had been at first usher 
 of the Free School, in Dublin, while another Scots- 
 man, Mr. James Hamilton, afterwards knighted, and at 
 last created viscount Claneboy in Ireland, was master of 
 it. The first foundations of their fortunes being laid 
 at Dublin, in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, 
 by conveying the letters of some great lords in Eng- 
 land, who worshipped the rising sun, to King James, 
 and his letters back to them, that way being chosen 
 as more safe than the direct northern road." — M'Crie, 
 Life of Melville, vol. ii., pp. 292, 293; Hamilton AISS., 
 edited by T. K. Lowry, Esq., p. 5, note. The book said to 
 to have been written by James Hamilton is unknown, 
 at least so far as we are aware. The story seems to 
 have originated in a statement of Dr. Richard Parr, in his 
 Life of Archbishop Ussher; but Parr rests his statement on 
 no authority, and it was taken for granted that he had 
 obtained it from Ussher. But we have no evidence that 
 Ussher liad ever heard of the royal appointment claimed 
 for Fullerton and Flamilton. His remarkable expression, 
 that these teachers had come to Did)lin "by chance," 
 implies that if he had heard the story of their appoint- 
 ment originally as political agents, he did not believe it. 
 All that can be advanced in favour of the generally ac- 
 cepted account of this matter is stated in Dr. Elrington"s 
 LJfe of Ussher, pp. 2, 3, and notes. 
 
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 Sir Hugh had made to obtain the said orders for himself and Con.s But the King sending first for 
 Sir Hugh, told him (respecting the reasons aforesaid) for what loss he might receive in not getting 
 the full half of Con's estate, by that defalcation he would compensate him out of the Abbey land* 
 and impropriations, which in a few months he was to grant in fee, they being already granted in 
 lease for twenty-one years,^ and that he would also abstract, out of Con's half, the whole great Ardes 
 for his and Mr. James Hamilton's behoof, and throw it into their two shares; that the sea coasts 
 might be possessed by Scottish men,? who would be traders as proper for his Majestie's -future 
 
 ^ For himself and Con. — The account of this transaction 
 given by our author differs hi toto from that of the Stewart 
 Alafiuseript: the latter represents the laird of Braidstane, 
 not as concealing his designs from courtiers, but as re- 
 vealing them to James Hamilton, who had given up his 
 fellowship in Dublin College, and was then with his 
 friend, sir James Fullerton, living in great favour at the 
 Court of James I. Montgomery, v/hen applying to 
 Hamilton for assistance in the affair, is further repre- 
 sented as promising " a half of his two parts, if by 
 his friends and means he might have access to work 
 out Con's pardon, and have the king's gift of the 
 lands to be divided among the three ; for it was 
 thought sufficient for them all. Mr. James Hamilton, 
 glad of this, makes way, first with the Hamiltons, then 
 with others of the English and Scottish nobiHty, that now 
 Montgomery is well heard and especially respected by his 
 majesty, and in a word, the grant is given out, —Con has 
 his life and a third part, Montgomery has a third, and Mr. 
 James Hamilton has a third part of Con O'Neill's estate 
 in Down." The introductory part of this extract is un- 
 doubtedly apocryphal. The laird of Braidstane did not 
 require to seek access to the king through the intervention 
 of Hamilton. Braidstane's own brother, George, as events 
 proved, was a special favourite with James, having acted 
 as his agent in England, as Hamilton had done in Ireland. 
 The earl of Eglinton, besides, was a veiy influential noble- 
 man, ready at all times to espouse and support his kins- 
 men's plans. Again, the division of Con O'Neill's lands 
 into three parts very much disgusted Montgomery, and 
 was an arrangement altogether different from the original 
 compact between him and O'Neill, at Braidstane. Ha- 
 milton's position as agent for sir William Smith gave him 
 a knowledge of the situation and extent of Con's lands, 
 and enabled him, especially when assisted by sir James 
 Fullerton's influence, successfully to combat Montgomery's 
 original plan. Hamilton was charged with betraying the 
 trust reposed in him by sir William Smith, who believed 
 he had a prior claim to most, if not all, the lands in dis- 
 pute. John Strype, the writer of sir Thomas Smith's Life, 
 when referring to this matter, says: — "I have been in- 
 formed by some of that worshipful family, that sir William 
 Smith, nephew to our sir Thomas Smith, was- meerly 
 tricked out of it by the knavery of a Scot, one Hamilton 
 (who was once a schoolmaster, tho' afterwards made a 
 person of honour), with whom the said sir William was 
 acquainted. Upon the first coming in of King James I. 
 he minded to get these lands confirmed to him by tliat 
 king, which had cost sir Thomas (besides the death of his 
 only son) ;^lo,ooo, being to go into Spain with the English 
 ambassador, left this Hamilton to solicite this his course 
 at court, and get it dispatched. But sir William being 
 
 gone, Hamilton discovered the matter to some other of 
 the Scotch nobility. And he and some of them begged it 
 of the king for themselves, pretending to his majesty, that 
 it was too much for any one subject to enjoy." — Life of 
 Sir Thomas Smith, 1 698, p. 182. 
 
 ^ For t-weitty-one years. — An extensive grant of abbey 
 lands in the counties of Do^vn, Antrim, and Cork, was 
 made to John Thomas Hibbots and John Kinge, of Dub- 
 lin, Esqrs., on the 6th of December, 1604, to hold for 
 twenty-one years, trees, mines, and minerals excepted, at 
 the yearly rent of £1'^ 13s 8d. Irish. The following church 
 lands, in Down, were included in this grant, viz. — '• i. The 
 site, ambit, and precinct of the late monastery of Bangor, 
 consisting of the abbey, with all the houses, manses, gar- 
 dens, churchyard, and curtilages to the same belonging, 
 the towns, villages, or hamlets, of Bangor, Balleportavo, 
 Ballefridon, Ballemeean, Ballowe, Ballevullecragh, Balle- 
 cormache, Ballemacconnell, Ballecrohane, Ballehunne, 
 Ballenoghue, Ballonore, Carrowslanclackanduff, Callo- 
 sneseron, Carrownereigh, Ballemowne, Carroghraloghele, 
 Ballesebane, Ballenbamen, Balleneardogh, Ballencellor, 
 Ballemulle, Ballesallogh, Balleocrane, Ballecrotte, Balle- 
 shalle, Ballemegh, Ballemachores, Ballemajor, with all 
 the tithes, great and small, of the premises. 2. The 
 site, circuit, and precinct of the monastery of Leigh, 
 or Grey Abbey, otherwise Jugo Dei, with all houses, 
 gardens, manses, orchards, and tithes to the same 
 belonging, lying in seven towns near and about the 
 said monastery — viz. , Corballie, Ballibrenny, Ballen- 
 boly, Ballevaltragh, Ballecaslane, Ballevallanee, Ballecul- 
 lemanagh ; and three other towns, called Ballitun- 
 graunge, Ballieedon, and Corballen, in Lecale, being the 
 estate of the said Gray Abbey, the lands formerly granted 
 to Rice Ap-Hughe excepted. 3. The priory of Holliwood, 
 and the site thereof, with all messuages, lands, and tithes 
 in the five towns of Ballekeille, Ballimannacke, Ballacul- 
 tracke, Ballaenderrie, and Balleknocknegonie. 4. The 
 site of the late priory of Newton, with all manses and 
 tithes in three villages, parishes, or hamlets called Nevrton, 
 Killcowman, and Barnes, near said priory. 5. A certain 
 island or lough called Inischarg)', eight \-illages or town- 
 lands being about or near said island, viz. — Enischargie, 
 Ballegarvagan, Ballecurkublien, Balliabakin, Ballerodine, 
 Ballilimp, and Balliglassarie, in Bangorbreg, I qr. , the 
 the church quarter of Iniscliargie, I qr. — the quarter of 
 Carmonie, the Fisher's quarter, the advowson of the rec- 
 tory or vicarage of Inischargie, parcel of the estate of Brian 
 Oge O'Flynne, attainted."— Ca/t'Wi/dr of Patent Rolls, 
 James I., pp. 38, 39. 
 
 ^ Possessed by Scottish men. — This arrangement was in 
 accordance with the original plan to be followed out in 
 the Plantation. To the servitors, or those who had served 
 
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 advantage, the residue to be laid off about Castlereagh (which Con had desired), being too great a 
 favour for such an Irishman.^ 
 
 All this being privately told by the King, was willingly submitted to by the said Sir Hugh, and 
 soon after this he and Con were called before the King, who declared to them both his pleasure 
 concerning the partitions as aforesaid, to which they submitted. On notice of which procedure, Mr. 
 James Hamilton was called over by the said Sir James Fullerton, and came to Westminster, and 
 having kissed the King's hand, was admitted the King's servant (but not in a great while knighted, 
 therefore hereafter I shall make mention of him as Sir James Hamilton, in its due place) ; all which 
 contrivance brought money to Sir James Fullerton, for whose sake and request it was the readilyer 
 done by the King. Sir Hugh and Mr. Hamilton met and adjusted the whole affair betwen them- 
 selves. Whereupon letters of warrant to the Deputy, dated i6th April, 3d Jacob., 1605,9 were granted 
 
 the crown either in a civil or military capacity, were as- 
 signed the positions of greatest danger. In this instance, 
 the coast was to be placed in the possession of British 
 settlers for the double purposes of trade, and of security, 
 in cases of insurrection among the natives. Con O'Neill, 
 as well as all other native chieftains permitted to become 
 settlers, were obliged to fix their residences in the open 
 country, and in unguarded places, where, from their exposed 
 position, they were under constant inspection, and thus 
 compelled to live peaceably. On the other hand, the 
 positions of greatest strength and command were ireld 
 by the British settlers, thus reversing the state of affairs 
 adopted in the south during the reign of Elizabeth; and 
 thus, as it was supposed, taking effectual means for 
 security against the Irish, who could no longer form 
 their hostile designs unseen, on the mountains, or in the 
 wooded glens. 
 
 8 For such an Irishman. — That is for a mere Irishman, 
 having no free or English blood in his veins. Con 
 O'Neill's preference for Castlereagh was induced no 
 doubt by his natural wish to retain the ancient 
 residence of his fathers, and because this district, more 
 than any other porlion of his territory, must have been 
 endeared to liim by family associations and traditions. 
 As compliance with his wishes in this instance involved no 
 derangement of the original Plantation scheme, he was 
 indulged so far as to obtain that tliird part of his own 
 property which he preferred. The castle has now entirely 
 disappeared, but some of the stones remain, having been 
 used in building a wall around the place on which the 
 "grey" old structure stood. The stone-chair on which the 
 chieftains of southern Clannaboy v/ere inaugurated, and 
 which was originally placed at a little distance from the 
 castle, now rests at Rathcarrick, in the county of Sligo, 
 the seat of a Mr. Walker, for whom it was purchased in 
 1832, and "with whom," we are told, "it will be preserved 
 with the care due to so interesting a monument." The 
 stone-chair had been subjected to various indignities in 
 Belfast, from the time of its removal from Castlereagh in 
 1750, until its redemption by Mr. Walker, nearly a century 
 later. It had done duty as a seat in the butter-marlvct ; 
 it had lain obscurely amid the rubbish of an old wall in 
 that most vulgar locality; and it had been finally tumbled 
 into a yard in the rere of some house in Lancaster Street. 
 It is quite clear, therefore, that Belfast was not worthy of 
 this relic, and the probability is that had Mr. Walker not 
 
 interposed, the inauguration chair or throne, would have 
 long since been broken up, and its fragments built into 
 some ignoble wall. Dublin Penny Journal, vol. i., 
 p. 208. 
 
 ' \()th April, 3 Jacob., 1605. — A copy of this letter 
 from King James I. to sir Arthur Chichester, was found 
 among the papers left by sir James Balfour, and has been 
 printed in the Miscellany of the Abbotsford Club, vol. i., 
 pp. 270-3. See also Erck, vol. i. p. 245, tuhereil is pritited 
 from the Rolls. The king, at the " humble suite of Con 
 M'Neale M 'Brian Fertagh O'Neale, Esq., and at the 
 humble suite, and in consideration of the faithful service 
 done unto us by our well-beloved Hugh Montgomery, 
 Esq,, and James Hamilton, our servaunte," directs Chi- 
 chester to have a grant of Con's whole territory made to- 
 Hamilton, under certain conditions. The letter was 
 "given under our signet at our manor of Greenwiche." 
 The conditions are repeated in the Tripartite Indenture 
 l)etween Con, Montgomery, and Hamilton, which the 
 reader may see in the Inquisition of 1623, at the end of 
 the volume. The king's letter directed that Hamilton 
 should be permitted to hold these lands by the desirable 
 tenure of "free and common soccage only, and not in 
 cafiile, nor by soccage capitc, nor by knight's service." 
 The feudal tenure known as knight's service, although 
 once considered the most honourable, had become 
 very unpopular, even among the representatives of those 
 Norman nobles by whom it was originally introduced. 
 Indeed, compared with its injurious and oppressive 
 character, the cuttings and cosherings and exactions 
 connected with Irish tenures, were but as mere child's 
 play. By the military tenure of knight's service, the 
 tenant and his heirs were bound to perform tlie sei^vice 
 of a knight to the landlord and his heirs— an obligation 
 which, in most cases, was impracticable, and when so, 
 imposed a ruinous expense in providing substitutes. 
 But, in addition to his military services, the tenant was 
 bound to incur, on his lord's behalf, certain incidental ex- 
 pensesknown as aids, reliefs, primer seisins, wardships, mar- 
 riages, and fines upon alienation. An aid was levied to 
 assist in rescuing the lord from captivity, or to constitute 
 his son a knight, or to provide a marriage dowry for his 
 daughter. A relief \n2s, a sum paid to the landlord by the 
 heir when the latter attained his majority, for permission 
 to enter on the actual possession of his estate. Primer 
 seisin was a year's profit given to the crown in case of the. 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 to pass all the premises, by letters patent, under the great seal of Ireland, accordingly, in which the 
 said Sir James Fullerton obtained further of the King, that the letter to the Deputy should require 
 him that the patent should be passed in Mr. James Hamilton's name alone, yielding one hundred 
 pounds per annum to the King; and in the said letter was inserted that the said lands were in trust 
 for the said Mr. Hamilton himself, and for Sir Hugh Montgomery, and for Con O'Neill, to the like 
 purport already expressed. 
 
 Then the said Con, Sir Hugh Montgomery, and Mr. Hamilton entered into tripartite indentures, 
 dated ult". of the said April, whereby (inter alia) it was agreed that unto Con and his followers theii 
 moderate ordinary expenses from the first of August preceding the date now last mentioned being 
 already paid them, should be continued them, 'till patents were got out for their pardons, and also 
 deeds from Mr. Hamilton for Con's holding the estate, which the King had condescended to grant 
 him. Soon after this, Mr. Hamilton went to Dublin to mind his business and to ply tdis extremis 
 for the furtherance of it. '° 
 
 All this being done, and Sir Hugh having no more business (at present) at Wliitehall, he re- 
 solved with convenient speed to go through Scotland into Ireland, to follow his affairs, which he did 
 
 heir being of age wlien succeeding to the family property. 
 Wardship was simply a power vested in tlie king, to phm- 
 der minors, which power the king had tlie right to sell to 
 others, who generally performed this work without much 
 scmple. Sir Thomas Smith, who was secretary of state 
 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and to whom she granted 
 the Ards, among other possessions, in the year 1572, 
 .speaks of tliis power of wardship as follows: — "Many 
 men do esteem wardship by kniglit's service contrary to 
 nature, that a freeman and gentleman should be bought 
 and sold like a horse or an ox, and so change guardians 
 at first, second, or third hand, as masters and lords. The 
 king having so many wards, must needs give or sell them, 
 and the grantee or buyer has no natural care of the infant, 
 but only of their own gain; thus, they will not suffer a 
 ward to take any great pains, either in study or any other 
 hardness, lest he should be sick and die, before he hath 
 married the buyer's daughter, sister, or cousin, for whose 
 sake he bought him, and then all the money which he paid 
 for him would be lost. The guardian doth but seek to 
 make the most of his ward as of an ox or other beast." 
 Marriage was the right of the lord or giTardian to provide 
 a wife or husband for his ward if under age, and for the 
 discharge of this duty he always took good care to remuner- 
 ate himself liberally. In the exercise of this power, the 
 most flagrant deceptions were very often practised. In 
 tendering such marriages, the lords or warders sometimes 
 imposed old husbands or wives on their youthful wards, 
 by a stratagem to which lord Bacon alludes, as follows, in 
 his Maxims: — "If I covenant with my ward that I will 
 tender unto him no other marriage than the gentlewoman 
 whose picture I delivered unto him, and tliat picture hath 
 about it (Ttatis sua ajino 16, and the gentelwoman is seven- 
 teen years old ; yet, nevertheless, if it can be proved that 
 the picture was made for that gentlewoman, I may, not- 
 withstanding the mistaking, tender her well 'enough." 
 The tenure known as soccage, — from soc the French for the 
 coulter or .share of a plough, — simply implied at first cer- 
 tain services in husbandry, generally plough-service, per- 
 
 formed by the tenant to the lord of the fee. These ser- 
 vices included also other humble but verj' useful operations, 
 such as can7ing out manure to the fields, and making 
 hedges. This species of tenure was confined principally 
 to the class anciently called villeins, now tenant-farmers. 
 Soccage 2« capite was considered much more honourable, 
 because it meant holdmg iinmediately from the crown, but 
 it was felt to be very oppressive, as the tenant had no speci- 
 fied tinie of tenure, and was subjected to many capricious 
 exactions. These grievous systems of tenure have been 
 all happily swept a\vay, and the laws providing for their 
 abolition have done more, according to Blackstone, for the 
 freedom of property tlian Magna Charia itself. An ordi- 
 nance for abolishing the Court of Wards and Liveries was 
 passed on the 24th of February, 1645, was verj- much 
 improved in 1656, by the assembly knowm as Bare- 
 bone's Parliament. The Plagiary' Act of 12 Charles II., 
 c. 24, formally went over the work which had already 
 been thus substantially done during the commonwealth. 
 The evils of the feudal tenures had become so unpopular 
 that they could not be revived at the restoration, but com- 
 pensation was given to the king for acquiescing in their 
 abolition. The Act of 12 Charles II., is entitled, ax\. Act 
 to take away tJic Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures 
 in Capite, and by Knighfs Service, and Purveyance, and 
 for settling a Pevenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof All 
 lands are now, with slight exceptions, held by the tenure 
 of free and common soccage, or in other words, exemption 
 from the oppressive exactions imposed by the old feudal 
 tenures, especially knight's ser\'ice. Blackstone, Commen- 
 taries on the Lams of pjigland, voL ii. , p. 63 ; Amos, 
 English Constitution in the reign of Charles the Second, 
 pp- 20g — 211; Knight's Political Dictionary, as quoted in 
 MacNevin's Cojifiscatioii of Ulster, pp. 132 — 3. 
 
 '° For the furtherance of it. — The sooner the terms of 
 this agreement could be fulfilled, the sooner would James 
 Hamilton be free from responsibility and expense. A 
 complete copy of this Tripartite Indenture is contained iu 
 tlie Inquisition of 1623. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 so soon as he had renewed his friendship with the EngHsh and Scotish Secretaries;" and laid down 
 further methods, with his said brother, of entercourse between themselves for their mutual benefit ; 
 and the said Con, well minding Sir J. Fullerton's interposition for Mr. Hamilton (whereby he was 
 a great loser), and that the patent for his lands was to be passed in Mr. Hamilton's own name, and 
 only a bare trust expressed for his, Con's use, in the letters of warrant aforesaid, he thought it 
 necessary that Sir Hugh and he should look to their hitts. They therefore took leave at Court; 
 (and being thoro' ready) they went to Edinborough and Braidstane, and after a short necessary stay 
 for recruits of money, they passed into Ireland, taking with them the warrant for Con'^ his idemnity, 
 pardon, and profit. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton having gone to Dublin, as aforesaid, then, (viz.) on the 4th July, 1605, (being 
 two months and four days posterior to the said tripartite indenture, a second office was taken, '3 whereby 
 all the towns, lands, manors, abbeys, impropriations, and such hereditaments in upper Claneboys'i 
 
 " English and Scotish Secretaries. — These officials were 
 sir Robert Cecil, afterwards earl of Salisbury, and sir" 
 William Alexander, afterwards earl of Stirling. 
 
 Warrant for Con. — This warrant is not recited in 
 the Inquisition of 1623. 
 
 A second office was taken. — This Inquisition, mainly 
 respecting church lands and revenues, was taken at 
 Ardquin, in the Ards, on the 4th July, 1605, and in 
 pursuance of the Tripartite Indenture above-mentioned. 
 The commissioners on that occasion were William Par- 
 sons, Esq., surveyor-general of Ireland; John Dallway, 
 Esq. ; Robert Bai-nwall, Esq. ; and Lawrence Master- 
 son, Esq. The jurors were John White, lord of the 
 Dufferin, Esq.; Christ. Russell, of Bright, Esq., James 
 Dowdall, of Strangford, gent. ; George Russell, of Rath- 
 mullan, gent. ; John Russell, of Killough, gent. ; James 
 Stackpoole, of Ardglass, gent.; Simon Jordan, of the same, 
 gent., [ )] of [ ,] gent. ; Robert Sword, 
 
 alias Crooley, of Ballidonnell, gent. ; William Meriman, 
 of Ballynebregagh, gent.; Gillernow Oroney, of Srow, 
 gent. ; Patrick Russell, of St. John's Point, gent. ; Robert 
 Hadsor, of Cullevaile, gent.; Owen M'Rorie, of Down, 
 gent. ; Simkin Fitzwilliams, of Grange, gent. ; and Redmond 
 Savage, of Saul, gent. The jurors found that the territory 
 of Claneboy emiaraced the lesser patrtce of Upper Clande- 
 boy, le Great Ards, le Little Ards, and Rilultagh, in 
 which were comprised the minor districts or clanships of 
 the Sleught Henrickies, the Kellies, the .Sleught Neales, 
 the Durminges, the Sleught Hugh Bricks, the Sleught 
 Brian-Boy, the M 'Gillechrenes de le Gallagh, the Mul- 
 chreiues dele Tawne, the Sleught Owen M'Quinn, and 
 the Sleught M'Carteglane, with others. The territory of 
 Great Ardes in Claneboy, contained within itself certain 
 lesser territories or habitations of families called the 
 Sleught Mortagh M'Edmond, the M'Gillmurres, the 
 .Sleught Brian O'Neile, the Turtars of Iniscargie, the 
 M'Kearnyes, the Magies of Portabogagh, with others. 
 The territory of Kilultagh, in Claneboy, contained within 
 itself lesser territories or habitations of families called Slut 
 Neale M'Cormock, the Hamells of Edergaowen, the Clan 
 Rowries, the Slut Roches, Slut Brian M '.Shane Oge, with 
 others. Tlie aforesaid jurors found tliat Connogher 
 O'Hamble was prior of Holiwoode at the time of the sur- 
 render and dissolution, James M'Guilmere abbot of Mo- 
 
 villa, John O'Mullegan abbot of Cumber, William 
 O'Dornan abbot of Bangor, John Casselles abbot of Leigh, 
 or Jugo Dei, otherwise Gray Abbey, and sir John Raw- 
 son, knight, prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. 
 Inquisitions Down, Jac. /., No. 2. Sir John Rawson 
 was prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in 
 Ireland, and as such possessed certain manors, &c. , in 
 county Down, as well as elsewhere through the island. 
 Kilmainham was his seat. 
 
 Upper Claneboys. — The territory of upper or southern 
 Clannaboy — Clann-Aodha-Buidhe — was commensurate 
 with the present baronies of Castlereagh and the Great 
 Ards. In Dr. Reeves's Eccles. Antiquities, pp. 347 — 8, we 
 have the following admirably clear and concise account of 
 the ancient and modern sub-divisions of this celebrated 
 territory, derived principally from the inquisitions of 1605 
 and 1623 : — " I. Castlereagh. This district comprised that 
 part of Knockbreda parish which lay in the vicinity of 
 O'Neill's residence of Castlereagh. 2. Les Gillachrcwes 
 dc le Gallagh. This small tract comprehended a por- 
 tion of Knockbreda, lying between Castlereagh and the 
 Lagan. 3. Slut Neales. — That is the 'Sliocht or family 
 of Neills. ' It embraced the parishes of Drumbo, Saint- 
 field, Killaney, with parts of Kilmore and Knockbreda, 
 and such portions of Blaris, Lambeg, and Drumbeg, as lie 
 in the barony of Upper Castlereagh. In Jobson's Map of 
 Ulster (1590), the territory marked Slut M'O'Neale is 
 Ijounded on the north by the Lagan, on the west by Kil- 
 warlyn, on the east by the Kclles, and on the south by 
 Kinelarty. {MS., T.C.D.) The J/vV^/.- is similarly 
 placed on Norden's Map. {State Papers. ) 4. Les Mul- 
 chreives de le Tawne. This family occupied the west side 
 of Knockbreda, fi-om Ballymacarret southwards. The 
 name Maolcraoibhe, or Mulcreeve {Four Masters, A. D. 
 1490, ) was anglicised by Rice. (Stuart's Armagh, p. 630). 
 These four districts now appear united in the barony of 
 Upper Castlereagh. 5. .'-'Jut Henrickies. Occupied part of 
 of Killinchy and Kilmoo I in Lower Castlereagh, adjoining 
 a small portion of Killinchy and Kilmore, which they held 
 in the upper barony. The name was probably derived from 
 Sliocht Enri Caoich, 'Tribe of Henry the Blind,' a branch 
 of the Clannaboy O'Neills. (MacFirbis's Gen. MS., p. 
 121). 6. Slut Kellies. They occupied the greater part of 
 Comber and Tullynakill. On Norden's Map the name 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and Ardes, were found to be in the King; it bearing a reference (as to spiritual possessions) for 
 more certainty unto the office taken concerning them, primo Jac. Ao. 1603, '5 and also it was shuffled 
 into it that Killough'^ was usually held to lye in the county of Down; this office being returned and 
 inrolled in September then next following, it was (by inspection thereof) found to vary from the 
 jurors' briefs and notes, and from many particulars in the office taken 1st Jac. and the matter of 
 Killulta was amiss. '7 
 
 About this time, the inquisition found against Con and his followers for the feats at Belfast 
 aforesaid, being vacated and taken off the file in the King's Bench Court, and the pardon for himself 
 and all his followers, for all their other crimes and trespasses against law being passed under the 
 great seal, and the deed of the 6th Nov., 1605, from Mr. Hamilton of Con's lands, being made to 
 himself; Con then returned home in triumph over his enemies (who thought to have had his life 
 
 Kellies is laid down in the situs of Comber, and Shit Kellies 
 a little W.S.W. of Dnimboe. Jobson's Map places the 
 Kelles between Castleieagh and Diifferin on tlie east and 
 south, and Slut M'O'Neale and Kinelarty on the west. The 
 family was originally settled near Drumbo. 7. Slut Hugh 
 Bricks. That is Sliocht A odh breac, ' the family of freckled 
 Hugh.' Their territory contained the N.E. portion of 
 Comber, S.W. of Newtownards, and S.E. part of Dundon- 
 ald, lying principally between Scrabo and the town of 
 Comber. 8. Slut Bryan Boye. Occupied five townlands 
 in the N.E. of Holy wood parish. 9. Slut Diirnings, and 
 Slut Oiven MacQiiin. These families occupied some town- 
 lands in Holywood, in Dundonald, and in the adjacent 
 part of Newtownards. The five districts last named are 
 comprised in the barony of Lower Castlereagh. On the 
 establishment of the baronial names the ancient territorial 
 ones gradually sank into disuse : even the generic name 
 Clanneboy, having forsaken the family in whom it origin- 
 ated, and the tenitory to which it belonged, is now only 
 known as a joint-title with Dufferin, in the Baronage of 
 Ireland. " 
 
 '5 Ao. 1603. — This Inquisition, of 5th November, 1603, 
 is largely quoted by Archdall, in his A/onasticon Hiberni- 
 nivi, pp. 109, no, 121. He refers to it as being then 
 preserved in the Chief Remembrancer's Office. The list 
 of the Inquisitions formerly kept in that office, is to be 
 found, for county Down, in Supplement to the Eighth 
 Report of Irish Record Commission. (Reports, vol. ii. , 
 P- 593- ) There the Inquisition of 1603 appears under Jac. 
 I., No. 2, as Abbaiia de Leigh [i.e., Gray Abbey] aV. 
 
 Killoiigh. — Killough is a misprint for Killultagh or 
 Killulta. This territory was anciently known as Coill- 
 Ulltach, "Wood of Ulster." It was not, strictly speaking, 
 a part of Clannaboy, north or south, but was generally 
 regarded as a territory or district per se. It is now in- 
 cluded in the county of Antrim, and (with the small addi- 
 tions of the parish of TuUyrusk, three townlands of Der- 
 riaghy, and the east portion of the parish of Camlin) 
 constitutes the present barony of Upper Massereene. Dr. 
 Reeves defines Killulta as containing the present parishes 
 of Ballinderry, Aghalee, Aghagallon, Magheramesk, 
 Magheragall, and the portion of Blaris north of the river 
 Lagan. — Eccles. Antiquities, pp. 234, 347. The reader 
 will find an account of the boundaries of Killulta and a 
 list of its townlands in the Inquisition of 1623 ; also, 
 Calend. of Pat. Rolls, Jac. I., p. 73. 
 
 Killulta was amiss. — In other words, this territory 
 had been reckoned as a part of the county of Do\to, in the 
 Inquisition of 1605, whereas it should not have been so 
 included, or misplaced. 
 
 6thNov., 1605. — By Indenture of this date, James Ha- 
 milton conveyed to Con O'Neale the lands of Ballynag- 
 nockan, Ballynaghabricke, Ballybrinan, Ballycowan, Bally- 
 carney, Ballyclogher, Ballycrossan, Ballycarrjxroegh, Bal- 
 lycreweh, Ballycargie, Ballicardganan, Ballidulloghane, 
 Ballydromboe, Ballidulloghmucke, Balliderimore, Balli- 
 gromebegg, Ballineganwye, Balliholliwood, Ballihaw-ne- 
 newde, Ballylimebrenye, Ballylemoghan, Ballylary, Bally- 
 lisnerean, Ballycloghany, Ballyliscowneganagh or BaUylis- 
 gan, Ballyliscromelaghan, Ballyloghgar, Ballylistoodry, 
 liallymmylagh, Ballymaltane, Ballinemoney, Ballymo- 
 lagh, Ballyomulvalegh, Ballyogheli, Ballyskeghan, Bally- 
 templedrome, Ballytempleblarisse, Ballytulloghmistikine- 
 oll, Ballynechallen, Ballytullowre, Ballylischahan, Bally- 
 carrowneveigh, BallituUoghbreckan, Ballycreigenasassa- 
 nagh, Ballycargeeneveigh, Ballicarrid, Ballycloinemore, 
 Ballydrumhock, Ballimagroven, Ballilonbe^, Balliha- 
 liske, Ballaiecrumen, Ballydeyan, Ballydromveyne, and 
 Ballygonemagh, all lying in the territoiy of Slut O'A^eales; 
 and also the towns of Negassane and Ballylaggegowan, 
 in Sha Kellies; also Ballynebredagh, Ballinefeigh, BaUy- 
 knockcolumkill, Ballilisnebroyne, Ballunaekerit, Balli- 
 crevine, Ballirosboy, Balligalvalley, Ballicregogie, and 
 Ballicastlereagh, with their appurtenances, privileges, 
 &c. ; also one market to be held at Castlereaghe every 
 Tliursday, weekly, for ever; and one fair to be held 
 at Castlereaghe on the Feast of St. John the Baptist, 
 yearly, for ever, with court of pie po^^•der, court leet, 
 and court baron — to be held for ever of the king, at 
 the rent of ^23 l6s. Irish. Con O'Neale to furnish, in 
 addition, two horsemen and four footmen, weU equipped, 
 to attend the hostings of the cliief governor in Ulster. 
 O'Neale was prohibited by the terms of this indenture 
 from gi-anting any estate of freehold or inheritance out 
 of said lands to any of the mere Irish. He was also 
 bound to release James Hamilton from all covenants con- 
 tained in one pair of the tripartite indentures made betsveen 
 him of the first part, Hugh Montgomery, Esq., of the 
 second part, and James Hamilton, of the third part, dated 
 30th April last. — Inquisition of 1623. This indenture is 
 described as not in the MS. Inquisition, but supplied front 
 the papers of Dean Dobbs. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 37 
 
 and estate'9), and was met by his friends, tenants, and followers, the most of them on foot, the better 
 sort had gerrans,2° some had pannels for saddles (we call them back bughams),*' and the greater 
 part of the riders without them; and but very few spurrs in the troop, yet instead thereof they might 
 have thorn prickles in their brogue heels (as is usual), and perhaps not one of the concourse had a 
 hat; but the gentry (for sure) had on their done wosle barrads,^^ the rest might have sorry scull caps, 
 
 '9 His life and estate. — Among Con's enemies, the most 
 formidable was supposed to be sir Arthur Chichester. 
 The author of the Stewart Manuscript mentions the peril 
 with which Con was threatened from this quarter, as fol- 
 lows: — "This man (Con) being rebellious, and his land 
 falling to the King, was apprehended by the then deputy, 
 Chichester, and was laid up in the King's castle, at Carrick- 
 fergus; a drunken, sluggish man, but he had a sharp, nimble 
 woman to his wife. The deputy thought to have him to 
 suffer according to law, and to be chief sharer in his lands. 
 But divine providence had otherwise appointed. For the 
 woman, his wife, in the greatness of her spirit, taking in 
 high indignation, that her husband was not only captive, 
 but appointed to an ignominious death, soon resolved that 
 the saving his life with a part of his estate was better than 
 to lose all. Therefore, this she strongly intends and 
 diligently endeavours. But in a throng of thoughts how 
 to accomplish her desire, she lights on this expedient, viz. , 
 to pass secretly to the next Scottish shore, and there light, 
 if she could, on some good instrument for making good her 
 design. And God leading her to Mr. Hugh Montgomery 
 of Broadstone, in Scotland, a man sober, kind, humane, 
 and trusty, to whom she revealed her husband's case and 
 her own desire, saying, if Mr. Montgomery would be at 
 pains and charge to purchase from the king her husband's 
 life and liberty, with a third part of the estate for him and 
 her to live on, the said Montgomeiy should, with their 
 great good-will, have the other two parts, to be purchased 
 by the King's grant. Montgomery, considering the matter 
 wisely and maturely, entertains the gentlewoman with all 
 kindness, till he was ripe to give her answer, which, in 
 short, was tliis, that if she should find the way to deliver 
 her husband Con out of the deputy's hands, and let him 
 have the secure keeping of his person, with such assurance 
 as he could give that the articles should be perfonned which 
 she had proposed in her husband's name, then would he 
 make adventure and labour for the said Con's life and 
 liberty." — Steiuart MS., quoted in Dr. Reid's Hist. Pres. 
 Church, vol. i., pp. 82, 83. The conduct of Hugh Mont- 
 gomery contrasts very favourably with that of others who 
 profited also by the confiscation of Con O'Neill's estates. 
 Had it not been for his prompt and able interposition, Con 
 would have no doubt met the inevitable doom of all land- 
 owners at that period who could, in any way, be found 
 guilty of treason. Con had no means and no friends ; 
 and when Montgomery began to expend money on his 
 behalf, the prospect of recompense must have been but 
 very faint, seeing that Chichester was all-powerful in 
 Ulster. 
 
 °° Gerrans. — The word gerran is probably a diminutive 
 of gabhar, pronounced garron, and written gearron, 
 denoting a work-horse, or hack. Spenser uses the term 
 to denote a common country hack. — Works, vol. viii., 
 p. 329. Burt, a Scottish author, employs the word to 
 mean cheap, coarsely-made animals, employed in the 
 
 drudgery of the farm. Thus, vol. ii., pp. 29 — 30, he 
 says : — "This bog was stiff enough at that time to bear 
 the country garrons. There is a certain lord in one of 
 the most northern parts who makes use of the little gar- 
 rons for the bogs and rough ways ; but has a sizeable 
 horse led with him through the deep and rapid fords." 
 See Jamieson's Ety?nol. Dictionary ofthe Scottish Language. 
 Another writer, quoted in Logan's' Scottish Gael, vol. i., 
 p. 345, describing the process of breaking one of these 
 animals, says : — " Sometimes the garron was down, and 
 sometimes the Highlander was down, and not seldom 
 both of them together." 
 
 ^' Back bughams. — Bugham was probably a Scottish 
 foi-m of this word ; but in Ulster it is brecham. There 
 were back brechams and neck brechams, although the 
 word could only be strictly applied in the latter sense, 
 being derived from braigh, the 'neck,' hence braighaidain, 
 or brechem, a collar. These primitive neck collars for 
 horses were made of old stockings stuffed with straw, and, 
 probably in some districts of Ireland and Scotland they 
 have not yet been entirely superseded by the modern leather 
 collar. Of the same materials the country people also 
 manufactured their saddles, called back-brechams. In 
 Scotland, when t1iey indulged in the luxury of a saddle 
 at all, it was of this description. In the Minstrelsy of the 
 Border, vol. i. , p. 1 76, we have the following allusion to 
 this simple convenience : — 
 
 " Your armour guid ye maun na shaw. 
 Nor yet appear like men o* weir ; 
 As countrie lads be a' arrayed, 
 
 Wi' branks and brechome on each meere." 
 
 Done wosle barrads. — The barrad, ox Bared, as worn 
 by the ancient Irish, was made of woollen cloth dyed 
 purple, blue, and green. Its shape resembled the cap of 
 a modern grenadier, or rather it was made in the style of 
 the old Phiygian bonnet. The Highland bonnet is the 
 modern representative of the ancient Irish banad. The 
 term done-wosle is used here ironically, to denote, as in 
 Ayrshire, a class of small farmers, although the word was 
 expressive of much higher rank in former times. It is 
 derived from duine, 'a man,' and 7iais, 'noble,' and 
 was originally used only in reference to noblemen. We 
 have the follovi^ing illustration in Pitscottie's Chronicle, 
 edit, of 1814, p. 357:—" The king passed to ye Illes, and 
 caused many of the great Dunny- Vassilis to show their 
 holdings and fand mony of thame in non-entrie, and 
 therefore took thame to his awin crown." In Colville's 
 Alock Poem, i., 57, there is this verse: — 
 
 " Some, sir, of our Dimhuessels 
 Stood out, like Eglintoune and Cassils ; 
 And others, striving to sit still. 
 Were forced to go against their will." 
 
 Subsequently, the term came to denote a gentleman of only 
 secondary rank, — generally a cadet of a noble family, who 
 received his name from the lands he occupied, although 
 
38 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 otherwise (in reverence and of necessity) went cheerfully pacing or trotting bare-headed. Con 
 being so come in state (in Dublin equipage) to Castlereagh, where no doubt his vassals (tagg-ragg 
 and bob-tail^3) gave to their Teime More,*4 Squire Con, all the honour and homage they could bestow, 
 presenting him with store of beeves,^5 colpaghs,=6 sheep, hens, bonny blabber,»7 rusan butter (such as 
 it was); as for cheese I heard nothing of it (which to this day is very seldom made by the Irish's), and 
 
 holding them at the will of his chief. Of this secondary 
 meaning, we have an illustration in Garnet's 75??^;' in the 
 Highlands of Scotland, vol. i., p. 200: — "He was bom 
 Duin-vjassal, or gentleman; she, a vassal, or commoner 
 of an inferior tribe, and whilst ancient names and cus- 
 toms were religiously adhered to by a primitive people, 
 the two classes kept perfectly unmixed in their alliances." 
 In Ritson's Songs, also, at vol. ii., p. 55, there is the fol- 
 lowing use of the word in its secondary meaning: — 
 
 " Boreland and his men's coming. 
 The Camerons and Macleans coming, 
 The Gordons and Macgregors coming, 
 A' the Dioieuuastles coming." 
 
 The dunny- vassal of this secondaiy rank enjoyed the pri- 
 vilege of wearing a feather in his bonnet, which indicated 
 his relationship to the chief. In sir W. Scott's novel of 
 Waverley, vol. ii., p. 233, the author, in describing one of 
 the characters, says: — "His bonnet had a short feather, 
 which indicated his claim to be treated as a Duinhe-was- 
 sell, or so7-t of gentlemaii" — which implies that the term 
 had come at last to be applied to persons of still humbler 
 rank than the recognised gentleman. — Transactions of the 
 Ossianic Society, vol. v., p. 208 ; Jamieson's Dictionary 
 of the Scottish Lattguage. • 
 
 Tagg-ragg and bob-tail. — Tag, in this sense, simply 
 means any worthless appendage. The phrase tag-rag is 
 older than the time of Holinshed. In his Description of 
 England, book ii., chap. 23, he says — " Of the other two, 
 one is reserved for comlie personages and void of loth- 
 some diseases ; the other is left for tag and rag. The 
 poet Spenser, in his State of Ireland, uses the phrase in a 
 similar sense: — " For upon the like proclamation there, 
 they all came in both tagg and ragg." The word bob- 
 tail was added to complete the phrase, but when, or by 
 whom, it would be difficult to discover. — See Richard- 
 son's English Dictionary, and Nare's Glossary. 
 
 TeirneMore. — Tighernach Mor. Seenote, p. 21, 
 
 ^5 Beeves. — Beeves, as the plural of beef, has been in use 
 at least since the beginning of the fourteentli century. 
 
 °* Colpaghs.- — Colpaghs were two-year-old heifers or 
 bullocks. The Irish word Colbthach denotes a co7v-calf, 
 and Colpindach was the common Scottish word to denote, 
 according to Skene, " ane young beast, or kow, of the 
 age of ane or twa yeiris, quahilk is now called a cow- 
 dach or guoyach." Calpich, the name of a payment made 
 to Celtic chiefs, was derived from colbthach, a cow, — in 
 many instances the only article that could be given by the 
 tenant. 
 
 Bonny-blabber. — This word is generally written 
 bonny-claber, for which it is probably here a misprint. It 
 is evidently derived from boinnc, the common Irish word 
 for milk, tiXiAclaber, a well-known Scotch word for mud — 
 the phrase bonny-claber meaning simply thickened milk. 
 The lord-deputy Wentworth, writing to lord Cottington, 
 from Boyle Abbey, on the 13th of July, 1635, sneeringly 
 
 refers to this article of food as follows : — "'Tis true, I am 
 in a Thing they call a Progress, but yet in no great Pleasure 
 for all that. All the Comfort I have is a little Bonneyclabber ; 
 upon my Faith, I am of Opinion it would like you above 
 Measure, would you had your Belly full of it, I will warrant 
 you, you should not repent it, it is the bravest, freshest 
 Drinic you ever tasted. Your Spanish Don would in the 
 Heats of Madrid hang his Nose and shake his Beard an 
 Hour over every sup he took of it, and take it to be the 
 Drink of the Gods all the while. The best is, we have 
 found his Majesty's Title to the County of Roscommon, 
 and shall do the like I am confident for all the other three 
 Counties ; for, the Title is so good there, there can nothing 
 be said against it." — Strafford's Letters and Despatches, 
 vol. i., p. 441. In inoic modern times the term bonny 
 clabber has been invariably applied to sour or stale butter- 
 milk. — Journal of the Kilkenny and Soiith-East of Ireland 
 Archaeological Society, vol. ii., new series, p. 25, note. 
 
 Rnsan hitter. — In modem Irish, riisg means the bark 
 of a tree, -and riisgan a vessel made of bark ; the latter 
 word is probably that used in the text as an adjective, 
 the g being lost. Small barrels, about the size of the 
 modem firkin or keg, and made each from a single piece 
 of wood, with the exception of the lid and bottom, pre- 
 ceded the staved and hooped vessels of modem times. 
 Sir. W. R. Wilde has described specimens of these ancient 
 vessels, which have been deposited in the Eastem Gallery 
 of the. Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, and are 
 numbered 36 and 37. They are small barrels, each made 
 from one portion of the trunk of a sallow tree, ha\'ing 
 the rusg or bark, and enclosing the substance knowni as 
 bog-bntter. — Catalogue of the Antiquities of Animal Mate- 
 rials in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, pp. 212, 
 267. "In enumerating the food of the Irish," says Sir 
 Wm. R.Wilde, " Petty mentioned ' butter made rancid by 
 keeping in bogs.' When I originally read the statement 
 of Petty, I came to the conclusion that he was wrong, and 
 that this bog butter was much older than his time ; but I 
 have learned to correct that opinion. Why or wherefore 
 the people put their butter in bogs I cannot tell, but it 
 is a fact that great quantities of this substance have been 
 found in the bogs. It is invariably converted into a 
 yellowish-white substance like Stilton cheese, and in taste 
 resembling spermaceti ; it is, in fact, changed into the 
 animal substance called adipoccre. ... It was first 
 found in Finland, in 1736. About the year 1820, a quan- 
 tity of it, then called mountain-tallo^v, was discovered on the 
 borders of Loch-Fyne, in Scotland. . . . Since 181 7, 
 numerous discoveries have been made of it throughout 
 almost every county in Ireland. It is almost always enclosed 
 in wood, either in vessels cut out of a single piece, as in 
 large methers, or in long firkins. If the butter is allowed 
 to remain too long in the bog, it loses its acidity and 
 weight, dries up, and acquires a rancid taste." — Proceedings 
 of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. vi., pp. 369—372. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 39: 
 
 there was some greddan meal strowans,3° with snushs^ and bolean,32 as much as they could get to re- 
 gale him; where I will leave him and them to congratulate each other's interview, till other occasions 
 to write of him offer themselves, and he gave them not many months after this time. But good 
 countrymen (Erinagh or Gelaghs^), Irish or English, if you believe not this treat as aforesaid, neither 
 do I, because I could not see it, nor was I certainly informed; many histories have stories in them, 
 for writers make King's and Gentlemen's speeches which, perhaps, they never uttered ; however, 
 the worst on my part in this is, that it is a joke, and such I hope you will allow it, and also the 
 Pope's own country Italian proverb, used in the holy city, and the mother (church) Rome itself, 
 
 °' By the Irish. — Although cheese was not among the 
 offerings presented on this occasion to the chief of Clanna- 
 boy, it was also known as an article of food. Probably, 
 however, its use was superseded in a great measure by 
 rusan butter. A military gentleman, named Bodley, 
 visited Lecale in i6of, and reported that f/ii't'j'i' was among 
 the articles of food supplied to him rather too frequently 
 for his comfort. Ulster yoiinial of Archaology, vol. ii., 
 p. 89. Quantities of cheese ( cdise ) have been also found 
 in bogs, but in every instance without any covering. 
 Sometimes it has been found still retaining on its surface 
 the impress of the cloth with which it was surrounded in 
 the press. Dr. Wilde describes two specimens of ancient 
 Irish cheese deposited in the Museum of the Royal Irish 
 Academy, and numbered 43 and 44. The fonner is a 
 globular mass, very light, dry, and cioimbly, and more like 
 Stilton than any other in the collection. This specimen 
 bears the impress of the cloth, and has also some leaf- 
 marks on its surface. No. 44 is a cheese of a brick 
 colour, ']\ inches long, by 3J inches deep, marked all 
 over with the impressions of the cloth, which appears to 
 have been of a much finer texture than that which enve- 
 loped No. 43. It has also a raised cross on one side, 
 evidently derived from the press, and at the ends may be 
 seen the marks of the folds of the cloth. — Catalogue of 
 the Antiqitilics of Animal Materials in the Museum of the 
 Royal Irish Academy, pp. 268 — 269. The author's state- 
 ment, however, that cheese ' ' to this day is \txy seldom 
 made by the Irish" was perfectly correct in its general 
 sense; and the fact that "he heard nothing of it" as among 
 the commodities given to the O'Neill is an evidence of the 
 truthfulness of his description. Curiously enough Pliny 
 expressed his surprise that some peoples who thickened 
 their milk into a pleasant curd and rich butter, should not 
 also have manufactured it into cheese, and Strabo mentions 
 this circiuTi stance as an evidence of the ignorance of the 
 Britons in matters of domestic comfort and economy. 
 The Germans were satisfied with coagulated milk, and 
 the ancient Irish, although they knew well the process 
 of cheese-making, generally preferred the use of bonny- 
 claber and rusan butter. — Logan, Scottish Gael, vol, ii., 
 p. 109. 
 
 ^° Greddan meal stro^uans. — This phrase denoted 7nea- 
 sures of oatmeal, varying in number according to the 
 amount due to O'Neill by each vassal or tenant. Strowans 
 is evidently intended for sroan, a measure containing a 
 gallon and a-half of oatmeal. Oatmeal and butter were 
 always given to the chiefs by measure, and these refections 
 were therefore known as sorren, another fonn of sroan, or 
 measure. — Ulster Journal of Arehaology^ vol. iv., p. 244. 
 
 See also Ware's Antiqiiitits of Ireland, pp. 74, 75. 
 Greddan meal was so called from the Irish word gread 
 to scorch, because the husks were burned from the gi-ain 
 as a preparation for grinding it. This process answered 
 nearly the same purpose as modern kiln-drying, with this 
 difference, that the bread made from greddan meal was 
 known to be more wholesome, though not of such 
 strengthening quality as that prepared by the kiln.— 
 Martin, Western Islands of Scotland, 1703, p. 204. 
 Originally, the straw was burned as well as the husks, and 
 this old practice required to be prohibited by Act of Par- 
 liament. In more modern times, the process was con- 
 ducted so as to preserve the straw. The usual method, 
 for instance, at a late period, in Badenoch, and other 
 places in Scotland, was to switch the gi-ain from its husks 
 with a stick, and then put it in a pot, not on the fire but 
 pushed into the fire, wliilst a person keeps stirring it with 
 a pot-stick, or speilag. This manner of preparation is 
 called or«ra(//i. " I have seen," says a gentleman from 
 Laggan (a district of Cantire), " the corn cut, dried, 
 ground, baked, and eaten in less than two hours." It 
 was usual in such districts for labourers when returning 
 from their daily toil, each to carry home to his cabin as 
 much oats in sheaf as might be necessary for the next 
 day's consumption. Sometimes it required to be con- 
 verted into brochan, or strowans (bannocks), by the hands 
 of his wife or daughter, foai the family supper, an hour 
 after his arrival. — Logan, Scottish Gael, vol. ii., pp. 
 97. 98. 
 
 ^' Snush. — This word is probably a misprint for jwwj-/?, 
 spelled smaois, and pronounced smooish. It is given in 
 the supplement to O'Reilly's Irish Dictionary, and sig- 
 nifies marrow. The phrase boiled to smush is still in 
 use. 
 
 Bolean. — Bolean is evidently a misprint for bolcan-~ 
 an Irish word commonly used to denote soft cheese. 
 Mulachdit, pronounced mullahaixin, is another form of this 
 word, and is the one given in O'Reilly's Dictionary, 
 The article thus named was some preparation of milk, 
 but evidently different from the bonny-claber above 
 mentioned. 
 
 33 Gelagh. — Gelagh, a corruption of Gallaibh, an Irish 
 phrase used to designate the ancient Englishry in the north 
 of Ireland. The people known as such had not acknow- 
 leged the sovereignty of the O'Neills since the remote 
 period when the latter niled as Riogha Uladh; but Shane 
 O'Neill re-established his authority for a time over them, 
 requiring the tribute usually paid by them to the early 
 princes of his race. — Ulster Journal of Archaology,y{A, 
 iii., p. 105, note. 
 
40 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 viz. — Si non e vero e hen trovato — if it be not truth, it is well invented for mirth's sake ; and so I 
 intended it, for it is not unlikely. 3* 
 
 But before I recount the after actions I mean to treat of, I must mention two transactions more 
 between him and Sir Hugh, viz : On 14th March, the same 3d Jac, according to English suputation, 
 Ano. 1605, but by the Scottish account, 1606 (for they have January for the first month of 
 their year,35 as the almanacks begin the calendar). Con specifying very honorable and valuable 
 considerations him thereunto moving, makes and grants a deed of feofments^ of all his lands unto Sir 
 
 Is not unlikely. — It Is highly probable that some such 
 scene as that described in the text occurred at Castlereagh 
 on the gi-and occasion of Con's safe return. The various 
 useful commodities mentioned by the author as presented 
 to O'Neill by his people, were not given as gifts, but 
 evidently as rents. Although the author speaks in a 
 somewhat depreciatory tone of the whole affair, similar 
 scenes were of daily occurrence in Scotland, where the 
 Highland chiefs and border lairds reckoned their reve- 
 nues, not in money, but by chauldrons of various kinds 
 of victuals. Oatmeal, cheese, calved cows, coal, lime, 
 marts (beeves slaughtered), wood, honey, fish, wool, 
 poultry, eggs, butter, &c. , &c. , were the means by which 
 rents were paid. — Transactions of lona Club, pp. l6l — 
 177- In the year 1600, the rental of the marquis of 
 Huntly, then the most potent lord in Scotland, included, 
 besides the "silver mail," or money rent, the following 
 substantial items, under the head of " ferm victual," viz., 
 3,816 bolls, besides which there were 55 bolls of custom 
 meal, 436 of multure beir, io8 of custom oats, 83 of cus- 
 tom victual, 167 marts, 483 sheep, 316 lambs, 167 grice 
 (young pigs), 14 swine, 1,389 capons, 272 geese, 3,231 
 poultry, 700 chickens, 5>284 eggs, 4 stone of candle, 46 
 stone of brew tallow, 34 leats of peats, 990 ells of custom 
 linen, 94 stones of custom butter, 40 barrels of salmon, 
 8 bolls of teind victual, 2 stone of cheese, and 30 kids. — 
 Do7nestic Annals of Scotland, vol. i., p. 315. Even so late 
 as the year 17 17, the rentals of thirty-eight estates (for- 
 feited in that year because of their owners joining the 
 Prince Pretender) were found to be greatly composed of 
 payments in kind. The earl of Wintoun's rents amounted 
 to ;^3i393) of which only £266 7s. 9d. was paid in 
 money, the remainder being paid in barley, oats, straw, 
 capons, hens, coal, and salt. The earl of Southesk's rent 
 amounted to £z>^l^ los., of which more than two-thirds 
 was paid in oatmeal, swine, and poultry. And so wth 
 all the other estates, including those of Linlithgow, Keir, 
 Panmure, Wedderbum, Ayton, Kilsyth, Bannockburn, 
 East Reston, Mar, Invernitie, Auchintoul, Bowhouse, 
 Nutthill, Bowhill, Lathrisk, Glenbervie, Preston-Hall, 
 Woodend, Faimey, Nairn, Dumboog, Fingask, Niths- 
 dale, Kenmure, Lagg, Bakloon, Carnwath, Duntroon, 
 Drummond, &c., &c. — Charles, History of Transactions 
 in Scotland in 1715-16, ajid 1745-6, vol. i., pp. 433-448. 
 
 First month of their year. — The change in England 
 and Ireland, from the old style to the new, is comparatively 
 of recent date, for prior to the September of 1752, our 
 civil or legal year began on the day of the Annunciation, 
 the 25th of March. The so-called historical year, how- 
 ever, had for a long period commenced on the day of the 
 Circumcision, the 1st of January. The latter arrange- 
 ment prevailed almost exclusively on the Continent, and 
 
 Scotland early adopted it, from the intimate connexion 
 of that country with France. To avoid the confusion 
 that prevailed in England and Ireland from the discrep- 
 ancy between the legal and historical year, it was deter- 
 mined by Act of Parliament that both should commence 
 with the 1st of January. This Act was entitled An Act 
 for regulating the commencement of the year, and for cor- 
 recting the Kalendar now in use. By its operations the old 
 style ceased on the 2d of September, 1 752, and the next day, 
 instead of being called the 3d, became the 14th of September. 
 The confusion that had previously existed on this important 
 matter is easily imagined. As an illustration, it may be 
 mentioned that, in describing the year between the ist of 
 January and the 25th of March, ci\'ihans regarded each 
 day within that period as belonging to one year and histo- 
 rians to another ! Thus, while the former WTote jfanuary 
 "jth, 1658, the latter wrote January ^th, 1659, though 
 both agreed that from the 25th of March all the ensuing 
 months were in the year 1659. To prevent the mistakes 
 which might naturally be expected to arise from such an 
 uncertain arrangement, the doubtful part of each year was 
 usually written in accordance with both modes, by placing 
 two figures at the end ; the upper being the ci\'il or legal 
 year, and the lower the historical — thus : 
 
 February, 164^-^'.^" X^f- 
 
 ' — historical year. 
 
 Hence, whenever we meet \\'ith a date thus written, the 
 lower figure always indicates the new style, or year now 
 used in our calendar. M 'Skimin, in a note at p. 45 of 
 his History of Carrickfergus, refers to the inconvenience 
 of the former system as follows: — "In Morrison's (Mory- 
 son's) History of Ireland frequent mention is made of old 
 style and ficM style, in treating of events which took place 
 in 1 60 1 -2; and in Thurlow's State Papers some of the 
 official letters are dated old style and some ncM style; and 
 in many old books we find dates marked thus — 1701-2 or 
 170^. Hence, our chronology is still in confixsion from 
 the uncertainty of dates." There is perplexity, but there 
 need be no uncertainty as to any particular date. The 
 reader may see a lengthened explanation of the cause of 
 the change from the old computation in the Notitia His- 
 torica of Sir H. Nicholas. See also Soane's Nnu Curio- 
 sities of Literature and Book of the Montlis, vol. i. , pp. 
 111-112. 
 
 ^ Deed of feoffment. — This deed of feoffment made by 
 Con O'Neil to sir Hugh Montgomery in 1606, was in 
 pursuance of artitles drawn up and signed by them, on 
 the 24th of December, 1605. Sir Hugh Montgomery is 
 described as of Bryanstown, Scotland, which is no doubt 
 an error of the transcriber for Braidstane. The "very 
 honourable and valuable considerations" mo\ing Con to 
 this act are specified at length in tlie articles thus ; — ^^'The 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 41 
 
 Hugh Montgomery (then returned from Braidstane to prepare habitations for his family). John 
 M'Dowel of Garthland,37 Esq., and Colonel David Boyd,38 appointed to take and give livery of seizin39 
 to Sir Hugh, which was executed accordingly the 5 th September following, within the six months 
 limited by the statutes in such cases made and provided, the other was added from Con conveying 
 by sale unto Sir Hugh Montgomery, the woods growing on four townlands therein named — this sale 
 was dated the 2 2d August, 4th Jaco., 1606.4° Patrick Montgomery and John Cashan-" being Con's 
 
 said Conn O'Neale, in respect of the pardon and estate of 
 land which he hath obtained from his majesty, by means 
 of said sir Hugh, and in consideration of the great sums 
 of money tlie said sir Hugh disbursed for said Conn; he, the 
 said Conn, doth for himself and his heirs covenant that he 
 will, at any time hereafter, upon request, by feoffment, grant 
 to the said sir Hugh, his heirs and assigns, for ever, all those 
 his lands situated in the Upper Clanneboy, which Mr. 
 James Hamilton, by his deed, dated the 6th of November 
 last, conveyed to the said Conn; the said sir Hugh yield- 
 ing such and no other rents, duties, and services than the 
 said Conn is bound to pay the said James Hamilton. 
 Itetn, that the said Conn, his heirs and assigns, shall not 
 convey or encumber the premises to any person but the 
 said sir Hugh and his heirs, he or they paying as much 
 as any other person shall do, still resei-ving power to lease 
 any parcel of said lands to his brethren, Hugh O'Neale and 
 Tool O'Neale, or to any other loyal subject, with reser- 
 vation of the usual rents and clauses of recoveiy. Item, 
 the said Hugh covenants within eight days after such 
 feoffment made, to reinfeof the said Conn, and the heirs 
 male of his body in the premises, to hold in fee tail of 
 said sir Hugh and his heirs, paying the rents and services 
 due to the king, so long as the said Conn continues a 
 loyal subject, and shall not commit any unlawful act to 
 forfeit said lands. Kem, said sir Hugh covenants that 
 should said Conn, or the heirs male of his body, by 
 unla\vfid means forfeit said lands, the said act of forfeiture 
 not being committed against said sir Hugh, that said sir 
 Hugh and his heirs do pass an estate over of said lands to 
 next lawful heir male of the body of said Conn, to hold 
 as the said Conn, or his heirs male do hold same. /&»z, 
 they both covenant to do no wrong to each other,* 
 but shall defend each other's tenants from unlawful in- 
 vasions, and be umpires between all their tenants' dis- 
 putes. Item, that said Conn shall seal a deed or any 
 sufficient obligation for ;^iooo, for obsei-ving the afore- 
 said; the said sir Hugh to do the same. 24th December, 
 1605." — Inquisition 0/^1623. These articles are described 
 itt the margin as not in the manuscript, but extracted from 
 a MS. belonging to Dean Dobbs. 
 
 "ohn M'' Dowel of Garthland. — John M'Dowel was 
 descended from a long line of Galloway princes. He died 
 in i6ii. His estate of Garthland, anciently written 
 Gairachloyne, in Wigtonshire, was eight miles south of 
 Lochnaw. — Agnew, Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloiuay, p, 28. 
 
 Colonel David Boyd. — Colonel David Boyd was a 
 cadet of the Kilmarnock family. On the 2d of August, 
 i6og. Conn O'Neil, with the consent of sir Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, granted to colonel David Boyd the townland of 
 Ballymacharret, with one parcel of land without the 
 woods, called Stranmore, in the parish of Knockcolom- 
 chille, in Upper Claneboy, bounded between the river 
 of Belfast, and the water of Strachajrean, and the 
 
 townland called Ballymurty — To hold of the said Conn 
 O'Neale, and his heirs male of his body, in free and 
 common soccage, yielding the rent of £2, yearly, together 
 with the rent reserved to the king, as it is due out of 
 other townlands, resei^ving to the said C5nn the right of 
 patronage of the kirk of Glencolumchille, within the 
 parish whereof the said lands lie. These lands came 
 aftei-wards by conveyance into the possession of James 
 Catlicart, and passed from the latter to James Hamilton, 
 lord Clannaboy, before the year 1623. — Inquisition of 
 1623; Ulster Inquisitions, Down, No. 40, Car. I. 
 
 '^'^ Livery of seiziti. — " This livery of seisin," says Black- . 
 stone, "is no other than the pure feodal investiture, or 
 delivery of corporeal possession of the land or tenement, 
 which was held absolutely necessary to complete the dona- 
 tion. " — Commentar ies, hook n., c. 2. The original mean- 
 ing of Livery is something given out at stated times, and 
 in stated quantities, as clothes of a certain pattern to dis- 
 tinguish the servants or adherents of the donor, or the 
 supply of victuals or horse provender to which certain 
 members of the household were entitled. Seisin is pro- 
 bably of Celtic origin, from the Gaelic word sets, to lay 
 hold of, to fix, or adhere to. — Wedgwood, Dictionary of 
 English Etymology. 
 
 ^ Dated 22d August, 1 606. — This grant was made by 
 indenture, conveying to sir Hugh Montgomery, for the 
 consideration of ;^3 1 7, the "four townlands of Ballyna- 
 doulaghan, Ballynalessan, Ballycorraghan, and Ballyna- 
 carney, alias Dnimbricklan, in Slut McNeales, with the 
 appurtenances, courts leet, and royalties, as also all the 
 timber, trees, woods, underwoods, and all other trees 
 lying, being, or growing within the countiy called Slut 
 McNeales and the Kelly's country, and they having liberty 
 to take by digging, burning, or in any other way whatso- 
 ever most beneficial to their interest (presei-ving the liberty 
 of the tenants to cut all kinds of timber, oak excepted, 
 necessary for their buildings, and that they shall have in- 
 gress and egress and regress thro' all the lands granted to 
 Con by James Hamilton, for the purpose of cutting and 
 caiTying away the woods and underwoods, to any place 
 they think proper, either by river, land, or sea, and that 
 they may remain, converse (?), or build houses on any 
 of the lands, for the better enabling them to dispose of 
 said woods, and that they shall have power to dig, re- 
 move, and on the said lands — To hold to 
 the said sir Hugh Montgomeiy, his heirs and assigns, of 
 the king, his heirs and successors, as of the castle of Car- 
 rickfergus, in free and common soccage, as said Con doth, 
 and should hold the same, yielding to the king 2 pounds 
 sterling, being part of Con O'Neale's rent which he 
 yields to the king out of his whole lands." — Inquisition 
 of 1623. 
 
 yohu Cashan, — In December, 1607, sir Hugh Mont- 
 gomeiy enfeoffed John Cashan or M 'Hassan, of the lands 
 
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 attorneys, took and gave livery of seizin ; accordingly this much encouraged the plantation, which 
 began in May this year. Likewise the said Mr. Hamilton (as he had done to Con) by deed dated 
 next day after that conveyance to Con, viz., on the 7th November, 1605, grants to Sir Hugh 
 Montgomery divers temporal and spiritual (as they call them) lands in Clanneboys and Great Ardes, 
 thus part of the trust and covenants in the tripartite indenture was performed to him. 42 So Sir Hugh 
 
 of Ballynacroie, which he held in 1623, In 1629, Hugh 
 M'Cashan (probably a son of John, and named after sir 
 Hugh Montgomery) held the lands of Ballygrange, alias 
 Kilmanagh, in the parish of Gray Abbey. This is stated 
 in the grant of sir Hugh to his second son, James Mont- 
 gomeiy. See ako Inquisitmis, Down, No. 75, Car. I. 
 
 Was performed to him. — " The jury find a feofment 
 made by James Hamilton to Hugh Montgomery, dated 
 7th November, tertio Jacobi, of the towns and lands 
 of Ballykencade, Ballygortgribbe, Ballytullochbrackane, 
 Ballymylough, and Ballynemony, in the territory of Upper 
 Claneboys ; also the moiety or one half of the residue of 
 the said country or territories of Upper Claneboy and 
 Great Ardes, which the king by pattent, dated the Sth of 
 November anno regni tertio, granted to James Hamilton 
 for ever, and the moiety of the residue of all other castles, 
 manors, &c., in the Upper Claneboy and Great Ardes, of 
 which Neal M'Brien Fertagh O'Neale, or his father Brien 
 Fertagh O'Neale were in their lives seized, or out of which 
 they received any rents, duties, or cuttings, and which are 
 granted to James Hamilton by said patent. This gi-ant 
 which is given at length in the Inquisition of 1623, con- 
 cludes as follows : — "And also James Hamilton did grant 
 to Hugh Montgomery, one market at Greyabbey every 
 Friday, and one Fair on St. Luke's day and two days 
 after, with Court of Pie Powder, liberty to make chases, 
 warrens, &c. , in the moiety of the premises granted with 
 the moiety of other privileges granted to him by the king, 
 and one court leet to be held within the territoiy of Great 
 Ards, and one court leet to be held within the territoi-y of 
 Claneboy, with all profits and advantages thereto apper- 
 taining, and also several courts in the said moiety of the 
 said premises by these patents granted, to inquire of all 
 such matters as in courts barons, within the realms of Eng- 
 land and Ireland, and to hold pleas every Thursday from 
 three weeks to three weeks, of all such matters, debts, 
 covenants, trespasses, accounts, and contracts whatsoever, 
 which in debt or damage do not exceed the sum of 40 
 shillings, made due or perpetrated in any hundreth, barony, 
 manor, place, town, village, hamlet, or borough, within 
 the said moiety of the said country or territoiy by these 
 patents granted to the said Sir Hugh, his heirs, or assigns, 
 by his and their writing shall assign and declare; and all 
 profits arising therefrom — to hold to the said sir Hugh, 
 his heirs, and assigns for ever (except as before excepted) 
 as fully as was gi-anted to the said James Hamilton, of the 
 king, as of the castle of Carrickfergus, in free and common 
 soccage, at the rent of;r^'32 los 8d Irish payable to the king, 
 &c. , to find two able horsemen and an half, and six foot- 
 men, well armed for 40 days to serve the chief governor at 
 hostings in Ulster, with covenants for payments, &c., 
 livery and seizin. — Inquisition of 1 623. The court 
 of Pie Powder was a necessai-y adjunct to the fair, 
 and was originally established for the purpose of settling 
 all disputes arising theieui. It was a very summary court 
 
 of justice (as the circumstances required it to be), for it 
 was intended to arrange difficulties between parties who 
 had come from distant places to attend the fair, and whose 
 occupation of pedlars, or travelling merchants, required 
 that immediate jurisdiction should in all cases be had. It 
 was usual, tlierefore, for transgressors to be arrested, the 
 cause tried, and judgment given in the space of one hour. 
 Respecting the name and the object of this court Daines 
 Barrington has the following remark: — "I cannot but here 
 take notice that the etymology of the word Pipowder seems 
 to be mistaken by most of the writers upon the law, who 
 derive it from pes pulverisatus, or dusty foot; now pied 
 pildreaiix, in old French, signifies a Pedlar, who gets his 
 livelihood by vending his goods where he can, without any 
 certain or fixed residence. In the burrow laws of Scotland 
 an alien merchant is called pied puldreaux, and likewise 
 ane farand maii, or a man who frequents fairs; the coxirt 
 of Pipo-wder is, therefore, to determine disputes between 
 those who resort to fairs, and these kind of pedlars, who 
 generally attend them." — Obsei-vations on the 7?iore ancient 
 Statutes, p. 423. The following is Skene's account of the 
 institution: — " Pede-pulverosus, ane French word, pied 
 puldreux, dusiie fide, or ane vagabond, speciallie ane mar- 
 chand, or cremar (German kriimer, a dealer or trader), 
 quha hes na certaine dwelling-place, quhair the dust may 
 be dicht from his feet or schone. To quhom justice 
 shuld be summarilie ministred wthin three flowinges 
 and ebbings of the sea. Ane pedder is called ane merchand, 
 or cremar, quha beirs ane pack or creame (the German 
 kram, 'wares,' or 'commodities') upon his back, quha are 
 called beirares of the puddill by the Scottesmen in the 
 realme of Polonia, quhair I saw ane great multitude in the 
 town of Cracowia anno Dom. 1569." — De Verborum 
 Significaiione, at the end of Skene's Lazos a?id Actts, fol., 
 Edinb., 1597, as quoted by Soane in his New Curiosities 
 of Literature, and Book of the Months, vol. ii., pp. 161-2, 
 note. — Brand, Popular Antiquities, y6\.. ii., p. 322; John- 
 son, Dictionary of the English Language, edited by H. J. 
 Todd. The court leet was another franchise or privilege 
 conveyed by the terms of this grant Leet is the Dutch 
 laet, a ]3easant tenant, subject of a certam jurisdiction; 
 laet-banke, the court of the tenants, court-leet. In Eng- 
 land com-t-leet is the court of the copyhold tenants op- 
 posed to court-baron, that of the freeholders of the manor, 
 copyhold or lease being a ser\'ile tenure. — Wedgewood, 
 Dictionary of English Etymology, vol. ii., p. 324. Cowell, 
 as quoted in Latham's JohnsotCs Dictionary, says of the 
 word leet that "it seemeth to have grown from the Saxon 
 Lethe, which was a court of jurisdiction above the wapentake 
 or hundred, comprehending three or four of them, othenvise 
 called ////>j-/««^, and contained the third part of a province or 
 shire; these jurisdictions, one and other, be now abolished 
 and swallowed up in the county court. " Blackstone, in 
 his Commentaries, book iv., c. 19, says "the other general 
 business of the leet and toums was to present by jury all 
 
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 returned from Dublin, and (as hereafter shall be said) taking possession, he went forthwith to 
 Braidstane, and engaged planters to dwell thereon. 
 
 Now, on the whole matter of Sir Hugh Montgomery's transactions with and for Con O'Neil, 
 the benefits done to him will appear very considerable, as the bringing them to pass was very costly 
 and difficult, as followeth, viz., — Con (by the said transporting and mediation for him) had escaped 
 the eminent danger of losing both his life and estate ; because, by the said inquest against him, his 
 said words (and perhaps his commands too) were proved fully enough ; or they might have been en- 
 tered therein, and also managed (in future) so dexterously by the covetors of benefit arising out of 
 the forfeitures, as to make him guilty of levying war against the Queen, which (by law in Ireland) is 
 treason. Moreover, Con's title was bad, because imprimis by act of Parliament,'*^ in Ireland, nth 
 
 crimes whatsoever that happened within their jurisdiction; 
 and not only to prevent, but also to punish, all trivial mis- 
 demeanors." In early Saxon times, however, these 
 assemblies were held, principally, for the purpose of view- 
 ing the frank pledges or bonds, entered into mutually among 
 each other by freemen, "to see each man of their pledge 
 forthcoming at all times to answer the transgression com- 
 mitted by anygone away, so that whosoever offended, it was 
 forthwith inquired in what pledge he was and those of that 
 pledge either produced him within thirty-one days, or made 
 satisfaction for his offence." — Wishaw, Law Dictionary. 
 This view of frankpledge, resembled an early Irish custom, 
 or arrangement known as Kiiicogish, so called from C/w, 
 'crime,' 'debt,' 'liability,' and comhfogiis, 'kindred,' or 
 'relations.' By the Brehon law, the tribe was collectively 
 responsible for the crimes of any of its members. By the 
 Wth Edward IV., c. 4, this Irish custom Kincogish was 
 made law, the statute binding every head of every clan, 
 and every representative of every family, to bring forward 
 for punishment any member of that sept, or of that family, 
 convicted of crime. This statute, which seems to have lain 
 dormant from the time of its enactment, was put in force 
 against the Tories after the Restoration. Marcus Trevor, 
 first viscount Dungannon, concludes a letter to sir George 
 Rawdon, written on the 8th December, 1666, as follows: — 
 "I had like to have forgot informing you that my lord- 
 lieutenant and council are determined now to put in practice 
 the ancient custom of Kincogisli against these Tories, which 
 will certainly reduce them, or root out their whole gene- 
 ration." The writer did not probably know of the statute 
 when he thus speaks of the executive as about to revive an 
 Irish Custom. — The Rawdon Papers, p. 225. See also 
 Spenser's View of Ireland, p. 451; and Prendergast's 
 Cromtvellian Settlement of Ireland, 7tofe. Another 
 
 power or privilege conferred by the terms of the foregoing 
 grant from Hamilton to sir Hugh Montgomery was that of 
 making free chase and warren. A chase, from the French 
 chasse, was a large extent of woody ground lying open and 
 specially intended for such wild animals as were hunted for 
 amusement. It was less than a forest, but larger than a 
 park. Only the king could own a forest, whilst any of his 
 subjects, on whom the right was conferred, might hold a 
 chase. It was not enclosed like a park, and differed from 
 the latter "in that a man may have a chase in another 
 man's ground as well as in his own; being indeed the 
 liberty of keeping beasts of chase, or royal game, therein, 
 protected even from the owners of the land, with a power 
 
 of hunting them thereon." Free warreii, — from the old 
 high German Giwar, 'security' — "is a franchise conferred 
 as the phrase implies, for the preservation or custody of 
 beasts and fowls of warren, which, being fera naturce, 
 every one had a natural right to kill as he could; and this 
 franchise gave the gi-antee a sole and exclusive power of 
 killing such game, as far as his warren extended." — 
 Wishaw, Law Dictionary, pp. 57, 334. We have the 
 following illustrations of this term quoted in Richardson's 
 I^etv English Dictionary: — "Fulvius Herpinus was the 
 first inventor of warrens as it were for winkles, which he 
 caused to be made within the territorie of Tarquiny, a little 
 before the civile warre with Pompey the Great." — Phile- 
 mon Holland's Translation of Plinie, Book ix., c. 56. 
 "Whereas in parks and warrens, we have nothing else 
 than either tlie keepers and warreners lodge, or at least 
 manor place of the cheef lord and owner of the soile." 
 Ilolinshed, Dacription of England, book ii., c. 18. 
 
 "■^ Act of Parliame7tt. — This celebrated Act, which was 
 passed nearly two years after Shane O'Neill's death, pro- 
 vides " that all the lords, captains, and people of Ulster 
 shall be from henceforth severed, exempted, and cut off 
 from all nile and authorytie of O'Neyle, and shall onely de- 
 pend upon your imperiall crowne of England, and yeild 
 to the same their subjection, obedience, and service for 
 ever." The following enumeration of the lords and cap- 
 tains of Ulster at the date of this Act, together with the 
 terms on which they were to hold their estates, will be 
 interesting to the readers of Irish history: — "And where 
 divers of the lords and captains of Ulster, as the sept of 
 the Neles, which possessetli the countrey of Claneboy, 
 O'Cahan, MacGwylin, the inhabitants of the Glynnes, 
 which hath been sometime the baron Missett's (Bisset's) 
 lands, and of late usurped by the Scots, whereof James 
 MacConell (Macdonnell) did call himselfe lord and con- 
 queror ; MacGynes, O'Hanlon, Hugh MacNeile More; 
 the foure septes of the MacMahouns, MacKyvan, 
 and MacCan, hath been at the commaundemente of 
 the said traytour Shane O'Neile, in this sharpe and 
 trayterous warre by him levied against your Majestic, your 
 crowne and dignitie. . . . And albeit that the said 
 lords and captains be not able to justifie themselves in the 
 eye of the law, for the undutifuU adhering to that said 
 traytour O'Neile, in the execution of his false and tray- 
 terous attempts against your Majestic, your crown, and 
 dignitie, yet having regard to his great tyranny which he 
 used over them, and the mistrust of your Majesties earnest 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Elizabeth, Shane 0'Neil,44 who had engaged all Ulster in rebellion, being killed by Alex, Oge 
 M'Connell, (so the statutes sur-names the M'Donnellj-ts) the whole sept of O'Neil were all attainted 
 of treason, and the whole country of Clanneboys, and the hereditaments belonging to them, or any 
 of their kinsmen and adherents (besides Shane's patrimony in Tireowen), now vested in the Queen's 
 actual possession, and did lawfully descend to King James, and was his right as wearing the Crown.*^ 
 And Con's title being but a claim by tanestry, whereby a man at full years is to be chosen and 
 preferred to the estate (during his life) before a boy, and an uncle before a nephew-heir under age, 
 whose grandfather survived the father ; and so many times they preferred persons, and their de- 
 
 following of the warre, to deliver them from his tyrannical 
 bondage, as you have now most graciously and honouralsly 
 done, wee must think, that rather fear, than any good de- 
 votion, moved the most part of them, to stand so long of his 
 side, which is partly verified in that, that many of them came 
 in to your Majesties said deputie, long before the death of 
 the sayd traytour, and that after his decease, Tirrelaghe 
 Leynaghe, whom the countrey had elected to be O'Neile, 
 and all the rest of the said lords and captains came of 
 their owne voluntarie accord, into the presence of your 
 Majesties said deputie, being then in Ulster, and there, 
 with signs and tokens of great repentance, did humbly 
 submit themselves, their lives and lands, unto your 
 majesties hands, craving your mercy and favour with 
 solemne oathes, and humble submission in writing, 
 never to swerve from that their professed loyaltie and 
 fidelitie to your imperiall crowne of England. And, 
 therefore, we, your Majesties ancient, obedient, tme, and 
 faithfull subjects of this your realm of Ireland, wdth 
 these your strayed and new reconciled people, fleeing now 
 under the wings of your grace and mercy, as their onely 
 refiige, most humbly and lowly make our humble petition 
 imto your most excellent Majestie, that it would please 
 the same to behold with your pitiful! eyes the long-endured 
 miserie of your said strayed people, and rather with easie 
 remission than with due correction, to look unto their 
 offences past, and not onely to extend to them your gra- 
 cious pardon of their lives, but also ... to grant 
 unto them such portions of their sayd several countries to 
 live on by English tenure and profitaljle reservations as to 
 your Majestie shall seem good and convenient ; in the 
 distribution whereof your Highnesse sayd deputie (sir 
 Hem-y Sidney) is best able to enform your Majestie, as 
 one, which by great search and travayle, doth know the 
 quantity of the sayd countreys, the nature of the soyles, 
 the quality of the people, the diversitie of their lynages, 
 and whicir of them hath best deserved your Majesties 
 favour to be extended in this behalfe. " — Irish Statutes, vol. 
 i., p. 335. 
 
 Shane C>'iV«7/.— Shane O'Neill, son of Con first 
 earl of Tyi-one, was surnamed an diomais, 'of the Pride,' 
 or 'Ambition,' but was more familiarly known as Shane 
 Donghailech, because of his having been fostered with the 
 O'Donnellys. 
 
 The AP Don mil. — The surname of Macdonnell is 
 pronounced in Gaelic like Alacconnell, and English writers 
 generally spelled it according to the sound. This Alexander 
 Macdonnell was surnamed Ogc or 'young,' to distinguish 
 him from his father, also named Alexander. The latter 
 was lord of Isla and Cantire, and left seven sons, of 
 whom the Alexander mentioned in the text was second, 
 
 and the renowned Sorley Boy the seventh. For an ac- 
 count of the circumstances which led to the slaying of 
 Shane O'Neill by the Macdonnels, on the 2nd of June, 
 1567, near Cushendun, see Ulster yournal of Archaology, 
 vol. ix., pp. 139—41. 
 
 ^ As wearing the crcnun. — The following clause in the 
 eleventh of Elizabeth had put the queen into actual posses- 
 sion of all the lands in Ulster : — " be it enacted . . . 
 That your Majestie, your heyers and successors, shall have, 
 hold, possesse, and enjoy, as in the right of your imperial 
 crown of England, the countrey of Tyrone, the countrey 
 of Claneboy, the countrey of Kryne, called O'Cahans 
 countrey, the countrey of the Rowte, called MacGwylins 
 countrey, the countrey and lordship of the Glynnes, 
 usurped by the Scots, the countrey of Iveagh, called 
 MacGennes countrey, the countrey of Orre, called 
 O'Hanlons countrey, the countrey of the Fues, called 
 Hugh MacNeyle Mores countrey, the countries of Ferny, 
 Ireel, Loghty, and Dartalry, called the MacMahons 
 countreys, the countrey of the Troo, called Mac K)Tians 
 countrey, and the countrey of Clancanny, called Mackans 
 countrey, and all the honours, manors, castles, lands, 
 tenements, and other hereditaments, whatsoever they be, 
 belonging or appertaining to any of the persons aforesaid, 
 or to their kinsmen or adherents, in any of the countreys 
 or territories before specified, and that all and singular 
 the premises with their appurtenances shall be forthwith 
 invested with the reall and actual possession of your Ma- 
 jestie, your heyres, and siiccessors for ever. " — Irish Statutes, 
 vol. i., p. 336. The iith of Elizabeth was a ready w-ea- 
 pon in the hands of such men as Chichester and Davies, 
 who did not fail to wield it wdth terrible effect against 
 such native Irish proprietors as could be implicated in 
 rebellion. The latter foolishly supposed that pardons 
 granted from the crown subsequently to that Act secured 
 them against its consequences ; but it was interpreted to 
 mean that the countries mentioned therein were always in 
 actual possession of the Crown, and that the Irish pro- 
 prietors, and all living under them, had no estate what- 
 ever in the lands, and were permitted to remain there 
 simply on sufferance. This interpretation enabled Chi- 
 chester and Davies to come to the relief of their royal 
 master, beset as James then was by a host of greedy Scot- 
 tish courtiers, and a rout of common people, who had 
 followed him across the Tweed in such multitudes, that 
 tlieir presence, by over-crowding, endangered the public 
 health of London. By the nth of Elizabeth, James could 
 afford to be munificent in his grants of lands in Ulster to 
 his Scottish friends, and the latter in turn relieved him 
 from the pressure by carrying off vast numbers to plant 
 on their ue\\'ly-acquired Irish estates. — Meehan, Fate 
 
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 cendants, intruded by strong hands, and extruded the true lineal heir.-t? And Con's immediate 
 predecessors, Brian Fortagh O'Neill, &c.. Con's reputed grandfather, and father, were intruders (as 
 himself also was) into the Queen's right and possession, in those troublesome times especially, 
 whilst Hugh O'Neill, whom the Queen restored to his predecessor's possessions, and to the title of 
 Earl of Tireowen (alias Tireogen^^ in Irish speech), rebelled and ravaged over all Ulster, and most 
 other parts in Ireland, until the latter end of the year of the Queen's reign, of whose death he had 
 not heard till he had submitted himself prisoner to the Lord Deputy Chichester, in Mellefont.'»9 
 
 and Fortunes of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, 
 p. 285. 
 
 True hneal heir. — We have here, in a few words, 
 a correct account of the Irish tanist law, which was 
 occasionally cruel in its operations, but, as a general rule, 
 answered the purposes of its adoption very well. The 
 history of every county in Ireland would probably afford 
 illustrations of the evils of the tanist law, as well as of 
 its advantages. In almost every instance, however, it was 
 found to operate for the advantage of the clan in general, 
 and the depression of the lineal heirs. Thus, in the 
 county of Antrim, Sorley Boy Macdonuell succeeded as 
 chief of the Ulster Scots, although his elder brother James 
 who died in 1565, left sons whose claims to the position 
 were backed up, but in vain, by the English authorities. 
 And Randall Macdonnell, who became first earl of Antrim, 
 although he assisted zealously in setting aside Celtic cus- 
 toms, must have nevertheless taken advantage of the 
 provisions of the tanist law, when, early in 1603, he appeared 
 before James I. as representative of the Antrim Macdon- 
 nells, to the exclusion of the sons of his elder brother, 
 sir James, who died in 1601. 
 
 Earl of Tireogen. — Tir-Eoghain, 'the country 
 of Eoghan' so called from Eoghan (pronounced Owen), 
 son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, whose descendants, 
 called the Cinel-Eoghavi, or Race of Owen, gave name 
 to Inis-Eoghain or Inishowen, and in process of time, 
 occupied a large tract of Ulster, which was subsequently 
 divided into the counties of Tyrone and Armagh. Hugh 
 O'Neill, last earl of Tyrone, of the first creation, was the 
 son of Ferdoragh, and grandson of Conn, first earl of 
 Tyrone. On the murder of his father, by .Shane 
 O'Neill, Hugh, as a young orphan nobleman, was pro- 
 tected by the state, and resided during some years in 
 London. He commanded a troop of horse during Des- 
 mond's rebellion so much to the satisfaction of the civil 
 and military authorities that he received from the Ex- 
 chequer a yearly allowance of one thousand merks. 
 Vv'hilst bearing himself loyally in outward appearance 
 to the Government, he was secretly making arrangements, 
 at least as early as 1592, to assume the name and position 
 of The O'Neill in Ulster. He soon afterwards threw off 
 the mask and entered upon that terrible conflict with the 
 English ]30wer which reduced Ulster to a wilderness, and 
 ended in the extinction of his family and name as a 
 governing power in the North. For an account of his 
 temporary restoration by James I., see p. 24, supra. 
 Fynes Moryson, who has written an account of Hugh 
 O'Neill's rebellion, describes him as a man of "mean 
 stature, but strong in body, able to endure labours, watching, 
 and hard fare ; being withal industrious and active, valiant, 
 affable, and apt in the management of great affairs ; and 
 
 of a high, dissembling, subtle, and profound wit ; so as 
 many deemed him born either for the great good or ill 
 of his country." — Ulster Journal, vol. ii., p. 5. 
 
 Mdlefont. — The author erroneously states that 
 O'Neill's submission was made to " lord-deputy Chi- 
 chester," the latter not being appointed deputy until 
 February, 1603-4. The submission was made to lord- 
 deputy Mountjoy in the preceding year. In 1602, 
 Mountjoy received private intelligence of the Queen's 
 dangerous illness, and, anxious to bring the rebellion to a 
 close as speedily as possible, sent sir William Godolphin 
 and sir Garret Moore to O'Neill, with a protection for 
 his safe conduct, dated Tredagh (Drogheda), 24th March, 
 1602-3. On the 27th, sir Garret Moore rode to Tul- 
 loghoge, near Dungannon, and had an intei-view with 
 O'Neill, and on the 29th sir William Godolphin presented 
 him with the lord-deputy's safeguard or protection. 
 O'Neill met Mountjoy the next day at Mellifont, five 
 miles north-Avest from Drogheda, in Louth, and surren- 
 dered himself on his knees. On the 31st of March, he 
 r.i ide his submission, in writing, in the presence of a large 
 as emblnge. In a tract now very rare, written by Thomas 
 Gainsforde, O'Neill's submission is represented as abject in 
 the extreme. "At his first entrance into the roome, euen at 
 the threshold of the doore, bee prostrated himselfe grouel- 
 ing to the earth, with such a delected countenance, that 
 the standers by were amazed, and my lord-deputy himselfe 
 had much adoe to remember the worke in hand. For 
 whether the sight of so many captaines and gentlemen ; 
 \\'liether ashamed of himselfe, when he saw such a number 
 of his own nation spectators of his wretchednesse ; whether 
 the consideration of his fortunes, that had thus embased 
 him contrary to expectations ; whether the view of my lord , 
 to be his judge, whom once hee reputed to be at his mercy ; 
 whether hee repented this course of submission, and dege- 
 nerating begging of life, when a noble death had beene 
 both honourable, and the detenniner of miseiy ; or whe- 
 ther man's naturall imperfection, to bee confounded and 
 altred with affliction, depressed his spirits, I know not, 
 but it was one of the deplorablest sights that euer I saw : 
 and to looke vpon sucli a person, tlie author of so much 
 trouble, and so formerly glorious, so delected, would have 
 MTought many changes in the stoutest heart, and did no 
 doubt at this instant raise a certaine commisseration in his 
 greatest aduersary. After awhile the deputy beckned him 
 to come neere ; belieue it, hee arose ; but with such degrees 
 of humility, as if misfortune had tauglit him cunning to 
 grace his aduersity. For hee passed not two steps, before 
 hee yeelded to a new prostitution, which miglit well bee 
 called a grouelling to the ground, and so, by diuided cere- 
 monies, fell on his knees, beginning an apology for some 
 of his actions, but at euery word confessing in how many 
 
 I 
 
46 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 The said Brian, Neil, and Con, so intruding into Clanneboys and the Great Ardes, in those days of 
 general confusion, and (for peace sake) winked at, they continued their possession, and at some 
 times more avowedly (by reason of the fewness and weakness of the English garrisons) did take up 
 rents, cuttings,5° duties, and cesses,^^ cosherings^ also upon their underlings, being therem assisted 
 by their kindred and followers, whom they kept in pay, as soldiers, to be ready on all occasions 
 (when required) to serve him. 
 
 treasons hee had plunged himselfe, offending God and her 
 Maiesty, how hee had abused her fauours, disturbed her 
 kingdom, disobeyed her lawes, wronged her subjects, 
 abandoned all ciuility, and wrapped himselfe in the uery 
 tarriers of destruction ; so that nothing remained, but to 
 flie to the refugeof her princely clemency, which had so often 
 restored both his life and honour. Heere my lord-deputy 
 intercepted his oratory, with disclaiming all circumlocu- 
 tion, or defence of the courses he had so disorderly under- 
 taken ; nay, he would not heare a word of iustifying his 
 dependancy on Spaine, or admission of that enmity to- 
 wards England, withall applymg some instmctions \\-orthy 
 of so great a commander's name, intermingled with re- 
 prehensions full of authority and eloquence, he admitted 
 him to stand neerer, and (after an houre or more) gave him 
 leaue to be couered, using him with honourable respect, 
 both at his bord and priuate conferences, and so within 
 two daies brought him as a trophe of his uictories into 
 Dubhn, with a full resolution to carry him into England, 
 and present him to her Maiestie." — Pp. 40, 41. The 
 full title of this Tract is as follows: — The True Exem- 
 plary, and Remarkable History of the Earle of Tirone: 
 Wherein the manner of his first presu/npiion, affrighting 
 both England and Ireland zuith his own and the King of 
 Spain's forces, and the misery of his ensuing detection, 
 downefall, and utter batiishtnent, is trtdy related: Not 
 from the report of others, or collection of authors, but by 
 him who ivas an eye-witness of his fearfull wretchednesse 
 and finall extirpation. Written by T. G., Esquire. 
 Londoji, Printed by G. P. for Ralph Rozunthwaite, and 
 are to be sold at the signe of the Floure-de-Lzice and Crowne, 
 in Panic's Chwrh-yard. 1619. Gainsforde's Life of 
 Tirone, although curious in some respects, is to be read 
 with caution. He appears to have been but a political 
 pamphleteer who wrote courageously on the winning side. 
 He is supposed to be the author of a curious old play, 
 entitled The Siege of Tredagh, in which he introduces 
 himself and the earl of Tyrone among the dramatis 
 personce. — MS. Notes of William Pinkerton, Esq. 
 
 5'^ Cuttings. — Cuttings were taxes imposed by Irish 
 chieftains on their vassals to meet sudden or extraordinary 
 emergencies, and were felt to be the more grievous because 
 unexpected. The word cutt is still applied in many coun- 
 try districts, although inappropriately, to the cess raised 
 for county purposes. It may be inferred from the follow- 
 ing passage quoted in Richardson's English Dictionary, 
 that the ancient cutting was a formidable impost : — " Se- 
 condly, by imposing continual taxes and tallages, worse 
 than Irish cuttings, being sometimes the tenth, sometimes 
 the fifth, sometimes the third, sometimes the moiety 
 of all the goods both of the clergy and laity." — State 
 Trials, anno 1607. 
 
 5' Cesses. — Probably identical with sess ox assess, from 
 asscsso, to impose a tax, which was never imposed except 
 
 by an assize ( nisi ab assessu ) of men appointed for that 
 purpose. "A subsidy," says Camden, "we call that 
 which is imposed on every man, being cessed by the poll, 
 man by man, according to the valuation of their goods 
 and lands." In Spenser's View of the State of Ireland, ^i- 
 227, we have the following explanation of this word : — 
 
 " Eudox. But what is that which you call cesse ? It is a word 
 sure unusual among us here ; therefore, I pray you expound the 
 name. 
 
 *' Iren. Cess^ is none other than that which yourselfe called im- 
 position, but it is in a kind unacquainted perhaps tinto you." 
 
 The worda'j'j'is derived originally from the Irishc/fj, and was 
 applied to more than one tax or impost. In addition to their 
 regular rents and duties, the \ assals of an Irish chief were 
 required, almost as a general rule, to pay the cios-cosanta, 
 or cess for protection, the people of almost every district 
 or clan having to be protected from the people of other 
 adjoining districts or clans. This tribute when imposed 
 on the English settlers in Ireland was known among them 
 as black-mail. Another cios or cess was imposed on all 
 exempted from military service under the bratach or banner 
 of the chief in every Gairm Sluiagh, 'calling of an army,' 
 a Hosting. — Ulster Joiirnal of Archceology, vol. iii., 
 p. 105. 
 
 Coshering. — The term coshering is supposed to be 
 derived from cios-ri, king's cess, which was exacted when 
 the chieftain could not make it convenient to billet himself 
 and his train, if in time of peace, or his staff in time of 
 war, in the houses of the clansmen belonging to his family. 
 This primitive way of support could only be practised in 
 the rudest state of society-, and was considered by the 
 English as altogether objectionable. The very first printed 
 statute, anno 1310, is intended to abolish the practice of 
 cosherie, and another act was passed, in 1634, for the 
 same object. Although thus checked, and in certain dis- 
 tricts entirely prevented, by the operation of these enact- 
 ments, the custom was revived in some degree after the 
 v.'ide-spread confiscations of the seventeenth centur}', 
 "when some of the kindliest feelings of human nature 
 conspired to renew this ancient custom, in order to sup- 
 port the families of the fallen chiefs." — Ulster Journal of 
 Archceology, vol. iv., p. 245. The poor Irish peasantry, 
 with characteristic kindliness of heart, were always ready 
 to share their scanty meals with cosherers, come from what 
 quarter they would, pitying them as persons who had seen 
 better days, and \\\io were compelled to wander about as 
 strangers in their own land. This sympathy was deepened 
 in consequence of the stringent and cruel measures passed 
 from time to time against these mined Irish gentry. An 
 Act, passed in 1636, For the suppression of cosherers and 
 idle zuanderers, describes them as "young gentlemen of 
 this kingdom that have little or nothing to live on of 
 their own .... but live coshering on the country, 
 and sessing themselves and their followers, their horses 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 47 
 
 This being the pickle wherein Con was soused, and his best claim but an unquiet possession, 
 usurpation and intrusion against the laws of the kingdom, neither his ancestors nor himself being 
 released from that attainder aforesaid, nor he anywise set rectus in curia for joining with Hugh 
 O'Neil, it must needs follow, by all reasonable consequences, that Sir Hugh Montgomery had done 
 many mighty acts for the rescue and welfare of Con himself, his friends and followers, as hath been 
 fully proved were done for him and them; the very undertaking and prospect of which welfare could 
 not but be very strongly obliging on Con O'Neil, kindly and with hesrty thanks to accept of .and 
 to agree to the articles signed to Sir Hugh Montgomery at Braidstane, aforesaid. 
 
 and their greyhounds, sometimes exacting money to spare 
 them and their tenants, and to go elsewhere for their 
 eeaicght and adraiigh, viz. , supper and breakefaste . 
 being commonly active young men, and such as seek to have 
 many followers . . . apt upon the least occasion of 
 insurrection or disturbance .... to be heads and 
 leaders of outlaws and rebels." — Prendergast, C;-o/«rcv///a« 
 Setilemeni of Ireland,^, 2, note. These active young gen- 
 tlemen were the sons of dispossessed fathers, who were 
 doomed to see prosperous strangers in the occupation of their 
 lands, and who, in fact, had no hope but in times of com- 
 motion and rebellion. A great outbreak and massacre of 
 the strangers occurred in 1641, and after an interval of 
 twenty years, came another Act, in 1656, for the attainder 
 of more rebels, and the expulsion of a still greater number 
 of cosherers. In that dismal interval no less than ''forty 
 thousand o[\!we. oldEnglish andlrish nobility, andgentryand 
 commons, who had borne arms in the ten years' war (1642 
 — 1652), were forced to abandon wives and children, home 
 and country, and embark for Spain." This Act was so 
 framed as to transplant the hapless families of these rebels 
 to Connaught, and to transport the more troublesome to 
 the English plantations in America. "And whereas," says 
 the Act of 1656, "the children, grandchildren, brothers, 
 nephews, uncles, and next pretended heirs of the persons 
 attainted, do remain in the provinces of Leinster, Ulster, 
 and Munster, having little or no visible estates or subsis- 
 tence, but living only and coshering upon the common sort 
 of people vfho were tenants to or followers of the respective 
 ancestors of such persons, waiting an opportunity, as may 
 justly be supposed, to massacre and destroy the English, 
 who as adventurers or souldiers, or their tenants, are set 
 down to plant upon the several lands and estates of the 
 persons so attainted," are to transplant or be trans- 
 ported to the English plantations in America. — Prender- 
 gast, Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, p. 163, note. 
 These hapless cosherers and wanderers generally carried 
 their ancient title-deeds about with them, wrapped up 
 
 in old handkerchiefs, thus exciting the pity of the 
 people generally, and also the fears and hatred of such 
 as had possession of their lands. The sight of these 
 memorials naturally aroused a dangerous state of feeling 
 among the families, descendants, and kindred of the dis- 
 possessed proprietors, and therefore the House of Com- 
 mons that assembled after the Restoration made provision 
 that all title-deeds should be forcibly taken from such 
 wanderers. Again, in the year 1707, came another Act 
 to deal with such cosherers as were created by the for- 
 feitures that followed 1688, and who were then alleged to 
 make common cause with the tories or robbers. Arch- 
 bishop King writes as follows : — "The ancient owners had 
 still such influence and respect from their tenantry and 
 the Irish generally, that they maintained them in their 
 idleness and in their coshering manner. These vagabond.s 
 reckoned themselves great gentlemen, and that it would 
 be a great disparagement to them to betake themselves to 
 any calling, trade, or way of industry; and therefore either 
 sujiported themselves by stealing or torying, or oppressing 
 the poor farmers, and exacting some kind of maintenance 
 eitiier from their clan or sept, or from those that lived on 
 the estates to which they pretended. And these pretended 
 gentlemen (together with the numerous cosliering popish 
 clergy that lived much after the same manner) were the 
 two greatest grievances of the kingdom, and more especially 
 hindered its settlement and happiness." — State of the Pro- 
 testants of Ireland, 4to, pp. 27 — 8. The Act of 6th 
 Anne, chap. ii. (1707), describes them as "pretended Irish 
 gentlemen, who will not work, but wander about demand- 
 ing victuals, and coshering from house to house among 
 their fosterers, followers, and others," and then orders 
 them, on presentment of any grand juiy of the counties 
 they frequent, to be seized and sent on board the Queen's 
 fleet, or to some of the plantations in America. Prender- 
 gast, Cromwellian Settlcvi:iit of Ireland, p. 178; Journal 
 of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archteolo^ical 
 Society, vol. iii., new series, pp. 174-5. 
 
48 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 E have in the foregoing narrative a few of the many generous acts of the 6th Laird of 
 Braidstane; let me trace him on the back scent, as well as I can for want of papers, and 
 of the original articles of Braidstane, between him and Con alone,' and of the consequencial 
 proceedings thereupon interrupted by Sir James Fullerton,^ 2d Jac, till we find the time about which 
 he was knighted, pursuant to which I observe, imprimis by the letters patent passed (5th November, 
 3d Jacobi, Ao. 1605), to Mr. James Hamilton, who therein is named James Hamilton, Esq., and 
 called by the King his servant.3 Our 6th Laird is stiled Sir Hugh Montgomery, knight, in which 
 patent the letters to the said Deputy Chichester + for passing it (dated i6th April foregoings), that 
 Nov', is i?itermini recited. Item in a deed, ist October, that same year 1605, it appears that James 
 Hamilton, Esq., servant to the King, (as aforesaid) pursuant to the first trust, grants unto our said 
 
 • And Con alone. — By these "origmal articles," which 
 were burned among other papers at Rosemount, Con had 
 granted the half of his lands to sir Hugh Montgomer}'. — ■ 
 P. 27, supra. 
 
 ^ yames Fiillerfon. — P. 30, supra. 
 
 ^ King his servant. — In this, and the two succeeding 
 paragraphs, the author recapitulates, for the purpose of 
 showing that Hugh Montgomery was knighted in 1605, 
 and, consequently, had precedence of James Hamilton, 
 who at that date was only an esquire and servant of the 
 king. In the king's letter of the i6th April (see p. 33, 
 sup-a), the laird of Braidstane is styled Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, Esq. ; but in the grant to Hamilton of the 5th of 
 November following, he is styled sir Hugh Montgomery ; 
 so that he must have received the honour of knighthood 
 in the interval between these dates. Hamilton was no 
 doubt well content to allow the precedency in honor to 
 Montgomery, whilst he enjoyed the more substantial 
 boon of having this immense grant drawn out in his own 
 name. 
 
 * Deputy Chichester. — Sir Arthur Chichester was the 
 second son of sir John Chichester of Raleigh, in Devon- 
 shire. He commenced his public career by robbing one 
 of the queen's purveyors, for which offence he was com- 
 pelled to retire to France, where he soon became dis- 
 tinguished as a«oldier. Queen Elizabeth pardoned him, 
 probably because she thought that she had as much need for 
 his military services as Henry IV. of France. Lodge, 
 Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. i., p. 318 ; 
 Granger, Biographical History 0/ England, vol. ii. , p. 98. 
 On Chichester's return, he was sent to Ireland to assist in the 
 suppression of Tyrone's rebellion, and proved himself a 
 willing and effective instiniment in carrying out Mountjoy's 
 ruthless policy of extermination against the native Irish. 
 English writers, and among them old Fuller, delight to 
 tell how Chichester was so instnimental in ploughing and 
 breaking up the barbarous Irish nation, and then sowing 
 
 the soil with the seeds of civility. The preparatory pro- 
 cess consisted simply in the remorseless and wholesale 
 destraction of human life, and all kinds of property. 
 He proceeded on the conviction that the sword, even 
 when wielded against helpless women and children, was 
 not sufficiently destmctive, and therefore called to his work 
 all the horrible agencies of famine and pestilence. Describ- 
 ing a journey which he made from Carrickfergus, along the 
 banks of Loughneagh, mto Tyrone, Cliichester says: — 
 " / burned all along the lough, within four myles of Dun- 
 gaiinon, aiid hilled 100 people, sparing none of what qua- 
 lify, age, or sex soever, besydcs many bur7ied to death ; we 
 kyll man, woman, and child ; horse, beast, and 'whatsoever 
 7i<efnd." On another occasion, after his return from a 
 similar expedition into the Route, he writes — "I have 
 often sayd and wrytten that it is famine that must consume 
 them ; our swordes and other indeavoures worke not that 
 speedie destruction which is expected. " See an interesting 
 Contribution, by \Vm. Pinkerton, Esq. , in Ulster Journal 
 of Arch(Tology, vol. v., p. 209, and wo/f. Thomas Gains- 
 forde, the writer of Ihe True Exemplary, and Remark- 
 able History of the Earl of Tirone, already quoted, refers 
 to the dire calamity inflicted at that period on the helpless 
 inhabitants of Ulster. "For the sword-men," says he, 
 " perished with sicknesse and famine the next yeere fol- 
 lowing, and the poore calliots (old women) deuoured one 
 another for meere hunger, and showed us the lamentable 
 effects of a calamitous warre and afflicted countiy" — p. 37. 
 The ■\\'riter expresses his gi-atification on the advancement 
 of Chichester to the chief-governorship as follows: — "By 
 this time is sir Arthur Chichester lord deputy, who 
 watched these parts of the North more naiTowly than any 
 other before him. First, because of his long experience 
 and residence amongst them, as being gouemor of Knog- 
 fergus, ajid a laborious searcher of Logli Con (Strangford 
 Lough) with all the territories adjacent," — p. 47, 
 5 1 6th April foregoing. — P. 33, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 49 
 
 Laird (by the name of Sir Hugh Montgomery, Knight, one of the Esqrs. of his Majesty's body), 
 the abbey and lands of Movilla, &c., which is a prior date by a month and five days to the patent 
 last named.^ This was so early done because abbey lands were first passed. James Hamilton, Esq., 
 by patent, dated 20th July the said year, 1605, Sir Hugh Montgomery not being then come to 
 Dublin, but in September y° next month following, the said 20th July notwithstanding all the ex- 
 pedition he and Con had made through Scotland, that they might look to their hitts aforesaid.7 
 
 Item, I observe by the tripartite indenture, dated ult". April, 1605, aforesaid, that James 
 Hamilton, Esq., was to bear equal share in the expences of Con and his followers from the ist of 
 August preceding that indenture.^ This August was A". 1604, which was 2d Jacobi, and was 
 many months after Con was brought to Whitehall by our Laird, in all which time, and till the said 
 letters to the Deputy, dated the i6th of April, 1605, our said Laird and his brother George, the 
 Dean, had solicited Con's pardon, and the grant for half of his estate, the other moiety to the Laird 
 himself, and obtained the King's letters of warrant to the Lord Deputy to pass letters patent con- 
 formably to the said articles at Braidstane. But this affair taking time, and wind, at Court, was 
 interrupted by Sir James FuUertcn, as you have already heard; and that thereupon the said Con 
 and Hugh Montgomery, of London, Esq., and James Hamilton, of London, Esq., adjusted affairs 
 between themselves, so that it seems our Laird was knighted in April, 1605, or not long afterwards, 
 but of Knights Bachellor? no record is kept, so that for want thereof I must desist my inquiry. 
 
 « Patent last named. — Hamilton began by granting 
 sparingly to his rival. This grant was, by indenture, dated 
 the 1st of October, anno tertio jfacohi, and James Hamilton, 
 in consideration of 106 5s. od. English, commonly called 
 old silver, every pound containing four ounces troy weight, 
 to be paid to him at Martinmas following, granted the 
 scites, &c., of Movilla, Gray Abbey, and Newtone, with 
 the several particular townlands and premises, and all the 
 tithes and royalties belonging to the same, before granted 
 to said James Hamilton by letters patent, to hold for ever, 
 at the rent of ^5 i6s. 8d. to the king, on condition of 
 payment of said sum of £106 5s. od. on the day ap- 
 pointed. For a recital of the possessions and appropria- 
 tions of the several religious houses above-mentioned, see 
 the Inquisition of 1623. 
 
 ' Their hitts aforesaid. — There is some portion of the 
 Manuscript omitted in this passage. The 20th of July 
 was the date of the letters patent granting the whole lands 
 to Hamilton, in his own name. The "hitts" of which 
 the author speaks more than once, consisted, principally, 
 in the arrangement between Con and Sir Hugh, by which 
 the former was bound not to alienate his lands to any one 
 without the knowledge of the latter. P. 40, supra. 
 Sir Hugh's hitts seem to have been no match for Hamil- 
 ton's tactics. The latter "was so wise," says the Stewart 
 MS., "as to take, on easy terms, endless leases of much 
 more of Con's third part, and from f//;t7- despairing Irishes, 
 than Sir Hugh had done." 
 
 * That indenture. — One of Con O'Neill's inducements 
 to enter into this Tripartite Indenture was "in considera- 
 tion of much costs, charges, and expenses which they, the 
 said Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton, have been 
 at, and shall be at, as well in procuring and passing the 
 said Con O'Neale MacBrian Feartagh O'Neale his said 
 pardon, and the grant of the said territories, castles, 
 
 manors, lands, hereditaments, premises, or so much 
 thereof as by the king's majesty shall be pleased to grant 
 unto the said James Hamilton, and also in bearing and 
 paying the said Con O'Neale and his followers, their 
 moderate and ordinary charges whatsoever in England, 
 Ireland, and Scotland, as well since the beginning of the 
 month of August last past, before the date of these 
 pattents, as also untill the said pardon and grants of the 
 said territories so passed under the great seal of Ireland, 
 shall be deemed, assured, and conveyed by the said James 
 Hamilton unto and between Con O'Neale, &c." The last 
 clause of the Tripartite Indenture is as follows : — "It is 
 mutually covenanted, &c., between the said Hugh Mont- 
 gomery and James. Hamilton that all and every sum or 
 sums whatsoever, as from the beginning of August x\o\v 
 last past, hath been disbursed and laid forth by them for 
 touching or in anywise concerning the said Con O'Neale 
 and his affairs, and that hereafter shall be laid forth and 
 disbursed by them for touching and concerning the pro- 
 curing and passing of the said pardon and grant, or for 
 touching and concerning the divisions aforesaid, and all 
 assurances whatsoever thereupon to be had, made, and 
 perfected, and otherwise concerning the premises, shall 
 be equally paid and borne, by and between the said 
 Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton, without fraud 
 or co^'in, upon account, to be made by and between them." 
 — Inquisition of 1 623. Covin means a fraudulent arrange- 
 ment between two or more to the prejudice of a third. 
 
 ' Knis^hts Bachellor. — Bachelor, {rom bas-chevalier, was 
 a term used to designate the humblest, although the most 
 ancient, order of knighthood. Knights bachelors are so 
 tenned to distinguish them from bannerets, the chief or 
 superior order of knighthood. "The functions of a knight 
 were complete when he rode at the head of his retainers 
 assembled under his banner, which was expressed by th? 
 
56 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Item, we have heard also how that after the said overthrow j^iven to the Laird and Con by Sir 
 James FuUerton's procurement of a letter of warrant to the Lord Deputy, Arthur Lord Chichester," 
 dated the i6th April, 1605, aforesaid, was granted to pass Con's estate and some abbey lands, by 
 patent, to James Hamilton, Esq., in his sole name, in trust for himself, our Laird and Con, and that 
 y° last day of y*' said April, y° tripartite indenture was made between the said three persons." 
 
 Now to faciliate the performances thereof, Mr. Hamilton returned soon to Dublin with an 
 order for an inquisition on the lands of the said Con, and on y' abby lands, which was held the 4th 
 July, 1605, and being returned enrolled in Sept. next following, and wherein was a reference (for 
 more certainty) unto the office taken ist Jac. A°. 1603, and from which and y^ jurors and breefs 
 the last above said inquisition did much vary, as hath been before now related." However, Mr. 
 Hamilton, y* 20th of y" said July, passed letters patent in his own name, of the premises;'3 and Sir 
 Hugh Montgomery being arrived in Ireland, with Con, they went to Dublin as aforesaid, where, 
 pursuant to the former said agreements, he did, ist October next following (as is said), grant the 
 lands of Movilla, Newton, and Gray Abbey,'-* &c., to Sir H. Montgomery; then on the 5th Nov., 
 1605, passed a more ample patent of Con's estate,'^ and of all the abby lands therein ; and, pursuant 
 to agreement with the said Con, Mr. Hamilton grants him his lands in and about Castlereagh, 
 very next day'^ after the date of the said ample patent last above mentioned. So Con's whole affair 
 being done for him, and he releasing Sir Hugh Montgomery and Mr. Hamilton of all contracts and 
 expenses relating thereunto, soon returned to Castlereagh, where I left him treated by his friends and 
 followers as before herein is briefly related. In this dispatch is seen Sir Hugh Montgomery's 
 kindness to Con and himself 
 
 Observe further, as aforesaid, that the said Mr. Hamilton, on the 7th day of the said November, 
 1605, again grants to Sir Hugh Montgomery, the lands of Newtown, Gray Abbey, &c. This was 
 done the next day after Mr. Hamilton had given the deed to Con. No doubt this dispatch pleased 
 
 \.trm lever bannicre. So long as he was unable to take this a grand monument was erected to his memory. For an 
 step, either from insufficient age or poverty, he would be account of his funeral procession, see Ulster Journal of 
 considered only as an apprentice in chivalry, and was Archaology, vol. ix. , pp. 193 — 6; for the pompous in- 
 called a knight bachelor, just as the outer barrister was scription on liis tomb, see M'Skimin, History of Carrkk- 
 only an apprentice at law, whatever his age might be." — Jergiis, pp. 149 — 51. 
 
 Wedgewood, Dictionary of English Etymology. ^' Said three persons. —Ses Inquisition of 1623, Appen- 
 
 '° Arthur Lord Chichester. — See note 4, supra. Chi- di.x A. 
 
 Chester had received the honour of knighthood from Eliza- " Before related. — P. 36, supra. 
 
 beth in 1595, and was created baron Chichester of Belfast Of the premises. — This is the date of the grant to 
 
 in 1612. His enormous giants from the crown in the Hamilton of the "Abbeys, Monasteries, and other religious 
 
 counties of Antrim, Tyrone, and Donegal, are recited at Houses of Holywood, Movilla, Black Abbey, Gray Ab- 
 
 length in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of the reign of bey, Newton, and Bangor." — Inquisition of 1623. 
 
 James I., pp. 49, 120 — 22,161,169. Yet although this man Gray Abbey, S^c. — P. 42, j«/;-<z. 
 
 may be said to have been gorged to repletion by the pos- yimple patent of Con's estate. — This princely territory, 
 
 session of forfeited lands, we find him, in what he calls a including Upper Clannaboy and the Great Ards, contained 
 
 ^' Note of some of his most materiall j-«-z//f«," during the two hundred and thirty townlands, or sub-divisions of 
 
 first nine years of his official career in Ireland, actually various extent. The reader may find the denomina- 
 
 taking credit to himself for self-denial in refusing to make tional names of these sub-divisions recorded in the Inqui- 
 
 certain grants to the natives, as other chief governors had sition of 1623, at the end. 
 
 done, and which grants would, says Chichester, "have K"^ i'^/^' wt'jr^ ^/aj'. —Namely on the 6th of November, 
 
 bin verie profitable unto me, if I had preferred myne owne The author has recorded these several dates with great 
 
 private gaine before yor Ma'ies service, and good of the accuracy. The MS. Inquisition of 1603 also mentions 
 
 comon- wealth." He died in 1625, without issue, his only this grant on the same date. It included sixty-seven 
 
 child, a son, having gone before liim, in 1606. He was townlands immediately adjoining Castlereagh, among 
 
 buried in the church of St. Nicholas, Carrickfcrgus, where ■^^ hich were the Knock and Ball) niacarrett. P. 36, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 51 
 
 every of the three parties for their respective private reasons: Con being contented to the full for 
 aught I find to the contrary, and Sir Hugh with whatever he got ( de bene esse) in part for the presents,'' 
 that they both might more closely follow the plantations they were bound to make, and therefore 
 Sir Hugh, also, after a small stay, returned from Dublin, and on the 15th January of the same year 
 1605, livery of seizin of Con's lands was taken by Cuthbert Montgomery,'^ and given to Sir Hugh in 
 trust for Con's use,'? and much about the same time livery of seizin was given to Sir Hugh, pursuant 
 to the said deed, dated the 7th of November abovesaid, Jo. Shaw and Patrick Montgomery, Esqrs., 
 being appointed attornies by Mr. Hamilton to take and deliver the same accordingly. 
 
 These few last rehearsals, being the sum of the chief transactions between Mr. Hamilton, 
 trustee aforesaid, and Sir Hugh Montgomery and Con before A°. 1606, I thought it necessary to be 
 recapitulated before I proceed to other matters done between them after the 22d of August, 1606, 
 on which day the said Con had sold to Sir Hugh Montgomery the woods of four town-lands^° as 
 aforesaid, and then I will (as well as I can) give the narration of Sir Hugh promoting and advancing 
 his plantation after the last mentioned August. But first 1 must intimate two things, of which I- 
 shall not write hereafter: The first is that Mr. Hamilton and Sir Hugh were obliged in ten years' 
 time, from November, 1605, to furnish British inhabitants (English and Scotch Protestants) to plant 
 one-third of Con's lands granted to himself.^' The second thing was that Mr. Hamilton passed 
 another patent in February, 1605, which is posterior as you now see to that of the 5th of November 
 the same year, according to English account or supputation current in Ireland,^^ by virtue of which 
 patent in November now mentioned, it was that Mr. Hamilton gave the deeds aforesaid of the 6th 
 and 7th of the same month, unto Con and Sir Hugh, as is (herein) before remembered. 
 
 These two remarks being made, I now go on with Sir Hugh Montgomery's plantation, which 
 began about May, 1606, =3 and thus it was, viz: — Sir Hugh, after his return from Ireland to Braidstane, 
 in winter 1605, as he had before his coming into Ireland, spoken of the plantation, so now he con- 
 duced his prime friends to join him therein, viz: — John Shaw of Greenock,^* Esq., whose sister 
 
 For the presents. — Hamilton's conduct did not satisfy 
 sir Hugh Montgomery, who, in 1618, obtained by arbi- 
 tration a larger amount of church lands. De bene esse is a 
 phrase in law which means to take any act as well done for 
 the present. 
 
 Cnthbert Afontgojnery. — Cuthbert was a prevailing 
 Christian name among the Montgomeiys of Largs, and 
 to that branch the gentleman here mentioned most prob- 
 ably belonged. 
 
 For CorCs use. — This property was re-granted to Con by 
 sir Hugh Montgomery, pursuant to articles made between 
 them, on the 24th December, 1605. — Inquisition op 1623. 
 
 ^° Four town-lands. — P. 41, supra. 
 
 ^' Granted to himself. — Montgomery and Hamilton 
 were so bound by the original terms of the grant from the 
 crown, but more particularly by the Tripartite Indenture. 
 The following is the obligatoiy passages in the latter 
 document: — "And the said James Hamilton and Hugh 
 Montgomery, for themselves, their heirs, executors, &c. , 
 do severally covenant, promise, grant, and agree, that 
 they shall, and within ten years next ensuing the date of 
 these pattents, cause and procure such and so many Eng- 
 lish and Scotch persons as shall be sufficient to inhabit 
 
 and dwell under him the said Con and his heirs, in and 
 upon one third part of the aforesaid territories, castles, 
 manors, lands, and premises which shall be assured 
 and conveyed unto him, the said Con, and his heirs, the 
 said persons paying and doing to the said Con and his 
 heirs, such reasonable rents, duties, and services as shall 
 be agreed and concluded upon by and between him, the 
 said Con or his heirs, and them, the said English and Scotch 
 persons, for inhabiting the said third part of the moiety of 
 the premises or any part thereof." — Inquisition of 1623. 
 Ciirrent in" Ireland. — P. 40, supra. 
 
 ^3 About May, 1606. — On the 22d of November, 1605, 
 sir Hugh Montgomery, preparatory to his coming as a set- 
 tler in Ireland, received a grant of denization from the 
 crown, by which he was made free of the yoke of servi- 
 tude of the Scotch, Irish, or any other nation, and made 
 capable of holding and enjoying all the rights and privi- 
 leges of an English subject. Calendar of Patent Rolls of 
 fames /., p. 84; see also Erck's Repertory, dr=<r., p. 235. 
 By this arrangement an alien was constituted a subject, 
 and was called donaison (denizen), because his legitima- 
 tion proceeded ex donatione regis. 
 
 ''■ John Shaw of Greenock. — P. \i,sufra. This John 
 
52 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Elizabeth he had married divers years before that time, and Patrick Montgomery of Black House,^s 
 Esq., who married the said John Shaw's sister. Christian. These two Gentlemen had been in Ire- 
 land, and given livery of seizin as aforesaid to Sir Hugh, who also adduced the afore mentioned 
 
 .Shaw was a younger son of John (or James) Shaw, 
 laird of Greenock, who was son of Alexander Shaw of 
 Sauchie, by his second wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of 
 William Cunningham of Glengarnock. John (or James) 
 Shaw, father of the gentleman mentioned in the text, 
 married, in 1565, his cousin, Jean, daughter of John Cun- 
 ningham of Glengarnock, and, besides this John who came 
 to the Ards, left James, his successor, and at least two 
 other sons. — Crawford, History of the Skirc of Rcnfmu, 
 4to, 1818, p. 125. On the 19th July, 1616, sir Hugh 
 Montgomery conveyed by deed to "John Shaw, for ever, 
 all these two new townlands, containing about xiice acres, 
 Scottish measure, in the 2 old townlands called Bally- 
 cheskeve and Ballingamoye, in the Great Ardes, adjoining 
 to Lord Claneboy's lands in the south; Thomas Mont- 
 gomery on the north; John Herriott and Robert Allen on 
 the west; and the main sea on the east; with appurtenances, 
 paying 40s English, King's rent, total 52s, paid at All 
 Saints and May Day, or eight days after. " John Shaw was 
 in peaceable possession of this property in 1623. — Inqui- 
 sition of 162;^. Harris, in his Ancient and Present State 
 of the County of Doiun, p. 59, states that, in 1744, there 
 stood a house near the market cross of Nevvtownards with 
 the Shaw Arms inscribed in front; which amis consisted 
 of a "star in the middle of three cups, and the crest a 
 phoenix." This house had been probably built by John 
 Shaw, who dwelt at Ne'wtownards, although he held lands 
 at more than one place in the district. "The armorial 
 bearing of this family," says Crawford, "is, azure, three 
 covered cups. Or; supported by two savages, \\-reathed 
 about the middle; and for a crest, a demi-savage; with 
 this motto — I mean -well. "- — History of the Shire of A'enfi-ew, 
 p. 126. Several members of this family of Shaw are men- 
 tioned by the author in his memoirs. A rent-roll of tlie 
 Donaghadee property, in 17 18, contains the name of John 
 .Shaw, esq., of Gemaway, the representative of the ori- 
 ginal John Shaw abovementioned — Gemaway or Ganna- 
 way, iDeing the more modern form of Ballygamoye, one 
 of the denominational names in the grant of 1616, from 
 sir Hugh Montgomery. Members of this family settled 
 also at Ballygelly and Ballytweedie, in the county of An- 
 trim. The sixth earl of Eglinton (Greysteel), writing, 
 on the 22nd of June, 1648, to his son, colonel James 
 Montgomery, then serving in Ulster, says: — "Gif ze have 
 gottin any halkis (hawks) for me. send them over; for it 
 is tyme they war maid: your brother has a rid on alreadie. 
 Also caus send the two deir to me that captaine Dmm- 
 mond promised me; and caus scheir sume gras and put in 
 beside them. What fraught ze agrie for I sail pay it upon 
 sicht of zour letter; and gif there be any mae young anes 
 in the cuntrie, speik Bellie Cellie, and sum otheris to get 
 me sum." The earl had written to his son, on tlie previous 
 day, respecting certain weighty affairs, political and mili- 
 taiy, concluding his letter tlnis : — "I tak God to witness 
 1 deill frielie with zow, both for zour honour and well, and 
 desyres zow to tak the counsell of my lord Airds, Generall 
 Major Munro, sir James Montgomerie, and WiUiam Schani, 
 whom I know will deill faithfullie with zow, and honouris 
 and respectis zow, and spair not to show my letter to them 
 
 all, and remember my love and service to them." — Eraser, 
 Memorials, vol. i., p. 287. In June, 165 7, a marriage was 
 contracted between James Shaw, eldest son of James Shaw 
 of Ballygellie, and his cousin, Elizabeth Brisbane of Largs. 
 The estate of the Brisbanes was, by the marriage contract, 
 settled on the heirs male of James .Shaw, he taking the 
 surname and arms of Brisbane, and his father paying 
 £io,o<xi Scots, to be applied in providing for the family of 
 John Brisbane the younger. In 1671, James Shaw, or 
 Brisbane, acquired the estate of Over Kelsoland, and soon 
 afterwards the estate of Knock, both in the parish of 
 Largs. There is a letter of remission from James II., 
 dated 26th February, 1686, to this James Shaw, or Bris- 
 bane, for certain fines that had been imposed on him in 
 consequence of his wife's persistent attendance on Presby- 
 terian conventicles. — Law, Memorials, p. 271, as quoted 
 in Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, voL ii., 
 p. 308. A William Shaw, on the 23d June, 1 703, pur- 
 chased for the sum of ;i^r350, the towns and lands of Car- 
 mavy consisting of 484 acres, lands in Ballyrobin 88 acres, 
 and two mills, all which had been part of the forfeited 
 estate of sir Neal O'Neill. — Inrolled l^th January, 1 703. 
 Fifteenth Report of Irish Record Co?nmission, p. 360. 
 Against O'Neill's estate he had the following claims, viz. — 
 I. £660 penalty ; by assignment, dated the 14th February, 
 1697 ; Witnesses, James Young, John Shaw, of a judgment 
 obtained in Trinity Term, 1688, in the exchequer, on a bond 
 dated 14th Feiiruary, 1686. 2. 1 320 penalty ; By coun- 
 ter-bond, dated 14th Februar}-, 1686. 3. ;^300 penalty; by 
 bond, with warrant of attorney, dated 25th April, 1680, 
 and assigned to the claimant (William Shaw) by deed 
 dated 3i*t October, 1694; Judgment entered in the com- 
 mon pleas in Hilary Term, 1688. 4. ;^22 rent-charge 
 on Ballytweedye ; by deed dated the 6th of July, 1686; 
 Witnesses, Bryan O'Neill, Will. Shaw, and others. 5. 
 £7'^S 13s- id., being a sixth part of the arrears, portions, 
 interest, and maintenance money, secured on sir Neal 
 O'Neill's estate. By articles of agreement, dated the 15th 
 July, 1699. — List of the Claims as they are entered with t/ie 
 Trustees at Chichester House, on College Green, Dublin, on 
 or before the Tenth of August, 1700, pp. 203, 328. The 
 late Henry William Shaw, who died at Glen-Ebor, county 
 of Down, in the month of November, 1867, was the last 
 representative in the main line of the Shaws of Bally- 
 tweedy, and probabh' of Ballygannaway. The family of 
 Balligellie is not extinct, although it has long ceased to 
 own its ancestral lands. 
 
 ^5 Blackhouse. — P. 28, supra. The lands of Black- 
 house formed a portion of the superiority of Skel- 
 morlie-Cunningham in the parish of Largs. Patrick 
 Montgomery inherited Blackhouse from his father, John 
 Montgomery, who was of the Braidstane family, and who 
 died at the close of the year 1600. His son, Patrick, 
 became the owner of the whole superiority of Skelmorlie- . 
 Cunningham, and of extensive landed property in the 
 Ards, especially at Creboy, or Creighboy, in the parish 
 of Donaghadee. He died m 1629, and by his wife, 
 Christia;i Shaw of Greenock, left three sons. Hugh, the 
 eldest, died in 1630, and was succeeded by his brother 
 
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 Colonel David Boyd,^^ who bargained for looo acres, in Gray Abby parish, Scottish Cunningham 
 measure, at i8 foot 6 inches to the perch or pole. Sir Hugh also brought with him Patrick Shavv, 
 Laird of Kelseland""? (his lady's father's brother), and Hugh Montgomery,^^ a cadet of the family of 
 Braidstane, and Mr. Thomas Nevin,'9 brother to the Laird of Mouck Roddin and Cunning- 
 
 Jolin, an officer in the army. The latter was slain at the 
 battle of Dunbar, in September, 1650, and was succeeded 
 by his son, named Patrick, who sold the greater portion 
 of his Scottish property in 1663. John Montgomery, son 
 of the latter, sold the Irish estate of Creboy in 1 716, and 
 returned to occupy the remaining portion of the family 
 property in Skelmorlie-Cunningham. — Faterson, Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. , p. 230. The first Patrick 
 Montgomery, mentioned in the text, besides the estate of 
 Creboy, received a grant from his brother in-law, sir Hugh 
 Montgomery, of the townlands called Ballyhannode and 
 Ballogortevil, in 1616. In 1623, William Hamilton was 
 in possession of the former, which he had obtained by 
 assignment from Duncan M'Lee, who had a lease of the 
 same from Patrick Montgomery, for nineteen years, com- 
 mencing from the year l6l6. — Inquisition 0/ iGz^- 
 
 °° David Boyd. — Page 41, stipra There is the follow- 
 ing account of this grant to Boyd in the Inquisition of 1623: 
 ■ — "We further find that the said lord viscoinit Ards, 
 by the name of sir Hugh Montgomery, by his deed of 
 feoffment, bearing date 7th September, 1 607, did grant 
 unto Colonel David Boyde, Esq. , his heirs and assigns for 
 ever, thetownes and lands of Ballymeskivie alsFitsthearton, 
 Ballyheghlaye als Castown, Ballymechertunere als the 
 Great Bog, Ballymaccachow, Ballytemplechrone als 
 Owlstown, Ballygrange, and Ballychallock, being in the 
 whole 1000 acres of land, Scottish measure, after 120 acres 
 to every hundred acres, with appurtenances, as tlie same is 
 marched and meared by the said deed, to hold all and 
 singular the premises, unto the said Colonel David Boyde, 
 his heirs and assigns, for ever, under the yearly rent of 
 £ib sterling, Englisli money, to be paid at the feast of 
 Pentecost, and St. Martin the buschapp, by even portions, 
 and by other services and duties as provided in the said 
 deed. Robert Boyde, son and heir to the said Colonel 
 David Boyde, on the 8th of December last was, and is, in 
 quiet possession thereof, and of every part and parcel 
 thereof, by virtue of said grant, given mito said Colonel 
 David Bo3-de deceased." A king's letter was granted, di- 
 recting a commission to issue to inquire by inquisition 
 what lands, tenements, and hereditaments v/ere'purchased 
 by colonel David Boyd, deceased, not being a free denizen 
 of either Ireland or England, from lord viscount Mont- 
 gomery of the Ards in Ulster; and of whom said lands 
 ought to l3e held, and by what tenures, rents, and services, 
 and upon the return of said inquisitioji, in consideration 
 of the good and faithful services of David, to make a grant 
 of same lands to his son, Robert Boyd. 22 March, 22 Jac. i. 
 — Cal. Pat. Rolls, yames /., p. 582. The above mentioned 
 grant is tlius referred to in the report of an Inquisition held 
 at Downpatrick on the 4th of September, 1633: — "The 
 viscount Mouutgomerie was seised, as of fee, of the tov/nes 
 and lands mencioned in a deed inJeuted, made the 7tlr 
 September, 1607, between his lordship by the name of sir 
 Hugh Mountgomerie of Bradston, knight, of the one parte, 
 and colonell David Boyde, esq., of the other parte. The 
 said colonell David Boyde was a Scottishman, borne in 
 
 the kingdom of Scotland long before King James became 
 King of England and Ireland, and at the time of 
 making of the said deed he was not made a denison, by 
 any letters pattents. All the rents and other duties, re- 
 served in and by the said deed, are in arrear, since the year 
 1625." — Ulster Inquisition, Dovjn (40), Car. I. The 
 family residence of the Boyds was in Castletown, or /Sally- 
 castle, as the place is called in the report of a post-mortem 
 Inquisition held at Downpatrick, on the 4th of October, 
 1636. — Ibid. (75), Car. I. Ballycastle (which is now 
 included, with most of the other lands held by the Boyds, 
 in the Mountstewart demesne) is supposed to have been 
 so called from the castle occupied by Thomas Smith, jun., 
 during the short interval between his coming to talce pos- 
 session of the Ards, as granted by Elizabeth in 1 5 72, and 
 his assassination by the natives in the following year. For 
 further account of the Boyd family, see Appendix C. 
 
 Laird of Kelseland. — This Patrick Shaw, being uncle 
 of sir Hugh Montgomery's lady, must have been a younger 
 son of Alexander .Shaw of Sauchie, by his second wife, 
 Elizabeth Cunningham. Kelsoland was the name of an 
 c.:>tate in the parish of Largs, so called from Hugh De 
 Kelso, or Kelcho, who owned it in 1296, and whose 
 descendants held it, without interruption until 1 624, when 
 the property passed into the hands of the .Shaws of Green- 
 ock. Patrick Shaw was not laird of Kelsoland at the 
 tinre of his co-^ing to the Ards, but having afterwards 
 obtained the estate, the author naturally give's him the 
 title by which he was best known. He was residing 
 zX Kelsoland in 1636, having probably returned to 
 Scotland in 1624. Robert Kelso of Halrig, the heir male 
 of the Kelso family, and the thirteenth in descent from 
 Hugh De Kelso the founder, re-purchased Kelsoland from 
 Hugh Shaw, son of Patrick. Robert Kelso's son, John, 
 finally alienated the estate in 1671, to James Sliaw of 
 Ballygellie, county of Antrim, who, from the time of his 
 marriage with his cousin, Elizabeth Brisbane, had taken 
 her name. See p. 52, supra. From that time, Kelsoland 
 has formed part of the Brisbane estate, in the parish of 
 Largs. — Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. 
 ii., pp. 313, 480. For an account of the sepulchral vault 
 of the .Shaws and Brisbanes, see p. 10, note 34, sup-a. 
 
 Hugh Montgomery. — A Hugh Montgomeiy, the 
 younger, held lands on the estate granted to sir James 
 Montgomery in 1629. This Hugh, who v.'as son of a 
 Hugh Montgomery in Scotland, held, among other lands, 
 the island called Jslaudmore, near Greyabbey. — Insula vo- 
 cata Ilandmore possessionata per Hugonem Mountgomery 
 juniorem et suos subleiientes,CHm pertinentiis. — Ulst. Inqicis., 
 Doion (75), Car. I. 
 
 Thomas Nevin. — Thomas Nevin was nephew of the 
 firstlady Montgomery of the Ards, one of her sisters having 
 married Andrew Nevin, second laird of Monkredding, or 
 Monkroddin, in the parish of Kilwinning. Although the 
 Monkredding estate was small, consisting only of 700 
 acres adjoining the village of Kilwinning, its lairds were 
 kinsmen of the earls of Eglinton, and appear to have 
 
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 The Montgomery 
 
 Manuscripts. 
 
 ham,3°gentlemen,hisnearallys,andalsoPatrickMoore,ofDugh,3i Neils* and Catlienvood,33 gentlemen, 
 with many others, and gave them lands in fee farm in Donaghadee parish3* (all which parish, except 
 
 been engaged in several confidential matters connected 
 with the Eghnton family. In 1581, Andrew Nevin, the 
 second laird and father of Tliomas, mentioned in the text, 
 witnessed an obligation from Margaret Maxwell, lady 
 Giffyn, and Duncan Foster of Killmoir, her spouse, to 
 the third earl of Eglinton. He also witnessed a bond 
 given by the same earl in 1582, relating to a marriage 
 contract between Robert master of Setoun and Margaret 
 Montgomerie, the earl's daughter. In 1583, Monkredding 
 was one of the witnesses to an obligation from Muir 
 of Caldwell to surrender certain papers to Agnes 
 Montgomerie, lady Sempill. — Paterson, Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii. , p. 253: Fraser, Memorials, 
 vol. ii., pp. 221, 224. Thomas Nevin, of Ballycopland, 
 parish of Donaghadee, obtained a grant of denization, in 
 May, 1617. — CaLmdar of Patent Rolls, James I., p. 326. 
 This gentleman appears to have returned to the family 
 estate in Ayrshire, where he died about 165 1. His will, 
 dated on the 22nd of January in that year, is preserved in 
 Dublin, although it was written in Scotland. In this do- 
 cument he mentions his lands in Ireland, and his son, "Mr. 
 Hew, in Ireland." — MS. Notes of Rob. S. Nicholson, Esq. 
 On coming to the Ards, it is certain that the Nevins 
 first settled in the parish of Donaghadee, where their 
 descendants continued in possession of considerable 
 landed property until late in the eighteenth century. In 
 1 77 1, the lands known as the two Ballymacre-^vses 
 were held by David and John Nevin, and had pre- 
 viously been in possession of Benjamin Nevin, prob- 
 ably their father. Besides this property, John Nevin 
 held a part of Ballyvester, and David a part of Canny- 
 reagh, in the same parish. In 1775, Jolin and William 
 Nevin held extensive house property in Donaghadee, in- 
 cluding "the water-corn mill and wind-mill." — AISS. i>i 
 possession of Daniel De la Cherois, Esq. , Donaghadee, to 
 whose kindness the editor is indebted for the loan of many 
 interesting Family Papers. 
 
 3° Ctcnningham. — This gentleman, whose Christian 
 name was John, was a younger son of John Cunningham, 
 fifteenth laird of Glengarnock, parish of Kilbirnie, and 
 brother of Jean Cunningliam, married to John Shaw of 
 Greenock. — Crawford, History of Renfrewshire, p. 125; 
 Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii. , p. 119. 
 The following notice of the grant to John Cunningham (date 
 not given) occurs in the Inquisition of 1623 : — " Wee find 
 the said Lord Montgomery granted by Deed to Jn. Cunning- 
 ham, Esqr., and the lawful heirs of his body, all and whole 
 acres of land Scottish measure, of the lands of Ballyrin- 
 creavye and Carrownemucl';, together with as much of the 
 nearest moss as is sufficient for his House, for ever ; and 
 failing his heirs to return back to the said Lord: at the 
 yearly rent of four pounds Englisli, together with I is. for his 
 Majestie's rent, at May and Hallowmas yearly, by even 
 portions ; to be holden ' A the said Hugh Montgomery in 
 free and common soccaj". " Alexander Cunningham, son 
 of said John, was in possession in 1623. 
 
 3^ Of Dugh. — Although this Patrick Moore had hved 
 at Deugh before coming to the Ards, he was probably one 
 of the Moores of Muirstown, a small estate in the vicinity 
 of Kraidstane. Deugh, or Deughlinn, is in the parish of Cars- 
 phairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, which parish occupies the moun- 
 
 tain ridge separating Ayrshire from Kirkcudbright. — Nro) 
 Statistical Account of Scotland, Kirkcudbright, p. 4. The 
 Inquisition of 1623 records no fee-farm grant to Patrick 
 Moore from sir Hugh Montgomery. In 1616, Con 
 O'Neill leased to John William Moore, the lands of 
 Ballynacrossan, alias Crossan, for the period of twenty- 
 one years, at the annual rent of twenty-six shillings. 
 Patrick Moore of Aughneil attended the funeral of the first 
 viscount Montgomery, at Newtoune, in 1626. Quintine 
 Moore of Aughneil obtained letters of denization in the 
 year 1617. — Calendar of Patent Rolls of James /., p. 329. 
 
 3^ Neil. — Probably a member of the family dwelling at 
 Mains-Neill, near Braidstane. In 1635, John Neill was 
 portioner of Mains, and Archibald Neill held the property 
 called Muirstoun at the same date. — Paterson, Account of 
 the Parishes and Families op Ayrshire, vol. i. , p. 278. 
 
 33 Cathenvood. — The Inquisition of 1623 does not men- 
 tion anygrant asmade by sir Hugh Montgomery to William 
 Catherwood, although he held lands of considerable ex- 
 tent in the parish of Dona'jhadee. On the 1st of October, 
 1630, ^Villiam and Archibald Edmonston, father and son, 
 sold to Wiliam Catherwood the towiis and lands of Bally- 
 vester for £(>12, and f<) a year rent, part of the fee-farm 
 rent of rent. The Deed recording this purchase was in 
 possession of John Catherwood, Esq., in 1 813. — MS. 
 Azotes of J. W. Hanna, Esq. William Catherwood attended 
 the funeral of the first viscount Montgomery, in 1636. 
 His son, who was styled "laird Catherwood of Bally- 
 vester, near Donaghad;;e," married a daughter of John 
 Johnson, of Ballinderr)', near Portmore, coimty of Antrim. 
 This lady was a descendant of the Hon. and Rev. Thomas 
 Johnston, third son of an earl of Annandale. — ^Johnston, 
 Hetorogenea, p. 212, Downpatrick, 1803. In a Rental of 
 the Mountalexander estate, about the year 1680, the Bally- 
 vester property is mentioned as consisting of 360 acres, the 
 chief rent of which was I 13s. A later rent-roll, about 
 the year 1700, represents William Cathenvood as occupy- 
 ing 120 acres of Ballyvester, and Robert Catherwood 80 
 acres. The Will of Luke St Laurence, Esq., Donagha- 
 dee, dated 29th April, 1763, recites, among other lands, 
 that part of Ballyvester which the testator held under 
 "Mr. William Catherwood."' In certain Deeds of Agree- 
 ment, Partition, &c., between Samuel De la Cherois and 
 Nicholas Crommelin of the first part, Richard Parsons of 
 tlie seconcf part, and R ibert Carson of the third part, 
 1771-1775, "the part or parcel of Ballyvester, formerly 
 in the possession of John Catherwood, and now or lately 
 in the possession of William Catherwood and his under- 
 tenants," is frequently specified. 
 
 s-t /;/ Donaghadee parish. — The lands given to Scottish 
 gentlemen, "in fee-farm, under small chief rents," in the 
 parish of Donaghadee, were those of Ballymacwilliam, 
 Ballyno\'a, Ballynecrosse, BalljTiemoney a//<jj Necabragh, 
 Ballycarrowreagh alias BalhTiecraghed, Ballynecraboy 
 alias Ballynecabry, Ballykilcolmucke, Ballyvaster, Bally- 
 copland, Baliykillaghy, Ballydrumchay, Ballygrange, Bally- 
 butler, Ballyfrenish, Ballyoitogee, the two Ballyhayes, 
 Carrownathan, BallvTolly, Ballymacreevey a//<2j' Necreevy, 
 Ballycoskey, Ballymoney, Ballyaughrea, Ballj'enrea, Bally- 
 ganevey, Ballvkilbracton, Ballydownan, and Carrowdore. 
 — MS. Mon.g, •:nery Patent of 2 Car. I, 
 
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 some of the town parks, is under fee farm or mortgage), under small chief rents, but did not ascertain 
 the tythes to any of them, nor would he put them into the clergy's hands, because he would keep 
 his tenants from under any one's power but his own. Besides his Lordship considered that the 
 contentions (which too frequently happen) concerning tythes, might breed dislike and aversion 
 between the people and Minister; therefore he gave unto the incumbents salaries, with glebes and 
 perquisites or book money (as they are commonly called) for marriages, christenings, burials, and 
 Easter offerings, the clerk and sexton also had their share of dues; and the people in those days 
 resorted to church and submitted to its censures, and paid willingly those small ecclesiastical dues, 
 and so were in no hazard of suits in the Ecclesiastical Court, but of their landlord, if he pleased to 
 chastise their stubborness or other misbehaviour. 3S 
 
 There came over also divers wealthy able men, to whom his Lordship gave tenements in free- 
 hold, and parks by lease, so they being as it were bound, with their heirs, to the one, they must 
 increase the rent for the other^ at the end of the term, or quit both, which makes the park lands 
 about towns give ten shillings per acre rent now, which at the plantations the tenants had for one 
 shilling rent, and these being taken, the tenants had some two, some three, and some four acres, 
 for each of which they passed a boll of barley, rent. They built stone houses, and they traded to 
 enable them buy land, to France, Flanders, Norway, &c., as they still do. 
 
 Here is to be noted, that Sir Hugh got his estate by townlands,3^ by reason of his agreement 
 with Con O'Neil, whereas other undertakers of plantations in Ulster had several scopes of land 
 (called proportions) admeasured to them, each containing one thousand acres, profitable for plough 
 and good pasture, mountains and bog not reckoned in the number, but thrown in as an appur- 
 tenance.37 In the Queen Elizabeth's reign, y* perch or pole was 24 feet long; Parliament reduced it 
 
 35 Other misbehaviour. — Sir Hugh Montgomery brought 
 with him from Scotland two or three chaplains to minister 
 to the spiritual wants of his colony. His arrangement for 
 their support appears to have been liberal, although tithes 
 were withheld, and perhaps too much was expected from the 
 collection of " small ecclesiastical dues." Sir Hugh's plan 
 may have worked well enough for a time ; but it certainly 
 did not, and could not, long continue to give satis- 
 faction to the clergy or peo])le. The former naturally 
 soon began to regret the impropriation of their tithes, 
 whilst the latter, being generally of Scottish birth, looked 
 suspiciously on all 'offerings' as savouring of popery. 
 They would willingly give yearly contributions to their 
 pastors in the shape of stipend, but not as Easter or other 
 offerings. These offerings became so oppressive through- 
 out Ireland, generally, that in the year 1641 the people 
 petitioned the Irish Parliament for relief, and some of the 
 most objectionable of the exactions were then removed. 
 See Commons Journals of Ireland, vol. i. , pp. 258-262. 
 
 3* By Townlands. — " On the townland distribution of 
 Ireland,''^ the reader may see a truly learned and most valu- 
 able paper, by the Rev. Dr. Reeves, in the Proceedings of 
 the Royal Irish Academy, vol. vii., pp. 473-490. In 
 this paper, the writer states that throughout the county of 
 Down, "the prevailing denomination was the ballyboe or 
 ' cowland,' sometimes called the careive, from the Latin 
 carucata, or plowland, which in the Bagenal Patent was 
 estinjated at three score acres. Three of these formed 
 
 the quarterland, and twelve the ballybetagh. Sometimes 
 a smaller division was in use, called the sessiagh." Of 
 the last named denomination. Dr. Reeves in a note 
 observes : — "Sessiagh is a different word from seisreach, 
 but seems to convey the idea of sixth, though in reference 
 to what standard it is difficult to say. As a measure it 
 prevailed in Donegal, Tyrone, Armagh, and was con- 
 sidered the third of a ballyboe or plowland. As a town- 
 land name it occurs simply or in composition twenty-one 
 times, and the average contents are 1 70 acres. In a stanza 
 cited by the Four Masters, at 1 03 1, we find the term 
 Seisedhach in the sense of a ' measure' " — p. 477, and 
 vote. See also an excellent paper by W. H. Hardinge, 
 Esq. , On Manuscript mapped Imvnland Surveys in Ireland, 
 of a Public c!iaracter,from their introduction to zyd October, 
 1641. — Tliis Paper is printed in the Proceedings of the 
 Royal Irish Academy, vol. viii., pp. 39-55. 
 
 37 As an appurtenance. — In the forfeited counties of 
 Ulster, namely, Tyrone, Donegal, Armagh, Fermanagh, 
 Cavan, and Coleraine (now Derry), the small sub-divi- 
 sions were thrown together to form the scope or pro- 
 portion intended for each undertaker. The first or largest 
 proportion consisted of 2,000 acres ; the second of 1,500; 
 and the third of 1000, each settler being allowed only 
 one of such lots. One-half of the whole forfeited land 
 in each county was arranged in scopes of 1,000 acres 
 each, whilst the other half was laid out in lots of 1,500 
 or 2000 acres each, thus securing the greater numbev 
 
56 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 to 21 feet, y° English perch being but i6 feet 6 inches, but Sir Hugh sett his 'land by Cunningham 
 measure, as the planters were used to have it at home, which is i8 feet 6 inches a perch. 
 
 I desire that this brief account may serve as a sampler of Sir Hugh's ist essay to his plantation, 
 for it would be tedious (as it would be impossible for me) to enumerate all the substantial personss^ 
 whom he brought or who came to plant in Gray Abbey, Newton, and comer parishes, among v/h(5hi 
 Sir William Edmeston, 7th Laird of the antient honorable family of Duntreth,39 was very consider- 
 
 of small proprietors. To prevent disputes, and the 
 evils of favouritism, the lands were drawn by lot ; and 
 to make allowance for wastes, bogs, and glens, a new 
 mode of measurement, since known as tlie Irisli ]5lantation 
 measure, was adopted. These lands were all made o\'er 
 to the occupiers and their heirs for ever. The undertakers 
 of 2,000 acres were to hold of the king in capita, each 
 undertaker of this extent being bound witliin four years to 
 build a castle and enclose a strong court-yard called a 
 bawn, and to settle upon the lands within three years forty- 
 eight able men, or twenty farmers of English or Scottish 
 birth. Of these, four were to have fee-farms of 120 
 acres each, six to be leaseholders, each occupying a farm 
 of 100 acres, whilst the remainder of the lands not 
 required for a demesne, was to be let to families of 
 cottagers, artisans, and labourers. The undertaker of 
 1,500 acres, or 1000 acres, was to hold by knight's service, 
 and to erect a house and bawn within two years. An 
 annual rent from all the lands was reserved to the crown, 
 for every sixty English acres, the British undertaker pay- 
 ing 6s 8d, the servitor los, and the native chief 13s 4.d 
 per acre. Such as had to incur the expense of re- 
 moval from England or Scotland were exempted from 
 this charge for the term of two years. All were bound to 
 reside on their lands vathin five years after the date of 
 their patents, either personally or by such agents as might 
 be approved by the government. The British undertakers 
 and servitors were prohibited from alienating their lands to 
 the Irish, lest such lands might eventually come into the 
 possession of owners who might refuse to be bound by the 
 oaths of allegiance and supremacy. The native Irish 
 undertakers held Ijy the tenure of free and common soccage, 
 and were prohibited from taking exactions or cuttings from 
 their tenants in addition to the regular rents. They were 
 at the same time required to see that their tenants ceased 
 the old custom of creaqhting, or wandering in search of 
 pasture for their cattle, and conform to the usages of 
 civilized life. — Harris, Hibernica, or some Antient Pieces 
 relating to Ireland, part i., pp. I05-241 ; Scottish Journal 
 of Topography, vol. i., pp. 107, 108. 
 
 3^ All thcsuhslantial persons. — Persons of this class gener- 
 ally took out letters of denization soon after they came to 
 Ireland, sometimes beforehand. The following received 
 such letters of denization in 1617, the majority of them 
 having settled on sir Hugh Montgoitrery's estates, prob- 
 ably ten years prior to that date, viz. :— John Wyly of 
 Ballyhay ; Nynnan Bracklie Newton of Donoghdie ; 
 Robert Boyle of Drumfad; John Montgomery of Ballyma- 
 crosse; Robert Harper of Provostoun ; William Cader- 
 wood of Ballyfrenzeis; John Barkleyof BallyroUy ; Hector 
 Moore of Donan ; William Hunter of Donan ; William 
 Moore of IVIilntowne ; John Thompson of Blackabbey ; 
 Charles Domelston of Proveston ; Walter Logane of tlie 
 game ; Thomas Nevin of Ballicoplaud ; William Wjtois 
 
 of Newtowne ; William Crawford of Cuningbum ; Andrew 
 Agnewc of Camie ; Gilbert Adare of Ardehine ; Robert 
 Wilson of Newtowne ; James Vv'illiamson of Clay ; Claud. 
 ConjTigham of Donoghdie ; James Cathcart of Ballirogane ; 
 Patrick Montgomerie of Ballycreboy ; William Cuning- 
 hame of Donoghdie ; Robert Montgomery of Donoghdie ; 
 William Montgomery of Donoghdie ; John Peacocke of 
 Ballidonan ; John Cuningham of Rinchrivie ; Hugh 
 Cunyngham of Castlespick ; David Cun)'ngham of Drum- 
 fad ; Patrick Shaw of Balliwalter ; Hugh Montgomery of 
 Cranshaghe ; John Maxwell of Ballihalbert ; John Mont- 
 gomery of the Redene ; Michael Craig of the Redene ; 
 James Cowper of Ballichosta; Thomas Agnew, Grayabbey; 
 Quintene Moore of Aughneill ; Thomas Boyde of Crowners- 
 ton ; John Mowlen, of the same ; Patrick Allen of Bally- 
 donane ; John Harper, John Eraser, John Moore, James 
 McMakene, and Jolin Aickin, all of Donaghdie ; John 
 Harper, Ballyhay; James Ma.xv%'ell of Gransho ; Da%-id 
 Boyde, Glasroche; Uthred M'Dowgall of Ballimaconnell ; 
 Thomas Kelso, Ballyhacamore ; David M'llveyne, Balle- 
 logan ; \\'illiam Moore, preacher at Newton ; Thomas 
 Harvie of Newton; William Shaw of Ballykilconan ; 
 Andrew Sempill of Ballygrenie ; David Anderson of 
 Castlecanvarie ; David Kennedy of Gortivillan ; Allen 
 W^ilson of Newton ; Matthew Montgomery of Donoghdie; 
 John Marten of Dunnevilly ; Alexander Speire of Gray 
 Abbey. — Calendar of Pat. Rolls, James I., pp. 326, 339. 
 
 35 Of Dnntrelh. — This W'illiam Edmonston was the 
 seventh in descent from sir William Edmonston of CuUo- 
 den, who married lady Mary Stewart, a daughter of 
 Robert HI. , and obtained, through this connexion, a grant, 
 in 1452, of the lordship of Duntreath, in Stirlingshire. 
 On the 1st of June, 1498, sir Archibald Edmonston, the 
 second lord of Duntreath, entered into a contract with 
 Hew, lord Montgomerie, by v;'hich John, the eldest son 
 of the latter, was bound to marry Bessy or Elizabeth Ed- 
 monston, eldest daughter of sir Archibald ; and failing 
 Bessy, then Katern, and failing Katern, then Helen, 
 all bound in succession to many a son of lord Montgomerie. 
 Although such prospective arrangements may appear 
 strange to us, they were frequent between powerful families, 
 and were required to cement alliances during the stormy 
 feudal ages. For several contracts of this nature in the 
 Eglinton family, see Eraser's jMemorials, vol. ii., pp. 28, 
 52, 68, 88. In the instance alcove mentioned, the parties 
 originally intended by the contract were married, but a 
 dispensation was required from Rome, probably on the 
 ground of relationship between John Montgomerie and 
 Bessy Edmonston. The dispensation cost £16 — a consi- 
 derable sum in the fifteenth century — and was negotiated 
 through Andrew llaliburton, a .Scotch commission mer- 
 chant, residing generally at Middleljurgh, but earn ing on 
 business at the Fairs of Berri, Bruges, and Antwerp. — 
 Cosmo Innes, Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 245. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 57 
 
 able, both for purse and people, but after some years he sold his interest and settled his family in 
 Broad Island, and there built two slated houses, on y° Dalway's estate,'*° near Carrickfergus.4' 
 
 William Edmonston, mentioned in the text, mortgaged 
 the Duntreath estate to sir William Livingstone of 
 ■Kilsylhe, and invested the money thus raised in the 
 purchase of land on the Irish coast. This step he, and 
 his brother James, were probably induced to take \\\ 
 consequence of the unfortunate political troubles in which 
 their father, sir James Edmonston, the sixth laird, had in- 
 volved himself, by entering into a conspiracy against the 
 liberty of the young king, James VI., immediately after 
 the celebrated Raid of Rntkvcn. Three of sir James's 
 fellow-conspirators, named Douglass, Cunningham, and 
 Hamilton, were executed, but he having pleaded guilty, 
 and implored the king's mercy, was permitted to live. 
 Although he had held the high office of justice-deputy of 
 Scotland, sir James never afterwards appeared in pviblic 
 life. His sons, William and James, who are described as 
 of Dinithriffe (Duntreath), obtained a grant of denization, 
 on the l8th of August, 1607, Erck's Repertory, of 
 Patent Rolls, p. 346, and soon afterwards appeared in the 
 Ards. In Calendar of Patent Rolls of fames /., p. 105, 
 their Scottish estate is named Dunthriffe. A grant from 
 sir Hugh Montgomery, conveying to William Edmonston 
 the lands of Ballybreen or Ballybrian, and part of Bally- 
 monestragh, is dated the 25th August, 1607. •" The 
 Scottish contract," made on that occasion, is stated 
 in the Inquisition of 1623, to be ',' now in the pos- 
 session of William Edmonston, Esq., according to an 
 order of the Council Table, bearing date the 25th of 
 February, 1616." The lands of Ballybrian, parish of 
 Greyabbey, were held in 1 629 by Archibald Edmonston, 
 son of William, and occupied by his undertenants, as 
 appears by a grant in that year from the first viscount to 
 his son, sir James Montgomery. — MS. in the possession of 
 Daniel De la Cherois, Esq. These lands, together with the 
 two Ballyvesters, in the parish of Donaghadee, had been 
 granted, on the 20th of July, 1624, by the first viscount 
 and his eldest son Htigh, to William Edmonston of Broad 
 Island, Isobel his wife, and Archibald his son, in con- 
 sideration of a sum of ^250. On the ist of Oct., 1630, 
 the Edmonstons, father and son, sold the Ballyvester 
 property to William Catherwood, for £,(i\2. Note 33, 
 supra. The Inquisition of 1623 mentions that William 
 Edmonston held considerable tithe property in Lecale, 
 in conjunction with Hugh Kessane and Col. David Boyd. 
 These several holdings in the county of Down were sold 
 from time to time, the owner having pennanently settled 
 at Broadisland, in the county of Antrim, so early as the 
 year 1609. 
 
 '■° Dala'afs Estate. — This estate was not formally 
 granted to John Dal way until the 4th of July, 1608. In 
 its original dimensions it consisted of the two territories or 
 tuoghs of Ballynowre and Braden-Island, together with 
 two parcels in Carrickfergus, the latter being bounded by 
 premises owned by William Dobbin, Owen M'Edmond 
 McGey, John V/ills, Tho. Stephenson, Tho. Hibbotts, 
 Wiliam l>athe, and Mary Vaughan. The names of the 
 towns and lands in Braden-Island were Ballihill, the 
 mountain of Arlonewater, Ballymullagh, Kilhoe, White- 
 head, Balleslannan, Ballibanlragh, Ballimullaghmoyle, 
 Ballyharrington-Savage, Ballyalfrackaman, Ballyisland- 
 ogree, and Clubforde, This property was granted to be 
 
 held for ever at the yearly rent of ^6 1 3s 4d. , in common 
 soccage. — Calendar of Patent Rolls, James I., p. 125. 
 
 Near Cai-rickfergiis. — On the 26th of May, 1609, 
 John Dalway of Brayde-Island, esq., granted to William 
 Edmonston of Duntrath, in Scotland, esq., the towns, 
 lands, fishings, and hereditaments of Leslanan, Whiteheade, 
 Holmanstowne, Spearpointstowne, Islandogree, Allfrackyn, 
 Readhall, Harington-Savage, Molag'nmoyle, and Ballin- 
 vantroe, all lying within the towagh or barony of Brayde- 
 Island ; and also all other the lands which he had, or of 
 right ought to have, within the following limits — 2870 
 acres at the rate of 160 perches to an acre, and ■2\\ feet 
 to every perch, viz., from the ford called Cloobford, on the 
 south-west part by a bog or marshy ground to a ford or 
 water called Beltyde-Ford, near the town or village of Bel- 
 tyde; thence to a lough called Loughduffe; thence to 
 Raven's Rock ; thence by Cloghbally-Edvi'ard to Lissi- 
 nusky, according to the mears between Brayde-Island and 
 Magherimorne to Loghlarne, and by the said lough to a 
 place called Fort-Alexander; thence further to a little stream 
 dividing Island-Maghie and Brayd-Island to Castle-Chi- 
 chester lately built, and so by the south part of the said 
 castle to the sea; and so on by the sea-coast to Cloghocrye, 
 otherwise the Partition-Trench, which are the bounds be- 
 tween the lands of Spearpointstown and the lands of Kilroute 
 and Ballymacmurtagh to Island O'Dreyne, and so forward 
 upon the south-west side of a small river to a trench or 
 ditch to be madeandcastup bythe landsof John Dobbe and 
 Ballyhill, directly to a place v.-hereat a stream coming from 
 the bog near Clubbford, fell into the said river running near 
 Castle-Dobbe, and so forward by that stream to the said 
 bog near Clubbford aforesaid ; — the advowson and right of 
 patronage of the rectoiy and vicarage of Templacurran in 
 Brayde-Island; with free warren, hawking, hunting, fish- 
 ing, and fowling within the premises; reserving to said 
 Dahvay and his heirs all the tithes and tenths of the 
 premises, wrecks of the sea, courts leet and baron, and 
 all the lands then in the possession or occupation of the 
 said John Dobbe, within Brayde-Island, and all other lands, 
 &c. , which the said Dalway had or ought to have within the 
 said towagh or barony, which were not herein mentioned to 
 be contained within the mears and bounds before expressed; 
 also, common of turbary, and free common of pasture 
 without number, for all manner of cattle commonable, 
 which the said Edmundston, his heirs and their tenants, 
 should keep to be going and depasturing together with the 
 cattle of the said Dalway and Dobbe in Brayde-Island, in, 
 by, and througli all that great waste, heath, or common of 
 Brayde-Island, lying toward the W. and N. W. of Lough- 
 morne and Beltyde, and all other the lands in Brayde- 
 Island ; except the lands of John Dobbe, and 400 acres 
 which the said Dalway intended to lay to his manor 
 house of Dalway, and all such lands as he had formerly 
 granted to sir Arthur Chichester, knt., lord-deputy of 
 Ireland — To hold to the said Edmondston, and his heirs, 
 by fealty, suit of the said manor-court, and a rent of 
 £\bo 9s. 4d. sterling, atthe parish church of St. Nicholas 
 of Carrickfergus, with a herriot upon the death of every 
 freeholder or principal tenant, viz., the best beast or ;,^'3 
 English in lieu thereof, at the election of the heir of each 
 freeholder, and to attend said Dalway with five horsemen 
 
58 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Therefore let us now pause a while, and we shall wonder how this plantation advanced itself 
 (especially in and about the towns of Donaghadee and Newton), considering that in the spring 
 time, Ao. 1606, those parishes were now more wasted than America (when the Spaniards landed 
 there), but were not at all incumbered with great woods to be felled and grubbed, to the discourage- 
 ment or hindrance of the inhabitants, for in all those three parishes aforesaid, 30 cabins could not 
 be found, nor any stone walls, but ruined roofless churches, and a few vaults at Gray Abbey, and 
 a stump of an old castle in Newton, in each of which some Gentlemen sheltered themselves at their 
 first coming over. 43 
 
 when necessary. — Calendar of Patent Rolls of James 1., 
 p. 278. The Ballymena estate was at first lield jointly 
 between William Edmondston and William Adair. 
 William Edmondston died on the I2th or 13th of Septem- 
 ber, 1626. Hiswife, Isobel, sun'ived until the 13th of March, 
 1638. — Ulster Inquisitions, Kn^nm (3, 131), Car. I. On 
 her death, his son Archibald came into full possession, and 
 sold as much of the Red-hall estate as was required to free 
 Duntreath from the mortgage held against it by the Living- 
 stones. This eighth laird represented Stirlingshire in the 
 Scottish parliament which met at Edinburgh in the year 
 1633, 2.nd was also a prominent actor in the political and 
 religious affairs of Ulster. He died in 1 636, leaving two 
 sons, William, who was twelve years of age at the time 
 of his father's death, and Archibald. William, tlie 
 elder of these sons, being a deaf mute, did not succeed 
 to the property, but he bore the Scottish title, and was 
 well known in his life-time as the "dumb laird of 
 Duntreath." The following story was told of his boy- 
 hood in the vicinity of Duntreath castle. Having dis- 
 covered that he was frequently overlooked by the other 
 members of the family on account of his " inability to 
 communicate, and being in particular left at home when 
 the rest went to church, he was found one day, on the 
 family returning from worship, sitting among the horses 
 in the stable. When his mother let him know that this 
 conduct excited surprise, he imparted to her, by such 
 means as were at his comijiand, that seeing himself treated 
 as if he were something less than a human being, he had 
 thought it only right and proper that he should place him- 
 self in the society of the animals, who had the same de- 
 ficiency as himself. The reproach was felt, and he was 
 thenceforth treated more on a footing of equality, and 
 allowed to go to church with the rest of the family." There 
 is a portrait of the deaf and dumb laird still preserved at 
 Colzium House, the seat of the Edmonstons of Duntreath, 
 and this portrait is described as presenting an aspect of 
 intelligence much beyond what one, subject to so great a 
 deprivation, could have been supposed to possess. His 
 family were rigidly devoted Presbyterians, and among the 
 good people of that persuasion he got the character of 
 L'.iiig prj-eminently pious, some even going so far as to 
 allege that he possessed the gift of clairvoyance or second- 
 sight. For .several ridiculous illustrations of his second- 
 sight, see the Rev. Robert Law's Alemorahle Things, from 
 1638 to 1684, as quoted by Chambers, in his Domestic 
 Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., pp. 384, 3S5. 
 
 ''- More coasted than America. — This state of desolation 
 was the result, in a great measure, of Mountjoy's ruthless 
 policy, as carried out against the natives by Chichester 
 and his officers, especially in the county of Down. The 
 
 following extract from Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, is 
 an awful record of the condition to which the hapless 
 natives were reduced: — "Now because I haue often 
 made mention formerly of our destroying the Rebels 
 Come, and vsing al meanes to famish them, let me by 
 two or three examples show the miserable estate to which 
 the Rebels were thereby brought. Sir Arthur Chichester, 
 Sir Richard Moryson, and the other Commanders of the 
 Forces, sent against Bryan Mac Art aforesaid, in 
 their returne homeward, saw a most horrible spectacle 
 of three cliildren (whereof the eldest was not aboue ten 
 yeeres old), all eating and knawing with their teeth the 
 entrals of their dead mother, vpon whose flesh they had 
 fed twenty dayes past, and hauing eaten all from the 
 feete upward to the bare bones, resting it continually by 
 a slow fire, were now come to the eating of her said en- 
 trails in like sort roasted, yet not diuided from the body, 
 being as yet raw. . . . Captaine Treiior and many 
 honest Gentlemen lying in the Ne^ury can witnes, that 
 some old women of those parts, vsed to make a fier in the 
 fields, and diners little children driuing out the cattel in 
 the cold mornings, and comming thither to warme them, 
 were by them surprised, killed and eaten, which at last was 
 discovered by a great girle breaking from them by strength 
 of her body, and Captaine Treuor sending out souldiers to 
 know the truth, they found the childrens skulles and 
 bones, and apprehended the old women, who were exe- 
 cuted for the fact. The Captaines of Carrickfa-gns, and the 
 adjacent Garrisons of the Northerne parts can witnesse 
 that vpon the making of peace, and receiuing the rebels 
 to mercy, it was a common practise among the common 
 sort of them (I meane such as were not Sword-men), to 
 thnist long needles into the horses of our English troopes, 
 and they dying thereupon, to bee readie to teare out one 
 anothers throate for a share of them. And no spectacle 
 was more frequent in the Ditches of Townes, and espe- 
 ciallie in wasted Countries, then to see multitudes of 
 these poore people dead with their moutbes all coloured 
 greene by eating nettles, docks, and all tilings they could 
 rend vp aboue ground." — Part ii., book 3, chap. I 
 (p. 271). 
 
 Canning over. — The author's words implies an extent 
 of desolation seldom produced even by the dire agencies of 
 war. The destruction of all religious houses in the district 
 was the work of sir Brian MacFelim O'Neill, who with the 
 connivance of the English, had usurped the chieftainship 
 of both LTpper and Lower Clannaboy, when his uncle, sir 
 Con, and his elder brother, Hugh, were prisoners in Dub- 
 lin Castle. Brian's allegiance was always doubtful, but 
 he suddenly assumed a hostile attitude on hearing that the 
 queen had made a grant of the Ards, to sir Thomas Smith, 
 
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 59 
 
 But Sir Hugh in the said spring brought with him divers artificers, as smiths, masons, carpenters, 
 &c. I knew many of them old men when I was a boy at school, and had little employments for 
 some of them, and heard them tell many things of this plantation which I found true. 44 They soon 
 made cottages and booths for themselves, because sods and saplins of ashes, alders, and birch trees 
 (above 30 years old) with rushes for thatch, and bushes for wattles, were at hand. 45 And also they 
 made a shelter of the said stump of the castle for Sir Hugh, whose residence was mostlie there, as 
 
 His letters of remonstrance against this apparently unex- 
 pected injustice are still preserved, and clearly indicate the 
 writer's characteristic vigour' and intelligence. On the 
 6th of March, 1572, he wrote from Belfast to the lord 
 Deputy, informing him that the grant to the Smiths, father 
 and son, had been actually made, and expressing his con- 
 viction that Elizabeth could not have thus given away his 
 lands, had she been made aware of his (the writer's) 
 sacrifices in her service. Knowing that the deputy was 
 opposed to Smith's grant, sir Brian concluded his letter, 
 which was written in Latin, by boldly announcing that her 
 majesty's act must be cancelled. A few days subsequently 
 he wrote to the queen a Cayri;rfergusia, remonstrating against 
 granting his lands to Smith, and stating that the Ards 
 belonged to his ancestors during more than fourteen descents. 
 This letter is also written in Latin, and signed Bernardus 
 Nele filius Plulimei. On the 27th March, he addressed 
 himself to the Council in plain English, from Knock- 
 fcrgus, stating, among other matters, that "there have been 
 certaine bookes spred in print, that it hath pleased the 
 queen's highnes to geve unto sir Thomas Smith, knight, 
 and Thomas Smith, his sone, some part of the countrie, 
 the which hath bene possessed by myne ancestours above 
 fourteene discents, as their inheritance, namelye Clande- 
 boye." Hamilton's Calendar of State Papers, vol. i., pp. 
 467, 469. O'Neill evidently uses the term Clandeboye 
 as including the Great Ardes, which it did at that period, 
 and he reckons, probably, from the time of the conquests 
 made in Down and Antrim by his ancestor, Hugh Boy I. 
 The "bookes spred in print" to which he refers were 
 several Broadsides\i&\xeA in connection with Smith's project, 
 one of which bore the following title : — " The Offer and 
 Order given forth by Sir T. S., and T. .S., his son, in 
 his voyage for inhabiting some parts of the North of 
 Ireland. The payment to begin four years hence — 1750. 
 God save the Queen.'''' Ulster Journal of Archceology, vol. 
 iii. , p. 45. These remonstrances on the part of Sir Brian, 
 and also the suggestions of the queen's agents in Ulster, 
 were alike unheeded, as her majesty had set her heart on 
 the colonisation of the Ards by the Smiths. Then came 
 the revolt of O'Neill, during the progress of which 
 that chieftain literally swept the country with fire and 
 sword, burning the abbeys of Bangor, Movilla, and Com- 
 ber, together with all other structures which might be 
 made available as garrisons for the English, and complet- 
 ing his desolating raid by laying the town of Carrickfergus in 
 ashes. The abbeys and other houses then destroyed were 
 never afterwards repaired, and when sir Hugh Montgomery 
 and his colonists arrived, only the walls remained, which, 
 in most instances, soon afterwards disappeared. In 1573, 
 the earl of Essex was appointed governor of Ulster, and, 
 among other cruel and treacherous acts which rendered his 
 government not only a failure but an infamy in history, 
 was the assassination of sir Brian MacFelim O'Neill, 
 
 whom the English had originally brought out in opposi- 
 tion to the interests of his own family and race. The 
 following account of his seizure and execution is recorded 
 in the Aniuils of Ireland under the year 1574: — "Peace, 
 sociality, and friendship, were established between Brian 
 the son of Felim Bacagh O'Neill, and the Earl of Essex ; 
 and a feast was afterwards prepared by Brian, to which 
 the Lord Justice and the chiefs of his people were invited; 
 and they passed three nights and days together pleasantly 
 and cheerfully. At the expiration of this time, however, 
 as they were agreeably drinking and making merry,_ 
 Brian, his brother, and his wife, were seized upon by the 
 Earl, and all his people put imsparingly to the sword, men, 
 women, youths, and maidens, in Brian's own presence. 
 Brian was afterwards sent to Dublin, together with his wife 
 and brother, where they were cut in quarters. Such was the 
 end of their feast. This unexpected massacre, this wicked 
 and treacherous murder, of the lord of the race of Hugh 
 Boy O'Neill, the head and the senior of the race of 
 Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and of all the 
 Gaels, a few only excepted, was a sufficient cause of hatred 
 and disgust to the Irish." After the death of sir Brian 
 MacFelim, the Ards had a short interval of rest, during 
 which some English farmers settled therein; but their 
 small beginnings of prosperity were in turn swept away by 
 the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone. The 
 old castle at Newton, of which only the "stump" remained, 
 originally belonged to the O'Neills, and occupied the tite 
 now known as the Castle Gardens. The reader may find 
 much interesting matter in reference to Essex's move- 
 ments in Ulster by consulting Devereux's Lives aud 
 Letters of the Devereux, jEarls of Essex, 2 vols. , 8vo, 
 1853- 
 
 / found true. — These conversations between the 
 author and the old men who had come to settle at Newton 
 in 1606, occurred between 1644 and 1650. See p. 2, 
 note 4, supra. 
 
 43 Were at hand — On the forfeited lands of Ulster, 
 the tenant settlers often built their first dwellings in similar 
 fashion. The houses in Belturbet were built of cage-iciork, 
 large trees being, no doubt, used to make the frames, 
 and the underwood for wattles to fill up the spaces 
 between. — Harris, Llihernica, p. 150. In this important 
 matter of hastily constructing their first abodes, the settlers 
 in the Ards and elsewhere took a lesson from the native 
 Irish inhabitants. The dwellings of the latter, everywhere 
 throughout Ulster, were then made of wattles, covered 
 with sods, which they could easily remove and erect again, 
 as they wandered from jilrice to place in following their 
 herds of cattle, with their wives and children, and seeking 
 "fresh fields and pastures new," as their exigencies re- 
 quired. The aggregate of families thus following one herd 
 of cattle was called a creaght. — Fynes Moryson, Itinerary, 
 p. 164; aud Spenser's State of Ireland, p. 35, as quoted 
 
6o, 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 in the centre of being supplied with necessaries from Belfast (but six miles thence), who therefore 
 came and set up a market in Newtown, for profit for both the towns. As likewise in the fair summer 
 season (twice, sometimes thrice every week) they were supplied from Scotland, as Donaghadee was 
 oftener, because but three hours sail from Portpatrick, where they bespoke provisions and necessaries 
 to lade in, to be brought over by their own or that town's boats whenever wind and weather served 
 them, for there was a constant flux of passengers coming daily over. 
 
 I have heard honest old men say that in June, July, and August, 1607, people came from 
 Stanraer, four miles, and left their horses at the port, hired horses at Donaghadee, came with their 
 wares and provisions to Newton, and sold them, dined there, staid two or three hours, and returned 
 to their houses the same day by bed-time, their land journey but 20 miles. Such was their en- 
 couragement from a ready market, and their kind desires to see and supply their friends and 
 kindred, which commerce took quite away the evil report of wolves and woodkerns, which en^yers 
 of planters' industry had raised and brought upon our plantations; but, notwithstanding thereof, by 
 the aforesaid Gentlemen's assiduity to people their own farms, which they did, Ao. 1607, after Sir 
 Hugh and his Lady's example, they both being active and intent on the work (as birds, after payr- 
 
 in the Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of 
 Ireland A rchaological Society, vol. iii. , p. 423. 
 
 ■t* Upon oitr plantations. — These startling rumours were 
 not witliout foundation, and could not be traced exclus:\-ely 
 to "the envyers of planters' industry." The Cethern 
 Coille, or 'Wood-Kern,' constituted one of Ireland's direst 
 evils, from an early period do^\'n to the close of the seven- 
 teenth century, when the extensive woods and forests had 
 ranerally disappeared. Multitudes of the natives who were 
 ciriven from their habitations by the Anglo-Norman in- 
 vaders took refuge in the woods, from which they preyed 
 upon the herds and flocks of their conquerors. Strongbow 
 in the cast, De Courcy in the north, L)e Burgh in the west, 
 Fitzstephen and De Cogan in the south, and De Lacy in 
 the central plains of Ireland, were more or less surrounded 
 and circumvented by the Cethern Coille. So early as 
 1297 the English settlers endeavoured to grapple with the 
 evil by the enactment of a law against wood-kern. One 
 passage in this Act recites that the Irish assume a ImM- 
 ness in their offences, by reason of the confidence they gain 
 from the denity of the woods, and the depth of the adja- 
 cent morasses ; that the king's highways are often ob- 
 structed by the rapid growth of the trees, so that the 
 wood-kem cannot be overtaken, — and therefore it was 
 ordained that all lords of the woods and their tenants 
 should be compelled to keep the ancient passes clear, by 
 the removal of the growing trees and fallen timber. The 
 \\'Oods being thus such convenient and impregnable hid- 
 ing-places for such as had lost their inheritance in the 
 plains, the clearing of the country hence became an im- 
 iiortant work with the English settlers of the Pale. In a 
 description of Ireland written in the time of Elizabeth, it 
 is stated that " there was then a great plenty of woods, 
 except iu Leinster, where, herctc^fore, for their great incon- 
 \ eniences, finding them to be :\;aviy hives to harbour Irish 
 rebells, they have been cut do :. :ie, so that nowe they are 
 enforced in those parts, for want of fewel, to burne turves." 
 .See Paper by the late Mr. Hore in yonrnal of tiie Kilkenny 
 and South-east of Irelatid Archaological Society, new series, 
 vol. ii.-, pp. 23 1 -33. But when the planters came to Ulster 
 
 in the seventeenth century, they found the woods and 
 morasses here in great abundance, and infested not only 
 by the regular wood-kem but a large number of native 
 soldiers who had served under Hugh O'Neill. In the au- 
 thor's A'a7-rativeof Cransheogk, which will be printed in its 
 proper place, he tells of the massacre by wood-kem, of 
 John Montgomery of Gransheogh, together with all his 
 family, excepting the eldest son. This settler was cousin 
 to sir Hugh Montgomery, and, prior to his settlement on 
 the coast of Down, had married a wealthy heiress belong- 
 ing to one of the numerous influential families of the 
 Stewarts in Scotland. His reputed wealth was supposed 
 to be the fatal cause of his murder, but it is quite as pro- 
 bable that the v.-ood-kern who perpetrated the deed had 
 been previously occupiers of the lands on which he had 
 lucklessly settled. In Blennerhassett's Direction for the 
 Plantation in Ulster, published in 1 610, as quoted by 
 Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. i. p. 
 80, it is stated that " sir Toby Caulfield's people (county 
 of Amiagh) are driven every night to lay up all liis cattle, 
 as it were inward, and do he and his what they can, 
 the wolfe and the wood-keme, within culiver shot of 
 his fort, have oftentimes a share." In Adair's True 
 Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Presbyterian 
 Church in Ireland, Edited by the Rev. Dr. Killen, it 
 is stated at p. 9, that " the wolf and wood-kem were 
 greatest enemies to the first planters, but the long-rested 
 land did yield to the labourers such plentiful increase 
 that many followed these first essayers." See also 
 Pynnar's .Survey of Ulster, in Hairis's Hihernica, p. 22S. 
 The wood-kern always found an asylum among the creaghts 
 referred to in the preceding note. These communities, 
 therefore, soon became suspected by the government, 
 and stringent measures were enacted for their disper- 
 sion, and even for the punishment of such Irish tenants 
 as lived outside, or at a distance from tov.Tis and 
 villages, and who, it was alleged, connived with the 
 wood-kem. See yonrnal of the Kilkenny and South-east 
 of Ireland Archaological Society, old series, vol. iiL, 
 pp. 427, 428. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 ing to make nests for their brood), then you might see streets and tenements regularly set out, and 
 houses rising as it were out of the ground (like Cadmus's colony) on a sudden, so that these dwell- 
 ings became towns immediately. 
 
 Yet among all this care and indefatigable industry for their families, a place of God's honor to 
 dwell in was not forgotten nor neglected, for indeed our forefathers were more pious than ourselves, 
 and so soon as said stump of the old castle was so repaired, (as it was in spring time, 1606,) as 
 might be shelter for that year's summer and harvest, for Sir Hugh and for his servants that winter, 
 his piety made some good store of provisions in those fair seasons, towards roofing and fitting the 
 chancel of that church, for the worship of God ^-^^ and therein he needed notwithdraw his own planters 
 from working for themselves, because there were Irish Gibeonets'*? and Garrons enough in his woods 
 to hew and draw timber for the sanctuary j and the general free contribution of the planters, some 
 with money, others with handycrafts, and many with labouring, was so great and willingly given, that 
 the next year after this, viz. Ao. 1607, before winter it was made decently serviceable, and Sir Hugh 
 had brought over at first two or three Chaplains5° v/ith him for these parishes. In summer 1608, some - 
 
 Towns immediately. — The settlers had all the 
 materials for building amply supplied to them in the 
 Ards, with the one exception of lime which could not be 
 had nearer than Belfast, or in the vicinity of Lisburn. 
 They had quarries of the best common building stone in 
 every parish, inexhaustible stores of freestone at Scrabo, 
 and timber of the largest size and in enormous quantities 
 on the four townlands in Slut Neills, which had been 
 secured by purchase from Con O'Neill, for the use of sir 
 Hugh Montgomery's tenants. Slate quarries were opened 
 at various times, and, in some instances, from an early 
 period, at Greyabbey, Bangor, Ballywalter, and Eally- 
 dunlady in Castlereagh. Of the town of Newtownards, 
 Harris observes, at p. 59, of his Antient and Present 
 State of the County of Down, " that it is well paved, and 
 has many neat houses in it, on the front of several of 
 which are the dates and names of the builders cut in 
 stone. There is a humorous, perhaps a modest inscription 
 over the door of one of them, we know not by whom 
 erected, which runs thus : — Not by my 7nerit, tJiat I 
 inherit.'''' Nearly all the houses of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, having dates and names, have disappeared. In 
 Mill Street, there is a one storey house having the inscrip- 
 tion "J. M. E. N. 1686." In North Street is a house 
 with the following : — " Built by John McuUough, 1690." 
 
 For the tvorship of God. — The settlers who came to 
 the county of Down with sir Hugh Montgomery and sir 
 James Hamilton were probably of a better and more 
 respectable class than those who generally occupied 
 the escheated counties of Ulster. Andrew Stewart's 
 description of the English and Scottish settlers generally 
 is not flattering :—" From Scotland," says he, "came 
 many, and from England not a few, yet all of them gener- 
 ally the scum of both nations, who, for debt, or breaking 
 and fleeing from justice, or seeking shelter, came hither, 
 hoping to be without fear of man's justice in a land where 
 there was nothing, or but little, as yet, of the fear of God. 
 And in a few years, there flocked such a multitude of 
 people from Scotland that these northern counties of 
 Down, Antrim, Londonderrj', &c., were in a good 
 
 measure planted, which had been waste before ; yet most 
 of the people, as I said before, made up a body (and, 
 it's strange, of different names, nations, -dialects, tempers, 
 breeding, and, in a word, all void of godliness), who 
 seemed rather to flee from God in this enterprise than 
 to follow their own mercy. Yet God followed them 
 when they fled from him — albeit, at first it must be re- 
 membered that they cared little for any church. " — Stew- 
 art's History, as published with Adair's Narrative, pp. 
 313. 314- 
 
 Irish Gibeotiets. — This allusion shows pretty clearly 
 t'le estimate in which these settlers held the native Irish 
 inhabitants. The actual name Gibeonites is only once 
 applied to the people of Gibeon — 2 Sam. xxi. i — 9, Au- 
 thorised Version of the Bible. They were Gibeonites, but by 
 race Hivites, who by a stratagem obtained the protection 
 of the Israelites, and, on discovery of the stratagem, were 
 condemned to be perpetual bondsmen, hewers of wood 
 and drawers of water, for the congregation, and for the 
 house of God and altar of Jehovah. (Joshica, ix., 17, 
 23, 27. ) Saul violated the covenant made with this miser- 
 able people, and in a fit of enthusiasm, or patriotism, slew 
 some of them, and planned the general massacre of the 
 rest. (2 Sam. xxi., I, 2, 5-) This treacheiy was ex- 
 piated many years after, by the Israelites giving up seven 
 men of Saul's descendants to the Gibeonites, who hung 
 them, or crucified them, " before Jehovah," as a kind of 
 sacrifice in Gibeah, Saul's own town. (Verses 4, 6, 9.) 
 At the time of the writing of this scriptural narrative, the 
 Gibeonites had become so identified with the Israelites 
 that the historian inserts at verse 2, a note explanatory of 
 their origin and their non-Israelitish extraction. See 
 Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, voce Gibeonites. 
 
 s° Three chaplains. — Two of these chaplains were pro- 
 bably David M 'Gill and James Montgomery, whose names 
 are afterwards introduced. A Mr. David Maxill of Gray- 
 abbey is mentioned in the grant of 1629 from the first 
 viscount to sir James Montgomery ; he probably came as 
 a chaplain at the commencement of the plantation, or soon 
 afterwards. 
 
62 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 of the priory walls^^ were roofed and fitted for his Lady and children and servants (which were many) 
 to live in. 
 
 Now the harvests 1606 and 1607 had stocked the people with grain, for the lands were never 
 naturally so productive since that time, except where no plough had gone, and where sea oars^" (called 
 wreck) is employed for dung, to that degree that they had to sparess and to sell to the succeeding 
 new coming planters, who came over the more in number and the faster, because they might sell 
 their own grain at a great price in Scotland, and be freed of trouble to bring it with them, and could 
 
 5' Priory -walls. —'YVxs prioiy, the walls of which were 
 thus made available for the construction of a private 
 residence, was originally a Dominican house. It "is 
 styled by De Burgo ' Coenobium Sancti Columbss,' and 
 its foundation ascribed to Walter de Burgo, a. D. 1244." 
 Reeves„in Ulster Journal of Archceology, vol. ii. , p. 55, 
 note; see also Reeves, Eccles. Antiquities, p. 13; and 
 Archdall, Monasticon Hiber?iiaim, p. 127. Harris says : 
 — "A convent of Dominican Friars was settled here in 
 the year 1244, by the Savages (as it is said), in which 
 Chapters of the Order were held in 1298 and 1312." — 
 State of the County of Dorvn, p. 56. 
 
 5^ Sea oar. — Sea-oar appears in Johnson's Dictionary as 
 Oreweed or Orezoood, which is explained " a weed either 
 growing upon the rocks under high watermark, or broken 
 from the bottom of the sea by rough weather, and cast 
 upon the coast by the wind and flood." In the county of 
 Dublin the sea weed which the people gather for manure 
 is called by them IVoar, which is the old English name. 
 In Scotland, it is -wraic ; in the Channel Islands, vraic ; 
 and in France, varech. So important is this product con- 
 sidered as a manure that -a proverb among the inhabitants 
 of Guernsey is — point de vraic, point de hantgard, ' No 
 sea-weed, no corn stacks.' The reader may see an inte- 
 resting account of sea-oar, and its uses, in Cuthbert Bede's 
 Glencreggan., or, A Highland Home in Cantire, vol. ii. , pp. 
 100, 156, 158, 159, 160, 162, 164. Sea oar was employed 
 almost exclusively in the Ards for the manufacture of kelp. 
 "This vegetable," says Harris, "is too precious to Ise 
 used much as a manure ; for they turn it to a better 
 account by burning it into kelp, vs'hich they do in such 
 great quantities, that they not only supply the linen 
 manufacturers in this and the neighbouring counties, but 
 export it in abundance for the use of the glass-houses in 
 Dublin and Bristol, as appears from the Custom-house 
 books of Portaferry." — State of the County of Down, p. 
 43. The people of the Little Ards, especially, have an 
 abundant supply of this very useful material, not only from 
 the eastern shore, but also from the numerous islands of 
 Strangford lough. In sales of property, and sub-letting 
 of lands in the Ards, this production has its special 
 mention as an important element in the value of such 
 properties and farms. The Rosemount deed of sale in 
 1719 specifies " all kelp, wreck, and sea- weed growing or 
 being, or that shall hereafter grow or be, on the said 
 manor, towns, lands, rocks, and premises, or on the 
 coasts or shores thereof, or that belong, or are reputed to 
 belong, to the same." 
 
 53 They had to spare. — This superabundance of food in 
 the young colony, whilst it attracted additional settlers, 
 became a source of supply to the parent country. There 
 soon commenced with the Scottish coast a trade in 
 
 grain, which occasionally supplied the inhabitants of 
 Argyle, Galloway, and even AjTshire, at a cheaper rate 
 than they could grow it for themselves. To meet this 
 difficulty, Scottish statesmen devised no other remedy than 
 Protection Acts, prohibiting the importation of agri- 
 cultural produce, especially from Ireland. By an Act 
 passed in 1672, it was forbidden to import meal from Ire- 
 land, while the price in Scotland remained below a certain 
 rate. But this and former Acts having the same object 
 were often rendered futile by the necessities of Scotch con- 
 sumers and the determination of traders to benefit by sup- 
 plying the demand. In the April of 1695, the Scottish 
 council determined to enforce the law by issuing an order 
 for staving the grain brought in two vessels from Carrick- 
 fergus, and for handing over the vessels themselves to sir 
 Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, who had seized them on 
 their way to a Scottish port. It so happened, however, 
 that the crop of that verj' summer was stricken in one 
 night by an easterly fog, and the price of \-ictual in the 
 western shires suddenly rose much beyond the impor- 
 tation rate fixed by the sages of the Scottish Privy 
 Council. The latter then issued one of their numerous 
 orders, to the effect that in consequence of the " scarcity" 
 and "distress," they would permit the importation of 
 meal, but of no other grain, from Ireland, "to any 
 port between the mouth of Annan and the head of 
 Kintyre," from the 3rd of December until the first of 
 Febniaiy. Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 
 iii. p. 137. The trade in Afeal, however, continued to be 
 extensively carried on, until the 3'ear 1 703, when a very 
 stringent measure was enacted against the Importatioti of 
 Irish Victual, and a Mr. Alexander of Blackhouse, in 
 the Mearns, was appointed to collect fines from all illicit 
 traders in Irish meal. The following are the names 
 of certain traders who" surrendered, but there were many 
 others whom the law could not, or did not, prevent from 
 continuing the traffic : — " Ane list of persons names trad- 
 ing to Irland ifor victuall these two years bygonne, and 
 who componed with Blackhouse and his deputts : — George 
 Dennie, John Speir, Arthure Park, James Scott, John 
 Nevin, John Simsone in the Harbrayhead, John M'Eun 
 alias young laird, William M'Eun called meikle, John 
 M 'Eun his sone, John Morisone, James Simsone, William 
 M'Eun Maich, John Simsone Carshogale, James 
 M'Eun, John ^Morisone Levan, Ed\vard Mudie there, 
 Robert Wardan, Alexander Kerr, John Young, John 
 Craswell, John Wardan, John H)'ndman miller in Inver- 
 kipe, Morisone in Inverkipe, Muire in Portoferrie, 
 John Craufoord, John Alexander called ghosop, John 
 Hunter, Matthew ffrew in Kihvinning and his partners, 
 Duncan Campbell in Grinok, John Campbell there, 
 M'lei^h in Irvine, John Gay in hew ark, miliar in fferry- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 63 
 
 have it cheaper here. This conference gave occasion to Sir Hugh's Lady to build watermillsS4 in all 
 the parishes, to the great advantage of her house, which was numerous in servants, of whom she 
 stood in need, in working about her gardens, carriages, &c., having then no duty days' works from 
 tenants, or very few as exacted, they being sufficiently employed in their proper labour and the 
 publique. The millers also prevented the necessity of bringing meal from Scotland, and grinding 
 with quairn stonesss (as the Irish did to make their graddon) both which inconveniencys the people, 
 at their first coming, were forced to undergo. 
 
 milne. All the above-named persons and a greate many 
 more, who live in Renfrew, Glasgow, Air, and several 
 other places, have traded to Irland these two years by- 
 gonne, since the date of Alexander of Blackhouse's com- 
 missione, and have payed compesitions to the said Black- 
 house or his deputts." — Paterson, Account of the Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. p. 144. 
 
 S'* Water mills. — From this statement it is evident that 
 the use of water-mills was unknown in the vicinity of 
 Newtown at the commencement of the seventeenth 
 century, although the author in his general Description 0/ 
 the Ai-ds, printed at the end of his Memoirs, states that 
 the Danish or Ladle mill was then in common use in such 
 localities throughout the two baronies as afforded the 
 necessary facilities for their erection. The Danish was an 
 approach to the regular water-mill, and from it the latter, 
 probably, with all its modern improvements, gradually 
 arose. The first corn mill driven by water is supposed 
 to have been invented and set to work by Mithridates, 
 king of Cappadocia, about seventy years prior to the com- 
 mencement of the Christian era. Curiously indeed, " that 
 coincident with the time of the inventor, as mentioned by 
 Strabo, is the date of a Greek epigram on water-mills, by 
 Antipater, a 'poet of Asia Minor, who lived about eighty 
 years before Christ." This epigram has been translated 
 as follows : — 
 
 " Ye maids who toil'd so faithful at the mill, 
 
 Now cease from work, and from these toils be still ; 
 
 Sleep now till dawn, and let the birds with glee 
 
 Sing to the ruddy morn on bush and tree ; 
 
 For what your hands perform'd so long, so true, 
 
 Ceres has cliargd the ivater-nyutplts to do: 
 
 They come, the limpid sisters, to her call, 
 
 And on the wheel with dashing fury fall ; 
 
 Impel the axle with a whirling sound, 
 
 And make the massy mill-stone reel around, — 
 
 And bring the floury heaps luxuriant to the ground." 
 
 It is certain that mills driven by water were knowi 
 in Ireland at a very early period, and appear to 
 have been at least as generally used in ancient as in 
 modern times. Irish authorities, and with them Irish 
 traditions, are unanimous in representing that the first 
 water-mill ever known in Ireland was introduced by 
 Cormac MacArt, who reigned during a part of the third 
 century, and that the good king brought Iiis millwright 
 from Scotland. The Annals of Tighernach state that 
 Maelodrain's Mill was the scene, in 651, of the slaughter, 
 by the Lagenians, of Donchad and Conall, the two sons 
 of Blathmac, king of Ireland, son of Hugh Slaine. 
 Under the year 998, the Four Masters record the fall of 
 a remarkable stone known as the Lia-Ailbhe, which stood 
 on the plain of Moynalvy in Meath, and add that the king 
 Maelsechlainn made four mill-stones of it. The ancient 
 Brehon Laws contain frequent references to water-mills. 
 
 Irish charters preserved in the Book of Kells mention 
 in grants of lands made to that monaster}-, so early as th^ 
 middle of the eleventh century, the mill as the common 
 appendage to a ballybetagh, when the place was favourable 
 to its erection, — a statement curiously corroborated by the 
 author of the A/ontgomety Maniisci-ipts in his Description 
 of Ards, who says that a Danish mill was to be found in 
 almost eveiy to\\ailand, having, of course, the necessary 
 accommodations of site and water. In the charter of lands 
 granted to the monastery of Newry, by king Muirchear- 
 tach or Murtough Mac-Loughlin, there is also ample evi- 
 dence of the existence of a mill in that district in Ii6i. 
 Abridged from Me?noir of the City and North- Western 
 Liberties of Londonderry, pp. 215, 216 ; See also Reeves's 
 Adamnan's Life of St. Columba, p. 362 ; Senchus Mor, 
 vok i., pp. 125, 141, 163, 167, 185, 189. 
 
 55 Quairn stones. — The Irish name for the quern is 
 biv, but the term generally used is lamh-bro, 'hand- 
 mill.' Although of very great antiquity, the quern is 
 in use throughout some districts of Ireland at the pre- 
 sent day. "It was also used," says the late Dr. 
 O'Donovan, "to a late period in the Highlands of Scot- 
 land, though prohibited by the law of Scotland as far back 
 as the reign of Alexander III., in the year 1284, when 
 it was enacted That na man shall presume to grind quheit, 
 maisloch, or rye, with handmylnes, except he be compelled 
 by storms, and be in lack of mylnes quhilk should grind the 
 samen. We know of no law ever having been passed against 
 it in Ireland. We often ground wheat with it ourselves. 
 We first used to diy the wheat on the bottom of a pot, grind 
 in a hurry, and then eat the meal mixed with new milk." 
 See O'Daly's Tribes of Lreland, p. 83, note. The most 
 primitive variety of quern is that, says Sir W. R. Wilde, 
 "in which the upper and lower stone are simply circular 
 discs, from twelve to twenty inches across ; the upper ro- 
 tating on the lower by means of a wooden handle, or 
 sometimes two, inserted into the top, and 'fed' or supplied 
 with corn by an aperture in the centre, analogous to the 
 hopper, and which maybe termed the 'grain-hole' or eye. 
 The meal, in this case, passed out between the margins 
 of the stones to a cloth spread on the floor to receive it. 
 The upper stones are usually concave, and the lower con- 
 vex, so as to prevent their sliding off, and also to give a 
 fall to the meal. The second variety is usually called a 
 Pot-quern, and has a lip or margin in the lower stone, 
 which encircles or overlaps the upper, the meal passing 
 down through a hole in the side of the former. Most of 
 this variety are of a smaller size than the foregoing, 
 which is evidently the more ancient and the simpler form, 
 as well as that which presents us with the greatest 
 diversity. The upper stone was turned by a wooden 
 handle — s-^metimes by two— or, in some of the larger 
 
64 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Her Ladyship had also her farms at Greyabbey and Coiner,5fi as well as at New'town, both to 
 supply new-comers and her house; and she easily got men for plough and barn, for many came over 
 who had not stocks to plant and take leases of land, but had brought a cow or two and a few sheep, 
 for which she gave them grass and so much grain per annum, and an house and garden-plot to live on, 
 and some land for flax and potatoes, 57 as they agreed on for doing their work, and there be at this 
 day many such poor labourers amongst us; and this was but part of her good m.anagement, for she 
 
 specimens, by a lever placed nearly horizontal ; or 
 it was occasionally worked by a wooden lid or cover, 
 with projecting arms to which ropes were attached, 
 or a small animal might be harnessed. Generally speak- 
 ing, however, 'two women sat grinding at the mill,' whch* 
 was placed upon the ground between them ; with one hand 
 they turned the top-stone by means of the handle, either 
 held by both together, or passed from one to the other ; 
 and with the other hand they poured the grain into the 
 eye or hopper. The lower stone is generally perforated 
 for a pivot, or spud, usually of wood, but sometimes of 
 iron, which passed into the aperture of the upper stone, 
 where it was supported upon a cross-stick, or piece of iron; 
 and by the application of leathern washers between the 
 pivot and the socket in which it worked, the distance be- 
 tween the stones could be increased, and so the meal 
 ground coarse or fine as required." — Descriptive Catalogue 
 of Antiquities of Stone, Eai-then, and Vegetable Materials 
 in the Museutn of the Royal Irish Academy, p. 105. 
 
 Coiner. — Coiner is a misprint for Comer, the foiTn in 
 which this name appears in the author's Description of the 
 Ards. "The name is variously written Comar, Comer, 
 Cumber ; from comar, a confluence. It is frequently 
 applied, in Ireland, to places situate at the junction of 
 rivers, either with rivers, or with large sheets of 
 water. In the present instance it belongs to the 
 townland where the river Enler enters Strangford Lough, 
 and as the church stood on it, the name is borrowed 
 for the whole parish. Muckamore, in the county 
 of Antrim, derives its name from Magh-comuir ' the 
 plain of the confluence,' being the angle fonned by 
 the junction of the Six-Mile-Water with Lough Neagh. 
 The townland Ballentine, in the parish of Blaris, was 
 formerly called Down-ciimber, because of its situation at 
 the union of Ravernet river with the Lagan. To a similar 
 junction of a smaller stream with the Ballynahinch river, 
 the townland of Cumber, in the parish of Maheradrool, 
 owes its name. To the same origin may be traced the 
 name Cumber in Derry, and Castlecomer in the Queen's 
 County. Another famous spot of this name was the cumar, 
 or meeting, of the three waters, the place where the Suir, 
 Nora, and Barrow meet together." — Reeves, Eccles. 
 Antiquities, p. 1 97. 
 
 57 Potatoes. — The popular belief that the potato was 
 first known in this counti-y about the year 1586 is probably 
 erroneous. If only planted at that date, by sit Walter 
 Raleigh, in his garden near Youghal, it is not likely that 
 during the war which desolated Ireland between 1586 and 
 l5oi, the potato should become so generally known and 
 appreciated as thus to foiTn an important article of food 
 for the Scottish settlers in the Ards so early as the year 
 1606. Sir Robert Southwell (so well known among other 
 reasons for the fact that he was five times elected president 
 of the Royal Society,) announced at a meeting of that 
 
 learned body that his grandfather had obtained some potato 
 roots or tubers from sir Walter Raleigh, who had brought 
 them from America, and that from his cultivation of these 
 roots had arisen that vast vegetable provision enjoyed ever 
 since by the Irish peasantry. It is more probable, how- 
 ever, that the potato v\'as introduced much earlier into this 
 country, and that it originally came to Ireland through 
 Portugal or Spain. Our name for this production is evi- 
 dently derived from the word used to designate it by 
 Spaniards and Portuguese, an evidence that we are in- 
 debted for it to this source. The natives of South America 
 called the plant Papas. The Spaniards and Portuguese, 
 to whom it was generally knovra soon after the discovery 
 of America, corrupted Papas into Ba-ta-ta, to which our 
 word Potato is an approximation. See The Penny 
 Cyclopcedia. The first English author in whose writings 
 there is any reference to the potato, was Gerard, the 
 herbalist of 1 597. Richard Bradley, who published his 
 work on Planting and Gardening, in 1634, has also a 
 short allusion to this root. In Crofton Croker's intro- 
 duction to the Popular Songs of Ireland, the writer 
 has the following remarks: — "That potatoes were the 
 ordinary food in the south of Ireland before the time of 
 the commonwealth, is shewn by an account of an Irish 
 Quarter, printed in 1654, in a volume entitled Songs and 
 Poems of Love and Drollery, by T. W. The writer and his 
 friend visited Coolfin, in the county of Waterford, the seat 
 of Mr. Poer, where, at supper, they were treated with 
 codded onions, and in the van 
 
 " Was a salted tail of salmon, 
 And in the rear some rank potatoes came on." 
 
 Cole, who published his Adam in Eden, or the Paradise 
 of Plants, in 1657, has the following curious passage about 
 the potato: — "The potatoes which we ca// Spanish [not 
 the sweet potato], because they were first brought up to us 
 out of Spain, grew originally in the Indies, where they, or 
 at least some of this kind, serve for bread, and have been 
 planted in many of our gardens [in England], where they 
 decay rather than increase ; but the soyle of Ireland doth 
 so well agree \A-ith them, that they grow there so plentifully 
 that there be whole fieldes overrun with them, as I have 
 been infonned by divers souldiers that came thence. " The 
 soldiers, to whose statem^ts Cole here refers, served in 
 the parliamentary' forces sent to this country between 1649 
 and 1653. The late Mr. Eugene O'Curry, in 1S55, met 
 with an Irish poem by John 0'!N"eachtan (well known in 
 Dublin between the years i7ioand 1750,) in which the 
 writer always speaks of the potato as the Spaineach Geal, 
 that is, the white, or generous-hearted Spaniard; and 
 describes it as gladdening the hearts of the people from 
 the first of August till St. Patrick's Day, in each year. 
 Abridged from Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 
 vol. vi., pp. 356—363. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 65 
 
 set up and encouraged linen and woollen manufactory,58 which soon brought down the prices of y* 
 breakens59 and narrow cloths of both sorts. 
 
 58 Woollen manitfactory. — At the period of the English 
 invasion (l 172), the Irish had flourishing woollen manu- 
 factories, producing parti-coloured cloths in great abun- 
 dance, and of excellent quality. In the 14th century, Irish 
 woollens are said to have been extensively imported into 
 England, and Irish serges into Italy, which appears the 
 more remarkable, as at that period, woollen manufacture 
 had attained to a high degree of perfection in the latter 
 country [Dublin Penny yonrnal, vol. i., p. 23). This 
 statement rests, among other authorities, on a passage in 
 an ancient Florentine poem, written prior to the year 1364, 
 and known by the title of Dittamotidi or Data Mundi. The ' 
 first earl of Charlemont, who died in 1799, had the credit 
 of first directing public attention to this passage, in a paper 
 written by him in 1786, and printed in Transaciiojis 
 of the Royal Irish Academy, Aiitiquitiesydi. i. , pp. 17 — 24. 
 The passage is as follows : — " In like manner we pass into 
 Ireland, which among us is worthy of renown for the 
 excellent serges that she sends us." After quoting other 
 authorities in connexion with his subject. Lord Charle- 
 mont observes: — "From all these several facts, and par- 
 ticularly from the passage of our author, we may fairly 
 conclude that Ireland was possessed of an extensive trade 
 in woollens at a very early period, and long before that 
 commodity was an article of English export. Manufac- 
 tures are slow in being brought to that degree of perfection 
 which may render them an object coveted by distant coun- 
 tries, especially where the people of those countries have 
 arrived at a high degree of polish ; and if in the middle 
 of the fourteenth century the serges of Ireland were 
 eagerly sought after, and worn M'ith a preference by the 
 polished Italians, there can be no doubt that the fabric 
 had been established for a very long time before that pe- 
 riod." This prosperous trade was continued to Ireland, 
 with but slight inteiTuptions imtil the year 1673, when 
 English statesmen were compelled to destroy it, because 
 English manufacturers would no longer tolerate any Irish 
 rivals. During the viceroyalty of Lord Essex a formal 
 overture was published for relinquishing the woollen-trade 
 in this country, except in its lower branches, "that it 
 might not longer be permitted to discourage English 
 woollen manufactures." The tendency of this short- 
 sighted policy was not only to impoverish Ireland, but to 
 enrich France, for the Irish wool could always find a bet- 
 ter market in France than in England. Sir Richard Cox's 
 arguments against the impolitic course adopted in this 
 matter drew the following candid acknowledgment from 
 the ministers, through the mouth of Lord Godolphin : — 
 "They were convinced all he (.Sir R. Cox) said was true, 
 but they had the strong prejudices of the people to deal 
 with, who looked on an increase of the woollen manufac- 
 ture in Ireland with so jealous an eye, that they would 
 not listen to the most reasonable argiunents in its favour, 
 and that they merely compelled the late king a!id his 
 ministers to comply with them against their own judginents: 
 That nothing could change them but their own sufferings, 
 which could not come so quickly, as that he could expect 
 to see the alteration : But whenever they shall feel the 
 mischievous consequences of what they had too rashly 
 done, he will venture to prophecy that they will attribute 
 them to any causes, however improbable, rather than 
 
 confess the necessity of admitting their brethren of Ireland 
 into any share of their trade, and will try a thousand ex- 
 pedients, before they will put into execution the natural, 
 and therefore the only one which can be effectual, and 
 which France would give millions of money to prevent 
 taking place." — -Harris' Ware's Works, vol. ii., Irish 
 Writers, p. 219. The evils thus predicted very soon 
 appeared, and to meet the difficulty, such heavy addi- 
 tional duties were imposed, in 1698, on the exportation 
 of woollen cloths, as amounted to an actual prohibi- 
 tion. Ireland was declared to be more suited to the 
 manufacture of linen than woollen cloth, and with 
 this consolation Ireland was forced to be content. The 
 woollen manufacture introduced and encouraged by 
 lady Montgomery in the Ards, was no doubt conducted 
 pretty much according to the process described in the fol- 
 lowing extract from the pen of one who had evidently been 
 well informed on the subject : — "At the time of the acces- 
 sion of William III., our farms were better suited to the' 
 woollen manufa ;ture than the linen ; our flocks were nu- 
 merous, and oursheep-sheering began in May : the wool was 
 immediately sorted and scoured ; the short fine wool being 
 preserved for grey spinning, the web made of it was called a 
 grey web, as in an Actof Henry VIII. This was died drab, 
 blue, or brown ; and was spun on the great wheel, woven 
 in summer, and dressed for clothes for the male branches 
 of the family. Tuck mills were then more numerous than 
 our bleach mills are at present (1800). The long fine wool 
 was laid aside for the comb. This was generally spun 
 upon the small wheel, the same as used for flax-spinning ; 
 and was died of different colours, and woven as poplin, 
 the warp and weft being of difterent colours ; when 
 doubled it was woven as camlet, and worn by men in 
 summer, or made into stockings. The middling kind of 
 wool was made into blankets." — Dr. J. M. Stephenson^ s 
 Fasciculus second, of the Belfast Literary Society, as quoted 
 in Dr. Stuart's History of Armagh, p. 422, note. 
 
 59 Breakens. — From the Irish breacan, ' a tartan 
 plaid,' or brcacanach, adj. 'tartan.' The breacan-Jeile, 
 literally 'the chequered covering,' was the peculiar garb 
 of the Highlanders from a remote period, and was also 
 commonly worn by Ayrshiremen at the commencement of 
 the seventeenth century. Lady Montgomery's 'breakens' 
 were tartans, and the wearers of the brcacanach were set- 
 tlers from Ayrshire. — Paterson, Parishes and Families of 
 Ayrshire, vol. i. p. Ill, note. It was soon afterwards 
 objected by Englishmen to the Scots of Ulster that 
 the Scottish dress and customs were retained by 
 them after coming to Ireland. During a debate in the 
 English house of commons, on the 3rd of December, 1656, 
 on the question as to whether adventurers for land in Ire- 
 land would be permitted to occupy the forfeited estates of 
 the third viscount Montgomery and the first earl of Clan- 
 brassil, Major Morgan, a leading member of the house, 
 was of opinion that these noblemen's estates "ought to 
 be assigned them in some other part of the nation." His 
 reason for urging this arrangement was stated by him as 
 follows: — "For in the North, the Scotch keep up an 
 interest distinct in garb and all formalities, and are 
 able to raise an army of 40,000 fighting men at any 
 time, which they may easily convey over to the High- 
 
66 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Now every body minded their trades, and the plough, and the spade, building, and setting fruit 
 trees, &c., in orchards and gardens, and by ditching in their grounds. The old women spun, and 
 the young girls plyed their nimble fingers at knitting^" — and every body was innocently busy. Now 
 the Golden peacable age renewed, no strife, contention, querulous lawyers, or Scottish or Irish 
 feuds, between clanns and families, and sirnames, disturbing the tranquillity of those times; and the 
 towns and temples were erected, with other great works done (even in troublesome years) as shall 
 be in part recited, when I come to tell you of the first Lord Viscount Montgomery's funeral, person, 
 parts, and arts ; therefore, reader, I shall be the more concise in the history of the plantation, and of his 
 loyal transactions; not indeed, with his life, for the memories (out of which I have collected obser- 
 vations thereof) are few, by reason of the fire, February, 1695, and other accidents, and by my 
 removal into Scotland, since A° 1688, whereby such papers were destroyed or lost.*' 
 
 Yet I find by a fragment (of a second information to the Herauld, concerning the Lord Viscount's 
 coat of arms), written by Sir James Montgomery, that in a few years from the beginning of the 
 plantation, viz. in A". 16 10, the Viscount brought before the King's muster-master a thousand 
 able fighting men*^ to serve, when out of them a militia should be raised, and the said Sir H. (for the 
 
 lands upon any occasion; and you have not so much 
 interest in them as you have in the inhabitants of 
 the Scotch nation. I would have the adventurers have 
 the land fallen to them by lot, and the other claimers 
 (Ards and Clanbrassil) provided for elsewhere." — Burton's 
 Parliamentmy Diary, anno 1656. The Scottish breacan, 
 or tartan, is a remnant of the ancient Irish Braccon, striped 
 or parti-coloured, so imiversally worn at a vei-y early date 
 in this country. Tlie Books of Leacan and Ballymote, 
 compiled in the fourteenth century from ancient manu- 
 scripts, state that in the rciqjn of Tigearnmas, monarch of 
 Ireland, cloths were first dyed purple, blue,and green, and that 
 he established the custom of using one colour in the gar- 
 ment of a slave ; two in that of a soldier ; three in that of 
 an officer and of a young nobleman ; four in that of a 
 Biatach, or gentleman who held land from the crown for 
 the maintenance of a table for strangers and travellers ; 
 five in that of lords of the district ; six in that of an oUav, 
 or chief professor ; and seven in that of a king or a queen. 
 The fashion of the Braccon, as worn among the ancient 
 Irish, "was so admirably adapted to the manners of a 
 martial nation," says Charles O'Connor, " that it received 
 very little change through all ages. It helped to display 
 action, and exhibited the actor in the most advantageous 
 manner. It was so conveniently contrived as to cover the 
 breast better than modern dress, while the close sleeves 
 gave the soldier all the advantages he could require in the 
 use of arms." — Transactions of the Ossianic Society, vol. 
 v., pp. 207, 208. 
 
 *° At knitting.— In more modern days, the old women 
 knitted, and the young women span. 
 
 <>' Destroyed or lost. — See pp. I, 28, supra. At the timeof 
 the Revolulion in 1688, the author was oneof many from the 
 county Down who left Ireland. William Montgomery, 
 of Rosmond, esq. , was named in the Act of Attainder. — 
 See King, State of the Protestants of Ireland, Appendix, 
 p. 14, Dublin, 1730. 
 
 A thousand able-fighting men. — The muster-master 
 (from montrer to show) was an officer commissioned in 
 
 each district, to discover the number of able-bodied men 
 therein, together with the available arms possessed by them. 
 He was further required carefully to enrol the men and 
 arms in a book, to be consulted when troops might be 
 needed for active service. From this statement of the 
 author it is evident that a large number of settlers had 
 come with sir Hugh Montgomery to the Ards during the 
 first four years of his colonisation. It is to be regretted 
 that no list of these original settlers can now be found. 
 Among them, were several named Orr, who appear to 
 have originally settled in the tovralands of Ballyblack 
 and Ballykeel, and were the progenitors of a very 
 numerous connexion of this surname throughout the Ards. 
 The earliest recorded deaths in this connexion, after their 
 settlement in the Ards, were those of James Orr of Bally- 
 black, who died in the year 1627, and Janet M 'Clement, 
 his wife, who died in 1636. The descendants, male and 
 female, of this worthy couple were very numerous, and as 
 their intermarriages have been carefully recorded, we 
 have thus, fortunately, a sort of index to the names of 
 many other families of Scottish settlers in the Ards and 
 Castlereagh. Their descendants in the male line inter- 
 married with the families of Dunlop, Gray, Kennedy, 
 Coulter, Todd, M'Birney, M'Cullough, Campbell, Boyd, 
 Jackson, Walker, Rodgers, Stevenson, Malcomson, 
 King, Ferguson, M'Quoid, Cregg, Barr, M'Munn, 
 Bryson, Johnson, Smith, Carson, M'Kinstry, Busby, 
 M'Kee, Shannon, M'Garock, Hamilton, Cally, Chal- 
 mers, Rea, M 'Roberts, Creighton, M'Whirter, M'Kibbin, 
 Cleland, Abernethy, Reid, Agnew, Wilson, Ir\-ine, 
 Lindsay, M'Creary, Porter, Hanna, Taylor, Smjth, 
 Carson, Wallace, Gamble, Miller, Catherwood, Malcolm, 
 M'Cleary, Pollok, Lament, Frame, Stewart, Minnis, 
 Moorehead, M'Caw, Clark, Patterson, Neilson, Max- 
 well, Harris, Corbet, Milling, Carr, Winter, Patty, 
 Gumming, M'Connell, M'Gowan. Nearly an equal 
 number of Orrs married wives of their owti surname. 
 These numerous descendants, bearuig the surname of 
 Orr, resided in Ballyblack, Clontinacally, Killinether, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 67 
 
 great encouragement of planters and builders) obtained a patent dated the 25th of March, nth Jac, 
 which is the ist day of A° 1613, Stilo Anglicano,^^ and but one day more than ten full years after the 
 Queen's death, y* 24th March, 1602, being the last day of that year, by which letters patent Newton 
 aforesaid is erected into a corporation, whereof the said Sir Hugh is nominated the ist Provost, and 
 the Burgesses are also named.*'* This corporation hath divers priviledges, the most remarkable are 
 that every Parliament they send two Burgesses to serve therein the other is that it can hold a court 
 
 Ballygowan, Ballykeel, Munlough, Ballybeen, Castle- 
 averie, Conlig, Lisleen, Bangor, Gortgrib, Granshaw, 
 Killaghey, Gilnahirk, Ballyalloly, Ballyknockan, Bally- 
 cloughan, Tullyhubbert, Moneyrea, Newtownards, Bally- 
 misca, Dundonald, Magherascouse, Castlereagh, Bootin, 
 Lisdoonan, Greyabbey, Ballyrea, Ballyhay, Ballywilliam, 
 Saintfield, Ballymacarrett, Craigantlet, liraniel. The 
 greatest number of the name lived in Ballykeel, Clontina- 
 cally, and Ballygowan. The descendants in the female 
 line from James Orr and Janet M 'Clement of Ballyblack, 
 intermarried with the families of Riddle of Comber, 
 Thomson, of Newtownards, Moore of Drummon, Orr of 
 Lisleen, Orr of Ballykeel, Murdock of Comber, Irvine of 
 Crossnacreevy, M'Creaiy of Bangor, Hanna of Conlig, 
 Orr of Bangor, Orr of Ballygowan, M'Munn of Lisleen, 
 Barr of Lisleen, Davidson of Clontinacally, Jamieson of 
 Killaghey, Martin of Killynure, Martin ol Gilnahirk, 
 Matthews of , Watson of Carryduff, Shaw of Clon- 
 
 tinacally, Todd of Ballykeel, Jennings of , 
 Davidson of , M'Kibbin of Knocknasham, 
 
 M'Cormick of Ballybeen, M'CulIock of Ballyhanwood, 
 M'Kee of Lisleen, Patterson of Moneyrea, Dun woody of 
 Madyroe, Barr of Bangor, M'Gee of Todstown, Burgess 
 of Madyroe, M'Kinning of Lisnasharock, G"vrit of 
 Ballyknockan, Peltigrew of Ballyknockan, M'Cou^iUry of 
 Ballyknockan, Yates of , Shaw of , 
 
 Stevenson of Ballyrush, M 'Kibbin of Haw, Piper of 
 Comber, Blakely of Madyroe, Orr of Ballyknockan, 
 Stewart of Clontinacally, Hamilton of Ballykeel, Dunbar 
 of Slatady, Orr of Ballygowan, Malcolm of Bootan, 
 Porter of Ballyristle, M 'Connell of Ballyhenry, Kennedy 
 of Comber, Malcolm of Moat, Orr of Ballykeel, Martin 
 of Ballycloughan, Reid of Ballygowan, Lewis of , 
 Orr of Clontinacally, Orr of Florida, M'Creary of 
 
 , Miller of Conlig, Lowry of Ballymacashan, 
 Harris of Ballymelady, Orr of Ballyknockan, M'Quoid of 
 Donaghadee, Appleton of Conlig, M'Burneyof , 
 Hanna of Clontinacally, Johnson of Rathfriland, Orr 
 of Ballykeel, Stewart of Clontinacally and Ma- 
 lone, Patterson of Moneyrea and Lisbane, Black of 
 Gortgrib, Hill of Gilnahirk, Murdock of Gortgrib, Kil- 
 patrick of , Gregg of , Huddle- 
 
 stone of Moneyrea, M'Culloch, of Moneyrea, Steel of 
 Maghrescouse, Erskine of Woodbum, Campbell of 
 , White of , Clark of Clontina- 
 
 cally, M 'Fadden of Clontinacally, Hunter of Clontinacally 
 and Ravara, Orr of Castlereagh, M'Kean of , 
 M'Kittrick of Lisleen, Frame of Munlough, Garret of 
 Ballyknockan, Kennedy of Tullygirvan, Orr of Munlough, 
 Dickson of Tullygirvan, M'CIure of Clontinacally, Porter 
 of Beechhill, Dinwoody of Carrickmadyroe, Strain of 
 Newtonards, Burns of Cahard, Kennedy of Tullygirvan, 
 M'Calla of Lisdoonan, M'Bratney of Raferey, Harrison 
 of Holywood, Piper of Moneyrea, MacWilliam of Edna- 
 
 slate, Patterson of Tonaclimore, Wright of Craigantlet, 
 Boden of Craigantlet, Henderson of Ballyhaskin, Morrow 
 of Belfast, M'Quoid of Braniel, M'Lean of Ballykeel, 
 Neilson of Ravara, Cra\vford of Carrickmadyroe, 
 M 'Gown of Crossnacreevy, Orr of Ballybeen. — MS. Gene- 
 alogy of ike Family of yames Orr of Ballyblack, drawn up 
 from inscriptions on tombstones, by the late Gawin Orr of 
 Castlereagh. 
 
 '3 Stilo Anglicano. — See pp. 18, 40, 51, sicpra. 
 Burgesses are also named. — See Appendix D. 
 
 *5 To serve therein. — The following is a list of the 
 members of Parliament for the borough of Newtown, from 
 1613 to 1800 :— 
 
 1613, April — George Conyngham, Esq., LoghriscoU. 
 
 James Cathcart, Esq., Ballenyane. 
 1634, June — Hon. Hugh Montgomery, Master of the Ardes, 
 Newtown. 
 
 1639, Mar. 2 — Hon. Hugh Montgomery, Newtown. 
 
 John Trevor, Esq., Balleclender. 
 
 1640, Feb. — Hon. George Montgomery, Ballylessan, vice H. 
 
 Montgomery, sick. 
 1640, March — G. Montgomery. 
 
 1661, April 18 — William Montgomery, Esq., Rosemount. 
 
 Charles Campbell, Gent. , Donaghadee, Dublin. 
 1692, Sept. 26 — Robert Echlin, Esq., Rush, Dublin. 
 
 Thomas Knox, Esq., Dungannon, Tyrone. 
 1695, Aug. 19 — Clotworthy Upton, Esq., Castle Upton, Antrim. 
 
 Charles Campbell, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1703, Sept. 21 — George Carpenter, Esq., Longwood, Hants. 
 
 Charles Campbell, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1704, Feb. 23 — Brabazon Ponsonby, Esq., Bessborough, Kilkenny, 
 
 vice Carpenter absent on the Queen's service in 
 England. 
 
 1713, Oct. 29 — Brabazon Ponsonby, Esq., Bessborough, Kilkenny. 
 
 Charles Campbell, Esq., Dublin. 
 1715, Nov. 4 — Richard Tighe, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 Charles Campbell, Esq., Dublin. 
 1725, Nov. 9 — Hon. Wm. Ponsonby, Bessborough, Kilkenny, vice 
 
 Campbell, deceased. 
 1727, Nov. 8— John Denny Vesey (Bart.), AbbyleLx, Queen's 
 County. 
 Robert Joeelyn, Esq., Dublin. 
 1739, Oct. 23 — Hon. John Ponsonby, Bishops' Court, Kildare, vice 
 
 Joeelyn, Lord Chancellor. 
 i7SO,ApriI 26 — Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby, Esq., Ashgrove, 
 
 Kilkenny, vice Vesey, Lord Knapton. 
 1761, May 2 — Hon. Richard Ponsonby, Dublin. ' 
 
 Redmond Morres, Esq., Rathgar, Dublin. 
 
 1768, July 16 — Hon. John Ponsonby, Bishop;,' Court, Kildare. 
 
 Thomas Le Hunte, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1769, Oct. 30 — Sir William Evans Morres, Bart., Kilcreen, Kilkenny. 
 177s, Oct. 10— Cornelius O'Callaghan (the elder), Esq. 
 
 Arthur Dawson, Esq. 
 1776, June 18 — John Browne of the Neale, (Bart.) 
 
 James Summerville, Esq. 
 1783, Oct. 4 — William Brabazon Ponsonby, Esq. 
 
 Lodge Morres, Esq. 
 1785, Jan. 20 — Right Hon. John Ponsonby. 
 
 Sir William Evans Ryves Morres, Bart. 
 1788, Feb., 4 — Henry Ale.xander, Esq., vice Ponsonby, deceased. 
 1790, July, 2 — Hon. Richard Annesley, 
 
 John La Touche, Esq. 
 1796, Mar., 2 — John La Touche. jun., Esq. 
 1798, Jan,, 9 — Rt. Hon. Sir John Blacquiere, K.B, 
 
 Robert Alexander, Esq. 
 
68 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 every 2d Friday for debt, trespass, and damage, not exceeding three score six shillings and eight pence* 
 sterling. The town hath in it an excellent piece of freestone work of eight squares, called the cross, 
 with a door behind, within are stairs mounting to the towers, over which is a high stone pillar, and 
 proclamations are made thereon ; on the floor whereof at each square is an antique spout which 
 vented claret, King Charles the 2d being proclaimed our King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, 
 &c. A». D". i649.«6 
 
 j8oo, Feb., 3 — Hon. Dupre Alexander, vice Robt. Alexander. 
 The foregoing list has been kindly supplied by T. K. 
 Lowry, Esq. , Editor of the Hamilton Manuscripts. 
 
 '5 AO Do 1649. — Although Charles II. did not actually 
 succeed to the throne until the year 1660, the drift of events 
 in Ireland encouraged his adherents to proclaim him at the 
 date mentioned in the text. Ormond by able and un- 
 wearied efforts, had united the Catholics of the South with 
 the Protestants of the North, in support of the royal 
 cause. The former engaged to maintain an army of. 
 17,000 men at their own expense, to be employed against 
 the forces of the Parliament ; whilst in Ulster, there was 
 formed a union, although short-lived, between the royalists 
 and covenanters, for the same object. Jones, the parlia- 
 mentary commander in Dublin, and Coote, who held the 
 same position in Londonderry, were almost entirely shut 
 up within the limits of their respective garrisons. Monk, 
 then a zealous republican, held Belfast for the parliament, 
 but in consequence of the union between the Episcopalians 
 and Presbyterians, he was obliged to retire to Lisburn, 
 thence to Dundalk ; the latter place, with Newry, Drogh- 
 eda, and several other garrisons soon afterwards declaring 
 for the young king. At this crisis, too, the royal fleet, 
 commanded by Prince Rupert, rode triumphantly off the 
 Irish coast. The inhabitants of Newton in the Ards ap- 
 pear to have deeply participated in the passing gleam of 
 royalist success which was so soon to be succeeded by a 
 long-continued gloom. The English parliament had for- 
 gotten Ireland for a time in its anxiety to defeat the roya- 
 lists in England and Scotland. This task was triumphantly 
 executed by Cromwell at the battle of Worcester, and was 
 very soon succeeded by the utter dispersion of the Irish 
 royalists also. The market cross, the principal scene of 
 the rejoicings refeiTed to in the text, has been described by 
 
 Harris, as follows: — "Before it (the market house) 
 stands a neat octagon building of hewn stone, adorned 
 with a slender stone pillar at top of the same form, which 
 serves the town for a market-cross. In each side of the 
 octagon, measuring to five feet four inches, is a niche 
 curiously wrought, and adorned with an escallop shell. 
 It is ten feet ten inches high from the pedestal to the 
 cornish, and a belt of stone in an architrave runs round it, 
 through which, at every angle, a stone spout projects it- 
 self, consisting each of one entire stone, a foot and a half 
 long, to convey the water from the roof; and all these 
 spouts are set off with variety of carved work, some of 
 them terminating in a dog's head, and others in those of 
 other animals. On the top of the pillar, springing out of 
 the roof a lion, carved in stone, is placed in a sitting pos- 
 ture. The room within serves as a watch-house for the 
 town. On every face of this octagon are different fancies 
 or aims carved in stone, as namely, on one a rose, on 
 another a helmet wthin the horns of a half-moon, 
 and on it a flower-de-lys encompassed with a wreath of 
 lawrel ; on another a cross within a coronet ; on another 
 the arms of JMoiintgomery, earl of Mount- Alexander; on 
 another the arms, as we believe, of one Shaw, being a star 
 in the middle of three cups, and the crest a phoenix ; for 
 on a house near this building, erected by one of that name, 
 are the same arms. On the sixth face of this octagon is 
 a harp for the arms of Ireland ; on the face next to the 
 market-house is inscribed 1636, being the date of this 
 building, and on the opposite face is this inscription, un- 
 der the king's arms : — 
 
 "Theis arms, which Rebels threw down and defac'd — 1653. 
 
 Are by this loyal Burrowgh now replac'd. 1666. 
 
 W. B. Prowest. Deus nobis hac otia fecit." — 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 HE foregoing things done, and in progress to their greater perfection, I begin again with 
 Sir H. Montgomery and Con O'lsTeill's further deaUngs together. The last I mentioned 
 was Con's conveyance to Sir Hugh, dated 22d August, 4 Jacobi, of the wood growing on 
 the four townlands.' I find also that, in pursuance of articles of the 24th December, 3d Jacobi, and 
 of a former treat and covenant, and Sir Hugh's part to be performed, mentioned in Con's deed of 
 feofment, dated the 14th May, 3d Jacobi (for Con made then such a deed poll, which was accepted, 
 because of mutual confidence between them). I say, pursuant to the premises, Sir Hugh made a 
 deed of feofment, dated 15th May, 16 10, purporting a gift in taile to Con and his heirs male of all 
 his own lands excepting ten towns. ^ And the same day Con releases to Sir Hugh all the articles 
 and covenants he had on Sir Hugh ; and releases also thereby the said excepted ten towns, and this 
 
 On four tcrivnlaiids.—Yox z.-a account of this convey- 
 ance see p. 33, supra. Several early notices of this district 
 represent it as being densely wooded. In a Map of the 
 coast of Down, supposed to have been made about the 
 year 1566, there is the following note explanatory of the 
 difference between woods and underwoods: — "Wheras 
 anie wodds doe sygnifye in these platts ye underwoods, 
 as hasell, holye, oiler, elder, thorne, crabtre and byrche, 
 bot suche lyk, but noe greate hoke, neyther greate bwyld- 
 inge tymber, and the mountayne topps ys barayne, save 
 onelye for ferres (firs) and small thornes." On a Map 
 published about 1 590, extensive woods are represented in 
 the vicinity of Bcllfaste, and in a corner is the following 
 note: — "Alonge this river (the Lagan) be ye space of 
 twenty-six miles growetli muche woodes, as well hokes for 
 timber as bother woodde wiche male be brought in the 
 baie of Cragfergus with bote or drage. " — Ulster yoiirnal 
 of Archeology yo\. iii., pp. 273 — 4. Marshall Bagenal's 
 Dcscripliflii of Ulster in 1586, represents South or Upper 
 Clannaboy (now the baronies of Castlereagh Upper and 
 Lower) as "for the moste parte a woodland," the Diffrin, 
 (Dufferin) "for the most parte woody," and Killulta "full 
 of wood and bogg." — Ibid. vol. ii. , pp. 152 — 4. 
 
 ^ Excepting ten towns. — For the original articles of 24th 
 Dec, 1605, see pp. 40, 41, supra. Con'sdeedof feoffment 
 is dated the 14th of March, (not May as stated in the text,) 
 1606. "The jury find here a deed of feoffment, executed 
 by livery and seisin, made by said Con to sir Hugh, in 
 pursuance of the above articles (of 24th December, 1605) 
 whereby said Con grants to said sir Hugh, all lands and 
 privileges, and advantages, which James Hamilton granted 
 by deed, on the 6th of November last (1605) to said Con, 
 the said sir Hugh paying all siuns and doing all services 
 which the said deed of James Hamilton to said Con re- 
 qired." — Inquisition of 1623. Although Con made this 
 
 feoffment to sir Hugh, he still retained possession of the 
 property, exercising all the rights and enjoying all the 
 advantages of landlord. The object of this temporary 
 arrangement between them is not stated, but from the tenor 
 of the original articles, we infer that it was adopted partly 
 with the view of saving Con from the consequences of any 
 forfeiture he might afterwards incur, as, in case of any such 
 forfeiture, sir Hugh engaged to regrant the lands to Con's 
 rightful heirs male. In return for this. Con virtually 
 engaged to alienate the lands to no one without sir Hugh's 
 consent. Accordingly, Con's grant to Thomas Mont- 
 gomery of the lands of Ballyroslniye on the 25th of April, 
 
 1605, was made with sir Hugh's consent; as was also his 
 grant to Col. David Boyd, dated the 2nd of August, 1609. 
 — P. 28, supra. On the 15th of May, 1610, sir Hugh 
 regranted by deed of entail to Con O'Neill, these lands 
 that had been transferred to him by the latter, in March, 
 
 1606, excepting, as the author states ten townlands. The 
 following were the names of the portions excepted in 
 sir Hugh's deed of entail : — Ballynadolloghan, IJallylis- 
 gane, Ballymagherone, Ballycarney, Ballyclogher, Bally- 
 downeagh, Ball/lisngnoe, Ballynehaghlish, Ballymacarret, 
 and Ballyrosbuye, lying in the demesne of Castlereagh, 
 in Slut McNeills. In this deed of entail were also 
 excepted courts leet and baron, fairs and markets, royal- 
 ties, mines, woods, and underwoods. The deed also con- 
 tained a clause of re-entry if Con should lease for above 
 twenty-one years to his brochers Hugh and Tool 
 (Tuathal) without sir Hugh's consent. These ten town- 
 lands were excepted because four of them, conveyed 
 by the deed of 22nd August, 1606, by Con to sir Hugh, 
 had been discharged of that trust, and tlie remainder 
 had been either formerly conveyed by Con to others, 
 or not passed by Hamilton to Con himself. — Inijicisition 
 of 1623. 
 
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 done in consideration of 35/. paid in hand, and of 1,000/. sterling (formerly given, at several times, 
 to y' said Con) and now remitted by the said Sir Hugh.3 
 
 And so here I leave off to write of Con, but Avill relate some troubles which came upon Sir 
 Hugh, but not so grievous as those which were occasioned by that killing dart, when Sir James 
 FuUerton, when he procured the letters to y° Lord Deputy, with that clause, that y* patent for Con's 
 estate should pass in James Hamilton's name alone ; but Sir Hugh's courage and conduct (at long 
 run) cured in part that great hurt. 
 
 The first succeeding troubles and costly toils which I read of after this last spoken of transaction 
 with Con,which Sir Hugh met with, sprang from the petitions and claims of Sir Thomas Smith,'^ against 
 
 3 Remitted by the said Sir Hugh. — The following are the 
 words in which this Release was expressed : — "I, Con 
 O'Neale, did, by my Deed Pole, dated the 14th of March, 
 anno yacobi tertio, convey my whole estate, and all 
 royalties, privileges, and inmunities thereunto belonging, 
 in the Upper Claneboys, unto sir Hugh Montgomery, for 
 ever ; all which lands were granted unto me by James 
 Hamilton, Esq., by indenture, dated 6th November, 
 anno yacobi tertio : And whereas, by indenture, dated 
 the 22nd of August, an7io yacobi quarto, I, the said 
 Con, in consideration of the sum of 17 sterling, paid 
 to me by the said sir Hugh, expressed in said indenture, 
 besides the sum of ;^25o not expressed, did sell to him and 
 his heirs, not only the four townlands therein by name 
 expressed, but also all woods underwoods, mines, &c., in 
 and upon all my lands in the Upper Claneboys, with all 
 royalties, &c. , thereto belonging. Now, forasmuch, as at 
 the sealing and delivering of one part of indentures bear- 
 ing date with these ]3resents made between me and said 
 sir Hugh, I do hereby confess to have received of the said 
 sir Hugh the sum of £2,^ sterling more, and a release of a 
 Bond of 1,000 sterling, by me forfeited to the said sir 
 Hugh, and also that he, the said sir Hugh, hath by the 
 indenture of the date of these presents bound himself to 
 pay the king's rent for most part of the lands which I 
 hold to me and my heir's male. By which indenture the 
 said sir Hugh hath assured to me, and the heirs male of 
 my body, an estate tail in such lands as are in said 
 indenture of the date of these presents contained. There- 
 fore I, the said Con, do hereby release to the said sir 
 Hugh, his heirs and assigns, all former articles, covenants, 
 &c. , and all debts and demands which I may or might 
 have had against the said sir Hugh by reason of any 
 bargain or contract whatsoever before the date of these 
 presents." — Inquisition of 1623. This first release is 
 stated to be "not in the manuscript." The Inquisi- 
 tion records a second release from Con to sir Hugh, 
 dated the 26th of March, 1612, which seems to have been 
 given for the purpose of assisting sir Hugh to obtain a 
 further confirmation of the premises from the king ; also a 
 ////Vi/ release, dated the 20th December, 1615, in which 
 Con for himself and his heirs, consents that sir Hugh 
 "may obtain a confirmation of the premises from the 
 king, or Act of Parliament." 
 
 Claims of Sir Thomas Smith. — This claimant was the 
 grand nephew of the first sir Thomas Smith, to whom queen 
 Elizabeth had granted extensive portions of Antrim and 
 Down, including the Ards, in 1572. The first sir Thomas 
 Smith, one of the most remarkable men of his age, was 
 
 bom at Saffron-Waldon, in the year 1512. He was 
 equally distinguished as a statesman and a man of learn- 
 ing. Whilst rising rapidly through several positions of 
 public trust until at length he succeeded Burleigh as chief 
 secretary of state, his name was still more honourably 
 known by his pre-eminent classical attainments, and his 
 learned investigations in physical and experimental philo- 
 sophy. He died in 1377, at the age of sixty-three. Of 
 his numerous printed works one is entitled, A Letter sent 
 by T. B. unto his very frende Mayster R. C. Esqire, 
 whereift is conteined a large discourse of the peopling and 
 inhabiting the Cuntrie called the Ardes, taken in hand by 
 sir Tlwjnas Smith, and Thomas Stnith, esquire, his sonne. 
 This tract, now very rare, was published in 1572. A 
 complete copy, for which the editor is indebted to the 
 kindness of J. W. Hanna, Esq., is printed in Appendix E. 
 Among the titles of honor inscribed on Smith's monu- 
 ment in the parish church of Theydon Mount was — Ards, 
 A astral isqite Claneboy in Hibernia Colonellus. This was 
 probably the emptiest of all his titles, although it appears 
 to have been one which he very earnestly coveted. His 
 minute arrangements for the success of the projected 
 colony in the Ards proved how deeply he was interested 
 in the enterprise. "It was a pity," says Strype, "it had 
 no better issue ; for sir Thomas a great while had set his 
 thoughts upon it, undertaking to people that north part of 
 the island with natives of this nation. But for his more 
 regular and convenient doing of it, and continuance thereof, 
 he invented divers rules and orders. The orders were of 
 two kinds. 1. For the management of the wars against 
 the rebels, and the preserving the colony continually from 
 the danger of them. II. For the civil government : to 
 presen'e their home-manners, laws, and customs, that 
 they degenerated not into the radeness and barbarity 
 of that countiy. He divided his discourse into three parts. 
 First, to speak of wars ; and therein of military officers 
 to be used there. Secondly, concerning laws for the poli- 
 tic government of the countiy to be possessed, for the pre- 
 sei-vation of it. Thirdly, in what orders to proceed in this 
 journey from the beginning to the end : which sir Thomas 
 called "A Noble Enteiprise and a Godly Voyage." 
 Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, pp. 177 — 178. Sir 
 Thomas appointed his natural son, also named Thomas, as 
 the leader of this colony, and in addition to the many direc- 
 tions given by himself, he drew up, as secretary of state, 
 instructions to be sent from the queen to his son. Before 
 finally dispatching the latter, he "entreated the lord trea- 
 surer (Burleigh) to steal a little leisure to look these writ- 
 ings over, and correct them, so that he might make thenx 
 
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 him and Sir James Hamilton ; they began in April, 1610, and the 6th April, 161 1, Sir Thomas gets 
 an orders of reference to the Commissioners for Irish affairs (of whom Sir James Hamilton was one) 
 to make report of his case (for he claimed by grant from Queen Elizabeth, and the Commissioners 
 judged it fitt to be left to law in Ireland). What he did pm-suant to his report I know not, but on 
 the 30th Sep., 1612, inquisition is taken, whereby Sir Thos. his tide isfound void and null, for breach 
 and non-performance of articles and covenants to the Queen.^ See Grand Office, folio 10 and 11, 
 
 ready for the queen's signing. And this he hoped, when 
 once dispatched, might be as good to his son as five hun- 
 dred Irish soldiers." — Sirype, Ibid., p. 179. When the 
 younger Smith was about to sail in the summer of 1572, 
 with his eight hundred men, to tal<e possession of the 
 Ards, he penned a conciliatory note to Domino Barnabio 
 filio Philippi, in other words, to Brian MacFelim O'Neill, 
 announcing that he was coming to live beside him, 
 and hoping that they might always maintain the most 
 friendly relations with each other. But O'Neill did not 
 by any means reciprocate these sentiments of apparent 
 good will. On the contrary, he had decided on Smith's 
 speedy expulsion, and when the latter arrived on the 31st 
 of August, he was quickly compelled to abandon the ter- 
 ritory of the Ards, which he had persuaded himself was 
 his own. Early in September, Smith wrote to Burghley, in- 
 forming him that sir Brian would not part with a foot of the 
 land, that the matter was referred to the lord-deputy, and 
 that, in the meantime, he (Smith) had withdrawn his men 
 from Newton in the Ardes to Renoughaddy (Ringhaddy) 
 in the Dufferin. On the 12th of October, 1573, the earl of 
 Essex wrote from Knockfergus to the council in London, 
 announcing the death of Thomas Smith, the secretary's 
 son, who had been slain in the Ards by Irishmen of his 
 his own household, whom he had much trusted. This 
 account is evidently founded on the rumours of the event 
 that had reached Carrickfergus on Essex's arrival there ; 
 but it was not likely that Smith had surrounded himself 
 with Irish domestics under the perilous circumstances at- 
 tending his forcible possession of the Ards. Carew has the 
 following allusion to Smitli's assassination in his pedigree 
 of the O'Neills of Clannaboy: — "Neill MacBrian Erlagh 
 (Fagartach), lord of the Upper Clan-Hugh-boy, slew 
 Thomas Smith, a valiant gentleman, base son to -Sir T. S., 
 hermajestie's secretarie, who holds the Upper Clandeboye, 
 commonly called the Ardes, given unto him by her ma- 
 jestic. He was slain in 1572, and not long after the said 
 Neill was slain by Captain Nicholas Malbie. " The x^eader 
 will see that the above extract incorrectly represents the 
 Upper Clannaboy and the Ards as identical, and also 
 antedates the death of Smith at least twelve months. — 
 Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, vol. i. , pp. 467, 469, 
 472, 482; Ulster yoii7'7ial of Aj-chaology, vol. iii., p. 45. 
 Camden's account of the manner of Smith's death, and 
 the death of his slayers, is as follows: — "After he (sir 
 Thomas Smith) had been at great expence, his natural 
 son, whom he had appointed governor, was surprized and 
 thrown alive to the dogs by the Irish; but the abandoned 
 wretclies suffered the punishment of theircruelty, being slain, 
 and given to wolves." — Britannia, translated and enlarged 
 by Gough, vol. iv. , p. 422. On the death of the younger 
 Smith, the colonists appear to have been dispersed, and 
 sir Thomas made no further attempts to replace them. 
 The earl of Essex, baffled also in all his hopes and pro- 
 
 jects as governor of Ulster, proposed to purchase the Ards' 
 as a retreat to which he might finally withdraw from the 
 turmoils and disappointments of life. Sir Thomas Smith 
 offered to let him have these territories, " bothe greate and 
 litle, " for the sum of;^2,ooo, and Essex would have accepted 
 the offer, but the queen interposed, wishing to have the Ards 
 to herself. In May, 1575, sir Thomas Smith writes : — 
 ' ' He (Essex) hath written to me that he will have it, and 
 given authoritie to Mr. Thresurer to go through with 
 me. The Q. Matie. willing to have it hirself cawseth me 
 to stay the bargaine." .Sir Thomas concludes with an offer 
 to resign his grant to the crown, or to exchange it for a 
 manor in Essex, "with a Park;" "because," as he ex- 
 presses it, "it was never my chance yet to have a Park, or 
 the keeping of a Park." — Shirley, Account of Farney, p. 
 52. Essex soon afterwards died in Dublin, and sir 
 Thomas died two years later, without having made any 
 sale or exchange of the Ards. 
 
 5 Sir Thomas gets an order. — The first sir Thomas was 
 succeeded by his nephew sir William, who had two sons 
 who succeeded Tiim; the elder named also sir William, and 
 the younger, this sir Thomas, who, in 1610, prosecuted 
 the family claim to the Ards. — Strype, Lifeof Sir Thomas 
 Smith, Appendix, p. 124. 
 
 * Covenants to the Queen. — The Inquisitions of 1605 and 
 1623, report several distinct breaches on the part of the 
 Smitlis, of the original terms of the grant from the crown. 
 It appears, ist. That although the Smiths, elder and 
 younger, entered on possession of their estates in the Ards 
 on the 20th of October, 1572, they did not, according to 
 the contract, subdue, repress, expel, or bring into her 
 majesty's mercy, any rebel or traitor whatsoever. 2nd. 
 That neither they nor their heirs had permanently occupied 
 the landswithtrue and faithful subjects, as they were pledged 
 to do by the terms of the original indentures. 3rd. That 
 neither they nor their heirs had at any time in readiness, 
 an English footman soldier for every plow-land or 120 
 acres of arable land, nor an English light horseman soldier 
 for every two plow-lands or 240 acres of arable land, to 
 serve in defence of their territories, although there had 
 been great wars and rebellion, and consequently great 
 occasion of service within the said territories. 4th. That 
 neither they nor their heirs did possess, inhabit, or divide 
 any the castles, manors, coppices, abbeys, priories, lands, 
 tenements, or other hereditaments lying and being in their 
 territories, as they ought to have done, according to their 
 agreement with the crown. 5th. That although there~ 
 had been great wars and rebellion throughout the earldom 
 of Ulster since the granting of these lands to the Smiths, 
 and several general hostings had been proclaimed, and 
 fifteen days' warning given in and upon the said lands, yet 
 neither the Smiths nor their heirs had, as they were bound 
 to have, any heads or captains, any horsemen or footmen 
 soldiers, to attend the lord deputy for the space of forty 
 
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 But it seems this was not all the trouble put upon Sir Hugh, for I find (folio 50? of Grand Office) 
 he gave unto the Lord Deputy, Sir John/ the King's letter, dated 20th July, 14th Regis, inhibiting 
 any lands to be passed to any person whatsoever away from Sir Hugh Montgomery, to which he 
 had claim by deed from James Hamilton or Con, and this caveat with a list of the lands he entered 
 in the Secretary's office in Dublin.? 
 
 Between this and the year 16 18, divers debates, controversys and suits,'° were moved by Sir Hugh 
 against Sir James Hamilton, which were seemingly taken away by an award made by the Right 
 Honourable James Hamilton, Earle of Abercom," to which both partys stood ; in conformity to which 
 
 days, within the earldom of Ulster. 6th. That neither 
 the Smiths, nor their heirs, did pay, or cause to be paid 
 to the queen, or to her successor, or to any sheriff for the 
 county of Down, 20s. of the current money of Ireland, 
 yearly, for every plow-land on their estates, according to 
 the tenor of the letters patents and indentures, and the 
 covenants and agreements in the same. 7th. That the 
 said 20 shillings, mentioned by the said indentures to be 
 paid out of eveiy plow-land of the premises is altogether 
 behind in arrears and un])aid, from the feast of St. Michael, 
 in anno 1576, until the day and time of the taking of this 
 Inquisition (in 1612). 8th. That our sovereign lord King 
 James that now is was seized in his domain as of fee in the 
 right of his crown of England and Ireland, of and in all 
 and singular said lands, tenements, and premises, with 
 their appurtenances. 
 
 7 Folio 50. — This is the reference loathe membranes 
 on which the report of the Inquisition of 1623 is written. 
 
 ^ Sir yolm.- — vSir John is a misprint for St. John, the 
 name of the lord deputy who succeeded sir Arthur Chi- 
 chester in 1615. 
 
 9 Office in Bnblijt.— On the 7th of August, 1616, a 
 king's letter had issued for a regrant to sir Hugh Montgo- 
 merie, knt. , of all the lands which he held by grant or 
 othemise, from sir James Hamilton, knt. , by the name of 
 James Hamilton, esq., or from Con O'Neill, esq., or from 
 any other within the Great Ards and the higher Clande- 
 boyes. The regrant which this letter authorized was 
 delayed for several years, during which time sir Hugh was 
 involved in heavy law expenses, for Con O'Neill had been 
 induced to enter into a tripartite indenture, on the 20th of 
 December, 1616, with sir James Hamilton and sir Moses 
 Hill, in contravention of the deed of entail received by him 
 from sir Hugh Montgomeiy, on the 24th May, 1610. By 
 this indenture Con conveyed to Hamilton and Hill all his 
 property in Castlereagli and Slut Neales, (consisting then 
 of 58 townlands) except the lands of Tullycarnan and 
 Edencharrick. Then came the struggle between sir 
 Hugh and the other two knights for these lands, and 
 the 'trouble' referred to in the text. The terms of the 
 tripartite indenture causing all this mischief are stated in 
 the copy of the Inquisition of 1623 printed in the Appendix, 
 although it is said in the margin that these terms were not 
 give?! ill the manuscript. 
 
 '° Controversies and suits. — All these unpleasant proceed- 
 ings arose more or less directly from the original mistake of 
 granting the entire estates to Hamilton, in his own name, 
 thus giving liim the power (aftenvards so fatal to his own 
 peace), of controlling, and possibly curtailing the rights of 
 his rival, sir Hugh Montgomery. The writer of the 
 Hamilton Manuscripts., referring to these disputes, ob- 
 
 serves: — "He (sir James Hamilton) had several tediotis 
 and chargeable lawsuits with the lord of Ards of lands and 
 other trifles, wherein pride and incendiaries occasioned 
 great expense of money and peace." We may judge also 
 from a passage in the will of sir James Hamilton, how 
 bitterly he must have felt on the subject of these "con- 
 troversies," when we find him therein solemnly endeavour- 
 ing to perpetuate the strife between his owo. descendants 
 and those of sir Hugh Montgomery. In the passage 
 referred to, he directs his executors to pay his daughters' 
 dowries ten days after their respective marriages, "pro- 
 vided their husbands are not of the children, or posteritie, 
 of sir Hugh Montgomerie, of Newton, knight. And if 
 they shall marry with a?iy of the posteritie of sir Hugh 
 Montgomerie, or without the consent or good liking of their 
 mother, then I do appoint their portions to revert to their 
 brother, my sone, or my next heire, and they to receive 
 such portions as he shall think meet. And I do desyre 
 my wife, as alsoe my said sone, or sones, and daughters 
 (if my wife fall out to be now with child of any sone or 
 daughter), that upon my blessing they, nor none of them, 
 match nor marrie not with any sone nor daughter of the 
 house or posteritie of sir Hugh ^Montgomerie, . now of 
 Newton, knight." Sir James Hamilton's wiU is dated 
 the i6th of December, 1616, and was written, therefore, 
 during the very heat of his "controversy" with sir Hugh 
 Montgomer)-.— j%jw/7/ci« Mamtscripts, pp., 30, 31, 49, 50. 
 
 " Earle of Aba-corn. — This James Hamilton was created 
 earl of Abeicom in the year 1606. His father, lord 
 Claud Hamilton, was fourth son of the second earl of 
 Arran. He was selected, probably, as arbitrator on this 
 occasion, from his supposed knowledge of the value of 
 lands in Ulster,beinghimself the owner of large estates in the 
 barony of Strabane. Hamilton of Wishart, who repre- 
 sents him as a person of "extraordinary accomplishments," 
 states that he died at Moncktoun, in Ayrshire, on the 23rd 
 of March, 1618. The following is an extract from his 
 will : — "I committ my said into ye holie handis of myguid 
 God and merciful Father, fra quhome throw ye richteous 
 meritis of Jesus Christ, I luik to ressave it againe at ye 
 glorious resurectione jo)Tiitwt yis samebody,- — qlk heir Ileif 
 to sleip and be bureit, gif so it pleis God, in sepulcher 
 qr my brelhir, my sisteris, and baimes lyis; in ye iyll 
 callit St Mirreinis Iyll, at ye south held of ye croce 
 churche of Paslay ; tmsting assuredly to its at yt blissit 
 resurrecticne to lyf eternell. 1 desyre that yr be no vaine 
 nor glorios seremonie vsit at my buriell, raying (crjing) 
 hcnouris, hot yt my corps be karayit to ye grave be some of 
 myniosthonorabilland neriest friendis with mybairnis, &c. 
 — New Statistical Account of Scotland, Renfreivshire 
 p. 171, note. 
 
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 award, and the King's letter relating thereunto, at least to the chief parts thereof, Sir James 
 Hamilton conveys several lands to Sir Hugh Montgomery, and both of them in the deed are stiled 
 Privy Counsellor;" which deed bears date 23d May, 1618, George Medensis,'3and William Alexander, 
 &c., subscribing witnesses. I presume this might be done at London, for much about this time Sir 
 Hugh and his Lady lived there, and made up the match between their eldest son and Jean, the 
 eldest daughter of Sir William Alexander,"* Secretary for Scotland, whom I take to be one of the 
 witnesses in that great concern, by reason, the match aforesaid was about this time or some montlrs 
 afterwards completed. 
 
 »2 Privy Coiinselloi: — The King's letter, approving of 
 the award made by the earl of Abercom, is dated 24th 
 December, 14 James I. By an indenture bearing date the 
 25rd May, sir James Hamilton gave over according to the 
 terms of Lord Aberconi's award, and in obedience to liis 
 majesty's will and pleasure, extensive additions to the es- 
 tates of sir Hugh Montgomery, consisting especially of 
 abbey lands. On the same date, sir Hugh also by inden- 
 ture, resigned to sir James portions awarded to the latter, 
 including a moiety of the woods and underwoods, growing 
 on the subdivisions of Castlereagh and Slut-Neills. Al- 
 though sir Hugh Montgomery was a gainer by this arrange- 
 ment, the results of Abercorn's award did not altogether 
 meet his expectations, nor were they regarded as final in 
 the quarrel with his astute neighbour. The substance of 
 these two indentures is contained in the Inquisition of 1623, 
 the latter being supplied, as stated in the margin, from the 
 papers of Dean Dobbs. 
 
 '3 George Medetisis. — Dr. George Montgomery's pro- 
 motions had followed each other in rapid succession from 
 the day on which he was personally known to the king. 
 Queen Elizabeth had bestowed upon him a parsonage and 
 deanery (p. supra), and king James had no sooner arrived 
 in London than he appointed him chaplain to himself with 
 a living in London, in commendarn, worth at that period the 
 respectable sum of ^£'200 a year (p. 28, sufra). Montgomery 
 was next advanced to the sees of Derry, Raphoe, and 
 Clogher, by privy seal dated 15th Feb., 1604. The mandate 
 for consecration was made by patent, dated 13th June, 1605. 
 On the next day (14th June), the bishop received a grant 
 for the restitution of such temporalities as had been alien- 
 ated in the sees above named. On the znd of May, 1606, 
 a king's letter was issued granting a commission, should the 
 bishop require it, to ascertain the see landsof the bishopricks 
 of Derry, Raphoe, and Clogher. There is no record of 
 his consecration, but it is well known that he did not make 
 his appearance in Ulster until the month of May, 1607. Sir 
 John Davies, in the interval betM een the bishop's appoint- 
 ment and arrival, spoke of his "three dioceses" as 
 comprising the chiefest part of Ulster, now united for one 
 man's benefit. The bishop's delay in coming was spoken 
 of by Davies as "the cause why this poor people hath not 
 been reduced to Christianity; and therefore wayKj/trfa/wOT 
 habet. " This complaint, addressed to the earl of Salisbury, 
 the English chief secretary, from so high an authority as 
 the attorney-general for Ireland, had no doubt the effect of 
 hastening Montgomery's arrival. Many impropriators 
 (probably sir John Davies among the rest), who were 
 anxious for the bishop's advent, had cause very soon to 
 repent their zeal in tliis matter, for, as shall see, his 
 crdship aimed above all things at restoring every impro- 
 
 priation to the church. And during the three years he held 
 the sees of Derry, Raphoe, and Clogher, he was able to 
 do wonders in this respect — which will be more particularly 
 noticed when we come to the author's memoir of the bishop. 
 On the 2 1 St of July, 1609, bishop Montgomery was ap- 
 pointed one of a commission to ascertain what castles, 
 lands, advowsons, &c., had been escheated in the counties of 
 Armagh, Tyrone, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh, and 
 Cavan, and to distinguish the ecclesiastical lands from the 
 lands belonging to the crown. The appointment of this 
 commission was intended as a measure preparatory to the 
 complete plantation of Ulster, but the bishop only assisted 
 at the inquiries relating to Coleraine (now the county of 
 Londonderry), Donegal, Fermanagh, and Cavan. Whilst 
 Montgomery held these sees, the king annexed the abbey 
 of Clogher, with its revenues, to the see of Clogher, which 
 made it one of the richest then in Ireland. On the 24th 
 of July, 1610, this fortunate bishop was advanced to the 
 bishoprick of Meath, various substantial annexes being 
 added, which will be afterwards mentioned. — Calendar of 
 Patent Rolls of yames I., p. 22; Harris, Wate's Works, 
 vol i., p. 188; M.S. Notes of J. W. Hanna, Esq.; Mee 
 han's Earlsof Tyrone and Tyrconnel, p. 60, note. 
 
 Sir William Alexander. — Of the numerous fortune- 
 seekers who followed the king across the border, few had 
 better luck, or were less envied on account of it, than sir 
 William Alexander. As a poet he was veiy popular, and 
 as a speculator he had few rivals, even in that age of enter- 
 prise. He was a statesman, too, of no ordinary intelli- 
 gence and determination, holding many high, responsible 
 trusts, and always steadily advancing from one enviable 
 position to another of greater emolument and honour. 
 True, he was the subject of an occasional pasquinade, and 
 got credit for having somewhat greedy proclivities, but the 
 several extensive grants received by him from the crown 
 turned out more for the public benefit than his own. Few 
 were able to form a truer estimate of his contemporaries 
 than sir Thomas Urquhart ; and, although the caustic 
 knight of Cromarty was severe on one or two projects in 
 which sir William engaged, he yet addressed the following 
 epigram " to the Earle of Sterlrn a little before he (sir 
 Thomas) dyed :" — 
 
 " In th' universal list of al the spirits 
 
 That either live or are set down in storie, 
 Nn tyme, nor place can show lis one who merits 
 
 But you alone of the best poet the glorie 
 That ever was in state affairs employed. 
 And best statesman, that ever was a poet." 
 
 Sir William Alexander is said to have been descended 
 from Alexander Macdonnell, second son of Donald, king 
 of the Isles, who was grandson of the renovraed Somerled, 
 or Somhairle, thane of Argyle in the twelfth century. 
 
74 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 The produce of this marriage,'s which lived to come to age, was two sons and a daughter,'^ which 
 only survived that comely pair. The eldest left behind him two sons, now alive.'? One of which 
 hath also two males living and life like.'^ And of the ist Viscount's second and third sons, there 
 are in good health two old Gentlemen, past their grand climacterick ;'9 and the eldest of them hath 
 his son married above 1 1 years ago;^° of whose loins there are three male children, unsnatched away 
 by death, and he may have more very probably. The other old Gentleman is father to two proper 
 young Gentlemen, one lately married, and the other able to ly at that wedding-lock above four years 
 past. 2' 
 
 Amid all his prosperity, this nobleman was haunted with 
 the conviction that liis lionours might soon pass to a colla- 
 teral branch, to prevent which he surrendered his titles of 
 baronet of Nova Scotia, lord Alexander of Tullibodie, 
 viscount of Canada, and earl of Stirling, into the king's 
 hands, who, by charter, under the great seal, bearing date 
 7th December, 1639, granted them de novo to the heirs 
 male, and failing them, to the eldest heirs female. Notwith- 
 standing this precaution, all his titles became extinct in less 
 than a century after his death. He was succeeded by his 
 grandson, also named William, who died in May, 1640, or 
 three months after his accession as second earl of Stirling. 
 Henry, the third son of the first earl, then succeeded, and 
 died in 1644. The son of the latter, also named Henry, 
 became fourth earl, and died in 1690. His son Henry, 
 the fifth earl, died in 1739, without issue, and at his death 
 the family titles became extinct, whilst the vast estates 
 granted to the first earl in Scotland, and in America, have 
 long since passed from his descendants. 
 
 '5 This nian-iage. — The marriage between Hugh, after- 
 wards second viscount Montgomery of the Ards, and 
 Jean, eldest daughter of sir William Alexander. 
 
 7\uo sons and' a daughter. — The two sons were Hugh, 
 third viscount, and James, born at Dunskey castle, in 1639, 
 and who died at Rosemount 1 689. The daughter was the 
 Hon. Elizabeth Montgomeiy, who married her cousin, 
 William Montgomery, author of the Alontgomery Manu- 
 scripts. 
 
 Two sons now alive. — Hugh, the third viscount, and 
 first earl of Mount-Alexander, left two sons, Hugh and 
 Heni"y, who became in succession the second and third 
 earls of Mount-Alexander. 
 
 Living and life-like. — Hemy, the third earl, left two 
 sons, Hugh and Thomas, who became successively the 
 fourth and fifth earls. 
 
 Passed their grand climacterick. — One of these old 
 gentlemen was our author himself, son of sir James Mont- 
 gomery of Rosemount, the first viscount's second son. 
 The other old gentleman was Hugh Montgomery of Dun- 
 brackley, son of Captain George Montgomery, the first 
 viscount's third son. The grand climacterick (from climax, 
 a scale or gradation) of man's life was supposed to be his 
 fixly-third year — the most critical period — every seventh 
 year until that point being marked with some great prepa- 
 ratory change in the constitution. Aulus Gellius, in his 
 Nodes Attica:, lib. xv., cap. 7, refers at some length to this 
 interesting point, informing us that the number sixty-three, 
 which is a multiple of seven by nine, is particularly fatal 
 to old men, adding that disease, or misfortune, or loss of 
 life awaits all who arrive at that age. In connexion with 
 
 his own remarks, the Roman author has preserved a letter 
 of Augustus Csesar to his grandson Caius, in which this 
 old belief is simply and beautifully expressed. "Be of 
 good cheer," says the writer, "my beloved Caius, whom, 
 so help me heaven, I ever long for, when thou art absent. 
 But more particularly do my eyes demand my Caius on 
 days like yesterday, when I hope, wherever you were, that 
 you celebrated in health and joy my sixty-fourth birth-day; 
 for, as you see, I have escaped my sixty-third year, that 
 common climacteric of old men." See Soane, Book of 
 the Months, vol. i.. pp. 298, 299. Of this word we have 
 the following illustrations quoted, among others, in Rich- 
 ardson's New English Dictionary: — 
 
 " He (SirThomas Smith) departed this mortal lifein the cffwwf/fw/z/ 
 year of his age, in the month of July, 1577, and was buried in the 
 church of Theydon Mount, or Theydoa at Mount, in Essex." — 
 Wood's Atheftcp Oxonienses. 
 
 " Death might have taken such, her end deferr'd. 
 Until the time she had been climacter'd. 
 When she would have been at three score years and three, 
 Such as our best at three-and-twenty be." 
 Drayton's Elegy on the death of Lady Ctifton. 
 
 " And therefore the consent of elder times settling their conceits 
 upon climacters not onely differing from this of ours but one another : 
 though several ages and nations do fancy unto themselves different 
 years of danger, yet every one expects the same event, and constant 
 verity in each." — Brown's Vidgar Errors, b. iv. c. 12. 
 
 " "rhcse gentlemen deal in regeneration ; but at any price I should 
 hardly yield my rigid fibres to be regenerated by them ; nor begin in 
 my grand clinmcterick, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer 
 in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous roeta- 
 physicks. — Burke, Rejtcction on the French Revolution. 
 
 =° II years ago. — The author's only son, James, was 
 married, in 1687 (eleven years before this was written), 
 to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Archibald Edmonston, of 
 Broadisland, arfd had then three sons living. The author 
 recorded the names of his grandchildren on "a stone Ijing 
 fiat on the floor of the chancell " in Greyabbey, adjoining 
 the "vaulted tomb," in which he and his wife were in- 
 terred. The names of his grandchildren who had died 
 before the erection of that monument were — Anna, Helena, 
 Hugh, Jane, and Archibald. The names of those then 
 alive were Elizabeth, William, Martha, and James. 
 Harris, Coutity of Doiuii, p. 54. Another son, named 
 Edmonston, was bom after the ^^'riting of the above in- 
 scription, as he is mentioned in the will of the second earl 
 of Mount Alexander, and there described as son of James 
 of Rosemount, and brother of captain William Mont- 
 gomery, afterwards of Killough. 
 
 Above four years fast. — These two "proper young 
 gentlemen" were the sons of Hugh of Dunbrackley, some- 
 times styled of Ballylesson, the elder named Hercules, 
 and the younger, Hugh. Hercules had already married 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 75 
 
 Yet, for all our expectations, I neither can (nor will) divine how long these three families may 
 last, seeing that neither the said Earle of Abercorn, nor heirs of his body (that I can learn), hath 
 any children, only his brother's (the Lord of Strabane) offspring enjoy the title, either from his said 
 father, or by a new creation of one of the two late Kings, the Stewards and seeing, likewise, the 
 ist Viscount Clanneboy left but one son, who left two, who are both dead, without leaving any 
 issue behind them, the more is the pity, for many reasons too well known, as by the records in 
 Dublin doth appear. ^3 This consideration, on the duration of families, is to prevent overmuch care 
 to raise posterity to grandeur. ^4 
 
 The said Sir Hugh had (no doubt) further troubles between the said year i6i8 and 1623, 
 because, at his chief instance and request, and for his greater security, the King granted a com- 
 mission and order, directed unto Henry Lord Viscount Faulkland, Lord Deputy of Ireland, for 
 holding an inquisition concerning the lands, spiritual and temporal, therein mentioned, which began 
 to be held before Sir John Blennerhassett, Lord Chief Baron, at Downpatrick, the 13th October, 
 1623. This inquest is often cited, and is commonly called the Grand Office. Again, Sir Hugh- 
 (that he might be the more complete by sufferings) is assaulted by Sir William Smith, who strove to 
 hinder the passing of the King's patent to him f= on notice whereof. Sir Hugh writes a large well 
 penned letter (which I have) with instructions to his son James how to manage that affair. This is 
 
 Jane, only child of Archibald MacNeill, chancellor of 
 Down, and Hugh soon afterwards married a daughter of 
 general Creighton. 
 
 ^- The Stewards. — On the death of George, third earl of 
 Abercorn, the male line of the main branch became ex- 
 tinct. The family was then represented by the de-xcn.!- 
 ants of Claud Hamilton, second son of James, the first earl. 
 This Claud, known as second lord Strabane, died in 
 1638, leaving two sons ; James, the elder, third lord Stra- 
 bane, was drowned in 1655, leaving no children. His 
 younger brother George, fourth lord Strabane, died in 
 1 668, leaving two sons. The elder, Claud, succeeded as 
 fifth lord Strabane, and became fourth earl of Aberconi. 
 He espoused the cause of James II. in Ireland, and suf- 
 fered forfeiture of his estates. He died in 1690, and the 
 title of earl of Abercorn devolved on his younger brother 
 Charles, who became fifth earl. In 1692, the latter ob- 
 tained a reversal of his brother's attainder, and succeeded 
 to both title and estate of Strabane. He died in 170I, 
 leaving no issue, so that this branch also became extinct; 
 and the representatives of the family have next to be 
 sought for among the descendants of George Hamilton, 
 fourth son of the first earl. — Crawford, History of Ren- 
 frewshire, pp. 319, 320. 
 
 ^3 In Dublin doth appear. — ^James Hamilton, first vis- 
 count Clannaboy, left one son, who became first earl of 
 Clanbrassill. The latter had three sons, according to Lodge 
 (edited by Archdall, vol. iii. , pp. 6, 7), viz., James, who 
 died yoimg; Henry' who became second earl of Clanbrassill; 
 and Hans, who died without issue. On the death of Henry, 
 the second earl, without issue, in 1675, the male line of 
 the first creation became extinct. The earldom was after- 
 wards conferred on James Hamilton, viscount Limerick, 
 who was great-grandson of John Hamilton of ToUimore. 
 On the death of his son without issue in 1798, the male 
 line of this family also came to an end. —Lodge, ttt supra, 
 
 vol. iii., pp. II, 12. The author's mention of the "records 
 in Dublin," in connexion with the Clanbrassill family, has 
 reference to the lengthened and notorious litigations among 
 the Hamiltons, on the death of earl Henry. The reader 
 may see a full account of these litigations in the Hatiiilton 
 Manuscripts, pp. 93 — 156. 
 
 ^4 Posterity to grandeur. — The main line of the Mont- 
 gomerys of the Ards became extinct at the death of the 
 fifth earl of Mount- Alexander, in 1757. 
 
 Iving^s patent to him. — This sir William Smith was 
 nephew and successor of the first sir Thomas, and is de- 
 scribed by John Strype as " a brave gentleman and soldier 
 in Ireland, being a colonel there ; till having attained to 
 thirty years of age, he returned into England, and pos- 
 sessed his deceased uncle's estates. He married into the 
 family of Fleetwood of the Vache in Bucks, and had 
 divers issue. And was of great figiu'e and service in the 
 county of Essex. All which may be better known by the 
 inscription on a noble monument for himself and his lady, 
 set up on the south side of the chancel opposite to that of 
 sir Thomas Smith, his uncle." This inscription is as 
 follows : — - 
 
 *' To ttie pious vieinory of her toved and loving hicsband, 
 S irWiltiaiyi Smith of Hilhal, in tJte cojinty of Essex. Knight: who, 
 tilt lie zvas tliirty years old, folloived the wars in Irelajid, with sttch 
 approbation, that he was chosen one of tlie Colonels of the Army. 
 BiU ills 7(ncle, Sir Tho?nas, Citancellor of t/ie Garter, and principal 
 Secretary of State to tuio princes, King Edward VI., and tite 
 late Queen Elizabet/i of famous memory, dying, lie returjied to 
 a full ajid fair inheritance : and so bent himself to tlie affairs of 
 the country, that lie grew alike famous /// the arts of peace as war. 
 A It offices there, sorted with a man of iiis qttality, he right wor- 
 shipfully ferformed, and died one of the Deptity Lieutenants of 
 the shire ; a place of no small trust and credit. 
 
 '* Bridget, his unfortitnate widow, wlio, during the time of 
 thirty-seven years, bare him three sofis and four daughters, daitghter 
 of Tliomas Fleetwood, of the Vache in th^ county of Buck^, Esguire, 
 and sometime M aster of the Mint, to allay her languor and longing 
 after so dear a companion of htrlife, rather to express her affection 
 
76 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 dated 23d February, 1623, about four months after the Grand Office'^ was found. I have the original 
 every word written by himself. I should greatly admire at the exactness thereof, both in point of 
 fact and law, but that so ingenious a person and so long bred (by costly experience) to the law (as 
 for 20 years before this Sir Hugh was used) could not want knowledge to direct his son to pass that 
 ford which himself had widden through.^? 
 
 But to continue the troublesomeness of Sir Thomas Smith. King James died Ao. 1624, and 
 on the iith April, 1625, the Duke of Buckingham's whites to the Judges to make report to him, in 
 William Smith's and Sir James Hamilton's case, that he might inform the King thereof, which they 
 did in the same manner as the Commissioners for Irish affairs before had done (in Ao. 16 11), viz : — 
 That Smith should be left to the law in Ireland, and herein the said James Montgomery was agent, 
 
 than his office, this Monument erected, destinating it to Iter self, 
 tlieir children, and posterity. He lived years se'uenty-six, died the 
 12 of Deceinb., 1626." — Strype, Life 0/ Sir Thomas Smith, pp. 
 231—3- 
 
 ^ Grand Office. — This Grand Office or Inquisition was 
 held, in consequence of "divers causes and controversies, 
 M'hich had longe depended, or bine stirred, or mooved, 
 betweene lord viscount IMountgomerye, lord viscount 
 Claneboye, sir Henry Pyerce, sir Robert M'Leland, sir 
 Moyses Hill, Donnell O'Neale, son and heir of Con 
 O'Neale, esq., John Hamelton, James Cathcarte, William 
 Edmunston, Michael White, and others, as competitors for 
 or conceminge the said Con O'Neale's late estate and posses- 
 sions, or some parte of them, in the said countye of Down, 
 wherein each of them did severally pretende to have severall 
 interests or title." The Commission for holding this 
 investigation was granted, as the author states, principally 
 at the urgent request, and for the security, of the first vis- 
 count Montgomery of the Ards, who appears to have had 
 the greatest interest at stake. The Inquisition was held 
 at Downpatrick, commencing on the 13th of October, 1623, 
 and the report of the Commission was delivered into Chan- 
 cery on the 22nd of June, 1624. The Commissioners, five 
 of whom acted, were sir John Blenerhasset, sir Wm. 
 Parsons, sir Thos. Hibbots, sir Christopher Sibthorpe, sir 
 Wm. Sparke, sir Wm. Rives, Nathaniel Cataline, Rich- 
 ard West, Walter Ivers, Peter Clinton, and Stephen 
 Allen. The jurors, fifteen of whom served, were Nicho- 
 las Warde, of Casllewarde, esq. ; George Russell, of 
 RathmuUen, gent. ; Richard Russell, of Rossglass, gent. ; 
 Simon Jordan, of Dunsforde, gent. ; Owen McRowiy, 
 of Clogher, gent. ; Robert Swords, of Rathcalpe, gent. ; 
 Patrick McCarton, of Ballekin, gent. ; Patrick M'Coll- 
 muck, of Killscolban, gentr ; George Russell, of Quoniams- 
 town, gent. ; Fardoroghe Magneys, of Clonvoroghan, gent, ; 
 Owen M 'Carton, of Lyssnynny, gent.; John Russell, of 
 Killoghe, gent. ; James Audley, of Audlestowne, gent. ; 
 Biyan M'Ever Magneis, of Shanker, gent. ; and Shane 
 M 'Bryan, of Ballintegart, gent. The task imposed 
 on these gentlemen — commissioners and jurors alike — 
 was such as needed the exercise of more than ordi- 
 nary patience and discretion. It required the examination 
 of many witnesses, and of innumerable papers. It implied 
 a thorough investigation respecting— ^/frj/, the titles and 
 boundaries of the lands claimed by the several disputants 
 above-mentioned ; secondly, the castles, lands, tenements, 
 rectories, tithes, advowsons, glebes, fisheries, and other 
 
 hereditaments, belonging to the monasteries of Bangor, 
 Greyabbey, Movilla, Black Abbey, Comber, and the 
 priories of Newton and Holiwood ; thirdly, the spiritual 
 lands, tithes, and advowsons, in the territories of Upper 
 Clannaboy and the Great Ards, previously granted to James 
 Hamilton, with all others in the sam.e territories ; fourthly, 
 the bishop's lands, the glebe lands, and the several 
 incumbents' and vicars' maintenances, allotted to them 
 for their cures from the temporal lauds ; fifthly, the 
 impropriate tithes and impropriate rectories in the Upper 
 Clannaboy and the Great Ardes ; sixthly, the bounds 
 of every parish, as far as they could be discovered ; 
 and, seventhly, what castles, lordships, manors, lands, 
 religious houses, rectories, tithes, fishings, and other 
 hereditaments, as well spiritual as temporal, belonged to 
 the lord viscount Montgomery, lord viscount Clannaboy, 
 sir Foulke Conway, and the several other claimants above- 
 named. — Inquisition o/" 1623 ; Calendar of Patent Rolls, 
 Jac. I., p.. 250, a. In Erck's Account of the Ecclesiastical 
 Establishment siihsisling in freland, p. 30, the author has 
 the following reference to this Inquisition: — "It may be 
 observed, however, that the commission contains very little 
 information relative to the property of the bishop and clergy 
 of the diocese of Down ; for tfie commissioners themselves, 
 being the claimants of the possessions of these monasteries 
 under patent from King James not only concealed, as it 
 would seem, but usurped upon the spiritual lands, glebes, 
 tithes, and advowsons of the greater part of the livings in 
 those districts, which of right belonged to the bishops and 
 clergy." The possessions of the religious houses above- 
 named belonged, with slight exceptions, to the viscount 
 Ards and Clannaboy, so that the Commissioners could not 
 have been influenced by the motives here ascribed to them 
 by Dr. Erck. 
 
 Wridden through. — The letter of sir Hugh Montgo- 
 mery here described is probably still in existence, as the 
 author evidently had preserved it with great care, and does 
 not class it among those other documents which had been 
 lost in his sudden removal to Scotland in 1689, or de- 
 stroyed by the fire at Rosemount in 1695. 
 
 Sir Thomas Smith. — The son and successor of sir 
 William above-mentioned. 
 
 °5 Duke of Buckingham. — This was the great duke, or 
 prime favourite of James I. and Charles I., assassinated 
 in 1626. His duchess re-married in 1635 with 
 Randal Macdonnell, second earl and first marquis of 
 .\ntrim. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 77 
 
 for I have a letter dated from Bangor, 4th November, 1625, to him, signed J. Clanneboy (who was 
 then possessed of Killileagh) advising him to consult Sir James Fullerton, &c., in the business against 
 Smith, for James Montgomery was then going to Court about it,3° his father, some months or days 
 before that time, being created Lord Viscount, for his patent was prior to the said Clanneboys, and 
 so henceforth I must stile him the first Lord Viscount Montgomery. 31 
 
 The 30th April, 1626, Sir William Smith, in a new petition, complains against the Viscount 
 Montgomery, and prays orders to stop the letters patent to him for any lands; and obtained warrants 
 of Council, dated May and June next following, requiring the said Lord Viscount to appear before 
 some English Lords authorised to report their cases, that both his Lordship and Smith might be 
 heard ; which orders were served on James Montgomery, as agent to his father ; but the said agent 
 being then Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber in ordinary to King Charles, Hamilton petitioned 
 his Majesty, setting forth that Sir Thomas and Sir William Smith's cases (both in the late King's 
 time and in the beginning of his Majesty's reign) were adjudged to be left to the law in Ireland; and 
 that no stop was put to the passing the respective patents, in behalf of the Lord Chichester, the 
 Lord Claneboys, or Foulk Conway,32 thereupon, a.d. 1626, 2 Car., said Lord Montgomery's patent 
 for his lands, conform to Abercorn's award, was ordered by the King to be passed, under the broad 
 seal of Ireland, which bears date 33 
 
 3° Going to Court about it. — The labours of James 
 Montgomery at this important crisis were most serviceable 
 in protecting the interests of sir Hugh, his father, and sir 
 James Hamilton. These services were afterwards acknow- 
 ledged by his father, in the shape of a very substantial 
 grant of lands in the Ards and Castlereagh, and were, 
 indeed, considered so eminent, that the author referred to 
 them in the inscription on his father's monument in 
 Greyabbey. 
 
 3' Fiist Lord Viscount ATo?itgomery. — The patent creat- 
 ing Hugh Montgomery viscount Montgomery of the Great 
 Ards is dated 3rd May 20 James I. (1622) (Calendar, p. 
 552, b). This honour was accompanied with a fee or 
 stipend of £12, 6s. 8d. Irish, payable out of the customs 
 of Dublin. The next day James Hamilton was created 
 viscount Clandeboy, with a like stipend, payable out of 
 the customs of Dublin (Calendar, p. 552, a). The 
 first viscount Montgomery's patent declared that such 
 dignity was conferred ' ' on account of his many and great 
 deserts," and of the assistance rendered by him in pacify- 
 ing Clandeboye after rebellion, in the tumults of the 
 peasants in Ulster ; also in pacifying of Ardes, towards 
 the increase of the restored religion, and towards the 
 obedience of the peasants to us." In this patent he is 
 styled "our dear and faithful Hugh Montgomery of 
 Braidstane, in our kingdom of Scotland.'' — Mrs. E. G. 
 S. Reilly, Genealogical History, p. 41. See a copy of the 
 Latin original in Lodge's Peerage, 4 vol. edit., vol. i., 
 P- 363- 
 
 32 Or Foulk Commy. — As these estates were all portions 
 of the vast grant to the Smiths, and as the owners had 
 obtained their respective patents without trouble, it ap- 
 peared evident that there were no other or better grounds 
 for disputing viscount Montgomery's claim to his lands. 
 Sir William Smith " complained against the viscount 
 Montgomery, and prayed orders to stop the letters patent 
 
 to him for any lands," from the fact, no doubt, that Mont- 
 gomery had possession of a large portion of the Ards, on 
 which the Smiths had originally set their affections, and 
 in connexion with which sir Thomas Smith had ex- 
 pended ten thousand pounds. Although his grant from 
 Elizabeth included large tracts in the county of Antrim, 
 sir Thomas, probably, never intended to attempt colonising 
 any other territoiy than the Ards. On Essex's arrival at 
 Carrickfergus in 1 5 73, Smith consented to give up Belfast, 
 Massareene, Castle Mowbray, and Castle Toome, in the 
 county of Antrim, on the condition of his being firmly 
 secured in the possession of the Ardes. A memorandum 
 to this effect was preserved by Essex, dated 26th May, 
 1573- Hamilton's Calendar of State Papers, vol. i., p. 
 507. But the total breach of the original contract on the 
 part of the Smiths (see p. 71, supra) abolished their claim 
 to the Ards no less than to the other districts included in 
 their grant. All the lands thus became equally vested in 
 the Crown, and were granted by James I., on the same 
 conditions to Chichester, Conway, Hamilton, and others. 
 If any claim to the Ards could have been established in 
 favour of sir William Smith, it must have been as against 
 sir James Hamilton, in whose name the grant from the 
 Crown of the Upper Clannaboy and the Great Ards had 
 been made. 
 
 33 Which bears date. — The date of this new patent is 
 nth October, 1626. In the king's letter, issued on the 
 9th of August preceding, there is the following passage :— 
 "We are graciously pleased, in pursuance of what our 
 dear father of blessed memory was pleased to do, in con- 
 sideration of the good and faithful service done by the now 
 viscount Montgomery of the Ards, to grant unto him, his 
 heirs and assigns, all such manors, townships, and lands, 
 spiritual and temporal, as were conveyed, or mentioned 
 and intended to be conveyed, unto him by the now viscount 
 Claneboye, or by Con O'Neale, or by any others, by force 
 
 N 
 
78 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Moreover, to the Lord Montgomery further trouble arose. For I find there was a decree in 
 Chancery the 12th December, 1626, touching underwoods and timber; whereby the Lord Mont- 
 gomery was to have those growing in Slutevils34 and Castlereagh, as should be awarded or recovered 
 from Francis Hill, Esq. 35 So the reader may observe, that from the date of the tripartite indenture 
 
 of any grant, assignment, contract, or other assurance 
 whatsoever, with all the rights, members, and appurten- 
 ances thereunto belonging, which by office (Inquisition) 
 have been found to be parcels of the possessions aforesaid, 
 as they were fonnerly conveyed by letters patent heretofore 
 made unto the said viscount Claneboys; the which grant, 
 by the advice of our officers and counsel learned here, we 
 have caused to be prepared in a bill, under our hand 
 revised, corrected, and made ready for the sealing here, 
 which upon further consideration, we have been pleased 
 to transfer into Ireland." This letter authorised also the 
 granting to viscount Montgomery the right of establishing 
 a ferry to Scotland at Donaghadee, and the issuing of 
 pardons to sir Hugh Montgomerie for liberating the larde 
 of CoUeyn, and to the larde for killing William Irwine, 
 then a rebel and fugitive. — Calendar of Patent Rolls, 
 Joi. J., p. 312 b. The patent obtained in pursuance 
 of this letter regrants to the first viscount all the lands, 
 tenements, and hereditaments in the territory of Upper 
 Clannaboy and the Great Ards which he had received 
 from James Hamilton and Con O'Neill, including the 
 sites, circuits, precincts, and possessions of Greyabbey, 
 Blackabbey, Movilla, Comber in part, and the priory 
 of Newton: — "Excepting all lands within the ter- 
 ritory of Slut Neale and the town of Ballymartenagh 
 alias Ballymarten, under such special tenures and increase 
 of rent for the residue as in the bill are contained; also 
 excepting the port of Ballywalter, and aU other ports and 
 creeks fonnerly granted to the viscount Claueboye, and all 
 lands and tenements belonging to the same viscount, sir 
 Fulk Conway, sir Moyses Hill, or John Hamilton." 
 Morrin's Calendar of Pat. Rollsof Charles!., pp. 129, 131. 
 This patent is printed in Appendix F. The parties here men- 
 tioned as holding lands specially reserved, had purchased 
 their property in Castlereagh from Con O'Neale. On the 
 24th <A December, 1609, sir Fulk Conway of Killultagh, 
 governor of Carrickfergus, obtained a lease from Con, for 
 21 years of the two townlands of Dmrconnor and Bally- 
 money, in the territoiy of Slutneale, at the rent oi £1 
 sterl. for each towne, which rent was released to sir Fulk 
 by Con, on the 1 3th January, 1609. On the 7th of November, 
 1615, Con sold to sir Fulk, the above two townlands of 
 Ballydunconnor alias Ballynefeagh, and Ballynamoney alias 
 Lisderry, in consideration of 100 pounds sterling, yielding 
 to the king, yearly, eleven shillings, the rateable charge 
 which Con's other lands bore to the king's service. Thomas 
 Hibbots sold the town and lands of Ballynafeagh, (received 
 by grant from Con O'Neill), to sir Fulk, on the 7th of 
 April, 1619, for the sum of/125. The record of these 
 transactions is described in the margin of our copy of 
 the Inguisiiion of 1623 as not being in the Manuscript, 
 and was, therefore, probably supplied from papers in the 
 possession of Dean Dobbs. Sir Fulke Conway's grant 
 from James I. (1610) recites the towns and lands of 
 Ballilargymore, Ballinmullane alias BallynmuUagh, Bally- 
 tooleconnell, and Hallyomullan alias Ballyomulvallegh, 
 parcel of the estate of Neal McBrian Fertagh O'NeaJe, 
 
 or his father, Brian Fertagh- — Calendar of Patent Rolls 
 of James I., p. 146, b. By an Inquisition held at Down- 
 patrick, on the 9th of August, 1625, it was found that sir 
 Fulke Conway of Lisnegarvagh (now Lisbum), had died 
 on the 4th of November, 1624, and that at the time of 
 his death he held the following portions of " Sleught 
 McNeale's country in the county of Down — viz., Bally- 
 lorganmoore, O'Mullacrannagh, O'Ballynelan, O'Bally- 
 tooleconnell, Lisnakeaghan, O'Carroconecrawle, Bally- 
 mallhan, Herrenagh, Doone, Mullacrant, half of Brogh- 
 echy, Drane, Aghaskelge, Ballytaghbricke, and BaUy- 
 tene." Inquisitions, Doivn, no. I, (7rt« /. In 1609, 
 sir Foulke was styled of Eneshallogane, which was a for- 
 tified position, afterwards known as Innislaughlin, in the 
 vicinity of Moira, the niins of which were visible a few 
 years ago. — Ulster Journal, vol. viii., p. 79, 7Wte. The 
 following lands were in po.iscssion of sir Moses HiU at the 
 date of his death, loth Feb., 1630; — Ballynagnockan, now 
 Ballyknockan, parish of Saintfield; Ballybruian, now Bally- 
 macbrennan, parish of Drumbo;Ballyclogher, nowClogher, 
 do. ; Ballycrossan, now Crossan, do, ; Ballycreweh, now 
 Creevy, do. ; Ballicardganan, now Ballycanigannon, do. ; 
 Ballydromeboe, now Drumbo, do. ; Balligrombegg, now 
 Dnmibeg; Ballineganwye; Ballylisnarean, now Lisnas- 
 harrah; Bally liscromelaghan; Ballyloghgar, now Creevy- 
 loghgar, parish of Saintfield; Ballylistoodry, now Listooder, 
 parish of Saintfield; Ballytempleblarisse, now Blaris, 
 parish of Blaris ; Ballycreignesassanagh, now Craigh- 
 nasonagh, parish of Saintfield; Ballycargeenneveigh, now 
 Carricknaveigh, parish of Killaney; Ballihaliske; Balli- 
 dromveyne, now Dramgivin, parish of Kilmore; Balline- 
 feigh, now Ballynafoy, parish of Knockbreda; Ballilisne- 
 broyne, now Lisnalireeny, parish of Knockbreda ; Balli- 
 crevine, now Crossnacreevy, parish of Comber; Ballicre- 
 gogie, now Cregagh, parish of Knockbreda; Balhcastle- 
 reagh, now Castlereagh, parish of Knockbreda. Inquis. 
 Down, nos. 29, 53, 86, Car. I. Daniel O'Neill had an 
 annuity of ;i^68 out of the lands abovenamed. The lands 
 were held by the tenure of free and common soccage. 
 Con's sales to sir Moses Hill were not originally recorded 
 in the Inquisition of 1623, but the record of them is said 
 to have been supplied to that document John Hamilton, 
 whose lands are also excepted from viscount Montgomery's 
 grant, held the two townlands of Ballylenoghan alias 
 Ballyden-ymore, and Ballydunregan, also the quarter of 
 MacEnespicks, as parcel of Ballylenoghan. — hiqidsition of 
 1623. These lands were held by sir Moses Hill, in 1630, 
 and had been purchased from Hamilton. 
 
 ShUcvils. — This is a misprint for Slutneills. 
 "S Francis Hill, Esq. — Francis Hill was son of Peter 
 Hill, and grandson of sir Moses. By his wife, Ursula 
 Stafford, daughter of sir Francis Stafford, of Portglenone, 
 Francis Hill left one son Randal, who died yoimg, and 
 three daughters, viz., Ann, Rose, and Penelope. He 
 died on the 7th of February, 1637, at which date his 
 daughter Ann was six years and six months old; Rose five 
 years and five months ; and Penelope tw o years and ten 
 
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 79 
 
 ulto. April, 3d Jac. Ao. 1605, till December, 1633,3^ there arose many difficulties between Sir James 
 Hamilton and Sir Hugh Montgomery (Viscount i6 2 3),37 occasioned by that ominous and fatal inter- 
 position of Sir James Fullerton aforesaid, and chiefly by the clause he procured to be inserted in 
 the letter of warrant,38 dated April, 3d Jac. Ano. 1605, whereby Mr Hamilton was nominated as the 
 only person in whose name alone the letters patent for Con's estate and the abbey lands in upper 
 Claneboy39 and the great Ards were to be remembered. 
 
 Yet in all my reach of papers and enquiry of knowing more, I cannot find or hear what became 
 of Sir James Fullerton, or of his posterity, or whether he died childless,4o there being none of that 
 
 months. His wife re-married with sir George Rawdon or 
 Reydon. At the time of his death, he held a castle, 
 manor, and the following lands, viz. , Ballycastlereagh, 
 Ballybronell, Ballymaconaghie, Ballylisnabruny, Crossna- 
 crjman, alias Crossnycryvan, Cregoge, Monafaghoge, alias 
 Monakoghige, Carrownemucke, Ballycarnagarren, alias 
 Ballycarngannon, Ballycarrickmadery, Ballycarrickne- 
 veagh, Ballylisdnniilaghan alias Lisbane, Annagh, Bal- 
 liclontinakally, Ballymacbrennan, Ballinekay, Ballylissin- 
 creane, Ballycrossan, Ballyblaris, Ballytullynecrosse, Bally- 
 drumbegge,Ballydunkymuck,Ballydunskeaghe,andTyduffe 
 in the county of Down. — Inquisitions, Dozuu, no. 86, Car. 
 I. Francis Hill dying without an heir male, the family 
 estates were inherited by his uncle, Arthur, youngest son of 
 sir Moses. Ann, eldest daughter of Francis, married 
 Moses, eldest son of Arthur, who was a lieutenant-colonel 
 in the army, and after the Restoration represented the 
 borough of Drogheda. She re-married with Patrick 
 Sheridan, bishop of Cloyne, and died in 1683. Her 
 youngest sister, Penelope, married sir Robert Colville of 
 Newton, and died in 1693. — Archdall's Lodge, Irish 
 Peerage, vol. ii., p. 326 ; Funeral Entry oj Hill Colville, 
 in Ulster's office. 
 
 3* December, 1633. — This was the date of an attempt 
 made by arbitrators to arrange the disputes between 
 viscounts Montgomei^y and Clannaboy. But the articles of 
 agreement then drawn up and signed were not fulfilled by 
 the latter, so that new legal proceedings were commenced 
 against Plamilton by the first viscount Montgomery, and 
 his eldest son Hugh, which continued until the breaking 
 out of the rebellion in 1 64 1. — See infra. 
 
 37 Viscount 1623. — The date of the patent is 3rd May, 
 20 James I. 
 
 3^ Letter of warrant. — See p. 33, supra. 
 
 39 Upper Claneboy. — For the ancient and modem sub- 
 divisions of upper or southern Clannaboy, see pp. 35, 36, 
 supra. This territory has been noticed by Sir Thomas 
 Cusake, lord chancellor of Ireland, in his well-known letter, 
 dated 2nd May, 1552, and addressed to the duke of North- 
 umberland. His words are as follow: — "The next coun- 
 trye to Arde is Clannebooy, wherein isoneMoriortagh Dul- 
 enaghe, one of the Neyles, who hath the same as captayne 
 of Clannebooy. But he is not able to maintayne the same. 
 He hath eight tall gentlemen to his sonnes and all they 
 cannot make past xxiiii horsemen. There is another 
 sept in that countrye of Phelim Backagh his sonnes, 
 taU men which take part with Hughe McNeille Oge, 
 till now of late that certain refused him and went to knock- 
 fergus." — Brewer's Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, p. 
 242. In 1575, when sir Henry Sydney visited Ulster, tlie 
 territory of Upper Clanneboy wa.s held by Nial, son of 
 
 Brian Fagartach, and father of Con. This chieftain also 
 ruled the adjoining territory of the Dufferin, which Sydney 
 found "all wast and desolate, vsed as they of Clandeboy 
 list." "In the Streights of this countrie (the Dufferin), 
 Neill Mac Brian Ertaugh, made Capten of Clandeboy by 
 the Earle of Essex, shewed his Force, and refused, though, 
 upon Protecion, to come to me, yet that Day he offered 
 me no Skirmishe." Sydney afterwards states that he " waS 
 offered Skirmishe by MacNeill Brian Ertaugh, at my 
 passage over the Water of Belfast." — The Sidney Letters 
 and Memorials of State, vol. i., p. 76. From Marshal 
 Bagenal's Description of Ulster, written in 1 586, we quote 
 the following reference to southern Clannaboy: — "Southe 
 Clandeboy is for the most parte a woodland, and reacheth 
 from the Diffrin to the River of Knockfergus; the Capten 
 of it Sir Con McNeil Oig O'Nele, who in the tyme that 
 th' Erie of Essex attempted this countrey was prisoner in the 
 castle of Dublin, together with his nephew, Hughe McPhe- 
 lim, capten of North Clandeboy, by meane whereof Sir 
 Brian McPhelim (younger brother to Hughe), did then 
 possesse bothe the countries. The Southe parte is now 
 able to make 40 horsmen and So footemen." — Ulster 
 yournal of Archicology, \o\. ii., p. 154. Ten years later, 
 the district appears to have been pretty much in the same 
 condition, at least it is so represented by a writer whose 
 name is not known, and whose account of it is copied to 
 some extent from Marshal Bagenal's Description. The 
 following notice occurs in a M.S. belonging to the Lambeth 
 Library, written about the year 1597, and quoted in 
 Dubourdieu's Antrim, p. 629: — "South Clandeboy is for 
 the most part a woodland, and reacheth from the Dufifryn 
 to the river of Knockfergus. The captain of this tract 
 is Neill MacBryan Flain ; his chief house is Castle Reagh. 
 The country is able to make forty horsemen and eighty 
 footmen." 
 
 '■° Died childless. — This want of information respecting 
 sir James Fullerton arose from the fact that no account of 
 his life has been written, nor were there any printed notices 
 of him, so far as we can ascertain, prior to Dr. Birch's 
 Life of Prince Henry of Wales. Sir James Fullerton's 
 services in the royal household were such as to require 
 some passing notices, at least from the biographer of 
 prince Henry. Fulleilon appears to have been brought 
 from his distinguished position in Dublin to be a sort of 
 guide, philosopher, and friend to the prince. He "died 
 childless," as appears from his will. See p. 30, sup?-a. 
 Fullerton, although a courtier in his later days, retained 
 to the last his love for the studies which had occupied his 
 early life. In Hume's Grammatica Nozia, partii., p. 15, 
 there is the following reference to his scholarship : — 
 " Hoc saxum {i.e., a grammatical difficulty) cum din lol' 
 
8o 
 
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 sirname (that I can learn) in Scotland, above the degree of a gentleman/' only I read in Bishop 
 Ussher's life, that he lies in St. Erasmus Chapeljt^ where that Primate was buried. ■♦3 
 
 There arose also difficulties (after December, 1633,) between the first and second Viscount 
 Montgomery's, plaintiffs, and the Lord Claneboys, defendant, concerning the articles of agreement 
 
 vissem, tandem incidi m Jacolum Fullertonum, virunt 
 doctunt, et in omni disctplhia satis exerciiatum. Cum eo 
 rem discepfavi," 6^<r. See also Leochaei Epigram, pp. 
 23 — 48. Sir James always treated his early teacher, 
 Andrew Melville, with marked respect and friendship. 
 M'Crie's Life of Andrrw Melville, vol. ii., p. 294, note; 
 see also pp. 410, 530. 
 
 ^'^ Above the degree of a gentleman. — The author here 
 mentions a circumstance not less trae than curious — viz. , 
 that, of the many Fullertons in Scotland, not one, with 
 the exception of sir James, had risen in rank above the 
 degree of gentleman. The family of FuUerton, although 
 really one of the most respectable in Scotland, does not 
 appear, at any time in its long history, to have been 
 ambitious of the distinction which mere titles are able to 
 confer. When it first attracts the notice of Scottish an- 
 nalists under the name of MacLeosaigh, Maclowis, and 
 Macleod, it occupied a high social position, but not better 
 than it does at the present day. The oldest branches are 
 undoubtedly those of Arran and Dundonald, the former 
 being founded by Leosaigh, a Norwegian settler in that 
 island, who came about the time of Haco's expedition in 
 1263 ; and the latter by Alan de Fowlertoun, who died in 
 1280, and was probably a brother of the former. The 
 lineal descendant of the first Maclowis or Fullerton of 
 Arran is the present Captain Archibald Fullerton of 
 Kilmichael, in that island, who holds a curious and exten- 
 sive collection of family charters. His ancestor first ob- 
 tained a grant of these lands from Robert Brace for certain 
 faithful services rendered to that hero on his arrival in 
 Arran from Rathlin in the spring of 1 306-7 ; and, although 
 the original charter is not known now to exist, there is 
 one of 1391, from Robert III., which confirms to Fergus 
 of Foulertoun all the lands specified in the first given by 
 Robert Brace. This second grant was succeeded by a 
 third, in 1 400, from Robert III., to John of Foulertoun ; 
 by a fourth, in 1427, from James I. to John Maclouis or 
 Maclowy; by a fifth, in 1511, from the earl of Arane to 
 Fergus Fowlertoune, the son and heir of Alan Fowler- 
 toune or Maclowe ; by a sixth, in 1523, from the same 
 earl, to Alexander, nephew and heir of the deceased 
 Alan ; by 2. seventh, in 1563, from James Hamilton, son 
 of James, duke of Chaltellaraut, to Alan Mackloy ; by 
 an eighth, in 1572, from James VI.; and by a ninth, in 
 1590, from James, earl of Arran, to Allan, lard Maclowy. 
 The representative of this family was hereditaiy coroner 
 of Arran, and his perquisites, as such, in the eighteenth 
 century, were a firlot of meal and a lamb from every 
 towne in the island. — Origines Parochiales Scotiiv, vol. ii., 
 pp. 248, 249; Ulster Journal of Archieology, vol. ix., pp. 
 99, 319; Martin's Western Isles, pp. 223, 224. George 
 Fullerton of Fullerton, in Dundonald, Ayrshire, is the 
 twenty-fourth in descent from the founder of this branch. 
 The Fullertons, of Fullerton, intermarried, in their gene- 
 rations, with the families of Wallace of Craigie, Maxwell 
 of Nether Pollok, Blair of Adamtoun, Hamilton of 
 Bothwellhaugh, Lockhart of Boghall, Mure of Rowallan, 
 Cunningham of Cunninghamhead, Cunningham of Glen- 
 
 cairn, Brisbane of Bishoptoun, Gray of Warristoun, 
 Cleland of Cleland, Craufurd of Restalrig, Blair of Blair, 
 Mackay of Reay, Fairlie of Fairlie, Stewart of Ascog in 
 Bute, and many others in the same highly respectable rank. 
 From about the year 1 500 the principal family residence 
 of the Fullertons was Fullerton House, which, in 1805, was 
 sold to the duke of Portland. — Paterson, Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 12 — 20. The Fuller- 
 tons in the county of Antrim are traditionally said to have 
 come from Arran about the year 1603, with the first earl 
 of Antrim, who was known as Randal-na-Ara7t, from the 
 fact of his previous residence in that island. The first 
 settlers, named Fullerton, on the Antrim coast, appear, in 
 some instances, to have enjoyed the rank of country 
 gentry; but, generally, they were of the respectable 
 farmer class, above which they have not since, with only 
 one or two exceptions, aspired. William FuUerton, a 
 country gentleman, was distinguished, in 1641, for his 
 gallant conduct in assisting to hold the castle of BalUntoy 
 against the Irish. One of his descendants in the eighteenth 
 century, having realised a large fortune, as a physician, in 
 Jamaica, purchased the Ballintoy estate for ;^2o,ooo, soon 
 after it had been sold by the Stewarts. Having no family, 
 he bequeathed his property to his niece, Catherine Ful- 
 lerton, who married Dawson Downing of Rowesgift and 
 Bellaghy, in the county of Londonderry, and whose son, 
 according to her uncle's will, assumed the name and arms 
 of Fullerton. This son, named George Alexander (after 
 both her father and uncle), was bom in the Mansion- 
 House at Ballycastle, in 1775, and died at Tockington 
 Manor, Gloucestershire, in 1847. His eldest son, named 
 Alexander George Fullerton, was bom in 1808, and in 
 1833, married the Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower, second 
 daughter of the late earl Grenville. Their only son, bom 
 in 1834, died in 1855, just as he had attained his majo- 
 rity, and the family estates are inherited by his cousin. — 
 Fajnily MS. 
 
 St. Erasmus Chapel. — "During the second half of the 
 iSth century, there existed in W^estminister Abbey a 
 chapel dedicated to St. Erasmus, founded by Elizabeth 
 Woodville, wife of Edward IV., on a portion of the site 
 since occupied by Henry VII's chapel, to make way for 
 which exquisite edifice, it, (St. Erasmus Chapel), together 
 with the Lady Chapel built by Henry III., was pvdled 
 down about the year 1 500. It seems scarcely probable that 
 there were two chapels of St. Erasmus within the precincts 
 of the abbey at the same time. On the demolition of 
 Elizabeth Woodville's chapel, it would, no doubt, be con- 
 sidered necessary to dedicate some other part of the abbey 
 to -St. Erasmus, and accordingly I am of opinion that the 
 entrance portion of St. John the Baptists' chapel was so 
 named and set apart; the narrow dimensions of the place 
 being compensated by its special architectural beauty, and 
 the abundance of colour and decoration bestowed upon it " 
 Azotes and Queries, October 20, 1866, p. 320. 
 
 ■•^ Primate was buried. — The life of Ussher here men- 
 tioned is no doubt that which was written by Dr. Richard 
 Parr, his chaplain, 
 
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 made 17th December, i633,'** not being fully performed to the Lord Montgomery ('ui did fur J, which. 
 ended not till the rebellion in Ireland began 1641, verifying the Latin adage, Infer Arma Siknf 
 Leges. — So I find that many are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of 
 them all.-is 
 
 All which differences sirceasing that last named year, and so were sedated, or buried, or for- 
 gotten, that they were never stirred up again, I shall therefore leave no memory of the Mont- 
 gomerys' losses therein by mentioning them either by word or writing, because of the love and 
 kind deference now among us, all Montgomerys and the Hamiltons of that family j^e but now I will 
 readress myself to tlie narrative of the said Lord Montgomery, only (as in parenthesis) I here 
 insert that Con, the ist January, 1616, made a deed purporting a lease unto EHis Nyneil,"*? his wife, 
 
 ^ Made X^th December 1633. — These articles of agree- 
 ment will be best explained by the following extract from 
 an Inquisition held at Killileagh,, on the 14th January, 
 1644: — "The jurors further say that there was a certain 
 deed or writing mentioned, beaiing date the 19th of Aug. 
 1635, executed and perfected in due fonn of law, between 
 the late viscount Claneboy and the late viscount Montgo- 
 mery, and shovra in evidence to the jurors, the tenor of 
 which is in these words — Whereas by Articles of Agree- 
 ment made in anno 1633 between the Rt. Hon. Hugh lord 
 viscount Montgomery and sir James Montgomeiy second 
 son of the said lord viscount of the one part, and the Rt. 
 Hon. James lord viscount Claneboy of the other part, it 
 was fully concluded and agreed upon by and between the 
 parties [ ] townes and lands of Ballydulloghan, 
 
 Ballycowan, Ballynelessan, Ballynecarne, Ballyaghlish, 
 Douneagh, Ballyclogher, and Lisnegnoe, whereof each of 
 the lord viscounts possessed one half should [ ] 
 to be chosen by the said lord viscounts, be cast into two 
 entire parts and divided by lot between them [ ] 
 the same by writing as by the said indented Articles may 
 appear; viscount Montgomery having declared himself to 
 have the said division made, and for that purpose having 
 appointed John Montgomeiy of Movilla, Thomas Kennedy 
 of Cumber, Alexander Crawford of [ ] and Hugh 
 
 Calderwood of the same upon his parte to make ye said 
 division, and viscount Claneboy having in like manner, 
 appointed Gawen Rea of Lisnetra, Gawen Hamilton of 
 Ballymenaustragh (Ballymonestragh), John Robb of Car- 
 rowreagh, and John Mitchell of Ballyhackawe (Ballyhacka- 
 more?) upon his part, for the same division; attending to 
 the purport of the articles, the said dividers having divided 
 all the said townes, and the meares and bounds of the same, 
 together with the qualitie and quantitie thereof, have cast 
 them into these two distinct moyties following, viz., the 
 said towne of B.dulloghan and the said towne of B. cowan 
 and so much of the said towne of B.nelessan by and next 
 unto the said towne of B. cowan as was heretofore bounded 
 by the said dividers, and is now again by them, the day of 
 the date of these presents, perambulated and set out in 
 presence of the said lords viscounts and many others, for 
 one full moitie of all the said townes of B.dulloghan, 
 B. cowan, B.nelessan, B.carney, B.aghlish, B.clogher, 
 Downeagh, and Lisnegnoe; and the said townes of B.agh- 
 lish, B.clogher, Downeagh, Lisnegnoe, and the remain- 
 der of the said townes of [ ] next unto the said towne 
 of B.carney to be the other full moitie of all the said 
 townes : the remainder of the said towne of B.nelessan, by 
 
 and next unto the said towne of B. camey, bounded as afore- 
 said, to be the lott and moitie of lord viscount Mont- 
 gomery." With this division the two viscounts for 
 themselves and their heirs expressed themselves contented. 
 In witness whereof they "interchangeably put their hands 
 and seals the 19th day of August, 1633," in presence of 
 J. Garthland and Paul Rainalds. This extract from the 
 Inquisition of 1634 is wanting in the copy printed in 
 Ulster Inquisitions, p. , and also in the copy published 
 in the Appendix to the Hamilton Manicscripts. 
 
 45 Out of them all. — In the course of these contentions, 
 the disputants required to visit London, for the purpose, 
 if possible, of arriving at that cessation of hostilities which 
 was eventually forced upon them by the rebellion of 1641. 
 The following passage from a letter of Thomas Coventry, 
 the lord keeper, dated i8th August, 1637, and addressed 
 to the lord deputy Wentworth, represents lord Clannaboy 
 as having greater controul over his temper than lord 
 Montgomery: — "My lord Claneboye I did heretofore 
 know, when he used to resort into England about the 
 differences betwixt him and sir Hugh Montgomery, and 
 observed him a wise discreet man, and much better 
 tempered than the other." — Strafford's Letters and Dis- 
 patches, vol. ii. p. 94. 
 
 ■t* Hainiltons of that family. — Notwithstanding the im- 
 proved state of feeling thus introduced by the course of 
 events between the Montgomerys and Hamiltons, it is 
 remarkable that veryfew marriage alliances occurred among 
 any of the leading branches of these families. Indeed the 
 only instance which suggests itself to us at this moment 
 was the marriage of Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagown 
 with Jane Hamilton, daughter of Hans Hamilton of Cam- 
 sure, near Comber. This appears, in every respect, to 
 have been a happy union, of which we shall hear the par- 
 ticulars in a subsequent portion of the author's Manuscripts. 
 
 Ellis Nyfieil. — The Inquisition ^ 1623 states, "We 
 find a lease of Con O'Neale's to Ellis Neal his wife, 
 and Hugh Boy O'Neale his son, of the lands of Bally- 
 carngannon (in Drumbo parish), Bressage (in Saintfield 
 parish), and Crevy (in Drumbo parish), dated the 1st of 
 June, 1616, for lOI years, at 8 shillings rent during said 
 Con's life, and after his decease his wife to give as much 
 to his heir during her life, and after her death, yielding 
 20 shillings to his heir, out of every of the said town- 
 lands. And we find the said Con did by indenture, 
 dated 2nd December, 1616, make a conveyance of said 
 lands unto lord Claneboy and sir Moyses Hill, who have 
 been in possession thereof ever since. " These terms arc 
 
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 and unto Hugh Buy O'Nell, his son, of the to\vnlands of Ballycargbreman/^ Bressag, &c., delivered 
 the deed to his said wife, for the use of his said son, being a child of five years old, and there present 
 in the house ; also that the said Con had two brothers (whether uterin or by marriage I know not) 
 viz: — Tool O'Neil and Hugh Mergagh O'Neil, to each of whom he gave lands, and they sold their 
 interest therein/? As for Con's other actions and dealings (because most of them were failures to the 
 first Lord Montgomery) I bury them in silence and oblivion, 5° having occasion, hereafter, to write of 
 
 described in our copy as ^^not in the Maniiscripf from 
 which it was transcribed. Ellis Nyneil was a namesake 
 in full of the first countess of Antrim, and was most prob- 
 ably related to her. She was the second wife of Con 
 O'Neill, as their son Hugh was only five years of age in 
 l6i6. Ellis was not old at the time of Con's death, 
 for, in 1628 she remarried with Henry Savage of Ard- 
 keen. She died in the following year. Her son Hugh 
 Boy O'Neill must have died young, as the author men- 
 tions that Daniel was old Con's only sundving off- 
 spring. The name Ellis is now sometimes written Alice, 
 and the form Nyneil, used in the text, miplies that the 
 lady was the daughter of an O'Neill, most probably one 
 of the many chieftains which this race furnishes. 
 
 Ballycargbreman. — Ballycarngannon is the present 
 form of this name, see note 35, supi-a. 
 
 "•s Theii' interest therein. — The grants from Con O'Neale 
 to these brothers are minutely described in the Inquisition 
 of 1623: — "We find that the said Con did by writing 
 under hand and seal demise unto his brother, Hugh 
 Mergagh O'Neale, the townes and lands of Ballynalessan, 
 (whereof Tulloure is a quarter), Eallyaghley, I3allykille- 
 nure, Ballycarricknasassanagh, Ballylistowdean, and the 
 mill of BaUyknockan, for 99 years, to begin the ist May, 
 1606, at the rent of two shillings sterling, and the yearly 
 rent proportionally clue out of the same to the king, which 
 lease is now lost, but was proved by several witnesses. 
 And wee find that said Hugh Mergagh conveyed his interest 
 in said lease to sir Fulk Conway, who, for these 1 7 years 
 last past was, and is yet, in possession thereof. And wee 
 find that the said Con did by said lease, demise to said 
 Hugh Mergagh, the town and lands of Clontinakally, for 
 the term, and under the rent aforesaid, who demised tlie 
 same to sir Moyses Hill, and that sir Moyses Hill is in 
 possession thereof, by virtue of said lease, and that said 
 Hugh Mergagh did, by Indenture, dated 27th June, 1614, 
 assign his interest in Clontinakally to sir Fulk Conv\-ay. 
 Also that Edmund Barry is in possession of one quarter of 
 BaUyknockan, demised to him by Hugh IMergagh from 
 the said Con. Also, we find William Hamilton in pos- 
 session of the half town of Crevilogan by lease from said 
 Hugh Mergagh, paying los. yearly; also, a quarter of the 
 town of BaUyknockan by lease from said Hugh Mergagh. 
 We find the said Con O'Neale by deed, 23rd, July, 1610, 
 demised unto Toole O'Neale, his brother, the three towns 
 of Ballytannymore, Ballyrichard, Ballydughan, and half 
 towne of Drumhirk, for the term of 21 years, paying 28 
 shillings yearly." 
 
 s° iiilejice and oblivion. — Con's principal 'failure' to sir 
 Hugh Montgomery was, doubtless, in the affair of the 
 tripartite indenture, entered into by him with sir James 
 Hamilton and sir Moses Hill, by wlrich he conveyed away 
 all his remaining estate excepting two townlands, and 
 imposed great law expenses on sir Hugh, incurred by 
 
 the latter in maintaining his prior claim to the pnrchase 
 of said estate. Seep. 72, note 10, supra. Con, no doubt, 
 like all others of his rank and class, being prohibited from 
 taking up his rents in the old Irish fashion, was unable to 
 collect them at all, and felt that he had no choice but to 
 sell out, and thus free himself from the diffiadties surround- 
 ing him on all sides. And so he proceeded to seU wth 
 lavish haste until all was gone. Iii a very few years, he 
 was landless, and had taken his departure from Casdereagh, 
 the ancestral residence of his family. In 1609, we find 
 him residing at '■' Uoumaregan, in the Upper Claimaboy," 
 (probably the present Ballyrogati), and there selling to sir 
 Fulk Conway of Eneshallogane in the county of 
 Antrim (afterwards Injiislaiighlin, the name of a fort 
 near Moira), four towilands in consideration of the smn 
 of £2<x>. In 1 6 1 3, we find him at Ballyhennocke, probably 
 the present Ballyhanwood, where "a chestnut coloured 
 mare" was stolen from him, one Tirlagh Oge McBryne, 
 behig tried for the theft, and acquitted. Ulster Roll of 
 Gaol Delivery, 1613 — 18, as printed in Ulster yoicnml of 
 Archaology, vol. i., p. 261. In the year 1615, Con re- 
 sided at Tttllycarnan, where, on the 1st of November in 
 that year, he demised unto Tool McCormick McDonnell 
 McCormick O'Neill, the half towne of Kilduffe in Slut 
 Neales, for eleven years, at the rent of twenty shillings. 
 There now remained very little if any of the sixty-eight 
 townlands conveyed to Con by James Hamilton, on the 
 6th of November, 1605. These lands consisted of portions 
 of the parishes of Dmmbo, Knockbreda, Saintfield, Kil- 
 more, IBlaris, Lambeg, Killaney, and Comber ; they are 
 nearly represented at the present day by the modem town- 
 lands of Ball} knockan, Ballyagherty, Ball)'macbrennan, 
 Ballycowan, Ballycarn, Clogher, Crossan, Cargacroy, 
 Creevy, Ballycarngannon, Ballydollaghan, Drumbo, Dur- 
 ramore, Lisnabreeny, Ballylenaghan, BalljTiahatty, Lisna- 
 nasharragh, Cree^'yloghgare, Listooder, Mealough,Ballyna- 
 vally, Ballyskeagh, Drumbeg, Blaris, TuUywasnacunnagh, 
 Carricknaveigh, Craignasasonagh, Cahard, Ballydyan, 
 Dramgivin, Duneight, Breda, Ballynafoy, Lisnabreeny, 
 BallymacaiTett, Crossnacreevy, Ballyrushboy, Galwally, 
 and Castlereagh. Con died prior to 1621, as in that year 
 he is spoken of as deceased. His death is supposed to have 
 occurred about the year 1618, at Holj'wood; and he is 
 also said to have been buried in the little churchyard of 
 Bailie O'Meachan, now Ball)Tnaghan, a townland in the 
 south of Holywood parish. Of this place Dr. Reeves 
 states, Eceles. Antiquities, p, 12: — "There are no remains 
 of the church or churchyard now to be seen, but it is known 
 that they occupied the ground at present under the orcliard 
 which belongs to the Moat House. At the building of 
 this house several of the ancient tombstones were employed 
 for architectural purposes, and one which was set in the 
 wall of an adjacent office house is still exposed to view." 
 This stone is now in the Belfast Museum, and is supposed 
 
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 83 
 
 his only surviving issue, Daniel O'Neil, Esq. who, Ao. 1641, attempted (as the Smiths aforesaid had 
 
 to have originally marked the grave of a priest in the 
 burying-ground of Ballymaghan. Con is always spoken 
 of in the traditions of the district as the oiild King. As 
 no trace of his grave can now be seen, so neither does a 
 vestige of his castle remain. About the year 1809 it was 
 utterly demolished, and the stones of the fine old ruin used 
 in building a wall around the site on which it had stood ! 
 It is traditionally said in the neighbourhood, that the 
 English settlers there called this castle the Eaglets N'est ; 
 but whether because of its elevated position, or its peculiar 
 appearance from the surrounding farms, we know not. 
 The common story, which ascribes its demolition to the 
 stupidity of a stone-mason, is not at all probable, — not even 
 credible. 
 
 5' Daniel G'NeiU, ^j^.— Daniel O'Neill must have 
 been born about the year 1603, as, at the time of his 
 death in 1663, he was supposed to be sixty years of age. 
 In his youth he became a protege of Charles I. , who pro- 
 bably pitied him on account of the ruin of his once power- 
 ful family; and he, in return, continued a devoted royalist 
 through all the trying times for royalty until its restoration 
 in 1660, when he received several lucrative appointments. 
 Of him. Clarendon has recorded the following interest- 
 ing particulars: — "Daniel O'Neile (who was in subtilty 
 and understanding much superior to the whole nation of 
 the old Irish,) had long laboured to be of the bed-chamber 
 to the king. He was very well known in the court, hav- 
 ing spent many years between that and the Low Countries, 
 the winter seasons in the one, and the summer always in 
 the army in the other ; which was as good an education 
 towards advancement in the world as that age knew. And 
 he had a fair reputation in both climates, having a compe- 
 tent fortune of his own to support himself without dtj^ca- 
 dence or beholdingness, and a natural insinuation and ad- 
 dress, which made him acceptable in the best company. 
 And he was a great observer and discerner of men's natures 
 and humours, and was very dexterous in compliance where 
 he found it useful. As soon as the first troubles began in 
 Scotland, he had, with the first, the command of a troop 
 of horse ; to which he was by all men held to be very 
 equal, having had good experience in the most active 
 armies of that time, and a courage very notorious. And 
 though his inclinations were naturally to ease and luxury, 
 his industry was indefatigable when his honour required 
 it, or his particular interest, which he M'as never without, 
 and to wliich he was very indulgent, made it necessary or 
 convenient. In the second troubles in Scotland he had a 
 greater command, and some part in most of the intrigues 
 of the court, and was in great confidence with those who 
 most designed the destruction of the earl of Strafford ; 
 against whom he had contracted some prejudice in the 
 belialf of his nation : yet when the parliament grew too 
 imperious, he entered into those new intrigues very frankly, 
 which were contrived at court, with less circumspection 
 than both the season and weight of the affair required. 
 And in this combination, in which men were most con- 
 cerned for themselves, and to receive good recompense 
 for the adventures they made, he had either been promised, 
 or at least encouraged by the queen, to hope to be made 
 groom of the bedchamber when a vacancy should appear. " 
 This object of O'Neill's ambition was attained soon after- 
 wards (in 1645), although the king postponed the granting 
 
 of it as long as he could conveniently do so, "having," 
 adds Clarendon, "contracted a prejudice against him with 
 reference to the earl of Strafford, or upon some other rea- 
 son, which could not be removed by all his friends, or 
 by the queen herself. " — History of the Rebellion and Civil 
 Wars in Englaiid, vol. iii., p. 536 (third edition, Oxford, 
 1849). Of Daniel O'Neill's protestantism, we have the 
 following account by Carte, in his Life of Ormo}id, vol. i., 
 Preface, p. x. : — "Mr. Bennet, as far as I have observed, 
 does not contradict any one fact which I assert in that Vin- 
 dication {i.e.. Carte's Vindication of Charles I. from the 
 imputation of being concerned in the Irish massacre); ex- 
 cept in calling Daniel O'Neile an Irish Papist, whom I 
 there affirm to be a Protestant. My assertion was founded, 
 not only on his enjoying a post in the Bed-Chamber under 
 King Charles I. when no Papist could enjoy any, and when 
 his Religion would certainly liave been objected to him, if 
 he had been a Papist, but also on the testimony of the late 
 Mr. Leasson then at Bath, who had been Comptroller of the 
 Post Office fi'om the Restoration till after the Revolution, 
 and knew him very well. Daniel O'Neile was not only a 
 Protestant by profession, but very zealous in his Religion, 
 as I see by his letters (hundreds of which I liave read), and 
 gave better proof of his inviolable attachment to it, than 
 any who asperse him have had opportunities of giving, by his 
 strict adlierence to it all the time of the troubles of Ireland, 
 and of his following the King's fortune abroad. He was a 
 man of great capacity, and was excellently qualified for any 
 employment either in the field or cabinet, and could not 
 have failed of a considerable post in foreign service, if his 
 religion had not been an obstacle to such prefemient, as it 
 was to his being chosen upon Owen O'Neile's death Gene- 
 ral of Ulster ; that command being offered him, if he would 
 turn Roman Catholick." See also the same work, 
 vol. ii., p. H2. O'Neill married Catherine, daughter of 
 Thomas, lord Wotton, who had been previously the wife 
 of Henry, lord Stanhope, eldest son of I'hilip, first earl 
 of Chesterfield. Although her first husband died befox"e 
 his father, she was created countess of Chesterfield by 
 Charles II. This lady survived her second husband, 
 Daniel O'Neill, and had the following inscription placed 
 over his grave in Boughton-Malherbe church. — "Here lies 
 the body of Mr. Daniel O'Neale, who descended from 
 that great, honourable, and ancient family of the O'Neales, 
 in Ireland, to whom he added new lustre by his own merit, 
 being rewarded for his courage and loyalty in the Civil 
 Wars, under King Charles the First and Charles the Second, 
 with the offices of Post Master General of England, Scot- 
 land, and Ireland, Master of the Powder, and Groom of 
 his Majesties Bed-Chamber. He was married to the Right 
 Honourable Katlierine, Countess of Chesterfield, who 
 erected him this monument one of the last marks of her 
 kindnesse, to show her affection longer than her weak 
 breath would serve to express it. He died a. d. i 663, aged 
 60 years." — Diary of Samuel Pepys, vol. i. , p. 299, note. 
 In vol. ii. , p. 178, there occurs the following reference to his 
 death: — "This day, 24th of October, 1664 [ ■ ] 
 
 the great O'Neale died; I believe, to the content of all the 
 Protestant pretenders in Ireland." On the day after his 
 death, Edvvard Savage, writing to Dr. Sancroft, thus re- 
 fers to the event: — "iVIr O'Neale, of the Bed-Chamber, 
 dyed yesterday, very rich, and left his old Lady all," 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 done) to reverse or greatly impair the two Viscounts' titles but he died a Protestant, as is thought, 
 without issue, after King Charles the Second's restoration, being married to the old Countess of 
 Chesterfield. Thus, many time innocent children are punished for their parent's faults ; yet not 
 without procuring the same business of their own. 
 
 Harl. il/.S'., 3785, fol. 19, as quoted in note, Pepys's Diary, 
 vol. ii., p. 178. 
 
 5= Two viscounts' titles. — The object of this attempt on 
 the part of Daniel O'Neill may be easily enough understood. 
 He might have succeeded in seriously impairing the two 
 viscounts titles had not his plans been frustrated by the 
 attainder of Strafford and the outbreak of the rebellion 
 in 1641. O'Neill had two influential friends in Laud and 
 Strafford. The former wrote to the deputy in the month 
 of June, 1635, requesting him to take O'Neill's business 
 cordially in hand, as, in a letter from Strafford on the 9th 
 of the following March, the writer says: — "According 
 to your Lordship's desire wherein, I liave desired the 
 Lords Montgomery and Claneboy to send their agents 
 hither to treat with me concerning this gentleman ; I will 
 do him the best service I can, and after that I find what 
 success I may hope for therein, I shall give your lordship 
 a full advertisement thereof." — Strafford's Letters, &^e., 
 vol. i., p. 518. See also a letter to the Prince Elector, 
 p. 521. The lord deputy styles the gentleman simply 
 Mr. Neale, but there can be no doubt that he referred 
 to Daniel O'Neill. As illustrative of these attempts on 
 the part of Daniel O'Neill, the following letters will be 
 found highly interesting. They were printed in Laud's 
 H^oi-ks, vol. vii. , pp. 122 — 126, 8vo., Oxford, i860, from 
 the collection in the possession of earl Fitzwilliam. These 
 letters are most creditable to the writer, Archbishop 
 Laud : — 
 
 Extract from Letter of Laud to Lord Viscount Wentujorth. 
 "My Lord — I am earnestly desired by the Lord Conway, to re- 
 commend to your Lordship's care and goodness, a young geiitteman^ 
 Mr. Daniel O'Neile, of the Province of Ulster, in Ireland, whose im- 
 provident ya/Zj^r parted with a great estate there, very fondly, and 
 so hath left this young man (being, as his lordship saith, one of very 
 good parts], with a little fortune. Whether the young man be yet 
 gone into Ireland from here or not, I cannot tell, But I pray you, 
 my lord, when he resorts to you, to let him know that I have ac- 
 quainted your Lordship with him and his fortune. And then for the 
 rest, I leave your Lordship to do what in your own judgment shall 
 be fittest," &c. 
 
 "April 2oth, 1635. "W. Cant. 
 
 Rec, 28th." 
 
 " To the Lord Viscount Wentworth : Sal. in Christo. 
 
 " My very good Lord, — I am earnestly entreated by my Lord 
 Conway to write to your Lordship in the behalf of Mr. Daniel 
 O'Neile, and to desire your Lordship's favor for him, being a man 
 (as I am informed), that is like to deserve well, and is not altogether 
 unknown to your Lordship. 
 
 " His case (I am told), is as follows : — His Father, Con O'Neile, 
 was seized and possessed of great proportions of land, called the 
 Upper Claneboys, Ards, and Slum (Slutt) Neile, in the County of Down, 
 now worth per annum twetve thousand pou7ids at least. He, with his 
 tenants, and followers, served the late Queen Elizabeth for many 
 
 years, in her wars there in the North of Ireland, and afterwards in 
 the latter end of her Majesty's reign. Upon disagreement ■with the 
 Lord Chichester, then Governor of those parts, he kept some corres- 
 ponding with the rebels, which the said Lord Chichester finding ap- 
 prehended him, and committed him prisoner to his Majesty's castle 
 of Carrick- Fergus, out of which he escaped, and not being able to 
 live in his country, he fled to Scotland, and there met James Ham- 
 ilton, now Lord Viscount Claneboys, and Hugh Montgomery, now 
 Viscount of the Ardes, with whom he contracted to give two-thirds 
 of his estate to procure his pardon, which was done, and they enjoy 
 the lands. And afterwards the said Lord Viscount Claneboys, Lord 
 Viscount Ardes, and Sir Moses Hill, deceased, did, for very small 
 considerations, get from his said father his other said part, reserv- 
 ing only a small rent of a hundred and three-score J>ounds per an- 
 num ; which is all he and his brother have out of all those lands. 
 
 ' ' These lords, taking into consideration the young gentleman's small 
 means at his last coming out of Ireland, were willing, and offered to 
 give him some increase ; but so small that all will not make a com- 
 petency. 
 
 "My Lord, his case standing thus, I desire you, if you know no 
 great cause of hindrance, "why you slwuld not meddie in this busi- 
 ness, to treat ivith these lords, and see if in a /air way you can 
 help him to a subsistence. 
 
 " You shall then do a great deal of charity in restoring a gentleman 
 that is lost without his own fault, and bind him thereby to be your 
 servant forever, as he is already, your Lordship's very loving friend, 
 
 "W. Cant. 
 
 " Lambeth, Jan. 15, 1635. 
 
 " Rec 7 Feb., by Mr. D. O'Neile. 
 
 " P.S. — If these lords will do little or nothing/or him, if you can 
 find any other way to help the poor gentleman, I see all his friends 
 here will thank you heartily for it." 
 
 At p. 38, note 52, supra, it is stated that Daniel O'Neill 
 was grandson of Con, but he is distinctly represented in 
 the foregoing letters as his son. His brother, referred to 
 in the second letter, must have been Coh Oge, who was 
 slain at Clones, in 1643. For further particulars, very 
 interesting, see Clarendon, vol. iii., pp. 537, 538, 541, 
 545; vol. v., p. 146; vol. vi., pp. 60, 146, 154, 155, 157; 
 vol. vi., p. 355 ; vol. vii., pp. 57, 99, loi. (8vo dition, 
 Oxford, 1849.) Daniel O'Neill's sister, Catherine, was 
 wife of Thady O'Hara, of Craigbilly, near Ballymena. — 
 Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. iv. , p. 216. He was 
 Governor of Trim. — Borlase's History of the Rebellion, 
 p. 286. 1648, Bishop Bramhall styles him, " My noble 
 friend, Mr. O'Neile." — Carte's Letters, vol. i., p. I63. 
 Charles II. writing to the Dutchess of Orleans on the 24th 
 Oct., 1669, (?) says: — " Poore O'Neale died this after- 
 noon of an ulcer in his gutts ; he was as honest a man 
 as ever lived : I am sure I have lost a very good servant 
 by it.'' — Dalrymple's Monoirs of Great Britain and Ire- 
 land, vol. ii., p. 27, Appendix. His appointment as 
 major-general (being a protestant instead of a catholic) 
 was alleged as a charge against lord Ormond in the 
 Declaration, Aug. 12, 1650. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 85 
 
 m 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 HAVE long retarded the history of the said Montgomery's progress in his plantation, and 
 other affairs, by these foregoing interjections, concerning the Smiths and Con — with other 
 difRcultys and troubles. It may be remembered, that I told you, reader, that some of the 
 priory walls were roofed and fitted for Sir Hugh and his family to dwell in but the rest of these 
 walls, and other large additions of a gate-house and office-houses, which made three sides of a 
 quadrangle (the south side of the church being contiguous, made the 4th. side), with coins and 
 window frames, and chimney-pieces, and funnels of freestone, all covered : and the floors beamed 
 with main oak timber, and clad with boards ; the roof with oak plank from his Lordship's own- 
 woods,^ and slated with slates out of Scotland ; and the floors laid with fir deals out of Norway, the 
 
 ^ To dwell ill. — See p. 62, supra. In an undated 
 Carnu MS., not yet calendared, but entitled Report 
 of the Volimtary Work done by Servitors and other gent, 
 of Quality upon lands give)i them by h is Majestie or ptirchas- 
 ed by themselves, zvithin the three other counties of Doimt, 
 Antrim, and Monaghan," there is the following mention 
 of the improvements at Newton: — "Sir Hugh Montgo- 
 mery, Knight, hath repayred part of the abbey of Newtone 
 for his owne dwelling, and made a good towne of a 
 hundred houses or there aboutes, all peopled with Scottes. " 
 The commissioners appointed to make the report from 
 which the above is an extract, and by whom it is signed, 
 were "A. Chichester, G. Carew, Tho. Ridgeway, R. 
 Wingfield, :'nd Ol. Lambert." These commissioners 
 started on their joui'ney into the province of Ulster on the 
 29th of July, 161 r. — MS. N'otes of William Pinkerton, 
 Esq., F.S.4. 
 
 ^ Lordship's otvn woods. — The first viscount's woods were 
 of great value, but their possession appears to have involved 
 him in many difficulties and much litigation. The earl of 
 Abercorn's award did not settle finally the question of 
 woods, nor indeed any other, between him and viscount 
 Clannaboy. An interesting paper, having reference to 
 this dispute, has been preserved, curiously enough, among 
 the Balfour MSS., and was printed in 1837, in the 
 Miscellany of the Abbotsford Club, vol. i., pp. 273 — 5. This 
 document, which was drawn up in a very business-like 
 style, is entitled The offer of sir Hugh Montgomery unto 
 sir James Hamilton. It is as follows : — 
 
 "The 4 townes reserved to me by the Erles decree fin respect that 
 there is paid out of them the half of Con O'Neale's rent to the King, 
 which half in currant money of England, doth amount to 81b. i8s. 6d), 
 I value but at Bib. per ann. a towne ; and in regard of the bishops 
 claimes, I value them all but at ten yeares purchase, and soe I doe 
 assesse them at 321b. sterl. 
 
 "The moitie of the Woods discerned to me by the said decree, I 
 have already leased to Edwards for 31 yeares, of which lease 27 yeares 
 are yet to come; in which I have receaved an annuall rent of 6olb. 
 starl. and half a tonne of u'on yearley, which I esteam at ylb star. p. 
 annum, with liberty to cut soe much tymber as is necessary for myne 
 and my tenants buildings. 
 
 "The reuertion of this lease, by reason of those beneficiall re- 
 seruations annexed unto it, I value at 10 yeares purchase of that rent 
 it now yealdeth — viz. 671b. p. ann., which amounteth unto 6701b. 
 
 ' ' The reuertion of all the rest of the Slutneales of the demesnes of 
 Castlereagh, and of Con O'Neales lands in the Kellyes, I value at 
 3oolb. 
 
 "Soe that I value this whole moitie at 12901b. At which rate (if 
 Sir James accept it), he is to give me zagolb., whereof I demaund 
 present payment for these reasonable causes — viz; — 
 
 " Ferst, for that the purchase from Con O'Neale hath not onlie cost 
 me above 2ooolb. of money and other considerations (as by Con his 
 deede is evident), but allsoe for that I can directly prove that beside 
 this Con hath receaved contynuall and daily benefits from me in 
 money, horses, cloathes, and other provisions of good value, and 
 allsoe hath bene chardgeable unto me in diners other disbursements; 
 which chardge of myne ought in reason to bee respected in this con- 
 tract, otherwise, it will fall out that I have supplied his wants to myne 
 owne losse, and other men's profitt. 
 
 " Secondlie, of this so deerely bought, I shall yeald to sir James a 
 present and peaceable possession, and good right purchased by me 
 with love and favour, and at the suit of the true owner, which in that 
 country is no small advantage and commodity. Sir James, his lot 
 of the towne lands, and of the reuertion of Con his possession, is 
 equal with myne by vertue of the decree ; but his woods are noe way 
 comparable, for that the half of the woods that are set to Mr. Nath. 
 Edwards, and discerned to me by the decree, are that half that is 
 onely proper and meate for the ironworks, and are the woods 
 whereon the great tymber doth stand, and sufficient to furnish the 
 ironworks, and the other half discerned to Sir James, is not onely 
 altogether farr from them, but alsoe from all possibility to set any 
 such work upon, and neither neere water nor sale. Out of which 
 alsoe 1 have reserued liberty for me to cut oaken tymber for my owa 
 proper building, and repairing of my churches, by the said decree, 
 which will consume two parts of the whole tymber growing in the 
 said woods, so as I can not value his woods for above J5olb. at the 
 most. 
 
 " Lastlie, he selleth me nothing but that which is alreadie my 
 owne right, and in my own possession, whereunto he hath no title, 
 but onely by the possibility of a decree, by him most indirectly pro- 
 cured, though without blemish to the nobleman who made it, and 
 whether it be effectual in lawe or not, I know not. 
 
 "Upon which groundes, I hope, it will be thought reasonable, that 
 if he refuse to buy, I may have some good tyme given me for the 
 payment of my money to him for my part ; being above £soo starlg. 
 Isetter than his, soe as he shall have a great bargaine, whether he 
 accepts of the lands or the money." 
 
 Besides his litigation with lord Clannaboy, the first vis- 
 count had also an expensive lawsuit with sir Foulk Con- 
 way, and after the death of the latter, with his 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 windows were fitly glazed and the edifice thoroly fiirnished within. This was a work of some time 
 and years, but the same was fully finished by that excellent Lady (and fit helper mostly in Sir 
 Hugh's absence), because he was by business much and often kept from home, after the year 1608 
 expired ;3 yet the whole work was done many months before Sir Hugh and she went to London, Ao. 
 
 representatives, on the subject of woods, to which it is 
 strange, tlie author makes no allusion in any part of his 
 memoirs. In the preceding year, 1625, there was issued 
 a decree signed "Longford, Master of the Rolls," in a 
 suit between Hugh, lord viscount Montgomeiyand "Dame 
 Amy Conway, widow and administratrix of Sir Foulke 
 Conway, deceased," confirming to the lady Amy permission 
 to cut trees and woods, mentioned in a certain order of 
 the Court, for the use of her iron works, and all manner 
 of woods and underwoods growing on the lands of Slutt 
 McNeale — except the bodies and butts of great and young 
 oak which are not already dead or hollowed, and except 
 such boughs and branches of oak as are fit for pipe boards, 
 mill-timber, house-timber, and ship-timber, the exception 
 or restraint to continue only until a division of the woods 
 shall take place ; and for this purpose it is ordered that a 
 Commission issue to the bishop of Dromore, Sir Edward 
 Trevor, Sir Henry O'Neill, Nicholas Warde, and Richard 
 Weste, to inquire on oath, what waste had been com- 
 mitted in the woods since the 22nd of August, in the 
 fourth )'ear of the late king (l6o6), by whom, and whether 
 the timber so cut exceeds a moiety of the woods ; to di- 
 vide the woods into two equal portions, one for the com- 
 plainant, and the other for the Lord Viscount of Ards.— 
 Morrin's Calendar of Pat. Nolls (ff Charles J., ^. 64,65. The 
 iron works referred to in the foregoing document were situated 
 in Malone, probably at the place called Neiv Forge. These 
 works were rented by a Mr. Stevenson in 1633 ; he was 
 succeeded by Mr. Robert Barre before 1638. In 1641, 
 Mr. Lawson held them, and sustained a very heavy loss 
 by their destruction during the rebellion of that year. — 
 Historical Collections Relating to the Toaon of Belfast. A 
 commission was appointed, in 1625, to inquire what waste 
 had been committed in the woods in the territory or 
 country called Slutt Neales, by lord viscount Montgomer)', 
 lord viscount Clannaboy, sir Foulke Conway, and the late 
 Amy Conway, widow of sir Foulke. This Commission 
 reported that there were then standing on tlie lands, of 
 the size of six inches at the butt, 8,883 trees ; that is to 
 say, upon Ballynelaghan, 1 19; upon Ballymulvally, 75 ; 
 Ballydalloghan, loi (all the lands are thus described); 
 and that there had been cut on the lands, of oak of the 
 same size (no notice of those of smaller dimensions), 
 11,631. The Commissioners also found that there had 
 been cut for the use of lord Chichester, for the building 
 of his houses at Knockfergus and Belfast, upon the lands 
 of Ballynalessan, Ballykoan, Ballykarney, and the towns 
 adjoining, 500 oaks. One Adam Montgomery, for two 
 summers, with three or four workmen, cut forty trees in 
 Lisdalgan, and other inland towns ; master Dalway cut, 
 on Donkyamucke, three score trees ; Anthony Cosleth, 
 who was tenant of sir Moses Hill, cut 127 trees on the 
 land of Blaries ; and all were cut without the license of 
 the lord Clanaboy, the lord of Ards, sir Foulke Conway, 
 his lady, or any of their agents. The Commissioners 
 also stated that the roofs of the churches of Grey Abbey 
 and Cumber, and a store of timber for the lord of Ards' 
 
 buildings at Newtone and Donaghadee, had been taken 
 from the woods ; and a great store, for the manufacture of 
 pipe staves, hogshead staves, barrel staves, kieve staves, 
 and spokes for carts. — Morrin's Calendar of Fat. Rolls of 
 Charles /., p. 65. In 1626, a commission was appointed 
 to decide the difficulty that had so long existed between the 
 two viscounts on this subject. The Commissioners were 
 the bishop of Dromore, sir Edward Trevor, sir Henry 
 O'Neile, Francis Kenneston, Nicholas Warde, and 
 Richard West. This commission decided that viscount 
 Montgomerywastohave "all the woods on Ballylenoghan, 
 Ballymulvalley, Ballydullaghan, half CarewhughdufT, 
 Ballykoan, Edenderry, Ballylare, Ballynalessan, Balhua- 
 garrick, Carewlevesoge, half Ballycamey, half Drumboe, 
 Lysnasaide, Tullyarde, Killmullachin, Ballybrennan, Bal- 
 lyaghliske, half Dunkymucke, half Drombeg, None, 
 Skeaghlaufcaghe, Tullycrosse, Little Malton, Kroall, 
 TuUyconnell, Clogher, Ballynelan, Largiemore, Tean, 
 Blaryes, Ballyhavericke, Lisnagnoe, Doneagh, Lisneshrean, 
 Continekelly, half the said towns, making in all ten 
 towns wholly furnished with wood. Tothelord Clannaboye 
 were given the woods on the following to%vns and lands — 
 viz., Ballyknockan, Killenewre, Lisdoran, Oughley, 
 Dromnelegge, Carricknaveaghe, Carrickmadyroe, Came- 
 garmon, Bressagh, Crevelickevericke, two parts, Crossan, 
 Carewlegacorry, Cargacroy, Braha, Killaney, Lisdrom- 
 haghan, Carricknasassanagh, Lissan, Tollowe, Lisdalgan, 
 Tawneymore, Tully\\'estfenna, Vickra\ana, Dromgevan, 
 Ballydrean, Listodree, and BallymuUagh. — Morrin's 
 Calendar, of Charles I. , p. 66. 
 
 3 After the year 1608 expired. — From this date until 
 1613, sir Hugh was engaged chiefly in promoting the 
 general interests of the new colony, thus leaving his own 
 domestic affairs to the management of his lady. In 1613, 
 he and sir James Hamilton were returned members of 
 parliament for the county of Down, and he was afterwards 
 necessarily much confined to Dublin. This election took 
 place on the first day of May, and in the town of Newry. 
 There were polled in all 131 British freeholders, and lOI 
 Irish freeholders. The two knights received for their 
 attendance in parliament the sum of 1 98 13s 4d, which 
 was levied by the sheriff off the county. The commis- 
 sioners sent by James I. to Ireland, "to enquire princi- 
 pally into the disturbances in the parliament of 1613," 
 give the following account of this election in their report: — 
 "In the county of Down, it is agi-eed on all hands that 
 May day was the county court day for the election, which 
 the sheriff held at Newrie, after sufficient notice given, at 
 which day, between eight and nine o'clock, the sheriff pi^o- 
 ceeded to election, moved the freeholders to choose Sir 
 Richard Wingfield and -Sir James Hamilton, being recom- 
 mended to him by the Lord Deputy. But the natives named 
 Sir Arthur Magenisse and Rowland Savage: whereupon 
 all the British freeholders, being 1 31 (as is deposed), cried 
 "Hamilton and Montgomery," omitting Wingfield; 
 and the Irish, to the number of loi, cried "Magenis 
 and Savage. " Exception being presently taken to divers of 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 i6i8, as the dates of coats of arms doth shew in the buildings, and as old men, who 'wrought thereat, 
 told me.+ 
 
 And so I shall here surcease from any further relation of the plantation and buildings, because 
 of my promise to relate more of this matter when I come to speak of Sir Hugh Montgomery, his 
 funeral, person, parts and acts ; and I will now enter upon his actions about and from the year 1623, 
 repeating as little as I can of what hath been said, because I intend not to mention any of his law 
 troubles, so unpleasing to my memory. 
 
 Imprimis, in or about Anno 1623, the marriage between Sir Hugh Montgomery's eldest son, 
 Hugh (he was called from his travels being then in Italy), and Jean, eldest daughter of Sir William 
 Alexander, the King's Secretary for Scotland, was solemnized.s The new wedded couple were 
 
 British freeholders who voted for sir James Hamilton and 
 sir HughMontgomeiy, forwant of freeholdin some of them, 
 fourteen of them were examined upon oath, by the sheriff, 
 and deposed to theirfreeholds, upon which the two last named 
 were returned, to which the Irish made objections before 
 us, which we found to be partly untrue and partly frivolous, 
 not fit, as we conceive, to be inserted in our certificate. — 
 Desiderata Ciiriosa Hibetnua, vol. i., pp. 339, 340.; 
 Erck's Calendar of Patent Rolls, Jac. I. p. 5976. 
 
 Told me. — This tribute to the intelligence and activity 
 of Elizabeth Shaw, the first lady Montgomery, was well 
 desei-ved. There is no subsequent mention of her in the 
 manuscripts that have been printed. As she died before 
 her husband, it is strange the memoir of him contains no 
 notice even of her death, a pretty certain evidence that thei'e 
 are gaps here as well as in some of the other memoirs. 
 The family residence, the building and furnishing of which 
 she had " fully finished" in 1618, was known as Neiu- 
 tOTMn House. It was burned, 'by the carelessness of 
 servants' in 1664, soon after the second earl of Mount 
 Alexander (then fourteen years of age) had succeeded to 
 the estates. At times when visiting the north, he lived in 
 the gate-house which was fitted up for the purpose, until 
 the year 1675, when the whole manor of Newton was sold 
 to sir Robert Colville. The author states in his Description 
 of the Ards, that sir Robert built on the same site, from 
 the foundation "one double-roofed house, stables, coach- 
 houses, and all other necessary or convenient edifices, 
 for brewing, baking, washing, hunting, hawking, plea- 
 sure rooms, and pigeon-houses." The conversion of 
 the old Dominican prioiy into Newtown House drew 
 the following bitter remark from a Franciscan friar, 
 named father Edmund MacCana, who journeyed 
 through that district about the year 1643, and whose 
 now well known Itinerary was written soon after- 
 wards ; — "To the east of this, the same lake makes another 
 angle, at the town called Newtown, where there was even 
 in my day, a monastery of St. Dominic, which some years 
 ago, Mogumrius the Scotchman converted into a secular 
 dwelling; such is the propensity of impious heretics to 
 obliterate all memor}' of what has been deemed sacred." 
 The Itinerariiim in Hibernia ex relatione K. P. Fratris 
 Edmundi MacCana, "which is preserved, among other 
 treasures of Irish literature, in the Burgundian library at 
 Bi-ussels," has been translated and illustrated with most 
 interesting and valuable notes, by the Rev. Dr. Reeves. — 
 See Ulster Journal of Archicology, vol. ii., pp. 44 — 59. 
 
 3 Was solemnized. — See p. 73- supra. This marriage 
 was solemnized on the 3rd of August, 1620, in Kensington 
 Churcli, near London. The following is the entry in the 
 Parochial Register: — "1620 — Hugh Montgomerie, Esq., 
 SonofSir Hugh Montgomerie, knt., of Scotland, and Mrs. 
 Jane Alexander, Daughter of Sir William Alexander of 
 Scotland, knt. August 3rd." — Banks's Memoir of Sir 
 William Alexander. See Appendix G. Douglas, Peerage 
 of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 535, states that the founder of Sir 
 William's family was a certain Alexander Macdonnell , who 
 obtained a grant of the lands of Menstrie in Clackmannan, 
 from his patron, the earl of Argyle, and afterwards dropped 
 his own surname, and assumed the name of Alexander. 
 Douglas assigns no motive or reason for this unusual change 
 of name, but it may have probably arisen from pmdential 
 motives, as between sir William's own family, the Macdon- 
 nells, and that of his landlord, the Campbells, there had 
 raged a relentless feud for many generations. In 1621, 
 sir W. Alexander obtained by charter a grant of the terri- 
 tory oiNova Scotia, and, as an encouragement for its colonisa- 
 tion, he had authority from the Crown to divide the lands 
 into one hundred lots, and to dispose of each lot, together 
 with the title of Baronet, to any person paying the sum of 
 £,1<X). As another encouragement to the new settlement, he 
 obtained from the crown the questionable privilege of 
 issuing a base copper coin known as Turners. In 1623, 
 he was secretary for Scotland; in 1625, master of requests 
 for Scotland; in 1626, secretary of state; in 1627, a com- 
 missioner of exchequer; and in 1 631, an extraordinary 
 judge of the court of session. In 1633, he was created 
 earl of Stirling. Probably his greatest distinction was 
 that he obtained, from the council of Nliv England, an 
 extensive grant of lands now known as Long Island, and 
 was practically the founder of that settlement from which 
 has since arisen the "Empire State" of New York. In 
 addition to Nova Scotia and Long Island, the earl of 
 Stirling had also a grant of St. Croix, or Sagadahock, a 
 territory comprising all the present state of Maine lying 
 eastward of the Kennebec river. The last earl of Stirling 
 conveyed his title to Long Island and St. Croix to the 
 duke of York in consideration of an annuity of ;^30O, no 
 part of which was ever paid. The right of the earl to 
 make this conveyance was questioned, by reason of his 
 refusal to enter on the inheritance of his father, on account 
 of the debts M'ith which it was encumbered, and which 
 had been incurred by the first earl in colonising 
 his American estates. The Scottish estate, therefore, was 
 
88 
 
 Thb Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 comely and well bred personages, who went that summer with Sir Hugh (now Viscount) Mont- 
 gomery and his Lady, to their new built and furnished house aforesaid in Newtown. Some years 
 before this time. Sir Hugh had married his eldest daughter to Sir Robert M'Clellan,^ Baron of Kirk- 
 coby, who (with her) had four great townlands near Lisnegarvey, whereof she was possessed in 
 
 sequestered, but the vast grants in America escaped 
 sequestration, because of their remoteness and their 
 then very trifling value. The progress of time and 
 settlement have now rendered these territories of im- 
 mense value, and the earl of Stirling's descendants 
 still believe they have a just claim to compensation in 
 virtue of the original grant of Nova Scotia. Dr. Duer's 
 Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirliitg, Major- 
 General in the Army of the United States; Svo., 
 1847. The earl of Stirling's motto, fer mare fer 
 terras was parodied per 7)ietre fer turners, implying that 
 he had attained to his wealth and position by means of his 
 poetiy (metre) and his base money (turners). On the 2nd 
 of November, 1639, "King Charles's turners stricken by 
 the earl of Stirling, was by proclamation at the cross of 
 Edinburgh, cryit down frae twa pennies to ane penny; 
 King James's turners to pass for twa pennies, because 
 they were no less worth; and the caird turners (those made 
 by tinkers) simpliciter discharged as false cunyie. But* 
 this proclamation was shortly recalled, because there was 
 no other money passing to make change." In April, 1640, 
 Spalding has the following allusion to this subject: — "You 
 see before some order taken with the passing of turners, 
 whereof some appointed to pass for ane ]3enny. Now they 
 would give nothing, penny, nor half penny, for King 
 Charles's turners; but King James's turners only should 
 pass. Whereby all trade and change was taken away 
 through want of current money, because thir slight turners 
 was the only money almost passing through all Scotland." 
 Chambers's Domestic A>!nals of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 128. 
 A person so given to speculations in land as the first earl, 
 was not likely to overlook Ireland, then an attractive field 
 for investment. Accordingly we find that sir William 
 purchased, in 1628, from sir James Cunningham of Glen- 
 garnock, two thousand acres of land in the county of 
 Donegal, for the sum of ;if400. These lands were known 
 as Dacostruse or, Docrastroose, and Portlaw, on which was 
 the water-millof Cargyn. The heirs of sir James afterwards 
 repurchased this property. Inquisitions, Donegal, no. 
 5, Car. I. In the same year, sir William Alexander 
 obtained a grant of the proportion of Mullalelish, 
 in the barony or precinct of O'Neiland, county of Armagh, 
 containing by estimation 1000 acres; also the small propor- 
 tion of Legacorry, in the same precinct or barony, contain- 
 ing by estimation looo acres; to hold for ever, in free and 
 common soccage, with license to hold court baron, court 
 leet, and view of frankpledge. — Morrin's, Calendar, Charles 
 /., pp. 268, 384, 439; Inquisitions, Armagh, no. 19, Car. 
 I. Legacorry is another name for Richhill, and the two 
 half proportions of Legacorry and Mullalelish form the 
 Richardson estate. 
 
 ^ Sir Robert M'Clellan.—S'n- Robert M'Clellan, baron 
 Kirkcoby, or rather Kircoubry (a contraction for Kirkcud- 
 bright), was the eldest son of sir Thomas Maclellan of 
 Bomby, in Galloway, by his wife, Grissel Maxwell. Sir 
 Robert was knighted by James VL, and appointed one 
 of the gentlemen of the bedchamber, in which office he 
 
 was continued by Charles I. , who advanced him to the rank 
 of a baronet ; and by letters patent, dated 26th May, 
 1633, raised him to the peerage with the title of viscount 
 Kirkcudbright. He died in 1640, the title devolving on 
 his nephew, Thomas Maclellan, son of William Maclel- 
 lan of Glenshannock. The surname of Maclellan is one 
 of the most ancient and respectable in the south of Scot- 
 land. The family, originally Irish, settled first in Bal- 
 maclellan, conferring the name on that parish, from which 
 its various branches spread over Galloway. The clan be- 
 came so numerous and influential that, at one period, it 
 numbered fourteen knights, bearing the surname of Mac- 
 clellan, and residing at the following places in Galloway, 
 viz., Barscobe, Gelston, Borgue, Troquhain, Barholm, 
 Kirkconnel, Kirkcormock, Colvend, Kirkgunzeon, Glen, 
 shinnock, Ravenston, Kilcruickie, Bardroticwood, and 
 Sorbie. The ninth and last lord Kirkcudbright died at 
 Binges in 1832, and the title is at present dormant. The 
 last lord Kirkcudbright was deformed, and had not a 
 fraction to live on but his allowance. He used to vote 
 for representative peers, and then at the evening balls sell 
 gloves to the people attending Hol)Tood Palace. Mr. 
 Nicholson, editor of the Mimtte Book kept by the War 
 Committee of the Covenanters in the Stewartry of Kirkcud- 
 bright, in referring to the Maclellan family, says: — "It is 
 scarcely possible wholly to pass over mmoticed the for- 
 tunes of one family, at the period in question (1640) cer- 
 tainly the most pre-eminent in territorial influence wthin 
 the bounds of eastern Galloway ; the editor alludes to the 
 noble house of Kirkcudbright. Wide as their dominions 
 then were, it is a fact that only one indi^-idual of the name 
 is now in possession of a single acre of their original ter- 
 ritory. The title has merged in a highly accomplished 
 lady (1854), who believes herself to be the last represen- 
 tative of her far-descended ancestry. How far she may 
 be correct in that conclusion may admit of question. Of 
 a race once so numerous as to consist of fourteen branches, 
 all acknowledged to have sprang from the root of Bombay, 
 it is not easy to conceive how an heir to the title should not 
 exist somewhere." — Preface, p. xxxi., p. 191. The 
 sir Robert Maclellan mentioned in the text is not to 
 be confounded \\ith another knight of the same 
 name, and no doubt from the same district in 
 Scotland, -who came to Ulster as an undertaker 
 in the Plantation. The latter sir Robert Maclellan rented 
 for sixty-one years, two scopes of land, each consisting of 
 3210 acres, from the Haberdashers' and Clothworkers' 
 Companies, in the county of Londondeny. One of these 
 scopes was known as Ballycastle, in the neighbourhood of 
 Newtownlimavady. See Pynnar's Suii'cy of Ulster, in 
 HaiTis's Hibernica, pp. 229, 230. For other inter- 
 resting particulars of this knight, see also Morrin's 
 Calendar, Charles I., pp. 184, 506. Sir Robert 
 Maclellan of ArdkilLy, in Londondeny, died on the 
 iSth of Januaiy, 1638, leaving a daughter, Maria, 
 married to Robert Max^^•ell of Ballycastle. — Ulster Iw 
 quisitions, Londonderry, no. 7, Car. I, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 89 
 
 December, 1622.7 Sir Hugh and his Lady, also, had Hkewise given him a considerable sum of 
 money as an augmentation to the marriage portion ; but the said Sir Robert spent the money and 
 sold the lands after her Ladyship's death, and himself died not long after her, both without issue.^ 
 Item, in or about the same year, 1623, the Viscount married his other daughter, Jean, to Pat. 
 Savage,9 of Portaferry, Esq., whose predecessors (by charter from the Queen Elizabeth, and formerly 
 as I am credibly informed,) were stiled, and in their deeds of lands they named themselves Lords 
 of the little Ardes.'° This family is reputed to be above 400 years standing in Ireland, and those 
 Lords were men of great esteem, and had far larger estates in the county of Antrim, than they have 
 now in the Ardes." One of the Earles of Antrim married Shelly, a daughter of Portaferry, and the 
 late Marq. and Earle thereof, called those of this family Easens and the Lord Deputy Chichester 
 would have had the Patrick's immediate predecessor'^ and brother to have married his niece,'* but it 
 is reported that Russell of Rathmullen,'^ made him drunk, and so married him to his own daughter, 
 
 ' In December, 1622. — The original lease of these lands 
 from Con O'Neale to the first viscount, with the view 
 of their becoming the marriage portion of his eldest 
 daughter, was made in 161 1, and included originally only 
 three townlands. The following is the account of this 
 transaction in the Ingtiisitioti of 1623: — "An indenture 
 of lease for 33 years, dated 3d Febraary, 161 1, made by 
 said Con to sir Hugh, in consideration of ^40 sterl, of 
 the three townlands of Ballydownkimmuck, Ballytully- 
 goane, and Ballycrossan, in Slut Neales country, at the 
 rent of £2 los sterling. Provided, if by means of war 
 or rebellion in the county of Down, the tenants should be 
 disabled from enjoying said lands, that during such time, 
 the rents should cease, with a clause of renewal within 
 seven years. This lease was found to be in tmst for 
 sir Robert M'Clellan. " The author is correct in 
 mentioning that Elizabeth Montgomery, wife of sir 
 Robert ^M'Clellan, had four townlands, for the Inquisi- 
 tion of 1623 specfies that in December, 1622, sir Robert 
 was in possession of Ballydrombegg (now Drumbeg), 
 Ballydunskeagh (now Ballyskeagh), Ballytullgowan (now 
 Ballygowan), and Ballyduncaunmucke (now Hillhall)." 
 See Reeves' Eccl. Antiquities, p. 46; Inquisitions, Dozun, 
 no. 15, Car. I. 
 
 ^ Both without issue.—'Sivc Robert had been previously 
 married to a daughter of sir Matthev/ Campbell of Loudon, 
 in Ayrshire, and at his death in 1640, he was succeeded, 
 as already stated, by his nephew. His second lady, 
 Elizabeth Montgomery of the Ards, died shortly before 
 1640. 
 
 9 Pat. Savage.— T\\K was the brother of Rowland 
 Savage, who died in 1619, son of Patrick who died in 
 1603, son of John, son of Patrick, son of Rowland, who 
 died at Portafeny in 1572. See Burke's Landed Gentry, 
 under Nugent. 
 
 " Lords of the little Ardes. — In May, 1538, a treaty was 
 made between lord Leonard Gray, the then lord deputy, 
 and Remond Savage (Jenico Savage, formerly chief captain 
 of his nationorclan, being removed). Remond havingsworn 
 fealty to King Henry VIII., was permitted to bear the 
 name and enjoy the honours of chief captain of his nation, 
 and of the country of the Savages, other\\ ise Lecale. By 
 this treaty Remond Savage was bound to give to the lord 
 deputy one hundred fat cows, and one good horse, or fif- 
 
 teen marks Irish in lieu of the horse. Again, in October," 
 IS59» a treaty of peace was formed between Rowland 
 Savage, Remund Savage, and their kinsmen. Conten- 
 tions had arisen among them respecting the inheritance 
 and chieftainship of their nation. The leaders appeared 
 before the lord deputy and council in Dublin, declared the 
 losses and injuries they had sustained, and prayed the 
 council to put a loving and quiet end to their quarrels. It 
 was adjudged that Rowland Savage should be captain or chief 
 of his nation and freeholders, and enjoy his rightful in- 
 heritance to his lands in the Little Ardes. It was also agreed 
 that they should join in amity and friendship for the fur- 
 therance of queen Elizabeth's service, and the defence of 
 the country. For the due perfonnance of this contract, 
 and for the maintenance of peace, the parties bound them- 
 selves in the sum of ;r^looo. — Morrin's Calendar, Henry 
 VIII. and Elizabeth, pp. 45, 426. 
 
 " Have no7u in the Ardes. — This fact will be noticed 
 in connexion with the author's account of the two principal 
 families of Savage in the Ards. 
 
 " Easens. — Easens is a misprint for Cosens. No earl 
 of Antrim married a lady of the Savages, but the first 
 earl's great-grandmother was Sheela or Celia Savage of 
 Portaferry, she having been the wife of John Macdonnell, 
 lord of Isla and the Glynns of Antrim. This chieftain 
 was surnamed Cathanach (probably because he was 
 fostered in O'Cahan's country), and was, with two of his 
 sons, executed on the Burrow-Muir, near Edinburgh, in 
 1500, by command of his kinsman, James IV. A Robert 
 Savage married a daughter of John, lord of the Isles — 10 
 Richard II. — Exchequer Records, as quoted in Ulster 
 Journal of A rchcEology, vol. ii., p. 154, Jiote. The "late 
 marquis" of the text was Randall Macdonnell, second earl 
 and first marquis of Antrim, born in 1609. This noble- 
 man died in 1682. 
 
 '3 Immediate predecessor.- — His elder brother, Roland 
 Savage, who died in 1619. 
 
 '■t His niece. — Sir Arthur Chichester's four brothers and 
 eight sisters were all married. He had, therefore, many 
 nieces; but we know not the particular lady to whom the 
 author here refers. 
 
 '5 Russell of Rathmullen. — The Russells of Rathmullen 
 were the descendants of an Anglo-Norman settler, who 
 came to Lecale in the time of John De Courcy, 
 
Tub Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 who was mother to one O'Hara/^ in the county of Antrim. This Patrick was reputed to be the 17111 
 son, and succeeded to the manor of Portaferry, by virtue of ancient deeds of feofment in tail, for 
 want of heirs males by his eldest brother. He was the ist Protestant of his family, through the 
 -said Viscount's care to instruct him. As to portions, the said Viscount gave 600/. (a great sum 
 in those days);'^ he was Captain of a troop Ao. 1641, in the regiment of horse, under the command 
 of the second Lord Viscount Montgomery. And the said Jean died Ao. 1643; he himself also 
 
 '6 One O'Bara.— This was Cahill O'Hara of CrebOly, or 
 Craigbilly, in the county of Antrim. On 26tli June, 1606, 
 James I. granted to him the territory called Ttwgh-Kearie, 
 and all the lands therein, viz. : — Ballylislatty, Ballimac- 
 Icowake, Ballichronekill, the two Ballierdnacallies, Balli- 
 clugg, Ballycreevillye, Ballikilligadd, Ballidirrevan, Balli- 
 lossochossan, Ballileneymeirew, Ballihawnychaharkie, and 
 Ballaclagg, at the yearly rent of £if. This territory is 
 described in the patent as bounded on the west and north 
 by the Tuogh-Clinaghertie, between which two territories, 
 (viz., Kearte and Clanaghertie), the mearing extends through 
 the river Owen-Brade, about two miles from tlie confluence 
 thereof, with the Mynwater (Mainwater), until it joins the 
 riverOwen-Devenagh(now the Deevnagh) ; thence through 
 the midst thereof, between Tuogh-Kearte and Munter- 
 Murrigan, about a mile to the head thereof in the little bog* 
 of Moncloghmister; thence directly across and through 
 plains, about half a mile, to the top of the hill or fort 
 called Lisneskilligie ; thence about half a mile, to the . 
 top of Mount Comanworhogie, and so directly about half 
 a mile to the Glynn of Altnerilige, through the midst 
 thereof, to the river of Clancurrie (Glenwhirry), and by its 
 course between this tuogh and the cinament of Dowgh- 
 connor, until it joins the small river of Connor ; and so 
 through the midst of Glancurrie (Glenwhirry), between this 
 tuogh and Tuogh Munter-Riuidie, until it nms into the 
 Mynwater, between this Tucg-i end Munter-Callie, and so 
 on until that river joins Owen-Brade; except the lands of 
 the see of Down and Connor, and those belonging to re- 
 ligious houses, churches, advowsons, &c. All the 
 premises are situated in Lower Clandeboy. To hold for 
 ever, by the 20th part of a knight's fee, and to maintain 
 one able horseman and three footmen to serve in Ulster. 
 — Calendar of Pat. J\olls, James /. , p. 94. The Craig- 
 billy estate is still known as the Karte estate. The O'Haras 
 of Crebilly were a branch of the O'Haras of I^eyny, in the 
 county of Sligo. Dr. O'Donovan states that they are de- 
 scended "from Hugh, the brother of Conor Gott O'Hara, 
 lord of Leyny, who died in the year 1 23 1. This branch 
 removed to Dal Riada, ^^■ith the Red Earl of Ulster, who 
 died in 1326. This family is now extinct in the male 
 line." The O'Haras of Crebilly came in for a notice in 
 the well-known .Satirical Poem of yEnghus O'Daly, who 
 lived in the reign of Elizabeth, and is said to have been 
 employed by the agents of Mountjoy and sir George 
 Carew, to lampoon the chiefs of the leading old Irish 
 families. The following is his notice of the O'Haras : — 
 
 "The families of O'Hara, of small booleys, 
 A tribe that never earned fame ; 
 Their music is the humming of the fly, 
 And the grumbling of penury in each man's mouth. 
 
 "A long wide house on the middle of the highway, 
 And not enough for a pismire there of food ; 
 Heart-ache to the hungry kerne, 
 
 Xhat did not build a. crib house of rods on a mountain.' 
 
 O'Donovan's note to the last line is — "on a mountain, so 
 as not to be so accessible to the Bards, Jesters, Minstrels, 
 Carooghs, Geocaghs, and other Strollers, as it is now, 
 being built on the side of the highway. " The following 
 is Clarence Mangan's versified Paraplirast of the foregoing 
 passage : — 
 
 " The tribe of O'Hara are men of some height. 
 But they've never been known to stand proudly in fight ; 
 'I'hey have no other music but the hum of the flies. 
 And hunger stares forth from their deep-sunken eyes ! 
 
 ** There is one wide, waste, void, bleak, black, cold, old pile 
 On the highway ; its length is nearly one-third of a mile ; 
 Whose it is I don't know, but you hear the rats gnawing 
 Its timbers inside, while its owner keeps sawing." 
 
 Dr. O'Donovan states that Mangan has missed O'Daly's 
 meaning in the last two lines. The poet's meaning is, 
 " Why did he (O'Hara) build his house on the roadside 
 to induce travellers to look for hospitality in a house where 
 nothing is to be found but poverty; why did he not build 
 a hut far in the recesses of the mountains, where travellers 
 would not have access to his door." — O'Daly's Tribes 
 of Ireland, with Poetical Translation, by James Clarence 
 Mangan, and Introduction and Notes, by John O'Donovan, 
 LL.D., pp. 59, 61, 95. 
 
 600/. (a great sum in those days). — This was certainly 
 a handsome dowry (or tocher good, as the Scotch ex- 
 pressed it), being nearly equal to ten times the amoimt in 
 our present currency. When lady Jean Dnimmond, only 
 daughter to the earl of Perth, was married, in 1629, to the 
 earl of Sutherland, her dowry was 5000 merks, or £,2%"] 
 17s 4d. In 1583, lady Anne Montgomery, daughter of 
 the third earl of Eglinton, was married to lord Semple, 
 and had a dowiy of 6000 merks. The dowry of Jean 
 Hamilton, the vicar of Dunlop's daughter, in 1613, was 
 50CKD merks. This lady was sister of sir James Hamilton, 
 afterwards viscount Claneboy. Her dowry, no doubt, was 
 supplied from the county of Dowii. Jean Knox of Ran- 
 furly had H,00o merks; Jean Mure of Glanderston, in 
 1671, 8,000 merks; Margaret Mowat of Ingliston, in 
 1682, 12,000 merks. In 1639, the great marquis of 
 Hur.tlcy resided in the Canongate, where t\\o of his 
 daughters were married, lady Anne, who was "ane precise 
 puritan," to lord Drummond ; and lady Henrietta, who 
 was a Roman Catholic, to lord Seton, son of the earl of 
 Wintoun. These ladies had each 40,000 merks, as a 
 fortune, their uncle, the earl of Argjde, being cautioner for 
 the payment, 'for relief whereof,' says Spalding, 'he got 
 the wadset of Lochaber and Badenoch. ' Huntley's diird 
 daugliter, lady Jean, was married in few months after her 
 sisters, to the earl of Haddington, and brought to her 
 husband 30,000 merks as tocher good. — Chambers's 
 Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., pp. 35, 134. The 
 above-mentioned dowries \vere moderate when compared 
 ^vith some enjoyed by county of Down ladies in the follow- 
 
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 departed this life in the beginning Anno 1 644, leaving orphan children only two daughters and 
 Hugh (his 9th son) to the care of Sir James Montgomery (their mother's brother), who performed 
 that trust with full fidelity, and to their great advantage, compounding many debts, paying them 
 out of the rents, which then were high (for he waved the benefit of the wardship he had of the said 
 Hugh's estate and person). He bred them at Rosemount, his own house, according to their 
 quality, till harvest time Ao. 1649, that Oliver Cromwell's army (triumphing over us all) obliged 
 himself and his son to go into Scotland, and leave them at Portaferry aforesaid. 
 
 The said Hugh Savage lived till about Ao. 1666, and died without issue. He was educated 
 at Rosemount and Newton with me as two brothers ; and he boarded himself many years with me, 
 never having had a wife ; but his encumbered estate came (by virtue of the said Hugh and father's 
 feoffments) to his nearest kinsman, Patrick Savage, Esq.,'' who now enjoys it, he having, by his prudent 
 management, recovered it out of some great encumbrances thereon, and brought it to great im- 
 provements of rents. 
 
 And now I have ended the bad success of the said last recited two matches by our first Lord 
 Viscount, let us now, as order requires, relate what his Lordship did for his other offspring and first 
 of his son, James Montgomery (often before named). Him his Lordship called home from his 
 travels, after he had been in France, Germany, Itaty, and Holland (divers months in each of these 
 countrys) ; and finding him fit for business, sent him to Court in England, Ao. 1623, to obviate the 
 mischief feared from Sir Thomas Smith's complaints (as hath already been said) ; and there the 
 said James continued to study the laws at the Inns of Court, and attending all his father's business 
 which came before King James or King Charles, till Ao. 2d Car. that patents were passed to his 
 father for his estate 3 and then being called home (for now the clouds of danger, from the two 
 Smiths^" aforesaid, were blown over), he was, some months after that time, employed as his father's 
 agent, both in the country and in Dublin, so that he became an expert solicitor, courtier, and states- 
 man, as before his travel he had been a pregnant scholar, and taken his degrees as of Master in the 
 liberall arts in the University of St. Andrews. The certificate, under the seal, I have shown to 
 many persons who had esteem of learning. 
 
 Now before I leave this brief account of him, I take the liberty to relate one instance of favour 
 to him from the Royal Martyr, viz., His Majesty went to shoot at the Butts necessaries were 
 
 ing century. Anne Lambert, who was born in 1752, at Two Smiths. — Sir William and Sir Thomas. See 
 
 Dunleady, and became countess of Annesley, had a p. 77> supra. 
 
 fortune of ;^l5,ooo; and Mary Cawan, wife of Alexander The Butts. — This phrase means literally the mark at 
 Stewart, who purchased what had been the Montgomery which archers shoot, but was used more generally to de- 
 estates from the Colvilles, had a fortune of 50,000. note the place set apart in each district for the practice of 
 Portaferry aforesaid. — This Hugh Savage, son of archery. Several old statutes from the 13th to the l6tli 
 Patrick, died unmarried in 1666. The name of the two century made the practice of archery in England imper- 
 sisters were Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth married ative, and directed that the leisure time of young men, 
 George Wilton, esq., Gaalstown, county of Westmeath; especially on holydays, should be devoted to the use of 
 and Sarah became the wife, first, of sir Bryan O'Neill, of the bow. As the church then enforced the observance of 
 Bakerstown, bart. , so created for his gallantry at the so many holydays, the time thus set apart for archery 
 battle of Edge-Hill; and, secondly, of Richard Rich, esq. practice would be quite sufficient to enable one to acquire 
 '5 Patrick Savage, Esq. — On the death of Hugh in 1666, the art to perfection. It is rather remarkable that all the 
 the family estate passed to his cousin, Patrick Savage of laws for the encouragement of archery should have been 
 Derry, a townland in the little Ards (see Reeves' Eccl. introduced subsequently to the invention of gun-powder and 
 Antiquities, p. 23), afterwards of Portaferry, who died in . fire-arms. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, who lived in the 
 1724, aged 82. reign of James I., wrote it as his deliberate conviction that 
 
92 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 brought, the King desires Mr. Montgomery to try one of the bows, and he shot three or 
 four ends with his Majesty so very well that he said, " Mr. Montgomery, that bow fitts your 
 hand, take them and a quiver of arrows and keep them for your use." I was told this by my 
 father, Avho carefully preserved them, and divers times (in my sight) used them at Rosemount, 
 charging me to do so likewise f'^ they were left to his nephew Savage's care, Ao. 1 649, who 
 restored them to me at my return ; the bow was too strong for me, and he using it, it broke in 
 his hands ; one half of it was desired and made a staff for the old Countess of Strevling,^3 when 
 
 good archers would do more execution on thebaUlefield than 
 infantiy armed with musquets, even at that period. The 5th 
 of Edward IV. ,c. 4, enacts that every Enghshman in Ireland 
 shall be obliged to have a bow in his house, of his own 
 length, either of yew, wych-hazel, ash, or awburn, pro- 
 bably alder. There is a Scotch statute of the year 1457, 
 which directs butts and bowmarks to be erected in every 
 parish. The French having veiy convincing proofs of the 
 .superiority of English archers, began also to encourage 
 the regular practice of the bow. See Barrington on The 
 Ancient Statutes, pp. 424, 425. In the reign of Henry 
 VIII., the law ordained that eveiy man should have a 
 bow and arrows continually in his house, that he should 
 have bows and arrows for his sons and servants, and that 
 every servant above seventeen, and under sixty years of 
 age, should pay 6s. 8d. if found without a bow and arrows 
 for one month. The inhabitants of every city, town, 
 hamlet, and country district, were required by law to erect 
 Butts, and practise shooting at the times above-mentioned. 
 In Coates's History of the Town of Reading, there are 
 curious entries printed from churchwardens' accounts, in 
 reference to archery accommodation. Thus, in the Vestry 
 Book of St. Lawrence Parish, there is the following 
 entiy: — "a.D. 1549. Paid to WiUiam Watlynton for 
 that the parishe was indebted to hym for makyng of the 
 Butts, xxxvi s." The Vestry Book of St. Mary's, under 
 the year 1566, has the following: "Item, for the makyng 
 of the Butts, viii s," — and, under the year 1622, "Paid 
 two laborers to playne the grocmde where should 
 be, vs vid; 1629 — "Paid towards the Butts mending, 
 iis vid." In the parish of St. Giles's Vestry Book are 
 the following entries: — "1566 — Item, For canyinge of 
 turfes for Btctis xvi d. " 1 605 — Three laboureres, two days 
 work aboule the Butts iiii s. Carrying ix load of turfes for 
 the Butts ii s. "For two pieces of timber to fasten on 
 the railes of the Butts iiii d." " 1621 — The parishioners 
 did agree that the church wardens and constables should 
 sett up a payre of Butts, in such place as tlieythinke most 
 convenient, in St. Giles parish, which Butts to cost xis." 
 The kings of England, generally, encouraged and practised 
 archery, their example rendering it fashionable as an 
 amusement, long after it had ceased to be a means of war. 
 It appears from the text that Charles I. was not an ex- 
 ception in this respect. That monarch issued a procla- 
 mation in the 8th year of his reign, to prevent the fields 
 near London from being so inclosed as to interrupt tlie 
 necessary and profitable exercise of shooting. In Mark- 
 ham's History oj Archery, published in 1 634, Charles I. is 
 represented in the dress and attitude of a bowman. — 
 History of Reading as quoted in Brand's Popular Antiquities, 
 vol. ii., p. 235; Fenny Cyclopadia, vol. ii., p. 274. 
 
 ^ To do likewise. — This bow was no doubt of yew, the 
 
 most approved wood. Barrington is of opinion that the 
 planting of yew trees in church-yards throughout England 
 was done to protect them most effectually from cattle. 
 This practice, it appears, was not known throughout other 
 parts of Europe. By 4 Henry V., c. 3, it appears that 
 the Asp was the best wood for arrows. Obsenations on 
 the Ancient Statutes, p. 424, note. In the following words 
 Holinshed indignantly laments the decay or disuse of 
 archery in England : — ' ' Cutes the Frenchman and Rutters, 
 deriding, &c. , will not let, in open skirmish, to turn up their 
 tails and cry, Shoote Englishmen! and all becau.se our 
 strong shooting is decayed and laid in bed; but if some of 
 our Englishmen now lived, that served Edward III., the 
 breech of such a varlet should have been nailed to him with 
 an arrow, and another feathered in his bowels," — Statute 
 of Kilkenny, p. 23, note. 
 
 =3 Old Countess 0/ Strrjling. — This old lady, widow of 
 the first earl of Stirling, was Janet, daughter and heiress 
 of sir William Erskine, cousin german of the earl of Mar, 
 the regent. She was the mother of seven sons and two 
 daughters. The names of her sons were William, Anthony, 
 Henry, John, Charles, Ludovick, and James. Her 
 daughters were Jean and Mary. Her husband, the first earl, 
 purchased a place of interment in Bowie's aisle, a part of the 
 High Church of Stirling. In this he erected a sand- 
 stone tablet in memory of his wife's parents, bear- 
 ing a Latin inscription, which, with the following 
 translation, is printed in the Rev. Dr. Rogers' \'olume, 
 entitled. Week at Bridge of Allan, l2mo, 1858: — "Here 
 lies in hope of the resurrection, William Erskine, of the 
 order of knights, along with his wife, Joanna, a woman of 
 singular virtue, of illustrious birth, and sprung from the 
 main line of the Erskines, leaving behind them an only 
 daughter, who \\'as afterwards married to William Alex- 
 ander, a distinguished knight. Master of Request to King 
 James, Secretary and Commissioner of Exchequer to 
 Charles. This love has blessed that daughter with a 
 numerous offspring, and has raised this monument to her 
 illustrious parents." "Bowie's aisle" was the earl's last 
 resting-place also. Sir James Balfour has the following no- 
 tice of the earl's burial therein : — "In February this Zeire, 
 also, deyed William, earle of .Streueling, viscount Canada, 
 lord Alexander, principal secretary for Scotland to king 
 Charles first, London. Hes bodey was embalmed, and 
 by sea transported to Streueling, and ther privately interred 
 by night in Bowie's lyle, in Streueling churche the 12th 
 Aprile, 1640." After his death, his countess lived at 
 Mount- Alexander with her daughter, the wife of the second 
 viscount Montgomery. She was alive in 1656, and 
 at her death is believed to have been interred in 
 the family vault of the Montgomerj's at Newton. In 
 consideration of her husband's services, the countess had 
 
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 93 
 
 she was entertained here by her daughter, the 2d Viscountess Montgomery, at Mount Alexander 
 house.'''* 
 
 His Lordship, to compensate the said James's constant, dutiful, well performed services, and 
 to give him a 2d son's portion, settled on him about ten townlands,^^ five of them about Gray Abbey 
 aforesaid, the rest in the barony of Castlereagh, and one summer, Ao. 163 1, matched him to 
 Katherine,^^ eldest daughter of Sir William Stewart, Knight and Baronet, a Privy Councellor. 
 
 a warrant from Charles I., for a pension of ^^'300 per 
 annum. She had come to Ireland to enjoy the society of 
 her favourite daughter, viscountess Montgomery. MS. 
 Memoir of Sir miliam Alexander. See Appendix G. 
 
 ^ Mount- Alexander House. — This residence, in the 
 vicinity of Comber, was built for thj accommodation of the 
 second viscount on his marriage, and was thus named in 
 honour of his wife. Her son, who became an earl, 
 adopted the name as that of his earldom, also in honour of 
 his mother's family. In the patent of 1637, the lands ad- 
 joining this residence are described as constituting the 
 manor of Mount-Alexander or Comber. The house has 
 long since disappeared, and its site is now known as the 
 castle farm. Mount-Alexander is a townland of 400 acres 
 in the parish of Comber, and was purchased a few years 
 ago by the late marquis of Londondeny from Nicholas De 
 la Cherois Crommelin, Carrowdore, esq. Great difficulty 
 was experienced in making title, there being no such town- 
 land in the patents, this being, as it were, made up 
 from the skirts of several townlands. However, the 
 difficulty was overcome at last. 
 
 °5 About ten townlands. — This grant from the first 
 viscount Montgomery to sir James is dated the 20th April, 
 1629. The lands "about Greyabbey," including the site 
 and surroundings of the old monastery, were Ballymone- 
 stragh alias Corvallie, Ballynester, Ballyneboyle, the 
 quarter of the Cardie, the half of Ballygrange and a 
 portion of Ballyblacks alias Ballynepistragh. The lands 
 included in this grant which lay on the opposite shore of 
 Strangford Lough, were Ballylisnebarnes, I?allytullynegny, 
 Ballydromcreagh, Ballyobonden, Ballymonestragh alias 
 Belfort, the half of Ballygraffan, and the quarter of Kil- 
 mood. These lands lay in the ancient subdivision of 
 Southern Clannaboy known as .Sluthendricks. They 
 are situate in the parishes of Kilmood and Killinchy and 
 barony of Upper Castlereagh. — Inquisitions, Dmvit, no. 
 log. Car. J. The lands in the parish of Greyabbey in- 
 cluded, besides those already mentioned, the following 
 subdivisions, viz., Islandmore, held by Hugh Montgomery, 
 jun. ; Islandmaddy alias Dogg-iland; Ballybrian held by 
 William and Archibald Edmonston; and Tullykeavin in the 
 possession of John Peacock, who, with his undertenants, 
 also occupied the Cardie. For this estate sir James Mont- 
 gomery engaged to pay the sum of three pounds ten 
 shiUings yearly to the king, and five pounds yearly to 
 viscount Montgomery, the lord of the soil, in two equal 
 payments to be made at Easter and the Feast of St. 
 Michael the Archangel. To hold for ever in free and 
 common soccage. — MS. preserved at Donaghadee. The 
 following document, having reference to this ar- 
 rangement between the first viscount and his son James, 
 is printed in Eraser's Memorials, vol. ii., p. 288: — 
 
 "Obligation by James Montgomery to Hugh, Viscount Mont- 
 gomery, of Airdes, his father, yath fanuary, 1629. 
 
 " Be it knowen to all men by these presentis, me, James Mont- 
 
 gomery, secound lauchfull sone to ane noble lord, Hew, Viscount 
 Montgomery, of Airdes ; that wheras the Right Honourable Alex- 
 ander, Erie of Eglintoun, out of the speciall grace and favour which 
 he beiris to my said Lord and father, and to all us that ar his 
 childerene, hes bene pleased to honour us by affording his Lordshipis 
 panes and travell to sie a present settling of our estaitis, to the better 
 lyking of our said father and our greatar quyet and content : Wit, 
 yea thirfoir me, the said James Montgomery, by these presentis, not 
 only to testifie that I am weill pleased with that provision and estait 
 which my said Lord and Father has allottit unto me now, bot also^ 
 (out of the consideratioun and trust I have of the said noble Erie his 
 love and favour^ to be bund and obleist that I shall nevorseik, have, 
 nor crave any farder of the landisand inheritances which my said father 
 dois now reallie and actuallie possess, or hes reicht and tytle to ac- 
 cleame, nor move or proceed in anie such pnrches frome my said 
 father, or procuir, ather be me self or be any utheris to my use, ather 
 in landis or in sowmes of money, by landis frae his Lordship, for en- 
 lairging of my estait, to the burdening, hurt, or prejudice of his Lord- 
 ship's air (heir), without the speciall advyse and consent of the said 
 Noble Erie, Alexander Erie of Eglintoun, first had and obtainit 
 thairto : In witness wherof I have heirto set my hand and seale at 
 Eglmtoun, the penult day 0( Januar, the year of God 1'" vi*- twentie 
 nyne yeares. "J. Montgomery. 
 
 "Signed, subscryvit, and delyvered, in presence of us, 
 "Eglintoun. 
 
 "Neill Montgomeeie of Langschaw. 
 
 "J. S , Grinok (John Schaw, of Greenock.) 
 
 " T. Nevin of Monkridding. 
 
 "J. Montgomery. 
 
 "Patrick Schaw of Kelsoland." 
 
 ^* Katherine. — This lady's mother was Frances, second 
 daughter of sir Robert Newcomen of Mosstown, in the 
 county of Longford, and Catherine, daughter of sir Thomas 
 Molyneux, chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in the reign 
 of Elizabeth. — Lodge's Irish Peerage, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. vi. , p. 247. 
 
 ^ Sir William Stewart. — William Stewart was pro- 
 bably of the family of Dnndiiffc, which is the name of an 
 estate in the parish of Maybole, Ayrshire. The name of 
 an ancestor, also called Williame Stewarte of Dundufe, 
 appears in the list of assize at a criminal trial, in 1 558. In 
 the following year a crown charter was given by Mary 
 queen of Scots, of the lands of Meikle Sallatliane Willielmo 
 Dundiiff de eodem et Elizabelli(E Carry ejus conjugi. 
 From this it appears that the laird was sometimes called 
 Dunduff and sometimes Stewart, although the latter was 
 the real surname. The sir William Stewart mentioned in 
 the text, was grandson of the above named, and succeeded 
 to the family property in Maybole, about the year 1 609. 
 The estate passed from the family rf)f Stewart, finally, in 
 the year 1 568, and was afterwards owned by the Whitifords. 
 Paterson, County of Ayr. vol. ii., p. 354. See also 
 Harris, Hibernica,^-^. 179,241. Before coming to Ulster 
 in 1608, William .Stewart, and hi=i younger brother Robert, 
 served as soldiers of fortune, in the armies of Uen n rk ani 
 .Sweden. Although sir William attained to great wealth 
 as a settler, his beginnings were evidently ^.niall. A 
 Lambeth MS., entitle t A Relation of th-: workes den.- by 
 the Scottish tmdcrtakers on their several portions of lande 
 assigned thetn in the Escheated Counties of Ulster, has the 
 
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 Then about this time his Lordship called home his third son, George Montgomery, Esq., from 
 his travels in Holland, through London, where he stayed some months at Court. Thence to Scot- 
 land, where he had visited (as he had been ordered) the family of Garthland,^^ and there stayed some 
 time to be acquainted with the Gentlewoman designed to be his wife, which, in Ao. 1633, came to 
 pass, his Lordship having first settled on him the lands, value a:bout 300/. per annum, which Hugh 
 (the said George his son) now enjoys. ^9 These M'Dowells, Lairds of Garthland, near Portpatrick, 
 have now stood in that place above 1000 years ; and were, in the first century, stiled Princes of 
 Galloway, by allowance of the then Kings in Scotland. 3° 
 
 following brief notice of his original place of settlement, in 
 i6ii : — "William Stewarte, Lo. Dunduffe, undertaker of 
 1000 acres in the said precinct (Portlagh), his brother was 
 heere for him the somer 1610, and retourned into .Scotland ; 
 he liath lefte a servant to keepe his stocke upone the land, 
 beinge two mares and 30 heades of cattle younge and 
 old." In 1627, Charles I., wrote to lord deputy Falk- 
 land, stating that sir William Stewart, as captain of 
 one of the foot-bands of the army in Ulster, had incurred 
 great expenses "by maintaining the old and new soldiers 
 under his command, without which they had long since 
 disbanded," and ordering the deputy to take immediate 
 steps to have this debt discharged. -In 1629, sir William 
 obtained a grant from the crown of the lands of Coohleaghy, 
 in the barony of Raphoe, Donegal, which he had formerly 
 held as an undertaker. These premises were, according 
 to the terms of the grant, to be constituted into a manor, 
 to be called the manor of Mount-Stewart, with power to 
 create tenures, to hold 400 acres in demesne, to appoint 
 court baron and court leet, to claim waifs and strays, and 
 to impark 300 acres. In the same year he obtained grants 
 from the crown of his four proportions, 4000 acres, in the 
 county of Tyrone. Two of these, called Ballynaconnally 
 and Ballyravill, in the barony of Clogher, were erected 
 into a manor, also known as Mount- StrMart. The two 
 others, called Newton and Lislapp, in the barony of 
 Strabane, w-ere erected into the manor of New Stewarts- 
 stown, or Newtown-stewart. All these lands in Tyrone 
 were held on the same terms of free and common soccage, 
 and with the same privileges as the grant in Donegal 
 above-mentioned. In 1631, sir William, in conjunction 
 with sir Henry Tichboume, obtained a grant of the rents 
 and profits of such lands in the province of Ulster as were 
 found by Inquisition to have been forfeited to the crown, 
 in consequence of their having been let to the Irish, con- 
 traiy to the provisions contained in the patents of the 
 undertakers. — Morrin's Calendar, Charles I., pp. 298, 
 454, 476, 538, 588. 
 
 Family of Garthland. — This was the family of sir 
 John M'Dowall (MacDubhghaill), whose daughter, Griz- 
 zel, soon afterwards became the wife of George Mont- 
 gomery. Garthland is in the parish of Stonykirk, Wig- 
 tonshire, about five miles S.S.E. of Stranraer. It has 
 passed away from the family of the original possessor, 
 and now belongs to the earl of Stair. The name was 
 anciently written Gairachloym, or Garochloyne. See 
 Agnew's Hereditary Shtriffs of Galloway, pp. 28, 29. 
 
 Now enjoy;. — These lands were aftenvards granted in 
 trust for George Montgomeiy, by his brother Hugh, the 
 second viscount Ards. It was found by Inquisition (Down, 
 no. 109, Car. I. ) that Hugh, lord viscount Montgomery, by 
 
 deed, dated the 6th of October, 1639, granted to sir James 
 Montgomery, of Rosemount, kt., Patrick Savage of Porte- 
 ferry, Henry Savage of Arkin, William Shaw of New- 
 towne, and John Montgomery of Ballycreboy, esqs., the 
 manor of Downbreakljm, and all the townes, lands, and 
 hereditaments of Ballymilagh (now Mealough), Bally- 
 knockbreda, Ballycamy (now Ballycaime), Ballydown- 
 ea!:;h (now Duneight, parish of Blaris), Ballyclogher (now 
 Clogher), Ballyaghlisk (now Ballyaglis, parish of Drum- 
 beg), I.isnei^noe (now Lisnoe, parish of Blaris), and that 
 part of Ballylcsban containing 140 acres, in the possession 
 of George Montgomery of Drumfaddy. The printed 
 abstract of the Inquisition in the Calendar does not state 
 the trusts of the above Deed ; but an original copy of 
 the latter, found among the family papers at Donaghadee, 
 contains additional details. The grant confers the power 
 to hold "court leet and court baron of the said manor, 
 with all and singular the castles, houses, fishings, mines, 
 &c., together with the rectorial tythes of the lands of 
 Ballyhaughlisk (now Ballyaghlis), belonging to y* Rec- 
 tory of l3rum, on y' Laggan, to be held in free and 
 common soccage, as of the manor of Newtown, by the 
 rents and services after mentioned; To the use of Geo. 
 Montgomery during his natural life, and after his decease 
 to the following uses, viz. , for a joynture to his wife, then 
 to the use of Hugh Montgomery, and the heirs male of 
 his body, and for want thereof to the heirs male of said 
 lord, and for want thereof to the heirs male of said sir 
 James Montgomery, and so to the heirs generally ; Yield- 
 ing at y« feasts of Michaelmas and the Annunciation of 
 the Blessed Virgin, by equal halfs, the yearly rent of Five 
 Pounds sterlg. , and a good, able, serviceable horse worth 
 ten pounds English at least. Alsoe, from tjTne to 
 tyme at all tymes hereafter an able hors and man to 
 attend y» person of y' Lord and his heirs male in all 
 generall Hostings 40 days in Ulster. And if the said Five 
 Pounds be unpaid in part or in whole for 40 days (being 
 lawfully demanded) power of distress for y' rent, and for 
 the hors after a year, the heir being at age, and, after due 
 warning, for y* horsman also. In consideration whereof, the 
 lord and his heirs to pay the crown rent due thereout forever. 
 Seizin of the premises thereon given to the feoffees." 
 
 3° The then kings of Scotland. — The MacDowalls of 
 Garthland represented the ancient thanes of Galloway. 
 " The three great families of Garthland, Logan, and 
 French all bore, with certain differences, the arms of 
 the old lords of Galloway — a lion argent on an azure 
 shield." Agnew's Hereditary Sheriffs, p. 28. One 
 of the earliest of their charters speaks of the origin of 
 the family as ultra memoriam hominuin, or as lost in 
 antiquity. Ulrig and Donald MacDowall were leaders at 
 
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 Now having spoken of the said Lord Montgomery's offspring, as to what his Lordship did for 
 them, I think it a due gratitude in this place to remember his Lordship's said brother George, the 
 best and closest friend he had, they two being, like Castor and Pollux, to supply one another's 
 absence. You have heard in what station he lived before Ao. 1603, and what preferment King 
 James gave him, in the first year of his reign.3' Soon after this, his Majesty, finding the Dean of 
 
 the battle of the Standard, in 1238, where they were both 
 slain. The family is represented at the present time by the 
 MacDowalls of Logan, in the parish of Kirkmaiden. Of 
 this house was the well-known Andrew MacDowall, lord 
 Bankton, a judge of the court of session, and author of 
 Institutes of the Laws of Scotland." He was the son of 
 Robert MacDowall and Sarah Shaw, daughter of sir John 
 Shaw of Greenock. Lord Bankton was bom at Logan in 
 1685, and died at Bankton in East Lothian in 1760. 
 Chalmers' Caledonia, vol. iii., 379; Nnu Stat. Acc. of 
 Scotland, Wigtonshire, p. 206. As this was one of the most 
 powerful of Scottish families in ancient times, and as it is 
 here specially noticed by the author in connexion with the 
 family of Ards, we give sir Andrew Agnew's account of 
 its three principal branches. He states that " the Garth- 
 land descent alone has been accurately preserved : — 
 
 "mcdowall of garthland. 
 
 "i. Dougall McDowall of Garthland, who had a charter from 
 Baliol, A D. 1295. 
 
 "3. Dougall McDowall, son of the above — 1362. 
 
 " 3. Fergus McDowall, son of the above — 1370 ; was sherift'-depute 
 of Galloway. 
 
 " 4. Thomas McDowall, married a daughter of Wallace of Craigie : 
 had a charter of earl Douglas, 1413; a witness to charter of Andrew 
 Agnew of Lochnaw, first hereditary sheriff of Galloway, 1426; his 
 daughter (or grand-daughter) married Andrew Agnew, second here- 
 ditary sheriff; succeeded by his son. 
 
 "5. Uchtred McDowall, succeeded 1440; married daughter of 
 Robert Vauss of Barnbarroch (sister of dame Mariotta Agnew, wife 
 of third sheriff;, and had 
 
 "6. Thomas McDowall, circa. 1470; married daughter of Frascr, 
 ancestor of Lord Saltoun; his son, 
 
 "7. Uchtred McDowall, succeeded 1488; married Isabel, daughter 
 of sir John Gordon of Lochinvar; killed, as was also his eldest son, at 
 Flodden, 1513. 
 
 "8. Thomas McDowall, married Isabel, daughterof sir Alexander 
 Stewart of Garlies: killed at Flodden, 1513, leaving a son, 
 
 "9. Uchtred McDowall, succeeded his grandfather in 1513: 
 married his cousin, Marion, daughter of sir Alexander Stewart, of 
 Garlies (sister of dame Agnes Agnew of Lochnaw\ and had 
 
 "10. John McDowall, succeeded 1531; married Margaret daughter 
 and co-heiress of John Campbell of Corswall ; killed at Pinkie, 1547, 
 leaving a son, 
 
 "11. Uchtred McDowall, retoured in 1348, before Patrick Agnew, 
 sheriff of Galloway, as heir to his father; married ist, Margaret, 
 daughter of sir Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains ; married 2nd, 
 Margaret, daughter of Henry lord Methven; his son, 
 
 "12. Uchtred McDowall, succeeded 1593; married 1569, Euphemc, 
 daughter of sir John Dunbar of Mochrtim; his son, 
 
 "13. John McDowall, succeeded 1600; married a lady of the house 
 of Lochinvar ; his son, 
 
 "14. Sir John McDowall, succeeded i6ti, and married Margaret 
 Kerr, daughter of Lord Jedburgh, and left, 
 
 "15. Sir James McDowall, succeeded 1637; married Jean, daughter 
 of sir John Hamilton of Grange. (Colleague of sir Patrick Agnew as 
 M.P. for Wigtonshire, 1643, and of sir Andrew Agnew as M.P. 1644 
 to 1647.) His son, 
 
 " 16. William McDowall, succeeded 1661; married Grizzel, daughter 
 of A. Beaton (was colle.igue of sir Andrew Agnew, tenth sheriff, in 
 Parliament, 1689 to 1700,; had ten children: his son, 
 
 '* 17. Alexander McDowall, succeeded 1700; married Jean, 
 daughter of sir John Fergusson of Kilkerran, and liad a son, heir, 
 
 "18. William McDowall, laird of Garthland, 1747. William 
 McDowall's (No. 16) hfth son, William McDowall, a military officer, 
 married Mary Tovie, a West India heiress. In 1727, he purchased 
 Castle-Semple, and died in 1748. His grandson, William, in 1760, 
 
 purchased Garthland from his cousin, a grandson also of William (No. 
 16), and on his cousin's death in 1775, became head of the house, 
 which is now represented by Major General Day Hort McDowall." 
 
 " MCDOUALL OF LOGAN. 
 
 "The family of Logan indignantly deny the statements of Craw- 
 ford and Chalmers that they are cadets of the House of Garthland, 
 For their arguments on this subject, see Nisbet's Heraldry, vol. ii., 
 and Murray's Literary History of Galloway. 
 
 The oldest papers of the family were destroyed circa 1500 by the 
 burning of their castle of Balzeiland. 
 
 " The first authentic account of the family is to be found in tha 
 Lochnaw charter-chest where — 
 
 "i. Patrick McDouall of Logan appears as a witness to tha 
 service of Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, as heir to his father, Andrew 
 Agnew, in his estates and office of sheriff of Galloway, 1455. 
 
 "2. Patrick McDouall, his son, married Catherine, daughter of 
 sir Alexander McCulloch of Myrtoun, previous to 1494; and had a 
 son. 
 
 " 3. Charles McDowall, killed at Flodden; leaving a son. 
 "4. Patrick, succeeded 1513; whose son, 
 
 "5. Charles, had, a.d. 1547, a dispensation to MaryAlisone Max- 
 well, his cousin in the 3rd and 4th degree — he left 
 
 "6. Patrick, succeeded 1548; married 1568, Helen, daughter of 
 Uchtred McDowall, of Garthland. 
 
 "7. John McDouall, his son, succeeded 1579, and married, first, 
 Grizzel, daughter of sir Patrick Vans of Barnbarroch, and widow of 
 J. Kennedy of Barwhannie; and second, Margaret, daughter of Craw- 
 ford of Carse; his son, 
 
 "8. Alexander McDouall, succeeded 1618, married, 1621, Jane, 
 daughter of sir Patrick Agnew of Lochnaw, his son, 
 
 "9. Patrick McDouall, succeeded 1661 ; married Isabel, daughter 
 of sir Robert Adair, of Kilhilt. 
 
 " 10. Robert McDouall, his son, succeeded 1699, having married, 
 1678, Sarah, daughter of sir John Shaw of Greenock, by whom he 
 had, with his successor. Andrew McDouall, born 16S3, the celebrated 
 lawyer, styled lord Bankton. 
 
 " II. John McDouall married, 1710, Anna, daughter of Robert 
 Johnston of Keltoun, who had (with Isabel, married 1733, Andrew 
 Adair of Genochi 
 
 "12. John IMcDouall, his successor, married, 1757, Helen, daugh- 
 ter of George Buchan of Kells. 
 
 "MCDOWALL OF FREUCH, 
 
 "This was also a powerful house. We have traced its successions, 
 but have not been always able to discover the dates. The first on 
 authentic record is 
 
 "i. Gilbert VicTtavisA, circa 1445, married Catherine McGiligh; 
 his son, 
 
 "2. Fergus McDowall, married Agnes, daughter of sir -Mcxander 
 McCulloch of Myrtoun; he predeceased his father, leaving a son, 
 
 " 3. Gilbert McDow.all, succeeded his grandfather; married Isabel, 
 daughter of sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar, killed at Flodden. 
 
 "4. Fergus McDowall, succeeded 151 3, married lady Jane 
 Kennedy, daughter of David, first earl of Cassilis, killed at Pinicic. 
 
 " 5. James McDowall, succeeded 1547, married Florence, daughter 
 of John McDowall of Garthland. 
 
 "6. Mary McDowall, daughter and heiress of No. s, married her 
 kinsman, John McDowall of Dowalton, and left a son, 
 
 "7. John McDowall, married Mary, daughter of sir Patrick Vaus 
 of Barnbarroch. 
 
 "8 Uchtred McDowall, son of No. 7, married Agnes, daughter 
 of sir Patrick Agnew of Lockanaw. 
 
 "9. Patrick McDowall, (his son) married Barbara daughter of 
 James FuUerton of that Ilk; his son, 
 
 "10. Patrick McDowall, succeeded 1680, married Margaret, 
 daughter of William Hattridge of Dromore, county of IDown, leaving 
 a son. 
 
 "11. John McDowall, married lady Betty Crichton, daughter of 
 colonel William Dalrymple, and Penelope, countess of Dumfriesi, 
 who became in her own right countess of Dumfries." — Hereditary 
 Slieriffs of Galloway , pp. 613 — 16. 
 
 5" Year of his reign. — Sec p. 28, sufra. 
 

 
 T WE MONTGOMER Y MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 Norwich, his chaplain, Geo. Montgomery aforesaid, his abilitys for state affairs and his great skill 
 in ecclesiastical matters, and the Church of Ireland being under very bad circumstances, and being 
 careful that abuses should be redressed, (I say) his Majesty thereupon sent over the said George, 
 Ao. 1605, -^(1 Jac, in quality of a Privy Councellor, to be informed and to acquaint him in what 
 condition the Church and State stood in that kingdom, and to be one of the Commissioners for set- 
 tling clergy affairs : this proved much for their and that Church's benefit, and his carriage therein 
 so well pleased the Primate, Archbishops, and Bishops, that he was their dariing and chief advocate, 
 but his employment ran counter to some English Lords and others of the laity, who had grasped 
 over hardly too much of the tithes due to the Priest's office. 3^ 
 
 After a few years toilsome pains to understand the business of his errand and of the commision 
 for settling the affairs aforesaid, the chaplain George aforesaid was employed Ao. 1606,4th Jac, by 
 the Primate and the Bishops in Ireland, to represent to his Majestie the grievances of the clergy, to 
 the great thwarting and hinderance of the laity aforesaid, in their will and designs, on which (as I have 
 heard from his daughter, the old Lady of Howth,) they had a great grudge against him ;33 but he, 
 
 3= Priesfs office. — It would thus appear that Dr. George 
 Montgomeiy came to Ulster prior to his appointment as 
 bishop of Derr}', Raphoe, and Clogher, being sent 
 specially by the king, as a privy councillor, to collect 
 information, generally, respecting political and ecclesiasti- 
 cal matters in the northern province, as well as to in- 
 quire into what lands, castles, advowsons, &c. , had been 
 escheated in the counties of Armagh, Tyrone, Coleraine, 
 Donegal, Fermanagh, and Cavan, distinguishing the ec- 
 clesiastical lands from the lands belonging to the crown. 
 He appears to have at once come into hostile collision 
 "with some English lords and others of the laity" who 
 had got hold of certain church property', and were of 
 course unwilling to surrender it again. The author here, 
 no doubt, refers especially to the fact that some lands 
 "belonging to the bishoprick, within the island {i.e., the 
 Island of Derry), the cathedral and parochial churches, 
 and the bishop's house in Deny, had passed to sir R. 
 Bingley in fee-farm, and from him to sir H. Docwra, and 
 from him to sir George Pawlett." Other impropriations 
 appeared, but those above-named seem to have aroused 
 all Dr. Montgomery's powerful antagonism, and especially, 
 perhaps, as he had then the prospect of being appointed 
 to the bishoprick. When he did become bishop, these 
 church possessions were all recovered by him, together 
 with a "church which sir Heniy Docwra had built at the 
 expense of the city, and which was withheld by Pawlett, 
 the vice provost, as sold to him." — See Meehan's .far/r 
 of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, p. 77. 
 
 33 Grudge against hiiu. — Thus, in the interval between his 
 appointment to the sees of Derry, Raphoe, and Clogher, 
 in 1605, and his coming to settle permanently in the 
 spring of 1607, the bishop was actively engaged in devising 
 those measures by which the church property was restored. 
 Sir John Davis, the attorney-general, complained of the 
 bishop for absenting himself so long from his charge, but 
 the latter was much better employed in London than he 
 could have been in Deny or Clogher, at least for the tem- 
 poral interests of the church ; and when he came, he must 
 nave soon made his presence felt, as the champion of the 
 spoliated and poverty-stricken clergy. He thus excited 
 
 against himself 'the grudge' of protestant impropriators in 
 Derry, and being satisfied that several lands belonging to 
 the church were included in the re-grant which the earl of 
 Tyrone had recently received from the crown, the bishop 
 set to work to recover these also. During his proceedings 
 for this purpose, Tyrone remonstrated, sajing, "My lord, 
 you have two or three bishopricks, and yet you are not 
 content with them, but seek the lands of my earldom." 
 "Your earldom" replied Montgomerj-, "is swollen so big 
 with the lands of the church, that it will burst if it be not 
 vented." — Carleton's Thankful Remembrance, as quoted 
 in Meehan's Earls of Tyrone and Tvrconnel, p. 79. The 
 unfortunate earl, feeling utterly helpless, wrote to the king, 
 on the 26th of May, 1607, reminding his majest)' of the 
 terms on which he had received the recent grant of his 
 lands, and asking James to protect him against threatened 
 dangers from various quarters. "But now, most gracious 
 sovereign," he writes, "there are so many that seek to de- 
 prive me of the greater part of my residue which your 
 majesty was pleaded I should hold, as without your high- 
 ness's special consideration of me I shall in the end have 
 nothing to support my estate ; for the lord bishop of Deny, 
 not contented with the gi-eat living your majesty has been 
 pleased to bestow upon him, seeketh not only to have from 
 me unto him a great part of my lands, whereunto none of 
 his predecessors ever made claim, but also setteth on others, 
 as I am informed, to call in question that which was never 
 heretofore doubted to be mine and my ancestors. " The 
 ' others ' to whom Tyrone here refers was principally Donald 
 BallaghO'Cahan, who entered into an agi-eement with bishop 
 Montgomery, offering to reveal to him the church lands in 
 Tyrone's estates, on condition that Montgomery would se- 
 cure him against O'Neill's vengeance, and assist him in 
 obtaining a grant of his own lands from the crown, thus 
 relieving him in future from that chieftain's power. Both 
 one and other, however, were sooner relieved from Tyrone's 
 antagonism and even his presence in Ulster, than they had 
 dreamed of. Of the earl's flight, and its cause, we have 
 the following account from Dr. Carleton, bishop of Chester, 
 a contemporary of the actors in that still somewhat myste- 
 rious affair: — "Montgomery, bishop of Derrj-,. suspected, 
 
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 having the best cause in hand and his native Prince's favourable hearing in God's and his servant's 
 concern, did prosper in that message, and at the Council Board (where he sat) had the King's 
 orders confirmed and by others obeyed. 
 
 Now Chaplain Montgomery became more and more esteemed of the superior and inferior 
 clergy, and was recommeded by the Bishops that lie should have the diocess of Derry, and with it 
 Clogher and Raphoe in commendam, which were then very low in tithes and revenues, by reason 
 of O'Doherty's rebellion, in which Derry was sacked and burned, and the lands being as it were a 
 waste wilderness without English plantations and garrisons ; and laying further Church business 
 on him, as their agent at Court, he went the second time into Eagland.34 I was credibly informed, 
 that divers Lords (some of them Privy Counsellors) gave him the compliment of seeing him to the 
 ship, telling him, at parting, that he should fail in that enterprize which he then undertook, and 
 that his answer was — My Lords, I am going to the King, and you know it is the business of God's 
 oppressed Church, which His Majesty and the laws protect, and if the divine permission suffer my. 
 errand to miscarry, through yours and other men's profanement, I shall lament the misfortune in 
 England, and our sins which may draw on us that punishment, and be contented with my livings 
 in England, for I am not pursuing preferment for myself, but the service of the Church in Ireland ; 
 and I will cast my cap at this kingdom, and never return to it. But, be assured, whether I come 
 back or not, the sinful politick measures taken against God's Church will not prosper. 
 
 Then the said Chaplain doubled his diligence at Court, the more for the opposition he met 
 with ; and he obtained for the Church and himself what was committed to his agency. Theri he 
 returned with strict orders that the petitioned for desires of the Primate and other Episcopalians 
 should be granted, and himself to be preferred to the dioceses aforesaid. All which affairs were 
 accomplished as soon as might be done by the Government ; for his consecration stuck not at all 
 for want of the Bishops' ordaining hands ;35 and this was very lucky for those northern parts, be- 
 
 or was told that Tirone had gotten into his hands the 
 greatest part of the lands of his bishoprick ; which he in- 
 tended in a lawful course, to recover ; and finding there 
 was no man could give him better light or knowledge of 
 these things than O'Cahan, made use of such means that 
 the latter came to him of his own accord, and told him he 
 could help him to the knowledge of what he sought, but 
 that he was afraid of Tirone ; yet he engaged to reveal all 
 that he knew of that matter, provided the bishop would 
 promise to save him from Tirone's violence, and not deliver 
 him into England ; which the bishop havhig promised, he 
 brought O'Cahan to the council in Dublin, to take his con- 
 fession there. Upon this, processes were sent to Tirone, to 
 warn him to come up to Dublin, at an appointed time, to 
 answer the suit of the lord bishop of Derry. There was no 
 other intention but in a peaceable way, to bring the suit to 
 a trial; for the council then knew nothing of the plot. 
 But Tirone having entered into a new conspiracy of which 
 O'Cahan knew, began to suspect, when he was served 
 with a process to answer the suit, that this was but a plot 
 to draw him in, and that surely the treason was revealed 
 by O'Cahan. Upon this bare suspicion, Tirone, with his 
 confederates, fled out of Ireland, and lost all those lands in 
 the north." — Carleton's Thankful Remembrance, p. 1 68, 
 
 as abridged and quoted by Curry, in his Reviexv of the 
 Civil Wars in Ireland, pp. 69-70. MacNevin ( Confis- 
 cation of Ulster, p. 33, note), repudiates the idea that 
 O'Cahan, "who was a Roman Catholic and a gentle- 
 man, would communicate to the bishop of Derry any 
 information which could injure his ally and friend, 
 O'Neill;" but the Rev. C. P. Meehan, when speaking of 
 the fate of Donald Ballagh O'Cahan and Nial Garve 
 O'Donnell, both of whom died prisoners in the Tower, 
 says — "no one lamented them, not even those who em- 
 ployed them to do the work of spies and delators, for 
 they regarded them with loathing and abhorrence, as they 
 merited ; so true is the old proverb ■.—Proditores etiam iis 
 qitos anteponunt invisi sunt in plain English — traitors 
 are despised even by those they serve. " — Earls of Tyrom 
 and Tyrconnel, p. 320. 
 
 3-t Into England. — The author is here evidently unac- 
 quainted with the date of bishop Montgomeiy's advancement 
 to the sees of Derry, Raphoe, and Clogher, for he speaks 
 as if he had received the appointment at, or after, the date 
 of O'Doheny's rebellion. 
 
 35 Ordaining hands. — It is rather remarkable that no 
 account of bishop Montgomery's consecration is known to 
 exist. 
 
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 cause his residence therein and watchful unwearied industry mightily advanced the British Pro- 
 testant plantations, and the Bishop's revenues to treble the value he found them at, as will appear 
 in the sequel of this discourse concerning that Lord Bishop. 3^ 
 
 And here I must make a large stop for want of councilable books, and the first Lord Viscovint 
 Montgomery's and the Bishop's own papers, out of which (if by me) I could have plentiful memoires 
 of this good Bishop's memorable services for his God, King and country. I must therefore have 
 leave to spare fruitless pains, being troubled with the gout. • I take him where 1 find him, signing 
 George Medensis to a deed from Sir James Hamilton to Sir Hugh Montgomery, made in parcel, 
 pursuant to Abercorn's award, dated 23d May, in the year of God, 161 8, as aforesaid ;37 and after 
 this, for want of the said books and papers, I can say little of his transactions for the publick, but 
 much of his usefulness in the plantation, of the marriage in bestowing his daughter, and his pro- 
 moting Dr. Ussher to succeed him, and of some other things of lesser moment relating to him. 
 I premise, to this future narrative of this Right Reverend Father, that it is most probable he was 
 no lazy Bishop nor idle patriot, in the posts he held, but very prudently and sincerely, as well as 
 piously, active in business, fearing God and hating covetousness, to which last quality he had no 
 temptation, as being a widower38 long before his death, and having but one child, a daughter, to 
 
 3* That Lord Bishop. — On the 2ist July, 1609, bishop 
 Montgomery was appointed one of a commission (prepara- 
 tory to the final settlement of the plantation) to find what 
 lands had escheated in the six counties of Armagh, Tyrone, 
 Coleraine (Derry), Donegal, Fermanagh, and Cavan, 
 distinguishing the ecclesiastical lands from the lands be- 
 longing to the crown. The result of bishop Montgomery's 
 exertions was that the king adopted almost all his recom- 
 mendations, and had them carried into effect, on the final 
 settlement of the plantation of Derry, in 1613,— ordaining 
 that all ecclesiastical lands should be restored to their 
 respective sees and churches ; that all lands should be 
 deemed ecclesiastical from which bishops had, in former 
 times, received rents and pensions ; and that compositions 
 should be made with the patentees for the sites of cathedral 
 churches, and the residences of bishops and dignitaries. The 
 patentees of estates \\'ere to receive equivalents, provided 
 they compounded freely; otherwise, they were to be de- 
 prived of their patents, on the ground that the king had been 
 deceived in bis grants. All its former possessions were to 
 be restored to the church. To provide for the inferior 
 clergy, the bishops in succession were obliged to resign 
 their appropriations, and every incumbent of a parish was 
 permitted to enjoy the tithes coimected therewith. Every 
 proportion allotted to undertakers was made a parish, with 
 a parochial church to each, and each incumbent, in addition 
 to his tithes and duties, had glebe lands assigned to him, 
 of 60, 90, or 120 acres, according to the extent of his 
 parish. Harris, in his edition of H are's Works, vol i., p. 
 285, says : — "There isbut one parish inthediocese (ofDerry) 
 that wants a glebe, which is Termonamungan, nor is there 
 one sinecure in it ; every rectory being intire with the cure 
 annexed. This proceeded from the care and piety of the 
 bishops succeeding the reformation, who ^\•ere extraordinaiy 
 men. Before the reformation the bishop had one-third of 
 the tythes, a lay person, who was the bishop's farmer, called 
 an Eirenach, had another, and the third was allowed 
 for the cure. But Bishop Montgomery, who was the first 
 
 bishop after the reformation, abolished all these, and gave 
 the whole tythes to the cure, King James the First sup- 
 porting and forwarding him in it" During Montgomery's 
 exertions as a commissioner he prepared an interesting 
 report on the Ancient estates of the bishopricks of Derry, 
 Rapho, and Clo^her, including a notice of the Present 
 estate of the Primacy of Armagh, and of the Bishop^ricks 
 of Derry, Kapha, and Clotigher, and of Kihnare, in the 
 Province of Ulster, within the kingdom oj Jrelatid, with 
 certayne motions unto his Mati^ for restoaring the sayd 
 hyshopricks, erecting of parish chtirclies, and seminaries of 
 /earning within the sayd P?-07'i7ice, and the reasons moving 
 thereunto. This tract has been printed in the Ordnance 
 Memoir of Londonderry, pp. 49 — 54, from a MS. pre- 
 sen'ed in the Cottonian Librar)-, British Museum. 
 
 37 Year 1618 aforesaid. — See p. 72, supra. At the time 
 of lord Abercorn's award in 1618, Dr. Montgomery had 
 been bishop of Meath and Clogher, nearly eight years. 
 This appointment to the richer see of Meath with Clogher 
 was made on the 24th of January-, 1610-11, and in express 
 ackno\\ ledgment of the bishop's great services on behalf 
 of the church in Ulster. The language of the patent is 
 "in recompence of the great charge he hath sustained, 
 in attending, by our appointment, the erection and settling 
 of the bishopricks and churches in the north, which he 
 hath efifectuallie performed." He had already held the 
 bishoprick of Clogher since 1605, but in July 24, 1610, to 
 to render it more worthy of his acceptance, in addition to 
 that of Meath, the abbey of Clogher, with its veiy large 
 revenues, was annexed. See King's Letter, 12th October, 
 1614 ( Calendar of Patent Polls, Jac. /., p. 275, b. ). On 
 the 30th September, 161 1, the king issued another letter 
 in the bishop's favour, whereby the impropriate parsonage 
 of Loughsewdy, otherwise Ballymore, was annexed to 
 the bishoprick of Meath. — Calendar oj Patent Rolls, Jac. /., 
 p. 201, b. 
 
 3' Being a widower. — In 1614, Dr. Ussher married 
 Phoebe, daughter of Dr. Luke Challoner, by whom he 
 
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 prefer"; yet he lived with great hospitality, gathering little or nothing but what he employed to 
 religious uses, and building for his successor Bishops, and in charity to the poor ; and I must be 
 excused for my prolixity in writing (if it be such) of this very eminent Prelate, who left behind him 
 no male or other issue capable to transmit to after ages a due memory of his pious actions, and the 
 precious endo\vments of his Heaven-born generous soul. 
 
 Now, as to his Lordship's usefulness in advancing the British plantation in those three north- 
 ern dioceses, the footsteps of his so doing are yet visible ; so that I need but tell the reader that 
 he was very watchfull, and settled intelligences to be given him from all the sea ports in Donegal 
 and Fermanagh, himself mostly residing Derry but when he went to view and lease the Bishop's 
 lands, or settle preachers in parishes (of which he was very careful.) The ports resorted from 
 Scotland were Derry, Donegal, and Killybegs ; to which places the most that came were from 
 Glagow, Air, Irwin, Greenock, and Larggs, and places within a few miles of Braidstane ; and he 
 ordered so that the masters of vessels should, before disloading their cargo (which was for the most 
 part meal and oats), come to his Lordship with a list of their seamen and passengers. The vessels 
 stayed not for a market. He was their merchant and encourager to traffick in those parts, and 
 wrote to that effect (as also to the said towns wherein he was much acquainted and esteemed); and 
 had proclamations made in them all, at how easy rents he would set his church lands, which drew 
 hither many families ;39 among whom one Hugh Montgomery, his kinsman, a master of a vessel, 
 and also owner, was one who brought his wife, children, and effects, and were settled in Derry- 
 brosh,4° near Enniskillen, where his son, Mr. Nich. (my long and frequent acquaintance) aged above 
 
 obtained large means. His wife died soon after the birth 
 of their first and only child, a daughter named Elizabeth. 
 This daughter was married to sir Timothy Tyrrell, of 
 Shotover House, near Oxford-. Her grandson, lieutenant- 
 general James Tyrrell, soon before his death in 1742, 
 bequeathed the Shotover estate to his kinsman, Augustus 
 Schutz, esq. — Dr. Elrington's Life of Ussher, p. 38. 
 On the 1 6th of June, 1662, sir Paul Davys, knight, 
 his majesty's principal secretary of state, " moved the 
 house in the behalf of the most reverend father in God, 
 James, late lord primate of all Ireland, deceased, who, for 
 his eminent piety and profound learning, was famous all 
 over Christendom, and for his loyalty to his sovereign most 
 memorable; that his sufferings, by the rebellion in this 
 kingdom, and by the late usurpers, were such, as that he 
 could make no provision for his only child, from whom 
 hath spiling a numerous issue; for which, and many more 
 reasons urged by the said sir Paul Davys, he desired, that 
 this house would deliver over to posterity a testimony of 
 the respect they bore to that most pious and learned pre- 
 late, by conferring on his daughter, the lady Terrill, a 
 grant of five hundred pounds per annum, out of such lands 
 as are forfeited and formerly paid chiefry to the church not 
 being set out to adventurers and soldiers." On the 27th 
 of June the house appointed a committee of its members 
 to "attend upon the right honourable the lords justices, 
 and signify to their lordships, that it is the humble de- 
 sire of this house, that their lordships and the council 
 would be pleased to transmit to his majesty, in due form, a 
 bill, for granting unto Elizabeth lady Terrill, the sole 
 daughter and heir of the said late lord archbishop of 
 
 Armagh, who is the wife of sir Timothy Terrill, knight, 
 a great sufferer for his loyalty to his majesty and his 
 royal father, so much forfeited lands, tenements, and 
 hereditaments, lately held in fee, or which paid chiefries 
 to the church in this kingdom, and not already disposed 
 of to adventurers or soldiers, as are of the clear yearly 
 value of five hundred pounds sterling per annum ; to 
 have and to hold to the said lady Terrill, her heirs 
 and assigns for ever. — Commons yournals, vol. ii., pp. 
 65, 78. 
 
 35 Hither many famthes. — In the Calendar of Patent 
 Rolls of James I., pp. 306, 307, 339, the reader will find 
 the names of many persons who, in 1 61 6 and 1 617, ob- 
 tained letters of denization as settlers in the counties of 
 Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Donegal, and several of whom 
 were doubtless encouraged to leave Scotland through the 
 inducements held out by bishop Montgomery. 
 
 ■t" hi Dcrryhrosh. — This name is now written Derry- 
 brtisk, from the Irish Doire-Brosgaidh. There is the fol- 
 lowing curious reference to this place in O'Daly's satirical 
 poem entitled the Tribes of Ireland 
 
 " At Doire-Brosgaidh, which God has not blessed. 
 Starvation is ever hatching in the Church ; 
 A thin cake, like the fins of a fish, 
 And like the egg of a blackbird 1 got on a dish. 
 
 The following versified paraphrase of the passage has been 
 made by James Clarence Mangan : — 
 
 " Derrybruska's bald lands the good God had not blessed, 
 They've been wasted and withered by famine and pest ; 
 My bread there was thin as the nnd of a hen egg, 
 And my fare was a butter ball, small as a wren egg." 
 
lOO 
 
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 85 years,'*' now lives in sound memory, and is a rational man, whose help I now want, to recount 
 particulars of that Bishop's proceedings in that country, whilst his Lordship stayed there ; which 
 was, at least, till near Ao. 1618 aforesaid, that he was Bishop of Meath.i^ 
 
 One other Montgomery, named Alexander (a minister), his Lordship settled near Derry. He 
 was prebend of ditto,i3 and he lived till about 1658 ; of whose, and the aforesaid Nich. their sons, 
 
 In a note, Dr. O'Donovan states that DeiTybrusk "is the 
 present name of a celebrated church near Enniskillen, in 
 the county of Fermanagh, of which the family of Mac- 
 Gillachoisgle (now Cosgrove) were Herenachs or hereditary 
 wardens. See Annals of the Four Masters, under the 
 name of Aireach Brosga, at the years 1384, 1482, 1484, 
 1487, 1506, and 1 5 14. In the Annals of Ulster, which 
 were compiled in Fermanagh, it is called by both names, 
 from which it might be inferred that the words Doire and 
 Aireach are synonymous, meaning rohorctiim, a place of 
 oaks." — O'Daly's Tribes of Ireland, pp. 54, 55, 93. 
 
 Above 'i'^ years. — Scottish genealogists represent this 
 Hugh Montgomery, father of Nicholas, as fourth son of 
 Adam Montgomery of Braidstane, who died in 1576. If 
 so, Hugh, who settled near Enniskillen, was uncle to the 
 bishop and to the first viscount Ards. — See Paterson, 
 Parishes and Families oj Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 230. Of Hugh 
 Montgomery and his son Nicholas, the author has a more 
 lengthened notice when he writes, in his concluding me- 
 moirs, of several families of the surname of Montgomery. 
 
 Bishop of Meath. — The author here exhibits his 
 "want of councilable books," for he is evidently uncertain 
 as to the time of the bishop's translation from Derry to 
 Meath. This uncertainty may have arisen to some extent 
 from the fact that although the bishop was designate to the 
 see of Meath in 1 6 10, he retained the see of Clogher in 
 commendam, with that of Meath until the time of his 
 death. Scotch settlers were, no doubt, coming to his 
 lands in Fermanagh so late as 161S. 
 
 ^3 Prebend of ditto. — The word ditto in this sentence is a 
 ridiculous misprint (or misconception) for Do, the name of a 
 place in the barony of Kilmacrenan, county of Donegal. 
 The author of the Montgomery Afannscripts aXwzyi'^Tp&We.A 
 this name Do, as appears from the original MS. still pre- 
 served, of his memoirs of Ballymago^vn, and some otherfami- 
 lies of the Montgomerys. In a deed of sale, loth March, 
 1613, from sir Richard Bingley to John Sandford of Castle- 
 doe, the castle of Aghadoe, otherwise Castle Tuogh, is ex- 
 cepted. The castle, bawn, and precincts of Castledoe, 
 granted, 7th March, in Jac. I., to Sir John Davys. — 
 Calendar of Patent Polls, Jac. I., p. 268. On the 31st 
 December in the same year, sir John Davis, knight, 
 attorney-general, sold to John Sandford the castle and 
 curtilage of Castledoe, with the precinct thereof. — 
 Calendar of Patent Rolls, James I., p. 293. The 
 spelling in the patent, castle tuogh, preserves the Irish 
 form tuath. In O'Mellan's Irish MS. Journal of the 
 Wars, Castle Doe is twice correctly written caislen na 
 d-tiiath, the d eclipsing the t in tuath and making it 
 sound like duath or doe. The ancient Tuath Bladhach is 
 now Tuath, anglicised Doe, "a well-known district in the 
 north of the barony of Kilmacrennan, situated between the 
 quarters of Cloghineely and Sheephaven." — See O'Dono- 
 van's Four Masters, A. D. 15 15, p. 1332, O'Donovan's 
 edition of Irish Topog>-aphical Poems, p. xxxi. Castledoe 
 is a townland of 22 1 acres, in the parish of Clondahorka, 
 
 at the head of Sheepshaven (Ord. Surv., sheet 26.) The 
 monastery of Ballymacquinadoe was situated in the same 
 parish. Two quarters of land belonged to the late abbey 
 of Bally M^Svjyne Odoe, beside Doe castle. Ulster Inqs., 
 Appendix, Donegal, 1609. The burial ground of the 
 Franciscan friaiy of Ballymacs'^uyneodoe is a little south of 
 the castle in the townland of Castledoe. The ancient dis- 
 trict, situated opposite the island of Tory-, was known as 
 Tuatha Toraighe. Of this territory Moyler Murough Mac 
 Swyndoe was chief, at the beginning of the 17th century. 
 He was also chief leader of O'Donnell's gallowglasses. 
 See Miscellany of the Celtic Society, p. 298. Doe was the 
 landing-place of Owen Roe O'Neill, on his comingto Ireland 
 in 1642. "It is a lofty round tower, surrounded by high 
 walls, on the northern coast of Donegal, at the entrance of 
 a small bay or estuar)'. It is in perfect preservation (1865) 
 and is inhabited to the present moment It contains seve- 
 ral good rooms, es]3ecially a banqueting-hall, and the view 
 from the top is grand and extensive. Up to the reign of 
 Elizabeth, it was held by the MacSwines. After the rebel- 
 lion of sir Cahir (O'Doherty), it came into the hands of 
 captain Harte of Culmore, and is, at the present date, 
 the property of lieutenant Harte, R. N., the lineal de- 
 scendant of the governor of Culmore." — Meehan, Earls 
 of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, p. 502. Mr. Alexander 
 Alontgomer)', to whom the author briefly refers in 
 the text, was undoubtedly a member of the Hes- 
 silheid branch of the Montgomery family, and James 
 Paterson, esq., author of the Account of the Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, is of opinion that he was the son of 
 Alexander Montgomery, the well-known Scottish post. 
 The following are jSIr. Paterson's reasons for this con- 
 clusion: — " A trial for witchcraft took place in Glasgow, 
 on the 22nd of March, 1622. Margaret Wallace was 
 accused of having consulted the late Christiane Grahame, 
 a notorious witch, for various purposes; and a somewhat 
 voluminous charge was made against her, amongst other 
 things for having bewitched the child of Alexander 
 Vallance, burgess of Glasgow, and Margaret Montgomery, 
 his spouse. "Mr. Alexander Montgomer)," brother of 
 Mrs. A^allance, had been called as a witness regarding the 
 trouble of the child, but he absented himself on the ground 
 of sickness, and forwarded a certificate to that effect. In 
 the pleadings it was urged specially that 'his (Mr. Alex- 
 ander's) deposition could nocht have been ressuavit gif he 
 had compeirit, becaus it wald haife bene objictit contrair 
 him, that he and Margaret Montgomerie (Mrs Vallance) 
 are brother bairns of the hous of Hessilheid, quhais dochter 
 is allegit to haif bene witchit.' Now, there was no one 
 to whom the expression 'brother bairns' could apply, 
 save to the children of captain Alexander Montgomery, 
 whose elder brother, John, succeeded to the family estate 
 of Hessilheid. True, when the trial took place, Robert 
 the grand-nephew of the poet was in possession of the pro- 
 perty; but the passage does not state the precise relation- 
 ship of the parties; it merely says that they were brother 
 
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 lot 
 
 1 shall have occasion to speak, before this be done. Thus, by the Bishop George's industry, in a 
 few years, the plantation was forwarded, and Church revenues encreased greatly. I was credibly 
 told, that for the encouragement of planters on Church lands, he obtained the King's orders to the 
 Governors, and an act of council thereon, that all the leases he made (which were for 31 years) 
 should not be taken from the planters or their posterity, at the expiration of their term, but re- 
 newed to them as they held the same, they paying their Bishop one year's rent for a renewal of 
 their lease, to the other 31 years, which was a very encouraging certainty for planters ; but the 
 Parliament since that time have taken other measures more for Bishops' than tenants* profits. 
 
 In or about this first (or rather second) visitation of the said diocess, his Lordship married the 
 Lord Brabason's daughter,** by whom he had divers children, none surviving him except Nicholas, 
 Lord Baron of Howthj^s his Lady, with whom he gave in marriage portion three thousand pounds 
 sterling, a round sum in those days. 
 
 bairns of the hous of Hessilheid, and there are no others in 
 the pedigree of that family to whom such a reference could 
 be made but to the brothers, yohn and Alexa7ider. . . 
 In 161 7, they (Alex. Vallance and Margaret Montgomerie) 
 had a son baptised Robert, at whose baptism one of the 
 godfathers was Mr. Robert Montgomerie for whom the 
 child was no doubt called. This Mr. Robert must have 
 been the minister of Symington, who surrendered the 
 archbishopric of Glasgow in 1587. He was a younger 
 brother of Captain Montgomery. There was indeed only 
 one other Mr. Robert Montgomery, described in his latter 
 will, which is recorded 4th April, i6ii, as 'Sumtyme 
 minister at Stewartoun. ' It therefore could not be this 
 Mr. Robert. Mr. Alexander Montgomery, brother of 
 Mrs. Vallance, was no doubt the same party who after- 
 wards became 'prebend of Do.' That his father, Captain 
 Alexander Montgomery, was an Episcopalian is to be 
 presumed from his being a courtier of James VI., and 
 from his intimacy with ' Bishop Beaton' (archbishop of 
 Glasgow from 1552 to 1560, and again from 1598 to his 
 death in 1603): hence the fact of his son being also an 
 Episcopalian, ' prebend of Do. ' He had eveiy mducement 
 to go to Ireland. The viscount of Ardes was his cousin 
 by the mother's side, and the houses of Braidstane and 
 Hessilheid were descended from the same source. Nor 
 had he reason to complain of the reception he met with 
 from the viscount (not from the viscount, but from the 
 viscounts' brother, George Montgomery, bishop of Derry, 
 Raphoe, and Clogher). These facts are confirmed by 
 the Hessilheid arms, which, as given in Font's MSS., 
 Advocates' Library, are — -'Azure, two lances of tourna- 
 ment, proper, between three fleurs-de-lis, or, and in the 
 chief point an annulet, or, stoned, azure, with an indenta- 
 tion in the side of the shield, on the dexter side.' The 
 arms of the poet, he being a younger son, were slightly 
 different — two lances, with three fleurs-de-lis in chief, and 
 three annulets in base, which he and his family seem to 
 have cherished. They are found on a tombstone at Do 
 where Mr. Alexander was prebend, united in a shield with 
 those of the Conynghams, now marquis of Conyngham, 
 descended from the earls of Glencairne, together with this 
 inscription: — ' Herclydh the body of Margaret Montgomery, 
 alias Conningham, who was wife of Mr. Alexander Mont- 
 gomery, who deceased the 18 of June, Anno Domeni 1675.' 
 
 Margaret had thus outlived her husband seventeen yearsj 
 , , . It will thus appear that there are substantial 
 reasons for believing that the house of Hessilheid is still 
 represented by the descendants of the author of the 
 Cherrie and the Slae." — Notes and Queries, number for 
 January 4, 1868, p. 6. There is no prebend of Do in 
 Raphoe diocese, but Do is in the parish of Clondahorka, 
 which, though in the gift of Trinity College, Dublin, is 
 prebendal. Alexander Montgomery, M.A., was instituted 
 April, 29, 1661.— Cotton, Fasti. Hib., vol. iii., p. 371. 
 
 Lord Brabason''s daughter.- — This lady was daughter 
 of Edward Brabazon, raised to the peerage of Ireland in 
 1616 as baron Brabazon of Ardee, and grand-daughter of 
 the well-known sir William Brabazon, vi'ho held the ap- 
 pointments of vice-treasurer and general receiver of Ire- 
 land, from 1534 until the time of his decease in 1552. 
 Sir Richard Cox, when chronicling the events of the last- 
 mentioned years, says: — "Which year was unhappy, not 
 only by the civil dissensions in Ulster, between the earl 
 of Tyrone and his son Shane O'Neile, and by the scarcity 
 of provisions, but also by the death of sir Willian Brabazon, 
 who died in July, and was one of the most faithful men to 
 the English interest that had appeared in Ireland, from the 
 conquest to that day." — History of Ireland, vol. i., p. 293. 
 His grandson, the second lord Brabazon, was created earl 
 of Meath in 1627. Elizabeth Brabazon, wife of bishop 
 Montgomeiy, remarried, after his death in 1620, with sir 
 John Brereton, and died in 1 639. — Lodge, Peerage of Ire- 
 land, edited by Archdall, vol. i., p. 274. This lady's 
 marriage with bishop Montgomery took place during the 
 interval between his appointment to the sees of Derry, 
 Raphoe, and Clogher in 1605, and his going to reside 
 permanently at Derry in the spring of 1607. She probably 
 felt that she had come to Ulster rather soon, as the re- 
 bellion of sir Cahir O'Doherty broke forth shortly after 
 her arrival. She was carried off by the insurgents from 
 her residence in Derry, and sent under escort to Burt 
 Castle, where she remained until liberated by general 
 Wingfield, and restored to her husband. 
 
 ••5 Nicholas Lord Baron Howth. — This marriage took 
 place in 16x5. Bishop Montgomery's son-in-law was 
 Nicholas St. Lawrence, the 23rd baron Howth. Jane 
 Montgomeiy's lord died in 1643, ^nfl she died in 1678, 
 leaving three sons, Adam, Nicholas, William > 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 You have heard that 23d May, 1618, his Lordship signs Medensis as witness to a deed of 
 lands made to his brother, Sir Hugh Montgomery. About this time (or how soon after his trans- 
 lation from Derry to Meath I know not) he erected a Bishop's house at Ardbrackin,''^ near Navan/^ 
 and repaired the church near it, which was without a roof Ao. 1667, and therein built a vault for a 
 burial-place of his wife and children who died some years before himself. I have seen the mo- 
 nument'*^ and took the figure off it with a black lead pen ; it had (under an open arch) on it, divers 
 stone figures carved out from the table stones, where the inscriptions were engraven representing 
 his Lordship's wife and the children kneeling one behind the other, with the palms of their hands 
 
 and four daughters, Susamia, Frances, Elizabeth, and 
 Margaret. The second daughter, Frances, became the 
 third wife of her kinsman, sir James Montgomery of Rose- 
 mount, in the Ards. — Lodge's /Vi'ra^^, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. iii. , p. 201. 
 
 "■^ At Ardbrackin. — This fact has not been noticed by 
 dean Butler in his Notices of the Castle and Ecclesiastical 
 Buildings of Tritn, although he refers to Ardbraccan fre- 
 quently. 
 
 Near Navan. — This was the seat of the episcopal 
 residence as early as the fourteenth century. The date 
 1667 (given in the text as the year in which bishop 
 Montgomery repaired Navan church) is a misprint for 
 1617. 
 
 Ikave seen the monument. — It is to be regretted that the 
 author's "draft" of this much criticised monument is lost. 
 When William Montgomery examined it (probably 
 between the years 1680 and 1700), the inscriptions were 
 "much defaced," but he certainly had not then observed 
 those incongruities or absurdities of design which have 
 since so excited the choler of other and much less compet- 
 ent critics. In 1813, the Rev. Richard Moore, rector of 
 the parish of Ardbraccan, assisted by his curate, the Rev. 
 Thomas Toomey, wrote a Statistical Account of the parish. 
 The following is their notice of this tomb, extracted from 
 Mason's Parochial Sui-vey of Ireland, vol. i. , pp. 89 — 91 : — 
 "Bishop Montgomery's monument is in the churchyard 
 also. The figures carved thereon, representing the 
 bishop, his wife and daughter, are some of the rudest 
 productions of the chisel that can be well conceived. 
 Underneath these figures on the pedestal are the words 
 surges, morieris, judicaberis, and in this order. Over them 
 is a Latin inscription, purporting that the monument, 
 having suffered from the devastations of time, or, rather, 
 sacrilegious hands, was repaired m the year 1750, and 
 that the bishop, who was of the house of Eglington, was pro- 
 moted to the see in i6io, and died in 1620. The original 
 inscription, which is on the east side, written as on two 
 opposite pages of a book, is to the following purpose : — 
 Deo et Episcopo Alidensi posuit Georgius Alontgomerius 
 Scoto-Britannus diviiia providentia Episcopus Alidensis et 
 Clogherejisis, cctatis sua 51. On this side is a bust, with 
 three plumes surmounted by a mitre, and over the mitre is 
 a cup, with the figure of the sacramental bread or wafer used 
 in the church of Rome ; underneath the bust are two swords, 
 laid across, interspersed with fleurs-de-lis, and under all, 
 '1614.' On the west side is an angel sounding a tnampet, and 
 a shield with armorial bearings, and the motto non nobis 
 nati; underneath these is the legend 'repose' S. M. (Sarah 
 Montgomery, the bishop's wife). The shield is on this 
 
 side also surmounted by a cup, and the figure of the sacra< 
 
 mental bread used in the church of Rome. The original 
 inscription, if written with any precision, shews either the 
 low estate of ecclesiastical revenues at that time in Ireland, 
 when for the support of one bishop it was found neces- 
 sary to unite two of the richest sees, or that the pussillani- 
 mous and pedantic James indulged in Ireland also his 
 passion for accumulating favours on favourites. The 
 figure of the sacramental bread, used in the church of Rome, 
 is a device so iinfit for the monument of a protestant bishop, 
 that it leaves room to conjecture that the repairing of the 
 monument fell into the hands of unskilful persons, and 
 that part of the monuments of bishops who hved before the 
 Reformation was added to this monument. The manner 
 in which this part of the work is fitted to the other parts, 
 seems to countenance this conjecture. It also derives 
 additional support from an inscription surrounding the cup, 
 &c. , carved in a different character (which we could not 
 decipher) from that in which the inscription given above 
 is written. Supposing, however, these devices, to form a 
 part of the monument as it originally stood, it affords a 
 demonstrative proof, that the Reformation, in the genuine 
 spirit and simplicity of the gospel, was not at that time es- 
 tablished in Ireland." The following passage from CoL 
 F. O. Montgomery's MS. notes, in reference to the 
 bishop's monument will explain the heraldic emblems 
 which puzzled the two rev. critics abovenamed : — "The 
 bust with three plumes must be an heraldic helmet, or 
 perhaps more likely a« armed /^a^^i/ holding a fleur-de-lys, 
 which was bishop Montgomery's proper crest ; and the so- 
 called 'cup' wdth the 'wafer' nothing else than the crescent — 
 the heraldic distinction of a second brother, with the fur- 
 ther heraldic distinction on it for a second or third house, 
 which he (the critic) calls a ' wafer. ' The two swords and 
 fleurs-de-lys are clearly the arms of Braidstane (see 1st 
 edit, of Montgomery Manuscripts, p. 90 ; Ulster Journ. of 
 A 7-chaology, vol. ix. , p. 292, and Narrative of Gransheogh ). 
 If this suggestion of mine be correct, it disposes of a 'popish 
 device' on a protestant bishop's monument. If rudely cut, 
 or much worn by time, the writer may easily have taken aji 
 armed hand for a 'bust,' — as, strange enough, Harris does 
 for a helmet. At p. 58, speaking of the market cross at New- 
 tovmards, he (Harris) says: — 'a helmet within the horns of 
 a \ moon with a fleur-de-lys upon it ;' what he alluded to is 
 nothing else than the Braidstane crest, an armed hand 
 holding a fleur-de-lys with an heraldic crescent under it as 
 may be seen to this day. " A writer in the Parlianuntary 
 Gazetteer, following the guidance of the authors of the 
 Statistical Account, speaks of this monument as "strongly 
 fixing attention by its mere element of pretension, bar- 
 
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 joined and erected before their chins, which, with the rest of the monument, were much defaced, 
 and my draft thereof is (to my grief) lost. 
 
 barousness, and absurdity !" So much for blundering 
 critics. The monument was repaired in 1750, and now 
 bears the following inscription : — 
 
 " Hoc monumentum olim memorise sacratum Reverendi admodum 
 Georgii Mountgomeri, Episcopi Midensis, ex illustri comitis Eglin- 
 toniae stirpe oriundi (sub quo etiam uxor ejus et filia supremum diem 
 exspectant) injuriis temporum collapsum seu potius sacrile^is mani- 
 bus dehonestatum (jam nunc ne justi memoria apud nos penitus 
 dde«itur), instauratum est A.D. MDCCL, 
 
 "Dignissimus hie Prsesul ad hanc sedem (cui plurima ex munifi- 
 centia regia erogavit, evectus est, A.D. MDCX. Obiit Kal, 
 Februarii, A.D. MDCXX." 
 
 — Cotton, Fasti. Hib., vol. iii., p. 118. In this tomb 
 two prelates have since been interred — the learned 
 Pococke and bishop O'Beirne. See dean Butler's Notices 
 of the Castles and Ecclesiastical Buildings of Trim, 
 p. 175- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 OW let us recur to Ao. 1618, and soon after it we find his Lordship in Westminster, where 
 he departed this Hfe Ao. 162 1, or beginning 1622.' I touched the grudge some lay lords 
 and others had against him, and it seems their animosity arose from his hindering them to 
 be confirmed in their sacriledgious acquests, not suffering the Church to be despoiled of her rights, 
 nor the King's goodness to be overreached and abused by their misinformations. For thus it was, 
 viz. — Dr. Ussher, for his printed books against the Popish religion, and other divinity tracts, and 
 for his printed disputations against MaCoon,^ the learned Jesuit, was had in great esteem by the 
 University at Dublin ; they having, for those actions and his wonderful learning, given him a degree 
 for a Doctor of Divinity,^ when he had but newly passed the years of age which the canons require 
 should be elapsed, before a man can be regularly admitted to full orders of Priesthood ; but they 
 took not ordinary rules with him whom they found God had highly honoured with such extraor- 
 dinary gifts and graces as he had by the divine bounty bestowed on him, for the future particular 
 welfare of the Church in Ireland, and the universal good of all true Christians. 
 
 This said University, this dear alma mater, as he was its humilis alumnus, did moreover get 
 some Lords of the Council and other Officers of State to write letters of recommendation* to their 
 correspondents at Court, in favour of Dr. Ussher (unsolicited by him, who was contented enough 
 
 ' Beginning 1622. — Lodge {Peerage of Ireland, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. i., p. 274,) gives 1620 as the date of the 
 bishop's death; and whoever repaired his tomb in 1750 
 adopts the same date. 
 
 " MaCoon. — MaCoon is evidently a misprint for il/a/i3;/c'. 
 William Malonewas born at Dublin, about 1586, and be- 
 came a member of the Order of Jesuits when he was only 
 20 years of age. He spent a small portion of his youth in 
 Portugal and at Rome,and was subsequently appointed rector 
 of the Irish College of St. Isidore (a Franciscan house), at 
 the latter place. He became eventually superior of the whole 
 -mission of Jesuits, and, as such, excited the suspicions of the 
 Irish government. He escaped from prison in this country 
 and fled to Spain, where he died in 1659, rector of the British 
 college at Seville. The crntroversy between Ussher and 
 Malone excited general interest at the time, and drew forth 
 much learned matter from the immense stores that the 
 former had always at hand. Allegambe represents Ussher 
 as the challenger on this occasion, adding that Malone 
 "drew his pen and put the prelate to silence." But the 
 fact is that Malone was the challenger, he having published 
 a paper entitled The yesiiit's Challenge, in which he de- 
 manded answers to a series of questions arising out of the 
 controversy between the two churches. This challenge 
 Ussher took up, publishing, in 1625, An answer to a 
 challenge made by a Jesuit iti Ireland. Wherein the judg- 
 ment of A ntiquity, in the points questioned, is truly delivered. 
 
 and the ttovelty of the now Romish Doctrine plainly dis- 
 covered. This answer extends to 596 octavo pages, and 
 occupies the whole third volume of Ussher's works, in 
 Dr. Elrington's edition. In 1627, Malone published at 
 Douay, in quarto, A reply to Dr. Ussher's Answer about 
 the jtidgmejit of Antiquity concerning the Romish Religion. 
 This reply was reprinted in 1628, and called forth re- 
 joinders from Drs. Hoyle, Synge, and Puttock, but Ussher 
 did not notice Malone further. See Ware's Writers of 
 Ireland, edited by Harris, p. 130. See also Elrington's 
 Life of Ussher, p. 64. 
 
 3 Doctor of Divinity. — Ussher was ordained deacon and 
 priest at the age of twenty-one, but he was not D. D. till 
 1 612, when he was thirty-one years old. The answer to 
 The Jesnifs Challenge was not printed tiU he was bishop 
 of Meath, and forty- five years of age. 
 
 * Letters of recovwiendation. — Ussher was suspected by 
 many of a leaning towards Puritanism, and on his visits to 
 London, he carried letters from some of his friends ex- 
 onerating him from this suspicion. In 1612, his old 
 teacher, James Hamilton, wrote one such letter with 
 Ussher, to sir James Semphill, in which he says: — "Clear 
 them (Ussher and Challoner) to his Matie. that they ar not 
 puritants, but they have dignitarieships and prebends in 
 the cathedral churches here."— McCrie's Life of Andrnv 
 Melville, vol. ii., p. 292, note. The recommendatory 
 letter to which our author refers in the text, as having 
 
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 with the livings he then had, 5 being unmarried), that he might be parson of Trim. Every step in 
 this business and of the Doctor's speedy coming over, and of the house he was to lodge in, was soon 
 known to the Bishop of Meath, who, from the time of his being settled in England, long before the 
 Queen died, never would want exact intelligences (the best rudder and wind by which Statesmen 
 steer their courses, according to the old verified axiom — Vigilantibiis et non dormientibiis sanciunt 
 Leges) ; for the Doctor was not an hour or a little more alighted from his horse at his inn) where he 
 intended to stay incognito all next day, to rest himself, after his wearysome journey, and till he had 
 got new habits, according to the English olergy made) ; but fresh news thereof came to the Bishop, 
 who sent his Gentleman to the Doctor with positive request that he should come forthwith to his 
 Lordship in his company, for the Bishop stayed in his lodgings to receive him, and this present 
 visit the Doctor must not omit, unless he desired to return re infcda. Upon this strict message, the 
 Doctor caused his clothes to be brushed, and went (like Nicodemus) when it was night with the 
 Gentleman to the Bishop, when after caresings salutation and a glass of wine, they sat down 
 together, to do which the Bishop found some difficulty from the Doctor's native humility, and from 
 the great deference he had for the Bishop. This being overcome, the Bishop began thus as foUow- 
 eth, viz. — Doctor, I know very well your errand, and how unexpectedly and unwillingly too you 
 were engaged in it, because you had not first obtained my leave to move in y" suit, and that you are 
 not recommended by any letter to me ; and here the Bishop mentioned all the persons from 
 whom and to whom the recommendatory epistles (as St. Paul calls such like letters)^ were written 
 and the time he received them, and the time he hastened away with them, when he landed, at what 
 inn he was advised to alight from his horses (which he was to have at his arrival in England), and 
 how his Lordship had laid watch to send him immediate notice when he should come to the inn, 
 he was advised to, and here his Lordship held his tongue. This harangue would have amazed any 
 young man, but the Doctor, who knew there was no familiar demon or other spirit that ministered 
 that intelligence, but only the Bishop's watchfulness for his care of his diocess, had procured his 
 Lordship that wonderful information, in so many points, which were carried on with all the secrecy 
 that might. And now the Doctor being mute awhile, admiring the Bishop's conduct, he rose from 
 his chair and began to apologize for consenting to meddle in that business, before he applied him- 
 self therein to his Lordship, and had his allowance thereunto ; and so £;oing on in his excuses, the 
 
 been signed by "Lords of the Councill and other officers 
 of State,"was carried by Usslierto London, in 1619, when 
 he wanted tlie appointment at Trim. This letter, addressed 
 to the privy council in England, is as follows : — 
 
 "May it please your Lordships, — The extraordinary merit 
 of the bearer Mr. Doctor Ussher prevaileth with us to offer him that 
 favour (which we deny to many that move us) to Ije recommended to 
 your Lordships : and we do it the rather, because we are desirous to 
 set him right in his iNIajesties opinion, who it seemeth hatli been in- 
 formed, that he his somewhat transported with sigiilarities, and 
 unaptness to be conformable to the rules and orders of the church. 
 We are so far from suspecting him in that kind, that we may boldly 
 recommend him to your Lordships, as a man orthodox and worthy to 
 govern in the Church, wlien occasion shall be presented, and his ftla- 
 jesty may be pleased to advance hiin : he being one that hath preached 
 bcft)re the State here for eighteen years, and has been his Majesties 
 Professor of Divinity in the University for thirteen years ; and a man 
 ■who was given himself over to his profession : an excellent and pain- 
 ful preacher, a modest man, abounding in goodness, and his life and 
 
 doctrine so agreeable , as those who agree not with him, are yet constrain- 
 ed to love and admire him. And for such a one we beseech your 
 Lordships to understand him, and accordingly to speak to his Ma- 
 jesty : and thus with the remembrance of our humble duties we take 
 leave. — Your Lordships most humbly at command, 
 
 "Ad. LoFTus, Cane. John King Oliver St. John. 
 
 Henry DocwRA. Dud. Norton. Willmm Tuamenis. 
 
 William Methvvold. Fra. Aungiers. 
 
 " From Dublin, the last of September, 1619." — Dr. Elrington'fi 
 Life of ArcJihisliop Ussher ^ p. 51. 
 
 5 Livings he iJiai had. — Ussher was then chancellor of 
 St. Patrick's and professor of divinity in Trinity College, 
 Dublin. Li 161 1, he had letters patent for the rectory of 
 Finglass, annexed to the chancellorship of St. Patrick's. — 
 Cali iidar of Paient Rolls, jfac. I., p. 204, b. Ussher was 
 married in 1614, and this letter is dated 1619. 
 
 * St. Paul calls suck like letters. — .See 2 Cor. iii. I. 
 
io6 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Bishop interrupted him and rising, said, I will be brief with you, who may not know the meanness 
 of the revenues of that diocess for a Bishop thereof, whose station ties him to almost continual 
 attendance at the Council Board, and to be in readiness at all times to go thither, when called; and, 
 therefore, you shall not be Parson of Trim, 7 the King having already granted to me that the parson- 
 age shall be annexed to the Bishoprick, for the reasons aforesaid. But trouble not yourself, Doctor 
 (said the Bishop), at this repulse; I know you deserve a much better living than Trim, and I will 
 be solicitor to the King that you may be better provided for. I will discourse his Majestv to- 
 morrow morning, and prepare the King to receive you (as I am assured he will do) gratiously; only, 
 Doctor, deliver not your letters but as I shall advize you, and so take your designed rest after the 
 journey, and give me notice when your new habits are on, that I may apprise you a time when you 
 shall next come to me, and may bring you to kiss the King's hand, when he is best at leizure to 
 talk with you, of whose abilities he hath, from myself, abundantly heard, besides what the public 
 fame has reported to his Majesty. The Doctor, thereupon, give his humble and hearty thanks> 
 promising to obey all his Lordship's commands. And so the Bishop dismissed the Doctor with his 
 episcopal benediction, and sent his said servants to conduct him back to his inn. 
 
 7 Not he Parson of Trim. — For this disappointment 
 bishop Montgomery endeavoured to make amends to 
 Ussher by introducing him to llie King, and obtaining a 
 general promise from the latter that Ussher would succeed 
 him (Montgomery) in the bishoprick of Meath, which 
 happened not long afterwards. In the meantime, bishop 
 Montgomery had made himself pretty comfortable in 
 worldly acquisitions. He held Clogher — see enhanced by 
 the abbey possessions of the same ; and MeatJi — see en- 
 hanced by the rectories of Ballymore-loughsewdy and 
 Trim. A king's letter, dated 12th October, 1614, related 
 to the bishoprick of Meath, to idemnify the bishop for re- 
 signing the deaneiy of Norwich. — Calendar of Patent Rolls, 
 yac. /., p. 257, b. In 1617, sir Francis Rush was obliged 
 to surrender six appropriate parsonages to the bishop of 
 Clogher. — Caleiul. Pat. Rolls, Jac. I., p. 329 "Be- 
 sides the endowed vicarage of St. Patrick's of Trim, there 
 was a rectory which was in the gift of the Crown. Sir 
 John Davids calls it ' the best parsonage in all the King- 
 dom.' — Letter to the Earl of Salisbury, 1607. 1603, 
 Robert Draper, rector of Trim, was granted the bishop- 
 ricks of Kilmore and Ardagh, and the rectory of Trim 
 was continued to him in commendam. — Pal. Rolls. Jac. /. , 
 p. 59. and Ca'endar -p. 13, b. lie died in 1612, and the 
 rectory was bestowed on Benjamin Culme, who, how- 
 ever, at the request of the archbishop of Canterbury, sur- 
 rendered it to Thomas Jones, archbishop of Dublin, it 
 bein^ one of the best spiritual preferments in the King- 
 dom.— CV/fozr/. Pat, Rolls, Jac. I., p. 435 b. 1614, Oct. 
 12 — King's letter relative to bishoprick of Meath, to 
 pass an act (among other things) to indemnify the bishop 
 of Meath for resigning the deanery of Norwich (which he 
 did, 20th September, 1614. — Le Neve, Fasti (ed. Hardy) 
 vol. ii. p. 476), and for surrendering those of Derry and 
 Raphoe at the king's request — to employ the said bishop 
 in the new ecclesiastical commission, and to extend other 
 favours to him, &c. — Calendar Pat. Rolls Jac. /., p. 275, 
 b. In this letter the parsonage of Trim was ordered to be 
 annexed to the see of Meath. But archbishop Jones 
 5eems to have been in possession, which he held till his 
 
 death, loth April, 1619. On the veiy same day a patent 
 was passed, presenting James Ussher, D. D., to the rectory 
 of Trim, vacant by the death of Thomas, late archbishop 
 of Dublin, the late incumbent, and in the king's gift plena 
 jure. — Ibid. p. 432, b. There seems to have been some 
 hitch in the matter, probably arising from Bishop Mont- 
 gomery reviving liis dormant claim. Harris says : — ' He 
 was, a little before his advancement to the see of Meath, 
 presented to the rectory of Trim, on the 17th of April, 
 1620, but was never instituted and inducted to it.' This 
 is true of the appointment, loth April, 1619, but not, 
 when he was presented again, 22 Feb., 1620-1. See 
 Dr. Elringtons's Note in the Life of Ussher, p. 56. It 
 was probably to adjust this matter with the bishop that 
 Ussher went to London for his recommendatory epistles 
 given him by the lords of council, are dated in Sept. 30 
 of this year (1619). However, it would seem that bishop 
 George managed to keep the rectoiy ot Trim, for the rest 
 of his life, which was not long. 1620, I, Jar. 16— King's 
 letter to grant to James Ussher, D.D., the bishoprick of 
 Meath, and the parsonage of Trim. — Calendar Pat. Rolls, 
 Jac. I., p. 495 1620 I, Feb. 22 — Grant to James 
 Ussher, D.D., of the bishoprick of ISIeath and the rector}' 
 of Trim united therewith, vacant by the death of George 
 Montgomery, — Ibid., p. 497 a. 1624-5, Feb. 22 — King's 
 letter granting to Anthony Martin the bishoprick of Meath, 
 with the parsonage of Trim, void by the translation of 
 Dr. J. Ussher. — Ibid. p. 503, b. Since the time of Bishop 
 Montgomery, the rectory of Trim has been held by the 
 successive bishops of Meath; although it was not finally 
 appropriated by letters-patent until 16S4, when it was so 
 granted to bishop Dopping. — So>?ie notices of the Castle 
 and Eccles. Buildings of Trim, by Richard Butler, dean 
 of Clonmacnoise, p. 150. The rectorial tithes of Trim 
 benefice, compounded for 1^430, are appropriate, and held 
 under lease for term. of years from the diocesan, by Wm. 
 Allen, esq. — Third Report of Eccles. Revenue and Patron- 
 age in Ireland, p. 241." The foregoing has been kindly 
 supplied by the Rev. Dr. Reeves. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 107 
 
 Next morning, the Bishop went to the King, and had his further order to confirm the parsonage 
 of Trim to his successors, Bishops of Meath, and acquainted his Majesty of the Doctor's coming to 
 Westminster, and of his errand and recommendations, and prayed his Majesty's leave and orders 
 to speake to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London to provide the first good living 
 that fell for the Doctor, and to accept him for his Chaplain in Ordinary (as his Majesty had done 
 for himself), and to let him know when he should bring the Doctor to kiss his Majesty's hand, and 
 to have the honor of discoursing with him, to all which the King agreed. 
 
 Then the Bishop sent that evening for the Doctor, telling him what had passed between the 
 King and him, concerning promises and the time appointed for his reception ; so the Bishop brought 
 the Doctor the day following to see the Court, where every body was curious to see him of whom 
 so much had been spoken, especially the clergy regarded him, observing the countenance and 
 deference which the favourite Bishop (for the King commonly called him his black Ireland Bishop) 
 gave publicly to the Doctor; yet none of them could draw from him his errand. The time being 
 come for the Doctor's private appearance before the King, who said, I long grieved to see you, of 
 whom I have heard a great deal of praise, and then told the Doctor he thanked the Lords and 
 others who had recommended so worthy a man as he to his favours, and. calling for the letters, and 
 reading the subscribers' names, saying he should love them the better aU his life, for their love to 
 him ; but added he need not read them because this Bishop there had fully enough interceded for 
 him, giving the Bishop order to see that the Doctor should be admitted at present his Chaplain in 
 Ordinary, till further provision (by his careful enquiry) might be made for him. Then after the 
 Doctor had made his submissions and thanks on his knee, the King bade him rise and discoursed 
 him on divers abstruse points of religion, and received learned pertinent answers, the King saying 
 again Doctor I find you are sufficiently able, and therefore you must soon preach before me, as my 
 Chaplain, for I can advance you. And the King would not allow of his excuses as to his youth 
 and the envy it might bring on him ; no matter for all that, said the King, seeing I shall be careful 
 of you, and my Bishop here is your solicitor; but I will order you the text and time for preaching. 
 And so that interview passed over. 
 
 But I must not here break off my discourse of what was further done for the Doctor, it being 
 a part of the history of Bishop George, of whom I am writing. The Doctor (a while after this), 
 being admitted the King's Chaplain, was called before his Majesty, who told him he must preach, 
 within a week, in his presence, and, opening a Bible, recited an historical verse in the book of 
 Chronicles (which was very hard bones to pick) ; yet, the Doctor handled them so warmly, that he 
 extracted abundance of good oyle from, them to the admiration of all that heard him. Upon tliis 
 charge, the Doctor, falling on his knees, vowed his dutiful obedience to all his Majesty's commands: 
 but begged that at least the time might be granted him for preparation allowed to his other more 
 learned Chaplains, lest he should be called an arrogant novice, on whom his Majesty had now looked 
 (as he hoped) with gracious and favourable eyes. No more words. Doctor, said the King, you 
 shall pass this and future tryals before myself, for I will not refer you to the report of others. So 
 the King rising from his chair, and the Doctor from his knees, the assembly (as I may call it, 
 because there were many spectators) was dissolved, the Doctor still attending the Bishop, and both 
 of them saluted by the lay and clergy courtiers. 
 
loS The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Now, as to the Doctor, I need say no more, but he performed his task beyond expectation, by 
 preaching in the King's audience, and also at the intreaty of the Archbishop and Bishop aforesaid, 
 to whose care he was recommended. The Doctor was provided for; nevertheless the Bishop 
 George, had reserved the best good turn for him of any; and thus it was, the Doctor being provided 
 for of a good fat benefice^ (as they call those of the greatest profit), and in his turn paying his attend- 
 ance and preaching as Chaplain to the King, the Bishop finding him well liked of all and very 
 deserving, obtained of the King that the Doctor should be his successor in the diocess of Meath, and 
 got his boon confirmed when he fell ill in his last sickness. This pleased very well courtier divines 
 expectants for English livings, there being as yet no great temptation to covet those in Ireland, and 
 they feared a new favourite at Court (for the King was much addicted to over love them); and the 
 Bishop having procured the necessary licenses from the King in behalf of the Doctor, he sent for 
 him from his living (much better than the parsonage of Trim), and informed him of what was done, 
 giving him the letters with his advice and charge not to neglect his business, because his Lordship 
 said he trusted in God that the Doctor should be a great instriAnent for the welfare of the Church 
 in Ireland, and his Lordship wrote letters to his friends to assist the Doctor.9 
 
 This being the last public actions (I hear of) done by the Bishop, he died soon after in West- 
 minster, which was the latter end of Ao. 1621, or beginning of Ao. 1622, '°for I find by the Doctor's 
 letter to Dr. Teatly" the Archbishop of Canterbury's Chaplain, dated the i6th of September, 1622, 
 
 * Good fat benefice. — Where %ms this good thing spoken 
 of in the text? This passage is unintelligible; for surely 
 the presentation of Ussher to Meath did not happen before 
 bishop Montgomery's death. 
 
 9 Wrote letters to his friends to assist the Doctor. — Our 
 author must have derived this curious and highly interest- 
 ing narrative, from some account preserved by bishop 
 Montgomery, of Ussher's visit to London. These in- 
 terviews of Ussher with the king are recorded in general 
 terms by the many biographers of that learned divine, but 
 none of them seem to have been aware how much Ussher's 
 success was promoted by the kind offices of bishop Mont- 
 gomery. The following statements of Dr. Elrington, based, 
 of course, upon similar representations of earlier biographers, 
 curiously corroborate the tnith of these Manuscripts, al- 
 though failing to preserve any record of bishop Montgo- 
 mery's friendly interposition on behalf of Ussher: — "This 
 attestation (the letter from the Deputy and Council in 
 Dubhn) appears to have produced a good effect, but Ussher 
 was indebted for his success much more to a conversation 
 with his Majesty, in \4hich the king exercised his favourite 
 office of examinant into points of faith and doctrine. Of 
 the particulars of the interview no record has been pre- 
 served. If the King pressed his two favourite subjects of 
 discussion, the head of the church, and the unlawfulness 
 of resistance to regal authority, Ussher could have given 
 his Majesty the fullest satisfaction that he did not entertain 
 Puritanical notions on these questions; but whatever were 
 the topics debated, he succeeded so completely, that the 
 King declared 'that the knave Puritan was a bad, but the 
 knave's Puritan an honest man.' It is probable indeed 
 that his Majesty had many interviews with Ussher, who 
 appears to have remained two years in England. In 
 January, 1621, Dr. Montgomery, bishop of Meath, died, 
 
 and the king immediately named Dr. Ussher the new 
 bishop, and often boasted 'that he was a bishop of his own 
 making. ' " — Dr. Elrington's Lift of Ussher, prefixed to his 
 works, p. 52. These interviews with the king, which the 
 biogi-apliers of Ussher supposed to have been without 
 record, are in part, at least, described by the author of the 
 Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 " Ao. 1622. — See note I, supra. 
 
 " Dr. Teatly. — Teatly is a misprint for Featley. Dr. 
 Daniel Featley was one of the few episcopalian divines 
 who attended the well-kno\vn assembly which met at West- 
 minster, on the 1st of Jiily, 1643. He ventured to advo- 
 cate the cause of episcopacy against fearful odds, writing 
 to archbishop Ussher from time to time an account of the 
 proceedings, and soliciting through the latter an appoint- 
 ment to some bishoprick or_^deaner)', as a reward for his 
 advocacy of church principles and interests. Unfortunately 
 for him, his letters were intercepted and laid before the 
 assembly. The parliament, at the instigation of the 
 'divines,' ordered Featley's livings to be sequestered, his 
 property seized, and to be himself thrown into the common 
 gaol, where he died. "So solicitous," says Clarendon, 
 {History, vol. iii., p. 471,) "was that party to remove anyim- 
 pediment that troubled them, and so implacable to any who 
 were weary of their journey, though they had accompanied 
 them veiy far in their way. " See Elrington's Life op Ussher, 
 p. 231, note. During the proceedings of the divines, a 
 question arose as to the propriety of admitting Ussher to 
 their deliberations, and Selden is said to have exclaimed 
 in irony that they might as well inquire whether Inigo 
 Jones (the celebrated architect) might be admitted to a com- 
 pany of mousetrap-makers. " But Ussher, so far from idsh- 
 ing to present himself at that assembly, controverted its 
 authority ; and in return the house of commons confiscated 
 
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 109 
 
 that he subscribed Jac. Midensis, (see his fragment remains collected by Dr. Burnett, printed 1657) 
 leaving a petitionary letter (which I have by me to King James, in behalf of the family of Howth, 
 in which he had settled his daughter as aforesaid; and so piously dying, he was embalmed, coffined in 
 lead, and transported to Howth, then, pursuant to testament, thence taken to Aberbrecken, to rest 
 with his wife and children. 
 
 I cannot sufficiently say or express his due eulogium, but this may be added to the premises, 
 that for his honor and in memory of his contributions to the reparations in Christ's. Church, Dublin, 
 I saw his coat of arms over the door which' lets into the quire of said Church, in which place only 
 divine service and sermons are now used. The said coat was the same with the uppermost of those 
 three which is over the gate house entry at Newtown, except that instead of helmet tors and crest, it 
 was surmounted by an episcopal mitre, and bore a distinction of a second brother, the arms being 
 the bearing of the Lairds of Braidstane, before the first Viscount Montgomery was nobilitated; but 
 this coat, with the rest of the contributor's arms, are now totally expunged. 
 
 I saw likewise, Ao. 1696, his Lordship's picture and his wife's, at Howth house, but little re- 
 garded since the late Lady, his grandchild, diedji^those of them which were carefully preserved in 
 Newtown-house, till the late Earle of Mount Alexander died, were about Ao. 1664, burned there with 
 the several pieces, could cost no less than twenty pounds each, being done sitting in chairs and to 
 y° feet." To conclude with his Lordship, he was a faithful servant to God and his Church, and King, 
 and an excellent friend, especially more than a brother to his brother (the sixth Laird of Braid- 
 stane), where he was born a.d. 1562, and at his death 61 years of age. 
 
 Having brought this Rev. Prelate to his tomb, I can do no less (being under greater duty) than 
 to convey his eldest brother to his grave in peace to Newtown Church, which he had re-edifyed, and 
 shall rehearse some of his peaceful actions (for I will not mention any more of his law troubles), but 
 proceed in my intended narrative. 
 
 his library, as the property of a delinquent. Through the 
 good offices of Selden, however, a friend was able to 
 purchase the books for a small sum, and restore them to 
 the owner. When Ussher, soon afterwards, was compel- 
 led to retire to Glamorganshire, he was met by a party of 
 Welsh mountaineers, who carried off certain precious 
 books and manuscripts, which he was anxious, of all 
 others, to preserve. This loss weighed heavily on 
 his spirits. "I know," said he 10 his daughter, 
 "that it is in God's hand, and I must endeavour to bear 
 it with patience; though I have too much human frailty 
 not to be extremely concerned. I am touched in a very 
 tender place, and He has thought ".t to take from me, at 
 once, all that I have been gathering together, above these 
 twenty years, and which I intf-nded to publish for the ad- 
 vancement of learning, and the good of the church. " See 
 Stuart's Historical Memoirs of the City 0/ Armagh, pp. 
 326-8. 
 
 " His gran ■''child died. — Two of the bishop's grand- 
 daughters, the .adies Elizabeth and Margaret .St. Lawrence, 
 were unmm led, and resided at Howth Castle. The latter 
 died in 1634, and it was probably to Elizabeth that the 
 author referred in the text as being lately dead in 1696. 
 
 To ye feet. — A portrait of bishop Montgomery was pre- 
 served in the Clerical Rooms, in the town of 
 Monaghan, to which place it was transferred with several 
 others from the See-house of Clogher, on the suppress'?" of 
 that see and the consequent alienation of the See-house. 
 The following particulars of this portrait are taken from 
 tlie Journal of the Killmmy and SoiUh-East of Ireland 
 Arcliceological Society, vol. iv., new series, p. 138: — 
 "No II. Name and Date — George Montgomery, 
 1605, ob. 1620. Age, Dress, atid Characteristics 
 — Middle age; clerical costume, thin black hair, 
 with long beard and moustache ; high forehead ; 
 sunken eyes; Roman nose, and ide^zation in the visage. 
 Bishop Montgomery was a native of Scotland, and a scion 
 of the Eglinton family. Having been translated from 
 Deny and Raphoe to Meath, he continued to hold with it 
 the see of Clogher, and the deanery of Norwich. " This 
 portrait is "painted on canvas in oil. Size twenty inches 
 by eighteen. The name and armorial bearings surmounted 
 by a mitre, being represented on the sinister top corner." 
 This portrait, which was in the Clerical Rooms of Mon- 
 aghan, was removed, with theotberClogher portraits, by the 
 priinate last year to Armagh, where it is now (1868) hung up. 
 
no 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 T hath been said very briefly what his Lordship did as to providing wives for and settling 
 his two younger sons. Now before these last two marriages his Lordship was a widower 
 many months, and being at leisure, as well for diverting melancholy as to look after his 
 affairs at Braidstane, he went into Scotland and visited his chief and superior, the Earl of Eglington, 
 paying him all the grateful! returns of former kindnesses and countenances in his affairs from first 
 to last. From this Earle, besides his assistances in his business in Scotland and England before his 
 Lordship was Viscount, had not only given him a certificate (which in Scotland is called a bore 
 brief,') of the said genealogy and extraction from his family of Eglington, but also afterwards 
 (the more to make his descent appear huidus i?i futuro, and to shew his present respects), he con- 
 sents that the Viscount's coat armorial should agree with his own in all things, except that the 
 Viscount's hath not the same crest nor motto, and but one of the Earle's supporters, with this other 
 difference (for a distinction as a cadet) that in the nombril of his Lordship's shield he should bear 
 an escutchion charged with the same sword and lance, sattire wise, as he had over all his coat when 
 he was Laird of Braidstane; and he, with his Lordship's 2d son. Sir James Montgomery, managed 
 that affair, as appears by copys of his letters to the said Earl and the Herauld yet extant.^ Let me 
 
 ' Borebrief. — A borebrief, borbrieff, or birthbrief, was 
 a certificate of lineage or extraction, whicli a person settling 
 in a foreign land always required as an introduction to 
 society in his own rank, and not unfrequently as a pass- 
 port to preferments. Thus, George Crawfurd, in his 
 Memoirs of the Ecklins of Pittadro, speaking of a gentleman 
 of that family, says ; — "I think he went into foraign service, 
 where he attained to the Degree of a Captain, and that there 
 might be no Bar in the way of Prefennent, that could not 
 be attained but by a gentleman of blood and birth, he 
 procured a Birthbrieff testiefeing, and declaring his descent 
 from eight noble ancient families, both on the Paternall and 
 inatemall line. " (P. 13). '\\\^ Litem Prosapia:, ox \m\!w- 
 brief, when not furnished by the head or representative of 
 the family (as it was in the case mentioned in the text), 
 had frequently to be provided for applicants by the govern- 
 ment. Numerous entries in the records of the Scottish 
 Privy Council are applications from Scottish men of good 
 family, resident abroad, for borbrieffs to be drawn up and 
 sent to them, for the purpose already explained. These 
 applications appear to have been more numerous before and 
 after the Restoration than at any other previous time, in 
 consequence, no doubt, of so many political exiles from the 
 two great parties in Scotland having been compelled to 
 settle abroad during the convulsions that occurred 
 between 1640 and 1660. Among these entries are 
 several such applications from ladies. In 1669, Maria 
 Margaret Urrie, eldest lawful daughter of the deceased 
 sir John Urrie of that Ilk, "being abroad in a strange 
 
 country, where her birth and pedigree is not known, 
 to the prejudice of her fortune in those parts," had pur- 
 chased a certificate of her pedigree under the hands of 
 the earl of Panmure and several other noblemen and 
 gentlemen of quality; "and afterwards asked the Pri\'y 
 Council for a 'borbrieff in her favours,' conform to 
 the said certificate." In 1670, a similar application 
 came from Elizabeth, countess of Grammont, who had 
 obtained the necessary "certificate of her descent and 
 pedigree under the hand of the duke of Hamilton, the 
 marquis of Douglass, the earles of Argyle, Marischal, lord 
 Lauderdale, and divers other noblemen." — Chambers's 
 Domestic Aniiah of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 325. In the in- 
 stance mentioned in the text, the borbrief was a certificate 
 of the first viscount's genealogy, and extraction from the 
 family of liglinton. By thi.s document, the earl of Eglin- 
 ton agreed that the first viscount Montgomeiy's amis 
 should confoiTn to his own in every thing excepting the 
 particulars specified in the text. 
 
 " ilcraidd yet extant. — The E^linton Armsare, quarterly 
 first and fourth, azure, three fleurs-de-lis, or, for Mont- 
 gonier)': second and third, gules, three annulets, or, stoned 
 azure, for Eglintoun; all within a bordure, or, charged 
 M'ith a double tressure, counter-flowered, gides. Crest, — 
 a lady representing hope, richly attired, azure, holding in 
 her dexter hand an anchor, and in her sinister the head of 
 a savage by the hair ; in some emblazonments, on an escrol 
 above, the word Towless, or Kohdcss, that is without a cable 
 — in allusion, it is said, to a lady of the family who slew a 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Ill 
 
 have the favour, reader, to insert (as a parenthesis) a very probable conjecture, viz., that the said 
 I St Viscount was god-son unto Hugh, Earl of Eglington, who was insidiously slain at the river of 
 Annock, the i8th day of April, a.d. 1586, for the reasons formerly mentioned, there being in those 
 days no scruple for a man to be a god-father, and to answer at the font for a friend's child.3 
 
 This lately said visit of our Viscount, to the said Earle, and his friends and kindred, was 
 received with great love and respects by them all, which they continued till and after his funeral ;4 
 
 ruffian in self-defence, while on a sea-voyage, and. unpro- 
 tected. Supporters — two dragoiis, vert, vomiting fire ; 
 the crest of Seton, earl of Wintoun. Motto — 'Garde bien.' 
 The AIount-Alexander Arms are, quarterly, first and fourth, 
 azure, three fleurs-de-lis, or ; second and third, gules, 
 three annulets, or; stoned, azure, the whole within a 
 double tressure, flowered and counter-flowered of the first. 
 Difference, an inescutcheon, charged with a sword and 
 lance, salterwise. The following is William Montgomery's 
 statement of the arms of Braidstane: — " Party per pale 
 azure and gules, 3 flowers delice in chiefs, and 3 annulettes 
 set with turquoises in base, over them a lance and a sword 
 salterwise, all the charge being ore except the turquoises 
 and the blade of the sword, which are proper with a cres- 
 cent argent as the distinction of a second brother. . . 
 The coat of arms of yours (family) hath an armed hand 
 holding a flower delice, or; as for the Motto of these arms, 
 it must have been the same with the earl of Eglinton's, 
 viz, guarde bien, because our Montgomerys were from that 
 family, unless sir Hugh took another diton, of which I 
 know not. But now, sir Hugh's posterity, and none else, 
 may pretend to carry the arms, and use the motto of the 
 lord viscount of Ards, both which were altered when they 
 were first nobilitated." In this description, the author 
 states that "the very same shield and charge bishop C!eorge 
 Montgomery, brother of the said sir Hugh, did seal with, 
 and the like is now over the gate house window in New- 
 town. " — Narrative of GranslLeogh, see infra. For the family 
 arms of Braidstane and Mount- Alexander, see also Paterson's 
 Account of the Families and Parishes of Ayrshire, vol. i., 
 p. 282; Fraser's Memorials, vol. ii. , on the Indent lire he- 
 tween the first viscount Ards and the sixth earl of Eglinton, 
 dated aytli February, 1630. Respecting these arms, Col. 
 F. O. Montgomery says . — "You will observe by reference to 
 the illuminated Deed in Fraser's Memorials, 2iid vol., p. 
 289, that the left haud side of the Braidstane shield has the 
 ground or field red, William Montgomery in his A^arrative 
 of Gransheogh has it reversed ; that is, left field blue, right 
 field red. Also, in the Earl of Eglinton's coat on same 
 Deed, and in Frontispiece of vol. i. , contrary to the usual 
 custom, the first and third quarters fleur-de-lis on red in- 
 stead of bhie. I find in 2^Dictionairede la Noblesse, published 
 in Paris, 1775, the writer, after describing the Arms of the 
 Counts de Montgomery of Normandy, adds ' Quelque fois, 
 les trois fleurs de lys sur un fond de Gueules.' In the 
 plate of arms cut for me by the Messrs. Archer, I have 
 adhered to the arms (of Braidstane) as given at the head 
 of deed in Fraser's Memorials, though contrary to what 
 William Montgomeiy says." 
 
 3 For a friend'' s child. — If the author's words be here 
 correctly given, his 'conjecture' is at fault. The first 
 viscount was probably godson to the third earl of Eglinton, 
 who died in 1585. The fourth earl, who was slain at the 
 ford of Annock, was born in 1563, so that he must have 
 
 been younger than the first viscount Ards, supposing the 
 latter to have been born about the year 1560, as the author 
 states on the following page. The fourth earl was only 
 in his twenty-fourth year when he was slain in 1586, as 
 appears from a list of the earls of Scotland in the State 
 Paper Office, vol. xli., no. 96. — Fraser, Memorials, vol. 
 i., p. 49. 
 
 ^ Till and after his funeral. — On the first viscount's re- 
 turn to Newtown from his visit to Eglinton Castle, he en- 
 tered into a contract by which he acknowledged the earl 
 of Eglinton as his chief, binding his heirs, as they came 
 each, in succession, to the family estates, to present to the 
 heirs of the house of Eglinton, a horse worth ^30, in testi- 
 mony of the feudal superiority of the latter. The original 
 document is very curious, being|beautifully ornamented by 
 portraits of the earl and viscount, with a representation of 
 their respective arms. It was preserved at Eglinton castle, 
 and was lent by the twelfth earl to a lawyer in Edinburgh, 
 with the view of assisting to establish his claim to suc- 
 ceed to the Mount- Alexander property, on the death of 
 the fifth and last earl of Mount- Alexander, in 1757. 
 Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 
 282. This indenture, or engagement, was drawn up at 
 Newton in the Ards, on the 20th of Febniary, 1630, and 
 witnessed by the second and third sons of the first viscount, 
 and by two other gentlemen, also named Montgomery, 
 the seneschal and curate of Newtown. The alleged 
 object for which this document was originally drawn up is 
 thus stated by Fraser: — "The Viscount wished to secure 
 the assistance of the earl in the then disturbed state of 
 Ireland, whilst the earl was anxious to secure himself 
 against any doubt that might be raised of his being the head 
 of the house of Eglinton, the viscount being directly de- 
 scended from Robert Montgomerie, Braidstane, uncle of 
 the first earl of Eglinton. The indenture is beautifully 
 engrossed on vellum, as may be seen from the fac-siniile 
 of it which is in the second volume. At the top there ai e 
 two portraits which may have been intended to represent 
 the earl and viscount. Fortunately for the earl, an 
 original portrait of him has been preserved, and shows 
 that in his case the illuminator was not a very faithful 
 limner; it is to be hoped, that as little justice has been done 
 to the Viscount." — Memorials, vol. i.. Preface, p. xv. 
 The state of Ireland in 1630 could not be described as 
 'disturbed,' but the first viscount was then deeply in- 
 volved in the struggle with his rival, lord Clannaboy, and 
 both antagonists aimed at making as many influential 
 friends as possible. This may have been lord Mont- 
 gomery's principal object in thus acknowledging the feudal 
 superiority of Eglinton. The indenture is as follows : — 
 
 "This Indenture made the seavn and twenteth day of Februarie in 
 the yeere of our Lord one thousand six hundred and thirty, betweene 
 the right honourable Sir Hughe Montgomery, knight, Lord Viscount 
 Montgomery of the Create Ardes, on the one parte, and the right 
 
112 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and after it, to the two succeeding Viscounts, whilst they lived, as their heirs have a kind deference 
 and regard to our present second Earle of Mount-Alexander. 
 
 At this time, it was during his Lordship's stay in Scotland, he married the Viscountess of Wigton,s 
 and brought her to Newtown, to fill up the empty side of his bed, not minding profit fronv her jointure 
 lands, which he left to her Ladyship's o\vn disposal and ordering; but she not liking lo live in Ire- 
 land, though great improvements were made, both as to his large store-houses in Newtown, sufficient 
 for two succeeding Viscounts to dwell in, and also at Dunsky Castle,^ which his Lordship had bought 
 in his first Lady's time, with the lands belonging to it, and PortpatricK town, also from Sir Ro--ert 
 
 honourable Alexander, Earle of Eglinton, in the kingdom of Scotland, 
 on the other parte, witnesseth, that whereas the said Lord Viscount 
 Montgomery, being descended of the honourable howse of the Earles 
 of EgUnton within the said kingdome of Scotland, is most willing that 
 hee and his heires should at all tyines forever hereafter acknowledg 
 the respect and duty which they owe to the honor of the said house : 
 In consideration whereof, and for the naturall love and affection which 
 h.„, the said Lord Viscount Montgomery, hath to the sayd Alexander, 
 nowe Earle of Eglinton, and his heires, tiie said-Lord Viscount Mont- 
 gomery for him and his heires, doeth graunt, covenant, and agree to 
 and with the said Alexander Earle of Eglinton, and his heires, Earles 
 of Eglintone, which shalbee of the name and surname of Montgomery, 
 that the heir and heires of the said Lord Viscount Montgomery shall, 
 in perpetual remembrance of that love and dutie, freely give and 
 deliver one faire horse of the value of thirty poundes of lawful money 
 of and in England, or thereabouts, to the said Alexander, Earle of 
 Eglinton, and his heires, being of the surname of Montgomery, within 
 the space of one yeere after the heire and heires of the said Lord 
 Viscotmt Montgomery shall have sued for his or theire livery, and 
 entered into theire manors, lordshipps, landes, and hereditaments, 
 within the kingdoms of Ireland and Scotland ; and the said Lord 
 Viscount Montgomery for himselfe, his heires and assignes, doeth 
 couenant, promise, and agree, to and with the said Earle of Eglinton 
 and his heires, Earles of EgUnton, by theis presents, that upon default 
 of the deliuery of the said horse of the said price of thirty poundes by 
 the heire or heires of the said Lord Viscount Montgomery, made at 
 the sayd tyme, contrary to the true intent and meaning of theis pre- 
 sents, that then it shall and may be lawfull unto the said Alexander 
 Earle of Eglinton and his heires, Earles of Eglinton, being of the 
 surname of IMontgomery, to sue for the same, together with the sume 
 of fifteen poundes sterling, of like money, iioviiiu pocnae, for every such 
 default to bee made by the heires of the said Lord Viscount Montgo- 
 mery, having first given due aduertisment and notice of theis presents, 
 vnto the heire by whom the default shall happen to be committed 
 aforesaid: And the said Hugh Lord Viscount Montgomery doeth by 
 theis presents, couenant, promise, and agree to and with the said 
 Alexander Earle of Eglinton, that hee, the said Lord Viscount Mont- 
 gomery shall and will doe, make, acknowledge, finish and execute, 
 all and euery such other reasonable act and acts, thing and things, 
 conueyance and assurance in lawe, for the good and perfect assurance 
 and suerty for the deliuery of the said horse of the price aforesaid, 
 according to the true meaning of theis presents, as by the said Alex- 
 ander Earl of Eglinton shalbee reasonably devised or required, soe 
 that the said Lord Viscount Montgomery bee notdesirred to travaile 
 for the makeing or acknowledging of such assurance from his dwell- 
 ing-house. In witness, whereof, the said partyes to theis presents 
 have hereunto interchangeable putt theire hands and seales, the day 
 and yeere first above written. " Montgomery. 
 
 *'Sygned, sealled, and deliuered in presens of 
 '*J. MoNTGOiuERiE. J. MoNTGOMERiE, Seneschell. 
 " G. MoNTGOMERiE. R. MoNTGOMERiE, Minister of Newtone. 
 
 — Fraser, Memorials, vol. ii. , pp. 289, 290. Robert 
 Montgomerie, minister of Newtown in 1630, was pro- 
 bably the same who had been sometime minister of 
 Stewartmmi, in Scotland. See p. loi, note supra. 
 
 5 Viscountess of M^igton. — This lady was Sarah Maxwell, 
 daughter of William, lord Herries. She was of the house of 
 Caerlaverock, "so celebrated in Scottish history, and in 
 chivalry, afterwards raised to the dignities of lord Herries 
 and earl of Nithsdale. Their direct male line failed in 
 the person of John, Lord INIaxwell, son of William the 
 
 fifth earl, forfeited in 1713." — Crawford's Renfrewshire, 
 p. 279. 
 
 * Dunsky Castle. — The ruins of the old castle of Dunsky 
 or Dunskey occupy the summit of a high cliff overlooking 
 a little creek anciently known as Portree, by which name 
 the castle also was designated until about the close of the 
 fourteenth century. It stood near the edge of the cliff over- 
 hanging the sea, separated therefrom by a meadow. The 
 creek of Portree is at a little distance. See the account in 
 the New Statistical Account, vol. iv., Wigtonshire, p. 132. 
 The ancient owners of Dunskey were the Adairs, originally 
 Fitzgeralds, of the house of Desmond, and deriving the 
 surname, by which they were known in Galloway, from 
 the lands of Athdare or Adare, in Ireland. The first 
 owner of Dunskey bearing this surname was Robert 
 Adair. Of his representatives we have the following 
 account in sir Andrew Agnew's Hereditary Sheriffs of 
 Gallo^iuay, pp. 616, 617: — 
 
 " 2 Neil or Nigel Adair of Drumskey 'styled of Portree' was a wit- 
 ness to the restoration of the lands of Lochnaw, by William Douglas 
 to Andrew Agnew, 1426; had a second son, Robert Adair of Kildonan, 
 a?ic€stor of the Adairs 0/ Genoclt; his eldest son (or grandson). 
 
 " 3. William Adair, married a daughter of Robert Vaus of Bam- 
 barroch (sister-in-law of Quintin Agnew of Lochnaw :, and had 
 
 " 4. Alexander Adair istyled of Kilhilt), married first, Euphemia, 
 daughter of sir Alexander Stewart of Garlies ; and second, Janet, 
 daughter of Uchtred M'Dowall of Garthland; killed at Flodden, 
 1513, leaving 
 
 " 5. Ninian Adair, married Katherine, daughter of Patrick Agnew 
 of Lochnaw, sheriff of Galloway, died 1525, leaving by her 
 
 '* 6. William Adair, married lady Helen, daughter of Gilbert, 
 second earl of Cassilis, by whom he had 
 
 *' 7. Ninian Adair, who married Helen (or Elizabeth', daughter of 
 sir James Gordon of Lochinvar; his yijwrZ/t son, Alexander, was dean of 
 Raphoe, 1616; bishop of Killaloe; bishop of Waterford and Lismore, 
 1641 ; died 1646 ; his eldest son 
 
 *' 8. William Adair, married first Rosina, daughter of sir Thomas 
 M'^Clellan of Bomby, succeeded 1608 (exchanged Dunskey for Bally- 
 mainoch (BallymenaJ with sir Hugh Montgomery, viscount Airdes) ; 
 married secondly daughter of Houston of Castle Steward : married 
 thirdly Helen, daughter of Cathcart of Carlton, by whom he had 
 William Adair, minister of Ayr, 1640 to 1684. 
 
 ** 9. Sir RobertAdair^eldestson of the above by his first wife), M.P, 
 for Wigtonshire, 1639 and 1648 ; married Jean, daughter of William 
 Edmondston of Duntreath, by whom he had, besides his successor, 
 a third son, Alexander of Drummore, and Isabel, married to Patrick 
 M'^Douall of Logan. 
 
 " 10. William Adair, succeeded 1655, married Jean, dar.ghter of sir 
 William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead ; married second Anne, 
 daughter of colonel Walter Scott ; by her he had 
 
 "11. Sir Robert Adair of Kilhilt and Ballymena, a knight ban- 
 neret, sold the baronies of Kilhilt and Drummore to the earl of 
 Stair; married first Penelope, daughter of sir Robert Colville ; mar- 
 ried second Martha: married third, October, 1705, Ann M*Aulay; 
 married fourth Arabella Ricketts ; left by his third wife 
 
 "12. Robert Adair, a major of dragoons ["now living," Adair 
 MS., 1760) : married Catherine Smalhnan, an English lady of 
 fortune. The family is represented by sir Robert Stafto (Shafto( 
 Adair of Flixton Hall." 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 113 
 
 Adair of Kinhilt,? and had put many convenient and handsome additions to it; she, notwithstanding, 
 after some months stay, returned to Scotland, and did remain therein, which obhged his Lordship 
 to make yearly summer visits to her, and to send divers messages (by his son George) to persweade 
 her Ladyship to return and cohabit with him, whose attendance at Council Board, and business in 
 law, at Dublin, and private affairs at home, would not allow his Lordship dwelling with her in Scot- 
 land. 
 
 His Lordship brought over a page to his Lady, Edward Betty,^ the prettiest little man I ever 
 beheld. He was ol a blooming damask rose complexion; his hair was of a shining gold colour, with 
 natural ring-like curls hanging down, and dangling to his breast, and so exact in the symmetry of 
 
 ' Adair of Kinhilt. — The founder of this family is said 
 to have been Robert Fitzgerald of Athdare, or Adare (son 
 of an earl of Desmond) who fled to Galloway, about the 
 year 1350, to escape the consequences of a feud. See note 6. 
 This common story which, however, cannot be relied on, 
 further states that Thomas, sixth earl of Desmond, who 
 died at Rouen, in Normanday, loth August, 1420, left two 
 sons, Maurice and John (claragh), who died in 1452 ; in 
 which year also Maurice, being killed by Connor 
 O'Mulrian, was buried at Roan, and left two sons, John, 
 ancestor (as is related) to the Adairs of Ireland and Scot- 
 land, and Maurice, to the Fitzgeralds, some time of 
 Broghill.— Archdall's Lodge's Peei-age, vol. i., p. 66. .Sir 
 Andrew Agnew, in his book recently published, entitled 
 History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Callotuay, pp. 243, 617, 
 states that "William Adair exchanged Dunskey castle and 
 the property adjoining, with sir Hew Montgomery of 
 Braidstones, for the lands of Ballymena in Ireland." The 
 author of the Montgomery Manuscripts, however, here dis- 
 tinctly states that the first viscount bought the Dunskey 
 estate from sir Robert Adair. Had any such exchange as 
 that mentioned by sir Andrew Agnew taken place, William 
 Montgomery would have doubtless known of it, and re- 
 corded it. Besides sir Hugh Montgomery never held lands 
 at, or in the vicinity of Ballyinena. The Adair family 
 originally got a footing in this district early in the reign of 
 James I., by purchase froin sir Faithful Fortescue, who had 
 an assignment from R017 Oge MacQuillin, the latter having 
 got a grant of this territory — Clanagherty — in lieu of 
 Innishowen, which was transferred to sir Arthur Chi- 
 chester. See Y^ayts,, jEcelesiastical Antiquities, 'p. Sir 
 Hugh Montgomery owned the church lands of Ballyman- 
 nagh, near Carrickfergus, which probably occasioned in 
 some way the Scottish mistake on this point. William 
 Adair, although the first of the family who settled at 
 Ballymena, did not sell the Scottish estate, which was in 
 possession of the family until 1 7 16, when sir Robert Adair 
 parted with Kinhilt and Drummore. At the time of William's 
 death, which occurred on the 4th of November, 1626, his 
 Ballymena property consisted of the following denomi- 
 nations — viz., half of the townlands of Ballyneclosse, 
 Ballentirriagh, Ballesirryanane, Balleloughcarry, Balle- 
 clogher, Ballecragbarrane, Ballevally, Baldromny, Balle- 
 granchill, Ballecollrabacky, Ballekillyne, Balledromlegagh, 
 Balledromynderragh, Balledownesyand, Balletissane, Bal- 
 lenynaghdore, Ballekildony, Balletiellieny, Ballekilly, Bal- 
 lesaravoy, and Ballemagherry, containing 40 messuages, 
 and 1,000 acres, in the territory of Clynagharty alias Clyna- 
 charthy. This estatewas inherited by William's son, Robert 
 
 Adair, who was 23 years of age at the time of his father's 
 death. — Jnquisitions, Antrim, no. 4, Car. I. The castle 
 of Dunskey had been abandoned as a family residence long 
 prior to its purchase by sir Hugh Montgomery, the Adairs 
 of Kinhilt occupying a mansion-house of which no vestige 
 now remains, but which is known to have stood "where 
 the line of Colfin Glen would meet the present turnpike 
 road. " The present mansion-house of Dunskey is situated 
 on an elevation about a mile from the harbour. — N'ew 
 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iv. , Wigtonshire, pp. 
 132, 142. Besides the lands constituting the Dunskey 
 property, the first viscount purchased others in the same 
 district. The general register of sasines in the register- 
 house connected with Wigtonshire, contains the following 
 notices relating to such purchases : — 
 
 "i. — July, 1633, Ren. be Robert Weir to Hew Vicount of Airdis 
 of the landis of X)incke, Wigtonshire. 
 
 "2. — December, 1634, Ren. be Gilbert Kennedy and Sir Alexander 
 Kennedy to Hew Vicount of Airdis, of the landis of Dunvin, Wigton- 
 shire. 
 
 " 3. — June, 163s, Ren. be Uchred Agnew to Hew Montgomerie, 
 Vicount of Airdis, of the landis of Craigvordie, Wigtonshire. 
 
 "4-— July, 1637, Ren. be James Fultoun and Katherine Adair 
 his spous, to Hew Vicount of Airdis of the landis of Killantinzeaue 
 (now Killintringan), Wigtonshire. 
 
 "5-— November, 1638, . . . of Hew Vicount of Airdis of the 
 foiu-e markland of Portispittell (now Port Spittal), Wigtonshire." 
 
 The two last-mentioned purchases were made by the 
 second viscount, his father having died in 1636. The 
 editor is indebted for copies of the above entries to the 
 kindness of James Paterson, esq., author of the Account 
 of the Parishes and Families of Ayrshire. 
 
 ^ Edward Betty. — This dwarf was possibly the son of 
 a person who had been executed at Downpatrick in 1613. 
 At a court of assize held there, on the 27th of February, 
 before justice Sibthorp and Mr. serjeant John Beare, 
 Edward and William Bettee of Duffrin, yeomen, were 
 tried and found guilty of having, on the 20th February, 
 1613, at Foynebrogl (Finnabrogue), carried away six cocks 
 of oats worth 6s and 8d each, the property of Edmund 
 O'Mullan and Cowlogh O'Kelly, and sentenced to be 
 brought back to the gaol, through the midst of the town of 
 Down, and be disengaged from their chains, and then led 
 from the gaol as far as the gallows, and there to be hung 
 by the neck until they were dead. — Ulster fournal of 
 Archceology, vol. i., p. 264. The following clause in the 
 will of the first viscount has reference, no doubt, to Ed- 
 ward Betty mentioned in the text : — "Item, I do ordain my 
 son Hugh to entertain my man, Ned Beattie, and to give 
 him in pension from me yearly the sum of £% sterling." 
 
114 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 his body and limbs to his stature, that no better shape could be desired in a well carved statue. 
 His wit was answerable to what his comely face might promise; and his cunning no less, for many 
 times, when gentlewomen, that did not frequent Newtown-house since the first Viscount's death till 
 the second Lord brought his lady to live therein, came to pay visits to her Ladyship, this beautiful 
 mannick was often mistaken for one or the other of his Lordship's sons, and taken up by the gentle- 
 women on their laps, and they kissed him to make him prattle, which he could very well do as a child. 
 He kept them in their ignorance so long as to have occasion enough to make his Lady sport, 
 nay sometimes he would protract his convers till his Lady came from her chamber to see the female 
 visitant, his unmannerlyness being reproved by his Lady, so to impose on the gentlewomen, as to 
 sit on their knee and promote the error. You may believe the mistaken ladies blushed and were 
 extremely ashamed, and this happened when he had passed twenty years of age." I did copy (after 
 Vandyke's original) the picture of the Royal Martyr's dwarf, Jeffrey,'" holding a silken cord, a mon- 
 
 5 Twenty years of age. — It is strange that tlie fame of 
 this remarkable person had not reached to the time of 
 Harris, who refers to several dwarfs, inhabitants of the 
 county of Down. He mentions, among others, one James 
 Downey, a native of the parish of Clonallon, who was only 
 three feet four inches in height. "Being one day employ- 
 ed in the furrow of a potatoe-garden, and suddenly rising 
 up, a simple priest passing by took him for a fairy, just 
 sprung out of the earth, and adjured liim to approach no 
 nearer ; but the little creature moving fonvard to undeceive 
 the priest, so frightned him, that he clapped spurs to his 
 horse, and fled quite away." — State of the County of Down, 
 p. 255. 
 
 '° Royal Martyr''s dwarf, Jeffrey. — This little fellow 
 whose name was Jeffrey Hudson, was born in tlie year 
 1619, at Oakham, in Rutlandshire. "Being about eight 
 years old, and not half a yard in height, the dutchess of 
 Buckingham, whose seat was hard by, took him and cloathd 
 him in sattin, and appointed two servants to attend him. 
 At a splendid feast given by the duke there was a cold pye, 
 which being opened, there reared up on end little Jeffrey, 
 armed cap-a-pie! An old gossip having invited some 
 Tattle-baskets to a junketting bout, some arch waggs stole 
 her cat Rutterkin, flead him, dressed Jeffrey in her skin, 
 and conveyed him into the room. When the feast was 
 near over and cheese set upon the table, one of the females 
 offered Rutterkin a bit. — ' Ricttcrkin can help himself when 
 he is /;?/«^;-y,'saidJeffrey, and so, nimbly, made down stairs. 
 The women all started up in the greatest confusion and 
 clamour imaginable, crying out a Witch! a Witch! with 
 her talking cat! But the joke was soon afterwards found 
 out, otherwise the poor woman might have suffered for it, 
 as two others in that country did, who were hanged pur- 
 suant to the sentence of those wise judges, Hobart and 
 Bromley, on account of another Rntterkin, charged with 
 the murder of the earl of Rutland's children. Jeffrey, not 
 long after -was presented to queen Henrietta Maria, and 
 became her dwarf. Her majesty's monkey soon scraped 
 acquaintance with him, and none so great as Pug and Jef- 
 frey. It was a strange contrast to see him and the king's 
 gigantic porter, William Evans, together, particularly in 
 that Anti-masque at court, where the porter lugged out of 
 one pocket a long loaf, and little Jefl'rey instead of a salver 
 uf cheese, out of the other. Once as he was washing his 
 
 face and hands, he had like to have been drownied in his 
 bason. Another day, he had been blown into the Thames, 
 but for a spreading shrub that saved him. He was employed 
 on a kind of embassy to France to bring over the queen's 
 midwife; and in his return he was taken by a Flemish 
 pyrate. This captivity is celebrated by sir W'm. Davenant 
 in a poem called Jeffreides, and printed with his Aladagas- 
 car,&.c. After therebellion brokeout, beingmadea captain 
 of horse in the king's sei-vice, he underwent many perils, 
 till 1644, when he went over with his royal mistress to 
 France. Here he had a quaiTel with the lord Croft's 
 brother, whom he obliged to meet him with powder and 
 ball, and shot him dead on the spot. Afterwards, he was 
 talven at sea by a Turkish pjTate, who lodged him in a 
 dram, and carried him into slavery. Being redeemed, he 
 returned to England, and lived on a pension allowed him 
 by the D. of Buckingham and other persons of quaUty ; but 
 being a Roman Catholic, he was clapped up in the Gate- 
 house, and soon after his releasement, died, haiing almost 
 attained his climacteric." — Gentleman's Magazine vol ii. , 
 p. 1 120. A tiny volume was dedicated to Hudson entitled. 
 The New Year's Gift, p-esented at Court from the Lady 
 Parvida to the Lord Minimus, commonly called Little Jefferie, 
 Her J\Iajesties Servant : l2mo., London, 1636. The follow- 
 ing lines form part of the Dedication : — 
 
 "Sm.-il Sir, methinks in your lesse selfe I see, 
 Exprest the lesser world's Epitomie. — 
 Vou may write Man, i' the 'abstract' us you are, 
 Though printed in a smaller character ; 
 The pocket volume has as much methink. 
 As the broad Folio in a larger print. 
 And is more useful too. — Though low you seem. 
 Yet you are both great and high in men's esteem, 
 Your soul's as large as others, so's your mind, — 
 To greatness virtue's not like strength confined." 
 
 Scottish Journal of Topography, &^c., vol. ii. , p. 3 1 9. 
 Jeffrey was eight years of age, and eighteen inches high 
 when transferred by the duchess of Buckingham to the 
 custody of Queen Henrietta. The transfer took place 
 soon after the marriage of Charles I. , and whilst the royal 
 party were entertained at Burleigh on the Hill, a residence 
 of the great duke of Buckingham. During the festivities, 
 Jeffrey was sen'ed up naked in a cold pie. The scene of 
 Davenant's poem was Dunkirk, and the poet's object was 
 the celebration of a battle between Jeffrey and a turkey- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 115 
 
 key on his shoulder, as a fancy to set him off, who, although he was very comely, well proportioned, 
 and so diminutive as that the King's long porter's boot (as I was told Ao. 1664," by old courtiers), 
 covered his brow when he was put in it ; yet he was not to be compared, for shape and beauty and 
 far less for wit, with our homuncio, Edward, whose bones lie at the foot of the three Viscounts, whom 
 he successively served, but did not survive the last of them, whose imprisonment at Cloghwooter 
 Castle'^ broke our little man's great heart, that he died for grief thereof and despair of his Lordship's 
 release, who was detained about two years in the restraint aforesaid. 
 
 As to his Lordship's said Lady, the Countess of Wigton, she continuing in her refractory, 
 humours, went to Edinboro to reside there, being 60 years old, and falling sick, his Lordship her 
 husband personally attended her till she died in that emporium; his Lordship buried her where she 
 had desired, giving her all the observation and obsequies due to her peerage :'3 but returning from 
 her interment, his coach overturned, and he received bruises, the pains whereof reverted every 
 spring and harvest till his own fall. And now his Lordship might have bid his last adieu to his 
 native country and Braidstane, because he never again crossed the sea after he returned to Ireland, 
 
 cock. At the time of Jeffrey's first capture by the Dun- 
 kirkers, who were not pirates, as stated in the extract from 
 the GentlematCs Magazine, he was bringing a French mid- 
 wife, a French dancing-master, and several vahiable 
 presents from tlie English queen's mother, Mary de Me- 
 dici. He lost on that occasion ^2,500 of his own money, 
 which he had received as a present from the ladies of tlie 
 French court. This little gentleman was suspected to be 
 a party in the popish plot of 1682. For further particulars 
 of his life and adventures, see Walpole's Anecdotes of 
 Fainting i?t England, vol. ii., pp. 14-16; Anecdotes and 
 Traditions from MS. Sources, edited by W. J. Thorns, 
 (Camden Society), p. 123. 
 
 " Ao. 1664. — The author was in London at this date, 
 soliciting certain favours for himself, and also on behalf of 
 his kinsman, the second earl of Mount-Alexander, who 
 was then only fourteen years old, and left in trying circum- 
 stances. 
 
 Cloghwooter Castle. — On the capture of the third 
 viscount by the Irish, at the battle of Benburb, in the 
 June of 1646, he was imprisoned for nearly the space of 
 two years in Cloughowter castle, county of Cavan, a 
 stronghold belonging to Owen Roe MacArt O'Neill, who 
 died there in 1649. See infra. Clough-oughter castle is 
 situated in a part of Lough Oughter. Ord. Surv. , Cavan, 
 s. 20. Here bishop Bedell was confined at his death in 
 February, 1642. 
 
 '3 Due to Iter peerage. — This funeral was no doubt one 
 of those grand heraldic processions so common at the 
 period among the .Scottish nobility. Sir James Balfour 
 lias the following notice of this lady's death — "The 29 of 
 Marche, this Zeire (1636) dyed Dame .Sara Maxwool, vis- 
 countesse of Airdis, sister of John, Lord Harries, and was 
 solemly interred in the Abbey churche of Holyrudliousses. 
 This ladey was thrysse niarried, first, to Sir Jolm Johnstone 
 (of Johnston), and by him had issue James, Earleof flartefell, 
 Lord Johnstone, and two daughters; and after his death she 
 married to her second husband, John, first Earle of Vig- 
 toune, and by him had issue one only daughter ; and after 
 his death, she married to her third husband, Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, Lord Viscount of Airdes in the kingdom of Ire- 
 
 land, and by him had no issue." — Annals of Scot- 
 land, vol. ii., p. 252. Between this lady's family 
 and that of her first husband, there raged a fierce 
 clan feud, in the course of which eacli family lost two of 
 its chiefs. In the celebrated clan battle of Dryfe Sands 
 the last of any note fought in the southern part of Scot- 
 land, Johnston slew lord Maxwell with his own hand, 
 carrying off his head and right arm, and nailing them as 
 trophies on the wall of Johnston's own castle of Lockwood, 
 which had been burned down by the Maxwells in 1585. 
 The battle of Dryfe Sands took place in 1593. Lord 
 Maxwell's son, in his efforts to avenge his father's death, 
 was guilty of deliberate murder, by sliooting Johnston at 
 an apparently friendly interview, in the year 1608. For 
 this act he was tried and beheaded five years aftei-wards. 
 — For some details of this feud, see Cliambers's Domestic 
 Annals of .'Scotland, vol. i. , pp. 155, 252, 296, 410, 446, 
 447. We find from the following passage in the Memoirs 
 of Captain fohn Creichton, that the consequences of this 
 feud were not confined to Scotland: — "My great-grand- 
 father, Alexander Creichton, of the house of Dumfries, 
 in Scotland, in a feud between the Maxwells and the John- 
 stons (the chief of the Johnstons being the Lord Johnston, an- 
 cestor of the present Marquis of Annandale) siding with 
 the latter, and having killed some of the former, was 
 forced to fly into Ireland, where he settled near Kinard, 
 then a woody country, and now called Calidon ; hut with- 
 in a year or two, some friends anrj relations of those Max- 
 •wells who had been killed in the feud, coming over to 
 Ireland to pursue their revenge, lay in wait for my great- 
 grandfather in the wood, and shot him dead, as he was 
 going to church. This accident happened about the time 
 that James the Sixth of Scotland came to the crown of 
 England." — Swift's Works, Edited hy Sir Walter Scott, vol. 
 X. , p. Ill, Edinb. 1824. Several persons named Maxwell 
 came to settle on the lands of James Hamilton, at, or soon 
 after the time specified in the foregoing extract. Among 
 them were Edward Maxwell of Donover, James Maxwell 
 of Gransha, and Jolm Maxwell of Ballihalbert, all of 
 whom afterwards, in 1617, obtained letters of denizatioi). 
 — See Calendar of Patent Rolls, James /., p. 326. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 which he did soon after his compHments were paid to his most honoured Earl, and to the beloved 
 Montgomery Lairds, with his kindred and loving neighbours."* 
 
 We have his Lordship now in Newtown and in the neighbourhood, composing some differences 
 (as to his lands) which had not been perfected to him, pursuant to articles made the 17th Dec, i633;'5 
 other whiles his Lordship attended the Council Board. Thus and in the service of God, his King, 
 and country, as formerly, he spent the residue of his life, which ended May 1636, in a good old age 
 of 76 years. 
 
 Now reader, I have given some general notice of the affairs of the noble first Viscount Mont- 
 gomery. I will only add to them a character of his person and internal parts, or endownments of 
 his soul, and an account of his acts (as brief as I can), not to mutilate them, and the order of 
 his funeral, with some other remarks. As to his birth, it was about Ao. 1560, when Hugh, Earl of 
 Eglinton, by his parchment deed, signed and sealed (yet extant), not only confirmed all the lands 
 of Braidstane aforesaid, but also sold all the lands of Montgomery, mimiock ah vocat Blackstown 
 mynnock and Amiln unto Adam Montgomery,'^ of Braidstane (he was our first Viscount's father), 
 and his heirs and assigns, &c., by deed aforesaid, dated 25th Nov. 1652.'? This Earle (some small 
 time before or after this deed) is supposed (very probably) to have been god-father to our Viscount, 
 the said Earl slain, as aforesaid, being the first Hugh of his family,'^ as our Viscount was the first of 
 that name in his own. 
 
 And Icndng neighbours. — This last visit to Scotland, 
 to attend the funeral of his second lady, occurred in 1636, 
 the year of his own death. The "most honoured earl," 
 whom he visited after the funeral, was Alexander, sixth 
 earl of Eglinton. The "beloved Montgomery lairds" 
 alive in 1636, and most of whom were doubtless visited by 
 the first viscount, were sir Henry Montgomery of Giffen, 
 second son of the earl of Eglinton; Robert Montgomeiy, 
 of Hessillhead or Hazlehead ; Matthew Montgomery of 
 Bogstown, who appears to have resided for a time at 
 Braidstane ; John Montgomery of Blackhouse ; Neil 
 Montgomery of Lainshaw or Langshaw ; sir Robert Mont- 
 gomery of Skelmorlie ; and Hugh Montgomery of Stane, 
 afterwards of Bowhouse. — See Paterson's Parishes ami 
 Families 0/ Ayrshire, vol i., pp. 230, 288, 289, 292; vol, 
 ii., pp. loi, 310. His "kindred and loving neighbours" 
 of other surnames were numerous, especially in the parishes 
 of Beith, Largs, and Ardrossan. 
 
 '5 i-jth Dec., 1633. — See p. 81 sttpra. 
 
 Adam Montgomc7-y. — This Adam Montgomery was 
 the fifth laird of Braidstane. In 1561, Hugh, third earl 
 of Eglinton, revoked certain charters and acts done by 
 him in his minority, and among these "ane infeftment 
 made be the earl to Adam Montgomery, sone and appear- 
 and are (heir) to John Montgomery of Bredstane, of the 
 xij. mark lands of Braidstane and the xls. of Montgomereis 
 Mynnok." — Eraser, Memorials, vol. ii., p. l6l. The 
 author states, on the authority of family papers, that the 
 regrant of the lands of Braidstane was confirmed by the 
 earl to Adam Montgomery in 1562, and that the latter 
 purchased from his chief, in the same year, certain other 
 lands known as Montgomeiy minnock, alias Blackstown 
 minnock, or 'little,' to distinguish these lands from others 
 
 of the same name. "On the 7th November, 1622, John 
 Swan, younger, in Mylne of Beith, granted his obligation 
 to Matthew Montgomery and his son Robert, then in 
 Bogstown, for eight score merks. This is on record in 
 the books of the regality of Kilwinning, preserved in the 
 General Register House, vol. i." — Paterson, Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 289. The first earl of 
 Abercom had a residence called Blackstown in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Eglinton castle. The sixth earl of Eglinton, 
 writing to his countess in July, 1619, says — "Therefor, 
 fell not to send your kotch and horses eist to me after the 
 reset of this. ... I tink or now the horse that my 
 lady Abercom had is com houm to you. Gif not, ye will 
 get him for the sending for at Blackstown." On die 3rd 
 of June, 1620, Marion Boyd, countess of Abercom, writes 
 to the earl of Eglinton, from Blackistoun, thus : — 
 
 " Mv VERiE HONoRABiLL GUIDE LOR V) — I Understand mv sone has 
 wrettin to zour lordship .inent our goii g to Edinburgh, quhair, God 
 wilUng, we think to be on Tuisday at night, the .\iii. of Junii instant, 
 expecting 20ur lordship will be there al o, as mj- son has desyrit zow. 
 And because my kotchman hes gone om me, I must intreate zour 
 lordship to send me zour colcheman, . id ane or twa of zour cotche 
 horses, on Friday or Settirdaj- next ; . ahilk, trusting zour lordship 
 will do, as I salbe willing to pleasour z ur lordship at all occasiones. 
 Thus craving zour lordship's excuse of my hameliness, my hartliest 
 coniinendatiounes rememberit to zour rdship and guid lady, I rest 
 ' ' Zour lordship's maist affection ■ t cousigne, 
 
 " M.\RION BOVD." 
 
 Eraser, Memorials, vol. i., pp. 2 0, 213. 
 
 ^^ A'o7i., 1652. — This date is a misprint for 1562. 
 
 First Hitgh. — F:rst is evidently a misprint for foiir'h, 
 the earl slain at Annock being tue fourth earl as well as 
 the fourth bearing the Christian name of Hugh. It has 
 been already shown, note 3, supra, that the fourth earl 
 could not have been godfather to the first viscount. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 117 
 
 Imprimis, then his Lordship was of a middle stature (I had his picture as large as the h'fe)/9 he 
 was of ruddy complexion, and had a manly, sprightlie and chearful countenance; and, I believe, 
 his temperament was sanguine, for his body and nerves were agile and strong, beyond any of his 
 sons or their children, according to all the stations of youth, manhood and old age, no wise troubled 
 by cholicks, gravel or gout, or pains, but what were occasioned by the bruises aforesaid, being of a 
 sound vigorous constitution of health, and habit of body, seldom having sickness, because he was 
 greatly sober and temperate in meat and drink, and chaste also, and used moderate exercises, both 
 coursing badgers*" and hares with grey hounds on foot (before he was nobilitated), and afterwards 
 frequently with hounds, hunting (on horses) the deer and the fox^' in his woodlands yearly at the 
 fittest seasons, and wolves when occasion offered.** His Lordship kept a blood (in Scotland called 
 
 '9 His picture as large as the life. — An oil painting of tlie 
 first viscount is in the possession of Mrs. Sinclair, formerly 
 of the Falls, near Belfast, who is seventh in lineal descent 
 from him. The same lady also possesses a portrait in slate 
 of sir James Montgomery of Rosemount, and miniature 
 likenesses of col. Wm. Montgomery of Killough, and his 
 wife, Isabella Campbell of Mamore. Col. William Mont- 
 gomery was grandson of the author, and great-grandfather 
 of Mrs. Sinclair. 
 
 " Badgers. — In the native Irish language the name of 
 the badger {meles vttlgaris) was broc. In old Saxon the 
 name was broce, and barsiik in the Russian. In Scotland 
 and Ireland the tenn broc is still commonly used. We 
 learn from the Tale of Deirdre (see Transactions 0/ the 
 Gaelic Society vol. i., pp. 47 — 49, }iote), that badger's flesh 
 was considered as a delicacy in Alba or Scotland. This 
 tale refers to events that occurred so early as the first 
 century of our era. — See Proceedings of Royal Irish 
 Academy, vol. vii., p. 194. 
 
 And the fox. — This animal {vulpes vulgaris) has left 
 its name in more than one place of the district. It was 
 known generally as madaidh ricadh, 'the red dog,' and from 
 it the townland of Ballycarrick?naddyive in Castlereagh 
 takes its name. Castle-Ward, near Strangford, was 
 anciently called Carrick-ne-Sheannagh, or Sinnach, 'the 
 Foxes' Rock.' — Harris, State of the County of Down, p. 41. 
 The Sinnach or Fox was said by the ancient Irish to be 
 'the longest lived of dogs,' nech is sine do conaib. See 
 Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy, vol. vii., p. 194, note. 
 
 " Wolves wlien occasion offered. — See p. 60, w/ra. The 
 wolf (canis lupus), sometimes called by the Irish AIcu Tire 
 filiusterrce, 'the son of the land,' and sometimes Cu-allaidh 
 or wild dog, is often referred to in modern Irish history, 
 and did not wholly disappear until late in the eighteenth 
 century — Transactions Royal Irish Academy, vol. vii, 
 p. 193. In 1614, "the king being given to understand 
 the great loss and hindrance which arose in Ireland by the 
 multitude of wolves, in all parts of the kingdom, did by 
 letters from New-Market, 26th Nov. , 1614, direct a grant to 
 be made, by patent, to Henry Tuttesham, who by petition, 
 had made offer to repair into Ireland, and there use his best 
 skill and deavour to destroy the said wolves, providing at 
 his own charge, men, dogs, traps, and engines, and requir- 
 ing no other allowance, save only four nobles sterling, for 
 the head of every wolf, young or old, out of every county, 
 and to be authorized to keep four men and twelve couple 
 of hounds in every county, for seven years next after the 
 
 date of these letters. " (12 Jac. i. , d. R. 17.) Proceedings of 
 Roy. Irish Academy, vol. ii., p. 77. Tuttesham's work had 
 not been thoroughly done, as wolves were very numerous in 
 Ireland, in 1640, throughout all wooded and mountainous 
 districts. The writer of a tract entitled Ireland'' s Tragical 
 Tyrranie, 4to, 1642, mentions the lamentable case of an 
 English family, named Adams, who were compelled, 
 through fear of massacre during the outbreak of 1641, to 
 seek shelter in the woods, where they were all, consisting 
 of fourteen persons, devoured by wolves. — See Logan's 
 tish Gael, vol. ii., p. 32. On the iith of March, 1652-3, 
 captain Edward Piers obtained a lease, for five years, from 
 May, 1653, for the sum of ;^543, of all the forfeited lands 
 in the barony of Dunboyne, county of Meath, on the terms 
 of his keeping up an establishment for killing wolves and 
 foxes. His dogs were to be three wolf-dogs, two English 
 mastiffs, and a pack of hounds of sixteen couple, three of 
 them to hunt the wolf only, a knowing hunstman, and 
 two men and a boy — an orderly hunt to take place thrice 
 a month at least. As security for tlie performance of 
 his engagement, he was to pay 100 a year additional rent, 
 to be defalked in wolf and fox-heads ; 6 wolf-heads and 
 24 fox-heads the first year ; 4 wolf-heads and 16 fox-heads 
 the second year; 2 wolf-heads and 10 fox-heads the third 
 year; and one wolf-head and 5 fox-heads in each of the two 
 last years of the term. In case he should fail to kill and 
 bring in the said number of wolves' and foxes' heads yearly, 
 then deduction was to be made out of the said yearly 
 allowance or salary of £100, for every wolfs head so 
 falling short the sum of and for every fox's head 55. 
 — Order of Council as quoted in jfournul of the Kilkenny 
 and South-I: .'.st of Ireland Archicol. Society, vol. iii., new 
 series, p. 77, note. The prices offered for wolves' heads by 
 the government of the commonwealth show how alanningly 
 these animals had increased during the period of the war 
 from 1641 to 1652. There is the following Declaration 
 touching Wolves, and offering immoderate prices for their 
 destruction: — "For the better destroying of wolves, which 
 of late years have much increased in most parts of this 
 nation, It is ordered that the commanders in chiefe and 
 commissioners of the revenue in the several precincts, doe 
 consider of, use and execute all good wayes and meanes, 
 how the wolves, in the counties and places within the re- 
 spective precincts, may be taken and destroyed ; and to 
 employ such person or persons, and to appoint such daies 
 and tymes for hunting the wolfe, as they shall adjudge 
 necessary, And it is further ordered, that all buch person 
 
 S 
 
118 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 a sleuth) hound'3 to trace out thieves and woodkerns (so were torys then termed) which was a great 
 terror to them, and made them to forbear to haunt in his bounds he also had an huntsman for those 
 
 or persons, as shall take, kijl, or destroy any wolfes, and 
 shall bring forth the head of the woulfe before the said com- 
 manders of the revenue, shall receive the sums following, 
 viz. for every bitch wolfe, six pounds; for every dogg 
 Wolfe, five pounds; for every cubb which prayeth (preyeth) 
 for himself, forty shillings; for every suckling cubb, ten 
 shillings; And no wolfe after the last of September until 
 the loth of Januaiy be accounted a young wolfe and the 
 commissioners of the revenue shall cause the same to be 
 equallie assessed within their precincts. Dublin, 29th 
 June, 1653." But the following Declaration against trans- 
 porting of Wolfe- Dogges is, perhaps, the most significant 
 document that could be quoted on this subject : — 
 "Forasmuch as we are credibly informed, that wolves doe 
 much increase and destroy many cattle in severall parts of 
 this dominion, and that some ofthe enemie's party who have 
 laid down armes, and have liberty to go beyond sea, and 
 others, doe attempt to carry away several such great dogges 
 as are commonly called wolfe dogges, whereby the breed of 
 them, which are useful for destroying of wolfes, would (if 
 not prevented) speedily decay. These are, therefore, to pro- 
 hibit all persons whatsoever from exporting any of the 
 said dogges out of this dominion; and searchers and other 
 officers of the customs, in the severall parts and creekes of 
 this dominion, are hereby strictly required to seize and 
 make stopp of all such dogges, and deliver them either to 
 the common huntsman appointed for the precinct where 
 they are seized upon, or to the gouernor of the said 
 precinct. Dated at Kilkenny, 27th April, 1652." 
 The above declaration was intended to prohibit the 
 gentry and others who had laid down their arms, 
 and who appear to have been peculiarly attached to 
 the dogs of this breed, from canying them into Spain, to 
 which country they were emigrating in great numbers. 
 Their dogs, however, could not be spared from Ireland, 
 where wolves were then increasing, as announced in another 
 Declaration touchinge the Foore, dated at Dublin, the 12th 
 of May, 1653 and signed by Charles Fleetwood, Edmond 
 Ludlow, Miles Corbet, and John Jones. In this 
 document it is stated that many of the orphan children then 
 wandering about the country were "fed upon by ravening 
 wolves, and other beasts and birds of prey." — O'Flaherty's 
 West Comicmght edited by Hardiman, pp. 180, 181 ; 
 yoiirnal of the Kilketmy and South-East of Ireland 
 Archaol. Society, old series, vol. ii., p. 149; see also 
 Ulster jfoiirnal of Archaology, vol. ii. , p. 281. 
 
 =3 Sleuth-hound. — Sleuth denotes the track of a 
 man or beast as known by the scent, from the Irish 
 sliockt, a track, and the sleuth-hound is the species of 
 dog designated by naturalists as the canis sagax. This 
 animal seems to have been of greater importance in 
 Scotland than in any other country. The inhabitants of 
 the marshes were obliged by the border laws to keep a 
 certain number of sleuth-hounds in every district. Thus, 
 "in those parts beyond the £sk, above the foot of Sark, 
 by the inhabytants there was to he kept, one dog. Item, 
 by the inhabytants insyde the £sl:, to Richmond Cleiigh, to 
 be kept at the Moot, one dog. Item, by the inhabytants 
 of the parish of Arthuret, above Richmond Cleugh, to be 
 kept at Barley head, one dog." And so on throughout the 
 
 border lands. Persons aggrieved, or who had lost property 
 by robbers, were allowed to pursue the hot with hound 
 and horn, with hue and cry, and all other accustomed 
 means of hot pursuit — 'is '\Qho\%OTC% Border Laws, p. 127, as 
 quoted in Pennant's Tour in Scotland, 1 772, pp. 77, 78. 
 Walter Harris, in his additions to Sir James Ware, 
 speaking of the sleuth-hound, says: — "But this cha- 
 racter (scenting the track of game) does not hit the 
 Irish wolf-dog, which is not remarkable for any great 
 sagacity in hunting by the nose. Ulysses Aldrovandus 
 and Gesner have given descriptions of the Canis Scoti- 
 ciis, and two prints of them very little difierent from the 
 common hunting hound. They are (says Gesner) some- 
 thing larger than the common hunting hound, of a brown 
 or sandy spotted colour, quick of smelling, and are em- 
 ployed on the borders between England and Scotland 
 to follow thieves. They are called the Sleut-Hound. In 
 the Regiam Majestatem of Scotland Is this passage : — 
 Nullus perturbet ant impediat canem trassantem, aut homines 
 trassantes cum ipso ad sequendum latrones aut ad capiendum 
 malefactores, — 'No person shall give any disturbance or 
 hindrance to tracking dogs, or men employed with them to 
 track or apprehend thieves or malefactors. ' — Ware's Works, 
 vol. ii., p. 167. The Scottish sleuth-hound appears to 
 have been peculiar to that kingdom, so much so as to be 
 named the Scott ic us canis in the sixteenth century "when 
 modem Scotland", says Harris, "wxs well known by the 
 name of Scotia." At an earlier period, the same term 
 canis Scoticus would have meant the Irish dog, for Scotia 
 was originally a name for Ireland. Harris, in his ac- 
 count of the Irish wolf-dog, observes :- — " I cannot but 
 think that these are the dogs which SjTnmachus men- 
 tions in an epistle to his brother Flavianus. ' I thank you,' 
 says he, ' for the present you made me of some ( Canes Scolici ) 
 Scottish dogs, which were shewed at the Circensian games, 
 to the gieat astonishment of the people, who could not 
 judge it possible to bring them to Rome otherwise than in 
 iron cages. ' I am sensible, Mr. Burton, treadmg in the foot- 
 steps of Justus Lipsius, makes no scruple to say that the 
 dogs intended by Symmachus in this passage were British 
 Mastives. But with submission to such great names, how 
 could the British Mastive get the appellation of Scoticus in 
 the age Symmachus lived? For he was a Consid of Rome 
 in the latter end of the fourth century ; at which time, and 
 for some time before, and for many centuries after, Ireland 
 was well known by the name of Scotia, as I have shemi 
 before, chapter i. — U' are's Works. \o\. ii. , p. 166. The 
 sleuth-hound mentioned in the text appears to have 
 been a species coming in between the wolf-dog and 
 the beagle, and combining the wondrous scenting p07uer 
 of the one, with much of die courage and strength of 
 the other. 
 
 ^ To haunt in his bounds. — For notices of wood-kerns 
 and tories see p. 60, supra. Sir Arthur Chichester, who 
 unscrupulously employed whatever means he considered 
 most efficient in accomplishing his objects, was charged 
 by Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, with having enlisted the 
 sei-vices of wood-kem to intimidate and plunder the ten- 
 ants of the latter. This extraordinary charge is circum- 
 stantially stated in Articles exhibited by tlie Earl of Tyrone 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 119 
 
 games, and a falconer to manage his hawks,^5 netts and spaniels; but he delighted little in soft easy 
 recreations (fit only, as he said, for Ladies and boys), from his youth taking most pleasure in the 
 
 tothe Kin^s most Excellent Majesty, declaring certain causes 
 of discontent offered him, by which he took occasion to depart 
 his country. Two principal wood-kern, so employed by 
 Chichester, were Henry Oge O'Neill and Henry Mac- 
 Felymye, who, with others, "committed many murders, 
 burnings, and other mischievous acts against the earl's ten- 
 ants, and were always maintained and manifestly relieved 
 among the deputy's (Chichester's) tenants and others their 
 friends in Clandeboye, and did openly sell the spoils that 
 they took from the earl's tenants amongst them." — See 
 Meehan's Earls of Tyrone and Tyrcomiell, pp. 201 — 203. 
 Notwithstanding the many and stringent legal enactments 
 against tories,\ki^%t successors of the wood-kern continued to 
 pillage and alarm the Scottish and English settlers through- 
 out the whole period of the Commonwealth. They survived 
 the Restoration, although the most active means were em- 
 ployed against them by the authorities in Ulster. The places 
 in Ulster principally infested by tories after the Restora- 
 tion were the counties of Down, Donegal, and Tyrone. 
 Among their principal leaders were two disinherited chiefs, 
 named Costello and Maguire. — Rawdon Papers, pp. 223, 
 224. Perhaps a still better known tory leader was Red- 
 mond O'Hanlon, who haunted generally the Fews moun- 
 tains, and levied contributions extensively throughout 
 the counties of Dovvai, Annagh, and Tyrone. This 
 formidable freebooter was finally assassinated by one 
 of his own associates in the year 1681. It is generally 
 believed that his life was taken whilst he slept, a belief 
 which arose probably from the supposed impossibility of 
 reaching him at any other time. There was printed in 
 Dublin, however, a tract, now very rare, entitled Coimt 
 Hanlan^s Downfall, 1 68 1, in which his death is stated to 
 have been somewhat differently inflicted, although still by 
 a stratagem. A Mr. Wm. Lucas of Dmmintyan, county of 
 Down, having received a commission from Ormond, the 
 lord lieutenant, for the destruction of proclaimed tories, 
 entered into an agreement with one Art O'Hanlon, his own 
 (Lucas's) foster-brother, who was out with Redmond, for 
 the killing of the latter. The follo\\ ing is the account of 
 this transaction at p. 7, of the tract abovenamed : — 
 "On Monday, the 25th April, 1681, the said Art O'Han- 
 lan and William O'Sheel, in company with Redmond 
 O'Hanlan, were near the Eight Mile Bridge, in the county 
 of Down, waiting for prize, on the score of a fair that was 
 held there, at which place, while they were watching for 
 their prey, Redmond took some occasion to quarrel 
 with Art, as they were smoaking their pipes, and in the 
 close bid him provide for himself, for he should not be 
 any longer a tory in any of the three counties (viz., 
 Monaghan, Down, or Ardmagli) whereupon Art rose up 
 and said, I am very glad of it, and will go just now ; and 
 then taking up his arms (having his authority and pro- 
 tection about liim) immediately he shot Redmond in the 
 left breast, with his carbine, and forthwith ran to the Eight 
 Mile Bridge, for a guard, but Art returned with a guard, and 
 Mr. Lucas, who soon had notice at the Newry where he 
 was waiting Redmond's motions, for the same ends, found 
 Redmond's body, but the head was taken off by O'Sheel, 
 who fled with it, the body they removed to the Newry, 
 where it lies under a guard, till orders be sent how it 
 should be disposed of; and since that Mr. Lucas hath 
 
 sent out a protection and assurance to O'Sheel, to bring 
 in the head of that arch traytor and tory Redmond 
 O'Hanlan." As rewards for tlie successful execution of 
 their plot, Lucas received a command in the army, and 
 Art O'Hanlon a sum of money. Redmond O'Hanlon's 
 head was exhibited on the front of Downpatrick Gaol, 
 and his body is said to have been buried in the grave-yard 
 of Ballynaleck, in the county of Armagh, on the left hand, 
 side of the road leading from Tandragee to Scarva. 
 After the Revolution of 1688, as the tories greatly increased 
 throughout the waste, desolate portions of the country, the 
 measures adopted by the government became more and 
 more stringent. All persons whose names were presented 
 as tories by the gentlemen of counties, and proclaimed as 
 such by the lord lieutenant, might be shot without trial as 
 outlaws and traitors. Rewards were offered for capturing 
 or killing them, and the Irish inhabitants of each barony 
 were to compensate for all robberies, to pay ten poimds 
 to any person wounded by tories, and thirty pounds to the 
 heirs of any one whom they had slain. Any tory who 
 should betray and kill two other tories was pardoned for 
 all the former burglaries and robberies committed by him- 
 self, a measure which excited great distrust among their 
 ranks, and contributed veiy much to their final abatement. 
 This terrible act did not expire until the year 1776. — 
 Abridged from Jo2irnal of the Kilkenny and South-east of 
 Ireland Archceol. Society, new series, vol. iii., pp. 163, 164. 
 During the continuance of the act above-mentioned, hunt- 
 ing tories became the order of the day, and the county of 
 Down was the scene of many such barbarous exhibitions, 
 even in the eighteenth century. In 171 1, Art O'Haggan, 
 a rapparee, was executed at Downpatrick, and the sum of 
 £7. los given to Andrew Ferguson, for taking him 
 prisoner. In 1 7 16, Malcolm M 'Neal received a reward 
 of £20 2s 2d, for capturing Loughlin M 'Quoy, alias Pat 
 Morgan, a proclaimed tory, who was hanged at Down- 
 patrick. In 17 17, James Stewart of Newry, received 
 as a reward, for seizing James Hamilton, a murderer, 
 robber, and rapparee, who was executed in Downpatrick. 
 In 1 7 18, Robert M'Neight and John Warrick received 
 
 for taking prisoner William Tuck, a noted robber, 
 executed at Downpatrick. — See M'Skimin's History of 
 Carrickfergus, pp. 381-384. 
 
 His hawks. — Ancient Ireland was celebrated for the 
 best breeds of these birds, which were trained in great 
 numbers for field sports. — See Ware's edited 
 by Harris, chapter xxii. ; O'Flaherty's West Connaught, 
 edited by Hardiman, p. 115, and note ; fournal of the Kil- 
 kenny and South-east of Ireland Archeeological Society, vol. 
 ii. , pp. 150, 151. "In 1605, James 1. appointed sir Jeffrey 
 Fenton, then principal secretary for Ireland, to be master of 
 the hawkes and game of all sorts within that realm. It is 
 stated in his patent that many honours and estates are held 
 of the King by the service of rendering of a falcon eagle 
 (ger-falcon or sea-eagle), gentle, goshawk, or tarsel of 
 goshawk, or other kind of hawk, and that lords or chief- 
 tains of territories had paid unto the king or his ancestors 
 at the receipt of their exchequer sundiy hawks of the kinds 
 aforesaid, of which hawks the king was for the most part 
 defrauded through the negligence of his officers, who ought 
 to receive or demand the same." For reformation of this 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 active sports which the tennis court, the foyles, the horse, the lance, the dogs, or fowh'ng-piece gave 
 him ; for he could endure fatigue, yet was always complaisant in bearing company to ladies, or his 
 guests, at any house game, but would not play for sums of money. 
 
 Secondly, as to his mind, his Lordship enjoyed a continual presence of it, ready on all emergent 
 difficulties, which did extricate him out of them. He was not passionate nor precipitate in word or 
 deed, though he had ardour and martial inclinations enough. He retained his Latin, Logicks, and 
 Ethicks, which he had acquired in Glasgow, and very promptly and aptly he applied verses of Ro- 
 man poets, or sentences out of Tully and other authors, and the adages of his own country, to the 
 discourse in hand, without ostentation. He spoke and wrote with gravity, either as to law or gospel. 
 I have by me his letters of learned and full instructions to his son, J. Montgomery, for obtaining the 
 Smiths* pretences, and his skill in law is evidently seen in removing thereby his other troubles. I 
 have also his pious letters (like a learned divine's), condoling and consolating his said second son 
 upon the death of his lady, dated February, Ao. 1634;'^ but in this point, his actions, in their place 
 to be related, will describe him more fully. 
 
 His Lordship was very obliging by his condescending humility and affability; his usual compi- 
 lation was kind (often in his ultry grand climaterick years), calling inferior men, my heart, my heart, 
 and naming them; his worst word in reproaching them was baggage, and his most angry expression 
 was beastly baggage, and commonly followed by the lifting up the staff at the trespasser, or a com- 
 mittal to constable or stocks; this was his latter days intercomuning with his misdoing servants and 
 yeomen tenants; but towards gentlemen or the nobility, his behaviour and discourse was no other- 
 wise than as befitted him. His Lordship was a good justicier, dispensing to men their rights, inflict- 
 ing the punishments of the law with the tender pity of a parent. Item, over and above all these 
 and other commendable qualifications, as courage, liberality, constancy in friendship, which he 
 placed discerningly, and other his excellent virtues, (whereof I have heard a great deal) his Lordship 
 as a truly pious soul, which on very good grounds I verily believe (as generally others did, and all 
 the old people yet do) is now in the Heavenly Paradise, blessed with the fruition (in part) of his 
 Lord and Master's joy, reserved for all his elected servants till the consummation of their happiness 
 be given them at the great day of general judgment, which in order leads me to the relation at least 
 of a few of his generous, noble and pious acts. 
 
 and other enormities connected with the stealing and sale 
 of hawks, sir Jeffrey was to be receiver of rent /tawks for 
 the king. — Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ire- 
 land ArchcEological Society, vol. ii., p. 152. As an illustra- 
 tion of the value attached by private gentlemen to these birds, 
 it may be mentioned that Morogh na Maor O'Flaherty, of 
 Bunowen, Connemara, by his will dated 13th April, 1626, 
 directed that his third son, Brian, should have the lands of 
 Cleggan, "exceptingonlie the Aiery of hawkes upon Bama- 
 noran," which wasreserved for his eldest son. — O'Flaherty's 
 West Connaught, edited by Hardiman,p. 67, note. 
 
 =* Ao. 1634. — This fixes the date of the death of sir 
 James Montgomery's first lady. On the 7th of April, 
 1635, sir James Montgomery was fined in ;i^2o, and Hugh 
 Montgomery, esq., in ^^jo, for defaults and neglects as 
 m^bers of the Irish H9use of Commons, whjCh fines were 
 
 remitted by the House on the i Ith of the same month, their 
 absence being occasioned by the death of sir James Mont- 
 gomery's late lady. — Commons yournals of Ireland, vol i., 
 pp. 191, 195. The following is her funeral entry : — 
 
 " Dame Katherine, daughter of Sir William Steward of Mount- 
 Steward, in the county of Tirone, Knight and Baronett, wife of Sir 
 James Mountgomery of Mountross, in the county of Downe, Knight, 
 departed this mortal life, the fifteenth of February, 1634, and was 
 buried in the parish church of Ashera, ( Ardstraw ? i in Newsteward- 
 stowne, in the said county, the xviii'h of March following. She had 
 issue by the said S' James one sonn named William, of y' age of 
 eighteen months, at the time of taking this Certificate. The truth of 
 the premisses is testified by the subscription of the said S' James 
 this xii'h of May, 1635. " Montgomirie. 
 
 " Taken by me Thomas Preston Ulvester King of Arms, to be re- 
 corded in myne oflSce." 
 
 Extracted from Funeral Entries, vol. vi. , p. 88. A mag- 
 nificent tomb was erecte4 to dai^e Ka.therine'^ meipqrjf in 
 
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 In the third place, then, as to or for his acts beyond seas, or in Scotland, no more remarkable 
 are come to my knowledge than what I have already expressed,'? and as for those good ones done 
 in Ireland, what is herein before said shall not be repeated, and for the residue of them they are so 
 
 Ashera (Ardstraw?) church, which building, including the 
 tomb, was destroyed by the Irish, at the outbreak of the 
 rebellion in 1641. Harris, Antient and Present Siate of tke 
 County of Do7vn, p. 51. 
 
 =7 i have already expressed. — The author had probably 
 never heard of a transaction in which the first viscount 
 Montgomery was concerned in his youth, and which, 
 under other circumstances, and during more peaceful times, 
 might have subjected him to severe criticism. At the 
 period of the occuiTence, however, it was probably re- 
 garded in the light of a daring feat of retaliation, intended 
 to redress some wrong that had been previously inflicted 
 on himsel f or a member of his numerous maritime connexion. 
 The following letters, preserved in the council book of 
 Ireland, and now printed for the first time, will explain 
 the affair to which we refer, and which took place in the 
 year 1585, about two years prior to the first viscount's 
 marriage. For copies of these letters the editor is indebted 
 to the kindness of sir J. Bernard Burke, Ulster King of 
 Arms, vi'hose readiness in rendering his valuable assistance 
 to historical inquirers is so well known : — 
 
 "From the Council Book of Ireland, 1580-1585, 
 Record Tower, Dublin Castle. 
 
 " The Copie ef the Kinge of Scotts Ire. written to Sir "John 
 Perrot, Lord Deputy: — 
 
 " Right trustie and welbeloved, we grete you heartilie well. It is 
 right heoylie lamented unto us by sondrie o' good subiects, inhabit- 
 auntes of o'' townes of Irewinge, Glascoe, and Salcotts, how that 
 they havinge this yeare begane, directed to the ptes. of Ireland 
 subiect to o' dearest sister the Queene yo'' soveraigiie's domynyon, 
 greate stoare of fysches and other marchandizes for the use and com- 
 oditie of the countrie. Y' in the moneth of August last you gave 
 speciall warrant and commaunde to sir Nicholas Bagnoll, Marshall 
 of Ireland, and to all maiors, sheriffs, bailiefes, and others, o'' said 
 dearest sisters officers, mynisteres, and lovin^e subiects in those 
 ptes., to staie and arrest whatsoever goods pteyninge. to any inhabit- 
 auntes of o' said townes that shod repaire in those ptes. and tokeepe 
 and sequestrate the same in their wardes, until one Thomas Coppran, 
 marchant of Dublin, pretendinge him to haue bin spoyled of certain 
 fyshe and other merchandizes some space before by one Montgomery 
 of Braidstanes, accompanied, as ye were informed, with fortye fower 
 inhabitants of o' said townes, were redressed and satisfied of his said 
 loss, as the copie of y*^"^ said warrant and direction, given at Dublin 
 the xiii'h day of August last, shewed and exhibited to us m Council, 
 is at length verified : Whereupon, as we ate credibly informed, some 
 some of the compl^^ goodes are in verie deed staid and arrested. 
 And the fyshes which they send thether in the time of Lent being 
 thereby disappointed of the due season of their market, haue perished 
 in the factor's hands, to their grete hmderance and verie skathe, a 
 forme of doinge which in verie deed we find both in the self and for 
 the daunger of the 
 
 insolent and strange, consideringe y^*" said warrant founded upon a 
 simple and naked narrative of the complainte, without any mention 
 therein of treale taken of the triuhe and information. And albeit he 
 could have verefyed and proved the said Braidstanes, accompaned 
 in manner af^d, to have attempted the said fact, wherewith, till we 
 heare further, we wil be lothe to note them : Yet justice and o'' laws 
 being patente to all men, we never suld with redres or protestacon 
 taken of o'' refuse to give out letters for troublinge and arrestinge of 
 o^ peacable and honest subiects' goodes. and make them answerable 
 for an attempt neither comitted, assisted to, nor allowed by them, 
 we thinke y^ harder, nor can be warranted in reason farr less allowed 
 by o'' dearest sister and her counsel Wherefore, we will request 
 you verie earnestlie to consider with us the strangenes and apparent 
 iniquitie thereof, and to geve spedie order for the dischardge of the 
 effect and execution which y^ followed, or in anie time hereafter male 
 follow thereupon to the hindrance of the said honest traffequers of 
 o' said townes. Appointinge with them in like maner for the greate 
 
 losse and damage they have susteyned therthroughe in the said 
 fyshes perished by that occacon th '5 said factor's handsr. Ay^ ins 
 will showe you well affected to the contynuance of the goode amytie 
 betwix us and o^ said dearest sister, yo"^ soveraigne, and comend unto 
 her yo** sen^ice in that chardge. Failinge thereof, which we cannot 
 lookc for, that ye will let us understaunde in answere what ye 
 have for ye, that we may thereupon acquainte o"" dearest sister and 
 her counsell with yo*" resolucon, or take such other order therewith 
 as we shal be advised. Whereof trustyn^e ye will be lothe in this 
 chardge and office to give us just occasion, we committ you, right 
 trustie and welbeloved, to God's good protecion. From o'^ Palas of 
 Halyrud hous, the xxiii'h dale of Aprill, 1585, and of o"^ raigne the 
 xviiith yeare. — Yo'' lovinge frend, 
 
 "James R. 
 
 " The Answer of the L. Depntie to Hie Kinge of Scotts Ire. : — 
 " It male please yo' Highnes. I have received yo'' Ires, of the 
 xxiii of Aprill, concerning certen merchaundize goodes supposed to 
 be staied, and belonging to some of yo"^ goode subiects of Irewynge, 
 Glasco, and Salcotts, who as yt shold seme haue enformed of greate 
 hinderaunces susteyned by them upon my warrant of restrainte 
 in August last. And like as yo'' Highnes doth take know- 
 ledge of the grief of yo'' subiects, and as a gracious prince towardes 
 them requireth a a restitucon of the the things staied, so in the same 
 equitie and honour of my soveraigne I am truelie to laye before you 
 the greefes of Her Ma*'' subiects here, that have suffered violence by 
 yo'^, and then to render a reason of my doings, and a true reporte 
 what haue succeeded thereof to the inhabitaunts of those townes. 
 The complainte made by Coppran of Dublin againste Montgomery, 
 leard of Braidstanes, hath by deposicon of two other M''^ of Baiques 
 being then in view of the spoyle, appeared imto me and to this coun- 
 sell. After w'-h some of yo'' Highnes's subiects being examined here, 
 haue deposed that the provost of Glasco bought the goods, and a 
 neere neighbor of that towne, called John a Knock, bought the 
 Barque : other deposicons and circumstannces ther be extant to 
 prove that the inhabitaimts in those townes before named were par- 
 cel of Montgomerie's companie in that spoile. 
 
 " Another poore man of Knockfergus, named John Ascollin, a 
 victualler of the Queene's garrison's in Ulster, being weather-driven 
 to the islandes, and taking land upon Ila, was ther spoyled of his 
 Barque and goodes, his men, some executed and cruelly throwne 
 downe the rockes, others imprisoned, and himself miraculously es- 
 caped in a small cocke, and so recovered this coast. Coppran, the 
 first of those whose spoyle (as he affirmeth) was great, half frantique 
 with his losses, aged and tymorous, neither durst, nor as I 
 conceived was of sufficient cappacitie to attend yo'' Highnes, 
 yet both exclaymed. I offered them my Ires, to yo Highnes, as- 
 siiringe them of good regarde of their causes ; but feare restrayned 
 them, bearing them in minde that the offenders themselves are to be 
 founde in their dailie trades to this coaste ; whereupon I geve out 
 my warrant, not with purpose to staie anie of yo'' subiects' goodes, 
 as appeared by the sequel, longer than to examine their persons and 
 staie the faultie, if anie were. For proofe, my warrant was dated in 
 August last : no execucon of y' till therde of Marche, and in begin- 
 ning of Aprill yo'' Highnes's subiects complayned, and the matter 
 by my appointment examyned by two of Her Ma*^^ Privie Conncill 
 here, and had grate restitucon, without anie hinderance or losse, as 
 may appeare by the testimony under certen sealles of the citie of 
 Dublin and towne of Droigheda, brought by this gent., captain 
 Dawtrie, whom I have sent of purpose to make the same manifest to 
 yo'' Highnes. Onelie bondes were taken of some of them to answere 
 the fact if it were proved upon them hereafter — bondes I have now 
 commaunded to be cancelled, because yo'' Highnes promised justice. 
 
 " The chardge that the Queene's Most Excellent Ma*^, my sove- 
 raigne, geve me to preserve the good and happie amytie between 
 both kingdoms ys a reason sufficient to give yo'' Highnes's subiects 
 justic, favour, and her Ma'^^ supportacon, if need were, so long as 
 that good amytie shall (as I always wish it) have contynuance. In 
 particular, I am to yeld yo'' Highnes humble thankes that you vouch- 
 safed to write letters before you complayned to her Ma*^ in Eng- 
 land. The leke measure I use now fas her Ma*^^ deputy! to com- 
 playne to yo*" Highnes before any sute for restitucon be pretended in 
 England. Besechyns yo'' Grace to favour the cause of the two poore 
 merchaunts aboue named, whose estates by this gent, shall be de- 
 liveryed unto .you, to whom I haue alsoe given an instrnccon to 
 move yo' Highnes for the restrainte of the Irish Scottes from dis- 
 
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 numerous and so many of them escaped mymemory (besides those which were never in it) that therefore 
 and to avoid being tedious, or to seem affectedly and partially bent to over-magnify my ancestor, I 
 have rather chosen to mention only a few of them as foUoweth, viz : — First of all he sent over to 
 Donaghadee (by the understanding Irish then called Doun da ghee,^^ i.e. the mount or burial place 
 of the two Worthies or Heroes^'s) before him some hewn freestone, timber and iron, &c. of which he 
 caused to be built a low stone walled house for his reception and lodging, when he came from or 
 went to Scotland. Mariners, tradesmen, and others, had made shelter for themselves before this 
 time, but the Viscount's was the first stone dwelling house in all the parish. Then he repaired the 
 old stump of the Castle in Newtown, as aforesaid. After a while's residence at Newtown, he assidu- 
 ously plyed his care and pains to repair the chancel (a word derived from the upper part of the 
 church, separated by a screen of nett or lattin work from the body thereof, like the sanctum sanc- 
 torum of Solomon's Temple), for the communion table, which place the ancient clergy (in and after 
 Constantine the Great's days) called cancelle of the church.3° It is now a chappel, and all the part 
 thereof wherein sermons and divine service are used, itself alone being above — feet in length, and 
 24 in breadth.3^ In process of time the rest of that church was repaired, roofed, and replenished 
 with pews (before his death), mostly by his Lady's care and oversight, himself being much abroad 
 by his troubles aforesaid. His Lordship, in his testament, left a legacy sufficient to build the addi- 
 
 turbynge her Ma'^^ subiects here, thereby the rather to prevente all 
 violence, and to confirme the good amytie and the intercourse of the 
 subiects of both realmes. And so promissingeall good offices therein, 
 I comend yo"" Hignes to the proteccon of the Lord. 
 
 "At Dublin, the vi'Ii of June, 1585. 
 
 "To the King of Scotts Excellent Highnes." 
 
 The "difficulty" above-mentioned was probably so ex- 
 plained and arranged by captain Dawtrie, as to require no 
 further proceedings therein. At the date of these letters, 
 piracy, more or less aggravated, ^^'as a frequent occurrence 
 in the Scottish and Irish seas. For several illustrations, 
 see Chambers's Domestic A7inals of Scotland, vol. i., pp. 
 17s, 176, 429, 430. 
 
 Down da ghee. — O'Curry, '-avMS. Materials for Ancient 
 Irish History, p. 287, supposes that the early name of 
 Donaghadee was Oirear Caoin, this being the place from 
 which king Datlii (who suceeded Niall of the Nine 
 Hostages in the year 405), invaded Scotland. This Irish 
 name, however, is more like Arkeen. Dathi Y>a.st,ed Afagh 
 Bile now Movilla, on his march from Newry to the coast. 
 In reference to the modern name of Donaghadee, Dr. 
 Reeves, our highest authority on this point, states that "the 
 spelling in the Taxation looks as if the word was formed 
 from domhitach dith, ' the church of loss. ' " — See Eccles. 
 Antiquities, p. 1 7. 
 
 Two luorthies or heroes. — A ridge of earth known as 
 the Giants' Grave extends along the base of the Mound at 
 Donaghadee in a nordi-eastern direction. Although this 
 ridge was opened in 1834, we have not seen any report on 
 the subject. It has been stated, however, that a stone cof- 
 fin was found, and also the bones of various animals, but 
 no human bones. An urn, eleven inches in height and 
 nine in diameter, was taken from the opening then made. 
 This urn is preserved in the Museum, Belfast. 
 
 3° Cancelle of the church. — Chancels a Franco-Norman 
 word from the Latin cancelhis, and the chancel is so called 
 because separated from the rest of the church a cancellis, 
 
 by bars or lattice-work. " The cajtcellarii were officers of 
 a court of justice who stood ad cancellos at the railings, re- 
 ceived the petitions of suitors, and acted as intermediaries 
 between them and the judge. To them naturally fell the 
 office of keeping the seal of the court, the distinctive 
 feature of the chancellors of modern times." — See Wedge- 
 wood's Dictionary of English Etymology. 
 
 3' And 24 in breadth. — That part of the old church for- 
 ming the chancel was afterwards converted into a chapel 
 by sir Robert Colville who bought the manor of Newtown- 
 ards from the second Earl Mount- Alexander in 1675. 
 Harris notices this chapel, at p. 57, as follows : — "Di%-ine 
 service is performed in a Chappel adjoining to it (the church), 
 built by Sir Robert Colville for his family since the Revolu- 
 tion ; the Entrance into which is bya large stone Door-Case, 
 curiously adorned with Sculpture. This Chappel is the neatest 
 piece of Church Building within side that is to be met wth in 
 Ulster. The Pulpit is finely carved and guilded, and so 
 are tivo large Seats of the Colvilles placed on each side 
 the great Door, over which are the King's Arms, and under 
 them this Inscription : — 
 
 Saytctitarium meujfi rtrz'erejuhti.*' 
 The Other Seats are regularly placed and painted, the floor 
 well flagged, the compass Cieling divided into nine Pan- 
 nels, and curiously adorned with stucco work in Plaister 
 of Paris, well executed in various Wreaths, Foliages, and 
 the Figuresof Angels. TheCommunionTableisraised and 
 M-ainscotted, and encompassed with twisted Pillars carved 
 and guilded. These Ornaments, and much more of the same 
 kind, added to the well lighting of the Room, have a fine 
 Effect." Attached to the north and east walls is tlie vault of the 
 Colvilles on which are the follomng inscriptions : Lady 
 Rose Colville Dyd Feb. /he 6, 1693 : Sr Robert Colville de- 
 farted this Life Jvne. the 1 2th 1697: Hugh Colville Esqr. 
 Dyed Feb. the 7th 1701 Anno, cctatis 25. Above each in- 
 scription is the family coat of arms. 
 
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 tional church, contiguous to the body of the old one, and the steeple, which are now in good repair,^' 
 which was performed by the second Lord Viscount, soon after his father's death, for he then came to 
 dwell in his father's house in Newtown. 33 Next, after this church, the said first Viscount repaired 
 two-thirds of that which belonged to the abbey of Comerer,34 the X,ord Claneboy finishing the third 
 part thereof, for he had the third part of the lands and tithes in that parish, as also the advowson to 
 present (eveiy third turn) a clerk of priestly order as Vicar, to officiate therein. 3S 
 
 The said first Viscount Montgomery also wholly repaired the church of Grayabbey, (in Irish, it 
 is called Monastre Lea — in the patent, called also Abathium de jugo Dei and Hoar abbeys^) placing 
 his Chaplain, Mr. David M'Gill (who married his Lady's niece), as Curate therein. 37 Then his Lord- 
 
 s' N<rw in good repair. — For the previous repairs of theold 
 church, see p. 61, supra. The following is Harris's notice 
 of the more modern building as completed by the second vis- 
 count : — "The old Church of Newton isa large building,di- 
 vided into Isles by four handsome stone Arches of theDorick 
 Order. It was finished, or at least repaired and adorned, 
 in 1632, as appears by an Inscription on the Pulpit. 
 Another Inscription on a Stone over the North Entrance 
 shews that the Steeple was finished in the year 1636. The 
 Door, which affords an Entrance under the Steeple, is an 
 Arch curiously ornamented with cai-ved Work iu Stone, 
 where may be seen the Arms of the Montgomerys, under 
 which, over the Portal, are the letters in Cypher NA. The 
 Steeple is but moderately high, yet neatly built, and a Spire 
 of hewn Stone erected lately on it, gives it a handsome Ap- 
 pearance. A large Tomb of the Colville Family (to a de- 
 scendant of which the town now belongs), stands in the 
 North Isle, raised five or six feet above the Floor, but naked 
 of any inscription. This Church is only kept roofed, but 
 entirely out of repair within side, and the seats, except a 
 few, destroyed." — P. 57. The monogram over the door, 
 which Harris mistakes for the letters NA, is clearly a 
 combination of the capital letters HLM, the initials of 
 Hugh Lord Montgomay. — MS. Notes of Col. F. O. Mont- 
 gomery. • 
 
 33 House in Newtown. — The second viscount had resided 
 at Mount-Alexander from the time of his marriage, in 
 1623 ; but from the date of his father's death, in 1636, he 
 occupied Newtown House. The fate of this church, 
 built by the 1st viscount, and about \\'hich he was so 
 anxious, is described in the following letter, written two 
 centuries after his death : — 
 
 *' Newtownards, pth June, 1836. 
 "Sir, — In answer to yovir inquiries respecting the raising of the 
 flat stones in the floor of the old church here, I have to inform you, 
 that the old church was demolished in 1830, by a condition between 
 the present marquis of Londonderry and me, whereby I agreed with 
 his lordship, for a certain sum of money, with the priviledge of using 
 any of the flags in the floor of the old church which I considered 
 serviceable for laying the floor of the adjoinmg part of the building, 
 which is the present Session House. I have further to inform you, 
 that I was present at the raising of the flat stones in the church floor, 
 and there appeared to be among them certain Tombstones, and I re- 
 collect of seeing one of John Alexander, but I do not recollect that it 
 had any long inscription upon it then remaining. I think it is one of 
 the flags of the Session-House at present, but most of them were 
 dressed over to answer the flooring. — I am. Sir, your obt. Servt. 
 
 " Charles Campbell." 
 
 This letter was addressed to ' Ephraim Lockhart, W. S. , 
 Edinburgh,' a lawyer employed to collect evidence in 
 defence of a Mr. Alexander, nominal earl of Stirling, who 
 was prosecuted for alleged forgeries in his efforts to 
 
 establish his right to that earldom. The defendant was 
 acquitted, and his representative at the present day is 
 engaged in prosecuting his claim, 
 s-t Comerer. — See p. 64, siipia. 
 
 35 To officiate therein. — The arrangement here mentioned 
 was made pursuant to the award of the earl of Abercorn 
 in i6i8. 
 
 3® Hoar abbey. — This place will be noticed in connexion 
 with the author's account of the Ards. 
 
 37 As curate therein. — David McGill belonged to a well- 
 known family in Scotland, the founder of which appears 
 to have been James McGill, a merchant in Edinburgh. A 
 son of the latter, known as David McGill of Nisbet, 
 became a celebrated lawyer, and was appointed lord 
 advocate and a judge of the court of session, in the reign 
 of James VI. In the Historic oj the Kennedyis, he is styled 
 "aduocatt to his Majestic." He died in 1596, leaving 
 two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. The elder, mar- 
 ried lord William Cranstoun, and Elizabeth married 
 first, Robert Logan of Restalrig, and secondly sir 
 Thomas Kennedy of Culzean, son of the third earl 
 of Cassilis. David McGill left also three sons, one of 
 whom, named James, was created baron Oxenford by 
 Charles I., and viscount Oxenford, in 1 65 1, by Charles II. 
 He died in 1663. His son, Robert, died without issue, 
 in 1706, and the title became extinct. — Scots Rudiments of 
 Honour, pp, 396, 397. The family Arms were Ruby, Three 
 Martlets, Topaz. Crest. — a Phienix in Flames; Motto — 
 Sine Fine. The chief family seat was Cranstoun-Magill, 
 county of Edinburgh, three miles east of Dalkeith. The 
 estate passed into a collateral branch of the family named 
 Dalrymple in which it now remains. Nnv Statistical A ccount 
 of Scotland, Edinburh, vol. i., p. 191. Mr. David McGill, 
 mentioned in the text as curate of Greyabbey, was 
 either a son or nephew of David McGill, lord advo- 
 cate and judge. He was most probably his son. He 
 is evidently the person named in the will of Symon Fer- 
 guson of Kilkerran, who died in 1591, and who appears 
 to have been a family connexion. In one passage of that 
 document, the testator "requeyris and nominats Bernard 
 Fergussone, his father, sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean, 
 knight, and Elizabeth McGill, his spous, to be or'sears to 
 his said bairnes. Item, he levis in legacie to the said 
 Christian his spouse, his hors and his naig. Item, he levis 
 to the bairn his said spous is now with, incaice it be a 
 femall, the sowme of ane thousand punds money, and or- 
 dainis his air to pay the same befoir yir witness Mr. David 
 M'^gill, Younger." — Paterson's Parishes and Faiiiilies oJ 
 Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 391. Before coming to Ireland, Mr, 
 
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 ship built the great church and bell-tower in Donaghadee, near the mount and town, and Portpatrick 
 church also; both of them large edifices, each having four gable ends (for the figures of them are 
 crosses) raised on new grounds and slated, now in good repair, as the rest are, apparent to the view 
 of all men. 38 
 
 Lastly, his Lordship being tenant to the Bishop of Dovra (as he was also to the Lord Primate,) 
 he repaired a church on the episcopal lands in Kilmore parish,39 furnishing all those six houses of 
 God with large Bibles, of the new translation, and printed Ao. 1603,*° with common Prayer Books, 
 then likewise set forth, both sorts being in folio,'^' and fair Dutch print (except the contents of 
 chapters, and explanatory interjections, marginal notes, &c., and such like). One of those Bibles, 
 now covered, my father and I preserved by transporting them to Scotland, with our best things, 
 when he fled thither Ao. 1649, I Ao. i689,'*2 it being bestowed to be used in Grayabbey Church, 
 where it is now read, his Lordship being always a firm professed friend to episcopacy and our liturgy, 
 as all his race have contined to be and are at this day.'^s There is one of the said common Prayer 
 
 David McGill liad married Elizabeth Lindsay whose 
 mother was a sister of the first viscountess Montgomery of 
 the Ards. He died in 1633. Harris mentions, p. 55, that 
 "under the Coat of Arms of the Rev. David Magill, 
 minister of this and the neiglibouring parishes, within the 
 church (of Greyabbey), on a Stone in the South Wall, is 
 this Inscription : — 
 
 " Voce gregem, vitaqiie Deo, Letlioque fideles. 
 Qui pavit, placuit qui criiciavit, hie est. 
 Obiit 15° Octobris, Anno 1633." 
 
 3* To the view of all men. — In 1744, Harris describes 
 the church in Donaghadee as ' ' old, " but ' ' in good Repair, 
 and erected in the Forai of a Cross, with narrow Gothick 
 arched Windows. At the West End of it is a Square 
 Steeple,not so high as the church, and seems never to 
 have been finished." — Anticni and Present State of County 
 of Doiun, p. 66. The church at Portpatrick, built by 
 the first viscount, has been long in ruins. Its old walls 
 are still standing, surrounded by the present parish manse, 
 the parish school, and other houses. 
 
 39 Kihnore parish. — The present church in Kilmore was 
 built in 1 792, from private funds, supplied principally by 
 the Crawford family, of Crawfordsburn, to whom the 
 estate of Redemon, in Kilmore, belongs. The parish is 
 situated partly in the barony of Kinelearty, and partly in 
 the barony of Upper Castlereagh. 
 
 Printed Ao. 1603. — These Bibles were, most probabl)', 
 copies of the Geneva translation, which was printed in 
 "Dutch," and was very generally in use until about 1640, 
 when it was superseded by the authorised version. 
 
 ^' In folio. — Both the Geneva Bible and the Bishops' 
 Bible were printed, according to Lowndes, in folio, in 
 1602, and both in quarto, in 1603; so that either Lowndes 
 or the author must be slightly mistaken. The Prayer- 
 book here mentioned was entitled The Booke of Common 
 Prayer, and Administration of the Sacramettts, London, 
 R. Barker, folio, 1603. There is a copy of this edition in 
 the Lambeth Library, another at Cambridge, and an im- 
 perfect one, in the British Museum. It is not improbable 
 that some of the copies referred to in the text may yet 
 exist. See Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual. 
 
 *' And I, A". 1689. — The author's father, sir James 
 
 Montgomery, removed to Scotland, on the defeat of Ae 
 royalist forces in Ulster, at Lisnastrain, near Lisbum, by 
 those of the Commonwealth, in 1649. The author also 
 retired to Scotland in 1689, when the army sent by Tyr- 
 connell scattered the troops raised by the northern pro- 
 testants, in the neighbourhood of Dromore. 
 
 Are at this day. — This statement is nearly, but not 
 altogether, correct. The lady of the second \'iscount 
 Montgomery (Jean Alexander) W ASdiVehenu-nt preshyterian, 
 and when her son, the third viscount, succeeded to the estates 
 in 1 642, he certainly appears to have been also imbued 
 with presbyterian principles. A letter written by him, on 
 the 20th of June, 1643, to the Scottish General Assembly, 
 goes far to prove his early partiality at least for presb)te- 
 lianism, however much he may have after%vards changed 
 his views. This letter, which has been printed in Dr. 
 Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. i. , p. 378, 
 commences with an expression of the writer's regret at the 
 want of a " lively mmistry," in his immediate neighbour- 
 hood, which want, he states, was partly occasioned by the 
 violent cuts of prelates in driving away soitu of our best 
 ministers from the same." He then expresses his grati- 
 tude to the assembly for " sending pastors to this place by 
 turns;" and concludes by entreating them "to make choice 
 of some two grave and learned ministers, of good and 
 holy lives and conversations, and them recommend, and 
 send over to this country, the one for the parish church of 
 Newton, and the other for my reginaent, and by the assist- 
 ance of God, they shall not want competent stipends." 
 The 'prelates' to whom the third viscount refers in the 
 above extract were bishops Echlin and Leslie, the former 
 of whom had deposed, or 'driven away,' the presbyterian 
 ministers, Dunbar, Blair, Welsh, and Livingston, in 163 1 ; 
 and the latter had deposed, or 'driven awav-,' the presby- 
 terian ministers Brice, Ridge, Cimningham, Colvert, and 
 Hamilton, in 1636. Of these ministers, Blair, Cuiming- 
 ham, and Hamilton had officiated respectively at Bangor, 
 Holywood, and Ballywalter in the Ards. Another 
 fact may be mentioned, which tends to show that the 
 author's statement must be received in a somewhat modi- 
 fied sense, at least so far as the third viscount's career is 
 concerned prior to the year 1646. When he was captured 
 
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 Books (much mangled because ill kept and not used, because of the new ones established by law) 
 which hath his Lordship's coat of arms, as Laird of Braidstane,'''* stamped on the cover with leaf 
 gold, as all the other said service books and Bibles had. 
 
 His Lordship likewise furnished the said six churches with large bells, one to each of them, 
 having in like manner the said coat-armorial on them. They are all extant (except those of 
 Comerer and Kilmore, which were taken away in the rebellion, begun Ao. 1641, and since then), 
 which makes me and others take it for granted that, considering his Lordship's piety and liberality, 
 the said books and bells were his free gift to the said churches, and an humble offering to God, 
 who had preserved and exalted him — for these words. Soli Deo Glorice, are in great letters embossed 
 round this bell in Grayabbey, and, I believe, is so on the other three ;4S and I cannot imagine any 
 reason why the bells should differ, or that they and the books were not his Lordship's gift and 
 offering as aforesaid, because I have enquired heretofore at the oldest sensible men who dwelt in 
 those towns, and of some yet alive, who averred for truth my assertion; and, for my part, I have 
 searched all the papers I could come at, for making the whole narrative, and cannot find one iota 
 or tittle to contradict my belief, nor to gainsay the testimony of the old, honest, unbiassed men 
 aforesaid. 
 
 His Lordship also built the quay or harbour at Donaghadee,4^ a great and profitable work, 
 
 in that year by Owen Roe O'Neill, at the battle of Ben- 
 burb, Charles I. solicited his liberation, O'Neill at first 
 declining, on the ground that "the lord viscount Montgo- 
 mery of Ards hath sided these two years past and more 
 with the parliament rebels of England in open hostility 
 against your majesty." But a still stronger proof of the 
 third viscount's early presbyterianism is supplied by dean 
 Rust, who preached his funeral sermon, at Newtown, in 
 1663, and who stated on that occasion that the deceased 
 nobleman, in becoming, as he did, a faithful churchman, 
 had risen superior to the prejudices of his early education, 
 thus implying that he had been brought up in a different 
 communion. It is a fact, besides, that the Ards family 
 were very generally influenced in all political and religious 
 movements by the family of Eglinton — the former re- 
 cognising the feudal superiority of the latter. And it so 
 happened that both the sixth earl of Eglinton and the 
 third viscount Montgomeiy received the most flattering 
 partisan testimonies from presbyterian ministers, the one 
 in 1644, and the other in 1646. — See Eraser, Memorials, 
 vol. i., pp. 268, 269; Reid, History of the Presbyterian 
 Church, vol. ii., pp. 58, 59. 
 
 ^ As laird of Braidstane. — For Braidstane Arms see 
 p. Ill, supra. 
 
 *5 On the other three. — Of the tvi'o bells thus bestowed 
 to the churches of Comber and Kilmore nothing is known 
 but it may be presumed that they were converted to some 
 use by the insurgent Irish. The motto on the bell now 
 in Greyabbey church is Soli Deo detur gloria, recast 1 7 14, 
 from which we infer that it is in all respects the true re- 
 presentative of the original one bestowed by the first 
 viscount. The following extract of a letter from lieut.- 
 col. F. O. Montgomery, dated 22nd July, 1866, explains 
 the history of the old Bell at Portpatrick: — "I have had 
 a reply from the Rev. S. Balmer, minister of Portpatrick, 
 
 to whom I had written to enquire if the bell mentioned, 
 page 104 Montgomery Manuscripts, was still extant. He 
 tells me he got two men to go up to the bell on the Old 
 Church, \vhich is still there, and examine it. On it they 
 found a Crown and Scotch Thistle, and the words and 
 figures ^Parish of Portpatrick, 1748. ' He also inspected 
 the Parish Records, and under the Minutes of 1747, he 
 found that the previous Bell had fallen down and been 
 broken, and that the fragments thereof, with ;i^8 iSs., had 
 been sent to Bristol to procure a new one. We may 
 suppose the Bell broken in 1 747 to have been one of the 
 six mentioned in the Montgoineiy Manuscripts. 
 I don't believe the old Bell remains at Newtownards though 
 there is a Bell in the old Church Tower. Donaghadee, 
 then, is the only remaining one of the six to be enquired 
 after. " The bell in the old tower at Newtownards was re- 
 cast, and has in wreath the date 1732. The bell in the 
 tower at Donaghadee has Roger Ford, London, 1733. 
 
 Harbour at Donaghadee. — This work was accom- 
 plished about the year 1626, the date at which the first 
 viscount commenced his repairs at Portpatrick harbour on 
 the opposite coast. In reference to the latter work, there 
 is the following passage in a letter of Charles I. , to lord- 
 deputy Falkland, dated Whitehall, April 2, 1626: — "And 
 because the Viscount (Montgomeiy), having lands in our 
 Kingdom of Scotland, may have occasion frequently to 
 repair thither, and specially at this time being to build a 
 church at Port Montgomery (Portpatrick), and to repair 
 the Port, the doing whereof hath been often recommended 
 to us by our British undertakers as a thing very necessary 
 for our service, our further pleasure is, that you grant a 
 licence to the viscount, to pass into Scotland, so often as 
 his occasions shall require, and the licence to continue, till 
 upon further considerations, we shall be pleased, or you 
 from us, to discharge the same; and likewise, that the 
 
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126 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 both for public and private benefit; and built a great school at Newtown, endowing it, as i am 
 credibly told, with twenty pounds yearly salary, for a Master of Arts, ■'7 to teach Latin, Greek and 
 Logycks, allowing the scholars a green for recreation at goff, football, and archery, declaring, that 
 if he lived some few years longer, he would convert his priory houses into a College for Philosophy; 
 and further paid small stipends to a master to teach orthography and arithmetic, and to a music- 
 master, who should be also precentor to the church (which is a curacy), so that both sexes might 
 learn all those three arts; the several masters of all those three schools having, over and beside 
 what I ha.ve mentioned, wages from every scholar under their charge; and, indeed, I have heard, 
 in that church, such harmony from the old scholars, who learned musick in that Lord's time, that 
 
 Viscount have liberty to transport all such materials, 
 victuals, and other necessaries from his own bounds in Ire- 
 land as are requisite for his own use and advancing of the 
 work intended at the port in Scotland, with as much 
 liberty and immunity as can be granted, in regard of the 
 barrenness of the place of the country where the port doth 
 lie." — Morrin's Calendar, Charles I., p. 201. The 
 harbour of Donagliadee was still in good repair in 1744. 
 Tlie following account is given of it by Harris, State of 
 the Comity of Do-mh, page 65 : — "The Kay of Donagha- 
 dee is made of large Stones, in Form of a Crescent, with- 
 out any Cement, and is 128 Yards in length, and about 21 
 or 22 feet broad, besides a breast Wall of the same kind of 
 Stones about six feet broad. It affords good shelter to 
 vessels that lie here from the East and North-East storms, 
 and is capable of receiving twelve or fourteen Bottoms of 
 considerable bulk." At page 269, Harris adds — "The 
 Kay of Donagliadee was built by the Lord Mountgomery. " 
 
 '^^ Master of Arts. — Among the first (probably the first) 
 teachers in this school, was one John Maclellan, son of 
 Michael Maclellan, an inhabitant and burgess of Kirkcud- 
 bright. Livingstone says of him that he "was first school- 
 master at Newtownards in Ireland, where he bred several 
 hopeful youths for the college." As Maclellan came 
 originally from Kirkcudbright, he was probably a family 
 connexion of sir Robert Maclellan, who married Elizabeth, 
 elder daughter of tlie first viscount, about the year 1620. 
 The date of this marriage was probably the time of John 
 Maclellan's coming to teach at Newtown, r During his em- 
 ployment as a teacher, he occasionally officiated in the 
 pulpits of Presbyterian ministers in the district. "Being 
 first tried and approved," says Livingstone, "by the honest 
 ministers in the county of Down, he often preached in 
 their churches. He was a most streight and zealous man; 
 he knew not what it was to be afraid in the cause of God, 
 and was early acquainted with God and his ways. " He 
 was appointed minister of Kirkcudbright in 1638. Sir 
 Robert Maclellan, then lord Kirkcudbright, applied to the 
 magistrates to grant the new pastor the sum of 200 marks, 
 for vicarage tiends, which had been enjoyed by Mr. 
 Glendonynge, the foi-mer minister. They refused, however, 
 alleging that they had only paid Glendonynge 50 marks, 
 and that the other 150 marks were conferred upon him as 
 a token of their esteem and respect. Probably this refusal 
 had some effect in shaping the rebukes for which Mr. 
 Maclellan's pulpit orations were remarkable. In 1639, 
 one Gilbert Reid threatened to shoot him with "a pair 
 of bullets," for which he was punished by imprisonment 
 and fine; and in 1642, Janet Creichton spoke "misrespectt 
 
 fully" to him while in the kirk, and when he was actually 
 engaged in the discharge of his ministerial duties. Janet 
 was compelled to expiate this offence by standing at the 
 kirk door from the thiie the bell began to ring till the text 
 was given out, with a paper on her head setting forth the 
 nature of her sin! The pastor of Kirkcudbright, together 
 with Mr. Samuel Rutherford and Mr. John Li\ingstone, 
 were denounced by a commissioner from Galloway at the 
 meetmg of Assembly in 1640, as being great encouragers 
 of private gatherings at night for the purpose of reading 
 scripture and engaging in prayer. "At their own hands, 
 without the allowance of minister or elders, the people had 
 begun to convene themselves confusedly about bed-time in 
 private houses, where for the greater part of the night, 
 they would expound scripture, pray, and sing psalms, 
 besides discussing questions of divinity, whereof some 
 sae curious that they do not understand, and some sae 
 ridiculous that they cannot be edified by them. " ' The con- 
 sequence was that they began ' ' to act lichtly and set at 
 naught the public worship of God." Mr. Henry Guthrie 
 brought in a formal complaint against these practices, 
 which, it was charged, had become very general through- 
 out the west and south of Scotland. An act was then, 
 or soon afterwards, passed by the Assembly, direct- 
 ing — 1st, That family worship be performed by those of 
 one family only, and not of different families. 2nd, That 
 reading prayers is lawful when none of the family can 
 express themselves properly extempore. And, 3rd, That 
 none be permitted to explain the scriptures but ministers 
 and expectants approved by the presbytery. A short 
 time before Mr. Maclellan's death, which occurred early 
 in the year 1650, he wrote his o\vn epitaph, as follows : — 
 
 "Come, stingless death, have o'er; lo! here's my pass. 
 In blood charactered by His hand who was. 
 And is, and shall be. Jordan, cut thy stream, 
 Make channels dry; I bear my Father's name 
 Stampd on my brow. I am ravished with my crown ; 
 I shine so bright, down with all glory, down, 
 That world can give. I see the peerless port, 
 The golden street, the blessed soul's resort; 
 The tree of life, floods gushing from the throne, 
 Call me to joys. Begone, short woes begone; 
 I lived to die, but now I die to live, 
 I do enjoy more than I did believe. 
 The promise me unto possession sends, 
 Faith in fruition, hope, in having, ends." 
 
 — Mijiiite Book kept by the War Committee of the Covt- 
 nanters in the Stexuartry of Kirkcudbright in the years 16^0 
 and 1641, edited by J. Nicholson, pp. 215—20; Miscellany 
 of Maitland Club, vol. i. , p. 476, as quoted in Chambers's 
 Dotnestic Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 127. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 127 
 
 no better, without a full quire and organs, could be made. For the precentor's method was this — 
 three trebles, three tenors, three counter-tenors, and 3 bass voices, equally divided on each side of 
 them (besides the Gentlewomen scholars which sat scattered in their pews), which sang their several 
 parts as he had appointed them, which overruled dny of the heedless vulgar, who learned thereby 
 (at least) to forbear disturbing the congregation with their clamorous tones. — The scholars of the 
 great school also came in order, following the master, and seated themselves in the next form in the 
 loft or gallery, behind the Provost, who had his Burgesses on each hand of them. 
 
 But, alas ! this beautiful order, appointed and settled by his Lordship, lasted no longer than 
 till the Scottish army^^ came over and put their Chaplains in our Churches; who, having power, 
 regarded not law, equity or right to back or countenance them; they turned out all the legal loyal 
 Clergy, who would not desert Episcopacy and the service book, and take the Covenant, a very 
 bitter pill, indeed, to honest men;''9 but they found few to comply with them therein; and so they 
 had the more pulpits and schools to dispose of to other dominies, for whom they sent letters into 
 Scotland. 5° 
 
 Scottish army. — The Scottish army which came to 
 Ulster in 1642 consisted of ten thousand men. Its six- 
 teen regiments were commanded by the following officers, 
 viz., Alexander Lesly, earl of Leven, commander-in-chief; 
 the marquis of Argyle ; the earls of Lothian, Cassilis, 
 Lindsay, Eglinton, and Glencairn; lords Sinclair and 
 Louden; the laird of Largey; sir Duncan Campbell of 
 Sleat; general Robert Monro; and colonels Montgomery, 
 Lauder, Hume, and Dalzell. On the 2nd of April, the 
 first instalment of this army, consisting of 2,500 men, 
 arrived at Carrickfergus, under the command of general 
 Robert Monro; and on the 4th of August following the re- 
 maining portion appeared, with Alexander Lesly, earl of 
 Leven, at theirhead. — M 'SVimirCs History of Carrickfergiu, 
 pp. 52, 403. "On the breaking out of the Irish rebellion, 
 October 23rd, 1641, the then Lords Justices of Ireland, 
 finding that the Protestant forces of that kingdom were 
 unable to make head against the enemie, wrote importu- 
 nately to England for a speedy supply of men, money, and 
 arms, to oppose the rebels, and particularly proposed that 
 in regard the Scots could be more easily transported over 
 to the North of Ireland than the English, methods might 
 be taken to bring forces from Scotland to their assistance; 
 whereupon. Articles and Propositions were assented to by 
 King Charles ist and the Parliaments of England and 
 Scotland, for transporting 10,000 Scots into Ireland, to 
 fight against the bloody Irish. By the third of these 
 articles it is provided ' that they have the command and 
 keeping of the town and castle of Carrickfergus, with 
 power to them to remain still within the same, or to en- 
 large their quarters, and to go abroad in the country upon 
 such occasions as their officers, in their discretion, shall 
 think expedient for the good of that Kingdom. And if it 
 shall be thought fit, that any regiments or troops in that 
 province shall join with them, that they receive orders from 
 the commanders of their forces." — Husband's Collections, 
 p. 57, as quoted in Kirkpatrick's ZiTyaZ/j/ of Presbyterians, 
 p. 252. 
 
 *9 To honest men. — At the commencement of the re- 
 bellion, the Protestant bishops, with few exceptions, fled 
 
 from their sees, their people being cut off in vast numbers 
 by the skeins and pikes of the Irish insurgents. The 
 presbyterian ministers, therefore, who came as chaplains 
 with the Scottish forces, as well as those who soon re- 
 appeared on thescene of their former humiliation (seep. 124, 
 note 43, supra), now found everywhere throughout Ulster a 
 clear stage for the amplest presbyterial operations. ' ' Mean- 
 time," says Adair, True Narrative, p. 95, "the country 
 was destitute of ministers; for the bishops and their party 
 were generally swept away by the rebellion, and now began 
 to be also discountenanced by the parliament of England. 
 So that from that time forth the Lord begati more openly to 
 erect a netv tabernacle for himself in Ireland, and especially 
 in the northern parts of it, and spread more the curtains of 
 his habitation.^'' No doubt such episcopalian ministers as 
 had clung to their charges notwithstanding the departure 
 of their bishops, found the covenant 'a bitter pill,' ad- 
 ministered so soon after their sufferings from the rebellion. 
 Only a few, it would appear from the text, were able to 
 swallow it, and all who could not, were summarily ex- 
 pelled from their parishes. There were three Scottish 
 covenants, or rather three varieties of one covenant. The 
 first was framed during the minority of James VI. ; the 
 second, known as the National Covenaiit, in 1638; and 
 the third, or Solemn League and Covenant, in 1643. The 
 first was simply an engagement against the dreaded en- 
 croachments of popery, whilst the second and third were 
 designed to uproot prelacy, as the accursed thing, which, 
 at all hazards, was to be encountered and destroyed. The 
 writer of Naphtali, or the Wrestlings op the Church of Scot- 
 land, at p. S3, says: — "The rooting out of prelacy and 
 the wicked hierarchy, therein so obviously described, is the 
 main duty." — See Buckle's Civilization in Englajid, vol. 
 i'-> ?• 336 and notes. The covenant referred to in the 
 text, was the National Covenant of 1 638, 
 
 5° Letters into Scotland. — Curiously enough, the term 
 dominies is here used as a contemptuous deNicpiotion, al- 
 though it was originally employed as a title of respect. 
 Du Cange states that a bishop, abbot, and canon enjoyed 
 the distinction of dominus. Dottiine, the vocative casej^ 
 
128 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 All those mighty and (as I may justly term them) pious works were performed by his Lordship 
 before his second marriage. In the patent for his lands, which, by the trouble aforesaid, he could 
 not get passed till 2d Car. Ao. 1626,51 which was then positively ordered by his Majesty, at the 
 earnest solicitation of James Montgomery, Gentleman Usher in his Privy Chamber aforesaid. His 
 Lordship had grants therein of fairs and weekly markets in Donaghadee, Grayabby and Comerer, 
 towns aforesaid, with a free port to each of them;52 from whence all goo^?, (except linen yarn) xfXi^K 
 be exported, and the ordinary customs, both inward and outward, were granted to himself and his 
 heirs, which he took at very low rates, the more to encourage importers, and such as would come 
 to plant on his lands; which usage did wonderfully further and advance his towns & plantation with 
 trade, which was begun and to a great degree encreased in the first seven years after it began, which 
 was Ao. 1606, as aforesaid; and thus it continued growing better and better till his Lordship's 
 death, and afterwards, also, even until the Lord Strafford's administration, when patents were re- 
 newed, and the grants of ports, customs and officers were retrenched by Parliament, and vested in 
 the crown again.ss His Lordship also (before he was nobilitated) had his coat armorial, according 
 to the bearing of his ancestors, gilded on his closet books, as the Bible and Prayer Books were. 
 
 His Lordship had also granted to him many franchises, immunitys and privileges in his lands 
 
 came to be the fonn of address from pupils to their teacher, 
 when they wished to say Sir, or Master. The word was at 
 length used as a name of contempt for ministers and school- 
 masters alike. In Ritson's Collection of Songs, vol. i., p. 
 179, we have the following : 
 
 " Ministers' stipends are uncertain rents 
 For ladies' conjunct-fee, laddie; 
 When book and gown are all cried down 
 No dominie for me, laddie." 
 
 The term was commonly prefixed, in conversation, to the 
 surname of the minister spoken of, and was sometimes so 
 used even in print : Thus in Franck's Northern Memoirs, 
 p. 114, the author says, when speaking of a particular 
 locality: — "But there is one thing remarkable and that's 
 the house of Dominie Caudwell (Caldwell), who absolved 
 the thief, and concealed the theft, so lost his breeches. " — 
 See Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary. The ministers 
 to whom this term was applied by the author in the text 
 were Messrs. Cunningham, Baird, Peebles, and Simpson, 
 who had come as chaplains to Scottish regiments, and 
 were soon afterwards followed from Scotland "by other 
 dominies," as the pulpits were emptied of their episcopal 
 occupants. These others were located at Ballymena, An- 
 trim, Cairncastle, Templepatrick, Lame, Belfast, Carrick- 
 fergus, Ballywalter, Portaferry, Newtownards, Donagha- 
 dee, Killyleagh, Comber, Holywood, and Bangor. — Adair's 
 Narrative, pp. 95, loi, 102. 
 5' Ao. 1626. — Seep. 77, supra. 
 
 5^ Free port to each ofthetn. — See this Patent of 1626 in 
 Appendix F, at the end of the volume. 
 
 53 Vested iti the crown again. — Strafford's administration 
 commenced from the date of his patent, July 3, 1633, and 
 came to a close on the 30th of December, 1640, when lord 
 Robert Dillon and sir Wm. Parsons were appointed to ad- 
 minister the Irish government on his impeachment. 
 Straffordwaslorddeputy until Jan. 13, 1639, when Charles 
 
 raised him to the higher dignity of lord lieutenant. The 
 patent for the latter appointment recites that Thomas, earl 
 of Strafford, having for six years and more approved his 
 obedience and industry to the crown, in the ofBce of L.D. 
 of Ireland, and general of the army there, the king in re- 
 compence for his services in those stations, for his Majesty's 
 honour safety of the church, and the whole people's good, 
 appomted him L.L. for Ireland." — Liber Hibernics, vol. 
 i. , p. 7. Notwithstanding these honours, the administra- 
 tion of Strafford was one of the most disastrous this coimtry 
 ever witnessed, and led directly to the outbreak of that 
 fatal rebellion which soon afterwards followed. "Upon a 
 stale assumption of a title in the crown to Connaught, large 
 tracts in Munster and also in Leinster, he caused commis- 
 sions to be issued out of chancery into the several counties 
 in which the coveted possessions lay, and by a compulsory 
 process with juries which the lord lieutenant of that 
 day had the power to apply, findings were obtained 
 exactly suited to Strafford's inconsiderate pohtical pro- 
 gramme The feeling of insecurity to all 
 
 real property engendered by the inquisitions adverted to 
 was natural, and the subsequent attainder and execution 
 of Strafford, did not mitigate it, as the title of the crown to 
 the devoted possessions was suffered to remain recorded in 
 the court of chancery ; and that title, although by circum- 
 stances suspended, might, at the earliest convenient oppor- 
 tunity, be called into action. Had the English parliament 
 upon Strafford's conviction, pronounced these inquisitions 
 illegal and ineffective as was aftenvards done in the pre- 
 amble to the Act of Explanation in 1665, it would in all 
 probability, have produced reaction, and created a confidence 
 in the public mind that would have disarmed the spirit of 
 disaffection and revolt, which the proceedings of Strafford, 
 and the unconcUiating and bitter tone of the Irish parlia- 
 ment towards their Roman catholic fellow-subjects had 
 excited to desperation." — See Trattsactions of Royal Irish 
 Academy, Antiquities, vol. xxi\-., pp. 380, 381. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and courts, and to his senischall, which, whether they stand on the old bottom, or be fallen, because 
 of taking out the new patent, 13 Car. upon the Commission, for remedy of defective titles,54 1 will 
 not say pro or con, but leave it to those who shall be concerned, and so surcease mention of his 
 other acts; and shall tell of him things which his Lordship never did nor knew, viz. — the last 
 memories, I mean his funeral, which I here write of him, who was, by the Irish, to the highest de- 
 gree, beloved whilst alive and lamented when dead. 
 
 54 Defective titles. — In 1636, a commission was issued to same. After the passing of this act the second viscount 
 inquire into defects supposed to exist in all titles to estates, Montgomery, who had succeeded to the estates in 1636, 
 and to prepare an act of parliament for remedying the took out a new patent, 13 Car. I. 1638 — See Appendix H, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Sa^ASTLY as to his late Lordship's funeral, it was managed by the said Sir James, joint- 
 a ^^^^ ^'■^ eldest brother' to the defunct's will,^ as the alteration of his coat armo- 
 
 ■''«=°™ l rial had been. I here transcribe from his pen the order of it as concerted between him 
 and Ulster King at Arms,3 and Albone Leveret, Athlone (whose acquittances for fees I have), being 
 his pursuivant.* The solemnity was performed with all the pomp that the rules of heraldrys would 
 admit and decency did require. For the preparations thereunto no time was wanting, his late Lord- 
 ship (as hath been said) dying in May, 1636, and his corpse being embalmed and rolled in wax 
 searcloths was close coffined, (no more now Lord or Montgomery) was locked up in a turrett till a 
 week before its interment, at which time (being in September the said last mentioned year), it was 
 carried privately by night a mile out of town, and in a large tent laid in state, and attended with the 
 formalities of wax candles, friends and servants, till the day of the procession on foot from the said 
 tent to the Church. The persons who made up the procession were all clothed in blacks (called in 
 Scotland dueil weeds^ from this word dueil, but, burrowed from the French, signifying mourning) 
 
 ' Eldest brother. — This was Hugh, who had now become 
 second viscount. 
 
 Defnncfs will. — The reader will find a copy of this 
 document in Appendix I. 
 
 3 Ulster King at Arms. — This was Thomas Preston, 
 esq., who had been Portcullis Herald in England, and 
 who was appointed Ulster King in 1633. He died in 
 1642, and was buried in St.Werburghs, on the I2th of July. 
 — Liber Hibernice, vol i., part ii. p, 85. 
 
 't Being his pursuivant. — Albone or Alvane Leveret, 
 was eldest son of William Leveret, appointed Athlone 
 pursuivant, by patent dated March 28, I59S- William 
 Leveret surrendered this patent the i6th July, 1 608, and 
 on the following day, he and his son Alvane, or Albone, 
 received a new patent including both their names. — Liber 
 Hibernia:, vol. i., part ii. p. 85. 
 
 5 Rides of heraldry. — Heraldry has been defined to be the 
 art of arranging and explaining in appropriate terms every 
 particular connected with the bearing of coats of arms, 
 badges, and other hereditary or assvuned marks of honour. 
 It is also described as the science of marshalling pro- 
 cessions, and conducting the ceremonies of coronations, 
 creations of peers, funerals, and all other public solemnities. 
 Depredators of this art stigmatize it as "the science of 
 fools with long memories. " It should rather be designated, 
 others aver, "as a science which properly directed, would 
 make fools wise. It is a key to history which may yet 
 unlock stores of information. At present its learned pro- 
 fessors have studied the art itself more than the use which 
 may be made of it." — See Penny Cyclopcedia, vol. xii., pp. 
 139, 144. The significance of heraldic ceremonies may 
 be inferred from a letter addressed by Charles I. to the 
 
 lord-deputy Falkland, in 1626. The king commences 
 this letter by referring to "diverse abuses and disorders con» 
 cerning Arms and Armoury there (in Ireland) occasioned 
 partly through the boldness of some mechanical persons 
 who presume to set forth aims for the nobihty and gentry, 
 . . . and partly through the nobility and gentry them- 
 selves, who have of late, as we are informed, wholly in a 
 manner laid aside all funeral rites and ceremonies." This 
 neglect the king describes as "a matter requiring speedy 
 redress and refonnation in regard of the gentry and nobility 
 themselves whom so deeply in honour it concemeth, and 
 whose houses cannot but in a short time grow into so many 
 perplexities and confused disorders in their arms and pedi- 
 grees, if all use of arms be laid aside at obsequies and 
 funerals, and no entry made of the day of their decease, 
 matches, and issues. " The letter concludes as follows : — 
 ' ' And our further pleasure is to see our servant (Daniel 
 Molyneux, then Ulster King of Arms) coimtenanced and 
 furthered in the execution of a commission of Heralds' 
 visitation throughout the several places and quarters of 
 that our kingdom ; and if any whom it shall concern be 
 backward or refractory against the due execution of the 
 forenamed commission, our pleasure is that you take spe- 
 cial notice of them, hereby requiring and authorizing you 
 to use such means, as in any wise they be made obedient 
 to this our command and pleasure to you signified in that 
 behalf. " The reader may find the whole of this remarkable 
 letter printed in Morrin's Calendar, reign of Charles /., p. 
 208. 
 
 ^ Dueil -weeds. — Dueil is the French for dule or dool, a 
 Scottish word mfixixnggrief. The Gaelic {ormisdoilghios, 
 and the Latin dolor. The following illustration of the use 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and were seen in the following order, which the reader may please to peruse, if he doe not already 
 know well enough the manner of burying Viscounts,? which is, viz. — Imprimis, 2 conductors (with 
 black truncheons) named Thomas Kenedy and John Lockart, both of Comerer — 2dly, poor men 
 (the oldest could be had) called salys (i.e. almsmen*) in gowns, to the number of 76, the year current 
 of his late Lordship's age, walking two and two, with their black staves — sdly, the servants of 
 Gentlemen, Esquires, Knights, Barons, Vicounts, and Earles hereafter named, viz., by two's as they 
 went, 
 
 Hy. Savage, of Arkeen' - . . - i Hu. Kennedy, of Greengraves'" - - - i 
 Rt. Barclay, Dean of Clogher" - - - 2 
 
 of this word occurs in Bellenden's Chronicle, book vi,, 
 Chap. 18: — "Efter proscription of thewien, come sundry 
 ladys of Scotland, arrayit in their dule habit, for doloure 
 of their husbandis, quhilkis war slane in this last battall." 
 Wynton ( Chronicle, vii., 4,) says : — 
 
 " Mackbeth-Tynlayk and Lulawch fule, 
 Oure-drevyn had all their dayis in dule." 
 
 See Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary. 
 
 7 Of burying viscounts. — The author has given us here 
 perhaps one of the most complete accounts of this ceremony 
 on record. The burying of a viscount differed only in cer- 
 tain heraldic arrangements from the burying of an earl, of 
 which latter ceremony there are several instances recorded. 
 The first earl of Buccleuch, who died in London at the close 
 of 1633, was buried on the nth of June, 1634, an interval 
 somewhat longer between the death and the funeral than 
 was observed in the case of the first viscount Montgomery 
 at Newtown. When Buccleuch's body was brought from 
 England, where it had been embalmed, it rested twenty 
 days in the church of Leith, whence it was removed 
 to the family residence of Branxholm, and thence, 
 in due heraldic time and order, transferred to its 
 last resting-place in Hawick church. The procession 
 which preceded the body along the banks of the Teviot 
 was composed first, of forty-six saulies (the number of the 
 years deceased had lived) in black gowns and hoods, each 
 carrying a black stave; then came a trumpeter, in the family 
 livery, sounding his trumpet at intervals ; next advanced 
 Robert Scott of Howshaw, fully armed, riding on a fair- 
 horse, and carrying on the point of his lance a little banner 
 of the defunct's colours, azure and or. After him came a 
 horse in black trappings, led by a lackey in mourning, 
 another horse with a crimson velvet foot-mantle, and three 
 trumpeters in mourning, on foot 'sounding sadly.' Then, 
 the great scutcheon or gumpheon of black taffeta carried 
 on a lance; the spurs of the deceased earl carried by Walter 
 Scott of Lauchope ; his sword borne by Andrew Scott of 
 Broadmeadows ; his gauntlets by Francis Scott of Castle- 
 side, and his coat of honour by Lawrence Scott, all near 
 kinsmen of Buccleuch. Eight gentlemen of the clan 
 Scott followed, each bearing the coat of arms of one 
 of the various paternal and maternal ancestors of the 
 defunct. Other gentlemen of the name of Scott carried 
 the great pencil, the standard, the coronet and the arms. 
 After them went three other tnimpeters, and the three pur- 
 suivants in mourning. ' Last of all cam the corpse, carried 
 under a fair pall of black velvet, decked with armes, larmes, 
 and cipress of sattin, knopt with gold, and on the coffin 
 
 the defunct's helmet and coronet, overlaid with cipress, to 
 shew that he was a soldier. And so in this order, with 
 the conduct of many honourable friends, marched they 
 from Branxholm to Hawick church, where, after the 
 funeral sermon ended, the corps were interred amongst his 
 ancestors.' — A MS. by sir James Balfour, and Ancient 
 Heraldic Tracts, as quoted by Chambers, in Domestic 
 Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., pp. 73, 74. 
 
 ^ Salys ( i. e. almsmen ). — Salys, more generally written 
 saullies, were hired mourners who walked in procession 
 before the corpse. Acts, Jac. VL, 1621, c. 25, s. 12, 
 dii-ects that ' 'no deule weedes be given to Heraulds, Trumpet- 
 ters, or Saullies, except by earls, and lords, and their wives. 
 And the number of saullies to be according to the number 
 of the deule weedes, under the pane of one thousand 
 punds." Fergusson, the Scottish poet, uses the word in 
 the follovnng couplet : — 
 
 "How come mankind, when lacking , woe, 
 In saullie's face their heart to show?" 
 
 This term is supposed to be derived from the constantly 
 repeated salve uttered by the mourners who preceded the 
 corpse in Roman catholic times. — See Jamieson's Etymo- 
 logical Dictionary. 
 
 9 Hy. Savage, of Arkeen. — This Henry Savage, whom 
 the author afterwards notices especially in Incidentall Re- 
 membrances of Two A ncient Ea??iilies of the Savages, was son 
 of Jenkin Savage, and grandson of Ferdoragh Savage, of 
 Ardchin. See Erck's Repertory, of Patent Rolls, 
 
 p. 251. 
 
 '° Hu. Kennedy, of Greengraves. — Greengraves is the 
 name of a townland in the parish of Newtownards. 
 There were many settlers in the Ards of this surname of 
 Kennedy, belonging, no doubt, to several branches of the 
 family in Ayrshire. One of the best known at an early 
 period of the settlement in Down was Fergics Kennedy, 
 who held extensive landed property in the parish of 
 Comber, and of whom Hugh, mentioned in the text, may 
 have been a son, probably so called after sir Hugh Mont- 
 gomeiy. A second Fergus Kennedy's name appears on 
 an early rent-roll in connexion with lands in Ballyclogher, 
 Ballylurgan, and Ballyalteskeoge, in the parish of Comber. 
 — MS. Paper preserved at Donaghadee. 
 
 " Rt. Barclay. — For dean Barclay's several appoint- 
 ments see Liber Mutierum Hibernia, vol. ii. , part v. , pp. 
 106 — III; Morrin's Calendar, reign of Charles 1., p. 
 592, where his name is erroneously written Buckley. In 
 the Spottisivoode Miscellany, vol. i., pp. 1 04, 105, the 
 reader may see a curious account of Barclay's at- 
 
132 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Robt. Adair, of Ballymenagh" - - - i 
 Archd. Edminston,of Duntreth'^ - - 2 
 Sir Jos. Cunningham, Kt.'" - - - i 
 
 tempt to reconcile certain family difficulties between lord 
 Ridgeway and sir James Erskine. In 1643, dean Bar- 
 clay suffered deposition at the hands of the presbyterian 
 ministers, who accused him of "trading in a way incon- 
 sistent with the ministry, of cursing and swearing, pro- 
 faning the Sabbath, intruding on a neighbouring parish, 
 and frequent drunkenness." — Adair's Narrative, p. 140. 
 Two others, named Robert Young and Archibald Glas- 
 gow, deposed at the same time, on more serious charges, 
 were appointed at the Restoration to the rectories of Cul- 
 daff and Clondevaddock. Had dean Barclay lived 
 until the Restoration, his deposition by the presbyterians 
 would, no doubt, have had the effect of securing his ad- 
 vancement also. He purchased an estate in the county 
 of Monaghan in the year 1632, and died at Glasslough in 
 1659. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Max- 
 well, dean of Armagh, by whom he left one child, Mary, 
 who became the wife of a gentleman named Cope, and 
 who was thirty years of age at the time of her father's 
 death. — Inquisitions, Monaghan, no. 112 Car. I.; no. 5 
 Car. II. 
 
 " Robt. Adair, of Ballymenagh. — See p. 113, supra. 
 Robert Adair, afterwards sir Robert, bom in 1603, 
 succeeded to the family estate, at Ballymena, in 1626, 
 the date of his father's death. Pie acted as an 
 arbitrator on one occasion for the first viscount Mont- 
 gomery, as appears from the following sentence in the 
 will of the latter: — "Imprimis, there is due and remain- 
 ing unpaid unto me by Francis Lyall, Esqr., according to 
 an award made by Arthur Lyall and Robert Adair, Esqr., 
 the sum of £?>oo sterling." At the time of sir Robert 
 Adair's death, in 1655, he resided at Ballymena als Kin- 
 hilistotane, and was in possession of the towns and lands 
 of Ballycloghcany als Ballyloughnegarry, 120 acres; Bal- 
 lyclogher, 120 acres; Ballycreegyburran als Ballycreegy- 
 varran, 120 acres; Ballyvalley als Bally, 120 acres; the 
 three quarter land of Ballydromin, 100 acres ; Ballydowne- 
 fiane, 120 acres; Ballynegarvey, 120 acres; half a quarter 
 land in Ballytissane called Killin, 20 acres ; the tows, 
 lands, and tenements of Ballymeanagh als Kinhillstowne, 
 120 acres; Ballyloughan, 120 acres; Ballyloymore, 120 
 acres ; half of the town and lands of Duneveagh, 60 acres ; 
 half the town and land of Dungall, 30 acres ; Monaghan, 
 120 acres; Clonteconnelagh, 120 acres; half the town and 
 lands of Kilflegh als Kilflugh, 30 acres ; the parcell of 
 land called Ballylugg, alias Wm. M'^Gee's parcel, 20 acres ; 
 the quarter of Broghmolt, 60 acres ; the quarter of Cor- 
 munck, 30 acres ; the quarter of Carrowdumoge, 30 acres ; 
 the half of Antenecunties, 60 acres ; and the half of Bally- 
 necabra, 30 acres, all lying in the territory of Clanagherty, 
 county of Antrim. Robert Adair owed the earl of Antrim 
 £S'^^ ICS, for which he paid to the latter the yearly sum 
 of £^0 15s. The earl of Antrim assigned this annuity to 
 Alexander Colville, doctor of divinity. — Inqicisitio7is, An- 
 trim, no. 3, Car. II. 
 
 "5 Archd. Edminstofi, of Duntreth, — Son of William 
 Edmonston and Isabella Haldane, see p. 58, sitp'a. 
 
 Sir Jos. Ctmningham, Kt. — Sir Jos. Cimningham 
 is mentioned afterwards as holding a commission under 
 
 Sir Wm. Murray, Kt. and Bart.'^ . . i 
 
 Mr. Jo. Alexander'* i 
 
 Sir Edw. Trever" 2 
 
 sir William Stewart, in 1642. He is not noticed by 
 Lodge, but most probably belonged to one of the many 
 families of this surname settled in Donegal. 
 
 '7 Sir Wm. Murray. — This was sir William Murray of 
 Clermont, in the county of Fife, who had married Margaret, 
 second daughter of sir Wm. Alexander, and was therefore 
 brother-in-law to the second viscount Montgomery of 
 Ards. This mamage took place in Kensington church, 
 near London, and is recorded as follows in the parochial 
 register: — "1620 — Mr. W. Miuray and Mrs. Margaret 
 Alexander, daughter of sir William Alexander, a Scottish 
 knight, July the 20th." See Appendix G. Sir William 
 Murray was created a baronet of Nova Scotia on the first 
 of July, 1626. His family was a branch of the ancient 
 house of Murray, which has been seated in Blackbarony, 
 county of Peebles, since the middle of the fifteenth century. 
 See 'S>yxx\.€'i Peerage. 
 
 Mr. Jo. Alexander. — This was the fourth son 
 of sir William Alexander, earl of Stirling. Of him 
 Mr. Banks says in his Memoir: — "'Wliich Honourable 
 John Alexander, after the death of his father, having 
 been greatly harassed for the engagements he had 
 entered into for his said father, to enable him to 
 furnish the immense expenses continually required from 
 him, to support his colonies in America, was obliged 
 to quit Scotland, and thereupon he went to Ireland, 
 where his mother, the Dowager Countess of Stirling, 
 and his sister, the Viscountess Montgomery, were residing, 
 and there by the assistance of his brother in-law. Gen. 
 Monro, he found an Asylum, and thenceforth fixed his 
 domicile. In the more early part of his life, he had at- 
 tended with his three brothers, William, Lord Alexander, 
 Sir Anthony Alexander, and Charles Alexander, the fune- 
 ral of the first Viscount Montgomery at Newtown Ardes 
 — and he now rejoined the society of the family. He 
 married Agnes, the daughter and Heiress of Robert Gra- 
 ham of Gartmore, in Scotland, and had an only son John, 
 the great grandfather of the present ( 1 829) Earl of S tirling. ' ' 
 It is believed that the hon. John Alexander resided in the 
 neighbourhood of the town of Antrim. He was interred 
 in the vault of the Montgomery famUy at Newto-mi. 
 When the old church was demolished in 1830 (see p. 123, 
 note 33, supra) his tombstone, with others, was used as flagging 
 to make the floor of the court-house. It is strange that 
 William Montgomery, who was usually careful to give to 
 every man his proper title, does not designate John Alex- 
 ander or his brother Charles by the epithet ho7iourable, 
 although they were sons of an earl. 
 
 '5 Sir Edw. Trever. — Sir Edward Trevor was an old man 
 at the date of the first viscount's funeral in 1636. He 
 had served against the Irish during the rebellion of Hugh 
 O'Neill, and was highly distinguished as a gallant officer 
 in that service. Sir Edward's name appears on several 
 important commissions connected with the county of 
 Down. — See Erck's Patent Bolls, James I., pp. 329, 352; 
 Morrin's Calendar, Charles I., pp. 65, 289; Ulster 
 Inquisitions, Armagh, no. 7, Jac. I. ; 13, 27, Car. I. ; 
 Down, II, Jac. L; S, 39, 46, 51, 65, 84, 93, 97, Car. I. ; 
 Harris, County of Down, pp. 83, 87. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Hi 
 
 Jo. Shaw, of Greenock, Esq." • 
 
 - t Sir Wm. Semple, Kt.'S 
 
 - a 
 
 Geo. Montgomery, Esq.°' - . - 
 
 - 2 Charles Alexander^ ... 
 
 - I 
 
 Sir Anthy. Alexander, Kt." 
 
 - I N. Montgomery, Esq., of Langshaw^' 
 
 - I 
 
 The Lord Alexander's 
 
 - 2 Pat. Savage,'^ of Portaferry, Esq. 
 
 - S 
 
 The Lord Viscount Claneboy'^ - 
 
 - 3 Sir Jas. Montgomery, 
 
 - 6 
 
 " yohn SJiaiv, of Greenock. — This gentleman was son of 
 James Shaw, and Margaret, daughter of Robert Mont- 
 gomery, sixth laird of Hazlehead. James died in 1620, 
 leaving John, his only son and heir, who added very much 
 to the family estates, and died in the year 1679. — Craw- 
 ford's Renfrewshire, p. 125. Crawford errs in stating 
 that Margaret Montgomery was daughter of Htigh, 
 the fifth laird, she being his grand-daughter. ' The 
 Commissaiy Records of Glasgow show that Margaret 
 Wallace, spous to Robert Montgomerie of Hessilheid,' 
 who 'deceissit in the moneth of Julii, 1602, left a 
 daughter, Margaret AIontgoi?iei-ie (Mrs. James Shaw), in 
 favour of whom her latter will and testament was made.' 
 — Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i., 
 pp. 291, 292, ttofe. 
 
 Geo. Montgomery, Esq. — The third son of the first 
 viscount was named Gtorge, but he, as chief mourner, 
 followed the hearse on this occasion. The gentleman 
 mentioned in the text was a kinsman. The second viscount, 
 writing to the earl of Ormonde, on the 24th of March, 
 1641-2. says: — "I may not forgete to give your Iop. 
 humble thankes for one George Montgomerie, a kinsman 
 of myne, whom your IoP. had been pleased to profarre as 
 ensigne to lieutentant colonell .Stirling. I shall intreate, 
 that as your Iop. fyndes the young gentleman to deserve 
 that, your Iop. will be pleased to take him in your care 
 for further preferrment." — Carte Collection, Bodleian 
 Library, Oxford. 
 
 °= Sir Anthy. Alexander. — Sir Anthony was second 
 son of the earl of Stirling, and a brother of the second 
 viscountess Montgomery. In the Advocates' Library, 
 Edinburgh, there are preserved two folio volumes in manu- 
 script, entitled Secretary Alexander, his Register of Letters. 
 This MS. contains the following notice of sir Anthony's 
 death, which was most probably written by his father, the 
 first earl of Stirling: — ^ " Londone, .Sond.ay, 17 Septm., 
 1637, S^ Anthony Alexander, knyght, dyed." 
 
 ^3 The Lord Alexander. — This was William, eldest son 
 of the earl of Stirling, and eldest brother of the second 
 viscountess Montgomery. In the collection or Register 
 of L.etters above quoted, there is the following notice of 
 his death: — "Londone, May 18, 1638, William, lord 
 Alexander, eldest sonne to W. Alexander, earle of 
 Stirling, dyed." The editor is indebted for the two fore- 
 going extracts to the kindness of the Rev. Dr. Rogers, 
 Greenwicli, the author of A Week at Dicnoon. In the 
 Metnoir of Mr. Banks, there is the following notice of the 
 lord Alexander mentioned in the text: — "William, vis- 
 count Canada, eldest son and heir apparent of William, 
 earl of Stirling, was a young man of great talents and 
 spirit. He was knighted in the life-time of his father, and 
 for a considerable period was his deputy and lieutenant in 
 Nova Scotia, in which station he was at great pains in 
 settling the colony, but the hardships and fatigues he had 
 to encounter in that undertaking so impaired his health, 
 that, on his return to England, he died at London on the 
 
 18th of May, 1638, in the prime of life, and before his 
 father. He married the lady Jean Douglas, daughter of 
 William, marquis of Douglas, and by her (who survived 
 him), had one son, William, and three daughters, viz., 
 Katherine, Jane, and Margaret, whereof the first married 
 Walter, lord Torphichen, and the last, sir Robert Sinclair, 
 bart., of Longfermachas. William, only son of viscount 
 Canada, succeeded his grandfather as earl of Stirling, on 
 the 1 2th of February, 1640, but died in May following, 
 under eight years of age, leaving his three sisters as his 
 co-heirs at common law ; but the titles and estates of the 
 family, having by the charter of Novo Damns, of the 7th 
 December, 1639, coalesced, and been limited to descend 
 together, the right of the whole inheritance devolved upon 
 his uncle Henry, third son of William, the first earl of 
 Stirling." 
 
 Viscount Clanehoy. — ^James Hamilton, created viscount 
 Claneboy in 1622. He died in 1643. See p. 31, et seq., 
 supra. 
 
 =5 Sir Wm. Semple.' — Sir William Semple or St. Paul 
 of Letterkenny, county of Longford, was brother-in-law of 
 sir James Montgomery of Rosemount, having married 
 Anne, the second daughter of sir William Stewart, and 
 sister of sir James's first wife. This sir William Semphill 
 was probably a son of Robert, fourth lord Semple, and 
 lady Agnes Montgomery, a daughter of the house of 
 Eglinton. — Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, edited by Arch- 
 dall, vol. vi., p. 247. 
 
 ^ Charles Alexander. — This gentleman was fifth son of 
 the earl of Stirling, and fifth brother of the second 
 viscountess Montgomery. He married Anne, daughter 
 
 ot Dinrie, and left one son, Charles, who died 
 
 without issue. — Banks's Memoir of Sir Wm. Alexander. 
 
 =7 Of Langshaw. — The Montgomeiys of Langshaw, or 
 Lainshaw, in the parish of Stewarton, county of Ayr, were 
 descended from Nigel or Neil Montgomery, second son 
 of Hugli, first earl of Eglinton, and the lady Helen 
 Campbell, a daughter of Colin, first earl of Argyle. 
 Neil Montgomeiy, who was present at the funeral in 
 Newtownards, was the sixth laird of Lainshaw. His 
 mother was Maria Mure, daughter of sir William Mure of 
 Rowallan. In the will of Patrick Houston of Park, who 
 died in 1635, there is the following passage referring to 
 this laird andhismother as debtors to the testator : — "Item, 
 there was awand, &c. , be Marioun Muir, ladie Langschaw, 
 as principall, and Neill Montgomerie, hir sone, as 
 cautioner for hir, the sowme of twa thousand poundis 
 money, obleist be thame to the defunct, in the name of 
 tocher, with Agnes Montgomerie, dochter to the said 
 Marioun Muir, for the marriage solemnizat betuix hir and 
 George Houstoune."- — Paterson, Parishes and Farnilies 
 of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 453, 454. 
 
 =^ Pat. Savage. — Son-in-law to the first viscount. See 
 p. 89, supra. 
 
 '9 Sir James Montgomery. — Of Rosemount; second son 
 of the deceased. 
 
 U 
 
134 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Sir Wm. Stewart,** Kt. and Bart. - - 5 The Lord Montgomery, 5' the Earle's son • 2 
 The Earle of Eglintons'- - - - - 5 
 Besides the attendants on their two Lordships' bodies. 
 4th, Then marched the standard borne by Lt. Robert Montgomery. 33 
 5th, After it followed the servants to the second Viscount, the chief mourner, viz. — 
 
 John Boyd,5'« Henry Purfrey, Hugh Montgomery, of Grange,* jun. 
 
 William Catherwood,^' Hugh Montgomery, of Newtown, 3' Edw. Johnston, 39 of Greengraves. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Row,^* James Fairbairn, 
 
 3' Sir Wm. Stewart. — See pp. 93, 94, supi-a. Sir Wm. 
 Stewart survived the Revolution, and died at a good old 
 age. His grandson was created lord Stewart of Ramel- 
 ton, and viscount Mountjoy in 1692. The grandson of 
 the latter was created earl of Blessington in 1745, and died 
 without issue in 1769. The titles were revived in favour 
 of the representative of Thomas Stewart of Fort-Stewart, 
 county of Donegal, who was second son of the first sir 
 William Stewart of Aughentean and Newton-Stewart. 
 The titles have again become extinct, the late well-known 
 countess of Blessington being the widow of the last earl. 
 For an interesting account of this branch of the Stewart 
 family in Ulster, see Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. vi., pp. 245 — 258. 
 
 3' Lord Montgomery. — This was Hugh Montgomeiy, 
 eldest son of Alexander, sixth earl of Eglinton. He be- 
 came seventh earl, on the death of his father in i66r, and 
 died in 1669. 
 
 3^ Earle of Eglinton. — The sixth earl, sumamed Grey- 
 steel. See p. 7, sttpra. 
 
 33 Lf. Robert Montgotnery. — Lieut. Robert Montgomery 
 (as the author afterwards states in his memoirs of various 
 families of this surname) was the second son of Nicholas 
 Montgomeiy of Derrybrusk, near Enniskillen. His elder 
 brother was Hugh Montgomeiy of Derrygonnelly, county 
 of Fermanagh, and his younger brother was Andrew 
 Montgomery, rector of Carrickmacross. 
 
 34 yo/m Boyd. — This gentleman was, no doubt, a de- 
 scendant — probably a grandson — of colonel David Boyd. 
 John Boyd of Drumnafaddie, or Drumfad, near Donagha- 
 dee, held a bond for ;^I50 against the second earl of 
 Mount Alexander, in 1676. — MS. Paper preserved at Don- 
 aghadee. A rent-roll of the Mount- Alexander estate, at the 
 close of the seventeenth centuiy, represents David Boyd 
 as in possesson of Drumfad, formerly held by John Boyd. 
 The lands contained 1 76 acres, for whicli the yearly rent 
 was;£'4 13s 4d. 
 
 35 William Catherwood. — Of Ballyvester, parish of 
 Donaghadee. See p. 54, supra. 
 
 3* Mr. Samuel Roiu. — A Presbyterian minister of this 
 name was settled for a time in Ulster, but it is not known 
 in what locality. He returned to Scotland before 1640, 
 and became the colleague of Mr. Henry Macgill, in Dun- 
 fermline. — Dr. Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, 
 vol. i., p. 212. Probably Mr. Row, whilst in Ulster, had 
 not charge of a congregation, but acted as chaplain to some 
 family of the gentry or nobility. 
 
 37 Iditgh Mo)itgomery, of Newtown. — This gentleman 
 was seneschal of Newtown. He is mentioned more par- 
 ticularly in the author's account of several families of this 
 surname towards the end of his Memoirs. 
 
 3' Hugh Montgomery, of Grange. — This Hugh was son 
 of John of Gransheogh, murdered by wood-kerns. See 
 p. 60, note 46, supra. Hugh here mentioned, although 
 said to be a servant of the second viscount, was also his 
 second cousin, their fathers being cousins-german. This 
 Hugh was member of parliament for Newtomi in 1 634, 
 and was fined in the sum of ^50 for absence from his 
 duties in the Irish House of Commons in that year, which 
 fine was remitted when it was known that his absence 
 was caused by the death of sir James Montgomery's first 
 lady. See p. 120, note 26, supra. On the 21st of Nov., 
 1628, the first viscount and his son, Hugh Montgomery, 
 by Indenture, conveyed the lands of Grangee (afterwards 
 better known as Gransheogh) for thirty shillings rent, to 
 the gentleman named in the text, which Indenture was 
 made in pursuance of articles of agreement dated 19th 
 June, 1622. The lands thus conveyed in fee-farm for ever 
 are described as adjoining the lands then occupied by 
 Elizabeth Morriss (previously held by. Matthew Mont- 
 gomery), William Caldenvood, Andrew Cunningham, and 
 Andrew Clersane (Clemane?). Hugh Montgomery of 
 Gransheogh was boimd by the terms of this grant to do 
 the usual suit and service to the baronial court ; to grind 
 at the landlord's mill, paying the sixteenth grain as moulter 
 or toll ; to pay on entering into possession a sum equal to 
 two years' rent in the name of a Reliesse, together ■\\'ith 
 fourtie shillings in the name of hericht; and never to grant 
 any portion of the lands " unto any tlie native or natives 
 of the meere Irish." In a memorandum on the back of 
 the Deed, it is provided that Hugh Montgomery shall 
 attend his landlord, " newe furnished on horseback as ane 
 gentleman," for all general hostings within the province 
 of Ulster, during the space of fourteen days on each of 
 such occasions. The attorneys who superintended this 
 business for both parties were their ' ' trusty and well- 
 beloved in Christ, John Heriot and David, or either of 
 them." In addition to the parties concerned, this Inden- 
 ture is signed by George Montgomeiy, Blair, Patrick 
 
 Montgomery, H. Montgomerie, W. Schaw, and Daniel 
 Evans. The premises were assigned by Hugh Mont- 
 gomery to his son, also named Hugh, in 1646. The ori- 
 ginal Deed is in the possession of Hugh ^lontgomery, 
 Esq., of Greyabbey, the seventh in descent from the 
 gentleman to whom the grant was made. The editor has 
 been kindly pemiitted to examine the very interesting 
 collection of family papers presei^ved at Greyabbey. 
 
 39 Edward yohnston. — Several families of this surname 
 were early settled in the Ards and Castlereagh. James 
 Johnston the elder and James Jolmston the younger are 
 mentioned in a Deposition refening to events in 1641, as 
 liaving been engaged in a massacre of the Irish which 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 135 
 
 6th, Next came the servants to the defunct — 
 
 Jo. Loudon, his clerk, Jo. Jerden, Matthew Haslepp, 
 
 JO. Montgomeiy, of Newtown, Jo. Gillmore of the same, Jo. Millen, of Grayabby, 
 
 Thos. Aitkin, Archibald Millen, Wm. Burgess. 
 
 7 th, In the 7 th space came two trumpeters fitly equipped, sounding the death march. 
 
 8th, Walked the horse of mourning, led by the chief groom, Jo. Kennedy, and one footman. 
 
 9th, In the next place went the Divines, neither Doctors nor Dignitaries — 
 
 Mr. James Mirk,-*" Mr. Js. Blair, Portpatrick,'*^ Mr. William Forbes. 
 
 Mr. Hugh Nevin,'" Mr- James Montgomery,^ 
 
 took place in the barony of Castlereagh. This Deposition 
 is printed in tlie Notes connected with the author's Memoir 
 of sir James Montgomeiy. See infra. A respectable 
 family of tlie name of Jolmston was settled at Kirkistown, 
 in the parish of Ardkeen. Mr. Edward Johnston, of Kirk- 
 istown was married to a daughter of captain James Magill, 
 of Ballyvester. This Mr. Johnston's son, named Robert, 
 inherited the house and lease of Ballyvester at the death 
 of his grandmother, Mrs. Jane McGill, which happened 
 in January, 1711-12, his sister, Mrs. Madden of Fennan- 
 getting the chattels and personal property. — MS, 
 preserved at Greyabbey. 
 
 Mr. James Mirk. — An inquisition taken at Downe, 
 on the 8th of October, 1657, mentions Mr. James Mirke 
 as ' preacher' in Killmore parish before the rebellion. 
 The original report of this inquisition is in the possession 
 of the Right Rev. Robert Knox, bishop of Down and 
 Connor and Dromore. 
 
 ■t' Mr. Hugh Nevin. — Seep. 54, supra. In 1623, Thomas 
 Nevin, Ninian Nevin, and Mr. Hugh Nevin, are witnesses 
 to a testamentary deed. — Paterson, Parishes and Families 
 of Ayrshire,yo\. ii., p. 253. On the 1st of December, 1634, 
 Mr. Hugh Nevin was appointed, by royal presentation, to 
 the vicarages of Donaghadee and Ballielty (?), with clause of 
 union pro luec vice tanium. — Liber Hibernia:, vol. ii. , part 
 v., p. III. This clergyman is mentioned in Adair's TVar- 
 raiive, p. 96, amongst those who had been most conspicu- 
 ous in their "conformity and defection," and who after- 
 wards "owned their sinful defection in those places where 
 they had been particularly scandalous." It is remarkable 
 that Adair does not name any other of the persons or 
 places referred to. William Montgomery states, p. 127, 
 supra, that 'few' could be found to swallow the "bitter 
 pill" of the covenant in 1642. Mr. Hugh Nevin resided 
 in Ballycopeland, parish of Donaghadee. His Will is 
 dated at the commencement " 12° Oct., 1652," and at the 
 end " Second of November, in the year one thousand six 
 hundred and fifty-two." In this document he mentions 
 his "spouse Margaret," but does not give her family name. 
 He appoints his ' ' brother (in-law), Tho. Maly, to be an 
 overseer," and also nominates as overseers and assistants 
 of his family, his "beloved friends and kinsmen. Sir 
 Robert Adair, Mr. Hendrie Savadge, Mr. William Schaw 
 of Newtowne, and Captaine William Howstowne, and 
 Captaine James McGill, and I hope the right honourable 
 the lord of Ardes will give his assistance. I shall like- 
 wise desire my good friends, Hugh Montgomerie of 
 Granguch (Gransheogh), John Montgomerie of Bellie Rollie, 
 Mathew Haslett, and Robert Callewell, to be assisting to 
 
 the above-named overseers." His Will is witnessed by John 
 Montgomery and Mathew Haslett, the latter of whom 
 makes his mark on the paper. He left by his wife four 
 sons, Thomas, Robert, William, and Archibald ; and two 
 daughters, one of whom was named Elizabeth. I. His 
 son Thomas left two sons, Cowell and James. The 
 fonner married Marjory, daughter of Anthony Lucy, and 
 left two sons named Anthony and Richard, and two 
 daughters, Marjory and Rebeckali. II. Robert, second 
 son of Mr. Hugh, married Jane, the eldest daughter of 
 David Boyd of Glastry, by whom he left a son, the Rev. 
 Thomas Nevin of Marlborough, near Downpatrick, in 
 the county of Down, and one daughter named Margaret. 
 The Rev. Thomas Nevin married his cousin, Margaret, 
 eldest daughter of Thomas Boyd of Glastry, by whom 
 he left a family of four sons and three daughters. His 
 wife survived until 1767. III. William, the third son 
 of Mr. Hugh, resided at Bally-McChrews, in the parish 
 of Donaghadee. He married and had issue a son and 
 three daughters. His daughter Margaret was married to 
 a Hugh Montgomery. His daughter Elizabeth, born in 
 1670, became the first wife of Hugh White of Ballyree, 
 in the parish of Bangor. I v. Archibald, fourth son of 
 Mr. Hugh, does not appear to have left any family. The 
 Nevins of Ballymacrews retained the family property 
 until about twenty years ago, when it was sold by the last 
 proprietor, Benjamin Nevin. P"or the foregoing details 
 respecting Mr. Hugh Nevin and his descendants, the 
 editor is indebted to Robert S. Nicholson, Esq., Ballovv, 
 near Bangor. A MS. Renl-roll, preserved among the 
 family papers at Donaghadee, records the names of 
 Robert and John Nevin as occupying lands in the parish 
 of Comber, about the year 1650. Three members of the 
 Nevin family were successively Presbyterian ministers of 
 Downpatrick. Thomas Nevin was ordained there in 
 1710, and died in 1744. He was succeeded by his son, 
 William Nevin, who was ordained in 1746, and died in 
 1780. A son of the latter, also named William, became 
 pastor of the congregation in 1785, but resigned the 
 charge in 1 7S9. He was afterwards a distinguished phy- 
 sician, and died in 182 1. — MS. of the late Rev. James 
 Nelson, D.D., of Downpatrick. 
 
 '■'^ Mr. Js. Blair. — This clergyman was, most probably, 
 minister of the church built by the first viscount at Port- 
 patrick, and a member of that family of Blair by whom 
 the Dunskey estate was afterwards purchased from the third 
 viscount. See infra. 
 
 ■<3 Air. James Montgomery. — ^James Montgomery suc- 
 ceeded Mr. David M'^Gill in the charges of Newtown and 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 loth, Then came the Gentlemen and Esquires, who were mourners, viz. — 
 
 Jo. Cunningham, of Newtown, Hugh Montgomery, of Derrybrosk,** 
 
 James Lenox, Richard Savage,'*' 
 
 James Coningham, of Gortrie.-w William Melville,-*^ 
 Water Hows Crymble, of Donaghadee,« 
 
 Greyabbey, and also married Mr. M'^Gill's widow. The 
 author, in his subsequent account of the BallymagcrMn 
 branch, states that Mr. James Montgomery was of a family 
 spmng from the Hessilhead Montgomerys, who had settled 
 in the vicinity of Munross (Montrose). This clergyman 
 died in 1692, and was buried in Greyabbey church. He 
 must have lived to a very advanced age, as his predecessor, 
 David McGill, died in 1633. His epitaph is printed in 
 Harris's State of the County of Down, p. 53. See also 
 the author's Memoir of Balfymagown, infra. Another 
 clergyman, named Mr. James Montgomery, was one of the 
 arbitrators who made an adjudication between Robert 
 Johnston of Kirkistown and Samuel Madden, of county 
 Permanagh, esqrs., respecting the property bequeathed by 
 Mrs. Jean McGill of Ballynester, who died in the year 
 1711-1712. See note 39, supra. 
 
 James Coningham, of Gortrie. — There was a Gortry 
 (now Gartree) in Kilmakevett, county of Antrim, but 
 the Gortrie mentioned in the text was no doubt the 
 quarter of that name in the barony of Raphoe, granted 
 with other lands to Cuthbert Cunningham, on the 19th 
 Sept., 1610. — Calendar Patent Rolls, ]2LC. I., p. 167. 
 
 *i Hater Haws Crymble. — Waterhouse Crymble was 
 probably a son of Roger Crymble, who married a daughter 
 of sir Edward Waterhouse. The latter came to Carrick- 
 fergus with the earl of Essex in 1573. He had written 
 several letters from Chester prior to this date conveying 
 intelligence to the council in Dublin respecting the move- 
 ments of Sorley Boy Macdonnell, and other Scottish 
 leaders. — Hamilton's Cal. of Irish State Papers, vol. i., pp. 
 356, 386, 387, 406, 408, 410, 413, 516, 523, 526. Rowland 
 Savage, by grant bearing date 3rd February, 161 7, demised 
 to Waterhowse Crimble the messuages and park lately in 
 possession of Henry Lyssy, lying in the town of Portferry, 
 for the term of 31 years. — Ulster Inquisitions, Down, no. 
 9, Jac. I. In 1625, Waterhouse Crymble was appointed 
 to the office of comptroller of the customs, great and small, 
 subsidies and impositions, in the ports and towns of New- 
 castle, Dondrome, Killough, Ardglasse, Kilcliffe, Strang- 
 ford, Portferry, Donnogliadee, Bangor, Holliwood, and 
 Loughcoyne, to hold during good behaviour. — Morrin's 
 Calendar, Charles I., p. 7. Ciymble held this appoint- 
 ment until the year 1 649, when there seems to have arisen 
 a feeling of dissatisfaction with the manner in which he 
 had been performing his duties. Among the Family 
 Papers preserved at Donaghadee is a ' Warrant' signed 
 by the third viscount Montgomery, and "authorising 
 Robert Campbell and others to receive the customs of 
 Donnadee and Groomes Port for one moneth, from the 
 6th of July, 1649." There is also the copy of "A Petition 
 from Waterhouse Crymble to the Lord Viscount Mont- 
 gomeiy, setting forth his desire to be continued in the 
 office of Comptroller of the Customs in the several Ports 
 of the county of Down, accordingtohislateMajestie's Letters 
 Patent : And that the House built by him at Donnadee to 
 be a Custom-House, may be imployed for that use 
 
 onely, and no other, as by the same petition more at 
 large may appear ;" upon which was endorsed this ensuing 
 
 order : — 
 
 " By the Commander in Chiefe. 
 " loth July, 1649. — Upon consideration of this Petition, I hold it fit, 
 and doe therefore soe appoint and order, that the House in the Pe- 
 tition mentioned, appointed and built for a Custom-House, shall hold 
 and continue for that use only, and the habitation therein, if so he 
 think fit : And for the rest of the Petition which concerns the ports, 
 when I am fully of his in his said imployment of 
 
 Comptroller of the Customs, both before and since the Rebellion, I 
 shall take such further course therein as shall in equity 
 
 to his demerits. 
 
 " MONTGOMERIE." 
 
 On the same day another Petition was exhibited by 
 Waterhouse Crimble to the Lord \^iscount Montgomerie, 
 "shewing that not only his Majesty's customs, but also the 
 established fees due aim as Comptroller, have been taken 
 up and not accounted for since the 15th of May last, by 
 Serjt. -Major Fmlay Ferguson," upon which was indorsed 
 the following order : — 
 
 " loth July, 1649. — Serjt. -Major Ferguson is hereby required to ap- 
 pear before me, on Monday next, bynjTie of the clock in the morning, 
 at Newtowne, and to come sufficiently prepared to exhonerate himself 
 of what he is charged withal, in the within Petition. 
 
 " Montgomerie." 
 
 Of Derrybroske. — See pp. 99, 100, supra. 
 Richard Savage. — In the author's Incideniall Remem- 
 brances of the Savages, he states that Richard Savage, 
 brother of Henrj' Savage of Ardkeen, married a daughter 
 of Nevin of Monk-Roddin, and niece to the first \"iscountess 
 Montgomery. There was also a Richard Savage, son of 
 Robert Savage, a near family connexion of the Savages of 
 Portaferry. The last-named Richard had a mortgage on 
 the lands of Carrogh, belonging to the Portaferry estate. 
 His fatlier, Robert, had also a mortgage on the lands of 
 TuUycaman, a part of the same estate. Robert died in 
 1632, leaving, besides this Richard, two other sons named 
 William and Rowland. At this date Richard was 21 years 
 old, and was married. — Ulster Inquisitions, Down, nos. 
 9, 14, Jac. I.; 37, 48, Car. I. 
 
 William Melville. — Three gentlemen named Melville 
 are mentioned as attending the funeral, \\z. William, 
 James, and Thomas, who were probably brothers, and 
 the sons of sir John Melville, knight, who died in 1628. 
 Robert Swoordes, alias Croly, by Indenture, dated 9th 
 March, 1610, granted to sir John Alehalle, knight, for the 
 term of 21 years, and at the rent oi £2% per ann., the 
 following towns and lands in the county of Down, \yl., 
 Tobbercorran containing 80 acres, the two BalljTollies 
 120 acres, Lissomayle 80 acres, TulljTiamurray 60 acres, 
 Corbally 60 acres, and Ball}Tiagallbeg 60 acres. — Ulster 
 Inquisition, Doiun, no. 5, Car. I. Sir John was buried in the 
 old church of Inch, near Dowiipatrick. Harris who mis- 
 took his Christian name for James, tells us that he was 
 supposed to have been descended from the celebrated 
 sir James Melville, secretary to Mary queen of Scots. 
 Speaking of sir John Melviile's tomb, Harris thus de- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 137 
 
 Tho, Kenedy, of Pingwherry/' 
 James Edminstonj^" 
 
 Jo. Gordon, of Pingwherry, sen. 
 Mr. Jo. Echlin, of Ardquin,5' 
 
 scribes it, fortunately preserving the inscription: — "The 
 first-mentioned of these Icnights has here a monument of 
 freestone erected to his memory, and placed in an arch on 
 the north-side of the Altar, thus set out. Over a Scutcheon 
 of Arms, the supporters of which are two birds (the rest 
 being defaced), you have this line, viz. 
 
 "S. Anno 1628. d. 
 "Then on the top of the Scutcheon in one quarter, 
 I.M., and in the other quarter, A.R. At the foot of the 
 Scutcheon on one side are these words thus placed: — 
 " Christo et Cruce 
 
 In Spero. 
 
 and underneath this inscription : — 
 
 " INSIGNIS. MILES. MELVILLUS. CARNBIA. PROLES. 
 MOLE. SUB. HAC. LAPIDUM. MORTUUS. ECCE. JACET. 
 SCOTIA. NATALEM. CELEBEAVIT. HIBERNI\. FUNUS. 
 INTUS. HABET. TIIMULUM. SPIRITUS. ASTRA. COLIT. 
 SEXAGINTA. OCTO. FELICES. VIXERAT. ANNOS. 
 QUADRAGINTA. NOVEM. EX. HIS. ANIMOSUS. EQUES. 
 MILLE. ET. SEXCENTOS. VICENOS. EGERAT. ANNOS. 
 ET. CCTO. CHRISTUS. CUjM. TUMULATUS. ERAT." 
 
 Harris, County of Down, pp. 37, 38. The "two birds" 
 mentioned by Harris, were the eagles, supporters in the 
 Melville Arms. The motto is Deniqite caelum. The one 
 word Carnbia in the foregoing inscription decides the 
 particular br.anch of the Melville family to which sir John 
 belonged. Carnbia, or Carnbee, is the name of a parish 
 in Fifeshire, in connexion with which the Melvilles are 
 mentioned in public documents, as lairds, from the year 
 1466 until 1598 when the family property was sold by sir 
 James Melville. — Neiv Statislical Account of Scotland, Fife- 
 shire, p. 916. The Melvillesbeing kinsmen of bisho]') Echlin, 
 were probably induced to settle in Down through Iii.^ in- 
 fluence and encouragement. The bishop's grandmother was 
 the daughter of sir John Melville of Melville and also of 
 Raith. See Crawford's Memoirs of tlie Echlins of Pittadro, 
 p. 7. A clergyman of this name was settled in Down- 
 patrick, and formally excommunicated Livingstone, the 
 well-known presbyterian minister, after the latter had been 
 deposed by bishop Leslie, in November, 1635. — Reid, 
 Hist, Pres. Church, vol. i., p. 178. A James Melville 
 was rector of Kilmegan, at a later period, about 1690. — 
 MS. Status Diacesis D^inensis. 
 
 Of Pingivherry. — Pingwherrie, more frequently 
 written Pinqukirrie, was the name of a small estate owned 
 by a family of the Kennedys, in the parish of Calmonell, 
 Ayrshire. In the great family feud between the Kennedys 
 of Cassilis and the Kennedys of Bargany, the laird of 
 Pinquhirrie sometimes took one side and sometimes the 
 other, so that it is not known to which of these families 
 the Kennedys of Pinquhirrie were the more immediately 
 related. Thomas Kennedy, who attended the funeral in 
 Newtown, died in 1644, and was the last of his name who 
 enjoyed the family property. See a curious notice of this 
 family in the Historic of the Keniiydis, ed. by Pitcairn, pp. 
 12 — 14; see also Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayr- 
 shire, vol. i. , p. 311. 
 
 3° James Edminston.- — James Edmonston came to Ire- 
 land with William Edmonston, see p. 57, supra, and was 
 no doubt a younger brother. James was their father's 
 Christian name, but there is no evidence that the latter ever 
 settled in Ulster. Besides William and James Edmond- 
 
 ton already mentioned, other persons of this surname had 
 settled in Ulster early in the seventeenth century. An 
 Alexander Edmeston, of Ardfracken, near Carrickfergus, 
 had a grant of denization on the 28th of November, 
 1 61 7. — Calendar of Patent Rolls, James I., p. 339. 
 A Wm. Edmonston, whose mother's name was Helen 
 Cathcart, inherited, in 1600, from her, the lands of 
 Ely, Came, and Maghery, in the county of Tyrone, 
 which he sold to Thomas Morris of Mountjoy. A 
 Robert Edmonston bought the lands of Bovane in the 
 same county in the year 1620, and afterwards sold them 
 to John Coulson, gent., Henry Clarke, andWm. Plough- 
 man. — Inquisitions, Tyrone, nos. 5, 12, Car. II. In 1621, 
 James Edmonston of Ballybantry, sir Hercules Langford, 
 and Thomas Kilpatrick of Carrickfergus, were appointed 
 executors to his will by William Edmonston of Redhall. 
 It was found by Inquisition, held at Carrickfergus, on the 
 17th of Aug., 1636, that Hugh Mergagh O'Neale, of 
 Kilmakevett, sold to James Edmonston the towns and lands 
 of Crossleggedrom containing 120 acres, Randocke 60 
 acres, Largy 60 acres, and Gartry 60 acres. These lands 
 were soon afterwards sold by James Edmonston of Bredi- 
 land to Arthur Langford. — Ulster Inquisitions, Antrim, 
 nos. 3, 103, 118, Car. I. The following account of the 
 family to which Hugh Mergagh O'Neale belonged is kindly 
 supplied by the Rev. Dr. Reeves : — 
 
 Kilmakevit and Killelagh Branch. 
 
 Hugh O'Neill son of Felim Bacagh, 
 
 Niiu. 
 
 Hugh, joined 
 with his brother in 
 Pat. of 1606, He 
 or his son was the 
 Hugh Mergagh of 
 the Inquis. temp,, 
 Car. I. 
 
 Niall Oge of Killelagh his patent 1606. 
 — (Calend. Pat. ' Rolls, Jac. I , p. 
 94), ob. 1628 ; (and Erck, p. 285). 
 
 Sir Henry O'Neill, Bart, 
 born 1625. Creation, 1666. 
 
 Sir Neill'o'Neill, Bart, 
 died of his wounds 
 after battle of Boyna, 
 8 July, 1690. 
 
 5' fo. Echlin, of Ardquitt.—]o\m Echlin was son of 
 Robert Echlin, bishop of Down and Connor, who died in 
 1635, who was son of Andrew Echlin of Pittadro, in Fife- 
 shire, who was son of William, who represented the Ech- 
 lin family in the year 15 1 7. The editor of Crawford's 
 Memoirs of the Echlin Family, is inclined to believe that 
 the bishop left another son named Robert, who was born 
 about the year 1629 — from the fact that in the old church 
 of Ardkeen there is a tombstone, under the reading-desk, 
 bearing this inscription : — Here lyes Interred the bodie of 
 Robert F.chline, of Castl Boye, Esqr ; who died the 25 day 
 of April, 1657, in the 2()th year of his age — as also the Bodie 
 of his daughter Marie. — Crawford's Memoirs of the Echlitis 
 of Pittadro, Appendix, pp. 22, 23, 7!ote b. In 1 634, John 
 Echlin was appointed one of the executors of Peter Hill of 
 Castlereagh, who died in that year. Rory McBryan Oge 
 Maginnis of Edentycollowe, alienated his large estate, with- 
 out a royal license, to Richard Parsons, Edmund Stafford, 
 William Usher, and John Echlin. — Ulster Inquisitions, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Mr. William Cunningham, of the Rash,^' 
 Malcom Dormont, 
 
 Thomas Nevin, of Monkroddin, jun.53 
 James Melvill, Esq- 
 John Crawford. 
 
 Andrew Cunningham, of Drumfad,ss 
 Pat. Muir, of Aughneil,5« 
 
 Hu. Kenedy, of Drumawhay,ST 
 
 William Montgomer>', of Ballyheft,5' 
 
 Hugh Echlin,59 
 
 Lieut. Thomas Melvill, 
 
 Mr. William Adair,.«° 
 
 Jo. Gordon, of Aghlain, jun.*i 
 
 William Burley, Gent.*" 
 
 Down, nos. 53 and 60, Car. I. Speaking of the family 
 residence of the Eclilius at Ardquin, Harris says, p. 47 : — 
 "This seat is a bishop's lease, which has continued in 
 the family of the Echhus for several generations, even be- 
 fore the rebellion of 1641 ; and the house stands northward 
 of a mountain which is reckoned the liigliest land in the 
 Ardes. Ardquin, the name of the place is a connpted 
 word from^;7/- Ciiau, signifying the heighthover the Lough 
 of Strangford, foiTnerly called and the situa- 
 tion of the place corresponds herewith." In Mr, J. \V. 
 Hanna's account of the parish of lyick, there is the following 
 reference to this John Echlin : — "Previous to 1630, we 
 find Finnebrogue the property of John Echlin, esq., of 
 Ardquin (eldest son of bishop Robert Echlin, and brother 
 of Mrs. Henry Maxwell), who probably acquired it from 
 Macartan. In October, 1633, Mr. Echlin, in consideration 
 of the loan of;^i,ooo (for four years) obtained a lease for 
 61 years, from lord Cromwell (Thomas), then viscount Le- 
 cale, of the adjoining lands of Inch (part of which project- 
 ing into the Quoile river is still called Echlin's point), 
 Ballyrennan, Dunanelly, and Magheracranmony, and also 
 of the Feny and Ferryboat of Portillagh, with liberty of 
 fishing in Loughcoan (now the marshes), at the annual rent 
 of^lio; with a proviso that if said sum and interest were 
 not paid within said term of four years, then Mr. Echlin 
 M'as to hold the lands for 1000 years, from the expiration 
 of the said term of 61 years, at a certain rent. Mr. Ech- 
 lin afterwards assigned his interest in the entire lands to 
 his brother-in-law, Mr. Maxwell." — Downpatrick Recorder. 
 
 Mr. Win. Cunningham, of the Rash. — The Rash, or 
 Rush, may have been the present Ballyrush, a townland 
 in the parish of Comber; but more probably this Mr. 
 Cunningham resided at the Rash, a well-known locality 
 in the neighbourhood of Omagh, county Tyrone. On 
 the 23rd of April, 1638, sir William Stewart purchased 
 lands near Omagh, afterwards known as the Rash estate, 
 from George Arundel. See Lodge's Irisli Peerage, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. vi., p. 246, note. The name is now 
 only applied to a -MOod in the district. 
 
 53 Thomas Nevin, of Monkroddin, jnn. — Thomas Nevin 
 was elder brother of Hugh, mentioned in note 41, supra. 
 
 S'' John Crawford. — Probably ancestor of the Crawfords- 
 burn family. The name o{ Aiidrew Crawford appears on 
 no. 8 of the Clandeboye Maps, which contains part of the 
 lands constituting the manor of Bangor. These maps 
 were constructed in 1625 and 1626, so that, prolvibly, the 
 Crawfords came among tlie first Scottish settlers, about 
 the year 1606. They are believed to belong to the 
 Kilbirnie branch of the Crawford family. The estate 
 known for three hundred years as Crawfordsburn, near 
 Greenock, was formerly reckoned as part of the barony 
 of Kilbirnie, in Ayrshire. The mansion-house belonging 
 to the Scottish Crawfordsburn is still in good preservation. 
 
 It was built early in the sixteenth century, and is now 
 regarded as a very interesting specimen of the old baronial 
 residence. The armorial bearings of the family are can'cd 
 in stone, over the entrance to the court-yard, and are as 
 follow : — Gules, a fesse, ermine, between a crescent in 
 chief and two swords salterwise, hilted and pomelled ; or, 
 in base. For a c7-est, a sword with a balance, and the 
 motto, Quod tibi hoc alteri. The trees in the park are 
 described as " fine old sylvan giants, which would have 
 delighted the soul of an Eveljm or a Gilpin. " — Mac Donald, 
 Days at the Coast, pp. 87, 88. William Crawford of 
 Cunningburne, and John Crawford of Ballyaquart, had 
 grants of denization, 20th May, 1617. — Calendar Patent 
 Rolls, James I., p. 326. 
 
 55 Of Drumfad. — The name of a townland in the parish 
 of Donaghadee. David Cimningham of Drumfad, had a 
 gi-ant of denization on the 20th May, 1617. — Calendar of 
 Patent Rolls, James I., p. 326. 
 
 5* Of Attghncil. — Quintene Moore of AughneUl, and 
 and John Moore of Donaghadee, had grants of denization, 
 on the 20th May, 1617. — Calendar Patent Rolls, James I., 
 p. 326. 
 
 57 Of Drumarvhay. — The name of a to^TOland in the 
 parish of Newtownards. 
 
 58 Of Ballyheft. — T\it name of a townland in the parish 
 of Newtownards. 
 
 59 Hugh Echlin. — The editor of the Echlin Memoirs is 
 inclined to think that Hugh Echlin was a younger son of 
 bishop Echlin, and that he was the gentleman of this name 
 whose murder at Armagh, in 1641, is mentioned in Dr. 
 Robert Maxwell's deposition. The follo\ring is the passage 
 referring to this massacre: — "The like they did at 
 Armagh, when, they murdered Hugh Echhn, esqr. ; they 
 hanged and murdered all his Irish ser\'ants which had 
 any way proved faithful or useful to him during this 
 rebellion." — Temple's Irish Rebellion, p. 119. 
 
 Mr. William Adair. — Probably the minister of Ayr, 
 who was brother of sir Robert Adair. Sir Robert's son, 
 William, would have been too yotmg to attend the funeral 
 in 1636. 
 
 Jo. Gordon of Aghlain. — There was an Aughlane in 
 the county Fermanagh. — Calendar Patent Rolls, James I., 
 p. 306; and mAuchlean in the Ste^^artry of Kirkcudbright, 
 ^\'hich is probably the place here referred to. Several 
 families of this surname resided within the Stewartry, 
 during the 17th century. — See Minutes of War Committee 
 of Kirkcudbright, pp. 118, 200. 
 
 ^- William Burley, Cent. — This gentleman was after- 
 wards a captain in sir John Clot\vorthy's regiment of 
 horse, and was wounded whilst defending Lisbum against 
 sir Phehm O'Neill, in 1641. In the preceding year he 
 had been high-sheriff for the county of Down, Michael 
 Garvey being sub-sheriff. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Thomas Boyd, of Whitehouse,*^ 
 Hugh Hamill, of Roughwood,*'' 
 Henry Savage, of Arkeen, Esq.*^ 
 Thomas Nevin, of do., sen.^ 
 William Montgomery, of Briggend,' 
 Mr. Marcus Trevor, '^^ 
 
 Mr- William Stewart,*' 
 
 Robert Adair, of Ballymenagh, 
 
 Arch. Edminston, of Duntreth, Esq. 
 
 Mr. John Trevor,'" 
 
 Alex. Lecky, of Lecky,'' 
 
 Hugh Kenedy, of Girvan Mains.'' 
 
 *3 Of WhiteJtouse. — A Thomas Boyd was member of 
 Parliament for Bangor, in 1663, and was expelled from 
 the house for complicity in Blood's plot. He was originally 
 a northern man, although afterwards described as a Dub- 
 lin merchant. The remains of the "Old Whitehouse " 
 still exist in the locality now known as Macedon Point, on 
 the Antrim side of Belfast Lough. The troops brought 
 by William III. to Ireland, in 1689, disembarked at the 
 WJiifehousc, and were there joined by the king, who had 
 come on shore at Carrickfergus. He rested here for a 
 time, probably in the house that had been occupied by 
 Thomas Boyd, and was here joined by duke Schomberg, 
 the prince of Wirtemberg, major-general Kirk, and other 
 officers. — -Ulster Journal of Archccology, yol. i., p. 131. 
 
 Of Rough-oood. — The lands of Roiiglnvood consisted 
 of 160 acres in the parish of Beith, and 85 acres in the ad- 
 joining parish of Dairy, Ayrshire. The estate was so 
 called because its soil formerly consisted, for the most part, 
 of clayey and mossy grounds^ Tlie Hamills were a very 
 old family, Robert Hamill of Roughwood having ob- 
 tained a grant of Braidstane from John de Lyddale, prior 
 to its possession by the Montgomeiys. The Hamills con- 
 tinued to hold Roughwood until the year 1 7 13, when the 
 estate was sold to Robert Shedden. It is now occupied 
 by a family named Patrick. — Paterson, Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. , pp. 274, 279. Two brothers 
 named Hamill came from Beith with the first viscount, and 
 obtained lands from him in the Ards. Ballyalwood 
 House was built by one of the Hamills. In the year 1672, 
 the first earl of Mount- Alexander "demised, sett, and to 
 farme lett," to Hugh Hamill of Ballyatwood, "all that 
 parte of the towne and lands of Blackabby which was 
 fomierly held and possessed by major William Buchanan, 
 and now in the tenure and possession of William Pettcon 
 and James M'Kee," for the full term of thirty and one 
 years, at the yearly rent ;^8 los, the first payment to 
 commence on the ist day of May following the date of the 
 Indenture. — MS. Indenture preserved at DonagJiadec. 
 *5 Henry Savage of Arkeen. — Seep. 131, supra. 
 
 Thomas Nevin of do., sen. — Henry Savage of Ard- 
 keen had married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Nevin, 
 eldest daughter of the laird of Monkroddin; and perhaps 
 this Thomas Nevin was her father. This marriage is 
 mentioned in the autlior's subsequent account of the two 
 leading families of Savage. 
 
 '7 Of Briggend. — Bridgend is the name of a small estate 
 in the parish of Maybole, situated on the banks of the river 
 Doon, nearly opposite Kirk-AUoway. In former times 
 this residence was known as Nether Auchindraine. 
 William Abercrummie, episcopal minister at Minnibole 
 (Maybole), who wrote an account of Carrick about the 
 year 1690, describes Bridgend as a "pretty dweUing, 
 surrounded with gardens, oixhards, and parks." The 
 residence is now known by the attractive name of Doon- 
 side, but the house and grounds have been permitted 
 
 to fall into comparative decay. — Paterson, Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii. , p. 367. William Montgomery 
 of Bridgend, who attended the funeral of the first viscount, 
 was of the Lainshaw or Langshaw branch, his ancestors, 
 for several generations, holding a highly respectable rank in 
 Doonside. His grandson, also named William, sold the pro- 
 perty of Bridgendin 1701, and emigrated to America, settling 
 in Monmouth count)', East Jersey. From him and his ex- 
 cellent Quaker wife, Isabella Burnett, has sprung a numer- 
 ous progeny on the other side of the Atlantic, many of 
 whom have attained to a high social position. The 
 Genealogical History of the Family, by Thomas Har- 
 rison Montgomery, published at Philadelphia in 1863, 
 contains an interesting and faithful account of the 
 several families of this surname in the United States. 
 
 Marcus Trevor — Marcus Trevor was a son of sir 
 Edward. He was soon afterwards knighted, and, in 1662, 
 was created first viscount Dungannon. His sister, Mag- 
 dalen, was married to sir Hans Hamilton of Monella and 
 Hamilton's Bawn. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by 
 Archdall, vol., i., p. 270. 
 
 *9 Mr. William Stamrt. — This was a son of sir William 
 Stewart of Newtownstewart ; he died young, and unmar- 
 ried. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. vi., p. 274. 
 
 ?° Mr. John Trevor. — ^John Trevor and Arthur Trevor 
 are spoken of in an Inquisition, {Down, no. 84, Car. I. ), 
 as sons of sir Edward Trevor and Anne his wife. About 
 the )'ear 1633, John Trevor purchased the lands of Ballyn- 
 leantagh and Cargagh-igry, county of Down, containing 
 240 acres, from Ever Magenuse of Ballychryne, and his 
 son Rory. — Ulster Inquisitions, Do^vn, no. 58, Car. I. 
 
 7' Lecky of Lecky. — Lecky of that Ilk, in Stirlingshire, 
 appears to have settled at Castle-Lecky, in the county of 
 Londonderry, early in the seventeenth century. In 1639, 
 lie refused to take the Black Oath, and was compelled to 
 return, for a lime to .Scotland. Adair, True Narrative, 
 pp. 61, 62, gives a graphic account of Lecky's escape from 
 pursuivants at Newtownstewart. 
 
 Of Girvinmaitis. — The Kennedys of Giiwinmains 
 were nearly allied by blood to the Kennedys, earls of 
 Cassilis. They, and the numerous families of this sur- 
 name in Carrick, were of Irish descent. W'illiam Aber- 
 crummie, already quoted, when describing the people of 
 this district, has the following observations: — "The in- 
 habitants are of ane Irish originall, as appears both by 
 their names, being generally all Macks — I mean the vulgar, 
 — and all their habitations of Irish designation; their hills 
 are knocks, their castles ardes. But although the great 
 and almost only name among them be the Kennedies, yet 
 there be beside them the Boyds, Cathcarts, Fergussons, and 
 Moores, that have been old possessors. But the later names 
 that enjoysome of the ancient honourable seats of the Ken- 
 nedies are HantiltonsthsLt-poiita Bargany, IVhitewordsXhdX 
 possess Blairqnhan, and Crawfuirds that have Ardmillan, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 nth, In this space went together the late Lord's Phisitians, viz., Hugh M'MuUin," practi- 
 tioner, and Patrick Maxwell,?* Dr. in physic, and next after them came — 
 
 I2th, Alexander Colvill, Dr. in Divinity,75 Robert Barclay, Dean of Clogher.76 
 13th, Then there walked Knights and Noblemen's sons, mourners, viz. — 
 
 Sir Jas. Conningham, Kt." 
 
 Yet the Kennedies continue still to be the most numerous 
 and the most powerful Clan. Besides the Earl of Cassilis, 
 their chiefe, there be Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Girvanmains, 
 Sir Archibald Kennedy of Colarne (Colzean), Sir Thomas 
 Kennedy of Kirkhill, Kennedy of Bcltersan, Kennedy of 
 Kilherqiie (Kilchendie), Kennedy of Kirkmichad, Kennedy 
 of K7iockdone, Kennedy of Glenoitr, Kennedy of Bennan, 
 Kennedy of Carlock, and Kennedy of Druminellan. But 
 this name is under great decay, in comparison of what it 
 was ane age ago; at which tyme they flourished so in power 
 and number, as to give occasion to this rhyme: — 
 
 "Twixt Wigtoune and the towne of Aire, 
 And laigh doun by the criives of Cree, 
 You shall not get a lodging there 
 Except ye court a Kennedy." 
 
 History of the Kennedyis, edited by Pitcaim, p. l66. 
 
 " Hugh M'MuUiji. — IMcMullan, or McMullin, was a 
 surname very prevalent in Kirkcudbrightshire, and pro- 
 bably this medical practitioner was a native of that district. 
 Alex. MuUan, of Greyabbey parish, was an officer under 
 the command of the third viscount during the troubles after 
 1641. A distinguished physician named Allen Mullen, a 
 native of the north of Ireland is known as the author of 
 the following publications, viz: — An Anatomical Account of 
 the Elephaiit accidentally burned to death in Dublin in fune, 
 1681 ; Anatomical Observations on the Eyes of Animals ; 
 1682; Five Essays pri?ifcd in the Philosophical Transactions 
 of the Royal Society. The first named work was dedicated 
 to sir William Petty, and the second to the Hon. Robert 
 Boyle. — T'!cfiOx\ History of the University of Dublin, p. 374, 
 
 '■t Patrick Max-veil. — This Dr. Maxwell attended 
 bishop Echlin during his last illness, and, according to 
 Adair's True Narrative, p. 39, reported an exclamation of 
 that prelate, which appears to have been accepted by 
 Presbyterians as a mysteriously extorted testimony to the 
 superior innocence and truth of their own cause, when 
 contrasted with that of the bishops. During one of Dr. 
 Maxwell's visits to the death-bed of bishop Echlin, he 
 asked his patient to say of what he particularly complained, 
 to which the latter replied "//j my conscience, man!" 
 The doctor immediately exclaimed "/ have 710 cure for 
 that!" Maxwell afterwards reported this circumstance at 
 Newtown House, and the first viscount, then an old man, 
 recommended the doctor not to repeat it in other quarters; 
 whereupon, his daughter-in-law, Jean Alexander, who was a 
 zealous presbyterian, cried out — "No man shall get that re- 
 port suppressed, for I shall bear witness of it to the glory of 
 God, who hath smitten that man (Echlin) for suppressing 
 Christ's witnesses." These 'witnesses' were the presby- 
 terian ministers, Dunbar, Welsh, Blair, and Livingstone, 
 whom the bishop had recently deposed. Dr. Max- 
 well, mentioned in the text, afterwards became physician 
 to Charles I. 
 
 " Alexander Colvill, D.D. — This clergyman was of the 
 Colvilles of Ochiltree, and, therefore, a family comtexion 
 
 of bishop Echlin, whose mother was Grissel Colville, 
 • daughter of Robert Colville of Clish, in the county of Kin- 
 ross, ancestor of the Cohnlles of Ochiltree. — Douglass's 
 Peerage of Scotland. It is probable that Dr. Colville was 
 induced originally to come to Ulster by his kinsman, bishop 
 Echlin. He was ordained deacon, Jan. 8, 1622, and priest, 
 Aug. 5, 1622. On the 1 8th of August, 1622, being then chap- 
 lain to the chancellor, he was presented to the precentorship 
 of St. Saviour's, Connor, with a clause uniting the same 
 pro hAc vice taciturn to the vicarage of Coule (Cammoney), 
 of which he was at that date in possession. On the 13th 
 of December, 1634, he was presented to the rectory of 
 Rathcavan and SkeiTy in the same diocese, with a clause 
 of union, pro hdc vice tantum. — Liber Hibernice, vol. iL, 
 part V. , pp. 107, III. See Cotton's Fasti Fed. Hiberniea, 
 vol. iii., p. 262, 271. 
 
 7* Dean of Clogher. — Seep. 131, supra. 
 
 ^^ Sir Jas. Conningham, j^/.— James I., in July, 
 1610, granted to this sir James Cunningham's father the 
 lands known as the "small proportion of Moiagh 
 alias Ballyaghan, situated in the precinct of Port- 
 lagh, barony of Raphoe, and count)' of Donegal, and 
 containing the quarters called Moiagh, Dryan, Maghery- 
 begg, Magheiymore, Trj'an-Carrickmore, Eredy, and 
 Grackhy, with their appurtenances, amountingto looo acres. 
 On the 1st of May, 16 13, James Cunningham let these 
 lands to the following settlers, viz., the quarter of 
 Moiagh to Alex. Dunne, John Dunne, Donnell M'Kym, 
 Joh. Dunne, jun., John Younge, William Hendry, Alex. 
 Grynney, and Will. Stewart; the quarter of Grackhy 
 to Wm. Valentyne, Hugh Moore, Will. Moore, and 
 Da\'id Kennydy ; the quarter of Magherymore to 
 John Watson, Robert Paterson, Will. Ek)Ti, George 
 Blacke, Andrew Smythe, James Gilmore, Will. Gaate, 
 George Peere, John M'Kym, Andrew Bro^TO, Will. 
 .Sutherland, Will. Rankin, and John Smythe ; the quarter 
 of Magherybegg to John Pur\'eyance, John Hai-per, Hugh 
 Lokard, Thomas Scott, and John Brown ; the quarter of 
 Dryan to John Roger, Will. Teyse, and Donnell M 'Eredy; 
 the quarter of Tryan-Carrickmore to David Kennedy and 
 Will. Valentjme ; the quarter of Ei-cdy to Will. Amett, 
 Andrew Arnett, John Alexander, John Hutchine, Peter 
 Stevenson, John Hamylton, Edward Holmes, and George 
 Leich. On the lands of Moiagh, at Ballyaghan, the land- 
 lord built a house 52 feet in length, 20 feet broad, and 22 
 feet in height, in a court or bawn, enclosed by a wall 228 
 feet in circumference, and 14 high. — Ulster Inquisitions, 
 Donegall, no. 7, Car. I. In the year 1629, sir James Cun- 
 ningham, son of the above, obtained a grant from the 
 crown of the lands already named, with a fishery in the 
 waters of Lough Swilly. The premises were erected into 
 a manor caWeA Fort-Cntmingham, with power to create 
 tenures, hold 400 acres demesne, courts leet and baron, a 
 market and two fairs. — Morrin's Calendar, Charles /., p. 
 453. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 141 
 
 sir William Semple, Kt.,the Lord Sample's son,?^ Sir Wm. Murray,*^ Kt. and Bart. 
 
 Mr. Charles Alexander, Mr. John Alexander,^^ 
 
 Sir James Erskin,^° Kt. and Privy Counsellor, Sir Ed. Trevor,^^ Yit. and Privy Counsellor. 
 
 14th, Went Mr. Robert Montgomery,^* Clerk, the Curate in Newtown, alone. 
 
 15th, Dr. Henry Leslie,^^ Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, who preached the funeral sermon, 
 
 i6th, Then followed the great banner, advanced by William Montgomery, of Ballyskeogh.^* 
 
 Lord SempUs Son. — See p. 133, supra. 
 
 '9 Charles Alexander. — See p. 133, supra. 
 
 ^ Sir James Erskiii. — This sir James Erskin was ne- 
 phew of the first countess of Stirling, and cousin of the 
 second viscount Montgomery's lady, being a son of Alex- 
 ander Erskin, second son of John, earl of Mar. Sir James 
 held some appointment in the royal household at the time 
 that sir William Alexander, first earl of Stirling, was in 
 high favour with James I. Erskin's fortunes becoming 
 desperate, he, as many others in similar circumstances, ob- 
 tained lands in Ulster, about the year 1630. The editor 
 of bishop Spottiswoode'sZy^", states that sir James Erskine's 
 wife was Mary, daughter and co-heir of Adam Erskine of 
 Cambuskenneth. By this lady he had four sons. " The 
 two eldest, Henry and John, died without issue ; the third, 
 Archibald, married first Beatrix Spottiswoode, daughter of 
 the bishop ; and, secondly, Lettice, daughter of Sir Paul 
 Gore, bart. Sir James died on the 5th, and was buried in 
 St. Michan's, Dublin, on the 8th of March, 1636. Archi- 
 bald had one son, Thomas, who died without issue, under 
 the age of eighteen, and two daughters, viz., Mary, wife 
 of Wm. Richardson, esquire; and Anne, wife of John 
 Moutray, or Moutrey, gent. On the death of Archibald, 
 in 1645, his younger brother, colonel James Erskine became 
 guardian of the infant children. Whether these children 
 were by the first or second marriage is uncertain." It is 
 probable they were by the second marriage. The Richard- 
 sons now hold the Augher estate, and the Aloidrays enjoy 
 that known as Favour Royal, consisting of the lands of 
 Portclare, Ballykiggir, and Ballmackell. The Moutrays 
 are patrons of Errigal-keerogue parish, in county Tyrone. 
 See mention of it in Stewartson's Parocliial Survey. — The 
 Spotiiswoode Aliscellatiy, vol. i., p. 104, note. 
 Sir Win. Murray.— ^ee p. 132, supra. 
 
 ^' Mr. Johtt Alexander. — See p. 132, sup7-a, 
 
 ®3 Sir Ed. Trevor. Stt p. 132, supra. 
 
 Mr. Robert Montgotiiery. — This clergyman was pro- 
 bably a member of the Hessilheid branch, but to what 
 particular family he belonged we have not been able to 
 ascertain. " R. Montgomerie, minister of Newtowne," 
 is a witness to the indenture, in which the first viscount 
 pledges himself and heirs to acknowledge the feudal 
 superiority of the house of Eglinton. See p. 112, supra. 
 
 °5 jDr. Henry Leslie. — Henry Leslie was born about the 
 year 1580, and came to Ulster in 1614. The writer of 
 bishop Spottiswoode's Life, who spells his name Harrye 
 Laslyie, states that he commenced his career as a curate 
 in Tredagli (Drogheda), and that he was very anxious, 
 even then, to have Spottiswoode deposed and himself 
 made bisliop of Clogher in his stead. For a curious, but 
 not complimentary, notice of Leslie, see the Spottiswoode 
 Miscellany, vol. i., pp. 116, 148, 150. Although his de- 
 signs on the bishoprick of Clogher failed, his promotion 
 to other good livings was not long delayed. In 1620, he 
 
 was presented by the crown to the prebend of Connor, 
 vsdth appurtenances to the cathedral church of St. Saviour's, 
 at that place. In 1622 he became rector of Muckamore. 
 He was soon afterwards appointed dean of Dromore and 
 vicar of Bailee. Ini627, lie became dean of Down ; and, 
 in 1632, treasurer of St. Patrick's, Dublin. — See Cotton's 
 Fasti, vol. iii., p. 2o6 ; and vol. v., p. 235. In 1635, on 
 the death of bishop Echlin, Leslie was advanced to the sees 
 of Down and Connor. During his progress he was twice 
 engaged in litigous proceedings on behalf of the church, 
 being successful in one case, but foiled in another, al- 
 though backed up by the powerful assistance of Strafford. 
 — Morrin's Calendar, reign of Charles I., pp. 217, 328, 
 610; see also Hanna's Account of the Parishes 0/ Tyrella,- 
 Ballykinlar, and Bright, published in the Doiunpatrick Re- 
 corder. On the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1641, bishop 
 Leslie was among the first to leave his diocese. Colonel 
 Matthews, who commanded a small company at Dromore, 
 besought him to remain as an encouragement to the in- 
 habitants, with whose assistance that officer intended to 
 take up a position which, he hoped, would arrest the ad- 
 vancement of the insurgents in their progress farther north. 
 But his efforts to inspire courage appear to have been made 
 in vain, for, when Matthews, who ventured out a little way 
 from Dromore to reconnoitre, came back again, he found 
 the town " in a manner deserted by the bishop, and all 
 the substantial inhabitants (except one Boyd, a merchant) 
 having taken the opportunity of his absence to march off 
 with bag and baggage, and the poorest sort ready to 
 follow the example ; nor could he prevail with these 
 people to stay without Boyd, whom he was forced to put 
 into prison, when he could not persuade him by fair means 
 to stay." — Carte, Life of Ormond, vol. i., p. 186. On 
 Leslie's return, at the Restoration, in 1660, he was promoted 
 by Charles II. to the richer and less troublesome diocese 
 of Meath. He died in 1661, and was interred in Christ's 
 Church, Dublin. Thiprelate is generally acknowledged 
 to have borne a very high character for piety and learn- 
 ing. For notices of bishop Leslie's publications, see 
 Ware's Work%, edited by Harris, vol. ii., p. 342; also 
 Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. i. , pp. 
 1 80, 230. 
 
 Of Ballyskeogh. — Paterson states that William Mont- 
 gomery of Balliskeoch, in Scotland, was third son of 
 William Montgomery of Bridgend, and that he ac- 
 companied his father to the funeral of the first viscount 
 in 1636. This William Montgomery, who had the honour 
 of carrying "the great banner," married Barbara, daughter 
 of John Montgomerie of Cockelbie, and died without 
 issue. There is a townland named Ballyskeagh, in the 
 parish of Newtownards, but the place mentioned by the 
 author in the text was most probably the Scottish Bellis- 
 keoch. — See Palerson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire^ 
 vol, ii., p, 368. 
 
 V 
 
142 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 17th, Neile Montgomery, of Langshaw,^? Esq., bore the cushion with a Viscount's coronet on 
 
 it, and a circolet about it. 
 
 1 8th, Athlone^^ Pursuviant at Arms, appeared marching by himself, and presenting to view the 
 spurs, gauntlet, helm, and crest. 
 
 19th, Then the defunct's Gentleman Usher, named Jo. Hamil,^9 walked bare-headed next be- 
 fore the King at Arms. 
 
 20th, Ulster King9° at Arms carried the sword, target or shield armorial. 
 
 2 1st, Then was drawn (by six led horses, cloathed in black) the hearse, environed with a circolet 
 mounted on the carriage of a coach, supported with posts or pillars, under which was laid the coffin, 
 inclosing the remains of that late worthy Viscount, covered with a velvet pall, and on it pinned 
 taffeta escutchions of his Lordship's own, and his matches coat's armorial, and elegys of the best 
 sort also affixed thereto. The hearse on each side being accompanied by six men, with single ban- 
 ner rolls without; and even in rank with them went six footmen belonging to his late Lordship and 
 his three sons, each having a black battoun in his right hand. 
 
 22d, Next immediately after the hearse followed now the Right Hon. Hugh, 2d Lord Viscount 
 Montgomery, of the great Ardes, the chiefest mourner; after him, walked Sir Jas. Montgomery, 
 George Montgomery and Pat. Savage aforesaid, as next chiefest mourners (I dare say it), both in 
 hearts and habits."' 
 
 23d, Then walked the Viscount Claneboys^ and the Earl of Eglinton together; the Lord Alex, 
 ander and the Lord Montgomery93 together; John M'Dowal?'* of Garthland,and the Baron of Howth's 
 son;9S — St. Lawrence, Esq., and Sir William Stewart, Knight, Bart., and Privy Counsellor, in one, 
 j.ank. All these, as chief mourners, who were attended by some of their own servants, appointed 
 to wait on them and be near their persons; six men, also covered with long black cloaks, marching 
 by two and two, in the servants' rear, a great mixed multitude following and going about the herse 
 at decent distance; only all the women in black, and those who had taffeta scarfs and hoods of that 
 colour, went next the six men in cloaks. The great bell then in the west end of the Church tolling 
 all the while that the procession was coming from the tent. 
 
 24th, And now all being orderly entered and seated, and the coffin placed before the pulpit 
 
 Of Langshaw. — See p. 133, supra. 
 
 ^ Athloiie. — Albone Leveret was Athlone Pursuivant. 
 See p. 130, supra. In 1608, he and his father were ap- 
 pointed " Pursuivants of Ireland by the name of Athlone, 
 and the style, title, liberty, pre-eminence, and perquisites 
 to such office of old accustomed ; to hold, to them and the 
 survivor of them, during good behavour ; with the fee or 
 annuity of ;i^io English." — Erck's Reperto7y of Patent 
 Rolls, James I., p. 489. 
 
 ^ Jo. Hamill. — P"rom Roughwood in Beith, and pro- 
 bably son of Hugh Hamill mentioned at p. 139, supra. 
 
 9° Ulster King. — Thos. Preston, esq. See p. 130, 
 
 9^ Hearts and Habits. — These chief mourners were the 
 three sons and son-in-law of the deceased. 
 
 s^' Viseoiint Claneboy—^te ^. IJ,},, supra. Although he 
 attended this funeral, there was no cordiality as yet be- 
 twetn him and the family of the deceased. The litiga- 
 tion went on between them until the year 1641. 
 
 93 Lord Alexander and iJte Lord Montgomery. — These 
 were the eldest sons of the earls of Eglinton and Stirling. 
 
 '■f Jolin Doivall. — This gentleman was either father- 
 in-law or brother-in-law of George Montgomer)-, third son 
 of the deceased. See p. 94, supra. By the Inquisition of 
 1623, it appears that Balleioghan, Ballestoker, and Balle 
 M'^Clafife, were then in the possession of sir Jo. M 'Dowell, 
 by an estate from the lord viscount of Ardes, but what the 
 estate was (by what tenure he held these lands) the jurors 
 did not know. The first viscount, when making his will, 
 enumerates the moneys owing to him, and in this enumera- 
 tion the following sum is specified : — " Item, there is due 
 unto me by sir John M 'Dowell the sum of 5000 merks 
 Scottish, being ^^277 sterling or thereabouts." 
 
 9S Baron of HoiutlPs Son. — This was William St. Law- 
 rence, only son of Nicholas, twenty-third lord Hovvth, andl 
 Jane, daughter of Dr. George Montgomeiy, bishop oi 
 Meath. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 143 
 
 and the service ended, the Lord Bishop preached a learned, pious and elegant sermon (which I have 
 seen in print long ago, from whence I might have borrowed some memories if I had it now). This 
 done, and the corpse moved to the upper end of the chancel, was (after the office for the dead per- 
 formed) there inhumed. The Church pulpit and chancel being circoled with black baze, and stuck 
 with scutchions and pencils?^ of the defunct and his matches,?? at due distances; the whole edifice 
 thoroughly illuminated by wax candles and torches. The full obsequys were thus ended. 9^ 
 
 Divers elegant elegys and epitaphs were made by Newtown school (as was their grateful duty) 
 and others on his Lordship's death, as encomiums of his life (whose love to the learned was eminent), 
 but these being too long and bulky to have room here, I will only in a few lines write my remarks 
 on worldly grandeur and prophesy as a poet of the defunct. Take themj thus they are: 
 
 As shaddows of dark clouds doe fleet away » 
 On sudden sunshines of an April day. 
 So all the glorys of our Birth, Acts, State, 
 Swiftly (like powder fir'd) evaporate. 
 Not th' less his Justice, Piety and Name, 
 Shall be preserv'd (in memory) by Fame : 
 For written Monuments more lasting are 
 Than those of Stone, or Metall, rear'd by farr. 
 And Sun, Moon, Starrs (tho each a cenlinell) 
 Doe by their beams, dangers and safetys tell : 
 Yet virtue (to give life) wants parallel. 
 
 In confirmation hereof vivit post fu7tera virtus, says Ovid, 
 
 And only the actions of the just. 
 Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. 
 
 This funerall was extraordinary great, and costly; all the noblemen and noblemen's sons, and 
 the gentry which came from Scotland, and the knights, gentry, and heralds, with their retinue, and 
 
 9' Scutchions and pencils.— ^c\xtc\aon or escutcheon, 
 from the Norman French ecusson, 'Latin scutnm, is a family 
 shield on which armorial ensigns are exhibited. The word 
 in early times was generally spelled cscochcon, as in the 
 following illustration from Wharton's Histoiy of English 
 Poetjy, vol. iii., p. 9: — "The addition of the escocheon of 
 Edward the Confessor to his own, although made by the 
 family of Norfolk for many years, and justified by the 
 authority of the Heralds, was a sufficient foundation for 
 an impeachment of high treason." — Latham's Edition of 
 yohnston^s Dictionary. Pencils, correctly Pencels, were 
 little flags or streamers from the tops of lances, bearing 
 armorial designs. The word is from the old French 
 Pennoncel; hence also the diminutive Pennon. "And the 
 chariot was garnished with banners and pencelles of tharms 
 of his dominions, titles and genealogies." See Richard- 
 son's New English Dictionary. 
 
 9' Matches. — In other words, the armorial quarterings of 
 the Shaws and Maxwells, the families to which his two 
 ladies had belonged. According to Crawford, the Ar- 
 jnorial bearing of Shauu is Azure, three covered cups, or j 
 
 supported by two savages, wreathed about the middle; and, 
 for a crest, a demi-savage; with the motto / mean well. 
 According to the same authority, the Armorial bearing of 
 Maxwell is, Argent; on a saltyre, sable ; an annulet, 
 or; stoned, Azure; supported by two monkeys; and for a 
 crest, a stag's head; with the motto — I am ready. — History 
 oftheShireofRenfrezv,^^. 35, 126. When a widower died, 
 as in the case of the first viscount, his arms were impaled 
 with those of his deceased wife or wives, having a helmet, 
 mantling, and crest, all the ground outside the escutcheon 
 or shield being black. 
 
 98 iVgre thus ended. — There is an account of this funeral 
 procession in Ulster's office, drawn up, no doubt, under 
 the immediate superintendence of the then Ulster King at 
 Arms, Thomas Preston. For a copy of this account the 
 late sir William Betham charged the sum of;^i iis. 6d., 
 which may be considered very moderate for a herald. This 
 is mentioned in a letter from J. T. Banks (author of the Me- 
 moir of Sir William Alexander, printed in Appendix G) to 
 the late William Montgomery, esq., of Greyabbey. The 
 letter was written on the 15th March, 1829. 
 
144 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 the rest which came from Farmanagh, Tirowen, Donnegall, Armagh, and Antrim (which was no 
 smal number) with the attendants of all these mourners, and their horses, besides the phisitians, 
 divines, and bishop; and their servants, etc., were all entertained to the full, in meat, drink, lodging 
 and other accommodations. The better sort of them in the Viscount's house, and the residue in the 
 town, where wine (because there was no excise or new impost) was plenty at his Lordship's expense; 
 the atcheivments (alone) costing above 65/.99 at the lowest rate that they could be bought by Sir 
 James Montgomery, who was one of the executors to the late Lord his father's last will and testa- 
 ment. 
 
 His late Lordship was generally well reported of, and even by those with whom he contended 
 at law to gain possession of his own right, and they could not do otherwise (except clandestinely) 
 because his Lordship took all the civil and fair wayes imaginable to obtain his lawful purposes. 
 And he was universally revered, loved and obeyed by the Irish, and much esteemed of by Con 
 O'Neil and his followers, but especially of his tenents of that nation, who loudly lamented for their 
 loss of him, now he was dead : because he had been in general carefuU to protect them all (within 
 his reach) from injurys, and familiarly conversing with them his own tenents, when he used his sum- 
 mer recreations of hunting and fishing in his woodlands, rivers and loughs, by which means his 
 British planters seldom lost any goods (by stealth or robbery) that were not retrieved. 
 
 99 Costing above 65/. — Achievement, often written 
 Hatchmeytt, was the coat of arms fully emblazoned on an 
 escutcheon, which was exhibited on the hearse at funerals, 
 and sometimes hung up in churches. The following 
 passages contain illustrations of this term : — 
 
 " There was hun^ o'er the common gate an achievetneiit, com- 
 monly called 3l Hatchment." — Wood's Athence Oxonienses, vol. li., 
 p. 149. 
 
 " His means of death, his obscure funeral. 
 No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, 
 No noble rites, no formal ostentation. 
 Cry to be heard." — Shakespeare's Hajnlet^ iv., 5. 
 " I would have Master Pyed Mantel, her grace's herald, to pluck 
 down his hatchments, reverse his Coat-Armour, and nullify him for 
 no gentleman." — Ben Jonson's Staple 0/ News. 
 
 " Receive these pledges. 
 These hatchments of our grief, and grace as so much 
 To place 'em on his hearse." — Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonudca. 
 
 — See Richardson's Dictionary of the English Language. 
 It was the duty of the Heralds in attendance at a funeral 
 to record a genealogical account of the family of tlie 
 deceased. These records were deposited in the Heralds' 
 colleges, and are important as containing evidence of de- 
 scent in every case. Most of them are richly emblazoned, 
 and engrossed on vellum, being technically known 
 as funeral certificates. Soon after the close of the 
 seventeenth century, Heralds ceased to attend the 
 funerals of the nobility, and are now only summoned 
 to superintend personally the funerals of the Royal Family. 
 The following is the first viscount's funeral certificate, for 
 a copy of which the editor is indebted to the kindness of 
 Wm. Pinkerton, esq., F. S.A., Hounslow, London: — 
 
 " The Right Honble. Sir Hugh Mountgomery, Knight, Visct. Mont- 
 
 fomery of the Ardes, son and heir of Adam Mountgomery, Esq., and 
 largaret, daughter of Hugh Mountgomery, of Hazlehead, in the 
 Kingdom of Scotland, Esq., his wife, which Adam was eldest son of 
 John Mountgomery, Esq. and Elisabeth, his wife, daughter of Jervice 
 Colchoune of Lusse, Esq., in the County of Kerry, eldest son of 
 
 Robert Mountgomery and dame Margaret, his wife, and daughter of 
 Sir Adam Mure of Caldwell, Knight, and widow of Sir Adam Cun- 
 ningham, Alexander Lord Momitgomery of Scotland, and second 
 brother to Hugh eldest brother of Alexander Mountgomery and 
 Elizabeth his wife daughter of Cunningham of Aughinkeer in the for- 
 said Kingdom, which Alexander was eldest son of Robert, which 
 Robert was second son of Hugh Mountgomery, first Earl of Eglin- 
 ton, in the Kingdom of Scotland, which Ld, Visct. Mountgomerj', 
 of Ardes, departed this mortal life at Newtowne in the County of 
 Down, in the Province of Ulster, the 15th of May, 1636, and in the 75th 
 year of his age, and was Honourably interred with the attendance of 
 the King of Arnies and Athlone officers of Armes, in Newtoune 
 aforesaid, the 8th day of September following. This defunct, the 
 Viscount, took to his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Shaw 
 of Greenock, in foresaid Kingdom, Esq., by whom he had issue 
 three sons living, and some others died young, viz. : — Hugh Visct. 
 Mountgomery of the Ardes, who married dame Jane daughter of 
 William Alexander Earl of Stirling in the Kingdom of Scotland afore- 
 said ; Sir James Mountgomery, Knighted by King Charles, Anno 
 16, and one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber, who 
 took to wife Katherine, daughter of Sir William Stewart, Knt. 
 and Baronet ; and George, third son, who took to wife Grisella 
 daughter of Sir John Macdougal {Macdouallj, of the kingdom of 
 Scotland aforesaid: 
 
 "And a daughter, to'z., Elizabeth, married Sir Robert M'Clelland, 
 Baron of Kilcobry, in the aforesaid Kingdom, which Elizabeth died 
 without issue. Jane 2d married to Patrick Savage of Portaferr>', in 
 the County of Down, Esq. 
 
 " This defunct took, to his second wife, dame Sara, daughter of 
 Maxwell Ld. Harye, in the said Kingdom, and Countess Dowager 
 of Wigton, widow of the Earl of Wigton in the foresaid Kingdom, by 
 whom he had no issue. This defunct was Knighted by King James, 
 the third year of his reign, being born in the Kingdom of Scotland 
 aforesaid, and deserveth to be eternized for his worthy works of 
 Plantation in the Ards and other parts in the said County of Down. 
 The truth of the premisses is testified by the subscription of the Rt. 
 Honble. now Vi.sct. Mountgomery of the Ards, the said eldest son 
 of the Defunct, who hath returned this Certificate to be recorded in 
 the office of the Ulster King of Arms, taken by Thomas Preston. Esq., 
 Ulster King of Arms, and Allbone Leverett, Athlone, officer of Arms, 
 the of September, 1636, afore. — Funeral Certificates in Ulster's 
 Office, 48?o, Plut. clxix., i. 
 
 For remarks on this account of the descent of Braidstane 
 from an earl of Eglinton, see p. 4, note 11, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 But for all the said costly pomp and what was expended at the 2d and 3d Lords burialls, there 
 is not as yett, An. 1698, any monument (but this) erected to the memory of any of them. Such 
 hath been (as it is easy to be demonstrated) the troublesomness of the times elapsed since the said 
 funeral/°° 
 
 I shall only say, it hath been a frequent fate of great and good personages, to have no tombs; 
 and the luck of sordid capricious rich men, to have them, but then this latter sort do often build 
 them (as Abraham bought a field and a cave for a burial place for him and his, and Jacob erected 
 a pillar over Rachel) in their own life time, otherwise their heires, notwithstanding all the lands or 
 money is left to them, are seldom so respectful or grateful as to doe it, tho it were prudence to gett 
 a good name and repute thereby both alive and dead. 
 
 But lett us see the poet's ill advised angry distich, and let who will discant on it, viz., 
 
 "Marmoreo tumulo Licinus jacet, at Cato parvo ; 
 Pompeius nuUo : Quis putet esse Deos.""' 
 
 Which I English thus : 
 
 Glutton Licinus, in gilt marble sleeps, 
 
 In a small urn Utica Cato keeps : 
 
 Pompey the Great no lodging hath ; yet wee 
 
 Miscall them Gods, were lesser men than Hee. 
 
 I will now make a few generall remarks of the Montgomerys, and first of their ages; the first 
 Viscount's forefathers lived long by reason of temperance, abstaining from excess, as wine, women, 
 
 Since ike said fitner.a!. — There have been 110 monu- 
 ments erected over the graves of the two viscounts, or of 
 their descendants, the five earls of Mount-Alexander. 
 From the date of the first viscount's death, in 1636, until 
 the death of the first earl, in 1663, the times were indeed 
 troubled. Subsequently to the latter date, the fortunes 
 of the family had greatly declined, and the means of erect- 
 ing costly monuments, even if there had been the desire 
 to do so, no longer existed. Probaljly the same cause 
 prevented also the Scottish branches of the family from 
 the erection of monuments ; as, of all the once numerous 
 and potent houses of this surname in Ayrshire, or rather 
 in the district of Cunningham, not one such is known to 
 exist, save that which was erected in 1637 by sir Robert 
 Montgomerie of Skelmorlie, in the church of Largs. The 
 family vault of Eglinton is beneath the parish church, 
 and precludes, therefore, the idea of any monumental dis- 
 play. But it is a fact still more remarkable, that no 
 lettered stones remain in the burial-places of that district 
 to mark the graves of humbler members of the clan. Not 
 even in the church or churchyard of Beith is there a mo- 
 numental trace of the family of Braidstane, or Giffen, or 
 Ilessilhead, or Bogstown, or Craighoase. This remark- 
 able circumstance was communicated to the editor in a 
 letter from IVm. Dobie, esq., Grangevale, parish of Beith, 
 dated 19th November, 1866. See also The Edinburgh 
 Topographical Magazine, 1849, p. 176. Although there 
 were no monuments erected at Newtown, the graves of 
 the Montgomeiys buried in the old church were undoubt- 
 edly covered by large flat stones recording their names, 
 
 titles, and dates of their death. These tombstones were 
 no doubt, used by the builder, Charles Campbell, in 1830, 
 when laying the floor of the session-house. (See his let- 
 ter, p. 123, supra.) They "were dressed over to answer 
 the flooring. " At the trial of the so-called earl of Stir- 
 ling, to which reference has been made in note 33 of same 
 page, " Margaret M'Blain deponed that her husband was a 
 mason to his business, — that he was employed in new 
 flagging the floor of the old church (when being converted 
 into a session-house) at the east end of Newtown House, 
 and that after the work was finished, he stated to deponent 
 that he had been on various graves, and he particularly 
 mentioned the grave of lady Mount-Alexander, with whom 
 the deponent had lived several years in her youth." This 
 lady Mount-Alexander was Mary Angelica De La Cherois, 
 countess of the fifth and last earl. As she died in 1 77 1, 
 the inscription on her tombstone was no doubt quite 
 legible when being " dnssed over" in 1830. The other 
 and earlier inscribed stones were not so legible, and did 
 not attract the mason's attention. This witness farther 
 testfied that the tombstone of the hon. John Alexander also 
 attracted the observation of her husband. See p. 132, 
 supra. 
 
 Putet esse Deos. — This epigram of P. Terentius Varro 
 is as follows :— 
 
 " Marmoreo tumulo Licimts jacet, at Cato parvo; 
 Pompeius ?tullo : Qjiis putet esse deos ? 
 Saxn preinunt Licinum, levat altum fama Cato»em ; 
 Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos. 
 — Antkolo^a, Ed. Meyerus; torn, i., p. 19. 
 
146 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and variety of food, and useing corporeall exercises, abandoning idleness and a lazy life and soft 
 pleasures, which hath corrupted the healths of the last century. 
 
 His Lordship was past the midle of his 76 year, his son George lived to 68; of the other's 
 shortness of life you shall hear in the sequel of this narrative : But to proceed on this head im- 
 primis, I know An. 1646 (when at Newtoun school) many artificers and yeomen (whom his Lord- 
 ship conduced to plant) that lived to great ages. Among which one Adam Montgomery (who told 
 me many things of Braidstane, when I was young, which I studied not to remember), he lived to 
 about 105 years as I am told, and as himself said he was a little before his death.'"* Also John Pea- 
 cock of Tullycavan,'°5 my fee farmer, lived above 100 years, a healthy man, and had travelled much 
 with the first Viscount. There was John Montgomery of Ballyrolly, who lived so long in sound 
 health (but not memory) that he would play at hide and seek, and such like childish games, with 
 his wife and his great grand children. Also the Goodwife of Busby,'°7 after the 85th year of her age, 
 
 Last century. — The six lairds of Braidstane lived 
 between the years 1390 and 1636, which shows an average 
 of only forty-one years for each. The fourth laird, how- 
 ever, must have been ninety years of age at the time 
 of his death in ISS^- 
 
 '°3 Soil George. — See p. 94, supra. George Montgomery 
 resided first at Urumfad, near Donaghadee, and afterwards 
 at Ballylesson. He lived during the later years of his life 
 at Rosemount, and died there. 
 
 Before his death. — This Adam Montgomery was a 
 carpenter, and is mentioned in an Inquisition of 1625, 
 which was held to inquire what waste had been commit- 
 ted in the woods of the territory called Slutt Neales. The 
 report of this commission states that " one Adam Mont- 
 gomery, for two summers, with three or four workmen, 
 cut no less than 40 trees on Lisdalgan, and other inland 
 towns." — Ulster Inquisitions, Down, no. 105, Car. I. ; 
 Morrin's Calendar, Charles I., p. 65. The name of an 
 Adam Montgomery who occupied the position of a gentle- 
 man, and was, no doubt, of the Braidstane line, appears 
 among the earliest settlers. By deed, dated 25 th of April, 
 1610, sir Hugh Montgomery of Newtown, in the county 
 of Down, knight, one of the esquires of the king's body, 
 sold to Adam Montgomery, of Ballyalton, in the said co. , 
 gent., the two towns and lands of Ballehenrie and Bally- 
 alton, in the parish of Comber, in the lower Clandeboy, 
 at a fee-farm rent of ;^;3 3s. 8d. English, to be paid in two 
 equal parts, payable at May-day and Hollantide; these 
 lands were bounded by the townland of Ballydamphe, in 
 the occupation of Robert Montgomeiy, gent, E. ; by 
 the lands of sir James Hamilton, W. ; by the townlands 
 of Ballymacreny and Ballygovemor, held by Robert and 
 James Cathcart, esqrs., N. ; by the hill of Scraboe, N.E. ; 
 and by sir Hugh's lands of Comber, S. and S.W.— 
 all courts leet and baron, waifs, strays, and all royalties 
 excepted ; the tenants to peiform suits of court and mill, pay- 
 ing for grinding their com the 1 6th part thereof; herriots ; 
 and for relief double the rent. To pay also as a common 
 fine at every court leet, himself and his heirs, 6d. ; and for 
 each of his undertenants, t,^. — Calendar of Patent Rolls, 
 James I., pp. 254, 255. 
 
 "5 Of Tullycavan. — To this fee-farmer, who is styled 
 gent, in documents quoted below, the first viscount granted 
 the lands of Tullykeaven, accounted for 60 acres, and Bally- 
 
 dowen, at the yearly rent of 40 shillings, for ever. — Inqui- 
 sition 0/1623. Tullykevin is the name of a townland in 
 the parish of Greyabbey. This patriarchal farmer lived 
 to have a succession of three landlords, after his settlement 
 in June, 1623. On the 6th of August, 1631, Isabella 
 Haddan (Haldane), widow of William Edmonston, of 
 Braidisland, and Archibald Edmondston, her son, sold the 
 lands of Ballybrian, in the parish of Gray Abbey, to John 
 Peacock, of Tullykeavin, gent. , for the sum of £11"^ 6s. 
 8d. These lands were then jointly occupied by tenants 
 named Cathcart and Cunningham. Peacock was bound 
 to pay, as the Edmonstons had been, the sum of six pounds 
 yearly, a chief rent to viscount Montgomer}^ in two equal 
 payments, at the feasts of Pentecost and St. Martin the 
 Bishop, to do suit and service, and to grind all the com 
 used on the premises in the landlord's mill Mrs. Ed- 
 monston and her son appointed as their attorneys, to give 
 possession and receive the purchase-money, their "well- 
 beloved friends, Mr. James Hamilton, minister at Bally- 
 walter, and Robert Allen, or either of them." This in- 
 denture is witnessed, among others, by Jhone Edmond- 
 stoune and Robert Edmondstoune. On the 14th of 
 December, 1670, James Peacock (son of John) and Janet 
 Peacock, alias Fairly, his wife, conveyed the above-named 
 lands of Ballybrian to James M 'Gill of Ball}'monestragh, 
 for the sum of ;^3l6 is. 6d. — the yearly chief rent being 
 then 15s. This indenture was witnessed, &c. , by 
 James Rosse, Wm. Schaw, Wm. Buchanan, Hugh 
 Montgomerie, Calibb Bayly, Alex. Bayly, and others. 
 — Original Documents preserved at Greyabbe}'. 
 
 Great grand-children. — Ballyrolly is the name of a 
 townland in the parish of Donaghadee This John Mont- 
 gomeiy is afterwards mentioned in the author's account of 
 various families of this surname. He was an intimate 
 friend of Mr. Hugh Nevin. Seep. \y^, supra. 
 
 Goodwife of Bushy. — The barony of Busby, in the 
 parish of Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, was granted by Robert III. 
 to David Mowat, in the year 1390, and remained in the 
 Mowat family until 1630, although the greater part of it 
 had been sold to the Eglinton family early in the seven- 
 teenth century, The estate enjoyed by the Mowats of 
 Busbie contained Soo acres of choice land. In 1626, the 
 Guidman of Busby died, and in the same year his son, 
 James Mowat, was included in a grant of denization, so 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 14*^ 
 
 walked to a communion in Comerer : and many more instances of longevity might be given, but 
 forbear them.'°^ 
 
 that he and the other members of the family were probably 
 compelled by their circumstances to seek a new home on 
 the Irish shore. The last Scottish representative of the 
 family, from being a laird of Busbie, holding directly from 
 the crown, had sunk to the position of only a guidman, or 
 farmer, holding from the territorial lord. The "Good- 
 wife" of Busby, mentioned in the text, was evidently the 
 partner of Charles Mowat, who died in 1626. — See Pater- 
 son's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 217, 
 2l8> The surname of Mowat has almost entirely disap- 
 peared from Ayrshire; but the family of the last guidman 
 settled in Castlereagh, and their descendants, invariably 
 known as Busbys, though really Alowats, are still found in 
 the district In explanation of the two .Scottish terms 
 Laird and Gitdeman, sir George Mackenzie has the follow- 
 ing remark: — " And this remembers me of a custom in 
 Scotland, which is but lately gone in dissuetude, and that 
 is, that such as did hold their lands of the prince were 
 called Lairds ; but such as held their lands of a subject, 
 though they were large, and their superiours veiy noble, 
 were only all called Good-Men, from the old French word 
 bonne-homme, which was the title of the master of the 
 family; and, therefore, such feues as had a jurisdiction 
 annext to them, a barrony, as we call it, do ennoble ; for 
 barronies are established only by the prince's erection or 
 confirmation." — Science of Heraldry, pp. 13, 14. A laird 
 might only be worth two or three hundred a-year, whilst 
 a good-man (although his inferior in rank), might own as 
 many thousands. 
 
 But I forbear them. — The following instance 
 of longevity was recorded by the author on a tomb- 
 stone discovered, a few years ago, in the grave-yard, and 
 since brought into the Abbey: — 
 
 ^ S >< » * « * 
 
 "5 B o rt of Rosemount who died Ao. ^t. 85 
 
 Ji<;-f = ai DniieSg: 
 
 ~'°«°S>* * * * indulgent and kind, 
 JJ and left few his like behind. 
 
 (S'o o * * • curavit posuitq : W. M. 
 
 This stone appears to have been first intended for some 
 retainer of W. M. , and to have been transferred afterwards 
 to one Amer Gaa. The inscription signed W. M. is 
 evidently of the old gentleman's own cutting, and probably 
 to a family servant, but no more remains legible than is 
 given. — MS. Notes of colonel F. O. Montgomery. The 
 name Amer Gaa, on this tombstone, was rather a puzzle, 
 as it appeared to be both the christian and surname of the 
 person. In ihc Northern f^F/z/j- of the 6th of April, 1868, 
 a police case is reported in which James Wallace was re- 
 presented as having administered a poisonous drug to one 
 William Emergaw. Harris mentions several remarkable 
 cases of longevity well known throughout the county of 
 Down in the early part of the i8th century. Alice Sale 
 had died soon before 1754, in Lecale, aged 100 years. 
 Two men, at Rose-Trevor, named respectively Ctnnming 
 and Erwine, lived each to be upwards of a centtiry old. 
 A widow, named Agnew, was then (1744) living in the same 
 district, aged 100 years, Patrick Lowy of Clogher, in the 
 
 parish of Down, had recently died, at the same age. 
 Janet Tate alias Halliday, was then living aged loi years. 
 John Finlay, a fisherman of Bangor, lived to be 103 years 
 of age. Jane Johnson of Donaghmore, died on Easter 
 Sunday, 1744, aged 103 years. Mrs. Lasharzuay, 
 (Delacherois) a French lady, was 105 in 1744. She spent 
 much of her time at Mount-Alexander, the residence of 
 her niece, who was the wife of the fifth and last earl of 
 Mount-Alexander. AiidrrM Miscandle of Donaghmore, 
 was certified by the minister and church-wardens to be 107 
 years of age. The most remarkable case was that of Mary 
 Crawly, of the parish of Ballynahinch, who died about 
 the year 1740, at the age of 112 years. — Harris's County 
 of Doiun, pp. 251-4. Since 1744, the year in which 
 Harris published his book, very many cases of longe- 
 vity in the county of Down have been recorded, 
 from which we here select a few of the most remarkable, 
 mentioning the years in which the persons died, their ages, 
 and their places of abode: — 
 
 1749. — Alexander Bennett, 125, Dowr.patrick. 
 1749. — Jane M'Afee, 115, Rathfriland. 
 1752. — Isabel Laughlin, n8, Rathfriland. 
 
 1755. — Alexander Mackenzie, 120, Rathfriland, 
 
 1756. — Jane Mackenzie, 114, Rathfriland. 
 1763. — James Martin, 112, Ballynahinch. 
 1768. — Arthur M'Grillaiid, loi, Ballynnhinch. 
 
 1774. — Henry Cromey, 106, Rathfriland. 
 
 1775. — John Smith, loi, Carlingford. 
 1777. — David Moorehead, loi, Killinchy. 
 
 1784. — .\m\ Pettigrew, m, Waringstown. 
 
 1785. — Mary M'Donnell, it8, Ballynahinch. 
 1788. — John Bryson, 103, Holywood. 
 
 1791. — James Cree, 107, Donaghadee. 
 1794. — Charles Stanley, 104, Derryhale. 
 T794. — Jane Montgomery, 103, Donaghadee. 
 
 1794. — James M'Donagh, 109, Louhgbrickland. 
 
 1795. — Margaret M'llveen, 106, Pnrdysburn. 
 
 1796. — Robert M'Kee, no, Saintfield. 
 1796. — Elizabeth Carson, 100, Waringstown. 
 
 1796. — Janet Thomson, 131, Ballynahinch. 
 
 1797. — John Reid, 103, Saintfield. 
 
 1798. — Alex. Brown, 105, Comber. 
 179S. — Hugh Stephenson, 100, Dromore. 
 ^799- — Margaret Sloan, 104, Comber. 
 
 1800. — James Quart, no, Saintfield. 
 
 1801. - Alice Kearney, no, Portaferry, 
 
 1802. — John Craig, 112, Saintfield. 
 
 1802. — David Jamieson, 102, Saintfield. 
 
 1803. — William Wade, 102, Saintfield. 
 t8o4. — Jane Fitzgerald, 102, Donaghmore. 
 1807. — Martha Adams, T05, Dromara. 
 
 1810. — Samuel Malcolrnson, 121, Rathfriland. 
 18 to. — Mary Stralton, 105, Copeland Isle. 
 1810. — William Agnew, 104, Portaferry. 
 
 1812. — Ann M'Dowall, 112, Donaghadee. 
 
 18 1 3. — Henry Edwards, 105, Donaghadee. 
 
 1814. — Roger M'Cormack, loi, Newry. 
 
 1815. — James Magee, 104, Saintfield. 
 
 1816. — Patrick Fitzgerald, 107, Donaghmore. 
 i8i6. — James Riddel, 102, Comber. 
 
 1816. — Charles Havoran, 113, Newry. 
 
 1817. — Uorothy Lemon, 107, Donaghadee. 
 
 1818. — John Alanson, 105, Bangor. 
 z8i8. — Jane Cowan, 100, Donaghadee. 
 
 1819. — Isabella White, 107, Newry. 
 1822, — Agnes Beck, 104, Greyabbey. 
 
 1822. — Jane Gibson, 105, ivionlough. 
 
 1823. — Jane Smith, 106, Drumbo. 
 1824 — Wm. Gibson, 104, Monlough. 
 
 1826. — Samuel Cumming, 112, Castlewellan, 
 
 1827. — William, Johnston, 100, Saintfield. 
 
148 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 As to the sirname of Montgomery, the Scottish rithmers"? designe them by calHng them Poet 
 Montgomerys, many of them having been excellent in that art."° This was their character in time 
 of peace, which I read to be ascribed to some Roman Emperors, and to some Christian Kings, as 
 a commendable quality or indowment, and a mark of the elevation of their spirits to high notions, 
 fitting them for oratory, and lofty fluent speech, takeing them off from grovelling on vulgar appetites 
 as worldings doe; by this sirname in the time of commotions and warrs were stiled the martiall Mont- 
 
 1828. — William Rainey, 107, Killyleagh. 
 
 1829. — Mary Ligget, 107, Gilford. 
 
 1830. — Ann M'Areavy, 106, Ballyniacarrett. 
 
 1830. — Roda Steen, 105, Moville. 
 
 1831. — Bernard Doran, 100, Kirkcubbin. 
 
 1832. — Arthur Johnston, 105, Dn.imlough. 
 
 1832. — Harvey Murphy, 103, Rathmullan. 
 
 1833. — Joseph Carnaghan, 108, Waringstown. 
 
 1834. — Peter White, 106, Loughbrickland. 
 
 1835. — John Robinson, 104, Saintfield. 
 
 The above are taken from a vast number of cases collected 
 by the late Samuel M'Skimin, author of The History 
 of Carrkkfergits. Mr. M'Skimin interleaved a copy of 
 Harris's County of Down, thus adding a mass of most 
 valuable materia' s, intended, no doubt, for a second edition 
 of that rare and very excellent book. The Rev. Dr. 
 Macllwaine, incumbent of St. George's, Belfast, is noyf 
 in possession of this precious Collection. 
 
 Scottish Rithmei-s. — Buchanan states, Hisi07-ia Ecclcsi- 
 astica Gentis Scotorum, p. 86, that in his time the order of 
 minstrels was still revered among the Celtic inhabitants of 
 these kingdoms. Colville, in his Oratio Funebris Exe- 
 qiiiis Elizabethiz nuper Anglia Regina destinata, p. 24, 
 Paris, 1604, has the following contemptuous reference to 
 these "rithmers:" — "When I was a boy, I had heard 
 the beggarly jockies recite certain homely verses ascribed 
 to Thomas the Rhymer, a reputed prophet." In George 
 Marline's State of the See of St. Andrews, published in 
 1797, we have a more charitable and accurate notice of 
 the latest members of-this fraternity. — "To our fathers' 
 time and ours, something remained, and still does remain 
 of this ancient order. And they are called by others, and 
 by themselves, jockies, who go about begging, and use still 
 to recite the sluggornes ... of most of the true 
 ancient surnames of Scotland from old experience and 
 observation. Some of them I have discoursed, and found 
 to have reason and discretion. One of them told me 
 there were not now twelve in the whole isle ; but he re- 
 membered when they abounded, so as at one time he was 
 one of five that usualie met at St. Andrews." — Irving's 
 History of Scottish Poetty, edited byCarlyle, pp. 185, 186. 
 The minstrels of the seventeenth century had thus evidently 
 fallen from the high and distinguished position in which 
 Percy and Pinkerton describe them in earlier times. See 
 Percy's Essay on the Ancient Minstrels in England, p. xxi; 
 and Pinkerton's Essay on the Origin of Scottish Poetry, 
 p. Ixxiii. 
 
 "° Excelleitt in that art. — The old Scottish minstrels or 
 rhymers were expected to recite poems in connexion with 
 the surnames of the leading nobility, who were praised 
 especially for martial exploits. The Montgomerys were 
 further celebrated by the minstrels for the rare distinction 
 of genius in song. The poetical vein appears to have 
 come into the Montgomery family by the infusion of the 
 
 Eglinton blood. Sir Hugh of Eglinton, who was bom 
 in 1320, is described by the old chronicler Winton as 
 " cunning in literature, curious in his style, eloquent and 
 subtle, and clothing his composition in appropriate metre, 
 so as always to inspire pleasure and delight" This, how- 
 ever, is only a prosy translation of Winton's lines, which 
 occur in vol. i., p. 122, of his Cronykil, and enumerate 
 sir Hugh's principal poems thus : — 
 
 ** That cunnand wes in literature ; 
 He made the gret gest 0/ Arthure, 
 And t)ie Awntyre of Gawane^ 
 The Pystyt also of Swete Sti^ane. 
 He was curyws in hys style, 
 Fayre of facund, and subtile 
 And ay to plesans and delyte 
 Mad in metyre mete his dyte, 
 Lytie or nowcht nevyr-the-les 
 Waverand frae the suthfastness." 
 
 This poetical sir Hugh of Eglinton married Egidia, the 
 half sister of Robert II., and by her left one daughter, 
 Elizabeth, who inherited his large estates, and became the 
 wife of John Montgomery of Eagleshame, ancestor of 
 the Eglinton and otlier Montgomery families in Ayr- 
 shire. The poems specified in these lines of Winton are 
 better known than any other of sir Hugh's productions. 
 The acts and exploits of the renowned king Arthur and 
 his nephew, si^ Gawane, are the themes of the two 
 romances above mentioned. The Pystyl of Swete Stisane 
 was written about the year 1 362, and is founded on the 
 apocryphal story of Susanna. — Irvine's History of Scottish 
 Poetry, p. 83. A more celebrated poet belonging to this 
 family was captain Alexander Montgomeiy, whose writ- 
 ings we shall have occasion to notice in a subsequent note. 
 Ezekiel Montgomery, founder of the Montgomerys of 
 Weitlands, inherited some portion of the poetical genius 
 of the race, and wrote such spirited poems that one of 
 them, at least, was ascribed to his celebrated kinsman, 
 Alexander Montgomery. Jean Montgomery, daughter of 
 the fifth laird of Hazlehead, married sir William Mure of 
 Rowallan, and her son, sir William, born about the year 
 1594, was also a poet. His best kno%TO works are a 
 poem entitled The Joy of Tears, and a Poetical Transla- 
 tion of the Psalms, the latter of which is still in manu- 
 script. In the Muse^s IVdcome, a collection of poems and 
 addresses presented to James I. of England, on his re- 
 visiting Scotland in 161 7, there is a poetical address by 
 sir William Mure. In 1 628, he published a poetical 
 translation of the Hecatombe Christiana of Boyd of 
 Trochrig, together with an original poem entitled Doomes- 
 day. His poetical version of the Psalms was completed 
 in 1639, after a labour of several years. — Paterson, 
 Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 291; vol. ii., 
 p. 192. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 149 
 
 gomerys/" as their due epithet; and that they deserve it, I can give many instances, but too much 
 of one thing is good for nothing. 
 
 To these two characters his late Lordship and his brother Patrick gave proof (as their pro- 
 genitors did to the first of them in France and Holland, and his Lordship, and his brother George 
 (falling into peaceable times) shewed themselves suitable thereunto. I must here mention and dis- 
 cover a little of his Lordship's temper (which I guess was fitt both for peace and Avarr) and it is 
 from his devise'" which he assumed when he went to travell; it was this, viz., a lute with two hands 
 out of clouds, the one stopping, the other moving the strings, and this motto (the French and 
 Scotch call it a diton"3)j viz., "Such Touch, Such Sound," but this is not certain. 
 
 To the like purpose Sir Ja. Montgomery had for his devise as may be seen within the porch 
 of Rosemount house, and on his monument in Grayabby church aforesaid), viz., a sword and a lance 
 (still part of our familys arms) saltirewise, surmounted on an open book, on the leaves whereof is 
 written the words Arte, Marte,'^'^'' surrounded by a laurel and a bay branch, bearing fruit, interwoven 
 wtihin each other: and under all for a motto appears those words, viz.. In ntnimqiie Paratus. — 
 
 Martiall Montgomerys. — Very few, if, indeed, any, of 
 the minstrels' chantings on this theme now remain. 
 There was published in Glasgow, in 1770, a ballad of 
 the seventeenth century, entitled Memorables of the Moiit- 
 gomeries, which appears to have been manufactured from 
 some earlier productions, and may thus be regarded as a 
 representation of what was sung by the minstrels re- 
 specting certain martial exploits performed by members 
 of the family. This poem was printed "from the only 
 copy known to remain, which has been preserved above 
 sixty years by the care of Hugh Montgomerie, sen., at 
 Eghsham, long one of the factors of the family of 
 Eglintoun." It was re-printed in 1822. The author 
 represents the founder of the family to have been a " noble 
 Roman," and the family name to have been derived from 
 Gomericus, a mountain in Italy. From this original seat 
 a descendant came to France, where another branch was 
 founded, which flourished for the long space of six cen- 
 turies. The representative of this branch came to England 
 with William the Conqueror, and so mightily distinguished 
 himself at the battle of Hastings, that — 
 
 " Earl Roger— tlien the greatest man, 
 
 Next to the King was thought ; 
 And nothing that he could desire, 
 
 But it to him was brought. 
 Montgomery town, Montgomery shire, 
 
 And Earl of Shrewsburie, 
 Arundale do shew this man 
 
 Of grandeur full to be." 
 
 A son of Earl Roger, named Philip, settled in Scotland, 
 and was the founder of the Scottish house : — 
 
 " Where many ages they did live, 
 
 By king and coimtry loved ; 
 As men of valour and renown, 
 
 Wlio were with honour moved ; 
 To shun no hazard when they could 
 
 To either service do ; 
 Thus did they live, thus did they spend 
 
 Their blood and money too." 
 
 The valour of sir Hugh Montgomerie and his son, sir 
 John, at the battle of Otterburne, is duly noticed by the 
 poet, who does not fail to record also the marriage of sir 
 
 Hugh of Eglintoun with Egidia, a daughter of the royal 
 house, from whom was descended lord Darnly, the father 
 of James VI. The concluding stanza is addressed to the 
 members of the family generally : — 
 
 " Since you are come of royal blood, 
 
 And kings are sprung from you, 
 See that with greatest zeal and love 
 
 Those virtues you pursue, — 
 Which to those honours raised your house, 
 
 And shall without all stain, 
 In herald's books your ensign flowr'd 
 
 And counter-flov/r'd maintain." 
 
 From his dcinse. — The device, from the French 
 devise, is the emblem on a shield, or the ensign armorial 
 of a famil)'. We have illustrations of the use of this terra 
 in the following passages quoted in Johnson's Dictionary : — 
 
 " Then change we shields, and their devices bear — 
 
 Let fraud supply the want of force in vi3.r."~DryJen. 
 '* Hibernia's harp, device of her command, 
 And parent of her mirth shall there be seen." — Prior. 
 *'They intend to let the world see what party they are of, by 
 figures and designs upon these fans; as the knigiits errant used to 
 distinguish themselves by deduces on their shields." — Addisoji, 
 
 ''3 Call it a diton. — The diton, from the French dicton, 
 is an inscription having reference lo the armorial bearings, 
 or to the bearer's name. The following passage containing 
 an illustration of the use of this heraldic term, is quoted in 
 Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Lan- 
 guage: — " As your arms are the ever-green hoUine leaves, 
 with a blowing horn, and this diton zirescit -uubiere virtus, 
 so shall this your munificence suitablye bee, ever-green 
 and fresh to all ages in memoiy, and whyle this house 
 standeth. " — Guild's Old Roman Catholick, dedication, p. 9. 
 The diton, according to the Dictiomiaire de Trevonx, is 
 "un mot notable, ou de grand sens qu'on met en de 
 tableaux ; ou des inscriptions, qui tiennent lieu d' em- 
 blemes, ou de devises. " 
 
 ^'t Arte, Martc. — This stone, or a simihr one, is still in 
 the abbey, at Greyabbey, over the remairis of the tablet 
 erected to the memory of sir James Montgomery. — MS. 
 Notes of colonel F. 0. Montgomery. 
 
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The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Thus it may be said of him, Proles scquitur suum patrem, in these brave qualitys and accomplish- 
 ments. 
 
 Another generall observation (and so I shall omitt the rest) is, that it cannot be said (with any 
 seeming truth) either that his late Lordships progenitors or himself, or his descendants, ever im- 
 ployd any coin to buy imployments, or preferrraent, but by their services, and at expence or hazard 
 of their blood and lives they obtained the like favors, which they had of their respective princes : so 
 they may say as they have found, tandem bona causa triuniphat. Furthermore they were always loyal 
 to the crowne and never tainted or stained in their blood,"^ and for maintenance of this honour, I 
 here lay aside my pen and throw down my gantlet to answer all opposers of this my averment. 
 
 And now I proceed to his late Lordships heire and successor:"^ and though my recitall is short 
 of his merits, yet I shall be much briefer in what I shall write of his Lordship's descendants, not re- 
 peating but touching (as shall be requisite) the mentions I have interwoven before : because I have 
 seen but few records of their Lordships actions, except what my own knowledge can afford, or is 
 come by the credible reporte, which must needs be litle, for I was in my grandfather Stewarts house 
 till I was sent for to the Ards, a heedless boy of ten years and six months age an. i644;"7 kept at 
 school till harvest 1649; that Oliver Cromwell's army chaced me into Scotland,"^ and then out of it 
 into Holland, when I came an. 1652, into England, and so returned into Ireland an. 1653. I was 
 kept soliciting for my birth right till King Charles the ad's happy restoration May, 1660, and for 
 eight years after it, imployd in my proper affaires; mostly abroad not at all resolving (but rather 
 discouraged for want of papers) till anno 1697, that I should make these collections, concerning the 
 Montgomerys in general, or of the family of Ardes, and others of that sirname in Ireland, or to write 
 of them particularly. — But the gout (I thank God for it, and for my health, and ability which had 
 furnished me with some preparations) hath since that year given me occasion and leizure to scribble 
 these and divers other sheets. "5 
 
 "5 Stained in blood. — -The principal consequences of an 
 attainder, at/inctas, ''stained, "are forfeiture of real and per- 
 sonal estate, and what is technically called the corruption of 
 the blood of the offender. Owing to this corruption of blood, 
 which completely in law stopped up the course of descent, it 
 was impossible to derive a title to lands, eitherfrom the offen- 
 der directly, or from any more remote ancestor through 
 him. In the reign of Charles II., which was the vaunted 
 era of the theoretical perfection of our public law, Hale 
 writes — " If the son of a person attaint purchase land, 
 and die without issue, it shall not descend to his uncle ; 
 for the attainder of his father corrupted the blood, whereby 
 the bridge is broken down." Blackstone holds that corrup- 
 tion of blood involved an obstruction of all descents by or 
 through a person attainted, even to the twentieth genera- 
 tion. See Amos on the En,:^!isk Constitution, pp. 212, 
 213. The practical injustice thus caused by the doctrine 
 of the corruption of blood in punishing the offences of the 
 guilty by the heaviest penalties on the iimocent, has been 
 
 abolished, but not very long ago. It is removed by 
 the 3rd and 4th of William IV., cap. 106, sec. 10, 
 which enacts that no attainder for the future shotild pre- 
 vent descent from being traced through the attainted per- 
 son, unless the lands escheated before the 1st of January, 
 1834. 
 
 Heire and sticcessor, — This heir was Hugh, second 
 viscount, who died in 1642. Unfortunately, the author's 
 memoir of him, extending to upwards of 92 pages, is lost. 
 See p. l^supra. 
 
 "7 An. 1644.. — Seep. 2, note 4, supra. 
 
 ''^ Chaced ?ne into Scotland. — After the defeat of the 
 royalist troops in Ulster under the command of the third 
 viscount, on the field of Lisnastrain, near Lisbum, in 1649, 
 the author fled with his father, sir James Montgomery, into 
 Scotland. 
 
 "5 Divers other sheets. — It thus appears that the Mont- 
 gomery Manuscripts were written during the last ten years 
 of the author's life, or between the years 1697 and 1707. 
 
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^HE Montgomery Manuscripts. ki 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THIRD VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY. 
 
 NOW return to write of the 3d Visct. as I promised, affectionately and without flattery,' 
 Mr. Montgomery (for so he was then called) on the ist notice of that horrid Irish rebellion,' 
 being recalled from his travels beyond our narrow seas, came thro' England and kissed K. 
 Ch. his hand at Oxford, who had the curiosity to look at the palpita" of his heart, w*" was plainly 
 
 m 
 
 ^ IVilhout flattery. — There is here evidently a large 
 gap in the Alaiuiscripts, and whatever the author wrote of 
 the second viscount, of his son James, or of his daughter 
 Elizabeth, has been lost. The present chapter commences 
 abruptly with the memoirs of the second viscount's eldest 
 son Hugh, who became third viscount, on the death of his 
 father in 1642. 
 
 ^ Horrid Irish rebellion. — This was the great Irish 
 rebellion which commenced in Ulster on the 23rd of 
 October, 1641. On the evening of the 22nd, sir Felim 
 O'Neill surprised and pillaged the castle of Charlemont, 
 seizing lord Caulfeild and his family, together with the 
 whole garrison. Immediately afterwards, on the same 
 day, he took possession of the town and fort of Dun- 
 gannon, whilst a leader under him, named O'Quin, sur- 
 prised the castle of Mountjoy. These events took place 
 on the evening of the day preceding that on which the 
 general rising in Ulster began, and were kno\\ n the next 
 day pretty generally throughout Down and ^Vntrim. As 
 soon as the alarming news reached Lisburn, bishop Leslie 
 addressed the following hasty note to the second 
 viscount Montgomery of the Ards, which was written 
 about six o'clock, p.m., on the 23rd of October : — 
 
 "To the Right Honourable my very good T^ord, Thomas, (Hugh), 
 Lord Viscount Montgomery. 
 " Rt. Honourable — There is newly come into Lisnegarvy a 
 trooper post, wlio assures us that this last night Charlemont, was taken 
 and Dungannon, by Sir Phclim O'Neill, with a huge multitude of 
 Irish soldiers, and that this day they are advanced as far as Ton- 
 deraghee. Captain St. John fled, his trumpeter slain, and all the 
 country fleeing before them. I pray your Lordship to think of some 
 course to be taken for makmg head against them, and let my Lord 
 Clandeboys know soe much. I am now likewise sending post to my 
 Lord Chichester, soe in great haste, I commend your Lordship to 
 God's grace, and rest your Lordship's affectionate servant, 
 
 " Hen. Dunensis. 
 
 " Lisnegarvy, 23rd Oct., 1641." 
 
 This note was soon succeeded by the following, enclos- 
 ing letters from other parties : — 
 
 " To the Right Honourable my very good Lord, the Lord Viscount 
 Montgomery of Ardes. 
 " Your Lordship now perceives by these enclosed letters from one 
 Garty to Mr, Hill, and Mr. Hill unto nic, that the news which I 
 sent unto your Lordship, about four hours ago are too true, and a 
 great deal worse than I then understood, for the Newry is taken, and 
 we expect them (the insurgents) here this night or to-morrow, and 
 cannot hold out long without help from those parts which your Lord- 
 
 ship commands, soe in great haste, I beseech Almighty God to bless 
 your Lordship, and to be our deliverer. 
 
 " Your Lordship's most affectionate servant, 
 
 " Hen. Dunensis. 
 
 " Saturday, at ten o'clock at night." 
 
 This note is endorsed — "Reed, from the busype, this 
 Sunday morning, 7 hours, 24th Oct., 1641." For 
 copies of the foregoing notes, now printed for the first time, 
 the editor is indebted to the Rev. Dr. Macllwaine, 
 Incumbent of St. George's, Belfast. In less than 
 a week after the commencement of the rebellion, the 
 insurgents had possession of the counties of Tyrone, 
 IMonaghan, Longford, Leitrim, Fermanagh, Cavan, 
 Donegal, Deny, and nearly all Armagh and Down. 
 The district of Ards was the only portion of Down which 
 was happily free from ]3illage and massacre, although the 
 inhabitants there, on the first breaking forth of the re- 
 bellion, hardly hoped to escape the doom of other places 
 Refugees from other districts of Down and also from the 
 adjoining counties crowded thither, from among whom, 
 the second viscount, and his brother, sir James Mont- 
 gomery of Roseraount, collected a considerable force. 
 The following extract, containing the names of some 
 of the principal insurgent leaders in Ulster together with 
 an account of their first movements on the breaking out of 
 the rebellion, is taken from O'Mellan's y)/i'. Joianal of the 
 Wars of 1 64 1, in the possession of the late viscount 
 O'Neile of Shane's Castle:— -"The chiefs formed a plan to 
 seize upon all the fortified towns and strong places of the 
 English and Scotch throughout Ireland in one night. The 
 day fixed was F"riday, being the last day of the moon. 
 
 . . Sir Felim O'Neill was chosen general in the 
 province of Ulster, that is Mic Turlough, Mic Henry 
 Mic Henry, Mic Shane, Mic Cuinn, Mic Henry, Mic Owne, 
 &c. He took Charlemont and the governor of the town, 
 Lord Caulfeild, and all who were there from him down- 
 wards. Dmigannon was taken, and its captain, namely 
 Parsons, and all the inhabitants from him down, by Ran- 
 dal MicDonnell, that is, the son of Ferdoragh, son of 
 Owen, &c., and by Patrick Modar O'Donnelly. The 
 great garrison of Mountjoy was seized, with all the sol- 
 diers, by captain Turlough Gruama O'Quin ; and Lord 
 Caulfeild's castle in liall)odonneny was taken by Patrick 
 Moder O'Donnelly. The manor-house of Moneymore, 
 that is Sir John Clotworthy's town, was seized on by the 
 
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 The Moxtgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 discernable at the incision which was made in his side ;3 Sir, said the K., I wish I could perceive the 
 thoughts of some of my nobihties hearts as I have seeft your heart ; to which this Mr. Montgomery 
 readily rephed, I assure your majesty, before God here present and this company, it shall never en- 
 tertain any thought against your concerns ; but be always full of dutiful affection and steadfast re- 
 
 govemor Cormac O'Hagan ; and Mr. Fuisler's town, 
 in Killeter, that is Ballyscullion, was taken by Felim 
 Gruama O'Neill son of Felim Balbh. The garrison of 
 Liscallaghan was taken by . . . son of Donnell son 
 of Shane na Mallacht, and by . . . and the English 
 soldiers who \\ ere in it were captnred. The strong gar- 
 rison town of Trandragee was taken by Patrick Og 
 O'Hanlon, and he was killed himself the same day. 
 The Newry was seized by Con Magennis, that is, the son 
 of Lord Iveagh, and also the great castle. Dundalk was 
 taken by the lieutenant-general Brian, son of Hugh Boy 
 O'Neil, sonof Turloiigh, son of Henry na Gartan, and by the 
 Clan of Hugh (Clannalioy). 24th. — On .Sunday was taken 
 Desert-Martin, and the manor-house of Magherafelt by the 
 governor, Cormac O'Hagan. 26th. — Armagh was seized by 
 the general, i.e., sir Felim. There were a great many 
 English in the Great Church, and plenty of provisions 
 with them. They could have defended themselves, but 
 they surrendered." The Journal from which the foregoing 
 is an extract, was written by O'Mellan of Brantry Friary, a 
 religious house situated in the townland of Gorl-tamlaght- 
 iia-muck, now Gorf, lying on the south-east of the barony of 
 Dungannon, county of Tyrone. The copy of this curious 
 worktowhich the editor had access belongs to J. W. Hanna, 
 esq., who transcribed it from one lent to him by the late 
 Dr. Petrie of Dublin, and which had been translated from 
 the Irish original in the late viscount O'Neill's possession, 
 by Robert Mac Adam, esq., of Belfast. The leaders of the 
 insurrection issued a declaration detailing the frt'?/^;^ which 
 had compelled them to revolt. Of these causes eighteen 
 in number, the following may be particularly men- 
 tioned — " I. It was plotted and resolved by the Puritans 
 of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to extinguish quite the 
 Catholick religion, and the professors and maintainers 
 thereof, out of all those kingdoms, and to put all Catholicks 
 of this realm to the sword, that would not confomr them- 
 selves to the Protestant religion. 4. The subjects of Ireland, 
 especially the Irish, were thrust out forceably from their an- 
 cient possessions, against law, without colour or right; and 
 could not have proprietary or security in their estates, goods, 
 or other rights, but were wholly subject to an arbitrary power 
 and tyrannical government, these forty years past, without 
 hope of relief or redress. 10. AH their heavy and insuffer- 
 able pressures prosecuted and laboured by the natives of this 
 kingdom, with much suit, expence, and importunity, both 
 in parliament here, and in England before his majesty, to 
 be redressed, yet could never be brought to any happy 
 conclusion, or as much as hope of contentment, but 
 always eluded with delays. 17. All the natives in the 
 English plantations of this realm were disarmed b)' pro- 
 clamation, and the Protestant planters ai-med, and tied by 
 the conditions of their plantations, to have arms, and to 
 keep certain numbers of horse and foot continually upon 
 their lands, by which advantage many thousands of the 
 natives were expulsed out of their possessions, and as many 
 hanged by martial law, without cause, and against the 
 laws of this realm; and many of them othenvise destroyed, 
 
 and made away, by sinister means and practices." — 
 Desiderata Cnriosa Hibernica, voL ii., pp. 78, 80, 81. 
 
 3 Made ill his side. — This curious case was, no doubt, 
 mentioned more particularly in the Memoir of the second 
 viscount, which has been lost. It fortunately came under 
 the celebrated Dr. William Haney's notice, who de- 
 scribes it as follows: — "A young nobleman, eldest son 
 of the Viscount Montgomery, when a child, had a severe 
 fall, attended with fracture of the left side. The conse- 
 quence of this was a suppurating abscess, which went on 
 discharging abundantly for a long time from an immense 
 gap in his side ; this I had from himself and other credible 
 persons who were witnesses. Between the l8th and 19th 
 years of his age, this young nobleman, having travelled 
 through France and Italy, came to London, having at 
 this time a very large open cavity in his side, through 
 which the lungs, as it was believed, could both be seen 
 and touched. When this circumstance was told as some- 
 thing miraculous to his serene majesty. King Charles, he 
 straightway sent me to wait on the young man, that I 
 might ascertain the trae state of the case. And what did 
 I find ? A young man, well giown, of good complexion, 
 and apparently possessed of an excellent constitution, so that 
 I thought the whole stoiy must be a fable. Having saluted 
 him according to custom, however, and informed him of 
 the king's express desire that I should wait upon him, he 
 immediately showed me everything, and laid open his left 
 side for my inspection, by removing a plate which he 
 wore there by way of defence against accidental blows 
 and other injuries. I found a large open space in the 
 chest, into ^ hich I could readily introduce three of my 
 fingers and my thumb ; which done I straightway per- 
 ceived a certain protuberant fleshy part, affected with an 
 alternating extrusive and intmsive movement ; this part I 
 touched gently. Amazed with the novelty of such a state, 
 I examined everj'thing again and again, and when I had 
 satisfied myself, I saw that it was a case of old and ex- 
 tensive ulcer, beyond the reach of art, but brought by a 
 miracle to a kind of cure, the interior being invested by a 
 membrane, and' the edges protected by a tough skin. 
 But the fleshy part (which I, at first sight, took for a 
 mass of granulations, and others had always regarded as 
 a portion of the lung, ) from its pulsating motions, and the 
 rhythm they observed with the pulse — when the fingers 
 of one of my hands were applied to it, those of the other 
 to the arteiy at the wrist — as well as from their discordance 
 with the respiratory movements, I saw was no portion of 
 the lung I was handling, but the apex of the hear: ! covered 
 over with a layer of fungous flesh by way of external 
 defence, as commonly happens in old foul ulcers. The 
 servant of this young man was in the habit daily of 
 cleansing the cavity from its accumulated sordes by means 
 of injections of tepid water; after which the plate was 
 applied, and with this in its place, the young man felt 
 adequate to any exercise or expedition, and, in short, he 
 led a pleasant life in perfect safety. Instead of a verbal 
 answer, therefore, I carried the young man himself to the 
 
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 solution to serve your Majesty. He stayd a few days at Court, and the King had him in particular 
 favour, and here (I believe) was laid that unshaken foundation of loyalty whereon all his succeeding 
 actions were built. He had leave to return to his father, who had wrote to hasten him home, be- 
 cause he feared his drowsy distemper woud grow too fast upon him,"* w** perhaps was told to the 
 King. Now, whether it was at this time, that the King gave our Master Montgomery his promise 
 he shoud succeed in his father's commands I know not, but it is likely it was so ; because Dr Max- 
 well (who had made the orifice in his side when a boy at school, and prescribed the lotion for it) 
 was then and there attending the K. as his phisician, and might inform his Majesty of the s"* L^'° 
 constitution and habit of body, likely to remove him, for this Dr. had been divers years a pensionary 
 phisician to that and the first Lord, and I have named him, joined with another in that quaHty, at the 
 funeral hereinbefore described ;5 he was glad tomeet with Mr Montgomery, of the Ardes, his quondam 
 patient (as is lately said) now in good phght of strength and health. The same Mr. Montgomery 
 came home before Ao. 1642 (as I think,) and, no doubt, was welcomed by all, and soon afterw"'' was 
 more endeared to this country by the signal proofs of his valor (in the quality of a volunteer against 
 the rebels) to his parents' great joy and fear of his person. This Mr. Montgomery came accom- 
 plished in the French tongue, dancing, fencing, touching the lute, riding the great horse, and other 
 academy improvements; yet he laid aside all courtly recreations, and betook himself to fortification 
 and other martial arts, w"" (with other parts of the mathematicks) he had learned abroad ; he now 
 using no musick (except in the church and in house devotions) but only the drum and trumpet and 
 bagpipe among the soldiers, in which he delighted, for he was comformist to the adage, Diclce bellum 
 incxpertis.^ It cou'd not be long after his father's death, that his Lo'' assumed the command of the 
 regm'' and troop (those dangerous times not admitting any interim from action) ; but whether the 
 
 king, that his majesty might, with his own eyes, behold 
 this wonderful case; tliat, in a man alive and well, he 
 might, without detriment to the individual, observe the 
 movement of the heart, and with his proper hand even 
 touch the ventricles, as they contracted And his most 
 excellent majesty, as well as myself, acknowledged that 
 the heart was without the sense of touch; for the youth 
 never knew when we touched his heart, except by the 
 sight or the sensation he had through the external integu- 
 ment. We also particularly observed the movements of 
 the heart, viz., that in the diastole it was retracted and 
 withdrawn ; whilst in the systole it emerged protruded ; 
 and the systole of the heart took place at the moment the 
 piastole or pulse in the wrist was perceived ; to conclude, 
 the heart struck the walls of the chest, and became promi- 
 nent at the time it bounded upwards and underwent con- 
 traction on itself." — Harvey's Works, Sydenham Society, 
 pp. 382-4. 
 
 * GrcTM too fast upon him. — The second viscount died 
 suddenly on the 15th of November, 1642 — in the forty- 
 fifth year of his age. In 1637, the year after his father's 
 death, he was^ appointed a member of the privy council. 
 On the breaking out of the rebellion in the following 
 year, he received a commission from the Irish govern- 
 ment, and soon afterwards from the king, to be colonel of 
 1000 foot and five troops of horse, tlie greater part of 
 which he raised, equipped, and for one year supported at 
 {in expense of ^1000. With these forces he joined col, 
 
 Chichester at Lisburn, and continued to take an active and 
 successful part in suppressing the rebellion, until the time 
 of his death. His eldest son, Hugh, succeeded him. His 
 second son Henry died young; his third son James, was 
 born at Dunskey, in 1639, and died at Rosemount in 
 1689. The second viscount's only daughter, Elizabeth, 
 married her cousin, William Montgomeiy, author of the 
 Moutgomcry Manuscripts. 
 
 5 Hereinbefore described. — See p. 140, supra. 
 
 * Dtdcc belltiin wexpertis. — The following letter, written 
 by the third viscount, about three weeks after his father's 
 death, reveals probabl)' the first of the many difficulties in 
 which the writer was from time to time, involved. It is 
 addressed to the sixth earl of Eglinton, who always con- 
 tinued to be the kind counsellor and efficient friend of 
 the Ards family : — 
 
 " Right HONORABLE AND Mv VERiE GOOD LORD — I am extreme 
 sorrie of the occasioune I have to trouble your lordship, yet the as- 
 surance 1 have of your lordships nobill favowris makes me bolde to 
 acquent vou with everie thing concearnis mee ; becaus from your 
 lordship onHe I expecte soverane remeidies. I doubt not but the 
 general!, , to whom t am infinuly obliged i according to the migrate 
 informacion of my cousin, Bally Craboy, of whonie I wold not have 
 expected any such thing, hath niformed your lordship of the bussy- 
 ness which may be hath induced you to conceive some harsh opinion 
 of me. Wherefore, I intreat your lordship not onlie to perswade 
 your selfe of the contrarie, but also the Gennerall ; and intreate him 
 not to proceide in that Inissynes concerning the troupes of horse, ac- 
 cording to my cousins relatioiin ; for I shall eitlier make it appeare 
 (to niy grief for my cousines iniscaragej that he hath extreamlie 
 wronged me, and neglected his owne duety, else let not my name be 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 same was resigned to him and confirmation gotten f" his Majesty (as I think is most probable) of 
 whether the Ld Leicester^ (I think his name was so) whom both K. and Parhament appointed to be 
 General of the British army, renewed the commission to his Lo'', I cannot tell, but I may avow that 
 it was his Lo^'* due to have the command, because his father raised and many months maintained his 
 own troop of horse and regm* of foot in Newtown and Donaghadee parishes, and in and about Comer 
 town, by laying out his own money and engaging his credit, and by help of his tenants, whom he 
 gave allowance in rent for it, and by the preys of cows w"" he took from the enemy.^ I presume his 
 late Lo^ had a certificate (f" the L'^ Chichester? and J. Conway, '° &c., to whom the Justices referred 
 
 inscrybed amongs these of Cav'ileiris. So earnestlie des>Teing the 
 continuance of your lordshipis favouris, I rest, my lord, your lord- 
 shipis most humble servant and cousine, 
 
 " Newtowne, the Cth December, 1642. Montgomerie. 
 
 " I intreate your lordship that this letter to my vncle may be 
 gotten sent to him with all possible dliligence, and the best saftie can be. 
 
 " For the right honorable and his verie good lord, my lord the 
 Earle of Eglintowne. — These present." 
 
 Yt2&^x'% Memorials, vol. i. , p. 259. The " Bally Craboy" 
 of this letter was lieu. -col. John Montgomery of Black- 
 house in Largs, and of Creboy or Craigbuy, in the parish 
 of Donaghadee. The third viscount Montgomery here 
 calls him cousin, because their grandmothers, Elizabeth 
 and Christian Shaw, were sisters. Their grandfathers, 
 the first viscount, and Patrick Montgomery of Creboy, 
 were not cousins, but brothers-in-law. Fraser (Memo- 
 rials, vol. i., p. 259,) errs in supposing this letter to 
 to have been written by the second viscount. It must have 
 been written by the third viscount at least three weeks 
 after his father's death. 
 
 7 Lord Leicester. — This was Robert Sidney, earl of 
 Teicester, nephew of sir Philip and grandson of sir Henry 
 Sidney. He was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, 
 and general of the British forces in this country, by patent 
 dated 14th June, 1642, but his commission was withdrawn, 
 when he had reached Chester, on his way to Ireland, the 
 kingdeclaring that Sidney enjoyed his royal confidence, but 
 that the condition of Ireland then required the appoint- 
 ment of an Irish peer. Leicester having gone from Chester 
 to Oxford, where he remained for a time \\'ith the king, 
 was reported to the Parliament as a delinquent and 
 papist, and his estates, in consequence, were about to be 
 sequestered. His countess, Elizabeth Egerion, a daughter 
 of the earl of Bridgewater, having explained the circum- 
 stances of his going to Oxford, in a memorial presented to 
 the parliament, through her brother, the duke of Nor- 
 thumberland, his estates were allowed to remain in the 
 possession of the family. See I^etters and Memorials of 
 State, edited by Collins, vol. i., pp. 130, 176. 
 
 ^ Took from the enemy. — This "prey of cows" was 
 obtained in a raid against the Irish, commenced on the 
 28th of April, 1642, and conducted principally by a party 
 of 1600 Scottish soldiers under the command of general 
 Robert Monro, assisted by Ulster forces commanded by 
 lords Conway, Ards, Claneboy, Grandison, and Chi- 
 chester, "in all," says Monro, in a despatch to general 
 Leslie, "about 3400 in two divisions." This force 
 marched as far as Newry, sweeping all opposing insurgents 
 before it, and returning to Carrickfergus through Lecale 
 and Kinelearty, with a large amount of spoil, among 
 which was a multitude of cattle. As many as four 
 thousand cows were taken from the teiTitories of Magenis 
 
 and Macartan, but when the soldiers came to divide the 
 booty, on their return, on the 12th of May, the English 
 charged the Scots with having stolen and appropriated the 
 greater portion of the cattle, during the march. In a 
 curious and valuable account of this expedition, written 
 by one Roger Pike, an Englishman, the writer has the 
 following bitter reflection on this affair: — "The next 
 day, when the cows were to be divided, many of them 
 were stolen away into the Ards and Clandeboys the last 
 night, and the goods so sneakt away by the Scots that 
 the Enqlish troopes got just nothing, and the English 
 foote very little, which gave them too just a cause to 
 mutany, in so much as I think it will be hard to get them 
 out to march with the Scots againe, who will have both 
 the credit and profit of whatsoever is done or had." The 
 reader may see Pike's Letter reprinted entire, with 
 illustrative passages from Monro's Despatches and major 
 Turner's Memoirs, in the Ulster yoarnal of Archizology, 
 vol. viii., pp. Tl-%~i. The "preys of cows" mentioned in 
 the text had been evidently detached from the vast herd 
 above mentioned. Pike was under the impression that 
 whilst the Scots "sneakt away" with the goods, the most of 
 the cows found their way into the Ardes and Clandeboye. 
 
 5 Lord Chichester. — This was Edward Chichester, who 
 inherited the estates of his brother, sir Arthur. The 
 title, which became extinct on the death of the latter, was 
 revived in favour of sir Edward, who was granted the 
 additional title of viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus. 
 He succeeded his brother also as governor of Carrick- 
 fergus, governor of Culmore, admiral of Lough Neagh, 
 and member of the Privy Council. Lord Chichester died in 
 1648, and was buried in Eggesford Church, Devon, beside 
 his first wife, who was a daughter of sir John Coplestone of 
 Eggesford. On Ms monument, prepared by himself, but 
 completed by his son, is this inscription : — 
 In Memorj' 
 of Edward, Lord Viscount Chichester, 
 and dame Anne, his wife : and in hum- 
 ble acknowledgment of the good provi- 
 dence of God in advancing their House. 
 Famed Arthur, Ireland's dread in arms ; in peace 
 
 Her tut'lar genius : Belfast's honour won ; 
 Edward and Ann^, blest pair, begot increase 
 
 Of lands and heirs, — viscount was grafted on, 
 Next Arthur, in God's cause and king's, staked all. 
 And had to's honour, added Donegal. 
 
 The last-named Arthur was Edward's eldest son, and be- 
 came first earl of Donegal in 1647. He is frequently 
 mentioned in connexion with the civil and military- affairs 
 of Ulster, from l66l to 1674, the year of his death. — 
 Lodge, Peerage, ed. by Archdall, vol. i. , pp. 329, 330, 333. 
 
 '° J. Conway. — We can find no f. Conway in L'lster at 
 the time referred to in the text. Sir Fulk Conway, the 
 
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 the examination and report of his Lo"'' petition, concerning his expenses for the publick, that for 
 the levying, arming, and subsisting his regm*- and troop the first year, it cost his Lo" above ;^iooo 
 (for Sir J. Montgomery had the hke certificate for himself,) and that those sums were due unto them 
 from the K. and kingdom, the preservation of this part of the country depending on such supplies 
 and actions;" and likewise his Lo'' deserved that honor and command because he had run many 
 hazards of his life, to be an example and encouragement to his followers and others of the nobility 
 
 founder of the family in Ulster bearing this surname, died 
 in 1624, and was succeeded by his brother Edward, who 
 was then 50 years of age. Tlie latter had been knighted 
 by the earl of Essex, in the year 1596, at Cadiz, where he 
 was in command of an infantry regiment. The same year 
 in which he succeeded to his brother's vast estates he was 
 appointed one of the principal secretaries of state, and 
 created baron Conway of .Ragly, in Warwickshire. In 
 the following year he was created, by Charles I., viscount 
 Conway of Conway Castle, in Wales. Although twice 
 appointed to the office of secretary, James I. used to say 
 of him that he could "neither read nor write," and 
 Clarendon wrote of him that he had performed the duties 
 of that high trust " with notable insufficiency." He died 
 in 1630, and was succeeded by his son, also named 
 Edward, the second viscount, who died in 1655. The 
 son ot the latter, also Edward, was created earl of 
 Conway in 1679, and died in 1683. See Inqidsltions, An- 
 trim, no. 7 Jac. I.; nos. I and 2 Car I.; no. 2 Car. II.; 
 Rawdon Papers, pp. 181, 185, notes. Probably J. Conway 
 mentioned in the text is a misprint for // Conway, a well- 
 known gentleman in Ulster at the time referred to by the 
 author. He is mentioned in the following passage of 
 O'Mellan's Journal of the Irish Wars of 1641 > -•' Sir 
 Felim made an expedition to Bellaghy. He sent a mes- 
 senger to demand the town from Mr. Conway, but he re- 
 fused to capitulate. The town was then entirely burnt, 
 together with the hagyards. The master at length sur- 
 rendered, on condition of being sent safe across the Bann to 
 Massareene. Then were burnt themanorhouse of Bellaghy, 
 and the town of sir William Nugent, and on the same day 
 themanorhouse of Magherafelt." Mr. Conway, mentioned 
 injthe above passage of O'Mellan's Jouriial, was Henry Con- 
 way. The lollovving account of this transaction is given 
 by the late Charles H. O'Neill, esq., in his Papers on the 
 O'Neills of Clannaboy, from the MS. Beposi'iou of the 
 Rev. Charles Anthony of Bellaghy, dated 12th June, 1642, 
 preserved in Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Anthony stated 
 that, " on the breaking out of the rebellion in 1641, the in- 
 habitants of Bellaghy rose in arms for their own defence, by 
 the persuasion of Henry Conway, esq., who lived in the 
 castle. The inhabitants repaired to the castle, and several 
 of Magherafelt likewise. Henry Conway obliged all 
 these to take the oath of allegiance. That Conway was 
 playing a double game, for, while he appeared resolved in 
 these preparations, he carried on secretly a correspondence 
 with Anthony O'Mullan and the O'Hagans, all of whom 
 were rebels. The object was that he, Conway, might be 
 permitted to carry off certain valuables without molesta- 
 tion, if he would deliver up the castle. A parley was 
 held, Mr. Thomas Dawson acting for the besieged, and 
 O'Hagan and sir Felim O'Neill for the rebels, in which 
 it was agreed to deliver up the castle, on condition of 
 
 marching out with liberty and goods, but that, as soon as 
 Conway had got off with his trunks, the rest were plun- 
 dered, and the town and castle burned." 
 
 " Supplies and actions. — The following letters, written 
 by the third viscount Montgomeiy, soon after the com- 
 mencement of the rebellion, when he was only twenty 
 years of age, have never been printed, and are very curious 
 and interesting illustrations of the text. The originals are 
 preserved among the Carte MSS. , in the Bodleian Library, 
 Oxford :— 
 
 " Right honble anp mv very good Lord— Upon the breaking 
 up of Lliis i-lebellion and receaving of advertissementfrom the Bishop 
 of Downe, Captain Chichester, Mr. Arthur Hill, and others, that the 
 Town of Lisnegarvy was threatened to be pillaged and burnt by the 
 Rebells, whoe had resolved, that being done, to have marched for- 
 ward to Belfast and Carrigfergus, I drew the country together an d 
 marched up towards Lisnegarvy for securing of that place, which is 
 a mayne passage both to the County of Antrym and to the County 
 of Downe, where after meetting with Captain Chichester, Sir Arthur 
 Tyringhame and Sir Thomas Lucas, and having receaved the Lords 
 Justices' Commissioner, it was thought fitt that a garrisone should 
 be established there and the like at some other place. Soon after 
 both my Brother Sir James and myself returned home to take order 
 for securing the best we could the rest of the countrey, since which 
 tyme we have been in perpetuall actione sometymes in one parte of 
 the county and sometymes in another, and have kept a forte at our 
 owne charges, three or four hundred foote and two or three troupes 
 of Horse, besides the drawing together ofiymes of our whole tenantry. 
 My Lord, if we had not been thus Imployed I would not have soe 
 far overseen myself as not to have acquented the Lords Justices or 
 your Lordship with the estate of those parts and our wants, which 
 were well seen to Sir Thomas Lucas whoe I do assure myself has 
 made a true relatione to the Lords Justices in what state we are in, 
 which made me confident that their Lordships would have long be- 
 fore this supplied us with Armes and ammunitions. But perceaving 
 that no armes is comeing here to us, and having receaved His Ma- 
 jestie's Commissione both for myself and my Brother we have thought 
 fitt to acquent my Lords the Justices, and state in what case we 
 stand here, which is for the present more dangerous nor ever it was 
 by the accessione of Sir Phelemy O'Neall, who has now joined with 
 Sir Con Magenis and the rest of the Natives in this County, and 
 likewise have sent by this gentleinan the copy, etc., of our Commis- 
 sione, both to the Lords Justices and to your Lordship from whom 
 wfc expect present supplyes to be sent to us by this bearer Mr. Johne 
 Galbraith, Both of moneys, armes and ammunition, In some reason- 
 able proportione according to the charges we have. My Lord, this 
 Gentleman is able to give your Lordship a full relation of the state of 
 this countrey and in what case we are ourselves. I dare bouldly say 
 it unto your Lordship that the charges we have hitherto borne, being 
 upon such a suddent, has soe exhausted us that we are no longer 
 able to indure it. Besides that there is no rent to be had now from 
 our people at this tyme. Your Lordship has alwise been my most 
 Noble friend, and now my Brother and I both must rely upon your 
 favour to us. Being hopeful! that your Lordship will earnestly move 
 that this bearer may be despatched with supply inito us as is desired. 
 What further concerns me or my Brother I shall intreat your Lord- 
 ship to receive it from this gentleman In whome I do repose abso- 
 lute trust. And soe, assuring myself of the the Continuance of your 
 Lordships favour to him whoe shall ever be knowen for — Your Lord- 
 ship's most affectionate and humble servant, 
 
 " MoNTGOMERIE. 
 
 " Newtone the 5th of deer. 1641." 
 
 " For the Right honble and very good Lord my Lord, the Erie 
 of Ormond —These presents. 
 
 — Vol. \\. , Jormerly marked " B" folic, p. 84. 
 
156 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 in Ulster; but however that was, his young Lo^ the 3d Visct. became thereby to be youngest, and 
 his uncle, Sr. Jas. M. to be the eldest Colonel, who was now entitled (as I was confidently told) to 
 have the chair as president in all councils of war, before the Ld. Claneboy, Chichester, Conway, and 
 Lo'', Sr. Jo. Clotworthys," and Sr. Robert Stewart, Audley Mervins,'3 and all other Colonels in 
 
 "My MOST HONORED LoRD — Within two days after Mr.Galbraithes 
 returne to me I had sent me from Scotland soe many picked muskatts 
 and Bandilows as compleatUe armed my Regiment, But to my extra- 
 ordinary charge, I have likewise to this tyme maintained my Regi- 
 ment of foote and three troupes of horse at my owne proper cost and 
 charg'e, without burthenc to any man's landes whatsoever, except my 
 owne, of which I have at least a thousand poimd a yeare waisted by 
 the Rebelles, who I have all this tyme opposed to the uttermost of 
 my power, and I thanke god with good successe, and have under 
 god been the preserver hitherto of the Baronie of the Ardes, and so 
 muche of the Baronie of Comber as lyes on the north syde of the 
 River of Comber, between Belfast and Comber. My brother Sir 
 James has lykwise to his great charge provided his Regiment with 
 armes. And now my Lord if we have some supplies of moneyes I 
 wold most wiliinglie goe to the fieldes ; and indeavour to do the best 
 service I could against the enemye who have kept me re.isonable 
 busie all this Wynter, and yet durst never attempt my garrisone 
 though in the nighttymc they gave me many allarumes by burning 
 and waisting of the countrey and killing of some poore people be- 
 tween a myle and a myle and a half to my garrisone, for whose re- 
 lieff we often sallied out upon the enemye, But could not doe much 
 good upon them at so unseasonable tymes, as they made choyce of 
 so acting their villanie, for our fright. I must humbly inlreat your 
 Lop. to moderate with my lordes the Justices on my behalf and my 
 brothers, that their Ips. may be pleased to wr>*te earne^.tlie into Eng- 
 land both to His Majtie and the parliament that we may be supplied, 
 and the charges we have been at for armes and amunition refunded 
 unto us, and our paie ascertained unto us in that measure as others 
 who are to serve in this warre which I am verie hopefuU their lops 
 will pleased condiscend unto. My lord I must next intreate you 
 that if any informacions have been made unto my Lordes the Justices, 
 which shall come to your loop's knowledge, or to your lop. against 
 my Brother Sir James Montgomerie that you will be pleased not to 
 give beleiff imto them, until he be heard, for I dare upon my honor 
 assure you Lop. that they will be found groundless, proceeding from 
 malice rather than any thing ellis, and that he will lie aljill to 
 give a good accountt of himself. As for myself I defy the greatest 
 unfriend I have to inform any thing against me The last is to give 
 your Lop. humble thankes for yor noble favour in suppleing me with 
 that hundreth poimd which Mr. Galbraith receaved at your com- 
 mand, for which I send your lop. here incloased my bill, till such 
 tyme as moneyes be somewhat more plentifuU with mee, Intreating 
 your lop. to beleive that to the uttermost of my power and fortune I 
 shall never be wanting to express my self— Your Lopps most affec- 
 tionate Servant, "Montgomerie. 
 
 " Newton, the 24th of Marche 1641. 
 
 "Post. — My lord I may not forgett to give your lop. humble 
 thankes for one George Montgomerie, a kinsman of myne, whom 
 yor lop. has been pleased to profarre as Ensyne to Lieutenent Colo- 
 nell Stirling, I shall intreate that as your lop. fyndes the young 
 gentleman to deserve that your lop. will be pleased to lake him in 
 your care for further preferrment. 
 
 " For the Right honorable and verie good Lord my Lord the 
 Earle of Ormonde — These present with niy humble service." 
 — Vol. iii., formerly marked " C" folio, p. 289. 
 
 Sir John Clol7wrl/iys.-^ Among the fortune-seekers 
 who came to Ulster with the earl of Essex in I573r were 
 two brothers, Hugh and Lewis Clotworthy, from Somer- 
 -setshire. The name of the latter is only mentioned in 
 connexion with a grant obtained by him from the crown, 
 on the nth May, 1605, constituting him licenser and re- 
 ceiver of customs from all vessels coming to fish off the 
 Irish coasts. His elder brother, Hugh, in the year 1603, 
 was doing garrison duty in Carrickfergiis, under the com- 
 mand of sir Arthur Chichester, who had previously been 
 appointed governor of that place, and who, although a 
 host in himself had the assistance and counsel, also, of 
 such men as Fulk Conway, Moyses Hill, Roger Lang- 
 ford, Henry Upton, and Edward Rowley. These men 
 
 founded the families of Ma.ssereene, Donegal, Temple- 
 more, Hertford, Downshire, Langford, and Templetown. 
 In 1605, captain Hugh Clotworthy obtained a grant of the 
 lands of Masserim, which had previously belonged in part 
 to the church, and partly to the great family of O'Neill 
 of Killultagh. In the following year he settled on this 
 estate, built a moated house on the site occupied by the 
 present castle, and took to wife, Mary, the daughter of his 
 neighbour, Roger Langford, of Muckamore. By her he had 
 a family of tliree sons, viz., sir yolni Clotworthy, mentioned 
 in the text ; James, of Moneymore, in the county of Lon- 
 donderry ; and Francis, who married the widow of 
 Thomas Clotworthy, of Ballysaggart, in the county of 
 Tyrone, and by her left two sons, named Hiighand John. 
 James, the second son of sir Hugh Clotworthy, left one 
 child, a daughter named lA^xy, who married lord Robert 
 Fitzgerald, and from whom, through her son, who became 
 nineteenth earl of Kildare, is descended the present duke 
 of Leinster. Sir Hugh Clotworthy's only daughter, Mary, 
 became the wife of captain Upton of Templepatrick, and 
 from her is lineally descended the present lord Templeton. 
 Sir John, the eldest son of sir Hugh, was created, by 
 patent dated 21st Nov., 1660, baron of Loughneagh and 
 viscount Massereene. He had previously received several 
 lucrative preferments at the hands of James I., Charles I., 
 and the Protector (Oliver Cromwell). Among these may 
 be mentioned a licence to him and his brother James, 
 granted by the crown on the 5th of July, 1616, to keep 
 taverns and sell wine and spirituous liquors in Newry 
 and all places throughout the county of Down, excepting 
 Downpatrick and a mile around it, and the lands of the 
 archljishop of Annagh, in Down County ; also in all 
 places throughout the county of Antrim, excepting the 
 towns of Dunluce and two miles round, Belfast, and 
 Masserey ; and also in Ardee and its liberties in Louth 
 county. — Pat. Rolls, James /., pp. 302, 303. 
 
 '3 Audley Mervins. — Audley ftler\'yn or Mervin was son 
 of captain James Mervyn, who obtained four proportions 
 of escheated land in the county of Tyrone, known as 
 the Braid, Fentonagh, Edergoule, and Carranvrackan, 
 containing, in all, upwards of 6,000 acres. — Morrin's 
 Calendar of Patent Rolls, Charles I., p. 577. For an 
 account of captain Mervyn's litigation with the bishop of 
 Clogher, see fhe Spottis^uoode AIiscella7iy, vol. i., pp. 143, 
 144. His son Audley, mentioned in the text, was distin- 
 guished both as a soldier and a lawyer. In 1640, whilst a 
 captain and a member of the Irish Parliament, he was em- 
 ployed to bring up an impeachment from the Commons 
 to the House of Lords against sir Richard Bolton, lord 
 chancellor ; Dr. John Bramhall, bishop of Derry ; sir Ger- 
 rard Lowther,' chief-justice of the common pleas, and sir 
 Geo. Radcliffe. Mer\'yn was a very active officer against 
 the Irish during the war that succeeded the rebellion of 
 1 64 1. He was soon promoted to the rank of colonel, 
 and was one of the four officers sent to the king at Oxford 
 to solicit succours for Ireland. At the Restoration he 
 was knighted, and appointed first serjeant-at-law, and 
 
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 157 
 
 Ulster, except Col. Monk, who afterwards (by ordin" of Parliament) was made governor of this 
 province (there being no governors of countys during the rebellion and usurping times). What benefit 
 (senority or eldership) in commission brings, is seen in the late reductions of affairs, wh" the young"* 
 Captains are thrown out (who perhaps were the stoutest, because never in danger) and the weary, 
 old beaten commanders continued in pay. 
 
 I now presume to give the reader an account of the occurrences concerning our British forces 
 (before I rehearse our worthy 3d Visct.'s actions;) in prosecution hereof, I will, for brevitie's sake, 
 only name papers as foUoweth, viz. Imprimis, a copy of commissions granted under the signet at 
 Edinburgh, the i6th of Nov. 17 Car. a.d. 1641 silicet. 
 
 Foot 
 
 To the Ld. Visct. of Ardes, 1000 and 5 troops horse. 
 Sr. Willim. Stewart, 1000 and i do. 
 Sr. Robt. Stewart, 1000 and i do. 
 Sr. J. M."» 1000 and i do. 
 
 Sr. Wilhn. Cole,'s 500 
 
 speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Besides the 
 Impeachment Speech on tlie 4th of March, 1640, pub- 
 lished at Dublin, 4to, 1641, he published the following: — 
 I. A Speech in the House of Lords, May 24, 1 641, on a 
 dispute whether the House of Lords in Ireland had power 
 of judicature in capital cases ; 4to, Diiblin, 1641. 2. An 
 Exact Relation of all such occurrences as have happened 
 in the several counties of Donegall, Londondeny, Tyrone, 
 and Femianagh, presented to the House of Commons of 
 England; 4to, Loudon, 1642. 3. A Speech on the nth 
 of May, 1661, in the House of Lords, when he was pre- 
 sented Speaker by the Commons, before sir Maurice 
 Eustace, knight, lord chancellor of Ireland, Roger, earl 
 of Orreiy, and Charles, earl of Mountrath, lords justices 
 of Ireland; 4to, Dublin, 166 1. 4. ^ Speech to the Duke 
 of Ormoiid in the Presence Chamber of the Castle of 
 Dublin, 29th July, 1662; 4to, Dublin, 1662. 5. A Speech 
 to the Duke of Ormoitd on the 13th of Februar)', 1662, in 
 the Presence Chamber of the Castle of Dublin ; 4to, 
 Dubhn, 1662; 4to, London, 1663. This last-named 
 speech, which is of great length, is principally in reference 
 to the Act of Settlement. See Ware's IVcrks, edited by 
 Harris, vol. ii., pp. 162, 163. Sir Richard Cox eulogises 
 Mervyn's speeches, but Carte ( Life of Ormond, vol. ii. , 
 pp. 231, 237), describes him as "a confident, verbose, 
 pompous pretender to orator)'," and as having a "quaint, 
 tropical, unintelligible manner of haranguing." Carte is 
 also very severe in his remarks on Mervyn's personal 
 character. See Life of Onnond, vol. ii. , p. 230. 
 
 Sir J. M. — Sir James Montgomerj' of Rosemount. 
 '5 Sir Wilhn. Cole. — Captain, afterwards sir William 
 Cole, settled in Fermanagh about the year 1607. Re- 
 specting his settlement at Enniskillen, see Calendar of 
 Patent Rolls of James /., pp. 215 b, lT,2b; Pynnar's Survey 
 of Ulster, in Hams's Hibernica, pp. 167 — 169 ; Morrin's 
 Calendar, reign of Charles /, p. 452 ; Lodge, Peerage of 
 Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. vi., pp. 43, 44. In 
 1641, sir William Cole, by almost superhuman exertions, 
 saved the county of Fermanagh from the massacre and 
 desolation which overspread neighbouring counties, and 
 which, at one crisis, appeared to be the inevitable doom 
 
 of his o\vn. Throughout the lengthened stniggle that fol- 
 lowed, he was one of the bravest and most efficient of the 
 military leaders on the side of the Government. A very 
 interesting letter, written by sir William Cole, at an 
 eventful crisis of the war, was printed in a small quarto 
 pamphlet of 24 pages, which is now very rare. This 
 tract, entitled The Irish Cabinet, was issued by order of 
 the English Commons, 20th Januaiy, 1645, and contained 
 copies of papers found in the carriage of the Roman 
 Catholic or titular archbishop of Tuam, who was slain 
 near Sligo in that year. The following is the letter to 
 which we refer, and for a copy of which we are indebted 
 to J. W. Hanna, Esq. : — 
 
 " Sir William Cole, upon Sunday morning, Novemb. 23, received 
 a letter from Sir Charles Coot, Lord President of Connaught, who, 
 to satisfie his Lordship's desires, commanded his troop to march unto 
 him, to be at Sligo on Thursday night, Novemb. 27, to join in some 
 expedition by his Lordship's orders, against the rebels in that 
 Province. 
 
 " The greatest part of his Troop with their horses were then in the 
 Island of Baawe (now Boa Island), sixteen miles northward from 
 Iniskilline, who, upon his notice, did march away upon Monday, 
 Nov. 24, together with almost all the foot-soldiers of two companies 
 of his regiment that quartered with their cattle, and many of the 
 cows of Iniskilline in that Island, unto Bellashanone, which was their 
 place of rendezvouz, 
 
 " The Comet of that Troop, upon Tuesday, Novemb. 25, with 
 about seventy Horsemen, marched from Iniskilline to the westward 
 of Loughern, with resolution to lodge that night by the way, within 
 fifteen miles of Sligo; but a little snow falling, altered their deter- 
 mination, and so took their course to Ballashannone without appoint- 
 ment. God, in his high Providence, for the advancement of his own 
 glory, and our good, directing them thither, where, as soon as 
 they got their horses shod, they were still hastening towards Sligo, 
 whither sundry of their foot-companies aforesaid on horseback rid 
 before tliem. And a great part of the Troop were advanced as far as 
 Bundrowes, where the alarm overtook them, with orders to return to 
 resist the enemy, to the number of four or five hundred men of Owin 
 Mac Artes army, under the conduct of several Captains, led by 
 Rourj' ^r^cGuire in chief, who, upon Wednesday morning, Novemb. 
 26, being provided with two of our own boats by the treachery of 
 one Bryan O'Harran and others of our bosome snakes, protected 
 SynoKS^ and entered the said Island of Baawe at liie south end A it- 
 and was burning, spoiling, preying their goods, wlierein they pre, 
 vailed, even to the stripping naked of all our women, plundering and 
 taking theirs and our then-absent soldiers clothes, victuals, and arms 
 away. 
 
 "That party of our Horsemen speedily returning to Bellashanone, 
 
158 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Sr. Ralp Gore,'* 500 foot. 
 And these were obtained at the Ld. Visct's and Sr. J. Montgomery's instances and recom- 
 mendations (wherein Sr. Jas. appears mindful of his 2 fathers-in-law'7 and friends) as is evident by 
 the Secretary's letter to him, dated 26th of said month, and sent with the commissioners, by Mr. 
 Galbrakh afores^'^ the original commission, 2do. f° (the Lds. Justices of Ireland) Sr. Wm. 
 
 whence, with the Cornet, the rest of the said Troop, some of the 
 foot-soldiers on horseback, and Captain John Folliot, accompanied 
 with as many Horsemen as he could make, hastned towards the 
 north end of that Island, which is distant from the south end thereof 
 three English miles. But the enemy having driven the prey of cows, 
 horses, and mares forth at the south end, our horsemen with Captain 
 Folliot followed by Termon-Castle, whence they marched thorow 
 very inaccessible woods and boggs in the night, to the Cash (distant 
 sixteen miles from Bellashanny), being the first place that they 
 could guide themselves by the track of the enemy and prey, which 
 they still pursued with cheerfulnesse to Lowtherstowne. where, over- 
 taking them about one of the clock in the morning of Nov. 27, 1645, 
 their Trumpet sounding; a charge, they followed it home so resolutely 
 that after a fierce confliction, in a short time they routed the enemy, 
 and hr»d tlie execution of them for a raile-and-a-half, slew many of 
 them in the place, took some prisoners, rescued most part of their 
 prey, recovered their own souldiers who were then the enemy's 
 prisoners, with some of the Rebels' knapsacks to boot : which sudden 
 and unexpected flight did so amaze Owin Mac Arte and his army, 
 consisting of about two thousand foot and two hundred horse (as 
 prisoners do inform;, who. after they had made their bravado on the 
 top of an hill within a mile of Iniskllline, in the evening of Nov. 26, 
 to keep the town from issuing forth to resist or stay the prey encamped 
 that night at Ballenamallaght, within four miles of this town, that 
 they all in a most fearful and confused manner ran away to the 
 mountains so vehemently scared and aflVighted that their van thought 
 their own rere were my Troops, and their rere likewise imagined i' those 
 that escaped the fight by flight from Lowtherstownl to have been also 
 my party that pursued them ; whereby their mantles, clothes, and all 
 that could be an impediment to their more speedie flight, were cast 
 upon the ground, and left behind them; and so continued until they 
 passed the moiuitain of Siewbagha into the county of Monaghan, 
 where they are quartered upon the county creaghts, which lies from 
 Arthur Blayney's house, and from Monaghan Duffe, near the town 
 of Monaghan, all along to Droghedah, consisting of the banished 
 inhabitants of TjTone, Armagh, Monaghan, and Louth. 
 
 "My Troop returned with Captain Foliot in safety (praised be 
 God) without hurt of man or beast, save one horse of Lieutenant 
 Edw. Grahame's that was shot and killed under him. And having 
 put the said prey again into the said Island, upon Nov. 28, they 
 marched to Bellashanny, whence again they came home to Iniskilline 
 on the north side of Logherne, the 30th of Nov., 1645. 
 
 " Among those that were slain, the grand son of Sir Tirlagh Mac 
 Henry 6 Neal was one. 
 
 " One Captain killed, two Lieutenants killed. And I find there is 
 some man of more eminent note than any of these killed, but as yet 
 cannot learn certainly who it is. Lieutenant Tirlagh 6 Moylan, of 
 Captain Awney 6 Caghan's company, taken prisoner, who, upon exa- 
 mination, saith that Inchiquin hath given a great blowe of late unto 
 Castlehaven and Preston m their quarters near Yoghel, and also saith 
 that the intent of this army was that if they could come off with our 
 said prey without check, they purposed then to have besieged this 
 town, and according as fortune favoured them, to have proceeded 
 against the Lagan and other places in Ulster. 
 
 "And yet I find by the answers of some others of the prisoners, 
 that by direction from the supreme Council of Ireland, this army of 
 Owin Mac Artes are to serve in nature of a running party to weaken 
 our forces of Iniskilline, Laggan, and Clanebyes, by sudden incur- 
 sions to kill, spoil, and prey us upon all occasions of advant.age, 
 according as by their successes therein they shall assume encourage- 
 ment to themselves to go forwards against us, but especially against 
 Iniskilline, which they conceive is worst able to resist their attempts. 
 Captam Folliot had sixteen horsemen, with four of ^Iannor Hamil- 
 ton's men, and four of Castle Termon horsemen, that joined very 
 fortunately in the service with my Troop ; for which God Almighty 
 be ever glorified and praised by " William Cole," 
 
 Sir- Ralp Gore: — This officer was eldest son of captain 
 Paul Gore, an undertaker of escheated lands in l-'ermanagli 
 and Donegal. In Fermanagh he held the proportion called 
 
 Carrick, containing 1000 acres, and in Donegal, the pro- 
 portion of Dromnenagh, also containing 1000 acres. — 
 Pyniiar's SiirL<ey, in Harris's Hibernica pp. 168, 1 90. 
 Captain Gore claimed arrears from the cro\vn for certain 
 expenses incurred by him for the public service, and ob- 
 tained remuneration by the novel expedient specified in 
 the following passage: — "There was an act of Council 
 made in the year 1 606, restraining the use of that barbarous 
 custom of drawing ploughs and carriages by horses' tails, 
 upon pain of forfeiting, for the first year's offence, one 
 garron, for the second two, and for the third the whole 
 team. Notwithstanding, this was not put in execution for 
 almost five years after; and yet the fault not amended, 
 until that in the year 161 1, Captain Paul Gore, demanding 
 seven or eight score pounds, due unto him from his 
 majesty, for pay of certain soldiers entertained by him upon 
 the lord deputy's warrant, did for that and other extra- 
 ordinary services, in the time of O'Dogherty's rebellion, 
 desire the benefit of this penalty for one year, in one or 
 two counties and no more; which the lord deputy was con- 
 tented to grant, limiting him to ten shillings Irish for each 
 plough so offending. In the year 161 2, the lord deputy 
 ordered to have the said penalty levied within the whole 
 province of Ulster, at the rate of los. English, upon every 
 plough drawn as aforesaid, and the money so raised, amomit- 
 ing to ;^870, was employed to public uses. Intheyear 1613, 
 the penalty of los. English hath been taken up to the use 
 of Sir William Uvedall, by letters patent, reserving a rent 
 of £100 yearly, the profits whereof this year, within the 
 province of Ulster, amount to ;i^'8oo sterlmg, altliough we 
 are informed the charge on the people is much more. 
 Although divers of the natives pretend a necessity to con- 
 tinue the said manner of ploughing, as more fit for stony 
 and mountainous grounds; yet we are of opinion that it is 
 not fit to be continued, being condemned by the English 
 inhabiting those parts, as an uncivil and unprofitable 
 custom." — Rti/l of Patents, l6 James I., part \\\.f., printed 
 in Calendar of Patent Rolls, Jac. I., p. 399 b. In 1620, 
 captain Gore's son, sir Ralph, obtained a royal grant of 
 the lands of Dromnenagh, together with six quarters and 
 a half in the same county, containing 960 acres. — Morrin's 
 Calendar of Patent Rolls of Charles I., p. 481. This 
 family is at present represented by the o\vner of Manor 
 Gore, county of Donegal. 
 
 '7 Fathers-in-law. — Sir James Montgomery's two fathers- 
 in-law here alluded to were sir William Stewart and sir 
 William Cole. 
 
 Mr. Galbraith aforesd. — This officer's name was 
 John Galbraith, and to him frequent reference is made in 
 the letters of sir James Montgomery, and of his nephew, 
 the third viscount. Although Galbraith's name must have 
 been previously introduced by the author, the passage in 
 which it was mentioned has been lost. Several persons 
 of this surname settled in the county of Tyrone during 
 the earlier part of the seventeenth century. Buchanan of 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Parsons'? and Sr. Jno. Burlace,^° signed by them and the Lds. MoorC and Dillon," and many 
 
 Auchmar concludes his notice of the Galbraiths of Scotland 
 with tlie following remark : — "The only remaining family 
 of that name being Culcruich, Galbraith, laird thereof, fell 
 into such bad circumstances, in King Charles I. his time, 
 as obliged him to pass his estate and go to Ireland, where 
 his posterity are in very good circumstances. Galbraith 
 of Balgair is now representative of the family, Balgair's 
 ancestor being a son of that family." — Ancient Scottish 
 Surnames, p. 174. The editor of the Spotlirwoode Mis- 
 cella7iy, vol. i. , p. 114, note, says — "A younger branch of the 
 Galbraiths of Balgair, in Stirlingshire, settled in Ireland, 
 and acquired considerable landed property. About the 
 beginning of the present century, the elder branch (in 
 Scotland) failed, and the estate, which was under the 
 entail, was successfully claimed by the heir male of a 
 Major Galbraith, who lived in. the reign of William III." 
 Perhaps the individual. Major John Galbraith, referred to 
 in the text was the original settler (in Ireland). On their 
 coming first to Tyrone, William and Humphrey Galbraith 
 were engaged, for a time, in the sei"vice of Spottiswoode, 
 bishop of Clogher, whilst James appears to liave followed 
 the military profession, and Robert was probably an under- 
 taker of land. The two fonner, in espousing tlie bishop's 
 numerous quarrels with his neighbours, were involved in 
 serious difficulties and dangers. In the discharge of their 
 duties as his agents, they were required to seize and sell four 
 horses belonging to sir John Wimbes (or Weymss), the 
 sheriff of Fermanagh. Soon afterwards, sir John overtook 
 them whilst making a similar seizure from his father-in- 
 law, lord Balfour, and, " incensed with the indignity he 
 thought done him so lately, he, without any worde, att 
 the very first, thrust William Galbreith through the shoul- 
 der with a pyke, then two or three of his company gave 
 him divers other wounds. Humphrey Galbraith, seeing 
 his brother in this case, he called so Sir John to forbear, 
 and he should have all content, to whome Sir John an- 
 swered, as the bishop's servants affirmed — 'Devill have 
 my soul if we part so' — whereupon Humphrey grappled 
 with Sir John, and while they were wrestUng ni a dirty 
 bog one David Balfour wounded Humphrey in divers 
 places. Humphrey laying his accompt his brother was 
 killed, and himself could not escape, he tooke hold of a 
 long skeen that was about .Sir John Wimbes, and there- 
 with did give him a deadly wound." This encounter, re- 
 sulting in the death of sir John Wimbes, involved the Gal- 
 braiths in great and protracted dangers, from which, how- 
 ever, they eventually escaped. — Spottisivoode Miscellany, 
 vol. i., p. 114. Humphrey and Robert Galbraith held 
 the following lands in the barony of Raphoe, county of 
 Donegal, viz., the quarter lands of Corkagh, Lebindish, 
 Lisglamerty, Ruskey, and Gartmore, together with the 
 town and lands of Carrickballyduffe, containing 10 bally- 
 boes, in all 700 acres, which they sold on the 1st of May, 
 1654, to sir John Calhowne, knt. and baronet. — Inquisi- 
 tions, Donegal, no. 3, Car. II. 
 
 '9 Sir W))i. Parsons. — Parsons first held the office of 
 surveyor-general in Ireland, and while so employed, ob- 
 tained large grants of land in the counties of Wicklow and 
 Kildare. In 1625, he was appointed master of the Court 
 of Wards and Liveries, with an annual fee of ;^30o. In 
 1628, he received additional grants in the counties of 
 Meath, Cavan, Cork, Tipperary, Limerick, and Fer- 
 
 managh. Sir William's great gi-anJson, sir Richard 
 Parsons, was created baron Oxmantown and viscount 
 Rosse, in 1681. The son of the latter was advanced to 
 the earldom of Rosse in 1 7 1 8. " The humble Remonstrance 
 of the Northern Catholics 0/ Ireland n02u (1641) in arms 
 
 contains the following heavy accusations against Parsons: 
 
 "The said Sir Wm. Parsons hath been a mean to supplant 
 out of their ancient possessions and inheritances many of 
 the inhabitants of this realm, though of your best sub- 
 jects, and servitors to the crown, upon old feigned 
 titles of three hundred years past, and he thereupon pro- 
 cured the disposing of their lands by way of plantation; 
 but he having the survey and measuring thereof, did most 
 partially and corruptly survey the same, making the best 
 land waste and unprofitable in his survey, and in the ad- 
 measurement did reduce more than the half of these plan- 
 tations to fractions under an hundred acres, being of far 
 greater measure; of which fractions the natives, antient 
 possessors thereof, were wholly defeated, and your majesty 
 not answered thereout any rent or other consideration, but 
 the same wholly disposed of by the said Parsons at his 
 pleasure, for his private lucre and advantage, &c., &c." 
 — Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, vol. ii., p. 97. 
 
 =° Sir Jno. Burlace.~^ox\-A.cQ, who was master of the 
 ordnance, was associated with sir Wm. Parsons in discharg- 
 ing the duties of deputy, on the withdrawal of lord Dillon. 
 Parsons being removed also, by revocation, dated at Ox- 
 ford, 30th March, 1643, sir Hen. Tichborne was associated 
 
 wuh Boriace, by patent, dated on the following day. 
 
 Liber Hd'ernicF, vol. i., part ii., p. 7._"Sir William Par- 
 sons and sir John Borlase were both bitter haters of every- 
 thing belonging to Catholics except their property, and it 
 was the opinion of no less a person than king Charles 
 liimself, that but for these men's disobedience to his com- 
 mands, the terrible Irish rebellion of 1641 would not at all 
 have happened, or would have been quickly suppressed. 
 These commands of the King were to pass the bills for the 
 securing of the estates of the natives, and for confirming the 
 other 'graces,' which Strafford's own biographer, Mac- 
 diarmid, admits were certainly moderate, relatmg as they 
 did to abuses arising from a defective police, to exactions 
 in the court of justice, depredations committed by the 
 soldiery, monopolies which tended to the ruin of trade 
 retrospective enquiries into defective titles, penal statutes 
 on account of religion, and other evils, for which, to bor- 
 row Moore's expression, these wretched people were 
 obliged to bribe their monarch. "—Lenihan's History of 
 Limerick, pp. 148, 149. 
 
 Lord Moore.— was Garret Moore, son of that sir 
 Edward Moore who obtained a gi-ant from Queen Eliza- 
 beth of the lands that had belonged to the abbey of Melli- 
 font in the county of Louth. The grant is dated 8th of 
 February, 1583, and was only given for 41 years. In 
 1605, sir Garret, the son, obtained from James I. aregrant 
 of his estates of Mellifont, for ever. The latter was created 
 baron Moore of Mellifont in 1616, and viscount Moore of 
 Drogheda in 1621. His grandson, Henry, the third vis- 
 count, was created earl of Drogheda in 1668.— Erck's.;?^. 
 pertory of Patent Rolls of James I., p. 171. Burke's 
 Peerage, p. 326. 
 
 " Lord Dillo7t.—1\\\s was Robert, lord Dillon, son of 
 that sir James Dillon who was advanced to the earldom 
 
i6o The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 others of the Privy Council, sealed with the Council seal, and directed to the Ld. Visct. of 
 Ardes, the Ld. Visct, Claneboy, the Ld. Visct. Chichester,=3 Capt. Ar. Chichester,^'* Sr. Edwd. 
 Trevor,^5 Sr. James Vaughan,^^ Sr. Ar. Teryngham, Knt.^? and Sr. James Montgomery, 
 Knt. (and every of them) for suppressing the Irish rebells. By which three foregoing papers you 
 may observe, that the Kings Seer*'' and the Lds. Justices and Council afores'* were no good heraulds, 
 or at least, minded not the rules of that science (as to marshaling the persons' names) in the direc- 
 tion of that general commission 3mo, the Lds. Justices and Council's letter, directed (only) to 
 their very loving friend, Sr. J. M. Kn'. signed by them and Ormond Ossory,^9 with the rest of the 
 
 of Roscommon in 1622. This lord Dillon, who became 
 second earl of Roscommon, was twice included in the 
 commission of lords justices of Ireland. His grandson, 
 Wentworth Dillon, the fourth earl, was a distinguished 
 poet. To him Pope has made the following very com- 
 plimentary reference : — 
 
 " Roscommon, not more learned than good, 
 With manners generous as his noble blood ; 
 To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, 
 And every author's merit but his own. " 
 
 •3 Ld. Visct. Chichester. — Edward, younger brother and 
 successor of sir Arthur. See p. 1 54, stipra. 
 
 ^ Capt. Ar. Chichester. — This Arthur Chichester, eldest 
 son of Edward, was born in 1606, and appointed captain 
 of a troop of fifty horsemen in 1626. He succeeded his 
 father as governor of Carrickfergus, where he was residing 
 in 1641, when the rebellion began. In 1643, he was 
 appointed governor of Belfast, with a grant of £\,ooo to 
 repair the fortifications thereof. When the army in Ulster, 
 principally composed of Scots, renounced its allegiance to 
 the king, Arthur Chichester went to Dublin, where he 
 joined the marquis of Ormond, and was admitted a mem- 
 ber of the privy council. Ormond, in a letter to the king, 
 dated 19th Tan., 1645, strongly recommends that Chichester 
 should receive some mark of the royal approval as a re- 
 ward for his loyalty: — "He hath served your Majesty 
 against the Irish rebelHon since the beginning of it ; and 
 when through an almost general defection of the northern 
 army, he was no longer able to serve your Majesty there, 
 he came with much hazard to take his share in the suffer- 
 ino-s of your servants here, and with them to attend for 
 that happy time, that (we trust) will put us in a condition 
 to contribute more to your service than our prayers. If 
 your Majesty shall think fit to advance this gentleman to 
 an Earldom, I conceive that of Dunnegall, a county in the 
 province of Ulster, wherein he should have a good 
 inheritance, is fittest, which I humby offer to your Majes- 
 ty's consideration." The king, by privy seal in 1646, 
 and by patent in 1 647, created him earl of Donegall. — 
 Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. i. , 
 pp. 332 — 334. 
 
 =5 Edw. Trevor. — See p. 132, supra. 
 
 ^ Sir James Vaughan. — Sir James Vaughan was son 
 of captain sir John Vaughan, an undertaker of escheated 
 lands called Carnegille, in the county of Donegal.— Pyn- 
 nar's Survey, in Harris's Hilieniica, p. 1 88. In 1607, 
 captain John Vaughan was one of a commission appointed 
 for the government of the counties of Tyrone, Tirconnell, 
 and Armagh. — Y,x€^% Repertory of Patent Rolls of James 1. , 
 
 P- 415. 
 
 ^7 Ar. Tery7igham. — In 1626, sir Arthtir Terringham 
 was appointed governor of the forces in the towns of 
 Dundalk, Carlingford, and the Newnry, the Fort of Mount 
 Norris, and the Fort of Moyrie, with the disposing of all 
 the shipping, boats, and vessels for his INIajesty's service. 
 He was also appointed a chief leader of the army in the 
 absence of the lord deputy, with power to execute martial 
 law within the places above mentioned, provided he put 
 to death no captain or officer of the army, or other person 
 having £\o in goods, or 40s. a year. — ^^orrin's Calendar, 
 Chai-les I., p. 167. 
 
 General coimnissioti. — Only two documents have been 
 yet mentioned, and in these the writers ought to have in- 
 troduced the name of sir James Montgomery first as being 
 the oldest colonel in that service. In neglecting to do so, 
 they violated, in the author's estimation, not only the rules 
 of heraldry, but of courtesy also. 
 
 ^9 Oi-mond Ossory. — This nobleman's signature in public 
 documents was Ormond Ossory, the dignity of the earldom 
 of Ormond being conferred on the family in 1328, and the 
 earldom of Ossory in 1527. The nobleman, mentioned 
 in the text, was the twelfth earl of Ormond. In 1642, he 
 was created Marquis of Ormond ; in 1666, he was 
 advanced to the dukedom of Ormond in Ireland, and 
 in 1682 was created duke of Ormond in England. The 
 marriage of Ormond, whilst viscount Thiu-les, with his 
 cousin, the lady Elizabeth Preston, restored to the Or- 
 mond family the greater part of their estates, alienated 
 from them by James I., who had assigned them to Preston, 
 one of his Scottish favourites, in right of his marriage with 
 the daughter of Thomas, tenth earl of Ormond. Lady 
 Elizabeth Preston had been destined by James I. and the 
 duke of Buckingham to be wife of Ormond's rival, the 
 earl of Desmond, but Ormond's romantic wooing, com- 
 mencing secretly at church, and carried forward On one 
 important occasion under the guise of a pedlar, was at 
 length successful. By order of the Court of Wards, 
 Ormond had been educated in the Protestant faith, and 
 was ever afterwards its devoted adherent Writing to sir 
 Robert Southwell, in the year 1679, he says— " My 
 father and mother lived and died Papists, and only 
 I, by God's merciful Providence, was educated in the 
 Protestant religion. * * * My brothers and sisters, 
 though they were not very many, were very fniitful and 
 very obstinate (they will call it constant) in their way. 
 Their fi-uitfulness hath spread into a large alliance, and 
 their obstinacy hath made it altogether popish. It \v<i be 
 no small comfort to me if it had pleased God it had been 
 otherwise. " — Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of 
 Ireland Archceological Society, vol. iii., p. 214 j vol. iv., 
 new series,. p. 286. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 •Privy Counsellors, sealed with the Council seal, and dated the 28th Feb''. 1641, (whefein the Vise*. 
 Montg''. is mentioned to be also written to) for taking out sub° the country, etc. proout the same; 
 4'^, the resolves of the House of Commons in England, dated 2d Aug'*, 1642, to give 3 mo', pay to 
 the 10 troops joined with the Scotish army; 5*"'', the order of the Com" of Parliam* for one month's 
 pay to the British forces, dated the i6th of Sep*. 1642; 6*"'', authentick copy of the L**' and Com- 
 mons' order, to pay Sr. Jas. Montg''. Coll. Hill,3° and Coll. Mervin's3' regm*. a certain share of the 
 ;£'i4,i4i, 8s. 4d. out of the adventurer's money^^ for Ireland, dated die Veneris, sth Octb', 1642, and, 
 no doubt, there was the like of the Ld. of Ardes' regm', and I find no more publick papers: 7th, Sr. 
 Dan Coningham,33 of London, K*. and Bar*, his signed and sealed declaration, dated the 14th 
 Augs*. 1643, expressing, that pursuant to Sr. J. M.'s letter of atf to receive for the Ld. of Ardes 
 and himself their several shares of the ;^i4,i4i, 8s. 4d. of credit was only a trust; Sth, a letter 
 f° a Committee of the Lds. and Commons to Sr. J. M. (himself alone) expressing, and taking 
 notice of, and thanking him for his special services ag' the Irish, &c. dated 27th of 7''", 1645. 
 There may be many other authentick original papers (as the aforementioned are) extant to be 
 seen. 34 
 
 3° Coll. Hill. — This was Arthur Hill, a younger son of 
 sir Moses, who succeeded to the family estates on the death 
 of his nephew Francis Hill, in 1637. See pp. 78, 79, supra. 
 He, also, refused to act in concert with general Monro, 
 in the matter of the covenant, but continued to give his 
 services to the commonwealth after the cause of royalty 
 had expired in Ulster. At the time of his death in 1663, 
 he was the owner of large estates in the counties of Down, 
 Antrim, and Louth, and in the towns of Drogheda and 
 Carrickfergus. 
 
 3' Coll. Mervin. — See note 13, supra. 
 
 3^ Adventurei' s 7noney. — By an Act of Parliament (17 
 Car. I. ) for the encouragement of adventurers, the rights, 
 titles and interests of all lauds and hereditaments belong- 
 ing to rebels in Ireland on the 23rd of October, 1641, the 
 day on which the rebellion commenced, were forfeited to 
 the king, and were adjudged, vested, and taken to be in 
 the actual and real possession of his majesty, without any 
 office or inquisition thereof to be found. For reducing the 
 rebels, and distribiiting their lands among such persons as 
 should advance money, and become adventurers in the 
 reduction, two millions and a half of acres were assigned 
 and allotted in the following proportions, viz., each ad- 
 venturer of £iQO was to have 1000 acres in Ulster; of 
 ^300, 1000 acres in Connaught; of ^450, 1000 acres in 
 Munster; and of £^oo, looo acres in Leinster, according 
 to English measure. The bogs, woods, loughs, and 
 barren mountains were cast into such lands, and so added 
 to each adventurer's division. Out of such lands there was 
 resei"ved a yearly quit-rent to the crown, of one penny per 
 acre in Ulster, three pence in Connaught, two pence 
 farthing in Munster, and three pence in Leinster. A com- 
 mission was issued for the stirvey of all forfeited lands, 
 625,000 acres of which were measured in each province, 
 and these lands were divided among adventurers by equal 
 lot. Each of these allotments was returned into the court 
 of chancery, and every adventurer of such allotment was 
 in actual seizin or possession of his share. Every adventurer, 
 of 1000 acres in Leinster, 1500 acres in Munster, 2000 
 
 acres in Connaught, or 3000 acres in Ulster, had power 
 by the Act to erect his lands into a manor, with court baron 
 and court leet and all the other privileges of a manor, 
 such as fairs, markets, deodands, and fugitives' goods. 
 The sum mentioned in the text, £,\i^,li^\ 8s. 4d. , prob- 
 ably represented the lands adventured for in Ulster. "A 
 more impolitic not to say unjust measure (17 Car. I.) was 
 never resorted to by any nation, as the purchase money once 
 paid into the Exchequer, and unhappily it was extensively 
 so paid, deprived tlie English rulers of the opportunity or 
 power of proposing, should the occasion for so doing arise, 
 acceptable conditions of accommodation to their confeder- 
 ate and implacable foe. The result was a ten years' 
 struggle — first between Onnond, the lord lieut. and com- 
 mander-in-chief of the royal anny, and the confederate 
 Irish party, from the 23rd Oct., 1 641, to the sun'ender of 
 Dublin, and resignation of his government and insignia of 
 office into the hands of commissioners deputed by the 
 English Parliament to receive them, on the 18th of June, 
 1647; and next, between the representatives and forces of 
 that Parliament and the same Confederate party, to the 
 surrender of the provincial armies of the Irish made to 
 Gen. Ludlow by Lord Muskeny and other leaders, on 12th 
 May, 1652." — W. H. Hardinge, Esq., in Transactions of 
 Roy. Irish Academy, vol. xxiv. , pp. 382, 383. 
 
 33 Sr. Dan Coniiigham. — The christian name Dan., 
 here given, is probably a mistake or misprint for Dav. In 
 1634, the sixth earl of Eglinton's two sons, Hugh and 
 Henry, spent some time in London, on their return from 
 travel. They were introduced to sir David Cunningham, 
 who resided in London, and who wrote to the earl, on the 
 22nd of November in that year, referring to his "right 
 noble sonnes" as follows: — "Dureing the short time they 
 have been heer, their discreet and well-fashioned carriage 
 and behaviour hathe beene such as hath gained favour and 
 respect from all." — Eraser's Memorials, vol. i. , p. 84. 
 
 3'' Extant to be seen.- — These documents are probably 
 still preserved among the descendants of the author in 
 Australia. 
 
l62 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 I shall now write of some of them, w"* relate to the general procedures of the British officers (reserv- 
 ing the residue to a proper place:) and ist, an authentick copy of the council of war's conclusions 
 at Antrim, begun the 14th of May, 1645,35 wherein it was ist agreed by the respective Cols, under- 
 named, that a president should be chosen by lot (so it is phrased) this present council of war, and 
 the same to be without prejudice to any of the Col°. rights of eldership, and the lot fell unto the 
 L**. Vise', of the Ardes, to be President of the s** Council ; and so to continue unto the next general 
 council; the names of the s*^ council were as foUoweth, viz. 
 
 Hugh Lord Viscount Montgomery, President. 
 James Lord Viscount Claneboy. 
 Sir James Montgomery, Kn'. 
 Sir Robert Stewart, Kn'. 
 Audley Mervin, Esq. 
 
 The Lieutenant-Colonels were 
 
 Sir Joseph Cunningham,3« under Sir William Stewart. 
 
 35 x^h May, 1645. — "About this time," says Adair, 
 (Narrative, p. 127,) both British and Scotch in the coun- 
 tr>' were in great straits for want of pay from the parliament 
 in England. Upon which the British officers had a meet- 
 ing in Antrim, in May, 1 645, and did draw up a bond of 
 union, as they called it, and a protestation to be sworn 
 and signed by all the officers of the army, and the oath to 
 be ministered to the soldiers also, who were bound thereby 
 to go wherever they should be led. This some of the 
 officers did scruple at, as captain Alexander Stewart, cap- 
 tain Kennedy, and others, and desired the mind of the 
 Presbytery in it." The officers were so designated 
 
 to distinguish them from those of the Scottish forces who 
 came to Ulster in the summer of 1642, and with whom 
 they generally co-operated until after tlie defeat at Benburb 
 in 1646. They were, with few exceptions, natives of 
 Ulster, being generally the sons of Scottish and English 
 settlers who had obtained lands, either by grant or as 
 undertakers, at the commencement of the century. Ac- 
 cording to articles of agreement between the English and 
 Scottish parliaments, the forces sent from Scotland in 1642 
 were placed under the command of a Scotchman; in the 
 first instance, of the earl of Leven, and afterwards of 
 general Robert Monro. The British forces were placed 
 under the command of Ormond, the lord lieutenant, but 
 as a general rule Monro directed, for a time, all military 
 movements in Ulster. When the original articles were 
 drawn out no mention had been made of the covenant, and 
 when, afterwards, the parliament of England, to strengthen 
 itself against the king, agreed with the Scottish parliament 
 in imposing the covenant on the army in Ulster, the British 
 officers felt as if they had been betrayed, being almost to 
 a man staunch assertors of royalist sentiments. With the 
 covenant, therefore, came irreconcilable divisions, which, 
 although kept in check by circumstances for a time, even- 
 tually caused an open nipture between the parties. The 
 British officers remonstrated against the imposition of the 
 covenant, and other arbitrary acts which the English par- 
 liament had been induced to sanction, and the parliament 
 
 on its part appointed a committee to come to Ulster for 
 the purpose of inspecting the British forces, with a view of 
 ascertaining whether they were in a sufficient state of 
 organization for going on with the war, and if so, 
 to conciliate their support. As soon as this committee 
 announced its intention of visiting Ulster, the British 
 officers met at Antrim, on the 14th of May, 1645, and en- 
 tered into a bond of union with each other, and then con- 
 stituted themselves a court of war "for receiving the said 
 committee and propositions from the parliament, for answer- 
 ing the same, and for offering to them other propositions and 
 demands for redress of the past grievances of the British 
 regiments, as well as providing for their future subsistence. 
 To prevent all misconstruction of their proceedings, they 
 declared, that they intended to do nothing destructive of 
 the covenant ; that they would prosecute the war against 
 the Irish till an honourable and safe peace should be con- 
 cluded by the consent of the king and parliament; and if they 
 were not enabled to do so, they called heaven and earth 
 to witness that, it was not their fault, if they were forced to 
 take any other way whatever for their presen-ation and 
 subsistence." The officers declared farther that " as there 
 was in the province an army of the Scots nation sent over 
 by capitulation with the parliament to suppress the 
 rebellion of the Irish, they professed themselves ready 
 to join with them for that purpose, and even to re- 
 ceive, upon occasion, orders from their general. — Carte's 
 Life of Ormond, vol. i. , pp. 533, 534. No union, 
 however, was re-established between them, farther than 
 to fight once more side by side against the Irish, on 
 the same field, in the following year, and to sustain together 
 a signal defeat at the hands of Owen Roe O'Neill. The 
 parliamentary committee did not desire to see the ro)'alists 
 and covenanters united, even had there been any genuine 
 ties of sympathy between them. The object of the com- 
 mittee was rather to see them disunited, so that both might 
 thus be the more easily made to yield to the authority of 
 parliament 
 
 3' Sir jfoseph Cunningham. — See p. 132, sufra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Hu. Coghran," under Sir Jas. Montgomery, 
 
 Robert Saunderson,^' under Sir Robt. Stewart. 
 
 Jo. Clotworthy,39 under Sir Jas. Clotworthy. 
 
 The Majors were 
 
 Finlay Fevhardson'»° in the Ld. Montgomery's regt. of foot. 
 
 Geo. Rauden, in Col. Hill's regiment of horse.*^ 
 
 Geo. Keith,"*^ under Sr. Jas. Montgomery. 
 
 3' Hii. CogJimn. — This was colonel Hugh Coch- 
 rane of Ferguslie, near Paisley, who had served under 
 Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, and also through 
 all the period of the civil war in Ireland from 1641 to 1652. 
 He was the fourth son of Alexander Blair, who had taken 
 the name of Cochrane in compliance with the settlement 
 made by his wife's father, William Coclirane of Castle- 
 cochran, on the borders of Paisley and Lochwinnock 
 parishes. Hugh Coclirane's grandmother was a daughter 
 of sir Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie. He had six 
 brothers, viz., yohii, who also served in Ireland; William, 
 who became earl of Dundonald ; Alexander, of Auchin- 
 creuch, also a colonel in the army; sir Bryce, also a 
 colonel who served in Ireland, killed in 1650 ; Ai-thtir 
 or Ochter, a captain ; and Gavin, a captain, who re- 
 sided at Craigmuir, parish of Lochwinnoclv, and died 
 in 1701. Hugh Cochrane mentioned in the text married 
 a daughter of Hugh Savage, county of Down, and by her 
 had the following family, viz., I. jfo/m, of Ferguslie, 
 who married Barbara, daughter of James Hamilton, a 
 merchant in Glasgow, and died without issue, prior to 
 1697 ; 2. William, who succeeded to Ferguslie at the death 
 of his brother, and married Bethia, daughter of ^^'i!liam 
 Blair of Auchinvale; 3. Grizzel, married to Mr. Robert 
 Millar, minister of Ochiltree, who was 'outed' in 1662, 
 and died in 1685 ; 4. Margaret, married to John Hamilton 
 of Barr, parish of Lochwinnock ; and 5. Enpham, married 
 to Archibald Stewart of Newtown, in 1688. At the 
 funeral of the third viscount (first earl), Hugh Cochrane 
 is mentioned among the kinsmen of the deceased, but 
 by what family connexion or in what degree he was so, 
 the editor is unable to discover. By the Acts of Settle- 
 ment and Explanation, Hugh Coghran as a 1649 officer 
 obtained his arrears of pay which amounted to the sum 
 of ;^2,754 7s I id. — Fifteenth Irish Record Commission 
 Report, vol. iii. , p. 289 ; Paterson, Parishes and Families 
 of Ayrshire, vol. ii. , pp. 507, 508- 
 
 3' Robert Saimderson. — Under the Acts of Settlement 
 and Explanation colonel Robt. Saunderson, as satisfaction 
 for debentures, obtained 10,214 acres, 2 roods, and 30 
 perches of land, statute measure, in the county of Cavan ; 
 and 901 acres, o roods, 18 perches in the county of Mon- 
 aghan. hirolled 2&th fuiie, 1666. — Fifteenth Irish Record 
 Commission Report, vol. iii., p. 61. 
 
 39 Jo. Clotworthy. — This John Clotworthy, who served 
 in sir James Clotworthy's regiment, was nephew to the 
 latter, being the younger son of his brother Francis. John, 
 although born at Ballysaggart, county of Tyrone, settled 
 at Tirgracey, a townland in the parish of Muckamore, 
 near the town of Antrim. His representatives in the male 
 line ended at the death of Arthur Clotworthy in 1722, 
 when the mansion house with other family property was 
 sold to Thomas Thomson of Muckamore. The lands 
 
 are now included in the beautiful demesne of Greenmount. 
 — Family MS. 
 
 ■t" Finlay Fevhardson. — This is, no doubt, the sergeant- 
 major called Finlay Ferguson, who, in 1649, was charged 
 by Waterhouse Crymble with mal-appropriation of the 
 customs at Donaghadee. See p. 136, supra. 
 
 George Rauden. — ^This surname is variously spelled 
 Royden, Rauden, Rowden, Rawden, and Rawdon. 
 George Rawdon, mentioned in the text, was the only son 
 of Francis Rawdon of Rawdon, near Leeds, and was bom 
 in the year 1604. He was secretary to the first lord Con- 
 way, who died in 1630. By the latter he was, probably, 
 induced to settle in Ulster, where he obtained extensive 
 landed property at Moira. On the breaking out of the 
 rebellion in 1641, he gallantly held Lisburn against a large 
 force of the Irish, under sir Phelim O'Neill. The insur- 
 gents, in tlieir retreat, burned down his then recently 
 erected mansion at Brookhill, carrying away ^^3, 000 worth 
 of chattels and plate. In 1665, he was created a baronet 
 of England ; and for his many and valiant services to the 
 crown, obtained large grants of lands in the counties of 
 Down, Dublin, Louth, and Meath. His first wife was 
 Ursula Stafford, a daughter of sir Francis Stafford of 
 Portglenone, who had been previously married to Francis 
 Hill of Hill-Hall This lady died at Brookhill in 1640, 
 when only thirty years of age. Sir Geo. Rawdon married, 
 secondly, in 1654, Dorothy, eldest daughter of Edward, 
 second viscount Conway, and sister of Edward, earl 
 Conway. Sir George received large dowries by both 
 his ladies. He died in 1684, in the 80th year of his age, 
 and was buried in Lisburn. — Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 
 edited by Archdall, vol. iii., pp. 104-S. 
 
 "■^ Geo. Keith. — George Keith was probably from the 
 parish of Galston, in Ayrshire, and a descendant of the gal- 
 lant sir William Keith of that place, who was third son of 
 the great mareschal of Scotland. Sir William Keith of 
 Galston, distinguished himself as a gallant opponent of the 
 English in the time of Robert I. — See Paterson's Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 64, 65. The Keiths 
 are traditionally said to have come to the Ards with the 
 Rosses, who are known to have belonged to Galston. 
 In a rental, circa 1650, capt. Keeth, Henry Keeth, and 
 Mary Keeth, are named as tenants on the Montgomery 
 estate, in the parish of Comber. A captain John Keeth 
 was a 1649 officer, and his arrears of pay, amounting to 
 ^1,370 l6s. 3d., were secured to him by a grant taken 
 out for him and other officers in the name of Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, probably of Ballymagown. — Fifteeenth Rtpo)-t on 
 Public Records of Ireland, vol. iii. , p. 303. Early in the 
 eighteenth century, Elizabeth Keith, daughter of Hugh 
 Keith, of the county of Down, married Thomas Knox, 
 of Ballycreely, near Comber. — Lodge's Peerage, edited by 
 Archdall, vol. vii., p. 199. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 James Galbraith/3 under Sr. Robt. Stewart. 
 
 Theophilus Jones,^ under the Ld. Conway. 
 
 The Captains, Lieutenants, and Ensigns' names, and the subaltern officers of troops and com- 
 pan'^ there present, I omit as too many to be here inserted. In this paper are the councill's re- 
 solves, with the articles of war and other matters therein concluded, w'' are not to the purpose of 
 this narrative, but are worth perusal ; with it are wrapt up two loose papers (signed by the chief 
 officers) the draughts of S'' James Montg^ concerning the same councill; pth, the other authenticpapers, 
 w^ I have relating (more particularly) to Jas. Montg^' transactions as a Col. I reserve them for their 
 proper place, and resume my discourse of our s'^ third Visct. I confess my ignorance of all his 
 Lo^'^ particular proceedings before the s*^ council of war, and till the next summer, in which he 
 headed the British party, in conjunction with a party of the Scottish army, both commanded in 
 chief by Major Gen' Munroe (thereunto authorised by the K. and parliament) so commonly called, 
 at the fight near Benburb'ts river, (a place where in Q. Eliz. reign, Shane O'Neil had defeated the 
 
 ■*3 yanus Galbraith. — See p. 159, supra. Major Gal- 
 braith, probably brother to John referred to at p. 158, 
 supra, was also, it thus appears, employed by the 
 British officers in their negotiations with Ormond, and 
 seems to have been a popular and much-trusted person 
 ^\'ith the royalists. Among the provisions in the will 
 of James Spottisvvoode, bishop of Clogher, is the fol- 
 lowing : — "And I doe, in the last place, appoint, con- 
 stitute, and nominate my trastie friends, major James 
 Galbraith, captain Henry Spottswood, and James 
 Spottswood, my servant, the executors in trust, onlie to 
 see this my last will dewlie and traelie extended, so far as 
 shall lay in their power; and I doe give to each of these 
 my executors ten pounds a-piece, as a legacy, for their 
 caie and paines herein to be taken." — Spotiiswoode Miscel- 
 lany, vol. i., p. 163. Adair states, Narrative, p. 113, that 
 major Galbraith, sir Robert Stewart, and col. Mervyn 
 came on one occasion to hear the ministers preach and 
 explain the covenant, but these officers proved themselves 
 to be a parly of "old malignants." James Galbraith was 
 a 1649 officer, his arrears of payamoimting \a£2>,o\\ 6s. 2d., 
 which wz.% secured to him under the Acts of Settlement 
 and Explanation. — Fifteenth Report 071 Fziblic Records of 
 Ireland, vol. iii., p. 299. 
 
 Theophilus Jones. — Theophilus Jones was son of 
 Dr. Lewis Jones, a native of Monmouthshire, who was 
 appointed to the bishoprick of Killaloe in 1633. The 
 bishop died in 1646, when he had reached the great age 
 of 104 years. He left four sons, viz., i. Henry, who be- 
 came bishop of Meath, and died in 1681. 2. Theophilus, 
 mentioned in the text, who resided at Osbertslown, 
 county of Meath, and after the Restoration in 1660, be- 
 came a knight and privy counsellor. 3. Michael, who 
 was appointed governor of the city of Dublin in 1647, 
 when surrendered to the Parliament by the marquis of 
 Ormond. Michael Jones w^as also general of the army in 
 Leinster at the time of his death in 1649; and 4. Oliver, 
 a colonel in the army, who was appointed governor of 
 I eighlin in 1 65 1 , and died in 1 664. — Lodge's Peerage, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. ii., p. 395, note. Tlieophilus Jones was 
 among the boldest opponents of the parliamentary com- 
 mittee, and, with the other officers of lord Conway's 
 
 regiment, dared openly to resist its decisions. The com- 
 mittee had dismissed lord Conway from his position of 
 colonel to an English regiment, and put lord Blaney in 
 his stead. Jones and the other officers of the regiment 
 refused to receive lord Blaney, but accepted Mr. Edward 
 Conway, appomted by Onnond to the command, whilst 
 Jones was made lieut. -colonel on this promotion of the 
 latter. Jones further assured the lord lieutenant (Ormond), 
 that the royalists, having the island of Lecale on their side, 
 would require but very Uttle assistance from his excellency 
 to enable them to hold the North in despite of the 
 Scottish army, and even to force the Scots to leave Ulster 
 or submit to his (Onxiond's) authority. — Carte's Life of 
 Ormond, vol. i., pp. 533, 538. Sir Theoph. Jones, as a 
 trustee for the 1649 officers, obtained large grants from the 
 " savings " under the Acts of .Settlement and Explanation. 
 His own claim for arrears of pay amounted to upwards of 
 ;^3,ooo. — Fifteenth Report on Public Records of Ireland, 
 vol. iii., pp. 94, 104, 121, 153, 207, 270, 289, 291, 301, 312. 
 
 ■*5 Benburb. — Benburb, Beann-borb, the 'proud cliSF,' 
 was the name of a castle, now in ruins, on the left bank 
 of the Blackwater. See O'Donovan's note on the Four Mas- 
 ters, an. 1601, vol. vi., p. 2257. Philip O'SuUivan Beare 
 twice translates this Pinna Superba in his Historic Catholiccs 
 Hibernia Compendium, p. 147 (or pp. 184, 185, reprint, 
 Dublin, 1850). The rock on which the castle stood, and 
 from which the place derives its name, ascends abruptly 
 from the river to the height of 120 feet. This place, 
 which is situated in the parish of Clonfeacle, and barony 
 of Dungannon, was the scene of two memorable battles, 
 in each of which an O'Neill was the victorious commander. 
 Hugh O'Neill — not Shane, as the author states — was the 
 victor at the first battle on the road to Benburb, fought in 
 the month of August, 1597.— See Stuart's History of 
 Armagh, pp. 282, 283. The disaster of 1646, more particu- 
 larly referred to in the text, was inflicted on the English 
 and Scottish troops under Monro, by the well-kno\TO 
 Irish general, Owen Roe O'Neill. Monro commanded 
 6000 foot and 800 horse, whilst CNeUl's anny consisted 
 of 5000 foot and 500 horse. O'Neill took up a strong 
 position between two hills, hpiving a wood behind him, 
 and the Blackwater on his right. He attacked Ms assail- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 165 
 
 English prime forces) whereon our field was rashly fought in June, 1646, and his Lo' commander of 
 the horse (warmly charging) being coldly seconded, was there taken prisoner, and by the enemy 
 retained closely such, in a castle called Cloghwooter'*^ (afores"*) whose situation was in a very small 
 
 ants with equal skill and impetuosity. An English regi- 
 ment, commanded by the second lord Blaney, was cut to 
 pieces, his lordship falling with his men. The third 
 viscount Montgomery was taken prisoner, together with 
 21 officers and 150 privates. Upwards of 3, 500 were slain 
 on the field, and in the pursuit. Sir James Montgomery's 
 regiment was the only fragment of the whole invading 
 army which retreated in good order. Monro himself fled 
 with the greatest precipitation, abandoning his army, 
 artillery, baggage, the greater part of his arms, and thirty- 
 two colours. In his letter to the English parliament, he 
 endeavoured to palliate his defeat and fiiglit as much as 
 possible. "By all appearance," says he, "the Irish 
 under the Lisnagarvey horsemen had a purpose to betray 
 the army by their running away, leaving the foot to be cut 
 down, who were also deserted by the rest of the horse, 
 after retiring from the last charge ; the enemy falling on 
 our baggage, the baggage-horses being all gone, they loved 
 the spoyle better than to prosecute the victory." His 
 entire letter is printed in Rushworth's Collections, vol. vi. , 
 p. 399. The following extract, containing names of 
 Irish leaders at Benburb, omits those of Macdonnell 
 of Antrim, and Macartan of Kinelarty : — "The battle 
 of Benburb (1646), was fought upon the slopes of 
 ground now called the Thistle Hill, from being the 
 property of the Thistles, a family of Scotch farmers, 
 now (1846) represented by a fine old man of over 
 eighty years. This ground is two-and-a-half miles in 
 a right line, or three by the road, from the church of 
 Benburb, and about six miles below Caledon, in the 
 county of Tyrone ; in the angle between the Blackwater 
 and the Oonagh, on the Benburb side of the latter, and 
 close to Battleford bridge. We are thus particular in 
 marking the exact place, because of the blunders of many 
 
 writers on it The leaders under Owen Roe 
 
 O'Neill were: — sir Phelim O'Neill, and his brother Tur- 
 lough ; Con, Cormac, Hugh, and Bryan O'Neill; and the 
 following chieftains with tlieir clans : — Bernard Mac 
 Mahon, the son of Hugh, chief of Monaghan, and baron 
 of Dartrey; colonel Mac Mahon; colonel Patrick Mac 
 Neney (who was married to Helen, sister of Bernard 
 Mac Mahon) ; colonel Richard O'Farrell, of Longford ; 
 Roger Maguire, of Fennanagli ; colonel Philip O'Reilly, 
 of Ballynacargy castle, in the county of Cavan (who was 
 married to Rose O'Neill, the sister of Owen Roe) ; and 
 the valiant Maolmora O'Reilly (kinsman to Philip 
 who, from his great strength and determined bravery, was 
 called Miles the Slasher. The O'Reillys brought 200 
 chosen men of their own name, and of the Mac Bradys, 
 Mac Cabes, Mac Gowans, Fitzpatricks, and Fitzimons, 
 from Cavan. .Some fighting men were also brought by 
 Mac Gauran, of Templeport ; and Mac Ternan, of Croghan ; 
 some Connaught forces came with the O'Rorkes, iSTac 
 Dermotts, O'Connors, and O'Kellys ; there came also 
 some of the O'Donnells and O'Doghertys, of Donegal; 
 Manus O'Cane, of Derry ; sir Coustantine Magennis, 
 county of Down ; the O'Hanlons, of Armagh, regal 
 standard-bearers of Ulster; and theO'Hagans, of Tyrone." 
 — Appendix to the Poems of Thomas Davis, pp. 207 — 9. 
 
 There is a minute and interesting sketch of this battle 
 in Mr. J. W. Hanna's Annals of C/iarlemont, pp. 41 — 7. 
 Adair, Narrative, p. 123, interpreted the defeat at 
 Benburb as a judgment on the Scotch army. "For 
 many of the soldiers," says he, "were prodigiously 
 profane and wicked in their lives." In the preceding 
 year (1645), the successes of Montrose and Macdonnell, 
 against the covenanters in Scotland, were naturally viewed 
 with dismay by the bi-ethren in Ulster. " The pres- 
 bytery at this time," says Adair, Narrative, p. 122, 
 "were frequent in keeping solemn days of public humi- 
 liation, for causes relating to the state of that time, as 
 troubles in Scotland by Montrose, or the slow proceed- 
 ings of reformation in England, both by parliament and 
 assembly; the insolence of malignants in this country, 
 especially ministers; sin abounding generally, notwithstand- 
 ing our troubles and late entering into covenant." The 
 Commissioners of the Scottish General Assembly, with 
 perhaps a better knowledge of facts, directly charge the 
 evils and defeats which Ijefel the covenanters at that crisis 
 on the sins and back-slidings of the prcbbyterian ministers 
 in Scotland. On the 5tli of August, 1645, ten days before 
 the signal victory obtained by Montrose at Kilsyth, the 
 assemt)ly drew up a most formidable list of the ministers' 
 short-comings and delinquencies, which they ordered to 
 be engrossed in the books of the various presbyteries. 
 This document is divided into twelve heads, in each of 
 which the gravest charges are put forward in very jilain 
 terms. Besides worldliness, lightness of demeanour in 
 themselves and their families, ainbiguousness in preaching, 
 slander, silence on the good cause, ministers were charged 
 with profaneness, " tipling and bearing companie in un- 
 tymous drinking in taverns and ale-houses, or anywhere 
 else, whereby the ministrie is made vyle and contemptible." 
 At the present day, presbyterians generally look back to 
 that time as the golden a-^e of their church. The reader 
 may find the above-named list of ministerial sins printed 
 in extenso in the Scottish Journal of Topography^ vol. i,, 
 PP- 56, 57- 
 
 Cloghwooter. — Seep. 115, supra. In 1627, a ro3'al 
 grant was made to sir Thomas Dutton of all the itzland 
 forts in the two provinces of Ulster and Connaught. 
 The following are enumerated as the inland forts of 
 Ulster, viz., "the forts of Moirie Castle and Charle- 
 mont, in our county of Armagh ; Cloghoivter, in our 
 county of Cavan ; Toome, in our county of Antrim ; Mon- 
 aghan, in our county of Monaghan ; and Innishkylln, in 
 our county of Fermanagh." — Morrin's Calendar, Charles 
 I. p. 218. The dismal nature of lord Montgomery's 
 prison-house may be inferred from the following short 
 notice which describes it as "a castle in the midst of a 
 loch, within two miles of Kilmore, the only place of 
 strength in the whole county, called Clochwater. There 
 was of old a little island about it ; but it was worn all 
 away to the bare stone walls, and not one foot of ground 
 now to be seen above the water; only a tall round tower 
 like a pigeon house, standing in the midst of the waves, 
 and above a musket shot from it to each shore." — See 
 Mason's Life of Bedell, p. 362. There is a drawing of 
 
 Y 
 
166 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 island (scarce bigger than its foundation) within a lough in the county of Cavan, then in the posses- 
 sion of Owen Roe'*7 M'Art M'Ever O'Neil; his army which gained that day at Benburb afores*, and 
 not thence released till about two years after that misfortune, during all which doleful days his uncle 
 (the afores'' solicitous solicitor for his family, S"' Jas. Montgomery) was using all his endeavours in 
 Ireland, and to the committee of L*^. and comm°'. (who had respectfully wrote to him as afores*) in 
 England, till he procured his Lo"'' libertyt^ from that solitary melancholy restraint, whence he could 
 see nothing but woods and water and the stones which immured him (like an anchorite. )■*' His 
 
 this place in Mant's History of the Church of Ireland, 
 vol. i., p. 566. See also Dr. Mcllwaine's Lecture on the 
 Life and Times of Bedell, p. 26. 
 
 Ozven Roe. — The celebrated Irish general, Owen Roe 
 O'Neill, was nephew of the more celebrated Hugh O'Neill, 
 earl of Tyrone, being the natural son of Art O'Neill, 
 Tyrone's brother. See the memoir of Owen Roe in Ulst. 
 Jour, of Archaol. , vol. iv. , p. 25. He went to the continent 
 with others who accompanied the earls of Tyrone and Tyr- 
 connel in their flight from Ireland in 1607. In the year 
 1642, at the request of the northern Irish, he returned to 
 Ireland and took the chief command of the Ulster forces, 
 being pronounced by pope Urban VI 11. (and father 
 Luke Wadding, a better authority) the most competent 
 soldier for this high trust. Friar O'Mellan, in his MS. 
 fournal of the Wars ^1641, speaks of Owen Roe as "the 
 brave and honourable hero, the magnanimous and gallant 
 warrior, the protector of the people of Pope Innocent the 
 Tenth." He was accompanied to Ireland by other dis- 
 tinguished Irish exiles, among whom were Daniel O'Cahan, 
 (who is described as a gifted linguist and general scholar) ; 
 Henry, Bryan, and Con O'Neill, his own sons ; Bryan 
 MacPhelim O'Byrne, Owen O'Dogherty, and Gerald 
 Fitzgerald. On his arrival at Doe castle, in Donegal, he 
 was quickly joined by several leading Irish chiefs, among 
 whom were the representatives of the Ulster O'Neills, 
 O'Reillys, O'Cahans, Mac Mahons, and Macdonnells. 
 At a general meeting, Owen Roe was elected commander 
 of the Ulster forces ; and sir Phelim, who had previously 
 held that position, was made president of Ulster. After 
 many signal services performed with a view, as he declared 
 on his death-bed, to "the advancement of his majesty's 
 service and the just liberties of this nation," he died on 
 the 5th of November, 1649, at the residence of his brother- 
 in-law, Philip O'Reilly, Cloughowter, county of Cavan. 
 His death occasioned deep and general grief among the 
 Irish, happening as it did, at such a woful crisis of their 
 histoiy. Of all the bards who gave expression to the 
 popular grief and dismay, none were so eloquent or plain- 
 tive as one named O'Daly, or none at least have found so 
 admirable a translator. His well-known keene has been 
 converted by James Clarence Mangan into a beautiful En- 
 glish elegy from which the following is an extract : — 
 
 "Oh. mourn, Erin, mourn! 
 He is lost, he is dead, 
 By whom thy proudest flag was borne, 
 Thy bravest heroes led. 
 
 One after one thy champions fall — 
 
 Thy valiant men He low ; 
 And now sleeps under shroud and pall 
 
 The gallant Owen Roe — 
 The worthiest hero of them all 
 
 The princely Owen Roe." — 
 
 See Meehan's Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, pp. 127, 
 321, 472. 
 
 His lordskifs liberty. — A commission of the Scottish 
 church pressed the Scottish parliament to interfere for 
 viscount Montgomery's release. This commission which 
 met at Edinburgh in F"ebniary, 1647, presented the follow- 
 ing petition on his lordship's behalf, which was first 
 printed in Dr. Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, 
 vol. li., pp. 58-59: — "To the honourable estates of parlia- 
 ment, the humble petition of the commissioners of the 
 General Assembly, humbly sheweth— That it is not un- 
 known to yourhonourshowthe Lord viscount Montgomerie 
 of Ards, within the Kingdom of Ireland, hath now of a 
 long time been captive and in bitter bondage with the 
 barbarous and bloody Irishes. We shall not need to put 
 your honours in remembrance that he is your flesh and 
 blood; nor yet how he is of the same body, and in the 
 same bond of the covenant ; only your honours may call 
 to mind, when commissioners were sent from hence to 
 tender the Solemn League and Covenant to your army, 
 how cheerfully he did offer himself, and join in the same, 
 despising all terrors and hazards; and how faithfully and 
 zealously he hath laboured to promote the same, not loving 
 even his life unto death, as most amply and solemnly 
 testified unto us in the late General Assembly, and now 
 again by a letter from the presbytery of our army within 
 that kingdom ; as also how in the day of our distress he 
 offered himself willingly unto our help, and still hath been 
 very helpful and refreshful to our forces there, to the great 
 damage of his estate. May it then please your honours, 
 in this day of his distress to be comfortable unto him; and 
 to apply and bestir yourselves in the use of the best means 
 for his relief and subsistence. So shall you encourage 
 others to be forward for God, and zealous of the country's 
 good, when the coal that is left shall not be quenched, 
 according to your power and interest; and contribute much 
 to the promoving of the work of reformation there, which 
 is like to be crushed in the birth through want of en- 
 couragement." Thisglowingaccountof the third viscount's 
 zeal and self-sacrifice was supplied by the Presbytery which 
 had met at Carrickfergus, and had instructed the com- 
 missioners as to the contents of the petition to be presented 
 by the latter to the estates of parliament. The testimony 
 here given by the ministers contrasts very curiously with 
 their account of lord Montgomery two years later, when 
 he determined to carry out his own royalist sentiments by 
 means which appeared to himself more practicable than 
 the method adopted by the leaders of the covenanting 
 party. 
 
 '*» Like an anchorite. — On anchorite cells, called in Irish 
 cloch angcoire, see Reeve's Memoirs of the Church of St. 
 JDuilech, p. II ; Petrie's Rowtd Towers, pp. 112, 113. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 167 
 
 only comfortable prospect was the heavens, in whose God (his ever-living father) he chiefly trusted 
 for his delivery, w"" came to pass by means of his s"^ uncle's solicitation, and obtaining a licence of 
 ParHam' to exchange^" the Earl of Westmeath and Lieut.-Gen', (I think his sirname was) O'Reily, for 
 his Lo^* and the Theophilus Jones. 
 
 In this confinement, his Lo"" ply'd his study of books, whereby he improv'd his knowledge in 
 the military art, ags* the flesh, the world, and the devil, w"" he renounced according to his baptismal 
 vow, that he might the better fight manfully under Christ's banner, both for religion and the King, 
 laws, and country. So that his Lo'' came out of Cloghwooter castle as to recommencera' to take or 
 reassume his degrees for command and glory. In the interim of his imprisonment, his Lo^'" reg'. 
 and troop were ordered by the care of the s** Sir J. M. with the same kindness he had for his own, he 
 being eldest Col. in those parts, and having his L^'^ authority to command it. At length, this with- 
 ering durance (for it impaired his health, tho' he wanted not wholesome vivers) being removed, had 
 a safe conduct, and was rec'* in our frontiers by many Br\ officers and some troops, and convoy'd 
 through the county of Armagh to Lisnegarvagh ( i. e. the Gamester's Fort,^') where his s'* uncle, with 
 
 5° Licence to exchange. — The efforts made by sir James 
 Montgomery and others for the release of lord Montgomery 
 would have probably been unsuccessful, had not Owen 
 Roe O'Neill clearly seen that he could not much longer 
 hold Cloughouter castle. Among the various means set 
 in motion by sir James Montgomery to effect the liberation 
 of his nephew, were three letters, written by Charles I. , 
 to Owen Roe, earnestly soliciting the release of viscount 
 Montgomery. But O'Neill did not see his way clearly to 
 this result until ' the march of events' had convinced him, 
 some time afterwards, of the propriety of letting his 
 captive go free. He replied t,o the king's three letters, 
 by one from himself, declining to accede to the royal 
 request. His letter is as follows: — 
 
 "May it please your majesty — I received your highness' letters 
 of the eighth and twentieth of October, and the tenth of January last 
 ensueing thereof, to set at liberty the lord Viscount Montgomery of 
 Ards, who was taken prisoner by my forces in June last. I most 
 humbly beseech your Majesty to accept of these my reasons as my 
 apology and excuse for not complying with your Majesty's pleasure 
 herein for the present ; for I do and will ever profess to be one of your 
 Majesty's most loyal and obedient subjects, and will, in testimony 
 thereof, be ready on all occasions to observe your commands. But, 
 dread Sovereign, be pleased to understand that the lord Viscoiuit 
 Montgomery of Ards, hath sided these two years past and more with 
 the parliament rebels of England, in open hostility against your 
 majesty, and especially against this nation of Ireland, and therein hath 
 been more eager and active than any of his party, he being command- 
 er-in-chief of all the horse of his party in the province of Ulster here; 
 and for this reason, and for that the party of the;Scots adhere to the 
 Parliament against your majesty, hath lately, contrary to the capi- 
 tulation made between the lord marquis Montrose, on your majesty's 
 part, and the state of Scotland, most traciterously executed and put to 
 death lieutenant-colonel Anguish MacAllaster Duffe MacDonnell, 
 and used the like cruel execution, after quarter given, upon lieutenant- 
 colonel O'Cruice, major Laughlin, major , and divers other 
 
 commanders, with many hundred others of inferior sort. And I can- 
 not but represent unto your highness' memory, how the marquis of 
 Antrim, falling twice into the hands of the Scots, as their prisoner, 
 was refused by them to be enlarged, though your majesty, by several 
 gracious letters and messages, earnestly sought the same ; likewise the 
 queen of France, who employed a special gentleman of her own 
 purposely about this to the Scots: all which be motives to me not to 
 afford them so great a favour. And I am confident, were your Ma- 
 jesty informed of these particulars, and of the proceedings of the 
 Scots, whose language your highness seems now to utter, and you 
 were iii that free condition you ought to be, your majesty would never 
 
 have been drawn to press me into the enlargement of so notorious a 
 rebel, and to forfeit an enemy unto all this nation. 
 
 " So most humbly begging your majesty's pardon for this my freedom 
 of boldness, and forbearing at present of executing this your royal 
 command, expressed in these your letters, I, in all humbleness, take 
 leave. — Your majesty's most humble and obedient servant and sub- 
 ject, 
 
 "Owen O'Neill " 
 The foregoing letter, the original of whicii, is preserved 
 in the Carte Collection, has been printed in Meehan's 
 Karls of Tyrone and Tyrcomiell, p. 466, 467. In the 
 month of February, 1648, new style, lord Montgomery 
 and Theophilus Jones were exchanged for two of O'Neill's 
 party, namely, tlie earl of Westmeath and colonel Byrne. 
 — English Commons jfotirnals, vol. v., p. 411, Our 
 author was under the impression that lieutenant-general 
 O'Reilly was one of the captives restored to liberty on that 
 occasion. 
 
 5' Gamester's Fort. — " Lisnagarvy, Lios na g-cearbhach, 
 'the gamester's fort,' is the present name of a townland 
 adjoining Lisbuin, and was also the name of the town, 
 until the middle of the seventeenth century. In 1635, it 
 was written Linsley Garvin. The MS. account of the 
 battle in the old Vestry Book is headed ' Lisnegarvey, 
 28th Nov., 1641.' The town may have changed name 
 after its burning in that year. See also Reeves's Ecclesi- 
 astical Antiquities, p. 383. In the charter of Charles II., 
 1662, it is called Lisburne, alias Lisnagarvie. In Jeremy 
 Taylor's Works, vol. xiv. , p. 489, are ' Rules and Advices 
 to the Clergy of the Diocess of Down and Connor, given 
 at the Visitation of Lisnega/'vey.' " — Ulster Jour rial of 
 Archaology, vol. i., p. 242. In Story's True and hnpar- 
 tial History, p. 11, we have the following account of 
 the tradition then prevailing (1691) in reference to the 
 origin of this name : — " And then on Monday, the second 
 of September, we marched beyond Lisburn ; this is one 
 of the prettiest inland towns in the North of Ireland, and 
 one of the most English-ViS;.^ places in the kingdom ; the 
 Irish name is Lishncgarvey, which they tell me signifies 
 the Gamcster''s Mount ; for a little to the north-east of the 
 town there is a mount moated about, and another to the 
 south-west ; these were fonnerly surrounded with a great 
 
168 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 a great train of Gents, met his Lo^ (my small self I 
 Carrickfergus, where he made his first visit to the s' 
 
 wood, and thither resorted all the Irish outlaws, to 
 play at cards and dice ; one of the most considerable among 
 them having lost all, even his cloaths, went in a passion 
 in the middle of the night, to the house of a nobleman in 
 that country, who before had set a considerable sum on 
 his head ; and in this mood he suri'endered himself his 
 prisoner ; which the other considering of, pardon*^ him ; 
 and afterwards this town was built, when the knot of 
 rogues was broke, which was done chiefly by the help of 
 this one man ; the town is so modern, however, that Cam- 
 den takes no notice of it." See also Belfast and its En- 
 virons, by J. Hubard Smith, p. 82 (Dublin, 1853). 
 
 52 His I.ady Mother.- — -The major-general here alluded 
 to was Robert Monro, with whom the third viscount's 
 mother had re-married. This commander was of the 
 family of Fowlis, in Kilteam. He originally distinguished 
 himself in Flanders, and afterwards in the war, waged 
 by Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, against Fer- 
 dinand II. Of his service on the latter occasion he 
 published an account, entitled Monro'' s Expedition with 
 the worthy Scots Regiment called Mac Key''s Regiment, 
 levied, in 1626, under the Invincible King of Sweden, 
 1637. This book, now veiy scarce, contains much 
 valuable information on military affairs, with "a pro- 
 fusion of observations interspersed, (says Mackay) which, 
 though they may be just in themselves, and suited to the 
 genius of that age, the most of them no modern writer would 
 take any notice of, unless a novelist might use some of tlie 
 terms or expressions to adorn his fanciful tale." Monro, who 
 went to Denmark a lieutenant and returned a colonel, states 
 that Mac Key's regiment, in which he served, embarked 
 at Cromarty, on the loth of October, 1626, and arrived 
 five days afterwards at Luckstadt on the Elbe. Very 
 many of his sept or clan accompanied the expedition, 
 there being of tliat surname no fewer than three generals, 
 eight colonels, five lieutenant-colonels, eleven majors, and 
 thirty captains, besides a great number of subalterns. — N^iia 
 Stat. Account of Scotland, Ross and Cromartyshires, p. 317; 
 Mackay's History of the House and Clan of Mackay, 
 pp. 220 — 223. On Monro's return to Scotland, he 
 zealously espoused the cause of the covenant, and appears 
 to have had much real enjoyinent in ruthlessly carrying 
 out its behests. Balfour and Spalding record several 
 of his exploits while engaged in the suppression of 
 " malignants" throughout the North. "At this same 
 werey time," says sir Jaines Balfour, " that Argyle 
 was scurging the highlanders, colonel Robert Monro was 
 commanded north, with the title of Major General, and 
 with him 1,000 foote, bot quhen he cam to Aberdeine, he 
 was reci-utted with ane addition of 500 foote more, and 
 two troupes of horse, commanded by captaine Forbesse. 
 His first exployt was the apprehend of 26 citizens of Aber- 
 deine, that wold not subscreive the couenant; these he sent 
 prissoners to Edinburghe under a gaurde, quher they wer 
 all shutte upe in closse prissone; then tooke he the housse 
 of Drum, and sent the laird thereof and his brother Robert 
 botlie prissoners to Edinburghe. Therafter he took 15 or 
 16 barrons and gentlemen that wold not subscreive the 
 couenant, and sent them under sure gaurdes prissoners to 
 JEdinburghe, to be taught by the committee of estaites to 
 
 leing one) and attended him through Belfast to 
 Major-Gen', and to his Lady Mother. All the 
 
 speake their auen countrey language. Monro manteind 
 his armey on thesse gentlemen's estaites, and for the su- 
 perlpus of the samen he was compteable to the commit- 
 tee of estaites of Edinburghe. After this, Monro crossed 
 the Spey, and lay doune before the castle of Spynie, wich, 
 at his first comming, he tooke, and the bishope of Mur- 
 ray prissoner therin, the place being unfurnished bothe of 
 men and ammunitione. He tooke the bishope with him, 
 and putt a garisone in his castle. From Sp>Tiie, Monro 
 re-crossed the river Spey, and, with all hostility, plundered 
 the marques of Huntlie's landes, tooke the castle of Strath- 
 bogie, and putt a garisone in it. He tooke ofTe Huntlie's 
 landes two thousand horsse and cattle, forby maney thou- 
 sandes of sheep, and thereof keept ane opin markett at 
 Strathbogie, and solde them backe to their owners at 54^'' 
 Scottes the piece. From Strathbogie he marches the 2nd 
 Agust, this same yeire, to Bamffe, qulrer he playes the 
 deuill, and demolishes the lord Bamffe's house, wich wes 
 bothe faire and staitely, and a grate ornament to that pairt 
 of the kingdom. Heire I leve him, plundring and destroy- 
 ing the policey of the lande, and reducing all thesse 
 that formerlie danced after Huntlie and Bamffe's 
 fidling (quho called themselves the kinge's friends), 
 to the obedience of the covenant." — Annals of Scot- 
 land, voL ii., pp. 381, 382. When Monro came 
 to Ulster in 1642, he continued the same pre- 
 datory courses, plundering the houses of all royal- 
 ists within reach of his head-quarters at Carrickfergus, and 
 conducting raids of a most desolating character throughout 
 various parts of Ulster. His soldiers on these occasions 
 burned houses, canying off eytxy description of goods, 
 collected immense herds of cattle from the fields, and per- 
 petrated all manner of shocking brutalities. They were, 
 in some measure, compelled to adopt a system of public 
 robbery to keep themselves alive, having had no regular 
 provisipn from England or Scotland, and the prayers, 
 fasts, and entreaties of the Presbytery being barely suffi- 
 cient to extort an occasional scanty alms of oatmeal for their 
 use. In the great raid made by IMunro, as far as Longford, 
 in the summer of 1644, with a force of lo.ooo foot and 
 1,000 horse, the rations provided foreach soldier for tioenty, 
 days was 24 founds of oatmeal, so that the deficiency in 
 meat and drink had to be supplied by mthless and exten- 
 sive robbery. An account of this raid is presen-ed in a 
 now rare tract, entitled A full Relation of the late Expedi- 
 tion, &c., 4to, London, 1644. This expedition was com- 
 menced on the 27th June and clo-^ed on i6th of July. On 
 the 24th of May preceding, Adair, Narrative, p. loi, 
 states that "Another fast was appointed to be in places on 
 a week-day, and on a Lord's Day thereafter, for the former 
 causes, and especially the sinfulness of the army and country 
 continuing, notwithstanding the great distress on both, and 
 that God would bless the expedition of the army going to the 
 field this summer.'^ It was, indeed, "blessed" to the 
 planners and instigators of it, inasmuch as vast 
 numbers of Roman Catholics were robbed and murdered; 
 but it was not "blessed" so as to set the cause ot the 
 covenant above fear and peril, for no sooner had Monro 
 reached his quarters at Carrickfergus again than retribution 
 was announced as about to follow. " Since our returae," 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 169 
 
 gfeat guns and muskets in each garrison (where he came) wellcoming his Lo"^ in their loudest thun- 
 derings. After these joyfull welcomes thus proclaim'd by Bellona's voice and the noise of drums 
 and so of trumpets, and huzzas of officers and soldiers; I find nothing of this our 3d Vise*'" actions 
 (for want of his papers) till his appearance at the council of war held in Lisnegarvagh (the town 
 afores'') on the 14th and 15th days of March, 1647, stilo anglico, under the presiedency of Conl. 
 Geo. Monck. The names of the constitutents were as follows, lire licet : 
 
 Colo. Geo. Monck,53 President, the R' Hon'" '' the Lord of Ardes, Jas. Montgomery, Col. 
 
 saj-s the writer of the tract above mentioned, "the earle 
 of Castlehaven and Owen Mac Art (O'Neill) doe threaten 
 hard, that they will immediately follow us down into our 
 quarters, and drive us into the sea, if God and we will 
 give them leave." (PageS.) Besides this expedition, and 
 the one of 1642, already mentioned at p. 154, note 8, supra, 
 Monro conducted several similar movements during his 
 command in Ulster. His military career, however, ended 
 ingloriously on the field of Benburb, from which he fled 
 with such haste as to leave his hat and wig among the 
 immense spoils to be gathered by the enemy. Among 
 the Protestants of Ulster who suffered in their estates for 
 resisting the covenant was Peter Hill, elder son of sir 
 Moses Hill. In May, 1644, he and his family were 
 obliged to fly for safety to Dublin, being driven from 
 his residence by several parties of the Scotch army 
 under Monro, who plundered his house and stock to 
 the value of above ;i{^3,8o4. Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, 
 edited by Archdall, vol. ii., p. 323, represents sir James 
 Montgomery as leading one of these marauding parties, 
 and lord Lindsay, a Scottish colonel, the other. It is a 
 mistake to style the former sir James Montgomery, as at 
 that time he was simply colonel James Montgomery, fifth 
 son of the earl of Eglinton. He is not to be confounded 
 with sir James Montgomery of Rosemount, who was a 
 British officer, and did not belong to Monro's army at all, 
 although generally acting in concert with the Scots. Sir 
 James Balfour, Aniiais of Scotland, vol. iii., p. 210, when 
 noticing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament on 
 the 9th of July, 1644, says : — " A letter from the pari, to 
 Generall Maior Monro, in fauors of the Wiscount Clan- 
 debowes, commanding the said Maior to put no more 
 quarteringes and exactions one him, nor one hes 
 neighbours, conforme to their estaits." In 1643, the par- 
 liament, as a means of bringing the remains of the royal 
 party in Ulster under its authority, invested Monro with 
 a commission under the new broad seal of England, to be 
 commander-in-chief of all the British as well as Scotch 
 forces in Ulster. On hearing this, sir James Montgomery 
 summoned the officers of the British troops to meet in 
 Belfast on the 13th of May, that they might consider what 
 answer should be returned to Monro, when he would re- 
 quire them to submit to his authority. This meeting, 
 which was attended by sir James Montgomery, viscount 
 Montgomeiy, lord Blaney, sir Robert .Stewart, col. Ar. 
 Chichester, major Gore, and others, was adjourned until 
 the next day ; but, during the night of the 13th, Monro 
 surprised and seized Belfast. Chichester, who had pre- 
 viously been appointed governor of Belfast by the king, 
 asked an explanation of this proceeding, and Monro re- 
 plied that, since he (Chichester) had published Orniond's 
 proclamation against the covenant, all who had taken the 
 
 covenant believed themselves to be denounced as traitors, 
 and were, therefore, required to look sharply to their own 
 interests. The seizure of Belfast was a violation of the 
 original agreement between the English and Scottish par- 
 liaments, according to which agi'eement Monro was only 
 to occupy Carrickfergus and Coleraine. His movement, 
 therefore, called an immediate remonstrance from both 
 Houses of the English Parliament, addressed to the Scot- 
 tish Parliament, and requiring the surrender of Belfast by 
 Monro on the llth day of the January following. Sir 
 James Balfour, Annals of Scotland, vol. iii., p. 357, has 
 the following record: — "A letter from General Maior 
 Monro, from Ireland, to the pari, of the dait 26 Dec, 
 1645, shewing them, if that they condescendit to the 
 Englische to pairt with the toune of Belfast, that they 
 might lykwayes pairt with all their interest in Ireland." 
 The English did not regain possession until 1647, when 
 Monk seized Monro, and sent him a prisoner to London. 
 The following is M'Skimiti's account of Monro's capture : 
 — "To obtain possession of this place (Carrickfergus), 
 was now a matter of considerable interest to the Common- 
 wealth ; and, general Robert Monroe having offended 
 major Knox, captain Brice Coghran, and some other offi- 
 cers of Clencairn's regiment then in garrison, they, fearing 
 he would join sir George Monroe, then on his way from 
 Scotland with his disbanded troops, mutually agreed to 
 betray the town to general Monk, then in Lisburn. In 
 consequence of their information, on the night of the 
 13th September, sir Robert Adair, with a troop of horse, 
 was despatched from Lisburn on this special service. 
 Taking an unfrequented track across the mountains, he 
 arrived at the north-gate about daylight, which, having 
 been purposely left open, he entered without opposition, 
 and surprised general Monroe in his bed, who was soon 
 after sent prisoner to England." — History of Carrickfergus, 
 p. 57; see also Adair's Narrative, pp. 150, 151. Belfast, 
 as a matter of course, was surrendered to Monk on the 
 removal of Monro, who was lodged in the tower, where 
 he was kept a prisoner during the space of five years. 
 
 53 Col. Geo. Monck. — Monk, born in 1608, was a 
 younger son of sir Thomas Monk of Potheridge, in Devon- 
 shire. He entered the army as a volunteer in 1625, and 
 served under lord Wimbledon in the well-known expedi- 
 tion against .Spain. After a service of ten years in Spain 
 and the Low Countries, he returned to England just as 
 the war commenced between Charles I. and his Scottish 
 subjects, and served in the royal armies during the two 
 expeditions of the king into Scotland. He was next sent 
 to Ireland, to assist in crushing the rebellion of 1641, 
 and having signed a treaty with the rebels in 1643, he re- 
 turned with his regiment to England. He was suspected 
 by the royalists, and seized on his landing at Bristol ; but 
 
1^0 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 L' Colo. O'Conally, Colo. Edw<». Conway,54 L'.-Colo. Keith.ss L'-Colo. Frayle, L'.-Colo. Conway, 
 Major Geo. Rauden,5^ Major James Clotworthy,57 Capt. Geo. Montgomery,53 Capt. Edwd. Brugh,59 
 
 being able to justify himself to the satisfaction of lord 
 Digby, then secretary of state, he was released, and ap- 
 pointed a major-general in the Irish Brigade, then em- 
 ployed at the siege of Nantwich, in Cheshire. At that 
 place, sir Thomas Fairfax surprised and seized the whole 
 brigade, and Monk was sent to the tower, where he re- 
 mained until November, 1646, when, as the only means 
 by which he could obtain his liberty, he took the cove- 
 nant, engaged his services to the parliament, and was sent 
 again to Ireland in command of the force then designed 
 for the occupation of Dublin. Having approved himself 
 to the parliamentary authorities as an able military officer, 
 he was appointed on the l6th of July, 1647, to the com- 
 mand of the British forces in Ulster, except the regiments 
 at Londonderry and in the Laggan, which, at the same 
 time, were placed under the command of sir Charles 
 Coote. Monk took up his head-quarters at Lisbum, 
 and in the month of March following his appointment, he 
 held a council of war at that place, to make arrangements 
 for the campaign which was to be carried out during the 
 succeeding months. 
 
 'i^ Edwd. Con-L(jay. — See pp. 154, 155, Edward 
 Conway was appointed by Onnond to the command of the 
 English regiment in Ulster from which his father had 
 been removed by the committee of the Parliament. His 
 father, the second viscount Conway, objected to the cove- 
 nant, and refused to sigii it, on the grounds that its ac- 
 ceptance was not one of the original articles agreed to 
 between the Government and the officers of the British 
 forces in Ulster. The parliamentary committee appointed 
 the second lord Blaney as colonel of the regiment in his 
 stead ; but the officers of the regiment refused to accept 
 the latter, preferring to have Edward Conway, son of their 
 former leader. The father, although refusing to take the 
 covenant, became quite pliant to parliamentary rule for the 
 sake of preserving his estates, and recommended his son to 
 adopt the same course. The following extract is taken 
 from a letter addressed to his son on this point, and dated 
 London, September 24, 1645 : — " I did once think 
 not to have written, for he that brings this to you 
 knows most perfectly all that concerns this place and 
 these times ; but I have heard something which makes 
 me think it most necessary for me to write to you. Sir 
 Patrick Weames is come to London from Dublin, and 
 sayeth that Lieut-Colonel Jones (Theophilus) is in Dublin, 
 and that you have received a commission for the regiment 
 from my Lord of Ormond, and the result of this is, that 
 you and the officers of the regiment are not to be tmsted ; 
 if the Parliament believe this, they will have cause to dis- 
 pose of the regiment, so as they may be assured of it. 
 The Commissioners that do now go into Ireland are very 
 honest gentleman. Mr. Onslowe and Sir Robert King 
 I know very well, and you shall do well to address your- 
 self to them, that they may make good report of you 
 hither. I have spoken with Ned Burgh at large when 
 he was here ; you shall do well to speak with him ; take 
 heed to yourself, and keep the good opinion of this place. 
 There was one that answered to that, that you had a com- 
 mision for the regiment sent from the Marquiss of Or- 
 mond ; that you were not to be blamed, because that he 
 
 might do it without your seeking ; but it was certain that 
 the Parliament was sent to, and desired to give you a 
 commission. I have answered for Lieut. -Colonel Jones 
 all that I could ; you shall do well to speak with him, 
 and I hope that he will satisfy the Commissioners. If 
 there be any officer whom you know to be disaffected to 
 the Parliament, so that the putting of him out may be a 
 good service, you shall do well to put him out, having 
 told the Commissioners of him." — Rawdon Papers, pp. 
 181, 182. The concluding sentence of this extract con- 
 tains but a scurvy advice from a father to his son, and 
 especially as the former had himself been "put out" of 
 the same service not long before the date of this letter. 
 The son became a wise man, — a philosopher, in fact, — and 
 never hazarded the loss of his estates by any reckless ad- 
 hesion to political convictions. 
 
 55 Col. Keith. — See p. 163, supra. 
 
 5' Raude7i. — See p. 163, supra. 
 
 57 James Clotworthy. — See p. 156, sitpra. 
 
 5^ Geo. Montgomery. — The third son of the first viscount 
 See p. 94, supra. 
 
 5« Edwd. Brugh. — This surname was also WTitten 
 Brauff and Burgh This was an officer of sir George 
 Rawdon's regiment, but we are unable to state any parti- 
 culars of his family or native place. In the rare tract 
 already mentioned, at p. l68, note 52, supra, containing an 
 account of Monro's expedition as far south as Longford, in 
 1644, there is the following mention of this officer : — " We 
 having rested at Granard upon the Sabbath day, being the 
 7. of July, we sent out and burnt the townes of Ballynlie 
 and Longford, where the rebells had quartered, and aU 
 the castles that were of any availe to them, all which they 
 wholly deserted, not one man staying w ithin the countrey, 
 except such as hid themselves in Hands. At one of the 
 chiefest of the passes upon the Evey -water, is the bridge 
 of Fyna, where the earle of West-meath's castle is at the 
 end of it, about two myles from Granard; there the earle 
 of Castle-Heaven had put 200 musqueteers, and three 
 troops of horse, whereof his owTie lifegard was one. It 
 happened that Maior Royden, with seven English troops, 
 were quartered neere unto that place, who orderly seting 
 out his gards and scouts got the alarm severall times given 
 him by the rebell horse from the castle upon the Sunday ; 
 who, when the rest horsed, and strengthened their guards, 
 did still retire to the castle. At last, about 12 of the 
 clock, Maior Royden expecting that they would stand and 
 skirmish, drew to them with his troopes, but they retired, 
 yet espying 5 or 6 of their horsemen riding to the top of a 
 hill about half a mile from the castle; whereupon he sent 
 out captaine Brauff (Brugh) with six well-horsed men, 
 who endeavoured to get betwixt them and the castle, 
 which the rebells perceiving rode hard, and being neerer, 
 gained the pass and stopped ; then one of them tearming 
 himself a captaine, called to our men to know if there 
 were ever a captaine amongst them, who durst change a 
 paire of bullets with him. Captaine Braufif with his men 
 seeming to retire slowly, the enemy followed him out ; 
 whereupon he upon a sudden wheled about with his men 
 and charged them, and having discharged their carabines 
 the rogues took to flight, Captaine Brauff charged home 
 
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 Capt. Clemens,^° Capt. Jos. Hamilton, Capt. Hans Hamilton,^' and Capt. Augustin.^^ — I will not 
 recount all the passages at this meeting, but only a few, which (I think) are worth knowledge and 
 memory. 
 
 Imprimis, it was resolved upon the question, that the Capts. and Field Officers should be 
 involved (I use their own words) in one vote; that the Field Officers and Captains shall take place 
 according to the antiquity of their Colo.'s commissions, not their own; and it was (on debate) 
 ordered by the President pursuant to the last said resolve, that Lieut. Colo. Coghran, under S' J. 
 M. should have the preced' in the courts of war of lA-Colo. Conally,*3 under S'. Jas. Clotworthy. 
 
 neer to the passe ; the chiefe man of them he run him 
 quite through with his rapier, and killed him, and so 
 retired himself and his men without hurt, and had no 
 more alarms that night. " — pp. 4, 5. Captain Brugh was 
 chosen by Monk to convey Monro, as a prisoner, from 
 Carrickfergus to London, and during his visit he had seen 
 lord Conway. See note 54, supra. The lattter, writing 
 again to his son, on the 9th of July, 1647, commences his 
 letter thus : — "I need not say anything of the affairs of this 
 place; you will have information from Major Rawdon and 
 Ned Burgh." — Rawdon Papers, p. 184. It appears by Jn- 
 qiiisition, Dcrwn, no. 96, Car. I. , that Edward Brugh obtained 
 from HughO'Laury of Reske, county of Downe, the towns, 
 lands, sessiaghs, and parcels called Reske, containing 120 
 acres ; Carnealbeanagh, 60 acres ; Drombane, 60 acres ; 
 Gortemoney, 60 acres ; Leage, 60 acres ; Kilmonyoge, 60 
 acres ; and Taghlomny, 20 acres. These lands, known 
 generally as Meyrah (Moira), Burgh purchased from 
 O'Laury, in 1639, for the sum of ;i^300. — Thorpe's Cata- 
 logue 0/ Soiit/iwcU MSS., p. 209, — No. in Cat. 367. 
 
 ^ Capt. Clemens. — This was Henry Clements, supposed 
 to have been a son of Edward Clements, who, on the 
 20th of March, 1609, obtained from John Dalway a deed 
 of the townlands of Ballythomas, Straidballythomas, and 
 Ballymenagh, near Carrickfergus, for the yearly rent of 
 £2 5s. About the year 1640, this Henry Clements was 
 deputy-recorder of Carrickfergus, and soon afterwards an 
 alderman. In 1648, he was in garrison at Carrickfergus 
 as a captain in sir John Clotworthy's regiment of foot. 
 He died soon after the year last named. Henry, Edward, 
 Andrew, and Francis Clements, afterwards mentioned in 
 the records of Carrickfergus as aldermen or burgesses, 
 were believed to be his sons. The Carrickfergus 
 branch is now represented by the Adairs of Loughan- 
 more. Another son of Henry Clements, named 
 Robert, settled in the county of Cavan, where he obtained 
 an estate, married Miss .Sandford, a member of the 
 Castlerea family, and from him by his marriage descended 
 the viscounts and earls of Leitrim. — M'Skimin's History of 
 Carrickfergus, p. 326, note. 
 
 Ha7is Hamilton. — This Hans Hamilton was third 
 son of John Hamilton of Tullimore, and nephew of viscount 
 Clannaboy. He died in 1656, at his residence of Carna- 
 sure, near Comber, and was buried, according to direc- 
 tions given in his will, in his father's grave, in the aisle of 
 Holywood church. By his wife, Mary Kennedy of 
 Killarne, he left three sons and four daughters. One of 
 his daughters, Jane, married Hugh Montgomery of Bally- 
 magown, whose family is afterwards fully noticed by the 
 author, near the conclusion of his Manuscripts. — Lodge's 
 Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. iii., p 7. 
 
 Capt. Augiislin. — This British officer, on the defeat 
 of the royalist party in 1649, retired to Scotland, and 
 entered the army of the estates, which had been hastily 
 collected to oppose Cromwell ; but being one of those 
 "purged out" for "malignancy" before the battle of 
 Dunbar, Augustine took to the practice of robbing and 
 murdering stragglers from the English forces. By this 
 means he soon enriched himself, and found great favour 
 in the eyes of the covenanting authorities who had pre- 
 viously expelled him for his royalist sentiments, but who 
 had, in the meantime, been thoroughly defeated by Crom- 
 well, in consequence, it was believed, of their determina- 
 tion to accept the assistance of no " malignants " in fight- 
 ing the battles of the Lord ! Of this moss-trooper's 
 career, we have the following notice by sir James Balfour : 
 " One Augustine, a heighe Germane, being purged out 
 of the armey before Dunbar, bot a stout and resolute 
 young man, and a lover of the Scotts natione, imitating 
 Watte (another freebooter) in October and November, 
 this zeire (165 1 ), annoyed the enimey werey muche, 
 killing many of his straglers, and made nightly infals 
 upone theire quarters, killing sometyme 20, and sometyme 
 30, and more or less of them ; quherby he both enriched 
 himselve and his followers, and grateumly dammissed the 
 enimey. Hes cheffe abode was aboute and in the moun- 
 tains of Pentland and Soutra. " — Annals of Scotland, vol. 
 iv. , p. 165. " Captaine Augustine is called, and the lord 
 Chancellor, in his majesties name, and in the name of the 
 Pari, giues him thankes for his good service ; and ordaines 
 the Committee of Military Affairs to giue him some 
 reasonable' recompense to encourage him and others. " — 
 Ibid, vol. iv. , p. 214. For some account of the operations 
 of "the villanous moss-troopers," generally, against Crom- 
 well's troops, see Bisset's Omitted Chapters in the History 
 of England, vol. i. , p. 389. Two persons, named John 
 and George Augustine, probably brothers, were 1 649 officers 
 in Ireland, but we cannot discover by which of the 
 brothers these Scottish distinctions were earned. Captain 
 George received, as arrears of pay, under the Acts of 
 Settlement and Explanation, the sum of £,yi9 iSs; 
 and captain John received ^708 is lod. lyh Report, 
 of Irish Record Commission, p. 289. "Heighe Ger- 
 manes" were numerous in Scotland during the seven- 
 teenth century, coming generally as professional mounte- 
 banks. Stt Ch.2.mhtx%''s Domestic Antials of Scotland, vol. 
 ii., p. 296. 
 
 "=3 Lt.-colo. Conally — This was the well-known Owen 
 O'Conally (Eoghan O'Conghalaigh) who first informed 
 the Government of the conspiracy in 1 64 1. The fol- 
 lowing is sir John Temple's account: — ^" O'Conally, 
 a gentleman of a meere Irish family, but one that 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 There were (then) ordered forts to be made at certain passes, and men out of every reg*. (not 
 above 80 out of any one) to be posted in them, and to be relieved monthly by fresh detachments, 
 and the quota of money is set down what pay every officer and common soldier, serjeant, corporal, 
 
 had long lived among the English, and been trained 
 up in the true Protestant religion, came unto the 
 lord justice Parsons about nine of the clock that even- 
 ing (22nd October, 1641), and made him a broken 
 relation of a great conspiracy for the seizing of his 
 Majesties castle of Dublin. He gave him the names 
 of some of the chief conspirators ; assured him they were 
 come vip expressly to the town for the same purpose, and 
 that next morning they would undoubtedly attempt, and 
 surely effect it, if their design was not speedily i^revented ; 
 and that he had understood all this from Hugh MacMahon, 
 one of the chief conspirators, who was then in town, and 
 came up but the very same afternoon for the execution of 
 the plot ; and with whom he had been drinking indeed 
 somewhat liberally, and as the truth is, did then make 
 such a broken relation of the matter that seemed so in- 
 credible in itself, as that his lordship gave very little be- 
 lief to it at first, in regard it came from an obscure person, 
 and one, as he conceived, somewhat distempered at that 
 time." — Irish Rebellion, pp. 18, 19. In O'Conally's Ex- 
 amination, p. 20, he states that he was summoned by 
 MacMahon from Moiiimore, in the county of Derry ; he 
 was probably, therefore, one of the conspirators, and had 
 relented at the eleventh hour. Adair's account of him is 
 as follows : — "It is worthy of observation, that this Owen 
 O'Connolly was at first a poor Irish boy admitted into the 
 family of sir Hugh Clotworthy, at Antrim — a religious 
 and worthy family ; and tliere was educated and taught 
 not only the principles of the Protestant religion, but, 
 through the blessing of God upon that education, and the 
 power of the Gospel in the parish of Antrim, he became 
 truly religious, in heart and conscience bound to the 
 truth, and to those who were truly godly." — Narrative, 
 p. 84. MacBride, the successor of Adair as minister 
 of the First Presbyterian Congregation, Belfast, states 
 that O'Connolly was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, 
 and that, as "Minutes still extant in his (MacBride's) 
 time testified, he often sat as such in meetings of Presby- 
 tery." See Dr. Killen's Note, at page 84 of KA-dS.r% Nar- 
 rative; also MacBride's Sample of Jet Blaek Prelatic 
 Calumny, p. 174. Should any doubt still exist as to this 
 man's presbyterianism, it must be cleared off, we think, 
 by the following extract of a letter, to the marquis of 
 Ormond, written by sir James Montgomery from Rose- 
 mount, on the 9th December, 1643, and now printed for 
 the first time : — " Since the wryting of my other letters, 
 one Captaine Occonnelie (y'. was S'. John Clotworthie's 
 man) is come into these parts from England, and has 
 brought lettres unto all the Collonels of the English Army 
 in this province, inviting us to take the new Covenant. 
 The coppy of that which is sent unto me I herewith send 
 unto your Lordship. I had with it three printed papers, 
 the Coppy of the Covenant, the Declaration of both 
 houses thereupon, and the Articles of Cessation. These 
 I suppose your Lordship has had from England, and there- 
 fore I will not increase my packet with them. I send 
 yo^ Lop. also a Coppy of the votes of the houses upon 
 the articles; O'Connelly presses hard and peremptorily his 
 
 answer like a Grand Commissioner. My Lord Mont- 
 gomery and I put him off till Collonel Chichester's re- 
 turne from Enishone that we have [been] awaiting. 
 O'Connelly tells how that he was informed by the Mar- 
 quesse of Ardgyle that I am made Viscount of Arglasse, 
 and many other things that I know not of myself, v.-hich 
 makes me (as hff says) so fierce a royalist ; and some 
 trounkes of mine are stayed in Scotland, wherein I have 
 above six or 700 lb. starl. worth of commodities and 
 cloathes. But all this shall not trouble me ; I serve a 
 good master, who I hope will not let me be a louser." — 
 Carte MSS., vol. viii., p. 46. But although at first a 
 presbyterian, as were his patrons, the Clotworthys, O'Con- 
 ally afterwards became a puritan or independent For 
 his discovery of the plot in 1641, he had a reward of ;^500 
 in hand, and ^200 per annum for life. He obtained also 
 a military commission ; and at the time of his death in 
 1649-50, had risen to the rank of colonel. His death is 
 thus mentioned in a rare tract, entitled The Taking of 
 Wexford, 4to, London, 1649 : — " We (the soldiers of the 
 Commonwealth) have lately had some losse in the North ; 
 Colonell Oconelly with a party of horse about 100 march- 
 ing from Belfast to Antrim, was set upon by George 
 Monroe (nephew of General Robert Monro) with a bigger 
 orce, routed our men, Colonell Oconelly and Captain 
 Rooper with about twentie others slaine, about the same 
 number taken prisoners, the rest escaped. " — P. 6. Adair 
 supplies the following additional particulars of this affair at 
 pp. 176, 177 of his Narrative: — "He (O'Conally) had 
 fallen in with the sectarian party, got the command of 
 the regiment in Antrim, which formerly belonged to his 
 old master, sir John Clotworthy (now a suflerer and pri- 
 soner under the sectaries, for declining their courses and 
 adhering to the king's just right and interest). This 
 O'Connolly and some few English met accidentally with 
 a party under the command of — as well as the company of 
 Colonel John Hamilton (who at that time was subject to 
 Colonel George Monro, then in the country) at Dunadr)', 
 near Antrim, where there was a sharp debate. O'Con- 
 nolly was mortally wounded, and carried with no more 
 respect than a dead ox behind a man to Connor, where 
 he immediately died. Tliis man, from what could be ob- 
 sei-ved, was of an ingenious nature, and truly sincere, yet 
 he was then deceived by the pretences of that party, and 
 seemed violent that way. Therefore, though God had brought 
 him to great respect and a considerable estate upon oc- 
 casion of his former faithfulness at the breaking out of the 
 rebellion ; yet falling from his first principles, and going 
 along with the declining party, the Lord would punish 
 him with this temporal stroke of being thus cut off for a 
 warning to others to beware of such courses. His wife 
 died shortly after, and left a son and daughter — his son a 
 very idiot unto the greatest height, and the daughter, 
 though thereafter married to a worthy gentleman (Mr. Ilugh 
 Rowley), yet proved but more than half a fool, and a 
 burden to her husband for many years, and without pos- 
 terity. " This lady, of whom Adair thus speaks so dis- 
 paragingly, was married to Hugh Rowley, son of Edward 
 
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 173 
 
 and drums shou'd have; some debates, touching titles to command and pay, and to precedency, 
 were likewise determined; so the reader hath a brief acc*. martial and (tho' he be one of the army) 
 he may perhaps learn something there out. 
 
 I am now again at a loss for his Lo'''' actions (for the want of his papers afores'*. many being 
 burned in his house after his death) during the interval ^'t between the s''. court till the 12th of Dec'. 
 1648, that I find Colo. Monck, Command-in-Chief of the Brits'', forces in Ulster (so he stiles 
 himself) in his declaration directed to and requiring all comm°'. and officers in the army in their 
 several quarters, and likewise praying all pastors and ministers in their churches and parishes, &c., 
 to publish the same,^^ and a particular letter from him to S". J. of the same date, to oppose the 
 landing of S'. Geo. Munro's men, who were coming over hither, after Duke Jas. Hamilton's defeat 
 at Preston,^^ in Lancashire, mensi Aug. the i8th, that same year, 1648. The last of Colo. Monck's 
 doings (w'' I left at) were the declaration and the letter, both dated 12th day of 7^", 1648, as 
 afores"*, whereby he threw off his vizard and appeared barefaced for a commonwealth against the K. 
 
 Rowley of Castlerock. His mother was Letitia Clot- 
 worthy, a daughter of sir Hugh Clotworthy of Massereene. 
 Thus O'Conally's daughter married the son of a lady in 
 whose father's house he (O'Conally) had been a servant. 
 
 The intenial. — It was during this interval the third 
 viscount Montgomery wrote the following letter to 
 Alexander, sixth earl of Eglinton, which has been printed 
 in Eraser's Memorials, vol. i. , p. 288 :— 
 
 "Right Honorable and my very good lord, — Being informed 
 by Generall Quarter Master Drumond that your lordship had a minde 
 to two deeres which are heere, he not having the opportunitye to send 
 them himselfe before his leaving this countrye, I have now sent 
 th«m along by this bearer, who hath promised to have a great caire 
 of them, soe that I hope they will come safe to your lordship's hands. 
 The greatest newes we have in this countrye is, that lately in Dublin, 
 upon the discovery of some plot intended, as is reported, for the 
 takeing of the castle, sixteene gentlemen and officers are appre- 
 hended ; the halfe of them are sent over to the parliament of England, 
 and the rest kept prisoners by Jones : the names of the chiefs are. 
 Sir Maurice Eustache, Sir John Gilford, Collonell Flower, and 
 CoUonell WiUoughby, all great servants of my Lord Ormond. The 
 divisions betwixt the Irish continues: our country is in such an ex- 
 treme want of victualls that we cannot possibly marche abroad to doe 
 any service, though it might gaine the kingdome. If my cosin, 
 Collonell James, bee theire, I pray your lordship showe him that 
 the countreyes unstabilitye and refractoriness is such, that this day 
 I have been forced to give orders for a partye of my owne horse and 
 footc to lift his regiment mentinance by force : howsoever, I shall 
 indeavour to provide for them till the end of this month. Thus 
 intreating to heere from your lordship the trueth of all occurrences 
 frequently, — I rest your lordship's most affectionat cosen and 
 humble servant, 
 
 " MoNTGOMERIE. 
 
 '' Carrickfergus, 7th of August, 1648. 
 
 "Collonell Monkehath taken in the fort of Ballyhoe; andweheerd 
 that our forces in Conoght are now joined with Preston against 
 Owen M'Art O'Neill." 
 
 *5 To publish the same. — As soon as Monk had sent off 
 Monro, and got possession of Carricldergus and Belfast, 
 he published a declaration as commander in chief of the 
 British forces in Ulster, to explain and vindicate his con- 
 duct in these proceeding";. This declaration he required 
 the officers to make known in their several quarters ; at 
 the same time requesting all pastors and ministers to 
 publish it in their several parishes and churches. 
 
 Defeat at Preston.— in June, 1648, the army of the 
 English parliament, having swept all the royalist forces 
 from the field, seized Charles I., and held him as a 
 guarantee for the redress of certain grievances of which 
 
 it complained. This extreme measure created a reaction 
 throughout Scotland in favour of royalty, and the duke of 
 Hamilton had sufficient influence to procure a vote of the 
 Scottish parliament for an army of 40,000 men to aid in 
 the liberation of the king. The General Assembly of the 
 Kirk viewed this movement with the iitmost jealousy, de- 
 nouncing it as an attempt to rob Christ of his prerogative, 
 by thus espousing the king's quarrel before the king had 
 recognised the covenant. This opposition of the church 
 interfered very much with the collecting and equipping 
 the required amount of troops ; and the engagers, as 
 Hamilton's party was called in Scotland, appealed for 
 assistance to the Scottish royalists in Ulster. The vis- 
 counts Montgomery and Clannaboy, sir James Mont- 
 gomery, and other British officers, received urgent applica- 
 tions on this point, and, in reply, it was arranged by them 
 to send 2, 100 foot, and 1,200 cavalr}', under the command 
 of colonel George Monro, to co-operate with the forces of 
 Hamilton. The presbyterian ministers in Ulster, adopt- 
 ing the views of their Scottish brethren, preached against 
 this expedition, and denounced woe against all who would 
 give it the slightest countenance. As soon as Cromwell heard 
 of the movement in Scotland, he hastened to meet Hamilton, 
 marching by ■way of Gloucester, Warwick, and North- 
 ampton, reaching Doncaster on the 7th of Augvist, and 
 soon afterwards fonnfng a junction at Knaresborough with 
 the troops commanded by Lambert. The force under 
 Langdale, the leader of the English royalists, met Crom- 
 well somewhat in advance of Hamilton, and after a conflict 
 of four hours' duration, fell back on the Scots. Cromwell 
 then attacked the main body of the enemy in the act of 
 crossing the Ribble, into Cheshire, killing 1,000 Scots 
 and capturing 4,000. Sir George Monro, who had 
 got no farther than the borders of Westmoreland and 
 Cumberland, was recalled to assist in checking Argyle, 
 who had opposed the movement of Hamilton. Crom- 
 well marched directly on Edinburgh, where he hurled 
 the engagers or Hamilton party from power, putting the 
 presbyterians in their place. The latter received Crom- 
 well with the greatest demonstrations of joy, and although 
 lately regarding the independent party as their worst ene- 
 mies, they now owned and embraced them as their best 
 friends and deliverers. The presbyterian authorities even 
 
174 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 I am next to mention his letter to S' Jas. M''. and no doubt there was another to our Vise*, for 
 I have the copy of their joint answers, Monck acquainting him (the s"". 12th day afores''.) he had 
 surprised the garrison of Carrickfergus, and that Belfast was delivered to him, and that he was 
 resolved to go to Colerain, and therefore he had orders to the L*. Canbrassil and L*. of Ardes, to 
 send 200 men apiece out of their regts. &c. with a fortnight's provisions, to be there as speedily 
 as may be, to w'' letters of orders, I 'find our Vise*, and the s"*. S'. J. Mont', did give a joint answer 
 as afores**. of the date 17 th same month, wherein they desire to know of Colo. Monck his in- 
 tentions and reasons of surprising Carrickfergus, and of going against Colerain, and of making 
 Major-Gen'. Munro prisoner, say^ those two towns and Belfast were given by the K. and Parlia- 
 ment as cautionary towns, that the Scotish army^7 should receive their arrears of pay, and that the 
 M'.-G'. was made commander (by them) in chief over the B'^ forces in Ulster; to which Colo. 
 Monck replys civily the 19th of the same month f"' Carrickfergus, where he kept the s* M. G'. in 
 sure (but favourable) restraint; his Lo'''' Lady mother, with his sister and brother, James Montg% 
 coming to Newtown (as soon as they might conveniently) and thence to her jointure-house of 
 Mount Alexander Colo. Monck, in his s" reply, having accepted of his Lop'. and S' J. M. excuse 
 
 rison left that place, was appointed governor there, by 
 the lord Marquesse of Ormond) that he might have pas- 
 sage through the tovrae with the army the next morning, 
 which he refused ; whereupon some hot words grew 
 betwixt them, and one captaine Perkins, a young captaine 
 in that garrison, gave some offensive words both to the 
 generall major, and some of the officers that were with 
 him ; whereupon, after the generall major returned from 
 the towne to the campe, he sent a drummer to the 
 govemour, and charged him to give him passage, or if 
 not to be upon his guard, being resolved to have stormed 
 the town, and taken it in, Mathewes persisted obstinate 
 in his denyall after two severall faire messages which were 
 sent unto him by the generall major, which being per- 
 ceived by the commanders of the army, and foreseeing 
 the mischiefe might come to that place, and the spilling 
 of Protestant blood, did labour earnestlj- with the generall 
 major to passe by that time, and not to take notice of 
 their folly and indiscretion, which he (out of respect to 
 the lord Conway, who had then a company in that place, 
 and to shew he could better rule his passion then the 
 govemour and rest of that garrison) was nobly pleased to 
 doe." Three years aftenvards, when the parliament had 
 become unpopular, there was a faint attempt at re-union 
 between the British and Scottish troops in Ulster — an 
 attempt, however, which was soon arrested by the 
 prudence and vigilance of Cromwell. But, although the 
 British forces were employed to break up the Scottish 
 army, there existed little or no cordiality between them 
 and their new commanders, ISIonk and Coote. 
 
 ^ Mount- Alexander. — On the seizure of Monro, his 
 wife and step-children, the mother, brother, and sister of 
 the third viscount Montgomery, retired to Mount- Alex- 
 ander, the lady's own residence. A post-mortem inquisi- 
 tion was held at Newtown on the 7th of October [ ] at 
 which it was found that at the time of the second viscount's 
 death, 15th November, 1 642, his son and heir, the third 
 viscount, was nineteen years of age. "Jeane, viscountess 
 Montgomery, is living and unmarried. The said vis- 
 
 prevailed on Cromwell to leave general Lambert in 
 Edinburgh with troops to protect them, until they 
 could muster a force sufficient to secure their own safety. 
 
 God^vin, History of the Commonwealth of England, vol. 
 
 ii., p. 568; Ludlow, Memoirs, vol. i., p. 262. Sir George 
 Monro was compelled to disband his Ulster force in Scot- 
 land, and the presbyterians of this province became 
 alarmed lest, on his return hither, he should be received, 
 and perhaps joined by his uncle, general Robert Monro, 
 then in possession of Carrickfergus. It was understood 
 that sir George was to bring back with him "a profane 
 crew of officers," as Adair, p. 149, describes them, '|who 
 had followed him, and who had been professed enemies to 
 the ministry and people of God at his departure." Their 
 fears on this head were adroitly employed by Monk to 
 assist him in the seizure and removal of general Robert 
 Monro, who had been the presbyterians' chief friend, and 
 had often taken sweet counsel with them even in their 
 meetings of presbyteiy.— Mackay's History of the House 
 and Clan of Mackay, p. 296, note. Monk had also gained 
 the good opinion of presbyterians in Ulster by making 
 proclamation on the 12th December, 1648, agamst the 
 landing of sir George Monro, and calling on sir James 
 Montgomery to assist in preventing him (Monro) from 
 entering Ulster again. 
 
 67 The Scotish army.— There was little cordiality be- 
 tween the British and Scottish forces in Ulster since 
 1644, but probably still less between these sections and 
 the parliamentary troops in the following years. The 
 covenant had alienated the two former from each other, 
 and it was the obvious policy of the pariiament to keep 
 them disunited. We have a striking illustration of the 
 all but hostile feelings existing between the British and 
 Scottish troops, during the expedition of 1644, in the 
 following passage, at page 7, of the Full Relation already 
 referred to :— "The thirteenth day we came and leagured 
 also by the Newrey; the generall major (Robert Monro) 
 with 5 or 6 officers did ride into the town, and desired 
 lieutenant-colonel Mathewes (who, after the Scots gar- 
 
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 for not urging their comm'*' upon that unwilling required party (indeed their whole regm*'. and the 
 L'* Clanbrassill's were extremely averse and highly stomached at such a march against their 
 countrymen in Colerain) and praying their favourable constructions of the surprise he had made as 
 afores^, and promising kind usage to their relations and friends, and to give themselves satisfactory 
 reasons of his doings. He forthwith marched to Colerain, and by getting the same (as he said he 
 hoped without bloodsheding) he did complete his business in hand with a total breaking the 
 Scotish army. 
 
 countess is dowable of the premisses, in liew whereof, she 
 hath, in open court, produced an instrument, bearing date 
 the 6th September, 1643, whereby she is content and de- 
 syrous to be concluded pro presenti et de fitturo, and did 
 pray that for avoiding all controversies that nowe or here- 
 after might happen to aryse between her and her said son, 
 
 the now lord viscount Montgomery and other of her chil- 
 dren, the said instrument might be found in this office, and 
 did then declare that she is content thereby to be con- 
 cluded, and debarrd of all other rights, claims, or de- 
 mands whatsoever, other than what by the said instrument 
 is [ ] unto her." — Inquisitmis, Down, no. 109, Car, I. 
 
176 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 life 
 
 N these cloudy times, our Visct. appeared in his lustre, by going with a great train of 
 attendance and the convoy of his troops to Mellifont' (S' Js. M. his uncle, making a figure 
 suitable to himself,) and there his Lqp wedded the Hon'''' Mary,^ eldest sister of Henry, 
 Vise'. Moor, J. M assisting to have her La^'" marriage portion of secured by bonds of 
 
 the staple,3 w'' her brother (the Moor) gave for the same; and there was need of the best security, 
 for his LoP'^ estate was entailed, and himself but tenant for life.+ This was done in the month of 
 Dec'. 1648. Then his Lop returned with his Lady and her sisters and two of her younger brothers,^ 
 &c.; the reception at Newtown was great as military appearance and good cheer could make it, 
 
 ' Mellifont. — See p. 45, supra. 
 
 ^ The Honourable Alary. — This lady, born in 1 63 1, was 
 eldest daughter of Charles, second viscount Moore of 
 Drogheda, and Alice, daughter of sir Adam Loftus. 
 Her father was slain whilst serving against the Irish at 
 Portlester, county of Meath, in 1643. Her mother was 
 killed by a fall from her horse in 1649. This accident 
 was occasioned by lady Moore yielding to a sudden out- 
 burst of gi'ief, on beholding St. Peter's Church, Drogheda 
 (for the first time), where her husband had been buried. 
 Their son, Henry, mentioned in the text, was created first 
 earl of Drogheda in 1661. — Lodge's Peerage, edited by 
 Archdall, vol. ii., p. 104. 
 
 3 Bonds of the staple. — The word staple, from the old 
 French estape, denotes, in its original sense, the mart or 
 market established by law for the sale of the principal 
 products of the country. A statute staple is a bond of 
 record, acknowledged before the mayor of the staple or 
 town, in the presence of one or more constables of the 
 same staple, by virtue of which the creditor forthwith had 
 execution of the body, lands, and goods of the debtor on 
 non-payment, and was thus tenant until the debt was paid. 
 It is called statute because it is founded on the stat. 27 
 Edward III., chap. 9, which sets forth the manner of 
 entering into it, and of its execution. — See Wishaw's 
 Law Dictionary, p. 299. In the present instance the town 
 of Drogheda is the staple referred to in the text, the bond 
 of which, when duly signed by the mayor, and witnessed, 
 was sufficient security for the payment of any debt thus 
 acknowledged. Referring to this tribunal, Holinshed, 
 Chronicles of Irela fide, anno 1576, says:— "Alsoe they 
 have a maior and officers of the staple yearlie to be 
 chosen, who have the libertie of taking of statutes and 
 recognisances staple within their own towne and concern- 
 ing themselves." These ancient staples or markets were 
 appointed to be held at such points throughout Europe as 
 were supposed to possess the greatest conveniences of 
 situation. One, at Calais, was removed by an Act of the 
 17th Edward III., chap. 8, to various towns in England, 
 Wales, and Ireland, which towns are appointed by the 
 
 statute itself. In Ireland, these towns were Dublin, 
 Waterford, Cork, and Drogheda. The favourable 
 position of Drogheda secured for it the advantage and 
 distinction of a staple town in Ireland, this place being 
 situated between Louth, which was known as the granary 
 of Ireland, and Meath, the mensal province of the 
 ancient kings. It is interesting thus to know what towns 
 were then thought of sufficient importance to have staples 
 assigned to them. Drogheda also commanded by land the 
 great avenue to Ulster, opening inwardly to the trade of 
 Ireland and seaward to the trade of Great Britain. See 
 Ds-lion^ History of Drogheda, vol. i., pp. 1 37, 138. 
 
 •» Tenant for life. — His father, who was a life-renter, 
 had disposed of his interest in his estate, in 1637, for the 
 maintenance of his family, and to provide fortunes for 
 his daughters. The terms of this arrangement indicate 
 the difficult circumstances to which this property had been 
 reduced. — Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. ii., 
 p. 104, note. 
 
 ^ Her sister. — Lady Montgomery had three sisters— 
 viz., Sarah, married, in 1653, to viscount Charlemont ; 
 Anne, manied, in 1657, to Thomas CaulfeUd, esq.; and 
 Lettice, married, in 1661, to Hercules Davis, esq., 
 of Carrickfergus. — Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. ii., p. 105. 
 
 ^ Her younger brothers. — Her brothers' names were 
 Henry, Garret, Randal, and Adam. Henry succeeded to 
 the family estate, and became first earl of Drogheda. 
 The other three brothers came to Newtown on the 
 joyous occasion mentioned in the text. Garret, who 
 died in 1665, was permitted by the parliament, in 1654, 
 to compound for his estate near Ardee, at two years and 
 six months' purchase, amounting to a sum of ^^1,023 l6s. 
 Randal, who also resided at Ardee, was attainted by 
 King James's Parliament in 1 689, and died soon after the 
 Revolution. Adam, who died in 1666, appears to have 
 resided at Mellifont, as he was interred in St. Peter's, 
 Drogheda. — Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. ii., 
 pp. 104, 105. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 177 
 
 and their entertainment suitable. For divers days, the Ladies had the pleasure to see several 
 Gent", on horseback, with lances at their thighs, running at full career at glove and ring, for the 
 scarf, ring, and gloves w'' her Ladyship had set forth (on the ist day of that solemnity) as prizes 
 for the I, 2, and 3 best runners (a sight never beheld by any of the Ladies or any of the attendants 
 before that time.) These exercises continued for two other days, matches for mastery being made 
 among the Gent" runners themselves, and the wagers were mostly bestowed on a supper and good 
 wine; other days there were horse races made to entertain her Ladyship's brothers, who were 
 always guests at the consumption of the winnings. Among these cavaliers, Capt. Geo. Montgo- 
 mery (his LoP' uncle) bore away more prizes than all the rest, and to shew his good horsemanship 
 (for he had in his travels learned to manage them) he broke his lance against the garden wall at 
 high ^eed, and wheeled his horse upon his hinder feet, and rode back curveting and troting to the 
 great admiration of fearfuU Ladies and all the other beholders. I was then at Newtown school, 
 and was a diligent spectator. 
 
 His LoP. in a little while after these pastimes, gave visit to his uncle, S' Jas. M. (whose third 
 lady was before then dead)? at Rosem\ and there his Lo"". with his own hands, begirt me with a 
 silver-hilted sword. It was my constant fellow-traveller till (to my great grief) it was stolen from 
 me, when our ship was broke at Amelandt,^ as I was gomg to Holland; and now our Vise', and 
 the Earle of Clanbrassill, S' J. M., S' Geo. Moor,9 and the rest of the Scottish nation, being ap- 
 prehensive (especially the officers under their command were) of being served by Monck in the 
 same manner as he had done to the Scottish army, and that the King's party in Ulster would be 
 shortly wholly ruined; therefore his Lo^. a principal actor and S' J. M. (as one chief contriver) and 
 the persons afores''. made up a friendship with the Presbitarian Ministers,^ who stirred up the 
 
 ' Be/ore theji dead. — For the date of the death of sir 
 James Montgomery's first lady, see p. 120, supra. He 
 married in 1647, as his third wife, Frances St. Lawrence, 
 third daughter of Nicholas, baron Howth. This lady 
 lived but a short period after her marriage. The follow- 
 ing inscription, discovered, in 1843, on clearing away the 
 rubbish inside that portion of the Abbey at Greyabbey 
 which had been used as a parish church, fi.xes the date of 
 her death : — 
 
 *^ Here under are 
 Tlie earthy Remaifts 
 Of ye. Honble. Frances Saint 
 
 Lawrence ^d. daughter of 
 Nicholas Lord Baron Houth 
 &• yi. wife to the Honble. James 
 Montgomery of Rosemount^ 
 
 Knight Collonel. 
 This lady died in childbed 
 In October Ao. Dni. 164S 
 doe not despise nor eject 
 Her bofies." 
 
 The foregoing inscription was written in white paint on a 
 large slate, placed over some bones, imder the flags of the 
 platform, outside the vault in which William Montgomery, 
 th£ author, was interred. It was evidently written or 
 painted on the slate by his own hand. — MS. Notes by 
 colonel F. O. Montgomery. 
 
 * At Amelandt. — This incident will be noticed in con- 
 nexion with the author's Memoir of himself. See mfra. 
 
 9 Sir Geo. Moor. — This officer was uncle to lady Mont- 
 gomery. He is described as sir Geo. Moor of Mellifont, 
 in a letter of attorney, 1632, authorising him and his 
 brother, the baron of Mellifont, with others, to enter into 
 the territory or precinct of land called the Erenagh or 
 Tennon land of Tomregan, with the appurtenances, con- 
 taining six poles of land, and also into the manor of 
 Tulloculton, which had been demised to them and others 
 by Robert, late lord bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, for 
 sixty years. — Morrin's Calendar, Charles I., p. 657. The 
 author speaks of sir George Moor as of the Scottish nation 
 (although of English descent), because he was an officer 
 of the British forces in Ulster, most of whom, but not all, 
 belonged to families of Scottish settlers. 
 
 10 Pri;sbitarian ministers. — This hollow compact was 
 entered into by parties here in imitation of a similar pro- 
 ceeding then on foot between the royalists and covenanters 
 in Scotland. The result was the same in both cases — 
 speedy disruption attended with greatly increased party 
 bitterness. Adair tells us, Narrative, p. 156, that on the 
 great occasion referred to in the text, the lord of Ards 
 with his own hand formed a declaration for the covenant, 
 and against both malignants and sectaries, which was 
 read and approved by the presbytery, after some altera- 
 tions and additions. Should this document ever turn 
 up, it will, no doubt, be found to be a curious production. 
 It must have ingeniously pledged each party to support 
 
178 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 commonality against the sectarians" (for so they called their late dear brethren), and by their advice 
 the solemn league and covenanf'^ was renewed, and by universal desire of all sorts, his Lo^ was chosen 
 Gen', of all the forces in Ulster, and his Majesty Cha'. the 2d, was proclaimed King, in Newtown, 
 where I saw the claret flow (in abundance) from the spouts of the market cross,'^ and catched in 
 hats and bowls by who cou'd or wou'd, the noise of six trumpets sounding levitts,"» drums beating, 
 the soldiers discharging three vollies apiece, as the brass guns also at his Lo^'' house did, at the 
 healths drank to three royal brothers and at night bonefires in the street and illuminations of 
 
 the other, and at the same time left both free to work for 
 their own peculiar objects, which were veiy dissimilar 
 indeed. 
 
 " Against the sectarians.- — The Sectarians, better known 
 as the Independents of that day, first introduced and 
 practically asserted the principles of religious toleration, " 
 and were, therefore, peculiarly the objects of covenanting 
 suspicion and abhorrence. They had gi-ovvn suddenly 
 into a powerful party througliout England, and were re- 
 presented by many able men, among whom John Milton 
 stood pre-eminent. As a means of rousing the presby- 
 terians of Ulster against this party, and against the 
 government of the Commonwealth, which had fallen very 
 much into its keeping, the presbytery, that met at Bel- 
 fast, on the 15th of February, 1649, drevi' up and pub- 
 lished a document, which they called A Necessary Repre- 
 sentation of the present evils and imminent dangers to reli- 
 gion, laws, and liberties, arising Jro/n the late and present 
 practices of the sectarian party in England and their abet- 
 tors ; together with an exhortation to duties relating to the 
 covetiant unto all within our charge, and to all the well- 
 affected within this kingdom. The presbytery soon realised 
 at least one distinction, namely, the honour of having 
 their manifesto read and replied to by John Milton. His 
 reply is entitled — Observatiojts upon the Articles of Peace 
 with the Irish Rebels ; on the Letter of Ormotid to Colo/iel 
 fones ; and the Representation of the Presbytery at Belfast. 
 The reader will find the poet's scathing reply to the pres- 
 byterian Representatiot printed entire in an admirable 
 volume entitled. Historical Collections relative to the tozmi 
 oj Belfast, 8vo, 181 7. 
 
 Solemn league and ccnienant. — Seep. XT."], S2ip-a. This 
 may be described as a third edition of the original, and was 
 so called to distinguish it from its immediate predecessor, 
 National Coiienant oi id'^i. The solemn league and 
 covenant was adopted by the Scotch people generally in 
 1643, and in the following year by a large and influential 
 section in England. " In 1643, both nations having 
 united against the king, it was thought advisable that an 
 intimate alliance should be concluded ; but in the negoti- 
 ations which followed, it is noticed by a contemporary 
 observer, that though the English merely wished for a 
 civil league, the Scotch demanded a religious covenant. 
 And as they would only continue the war on condition 
 that this was granted, the English were obliged to give 
 way. The result was the Solemn League and Covenant, 
 by which what seemed a cordial union was effected be- 
 tween the two countries. Such a compact was, however, 
 sure to be short-lived, as each party had different objects ; 
 the aim of the English being political, while that of the 
 Scotch was religious." — Buckle, Civilization in England, 
 vol. ii., pp. 336, 337. This instrument was sent to Ire- 
 
 land as we have seen, p. 172, supra, in charge of O'Con- 
 noUy, who pressed it upon the British forces in Ulster 
 " like a grand commissioner," and we may imagine how 
 tightly the screw was applied by the parliament in this 
 business, from the names of several who were induced 
 tosign. In the Carte Collection, Bodleian Librarj', is 
 a list of several distinguished persons in Ireland who 
 "subscribed the vow and covenant," in 1645, among 
 whom were "Roger Lo: Broghill, S^ Hardres Waller, S'. 
 Arthur Loftus, S'. Charles Coote, S^ Francis Hamilton, 
 S''. Wm. Cole, Michael Berisford, Lieut. -Col. Walter 
 Loftus, Lieut. -Cob Wingfield, and S^ Percy Smith." The 
 expression "according to the Word of God," in an in- 
 troductory clause of the solemn league and covenant, was 
 supplied by sir Harry Vane, for the purpose of enabling 
 " the English Parliament to deny that they liad sworn to 
 adopt the Presbyterian form of Church government." 
 See Bisset's Omitted Chapters in the History of Englatid, 
 vok i., p. 276. 
 
 '3 Market cross. — See p. 68, supra. 
 
 '"t Sounding Ircitts. — Lnutts (from the French lever, 
 to raise), were sounded in this instance to call together 
 the British officers who had assembled at Newtown, for de- 
 liberation. The poet Gray applies the word levee, from 
 the same root, to tlie rising of the sim. "I set out," 
 says he, in a letter to Mr. NichoUs, " one morning be- 
 fore five o'clock, the moon shining through a dark and 
 misty autumnal air, and got to the sea-coast time enough 
 to be at the sun's levee." — See Richardson's E?iglish Dic- 
 tionary. 
 
 '5 Three royal bj others. — These royal brothers were 
 Charles II. ; James, duke of York (afterwards James II.) ; 
 and Heniy, duke of Gloucester. A sers^ant of the royal 
 household, by name E. .Sanders, esq., wrote a sketch of 
 the lives of these hopeful youths while in exile, predicting 
 the wondrous results which the world generally, and Eng- 
 land in particular, might expect to reap from their pre- 
 eminent virtues. The reader may fairly judge of the 
 contents of this production from the title page, which is 
 as follows: — The Thne Royal Cedars, or Great Britain's 
 glorious Diamonds; being a Royal Court Narrative of tJu 
 Proceedings, Travels, Letters, Conjerences, Speeches, and 
 conspicuous Resolutions of the most High and Renowned 
 Ring Charles, his Highness, Prince James, duke of York, 
 and the most illustrious Prince Henry, duke of Gloueester. 
 With a brief History of their memorable transactions. Re- 
 sults, and judicious Councils, since their too-much lameftted 
 exile in Flanders. Also, the resplendent vertues appearing 
 in thes Princely Pearls, to the great joy of all Loyal subjects, 
 who have for their sovereign a just Kins; to g07.'ern, a valiant 
 Duke to defend, and a wise Counsellor to advise. 1660. 
 The author concludes his sketch thus :—" These Three 
 
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 179 
 
 candles in the windows, and good fellows in the houses with the soldiers (to whom a largess was 
 given) encreasing their mirth and joy by good liquor. 
 
 Now our L"" Vise*. (Gen', of Ulster) making a numerous party, and declaring for the King, 
 rendezvouzed an army and expelled Monck,'^ who retired to Dundalk with his adherents, and they 
 made friendship with Owen Roe O'Neil afores'';'7 S' Chas. Coote (President of Connaught) being 
 
 Princes are like three Diamonds or Pearls, which we have 
 ignorantly cast away, and not come to know the worth of 
 them till we come to want them ; their virtues having 
 made them resplendent throughout all the world, and 
 rendered them, if we justly consider it, the only means 
 whereby we can attain to happiness : for wliat nation can 
 be more blessed than that which hath for her Prince a just 
 king to govern, a valiant duke to defend, and a wise 
 counsellor to advise." — See Lord Somers' Tracts, I Col- 
 lection, vol. iv., pp. 467-472. 
 
 Expelled Monk. — On the renewal of the Covenant in 
 February, 1649, the Ulster leaders tendered it to Monk 
 and Coote, the two commanders under the Common- 
 wealth in Ulster. On their refusal to accept it, the com- 
 bined royalists and presbyterians of the north rose in 
 arms, under the leadership of the third viscount Mont- 
 gomery, " declaring against the English rebels and their 
 measures," and taking possession of all the towns and 
 places of strength in Ulster, except the forts of Culmore 
 and Deny. — Carte, Life oj Ormoiid, vol. ii., p. 76. 
 
 '7 Ozoeti Roe C Neil aforesaid. — In forming this alliance 
 with the Irish — so distasteful to the authorities of the 
 English Commonwealth — Monk was providing merely 
 against the necessities of the hour. He wanted to pre- 
 vent a union of that party in Ulster which had now de- 
 clared for the King with the royalists under Ormond, and 
 he saw no other feasible means of doing so than the alli- 
 ance now mentioned. That the reader may have the 
 several official documents connected with this matter, we 
 here print them together, from a valuable and now very rare 
 tract, entitled, The True State of the Transactions of 
 Colonel George Monk ivith Owen-Roe- Mac- Art-0- Neal ; as 
 it was reported to the Parliament hy the Councel of State. 
 Together with the Votes and Resolutions of the Parliament 
 thereupon, London, 4to, 1649 : — 
 
 " Die Veneris, 10 Augusti, 1649. 
 *' Mr. Scot Reports from the Councel of State, a Letter and Paper 
 concerning a Cessation made by Colonel Mogk with General Owen 
 Roe mac Art O Neal, sent to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by 
 Colonel Monk, and were by the Lord Lieutenant brought and 
 delivered to the Councel, and by them taken into consideration, and 
 that the whole Business was then disapproved by the Councel ; and 
 the Councel hath declared unto Colonel Monk, That they neither did 
 nor do approve of what he hath done therein : and Ordered, That 
 both the foresaid Letters and Papers, and also the Reasons now ex- 
 hibited to the Councel by Colonel Monk, for his making the Cess- 
 ation, should be Reported to the House ; which were all this day 
 read. 
 
 " The House being informed. That Colonel Monk was at the door, 
 he was called in ; and being come to the P)ar, 
 
 "Mr. Speaker by Command of the House declared to him, That 
 the House had received a Report from the Councel of State, touching 
 an Agreement for a Cessation between him and Owen Roe ; and 
 whereas in his Letter he doth mention. That he had done it with ad- 
 vice with some others there, Mr. Speaker demanded of him, what 
 persons he intended thereby: To which Colonel Monk answered. 
 That he did it upon his own score, without the advice of any other 
 person ; onely having formerly had Discourse with Colonel Jones, 
 Colonel Jones told him. That if he the said Colonel Monk could keep 
 pff Owen Roe and Ormond from joyuing, it would be a good service. 
 
 " Being- demanded by Mr. Speaker, Whether he had any advice 
 or direction from the Parliament, or Councel of State, or Lord 
 Lieutenant of Ireland, or any other person here to do the same ; he 
 did expresly deny, That he had any advice or direction therein from 
 the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, or from the Coimcel of State, or from 
 the Parliament, or any Member of either, but he did it onely on his 
 own score, conceiving it was for the preservation of the English 
 Interest there, and that they have had some fruits thereof accordingly. 
 
 "Being withdrawn, and afterwards called in again, the questions 
 demanded him by Mr. Speaker, and his answers thereunto, were read 
 unto him ; and the said Colonel Monk did acknowledge. That the 
 same are his answers to the said questions. 
 
 '* Resolved, &c. , That this House doth utterly disapprove of the 
 proceedings of Colonel Monk, in the Treaty and Cessation made 
 between him and Owen Roe O Neal ; And that the innocent Blood 
 which hath been shed in Ireland, is so fresh in the- memory of this 
 House, that this House doth detest and abhor the thoughts of any 
 closing with any party of Popish Rebels there, who have had their 
 hands in shedding that blood. 
 
 "Nevertheless, the House being satisfied th.it what the said Co- 
 lonel Monk did therein, was in his apprehension necessary for the 
 preservation of the Parliament of Englands Interest, That the House 
 is content the further consideration thereof, as to him, be laid aside, 
 and shall not at any time hereafter be called in question. 
 
 " Ordered, That it be referred to the Councel of State, to give 
 Direction for printing the Report from the Councel of State, and so 
 much of the Letters and Proceedings as concern this business, and 
 the Votes of the House thereupon. 
 
 "Hen. Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti." 
 
 " Colo7iel George Motiks Letter to the Lord Licntciiant of Ireland 
 " Rk;ht Honorable, — Since I received advertisement of your 
 resolution of coming into this Kingdom, I have very much rejoyced, 
 and withal do assure you, that you have no servant in the world more 
 glad of it, then my self; I am infinitely obliged to you for your many 
 favors, for which I return you hearty thanks. I do account it a prin- 
 cipal part of my duty, to give you account of affairs here in this ser- 
 vice : I have, since the Scots deserting me 'although they are unwill- 
 ing to own it notwithstanding their actions do fully manifest it), used 
 my utmost endeavours to reserve the interest of England in the North, 
 and to keep some footing there. I have taken care to provide the 
 Garrison of Lisnegarvy, with two moneths provision of com, which is 
 kept there safe, if any rupture happen between, which is likely to be, 
 since their ends are clear opposite : As also I have well furnished 
 with victual the Garrison of Derry, the onely pass into the North, and 
 Green Castle, Carlingford, Dundalk, .and Colerane, if my Forces 
 should advance to besiege either of them. And being in a very ill 
 condition with these Garrisons between the Scots and Irish, Owen 
 mac Art's Army, 1 have adventured, by the advice of some special 
 friends and well-wishers to this Service, to treat with Owen mac Art, 
 to keep him from joyning with Ormond, which if he had done. Colonel 
 Jones and I had been in a very great hazard of losing the Parlia- 
 ment's footing in this Kingdom ; whereupon finding Colonel Jones in 
 such a condition, that he could not relieve me, it made me the more 
 confident to adventure upon a Cessation of Arms between Owen mac 
 Art's Party and mine, he engaging himself to oppose Ormond, which 
 he doth really intend to do, and hath already by his endeavors mani- 
 fested his willingness to mine Ormond, for a greater feud cannot 
 possibly be between them then there is now : whereupon upon this 
 score I have treated with him, and according to his desire, sent you 
 the Copy of the propositions made by him, to the Parliament, 
 which are wonderful high, but I believe will descend much lower : 
 I have sent you likewise a Copy of the Agreement for the three 
 moneths Cessation betwixt Owen mac Art and I. I do not think it fit to 
 signifie this to the Councel of State, but do wholly refer the business to 
 you, either to make further use of it, or else to move it, or as you con- 
 ceive most fit to be done, since there was great necessity for me to do 
 it, I hope it will beget no ill construction, when the advantage gained 
 to the Service, by dividing Ormond and Mac Art, is fully weighed. 
 
 " By this busines I have very much quieted the Scots, who were 
 upon so high terms, that nothing would satisfie them, but that I must 
 
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 with a strong garrison at that time in Londonderry, holding the same, and Connaught for the 
 
 deliver up' the provision, Arms and Ammunition to them which I had 
 in my Stores, as you may perceive by the Copies of their Letters at 
 their meetings ; but now they do not stir, either to send Forces to 
 joyn with those against Derry, or to advance towards me : Where- 
 fore being driven to this great streight, I shall desire that it may not 
 receive any ill censure, but that it may be throughly considered. 
 
 " I doubt I have already trespassed too much upon your time, and 
 do therefore crave pardon for this boldness, and humbly beseech you 
 to continue your good opinion towards me, and esteem me, as I am, 
 —Your faithful and most humble Servant, 
 
 "Dundalk, this 25 of May, 1649." " George Monk. 
 
 " Ormond within this three days hath taken a Garrison of Owen 
 mac Arts, and put most of the men to the sword, the place called 
 Mary-Burrow, and he hath sent Preston to lye before Athy, another 
 of Owen mac Arts Garrisons." 
 
 ' 'A rficles condescended unto, and agreed upon, hy and between Gene- 
 ral Owen O Neal, Comtnander in chief of the confederate Catho- 
 liqtits, and Colonel George Monk, Cowvtander in chief of tlie 
 Parliament Forces, within the Province of Ulster. Dated 8 
 May, 1649. 
 
 " I. It is agreed that there be a Cessation of Arms, and of all acts 
 of Hostility, between the Forces and Parties commanded by, and ad- 
 hering to General Owen O Neal, as well in Ulster as in the rest of 
 the Provinces of the Kingdom, and the Forces or Parties under Co- 
 lonel George Monk his command, for three moneths after the date 
 hereof ; Provided that in the said time, there be not any agreement 
 made with the Marquess of Ormond, the Lord of Inchiqueen, or any 
 their adherents, or with any who are Enemies to the Parliament of 
 England. 
 
 " IL That upon all occasions during the said time, both Parties 
 be ready with their Forces to assist one another, until a more absolute 
 agreement be made and condescended unto by the Parliament of 
 England. 
 
 " IIL It is agreed between the said Parties, that the Creaghts of 
 Ulster, residing within the quarters of Colonel Monk, pay contribu- 
 tions to General Owen O'Neal : And that it may be likewise lawful 
 for the said Colonel Monk to receive contribution from such Creaghts 
 of Ulster, as well those who have not as yet paid him contribution, as 
 those that do; and in case any of them refuse so to do, it shall be 
 lawful for Colonel Monk to compel them thereunto, e.xcepting those 
 who belong to the County of Cavan. 
 
 " IV. It is also agreed, That if General Owen O'Neal shall happen 
 to fight against the Forces under the command of the Marquess of 
 Ormond. the Lord Inchiqueen, or any other Enemies of the Parlia- 
 ment of England, and thereby spend his Ammunition, if he be near 
 unto my Quarters, and be distressed for want of Ammunition, I shall 
 then furnish him. . « , 
 
 " V. It is agreed between the said Parties, And the said Colonel 
 Monk doth in the behalf of himself and his P.irty, faithfully promise 
 and undertake, that free leave and liberty shall be given to any Ship 
 or Ships, that may arrive at any Harbor, or Port-Town within the said 
 Colonel Jlonk's liberty, during the time of our Agreement, with any 
 Silver, Gold, Provision, Arms, Ammunition, or any other com- 
 modities, to the use of the said General or his Forces : And that the 
 said General O'Neal, or such as shall be by him authorized hereunto, 
 shall be admitted to fetch away the same with security and safety ; 
 and that no interruption or impediment be given to the said shipping, 
 to depart without any prejudice, at their will and pleasure." 
 
 " TJie Propositions of General Owen O Neal, the Lords, Gentry, and 
 
 Commons of tlu confederate Catholiques of Ulster, to tite most 
 
 High and most Honorable, tlie Parliament of England. 
 
 " I. Imprimis, That such as are already joyned, or shall within the 
 space of three moneths, joyn with General Owen O Neal, in the ser- 
 vice of the Parliament of England in this Kingdom, as well Clergy as 
 others, may have all laws and penalties against their Religion and its 
 Professors, taken off by Act of Parliament, and that Act to extend to 
 the said Parties, their Heirs and Successors for ever, while they 
 loyally serve the Parliament of England. 
 
 "II. The said General O Neal desireth an Act of oblivion to be 
 passed, to extend to all and every of his party, for all things done 
 since the beginning of the year 1641. 
 
 " III. They desire that General Owen O Neal be provided with a 
 competent command in the Army, befitting his worth and quality. 
 
 " IV. They desire that they may enjoy all the Lands that were, or 
 ought to be in their or their Ancestors possession. 
 
 " V. That all incapacity, inability and distrust hitherto, by Act of 
 State or otherwise, against the said party, be taken off. 
 
 "VI. That on both sides all jealousies, hate and aversion, be laid 
 aside ; unity, love and amity, be renewed and practised between both 
 parties. 
 
 "VII. That General Owen O Neill maybe restored and put in 
 possession of his Successors 'sici estates, or some estates equivalent 
 to it, in the Counties of Tyrome 'sic:, Ardmach, or London-dery, in 
 reward of his merit, and the good service that he shall perform in 
 the Parliament of Englands service, in the preservation of their in- 
 terest in this Kingdom. 
 
 "VIII. That the Army belonging to General Owen O Neal and 
 his party, be provided for, in all points as the rest of the Array shall 
 be. 
 
 " IX. That the said party be provided with, and possessed of a 
 convenient Sea-port in the ProWnce of Ulster. 
 
 "I do, upon receiving a confirmation of these Propositions forth- 
 with undertake and promise in behalf of myself, and the whole Party 
 under my command, faithfully and firmly to adhere to the service of 
 the Parliament of England in this Kingdom, and maintain their 
 interest hereafter, with the hazujrd of our lives and fortunes, against 
 all opposers whatsoever. In witness whereof, I have hereunto put 
 my hand and seal, this 8 day of Maj-, Anno Dom. 1649. 
 " Signed, 
 
 "Owen O Neai. 
 
 " The Reasons inducing Cohnel Monk to make a Cessation with 
 Owen Roe O Neal Jor three Moneths, which is now expired, were 
 
 as follo7veth : 
 
 " I. That about April last, the Scots under his command having 
 relinquished their obedience to the Parliament, and denied to obey 
 any command from him, upon refusing to joyn with them in a Decla- 
 ration against the Parliament and Army, he desired assistance from 
 Colonel Jones to reduce them to obedience : But Colonel Jones find- 
 ing by good Intelligence, that the Lord of Ormond had made a Peace 
 with all the Irish, except Owen Roe O Neal ; That he had set up the 
 Prince's Interest, and upon that score was raising all the force he 
 could make to distress Colonel Jones in his quarters, thought it not 
 safe, as to the Parliament's Interest in Leinster, to spare any assist- 
 ance to Colonel Monk. 
 
 ' * 2. That Colonel Monk being upon this necessitated to retire to his 
 Garison of Dundalk. found Owen Roe O Neal quartered with his 
 Forces, being Six thousand Foot, and about Seven hundred horse, in 
 the counties of Cavan and Monahan, within twenty or thirty miles 
 march of his Garrison ; and also received good Intelligence, that the 
 Lord of Ormond at that time used all possible means to draw Owen 
 Roe to his party, offering him any Conditions to induce to it. 
 
 "3. That Colonel Monk finding himself thus invironed with the 
 Scots on the one hand, with whom he understood the Lord of Or- 
 mond kept Intelligence at that time, and with Owen Roe on the other; 
 and finding how dangerous it would in all probability be, not onely to 
 himself, but also to Colonel Jones, and so consequently to all the 
 Parliaments interest in Ireland, to have Owen Roe and the Scots thus 
 upon the sudden, and before any Forces could be expected to arrive 
 out of England, either to Colonel Jones or his own relief, united with 
 the Lord of Ormond. 
 
 , " 4. Finding that if he could keep the Lord of Ormond and Owen 
 Roe at distance, until supplies arrived, he should not onely deprive 
 the Lord of Ormond of that accession of strength which Owen Roe's 
 Forces would have added unto him, but also render the Scots in 
 Ulster, and the Earl of Clanrickard with his Connaght Forces all 
 which being joyned together, would have made Twelve thousand 
 horse and footl useless to the Lord of Ormond, as to any assistance 
 he could expect from them to joyn with him against Colonel Jones, 
 Owen Roe lying so with his Forces, as that he might within two or 
 three days march, have fallen either into the Scots quarters, or Clan- 
 rickards quarters, if they had not kept their Forces to attend his 
 motions. 
 
 " 5. Finding also that Owen Roe, in regard of his own safety, 
 would accept the large Offers made him by the Earl of Ormond if he 
 had not been speedilj' prevented ; Colonel Monk well weighing all 
 the dangers and advantages as aforesaid, that might in all probability 
 insue thereupon ; and likewise what hazard it might have been to re- 
 tard a conclusion with Owen Roe 'whom he found impatient of all 
 Delays) until he might receive Directions either from the Coimcel of 
 State or the Parliament, for his farther proceeding therein, thought it 
 most agreeable to the discharge of his trust, and the safety of the 
 Parliament's Interest in that Kingdom, rather to cast himself upon 
 the Parliament's favorable interpretation, and to conclude a Cessation 
 with Owen Roe for three moneths. then by any fiirther delay, to lose 
 the advantages aforesaid ; the fruits whereof have in some measure 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 i8i 
 
 Parlement; as these affairs took up many months, and the K. was then at Breda/^ treating with 
 Com" from Scotland, and being advertised of his Lo^'' actions for him, and praying his authority 
 to proceed therein, his Majesty sent him his com" to be Gen' of all the forces in Ulster, who owned 
 his right to the crown, with divers powers therein,'? &c. This was brought by S'' Lewis Dives'° (whom 
 I saw in Newtown house), and it was kept secret a great while, and became suspected more and 
 more because of S'' Lewis (who was a known cavalier) had been with his L^ but was not fully 
 known till the siege hereafter spoken of.^' 
 
 But I must return to some remarkable passages after the s'* surprise of Carrickfergus."* Colo, 
 Monk returning from Colerain, which was surrendered to him the same Sept'. 1648; he sent 
 Major-Gen', Robert Munro prisoner to the Parliament, w*" committed him to the tower of London. 
 
 answered his expectation, and prevented the Earl of Ormond all this 
 wiiile from a strict besieging of Dublin, and so consequently of taking 
 it, for want of a competent number of foot to lie down before it, which 
 he could not have done, without the addition of the Scots and Con- 
 naght forces as aforesaid ; and in the mean time necessitated him to 
 spend his time in taking of the out-Garisons, which if Dublin had 
 been taken, he knew would have speedily fallen into his hands. The 
 truth of all which, and of the advantages gained by his proceedings, 
 lie submits to the further testimony of those that Command in chief 
 for the Parliament upon the place." 
 
 "A Letter of the Scottish Officers in Ulster, to Colonel Monk. 
 " Honorable Sir — We are very well satisfied in our own con- 
 sciences, and are confident all, except the parties against whom we 
 do declare, will be so. That we have discharged our duties in relation 
 to you, and that we have with a great de.nl of honesty and fidelity de- 
 clared ourselves for the Parliament of England, And onely against 
 those who have illegally usurped their power, for whose service we 
 are confident the Arms, Ammunition and Clothes sent to the Army, 
 were never ordained ; nor can we see how you discharge your trust 
 to the Parliament, when you detain those provisions sent by them to 
 us, who are still willing cordially to prosecute those ends to which we 
 were engaged, when you got yonr Commission, and to follow the 
 commands of that lawful Power which did give it you. Thus far we 
 are free, because we cannot lie under the accusation of that crime, 
 whereof others are guilty, &c. 
 
 " Major Rawden will give you an accompt of our Answers to your 
 desires, which we are confident will witness our respects to you, and 
 we do earnestly desire that you may be as careful in preserving a 
 good correspondency and neighbour-hood, as — Your affectionate 
 humble Servants, 
 
 (Signed), Montgomery, John Edmonstone, Uti Knox, 
 William Hamilton, George Keith, James 
 Clotworthy, James Shaw, Fergus Ken- 
 nedy, Ed. Ellis. 
 "Belfast, the 9 of May, 1649." 
 
 The K. -was then at Breda. — Breda is a town in the 
 province of North Brabant, where Charles II. generally 
 resided until his restoration in 1660. The commission, 
 however, was sent to viscount Montgomery from the 
 Hague, and not from Breda. 
 
 '9 Pmvcrs therein. — The following is a copy of this com- 
 mission, which was recently discovered among the family 
 papers preserved at Donaghadee : — 
 
 " Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, 
 and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. — To our Right trusty and 
 well-beloved Hugh, Viscount Montgomery, of Ards, and to all others 
 to whom these presents shall come, greeting : Know you, that wee, 
 imposing special trust in the courage, conduct, loyalty, and good 
 affection of you, the said Viscount Montgomery, do by these presents, 
 nominate, constitute, and appoint you to be chiefe commander of the 
 army and all the forces, both horse and foote, in the province of 
 Ulster, in our Kingdom of Ireland, and of all townes, forts, and gar- 
 risons within the same ; Giving you hereby power and full authority 
 to command, order, and governe the same army and forces as com- 
 mander in chiefe, and to constitute and appoint by commission or 
 otherwise, all such officers as shall be from tyme to tyme necessary 
 for the command and conduct of said forces, townes, or forts, for our 
 
 service ; and to remove and displace the said officers as you shall find 
 necessary for our service to be removed from their respective com- 
 mands : As always to assure in our name all such as shall be willing 
 to return to their due obedience and allegiance to us, our free grace 
 and pardon for all that is past ; And accordingly to receive them into 
 our favour and protection : And wee further command and authorize 
 you to protect, secure, and defend to the utmost of your power, all 
 our Irish subjects, and all others within the said province of Ulster, 
 that are well-affected to us, and shall render us that duty and allegi- 
 ance that belongs to us as their King and Sovereign ; Authorizing 
 you further to doe and perform all such duties and services, and to 
 hold and enjoy all such rights and privileges as belong and nppertaine 
 to the office of a commander in chiefe : In the execution whereof, 
 and of this our Comission, you are to obey .ind pursue such orders 
 and directions as you shall from tyme to tyme receive from our right 
 trusty and right eiitirely beloved Cosen, James Marquis of Ormond, 
 our lieutenant general of the Kingdom of Ireland : 
 
 " Given under our signet at the Haghe, the 14th day of May, 1649, 
 and in the first yeare of our Raigne." 
 
 ^° Sir Lewis Dives. — Sir Lewis Dives, well known as 
 an active emissary of the royal party in England, was son 
 of sir John Dives of Bromham, in Bedfordshire. He was 
 living in 1668. Among the attractions of a noted gaming- 
 house in London, one was " to see some old gamesters 
 that have no money now to spend, as formerly, come, and 
 sit, and look on ; and, among others, sir Lewis Dives, who 
 was here, and hath been a great gamester in his time." — 
 Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Lord Braybrooke, vol. 
 iii., p. 338. 
 
 Hereafter spoken of. — The secret here mentioned re- 
 specting the commission appears to have oozed out sooner 
 than the author supposed. The presbyterians were well 
 acquainted with lord Montgomery's movements prior to 
 the final rupture consequent on his seizure of Belfast. 
 " In all this," says Adair, Na7-rative, p. 156, "the Lord of 
 Ards was the great contriver, director, and pattern, in his 
 own carnage carrying himself so fair and so friendly with 
 the Presbytery, and pretending concurrence in all the ends 
 to the covenant, as that few doubted his integrity, even 
 while, withal, he kept constant correspondence with 
 Ormond, who then commanded the King's forces in Ire- 
 land." The cause of Montgomery's temporary reticence 
 in the matter of his commission was, no doubt, a desire to 
 keep the king's party in Ulster as much and as long as 
 possible united. 
 
 Surprise of Carrickfergus. — This surprise was effected 
 by Monk when Robert Monro was seized and sent to 
 London. See p. 169, note 52, stiprn. The author here 
 enters into a detail of the events which afterwards led to 
 the expulsion of Monk from Ulster, but which he had not 
 mentioned in the preceding sketch. 
 
 A I 
 
I82 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Colo. Monk thus done, call'd a general council of war of all the Br'' Colo'. L'.-Colo". and Majors, 
 
 to meet at Lisnegarvy, his head quarters, in Oct"". 1648, to satisfy them of his doings, and to con- 
 sult with them of the future safety and proceedings; but, in truth, with design of sending over (as 
 appeared afterwards) more officers prisoners the same way.^3 Our Vise', (by advice of his imcle, 
 S. J. M.) and also the Earl of Clanbrassill (by like advice of his friends) stay'd at home upon their 
 guard against the like surprise, and wrote their several excuses, sending some field officers (well 
 cautioned and instructed) to represent, &c. for their respective regm'^. S' J. M. went out also to 
 find out what intrigues he could learn, telling his Ld. and nephew, he feared much of his being 
 snap'd, and undoubtedly believed his Lo^ the chiefest person aimed at, to be ensnared by his ap- 
 pearance (shou'd he be at that court-martial), and it was better himself shou'd venture his liberty 
 and life than his Lo^ and the King's cause shou'd suffer by any circumvention ags' his Lo^'' person; 
 and as it was guessed so it happened, for the court being sat, and the two lords' letters of excuses 
 read, S' J. M. speaking to the same purpose, was, by order of Colo. Monk, made prisoner, but he 
 giving Colo. Conway^^ and others bondsmen for his appearance before the Committee of Parliam* 
 sitting in Darby-house^s in London, he had leave to return home to settle his own and nephew 
 Savage,^^ of Portaferry's affairs, and to prepare for his journey. About the same time, S' Robert 
 Stewart (who kept the fort of Culmore, w*" commanded the passage by water to Derry) was trepan- 
 ned into a visit and christning of his friend's child in the town of Derry, and Colo. Audley Mervin 
 also was insiduously taken, and both of them sent by sea prisoners to England.^? So the mask fell 
 
 =3 Prisoners the same way.— "design" here ascribed 
 to Monk was no doubt to be carried out as the Author 
 mentions. Coote performed the same trick of catching 
 opponents, when off their guard, at Derrj'. The plan was 
 endently concerted between Monk and Coote. 
 
 ^ Colo. Conway. — While Monk remained at Dundalk, 
 to which place he had retreated from Lisbum, being driven 
 southward by viscount Montgomery, he wrote the foUow- 
 ino- letter to major George Rawdon, in which he deprecates 
 the contemplated journey of this colonel Conway to 
 London : — 
 
 << Sir,— I cannot understand that there is an urgent necessity' for 
 Colonel'Conway to go to England, since I am confident it will not be 
 so well construed ; and I doubt your quitting will not be so favourably 
 taken as if you had continued your command and kept all right. I 
 have written to Colonel Hill to take £ioo for his own use out of your 
 latter payment for your contract for mvalids. I am so engaged for 
 him that I will not be unmindful of this favour to me. What else I 
 thought not fit to commit to paper, I have acquainted Mr. Xorns 
 with it. Assuring you that I shall unfeignedly approve myself to be 
 vour affectionate friend and servant, 
 
 " Dundalk, this 6 of July, 1649. " George Monck. 
 
 " To his much esteemed good friend. Major George Rawdon, these 
 in Lisnagarvy." 
 
 —Rawdon Papers, p. 1 77. Colonel Hill, above-named, was 
 Arthur, younger son of sir Moses. See p. 161, supra. He 
 got 100, probably the same as mentioned in this letter, for 
 special service done by him, touching the forces and stores. 
 —Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, vok ii., p. 323. 
 Rawdon and Monk continued firm friends, and took counsel 
 together at various times, particularly respecting the restora- 
 tion of Charies II. Rawdon did not give his active 
 services to the Commonwealth, but lived in retirement 
 during that period.— Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, 
 voL iii., p. 103. 
 
 =5 III Darby House. — The committee of parliament was 
 dissolved on the 7 th of February, so that sir James must 
 have appeared before the celebrated Council oj State. The 
 meetings of its members were held for a time in Derby 
 House, situated in Cannon Row, betw-een the river and 
 the present Parliament street, which did not then 
 exist. King street serving the purpose of a thorough- 
 fare, between Whitehall and Westminster hall. The 
 following were the members of the first covmcil of state, 
 appointed by the parliament on the 13th of February, 
 1649: — Basil, earl of Denbeigh; Edmund, earl of Mul- 
 grave ; Philip, earl of Pembroke ; William, earl of Salis- 
 bury ; William, lord Grey of Werke ; Henry Rolle, chief 
 justice of the upper bench ; Oliver St. John, chief justice 
 of the common bench; John Wylde, chief baron of the 
 exchequer; John Bradshaw, serjeant-at-law; Thomas, 
 lord Fairfax ; Thomas, lord Grey of Groby ; Oliver Crom- 
 well ; Philip Skipton ; Henry Martin ; Isaac Pennington ; 
 sir Gilbert Pickering; Rowland Wilson; Anthony 
 Stapeley ; sir William Masham ; William Heveningham ; 
 Bulstrode \Miitelock ; sir Arthur Haselrig ; sir James 
 Harrington ; Robert Wallop ; John Hutchinson ; sir Henry 
 Vane, jun. ; Dennis Bond; Philip, lord Lisle; Alexander 
 Popham ; sir John Danvers ; sir William ArmjTie ; Valen- 
 t)-ne Wanton ; sir Henry Mi!dmay ; William Purefoy ; sir 
 William Constable; John Jones; John Lisle; Edmund 
 Ludlow ; Thomas Scott ; Cornelius Holland ; and Luke 
 Robinson; in all, forty-one members. See Bissett's 
 Omitted Chapters of the History of England, pp. 24, 37, 40. 
 
 ^ Nephrui Savage. — This was Hugh Savage, son of 
 Patrick Savage and Jean, yoimger daughter of the first 
 viscount Montgomery. 
 
 Prisoners to England. — These distinguished royalists 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 183 
 
 off Monk's face, and our Vise', with the Earl of Clanbrazil,^^ were upon their guard still, and the 
 Laggan forces,^? headed by S' Alex'' Stewart,3° Bart, (who sided with the Covenanters) was also 
 upon his guard, having a strong party out of S' Robert Stewart's and Colo. Mervin's reg*'- joining 
 him, for it now plainly appeared that Colo. Monk wou'd not tests' at his breaking the Scotch reg*'. 
 who were born in Scotland, but (if he cou'd) he w** also discard all the Br'' officers and soldiers of 
 Scotish race, tho' born and bred in Ireland ; which, therefore, made them cleave together the more 
 (especially having renewed the covenant) both there and here. 
 
 There had long ago been great animosities betw" the families of Ardes and Claneboys, by reason 
 of the lawsuits which the first had against the latter; and the occasions of them (tho' partly removed 
 before A°. 1639,3^) was not fully taken away as yet; but a cessation began A°. 1641, when Dan', 
 O'Neil gave the s"' disturbance ags* them both, and then those animosities were laid in a deep sleep 
 by the Irish rebellion and the deaths of our 2d Vise'- and of the first Lord Claneboys, for inter arma 
 sikfit leges. 
 
 The hardships, also, w*" our third Vise'- and the first Earle of Clanbrassill were now like to 
 undergo from Monk, and which they actually and jointly suffered from the usurpers, who aimed at 
 the total destruction of both their families, had totally mortified and burryed those differences be- 
 tween those interwoven neighbours, and had made them good friends as they were fellow-sufferers 
 in one cause; so that the last two named Lords often met on divers affairs, both publicly and pri- 
 vately, eat and drank together, without jealousy or grudging to one another. 
 
 It happened in the time when consultation and strict union was most needful ags' Monk, that 
 the Earl of Clanbrazil stayed with our Visct. all night in Newtown-house; the Earle had taken 
 medicine eno"" against fleabitings,34 but (as the story goes) was abused or rather afTtronf^' by a spirit 
 
 were seized by order of sir Charles Coote, in October, 
 1648, when in the house of a friend in Derry, where they 
 had gone to be present at the baptism of his cliild. They 
 were sent after Monro to London, and imprisoned in the 
 tower. — Lodge's Peerage, edited by Arclidall, vol. vi., 
 p. 244. See note 23, supra. 
 
 Earl of Clanbrazil. — This was James Hamilton, 
 eldest son of James, first viscount Clandeboy, and Anne, 
 daughter and heir of sir John Perrot, lord -deputy of Ire- 
 land. He was created earl of Clanbrasil in 1 647. 
 
 ^' Laggan forces. — The word Lagan, a "hollow," is 
 applied to various places throughout Ireland, but the 
 district here referred to lay between lough Fojde and 
 lough Swilly. It was anciently known as Tir-Enna, and 
 is described in Colgan's Acta SS. as "in Tir-Conallia 
 inter duo maris brachia, nempe inter sinum Loch Febhiiil 
 et sinum de Stcilech." See Reeves, Eccles. Antiquities, 
 p. 245. This district, known in modern days as the 
 Lagan, is frequently mentioned in connexion with the 
 Scottish settlements in Ulster in the seventeenth century. 
 See Adair's True Narrative, pp, 87, 129, 137, 148, 
 149, 276. 
 
 3° Sir AlexT. Steiuarf. — Sir Alexander Stewart was 
 eldest son of sir William Stewart of Aughentean and 
 Newtownstewart, by his wife Frances, second daughter of 
 sir Robert Newcomen of Mosstown, county of Longford. 
 Sir Alexander was, therefore, uncle to our author, 
 
 William Montgomery. Unlike his father and uncle, he 
 appears to have been always consistently for the covenant. 
 On the failure of tliis movement in wliich he was engaged, 
 at the head of the Lagan presbyterians, he went to Scot- 
 land, and was slain at the battle of Dunbar, in 1650. He 
 married Catherine Newcomen, his cousin, whose mother 
 was a grand-niece of Queen Elizabeth. His son, William, 
 who was born six weeks after his father's death, succeeded 
 to the vast estates of his grandfather, and became viscount 
 Mountjoy. — Lodge, Peerage of Ii-eland, edited by Arch- 
 dall, vol. vi., pp.247, 248. Adair describes sir Alexander 
 Stewart as " a gentleman of great integrity, and fervent 
 in propagating the gospel interest in the districts around 
 Deny." — True Narrative, p. 158. 
 3' Test. — Misprint for rest. 
 
 3^ Before A". 1639. — The articles of agreement, drawn 
 up in 1633, were not signed by the viscounts Ards and 
 Clannaboy until 1636. See pp. 79, 81, supra. 
 
 33 Silent leges. — The dissensions between these families 
 were not finally laid asleep until tlae deaths of the second 
 viscount Montgomery in 1642, and of the first viscount 
 Clannaboy in 1643. 
 
 34 Against fleabitings. — This is another way of saying 
 that the earl had made himself proof, for the time, against 
 the minor griefs and annoyances of life, if not indeed 
 " o'er all the ills of life victorious. " The iemv feabi/ing 
 was often used to denote slight hurts or pains, as di's. 
 
i84 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 (they call them 'Brooneys' in Scotlandss), and there was one of them in the appearance of an hairy 
 man which hanted Dunskey castle a little before our first Vise*- bo^ it and Portpatrick lands from 
 S"' Robt. Adair, Kn* ) ; which spirit was not seen in any shape, or to make a noise, or play tricks, 
 during any of our Lords' times. But it pleased his devilship (that night very artificially) to tear off 
 the Earle of Clanbrazill's Holland shirt from his body, without disturbing his rest; only left on his 
 Lo^*- the wristbands of his sleeves and the collar of the shirt's neck, as they were tyed with ribband 
 when he went to bed. The Earle awaking, found himself robbed of his shirt, and lay as close as an 
 hare in her form, till Mr. Hanss^ (afterwards Hans Hamilton) thinking his Lo^ had lain and slept 
 long enough to digest his histerniim crapidum, knocked at the door, and his Lo^ calling him, he went 
 in, and his Lo^ showing him his condition, prayed one of his shirts to relieve him in that extremity, 
 bidding him shut the door after him, and to discharge servants to come at him 'til after his return; 
 and having put on the shirt w'' he was to bring him, his Lo^ s'^, "Cozen Hans, I ^v^ rather £,\qo 
 
 tinguislied from serious evils. An illustration is found in 
 Strype's Memorials of Queen Alary, anno 1555 : — " Win- 
 chester replied to this with seemingly much satisfaction, 
 how himself was arrived at that haven of quietness with- 
 out loss of any notable tackle, as the mariners say, which 
 he said was a great matter, as the winds had blown, and 
 with little Jlcabithig conveyed to an easy estate." Burton, 
 Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 13, says: — "That which is 
 but a fleabiting to one causeth insufferable tonnent to 
 others. " Bishop Hall, in his Contemplations, exclaims : — 
 "What fleabiti?ir^s the^e, in comparison of those inward 
 torments." And Hervey, in his Meditations, asserts that 
 " a gout, a cholick, a cutting off an arm or leg, or searing 
 the flesh, are but fleahites to the pain of the soul." See 
 Johnson's and Richardson's Dictionaries. 
 
 35 Brooneys in Scotland. — The Brooney or Brownie is 
 a thoroughly Scottish hob-goblin, and was not known in 
 Ulster prior to the plantation period. Just about the time 
 at which the greatest number of Scottish settlers were 
 coming to Ulster, their king (James I) had published his 
 Dcemonology, in which he proclaimed that "the spirit 
 called brownie appeared like a rough man, and haunted 
 divers houses, without doing any evill, but doing as it 
 were necessarie turnes up and downe the house ; yet some 
 were so blinded as to beleeve that their house was all the 
 sonsier, as they called it, that such spirits resorted there." 
 In Martin's Description of the IFestern /stands of Scotland, 
 p. 334, we read that "a spirit, by the counti-y people 
 called brownie, was frequently seen in all the most con- 
 siderable families of these Isles and north of Scotland, in 
 the shape of a tall man ; but within these twenty or thirty 
 years past he is but rarely seen." Again, at page 391 : — 
 "It is not long since every family of any considerable 
 substance in those islands was haunted by a spirit they 
 called bro\TOy, which did several sorts of work ; and this 
 was the reason why they gave him offerings of the various 
 products of the place. Thus, some, when they churned 
 their milk, or brewed, poured some milk and wort through 
 the hole of a stone, called browny's stone." In Heron's 
 Journey through part of Scotla7id (1799), vol. ii. , p. 227, 
 we have the following: — "The Brownie was a very 
 obliging spirit, who used to come into houses by night, 
 and for a dish of cream, to perform lustily any piece of 
 work that might remain to be done : sometimes he would 
 
 work, and sometimes eat till he bursted : if old clothes 
 were laid out for him, he took them in great distress, and 
 never more returned. " See 'S>'C^Xi6l!% Popular Antiquities, 
 pp. 2S4, 285. 
 
 3' Mr. Hans. — Mr. Hans was eldest son of John 
 Hamilton, fourth brother of the first viscount Clanna- 
 boy, and, therefore, cousin-german of the first earl of 
 Clanbrassil. Of this Hans, afterwards sir Hans Hamil- 
 ton, the writer of the Hamilton Martuscripts szys : — " His 
 years and parts early promoted him to be a captain of 
 horse ; as in progress of time he became lieut -colonel, he 
 joined with the earl of Clanbrassill, in Ormond's associa- 
 tion. That war being ended, he married Magdalen 
 Trevor, daughter of sir Edward Trevor, and by her had 
 some children, whereof only his daughter Sarah came to 
 maturity. His business then being to improve and plant 
 his estate, lying mostly in the upper coimtry ; and, by 
 reason of his very good natural and acquired parts, and 
 justice to the king's interest and family, after king Charles 
 II. his restoration, was knighted and made bart, and 
 afterwards one of his majesties pri\y coimcil in Ireland, 
 and was very much entrusted by the government in the 
 oversight of the upper country ; died of a good age, in 
 great esteem, and generally much bewailed ; lyes in the 
 tomb with his father, mother, lady, and daughter. He 
 was guilty of great errors — whereof afterwards. 
 His estate being much burthened, his disposition to live 
 high, and aim to purchase great things, occasioned many 
 to think (as a gent, of his neighbourhood and great 
 acquaintance once sayd) that ' Sir Hans Hamilton was 
 never so honest as Hans Hamilton by half.' He was un- 
 fortunate in that his daughter married contrary to his 
 disposition, and the measures he had proposed to himself. 
 He fell at last in great variance with his nearest friends, 
 and affliction by the death of his lady and daughter ; went 
 to Dublin, with design, and it is believed, to do some- 
 thing that was great for his family against his friends, but 
 failed of it, and died in the enterprise, but did not perform 
 it." — Hamilton Manuscripts, edited by T. K. Lowiy, esq., 
 p. So. Sir Hans Hamilton's estates lay at Monella (now 
 Hamilton's Bawn), in the county of Armagh, and at 
 Coronar}', in the county of Cavan, which gave the owner 
 an influence in what the writer of the Hamilton Alanw 
 scripts terms the "upper country." 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 than my brothers Mont"' of Ardes shou'd hear of this adventure, and therefore conceal it;" w'' was 
 done till his Lo"" was three miles off. But the further mishap was, that Mr. Hamilton had no shirt 
 clean but an Holland half shirt, that being then in fashion to be worn above the night shirts, w'' did 
 not reach his Lo''"' navel; but having got on his breeches and doublit, with Mr. Hamilton's help 
 (for his Lof was excessively fatt) his servants were let in and dressed him. ; and his Lo'' having 
 called for the chamber-pot, (now called in taverns a looking-glass, for reasons I know) his Lop 
 found his shirt admirably wrapt up and stuffed therein; but his servants were enjoyned 
 silence, and his Lo^ came to the parlour, where his brother, the Ld. of Ardes (as he called him) 
 attended his Lo^. They took a morning draught and dined; after which his Lo'' went to Carna- 
 seure, near Comer, the habitation of one of his Capt's. and cousin's, called also, Hans Hamilton,^? 
 and telling him his misadventure, had a long shirt, which he put on, and so went to his Countess at 
 Killileagh. All I shall remark on this event is, that I presume to think that his Lo'' would not for 
 the hundred pounds he spoke of have stayed another night (tho' he was heartily entreated), for he 
 understood not broony's manner of fighting, tho' himself had learned in France to fence with a cd, cct, 
 et lepour pont bas:'^^ as (himself did often say) he was taught and did in his travels. 
 
 I have inserted this story because but very lately told me by Mrs. Savage,39 in Newtown, whose 
 first husband was the s* Capt. Hans Hamilton, and because it is the first and last time I ever heard 
 of a browney in any Montgomery's house, tho' in S' Ninian Adair's time and his son's, one of them 
 haunted his house of Dunsky.'io Therefore I proceed in my narrative. 
 
 37 Also Hans •Hamilton. — Hans Hamilton of Carna- 
 seure was third son of William Hamilton, the fifth brother 
 of the first viscount Clannahoy, and therefore also cousin- 
 german of the first earl of Clanbrassil. Of this Hans, the 
 writer of the Hamilton Manuscripts says : — " He was ad- 
 vanced to be a captain of foot, and very active in his 
 station. After the war was over, he married Mary 
 Kennedy, daughter of Mr. Kennedy of Killeni (near 
 Newtownards), and had three children that came to 
 maturity, viz., James, Jane, and Ursula. He became a 
 very industrious and useful man both to his family and 
 country ; lived well, and died much lamented ; was 
 creditably buried at Holywood, leaving his children very 
 young." — Hamilton Manuscripts, p. 8l. This gentleman 
 died in 1656, and, by his request, was interred in his 
 father's tomb. — Lodge's Peei-age, edited by Archdall, vol. 
 hi., p. 7. 
 
 3' Four pont das. — Pour pont is a misprint for Pourpouit. 
 This phrase may be translated — " Now then, off with, or 
 down with, your coat." The Dictionary of the French 
 Academy defines pourpoint as "la partie de I'ancien 
 habillement frangais qui couvrait le corps depuis cou 
 jusque vers la ceinture. " Major-general Robert Monro, 
 in his account of the Expedition to Denmark, 1626 
 (p. 168, supra), describes the soldiers of Wallenstine as 
 attacking the Danes and Scots at Stralsund with the 
 charging cry of sa (5a), sa, sa, sa. — Mackay's History of 
 the House and Clan of Mackay, p. 231. 
 
 39 Mrs. Savage.- — This lady was Mary Kennedy, a 
 member of the respectable family of that surname, residing 
 at Killearne, near Newtown, in the Ards. Her first 
 husband was Hans Hamilton of Carnaseure, near 
 Comber. See note 37, supra. She died in May, 
 
 1713-14, and was interred on the 26th of that month, 
 as appears from an entry in a Register kept by the 
 First Presbyterian Congregation of Belfast for the loan of 
 mort cloths and mourning cloaks at funerals. This Regis- 
 ter is a curious and interesting document, extending over 
 twenty-four years, from 1712 to 1736, and containing a 
 list of 2,000 funerals, with the names of the deceased, the 
 dates of interment, the palls, and the number of cloaks 
 let out on each occasion. It is now in the possession 
 of the Rev. Classon Porter of Larne, who, we are glad 
 to know, is likely to have it printed. The following is 
 the entry in which the name of Mrs. Savage occurs :-- 
 "May 26, 1713-14. Mrs. Savage in Newtoun her 
 Funerall per Mr. Jno. Shadges. To six clockes at 3s. 
 per clocke — 18s." 
 
 "■^ House of Dunsky. — For the story of a famous Wig- 
 tonshire Brownie, see Scottish Journal of Topography, 
 vol. ii., p. 235. Every one has heard of the Brownie of 
 Bodsbeck, in Ettrick, who left his employment there 
 about a century ago, on being offered clothing and food in 
 return for his sei-vices. To this considerate offer he 
 replied : — 
 
 " Gie brownie coat, gie brownie sark, 
 Ye'se get nae mair o' brownie's wark !" 
 Ca', brownie, ca', 
 
 A' the luck o* Bodsbeck's awa' to Leithenha'." 
 The luck of Bodsbeck appears to have been accordingly 
 transferred to a farm-house in the vicinity, called Leithen- 
 hall. — Chambers's Popular Rhymes 0/ Scotland, p. 33. 
 Campbell, in his Popular Tales of the IVest Highlajids 
 orally Collected, vol. ii., p. loi, says : — "My belief is, that 
 bocan, bodach, fuath, and all their tribe, were once 
 savages, dressed in skins, and that gruagach was a half« 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 You have heard of S' Jas. Monf. his going to the Committee of Darby-house;'*' he met with 
 Colo. Mervin there, both of them being sent before any pubP breach or rupture of friendship was 
 made by our British reg''- towards Colo. Monk. They appearing (as bound to do) found friends, 
 who got them leave to return home ; and you may be sure they did not procrastnate their depar- 
 ture, lest advice from Monk of the fermentation arising from his late actions, and the likelihood of 
 rupture between the Presbeterians and him, should occasion their restraint; and therefore they rode 
 post haste to Scotland, and seeing things therein genrl? tending to an agreement for the calling home 
 our King, they came (with all expedition they could make) to Newtown (where I saw them both), 
 and they found affairs were soon ready to proclaim the King, w*" was done as afores"^<^ 
 
 What our Visct's particular conduct was afterwards I cannot tell, for want of the perusal of his 
 papers, and lacking some older than myself to assist me in the relation thereof; for I was then a 
 boy at school, and was glad when I saw my father and Colo. Mervin returned \vith life, Hmbs and 
 liberty safe. Yet I remember to see great clutter of mustering and exercising of armed men at 
 Newtown; and my father, S' Ja'- Montg''- going often to our Vise' and many officers also resorting 
 thither, and the King and Colo. Monk was in every man's mouth almost every minute. '♦s 
 
 The sum of my knowledge of affairs about this time is, that our Vise' rendezvouzed his forces, 
 marched to Lisburn, that Monk retired to Dundalk;** that then his Lo^ had Carrickfergus surrend* 
 
 tamed savage hanging about the houses, with his long hair 
 and skin clothing ; that these have gradually acquired the 
 attributes of divinities, river gods, or forest nymphs, or 
 that they have been condemned as pagan superstitions, and 
 degraded into demons ; and I know that they are now re- 
 membered, and still .somewhat dreaded in their last cha- 
 racter. The tales told of them partake of the natural 
 and supernatural, and bring fiction nearer to fact than any 
 class of tales current in the Highlands unless it be the 
 fairy stories." At vol. i. , p. 23, the word gniagach is 
 said to denote generally a female or maiden brownie. 
 Armstrong's Dictionary defines it as meaning " A female 
 spectre of the class of brownies, to which the Highland 
 dairy-maids made frequent libations of milk." Campbell's 
 belief as to these hobgoblins is reasonable enough, but 
 he should have explained who vi^ere the civilized people at 
 the period when brownies, et hoc omne genus, were the 
 savages. 
 
 ^' Darby house. — See note 25, supra. 
 
 *^ Done as aforesaid. — See p. 68, supra. 
 
 *3 Every minute. — The reader may see a somewhat de- 
 tailed account of this meeting at Newtown in Adair's 
 True Narrative, p. 160. The following were among the 
 principal British officers who attended it — viz. , Clanbrassil, 
 Montgomery, Hugh Cochrane, James Wallace, J. Camp- 
 bell, Colin Maxwell, Richard Kilgore, Fergus Kennedy, 
 Geo. Keith, Hans Hamilton, and Geo. Ross. — Reid's 
 Listory, vol. ii., pp. 96, 97. The following letter, refer- 
 ring to a later meeting at Newtown, after the nipture with 
 the presbyterians, proves how interested the Scottish 
 people must have felt in the movements of parties in 
 Ulster at that important crisis. The letter was written by 
 lady Anna Montgomerie, a daughter of the sixth earl of 
 Eglinton, to her stepmother, and dated Eglintoune, the 
 2 1 St of August, 1649 : — 
 
 " Peir Madame, — Haueing the ocasione of this beirer, I woUd 
 
 not omit to shoue your ladyship that all your ladyship's freinds heir 
 ar in good healthe ; and it shall be great contentment to us to heir the 
 leyk of your ladyship, which shall be much wished for by me. There 
 is no leat noues from Irland, bot suche as I doubt not bot Mr. Gilbert 
 Ramsey has shouen your ladyship in his letre ; onlly we heir that 
 yesterday my lord Earde, and George Monroe, and sir Robert 
 Stouart was to have had a counsell of warr at Nouetoune, to sei what 
 course they should tak with the contrie, and to setell all doueisiones 
 amoingest themselves. This being all I will trubell your ladyship 
 with at this tyme, bot that I am ever, madam, your ladyshie's affec- 
 tionate doghter and serueant, 
 
 "Anna Montgomerie. 
 " Madam, recave Mr. Gilbert Ramsay's letre from the beirer." 
 
 The lady to whom the above was written was Margaret 
 (or, as she signed herself, Maj-gireift,) Scott, the second 
 countess of the sixth earl. She was a daughter of Walter, 
 first lord Scott of Buccleuch. She had been first married to 
 James, sixth lord Ross, but left no family by either of her 
 husbands. She died at Hull, where the earl of Eglinton 
 was imprisoned in 1 65 1. She was a pious lady, and had 
 a great horror of witches. Writing to the earl from Edin- 
 burgh, in 1650, on the eve of a great witch trial there, she 
 says: — "God Almightie .send a good tiyell of all the 
 witchies, and send them a hotte fyre to burn them with." 
 —Eraser, Alemorials, vol. i., pp. 295, 296. Mr. Gilbert 
 Ramsay, whose letter had been forwarded to the countess 
 from Eglinton, was the presbyterian minister of Bangor, 
 county of Downi, who was, with others of his brethren, 
 afterwards imprisoned in Carlingford castle for alleged 
 complicity in Blood's plot. 
 
 « Retired to Dundalk. — "The want of the perusal" of 
 viscount Montgomery's papers could only account for the 
 author's omission here to record the manner in which his 
 lordship got possession of Belfast— a proceeding which 
 has drawn down upon his devoted head such a large 
 amount of virulent criticism from presbyterian writers. 
 See Adair's True Narrative, pp. 167-172; M'Bride's 
 Sample of Jet Black Prelatic Calumny, p. 192; Reid's 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 187 
 
 to hirn,^s and then his Lo"" marched to Colerain, w"" was deserted of Monk, and so went to London- 
 
 History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. ii., pp. 1 10-122. 
 In 1643, Robert Monro, in the interest of the parliament 
 and the covenanters, seized Belfast by a coup de main 
 from the royalists, and held it (in violation of the original 
 regulations with the Scottish forces) until June, 1649. 
 At the latter date, lord Montgomery retook lielfast from 
 the presbyterian party, with whom he found he could no 
 longer act for the restoration of the king. Curiously 
 enough, several papers preserved by viscount Montgomery 
 in connexion with this affair were discovered not long since 
 among other family documents at Donaghadee. These 
 papers will be found in Appendix K. 
 
 ^5 Carrickfergiis surrendd to him. — After taking pos- 
 possession of Belfast, viscount Montgomery employed his 
 own forces in seizing the town of Antrim, which had been 
 held for the presbyterians by captain Francis Ellis, whilst 
 he sent forward sir Geo. Monro to invest Carrickfergus. 
 Several officers, influenced by their attachment to presby- 
 terianism, refused to acquiesce in lord Montgomery's views, 
 and delayed in the surrender of Carrickfergus to C^orge 
 Monro. Whenthecommander-in-chief hadsecured Antrim, 
 he immediately proceeded to unite his force with that of 
 Monro, and addressed the following letter (now printed for 
 the first time) to major Ellis and other officers who held the 
 garrison in that town : — ■ 
 
 " From the leagure at Wood-burne, the second day of July, 1649. 
 " By the Right hoiiWe The lord Viscount Montgomery of Ardes, 
 Comander m chiefe of the Province of Ulster. 
 
 "Whereas, I have by tuo severall letters formerly giuen you notice 
 of the power comitted unto mee by his Maties Comission to comand 
 all the forces, forts, and garisons within this Province, and to dispose 
 of the same as I shall see most for the advantage of his ma^iea service, 
 and did likewise shew the said Comission unto you the Go\ ernor of 
 that garrison, and required present obedience according to the tenor 
 thereof : In expectation and hopes whereof I haue attended here 
 severall tymes, labouring by all amicable wayes to procure the same, 
 being most ready and willing to give all just satisfaction to what 
 reasonable & fitting demaundes (not prejudiciall to his MaU«s ser- 
 vice) should be by you tendered unto me, The which together with . 
 yo'' resolution was pemptorily promised this day by nyne of the clocke 
 in the fore noone : But finding yet nothing but delayes, whereby the 
 countrie & good subjects hereabout are much ruined and his Maties 
 service prejudiced, I haue thought fit, and doe hereby require you 
 without further delay to deliuer up the said garison to be disposed of 
 by mee, as I shall see most for the advantage of his Ma^i^^s service, 
 according to the power given unto mee by his Maites Comission 
 aforesaid. Whereof if you faile, or make any longer delay, These 
 shall beare witnes that what soever evill, mischiefe or hurt shall fol- 
 low hereupon, either unto that garison or this Countrie about, shall 
 all lye upon yo' score, and I be freed of the same. 
 
 " MONTGOMERIE. 
 
 "To Major Ellis, Major Coghran, and 
 the rest of the officers comanding 
 the toune and Castle of Carrickfergus. 
 " Command to the officers of Carrickfergus for rendring that garison 
 & that Castle. 
 " 2 July, 1649." 
 
 — Carte MSS. vol. xxv., fol 15. Carrickfergus was sur- 
 rendered to lord Montgomery and George Monro on the 
 3rd of July, and formally taken possession of in the in- 
 terests of the royalist party. The reader may see the very 
 lengthened terms of surrender in M'Skimin's History of 
 Carrickfergus, at pp. 379, 380, entitled '''■Articles agreed 
 and concluded by and betiveen the Right Honourable Hugh, 
 Lord- Viscount Montgomery of the Ards, on the one part, for 
 and ill the behalf of all parts of the army within the province 
 of Ulster, that either are, or hereafter shall be, joined under 
 his command; and Major Ellis, governor of Carrickfergus; 
 
 Alajor Cochran, governor of the Castle; and the rest of the 
 Officers -within the said town and castle; together with the 
 mayor, burgesses, aldermen, and commoners of the other part, 
 the^thdayofyttly, 1649." These articles were signed by 
 Edmond Ellis, Brice Cochran, Henry Clements, Robert 
 Hannay, Edward Ferguson, and Samuel .Stewart. — See 
 Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. ii., p. 1 18, 
 note. On the same day, viscount Montgomery published 
 the following declaration, which has been recently found 
 among the family papers preserved at Donaghadee. It was 
 printed in M 'Bride's Sample of Jet-Black Prelatic Calumny, 
 P- 193:— 
 
 " The declaration of the Right honb'e Hugh, Lord Viscount Mont- 
 gomery of the Ardes. 
 
 " The King, our most hopeful! and undoubted Soveraigne, having 
 lately, by his gracious and ample commission, been pleased to appoint 
 me Comander in Chiefe of all the forces within this Province of 
 Ulster (a charge as little expected as deserved by mee), I doe foresee 
 (& already have great cause to believe) that I shall thereby become 
 a butt & marke whereat all those whose judgements and affections 
 are byassed either by envy, malice, or ignorance, will shoot their 
 sharpes arrowes, and that even this hono^& authority, wherewith his 
 Ma'' has beene pleased to cloath mee, and which (untill these worst 
 of tymes, in all places wheresoever either Religion or Civility were 
 professed & practised, did not only protect men from injuries, but 
 procured respect and obedience unto them) is now (in the opinions 
 of some mis-led or mis-taken people) become a sufficient ground to 
 load even men of bono'' and integrity with all the reproaches and 
 injuries which distempered braines can invent, loose tongues utter, 
 or rash hands act, yet I conceive that it is my duety (as farre as ia 
 me lyethj to prevent these mischiefes ; And therefore, and for the 
 satisfaction, as well as of all moderate, well-affected, and loyal sub- 
 jects, as for my owne vindication, I have thought fit and necessary 
 to publish to the world, and (in the sight and presence of God, the 
 searcher of hearts) to declare that neither thirst of Comand nor 
 ambitious desire of preferment did move mee directly or indirectly to 
 solicite or any wayes seeke after that authority or Comand now con- 
 ferred upon mee. The delivery of his Mati'n comission into my hands 
 being the first intimation I had of his royall and gracious intentions 
 towards me : and truely the knowledge of my owne inabilities for so 
 eminent an employment had prevailed with mee to return his Maties 
 humble thanks for so great and undeserved a favo'' without acting 
 any thing thereupon. But that when I did consider how this poore 
 countrie was so pitifully racked and torne asunder by diverse fac- 
 tions ; some actively plotting and labouring to in-slave us to the 
 lawless power of the sectarian Army in England & their adherents, 
 wherein they so closely and wittily pursued their wicked intentions 
 that my owne person (who they conceived did most obstruct their de- 
 signs) was not any wise secure from their treacherous plotts : Others 
 not much interested in this kingdome (preferring their owne opinions 
 or ends to security or peace thereof) laboured to make us run in ab- 
 solute opposition, as well to the King's party as to the other, so that 
 wee could not possibly evite ruin from one of both, wee thus exposing 
 ourselves to the fury of both, and being in such indigency and want 
 as that we were altogether unable to raise meanes for defending our- 
 selves by sea or land against either. 
 
 " And having likewise found to our cost that (since the late distrac- 
 tions happened amongst us) all our consultations and transactions by 
 comittees for the better managing of our affairs either in relation to 
 the countrie or Army, did produce nothing but confusions and di- 
 visions more and more every day amongst us. 
 
 " And now likewise perceiving that by the coming of sir George 
 Monro into this countrie, the King's interest (as not sufficiently se- 
 cured in our garisons & quarters) began to be pressed upon us by 
 strangers, I did conceive it high lyme for mee to make use of his 
 Matios comission, as well in discharge of my duty to him, as for the 
 preventing this poore countrie to be swallowed up in that deluge of 
 miseries which the condensed clouds of divisions within, & the power 
 and malice of enemies without, upon all hands did visibly and sud- 
 denly threatten it with. 
 
 " 13ut least any should feare Religion may hereby be prejudged 
 (though I conceive my constant practices might (if well pondered) 
 resolve any such doubt.sl, I doe in the presence of God protest I shall 
 use my uttermost endeavours, whilest I am trusted with power to 
 countenance & assist the exercise of our Religion in this Province as 
 it is now practised : And likewise (as I have good grounds to hope 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 deny to visit Sr. Cha'. Coote*^ in his garrison, where his Lo" joyned Sr Alex. Stewart with his Lagan 
 forces^? (so they were called who quartered in those north-west parts of Ulster), and Colo. Mervin 
 came with his reg"'. and then they encamped before the town and straitned it. Sr. Chas. rose 
 strong in it; he had good men and store of provisions and ammunition, for Monck and he had put 
 up stores therein ags' a siege, and expected supplies from England, and had got Culmore to their 
 
 with successe) shall solicit his Matie for a confirmation thereof under 
 his o\vne hand. 
 
 "And I doe further declare that no man either in the countrie or 
 Army shall be pressed with any new oathes whatsoever, being suffi- 
 ciently confirmed by dayly experience that where the sense of duety 
 doth not bind oaths will not. And likewise that I shall never make 
 use of that authority wherewith his Matie has beene pleased to im- 
 power mee to the prejudice of any man either in his hono*", property, 
 or other interest ; nor ever make any national distinction of persons, 
 But shall (by God's assistance) to the uttermost of my power, with 
 equal care and respect, protect, countenance, & advance every honest 
 man as his affections & forwardness for the advancement of his Maties 
 service, shall witness his loyalty. 
 
 " And lastly, in regard I am very sensible that this party who has 
 lately come amongst us is a burden greater then this countrie (with- 
 out rulne; can lye under, I doe declare that soe soon as submission 
 & obedience shall be given unto that authority Iiis Matie has put into 
 my hands, I shall not onely thereupon procure the removeall of such 
 strangers as are now amongst (us). But likewise (with God's helpe) so 
 order the forces of this Province, for the good of his Mattes service, 
 as that the like disturbances may hereafter be prevented, and all his 
 Matiea Protestant subjects secured as well in the profession & practise 
 of Religion as their temporal estates. If I find not obstructions from 
 those who in duty are most bound to assist mee. And therefore I doe 
 hereby pray and require all well-affected and loyall subjects as they 
 render the glory of God in the preservation of Religion in its purity 
 amongst us, the hono'' and happyress of his Matie, our undoubted & 
 lawfuU soveraigne, now banished & debarred from his throne by the 
 power & practice of these wicked men, who have likewise overturned 
 government both civill and ecclesiastick in other his dominions, and 
 goe about to dos the like in this, which is now the qua'Tell in dispute, 
 and as they wish the particular safety and well being of every one of 
 us in what els is most neare and dcare unto us to give cheerfuU & ready 
 obedience unto his Matiea comission granted unto mee, and to concurre 
 & assist mee, in the e.xecution of the same, as I shall find the exigency 
 of affairs from tyme to tyme to require the (y^) same ; otherwise I 
 take God to witnes that If I be compelled to procure by force that 
 obedience which every good subject is bound by his alledgeance to 
 render willingly, I am free of all the sad consequences & evills that 
 may follow yereupon. Given under my hand the 4th day of July, 
 1649." 
 
 Sir Chas. Coote. — This sir Charles Coote's father 
 came originally to Ireland from Eaton, in Norfolk, and 
 served as a captain in the forces operating against Hugh 
 O'Neill. For his faithful services, the elder sir Charles 
 Coote vi'as appointed provost-marshal of Connaught in 
 1606, and vice-president of Connaught in 1620. His princi- 
 pal residence was Castle-Cuffe, in Queen's county, but he 
 owned estates also in King's county, and in the counties 
 of Leitrim, Cavan, Roscommon, and Sligo. On the break- 
 ing out of the rebellion in 1641, his vast accumulations of 
 property in manufactures, chattels, and stock on his estates, 
 were swept away by the insurgent Irish, and he himself was 
 suiTOunded and slain by the rebels, at Trim, in the month 
 of May, 1642. His son, the second sir Charles, mentioned 
 in the text, distinguished himself as a military leader in 
 assisting to suppress the rebellion. He afterwards became 
 a great parliamentai^ general, and served the common- 
 wealth faithfully until the death of Cromwell. In 1660, 
 he assisted zealously in the restoration of Charles II., and 
 was rewarded in the following year, by being created earl 
 of Mountrath. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by 
 Archdall, vol. ii., pp. 71 — 76. Coote was charged on 
 more than one occasion with cold-blooded cruelty towards 
 
 the Irish. The yournal kept by colonel Henry M'TiJly 
 O'Neill, from 1641 to 1650, concludes with the following 
 account of a diabolical act perjietrated by him : — " When 
 quarters were given to several of the Irish officers, and in 
 particular to my grandfather, he and sir Charles Coote 
 came to terms about his ransom, and it was agreed between 
 them that my grandfather, on procuring one hundred 
 beeves from his friends, to be delivered to sir Charles, 
 should have his life spared, and be set at liberty ; and for 
 that purpose he was drawing articles to be executed be- 
 tween sir Charles and him, when a sergeant came into sir 
 Charles's tent the next day after the action, with an account 
 of his having brought colonel Henry Roe O'Neill, general 
 Owen O'Neill's son, prisoner. Without more ado, sir 
 Charles reprimanded the sergeant for not bringing his 
 head, and commanded him to go and despatch him im- 
 mediately, whereupon the pen dropped out of my grand- 
 father's hand, and accosting sir Charles in favour of his 
 relation, pleaded in his behalf, his being a Spaniard bom, 
 and that he came here as a soldier of fortune; and hoped 
 for those considerations, he would not suffer his orders to 
 be put into execution. But all would not do ; the orders 
 were executed, sir Charles telling my grandfather that 
 if he began to prate he would be served the same way. 
 My grandfather being touched with the usage his kinsmen 
 received, replied ' that he would rather be ser\'ed so than 
 owe his life to such a monstrous villain as he was.' 
 Whereupon he ordered him fortwith to be carried out and 
 knocked on the head with tent poles, by sir Charles's 
 men, which being observed by one of sir Charles's officers 
 that was coming towards the tent, he asked the soldiers what 
 they meant by using the gentleman so, and they replying 
 it was by the general's orders, the officer, in compassion 
 to him, and to put him out of pain, drew his sword and 
 ran him thro' the heart ; and both his and Henrj' Roe's 
 heads were cut off and put up in Derry. So far had they 
 the honour to imitate the death of their king who was most 
 barbarously murthered the }'ear before." — Desiderata 
 Cnriosa Hiberiiica, vol. ii., pp. 527, 528. The ill-fated 
 Henry Roe O'Neill mentioned in the foregoing extract was 
 married to the daughter of sir Luke Fitzgerald, and had 
 been taken prisoner by Coote on the field of Scarriff hollis, 
 near Letterkenny, about eight months after the death of 
 his father, Owen Roe O'Neill. It is generally believed 
 that Henry Roe had been tried by a court-martial at Derry, 
 but whether or no, he and many of his kindred were 
 executed in cold blood, although Coote had promised him 
 quarter, and although Henry O'Neill had pleaded his 
 Spanish birth as a reason for mercy. " Such," sa)'S an 
 anonymous writer, "was the unchristian and tigerish con- 
 ddct of this human blood-sucker (Coote), that the family 
 of O'Neill in the ebb of many years may never recover 
 their former state." — Meehan, Earls of Tyrone and Tyr- 
 connel, p. 474. 
 
 Lagan forces. — See p. 183, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 hands by some artifice, when S^. Robert Stewart was trained into Deny as afores^^s Nevertheless, 
 our Vise*, and Gen', was hopefull to reduce that important place to his Majesties obedience. The 
 fault was not in his Lo^. but in those Laggan men, who no sooner knew of his l^o^ having accepted 
 a commission from the King, without their Kirk Pastor's leave, and that he w^ no longer admit 
 their Ministers into his councils, nor walk by their advice (that is in English would not act pursuant 
 to their commands only) than the whole gang or crew of them deserted the siege and his Lo*" j 
 they all at once disbanding themselves with one text of scripture, viz, "To your tents, 
 O Israel," which was certainly a precipitate course, to leave their country open to the impres= 
 sions of Owen Roe O'Neil's army, w'' was now confederates with Monk and Coote. But 
 they did not think of that, nor of the duty w*" they owed to their King, that had no fear of 
 Coote, because thereby they put a necessity on his Lo^ to raise the siege, and their Minis- 
 ters helped it forward by preaching from him most of his men and officers (as they did more 
 effectually at their return.) So that his Lo^ was obliged to march home with thin companys. 
 So the covenant (as they called made on that desertion said) turned tayle on the King and his 
 cause.'*? The Presbiterians would admit of no cavaliers to assist them, and that proved the loss of 
 
 Into Derry as aforesd. — See p. 182, note 27, sitpra. 
 Coote was opposed at Derry by sir Robert Stewart, who 
 commanded the royahst forces, and sir Alexander Stewart, 
 his nephew, who commanded the presbyterian troops of 
 the Lagan. Coote's garrison consisted of 800 foot and 
 180 horse. On the surrender of Carrickfergus and Cole- 
 raine, sir George Monro advanced also against Deny, and 
 was soon followed by viscount Montgomery, who, as 
 commander-in-chief in Ulster, directed the operations of 
 the siege. 
 
 7 he Kittg and his cause. — After a siege of four months, 
 and when reduced to the greatest extremity, Derry was 
 relieved by Owen Roe O'Neill, to whom Coote promised 
 ;^5000 for his services. Coote, however, was more in- 
 debted for his extrication to the divisions among his 
 besiegers than even to the timely succour of the Irish 
 general. When the presbyterian soldiers were told by 
 their ministers of viscount Montgomeiy's commission from 
 the king, and his proceedings at Belfast and Carrickfergus, 
 they disbanded themselves, and returned to their homes, 
 as being unwilling to fight for the covenant side by side 
 with " malignants." Adair's account of this affair is as 
 follows: — "When they" (the presbyterians under sir 
 Alexander Stewart) "were thus besieging Derry for a con- 
 siderable time, the old malignant party in the country 
 pretended gi-eat affection to the cause, and, submitting to 
 the covenant and declaration, mixed with them in the 
 leagure, and become a stronger party there than the other 
 commanded by Sir Alexander Stewart. As the Presbytery 
 all these times had supplied the Lagan by commissioners 
 of their own number, upon their own charges, one or two 
 at a time ; so the ministers who had, upon sir Alexander's 
 desire, been sent from the presbytery to join with the few 
 ministers of Lagan, in order to further the renewing 
 of the covenant, and entering into the ' Declaration ' in 
 that country, being invited to preach in the leagure, did 
 comply with the desire for a time — the rather to know 
 how things were going on, and to understand the designs 
 of that party. But a few days discovered to them that 
 
 the malignant party carried all before them, and that they 
 were generally profane and unconcerned for religion and 
 the ends of the covenant. The ministers could not in 
 duty but testify this in their preaching; whereupon, 
 though for a little time they were seemingly entertained 
 and consulted with, as the circumstances of that party called 
 for in that juncture ; yet within a very little time they were 
 slighted and mocked by the new party that had joined. 
 But Sir Alexander Stewart, with his party, still persisting 
 in his respect for the ministers, put it to them for their 
 advice what was best to be done. The ministers saw no 
 grounds for him and his party to continue the leagure, and 
 so declared, not from respect to Coote's party, but that 
 they saw the old malignant interest carrying on. At this 
 they were yet more discountenanced by the other 
 party, upon which they left off frequenting the leagure, 
 and employed themselves in such places of the country as 
 were destitute of ministers. Thereafter, divisions grew 
 between the two parties in the leagure ; and, honest men 
 being put on the hardest pieces of service, divers were 
 killed, and all of them found it hard to continue the siege. 
 Therefore, they acquaint the Lord of Ards with their con- 
 dition, who, with his attendants, went to Derry, pretend- 
 ing to bring about a right understanding between Coote 
 and them. He was received into the town with civility 
 and compliments, and had communion with Coote, but 
 no agreement followed. Therefore, he returned that 
 night to the leagure, where, being at supper, and having 
 drunk largely in the city, he became more free in his dis- 
 course in the audience of one of the ministers of Down, 
 who came thither to take leave with some friends, saying, 
 ' If Coote would engage for monarchical government in 
 the person of the present King, the devil take him that 
 meddles with religion ; let God fight for his own religion 
 himself.'" — Narrative, pp. 163 — 5. The reader will find 
 in Appendix L. a number of letters now for the first time 
 printed, written by viscount Montgomery at the crisis 
 referred to in the text. These letters are presei"ved in the 
 Carte Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford. The writer of 
 
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 the King's cause and their ruin now in this kingdom, as it did the next year in Scotland ;So from 
 whence our Dominie preachers here were influenced to take measures for the Ministers and adhe. 
 rents intended to capitulate w* the King for their party and covenant here, as the com°" at Breda 
 were doing, and to doo the Lord's work by themselves, so to get all the preferm" and profit in 
 their o^vn hands tho' they could not pretend to merit by acting ag' the usurpers or by loyalty to 
 the late King. 
 
 But his Lo^ returned home in order, and fortified passes and garrisons, and was in safety till 
 next winter; for in June, 1649, Michael Jones having routed Ormond at Remeins,^' near Dublin, 
 
 hese letters freely expresses his opinion respecting the con- 
 duct of the presbyterians in abandoning the siege of Deny. 
 
 5° In Scotland. — The author here refers especially to 
 the fact that the battle of Dunbar was lost in the following 
 year, through the intermeddling of the Scottish preachers, 
 who, among other arrangements, insisted that no " mal- 
 ignants," or, as the author terms them, "cavaliers," 
 should be peiTnitted the honour of fighting side by side 
 with covenanters for the restoration of Charles II. The 
 royalists were called cavaliers, a name of which they were 
 proud, as expressive of their quality, but which their op- 
 ponents always applied to them as a term of reproach, 
 synonymous with atheist, papist, and voluptuary. 
 
 5' 1)1 their oivn hands. — On the execution of Charles I., 
 his son, afterwards Charles II., resided first at the Hague, 
 under the protection of his brother-in-law, the prince of 
 Orange. His court consisted originally of the few persons 
 whom his father had placed around him, but was soon 
 aftei"wards augmented by the additions of the duke of 
 Hamilton, the earl of Lauderdale, and the earl ofCallender, 
 who were known as the chiefs of the Scottish Engagers, 
 together with the Scottish royalists proper, Montrose, 
 Kinnoul, and Seaforth. These noblemen were with 
 Charles at the Hague, when the earl of Cassilis accom- 
 panied by four commissioners from the Scottish parliament 
 and three deputies from the kirk, arrived. Immediately 
 afterwards, an event occurred which drove Charles and 
 the whole party hastily from the Hague to Breda. Dr. 
 Dorislaus, a native of Holland, but formerly a profes- 
 sor of Gresham college, had been employed in England 
 to prepare the charge on which Charles I. was tried. He 
 was afterwards appointed as envoy from the English 
 parliament to the States of Holland. On the evening of 
 his arrival at the Hague, and whilst he sat at supper in 
 his hotel, six assassins in masks entered the room, and 
 instantly murdered him. They were soon known to be 
 followers of Montrose, and Charles, fearing the results of 
 this murder, suddenly left the Hague, went to visit his 
 mother at St. Germain in France, and afterwards settled, 
 with his followers, at Breda. Thither addresses soon 
 reached him from the parliament and kirk of Scotland. 
 In the kirk's address, the young king was charged with re- 
 fusing "to allow the Son of God to reign over him in 
 the pure ordinances of church government and worship, 
 cleaving to counsellors who never had the glory of God 
 and the good of His people before their eyes, admitting 
 to his presence that fugacious and excommunicate rebel, 
 James Graham, and especially giving the royal power and 
 strength to the beast, by concluding a peace with the 
 Irish papists, the murderers of so many protestants." 
 They further required him to remember the iniquities of his 
 
 father's house, and to be assured that unless he laid aside 
 the "service-book, so stuffed with Romish corruptions, 
 for the reformation of doctrine and worship agreed upon 
 by the divines at Westminster, and approved of the 
 covenant in his three kingdoms, wthout which the people 
 could have no security for their religion or liberty, he 
 would find that the Lord's anger was not turned away, 
 but that his hand was still stretched against the royal 
 person and his family." — Clarendon Papers, vol. iii., 
 p. 293; Whitelock, Memorials, pp. 401, 429; Carte's 
 Letters, vol. i., p. 323, as quoted in Lingard's History of 
 £ngland, vol. viii., pp. 129, 130. 
 
 5' At Remeins. — The author here writes Rathmines as 
 the name is pronounced. When Dublin was surrendered 
 by ©rmond to the parliament on the 19th of June, 1647, 
 colonel Michael Jones, brother of sir Theophilus Jones, 
 had been appointed governor of the city and commander 
 of the forces in Leinster. In July, 1 649, Omiond having 
 collected an anny of 7000 foot, and 1000 horse, determined, 
 if possible, to retake the capital. On the morning of the 
 31st of July, Orniond, finding that Jones was determined 
 on a general engagement, drew out his \\'hole army in 
 battle array, and, after having made the necessary arrange- 
 ments, in full expectation of the enemy's attack, he retired 
 to his tent at Rathmines, for the purpose of taking a short 
 repose in the interval between his preparations and the 
 actual commencement of battle. He was soon roused, 
 however, only to witness the defeat and dispersion of his 
 army by the victorious Michael Jones, who fell upon the 
 royalists unexpectedly. In this engagement Ormond lost 
 600 men slain on the field, besides 2000 taken prisoners j 
 the shattered remains of his army taking refuge in Trim, 
 Drogheda, and Kilkenny. Adair, in referring to this 
 action, at page 173 of his Narrative, speaks as if he was 
 rather gratified at the royalist defeat : — " And indeed the 
 Lord of Ards' government in the North lasted not long. 
 P"or, being called to join Ormond with what forces he 
 had, with the Lord Claneboy and his followers, they left 
 that part of the country, and were broken at Dundalk. 
 For though they had then the power of the whole 
 kingdom, except Derry and Dublin, yet Ormond's whole 
 party, and a great army lying about Dublin, and minding 
 their drinking, cards, and dice, more than their work, were 
 surprised by a party out of the city by Colonel Jones, and 
 scattered." On the death of Jones soon afterwards at 
 Dungarvan , Cromwell thus writes : — " The noble lieutenant- 
 general, whose finger, to our knowledge, never ached in 
 these expeditions, fell sick upon a cold taken in our late 
 wet march, and ill accommodation, and went to Dungar- 
 van, where, struggling some four or five days with a fever, 
 he died, having run his course with so much honour. 
 
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 and 0. C. landing,53 had taken Drogheda,5t and the K.'s forces (like the wained moon in the middle 
 of her last quarter) diminished to the last degree in Ireland, Ormond (deserted by many of the 
 Irish) retiring to his defensive strengths, with his Protestant party, w*" he kept in a body (as the 
 rest of the Irish did to Limerick and other garrisons.)55 
 
 Our third Vise* with his few loyal followers and adherents, and the Earle of Clanbrasil, with 
 his men (all that were preaching proof) their Lo'''' kept their forces together, and being 
 personally present (as they were afterwards with Ormond) and by ther example encouraging their 
 soldiers, were routed at Lisnestrain (as it was s* by S' Geo. Munro's mismanagement near Lisne- 
 garvey afores*) by S' Cha' Coote and a party of O. C. army;57 Clanbrasil shifting with some flying 
 
 courage, and fidelity, as his actions better speak than any 
 
 ?en. What England lost hereby is above me to speak." 
 n Cromwell's letter to the speaker, dated Dublin, Sept. 
 17, 1649, he says: — •" Since this great mercy (the storming 
 of Drogheda) vouchsafed to us, I sent a party of horse 
 and dragoons to Dundalk, which the enemy quitted, and 
 we are possessed of : as also, another castle they deserted 
 between Trim and Drogheda, upon the Boyne. I sent a 
 party of dragoons to a house within five miles of Trim 
 (Trubly) ; there being then in Trim some Scots companies, 
 which the Lord of Ards brought to assist the Lord of 
 Ormond ; but, upon the news of Drogheda having fallen 
 into our hands, they ran away, leaving their great guns 
 behind them, which we also have possessed. " See Dean 
 Butler's Notices of the Castle and of the Ecclesiastical 
 Buildings of Trim, p. 139; see Original Letters in Ap- 
 pendix L. 
 
 53 O. C. landing. — This hapless country, Ireland, ^^'as 
 then so attractive as a field for enterprise, that both sir 
 Hardress Waller and general Lambert aspired to the office 
 of lord deputy. But when Cromwell was known to wish 
 for it, he was unanimously appointed by the Parliament, 
 in preference to all other claimants. On the evening of 
 the lOth of July, 1649, Cromwell, after prayers for the 
 success of his expedition by three ministers, and an ex- 
 position of the Scriptures by himself, Goff, and Harrison, 
 in the presence of a large assemblage at Whitehall, set out 
 on his journey to Ireland, by way of Windsor and Bristol. 
 He had previously adopted cei tain sublunary means of suc- 
 cess, having despatched beforehim into Ireland acontingent 
 of 4000 horse and foot under Re\ nolds and Veiiables, to 
 the assistance of Jones, who held Dublin for him. This 
 reinforcement enabled Jones, on the 2nd August, 1649, to 
 rout the marquis of Ormond at Baggotsrath, near Dublin, 
 with a loss of 1000 slain, and double that number prisoners. 
 On the 15th of August, Cromwell reached the harbour of 
 Dublin, " where he landed a force of 8000 foot, half that 
 number of horse, with all the sinews of war, including a 
 formidable train of artillery, and a sum of twenty thousand 
 pounds in money. " — Joicrnal of the Kilkenny and South- 
 East of Ireland Archceological Society, 120, 121. 
 
 5* Taken Drogheda. — On the 2nd of September, 
 Cromwell invested Drogheda, which Ormond had garri- 
 soned with his choicest troops. In about a week the 
 town was taken by storm, the garrison put to the sword, 
 and large numljers of the defenceless Roman Catholic 
 inhabitants massacred. The promiscuous slaughter of 
 royalists and Roman Catholics was gratifying news to 
 the godly dwellers in the north. In referring to the fate 
 
 of the brave defenders of Drogheda, Adair only remarks, 
 p. 174, that they "consisted of profane Protestants and 
 Irish Papists, wlio, in the righteous judgment of God, 
 met with a scourge from unjust hands." 
 
 55 Other garrisons. — After the fall and fate of Drogheda 
 opposition at several points to the parliamentary forces 
 came quickly to an end, Cromwell himself looking after 
 the southern garrisons, and sending Venables to the north. 
 Carlingford was soon reduced, Newiy surrendered, 
 Lisburn fell, Belfast capitulated four days after his ap- 
 proach, and Coleraine was betrayed. Carrickfergus held 
 out longest, but was, also, surrendered by the royalist 
 commander, Dallyel, on the 2nd of November, 1649. Ii^ 
 McSkimin's History of Carrickfergus, pp. 59, 60, the 
 reader may see a copy of the "Articles agreed upon 
 between the Right Hon. Sir Charles Coote, knight and 
 baronet, lord President of Connaught, and Colonel Robert 
 Venables on the one part, and Colonel Thomas Dallyel, 
 the governor of the town and castle of Carrickferg^is, on 
 the other part, for the surrender of the said town and 
 castle." 
 
 5* All that were preaching proof — In other words, all 
 that were not presbyterians bent upon the ways of the 
 covenant. Very few of Clanbrassil's men, probably, 
 were "preaching proof." 
 
 57 Party of O. C. army. — Venables had formed a junc- 
 tion with Coote, who came from Derry, by Coleraine, and 
 met him at Belfast. After the reduction of the several 
 garrisons in Ulster, these commanders routed the last 
 royalist force in this district, commanded by viscount 
 Montgomery, the earl of Clanbrassil, and sir George 
 Monro, at a place called Lisnastrain, in the parish of 
 Drumbeg, county of Down. Ormond had sent reinforce- 
 ments to the Ulster royalists, under the command of 
 Daniel O'Neill and Mark Trevor, but this force (which 
 would probably have been very important, being led by 
 such distinguished officers), came too late. Nearly all that 
 is known of this decisive battle at Lisnastrain, near Lisburn, 
 is contained in a tract printed in London soon after its oc- 
 cuiTence, and entitled. Two Letters from William Basil, Esq., 
 Attorney-General of Ireland ; the one to the Right Honour- 
 able yohn Bradshaw, Lord President of the Council of 
 State: the other to the Right Honourable William Lenthal, 
 Esq. , Speaker of the Parliament of England, of a great 
 victory obtained by the parliament forces in the North op 
 Ireland, on the plains of Lisnegarvy, against the enemy 
 there, ivherin were 1,400 slain. Colonel fohn Hamilton 
 taken prisoner, and seventeen more of quality. With a 
 relation of the taking of Druincree ; and of the surrender 
 
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 horse, and his castle of Killyleagh standing out,^^ he resorted to Ormond. The U of Ardes had been 
 too active and too much hated and feared and was wiser than to trust his person into Coote's 
 
 of Carrickfergits upon Articles. We give the contents of 
 this very interesting tract in extenso : — 
 
 ' ' To the Right Honorable John Bradshaw, Lord President of the 
 Councel of State. 
 "Right Honorable, — Since my last unto your Lordship, viz. on 
 Thursday last, being the sixth of December instant, our Forces in the 
 North engaged with the Forces of the Enemy there, which consisted of 
 that Party which the Lords of Ardes and Clanduboys brought with them 
 outof Munster, and also of those under the command of George Monro, 
 part whereof were formerly his own, and part were of Owen O Neals 
 Ultoghs, in the whole consisting of about Two thousand Foot and 
 Eight hundred Horse; their Design was to Relieve Carrickfergus, 
 but were met withal by ours near unto Lisnegarvy : After some dis- 
 pute between our Forlorn and their Rere-guard, at a boggy pass on 
 the Plains of Lisnegarvy, their whole Army were so frighted and 
 disordered, that they were soon totally Routed, and the chief work 
 of our main Body was onely Pursuit and Execution, which was done 
 effectually by the space of about ei^ht or ten miles. Letters from 
 the place speaks of a thousand of the Enemy to be killed ; but the 
 Messenger who brought the News hither, who was present at the 
 Work, affirms Fourteen hundred ; four hundred whereof were killed 
 by a Party commanded by Major King, Son to Sir Robert King, 
 who possest himself of a Pass to which the Enemy was likely to come ; 
 this was the place where George Monro swam over, who with the 
 Lord of Ardes fled to Charlemount in great haste at the beginning of 
 the Business: All the Enemies Ammunition and Baggage were 
 taken, together with Five hundred of their Horses, with most of their 
 Foot Officers; Colonel Henderson, a Scotchman, who betrayed Sligo 
 to the Irish, was killed ; Colonel John Hamilton, one other Scotch- 
 man, who killed O Conelly, and burnt Lisnegarvy, is taken Prisoner: 
 also it is affirmed. That the Lord Clanduboys, and Philip mac Mull 
 Moor O Relly, one of the most active men amongst the Rebels, are 
 slain. Our Party were in pursuit of the Enemy when the Messenger 
 came away ; we lo-^t but one Corporal of Horse, and three private 
 Soldiers. Your Lordship may please further to understand. That 
 Drumcree, a strong Garison of the Enemies, being twelve miles from 
 Trym, and a Receptacle for their Thieving Toryes, was upon Friday 
 last was sevennight taken by Major Stanley, Governor of Trym. To 
 morr(»w is the day whereon Carrickfergus is by Articles to be Sur- 
 rendred : Here are about One thousand three hundred landed from 
 £ngland since Saturday last. It is an exceeding great comfort to us 
 all here, to see the good hand of God so evidently with us against 
 our bloody Enemies ; He alone, I hope, and pray, will settle Peace 
 and Happiness in England and Ireland, In the continuance of these 
 his Mercies. — My Lord, I am youi Lordships mo^-t humble Servant, 
 
 " WlLLUM B.\SIL. 
 
 "Dublin, 12 Decemb. 1649. 
 
 "This night Colonel Chidley Coot is come to Town with Letters 
 from his Brother the Lord President, the substance of his Brothers 
 Letters a'' H his ^wn Relation, is briefly thus : 
 
 " 'j'he Scotch Lords and George Monro, fell into the Clanboys with 
 4000 men, and the fifth of this instant the Enemy drew out their 
 Army, and would have fought, but our Party wanting some Horse, 
 forbare to ingage; the next day the Enemy drew off, and our Army 
 following them, sen^ out a Forlorn Hope of 200 men, the Horse Com- 
 manded by Captain Dunbar, of Sir Theophilus Jones his Regiment, 
 and the Foot by Major Gore, of the Lord Presidents Regiment : the 
 200 men fell into the Rear of the Enemy, and before the Army could 
 come up, with the loss of one Corporal, and two private .Soldiers, 
 routed the whole Army, of whom were slain in the place a thousand 
 men, the President writes. And a Party of Horse Commanded the 
 nearest way to the Blackwater, to stay that Pass, slew Four hundred 
 more there, where George Monro saved himself by swimming ; the 
 Lord Clanboys is supposed to be slain, and Philip mac Mulmore 
 O Relly, and most of their Foot Officers; Colonel John Hamilton is 
 Prisoner, and seventeen more of Quality, they gave no Quarter to any- 
 Irish : Thus you may see what wonders our God doth for us, the 
 Lord give us thankful hearts suitable to such mercies. All their Foot 
 Arms taken, and Five hundred Horse, eight Barrels of Powder, and 
 all the Baggage they had." 
 
 " To the Right Honorable William Lenthal Esq ; Speaker of the 
 Parliament of England. 
 " Right Honorable, — In my last I gave your Honor an accompt. 
 of the taking of Killileagh and Down-Drum by our forces in the 
 florth ; since which time (viz.) on Thursday last, being the Sixth of 
 
 December instant, they ingaged with the Forces of the Enemy there, 
 which consisted of that party which the Lords of Ards and Clanduboys 
 brought with them out of Munster, and also of those under the com- 
 mand of George Monro, part whereof were formerly his own, and 
 part were of Owen O Neals Ultoghs, in the whole consisting of aboiK 
 Two thousand Foot, and eight hundred Horse ; their Design was to 
 relieve Carrickfergus, but were met withal by ours near unto Lisne- 
 garvy : After some dispute between our Forlorn and their Rereguard, 
 at a Boggy Pass on the Plains of Lisnegarvy, their whole Army were 
 so frightened and disordered, that the chief work of our main body 
 was onely Pursuit and Execution, which was done by the space of 
 about eight or ten miles ; Letters from the place speaks of a thousand 
 of the Enemy to be kill'd : The Messenger who brought the News 
 hither [who was present at the Work) affirms. Fourteen hundred ; all 
 their Ammunition and Baggage were taken, together with most of 
 their Foot Officers, Col : Henderson, a Scotchman, who betrayed 
 Sligo to the Irish, was kill'd, and Col: John Hamilton, who kiU'd 
 O Connelly, and burnt Lisnegarvy, taken Prisoner; Our Party 
 was in Pursuit of the Victory when the Messenger came away, no 
 accompt is given of the Lords of Ards and Clanduboys, but it is affirm- 
 ed. That Monro adventured to swim over a River to save himself: 
 We lost but one Corporal of Horse, and three private Soldiers, to 
 God onely be the praise. Drumcree, a strong Garrison of the Enemies, 
 being twelve miles from Trim, a Receptacle for their thieving Toryes, 
 was upon Fryday last w'as sevennight taken by Major Stanley the 
 Governor of Trim. To morrow is the day whereon Carrickfergus 
 is by Articles to be surrendred, whereof I made mention to your 
 Honor heretofore. Col : Moor is safely arrived here with his Recruits 
 for his Regiment, and about Six hundred others, and desires to have 
 his service presented unto your Honor; and withal, to signifie unto 
 you. That these men thus arrived, brought neither Arras, Victual, 
 Money nor Clothes with them. 
 
 Whilest I am writing, some other particulars worth your notice are 
 come unto my hand ; (viz.'i That the Enemies Army was at least 
 Four thousand ; And that upon the routing of them. Major King, 
 Son to Sir Robert King, with a Party possest himself of a Pass to 
 which the Enemy was likely to come, and there kild Four hundred 
 of them ; this was the place where George Monro swam over, who 
 with the Lord of Ardes made haste away with the first for Charle- 
 mount; and Cl.induboys and Philip Mac Mul Moor O Relly are re- 
 ported to be kild. the latter being one of the most active men the 
 Rebels had. To God onely again be the praise, and that he would 
 be pleased to continue our God in the manifestation of his mercies 
 toward us, and Justice against our bloody Enemies, is the daily prayer 
 of — Vour Honors most humble Servant, 
 
 "William B\sil. 
 
 "Dublin, 12 Decern. 1649." 
 
 Whitelock, in his Memorials of English Affaiis from 
 Charles I. to the Restoration, p. 435, has given the sub- 
 stance of the above letters, adding one or two rumours 
 not mentioned by Basil. Thus, he states that the lord 
 Clandeboy "was slain, or sunk in a bog, being corpulent," 
 and that "Colonel Montgomery was taken prisoner." 
 Lord Clannaboy escaped, and lived until the year, 1659; 
 and colonel Montgomery, after having surrendered, was 
 brutally shot. He was the eldest son of Hugh Montgo- 
 mery, seneschal of Newtown during the time of the first and 
 second viscounts. The author has noticed this soldier's 
 death in a subsequent portion of his Manuscripts. 
 
 5^ Killyleagh standing out. — Killyleagh castle must have 
 been captured by the Parliamentary forces previously to 
 the 6th of December, which was the date of the battle of 
 Lisnastrain. It had not surrendered, however, in the 
 month of October, as Basil, the attorney-general, writing 
 towards the close of that month, says — "We are now 
 possessed of all the North, saving Knockfergus, Coleraine, 
 and Killileagh. " In the second letter above quoted, which 
 was written on the 12th of December, Basil says — "In 
 my last I gave your Honor an accompt of the taking of 
 Killileagh and Down-Drum by our forces in the North ; 
 
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 hands (who he had complimented by an unwelcome visit at Derry.) Therefore, his Lop collected 
 his scattered horse and foot (much again, before last fight, being dismissed by the pulpeteer's 
 preachments) the soldiers bidding, Au diable^'^ to the back-sliding covenant and its rebellious ad- 
 herents, who disowned the K.'' commission and authority, and with this party (most of them officers 
 and gents.) contented to partake of all sorts of fortune with so brave a leader as the L'' Montg^. 
 who made his way through many difficulties to join with his father's friend and the K.'' chief serv*. 
 Ormond, then a Marquis. 
 
 His Lo'' thus leaving his Lady and house at Newtown, and his Lady Mother, his sister and 
 brother at M' Alexander, protection for them, their households and goods were obtained, but by 
 whose procurem'. I know not; yet I confess the English are civil enemies, and I may think Colo. 
 Monk (who had highly wronged his Lo^'' family^") took now an oportunity of verifying his promise 
 of good treatment, mentioned in his reply to his Lo^ and to S"" J. M. dated the 19* Sept', 
 afores*) concerning his Lo^' relations.^' But J. M. might expect no protection, being so con- 
 siderable an enemy, as he was (both for head and hand) feared by the Pari', party, and his opposites 
 being highly incensed ags* his loyalty, (this appeared by the Rump made after his death excepting 
 him from life and estate^^) that he now must needs truss up his best goods, and send them and me 
 to Greenock ; himself soon flying after them, where he absconded, as shall be s^ when I discourse of 
 him in particular. 
 
 Our third Vise*, stayd with the Marquis and was included among the Protes'' (as the Earl of 
 Clanbrasil also was) with whom O. C. made capitulations for their coming home and peaceably 
 living there without deserting the realm or acting ags' the Parliam'. and for being adm"* to their 
 estates upon composition money to be p'' by them as the Pari', should think fit; w"" done, 0. C. 
 went to Eng*. in winter, 1649, leaving Ireton^^ to attend the blockade of Limerick, to w"* the Irish 
 
 since which time (viz. ) on Thursday last, being the sixth 
 of December instant, they ingaged with the forces of the 
 Enemy there," &c. , &c. Killileagh castle was in part de- 
 molished by the parliamentary soldiers, but was afterwards 
 rebuilt by Henry, second earl of Clanbrassil of the first 
 creation. — Hamilton Manuscripts,^. 68 note. 
 
 59 All diable. — Thus ended the hollow compact which 
 had been formed ten months previously between the 
 royalists and presbyterians. The royalists collected 
 their shattered forces and left Ulster "bidding au diable 
 to tlae back-sliding covenant and its rebellious adherents," 
 whilst the presbyterians were well pleased to witness their 
 defeat. In April, 1650, viscount Montgomery, colonel 
 Trevor, and others, went from the Irish head-quarters to 
 Cromwell at Clonmel, to render themselves up to him, 
 being the first distinguished persons of the protestant party 
 that had come for this purpose. — Borlase, History, &c., 
 Appendix, p. 22. 
 
 *° Wronged his LoP's family. — Probably by seizing and 
 sending Robert Monro, his lordship's step-father to the 
 Tower. 
 
 Lop's relations. — See p. 174, note 68, supra. 
 *' From life and estate. — By an Act of Parliament for 
 settling Ireland, dated the 12th of August, 1652, sir James, 
 although then dead, was excepted from pardon of life and 
 estate. His name appears in the Act among those of 
 
 eighty-one baronets, knights, and gentlemen who were 
 placed in the same circumstances. The name of his 
 nephew, the third viscount, appears among those of nine 
 others of the same rank. 
 
 '3 Leaving Ireton. — Cromwell whose presence was 
 required in England, left Ireton, his son-in-law, to whom 
 had been given the title of lord deputy, to bring the war 
 in Ireland to a conclusion. Ireton, with very slight in- 
 terruptions, pursued the same victorious career as Crom- 
 well. The Irish were compelled to surrender at Letter- 
 kenny, Trecoghan, Waterford, Carlow, Charlemont, Dun- 
 cannon, and finally at Limerick. The garrison in the 
 last-mentioned place was commanded by Hugh O'Neill, 
 brother of Owen Roe, and son of Art O'Neill, who was 
 son of Matthew, baron of Dungannon. After Ireton had 
 captured Limerick, O'Neill was condemned to die, but 
 received a pardon on account of his heroic defence. 
 Among those put to death was Terence O'Brien, bishop 
 of Emly, who, on hearing his sentence, exclaimed in the 
 presence of Ireton — "I appeal to the tribunal of God, and 
 summon thee to meet me at that bar !" These words were 
 soon afterwards believed to be prophetic, for in less than 
 a month, Ireton died of the plague that then raged through- 
 out the west of Ireland. His death was lamented as a 
 grievous loss to the commonwealth. His remains were 
 interred at the public expense, being conveyed from Ire- 
 
194 
 
 ''The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 had retired for their last refuge, to obtain conditions of peace. The Marquis of Ormond went to 
 wait on the K. (C' the 2d.) 
 
 And now our Vise' came to visit his Lady and his daughter Jean,*'^ not three months old, and 
 his mother, sister^^ and brother^^ afores^ his Lo'' being afterwards bro' under more severe bonds than 
 his neighbour L"* and other Protestants, viz. to leave his family, friends, relations and tenants, by 
 a certain time, and to travel to London by way of Dublin, and not through any part of Scotland, 
 and to appear before a committee of Pari, (to witt of the Rump)^^ w'' banished him into Holland. 
 This was a trap or snare for his life and forfeiture of his estate j besides, his enemies considered 
 that his being abroad cou'd do the harm but of a single man of his parts and interest at a distance; 
 but if his Lo^ staid at home, he could do a general mischief to them (the usurpers) as formerly to 
 Monck and Coote. So by removing him they prevented this, and watched him for the other 
 danger. 
 
 And on his Lo^ they had laid a strict charge on several penalties of hard usage to his Lady 
 and to his other relations afores"*; tho' he shou'd not go into the Spanish Netherlands or Scotland, 
 nor come back to England or Ireland, without the Council of State's license, nor be any way cor- 
 respondent with Chas. Stuart. 
 
 land to Bristol, thence to Somerset House, and afterwards 
 honoured with burial in Henry the Seventh's chapel. 
 Ludlow, when noticing Ireton's public funeral, says — 
 " Some of General Cromwell's relations, who were not igno- 
 rant of his vast designs now on foot, caused the body of 
 the Lord Deputy Ireton to be transported into England, and 
 solemnly Interred at Westminster, in a magnificent monu- 
 ment, at the public charge; who, if he could have foreseen 
 what was done by them, would certainly have made It his 
 desire that his body might have found a grave where his 
 soul left it, so much did he despise those pompous and 
 expensive vanities ; having erected for himself a more 
 glorious monument in the hearts of good men, by his 
 affection to his country, his abilities of mind, his impartial 
 justice, his diligence in the public service, and his other 
 vertues, which were a far greater honour to his memory 
 than a dormltoi"y among the ashes of kings, who, for the 
 most part, as they had governed others by their passions, 
 so were they themselves as much governed by them." — 
 Memoirs, vol. 1., p, 384. 
 
 Daughter Jean. — The lady Jean, called after his 
 mother, was his only daughter by his first marriage. She 
 was born at Newtown House, in September, 1649, and 
 died unmarried at Chester, in 1673. 
 
 *s Sister. — His only sister, Elizabeth Montgomery, 
 married her cousin, William Montgomery of Rosemount, 
 the author of the Manuscripts. 
 
 Brother. — His only surviving brother, James, born at 
 Dunskey, in 1639. 
 
 The Rump. — So the remnant of the Long Parliament 
 was nicknamed after 1648, when the presbyterian members 
 were expelled by the process kno^vn as Pride's Purge. 
 The Rump Parliament was one of the most distinguished 
 legislative assemblies ever witnessed in England. Amongits 
 leading men were sir Harry Vane, the most practical of states- 
 men ; — Thomas Scott, some of whose speeches are describ- 
 ed as among the most eloquent in the English language ; — 
 Algernon Sidney, a descendant by his mother's side from 
 Hotspur, and as ' impatient as Hotspur himself of all 
 courtly arts or kingly arrogance ;' and Thomas Harrison, 
 who carried his daring as a soldier to the most chivalrous 
 extent. The great practical error of this parliament was 
 its reluctance and delay in dissolving itself, thus giWng 
 Cromwell a pretext violently to put an end to its sittings 
 in 1653, after an existence of thirteen years. — See Bisset's 
 History of the Commonwealth, vol. ii. , pp. 420, 429, 430, 
 455, 456. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 195 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 LL these rigid injunctions hindered not his Lo^ to see privately the court at the Hague.' 
 His Lqp was then an unwilling traveller, to his great cost, in that dear country. His 
 expense was that w** his enemies always partly aimed at, and against his will; but he diverted 
 melancholy the best way he cou'd, by seeing the Dutch neat towns, and going incognito; among 
 which his Lo'. in winter, 165 1, visited Lyden, Carsacs Mount,^ and an Atomy Chamber,3 &c. and 
 its university;-* it being the most inviting citie for many rarities (where I was at my studies among 
 many Gents, of divers nations); and there his Lo"" came to see me to the great joy of my heart, (my 
 father being then in Scotland very private), and I waited on him to Delfts and to the Hague, and 
 
 ' At the Hague. — See p. 12, notes 37 and 40, supra. 
 When Evelyn visited the Hague, the first place he 
 went to see was the "HofF or Prince's court, with the 
 adjoining gardens, which were full of ornaments, close 
 walks, statues marbles, grotts, fountains, and nrtificiall 
 musiq. There is a stately hall, not much inferior to 
 ours of Westminster, hung round with colours and other 
 trophies, taken from the Spanyards, and the sides below 
 are furnished with shops." — Memoirs, vol. i., p. 14. 
 Sir John Carr, in his Tour through Holland, pp. 153, 
 154, says: — "The first place I visited was the palace 
 of the last of the Stadtholders. It is a vast pile of 
 houses, many of them somewhat ancient, surrounded by 
 a canal, without which and a pipe, paradise itself would 
 have no charms for a Dutchman. . . . But the most 
 beautiful part of the Hague is the Vyverbeirg, a vast ob- 
 long square, adorned with a noble walk or mall, strewed 
 with broken shells, and shaded by avenues of trees on one 
 side, and, on the other by the palace and a large basin of 
 water, called the Vyver, almost a quarter of a mile in 
 length, variegated by an island of poplars, in its centre. 
 This mall is the place of fashionable resort." 
 
 = Carsacs Mount. — "At Leyden," says Evelyn, "I was 
 carried up to the Castle, or Pyrgus, built on a very steep 
 artificiall Mount, cast up, as reported, by Hengist the 
 Saxon, on his return out of England, as a place to retire 
 to in case of any sudden inundation." — Memoirs, vol. i., 
 p. 18. The following is sir John Carr's notice of this 
 place:— "I ascended a large Mount, which may be con- 
 sidered as a great curiosity in Holland, in the centre of the 
 town, where there is a fine view of it. * * * This 
 place is much resorted to, on Sundays and holidays, -by 
 the citizens and their families, to smoke, and enjoy the 
 beauty of the prospect, and the refreshing sweetness of the 
 air." — Tour through Holland, pp. 193, 194. 
 
 An Atomy Chamber. — "The Theatre of Anatomy is 
 very near the Botanic Garden; in it is a valuable collection 
 of anatomical and pathological subjects. This hall is well 
 worthy the notice of a traveller, as well for its valuable 
 contents, as for having furnished Europe with some of its 
 best physicians." — Sir John Carr's Tour Through Holland, 
 p. 204. 
 
 Its University. — The following is Evelyn's not very 
 flattering account of his visit to this celebrated seat of 
 learning: — "I went to see their College and Schooles, 
 which are nothing extraordinary, and was matriculated 
 by the then magnificus professor, who first in Latine de- 
 manded of me where my lodginge in the towne was, my 
 name, age, birth, and to what Faculty I addicted myself ; 
 then recording my answers in a booke, he administered 
 an oath to me that I should observe the Statutes and 
 orders of the University whiles I staid, and then delivered 
 me a ticket by virtue whereof, I was made excise-free, for 
 all which worthy privileges and the paines of writing, he 
 accepted of a rix-dollar." — Memoirs, vol. i., p, 18. 
 
 5 Delft. — Delft is a town in .South Holland, very old 
 and picturesque. It is the birth-place of Grotius, and 
 was once the seat of the manufacture of a species of 
 potteiy, to which it gave its name. It is distant nine 
 miles from Rotterdam, on the high road from that city to 
 the Hague and Leyden. " As you enter the old church 
 at Delft, the first object that meets your eye is the magni- 
 ficent mass of white marble, which forms the monument 
 of Martin Harpetz Tromp, and represents the admiral 
 lying at full length, with his head resting upon a ship's 
 gun ; and below and around him, carved in basrelief, 
 symbols of the achievements of his stormy and valiant life. 
 The bones of the Englishman ( Robert Blake) who conquered 
 him lie undistinguished by tomb or epitaph." — Bisset's 
 History 0/ the Commonwealth of England, vol. ii., p. 32. 
 
196 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 to see the Prince of Orange's houses at Reswick^ and Hunsterdyke,? where (in a parish church) we 
 saw a copper pan and brass one, in w*" a Countess of Holland's birth were baptised, the males and 
 the females separately, but at one time; the infants (in all) were 365. ^ There were also hung (up 
 by those pans) verses pasted on boards, declaring how this world's wonderment came on that Coun- 
 tess, viz, that she refused to give alms to a poor distressed woman, who went about begging charity 
 for her little ones at home and for three sucklings on her back, which she fostered on her own 
 breasts. The Countess conjecturing the beggar to be a common whore and the children to be 
 bastards to three men, and telling her that was the reason she rejected her. The poor woman 
 answered, God knows I am the honest wife of an indigent man, who is at home using industry to 
 preserve our numerous family from starving. He sent me forth thinking a sight Uke this of mine 
 was the best way to move compassion and to get relief, but seeing your Ladyship is so hard-hearted 
 
 ' Reswick. — The village of Ryswick is situated about 
 half way between Delft and the Hague, amidst scenery of 
 surpassing beauty. It is known throughout Europe as 
 the placewhere the celebrated peace was concluded between 
 Louis XIV. and the confederate powers, on the 20th of 
 September, 1697, after a war of nine years' duration. 
 The treaty of Ryswick was signed in the royal palace 
 there, then occupied by William III., and known as the 
 House of Neubourg. 
 
 1 Hunsterdyke. — Evelyn calls this place Hounslers 
 Dyck. "I went," says he, "to see one of the prince's 
 palaces, called the Hoff van Hounslers Dyck, which is a 
 very magnificent cloyster"^ and quadrangular building. 
 The gallery is prettily paynted with several huntings, and 
 at one end, a Gordian knot, with several msticall instni- 
 ments so artificially represented as to deceive an accurate 
 eye to distinguish it from actual relievo. The ceiling of 
 the stair-case is paynted with the Rape of Gajzymede, and 
 other pendent figures, the work of F. Covenberg, of 
 whose hand I bought an excellent drollery, which. I after- 
 wards parted with to my brother George of Wotton, 
 where it now hangs. To this palace joynes a faire garden 
 and parke, curiously planted with limes." — Memoirs, 
 vol. i., p. 19. 
 
 ^ Were 365. — This story was originally preserved in 
 an old Dutch MS., of which a Latin translation was 
 published at page 66, of a work entitled Variorum 
 in Europa Itinenim Delicia. See Moreri, Le Grand 
 Dictioiiaire, under Loosduynen, and the authorities cited 
 there. " A une lieue et demie de la Haye, et a deux de 
 Delft, on remarque le Village de Losduynen, ou il y eut 
 autre-fois une Abbaye le Filles, de I'Ordre de Citeaux, 
 laquelle a ete fondee I'an 1224, par Florent IV., et son 
 epouse Marguerite, Comtesse de Hollande. C'est dans 
 ce lien qu' aniva ce monstrueux accouchement de la 
 Comtesse Malhilde, femme de Herman, Comte de Hanne- 
 berg, qui, a I'age de vingt-quatre ans, mit au monde, d'une 
 seule portee, le jour des Rameaux, I'an 1276, trois cents 
 soixante-cinq enfans, moitie males, moitie femelles, &c. 
 Cette Histoire se trouve dans Erasme, Vives, Guichardin, 
 Camerarius, Pierre d'Oudegerst, auteur des Annales de 
 Flandres, et dans plusieurs autres. — Lcs Delices des Pays- 
 Bas,tom. v., p. 89, (Liege, 1769)." The following is a trans- 
 lation of the Latin version : — " Matilda, wife of Herman, 
 count of Henneberg, fourth daughter of Floris, count of 
 Holland and Zealand, was about forty-two years of age, 
 
 and, on the Good Friday, about nine of the clock in the 
 morning, in the year 1276, was delivered of 365 children, 
 aU of whom were baptized on the day of their birth — the 
 boys being called John, and the girls Elizabeth. All of 
 them bore a strong resemblance to their mother, and the 
 mother and children died the very same day they were 
 bom, and were buried in the holy church of Loosduyn. 
 The occasion of this very miraculous birth was an old 
 beggar-woman, who happened to solicit alms of the coun- 
 tess as she was passing. This woman had two children 
 in her arms, which, she said, were twins, and declared 
 that she was left entirely destitute of home with them. 
 ' You wicked impostor,' said the enraged countess, 
 'begone, it is impossible.' The countess was about to 
 have her punished ; and as the beggar, being disturbed in 
 her mind, turned a\\'ay, she wished that the countess, 
 who was then enciente, might have, at one birth, as 
 many children as there were days in the year. To prove 
 this, there are the old memorials and manuscripts at 
 Utrecht. May God for ever be praised and glorified. 
 Amen. " The following extract of a letter from the Hague 
 contains some additional details relating to this wonderful 
 affair : — " On the 20th of March, 1 748, a friend took me 
 to Loosdein, five miles from the Hague, to view two 
 brass basins, in which it is recorded that 365 children, 
 bora by Margaret, countess of Henneberg, at one birth, 
 were baptized. Accordingly, when we entered tlie 
 church, I saw a long inscription on the wall, giving the 
 following account ;— That the said countess, in 1276, 
 having upbraided a poor woman with twins in her arms, 
 as unchaste, insinuating that one man could not get both 
 at once, so provoked the honest woman, that she wished 
 her ladyship, then with child, might bring forth as many 
 children at a birth as there are days in the j'ear. And 
 this wish, or rather curse, says the inscription, was fidfilled 
 upon the uncharitable Margaret, who was delivered of 
 365 children, who were all baptized by Guido Suffragan 
 of Utrecht, the males being named John, and the females 
 Elizabeth; and they and their mother all died the same 
 day. I also saw the two brass basins, with this distich 
 under them : — 
 
 "En tibi motutrosuvi nimis el memorabile factum. 
 Quale nec a mundi co'iditiont datum." 
 
 — The Edinburgh Topographical, Traditional, and Aniv- 
 quarian Magazine, pp. no, ui. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 197 
 
 to me and my babys, and so misbelieving of my having these children honestly and at one birth, 
 may God convince your Lady^. by giving you as many as there be days in the year; and so it hap- 
 pened, as is gen''' there believed and reported.^ 
 
 In this province of Holland, this winter, 165 1, we had the satisfaction to see many of the King's 
 officers, who escaped from Worcester fight,'° it being solamin (a sorry one) miseries socios habiiisse 
 doloris. But all the entertainment w^ travel gave his Lo'' was full of pain and throes (like a woman's 
 travell in child-bearing) for he cou'd have no comfort (or but very little) till he was delivered from 
 that captivity in that Babilon of religions and nations. His earthly treasure was in Ireland, and his 
 heart was there also ; and when the hopes of his Majesty's success in England ever dashed in that 
 kingdom, (as in the other two) out of his grief for those disasters, an hope arose (for his good God 
 always supported his mind) that his enemies being now out of fears of royalists, he should be 
 permitted to return home, where he might wait for better times and opportunities to serve his 
 Maj esty. 
 
 It was very lucky I had the happiness to see his Lo^. because bound to my studies; and but 
 this once I accompanied him to any village or town. When we were at Hunsterdyke," and gen'^ 
 alwheres (but publick certain rated ordinarys, where his Lo^. could hardly be unknown) he kept 
 himself so as to pass for a Gent", and we strove to do so \ in this dorp." Ensign Simeon Erskin'3 
 was then his Lo'''" only serv'. L* Col. Geo. Stewart"* (S''. Robert afores'"'" son), Cap'. Hugh Mont- 
 
 ' Believed and reported. — The foregoing story attracted 
 ihe attention of Howell, who made himself familiar with 
 the ideas and traditions of the people in whatever place 
 he visited. His account is as follows: — " That wonder 
 of nature is a church monument, where an earl and a 
 lady are engraved with 365 children about them, which 
 were all delivered at one birth ; they were half male, half 
 female ; the two basins in which they were christened 
 hang still in the church, and the bishop's name M'ho did 
 it ; and the story of this miracle, with the year and the 
 day of the month mentioned, which is not yet 200 years 
 ago ; and the story is this : — That the countess walking 
 about her door after dinner, there came a begger-woman with 
 two children upon her back, to beg alms ; tlie countess ask- 
 ing whether those children were her own, she answered, she 
 had them both at one birth, and by one father, who was 
 her husband. The countess would not only not give her any 
 alms, but reviled her bitterly, saying it was impossible for 
 one man to get two children at once ; the begger-woman 
 being thus provoked with ill words, and without alms, fell 
 to imprecations, that it should please God to shew his 
 judgment upon her, and that she might bear at one l^irth 
 as many children as there be days in the year, which she 
 did before the same year's end, having never born child 
 before. " — Howell's Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, 
 1726, p. 92. Sir John Carr, during a tour in Holland, 
 visited the village of Loosduynen in 1806, and found that 
 the villagers, even then, were believers in the miracle. 
 "A Dutch author," he says, "has gone so far as to de- 
 clare that he had seen the 365 children of the countess of 
 Henesberg, and with pleasant minuteness describes them 
 to be of the size of shrimps, and Erasmus believed the 
 story. Those who have the hardihood to differ from such 
 authorities explain away the miracle by stating that on the 
 
 tliird day of January the beggar wished the countess, who 
 expected to lie in every hour, might have as many children 
 as there had been days in the year, and that she, on that 
 day, was delivered of three children. " — Tour through Hol- 
 land, p. 178. Evelyn is silent respecting this story of 
 the countess of Henneberg, but he tells us, vol. i., p. 17, of 
 another feminine feat almost equally wonderful : — " They 
 showed us a cottage," (near the Hague) says he, " where 
 dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth 
 husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to 
 marry in future, yet it could not be proved that she had 
 ever made any of her husband's away, though the sus- 
 picion had brought her divers times into trouble." 
 
 '° Worcester fight. — In this battle Cromwell utterly 
 routed the English and -Scottish forces, killing 3,550, and 
 taking 5,000 prisoners. This crowning victory for the 
 commonwealth was won on Sunday, the 3rd of .Sep- 
 tember, 165 1 — just twelve months after the great defeat of 
 the Scots at Dunbar. 
 
 " Hunsterdyke. — See p. 196, supra. 
 
 '° In this dorp. — This word is now generally written 
 dort, a well-known Scottish term signifying a fit of sullen 
 melancholy. Sibbald, in his glossary to the Chronicle of 
 Scottish Poetry, derives it from trotsigh, tortigh, ' arrogant 
 or supercilious.' It is now generally used in the plural 
 number, in the dorts being a common and not enviable 
 condition. 
 
 '3 Simeon Ei'skin. — This person was probably related 
 to viscount Montgomery, through his grandmother, who 
 was a daughter of sir William Erskine. See pp. 92, 141, 
 supra. 
 
 Geo. Stewart. — Son of sir Robert Stewart. This gentle- 
 man resided afterwards at Culmore, near Derry, and is sup- 
 posed to have been the founder of the family of Stewart 
 
198 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 gomery'5 and myself, had that afternoon walked from the Hague with his Lo''. as if we had been 
 fellows. We went to a tavern in Hunsterdyke afores"*, and we had all got an apetite for victuals; 
 so after two or three stoops of Rhenish (without distinction of hats or any extraordinary deference 
 one to another), Simon and I were dispatched for meat ; we had a cold veal py, but did not price it. 
 This gave but small suspicion there was any Lord in company, yet for all. the restraint that was on 
 us all, that we should not drop one word or action w'* might discover that there was a Nobleman 
 amongst us; yet this huisbrow'^ and her maid watched like cats, peeped and perceived it. I did 
 (and so did the rest) wonder at it, yet the matter was not so difficult to know, for notwithstanding 
 the settled melancholy w*" was in his Lo^'" heart, yet the rays of his noble soul often broke the prison 
 and sprang out at his eyes, features, and presence, which were always (and when unafflicted) seen 
 in his Lo"'". generous countenance: and so we lost our labour of conversing inmascarade. In short, 
 the landlady brought in all to maal bill'? (without paper), ag' w*" we objected; for it was five times 
 the price of the wine (w** we drank liberally and wherein we agreed.) Then the covetous, im- 
 perious, wretched woman put into the scale (to make the bill relevant) imperious, the py, then the 
 bread, butter, chees, small beer, spitting in the room, the smoakiiig, her pictures and attendance, 
 and chiefly she urged there was a great Lord there ; bidding us in plain Dutch words be content and 
 pay willingly, for if the Prince of Orange was there she would not abate one doit.'^ 
 
 His Lo'^'^ exile continued long after this time, winter, 16^, that the King's arrays and friends 
 in all his three kingdoms were defoiled and broken.'? Then his Lo'. (the spring time following, 
 or thereabouts) caused solicit O. C. (whohad made the capitulation afores'') to allow his return home, 
 which was granted by the Rump^° (so was the fagg end of the long parliament called), but with all 
 he must appear before the Council at Whitehall,^' where (as an innocent) I was petitioning for my 
 
 in the county of Wicklow. See pp. 156, 157, 182, 189, 
 supra. Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. vi. , p. 244. 
 
 '5 Hugh Montgomerv. — This was son of Mr. James 
 Montgomery, curate of Greyabbey, and Elizabeth Lind- 
 say, granddaughter of John Shaw of Greenoclc. By both 
 his father and mother, therefore, he was related to the 
 Montgomerys of Newtown and Rosemount. He is after- 
 wards mentioned by the author as his " fellow-ti'aveller in 
 the usurping times." He appears to have been a sort of 
 guardian to the author, William Montgomery, whilst the 
 latter was compelled to reside in Holland. 
 
 Hiiisbrenxj. — Huisbrow is a misprint for haiisfraii, 
 housewife or landlady. 
 
 '7 Maal bill. — Maal is also written wr?/ and viahl, sig- 
 nifying meal or repast. The landlady in this instance 
 charged for each repast without taking the trouble of 
 making out a regular account in writing. 
 
 1^ Abate one (/o/V. — Latin digitus, Dutch diiyt, Scotch 
 doyght. This word literally denotes so much brass 
 as can be covered by the tip of the finger. The 
 Dutch diiyt or doit was value for the eighth part of a 
 penny, or half a farthing. The small copper coin of this 
 name, formerly current in Scotland, was equal to one 
 penny Scots, or half a bodle. In Poems in the Buchaii 
 Dialect, p. 19, there is the following illustration : — 
 
 " The famous Hector did na care 
 A doii for a' your dird. " 
 
 " No worth a doit" is a phrase applied in' Scotland, and 
 in many parts of Ulster, to a person in extreme poverty. 
 Pope introduces the word in one of his poems thus : — 
 
 *' In Anna's wars, a soldier poor and old, 
 Had dearly earned a little purse of gold ; 
 Tired with his tedious march, one luckless night, 
 He slept, poor dog, and lost it to a doit." 
 
 — See Jamieson's and Johnson's Dictionaries. 
 
 Defoiled and broken. — The royal cause expired in 
 England at the battle of Worcester; in Ireland', at the 
 fall of Limerick ; and in Scotland, at the battle of Dunbar. 
 The strife was weakly maintained for a short time after- 
 wards in Scotland by the earl of Glencaim, general 
 Middleton, sir Arthur Forbes, and sir George Monro, but 
 the contest was virtually ended at Dunbar. 
 ^ Rump. — See p. 194, supra. 
 
 =' Council at Whitehall. — Seep. i82,note2S,«</ra. Soon 
 after the appointment of the council of state, in February, 
 1649, the members resolved that their meetings should be 
 held at Whitehall instead of Derby House. Accord- 
 ingly, on the 28th of May, the warrant for the clearmg of 
 Whitehall was issued, and required to be init into imme- 
 diate execution by the serjeant-at-arms. After that day, 
 the meetings of the council were discontinued at Derbv 
 House and held at Whitehall. On the 24th of May, the 
 council had reported to the parliament its desire that 
 "those houses and parks under named be kept for the 
 
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 199 
 
 birth-right at least to be admitted (no other Protestant) to a composition.^^ I was in Westminster 
 from June, 1652, to May, 1653 ; and when his Lo" came thither, he made the required appearance 
 afores''. No sooner had his Lo^ received his passport for Dubhn, to appear there in hke manner, 
 but he hasted gladly away, for he might be put to keep Major-Gen'. Rob*. Munro company (whom 
 we divers times formerly visited in the tower. )=3 Then being so dismissed, his Lo^ bro* me with 
 him to Dublin, and we loytered not by the way. His Lo'' having arrived at Dublin, he presented 
 his letters to the council and after some short stay, he came home and now obtained a breathing 
 
 public use of the Commonwealth and not sold — viz., 
 Whitehall House and St. James's Park, St. James's 
 House, Somerset House, Hampton Court and the Home 
 Park, Theobald's and the Parle, Windsor and the little 
 Park next the House, Greenwich House and Park, Hide 
 Park." — Bisset's Omitted Chapters in £nglish History, 
 p. loi. "The minutes of tire council of state," says 
 this writer at pp. I18 — 123, " lay open the whole system 
 of the machinery by which the government called the 
 Commonwealth of England did its work in a manner and 
 to an extent of which, as far as I know, no other State 
 papers in existence furnish an example. While those 
 minutes show with what indefatigable diligence, with 
 what rapid promptitude, unremitting vigilance and 
 courage, that work was done ; the results prove, by the 
 most infallible test, success, that the statesmanship which 
 predominated in its council of state was as sure-footed as 
 it was energetic and laborious. . . . The result 
 abundantly proves that a council of executive administra- 
 tion actually, and not merely nominally, consisting of a 
 number exceeding thirty members, was found to po^'^ess 
 unity, secrecy, expedition ; in short, all the qualities which 
 such a body ought to possess ; for never did any govern- 
 ment in any age or country evince greater ability for ad- 
 ministration than this council of state did at a time when 
 contending single-handed against nearly all the world." 
 
 To a composition. — This was a veiy difficult work 
 for the author, and at first it seemed as if utterly hopeless. 
 His father's well-known and unfaltering devotion to the 
 royal cause had doubtless hardened the republican au- 
 thorities generally against any claims to restoration put 
 forward by the son. Fortunately for him, however, the 
 Cromwells — Oliver and Henry — v/cre not the obdurate 
 and high-handed patriots which many of their adherents 
 proved to be, and which eventually lost to them all that the 
 genius and valour of the former had won. We have an il- 
 lustration of this in our author's case. When he applied to 
 the council for permission to compound forhis father's estate, 
 in other words, that it should not be wholly sequestered — - 
 but that he should be allowed a portion of its rents for his 
 support — the reply of the council was to the effect that 
 iJiey did not k}iow him at all ! He had probably not asked 
 for more than a third partoi the profits of his estate, which 
 was the proportion that protestant delinquents generally 
 were allowed by the commonwealth to enjoy. William 
 Montgomery afterwards appealed to the Protector himself, 
 and obtained a letter from Cromwell, dated 30th Septem- 
 ber, 1657, in which tlie latter " thought tit to let the 
 members of council know that Wiiliam Montgomery 
 should have, and enjoy to his own use, one full moiety of 
 all lands, goods, debts, credits, and chattels, as he has 
 made, or shall hereafter make appear, to have belonged to 
 
 his late father. " This letter is preserved in the Council 
 Book kept in the Birmingham Tower, Dublin. Such 
 liberal conduct on the part of Cromwell was in keeping 
 with his publicly expressed opinions on various occasions 
 in reference to the hardships inflicted on individuals by 
 his officials, probably under the stern pressure of necessity 
 to provide for the expenses of the government. "One 
 day in November, 1652, Cromwell, in the course of a 
 conversation with Whitelock, whom he had met in St. 
 James's park, amid some just enough objections against 
 the parliament, such as their designs to perpetuate them- 
 selves, and to continue the power in their own hands, also 
 stated their meddling in the institution of parliaments, and 
 their unjustness and partiahty in these matters. 
 Cromwell, in his speech of the 12th of September, 1654, 
 told the parliament then assembled, ' poor men, under 
 their arbitrary power, ^'^■ere driven like flocks of sheep, by 
 forty in the morning, to the confiscation of goods, and 
 estates, without any man being able to give a reason that 
 two of them had desei-ved to forfeit a shilling.' " — Bisset, 
 History of the Commonwealth of Iin;^la}id, vol. ii., ]3. 423. 
 
 =3 Visited in the tower. — Monro had been sent a i)risoner 
 from Carrickfergus in 1648, and was thus in the fifth year 
 of his imprisonment, in 1653. Although a captive, he 
 had personal influence with the Cromwells, arising from 
 his having had the command of the Scotch troops 
 which were afterwards commanded by Henry Crom\vell 
 in Ireland. To Monro's interposition, Mr. Banks, in his 
 sketch of the life of sir William Alexander, ascribes the 
 comparatively generous treatment which the third viscount 
 Montgomery received at the hands of the Cromwells, 
 father and son. Although lord Montgomery was among 
 those excepted from pardon of life and estate, in 1649, 
 yet he was soon permitted to return from exile and com- 
 pound for his estates. He was subjected unnecessaiily at 
 times to indignities and losses through some of Cromwell's 
 Irish officials, but he was no longer outlawed than the 
 circumstances of his case required. Mr. Banks in noticing 
 the re-marriage of Jean Alexander, the second viscountess 
 Montgomery, with general Robert Monro says: — "This 
 marriage was probably attended with many felicitous 
 circumstances, as well for the protection and happiness of 
 her late husband's family, as for that of her father. Her 
 (former) husband the 2nd Viscount Montgomeiy had died 
 in the Royal Cause, and her eldest son, the next (3rd) 
 Viscount, had suffered much both in person and fortune in 
 supporting the same: but through the influence of her 
 then husband, the generous-minded General Monro, he 
 was enabled to make his peace with Cromwell, and be 
 permitted to return, and remain undisturbed at his own 
 House, and enjoy the undi-rturbcd society of his relatives 
 and friends," 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 time for some months) to enjoy himself with his Lady and children, and his mother, sister, and 
 brother, to their mutual great comfort, and the rejoicings of the whole country; where I was before 
 him, Dublin not suiting with my light purse. 
 
 Now when I contemplate on his Lo^''" past and future sufferings, I am sometimes drawn to 
 think of the worldly implicities w'' (invariable times) attended persons of great spirit (such as his 
 Lo^) when as their neighbours (like his) of mean capacity in mind are suffered to rest at home un- 
 suspected.'''* This seems to be hard measure, but it is a fate imposed on the noble souls for their 
 outward glory, to go ^ ardua ad alia, and to make them strive for true happiness, and so the said 
 way is the high road to Heaven also. 
 
 But now again his Lo" was commanded up to Dublin (for his compositions business requr* his 
 attend"") therefore his Lo" took with him his Lady and children, and settled them at Milifont (his 
 brother-in-law the L' Vise' Moore's stately capacious house^^) where hospitality M'as kindly given to 
 them and requitted by allowance out of the interest payable for the forbearance of ceding the staple 
 bonds given for security of paying the marriage (portion) money afores''. But it seems the deluge 
 of troubles was not abated, for tho' his Lo^ was let out of confinement and was abroad and might 
 fly whither he pleased, yet he found no station of ease to the soles of his feet at Milifont. There 
 he must not be, nor haunt nor harbour long; for he might plot with his brother Moore, and by 
 their respective intelligence (w** came to them f" their several friends) they might hold multiplied 
 correspondence, and contrive disturbances ag' the state. This made the govemers at Dublin call 
 
 At hojnc iins!ispL'ctcd.—¥{\'^ neighbour, the earl of 
 Clanbrassil, was not only permitted to remain at home, 
 but was able to compound for his estate on easier terms 
 than viscount Montgomery. A bill was introduced in the 
 English parliament to confinn lord Clanbrassil's composi- 
 tion, on the 7th of March, 1656, and obtained the Protector's 
 consent on the 9th of June following. — English Commons 
 Jour mils, vol. vii., pp. 500, 553. When Cromwell as- 
 sumed the supreme po\\'er, one of his first measures was 
 to appoint, in .September, 1654, a deputy and council for 
 the administration of Irish affairs. His first despatch to 
 them contained a clause requiring that all protestants, 
 whose estates had been sequestered as delinquents, should 
 be allowed to compound for them. The earl of Clan- 
 brassil and viscount Montgomeiy petitioned to be allowed 
 to compound under this ordinance, and they were each 
 directed, by order of the council, dated 21st October, 1654, 
 to "forthwith bring in a particular of his whole real 
 estate, with titles thereto, together with what the full 
 yearly value was worth to be let for, or might have been 
 let for in 1640, and an estimate of what his personal estate 
 may be now really worth, so that a final despatch of the 
 matter may be made by the llth of December next." 
 Doubts, however, were entertained, for a time, as to 
 whether viscount Montgomery was entitled to the privilege 
 of compounding at all. On the 24th of Januaiy, 1657, 
 there is a memorandum of council to the effect that lord 
 Ardes' report of the value of his estates was not satisfac- 
 tory as regarded certain alleged mortgages and incum- 
 brances, and it was therefore sent bade to be amended. 
 On the I2th of Febraary, 1657, the council ordered that, 
 "on consideration of a report from the auditor-general of 
 the exchequer, the lord Ards be admitted to compound for 
 
 his real and personal estate for the sum of ;^3,ooo, to be 
 paid in four equal gales. " For the above extracts from the 
 Council Books preserved in the Birmingham Tower, 
 Dublin Castle, the editor is indebted to the kindness of 
 William Pinkerton, Esq., F. S.A., Hounslow, London. 
 
 ^5 Stately capacious house. — See p. 45, supra. "The 
 stately capacious house" of Mellifont was constructed by 
 rebuilding portions of the celebrated old abbey, and thus 
 converting it into a commodious family residence. This 
 was done by sir Edward Moore, the first of the family to 
 wdiom the abbey and lands were granted by queen Eliza- 
 beth, in 1565. The banquetting room at Mellifon 
 House was constructed from the beautiful chapel o 
 St. Bernard, once the pride of the abbey. Mellifont 
 which is distant about five miles from Drogheda, in the 
 romantic valley of the Mattock, continued to be the prin 
 cipal re^lidence of the Moores until the time of the fifth 
 earl of Drogheda, who was drowned in his passage from 
 England to Dublin, in October, 1758, and who had pre 
 viously removed his family from Mellifont to Monastereven 
 now Moore Abbey, in the county of Kildare. The family 
 at Mellifont, whose hospitality was so grateful to the third 
 viscount Montgomer}' and his household in 1653, con 
 sisted of Henry Moore, after^-ards first earl of Drogheda, 
 his lady Alice, who was a daughter of William, lord 
 .Spencer of Womr Layton, together with their three 
 .sons, Charles, Henr}', and William, the two former o 
 whom became in succession the second and third earls o 
 Drogheda ; and their three daughters, Alice, Maiy, and 
 Penelope, who afterwards became, respectively, thecountess 
 of Clanbrassil, the countess of Dalhousie, and lady 
 Slane. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. ii., pp. 92 — 108. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 his Lo" up hither, both to take away the comfort of that society and his conveniency of Hving 
 cheaper and more retired than elsewhere.^'' Likewise, at Newtown (among the disaffected) his 
 Lo'' must not be suffered to stay, with his friends and tenants and former officers dweUing in 
 neighbourhood. That place was too far from their jealous eye and from a ready close lodgings in 
 Dublin Castle. The s"^ Newtown was too near Scotland,^'' w'' (about this time) was uneasy to those 
 prevalent usurpers, by reason of Glencairn's,^'^ S'' Arthur Forbeses^^ and s'' S'' Geo. Monro's,^" &c. 
 parties, which stood up for the King a great while in the unpacefied lands. 
 
 Tha7t elseivherc. — The "governors at Dublin" in 
 1653 were lieutenant-general Charles Fleetwood, lieute- 
 nant-general Edmund Ludlow, Miles Corbet, John Jones, 
 and John Weaver, esqrs. , commissioners of government 
 under the parliament. — Liber Hibernia, vol. i., part ii. , 
 p. 7. Fleetwood was commander-in-chief of the army, 
 Ijesides being thus associated with the others in the civil 
 government. These commissioners declared by proclama- 
 tion that the rebellion had now been finally quelled and 
 the war in Ireland concluded, thus announcing the cessa- 
 tion of martial law throughout the whole country. The 
 commissioners forthwith commenced to raise money for 
 the purpose of granting pensions to all who had been 
 wounded or disabled in the public service, and also to 
 provide for the widows and children of such as had fallen 
 in battle. The forfeited lands were assigned exclusively 
 to satisfy the full arrears of those soldiers who had sewed 
 from the time of Cromwell's arrival, in August, 1649. 
 To those who had borne arms prior to that period, no 
 more was assigned than a small portion of lands in Wick- 
 low and the adjacent counties, which v.'as not sufficient to 
 pay more than a quarter of the arrears due to them. 
 This deficiency was supposed to arise from the difficulty 
 experienced by the authorities of 1653 in distinguishing 
 between those of that number of soldiers who were then 
 friendly to the parliament and those who were not. — Liber 
 LLiberniiv, vol. i. , part i. , p. 71. 
 
 Too near Scotland.. — This remark is the expression of 
 a literal fact ; for it was well known that the English 
 government and parliament were always expecting hostile 
 purposes on the part of the Ulster Scots. — See the extract 
 from Parliamentary Debates in 1656, quoted from Burton's 
 Diary, at page 65, supra. 
 
 =^ Glencairn. — This was William Cunniiigham, ninth 
 earl of Glencairn, who had been appointed a colonel of the 
 forces raised in 1644, throughout the counties of Ayr and 
 Renfrew, to place these districts in a posture of defence. 
 He afterwards commanded the royalist forces with great 
 ability in the Highland campaign of 1653-4. Of this 
 campaign, or rather expedition, a minute and interesting 
 account has been preserved by John Graham of IJeuchrie, 
 who was one of Glencairn's most active and gallant officers. 
 The reader may ?ee his narrative quoted entire in Pater- 
 son's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i , pp. 1 29, 
 132. In 1661, Glencairn was appointed principal sheriff 
 of Ayrshire, and bailie of Kyle-Stewart for life. At the 
 time of his death, in 1664, he held the appointment of 
 lord chancellor of Scotland. 
 
 ^9 Sr Arthur Forbesis. — Sir Arthur Forbes was grand- 
 son of William Forbes of Corse, in Lochiel and Cush- 
 nie, Aberdeenshire. The lands of Corse originally 
 came into the possession of the Forbes family in the 
 
 year 1476, when James III. granted them to his armour- 
 bearer, Patrick Forbes, third son of James, second 
 lord Forbes, who, in 1482, obtained a charter, under the 
 great seal, of the barony of O'Neill, comprising the lands 
 of Coul, Kincragy, and le Corss. Patrick Forbes was 
 succeeded in this property by his son David ; David by his 
 son Patrick ; and Patrick by his son William, who was 
 grandfather of the officer mentioned in the text. The 
 father of sir Arthur Forbes came to Ireland, and settled ' 
 in the county of Longford, about the year 1622. Soon 
 after his coming he was able to enrich himself by the dis- 
 co\'ery of several fishings in Ulster, which were supposed 
 rightfully to belong to the crown by forfeiture, and which 
 were afterwards granted to Forbes, together with the sum 
 of ^^'300, as a reward for his becoming informer in this maf- 
 ter. His son zealously espoused the royal cause in Scotland, 
 in conjunction with Glencairn, sir George Monro, and gene- 
 ral Middleton. On the failure of their efforts in 1654, he 
 returned to Ireland, and was permitted by the parliament 
 to hold his estates in the counties of Longford and Lei- 
 trim, in consideration that he had never opposed the par- 
 liamentary authority in Ireland. He was afterwards an 
 active agent in the restoration of Charles II. In 1684 he 
 was created earl of Granard, and died in 1695, leaving a 
 family by his wife, Catharine, a daughter of sir Robert 
 Newcomen of Mosstown, in the county of Longford. 
 This lady had been previously married to sir Alexander 
 Stewart, who was slain at the battle of Dunbar. — Nnu 
 Statistical Accou7it of Scotland, Aberdeenshire, pp. I log- 
 in 7 ; Lodge, Peerage of Lrcland, edited by Archdall, 
 voh ii., pp. 193-5. 
 
 3" Sir Ceo. Alonro. — Sir George was of the family of 
 Fowlis, and was nephew or son-in-law (probably both) 
 to general Robert Monro. He was always a steady 
 royalist, and served with distinction, although generally 
 without success, in Scotland and in Ulster. The author 
 of Tlie IMoutgoiucry Manuscripts states, p. 191, supra, that 
 Monro was blamed for mismanagement at the battle of 
 Lisnastrain. Graham of Deuchrie, has left the following 
 account of a quarrel between sir George Monro and lord 
 Glencairn, at a place called Lochearne, where there was a 
 gathering of Highland royalists, in August, 1653. At a 
 meeting in Glencairn's quarters, the latter, addressing gene- 
 ral lord Middleton, said — " My lord general, you see what 
 a gallant army these worthy gentlemen present (viz., Mac- 
 donnell of Glengarry, Cameron of Lochiel, Graham of 
 Deuchrie, MacGregor of Invereg, Robertson of Strowan, 
 and Macnachtane of Macnachtane) and I have gathered 
 together, at a time when it could hardly be expected that 
 any member durst meet ; these men have come out to 
 serve his majesty at the hazard of their lives, and of all 
 that is dear to them ; I hope, therefore, you will give them 
 
202 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 When his Lo^ had stayed at Dublin awhile under their malevolent aspects (especially Forbitt's 
 evil eye)3' who told his 1,0^ he hoped to see his head off, allowance was given to his Lo"* (for re- 
 covering his health, much impaired at Dublin), that he might retire to the of Howth's (on his 
 warranty of his being forth-coming when called for). This was his Lo'''' next best retreat, he had a 
 full freedom and the delightful and endearing company of (always) his most beloved Lady and 
 sweet children, and of the ladys of the house, they being his kindred by blood tho' by this re- 
 
 all the encouragement to do their duty that lies in your 
 power." On this up started sir Geo. Monro from his 
 seat, and said to lord Glencairn — "By G — , mj' lord, the 
 men you speak of are nothing but a number of tliieves and 
 robbers ; and, ere long, I will bring another sort of men 
 to the field." On which, Glengarry started up, thinking 
 himself most concerned ; but lord Glencairn desired him 
 to forbear, saying — " Glengarrie, I am more concerned in 
 this affi'ont than you are." Then, addressing himself to 
 Monro, said — " You, sir, are a base liar ; for they are 
 neither thieves nor robbers, but gallant gentlemen, and 
 good soldiers." This affair ended in a duel between Glen- 
 cairn and Monro, in which the latter was vanquished, but 
 not slain. Paterson's ParisJics and Families of Ayrslm'e, 
 vol. i., pp. 130, 131. The reader may see notices of this 
 sir George Monro in Mackay's House and Clan of Mackay, 
 pp. 296, 325, 368, 385, 392, 460. 
 
 3' Forbitfs evil eye. — Forbitt is a misprint for Corbitt 
 or Corhett. This was Miles Corbett, W'ho was sent to 
 Dublin by Cromwell, in 1653, as a commissioner for the 
 regulation of forfeited estates, in wlrich office he was asso- 
 ciated with sir John Temple, grandfather of the first vis- 
 count Palmerston. Their duty as commissioners was to 
 consider how the titles to forfeited estates in Ireland, and 
 likewise thedelinquenciesof tlieir owners, according to their 
 respective claims or qualifications, might be most speedily 
 and exactly adjudicated, v.'ithout prejudice to the public 
 interest, or injvistice to individuals. Corbett was afterwards 
 appointed chief baron, when the Rump parliament re- 
 sumed its sittings after the death of Cromwell. He 
 assisted also in administering the affairs of the Irish 
 government during the interval between Henry Crom- 
 well's resignation of the lord lieutenancy and the arrival 
 of the three regularly appointed commissioners, Jones, 
 Basill, and Goodwin. On the Restoration in 1660, Cor- 
 bett, colonel Jones, and general Ludlow were impeached 
 together for treasonable practices in Ireland, but Corbett 
 made his escape, for a time, to the continent. When 
 the royalists, however, got thoroughly settled in their 
 seats of authority, he was treacherously seized, in 1662, 
 by a former associate, and brought to England. On the 
 1 2th of March, in that year, Samuel Pepys made the fol- 
 lowing entry in his Diary: — "This morning, we had news 
 from Mr. Coventry that Sir G. Downing, like a perfidious 
 rogue, though the action is good, and of service to the 
 King, yet he cannot with a good conscience do it, hath 
 taken Okey, Corbet, and Barkestead at Delfe, in Holland, 
 and sent them home in the Blaekainore. Sir W. Pen, 
 talking to me this afternoon of wliat a strange thing it is 
 for Downing to do this, told me of a speech he (Down- 
 ing) had made to the Lords States of Holland, telling 
 them to their faces that he observed that he was not re- 
 ceived with the respect and observance now that he was 
 when he came from the traitor and rebell, Cromwell ; — by 
 
 whom, I am sure, he got all that he hath in the world, 
 and they know it, too." This Do^\^ling had been for- 
 merly a chaplain to Okey, whom he afterwards be- 
 trayed. Through his employer's interest he was sent by 
 Cromwell to Holland as a resident agent there. At the 
 Restoration he became a violent royalist, was knighted, 
 elected M.P. for Morpeth, appointed secretary to the 
 treasuiy and commissioner of the customs, created baronet 
 of Last Heatley in Cambridgeshire, and again sent to 
 Holland as an ambassador from the court of Charles II. 
 On the 19th of April, 1662, Pepys made the following 
 entry: — "This morning I went to Aldgate, and at the 
 corner shop, a draper's, I stood and saw Barkestead, 
 Okey, and Corbet drawne towards the gallows at Tibume; 
 and there they were hanged and quartered. They all looked 
 very cheerful ; but I hear they all died defending what 
 they did to the King to be just, which is very strange. — 
 Diary, edited by lord Braybrooke,- vol. i. pp. 264, 272. 
 Corbitt's memory is stained by certain arbitrary and cruel 
 acts done by him in Ireland. Among these, was his tak- 
 ing forcible "possession of Malahide castle, six miles 
 northward from Dublin, the ancestral seat of the ancient 
 English family of the Talbols from before the days of King 
 John. The chief baron's house and family, it appears, 
 had been visited by the plague in tlie summer of 1653 ; 
 wherefore, he got an order for Malahide castle, then occu- 
 pied by Mr. John Talbot, ancestor of the present Lord 
 Talbot de Malahide, who was ordered instantly to trans- 
 plant to Connaught, and the chief baron, at Christinas, 
 took up his residence at Malahide castle." — fournal of the 
 Kilkenny and Soiith-Easi of Ireland Archesological Society, 
 new series, vol. iii., p. 172. Corbett's treatment of the 
 Bagnalls of Dunlec'fcney was still more shocking. As 
 one of the govemment, he authorised the detention of 
 colonel Bagnall, although a hostage, and after.vards sanc- 
 tioned his execution, which was superintended by Axtell, 
 at Kilkenny, and which occasioned the death of his wife 
 soon afterwards. A John Corbett, nephew (or as some 
 supposed the son) of Miles Corbett, was put into possession 
 of Bagnall's lands of Dunleckney, and soon aftenvards 
 married a daughter of the man who had fallen a ^^ctim to 
 their lieartless policy! — Ibid, pp. 71, 73. 
 
 3^ Kindred by blood. — This relationship arose from the 
 marriage of his grand-uncle, bishop George Montgomery's 
 only child Jane, with Nicholas St. Lawrence, twenty-third 
 lord of Howth. The family al Howth castle at that period 
 consisted of old lady Howth (Jane Montgomeiy), together 
 with her son William, twenty-fourth baron Howth, and 
 her two unmarried daugliters, Elizabeth and Margaret. 
 Her eldest daughter, .Susanna, married Michael St. 
 Lawrence, esq., and her third daughter, Frances, had 
 become the third wife of sir James Montgomeiy of Rose- 
 mount. She died in 1648. — Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 
 edited by Archdall, vol. iii., p. 201, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
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 move he must make his purse lighter, w'' was troublesome for weight, since S' Luis Dives33 saw him, 
 it being exhausted by the publick service, by his removals, banishm% and many confinements, as 
 shall be further s"* hereafter. 
 
 I do believe the usurpers had it for a necessary maxim to impoverise the Royal Party, pinching 
 them by considerable crooked serpentine ways last spoken of, and by their composition money 
 and untolerable taxes on their lands (whereof their rents must answer near to the half, having no 
 consideration of creditors; but that they might take the other half moiety, and so starve the family, 
 and also by tying them to all attendancies as afores''. This hardship (used to such as his Lo^) must, 
 oblige them to borrow money, w** cou'd not be had but on land and personal collateral security, 
 and if any of Oliver's men (who had the baggs) lent. What the other party needed, those huksters 
 (who, from robbers, were now become usurpers) for sure w'' put them to expensive suits at law, as 
 I found in my own case ; for Colo. Barrowston34 (at one and the same time) sued myself and both 
 my bail kinsmen severally; or else if any of those pinched Cavaliers (so K. C. the first's party, 
 were called, as the parliament's were nicknamed Roundheads)35 had money to spare, they wanted 
 
 33 Sir Luis Dives. — Seep. 181, supra. 
 
 ^ Colo. Barroioston. — Ban-owston is a misprint for 
 Barroiifs son. Colonel Robert Barrow succeeded colonel 
 Venables in command of the forces in northern Ulster. 
 In 1652, the government of the commonwealth let the 
 lands and house of Rosemount, the author's property, 
 as a forfeited estate to this colonel Barrow, whose son 
 afterwards acted in the manner complained of in the text. 
 Colonel Barrow was quite a decided religionist, professing 
 anabaptist principles in opposition to the independents and 
 presbyterians. Tie signed the order in 1 65 1, for I'^e re- 
 moval of such presbyterian ministers as could not submit 
 to the government of the commonwealth. This order was 
 soon afterwards relaxed; but Adair states that in 1654, 
 while Barrow resided in Down (no doubt at Rosemount), 
 he was excited against the presbyterians by "the old 
 episcopal party, who, now when the power was out of 
 their own hands, to afflict the Presbytery, did insinuate on 
 those who had power, as they did now with the sectaries, 
 to incense them against the liberty the ministers had, and 
 against their discipline and public solemnities at com- 
 munions, &c. ; besides, suggesting that these their meetings 
 were dangerous to the state, and that they had therein 
 consultations for strengthening their own faction. This 
 so wrought with an Anabaptist governor. Colonel Barrow, 
 in the county of Down, that he_ became highly incensed, 
 and jealous of these meetings, and reso'vctl to use his 
 -endeavours to obtain an order for suppressing them." 
 Adair, however, goes on to state that an acquaintance 
 of Barrow having Ijeen present at the celebration of the 
 communion held by the presbyterians of Portaferry, re- 
 ported so favourably of them and their religious sei-vices, 
 that "Colonel Barrow, being a man pretending to much 
 piety, and though of Anabaptist principles, yet not of a 
 malicious disposition, from this time had more respect to 
 thj^ ministers, and used not his interest to suppress their 
 liberty in the countiy. " — True Narrative, pp. 180, 207, 
 208. 
 
 35 Cavaliers — Roundheads. — These terms were invariably 
 employed by the two parties towards each other in reproach 
 and contempt. The royalists were regarded by their op- 
 
 ponents as a crew of atheists, papists, and voluptuaries ; 
 v/hilst the roundheads were believed by the cavaliers to be 
 simply a parcel of knaves, hypocrites, and traitors. The 
 latter were called 7-oundheadshtca.v.'!,e: they cropped their hair 
 short, " dividing it," says the writer of the Life of Colonel 
 Hutehijtson, p. 100, "into so many little peaks, as was 
 something ridiculous to behold." "The godly of those 
 days," he continues, "when the colonel embraced their 
 party would not allow him to be religious, because his 
 hair was not in their cut, nor his words in their phrase. " — 
 Lingard, Llistory of England, vol. viii. , p. 3, note. 
 William Lilly, in his ISIonarchy or No Alonarchy in Eng- 
 land, part ii., edition of 165 1, describes the roundheads 
 thus: — "Most of them were either such as had public 
 spirits, or lived a more religious life than the vulgar, and 
 were usually called Puritans, and had suffered under the 
 tyranny of the Ijishops. In the general they were veiy 
 honest men and well-meaning : some particular fools, or 
 others, perhaps, now and then, got in amongst them 
 greatly to the disadvantage of the more sober. They were 
 modest in tlieir apparel, but not in their language ; they 
 had the hair of their heads very few of them longer than 
 their ears, whereupon it came to pass that those who usually 
 with their cries attended at Westminster, were by a 
 nickname called Roundheads. " The contemptuous names 
 of cavalier and roundhead were first publicly used by the 
 two parties towards each other during the tumults and 
 riots of the 23rd and 24th of December, 1641. "That 
 the word Cavalier, not necessarily a term of reproach, 
 was unquestionably used in that sense on the occasion of 
 these tumults (probably to connect its French origin with 
 the un-English character of the defenders of the Queen 
 and her French papist adherents to whom it was chiefly 
 applied), appears from the fact that it is bandied about in 
 declarations alternately issued on the eve of the year by 
 the parliament and the king ; the latter speaking of it more 
 than once as a word much in disfavour. And, after the 
 standard on either side was unfurled — nay, when the battle 
 of Edgehill had been fought — Charles elaborately accuses 
 his antagonists, 'pretenders to peace and charity,' he calls 
 them ; charging them also with a 'hateful attempt to render 
 
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 not good will to lend it to their distressed comrades and fellow-sufferers for loyalty: then the dis- 
 bursing that or any other ways did weaken them all; but these intruding rulers delighted most to 
 see the King's friends worry one another at law, and perhaps they put our 3d Vise*, to the greater 
 hardships that his necessity might force him to sue his brother Moore afors^j^s for they encouraged 
 privately animositys among the loyalists, and publicly let loose upon them all their creditors like 
 fierce mastives, whom the wars had for some years chained up.37 Our Vise', had no reason obliging 
 
 all persons of honour, courage, and reputation, odious to 
 the common people, under the style of Cavaliers, insomuch 
 as the highways and villages have not been safe for gentle- 
 men to pass through without violence or affront. ' Even in 
 the very earliest popular songs on the king's side, the word 
 has not the place it afterwards assumed, and one meets 
 ■with royalist poets of a comparatively sober vein — 
 
 " Who iieither love for fashion nor for fear, 
 As far from Roundhead as from Cavalier.*' 
 
 D'Ewes's earliest uses of the word in his MS. ymirnal I 
 find under dates of Monday, loth January; and Friday, 
 March 4th, 1641-2; and Friday, 3rd June, 1642. In the 
 first he is spealcing of parties who had been seen suspici- 
 ously entering the tower ; in the second, of the Cavaliers 
 at Whitehall, who wounded the citizens ; and in the last, 
 of the king's party in Yorkshire. Of the word Roundhead, 
 on the other hand, and the mixed fear and hatred it re- 
 presented and provoked, decidedly the most characteristic 
 example is furnished by the ever quaint and entertaining 
 bishop Hackett, who ( Scrinia Resa-ata, ii., 20"],) tells a 
 story of a certain honest and worthy vicar of Hampshire 
 who always (in such manner as to evade the notice of one 
 section of his hearers while he secretly pleased the other) 
 changed one word in the last verse of the Te Dtiim: — O 
 Lord in thee have I trusted, let me iin'er be a Roundhead.'''' 
 — Forster, Arrest of the Five Meinba's by Charles the First, 
 pp. 62, 63, note. Baxter, Narrative, p. 34, accounts 
 for the origin of the name Roundhead thus: — "The 
 original of which name is not certainly known. .Some 
 say it was because the Puritans then commonly wore 
 short hair, and the king's party long hair. Some 
 say it was because the Queen at .Strafford's trial asked 
 who that round-headed man was, meaning Pym, be- 
 cause he spake so strongly." Rushworth, iii. , 1247, 
 referring to a violent expression of one captain David 
 Hide, viz. , that " he'' cut the throats of those round-headed 
 dogs that bawled against bishops," observes that it, "as 
 far as I could ever leam, was the first miniting of that 
 term or compellation of Roundheads which afterwards 
 grew so general." By the word "miniting" in this sen- 
 tence, Forster thinks that Rushworth meant minting or 
 coinage. Hide used the term on the 27th December, but 
 it had been freely used in the riots of the 23rd and the 
 24th of the same month. See Arrest of the Five Members, 
 p. 62, and page 185, note. For notices of the cavaliers 
 and roundheads, see also Macaulay's History of England, 
 vol. i., pp. loi — 4. 
 
 3* Brother Moore afores'l. — Viscount Montgomery at 
 this period had been reduced to great distress, indeed to 
 absolute want, by the delays of officials in making arrange- 
 ments about his composition. In April, 1656, he was 
 allowed ^4 per week by the council, to relieve his necessi- 
 ties in prison. On October 18, same year, he obtained 
 /^loo, to be repaid when he could compound, and on 
 
 31st January, he was allowed £20 on same terms. — 
 Council Book in Birmingliam Tower, DiMin. Henry 
 Moore, brother of lady Montgomery, had given bonds 
 of the staple, as security for her marriage dowry, but 
 was unable, from the pressure of weightier debts, to 
 meet viscount Montgomery's claim. Viscount Moore was 
 but a life-renter in his estate, and to add to his embarrass- 
 ments, the parliament sequestered his property. On his 
 petition, in April, 1653, "he was permitted to enjoy one 
 full third part thereof, and to receive the issues and profits 
 till further order, paying contribution, and other country 
 charges; also upon his further .setting forth, that his estate 
 was extended for the satisfaction of a debt to Walter 
 Burrowes and others, and liable to several other burthens, 
 M'hereby he was reduced, and like to continue in a very sad 
 and distressed condition, without any manner of relief for 
 the support of himself and family ; the government, lO 
 October, 1653, ordered, that his house of Mellefont, the 
 park with the deer therein, and 300 acres of land, in such 
 places next adjoining, and lying close together, as he 
 should chuse, should be exempted from the power of such 
 extents, for tlie maintenance of himself and family. And 
 further, upon his petition touching a composition for his 
 estate, an order of reference was directed, 10 Januar}-, 
 1654, to the commissioners general of the revenue, requir- 
 ing them to consider thereof; who returned that the total 
 of his yearly estate did amount to ^^4087 15s and that the 
 yearly quit-rents payable thereout were £h\\ 3s 6d that 
 lie might be admitted to compound for the remainder, 
 being ;^3476 I is 6d, at two years' purchase, amounting to 
 ;^6953 3s. And his lordship returning his personal estate 
 to be worth £200 only, he was to pay £20 for that by way 
 of fine, for which he had an order of composition, 5 
 P'ebruary, to pay the same as follows, viz. ^2000 I 
 August, 1655, ^2000 I February, 1655, ;^20OO I August, 
 1656, and ^973 3s at or before the end of two years from 
 I February, 1654." — '\^<iAg^, Peei-age of Ireland, &dL\X.tA.tiy 
 Archdall, vol. ii., pp. 106, 107. See also Dublin Penny 
 jfonrnal, vol. i., p. 25 1. 
 
 37 Chained 7ip. — Tliis conduct on the part of go^•e^l- 
 ment officials was very different from that which Oliver 
 Cromwell would ha^'e wished under the circumstances. 
 In 1650, he addressed the following letter to " Collonel 
 Hueson, governor of Dublyn," on behalf of this viscoimt 
 Moore : — 
 
 " Sir, — The Lord Viscount Moore having had passes and protec- 
 tion from me to repaire to Mellifont, in the countie of Louthe, and 
 there to reside during the ?ipace of si.x nioneths next ensuing ; I de- 
 sire you tliat the said Lord Moore during his stay at Mellifont, and 
 if he shall, during the said time, have occasion to repaire to Dublyn. 
 to the Commission" there, that he may he fairly and civilly treated 
 and that no incivility or abuse be offered unto him, by any of the 
 souldiery, either by restrayning of his libertie or otherwise, it 
 being a thing wch I altogether disapprove and dislike, that the 
 souldiers should intermeddle in civil affaires farther than they are 
 lawfidly called upon. Vour care herein will obleige the said Lord 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 205 
 
 him to gratify the desires of the Government any way, much less troubling his brother Moore for 
 his Lady's portion money to make their common enemies sport, and he was so far from suing for 
 it that he borrowed from Dr. Colvills^ ^^looo, to pay his own composition; and that portion money 
 
 in relation to his p-sent condition, and will be well accepted by— 
 Yr. loving flfriend, 
 
 "O. Cromwell. 
 
 "May 22, 1650." 
 
 The lone of this letter evidently implies that there must 
 have existed unnecessary harshness, such as the author 
 describes in the text, in the administration of affairs at 
 Dublin. The foregoing letter was published in the Aii- 
 thologia Hibernica, 1 793, vol. i., p. 1 70, being sent by 
 Joseph C. Walker, esq. , to whom the original belonged. 
 The MS. had been pre\'iously in the possession of Dean 
 Swift, and was endorsed by his own hand thus : — "Let- 
 ter of Oliver Cromwell, g. me by Mr. J. Grattan, Nov. 
 14, 1736." 
 
 3^ From Br. Colvill. — For this clergyman's appoint- 
 ments, see p. 140, supra. Dr. ColviUe's great wealth ren- 
 dered him a person of much importance. He was able to 
 lend money to hapless royalists, to give sound advice to 
 parliamentary commissioners, and even to defy certain 
 violent attempts at domination on the part of the presby- 
 tery. Adair's account of him, True Narrative, pp. 130, 
 131, is amusing :— " The Presbytery at this time (1646), 
 and awhile before, did use great diligence to convince Dr. 
 ColvUle of divers unsuitable carriages, both in private dis- 
 course \vith some of their number, and by summoning him 
 before the presb>'tery, and had witnesses to prove the alle- 
 gations against him. But he never appeared, except one 
 time, before the commissioners at Belfast, when he 
 would not direct his speech to the Moderator, but to 
 the commissioners. He had also beforehand appUed 
 to the commissioners, \'indicating himself, and insinuat- 
 ing on them. Upon this, they desired the Presbytery to 
 deal with him as favourably as they could, in regard 
 they had use for the Doctor in reference to their affairs in 
 the countiy, he being a man knowing that way. The 
 Presbytery had gone so far before the commissioners came 
 over that he was publickly prayed for, in order to excom- 
 munication. Yet, thereafter, they found it not convenient 
 to proceed further." Dr. Colville was reported to have 
 been a sorcerer, and to have sold himself to the de\-il — a 
 report which was probably invented to account lor his great 
 wealth. It is not improbable that among his " divers un- 
 suitable carriages" this charge of sorcer>' would have had due 
 prominence before the presbytery. The members of that 
 body beheved in witchcraft as firmly as in their own exist- 
 ence, and it would have been a hazardous matter, therefore, 
 for Colville to have submitted himself to their jurisdiction. 
 For a famous case of witchcraft, in which the rev. James 
 Shaw of Cammoney, and hi* wife, were the victims, see 
 MS. Minutes of the Meeting of Antrim, from July, 1671, 
 to December, 1691; Adair's True Narrative, p. 299; 
 Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. ii., p. 303, 
 note. The rev. Robert Law, in his Memorials; or. Me- 
 morable things, &^c.,from 1638 to 1684, p. 219, tells a 
 cunous and amusing story of a woman wlio had lived as a 
 servant in the house of Dr. Colville, and who, on her re- 
 moval aften\-ards to Scotland, was charged with the crime 
 of sorcer}', which she admitted, acknowledging that she 
 had learned the art whilst in his service, it being practised 
 
 by the rev. doctor himself ! This unfortimate mtch, on 
 going to Scotland, was employed as a servant in the family 
 of major-general Robert Montgomery, fifth son of the sixth 
 earl of Eglinton, who married the daughter of James 
 Livingstone, first \dscount Kilsythe, and resided at Ir\'ine. 
 From this point of the narrative we permit the rev. Robert 
 Law to continue it in his own words, as follows : — "There 
 being some things of silver work stoUen in that house from 
 his lady, there is a servant woman of their own they blame 
 for them; the lass, being innocent, takes it ill, and tells them 
 if she should raise the devil she would know who took the 
 things that were missed, which they let pass lightly as a 
 rash word ; but she, being resolute, was as good as her 
 word ; and on a day goes down to a laich cellar, takes the 
 Bible with her, and draws a circle about her, and turns a 
 riddle on end twice from south to north, or from the right 
 to the left hand, having in her hand nine feathers which 
 she pulled out of the tail of a black cock ; and having read 
 the 51st (?) forward, she read backwards chapter ix. verse 
 19 of the Book of the Revelations, he appears in seaman's 
 cloathing, with a blew cap, and asks what she would ; she 
 puts one question to him, and he answers it ; and she 
 casts three of the feathers at him, charging him to liis 
 place again ; then he disappears at this time. He seemed 
 to her to rise out of the earth to the middle body. She 
 read again the same verse backward the second^ime, and 
 he appears the second time rising out of the ground, with 
 one leg above the groimd ; she asks a second question, and 
 she casts other three feathers at him, charging him to his 
 place ; he again disappears. She reads again the third 
 time the same verse backward, and he appears the third 
 time with his whole body above ground (the last two times 
 in the shape of a gi'im man in black cloathing, and the last 
 time with a long tail) ; she asks a third question at him, 
 and casts the last three feathers at him, charging him to 
 his place ; and he disappears. The major-general and lus 
 lady being above stairs, though not knowing what was a 
 working, were sore affraid, and could give no reason of it, 
 the dogs of the city making a hideous barking round about. 
 This done, the woman, in a gast, and pale as death, comes 
 and tells her lady who had stolen her things she missed, 
 and that they were in such a chest in her house, belonging 
 to some of the servants, which, bemg searched, was found 
 accordingly. Some of the servants suspecting her to be 
 about this work, tells the major of it, and tells him they 
 saw her go down to the cellar. He lays her up in prison ; 
 and she confesses, as is before related, telling them that 
 she had learned it in Dr. Cohan's house in Ireland, who 
 used to practise this. This was a high tempting of God. 
 From this anecdote, and others of a like nature, it would 
 seem that Satan is fond of appearing in blue." See also 
 Fraser's Memorials, vol. i., pp. 8 1, 82. Dr. Colville is 
 traditionally said to have first settled as a physician in the 
 little village of Galgorm, near Ballymena. He is reported 
 also to have found his vast wealth in the shape of a crock 
 of gold, whilst fishing in the Main water. Another tradi- 
 tion, with more probability, affirms that his riches were 
 derived from the sale of a Scottish estate, bequeathed to 
 him by a wealthy kinsman, who was compelled to leave 
 
 D J 
 
206 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 was not called for till long after his Lop'' death (by the ex" ) for payment of his debts, which then 
 (by misfortunes) grew up yearly and plentifully like hemlock and thistles in the furrows of his son 
 (a minor) his estate. 
 
 This unactive manner of living at Millifont and Howth, and the temptation of a bottle of wine 
 (which in the city was often offered and accepted the loyalists to remove heaviness of heart, to 
 forget poverty and to remember misery no more) made his Lo^^^corpulent and unhealthy; yet this 
 infirmity of his body was not regarded by Corbet and his gang, but his Lo" was enjoyned to present 
 himself at theif council door twice a week, and dance attendance there till word was sent out that 
 he sh'' come in or might retire himself; which dancing (without musick) being troublesome and 
 costly, and his Lady falling sickly at Howth, necessitated his Lo"" to remove her with his family to 
 dwell in Dublin, where (her Lad"'' distemper encreasing upon her) she died, and was buried as the 
 times w* allow; and his Lo^ expressed his grief and her worth in an excellent elogy of his own com- 
 posure, which I have still by me. 39 
 
 After his Lo" had continued some small time in Dublin, and settled his children in Orthodox 
 schools,'^" or had them sent to his mother, &c. After this great misfortune, whither Corbett's malicious 
 maggot bit him, or the council for private reasons thought fit, (perhaps some of the former motives 
 urging it) his Lo'' was sent prisoner to Kilkenny, where he fell sick in body (his grief in mind con- 
 tributing great help to forw"* and encrease this disease) and there continued some months, and in 
 long run his Lo'' petitioned and had leave to come to Leixlip, and to stay at Madarn White's (his 
 Lady's aunt's house) seven miles to Dublin;"" and his Lo" a little recovering, he was commanded to 
 Dublin (where he being now a single person) was more than formerly watched by spies on his words 
 and actions. Thus they had placed him (without promotion) in slippery places, that he might slide 
 and fall into the pitts they had digged (and in the snares he had laid) wontly for him. Thus his 
 Ld^ continued in Dublin (as it were on the brink of perdition) soliciting liberty to attend his 
 affairs in the country, and to provide payment of his composition money. At last, upon bail he 
 was suffered to go home, and so he did;"*^ and by the way (as always his custom coming and going 
 
 Scotland, and had ended his days under the doctor's roof. 
 See Dublin Penny Journal, vol. ii., p. 412. 
 
 39 Which I have still by 7ne. — The third viscount's first 
 wife, Mary Moore, died in 1655, seven years after their 
 marriage. She was born in 1631, so that at the time of 
 her death she was only in the twenty-fifth year of her age. 
 She left one daughter, Jean, who died at Chester, un- 
 married, in 1673, and four sons, Charles, Hugh, Henry, 
 and Jolin, the first and last named dying when they were 
 children. 
 
 4" Orthodox schools. — By "orthodox schools" the author 
 evidently means places of education considered free from 
 the taint of presbyterian, puritan, or anabaptist doctrines, 
 all which were more or less prevalent at that period in 
 Dublin. 
 
 Seven miles from Dublin.— aunt of lady Mont- . 
 gomery was Ursula Moore, her father's eldest sister, who 
 was married to sir Nicholas White of Leixlip, in the 
 county of Kildare.— Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by 
 Archdall, vol. ii. , p. 100. 
 
 And so he did. — The Council Books preserved in the 
 
 Birmingham Tower, Dublin, contain a few entries refer- 
 ring to viscount Montgomery's frequent imprisonments. 
 On the 2lst May, 1655, there is the following: — 
 " Touching the petition of Hugh lord Montgomery with 
 his family, he is allowed to go into the count}' of DowTi 
 where his estates are, tliere to reside, acting nothing to 
 the disturbance of the publick peace or present govern- 
 ment under his Highness the Lord Protector." By a 
 memorandum of 15th Febniary, 1656, it appears that 
 viscount Montgomery was imprisoned at Kilkenny; then 
 allowed to go to Naas for his health ; then to come to 
 Dublin, being ordered to stay at Leixlip, and not to re- 
 move t« o miles from it. In the same year he was impri- 
 soned in Dublin, but released on account of his health, 
 he engaging not to leave Dublin, or to act in any way 
 prejudicially to the government. All this poverty and im- 
 prisonment he had to endure after his return from exile in 
 Holland. The foregoing curious corroborations of the text 
 from the Council Books were kindly supplied by William 
 I'inkerton, Esq., F.S.A., Hounslow, London, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 207 
 
 was) he visited Millifont and came to Newtown, where, watering his empty couch with his sorrow- 
 full tears for some nights, he was persweaded to reside with his mother at M* Alexander; whose 
 desolate case (as to a conjugal bedfellow) was all one with her sou's, his Lo", they spoke comfort to 
 one another : the news of her husband's health'13 and hopes of his enlargement, and our Ld'" 
 children being boarded with a careful friend within three days journey, and his sister and brother 
 M. to attend him with their best caresses, and the visits of friends, and sometimes business, these 
 were all the visible alloys of melancholy w'' the s"^ mother and son had, yet their good God (as he 
 gave those) added the comforts of his spirit, and gave them grace to trust in his delivery and salva- 
 tion, w*" gift was always sufficient for them. 
 
 About this time, her Lad^'" husband, the afdres'* Major-Gen', was released from the tower of 
 London, and had a pass to return by Dublin, (w*" citie he never had seen till now, he had landed 
 there) for so he was enjoined to do. His s** Lo"", after some months stay, was called up again, with 
 w*" he was well pleased, being informed that the former Governors were laid aside, and Hen^. 
 Cromwell was to be L"^ Deputy ^^'^ his father, Oliver, (as Protector) having regal power, his Lo^. now, 
 hoped for more fav"" than t" the Rump Republicans, Anabaptists, Independents, or such like locusts, 
 w*" the bottomless basis of anarchy had vomited upon us.'ts It was likely that O. C. to ingratiate 
 himself with the gentry, and that they might not countenance the s"" locusts (who now were a 
 common enemy to them both) would mitigate the compositions,'*'" or give long gales for payment 
 (because his exchequer was full,'*'' and he had all the undisposed forfeited Irish and Bishop's lands 
 
 43 Husband's hcallh. — Monro was still in the Tower, 
 but soon afterwards obtained his liberty. 
 
 Ld- Deputy. — Oliver Cromwell, "reposing special 
 trust and confidence in ye wisdom, prudence, fidelity, 
 provident circumspection, and industry of his dearly 
 beloved son, Henry Cromwell, appointed him, November 
 17, 1657, his deputy-general of his realm of Ireland, to 
 hold from the date of the patent for and during the term 
 of three years, and by the same patent constituted him 
 governor and commander-in-chief of the army and forces 
 in Ireland during pleasure." — Liber HibernicE, vol. i., 
 part ii., p. 8. 
 
 ••5 Vomited upon us. — Fleetwood was deputy or chief 
 governor in 1654. In 1655, the duties of this office were 
 performed by four commissioners, namely, Henry Crom- 
 well, Matthew Tomlinson, Miles Corbet, and Robert 
 Goodwin. In 1656, William Steel was added. In 1657, 
 Henry Cromwell was deputy, as above-mentioned. In 
 
 1658, he was re-appointed by his brother Richard. In 
 
 1659, Edmund Ludlow, John Jones, Matthew Tomlinson, 
 Miles Corbet, and William Bury, as commissioners of 
 parliament, discharged the duties from the 7th of May to 
 the 7th of July. At the latter date, colonel John Jones, 
 William Steel, sergeant-at-law, Robert Goodwin, esq., 
 colonel Matthew Tomlinson, and Miles Corbet, sergeant- 
 at-law, were appointed by act of parliament in England. 
 This act declared that " ye administration of ye Govern- 
 ment of Ireland shall be by Commissioners nominated and 
 authorised by the parliament, and not by any one person.'' 
 These commissioners were sent back to England, in a few 
 months after their appointment, by lord Broghill, sir 
 Charles Coote, and major William Bury, who seized the 
 castle of Dublin, and engaged actively in the restoration 
 
 of Charles II. By referring to the Liber HibernitE, vol. i,, 
 part ii., the reader may see how all the Irish government 
 oflices, from the highest to the lowest, were held by 
 Englishmen at this period. With very rare exceptions, 
 these Englishmen belonged to the religious sects mentioned 
 by the author in the text. 
 
 '•^ Mitigate the compositions. — In other words, would 
 agree to accept a less amount than the royalists were ori- 
 ginally compelled to pay, in each instance, as composition- 
 money for their estates. 
 
 ''I Exchequer was full. — When the parliament, in 1 654, 
 undertook to settle an annual sum on the Protector, the 
 revenue amounted 1,200, 000. This sum was made up 
 as follows, according to the statement of the sub-com- 
 mittee : — 
 
 Excise and customs in England, . . . . . . ;iJ8o,ooo 
 
 Excise and customs in Scotland, . . . . . . 10,000 
 
 Excise and customs in Ireland, .. .. 20,000 
 
 Monthly assessments in England, .. .. .. 720,000 
 
 Monthly assessments in Ireland, .. .. .. 96,000 
 
 Monthly assessments in Scotland, . . . . . . 96,000 
 
 Crown revenue in Guernsey and Jersey, . . . . 2,000 
 
 Crown revenue in Scotland, . . . . . . . . 9,000 
 
 Estates of papists and delinquents in England, . . 60,000 
 
 Estates of papists and delinquents in Scotland, . . 30,000 
 
 Rent of houses belonging to the Crown, .. .. 1,250 
 
 Post Office, 10,000 
 
 Exchequer revenue, . . . . . . . . . , 20,000 
 
 Probate of Wills, , . . . . . . . . . 10,000 
 
 Coinage of tin, . . . . . . . . , . . . 2 000 
 
 Wine licenses, .. ,. .. .. 10,000 
 
 Forest of Dean, .. .. .. .. .. 4,000 
 
 Fines on alienations, .. .. .. ,, .. 20^000 
 
 Quoted by Lingard, History oj England, vol. viii. , p. 324, 
 from the original Report in the collection of Thomas 
 Lloyd, esq. 
 
208 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 in possession)/^ or it was thought probable, at least, he w* hold and make good his capitulations 
 afores*;'t9 and we found this change much to our ease and advantage, as we loyalists hoped it be; 
 for when Henry Cromwell came L'^ Deputy into this realm (for the title of kingdom was rejected 
 by former Governors) of Ireland, he had (as I was told) and dc believe it, (for I was much then in 
 Dublin about my purchased debenture)s° secret instructions to manage the reign, and spur tenderly 
 toward the royalists, and to conciliate (as much as he cou'd) friendship or acquiescence from them 
 towards Oliver's government and to his successor (whom he might nominate by virtue of the instru- 
 ment of Government, w'' he swore to observe when he was instated Protector), and this made H. 
 C. civil also to all the fanatick factions, for they were fermenting and designing against his father, both 
 Lambert and Fleetwood secretly contriving parties in the armies for themselves, each of them think- 
 ing to fill Oliver's chair when he died.s' H. C. also cajoled the Presbiterian Ministers; for quiet- 
 
 . Jn possession. — The revenue arising from these sources 
 was e\'idently not included in the foregoing statement, and 
 must also have amounted to a veiy large sum. The go- 
 vernment sequestered all episcopal and ecclesiastical 
 revenues, and had thus possession of the entire fund 
 accming from such sequestration. On the i8th of July, 
 1649, the council of state ordered a letter to be written to 
 Cromwell, then in Ireland, to inform him that, for supply 
 of the ;^ioo,ooo required for his military and other ex- 
 penses, ^'30,000 would be sent from the excise in the 
 beginning of the following week ; and that it had been 
 proposed to the council that the sum of 70, 000 may be 
 had out of the dean's and chapter's lands. — Bisset's 
 Omitted Chapters of the History of England, vol. i. , p. 1 14. 
 
 Capitulations ajoresd — The original capitulations 
 made by viscount Montgomei-y, INIarcus Trevor, and other 
 protestant delinquents with Cromwell himself at Clonmel, 
 in the month of April, 1650. See p. 193, note 59, supra. 
 
 5° Purchased debenture. — Debenture (from debeo) was 
 formerly written debentur. This tenn is used in several 
 acts of parliament to denote a bond or bill by which the 
 Government was charged to pay a creditor, or his assigns, 
 the money due when his account was duly audited. These 
 debentures were the means adopted by the government of 
 the commonwealth to acknowledge its indebtedness for 
 arrears of pay to the officers and soldiers who had been 
 engaged in putting down that Irish rebellion which com- 
 menced in 1641 and continued until 1652. These de- 
 bentures they were to hold until the forfeited lands could 
 be distributed amongst them, in lots, proportioned to the 
 sum in each case due. As soon as the lots could be 
 dra^vn, aU persons who held debentures were requu-ed to 
 deliver them up at once to be cancelled, they receiving 
 certificates stating the fact that their debentures had been 
 delivered up, stating also the amount of arrears in each de- 
 benture, and the number of acres in each case, that had been 
 set out to satisfy it. See Prendergast's Cronnvellian 
 Settlement of Ireland, p. 85. The necessities of the 
 soldiers, however, would not permit even the delay requir- 
 ed to make arrangements for thus discharging their arrears, 
 but compelled them in most cases to sell their debentures 
 at a great reduction. This unfortunate necessity, and its 
 results, are noticed by Mr. Prendergast, at p. 95, 
 as follows: — "In the interval between the surrender 
 of the principal Irish armies, in 1652, and the perfect- 
 ing of the scheme for setting out the lands in Ireland, 
 
 which was not published till Michaelmas, 1653, the 
 distress of the men, and even officers, became very 
 great. To raise moneys for their subsistence, they were 
 found to be selling their debentures, the poor soldiers' 
 dearly earned wages, at inconsiderable sums, thus depriv- 
 ing themselves of a future comfortable subsistence intended 
 for them by those in authority, who would never have 
 given out the lands at such low rates, but in tenderness to 
 the soldiery, and in order to plant the country with those 
 poor creatures whom the Lord had preser^'ed in hardships 
 and dangers, that they might enjoy the fruits of their labour. 
 Debentures were accordingly forbidden to be sold until the 
 soldiers were actually in possession of their several allot- 
 ments. . . . Often the government were obliged to 
 advance money from the Treasurj- on security of the de- 
 benture as in the case of distressed widows of men or 
 officers whose husbands had been killed in the service, 
 often 'Slaine by the Toreyes,' leaving them a great charge 
 of small children behind, and their distress increased by 
 the great cost of coming to Dublin in hopes of possession 
 of their lands, and long attendance about taking out their 
 husbands' debentures. In such cases small sums were 
 ordered to be paid to enable them to return to their 
 children, the advance to be endowed on the debenture, 
 so that it might be defalked thereout when lands should 
 be given in satisfaction of the debenture. At last de- 
 bentures were freely and openly sold ; and there were 
 regular debenture brokers, and a market rate, and pro- 
 hibitions (of course eluded) against bujing imder eight 
 shillings in the pound. And Dr. Petty prides himself on 
 always bu)dng from the regular debenture brokers, and 
 never at first hand from the necessitous soldier (though 
 trepanners were sent to entrap him into purchasing) ; while 
 officers were notoriously guilty of buying of their own poor 
 soldiers remaining under their command, 'whom we may 
 well conceive frightable into any bargain, by what aweings 
 or other means may be left to consideration." Of these 
 debentures, the author, William Montgomery purchased 
 five hundred pounds' woith, borrowing the money for the 
 purpose. This transaction, as we shall see, involved him 
 in much trouble, if not considerable loss. 
 
 5' When he died. — In 1 65 7, the year in which Henry 
 Cromwell was made chief governor in Ireland, a conspiracy 
 against his father's life had been detected, and the conspi- 
 rators punished. The preser\-ation of the Protector's life 
 now became an object for which the parliament was 
 
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 209 
 
 nes6 he invited them to send up Commissioners from their Presbyterys, and they had several 
 conferences with the Independants and Anabaptists, and all the doctrinal points or principles of 
 religion whereiii they agreed were printed; but to no purpose, for these parties cou'd not be twisted 
 together more thaii a rope can be made of sand.^^ However, the chief of each sect were closetted 
 
 anxious, by some effective means, to provide. Many of 
 Cromwell's adherents were of opinion that his personal 
 safety could be best secured by his consenting to become a 
 king, or, as a member modestly expressed it, ' ' that he 
 would be pleased to take upon him the government ac- 
 cording to the ancient constitution. That would put an 
 end to these plots, and fix our liberties and his safety on 
 an old and sure foundation." This announcement took 
 others by surprise, but the discussion it occasioned fully 
 revealed to Cromwell that his own immediate connexions 
 were among the party most strongly opposed to such a 
 project. Its supporters, however, introduced to the house 
 of commons a paper entitled " An humble Address and 
 Remonstrance," which protested against the existing fonn 
 of government that depended for security on the odious in- 
 stitution of majors-general, and provided that the Protector 
 should assume a higher title, and govern, as had been done 
 in times past, with the advice of two houses of parliament. 
 The house debated on each article in succession, and the pro- 
 ject was adopted by a large majority. Its principal op- 
 ponents were the chief officers, with Lambert at their 
 head, who was the commander of the army, the beloved 
 of the soldiers, and second only to Cromwell in authority. 
 In the opposition was Desborough also, Cromwell's fana- 
 tical brother-in-law, who was major-general in five counties; 
 and Fleetwood, who had been lord -deputy of Ireland, and 
 who had married Cromwell's daughter, the widow of Ire- 
 ton. After the hopes and fears of the nation had been held 
 in suspense for two months, Cromwell declined the honour 
 intended for him by the majority of the parliament, and so 
 the matter ended. To these affairs the author refers in the 
 text, when he speaks of Lambert and Fleetwood as plot- 
 ting, each with the view of succeeding to Cromwell's po- 
 sition on his death. In Ireland, the quarrels between the 
 various sects of independents, anabaptists, and presbyte- 
 rians, fomented by their several preachers, had created 
 difficulties in the way of the government, which Heniy 
 Cromwell was anxious to remove. The anabaptists appear 
 to have been the most troublesome, and were charged by 
 their opponents, the independents, even with disaffection 
 to the government. The reader may find many curious 
 extracts referring to these sectarian troubles in the notes to 
 Dr. Reid's History of the Pi'eshyterian Church, vol. ii., pp. 
 203, 204. Heni-y Cromwell was anxious to treat them all, 
 including the episcopalians, kindly ; but any favour sho-wn 
 by him to one of the factions, was sure to be regarded with 
 suspicious and hostile feelings by all the others. In un- 
 dertaking the office of chief governor, he truly expressed 
 his intentions in a letter, as follows : — " I must neither re- 
 spect persons, nor parties, nor rumours, so as to be thereby 
 diverted from an equal distribution of justice and respect to 
 all ; though I hope I shall always have a due care of all 
 (under what form soever) in whom I seethe least appearance 
 of godliness. " — Thurloe's State Papers, vol. vii., p. 191. 
 
 5^ Rope made of sand. — Adair's account of this attempt 
 on the part of Henry Cromwell is as iollows: — "Some 
 time after this, Henry Cromwell endeavoured to have the 
 
 Church of Ireland, and all ministers who were of a mode- 
 rate temper, though otherwise of different persuasions as 
 to Episcopacy, Presbytei-y, or Independency, to come to 
 a right understanding with one another, and so compose 
 matters among themselves as to live peaceably together, 
 though his main end was supposed to be that he might 
 feel their pulse and temper as to the government of himself 
 and his father. In order to this design, he called for a 
 considerable number of ministers, by missive letters, from 
 divers parts of the kingdom, and particularly from the 
 north, directing his letters from himself to those particu- 
 lar ministers that he desired. Yet, the ministers who 
 vi'ere sent for, having acquainted their several Presbyteries 
 with these letters, were sent by commission from their 
 brethren, and obliged to give an account of their actings 
 in that meeting upon their return. However, the design 
 came to nought." — True Narrative, pp. 223, 224. So far 
 as the northern ministers were concerned, it came to 
 nought, but there arose out of this movement a sort of 
 association, composed of preachers living in and near 
 Dublin, who agreed upon a declaration which they pub- 
 lished under the following title: — "The agreement and 
 resolution of the ministers of Christ within the city of 
 Dublin and province of Leinster, whose names are sub- 
 scribed, in order to their entering into, and walking to- 
 gether in a brotherly association. Had the 22d of 
 Februaiy, 1658, at Dublin, for furthering of a real and 
 thorough reformation of persons, families, and congrega- 
 tions in all matters of religion according to the written 
 word of God." These brethren agreed to " decline and 
 abhor" all blasphemy, heresy, and schism; to "disavow" 
 Popery, Prelacy, Arminianism, and Socinianism ; to use 
 the Shorter and Larger Catechisms of the Westminster As- 
 sembly, " unless some particular brother shall think some 
 other Catechism more convenient for his congregation;" 
 and to "hold fast that excellent Confession of Faith, 
 compiled by the Assembly of Divines, reserving only to 
 some of us our liberty of judgment about a few expressions 
 touching discipline laid down in that Confession." — Reid's 
 History of the Presbyterian Church in fr eland, vol. ii., pp. 
 219, 220, note. The presbyterian ministers from the 
 north who attended this meeting in Dublin, viz. , the revs. 
 John Greg of Newtownards, Thomas Hall of Lame, and 
 John Hart of Taughboyne, near Derry, although not 
 joining in the foregoing " agreement," united with seven- 
 teen other ministers, anabaptists and independents, in 
 presenting a highly complimentary address to Henry 
 Cromwell, at the conclusion of their meeting. In this 
 address they greatly approve of his anxiety to have them 
 all endowed with respectable salaries, and urge him, as a 
 "nursing-father to the church of Christ to complete the 
 same worke." They also much approve of his anxiety for 
 the conversion of papists ; for the healing of breaches 
 among themselves, "that brethren fall not out by the 
 way;" for " the opening the fore-door of ordination, and 
 the back door of ejection; for the planting truth by cate- 
 chisifig, watering the truth planted by sacraments, and 
 
2IO 
 
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 apart by H. C. and had favours put upon them. Dr. Owens was the great leader of the Indepen- 
 dants, and was chief Chaplain to the castle. ^3 I do not remember any Presbiterian congregation 
 then in the city. 54 Now H. C. his Excellency (for in what I am now to say he deserved (as he was 
 called) that title) was very respective and gracious to the Marchioness of Ormond,s5 and to our 
 Vis', (and to myself); for his favour allowed me to try those loose unsatisfied debentures,^^ and to 
 
 fencing both by discipline," together with other " higli 
 concernments " which he had brought specially under 
 their consideration. They conclude this address as fol- 
 lows : — " Wee had formerly (almost) said, Ireland's grief 
 is incurable ! But, blessed be the Lord, and your excel- 
 lency in the name of the Lord, for an harvest of joy in a 
 day of griefe and desperate sorrow. For all which we 
 humbly offer the returne of our thankfulness, duty, and 
 obedience." This was saying more than might have been 
 expected from the presbyterian party at least, who regarded 
 the government administered by Henry Cromwell as a 
 wicked usurpation, or to use Adair's words, p. 225, 
 " knowing that this government, though now flourishing, 
 and pretending some owning of religion, yet was iniquity 
 at the bottom." 
 
 53 To the castle. — Dr. John Owen was appointed 
 chaplain to Cromwell, on the 2nd of July, 1649, with the 
 salary of ^^200 per annum, and an additional sum of ^loo 
 to be paid quarterly to his wife and family who remained 
 in England. He only remained six months in Dublin, 
 during which time he resided in the castle. 
 
 54 Theji hi the city. — In 1660, there was a minister 
 named Samuel Cocks, who officiated in St. Catherine's, 
 Dublin, and who, according to Adair, "was counted the 
 surest Presbyterian." Speaking of the convention that 
 assembled in the capital to concert measures for the 
 restoration, Adair adds, at p. 233, "they chose for their 
 chaplain a man reputed the soundest Presbyterian in 
 Dublin, one Mr. Cocks, calling him to their prayers every 
 morning when they began their business." Cocks, or 
 Cox, was then probably a recent importation, as there was 
 evidently no presbyterian congregation or minister known 
 in Dublin at the time (1657-8) to which our author refers 
 in tJje text. 
 
 ss Marchioness of OrmomJ. — Henry Cromwell's "gra- 
 cious " conduct to this lady consisted in his urging the 
 government in England to make a liberal arrangement 
 with her for the support of the family. Through his kind 
 offices the marchioness (Elizabeth Preston, seep. 160, note 
 29, s?ipra) obtained an order of parliament, on the 1st of 
 Februaiy, 1654, empo'wering the commissioners for Irish 
 affairs to set apart for the provision of herself and children, 
 DunmoTe House, near Kilkenny, together with lands of 
 the clear yearly value of £zooo. When the lands 
 were assigned to her, however, it was found that they 
 were not so valuable as the parliament had been led to 
 suppose, being charged with a contribution which, in 
 some places amounted to a full half of tlie rent reserved 
 for her, and in other places bore the proportion of ^^35 to 
 £'^0. The marchioness, therefore, obtained a lease in 
 trust, during her lord's life, of all such of her lands as 
 had been let l)y the commonwealth from year to year, or 
 for three, five, or seven years (permitting the lessees to 
 enjoy their terms, but obliging them to pay rent to her), 
 and of all other the lands assigned her at such rents, as 
 upon a valuation thereof, were found reasonable. This 
 
 last-mentioned arrangement was made by the government 
 in 1655. Dunmore was an ancient manor of the Or- 
 monde family, and became the favourite coimtry residence 
 of the first duchess of Omionde, whose letters, still pre- 
 served at Kilkenny castle, are full of allusions to the works 
 there." — Carte's Life 0/ Ormond, vok i., p. 7; vol. ii., 
 pp. 100, lor. We have the following interesting par- 
 ticulars of this place in the Joicrjial of the Kilkenny 
 and South-East of Ireland Archaological Society, new 
 series, vol. iii., pp. 296 — 298, and notes: — "John Dun- 
 ton, who saw Dunmore in 1698, when it was in its 
 splendour, thus describes the house : — ' I rambled to Dun- 
 more, another seat of the duke of Ormond's, which is the 
 finest house in Ireland. On some of the floors of this 
 house I reckoned twentj'-four rooms ; the staircase that 
 leads to them are ( sic ) hung with curious landscapes, and 
 it is so large that twenty men might walk abreast ; had the 
 house another branch it would be a perfect H ; but without 
 this additional beauty, perhaps it may boast of more rooms 
 than are to be found in some whole towns. ' — Sonie Account 
 of my Conversation in Ireland, pp. 53) 55- 3. yourneyto 
 Kilkenny in the year 1707, from the MS. Nates of Dr. 
 Thomas Molyneaiix, edited by the Rev. James Graves, 
 there is the following short notice of Dunmore house and. 
 demesne: — " Munday, 21st. To Dunmore Parke, be- 
 longing to the Duke of Ormond ; 'tis a well sheltered 
 Parke, with furs, good land, and well divided into pretty, 
 small paddocks ; here is a good Pheasantry kept, which 
 stocks the whole country about ; here was also formerly a 
 handsome Countiyhouse belonging to the Duke, called 
 Dunmore House, -which is now pulled down, and the 
 furniture and pictures all carried to the castle (at ICilkenny). " 
 A Tour through Ireland, by Two English Gentlemen 
 (Dublin, 1748), at p. 195, mentions Dunmore as "a noble 
 proportioned body, falling to the grave with a daily decay," 
 and compares its avenues and rows of lofty trees to the 
 walks from Petersham to Ham, in Surrey, gi^nng the 
 preference to Dunmore, and adding, "in short, such a place 
 formed by nature for grandeur or pleasure is not often 
 found in England." Carte, in his Life of Ormond, vol. ii., 
 p. 538, states that Cary Dillon, on one occasion, said to the 
 duke, " Your grace has done much here (pointing to Kil- 
 kenny), butyonderyouhaveZ'^^ww/frc'." "Alas! Cary," re- 
 plied the Duke, "it is incredible what that has cost: but my 
 wife has done so much to that house, that she has almost 
 undone me." 
 
 5* Unsatisfied debentures. — See note 50, supra. — William 
 Montgomery, before being admitted as a compounder for 
 his estate, borrowed money to purchase certain Cromwel- 
 lian debentures (or adventurers' claims) which were rather 
 loose, unsatisfactory bonds at the best, but with which 
 Henry Cromwell allowed him to purchase back his owi 
 lands in the barony of Castlereagh, known as Florida 
 Manor, he paying colonel Barrow, who had a custodium of 
 these lands, the sum o{ £ii,o. At the Restoration, Wil- 
 liam Montgomery having been restored, as an innocent 
 
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 have them satisfied on my hands in Castlereagh barony, notwithstanding Colo. Barrow (a ringleader 
 of the Anabaptists) had custodium thereof, for w'' I paid that Colo.'s son ^150.57 This favour was 
 some months before O. C. died. H. C. (as I was saying) was more favourable to the s** Lady and 
 Lord, and to the L* Moore,^^ and some few more of the jovial compounders (so Noll'sss people termed 
 us), than to any of the Papists' nobility or to the rest of the Protestants, and generally gave them 
 good gales for payment of their composition money, and was mild to them all.^° Nay, moreover. 
 
 protestant, to the possession ot all his estates, claimed to 
 be allowed the amount in forfeited lands that he had tluis 
 laid out in debentures, and had his claim allowed. This 
 was not accomplished, however, without much trouble and 
 delay. It appeared from his own representations that, 
 although he had been happily restored to his lands, he 
 could not have retained them, being unable to pay the 
 debentures (for which he tells us, in the memoir of himself, 
 that the third viscount was security), and the money given 
 to colonel Barrow. In the Record Tower there is a petition 
 from William Montgomery of Rosemount, county of Down, 
 esq., stating that his father, sir James Montgomery, was 
 forced to fly from Ireland for his loyalty; mentioning also 
 his own losses and sufferings, and praying for a reprisal of 
 the lands of Florida which he had purchased, but was un- 
 able to keep. By this he meant a reprisal on other for- 
 feited lands to compensate him for the amount of the de- 
 bentures with which he had repurchased Florida Manor 
 from the Cromwellian government. The above petition is 
 followed by a letter from him to the primate of Eng- 
 land, asking his influence ; then comes a certificate 
 in his favour from the marquis of Ormond ; and, lastly, 
 another letter from himself to sir Henry Bennett, dated 3rd 
 April, 1664, promising the latter ^loo for his interest, and 
 stating some particulars of his case, in which the names of 
 Patrick Allen of New Row, gent. , and colonel Barrow are 
 mentioned. — Reports on the Public Records of Ireland, 
 1825, pp. 651, 652. The result was that he obtained the 
 following proviso in the act of settlement, which will still 
 further explain to the reader the nature of these complicated 
 transactions : — 
 
 " LXXXVII. And whereas, William Mountgomery of Rose- 
 mount, in the county of Down, Esqr. , did purchase of several per- 
 sons certain debentures, which were due for service done in Ireland 
 since the fifth of June, one thousand six hundred and forty-nine, and 
 placed the same in and upon the purchase of a part of his own estate, 
 called or known by the name of the mannor of Florida, in the county 
 aforesaid, then set out or set apart by reason of or upon accompt of 
 the said late rebellion or war, since which time the said William 
 Mountgomery hath, by the commissioners for execution of the said 
 former act, been declared and adjudged an innocent Protestant, and 
 thereupon the said mannor of Florida, together with the rest of the 
 estate of the said William Mountgomery, hath been decreed unto 
 him by reason whereof the debentures so purchased and placed 
 thereupon, as aforesaid, do remain wholly unsatisfied ; be it therefore 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners for the 
 execution of this act shall set out, or cause to be set out, unto the 
 said William Mountgomery, so much forfeited lands as may be suffi- 
 cient to satlsfie the said debentures in like manner and form, and ac- 
 cording to such rates and proportions, as any other like debentures 
 ought by the rules of this act to be satisfied, as fully and amply as 
 any other purchaser or assignee of the said debentures ought to have 
 been satisfied. In case the same had been placed on the said mannor 
 so evicted or decreed as aforesaid." 
 
 In the foregoing note we have, to some extent, anticipated 
 certain circumstances in our author's personal history; but 
 the reader will thus be enabled better to understand future 
 passing allusions in the narrative to these matters. 
 
 5' Son £1^0. — See note 56, supra. Kcustodium was a 
 lease from the government under the exchequer seal, of 
 lands that had been forfeited to the commonwealth, and 
 were assigned to a tenant as custodee or lessee. On every 
 such custodium there was a small annual rent reserved to 
 the crown. In the present instance, colonel Barrow's son 
 had obtained the custodium of William Montgomery's 
 estate of Florida, in the barony of Castlereagh. By favour 
 of Henry Cromwell, the author was able to have the 
 custodium dissolved, on his paying costs of the necessary 
 law proceedings in the case, w^iich with claims, probably 
 for some improvements, amounted to £\'^o. The reader 
 may find much curious information respecting the custodium 
 in Howard's Exchequer and Revenue of Ireland, vol. ii. , 
 pp. 25—46. 
 
 5^ L<i. Moore. — Seep. i^<), supra. Among the favours 
 conferred on viscount Moore was an act of the English 
 parliament, in 1657, enabling him to sell part of his lands 
 for payment of composition-money and other demands. — 
 Euqlish Commons Journals, vol. vii. , p. 163. 
 
 59 Noll. — Noll, applied to Cromwell, was used probably 
 as a simpler form of his christian name, Oliver. 
 
 ^° Mild to them all. — Henry Cromwell, as the represent- 
 ative of his father, was mild and even generous, not only to 
 all compounders, but to all religionists who professed any 
 form of protestantism, and were disposed to accept his 
 favours. This is evident from the liberal manner in which 
 he endowed their respective ministers, and the very easy 
 terms on which the state payments were made. The 
 reader may see in Dr. Reid's History of the Presbyterian 
 Church, vol. ii., pp. 475 — 9, a list for the year 1655, with 
 additions from a list of the preceding year, "containing 
 the names of all the ministers throughout Ireland who re- 
 ceived salaries from the State, with the sums payable to 
 each." This list of 1655 contains the names of only about 
 a dozen episcopalian and six presbyterian ministers, the 
 remaining one hundred and thirty being independents or 
 baptists. Dr. Reid admits that his "opportunities of 
 research" in connexion with this subject were "limited," 
 and truly says that "little is known of the administration 
 of Irish affairs during the Protectorate." — (vol. ii., p. ig8, 
 note.) Since his history was written, however, an able 
 Irish archaeologist — ^J. W. Hanna, esq. — has had occasion 
 to make some inquiries into this matter of state endow- 
 ments, in Ireland, during the Commonwealth, and his 
 labours have brought to light much additional information, 
 as the following lengthened, but highly interesting extract 
 will shew : — 
 
 "We h.ave accidentally obsen'ed that perhaps a few lay impro- 
 priators may have exercised their church patronage during the 
 Commonwealth, and this presumption, so far as Ulster Is regarded, 
 is borne out by the following facts, we believe unknown to, or at least 
 left unnoticed by, Dr. Reid or any of our Irish historians. Some- 
 time early in 1655, a petition was presented to Fleetwood and the 
 Irish Privy Council, from the Protestant inhabitants of the Counties 
 
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 he owned a favour to our Bishops, and allowed them pensions out of the rents of their bishopricks, 
 w*" so pleased Maxwell, the diocesan of Kilmore and Ardagh,^' that he addressed his Excellency 
 
 of Down and Antrim, respecting the subject of lay patronage and the 
 choice of ministers by a congregation, which having been taken into 
 consideration by the Council, on the 5th of May that year, it was 
 amongst other things ordered, that ' Patrons who have not forfeited 
 their right of presentation, be permitted to present the names of 
 ministers, as in and by ordinances (in that case provided as directed) 
 being persons fearing God, and qualified for the work of the ministry, 
 not scandalous in life and conversation, or delinquent to the State, 
 and of a sober and peaceable behaviour ; and such ministers shall 
 be forthwith admitted to enjoy their respective living, or otherwise be 
 comfortably and sufficiently provided.' By another part of the order 
 a congregation was permitted to choose a minister, similarly qualified 
 as above, subject, however, to a personal examination and approval 
 of a committee appointed by the Council, whose determination was to 
 be final. These orders were signed by Thomas Herbert, Clerk of the 
 Council, and are to be found in the Council Book in Dublin Castle. 
 
 " The names and titles of congregations of the entire ministers who 
 received allowances from the Commonwealth are to be found in the 
 Civil Establishment Entries from 1654 to 1657, among the State 
 Papers in Dublin Castle, with the annual allowances ; and extracts 
 from these, but extremely defective, will be found in the appendices 
 to the second volume of Dr. Reid's History. The only ministers 
 whose names he has published, as stationed in the County E)own, are 
 the following. We now insert in parentheses the congregational title 
 or parish where omitted : — 
 
 Thomas Johnston. Dromore, . . . . . . . . ;Cioo 
 
 Thomas Skelton, Newry, . . . . . . . . 100 
 
 Patrick Duncan, Hillsborough (removed: to Drumgoo- 
 
 land), ;C8o made .. .. .. .. .. .. 100 
 
 Andrew Wike, Lisnegarvey (should be the united 
 
 parishes of Donaghcloney and Tullylish), .. .. 150 
 
 Robert Echlin, Strangford (had been chancellor), .. 80 
 Anthony Buckworth, Maheralyn, .. .. .. .. 60 
 
 William Moore, Knock and Breda, £1^ made . . . . 50 
 
 Hugh Graffan, Magheradrill (now Ballynahinch), £7.$ made 50 
 " The names of the ministers omitted in this country are 23 ; and, as 
 we feel assured a complete list will be interesting to the people of this 
 and the adjoining districts, we give it in exietiso: — 
 Andrew Law, Dundrum and Kilmore, ;^5o made /^6o, 
 
 and then . . . . . . . . . . . . . £100 
 
 James Gordon, Comber, . . . . . . . . . . 100 
 
 John Drisdale, Portferry, . . . . . . . . . . too 
 
 John Gregg, Newtowne, . . . , . . . . . . 100 
 
 Gilbert Ramsay, Bangor, . . . . . . . . . . 100 
 
 Thomas Peebles, Kirkdonnell, .. .. .. ■• 100 
 
 William Richardson, Killileagh, . . . . . . . . 100 
 
 Andrew Stewart, Donodee, .. .. .. .. 100 
 
 Andrew M'Cormick, Magherally, .. .. .. .. 100 
 
 Gabriel Cornewall, BalliwooUen, . . . . . . . . 100 
 
 Donald Richmond, Hollywood, .. .. 100 
 
 Barnham West, Kilwarly. . . . . . . . . 120 
 
 Robert Huettson, Rathfriland, . . . . . . . . 120 
 
 Henry Livingstone, Drumboe, . . . . . . . . too 
 
 David Fearful, Drumkad (now Clough); he was Pre- 
 centor and Rector of Loughinisland and Drumca, 
 from 15th June, 1657, .. .. .. .. .. 50 
 
 Francis Redmeston, or Reddington, Upper Iveagh, . . 100 
 Anthony Shaw, Ballywalter, . . . . . . . . 100 
 
 Michael Bruce, Killinshy, .. .. .. .. 100 
 
 John Fleming, Bailee, .. .. .. .. 100 
 
 Hugh Sherwood, Doune, since March, 1658, .. .. 150 
 
 James Cambell, Loughbrickland, .. .. .. 100 
 
 Mungo Barnett, or Bennet, Drumaragh, not stated. 
 Alexander Hutchinson, Tonachnieve (now Saintfield), . . 60 
 
 " SCHOOLMASTERS. 
 
 John Newcome, Downpatrick, . . . . . . . . 20 
 
 William Halston, Lisnegarvey, . . . . . . . 40 
 
 John Cornewall, Belfast, . . . . . . . . . 30 
 
 " An account in Thurlne's State Papers (vol. vi., p. 596) shews the 
 entire amount paid in Ireland for ministers' and schoolmasters' 
 salaries, in the years 1656 and 1657, 'o have been £2^,ni 13s 8d; 
 the revenue received in 1656 from tithes and glebes, bishops' and 
 crown lands in the Counties of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, being 
 £3 fin OS 4d. At this time Coll. Henry Markhamwas receiver of all 
 rents, profits, and revenues_from parochial tithes and glebes, at the 
 annual salary of £^00, 
 
 "Dr. Reid observes that of the list published by him, with the ex 
 ception of six ministers, who were Presbyterians, and perhaps a 
 dozen Episcopalians, the remaining one hundred and thirty were 
 Independents or Baptists ; but however that may be, of the list it is 
 tiuite certain that many more Presbyterians received allowances, for 
 instance Fleming, of Bailee; Livingstone, of Drumboe: Gregg, of 
 Newtownards; Cornwall, of BalliwooUen: Richardson, ofKillyleagh; 
 Hutchinson, of Tonaghnieve : Gordon of Comber : Drisdale, of Porta- 
 ferry : Ramsay, of Bangor : Peebles of Kirkdoonel ; Stewart, of 
 Donaghadee; M'Cormick, of Magherally; Campbell, of Lough- 
 brickland : and Bruce, of Killinchy ; the latter being considered one 
 of the Fathers of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland: all being 
 ejected by Bishop Taylor for non-conformity in 1661 — Bennet of 
 Dromara : Law, of Dundrum, afterwards Rector of Kilmegan and 
 Vicar of Maghera; Graffan of Ballynahinch, afterwards Vicar of 
 Saintfield, being those who conformed. Considering the change in 
 the value of money, which Dr. Reid estimates as one to ten, making 
 the then allowance of .^loo equal to .£1,000 at present, we must admit 
 that Cromwell was anything but an illiberal supporter of the ministers." 
 — Accoi0it of the Parish of Inch, printed in the Dorampatrick 
 Recorder. 
 
 Appendix M. contains copy of a hitherto unprlnted In- 
 quisition ol' 1675, in which the reader will find much 
 curious and valuable information relating to ecclesiastical 
 matters in the county of Down. The original is in the 
 possession of the right rev. Robert ICnox, D. D. bishop of 
 Down and Connor, who kindly permitted it to be transciibed 
 for this work. The copy in the Appendix was carefully 
 made by J. W. Hanna, esq. 
 
 Kilmore and Ardagh. — This was Robert Maxwell, 
 eldest son of Robert Maxwell and Isabella Seton his wife. 
 Robert Maxwell the elder had come to Ireland in the year 
 1609, and was, soon after his arrival, appointed chancellor of 
 Connor ; in the following year he was promoted to be dean 
 of Armagh. His eldest son, Robert, mentioned in the text, 
 was a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and, in 1622, 
 held the office of chaplain to the lord lieutenant. In 1625, 
 he succeeded his father in the two appointments of chan- 
 cellor of Connor and dean of Armagh. In 1628, he was 
 advanced by royal presentation to the archdeaconry of Down. 
 Whilst rector of Tynan (to which living he was presented 
 on the 22d Novemlser, 1625), he suffered much at the out- 
 break of the rebellion in 1641, the insurgents having 
 plundered his house and then burned it, together with all 
 his books and papers. On the 22nd of March, 1643, 
 (Cotton, Fasti, vol. iii. p. 167), he was appomted 
 to the bishopric of Kilmore, from which during the 
 time of the commonwealth, he received a yearly allowance 
 of ^120— equivalent to ;^i,20o of our money. Henry 
 Leslie, bishop of Down and Connor, received a similar 
 allowance ; and John Leslie, bishop of Raphoe, got 
 £,\oo, which was increased, in 1655, to £120, on ac- 
 count of his distressed condition and numerous family. For 
 this liberahty on the part of Henry Cromwell, bishop Max- 
 well expressed his gratitude by means of the Latin poem 
 referred to in the text, in which the lord deputy is truly de- 
 scribed as mitissijtitis prorex. Kever, perhaps, did any 
 viceroy better deserve this title. Delicics humani generis 
 was a phrase used by the Romans when speaking of their 
 good emperor, Titus Flavius, Sabinus Vespasianus, who 
 reigned from A. D. 79 to 81. He was the worthy successor 
 of his father, Vespasian. During his whole life, Titus dis- 
 played a sincere desire for the happiness of his people, 
 domg all in his power to reUeve them during any period of 
 
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 213 
 
 with a printed copy of about ten hexameters and as many pentameters, wherein he stiled him, 
 DeUcicR humani generis (as Vespasiau was called) and to complete the verse, he added and gave him 
 the title of Mitissmie prorex, thereby calling him a Deputy King. Our Vise' came now (unsent for) 
 to Dublin to salute his Excellency, and was received favourably as aforSiS'', but was taken with sick- 
 ness, which did cast him into a deep palsy that seized all one side of him; and being lodged next 
 house to Dr. Ffenell, after many weeks his Lop recovered, and was permitted to go and live in 
 Newtown, as most agreeable to his constitution, where often he enjoyed the company of the Coun- 
 tess of Striveling, his grandmother, and of his mother, sister, brother, and honest kind Major- 
 Gen'. Monro, fitter than the other four to converse with his melancholy;** myself also, and his other 
 relations and friends visited him often. 
 
 public distress. It is told of him, that one evening, recol- 
 lecting he had done nothing to alleviate suffering during 
 that day, he exclaimed — " My friends, I have lost a day !" 
 Henry Cromwell's timely aid, in many instances, reminded 
 bishop Maxwell of this emperor's beneficence ; and it is 
 rather to the prelate's honour that he recorded his appre- 
 ciation of it in no stinted language. On the 24th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1660, soon after the Restoration, Maxwell was 
 granted the bishoprick of Ardagh in commendam, and 
 held it, in conjunction with that of Kilmore, until the 
 time of his death, in 1672. — Waris Works, vol. i., 
 P- 243- 
 
 To converse with his melancholy. — Monro, on such 
 occasions, no doubt "fought all his battles o'er again," 
 in the garrulous and amusing style by which he had re- 
 corded his "Expedition with the worthy Scots regiment, 
 called M^'Keyes, &c., &c.," see p. 168, note 52, supra. 
 Sir W. Scott drew his materials from Monro's book 
 for the character of his celebrated Rittmaster, sometimes 
 making Dugald iJalgetty express himself in Monro's 
 very words. Of Monro's method as a writer, we have 
 the following estimate in Burton's well-known book, 
 entitled The Scot Abroad, vol. i., pp. 135, 136:— " Tlie 
 confusion, ambiguity, and verbose prolixity of the narra- 
 tive, involve the reader in immediate hopelessness, and 
 keep him in perpetual doubt of the period, the persons, 
 and the part of the world to which his attention is called. 
 Far from being the production of an illiterate soldier who 
 despises learning, it is saturated in a mass of irrelevant 
 erudition. But it affords fine clear glimpses here and there 
 of the character and habits of the Scottish cavalier of for- 
 tune ; and on these Scott has seized with his usual practi- 
 cal sagacity Monro has a thorough, and, 
 
 perhaps, a rather ludicrous sense of the worth of himselt 
 and his comrades. He speaks of ' my lord Spynie being 
 present with his regiment, consisting of brave and valorous 
 officers, being all worthy cavaliers of noble descent, and of 
 good families, having action, valour, and breeding, an- 
 swerable to their charges. And when Stralsund obtains Sir 
 Alexander Leslie for a governor, he (Monro) enlarges on 
 the special blessings bestowed on that community in having 
 obtained a Scotchman for their ruler — ' And what a bless- 
 ing it was to get a good, wise, virtuous, and valiant go- 
 vernor in time of their greatest trouble ; which shows that 
 we are governed by a power above us.' And so becoming 
 more eloquent by degrees on the good fortune of Stralsund 
 and the merits of his countrymen, he concludes : — ' It is 
 faring, then, with Stralsuiid as with Sara: she became 
 
 fruitful when she could not believe it, and they became 
 flourishing, having got a Scots governor to protect them, 
 whom they looked not for, which was a good om.en unto 
 them, to get a governor of the nation that was never con- 
 quered ; which made them the only town in Germany free 
 as yet from the imperial yoke by the valour of our nation, 
 which defended their city in their greatest danger. " The 
 author of the History of the House and Clan of Alackay, 
 quotes several of general Monro's anecdotes, from which we 
 select one or two : — " By this time there is a large cask of 
 beer sent to us from the leaguer; the officers, for haste, 
 causeth to beat out the head of it, that every man might come 
 to it with hat or head-piece ; they flocking about the waggon 
 whereon the beer lay, the enemy's canoneer gives a volley 
 to their beer which, by God's providence, though sliot 
 amongst the midst of them, did no more hann but blew 
 the cask and beer in the air — the nearest miss I ever did 
 see : for many of them were down to the ground, of whom 
 my brother, captain John Monro of Obistell, of worthy 
 memory, was one." " Being quartered a mile from Lu- 
 venburg, we sent our suttler, John Matheson, to that town 
 for a supply of provisions. In his absence our boys made 
 use of his rug to cover their faces in drowning of bee-hives ; 
 the rug being rough, lodged a nimiber of bees ; the suttler 
 coming home late, went to rest, and putting off his clothes, 
 drew his rug to cover him; but as soon as the bees found the 
 warmness of his skin, they began so to punish him for his 
 long stay, that he was forced, roaring like a madman, to 
 rise and throw off his rug, not knowing, though well he 
 felt the smart of his enemies. We, being in bed, called to 
 him, asking if he was mad ? He made no answer, but 
 cried the devil had bewitched him, till a candle was lighted, 
 and seeing the bees, he threw his rug into a draw-well." 
 ' ' Here I did remark as wonderful, that, in the very moment 
 when our ship did break on ground, there was a sergeant's 
 wife on board, who, without any help, was delivered of a 
 boy, which all the time of the tempest she carefully did 
 preserve ; and being come ashore the next day, she marched 
 near four miles with her child in her arms ; and he was 
 baptized the next Sunday afternoon, being the day of our 
 thanksgiving for our deliverance, by our preacher, Mr. 
 Murdoch Mackenzie, a worthy and religious young man." 
 — History of the House and Cla?i of Mac bay, pp. 225, 226, 
 236, notes. It may well be supposed that Monro's con- 
 versation, although sometimes prosy, had attractions tor 
 any one in viscount Montgomery's circumstances. Monro, 
 like many others who had started as covenanters, died a 
 staunch royalist. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 ITHIN a few months after this, viz. Augs* 1658, O. C. finding by his sickness (w'' was 
 concealed carefully) that he must go off the stage of the three kingdoms, (because he had 
 played all the mad pranks he had to act thereon)' he therefore made his testament, wherein 
 he declared his eldest son, Richard, to succeed him as Protector of the Commonwealth of England, 
 Scotland, and Ireland, and he was proclaimed accordingly. ^ I saw it done in Dublin with great 
 concourse of the people (but not by armed men, save those of Henry Cromwell's guard, who attended 
 
 ' To act thereon. — Cromwell's health gave way rapidly 
 in the interval between the death of liis favourite daughter, 
 Elizabeth (Mrs. Claypole), on the 6th of August, 1658, 
 and the 3rd of September following, the day on which he 
 followed her to the grave. The 30th of August happened 
 to be a tempestuous day, and, during the night, the wind 
 blew a hurricane, unroofing houses and uprooting trees in 
 all directions. The miserable cavaliers, who had waited 
 anxiously to hear of his death, persuaded themselves that 
 it was to happen during the continuance of the storm, 
 announcing that the "powers of the air" hovered over 
 Whitehall in readiness to pounce upon the Protector's 
 luckless spirit at the moment it would separate from his 
 body. They were disappointed that he did not die on the 
 night of the 30th of August ; but a staunch republican, 
 named Dennis Bond, having died that day, the cavaliers 
 punningly consoled themselves by affirming that as Crom- 
 v.-ell was not then ready to go, the devil had taken Bond 
 for his future speedy appearing. The Protector's friends, 
 on the other hand, gave out that God would not remove 
 so great a man from this world without previously warning 
 the nation of its approaching loss, and when, at last, he 
 departed on the 3rd of September, they derived comfort 
 from the reflection that as he had conquered the Scots on 
 that day at Dunbar, in 1650, and the royalists at Worcester, 
 in 1651, so he was destined on the same fortunate date in 
 1 658, to overcome his spiritual enemies, and receive the crown 
 of victoiy in heaven ! Whilst these various opinions and 
 sentiments were being expressed respecting the Prott^ctor, 
 he was engaged in prayer, and api^ears to have fo.med 
 a pretty accurate estimate of the motives influenc- 
 ing his enemies, as well as his friends "Lord," 
 said he, " this people would fain have me live ; they think 
 it will be best for them, and that it will redound much to 
 Thy glory. All the stir is about this. Others v ould 
 fain have me die. Lord, pardon them, and pardon Thy 
 foolish people ; forgive their sins, and do not forsake them ; 
 but love, and bless, and give them rest ; and bring them 
 to a consistency ; and give me rest for Jesus Christ's sake, 
 to whom, with Thyself, and the Holy Spirit, be all honour 
 and glory." — Granger's Biograplncal History oj England, 
 vol. i., p. 147, 7tote; Ludlovf, Memoirs, vol. ii., p. 153 ; God- 
 
 win's J7istorv 0/ the Commomuealth, voh iv. ,pp. 574, 575; 
 Lingard's History of Lnglaiid, vol. viii. , pp. 267, 268. 
 
 ^ Proclaimed accordingly. — Richard Cromwell, the Pro- 
 tector's third son, but the eldest that survived him, was 
 born at Huntingdon, on the 4th of October, 1 626. A re- 
 markable contrast was observed between the two brothers, 
 Richard and Henry Cromwell, for whilst the former 
 associated with cavaliers, and spent his time in licentious 
 gaiety, the latter repaired to his father's quarters, and at 
 the age of twenty held the commission of a captain in the 
 regiment of griards belonging to Fairfax. The moment 
 their father expired, the council of state assemliled, and 
 issued an order to proclaim Richard Cromwell as protector, 
 on the ground that he had been nominated to that dignity 
 by his father. Many supposed that they proclaimed him 
 on other grounds ; and Ludlow, the sternly honest re- 
 publican, tells us in his Memoirs, vol. ii. , p. 613, that the 
 dignity was conferred upon Richard, "in hopes that he, 
 who, by follovifing his pleasures had rendered himself 
 unfit for public business, would not fail to place the 
 administration of government in the hands of those who 
 were most povverfiil in the army." Richard's nomination 
 by his father has been reasonably enough doubted. 
 " Thurloe, indeed (vol. vii. , p. 372), informs Heniy Crom- 
 well that his father named Richard to succeed. But his 
 letter was written after the proclamation of Richard, and 
 its contents are irreconcilable with the letters written 
 before it. We have one from lord Falconberg, dated on 
 Monday, saying that no nomination had been made, and 
 that Thurloe had promised to suggest it, but probably 
 would not perform his promise, p. 365 ; and another from 
 Thurloe himself to Henry Cromwell, stating the same 
 thing as to the nomination, p. 364. It may, perhaps, be 
 said that Richard was named on the Monday after the 
 letters were written ; but there is a second letter from 
 Thurloe, dated on the Tuesday, stating that the Protector 
 was still incapable of public business, and that matters 
 would, he feared, remain till the death of his highness in 
 the same state as he described them, in his letter of Mon- 
 day, p. 366. It was afterwards said that the nomination 
 took place on the night before the Protector's death, in 
 the presence of four of the council (Thurloe, 375, 4iS)» 
 
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 him) who made great huzzas and throwing up of hats; the fanaticks did not expect their white 
 devil wou'd die so soon, and were surprised with amazement at the proclam. wherein all joined but 
 themselves. 3 But how soon they found a soft part in Richard's head and little courage in his 
 heart! Fleetwood, his brother-in-law, and Lambert, &c. agreeing (like Herod and Pilate), got 
 themselves and their partisans chosen members in that Parliament w*" Richard had called,'* and also 
 they held a grand council of officers of the army at Wallingford-house (wilhin a pit and strides 
 length of Whitehall) under this new mean-spirited Protector's nose, and in view of his long gallery,5 
 
 but many doubt whether it ever took place at all." — Lln- 
 gard, History of England, vol. vii. , p. 372, note. 
 
 3 Joined but themselves. — The scene here described by the 
 author, and which he had himself witnessed, took place 
 on the loth of September, a week after Oliver Cromwell's 
 death. Before this sudden change in the government, the 
 position occupied by Heniy Cromwell, in Dublin, had be- 
 come so irksome to him that his letters may be described as 
 containing a succession of complaints and offers of resigna- 
 tion. This had arisen from the impossibility of procuring 
 money from England, and the limitations of his power by the 
 parliament, which occasioned the most serious limitations 
 of his usefulness. When Richard became protector, the 
 council in London, over which he was able to exercise no 
 control, still further contracted the powers of Henry 
 Cromwell in Ireland ; but, as the influence possessed by 
 the latter over the army, and his popularity throughout 
 the country, could not be dispensed with, he was, in ex- 
 change for the title of deputy, permitted to assume that of 
 lord lieutenant, which was but a poor recompense for his 
 lost authority. 
 
 ♦ Richard had called. — Richard Cromwell, about three 
 months after being proclaimed protector, issued writs for a 
 parliament to commence on the 27th of January following. 
 On its meeting, Mr. Chute was chosen speaker, a private 
 fast in the house was appointed, a committee for elections 
 and privileges chosen, and then the meeting adjourned 
 until the 31st January. On the ist of February, a bill 
 was introduced by the secretary of state, under the pre- 
 tence of acknowledging the new protector, but in reality in- 
 tended to confer upon the latter the full powers and prero- 
 gatives of the former kings and house of lords. The 
 second reading of this measure, on the 7th of February, 
 brought on the debate between the court party and the 
 friends of the commonwealth, — the former pleading the 
 Petition and Advice as the foundation of Richard Crom- 
 well's title to such powers and prerogatives, and the 
 latter denying tl^e Petition and Advice to be binding 
 at all — 1st, because of its inconsistency, and insuf- 
 ficiency ; and 2nd, because the assembly that put it 
 forward was no parliament, but a faction. The mem- 
 bers of that assembly, it was farther urged, had never 
 been permitted to meet, Cromwell who had created 
 it, excluding all such members as he suspected would 
 oppose the execution of his own purposes. Of 460 chosen, 
 there had been only 104 in the house, of whom 51 were 
 against adopting the Petition and Advice, which was carried 
 only by the votes of Scotch and Irish members, who had 
 no right to sit, and were usurpers in the making of laws 
 for England. The debates on this matter continued 
 through eight days, during which, friends of the common- 
 ■wealth complained that Cromwell's party in Whitehall 
 
 had written eighty letters for the making of members of 
 Parliament, most of which letters had produced the results 
 desired by their writers. Mr. Howard, a papist, and 
 brother to the earl of Arundel, boasted, that at the instance 
 of the Protector. and secretaiy, he had sent twenty-four 
 members to parliament. It was also shown that several 
 tables were kept at Whitehall, at a great expense to the 
 nation, on purpose to corrupt and deboist members by. 
 great entertainments. The right also of the sixty Irish and 
 Scotch members to vote was debated fourteen days, and 
 this being decided affirmatively, the Protector's party was 
 able in some measure, to triumph by the aid of these votes. 
 The report of the committee concerning the accounts of 
 the government was then submitted. It appeared that 
 several offices had been created to serve particular persons, 
 and such had been the grievous mismanagement of affairs, 
 that the nation instead of being, as was supposed, finan- 
 cially prosperous, was found to be in debt to the extent of 
 nearly two millions and a half. This state of affairs gave 
 occasion for lengthened and stormy debates, which con- 
 tinued with more or less fury until the 23rd of April, when 
 Richard dissolved the assembly by proclamation. See a 
 review of these ijroceedings in a letter written by Slingsby 
 Beth ell, esq., and printed in lord Somers's Tracts, first 
 series, pp. 524 — 533. Of this parliament, it was estimated 
 that about one-half were protectorists, or supporters of the 
 court party, with Richard Cromwell at its head. Of the 
 republican party proper not more than fifty members were 
 returned, but their ranks contained several men of great 
 energy and eloquence, such as Vane, Hazlerig, Lambert, 
 Ludlow, Nevil, Bradshaw, and Scott. The remainder 
 were members who wavered between the two former 
 parties, sometimes supporting the one and sometimes the 
 other; but of these many were concealed cavaliers who, in 
 obedience to the command of Charles, had obtained seats 
 in the house, with the design of embarrassing the govern- 
 ment, and acting in whatever manner might appear to 
 them most likely to promote the interests of that faithless 
 exile. The Clarendon Papers (p. 440) state that there were 
 forty-seven republicans ; from one hundred to one hundred 
 and forty counterfeit republicans and neuters ; seventy two 
 lawyers, and above one hundred placemen. Burton's 
 Diary, under Feb. 4, informs us that the members com- 
 menced operations with a day of fasting and humiliation, 
 four preachers performing in the house from nine o'clock 
 in the morning till six o'clock p.m. — Lingard's History 
 of England, vol. vii., p. 276. 
 
 5 His long gallery. — Whitehall was Richard's residence, 
 and Wallingford House the residence of his brother-in- 
 law, but opponent, Fleetwood. The present Admiralty 
 buildings occupy the site of Wallingford House. The Cock- 
 pit and Tennis Court, founded by Henry VIII., havegiveu 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and they sent Richard frequent messages (mixed with their saint-like canting) and civil hypotheti- 
 cal menaces, w*" with promises to take care of him and of his debts for his father's too sumptuous 
 funeral and of his families welfare, obliged his newly erected highness to demitt and render up his 
 place and the instrument (that fiddle (as it was called) on w** his father, Oliver, play'd any time he 
 pleased) to his Parliament, w*" he did (cap in hand) confessing his inability,^ &c. And so the chief 
 authority of the three nations (as they called the kingdoms) rolled into so many forms (in a very 
 short time) as one would think impossible — that I will not disturb this narrative is special) 
 with the history of those general revolutions, which may be briefly read in Hobb's Behemoth, a 
 book in octavo. ^ Richard, for this womanish condescending, got the name of Queen Dick; and 
 
 place to the Treasury and the offices of the secretaries of 
 state. — Knight, Cyclopedia of London, ^. ^2. At several 
 secret meetings held among the officers of the army pre- 
 viously to the meeting of the new parliament, doubts were 
 expressed of the nomination of Richard by his father, and a 
 sentiment fostered among the military, that as the com- 
 monwealth was the work of the anny, so the chief office 
 in the commonwealth, instead of being held by one who 
 had never drawn a sword in the cause, ought to belong to 
 the commander of the army. These complaints were en- 
 couraged by Fleetwood and his friends, and formed 
 the grounds of controversy between the parties warring 
 with each other from Whitehall and Wallingford 
 House. Richard Cromwell, in the course of these violent 
 disputes, cast off the party that had been mainly instra- 
 mental in securing his interests as protector, and joined 
 himself with those whose characters and habits were more 
 congenial to his own. Of these, — the leaders of the 
 Whitehall party, — the best known were colonels Ingoldsby, 
 Gough, Whalley, Howard, Goodrich, and lieutenant- 
 colonel Keins. The leaders of the Wallingford House 
 or Army party were lieutenant-general Fleetwood, colonels 
 Desborough, Sydenham, Clark, Kelsey, and Berry, major 
 Haines, and treasurer Blackwell. The various move- 
 ments and counter-movements of the Whitehall and 
 Wallingford House parties are minutely detailed in Lud- 
 low's Memoirs, vol. ii., pp. 631-640. In these meetings 
 lord Broghill took a leading part, inducing Richard Crom- 
 well to dissolve the council of officers — a step which led 
 directly to the weak protector's own dismissal, or resigna- 
 tion. Broghill supplied Richard with the speech by 
 which he dissolved the council, and soon afterwards made 
 a hurried retreat from London, and came to take a leading 
 part in the important movements at Dublin immediately 
 preceding the Restoration. See Orrery's State Letters, 
 vol. i., pp. 54-5?- 
 
 * Confessing his inability. — Richard proved quite unable 
 to withstand the combined influence of Lambert and 
 Fleetwood ; but the parliament, seeing the republican 
 party about to triumph, passed a vote that no future 
 council of officers should be permitted to assemble without 
 the protector's consent. This brought the rupture to a 
 crisis. The army demanded the dissolution of the parlia- 
 ment, and Richard had not the resolution to resist this 
 demand, although the dissolution was equivalent to his own 
 dethronement. Desborough, in the name of the officers, 
 bluntly told him that the crisis had come, and that the 
 parliament must be dissolved either by the civil authority 
 or by the power of the sword. He might make his elec- 
 
 tion. If he chose the first, and dissolved the parliament, 
 the army would provide for his dignity and support ; if he 
 did not, he would be abandoned to his fate. The parlia- 
 ment was dissolved, and Richard signed his own demis- 
 sion in due form, on the 22d of April, 1659. He was 
 burdened with debts, among which was an item of 
 ;^28,ooo he had to pay for his father's pompous funeral, 
 an expense which was forced upon him by the general de- 
 termination that Oliver Cromwell's obsequies should exceed 
 in magnificence those of any former sovereign. Somerset 
 House was the place selected for this grand fiinereal exhibi- 
 tion, which lasted for the space of eight weeks. The black 
 cloth alone used therein as drapery cost the sum of £(3, 926 
 6s. Sd. To assist Richard in meeting these difficulties, 
 the revived ' Rump' parliament voted him ;^20,ooo, annex- 
 ing as a condition that he should depart from the palace of 
 Whitehall, in which he had continued to reside after his 
 deposition. He then retired for a time to Hampton 
 Court ; but only a small portion of the £20,000 was ac- 
 tually paid to him, and, to avoid his creditors he was 
 obliged to leave England. For several years he continued 
 to reside on the continent, sometimes at Paris, and occa- 
 sionally at Geneva ; but, eventually, he returned to England 
 under a feigned name, and settled at Cheshunt, near Lon- 
 don, where he died in 1 7 12, at the age of 86. It is re- 
 corded of him that he once, during the latter part of his 
 life, had the curiosity to visit the house of lords, whilst 
 some grand pageant was being enacted there. As he 
 gazed intently at the scene, a stranger, probably attracted 
 by something in his expression, asked him if he had ever 
 been present on any similar occasion, to which he quickly 
 replied — "Never, since I sat in that chair" — pointing to 
 the throne. See Noble's Continuation of Grangers Bio- 
 graphical LListory of England , voX. i., p. 176. 
 
 ' Hobb^s Behemoth, a book in octavo. — The author here 
 refers to the well-known work of Thomas Hobbes, en- 
 titled Behemoth : the LLislory of the Civill Wars oj Eng- 
 land from 1640 to 1660; 8vo, London, 1679. The fol- 
 lowing is a summary of the revolutions referred to in the 
 text, as they are recorded in the above-named book : — 
 From 1640 to 1648, the supreme authority in the State 
 was disputed between Charles I. and the parliament. 
 From 1648 to 1653, it rested with that part of the parlia- 
 ment which had deposed and executed the king, and de- 
 clared itself without king or house of lords. From 
 April 20, 1653, until the 4th of the following July, the 
 sovereignty was held by a council, which was constituted 
 by Cromwell. From July 4, until December 12, 1653, it 
 rested in a body of representatives knovra as the Bare- 
 
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 217 
 
 for the confusions which followed on this dimission of his sceptre, he was called Tumbledown 
 Dick.8 
 
 Among the turns of state (wherein Lambert and Fleetwood cou'd not agree w*" should be 
 uppermost) it happened the Rump to strike into the Comm"' House of Parliament.9 H. C. had 
 fair offers to stand for himself, and might have prospered (as Monck did) and played the game w*" 
 Orrory and Coote won, but he was schooled by Dr. Owen and his Lady's tears, that he gave way 
 to Commissioners sent by the Rump, and went to England. '° Our Vise', was at home, S' Geo. 
 
 bones' Parliament, from the name of one of its leading 
 members. From December 12, 1653, to September 3, 
 1658, the supreme power was held by Cromwell as lord 
 protector. From September 3, 1658, to April 25, 1659, 
 it rested in the hands of Richard Cromwell, as successor 
 to his father. From April 25, 1659, until the 7th of 
 May, the supreme authority of the State was nowhere, if 
 not to be found in the keeping of Lambert or Fleetwood. 
 From the 7th of May, 1659, the ' Rump,' or remnant of 
 the Long Parliament (dissolved in 1653), recovei'ed the 
 supreme authority once more, and held it until the restor- 
 ation of Charles IL, in 1660. — Hobbes's Works, fol. 
 edit, of 1750, pp. 583, 584. Hobbes, who was bora in 
 1588, was remarkably constituted. Although a clear- 
 minded and nobly-endowed man, he had his weaknesses. 
 One was a slavish fear of resistance or rebellion, under 
 any circumstance. In his Latin Autobiography this 
 ignoble feeling is admitted, and expressed as follows : — 
 
 ^' Aique mctitin ianfum conccpit tunc mea inater, 
 Ut parcret geininos, iiicque metjimque sitniil." 
 
 He feared resistance because it implied war, and in this 
 great philosopher's mind wax meant all that could be 
 imagined as most dreaded and to be detested — " no arts, 
 no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual 
 fear and danger of violent death." — Leviathan, part i. , 
 chap. 13, as quoted in Bisset's Commonwealth, vol. ii. , 
 p. no, note. 
 
 ' Tumbledown Dick. — Although the ' confusions' men- 
 tioned in the text passed off witlrout bloodshed, yet their 
 suddenness produced general consternation in the public 
 mind. All parties were glad to have done with Richard 
 Cromwell, but feared that such a sudden fall might be 
 followed by woful results. On the 25 th of April, 
 1659— the day on which he was forced to sign his 
 demission — Evelyn made the following entry in his 
 Memoirs: — -"A wonderful! suddaine change in ye face of 
 ye publiq ; ye new protector Richard sliglited ; severall 
 pretenders and parties strive for ye government : all 
 anarchy and confusion ; Lord have mercy on us." — 
 Vol. i. , p. 316. So soon as the danger feared from his 
 fall no longer threatened, poor Richard became the butt 
 of many a doggrel satirist. The author of lliulibras ap- 
 pears to have been the only man of mark who joined in 
 the rout of ballad-mongers on this occasion. In canto ii. , 
 part 3, we have the following allusion to Richard Crom- 
 well's fall : — 
 
 " Next him his son and heir apparent, 
 Succeeded, though a lame vicegerent, 
 Who first laid by tiie parliament, 
 The only cruch on which he leant ; 
 And then sunk underneath the State 
 That rode him above horseman's weight." 
 
 The same idea, and almost the same words, occur again 
 
 in Btitler's Remains. We meet with the following in his 
 tale of the Cobbler and Vicar of Bray : — 
 
 " What's worse, old Noll is marching off, 
 And Dick, his heir apparent, 
 Succeeds him in the government, 
 A very lame vicegerent." 
 
 The fate of Richard Cromwell is satirised as follows in a 
 Collection of Loyal Songs, reprinted in 1 731, vol. ii., 
 p. 231 :— 
 
 Tumble Down Dick. 
 " But Noll, a rank rider, gets first in the saddle. 
 
 And made her show tricks and curvate and rebound. 
 She quickly perceived that he rode widdle-waddle. 
 And, like his coach horse,* threw his Highness to ground. 
 
 " Then Dick, being lame, rode, holding the pummel. 
 Not having the wit to get hold of the rein ; 
 But the jade did so snort at the sight of a Cromwell, 
 That poor Dick and his kindred turned footmen again." 
 
 Many signboards throughout England had the motto, 
 "Tumble-Down-Dick," written upon them, originally in 
 derision of Richard Cromwell. There is still a signboard 
 known as Soldier Dick, near Disley, Stockport ; and 
 another as Happy Dick, at Abingdon. There was 
 also a popular dance named Tumble- Down- Dick. See 
 Larwood and Hotten's Llistory of Signboards, pp. 264, 265. 
 316. Mrs. }:inich\xi&o\\, m\\er Memoirs of Colonel Hiilch- 
 inson, p. 376, says : — " Richard was a peasant in his na- 
 ture, yet gentle and virtuous — a meek, temperate, and 
 quiet man, and became not greatness." 
 
 5 Comm"-> House of Parliament. — In the confusion con- 
 sequent on the deposition of Richard Cromwell, the cava- 
 liers and presbyterians exerted themselves in the interests 
 of the exiled king. The officers invited the Long Parlia- 
 ment to re-assemble, and in a short time forty-two mem- 
 bers were collected into the Painted Chamber, under the 
 speakership of Lenthal. They soon increased to tfie 
 number of seventy, and although ridiculed as the Rump 
 revived, they proceeded energetically to work, appointing 
 a committee of safety and a council of state, notifying to 
 foreign ministers their restoration to power, and promising, 
 by a printed declaration, to establish a form of government 
 which should secure the blessing of civil and religious 
 liberty. 
 
 '° Went to England.- — Among other arrangements, the 
 Parliament forthwith appointed commissioners to come to 
 Ireland and assume the government here, whilst Henry 
 Cromwell was summoned to appear before the council of 
 state to render up an account of his administration, and of 
 Irish affairs generally. The author truly says that, had 
 Henry Cromwell possessed the astuteness of others whom 
 he here names, he might have held Ireland for himself or 
 
 * In October, 1654, Oliver Cromwell's coach horses ran away in 
 Hyde Park, and the Protector was severely hurt. 
 
2l8 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Booth" was up in Lancashire, Colo. Cromwell" (afterwards Earle of Arglass) and Colo. Tre- 
 
 for the king, as it had pleased him. The commissioners 
 sent to replace him were Edmund Ludlow, John Jones, 
 Matthew Tomlinson, and William Bury, appointed by- 
 patent, on the 7th of May, 1659. Whilst Henry Crom- 
 well hesitated how he would act in this crisis, some of his 
 officers professed their attachment to the cause of the 
 commonwealth, others expressed a determination not to 
 separate their cause from that of their comrades in Eng- 
 land, and these arguments, especially when backed by his 
 lady's tears and the teachings of Dr. Owen, decided* him 
 to give up the reins without further struggle. "The order," 
 says Ludlow, "requiring Col. Cromwell to come over from 
 Ireland, and to give an account of his affairs there, being 
 signified to him, he retired to a house called the Phoenix, 
 belonging to the chief governor of Ireland, leaving Col. 
 Thomas Long in the castle of Dublin ; whether with an 
 intention of keeping it, I am not assured : but the com- 
 missioners, suspecting the worst, and being very desirous 
 to be possessed of it, imployed Sir Hardress Waller to sur- 
 prise the place, who, finding the power of Col. Cromwell 
 to decline, and that of the parliament to increase, was very 
 willing to attempt it, and being ready to enter by a postern 
 into the castle, the place was immediately surrendered to 
 him." — Memoirs, vol. ii., pp. 677, 678. Henry Cromwell 
 had declared to Fleetwood, that "although he could not 
 promise so much affection to the late changes, as others 
 very honestly might, Ijecause he could not promote any- 
 thing which inferred a diminution of his late father's ho- 
 nours and merits ; yet he had that regard for the public 
 peace as to acquiesce under J the present government ; 
 therefore, to prevent those fears and jealousies which might 
 interrupt its tranquillity, he thought it his duty to resign 
 his charge to any one whom parliament should send to re- 
 ceive it." He had conducted the government witli such 
 disregard to his private e nohi ncnt, that it is said he could 
 not at once command even what means were necessary to 
 defray the expense of his return to England. In 1653 he 
 had married a daughter of sir Francis Russell of Chip- 
 penham, in Cambridgeshire, the lady whose tears had such 
 influence, as our author informs us, in deciding her hus- 
 band's course. On leaving Dublin he and she returned to 
 Chippenham, where they resided during six years, and 
 afterwards removed to his estate at Soham, in the same 
 county. Here Henry Cromwell spent the remainder of 
 his life, dying in 1673-4, aged 46 years. 
 
 " Sir Geo. Booth. — The rising of royalists and presby- 
 terians in Lancashire under the leadership of sir George 
 Booth was but part of a wide-spread arrangement for the 
 restoration of Charles II. In consequence of mismanage- 
 ment or treachery on the part of some of the plotters, the 
 government was soon in possession of the whole plans, and 
 numerous arrests were instantly made in London and 
 throughout the country. A small party, not knowing of 
 the general failure in their arrangements, unfurled the 
 royal standard in Lancashire, and marched on Chester, 
 having as leaders sir George Booth, sir Thomas IMiddleton, 
 lord Kilmorey, and the earl of Derby. The insurgents 
 increased to four thousand ; and on the 6tli of August, 
 1659, Lambert was sent against them at the head of six 
 regiments of cavalry and infantry. He soon dispersed 
 them, taking three hundred prisoners. The earl of Derby 
 vvas taken in the disguise of a servant. Booth, dressed as 
 
 a female, and riding on a pillion, took the road for Lon- 
 don, but was caught at Xewton-Pagnell, his awkwardness 
 in alighting from the horse having betrayed him. Middle- 
 ton fled to Chirk Castle, where he soon afterwards capitu- 
 lated. — Ludlow, Memoirs, vol. ii., pp. 693, 694; Lin- 
 gard, History of England, vol. vii., p. 286. 
 
 Colo. Cromwell. — This was Vere Essex Cromwell, who, 
 on the death of his nephew, Oliver, in 1668, became 
 fourth and last earl of Ardglass. Their father, Thomas 
 Cromwell, first earl of Ardglass, was son of Edward, 
 baron Okeham, who died m 1607. The latter is de- 
 scribed in patents of James I. as "governor of Lecale, 
 the Castle of Dondrome, and other partes adjoj-ninge," to 
 whom " Phelimy M 'Arton sold the thirde parte of all that 
 his countrie called Killanarte, or in Watertirrj'e, or else- 
 where, in Co. Downe." These lands were "sett oute in 
 such severall partes as to the lord Crumwell seemed most 
 convenient," and with the lands went all the " woodes, 
 undei-woddes, profittes, and appurtenances to them belong- 
 inge," except the "chief seate or house of the said 
 Phelomyand the neere demeasnes thereunto £djo}Ti)-nge." 
 Cromwell purchased these lands from M'Artane for ever, 
 for a " certene somme of money," and in consideration of 
 the purchase " takinge into his keepjmge and bringinge 
 upp Patrick M 'Carton, the eldest sonne of said Phelomy, 
 and undertakinge to educate, instructe, apparrell, and 
 provide all other necessaries for his education in a gentle- 
 manlike sorte; and, also, in consideration of divers other 
 gratuyties, costes, troubles, and imployments, in and aboute 
 the said Phelomy M 'Carton and his affajTes, by the said 
 lord Crumwell hereafter to be done and executed. " This 
 deed contains the following covenant: — "Where the 
 allotment of a thirde parte of the landes aforesaid is not to 
 be made before the next feast of St. John, lord Crumwell 
 may, in the meane t}Tne, sell, cutt down, and carrie awaye 
 for his necessarie use, all manner of wood, tymber-trees, 
 or undenvoode, growinge upon any the landes of said 
 Phelomy, or to make coles or other necessaries uppon 
 same, without lett or contradiction." This deed of sale 
 was made in 1605, and confirmed to Cromwell by grant 
 from the crown. — Erck's Patent Rolls of jfames I., ^-p. 
 191, 192. This Edward Cromwell inherited from Crom- 
 well, earl of Essex, an estate in Devonshire, which he 
 exchanged with Charles Blount, lord Mountjoy, for the 
 Downpatrick estate, consisting of the abbey-lands of 
 Down, Inch, and Saul, granted to the latter for his great 
 services to the crown in the suppression of Tyrone's re- 
 bellion. Harris, in his Aecount of the Anticnt and Present 
 State of the County of Do-on, pp. 34, 35, says: — "On a 
 rising ground, at the entrance into this town (Downpatrick), 
 formerly stood a noble house of the Right Hon. the lord 
 Cromwell, burned down by the Irish rebels in 1641. 
 This gentleman came over into Ireland in the reign of 
 King James I., and was captain of an independent troop 
 at Down, where he built this House, some of the ruins 
 whereof yet appear, and in which he lived with great 
 
 hospitality and credit He died here, and 
 
 was buried in the middle of the old Cathedral, near the 
 East end, and on his grave-stone is this inscription : — 
 
 " HERE LIETH INTERRED THE EODV OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 EDWARD CROMWELL, BARON OF OKEHAM, DECEASED 24TH OP DECEM- 
 BER, 1607. ALSO THE BODY OF THE HONOURABLE OLIVER CROM- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. , 219 
 
 vor'3 were secretly consulting with our Vise', what to do to advance the King's cause. The Anabap- 
 tists bore the greatest sway in the Council at Dublin, and they ordered Colonel Cooper, "^ Governor 
 of Ulster (then in Carrickf') to send up our Vise*, prisoner. His Lo^ had some sickness and recovered 
 health in Dublin, where I was when the council was surprised and seized,'^ in w'^his Lo' was co- 
 vertly active, for tho' he staid in his lodgings, he sent myself and his servants in messinges, and allowed 
 his horses and mine to a friend, called Geo. Wilton,^^ who mounted himself and others on them, 
 joining Theo'. Jones, who was in the action of that surprise, in scouring the streets hindering the 
 Anabaptists to get to a body. I will not here relate that Theo^ Jones (my kinsman and great 
 friend in usurping times) and the persons who surprised the Council Chamber and Castle (both at 
 one time) made a rendezvous on Oxmondtown green;'? declared to restore the secluded members 
 
 WELL, SON TO THE EIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS, EARL OF ARD- 
 GLASS, AND GRANDSON TO THE SAID EDWARD, DECEASED 19TH OF 
 OCTOBER, 166S." 
 
 On the 7th of August, 1617, the king granted to Thomas, 
 lord Cromwell, the castle, lordship, manor, and town of 
 Dundrum, in or near the territory of Lecale, and seven 
 
 townlands adjoining the castle, the site of the 
 
 abbey of Inche, with a castle and other buildings, a 
 cemetery, and ^ car. in the island of the Inch, and all 
 
 the demesne lands of the said abbey, the site of the 
 
 house of the monks of Down, with all the lands thereto 
 belonging; the site of the priory of canons of St. John in 
 Down, with the lands of said priory ; the site of the priory 
 of St. John and St. Thomas of Down, and eight acres 
 within its precinct, together with all the other lands be- 
 longing to the said priory ; the site of the monastery of 
 Sawie, .and two ruinous castles, and a garden within its 
 precinct, two castles and three townlands of Sawle, with 
 the several other landed possessions of said monastery ; 
 Hollingrainge, parcel of the possessions of the late dissolved 
 monastery of Hore Abbey, otherwise Leigh, or Jugo Dei 
 in the Ardes ; Corbally, parcel of the possessions of the 
 late monasteiy of Bangor in Down county ; the site of the 
 monastery of Friars Minors of Down, with a chamber, 
 hall, and other buildings, a cemetery, garden, and orchard 
 within the precinct, together with the several other pos- 
 sessions of the said monastery ; the site of the monastery 
 of St. Patrick of Down, with a dormitory, a close, and 
 other edifices, and a garden within its precinct, together 
 with veiy extensive landed possessions belonging to the 
 said monastery, including the water of Loughcoyne, flow- 
 ing into the river or bay of -Strangford, in which vessels 
 of ten tons can pass to the port of Strangford ; half of the 
 territory or country commonly called M'Cartan's country; 
 a ferry from the town of Down to the Inch, and another 
 ferry from the castle and towne of Coyle to Fanabroge, 
 for which he is to be paid by passengers at the usual rates ; 
 the whole river and water of Loughcon or Loughcoyne, and 
 all other rivers and waters flowing into the river and bay of 
 Strangford, as far as any of them flow near lord Cromwell's 
 lands, with the fishings thereof The whole is created into 
 a manor, called the manor of Downpatrick, with 1,000 acres 
 in demesne ; power to create tenures ; to hold courts leet and 
 baron ; to hold a Saturday market at Downpatrick, and 
 two fairs, one on the feast of St. Luke the evangelist, 
 and the other on the feast of St. Patrick ; with courts of 
 pie-powder and the usual tolls ; lord Cromwell and his 
 
 heirs to be clerks of the market, to have free warren and 
 chace ; and to enjoy all waifs and strays. The territory 
 of Kilienarten to be held at the yearly rent of £2 13s 4d. 
 To hold for ever, the Killenlarten lands in capite, by the 
 service of one knight's fee ; and all the remainder in com- 
 mon socage. — Calendar of Patent Kelts, James I., pp. 
 336, 337- 
 
 '3 Colo. Trevor. — This was Marcus Trevor, a son of 
 sir Edward. See p. 132, supra. 
 
 Colonel Cooper. — Colonel Thomas Cooper was a 
 steady and trusted servant of the commonwealth, and suc- 
 ceeded colonel Robert Barrow as commander at Carrick- 
 fergus, the violent anabaptist sentiments of the latter 
 unfitting him, in Cromwell's opinion, for the duties of 
 that position. The latter, writing to his son Henry, in 
 November, 1656, says : — •" I am alsoe thinkinge of send- 
 ing over to you a fitt person who may command the North 
 of Ireland, which I Ijelieve stands in great need of one." 
 Cooper soon afterwards relieved Barrow at Carrickfergus, 
 where he resided until the close of 1658. He died at 
 London in 1659, before the breaking up of the common- 
 wealth. — Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Ireland, vol. ii., p. 204, note. 
 
 '5 Council surprised and seized. — The commissioners 
 who took charge of tlie government on the removal of 
 Henry Cromwell appear to have held office only for one 
 month, as their successors were appointed on the 7th of 
 June, 1659. The names of the latter were colonel John 
 Jones ; William Steele, serjeant-at-law ; Robert Goodwin, 
 esq.; colonel Matthew Tomlinson ; and Miles Corbet, 
 serjeant-at-law. On the 13th of December, the castle of 
 Dublin was surprised by sir Charles Coote and sir Har- 
 dress Waller, in the interests of the parliament, and three 
 of the above-named commissioners, viz., Jones, Tomlin- 
 son, and Corbett, were seized with several others, and 
 sent prisoners to England. 
 
 Geo. Wilton. — The first viscount Montgomery's 
 younger daughter, Jean, married to Patrick Savage, left 
 two daughters. The second, named Elizabeth, married 
 George Wilton ; their son, also named George, an 
 officer in the army, was the person here mentioned by the 
 author. 
 
 '7 Oxmondtown green. — Ludlow's account of this move- 
 ment, carried forward by Coote, Jones, and others, 
 ostensibly in the cause of a free parliament, but really 
 in connivance with Monk to bring about the Restora- 
 tion, is as follows; — "It was a matter of amazement 
 
220 - The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 of the Long Parliament to sitt with those now in the Com"" House at Westminster, and nor how 
 they made S' Hardress Waller'9 their Major-General, for the Burhill^ and Coote were not yet 
 appearing in Dublin f nor will I write what they declared for more than afores'', nor how K' Waller 
 
 that such a Declaration should be published by men 
 who pretended to act by the authority of the Parlia- 
 ment ; but it was not procured without opposition ; 
 for when Sir Charles Coote and Col. Theophilus 
 Jones, who were the principal confidants of Monk on 
 that side, had prepared their paper, and a party to back 
 it ; Sir Hardress Waller, who had been one of the late 
 king's judges, fearing the consequence of such practices, 
 moved that the Council of War might be adjourned into 
 the Castle; But not being able to carry that point, he com- 
 municated his design to as many as he thought fit, and 
 making an excuse to go out of the room, he hastened away 
 and retired into the Castle. Major Stanley, Lieut. -Col. 
 Warren, and some others went immediately and joined 
 themselves to him ; and amongst them it was resolved to 
 send out a party to seize Sir Charles Coote and his ad- 
 herents. But he having notice of their intentions, had a 
 party of his creatures ready; and being accompanied by 
 Col. Theophilus Jones, mounted on horseback at the head 
 of them, riding up and down the streets of Dublin, and 
 declaring for a free Parliament, which language was by 
 that time sufficiently understood to be for the King. They 
 were followed by a great rabble of people, and thereby so 
 encouraged, that they formed a design against the Castle ; 
 and having posted their guards upon all the avenues, they 
 sent a summons to Sir Hardress Waller to deliver the 
 
 place into their hands By the expulsion of 
 
 Sir Hardress Waller out of the army, two regiments fell 
 into the hands of those vi'ho had seized the government of 
 Ireland, for which Sir Charles Coote had some difficulty 
 to find Colonels, having already disposed of two to himself; 
 one to his brother, Richard Coote, another to his brother 
 Chudleigh Coote, a fifth to his brother Thomas Coote, and 
 a sixth to his cousin, Sir George." — Memoirs, vol. ii., pp. 
 837-9- 
 
 At Westmutstcr. — On the day following the seizure 
 of the castle, the principal officers in Dublin published a 
 paper entitled — "A Declaration of several officers of the 
 Ar7ny in Irelaiid, on behalf of themselves and those under 
 their commands, holding forth their steadfast resolutions to 
 adhere to the Parliament i7i dejence of its privileges, and the 
 just rights and libertyes of the people of these natiotis as men 
 and christians.'''' This declaration was signed by sir 
 Hardress Waller and twenty-one others; not in support of 
 the Rump parliament, as Dr. Reid supposes (vol. ii. , p. 
 226, note), but in support of the right of the members ex- 
 cluded from the Long parliament to resume their seats in 
 the house. 
 
 '9 Sr Hardress Waller. — The Wallers of Castletown 
 are descended from an old Kent family, a member or 
 members of which were distinguished at the battle of 
 Agincourt. To the same stock belonged William Waller, a 
 distinguished parliamentary general, and Edward Waller, 
 the well-known poet. George Waller, who was chief of 
 his name, married a lady of the ancient family of Har- 
 dress, and was father of sir Hardress mentioned in the 
 text. The latter warmly espoused the side of the com- 
 monwealth, whilst his mother's family were as decidedly 
 royalist. By his marriage with a daughter of sir John 
 
 Dowdall of Kilfenny, sir Hardress became proprietor of 
 the Castletovra estate. He was appointed major-general 
 of the horse, and was a member of parliament for the city 
 of Limerick. He also acquired large estates by grant 
 from the government, during the commonwealth, but hav- 
 ing been one of the judges who presided at the trial of 
 Charles L , he was brought to account at the Restoration. 
 He had powerful friends among the royalists, and having 
 pleaded guilty at his trial, his life was spared, and he was 
 permitted to live in Ireland, but all the lands granted to 
 him under the commonwealth were forfeited. These 
 lands, with the estates of other regicides, were handed 
 over to the duke of York (afterwards James II.), and at 
 the Revolution were forfeited again, and sold in lots, princi- 
 pally to the Hollow Sword Blade Company. Lady Waller, 
 however, was not deprived of the Castletown estate, which 
 had descended to her through a long line of ancestors, her 
 family always secretly favouring the royal cause during the 
 civil war. To this fact, as well as to the influence of his 
 three sons-in-law, sir Hardress Waller was indebted for 
 his life. His daughter Elizabeth, married the celebrated 
 sir William Petty ; Bridget married Mr. Cadogan, and 
 became the mother of the first earl of Cadogan, well- 
 known as a gallant general ; and Anne, the youngest, 
 married sir Henry Ingoldsby, who became an acrive in- 
 strument in the restoration of Charles II. — Lenihan's 
 Limerick; its History and Antiquities, p. 175, note. 
 
 ^ Bur hill. — Burhill is a misprint for Broghill, the title 
 borne by Roger Boyle, afterwards earl of Orrery. 
 
 Appearing in Dublin. — Lord Broghill, sir Charles 
 Coote, and major William Bury, were appointed commis- 
 sioners by the parliament, in Januarj-, 1659-60, soon after 
 the seizure and removal of their predecessors. Broghill 
 and Coote, who had rendered eminent sen-ices to Crom- 
 well and the commonwealth, seeing clearly the turn affairs 
 were then taking in England, entered into an engagement 
 with each other for the restoration of Charles II. Brog- 
 hill sent his brother, lord Shannon, to inform the king, 
 tlien at Brussels, of their project, whilst Coote dispatched 
 sir Arthur Forbes on the same errand to Ormond, who 
 was then staying w-ith the king. • Charles wrote to Coote 
 in reply to his message, and among other confidential 
 revelations, expresses himself as follows: — "I will not 
 enlarge concerning yourself, the great seridces you can do 
 me, the great confidence I have in view, and your great 
 merit towards your country, as well as towards me, will 
 all secure you, that I will do what becomes me towards 
 the gratifying and obliging such a servant." The king 
 closed his letter by an offer to make Coote an earl at once, 
 to give him just such a command as he should please to 
 accept, and to take all the young Cootes into his royal 
 and especial care. For Coote's serv^ices, the king was 
 afterwards indeed generous, but entirely at the expense of 
 the hapless Roman Catholics forfeited in Ireland. In 
 addition to the grants given by Charles I. to "old sir 
 Charles " (see p. 188, supra), the son was now put into pos- 
 session of extensive lands in the counties of Roscommon 
 and Westmeath. He was appointed keeper of the castle of 
 Athlone ; governor of the county, town, and citadel of 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 221 
 
 relinquished his promise to help to restore the s'' secluded members ; nor how he was (by siege) 
 obliged to surrender up the Castle of Dublin, wherein he had nested himself for the Rump,^^ nor 
 of any other occurrences consequent thereupon, because it is not my business -.^3 and I stayed no 
 longer in the city to see them, but went home and surprised by artifice (without siege) my house 
 of Rosemount^"* and castle of Quinlinbay (als. diet. Coninsbay)^^ in one day, and keeping possession 
 
 Galway ; advanced to the earldom of Mountrath ; con- 
 stituted one of the three lords-justices, to whom a grant 
 was passed of ;^io,ooo to be equally divided among them. 
 Sir Charles also received £b,ooo as arrears due for his 
 services before the 5th of June, 1649. — Lodge's Peerage of 
 Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. ii., pp. 75, 76. 
 
 '^^ For the Rump. — The Rump parliament ceased to 
 exist in 1653, but the nickname is here used to designate 
 the Assembly that sat until the Restoration. It would 
 appear, from our author's statement, that, although sir 
 Hardress Waller declared at first in favour of restoring 
 the sequestered and excluded members of the Long par- 
 liament, he afterwards clung more especially to the cause 
 of the ' Rump.' After a siege of five days, however, he 
 was obliged to surrender the castle of Dublin to Coote, 
 who now suddenly abandoned the cause he had formerly 
 espoused so warmly, and not only so, but endeavoured to 
 establish hmself in favour with the royalists by the 
 betrayal and robbery of his former friends. " That 
 rapacious time-server had, during the power of the re- 
 publicans and the usurpation of Cromwell, used his in- 
 fluence with the government to enrich himself at the 
 expense of the royal party. But no sooner did the 
 prospect of a revolution in favour of the banished family 
 begin to open than he was among the first of the deserters, 
 and employed the power he had in Ireland to the double 
 advantage of wiping off old scores with the new govern- 
 ment by a zealous attention to the purposes of their 
 revenge, and to the enlarging of his ill-gotten possessions 
 with the plunder of his old friends. " — Secret History of the 
 Court and Reign of Charles II., vol. i., p. 105. Ludlow 
 had reason to congratulate himself in having escaped the 
 ' clutches' of Coote, and tells the following story of the 
 latter's rapacity: — "During this time, I had sent orders 
 to my bailiff in Ireland, to sell my stock, which in sheep, 
 black cattle, corn, and horses, might amount to about fif- 
 teen hundred pounds, and to collect the rents that were 
 due to me from my tenants. But he being negligent, I 
 made over my stock to my brother-in-law. Colonel 
 Kempson, for satisfaction of my sister's portion, pressing 
 him to send some person forthwith to take possession ; 
 which, not being done with the expedition that was requi- 
 site in such a juncture. Sir Charles Coote, without any 
 order or pretence of authority from Parliament, made 
 seizure of all ; forcing my tenants to pay my rent to him, 
 and commanding my servant not to dispose of any part 
 of my stock but by his order ; only four stone horses 
 which I had bred, and were then in my stable, were taken 
 away by Colonel Theophilus Jones ; these men who had 
 engaged in the same cause, outdoing our enemies in rage 
 and cruelty to us." — Memoirs, vol. iii. , pp, 9, 10. 
 
 -3 Not my business. — The author was evidently of 
 opinion that the motives of the leading actors would 
 not bear any very rigid scrutiny. The following 
 passage from Dr. French's Settlemtnt and Sale of Ire- 
 
 land, pp. 79, 80, will serve to illustrate the move- 
 ments in Dublin immediately preceding the Restora- 
 tion: — " Broghil and Coot having by several Emissaries 
 sent into England, felt the pulse of the English Nation, 
 and finding the people generally inclined to concur 
 with the loyal and successful endeavours of the Lord 
 General Monk, in order to the Restauration of his sacred 
 Majesty, convoqued a Convention in Dublin of persons 
 merely interested in that Kingdom, to consult upon the 
 best and safest course that might be tal^en to prevent the 
 restoring of the Irish Cavaliers to those estates which the 
 Conventionists and their partisans enjoyed by the Usur- 
 per's (Cromwell's) bounty, and which they had great rea- 
 son to believe would be immediatelyrestored to their ancient 
 proprietors upon his Majesty's re-establishment. In order 
 to this resolution, it was agreed upon that all the gentle- 
 men of Ireland should be committed to close prison, to 
 render them incapable of contributing to his Majestie's 
 Restauration, in case his Majesty should choose to pursue 
 his Royal Right by dint of Sword, rather than to conde- 
 scend to such disadvantageous conditions, as the Conven- 
 tionists did hope, and were fully perswaded would be im- 
 posed upon him by the Parliament of England. It was also 
 concluded, that a man of parts and faction among the 
 Presbyterian party, should be employed into England, to 
 prepossess the people there with the dangers and incon- 
 veniences which the restoring of the Irish Natives to their 
 ancient estates would infallibly bring upon the new English 
 interest in that Kingdom. In pursuance to these resolu- 
 tions, all the prisons in Ireland were filled with the Nobility 
 and Gentry of that Nation, whom no imbecillity of age 
 nor indisposition of body could excuse, nor any offered 
 security answer for. Sir John Clolworthy, a man famous 
 for plundering .Somerset House, murdering the king's 
 subjects, and committing many other treasons and horrid 
 crimes, was dispatched into England." It was mainly (ac- 
 cording to the same writer) through Clotworthy's represent- 
 ations, backed up by the influence of such men as Broghill, 
 Annesley, and Mervyn, that the Act of Oblivion did not 
 extend to the natives of Ireland, and that his majesty's 
 Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland by wholesale 
 confiscation, was concocted and eventually carried out. 
 
 Rosemonnt. — In the author's memoirs of himself, he 
 gives a full and somewhat curious account of the manner 
 in which he recovered Rosemount. See ijifra. 
 
 =^5 Quinlinbay, (als. diet. Collinshay ). — Quinlinbay is a 
 misprint for Qiiintin Bay, and Collinsbay for Cottins Bay. 
 This part of Strangford Lough was called Quintin Bay 
 from a castle of that name which stood above it on a 
 headland, about two miles south from the towrn of Porta- 
 ferry. The castle had been originally a fortress of the 
 Savages, and was so called, no doubt, from some chieftain 
 of that family, whose Christian name was Quintin, which 
 is the English form for Cooey.— See Reeves' Ecclesiastical 
 Antiquities, p. 25. Cottins Bay was simply cot, or boat 
 
 F I 
 
222 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 of them. — Tho' Colo. George (in his circuit to cajole the Presbet" Ministers)^^ came to view the 
 pretended forcible entry, but he did not disturb me. This was done by me on the 12th Feb^ 1659, 
 four months (bate fifteen days) before the K. came to Whitehall, and was wonderfully and happily 
 restored by God to his people on the 29th May (his birth-day) 1660, without bloodshed.'? And 
 
 bay, from the Irish cot, meaning a small boat. Boate, 
 in his Irelatid^s Natural History, p. 64, says : — " They 
 call in Ireland cots things like boats, but very unshapely, 
 being nothing but square pieces of timber made hollow. " 
 In William Montgomery's Description of the Ards 
 (p. 304 of volume printed in 1830), we have the 
 following account of his estate at this place : — " There is 
 likewise on the eastern shore, one league from ye said 
 Bar, Cottins Bay, als. Quintin Bay Castle, which com- 
 mands ye Bay, that is capable to receive a bark of forty 
 tunns burthen. Sir James Montgomery of Rosemount 
 purchased the same, and lands adjoining therunto, from 
 Dualtagh Smith, a depender on ye Savages of Portne- 
 ferry, in whose mannor it is : and ye said sir James roofed 
 and floored ye castle, and made free-stone window cases, 
 &c. , therin : and built ye baron, and flankers, and kitchen 
 walls contiguous ; all which, W. Montgomery, Esq., 
 and his son James (joyning in ye sale) sold unto Mr. 
 George Ross, who lives at Carney, part of ye premises." 
 We have not been able to ascertain who had aistodium of 
 this property during the commonwealth, but most pro- 
 bably it was held by either colonel Barrow or his son. 
 The author got into possession again without waiting for 
 any official formalities, and some months before the re- 
 placing of other sequestered royalists. 
 
 °* The Presbet'i. ministers. — Whoever " Colo. George" 
 mav have been, who was sent round by Broghill and 
 Coote to cajole the presbyterian ministers, he appears to 
 have performed the duties of his exalted mission admirably 
 well. His first object was to secure the co-operation of 
 these ministers, or at least to prevent any opposition from 
 them, at a convention to be held soon afterwards in 
 Dublin, for the purpose of carrying out the objects then 
 specially aimed at by Broghill and Coote. For an ac- 
 count of this cajoling process from first to last, see Adair's 
 Narrative, pp. 231, 233, 234, 241. These ministers foolishly 
 persuaded themselves that they were now to be formally 
 recognised by the State, and their hopes were gi^eatly elated 
 when the Convention appointed as its chaplain a presby- 
 terian minister named Cocks. Adair, who was himself the 
 only deputy summoned from the north, records this litde 
 matter twice in his Narrative, at pages 231 and 233. The 
 fact of the Convention calling ' ' the soundest presbyterian 
 in Dublin, one Mr. Cocks, to their prayers every morning 
 when they began their business," appears to have compen- 
 sated for much subsequent disappointment. Mr. Adair, 
 on receiving an order from the Convention to attend its 
 sittings, forthwith summoned a meeting of his brethren 
 at Belfast, from whom he received instructions "how to 
 carry," or, in other words, how most truly to represent 
 their sentiments and expectations. They instructed him to 
 " promove the work of reformation," to "guard against 
 Episcopal courses on the one hand, and Sectarian (or Inde- 
 pendentjonthe other," and, as amatterof course, toattempt 
 the owning and renewing of the Covenant. Adair, with 
 about half a dozen other ministers, members of the Con- 
 vention, agreed in private consultations to introduce the 
 
 question of the Covenant, but, when this project became 
 known. Sir James Barry, chairman of the Convention, de- 
 clared that, if the covenant was made a subject of delibe- 
 ration, he would leave the chair and protest against it. 
 "Whereupon," says Adair, "the rest of his party did 
 applaud him ; and those of the Convention who favoured 
 it (the Covenant) were of the fewest number ; others were 
 indifferent, and so that design was crushed in the bud." 
 But behind this there was another "design" of more 
 practical import, which, although not "crushed in the 
 bud," was never permitted to develop. It is thus ex- 
 plained by Adair, page 235 — "However, these ministers 
 had power to recommend all honest able men to the Con- 
 vention, that such only should be capable of maintenance ; 
 and were charged to recommend none who were of 
 Anabaptist'!.- \\ principles, who refused ordination by ortho- 
 dox ministers, or were scandalous in their lives. Accord- 
 ingly, they drew up a list of the ministers then in Ireland,- 
 who were judged sober orthodox men, to the number of 
 near an hundred, besides those belonging to the Presby- 
 tery in the North, upwards of sixty. They declared those 
 who, to their knowldge or information, were scandalous 
 in life, or Anabaptistical, or not orthodox in their prin- 
 ciples ; all whom they approved were allowed of the 
 Convention to receive a legal right to the tithes of the 
 parishes \\'here they severally were ; and, in order to that, 
 they were to receive inductions into the churches by such 
 neighbouring ministers as were appointed for that effect." 
 This arrangement, by which their heretical brethren were 
 " left out in the cold," would have been satisfactory to the 
 presbyterians, even although it would have entirely pre- 
 cluded the possibility of carr)dng out their covenanting 
 oath for the extii^pation of prelacy. But the Convention 
 had no authority whatever to make any such arrangement 
 as here stated, and the "warrants" solemnly delivered to 
 the "cajoled" on that occasion were not worth the 
 paper on which they were written. Neither had the 
 commissioners, Broghill, Coote, and Buiy, or Barry, who 
 seem to have acquiesced in this arrangement, any valid 
 authority for so doing. The result of this movement, so 
 hopefully regarded by presbyterians in the north, is thus 
 described by Adair: — "After Mr. Adair's return home 
 from Dublin, there was held a Synod at Ballymena, where 
 all the brethren in the North were present. He gave 
 them such an account of his keeping their instructions and 
 of the state of the times as he could. He also brought 
 every one of them a warrant for the tithes of their respec- 
 tive parishes, so far as was in the power of the commis- 
 sioners in Dublin," p. 241. The holders of these "war- 
 rants" were soon doomed to see their hopes of rectories 
 and glebe-lands vanish into thin air. 
 
 ^ Without bloods/ied. — " To Monk belongs the merit of 
 having, by his foresight and caution, effected this desirable 
 object without bloodshed or violence ; but to his dispraise 
 it must also be recorded that he effected it without any 
 previous stipulation on the part of the exiled monarch. 
 Never had so fair an opportunity been offered of establish- 
 
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 now, having mentioned myself, I must not forget our third Visct. whom I left in Dublin, where he 
 stayed but a few days; wherein he understood from Theo= Jones (who was released with him from 
 the Irish as afores**)^^ what was designed for the King's restoration; and now his was free from at- 
 tendances, therefore he hasted home, and by the way went in at Millifont, and concerted with 
 his brother Moore their councils for the King, not doubting that the confusion and stirs wou'd all 
 end for his Majesty's and his kingdom's welfare; they wishing that the several parties of Oliver's 
 army might overturn and governments till the King (whose right it was) should come and 
 
 rule us. And now every party minded their own knitting, to work the best for themselves 
 respectively. Then our Vise*, came to Newtown, and sent messages to Cromwell,^? Colo. Tre- 
 
 ing a compact between tlie sovereign and the people, of 
 detemiining, by mutual consent, the legal rights of the 
 crown, and of securing from future encroachments the free- 
 dom of the people It was found that, by the 
 
 perfidy or negligence of Monk, a door had been left open 
 to the recurrence of dissension between the crown and the 
 people ; and that very circumstance which Charles had 
 hailed as the consummation of his good fortune, served 
 only to prepare the way for a second revolution, which 
 ended in the permanent exclusion of his family from the 
 government of these kingdoms." — Lingard, History of Eng- 
 land, vol. viii. , p. 304. The restoration, as it happened, 
 did not much improve the condition even of the royalists 
 themselves, although the re-establishment of something 
 like order and peace was a blessing to the country in gene- 
 ral. The thousands, however, who had mortgaged their 
 estates to redeem their sequestrations, and who could 
 barely scrape together as much as paid the interest of the 
 borrowed money, and their taxes for the king, were wholly 
 forgotten by Charles in the company of his worthless 
 associates. " 'Twas rather a madness than jollity," says 
 Coke, "that all sorts of people expressed in the king's 
 passage from Dover to Whitehall. The nation was never 
 so fine in cloaths, even the poor cavaliers will be as fine as 
 the best, tho' they never live to pay their taylors ; nor 
 shall the king take any care of them, his favourites being 
 of another stamp than those who served his father." — De- 
 tection of the Court and State of England, vol. ii., p. 102. 
 Under date 25tli May, 1660, Pepys has the following re- 
 ference to the landing of Charles at Dover : — "Infinite 
 the crowd of people, and the gallantry of the horsemen, 
 citizens, and noblemen of all sorts. The mayor of the 
 town come and give him his white staff, the badge of his 
 place, which the king did give him again. The mayor also 
 presented him from the town a very rich Bible, which he 
 took, and said it was the thing that he loved above all 
 things in the world." Before his entrance into London, 
 " Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, pre- 
 sented a petition to the lord mayor, wherein they pray his 
 lordship to grant them leeve and liberty to meet his majesty 
 on the day of his passing through the city ; and if their 
 petition be granted that they will all be clad in white 
 waistcoats and crimson petticoats, and other ornaments of 
 triumph and rejoicing." — Rugge's May, 1660. 
 Evelyn has the following entry under the 9th of May, 
 1660 : — "This day his Majistie Charles the Second came 
 to London after a sad and long exile and calamitous suf- 
 fering both of the king & church, being 1 7 yeares. This 
 was also his birthday, and with a triumph of about 20,cxxj 
 
 horse and foote, brandishing their swordes and shouting 
 with inexpressible joy, the wayes strewed with flowers, the 
 bells ringing, the streets hung with tapistry, fountains run- 
 ning with wine ; the Maior, aldermen, and all the com- 
 panies in their liveries, chaines of gold, and banners ; lords 
 and nobles clad in cloth of silver, gold, and velvet ; the 
 windowes and balconies all set with ladies ; trumpets, 
 music, and myriads of people flocking, even so far as from 
 Rochester, so as they were seven hours in passing the 
 citty, even from 2 in ye afternoone till 9 at night. . . . 
 The eagerness of men, women and children to see his 
 Majistie and kisse his hands was so greate that he had 
 scarce leisure to eate for some dayes, coming as they did 
 from all partes of the nation ; and the king being as will- 
 ing to give them that satisfaction." Charles had soon to 
 enter on the performance of acts on behalf of certain of his 
 subjects which probably took him by surprise. On the 
 6th of June, not a month after the restoration, Evelyn has 
 the follow ing: — "His Majistie began first to touch for ye 
 evil, accordinge to custome, thus : His Majestic sitting 
 under his state in ye Banquetting House, the chirurgions 
 cause the sick to be brought or led up to the tlirone, where 
 they kneeling, ye King strokes their faces or cheekes with 
 both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplaine in his 
 formalities says — He pU his hands npoii them and healed 
 them. Tills is said to every one in particular. When they 
 have been all touched, they come up againe in the same 
 order, and the other chaplaine kneeling, and having angel 
 gold (pieces of money so called from having the figure of 
 an angel on them) strung on white ribbon on liis arme, de- 
 livers them one by one to his Majestic, who puts them about 
 the necks of the touched as they passe, whilst the chaplaine 
 repeats — That is ye true light who came into the ivorld. 
 Then follows an epistle (as at first a gospell), with the 
 Liturgy, prayers for llie side, with some alteration, lastly, 
 ye blessing ; and then the lord chamberlaine and comp- 
 troller of the household bring a basin, ewer and towell 
 for his Majestic to wash." — Memoirs, vol. i. , pp. 323, 324. 
 Irish as afores<i.. — See pp. 164, 167, S2cpra. 
 =9 O^- Cromwell. — See p. 228, supra. — Colonel Crom- 
 well's father, the first earl of Ardglass, who died in 1653, 
 had sold all the Kinelarty estate, in 1636, to Matthew 
 Forde, for the sum of ;^8,ooo. These lands, as already 
 explained, had been acquired, on various grounds, 
 from Phelomy Mac Artan, by Edward Cromwell, father 
 of Thomas, and grandfather of the Colonel Cromwell 
 mentioned in the text. Mr. Forde obtained a grant from 
 the crown in July, 1637, of these lands, including Logh- 
 newie, alias Loughanboy, alias Laraty, now absorbed in 
 
224 
 
 Th£ Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 vor afores'' (aftenv''' he was L'* Dungannon)3° and communed also with the Earle of Clanbrassil's 
 friends (for himself was dead) 3' whom he thought true loyalists, and with his own friends and 
 followers, whom he knew best of all and trusted most. Whilst these matters were under consulta- 
 tion, Cap* Campben32 going with instructions from Coote to Gen' Monk to Scotland, and Colo. 
 Clifford, Gov' of Edinborough Castle, coming from his ExcelP=' Gen' Monkss and to Broghill and 
 Coote, now in Dublin. The s"* Cap', and Colo, as they came and went communicated their 
 business privately to our Vise*, at Newtown, and his Lo^ gave them (at each meeting) steadable 
 advice, incouragement and furtherance, and imparted to them what he was doing, for they were 
 both enjoyned to apply themselves to his Lo^, whose interest and abilitys (fit for the present pur- 
 pose) Monk and Coote well knew by experience; and Theo'. Jones found private means as (his 
 LoP and he had agreed at parting) to send his Lo^ intelligence and advice how to demean himself, 
 and by what steps to proceed, as S' Art' Forbes (afterwards Earle of Granard) had in Dublin in- 
 formed his Lo^ on what message he went from Coote to the I am sure I write not by guess or 
 
 Seaforde demesne ( Laithreac-teagh, ' the house of the old 
 ruins,' but afterwards translated, in allusion to the pro- 
 prietor's name, 'Seaforde House,' as if derived from 
 I.ar-ath-reagh ), Dromlistenan, Dromedikilly, Castlena- 
 vell, Tawnagh-Castlenavell, Comber, Magheratimpany, 
 Dromorode, Dunturke, Tievenadarragh, Dromonquoyly, 
 Ardtovanagh, Scribie, Donanerney, Teaghconnot, Eden- 
 mackeonan, Clerigh, Ichin, Comraine, Murvaghclogagh, 
 Syvockan, Drumguolan, Cloughvallie, Tollincree, and 
 Dromenessy. — See Hannahs Account of Clough, in the 
 DowHpati-ick Recorder. _ Colonel Vere Essex Cromwell, the 
 fourth and last earl of Ardglass, married Catherine Hamil- 
 ton, daughter of James Hamilton of Newcastle, in the 
 Ards, and by her left one daughter, who became the wife 
 of Edward Southwell, principal secretary of state for Ire- 
 land, the Downpatrick estate thus passing into the South- 
 well family. 
 
 3'^ Lord DitngannoH. — In the Irish Commons' Journals, 
 vol. ii., p. 171, it is stated that "on the I2th of Septem- 
 ber, 1662, Mr. Speaker informed the House that his Ma- 
 jesty had been pleased, by his writ, to call a member of 
 this House, lately col. Marcus Trevor, and now the lord 
 viscount Dungannon, into a higher sphere, the House of 
 Lords, and would that, according to ancient precedents, 
 he might be accompanied to the House of Lords, and 
 there presented to their lordships." Sir Marcus Trevor 
 was created viscount Dungannon, principally because of 
 his having wounded Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Long- 
 ]\Iarston Moor, Two letters of this viscount Dungannon 
 addressed to sir George Rawdon, in 1666, are printed in 
 the Rawdon Papers, pp. 217, 222. 
 
 3' Himself was dead. — The first earl of Clanbrassill had 
 died in 1659, only a short time before these changes. 
 
 3= Capt. Campbell. — This captain Campbell was second 
 cousin of the third viscount Montgomery,theirgrandmothers, 
 Elizabeth and Marian Shaw, being sisters. See Crawford's 
 History of the Shire of Renfrew, p. 125. IjvAXqw, Memoirs, 
 vol. ii. , p, 798, thus refers to Campbell's mission to Monk: — 
 " Whilst these things were doing. Sir Charles Coote, Col. 
 Theophilus Jones, and the rest of the cabal at Dublin, sent 
 one Captain Campbell to Col. Monk, to acquaint him with 
 the progress they had made, upon which he caused the 
 cannon at Berwick to be fired in testimony of his joy." 
 
 33 Gen. Monk. — See pp. 169, I'/O, supra. After Monk 
 had dispersed the royalist forces under sir George Moliro 
 and lords Middleton and Glencaim, in the Highlands, 
 in 1654, he resided at Dalkeith Palace as governor and 
 commander in Scotland, under Cromwell, until the death 
 of the latter in .September, 1658. Although sening 
 Cromwell, Monk was supposed always to retain his 
 origiilal royalist principles. Lnder this impression, 
 Charles II. wrote to him in tlie following terms, in 
 August, 1655, from Colen : — 
 
 "One, who believes he knows your nature and inclinations very 
 well, assures me, that notwithstanding all ill accidents and misfor- 
 tunes, you retain still your old affections to me, and resolve to express 
 it upon the first seasonable opportunity ; which is as much as I look 
 for from you. W^e must all patiently wait for that opportunity, which 
 may be offered sooner than we expect : when it is, let it find you 
 ready ; and, in the mean time, have a care to keep yourself out of 
 their hands, who know the hurt you can do them in a good conjunc- 
 ture, and can never but suspect your affection to be, as 1 am con- 
 fident it is, towards yours, &c., 
 
 " Charles Rex." 
 Although Monk promptly disclosed to the Protector all 
 royalist movements that came to his knowledge, and even 
 sent to him the foregoing letter, as evidence of his repub- 
 lican fidelity, Cromwell saw through his disguises. In 
 writing to Monk, Cromwell added the following remark- 
 able postscript : — " There be that tell me, that there is a 
 certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, 
 who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles 
 Stuart ; I pray you, use your diligence to apprehend him, 
 and send him up to me." Monk's movements aftenvards, 
 including the negotiations mentioned in the text between 
 him and the Irish royalists, go to prove the truth of 
 Cromwell's postscript. See Chalmers's Biogj-aphical Dic- 
 tionary, vol. xxii. , p. 238. 
 
 34 Coote to the K. — So soon as the Restoration was con- 
 certed between Broghill and Coote, the latter sent sir 
 Arthur Forbes to assure Charles II. that if he would come 
 to Ireland, the whole kingdom would declare for him ; but 
 the king, knowing that Ireland must wait upon the fate of 
 England, sent sir Arthur back again, but with such letters 
 and commissions as the leading royalists in this country 
 wished for, and had solicited. To reward sir Arthur's 
 services, the king conferred upon him two grants, in April 
 and July, 1 66 1, including very extensive landed property 
 
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 225 
 
 bare hearsays, for I was admitted to the "ivine that the Cap', (who came f"" DubHn first to us) and 
 the Colo, had in Newtown, pubhckly with his Lo"", tho' I was not private at their opening their 
 instructions afores**; but when they were gone, his Lo^ imparted the secrets to me, having the 
 honour then to be one of his cabinet council and confidents, as formerly I had been his solicitor 
 both in Whitehall and Dublin (in his absence from those places), and as ha^dng embarked my life 
 as well as my late purchase, and surprised houses and lands in the cause of his ^Majest/s restoration ; 
 and therefore my relation touching his Lo^ shall now again begin f" that the happy epocha. 
 Having accounted our former passages fi-om many dismal hours, because they were most remark- 
 able and best inhering in memory, rendered the narrative the more certain; but before I enter on 
 that delightful theme, the reader may please to peruse a reflection I had on Colo. Cooper, his 
 taking and sending his Lo^ prisoner as afores*. It was in Dec'. 1659, and the last of his hardships 
 f"" the usurpers. 33 ^^^aen I ruminated on the many bad usages w*" my dearest L* IMontgomerj- had, 
 and the noble serenity of spirit wherewith he endured them, I did not doubt but confidently 
 immagine, that his good God (in whom he trusted always) supported him with assvured hopes of 
 particular deliverj-s and supplies in all his streights, and with a full persuasion of his Maj*=^' restoration, 
 for which his Lo'' waited with omn' Christian patience, and often advised him to take his carriage for 
 an example. Yet all the experiences his enemys had of his Lo^'^ candour and veracit}", cou'd not 
 make them secure of his quiet living according to the promises they too often extorted from him 
 by force, and therefore, knowing their doings to be unla-nfull, (both in spirit and militarj' courts) 
 they dreaded he wou'd break those exacted engagements. In this contemplation, I was at first 
 and on the sudden a little amazed, to think that men cou'd be so stupid and blinded, that they 
 cou'd not confess that they perceived his Lo"" honour (w'' he always reserv ed unsuUyed and entire 
 to all men) obliged him more than aU the bonds that tj-ed him; and yet, to such sordid, covetous 
 men (as the Rump officers and O. C." generals were) me thinks it had been argument and pawn 
 enough to trust his Lo^'" single parole without suret}-s, because that (on the least forfeiture of his 
 word) they cou'd levie his rents and his houses goods; his dear mother (who nursed him) his sis- 
 ters, his brother, his children, and (more than all these) they had (for some years) his entirely be- 
 loved, loving Lady in their autched claws,3° they being like harpys regarding nothing secret; for 
 nevertheless of their fast holds, they were still jealous and aftraid (without cause given on his Lo*'' 
 part) their guilty consciences telling them that retaliative justice was due to themselves. This does 
 solve the riddle, and dissipates my wonder, because, (after all the promises proved often) gross 
 ignorance did not, but only fear and malice prompted and actuated them to perpetrate the barbarity 
 w'' his Lo^ suffered, (alas too many) whereof they had not the grace (tho' they aU pretended to walk 
 by the spirit of God) as to relent; nor had they human nature enough as to be ashamed or blush 
 for their enormitys. This anatomys (on which I have lectured) please me not; their scent is un- 
 
 in the counties of Dublin, Meath, and Wexford. These 
 grants were in addition to those bestowed on his father, 
 and inherited by himself. — Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 
 edited by Archdall, vol. ii., pp. 143, 144, ftote. See 
 p. 188, supra. 
 35 From the usurpers, — See p. 219, supra. 
 
 3^ Autched claws. — Autched is probably a misprint for 
 audited. Auchted claivs would mean hands full of property 
 or plunder, Audit, property, being derived from the 
 Anglo-Saxon root agan, to own ; hence adita, posses- 
 sion. — Boucher's Glossary. Or, audited in the text might 
 be a misprint for clutdied. 
 
226 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 savery, and therefore I return to ray proper duty of relating his Lo"'' better fortunes. Our third 
 Vise*, went cheerfully to see his Majesty and to kiss his hand at "Whitehall, where he also joyfully 
 met with the Duke of Ormond^? (the friend to his father and himself) who was then steward to the 
 King's household, and saw many other friends, but ere he inwent his Lo^ made his betam*38 relative 
 to his former settlement, the will bears date in May, 1660.39 There was no enmity (now) or 
 strangeness between Monk (D. of Albemarle) and our Visc'.'^° The K had forgiven all persons 
 
 37 Ormond. — Ormond had maintained the royal cause 
 with almost unparalleled tenacity throughout his long public 
 career, but Charles II. repaid his fidelity with ingratitude 
 and even treachery. Ormond's character and popularity 
 excited the hatred of the royal favourite, Buckingham, who 
 actually instigated tlie well-knovm desperado, Blood, to 
 murder him. Blood confessed his crime when afterwards 
 taken prisoner for an attempt to rob the Tower of the Re- 
 galia. He was pardoned by the king for this offence, 
 and Charles also sent an explicit command to Ormond, 
 prohibiting him from prosecuting Blood for attempting 
 his assassination. Lord Arlington brought this injunc- 
 tion from Charles, and Ormond only replied, " If the 
 king hath forgiven his (Blood's) design of stealing the 
 crown, he may easily forgive the attempt upon my hfe." 
 Various despicable expedients were employed by Charles 
 and his associates to degrade Ormond, but they found that 
 his popularity in Ireland was so great that they could not 
 want his services. There are a few brief references to 
 these unworthy attempts against Ormond in the Diary of 
 Samuel Pepys. Under date November 6, 1667, is the 
 following entry: — " He (Sir H. Cholmly) tells me he do 
 verily beheve that there will come in an impeachment for 
 High Treason against my Lord of Ormond; among other 
 things for ordering the quartering of soldiers in Ireland on 
 free quarters, which, it seems, is High Treason in that 
 country, and was one of the things that lost the Lord 
 Strafford his head, and the lav, is not yet repealed; wliich, 
 he says, was a mighty oversight of him not to have it re- 
 pealed, which he might with ease have done, or have 
 justified himself by an Act." On the 4th Nov., 1668, 
 Pepys says:— "This day also I hear that my Lord is to 
 be declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ire- 
 land, his Commission being expired; and the King is 
 prevailed with to take it out of his hands, which people 
 do mightily admire, saying tliat he is the greatest 
 subject of any prince in Cliristendome, and hath more 
 acres of land than any, and hath done more for his 
 prince than any ever yet did. But all will not do ; he 
 must down, it seems, the duke of Buckingham carrying 
 all before him." On the 25th of the same month there is 
 the following entry: — "And, for instance of their (Buck- 
 ingham and Arlington's) little progress, he tells me that 
 my Lord Ormond is like yet to carry it, and to continue 
 in his command in the land; at least they cannot get the 
 better of him yet." Onnond held his high position at 
 court, and was regularly in his place at the council-table 
 to the last, comparing himself to "an old clock cast into 
 a comer, but sometimes pointing right." 
 
 3^ His belanit — Betamp*- is evidently a misprint for 
 testament. 
 
 39 May, 1660. — This will of the tliird viscount, which is 
 preserved in the court of probate, Henrietta Street, Dublin, 
 was drawn out before his leaving for England, and intended 
 
 to confirm a prior arrangement of his affairs. His eldest 
 son, Hugh Montgomery, succeeded to the fanuly estates ; 
 his second son, Henry, is Uberally provided for ; and to his 
 only daughter Jane, or Jean, he bequeathed only £,\oo 
 yearly. This lady died, unmarried, at Chester, in the 
 year 1673. The following is the introductory sentence of 
 this document: — " I, Hugh, Lord Viscount of the Ards, 
 being in my fuU strength and memory, but being now upon 
 a journey into England, and desirous to settle my estate, 
 doe make my last -will and testament. First, I bequeath 
 my souU to the Holy and Undivided Trinitie, trusting in 
 the alone meritts of Christ Jesus my Lord, who came into 
 the world to save sinners, whereof I acknowledge myself 
 to be the greatest ; and my body to be decently interred, 
 as my executors and overseers, or the greater part of them, 
 shall thinke most fittmg my degree and present condition." 
 
 ■i" Our Visct — The enmity, if any, existed between them 
 when Monk was the parliamentary leader in Ulster, and 
 drove viscount Montgomery into an alliance ^vith the 
 covenanters, which proved so disagreeable to botli parties 
 in the end. Although Monk had been a traitor, fijst to 
 the king, and finally to the people, his cunning enabled 
 him to seize the lion's share in the end. Charles II., 
 on landing at Dover, embraced him, and kissed him, 
 and the country loaded him with wealth and honours. 
 He became forthwith a knight of the garter, a privy 
 councillor, master of the horse, a gentleman of the bed 
 chamber, first lord of the treasury, baron Monk of 
 Potheridge, Beauchamp, and Tees, earl of Torrington, 
 and duke of Albemarle. He was voted ^20,000 in hand, 
 together with an estate worth at that time the enormous 
 sum of £'j,QOO per anmmi. — Chalmers, Biographical 
 Dictionary, vol xxii., p. 239. Monk, hke some other 
 great men, made rather a remarkable choice in the selec- 
 tion of his wife. Of tliis lady there are certain curious cir- 
 cumstances on record, which would never have been generally 
 known, had they not been revealed by a family dispute. 
 A correspondent in the GentlemafC s Magazine says : — 
 
 " I have in my possession minutes of a trial upon an action of 
 trespass between William Shenvin, plaintiff, and Sir Walter Ciarges, 
 Bart., and others, defeudanta, at the King's Bench Bar, at West- 
 minster, 15th November, 1700. The plaintiff, as heir and represen- 
 tative of Thomas Monk, Esq., elder brother of George Duke of 
 Albemarle, claimed the manor of Sutton, in county York, and other 
 lands in Newton, Eaton Bridge, and Shipton, as heir-at-law to the 
 said duke, against the defendant, de«sed imder the will of Duke 
 Christopher, his only child, who died in 1689, S.P. (i.e., Sine Prole, 
 without issue). Upon this trial some ver>' ciuious particulars 
 came out, respecting the family of Aime, wife of George, created 
 Duke of Albemarle. It appeared that she was daughter of John 
 Clarges, a farrier in the Savoy, and farrier to General Monk. In 
 1632, she was married in the church of St. Laurence Pountney, to 
 Thomas Batford, son of Thomas Batford, late a farrier, ser\-ant to 
 Prince Charles, and resident in the Mews. She had a daughter who 
 was bom in 1634, and died in 1638. Her husband and she lived at 
 the Three Spanish Gipsies, in the New E.xchange, and sold wash- 
 balls, powder, gloves, and such things, and she taught girls plain 
 work. About 1647, she being a sempstress to Colonel Monk, used 
 
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 but the regicides, whom the Lord Earle*' (to vindicate the kingdom's honour) wou'd not forgive, 
 but capitally punished them as paracides,** according to the law. And then the affairs of Ireland 
 falling soon under consideration, there issued a commission for putting in execution his Majesty's 
 gracious declaration at Bredaj-t^ and our Vise', was named among the chiefs of the commissioners.*'* 
 
 to carry him linen. In 1648, her father and mother died. In 1649, 
 she and her husband fell out and parted. But no certificate from 
 any parish register appears reciting his burial. In 1652. she was 
 married in the church of St. George, Southwark, to General George 
 Monk, and in the following year was delivered of a son, Christopher 
 (afterwards the second and last Duke of Albemarle above mentioned), 
 who was suckled by Honours Mills, who sold apples, herbs, oisters, 
 &c. One of the plaintiffs witnesses swore that ' a little before the 
 sickness (/.^., the plague), Thomas Batford demanded and received 
 of him the sum of twenty shillings ; that his wife saw Batford again 
 after the sickness, and a second time after the duke and duchess 
 were dead.' A woman swore that she saw him the day his wife, 
 rhen called Duchess of Albemarle, was put in her coffin, which was 
 after the death of the Duke, her second husband, who died 3rd 
 January, 1669-70. And a third witness swore that he saw Batford 
 about July, 1660. In the opposition to this evidence, it was alleged 
 that all along during the lives of the Duke George and Duke Chris- 
 topher this matter was never questioned, and that the latter was 
 universally received as only son of the former ; and th.^t this matter 
 had been thrice before tried at the Bar of the King's Bench, and the 
 defendant had had three verdicts. A witness swore that he owed 
 Batford five or six pounds, which he had never demanded. And a 
 man who had married a cousin of the Duke of Albemarle, had been 
 told by his wife that Batford died five or si.x years before the duke 
 married. Lord Chief Justice Holt told the jury, 'If you are certain 
 that Duke Christopher was borne while Thomas Batford was living, 
 you must find for the plaintiff. If you believe that he was born after 
 Batford was dead, or that nothing appears what become of him after 
 Duke George married his wife, you must find for the defendant. A 
 verdict was given for the defendant, who was only son to Sir Thomas 
 Clarges, Knt., brother to the illustrious duchess in question ; was 
 created a baronet, October 30th, 1647, and was ancestor to the baro- 
 nets of his name," — Gentleman' s Magazine for October, 1793, vol. 
 Ixiii., p. 886. 
 
 It is Stated in the same periodical, for January, 1792, that 
 a maypole which stood at the north end of Little Drury, 
 was erected by John Clarges, the smith and farrier, to 
 commemorate his daughter's good fortune in having mar- 
 ried general Monk, and thus, at the Restoration, becom- 
 ing duchess of Albemarle. A letter written by a Dr. 
 Thomas Clarges, brother of the lady, is printed in the 
 Eauudon Papers, pp. 179, i8o. See also Soane's New 
 Curiosities of Literature and Book of the MotUhs, vol. i. , 
 PP- 257-59- 
 
 The lord Earle. — This personage was Edward Hyde, 
 created earl of Clarendon. 
 
 "•^ Paracides. — The term parricide is not exclusively 
 applied to the murderer of a father or mother. It was 
 often used to denote one who destroys any person whom 
 he ought to reverence, such as his patron, or king. 
 Sir James Ware speaks (IVorks, vol. i., p. 209) of tlie 
 execution of Charles I. as " the horrid parricide of 
 that excellent monarch." Of the persons actually 
 concerned in the trial and execution of Charles I., 
 twenty-five had died, sixteen had escaped to various 
 places on the Continent, and three to New England in 
 America. Beside these, there remained twenty-nine 
 in England, all of whom were tried and sentenced to 
 death ; but the execution of such as had surrendered 
 themselves was postponed for future consideration. The 
 regicides selected for execution were Harrison, Scot, 
 Carew, Jones, Clements and Scroop, who had signed 
 the warrant for the king's death; Coke, who acted as 
 solicitor on the trial; Axtele and Hacker, who guarded 
 
 the prisoner; and Hugh Peters, an eloquent but intemperate 
 preacher. These men, with the exceptions of Harrison 
 and Peters, belonged to families of the old English 
 gentry, were educated generally at the Universities, 
 owned landed estates, and served in parliament — the 
 majority being members of the council of state. One, 
 Axtele, was governor of Kilkenny for a time; and 
 another, Jones, served as one of the five commissioners 
 appointed for the government of Ireland. Harrison had 
 risen from the ranks to be a major-general. During his 
 trial, the executioner, bearing a halter, was placed beside 
 him, and so barbarously was his sentence inflicted^ that he 
 was cut down while alive, and actually saw his entrails 
 flung into the fire. — 'Lxidlow^s Afemoirs, vol. iii., pp. 33 — 
 103; Pepys's Diary, edited by Lord Braybrooke, vol. i., 
 PP> "3— 115. 129, 146, 251, 271 ; vol. ii., p. 23; vol. 
 iv., p. 330. Other executions followed in due course; but 
 until they could be arranged, royalist revenge was gratified 
 by the strange and revolting spectacle of inflicting the last 
 penalties of the law on the remains of dead regicides. By 
 an order of the two houses of parliament, approved by the 
 king, the bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton were 
 raised from their graves, drawn on hurdles to Tyburn, hung 
 and decapitated, the heads being fixed on the front of 
 Westminster Hall, and the trunks flung into a pit at the 
 place of execution. — Lingard's Hist, of England, vol. ix., 
 p. 8; Pcpys, vol. i., pp. 129, 148, 149. George Fox, the 
 Quaker, in his diary writes — "When we came to Charing 
 Cross multitudes of people were gathered together to see 
 the burning of the bowels of some of the old King's judges, 
 who liad been hung, drawn, and quartered." Evelyn, 
 noticing the same occurrence, has the following comment: — 
 "Scot, Scroope, Cook, and Jones suffered for reward of 
 their iniquities at Charing Cross, in sight of the place 
 where they put to death their natural prince, and, iti the 
 presence of the King, his son. I saw not their execution, 
 but met their quarters mangled and cut, and reeking, as 
 they were brought from the gallows in baskets on a hurdle. 
 O the miraculous providence of God!" See Amos on the 
 English Constitution in the Keign of Charles II., p. 36. 
 
 '■'^ Declaration of Breda. — This declaration granted a 
 pardon to all persons but such as might afterwards be ex- 
 cepted by the parliament, liberty in religious matters to 
 tender consciences so far as compatible with the peace of 
 society, the promise to discharge all arrears due to the 
 army, and to leave the settlement of all disputes about 
 lands to the wisdom of the legislature. This, in a few 
 words, was the 'Declaration,' in which there was no 
 mention of Ireland or Scotland, but which would have 
 been 'gracious' enough, had its promises been carried out 
 impartially in every part of the three kingdoms. 
 
 ^ Of the Comviissioners. — Thecommissionersappointed 
 for carrying the king's declaration into effect were Richard, 
 e.irl of Cork, lord high treasurer of Ireland; Edward, lord 
 viscount Conway and Kilulta ; Arthur, lord viscount 
 Valentia, vice-treasurer and general receiver; Hugh, lord 
 viscount Montgomery of the Ards, master of ordnance; 
 
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 I saw him and them sit in court at the inns of law in Dublin, where were determined many claims 
 of adventurers'*^ soldiers'*^ (who shared in the benefit thereof) and many innocent Papists and also 
 Protestants restored to their estates/? At the insuing the first com" for justices of peace, I was 
 named one for the county of Downe, and his Lo'' was Gustos Rotulorum Pacis, and he (unrequested) 
 made me his deputy in that office. His Lo'' was also Privy Council' and his name (as other Privy 
 Councillors are) was inserted in all the commissions of the peace, and so his warrants cou'd run 
 through every county of Ireland. Then also our third Vise', had his patent of honour for being 
 
 John, lord viscount Massareene; Francis, lord Angler; 
 John, lord Kingston; Richard, lord baron of Colooney; sir 
 James Barry, knight, lord chief justice of the court of 
 chief place; James Donnellan, esq., lord chief justice of 
 the court of common pleas; John Bysse, esq., lord 
 chief baron of the court of exchequer ; sir Henry Tich- 
 bum, knight; sir Robert Forth, knight; sir James Ware, 
 knight; Thomas Pigot, esq., master of the court of wards 
 and liveries; colonel Arthur Hill; colonel Marcus Trevor; 
 sir Francis Hamilton, knight and baronet; sir Arthur 
 Forbes, baronet ; sir Oliver St. George, knight and 
 baronet; sir John Cole, bai-onet;sir RichardLane, baronet; 
 sir Paul Davis, knight ; sir George Lane, knight ; sir 
 John Stephens, knight ; sir William Domville, knight, 
 attorney general; sir Allen Broderick, knight, surveyor 
 general; sir Audley Mervyn knight, chief Serjeant at law; 
 Jolm Temple, esq., solicitor general; colonel John Pon- 
 sonby ; Henry Warren, esq. ; Dudley Cooley, esq. ; 
 Serjeant major George Rawden ; Dr. William Petty; 
 James Cuffe, esq. ; and Thomas Bro^vne, esq. The above 
 commissioners were appointed by privy signet, dated 
 Whitehall, 19th February, 1660, patent of commission 
 dated 19th of March following. On the 24th of May, 
 1 66 1, Edward Lucas, Theophilus Eaton, Robert Woods, 
 Watkin Sands, Robert Pue, Thomas Elliott, and Arthur 
 Freake were appointed sub-commissioners, for the more 
 orderly and effectual execution of the king's declaration 
 for the settlement of Ireland. And on the 4th of Sept. fol- 
 lowing, further sub-commissioners were appointed. — Fif- 
 teenth Report on the Public Records of Ireland, vol. iii. , p. 31, 
 note. These commissioners were required to perform the 
 difficult task of reconciling all the various and opposing 
 claims to estates in Ireland. The adventurers came for- 
 ward first to demand royal confirmation of the titles by 
 which they held the lands they had received as compensa- 
 tion for their money advanced to sustain the government. 
 Their demands were opposed by petitioners, among whom 
 were officers, who had sei-ved in the royal aniiy prior to 
 1649; protestants, whose property had been confiscated 
 under the commonwealth ; catholics, who had never been 
 active confederates ; and heirs, whose estates had been for- 
 feited before they were old enough to take part in the rebel- 
 lion of 1641. — YAngaxdiS Hist07y of E)igland,\'o\.\x.., p. 27. 
 ^5 Advenizirers. — See p. 161, supra. 
 
 Soldiers. — By an ordinance made in the year 1 65 3, 
 for the satisfaction of adventurers and soldiers, the forfeited 
 lands in the counties of Limerick, Tipperar}', and Water- 
 ford, in the province of Munster ; of King's, and Queen's 
 counties, and East and West Meath, in the province of 
 Leinster; and of Down, Antrim, and Armagh in the pro- 
 vince of Ulster, were to be charged with the sums due to 
 the adventurers and soldiers, and to be divided amongst 
 
 them by lot. The act of settlement confirmed the lands 
 thus allotted to the soldiers and possessed by them 
 before the 7th of May, 1659, excepting church lands, 
 or such as had been fraudulently obtained, or vm- 
 fairly measured, or had been decreed by the court of claims 
 or exchequer to other parties. When the original owners, 
 however, were restored to estates thus occupied by soldiers, 
 the latter were immediately reprised, or compensated by 
 the possession of lands equally valuable in some other 
 district — Howard's Exchequer and Rruemie of Ireland, 
 vol. i., pp. 190, 193. On the 31st January, 1661, the 
 following persons were appointed commissioners to as- 
 certain the true value of such lands as were set out to 
 adventurers and soldiers, viz., Roger, earl of Orrery; 
 Arthur, earl of Anglesey; John, viscount Massareene; 
 sir James Ware, knight, auditor-general ; John Bysse, 
 esq. ; sir John Percival, Bart. ; sir George Lane, knight ; 
 and sir Audley Mer\dn, knight. These commissioners 
 were reappointed, after the passing of the act of settlement, 
 their patent being dated 13th January, 1662. — Fifteenth 
 Irish Record Commission Report, vol. iii., p. 32, note. 
 
 Restored to their estates. — Innocent papists and pro- 
 testants were simply those who had never adhered either 
 to the confederates or the parliament. The list of the 
 qualifications of innocence was so drawTi up as to exclude 
 from the benefit of this plea the greatest possible number 
 of Roman catholics. In restoring 'innocents' to their 
 estates, the commissioners were required to obsen-e the 
 following rules — viz. , not to restore any person as an in- 
 nocent papist, who, at or before the cessation made on the 
 15th of September, 1643, was of the rebel part}'; nor 
 any, who, being of full age and sound memor}', enjoyed 
 his estate real and personal in the rebel quarters ; nor any 
 person who had entered into the Roman catholic confede- 
 racy, at any time before the articles of peace concluded in 
 1648 ; nor any one who adhered to the nuncio's or clergy's 
 party, in opposition to the king's authority ; nor any that 
 had been excommunicated for adhering to the king's 
 authorit)-, and aftenvards owming his offences, was re- 
 stored ; nor any who derived his title to his estates from 
 another who had died guilty of any of the aforesaid 
 crimes ; nor any person who had sat in Roman cathohc 
 assemblies or councils, or acted upon any commissions of 
 power derived from them, prior to the peaces in 1646 and 
 1648 ; nor any person who had empowered agents or 
 commissioners to treat with any foreign papal power 
 beyond seas, for bringing into Ireland foreign forces ; nor 
 any who had been a wood-kern or toiT before the marquis 
 of Clanrickard's leaving the government of Ireland (in 
 1649). " Eleven qualifications," says Dr. French, "were 
 ordered for their trial, and those so rigid and severe, that 
 Clotworthy and his companions (who had the wording of 
 
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 22g 
 
 Earle, dat >d 1661,^^ and might have had the precedency of date before his brother Moore j'*^ it was 
 offered to iiis Lo" to be, but he decHned that compUment (that might raise envy) which brotherly 
 concession was ill requitted, when the trial about S'. Wolstan's5° came to be heard. Hi? Lo' as- 
 sumed the title of M'. Alexander, in honour of his descent by his mother, from the family of 
 Alexanders, Earles of Strivling,5^ in Scotland, and his Lo'' (in the patent) had this epithet gave him, 
 viz. Qui ncc Eeget7i nec Rdigio7iem rdiqiiit. Whereas, in those troublesome turning times many 
 
 them) did verily believe there could not be a man found 
 in all Ireland that should pass untoucht through so many 
 pikes." — Narrative of the Earl of Clarendo?i's Settlemeiit 
 and Sale of Ireland, p. 85. 'Innocents,' whether papist 
 or protestant, were obliged to make out their qualifica- 
 tions of innocence ; but that done, they were not re- 
 quired to take out any new patents for their estates, 
 because they were not to derive any new title from the 
 king, but were remitted to their old title to such lands as 
 they previously owned. — Howard's Exchequer and Re- 
 venue of Ireland, vol. i. , pp. 197, 204. 
 
 4^ Dated 1 66 1. — The third viscount Montgomery was 
 created earl of Mount- Alexander, by privy seal, White- 
 hall, June 20 ; patent, Dublin, July 18, 1661. — Liber 
 Hibernia, vol. i., part i., p. 9. 
 
 *9 Brother Moore. — tlenry Moore, third viscount 
 Drogheda, was created earl of Drogheda, by patent, 
 dated 14th June, 1661. — Ibid. 
 
 5° The trial about St. Wolstan' s.—^\i\\'A\. the third vis- 
 count Montgomery was permitted to rusticate at Leixlip, 
 see p. 206, supra, he appears to have obtained such a 
 knowledge of the beautiful and extensive estate of the 
 Aliens of St. Wolstan's as afterwards induced him to make 
 strenuous efforts for its possession. When the settlement 
 of Ireland was in progress immediately after the restora- 
 tion, he had influence sufficient to get the following clause 
 introduced into the "Instructions" accompanying the 
 Act of Settlement: — " LXVII. And in case the 
 manor, castle, town, and lands of St. Wolstan's, alias 
 Allen's Court, in the county of Kildare, and county of 
 Dublin, or either of them, formerly the inheritance of 
 Sir Thomas Allen, knight, deceased, or now belonging to 
 the Lady Allen, his wife, for term of life, or years yet to 
 come, and the remainder or remainders tliereof unto 
 Robert Allen, John Allen, William Allen, and James 
 Allen, some or one of them, shall, upon inquiry, be found 
 to be forfeited, you are hereby required to cause the same 
 to be delivered unto our right trusty and right well-beloved 
 cousin and counsellor, Hugh, earl of Mount-Alexander, 
 his heirs and assigns, for ever, subject, nevertheless, to 
 the payment of the lilce rents and services as the adven- 
 turers for lands in the province of Leinster are subject 
 unto, and with the like benefit of reprisal in case of re- 
 stitution, as any adventurers, their heirs and assigns, 
 have, or ought to have, and also with benefit of reprisal 
 in case any adventurer be intituled to the same, or any 
 part thereof. Provided always, that whensoever we shall 
 declare under our great seal of England or Ireland, our 
 will and pleasure to revoke the estate hereby granted, in 
 all or any part of the premises, that then, and immediately 
 from and after such declaration, the estate so revoked 
 shall cease and determine, and remain subject rmto the 
 rules and ends of this declaration, as if this grant had not 
 been made." In pursuance of the above clause, the king 
 
 granted the estate of St. Wolstan's to the earl of Mount- 
 Alexander. The following is a copy of the patent con- 
 veying this gi-ant : — ' 
 
 " Charles the 2nd, by the grace of God, &c. — 
 
 " Whereas, Sir Thomas Allen, deceased, was in his 
 life-time seized in his Demesne as of fee or of some other estate 
 of Inheritance of and in the Manor, Castle, Town, and Lands 
 of St. Wolstan's, otherwise called Allenscourt, in the Co. of Kil- 
 dare, with several other Castles, Manors, Towns, and Lands, Ad- 
 vowsons, & Heredi'^ in the Co. of Kildare and Co. of Dublin. 
 After whose death the premises came to Lady Allen, his wife, 
 who became seized of the premises for term of her life, or pos- 
 sessed for a certain term of years still to come, and not expired, 
 under payment of a rent of 40 shillings per Ann. sterling. And 
 whereas Lady Allen is still surviving, and the reversion and remainder 
 of and in all and singular the premises after her death, or after the 
 determination of any other estate or interest of which she is possessed 
 descended or came to Robert Allen, John Allen, William Allen, and 
 J.unes Allen, or to some or one of them, who all (or some of them) 
 were outlawed or indicted of High Treason, by reason of which the 
 premises are in our gift and disposition. And whereas we retain a 
 sense of the great and constant services and things done and sus- 
 tained for our father of Blessed Memory and us. And that the said 
 Hugh may be in some measure remunerated for the services and 
 things by him sustained, of whose allegiance and fidelity we are 
 satisfied. Know ye, therefore, that we, of our special favour, certain 
 knowledge, and mere motion, with the advice and consent of our 
 well-beloved Sir Maurice Eustace, Knight, Lord Chancellor of our 
 stl. Kgm. of Ireland, and of our well-beloved and faithful cousin and 
 C'ouncellor Roger, Earl of Orrery, our justices of the sd. Kgm. of 
 Ireland — and also according to the tenor and effect of certain letters 
 of ours signed with our hand, and sealed with our Privy Seal, bearing 
 date at our Court of Whitehall, the igth day of Oct'^., in the year of 
 our Lord, 1661, and in the 13th y^. of our reign, and riow enrolled in 
 the rolls of our Chancery of our s^l. Kingm. of Ireland. We have 
 given, granted, & to the aforesaid Hugh, Earl of Mount Alexander, 
 and Viscount Montgomery of Ardes, all those Manors, Castles, 
 Towns, Lands, Tenements, Advowsons, and Heredi^^. of Donagh- 
 comfer, 187a. 3r. 34P. of Profitable Land ; Also, all the Towns, Lands, 
 Tenements, & Heredi^^. of St. Wolstan's, otherwise Allen's Court, 
 with t'ae Appurtenances, containing 217a. 3r. 32P. of Profitable 
 Lands, Also, the Town, Lands. & Heredi^^. of Parson's Court, with 
 the appurtenances containing 62a. 3r. 24P. of Profitable Land. Also 
 [And so through the whole of the Allen Estate, as in the schedule, 
 to the decree of Innocence, in James Allen's case — ], 
 saving the right, title, claim, and interest of all Adventurers, their 
 heirs and a.ssigns to the premises, or any part thereof. And, further, 
 we give and grant for us and our successors if it should chance that 
 any of the premisses should belong to any Adventurer that Reprisals 
 of as great v.alue, worth, and purchase, shall be delivered and con- 
 firmed to the afd. Hugh, Earl of Mount-Alexander, his heirs and 
 assigns. 
 
 " To have, enjoy, occupy, and hold all and singular the premises 
 to the affl. Hugh, Earl of Mount Alexander, and Viscount Mont- 
 gomery of Ardes, his heirs and assigns to the sole use of the af<l. 
 Hugh, his heirs and assigns for ever. Rendering yearly to us and 
 our heirs such rents as were heretofore paid, therefor or thereout to 
 lis. In testimony, whereof, &c. 12 June, in the 14th year of our 
 Reign. 
 
 " Entered & Examined, 25 June, 1662." 
 For copy of the above grant, the editor is indebted to the 
 kindness of John P. Prendergast, Esq., author of The 
 Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. 
 
 5' Earles of Slrivling. — Mount- Alexander was also the 
 name of the family residence adjoining the town of Com- 
 ber, which had been prepared for the second viscount, 
 
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 men deserted both, nor wanted he temptations to shake the foundation of loyalty (which were laid 
 at Oxford as afores'')^^ but neither promises nor threats, nor the sufferings (w'' you have partly heard 
 of) nor the frequent danger of death (hoped for and therefore intended by Corbet)33 cou'd divert 
 him f™ deserving the s** short character, or a better one. Before or about this time, our s* Earle 
 was made Master of the Ordinance and Military Stores in all Ireland, w^ is (in campaigns) the 3* 
 post of honour in the army, and he had foot, 5:c. allowed to attend the train of artillery, with 
 
 waggons, &:c. besides a troop of horse to himself. 54 After this, our s** Earle married a very good lady, 
 the widow ot Will" Parsons, B". named Cath" Joneses (daughter of Arthur L"* Vise' Ranelaugh) ; 
 by her he had one son (who died in his early infancy) and the Ladies Cath' and Eliza, whose 
 pictures (drawn when children) now are in M* Alexander house, and show their comliness. They 
 both married after the death of her Lad^. who survived his Lo^ and died his widow A°. D. 1675.2^ 
 The Lady Cath"" married (with her brother's consent) S"^ Fra' Hamilton, 57 Bar*, and had a daughter, 
 w^ died an infant, and her La^ departed this life soon after it; in her sickness, recomm^ to her hus- 
 band's choice his cousin-german (A. Hamilton, a good and pretty one) to whom he was married 
 
 on his marriage ^vith Jean Alexander, and named in 
 honour of the bride. In the patent for his estates taken 
 out by the second -viscount, in 1637, the lands surround- 
 ing this residence constituted the manor of Comber or 
 Moimt- Alexander. 
 
 Oxford as aforesaid. — See p. 152, supra. 
 53 Corbet. — See p. 202, supra. 
 
 5* Horse to /litnself. — The earl of Mount- Alexander was 
 appointed master of the ordnance for life, his patent 
 being dated Westminster, September 12, 1660. He sue 
 ceeded sir John Borlace in this office, who had resigned to 
 occupy another position, and who survived until the month 
 of February, 1675. — Liber Hibernicc, vol. i., part ii., 
 p. 102. 
 
 55 Cathr. Jones. — This lady was a daughter of Arthur 
 Jones, second -s-iscotrnt Ranelagh, and wdow of sir Wil- 
 liam jParsons of Bellamont, countj- of Dublin, who died 
 in 1658. By lord Ranelagh's will, dated December, 1669, 
 he appointed sir John Cole executor in trust for his three 
 daughters, to each of whom he bequeathed ;rf2,ooo — his 
 daughter. Mount- Alexander, to be paid first, and Eliza- 
 beth and Frances to have their portions, on condition that 
 they married with consent of their sister, Mount- Alexander, 
 his son, sir John Cole, or any two of them. — Lodge, 
 Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. iv., p. 
 203. 
 
 ^ Ao. D. 1675. — "Tn 1672, Catharine, Countess of 
 Mount Alexander, obtained a lease for twent)--one years 
 of the rectory of Templeoge and Glassnimicky, alias 
 Glassmucky, alias Templesauntan ; also the tithes of 
 Knockbeline, Ballycroghan, the Hill of Rowanstown, 
 Glassmockey, Old Court, Tagony, Balh-nalife, and 
 Freeresland ; saving a messuage and one hundred acres 
 demesne land, belonging to the rectoiy or chapel of 
 Templeoge and Templesauntan, for 6/. per annum rent, 
 and 20/. fine. On the same day the chapter appointed 
 her their attorney toward tlie recovery of the latter, and 
 confirmed all lawful acts and proceedings, which she should 
 take, for that purpose. She was, likewise, to have the land 
 at half the yearly value, for twenty-one years, if recovered." 
 The church of Kilmesantan is situated in a romantic, but 
 
 deserted glin called Glasnamucky, which runs up into the 
 the mountains, and is emironed by them on all sides, 
 except at its entrance, near Oldbawn." — Mason's History 
 and Atttiqiiities of St. Patrick's Cat/iedral, p. 74, note. 
 The following is an extract fi-om the ^vill of the covmtess 
 of Mount- Alexander : — 
 
 " I bequeath my body to be buried, with Christian burial, in Sir 
 William Parsons his Vault in St. Patrick's Church, desiring to be 
 buried neither vainly nor contemptuously, and I desire the house and 
 church may be hung \Wth black. And, as for my worldly estate, I 
 dispose of it in manner and form following ; — I give and bequeath to 
 my beloved son, Richard Parsons, all bills, bonds, debts, gould, 
 money, plate, goods, and all my possessions whatsoever, providing 
 that he shall pay unto each of my beloved daughters, Katherine and 
 Elizabeth, the full and just sum of i^2,ooo a piece, which foresaid 
 sum shall be paid when aforesaid Katherine and Elizabeth shall 
 arrive at the age of 16, or marriage, and in the mean time the interest 
 shall be paid them for their present sustenance. Item, I desire that 
 all my debts shall be paid. I doe appoint five Trustees, viz., the 
 Earl of Corke. my Lord Ranelagh, Captain Robert Fitzgerald, Sir 
 Joshua, and Mr. Basill. Item, if one of my daughters shall dye, 
 I desire that the other may have her portion. Item, I will and 
 desire my mother. Lady Ranelagh, be executor of this my Will and 
 Testament. 
 
 "Dated — set my hand unto on 4th October, 1677." 
 
 Sir Richard Parsons above-named was son of the countess 
 by her first husband. He was great grandson of the 
 well-known sir William Parsons, sur\'eyor-general of Ire- 
 land. Sir Richard became first earl of Ross. 
 
 5' Sr fras Hamilton. — This knight's residence was 
 Killeshandra, in the county of Cavan. His father, also 
 named sir Francis, obtained a grant from the crown, in 
 1 63 1, of lands which he had previously occupied as an 
 undertaker, consisting of three proportions called Clon- 
 kine, Corrotubber, and ClonjTie, alias Taghleigh, each 
 containing 1,000 acres, the half pole of Gortmardoris, 
 and the advowson of the \'icarage of Killeshandra, alias 
 Killetawna. These lands were erected into a manor called 
 Castlekeylaghe, the owner ha^^ng power to create tenures, 
 hold court leet and court baron, establish two fairs at 
 Killeshandra — one on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, 
 the other on the feast of St Bamaby ; also a market on 
 every Saturday, and two fairs at Screvagh — one on Ascen- 
 sion Day, and the other on the feast of Andrew the 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 before A". 1695. The Lady Eliz. (so called for her aunt^^ of Rosemount's sake) married Mr. 
 HuntS9 (a gen*, of a good estate) and dying, left him no issue. Both these young ladies were as well 
 humoured and bred and dutiful to their husbands, and loving to their kindred, as an honest heart 
 can wish. 
 
 About the time of our Earle's marriage a Pari' sat in Dublin, wherein I was burgess for New- 
 town afores"*,^ and then was passed the act for settlement of adventurers soldiers and others in 
 Ireland.^^ This was done in pursuance of the gracious declaration afores"*, and another commission 
 
 Apostle. — Morrin's Calendar of Patent Rolls of Charles l., 
 p. 582. 
 
 5' Her anni. — Her aunt was Elizabeth, daughter of the 
 second viscount, and wife of the author. 
 
 5' Mr. Hiiiit.—Thxi was Raphael Hunt, esq., of Dul- 
 lardstown, county of Kildare. 
 
 ^ For Nnutoivn aforesd. — The author's election as 
 member of parliament for Newto\TO took place on the 
 i8th April, 1661, his colleague being Charles Campbell, 
 esq., of Donaghadee. The parliament here mentioned 
 was convened to remove a great difficulty which had arisen 
 in the settlement of Ireland. The commissioners ap- 
 pointed to cany into effect the king's declaration on this 
 great national work, assembled in Dublin, and caused 
 proclamation to be made requiring every adventurer to 
 deliver to the commissioners, in writing, a certificate of 
 the houses and lands possessed by him, together with 
 the number of acres both profitable and unprofitable, as 
 the same had been admeasured to him. Such of the ad- 
 venturers and soldiers as had taken a surv'ey of their lands 
 were required by this proclamation to bring in such sur- 
 veys to the commissioners at a certain day, or duplicates 
 thereof, togedier with the field books. The commis- 
 sioners were first to ascertain whether such surveys were 
 correct, and if so, they were ne.xt to make out statements 
 of what was due to each adventurer and soldier, to ascer- 
 tain the possession of such as had lands assigned to them, 
 stating the name of the former proprietor, the number of 
 acres, the to\TOland, the parish, barony, and province in 
 which the lands were situated. When it appeared that 
 any adventurer had possession of more lands in one place 
 than were sufficient to satisfy his debenture, and less in 
 another locality, or had purchased the right of any defi- 
 cient adventurer, the overplus in one place was to answer 
 the deficiency in another. — Howard's Exchequer and Re- 
 venue of Irela?id, vol. i. , p. 195. These and other im- 
 portant instructions the commissioners had commenced to 
 carrj' out, but they had not proceeded far when it was 
 discovered that there was no law to warrant their acts. 
 The king's declaration was only an act of state, and had 
 not sufficient authority to order the disposing of men's 
 estates. Measures were immediately taken, therefore, to 
 convene a parliament for the purpose of removing this 
 objection, by carrj-ing the king's declaration into legal 
 execution. This parliament met at Chichester house, on 
 the 8th of May, 1661. "In the House of Peers, the 
 Lords having taken their places, John Bramhall, the Eng- 
 lish Primate of aU Ireland, seated on the woolsack, de- 
 livered the King's commission constituting him speaker ; 
 the Lords Justices, Sir Maurice Eustace, Roger Boyle, 
 Earl of Orrery, and Charles Coote, Earl of Mountrath, 
 took their seats in chairs set on an elevation under the 
 
 cloth of state, — Lord Baltinglass bearing the sword, Vis- 
 count !Montgomeiy carrying the cap of maintenance, and 
 the Earl of Kildare holding the robe. The House of 
 Commons was composed almost exclusively of Protestant 
 English settlers, with the exceptions of one Catholic and 
 one Anabaptist, both returned for Tuam, whence their 
 speaker, Sir Audley Mervyn, in his official address to the 
 Lords Justices, observed : — ' I may warrantably say, since 
 Ireland was happy under an English Government, there 
 was never so choice a collection of Protestant fruit that 
 ever grew within the walls of the Commons' House. 
 Your Lordships have piped in your summons to this Par- 
 liament, and the Irish have danced. How many have 
 voted for and signed to the returns of Protestant elections? 
 So that we may hope for, as we pray, that Japhet may 
 be persuaded to dwell in the tent of Shem.' Among the 
 members of the Commons were the famous Sir William 
 Temple, Sir James AVare, Sir William Petty, and the 
 learned Dr. Dudley Loftus." — GiXbert^i History 0/ Dublitt, 
 vol. iii., p. 60. Prior to the year 1641, Parliaments used 
 generally to meet in Dublin Castle, but after this date, 
 they assembled at Chichester House, so called from sir 
 Arthur Chichester. This building, which consisted ori- 
 ginally of a large mansion, with gate-house, garden, and 
 plantations adjoining, was built towards the close of the 
 sixteenth centur}', by sir George Carew, for an hospital, 
 and at a cost of ^4000. From him it passed in succes- 
 sion to sir Thomas Ridgeway, sir Arthur Basset, and sir 
 Arthur Chichester, being sold at the death of the latter, 
 by his brother, to assist in defraying debts owed by sir 
 Arthur, one of which amounted to ;^io,ooo. The meet- 
 ings of Parliament continued to be held at Chichester 
 House until the year 1729, when it assembled at the Blue- 
 Coat Hospital, a new Parliament House being then in 
 course of erection on the site of Chichester House. This 
 building, which cost ;^40,ckx), was first occupied by the 
 Parliament on the 5th of October, 1731, and is now used 
 as a Bank. — Rawdon Papers, p. 172, 7iote; Gilbert, His- 
 tory of the City of Dublin, voL iii., p. 60. 
 
 And otJiers in Ireland. — The Act of Settlement, with 
 its accompanying Act of Explanation, was described by 
 sir Audley MervjTi, then speaker of the house of com- 
 mons, as the Magna Charta Hibernia, and has been since 
 regarded by high authorities as the legislative title deed of 
 Ireland. The grantees of the cro\TO, adventurers, soldiers, 
 and 1649 officers, had good reason to be well pleased 
 with its provisions, but the native Irish, although some of 
 them were restored by its operation, always looked on 
 this act as a measure of unparalleled oppression and wTong. 
 " Its injustice," says Lingard, History of Englattd, vol. 
 ix., p. 31, "could not be denied ; and the only apology 
 offered in its behalf, was the stem necessity of quieting 
 
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 was granted/^ wherein I was adjudged as an innocent Protestant restorable to my father's estate;^ 
 and I procured the Papists, under whom (as thro' my father's purchase them) I claimed a 
 right to part of Quintinbay lands, to be also declared innocent;^* and so I was confirmed in 
 my paternal estate/^ In this Parliament, there was a recognition and address made to the K, 
 and our Earle was one of the commissioners for the Lords House, and he went to Westmin- 
 ster, taking his Countess with him.es And the commissioners having spedd their business, they 
 returned to attend the Parliam*, w'' (before they went) had made a recess by adjournment. The 
 Earle had obtained a grant of the lands of S' Wolstan^? afores'', but by the favour of the Court of 
 
 the fears and jealousies of the Cromwellian settlers, and 
 of establishing on a permanent basis the Protestant ascen- 
 dancy in Ireland." The profitable lands forfeited in Ire- 
 land under the commonwealth amounted to 7,708,237 
 statute acres, leaving undisturbed about 8,500,000 acres 
 belonging to protestants, to Irish who had been con- 
 stantly loyal, to the church, and the crown, besides 
 some lands never seized or surveyed. Of the forfeited 
 lands, 4,560,037 acres were granted to the English, and 
 only 2,323,809 acres to the Irish. Of the latter, some were 
 restored as 'innocent' papists; others, because circum- 
 stances required that provisoes should be made in their 
 favour ; others, as nominees, or persons named by the king 
 to be restored to their mansion-houses, and, in each case, 
 two thousand acres of land adjoining; and others, as trans- 
 planters, or persons whom Cromwell liad forced from their 
 own lands and settled in Connaught. — Memoirs of the 
 Grace Family, pp. 37-9, as quoted by Lingard, History 
 of England, vol. ix. , p. 31, note. 
 
 Commission was grajLted. — There were several com- 
 missions granted in connexion with this important business. 
 The object of the first commission was to carry out the 
 king's declaration at Breda. The second was appointed to 
 execute the Act of Settlement, its members being Henry 
 Coventr)', esq. ; sir Edward Deering, bart ; sir Richard 
 Rainsford, sir Thomas Beverley, sir Edward Smith, 
 knights ; Edward Cooke, and Winston Churchill, esquires. 
 These commissioners were appointed by privy signet, 
 dated i8th July, 1662. Again, on the 1st of January, 
 1665, a third commission was appointed for putting into 
 execution the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. The 
 commissioners were sir Edward Smith, chief justice of 
 the court of common pleas ; sir Edward Deering, bart. ; 
 sir Allen Broderick ; sir Winston Churchill ; and Edward 
 Cooke, esq. There was also a commission to ascer- 
 tain the value of lands set out to adventurers and 
 soldiers ; a commission to ascertain the value of each 
 estate restored or reprised ; a commission to review and 
 rectify the decrees for lands in Connaught and Clare ; 
 a commission to inquire into the value of lands 
 granted to protestants; a commission to ascertain the 
 value of lands held by the 1649 officers; a commis- 
 sion for abatements of quit-rents ; and a commission to in- 
 quire into '.he state of transplanted persons. "Amongst 
 the great coUectiosi of national documents preserved in 
 the Record Tower of Fis Majesty's castle of Dublin, are 
 nine large folio volumes, relating principally to the Acts 
 of Settlement and Explanation, and the various transac- 
 tions connected with them. These volumes, which are 
 considered highly valuable, contain, in general, entries of 
 petitions, reports, orders of council, statements of indivi- 
 
 dual rights and interests, remonstrances, letters patent, 
 
 cases, letters of the king and privy council, and numerous 
 other documents, during the reign of Charles the Second, 
 which throw consideraljle light on the civil affairs of Ire- 
 land throughout that eventful period of its history." — 
 Fifteenth Report on Irish Records, Reports,\Qi\. ii. , p. 33, note. 
 
 °3 Aly father'' s estate. — The author was an imiocent 
 Protestant, having neither joined the confederates nor 
 taken the side of tlie parliament, and hence pronounced 
 " restorable" by the Act of Settlement. 
 
 Declared innocent. — Sir James Montgomery had pur- 
 chased his lands at Quintinbay from a Roman catholic 
 family named Smith, and the fact of the latter being in- 
 nocent papists facilitated the re-possession of this property 
 by the author. 
 
 *5 My paternal estate. — Although the author had taken 
 possession of Rosemount and Quintin Bay estates (see 
 p. 221, supra), he had no regular title until the passing 
 of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. 
 
 Countess with him. — The other three commissioners 
 from the lords appointed with the earl of Mount- Alexander, 
 were the earl of Kildare, the bishop of Elphin, and lord 
 Kingston. The lord primate wrote to sir Edward Nicho- 
 las, secretaiy of state, announcing the appointment of 
 these commissioners, as follows : — 
 
 " Honourable Sir, — I am commanded by the House of Peers to 
 make known unto your honor, that they have named four of their 
 members to be their agents, to attend his sacred majesty' in England, 
 for the good of this church and kingdom, to continue there so long 
 as his Majesty shall license them, and the House shall judge expe- 
 dient, whicli thev do, therefore, represent, that no other person or 
 persons may pretend themselves to be qualified as agent or agents to 
 negotiate public affairs in the name of this kingdom, except such 
 others as shall be employed into England for that purpose, by the 
 Right Honourable the Lords Justices and Council, the House of 
 Convocation, and the House of Commons, in their several and dis- 
 tinct capacities ; which being all that is commanded me by the 
 House, I crave leave to subscribe, your Honor s most humble and 
 obedient Serv.-mt, "Jo. Armachanus. 
 
 "Dublin, July the loth, 1661." 
 — Ra7vdon Papers, pp. 147, 148. 
 
 ,5'/. Wolstan. — See p. 229, supra. Sir Thomas 
 Allen of St. Wolstan's died in 1626, leaving no family. 
 Eie had been created a baronet in the year 1622, the 
 patent setting forth that the honour was conferred, among 
 other reasons, in consideration of the great services that 
 had been rendered to the state by archbishop Allen, lord 
 chancellor of Ireland. Thomas Allen of Jvillheale, or 
 Killhill (the name by which the principal part of the 
 family estate was early known), left a son, J' n, who was 
 styled of Allen's Court, als. St. Wolstan's, r. d who died 
 on the 29th of September, 1616. At the date of his 
 death, his son, Thomas, was fifty years of age and un- 
 
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 Claims*^ and knavery of his Lo^'" Papists' witnesses, and the cunning cheatry of a supposed friend, 
 
 married. — Inquisitions, Kildare, No. 20, Jac. I. King's 
 letter creating Thomas Allen of St. Wolstan's a baronet, 
 with remainder to his heirs male, 12th May, 1622. — - 
 Calendar of Patent Rolls, Jac. /., p. 546'^. Grant 
 creating Thomas Allen of ,St. Wolstan's, descended from 
 the brother of John Allen, late lord chancellor, a baronet, 
 with remainder to his heirs male, 1622. — Calendar of 
 Patent Rolls, Jac. I., p. SSS^'. Sir Thomas Allen is de- 
 scribed as great-nephew of John Allen, the well-known 
 archbishop and lord chancellor, murdered in 1534. See 
 Liher Hihernice, part i., p. 73. Thomas Allen died on the 
 8th of March, 1626. — Inquisitions, Dublin, no. 89, Car. I. 
 Thomas Allen I 
 
 Sir John Allen, Knight= 
 ob. 2Q Sept. i6t6 | 
 
 Robert= William Nichoras= 
 born in 1569 I 
 
 Sir Thomas=Maria Preston 
 born 1568. 
 Will dated 
 so Oct. 1624. 
 
 ob. 8 March 1 
 i6z6, s. p. 
 
 James 
 
 Lady Allen, widow of sir Thomas, who was alive in 1662, was 
 a daughter of the fifth viscount Gormanstovvn. The property 
 known as St. Wolstan's, or Allen's Court, was inherited by 
 the sons of Nicholas — a younger brother of sir Thomas — 
 some of whom had been outlawed as rebels, and all of whom, 
 with the exception of James, the youngest, had died prior 
 to the year i656. The estate about which there arose such 
 a determined contest between James Allen and the earl of 
 Mount-Alexander, was one of the most beautiful and ex- 
 tensive in tlie neighbourhood of Dublin, situated princi- 
 pally by the Salmon Leap at Leixlip. For the following 
 schedule of the property, as attached to James Allen's 
 claim on which the decree of innocence was made, the 
 editor is indebted to the kindness of John P. Prendergast, 
 esq., author of The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland: — • 
 
 COUNTY OF DUBLIN. 
 
 Newcastle Barotiy. 
 
 Engl, measure. 
 
 Backstowne, 
 
 A. 
 
 .. 466 
 
 K. 
 
 2 
 
 P. 
 2 
 
 Nethercross Barony. 
 
 
 
 Sanderstowne and ) 
 
 .- 
 
 
 25 
 
 Haggardmore, \ 
 
 I 
 
 UpJ>ercross Barony. 
 
 
 
 
 In Tassaggard, per Est'% 
 
 . . 218 
 
 2 
 
 29 
 
 In Rathcool, per Est"^, 
 
 .. 19 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 NeTvccLstle Barony. 
 
 
 
 
 The TowTi and Lands of Brittas, per Est'®, 
 
 .. 194 
 
 1 
 
 21 
 
 In Lucan, per Est''*, 
 
 19 
 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 In Adderrigg, by Est'% 
 
 .. 40 
 
 J 
 
 29 
 
 Liberties of Dublin. 
 
 
 
 
 In the Town of Grange Gorman, per Est'", 
 
 .. 24 
 
 I 
 
 8 
 
 COUNTY OF WICKLOW. 
 
 
 
 
 Teraade, 
 
 .. 851 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kilbride, 
 
 •-5,151 
 
 
 
 
 
 COUNTY OF MEATH. 
 
 
 
 
 Dunleek Barotiy. 
 
 
 
 
 The Castle, Town, and Lands of Lagher, 
 
 with 
 
 
 
 the fishing Weares in the River Boyne, 
 
 •■ 447 
 
 T 
 
 28 
 
 The Lands of Balgeeth, 
 
 . • 205 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kelts Barony. 
 
 
 
 
 The Lands of Kilbegg, with a Water Mill, 
 
 500 
 
 
 
 
 
 COUNTY OF KILDARE. 
 Salt Barony, 
 
 Cooldrina, . . . . . . . . . . 232 o o 
 
 In Castle Dillon, .. .. .. .. 900 
 
 Donagh Comper, . . . . . . . . 85 o o 
 
 The Castle, Town, and Lands of St Wolstans, 
 
 alias Allen's Court, with two Water Mills, . . 235 i 8 
 Parsonstown, with a ruinous house and two 
 
 Water Mills, . . . . . . . . 262 3 4 
 
 The Castle, &c., of Keane, .. .. .. 75 3 o 
 
 Priorstown, . . . . . . . . 126 o o 
 
 Six Acres in Castle de Lane, alias Tristel de 
 
 Lane, .. .. .. . .. 600 
 
 One Messuage and 16 A. in the town of Kil- 
 
 droght, .. .. .. .. .-. 16 2 o 
 
 In the town of Shealstown, . . . . . . 47 2 16 
 
 Two Messuages and four Cottages in the town 
 
 and fields of Ardresse, .. .. .. 120 2 2 
 
 Corbally, .. .. .. .. . . 78 o 34 
 
 Ballym'"Kelly, . . . . . . . . 100 o 26 
 
 Ballyknockane, , . . . . . • • 73 i 36 
 
 The Hall Castle in the town of Killadowan, . . 720 
 
 A Messuage in the town of Streffan, . . . . 520 
 
 A Messuage in Irishtown, . . . . . . 400 
 
 Three Messuages and four Cottages in the town 
 
 of Leixlip, .. .. .. .. 121 o o 
 
 One Messuage and Garden, with Common of 
 
 Pasture in the town of Stacumney, . . 24 o o 
 
 In TipperstOvvn, . .. .. .. 201 i 12 
 
 Senghiandstown, .. .. .. ,. 193 3 33 
 
 Coolefich, . . . . . . . . . . 38 o 8 
 
 Mayestown, Symonstown, Galbristown, . . 186 3 16 
 
 In Kilmacredock part, . . . . . . 200 
 
 Est. Killhill, .. .. .. ..1,438 224 
 
 Naass Barony. 
 Four Messuages, Six Cottages, ii A. with 
 
 Common of Pasture in Naass, .. .. 212 3 12 
 
 One Messuage in Sherlockstown, .. .. 6 g o 
 
 In Rathmore, one Messuage, ,. .. 500 
 
 A Utile Chapel in Edestown, .. .. 500 
 In the town of Walshestown, with Common of 
 
 Pasture, .. .. .. .. .. 120 o o 
 
 Reduced to the Crown Rents. 
 The Rectory of Donaghcomper, Stracumney, and Killadowan ; 
 Possextown, Donaghmor, and all the tithes. 
 
 Court of Claims. — The commissioners, originally ap- 
 pointed to put into execution the Act of Settlement, con- 
 stituted the Court of Claims, but they were, in fairness, dis- 
 qualified for such a trust, being nearly all interested in the 
 party of adventurers and soldiers. Some of them, even, 
 were actually in possession of those lands which the rightful 
 claimants sued for before them. Thus, the judges in the 
 Court of Claims were themselves both parties and 
 witnesses in most of the causes. These scandalous 
 proceedings, however, soon brought their own remedy. 
 The original commissioners were superseded by seven 
 others of good reputation, and the work of settlement 
 went on, with at least a greater appearance of justice 
 to the L'ish, than before. The following passage from 
 Carte's Life of Ormond, vol. ii., p. 230, explains the 
 character of this court as originally constituted: — "Another 
 of the Lords' instructions related to a scandalous practice 
 of the Court of Claims then sitting in Dublin. Sir A. 
 (Audley) Mervyn, a vain selfish man, who cajoled all 
 parties, and promised eveiy body, yet meant nothing all 
 the while but his own interest, and who (if the common 
 fame of that time did not belye him) was guilty of shame- 
 ful bribery and corruption, governed that Court at his 
 pleasure, and was the mouth of it upon all occasions. He 
 was the most partial man on earth, and in the many and 
 sudden changes of sides and principles which he had made, 
 
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 who tore the lease, where was AlHn's name, out of the record that was made of rebels' actions.^ That 
 nigrum theta7° (w^ w* have cond* his claim) cou'd not be found. So by virtue of ;^20oo bribe and 
 Colo. Talbot?' (afterwards D. of Tireconnell) his close agency (for which he was well rewarded) the ^ 
 AUin was declared innocent Papist, and our Earl defeated of the King's grant afores*.?^ Nevertheless, 
 
 never knew what it was to be ashamed of anything. So 
 that is no wonder a Court under his direction should furnish 
 all the world with occasions of complaint, and make them 
 wish for the coming over of the Commissioners of Appeals. 
 The streets of Dublin were thronged with a multitude of 
 widows who had entered claims for the jointures secured 
 to them by their marriage articles; and though there was 
 scarce any difficulty in most of their cases, Sir M. Eustace 
 could not but observe, to the reproach of that Court, that 
 not one of these was restored by them, but kept there in 
 a fruitless and expensive attendance, which enhanced their 
 misfortunes. When the Lords Justices, in obedience to 
 his Majesty's Letters, had ordered the restitution of the 
 Earls of Westmeath, and Fingal, and a few others, the 
 Commissioners (of Court of Claims) refused to give an 
 order for the possession of their estates, under pretence 
 that there were no reprizals to be had for the Adventurers 
 settled upon those estates. The meaning of this was that 
 they had granted out all the lands appointed for reprizals, 
 to their own friends, under the notion of caiitio7iary re- 
 prizals, or reprizals de bene Esse. No practice could be 
 more unwarrantable and irregidar; for there was not a 
 word about cautionary reprizals in the Declaration; and 
 yet under this palpable fraud, manifestly designed to ob- 
 struct justice, the whole stock of reprizable lands became 
 vested in half a dozen persons. Thus, the Earl of Mount- 
 rath, and the Lords Massarene and Kingston had got into 
 their hands most of the lands in the counties of Dublin, 
 Louth, and Kildare, and the barony of Barrymore. Hence 
 the Lords Justices, to stop the clamours of the Earl of 
 Eingall and others, who w ere not restored according to 
 their orders, Avere forced to give them pensions out of the 
 Exchequer, which just enabled them to subsist. The 
 House of Lords thought it necessary to put a stop to such 
 scandalous abuse of power, and to direct their agents to 
 beseech his Majesty to revoke and annul all such cautionary 
 and previous reprizals, that his Declaration might be more 
 duly and better executed ; which was accordingly done in 
 the October following." 
 
 *9 Of rebels' actions. — The 'supposed friend' here referred 
 to was probably a member of the family of White at Leix- 
 lip. The author states, p. 229, stcpra, that the earl of 
 Mount- Alexander might have had precedency of his brother- 
 in-law, Henry Moore, in the date of his earldom, "but 
 declined that compliment (that might raise envy) which 
 brotherly concession was ill requited, when the trial of St. 
 Wolstan's came to be heard." Mrs. White of Leixlip was 
 aunt of Henry Moore, first earl of Drogheda. The Whites 
 and Aliens had intermarried, and the former were doubt- 
 less anxious for the restoration of James Allen to his 
 ancestral estate. Probably the earl of Drogheda, through 
 the Whites, was also desirous of this result, and used his 
 influence in Allen's behalf. 
 
 70 Nigrum tlieta. — As among the Romans, A and C 
 were termed the " litera2 salutaris et tristis," because, when 
 attached to sentences, they respectively denoted acquittal 
 or condemtiation, so among the Greeks the letter G (theta), 
 
 being the initial of ^avaros, 'death,' was indicative of 
 condemnation. Hence the Latin writers described it as 
 nigrum, and we find Persius thus using the term 
 
 " Et potis es vltio nigrum praefigere theta." 
 —Sat. iv., 13; see also Martial, vii. epigr., 36. 2. 
 
 Colo. Talbot. — This was Richard Talbot, afterwards 
 so notorious as duke of Tyrconnell. He was the youngest 
 son of sir William Talbot, an eminent lawyer. Richard's 
 eldest brother, sir Robert Talbot, who inherited the family 
 estate, was always regarded as a peace-lo\4ng member of 
 society, but was driven, it is said, reluctantly into the re- 
 bellion by oppressive treatment received at the hands of 
 the lords justices. Richard's second brother, Peter Tal- 
 bot, was a Jesuit, in the secret of the king's real religious 
 sentiments, and an especial favourite with the Spanish 
 ambassador at the English court. Richard himself was 
 strongly suspected of acting as a sort of spy for Cromwell's 
 government during a part of his career, and he afterwards 
 took great pains to explain away whatever in his conduct 
 had given rise to these suspicions. He left England in 1656, 
 going to Holland, where he soon became a great favour- 
 ite with the duke of York, atterwards James II., whom 
 he met in the Low Countries as an exile. On their return 
 together at the Restoration, Talbot was able to get the 
 appointment of lieutenant-colonel in the duke's regiment, 
 although it rightfully belonged to colonel Muskerry, and 
 although the duke of Ormond used all his efforts with the 
 king to procure it for the latter. Talbot continued to be 
 such an especial favourite with the duke, that he came to be 
 considered the most influential person to forward the in- 
 terests of the Irish Roman catholics at court, during the 
 debates in London about the Act of Settlement His 
 vanity and love of money induced him to imdertake this 
 business ; and coming to Ireland during the summer of 
 1663, "he carried back with him to London," says Carte, 
 " no less than ^18,000 in statutes staple, bonds, and 
 other securities, for procuring distressed gentlemen their 
 estates. The Bill of Explanation being transmitted soon 
 after, he took occasion to write to his brother Peter in 
 Ireland, that the king had resolved in council not to leave 
 the obliging of his subjects to any minister, and that the 
 lord-lieutenant only proposed to restore about thirty of 
 their nation. His credit and power with the duke of 
 York were well known, and it was generally believed in 
 Ireland that he had a mighty interest at court. That 
 notion, and these insinuations, procured him an infinite 
 number of clients, who applied to him as their great 
 patron and sollicitor; so that he had the bonds of hun- 
 dreds, to be paid on their restitution by his means and 
 procurement. " — Life of Ormotid, vol. ii. , pp. 295, 296. 
 
 ^^ King's grant aforesd. — The following is the king's 
 revocation of his grant to viscount Montgomery, on the 
 establishment of Allen's claim as an innocent papist : — 
 
 " Charles Rex, — 
 
 " Having taken into consideration the Petition of 
 James Allen, of St. Wolstan's, wherein is set forth — ^That he being 
 entitled by a settlement made by his grandfather, J. Allen, of St. 
 
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 235 
 
 our Earl was well enough to pass, and had contrived his debts to be paid by gales out of his rents, w** 
 w'^ have cleared him of them all in five years, for he was to have took out of his estate but ;j^Soo 
 per annum to maintain his daughter and his two sons (by the first venter's) at boarding-schools in 
 Dublin, over w"" his Lady had a motherly, careful, kind eye and heart, tho' they were not lodged in 
 the house with her; and his Lo^'' table, w'^ was publick and free to gentl. was furnished by his 
 Lady out of her jointure, and his pay supplied him in cloaths and coaches, (w'' were very splendid) 
 and in attendants and spending money, and a round yearly sum to spare,?"* besides accidental pro- 
 fits arising his office, but these last his Lo^ applied to some poor friends' and servants' behoof; 
 and in this manner his Lo" lived in grandeur, highly esteemed and respected by all, and for his 
 ripe judgment appearing when he spoke in the House of Lords or at the Council Board, where he 
 was revered by understanding persons, and his conversation (for the obliging gentility thereof) 
 much commended and coveted by both sexes. His Lo". (amidst these felicities and dearest 
 earthly enjoyments he cou'd desire) had fallen into a discentery, w*" lay sore upon him, changing its 
 complexion twice or thrice. It was very dangerous, his body being grown unwieldy and bulksome; 
 but, by God's blessing, (on Dr. Fennell's endeavours) he recovered and was but weakly well mended, 
 for that flux had bro' him low too suddenly, by evacuating a great abundance of humours and fatt, 
 by which he was become formerly uneasy to himself. Yet his Lo^ (not fearing a relapse or other 
 disease) was earnest to go into the country to finish his private business afores"", but chiefly to serve 
 the country and his King. 
 
 Wolstans, in the county of KilJare, knight, deceased, and by his 
 uncle, Sir Thomas Allen, of St. Wolstans, in the county of Kildare, 
 deceased, long before the Relsellion in Ireland, and by the decease 
 of his collateral kinsmen, Robert Allen and William Allen, without 
 heirs males of their bodies. To Have and To Hold to him and the 
 heirs males of his body, the Manor of St. Wolstan's, and other the 
 Lands in the said Settlement mentioned. 
 
 "And that being so entitled, the Earl of Mount-Alexander did 
 obtain our grant of the Manor and Lands upon some undue sugges- 
 tion, that the same were forfeited to us for some treason or defection 
 of the Petitioner, or sonie of his kinsmen formerly interested therein. 
 Also, that, in the Act of Settlement for that our Kingdom, a Proviso 
 is contained in favour of the said Earl of Mount-Alexander, whereby 
 the Petitioner will be foreclosed of his rights, unless the same, as 
 also the said grant, be revoked or altered, according to another pro- 
 viso in the said Act specified. We, therefore, out of our regard to 
 justice, and of the Petitioner's merit, are graciously pleased that the 
 said grant and Proviso touching the settling of the said Estate unto 
 Earl of Mount-Alexander, be altered and revoked by Letters 
 Patent, or otherwise, so that the said Petitioner shall not be in any 
 sort prejudiced or debarred by the said Proviso or grant, but be 
 forthwith restored to the said Estate. 
 
 "[Endorsed — ' Lord Lieutenant and Council to alter the same. 
 And to give order to the Commissioners for executing the Act of 
 Settlement, to proceed therein according to such alterations as you 
 shall make touching the premises.]' 
 
 "Whitehall, the [ ] Sep., in the 14th yerof our Reign." 
 — Carte Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. xlvi., p. 3. 
 
 The king had the power, according to the concluding 
 clause in the Act of Settlement, thu.s to withdraw his own 
 grant when it was deemed necessary or expedient to do 
 so. Soon after the withdrawal of this grant, letters from 
 Talbot were intercepted, from which Montgomeiy sup- 
 posed that a charge of fraud and perjuiy might be got up 
 against his opponents. He wrote the following letter to 
 the duchess of Ormond, requesting her influence to assist 
 him in obtaining a re-hearing of the case :— 
 
 "Madame,— It may seem a greate presumptione in me to give 
 your grace the least trouble, whose favours have so highly obliged 
 
 me and my family. But, an opertunity being now ofered by season- 
 able interception of some letters which came from Colonel Talbott to 
 his Brother and Sir Bryan O'Neale, wherein the fraude, corruptione, 
 and perjury of that Decree obtained by the late Allen of St. 
 Wolston's, is, in some measure, discovered, the originall letters being 
 sent to my Lord Lieutenant by my Lord Deputie, who has been 
 honorably pleased to minde his grace of mine and my family's dis- 
 tressed condition, I presume to take the confidence to implore the 
 continuance of your grace's favour in my behalf, that His Majesty 
 may be moved that that decree may receive a rehearing, as in the 
 case of my Lord Massarene and Sir George Cane, or put in such 
 other way as your grace shall think fit, to which end my cosin Mont- 
 gomerie will atend your grace, all my friends here being satisfied 
 that the coruptione of that proceeding will evidently appeare, and 
 herein your grace will eternally oblige, Madame, your grace's most 
 humbly devoted servant, 
 
 "The nth of January, 1661. "Mount-Alexander, 
 
 "To Her Grace the Duchess of Ormond. London. 
 
 [Endorsed by Ormond] 
 " The Earl of Mount-Alexander to my wife. 
 
 " Ti January. 
 
 " Reed. 25th.'' t 
 — Carte Papers, Bodleian Librar>', Oxford, vol. xxxiv. , p. 7. 
 
 The earl of Mount- Alexander failed in his attempts to have 
 the case reheard, Allen having made over his right in part 
 of the lands to Talbot, and Talbot having the duke of 
 York's influence with the king to prevent the latter from 
 further serving his "well-beloved cousin and counsellor." 
 
 73 By the Jint venter. — In other words, his children by 
 the first lady. 
 
 1^ Yearly sum to spare. — The earl's means were some- 
 what improved at this period by his receiving payment of 
 his arrears as a 1649 officer. These arrears, in his case, 
 amounted to £'^■,'^^3 i^s 8d, but he, with captain Hugh 
 Montgomery, had purchased up '49 arrear debentures, so 
 as that their joint arrears amounted to the large sum of 
 £12., 115 17s 4d, making the 65th lot of arrears. In lieu 
 
236 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 For upon a design of surprising the Duke of Ormond and the castle of Dublin, one Maj' 
 Blood,75 who was in the plott) went tlirough the North of Ireland privately, and in like manner 
 conferring divers Presbeterian Ministers to engage them and to learn what assistance they w^ lend 
 to a cause on foot for God's glory (so he called the rebellion he was hatching) and their profit, they 
 being now ejected by the B»' and not suffered to preach.?^ Our Earl had some small notice of 
 
 of this sum, they obtained the 51st lot of security which 
 entitled them to the possession of 6,319a. 3r. I2p. of land 
 in the baronies of Camgallen and Dromahaire, county of 
 Leitrim. — AIS. Notes of John F. Prendergast, esq. 
 
 '5 One Majr. Blood. — Major Blood, from whom this 
 conspiracy has taken its name, was the same person that 
 afterwards attempted to murder the duke of Omiond, and 
 steal the regalia from the Tower. Adair's account of him 
 is that "he had for some time been an officer in the King's 
 army against the first Parliament, and was a true Cavalier. 
 Thereafter, he had come to Ireland, where he had some 
 interest in land near Dublin ; and, falling into much ac- 
 quaintance with one Mr. Lecky, his brother-in-law, a 
 minister of the Presbyterian persuasion, and a man of good 
 discourse and learning, he was drawn to own the Presby- 
 terian principles. Thereafter, by the instigation of Lecky 
 and others, he was persuaded to engage as the principal 
 actor in this plot, being a person singularly fitted for such 
 a design, in regard of courage, subtilty, strength of body, 
 and great spirit, and who had experience in martial affairs. 
 This man, with his associates, having had many consult- 
 ations among themselves, thought it fit to try if they could 
 draw in the Presbyterians of the North to join with them, 
 they pretending the ends of the covenant with them. 
 Accordingly, Blood and Lecky, by the advice and consent 
 of the rest, came to the North to try the ministers and best 
 of the people there." — Narrative, &c. , p. 271. Evelyn, 
 Memoirs, vol. i. , p. 437, has the foUov/ing notice of 
 Blood :— 
 
 " May 10, 1671. — Dined at Mr. Treasrs., where dined Monsr. De 
 Gramont and severall Frencli noblemen, and one Blood, that impu- 
 dent bold fellow who had not long before attempted to steale the 
 imperial crowne itselfe out of the Tower, pretending onely curiositie 
 of seeing the regalia there, when, stabbing the kecp-^r, tho' not mor- 
 tally, he boldly went away with it thro' all the guards, taken onely 
 by the accident of his horse falling down. How he came to be par- 
 doned, and even received into favour, not onely after this, but severall 
 other exploits almost as daring, both in Ireland and here, I could 
 never come to understand. Some believed he became a spy of 
 severall parties, being well with the Sectaries and Enthusiasts, and 
 did his Ma^^ services in that way, which none alive could do so well 
 as he ; but it was certainly as the boldest attempt, so the onely 
 treason of this sort that was ever pardond. This man had not only 
 a daring but a villainous uninercifuU looke, a false countenance, but 
 very well spoken and dangerously insinuating," 
 
 Colonel Blood having vowed revenge against the duke of 
 Ormond for driving him from Ireland, attacked the coacli of 
 the latter, as it drove along St. James's Street in London, and 
 took possession of Ormond's person. Blood might have 
 easily murdered his victim at once, but he had arranged in 
 his own mind to inflict a refined vengeance. With this 
 view he bound the duke and mounted him behind one of 
 his associates, intending to hang his grace at Tyburn. 
 The latter struggled furiously, falling off the horse, and 
 bringing with liim the assassin to whom he was fastened. 
 As they struggled together in the field over which they 
 rode, Ormond's servants, who had fortunately got tidings 
 of his capture, came suddenly to the rescue, compelling 
 
 Blood and his companions to scamper off on their horses, 
 after firing their pistols, without effect, at the duke. For 
 this crime and the attempt afterwards to carry off the 
 crown and state jewels from the Tower, Blood was 
 pardoned by Charles XL, — and not only pardoned but 
 encouraged by the king to remain at coiirt, receiving an 
 estate worth ^500 a year. There is an account of Blood 
 in Remarks on the Life and Death of the famed Mr. Blood, 
 &c., fol., London, 1 680; reprinted in Somers' Tracts, 
 second collection, vol. iii., p. 219. See, for the fullest ac- 
 count of his remarkable career, Kippis' Biographia Bri- 
 tannica, vol. ii. , p. 361. 
 
 7' Suffered to preach. — The Presbyterian ministers were 
 .sadly disappointed by certain results of the Restoration, 
 among which may be enumerated the burning of their cove- 
 nant by the common liangman, the dispersion of the meet- 
 ings of their presbytery as illegal, and the expulsion of their 
 mmisters from such churches and parishes as they had oc- 
 cupied since the advent of Monro in 1 642. The follow- 
 ing letter, from Lord Orrery (Roger Boyle) to Ormond, 
 explains the painful position in which the presbyterian 
 ministers were placed, so suddenly after the elevation of 
 their hopes in the convention already referred to at p. 
 222, supra: — 
 
 " We have had these two days four ministers before us, which were 
 sent from the several presbyteries in Ulster to the lords justices and 
 council, desiring liberty to exercise their ministry in their respective 
 parishes, according to the way they have hitherto exercised it in ; 
 and expressing their great sorrow to find themselves numbered with 
 papists and fanatics in our late proclamation, which prohibited un- 
 lawful assemblies. 
 
 "After many debates upon several proposals how to answer them, 
 we resolved on this answer : — That we neither could or would allow 
 any discipline to be exercised in church affairs, but what was war- 
 ranted and commanded by the laws of the land. That they were 
 punishable for having exercised any other. That we would not take 
 any advantage against them for what was past, if they would comport 
 themselves conformably for the time to come. That if they were 
 dispensed withal, by pleading a submission thereunto was against 
 their consciences, papists and fanatics would expect the like indul- 
 gence from the like plea, which we knew their own practice as well 
 as judgments led them to disallow of. That we took it very ill 
 divers of those, which had sent them, had not obser\'ed the tunc set 
 apart for humbling themselves, for the barbarous murther of his late 
 majesty, a sin which no honest man could avoid being sorry for. 
 That some of their number had preached seditiously, in crying up 
 the Covenant (the seeds of all our miseries , in lamenting his ma- 
 jesty's breach of it, as setting up episcopacy as introductive to 
 popery, which they had not punished in exercising any of their pre- 
 tended discipline over such notorious offenders. And lastly, that if 
 they conformed themselves to the discipline of this church, they 
 should want no fitting countenance and encouragement in carrying 
 on their ministry ; so if they continued refractory, they must expect 
 the penalties the laws did prescribe. 
 
 " 'I'o all which they answered, that as far as their consciences 
 would permit them, thej' would comply, and what it would not, 
 they would patiently suffer. That it was their religion to obey 
 a lawful authority land such they o^vned his majesty was; either 
 actively or passively. That if any of their Judgment had preached 
 sedition, they left them to themselves, and disowned them ; and 
 if they had the exercising of their discipline, they would punish 
 severely all such. That many of them had, according to the procla- 
 mation, kept the fast for the king's murther, which they heartily 
 detested, and for the doing thereof in the usurper's government 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts* 
 
 237 
 
 this, but no description of the man. The Duke had more perfect intelligence, and sent for his 
 Lo'' giving him a character of Blood, and where and with whom he had been, and desired to have 
 him apprehended ; his Lo^, therefore, sent Mr. Hugh Savage^' (one of the Gents, of his troop) 
 called commonly old Rock (because it is supposed he is descended of the family of Rock Savage) 
 and with him the Duke's warrants and his own order to take such and such out of his s** troop, 
 which then lay at Newtown, and to search for Blood, who escaped very narrowly. But this sad 
 plott for surprizall afores^ being fully discovered by seizing the body of Thomas Boyd?^ (designed 
 treasurer at war) Col. Warner, Col. Jephson, Col. Shapeot, a lawyer, and Lecky, a Scotish Minister, 
 &C.73 his Lqp thought it a fit time to be at Newtown, and to send for the Presbeterian Ministers 
 
 many of them had been imprisoned and sequestred ; and that to 
 the last of their lives they would continue loyal to his majesty. 
 And lest they might offend against our proclamation, they desired to 
 know what was meant by unlawful assemblies, because some were 
 so severe as to interpret their meetings to pray and preach on the 
 Lord's day to come under that head. To which we told them, that 
 by unlawful meetings was only meant such assemblies, as were to 
 exercise any ecclesiastical jurisdictions, which were not warranted by 
 the laws of the kingdom, and not to hinder their meetings in per- 
 forming parochial duties in those benefices, of which they were pos- 
 sessed legally or illegally. 
 
 " They seemed much comforted with the last assurance ; so that 
 having again exhorted them to conformity, and promised them 
 therein all encouragement, we dismissed them to try what this usage 
 and the admonition will produce. I have had several private dis- 
 courses with them, and I leave no honest means unessayed to gain 
 them." — Orrery's State Letters, vol. i., pp. 29 — 31. 
 
 The above statement was enclosed in Orrery's letter, 
 dated Ballymallo, January 2, 1660, and contains an ap- 
 parently candid account of this interview. There is no evi- 
 dence, however, that more than three presbyterian minis- 
 ters were implicated in Blood's plot, althougli the reticence 
 and waywardness of others, when examined as to their 
 knowledge of that affair, naturally brought suspicion on 
 ■ the whole body, and involved many of them in much un- 
 merited odium and suffering. " The noise of the plot 
 becoming great," says Adair, Narrative, p. 276, "the 
 duke [Ormond] and those about him, could not lay aside 
 their jealousies of the Scotch. Therefore, within three 
 weeks after its breaking up, the whole ministers of Down 
 and Antrim who could be found were, in one day, appre- 
 hended, in the middle of June, 1663." There must have 
 been an interval of nearly a year and half between the 
 capture of the first and last of the ministers imprisoned 
 for alleged complicity in this plot. 
 
 Hugh Savage. — Knockdoo, or Knockdhue ("Black 
 hill"), otherwise Rock-Savage, in the townland of Bally- 
 galget, and parish of Witter, Upper Ards, was for a long 
 period the residence of a family of this surname — a branch, 
 no doubt, of the Ballygalget Savages. The gentleman 
 mentioned in the text was probably father-in-law of 
 colonel Hugh Cochran, as stated at p. 163, supra. Hugh 
 Savage was one of the 'innocent' proprietors restored to 
 their estates after the Revolution of 1688. The decree re- 
 storing him is dated February 27, 1701. See Appendix (B) 
 annexed to W. H. Hardinge's Paper on Surveys in Ireland 
 in Transactions of Royal Irish Academy, vol. xxiv., part 
 iii. , p. 294. When William Montgomery wrote his Inci- 
 dentall Remembrances of the two Ancient Families of the 
 Savages, he sent a copy to Patrick of Portaferry, the then 
 representative of that branch, and a copy to captain Hugh 
 Savage, the representative of the Ardkeen branch. The 
 
 manuscript copy sent to Patrick Savage is now in the pos- 
 session of Mrs. Sinclair, the author's great -great -great 
 granddaughter, and on it Wm. Montgomery has made 
 the following entry, at the end : — "The like of sd Re- 
 membrances is sent to Capt" Hugh Savadge of Ardkin 
 transcribed by Abraham Holm — lett all this be printed." 
 Hugh Savage was son of John, who was only surviving 
 son of Henry Savage of Ardkeen, the first gentleman 
 named on the list of those who attended the funeral of the 
 first viscount Montgomery, in 1636. Seep. 131, w/ra. 
 
 1^ Thomas Boyd. — See p. 139, supra. — This Thomas 
 Boyd, who is described as a merchant in Dublin, was 
 elected member of Parliament for Bangor, with William 
 Conyngham, esq., in 165 1. He is .supposed to have been 
 a connexion of the Kilmarnock family. In 1683 he mar- 
 ried Mary, fourth daughter of Sir Adam Loftus, of Rath- 
 farnham, and by her left one daughter, Letitia, his other 
 children dying in infancy. In 1682, Letitia Boyd was 
 married to the .second earl of Kilmarnock. She was grand- 
 mother to the fourth earl, whose engagement in the rebel- 
 lion of 1745 brought him to the scaffold. Besides William 
 Boyd, the third earl, Letitia Boyd left a second son, the 
 hon. Thomas Boyd, who became a member of the Faculty 
 of Advocates in 17 10, and married Eleanora, daughter 
 of Sir Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, in Stirlingshire. — 
 Paterson's Parishes and F'amilies of Ayrshire, vol. ii., p. 
 180; Hamilton Manuscripts, p. Ixxviii., 7iote. Thomas 
 Boyd of Dublin was expelled from the house in 1663, for 
 complicity in Blood's plot, and died in 1696. A bill was 
 introduced in the Irish house of commons on the iith 
 August, 1697, to enable the right honourable Lettice, 
 countess dowager of Kilmarnock, in the kingdom of Scot- 
 land, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Boyd, late of the 
 city of Dublin, esq. , deceased, to charge the real and per- 
 sonal estate of the said Thomas Boyd with the sum of four 
 thousand pounds for payment of the debts of the said 
 Thomas Boyd, and for the several other purposes therein 
 expressed, by mortgaging or selling the same, or any part 
 thereof, which was received, and eventually passed. — 
 Irish Comtuons Journals, vol. ii., pp. 852, 952, 957. 
 Thomas Boyd's son, also named Thomas, was buried in 
 the Loftus vault, in the chancel of St. Patrick's Cathedral, 
 on the 1st of August, 1657. — Mason's History of the Ca- 
 thedral of St. Patrick, notes, p. Ivii. 
 
 73 Scottish Minister, &^c. — This conspiracy was hatched 
 among a party who hated the Roman catholics, and were 
 jealous of the slightest relaxation in the rigour with which 
 Irish lands had been confiscated. The authorities in 
 Dublin castle had already begun to show some symptoms 
 
 H I 
 
238 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 (his quondam backsliding friends) when he sh** please, and to receive the addresses of such as came 
 (unbidden) to him voluntarily. His Lo"^ meant to try all their pulses and to mind them of their 
 duty as subjects. So his Lo", at the desire of the D. and by his own inclinations to see his friends 
 and to his private business, took journey the sooner (for he might not be long f™ the Government, 
 nor f™ his post and family) and came to Millifont, now a table visit, for his Lo^, and the beginning 
 of that lethargy w*" killed him. His LqI" being come to Mount Alexander and Newtown, and 
 having visited his sister and me at Rosemount, his drowsy distemper grew fast upon him, that in a 
 fortnight he was much indisposed to write (with his own hand) the dispatches w*" he was obliged to 
 send to the D. ; his cl'' (Loftus)?'* doing the ordinary affairs. Yet by his directions his Lo*" first of 
 all laboured at the publick business with the Presbeterian Ministers, many of them (on discovery 
 of this plott) had been taken (at one time) and sent to Carlingford^s (and other places) under con- 
 finement, because they were suspected, and would have kept possession of the churches and glebes 
 
 of a desire to restore many Roman catholics to tlieir 
 estates, and certain decisions by tlie Court of Claims had 
 created considerable alarm. Blood's plot was caused not 
 only by fanatical zeal, but by fear among the plotters of 
 losmg their lands. Besides the persons here named, the 
 following also were seized, viz. : — Mr. Bond, a native of 
 Scotland; colonel Thomas Scott, M.P. ; colonel Edward 
 Warren ; major Henry Jones ; captain John Chambers, 
 M.P. ; major Richard Thompson, deputy provost-marshal 
 of Leinster ; John Foulk, son to the former governor of 
 Drogheda ; James Tanner, clerk to Henry Cromwell's 
 private secretary; and about fourteen others. On the 26th 
 of May, a proclamation was issued, offering a reward of 
 ;^ioo for the apprehension of colonel Blood, colonel 
 Gibby Car, who had recently come over to Dublin from 
 Scotland;' lieut. -col. Abel Warren, M. P. ; the Rev. Andrew 
 M'Cormick, and the Rev. Robert Chambers [Dublin], 
 non-conformist ministers, who had succeeded in making 
 their escape. — Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church,, 
 vol. ii., p. 275, note. "On the second of July, colonel 
 Alexander Jephson was tried in the court of king's bench, 
 Dublin, and found guilty; and, on the two following days, 
 major Richard Thompson, and colonel Edward Warren, 
 were also found guilty of high treason, and sentenced to 
 die as traitors. On the 15th of July, these three conspira- 
 tors were executed at the Gallows Green, near Duljlin, 
 and the heads of Warren and Thompson were set upon poles 
 on two of the towers of the castle. At the re-assembling 
 of parliament, in November, 1665, the house of commons 
 suspended, and afterwards expelled, the following members 
 for having been concerned in this plot — viz. , John Ruxtou 
 and John Chambers, members for Ardee ; Thomas Scott 
 for the county of Wexford ; Abel Warren for the city of 
 Kilkenny; Robert Shapcote for the town of Wicklow; 
 Alexander Staples for Strabane; and Thomas Boyd for 
 Bangor." — Reid's history of the Presbyterian Church, 
 vol. ii., pp. 275, 281, notes; .see also Carte's Life of 
 Ormond, vol. ii. , p. 269; Commons Journals, vol. ii., 
 p. 340 ; Prendergast's Cromiuellian Settlement of Ireland, 
 p. 131, note. The following extract of a letter from 
 Edward Conway, viscount Conway and Killulta, after- 
 wards earl Conway, to his brother-in-law, George Rawdon, 
 dated Lisburne, 18 Nov. 1663, shows how anxious Or- 
 mond must have Ijccn to get hold of Lecky, already 
 
 mentioned in a preceding note as one of the chief con- 
 spirators : — 
 
 "Dear Bi'ot ie-;. — This last post I received a letter from my 
 Lord Lieutenant concerning Lackey, and, because I have nothing 
 fit to trouble his grace with, I desire you to give him this account of 
 his commands. It was late on Monday before the post came in ; 
 the ill weather, which I fear accompanied you in your journey, kept 
 him back till 4 in the afternoon. I set out guards immediately upon 
 all the avenues near this place, into the counties of Down and An- 
 trim, where thej' have since continued night and day, and because 
 the next was our market-day, which gave Blood the opportunity of 
 passing by us. I sent the same instant to Col. Hill to keep a good 
 guard at Hillsborough, and I raised the country- that night to keep 
 watch upon all the ways through Killuta into the county of Antrim. 
 Next morning I sent to have spoken with Leviston the Minister, who 
 is Lackey's acquaintance, and whom I thought the favour he hath 
 had would have engaged to be serviceable herein, but he was gone 
 into Scotland a week before, not to return till Christmas. Then I 
 sent to our intelligencer, and desired him to make it his work to learn 
 out where he hid himself, and as much else as he could concerning 
 his escape, which I hope he may do, though Lackey should be con- 
 cealed in fJublin. ... I spake to flioses Hill, and desired him 
 to help us, because part of the ways lie very convenientlj' to his 
 troop : he said he would if I would command it. I told hira I would 
 not take upon me to do that which I thought did not belong to me ; 
 but I shewed hira my Lord Lieutenant's letter, and told him I 
 thought it would be very fit for him, but he doth not do it." — 
 Raiudon Papers, pp. 202, 203. 
 
 Lecky, who had escaped from Newgate in his wife's 
 clothes, was unable, from feeble health, to leave Dublin, 
 where Ire was re-taken on the day after his escape, and 
 executed on the 12th of December, 1663, at O.xmanton 
 Green. Adair states that Lecky was "a near kinsman" 
 of lord Massereene, and that he was offered a pardon on 
 condition that he would accuse that nobleman of being an 
 accomplice in Blood's plot — See Reid's History of the 
 Presbyterian Church, vol. ii., pp. 281, 282, note. 
 
 " His elk. Zqftus — This gentleman was son of the well- 
 known Dr. Dudley Loftus, so learned in the civil law, and 
 who was promoted successively to be a master in chancery, 
 vicar-general of Armagh, and judge of the prerogative 
 court. His family consisted of two sons and five daughters, 
 who all died young or mimarried. The person named in 
 the text was Dudley, his elder son. — See Lodge, Peerage 
 of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. vii., p. 261. 
 
 75 Sent to Carlingford. — The following is Adair's ac- 
 count of the ministers' sojourn in this place : — "They were 
 sent to the King's castle at Carlingford, being seven in 
 number, viz. , Messrs. John Drysdale, John Greg, Andrew 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 239 
 
 f° the re-established and legal joreachers ; and practised clandestine meetings, and resorted to the 
 people, met by their appointment in bye places, on mountain sides, and in dry turf bogs;?*^ which 
 was suspicious and dangerous to the peace in those times, when all the sects were plotting to un- 
 hinge the Government in church and state (as appeared by the intended surprize afores''); yet his 
 Lo" had procured leases for many of them, upon bonds of peaceable living, and his Lo^ had pass'd 
 his word for his mother's chaplain, Gordon, and for Mr. And" Stewart,^? a good, loyal man, and a 
 moderate Minister (in covenanting times.) So they were not troubled, and therefore the obliged 
 and relaised came to pay their thanks unto his Lo^" (who was then, as heretofore, the most regarded 
 
 Stewart, Alex. Hutchinson, William Richardson, Gilbert 
 Kennedy, and James Gordon. They at first were put, or 
 pounded, in a narrow room at the top of the house, far 
 from friends or acquaintances, where they were in danger 
 of starving, but that God stirred up the heart of a woman 
 in the place, a stranger called Mrs. Clark, to Supply them 
 with necessaries. They were for a fortnight kept very 
 close, till they were advised by Mr. Francis Hamilton, an 
 officer of the company there, to write to my Lord Dungan- 
 non, who procured them the liberty of the town in the 
 daytime; they returning to their narrow room at night, 
 lying on the floor, four or five of them, as it were, in one 
 bed. . , . But the ministers' fears M'ere, within a little, 
 greatly alarmed, upon occasion of that passage, mentioned 
 before, of Mr. Boyd's discovering the coming of Blood and 
 Lecky to the North, and speaking to Mr. Greg and Mr. 
 Stewart about the plot. When this was known, about the 
 midst of July, 1663, orders were immediately sent to the 
 Governor of Carlingford to send these men to Dublin -with 
 a guard, and that in their coming thither, they should have 
 no access to one another, which was accordingly done. For, 
 after a month's imprisonment in Carlingford, where their 
 mutual society much sweetened their hard lot, these two 
 worthy brethren were taken from the rest, and separately, 
 without any intimation of anything to them, were sent by 
 two 'guards that same day to Dublin, and committed im- 
 mediately to very close prisons, among those who were 
 truly upon the plot, without, at first, any accommodation. 
 They did not see one another by the way coming, nor in 
 the prison till April following. After a few days they 
 were examined in the prison by the Earl of Mount- 
 Ale.xander and the Lord Dungannon, as to what access 
 they had to the plot." — True Narrativt', pp. 277, 278. Li 
 this examination Mr. Stewart freely confessed what had 
 passed between them and Blood at Newtown, being 
 warned by lord Massereene, through Adair himself, that 
 a candid confession would be the safer course. Mr. Greg, 
 who had not got the same advice, resolutely denied that 
 he had known anything of the plot, and was more severely 
 dealt with, by being kept in prison until the month of Marcli, 
 1664. Dr. Reid thinks (vol. ii. , p. 279, note) that the name 
 of Gilbert Kennedy, in the foregoing extract, is a mistake 
 for Gilbert Ramsay, the then minister at Bangor. In Pres- 
 byferian Loyalty, p. 381, Mr. Ramsay's name is inserted 
 where that of Mr. Kennedy is here introduced by Adair. 
 
 7* Dry turf-hogs. — At this time Jeremy Taylor, bishop 
 of Down and Connor, wrote several letters to the duke 
 of Ormond, about the movements of leading presby- 
 terian ministers in the county of Down. The following, 
 written from Portmore, on the 1 1 th of June, 1663, reveals, 
 
 to some extent, the tactics adopted by these pastors, after 
 their deposition in 1660 : — 
 
 " May it please your Grace, — I was visiting some parts of my 
 diocese, and found Mr. John Drysdale (presbyterian minister of 
 Portafcrry) newly come from Scotland, and busy in the place of his 
 own residence in former times. Within two days after my finding 
 him there, we had notice of the late presbyterian conspiracy which 
 the mercies of God and your grace's wisdom and diligence so happily 
 have discovered. I had nothing to charge him with, but because I had 
 vehement causes of suspicion, 1 caused him to give .^500 bond for his 
 appearance at two days' warning, not to depart without your grace's 
 leave, and for good behaviour in the mean time. My Lord Con- 
 way, Major Rawdon, and myself, had it in consideration whether he 
 ought to be sent up to your grace in Dublin, but because we had no 
 particular charge to send up with him, we humbly expect your grace's 
 pleasure and order concerning him. ISut I humbly beg leave of your 
 grace to say, that the late meetings of the pretended ministers, the 
 refractoriness of the people, and their mutinous talkings, the abode 
 of the ministers without any pretence of employment or estates 
 visibly to detain them in these parts, makes us all full of confidence 
 that, as long as their ministers are permitted amongst us, there shall 
 be a perpetual seminary of schism and discontents ; and that they 
 were all more than consenting to the late design. They are 
 now (as they think) very safe, and passed all danger, because 
 lliey are not yet inquired into ; but we still have Mas. John Greg, 
 Gordon, Wilson, Cunningham, and Ramsay, whose custom it 
 is as soon as they hear the people of any parish conformable, one or 
 two of iheni go thither and quarter upon them till they leave their 
 duty. They are here looked on as earnest and zealous parties 
 against the government. If it be your grace's pleastn-e that they 
 have the oath of supremacy tendered to tliem, and bonds of the good 
 behaviour taken of them, it will either drive them away or give a 
 reasonable account of them as long as they stay. Your grace hath 
 Leviston (Henry Livingston, minister of Drumbo), in your hands; 
 he is the most perverse and bitter enemy we have to the laws ; wc 
 hope here he will be better before your grace parts with him. God 
 of his mercy direct all your grace's counsels, and immure your person 
 from all enemies, and invest you with all honour; and continue to 
 your grace a healthful, and a fortunate, and a holy life. — Your 
 grace's most obedient and humble servant, 
 
 "Jerem. Dunensis." 
 — Heber's Life of Taylor, edited by Eden, p. ci. itotes. 
 In their humiliation, the presb)'terian ministers of the Ards 
 and Castlereagh were protected and befriended by the 
 lady of the second viscount Montgomery of Ards and the 
 countess of Clanbrassil. They gradually obtained a footing 
 throughout these districts once more, and soon began to 
 entertain hopes that the rebellion which was brewing in 
 Scotland, and which was crushed at Rullion Green, near 
 the Pentlands, in 1 666, might be the means of replacing 
 them in their former comparatively independent position. 
 
 ^^ Mr. Andw Stezvart. — At p. 283, of Trice Narrative, 
 Adair states that " Mr. Stewart, in November, after his im- 
 prisonment, having been sick in prison, and having some 
 special friend, got liberty to return to his house upon 
 bonds given to live amenably to the law — i.e., as was by 
 la\s'}'crs interpreted to him— only to answer the law if he 
 thought not fit to live conformably to everything in it." The 
 
240 
 
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 Scottish man in Ireland.) Most of them answered most ingeniously what he asked them in private: 
 others of them were dismissed upon bail, with this advice — sin no more lest worse things befal you. 7^ 
 His Lo^ got but few of his debts settled, or business (with tenants) done, tho' he had Ma'-Gen' 
 Monroe, myself, and other friends assistants, by reason of shoals of visitants, and the daily increase 
 of his distemper, w*" was plethorick; his liver was large and strong, and sent more blood to the 
 heart than it could vent fast enough (for his heart was wissened and shrivelled to less than it 
 sh"* be (occasioned by defect of the plurae) to preserve which f™ corruption, the lotion afores'' was 
 
 "special friend" — not named by Adair — was the earl of 
 Mount- Alexander, against whom Adair and other ministers 
 had denounced woe and desolation, at their meetings in 
 1649. The author, in the text, states that the earl had 
 "passed his word for his mother's chaplain, Gordon, and 
 for Mr. Andw Stewart." The latter died in 1671. Har- 
 ris states, Cminty of Dmoit, p. 66, that in the year 1744, 
 a tombstone in the churchyard of Donaghadee bore the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lyeth that Pious and Faithful servant of Jesus 
 Christ Mr Andrew Stewart, late minister of Donagha- 
 dee, who died the 2iitl of January, 1671, and of his 
 age the 46." 
 
 And under his arms are these Latin lines : — 
 
 " Vita pyohim, probitasque piutit, pietasque Beaium, 
 Laus celebrem, laiidi mens dedit esse pare>n. 
 Corpus humnm, mens Diapolum, Fama inclyta mundum, 
 Morte subit, decorat bmiine, iajide beat." 
 
 1^ Lest ivorse tilings hefalyou. — The following is Adair's 
 account of the troubles and subsequent liberation of presby- 
 terian ministers after tlie trial and execution of the ring- 
 leaders in Blood's plot — "After the duke (Ormond) had 
 settled the business concerning the plot in Dublin, he, with 
 the advice of the counsel, sent orders to the ministers of 
 the North, now at Carlingford and CaiTickfergus, that 
 either they must depart the kingdom, or go to prisons in 
 other places of Ireland, and tliat within a fortnight after 
 the order should come to their hands. The prisoners, 
 having these orders sent them, immediately sent a petition 
 to the Duke. But this petition, though presented to the 
 Duke by the noble Massareene, their lixed old friend, had 
 no return ; but the former order must be observed. The 
 brethren were, accordingly, in a great strait what to 
 choose. However, all of them, save two, Mr. Keyes and 
 Mr. John Cowthard, chose to depart the kingdom. Mr. 
 Keyes was sent to the town of Galway, and Mr. Cowthard 
 to Athlone, where they remained prisoners a consider- 
 able time. The rest generally went to Scotland, with a 
 pass from some Justices of the Peace in the country, and 
 yet not without bonds and surety given not to return with- 
 out leave. Those of Antrim who went were, Mr. Hall, 
 Mr. Crawford, Messrs. John and James Shaw; and of 
 Down, were, Mr. Drysdale, Mr. Ramsay, and Mr. 
 Wilson; where God provided for them to live comfortably 
 in a private station, and found there many friends beyond 
 their expectation. There were divers brethren interceded 
 for to the Duke, by persons of quality, to have liberty to 
 stay in the country in a private capacity. Mr. Adair had 
 the Duke's protection before. Mr. Robert Cunningliam 
 had a letter in his favour from my Lady Crawford Lind- 
 say, sister to Duke Hamilton, and an acquaintance of the 
 Duchess of Ormond. Mr. Gordon and Mr. Richardson 
 
 had liberty of abiding in the country-, through pro- 
 curing of my Lady Ards, mother of the Earl Mount- 
 Alexander, and the Countess of Clanbrasil : Mr. Hutchi- 
 son by my Lord Dungannon's intercession ; Mr. 
 Hamilton of Killead, and Mr. James Cunningham of 
 Antrim, were interceded for by my Lord Massareene and 
 his lady. Some other ministers of these two counties of 
 Down and Antrim had been out of the country, or out of 
 the way when the rest were apprehended, and now ab- 
 sconded. — Narrative, pp. 280, 281. Among the minis- 
 ters who "absconded" on this occasion was Thomas 
 Peebles of Dundonald. He fled to Scotland. Hugh 
 Montgomery, the seventh earl of Eglinton, wrote on his 
 behalf to the bishop of Down and Connor. The follow- 
 ing is a copy of the bishop's reply, which has been printed 
 in Eraser's Memorials, vol. i., pp. 313, 314, from the 
 original preserved at Eglinton castle : — 
 
 "Portmore, Decemb. 7, '63, (1663^ 
 "Mv HONOURED LORD — Your lordship was pleased to recommend 
 to me the case and person of Mr. Peebles, who though he lived three 
 yeares in my diocese, yet is a very great stranger to me, excepting by 
 report ; for he never vouchsafd, to come to me. However, your 
 lordship's recommendation of him to me is so effectual, that in what 
 is in my power your lordship hath power to command me. But I 
 assure your lordship he did not goefrom us upon the stock of his non- 
 conformity : neither was the hand of the bishop at all upon him ; but 
 because, upon the discovery of the late horrid conspiracy in Ireland, 
 some of his brethren were found to be too farre interested in it, and 
 the others were justly suspected, the Lord' Lieutenant and Council 
 thought fitt to secure divers of them ; yet with so much gentleness 
 and mercy, that it was left to their choice whether they would stay 
 in Ireland or no. If I mistake not Mr Peebles would not appeare, 
 nor come in. but of his accord went away. Now for his return 
 hither, 1 1 speak to a person of honour and gre.it reason^ your lord- 
 ship knowes I have nothing to doe in it, uniesse your lordshifj shal 
 please to command me to represent it to his Grace, my lord duke of 
 Ormond, which command, if I shal receive from your lordship, I will 
 most faithfully obey it. My lord, I wish to your lordship all honour 
 and prosperity, and am, my honoured lord, Your lordships most 
 faithful humble servant. 
 
 "Jerem. Dunensis." 
 "To the right honourable the Earle of Eglintoun 
 at Montgomeriestoun. These humbly present." 
 
 Whether the earl of Eglinton wrote to the bishop to in- 
 tercede with the duke of Ormond is uncertain; but Mr. 
 Peebles returned, and died seven years subsequently, in 
 the charge of Dundonald, then including Holj'wood. In 
 1670, the year of Mr. Peebles' death, Adair states, p. 
 293, that "it was overtured that the Synod's act anent 
 reviewing the Presbytery's books should be put in practice; 
 but most of these books were lost through the tossings and 
 distemper of an honest, worthy brother, Mr. Thomas 
 Peebles, clerk to the Synod." In noticing this minister's 
 death, Adair speaks of him, at p. 300, as "a man learned 
 and faithful, eminent in tlie languages and histoiy." — See 
 also Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. i., 
 p. 356. vol. ii., pp. 42. 304. 
 
Tn^i Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 241 
 
 used every morning and at bedtime, by injection at the orifice with seringe) and this surcharge 
 of blood upon the heart caused the swimming and obfuscation in his brain (wh*" in itself had no 
 fault the abundance thereof) and made him drowsy every 3'' and 4th hour. The first remedy was 
 to let his veins often breath out part of that superfluous mass of rarefied blood; but Primrose,^° the 
 Belfast apothecary, (who practised physick) understood not the matter, and was timorous to tamper 
 in that case. Wherefore his Lo^ hasted back to Dublin, and (by the way) died in his bed at 
 Dromore®^ the 15th night of September, 1663: the next morning Dr. Gray (who had been sent for) 
 averred, that if his Lo'' had often been bled in several veins, and his blood sweetened and thickened, 
 it had not gushed out (as it did divers times) at his nose, nor so oppressed his brain making it 
 giddy and his eyes to be bemisted. This D''. disembowelled and embalmed him, and being well 
 searclothed corded and coffined, his corpse (now no man) bro* back in his coach to Newtown. 
 Qtds talia fando temperet a lachrymis, for the sight or news of the loss of so great and good a man 
 might have brought tears even from Oliver's mirmidons.^^ The 16* day (before it was light) I 
 took horse for Dublin, and met Cap'. Hu. Montgomery's at Dundalk; he had gone f" Newtown 
 
 79 With seringe. — See pp. 152, 153, supra. 
 
 ^° Primrose. — The editor is unable to find the name of 
 this apothecary on any printed list of the inhabitants of 
 Belfast in the seventeenth century. This surname occurs 
 at an earlier date in Carrickfergus. 
 
 At Dromore. — The earl had thus only travelled 
 fourteen miles from Mount-Alexander on his way to 
 Dublin. 
 
 Oliver's mirmidons. — Although Cromwell and the 
 commonwealth had passed away, the Cromwellian interest 
 was rampant in the Irish house of commons after the Re- 
 storation, and was but feebly held in check by the house 
 of lords, of which the deceased earl had been a very dis- 
 tinguished member. By " Oliver's mirmidons" the Act 
 of Settlement was forced upon the country with only a 
 few slight modifications made by the house of lords. 
 Before this wholesale confiscation was finally accomplished, 
 however, there were manyfierce debates between the houses 
 of lords and commons, duringwhich a deputation from each 
 was appointed to proceed to London, and appeal, on its 
 own grounds, to the king in council. The following is 
 Carte's account of these movements: — "The sentiments 
 of the two Houses with regard to the matters to be given 
 in cha'-ge to their respective Commissioners, were so veiy 
 different, that though they were all upon the same common 
 subjects, yet except the first which required them to attend 
 upon his Majesty, and lay before him the desires of his 
 Parliament, there was not any one article in which there 
 was not some difference in the Instructions of the Houses. 
 The Commons were so incensed, either at this difference, 
 or at the choice of Commissioners, that they would not 
 for a long time agree to any applotment for defraying the 
 expenses of those of the Lords, and used all possible 
 endeavours to obstruct their journey ; so that the last day 
 of the session came before the difficulties of that affair 
 were removed, by the Lords being tenacious of their pur- 
 pose, and resolving to send them at any rate. A Com- 
 mittee of twelve Lords, whereof Lord Aungier was 
 chai:man, being appointed by the House to draw up In- 
 structions for their Commissioners, and the King's 
 Peclaration and Instructions falling under their considera- 
 
 tion, a great debate arose on that occasion, how far it 
 was proper to desire they might be pursued. It appeared 
 plainly that his Majesty's intentions therein were not 
 practicable, there not being lands sufficient to provide for 
 all the interests intended to be secured. The question 
 was, which of those interests should be preferred, upon 
 which the members being much divided. Lord Mont- 
 gomery (first earl of Mount-Alexander) ofl"ered a reconcil- 
 ing expedient ; proposing that the agents might represent 
 to his Majestyt heir sense and desires that if it fell out that 
 the lands not yet disposed of should not amount to the 
 satisfaction of the several respective interests, for which his 
 Majesty was to provide in his Declaration, then there might 
 be an equal and proportionable defalcation out of every 
 reprizable interest for the just accommodation of the 
 whole, they conceiving his Majesty's honour equally con- 
 cerned in the performance of his royal promise to each 
 interest. This was disputed for some time, and the 
 debate being resumed, the next day eight of the com- 
 missioners agreed to it ; but the Lords Barrimore and 
 Shannon running out, though desired to stay, the Com- 
 mittee (which had not power to do anything, unless nine 
 were present) could come to no resolution. When the 
 affair came on again, great opposition was made to the 
 expedient, and no art was omitted by those in power to 
 prevent its being accepted ; so that the Lords who were 
 fit for it, fancying they might obtahi what they aimed at 
 (his Majesty's service), in another manner proposed 
 another to this effect, that the Declaration should be 
 recommended to the Agents, to be laid at his Majesty's 
 feet, to do therein as to his judgment and mercy should 
 seem meet; which was agreed to unanimously." — Life of 
 Ormonde, vol. ii., pp. 229, 230. Mount- Alexander's 
 expedient was virtually adopted, and was found, in some 
 measure, to meet the great difficulty of the case. 
 
 *3 Capi. hu. Montgomery. — See p. 198, supra. This 
 officer was eldest son of Mr. James Montgomery, curate 
 of Newtown, and was for many years an inmate in the 
 household of the deceased earl. He subsequently built a 
 residence at Ballymagown, now Springvale, where he died. 
 The author has given a lengthened notice of him, in a 
 
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 on the 12"" day early, because of his Lo'"'' hopeless condition, and was bringing D' Fitzwilliams, 
 which being now needless, the returned when he thought fit. I rode on well mounted, and 
 was with the Countess about 8 o'clock that night, and left her in tears, I sympathizing with her 
 good LaP. The 17*'' I left town as soon as I could sod the roads, and went to the D. at Kilkenny^* 
 before night (and ere he had heard the sad news from any other;) his Grace was heartily sorry. I 
 made supplication (and added reason to it) that the troop might be reserved for the young Earle as 
 his support, and showed a precedent, but it could not be done. His Grace desired to know 
 wherein he could place respect upon myself. I thanked him, and said if he pleased he w^ com- 
 mend me to his Lo^ Chancellor, that I might have the office of Custos Rotulorum Pacis in our 
 county, now vacant by the Earle's death: for, as his deputy, I had taken pains to regulate it The 
 letter was signed by his Grace next morning, and I had it when I came to receive his comm'. I 
 had not made this unprofitable request, but that it disgusts grandees to make offer of service in 
 vain; as I was not prepared to take a better thing. However it was an honour put upon me, a 
 
 separate memoir, in which he states that Capt. Hu. Mont- 
 gomery was generally named My Lord's Hugh, from 
 having lived so long in the first earl's family. 
 
 D. at Kilkemiy.- — Kilkenny castle, the principal resi- 
 dence of the Ormond family, was put into magnificent repair 
 after the Restoration. An English gentleman, named 
 Thomas Dineley, who visited Ireland in the year 1681, 
 entered in his yoiiriml the following notice of this noble 
 residence : — "His Paternall chiefe seat is ye Castle of Kil- 
 kenny . . . famous for spacious Roomes, Galleries, 
 Halls, adorned with paintings of great Masters, Bowling 
 green, Gardens, Walks, Orchards, and a delightfull Watei'- 
 house adjoining to the B. green, which with an Engine of 
 curious artifice by thelielp of one horse funiisheth all the 
 offices of the Castle with that necessary Element. This 
 Waterhouse hath a plen'-:!nt Mimmer banquetting Room, 
 floor'd and lin'd with white and black marble, which 
 abounds here, with a painted slcye roof w'h Angells, in 
 this is seen a fountain of black marble in the shape of a 
 large cup, with a ject d'eau or throw of water in the 
 middle ariseing mounts into the hollow of a Ducall 
 Crown, which but hangs over it, and descends again at 
 severall droping-places round. " Dunton, a London 
 bookseller, who visited Ireland during the time of the 
 second duke of OiTnond, has the following notice of the 
 castle: — "I came to Kilkenny on Friday night, in Sep- 
 tember, 1698, and the next morning the doctor carried 
 me to view the Castle, the noble seat of the Duke of Or- 
 mond. Indeed, the alcove chamber, and Dutchess's 
 closet, &c. , well deserve a large description ; but, leaving 
 these noble apartments, I must say, that adjoining is a 
 great window that gave us a view of the private garden of 
 pleasure, I think finer than the Privy Garden at White- 
 hall, or any walk I had ever seen Leaving 
 
 this noble dining-room, we ascended two pair of stairs, 
 which brought us into a gallery, which for length, variety 
 of gilded chairs, and the curious pictures that adorn it, 
 has no equal in the three kingdoms, or, perhaps not in 
 Europe — so that this castle may properly be called the 
 Elysium of Ireland." — yournal oj Ihe Kilkenny and North- 
 Hast of Ireland Archeeclogical Society, new series, vol. iv., 
 pp. 104, 105. 
 
 ^5 A better thing. — The following letter from the seventh 
 earl of Eglinton to the duke of Ormond implies that the 
 author's circumstances, at this particular crisis, might have 
 dictated some more substantial mark of his grace's favour. 
 This letter, written about two months subsequently to the 
 author's visit to the duke, as mentioned in the text, is 
 preserved at Eglinton Castle, and was printed in Eraser's 
 Me/norials, vol. i., p. 312: — 
 
 " Montgomristoune, 23rd Nov., 1663. 
 " May it pleass your grace, — Thos de\v acknowledgments 
 being first premitted wch I owe to the multitude of your extraordi- 
 nary favouris cast upon me, I cannot but confess that since my last 
 to your grace I have a great loss in the death of my nobill and gene- 
 rous cussinge, Mount-Alexander. And it is more nor dowbled in 
 that he was a gentilman indewed with all such qualifications 
 as made him usfuU to his kinge and countrie, both in peace and 
 warr. Bot I hope as he was ever readie to extend to all, were 
 it to the sacrifficinge of his life, in his, prince's ser^Mce ; soe it will 
 pleass his Majestic to cast a gratious and favorable aspect upon 
 his posteritie, especially my younge lord. And your grace haveing 
 in your power both to obtaine from his Majestic in his favouris, and 
 to doe him good your selfe, I wholly rely upon and beg your grace's 
 favour for him, who being the son of such a father, I doubt not bot 
 one day he will remember of benefite or favor put upon him, and 
 have resentments sutable to the qualitie of his recepts. In the mean 
 tyme, iff his M.ajesties intrest in these partes call for persons of fide- 
 liiie ami activitie to be subsarviant to your grace's designes, I doe, 
 with much confidence, recommend to your grace my late lord's 
 brother-in-law, William Montgomery, Esq., son and aire to Sir 
 James, who your grace knows was much in favor with his Majestic 
 and his royall father upon the accomptof his adheringe to, and great 
 sufferings for the royall intrest. I know he is principled truly loj'all. 
 Hes partes are more nor ordinarie ; beinge, besides what he owes to 
 nature, much polished in his educatione at home and abroad. 
 Though occation yet never offered (being bot about scooles duringe 
 our troubles) to bringe them on the stage. His first essayes hes 
 bean in his prince's sar\'ice in the pursute of some of the laite 
 plotters to his kingdome by his information to me, and had bene 
 very successful if bot a little more earlie, consideringe he lyes upon 
 the shore towards this kingdome, where, by resson of his intrest 
 in me, he hes a multitude of freinds ; and the respect he hes from 
 all Montalexander's relations, being on of his neerest kinsmen. 
 Your grace's countinance will exceadmglie fitt him for imployment, 
 whether it be for intelligence, ore any other trust he shall be honored 
 with. I know he was a grett sufferer upon his Majestie's accqmpt : 
 most of his lands beinge given away by the late usurper, which he 
 was necessitated for a present livlyhood to repurchase witli deben- 
 tures ; and if it was not by this I more mynd the good of his Ma- 
 jestie's sarvice than the restoringe of a kinsman, 1 would beg of your 
 grace that he might be remembred in what dealinge of these lands 
 hall be at his Majestie's disposall, and are to be allowed for reprysall 
 
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 private Gent", to have patent for that office, which is always conferred on the primest Peer or 
 discerningest Nobleman in the county; so that I believe that fav' had no precedent. I had not 
 seen the children, wherefore I returned a great part of the way on the i8*\ and came to Dublin the 
 19** day, and stayed with them three days, consulting the L*^ Ranelagh^^ and the sorrowful 
 Countess; leaving the care of sending as his Lo^" sh^ think fit. I stayed a night at Millifont, and 
 conferred with his Lo*" Vise' Moore,^? who said he w'* advise with the Lords Ranelagh and Charle- 
 mont^^ about the young Earle's affairs ; and now his Lo^, our Earle, and his brother being put in 
 mourning, followed to Millifont, and thence to M' Alexander with their conveniency. 
 
 to the value of what he gave out for the redemption of his own. It 
 will render him the more able to sarve your grace. Bot I know his 
 own accomplishments, upon tryell, will recomend him more to your 
 f;race then my pen. I therefore leave him upon that generositie 
 wher with I know your grace useth to gratiJie men of merite ; and 
 shall add no more bot to assure your grace that what of respect or 
 fauor is done him, I will take it as done to your grace's most humble 
 and devoted servitor." 
 
 This letter was written from the earl's residence known as 
 Montgomerieston, which was situated between the town of 
 Ayr and the sea, close upon the shore. To this residence 
 belonged the site of the churchyard and surrounding ground, 
 about eleven acres in extent, originally attached to the 
 ancient church of St. John of Ayr. In 1652, the churchyard 
 and its adjoining space were taken by Cromwell's forces 
 and enclosed as a fortification, Cromwell giving the town 
 
 a thousand merks to build a new church. " At the Re- 
 storation, the earl of Eglinton obtained a grant of the 
 fortification, including the ancient church of St. John, 
 under the designation of Montgomerieston, with all the 
 privileges of a burgh of regality conferred upon it." — 
 Paterson's Obit Book of Ayr, p. xi. 
 
 Ld. Ranelagh. — Brother-in-law to the deceased earl. 
 See p. 230, supra. 
 
 Aloore. — Brother of the deceased earl's first lady, and 
 uncle to the young earl. See p. 204, supra. 
 
 ^ Ckar/emont.—yNi\\\3.n\ Caulfeild, first lord Charle- 
 mont, who had married the lady Sarah Moore, and was, 
 therefore, uncle by marriage to the boy who now had be- 
 come second earl of Mount-Alexander. — Lodge, Peerage 
 of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. iii., p. 146. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 REPARATIONS were making at Dublin in blacks, torches, and scutcheons, &c. to be 
 sent into the country by the order of the Lords and Countess, in which Cap' Hu. Mon"^' 
 (then clerk of the stores) and Cap* Hu. M'Gill, controller thereof (both of them so 
 advanced by the late Earle's fav" and kindness)^ were at hand and busy (all their pains cou'd not 
 be called officiousness) to advise and see the premises gott together and sent by the carriers, and I 
 was near Newtown ready (and present at a call) to see things done as advice by post from 
 Dublin. The funeral geare and provisions for entertainment being laid and the day appointed, I 
 drew the forms of the cannon (and of the more especial invitatory) letters to the funeral, w*" were 
 transcribed and indorsed as the s* two Captains directed, and the letter to the was left to my 
 care: therefore, I wrote and sent an express with it, w'' prayed that Right Rev** Lop would be 
 pleased to preach the sermon; but his Right Rev* Lo^ excused himself,^ and sent D'' Rust, whose 
 
 ' Capi. Hu. Monry.—See note 83, suj>ra. 
 
 " Capt. Hu. iJ/'G^///.— Second son of Mr. David M'Gill, 
 curate of Greyabbey. See p. 123, supra. 
 
 3 Favrs and kindness. — These appointments were in 
 the late earl's hands as master of ordnance. 
 
 ♦ Excused himself.— ^evamy Taylor was promoted to 
 the see of Down and Connor, by letters patent, dated 
 the 19th January, l65o; and on the 2lst of June, l65l, 
 the king granted him also the administration of the see of 
 Dromore. Before these good things appeared, however, 
 even in prospect, he had substantial inducements to come 
 to Ulster. " Whatever reluctance Taylor may have felt," 
 says Heber, "to remove to such a distance from his Eng- 
 lish friends, was overcome, however, by the prospects held 
 out in the countiy to which he was destined. Dr. (after- 
 wards Sir William) Petty, whose survey of Ireland by the 
 command of government had made him abundantly and 
 most profitably skilled in the extent and value of the for- 
 feited lands, offered to procure him a purchase on very 
 advantageous terms, and recommended him by letter to 
 several persons of talent and influence in that kingdom." 
 — Bishop Heber's Life of Jeremy Taylor, edited by 
 Rev. C. P. Eden, p. Ixxix. Very different estimates 
 of Taylor were formed, by different parties, in his 
 own time. The following is Dr. Rust's opinion, who 
 preached a funeral sermon on the occasion of the 
 bishop's death: — "This great prelate had the good 
 humour of a gentleman, the eloquence of an orator, the 
 fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a school-man, the pro- 
 foundness of a philosopher, the wisdom of a counsellor, the 
 sagacity of a prophet, the reason of an angel, and the 
 piety of a saint ; he had devotion enough for a cloister, 
 
 learning enough for an university, and vni enough for a col- 
 lege of virtuosi ; and, had his parts and endowments been 
 parcelled out among his poor clergy that he left behind 
 him, it would perhaps have made one of the best dioceses 
 in the world." — Heber's Z//^ of 7(y'/(7;-, 'edited by Rev. C. 
 P. Eden, p. cccxxvii. Here is a different picture, presented 
 by Adair, in his True Narrative, -pi^. 244, 245 : — "There 
 was set in the Bishoprick of Down and Connor, one Dr. 
 Taylor, a man pretending civility and some courteous 
 carriage, especially before his advancementj but whose 
 principles were contrary to Presbyterians — not only in the 
 matter of government, modes of worship and discipline, 
 but also in doctrine. He had sucked in the dregs of 
 much of Popery, Socinianism, and Arminianism, and 
 was a heart enemy, not only to Nonconfonnists, but to 
 the Orthodox." These charges against Taylor arose pro- 
 bably from the following passage in one of his visitation 
 sermons: "What good can come from that which fools 
 begin, and wise men can never end but by silence? and 
 that had been the best way at first, and would have stifled 
 in the cradle. What have your people to do whether Christ's 
 body be in the sacrament by consubstantiation, or transub- 
 stantiation ; whether purgatory be in the centre of the 
 earth, or in the air, or anywhere, or no where ? and who 
 but a madman would trouble their heads with the en- 
 tangled links of the fantastic chain of predestination?" — 
 Taylor's Works, vol. vi., p. 523, London, 1822, as quoted 
 by Dr. Killen in Adair's Narrative, p. 249, note. The 
 following is the concluding paragraph of Coleridge's well- 
 known parallel between Milton and Taylor, in his Apo- 
 logetic Preface to Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: — "Dif- 
 fering then so widely, and almost contrariendy, wherein 
 
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 discourse on that occasion was printed and distributed by the Countess her order (as I beHeve, the 
 other expences for the premises were also at her cost.)5 Yet the kindred and gentry furnished 
 themselves and servants in mournings without charge to the family. The Hon' Col, Cromwell,^ 
 
 did these great men agree? In genius, in learning, in 
 unfeigned piety, in blameless purity of life, and in bene- 
 volent aspirations and purposes for the moral and tempo- 
 ral improvement of their fellow-creatures. Both of them 
 wrote a Latin accidence, to render education less painful 
 to children ; both of them composed hymns and psalms 
 proportioned to the capacity of common congregations ; 
 both, nearly at the same time, set the glorious example of 
 publicly recommending and supporting general toleration, 
 and the liberty both of the pulpit and the press ! In the 
 writings of neither shall we find a single sentence like 
 those meek deliverances to God's mercy \\'ith whicli Laud 
 accompanied his votes for the mutilations and loathsome 
 dungeoning of Leighton and others ! — nowhere such a 
 pious prayer as we find in Bishoji Hall's vieinoranda of 
 his own life, concerning the subtle and witty atheist that 
 so grievously perplexed and gravelled him at Sir Robert 
 Drury's, till he prayed to the Lord to remove him. And 
 behold ! his prayers were heard ; for shortly afterwards, 
 this Philistine-combatant went to London, and there per- 
 ished of the plague, in great misery ! In short, nowhere 
 shall we find the least approach, in the lives and writings 
 of John Milton or Jeremy Taylor, to that guarded gentle- 
 ness, to that sighing reluctance, with which the holy 
 bjethren of the inquisition deliver over a condemned 
 heretic to the civil magistrate, recommending him to 
 mercy, and hoping that the magistrate will treat the erring 
 brother with all possible mildness ! — the magistrate who 
 too well knows what would be his own fate, if he dared 
 offend them by acting on their recommendation. " — Heber's 
 Life of Jeremy Taylor, edited by the Rev. C. P. Eden, 
 p. cccxxx. Samuel Rutherford, a presbyterian minister, 
 and professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews, 
 attacked the principle of toleration on which Taylor 
 founded his noble work entitled The Liberty of Prophesy- 
 ing. Rutherford published his book in 1649, under the 
 title of A Free Disputation against Pretended Liberty of 
 Conscience. This work is perhaps the ' ' most elaborate 
 defence of persecution which has ever appeared in a pro- 
 testant country. He justifies it from the law of natui-e, 
 the Mosaic law, the analogy of the Christian religion, 
 the practice of the patriarchs and godly princes of old 
 time ; the prophecies which foretel that the kings which 
 have sometimes served the Babylonian harlot, shall, on 
 their repentance, burn her with fire, and eat her flesh ; 
 and the commandment of S. John, that a true believer is 
 not to say God speed to a false teacher. They who con- 
 demn the burning of Servetus, would have condemned, 
 he tells us, on the same principle, the slaughter of the 
 priests of Baal." — Heber's Life of Taylor, edited by Eden, 
 notes, p. cclxi. At page 20 of his Free Disputation, 
 Rutherford says — " We hold that toleration of all religions 
 is not farre from blasphemy." "If wolves be permitted 
 to teach what is right in their own erroneous conscience, 
 and there be no 'magistrate to put them to shame,' and 
 no king to punish them, then godlinesse and all that 
 concerns the first Table of Law must be marred. " — P. 230. 
 "Wilde and atheisticall liberty of conscience." — P. 337. 
 
 " Cursed tolleration." — P. 400. The same intolerance 
 was taught as distinctly, though not so elaborately, by 
 most other leading Scottish preachers. Baillie, when in 
 London, in 1645, writes — "The Independents here plead 
 for a tolleration both for themselves and other sects. My 
 Dissuasive is come in time to doe service here. We hope 
 God will assist us to remonstrate the wickedness of such 
 an tolleration. " Because the independents inculcated cha- 
 rity towards such as differed from them in opinion, Baillie 
 describes them as having the "least zeall to the truth of 
 God of any men we know." — Letters and Journals, vol. 
 ii., pp. 328, 361. See also Dickson's Truth's Victory 
 over Erj'or, pp. 159, 163, 199-202; Abernethy's /"/yj-Z^/^if 
 for the Soule, p. 215 ; Durham's Exposition of the Song of 
 Solomon, p. 147; Durham's Cotnmentarie, pp. 141, 143, 
 330; Shield's Hiiul let Loose, p. 168 j Continuation of 
 Blair's Autobiography, p. 213. 
 
 5 At her cost. — Dr. Worthington, when writing to his 
 friend S. Hartlib, in 1661, says — "Mr. Rust (whom Mr. 
 Brereton knows, and you know him by his MS.), is going 
 over into Ireland, to be Dean of Downe, being invited 
 thither by Dr. Taylor, the bishop; and Mr. Marsh (some- 
 time my pupil, and a fellow of Caius College) is there 
 already, and made Dean of Armagh. They are both ex- 
 cellent persons, and preferred to these places by the care 
 of the above-named bishop. " — Diaiy of Dr. John Worth- 
 ington, p. 301, as quoted by C. P. Eden, in Heber's Life 
 of Taylor, p. cix. , note. George Rust was never dean of 
 IDown; but on coming to Ulster, he was appointed to the 
 deanery of Connor, by letters patent, dated the 3rd of 
 August, 1661, and on the 7tli of June, 1662, he was pre- 
 sented to the rectory of Island Magee. After the death of 
 Taylor, he was made bishop of Dromore, on the 8th of 
 November, 1667. Dr. Rust died of fever, in December, 
 1670, and was buried in the choir of the cathedral of 
 Dromore, in the same vault with his friend and patron, 
 Jeremy Taylor. Earl Conway, on hearing of Dr. Rust's 
 death, writes thus to his brolher-in-law, sir George Raw- 
 don : — -"Just now I have received your letters of the 26 
 past, and 6th instant, with the unspeakable sad news to 
 me of my Lord of Dromore's death. My letter to my 
 Lord of Dromore, was enclosed in a letter to you, and the 
 directions were Avithin his letter, wrapt about Van 
 Helmont's medicine, which "Mould certainly have recovered 
 him. " — ( Raiudoii Papers. ) Rust was the author of a 
 short Treatise on Truth, which was probably the MS. to 
 which Dr. Worthington refers in the extract above quoted. 
 Llis sermon on the death of Taylor was also printed. 
 Ware's Works, foL, vol. i., p. 266. It is reprinted in the 
 Appendix to Heber's Life. Of Dr. Rust, bishop Heber 
 says. Life of Taylor, edited by C. P. Eden, p. cix. — " It 
 is remarkalsle that the preacher himself, though an eminent 
 person in his day, and though his friend Glanvill has ex- 
 tolled him as a profound divine, a powerful orator, and an 
 admirable philosopher, is now chiefly, if not altogether, 
 recollected through his accidental connexion with the more 
 illustrious memory of his predecessor." 
 
 * Honl Col. Cromwell. — See p. 218, supra. 
 
 K I 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Major-Gen' Monroe, S' Arthur Chichester^ and S' John Skeffington,^ and many other gen' neigh- 
 bours and officers out of Clanbrasirs9 and L"' Conway's'" estates (whose names are lost, and not in 
 
 7 Arthur Chichester. — Grand-nephew of the first sir 
 Arthur. The sir Arthur here mentioned, as attending the 
 funeral, was son of John Chichester of Dungannon, and 
 Mary, youngest daughter of Roger Jones, first viscount 
 Ranelagh. He became second earl of Donegall, on the 
 death of his uncle, at Belfast, in March 1674. In 1661, 
 he was member for Dungannon, and in i658, he was 
 appointed clerk of the pipe and chief ingrosser of ex- 
 chequer. In 1672, he obtained a reversionary grant to 
 succeed his uncle in the government of Carrickfergus, and, 
 in 1675, was made ciistos rotuloriint for the counties of 
 Antrim and Donegal. He lived until after 1692, as, in 
 that year, he was a member of king William's parliament. 
 — Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. i. , p. 336. 
 
 ^ Sr John Skejffingtoii.— The fifth baronet of his family. 
 He married Mary, only daughter and heir to sir John 
 Clotworthy of Antrim, first viscount Massereene, by his 
 wife Margaret, eldest daughter of Roger Jones, first 
 viscount Ranelagh. In the parliament commencing in 
 May, 1661, and ending in August, 1666, sir John Skef- 
 fington represented the county of Antrim. In the year 
 last-mentioned he was appointed custos rotuloriim for the 
 county of Londonderry, and on the death of his father-in- 
 law, in 1686, he succeeded to the titles and estates of the 
 latter as second viscount Massereene. — Lodge, Peerage of 
 Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. ii., pp. 377-9 
 
 9 ClanbrasiVs. — Henry, second earl of Clanbrassil, 
 succeeded in 1659 to the family title and estates. 
 
 " Z'^ Conway's estates. — See pp. 154, 155, supra. This 
 was Edward, viscount Conway of Aberconway and Kill- 
 ultagh, and barnn Conway of Ragley, created earl of Con- 
 way, in the county of Carnarvon, in 1679. He died in 
 1683. Earl Conway's lands (now the Hertford estates) 
 include the eleven parishes of Blaris, Lambeg, Derri- 
 aghy, Magheragall, Magheramesk, Aghalee, Aghagallon, 
 Ballinderry, Glenavy, Camlin, and Tullyrusk. These 
 estates extend sixteen miles in length, from Clogher and 
 Ballymullen hills, in the county of Down, to Hog Park 
 Point on Loughneagh, in the county of Antrim ; and ten 
 miles in breadth, from the town of Moira, to the 
 village of Crumlin. They remain unchanged in their 
 original vast dimensions, "embracing in a ring fence," 
 says the Rev. Dr. Reeves, " the whole barony of Upper 
 Massereene, with small adjacent portions of Upper Bel- 
 fast and Castlereagh. " — Proceedings of the Royal Irish 
 Academy, vol. vii., p. 483. Lisburn (formerly Lisnagar- 
 vey) is the largest town on these estates, and took its 
 present form in the reign of James I., being rebuilt and 
 generally improved by certain Welsh and English settlers 
 who (with few exceptions) came with sir Fulk Con- 
 way. In its renovated state, Lisburn consisted of just 
 fifty-two respectable houses, occupied by the following 
 tenants, viz., Henry Cloughanson, John Norris, John 
 O'Murray, Thomas Date, Simon Batterfield (Butterfield?) 
 John Slye, John Golly (Gawly), Hugh Montgomerie, 
 Marmaduke Dobbs, Richard Dobbs, Thomas Paston, 
 John Tippen, Steven Richardson, Christopher Calvert, 
 Ann Morgan, George Rose, Edward Steward, Henric 
 Wilson, Robert Browne, William Averne, John Dilworth, 
 Katherine Bland, George Davis, John Savage, Jerome 
 Cartwright, Robert Taylor, Symon Richardson, Humph- 
 
 rey Dash, William Smith, John M'Nilly, Askuhe Stanton, 
 Henric Hollcote, Francis Burke, Thomas Symonson, 
 Richard Howie, John Houseman, Patrick Palmer, Robert 
 Warton, William Cubbage, John Aprichard, Owen 
 Aphugh, Antonie Stotthard, John Mace, Humfrj- Leech, 
 Richard Walker, Henric Freeboume, Edward Gould- 
 smith, Robert Bones, William Edwards, Peter O'Mullred, 
 and a second John O'Murray. Other settlers afterwards 
 came to this district from England and Wales, in the time 
 of lord (aftenvards earl) Conway mentioned in the text. 
 Among these, the leading surnames were Gresham, Audis, 
 Thurkilld (Torkill, now Turtle), Entwistle, Higginson, 
 Hastings, Waring, Close, Wolfenden, Mussen, Bullmer, 
 Bunting, Blizard, Gwilliams, Haddock, Peers, ^^^leeler, 
 Breathwaite, Bamsley, Carleton, Conway, Garrett, 
 Bennett, Gregory, Waters, ^^^lite, Pearce, Grainger, 
 Willis, Shillington, Hammond, Moore, Smyth, Richard- 
 son, Clark, Hopes, Peel, Bicket, Lamb, Flodgkinson, 
 Carter, Courtney, Weatherhead, Oakman, Ravenscroft, 
 Fairis, Hall, .Sefton, Bell, Rogers, Hancock, Culson, 
 Darby, Shepherd, Durham, Spencer, Walkington, Man- 
 son, Friar, Davis, Cinnainond, Casemont, Harrison, 
 Gregg, Whittle, Clements, Hull, Watson, Brooks, Greer, 
 Gayer, Rossbotham, Hudson, Rusk, Chapman, Norton, 
 &c. See Johnston's Heterogenea, p. 92, et seq. The fol- 
 lowing is sir William Brereton's brief notice, in 1635, of the 
 improvements made by the Conway family at Lisburn : — 
 "From Bell-fast to Linsley Garven is about 7 mile, and is 
 a paradise in comparison of any part of Scotland. Linsley 
 Garven is well seated, butt neither the Towne nor the 
 Countrie thereabouts well planted. This To\\Tie belongs 
 to my L: Conovvay, who hath there a good hansome House, 
 but farr short of both my L : Chich : Houses, and this 
 House is seated uppon an Hill, uppon the side whereof is 
 planted a Garden and Orchard, and att the bottome of 
 wch Hill runnes a pleasant river, wch abounds wth Salmon. 
 Here aboutes, my Lord Conowayis endeavoureing a Plan- 
 tation ; though the land hereaboutes be the poorest and 
 barrenest I have yett seen, yett may itt bee made good land 
 wth labour and chargd." — Ulster Jotirnal of ArcJiceology, 
 vol. i., p. 250. Earl Conway resided occasionally on 
 his Irish estates, and devoted himself very much to 
 their improvement. He built a substantial and elegant 
 castle at Lisburn which was burned in 1 707, and 
 never rebuilt. He also built a castle at Portmore, 
 on the shore of Loughbeg, adjouiing Lough Neagh, 
 in 1664, which was still more magnificent than the 
 mansion at Lisburn, and which, with its stables and 
 other buildings (excepting the walls enclosing the bowling 
 green and gardens), was pulled do^vnr in the year 1 761. 
 The deer-park connected with the grounds contained one 
 thousand acres, and so late as 1770, was well stored with 
 deer, and literally swarmed with hares, rabbits, pheasants, 
 jays, and turkeys. — Johnston's Heterogenea, p. 100. 
 Earl Conway's letters to his brother-in-law, sir George 
 Raw don of Moira, express the writer's desire to introduce 
 all useful and ornamental productions to his parks and 
 lakes in Killultagh. Writing from Ragley, in July, 1665, 
 he says — "I have advised with Garrett about the hemp- 
 seed, and he thinks, considering he cannot go into 
 Flanders because of the sickness, it may be provided in 
 
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 the following lists) assisted at the obsequies, as also did the s'' CoP own troop and the defunct's, 
 which horsemen (at the inhuming of the corpse) did fire three volleys, and the time thereof being 
 adjusted with the gunners in Dublin, the ordnance on the castle and custom-house quay gave three 
 peals about the same instant, so his Lo'' was layed in peace in his grave within the chancel of the 
 church, to sleep and rest with his R*. Hoiib' father and grandfather and grandmother afores"", and 
 some of his brothers and sisters, who died before the rebellion." The chief of the gentry (w** came 
 to the burrial) dined with the Earl in the parlour, and the rest in the dining-room or with the 
 steward and seneschal at their tables, and others in the common hall; which done, I gave the 
 following order (or marshalling methods) for the procession unto the four captains (bearers of the 
 bannerells) hereafter named, desiring them to see it done accordingly, the same being consonant to 
 the rules of heraldry, leaving the ranking of the inferior people to their own discretion. The 
 corpse being taken down the stairs by the gate-house entry as daylight was gone, and the torches 
 and flambeaux being lighted and the procession ready to march, — the names of the chief persons 
 who stay with the Earl and his brother were called in the order they were to go, and they went to 
 their several posts; and the Earle, attended by next of kin and family, repaired to the coffin and 
 (a signal being given to move) they walked leisurely in due distance. In the first place. Col. 
 Cromwell and his troop (whereof Maj''. Sam'. Stewart" was Lieutenant) ; then the defunct's troops, 
 their Lieutenant leading them, marched with their trumpets, banners and standards in mourning 
 and folded, sound Chancel Wail. The rest went into the church. Then followed the procession 
 walking from the gate-house into the street, which is on the south side of the School-house hill, and 
 so onwards to the north side of the Market-cross, ^3 and turning about it, left on the left hand; and 
 came down eastward through the street which leads into the west gate of the church, wherein the 
 seats were ordered and kept to receive the mourners of all sorts before the common people were 
 
 England, if you desire it ; and that, for the future 2 or 3 
 acres of that land in the Tunny Park (on Lougli Neagli 
 shore) which is newly stubbed up, would furnish you 
 plentifully. If the cranes which you mention do live and 
 will thrive, I intend, God willing, to have them brought 
 over, tho' it be by an express messenger; and in the mean- 
 time, it would be convenient to employ some such person 
 about them as would be fit to bring them over. I pray 
 acquaint John Totnal that I desire him to get some bee- 
 hives at the Tunny Park ; for if ever I live to come into 
 that countiy, I believe I shall use a great deal of honey, 
 as I do at this present, and have, I thank God, kept my- 
 self a great while thereby free from any fits of the stone, 
 and do daily void so much gravel by the use thereof, as 
 is hardly to be believed. " On the 9th of February follow- 
 ing, he writes— "I have got two couple of right decoy 
 ducks and a drake, such as will fly abroad every night and 
 return in the morning ; these I will send over within a 
 fortnight, and I will send to all the decoys in England till 
 I have brought mine into such a condition as it ought to 
 be." Writing from London, in October, 1667, he adds 
 this postscript to his letter: — "I have sent a hamper with 
 3 boxes in it, and 2 cases with trees ; the boxes have in 
 them flowers, roots, and seeds, such as my gardner writ 
 for from Lisbum. They cost me £id,., as you shall see by 
 the particulars ; they are very choice things, and very 
 
 good." In these letters, the earl also directs that cranes, 
 dogs, frise, black and grey, and tisqtiebagh, may be sent to 
 him in England, — the last-mentioned commodity being 
 always supplied by his sister, lady Rawdon. — Rawdon 
 Papers, pp. 206, 214, 231, 232. 
 
 " Before the rebellion. — Paterson, County of Ayr, vol. 
 i. , p. 283, and Mrs. E. S. G. Reilly, Genealogical Accotmt, 
 p. 50, mention only one brother, Henry, who died when 
 an infant. Although there is no mention previously, in 
 the author's memoirs, of the death of the deceased earl's 
 grandmother, Elizabeth Shaw, we are here told of her 
 burial-place, with her husband, the first viscount, ailtt her 
 son, the second viscount; to whom was now added her 
 grandson, the third viscount and first earl. The second 
 viscount having been a member of the privy council is here 
 styled right honourable, for in such matters the author 
 always scrupulously renders honour to whom honour is due. 
 
 Majr. Saml. Stnuart. — Major Samuel Stewart, al- 
 though a lieutenant in colonel Cromwell's troop, belonged 
 to the parish of Greyabbey. In 1 65 7, this officer rented 
 lands from the family of Boyd in that parish, as appears 
 from a contract between Marion Boyd (the widow of 
 Robert Boyd) and the third viscount Montgomery, made 
 in 1658, — which contract is preserved among the papers 
 at Donaghadee, in possession of Daniel de la Cherois, esq. 
 
 '3 Market-cross. — See p. 68, supra. 
 
248 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 admitted.''* So that all the solemnity was observed and performed with great decency and order; 
 more reverently by far than was expected. This great deference which the vulgar had for their 
 late most loved landlord restrained their curiosity and rude behaviour, and listened to the prayers 
 (w** was" a novelty to them) and to the learned pious sermon (such being also rare among them's) ; 
 yet with great silence and reverence they contained themselves whilst this was doing in the church, 
 the same being thereby well illuminated. 
 
 The same procession, taken out of my fragments which escaped the fire in my house,'^ was as 
 foUoweth, viz. 
 
 [Following M.S. imperfect] 
 Imprimis, — Two conductors, with black stalves, Alex'. Crawford'^ and Hu. Montgomery.'^ 
 
 2, Thirty-eight men in black gownsj by two and two, his Lop having lived lull so many 
 years. 
 
 3, The French page, bareheaded. 4"', The grand standard advanc"* by Pat. Mont^ of Creby,'? 
 
 Esq. 
 
 5, Serv*^ to Gent^ mourners and strangers, how many I know not. 6, Serv** to the defunct, 
 Jo. Davison, Ed". Kelly, Jo. Edwards, Jo. Francis, Ja. Norwell, John Corry. 
 
 Were admitted.-— procession, leaving the gate- 
 house, passed into the street on the south side of the 
 school-house, now known as Greenwell street. 
 
 '3 Rare among them. — This remark would imply that 
 the majority of the people attending the funeral were 
 presbyterians, whose ministers, John Greg of Newtown- 
 ards, Andrew Stewart of Donaghadee, and James Gordon 
 of Comber, were then imprisoned at Carlingford, for 
 alleged complicity in Blood's plot. The church prayers 
 were no doubt a novelty to these sturdy sons of the 
 covenant. Of the sixty, or upwards, presbyterian ministers 
 in Ulster, not one is recorded as attending this funeral. 
 Some were in prison, others hiding among their people, 
 and not a few had fled to Scotland. Several of these 
 were suspected of assisting in tfte Scottish rebellion of 
 1666, which was finally crushed on Rullion Green at the 
 foot of the Pentland hills, where Crookshanks and 
 M'Cormick, who had been ministers in Ulster, were 
 slain. In 1667, a few months before bishop Taylor's 
 death, he wrote as follows to Ormond, the lord lieu- 
 tenant : — 
 
 "This late rebellion in Scotland hath too much verified our fears 
 in th«se parts, that the indulgence lately given to the presbyterians 
 who were sent away, and since permitted to re-enter, would be of 
 evil consequence. Ever since their coming, till within these two or 
 three months, no complaints were brought to me of them, but that 
 they clancularly did ecclesiastical offices, took and kept the people 
 from their parish churches, received pensions regularly from the 
 parishes which they formerly had usurped ; and the people forced to 
 pay their money, by the authority of some landlords, or rather land- 
 ladies ; the clergy were greatly discouraged, and greatly injured. 
 But now of late they keep their conventicles more publickly, and 
 advance the former mischiefs to greater and more insufferable con- 
 sequences, and have given us too much cause to believe that the 
 Scotch rebellion was either born in Ireland, or put to nurse here. 
 May it please your grace, I speak not this by chance or passion ; but 
 can prove where Crookeshank was entertained for many days toge- 
 ther immediately before the rebellion. It is also informed and offered 
 to be proved, that Kenedy, sometimes of Temple Patrick, preached 
 in the diocese of Dromore, that the people ought for a while to bear 
 patiently the loss of their goods, for the godly people in Scotland 
 
 would speedily oppose the power ; and about the Six Mill [Mile) 
 Water, which is not far from Antrim, the people, when, this summer, 
 they gave bond for payments of their tithes at All Saint's, would not 
 sign the bonds till they put in this clause, * in case there be no war 
 or publick disturbance before that time,' or to that purpose. Now, 
 may it please your grace, the perpetual and universal complaint of 
 all my clergy, and generally of the honest part of the people, being 
 so great against the permission of these pretended ministeis to abide 
 amongst them, and now every man being awakened watb the late 
 rebellion, and we being sure that many things are true which we 
 cannot prove, and yet being able to prove the particulars above re- 
 cited, I thought It my duty to propound the whole affair to your 
 grace's consideration, humbly expecting your grace's commands, 
 orders, and determination in it ; which shall be humbly and perfectly 
 followed in all things by, may it please your grace, your grace's most 
 dutiful and humble servant, 
 
 "Jerem. Dunensis." 
 
 — Heber's Life of Taylor, edited by Eden, p. civ. , notes. 
 
 Fire in my house. — This fire occurred in Feb., 1695. 
 See p. 28, supra. 
 
 '7 Alexr. Crawford. — Alexander was not a christian 
 name in the Cra%\'fordsbum famity. A paper in possession 
 of Daniel de la Cherois, esq., mentions the loan oi £\<x>, 
 by a Robert Crawford, to the second earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, but there is neither date nor name of any 
 place. 
 
 Hic. Montgomery. — There were at least six gentle- 
 men of this name residing in the district at the period re- 
 ferred to in the text. 
 
 Of Creby. — This Patrick Montgomery was grandson 
 of Patiick Montgomeiy of Blackhouse. See pp. 28, 52, 
 supra. His grandson, mentioned in the text, sold his 
 property of Blackhouse, in 1663, and John Montgomery, 
 son of the latter, sold the lands of Creboy in 17 16, still 
 retaining a third part of South Skelmorlie, in the parish 
 of Largs. See Paterson, Parishes and Families of Ayr- 
 shire, vol. i. , p. 230. This Patrick Montgomerie was the 
 gentleman mentioned by the deceased earl as his cousin 
 Bally Craboy, in his letter to the earl of Eglinton, in 1642, 
 See p. 153, supra. 
 
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 7, Strangers, Mourners. — Mr. Burly, 2° Cap* Alex' Stewart,^^ Mr. Bowyer, Mr. John Law, Mr. 
 Tho' Simms, with many more out of Clanbrasil's and Conway's estates, whose names are lost. 
 
 8, Newtown and Donaghadee men freeholders, whose names are lost. 
 
 9, Freeholders and Kindred.— Cap' Cha^ Campbell,^^ Cap' Hu. Dundas,^3 Cap'. Dan. 
 Kenedy,^'* Mr. Fergus Kenedy,^^ Cap'. John Keeth,^^ and Major Will" Buchanan. ^7 
 
 Mr. Burly. — " Wm. Burley, gent.," attended the 
 funeral of the first viscount, in 1636. See p. 138, supra. 
 Lieutenant-colonel \Yilliam Burleigh was a 1649 officer, 
 and, as such, had the sum of ^1,647 14s id to receive 
 under the Act of Settlement. Hercules Langford was 
 trustee for this and oilier sums received by several officers. 
 — Irish Records Commission Reports, vol. iii. , p. 296. In 
 1640, William Burley, esq., was high sheriff for the county 
 of Down. 
 
 CapK Alexi'. Stewart. — Captain AlexanderStewartwas 
 a 1649 officer, and, as such, together with captains William 
 and Robert Hamilton as trustees, obtained a grant under 
 the Act of Settlement, of many forfeited Tiouses and 
 gardens in Dublin and Kinsale, as security for pay. — 
 Irish Record Commission Reports, vol. iii., p. 141. 
 Captain Stewart's arrears amounted to ^477 lis loj/^d. — 
 P. 299. This captain Alexander Stewart was probably a 
 brother of major Samuel Stewart mentioned in note 12, 
 supra. " Capt. Alexander Stewart of Bellamorrane," is 
 the first-named overseer in the will of Thomas Boyd of 
 Portavogie, who died in the year 1660. 
 
 =^ Capt. Cha^. Campbell. — See p. 224, supra. Charles 
 Campbell, esq., gent., Donaghadee, was returned one of the 
 members for Newtownards, in April, i66i'. Seep.67, w/ra. 
 During the insurrection in Scotland of 1679, Ormond writing 
 to sir George Rawdon, says : — "I have ordered my Lord 
 Mount-Alexander to send a part of his troop to Larne and 
 Creeks next him, and the lilce orders I send to my Lord 
 Conway and your troop. . . It will behove Campbell 
 at Donaghadee to be vigilant and active in this common 
 chase, to wipe off some suspicions that are insinuated of 
 his indulgence to some of that party (the Covenanters). 
 It is likely he is able to do as much as any man, and if he 
 do not, it will not be imputed to want of skill : if you 
 think fit, you may let him know as much." — Raivdon 
 Papers, pp. 263, 264. The rising in Scotland, during the 
 summer of 1679, was distinguished by the bloody engage- 
 ments at Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge, in the former of 
 which the covenanters were victorious, but, in the latter, 
 defeated and dispersed. Many of the hapless fugitives 
 took refuge in Galloway, particularly in the parishes of 
 Carsphairn, Balmaclellan, and Glencaim, where they 
 were pursued by Claverhouse with a company of English 
 dragoons, and, when caught, ruthlessly slaughtered. Seve- 
 ral made their escape to this coast, coming in at Larne and 
 Donaghadee ; and it would appear from Ormond's letter 
 quoted above, that captain Charles Campbell was ex- 
 pected to look sharp after such as landed at the latter 
 port, by way of making amends for some former sympathy 
 shown by him for the weak party. The family of 
 Campbell originally settled at Donaghadee, and held a 
 high social position in that district during the seventeenth 
 century. 
 
 =3 Hu. Dundas. — Probably a son of James Dundas, 
 who was appointed bishop of Down and Connor in 1612, 
 
 and who died soon aftenvards in Newtownards. He is 
 said to have wasted his bishoprick by granting fee-farm 
 and other long leases at very small rents. — Ware's Works, 
 edited by Harris, vol. i., p. 208. 
 
 Capt. Dan. Kenedy. — Dan. is probably a misprint 
 for Dav. David Kennedy belonged to Dundonald parish, 
 and served undef the deceased earl, in 1649, when 
 the latter was commander-in-chief of Ulster. — AIS. pre- 
 served among the Family Papers at Donaghadee. David 
 Kennedy was a 1649 officer, and obtained by the Act of 
 Settlement the sum of ^'1,482 is. 4d., as arrears of pay." 
 — Irish Record Commission Reports, vol. iii. , p. 296. 
 
 25 Pergtts Kenedy. — Fergus Kennedy belonged to the 
 parish of Comber. In 1649, a Fergus Kennedy of Com- 
 ber was summoned, among others, by viscount Mont- 
 gomeiy, for active service. — MS. Paper preserved at 
 Donaghadee. 
 
 ^ John Keeth. — See p. 163, supra. John Keith was a 
 1649 officer, whose pay, which amounted t0;i^l370 l6s 3d, 
 was secured to him by the Act of Settlement. — Irish 
 Record Commission Reports, vol. iii., p. 303. 
 
 ^' Buchanan. — We have the following notice of this 
 officer in Buchanan's (of Auchmar) Inquiry into Aficient 
 Scottish Surnames, Glasgow, 1820, pp. 189, 190 : — "The 
 first cadet of the family of Auchmar was Mr. William Bu- 
 chanan the first of Auchmar. Mr. William went to Ire- 
 land, and became manager or factor for the estate of the 
 family of Hamiltons, then lords of Clandeboyes, and 
 afterwards earls of Clanbrassil, in the county of Down, 
 which family is now extinct. He married in that country, 
 and had one son, major William Buchanan, a veiy brave 
 gentleman, who was major to George, laird of Buchanan's 
 regiment, at the fatal conflict between the Scots and Eng- 
 lish at Ennerkeithing. Tlie major, upon defeat of the 
 Scottish army, being well-mounted, made his way through 
 a party of English horsemen, and, though pursued for 
 some miles, came safe off, having killed divers of the pur- 
 suers. He went afterwards to Ireland, and purchased an 
 estate there, called Scrabohill, near Newtowne Clande- 
 boyes, in the county of Down. He had two sons ; the 
 eldest continued in Ireland, and the younger went abroad. 
 He had also two daughters, both married in that country " 
 A MS. Indenture, preserved among the family papers at 
 Donaghadee, made in 1672, between the first earl of 
 Mount- Alexander and Hugh Hamill of Ballyatwood, 
 contains the following clause : — " The said Hugh, Earle 
 of Mount-Alexander, hath demised, sett, and to farme lett 
 unto the said Hugh Hamill all that part of the towne and 
 lands of Black- Abbey, which was formerly held and pos- 
 sessed by Major William Buchanan." It would thus ap- 
 pear that Buchanan had occupied more than one farm in 
 the neighbourhood of Newtownards. He received, as a 
 1649 ofhcer, the sum of ^353 lis 2d, for which William 
 Montgomery, the author, was trastee. — Irish Record Com- 
 mission Reports, vol. iii., p. 306. 
 
250 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 lo, Gentlemen Freeholders or Relations. — Hugh Montgomerj', of B. Skeogh,^^ J. Montgomery, 
 of Tallynegry,==9 Mr. Oline, Tho'. Nevin, of B. Copland,3° Jo. Cunningham, of Drumfad,^' Hu. 
 Montgomery, of B. Henry,3^ Mr. Hu. Campbell,33 Mr. Hu. Savage,^* of Camesure, U Col, Coch- 
 ran,3S Mr Lindsay, W" Shaw, Provost.37 
 
 Hu. Montgomery of B.Skeogh. — William Mont- 
 gomery of Ballyskeogli attended the funeral of the first 
 viscount, in 1636. See p. 141, siipi'a. 
 
 Tallynegry. — Probably Tullynagardy, the name of a 
 townland in the parish of Newtownards. 
 
 3° Thos. Nevin, B. Copeland. — Ballycopeland, the resi- 
 dence of Thomas Nevin, is situated in the parish of Don- 
 aghadee. Thomas Nevin, sen., of Arkeen, and Thomas 
 Nevin, jun., of Monkroddin, Ayrshire, attended the fune- 
 ral of the first viscount, in 1636. See pp. 53, 54, 135, 139, 
 supra. 
 
 3' Dnmifad. — In the parish of Donaghadee. Andrew 
 Cunningham of Drumfad attended the funeral of the first 
 viscount in 1636. See p. 138, supra. 
 
 3= Of B. Henry. — Ballyhenry is a townland in the parish 
 of Comber. This Hugh Montgomery was most probably a 
 son of Adam Montgomery, to whom sir Hugh Mont- 
 gomery sold, in 1610, the towns and lands of Ballyhenrie and 
 Ballyalton, in the parish of Comber, at a fee-farm rent of ;i^3 
 3s 8d English at Mayday and Hollantide. — Calendar of Fa- 
 tent Rolls, James I. , pp. 254-5. See p. 146, note 104, sup!-a. 
 
 33 Mr. Hu. Campbell. — This gentleman was a brother 
 of Charles Campbell abovenamed, and a second cousin of 
 the deceased earl. The grandmother of the Campbells 
 was a sister of the viscountess Montgomery. Hugh Camp- 
 bell was one of the commissioners afterwards appointed 
 to arrange the affairsof the second earl of Mount- Alexander. 
 As a 1649 officer, he obtained his arrears of pay, amount- 
 ing to £SA'^9 19s 6^, by grant made in the name of Hu. 
 Montgomery. — Irish Record Coniniissioii Reports, vol. iii., 
 page 302. 
 
 S'* Air. Hu. Savage. — Mr. Hugh Savage was cousin 
 of the deceased, and resided for a time at Carnasure, near 
 Comber, although he was the nominal owner, at least, of 
 the Portaferry estate. 
 
 35 Z'. - Col. Cochran. — Colonel Hugh Cochran, mentioned 
 at p. 163, supra, had three brothers, military officers, of 
 whom the gentleman mentioned in the text may have been 
 one. His name is introduced among those of the relatives 
 of the deceased. 
 
 3* Mr Lindsay. — From the fact of this gentleman being 
 mentioned among those related to the deceased, he must 
 have been a member of the Dunrod family, — a son, or 
 grandson of Isabel Shaw of Greenock, sister to the first 
 viscountess Montgomery. 
 
 37 Wm Shaw, Provost. — See pp. 11, 51, 52, supra. 
 The William Shaw mentioned in the text as provost of 
 Newtown, is not to be confounded with William Shaw of 
 Rallyganjia'vay, in the parish of Donaghadee, the latter 
 being the son of John Shaw (to whom that estate was 
 originally granted in 1616), and nephew of Patrick Shaw 
 of Kilbright in the same parish. William Shaw of New- 
 town was no doubt the owner of the house in that town 
 to which Harris refers, p. 59, and which had inscribed on 
 it the armorial bearings adopted by the various branches 
 of this family. For the following interesting records of 
 Ihe Ballygannaway branch, the editor is indebted to the 
 
 kindness of Robert S. Nicholson, esq. , J. P. , M. A. , Ballow, 
 county of Down: — By Articles of the 5th Sept. 1706, 
 
 made between William Shaw of Ganoway in the county 
 of Down, Esq. , of the one part, and Patrick Shaw of the 
 city of Dublin, gent. , of the other part, in consideration of 
 a marriage between the said Patrick and Frances third 
 daughter of the said William, he, the said William, did 
 covenant to settle as a marriage portion with his said 
 daughter, the townland of Carme\y, being 484 acres, and 88 
 acres of Ballyrobin, Barony of Massereene, in co. of Antrim, 
 (see note p. 52 sup)-a.) These Articles also recite that 
 said Wm. .Schaw designed to settle the lands of Ballygano- 
 way and Ballywhisker, in coimty of Dowti, upon his son 
 John, and in case said son should have no issue, said lands 
 should go to said Patrick and Frances, and their heirs. 
 I July, 1707, said William Schaw made his Will, lea\'ing 
 to his son, John Shaw, in tail, the townlandsof Carradom, 
 Ballymacravanny and Cahard, in the county of Down, and 
 in default of issue of his said son, John, to his son-in-law, 
 Patrick Shaw and his wife Frances and their heirs. By 
 these Articles, Wm. Shaw of Ballyganoway appointed, as 
 a Trustee, Wm. Shaw of Bush, comity of Antrim. 14 
 Sept., I7i4> is the date of a Deed between John Shaw 
 and his brother-in-law, Patrick Shaw, the former dying 
 soon afterwards, intestate and Avithout issue. The said 
 Patrick made his will, dated 5 July, 1715, leaving his 
 daughter Mary all the estate which he had received from 
 his father-in-law, Wm. Schaw of Ganoway. He bequeathed 
 other lands to his brother, John Shaw of Bush, and failing 
 heirs of him, to his brother Thomas and his heirs, and 
 failing them to the heirs general of his brother Jolm afore- 
 said. In this document Patrick Shaw appointed his father, 
 Wm. Shaw of Bush, Patrick Agnew of Kilwaughter, and 
 his brother, John Shaw of Bush, to be guardians of his 
 daughter Maiy. He appointed also as executors his father 
 Wm. Shaw of Bush, Patrick Agnew, and liis kinsman 
 William Macullagh of Grogan. The aforesaid John 
 Shaw, being one of the gviardians of Mary Shaw, married 
 her to his son Henry, when neither of them had arrived 
 at the age of 15 years. On the 11 Jan., 1728, said John 
 Shaw of Bush, second brother of said Patrick Shaw, made 
 his will, leaving his estate to his son Heni-y Shaw. The 
 latter, by his wife Mary aforesaid, had several sons. The 
 
 eldest William, married Charlotte (who died on the 
 
 l8th Sept., 1782), and by her left a son, Henry Wm. 
 Shaw, born 12th June, 1766; and a daughter, Dorothea 
 Josepha Shaw, who married, first, James Potter, and 
 secondly, Thomas Potter of Killinchy. On the 17th of 
 Jul)-, 1775, William Shaw, son of Henry and Mary afore- 
 said, died intestate; and in the December following his 
 father, Henry, died, having made his will on the 20th of 
 May in the same year, leaving the lands of Ballytweedy 
 to a younger son Francis, the family estate descending to 
 the testator's grandson, Wm. Henry Shaw. The latter 
 married in 1783, when only 17 years of age, and was father 
 of the late Henry William Shaw of Ballytweedy, who re- 
 cently died at Glen-Ebor, near Holywood, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 251 
 
 11, The great banner, carried alone by Jo. MonV^^ Gent", second son of the Honb' Geo. 
 Mong''. 
 
 12, The steward, Capt James M'Gill,39 with his white rod in his right hand. 
 
 13, Strangers, legal Minnisters. — Mr. Wallace*" of Hollywood, Mr. Mace,-*' of Porteferry, Mr. 
 Robt. Echlin,4= of B. Culter, Mr. Goldring, Mr. Hudson. 
 
 14, The defunct's Minnisters. — Mr. Dowdall, of Comer, Mr. Heald, of Donaghadee, and Mr. 
 Mont^, Curate of Greyabbey, Mr. Robt Pierce, to whom his Lo'' pay }^ salary. 
 
 3^ Jo. Moftty. — John Montgomery, second son of the 
 hon. George Montgomery, of Ballylesson, died abroad and 
 unmarried — Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly's Genealogical Account, 
 p. 44. 
 
 39 Capt James M'Gill. — Captain James M'Gill was 
 eldest son of Mr. David M'Gill, curate of Greyabbey. 
 See p. 123, supra. This gentleman's residences, after 
 the wars, were Kirkistown and Ballynester. Of Kirkis- 
 town, Harris says, pp. 67, 269, it "is an English Castle, 
 surrounded by a high wall, strongly built, and containing 
 within the circuit of it a good dwelling house of Mrs. 
 
 Lucy Magil, now ( 1 744) the Widow Savage 
 
 Kirkistown and Ballygalgot Castles were built since the 
 accession of King James I. , by Rowland Savage of Ar- 
 chin." Mrs. Lucy Magill, afterwards Mrs. Savage, was 
 grand-daughter of captain James M'Gill mentioned in 
 the text. The latter received, as a 1649 officer, the two 
 sums of £6,^00 and ;i^"i,392 lis. id., secured from the 
 'savings,' through two grants made in the names of Hugh 
 Montgomery of Bally magoun, and Hugh McGill, his own 
 hxo\.h.sx.— -Irish Recoi'd Commissioti Reports, vol. iii., pp. 
 29s. 303- 
 
 Air. Wallace. — Mr. George Wallace had originally 
 been a presbyterian minister, but was one of seven who 
 conformed to the doctrine and discipline of the episcopal 
 church in 1661. He was admitted vicar of Holywood on 
 the I2th of December in that year.--Reid's History of the 
 Presbyterian Church, vol. ii., p. 256, note. In a rental of 
 the Clanbrassil estate, in 1681, Mr. George Wallace is 
 mentioned as occupying the Prioiy House in Holywood, 
 for which he paid the yearly rent of ^5. — Hamilton 
 Manuscripts, p. 1 09, note. 
 
 Mr. Mace. — A Mr. James Mace was rector of 
 Lisburn several years prior to 1660, and was probably re- 
 moved to Portaferry. In Mr. W. J. Hanna's Account of 
 the Parish of Inch, the writer has the following notice of 
 a minister bearing this name: — "1664. James Mace, 
 M.A. (ordained deacon and priest 3rd March, 1660 — l). 
 He had been appointed prebendary of Dunsfort 22nd 
 March, 1 66 1, wfiich, having resigned, he was appointed 
 chancellor (of Down) 12th December, 1662, as successor 
 to Mr. Morgan. There seems to be some mistake about 
 Mr. Mace, or else he held the prebend for a very short 
 interval, as Mr. Dunlop, according to the visitation of 4th 
 June, 1664, certainly held it at that time; there is, how- 
 ever, under the entry of Mr. Dunlop's name, the words 
 'Jacobus Maxwell, clericus de Ince,' which may have 
 led to the confusion. The matter is, therefore, uncertain 
 whether Mr. Mace held this dignity or not." If Mr. 
 James Mace and James Mace, M.A. , be one and the 
 same, the term of his chancellorship could not have lasted 
 more than a few months. He is stated in the text to have 
 
 been settled in Portaferry (of course, as chancellor of 
 Down) prior to September, 1663. In reference to this 
 clergyman's appointment, the Rev. Dr. Reeves has kindly 
 supplied the following : — " 1660-1. James Mace (ordained 
 both deacon and priest on March 3, 1 660-1) was admitted 
 [to the prebend of Dunsfort] on March 22 (First Fruits), 
 and installed April 4. In the next year he resigned, and 
 was made chancellor — Cotton's Fasti, vol. iii., p. 242. 1662- 
 James Mace, M.A. prebendary of Dunsfort, was collated 
 [chancellor of Down] on December 12 (First Fruits), or 
 on April 13, 1663. (Visit. Book at Armagh.) He appears 
 to have resigned shortly afterwards, for in 1664 we find 
 him holding the prebend of St. Andrews. — Cotton's Fasti, 
 p. 235. 1664 James Mace, "late chancellor," appears 
 (Visit. Book at Armagh). — Cotton's Fasti, p. 240. James 
 Mace, B.D., was appointed rector of Blaris, alias Lisburn, 
 February 18, 1617. He succeeded Dr. George Rust on 
 his promotion to the diocese of Dromore. — Patent Rolls, 
 20, 21, Car. ii. Mace was also appointed to the vicarage 
 of Derriaghy, near Lisburn, same day, also vacant by the 
 promotion of Dr. Rust. The crown has the presentation 
 to these livings /w/^rtfwVf? having advanced the incumbent 
 to a bishoprick." James Mace was probably the son of 
 John Mace, one of the settlers in Lisburn under sir Fulk 
 Conway. — See Johnston's /j^'/^rcT^OTt'ff, pp. 95, 102. Vis- 
 count Conway and Killulta, writing to his brother in-law, 
 major George Rawdon, in June, 1658, says : — "My mother 
 writes to me that John Mace's son intends to carry over 
 all the rest of the children, and expects ;i^8 of me to 
 bear their charges, which I shall not do untill I have your 
 directions." — Rawdon Papers, p. 190. 
 
 Robt Echlin. — Robert Echlin (ordained priest, 
 March 31, 1641), collated chancellor of Down [i.e., rector 
 of Portaferry and Ardglass) September 30, 1642. During 
 Cromwell's government he received an annual pension of 
 ;,^8o as minister of Strangford. He was installed again, after 
 the Restoration, onMarch4, l66o-r. This clergyman is sup- 
 posed to have been a grandson of bishop Echlin. The editor 
 of Craufurd's Memoirs of the Echlins, in a note at p. 22, 
 says : — " The bishop, it would seem, had another son (be- 
 sides John Echlin, his heir), who was born about the year 
 1629, for in the old church of Ardkeen, in the county of 
 Down, there is a tombstone under the reading-desk, with 
 this inscription : — " Here lyes Interd the bodie of Robert 
 Echline, of Castel Boye, esqr. , who died the 25 day of 
 April, 1657, in the 29 year of his age — as also the Bodie 
 of his daughter, Marie." "It was probably a son of 
 this R. E., of Castleboy (also named Robert, and of Bally- 
 culter), who, in the Motztgomery MSS., p. 260, is men- 
 tioned as having been present amongst the strangers, legal 
 Ministers, at the funeral in 1663, of the third Viscount 
 Montgomery. Prior to 1663, when he is described as of 
 
2^2 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 15, Mr. Robinson, the defunct's Chaplain, Curate of Newtowne alone. 
 
 16, Dr. Rust, Dean of Connor (who preached the sermon.) • 
 
 17, The cushion and coronet on it, borne by Hu. Montg^,43 eldest son of the Hb'' Geo. 
 Montg'' aforesd. 
 
 18, Dudly Loftus,'»'t the defunct's clerk aforesd. and Hu. Montg'' his best Gent".'*^ both bare- 
 headed. 
 
 19, The coffin, covered with a deep velvet fringed pale, and above it was laid the defunct's 
 naked sword and scabbard by it and his gauntlet, and on the sides were taffety scutcheons, and 
 underneath 
 
 20, The corners and sides of the pall by — And" Monro, Esq.^^ Jo. Savage, of Ardkeen,47 
 Esq. 2 S' Jo. Skffington, Bar'^ Ed'' Chichester, K' Robt Monro, Gent" Major Garrett Moore,*^ 
 Capt. Hu. Shaw,49 Capt Hu. M'Gill, Cap'. J. Lessly,5° Capt. Hu. Montgomery. 
 
 Ballyculter, Robert Echlin had been rector and vicar of 
 Bailee and Ardglass." — Reid, History of the Presbyterian 
 Church, vol. ii., p. 256, iLote. Mr. Echlin's residence was 
 at Strangford. — Hanna's Account of Inch, in Dowiipatrick 
 Recorder. 
 
 43 IIu. Montgy. — This Hugh Montgomeiy (of Bal- 
 lylesson) succeeded to his father's property, by a family 
 arrangement, prior to the death of the latter. His lands 
 were erected into a manor, called the manor of Dunbrack- 
 ley, the chief residence of which was situated in the town- 
 land of Ballylesson. See p. 94, supra. He served in 
 the army of the prince of Orange. His first wife was the 
 only child of colonel Hercules Huncks. Viscount Con- 
 way and Killulta, afterwards earl Conway, speaks of 
 this officer as his "cousin Huncks." — Rawdon Papers, 
 p. 251. Huncks, although at one period a zealous par- 
 liamentarian, "one of the three to whom the warrant for 
 the king's execution had been directed ; one of the forty 
 halberdiers attending the high court of justice; and one 
 who had opposed with more than ordinary vehemence all 
 those who were for the king," contrived to wheel round 
 like some others at the safe point, and became the princi- 
 pal witness against his former associate, colonel Axtel, who 
 was among the first to suffer after the Restoration. — Lud- 
 low's Memoirs, vok iii., p. 83. Clause CLXXXH. of the 
 Act of Settlement directs that possession of the lands in 
 the county of Cork, which had been set out to Hercules 
 Huncks for arrears, be confirmed to Edward Adams. 
 
 4* Dtidly Loftus. — See p. 238, supra. 
 
 ■♦5 Hu. Montgy his best Gentm". — See p. 191, supra. 
 This was ' my Lord's Hugh,' of Ballymagown. 
 
 4* Andw Monro. — Andrew Monro is supposed to have 
 been a nePhew of general Robert Monro. He is men- 
 tioned in a tripartite indenture preserved among the family 
 papers at Donaghadee, dated in February, 1 672. Andrew 
 Monro was then residing at Cherryvallcy, in the parish of 
 Comber, and near Mount- Alexander. 
 
 ■•7 Jo. Savage of Ardkeen. — Son of Henry Savage, of 
 Ardkeen, who attended the funeral of 1636. See p. 131, 
 supra. 
 
 Garrett Moore. — Brother of the first lady of the de- 
 ceased earl. See p. 176, sitpra. 
 
 45 Capt. Hugh Shaw. — Captain Hugh Shaw's name is 
 mentioned in a list of a few 1649 officers preserved among 
 
 Family Papers at Donaghadee. He was most probably 
 the son of Hugh Shaw of Killbright, in the parish of 
 Donaghadee, who died in 1670. The latter made his 
 will in 1668. The following is a correct copy of this docu- 
 ment, which mentions other members of the family, and 
 for which the editor is indebted to the kindness of R. S. 
 Nicholson, esq., J. P., M.A., Ballow, county of Do^\ti : — 
 
 ** In the name of God, Amen, I, Hugh Schaw, of Killbright, in 
 the parish of Donochadie, Barony of Airds, and County of Down, 
 being of perfect memory att this present, praised be God, doe make 
 and ordain this to be my Last will and testament, written with my 
 own hand this twenty-nine of July, one thewsand six hundred sixty 
 and eight years, in manner and form hereinafter following — that is to 
 say, I bequeath my souU to God, hoping, through the only merits of 
 Christ Jesus my redeemer, to be made partaker of Life everlasting 
 with him. Next I Recomend my body to the earth wherof itt was 
 made, to bee Burried in the parish church of Donochadie, under my 
 nephewes seat of Belliganavie, and that to bee our constant Buriall 
 place. 
 
 ' ' As concerning my worldly estate, itt is my will and testament 
 that funerall expenses, debts, and legacies, being first payd my whole 
 personall goods and stock, and household furniture, be viewed and 
 valued by two or three indifferent men, to bee nominate by my ex''^ 
 & oversiers hereinafter named or to bee done by some of themselves 
 if they please, and A true inventor>' therof taken and kept, and 
 when the family is retrinched and the childring putt to school, as 
 much therof sold as may be best spared, and the money that is got 
 for the same, and all rents and Anuities due to me to be kipt intire 
 for the only use and behoof of my wife and childring, and for ther 
 maintenance and educatione during her widowhood and ther nonage 
 if the wil to continue And dwell in Killbright during that time, If 
 she & the overseers think it nort fittor to sett the Land & Live 
 elswher with her childring. Butt when my wife pleaseth, or If she 
 chance to mary, then her LawfuU third of the personall goods and 
 stock that is undisposed off, as Aforsaid, to bee sett Apart and deli- 
 vered unto her, with my watch and a third part of the rents And 
 Anuities during her Life If the Leases continue so Long and yield 
 profite ; except the Lease of Killbright, for wch she is to gett satis- 
 faction out of the rest, valuable to the third part of the profite therof 
 as the ovirseers shall think fitt, and all the rest to continue Intire for 
 the Joynt maintenance & educatione of my childring untill they 
 mary orr cume to the Age of 21 years, and as one orr the other of 
 these happen, then that child's part to bee separate and delivered, as 
 herafter is devised. Inprimis I Leave to my eldest Soun, Hugh 
 Schaw, the Lease of Killbright, with all the profites And Advantadges 
 therof. Item — I Leave unto him my watch If itt bee extant & 
 valuable After his mother's decease. Item — I Leave unto him my 
 silver tanker & one of the best things of every kind that is usually 
 given ore proper for Ain Heir, all the rest of my Leases, rents, 
 charges, debts. Bills, Bonds, Anuities, goods ore chattells, reall ore 
 personall whatsoever that are then extant, except what is heretofore 
 disposed off ore hereafter shall bee Bequeathed, to be equally divided 
 in specie or the value therof amongst my fower childring, Hugh, 
 John, Jean, and Eliiabeth Schawes, att the times Aforsayd, ore 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 253 
 
 21, 22, The banners on each side of the coffin by — The present Earle^' alone, as chiefest 
 mourner, at the coffin head, his train supported by Rob* Crawford, Gen* bare-headed (he is now 
 Governor of Sheerness, at the mouth of the Thames, and is called Col. Crafford) 
 
 And next to the Earle walked 
 
 23, The Honb' Ja^ Montgomery, his uncle, and Henry Monf his brother, Will" Monty of 
 Roseniount, Esq. his uncle, and Geo. Montgomery afores"*. his grand uncle. — 24, Hugh Savage, of 
 Portiferry, Esq. the defunct's cousin-german. They followed by two and two the servants of the 
 persons undernamed; of the Earle's six, of his brother's two, of his uncle Garret now afores* one, 
 of his uncle Jas one, of his grand uncle Geo. one, of his uncle two, of cousin John Savages* 
 afores^ one, of the Major-Gen' Monroe one, of all 16; those were on the outsides, and many fol- 
 lowed us (who were nearest the Earle) in long black cloaks, w'' they hired in Belfast^s for that 
 service — Nota, that in the order of funeral processions (by the rule of heraldry) those who march 
 next to the coffin or hearse (before or after it) the nearer the better, and they who walk on the . 
 right hand have the precedency. Here nota, they are to go in pairs, except in the cases where it 
 is otherwise hereinbefore used. There be other preeminences, we had none at this time, either to 
 puzzle my skill or memory, as Privy Counsellors, Judges, younger sons of Marquises, and other 
 Nobles, &c. The first afores'' doth contain some few mistakes (as to places) not occasioned by my 
 deviation, for I was obliged to attend the Earle and brother (in their behalf) partly to bear up dis- 
 course to the best of the company, however it must be confessed that the s* list or acc' of the 
 procession is short and defective in names of our neighbours, friends and their tenants, and of the 
 tenants of his Lo*"' three man". 54 w'' are lost as afores"". this being drawn out of paper of fragments. 
 All needful (w"" 1 can now think of) to be added, is, that the defunct and the s** Col. Vere Essex 
 Cromwell were very intimate (as their fathers were mutually to each other always) and that he 
 died Earl of Ardglass; and that he, the Knights and Esq", and the best of the country, who were 
 
 5" Capt. J. Lessfy — Captain J. Lessly, or Leslie, was 
 also a 1649 officer, and his claim of ^ 163 5s 9|<i was 
 secured from the 'savings' in a grant made to him and 
 several others in the name of William Hamilton. We 
 cannot say to what family of the surname he belonged. — 
 Ii'ish Record Commission Reports, vol. iii. , p. 299. 
 
 5' Presetit Earle. — The second earl of Mount- Alexan- 
 der. 
 
 5» John Savage. — ^John Savage was a family connexion, 
 but not a cousin-german. He was son of Henry Savage 
 of Ardkeen, who died in 1655. 
 
 S3 Hired in Belfast.— TYiQie mourning cloaks were pro- 
 bably hired from the First Presbyterian Congregation, Bel- 
 fast, the members of which owned, at an early period, a 
 collection of palls and cloaks which they hired out at stated 
 prices. See p. 185, note 39. It is stated in that note that a 
 curious and interesting Register oi such loans, from 1712 
 to 1736, is at present in the possession of the Rev. 
 Classon Porter of Lame. This document, however, is 
 the property of the Rev. William Bruce of Belfast. 
 
 5* Three manrs. — The tenants in the manors of New- 
 town, Donaghadee, and Comber, must have been nume- 
 rous. In the Montgomery patents, the manor of Donagh- 
 adee is also called Port Montgomery, and the manor of 
 Comber is also called Mount-Alexander, 
 
 amongst as many of them as are then Living, the eldest Boyes por- 
 tion to fall Alwayes succesfuUy to the next If he chance to dye before 
 then, And the remander to bee divided as Aforsayd (et sic de ceteris). 
 
 ** Item— I Leave and Bequeath unto my naturall daughter, 
 Grisselt Schawe, ten pound star., to bee payd att two severall tearms, 
 fyve pound After my decease, and the other fyve pound within six 
 months therafter, to be Imployed for her use at the discretion of the 
 exers & overseers till she cume to Age ore be maryed. 
 
 " And last of all, I doe heerby nominate and Apoint my dear and 
 Loving wife, Jean Schaw, Alias Kennedy, and my dearly Beloved 
 Nephew, William Schaw, of BelUganavie, my Joynt exers. of this 
 my Last will Testament, And I doe earnestly Intreat my Loving 
 Cuissings & freinds, William Montgomery of Rosemount, Esquyer, 
 Hugh Montgomery of Downbrakly, Esquyer, Patrick Montgomery 
 of Crebay, Esquyer, William Schaw of Newtown, Esquyer, James 
 M^'GiU of Bellinester, Esquyer, David Boyd of Glasry, & Fergus 
 Kennedy of Belli Lucha, genti, to be overseers of this my Last will 
 and testament, to see all things weill and truly done According to 
 the true Intent and meaninge heerof, humbly Begging the Right 
 honorable the earle of mount Alexander, my most noble Lord And 
 master, to bee, as it were, Umpire over all, to take in Account when 
 his Lopp. pleaseth, of the execution heerof, and to bee protector to 
 my poor wife and childring as they stand in need. In witnese 
 wherof I have heerunto set my hand. & seall the day and year Above 
 written. " Hugh Schaw. seal. 
 
 " Signed & sealed in presence of 
 
 Pat: MONTGOMERIE. 
 
 *' Pat: Moore." 
 
 On the seal to this will is a coat of arms, three 
 
 cups (covered) ; crest, a bird with wings expanded ; motto 
 indistinct. 
 
254 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 strangers, were entertained in Newtown-house the night before and on that of the funeral, and 
 that the s'' Coh troop and officers, with other gent° strangers, in Hke manner were quartered two 
 nights in the town at the young Earle's charge: and after all, the strangers, who Hved not far off, 
 and his relations dined next day; they parted his Lo"", giving them thanks for their respects as 
 they came to bid him farewell. This funeral was the day of 1663.55 The elegy, w*" i? in- 
 serted in my opera virilia, being too long to be herein placed, I have therefore only given the 
 reader the epitaph which I made on his Lo^, as followeth : 
 
 Here lies the much-lamented, much belov'd ; 
 
 One greatly hoped of, and one much approved ; 
 
 Kind to the good, he was to all men just ; 
 
 Most careful in discharging of a trust ; 
 
 Compassionate to the poor, devout towrds God ; 
 
 A cheerful sufferer of the common rod. 
 
 Which scourged thousands — not proud when he was high, 
 
 Nor yet dejected in adversity ; 
 
 Unalterably loyal to his King ; 
 
 He truly noble was in every thing ; 
 
 Yet dyed in his prime this ; 
 
 But do not pity him who blessed is. 
 
 It may now further be expected, that I should add some description of his Lo*^ person and 
 parts. I protest I can fully give a character of this great good man; lor tho' his earthly half be 
 laid in the dust, his honour shall never be confined there nor in obscurity, whilst there is any 
 desire in his posterity or relations to read or know what sort of person a Christian here is, or shou'd 
 be. The eulogetical elegy afores'^, which I made (as better poets also wrote) on his death (w'' was 
 little past the 38'^'' year of his life) is the nearest resemblance of his Lo'' w*" I could draw, but if you 
 carefully read his act" (w** rather may be called the history of his sufferings) hereinbefore partly 
 mentioned, and but lately collected from my few written meraoras and memory; and do weigh well 
 with what fortitude, discretion. Christian patience, affyance on God, prudence and pity on men, 
 and foresight on affairs, he made his way through the different passages of his life, since his return 
 from his travels and wTote man ; and in like manner shall trace him to his death, you may then dive 
 deeper and find more oriental pearles to adorn his coronets, and so understand his noble mind 
 better than my speculation can penetrate into it ; and you will rather lose yourself in wonderment 
 than be truly able to express the ideas you or I may have of his Lo", what his improv' might have 
 been (had not death too early stop't his career in his life's race) is a subject profound enough for a 
 metaphisical divine to study; but because it is sayed dolus versatur in gmer^. therefore I take leave 
 to recount a little of what his Lo^ was in person, pedigree and parts, as my present thought and 
 memory will assist my pen. His Lo'' of stature was among the properest of middle-sized men, well 
 shaped, of a rudy sanguine complexion, his hair had been reddish and curled, w*" denoted vigour of 
 brain to give council, according to the proverbial advice, namely, "At a red man read thy reed;"5* 
 
 55 1663. — The funeral occurred on the 29th of October, i^^^ad thy reed. — In other words, learn counsel, take 
 
 1663. advice from a red-haired man, who is supposed to possess 
 
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 his eye grey and quick, and his countenance smiling and complacent, his arms and thighs sinewy 
 and brawny; his legs and feet very comely, as if they had been to adorn dancing, which he per- 
 formed very well; his gait (without affectation) stately; and his (among strangers and in 
 publick) was neither French nor Spanish altogether, but an admirable mixture of gravity, with a 
 (Je ne scai quoi) courteous humility. His Lo^ was noble, and his extraction, &c. ancient from both 
 parents; and their families (whose genealogies you have read before in this narrative) were issuing 
 from untainted fountains; his own and his progenitors' blood (of each side) not being corrupted in 
 any one instance (that I could learn by all my researches) of his loyalty to the crown. His and 
 their matches were very honb'" and their beds were undefiled. The servants next about him 
 endeavoured to estrange his Lo^ from me, that they might have his ear to themselves, the better 
 to work their own ends; but his Lo'' was past his own minority, and cou'd discern and would receive 
 no bad impression of me, who had served him gratis on my own expence, and was seeking nothing 
 (for it) of him. His Lo^ had no hatred or love solely for country sake; English, Scotts and Irish were 
 welcome to him, yet he liked and esteemed the English most (both his Ladys being such) and bore 
 the greatest friendship to the most loyal, and (unaddressed to) often received those of them (in the 
 first place) that most needed and deserved help, and when it was not in his own hand to give it, 
 he then bestowed his recommend' as it were a debt or wages he owed to this honest hireling serv*, 
 and moreover, his very enemys found his Christian forgiveness and generosity. His justice was 
 exemplary, and his readiness to give it made men bold and cunning to overreach him. He did 
 not suspect any old servant his father had, tho' there was too much cause for it; but his father, had 
 he lived, might have prevented the cheats (as I have credibly heard) put on his Lo", by those who 
 were agents to them both. The rebellion in Ireland kept them both from prying into their s"* ser- 
 vants clandestine and outward mischiefs; and the rebellion in Scotland (by sending an army into 
 England) laid on the country as a support or contribution for their maintenance,^? and the acc' for 
 
 peculiar clearness and vigour of intellect. To read in 
 this sense means to learn from. Shakspere says — 
 
 *' Those about her 
 From, her shall read the perfect ways of honour." 
 
 This word is sometimes superseded in the proverb by reck, 
 signifying to care for, to lake note of. For read, meaning 
 advice or counsel, some authors have reede, and otliers have 
 rede. The poet Burns uses the proverbial phrase, happily, 
 as follows : — 
 
 " In ploughman's phrase, ' God send you speed,' 
 Still daily to grow wiser ; 
 And may you better reck the rede 
 Than ever did th' adviser !" 
 
 See Todd's Johnson under Read and Reck. 
 
 "And recks not his own read." — Hatnlcl i. 3. 
 
 Another proverbial phrase, not so complimentary to per- 
 sons having hair of this colour, was, "when you meet a 
 red-haired man, say your prayers, for he is not to be 
 trusted." This expression may have arisen from two 
 causes : 1st, The Danes were a red-haired race, and their 
 atrocities had rendered them hateful to the Irisli ; or, 2d, 
 It was a general opinion during the middle ages that Judas 
 Iscariot had red hair, and in all paintings lie is so repre- 
 
 sented. Even so late as Di7den's time, that poet describes 
 Tonson as like the man 
 
 " With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair." 
 
 57 For their maintenance. — The author speaks of the 
 rising throughout Scotland in 1639 as "rebellion," al- 
 though the acknowledged chief of all the families of Mont- 
 gomery, namely, the sixth earl of Eglinton, was among 
 the leaders of this movement against the arbitraiy course 
 of Charles I. Greysteel and his son had commands under 
 general Leslie in the army of the covenant, which, for a 
 short time at the commencement of the war, was sustained 
 by the Scottish noblemen at their own charge. The hos- 
 tile armies of Charles and the covenant met first at Kelso, 
 in the summer of 1 639, where the English, although more 
 numerous, were defeated. A treaty was then made with 
 the king, at Dunse Law, which was ambiguous in its 
 terms, and was only a very short time signed when Charles 
 began his preparations for a second invasion of .Scotland. 
 The covenanters, however, anticipating his movements, 
 marched into England, and, encountering his force in New- 
 bern, obtained a second victory, on the 28th of August, 
 1640. But these operations required large supplies of all 
 materials of war, the hasty collection of whicti imposed 
 very heavy burdens on all classes in Scotland, and cspeci- 
 
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 arms sent over to his Lord father's regm' and his own,^^ were the spurious pretences for those agents 
 and supposed friends in Scotland to draw that long and dear taylor's bill, and the use upon use, 
 and liquidate expences (as they call them) and the colloguing suits raised against them in Scotland 
 for caution* (so) the resconning,59 that the lands of Portpatrick^° and Braidstane^' (being valued by 
 sham in friends) were accounted too little to pay the debt of his Lo^' father and himself incurred 
 on these scores, and therefore his Lo" sold the premises to those agents and friends who were baile 
 
 ally on land-owners. The difficulties of providing for so 
 sudden an emergency could only have been met by an en- 
 thusiastic people. Some, however, were opposed to the 
 national movement on this occasion, and others, although 
 enthusiastic for the covenant, were unwilling to part with 
 their money. On the 15th July, 1640, the "Committee 
 of Estaites" gave peremptory orders that the provisions of 
 an Act of the Scottish parliament, then recently passed 
 against defaulters, should be forthwith put in force. By 
 this Act "letters of horneing, pounding, and captioun," 
 were to be executed against colJectores, valuares, and 
 uthers, quha doeth not their deutie, or mak peyment of 
 their tenth pairt, in manner after specifit, viz..' — 
 
 " Against the coUectores, for not making comp, rekoning and pey- 
 ment of that quhilk they have ressavit and giveth not in the roll and 
 names of these wha have not peyit. 
 
 " Against the valueares, for not valueing conform to the said act 
 of parliament, quhilk is, aither upon the heritor's oath es, or upon 
 heritor's declarations, under thair handes ; with certification, that 
 they quhilk dallie shall be confiscatit ; and for non-delyverie. 
 
 Against the not-peyers of the said tenth pairt, by apprehending 
 their personnes, poynding their own proper gudes, or poyndmg thair 
 grund. ........ 
 
 " And sicklyke, gif it shall be provit that any have monies, and . 
 will not lend the samyn, it is ordainet that the Act of Parliament be 
 put in execution against thame, especially in that poynt, that all 
 these wha can be tryit to have raonie and will not lend the samyn, 
 SIS aforesaid, the dilatores and findares out are to have the ane half, 
 and the nther half to be confiscate for the publict. 
 
 " And sicklyke, it is appoyntit that all the silver worke and gold 
 worke in Scotland, as weill to burgh as landwart, as Weill noblemen, 
 barrones, and burgess, as uthers, of whatsomever degrie or qualitie 
 they be, be given m to the Committie at Edinburgh, or thame they 
 shall appoynt to ressave the samyn, upon such securitie for repeyment 
 as the said Committie and they shall agrie ; and for this effect the 
 Committie of war within each sherifdome, and the magistrates within 
 each burgh, with concurrance of the Ministrie, quha must exhort 
 and give warning out of the pulpites to the parocliinares, are ap- 
 poynted to call before thame any such persones as hath any silver or 
 gold worke, that inventar may be maid of the weght and spacess 
 thereof, and securitie given for the samyn, with declaratioun alwayes. 
 
 " And the said silver and golde worke to be all given in, aither to 
 the Committie of Estaites, or Committie of War within each sherif- 
 dome or Presbytrie, or to the magistrates of each burgh, within eight 
 days after intimatione, maid thairof, aither at the severall mercat- 
 crocess, or by touke of drume, or by advertismentes frae the minis- 
 teres out of the pulpites, with certification to those that shall not 
 give in nor redeime the said silver wark or gilt wark within the said 
 space, the samyn shall be confiscatit for the publict use. ' — Minnte- 
 Book kept by tlu War Committee of Kirkcudbright in the years 
 1640 and 1 641, pp. 19 — 24. 
 
 5^ Regmt. afid his cnvn.Se:e.-p^. 155, itfo,supra. These 
 supplies, it would appear, came from Scotland, the cannon 
 being, no doubt, manufactured at a foundry which had 
 been then recently established in the suburbs of Edinburgh. 
 The third viscount Montgomery, when appointed com- 
 mander-in-chief for the province of Ulster, in 1649, drew 
 supplies not only of arms and ammunition, but of clothes 
 and victualling for his troops from Scotland. In a peti- 
 tion dra'vn up by the author, in 1664, on behalf of the 
 fourth viscount, then a minor, it is stated that the father of 
 
 the latter "did ingage his estate in great debt to divers 
 persons in Scotland and Ireland for arms, ammunition, 
 victuals, money, and other necessarys, merely to advance 
 your Majesty's service at the sieges of Belfast, Carrickfer- 
 gus, and Derry," &c. — MS. preserved at Donaghadee. 
 
 59 Rescanning. — Resconning is probably a misprint for 
 reckoning. There are some words omitted here, but 
 whether the omission occurs in the original or only in the 
 first edition, we cannot determine. 
 
 *° Lands of Portpatrick. — See pp. 1 12, 1 13, j-w/ra. Dun- 
 skey and the adjoining lands, including Portpatrick, were 
 sold by the first earl of Mount- Alexander to a gentleman 
 named Blair, who had a mortgage on the estate to a pretty 
 large amount. In 1770, James Hunter of Robertland, 
 Ayrshire, married Jane, daughter and heir of John Blair 
 of Dunskey, and assumed the name of Blair in addition to 
 his own. This James Hunter Blair was a partner in the 
 well-known banking establishment of sir William Forbes, 
 and was created a baronet in 1786. His third son James, 
 one of fourteen children, who died unmarried in 1822, 
 inherited the estates of Dunskey and Robertland, and 
 served thrice in parliament for the county of Wigton. — 
 Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., p. 
 474- 
 
 Bi-aidstane. — Seep. 3, note 7, j-w/r^. John Shaw of 
 Greenock, brother-in-law of sir Hugh Montgomery, after- 
 wards first viscount, had a mortgage on the lands of Braid- 
 stane ; and the third viscount, afterwards first earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, sold the property to his kinsman, sir John Shaw 
 of Greenock, in 1650. "The family of Greenock," says 
 Robertson, as quoted by Paterson, Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. i., p. 285, "continued oc- 
 casionally to reside at the old castle here till after 
 1700." "The barony," continues the latter, "had all 
 been feued out at or prior to that period, except the 
 Castle-farm, consisting of about sixty acres ; so that when 
 the barony was included in the entail of Greenock, in 1 700, 
 it consisted only of the superiority and feu-daties and the 
 castle-farm of sixty acres. The ruins of the castle of 
 Braidstane remained till towards the end of the last century, 
 with some vestiges of the garden and an avenue of old 
 trees ; but on the occasion of building the fann-steading, 
 the tenant was allowed to take his own way, when he took 
 down the remains of the castle, and used the stones in the 
 new building. The avenue of trees and vestiges of the 
 garden have all disappeared ; so that there is now no 
 remnant of its ancient state left. It is to be regretted that 
 the castle was taken down, as it was a kind of landmark, 
 and must have been the building in which Con O'Neill 
 was sheltered on his escape from Carrickfergus. " Such 
 was the end of the Ards family's connexion with their 
 ancestral lands of Braidstane. The tenants there did 
 not always escape the scaiths of war more than their lords. 
 The sixth earl of Eglinton, writing to his son, colonel James 
 
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 ^57 
 
 for the debt, that no man should in the least be loser at his hands; and gave his bond for what 
 was unpaid thereof, w^ his son, the now Earle, hath paid; it coming heavy by reason of his father's 
 death and the neglect of his tutors (in his minority) to see the interest money paid annually, w^ was 
 also obstructed by the two joynters^'' on his (this said pres' Earle's) estates. His late Lo'', from the 
 civility he received in his travels in France (his ancestors in Scotland and the Montgom'"' of England 
 deriving their original from a Count of that sirname in Normandy,^3 yet standing there in that 
 degree of nobihty) had bred in him an inclination towards French servants, (they being very ready 
 and towardly to please their m') he brought over one of them as his valet de chambre, to confirm 
 his skill in that tongue, and in touching the lute; and this man was with his Lo^ all the while he 
 was confined in Cloghwooter afores*, but after his Lo^'' enlargment and marriage (when misunder- 
 standings fell out between him and Monck) this ungreatful fellow betrayed his councils, and fled 
 for it: and his Lo" (after the King's restoration) bringing from London another ingenious French- 
 man with him, was, by that knave and his French trumpeter, robbed of his clothes and money to- 
 a considerable value, yet he retained his page of that nation, and he is mentioned to be one in the 
 funeral procession.^* A kindness and courtesy done to his Lo" was an inviolable tie upon him of 
 gratitude and of making suitable returns; his Lo" was a constant friend to those he professed to love, 
 but neither hasty nor lavish to declare his mind therein. His Lo" was good to the servants of his 
 household, who all did thrive under him, and he was industrious to get promotions for his Lady's 
 relations. His Lo"'' devotion was pure and unmixed, being done for duty's sake, not to serve secular 
 ends; and this appeared in the worst times of schisms and heresy; he vowing his religion and loyalty, 
 and educating his sons by Dr. Bayly^s and other episcopal teachers, and himself was intirely ad- 
 
 Montgomery, in June, 1648, says of a party of royalists, 
 under general Middleton : — " They have wrackit the paroch 
 of Beith, and undone my Lord Airdis tennentis thair, and 
 severale other places." — Fraser's Memorials, vol. i., p, 287. 
 
 Two joynters. — The second earl's grandmother, Jean 
 Alexander, and his stepmother, Catherine Jones, first 
 countess of Mount- Alexander, had each a jointure, to be 
 paid from the estate. 
 
 '3 Sirname in Normandy. — The Norman descent of 
 the Montgomerys is discussed in the author's treatise^ 
 entitled, A « Historical Narrative concerninf; some of ye 
 Montgomerys in England and Scotland, which forms the 
 concluding memoir of the Montgomerys in this volume. 
 
 '"t Funej-al procession. — The name of this French page 
 is not given in the list, although he is there described as 
 inarching "bare-headed." 
 
 '5 Dr. Bayly. — Thomas Bayly was bom in Rutland- 
 shire, and, although educated at Cambridge, he graduated 
 M.A. ad tundem, and D.D., in the University of Dublin, 
 January 26, 1661. He came to Ireland with Dr. Jeremy 
 Taylor, and lived with him in retirement until the Re- 
 storation. He was first promoted to the deanery of 
 Down, on the 13th February, 1 66 1-2; and on the 1st 
 of March, 1663-4, was advanced to the sees of Killala 
 and Achonry, being consecrated in 1664. He died in 
 July, 1670, at Killala. White, the Centurist, has ac- 
 cused Bayly of teaching the people that "Extempore 
 prayer was pharasaical at the best, and that no prayer 
 ought to be longer than the Lord's Prayer; that he vindi- 
 
 cated the Book of Sports, and preached up the necessity of 
 people making their oblations at the altar on their knees ; 
 that he suspended the celebration of the sacrament during 
 the collection of the alms, which he used to set upon his 
 book, bless, and offer them up, when brought to him. " He 
 also charges him with having spoken in favour of abbeys, 
 saying, " that the curse of God was on them that kept 
 abbey lands, and therefore they did not prosper. He 
 refused to read the burial service at the funeral of some 
 children, because they died before baptism ; he also set 
 up the Jesuit's badge in his church, and the picture of a 
 flying dove over the font. He preached absolution and 
 auricular confession, and crossed sick persons on the fore- 
 head." He is classed by White among scandalous and 
 malignant priests. — Wood's .,4 //;^«. Oxon. vol. ii.,p. I151, 
 as quoted in Ware's Works, vol. i., p. 654. Of his writ- 
 ings, the following have been published, viz., Tkeophylact's 
 Comments on St. Paul's Epistles, London, 1 636; and a 
 Sermon on Gal. v. 12, preached before Charles L, 8vo, 
 London, 1707. — Allibone's Dictio7iary of British and 
 American Authors, vol. i., p. 155. Bayly died at Killala 
 in 1670. He was an eminent Greek scholar, and from 
 the allusion to him in the text, he had evidently been a 
 teacher in Ulster. In reference to Bayly's career, Dr. 
 Reeves supplies the following: — "He was chaplain to 
 Bishop Lindsell, of Hereford, and by him was employed 
 in preparing an edition of the Greek Fathers. But the 
 only one he published was Theophylact on St. Paul's 
 Epistles, Gr. Lat., with Bishop Lindsell's Notes, folio, 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 dieted to worship God by the Canon Prayer Book (in pubUck or in his family) when he could have 
 it, and therefore was hated by the Scotts of all sorts, and so by them cross'd or kept under hatches. 
 Whereas, had he complied (as great names did) he might have flourished in Long Parliam', Rump 
 and Oliverian times, and had also been loaded with honour by helping the restoration, but his Lo' 
 was the heart of oak for honesty and fidelity in right principles, and would not bow to the idols of 
 
 Lond. , 1636. For some years he taught a school at 
 Clerkenwell, near London. Afterwards he went to Ox- 
 ford, and became a chaplain of Christ Church, but was 
 ejected by the Parliamentaiy Visitors. Collated arch- 
 deacon of Dromore, May 20, 1 663. Patent for Killala 
 and Achonry, March, 1663-4. Consecrated at Tuam, 
 June 5, 1664." — Cotton's Fasti, vol. iii., pp. 226, 296; 
 vol. iv. , p. 70. 
 
 Kept inider hatches. — Various causes had contributed 
 to intensify the strife between the first earl of Mount-Alex- 
 ander and the presbyterian party. In the first place, 
 although he belonged to their communion for a time in 
 his early youth, he had afterwards joined the ej^iscopalian 
 church. In 1643, he co-operated with Monro and the 
 Scottish party in Ulster so zealously, that on his capture at 
 Benburb, and imprisonment in Cloughoughter castle, in 
 1646, the presbyterian ministers (seep. l66, supra), urged 
 the estates in Scotland to take every means for his libera- 
 tion, and spoke of the many and great sacrifices he had 
 made in what they deemed the cause of truth. In 1649, 
 however, when lord Montgomery presumed to accept a 
 commission from Charles II. without their knowledge and 
 sanction, they denounced him in no measured terms. From 
 a meeting of their presbytery in Carrickfergus, on the 29th 
 of June in that year, the ministers addressed to him a let- 
 ter, of which the following are the concluding sentences : 
 "The Lord will visit your family with sudden ruin and 
 irreparable desolation, for that you have been so grand an 
 instrament to destroy the work of God here. We exhorl 
 your lordship, in the name of liie living God, to whom you 
 must give an account, in haste to forsake that infamous 
 and ungodly course you are now in, and adhere to your 
 former professions, otherwise all the calamities that will 
 ensue will be laid on your score. The Lord himself and 
 all the faithful will set themselves against you, and we will 
 testify of your unfaithfulness to the world, so long as the 
 Lord will give us strength." A second letter, written on 
 the 2nd of July, concludes thus : — " But you have involved 
 yourself already so far in the guilt of unfaithfulness to the 
 cause of God and your own subscriptions, that we cannot 
 but testify against the course you are in, and denounce judg- 
 ment upon your person, family, and all your party, till the 
 Lord persuade your heart to return." — Reid's History 
 of the Presbyterian Church, 1867, vol. ii., pp. 1 18, 123. 
 As a contrast to the presbyterian view of the earl's cha- 
 racter and public career, we give the following extract 
 from the seimon of dean Rust on the day of his funeral : — 
 "He was of noble extraction, and of noble accomplish- 
 ments ; his family receive! in him a new addition of title, 
 but in his name and memoiy a greater encrease of real 
 honour ; he had a great wit, and a large understanding, 
 a deep insight into men and things, yet was not conver- 
 sant in the little arts of craft and subtilty, that sly and 
 sneaking principle, the refuge of guilt and weakness, that 
 puis on vizors and disgiuses, and acts under ground, and 
 in the dark, and practises such ways of circumvention, and 
 
 unhandsome artifices of deceit, as are altogether abhorrent 
 from that candour and sincerity, that becomes the breasts 
 of all gi eat and noble personages. His excellent \\\X. was 
 gi-aced M-ith a rare temper and sweetness of humour, 
 which is the great thing that renders conversation pleasant 
 and agreeable. His friends, and dependents, and all that 
 knew him, are so many witnesses of the generosity and 
 largeness of his heart, a god-like property, which msdces 
 great men gods upon earth. Like the sun he dispersed 
 his rays freely, and they were not a few that lived w^armly 
 and comfortably under his influence. He was of such 
 honourable principles, and had so much of bravery 
 and gallantry in his disposition, that he could not be 
 tempted to anything that was base and unworthy, or 
 persuade himself to serve his own ends by another's 
 ruin ; and no design pleasd him, that tended to his 
 neighbour's prejudice; not like those aspiring Lucifers, 
 that think any means is lawful, if the end be power and 
 greatness. He enterd early upon the stage of action and 
 great employment. He no sooner writ man, than he was 
 a soldier, a commander, a general ; The very commission 
 for so concerning a trust, is an ample testimony of his 
 valour, wisdom, and faithfulness ; which he verified after- 
 v.'ards by his honourable discharge of it ; But the great 
 proof he made was in the year 1649, when loyalty was 
 become a crime, because unprosperous ; and success had 
 adopted treason and rebellion into the family of virtue 
 and religion. When one brave king was made a martyr, 
 and another a confessor ; when by the guilt and avarice, 
 craelty and ambition, ot a prevailing faction in England, 
 allegiance and fidelity to our sovereign was enacted treason; 
 and by the zeal of the Kirk ot Scotland, in effect voted 
 heresy, and a sin deserving an anathema ; when our king 
 was an exile in a strange country, and all his forces by sea 
 and land, in the power of his enemies ; when by a faithful 
 adherence to the royal interest, no reward could be ex- 
 pected, but that of a good conscience, and a sense of doing 
 worthily; when the affairs of his majesty were in these 
 evil circumstances, then did this loyal subject, to the ap- 
 jiarent hazard of his life and fortunes, espouse this quarrel. 
 At his first declaring of his purposes, he met with 
 persecution at home, and the Presbytery denounced 
 judgment against him for joining with malignants that 
 blasphemed the Covenant; and received his commands 
 from my Lord of Ormond, who was guilty of so great a 
 crime, as to be an avouched maintainer of prelacy, and re- 
 tained the old English Liturgy in his publick devotions. I 
 need not tell you the consequence of this Engagement: He 
 stuck close to his loyalty, and the interest of his prince, 
 to the loss of his Estate, and Exile of his person, and 
 danger of his life : and his Majesty, after his happy Re- 
 storation, considered his sei'vices and his sufferings, and 
 rewarded them with an honourable employment in the 
 Irish Army, besides many other Testimonies of his favour. 
 I shoidd injure his memory, if I should let pass in silence, 
 his zeal and cordial affection for the Church of England, 
 
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 those days;*7 so I may say he was quercu non salice. In fine, his Lo^ was well bred and well read 
 in men and books, and had a judicious soul, which improved and cultivated all he learned, and was 
 a complete Gen* and Nobleman, for his virtues alone made him such. His frugality, in times of 
 scarceness and bounty, when he had affluence, were managed with singular dexterity and address. 
 Now, after all I have said of his Lo', I must not omit his facetious chearful comportm* in society, 
 w*" was natural and improved, much obliging and lov'd, nor leave out his courteous condecend- 
 encies, which were not so low as to disgrace his birth, station, or discretion. And his Lo^ lived in 
 his exalted state without pride, and bore his humbled condition without dejection; for he never 
 flattered or fawned on enemies (tho' often in their cruel hands), but argued strongly (with an even 
 temper of spirit) the justice of his demands; and tho' they (many times) had broke the capitulations 
 him, yet his promises (w** by hardships were wrung from him) were justly performed. I will 
 now withdraw my pen, seeing I can do no better with it; having (as I think) used it enough to 
 prove my averment that I w'' write affectionately and without flattery; as likewise having made 
 appear what I have lately, concerning my own and the reader's speculations, in order to express 
 our true and full ideas of his Lo^'" worth; for indexed it must be in this theme as is afore (upon the 
 matter) said, viz. Superat admiratio captuin. 
 
 which was a pledge of the mgenuity of his spirit, and the 
 greatness of his judgment, that his reason should prevail 
 above the prejudice of his education. To conclude, if 
 there be any credit given to real demonstrations, or gene- 
 ral fame, or the particular knowledge of them that were 
 about him, and conversed most with him : He was a per- 
 son that rarely well discharged himself in all his relations ; 
 a loyal subject to his prince ; a dutiful son to the church ; 
 a worthy patriot to his country ; a tender and affectionate 
 husband to his excellent ladies ; real and faithful to his 
 friend ; merciful and compassionate towards his tenants ; 
 free and charitable to the poor ; courteous and obliging to 
 all ; in a word, just and righteous, noble and honourable 
 in all his actions. If, after all, any shall tell me that he 
 was a man and lapsible, and subject to the inadvertencies 
 and weaknesses of human nature, I answer shortly, I have 
 not yet said he was a god ; but where we carp at his de- 
 
 ficiencies, let us be sure not to fail ourselves, but practice 
 the severity and exactness of a Christian life, that we all 
 come to partake of that blessed life and immortality, which 
 Christ hath brought to life through the Gospel." — Dr. 
 Rust's Sermon, preached from 2 Timothy i. 4, and pub- 
 lished in Dublin, 1663, 4to, as quoted in Wilford's Me- 
 morials, pp. 467, 468. 
 
 '''' Idols of those days. — The author had here in view the 
 many and flagrant instances in which leading men changed 
 sides, not from principle, but to be always of the party in 
 power. The cases of Monk, Coote, and Broghill, are 
 notorious ; and not less so were those of several magnates 
 in Ulster at that period. Persons actuated by such mo- 
 tives have been truly named by honest John Bunyan as. 
 My Lord Turn-about, My Lord Time-server, Mr. Facing- 
 both-ways, Mr. Anything, Mr. Two-Tongues, Mr. Hold- 
 the-World, Mr. Money-love, and Mr. Save-all. 
 
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 MEMOIR OF FOURTH VISCOUNT, SECOND EARL OF MOUNT-ALEXANDER. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 UGH, 2d Earl of Mount-Alexander, and 4th Viscount Montgomery, of the Great Ardes, 
 was born 24th of February, 1650, in Newtown house, and was (by reason of his father's 
 troubles) removed, with his sister, the Lady Jeane (elder than hee),' unto Mellifont, 
 where his brother Henry* (now living, Ao. 1698) was born. 
 
 The Lady Mother not parting with these little models of her deare Lord and self, (in all whom 
 was her chief worldly comfort), till she died in Dublin. 3 
 
 But his Lordship (lacking five months of 1 3 years old at his father's death) left school, and 
 came to the funeral, with his brother and sister; and they stayed some months (being cold weather) 
 with their grandmother and kind Major-General Monro, her Ladyship's husband, sometimes visiting 
 their father's sorrowfuU sister and mee,'' her husband, at Rosemount. 
 
 After a while, I conveyed them to Dublin, and they being settled, by common consent of their 
 uncles Drogheda and Charlemount,^ and (by them) I being entreated to sollicit this orphant Earle's 
 affaires in London, in order to obtain a reprizal for St. Wolstans aforesaid,^ their Lordships pro- 
 mising to write to the Duke of Ormond to befriend the cause. The Lord Rannelaugh also 
 promised to write to his sonn,' and the desolate good Countess of Mount Alexander promising to 
 write to her mother (the Lady Rannelaugh)^ to engage her son to advise and assist me therein. 
 
 The said Countess likewise entreating me to undertake that -jomey, and to prosecute that 
 business; and I having compassion on the orphants' distressed estate and condition, I consented to 
 
 ' Elder than hee. — The lady Jeane was bom in 1649. 
 She, and her two brothers, Hugh and Henry, were 
 children of the first earl's first wife, Mary Moore. 
 
 ^ Brother Henry. — This brother afterwards succeeded 
 as third earl, on the death of his elder brother Hugh in 
 1716. 
 
 3 Died in Dublin. — See p. 206, supra. 
 
 ♦ Sister and mee. — The author, who then resided at 
 Rosemount, was married to Elizabeth Montgomeiy, his 
 cousin -german, and sister to the first earl. 
 
 5 Charlemount. — The original settler of the surname 
 was sir Toby Caulfeild, who died in 1627. He had served 
 under Mountjoy Kinsale and in Ulster, and received for 
 his services, in 1610, extensive grants of lands in Tyrone, 
 Armagh, Derry, Antrim, Louth, Cavan, Fermanagh, and 
 Donegal. William Caulfeild, mentioned in the text, was 
 the fifth baron and first viscount Caulfeild and succeeded to 
 the family estates and titles when a young man, his eldest 
 brother, Toby, having been murdered by the insurgents 
 
 1642, and his second brother, Robert, having died a 
 
 few months afterwards, from an over-dose of opium. — 
 Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. iiL, 
 p. 41. 
 
 ^ Wolstans aforesaid. — The first earl was compelled to 
 surrender this property to its owner, Allen, who was 
 restored as an Innocent Papist, and his (Mount-Alex- 
 ander's) executors now looked for a reprisal or compen- 
 sation, according to the law which provided for adven- 
 turers of land under such circumstances. See pp. 229, 
 232, 233, supra. 
 
 ' His sonn. — This was Richard Jones, afterwards third 
 viscount Ranelagh, and first earl of Ranelagh. He had 
 no doubt much influence at court, as being then vice- 
 treasurer for Ireland. After his death, the title of earl of 
 Ranelagh became extinct, but that of viscount was revived 
 in another branch of the family. — Lodge, Peerage of Ire- 
 land, edited by Archdall, vol. iv. , pp. 303, 304. 
 
 * Lady Rannelaugh. — Catharine Boyle, daughter of 
 Richard, first earl of Cork.— Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, 
 edited by Archdall, vol. iv., p. 303. 
 
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 the Lords and the Countess their requests in that behalf; and promised to go, and doe the best I 
 could for the young Earle, as being my dear wife's nephew; all which I performed, as by the sequel 
 of this narrative will appeared 
 
 I returned to my house at Rosemount, and from thence (in the latter end of February, 1663) 
 I went to Scotland, and rode to Yorkshire, and was in Westminster by the latter end of March, 
 travelling in cold and rainy weather. 
 
 And on intimation given to the good Countess of my arrival at Court, her Ladyship acquainted 
 the said three Lords,'° and wrote her mother, (most affectionately and pressingly), to advise and 
 assist mee in my solicitation, by herself, and by speaking to the Ladys, whose Lords were of that 
 Committee, to which the bill of explanation" was given, to be consulted on and drawn up, and 
 that her Ladyship would give and gain me respect. 
 
 These three Lords also sent the promised letter to the said Duke of Ormond, signed by them, 
 in nature of a petition, for the minor orphant Earle, that his Grace would take him into his 
 protection, signifying that I was gone thither to wayte on his Grace in that behalf. 
 
 The Duke received the letter and myself graciously, (for he was feofee in trust, also, to the 
 
 9 Will appear e. — Among the services rendered by the 
 author to his young kinsman, the second earl, on this 
 trying occasion, was tlae preparing of a petition to the 
 king, whicli, under the circumstances, must have been a 
 difficult task. The following "rough draught " of it which 
 is still preserved among the Family Papers in the posses- 
 sion of Daniel De la Cherois, esq., Donaghadee, although 
 left unfinished by the writer, is not without interest : — 
 " Rough draught of what I presented to his Matie for Earle's be- 
 hoofe : 
 
 "May it Please Yok Ma"e_ 
 
 " Your MatieB royall grandfather, for services performed to him by 
 my lord Mount Alexander's grandfather, and for laying an obligation 
 for the continuance thereof in his posterity, and to y^ end a british 
 plantation might be made in y*^ northeast most parts of Ireland as a 
 footing and landing place for such forces as should be sent to quash 
 future Irish rebellions in Ulster, did confer honours and an estate on 
 that family, which had beforthat tyme been worshipfull for i6o years 
 in Scotland, and ever loyall to his royall ancestours, as was y^ noble 
 family of y'^ Montgomerys in that kingdom, whence the petitioner is 
 descended. I hope it is not unknown to your Matte that the petition- 
 er's grandfather and his father have ever yeelded to your royall father 
 of every glorious memory and to your sacred self those speciall services 
 to which they were more neerly obliged by y^' bounty of your royall 
 progenitors. I am not so bold as to represent to your Matie as that 
 either y^ services or sufferings of yo'' petitioner's family in their con- 
 stant loyalty (wherein it wasequalld but by a very few) doth at all meritt 
 a compensation reward, becaus that as for their sufferings, those must 
 needs have come upon them as honest men and liege subjects (none 
 of that sort haveing scapt the usurper's malice). As for their services, 
 tis true indeed they were eminently exemplary and active ones, 
 whether considered as done by themselves in person, or by their in- 
 terest, but this was due from the name and place they had in the 
 world, and that for the better performance of their services they did 
 engage their estate in debts, and submitted it to forfeiture (when they 
 might have saved it as others did) ; in all this they were but faithful! 
 stewards and dispensers of those fortunes which to that end they had. 
 It is a receaved opinion in our family, and wee have it by tradition 
 from our parents, that a person having lands granted to them by their 
 prince, ought to expend them in his service, and rather reduce them- 
 selves to their first station, than that his cans should want those 
 means to support it he might have to his crown ; and 
 
 that they ought and may safely rely on the grace of their sovereign, 
 who having of his meer motion at first conferred such benefits, 
 will undoubtedly express a fuller bounty where he experimen- 
 tally finds worth and gratitude. Lett me humbly say this to your 
 Mat^, that such a family may claim a greater share of your protec- 
 tion for the present, and confidence for the future, than such persons 
 
 who, though enough qualified for discharge of offices which they have 
 begged, and undergo meerly for a livelyhood, as being younger bro- 
 thers having no estates to loose, doe nevertheless make it an argu- 
 ment to their prince, that because he hath graced them with one 
 boon, they are fittest to receive and stand more in need of another 
 esteeming themselves very meritorious, and their sovereign's bound 
 to think so, if they have not betrayed a trust, though perchance they 
 were never active in it. That, in all humility, I conceive doth appear 
 worthy of your mat^^ favour, which is now begged in behalf of this 
 orphan Earle that his Father did engage his estate in great debt 
 to divers persons in Scotland and Ireland, for arms, ammunition, 
 virtually money, and other necessarys, meerly to advance your mat^^ 
 cause at the sieges of Belfast, Carrickfergus, and Derry, and in that 
 signall marque he gave of his reddyness and great influence 
 
 to serve your maty, expressed in the long and hazardous march he 
 undertook at an unseasonable tyme of the year, with a considerable 
 supply of forces, to attend a worthy person of honour here present 
 and all this against the spightfuU and cunning opposition of the clergy 
 demagogues, whose malice he felt afterwards, with all which debts 
 his estate is encumbered, for that the same was made liable thereunto 
 in the usurper's time ; the creditors then taking advantage to serve 
 themselves, as well they might, for among other the wicked artifices 
 which the tyrant used to suppress loyall persons, the charge which 
 he gave to his judges to favour suitors was not the least, so that the 
 greatest part of the estate must go to men who have not suffered so 
 much as an aking finger for your maty or your royal fatfier ; and who 
 by their cruel usage of the said Earle, in his honourable adversity' 
 have given some evidence that they never will hazard anything, for if 
 the estate must go, so neither it nor the family can answer the ends of 
 their royal donor. In all this is not included any part of the debt 
 which the petitioner's Father incurred in his banishment, in the se- 
 questration of his estate, in his solicitations for admittance to and 
 payment of his composition. By all which the petitioner is become 
 little better than a trustee for his creditors and their bailiff to levy 
 their rents. Such is his hard fortune which hath left him little more 
 than the title of honour of all he had : If to this affectionate loyalty 
 of the Father it may weigh with your maty that the son is every way 
 in body and mind as like his as his yeares can express, and 
 
 educated to continue so , for which he is infinitely obliged to your 
 maty's goodness and the care of your vice-gerrent, who improves all 
 your favours for service, and the good of your subjects), if this may 
 be any consideration with your maty, I can give your maty assurance 
 that he is such as your petitioner believes will not fail the good ex- 
 pectations are had off him." 
 
 '° Three Lords. — Drogheda, Charlemont, and Ranelagh. 
 
 " Bill oj explanation. — This bill was found to be In- 
 dispensable as an accompaniment to the Act of Settlement 
 especially to provide reprizes for the 1649 officers, which 
 that Act had altogether overlooked. 
 
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 settlement the late Earle had made, as he had been to his father's as afforesaid;)" and presented 
 mee to kiss the King's hand, acquainting his Majesty of my errand in generall; and at this time 
 the King expressed himself sorry for the late Earle's death, promising to be a friend to the orphant. 
 The King also told me he was acquainted with my father in Holland'3 and Scotland,'* and regret- 
 ted both his death and the manner of it, saying, he had heard therof; adding, that he had hard 
 measure of his countrymen, for his loyal services. 
 
 Indeed, the D. was a true loving friend to the defunct Earle, and often by his Dutches (who 
 had a Montgomery to her chief Gentlewoman her Remembrancer) was he put in mind of the 
 orphant. But great bodys move slowly. The bill was long upon the wheel, before it could be 
 Iramed to give content to those pretenders to favor, which were included in it.'^ 
 
 " Fatho's as afforesaid. — That portion of the lilami- 
 scripts is lost wliich contained reference to, or an account 
 of this settlement of, his affairs by the second viscount, in 
 which the earl of Ormond was named as trustee. It was 
 included,' no doubt, in the memoir of the second viscount. 
 See pp. I, 1^1, supra. In the author's 'rough draft' of his 
 letter to the king (see note 9, supra ), he mentions Or- 
 mond's care over the young earl, a duty which was in- 
 cumbent upon him as trustee of the late earl, his father. 
 Ormond was then lord-lieutenant of Ireland. In that 
 letter the author also reminds his majesty of the sacrifices 
 made by the late earl in the royal service, and especially 
 of his journey, at a ruinous expense to himself, in 1649, to 
 unite his force with that of Ormond in the vicinity of 
 Dublin. For Cromwell's account of the result of that 
 effort, see note 52, pp. 190, 191, supra. 
 
 '5 /// HoUnud. — .Sir James Montgomery met Charles 
 II. in Holland soon before the latter sailed for Scotland 
 in 1650, and returned with the king in that year, but was 
 compelled by the estates to leave Scotland very soon after 
 the landing of the royal party. 
 
 And Scotland. — Sir James had but one interview, 
 secretly, with Charles, after their arrival in Scotland, the 
 king being only permitted to have about him such persons 
 as the estates and kirk would sanction, to wit, covenanters 
 tried and true. 
 
 '5 Included in it. — The Bill of Explanation was trans- 
 mitted to England in September, 1663, but owing to the 
 many and fierce controversies in reference to its provisions, 
 it did not become law until the year 1665. The following 
 is Carte's account of the anxiety with which the Irish 
 house of lords laboured to obtain justice for the 1649 
 officers, which labours bore ample. fruits in this Bill of 
 Explanation :—" It was a generous part in that noble 
 body to take the loyal, meriting and suffering Officers, 
 who had served before 1649 (whose cause being the 
 best, was the most neglected of any), under their pro- 
 tection. Thus their Agents were instructed to move 
 his Majesty, that the whole security assigned in his 
 Declaration for the satisfaction of their arrears, might 
 be preserved entirely for that use, so as no part thereof 
 should be otherwise disposed of, or restored subsequent 
 to the said Declaration, till reprisals for the same were 
 first legally assigned and set out for their security, as was 
 by the Declaration provided for in the case of Adventu- 
 rers and Soldiers ; that in order thereto a tliird part of the 
 forfeited lands in the County of Dublin, and such part of 
 
 the lands as would accrue to his Majesty, upon the doub- 
 ling ordinance, or by the discovery of false admeasurements 
 and concealments, as his Majesty should judge fit, might 
 be added to the said security by way only of reprisal, in 
 case it should be lessened and infringed by the restoration 
 of any persoii .icc-^rJ.ing to the Declaration; and that no 
 forfeited charters might be renewed or restored, till the 
 security of those Officers was thoroughly settled." — Carte, 
 Life of Ormonde, vol. ii., pp. 230, 231. The house of 
 commons, which was composed of 260 members — all 
 burgesses but sixty-four — opposed the interests of the 
 Forty-nine officers, labouring to make good all the estates 
 of the adventurers and soldiers whatsoever, and intending, 
 when these were satisfied, to give the remainder, if any 
 were left, to such of the persons whom the king had 
 declared restorable, as they should like best. As it hap- 
 pened, these officers, at least the chief ones, or their heirs, 
 obtained amjjle recompense for their services. Dr. 
 French, who, in his work entitled the Sale and Settlevicnt 
 of Ireland, advocated the restoration to some extent of the 
 native Irish, speaks of the four great interests that stood 
 in the way of such restoration, namely, the adventurers, 
 the soldiers, the 1649 officers, and the gi'autees. Of the 
 third party in this enumeration, he says: — "The third 
 grand interest, and the most destructive to the natives, is 
 that of the Protestant officers who served his Majesty (or 
 the Parliament) in Ireland, before the year 1649, whose 
 arrears have been cast up, and stated, to the vast sum of 
 eighteen hundred thousand pounds sterling, in satisfaction 
 whereof, the best part of a whole kingdom (which 
 certainly is worth many millions) is conferred upon them. 
 They are entitled to all the natives' estates in four great 
 counties, to all the cities, corporations, and walled towns 
 of Ireland ; to all the land situated within a mile to th.e 
 sea and to the river of Shannon in tire province of Cou- 
 naught, and County of Clare ; to all the Debts, Leases, 
 and ]\Iortgages, and Reversions of the Irish ; for not only 
 the real estates, but also other pretensions and titles of 
 the unhappy Natives are forfeited, and lest all this should 
 come short to content this insatiable Party, the last Act 
 allows them five hundred thousand pounds out of the two 
 half years' rent from Ad^•enturers, Souldiers, and restored 
 Irish. Though the Roman Catholick officers have always 
 faithfully adhered to the king's interest, and never de- 
 serted iris service (as all or most of these Protestant 
 officers in Ireland have done, when the usurper prevailed), 
 yet their being Papists disables them from any satisfaction 
 
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 Whilst i attended every sitting day of the Committee, ordained to draw it up, (where there 
 was no dispatch for the throng of suitors)'^ watching the motions thereof; and making applications 
 to y" Lords, whose acquaintances I had gained, by seeing them at Court, or by means of the Lady 
 Rannelaugh, or her son, or by the D. of Albemarle whilst thus occupied, our own three Lords 
 in Dublin thought fitt to send to mee an instrument, signed and sealed by y" orphant Earle, where- 
 by his Lordship did nominate me his guardian (for he was then 14 years of age.) 
 
 I Iqiew intimately Sir Robert Southwall'^ (brother-in-law to Sir H. Percival, my kins- 
 
 for their sei"vices, which was a qualification not imposed 
 on the Catholicks in England." — Duffy s ediiion, 1846, 
 pp. 100, loi. The towns of Ireland had been previously 
 cleared (so far as the English government could do so), 
 of their Irish inhabitants, and were now handed over to 
 the 1649 officers as part payment of their arrears, and 
 from the hope that the latter would be most likely to 
 hold them firmly in the interest of the government, by 
 clearing out any remaining Irish, and planting English 
 settlers in their stead. But private interests generally inter- 
 fered after the Restoration, aswellasin 1653— 1656, with the 
 rigorous execution of this iniquitous proceeding. Officers 
 were ready to shelter Irish merchants whose presence 
 could not be conveniently dispensed with, and even the poor 
 Irish tenants who occupied and paid the rent of whole 
 streets of houses which would otherwise have quickly gone 
 to ruin. vSee on this subject a deeply interesting chapter 
 in Prendergast's Cromvjellian Setlleuiejit of Ireland, pp. 
 136 — 148. But, although ample provision was thus made 
 to pay the arrears of the 1649 officers, yet from the metliod 
 adopted in the discharge of this state debt, very many 
 officers of inferior rank were left minus their hardly-earned 
 pay. In Howard's Treatise of lite Excliequer and Revenue 
 of Ireland, vol. i., pp. 198, 199, we have the following 
 account of this matter: — "The commissioners were to 
 make an estimate of the respective securities appointed for 
 the satisfaction of such officers; in order to which they 
 were to value the houses, lands, &c., at eight years' pur- 
 chase, deducting the value of the improvements, and if 
 the said security should not extend to satisfy twelve 
 shillings and sixpence in every pound of the said arrear, 
 they were to proportion the satisfaction according to the 
 security ; then the said security v/as to be sold to the best 
 bidder, not under eight years' purchase, deductions being 
 made for the improvements. Yet note, that this security 
 was afterwards made up into lots, and past in certificates 
 and patents to certain trustees, in trust for the several 
 persons concerned in the lots, according to their respective 
 debentures, their proportions being mentioned in the 
 patent of every lot ; and every person concerned had a 
 right in equity to compel the said trustees or patentees to 
 convey unto him his proportion of the lot, being estimated 
 according to the proportion of his debt. But many of the 
 inferior officers have been to this day (1776) without satis- 
 faction, and the whole has been swallowed up by the trus- 
 tees, who generally were the principal persons concerned." 
 
 Throng of snilors.— This throng consisted, first of a 
 deputation from the Irish house of commons, who went to 
 London to lay before the king in council the draft of a 
 bill to accompany the Act of Settlement such as they ap- 
 proved ; second, of a commission from the Irish house of 
 lords, instructed to oppose several provisions of the com- 
 
 mons' bill ; third, of agents appointed by the Roman ca- 
 tholics to lay their claims and grievances before the same 
 tribunal ; and, fourth, of numerous emissaries employed 
 by protestant adventurers to circulate a sum of ;,^20,ooo in 
 bribing parties supposed to have influence over the king 
 or any member of the council. — See Lingard, vol. ix., 
 pp. 28, 29. " London was from this time the scene of 
 disputes upon this affair ; and thither Agents were sent by " 
 the Irish to plead their cause; which they did under great 
 disadvantages. The earls of Orrery and Mountrath took 
 care to raise privately among the Adventurers and Soldiers 
 between 20 and ^30,000 to be disposed of properly, with- 
 out any account by way of recompence to such as should 
 be serviceable to the English interest. The Irish had no 
 such sums to command, few friends about the Court, and 
 no means of procuring any. The English nation had heard 
 nothing of the rebellion but what gave them horror, and 
 possessed them with the worst opinion of the whole Irish 
 nation. Those of the Council, before whom they were to 
 plead their cause, knew little of the conduct of particular 
 persons w ho deserved favour, but were ready to involve 
 every body in the general guilt of the Massacre, as well as 
 of the Rebellion. The only person capable, or inclined to 
 assist them in their exigence, was the duke of Ormonde ; 
 it was liis interest, to save from ruin a Nation, for which he 
 had so often exposed his person, and in which he had a 
 plentiful fortune, a numerous kindred, and a large stock 
 of friends and dependants, who were in danger of being 
 rooted out to make way for a new colony of strangers, 
 vvhose ways of acting had been different from his own, 
 and whose future deptndance was likely to be upon those 
 who were retained to support their interest." — Carte's Life 
 of Ormonde, vol. ii., p. 232. 
 
 D. of Albemarle. — For notices of Monk, see pp. 169, 
 179, 180, 224, 226, 227, supra. 
 
 Sir Robert Sonthiuall. — The following inscription on 
 Sir Robert Southwell's monument, in Henbury church, 
 Gloucestershire, contains the best record of the leading 
 events in his life which we have been able to find : — 
 
 " Here lyeth 
 "The body of .Sir Robert Southwell 
 "Of King's Weston, in the county of Gloucester, Kt. 
 "He was eldest son of Sir Robert Southwell, of Kingsale, in the king- 
 dom of Ireland, and of Helena, the daughter of Major Robert Gore. 
 He was born at Battin-Warwick, on the River of Bandon, near King- 
 sale, 31 December, 1635. He came for his education into England 
 
 .1650, and spent his younger years at Queen's College in Oxford, at Lin- 
 coln's Inn, and in travel abroad. He was by King Charles II. made one 
 of the clerks of his most Honble. Privy Council, September, 1664. He 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Dering, of Sutrenden-Der- 
 ing, in Kent, Baronet, by whom he had issue six children. He was em- 
 ployed in several negotiations ; first, in quality of Envoy with power to 
 mediate a peace between Spain and Portugal, proving happily instru- 
 mental in giving a period to that wai", which had continued 28 years 
 without interruption. He was sent a second time to the court of Port 
 
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 man.)'9 He was one of the four Clerks of the Council, and brought on the cause in his quarter's time of 
 attendance, which was then begunn. And (to make the story short) a full Councel mett on the 
 day appointed, for that and other causes; at which the K. and Chancellor Hide,^ the Lords 
 Berkley*' and Ormond, were present, and those whom his Grace had made friends to our orphant 
 Earle. 
 
 Winter, 1664, now came on, and the bill for the Explanatory Act yet under debate. I stayd 
 till it was concluded, and the clause incerted for a reprize in behalf of the orphant Earle, for which 
 there was an order obtained from the King.^= 
 
 gal, in quality of Envoy Extraordinary. After, with the like character, 
 to the Governor of Flanders, the Conde de Slontery, in 1672. And 
 with the same commission to the Elector of Brandenburgh at Berlin 
 in 1680, attending in his way, the Prince of Orange at the Hague, by 
 whose council that negotiation was to be directed. After his return 
 he retired from public business, living at King's Weston, till King 
 William was advanced to the throne. He was then by his Majesty 
 made principal Secretary of State for Ireland, and attended him in 
 his expedition in 1690 for the reduction of that kingdom, holding the 
 .said office until his death. He had served in three parliaments, and 
 was five times chosen President of the Royal Society. He died at 
 King's Weston, the nth day of September, 1702, aged 66 years." 
 
 — Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol vi. , 
 p. II. Sir Robert Southwell owned landed property at 
 Downpatrick, where his son, Edward Southwell, founded 
 an important charity for the poor children on his estate. 
 In 1735, he contributed largely for the rebuilding the 
 church there ; and in honour of his liberality in assisting 
 to improve the port of Downpatrick, the town authorities 
 named the quay Khi^s Wc'j-^k.— Harris, Antient and 
 Present State of the County of Dmon, pp. 31, 33, 38. 
 
 '9 My kinsman. — // Percival is a misprint for J. 
 Percival. This sir John Percival was married on the 14th 
 of February, 1665, to Catherine, daughter of Robert 
 Southwell of Kinsale, and sister to sir Robert Southwell 
 mentioned in the text. Sir John Percival's eldest daughter, 
 Catherine, married, as her second husband, John Mont- 
 gomery of Ballyleck, in the county of Monaghan, de- 
 scended from the Braidstane branch, and consequently a 
 relative of the author, William Montgomery. Through 
 this marriage connexion, it must be, that the latter speaks 
 of sir John Percival as his " kinsman." 
 
 =° Chancellor Hide. — The well-known Edward Hyde, 
 created earl of Clarendon. 
 
 Berkley. — This nobleman, originally known as sir 
 John Berkeley, was created baron Berkeley of Stratton in 
 1658, and subsequently filled several high offices of state. 
 In 1670, he was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, and 
 in 1674 he was sent as ambassador to France. 
 
 Obtained from the king. — The following is the clause 
 in the Act of Explanation, 17 and 18 Charies II., to 
 which the author refers : — 
 
 " CLXVI. And whereas in and by the said former act, the manner, 
 castle, town and lands of St. Woolstownes, alias Allen's Court, were 
 intended to be settled upon Hugh, carl of Mount-Alexander, and his 
 heirs, with benefit of reprizal in case of restitution, as adventurers 
 l)y the said former Act ought to have had, as in and by the said 
 former Act more at large appears ; since which time the commis- 
 sioners for execution of the said former Act have, by their decree, 
 adjudged James Allen to be innocent, and restored the said lands to 
 the said James Allen and his heirs, against which decree an appeal 
 was made to his Majestic by a petition exhibited by William Mont- 
 gomery, Esq., on the behalf of the now Earl of Mount-Alexander 
 an infant, son and heir of Hugh, late Earl of Mount-Alexander ; on 
 hearing of which case, and on the defence made by Colonel Richard 
 Talbot, to whom part of the lands restored by said decree were for 
 
 good and valuable considerations, and by sufficient assurances in 
 law, legally conveyed by the said James Allen, his Majestie thought 
 not fit to alter the said decree, or weaken any of the said assurances ; 
 his Majestie, therefore, is graciously pleased, that it may be enacted, 
 and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners 
 for the execution of this Act shall set out and allot, or cause to be set 
 out and allotted, unto the now Earl of Mount-Alexander, his heirs 
 and assignes, so nnich other undisposed forfeited lands as may be 
 equal in quantity of acres unto two full third parts of the lands so 
 evicted and recovered by decree, as aforesaid ; and that letters patents 
 shall be thereof passed in like manner, and shall be of like effect, as 
 any other letters patents granted by virtue of this Act are or ought 
 to be." — Irisfi Statutes, vol iii., p. 99. 
 
 In pursuance of this clause, a petition was presented to 
 the Court of Claims, in the name of the youthful earl, for a 
 reprisal for the loss sustained by his falher when Allen 
 recovered St. Wolstan's by a decree of innocence. A 
 certificate for reprisal was obtained on the 2nd of January, 
 1668-9, the commissioners present being sir Edward 
 Smythe, knight ; sir Edward Dering, knight ; sir Allan 
 Brodrick, knight ; sir Winston Churchill, knight ; and 
 Edward Cooke, esq. The following is a copy of the 
 certificate : — ■ 
 
 " Whereas, upon hearing the claims of the R' HonWe Hugh, Earl 
 of Mount-Alexander, before this Court, in pursuance of a certain 
 clause in p. ni and 112 of the 5^ Explanatory Act, &c. [Here the 
 clause is recited.] Upon hearing of w-hich petition, and upon the 
 proofs, testimonies, and evidences therem produced before us, 
 H. M'^. s'l C'omm''^ It appeared unto this Court that the said Earl 
 of Mount-Alexander was deficient the full number of acres to make 
 up his Reprize for two full third parts of the Lands so, as afrd, 
 evicted and recovd from him by Decree of H. M"^. s^ late Comm'^. 
 And whereas, it appeared unto this Court, that the Lands,'Ten^^, & 
 Hcredi^^ hereafter mentioned, were lands, ten^^, and heredi^^ seized, 
 seques*'^, disposed, demised, set out, or set apart, by reason of the 
 late Horrid Rebellion or Warr which began or broke out on the 23rd 
 Octoljer, 1641 and thereby forfeit^ to, and vested in, H. M., to the 
 intents and uses in and hy the s^ Acts renfi limited and appointed, 
 and were adjudged unto the Common Stock of Reprisals. It was, 
 thereupon, several days upon the Distribution of the sd Stock of 
 Reprisals, in the 20^^ year of the reign of our si^ Lord King Charles 
 the 2"ii, Adjudged and Decreed by this Court, that the s^ Earl of 
 M^ Alexander was deficient the full number of 6S23 A., and that the 
 sd Earl is. by the sd Acts of Pari', lawfully entitled unto the lands 
 and tenements hereafter mentd. That is to say — [The Certificate 
 here recites the denominational names of all the lands assigned 
 to the Earl of Mount-Alexander for the loss of St. Wolstan's. The 
 lands comprised 5,377a. 3r. 28p., statute measure, in the barony of 
 Upper Ossory, Queen's County: 1,634a. 2r. 2op., statute measure, 
 in the baronies of Upper Ormond and Eleog.arty, county of Tip- 
 perary; 2,011a. 3r. 2p. statute measure, in the barony of Coonagh, 
 county of Limerick; and 1,979a. ir. 26p., statute measure, in the 
 barony cf Glankeery, county of Waterford. The Quit rent on the 
 lands in Queen's county was ^75 7s. 4id. ; on the kinds in Tipperary, 
 £i\ 16s. 3jd.; on the lands in Limerick, £xZ i6s. 8Jd.; and on the 
 lands in Waterford, 7s. 7id.] 
 
 " To be held and enjoyed by the sd Hugh, Earl of Mount Alex- 
 ander, his heirs and assigns for ever, in free and common soccage, as 
 of H. M'* Castle of Dublin, under the Quit Rents and yearly pay- 
 ments to be made and paid H. M., his heirs and successors, saving 
 the riglit and benefit of all former Decrees and Certificates made by 
 H. M'' Comm'* for executing the Act of Settlement, or by this 
 
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 265 
 
 After a few yeares the Agents were changed, but in the mean time annuitys or interest o 
 money for debt were suffered to run on, to the great enhancement thereof: and thus matters con- 
 tinued till his Lordship arrived at full age, and he came to live in the Gate-house of Newtown, the 
 great buildings (some months after his father's death) being burned down by negligence of 
 servants. ^3 
 
 His Lordship then finding all his affairs (as the common saying is) at sixes and sevens, he 
 appointed Commissioners to settle his estate and debts, and they acted therein, adjusting matters 
 with tenants and creditors for above two yeares f* in which time his Lordship abode most in London 
 
 Court, to such persons as are therein concerned. And this, our 
 Judgement and Decree, we do hereby certify to His Grace y'^ Duke 
 of Ormond, and unto his Ex. Earl of Ossory, Lord Deputy of the 
 same, and to all other Chief Governors there, for the time being, and 
 unto his Grace Michael Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor of 
 Ireld, and to H. M'^ Court of Ex-chequer there to the end, that effec- 
 tual Letters Patents under H. M'^ great seal of IrelJ may be forth- 
 with granted unto sd Hugh, Earl of M' Alexander, his heirs & 
 Assigns for ever, pursuant to this our Judgement, Decree, and Certifi- 
 cate, according to the purport, true intent and meaning of the sd 
 Acts of Settlement and Explanation.— Given under our hands and 
 seals this jnd day of January, in the ?ot'i year of the reign of our 
 Sovereign Lord King Charles the 2nd. 
 
 "Edw. Smyth. Edwd. Dering. A. Brodeick." 
 W. Churchill. Ed. Cooke. 
 
 — Landed Estates Court Record Office, Custom House Buildings, 
 Book of Certificates, vol. viii., p. 18, Dors. 
 
 For copy of the foregoing certificate, the editor is indebted 
 to the kindness of John P. Prendergast, esq., author of 
 The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland: 
 
 °3 Negligence oj se}~vanti. — This fire occurred early in 
 1664, new style. If, as Harris, Ancient and Present State 
 of the County of DoT-un, p. 58, states, Newtown House was 
 burned when in possession of the Colvilles, it must have 
 been after the year 1675, the date of Colville's purchase 
 from the second earl. 
 
 Above two yeares. — Tlie following Indenture, now 
 printed for the first time, was recently found among the 
 Family Papers in Donaghadee. Although imperfect, it is 
 curious in some lespects, and especially as recording the 
 names of the commissioners referred to in the text : — 
 "This Indenture, made the sixth day of May, in the yeare 
 of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred seventi and 
 three, and in the five and twentieth yeare of the raigne of 
 our Sovereign Lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of 
 God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, de- 
 fender of the faith, &c. , Between the right honourable Hugh 
 Earle of Mount-Alexander of the one part, and William 
 Montgomerie of Rosemount in the the county of Down, 
 Esqre., Hugh Montgomerie of Drombracklealy in the said 
 county, Esqre., William Schaw of Newton in the said 
 county, Esqre., Hugh Montgomerie of the city of Dublin, 
 Esquire, Andrew Monroe of Cherryvalley in the said 
 county of Doune, Esqre., Patrick Montgomerie of Bally- 
 creboy in the same county, Esqre., and Hugh Campbell 
 of Donaghadee in the said county, gentleman, of the other 
 part: Witiresseth, that the said Hugh, Earle of Mount- 
 Alexander, reposing great trust and confidence in the 
 persons before named, hath nominated, ordained, con- 
 stituted, and appoynted, and by these presents doth 
 nominate, ordaine, constitute, and appoynt the said 
 William Montgomery, Hugh Mountgomery, William 
 
 Schaw, Hugh Montgomery, Andrew Monroe, Patrick 
 Montgomery, and Hugh Cambell, or any four or more of 
 them, whereof the said Andrew Monroe or Patrick Mont- 
 gomery to be always one, his Commissioners, Agents, 
 and lawfull Attorneyes for him, and in his name and for 
 his use, to manage his, the said Eai'le's, Lops. , Manors, ■ 
 Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof he stands 
 seised in fee, or any other estate of inheritance or possession, 
 or interested of any other chattels reall in the said county 
 of Doune or elsewhere, in the Realme of Ireland, 
 
 and to make leases of the sam or any part or parcell 
 thereof, for any terme or termes not exceeding forty one 
 yeares from the date of such lease or leases, and at the 
 best improved rents that they can or may conveniently 
 sett the sam for, either with or without fynes, as they in 
 their discretion shall think fitt and shall apprehend to be 
 most advantageous for the said Earle, such Rents so to be 
 reserved by the said leases to bee to the said Earle his 
 heires and assigns, and that the said Commissioners or 
 any four of them whereof the said Andrew Monroe or 
 Patrick Montgomery to be one, doe Rent Roll 
 
 of the said estate fairly written and ingrossed on parch- 
 ment or in some book to be signed with the 
 proper hand writing of the severall persones herein below 
 named, the one of theme to be delivered yearly to the said 
 Earle, one other to remaine in the hands and custodie of 
 such one of the said Commissioners as the greater nuinber 
 of them shall think fitt to nominal, and appoynt, and a 
 third coppie to be delivered yearly to such Receiver or 
 Receivers as the said Earle shall from tyme to tyme 
 nominat and appojmt for receiving the Rents and Revenues 
 of the said Estate. And the said Earle doth likwise 
 hereby nominat, ordaine, constitute, and appoynt the said 
 Commissioners or any four or more of them whereof the 
 said Andrew Monroe or Patrick Montgomery to be one, 
 to be his Commissioners, Agents, and lawful Attorneyes 
 for him and in his name and to his use to sett and dispose 
 either in fee farme or for three lives or for forty one years, 
 all and every the houses and tenement with all and every 
 the out houses, Gardens, Orchards, Backsydes, Courts, 
 Courtilages, Shoppes and Cellars thereunto belonging, 
 with all and every the Towhes and Villages of Donaghadee 
 and Comber and Corporation of Newtown, lying and 
 being in the said county of Downe, to such person or 
 persones at the best Improved Rents, the said Rents so 
 to be reserved to bee to the said Earle his heirs and 
 assigns and under such Covenants, Provisoes, Conditions, 
 and Limitations as they can or may conveniently sett or 
 dispose the same, either with or without fynes from tyme 
 to tyme, as they in their discretion shall think fitt. AncJ 
 
266 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and Dublin, and in anno 1672, marryed daughter of Carey Dillon, and had no portion 
 
 with her (that I could learn) except goodness, comlyness and breeding. \ was not acquainted 
 with her Ladyship, and she dyed in winter, 1673,''^ to his Lordship's and all the Commissioners 
 griefs. 
 
 In this time, the Commissioners had begun a suite in Chancery, to discover and redress what they 
 thought amiss in the former agents and receavers, and to bring them to an account of their steward- 
 ships, and to refound or compound if they could make them doe soe) ; but they were discharged 
 the 14th of November, 1674, from further acting, and required to answer for their proceedings. The 
 
 to the ende that due payment may be made of the Debts 
 justly due by the father and grandfatlier of the said Earle, 
 as also of all such other Delfts of the said Earle party to 
 these Presents, now Contracted or to be Contracted by 
 him the said Earle, the said Debts not to exceed four 
 thousand Pounds ster. English by him the said Earle 
 Contracted or to be Contracted, the said Earle 
 doth hereby nominat, constitute, and appoynt the said 
 Commissioners or any four or more of them whereof tlie 
 said Andrew Monroe or Patrick Montgomery to be one, 
 to Raise such a Soume or Soumes of Monnie, from tyme 
 to tyme for the payment of all and every the said Debts 
 of the said grandfather and father. And 
 of the said four tliousand pounds str. granting 
 in the Name of the said deed or deeds of 
 
 Mortgage or Rent Charge of or on all or any the 
 premisses except the mansion house of Newtone and 
 Comber and the demeasnes thereof, not exceeding forty 
 one yeares witli siicli Covenants, Conditions, Limitations 
 and Provisoes as they in their discretion shall think fitt 
 And whereas certain lands, tenements and hereditaments 
 are descended to the said Earle from his father the late 
 Earle who became Intituled and interested in the sam by 
 virtue of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. Now 
 the said Earl doth hereby ri'.iminat constitute and appoynt 
 the said William Montgomery, Hugh Mountgomery, Wil- 
 liam Schaw, Hugh Montgomery, Andrew Monroe, Pat- 
 rick Montgomery and Hugh Campbell, or any four or 
 more of them, whereof the said Andrew Monroe or Patrick 
 Montgomery to be one, for and in his name to sell and 
 dispose of the same any every parcell tliereof and the fee 
 simple thereof to such person or persons by such deed or 
 deeds of sale or matter of record and in such manner and 
 for such consideration as they in their judgement and dis- 
 cretion shall think fitt and reasonable, so as the same or 
 any part thereof be not disposed of under tenn yeares 
 purchase according to the yearly value of the lands at the 
 tyme of such dispositione to be made as aforesaid. And 
 so as the said Earle be not obliedged to any gencrall war- 
 rant 10 all or any of the persones to whom such sale or 
 any the premisses so to be sold or disposed or shall from 
 tyme to tyme be made as afor^aid. And the said Earle 
 doth hereby further appoynt the said severall persones be- 
 fore named, or any four or more of them whereof the said 
 Andrew Monroe or Patrick Montgomery to be one, from 
 tyme to tyme to and accompt all and every 
 
 such person or persones as have been Receivers of any 
 part of the Rent and Revennue of any of his Lordshippes 
 estate reall or personall and to receive for the use of the 
 said Earle what appares to be due unto his Lordshipp upon 
 
 such accomptes or otherwise, and upon satisfaction made 
 to give such release and discharge for the same as they or 
 any four of theme shall think fitt, and upon non payment 
 or refuseall, to use all lawfull wayes and meanes for and 
 on the behalf of the said Earle And in his name and for 
 liis use and at his cost and charge to recover 
 
 and receive the sam, which sume or summes so to be re- 
 ceived by the said persones, or any four of theme are to be 
 converted disposed of and payd to the satis- 
 
 faction of the said Earles just debts as also to the said 
 debts of his grandfather and father aforesaid — Provided 
 always that in making such leases and dispositions as be- 
 fore expressed, the said persones or any four of them are 
 to have respect to the immediate tennant of such Landes 
 and to afford them the preferrance of the sam they giving 
 (bona fide) as much as any other shall give for tlie sam — 
 And further, the said Earle doth hereby give full power 
 and Autliority imto the said severall commissioners or any 
 four of them to treat, agree, or compound * * * " 
 '^^ Breeding. — This was Catherine Dillon, eldest daugh- 
 ter of Carey Dillon, fifth earl of Roscommon, who, if she 
 had not wealtli,' could boast of an ilkistrious descent The 
 founderof her family is supposed to have been an Irishprince 
 of the southeiTi Hy-Neill, who, in the year 593, married the 
 heiress of the house of Aquitame, whose representatives 
 ^vere sovereign princes of that dukedom for many centu- 
 ries. Hemy II. of England deposed Thomas, duke of 
 Aquitaine, the last of that line, and the son of the latter, 
 named Henry Dalion or Dillon, was brought to England, 
 where he resided until the year 1 185, when he ac- 
 com])anied the earl of Morton (afterwards king John) to 
 Ireland. He obtained extensive grants of lands, long 
 known as Dilloii's country, including large territories in 
 the counties of Longford and Westmeath. Henry Dillon 
 married a daughter of John De Courcy, and from this 
 union came the illustrious race of the DiUons, earls of 
 Roscommon. Carey Dillon, father-in-law of the second 
 earl of Mount-Alexander, was the youngest son of 
 Robert, second earl of Roscommon, and, at the time of 
 his daughter's marriage he was poor, although holding 
 occasional places under Charles II. and James II. By 
 the death of his nephew, the poet, he became fifth earl of 
 Roscommon, in 1684. He died in 1689, and was 
 succeeded by his son, as sixth earl. His daughter, 
 the countess of Mount- Alexander, only lived one 
 year after her marriage. — Lodge's Peerage, vol. i., p. 
 145 sqq. ; Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly's Genealogical History, 
 P- 57- 
 
 In Winter, 1673. — This lady died on the 26th of 
 January, 1674, new style. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 267 
 
 which Captain Hugh Montgomery,^? William Shaw,^^ and Hugh Campbell^? (who were the main actors) 
 did, in name of the rest, who could not inspect (so narrowly as they) into the managery of every 
 particular, and minute affairs (especially the drudgery part therof,) not living in Dublin, Newtown 
 or Donaghadee. And so the said suite fell to the ground, and his Lordship became ;^2ooo 
 indebted (more than he was), by giving a bond for it, by the advice or arbitration (as was reported 
 and believed) of the said Colonel Dillon ; for payment whereof, and other debts, his Lordship was 
 necessitated to sell the whole parish of Newtown. 
 
 His Lordship's grandmother dyed in harvest, 1670,3° and the first Countess (who had a jointure 
 on Donaghadee 12 years) dyed, his father's widdow, Ao. 1675331 yett, for all these three disburden- 
 ments,3^ and that he was a widdower, without a childe, yet his Lordship had too many heavy 
 burdens to beare, and two ether sisters33 to portion, besides the weight of the j[,20Qo aforesaid. 
 
 Amongst his creditors, Alexander Collville,3* Dr. in Divinity, (a true Church and King's man), 
 had lent to the late Earle, to help to pay his composition mony, in the usurping times, the sum of 
 ^rooo; and Captain Hu. Montgomery and William Shaw aforesaid, were joyned in the bond, with 
 his Lordshipp, for secureing payment thereof So it was their business to be free of that debt, and 
 the long incurred interest mony therof, and also to gett divers hundreds of pounds, due to them- 
 selves, and to be released from other suretyshipp incurred with the late Earle. It was their drift 
 and designe (as well as concern) to advise his present Lordship to sell Newtown parish unto the 
 Doctor's only issue son^ heire, and executor. Captain Robert Collvill, (a person of a great estate 
 before this time), which was ddne;35 and yett, by reason of the undefrayd minority interest mony, 
 
 Captain Hugh Monfgo7nery. — This gentleman was 
 son of James Montgomery the clergyman. He was the 
 first earl's constant attendant and friend, and known as 
 "my lord's Hugh." See p. 198. supra. At this time 
 there were living six other Hughs, not including the young 
 earl — viz., Hugh, son of Hugh of Gransheogh ; Hugh, 
 son of the seneschal ; Hugh of Ballylesson ; Hugh of Bally- 
 henry ; Hugh of Ballyskeogh ; and Hugh of Ballymaclady. 
 Hugh mentioned in the text is styled of Dublin in 1673; 
 but soon afterwards came to reside permanently at Bally- 
 magowan, now Springvale. 
 
 William Shaw. — See pp. 11, 52, 250, jk/w. From 
 the author's naming the three commissioners' places of 
 residence, we infer that William Shaw resided in Newtown; 
 probably in the house mentioned by Harris, as standing 
 near the market cross, and having the armorial bearings 
 of the Shaw family cut on a freestone slab in front. See 
 P- 59. supra. 
 
 ^5 Hugh Caniphcll. — See p. 250, supra. We are here 
 informed that Hugh Campbell's place of residence was 
 Donaghadee. 
 
 s'" In harvest, 1670. — This is the date of Jean Alexan- 
 der's death, who was lady of the second viscount, and 
 afterwards became the wife of major-general Robert 
 Monro. See pp. 87, 140, note 74, i68, supra. 
 
 Ao. 1675. — This is the date of Catherine Jones's 
 death, who was second wife of the third viscount, married 
 to him immediately on his advancement to the earldom, and 
 therefore mentioned in the text as first viscountess. See 
 p. 230, supra. 
 
 3^ Three disburdenmeiits, — These three disbtxrdenments 
 
 were the ceasing of his grandmother's and stepmother's 
 jointures, and the relief from pressing debts by his borrow- 
 ing the sum of £2,000. 
 
 33 Other sisters. — His eldest sister Jean had died at 
 Chester in 1673. These others were his half-sisters — lady 
 Catherine, married to sir Francis Hamilton, and lady 
 Elizabeth, married to Raphael Hunt, esq. — See pp. 230, 
 231, supra, 
 
 w Alexander Collville. — See pp. 140, 205, supra. 
 
 35 Which was done. — On the 12th of November, 1675, 
 the earl of Mount- Alexander, sold to " Robert Colvil of 
 Mount-Colvil, in the county of Antrim, Esq.," for the 
 sum of ;^io,640, " the whole mannor and Lordship of 
 Newtowne, with the mannor House thereof, and all other 
 ye buildings, demeasnes, orchards, gardens, courts, out- 
 houses, dovehouses, and parkes thereunto belonging; the 
 whole towneship, corporation, and Burroughof Newtowne, 
 the severall acres of land commonly called the towne 
 acres ; all commons, wast-grounds, strands, and marshes ; 
 all and every the severall mills, waters, water-courses, and 
 streams, to them or any of the premises or lands belong- 
 ing, built, or being, or appertaining to the above-mentioned 
 premises; all that, his or their right of patronage or pre- 
 sentation to the church of Newtowne ; all the towns and 
 lands of Ballinreagh als Moville als Bowtovvne als Bally- 
 preo, with the scite, circuite and precinct of ye Abbey of 
 Movilla, Ballyhaine, Ballydrumhircke als Gramhirk als 
 Diumhirk, Ballyallycock als Drumchin als Balaloo als 
 Drumhenry als Doniceghs, quarter of Ballyhawly als 
 Milecross, Ballyheft als Raghary als Ballinhaulter, with 
 the cite, circuite, and precinct of ye priory of Newtowne, 
 
268 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and other debts, his Lordship was not alleviated of all his burdens, but a great many, both old and 
 new incumbrances, stuck to him. 
 
 In which plight, his Lordship went to England, and marryed Elenor Berkley, (daughter to 
 the Lord Fitzharden), who brought his Lordship very little mony, yet run him into further debt.3^ 
 So that, by hers and her accomplices' advices and instigations, (none of hi? Lordship's kindred, or 
 former Commissioners being consulted,) and by his Lordship's own sense of conscience, honor and 
 justice, (most inclining him,) the mannor of Mount Alexander^? (the house and demeasnes excepted) 
 was sold to Sir Robert Collvill, to pay the residue of his Lordship's debts. 
 
 Carrowcrossnemuckley als Dnimchey als Dnimnewhay, 
 Ballyloughrescoy als Loughrescow als the Three Lough- 
 rescowes, Ballyhawny, Balliwatticock, Ballylisnacavan 
 als Ballyno als Newtowne, Can-ovvcamcoise als Coulacks 
 als Whitespots, Carrowmagheralaghaw als Island als 
 Jomfries Land, Ballykillconan als Killcoman als Bally- 
 cullen als Scrabo Hills als Wilson's Land, Ballynabarnes 
 als Barnes, Carrowtullehaggard als Tullenegardy, The 
 Two Ballyskeaghs, Carrigogantelan als Cregogantlett, 
 Ballynemoney, Ballykilcarine als Killarne, Ballyroggan- 
 loughmaroony, Ballymolton als Ballyalton, Ballymaghre- 
 ragan als Ballymagrevaghan, Ballycloghtogall als Green- 
 graves ; all wliich said premises are situate, lying and 
 being in the Baronyes of Ardes and Castlereagh, county 
 of Downe, and all the river-courses, remainders, rents, 
 customs, duties, services, condicons, redempcons, 
 rights and equityies of redempcons of them respectively, 
 with all Royaltys, Courts Leete, Courts Baron, Pyepowder, 
 Courts of Record, Clerke of the Marketts, Jurisdictions, 
 Privileges and Immunities whatsoever to the premises or 
 any of them belonging or in any wise appertaining; And 
 all advowsons, presentations, rectoryes, tythes, oblacons, 
 mines, mineralls, waifes, strayes, wrecks, faires, markets, 
 turbaryes, wayes, easements, perquesites, and advantages 
 of what nature and kind soever (excepting al wayes out of 
 the said grant tenn townlands formerly in the possession 
 of Robert Boyd ; and the five townlands, viz. , Ballywitock, 
 commonly called my Lord's Ballywitock, the two Cunning- 
 burns, and the two Ballyblacks, parcells of the said manor 
 with the Come Mill and Tuck Mill built in the towne of 
 Cunningburne. " On the 25th of November in the same 
 year, the earl sold to sir Robert Colvill, then Robert 
 Colvil, esq., for the sum of ;^3,ooo, "all those the townes 
 and lands commonly called Templechrone, viz. , Ballyna- 
 hole als Templechrone als Owlestowne, Ballymuckley als 
 TuUymuckley, Ballycaslen als Castletowne als Bally- 
 heighley, Ballyblacks als Ballynapistragh, Carrownester 
 als Fisherstowne als Killenterny, as ye same were possessed 
 by Robert Boyd, esq., containing by eblimacon one 
 thousand two hundred acres, scituate in the parish of 
 Greyabbey ; and all those the five townlands following, 
 viz. , the two towne Parks, lands of Cunningburnes, lately 
 in the possession of Hugh Montgomery, Esq., and James 
 Maxwell, yeoman, containing by estimacon two hundred 
 and forty acres, the two Ballyblacks als Ballynapistragh, 
 lately in the possession of Thomas Daves, John Orre, 
 and others; and the towne and lands of Ballywittock, 
 commonly called my Lord's Ballywhitcock, then and 
 lately in the tenure of M'Cutcheon, William and David 
 Whitlaws, yeomen, and others, all which last-mentioned 
 
 towne lands are situate in the parish of Newtowne. — MS. 
 Paper. For original grant to the Boyd's, see p. 53, siip a. 
 
 3' Into further debt. — Elinor Berkeley, the young earl's 
 second wife, was also a lady without do\\ er, but of very 
 illustrious family, being descended from that Robert 
 Fitzharding, who, for his fidelity to the empress Maud, 
 obtained the lordship of Berkeley; and who was appointed 
 to receive and entertain Dermot MacMorrough, king of 
 Leinster, with sixty of his retinue, when he landed at 
 Bristol, in 1168, to solicit assistance from Henry II. His 
 descendant (Maurice Berkeley), the lord Fitzharding of 
 the text, was a worthless minion of Charles II., and a 
 vei-y unsafe associate for the earl of Mount-Alexander. 
 The reader may see reference to him in the Diary of 
 Samuel Pepys, edited by lord Braybrooke, vol. ii. , pp. 
 45. 86, 93, 95, 96, 132, 155. 191, 202, 2i8, 219, 248. 
 
 37 Manjwr of Mount- Alexander. — On the 14th of October, 
 1679, the earl and dame Elinor, his wife, sold to sir Robert 
 Colvil, for the sum of ^^9,780, "the whole mannor and 
 lordship of Mountalexander als Cumber, (excepting only 
 and reserving to the said earle ye mannor-house of Mount- 
 alexander and all other the buildings, out-houses, orchards, 
 gardens, and desmeasnes thereunto belonging, then in the 
 actual possession of the said Earle) and also all the tj'thes 
 both greate and small issueing and due out of the townes 
 and lands of Killeny, Clontinekelly, Crossnecreevey als 
 Cargineveagh, Carrickmadderoy, and Lisbane, the whole 
 towne and parish of Cumber, the severall acres of land 
 commonly called the towne acres, all commons, wast- 
 grounds, strands, marshes, mills, waters, water-courses, 
 and streams ; all the right of patronage or presentation to 
 ye church of Cumber ; all the townes and lands of Eden- 
 slatt als CaiTowedenslatt, Ballycrilly, Ballyrush als Bally- 
 eurash als Eurash, Castlenevarry als Ballycastlenevarry 
 Killenether, Ballirickart als Ballyrichard als Ballyregard als 
 Bowtone, Rincreevey als Ballyringcreevj', Ballystockard, 
 Ballymaglaffe, Ballyhausel als Ballyheusel, Gortgribe 
 als Ballygorcrib, Ballyalton, Great Ballyhenrj', Little 
 Ballyhenry, Chirrivally als Carrowcrossnemuckley, part 
 of Ballyhewey als Johnsteven's Land, Ballyloughan, 
 Ballyaltickilligan, Ballymalady, Ballyalloly als Bally- 
 gallochly, Ballywilliam als Ballymacwilliam, Bally- 
 magchin als Ballymackechaon, Roverra als Levalleraverra, 
 Ballycloghan, TuUygers-an als BallituUigirvan, Rafry, 
 als Ballyraphree, Bamemachree als Ballycamamachre, 
 Castlerany als Carrowcastlerany, Creevie, Athendarach 
 als Ballyachendarrach als Ballydruvechey, Ballyacherty, 
 and Ballycumber als Ballymonestragh, — all which pre- 
 mises are scituated in the barony of Castlereagh, county 
 of Downe, together with all Reversions, Remainders, 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 269 
 
 His Lordship had visited the Duke of Yorks^ (when he was Commissioner for Scotland) and 
 was graciously receaved, and had gott a foot company; and, in the Earle of Essex39 Government 
 in Ireland, his Lordship gott his deceased unkle Drogheda's troope. So that, as we commonly say, 
 fortune began to smile upon him. 
 
 And his Lordship being at Westminster, at King James' accession'*" to the Crown,) he con- 
 tinued in favour as formerly; and then it was that his Lordship gott the patent for the Corporation 
 of horse breeders in Ulster,"*' and Commission to be Governor of Charlemount,'*^ and a Commission 
 
 Rents, Customes, Dutyes, Sei-vices, Condicons, Rights 
 and Equityes of Redemption of them respectively, with 
 all royalties, courts leete, baron, pyepowder and record; 
 privileges, immunities; rectories, tythes, oblations, mines, 
 minerals, waifes, strayes, wrecks, faires, marketts, turbarys, 
 parkes, ways, easements, perquisetts, and advantages to 
 the said premises, or any part of them belonging." The 
 several lands thus purchased by sir Robert Colville were 
 intended by him to descend to his eldest son, Francis, and 
 his heirs. Prior to the marriage of this son, sir Robert made 
 the following arrangement : — "I, Sir Robert Colvil, upon 
 a marriage shortly intended to bee had and solemnised be- 
 tween my son and heire, fifrancis Colvil, and Dorothy Temple, 
 one of the daughters of Sir John Temple, knt. , his ma*'«* 
 Solicitor General, have agreed that a Settlement shall bee 
 made of all lands, tenements, and hereditaments above- 
 mentioned, amongst other lands, upon the said ffrancis 
 Colvil and the issue male of his body, and for makeing a 
 joynture thereout for the said Dorothy Temple in slich 
 manner as between mee, Sir Robert Colvil, and Sir John 
 Temple, hath been agreed on, but the said ffrancis Colvil 
 being now under age, a firme and secure settlement cannot 
 bee made thereof by his joyning with mee therein, whilst 
 the remainder of ye said Lands continues in the said 
 ffrancis Colvil and his heirs, as by the said deed the same 
 is settled." The witnesses to the foregoing deed of 
 settlement were Robert Maxwell, Randall Brice, Henry 
 Echlin, Ro: Ashenhurst, and Andrew Monroe. — MS. 
 Paper. 
 
 3^ Ditke of York. — Afterwards James II. He held 
 several important offices of state during the reign of his 
 brother Charles II. 
 
 35 Earh of Essex. — Arthur Capel, created viscount 
 Maiden and earl of Essex in 1661, was appointed 
 lord lieutenant of Ireland, by patent, dated 21st May, 
 1672. He required to be absent in 1675 ; and during the 
 interval of his absence, the archbishop of Dublin and 
 sir Arthur Forbes were appointed to conduct the govern- 
 ment. Essex returned in the spring of 1676, and was re- 
 called the following year, Ormond being appointed to 
 take his place, in May, 1677. " How he came to be 
 raised to this post," says his biographer, "he could 
 never understand, for he never had pretended to it ; and 
 he was a violent enemy to popery, not so much from any 
 fixed principle in religion, in which he was too loose, as 
 because he looked on it as an invasion made on the free- 
 dom of human nature In his govern- 
 ment of that kingdom, he exceeded all that had gone 
 before him, and was a pattern to all that should 
 come after him. " But although Essex had proved him- 
 self nobly qualified for his responsible trust, and had per- 
 formed signal services to the state as chief governor of 
 
 Ireland, he was recalled in 1677, because he refused to 
 become a minion and tool of Charles II. In June, 1 683, 
 he was accused of being concerned in the Ryediouse con- 
 spiracy, and committed to the Tower, in which he was 
 found dead on the 13th of July; having, as some said, 
 committed suicide, but, as most people believed, being 
 murdered at the instigation of the king and the duke of 
 York. — Life of Essex, prefixed to his Letters, pp. i— xiv. 
 
 James s accession. — This event took place on the 6th 
 of February, 1685. On the 21st of January following, 
 the earl of Mount- Alexander obtained a confirmation 
 under the commission of grace, of the lands granted to 
 him as a reprizal in the Queen's county, and in the 
 counties of Tipperary, Limerick, and Waterford. The 
 following is a copy of this confirmation : — 
 
 " Know ye that we, by and with the advice and consent of our right 
 Trustie and Rt. well belnved cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of 
 Clarendon, our L*^ Gen^ and Gen* Gov^ of our sd YJ^^ of Irel^, and 
 according to the tenor and effect of an attested copy of a Certificate 
 under the hands and seals of the late Comm"'^ appointed for putting 
 in execution two Acts of Parliament lately made in our sd KS'" of 
 Ireld (being the Act of Settlement and Act of Explanation), bearing 
 date the 2^(1 of January, in the 2otti year of the reign of our late most 
 dear Brother King Charles the 2d<I of Blessed Memory, and in the 
 year of our Lord 1668 — And upon the humble request of our Rt 
 Trusty and Rtwell beloved Cousin, Hugh Earl of Mount Alexander, 
 producing and presenting the copy of this Certificate under the hand 
 of the Dep. Auditor of our sd K*"''", and according to and in pursu- 
 ance of the sd several Acts of Parlt, and of our Letters imder our 
 Privy Signet and Sign Manual, bearing date at our Court at White- 
 hall the 29th of July, in the first year of our reign and in the year of our 
 Lord 1685, now inrolled in the Rolls of our High Court of Chancery 
 in our sd K^"' of Ireld — Have given, granted, confirmed, &c., to the 
 said Hugh Earl of Mount Alexander, his heirs and assigns, the seve- 
 ral Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, That is to say, in Kil- 
 brickan [And so the lands are enumerated as in the Certificate of the 
 Court of Claims.] 
 
 "And further we will and require that all our officers upon the only 
 showing of these our Letters Patents shall make a full discharge to 
 the sd Earl, his heirs and assigns, of all rents issuing outof sd Lands, 
 except the afd Lands in the Co. Tipperary, and the sd yearly Quit 
 Rent of £t.S, to which the rents on the sd Lands in the Co. of Lime- 
 rick are reduced ; and the said rent of ;£7 4 o to which the rents on 
 the Lands in the Co. of Waterford are reduced ; and the sd yearly 
 Quit Rent of ^48 to which the rents for his sd Lands in the Queen's 
 County are reduced. 
 
 " Dated 21 January, in 2nd year of our reign." 
 
 For a copy of the foregoing grant, the editor is indebted 
 to the kindness of John P. Prendergast, esq., author of 
 The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. 
 
 ■t' Horse breeders in Ulster. — This charter, obtained in 
 1685, declared that Vere Essex, earl of Ardglass; Hugh, 
 earl of Mount- Alexander ; Lewis, lord viscount Dun- 
 gannon ; and other persons who should qualify them- 
 selves to become members, are constituted a body politic 
 and corporate, by the stile and title of the Governor and 
 Freemeii of tlie Corporation of Horse Breeders iti the county 
 of Down. The charter authorises the corporation to 
 
 N X 
 
270 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 for my son (who accompanyd his Lordship thro' Scotland, to the Court at Whitehall,) to be 
 Register to the Admirall Courts, in the countys of Down and Antrim. 
 
 Now, his Lordship was Privy Councellor in both the brother's reignes, and frequented their 
 Courts, and was often in Dublin j and when the Duke of York was Commissioner in Scotland, his 
 Lordship was observing the Parliament and y" judicial proceedings of -f Law Courts (called the 
 Sessions) in that kingdom; by all which means his Lordship arrived at a great knowledge in state 
 matters.^3 And for country affairs, his Lordship was improved by reading (wherein he still 
 delighted), and by frequenting Assizes and Sessions, for he was made Custos Rotulorum pacis in 
 the county of Downe, after the death of Marcus Trevor Lord Dungannon, who had outed me of 
 that office,'*'* by reason I was more than a yeare absent from Ireland as aforesaid; but his Lordship 
 (as his father had done) appointed me to be his Deputy, Ao. 1683. 
 
 purchase lands valued for £200 per annum, to elect a 
 treasurer, registrar, and such other officers as they should 
 think proper ; to hold a fair for the space of six days during 
 the time of the races, the customs collected at such fairs 
 to be payable to the corporation. The badge worn by 
 members was a gold medal, representing on one side a 
 mare and foal, the latter in the act of sucking, with the 
 motto. In equis patriun virttts ; on the other side, two 
 race horses in full stretch, with the motto, Metam avide 
 petunt. See Harris, Ancient and Present State of the 
 County Dotvn, pp. 35, 36. 
 
 "2 Charlemouiit. — The fort of Charlemount, which was 
 built in the month of June, 1 602, is situated on the north 
 bank of the Blackwater, about five miles eastward from 
 Blackwatertown. When this structure was completed, lord 
 Mountjoy (Charles Blount) named it Charlemont, from 
 his own christian name, and placed in it a garrison of 1 50 
 men, under the command of captain Toby Caulfeild, 
 whose descendants, the earls of Charlemont, adopted the 
 name of this place as their title. The earl of Mount- 
 Alexander was appointed governor of Charlemont, by 
 patent, dated 8th October, 1633, on the decease of earl 
 Conway, who had previously held this position. 
 
 ■*3 In state matters. — The duke of York went to reside 
 in Holyroodhouse in 1679, and during his visit in Scot- 
 land the gaiety and brilliancy of his court was a tlieme of 
 great satisfaction among his courtiers. The duke and the 
 princesses gave balls, plays, and masquerades, much to 
 the enjoyment of the nobihty and gent:y, who attended 
 them, though to the disgust and horror of the more rigid 
 presbyterians. On the 15th of November, 1681, the lady 
 Anne his daughter (afterwards queen Anne), and the 
 maids of honour, performed Nat Lee's play, entitled 
 Mithridates, King of Pontiis. In the July of the same 
 year, an Irish theatrical company, numbering thirty 
 persons, visited Edinburgh, to open a playliouse there. 
 On their way, they landed at Irvine, in Ayrshire, but the 
 theatrical garments which they brought with them 
 *' necessar for their employment mounted with gold and 
 silver lace," were to them the cause of delay and difficulty, 
 ansing from an act of the Scottish parliament then recently 
 passed respecting laced clothes. The play-actors required 
 to send a petition to the privy council in Edinburgh, 
 showing that "trumpeters and stage-players" were ex- 
 empted from the said Act, an interpretation to which the 
 
 duke of York and the members of council at once acceded. 
 • — Privy Council Records, as quoted in Chambers's Do- 
 mestic Annals, vol. ii., pp. 403, 404. Mr. William 
 Tytler, An-k;ro'ooia Scotica, vol. i., p. 429, states that 
 " tea, for the first time heard of in Scotland, was given as 
 a treat by the princesses to the Scottish ladies who visited 
 at the abbey." — Domestic Anttals, vol. ii. , p. 405. 
 
 ^ Outed me from that office. — This office, although -with- 
 out remuneration, was eagerly sought after by other notable 
 families of the county. The author considered his own 
 appointment to it by Ormond a high honour. See pp. 
 242, 243, supra. The following letter, WTitten by lord 
 Montgomeiy, afterwards fourth earl of Blount-Alexander, 
 to his father, the third earl, about the year 1725, refers 
 chiefly to this office : — 
 
 " My Lord, — Mr. JosUne (?) Ward was speaking to me about y' 
 Being Custods (sic) Rottulor. of the county Downe, and he told me 
 that he had write to j'ou about it, and that you ?tad amind to have 
 it and that he had desired you to send him word whether my grand- 
 father Mountalexander had it not ; I have had the Records shearchd 
 and I cant hnd that he had it, but I find that my uncle the second earl) 
 haditings : 7o8and7i2(i7o8andi7i2: andthatMr, Hillhaditin93and 
 held it but tow year, I was to weat on my \A Chanceler and he has put 
 my \A Hillsborrough ofe for some time tho he's ver>' solisitus about 
 and I spoak to my Ld Leut about and his answer was that he was 
 sure that my Ld Chanceler wod not doe anything till I had made 
 inquiery I cod and y' he wod have it run in the channell that it had 
 done, Now if y' Lops, can find that my grandfather had it I wod be 
 glad to here as soon as possable, tho I desmg to weat on my Ld Chan- 
 celer again about it, your Lops is much oblidged to Mr. Ward for h« 
 has opposed \A Hillsborrough very heartj-ly and we hope to carry 
 it in spite of his teeth, my wife give y'' Lops her most humW^ Duty 
 and sar\ace to my sister, the sqr was with me this morning and hes 
 very well as for newes I have not one word. Dexey Coddington and 
 I drank y^ health Last night : he went home this day and I hope to 
 goe to that part a thursday. I havenot been there these three months, 
 as for Ld Howth he's altogether at Kilrudery so we can hardly see 
 him. Pray my \A give my humbl^ sarvice to my sister and Jeny I am 
 y^ Lops most dutyfiiU son and obedant sarvant, 
 
 " Montgomery. 
 " I wod be glad to here how y' Lops does but I am afread that 
 writing. is trobelsome to yow if I bent mistaken the account that my 
 uncle William Montgomery gives of our Family takes notice of my 
 grandfathers being Custody Rottul, and 1 believe Long Patt has that, 
 so y' Lops may soon know." 
 
 — MS. preserved at Donaghadce. The writer of the above 
 was not aware that the author, William Montgomery 
 (whom lie calls uncle, but who was his grand-uncle by 
 marriage), held the office, and was ' outed ' because of his 
 absence from Ireland when attending to the interests of 
 his wife's nephew, the second earl, then a minor. This 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 271 
 
 Thus affaires stood with his Lordship, till Ao. 1688, about the time that the Lord Iveagh (the 
 Chief of the Magnoises, commonly called M'Gennises) his mobb were gathering together. 45 
 
 Our Earle had then a sealed letter conveyed to his hand, (in the same manner almost as ye 
 Lord Mount Eagle*^ was warned to absent himself from ye Parliament, Ao. 1605, when y° powder 
 plott was in a readyness), adviseing his Lordship to look to his house and person,^? and so he had 
 
 affair is more fully discussed by the author in his memoir 
 of himself, which see infra. " Long Patt," who had the 
 loan of the Afontgomeiy Mamiscripts when the foregoing 
 letter was written, was, no doubt, Patrick Montgomery of 
 Creboy, one of the commissioners for arranging the affairs 
 of the second earl. See p. 265, supra. 
 
 *5 Gathering together. — The author here refers to the 
 fact that three companies of imdisciplined and partly un- 
 armed troops were marched into Carrickfergus, by this 
 Irish leader, to take the place of a regular force, which 
 had been ordered to Dublin, on their way to oppose the 
 Prince of Orange, in England. The Records of the 
 Corporation of Carrickfergus contain the following brief 
 notice of this affair: — " Decemb"^ the 2nd being Sun- 
 day, 1688, the Lord Eveagh and two other captains en- 
 tered this towne with three companies of new raysed foote, 
 unarmed, and then parte receaved armes, and had the 
 castle delivered unto them (according to order) by captain 
 George Talbot, captain of granadeers, then governor; 
 and next day the said captain Talbot, captain Sir Pat- 
 rick Barnwall, captain Newgent, and captain Shurlock, 
 marched towards Dublin with their companies. " — M 'Skim- 
 in's Histo7y of Carrickfergus, p. 65. This movement of 
 Magennis, viscount Iveagh, in obedience to orders re- 
 ceived from head-quarters, clearly indicated that James II. 
 and his viceroy, Tyrconnell, would commit no places of 
 trust to any but Roman catholic leaders, even in the 
 province of Ulster. The common people of Dov/n 
 and Antrim were prepared to meet this issue ; but the 
 nobility and gentry, with a few exceptions, halted be- 
 tween two opinions, and were carried forward only by the 
 march of events into an attitude of hostility to the govern- 
 ment. Several influential gentlemen (among whom were 
 the earl of Mount- Alexander and, perhaps, sir Robert 
 Colville), were evidently unwilling, whether from con- 
 siderations of loyalty, or feelings of personal obligation, to 
 break suddenly with the king and his goverment. 
 
 <^ Lord Mount Eagle. — The gunpowder plot was re- 
 vealed through a letter addressed to lord Mounteagle, and 
 delivered to him whilst he sat at supper in his country 
 residence of Hoxton. But Mounteagle was believed on 
 good authority to have had a secret understanding with 
 the conspirators. See Archaologia, voL xii. , p. 200. 
 
 '■^ House and person. — Hugh, the second earl of Momit- 
 Alexander, being in London in the year 1686, and seeing 
 the design of the king against the Irish protestants, re- 
 turned to this countiy, having sold a troop of horse which 
 he had obtained from the earl of Essex a few years before, 
 and retired to his estate in Down, resolving to live there 
 in retirement so long as he could honourably do so. His 
 retirement, however, was soon interrupted. The follow- 
 ing is a copy of the letter referred to in the text : — 
 
 " December 3<J, 1688. 
 Good mv Lord, — I have written to let you know that all our 
 Irishmen through Ireland are sworn that on the 9th day of this 
 month, being Sunday next, they are to fall on, to kill and murder 
 
 man, wiff;, and child, and to spare none ; and I desire your lordship 
 to take care of your self, and all others that are adjudged by our men 
 to be heads ; for whoever of them can kill any of you, is to have a 
 captain's place. So my desire to your Honour is to look to yourself, 
 and to give other Noblemen warning, and go not out night or day, 
 without a good guard with you ; and let no Irishman come near you, 
 whatever he be. This is all from him who is your friend and Father's 
 friend, and will be, though I dare not be known as yet, for fear of my 
 life. 
 
 " Direct this with care and Haste to my Lord Montgomery." 
 This letter, which was found on the street in Comber, on the 
 third of December, had been written, it is supposed, by 
 some Protestant who believed, probably, thatamassacre was 
 in contemplation, and whose object was to rouse the 
 "natural leaders" from their dangerous apathy. See 
 History of Northern Affairs, p. 8. But whoever may have 
 been the writer, and whatever object he had immediately 
 in view, certain it is that his letter had the effect of pro- 
 ducing a deep and wide-spread alarm among protestants, 
 not only throughout Ulster but in other parts of Ireland. 
 The consternation created in Dublin and elsewhere 
 is thus told by the author of a rare tract entitled A 
 Full and Lnpartial Account of all the Secret Con- 
 sults, &^c., of the Romish Party in Ireland, from 
 1660 to 1689, 4to London, pp. 138 — 140: — "This 
 letter he (earl of Mount-Alexander) sends to Dublin, 
 and to all parts of the kingdom ; it arrived at Dublin 
 but on Friday, and the Sunday following (the 9th), 
 was to be the day of slaughter. This sudden alann struck 
 such a fear upon the English, that upon the Saturday there 
 got away about three thousand souls. There happened to 
 be abundance of ships in the harbour at that time, which 
 were so crammed that many were in danger of being 
 stifled. The run of these people happened to be so 
 suddain, and in the middle of the night, that it resembled 
 the flight of the Jews out of Egj-pt, and the Irish were as 
 desirous to have them gone, for some of them were in as 
 
 great terror as the others This fatal news 
 
 which had so terrified the Protestants of Dublin, as if the 
 dissolution of all things had been at hand, arrived not 
 to several parts of the kingdom, till tlie very day 'twas 
 to be put in execution, which being Sunday, was brought 
 to the people in the time of Divine Service in some places, 
 which struck them with such suddain apprehensions of 
 immediate destruction, that the doors not allowing quick 
 passage enough, by reason of the crowd, abundance of 
 persons made their escapes out of the wmdows, and in 
 the greatest fright and disorder that can be represented, 
 the men leaving their hats and perriwigs behind them, 
 some of them had their cloaths torn to pieces, others were 
 trampled under loot, and the women in a worse condition 
 than the men. And this disturbance did not only con- 
 tinue for this day, but for several Sundays after, the 
 Protestartis were in such a consternation and terror, that 
 all, or most of them carried fire-arms, and other weapons 
 to Church with them, and the very ministers went armed 
 into the pulpit, and centinels stood at the Church doors 
 all the while that they were in the Church. But whether 
 
272 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 need to doo, for he was one of those ten who were proscribed afterwards, and excepted from par- 
 don by Tireconnel's proclamation.''^ 
 
 this were a real thing designed, or whether by that dis- 
 covery prevented, I leave it to others to judge and de- 
 termine ; but certain it is, that never anything happened 
 in the kingdom . . . made so great a fright among 
 the Protestants as this." The effect produced by this 
 letter at Enniskillen are thus described by captain 
 William McConnick in his Farther Impartial Account 
 of the Actions of the Inniskilling Mm, 4to, London, 
 1691, pp. I, 2: — "About the beginning of De- 
 cember, 1688, we were alarmed, as most of the 
 Protestants of the kingdom were, by a Letter sent us 
 by the Earl of Mount-Alexander, directed to him, 
 from an unknown hand, acquainting him that there was a 
 design of a general massacre of the Protestants, man, 
 woman, and child, throughout the kingdom of Ireland, 
 to be acted by the L'ish papists and their adherents, the 
 ninth day of the said month. This Letter, what its opera- 
 tion was on other places, I know not ; but it made so 
 deep an impression on the minds of most in and about 
 Inniskilling (the cruelties of the Irish in Forty-one being 
 yet fresh in many of their memories), that several of the 
 country sent in tlieir best household furniture and papers 
 to Inniskilling, thinking them more secure there, than 
 with themselves. And we observing that the Irish were 
 gathering themselves together on all hands in great 
 numbers, having for a long time before employed all the 
 smiths of their sort in making skains {viz., a kind of 
 sharp-pointed baggonets) and pike-heads, wherewith to 
 arm themselves privately ; we were struck into great con- 
 sternation ; but resolved not to have our throats cut asleep, 
 the most of the townsmen the day and night of the 
 design** massacre, keeping strict guard with what sort of 
 weapons they had. But the contents of this Letter were 
 destined to produce still greater and more significant 
 results at Londonderry. In a Faithful History of the Nor- 
 thern Affairs oj Ireland, from the late King yames Acces- 
 sion to the Crocun to the Siege of Londonderry, 410, London, 
 1690, at pp. 8, 9, there is the following notice of the 
 transactions in that city, consequent on its receipt : — " But 
 that which hapned of greatest consequence upon this dis- 
 covery was, the extraordinary accident that attended the 
 account of it (the letter) in Londonderry ; where it had no 
 sooner arrived, but it seemed to be confirmed past a doubt 
 by the advance of a considerable part of the Earl of 
 Antrim's regiment, consisting of five new raised com- 
 panies, which, together with the rabble that followed, 
 made up at least a thousand men (designed for a garrison 
 to that town) ; the inhabitants seeing such a number, and 
 concluding them to have been the instruments designed 
 for the execution of the pretended massacre, immediately 
 shut up their Gates, and discharging some great guns 
 upon the near approach of the Irisli, obliged them to 
 rcti-eat in great disorder ; and the townsmen keeping their 
 Gates shut, issued out a Declaration, shewing the reason 
 for what they had done; which they wholly imputed to 
 the apprehension of a popish massacre." 
 
 *^ TireconneWs proclamation. — The names oT the ten 
 thus excepted from pardon by Tyrconnell's proclamation 
 were the earl of Mount-Alexander, the earl of Masse- 
 reene, the earl of Kingston, sir Robert Colville, sir Arthur 
 Rawdon, sir Jolin Macgill, Clotwortliy Skefiington, John 
 
 Hawkins, Robert Saunderson, and Francis Hamilton, 
 afterwards sir Francis Hamilton of Killeshandra, county 
 of Cavan. " Such gentlemen as read this proclamation 
 were not a little surprised to find several persons, who 
 had always appeared most active and open in the prosecu- 
 tion of the Protestant designs, not comprehended in the 
 clause of exemption ; for neither Hamilton of ToUimore, 
 who was the most active, and indeed the principal mana- 
 ger of the whole affair, — who had a casting voice in all 
 their councils, — nor any of the Hamiltons of Down, An- 
 trim, or Armagh, were foreprized, the' gentlemen that 
 acted in conjunction with them, and others that were in- 
 ferior to them, were particularly exempted ; but this only 
 ser\'ed to revive the former jealousie the countrey had of 
 Mr. Hamilton of Tollimore's sincerity." — A Faithful Nar- 
 rative of Northern Affairs. If none of the Hamiltons 
 were foreprized, the names of several of them appear on 
 the list of those attainted by James's Parliament. Of the 
 2461 Protestant gentlemen attainted and declared traitors 
 by James's parliament, the following were residents in the 
 county of Down : — ^John Hawkins of Rathfi7land, esq. ; 
 Charles Ward of Killaugh, esq. ; James Hamilton of Tid- 
 lymore, esq. ; Bernard Ward of Castleward, esq. ; James 
 Hamilton of Bangor, esq. ; George Maxwell of Killaleugh, 
 esq. , son to sir Robert Maxwell ; James Hamilton 
 of Carricknasire, esq. ; John Mac Neal, dean of Downe ; 
 Daniel Mac Neal of Dundrum, gent. ; William Breete 
 of Napper's-Town, esq. ; John Hamilton of Errenagh, 
 esq. ; Jasper Brent of Napper's-Town, gent. ; Bernard 
 Brent of the same, gent. ; Richard Turke, late of 
 Downe, gent. ; Hugh Browne of the same, gent. ; 
 Rowland Browne of the same, gent. ; William Palmer 
 of Castleskrine; gent. ; Marks Hodges, late of Do«Tie, 
 gent.; George Johnston of Kilcleef, gent; Anthony 
 Lock of Downe, gent. ; John Haddock of Coma- 
 bane, gent. ; William Redmond of Clontough, gent. ; 
 Robert Echlin, late of Killough, gent. ; John Ward of 
 Castleward, esq. ; John Smart of Cookes-Town, gent. ; 
 John Blackwood, juu., of Bangor, gent.; Henry West of 
 Ballydugane, esq. ; William Pringle of Laghnebaper, 
 gent. ; David White of Reliagh, gent. ; John Ringland of 
 Kilmore, gent. ; George Maxwell of Derrj'boj', gent. ; 
 James Erv\'j'ne of Killeleagh, gent. ; Lieutenant James 
 Butler of Rincady ; Alexander Stewart of Ringduffi-ant, 
 gent. ; James Pattent of ALngherknock, gent. ; Hugh Wal- 
 lace of Revara, gent. ; Patrick Hamilton of Gransagh, 
 gent. ; Arthur Maxwell of Drunibridge, gent. ; James 
 Mac Gill, jun., son to Captain James Mac Gill; John 
 Mac Gill of Munallon, gent. ; Matthew Beates of Bally- 
 vinchan, gent. ; Edward Jackson of the same, gent. ; John 
 Ealine of Erquine, esq. ; William Mac Cormuck of the 
 same, gent. ; William Mountgomery of Rosmond, esq. ; 
 Hugh Maxwell of Ballyquinline ; James Mountgomerj', 
 son to the aforesaid William ; Janres Bailey of Eninsorkey, 
 esq. ; Hugh Mac Gill, late of Kirstown, esq. ; Archibald 
 Mac Neal, clerk; Hugh Mountgomer)' of BalhanagowTie, 
 esq.; John Moimtgomery of Carrickboy, gent.; James 
 Rosse of Portefore, esq. ; William Hogg of Barrady, gent ; 
 John Stenson, near Bangor, gent. ; John Blackwood of 
 Bangor, gent.; James Barkeley of Ballysallagh, gent; 
 John Sanders of Ne\vtowne, gent ; David Campbell of 
 
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 273 
 
 His Lo^, therefore confederated with Protestants of Ulster, to stand upon their guard for 
 their safety ag* such a massacre as was in Ao. 1641, and was by them elected their Genii 
 Comander;''9 and at this time, y° Presbiterians required no renewall of their Covenant, but were 
 
 Cumber, esq. ; Hugh Mountgomery of Ballymalady, gent. ; 
 Gawin Hamilton of Lisswine, gent. ; William Hamilton 
 his brother ; James Moore, senior, of Ballybregagh, gent. ; 
 James Moore, junior, of Carrickmainu, gent.; John Wal- 
 las of Revara, gent. ; Hugh Farely of Boordmil, gent. ; 
 Francis Annesley of Cloghmaghericat, gent. ; Hugh John- 
 ston of Reademon, gent. ; Lemuel Matthews, archdeacon 
 of Downe ; Alexander Baly of Reindefferant, gent. ; 
 Thomas Wardlow, late of Mourne, gent. ; William Shaw 
 of Rafindy, gent. ; Robert Gibson of Dromeragh parish, 
 gent. ; Alexander Stewart, late of ArdmuUin, gent. ; Roger 
 Hall of Lagan, esq. ; John Norris of New-Castle, esq. ; 
 John Robinson of Tollimore, gent. ; Henry Monrow of 
 Drominskagh, esq. ; James Waddel of Islan-Derry, gent. ; 
 Hugh Waddel of the same, gent. ; Alexander Waddel of 
 the same, gent. ; William Haltridge of Dromore, gent. ; 
 Robert Swift of Lissnereward, gent. ; Robert Campbel 
 of Laghans, gent. ; William Campbell of ToUyeare, 
 gent. ; Jeremy Mussindine of Hilsborough, gent. ; Thomas 
 Johnston, late of Gillhall, gent. ; William Manson of 
 Ballynaleaiy, gent. ; Charles Casslet of Laghinlan, gent. ; 
 John Boyle of Dromnovady, gent. ; Nicolas Bagnal of 
 Newry, esq. ; Nicholas Price, esq. ; John Law of Man- 
 gerlin, gent. ; James Slone of Dublin, Esq. ; Cornet Wil- 
 liam Mountgomery of Gransagh ; Richard Warren of 
 Clonconnell, gent. ; Thomas Waring of the same ; and 
 Robert Rosse of Rathfryland, gent. — King's State of the 
 Protestants of Ireland, pp. 213- 15. 
 
 ''f Gcnll. Commander.— hx a meeting of the Protestant 
 gentry, held in Comber on the 17th January, i588, the 
 following Declaration was agreed to : — 
 
 " It being notoriously known, not only to the Protestants of the 
 Northern Counties, but to those throughout this whole Kingdom of 
 Ireland, that the public peace of this nation is now in great and im- 
 minent danger ; and that it is absolutely necessary for all Protestants 
 to agree within their several counties in some method, besides those 
 ordinarily appointed by the laws, for their own defence ; and the 
 preserving as much as in them lies, the public peace of the nation, 
 which is so much endeavoured to be disturbed by popish and illegal 
 counsellors, and their abettors. And for that unity, secresy, and 
 despatch, are necessary to the effecting of the said design : There- 
 fore, we the persons hereunder subscribing our names, do, in behalf 
 of ourselves, and Protestant tenants, authorize and impower Sir 
 Arthur Reidon (Rawdon), baronet ; Sir Robert Colvil, James Hamil- 
 ton of Newcastle, John Hawkins, and James Hamilton of Tulli- 
 more, Esqrs., or any three of them, to assemble at such time and 
 place, and as oft as they shall think fit, and to consult, devise, and 
 determine all matters w hich relate to the public peace of this county 
 and kingdom. And we, the said persons hereunto subscribing our 
 names, Protestants in the said county of Down, do hereby engage 
 for ourselves, and as far as in us lies, our tenants aforesaid, to perform 
 and execute all such orders, commands, and directions, as shall, from 
 time to time, be made public, or given by the said persons, or any 
 three of them, as aforesaid. — In witness whereof, we have hereunto 
 subscribed our names, this 17th of January, 1688. 
 
 "M. (Mount-Alexander. 
 "J. H. (James Hamilton), &c., &c. 
 " In witness of the Acceptance 
 of the above trust, we have 
 hereunto put our hands. 
 
 "A. R. (Arthur Rawdon). 
 
 " R C. (Robert Colville). 
 
 "J. H. (James Hamilton of Bangor). 
 
 "J- H. (John Hawkins). 
 
 " J. H. (James Hamilton of TuUimore). 
 " Having an entire confidence of the conduct, valour, and fidelity 
 
 of the Right Honourable Hugh, Earl of Mount-Alexander, we do 
 hereby impower his Lordship to command all such forces as shall, 
 from time to time, be raised by us, and other the inhabitants of the 
 said counties of Down and Antrim, for preserving the publick peace 
 of the said counties and other parts of this kingdom, in these dis- 
 tracted times, wherein no lawful government is established in the 
 kingdom of Ireland. — In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our 
 hands, this iBth day of January, 16S8. 
 
 " A. R. ) 
 
 " R. C. V Antrim. 
 
 ;;j. H. j 
 
 ' " J H } " 
 
 The above are extracts from A Farther Account of the 
 Inniskilling Men, by Captain William McCormick, ^to 
 London, 1691, pp. 19 — 21, but the reader will observe 
 that whilst the county of Down alone was mentioned at 
 the first meeting of the 17th January, the two counties of 
 Antrim and Down are represented as acting together on 
 the i8th in the election of the earl of Mount- Alexander as 
 commander in chief of their several forces, although the 
 appointment is only signed by the five gentlemen elected 
 to act for Down. That the proceedings on that occasion 
 were hasty, and, in some respects, unsatisfactory, is 
 evident from the rare and valuable tract, already quoted, 
 entitled a Faith fnl History, professing to give a " True 
 Account of the Occasions of Miscarriages" in the North, 
 and of the "Reasons luhythe Gentry abandoned those Parts." 
 The writer, who states on the title-page that he "bore a 
 great share in those Transactions," after describing the pro- 
 testants of Down, continues his narrative, pp. 13 — 16, as 
 follows: — "The gentlemen who had been the unhappy 
 occasion of all these mischiefs, being sensible of the un- 
 fortunate circumstances to which they had reduced the 
 countrey, now began to consider of such methods as might 
 make amends for their past miscarriages : To this end a 
 general meeting at Comber was concluded on, in which 
 they might agree what course next to steer, and how for 
 the future to lay such a scene of affairs, as might give 
 
 them a better prospect of success. Mr. H ton 
 
 (James Hamilton of Tollimore) appearing most officious 
 on this occasion, and having undertook the dispatch of 
 circular letters, summond only such as he knew would be 
 either guided by his counsels, or else wanted interest to 
 oppose his designs; for he neither summoned Mr. Annesly, 
 Sir Robert Maxwell, Mr. Ward, Mr. Savage, or any other 
 gentleman whom he believed would not readily resign a 
 blind assent to his humour, though they were otherwise 
 persons every way qualified for the publick service : But 
 that which hapned of greatest difficulty, was the exclusion 
 of Sir Rob. Colvil from the meeting, whose great estate 
 in the countrey, and interest in the veiy town where 
 they sate, seemed to oblige them to take notice of him ; 
 but it was so contrived, that the gentlemen who were 
 designed for council, assembled on the 13th, at which 
 time the methods were conchided on, and Sir Rob. 
 summoned the next day, to assent, if he pleased, to what 
 he could not alter. This Convention, which only consisted 
 of sixteen gentlemen, being sat at Comber, the first thing 
 discoursed of, were the disorders, delays, openness, and 
 Other inconveniences, which attended their former meeting, 
 
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 joyned with the Established Clergy, 5° ag' y* Papist, y* comon enemy to them and us. Then they 
 scrupled not (nor wee) to hear one anothers way of worship and sermons. 5' 
 
 to which the failure of their designs was chiefly attributed ; 
 and to obviate those mischiefs, it was agreed, that a 
 junto of five should be chosen for the county ; any three 
 whereof should be empowered to act as the representatives of 
 the rest ; whose decrees and orders should be as binding, 
 as if they had been concluded by the general voice of the 
 country. And it was likewise agreed, that an Association 
 should be proposed by the gentlemen of that county, to 
 the other counties of Ulster, for the joint preservation of 
 the publick interest, and protection of the protestant 
 religion. Matters being thus far adjusted by the consent 
 of the whole convention ; the next thing to be considered, 
 was the election of five such persons as were best qualified 
 to represent the county, and for that service, the E. of M. 
 (Earl of Mount-Alexander), Sir A. R. (Arthur Rawdon), 
 Mr. H. of B. (Hamilton of Bangor), Mr. H. (Hawkins 
 of Rathfriland), and H. of T. (Hamilton of ToUimore). 
 were proposed at the instance, and by the directions of 
 the latter, who, having packed the greatest part of the 
 assembly, could not want a majority of votes to declare in 
 favour of such as he thought fit to recommend. These 
 gentlemen being complimented with a tender of the care 
 and trust of the county, at first as modestly refused, as the 
 new Pope does the papacy, which they afterwards as 
 willingly embraced ; and though some of the Covenanters 
 thought others far better qualified, both in interests and 
 parts, for a charge of that consequence, particularly Sir 
 Rob. Colvil, whom they would have at least complimented 
 with the choice of being one, considering his fortune was 
 almost equal to the joint estates of ike other five, and that 
 his age and experience had rendered him much fitter for 
 employment of that nature; but H[amil]tonof T[ollimore] 
 being well assured that Sir Robert v/ould not be prevailed 
 with to serve any private designs, passionately opposed all 
 motions in his favour ; and for want of a better argument, 
 threatened to desert the assembly if they should admit a 
 proposal so adverse to his interest. Till this meeting at 
 Comber, many thought H — ton's earnest sollicitations had 
 proceeded from a real concern for the Protestant interest ; 
 but it was now plainly discovered, that the whole scope 
 of his designs tended only to settle him in such a post as 
 might render him more remarkable to the English 
 
 government The junto fearing the 
 
 consequences of these publick censures, ve:y much 
 laboured to quiet the minds of the male-contents, who 
 began to unravel the very methods by which they were 
 convened, and to protest against the evil arts that 
 established them. The next day, according to the return 
 of his summonses, Sir Rob. Colvil came to town, on 
 whose appearance it was judged convenient to admit, 
 being of the Council, hoping thereby to reconcile them- 
 selves to the gentlemen of the countrey; and, to make 
 way for him, my Lord Mount- Alexander was appointed 
 general of the Forces of the two counties of Down and 
 Antrim. Sir Robert being admitted, the junto proceeded 
 to nominate five persons out of every Barony, to represent 
 the condition of it, proposing by this method a clearer 
 view of the strength and force of each county ; and it was 
 likewise moved and agreed, that every county for its 
 better intelligence should substitute one person to be 
 
 always resident at Hilsburg, by which means the several 
 circumstances of the North might be the better understoode 
 and the execution of their designs be for the future 
 grounded on more united resolves. To this purpose it 
 was judged necessary that a general Association should 
 be subscribed by the gentlemen of that Province, and 
 that the methods devised by this junto should be proposed 
 as an example to the neighbouring counties. " 
 
 5° Joyned with the Established Clergy. — This defection on 
 the part of the presbyterians from their old standard was 
 deeply and indignantly lamented by many a stout son of 
 the covenant. Thus, John Dickson, the minister of 
 Rutherglen, who died in the year 1700, but who had 
 tasted of the bitter cup which the second Charles pre- 
 sented to his presbyterian subjects, gave expression to his 
 disappointment and horror, when doomed, before his 
 death, to witness such a falling away of his brethren. 
 "Were it possible," says he, " that our reformers who 
 are entered in among the glorious choristers in the king- 
 dom of heaven, tuning their melodious harps about the 
 throne of the Lamb, might have a furlough for a short 
 time, to take a view of their apostatizing cliildren, wliat 
 may we judge would be their conceptions of these courses 
 of defection, so far repugnant to the platform laid down 
 in that glorious work of reformation." See Dickson's 
 Letter, as quoted in Howie's Preface to his Scots Worthies. 
 Howie, who published that work in 1 774, and died in 1791, 
 brooded bitterly also over the great and general apostasy 
 in his lonely seclusion of LochgoLn, adding to Dickson's 
 words the following testimony on this delicate theme from 
 himself: — "For, if innocent Hamilton, godly and patient 
 Wishart, apostolic Knox, eloquent Rollock, and worthy 
 Davidson, the courageous Melvilles, prophetic Welch, 
 majestic Bruce, great Henderson, renowned Gillespie, 
 learned Binning, pious Gray, laborious Durham, heavenly- 
 minded Rutherford, the faithful Guthries, diligent Blair, 
 heart-melting Livingstone, religious Wellwood, orthodox 
 and practical Brown, zealous and steadfast Cameron, 
 honest -hearted Cargill, sympathizing M'Ward, persever- 
 ing Blackadder, tlie evangelical Traills, constant and 
 pious Renwick, &c. , ' were filed off from the Assembly of 
 the first-born, and sent as commissioners from the Mount 
 of God, to behold how quickly their offspring are gone 
 out of the way, piping and dancing after the golden calf, 
 . — ah ! with what vehemence would tlieir spirits be af- 
 fected, to see their laborious structure almost razed to 
 the foundation, by those to whom they committed the 
 custody of their great Lord's patience : they in the mean- 
 time sheltering themselves under the shadow of fig-tree- 
 leaf distinctions, which will not sconce against the wTath 
 of an angry God in the cool of the day.' " — Preface to 
 Scots Worthies, edition of 1856, p. 9. 
 
 y- Worship and sermons. — Time, and the discipline of 
 events, had taught both episcopahans and presbjlerians. 
 After a fierce stniggle, carried on with but slight interrup- 
 tions from the time of the Reformation until 1 660, the 
 episcopalians remained masters of the situation. In 1661 
 the government ordered the Covenant to be burned 
 throughout Ulster by the hands of the common hangman, 
 because it was then adjudged " schismatical, seditious, 
 
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 275 
 
 Our Noble Peer having endeavored y' surprize of Carrickfergus (of y/"^ he missed by neglect 
 of some he imployed,) brought the guarison and Major Marcus Talbot (Tireconnel's bastard) to 
 conditions of peace^^ towards y° contry, wherin Archibald Edminston, Laird of Duntreth, being a 
 
 and treasonable," and presbyterianism not only survived, 
 but was, in reality, very much relieved by this conflagra- 
 tion. At all events, the presbyterians of 1 688, as a body, 
 never thought of pledging the Prince of Orange to "the 
 ends of the covenant," and aimed only at obtaining religi- 
 ous liberty for themselves, sweetened by a very moderate 
 bounty from the state, known since as Regium Doimm. 
 And the episcopalians, although the dominant party, ob- 
 taining at the Restoration all, and perhaps, more than 
 they ever expected in the way of power, soon came to 
 understand that they had too hastily adopted their idol, 
 Charles II. ; and that, being so loyal in 1660, as to take 
 no guarantees for constitutional government, they were 
 compelled, in 1688, to fight for these guarantees at a tre- 
 mendous cost. Both parties were, therefore, to some extent, 
 moderated in their sentiments and aims, and had become 
 more charitable towards each other, for such men as Mil- 
 ton and Jeremy Taylor had been reconciling the religious 
 world, in the meantime, to the grand idea of religious tolera- 
 tion. The extremes of both parties, however, refused to ac- 
 knowledge William III., and were known by the name of 
 non-jurors. The episcopalian non-jurors regarded William 
 as a usurper, and many of them clung with desperate tenacity 
 to the fortunes of James II. Of Ulster episcopalian non- 
 jurors, perhaps the most distinguished was the Rev. Charles 
 Leslie, chancellor of Connor, and son of John Leslie, bishop 
 of Clogher. He refused to take the oaths to king William 
 and queen Mary, for which he was deprived of his 
 church prefennent. He joined the PretenJer on the 
 continent, endeavouring to convert him to protestantism ; 
 but failing in this, Leslie returned to his own home at 
 Glasslough, county of Monaghan, in 1721, and died a 
 few months after his return. See Ware's Works, edited 
 by Harris, Wj-iters of Ireland, pp. 282-6. The non- 
 jurors among the presbyterians of Ulster were such as 
 clung to the_ old covenants, charging the more prudent 
 brethren with apostasy and treachery to the cause of truth. 
 They would own no allegiance to king William, but, on 
 the contrary, denounced him for omitting to take venge- 
 ance on the papists when it was in the power of his troops 
 to do so after the battle of the Boyne. They denounced 
 him, moreover, because, although the mainstay of Calvin- 
 ism on the continent, he should in England consent to 
 place himself at the head of a church which they (the 
 covenanters) had always regarded as no better than the 
 Romish apostasy itself. In the solemn league and cove- 
 nant, they had affinned with their mouths, and signed 
 with their hands, that " all popery and prelacy is damn- 
 able, idolatrous, and soul-destroying ; " therefore, in their 
 estimation, king William, in joining this prelatic church 
 of England, had placed himself on the same level with the 
 popisti king James, who had been expelled. The founder 
 of this 'reformed' party in Ulster was the Rev. David 
 Houston, a young preacher in connexion with the presby- 
 terians. He had lived in Scotland during several years 
 prior to 1688, but when Renwick was seized in that year, 
 and soon afterwards barbarously executed, Houston re- 
 turned to Ulster, where his movements were narrowly 
 watched by the various political leaders in this province. As 
 
 an evidence of this we submit the following hitherto un- 
 printed document, for a copy of which the editor is indebted 
 to the kindness of the Rev. J. A. Chancellor, pastor of the 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, College Street South, 
 Belfast. Mr. Chancellor copied it from Register of General 
 Meetings of the Societies in Scotland. This paper, which 
 explains itself, is entitled a "Bond of Compliance given 
 into the Earl of Mount-Alexander by Mr. David Houston, 
 about the time of the Revolution, " and is as follows : — 
 
 " I do promise that I will use my best endeavour to cause all such 
 persons over whom I have influence to be aiding and assisting to 
 settle the present interest in this country, and will by all means per- 
 suade such to join with, and pursue such measures as the Earl of 
 Mount-Alexander shall, from time to time, propose, and give out for 
 safety thereof — providing such persons, with whom I have influence, 
 have liberty to choose their own Captains and inferior officers. And 
 I do promise, if such persons will not be advised by me as aforesaid, 
 and my being here may be accounted obnoxious to the country, I 
 will, upon my Lord Mount-Alexander his command, leave the 
 country upon his order to do so. — As witness my hand, 
 
 "Dd. Houston." 
 
 5^ Conditions of peace. — A copy of the Articles drawn 
 up on that occasion was found recently among the Family 
 Papers at Donaghadee. It is now printed for the first 
 time, and although without signature, it may be interest- 
 ing to the reader : — 
 
 "Articles agreed uppon the zi Ffeb: 1688, between the Rt. 
 Honble Alexander Earle of Antrim, Coll: Cormack O'Neile, Lieut. 
 CoU: Marks Talbott, in behalfe of themselves, and other officers and 
 souldiers now in garrison in the towne of Carrickfergus, on the one 
 part, And the Rt. Honble Hugh, Earle of Mount Alexander, for 
 and in behalfe of himselfe and other noblemen and gentlemen of the 
 Counties of Downe and Antrim, on the otlier p:"irt. First, the said 
 Coll : Cormack O'Neile is immediately to disperse his Regiment of 
 foote and other souldiers at this present under his command, and the 
 said Earle of Mount Alexander and others joy.ned with him shall 
 give protections to each person of the said Regiment that shall be 
 soe dispersed and require the same. 
 
 " Secondly, That the Inhabitants of the said towne of Carrick- 
 fergus may constantly keepe towne watches and guards without any 
 disturbance from the said garrison to the guards aforesaid, or other 
 the Inhabitants of the said towne of Carrickfergus. 
 
 " 3rd. That neither party offer violence the one to the other, 
 
 "4th. That the said Earle of Antrim be permitted to take in 
 weekly his owne provisions, which are not to exceed a week's subsis- 
 tence for his men. And that neither the said Earle of Antrim nor any 
 other person of the said garrison of Carrickfergus make greater 
 stores for the said garrison than what may subsist those belonging to 
 the Regiment of the said earle at present in garrison in the said 
 towne. 
 
 "5th. That the said Earle of Antrim be permitted to send such 
 letters to Dublin as he will shew the said Earle of Mount Alexander 
 and other nobility and gentry aforesaid, provided there be nothing 
 contained in such letters that may in the least tend to the breach of 
 any of these present Articles, or the bringing or raising more forces 
 into Ulster, or disturbing the peace thereof. 
 
 "6th. That all goods whatsoever taken by any souldiers or others 
 depending on the said Earle and officers in the said garrison be im- 
 mediately restored to the owner, or full reparation made therefor. 
 
 " 7th. That all such souldiers of the said garrison as have assaulted 
 any of the Inhabitants be immediately given upp to be punished ac- 
 cording to lawe. 
 
 " 8th. The aforesaid severall Articles to be put in immediate exe- 
 cution, and to continue in force, whilst noe more popish forces are 
 sent into or raised in the said province of Ulster, and that noe dis- 
 turbance is given by the said garrison of Carrickfergus to the peace 
 of the said Province of Ulster. 
 
 "In witnesse whereof, the parties aforesaid have hereunto sett 
 theyr hands and seals the said 21st of ffeb., 1688. 
 
 " Signed, sealed, and delivered 
 in presence of 
 
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 Col. was valiantly active. 53 But before the rupture came to this pass, Col. S' Tho. Newcomen, a 
 true Protestant (Tireconnel's bro. in law) then in comand under K. Ja. was obliged (without blood- 
 
 " Memorandum — That the said Regiment of the said CoUonell 
 Cormack O'Neile be disbanded on or before munday next following 
 the date hereof, the Protections to be first deUvered, and the passe 
 above-mentioned for such person as shall carry the said letter." 
 
 53 Valiantly active. — Two distinct attempts were made 
 by the confederated protestants of Down and Antrim 
 against Carrickfergus, both of which were signally unsuc- 
 cessful. In the first, which occurred in the month of 
 January, their design was only to get possession of the 
 arms and ammunition known to have been plentifully 
 supplied there by Tyrconnell's government. This de- 
 sign, of course, could only have been carried out by dis- 
 arming the Roman catholic troops in that place, which, it 
 was supposed by respectable military authorities, might have 
 been easily at that time accomplished, had certain pro- 
 testant leaders possessed even an ordinary amount of 
 spirit. The government troops in Belfast and Lisburn 
 were to have been disarmed on the same night, and the 
 unarmed soldiers, commanded by sir Arthur Rawdon and 
 sir John Macgill, had actually snatched their arms from 
 a pai^t of sir Thomas Newcomen's force in Lisburn ; but 
 on hearing of the failure, or rather of the refusal of the 
 other leaders to act, these officers ordered the arms to be 
 restored. The writer of A Faithful Narrative of Northern 
 Affairs, at pp. II, 12, thus describes the cause of this 
 failure: — "When the project of disarming the popish 
 soldiers in that town (Belfast) was upon execution, -Sir 
 William Franklyn, Mr. Upton, and Mr. Hamilton of 
 ToUimore, together with Capt. Leighton, Capt. Berming- 
 ham, Lieut. Barnes, Lieut. Tubman, and several other 
 officers of the regiment, and citizens of the town, met in 
 order to accomplish their designs ; but the first three re- 
 lenting, absolutely denied to go on, though often pressed to 
 it by the officers, Capt. Leighton urging the feasibleness 
 of it by engaging to disarm the whole gaiTison, with the 
 assistance only of as many men as might serve to bring 
 off their arms ; but the three first gentlemen discounte- 
 nancing the captain's offer, and interposing their great 
 authority with the town, the whole project fell; and 
 Hamilton of Tollimore gallopped towards sir Arthur 
 Rawdon, who marching with 500 men to make good the 
 attempt, was advanced within five miles of the town (of 
 Carrickfergus), when this ungrateful message diverted him, 
 and occasioned his giving such marks of rejsroach as was 
 due to those who had stifled so hopeful a design. "' The 
 second attempt to seize the town and castle of Carrickfergus, 
 which was made on the 2 1st of February, was suggested to 
 these incompetent leaders, partly by a wish to regain lost 
 confidence and reputation, and partly by certain successes 
 achieved by lord Blaneyin Monaghan and Armagh. On this 
 second occasion Archibald Edmonston of Redhall, the 
 laird of Duntreath, was "valiantly active, " but only in the 
 way of assisting materially to defeat the object which he and 
 his friends desired to accomplish. Inseizinga boatat Broad- 
 island, which carried provisions to the earl of Antrim's 
 private family at Carrickfergus, he no doubt promptly 
 obe3ed and executed the command of the protestant 
 council, but this act naturally called forth remonstrances 
 from lord Antrim, who proposed, on his part, such rea- 
 sonable terms of arrangement, that the protestants rashly 
 concluded that his offers shewed symptoms of weakness, 
 
 and resolved, wthout delay, and without the necessary 
 preparations, to attack the to^vn. They failed miserably, 
 in this second attack, but succeeded in obtaining better 
 terms from Talbot, who commanded in the town, than 
 they had reason to expect. See preceding note ; see also 
 A Faitlifiil Narrative of Norther7t Affairs, &'c. , pp. 28 — 32. 
 The following curious and interesting letter, written by 
 Arcd. Edmonston to his son-in-law, James Montgomery 
 of Rosemount, and preserved among the Family Papers 
 at Donaghadee, will explain how the writer was "vali- 
 antly active" on that memorable occasion : — 
 
 " Broad Ileand, Feb>' 6, 1688. 
 "Dear Son, — Because I am outwearied, and almost asleep, I 
 must leave to the Bearer a more ample narrative than my time now 
 can allow. Therefore briefly, I and my neighbour captaines being 
 apprehensive of the great inconvenience of victualling the garrison 
 of Carrickfergus, and armeipg of another Regiment of Cormack 
 O'Neall, who, having gone there for their armes, were to be sent out 
 double armed ; resolved in severall precincts to prevent the one and 
 attack the other. Whereupon, Wednesday, we waylaid them, but 
 they came not out. Thursday I caused some of my men to seize 
 the Boat (the disposing whereof I left to the Councill , whereupon 
 the garrison was about to fall on us, but was diverted, as it seems, 
 by their feares of Belfast and Antrim. We had in all 8 Companies, 
 amounting to about 1000 men. I was earnest to have attempted the 
 garrison, but some of our Captaines were utterly unwilling, pretend- 
 ing the want of aid and orders from the Coimcill. I offered to men- 
 taine the men in the adjacent places, till thej' might have "what they 
 expected. The men themselves were swift and foreward, and, in re- 
 turning home, vowed that they would desert such arguments. We 
 had written to my Lo. Rlassereenand S"" Will"^ Franklin : both gave 
 good promises, but the present necessity requyred present perform- 
 ance. The men dispersed this day. I offered to 6 of the Companies 
 to make the attempt, and by God's assistance to carry it : but 
 nothing would doe without further aid. The garrison wants provi- 
 sion, and no meall went this day to the market, — from which I leave 
 their measures to your conjecture, and ours to your Advice. The 
 can permitte no delay. If it be judged fit to attack the garrison 
 (which I shall cheerfully concurre with, both for the public good and 
 the necessite of my own and neighbours circumstances', let me have 
 seasonable warning, that I may make all possible provision. Let 
 this be communicate to the Councill of both Counties as my Lo. 
 Mountalexander and S'^ Arthure sees fit. Faill not to 
 send back an e.xpress with an answere. I beseech you take all care 
 that the boat I seized upon, and all that was in her, be carefully 
 secured and preserved, till that affair be further advised. Give my 
 humble service to my Lord and S*^ Arthure Radin. — I remain, your 
 affectionate Father, 
 
 "Akd: Edmonstone. 
 " Post. — The garrison is in great terrour, severall running away 
 without Armes, Two Captaines laid down their Commissions. 
 " To James Montgomery, Esq., Rosemount." 
 
 The writer of the foregoing letter died of over-fatigue, 
 whilst defending the fort of Culmore, near Derr}', in the 
 following year (1689). His eldest son, also named Archi- 
 bald, was, during several years, a member of parliament 
 for the county of Antrim, and re.sided constantly at Red- 
 hall, permitting the castle at Duntreath to fall into decay. 
 He died in 1768, at an advanced age, leaving several 
 children by his second wife, who was a daughter of the 
 lion. John Campbell of Mamore, in Lochaber. His 
 eldest son, Archibald, who was created a baronet in 1/74, 
 sold the Redhall property in 1784, and bought the estate 
 of lord Livingstone of Kilsythe, which the owner had lost 
 by his eng.iging in the rebellion of 1715. The Edmond- 
 stons of Redhall then returned to Duntreath, which their 
 ancestors liad abandoned 177 years before. See pp. 56-S, 
 supra. During its sojourn in Ireland, the members of this 
 family were steady and consistent presbyterians. W^illiam 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 277 
 
 shed, wherof he was wary, for conscience sake) by S'' Arthur Rauden's forming a regim* of dragoons, 
 to desert Lisnegarvy, and march to Dubh'n with his 500 new trained Irishmen. s< 
 
 Edmonston, the first settler at Redhall, was tlie friend and 
 patron of Brice, the first presbyterian minister who came 
 to Ulster in 1613 ; and Archibald Edmonston, the last of 
 the family who occupied Redhall, and who died there in 
 1768, bequeathed to the Rev. John Bankliead, the then 
 presbyterian minister of Ballycarry or Broadisland, " all 
 liis religious and histoiy books, except those which had 
 Mrs. Edmondstone's name in writing on them." His 
 wife, Ann Campbell, bequeathed to the same minister, in 
 1777, the sum of twenty pounds and the parlour clock, 
 "as an expression other regard for him." See Nav Sta- 
 tistical Account of Scotland, Stirlingshire, pp. 77 — 80; 
 M.'S\dram!s History of Car rickfei-gus, pp. 342, 395 ; Reid's 
 History of tht Presbyterian Church, vol. i., p. 93 ; the Rev. 
 Classon Porter's Memoir of the Ballycarry Congregation, 
 printed in the Christian Unitariaii hr ]\me, 1863, p. 160. 
 
 S'' JVew trained Ii'ishmen. — This sir Thomas New- 
 comen, of Moss Town, county of Longford, was the fifth 
 baronet in descent from sir Edward, the first of that name 
 who settled in Ireland, and who was created a baronet in 
 1625, being styled of Kenagh, county of Longford. Sir 
 Thomas, mentioned in the text, was an active adherent of 
 Tyrconnell, although he professed to be a sincere protes- 
 tant. His second wife, by whom he left a large family, was 
 Sarah, daughter of sir George St. George, of Carrickdrum- 
 rusk, county of Leitrim. This lady's protestantism was 
 of no doubtful hue, although her husband's was supposed 
 to be mere pretence. In Story's Impartial History, pp. 
 51, 52, there is the following brief notice of her spirited 
 conduct: — "And Sir Thomas Newcomb's house, in tlie 
 county of Longford, was surrendered upon very good 
 terms, it being held out by his lady against a great party 
 of the Irish, for the house is strongly situated, and she 
 got about 200 of her tenants into it, who defended the 
 place till the Irish brouglit field-pieces against it, though 
 it was above 20 miles from any of our garrisons." Sir 
 Thomas Newcomen was a family connexion of the Raw- 
 dons of Moira, his nephew, the second earl of Granard, 
 having married the sister of sir Arthur Rawdon. He was 
 very anxious that the latter should not lie drawn away 
 with the other northern protestants to oppose James II. 
 On this subject he wrote several letters to lady Rawdon, 
 evidently intended to work on her ladyship's fears. In 
 one of these letters, dated 17th Jan., 1688, he says: — 
 "Since my last to you, madam, I am glad to know that, 
 tho' 'twas debated whether the gentlemen I talked of 
 should be proclaimed traytors or no, 'tis resolved to defer 
 anything of that nature till further provocation is given ; 
 therefore, my serious advice to Sir Arthur, and the rest 
 mentioned in my last, is, that they do no act that may rise 
 up in judgment against them ; for I assure you that the 
 
 king is expected here in person I do advise 
 
 all Protestants (whose religion is dear to me) to behave 
 themselves, so as to give no offence to the government, 
 till the king's pleasure is known ; but if the Protestants 
 in that country go about to disarm Catholics, as Mr. 
 Hawkins (of Rathfriland) threatens, or to hinder the 
 new levies, 'twill be the means to draw down forces 
 thither, foot, horse, and dragoons, that may bring 
 
 the rabble and their to an account 
 
 If your husband was advised by me, he would do as he 
 
 did in Monmouth's rebellion, offer to raise men to serve 
 the king, and by that means entitle himself to Mulgrave 
 and Seymour's estate in Ireland, out of which he 'Mas so 
 notoriously wronged." In the concluding sentence, sir 
 Thomas appeals in a cimning way to the lady's selfishness, 
 and through her to her husband, sir Arthur Rawdon, who 
 was nephew of earl Conway, then lately deceased. The 
 latter liad been induced, by some means, to leave his 
 estate of Killultagh to the Seymours, which, of course, 
 was a great disappointment to the Rawdon family, who 
 were more nearly related to him. Lady Rawdon, who 
 was heir and daughter of sir James Graham, son of the 
 earl of Menteith, appears to have listened favourably to 
 sir Thomas's suggestion, and even to have supplied him 
 with important information respecting the movements of 
 northern protestants. In reply to one of her letters, sir 
 Thomas writes as follows, in January, i688: — "I am 
 bound, madam, to give your ladysliip my hearty thanks 
 for your last message received by an express at the head of 
 my men near Dromore ; and as for the 7,000 rabble, they 
 did not come at me, and if they had, I would have given 
 them as hearty a reception as I could : and in acquittal of 
 your ladyship's kindness, I thought it my duty to let you 
 know how matters go here in relation to our king's affairs, 
 tho' I do not think it fit to write to you by my own hand, 
 nor own what I now write, lest I might draw an old house 
 upon my owm head I must tell you, fur- 
 ther, that it is agreed on here in the cabinet council that 
 your husband, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. McGill, my Lord 
 Blaney, and others be proclaimed traytors for having 
 gathered men, enlisted, officered, and exercised them with- 
 out the king's authority. . . , . My serious advice 
 is that your husband (for the memory of whose parents I 
 retain all the respect imaginable) forbear rendezvouzing 
 hereafter, in imitation of his cunning neighbour, sir Robert 
 Colvill, who obeyed my lord Tyrconnel's summons in 
 coming up to tovm ; and let me tell you there are false 
 brethren in that country, for instance Mr. Waring of 
 Clonconnel, who writ up lately that he was afraid some 
 hot-headed young men of his religion and neighbourhood 
 would ruin tliemselves and others." — Rawdon Papers, pp. 
 296-^300. .Sir Thomas was smarting, when he wrote this 
 letter, under a rather ludicrous discomfiture which had 
 befallen him at Lisburn. The ' raljble' of which he speaks 
 formed part of the unarmed protestant forces levied in 
 Down, who had determined to seize the arms of Tyrcon- 
 nell's troops at Lisburn, Belfast and Carrickfergus. Those 
 appointed to do this work at Lisburn, where sir Thomas 
 Newcomen commanded, actually accomplished it, but 
 hearing that their brethren had failed (or rather refused to 
 proceed with it) at Belfast and Carrickfergus, they returned 
 the arms they had taken from Newcomen's men, sub- 
 tracting however, from his small force 150 protestants, 
 which so alanned and weakened him, that he was com- 
 pelled to beat a hasty retreat to Dublin. — Faithful History 
 of Northern Affairs, p. 12. Lord Henry Clarendon, State 
 Letters, voL i , p. 17, writes of this sir Thomas Newcomen 
 as follows : — " Sir Tho. Newcomen ha-: di sired nw leave 
 to go for England, and he will embark \n ithin a day or 
 two ; you know his dependance, and upon that account I 
 did not think fit to refuse him If he does 
 
278 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 About this time, the Prince of Orange (to whom a convention of all the three estates in Eng- 
 land had devolved y° administration of all affairs) sent over the Commissions for Confederal 
 Protestants had prayd.55 
 
 not gain his desire I shall not be sorry, nor will anybody 
 else here, for I never knew a man more hated ; he pursues 
 his brother-in-law's designs (Tyrcomiell's), and yet even 
 that party do not esteem him, nor know how to believe 
 him ; he is reputed a brave man in his person, but false 
 and treacherous to the highest degree ; he is very hot and 
 troublesome at the council board, and in ail'places where 
 he makes one." Sir Thomas was soon afterwards slain at 
 the siege of Enniskillen. 
 
 55 Had pray d. — For the family of the Prince of Orange, 
 see p. lo, supra. The junto of five appointed at Comber 
 on Jan. 17, proceeded at once to prepare an address to 
 the prince, imploring the assistance of England for the 
 speedy protection of the protestants of Ulster. Mr. 
 Hamilton of Comber, was generally esteemed the most 
 fitting person to present this address, but, by the ma- 
 nosuvring of his kinsman, James Hamilton of Tollimore, 
 he was set aside and captain Baldwin Leighton appointed. 
 With the address was forwarded also a i^equest that com- 
 missions might be granted for twelve regiments, then 
 being raised in the counties of Down and Anti^im. On 
 the loth of February the Prince of Orange transmitted, 
 through captain Baldwin Leighton, the following reply, 
 addressed to the earl of Mount- Alexander:— 
 
 Having received an account from Captain Leighton of what he 
 was requested to represent to ns in relation to the condition of the 
 Protestants in Ireland, we have directed him to assure you in our 
 name, how sensibly we are affected with the hazards you are ex- 
 posed to by the illegal power the papists have, of late, usurped in 
 this kingdom, and that we are resolved to employ the most speedy 
 and effectual means in our power, for rescuing you from the oppres- 
 sion and terrors you lie under : that, in the mean time, we do well 
 approve of the endeavours we understand you are using to put your- 
 selves into a posture of defence, that you may not be surprised, 
 wherein you may expect all the encouragement and assistance that 
 can be given you from hence. And because we are persuaded, that 
 there are, even of the Romish communion, many who are desirous 
 to live peaceably, and do not approve of the violent and arbitrary 
 proceedings of some who pretend to be in authority ; and we, think- 
 mg it just to make distinction of persons, according to their behaviour 
 and deserts, do hereby authorize you to promise in our name, to all 
 such as shall demean themselves hereafter peaceably and inoffen- 
 sively, our protection and exemption from those pains and forfeitures, 
 \vhich those only shall incur who are the rnaintainers and assertors 
 fA the said illegal authority, assumed and continued contrary to 
 law : or who shall act anything contrary to the Protestant interest, 
 or the disturbance of the public peace in the kingdom. And for fur- 
 ther particulars, we refer you to the report you shall receive from 
 (Japtain Leighton (who hath acquitted himself with fidelity and dili- 
 gence in your concerns), of the sincerity of our intentions towards 
 you : and so we recommend you to the protection of Almighty God, 
 
 *' Given at St. James's, the 10th day of F'ebruary, t688— 89. 
 (,i ."William H. Orange. 
 
 f ,"-By His Highness's command, 
 "William Jephson. 
 " To the Earl of Mount-Alexander, to be communicated to the 
 Protestant nobility and gentry in the North of Ireland." — Historical 
 Collections relating to Belfast^ p. 64. 
 
 On the receipt of this document, at Hillsborough, king 
 William IH. and queen Mary were forthwith proclaimed 
 in that place, and throughout all the adjoining districts. 
 Captain Leighton soon afterwards returned, bringing with 
 him also the commissions for such regiments as had been 
 recommended by the council, and lo which the author 
 
 refers in the text. These twelve consisted of the eight 
 following infantry and four cavalry regiments : — ^ 
 
 1. Earl of Mount-Alexander— A regiment of horse, raised in J}own 
 
 and Antrim. ■ - ■ - 
 
 2. Lord Blaney — A cavalry regiment, raised in the cotinties of Ar- 
 
 magh, Moiiaghan, and Fermanagh. 
 
 3. Mr. Skeffinglon — Dragoons, raised m Down and Antrim. 
 
 4; Sir Arthur Rawdon — Dragoons, raised in Down and Airtrint. 
 
 5. Sir John Macgill — Infantry, raised in Down. 
 
 6. Mr, Hamilton of Bangor — Infantry, raiied in Down. 
 
 7. Mr. Hamilton, of Tollimqre — -Infantry, raised in Down. 
 
 8. Mr. Francis Hamilton— Infantry, raised in Armagh. 
 
 9. Sir Wra. Franklyn — Infaatrj-, raised in Antrim. 
 
 10. Mr. Upton — Infantry, raised m Antrim. 
 
 11. Mr. Lesly — Infantr>', raised ii? Antrim. 
 
 12. Mr. Montgomery — Infantry, raised in_ Fermanagh. 
 
 In addition to the above, sir Robert Cohilfe, Mr. Adair, 
 and Mr. Aiinesley eacfh raised a regiment at his own ex- 
 pense. — Failh/iU A'urrative of Northern Affairs, pp. 15, 
 20, 32. About the time at which this reply from the 
 prince of Orange arrived, the earl of Mount-Alexander 
 received the follo\ving letter from a gentleman in London. 
 It has been preserved among the Family Papers at 
 Donaghadee, and is now printed for the first time : — 
 
 " London, 8th Feb"^', 1688. 
 " Mv Lord, — Nothing but the want of a safe hand has prevented 
 my paying that duty to your Lopp., which yotu- many favours have 
 obliged me to, especially those conferred on me when last in the 
 North, but now that a post re like to be settled through Scotland to 
 Donaghadee, which will not be subject to any interception, I shall 
 presume sometimes to give your Lordship the trouble of a few lines, 
 as any thing here worthy of your knowledge shall offer. I have 
 herewith sent your Lordship an Abstract of the Resolutions of the 
 Convencon, from the time of their first sitting ; what -we are next to 
 expect is the proclaiming of the Prince, which is now resolved upon, 
 notwithstanding a great interest made against it m both Houses, 
 some being for inviting the king back ( but few, and made 
 
 little appearance} and confining him to certain conditions, others who 
 made a great party, for crowning the Princess of Orange in her own 
 Right, but the most after many debates between both Houses, 
 carryed for the Prince in his own right during life, then to go to the 
 Princess and the heirs male of her Ijody, and for want of such heirs 
 male, to the Princess of Denmark, and for want there, to the Prince 
 of Orange and the heirs of his body, and for want of such heirs, to 
 revert to the people for a new eleccion ; yesterday and this day have 
 been spent in settling the preliminarys and qualifications of the go- ■ 
 vernment before the Prince shall be proclaimed, which lye now before 
 the Lords, the Commons having dispatched them, and have nothing 
 to doo till they are agreed. Your Lordship will find most of the 
 things they have now under consideracon in printed papers of greev- 
 ances to be redressed ; and the other papers which I have s'ent 3'our 
 Lordship will inform yon what different sentiments of things have 
 been published by the Pamphleteers. 
 
 " I need not give your Lordship any account of the returns made 
 by the Prince to your Lordship and the other Northern gentlemens 
 J Addresses, Capt Leighton being best able to doe it, and the Prince's 
 Letter, which is sent by him, will show how well it has been ac- 
 cepted, and how well Capt. Leighton has managed his part ; and if 
 your lordship and the other gentlemen shall think fitt to imploy mee 
 here in any further address or representations to the Prince, I shall 
 not disappoint their expectations, but give them a satisfactory ac- 
 count, and by my care and diligence therein approve myself theirs 
 and, my lord, your Lordship's most faithful and obedient humble 
 servant, 
 
 "Rob. Curtis. 
 
 " If your Lordship shall please to honour me with any commands, 
 be pleasd to direct for me to be left at Mr. Holford's, Bookseller, in the 
 Pall Mall. . . , 
 
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 Our Earie, therefore, acting the best that might be, and assisted by y° Lord Massareen,^^ 
 Arthltr'sRaudenjS? S"" Rob' Colvill,?^ the towns of Lisburn aP Lisnegarvy, and all the Protestants 
 
 " The Resolutions of the 8th and gth of Feb. (88), over and 
 above what is contained in the general paper. 
 
 " Friday the 8th — A Committee, which was appointed to draw up 
 amendments to the vote of the Lords upon a debate of the House, 
 ordered that the Prince and Princess of Orange be proclaimed King 
 and Queen of England, France, and Ireland, and the dominions 
 thereunto belonging, to hold the prown and Royal dignity of the 
 said kingdoms and dominions to them the said Prince and Princess, 
 during their joynt lives, and after their decease, the said crown and 
 royall dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to be to the heirs 
 of the said Princesse, and for default of such heirs to the Princesse 
 Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body, and, for default of such 
 heirs, to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange (if he 
 should marry again and have issue). And the Commons desired the 
 said Prince and Princesse to accept the same accordingly — carried 
 nefnine contradicente — and ordered it to be carryed up to the Lords, 
 who took till to-morrow to consider of it. 
 
 " Saturday, Feb. y^ gth (88) — This day the Lords agreed to the 
 amendments of the Commons, with only this alteracon, sole royall 
 power instead of Administration, and have agreed to the Heads of 
 greevances, tho' altered some words." 
 « 
 
 The allusion in the foregoing letter to the establishment of 
 a post is curious. 
 
 Alassareen. — This was sir John Skeffington of Fisher- 
 wick, in the county of Stafford, who succeeded to the Masse- 
 reene titles and estates in ,i686. On account of his strenuous 
 support .of the Protestant cause in Ulster, as evinced' by 
 his large contributions towards providing for the defence 
 of Derry, he was one of the persons excepted from pardon 
 in Tyrconnell'.s proclamation, although he had been very 
 recently appointed governor of the county of Derry and 
 town of Coleraine, and a member of the privy council. 
 Two days after this proclamatiqn, Tyrconnell employed a 
 Presbyterian minister, named Osborne, to come north- 
 ward and endeavour to reconcile those of his own sect to 
 the policy adopted by the government. Among his other 
 duties whilst on this mission, Osborne wrote a long letter 
 to viscount Massereene, describing Tyrconuell's leniency, 
 who only required the northern Protestants to surrender 
 their anns and horses for the use of the king (James II. ), 
 and three of their most influential leaders, to be dealt 
 vnth as the authorities might deem expedient. If these 
 terms were not instantly complied with, Osborne's letter 
 goes on to inform them that Tyrconnell would, "with a 
 party of his army fight them, which part he intends shall 
 be at Newry, on Monday, the nth ; which will from 
 thence march to Belfast, and from thence to Coleraine and 
 Londonderry, as his excellency intends, and that the 
 country Irish, not of the army, men, women, and boys, 
 now all armed with half-pikes and bayonets, in the 
 counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Tyrone, and Londonderry, ■ 
 will, upon the approach of tlie said part of the army, and 
 resistance thereto made, immediately enter upon a 
 massacre of the British in said counties ; which force and^ 
 violence of the rabble, his excellency says, he cannot re- 
 strain, and fears it may be greater than in 1641." This 
 letter was written in Loughbrickland, on the 9th of March, 
 and received by viscount Massereene, at Antrim, the same 
 night. The following reply, signed Ijy Mount- Alexander, 
 Massereene, and others, was instantly returned-: — "We 
 declare our utter abhorrence of the effusion of blood, and 
 that we will use all proper means to avoid it ; but cannot 
 consent to lay down our arms, which we were forced to 
 take up for own defence, nor to part with oUr goods by 
 
 any . other than legal means ; and that we are ready to 
 
 appoint persons to treat on such heads as are consistent 
 with the safety of our religion, lives, and liberty. " When 
 Tyrconnell's army, under Hamilton and Sheldon, came 
 liorthward, a few days subsequently, plundering Hills- 
 borough, Lisburn, Belfast, and Antrim, viscount Mas- 
 sereene's castle was robbed of money and plate to the 
 value of £d,,OQO, besides all its costly furniture. His 
 lordship was also deprived of a vast quantity of salmon 
 which had been stored near the city of Derry, most of it 
 being appropriated by the garrison, and the remainder, 
 about 40 barrels, by the enemy. ' Lord Massereene died 
 in 1695, and was buried at Antrim. His son, Clotworthy, 
 who succeeded him, was also excepted from pardon in 
 Tyrconnell's proclamation. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland,. 
 edited by Archdall, vol. ii., pp. 380-4. 
 
 57 Sir Arthur Kaiuleit. — Sir Arthur was also one of 
 those excepted from mercy by Tyrconnell's proclamation 
 of March 7, 1688, "in regard," as therein stated, "he had 
 been one of the principal actors of the rebellian, and one 
 of those who advised and fomented the same, and in- 
 veigled others to be involved therein." He died in 
 1695, aged 33 years. His wife, Helena, grand-daughter 
 of William, earl of Menteitli and Airth, see p, 277, supra, 
 is said to have been a woman of exquisite good sense and 
 taste, and of unwearied charity to the poor. She was 
 also a great heiress, her mother being Isabella, eldest 
 daughter of John Bramhall, archbishop of Armagh. Lady 
 Rawdon also inherited tlie estates of her brother, sir John 
 Bramhall, of Ratlimullyan (now Rathmolyon), county of 
 Meath.-r-Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. iii. , p. 107, and nott, 
 
 5^ Sir RohL Colvill. — See pp. 267, 268, supra. Prior to 
 the final rupture between Tyrconnell and the northern Pro- 
 testants, sjr Robert Colville appears to have acted, for a 
 shcfrt time, as mediator between the parties. The writer 
 of A Faithful Narrative of Northern Affairs, &c., pp. 10, 
 II, thus mentions the fact: — "Tyrconnel being willing to 
 .secure hunself against the Northern numbers, prudently 
 resolved to keep up a fair correspondence with them; and 
 in order to it, he invited several of the leading men to 
 attend him at Dublin ; but the country not judging it safe 
 to venture many of them, lest they should be detained as 
 hostages, nor politick wholly to despise his summons, 
 concluded that only Sir Robert Colvil should be en- 
 trusted with this undertaking ; who being very kindly 
 treated by the government, was dismissed with repeated 
 assurances, that if his countrymen would continue quiet 
 in their respective habitations, they should be only charged 
 with the incumbrance of two regiments, but as it soon 
 appeared, Tyrconnell had never intended to keep these 
 promises longer than they served his designs ; for im- 
 mediately upon Sir Robert's departure, he commanded a 
 detachment out of another regiment to reinforce the 
 garrison of the Newry. It's likewise to be presumed, that 
 Sir Robert Colvil promised more in behalf of the Northern 
 gentlemen, than they were willing to make good ; for at 
 his return, he found them engaged in a project, which as 
 well in respect of his promise, as in common prudence, 
 he thought himself obliged to oppose; judging it not fit 
 
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 elswhere, he drew together part of his troopes, foot, hors and dragoons, (which at best were Uke ill 
 armed militia men, shores of Carrickfergus being in Irish hands,) and with these forces he 
 marched to stopp the descent of Maj' Gen" Hamilton and his army, w"*" came by Newry (then a 
 guarison of Irish) to break our forces in this eastmost part of Ulster, and to beleaguer London- 
 derry (w"*" had deny'd entrance to y^ Earle of Antrim's Irish regim') but our best hors and other 
 forces from Antrim Lisburn and Belfast, not coming up in time, the contry people with S' Arthur 
 Rauden, and those with his Lo'', (whom hee comanded personally) was easy routed on Y i4th of 
 
 to incense a government that courted them, especially such 
 an one as he very well knew they could not be able to 
 oppose, should they be reduced to extremity, being sensi- 
 ble that the Northern strength consisted much more in 
 reputation, than in any real force they could make ; but 
 all his endeavours were vain, and his advice branded with 
 the epithets of cowardly and popish ! by those who had 
 afterwards reason to wish they had yielded to such moderate 
 councils." Sir Robert Colville had the character of 
 being very ashctc, and was evidently no favourite with 
 any of the great parties of his time. The following 
 extracts from letters written by Henry, earl of Claren- 
 don, whilst lord lieutenant (A Ireland, contain some 
 curious, but not very complimentary, notices of sir 
 Robert :— 
 
 " Dublin, 24th January, 1685-6. 
 
 " To Lord Sunderland. 
 
 . . . . " I send your lordship here enclosed likewise the copy 
 of an information given me by lord Mount Alexander ; of which his 
 lordship will give you a further account himself, he being to go for 
 England within a few days. I have advised upon it with niy lord 
 chief justice Keyting, that no time might be lost in the prosecution : 
 but he is of opinion, that nothing should be done upon it for the 
 present ; the words having been spoken long since, before his majesty 
 came to the crown, and there being but one witness. This Sir 
 Robert Colvill is looked upon as a very great favourer of the 
 fanaticks, though he goes to church himself : he is a man of a verj- 
 great estate in the north." 
 
 "5th Februarj-, 1685--6. 
 
 ■ ' To the Lord Treasurer. 
 
 " On Wednesday last my lord Mount Alexander went for Eng- 
 land : he is better known to you, than to me : and therefore I need 
 say nothing to you of him, that is, not in his behalf. By the small 
 acquaintance I have with him I take him to be a man of honour, and 
 great worth, and perfectly devoted to the king's service. I have 
 had much of his company since my beina here ; and I have endea- 
 voured to be as civil to him as I could. I could not refuse hitn leave 
 to go for England for his private occasions ; and he has promised me 
 to return in the spring. He gave me some time since an information 
 of one Maxwell against Sir Robert Colvill ; which, when I have 
 read, though there appeared to me to be no great matter in it, I 
 thought fit to advise with my lord chief justice Keyting upon it : 
 who is of opinion that, considering the words were spoken of the 
 king, when duke, and several years since, and that there was but 
 one witness, it would be best not to make any prosecution against 
 the person. My lord Mount Alexander tells me that there has been 
 some little difference between Sir Robert Colvill and himself ; and 
 therefore he was very cautious in appearing against him : but be- 
 lieving, it would come out some other way, and then that it might 
 not be thought well in him to have concealed such an information, 
 he thought best to lodge it in the chief governour's hands. And, you 
 may believe, I had no great mind to be thought the smotherer of any 
 words which might be interpreted to be against the king ; and, there- 
 fore, when I had my lord chief justice Keyting's opinion, which I 
 have told you, I sent a copy of the information to my Lord Sunder- 
 land in a letter of the 24th past ■, which letter (because I had not 
 time then to have them copied! I now send you. This Sir Robert 
 Colvill is a man of at least ;£3,ooo per annum in the north of this 
 kingdom, and was for several years of the privy council, till the 
 change upon his majesty's coming to the crown. This last summer 
 he was treating a match for his son with a daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Newcomen, niece of lord Tyrconnel ; had that gone on, he would 
 
 have been a man of merit : but now that is off, he will be represented 
 as a very dangerous man by that lord : which was one reason, which 
 made my lord Mount Alexander resolve to give me the information 
 against him. There are now propositions on foot for a match be- 
 tween Sir Robert's son and my lady Ellen Macarty : the portion is, 
 for the father to be a viscount ; which my lady Clancarty thinks she 
 has credit enough with her friends in England to procure. I can saj' 
 nothing of the gentleman, but as I am told by the different parties 
 here ; and why I did not consult Mr. solicitor concerning him, with 
 whom I do, and shall advise in most things, lord Mount Alexander 
 will tell you. When the'^ing has all before him, he is the best 
 judge, whether he will have him prosecuted, or whether he will 
 dignify him with any title. I shall be ready to obey in either case." 
 
 " 27th February, 1685—6. 
 
 " To the Lord Treasurer. 
 
 " Sir Robert Colvill came to town on Saturday last ; and the next 
 day he came to me, full of professions of duty to the king. He told 
 me, though he was not now in the king's service, yet he would always 
 be a good subject ; and, if I would give him leave, when he returned 
 into the country, he would give me a constant account of all things 
 in those parts ; which you may believe I accepted of. He dined the 
 same day at my lady Clancarty's ; for that match goes on ; and 
 colonel RIacarty frankly undertook, he should be a Wscount. I 
 have scarce ever known a man more variously spoken of, than this 
 Sir Robert. Some very good men give him a great character ; 
 others, as good, shake their heads, and say, they know not what to 
 think of his principles. All agree that he has a great interest ; that 
 is, a great estate. Some, perhaps, en\^ him for that ; and some 
 hate him for the meanness of his birth ; indeed, they say he is come 
 from a very vile beginning. When I know more of him, I will give 
 you a further account ; you cannot expect I should yet say anj'thing 
 of him upon my own knowledge. 
 
 " Before I left London both my lord chancellor and lord treasurer 
 of Scotland severally spoke to me of one David Montgomery of 
 L.inshagh ; who, they said, had a small estate in this kingdom as 
 well as in Scotland ; that he was in the rebellion with the late Argyle, 
 and was outlawed in Scotland ; therefore, they wished he could be 
 found here. I have made all the enquiry I could after him since my 
 arrival here ; but could not gain any information of him, till since 
 sir Robert ColviU's coming to town ; who tells me, that this Mont- 
 gomery went into Scotland sometime before Argy'le's landing there, 
 and that he was not heard of his being in this kujgdom since ; that 
 he lives in the same barony where Sir Robert himself Hves ; and 
 that, upon that account, he is well acquainted with him ; that his 
 estate in this kingdom is very small, and all a leasehold from my 
 lord Mount Alexander ; who {by the way) could give no information 
 of him, tho' I spoke to him about it. Such as the estate is, you will 
 find by the enclosed note, which is a copy of what Sir Robert gave 
 me : if you please to direct me, I will order this Montgomery to 
 be outlawed the next term ; and so his estate may be seized. I have 
 given my lord President an account of this particular ; that I may tell 
 all the good I hear of Sir Robert, as well as the ill I have been in- 
 formed of." — The State Letters of Henry Earl 0/ Clarendon, 
 vol. i., pp. 25, 30 ; see also pp. 66, 67, 76. 
 
 The foregomg extracts do not say much for the neighbourly 
 relations of the second earl and sir Robert Colville. This 
 David Montgomery abovenamed, although owning merely 
 an humble house in Bangor, ranked among the gentry of 
 Ayrshire, being eighth laird of Lainshaw, or Langshaw, 
 in the parish of Stewarton. Having been concerned in 
 the insurrection, with the unfortunate earl of Argyle, in 
 1685, he was obliged to live afterwards as an exile on the 
 Irish shore, whilst his Scottish lands were swept from him 
 
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 March, 1688,59 by y* enemy's trained hors dragoons and field peices (whereof wee had none,) 
 and so Hamilton (without peirceing into y" barony of Ardes and Lecale) marched thro Belfast, 
 Lisburn, Antrim, &c. dissipating our forces^" (w"" retired towards Deny) whether hee went to be- 
 seige it. What was done thereat, and the rescue it had, will be known whilst the history of K. 
 Ja. (who was thereag' it), his acts and disappointm*^ are read, so I forbeare them, as not be- 
 longing to my narrative; yet, I may remarque the providence of God towards the Protestants, 
 
 by an act of attainder, in 1686, and given over to lord 
 Strathallan. The latter, however, resigned his right to 
 the lands of Lainshaw, soon afterwards, and David's son, 
 James Montgomery, got possession of the family estates 
 again, in 1688. In 1 690, the forfeiture ■was, rescinded by 
 parliament, and David Montgomery was restored to all 
 his civil rights He was alive in 1692. — Paterson's Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., p. 454. 
 
 59 14^/i of March, 1688. — This was the date of the 
 skirmish at Dromore-Iveagh, an event \vhich is generally 
 known as the ' Break ' or Rout of Dromore. Among the 
 collections made by the late Mr. Samuel M'Skimin of 
 Carrickfergus, in his interleaved copy of Harris's Antient 
 and Present State of the County of Down (see p. 148, 
 supra), is the following letter, without signature, but 
 April, dated 24tli 1843: — "From all the information 
 I can collect, I have come to the conclusion that the fight at 
 Dromore took place in the townland of Ballymacormick, 
 immediately adjoining the town. The new line of road 
 that passes through I)romore, from Dublin to Belfast, bi- 
 sects the battle-field, which occupied but a small space on 
 the south side of the Gallows-Hill. It was not a level, 
 but a kind of glacis, terminating at a bog — a place not 
 ill-chosen for a skirmish, such as we may suppose it to 
 have been, for neither could have had much the advantage 
 as to position. General Hamilton's men were protected 
 on their right by the common bog, and a small party in 
 the narrow (Gallows) street would have been sufficient to 
 keep them from being flanked on their left. The Protes- 
 tant party had the bog on their left, but their right lay 
 open for attack. About two hundred yards to their rere 
 lay Crowswood, into which they retreated when repulsed; 
 and from thence they dispersed, part of them passing the 
 eastern extremity of the bog, and making their way over 
 Cannon-Hill, on the opposite side of which lay the lead- 
 ing road to Killileagh and Donaghadee, from whence 
 some embarked for Scotland. What road the remainder 
 took I could not ascertain. But the whole action must 
 have occupied a very short space of time, lor, according to 
 tradition, a woman went out to see the fight when it com- 
 menced, leaving bread at the fire, and on her return after 
 the affray had ended, the bread was not burned. Had 
 any of the inhabitants fallen, their graves would have been 
 known, as the present churchyard was then the only 
 burying- place in the parish. About a mile from Dromore, 
 in a field on the right-hand side of the old turnpike-road 
 leading to Hillsborough, a grave is pointed out, green to 
 this day, and said to be that of Marian De Ell orDe Yell, 
 who, for refusing some of James's soldiers a drink of but- 
 termilk, before she had taken off the butter, was drowned 
 by them in the churn, with her head downwards. And 
 about half-a-mile further on, in a field on the opposite 
 side of the road, is another grave, said to contain the re- 
 mains of one Campbell, a powerful man, who, armed with 
 
 only an old sword, opposed part of James's army, but was 
 soon overpowered by numbers, thrown over the ditch, and 
 buried there. But, when James's army passed, why did 
 the friends of the deceased suffer them to remain there, 
 instead of having them interred in consecrated ground ? 
 However, in this instance, I differ from tradition. I 
 rather think the graves alluded to are those of the two 
 soldiers of William's army, who, according to the Rev. G. 
 Stoiy, were 'shot near Hillsboro' for deserting.' Story, 
 or his informant, might have been in the rear of the army 
 at Hillsborough when the account reached him, which 
 may have caused him to fall into the mistake of placing 
 that transaction nearer Hillsborough than Dromore ; nor 
 do I think the mistake improbable, as the two places lay 
 only four miles distant, and Hillsborough was a garrison 
 town." 
 
 Dissipating our forces. — This defeat, which befel 
 the Protestant forces on the 14th March, completely 
 broke up their organization. The army sent by Tyr- 
 connell against them, from Dublin, was numerous and 
 well-disciplined, the infantry being commanded by lieute- 
 nant-general Richard Hamilton, and the cavalry by colonel 
 Dominick Sheldon. On the arrival of this force at 
 Newry, sir Arthur Rawdon and sir John MagiU, who had 
 garrisons in Loughbrickland and Rathfriland, withdrew 
 them from these places and fell back on Dromore. The 
 latter tov^Ti was supposed to be a favourable position at 
 which to concentrate the northern forces; but although 
 captain Hugh Magill, from the Ards, and major Baker, 
 led their troops there to support sir Arthur Rawdon, the 
 enemy advanced too rapidly to permit a sufficient number 
 to assemble. On the 14th, lord Mount-Alexander and 
 colonel Upton advanced from Hillsborough on Dromore, 
 but they came to witness the rout of their comrades, 
 and had only time to turn with them and make their 
 escape, the larger portion hurrying away in the direc- 
 tion of Coleraine and Derry. In Story's Impartial Account 
 of the Affairs of Ireland, p. 4, we have the follow- 
 ing reference to this defeat: — -"A little before this, the 
 Pi'otestants of Ireland were in daily expectation of arms, 
 ammunition, commissions, and some forces from England, 
 and it's more than probable that, if they had got them, 
 the business had cost neither so much blood nor treasure 
 as since it has ; yet some advised not to make any show 
 of discontent till they had an opportunity, and were in a 
 condition to make their party good by the arrival of suc- 
 cours from England ; but the greater part, impatient of 
 delays, begin to list men, and with what they could get, 
 to make a show of forming an army. Against those in 
 the North, Lieutenant-General Hamilton marched with 
 about one thousand of the standing army, and nigh twice 
 as many Rapparrees, in a distinct body ; they met at Dro- 
 more, in the county of Down, and, on the 14th March, 
 the Protestants were routed with no great difficulty ; and 
 
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 ili-^^Wdvitig K. J. heart to send Scottish Gen"' only^' to comand over the Irish in this and in the 
 
 no wonder, for they were very indifferently provided with 
 arms, ammunition, and commanders; nor was their dis- 
 cipline any better. This was called afterwards the Break 
 of Drummore (a word common among the Irish Scots for 
 a Rout." In the following September, as William's army 
 marched through part of the county of Down, on its way 
 to the Boyne, Story relates, p. 12, that they encamped 
 "at Dnimmore; the inhabitants had all, or most of them 
 left town, and there was not so much as a sheep or cow 
 to be seen. " The writer of A Faithful History of ]\^orthern 
 Affairs throws the whole blame of this disaster on the earl 
 of Mount- Alexander, who was general in command, and 
 Hamilton of Tollimore, who was always able to exercise 
 a fatal influence with both the general and council. This 
 writer contends that the commander-in-chief could, at any 
 time, have concentrated an army of 10,000 men, and oc- 
 cupied one or two positions which were capable of being 
 defended against Tyrconnell's army for months. Instead 
 of doing so, ho^\'ever, he was induced by the council to 
 keep his forces scattered, aud always in motion, "which 
 method," says the writer, pp. 36, 37, "was the great occa- 
 sion of our ensuing miseries, for the several petty divisions, 
 despairing of any success from their ovm strength, never 
 durst encounter the enemy, who always marched in a main 
 body. The first instance of this happened at Loughbrick- 
 land, a place within three miles of the Newry, where only 
 a detachment of Sir John Macgill's regiment, and an 
 inconsiderable party of Sir Arthur Rawdon's dragoons 
 were posted, who no sooner heard that Tyrconnell's army 
 had entered the Ts'ewry, but they retired in such confusion 
 that the whole country seemed struck with the retreat. 
 The enemy, making the right use of this accident, imme- 
 diately possessed themselves of Loughbrickland, and soon 
 afterwards advanced towards Drummore, which was gar- 
 risoned by 300 Horse and some Foot, under the command 
 
 of Sir Arthur Rawdon and Mr. W , who, having 
 
 notice of their march, posted a detachment of Horse at 
 the 2 mile Bridge, with strict orders to skirmish the 
 enemy's Scouts, and to give what other diversion they 
 could to their main body ; but, ha^^ng engaged too far, 
 several of them were cut off and the rest obliged to a 
 hasty retreat. Sir Arthur Rawdon continued in the town, 
 every minute expecting to be inforced with a considerable 
 supply, but was much surprised to receive the general's 
 orders to retreat to Hilsburgh, which was three miles 
 behind Drummore. This sudden disappointment made 
 him resolve upon his own methods; and instead of re- 
 treating to Hilsburgh he marched his men within view of 
 the enemy, whom he discovered to be very numerous, 
 and advancing in great haste, but excellent order, which 
 made Sir Arthur halt, and consulting with his officers 
 what was fit to be done, he found his right wing sur- 
 rounded, and concluding the enemy designed to hem in 
 his party, they all agreed upon a retreat, and the only 
 doubt that remained was who should be foremost. Lieut. 
 Price and two others, after the retreat of the rest, bravely 
 charged the enemy, and Price having shot Colonel Shel- 
 don's horse, by which he very much endangered his life, 
 was afterwards, by the failure of his own, exposed to the 
 revenge of the Irish. The bold Attempt of these three 
 men gave a considerable diversion to the -uhole amiy, so 
 that in the pursuit of the Protestant party, which lasted 
 
 full gallop to Hilsburgh, there were not above twenty 
 men killed ; but if the Fort had not put a stop to the Irish 
 career, they certainly had cut off the rest, who under that 
 shelter made good for their escape, some to Coleraine, 
 others to Portaferry, every one steering such a course as 
 he judged farthest from the present danger." 
 
 Scottish Genets, only. — Brigadier-general Richard 
 Hamilton who commanded against the protestants of 
 Down and Antrim, although a Roman catholic, was of Scot- 
 tish descent, being fifth son of sir George Hamilton of 
 Donalong, county Tyrone, who was fourth son of James 
 Hamilton, first earl of Abercom. This Richard Hamilton 
 had served with great reputation in France, but was 
 banished thence "on account of his unpardonable as-piring 
 addresses to the princess de Contr; daughter of the French 
 U Altoiis King yames's Irish Army List, 1855, 
 p. 1 73. *iThe other expedition," referred to by the author, 
 was that sent by Tyrconnell against the Enniskilleners, 
 which was also commanded by a Scottish general, lord 
 Claud Hamilton, third son of the first earl of Abercom, 
 and uncle of Richard Hamilton above-mentioned. These, 
 instead of Irish leaders, fortunately commanded the two 
 raids northward, and prevented the cruelties which the 
 latter might have encouraged. Richard Hamilton, — pro- 
 bably because his employers found him too lenient for 
 their purposes — was soon afterwards superseded, and the 
 infamous Fren'chman named Rosc?i put into command. 
 This change proved most calamitous to the brave defenders 
 of DeiTy and their various family connexions scattered 
 over the surrounding countr)"-. Rosen had the character 
 of unsparing cruelty M'hilst commanding against the 
 Huguenots of Languedoc, and James II., a mean, cruel 
 monster himself, now selected this officer as the one most 
 likely to inflict deepest vengeance on his refractory subjects 
 in Ulster. In Alenioirs of Ireland from the Restoraiion to 
 the Present Times, 8vo. 1 716, pp. 217, 218, we have the 
 following account of Rosen's cruelties : — " This officer im- 
 mediately put in Practice the Military Execution of the 
 French Papists against the Hugonots ; and issued out an 
 Order for all the Protestants of Ineshone and the Sea- 
 Coasts to Charlemont, Men, Women, and Children, to 
 be driven before the Walls of London-Derry, that tl#t 
 Ganison might be distressed by the taking them in, or 
 their Friends be destroyed by the Canon of the Besiege''. 
 The \\'ords of this French Butcher's Orders are these : 
 That From the Barony of Inislione, and the Sea- Coasts 
 rotind about, as far as Charlemont, the Faction, be gatherd 
 togelhe?; -whether Protected or not, and imincdiately brought 
 to the Walls of I.ondon-Derry, where it shall be lawful for 
 those that are in the Tozvn ( in case they have any pity for 
 them ) to open the gates and receive them into the Towfi, 
 othci-wise they shSll be forced to see their Friends, and near 
 Relations all, Starz'ed for want of Food ; he having resolvd 
 not to leave one 0/ them at Home, nor any thing to maintain 
 them ; and that all Hope of Succour may be taken away by 
 the Landing of any Troops in those Parts from England, 
 he firthcr Declares, That in case they refuse to submit, he 
 will forthwith cause all the said Country to be destroyd, 
 that if succours should be he7-cafter sent from Englajtd, they 
 may perish with them for want of Food. Pursuant to this 
 Order, the Dragoons and Soldiers firet strippd 'em, and 
 then drove the whole Country for Thirty miles about 
 
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 other expedition, for thereby the best sort of y'^ British escaped tO' Scotl'', England, or the J^e-^c^. 
 
 Man.^^ ■ - - ^ no-; - r; 
 
 But before y° s'' route, was in few miles of Hillsbrough (the;,place of ,Qur,rn^gazine,,),Gpl, 
 James Hamilton, orBangor,^3 being scarce of arms and ammunition, had dispatched my son (then 
 Cap* of foot) to y* Isle of Man ; the errand being for military stores, required haste, he therefore 
 went in a skiif to a friggot there (which stood for K. W"'- who was now crowned,) and he came 
 bJicK.'^rt it i6;.' Belfast Roads, and had the news of the said route (called by y° contry people tfie 
 breach,) and y° friggot helped many merch*' and others to escape from y IrishV' i .jv/ to^ !j'r;-M 
 
 The next day I saw his Lo" at B. magown,^'* attended by the owner thereof and Cornet iHod- 
 ges,^5 and his Lo" missing of a vessell at Donnoghadee (to which place he sent my son's groome to 
 
 before them, not sparing Nurses with their sucking 
 children, Women big with Child, nor old Decrepid 
 Creatures : some Women in Labour, Some that were just 
 brought to Bed, were driven among the rest. The very 
 Popish Officers who executed these Orders, confessd that 
 it was the most dismal sight they ever had seen, and that 
 the cries of the poor People seemed to be still in their 
 ears. They gatherd 6 or 7000, and kept many of them 
 for a Week together, without Meat or Drink. Several 
 Hundreds died in the Place before they were dismissd, 
 and many more on the Way as they went Home again to 
 their Houses; nor were they better when they came there, 
 for the straggling Soldiers, Raparees, and Pilferers that 
 followed 'the Army, had left them neither Meat, Drink, 
 Household Stuff, nor Cattle; but had taken away all in 
 their absence, by which means the generality of them 
 perished afterwards for Want, and many were ki; ii;kd on 
 the head by the Soldiers. The Officers who had the 
 Charge of seeing these Orders executed, were the Duke 
 of Berwick, Colonel Sutherland, and Colonel Sarsfield, 
 for which notable Exploit they ought to be remembrd 
 with Infaitiy." 
 
 The Isle of Man. — Among those who fled on that 
 occasion from the county of Down were the earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, Thomas Herrington of Comber, William Her- 
 rington, jun., of Comber, John Griffith of Comber, John 
 Magill of TuUycarne, William Magill, son and heir to 
 captain James Magill, Francis Annesly, jun., of Clough- 
 magherycatt, Alexander Brown of Magannon, Hugh 
 Montgomery of Ballymalady, Charles Campbell of 
 Donaghadee, John Farrell of IDromore, Henry Gardiner 
 of Newry, and Samuel Waring of Waringston. — King's 
 State of the Piviestants, ^. 227. 
 
 *3 Hamilton of Bangor. — ^James Hamilton of Bangor 
 was grandson of William Hamilton of Castleboy, New- 
 castle, or Quintin Castle, in the Ards, and cousin of James 
 Hamilton of Tolhmore. In Bangor chmrch is the follow- 
 ing inscription : — 
 
 "sacred to the memory of J.\MES HAMILTON, OF BANGOR, 
 ESQR., DESCENDED FROM THE FAMILY OP THE LORDS OF CLAN- 
 DEBOYE ; AND SOPHIA MORDAUNT, HIS CONSORT, DAUGHTER TO 
 JOHN LORD VISCOUNT MORDAUNT, AND GRAND-DAUGHTER TO 
 THE EARL OF PETERB0R9UGH AND TO THE EARL OF MONMOUTH, 
 THIS MONUMENT, AS AN ACT OF FILIAL PIETY, WAS ERECTED 
 PURSUANT TO THE WILL OF ANNE, THEIR ELDEST DAUGHTER 
 (relict of MICHAEL WARD, ESQR., LATE A JUSTICE OF THE 
 icing's bench IN IRELAND), WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN 
 DUBLIN, ON THE 17TH DAY OF MAY, 1760." 
 
 B.magown, — The residence of Hugh Montgomery, 
 
 son of Mr. James Montgomery, curate of Newtownards 
 and Greyabbey. Ballymagowan is now Springvale. 
 
 ''S Cornet Hodges. — Comet Hodges was probably the 
 Marks Hodges attainted by the parliament of James II., 
 and described in the Act of Attainder as " late of Down." 
 (King's State of the Protesta nts of Ireland, p. 214. ) " The 
 ancestors of the Hodges family came to Ireland during the 
 commonwealth. A Thomas Hodges was one of those in- 
 trusted by parliament with the government of the garrison 
 of Gloucester. He was a member of the house of com- 
 mons in 1645, and is stated to have advanced ^2,300 for 
 the service upon the credit of the excise. In 165 1, Mr. 
 Luke Hodges was appointed by the house one of the 
 commissioners of excise; and lands which were granted by 
 patent, in 1669, in county Kilkenny, to John and Thomas 
 Hodges, were probably in payment of the money advanced 
 by Thomas Hodges. A member of this family appears 
 to have been among the followers of William of Orange 
 at his landing at Torbay, on the 5th November, 1688 ; for 
 on the walls of the remarkable cavern known as /Cent's 
 Hole, near which the landing took place, there appears 
 carved the name of W. Hodges of Ireland, 1688. In the 
 State Paper Office there is a list of the soldiers in Ireland 
 in 1 672, and at Downpatrick there were colonel Vera Crom- 
 well, captain James Stewart, lieutenant Randall Moore, 
 cornet Mark Hodges, quarter-master." — Family MS. 
 Among the Family Papers preserved at Donaghadee is a 
 letter written by the second earl of Mount-Alexander to the 
 bishop of Dromore, respecting a Mr. Hodges, who appears 
 to have been a candidate for the tlien highly respectable 
 situation of diocesan teacher. The letter is creditable to 
 the writer in more than one respect : — 
 
 " Dublin, Feby. 28th, 1705-6. • 
 " My Lord, — Tho' by what your Lordship wrote of Mr, Hodges 
 has put an end to my giving you any farther trouble on his account, 
 yet because I would be rightly understood by your Lordship, and 
 tliat I have a pleasure in conversing with you, I will, with your 
 leave, answer your letter particularly. I thinke tliat I did not, by 
 what I saide, make Law and Conscience exclusive one of another ; 
 but the violation of your conscience being grounded on the violation 
 of the Law, I concluded that if you did not break into the law, you 
 would not think you did any violence to your conscience. Tliis, as 
 I remember, was what I saide. Now, my lord, if the judges and 
 lawyers are of opinion, and have for many years declared that act 
 relating to natives of Scotland null ; and that as many years practice 
 has confirined this opinion ; then I conclude the point of Law deter- 
 niinfl, and so must the scruple of conscience arising from it. 
 
 " Your Lordship seenis/to be of opinion that only one Act of Par- 
 liament can repeal aitother ; I submit to that, but Acts of Parliament 
 grow obsolete, when the ground on which they were made are dis- 
 solved and gon. Tfec kingdom of Scotland and England were in 
 
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 look for one,) he rode towards Porteferry/^ and from thence sailed next day with S' Rob^ Colvill 
 (in a great storm) to y" Isle of Man, where he stayed awhile, and thence went to England,^7 his Lo* 
 having his young son with him.^^ 
 
 opposition to other in the reign of Q Elizabeth, but when King 
 James came to wear the crown of both kingdoms, that so changed 
 the scene, that all the Laws of distinction between the two subjects 
 were naturally void ; — but to sett this in a clearer light, if your 
 Lordship will read the loth Car L, you will finde the Act 12 Eliz. 
 repealed. 
 
 " I have not heard yett from Mr. Hodges, nor can I tell how he 
 will account to me for refusing the favore your Lordship did him in 
 the equivalent, for which I shall make a suitable return when it shall 
 be in my power. I am fully persuaded your charity and goodness 
 makes not any distinction of country, and I hope you will thinke the 
 same of me ; — and I take leave againe to assure your Lordship it 
 came not into my thought. 
 
 " The compassion your Lordship has shewn to the episcopal clergy 
 who came from Scotland is a greate instance of your innate good- 
 ness, and I wish they may deserve it. 
 
 "The advantage of having one to teach a publick school, who, I 
 thinke, is very \\ell qualified, for it was the chiefest motive I had for 
 giving your Lordship the trouble I did, and by the blessing of God, 
 men's fitness for places, and their virtues shall ever be my reason for 
 recommending. 
 
 " I did really, my Lord, thinke I had shown a particular regard 
 to your Lordship, for I looke upon Mr. Hodges to be so very well 
 qualified to keepe schoole, that I did hope the schonle of Dromore 
 would becom famous, and by that the towne would improve. 
 
 " I have some conscience, and tho' I can't call it a tender one, be- 
 cause I don't understand the word tender so applied, yett I am sure 
 'tis an honest one, and has all due regard to the Laws of the Land. 
 
 " Mr. Hodges does your Lordship justice, and expresses a greate 
 esteem and honour for your Lordship. — I am, your Lordship's most 
 humble and obedient servt., 
 
 " Mount-Alexander. 
 "Pray, my Lord, pardon my making use of another hand, my 
 eyes being very sore. 
 " To the Bishop of Dromore." 
 
 This bishop was Tobias Pullen, who had been a fellow 
 of Trinity College, Dublin, and was presented by the 
 jrown to the deanery of Ferns, the vicarage of St. Peter's, 
 Drogheda, and the rectories of Louth and Bewley, by 
 letters patent, dated 25th April, 1682. He was appointed 
 bishop of Cloyne, 13th November, 1694 ; and translated 
 lo Dromore, 7th May, 1695. Bishop Pullen expended 
 /'470 in building an episcopal house at Magheralin. He 
 died in 1713. — Ware's Works, edited by Harris, vol. i., 
 pp. 267 — 580. 
 
 7'owards Portefevyy. — The writer of A Faithful His- 
 lory of Northern Affairs, at p. 38, has the following re- 
 ference to the flight of the earl of Mount- Alexander and 
 (ames Hamilton of Tollimore :—" The general having de- 
 clared the town (Hillsborough) not tenable, turned every 
 man over to his own shifts. The soldiers were so much sur- 
 prised with this sudden opinion, that they would not be 
 mduc'^ to a belief of it till their general left the garrison 
 exposed to the rage of the enemy, and in great haste posted 
 towards Porteferry, where he met with the conv' nicncy 
 of being transported out of all danger. Mr. Hauii:lon of 
 Tollimore having particularly recommended the care of 
 his regiment to their own conduct, hasted towards Belfast 
 in such a hurry, that he left behind him a portmantue of 
 the publick papers, and £\^o of the counties stock, tho' 
 he refused the day before to advance so much money as 
 would have brought the forces together. This, with much 
 more plunder of a considerable value, besides 15 barrels 
 (jf powder, and a brass field-piece, were left as a prey to 
 the Irish, who have since made use of the papers as a 
 publick testimony against the persons concerned in the 
 Association, upon which lias been grounded the corrup- 
 
 tion of our blood, and forfeiture of our estates. Tho 
 Hamilton of Tollimore had been thus careless of what 
 concern'' the Publick, yet he she\Vi more prudence in the 
 preservation of his private fortune ; for, very well knowing 
 what would happen, he engaged his brother the night be- 
 fore the Break of Drummore, to hasten home, and pro- 
 vide against the storm that was then gathering." "This 
 James Hamilton of Tollimore had thrust himself unduly 
 and prominently into these important affairs, to the ex- 
 clusion of a better man, named James Hamilton of Com- 
 ber. ^When the latter was about to be appointed by the 
 meeting at Comber to carry the Address of the Northern 
 Protestants to the Prince of Orange, James Hamilton of 
 Tollimore was able to get the arrangement set aside, to 
 the great injury, it was supposed, of the cause he had so 
 zealously affected. The following account of this matter 
 is given by the writer of A Faitlifid History of Nortlurn 
 Affairs, at p. 15 :—" Several persons were proposed for 
 this expedition, but none so generally approved of as Mr. 
 Hamilton of Comber, who, besides his other qualifications, 
 had a just pretence to the employment, having been for- 
 merly chosen for this service by the vote of the whole 
 county ; but Hamilton of Tollimore, fearing, perhaps, that 
 he might by this opportunity forestall his designs, set up 
 Captain Leighton in opposition to his kinsman, and by 
 his interest so far prevailed, that the captain was preferred 
 to this honourable errand. Mr. Hamilton (of Comber) 
 seeing himself thus postponed by the contrivance of his 
 own relative, and the honour conferred on his competitor 
 without the least apology for rejecting him, v.-as so highly 
 sensible of the aJouse that he soon afterwards quitted the 
 country." In Mr. J. W. Hanna's account of the Parish 
 of Killotcgh, printed in the Do^<.unpatrick Recorder, there is 
 the following notice of Tollimore's descendants "James 
 Hamilton of Tollamore died at London in 1701, when he 
 was succeeded by his son James, advanced to be baron of 
 Claneboye of the second creation, and viscount Limerick 
 in May, 1719, and earl of Clanbrassil in 1756. In May, 
 1730, lord Limerick re-conveyed Erenagh, &c., to Mr. 
 Southwell, and dying 17th March, 1758, left three chil- 
 dren, James, his successor, second lord Clanbrassil ; Caro- 
 line, «'ho died unmarried ; and Anne, married in 1752, 
 lo Robert, first earl of Roden, whose grandson, Robert, 
 the third and present earl of Roden, eventually succeeded 
 to the Jocelyn and Hamilton estates." 
 
 Went to England. — On the earl's going to England, 
 he appears to have stayed for a time in or near Chester, 
 from which he forwarded to London the following letter 
 in justification of his own conduct during the disasters that 
 had befallen the protestants of Ulster. This letter, which 
 is now printed for the first time, has been found among 
 the Family Papers at Donaghadee, in the possession of 
 Daniel De la Cherois, esq. : — 
 
 " Mar. 17. 
 
 "My Ld, — Our misfortunes in Ireland y' LoP will heare from all 
 hands, as well as from y^ account given by me to \A Hallifajc and 
 Ld Danby : and least the miscarriage may he laide at my doore, I 
 take y*^ liberty to give your Lordship a full acc* as well as I can re- 
 member from y'^ beginning ; and hope y"^ Lordship will, if I be cen- 
 sured, say w* y" can for me, since 1 can't att present have opertunity 
 to tell my ownc tale. I neede not trouble y' Lordship w'" a rela- 
 
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 285 
 
 His Lo'', after a considerable stay at London, in solitudes and sufferings (not getting any 
 relief or imployment,) he returned and came to Mount Alex'' A° 1691, living decently and uncon- 
 cerned in bussynes, for he came not over till K. W"- left Ireland. 
 
 tione of all arts used by y^ government to make y^ Irish fitt for 
 warr, and to putt it in tlieire power to distroy the Brittish and Pro- 
 testants, when they would ; nor neede I repeate y^ a massacre was 
 intended, of wc'i I am convinced from many circumstances which 
 made selfe defence necessary, though that I may be as little trouble- 
 some to y"' lordship as I can, I will begin with what relates more 
 particularly to myselfe. When, my lord, I thought myselfe too un- 
 happy to live where I was known, and hadd determined to go 
 abroade, severall of the gentlemen of note in y^ country pressed me 
 to stay since y^ country was in dainger, and no man of quality in it 
 but my selfe, on whom they seemed to depend. I urged my incapa- 
 city of and many other reasons, but to no purpose ; I 
 then desired to know what was designed, to w^li I was answer^ that 
 since the king had deserted us, and left us wholly in y^ power of our 
 enemies, itt was reasonable for us to putt our selves in a posture to 
 defend us from y^ violence and rapine committed in other provinces. 
 This was reasonable, but then I saw no money, armes, nor amuni- 
 tion, and y^ first being wanting, men could not be subsisted, kept 
 together, brought to obedience, or putt in a posture of defence ; all 
 this I foresaw and urged (but the Protestants in Dublin and other 
 parts of y^ kingdom depending upon our numbers and assistance 
 were arguments still for doing all we could) : besides that we could 
 expect no favoure from our enemys. The people att y^ time every 
 where seemed forward to defend themselves, to wdi the frequent 
 stealths and robberys encouraged them. Yett when itt came to the 
 push, they in y^ part where I lived, drew back, and what armes they 
 had they heald, and would not inlist themselves. Our Councills 
 were betrayed, and nothing was a secrett but who did it. I was 
 always of y° Generall Councill for y* publick safety, w<:h was com- 
 posed of one from each county wch joyned with us. But here a fac- 
 tion was made, and my opinion was but single and over-ruled. The 
 gentlemen of y^ country were divided, and oposed each other, and 
 many petty factions were made, for all would command, and most of 
 my time was imployed to compose and unite, but 'twas inelfectnall. 
 This still engaged me in new difficulty, and y*^ greate matter of 
 forming Troopes was obstructed. Sir Ar. Rawdon, who was hott 
 and forward, spoke greately of y* numbers they had raisd, but I 
 cou'd never see a Roll of them, and when it came to y"^ test, not 
 above 300 appeared where 1000 was expected ; all art was used to 
 conceal this from mee, and from w^ is past I may conclude that my 
 countenance was all aimed att, and few cared how I was exposed to 
 share y^ folly as well as fate of my country, both which it was now 
 too late to prevent. I am afraide that some among us persued theire 
 private interests more than y^ publick, whose interests now at Court 
 may take off any reflection from y'", and fix it on me, whose caracter 
 is more publick, and am without friends. What ever vaine or rash 
 attempts have been made, y' lordship may conclude was carried by 
 vote against me, soe that, if all be endeavoured to be laide at my 
 doore, it will be very hard. When y*^ country was grown flatt and 
 secure by my \A Tyrconnell's Proclamation, and I saw little could 
 be done in my part of y'^ country, there came a letter from Lord 
 Kingston intimating that my Ld Granard had writt to him, to treate 
 w'li him by Commission from y"^ Deputys, to which his Lordship 
 wou'd give no answer till he heard from us in y'= North ; this still 
 continued onr proceedings, woli and the constant assurance we had 
 of an army ready to come to us y^ first faire winde from England, 
 wch, when the people saw delayd, they were mightily discouraged. 
 [That I may be as short as possible, my lord, nothing tooke place 
 among us, but what was violent and rash ] All correspondence was 
 taken away; Newry, which is an inlett to our provuice, seized by 
 the enemy, a«d a strong garrison putt into it. Charlemont in y'^ 
 centre also secured ; and Carrickfergus behind us ; and in each of 
 these was 1500 or 1000 men ; so that what men we had cou'd not be 
 brought together in a body, being necessitated to attend the motion 
 of these garrisons. The Commissioners came not to us till a few 
 days before y^ army was come to Newry and Loughbrickland, wch 
 is 8 miles from Dromore, where a small party of our horse and foott 
 lay. My Commission being only for Colonell, my orders were then 
 disputed, though y*^ countys of Down, Antrim, and Ardmagh had 
 pitched before on me to command in chiefe. To instance particu- 
 larly, when I had ordered those at Dromore to retire to Hillsborough, 
 Sir Arthur Rawdon burnt y^ order and exposed 300 men in an open 
 village to y^ army which could surround y'" as they pleased, wch the 
 next day they did, and putt y"' to flight ; the first news I heard was 
 of our being beaten, persued to within half a mile of Hillsborrow, 
 where I was ; upon which I mounted with about sixty horse and 
 
 in the Fort about 100 foott. Before I could march, y^ 
 enemy was near y*-' towne, and our men flying in crowds down y^ 
 street ; I stoppd what I cou'd, and made shift to draw up about 100 
 horse in y^ towne, but as I went to give orders, or sent any officers, 
 y*^ men slipped away, and y*^ officers told me it was in vaine to ex- 
 pect they wou'l stand a charge, for there appear'l seven troopes of 
 the enemy's horse. The night or two before, 3 troopes of my Regi- 
 ment deserted ; S"^ J**" Magill's Regiment totally gon. The men in 
 Belfast and Lisburne wou'd not move thence, nor obey their officers. 
 S"^ William Franklin and the most considerable in Belfast fledd into 
 England, and I was informed both these towns intended to capitu- 
 late. The inhabitants of y*^ townes every where as well as of y^ 
 countres fledd daily w'h w' goods and provisions they could carry, 
 and now every one inclining to defend his owne. The matter being 
 thus, it was now time to shifte for my selfe, having neither men nor 
 money to carry with me to Derry. So I gott home, and all the stock 
 I cou'd make was tenn pounds, and as much as I have borrowed 
 since. This is the truth of the whole matter, which I thought best 
 to lay nakedly before you. Now, my L^, I must acquaint you, that' 
 Mr. Hamilton of Tullymore, who married Ld Mordant's sister, was 
 the first man apeared in all this affaire, and carried it on his owne 
 way; and because it has been unsuccessful, will, perhaps, lay it on 
 me. If your Lordship finde it so, I hope you will do me all y*^ kind- 
 ness you can. I name him to y" that y'' lordship may know ; and as 
 you finde him my friend, make use of him, or prevent his injuring 
 me ; but this I must leave to y'' Lordship's prudence, for, if nobody 
 endeavours to accuse me, I will charge nobody, and only to your 
 Lordship would name persons. It was greate chance that I escaped 
 to this place, where, by cross winds, I have been kept ; and my 
 letters, which I intended should have been in London to give y^ 
 acc' of our affaires (whilst I stayd privately near Chester till I heard 
 from y' lordship), are not gon : so that I am to ly under y^ hazard 
 of w*^ other men will say, either in justice, prejudice, or for theire 
 owne interest. My poore boy is here, with S'' Robert Colvill, his 
 lady and children, till I know y' lordship's pleasure ; for nothing is 
 left me in Ireland, but all taken away." 
 
 The original is without signaturaor address, and bears evi- 
 dence, by numerous erasures, that it was the rough 
 draft of the earl's letter to his friend. It is, how- 
 ever, a valuable document, correcting some mis- 
 takes and contradicting certain statements then popularly 
 received. The Presbyterian ministers, who were too late in 
 offering their advice at Hillsborough on the 14th March, 
 (for on that very day Tyrconnell's army swept through 
 the district on its way to Derry), spoke of many 
 in their several districts as only waiting an oppor- 
 timicy to venture their lives for William and Mary, 
 and for religion, but the earl testifies that when "it came 
 to the push," the people "in ys part where I lived" — i.e., in 
 the Ards, where the population was almost exclusively Pres- 
 byterian — "drew back, and what armes they had they 
 held, and wou'd not inlist themsdves. " The writer of A 
 Faithful Hislo}y of A"o!lhcni Affairs \\2A blamed Mount- 
 Alexander for neglecting to concentrate his forces on the 
 approach of the enemy, but the earl has explained in the 
 foregoing letter that his troops required to watch the 
 movements of the garrisons held by the enemy, particularly 
 at Charlemont and Carrickfergus. The earl's allusion to 
 James Hamilton of Tollymore, corroborates the opinion of 
 that gentleman, to wit, that he was pre-eminently slippery 
 and unscrupulous. The author of the Moiitgomay 
 Manuscripts represents the earl as landing in the Isle of 
 Man, where he could have remained only a very 
 brief period, as he was in the neighbourhood of Chester 
 on the 17th of March. 
 
 Son -diith him. — This son did not long survive the 
 events related in the text. Among the family portraits 
 
286 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 After y° hurry of warr was past, his Lo^ not being in condition (or otherwise hindred) to goe 
 into England, he employed friends there to sollicit in his behalf, but no fruits followed his labours. 
 His Lo"'" pretences at Court not succeeding, either thro y^ K' frequent goeing beyond our seas, or 
 thro his agents, or his pretended courtier friends, their insincerity (as to seasonable watchings and 
 applications for him,) or for want of money to grease their palmes, for that regina pecunia ruled 
 much at Court, and deficiente pecunia deficit omne,^9 and this of what was said of Octavius 
 Augustus' Court, viz, 
 
 dat census honores ; 
 Census amicitias ; pauper ubique'° jacet. 
 
 And also remembers me of another saying, 
 
 Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat, 
 Res angusta domi.?' 
 
 Which I English thus — 
 
 Not easily scapes hee drowning, whose home straits 
 His person (in his swimming) obviates. 
 
 And his Lo*"'' case was such at this tiine, having expended his stock for y' publiq, and there 
 was no faith nor consideration in the Israel of mony mongers for his Lo'', notwithstanding his 
 many former proofes given of honor and honesty. 
 
 King W™- had been divers campaignes abroade and his thoughts greatly taken up by the warrs 
 in Flanders; also England was a while governed by his loving Queen and Council, and after her 
 death, by a Committee of y" Nobility (called y'' Lords Justices of England,) and our solitarj- 
 suffering Earle was not minded (as to his preferm') by them, tho applyd to, and so his Lo'' 
 continued unregarded (as one dead) till it came to pass that his merits and zealous abilitys shined 
 forth, thro that dark cloud of forgetfulness or willing obscurity. 
 
 The time and opportunity of his Lo'''' appearance (which shewed what capacity he had) was 
 in y° Parliam*' under Sydneys?- and Capels73 governm'", then the learned Clergy and whole number of 
 
 in possession of Daniel De La Cherois, esq., of Donagh- 
 adee, there is a beautifully executed oil painting by Lilly 
 of a boy about twelve years of age. According to family 
 tradition, this painting was made only a short time 
 before the boy's death, and whilst he was suffering from 
 fatal injuries received by a fall off his pony. The portrait 
 represents the youthful form as indicating extreme debility, 
 yet with such a manly and serious expression of face that 
 the beholder may well imagine the poor little fellow re- 
 conciled to his lot. The original was, very probably, the 
 son of the second earl referred to in the text. Family 
 tradition represents him as a son of the third earl, but the 
 latter had two sons, Hugh and Thomas, who became 
 successively the fourth and fifth earls. Another son, how- 
 ever, may have died in boyhood, as the author speaks of 
 these two, with a sister, as the only issue of their parents 
 " now surviving." 
 
 *9 Deficit om!ie. — ^e.e Horace, Epistola, Lib. L, Epist. 
 VI., 7 et seq. 
 
 7° Pauper uhiquc. — See Ovid, Fastonim, Lib. L, 217, 
 218. 
 
 7' Augusta domi. — See Juvenal, Sat. III., 162. A 
 simpler translation than that supplied by the author 
 in the text would be — "slow rises worth by poverty de- 
 pressed." 
 
 Sidney's. — This was Henry Sydney, born 1641, fourth 
 son of Robert, earl of Leicester. He was appointed lord 
 lieutenant of Ireland on the 28th of March, 1692, and 
 landed at Dublin on the 5th of the following August. 
 There had been no parliament in Ireland for the space of 
 twenty-six years prior to Sydney's arrival, except the un- 
 acknowledged assembly, held as such, for James II. 
 Sydney, on his coming, forthwith summoned a parliament 
 to raise supplies for the discharge of debts contracted 
 during the war. This step soon led to consequences 
 which rendered him unpopular, and he was recalled in 
 November, 1693. 
 
 73 Caper s. — Henry, lord Capel, baron Tewksbury, was 
 associated with sir Cyril Wyche and Mr. Duncombe, as 
 lords justices for the government of Ireland, on the recall 
 of Sydney. Capel's zeal for the interest of English settlers 
 soon enabled him to displace the others, and he was ap- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 287 
 
 laick Lords and those of the long robe, who sate in y° upper House of Parliam* with his Lo^ soon 
 found (as those of y"" Comons House, martiallists, k"*' gentry, and burgesses, had heard proofes 
 of his Lo"" abihtys to save his K. and contry,) giving wonderfull speedy deferences to his person, 
 and due approbations to his speeches; their esteem was seen in their printed resolves j?"* and their 
 value of him was not misplaced, for he was no bon nor frequenter of taverns, or coffy houses, but 
 more retired and grave. 
 
 But Sidney was resolved, and had no kindness for any that would not consent to his opinion 
 about the sole right of raising mony off the subjects without their leave,75 and Capel (his Lo''" pro- 
 fessed friend) died;?^ so he had new acquaintances to make with the succeeding Governors,'? who a 
 last came to take full notice of his Lo"' merits and sufferings. 
 
 The peace with France being concluded, and y° K. returned to England, his Lo'' was called to 
 sitt at Council board, and com" was sent for his being Governor of the county of Down, wherein 
 he lived. And Wolseley'^ many months dead, his place, as M"' of y^ Ordinance, was reserved, 
 and his Lo'' (without his own importunate industry) was so effectually made appeare to K. \V", that 
 his Ma''' found (now) y" oppertunity (w'^ he had wayted and wished for) to shew (at first step of 
 his bounty) the esteem and favour he had kept for his Lo^, the hon'''^ place and great trust of y" 
 Mastership of all y" Ordinance and Military Stores in Ireland ;79 wherein I leave his Lo^ for a while, 
 designing to write breifly and no further of him, nor of any other Montgomery of this kingdom, 
 than till 1699, save of one or two familys, whereof y' notices are but lately come to my hand; 
 only I may here incert, that before the transcription hereof and of what follows, I am told that his 
 Lo^ is made a Brigadier in the army, and that thereby he is intituled (and also promised) to have 
 
 pointed lord lieutenant in 1695. He, in fact, studied 
 the wishes of the English government, and eagerly 
 opposed the claims of the Irish under the Treaty of 
 Limerick. 
 
 7* Printed resolves.— Yxom the delivering of his writ 
 in the house of lords, on the 5th of October, 1692, the 
 earl of Mount-Alexander was a leading and most in- 
 defatigable member. He was appointed on all the im- 
 portant committees of the house, and appears to 
 have been most regular in his attendance at every 
 sitting. See Journals of the Irish House of Lords, vols, 
 i. and ii. 
 
 7S Without their leave. — The Irish house of commons 
 considered that they had the indisputable right to deter- 
 mine the sum to be raised as supplies, and also the manner 
 of raising every supply granted to the crown. In violation 
 of this privilege, two money-bills, which had not originated 
 with them, were transmitted from England and laid by 
 Sydney before the house. To resent this encroachment 
 on their privileges they rejected one of them, and from the 
 extreme urgency of the case alone consented to pass tlie 
 other, but not without having entered very strong resolutions 
 on their journals (21st October, 1692) in support of their 
 rights. Sydney, enraged at their conduct, prorogued the 
 parliament, and made a furious speech, which rendered 
 him so unpopular that the government found it pnident to 
 recall him. 
 
 1^ Capel died. — During Capel's illness the government 
 was conducted by viscount Blessington and colonel William 
 
 Wolsley, who were appointed by patent dated May 16, 
 1696. 
 
 n Succeeding governors. — These were the duke of Or- 
 mond, grandson of the first duke, who was appointed 
 lord lieutenant in 1703; the earl of Pembroke, appointed 
 in 1707; the earl of Wharton, appointed in 1709; the 
 duke of Shrewsbury, appointed 1 7 13, and retaining office 
 until 1 71 7. 
 
 ^^ Wolseley. — Colonel William Wolseley, a member of 
 the very ancient and highly respectable Staffordshire 
 family of that name. He greatly distinguished himself as 
 a military officer at Enniskillen, and other places in 
 Ulster, during the revohitionaiy struggle. At the battle 
 of the Boyne he commanded the Enniskillen men, whose 
 gallantry was supposed mainly to decide the fate of that 
 memorable day. Inhonour of their exertions, William III. 
 advanced Wolseley to the rank of a brigadier, and also to 
 the command of a regiment of horse, consisting of twelve 
 troops of 1,000 men. Wolseley was soon afterwards 
 appointed master of the ordnance, a privy councillor, and 
 one of the lords justices of Ireland, with lord Blessington, 
 during the illness of lord Capel, the lord lieutenant. He 
 died unmarried in the year 1 697. 
 
 75 Stores in Ireland. — His first appointment to this 
 office was by privy seal, dated Kensington, Dec. 22, 1698 
 — Patent dated Dublin, Jan. 5, 1698. His appointment 
 continued by privy seal, St. James's, June 27, 1702 — 
 Patent dated Dublin, August 13, i^oz.— Liber Hibernicr, 
 vol. i. , part ii., p. 103. 
 
288 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 a regim' of foot, when any falls to want a comander, by y" death or other removeall of a Col.^° 
 These being the beginnings of good aspects towards all our surname, shineing on them, in the person 
 of his Lo'' (the cheif of that nation or tribe in IreP.) 
 
 Removeall of a Col. — Tlie earl was very much dis- 
 appointed and disgusted by the neglect of the goverment 
 in connexion with this matter. The following statement 
 dra\^ni up by him on the subject was found among the 
 family papers at Donaghadee : — "In the year 1698 — 9, 
 the late King William of glorious memory was pleased 
 to make me Mr. of the Ordnance in this Kingdom in 
 consideration of some services which Hee knew 1 had don 
 him, and appointed me a Brigadier the 14th of July, 1699, 
 but I was not placed on the establishment, it being then 
 full. Intheyear 1701, when newlevys weretobe, hisMaj'y. 
 was pleased to give me a Regiment, but was prevailed on 
 after he left London to go to Holland, to dispose of it 
 otherwise. When any regiment fell or new levys were 
 to be made I constantly made application for one, yet was 
 alwaies unsuccessful, and was continued the single instance 
 in Europe of a Mr. of Ordnance who had no Regiment. 
 When Sr. Jon. Hanmer dyed, 1 was then eldest Brigadier, 
 and made my application to the Lord Lieutenant, to be 
 placed on the establishment, but a Coll. was advanced to 
 be Brigadier and placed on the establishment, tho' at that 
 time I was in the Government. I had the honour to serve 
 in the Government thrice, but never had any allowance 
 for equipage as others had, which put me in debt. I was 
 three years one of the Lords Commissioners of the Greate 
 Scale in the absence of Mr. Methuen, ^\•hich obliged me 
 to a constant attendance in Dublin and to keep a Family 
 in town as well as in the coilntry, which was very expensi-\'e 
 to me, and I had no sort of allowance or reward for that 
 service. In the year 1703-4 when I was in the Govern- 
 
 ment, a new establishment came over, and in that part of 
 it which related to the Ordnance there was an order from 
 Her Majesty by which my authority as Master was intirely 
 taken out of my hands. I suffered this for a time, in 
 hopes to have retrievd it, but I found it was in vaine, and 
 that new hardships were dayly put upon me which made 
 me quitt that honble Post, and content myselfe -with a 
 Pension of ;^5oo per annum, which at present is placed 
 on the Tres. Fees. I further beg leave to inform your 
 Excellency that my family suffered very much in the 
 Warres of forty one. My father sold a considerable 
 estate in .Scotland for the support of the King's Army, 
 and so incumbered his estate in Ireland that I have been 
 forcd. to sell 'two thirds of what he left me, and am )'et 
 considerably in debt on account. I do humbly pray your 
 Excellency to represent my unhappy circumstances to Her 
 Maj'Y and recommend me to Her favore so as that some- 
 thing may Ije don to relieve mee, who have faithfully 
 served, and shall alwaies be ready to give the best instance, 
 in my power of my duty and zeale for her Maties ser\'ice." 
 The writer, the second earl, was one of three, on three different 
 occasions, appointed to administer the supreme government 
 of Ireland. In 1701, he wasassociatedinthisimportanttrust 
 with Narcissus, archbishop of Dublin, and Henry Moore, 
 earl of Drogheda. In 1702, he held this office in con- 
 junction with Thomas Erie, major-general, and Thomas 
 Keightly, commissioner of the revenue. And in 1 703, 
 his associates were sir Richard Cox, and Thomas Erie. — 
 Liber Hibcrnicc, vol. i. , part ii. , p. 10. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 289 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 ND now, also, before I conclude with his Lo" I will make another interjection, by writing 
 a few lines of his brother, the Hon^'" Henery Montgomery,' of Rogerstown, near Dublin. 
 This Henery was born at Mellifont, in A° 1656, and so named from his god- 
 father unkle,^ ye Earle of Drogheda. He is of a sweet temper and disposition, affable, curteous 
 and complacent.3 He hath to wife, Mary Saint Lawence,'' eldest daughter of W" late L'' Baron of 
 
 ' Heiny RIontgomay. — See p. 260, ,w/r«. This gentle- 
 man became third earl of Mount- Alexander on the death 
 of his elder brother Hugh, the second earl, in 1716. 
 
 = Godfaihei' tinkle. — Henry Moore, first earl of 
 Drogheda. 
 
 3 Curteous and complacent. — Ah oil painting of Henry 
 Montgomery [by Lilly, among the family portraits 
 in the possession of Daniel De la Clierois, esq., of 
 Donaghadee, impresses one with the same idea of the 
 amiability- and benevolence of the original, as here ex- 
 pressed by the author. He appears to have been a kind - 
 hearted and excellent man in all the relations of life. 
 On succeeding to the earldom in 1 716, he came to 
 reside at Mount- Alexander, the family mansion in the 
 vicinity of Comber, having previously lived at 
 Rogerstown, near Dublin. His younger son, the hon. 
 Thomas Montgomeiy, married in 1725, and continued 
 with his excellent wife, Mary Angelica De la Cherois, to 
 live with the old gentleman at Mount-Alexander — no bad 
 illustration of the truth of the author's account of Henry 
 Montgomery in the text. During the year 1729, the son 
 required to attend to important business matters in Dub- 
 lin, and his letters to his father, whilst there, are very 
 creditable to both. Writing on the 1 8th of July, Thomas 
 Montgomery commences his letter as follows: — " I was 
 favored with y'' Lordsps. of the 14th Instant and you have 
 given soe many proofs of y'' tender affection of conducing 
 to. our ease that wee should be the most ungratefuU 
 creatures if wee should 'thinke othenvise than what your 
 Lordi' writes to mee." On the 23rd of September, he 
 says: — "The Pleasure of receiving yo'' Lordsps letter last 
 monday gives me^a new reviving'spirit in my confinement 
 here in this towne, which to me is much more dismal than 
 a real confinement having not the pleasure of seeing pure 
 nature in its lustre, namely, the green fields, and the full 
 satisfaction of your Lordsps company, the wanting of which 
 is the greatest regret to me imaginable, not only considering 
 the filiall deuty I am by nature obliged to, but the many 
 other tyes you have obliged me in. " On the 9th of Decem- 
 ber following, he writes to his father thus : — "I was favored 
 ^yth yr Lordsps by last post and must allways owne you 
 the best and most indulgent fathers in the whole 
 Universe." Interspersed with such expressions of con- 
 fidence and affection there are many references in these 
 letters to other matters which, although of trifling moment, 
 are not without interest. Thus, on the 27th of March, 
 the writer says : — "Noe body in the world is more uneasy 
 than I am for not being alt home. I hope soon to be home, 
 
 and make myself very easy." On May 3: — "Most of the 
 things at Rogerstowne are disposed of except the Clock, 
 which is very much undervalued, noe body would give 
 more for it than three guineas, soe thinks proper to send it 
 home to Mt. Alexander." On July 15: — "I have had a 
 letter from Ducker, wherein he tells me he has discovered 
 a Copper mine and has tiyed some of the ore, and he in- 
 forms me it is as good Copper as ever was seen, but how 
 true this is I cannot affirm, I design writing down this 
 post to know the certainty of it from Donaghadee." 
 On the l8th July he writes: — "The Clover must be cutt 
 and made very carefully up. Dictionarium Rusticum 
 can direct y'' Lordsp how to use it. I have had a 
 letter from William Johnston with his former premisses, 
 to make me easy, I design answering it by this post 
 w'^'' I believe he will not very much like." July 24 : — 
 "I hope wee shall have good weather t& make up the 
 Clover. My Lord Dungannon sets out for the North 
 on Sunday next, and I am informed designs waiting 
 on you. My head is soe full of a copper mine and the 
 extracting the gold from it that I am in a strange con- 
 fusion." On the 25th August: — " I gave your Lordsp an 
 account in my last letter that Capt" Montgomery of 
 Rosemount had taken the Tythes of the parish of 
 Donaghadee, I have been very busy these three days past 
 looking into the Records to find out whether the Primate 
 has any right to them or not and am in some doubt how 
 clear he can shew his title, as to the presentation of the 
 living of Donaghadee he has none, the retail of all the 
 Schearches I have made in the Rools (Rolls) office would 
 be too tedious." On the 25th September: — "I am glad 
 that all things below are safe. My Lady Antrim was 
 safely delivered last Tuesday of a fine boy, to the great 
 pleasure of Mr. Magill." (This lady was Rachel Clot- 
 worthy, who married as her first husband the fourth earl 
 of Antrim, and after his death became the wife of John 
 Hawkins Magill, esq.) On the 7th December: — " 'Tis 
 hard for me to know what sort of Bullocks Lawnies can 
 bee, if he had sent you word what the price of them were 
 and what size, I could have given a more particular guess 
 what to write to your Lordsp about them, I doe not pro- 
 pose paying for them Immediately nor in less than four 
 months after delivery, w'^'' if Lawnie likes you may send 
 to see what sort of cattle they are, and one may easy judge 
 whether he asks too dear for them or not. " — MS. Letters 
 preserved at Donaghadee. 
 
 ■* Mary St. Lawrence. — Eldest daughter of William, 
 twentyfourth baron Ilowth, and Elizabeth, widow of 
 
290 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Howth, A° 1672, and a great portion (3000 Lib) was due, w'^'' he rec'' by gales in ten yeares, taking 
 but y* interest for y'' principall. It seems he was as little covetous or carefuU, and almost as much 
 affectionat to his wives family (w* needed not) as my self was compassionate to y' a** Earles 
 deplorable circumstances, in the like case of portion ; onely his M'isdom exceeded mine, in that he 
 had his whole sum payd as afors'', wheras I took but y' half due to me (and from our marriage in 
 1660 to 1674, was not fully paid that mony) without interest required for want therof s 
 
 He built a faire house and made improvements at Rogerstown, his brother Houth's lands, 
 within a mile of Lusk (w"'' the contry people call y' yolk of Fingale)'' and laid out therein 1500 
 Lib. 
 
 colonel Fitzwilliam. The marriage of Mary St. Lawrence 
 and the hon. Henry Montgomery took place in 1672. 
 This lady died suddenly, whilst at dinner, on the 26th 
 August, 1 705, eleven years prior to her husband's succession 
 to the earldom. — Lodge, Peerage of lyelaiid, edited by 
 Archdall, vol. iii., p. 203. There is a fine oil painting of 
 this lady, by Lilly, among the family portraits in the pos- 
 session of Daniel De la Cherois, esq., of Donaghadee. 
 
 5 For want tJiercof. — The following Release from the 
 author to the first earl was found among the P amily Papers 
 preserved at Donaghadee. It is a document quite charac- 
 teristic of the writer : — 
 
 " To all Christian people to whom those Presents shall come to be 
 read, greeting in cur Lord God everlasting. Wheras I, William 
 Montgomery, in the county of Down, Esq., did of my love and af- 
 fection to the right Honob'e Hugh, now Earle of Mount-Alexander, 
 compound with his Lordship's Commissioners (appointed to manage 
 his affaires) for and concerning a marriage portion due imto mee in 
 right of v*^ Honob'e Elizabeth Montgomery, his Lordship's Aunt, 
 my wife, as also for and concerning severall summes of money layd 
 out by mee in the Exxheq'' in part payment of the subsidys or rents 
 due to his Ma'ie out of the said Earle's estate : And wheras also on 
 account and reconing with the said Earle for the remainder of the 
 said marriage portion, and other the moneys compounded for as afore- 
 said, in consideration of my love and affection continued to his Lord- 
 ship, I have accepted of and agreed to receave the summ of three 
 hundred pounds sterlg., to be payd to me in hand, for which I have 
 now received Bill on Robert ColviU, of Mount Colvill, in the county 
 of Antrim, Esq.,: Therefore bee it known unto all men by theis 
 presents, that I, the said William Montgomery, have remissed, re- 
 leased, and altogether for mee, my heirs, executors, and adminis- 
 trators, forever by theis presents acquited, discharged, and quite 
 claymed unto the said Earle, his heirs, executors, and administra- 
 tors, all, and all manner of actiones, as well reall as personall, suites, 
 bills, bonds, obligationes, acts, reconings, strifes, debates, contro- 
 versys, trespasses, claims, and demands whatsoever, whether in law 
 or equity, which against the said Earle I ever had, now have, or at 
 any tyme hereafter shall or may have, for or by reason, colour, or 
 means, of y*^ said marriage portion and money layd out as aforesaid : 
 And the said William for mee, my heirs, ^tc, doe hereby covenant, 
 grant, and a.gree to and with the said Earle and his heirs, that if his 
 or their learned councell in y^ Laws shall judge the above discharge 
 unsufficient in law, and that the same shall happen soe to be, then 
 and in that case one or other acquittance, release, or discharge shall 
 be sufficiently pei-fected by mee, the said Wilham, my heirs, or exe- 
 cutors, to y*^ effect above written, by his or their signing or sealing 
 and delivering thereof, as myn or their act and deeds when the same 
 be reasonably drawn and tendered by y^ said Earle, his heirs, execu- 
 tors, or administrators. In witness whereof, I the said William have 
 hereunto putt my hand and scale this third day of September, A°. 
 dni.dei 1675. 
 
 "Will. Moktcoherv. 
 " Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us whose names 
 ensue, 
 
 " Pat Montgomerie. 
 "D. Cami'bell. 
 " James Kennedy. 
 "Jo. Kfrancks." 
 
 * YolJz of Fhigale. — The following account of this lo- 
 cality is kindly supplied by the Rev. Dr. Reeves : — 
 "Rogerstown is a townland of 345 acres and a half, in 
 the parish of Lusk, lying on the north bank of, and giving 
 name to, the estuary called Rogersto\vn harbour, or bay, 
 across which the Dublin and Drogheda railway runs on 
 an embankment and bridge. It is the estuarj' you cross 
 going southM'ards before you reach the Malahide one. 
 Rogerstown is held by Lord Howth, under the see of 
 Dublin. It is in sheet 8 of the ordnance survey of the count)' 
 of Dublin. The old name Villa Kogcri is of frequent oc- 
 currence in ancient records. It is derived from some 
 Anglo-Norman occupant soon after the English invasion. 
 The adjoining townland, now called Whitestown, but for- 
 merly, and more correctly, Knightstown (being in early 
 documents Villa I\Iilitis J, has an old chapel and cemeterj-, 
 with a holy well adjacent, dedicated to St. Maur, the 
 favourite of the Norman heroes (whose day is Jan. 15). 
 Rogerstown harbour sei-ved as the most ready port for 
 Lusk and the- interior. And still there is a small quay 
 and store there, from which all the coal that is used in the 
 parish is supplied. Hamilton Rowan, the refugee of '98, 
 lay hid in Rogersto%ra for three days, awaiting his oppor- 
 tunity of getting off in an open boat, which, luckily for 
 himself, he effected. In 1355, Johannes Hol)-wood dc- 
 Rogerestoun (recitans quod Johannes archiepiscopus Dub- 
 linensis, nuper in curia Regis coram justiciario Hibemie, 
 recuperavit versus ipsum portum de Rogerestoun qui^vo- 
 catur Rogereshaven, ut parcellam manorii sui de Swerdes i 
 remittit dicto archiepLscopo et ecclesie sue pro se et here- 
 dibus suis imperpetuum, totum jus et clameum que habel 
 in dicto portu. — Calendar. Pol. Caitcell. Hib., vol. i., p. 
 56 h. As to the name 'Yolk of Fingale,' I may mention 
 that Fingal is the maritime part of the county of Dublin, 
 extending from the nothern bound of the county, i.e., the 
 Delvin river, to Clontarf ; and Lusk parish is an important 
 portion of it, the inhabitants calling themselves Fingalliaus. 
 Rogerstown is a very rich and fruitful townland, whose 
 lands let at £6^ an acre ; and it may be that as the yolk is 
 the richest part of the egg, so Rogerstown was regarded 
 as the tit-bit of the country. The unexpired term of the 
 lease of the townland was sold in the Encumbered Estates 
 Court about ten years ago, when a Mr. Wakefield pur- 
 chased it, and he has let the townland in two lots — one of 
 which, consisting of 100 acres of the poorest portion, was 
 taken on a lease by a Mr. Deane at £t, an acre ; the rest 
 was let even higher. There is a good dwelling-house on 
 it, built by Mr. .Seaver, the lessee under Lord Howth ; 
 and about the house there are remains of old hedges, &c., 
 
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 291 
 
 He hath Hved hitherto without pubhq imploym'' saving his being a Justice of Peace in the 
 county of Downe, when he dwelt therein. 7 
 
 which indicate a good old occupation. There is a small 
 townland in the parish of Lusk, very near Rogerstown, 
 which belongs to a family of the name of Montgomeiy — it is 
 called Raheny. " Ungall, or Fine Gall, denotes the 'dis- 
 trict of the strangers,' or Danes, and English settlers were 
 planted in it, probably soon after the Anglo-Norman in- 
 vasion of Ireland. " According to O'Sullivan ( Hist. 
 Calk., p. 35), the Fingallian was a compomid of English 
 and Irish. Sir Wm. Petty states that, in his day (1672), 
 it was neither English, Irish, Welsh, nor Wexfordian. " — 
 Pol. Aiiat., p. 371, Dublin, 1769. But, according to 
 Stanihurst, who was a better judge, both in Wexford and 
 Fingall, "the dregs of the old ancient Chaucer Anglish 
 were kept — thus, they named a 'spider' an attercop ; a 
 'wisp' a wad; a 'lump of bread' a pocket, or z. pzickct ; a 
 'sillibucke' a coproiis; a 'fagot' ablaze; a 'physician' 
 a leech; a 'gap' a. shard ; a 'household' 2, tneanie ; a 
 'dunghill' a mizen ; &c." — Cambrcnsis Eversus, edited, 
 with translation and notes, by the Rev. Matthew Kelly, 
 vol. i., p. 188, note n. To the above list might probably 
 be added the old English word yolk, which, if used in re- 
 ference to the district, would mean fatness. It is used in 
 Northamptonshire, at this day, to denote the oiliness or 
 greasiness of wool. See Baker's Glossary of Northamp- 
 tonshire Words and Phrases. It is also used in the same 
 sense throughout Ulster, being generally pronounced Yok. 
 Or, the word may have been originally applied as descrip- 
 tive of the yolk-like shape of some hill or headland in 
 the district. In Scottish parlance, ' yolks' are those 
 round, opaque ciystallizations which are formed in window 
 glass, in consequence of its being too slowly cooled, and 
 which are, doubtless, so called from their resemblance to 
 the yolk of an egg. As to the probable meaning of the 
 term in the text, however, we prefer the suggestion of Dr. 
 Reeves. 
 
 7 When he dwelt therein. — Earl Henry's will is dated 
 9tli August, 1725, the year in which his son, Thomas, was 
 married, and it was intended to facilitate the arrangements 
 for. that event. The following are extracts from it: — 
 "If I happen to Dye in Dublin, or in the County of 
 Dublin, it is my Will that I be Buryed decently and 
 Privately in the Parish Church of Houth ; or If I dye in 
 the County of Down, then to be Buryed by my ancestors. 
 Having made ample and sufficient provision for my said 
 Eldest son, Hugh, Lord Ards, commonly called Lord 
 Montgomery, by Deeds Indented bearing date the Twenty 
 ninth day of September, One Thousand Seven hundred 
 and Eighteen, made between me, the said Henry Earl of 
 Mountalexander, and my said second son Thomas Mont- 
 gomery of the one Part, and my said Eldest son Hugh, 
 Lord Montgomery, of the other Part, as by the said Deed 
 Relation thereunto had may more fully appear. Item, I 
 give and Bequeath to my said second son Thomas Mont- 
 gomery the debt of Nine hundred Ninety Seven Pounds 
 Ten Shillings, due to me from Tliomas, Lord Baron of 
 Houth, by Bond dated the Tenth day of December, One 
 Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and two, and all the In- 
 terest due thereon, my said son Thomas allowing to the 
 said Lord of Houth all the money his Lordship paid me 
 on account of the said Debt, And the rent of the land of 
 
 Rogerstown, in the county of Dublin, that shall at my 
 death appear due from me to the said Lord of Houth. 
 Item, I the said Henry, Earl of Mountalexander, by virtue 
 of a Tripartite Deed Indented of Release dated the second 
 day of August, One thousand seven hundred and eighteen, 
 made between Jane Meredyth of Mountalexander, in the 
 county of Down, spinster, of the first Part, and me the 
 said Henry, Earl of Mountalexander, and my said Eldest 
 son Hugh, Lord Montgomeiy, and my second son Thomas 
 Montgomery, Esqr. , of the second Part, and Charles Camp- 
 bell of the city of Dublin, Esqr., of the third Part (upon pay- 
 ment of the sum of Four Thousand Four Hundred and 
 Eighty Pounds, and on the payment of such other sums of 
 money and the Interest thereof as the said Charles Campbell 
 shall lay out and advance on account of or for payment of 
 the debts due by my brother Hugh, late Earl of Mount- 
 alexander, deceased, at the time of his death), am Enti- 
 tuled to the Reversion and Remainder of the Towns and 
 Lands of Lissara, Crossgarr, and Lisnamara, and all other 
 the lands of Inheritance in the parish of Killmore, that 
 did belong to my said Brother Hugh, late Earl of Mount- 
 alexander, at the time of his death, and to the Towjis and 
 Lands of Ballyhays, Ballymoney, and Carneyhill, in the 
 Parish of Donaghadee, and to the House and Demesnes 
 of Mountalexander, containing by comon estimation Two 
 Hundred and Twenty acres or thereabounts (be the same 
 more or less), and to a chief rent of Four Pounds per 
 annum, Issuing and Payable Yearly out of the lands of 
 Cherrivally, with Horse Cource in the said lands of 
 Cherrivally, in the parish of Cumber, and to the Tythes 
 ariseing and renewing in the said Lands, all scituate, 
 lying, and being in the Parishes of Killmore, Donaghadee, 
 and Cumber, in the County of Down ; And by the said 
 Tripartite Deed of Release I am also entituled to a moyety 
 of some Lands and Tythes which my said Brother Hugh, 
 late Earl of Mountalexander, held by Lease from the 
 Bishop of Down and Connor, in the Parish of Killimore, 
 and to a moyety of the Four Score acres of Land adjoyn- 
 ing to the Demesnes of Mountalexander, held by Lease 
 from Mr. Ross, likewise scituate, lying, and being in the 
 County of Down, and Likewise Entituled to a Debt of 
 Thirteen Hundred Ninety Eight Pounds Nine Shillings 
 and Ten pence, due by my said Brother Hugh, late Earl 
 of Mountalexander, to the said Jane Meredyth, by Bond 
 dated the Thirteenth Day of November, One Thousand 
 Seven hundred and nine, and to the further sum of Three 
 Hundred and Ninety Pounds, due from the said late Earl 
 to the said Jane Meredyth on the Ballance of her account 
 with him (to which my said Brother Hugh made his 
 estate Subject and Lyable), as by the said Tripartite Deed 
 Indenture of Release may more fully appear. Item, My 
 Will is and I devise and Bequeath unto my said youngest 
 son, Thomas Montgomery, for and during the term of his 
 naturall life, all the said Towns and Lands of Lissara, &c., 
 &c. [the abovenamed properties recited], subject neverthe- 
 less to the Payment of the said Sum of Four Thousand 
 Four Hundred and Eighty Pounds to the said Charles 
 Campbell, and to such other sums as the said Charles 
 Campbell shall advance or lend on my account or on the 
 account of or for the Payment of the said late Earl of 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 The Earle (his brother) gave him lands for his portion, near Newtown in the great Ardes, 
 which he sold to Mr. Ro* Maxwell/ and he to Sir Rob' Colvil for 3000 Lib (double the portion left 
 
 Mountalexander's Debts, and also subject to the Payment 
 of all the Just Debts that I shall owe at the time of my 
 Decease, and to my Funeral Charges, and to the Annuity 
 
 of Twelve Pounds hereinafter mentioned 
 
 I further devise and Bequeath to my said youngest son 
 Thomas Montgomery all my Stock of Cattle of any sort or 
 kind soever, and all my Plate and Household Goods of any 
 sort soever, and all my corn that shall at my Death 
 he in or out of the ground to dispose thereof as he shall 
 
 think fitt liem. Whereas my neece Jane 
 
 Montgomery hath now a suit depending for the Recovery 
 of the benefitt of a Mortgage made to her father, James 
 Montgomery, Esqr., deceased, by Hugh Riley, late of 
 BaUinlogh in the County of Meath, Gent., Deceased, for 
 Two Hundred Pounds and Interest, It is my Will that if 
 my said neece, Jane Montgomery, shall not before my 
 Decease or within Twelve Calendar months next after 
 my Decease, Recover the full benefitt of the said Mort- 
 gage, In such case I devise to the said Jane one Annuity 
 or Yearly Rent ChriTge of Twelve Pounds ster., to be 
 
 issuing out of all my said Real or Personal Estate, free 
 and clear without any Deductions or abatement for Taxes, 
 every year during the naturall Life of my said son, Thomas 
 Montgomery." The latter was appointed sole executor 
 by his father, the earl's "very good friends, Valentine 
 Jones of Lisburn and County of Antrim, Esqr., and 
 Patrick Hamilton of Cumber and County of Down, 
 Clerk," being 'overseers.' This Will was "Signed, 
 .Sealed, and Published in Presence of James Hamilton, 
 Patt: Hamilton, Wm. M'Gowan." — MS. preserved at 
 Donaghadee. Earl Henry made a second Will, dated 
 2ist October, 1731, confirming aU the above-mentioned 
 bequests, and leaving his elder son, Hugh, who inherited 
 the estate, the sum of £zo in lieu of all legacies and 
 demands. 
 
 ^ Mr. Robert Maxiuell. — The lands sold by Henry 
 Montgomery to Mr. Maxwell were those of Rafrj', Augh- 
 endarajh, Ravara, Bally cloghan, and Creevy. The fol- 
 lowing table of this ftlr. Maxwell's family descent is 
 kindly supplied by the Rev. Dr. Reeves : — 
 
 Robert Maxwell- 
 Dean of Armagh, 
 &c., ob. 1622. 
 
 Robert, F.T.C.D., 1617. Deacon= Margaret, 
 1617-8. Priest 1618. Rector of j d. of Bishop 
 Tynan 1625. Consecr. Bp. of 
 Kilmore 1643. Ob. Nov. 16, 
 1672. 
 
 Rob. EchUn 
 and sister of 
 his brother 
 Henry's wife. 
 
 : Isabella Seaton 
 
 Henry, of Finnabrogue,=Jane, d. of Bp. Robert 
 near Downpatrick. Echlin, and sister of his 
 
 brother Robert's wife. 
 
 Henry, of College Hall, Rector— Anne, d. 
 
 of Tynan, 1668. Chancellor 
 of Connor in 1635. Died in 
 1709, over a century old. 
 
 of George 
 Stewart of 
 Culmore, 
 Esq. 
 
 Robert, only son=Jane, d. of Rev. Chichester 
 
 John, first Baron Farnham=: 
 
 Judith 
 Barry 
 
 Robert, of=Grace 
 
 Fallow's 
 Hall, 
 Cap'> of 
 horse. 
 
 eld. d. 
 of Rev. 
 John 
 Leavans. 
 
 Jane, 
 wife, 
 d. of 
 Rev. 
 Henry 
 Maxwell 
 of College 
 Hall, ob. 
 s- P: 
 
 Rt. Hon. HENRY— Do^thy, 
 
 M.P. 
 ob. T2 Feb., 
 1729-30. 
 
 Edw. 
 Brice. 
 
 Robert. 
 
 College Hall is a townland in Tynan parish, where Robert 
 M., about 1630, built a house, and fi.\ed his residence. 
 See Archdall's Lodge for Maxwell family, vol. 'ii. , p. 390. 
 Some transactions between Mr. Maxwell and the second 
 earl of Mount-Alexander had called forth the criticism of 
 the notorious archdeacon Matthews. The earl thought it 
 necessary to vindicate himself in the house of lords. The 
 following is his speech on that occcasion, a copy of which 
 is preserved among the Family Papers at Donaghadee. It 
 is here printed for the first time : — " My Lords, — I must 
 beg y"^ Losps. favore and patience to heare me a little ; 
 did I not thinke my honor and reputation concern'' I shou'd 
 not give you trouble. Y' Losps. have had articles exhibit- 
 ed before you against my chaplain, Mr. Maxwell, accus- 
 
 ing him of coming unduly by the parish of Cumber and 
 that of Donaghadee, to both which I presented him. Nor 
 is it only so, but in Cimiber he is charged with lessning 
 the Sallery, and in Donaghadee with suffering the Tythes 
 to be sett to the prejudice of the Incumbent. The Arrow 
 is shott at him, but I thinke 'tis plaine the chiefe designe 
 is to wound me, for had he been guilty I could not have 
 been innocent. But I thanke God that it has appeared 
 that I have clean hands and a pure heart ; and I can defy 
 mallice itself, w* with symony inhabits here, to lay cor- 
 ruptione att my doore, from my youth up even to this day. 
 But this is not the first time that indeavours have been 
 made to stilly my reputatione, tho' 'tis the first time it was 
 attempted openly. He who ownes it has rendered him- 
 
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 293 
 
 to him); then he removed, to be near his mother in law (y* Lady Dowager of Howth) and her 
 other daughter, and other allyances thereabouts. 
 
 He hath issue now hving Ehzabeth,9 a marriagable accomplished lady, fitt to govern a family, 
 and also 
 
 Hugh, his eldest sonn,'° a comely propper man, heir-presumptive (after his father's death)" 
 
 self below my scorn, and for any who act behind the cur- 
 taine they are beneath my resentment. I weare armoure 
 to defende myselfe which they know nothing of ; I mean 
 honor and honesty, which, were not the contrivers of these 
 articles wholly straingers to themselves, they would not 
 so vainly have atacqu*^ me ; but dogs will bark att the 
 moon tho they cannot pull it down. I can't but wonder 
 at the imprudence of those who offer to throw dirt att me 
 when they can't but be conscious to themselves that I can 
 throw stones at them would I take the pains to do it ; 
 but were I never so fonvard to do so, I must confess they 
 themselves have prevented me. It is naturall (I have 
 hearde) for those who have the plague to spitt their infec- 
 tion att others ; and some men, like the Fox in the fable, 
 because his taile.was cutt, would have others cut theirs too. 
 But it wont do, and would be very strainge if in this case 
 it should. Have I sold 2 thirds of that large patrimony 
 my father left me, even to my very doore, to preserve the 
 honour of my ancesters and family, and to answer my 
 owne justice ; and can it be supposed I could have ever 
 stoop^ to so low, mean, and detestable a crime for so poore 
 a gaine. No, my Lords, 'tis too well known to the world 
 that my Mantle is scarce large enough to cover me, and 
 sure 1 would not bring such a moth into it to eate and 
 make it less : but what reasone can stopp y*^ malice of 
 of Arch D. M. ; he, my Lords, who is content to sit on 
 the ground neede not take such meanes to raise himself. 
 Had he ever studied religion seriously, or with considera- 
 tione ever reade one religious booke, I am persuaded he 
 could not have found a conscience which would have 
 suffered him to act so fond a piece of malice. But I 
 thanke him for giving me this oppertunity of being better 
 known to the world, tho in this I thanke him for nothing, 
 because I'm sure he never designed me the kindness. My 
 Lords, I am very sensible my forwardness to have the 
 irregularities of the diocese reformed has beene the occa- 
 sione of this, and 'tis possible that Arch D. M. may yet 
 thinke he hath behaved himself a veiy good Arch D. , but 
 I am sure he has acted like a very ill Divine if I may take 
 the Royale Psalmest's words, who tells who he is who 
 shall abide in the Tabernacle of the Lord, and who shall 
 rest upon his holy hill. It is he who walketh uprightly & 
 dos righteousness, and speaks the truth from his heart ; 
 he who backbiteth not with his tongue, nor dos evil to his 
 neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 
 But as these are rules which this gen'" has never, in all 
 his life practised, so they are characters which belong not 
 to him — as has iieen evidenced to y"'^ Lordships. And I 
 wish I could say that his crimes were all that have ap- 
 peared, but such have appeared to you as I'm sorry there 
 ever was occasion they should be told in Gath or pub- 
 lish'' in the streets of Askelon. You have meet with those 
 here who have spoken with double hearts, and have flat- 
 tering lipps with which they thought to prevaile ; but God 
 has risen because of the oppression of the poore ; and for 
 
 Q 
 
 the sighing of the needy ; and tliere is no room to doubt 
 but that your Lordships will be his instruments to deliver 
 every one from him who swelleth against him, and sett 
 him at Test, in which I hope to have my share. My 
 Lords, calumniare aiidaciter is not the principle of an 
 honest man, and when I consider the person who has in- 
 deavoured to calumniate me I can't feare that any blemish 
 will rest on my reputatione — a person who has run counter 
 to all the rules of justice, honesty, and charity; and I can't 
 be unconcerned at his attempt, for I am of .Solomon's 
 opinion that a goode name is better than gi-eate riches ; 
 & I had rather live and dye a poore and honest man than 
 enjoy millions of gold and silver without that character. 
 How greate, then, must I think the injuiy this gen"" in- 
 deavoured to do me, since 'tis a crime in him and a greate 
 one, none such has escaped y°"^ Lordship's just repre- 
 hensione, & tho he bee not here to receive it, yett I hope 
 it wont be passed by in silence. I must now begg y"' 
 Lordship's pardon for taking up so much of ■•f time, & I 
 hope my just concern for my integrity will obtain it. My 
 Lords, yee have done me so much honor & justice that I 
 should be ungi'ateful shou'd I not return my thanks ; and 
 I may very well be satisfied by what has been said, but 
 that I can suffer anything easier than being whispered to 
 death." 
 
 9 Elizabeth. — This lady died unmarried. 
 
 '° Ht<gh, his eldest son. — Hugh, described in the text as 
 a "comely propper man," became fourth earl on his 
 father's death. In 1703, he married Elinor, daughter of 
 sir Patrick Barnwell of Cricksto^^^l, by whom there were 
 five children, who all died in childhood. The fourth earl 
 died on the 26th of Februaiy, 1744, and was buried at 
 Howth. 
 
 " His father' s death. — The third earl, Henry, died (ac- 
 cording to Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly's Genealogical History, p. 
 58) in the year 1739; but it appears from a manuscript 
 leaf in a copy of Harris's County o/Do7un, at Hillsborough 
 Castle, he died in 1731. — MS. Notes of colonel F. O. 
 Montgomery. This earl made his will on the 2lst 
 Octoljer, 1 73 1, in which he left to his eldest son, Hugh, 
 £zo, in lieu of all legacies and demands, and all 
 his personal property to his younger son, Thomas, whose 
 settlement on his marriage with his wife, Maiy Angelica 
 Gmber, alias De la Cherois, in 1725, earl Heniy thus 
 confirmed. Among the Family Papers at Donaghadee is 
 the following bond on \\ hich judgment was entered, in 
 1719, against the earl (Heniy) and his two sons: — 
 
 " Know all men by these Presents that we, the R*^ HonWe Henry 
 Earl of Mount-Alexander, the Honbie Hugh Lord Montgomery, 
 eldest son and heir apparent of the said Henry Earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, and the Hon^'e Thomas Montgomery, Esq., second and 
 younger son of the said Henry Earl of Mount-Alexander, are held 
 and firmly bound unto Charles Campbell of the city of Dublin, Esq., 
 in the sume of eight thousand pounds sterl., good and lawfuU money 
 of Great Brittain, to be paid to the said Charles Campbell his exect'", 
 &c.. To the which payment well and truly to be made we bind us 
 and every of us, our and every of our heirs, execc'^, &c., joyntly 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 to our Earle of Mount Alexander, and hath Thomas/- a pritty nimble witty boy, so called from 
 his mother's brother, present L"* of Howth. All whose characters, when they are departed and 
 shall be seen no more on earth, must be had from another pen than mine, for I begg of (and hope 
 in) God, I may never see that day to do it, or to have need to write more of this kind, for I desire 
 
 and severally firmly by these presents. Witness our hand and seals 
 this second day of August, One thousand seven hundred and 
 eighteen. 
 
 "The Condition of the above Obligation is such, that if the above 
 Henry Earl of Mount-AIe-xander, Hugh Lord RIontgomery, and 
 Thomas Montgomery, or any of them, shall well and truly pay, or 
 cause to be paid unto the above-named Charles ("ampbell, the sume 
 of foure thousand pounds sterl., good and lawful money of Great 
 Brittain, on the second day of February next ensuing, the date of 
 the above Obligation, with interest for the same at the rate of six 
 pounds per cent, per annum, That then and in that case the said 
 Obligation to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full 
 force and virtue. 
 
 " Mount-Alexander. 
 
 "Montgomery. 
 
 "Tho: Montgomery. 
 " Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us, 
 "Alex. Nesbitt. 
 "Wm. Colvill. 
 "And. Caldwell." 
 
 Thomas. — This boy became fifth and last earl, on the 
 death of his elder brother, Hugh, in 1 744. He was named 
 after his uncle, Thomas St. Lawrence, twenty-fifth baron 
 Howth, who died in 1727. He married Mary Angelica 
 Gmber, alias De la Cherois, in 1725. His marriage settle- 
 ment is dated the 25th of May in that year, and was made 
 between Henry, earl of Mount-Alexander, and the hon. 
 Thomas Montgomery, his son, of the first part, Valentine 
 Jones and Daniel De la Cherois of the second part, Luke 
 St. Lawrence and Lewis Grommelin of the third part, and 
 Daniel De la Cherois and Mary Angelica of the fourth part. 
 By this document the lands of Donaghadee (including the 
 to-\vn), Ballybuttle, Templepatrick, Ballynova, Ballywil- 
 liam and other denominations were settled on certain trusts 
 for his wife, with whom he received a large marriage dowry. 
 This earl left his estate and other property to his countess, 
 excepting an annuity of;^20 to Isabella, widow of captain 
 William Montgomery (the author's grandson) during her 
 widowhood, and ^50 to each of her daughters, Elizabeth 
 and Helena. He died in the eightieth year of his 
 age, on the 7th of April (of March, according to an 
 interleaved copy of Harris's Account of Down, in Hills- 
 borough castle), 1757. At his death, the titles of vis- 
 count' Montgomery of the Great Ards and earl of 
 Mount- Alexander became extinct. By the following will 
 of his countess, Mary Angelica De la Cherois, the reader 
 will see how the remnant of the vast Mount-Alexander 
 property descended to the families of De la Cherois and 
 Crommelin : — 
 
 "IN the name of God, amen, I, Mary Angelici, Countess of 
 Mount-Alexander, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, 
 do make, publish, and declare this my Last Will and Testament, in 
 manner and form following, that is to say — Imprimis : I leave and 
 bequeath to my dearly beloved cousin, Samuel Delacherois the 
 elder, and Nicholas Cromelin of Deriachy, both near Lisburn, in the 
 County of Antrim, Gent", and their heirs male for ever, AH my 
 lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all my real estate of what na- 
 ture and kind soever, situate lying and being in the parishes of Com- 
 ber and Donaghadee, in the County of Down, to be equally divided 
 between them, share and share .nlike,* subject however to all the fo'- 
 lowing legacies and bequests, which are not expressly entered to be 
 paid out of my personal estate : — 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin, Daniel Dela- 
 
 * For Deed of Partition, see Appendix M. 
 
 cherois, eldest son of the aforesaid Samuel the elder, the sum of 
 £,^oo sterling. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin, Nicholas Dela- 
 cherois, second son of the aforesaid Samuel the elder, the sum of 
 
 "Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin, Samuel Dela- 
 cherois the younger, third son of the aforesaid Samuel the elder, the 
 
 sum of ;^700. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin Judith Dela- 
 cherois, daughter of the aforesaid Samuel the elder, the sum of 
 
 ;£6oo. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to the aforesaid Nicholas Cromelin, 
 who was godson to my late dearly beloved husband, Thomas, late 
 Earl of Mount- Alexander, the sum of .3^100. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin and godson, 
 Delacherois Cromelin, brother of the aforesaid Nicholas Delacherois, 
 the sum of ;^iooo. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin, Mary Cromelin, 
 elder sister of the aforesaid Nicholas Cromelin, the sum o{ £fioo. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my dear cousin, Mary Ann 
 Cromelin, younger sister of the aforesaid Nicholas Cromelin, the 
 sum of £Soo. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my cousin, Mons'CouUet, Cathe- 
 rine and Louisa CouUett, son and daughters of my uncle CouUett, 
 late of St. Quintin, in Picardy in France, the sum of ijioo each. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my executors hereinafter named 
 the sum of ;^4oo in trust, for and to the sole use and benefit of my 
 cousin, Jane Jameson of New York, widow of Peter Jameson, late 
 one of the Managers of the Cambric Manufactury at Dundalk, and 
 her children, the interest to be equally divided among her children, 
 share and share alike. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my executors hereinafter named 
 the sum of ^£200 in trust for the sole use and benefit of Mary Ann 
 Cromelin, otherwise M'CulIogh, daughter of William Cromelin, late 
 of Lisburn deceased, and her children, the interest thereof to be 
 paid to the said Mary Ann during her natural life, and after her de- 
 cease said £200 to be equallj^ divided among her children, share and 
 share alike. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to my executors hereinafter named 
 the sum of .^400 in trust, for and to the sole use and benefit of Ber- 
 nard O'Neill, gentleman iwho was a relation of my late husband 
 Thomas, late Earl of Mount-Ale.xander, and lived some years ago 
 on Arbour Hill, in Dublin), his wife, children, and grandchildren, 
 the interest thereof to be paid to the said Bernard O'Neill and his 
 wife during the life of the longest liver of them, and after their de- 
 cease said ^400 to be equally divided amongst his children and 
 grandchildren, share and share alike. 
 
 "Item — I leave and bequeath to Willoughby Osbom and Sarah 
 Osbom his sister, both of Newtown, in the County of Down, the 
 sum of ;^ioo each. 
 
 "Item— I leave and bequeath to Sir. Hill, who Hves with Mrs. 
 Clayton, relict of the late Bishop of Clogher, and was a relation of 
 my late husband Thomas, late Earl of Jlountale-xander, the sum of 
 ;£5o- 
 
 Item — I leave and Bequeath to my God-Daughter, Mabel Huston, 
 Daughter of the Reverend Munsel Huston, when she arrives at the 
 age of 21 years, the sum of ;£ioo, the Interest thereof to be paid her 
 yearly, till she arrives at the age of 21 years as aforesaid, or sooner 
 dies. 
 
 Item — I leave and Bequeath to John M'MuUan, a poor orphan, 
 the sum of £s° a year, till he arrives at the age of 21 years, and then 
 the sum of 10 Guineas. 
 
 Item — I leave and Bequeath to the Reverend Muiisel Huston, 
 curate of Donaghadee, the sum of 10 Guineas, to be paid out of my 
 personal Estate. 
 
 Item — I leave and Bequeath to the Reverend William Warnock, 
 Dissenting Minister of Donaghadee, the sum of 5 Guineas, to be paid 
 out of my personal Estate. 
 
 Item — I leave and Be(fueath to my sen-ant, Martha Hamilton, the 
 sum of /,2oo, to be paid out of ray personal Estate, immediately after 
 my decease. 
 
 Item — I leave and Bequeath to my following ser\'ants to wit', 
 Henry Beatty, Hugh Cathcart, Thomas Murdock, Ann Weir, and 
 Ann Gowdy, the sum of 10 Guineas each, over and above what wages 
 
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 295 
 
 not to bee the Vise* by the death of any of these 4 males/3 much less of them all, or that the line or 
 title of y' late Noble Earle should faile, (as our neighbour Viscounts, Ardglass, Conway, and Clan- 
 brazils are, sonnless;'4 and y' estates of y' two last named gone out of their posteritys hands,) but 
 that it may encrease and thrive, and see many joyfull years, as they have felt hard times; and that 
 this dutyfull history may be preserved and continued by our future generations, whilst the sun and 
 moon endure (if God will allow it), and then there will be no need of such records. 
 
 I wish also that this Henry and Mary may be remembred and well spoken of, for the care 
 and love they have of entertaining in their house (and their present endeavors to recover what is 
 
 shall be respectively due them at the time of my decease, to be paid 
 out of my personal Estate. 
 
 Item — I leave and Bequeath to my Executors, hereinafter named, 
 the sum of ijioo, to be laid out in repairing the parish Church of 
 Donaghadee, to he paid out of my personal Estate. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to the minister and Church Wardens 
 of the Parish of Cumber aforesaid, the sum of £20, to be distributed 
 in such manner as they shall think fit among the necessitous House- 
 keepers of the aforesaid parish of Cumber, to be paid out of my 
 personal Estate. 
 
 " Item — I leave and bequeath to the Right Rev. Father in God, 
 the Lord Bishop of Down and Conner, his Vicar General of the 
 Diocese of Down, or his officiating Surrogate of the same Diocese, 
 all for the time being, and their successors, Bishops of Down, Vicar 
 Generals, or officiating Surrogates of said Diocese of Down for ever, 
 the clear yearly sum of £120 a year, to be paid out of my real 
 Estate, both in the parishes of Cumber and Donaghadee ; and I do 
 hereby make my said real Estate, and every part thereof, chargeable 
 for ever, with the same Intrust for and to the several uses and pur- 
 poses hereinafter named, that is to say, £20 a year, part of said 
 .£120 to be paid to a licensed English schoolmaster, who shall be of 
 the Protestant religion as by law established, and who shall instruct 
 thirty poor children yearly in reading, writing, and the four common 
 rules of Arithmetic, witho\tt any other fee or Reward, save the £20 
 a year above mentioned, which said school master shall be appointed 
 by the said Bishop of Down, the Vicar General, or officiating Surro- 
 gate, and subject to their visitation ; and I do hereby empower and 
 authorize the said Bishop, his Vicar General or officiating Surrogate, 
 to remove said Schoolmaster, as afterwards to them shall seem just 
 cause, and to appoint another qualified, as above set forth, in his 
 stead, or when a vacancy shall happen by death or otherwise : also, 
 £30 a year, a further part of said .£120 a year, to be laid out in 
 Clothing said 30 poor children : also, £10 a year, a further part of 
 said ;^i20, to be divided into apprentice ffees for such of said children 
 as shall be apprenticed out to Protestant Tradesmen : also, ^^50 a 
 year, a further part of said ^120, to be, at every Christmas, divided 
 Equally, share and share alike, by my Executors hereinafter named, 
 to twenty five poor housekeepers, who have been at least 7 years 
 resident in the Town of Donaghadee, or in my Estate in the Parish 
 of Donaghadee, before they shall be entitled to any distributive share 
 thereof; and I do hereby empower and authorize the Vicar of Don- 
 aghadee for the time being, and his successors. Vicars of Donaghadee, 
 or his or their Curates, to nominate and apprentice out said poor chil- 
 dren, and the said Vicar or his resident Curate shall, on or before 
 the 20th day of December in every year, nominate to my Executors 
 heremafter named, the 25 poor reduced Housekeepers who shall be 
 entitled to a Distributive share of said ^^50, and it is my Will that 
 widows shall always have the preference ; and also, that ^lo, the re- 
 maining part of said ;^r2o, be paid yearly to the officiating Clergyman 
 of Donaghadee for reading morning prayers on every Wednesday 
 and Friday throughout the year in the Parish Church of Donaghadee 
 aforesaid, and that my Executors hereinafter named shall account 
 yearly, and every year at tlie annual visitation held for said Diocese 
 of Down, before the Bishop, his visitor, Vicar General, or officiating 
 Surrogate, for said sum of £120 a year, and that the receipts signed 
 by the Schoolmaster, officiating Clergyman, and for clothing and 
 apprenticing out said poor children, and for the ^50 distributed 
 yearly to reduced Housekeepers, shall be as full and sufficient as if 
 the same had been signed by the Bishop, Vicar General, or officiat- 
 ing Surrogate ; and in case my said Executors, hereinafter named, 
 don't pay said respective sums, and account as aforesaid, then I em- 
 power and authorize said Bishop, his Vicar General, or officiating 
 Surrogate, by a power under their, or any of their, hands and seals, 
 to distrain my said real Estate, or any part thereof, for said sura of 
 
 £120, or for so much thereof as shall appear to them to remain un- 
 paid, and that they may pay the same when levied to the several 
 persons and uses according to the true intent and meaning liereof. 
 
 " Item— It is my further will and pleasure that all my personal 
 Estate, of what nature or kind soever (after all my just debts, 
 funeral charges, and the legacies hereby particularly appointed to be 
 paid out of my said personal Estate, are discharged) shall be divided 
 into two Equal Shares and proportions— one moiety whereof I leave 
 and Bequeath to the aforesaid Samuel Delacherois the Elder, Daniel 
 Nicholas Samuel the younger, and Judith Delacherois, his children, 
 to be divided among them share and share alike, and the other 
 Moiety thereof I leave and Bequeath to the aforesaid Nicholas 
 Cromehn, Delacherois Cromelin, Mary, and Mary Ann Cromelin, 
 the said Nicholas' Brother and Sisters, to be equally divided amongst 
 them share and share alike. 
 
 "Item — I order my Executors hereinafter named to bury me in 
 the church yard of Donaghadee, between the hours of 10 and 12 in 
 the 'forenoon, without any funeral pomp whatever: And Lastly, I 
 nominate, constitute, and appoint my dearly beloved Cousins, the 
 aforesaid Samuel Delacherois the Elder, and the aforesaid Nicholas 
 Cromelin, Executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby re- 
 voking and making null and void all former will or wills by me made, 
 and I do declare this to be my last Will and Testament, In witness 
 whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal, the 30th day ofMay, in 
 the Year of our Lord God, 1764. 
 
 " Mary Angelica, Mount Alexander, (seal). 
 
 "Signed, Sealed, published, and declared by the Testatrix as her 
 last will and testament, in the presence of us, who have subscribed the 
 same in the presence of said testatrix, and of each other. 
 
 " Bernard Ward, Henrv Waring, Hu. White." 
 
 '3 Four males. — The 'four males' were the second, 
 third, fourth, and fifth earls already referred to. The 
 author's prayer here expressed was granted, as he only lived 
 until the year 1706, whilst the last-mentioned of the four 
 died in 1757. Had the property remained in the family, 
 it is probable that a descendant of the author would have 
 had the titles revived. 
 
 '4 S'onn/L'ss.—yere Essex Cromwell, the seventh baron, 
 and fourth earl, of Ardglass, died in 1687, leaving one 
 daughter, Elizabeth, who married Edward Southwell of 
 Kinsale, county of Cork, and King's-Weston, near Bristol. 
 By her father's death the title became extinct, and by her 
 marriage the estate was carried to the family of .South- 
 well, in which it remained until the death of Edward 
 Southwell, the last descendant in the male line, in 
 1832. The property, known as the De Clifford estate, was 
 soon afterwards sold by Edward Southwell's heirs to the 
 late David Ker, esq. The title of earl of Conway became 
 extinct by the death of the first and only earl in 1683. 
 He had no issue, and bequeathed the vast estates to his 
 cousins, the Seymours, passing over lady Rawdon, his 
 sister. The second and last earl of Clanbrassil, of the 
 first creation, then alive, had no children, and his estates 
 were inherited by other branches of the Hamiltons. He 
 died in 1675. 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 due to) Jean Montgomery/s only living offspring of their unkle, y' Hone'"'' James Montgomery, 
 hereafter to be mentioned in this narrative. 
 
 '5 Jean Montgo7nay. — See clause in earl Henry's will 
 relating to Jean Montgomery, p. 292, supra. This lady 
 was daughter of the hon. James Montgomery, a son of 
 the second viscount, who was bom at Dunskey in 1639, 
 and died at Rosemount in 1689. Among the family 
 papers preserved at Donaghadee are several letters ad- 
 dressed to Jean Montgomeiy, at Mount-Alexander, by 
 Thomas Montgomery, who became the fifth and last earl, 
 and his countess, Mary Angelica De la Cherois. Jean 
 Montgomery had lived in the family of Henry at Rogers- 
 town, and when the latter succeeded to the earldom in 
 1716, she came with the family to Mount- Alexander. 
 It is evident from the tone of these letters that she was 
 a useful and much trusted kinswoman. Thomas, who 
 resided at Mount- Alexander from the time of his marriage 
 in 1725, until his father's death in 1731, occasionally 
 visited Dublin, and it was during these visits, that he and 
 his lady often wrote to Jean Montgomery. Many letters 
 to her from the last countess have been preserved. They 
 generally refer to domestic matters, and indicate on the 
 part of the writer a very unsophisticated and practical 
 mind. We here give a few of her little notes, reminding 
 the reader that when they were written, in 1729, the 
 countess, who was by birth a French lady, had not acquired 
 the power of expressmg herself fluently in English: — • 
 
 ** Janny, — Not receiving an answer to my last, and you saying 
 in yours you was ill of the hed ack, make me fear it continues with 
 you, so dont stand on forms, but vrnt you two for one, tho I am still 
 plague with the pain in my eyes, that make writing very uneasy to 
 me, so obliges me to writ short letters; besides ther noe news 
 here. I see your capt but very seldom. God knows how he dispose 
 of his time : I fear it ent in serving him. 
 
 "robin Meinilly must paye Will, and I take care to get it allowed 
 here, or an order to him to doe it, for it dont come to five sheling. As 
 I hate to disapoint you, I wont fixt a time for coming til am very sure 
 of it ; and I assure you it is against my inclinasion I stay. Mr Rlont- 
 gomery give his service to you, & we both pray you to present our 
 most humble duty to my lord, and be persuade I am, with sincere 
 friendship, Janny, yours, 
 
 "Mary Montgomery. 
 
 " May 17th, 1729, 
 
 " For M" Jane Montgomery, These." 
 
 " Janny, — I received yours, and am glad my letters comes to 
 you even after delay's, it luckly there noe secrets in them, it is a 
 great satisfacion to me to hear my father continues to be better. I 
 believe you begunne to emagine that I am setteld here for good, & I 
 am almost of that oppinion too, for I cant tel yet when we be home, 
 but can assure you sincerely ther nothing I wish for more, & that I 
 am continually teezing Mr Montgomery to make all the hast possible ; 
 and besides the pleasure of seeing you all, I regret every fine day I 
 loos, or att least but half enjoy in towne 
 
 for my part that dont look ou God marcyfauU with a lover eye. I 
 thing [think) it was very rude of him to leave the country without 
 takeing his leave of you, tho it seems you give a more favourable en- 
 terpretasion ; but to leave off triffling, and come to domestick affaires, 
 you must certainly be mistaken when you say ther is butt one bulluck 
 fatt. l eant remember exactly how menny ther was when I came 
 away, til I see the account I have att home ; but I fancy there must 
 be more. If ther is not, you must look amonst the dry cows if ther 
 is any fit to sell, and use them, & if ther is not, let me know it : the i6 
 of next month Rachall time is out, so plase to give her warning 
 against then. I wod a done it before, but stil flatterd myself of been 
 home, for I will not be plagued with her any longer, so let her pro- 
 vide for her self. It is now full time to beginne to stil : as for the 
 rok water you know how that made : for the milk (?) water the herbs 
 that are in it is mint, angelica baum, cardus, wormwood, and meri- 
 gold. polly shaw kows the quantity ther must be of each herb, and 
 how the stil must be manege, so recommend it to her care, there 
 nothing worth writing here, so must end in desiring you to give our 
 humble duty to my lord, and assure his lordship we long extremely 
 
 for the pleasure of been with him. the squire and the bishop give 
 their service to you, and believe, sincerely, D"' Jenny, your friend, 
 
 " Mary Mo.vtgomery. 
 " Kiss pet lin and nest for me a thousand times. 
 *' June 19th. 
 
 " Mrs. Jane Montgomery, at mountallexander, near bellast." 
 
 " Dear Jeanny, — I had the pleasure of yours, and I am very glad 
 that you are well, and evry thing goine so, but could wish and desires 
 you to give me a more pertuculer acconte spacilly of the gardens, how 
 the new gardener behaves, and he dus lords improving, and if ther 
 is much frute ; if ther be pray send some as offen as you can, and 
 cumberes to mrs mecartney. I hope by this time that the cows is 
 come for the people : I need not recommend you to manage them to 
 the best advantage. I can assure you I long to be home more than 
 you to have us, and is sore against my will I am here, and am teasin 
 \\r montgomery every day to goe, but he cant as yet fix a time, as 
 for news I suppose you have heard by this time of the surprisen way 
 of the king death, which will occion a uneversel morning for a year, 
 but it is not yet know what the leaders will take, since 1 wrot you 
 last 1 was at hoath to see this new lord, where I saw molly Stephney 
 how (who) 1 like e.xtremly. she seems tobe an agreable good-natured 
 geal ; she inquire very much after you. hoath is a pretty place if it 
 was improved. I did not staj' all night, you wer saeing you wer 
 sorey you was not here when my lord died, but you not heved seen 
 him, for he wold not see no dody (body!, and refused to see my lord 
 and lord Montgomerj'. my lord is at rogerstowne. Mr. montgomery 
 gives his service to you. I saw the last letter j'ou rowt to him. I am 
 surprise you give attention or take notice of what megie says, pray 
 order the horse to be turned of the grond, for he was to take amedi- 
 tatlly away, as for hinds I wonder you shold emagine I was angry 
 att his goine away, since it was by my consent and order, let me 
 here from you as soon as possible, pray let me know how the pigoins 
 thrj-iv, and believe me, your 
 
 " Mary Montgomery. 
 
 " June y^ 24. 
 
 " To mrs Jane Montgomery, at Mt Alexander, near Belfast," 
 
 "Dr Jeany, — I recevied the pleasure of your tow letters, and has 
 a great one to hear you are perfectly recovered of your indisposition. 
 I flatter my self that you wod be glad on evry account we were 
 home. I give you my word none can wish it more than I. It verj- 
 easy for people that don't know one business to wonder whey we 
 don't come home to try the coals. I find that our not coming when 
 we have so menney calls is a sure proof we cant ; as for my part that 
 I am not encline to flater my self, the sayeing that he has foimd a 
 coper mine give me noe joy, and he assure, he was here last week, 
 if it be true it well be a agreeable disapointment. I well tell you a 
 piece of news well surprise if you have not heard, I am sure it did me, 
 which is that cozin nancy crommelin came here yesterday, with cozin 
 sam ; you may believe a littel transported to see Dublin, it been what 
 she so ardently wish for, tho I fear it will not answer her high rased 
 expectasion, for besides that things seldom dus, the towne is allmost 
 emtey, so of consequence but littel divertsion more than that. I hope 
 our stay will be short. I am resolved not to tale one word of rachel 
 in this, and cant forbear laughing, tho it wont become me for the 
 future, for 1 have this day lost one of my fore teeth, which is no 
 small affliction to me, and yet as 1 say I cant forbear when I think 
 rachel has been a consent subject with us in e^Ty letter ; but 
 domestic affairs must be minded. I believe it is cheper to buy 
 vessels then to have them made, considering we must feed the man. 
 I hope M" Meredeth well leave us a good legece if she deys, I am 
 sure she augh. I am concerned mylord is so melancoly he certainly 
 has a dull time of it, but 1 hope we soon meet. Since the secret is 
 out and you know I have a monkey, I must tell you his perfectsions — 
 first, for liis person I wod only wrong it to discribe it for it is past 
 my doeing, and to give you a idee of his wit or ingenuit}-, as you 
 please to call it, 1 must tell you he washes all the china, and 1 designe 
 he shall save a ser\'ant by putting him in tom place ; I am sure nether 
 lenny nor en will preserve ther in your good graics when 
 
 you see him. Ill I'll! buy your missling. I need not tell you after 
 haveing wrot all this trash that had thing here that 
 
 could have furnished me with the plasure of entertaining you, I wod 
 a wrot it you, so after desire you to present my most humble dut>' 
 to my lord, giving you the service of «11 here named, I conclude. I 
 assure I am D^ Janny, your assured friend. 
 
 " Mary Montgomery. 
 
 "July 24." » 
 
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 297 
 
 In the interim, I must here again interpose a few lines of our present Earles and this Henr/s 
 full sister, the Lady Jean, of whose death and buriall in Chester you have heard.'^ 
 
 She was born in Newtoun house in 7'"' A" 1649. She had her name from her grandmother by 
 y'' father, and yet y° Presbiterian ministers refused to baptize her (so they call y^ administration of 
 that sacrament, (as I now think,) improperly; for neither ours nor theirs in these cold climates use 
 immersion of infants, but sprinkling) for they had a pique at her father, for acting by the K'' com" and 
 not by their directions and authority; and so he must have stood in y° stoole of repentance (as 
 they call it) before y^ congregation, and, in it, must have accused his obedience to y^ com" as a 
 sinn comitted by him, ere they would christen his s"* daughter; and must hold her up too, and 
 promise for her and himself what they wold please to impose, but his Lo^ disdained their usurped 
 jurisdiction and would not comply.'? 
 
 The above letter is addressed by the writer's husband 
 Thomas Montgomery, as follows: — "For the Queen of 
 Scrabo, alias Jean Montgomery." 
 
 ■' Dear Jenny, — By the date of your letter, I aught to have got 
 it a munday, but recevied but a wedenday. Considering how maney 
 is lost, it well one gets them a tall. In your one before that, you 
 mention a maid, which, by the character you had, you think her 
 quallifide for our service. I wish you had writ me where she had 
 lived : we could better guise (guess) what she can doe. I think to 
 wait til I come home, which time I can't yet fi.xt, for I have disap- 
 pointed you so offen that I wont pretend to say it til I am certain of 
 it. Noe dody wish is for it I am sure much as my self. I am 
 pleased and sorry that the harvest is in, for it amused my lord hows 
 time is, I believe, dull at present. It ve.\t me e.xtreamly to here 
 you say he had not gott a letter from me this month, for one 
 honour I writ tow, which I had the honour to my self. By 
 
 this post I promised you some time agoe to give some news of your 
 aunt stepney and her familly. The are all well except molly, that 
 has hurt her brest to that degre that the fear it will turn to a cancer. 
 The are strangely divided amonst them self. I don't know for what 
 reasons ; but charls has left his mother, and betty is gone to live with 
 her upon some deferances the have had that is all I can learn of it. 
 My lord and lady carteret are expected evry moment, soe that the 
 towne will soon be gay, of which I shant pertake much till then I 
 have noe news. I hear lady conway and the jouny ladys are gone 
 for England; but not my lord. Pray let me know if it true, for ther 
 is so meany lees wan don't know what to believe. I alsoe am told 
 for a sure thing that mr. blackwood is soon to be niarryd to mrs. 
 grace mecarteny, which wod give me a great deal of pleasure, for, 
 besides that, I believet wod be very hapy. She wod be a very 
 agreable nebour. I should wrote you this news from here, tho' in 
 returne you writ me a tiling that should a passed here, which I heard 
 nothing of before, of crack (?) haveing made a young lady make a 
 fauls step. He is not unlikely to doe such a thing, but if is it has 
 made noe noise. I have enquird for musling. It is chaper to buy 
 it from the pedlers. As for the apples, what the room wont hold the 
 must be put in the cider house. I know of no other place. Mr. 
 cromlin leave this to-morrow, and cozin delacherois only wait for a 
 wind to goe for England. Nanny stays til I goe. She gives her 
 service to you, as dus the sqr and the bishop, and believe me, as 
 usual, Dr Jenny, your sincere friend, 
 
 "1M.\EV Montgomery. 
 
 " 7b" nth, 1729. 
 
 ' ' Pray take care of the peys for seed. 
 "Mrs. Jane Montgomery'. " 
 
 Yoli have heard. — Unfortunately, the portion of the 
 Manuscripts, containing an account of this lady's death 
 and burial at Chester, has been lost. There is no trace of 
 an inscription to mark her grave in the cathedral church 
 at Chester. The registry of deaths kept in the cathedral 
 does not extend further back than the year 1680. 
 
 '7 Aiid would not comply. — The first earl's mother, who 
 always adhered to the presbyterian form of worship, had 
 requested some one or more of tlie mhiisters of that body 
 
 to baptize this child — a request to which she supposed rw 
 doubt they would accede, through respect for herself, their 
 constant friend But in that year, 1649, had occurred the 
 great and irreparable quarrel between lord Montgomery 
 and the presbyterians of Ulster. See p. 186, 187, supra. 
 We are told in the text, that the ministers refused to baptize 
 his child, even at the request of their tried friend, the 
 second viscountess, hoping no doubt that they might in 
 this way be able to wring from Iier son an acknovvledge- 
 nient of, and an expression of re])entance for, his "malig- 
 nancy." But Montgomery spurned their pretensions to 
 authority, which was a serious matter to attempt at that period 
 in Ulster. The presbyterians of this province gloried in 
 carrying out every command or custom of the parent church 
 in Scotland, and "V^ stoole of repentance" was an engine 
 of presbyterian power which few in Scotland or in Ulster 
 then dared to withstand. In that very year, 1649, lord 
 Montgomery, afterwards seventh earl of Eglinton, was 
 compelled to give "satisfaction" publickly for endeavour- 
 ing to assist the royal cause by signing the "Engagement" 
 against England. The Scottish nobleman thus acknow- 
 ledged the sinfulness and unlawfulness of his conduct, 
 and obtained what was called the privilege of publickly 
 acknowledging his errors. During this exhibition, he was 
 compelled to sign the covenant and bond, and to listen 
 whilst publickly rebuked from the pulpit. — Eraser's Me- 
 morials, vol. i., p. 71. The records of the parish of 
 Auchterhouse in Forfarshire, contain the following entry 
 at "Sunday, 14th April, 1650 : James, Arle of Buchan, 
 did stand up in his daske, and there declared before the 
 whole congregation, that he was Sory and grieved that hee 
 did ever adheare, or have any dealing with these wha 
 went into Ingland, in that unlawfull Ingadgment; also 
 did hold up his hand and sweare to yee Covenant, and 
 Subscrive it." — Edinburgh Topographical Magazine, p. 
 152. The " Engagement" so abhorrent to the dominant 
 party then in Scotland was the invasion of England by the 
 marquis of Hamilton, with the object of rescuing and res- 
 toring Charles I. when a prisoner in the Isle of Wight. 
 See p. 173, supra. Several other noblemen submitted 
 to clerical censures for the same cause, among whom 
 were the earl of Glencairn and lord Boyd of Kilmarnock. 
 These censures were submitted to that the delinquents 
 might escape the more fearful penalty of excommuni- 
 cation, which extended not only to their spiritual but 
 temporal concerns. See Minutes oj the Presbytery of 
 
298 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 His LoP was not displeased that they denyd his mother's request in that behalf, as they had 
 formerly renounced their duty to y^ K. when they deserted himself. So a legall minister, named 
 
 M' Mathews'^ (whom they had turned out of his office and benefice ag* law, as they did all the 
 
 other legall clergy) christnd her according to y" Service Book, as all his Lo^f^ other offspring were. 
 
 You have likewise heard of this young lady's comlyness, and removalls in those troublesome 
 times. ^9 
 
 After her mother's death, she was put in good hands, especially her s** grandmothers, =° and 
 when her father remaryed, she was under the s'' good Countesses^' view and care, and had the best 
 education Dublin could afford. 
 
 You have heard how she was provided for in a portion and she playd on y* guitarr, and 
 sang rarely well and with great art, and her voice was very harmonious, agreeable and charming, 
 as her outward behaviour and humor of mind also was, for she was pious and devout in her closet 
 and y^ church, so that there must needs be admirers and servants to those perfections which 
 adorn'd her; by which means she was left out of (and was untouched by) all lampoons, which 
 vexed most of ye maryed and unmaryed ladys of that town. Her friends may happen to see (if 
 they desire it) the elegy I have made on her death. It may partly serve to shew what other young 
 ladys of our family (to whom and to y'= males thereof, these my \vriteings are devoted) should bee, 
 and how to dress themselves by her as at a mirroir. 
 
 And now I return to conclude this view of our 2d Earle, with as imperfect a character as it is 
 
 Irvine, as quoted in the Scottish Journal of Antiquities, 
 Topography, vol. i., p. 244. Delinquents of high 
 rank were accommodated with a particular 'stand,' 
 or prominent place in the church, whilst those of an 
 humbler class were compelled to mount "y^ stoole of 
 repentance." The earl of Dartmouth, who edited Bishop 
 Burnet's History of his otvn Time, has the following 
 •lote at vol. i., p. 281, (edition of 1833) : — "This puts me 
 in mind of a ridiculous story Duke Hamilton told me of 
 the old Earl of Eglinton, who had done penance, and 
 the fourth Lord's Day came and sat there (in a front 
 seat on the gallery, opposite to the pulpit, the place 
 set apart for delinquents of rank) again, which, the 
 minister perceiving, called to him to come down for 
 his penance was over. — 'It maybe so,' said the Earl, 'but 
 I shall always sit here for the future, because it is the best 
 ;eat in the Kirk, and I do not see a better man to take it 
 from me." Very slight delinquencies were sometimes 
 punished with a stand on 'y" stoole.' Thus, on the 15th 
 of June, 1647, Mr. William Russell, minister of Kilbirnie, 
 complained to the presbytery, that John Braidine, one of 
 his parishioners, had contemptuously designated his doc- 
 trine '■^ dust and grey meal." The said John was sum- 
 moned before the presbytery, compeared on the 29th of 
 June, and ingenuously confessed his fault. The presby- 
 tery, however, "considering how prejudicial such speeches 
 were to the whole ministrie," after mature deliberation, 
 ordained that first upon his knees "he make ane confession 
 of his fault before the jsresbyteiy, and yn after to goe to 
 his own congregation, and there in ye public place of repen- 
 tance, make ane acknowledgment of his fault likewise ; 
 and Mr. Hugh M^Kaile to go to Kilbirnie to receive him," 
 
 He submitted and was absolved. — Kilbirnie Books of Ad- 
 journal, as quoted in Paterson's Parishes and Families of 
 Ayrshire,yo\. ii., pp. 107, 108. This Hugh M^Kailwas sent 
 by the Scottish kirk as a commissioner to Ulster in 1644, 
 and acted a very vigorous part in the interests of presby- 
 terianism at Belfast. See Adair's N'arrative, p. 120. 
 He was executed in 1666, for complicity in the rebellion 
 of that year, which was crushed at Rullion Green, near 
 the Pentlands. 
 
 Mr — Mathews. — This was Andrew Matthews, A. M. , 
 who, after the Restoration, held the rectories of Bally- 
 urkegan, Kilmegan, Kilcow, and Kilkeel. — MS. Status 
 Dicecesis Dunensis, 1 693. A MS. volume oi this clergy- 
 man's sermons, vei-y beautifully written, is now in the 
 possession of the Rev. \V. Macllwaine, D. D. , Incumbent of 
 St. George's, Belfast. This Mr. Matthews was probably 
 related to the well-known Dr. Lemuel Matthews, who was 
 tried before an ecclesiastical commission at Lisbum, in 
 1694, for non-residence, and suspended from his numerous 
 church preferments. See earl Mount-Alexander's speech 
 in House of Lords, p. 292, 293, supra. In 1744, the Rev. 
 Dr. Edward Matthews resided at Mount-Panther, near Dun- 
 drum ; Edward Matthews, Esq. , resided at Newcastle, and 
 George Matthews, Esq., at Ballymagowai, now Spring- 
 vale, in the Ards. — Harris's County of Dcnvn, pp. 15, 
 68, 80. 
 
 '9 Troublesome times. — The memoirs of lady Jean here 
 referred to by the author are lost. 
 
 ^ Said grandmothers. — 'Said grandmother' was Jean 
 Alexander, the lady of the second viscoimt. 
 
 Good Countess. — Catherine Jones, step-mother to 
 lady Jean Montgomery. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 299 
 
 short, and Iwould not (if I could) do it more fully to his comendation than as is hereafter, because 
 all his due praise (now he is living) would seem flattery, and but a return for his love to my sonn, 
 on whom I leave that task of gratitude for his Lo'"' kindness and respects to him (he being much 
 y" younger of the two.) 
 
 And I pray God to give them bcth many happy years, that his Lo" (as is very likely) may 
 furnish more and more noble matter for such a theam, and that so my son may gaine the better 
 experience and the more credit in performing this enjoyned duty. 
 
 The remarks I have made in y" 2d Earle^^ of Mount Alexander, in w* he resembles his most 
 worthy patern and parent, the late Earle, I observe to bee these. 
 
 =^ Ye 2d Earle. — The following is a copy of the second 
 earl's will, which explains portions of the third earl's will, 
 already introduced : — 
 
 " In the name of God, amen, I, Hugh, Earle of Mountalexander, 
 being in perfect health and memory, God be praised for the same, 
 but calling to mind the frailtye of Mankind, and that death, sooner 
 or later, seizeth on all men ; For the disposeall of my estate, real 
 and personall, doe make this my last will and testament, hereby re- 
 voking all former wills by me made ; as, alsoe, all settlements of my 
 estate, and do, by this my last will and testament, failing issue of 
 my own body, leave, devise, and bequeath all my lands, Tythes, and 
 fee-farm rents issuing out' of the same, or any of them, and all my 
 Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever, except what is otherwise 
 disposed of, by this my will, to my brother, Henry Montgomery, 
 during his natural life ; and after his decease, to his son, Thomas 
 Montgomery, during his natural life ; and after the said Thomas, his 
 decease, to the first son of his body, lawfully begotten, and to the 
 heirs males of the body of said first son ; and for want of such issue, 
 to his second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and every son and sons, and 
 the heirs male of his and their bodys, lawfully begotten, during their 
 natural lives, the eldest of such sons and the heirs males of his and 
 their severall bodies, always to take place before the younger of such 
 sons, and be preferred before him ; and for want of such issue, to my 
 Cozen, James Montgomery of Rosemount, during his natural life ; 
 and after his decease, to his son, Wm, Montgomery, during his 
 natural life ; and after the said William's decease, to the first son of 
 his body, lawfully begotten ; and to the heirs male of the body of 
 said first son ; and for want of such issue, to his second, third, fourth, 
 fifth, sixth, and every son and sons, and the heirs males of his and 
 their bodies, lawfully begotten, during their natural lives, the eldest 
 of such sons and the heirs males of his and their severall bodies to 
 take place and be preferred before the younger of such sons ; and 
 for want of such issue, to his Bror;'' my Cozen, Edmunston Mont- 
 gomery, during his natural life ; and after his decease. To the first 
 son of his body, lawfully begotten, and to the heirs males of the body 
 of said first son ; and for want of such issue, to his second, third, 
 fourth, fifth, sivth, and every son and sons, and the heirs males of 
 his and their bodys, lawfully begotten, during their naturall life, the 
 eldest of such sons and the heirs males of his and their severall 
 bodies, always to take place and be preferred before the younger of 
 such sons ; and for want of such, to my own rightful! heirs for ever. 
 My will further is, and I do hereby will and direct, that if any 
 person to whom I have committed my estate by this my will shall 
 profess the popish religion, or have mass, or marry a papist, that the 
 estate to him committed by this my will shall immediately thereupon 
 pass from him and go to the next person in remainder by my will ; 
 and that such person next in remainder be from thenceforth seized of 
 such an estate as the person who professeth the popish religion or 
 heard mass, or marryed a papist, were naturally dead. I will, order, 
 and direct, and my will is, that the Land and tythe I hold by lease 
 from the primate descend, remain, and be settled according to the 
 several limitations of my estate hereinbefore ment^ I do devise and 
 bequeath to my faithful servant, Mrs. Jane Meredith and her heirs 
 for ever, all my land of Inheritance in the parish of Killmore, she 
 the said Jane Meredith and her heirs paying yearly to my heirs Two 
 pounds sterl. and no more. I do also devise and bequeath to the 
 said Jane Meredith and her heirs the lease of lands and Tythes I 
 hold from the Bishop of Down. I do also devise and bequeath to 
 the said Jane Meredith and her heires for ev«r, my house and 
 demesne of Mount Alexander, and the T-ease of the fourscore acres 
 adjoining to it, which I hold from iUr. Ro;=s of Portovo, and alsoe the 
 
 four pounds chief rent payable to me out of Cherryvalley, with the 
 horse course reserved to me ; and alsoe, all privileges, conveniences, 
 and advantages whatsoever, reserved to me out of the manner of 
 of Cumber, alias Mountalexander, in as ample a manner as I 
 myself do or ought to enjoy the same. I do likewise Devise 
 and bequeath to the said Jane Meredith, and her heirs for ever, 
 the Townlands of Ballyhays, Ballymoney, and Carnyhill, she, 
 the said Jane Meredith and her heirs, paying to my heirs yearly, 
 out of each Townland, forty shillings stg. and no more. I do 
 alsoe devise and bequeath to the said Jane Meredith, and her 
 heirs, the lease of my house in Dublin, and the lease of that ground 
 whereon my stables in Dublin are built. I do also devise and be- 
 queath to the said Jane Meredith all my stock, goods, and chattels 
 of what nature or kind so ever, and all rents, and arrears of rents, 
 that shall be due to me at the time of my decease, over and above 
 what payeth the interest of my debts then due, and my funeral ex- 
 penses, which I order and direct do not exceed £100, for I will be 
 buried privately and decently only. I do constitue the above-named 
 Jane Meredith my sole Executor. Item, I bequeath to my Cozen, 
 Mrs. Jane Shaw, ;^io 19s. yearly, to be paid her out of the rents of 
 the manor of Donaghadee, during her natural life, and after her de- 
 cease to her daughter, Sarah Shaw, alias Montgomery, ^10 yearly 
 during her natural life to be paid her out of the rents of the manor of 
 Donaghadee as afsd. I do leave and bequeath to each of my servants 
 one Quarter's wages over and above what shall be due to them at the 
 time of my decease, to be paid within six months after my decease. 
 To the poor of the parish of Cumber I leave ; to the poor of the 
 parish of Donaghadee I leave £10, to be distributed as the minister 
 and church warden of each parish shall think fit ; To the poor of the 
 parish of Newtown I leave ^5, to be distributed as the minister and 
 church wardens of the said parish shall think fitt. I do devise and 
 bequeath to my faithful servant, John Meredith, and his heirs for 
 ever, the house and garden, and outhouses, and the four acre park, 
 all now held and enjoyed by James Johnston, in the town of Don- 
 aghadee, and also the seven acre park called Crofts, which is now in 
 my own owne hands, lyeing in the manor of Donaghadee, be the 
 said John Meredith and his heirs paying yearly to my heirs los stg. 
 for the said premises, and no more. I do devise and bequeath to my 
 cozen, Jane Shaw, the house and garden, and outhouses, that is now 
 held and enjoyed by John Hipperson, Glover, in the said town of 
 Donaghadee, and also the Eight acre park, commonly called Morriss 
 hill, formerly held .and enjoyed by Chas. Campbell, Esq., during the 
 term time and space of 41 years, to her, the said Jane Shaw and fier 
 heirs, to Commence from my decease, she paying to my heires los 
 yearly, and no more : and I do hereby charge and subject all my 
 real estate to the ;)ayment of my debts and legacies, and order, and 
 will, and my will is. That if any of my Creditors sue my Executrix, 
 Jane Meredith, and recover against her any debt, and the same be 
 paid out of my personal estate. That my said Executrix be reimbursed 
 the same out of reall estate, with interest for the same till paid, and 
 all costs she, the said Jane Meredith shall be put to on account of 
 such suite ; and whereas I am indebted to the above named Jane 
 Meredith, my Executrix, by bond dated the 13th Nov., 1709, in the 
 sum of ^^1398 gs lod stg. I'do hereby will and direct, and my will 
 is, that she, the said Jane Meredith, be paid the said sume out of my 
 reall estate, and interest for the same until she is paid both princl 
 and interest ; and I do hereby make my said real estate liable to ye 
 payment of ye same, together with what other sume may appear to 
 be due to the said Jane Meredith upon ballance of accounts, notwith- 
 standing of the before bequests to her, and of her being Executrix of 
 this my will ; and I earnestly desire that my cozen, Mr. Justice Caul- 
 field, and my very good friend, Chas. Campbell, Esq., or the survivor of 
 
300 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Imprimis. His upright justice, in paying his fathers and his own creditors. So the late Lord 
 sold all his lands in Scotl* to defray his fathers and grandfathers debts, with use upon use 
 (called the annualls, and the custom in Scotland so to charge debtors) and the principaJl debt, 
 and the charges of sending out men to the warrs according to his lands.^3 in all which, his late 
 Lqp was imposed upon neatly by his receavers and agents (they are called factors and doers in 
 Scotland) both here and there, when y^ accounts of many yeares came to be taken of the estate 
 for and during y^ warrs of Ireland. So this present Earle acted good and suffered loss on y' like 
 account as his father did for justice sake. 
 
 2dly, His frugality, and yet he kept a gentile table in his adversitys. 
 
 3dly. His Christian fortitude, in bearing crosses, vulgarly called misfortunes. 
 
 4thly. His liberality in his former prosperitys. 
 
 5thly. His being a beneficiall true friend seasonably, and in the best manner. 
 
 6thly. His penning letters gentilely, as to y^ reason and succinctly as to the words of them. 
 
 7thly. His doeing devotion and alms, without a trumpett or any ostentation. 
 
 8thly. His constant adherence to y' lawfull Church wherin he was christened and bredd. 
 
 pthly. His right martiall way commanding and governing the royall fort at Charlemont;=+ his s" 
 company and troops, towards which he was carefull and kind; w*'' his faithfulness in his present 
 iraploym* over the artilleiy to save charges to the King, as well as his former prudent and assidous 
 endeavors and struglings ag* y' Irish. 
 
 ID. His goodness to servants, in preferring them to places, or enabling them otherwise to live 
 comfortably and creditably. 
 
 11. His complacency and winning behavior in conversation, and generous hospitality. 
 
 12. His great ingenuity in poesy, which will appeare, when his modesty will permitt him to 
 shew to others the peices of his composure ; some of which I have read with an approveing admir 
 ation. 
 
 13. His ability for Council and speech at y*^ Board and on the Earles Bench, w'''' doth also 
 appear in his next qualification, to wit : 
 
 14. His judgem' in positive and polemic learning, and his apposite ready expressions of his 
 sentim*' therin, and on all subjects, as well occasional as premeditated, is beyond most of those who 
 have studyed or dared to be teachers in pulpits. 
 
 In all these premises (at least) with skill in riding, fenceing, danceing, musick, y" French 
 tongue and mathematics (which are endowments gained by God's blessing, on his endeavour to 
 acquire and make them habitual virtues or accomplishments;) I say, in all these, and, as I believe, 
 in more things, his Lo'' doth truely patrizare, according to the old proverb, viz. patrem sequitur sua 
 proles, which is the same with our common saying. As the old cock crows the young cock learns. 
 
 Besides and over the aforesaid lovely resemblances, our present Earle hath an excellent hand 
 
 them, will be aiding .->nd assisting to my said Exe"^ in the due perfor- 
 mance of this my last will and testament. In Witness whereof I 
 have hereunto put my hand and seal to two parts of this my last will, 
 the one part whereof I have left in the hands of Chas. Campbell, 
 Esq., and the other part in the hands of my Executrix, this 21st day 
 of January, 1716—17. 
 
 " Mount Alexander, (seal). 
 
 " Signed, sealed, and published by The Rt. Honble Hugh, Earle 
 of Mountaicxander, as his last will and testament, in the presence of 
 us and subscribed by us, as witnesses, in ye said Earle's presence. 
 
 " Patt. Hamilton, Alexr. Laing." 
 
 °3 According to his lands. — See p. 256, supra. 
 ^ Charlemout. — See p. 270 supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 301 
 
 in faire writing and true orthography for spelb'ng words, and ingraving coats of amies, cyphers and 
 flourishes on copper, brass, silver, or gold. 
 
 And as his Lo'' is a skillfull artist in minature, with pen, pencil and crnyoon; his Lo^ is like- 
 wise a (scarce matchable) artist at violin, flute, recorder, cornet, hautboys, and the huntsman's 
 musical instrum*, playing on them all, not by help of his nice well tuned eare onely, but by y° 
 diversity of their propper sett noats also, with wonderful skill and dexterity, to y* extraordinary 
 satisfaction of discerning hearers. 
 
 All which utensills for y* ey and eare are laid aside or hung up and slighted (like as the Jewish 
 harps were at Babilon) or are with his neglected recreations with y° muses, thrown into unseen 
 places, ever since council board, parliament, assizes, and session business, were his avocations, from 
 those painting and musical divertisements of his melancholy. 
 
 Furthermore, at his own or a friend's house, and before a select company (in the time of his 
 retired condition,) he did condescend (sometimes) to shew some rare fates of legerdumain, and did 
 act the mimick, both which he did to admiration, but in the latter of these he personated a drunken 
 man, and lively counterfeited one, that a person of quality who knew his temperance (coming un- 
 expected) wondered extreamely and believed him really fudled to the last degree; wee humored 
 y° mistake till his Lo" reeled to y^ window and rubbing his face of a sudden returned to y° table as 
 sober as he was at his rare showes, which were hushed up at y° news of the incomers being come to 
 visit his LoP. 
 
 His Lo''"' recreations abroad are now (mostly) doeing the K. and contry service, and tending 
 y" affaires of his grand mastership, and so they are at home; but at leizure times, in the neighbour- 
 hood and in and about doores, he entertains himself with requisite visits, or in angling, or in useing 
 the setters for partridge, &c. or by walking to take fresh aire, or in viewing his orchards and plan- 
 tations and stables, or discoursing with visitants, or peruseing books, or trying experiments and 
 problems in the mathematicks, or doeing private bussynes for himself or friends. 
 
 As for meate, drink, and sleep (in which his Lo*" is temperate to a miracle) and a few of y' last 
 named actions, they are the refreshm*" and recruiters of his natural, vital, and animal spirits, when 
 exhausted by his sedulity in the affairse of his station. 
 
 To conclude these remarks, this our present Earle hath gained all his posts to his foot com- 
 pany, to his troope, to his government of Charles Mount, and to his Mastership of y° Ordinance, 
 and title of Brigadier to his *chaire in Council Chamber, to the Government of our county, and 
 Custosship of its Rolls, all as afores** without procurement of his father's, or mother's or lady's 
 friends, or their help, and without mony bribes, but by his own merits; and like the spider (out of 
 his own bowels) hath wrought these webbs, ordinary care, foresight and applications (always herein 
 onely excepted.) 
 
 And now I have done with this part of my bold undertaking, tho' I have waved and forgott 
 much, and but meanly expressed my rehearsed notions of his Lo"; yet I doe averr and believe my 
 foregoeing assertions of him to be demonstrable truths. 
 
 Lastly, as for his Lo^' age or era of birth, lett y^ next relators speak more fully, when his Lo''"' 
 
 R I 
 
302 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 life is fulfilled, yet in gen' and on the whole matter, I repeat what Solon said to Craoesus, in all his 
 riches and glorious grandeur, viz. 
 
 Ante obitum nemo supremaq, funera debet dici beatus. 
 Wee no man fully blest or happy call, before his pious death and funerall. 
 
 It may also be observed, from the first to the last part of my narrative of y* Montgomerys of 
 Ards, that y° first of them who chose our motto, Honneiir sans Repose, and the descendants from 
 him, who have arrived to any name or esteem in these kingdoms, have had great troubles and 
 toyles and losses before, together with, and after attainement of any honors they gott; so the motto (or 
 ditton) hath been a prophesy, or rather a caveat for us in all future adventures, that wee should 
 not, cedere maUs sed contra audentior Ire; ye Scottish proverb is Seti a stout heart to a stay brae. 
 
 Be the motto the one or the other, much good may y° affectors of honorable titles have with 
 the uneasyness it brings. I never courted any advancem* of that sort, els I might have been a 
 Kn'. and a Barr'. too, before many my inferioures, both by birth and by my fathers merits, and my 
 own sufferings for the. King, who is thejountain of honor. 
 
 I now remember a reflection I had on y° s^^ motto, viz. 
 
 Restless, resistless, are the keen attacks 
 (In to wring ^minds) which Roman honor makes ; 
 They, loves, cares, envy, loss, pains, value not ; 
 Bodys, souls, nor God, so that fame be gott : 
 Fals, fickle, fleeting fame (ambitions' goale) 
 Vain, vulgar voice I betrays poor mortal fools. 
 
 Or, in short, thus : 
 
 To_all of high rank, birth, or place, 
 Honour is still a restless race. 
 
 The Lord Vise* Claneboy chose for y* motto of his arms (nothing quadrating with y" coat) 
 these words, viz. Invitum seqicitur honos.'^^ But to speak freely of both Braidstane and Mr. Ja. 
 Hamilton, I believe neither of them had been Lords if they had not sought to be so. And now I 
 must subjoin to this Lord's life (w"" is but partly described) an appendix,''^ w"^*" relates to his Lo^'' 
 and to his ancestors and sister and the first Countess, laying aside what his Lo^ hath done since he 
 first was Lord Justice of Ireland; he being now, Ao. 1704, in his 3d Consulship of that office.^^ I 
 hope his Excellency will furnish memoires from his own penn, and give them to my sonn (on whom 
 I lay the task) that he may finish what I cannot doe herein.''^ 
 
 =5 Imititm seqiiitur honos. — It would have been impos- 
 sible for James Hamilton to have taken a more inappro- 
 priate motio than this. The earls of Clanbrassil adopted 
 the motto Qualis ab inceplo, which also was hardly less 
 appropriate tlian the fcrmer. 
 
 ''^ An appendix. — This Appendix, if ever written, has 
 been lost. 
 
 ^^ Of that office. — Seep. 2%% supra. 
 
 Cannoi doe herein. — If the second earl ever wrote 
 any family memoirs, they are probably lost. He died as 
 already stated, in 1716. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 303 
 
 CHAPTER xvii. 
 SOME MEMOIRES OF SIR JAMES MONTGOMERY, KNT. 
 
 JHjiaE»gj|AVING already given a summaiy account of the two first Viscts.' and the next two Earles* 
 ^ m i (Montgomerys) I cannot (for I ought not) neglect to remember y' other posterity of y' 
 Laird of Braidstane,3 the founder of this family, of and in the great Ardes. 
 In doing whereof, memoires now (at least) fall due'* (if not sooner) unto y° second sonn of y° 
 first Viscount, viz. to y° Hon, Sir James Montgomery, Knt. which title was no advancement of 
 his preheminence in heraldry,^ but a particular mark of the King's favour to him his meniall servant 
 (as his being]Gentleman Usher of y" Privy Chamber in ordinary, was also.) And as to his being 
 
 ' Two first Visds. — The memoirs of the second 
 viscount are wanting. Seep. I, 150, \^\, sitpra. 
 
 ^ Next two Earles. — Or the third and fourth'viscounts. 
 
 3 Laird of Braidstaiie. — This was the Scottish designa- 
 tion of sir Hugh Montgomery, afterwards created first vis- 
 count Montgomery of tlie Ards. 
 
 * Memoires now fall due. — We have here proof that the 
 memoir of sir James Montgomery was written subse- 
 quently to those of tlie two viscounts and two earls, and 
 ought, therefore, to be placed after them in any accurately 
 arranged collection of the author's manuscripts. In the 
 printed volume of 1830, the memoir of sir James was 
 introduced immediately after that of the first viscount, 
 probably vmder an impression that sir James, being 
 a son of the first viscount, had succeeded his father 
 as second viscount. When the gap, occasioned by 
 the missing memoir of the second viscount, pre- 
 sented itself — (see page 150, 151 supra) — a search was 
 made in various quarters for the recovery of this lost por- 
 tion, and the memoir of sir James, being the only one 
 discovered, was made to supply the place intended by the 
 author for that of the second viscount. This is probably 
 the meaning of the following statement which occurs in 
 the preface to that volume: — "Copious extracts from 
 the original MSS. of the Lords Mount Alexander and of 
 Captain George Montgomeiy were first published by the 
 Belfast News- Letter oi the years 17S5 and 1786, with the 
 consent of the late Daniel Delacherois, of Donaghadee, 
 Esq. (in whose family they had been preserved), when a 
 great portion of the original M.S. became missing, and 
 after repeated searches to recover them, it was found that 
 a copy of them had been taken, which being traced out, 
 was obligingly communicated. When compared with 
 the parts printed in 1785 and 1 786, they were found 
 exactly to correspond, and have been used in completing 
 
 the present publication "—pp. v, vi. The mistake in 
 using the memoir of sir James for that of the second 
 viscount was, probably, in a great measure, occasioned 
 by the fact that the former has frequent references to 
 public events occurring immediately after the death of 
 they?rj^ viscount. In the volume printed in 1830 there 
 is a reference at the commencement of sir James's memoir 
 to an Appendix, in which probably it was intended to 
 give some additional explanation of this matter, but the 
 Appendix was never written. The account of sir 
 James Montgomery, here reprinted from the volume of , 
 1830, was taken from a copy found at Portaferry, and 
 is evidently but a mere fragment of the author's original 
 memoir of his father. In the original account (no'^v in * 
 the possession of Mrs. Sinclair) of his Lncidentall Remem- 
 brances of the tivo ancient families of the Savages, the 
 author refers to pages 209 and 210 of Life of Sir James 
 RIontgomery, whereas what we have here would scarcely fill 
 fifty of the closely written quarto pages of his manuscript. 
 The original memoir of sir James never seems to have 
 been placed among the manuscripts kept at Mount-Alex- 
 ander, and afterwards in Donaghadee, but was, no doubt, 
 among those retained at Rosemount, and afterwards 
 carried by the author's great-great-grandson, captain 
 Frederick Heatley Montgomery, to Australia, where he 
 settled about the year 1820. 
 
 5 Preheminence in heraldry. — Sir James Montgomei7's 
 talents early attracted the notice of the court party, and 
 in him the cause of royalty ever found an honest and 
 most able supporter. He was appointed gentleman usher 
 of the privy chamber, a member of the privy council, 
 and created a knight, at a comparatively early period in 
 life, all which honours, it would appear, being conferred 
 by royal favour, constituted "no advancement of his 
 preheminence in heraldry." 
 
304 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Collector, it might signify much dureing his commission (especially in the field) to give him a 
 higher place, than as he was a Lord's second sonn. But let that case bee as it will, it is left to be 
 determined in y° court of honour. 
 
 He was (as you see) personally dignified by these designations to be eminent in peace and warr. 
 Wherefore, with Virgil and Lucan, Arma virumque cam, et bdla pliisquam civiliafi because his 
 life was divided (partly per palo) between those states of legall and military governments, wherein 
 he was exercised almost in a continual warrfare ever since he could manage the pen, or wield the 
 sword; and had also his death in hostility upon another element^ than that wherein he was bom and 
 bred, as will appear in the pursuits of this history, and his actions were so much concerned for 
 three first Viscounts, his father, brother, and nephew, that they are necessarily interwoven herein 
 before, so that there is little left to say of him hereafter, but some past passages must be transiently 
 touched to make the relation now regular of one piece. 
 
 This Sir James Montgomery's birth was at Braidstane, anno 1600: the said Hugh, the 6th 
 Laird, and Dame Elizabeth Shaw^ aforesaid, were his parents : Sir James Montgomery's sister 
 Jean being married (as hath been already said) unto Patrick Savage, of Portaferry, Esq. anno 1623.9 
 The said Patrick's estate was much in debt, and not one stone walled house in that town, till 
 match (as was often credibly told me) only some fishermen's cabins and an old Irish castle'° 
 out of repair near it, nor any mills, and very little grain to employ one (that country being much 
 wasted (till our Viscount's plantation, which was not suffered to spread into that little Ardes till 
 their own greater was furnished with inhabitants; and no trade by sea (nor encouragement for it) 
 before the said year 1623. 
 
 The most effectual way he took was to get the wastes filled with Brittish planters in the lands, 
 and builders of stone houses in the town and mills on the loughs," which soon brought traffic and 
 merchandize wares to Portaferry, and afterwards so perfected the prosperity of that town and 
 estate, by passing two several patents to remedy Mr. Savage's defective titles, the first of them 
 dated — , the other is tested by'^ — 
 
 * Plusqiiam civilia. See Ai.ndd I. I, and PJiarsal I. I. 
 
 ^ Another element. — The author here refers to the fact 
 that sir James was slain at sea by pirates. 
 
 ® Elizabeth Shaiu. — See p. II, supra. It is remarkable 
 that we have no reference whatever in the Mamiscripts to 
 the time or circumstances of this lady's death. She was 
 interred at Newtown, in the Ards, inside the church built 
 there by her husband, the first viscount. See p. 247, 
 supra. Her son, James, was named, no doubt, after her 
 father, or brother, James Shaw of Greenock. 
 
 9 Anjio 1623. — See p. 89, supra. 
 
 '° Old Irish castle. — The following is a notice by Har- 
 ris of this castle: — "The Castle of Portaferry was the 
 ancient Seat of the Savages, and is now (1744) inhabited 
 by Andrew Savage, Esq. Considerable additions were 
 made to this Castle, and finished in the Year 1636, as ap- 
 pears by an inscription on the Arms of the Savages over 
 the door. From the high lands about Portaferry are fine 
 prospects extended over the whole lake, the barony of 
 Ardes, Lecale, the Sea, and the Isle of Man ; and the Cas- 
 tle, logctl'.c;' \.i '.! I'.rj town, Lorn the opposite side makes 
 
 a beautiful landskip." — Harris, Aniient and Present 
 State of the County of Down, p. 46. From the account 
 given by Harris of the town of Portaferry in 1744, it 
 is evident that the improvements introduced by sir 
 James Montgomery in 1623, must have been carried 
 out to a considerable extent by the inhabitants afterwards. 
 The additions to the castle were no doubt superintended 
 by sir James. 
 
 " Alills on the loughs. — The loughs here referred to had 
 almost entirely disappeared from the Little Ards in the 
 time of Harris, as he mentions none by name, but speaks 
 of "small lakes in morasses near the Eastern coast." He 
 tells also that there then existed "several scopes of 
 boggs and morassy grounds in this tract, many of which 
 the proprietors have of late set about reclaiming." — P. 42. 
 These "scopes" had been in early times the sites of loughs 
 which became "small lakes in morasses," and in the lapse 
 of time disappeared. The morasses became boggs, and 
 the boggs eventually disappeared also, being converted 
 into arable land. 
 
 Is tested — At the death of Rowland Savage, elder 
 
The AIontgomery Mamuscripts. 
 
 305 
 
 The other thing memorable of Sir James'3 Montgomery (before the grand Irish rebellion) is 
 his concerting with our two Viscounts, how only such as they thought best, should be elected 
 Knights of the Shire, to serve in the Parliament anno 1640.^5 
 
 Their Lordships, both in affection and prudence, pitched on their brothers, the said Sir James 
 and John Hamilton, Esq.^^ 
 
 Those gentlemen were (as is required by the writt) Idonii,'? fit persons, and fully qualified to 
 sit in Parliament, each of them had been for 23 years conversant and employed in business of the 
 county (of which they had exact tallys and keys) and of the respective familys therein, and those 
 two Lords plantations did now surmount all wastes, so that these gentlemen's good conduct could 
 not fail to have the farr major number of votes in the election, although the Trevors,^^ Hills,^'i 
 
 brother of Patrick Savage, the Portaferry estate had fallen 
 into confusion and decay. In arranging the property, on 
 the marriage of Patrick to Jean Montgomery, it was first 
 of all necessary to ascertain by inquisition, what lands 
 really belonged to the estate at the time of his brother's 
 death. On the thirteenth of December, 161 7, Rowland 
 Savage alienated the following lands to John Pitt, viz. 
 Ballyconton, Tollehaman, Tewshalley, alias Ballytevv- 
 sheliee, a moiety of Ballytawragh, and Carrowmallett. 
 This alienation, appeared hy an inquisition held at New- 
 tovm, county of Down, on the 25th of January, 1625. 
 Ulster Inquisitions, Down, No. 14, Jac. I. A royal letter, 
 dated 7th August, 1626, was addressed to the lord 
 deputy Falkland, directing letters patent to be passed to 
 Patrick Savage of Portferry, of all the possessions of which 
 he was reputed to have been seized. Accordingly, on the 
 14th January, 1627, a grant was made to him of the manor 
 of Portferry, alias Ballymurphy, and the lands, tenements, 
 and hereditaments, in the same county, found by inquisition 
 to belong to the said Patrick, with several chief rents, 
 customs, duties, privileges, and services, of which he was 
 seized on the 7th August, in the second year of his Majes- 
 ties reign, and found by inquisition to belong to him ; 
 with a court leet and court baron, and all profits, and 
 services thereunto belonging, and all fines and amercements 
 therein imposed, goods and chattels of felons and fugitives, 
 felons of themselves, waifs, strays, and wrecks of the sea 
 happening within the manor, and by the inquisition found 
 to belong to Savage or his ancestors ; license to hold a 
 weekly market on every Thursday at Portfeny, and a fair 
 on the 26th of July, to hold for two days. — Morrin's 
 Calendar, Reign of Ch. I., pp. 20, 157, 312. The follow- 
 ing are the lands thus granted to Patrick Savage, in 1627 ; 
 Portferry alias Ballymurphy, TuUenecreevy alias Cregrod- 
 dan, Ballynewlack, Ballytollenerussally, Ballytolleboord, 
 Ballederry, Ballecoroge, Ballhearley, Ballyhenry, Bally- 
 conton, Balletwshilly, Ballenetawrogh, Ballefowna, Balle- 
 warrod alias Tollenegore, and Ballyminishe alias Bally- 
 vickenishe, with the appurtenances, all lying in the county 
 of Down, with three quarters of Parsenhale, BallycoU 
 alias Ballynycoll, quarter of land of Carrownemallet, 
 quarter of Carynepolle. The above lands were granted 
 in the first patent referred to in the text, dated January, 
 1627, but the date of the second patent we have not 
 ascertained. 
 
 '3 Memorable of Sir yaines. — Another rather memorable 
 event m sir James Montgomery's life prior to the rebellion, 
 
 although not mentioned in the text, was his appearing as 
 a witness against the defendant in the great trial of" the 
 earl of Strafford. As the evidence of sir James contains 
 some curious details respecting Strafford's arbitrary con- 
 duct in the matter of the Black Oath, we give it iti extenso, 
 in Appendix N. 
 
 Two Viscounts. — Hugh, viscount Montgomery of the 
 Great Ardes, and James, viscount Hamilton of Clannaboy. 
 
 '5 Anno 1640. — This parliament met on the 27th of 
 February, 1639, old style. 
 
 John Hamilton, Esq. — ^John Hamilton was third 
 brother of the first viscount Clannaboy, and owned landed 
 property at Coronaiy, county of Cavan, and Monella, 
 (known later as Hamilton's Bawn) county of Armagh. 
 On the 29th of July, 1629, he obtained letters patent of 
 denization. At the same time, also, a royal grant was 
 made to him, and his heirs, for ever, of the small propor- 
 tion of Kileloghan, in the barony of Clanchie, county of 
 Cavan ; the small proportion of Kilruddan, in the barony 
 of Fues, county of Armagh ; and the small proportion of 
 Maghereintrim, in the same barony and county ; to be 
 held as of the castle of Dublin, in free and common soc- 
 cage. According to the terms of this grant, the lands in 
 the county of Cavan were erected into a manor, called the 
 manor of Coronary, alias Hannesborough, and the lands 
 in the county of Ai'magh were erected into a manor, called 
 the manor of Johnstowne, alias Drumergan, with power 
 to create tenures, and to hold 400 acres in demesne, court 
 leet, court baron, free warren, park and chase, pursuant 
 to the conditions of the plantation. — Morrin's Calendar, 
 Reign 0/ Charles I., p. 478. Although John Hamilton 
 was elected to sei-ve in the parliament of 1639-40, 
 with sir James Montgomery, he never sat in it, having 
 died on the 4th December, 1639, old style, at Killileagh, 
 county of Down. Sir Edward Trevor, of Rose- 
 Trevor, was elected in his stead. — Hamilton Manuscripts, 
 p. 63. 
 
 ^^ Idonti. — For Idonei. 
 
 The Trevors. — See pp. 132, 139, j/^/riZ. The property 
 of the Trevors lay principally in the territoiy of Iveagh, the 
 principal place being known as Rose-Trevor. It had 
 previously belonged to the family of Magennis. 
 
 '9 The Hills. — See pp. 78, 79, supra. The principal 
 families of this surname, in 1640, resided at Hillsborough, 
 Castlereagh, and Hill-Hall. For notices of these several 
 places, see Harris, Antient and Fresent State 0/ the County 
 of Down, pp. 72, 95. 
 
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 The AIontgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 M'Gennisses,^° O'Neills,'^'' BagnaWs,'^'^ and other interests were combined against them: diverss sham 
 
 ^ McGeiinisscs. — The influence wielded by the Ma- 
 ^eniiisses throughout the county of Down, although much 
 diminished at the date refen-ed to in the text, was still 
 very considerable. The numerous grants irom the crown, 
 obtained by gentlemen of this surname early in the reign 
 of James I. , were probably in possession of their families, 
 with few exceptions, in the year 1641. In the month of 
 Febmary, 161 1, the following grants were made to 
 Magennisses : — ■ I. Sir Arthur Magenis of Rathfrillam', 
 knight, received a grant including 57 townlands, with 
 power to hold court leet and view of frank-pledge, also a 
 court baron, a Tuesday market and a fair on Trinity 
 Monday, and for two days after, and another fair on the 
 Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary, and the following 
 day, at Rathfrillan. See the Inquisition of 1629 on the 
 Estates of Arthur viscount Iveagh. Ulster Inquisiiion, 
 Down, No. 13, Car. I. These lands are situated in the 
 parishes of Drumgath, Clonduff, Drumballyroney, Drum- 
 gooland, and Dromara, in Upper Iveagh. 2. Ever Mac 
 Phelimy Magenis of Castleuuillane'va. Iveagh, gent. , received 
 a grant of eleven townlands, constituting the Castlewellan 
 estate, at the yearly rent of ^11 Irish. These lands 
 are in Kilmegan and Drumgooland parishes. 3. 
 Brian MacHugh Mac Agholy Magenis, of Mimtcreddy, 
 gent. , received a grant of seven and a half townlands, 
 known as the Bryansford estate, and now held by the 
 earl of Roden in virtue of his descent from Brien or Brian 
 Magenis aforesaid. This gi-ant was accompanied with 
 common of pasture through the whole mountain or waste 
 of Bennyborfy (anciently Beamia-Boirche) in Iveagh, the 
 yearly rent being^y los. Irish. These lands are included 
 in the parish of Kilcoo. 4. On the loth December, 
 1 610, Brian Oge McRowrie Maginis of Edenticullo, near 
 Hillsborough, received a grant of the entire cantred, lord- 
 ship, precinct or circuit of Kilwarlin, containing forty- 
 three townlands, at the yearly rent of £zo Irish, to hold for 
 ever, in common soccage. This is now the Kilwarlin estate 
 of lord Downshire. The late Geo. Stephenson's mother was a 
 Magenis, lineally descended from this Brian Oge McRowrie, 
 and he held the original patent which had been handed down 
 in the family. These lands are situated in the parishes of 
 Hillsborough, Blaris, Dromore, Dromara, and Annahilt. 
 
 5. Glasney Mac Agholy Magenis of Clare, in the county 
 of Down, esq. , received a grant of the lordship of Clan- 
 connell, including thirteen townlands, each containing 
 two hamlets, the yearly rent of all being ^'13 Irish, with 
 power to hold a court baron on Monday eveiy three 
 weeks at Ballyenclare. These lands are situated in the 
 parishes of TuUylish and Donaghclony. Clare is in 
 Tullylish. See Reeves, Ecclesiastical Antiqtiities, p. 304. 
 
 6. Arte Oge Mac Glasney Magenis of Ballinderrie, gent. , 
 received a grant of the five townlands of Ballyenderry, 
 with the island and lough thereof, with four other deno- 
 minations. These lands are now known as Islandderry, 
 near Dromore. Islandderry is now only one townland. 
 They were situated within the parcel or circuit called 
 Lei^hquirrine in the grant, otherwise Citillie, now Quilly. 
 Quilly is now a separate townland of 800 acres. The 
 yearly rent was and the tenure similar to that in the 
 grants already mentioned. 7. John Magenis of Corrocks, 
 "in the county of Down, gent., received a grant of eight 
 and a half townlands, situated principally in the parcel 
 called Clanawlie, with common of pasture in and through 
 
 the mountain or waste of Crotlewe and Beaniborphies 
 (Beanna-Boirche) in Iveagh, at the yearly rent of £i los. 
 Corrocks is now Carrogs, which, with the rest, is in the 
 parish of Clonallan, Upper Iveagh. 8. Ever Mac Art 
 MacRowrie Maginis of Shanchall, gent., received a grant 
 of twelve townlands, all situated in the precinct of Shanc- 
 hall, at the yearly rent of £iz Irish. These lands are 
 now Shankhill, in the parish of Aghaderg or Loughbrick- 
 land. 9. Murtagh Mac Enaspicke Magenis of Corgirrie, 
 gent., received a grant of ten townlands, all within the 
 precinct called Clanagan. To hold for ever, at the yearly 
 rent of ^10 Irish. These ten townlands are now all in 
 the parish of Donaghmore, Upper Iveagh. 10. Arte Oge 
 MacBrian Oge MacBriane Mac Edmond Boy Magenis of 
 Loughbrickland, received a grant of ten townlands in the 
 ])recinct of Loughbrickland, with the castle of Brickland, 
 at the yearly rent of ^^lo Irish. The said Art agreed to give 
 to the rector of Aghaderick and his successors for ever, 
 the moiety of one of the townlands adjoining the church, 
 which should be assigned to it by the bishop of Dromore. 
 II. Hugh Mac Con Mac Glasney Magenis of Aliltone, 
 gent., received a grant of eight townlands, part of 
 Clanawlie with common of pasture on the mountain of 
 Crotlewe and Beanieborphies, at the yearly rent of £g 
 Irish. These lands are in the parish of Clonallan, Upper 
 Iveagh. 12. Rowrie Oge Mac Rowrie Mac Collo Mac 
 Hugh Magenis, of Ilandmoyle, received a grant of the 
 island and five adjoining townlands, at the yearly rent of 
 £1. Islandmoyle and the others are all in Clonduff, 
 Upper Iveagh. 13. Con Boy Mac Phelomy Mac Hugh 
 Magenis of Glasequirin, received a grant of eight town- 
 lands, at the yearly rent of £2> Irish. These are in the 
 parishes of Leapatrick (Banbridge) and Magherally, 
 Lower Iveagh. All the abovenamed lands were granted 
 by the crown for ever, and held, in every case, in 
 capite, by the twentieth part of a knight's fee. In every 
 grant, the townland in which the mansion-house or family 
 residence stood, was exempted from all risings out, and 
 from any future composition to be established in Ulster. 
 The head or chief of the clan, in 16 10, was sir Arthur 
 Magenis, who, from his large estates, granted to him by the 
 king {Calendar of Patent Rolls, James I., p. 190. h.), made 
 the following grants to gentlemen of his own surname : — 
 viz. I. To Brien Mac Donell Mac Brian Magenis of 
 Gla-squirriti, four to\vnlands, parcel of Leighquirrin, (in 
 the parish of Dromore, Lower Iveagh, ) at the yearly rent 
 of ;^lo 13s. 4d. Irish, payable to sir Arthur at Ratlifrillan. 
 2. To Brian Mac Art Mac Ever Magenis, of Loughdegan, 
 gent., five townlands, (in the parish of Aghaderg, Upper 
 Iveagh,) at the yearly rent of £\T) 6s. 8d. Irish, payable to 
 sir Arthur. 3. To Glassney Roe Magenis, of Ballene- 
 mnnie, three townlands, at the yearly rent of ^^8 Irish, 
 payable to sir Arthur. 4. To Ferdoragh Mac FeUimey 
 Mac Prior Magenis, of Clanvarraghan, gent. , three town- 
 lands (in Kilmegan parish. Upper Iveagh,) at the 
 yearly rent of ;^8 Irish, payable to sir Arthur. In the 
 foregoing grants also the lands were demised forever, 
 and held of sir Arthur Magenis of Rathfrillan, as of his 
 castle of Rathfrillan, in common soccage and suit of court 
 twice a year, within one month after Easter and Michaelmas. 
 — Calendar of Patent Rolls, James I., pp. 1 81, 188, 
 190, 193. In 1640, the date of the election mentioned in 
 the text, sir Con Magennis was head or chieftain of the 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 307 
 
 freeholders being made to encrease their number of choosers, which the dexterity and diHgence of 
 those gentlemen discovered before face of the county, to 'the utter shame of the servants and 
 agents who had practised the cheat, to sett up other pretenders who stood to be Knights for the 
 Shire. 
 
 It was contended much in the fields, and there you might have seen the county divided into 
 four parties, each having him mounted on men's shoulders whom they would have their represen- 
 tative, and neither of them would yield y* plurality to Y other; and the sheriff would not determine 
 y° controversy on view, but like a skilfull gardner, brought all the swarms into one, and so the poll 
 (carefully attended, & y° truth of each man's freehold searched into) ended the difficulty by the 
 reckoning made of them : which gave it by a great many votes to Montgomery and Hamilton, 
 many of the Lord Cromwell's tenents^^ appearing to their sides, the rest of them being newters, or 
 absent. 
 
 I was told (as I remember) by persons acting at that election, that Sir James Montgomery had 
 many more voices for him than Mr. Hamilton, for not a few joyned him, out of the other partys, 
 which were all generally for him to be as one chosen: so that his business lay most to strengthen 
 the Hamiltons, who brought a third part more voters of their own people than Sir James could 
 conduce of his brother Montgomerys; but all the Savages,** with their interest, the Fitz. 
 
 whole families of this surname in Iveagh. The residences 
 of their leading gentiy were situated at Castlewellan, 
 Dromore, Newcastle, and Glynwood. — Harris, State of 
 the County of Down, pp. 80, 82, 86. 
 
 O'Neills. — For the names of the O'Neills and other 
 influential persons pardoned in the county of Down, at 
 the commencement of the reign of James I., see Appen- 
 dix B. Although the principal family of this surname had 
 lost its inheritance, there were, in 1640, several influential 
 gentlemen of the clan scattered throughout the county of 
 Down, among whom were Con Oge, sir Brian O'Neill, 
 and a colonel Brian O'Neill, who made himself infamous 
 for his cruelties in the following year. See Harris, State 
 of the County of Down, p. 35. • 
 
 =^ B agnails. — The Bagnalls of Newry, descended from 
 Nicholas Bagnall and Ellen Griffith, daughter and heiress 
 of Edward Griffith of Penrhyn, North Wales. Their 
 eldest son, Henry, born in 1556, was created marshall in 
 1583, thus succeeding his father in that most influential 
 office. Their youngest daughter, Ursula, eloped witli, 
 and married, Hugh O'Neil, earl of Tyrone. The reader 
 may find several curious letters relating to this affair in 
 the Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland 
 Archceologieal Society, new series, vol. i. , p. 298, ct seq. 
 Henry Bagnall was killed at the battle of the Black- 
 water, in 1598. His eldest son, Arthur, married Mag- 
 dalen, daughter of sir Richard Trevor of Trevalyon, 
 Denbighshire. Arthur's son and successor, named Nicholas, 
 died in 1 71 2, without issue. By his will, dated 13th 
 November, 1708, he bequeathed his vast landed property 
 to his cousins, Edward Baylie of Gorsenen, in the county 
 of Caernarvon, and Robert Needham, then in Jamaica. 
 On the 3rd and 4th of February, 17 15, a jj^rtition of these 
 lands was made, according to which Baylie obtained the 
 Louth estate, together with certain townlands in the county 
 of Down, whilst Needham took the properly situated in 
 
 and around Newry. — Journal of the Kilkenny and South- 
 East of Ireland Archceologieal Society, new series, vol. iii., 
 p. 187. 
 
 ^3 Cro7nweirs tenants. — See pp. 218, 219, J7^ra. Crom- 
 well's tenants were those only on the Downpatrick estate, 
 as Thomas, the fourth baron Cromwell, had sold the 
 lordship of Dundnim to sir Francis Blundell, and the 
 estate in Kinalarty to Matthew Forde, in the year 1637. 
 By and with consent of the crown, he sold the moiety of 
 Kinalarty to Matthew Forde of Coolgreany, county of 
 Wexford, for the sum of £%ooo ; and in the month of 
 July of the same year, the patent passed the ' broad seal 
 vesting these lands in the Forde family. This baron 
 Cromwell was created viscount Lecale, in 1625, and 
 first earl of Ardglass in 1644. He died in 1653, leaving 
 four sons, Wingfield, Vere-Essex, Thomas, and Oliver. 
 Wingfield succeeded as fifth baron Cromwell, and second 
 earl of Ardglass. He died in 1668, leaving a son Thomas, 
 and a daughter Maiy, the latter of whom died unmarried. 
 Tliomas succeeded as third earl of Ardglass, and dying 
 without issue in 1682, was succeeded by his uncle, Vere- 
 Essex, the fourth and last earl of Ardglass. The latter 
 died in 1687, leaving one child, a daughter, who married 
 Edward Southwell. See p. 264, note iS, and p. 295, 
 note 10, supra, 
 
 ^* SaTagcs. — Several respectable families of this sur- 
 name, besides that of their chief, held lands throughout 
 the Little Ards and Lecale, in 1640. In 1602, the heads 
 of these families in the Little Ards were Patrick Savage, 
 Rowland Savage, Richard Fitzrichard Savage, George 
 Fitzpatrick Savage, Patrick Fitzedmond Savage, Henr}- 
 Fitzedmond Savage, Rowland Fitzedmond Savage, Henr)- 
 Fitzrichard Savage, Henry Fitzwilham Savage, Owyne 
 (John) Macferdoragh Savage, Redmond Oge Savage, 
 Owyn Fitzgeorge Savage, and Ever Fitzsimon Savage. 
 In Lecale, the principal men of this name were Edmond 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 s}Tnonds,'5 the Echlins;^^ also ]\Ir. Wards,^? and most of Kildare's'^ and Cromwell's tenents, were 
 for him and his colleague partys. 
 
 Our two Viscounts (who though present) behaved as spectators only. This election was 
 evident proof, what their Lordships could atchieve by their own Scottish interest; and so their re- 
 gard was the greater with the Governors and Parliament. ^9 
 
 Macowen Savage, Richard Savage, Jenkin Boy Savage, 
 Henry Savage, Owen Macredmond Savage, Patrick 
 Savage, James Oge Savage, and Richard Macwilliam 
 Savage. — Morrin's Calendar, Reign of Ehzabeth, p. 628. 
 In 1640, these men, or their sons, were active supporters 
 of sir James Montgomerj'. 
 
 ^ Fitzsymouds. — Kitclief was the head-quarters of 
 the Fitzs)anonds, who were kinsmen of the Savages, 
 ha\-ing been the descendants of some .Simon Savage, 
 but they seem to have been kno%TO in 1640 as a dis- 
 tinct sept. Their leading men in 1602 were — Morris 
 Obikine Fitzsimons, Waher Fitzrichard Fitzsimons, James 
 Fitzgerald Fitzsimons, Obikine Fitznycholas Fitzsimons, 
 Richard Fitzredmond Fitzsimons, Jenkin Fitzwilliam 
 Fitzsimons, Henrj' Bane Fitzredmond Fitzsimons, Richard 
 Fitzwilliam Fitzsimons, William Fitzgilligromey Fitz- 
 simons, Edward Duff Fitzgilligromey Fitzsimons, Morris 
 Fitzgarret Fitzsimons, Garret Bane Fitzpiers Fitzsimons, 
 John Duff Fitzjenkin Fitzsimons, James Fitzpiers Fitz- 
 simons, Sampson Fitzgilligromy Fitzsimons, James Fitz- 
 gilligromy Fitzsimons, and Patrick Fitzgilligromy Fitz- 
 simons. — Morrin's Calendar, Reign of Elizabeth, p. 628. 
 
 ^ The Echlins. — See p. 137, supra. The principal 
 family of this surname in the Ards was that of Ardquin, 
 but their various marriage connexions were influential in 
 1640. In 1633, John EchUn of Ardquin, eldest son of 
 the bishop, "in consideration of the loan of ^1000 (for 
 four years) obtained a lease, for 61 years, from lord Crom- 
 well (Thomas), then viscount Lecale, of the lands of Inch 
 (part of which projecting into the Coile river is still called 
 Echlin's Point), BalljTenan, Dunanelly, and Magheracran- 
 mony, and also of the Ferry and Ferry Boat of Portillagh, 
 with liberty of fishing on Loughcoan, (now the marshes) 
 at the annual rent of ;^llo; with a pro\'iso, that if said 
 sum and interest were not paid \\'ithin said term of four 
 years, then Mr. Echlin was to hold the lands for 1000 
 years from the expiration of the said term of 61 years, at 
 a certain rent. Mr. Echlin afterwards assigned his interest 
 in the entire lands to his brother-in-law, Mr. Maxwell." — 
 Hanna's Accotnil of Inch, in Dow7tpatrick Recorder. The 
 lands above-named adjoined the property of Finnebrogue, 
 which Mr. Echlin then also owned, and which, together 
 with his grant from lord Cromwell, must have given him 
 much influence at a county election. 
 
 ^ il/r. Wards. — In 1 640, there was a large and influen- 
 tial connexion of this surname in the county of Do\ra, the 
 grandsons of sir Robert Ward, who had been appointed 
 sur\'eyor-general of Ireland in 1570, and settled at Carrick- 
 na-Sheannagh, 'foxes' rock,' now Castleward, near Strang- 
 ford, which he purchased from the earl of Kildare. The 
 eldest of these grandsons, Bernard, succeeded to the family 
 estate at Castleward. The second, Robert, who married 
 a daughter of John Echlin of Ardquin, had large landed 
 property at Killough, and was created a baronet by Charles 
 the Second for his loyal services to the crown. — Lodge's 
 Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. vi., pp. 68, 69. 
 
 =^ Kildare'' s tenants. — George Fitzgerald, the sixteenth 
 earl of Kildare, was born in 1612, and succeeded to his 
 titles and estates when he was only eight years and nine 
 months old. He was the first Protestant earl of his family, 
 having been brought up in the communion of the established 
 church by the duke of Lennox to whom he was given in 
 ward, in the year 1620. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. i., p. 107. He inherited extensive 
 lands in Lecale from his ancestors, which, tradition affirms, 
 were originally acquired by an earl of Kildare from the 
 family of Maginnis, in gratitude for his having protected 
 the latteragainstthe usurpations of the Savages. — The Earls 
 of Kildare, by the Marquis of Kildare, vol. L , p. 244 ; 
 Harris, State of the Comity of Down, p. 22. It is more pro- 
 bable, however, that these lands came into the Kildare family 
 by the marriage of Gerald, the eighth earl, ^vith Alison 
 Eustace, grand-daughter of sir Janico D'Artois, a noble 
 Gascon chief, who had served as seneschal of Ulster in the 
 years 1408, 1413, and 1422. At his death, in 1426, it was 
 found by a post mortem inquisition, that he was in pos- 
 session of "eight messuages and four carucates of land in 
 Bright and Rasteglas, assigned to him by John Dongan, 
 bishop of Down ; Ardglass and Ardtole, the lands of 
 Gilberton, now Ballygilbert, the gift to him of the abbot 
 and convent of Inch ; and a carucate in Nunton, now 
 BalljTiagallagh, the gift of the prioress and convent of the 
 blessed Mary of Down, all lying in the parish of Bnght. 
 . . . On the attainder of Silken Thomas, the tenth 
 earl of Kildare, in the reign of Henry VIII. , his possessions 
 in Lecale were seized into the hands of the cro^^m, and 
 farmed out to sir William Brabazon ; and after his death, 
 9th July, 1552, to others. Gerald, the eleventh earl, was 
 restored in blood and to the family estates, in 1552, being 
 afterwards confirmed in them, by letters patent of queen 
 Mary, the 13th May, 1554, and a further patent first and 
 second Philip and Mary, 1555, to hold all which had been 
 the inheritance of his father in use or possession at any 
 time, by the sennce of one knight's fee. The lands are 
 not set out in these patents ; but it is quite apparent that 
 from the high favour in which this Gerald stood with the 
 sister sovereigns, Mary and Elizabeth, — receiving from the 
 former, 28th October, 1557, a reversionary grant of the 
 priories of Inch and Saul, of St. John, and SS. John and 
 Thomas, and St. Patrick in Down; and from Elizabeth, 
 in 1583, such a lease of the tithes — that any attempts on 
 the parts of the bishops to reclaim Bright and Rossglass 
 would have been perfectly useless." — Hanna's Account 
 of the Parish of Bright in the Dcnvnpatrick Recorder. 
 The Ardglass estate remained in the Kildare family 
 until the year 1808, when it was sold by the right hon. 
 Charles Fitzgerald, vice-admiral of the red, created baron 
 Lecale, to his step-father, William Ogilvie, esq., whose 
 great-grandson, Aubrey De Vere Beauclerk, now pos- 
 sesses it. 
 
 ^ Governors and parliament. — The two knights, sir 
 James Montgomery and sir Edward Trevor, received 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Now omitting (as much as I can) rehersall, I come to the 23d of October, 1641.30 
 
 13s. 4d. each per diem, for their services in Parliament. 
 Irish members ceased, about the year 1666, to receive 
 wages for their Parliamentary services. 
 
 3° zyd October, 1641. — See pp. 151, 152, supra. The 
 following letters, written a few weeks after the com- 
 mencement of the rebellion, supply information not else- 
 where to be found respecting the state of affairs in the 
 baronies of Ards and Castlereagh. These letters were 
 preserved among the Eglinton papers, having been ori- 
 ginally addressed to the sixth earl of Eglinton. The 
 first was WTitten by a Scottish officer, named Hew Mont- 
 gomery ; the second, by the second viscount Ards ; and 
 both have been printed in Eraser's Memorials, vol. i. , pp. 
 243-246 : — 
 
 " My right honorable Lord — My most humble dewtie and 
 service being remembered to your lordship : I thocht befor now 
 to have wrytin to your lordship : but seldome falls it out that anie 
 goes from heir to Scotland, neither is ther so muche as one consi- 
 derable gentleman that comes ather to contribute his advyce, or 
 to easy my Lord of Airdes of the smallest part of that infinit bur- 
 then and cair which lycthe upon him at this tj'me, except Craybuy«, 
 a young gentleman, and William Shaw, who is Mr. Georg his 
 brother in law ; and they have more than eneuche to doe with the 
 charge of ther two companies which they have in the regiment. 
 As for us who are other officers under his lordship, your lordship 
 knowethe we can be but small helpe in that which concemethe the 
 countrie. His lordship was pleaset to keep up his Lewtenant 
 Collonels place for nie after he received yowr lordship's letter, for 
 whiche amongste the rest of your lordship's singular favours, I stand 
 humblie bonde to your lordship ; but he had placet the shiref of 
 Gallowayes sone his Major befor we cam ; but to satisfie yowr lord- 
 ship according to yowT lordship's letter, he appoyntet Captain 
 Logane, his oldest Captain and Quarter-master. The strenthe of the 
 rebels can not be known, nether doe they nor can they know ther 
 owne strenthe; for all of them that can winne runes to them, 
 and we know that they ar hudg numbers of men for the whole 
 paele is out, who have a number of good armes quhiche they had gott 
 from the lords at Dublin, and now refuse to restore them ; — for their 
 masters excuse themselves, and say that ther tenants ar gon out in 
 rebellione with them. Dublin is very hard bestead ; for all the 
 Brittishe and uthers that ar protestants have send ther wyves, bairnes, 
 and goods away. The rebells interceptet a good daile of armes and 
 uther ammunitione that was cumming from Dubline (as we heir) for 
 insetting of Tredathe ; and increase daylie in strenthe, and goes on 
 in ther former crewelties withe all sorts of persones, young and old ; 
 and except speidie assistance be sent from Scotland, be all outward 
 appearance they will find but few of ther cuntrie men to welcom them, 
 and verie evile landing heir; for we ar few and verie naked for want 
 of armes to withstand them. My Lord of Airds his strenthe at 
 Cummer will be 4 hundrethe foot, with sythes, cornforks. stafs, and 
 few pykes, and about ane hundrethe and threttie muskets, whereof 
 ane hundrethe cam yesterday to us from Dubline. My lord hathe 
 lykwys 60 horsmen armed as they may be. Sir James lyethe at 
 Downpatrick with ane old cumpanie of foot, ane otlier of horse, his 
 owne regiment, and his troupe is about our strenthe, and so armet : 
 he hes a matter of 60 horsmen of my lord Clandebuoys, and Sir 
 Arthur Tyringhame lyethe at Lisnegarvie with a matter of eicht 
 hundrethe men, wherof ar three old troupes of horsmen. This is our 
 whol strenthe, and our fortificationes suche as Kilwinning and Ir\'ing. 
 The rebells burne and kill everie uther night within a myl two or 
 three unto us, nether can we helpe it ; for what they doe is in the 
 night, and if we send out apartie they have centinells on all the hills, 
 and will not stand but reteir to the woods. We ar informet they ar 
 divyding themselves in three ; Sir Philome Oneil in two ; wherof one 
 half ar appoyntet for Lisnegarvie, and the uther for us, and Sir Conne 
 Mc Ginnies and Mc Cairten for Down; yet it were but a small 
 matter, if we had fyv thousand of such men and armes as wer at 
 Newcastle, to marche towards them and give battel to threttie 
 thousand in the open fields : for they ar a confuset multitud : but what 
 resistance we ar able to n^k, yowr lordship may judge be the former 
 part of this letter. We heir Langshawes brother is killett but we ar 
 not suir. Mr. Georg his house, and what was ther is all burnt. So 
 praying the Lord whose aid we must onlie relye upon, to assist yowr 
 Lordship and us, I rest, and shall whil I leive remaine, yowr lord- 
 ships humble and obedient servant, 
 
 " Hew Montgomery. 
 
 "Cummer, the 17th of December, 1641. 
 
 " I must humble intreaf yowr lordship to putt in a word for the 
 Captaines meines quhat rests to me as yet, qutien yowr lordship finds 
 occasion fitt : for notwithstanding of the outward appearances of our 
 destructione befor your assistance cum, yet I am verie houpfuU, bjr 
 the grace of God, to be yowr lordship's humble servant quhen ther 
 stormes ar over. 
 
 "To the right honourable and my verie noble lord, my lord the 
 Erie of Eglinton. — Delyver thes." 
 
 \Craybitye abovenamed was the son of Patrick Montgo- 
 mery of Creboy or Craigbuo)', in the parish of Donagh- 
 adee, brother-in-law to the first viscount Ards. See p. 
 28, supra. Air. Georg was captain George Montgomery 
 of Ballylesson, married to Grizzel, daughter of sir John 
 McDowall of Garthland, in Galloway. See p. 94, sitpra. 
 William Shaw was probably son of John Shaw, of Bally- 
 annaway ; he had also married a daughter of the laird 
 of Garthland. T/ie shire/ of Gallowaye was sir Patrick 
 Agnew, who had three sons, Andrew, James, and Alex- 
 ander. The two younger were soldiers, and as James 
 had a command in Scotland, Alexander was, most prob- 
 ably, the "Major" appointed by Lord Montgomery at 
 "Cummer."] The second viscount Ards writes as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
 *' Right honoi/rable and ^^v very good Lord— If I have not 
 
 \vritten to your lordship soe often as in duty I am bound, impute it 
 not to any slackness or carelessness in me, whoe might alwise 
 acknowledge myself more bound to your lordships favour nor to all 
 the world beside. His Majestie being excepted. My lord, the 
 trueth is, we are keept exceeding busy with the rebells, whoe bume 
 and kill within a myle and a half to this place ; insoemuch as from 
 the Newry to this, ther is not a Scotts or Inglishe dweller ; this 
 being thirty four myles ; nor from Downpatrick to Killyleagh, nor 
 from thence hither. At Lisnegar\'y ther is a garisone of seaven or 
 eight hundred men, and some two troupes of horse ; at Belfast ther 
 is a garisone of a matter of three or four hundred men ; at Carriole* 
 fergus ther is likewise a troupe of horse and some sex or seaven 
 hundred foote : at Mosryne I hear ther is gathered together a 
 matter of one thousand men. Heer I lye with a matter of eights 
 companys of foote and three troupes of horse. At Killyleagh 
 ther is the Lord Clandeboyes, whoe, to speake truely, is ex- 
 treame weake, onlye that he hes a stronge house. Upon Wensday 
 last Major Barclay, Captain Inglis, and Mr. Elliott, went abroaSe 
 with ellevin or twelve score men, as the report comes to me, wherof 
 there wes seaven score musquetiers and the rest pikemen, some fyve 
 or sex myles from Killyleagh. They mett with a party of the rebels 
 whose custom is to fall one with a great shout or cry, whereupon 
 the most parte of the soldiers that wer with Barclay and Inglis fled 
 before ever the rebells charged them ; soe as these two or three 
 gentlemen, with the moste parte of all the men, together with ther 
 armes wer losed. Captain Alexander Hamilton wes come to the 
 Newtone the day befor upone some occasiones, soe as now I beleeve 
 my Lord Clandeboyes hes not above one hundred men with him. 
 That night I sent out my Lewtenent Colonell and Major Crawford 
 with a party of 300 foote and 80 horses whoe marched all night, and 
 in the dawning came to the Leigure, wher the rebells lay that ar on 
 this syde of the countrey, whoe we did not think to have bene soe 
 stronge as indeed they wer. But, praised be God ! they returned 
 home yester night with the losse only of two or three foote soldiers 
 and four or fyve wounded, whoe, I hope, will not be the worse. 
 They brought with them a prey from the rebells of a matter of 
 twelve or thirteen score cowes, and had the cutting afF of above fifty 
 of the rebells, who wer upwards of 1000 men. M.ijor Blare being 
 heer accidentally went out upone the party with them, he will 
 acquent your lordship with the manner of the service. The rogues 
 raised ther cry, but I thank God it wrought not upone our men. Aly 
 brother Sir James lyes at Downpatrick, with a matter of sex or 
 seaven comp.mys, of his owne and a troupe of horse ; and soe my 
 lord this is the strength of these two countys for matter of soldiours. 
 The people that are fled of the countys of Armagh. Ferman,igh, 
 Tyrone, Monoghan, and these of this county itself, from the Newry 
 all the way to this place, ar soe burdensome th.at in trueth we mucK 
 fear ther will be scarsety. My lord, the intelligence that we had 
 from the neighboring counties of Ulster is cut aff by Sir Phelemy 
 O'Neall, soe as I can give your lordship noe good account what 
 the estate of the British is towards Colraine and Londonderry. By 
 sea we have received intelligence from Dubline that all the lord* 
 
 S 1 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Sir James, as you heard, the summer of this year, had defeated Daniel ONeilts mischief 
 threatening designe,^' and was now a widower at home,32 assisting in his brother George Mont- 
 gomery's33 and Patrick Savage 3* their affairs, and minding his own, when the said rebellion broke 
 forth; and having opportunity of Mr Galbraith,35 he wrote to the King, then in Edinburgh, and 
 by the same hand received the (yet extant) Commission for his regiment and troops, (which he 
 raised by his own money and credit). He armed and otherwise fitted them for service, and went 
 into the barrony of Lacahill3S about the beginning of December, 1641, and subsisted his men by 
 
 of the pale are in armes and that the papists all over the kingdom 
 are also up : that Tredath. which is within 20 myles from Dub- 
 line, is besieged, wher the Lord Moor commands some four or 
 fyve troupes of horse, ard Sir Harry Touchborne, a very brave 
 gentleman, a regiment of foote. The passage to them by sea being 
 blocked up ; the Lord Moore's house of Mellefant taken by the 
 rebels, with the loss of some men on each syde, sex hundred men 
 that were sent from Dubline to Tredath wer cutt off by the way. 
 It is reported that they rob, burne, and kill neer to Dubline. It is 
 likewise said that ther ar 10,000 Englishe landed at a place in 
 Monster called Yoghill ; that 20,000 li. of moneys is likewise sent 
 over ; and that the Londoners have contributed 10,000 li. to the 
 maintenance of the ware. By advertisement from my brother Sir 
 James, I understand that Sir Cone Maginis, Turlogh O'Neal!, Sir 
 Phelemy's brother, and M'Carten arjoyned together, having at least 
 2500 horse and foote ready to enter into Lecale. The rest of all 
 the strenthe of the countrey heer are likewise ready to fall down 
 uOone these parts, soe as we cannot give assistance one to another. 
 Notwithstanding that I have several tymes ayded Lisnegarvev, they 
 refused to goe out with me against these rebells. though for the 
 present they ar pretty and stronge ; soe as all of us doe severally lye 
 upine our gu trds. expecting the setting on of the rebells In a 
 word, my lord, our present conditione is as hard as can well be 
 t nagined ; and the harder that we want armes and amunitione. By 
 your lordships favour I have had the supply of some gentlemen that 
 I must needs comend to he proper men and good soldiers, which 
 makes me the m 're grieved that we should want such provisiones as 
 might enable us *o performe that service which might be expected 
 f'Om such commanders ; for supply wherof, if it please God to send 
 it in time, under whom T doe reive on your lordship ; for which ther 
 no security that your lordship is pleased to draw up and send unto 
 me but I will sign whatsoever comes unto me. I must supply my 
 brother with a parte of it, for which I will take his security. My 
 1 ird. all the supply of armes I have had from the beginning hes come 
 uno me out of Scotland, by the means of a private friend of myne, 
 w'lo is well knov/en to your lordship ; from the Lords Justices and 
 State beer T hr.ve only had a matter of loomusquetts ; wherof I have 
 sent a parte to my brother from His Majesties store at Carrickfergus. 
 I have been refuissid of a supply of amunitione : they wrote unto me 
 t'-at the store house was ill provyded, and that they hoped I might 
 bi suoplied from Scotland. I know your lordship now expects to be 
 informed what provisions is to be had heer for the intertayning of the 
 forces that shall come from that Kingdome ; my lord, all I can .say 
 to that is, that ther is yet some reasonable store of comes and other 
 provisione in these corners that the rebells have not yet marched 
 over ; but if the armye be long a coming, the shorter the provisions 
 will i)e every day. The more ground the rebells gain on us, the 
 shorter our store must be, and if we shall be cutt aff before the 
 supplyes come, the les safety will be for ther landing. And soe, my 
 1 3rd, craving pardon for this my tedious letter, praying God to bless 
 your lordship and all yours, and to protect us, I remayne, your 
 lordships affectionat cousen and humble servant, 
 
 " Montgomery. 
 " Mont-Alexander, the last of December, 1641. 
 
 " It is certain that these gentlemen ar cutt aff to my Lord Clande- 
 boyes, and 100 musquetts lost with other amies ; wherewith the 
 rebells fought the next day against the party I sent out." 
 
 3' Mischief-threatening (hsif^n. — Seep. 84, supra. The 
 portion of the Maniiscri.^ts explaining this affair is unfor- 
 tunately lost. After Strafford's removal and e.xecution, 
 sir James Montgomery appears to have been engaged in 
 undoing whatever plan had been commenced by the for- 
 mer to compensate or reinstate Daniel O'Neill, son and 
 heir of Con O'Neill of Castlereagh. 
 
 3' A widower at home. — Probably after the death of 
 Margaret Cole, his second lady. Sir James Montgomery's 
 first wife died early in 1635, and his third in 1648, but we 
 have not been able to ascertain the date of his second wife's 
 decease. 
 
 33 George Montgomery. — See p. 94, stipra. 
 
 3< Patrick Savage. — See p. 89, supra 
 
 35 Mr. Galbraith. — See pp. 158, 159, 164, supra. In 
 the following letter written by sir James Montgomery on 
 the 6th of December, 1 64 1, and now for the first time 
 printed, the writer speaks of Mr. John Galbraith as a 
 trusted agent between the government and the British 
 officers in Ulster. This letter was addressed to Ormond 
 immediately after sir James had received his commission 
 from the king : — 
 
 "Right honble and my very good Lord— The manyfold ex- 
 periences that I have had of your lordship's undeserved favor, and the 
 Noble Expressions your lordship has been pleased to make of your future 
 resolutions to doo me good, makes me now confident that at this tyme 
 when his M.ajestie has been pleased to honour and make me happie 
 so much under your lordship's command, that I shall now find the 
 continuance of your reall and noble favoure. And by the assistance 
 of Almightie God your lordship shall see that I shaU acquit my selfe 
 of this imployment and trust his Majestie has given me, as it be- 
 comes a gentleman and a souldior, if wee get such tymelie supplies 
 from the State as are absolutely necessarie for our subsistence, the 
 good of his Majestie's service and the safetie of iliese parts; And that 
 the State may the better know in what Condiiion wee now stand in 
 these parts, and what the supplies are which wee must presently ]ia\-e, 
 my Lord Montgomerie and I have imployed this Gentleman, Mr. 
 John Galbraith, of purpose to make the same known unto the Lords 
 Justices and your Lordship, to whose relation (that I may be the less 
 troublesome) I remit the same, and am your lordship's most humble 
 servant, 
 
 "J. Montgomerie. 
 " For the Right Honble. The Earle of Ormond, Lieutenant generall 
 of his Majestie's Army in the Kingdome of Ireland — These." — Tlit 
 Carte Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. ii., p. 87. 
 
 3* Lacahill. — Anciently Leth-Cathail, 'the portion of 
 Cathal,' a native Irish chief who lived about the year 700. 
 Lethcail or Lecale has been the name of this district since 
 about the year 823. The Rev. Dr. Reeves was the first 
 to put this forward, and the reader may see his clear and 
 learned argument therefrom as to the age of the Book of 
 Rights cited by O' Donovan in his preface to that work, 
 p. xi. The earlier name of Lecale was Maghiitis ' the 
 insular plain,' so called from the fact that its boundaries, 
 with one exception, are so well marked by the sea. In 
 the Annals of Ireland, it is mentioned by its earliest re- 
 corded names of Maghinis, under the years A.M. 3529 and 
 3942 ; and by its name Lethcathail, under the years .K. D. 
 823, 850, 891, 892, 908, 927, 942, 1004, 1006, 1022, 
 1 147, 1 177, 1226-7, 1276, 1333, 1391, 1427, 1468, and 
 1469. — Reeves, Ecclesiastical Antiquities, pp. 203, 205. 
 Lord Leonard Grey, the lord deputy, who made an expedi- 
 tion into this territory, in the year 1539, has the following 
 account of his journey: — "For so much as Mr. Treasurer 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 311 
 
 the grain which the enemy had deserted on his first appearance (which was wonderfull soon); 
 and by help of the grain of substantial Brittish inhabitants living next the Ardes, and by preys 
 of cattle taken from the Irish beyond Dundrum.37 Thus he protected Lacahill for diverse montl.s 
 
 was farmer of the king's country of Lecayll, and that 
 Savage, chyefF capitayn of his nation, would not pay his 
 farm into the Treasurer; and besides the said Savage 
 brouglit into the said country divers Scottys, which had 
 much of the said country in their subjection, it was con- 
 cluded betwixt the said Mr. Treasurer and me that we 
 should have gone towards the said Lecayll. And so with 
 the host we set forward and entered into the said country, 
 and took all the castells there, and delyvered them to Mr. 
 T. , who hath warded the same. I took another castell, 
 being in McGynous' countrey, called Doundrome, which 
 I assure your lordship, as it standeth, is one of the strong- 
 est holds that ever I saw in Ireland, and most commodious 
 for defence of the whole countrey of Lecayll, both by sea 
 and land ; for the said Lecayll is invironed round about 
 with the sea, and no way to go by land into the said 
 country, but only by the said castell of Doundrome. 
 
 I assure your lordship I have been 
 in many places and countries in my days, and yet did 
 I never see for so much a pleasanter plott of ground 
 than the said Lecayll, fo» the commoditie of the 
 land, and divers islands in the same, invironed with the 
 sea, wTiich were soon reclaimed and inhabited the King's 
 pleasure known." — State Papers '^kX'axvS.), vol. iii., p. 155. 
 See also Brewer's Calendar of the Carciu Manuscripts^ p. 
 49. Sir Thomas Cusake, lord chancellor of Ireland, has 
 the following notice of Lecale in his letter to the duke of 
 Northumberland, bearing date the 8th of May, 1552; — 
 "The next country to the same eastward is Lecaill, where 
 Mr. McBrerton is farmer and captain, which is a hand- 
 some plain, and champion country of 10 miles long and 5 
 miles breadth, without any wood growing therein. The 
 sea doth ebb and flow round about that country, so as in 
 full water no man may enter therein upon dry land but in 
 one way which is less than two miles in length. The 
 same country for English freeholders and good inhabitance 
 is as civil as few places in the English pale." — Brewer's 
 Calendar of tli^ Cartiu Manuscripts, p. 242. The follow- 
 ing is sir Henry Sidney's account of Lecale in the year 
 1575 '■ — "Leavinge that Countrie, I passed thoroughe Le- 
 cale, which is my Lord of Kildares Landes, and there found 
 dyvers verye honest Freholders ; but moche of the Coun- 
 trie wast, but nowe on the mendinge Hand, and far the 
 better since the Earle of Essex had it and that by his 
 Planting of Tenauntes, and Placinge of Soldiours ; so that 
 it doth verye well defend itself." — Siditey Letters and 
 Memorials of State, vol. i., p. 76. Marshal Bagenal's 
 Description 0/ Ulster, in 1586, contains the following notice 
 of this territoiy : — "Lecahull is the enheritance of th' Erie 
 of Kildare, geven to his father and his mother by Quene 
 Marie ; it is almost an island and without wood. In hit is the 
 Bushop's Sea called Downe, first built and enhabited by 
 one Sir John Coursie, who brought thitlier with him sondrie 
 Englishe gentlemen and planted them in this countrey, 
 where some of them yet remayne, thoughe somewhat de- 
 generate and in poore estate ; yet they holde stil their free- 
 holdes. Their names are Savages, Russels, Fitzimons, 
 Awdleis, Jordans, and Bensons." — Ulsttr Journal of 
 Arckaology, vol. ii., p. 153. The following account of 
 
 Lecale about the year 1597) or 1598, is printed by 
 Dubourdieu inhis Statistical Survey of the CoitntyoJ Antrim, 
 vol. ii., p. 627, from a Manuscript in the possession of the 
 late dean Dobbs, the original of which is preserved in the 
 Lambeth Library: — "Z? Caliell is the inheritance of the 
 Earls of Kildare, given to his father and mother by Queen 
 Mary, at their marriage, and tlie earl's restitution to his 
 blood and lands, in place of some of his living given awsy 
 to others by patent by king Henry the eighth, in the 
 time of his attainder. It is almost an island, and no trees 
 in it. In it is the bishop's seat, called Downe, first built and 
 inhabited by one Sir John Cdurcey, who brought with him 
 sundry English gentlemen, and planted them in this country 
 where some of their posterity yet remain. Their names 
 are, Savadges, Russels, Fitzimmons, Aiidlies, Jordans, 
 Bensons." The modem barony of Lecale, which is co» 
 extensive with the ancient territory, includes the towns of 
 Downpatrick, Dundrum, Strangford, Killough, and Ard- 
 glass. 
 
 3' Dundrum. — The rock now occupied by the ruins of 
 Dundrum castle was a military position from the remotest 
 times. The bay is mentioned in an ancient historical 
 Tract entitled Cathreivi Chonghail Chldiringnigh or 
 'Battles of Congal Claringneach,' recording the principal 
 events of a civil war in Ulster, at the commencement of 
 the first centuiy. The inner bay is also mentioned as Loch 
 Rudhraidlie, in a note to the metrical calendar known as 
 the Felire of Aengus. — O'Curry's Manuscript Alaterials 
 for Ancient Irish History, pp. 262, 429, 634. The 
 annals of Ireland record a great battle fought at 
 Dundrum in the year 1 147, between the Ulidians 
 on the one side and the Cinel-Eoghan and Airghialla, 
 on the other. A century later, Dundrum was 
 known as Dundroma Dairinjte, 'the Fort of Dairinne's 
 Ridge,' being then the scene of a conflict between 
 the Irish and their Anglo-Norman invaders. The last- 
 mentioned name appears in a poem composed byGilbride 
 Macnamee, the poet and friend of Biyan O'Neill, 
 king of the Northern Irish, during a part of the thirteenth 
 century. — Miscellany of the Celtic Society, p. 159. John 
 De Courcy rebuilt Dundrum castle for the knight's 
 Templars, by whom it was held until the abolition of their 
 order in 131 1. After their expulsion, the castle and manor 
 were granted to the priory of Down, and occupied by that 
 religious house, until its suppression. The next owner 
 was Gerald, earl of Kildare, after whom the Magennisses 
 again reappear as possessors of their ancient fortress. 
 They were finally expelled, and their lands forfeited, on 
 the suppression of Tyrone's rebellion. Dimdram, and its 
 seven townlands attached, were then granted to sir Edward 
 Cromwell, by whose grandson, Thomas Cromw'ell, lord 
 Lecale and first earl of Ardglass, it was sold to sir Francis 
 Blundell in 1636. The lands, including the castle, are 
 now owned by the Downshire family as the representatives 
 of the Blundells. The castle was in good condition when 
 sir James Montgomery drove out the Magennisses and 
 Macartans in 1642. In 1652, the garrison placed in it 
 was removed by order of Oliver Cromwell, and the castle 
 immediately afterwards dismantled. 
 
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 against all the great body of the Irish dwelling on Mr. BagnaTs'^^ and the M'Genisses^^ estates, 
 and those in Kinalerty*" and Iveagh-*' Barronys, who were assisted by their neighbours in the 
 
 ^ Mr. Bagnal's.—Ste. p. 306, stcpra. 
 
 3' M'Genisses. — See p. 306, supra. 
 
 *" Kinalerty. — Kinelarty, was the country of the 
 Macartans. It is the ancient Cinel-Faghartaigh, i.e., 
 'Race of Fagartach,' the tribe-name of the Mac Artans of 
 Kinelarty. — Reeves's Ecclesiastical Antiquities, pp. 213, 
 368. "They derive their name from Faghartach, son of 
 Mongan, son of Saran, of the race of Ross, king of 
 Ulster. From Artan, the grandson of this Fagartach, 
 they took their hereditaiy surname of Mac Artain, in the 
 tenth century." — G' Donovan'' s Note in 0' Daly's Tribes 
 0/ Ireland, p. 60; Book of Rights, p. 206. Of the 
 Macartans in the si.xteenth century, O'Daly speaks in 
 the following very depreciatory terms : — 
 
 "The Cinel-Fhaghartaigh are the men ! 
 Remnants of curses and lies, 
 Large, soft, dastardly men, 
 Blind, crooked, shin-burnt." 
 
 James Clarence Mangan has the following versified 
 paraphrase of this passage : — 
 
 "Big fellows the Kinelarty are, with fat eyes. 
 
 They are growlers and grumblers even over their tumblers ; 
 
 For snappmg and snarling, and quarrelling and lies. 
 
 You might travel a long time to see their 
 
 Bare equals on earth — or perhaps in hell either !" 
 ~^Tribes of Ireland, pp. 61, 95. 
 
 Sir Thomas Cusake, lord chancellor of Ireland, in his 
 letter to the duke of Northumberland, dated 8th May, 
 1552, mentions the territory of Kinelarty as follows: — 
 "The next to that country is Mac Cartan's country, a 
 man of small power, where are no horsemen, but kerne ; 
 which country is full of bogs, woods, and moors, and 
 beareth the captain of Lecaill." — Brewer's Calendar of 
 the Carew Alajiuscripts, p. 242. Sir Hen. Sidney, in 1575, 
 thus speaks of Kinnelarty: — "From thence I came to j^T/W/za- 
 liartie, or Mac Curtains Countrie, which I found all 
 desolate and waste, full of Thieves, Outlawes, and 
 unreclaymed People; none of the old Owners dare occupie 
 tlie Lande, because it hath pleased her Majestie to bestowe 
 the Countrie upon Capten Nicolas Malbye, tied, neverthe- 
 lesse, to soch Observacion of Covenannt and Condicion, 
 as Chatterton had his. Al be it I could wish Malbie a 
 farre better good Tome, both in Creditt and Commoditie, 
 then that Countrie is, or can be to hym (for so I think 
 him worthie) yet for that I see there is no Possibilitie in 
 hym to do any good, but to spoyle and wearye hym selfe, 
 and bourden his Freindes, and make the Countrie wast, 
 and altogether abandoned of Inhabitauntes. I would 
 wishe that some reasonable Recom pence were offered 
 hym for his good Contentment, and that the Queue 
 should resume the Landes, into her own Handes, and 
 then Profitt of Rent and Service would be made of it, 
 where nowe no Benefitt arryseth at all to Malbye, nor 
 none ells; but contrariwise, beinge held as it is, breadethe 
 moche Trouble and Inconvenience to the good Neighbor- 
 hoode, and commen Quiet and Securitie of the Countrie." 
 — Sidney Letters and Memorials, vol. i. , p. 76. The 
 following is Marshal Bagenal's account of this territory: — 
 Kinalcwrtie, otherwise called McCartan's countrey, is like- 
 wise a woodland and boggy ; it liethe betweene Kilwaren 
 and LecahuU. In tymes past some interest therein was geven 
 ''» Sir N. Malbie, but never by him quietlie enjoyed : nowe 
 
 the Capten thereof is called Acholie McCartan, and doth 
 yeld onhe to the Quene. He is able to make aboute 60 
 footemen, but no horsmen. ' ' — Ulster foitrnal of A rchceology, 
 vol. ii. , p. 152. The following account of Kinelarty 
 about the year 1597 or 1598, occurs in a MS. belonging 
 to the Lambeth Library, and was printed in Dubourdieu's 
 County of Antrim, vol. ii. , pp. 626, 627, from a copy in 
 possession of the late dean Uobbs : — Kineleartie, other- 
 wise called MacCartaney's country, is likewise a wood- 
 land and bogg ; it lieth between Kilwarlin and Le Cahell. 
 The captain hereof is called Ac holy AlacCartan, and did 
 yeald to the queene, but now adhereth to the Earl of 
 Tyrone, as one of O'Neal's vassals. He is able to make 
 two hundred and sixty footmen, but few or no horsemen, 
 by reason that the country is so full of woods and boggs." 
 
 Iveagh. — The ancient territory comprised the two 
 modern baronies of upper and lower Iveagh. It was the 
 country of the Magenises. See a full account of the origin 
 of the name, and its early chiefs, in Reeves's Ecclesiastical 
 Antiquities, pp. 349 — 352. Upper Iveagh contains the 
 towns of Newry, Rathfriland, Loughbrickland, and Ross- 
 trevor. Lower Iveagh includes the towns of Dromore, 
 Magheralin, Hillsborough, Moira, Warruigstown, and 
 Gilford. In 1 64 1, several protestants, the descendants of 
 English settlers, and others, resided in Lecale, whilst 
 the adjoining baronies of Kinelarty and Iveagh on the 
 north-west and west, contained a population almost ex- 
 clusively Irish. The protestants in Iveagh, Kinelarty, and 
 Lecale, who escaped massacre, fled, generally, into the 
 Ards, where the Montgomerys had hastily raised such a 
 force as not only protected their own district, but under the 
 command of sir James Montgomery, advanced into Lecale, 
 driving the Irish from that barony, and thus pro- 
 tecting the settlers from massacre. The following notice 
 of this territory is contained in sir Thomas Cusake's letter 
 to the duke of Northumberland, written on the 8th of 
 May, 1552-3: — "The next to O'Hanlon is McGynnes' 
 country aforesaid, where in the Nivoraye Mr. Marshal's 
 farm is situated. The same McGynnes is a civil gentle- 
 man, and useth as good order and fashion in his house as 
 any man of his vocation in Ireland, and'ftoth the same 
 Englishelike. His country is obedient to all cesses and 
 orders. The same Iveaghe hath been parcel of the 
 country of Downe, and he, being made sheriff thereof, 
 hath exercised his office there as well as any other sheriffs 
 doth. "—Brewer's Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, p. 
 242. The following is sir Henry Sidney's account of 
 Iveagh, in the year 1575: — "Next I came to Evaugh, or 
 Mac Dennesse (Mac Genness) Countrie, which is not yet 
 recovered, but feeleth still the heavye Burden of former 
 Spoyles, and impeached with present ill Neighborhoode, 
 and speciallye of those twoe Countries before remembred ; 
 and the worsse planted, manured, and inhabited, for that 
 he is not sure of it by any certeine Estate, and therefore 
 desiereth by Peticion (which here inclosed I send your 
 Lordships) that he may have it confirmed vnto him from 
 her Majestie. He hathe since the first Tyme I brought 
 hym out of Subiection to Oneill, remayned a constant and 
 assured good subiecte, growen civill and verye tractable, 
 accompanied me this Jorney hym selfe, and his Force, 
 with that forwardnes to serve her Majestie, as there wanted 
 
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 313 
 
 Fews** and other places of the county of Ardmagh, Sir James being desired to return thither, as 
 he did on the 20th of April, 1642. 
 
 This Dundrum is an old castle, five miles from Downpatrick, and belongs to the Blondells,'''* 
 a family of knightly degree. Sir James had placed a strong garrison there, and from thence had sent 
 
 no Token of good Will, wherein he might expresse any 
 Note of assured Fidelitieand Obedience." — Sidney Letters 
 and Aleinorials, vol. i., p. 76. Marshal Bagenal, in his 
 Description of Ulster, mentions this district as follows : — 
 Evaghe, otherwise called McGynis countrey is governed 
 by Sir Hugh McEnys, the cyviliest of all the Irishrie in 
 those parts. He was brought by Sir N. B. from the 
 Bonaght of the Onels, to contribute to the Q. to whome 
 he paiethe an anuall rent for his landes, which he hath 
 taken by letters patentes, to holde after the Englishe man- 
 ner for him and his heires males, so as in this place onelie 
 of Ulster is the rude custom of Tanestship put awaie. 
 Maginis is able to make above 60 horsmen and nere 80 
 footmen ; he lyveth verie cyvillie and Englishe-like in his 
 house, and every festival! dale wearethe Englishe garmentes 
 amongest his owne followers." — Ulster yournal of Archa- 
 ology, vol. ii. , p. 152. The following account of Iveagh is 
 contained in a MS. belonging to the Lambeth Library, and 
 is printed in Dubourdieu's Antrim, vol. ii., p. 625, from a 
 copy then in the possession of dean Dobbs: — '^Eveagk, 
 otherwise called Magennis's country, was lately governed 
 by Sir Hugh Magennis, the civilest of all the Irish in these 
 parts. He was brought off by Sir Nicholas Bagnall from 
 the bonnoght of the O'Neille, to contribute to the queene, 
 to whom he did pay an annual rent for his lands, which 
 he took by letters patents to hold after the English manner 
 for him and his heirs male — so as in this place only of Ulster 
 the rude custom of thanistship was taken away. But this 
 old knight being dead, his son hath succeeded, who being 
 a young man hath joined himself with Tirone his brother- 
 in-law (for Tirone hath to his wife the sister of this 
 Magennis), and thereby he hath cast away his father's 
 civility, and returned to the rudeness of the country. 
 Magennis is able to make eighty horsemen, and near two 
 hundred footmen." 
 
 The Feivs. — From Fiodha, 'woods.' The name was 
 written Fedan by the English in the sixteenth century. 
 See Ulster Joiirttal of Arcliceology, vol. ix., p. 131. The 
 ancient district of Fiodha included the two modem baronies 
 of the Fews, upper and lower. The Fews mountains 
 (whose name is totally a different word from the name 
 of the barony) were the natural defences of Ulster 
 in that quarter against incursions from the Pale. 
 The town of Markethill, and the villages of Belleek 
 and Hamilton's Bawn are situated in the lower Fews. 
 Of this territory sir Henry Sidney gives the follow- 
 ing account in 1575:— "The Fews, the Countrie of 
 Phelitii Roos sonnes, and Orcrye (Orier), the Chalons 
 (O'Hanlons) Countrye, I found in extreme Disorder; not 
 onelye for universall Wast of theim selves, but for the in- 
 tolerable Annoyaunces and spoyles of their Neighbours 
 in both Borders, as well Englishe as Irishe. The Landes 
 of bothe which Countries were geven by her Majestic by 
 Indenture, to Chatterton, who nowe remayneth there in 
 Englande, I suppose halfe dismayed, of the vntowarde 
 successe of this Enterprise, and the little Possibilitie he 
 findethe, either in himselfe or his Partners, to do any 
 
 good, but wast theim selves, and sett up ther Restes of 
 Vndoinge, before theybringe anyThingeto good Effecte." 
 — Sidney Letters and Memorials, vol. i. , p. 75. Marshal 
 Bagenal speaking of this territory, in 1586, says: — '■^Frcues 
 bordereth upon the English Pale, within three miles of 
 Dundalk ; it is a very stronge countrey of woode and bogg, 
 peopled with certeyne of the Neyles, accustomed to lyve 
 much upon spoile of the Pale. It was of late appointed 
 to contribute to the Erie of Tyron. They are able to make 
 some 30 horsmen and 100 footemen." — Ulster yournal of 
 ArchiTology, vol. ii. , p. 150. Before the settlement of sir 
 Nicholas Bagenal at Newry, the territory of the Fews was 
 comparatively waste, "and Shane O'Neille dwelling within 
 less than a mile of the Newrie, at a place called Feidem, 
 suffering no subject to travel from Dundalk northward : but, 
 sithence thebuildingandfortificationsmade there by the said 
 Sir Nicholas, all the passages were made free, and much of 
 the country next adjacent reduced to reasonable civilitie; 
 till this late rebellion of Tirone hath stopped again all the 
 said passages, and laid the country in a manner waste, as 
 it was in the said time of Shane O'Neille." — The Lambeth 
 MS. as quoted in Dubourdieu's Atitrim, vol. ii., pp. 624, 
 625. 
 
 20th of April, 1642. — Sir James Montgomery was re- 
 called from Lecale on that occasion to protect the country 
 around Comber and Dundonald, daily threatened by the 
 Irish under Con Oge O'Neill. He returned at the re- 
 quest of his brother, Hugh, second viscount Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 77ie Blondells. — Sir Francis Blondeville, orBlundell, 
 the founder of the Irish branch of this family, was ap- 
 pointed, in 1610, to the office of surveyor, estimator, and 
 extender of all manors, lordships, messuages, lands, 
 tenements, hereditaments, woods, possessions, and reve- 
 nues of the king in Ireland, to have and enjoy said office, 
 when the same shall happen to be vacant by the surrender 
 or death of sir William Parsons, to whom said office was 
 granted in December, 1602, to be exercised by the said 
 Blundeville, or Blundell, or his efficient deputy, for life, 
 and to receive for the exercise thereof the fee of 
 English, in as ample a manner as Galfrid Fenton, knight, 
 and William Parsons. — Erck's Patent Rolls, Reign of 
 James L, pp. 751, 752. In 1625, sir Francis Blundell 
 was appointed to the office of treasui'er and general re- 
 ceiver of Ireland at a salary of ^^63 13s. 4d. About the 
 year 1627, Thomas Cromwell, afterwards first earl of 
 Ardglass, sold to sir William Blundell, probably a son of 
 sir Francis, the manor or lordship of Dundrum ; and in 
 1629, sir William obtained a license to hold a weekly 
 market at Dundrum every Friday, and two fairs, one on 
 the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, and the other on 
 the feast of St. John the Baptist. The patent recites that 
 the grant was given "for the public good of the inhabi- 
 tants residing in or near Dundnun, and with the intention 
 that they may have trade and commerce among themselves, 
 and with other liege subjects, in buying, selling, and ex- 
 changing commodities and merchandise, by which the 
 
314 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 divers parties, which drove preys from the Irish, beyond this place, which galled them to the 
 heart, and they watched all opportunltys for revenge, (which he knew well enough they would do); 
 but was not thereby deterred from laying seige to Newcastle,'*^ where the Irish had a garrison, it 
 being a pass to secure the sea coasts towards Carlingford,''^ which was fully in their possession; also 
 it was an inlet for all the Irish in that tract to come into Lacahill, and to settle themselves in the 
 castles of the Russels, and of otherSj-t^ whom Sir James had expelled out of that barrony. 
 
 rude and country people of that region may be led to a 
 more humane and civil mode of life, and the more easily 
 procure a provision of all necessaries." — Morrin's Calen- 
 dar, Reign of Ckarles I., pp. 2, 452. The fourth and 
 last baronet, sir Montague i31undell, born in 1689, was 
 created baron of Edenderry and viscount Blundell. On 
 his death in 1756, these titles expired. — Burke's Extinct 
 and Dormant Baronetcies, p. 600. 
 
 *s Newcastle. — "The ancient name of Newcastle was 
 Ballaghbeg, Bealacbeag 'the little road' or highway, 
 which is still the name of the townland wherein it is 
 situated. It is said to derive its present name from the 
 castle erected by Felix Magenis, in 1588; but this is not 
 reconcileable with histoiy, for we find mention made of 
 it by the name Newcastle ( Fearsat an Chaisleiji mii, ' the 
 ford or pass of the new castle') in the An?!als of the Four 
 Masters, at the year 1433, — a century and a half before the 
 erection of the castle by Felix Magenis ; but the proba- 
 bility is that a castle existed here before that time, and in 
 all likelihood on the site of the latter, which guarded the 
 Pass. . . . The castle here spoken was, some few 
 years ago, in excellent preservation, and rented by the 
 Board of Customs for the accommodation of officers of 
 the revenue. It was situated, as Harris observes, close 
 to the sea-shore, but it has been pulled down, and on its 
 site the late Earl Annesley erected that splendid edifice 
 now known as the Hotel Bnildings.'''' — The late J. A. Pil- 
 son's Accotint of Neii'castle, printed in the Downpatrick 
 Recorder. Prior to 1 64 1, the town and castle belonged 
 to sir Con Magennis, but after the rebellion of that year, 
 the property was confiscated, and granted to William 
 Hawkins, great grandfather to Robert Hawkins, who as- 
 sumed the surname of Magill, and was married first to 
 Rachael Clotworthy, fourth countess of Antrim, and 
 secondly to the lady Anne Bligh, daughter of John, earl 
 of Darnley. The date 1588 was inscribed on a stone 
 placed over the front entrance of the castle, built by Felix 
 Magenis at Newcastle. — Harris, County of Down, p. 80. 
 
 ''° Carlingford. — The waters of Carlingford lough become 
 "contracted at Caol ('narrow,' in the same sense in which 
 the Scotch use the word Kyles), now Narrow-Water, 
 which is only a version of the Irish name Caol-Uisge, as 
 it appears in the Annals of Irelafid at the year 1252, in 
 which it is recorded that a castle was built here by the 
 English." — Reeves, Ecclesiastical Antiquities, p. 114. 
 
 Castles of the Russells and of others. — Besides Jordan's 
 castle, and at least three others in the immediate vicinity 
 of Ardglass, there were throughout the barony of Lecale, 
 Castleward, Castle-Bright, Castlescreen, Castle- Aud ley, 
 and Castle- Welsh, all which are supposed to have been 
 built by Anglo-Norman leaders, as defences against the 
 native Irish, whose lands they had appropriated. Some 
 of these structures were built on sites that had been occu- 
 pied by earlier fortresses. As the following passage 
 
 contains an interesting account of the Russells, and has 
 reference also to several other families of the district, 
 we here give it entire: — "According to Burke, the 
 ancestor of the Russells, of Killough, and various 
 other branches in Ireland, was a cadet of the house 
 of Kingston Russell, in Dorsetshire, who accom- 
 panied De Courcy, in his conquest of that part of 
 Ulster, subsequently forming the northern portion of the 
 Pale, and from whom he received a grant of the lordships 
 of Killough and Rathmullan. This circumstance is re- 
 ferred to in the act for the attainder of Shane O'Neill, 
 passed in 1569, wherein, after reciting De Courcy's con- 
 quest, it states that there remained at that day in Ulster 
 certain stirpes of English blood, as a testimony, as the 
 Savages, Jordans, Fitz-Simons, Chamberlins, Bensons, 
 Russells, Audleys, and Whites, and the Act specially 
 provides that nothing therein should prejudice, inter -alia, 
 the Earl of Kildare, the Bishop of Down, Rowland White 
 or his heirs, Christopher Russell, of Lecale, or his heirs, 
 or Patrick Goughe, late of Mourne, in the county of Down, 
 his heirs, feoffees or assigns. Passing by several other 
 branches of the family who settled in the counties of Water- 
 ford and Limerick, the former being Parliamentary Barons, 
 but now extinct, the latter being still represented in that 
 county, we proceed to Thomas Russell, Baron of Kil- 
 lough, in 13 16, and fifth in descent from the companion 
 of De Courcy. He had two sons, of whom James, the 
 eldest, married Maria, daughter of Magenis, of Iveagh, 
 by whom he had issue a son, also called James. Richard, 
 the second, married Margaret, relict of Milo Mandeville, 
 and was appointed Grand Justiciaiy of Ulster by Richard 
 II., in 1385, and Chancellor of the same pro^'ince in 1388; 
 the succeeding year, having committed to his custody 
 Dunover, Ballytrustan, Corrock, Ballygalget, and other 
 lands in the county of Newtown, in Ulster. The younger 
 James married Rohesia Macartan, and was succeeded by 
 his son George, who married Catherine, daughter of Hugh 
 Boy O'Neill, of Claneboy. Notwithstanding his affinity 
 and family alliance with the neighbouring Irish families, 
 we find this George in the reign of Henry IV. with his 
 seal, as that " Georgi Russhel Baronis," to a singular 
 document now preserved in the Chapter House, West- 
 minster, and to which are appended the seals of the Bishop, 
 the Prior of the Cathedral, and Archdeacon of Down, of 
 the Abbots of Bangor, Saul, Inch, Grey Abbey, and the 
 Commonalties of the city of Down, and the towns of Ard- 
 glass and Kilcleth. This record contains a miserable 
 representation of the then existing state of the earldom of 
 Ulster, owing to the wars waged by sea and land on the 
 English, by the Bretones and Scots of the out isles, con- 
 federated with the O'Neylls, O'Kane, M'Quillan, Magenis, 
 Macartan, and the O'Flynns, and the thraldom and tribute 
 they imposed, calculated in a short time to utterly destroy 
 the earldom, unless the King would send people to inhabit 
 
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 315 
 
 As Sir James lay before Newcastle aforesaid, with a brass field piece and some falcon- 
 
 and defend the land, and assist his true liege man, Janico 
 Savage, the Seneschal of Ulster, whose exertions were 
 highly lauded as deserving of reward. [Communication 
 by W. Reeves, D. D. , in the Froceedings of the Royal 
 Irish Acadamy, vol. v., p. 132.] George was suc- 
 ceeded by his eldest son William, who married Anne, 
 daughter of Alexander Mor MacDonnell, of the Glens of 
 Antrim, by whom he was father of John, Baron of Kil- 
 lough, in 1490, who married Johanna, daughter of Robert 
 Savage, lord of Ardkeen, who, with Savage, of Porta- 
 ferry, styled lord of the little Ardes, were also Palatine 
 Barons of Ulster. His son Henry succeeded, and mar- 
 ried Judith, daughter and heir of Carbery M'Cann, chief 
 of Clanbrassil, in the county of AiTnagh, and was succeeded 
 by his eldest son James, eighth Baron of Killough, who 
 married Maiy, daughter of Rowland Savage, of Portaferry. 
 About this time branched off the families of Rathmullan 
 (of whom hereafter) Seton, County Dublin, &c., and 
 Bright, in this county, sometimes called of Ballyvaston, and 
 Ballygallaghan, now Ballynagalliagh. In the beginning 
 of Queen Elizabeth's reign, we find Christopher Russell 
 seated at Bright Castle, and his lands as before mentioned, 
 expressly reserved from confiscation, by statute. These 
 were Ballygallaghan, held by Knight's service, and Bally- 
 vaston, alias Balleboston, alias Westpelston; Ballynebert, 
 alias Newphertowne; and M'Crowllis Quarter, alias 
 Mullaghaire, held under George, Earl of Kildare, as of the 
 Manor of Ardglass. He married Margaret Fitz-Simons, 
 and died 22nd July, 1619, leaving Richard his heir, who 
 married Elinor, daughter of Nicholas Ward of Castleward, 
 and had no issue, and a daughter Mary, who married 
 Phelim Magenis, of Tullamore, otherwise Bryansford, by 
 whom she had one son, Bryan. This Biyan eventually 
 succeeded to Tullamore, and the Ballyvaston estates, and 
 dying unmarried, was succeeded by his sister Ellinor, the 
 vifife of Captain William Hamilton, of Erinagh, ancestor 
 of the Hamiltons, Earls of Clanbrassil and Limerick, and 
 of the present Earl of Roden. We now return to James, 
 eighth Baron of Killough, who was succeeded by his son 
 George, who, also succeeding to property at Sheephouse, 
 County Meath, settled there, and married Ellinor, daugh- 
 ter of Richard Fleming of the noble family of Slane, in 
 that county. He died in 1596, leaving Nicholas, his son 
 and heir, and two other sons, John and James, the latter 
 ancestor of the Quoniamstown family still existing, and to 
 whom was given that town and Ballyneshrihe, now Bally- 
 strew. Nichola<:, the eleventh Baron, in May, i6o6 sold 
 the townland of Ross, to William Merryman, of Bishop's 
 Court, and in June, 1620, with the consent of his only son 
 Patrick, who afterwards died without issue, sold also, the 
 town and lands of Killough to his brother John, who set- 
 tled in that place for some time, until he succeeded to 
 Sheephouse, on his brother's death, when he became twelfth 
 and strictly speaking, the last Palatine Baron of Killough, 
 as, after the civil wars of 1641, that town was confiscated, 
 under the Act of Settlement, 180 acres being granted to 
 Robert Hamond, or Hammon, and 42 acres to the Duke 
 of York, afterwards King James II. His descendants, 
 however, continued to occupy a distinguished place in so- 
 ciety. George, his eldest son, having married Mary, 
 daughter of Arthur Magenis, and niece of Hugh, second 
 Viscount Iveagh. His great grandson Thomas, had a 
 numerous family, of whom Andrew, a Captain in Lord 
 
 Bellew's regiment, was killed at the Boyne, and another 
 at Aughrim, while John, his second, who married Anne, 
 daughter of William Gardiner, of Dublin, Esq. , had two 
 sons, who died without issue, whereupon this branch be- 
 came extinct and the representation of the Russells of 
 Ulster fell to the Quoniamstown family. We, therefore, 
 return to James, third son of George, ninth Baron of Kil- 
 lough. He died in 1605, and was succeeded by his son 
 George, who died in 1645, leaving (by his wife Margaret) 
 a son and heir, Patrick, who married Maria (daughter of 
 Cahill O'Hara, of Crebilly, in the County of Antrim), 
 and was afterwards killed fighting for the royal cause. 
 Under the Act of Settlement, Ballystrew was allotted to 
 William Brett, of Saul, and afterwards of Ballynewport ; 
 and Quoniamstown to the Duke of York ; — but, Patrick's 
 widow having (according to a family tradition) travelled 
 on foot to London from Holyhead (not having means to 
 proceed by a public vehicle), Charles II., at her earnest 
 remonstrance and petition, had these grants abrogated, 
 whereupon the lands were returned to Patrick (her son) 
 by the Court of Grace. He married Alicia Hussey, of the 
 family of the Barons of Galtrim, in Meath, and was suc- 
 ceeded by his son, Valentine Russell. He served as 
 Sheriff for the County Down (in 1687), and married, to his 
 first wife one of the Magennis's, by whom he had a large 
 family of daughters; and, to his second wife (9th Feb., 1683) 
 Mary O'Hanlon — being directly the reverse of what is 
 stated by Burke— on the authority of the pedigree compiled 
 by the late Sir William Betham. He had been outlawed 
 for high treason at Banbridge (the 20th of Oct., 1696), as 
 was Lord Iveagh (in July, 1691) ; also James Russell, of 
 Quoniamstown ; Patrick, of Marshalstown ; Christopher, 
 of Downpatrick; Arthur Magennis, of Castlewellan; and 
 several of that name, besides numbersofMacartans, O'Lav- 
 erys, Garveys, Crolys, M 'Ilboys, M'Connells, Rowland 
 Savage (of Portaferry), Rowland Savage (of Newry), &c., 
 the entire outlawries amounting to upwards of one hundred 
 and seventy, including several clergymen, a list of whom 
 we possess. In consequence of this outlawiy, the estate 
 of Valentine Russell was forfeited, although a claim was 
 filed by Hugh O'Hanlon, as next friend of his son Patrick 
 (a minor), stating the estate to be entailed; and, also, on 
 Ijehalf of his relict, Mary Russell, asserting her right to a 
 rent-charge of ^40, in lieu of dower under her marriage 
 articles. It was accordingly sold by the Trustees of the 
 Forfeited Estates, 22nd June, 1703, when it was purchased 
 in trust for the minor, by Lieut. -General Robert Echlin, 
 of Rush, son of Robert Echlin, Esq., of Ardquin — he 
 paying £()0 for a chief rent of £t, charged on Coniams- 
 towne, 263 acres ; and Ballynastrew, 1 70 acres ; and £^0 
 for the Trustees' right and title in the lands. Patrick, the 
 minor, married Mary, daughter of John Crilly, Esq., of 
 Kilcurry, County Louth, and had issue a son and heir, 
 Patrick, junr., who married Christina, daughter of Admi- 
 ral Tyrrell, but, leaving no issue, was succeeded by his 
 brother, Thomas Russell. He married Margaret, daugh- 
 ter of John Byrne, Esq., of Castletown, County Louth; by 
 whom he was father of the late Patrick Henry Russell, of 
 BallinfuU, County Louth, and Swords, County Dublin. 
 The latter married Frances Maria Theresa, daughter of 
 Thomas Mac Mahon, Esq., of Drogheda, and died in the 
 year 1840, leaving four sons: — I. Thomas John Russell, 
 the present proprietor of Quoniamstown and Ballystrew, 
 
3i6 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 ets48 Qf jjjg t}jg jijjg whereof the enemy had not, he so warmly plyed it, that the besieged 
 
 conditioned to give it up if not reheved by their friends in three days, for which time a cessation of 
 arms was agreed on, but no permission granted to revictual that place. Then Sir James, leaving a 
 sufficient blockade, withdrew thence (not two miles) to his head-quarters at Dundrum Castle, which 
 stands on a high hill, and hath plain prospect of Newcastle and the country round about it/^ 
 
 On the third day, his scouts on all hands brought him certain word of the enemys approach 
 from all quarters, in great numbers. He rode out with his troope to stop passes, and to view their 
 several partys with his perspective glass, and finding that any one of them was his over-match; he, 
 therefore, raised the seige, and brought the men to join the rest at Dundrum, himself and the horse 
 and some firelocks (whom he placed in the ditches), staying on the roads to retard the enemy's 
 march; and so they disputed the highway, killing many of the Irish, beating them back very often, 
 till Sir James (his ammunition being near spent, his foot firemen weary, and his troop almost jaded,) 
 seeing another great party of the enemy marching towards the Castle, and like to intercept his late 
 besiegers and himself, he, therefore, in time sent to Dundrum his commands for fresh men and am- 
 munition; and with them he staid and made good his retreat to the bridge, called' Blackstaff,s° at 
 the head of the Strand,^' with all his small party (being not half of his regiment) deserting the 
 garrison, as untenable against such a force. He halted at the said bridge and reinforced his men, 
 which lay at the pass next Newcastle. The tide coming in, made the Irish draw up on Dundrum 
 shore. 52 
 
 who married first (in 1822) Marie Christine, second daugh- 
 ter of the Marquis de St. Gery, by his wife, a daughter of 
 the late Count de Mac Carthy, of Thoulouse ; and, secondly, 
 (in 1833) Marie Josephine Aglae Ferdinande, only daugh- 
 ter of the Marquis de Flamarens, one of the bed-chamber 
 to Charles X. 2. Henry, now of Dublin, barrister-at- 
 law ; and Edward George, who died at Mostaganam, in 
 Western Africa, January, 1842, while serving as a volun- 
 teer against Abd-el-Kader." — Hanna's Account of Kil- 
 lough, with Notices of the Parishes of Rathmullan and 
 Bright, published in the Doxvnpatrick Recorder. 
 
 Falconets. — A falcon was a small cannon carrying 
 shot of about two pounds and a-half ; and a falconet was 
 a smaller piece of ordnance, whose diameter at the bore 
 varied from two to four inches, carrying shot generally of 
 one pound and a quarter weight. 
 
 ■*9 Round about it. — The view from Dundrum castle is 
 very extensive, commanding, as it does, the inner and 
 outer bay, the main sea stretching away to the south, the 
 insular plain of Lecale eastward, with the magnificent 
 sweep of mountain scenery to the south-west. 
 
 S" Blackstaff. — This bridge spans the river called Black- 
 staff, near the point at which its waters are emptied into 
 the strand or inner bay of Dundrum. This stream, also 
 called formerly the A nnadorn, from a place of that name 
 near its source, forms for a considerable space the bound- 
 ary between Kinelarty and Lecale. There are several 
 other rivers of this name in the north of Ireland, one of 
 which falls into the Belfast lough, and another separates 
 the Great from the Little Ards. "The valley of the river 
 is moory and rugged, composed of alluvial deposit, the 
 river itself winding its way in serpentine coils ; and for- 
 merly defended on the East by an earthen rampart and 
 
 fosse called the 'black ditch,' now nearly obliterated. 
 Near this spot, unsuitable as it now appears, was formerly 
 encamped one of the most successful armies which Queen 
 Elizabeth sent forth for the subjugation of Ireland, and 
 commanded by one of her most puissant and successful 
 generals, one of her most accomplished statesmen, Lord 
 Mountjoy, though one singularly destitute of humanity or 
 moral principle." — Hanna's Account of the Parishes of 
 Tyrella and Ballykinlar, in the Do^wnpatrick Recorder. 
 See also Reeves's Ecclesiastical Antiquities, pp. 201, 204; 
 Harris's State of the County of Down, p. 143. 
 
 5' Head of the Strafid. — This celebrated strand is men- 
 tioned in O'Daly's Satirical Poem as the path by which the 
 poet intended to pass from Ard-Uladh into Lecale : — 
 
 " It will not be long ere I cross the strand, 
 To the place where wine is got ; 
 To visit the youths who never were, 
 Without a desire to watch the king's roads." 
 
 On this verse, O'Donovan has the following note : — " The 
 King's high road, i.e., to rob passengers if they were gen- 
 tlemen or merchants. These were evidently the Magen- 
 nises of Dundnim, in the county of Down. Dundrum 
 was famous for wine. Here Shane O'Neale had at one 
 time two hundred tun of wine in his cellar, 'whereof and 
 of usquebaugh he would drink to that excess that to cool 
 himself he would be put into a pit, and the earth cast 
 round him to his chin, and so remained, as it were, buried 
 alive till his body was in better temper.' " — Tribes of Ire- 
 land, p. 61, and note. 
 
 5' On Dundrum shore. — The tide here referred to was 
 that of the inner bay of Dundrum — in its flow covering 
 the strand, and by its ebb leaving a wide space for crossing 
 to and fro from DunJrum to Tyrella. 
 
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 317 
 
 Sir James (on his first full discovery of the powers of the Irish) had sent for the rest of his 
 regiment, and the militia countrymen, who, with baggages, boyes, horses and provisions, repaired 
 to him with all expedition; whilst he was refreshing with meat, and encouraging his wearied men 
 by his words, as he had done that day by his conduct, and the example of his actions. He was 
 now well posted at the bridge, on the entry of the barrony, where it is a sort of peninsula. 53 
 
 The timely and martial retreat which Sir James had made, gave them all great confidence in 
 him, and his approved courage animated them greatly; which was confirmed when they saw their 
 comrades and countrymen come to them. Sir James told them he must beat those rebels forthwith 
 to regain what they had left and could not keep for want of the reinforcement. They joyfully 
 assented; and so Sir James went and ordered them in a battalion, to march in that order straight 
 against the enemy as soon as the tide would permit. 
 
 Here I must not omit to mention the keenness and spight with which his men had fought, (I 
 may say without fear or witt,) especially the troopers, for they were men that escaped on horse-back 
 with sword in hand, and had seen (as most of the foot also had escaped and beheld) their houses 
 burned ; their wives and children murdered. So they were like robbed bears and tygers, and 
 
 53 Sort of peninsula. — If Lecale at large be the peninsula 
 here referred to, it was formed by the Blackstaff River 
 and the inner Bay of Dundrum on the West, the sea on 
 the South, and Strangford Lough on the North and East. 
 
 5'* Murdered. — These recruits, of which Sir James 
 Montgomei"y's force was largely composed, had made 
 their escape to the Ards from other districts in Down, 
 where atrocious massacres had been perpetrated by the 
 rebels. AtDownpatrick, Killileagh, Newcastle, Donagh- 
 more, Newry, Lough-Keran (near Tullylish), and Poyntz- 
 Pass, the most revolting cruelties had been perpetrated 
 under the immediate sanction of Bryan O'Neill, Lady 
 Iveagh, and other influential Irish. — Harris, State of 
 the County of Doivn, pp. 35, 76, 81, 84, 85, 92, 
 106. The Lough-Keran massacre was perpetrated 
 by means peculiarly horrible. The tragic details 
 are in part preserved in the Depositions of Peter 
 Hill, esq., taken in the year 1645. The following is 
 an extract, printed by Harris, County of Dcwii, p. 107 : — 
 " About the beginning of March, 1641, four score men, 
 women, and children — English and Scottish — were sent, 
 by direction of Sir Phelim O'Neill, from the county of 
 Armagh to Claneboys, in the county of Down, where 
 they were met by Capt. Phelim M' Art M 'Brian and his 
 company of Rebels, most of his own sept, who carried 
 and forced all these Protestants to a Lough called Lough- 
 Keran, in the same county, and forced them upon the 
 Ice, both men, women, and children. Finding the ice so 
 frozen that they could not be drowned, they forced them 
 as far as they could on the ice ; but not daring to pursue 
 them, for fear of breaking the ice under their own feet, 
 they took the sucking children from their parents, and 
 with all their strength threw them as far as they were 
 able towards the place where the ice was weak ; where- 
 upon their parents, nurses, and friends, striving to fetch 
 off the children, went so far that they broke the ice, and 
 both they and the children perished together by drowning, 
 all save one man that escaped from them wounded, and 
 one woman." The massacre at Downpatrick is detailed 
 
 in part in the following Depositions of Lieut. Edward 
 Davies, here printed for the first lime, and interesting, 
 as preserving the names of several Irish leaders of the 
 district : — 
 
 " The Examination of Lieuft Edward Davies, who, being duely 
 sworne, saieth that he was in the Lord Cromwell's house, in Downe- 
 patrick, when it was beseidged by the Lord Maginis, Viscount 
 Evagh, and Collonell Conne oge oNeile, the gtli of fifebry, in the 
 yeare 1641, And that aboute six weekes after Lieuft Collonell Alix- 
 hander Hamelton, whoe comanded the s^ Lord Cromwell's house, 
 did cappitulate w'h the afores^ Lord Magir.is and Collonell oNeile, 
 and did artickle with them for the surrender of the s^^ house as 
 ffolloweth, viz. — that Collonell Daniell Maginis should be sent to 
 Killaleagh castle, and Mr. William Lloyd should remayne in the 
 Lord Cromwell's house for the space of 14 dales as hostages for the 
 performance of the s^ artickles; Secondly, that all the amimition 
 and provision in the house should he delivered upp to the s'i Lord 
 Maginis and Collonell oNeile, and the halfe of all the musketts, 
 firelocks, and other Armes that were in the house; Thirdly, that the 
 officers and souildiers belonging to the sd house should march a 
 way to Balentogher Castle w"i the rest of the Armes with flying 
 coulors, droms beateinge, light matches, muskets laden, and buletts 
 in theire mouthes; Fourthly, that the Lord Cromwell's servants, and 
 all others that had goods in the house, and were there themselves, 
 should have 14 dales tyme to transporte themselves and theire goods 
 to aney Garrison belonging to the British forces, and further, this 
 deponant saieth that when the officers and souildiers marched a way 
 he remained in the house w'h Mr. William Lloyd to see the Lord 
 Cromwell's goods sent away, and that within a day or two after the 
 lord Maginis and severall others beinge in the Lord Cromwell's hall, 
 there cam in one of theire folowers and said that the souldieres had 
 begun to fire the towne, whereuppon one Rorey M'Euer or 
 Ever oge Maginis said to the lord Maginis, my lord, goe into the 
 towne, and give orders for the fireing of the towne, for your prede- 
 sessors have had the name of it twice, and doe you take it the third 
 tyme, upon wl^ the s*^' Lord went downe into the towne, and remayned 
 there till the towne was all on fire, and then returned again to the 
 house ; and, further, this deponant saieth that M'^ William Lloyd, 
 meetting the s^ lord, said, my lord, it seemes you have sett all 
 Downe on fire, and the s^ lord replyd yea, noe, replyd the sd Uoyd, 
 you have left on thing unfired yett that hath don you more 
 harme then ever the towne did, and the s ' lord asked him what that 
 was, and thesd lloyd replyed, and said it was the G illovves, fur said 
 he it hath hanged more of your kinne then ever the towne harmed 
 you. And this deponant further saieth that the same day theire 
 Armey marched into lecale, and to Downe, that there were severall 
 ould decripett men and woemen in Downe that lived uppon the 
 Almes of others, and others that were house keepers that stayed in 
 the towne, maney cf w'l were most bloodeyly murthered at theire 
 
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The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 could not be sattisfied with all the revenges they took, for they sj^ared not the enemy nor them- 
 selves. It was a Commander's labour to restraine their chargeing till the due time ; and then their 
 enraged and implacable fury was unresistable, for they whetted one another's malice when they 
 went to fight, saying, " let us take amends for the murders and mischiefs those cowardly dogs and 
 their friends have done to us and ours.''^^ 
 
 interlnge into Downe, butt by whome, or by whose comand, this 
 examinatt doth not knowe, allsoe this cxaminat Saieth that there 
 was one Rorey oDonlahan that was formerly a servant to this 
 examinat, and he was sent from M'' West of Balydogan to this 
 cxaminat, w'ha letter, and was taken by that party and hanged in 
 the towne but by whose Comand he knowes not, And further saieth 
 that the within named Daniell Maginis was then a CoUonell in that 
 Army, and that the persons that were Killed in Downe at that tyme 
 to his knowledge were these, Robertt Holmes, Cathrin Gradell, Anne 
 Betts, Elin Erwine, Abraham Hemton, and Dorothy his wife, and 
 one Philip that was a servant of John Smyths and one Anne a 
 charwoeman, whose siniames he knowes not, w^h severall others, and 
 further saieth that he took a party out of the house and Caused the 
 the corps of the persons aforemencoqed to be buried after the 
 Surender, and further saieth that the aforenamed Daniell Maginis 
 did acte as a CoUonell in that Armey, and further saieth not 
 
 " Edw. Davies." 
 To which Deposition is added the following : — 
 
 ** And this examinat being demanded further saieth that he saw 
 the persons hereunder named in Downe and in Amies w*h the rest at 
 the delivery upp of the Armes and other provisions that were to be 
 surrendered as aforesi, viz. — The Lord Evagh, Conne oge oNeile 
 deceased, Daniell Maginis now in prison, Patr. Macartan now in 
 prison, Owen Macartan now in prison, Georg Russell of Rath- 
 muUen, Phelemey M'-Toole oNeile deceased, William Gibons of 
 Baiykinlar deceased, Rorey M'^Ever oge Maginies deceased. 
 
 " Edw. Davies." 
 — Depositions in Library of Trinity College, Dublin, lettered Dotvn, 
 s8o8, MSS., F. 3. 8. 
 
 Us and ours. — The soldiers, and others, sometimes 
 imitated the atrocities of the Irish, as the following details, 
 now printed for the first time, too clearly prove : — 
 
 "The examination of Thomas Dixon of lecale, aged abt fourty years, 
 taken the 7th May, 1653, who sayeth that the second yeere of the 
 Rebellion he dwelt in Byshop's court. And that in the first yeere of 
 the Rebellion one Cormach Macgueere went out the first moneth, 
 and within fyve or six dayes after came in, and was three nights in 
 Dounepatrich with Sr James Montgomery, whose Regiment then 
 lay in lecale ; and then the sayd Corniick M'^gueer went out agayne. 
 This examinat further sayeth, that in the second yeere of the Re- 
 bellion Capt. George Montgomerie's troope being brought into lecale, 
 and going abroad to meet with such of the Irish as used to come into 
 the Hand and fall upon such off the Inhabitants as they could meet 
 w^l^ going betwix garrison and garrison. It happened, that one 
 tyme, that Cornet Jonstone, then quarter master. And Ralph Read, 
 and an other whose name this examinat sayeth he knoweth not, and 
 also this examinat were together att Ardglasse, where this examinat 
 had a brother, Robert Dickson. That while they were together, 
 some of Ardglasse gave Intelligence to quarter M'' Jonstone, that 
 some of the Rebells were in the rockes ; as they used often to be, as 
 this examinat sayeth, and from thence did sculke out to kill such as 
 they found opportunity against. This examinat sayeth that Quarter 
 M' Jonstone and the others went out and found Cormick M'^guecr in 
 the Rocks, the noyse whereof coming to the toune, he this examinat 
 went out, and found the foresayd quarter M' with others chasing the 
 sayd M^'gueer, and that, at last, they invirened him, and did kill 
 him. He further sayeth, y' he can not particularly tell whether 
 quarter M^ Johnston first, or any other, or all of them together, fell 
 upon the sayd M^'gueer, But that he was killed by the forenamed 
 persons. And that he, this examinat, knoweth not whether he him- 
 self gave him any wound or not, nor whither ever he touch'd him or 
 not. This examinat further sayeth, that his brother, Robert Di.\on, 
 told him, this examinat, that the sayd M'^gueer, with two more, one 
 day pursued the sayd Robert Dixon, betwix his barne and his house, 
 .ind not being able to overtak him, because the sayd Dixon was on 
 .lorse back, that the sayd M'^gueer returned to the barne and hanged 
 the sayd Dixons barne man. 
 
 " Taken before us, DixoN. 
 
 " G. Blundell. "Thomas T. O. his 
 
 "Ja. Traill." marke. 
 
 "The examination of John Mackdonnell of Lecale, being aged 
 about thirty-foure years, taken the 7th May, 1653, who, bemg 
 sworne, sayeth that on the second yeare of the Rebellion he was in 
 Ardglasse, and on a Sabbath day in the morning, being lying in his 
 bed, the Drumer of that Company of Jas: Montgomery's Regm', 
 whereof Capt. Wode was their lieutenant, came into his the exami- 
 nat's house, and asked a loane of his foulling peece. This examinat 
 desyred to know what he would doe with itt. The sayd Drumer 
 (whose name is Dunbar) replyed that he had some use for itt, but 
 knowing, by this examinats further answer, that it was roosty and 
 not fixed, he went out agayne without it. This Examinat further 
 sayeth, that about half an hour after the sayd Drumer went out, he, 
 this Examinat, heard a cry in the street, and as he was rysing to putt 
 on his cloathes, Thomas Riske, one of the four men whom this 
 Examinat after heard was killed, then came into this Examinat's 
 house, haveing a wound in his neck, from whch: the blood did spring 
 againe. That the sayd Riske sayd to this Examinat, that the sold 
 were about to kill him, and desyred, therefore, this Examinat to goe 
 to Lent. Wode be caused hinder the sold'^ in that action ; that this 
 Examinat sayd he knew not what good his speaking could doe, yet 
 by and by he putt on his cloake, and being come abroad, he found that 
 four men were killed, whose names, as this Examinat remembers, were 
 Thomas Riske, Petr M^Canon, Richard M'^Lyon, and Patr. M'Elay. 
 But by whom they were killed he, this Examinat, knoweth not 
 But he sayeth, that the report was that Edward Jackson and Will 
 Hamilton were the killers of them, and lykewyse that the report was 
 among the sold"^^ that Leut. Wode gave order for the killing of the 
 foresayd foure men. 
 
 McDoNELL. 
 " John -f- + his 
 marke. 
 
 " Jurat. 
 
 " G. Blundell ; 
 " Ja: Traill." 
 
 " May 4, 1653. 
 
 "The Examination of Katharine Gilmore of Ballenahince, taken 
 before me the day and yeare above written. 
 
 "Ambrose Bedell. 
 
 " Who saith y' 8 dayes before the Candlemas next after y* Re- 
 bellion, shee then liveing in the towne land of Ballydavy, in y' 
 Barrony of Castlereagh, altogether with tenn famlyes more, of all 
 wh^li II familyes there were (of men, weemen, and children), killed 
 to her owne knowledge, seaventy and three by a great company of 
 people (being), to her estimacon, in number about 200, who were 
 brought thither by one Andrew Hamilton of the fforte, James John- 
 son, the elder, and James Johnson, the younger, both of Balledavy, 
 John Crafford of Crafford's Burne ; and further she saith. That 
 James Johnson, the elder, killed one Henry O Gilmore, brother to 
 the Examinat, in her owne sight, and likewise sheesawe thes^ James 
 w'h his swoord slashing att one Edmond Neeson, who was kdled, but 
 shee knoweth whether bee made an end of him or not, for on the 
 receipt of the first blow, the sd Neeson runn to the lower end of the 
 house, among the rest of his neighbours, the cause of ther knowledge 
 is, that a short space before the sd Andrew Hamilton had putt her 
 out of the doore of the house in Consideracon of her , after 
 
 which shee saith that by reason there were many of Hamilton's 
 Company about the Doore she laye her downe in a Ditch which 
 was right before the doore, where she was unespied of any as she 
 supposeth, the night being very darke, rayny, and windie, & 4 or 5 
 lights in the house ; the whch lights the sd Hamilton or his men 
 caused the Exaro'^ mother to make for them a little before supper 
 tyme, of whch lights they carried same to any house for to give 
 them light, to composse their designe. 
 
 " The Exam* further saith, she saw one Abraham Adam kill James 
 O Gilmor, her owne husband, and Daniell Crone O Gilmore, and 
 Thurlagh O Gilmore ; she further saith, that at her going forth of 
 the house, a sister of hers tooke houlde of her, for to goe out w'h her, 
 and the sd Abraham Adam strock of her sd sister's arme from y° 
 Elbow, w'h a broade swoord, the sister's name was Owna O 0\\- 
 mmt."— Depositions of 1641, TriniW College, Dublin, lettered 
 Down, MSS., F. 3. 8. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 319 
 
 The Irish army, of above 3000, were drawn up (as aforesaid) on the shoar and the fields above 
 it ; and the tide was going fast out, and they seeing all Sir James's foot, being about eight hundred, 
 (yet with ten colours,) and his small brass guns before them, flanked with the troops and militia 
 men (about 300) in the reare, with baggage men and boys on horse behind them. All those 
 (except the reserves) drawn up at three men deep, and making a long front, the enemy guessed 
 aright that it was Sir James's design to march over the Strand, and to charge them in that order. 
 So they took the wisest and safest course to march off, before the sea was third part ebbed ; and 
 when they were at the back of the next hills, they dispersed in companies to their several passes 
 and quarters. 
 
 Sir James had no designe but to fight them on fair ground ; where his troop and brass pieces 
 gave him the advantage against 'theiV numbers, and where he was in no danger of ambusses. 
 However, when he saw the Irish intended to draw off their main body, he detached his troop, with 
 a firelok behind each of them, and two soldiers (with their muskets) on every baggage horse, and 
 came up with the rest, and his artillery (as fast as they could march) to sustain his troop and 
 dragoons, who were very eager to regain the honor they thought they lost by their retreat. And 
 being full of revenge, they attacqued the Irish rear, most partys killing many, and giving no quarter, 
 unless to a prime officer, (of such were their best gentlemen,) by whom a ransom, or exchange of 
 friends (detained prisoners by the Irish) was expected. 
 
 The troops and dragoons pursued them two miles, where there was no danger of ambushcade ; 
 and night drawing on, Sir James retired to his men (by this time drawn up,) and they encamped 
 under Dundrum, which was deserted ; Sir James sending, in his view, a party of dragoons, with 
 his brass gunns, to Newcastle, which the Irish had also evacuated of men and arms. He put (and 
 furnished with victuals) a good garrison therein, to be a frontier to the pass (near it) aforesaid, and 
 to be an inlett to scoure in the woods of Ballaghenery^^ and the lands about TuUaghmore.s? 
 
 He strengthened, also, Dundrum Castle with provisions, though the soldiers had no houses 
 
 5* Ballaghenery. — More correctly Bealach-a-neir ; now 
 Ballaghanery, about three miles south of Newcastle, in 
 the parish of Kilkeel, and barony of Moume. See Reeves, 
 Ecclesiastical Antiquities, p. 207; Reeves's note to Alac- 
 CancCs Itinerary, in Ulster yojirnal of ArchcEology, vol. 
 ii., p. 49. In a wood at this point, twenty-four Protes- 
 tants, including a clergyman named Tudge, lieut. Hugh 
 Trevor and his wife, and a Mr. Weston, all of Newry 
 were massacred by a partyof Irish under George Russell 
 of Rathmullan, by order of sir Con Maginnis. — Harris, 
 State of the Cojinty of Down, pp. 81, 93. 
 
 S7 Tullaghmore. — Now Tollymore or Bryansford, in 
 the parish of Kilcoo, and barony of Upper Iveagh, This 
 place, now so well-known, is somewhat more than two 
 miles north-west of Newcastle. Harris states that near 
 Tullamore, "on the skirts of Sliev-neir and Sliev- 
 snavan (mountains so called) the Lord Limerick has two 
 Deer-parks, remarkable for excellent venison, or rather, 
 one divided into two, by a wall carried through the 
 middle of it, finely wooded, cut into ridings and vistoes, 
 and watered by a river running through it in a channel of 
 rocks and precipices, which passes under a bridge of hewn 
 
 stone, from whence are beautiful prospects of the sea. " — p. 81 , 
 82. This place so remarkable for its natural beauties, has 
 been tastefully improved by succeeding occupants, and is 
 now one of the most charming residences in the county. 
 The lord Limerick mentioned in this extract was a great- 
 grandson of John Hamilton of Tollimore, brother of the 
 first lord Clannaboy, and member of parliament for 
 Killileagh in 1613. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. iii. p. 7. Bryansford, the name 
 by which this place is now generally known, was so 
 called from Bryan M 'Agholy Magennis, the native Irish 
 chief to whom it belonged, and whose daughter, Ellen, 
 was married to captain Hamilton of Erinagh, a nephew 
 of the first viscount Clannaboy. Her son, James Hamilton 
 of Tollimore, or Bryansford, succeeded to the property, on 
 the death of her brother, Brian Maginnis, without issue. 
 This James Hamilton's grand-daughter, Anne, was 
 married in 1752, to Robert, first earl of Roden. The 
 present, or third earl of Roden, enjoys the estate of 
 Bryansford, in virtue of his descent from Bryan M 'Agholy 
 Maginnis. See Hanna's Account of the Parish of Bright 
 in the Downpatrick Recorder, 
 
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 but cabbins, within the old walls to garrison in, who were to clear the fields about Cloghmaghrecatts^ 
 (Mr Annesly's house^s within a mile of it), and other lands about itself. 
 
 Sir James (upon the Irish drawing off and disappearing) had sent his militia to their posts ; 
 but he kept the baggage horses and boyes in his camp, for the Coyle bridge^ was broken down, 
 
 5^ Cloughmaghrecatt. — "A short distance from the 
 head of the strand,, or upper inlet of Dundrum Bay, stands 
 the post town of Clough, nearly half way between Castle- 
 wellan and Dovvnpatrick. It is of considerable antiquity, 
 under the names of Rath-cath, 'the Battle Fort,' and 
 Cloitghmaghericatt, 'the stony field of the battle.' 
 See Reeves's Ecclesiastical Antiquities, pp. 28, 215. 
 In 1641 it was the property of Matthew Forde, Esq., a 
 Protestant." Clough, or Cloughmaghericatt, originally 
 belonged to the Macartan family. In 161 2, James I. 
 granted it and the surrounding lands to Thomas Fitz- 
 maurice, but it came by purchase in 1615-16 into the 
 possession of sir Francis Annesley, all whose lands in the 
 county of Down were by patent dated 19th January, i6i8, 
 erected into the manor of Cloughmaghericatt. — Hanna's 
 Account of Clough in the Downpati-ick Recorder. 
 
 59 Mr. Annesly's Jiottst. — This Mr. Annesley was 
 Francis, the eldest son of sir Francis Annesley, by his 
 second wife, Jane, sister to Philip, first earl of Chester- 
 field. Francis Annesley, the younger, succeeded to his 
 father's lands, in the county of Down, and settled at 
 Clough, near which he built a mansion house as a resi- 
 dence of his family. In 1744, a Francis Annesley, sen., 
 resided at Clough, and Francis Annesley, jun., at Castle- 
 wellan. — Hanna's Account of Clough ; Harris, State of the 
 County of Down. pp. 78, 82. 
 
 *° Coyle bridge. — This is the bridge near Downpatrick 
 over the Coyle, now Quoile. "Perhaps," says Hams, 
 p. 38, " it should be called the Coyne bridge, as it affords 
 a safe way over a branch of the lake, anciently called 
 Lough Coyne (Cuan), and gives a short cut from Down- 
 patrick, in the barony of Lecale, into the baronies of 
 Dufferin and Castle Reagh." This conjecture by Harris 
 as to the word Coyle is not worthy of his usual accuracy. 
 "The name," says the Rev. Dr. Reeves, "is derived 
 from the Irish caol ' narrow,' which is sometimes pro- 
 nounced like keel, and sometimes, as in Scotland, kyle." 
 The bridge over the Coyle had been built by Thomas 
 Cromwell, lord Lecale, before the commencement of 
 the rebellion in 1641, but was soon afterwards broken 
 down, whether by the insurgents, or others, we 
 have not been able to discover. The following is 
 Mr. Hanna's notice of the building of this bridge, 
 from his Gossipings abo2it the Parish of Inch 
 in the Doivnpatrick Recorder : — " Notwithstanding 
 that Lord Lecale had granted the Ferry at Portillagh 
 to Mr. Echlin, he, about the year 1640, built a 
 bridge between Portillagh and the Coile, which, owing 
 to there being an old mill at the spot, was called the Old- 
 Millbridge. This bridge being entirely erected at his 
 own cost and charge, he, in June, 1641, presented a peti- 
 tion to the House of Lords, praying a contribution from 
 the country towards his charge, the work being very bene- 
 ficial to the commonvvfealth ; respecting which petition the 
 Lords desired to confer with the Commons, who, in accord- 
 ance with that desire, appointed a committee of fourteen 
 members to meet their lordships on the matter. At this 
 
 conference, evidence was given, shevsdng that Lord Lecale 
 had not only expended great sums of money in erecting 
 the bridge, from which the country thereabouts received 
 great benefit ; but that he had also lost the advantage of 
 the ferry which he formerly enjoyed ; and that the up- 
 holding thereof would be a growing charge, if kept in 
 requisite repair. It was therefore ordered by the Com- 
 mons, on the 9th of July, that a select committee should 
 prepare a bill for reasonable tolls to be received by Lord 
 Lecale, in consideration of his charges, and for the future 
 maintenance thereof ; and, upon further consideration, it 
 was also ordered that the Speaker should write to the then 
 next going Lords Justices of Assize for the County of 
 Down, praying them, in the name of the House, to lake 
 the contents of the petition and order into consideration, 
 and to enquire, by the Grand Jury, or other lawful means, 
 how far the said bridge was useful to the inhabitants there- 
 abouts, &c. The following letter was, accordingly written 
 by the Speaker : — 
 
 " My Lords, — I am commanded by the House of Commons to 
 recommend unto your Lordships* grave consideration the inclosed 
 Petition and Orders of this House, touching a Bridge erected by 
 the Right Hon. the Lord Cromweil, Lord Viscount Lecale, in the 
 County of Downe ; and I am further commanded to pray your 
 Lordstiips to enquire by the Presentments of the Grand Jury of the 
 said County, how useful the erecting and continuing of the said 
 Bridge hath been, and is like to be, to the Inhabitants thereabouts ; 
 and of what Toll, and of what Nature, and how much and by what 
 Persons payable, is, and shall be fitting to be settled for the said 
 Lord Cromwell and his Heirs, for the Charge he hath been, and 
 shall be at, for the building and maintenance of the said bridge ; and 
 to certify the said Presentirients, together with your Lordships' 
 opinion unto this House, to the End that a Bill may be prepared in 
 tfiat Behalf, as shall be thought fit. — I commit your Lordships to 
 God, and remain, your Lordships' very loving Friend, 
 
 " M.\URiCE Eustace, Speaker. 
 
 " ' 14 Julij, 1641. 
 
 " 'To the Right Honorable the Lords Justices of) 
 Assize for the County of Downe." ( 
 
 The journals of the Commons do not contain any state- 
 ment of the Judges having returned the required certificate, 
 though doubtless such was done, nor is there any evidence 
 of a Bill being introduced authorising the levjnng tolls, 
 though afterwards such were imposed, and subsequently 
 bought up by the county. For the loss Mr. Maxwell 
 sustained in the profits of the ferry, owing to the erection 
 of the bridge, he claimed compensation from Wingfield, 
 Earl of Ardglass, who succeeded to the estates in 16 — , 
 and the latter in 1657, abated the annual rent of the Inch, 
 &c. , lands to .^50, with a condition of further abating it 
 .^10 annually, when the old bridge which had become 
 greatly dilapidated was rebuilt, but that if within three 
 years the bridge was rebuilt and Mr. Maxwell paid £yx). 
 Earl Wingfield should re-possess the lands. The bridge 
 having been rebuilt about 1679, and the money repaid, 
 proceedings were instituted in Chancery for the recover) 
 of the lands, and a decretal order to that effect pronounced. 
 Eventually, however, all disputes between the parties were 
 referred to, and arranged by James Leslie, of Sheepland, 
 Esq. ; the legal proceedings released Mr. Maxwell, 
 Augttst, 1680, from Thomas, the third Earl of Ardglass, a 
 
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 and only a ferry used on that side ; so that Anacloy river^' guarded that quarter of the barony, and 
 the sea secured the rest. There was no inlett to it, but by the Strand, or the said bridge of Black- 
 staff, which had a fort and a garrison that had communication with Dundrum Castle, and but the 
 other pass, near Newcastle, which was secured as aforesaid, and the troop quartered near it. 
 
 Yet for all Sir James his circumspection, the Irish (by boggs above the fort and bridge afore- 
 said, between it and the said river,) came by night into Lecaile, and surprised a small garrison, 
 which lay too secure, being surrounded by a lough, all but one togher^^ before the drawbridge, 
 Our men had lain in hutts among the burned walls of the dwelling-house (called Ballydugan),^3 
 belonging to Mr West, a gentleman of estate thereabouts ; but Sir James, gathering some forces 
 and reinforcing the frontiers -aforesaid, skirmished with the enemy, who had come out to prey on 
 the country, whom he routed and pursued to the said togher, investing the house with a close siege, 
 and drawing his gunns against it, preparing boats from Portaferry, Strangford, Killeleagh and else- 
 where, which might come to him in two or three tides after orders given ; and, in the meantime, 
 bestowed some great, and many small shott on the enemy. Some of them were killed with stones 
 that fell from the battered walls, under which they skulked ; others were wounded or killed (as 
 they peeped out) by our fowlers, and by our musketeers, who were by experience become good 
 marksmen. 
 
 The besieged Irish had some good officers, but they durst not sally, for fear of our men, and 
 of the falconettes planted before the togher. " Their soldiers were picked out as the most resolute, 
 and had the provision layd in for our garrison, and good store they brought on their own and the 
 partys backs which conveyed them ; and daily expected more thereof, with arms and ammunition. 
 So they were provided, hoping Sir James's departure out of Lecaile, by reason of the descent 
 which they understood that Con Oge O'Neile^^ was to make into the Ardes, and were well resolved 
 
 new grant of the entire lands for the residue of the original 
 terms of 61, and 1,000 years, to commence on the expi- 
 ration of the first term." 
 
 Attacloy river. — This river had four different sources ; 
 two in the parish of Dromore, one in the parish of Anna- 
 hilt, and one in the parish of Hillsborougli. It is known 
 as the Ballynahinch river, until it reaches Annacloy, and 
 from thence until it falls into the south-west, or triangular 
 branch of Strangford Lake, it is called the Annacloy 
 river. — Harris, State of the County of Down, pp. 143, 144. 
 
 Togher. — From the Irish word tochar, a 'causeway,' 
 or 'pavement.' This word forms part in the names of 
 many places throughout Ireland, as the reader may see by 
 referring to the elaborate index published by the late Dr. 
 O'Donovan in his noble edition of the Annals of the Four 
 Masters. Tougher, toker, or tochar, always denotes a 
 causeway or pass through a bog, whilst the word healach 
 is invariably applied to a pass or opening between two 
 mountain ridges. In 1634, a bill was introduced into the 
 Irish parliament, by Robert lord Dillon, entitled an An 
 Act for the repairing and amenditig of bridges, caivsies, 
 and toghers, in the high-ways. — Commons Joicrnals, vol. 
 i., p. 132. The Togher referred to in the text was 
 situated in the present townland of Ballintogher, parish of 
 Saul, and barony of lower Lecale. See Examinations of 
 Edivard Davies, p. 317, supra. Lough Falcon, which 
 
 was held by the Irish garrison referred to by the author in 
 the text, was very small, comprising only about four acres 
 in 1744, and had probably few advantages in 1641 as a 
 place of defence. — See Harris, State of the County of 
 Doivn, p. 151. 
 
 '3 Ballydiigan. — Harris mentions Ballydougan house 
 as standing on the verge of Strangford lough, having once 
 been a "large strong House, with a draw-bridge and 
 turrets for defence, burned down by the treachery of 
 servants in the rebellion of 1641. See Examinations of 
 Edtvard Davies, p. 317, supra. The present owner of 
 it (1744), Mr. Henry West, lives in one of the out-offices." 
 — Harris, County of Dotun, p. 39. Ballydugan is the name 
 of a townland in the parish of Down. See Reeves's 
 Ecclesiastical Antiquities, p. 30. 
 
 Con Oge CNeill. — Con Oge was son of Con of 
 Castlereagh, and younger brother of the well-kown Daniel 
 O'Neill, see p. 84, supra. In O'Mellan's manuscript 
 Joiwnal of the Wars of 1641, he is called Conn Og mac 
 Cuinn (son of Con) mic Neill mic Brian Fagartaigh. In 
 Henry Mc Tully O'Neill's Journal of the most Memorable 
 Transactions from the year 1641 to 1650, Daniel O'Neill, 
 Con Oge's elder brother, is stated to be nephew of the 
 famous general, Owen Roe O'Neill. See Desiderata 
 Ctiriosa Hibernica, vol. ii., p. 520. Their mother, Con 
 O'Neill's first wife, was therefore niece to Hugh, earl of 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 to abide the uttermost. But, being told of a storm by water, as well as at the togher (which they 
 knew very feazable), and fully designed by the incensed Sir James, and wanting (as I said before) 
 British hearts in them, and despairing of relief, by the siege being raised, they parlyed ; yet no 
 condition was granted, but a convoy for the safety of their lives, and that they should not be stript 
 of their cloths. On which conditions they surrendered, 
 
 Tyrone, being the daughter of his brother Art O'Neill. 
 The journals of O'Mellan and Henry Mc Tully O'Neill 
 speak of Con Oge as having been slain at the battle of Clones 
 in 1643. At may 13, 1643, O'Mellan says : — " We lost 
 colonel Con Og son of Con son of Neale son of Brian Fagar- 
 tach." In reference to the latter point, Henry Mac Tully 
 O'Neill says — "In this action, which continued more than 
 a full hour, the Irish lost about one hundred and fifty men, 
 among whom colonel Con Oge O'Neill, Daniel's brother, 
 was murdered by a Presbyterian minister after quarter 
 given." See Desida'ata Curiosa Hiberiiica, vol. ii., p. 
 492. It is to be regretted that the assassin's name is not 
 recorded. It was customary, however, with such ministers 
 to accompany the Scottish troops as 'chaplains' in their 
 desolating raids among the Irish throughout various parts 
 of Ulster. "One of the followers of the Scotch army on 
 this expedition (the raid conducted by Monro during the 
 preceding summer of 1642), was Livingstone, a Presby- 
 terian minister, who, either in search of plunder, or to 
 gratify an impure curiosity, made a particular inspection 
 of the dead bodies of the Irish slain at the passes of 
 Kilwarlin. For in his Life he says : — 'They were so fat 
 that one might have hid their fingers in the lirks of their 
 breast.'" See Ulster jfojirnal of Arc hceology, vol. viii.,p. 
 79, note. Livingstone had probably no other motive for 
 his conduct on that occasion than simply to gratify a 
 feeling of triumph in surveying the bodies of dead papists. 
 
 ^5 Tkey snrre7idered. — The submission of the inhabitants 
 of Lecale was considered a triumph of great importance 
 
 for British interests in Ulster, and especially as that dis- 
 trict had been entirely under the control of the insurgents 
 who thus surrendered to sir James Montgomery. On the 
 7th of October, 1642, a petition from sir James was read 
 in the English house of commons "concerning some free- 
 holders and others of the Irish nation, within the barony 
 of Lecale, in the county of Dovvne, reduced unto their 
 obedience, and to submit themselves unto his Majesty's 
 mercy by Sir James Mountgomery. " This petition was 
 referred to the committee of adventurers to consider what 
 was fit to be done upon it." — English Commons jfournals, 
 vol. ii. , p. 798. In this campaign against the Irish, which 
 terminated so honourably for sir James Montgomery, his 
 officers were "the Major, Captaine Samuell Mount- 
 gomry, Captaine Wardlaw, Captaine" Houston, Cap- 
 taine Maxwell, Captaine Wauchop ; Leuetenant Kenedy, 
 Leuetenant Will, Leuetenant McAndrew, Leuetenant 
 Girvan, Leuetenant Hamilton ; Ensigne Crawford, 
 Ensigne Hugh Montgomery, Ensigne Biggar, Ensigne 
 Maxwell, Ensigne William Mountgomry ; Sergeant 
 Corrie, Sergeant Broadfoot, Sergeant Cra'W'ford, 
 Sergeant Edgar, another Sergeant Edgar, Sergeant 
 Kernechan, Sergeant Ffisher, Sergeant Floucke, Sergeant 
 Ronald, Sergeant Logan, and Sergeant McClannan." 
 These officers constituted a "Courte of Warre" at Porte- 
 ferry, on the 2nd of March, 1642, to try sergeant Walter 
 Kyle for the killing of lieutenant William Baird. See 
 Ulster yournal of Archceology, vol. viii., pp. 62 — 69. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 m 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 NOW come to some other passages relating to him, in the beginning of the said rebellion. 
 And first, I find Sir James Montgomery addressed to, by a letter of the Gentlemen of the 
 Ardes and Claneboys, for his protection, dated ultimo January, 1641. This was whilst 
 he was defending Lecaile against Irish incursions.' 
 
 I find, by certificate of above 30 Gentlemen of the Ardes, dated the 15 th March, 1641, that 
 Sir James did levy a regiment of foot and troop of horse ; and therewith (at his own charges) did 
 maintain Downpatrick^ against the M'Genneses and M'Cartans, repelling them when they entered 
 Lecaile, and banishing the inbred Romanists of that barrony thereout, taking their castles and 
 putting garrisons therein, till, by advertisement, that Con Oge ONcile, with great forces from Ard- 
 magh and Tyrone, was coming to join the -Magenneses ; and he was, thereupon, recalled by his 
 brother, the Lord Montgomery, to save the sea-ports, by which relief from Scotland and England 
 must come, as expected ; and himself to quarter in that barrony. 
 
 I have two letters of advice, dated in February, 1641, directed to Sir James, from the Lord 
 his brother, of the danger which the Ardes, with Hollywood parish, and all the sea coasts stood in, 
 from the said Con's descent ; which made him march his regiment and troope through the enemy's 
 
 ' Irish incursions. — It is to be regretted that the letter 
 referred to in the text, containing the names of leading 
 settlers in the district, has not been preserved. The 
 following list of the principal names, in 1653, doubtless 
 includes several, perhaps nearly all, of those which were 
 signed to the letter asking sir James Montgomery's pro- 
 tection, or thanking him for it, in 1641-2 : — 
 
 "lord of ards' quarters. 
 
 "The Lord Ards, Captain Charles Campbell, Captain William 
 Buchanan, Lieutenant Hugh Dundas, Captain John Keith, John 
 Montgomery of Moville, Lieutenant James Nowell, James 
 Mac Conkey, William Catherwood, William Shaw, Fergus 
 Kennedy, Captain Hugh Montgomery, Mr. Hugh Montgomery, 
 Lieutenant John Wilson, Lieutenant And. Cunningham, Lieutenant 
 M'^Dowell of Cumber. 
 
 " little ards, greyabbey, and lisburnagh quarters. 
 
 "Gilbert Heron, Robert Maxwell, Robert Ross, John Park, 
 Lieutenant John Monipenny. 
 
 "lord claneboy's quarters. 
 
 "The Lord Claneboy, Lieutenant Gawn Hamilton, Captain John 
 Boyle, Lieutenant Hugh Wallace, James Ross, sen., William 
 Hamilton, Mr. George Ross, John Hamilton of Ballymacgormack, 
 Patrich Allen, Gawn Hamilton, Captain Alexander Stewart, William 
 Hamilton, jun., John Stevenson, Ninian Tate, Lieutenant Edward 
 Baillie, Francis Purdy, Captain James Stevenson, John Barclay, 
 Quartermaster Edward Magee, Ensign James Cooper, Lieutenant 
 Robert Cunningham, Lieutenant Carr, Captain Matthew Hamilton, 
 Captain Colin Maxwell, David Williamson, James Ross, jun."— 
 Reid, History of the Presbyterian Church, vol. ii., pp. 471 — 474. 
 
 ' Did maintain Do'vnpatrick. — Whilst sir James's small 
 [•jrce was holding Downpatrick against all tlie strength 
 
 of the Magennises and Macartans, he penned the following 
 letter, now for the first time printed, explaining in delicate 
 terms the difficulties of his position from want of necessary 
 supplies. This letter, which was addressed to the earl of 
 Ormond, is preserved among the Carte Papers, vol. viii. , 
 p. 10 : — 
 
 " Right Honoble, — Since my'last by this gentilman to y' LoP, 
 I have given a full account of what has passed here to the Lordes 
 Justices, to whose relation (wanting time) I most humbly remitt y' 
 LoP, and doe presume upon your LoP'^ concurrence and assistance, 
 whereof yo^ former noble favours makes me promise my self great 
 assurance. My Lord, ever since I received his Majtie's commission, 
 I have had my troopes levyed and upon service, and three Com- 
 panies of foote, and since the tenth day of this month four Companies 
 more, to whom I have daily given full intertainment. I did yester- 
 day likewise muster one Company more, and these three weeks past 
 have still intertained my Leiftennant Colonell and Sergeant Major, 
 with three Inferior officers, and have kept them in action, being gen- 
 tilmen of good judgment and experience, and who have had 
 honorble imployment in forraigne Service (as, indeed, most of the 
 officers of my regiment also). These companies, for want of Armes 
 and moneys, I have not yet drawen together, being already wholy 
 exhausted with soe great a charge. My Lord, although I did inter- 
 taine one company of foote and a troope of forty horse since the first 
 breaking out of this rebellion until the receipt of my comission, I 
 will speake nothing of that at this time ; but by yo'^ LoP'^ furtherance 
 and favour, doe humbly pray and expect (according to his Mati«'3 
 Comission) to be supplyed with means for soe many as are levj'ed 
 from the time of their levying, without which, and a competent pro- 
 portion of Armes and Amimition yo' LoP may safely judge, I cannot 
 be able to subsist, and I assure yo'' LoP that with me his Matie'e ser- 
 vice and the country will in these partes suffer. — Soe craving pardon 
 for pressing soe hard upon yo' LqP'' courtesy, and hoping that you 
 
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 country of Duflferins and Castlereagh ; and to quarter in and about the said parish, to be at hand to 
 join with his said brother, for preserving it, with Newtown, Bangor and Comerer towns and 
 parishes, and chiefly to stopp Con's coming into the Ardes, and sea coasts. For which purpose 
 they made forts (by the vulgar called trenches) at Dundonald,'^ and other passes. 
 
 I have a letter from the state of Scotland, to Sir James, desiring him to obey their Major- 
 General, Robert Munro,^ as being the will and pleasure of the Committee for both kingdoms.^ 
 This was soon after the landing of the Scotts army, or after Sir James's return from Westminster. 
 The letter is dateless. 
 
 I have a letter from both Houses of Parliament, under a cover to Sir James, dated Sept 1643 
 (soon after his said return), signed by the two Speakers, advising and hopeing that he would oppose 
 the cessation of arms^ with the Irish, and promising supplys, &c. 
 
 will ascribe it to the exigency in which his Matie's service in my hand 
 is, and not to my importunity, who truly am, and ever shall be, yo' 
 loP'^ most affectionate humble servant, 
 
 "J. MONTGOMERIE. 
 
 " From my Garrisone at Downpatrick, 
 
 the 22nd of December, 1641. 
 " For the right HonW^ the Earle of Ormond, Leiftennant generall 
 of his Matlo'fl forces in Ireland. — These."' 
 
 3 Country of Dufferin. — The fact that the Irish held the 
 Dufferin and Castlereagh is an evidence of the terrible 
 pressure which must have been felt in the comparatively 
 circumscribed territory of the Ards. The territory, or 
 country of the Dufferin, is referred to as follows, in 
 the letter of sir Thomas Cusake, lord chancellor of 
 Ireland, dated 8th May, 1552, and addressed to the duke 
 of Northumberland : — "The next to that country is the 
 Doufrey, whereof one John Whit was landlord, who 
 was deceitfully murdered by M'Ranyll boy his sonne, 
 a Scot ; and since that murder he keepeth possession of 
 the said lands, by mean whereof he is able to disturb the 
 countries next adjoining, on every side, which shortly by 
 God's grace shall be redressed. The same country is no 
 great circuit, but small, full of woods, water, and good 
 land, meet for Englishmen to inhabit." — Brewer's 
 Calendar of the Careiv Alaniiscripts, p. 242. Of this terri- 
 tory, sir Henry Sidney, in 1575, has the following 
 account : — " The Dufferen, or IV/iitcs Coimtrie, I found 
 all wast and desolate, used as they of Clandeboy list. 
 The owner of it is a proper young man, and well dis- 
 posed, but I feare vnhable to do any good on it, either 
 for the publike or his owne particular. In the streights of 
 this countrie, Neill Mac Brian Ertough, made Capten of 
 Clandeboy by the Earle of Essex, shewed his force, and 
 refuzed, though upon protection, to come to me ; yet 
 that day he offered me no skirmishe. " — Sidney Letters 
 and Memorials, vol. i. p. 76. The following account of 
 this territory is given by Marshal Bagenal, in his 
 Description of Ulster, at the year 1586 •.— ^'■Diffrin, some- 
 tymes th' enheritance of the Maundevilles, and nowe 
 apperteyninge to one White, who is not of power sufficient 
 to defend and manure the same, therefore it is usurped and 
 inhabited for the most parte, by a bastard sort of Scottes, 
 who yield to the said White some smale rent at their 
 pleasure. This countrey is for the most parte woody, and 
 lieth uppon the Loghe which goeth out at the haven of 
 Strangford. There are of these bastarde Scottes dwelling 
 
 here some sixty bowmen and twenty shott, which lyve 
 most uppon the praie and spoile of their neighbours. — 
 Ulster Jotirnal of Archceology, vol. ii., p. 153. In 1597, 
 or 1598, the Diiffrin is described as "sometime the 
 inheritance of the Mandevilles, and nowe appertaininge 
 unto one White, a mean gentleman, who is not of power 
 sufficient to defend and plant the same ; therefore it is 
 usurped and inhabited by the neighbours. The country 
 is for the most part woody, and lyeth upon the lough called 
 Lough Coyne, which issueth into the sea at the haven of 
 Strangford." — La7nbeth MS., as quoted in Dubourdiea's 
 Antrim, vol. ii., p. 628. 
 
 At Dundonald. — The traces of these works are still 
 visible, but do not give the name to this place, which is 
 derived from the well-known and beautiful Dun there. 
 5 Robert Munro. — See pp. 168, 169, sup-a. 
 * For both kingdoms. — To committees appointed by the 
 Parliaments of England and Scotland was committed the 
 task of making all arrangements connected with the 
 transportation of troops into Ireland for the suppression 
 of the rebellion. The lords justices of Ireland had repre- 
 sented that forces could be more expeditiously sent from 
 Scotland for this purpose, and hence the committee from 
 the English parliament went thither to take counsel and 
 act in unison with the Scottish committee. 
 
 7 Cessatioit of Arms. — In 1 643, the Confederate 
 Catholics of Ireland, finding that their army could not 
 much longer hold together for want of supplies, 
 memorialed Charles I. for an annistice, offering at the 
 same time to assist the king against his enemies in 
 England. Charles eagerly caught at the proposal ; for, 
 although the confederates were rebels against his 
 authority, he did not dislike them so much as the rebels 
 with whom he had to deal in England. Through 
 Onnond, a cessation of hostilities, for one year, was ar- 
 ranged at Sigginto\vn, near Naas, on the 15th of 
 September, 1643, between the royal forces in Ireland and 
 those of the Irish confederates. The king, by this 
 armistice, obtained from the latter the sum of ;^30,ooo, 
 together with a re-inforcement from the royal army in 
 Ireland of ten regiments, which, however, were nearly all 
 captured or killed by the parliamentary forces, soon after 
 their arrival in England. The English parliamentary 
 leaders openly opposed this cessation and the two houses 
 voted it "destruction to the Protestant religion, dis- 
 
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 3^5 
 
 I have a copy of letter from the officers of Sir James's regiment, dated the 5th November, 
 1643, (tl^e powder plott day,) unto Sir Mungo Campbell, offering to incorporate themselves and 
 soldiers into the Scotch army, and his answer the i8th of December following, giving general 
 assurances of kind terms, (such as the officers proposed,) but no certainty, only desiring them (as 
 he was sent from Scotland to solicit other regiments), to oppose the cessation aforesaid.** 
 
 honourable to the English nation, and prejudicial to the 
 interests of the three Kingdoms." Still further to 
 arouse the fears and horrors ' of their own party, they 
 published a declaration, in which they affirmed that the 
 cessation was made at a time when " the famine among 
 the Irish had made them unnatural and cannibal-like, eat 
 and feed upon one another. " — Lingard, History of England, 
 5th edition, London, 1865, vol viii., p. 22. Sir James 
 Montgomery, and the other British officers in Ulster 
 were originally, in common with the Scottish army 
 under Monro, opposed to the cessation, but they ap- 
 pear eventually to b.ave adojDted the views of Ormond 
 and the king on this question, as an order was issued 
 by the Englisli parliament to stop the payment of 
 all monies, or other provisions, to the eaii of Cork, sir 
 James Montgomery, colonel Hill, colonel Audley 
 Mervyn, sir Hardress Waller, or other persons of Ireland 
 that have submitted or consented to the cessation, or done 
 anything in tlie pursuance and favour thereof — English 
 Commons yournals, vol. iii., p. 307. At first the 
 British officers in Ulster were opposed to the cessation, 
 not from any hatred to Roman Catholics as such, but 
 simply because they did not see how they were to e.\ist as 
 a military organisation if thus prohibited, even for one 
 year, from preying on the country. The following letters, 
 now for the first time printed, convey their sentiments on 
 this and one or two other kindred topics. The originals 
 of these letters are preserved among the Carte AIS. Papers, 
 Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. viii., pp. 81,82. It is to 
 be remembered that the officers vv'hose names are 
 attached, although acting, a's yet,' in concert with the 
 Scottish forces under Monro, were the commanders of 
 an entirely distinct organisation : — 
 
 '* HoNBLE Sirs, — Having lately rcceaved a letter from the Comit- 
 tee of the house of Conioiis and adventurers in London with the 
 shipp lately sent into our parts with provisions of Arnies. and some 
 small quantitie of victualls : we have hereniclosed sent our answer, 
 together with the Coppie thereof, that you may be pleased to trans- 
 mitt the one into England by the first dispatch, And by the other 
 that you may sie the straights wee are reduced too, And may, ac- 
 cording to your credit, affection to the publique, and trust reposed in 
 you, help toward the remedying of our present wants, in supplying 
 us from Scotland, with meale or other provisions for six regiments 
 for two months, cither upon the credit or Acompt of y'^ parham^ or 
 by way of loane from the state there, to be repayed to the Scottish 
 Arifiy here, when our provisions shall aryve out of England, to y" 
 end those of our regim^^ that have nothing at all in our quarters 
 may be supported. And that the rest that have somewliat ithough 
 little better provyded) may spare ther corne for soweing of the ground 
 which othcrwayes wilbe eaten up now, And so the wholle countrey 
 will remaine wast witliout Crop for the next year ; we hope you will 
 no Icsse take to hart this our present necessitie, and will with no lesse 
 earnestnes endeavour the supplying of us then if wee had sent ane 
 Agent from hence expresse to follow the bussines, although the 
 miseries and wants of our souldiours cannot be seriouslie expressed 
 to you in a lettere, as it is deeply charactered and may be read in 
 ther faces, so recomending ther condition to your care, And your- 
 selves And your affaires to god's derection, We rest, your humble 
 and affectionate servants, 
 
 " MONTGOMERIE. " ClANDEUOVE 
 
 "A. CHECHESTEK. "J. MoNTCOlUEKIE. 
 
 "A. Hill. " George Ra'.vden. 
 
 " E. Mathew. 
 " Killileagh, the i6th of December, 1643." 
 
 The foregoing accompanied a letter " from the British 
 officers to the committee from both Houses of I'arliament 
 in England, now in Scotland,," and dated 16 December, 
 1643. The following is " Copy of Letter to the Com- 
 mitte of Adventurers, in London, 16th December, 
 1643":- 
 
 "Right Wokthy,— We receaved yo' lett'^of the 19th Sep"", to- 
 gether with the provisions and Amies according to the table of pro- 
 portions sent us ill the shipp called the honor of London, save what 
 was spoyled or left behind, whereof a particular noate shalbe sent 
 you by the next. And wee are very thankful! for yo'^ caire expressed 
 of us in this seasonable supply, wh though it came to late for the 
 intended summer service, yet it niett w'l' the very extreamitie of our 
 sufferings and patience. But the quantitie of victualls is so small that 
 the present benefitt our starving souldiours receave by it fur ther 
 bellies is not so grerat as the hopes they are raised too therby, to ex- 
 jiect from the continuance of yo"" care, such things as may not only 
 releive, but prevent such hard pinches of want as they have been 
 driven to suffer many tymes since they undertooke this service, and 
 the parliamf her mantenance, our case being now more to be re 
 garded than before : for the Countrey is more wasted, our souldiours 
 more wearied w'h expectacions, our enimies the same to us in ther 
 dispositions, and mahtious practises, and in some Acts of hostilitie 
 notw'hstanding this late Cessacion concluded heir w'hout our con- 
 sents, w*^'! wee looke upon in the consequences of it as no meanes of 
 securitie either for our religion or persons, or for his Matie's 
 interest and tytle of the Crowne of England to this kingdome, 
 so that upon these consideracions all y*^ Bent of our thoughts is how- 
 to be enabled w'h necessarie means whereby to continow and in- 
 crease through god's blessing our former sucsesful services ag' our 
 enymies hostilitie and violence, from w*-!' wee can trust to have no 
 forbearance, but by god's favor upon our courage and endeavors, 
 And by yo"' tymelie supplying us. And to this purpose wee shall let 
 you more fully know our mynd and resolucions by Mr. Trade, who 
 is aryved heir soone after the shipp. In the meantyme we have 
 wryten this to you with the first opportunity, to lett you know that 
 unles the next supplyes be sent verie speedilie our souldiours will not 
 be kept together. And that the rather becaus they sie much care 
 taken of others to have present supplyes coming from Scotland, both 
 of meate, cloathes and money, soe that assuring you that as our 
 owne interests, so yo'''" also doeth engage stronglie our resolucions to 
 the prosecution of this service. And that wee rest confident yee will 
 not disapoint us (and so be wanting to yo'' selves) of what you have 
 made us trust too, And so wee remaiiie, yo'' very loving frends t* 
 serve you, 
 
 " Montgomerie. " Clandebove. 
 
 "Ak. ChECHESTER. "J. MOiS'TGOiViEKIK. 
 
 "Arthur Hjll. "Geo: Rawden. 
 
 "E. Mathew. 
 
 " Killileagh, the i6th of lob"^'', 1643 
 
 ^ Cessation aforesaid. — The following letters were 
 written l)y sir James Montgomery at this date, and are 
 now printed for the first time: — 
 
 " My most noule Lord,— Having prepared the other letters and 
 papers wh I herew'li send into your lo'-', and this bearer of purpos 
 for the more securitie to carry them. I resaved your Loi'^ most 
 courteous letter of the 22th, of the Last, and cannot but rcturnc yo'' Lo'' 
 humble and harty thanks for being pleased to take notice of my 
 affections and poore endeavors in his niati'^'s service in these parts. 
 My Lord, I must needs confesse that when I have done all that I can 
 I am but an unprofittable servant, and come many degrees short of 
 my desyres. But I assure yo' Lo'' that what I am able to performe 
 for his matie's honor and service none shall undertake more wiUinglie 
 nor prosecute with more fidelitie and affection, And I hope my rc- 
 tions and the persons of best qualitie in these quarters shall wiiness 
 it for me in due tyme. My desyre to give yo' Lo'' a true and full 
 account of the state of affaires in these countyes did spin my other 
 letter out in such lenth that I was ashamed of it, and thouglit it more 
 proper to convert it in one informacion, and to crave yo' LoP^ pardon 
 if I doe thereby tempt your patience, or disturbe your other more 
 
 U I 
 
326 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 This mutinous combination was carried on without asking Sir James's advice or privity / 
 but the officers letter was (on suspicion) intercepted, copied, sealed and delivered to the messenger, 
 who perceived nothing of tlfe discovery, as he knew as little of the contents thereof. 
 
 Such was the factious humours of those men, and the country gentlemen blown up by their 
 teachers, who had so hooked them to their line, that they could pull the people on shore with a 
 single hair.'° 
 
 In all the fermentation raised by the Covenant-teachers,'^'^ (which were imposed on parishes, and 
 the legal incumbents ejected, by the Scottish army's violence), against the peaceable Irish Papists 
 
 weaghtie employments ; yo'^ Lo^^ approbation or dislike signified in 
 the least degree shall continue or break off this freedome my 
 affectione to his ma^i'^^ service and yo^ (so much and deservedly 
 intrusted by him) makes me take. My good Lord I will lay hold on 
 your lo^^^ noble promise that your honor will with the first conve- 
 niency make knowen to his ma^i*^ my desyres and endeavour to 
 express myself his reall and faithful! servant, and I wish I may 
 perishe when ever I willinglie give his matie or yo'' Lo^ caus to have 
 other thoghtsof me than now I professe. I thank your Lo^ for the 
 honor you did me in sending me the copy of your letter to Owen 
 Oneale and wish it may produce the desyred effects. My Lord of 
 the Ardes, CoUonell Chichester, and myselfe have wryten to him to 
 the same effect a joynt letter since my last to ya^ honor, but have as 
 yet resaved no answer, so from my hearte wishing yo'^loP, your noble 
 lady, and all yo^ hopeful! children all wealth and happinesse, I 
 crave to be further troublesome at this tyme, whose ambition is to 
 be esteemed yo' Lo' '^ most humble and faithful! servant, 
 
 "J. MONTGOMERIE. 
 
 "Rosmont, the 4th of December, 1643." 
 
 " For my mosi noble Lord the Lord Marquesse of Ormond. — 
 These. 
 
 " Endorsed — Sir Jas. Montgomery. 
 
 Re^! 4 } ""=<=<='"''^''' 
 "In expression of his good affections to his ma'i" service, &c. — 
 Carte Papers, vol. viii., p. 10. 
 
 " My most noble Lord, — Since the wryting of my other letters, 
 one Captaine Occonnelie (y' was Sir John Clotworthie's man) is come 
 into these parts from England, and has brovight letteres unto all the 
 Collonels of the English Army in this provmce, invyting us to take 
 the new Covenant, The copy of that wh is sent unto me I herewith 
 send unto your Lordship. I had with it 3 printed papers — the Copy 
 of the Covenant, the Declaration of both houses thereupon, and the 
 Articles of Cessation. These, I suppose, yo"' Lo^" has had from 
 England, and, therefore, I will not increase my packet with them. 
 I send yo'' LoP also a Copy of the votes of the houses upon the 
 ai tides ; O'Connelly presses hard and peremtorily his answer like a 
 grand Commissioner. My Lord Montgomerie and I put him off till 
 CoUonell Chichester's returne from Enishone, that we have been a 
 waiting. O'Connely tells how that he was informed by the Marquesse 
 ofArdgyle that 1 am made Viscount of Ardglasse, and many other 
 things that I know not of my selfe, which makes me (as he sayes) so 
 feirce a royalist : and some trounkes of myne are stayed in Scotland, 
 wherein I have above six or 700 lb. star!, worth of comodities, and 
 cloathes. But all this shall not trouble me, I serve a good Master' 
 who, I hope, will not let me be a louser. 
 
 "My lord, one of the three troopes under the command of my 
 Lord Montgomerie hath been long in debaite. One Captain Bruffe 
 had a comission from yo' LoP procured upon a mistake that the 
 troope was voyde upon the deatli of my brother, but he has never 
 gotten possession of it, nor has he been in this kingdome these nyne 
 months past, and is now (as I ani informed) in service in England ; 
 one Serjeant major Crawford had one other commission from the 
 Earle of Leister. And he has, notwithstanding, neglected the service, 
 And has taken on to be a leiftennant coHonell in the service in Scot- 
 land to go into England : Mr. Patrick Sayadge of Porlaferry, a gen- 
 tleman of worth, and one of whose fidelite, I dare assoore yo' lo'', 
 has, for the most part, mentaincd that troope, and had my Lord 
 Montgomerie's good-will of it, but was borne out of it by Crawford's 
 Comission. But he now having taken on in Scotland, and divers of 
 his officers mynded to follow him. My Lord Montgomerie is desyrous 
 to conferre the troope upon Mr. Savadge, who was also by former 
 letters rccomended unto yo' bono' by the Earle Rivers out of Eng- 
 land. I doe, therefore, intreat yo' LoP to send by this bearer a new 
 Comission to Mr. Savadge, with a nonobstante of the two former 
 Comissions, And power to him to chose his ofificers to the approbation 
 
 of his loP, and lykewise in regard his loP had some cloathes wh came 
 from England that he intended for Crawford if he had attended the 
 service And done his duttie. But now that he runnes this course, he 
 thinks it not fitt that he should have them, And in truth Mr. Savadge 
 only does deserve them, for he was at the greatest charge for main, 
 taining y'^ troope, And therefore (for his bettir discharge ; desyres yor 
 loP wilbe pleased to send him also ane order by this bearer to deliver 
 the same to Mr. Savadge. My Lord, further, yor loP shall hear 
 from me when we have determined our answer to Oconnely, only 
 this much, my duetie and just feares obliged me to give yor loP v.arn- 
 ing of, that want wilbe the only thing will ruine us of the king's party 
 here, if it be not prevented by god's mercy, his Matie's caire. And 
 yor loP'^ and the stats providence very speedily, so againe wishing 
 yo' loP all health and happiness, I remain, yor loP'^ most humble 
 servant, " J. Montgomerie. 
 
 " Rosmont, the 9th of December, 1643." 
 
 " For my most noble Lord the Lord Marquesse of Ormond. — 
 These. 
 
 " Endorsed— Sir J. Montgomery. 
 " Rec. 14! [l^ecember, 1643. 
 
 " Concerning the letters sent by the Parliament to the British offi- 
 cers by Capt" Connally. — Carte Papers, vol. viii., p. 46. 
 
 9 Advice or privity. — For the names of sir James's 
 officers, see p. 322, supra. These officers \vere partly 
 induced no doubt to enter into this "mutinous combination" 
 by the fact that the Scots had received somewhat more 
 timely supplies than the British forces. They were also 
 carried away by the popular stream which was then setting 
 in forcibly over Ulster in favour of the covenant. 
 
 ^° With a single hair. — The presbyterian ministers were 
 very actively engaged in the general excitement of this 
 crisis, arousing the Scottish soldiers and settlers to resist 
 and disregard the cessation, and to some extent directing 
 the movements of the army imder Monro. 
 
 " The Cmenant-teachers. — See pp. 127, 178, supra. 
 The presbyterian ministers spoke and acted as if with 
 their covenants was bound up the people's entire welfare, 
 temporal and spiritual. Several Scottish preachers when 
 afterwards giving utterance to their 'Testimonies,' even on 
 the scaffold, reminded their countrymen of the inviolable 
 nature of the oaths by -which they supposed the whole 
 people were bound in these wondrous covenants. Thus, 
 James Guthrie, who was executed in 1 661, in the course 
 of his ' Testimony' made the following announcement : — 
 "I do bear witness unto the National Covenant of Scot- 
 land, and the Solemn League and Covenant betwixt the 
 three Kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland: 
 these sacred, solemn, public oaths of God, I believe, can 
 be loosed nor dispensed with, by no person, no party, no 
 power upon earth; but are still binding on these kingdoms, 
 and will be for ever hereafter ; and are ratified and sealed 
 by the conversion of many thousand souls since our enter- 
 ing thereinto." Immediately before Guthrie suft'ered, 
 he raised the cover from his eyes and cried aloud — 
 "The Covenants, the Covenants, shall yet be Scotland's 
 reviving!" Another leading preacher, named Hugh 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 327 
 
 in the Lower Ardes, yet Sir James procured the Lord Conway's order, dated December, 1642, that 
 only bonds should be taken of Henry Savage,'^ of Ardkeen, Esq. for delivery of his arms in his 
 house, at any time when called for ; and the rest of the Papists to be disarmed. 
 
 Which privilege Sir James got confirmed and enlarged on another occasion, and tl^re was 
 need and reason for granting that safeguard, because of the unruly Scottish mobb, and common 
 soldiers, who would make the pretence of searching for arms and ammunition an opportunity to 
 quarrel and plunder. '3 
 
 McKail, who was engaged in the rising of 1666, which was 
 cmshed at RulHon Green, near the foot of the Pentland 
 Hills, uttered the following as part of his dying 'Testi- 
 mony': — "But we are condemned to death upon the 
 account of this covenant, for adhering to the duties therein 
 sworn to, by such as once did as much themselves as we 
 have done, and some of them more than some of us ; 
 which considerations have moved me to great fears of 
 God's wrath against the land, according to the curse that 
 we are bound under, if we should break that covenant, 
 and in the fear of it, many times to pour out my soul 
 before the Lord ; and as soon as I heard of a party up in 
 arms in behalf of the covenant (all other doors being shut, 
 whereby redress of the many violations might be obtained; 
 and these by manifest and unheard of violence obtruded 
 on others to go along with them), being bound by that 
 covenant against detestable indifference and neutrality in 
 this matter, and to esteem every injury done to any en- 
 gaged in this covenant upon account of it, as done to 
 myself, — very conscience of duty urged me to this against 
 some reluctancy of fear of what might follow." Again, 
 he thus testifies : — "And, therefore, whatever indignity is 
 done to these covenants, I do esteem to be no less than 
 doing despite to the spirit of grace in his most eminent 
 exerting of himself, but especially declaring against the 
 same as flowing from a spirit of sedition and rebellion, to 
 be a sin of the same nature with theirs who ascribed 
 Christ's casting out of devils to Beelzebub. " John Brown, 
 another well known preacher, and the author of several 
 popular works on practical divinity, has the following pas- 
 sage in his 'Testimony,' drawn up soon before he died at 
 Amsterdam, ini679: — "What a wonderful mercy was this, 
 that the Lord should have made choice of Scotland above 
 all other lands to be his peculiar covenanted people ; and 
 that he should have avouched us for his people, and caused 
 us to avouch him to be our God by a solemn Covenant, 
 and that so frequently; for at five several times did the 
 Lord bring that land into covenant with him, and moved 
 them to devote themselves to the Lord to be his, to own 
 and stand for the crown, privileges, and prerogatives of 
 Jesus Christ. . . . But, now, behold not only hath 
 there been in the year 1660, and since, — a manifest, 
 shameful, wicked, and impudent departing from our oaths, 
 vows, covenants, promises, engagements, resolutions, 
 declarations, attestations, proclamations, acts, actings, 
 and doings, contrary to what we had sworn, and that 
 solemnly, with hands lifted up to the Most High God, 
 with direful imprecations if we should not stand to the 
 Covenant, and promised under the pain of all the curses 
 contained in the book of God, as we should answer to 
 him in the great day, when the secrets of all hearts shall 
 be disclosed." Many similar 'testimonies' might be 
 
 \ noted. See Howie's Scots Worthies, edition of 1856, 
 pp. 401, 404, 453, 474, 493, 496, 503. For covenanting 
 doctrines and designs, see the Declaration and Testimony , 
 proclaimed at Rutherglen, May 20, 1679 ; the Declaration, 
 published at Glasgow, June 13, 1679 ! the Queensferry 
 Paper, June 4, 1680 ; and the I.anerk Declaration, Janu- 
 ary 12, 1682. All the foregoing documents have been 
 printed in the appendix to the Scots Worthies, edition of 
 1856. 
 
 Henry Savaoe.See p. 131, supra. 
 '3 Quarrel and plunder. — It was taught and believed 
 among the Scots in Ulster that the Roman Catholics in- 
 tended to employ the year of Cessation in a grand attempt 
 to expel them from this province, and under this impression 
 the Scottish troops, at the instigation of the covenant- 
 teachers, set forth in various directions to disarm all 
 papists in Ulster, taking that opportunity of committing 
 rapine and plunder. Outrages of this nature were carried 
 on to such an extent as to attract the notice of certain 
 leading Irishmen who had stood aloof from the several 
 parties into which their countrymen were divided, but 
 now thought it necessary " to set limits to the depre- 
 dations and spoils committed by the Scotch covenan- 
 ters in Ulster." The earls of Clanrickard and Thomond, 
 the viscounts Dillon, Taaffe, Fitzwilliam, and Ranelagh, 
 and lord Howth, addressed a letter to the king, in 
 which they depict their own unhappy condition "ex- 
 posed to the mercy of two powerful armies now in the 
 field ; the one of the confederate Catholics party, if they 
 were disposed to make any invasion upon us; and the 
 other of the Scotch Covenanters, and such as adhere to 
 them, who, by burning, spoiling, and committing cruel 
 and hostile acts, have broken the cessation, and cast off 
 their obedience to your Majesty's government here." — 
 Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, pp. 260-4. The following 
 letter also contains grave accusations against the conduct 
 of the Scots of Ulster in the matter of the cessation : — 
 
 "To the Right Honourable the Lords Justices and Council. 
 " Our very good Lords,— We whom his Majesty's Catholick 
 Subjects, of this kingdom, did intrust in thee management of our 
 affairs, have, by our public act, ratified and confirmed the articles of 
 Cessation concluded upon by our commissioners willingly and chear- 
 fully, hoping in the quiet of that time, assigned for it, by the benefit 
 of the access which his Majesty is graciously pleased to afford us, to 
 free ourselves from those odious calumnies wherewith we have been 
 branded, and to render ourselves worthy of favour by some acceptable 
 Service, sending the expression we. have often made, and the real 
 affections and zeal we have to serve his Majesty, and in as much as 
 we are given to understand that the Scots (who not long since in great 
 numbers came over into this Kingdom, and by the Slaughter of many 
 Innocents without distinction of age or sex) have possessed tliem- 
 selves of very large territories in the North, and sbce the notice 
 given them of the Cessation, have not only continued their former 
 cruelties upon the persons of weak and unarmed multitudes, but have 
 added thereunto the burning of Corn belonging to natives within the 
 
328 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 This Gentleman was loyal and moderate in his Romisli religion, and read the Holy Scriptures ; 
 and, on his death-bed, (whereon he lay long) assured me, that he trusted for his salvation only to 
 the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ. He kept no images in his house, and if he had any 
 picture (or such like) he said he would meditate on it, but not worship it. He used to say, that 
 invocation of Saints was needless, although it were supposed they did hear us, or know our wants ; 
 because he was sure his Saviour was God all-sufficient, and our intercessor as a man and priest. 
 He was, by marriage, next cousin to Sir James, and by that way related to some of the officers in 
 his regiment, to whom he was kind, and he was hospitable to the rest ; yet, all this did not release 
 the fear he had from the vulgar people and inferior officers. 
 
 By the way I must remember, that Sir Charles Coote brouglit from the Parliament a Com- 
 mission to be President of Connaught j'-t and he came with his Lady and her mother, the Lady 
 Hannah,'5 and his eldesf son, with one or two younger children, to Rosemount. He left him in 
 the house, but himself (after a day's rest) with Sir Jas. (to whom he was recommended by the 
 Committee of Parliament), as no doubt to many other Colonels, went to the Zmf (?/"y^;7/<?i-,'^ at 
 Newtown. — Sir Charles his great want was men, arms, ammunition, provisions and money. How 
 he was supplied of the last of those I cannot tell ; but, as for the other four necessarys. Sir James 
 proposed the way to his Lordship, and they joined to perswade the Lord Clannboy,^^ and he was 
 willing to assist ; and then he went with Sir Charles to Belfast and Lisnagarvey. Sir James 
 dispatched also expresses to Sir William Stewart and Sir William Cole (his fathers-in-law),'^ and to 
 Sir Robert Stewart and Colonel Audley Mervin,'9 with account of what was agreed upon by the 
 two Viscounts, and at Belfast, and by the Commanders of the regiments thereabouts. And the 
 contrivance was thus, viz : — 
 
 That every of their regiments should allow fifty men to go with a month's provision of meale 
 (which came according to allowance in the little Ardes) to four pecks and an half for each private 
 
 Province of Ulster. Notwithstanding which outrages, we hear that 
 they have (although but faintly, and with relation unto the consent 
 of their General; after some days consulted whether it were con- 
 venient for their affairs, desired to partake in the Cessation, intending, 
 as is evident by their proceedings, so far only to admit thereof, as it 
 may be beneficial for their Patrons, the malignant party, now in arms 
 against his JIajesty in England, by diverting us from assisting His 
 jVlajesty, or of advantage to their desire, of eating further into the 
 bowels of our country. — Your lordship's loving friends, 
 
 " MoNTGARRET, Castlehaven, Audley, H. Armach ; Jo. 
 tLONFEKT ; Th. Fr. Dublin ; R. 1'eling, R. Plunket, 
 Gerrard P"ennel. 
 
 "Kilkenny 15 Oct. 1643, receiv'd 25. 
 
 "To the Right Honourable the Lords Justices and Council." — 
 Rushworth's Collections, vol. v., p. 895. 
 
 President of Connaiighi. — On tliis occasion, June, 
 1645, sir Charles "brought letteTs from the earls of 
 Northumberland and Lowdon, in the name of the com- 
 mittees of both kingdoms, to the British colonels, desiring 
 them to send 500 men with him into Connaught, to be 
 joined with sir Francis Hamilton's regiment, in order to 
 take Slego and other places of strength. The officers of 
 the new Union met at Belfast to consider the letters, and 
 returned answer at first, that they could not do it, until all 
 the supplies promised them were arrived. But at last 
 considering that it was proper to second their Declaration 
 and Union with some action, they resolved to rende«vouz 
 
 on the 17th at Ogher, in the county of Tyrone, and 
 march with a body of 4,000 foot and 500 horse to 
 Slego."— Carte's Zz/i" ^ Ormoiid, vol. i., p'. 537. 
 
 '5 Lady Ilaiuwh. — Sir Charle's Coote's second wife 
 was Jane, daughter of sir Robert Hannay, a Scottish 
 gentleman, who had been one of the esquires of the body 
 to Charles I., and whom that king created clerk of the 
 Nihills or Nichells in the Irish Exchequer, it being his 
 ' ' royal care, and the care of his late dear father, in all 
 things to reduce the government of that kingdom into the 
 very same order and form as in England, but especially to 
 settle the order and course of the exchequer, as near as 
 may be, by the very same model, to the end that no officer 
 there shall execute two offices in any one of the courts, 
 out of which he is to certify his proceedings into any other 
 office there." — Morrin's Calendar, Charles I., p. 543 ; 
 Lodge, Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. ii., p. 78, and 
 note. 
 
 '^^ Lord of Ards. — The third viscount, afterwards first 
 earl. 
 
 '7 Lord Clannhoy. — The first viscount Clannaboy. 
 Fathers-in-law. — Fathers-in-law of sir James Mont- 
 gomery. See p. 158, supra. 
 
 Audley Mervin. — See p. 156, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 man — the peck containing 20 Winchester quarts f° and that the officers, Serjeants, corporals and 
 drummers should have the like quantity of meale, and the rest of the subsistence raised for them 
 in mowty , prout the establishment, consented to by the country from the beginningof the rebellion, 
 the meal price (which was then half the crown per peck) to be deducted out of the money pay. 
 
 By this means, Sir Charles Coote would be enabled to maintain his province, with the help of 
 the Lagan forces^' (when called for) and our regiments needed not march up thither every summer, 
 where they were always put to great hazard and loss of men, to retake the castles we had ruined the 
 last expedition ; into which the enemy crept wdien we returned and left them, they also building 
 new forts to be wonn from them the next campaigne, which trouble would be now prevented, and 
 Sir Charles hereby enabled to fortify and place strong garrisons in Sligo and the seaport towns, to 
 which provisions, arms and ammunitions would be brought by sea, without danger of the Irish. 
 
 Sir James could easily demonstrate those particulars, who run divers bodily risks at the taking 
 of Sligo,-- and in two several smart fights against the enemy (who were double his numbers), and 
 they now by usage being grown expert in stratagems and feats of war; and were on their own 
 known dunghills with friends at hand. 
 
 The advantage, however, was on our side ; our men had bold Brittish souls in them, that the 
 Irish wanted, and our officers were better than theirs. 
 
 But, after all, what gained we ? Nothing but honor and a few cows, which the wearied soldiers 
 (yet dancing with courage and mirth) drove home to their quarters, to be winter kitchen=3 (as they 
 called it) to their bannocks ; they got also some garrons, which they sold. 
 
 The second act of Sir James his intended kindness, was to get those men fixed to Sir Charles 
 as his proper regiment. 
 
 Sir James's third act of friendship was in buying meal, &c. to send to Sir Charles Coote, which 
 he did plentifully, Mr. Jo. Davis, -4 of Carrickfergus, giving bond to Sir James, dated 18th March, 
 
 ^ Winchester quarts. — All the denominations of the 
 old English or Winchester dry measure were almost the 
 same as those of the imperial, each of the former being 
 less than the latter in the proportion of 32 to 33 nearly ; 
 or, more accurately, of '969447 to I. A Winchester 
 measure, therefore, may be reduced to imperial by multi- 
 plying it by ;969447. 
 
 Lagan forces. — See p. I S3, supra. 
 Tahingof Sligo.— \-a. O'Wellan's Irish MS. Journal 
 of the Wars, as translated by Robert Mac Adam, Esq., 
 there is the following account of fighting at Sligo 
 in October, 1645: — "The Connaught army pro- 
 ceeded to Sligo to take it by force from the Scotch, 
 birt, before they were aware, five or six troops of 
 cavaliy from Tyrconnell and from Enniskillen came 
 upon them, and drove them back to their encamp- 
 ment. The archbishop of Tuam was killed by a wound 
 in his shoulder, and also his priest. The name of the 
 prelate was Maolshaughlin O'Coyle, a doctor remarkable 
 for his learning, his goodness, and the rectitude of his 
 life. They died, but four Scotchmen fell by tlieir hands 
 in that battle. Many of the Burkes, and of the other 
 Irish, were taken prisoners, and the camp was given up 
 to plunder. The Scotch reinforced the garrison of Sligo." 
 
 =3 Winter kitchen. — In Scottish parlance, kitchen means 
 whatever gives a relish to bread, porridge, or potatoes. 
 No English word is so expressive, for kitchen not only 
 includes butcher's meat, but every thing used as a substi- 
 tute for it, such as fish, eggs, cheese, milk, and even 
 bejr. The poet Burns, in his Address to Scotch Dri7ik, 
 .says that it is not only the poor man's wine, but that it 
 kitchens his porridge and bread. By a poetical flight, 
 Allan Ramsay S]jeaks of fresh air as kitchen thus : — 
 '* For me I can be well content 
 To eat my bannock on the bent 
 And tiitcJieii^t wi' fresh air." — 
 Sec Jamieson's Etyjnot. Dictionary of the Scotch Language. 
 
 Jo. Davis. — In 1630, John Davys, son and heir of 
 Ezekiel, appears on the roll of aldermen of Carrickfergus, 
 and, in 1639, he was chosen a burgess to represent that 
 town in parliament. Early in 1656, he purchased from 
 sir John Clotworthy his large castellated mansion in Car- 
 rickfergus, which, from that period, was called Davys's 
 Castle. In April the following year, we find colonel 
 Thomas Cooper, the governor, recommending to Henry 
 Cromwell, that as John Davys was a person disaffected to 
 the government, he should not be permitted to live in that 
 town, and in a mansion overlooking its guards. In 
 August, 1656, he was elected to represent the town of 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 1646 (which I have yet uncancelled) for ;^778 sterling, for the same, as papers between them doth 
 shew. Other respects done to Sir Charles by Sir James I think not needful! for my narrative of him. 
 
 There are (by me) letters from divers persons to Sir James Montgomery, shewing in what high 
 esteem he was had, and how able and ready to serve his country but I cannot wade in an 
 ocean, and therefore will content myself to have writt the foregoing instances, and will draw this 
 relation of him to a conclusion, by an account of his suffering in Scotland for his loyalty here, and 
 of his exile to Holland, etc. and his death, as followeth. 
 
 Carrickfergus in Cromwell's parliament, about to be held 
 at Westminster ; but, from being deemed so very discon- 
 tented with the government, he was not permitted to take 
 his seat. In 1659, he served the office of mayor for the 
 said town, and, in May, the follov/ing year, he proceeded 
 to Holland, and waited on Charles II., at Breda ; perhaps 
 for the purpose of informing him of the state of the public 
 mind in the north of Ireland. In 1 66 1, he was one of 
 the knights of the shire for the county of Antrim. He 
 died in 1667, leaving issue Hercules, Henry, and John, 
 all of whom held commissions in the army. In the 
 manuscripts of Henry Gill, under date, 1660, we find the 
 following notice of the above John Davys : — "This John 
 Davys was he who raised himself and family by 300 
 sterling, being part of the Corporation money, for which 
 the Customs were sold, and never paid one penny for it 
 to the Towne, nor his successors, though he left a good 
 estate that he acquired by this money he unjustly got, and 
 purchases he made from John Savage's heirs, for which 
 he never paid them one penny." — M'Skimin's Carrick- 
 
 fergus, p. 393. For an account of John Davis and his 
 family, see Lodge's Irish Peerage, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. ii., p. 150, jiote. In a letter to the marquis of 
 Ormond from sir James Montgomery of Rosemount, 
 dated the 27th of July, 1649, the writer describes this 
 'John Davyes' as a "reall honest and affectionate subject 
 to his Ma"° and a servant to your Excellence." The 
 name of John Davis appears on a list of certain per- 
 sons in Ireland who had taken the covenant in 1645. 
 For the names of other distinguished royalists on the 
 same list, see p. 178, note 12, supra. 
 
 =s To serve /lis country. — These letters are probably all 
 lost. An important letter to sir James from the marquis 
 of Ormond is printed in Carte's Life of Ormond, vol. iii., 
 p. 221. In the same volume, also, there are references 
 to sir James at pp. 237, 239, 499; and in vol. i., 
 p. 532. Several valuable letters, written by sir James, 
 and now printed in these notes for the first time, have 
 been obtained from the Carte MSS. in the Bodleian 
 Library, Oxford. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 33* 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 OU have heard how part of Oliver Cromwell's army coming into this county of Down made 
 Sir James Montgomery flee into Scotland, his native country.^ He was no sooner known 
 to be there but was cited to compeir (that is their word for appear) before the committee 
 of estates ; who accused him to have been most active in contriving and carrying on the late design 
 
 His native country. — Sir James was born in Scot- 
 land, being probably about six years of age when his 
 father removed to the Ards. His return to that country 
 in 1649 was occasioned by the defeat and dispersion of 
 the royalists at Lisnastrain. See pp. 191, 192, w/ra. The 
 following letters were written by sir James Montgomery 
 to the marquis of Ormond immediately prior to the events 
 mentioned in the text. They have been preserved among 
 the Carte Papers, vol. xxv. , pp. 55, 123, 176, 189, and 
 are here printed for the first time : — 
 
 "My most noble Lord. — This inclosed letter was sent by Mr. 
 John Davyes merchant to Sr Manrice Eustace, & by him to mee by 
 a sure hand, yet feareing it might miscary, directed it to Col. Moncke, 
 as by the Cover under which it was laid (& woh I herewith likewise 
 send) yor Excellence will perceive, & that he has sent a duplicate 
 thereof to yoi' Excellence also ; yet feareing it may have miscaried 
 this no sooner came to my hands, but I conceived it my duety to send 
 it to yo'' lop, finding the mater therein contained very worthy of yo' 
 Ips knowledge & consider.acon, and knowing him that wrytes it to 
 have very good intelligence, & to be a reall honest & affectionate 
 subject to his Matie & a servant to yo*" Excellence. I have also had 
 late intelligence from Scotland that S"' William Fleeming & William 
 Murray are come thether from his Mati», but have not heard what 
 they bring pticularly ; I xvi.'jh it may prove answereable to the last 
 part of Mr. Davyes intelligence, but I feare much it is not, & that his 
 intelligence in that poynt does faile him, for the King had none to 
 conclude with ; And I am certainely informed that they who beare 
 the sway in Scotland have comanded two troopes towards the Ports 
 upon the west coast of that kingdome next unto this Kingdome to 
 ■ stop the coming over of any from thence but such as have passes 
 from confideing hands, & that more forces are comanded that way 
 to prevent (as is pretended) invasion from hence. But some of my 
 Noble friends acquaint mee, there is an intention of sending some 
 horse & foote into these parts, to assist those they call the honest 
 party here, which I the rather have cause to believe is probable, for 
 that there was such a resolucon before my lord Montgomery did 
 declare himselfe for his Ma'is, and secured the garisons of Belfast & 
 Carrickfergus ; and broke the disaffected Regimts, and that I like- 
 wise heare all the late feares w^'i were pretended in Scotland from 
 the Sectarians is now evanished, whose forces are retired & wholly 
 bent towards Ireland, and I well know that the ministers & others 
 here that are disaffected to our late proceedings doe certainely ex- 
 pect some to assist & aide them, and what ever they be we have great 
 cause to feare they will joyne with them ; such is their malice to us. 
 The libell w^h they set out lately against my lord of Ardes is published 
 in print in Scotland, and all things else done there that may stirre up 
 enemies against us, and I am advertised from thence that the 
 gcncrall Assembly there have advysed the Presbytrie here to proceed 
 against my lord & all that adhere unto him with excomunication, 
 whose advyce they are like enoiigii to follow, and if so, will prove 
 very dangerous if not destructive, which notwithstanding in the con- 
 dition we stand here, & his Matie3 aftaires elsewhere in this kingdome 
 at present, we may not attempt to prevent by such wayes as are most 
 safe in so great veneration both the souldiery & Countrie people have 
 them, whereby we labo'' under as many dangers as difficulties & 
 wants upon all hands ; God prevent the one and relieve the other, us 
 
 he sees most for his glory & the hono'' & happines of the King & 
 Kingdomes. 
 
 "The lord Montgomery is now in the Laggan, where I am confi- 
 dent he came with an unexpected & seasonable supply to the King's 
 party there, but I have not heard what is done since he joyned with 
 them, w'h I assure myselfe was upon Monday last the 23th of this 
 instant at longest I expect his returne into these parts this nextweeke 
 sometyme. The condition of affaires here requyre it, both in regard 
 of the unsettled humoi"s of most of our people within our selues 
 fomented by their teachers, and of the indirect & indiscreete wayes 
 that others take to gaine their owne ends for private advantage or 
 preferment, which no publick spirited Person should at this tyme so 
 much as looke after: And indeed the just apprehension of dangers 
 from beyond seas also, doe all call for a better setlement of the Army 
 here then yet is, and for provyding some reasonable supplies for our 
 most pressing wants & such preparacons as may in some measure in- 
 able us to suppresse disturbances within & oppose invasions from 
 abroad, which without his presence & yo"^ Excellences directions & 
 assistance cannot be done; For which purpose either he or I intend 
 God willing to wait upon yC Excellence imediately after his returne: 
 In the meane tyme I have by the Messenger that Caried these to 
 Col. Trevers written for some supply of amunition from Dundalke, 
 for in all our Quarters wee haue not so much as would serve for 24 
 houres service if wee were put to it. And I am like wise humbly bold 
 to pray yo'^ Excellence not to listen to any motions made unto you by 
 particular persons for personall advantages, either of profite honor or 
 preferment to military charges orotherimployments, vntill my lord or 
 I haue the happines to wait upon yo'' Excellence, and represent fully 
 the advantages or disadvantages that may thereby come to his 
 Mat'e'3 service, and then yo"^ Excellence will cleerely discerne who 
 aimes at the publick good, and who at their owne private ends most. 
 And if yo^ Excellence find the informacons you receive from us prove 
 contrary to trueth or for other ends then wee professe, trust us no 
 more : In the meane tyme be confident, that my Lord Montgomery 
 will neglect nothing in his power that can be effected for the ad- 
 vantage of his Matin's service & incouragement of every deserving & 
 affectionate man, as occasion offers, or yo"" Excellences com- 
 ands. This freedome I hope yo"^ Excellence will pardon, since by 
 yo'' Comands I am iiijoyned to use it, and my zeale to his Matie'e 
 service {w^li aboue all earthly things it shall appeare I affect) induces 
 mee to assume it, with which humble request & my prayers to God 
 for good successe to the great worke in yo"^ hands, & all happines t(> 
 yow & yo" I conclude & shall ever remayne, my Lord Yo^ Ex- 
 cellences most affectionate & humble servant, 
 
 "Ja. Montgomerie. 
 
 " Newtoun the 27th of July 1649. 
 
 " Endorsed — S^' Ja. Mountgomery. — L)at. 27 July, 1649." 
 
 " Mv MOST NOBLE LoRD, — If it be my lord Montgomeries good 
 fortune to see yo'' Excellence at this Journey (as he earnestly desires 
 & hopes to make a start from Dundalke to kisse yo'' hands), he will 
 fully make knowne vnto yo' Excellence the condition of affaires 
 here. It hes pleased God (the praise to him) to alter the face of 
 affaires much, ^ to bring them to as handsome forwardnes, in order 
 to his Mat***''* service as in so short a tyme from so few hands &. heads 
 labouring under so many difficulties & wants could be expected. 
 What the present greatest wants are, his lo^^ hes & will againe make 
 knowne to yo^ Excellence, with confidence to obtaine what reliefe 
 you are now able to afford, And that you will not only countenance 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 and engagement with the Viscount of Ardes and Sir George Monro, against the well affected 
 Brittish in the province of Ulsterj to the betraying of the cause of God and the covenant in those 
 parts, and to the irreparable loss and prejudice of the well affected people therein. This was a 
 heavy charge, and no lighter burden than was expected. Yet one might have thought they should 
 have pittyed and carressed Sir James for helping to out Colonel Monk,^ who had surprised their 
 Major General and sent him prisoner to London, and broke their whole army in Ireland.^ But 
 that disgrace and loss was not resented. They appeared only disgusted that their Kirk party was 
 hindred to sway all in Ulster, without owning the King's Commission.^ 
 
 him who hes now so cordially ventured his All in his Mamie's service, 
 in what he shall propose unto yo"^ Excellence, for the procureing re- 
 spect & obedience to him in this station, wherein his Matie hes placed 
 him, But also for the raising of such helpes as may happen to aryse 
 out of any profites due vnto his Matie within these partes (which 
 cannot be much in these tymes), the better in some measure to sup- 
 port the inevitable constant charge that lyes upon him, and which of 
 himselfe h*e is not able to beare. Tliis, my noble lord, I presume to 
 mention out of my zeale to have his IMa'ic's service prosper in this 
 young mans hands. As for mee, my Lord, I have resolved by God's 
 grace, freely to adventure all that is dearest to mee in his Matie's 
 service, without either desire or aime to further preferment then may 
 make mee the more serviceable, or hopes of profite in any degree or 
 kynd. And I pray yo*" Lo^ also to believe that I have cast all the 
 dangers behind mee that doe or can appeare before mee to expresse 
 my true affection to my Soveraigne & this good cause. And where 
 or when soever I may doc or advyse any ihi?!^ that may advance it 
 or prevent prejudice thereunto, I shall doe it, not much regarding 
 whom I please or displease thereby: Which honest freedome &■ sin- 
 cerity of myne may percliance make many men thlnUe <t speake of 
 mee as they conceive their private ends furthered or obstructed by 
 mee or my advyce, But I shall rest comforted in the testimony of a 
 good conscience, and confident that yo*^ Excellence will never be 
 drawne to have other thoughts of mee then of one who, despysing 
 all dangers, difficulties, or particular advantages, sliall seeke nothing 
 in this World so much as the honor & happynes of the Royall 
 Progeny, the good of this poore countrie, & fitting opportunities how 
 to expresse effectually how much I really am, my Lord, yo"* Excel- 
 lence's most humble and affectionate servant, 
 
 "J. MoNTGOMtiRIE. 
 
 **My Lord, Many men I know at this tyme are ready & busj^ to 
 proffer many projects &. put up many sutes to yor Lo^, with seeming 
 advantage to his Matie's service, which really are otherwise, As my 
 lord Montgomery will have occasion to give yor lo^" an accompt of 
 diverse particulars, Whereof I will therefore say nothing at this tyme, 
 onely by way of caveat I doe presume humbly to intreate yo^ Excel- 
 lence that if any such proposicon happen at any tyme to be made unto 
 you that may inircnsh upon mee in my comand, quarters or other- 
 wise, yor Excellence will be pleased to suspend any grant to my pre- 
 judice vntlU I be first made acquainted & have beene heard speake 
 for my selfe. 
 
 "For the most honol^le James, Lord Marques of Ormond, Lord 
 Lieutenant Generall of Ireland, his Excellence. — These. 
 " Endorsed — Sr Ja. Mountgomery. — Rec. 9 Aug., 1649." 
 
 " May it please yor excellenxe, — I shall not truble yow wth 
 any relation of the sad estate or affaires ar into heir by the inexpres- 
 sible distractions & divislones amongst the people of all sorts, or the 
 lamentable condition of the lagan by the coniunction of ouen 
 M'^cart & the Coots, wherof we will bee sharers ere long if not cair- 
 fuUy prevented, I will leave that to bee represented to yor excellence 
 by the Lord of Ards & CuUonell Trevor; and at this tyme only con- 
 saued it my dutie (in answer to yor excellences orders of the 12th of 
 this instant) to lett you know tiiat my lord of Ards liaveing resolved 
 w^l' all possible speed to advance to yor excellence w*'i all the horse 
 he can draw out, and directed the Earle of Clanbrasill to follow w^'i 
 the foote as soone as is possible, he hes comanded my stay in the 
 quarters for the preservation therof, wch thogh I bee very willing to 
 doc, or any thing els wcU may tend to the good of his Matie's service 
 so farre as lyeth in my power, yet, my Lord, if yor excellence doe 
 consaue that my indevu''« can bee any wher els more vsefuU, I shall 
 bee most ready to resaue ^ obey yo^ comands : But treuly, my lord, 
 or distractiones within and want of all things necessary to scttll 
 them, And dangers thrcatned and apeareing from enemies abroade 
 on all hands, makes mecfeare thatneitheryorexcellency'sexpectation 
 
 or supplies from hence shall bee ansuered, nor I have any comfort, 
 or the cuntry securltie by my stay at home ; But leaueing these con- 
 siderationes to yor excellencies wisdome and caire, & expecting such 
 further orders as yor excellence shall consaue most conduceing to the 
 publike & comon salfetle, I conclud my selfe, my lord, yor exceUences 
 most humble & obedient servant, 
 
 "J. JIONTGOMERIE. 
 
 Neutone, the i6th of agust, 1649. 
 
 "ffbr his excellence The lord Marques of Ormond, lord lieutenant 
 generall of Irland. — These. 
 
 ** Endorsed — S^' Ja: Mountgomery. — Dat. 16 Aug.; rec. 18 Aug., 
 1649." 
 
 "My most nodle Lord.— No earthlie thing can greeve me mure 
 then to fynde that the miserable unhappie distraction and devisiones 
 here in affectioun and oppiniones, hes so brocken both our Countrie 
 and Armie, that nov/ in those exigences when his Matie's service most 
 requyres our ayde, we are become as unable to defend our selues as 
 
 asist your Excellence; as the inconsiderable partle which the Lord 
 of Ards doeth at this tyme bring up will too clearlie evidence. 
 And yett my lord such is our sad conditioun heere by reasoun of the 
 great distempers within us everle way. And the Just feares on all 
 hands of Enemyes from abroade And no strength remaineing in the 
 Countrie in whome wee dare trust to suppresse the one, or resist the 
 other {which hardlie anybot those whoknowe it weell could beleeve) 
 that if the lord of Ards and this partle returne not verle speedilie to 
 settill and secure things better, this Countrie and wee in it whoaffectt 
 his Mamie's service will Inevy tablie be left or surprized, But this I leave 
 to my lord of Ards his relatioun, who will giue yor excellence a faith- 
 ful! account both of the causes and proceedings theirof, And of wiiat 
 doth or may most advantage or prejudice his Matie's service in this 
 province: from whome likewise I shall humblie intreate your ex- 
 cellence to be informet of vvhat may concearne my self either ui my 
 afft:clioun or endeavores in his Matie's service, or how instrun\entall 
 
 1 haue beene, and helpfuU to him for the promotelng theirof every 
 way as occassioun ofierred, which I the rather humblie presse becaus 
 I am informed that some (wlio will in end appeare to be hot sclfc 
 seekeing personncs whatsoever they protend) haue informed your 
 excellence otherwise, which the testymonle of a good conscience and 
 a heart intyrelie devotted to his Matie's service beareing me witnes, 
 I soe lltle valued that I wold not haue mentioned anie such thing at 
 this tyme if it wer not the zeale I haue to stand constantUe such as I 
 am in yor excellences oppinione ; for I doe declare that nothing hot 
 a sense of Duty to my soveraigne, compelled me thus to hazarde my 
 lyfe and fortune as I haue done, I ncltlier ayme at, nor shall trouble 
 yor Excellence with anie reqiieest for either preferrnient or honor to 
 my self, if it wold please the lord, his Matie"^ iust rights might be ad- 
 vanced, 1 haue my desire ; And for further then to enable me to con- 
 tribute eftecluallie my endeavors to that purpose 1 care not; from 
 which course soc long as I have meanes to promote the same, or 
 health to prosecute itt, (wi^li indecde is not such as wer to be wyshed; 
 Ishallnotgodwillingshrinkc, soe wishing yor Excellence all happynes, 
 and good successe in the carying on of this great work, I conclude 
 my self, yor^Excellences most humble and afiectionat servant, 
 
 *'J. Montgomery. 
 
 *'Newtoun, the 20th of August, 1^49. 
 
 "fur the most honorable James lord Marqueis of Ormonde, Lord 
 lievtcnant Gcnnerall of Ireland, his Excellence. — These. 
 
 " Endorsed— Si' James Mountgomery. — Dat. 20 Aug.; rec, 22 
 Aug , 1649." 
 
 - Out Colonel Mo!ik.— 9iee p. 179, supra, 
 
 3 Army in Ireland. — See p. 175, supra, 
 
 ^ The Kin^s Commission. — See p. iSl, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 Sir James pleaded that as a subject of Ireland (where his estate was) he had acted according 
 to law, and by Commission from King Charles y° first and second and against the Irish and 
 Sectarians, (as the estates then called the Rumps and Cromwell's party) -their and our common 
 enemy; which he thought no crime, and themselves were articling to reward the King as he and 
 the Viscount's party had been endeavouring to hold up his Majesty's right in Ireland. s 
 
 That he could not hinder, nor did he promote or advise, Sir George Monro's expedition, which 
 their Major General himself could not obstruct. That he had not contributed any to the Duke 
 Hamilton's engagement, (for relief of their late imprisoned and murdered King) though their own 
 Parliament had authorized the said Duke, how well or ill became not him to determine.^ 
 
 That he was fled for his life from those, who were enemys to their and his King, and to get 
 bread and shelter among them till those calamitous times were over which he hoped would soon 
 come to pass, by the treaty on foot and by his Majesty coming for protection to them : as himself 
 now did, and offered to give security for his good carriage during his residence. 
 
 But his conjunction with the Lord of Ardes, and slighting the Ministers, and using authority 
 over the godly and well affected to the pretended cause afforesaid and to the Covenanters, was 
 proved against Sir James, who was advised (by his relations) not to stir up nests of wasps, nor 
 depend too much upon his justification, nor to decline their jurisdiction, lest he should be 
 imprisoned. 
 
 Sir James had good friends, viz. the Earl of Eglinton,? the Laird of Greenock,^ the Laird of 
 Langshaws (who was his cautioner, as they call a man who is security for his friend in a bond) 
 
 5 Right in Ireland. — Sir James Montgomery had always 
 been an honest and consistent royalist, whereas his ac- 
 cusers sometimes professed to be the friends of Charles, 
 whilst, in reality, they were his enemies, unless he could 
 be made a covenatited king, thus justifying the satirical 
 account of them given by the author of Hudibras : — 
 
 " Did they not swear at first to fifeht 
 For the king's safety and his right, 
 And after, marched to find him out, 
 And charged him home with horse and foot? 
 But yet, still had the confidence 
 To swear it was in his defence." 
 
 The following passage, in the celebrated Queenferry Paper, 
 clearly states the condition on which presbyterians wished 
 to give their allegiance at the period referred to : — " The 
 Covenant . . . only binds us to maintain our king 
 in the maintenance of the true established and covenanted 
 religion ; and this we have not, neither can they require 
 homage upon the account of the covenant, having re- 
 nounced and disclaimed that covenant ; and we being no 
 otherwise bound, the covenant being the coronation com- 
 pact, without the swearing and sealing of which our 
 fathers, or rather we ourselves, refused to receive him for 
 king and them for our rulers ; and if they were free to 
 refuse him for king upon the account of not subscribing 
 of that covenant, we are much more free to reject him 
 upon his renouncing of it, this being the only way of re- 
 ceiving the crown of Scotland." See Scots Worthies, 
 edition of 1856, pp. 711 — 714. 
 
 * To determine. — For the movements in Ulster connected 
 with the Scottish Engagement, see p. 173, supra. The 
 
 Scottish estates, remorseful, it is said, for having sold the 
 king to the English, hastily prepared an army of 15,000 
 men, which entered England, under the command of the 
 duke of Hamilton, but which was soon met and dispersed 
 by English troops under Cromwell. Scottish writers 
 are indignant at the charge so persistently made, that 
 the Scottish nation sold its king, iDut their fervid appeals 
 and explanations on this point have not, as yet, convinced 
 the English mind to the contrary. Buckle, whilst adopt- 
 ing the idea of the sale, approves of the whole affair. 
 " Indeed, the Scots," says he, "instead of pardoning him, 
 turned him to profit. He had not only trampled on their 
 liberties, he had also put them to an enormous expense. 
 . . . . They, therefore, gave him up to the English, 
 and, in return, received a large sum of money, which they 
 claimed as arrears due to them for the cost of making war 
 on him. By this arrangement, both of the contracting 
 parties benefitted. The Scotch, being very poor, obtained 
 what they most lacked. The English, a wealthy people, 
 had indeed to pay the money, but they were recompensed 
 by getting hold of their oppressor, against whom they 
 thirsted for revenge ; and they took good care never to let 
 him loose, until they had exacted the last penalty of his 
 great and manifold crimes." — Civilization in England, 
 vol. ii. , pp. 279, 280, and notes. 
 
 f Eglinton. — The sixth earl. 
 
 ^ Greenock. — John Shaw. 
 
 ' Langshaw. — This was David Montgomerie, eighth 
 laird of Langshaw or Lainshaw, who died about the year 
 1692. — Paterson, Parishes and Families Ayrshire, vol. 
 ii.,p. 454. 
 
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 and divers others, besides his brother-in-law, Sir Alexander Stewart, '° Bart, who interceeded for 
 him. 
 
 The committee of estates reply to Sir James his defence, that he was a native of the kingdom, 
 and that they might cognosce upon his actions, which trenche on their welfare, though he lived 
 not in it ; and told him he had been an enemy to God, and to his covenant and cause, and to the 
 adherers thereunto. — Yet in hopes of his amendment and upon the request of his friends, they 
 would only order him to remove out of the kingdom, betwixt and the first of January, without 
 longer delay ; and that he should not return without licence and permission, asked and gotten 
 from the Parliament or committee of estates, or secret council for the samin. And that he shall 
 not doe, speak, nor act any thing to Y prejudice of the said cause or covenant, or well affected 
 Covenanters either in Scotland or Ireland, under pain of 20,000/. Scotts money to be paid to the 
 commissary general of Scotland for the use of the public, those presents to be registrat in the buiks 
 of Parliament, etc. — There was no disputeing fitt ; so he submitted to their will." 
 
 Sir James landed in Scotland in and about the latter end of October 1649, gave bond 
 ye 8th of December, and left the kingdom before next month, which begins their new year, 
 1650." 
 
 He being banished (as aforesaid) went to Holland and left more than 100 pieces of gold (with 
 Mr Alexander Petry,'3 minister to the Scottish congregation at Delft) for maintainance of his son 
 
 ^ '° Sir Alexander Stewart.— Son of sir William, and 
 brother of sir James Montgomery's first wife, Katharine 
 Stewart. 
 
 " To their will. — Sir James would have fared better 
 had he remained at Rosemount and thrown himself on 
 the mercy of Cromwell. | Adair's notice of sir James's 
 difficulties is, to say the least, ungenerous, and, in some 
 respects, hardly credible. At p. 175, he says — " It is 
 observable, that sir James Montgomery, of Greyabbey, 
 who, a little time before, was a chief instrument to cor- 
 rupt his nephew, the lord of Ards, teaching him, then but 
 young, subtilly to deceive the ministers by his feigned 
 pretences and declarations, though a man of great parts, 
 is now put to his wits' end what course to take. He knew 
 no better way than to apply to the ministers of the county 
 of Down for recommendation to Scotland (then preparing 
 to receive the king), which the ministers, upon his decla- 
 ration of repentance and changing his principles under his 
 hand, did give him, directed to Argyle and Robert Dou- 
 glass. Yet, going there, he only obt dned liberty to go 
 to Holland, the states not thinking fit to own or trust him 
 among them. . . . All his lifetime he followed world 
 policy, yet it failed him." It is not to be believed that sir 
 James Montgomery pretended repentance of his loyalty 
 and a change of his principles, for the purpose of ob- 
 taining a certificate from the presbyterian ministers of 
 Down. If such recantation had been ever signed by him, 
 (as here stated), the document would have been carefully 
 preserved among presbyterial records, and copied into 
 Adair's True Narrative. Sir James made no apology for 
 his sentiments and actions, even when summoned before 
 the committee of estates, a more formidable tribunal than 
 the asscmliled ministers of Down. On the contraiy, 
 he manfully advocated the rectitude of his intentions. 
 
 taunting his judges -with the crookedness of their own 
 policy, and thus, doubtless, bringing upon himself a 
 tiarsher punishment than might have been otherwise 
 imposed. 
 
 Neiu year, 1650. — See p. 40, note 35, supra. 
 '3 Alexander Tetry. — AlexanderPetrie was translated by 
 the general assembly in 1643 from the parish of Rhynd to be 
 the first pastor of the Scottish church in Rotterdam. His 
 flock, in the latter place, consisted of presbyterian families 
 who liad settled there as traders, and whose comfortable 
 circumstances enabled them to assist many of their coun- 
 trymen afterwards compelled to fly from the civil and 
 religious feuds that desolated Scotland in the seventeenth 
 century. A greater number of banished Scottish minis- 
 ters were to be found in Rotterdam than in any other town 
 in Holland. One of their number, named Robert Mac- 
 ward, when writing to a friend in Scotland, says: — " I am 
 ashamed to call my lot a suffering lot, for He hath rather 
 hid me from the storm than exposed me to trouble. I 
 have occasion now and then to preach at Rotterdam, 
 where we have one old Scots minister who is dissatisfied 
 with the times." — Scots Worthies, edition of 1856, p. 
 554. This "one old Scots minister" was Alexander 
 Petrie, mentioned in the text, who seems to have kindly 
 assisted his countiymen without regard to the faction or 
 party to which they had belonged in the old country. 
 He is known as the author of a Compendious History of the 
 Catholic Chuich from 600 to 1660. This work, published 
 at the Hague ia 1662, was dedicated to William III. 
 when he was Prince of Orange, but curiously enough the 
 author has placed on the first page of his dedication the 
 arms of the kings of England, crowned and encircled 
 with the garter. — Nicholson's Scottish Historical Lil'rary, 
 p. 203. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 335 
 
 William aforesaid, at the university in Leyden, under the care of Doctor Adam Stewart'* Primarius 
 Professor of Philosophy there. 
 
 His Majesty was then come out of Germany from solliciting the Emperor and Princes (as he 
 had done to France and Spaine's) and was come to Breda (his brother Orange's'^ town) to meet 
 
 Doctor Adam Stewart. — This divine was the "mere 
 A. S." of Milton's well-known verses on the Ne70 Forcers 
 of Conscience under the Long Parliament. Dr. Stewart, 
 before being settled at Leyden, had gained some 
 notoriety in Scotland as a champion against the cause of 
 religious toleration. The Rev. H. J. Todd, the learned 
 editor of Milton, has gleaned all that is known of Stewart, 
 in addition to what had already been published by Warton. 
 • Warton's account is as follows: — "Doctor Newton says, 
 'I know not who is meant by A. S. Some book might 
 have been published, signed by these letters, and perhaps 
 an equivoque might also be intended.' The Inde- 
 pendents were now contending for toleration. In 1643, 
 their principal leaders published a pamphlet with this 
 title, An Apologeticall Naj-ration of some Ministers formerly 
 Exiles in the Netherlands, now members of the Assembly of 
 Divines. Humbly submitted to the honourable Houses of 
 Parliament. By Thomas Goodwyn, Sydrack Sympson', 
 Philip Nye, Jer. Burroughs, and William Bridge, the 
 authors thereof. London, 1643. In quarto. Their 
 system is a middle way between Brownism and presbytery. 
 This piece was answered by one A. S. the person in- 
 tended by Milton. Some observations and Annotations 
 upon the Apologeticall Narration, humbly submitted to the 
 honourable Houses of Pai'liament, the most reverend and 
 learned Divines of the Assembly, and all the Protestant 
 Churches here in this island and abroad. Lond. 1644. 
 In quarto. The dedication is subscribed A. S. The 
 independents then retorted upon A. S. in a pamphlet 
 called A Reply of the two Brothers to A. S. VVlierein you 
 have Observations, Annotations, S^c, upon the Apologeticall 
 Narration. H ith a Plea for liberty of Conscience for the 
 apologist's chuirh-way: against the cavils of the said A. S. 
 formerly called M. S. to A. S. &^c. d^c, Lond. 1644, In 
 quarto. I quote from the second edition enlarged. There 
 is another piece by A. S. It is called Reply to the second 
 Return. This I have never seen. His name was never 
 known." The Rev. H. J. Todd continues :—" His 
 name was well known ; and a doughty champion 
 he appears to have been in the polemicks of that time : 
 Witness his effusions entitled Zernbbabel to Sanballat and 
 Tobiah: or. The first part of the Duply to M. S. alias two 
 Brethren, by A dam Steuart, &=c. , Imprim. March 17,1 644. 
 4to. Again, the second part the Duply to M. S. alias two 
 JSrethrett. PVith a brief Epitome and Refutation of all the 
 whole Independent- Government: Most humbly submitted to 
 the R'ing's most Excellent Majestie, to the most honourable 
 Houses of Pai'liament, the most Reverend and Learned 
 Divines of the Assembly, and all the Protestant Chwxhes in 
 this island and abroad, hy Adam Steuart. Imprim. Octob. 
 3. 1644. 4to. In this second part the observations of 
 the two Brethren are stated, and the replies all commence 
 with A. S. prefixed. [Possibly Milton ridicules this 
 minuteness in here writing only "mere A. S."] How- 
 ever, the Tracts above stated contain in their title- 
 pages the name at large. See also An Answer to a 
 Libell entitled A cook conference between the cleared Re- 
 
 formation and the Apologeticall Narration, brought togetJier 
 by a Well-willer to both. By Adam Steuart. Lond. 1644. 
 4to. I have found him called in other Tracts of the time, 
 Doctor A. Steuart, a Divine of the Church of Scotland." 
 — The Poetical Works of fohn Milton, edited by the Rev. 
 Hen. J. Todd, vol. iv., p. 306, note. The following are 
 the celebrated lines in which Milton rebukes presbyterian 
 intolerance, and hands down to future times "mere A. S.," 
 who would, but for this poem, have long since been for- 
 gotten :— 
 
 "Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord, 
 And with stiff vows renounc'd his Liturgy, 
 To seise the widow^l whore Plurality, 
 From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorrd ; 
 Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword 
 To force our consciences that Christ set free, 
 And ride us with a classick hierarchy — 
 Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rotherford? 
 
 " Men, whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent, 
 Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, 
 
 Must now be nam'd and printed Hereticks 
 By shallow Edwards and Scotch what-d'ye-call : 
 But we do hope to find out all your tricks, 
 Your plots and packing worse than those of Trent, 
 
 That so the Parliament 
 May, with their wholesome and preventive shears. 
 Clip your phylacteries, though bank your ears, 
 
 And succour our just fears. 
 When they shall read this clearly in your charge, 
 New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large." 
 
 '5 And Spaine. — Charles received words of promise, 
 more or less sincere, from all these potentates, during his 
 e.\ile. The king of Spain appears to have been especially 
 considerate in his attentions, if we may judge from the 
 following extracts of a letter in which Charles meekly 
 compares himself to Jacob and Christ, whilst the ' favours ' 
 of the Spanish monarch are compared to those of the 
 angels, and even the Trinity: — "The accumulation of his 
 Catholick Majesty's favours so amply spread over my 
 persecutions, have as often represented to my thoughts 
 the comforts wherewith the holy angels, or rather the most 
 sacred Trinity refreshed the great patriarch Jacob in his 
 wandrings, such seasonable consolations have they been 
 to me in my pilgrimage. . . . 'Tis true that I also 
 have a portion in my Saviour's earthly travels; for as his, 
 so my nation owns me not; as he, so I, in our mortal 
 comparisons, am persecuted from city to city, and from 
 one nation to another people; my father of blessed memory 
 trod the press, and I, his sorrowing son, drink of the 
 streams ; he was the heir, who most inhumanely his own 
 subjects and servants murthered, and that possession is 
 mine inheritance, which, as yet, they are pleased to call 
 their own." — Lord Somers^s Tracts, First Collection, 
 vol. iii. , p. 579- 
 
 His brother Orange. — This was William, second 
 prince of Orange of that name, who had married a sister 
 of Charles II., and no doubt, on various grounds, ardently 
 wished an end to the English commonwealth. With 
 this object, he afforded every facility in his power to 
 his brother-in-law. The possible succession of his 
 
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 and treat with commissioners from Scotland ; in which affair, hardly any three weeks passed but 
 that the Scottish commissioners were instructed (as I was informed) to urge further and more strict 
 concessions from his Majesty. '7 
 
 Sir James came over in one of the ships which wafted the King and his train from Holland,'^ 
 
 own wife and children to the English throne would be 
 altogether precluded by the scheme of an English republic 
 — a prospect which no prince could be supposed to con- 
 template without regret. He might be willing also, or even 
 anxious, to see the execution of his father-in-law avenged. 
 See Bisset's Conunotnuealth of England, vol. i. , p. 26. The 
 life of this prince of Orange — William 11. — was but brief, 
 as he died in the twenty-fourth year of his age. In his 
 short career, however, he had contrived by his violent 
 infringement of the constitutional rights of his subjects, to 
 revive and strengthen a suspicion in the public mind that 
 his house meditated the overthrow of freedom in the com- 
 monwealth. On this account, a great party opposed to 
 the Orange interest, took advantage of the helplessness of 
 his infant son, afterwards William III., to prevent his 
 succeeding by election to the dignity of stadtholder, 
 which had become almost hereditary in the line of Nassau. 
 The alliance of William II. with the daughter of Charles 
 I. of England had also excited the suspicions of Cromwell 
 against the former, so that when peace was concluded 
 afterwards, in 1654, between the two republics of England 
 and the United Provinces, the demand of the Protector, 
 that all the states should solemnly engage to exclude the 
 infant prince of Orange and his descendants prospectively 
 from the stadtholdership, was only satisfied by a secret 
 engagement to the same effect to which Holland, as the 
 leading province of the union willingly but discreditably 
 acceded. 
 
 '7 Front his Majesty. — The Scottish commissioners ob- 
 tained all the terms from Charles which they had been 
 instructed to demand. Balfour, Annals, vol. iv., p. 6, 
 gives the names of these commissioners, as follows : — 
 " The housse by ther wotte (8th March, 1650), ordaines 
 ther commissioners to imbarque for Holland one Saterday, 
 the 9 of Marche, at 2 in the afternoone, winde and wether 
 serving, hot any forder delay. Commissioners sent by 
 Parliament to treat with the King are — Johne, Earl of 
 Cassiles; William, Earle of Louthean, principal secretary 
 of State; the lairds of Brodieand Libertone, two Senators 
 of the College of Justice for the burrows; Sir John .Smithe 
 and Mr. Alex. Jeffra, com. for Aberdeen, for the bur- 
 rowes; Mr. James Wood, Mr. Johne Levingstone, and 
 Mr. , from the commissione of the Kirke. 
 
 The parliaments commissione to ther commissioners to 
 treat with the kings Ma"° at Breda, for the .space of 30 
 dayes and no longer, read, wotted, and past, and ordained 
 in the housses name to be subscrived by the president. 
 The commissioners had a warrand with them, under the 
 great scale of Scotlande, to borrow 3 hundreth thousand 
 pound to give to the king, if so it wer he and they ac- 
 corded; 'wtherways to give him no money at all.'" This 
 ' warrand' was the best argument the commissioners could 
 use to induce Charles to accept the covenant or anything 
 else they might propose. They had not long to wait at 
 Breda, as the king, with becoming alacrity, bound himself 
 to accept not only the Scottish covenant, but the Solemn 
 League and Covenant, — to disavow and declare null the 
 
 two cessations or peaces made by Ormond with the Irish 
 in 1643 and 1648, — never to permit the exercise of the 
 Catholic religion in Ireland or in any other part of his 
 dominions, — and to govern in civil matters by the advice of 
 the Parliament, and in religious matters by the advice of 
 the kirk ! Balfour records the accomplishment of this 
 important affair as follows: — "A letter from Mr. Johne 
 Levingstone (on the 27th of June) to Mr. Robt. Douglasse, . 
 presented Mr. James Hamilton to the housse, anent his 
 Majesties subscriving the covenant and the league and 
 covenant, and granting all the desyres of both churche and 
 statt, of the dait 23 Junie, 1650, read and communicat to 
 the Parliament. . . . Brodie and Libertone made a 
 full relation of all ther negotiation with his Majestic; they 
 producid the covenant, with the churche explanatione, 
 subscrived with the king's hand, as also the concessions 
 subscrived by his Majestie. — Annals of Scotland, vol. iv., 
 pp. 63, 67. 
 
 '2 From Holland. — These ships formed a small squadron 
 furnished to Charles by the Prince of Orange. The king 
 and his attendants experienced a rather perilous voyage of 
 three weeks, but arrived safely in the Frith of Cromarty, 
 on the 24th of June, with about 500 Scots and English in 
 his train, including the commissioners and their attendants. 
 The followmg is Clarendon's account of the king's amval 
 and reception: — "The marquis of Argyle, who did not 
 believe that the king would ever have ventured thither 
 [into Scotland] upon [the] conditions [he had sent,] was 
 surprised with the account the commissioners had given 
 him that his majesty resolved to embark the next day ; 
 that he would leave all his chaplains and his other servants 
 behind him, and only deferred to take the covenant him- 
 self till he came thither, with a resolution to satisfy the 
 kirk if they pressed it. And thereupon he imme- 
 diately despatched away another vessel with new pro- 
 positions, which the commissioners were to insist upon, 
 and not to consent to the king's coming into that king- 
 dom without he likewise consented to those. But that 
 vessel met not with the king's fleet, which, that it might 
 avoid that of the parliament, which attended to intercept 
 the king, had held its course more northward, where there 
 is plenty of good harbours ; and so had put into a harbour 
 near Stirling, that is, within a day's journey of it, but 
 where there was no town nearer for his majesty's recep- 
 tion, or where there was any accommodation [even] for 
 very ordinary passengers. From thence notice was sent 
 to the council of the king's arrival. The first vi^elcome 
 he received was a new demand ihat he would sign the 
 covenant himself before he set his foot on shore; which 
 all about him pressed him to do: and he now found that 
 he had made haste thither upon vei-y unskilful imagina- 
 tions and presumptions : yet he consented unto what they 
 so imperiously required, that he might have leave to put 
 himself into the hands of those who resolved nothing less 
 than to serve him. " — Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, 
 Oxford, edition of 1849, vol. v., pp. 144, 145- P"^ 
 reaching Falkland, the king, to gratify his covenanting 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 337 
 
 and he contracted an intimate friendship with Sir Alexander Sutherland whom the King afterward^ 
 created Lord Duffus'9 (an excellent man he was) whose truth and worth, the said Sir James his son 
 (the said William) found by receiving, what money, papers, or cloaths were left with him at his 
 house in the far north of Scotland for safety ; for he delivered them to the said Captain Hugh 
 M'Gill.^° Then Sir James came to the west country and was obliged to abscond, and I rode with 
 him, his cloaths-bag behind me for secrecy, till he might gett up his bond, which was cancelled as 
 aforesaid j''' and I had (that winter) remained at the Colledge in Glasgow, and till the summer 
 
 friends, summoned the lion king-at-arms, who was no 
 other that sir James Balfour, the annalist, and issued cer- 
 tain heraldic laws which will be best expressed in Balfour's 
 own words : — " Hes Maiestie commandid me at Falkland, 
 22 day of Julii, 1650, to sett doune thesse follouing de- 
 vices for the standards of the regiment of horsses of his 
 Maiesties Lyffe gaurd. For the one syde of the Colonells 
 standard, being azure, a sword and scepter in salteur, 
 vnder a croune imperial!, or, with this motto vnderneath 
 in gold letters, tiobis haec invicta miserunt. On the 
 other side, — Coitenant; for Religione, King and King- 
 domes. . . . Lykewayes, the same 22 of Julii, at his 
 yi^tie'a command, I ordered thesse folouing devices to be 
 putt upone the ensigns and colours of his Ma''«'' footte 
 regiment of his Lyffe Gaurdes. For the Colonnell, in the 
 middle of a blew feild, hisMajisties coate of armes, viz: — 
 Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, quartered, 
 without aney croune ouer them, in the middle of the 
 ensigne; and one the other syde of them, in grate gold 
 letters, thesse vordes. Covenant; for religione. King and 
 Kingdoms." — Annals of Scotland, vol. iv. , pp. 84, 85. 
 This was about the extent of the king's services in the 
 interests of the covenant. 
 
 '5 Lord Dtiffus. — Sir Alexander Sutherland represented 
 the Duffus branch of the old Dunrobin stock, being the 
 seventh in descent from Kenneth, fifth earl of Sutherland, 
 who was slain at Hallidown-hill, in 1333. Sir Alexander 
 had suffered much in following the royal fortunes, and was 
 created viscount Duffus by Charles II. in 1650. In the 
 parish of Duffus, at Elgin, are still be seen the remains of 
 Duffus Castle, built in the reign of David I. by a family 
 named Cheyne, from whom lord Duffus was maternally 
 descended. This fortress consisted of a square tower, 
 the walls of which were five feet in breadth and built 
 with nm lime, and having a parapet, ditch, drawbridge, and 
 other appendages of a fortified baronial residence. The 
 orchard and garden are still in a state of preservation, but 
 the castle has long been abandoned as a place of residence. 
 About thirty years ago, an old woman was living in the 
 district, whose mother remembered to have seen Claver- 
 house, viscount Dundee, on a visit with lord Duffus at this 
 castle. — Nnv Statistical Account of Scotland, Elgin, p. 35. 
 His lady, who was a daughter of the master of Forbes, 
 and who died on the l6th of April, 1677, is mentioned as 
 among the secret friends of non conformity, at the time 
 of her death. Several other ladies of distinguished rank 
 and piety, throughout the northern shires, were similarly 
 inclined; among whom, probably the best known, were 
 lady Campbell of Calder, lady Kilravock, lady Muirtown, 
 and lady Innes. Lady Duffus is frequently mentioned in 
 the Diary of her kinswoman, Lilias Dunbar, as a most ex- 
 cellent and kind-hearted woman. This Diary originally 
 
 printed in The Religious Monitor and Evangelical Reposi- 
 tory, for 1832, in the state of Vermont, and has been 
 amply used by the author of The Ladies of the Covenant, in 
 his memoir of Mrs. Campbell, pp. 148 — l6l. Sir Robert 
 Gordon, in his Genealogical History of the Earldom of 
 Sutherland, tells of a feud between the Gordons of Enbo 
 and the Sutherlands of Duffus. In 1625, John Gordon 
 assaulted the laird of Chyne, a brother of Duffus men- 
 tioned in the next. Enbo was prosecuted by Duffus before 
 the privy council, and committed to the castle of Edin- 
 burgh. Sir Robert Gordon states that he endeavoured to 
 persuade Duffus to withdraw the prosecution, but that the 
 latter utterly refused to do so, " thinking to get great 
 sums of money discerned to him by the lords from John 
 Gordon, for satisfaction of the wrong done to his brother, 
 whereby he might undo Gordon's estate. Sir Robert then 
 induced lord Gordon to enlist the sympathy of the French 
 commissioners on behalf of John Gordon, and in this he 
 succeeded even beyond his expectations. The commis- 
 sioners induced the privy council to order the liberation 
 of Gordon on his paying the small fine of £\<x> Scots, 
 equal to £i> 6s 8d sterling, a result very different from 
 that which the Sutherlands had expected. So, at least, 
 thought Sir Robert Gordon." See Chambers's Domestic 
 Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., pp. 5, 6. Soon after sir 
 Alexander Sutherland was created lord Duffus, he was 
 sent to hold Perth for Charles II., but was very quickly 
 relieved from his duties at that place. Under the 2nd of 
 August, 165 1, Balfour has the following entry:—" Crom- 
 well marched from Bruntiyland to Perthe, and had the 
 same randred to him by the Lord Duffus, quhe had entred 
 the same some 12 houres befor with 600 men on good 
 quarters, one Saterday, the 2d day of Agust, 165 1." — 
 Annals of Scotland, vol. iv., pp. 313, 314. The title of 
 lord Duffus was forfeited in 1715, in the person of Ken- 
 neth, lord Duffus, but was restored to his grandson, cap- 
 tain James Sutherland, by act of parliament, in 1826. 
 Lord James having died without male issue, the title was 
 taken up by sir Benjamin Dunbar of Hempriggs, the 
 next male descendant of the second son of James, who 
 had changed his surname on his marriage with Miss 
 Dunbar, the heiress of Hempriggs. — Mackay's History of 
 the House and Clan of Mackay, p. 345. 
 =° Hiigh McGill. — See p. 244, supra. 
 
 Cancelled as aforesaid. — The earl of Eglinton, the 
 laird of Greenock, and the laird of Lainshaw, had entered 
 into a bond as cautioners or securities for sir James Mont- 
 gomery, that he would forthwith leave Scotland and never 
 return, unless permitted to do so by the authority of the 
 estates. Although he had now come back with the king, 
 he could not publickly appear until relieved by an act of 
 the parliament, and was, therefore, obliged for a time to 
 
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 following. Then students had the vacance (so they called it) i. e. leave to go home till harvest 
 (which begins the first of August) was past. 
 
 In the meanwhile, no malignants (so were the late suffering loyalists termed) were admitted 
 into the army, nor to any office in the King's household, and it was but privately that Sir James 
 might repaire to Court or near the King's person, yet sometimes he had secret speech with 
 his Majesty." 
 
 " abscond," and conceal himself in " the west country. " 
 Sir James Montgomery, and other leading royalists who 
 had come to Scotland with Charles, soon found that their 
 only course was to abandon the king in the meantime, and 
 provide, as they severally best could, for their own safety. 
 Clarendon, speaking of their difficult position at this 
 juncture, says : — " With his majesty's leave, and having 
 given him the best advice they could what he should do 
 for himself, and what he should do for them, they 
 put themselves on shore before the king disem- 
 barked ; and found means to go to those places 
 where they might be some time concealed, and which 
 were like to be at distance enough from the king. And 
 shortly after, duke Hamilton retired to the island of 
 Arran, which belonged to himself, where he had a little 
 house well enough accommodated, the island being, for 
 the most part, inhabited with wild beasts : Lauderdale 
 concealed himself among his friends, both taking care to 
 be well informed of all that should pass about the king, 
 and that he might receive their advice on any occasions. " 
 " The king was received by the marquis of Argyle with 
 all the outward respect imaginable ; but, within two days 
 after his landing, all the English servants of any quality 
 were removed from his person, the duke of Buckingham 
 only excepted. The rest for the most part were received 
 into the houses of some persons of honour, who lived at 
 a distance from the court, and ^\ ere themselves under a 
 cloud for their known affections, and durst only attend 
 the king to kiss his hand, and then retired to their houses, 
 that they might give no occasion of jealousy; others of 
 his servants were not suffered to remain in the kingdom, 
 but were forced presently to re-embark themselves for 
 Holland ; amongst which was Daniel O'Neile, who hath 
 been often mentioned before, and who came from the 
 marquis of Ormond into Holland, just when his majesty 
 was ready to embark, and so waited upon him ; and was 
 no sooner known to be with his majesty, (as he was a 
 person vei^ generally known, ) but he was apprehended by 
 order from the council, of being an Irishman, and having 
 been in arms on the late king's behalf in the late war ; for 
 which they were not without some discourse of putting 
 him to death ; but they did immediately banish him the 
 kingdom, and obliged him to sign a paper by which he 
 consented to be put to death, if he were ever after found 
 in the kingdom." — Clarendon, History of (he Rchdlion, 
 edt. Oxford, 1 849, vol. v., p. 145. Balfour states 
 that on Wednesday, the iSth December, 1650, relief was 
 granted to sir James Montgomeiy. His words are — 
 " J'iege fi7-esente, Sr James Montgomeries bill to be liberat 
 ef his band from eentringe the kingdome, read ; and after 
 some debait, he liberat from the penalty of the same, and 
 he acknowledged ane lawful subiecte." — Annals of Scot- 
 land, vol. iv. , p. 206. 
 
 Speech with his Majesty. — As the committee of estates 
 
 and the kirk committee had wrung from the king the most 
 humiliating terms, they well knew that he could not be 
 trusted for a moment; and they determined, therefore, to 
 keep him in safe hands by permitting only such personal 
 attendants to approach him as had taken the covenant. 
 Thus, the duke of Buckingham, lord Wilmot, and other 
 English attendants and servants, were compelled to be- 
 come covenanters for the time being. The several Irish 
 and Scottish royalists who had returned with Charles from 
 exile, so far from being permitted to serve in the Scottish 
 army against the invasion which was now being made by 
 Cromwell, were compelled to conceal themselves among 
 the highlands and isles of Scotland. Such also as had, 
 at any time, opposed the covenant in any mannes or 
 degree, were totally excluded at this crisis from the honour 
 of fighting side by side with the covenanters for the re- 
 storation of the king. To enforce this absurd, and as it 
 proved, fatal arrangement, an act had been passed by the 
 estates entitled the Act of Classes, by which all 'malignants' 
 or royalists were classified according to their several 
 degi^ees of dissatisfaction with the covenant, and dismissed 
 from the army. This act, it is true, was quickly rescinded 
 after the defeat at Dunbar, but in the meantime, and 
 almost in view of the enemy, eighty officers and four 
 thousand men, constituting the flower of the army, were 
 expelled. — Eraser's Memorials, vol. i. , pp. 72. After 
 this expulsion, it naturally occurred to the covenanters 
 that the king for whom they were about to fight, was 
 himself the vei^y chief of malignants, and that, therefore, 
 he should be required to make another declaration of his 
 principles (or rather another exhibition of his hypocrisy), 
 by way of assisting, at that momentous crisis, in averting 
 the wrath of the Almighty from their proceedings. Ac- 
 cordingly a declaration was prepared for the royal signature, 
 in which Charles was required to lament his father's 
 opposition to the work of God and to the solemn league 
 and covenant, his mother's idolatry — the toleration of which 
 in the royal household could not fail to provoke the wrath 
 of that God who visits the sins of the fathers upon the 
 children — and to declare that he had signed the covenant 
 with sincerity of heart, and would in future have no friends 
 or enemies but such as were friends or enemies to the cove- 
 nanted work, &c., &c., &c. The king, before signing this 
 document, asked time to obtain the advice of his council, but 
 his tormentors would not wait, the two committees of the 
 kirk and estates vehemently protesting that they disclaimed 
 the guilt of the king and his house, and the preachers in- 
 dividually proclaiming from their pulpits that the king was 
 a hypocrite, who had taken the covenant without the in- 
 tention of keeping it. The king did not long withstand 
 this storm, and no sooner had he signed the declaration 
 than his act in so doing was accepted vrith ex-pressions of 
 the greatest gratitude and joy, the anny and the city of 
 Edinburgh observing a solemn fast for the sins of the king 
 
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 The English army, commanded by O. C. was drawn up within five miles of Edinburgh, and 
 the Scotts between Leith and Pictland^^ (comonly called Pentland) hills.^* 
 
 In which, a Committee of y° Kirk had a place, neare Generall Lesly, and were privy to all 
 resolutions made in councils of warr, having an overawing and controlling votes therein and it 
 
 and his father, Charles I., and the preachers assuring their 
 dupes that there would he now an easy victory over 
 Cromwell and his troops — a "blaspheming general and a 
 sectarian army." — Balfour's Annals of Scotland, vol. iv., 
 pp. 92-6; UrngTix^z History of England, 6th edt, 1855, 
 vol. viii., pp. 145, 146. 
 
 °3 Pictland.—il\\& boundaries of P ictland are not clearly 
 marked. According to sir Walter Scott, the Picts "in- 
 habited the eastern shores of Scotland as far south as the 
 Frith of Forth, and as far north as the island extends." 
 History of Scotland, vol. i., p. 7. "The Caledonians or 
 Picts," says Cosmo Innes, " possessed in the eighth cen- 
 tury, and down to the end of it, all the eastern lowlands 
 of modern Scotland, including Lothian ; but the last only 
 probably for a short period. At the end of that century, 
 they possessed also Galloway and the Orkney islands." 
 — Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 82. 
 
 Pentland hills. — On Cromwell's crossing the Tweed, 
 at the head of an army of 16,000 veterans, he found the 
 Scottish forces, doubly numerous, posted behind a deep in- 
 trenchment extending from Edinburgh to Leith, fortified 
 with numerous batteries, and flanked by the cannon of the 
 castle at one extremity, and of the harbour at the other. 
 The Scottish army was commanded by the earl of Leven, 
 who, being old and infiiTn, delegated the command to his 
 kinsman, David Leslie. The latter proved his great dis- 
 cretion, if not generalship, in keeping closely within his 
 excellent, and, indeed, unassailable position, notwithstand- 
 ing many attempts on the part of Cromwell to draw him 
 into an engagement. 
 
 =5 Votes therein. — The intermeddling of the two 
 committees with the duties of the general in com- 
 mand, led directly to the defeat of the covenanting 
 army. Cromwell's movements, occasioned by nume- 
 rous deaths among his soldiers, indicated weakness 
 or indecision on his part, and greatly encouraged his 
 opponents. Having sent his sick on board the fleet at 
 Musselburgh, he marched his army to Haddington and 
 thence to the vicinity of Dunbar. Had Leslie been per- 
 mitted to remain in his original position, Cromwell, 
 knowing the greatly superior numbers of the enemy, 
 would probably have sent his infantry on board the fleet, 
 and escaped with his cavahy along the high road to 
 Berwick. But at a council of war, in which the two com- 
 mittees of the kirk and estates had "overawing and con- 
 trolling votes," it was determined that Leslie also should 
 move, which he did, by marching his army along tlie 
 heights of Lammermuir, and taking up a position on a 
 place called the Doon-Hill, the advanced posts of the 
 opposing armies being then only separated by a narrow 
 ravine. There was great anxiety among the members of 
 the two committees lest the enemy sliould escape, and to 
 prevent this, they compelled Leslie to abandon his cautious 
 tactics, being persuaded that they could secure an easy 
 victory. The Ijattle of Dunbar commenced by an attempt 
 on the part of the Scots to seize the road lietween that 
 town and Berwick, which was Cromwell's only outlet for 
 
 escape in case of defeat. In this they succeeded, driving 
 the English from their position, and breaking through the 
 infantry which had been sent forward to support the horse. 
 To retrieve this disaster, Cromwell ordered his own reoiment 
 to advance with levelled pikes. The charge of this body 
 is described as being terrific, driving the Scots foot before 
 it for three quarters of a mile together. At almost the 
 same moment. Monk's brigade assailed the Scottish right 
 wing, whilst the English cavalry that had yielded its 
 position, rallied and drove the Scots lancers back, thus 
 recovering its ground. In Lambert's regiment was a 
 captain Hodgson who left Memoirs of his life and services, 
 and who states that Cromwell himself, at this juncture, 
 came to the rear of the regiment to which he (Hodgson) 
 
 belonged, and commanded them to incline to the left, 
 
 "that was to take more ground, to be clear of all bodies. 
 And we did so, and horse and foot were engaged all over 
 the field ; and the Scots all in confusion : and the sun 
 appearing upon the sea, I heard Nol say, ' Now let God 
 arise, and his enemies shall be scattered;' and he following 
 as we slowly marched, I heard him say, ' I protest they 
 run!' and then was the Scots army all in disorder and 
 running, both right wing, and left, and main battle. " The 
 pursuit lasted eight hours, although Cromwell's own 
 regiment halted to sing the 1 1 7th Psalm. Three thousand 
 Scots were slain, and ten thousand taken prisoners. Of 
 the latter, 50DO, being wounded, were released, whilst the 
 fate of the remaining 5000 was deplorable. On their way 
 to Berwick, and thence to Newcastle and Durham, they 
 suffered so much from hunger, fatigue, and exposure, that 
 1600 had died before the 8th of November. Many of the 
 hapless Scottish prisoners who had escaped the sword, 
 pestilence, and famine, were destined to a cruel fate, 
 having been transported to the English settlements in 
 America, and there sold as slaves ! — Bisset's Omitted 
 Chapters of the History of England, pp. 356, 384 ; 
 Lingard's History of England, vol. viii., pp. 146, 147. Two 
 officers from Ulster fell at the battle of Dunbar on the side 
 of the king and covenanters, viz., sir Alexander Stewart, 
 uncle of the author, William Montgomery, and lieu- 
 tenant-colonel John Montgomery, son of Patrick Mont- 
 gomery of Craigbuy, near Donaghadee. The half 
 dozen ministers who formed the committee of the kirk with 
 the army, and who were leading members of the general 
 assembly, do^ not appear to have been abashed by the 
 total falsification of their predictions respecting the result 
 of the battle, but forthwith set aboiit drawing up what 
 they called A short Declaration and Warning, which they 
 prefaced by the announcement that they "must notforbeare 
 to declaire the mynd of God, nor uthers refusse to hearken. " 
 This Declaration was immediately followed by Causes of 
 a Soletne puhlicke humiliationc upone the defiii if the armcy, 
 which 'causes' were thirteen in number, and are recorded 
 in Balfour's Annals, vol. iv., pp. 102-6. To enumerate 
 them briefly (as stated by the ministers) these causes were, 
 I, the general profaneness of the land ; 2nd, the pro- 
 vocations of the King and the King's house; 3rd, the 
 
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 was generally believed that O. C. had secret correspondence with them and their party, among 
 y° officers, and y' event confirmed the report. For y^ ministers and some leading officers, after the 
 loss of Dunbarr fight, now called Reraonstrators (from a paper called a Remonstrance against y* 
 assembly of the Estates, and of the Ministers at Striveling),^^ for this assembly declared that it 
 was lawfull for the King to imploy any of his subjects, to expell ye Sectarian English out of the 
 country ; but those other ministers and officers, having gott together about 6000 men, and more 
 dayly of their peevish gang, refractory to y' laws, comeing in to pursue their remonstrance, would 
 admit of no conjunction with y° King, nor with his sober estates and clergy at Striveling, but bein'^ 
 headed by y* said Straughan and Colonel Gilbert (comonly called Gibby) Carr, would fight y' 
 Lord's battles by themselves f^ because he was able to doe his own work with few, as well as with 
 many, and would own his cause and covenant, (which they only expressed) against the sectarians, 
 and, therefore, they rejected the help of 1000 men, which y° King and estates sent, by Major 
 General Montgomery (Eglinton's 3d son), and threatened to fall upon him and his party, if he 
 presumed to joyne with them, tho' he offered to be under their command; only permitting their 
 
 crooked ways of statesmen in the Treaty at Breda ; 4th, 
 the toleration of malignants in the king's household ; 5th, 
 the suffering of his guard to join in the battle without a 
 previous purgation ; 6th, the diffidence of some officers 
 who refused to profit by advantages furnised to them by 
 God ; 7th, the presumption of others who expected 
 victory without eyeing of God ; 8th, the rapacity and 
 oppression exercised by the soldiery ; 9th, the great and 
 general ingratitude for former mercies ; loth, the eying of 
 the king's interest without subordinatione to religion ; 
 llth, carnal self-seeking in the judicatories and armies; 
 1 2th, making no difference between them that fear God 
 and them that fear him not; and 13th, the exceeding great 
 negligence among the higher classes and others in per- 
 forming the deuties in ther families. 
 
 ^ Ministers at Strivelini;. — After the crushing defeat at 
 Dunbar, the .Scottish government fled to Stirling, where 
 it was soon fain to cancel its former act for the expulsion 
 of engagers and malignants, and to admit them again into 
 the army as reinforcements. This relaxation, however, 
 was forced upon the covenanters by stem necessity, and 
 very soon caused an irreparaljle quarrel among themselves. 
 Such of them as were willing to enlist the services of 
 royalists held meetings and passed resolutions to that 
 effect, and were hence termed Resohitiojiers ; whilst those 
 of a stricter type jirotested against this proceeding, pro- 
 nouncing any further espousal of the king's quarrel 
 unlawful and sinful, this latter party being knoun as 
 Protfsteis and Rcmonstratoi-s. The Remonstrators had 
 always apjiroved of the execution of Charles I., and 
 sympathised with the extreme republican party in Eng- 
 land. Indeed, they openly charged their own grandees 
 or covenanted oligarchy with the guilt of the war, which 
 they had provoked, it was alleged, by their well- 
 known intention of invading the sister kingdom. 
 The Scottish ])reachers were divided against each 
 other by these two parties, and quarrelled with their 
 characteristic bitterness and animosity. .\mong the 
 Protesters, Patrick Gillespie, the then principal of 
 Glasgow Univcrsily, held a distinguished place. 
 
 He was appointed on a deputation sent by his party 
 to enlighten Cromwell on the subject of the controversy, 
 but being seized with illness in London, his brother 
 preacher Baillie, a leading Resolutioner, thus writes of 
 Gillespie's condition to a friend in Scotland: — "Mr. 
 Gillespie remains there sorely sick, some think in 
 displeasure that his desires were not granted. How- 
 ever, at his last going to Hampton Court, he got 
 no speech of the protector ; if this grieved him 
 I know not ; but he went immediately from Hamp- 
 ton Court to Wombledoun, Lambert's house, being 
 .Saturday night ; and having engaged to preach on Sunday 
 morning, before sermon he had five stools, and after his 
 painful preaching, four score before he rested ; thereafter, 
 {"or many days a great flux and fever, together with the 
 breach of a hulcer in the gutts, put him to the ver)' brink 
 of death. Many thought it the evident hand of God upon 
 him, and would not have sorrowed for his death. For 
 myself, I was grieved, foreseeing the hurt of our College 
 by his removal." — Baillie's Letters and Journals, vol. 
 iii., p. 356. 
 
 The Lord^s battles hy themselves. — As soon as the 
 committee of estates could settle at Stirling for a short 
 time in their tlight before Cromwell, they gladly gave 
 permission for a levy of troops in the associated counties 
 of Ayr, Renfrew, Galloway, Wigton, and Dumfries, a 
 region of Scotland throughout which the most rigid and 
 fanatical ideas about the importance of the covenant had 
 almost universally ]irevailed. In a short time (owing 
 principally to the prcrching of Gillespie and other minis- 
 ters similarly affecte<!), a considerable force was raised 
 and placed under the command of two colonels named 
 .Strachan and Kerr or Carr. Tiiese officers had previously 
 rendered distinguished services to the cause of the cove- 
 nant. They were present at the battle of Corbiesdale, in 
 Ross-shire, on the 27th of April, 1650, where .Strachan's 
 exertions greatly contributed to the defeat and capture o( 
 Montrose. In this engagement Strachan had a near 
 escape with his life, as according to Balfour, he " received 
 a shotte upon his belley, bot lighting upon the double of 
 
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 leaders to march and fight as volunteers, with y° men they had brought to their party. =^ Now, lett 
 any man judge whether Carr and Straughan were more for the King and country or for Cromwell ; 
 but Lambert easily routed them at Hamilton, within six miles of Glasgow. ^9 
 
 Sir James Montgomery, about six days before y° said fight at Dunbarr, attending with myself, 
 when y" King viewed y° army, (to their great joy, whereof the Kirk party were jealous,) seeing the 
 King debarred from staying with his army, and advised peremtorily (which he must interprett as a 
 
 his belte and buffe coate, did not pierce." On Tliursday, 
 tlie 30th of May, " a letter was read in the liousse," says 
 Balfour, "from Coll. Gilbert Ker, showing that he had 
 takin a pirat ladin with wyne and provisione for James 
 Grahame, in Rosse ; and that he had sent both shipe and 
 goods to Leith to be disposed off by the parliament. As 
 also, that he had sent them a grate mancy of James 
 Grahames papers and letters, which ware found in a wood 
 neir the place of the fight, hid under a tree, and discovered 
 by a pedie of James Grahames for his lyffe." Gilbert or 
 Gibby Carr had been one of those who prominently urged 
 the necessity of dismissing all royalists or malignants from 
 the army before the battle of Dunbar. Balfour, in noticing 
 this movement, calls it "the armeys remonstrance to the 
 Comitee of Estaits sent by the lord Burlie, major Generale 
 Holborne, sir Johne Brune, and colonell Gilbert Ker, de- 
 syring the purging of the armey furder, if they think fitt ; 
 as also the purging of his Maiesties courte and familey." 
 — Balfour's Annals of Scotland, vol. iv., pp. 1 1, 34, 94. 
 
 To their party. — Strachan and Carr refused to serve 
 under general Leslie ; and, to secure the assistance of 
 their western levies, the Scottish parliament consented to 
 exempt them from his authority. These officers next 
 expressed doubts of the lawfulness of the war in which the 
 estates had now engaged for the restoration of the king. 
 Cromwell, knowing their scruples on this point, and 
 being aware that colonel Strachan had served in his own 
 aniiy at Preston, immediately opened a correspondence 
 with that officer, and succeeded in detaching him from 
 the western army. Strachan's defection was deeply felt 
 by the estates, who took care to inflict quick and condign 
 punishment therefor. Balfour informs us that on the 
 20th of March, 1651, it was " ordred, that since the pro- 
 cesse of forfaulture was going on against Colonell Straqu- 
 han, that all such moneyes as are addebted to him may 
 be securid for his Maiestie and the piiblick wsse ; and 
 that Straquhan's deblers may be securid. Ordred, that 
 the discharge of the Com. of the Thesaurey to Col. Stra- 
 quhan's deleters for suche moneyes as in ther hands shall 
 be sufficient upone ther deliverey of the samen, in respect 
 it is certainly knowen to the pari, that the said Straquhan 
 is gone into the publick enemey of the Kingdome." — 
 Annals of ScotlajiJ, vol iv. p. 267. On the resignation 
 of Strachan, the whole responsibility devolved on Carr, to 
 whose assistance the parliament sent Hugh Montgomery, 
 afterwards seventh earl of Eglinton, at the head 
 of three new regiments, and with directions that the 
 latter was to assume the commaqfi of the whole force 
 when united ; but of the fruitless nature of this mission 
 the author informs us in the text. 
 
 Six miles of Glasgozv. — Without waiting for IVfont- 
 gomery's approach, Carr attacked Lambert in his quarters 
 at Hamilton, and v.-as taken prisoner, designedly as was be- 
 lieved, 3nd his whole western levies dispersed. Strachan, 
 
 with sixty troopers, soon afterwards joined Lambert 
 also, and thus ended the military effort made by the 
 covenanters of the western counties, in which so many 
 sincere enthusiasts engaged, and for which not a few of 
 the leaders afterwards suffered. This movement enlisted 
 the active services of many influential Protesters or 
 Rcmonstrators, among whom may be mentioned lord 
 Wariston, sir John Chieslie, sir Andrew Ker of 
 Greenhead, Gilbert Ker, William Ker of Newton, 
 the laird of Cesnok, the laird of Colston, the laird 
 of Cunnenghamhoid, the laird of Rowallan, the 
 laird of Pollock, the laird of Glanderstoun, the laird of 
 Corsbie, the laird of Fail, the laird of Crawfordland, the 
 laird of Pinkhill, the laird of Stair, the laird of Blair, the 
 laird of Kirkhill, sir James Stuart, the lord Cathcart, the 
 laird of Kinhilt, the laird of Allinshaw, the laird of 
 Colzean, William Colville in Uchiltree, the laird of 
 Trochrig, the laird of Kirkmichel, the laird of Auckin- 
 drain, and many merchants in Edintiurgh, Glasgow, Ayr, 
 and other towns. Among the presbyterian ministers who 
 zealously sustained this movement were Mr. Patrick 
 Gillespie, Mr. William Adair, Mr. John Nevay, Mr. 
 Thomas Nalie, Mr. Gabriell Maxwell, Mr. Matthew 
 Mouat, Mr. James Rouat, Mr. William Guthrie, Mr. 
 John Fullerton, Mr. Gilbert Hall, Mr. George Hutchi- 
 son, Mr. Alexander Blair, Mr. David Bruce, and Mr. 
 Heugh Campbell. — Roole off the Remonstrators, in the 
 possession of John Fullerton, Esqr., and printed from 
 Robertson's Ayrshire Families in Paterson's Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, \'q\. i., p. i2'j,note. Gilbert or Gibby 
 Ker, after the failure of this project, came to Ireland, and 
 was concerned in Blood's Plot, in 1663. On the 26th of 
 May, in that year, a proclamation was issued by the 
 Irish government, offering a reward for his apprehension. 
 — Carte's Life of Ormond, vol. ii., p. 269; Reid's History 
 of tlie Presbyterian Church, vol. ii. , p. 275, note. Hamilton, 
 the town at which tlie abovenaraed skirmish occurred, is so 
 called after the great Scottish family ofthis name, whose mag- 
 nificent residence, Hamilton Palace, is situated in a rich vale 
 between the town and the river Clyde. In 1668, CharlesII. 
 granted a charter to Lady Anne, duchess of Hamilton, and 
 in 1670, the magistrates then in office accepted a charter 
 from her (with consent of her husband), by which this 
 io\\i\ was constituted the chief burgh of the regality and 
 dukedom of Hamilton. This duchess was well known 
 as an excellent and kind-htarted woman. Her residence 
 was the centre of a district in which several conflicts 
 occurred between the royal troops and the covenanters, 
 and her powerful interposition was often solicited, and 
 never withheld, on behalf of fugitives from battle-fields. 
 At tlie battle of Bolhwell Bridge, which was fought on 
 Sunday, the 22ud of June, 1679, not many covenanters 
 were slain on the lield, but several hundred were bar- 
 barously slaughtered on the neighbouring farms, among 
 
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 command, being under sadd circumstances with the Committees), to retire, and stay in Striveling 
 Castle ; and his Majesty did so. 3° 
 
 The history of the passages in the west parts of Scotland ; how the remonstrators were routed 
 and dispersed ; how Oliver Cromwell sent over a party in Fife, thinking to enclose the King, at 
 Strivling ; how his Majesty marched to Worcester, and was defeated, and escaped to France — is 
 sufficiently recorded, and belongs not to me. 3' 
 
 which they had scattered themselves for protection, Vast 
 numbers sought concealment in the wooded parks sur- 
 rounding Hamilton Palace, and the good duchess, 
 knowing this, sent an urgent request to the duke of Monmouth 
 to prohibit his soldiers from trespassing on her grounds. 
 Monmouth, who was naturally humane, gladly complied 
 with her request, and thus hundreds of the hapless 
 fugitives were saved. — Chambers's Fkinre of Scot/and, 
 vol. i., p. 357 ; and NrM Statistical Account of Scotland, 
 Lanarkshire, p. 266, as quoted in The Ladies of the 
 Covenant, pp. 64, 65. 
 
 3° Majesty did so. — This interview between the king 
 and the army, which the author dignifies with the name 
 of a review, was brought about by the earl of Eglinton, 
 who recommended the king to visit the forces on the 
 Links of Leith. On that occasion, sir James Montgomei-y 
 and his son, the author, were present. Sir Edward 
 Walker, referring to the state of affairs in the army, about 
 this time, eight or ten days before the battle of Dunbar, 
 .says :— " By this time the army was much increased, many 
 malignants and engagers having gotten into command, 
 his Majesty high in the favour and affection of the army, 
 which was then more evident by the soldiers having made 
 an R with chalk under the crown upon their arms, and 
 generally expressing the goodness of their cause, now they 
 had the King with them." Charles, in return for this 
 loyalty, gave each of the soldiers the sum of two shillings, 
 thus enabling them to drink his health, which they did 
 most enthusiastically, on their knees. It was probably at 
 this time that the men, not content with the single letter 
 R upon their arms, began to mark their hats, caps, and 
 coats with the two letters C. R. These exhibitions roused 
 up a righteous jealousy among the covenanters, who 
 immediately complained to the grandees that the royal 
 presence had led to drunkenness and profanity among the 
 soldiers ; thereupon the king was requested or com- 
 manded to leave, and very soon afterwards the army, as 
 already stated, was purged of malignants to tlie number 
 of about 4000. This purgation was effected by the com- 
 mittee of estates, consisting, among others at that time, 
 of the earl of Argyle, lord Lorne, and the chancellor 
 Loudon, all Campbells. — See Lingard's History of Eng- 
 land, eiWtxon of 1855, vol. viii., pp. 144, 145; Bisset's 
 Omitted Chapters, vol. i., p. 344. 
 
 3' Belongs not to jne. — The author here refers to the 
 movements of the English army and the two armies of 
 covenanters during the twelve months that intervened 
 between the battles of Dunbar and Worcester. In this 
 interval, Charles was formally crowned at Scone, January 
 I, 165 1, the earl of Argyle placing the emlilem of 
 sovereignty on the royal head, and the king swearing 
 again, on his knees, more deeply and dreadfully than 
 before, how strenuously he would uphold the covenant 
 and support the covenanted work. Cromwell, when his 
 time for action came, moved in the Tuly of 165 1 to Perth, 
 
 so as to threaten the Scottish army in the rear. As a 
 path was then left open into England, and as Charles 
 fancied if he could reach that country he would have 
 ample assistance from the inhabitants, his Scottish army 
 marched with him rapidly across the western border, and 
 advanced through Lancashire, hotly pursued by Cromwell. 
 The king, with his Scottish and English adherents, made a 
 stand at Worcester, on the 3rd of September, 1651, and 
 after a fierce and bloody conflict, his army was utterly 
 routed, exactly on the first anniversary of the battle of 
 Dunbar, Charles himself escaping with great difficulty, 
 and once more seeking an asylum on the continent. 
 " Scotland had now expended nearly the whole of her 
 military strength in a vain endeavour to sujjport her 
 ecclesiastical system in connection with alimited monarchy, 
 against the English commonwealth. Her to\\Tis and 
 principal places of strength fell into the hands of the 
 English troops. The Committee of Estates were surprised 
 and taken prisoners at a place called Alyth, on the skirts 
 of the Grampians. The General Assembly was dispersed, 
 and no church courts above sj-nods were allowed to meet. 
 Henceforth the Resolutioners and Remonstrators, the 
 moderate majority and the furious minority of the church, 
 were allowed to gnaw at and tear each other to pieces, 
 with little result but that of making many calm men despair 
 of peace under such a mode of church government. . 
 . . Eight thousand English troops and four forts — at 
 Ayr, Leith, Perth, and Inverness — proved sufficient to keep 
 our ancient kingdom in subjection. The essentially aggi-es- 
 sive spirit of the Solemn League was revenged by nine 
 years of humiliation, during which all classes seem to 
 have suffered, but especially the nobles, who were ground 
 to the dust by heavy fines. It is admitted, nevertheless, 
 that the country was benefitted by the keeping down of 
 the religious factions, as well as by the impartiality of a 
 corps of English judges, who superseded the native bench." 
 — Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. ii. , p. 177. In the 
 November of 165 1, the western clergy sought in their 
 meetings to learn the cause of the heavy wrath which the 
 Almighty was pouring out upon the land, but " after long 
 attendance," says Nicoll, " their resolutions ended in 
 confusion, distraction, and divisions among themselves, 
 prognosticating much more desolation on the land." 
 Whilst the clergy were engaged in various very fervid 
 endeavours to solve the tantalising problem, a layman, 
 who is described as a "godly Scot," had arrived at an 
 easy, and probably correct solution. He had the honest 
 audacity to hand in a paper to the commission of the 
 kirk, in which he argued that among the causes of the 
 evils with which the countiy was then afflicted, one was 
 their undertaking of solemn engagements unwarranted by 
 the word of God, another was their fleshly zeal in carrying 
 out these engagements by cruel oppressions, and a third 
 was their idolising of individuals from whom they impli- 
 citly received their doctrines. Towards the close of 165 1, 
 
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 Then Sir James seeing the King's affairs ruined in all his kingdoms (chooseing the most 
 convenient time) he went incognito as a merchant to Edinburgh, to a stanch friend, and by his 
 means got a pass to travel to London under the name of James Huson, and for his trusty man, 
 (who went as his nephew) under the name of William Thomson,^^ as merchants with bills of exchange 
 and letters of credit for wares to be brought back. And indeed the master was son of a Hugh, 
 and the servant son of a Thomas ; so their adopted sirnames (to gain current permission of 
 travelling,) were all truths, James Huson thus travelling by the way of Newcastle upon Tyne 
 found y^ roads pestered with marching horse and foot, which were very often inquisitive. Yet none 
 of them did discover him, though he knew some English officers that he mett, and therefore he 
 resolved to run no further risque by land. 
 
 James Huson sold his horses and took to sea in a coal's barque for London (that great wood 
 for concealments), and here was Sir W. Cole his father-in-law, that owed him 500/. ; with acquittall 
 whereof, and other sums which he intended to bestow by his hands, he hoped to get a pardon, and 
 to be admitted to compound for his estate. 
 
 Yet it may be observed all the world over, that man may propose, but that God only can, and 
 doth dispose of events. For now our pretended shopkeepers being aboard, and all danger of 
 Oliver Cromwell and his army past, I may name them by their former names. 
 
 Sir James had not sailed 8 hours, till night and a storm separated the coal-fleet, which had 
 
 John Nicoll, whose Diary records the circumstances 
 above-mentioned, has also supplied the following gloomy 
 picture of Scotland's moral condition: — "Under heaven 
 there was not greater falset, oppression, division, 
 hatred, pride, malice, and envy nor was at this time, and 
 diverse and sundry years before (ever since the subscribing 
 the covenant) ; every man seeking himself and his awen 
 ends, even under a cloak of piety, whilk did cover much 
 knavery." He adds : — " Much of the ministry also could 
 not purge themselves of their vices of pride, avarice, and 
 cruelty ; where they maligned, they were divided in their 
 judgments and opinions, and made theirpulpits speak ane 
 against another. Great care they had of their augmenta- 
 tion and Reek Pennies (a tax imposed on houses in pro- 
 portion to the number of chimnies in each), never before 
 heard of but within thir few years. Pride and cruelty, 
 ane against another, much abounded ; little charity or 
 mercy to restore the weak was found among them. . . 
 . . . This I observe not out of malice to the ministry, 
 but to record the truth, for all offended, from the prince 
 to the beggar." — Nicholl's Diary of Public Transactions 
 and other Occurrences, chiefly in Scotland, as quoted in 
 Chambers's Domestic Annals, vol. ii., pp. 209, 210, 212. 
 A curious illustration of the complete subjection of the 
 once rampant covenanting party is supplied by a petition 
 from the presbyterians of South Leith, addressed to 
 general Monk, whom Cromwell left to govern Scotland, 
 after its conquest in 1650. This petition, which was 
 recently found in the Lyon Office, and printed in the 
 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 
 i., pp. 159, 160, is supposed to have been presented by 
 the congregation of Leith about the year 1655 : — 
 "To the Reight HonW Generall Monck, Commander in Cheife of 
 all the fforces in .Scotland. 
 
 " The humble Petitione of the inhabitants of the paroche of South 
 Leith 
 
 *' Sheweth — That yor petitioners, in obedience to ane order from 
 yor Honr to our deputie governour lieutenant CoUonel Timothie 
 Wilks, did delyver to him the Kye of oiir church doore, and haith 
 ever since had our meittmgs for the worshipe and service of God in 
 the oppijie feilds. which, by the unconstancie of the weather, haith 
 very much disturbed the exerceise, besyds many aged and infirme 
 people can not goe soe farre, and such as have young children in 
 their families and can not come to church befoir noone, are now de- 
 clared from Efteroons Sermons, and many take occasion to goe 
 astray through the feilds to the great dishonour of God and greife of 
 the godlie. 
 
 " The grounds mouing your Honour to emite this ordour, as we 
 humblie conceave, was Mr. Johne Hogge his remembring the King 
 in his prayers, as some would alledge, as alsoe the great resort of 
 people to heare him. For satisfactione, Mr Johne Hogge doeth no 
 at all mentione the nam of the King, nather intends to doe it in tyrne 
 coming. And wee proposed a way to our governour, which will 
 hinder any to com to our meitting, but such as are of the congrega- 
 tione ; by suffering none to enter into the garrisone upon the lord's 
 day, but such as hath a warrand frome the governour. And wee are 
 now making a diligent search through the towne, taking up the nams 
 of all such as are leatlie come into tlie towne. and haith not the 
 governor his licence, whose names wee are to give up to the govcr 
 nour, that he may dispose of them at his pleasour. Besyds, wee are 
 willing to doe any other thing shall be requyred for our peaceable 
 leaveing, to give your Honour and the governour consent. 
 
 " Which being considered wee hope yor Honr will be pleased to 
 gr.int our desyre and to restore us to our former Libertie to meit in 
 our church, and wee (as in dcutie) shall ever praye. 
 
 "Ja. Riddell, J. .Stevinsone, James Kyll, Johne Gray, Maurice 
 Trent, Thomis Litchfeild, John Young, Will. Murrey, Robert 
 Tailzour, Robert Dewer, Robert Bedford. H. Broun, James 
 Thnmsone, James .Seatone, Alex. Downy Younger, John Wilkie, 
 William Ramsay. J. Mackon, G. Lawtie, Ro. Bruce, Tho. Mill, 
 Mr. Da. Aldiiistoune, James Carse, Ja. Crawfurd." 
 
 3^ William Thomson. ■ — This attendant's name was 
 William Cunningham. The author afterwards notices 
 him more particularly in the memoir of himself. 
 
344 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 set out together. On the next morning, being the 12th of March 165^, the storm being abated, 
 a picaroon (or privateer) of Dunkerk, carrying six small guns and near 60 men, having letters of 
 marque or reprizal, gave chase to our vessel near Flamborrow head. 
 
 Sir James viewed the picaroon with the master's perspective, and thinking their enemy of less 
 force than they were, and the coal barque having three iron guns, 6-pounders and 12 muskets 
 aboard, the sailors and passengers making 14 men besides himself and servant, and being hopefuU 
 to stand fight till they might reach y" harbour, — he encouraged the crew and passengers to set all 
 things to rights for defence. 
 
 Sir James understood gunnery well, he tackled the two guns on the deck, and whilst in action 
 there, the privateer made a low shott, for they had formerly shott high to make our vessell strike 
 and come under lee, but she bore up to the wind landwards, which shott broke off some of the 
 cabin's topp, the splinters hurt Sir James his arm and face, but did not dangerously wound him ; 
 yet for all this he heartened his companions at sea, and assured them, he would either sink or 
 disable the enemy if he offered to board them, and if he made only to give broadsides, there was 
 no hazard of our sinking by their small guns, and that he was going into the cabin to fix a gun 
 which (under God and by their courage) would be means to gaine the port they all aimed at and 
 desired. So leaving the men at their posts and on the hatches. Sir James and William Coninghame 
 his trusty servant (whom he had educated from a boy and preferred to be an Ensign both in 
 Ireland and Scotland) went down and charged the gunn, and heaved up the porthole leafe, but 
 did not thrust out the gun lest the enemy should perceive their intent. 
 
 Sir James being out of breath with the toile of this action, sat down on the master's bed, and 
 his servant stood on the other side of ye floore to look out and to be ready. In the mean time 
 the privateer made another low shot (of 4 lb. weight) whicli entered in at the port-hole, and cut off 
 William Coningham's foot at the ancle, and the ball bounding from the floor shot Sir James in his 
 shoulder in the upper part thereof and towards his neck ; which was a gapp incureable ; wherefore 
 he bid Coningham call from the cabin door to the master to strick sail and yeeld, for that he had 
 
 received his death's wound. Alas dear master said Coningham is it so ? \ have lost a 
 
 foot, but it is nothing worth to your life ; doe as you are bid said Sir James, else neither you nor 
 the rest will get quarters. 
 
 In fine, the ship lowered her mainsail, the crew retiring under hatches ; the vessel was boarded 
 by the Lieutenant and many men, one of them threw an hand granado into the cabin, which took 
 off two toes from Coningham's other foot; he calling for quarters, and telling the lieutenant there 
 was a Knight of Ireland who lost his estate for serving the King whose commission he had, and 
 that he had received his death's wound from their last shot, which cut off his own foot, and that 
 himself was also wounded by the shell of the granado. 
 
 On this relation of disasters the Lieutenant commanded all his men to forbear hurting any 
 person, and so coraeing into y" cabin, soon understood the mischief that had befallen to Sir James, 
 who was a friend to all the relations he had in Lecaile, and the Ardes ; for the Lieut, was one of 
 the Smiths, followers of Mr. Savadge of Portaferry.33 Then the Lieut, weeping for grief prayed 
 
 33 Of Portaferry. — This lieutenant Smith was probably Montgomery had purchased the lands at Quintin Bay. — 
 of the family of Dualtagh Smith, from whom sir James See p. 222, note 25, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 345 
 
 his commands, which he promised should be obeyed. Sir James entreated the Lieutenant to be 
 carefull of his servant's cure, and that he might have all papers and other things preserved to him. 
 That as for himself he knew the sea should give up its dead, and therefore desired his corps 
 should be put in his great leather mayle and sunk with sufficient weight, and so reaching his hand 
 to the Lieutenant (which was kissed by him) Sir James prayed that he might be left undisturbed 
 that he might supplicate God to have mercy on his soule. 
 
 The Lieutenant set a centry at the cabbin door, and Sir James was layn down in his blood on 
 the bed, at his prayers ; none being with him but Coningham, till he expired his last breath, which 
 was in three quarters of an hour after that woeful shot. 
 
 After this Sir James his corpse had the marine funeral solemnitys, and all the marriners and 
 passengers were removed into the privateer's pink, and the coal vessel sent for Dunkirk, which 
 v/as judged a prize. 
 
 It had been well for the pyrats they had steered the same course, for the day following they 
 were taken by the Tygre frigatt, which was cruiseing on those eastern coasts. 
 
 The frigatt set our men ashore at Harwich. This compliment the pink would have done 
 at her best conveniency, but was thus prevented : for she thinking to snap up some other booty 
 was herself catched. 
 
 They had courted the master, Charles Fairweather, and William Coningham, restoring what 
 they had plundered from their bodys, giving their own best portables to them, to purchase their 
 good word that they were civilly treated ; but all would not prevail to save Smith the Lieutenant, 
 who (with 1 7 more Irishmen) was hanged. The rest being English, Scotts, French, Dutch, and 
 Fleemings, were bestowed in prisons. 
 
 This account I had from William Coningham's mouth in Harwich, and most of it by certificate 
 of the said master, in Jully following Sir James's death, which I was to prove, before I could be 
 admitted to any part of his estate. 34 
 
 34 Part of his estate. — Tlie author, William Mont- 
 gomery, erected a monument to the memory of his fatlier, 
 sir James, on the north side of the altar in Greyabbey 
 church. On this stmcture were represented four coats of 
 arms, viz., those of Sir James Montgomery and his three 
 wives. Thefollo\\'ingmonumental inscription, now totally 
 effaced, was fortunately copied by Harris, and printed in 
 his Antient and Present State of the County of Do^vn, 
 pp. 50, 51:— 
 
 " TJu Honourable Sir James Mounigomery, a person of know- 
 ledge, courage, piety, and vwriJi, well educated at Schools and 
 IJniversities, (as his ManuscriMs yet extant do shew,) travelled io 
 France, Italy, Germaiiy, and Holland, learned those Linguas, 
 and made profitable obsen'ations relating to Peace and War; 
 retntning holiie, studied at the Inns of Law, sollicited his Father's 
 business at the Royal Court, at the Council Table, at the Parlia- 
 ment and Prerogative in England, and before tlie Government and 
 Four Courts in Ireland : was second son of Hugh, first Lord 
 Viscount Mounigomery of Ardes, and Gentleman in Ordinary of 
 the Privy Chamber to King Charles the Martyr. Colonel of For. t, 
 and Captain of Horse, which he raised at his own expencc ami by 
 his credit, and maintained by his Prudence and Industry fifteen 
 months in the Barony of Lecale, which he preser'M'd all that time 
 from the Irish of this Country, and their assisting Neighbours: 
 and many other valuable sendees performed during all tluit War 
 
 (the Records whereof are hepi.) He was thrice niai-ried, viz. — 
 Ann 1631, to Katherine, eldest Daughter of Sir William Ste^uart, 
 Knight Baronet, and Privy Councellor. Ann. 163 — to Mar- 
 garet, eldest daughter of Sir Witliarn Cole, ofi Efinishillin, 
 Kt., a7id Arm. 1647, to Francesse St. Laure^ice, y,d Daugh- 
 ter of Nicholas, Lord Baron of Hojith. His first Lady being 
 embalmed, and kept two inontlis, was put in a black Marble Coffin 
 and laid five foot above Ground in the middle of Iter Monument^ 
 which was curious arid sumptuoiis of divers Colours, all polish' d 
 Marble, insciibed with P.Iottos and Verses of his own Composure, 
 and gilded in every fit place ; which stajiding in Ne7uto7vn Stewart 
 Church, was with it burned atid demolished by the Irish, Attn. 
 1641. Behold its Pourfile on a Boa rd near this. 
 
 His other tiuo virtuous Ladies a7td their children (tvhich died 
 before th^}ii\ lie buried over against this monument ; to all tuhose 
 Memory it is the carved Device and Armories a I the Defttnct's 
 Kxpence long ago made, his ofily grandchild, James (also noiv 
 assisting), of gratitude painted and erected by W, M. frimiventris 
 sola proles, tJte Year of the World's Peace and Happiness, M, DC, 
 XCIII. Aet. 62." 
 
 " On the top of the first Coat of Arms is this date 1641. 
 
 "There are verses, &c , painted on the Pedestals of the Pillars on 
 each side of the Monument not easy to be read. 
 
 " On a Stone underneath. 
 
 EniTA*ION. 
 
 " Sir Jajnex hy Pirates shot, and thereof dead, \ 1 2/// 0/ Matc/i^ 
 ** By ihe^n in t/ie sea solemnly buried ) 165^. 
 
346 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Now, I must conclude my short history of Sir James M ontgomery, and give a brief character 
 of him (his actions being often spoken of heretofore), and it must suffice for a burial oration, for I 
 believe the Privateers had no Chaplain to bestow one. I now shall -write of my own knowledge, 
 and by certain tradition of discerning, unbiased Gentlemen, who knew him, viz. 
 
 Sir James Montgomery was endowed with a large capacity for learning ; and he acquired it, 
 with less study than many greater scholars, at St. Andrew's, &c. 
 
 He had humane prudence, which might stock an able Statesman, and managed it with the 
 moderations and caution of a pious Doctor in Divinity. 
 
 He was a polite courtier, in three Kings' Courts, among men ; and his qualifications of that 
 sort made his conversation universally pleasant, and also very desirable among ladies. He was 
 not a Proteus or borrower of shapes therein ; but did, (without any hesitation,) accommodate his 
 discourse and behaviour to oblige all companies that were fitt for him. 
 
 He was talle above the middle size, and not fat ;35 his meene and gate were more suitable to 
 his extraction and station, on all occasions, than is often seen in others. 
 
 He was temperate in meate, drink, exercises and sleep, equal to physical rules. 
 
 He practised a requisite condescency, even to inferiors, which made him acceptable every 
 where, for he had the epithet of the Courteous Knight (which is more commendable than courtly), 
 from the British ; and the Irish gave him the same appellation in their speech, with the addition 
 of Noble (for he was honourable by inclination), they designed him by the title of Ruddery 
 Honoragh Mover,3^ without expressing his baptismal name, or his natural sirname. 
 
 An02TP0<l>H. 
 
 " To the Sub-Aerial Elements. 
 *' Devo7iring Hades I tIC eve r-Jnoigry earth 
 Woiild'st and shall eat up all that's of thy birth, 
 Fal'n in thy Lap, by Death of any kind. 
 But whom the IVaters drink and lost day find. 
 
 "Step to ist Corinth. Ch. 15, zi. 51. 
 ** Vet graves and ivaves must all such guests restore, 
 At thai great Day to live for evermore : 
 Tho' li^s deceased, his noble Acts and Name, 
 Longer than this cafi last, shall live by Fame, 
 
 " Prov. ch. 22, V. I. Eccl. ch. 7, v. 5. 
 Alleluiah. 
 
 " Thus Angels sung, Glory to God on high, \ 
 Peace upon Earth, Good Will to^tfrds Men may be, \ 
 So always pray, and always pray ought we. ) 
 "Hare pio Animo, Filius ejus. Unions Mensc Aprilis An- 
 no a Salvatore Mundi Nato, M, DC, LI J. excogitavit, 
 ilium In^ebatqiie Londini. 
 
 "At my full height my length did not surpass 
 My Father's Shado^v, as at noon it was. 
 " Carmina mea tribuunt, Fama perennis erit. 
 
 35 And not fat. — A portrait of sir James, in the posses- 
 sion of Mrs. Sinclair, represents him as here described. It 
 is the lii<eness of a tall, muscular, noble-looking man. 
 
 36 Ruddery Honoragh Mover. — Correctly, Kidere onorach 
 modhiuar, noble, courteous Knight. This term Ridere, 
 is invariably used as the designation of a Knight in old 
 Gaelic Tales of romance and chivalry. We have an 
 illu.^tration in Campbell's Popular Tala 0/ the West 
 lands, orally collected, vol. ii., pp. 25-35 After the 
 Tale entitled Ridere nan Ceist, or the 'Knight of Riddles,' 
 Campbell observes of this word that it is i)ronounjcd 
 Reet-djfi-rg, and variously spelt Ridir, Righdir, and 
 Righdeire, and is explained in a manuscript history of the 
 
 Campbells, written about 1827, as Righ, King-dei, after 
 Ri, King. If this be correct the word would mean a 
 following or minor King. It may equally be a corruption 
 of Ritter, or Reiter ; and I have translated it by Knight, 
 because it is now applied to all Knights. The author of 
 the manuscript says that the term is handed down even 
 in Gaelic tales, and mentions several which were then 
 current, Righdiere nan Spleugh, and Righdeiri Riiadh ; 
 he adds, that Righdeirin diibh Loch Oigh (the Black 
 Knight of Loch Awe) was the name then used by old 
 Highlanders in mentioning the chiefs of the Duin (Camp- 
 bells), and that the ruins of Eredin castle were then 
 known by no other name than I.arach tai nan Righdeirin — 
 tlie ruins of the house of the knights. The writer argues 
 from old manuscript histories, charters, etc., that the term 
 was brought from Ireland by the colony who settled in 
 Cantire at a very early period, and who spread thence 
 over Argyllshire, and founded a kingdom of which fre- 
 Cjuent mention is made in Irish annals as the Dalreudinan 
 (Dalriadan), or Scoto-Irish colonization of Argyll, Cantire, 
 Lorn, and Islay. It is supposed to have taken place 
 about A. D. 503, under Loarn, Fergus, and Angus, three 
 sons of Lire, the descendant ofCairbre Ruadh (Righfada), 
 a son of Conary II., who ruled a chief king of Ireland 
 .V. D. 212. Be that as it may, all the Gaelic traditions 
 now curr.nt in the Isles point at an Irish migration which 
 t.)ok place in the year of grace once upon a time, and the 
 word l\i;,'h(kire occurs continually, where it seems to 
 mean a small king, and a king of Erin ; for example, 
 "there was a king (Ree) and a Reet-djer — as there was, 
 and will be, and as grows the fir tree, some of them 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 347 
 
 He was most adhered to, and obeyed, by his kindred and servants, who were made fitt for 
 preferment, by being about him, those, in the first place, who needed most, for whom, tho' he was 
 careful! to provide, he bestowed no lands, yet payd for some apprentiships for, and for others he 
 did effectually recommend, or himself did, advance them to beneficial posts ; because he knew 
 and had read them throly, and had found them true to their trust, as well as able to discharge it. 
 A few instances may serve to prove this, viz — Hugh M'Gill (his female cosen german's son), 3? he 
 made first Comett, then Lieutenant, to his troop. The same was Controller to the Ordinance 
 aforesaid. He hath left no issue. 3^ — Item, the said Hugh's brother, James M'Gils^ aforesaid, first 
 he made Ensign, and then raised him to be Captain in his regiment. — Those two brothers' grand- 
 mother being eldest sister of Sir James his mother. 
 
 Hugh Montgomery, of Gransheoch, he made Captain in his regiment, and then procured him 
 to be Major, under Sir Charles Coote, as aforesaid. He made Mr. Nicholas Montgomery, of 
 Derrybrosk, in Farmanagh, and another Mr. Hugh Montgomery, both Lieutenants ; also Math. 
 Hamil, whose son, Hugh built B. Attwood house, with David Ramsey his servants, to be Lieuts. 
 under his comand, Jo. Hamill, the first and second Viscounts' Gentleman, he made Quarter-Master.*' 
 
 As for Gentlemen of better sort, who had lands or estates in the Ardes, he gave them com- 
 missions, chargeing them to raise a quota of their tenants to serve in their companys ; and he 
 proceeded accordingly with the subalterns, whom he choosed out of fee farmers, or other substantial! 
 men, and was very ready to make provision for, and to receive all those who had fled from tlieir 
 burn'd habitations ; tlius (as it were in an instant) he raised his regiment and troops, placing some 
 officers (who had served beyond seas) among them. Such was Lieutenant-Colonel Cochran, 
 Major Keith, and some hke Lieuts. and serjants. 
 
 Sir James Montgomery had seen service and fortifications abroade, and had studdyed the 
 military art and the mathematicks, and left me books and his manuscripts of the same ; and 
 particularly he was skilfull in castrametation and gunnery, 
 
 It would be tedious to describe him as a Justice in peace and a Commander in warr ; which 
 is signified by his device that he put over the entrance door, within the porch of Rosemount house, 
 viz. a sword and lance saltire wise, and surmounted on an open book, connected with a wreath of 
 bays and laurel ; on the one leaf is written A7-te, on the other Marte, (this being to the same 
 purpose as Tarn Marte quam vmxiirid); underneath is this motto in ntrtimq. paratus. 
 
 And at the breaking out of the said grand rebellion, he had on both sides the standard of his 
 troops painted, a dwelling-house on fire, flameing out at doors and windows, with this motto Opes 
 -non Animum, importmg that the Irish burning houses and goods, could not destroy our courages. 
 
 crooked and some of them straight — and he was a king of 
 Erin. When the king's son changes his home, after 
 killing the giants, it seems as if he were made a knight." 
 
 3' Coscn german's son. — Hugh M'Gill was son of 
 Elizabeth Lindsay, the latter and sir James being cousins 
 by their mothers, the Shaws. 
 
 3' Left no issue. — See p. 244, supra. In the Rawdott 
 Papers, are several interesting letters, principally on public 
 affairs, addressed to sir Arthur Rawdon by Hugh M'Gill. 
 Pp. 302-8, 313-328. 
 
 39 James I\l'Gil. — See p. 251, supra. 
 
 ^° James his mother. — .See note 33, supra. 
 
 -t' Made Quarter-Master. — The names on the foregoing 
 list in the text have been, with one or two exceptions, 
 already noticed, as attending the first Viscount's funeral 
 at Newtown, or settling in the vicinity of Enniskillen, on 
 the lands of bishop George Montgomeiy. David Ramsay 
 was probably a relation of Gilbert Ramsay, the presby- 
 terian minister of Bangor. 
 
348 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 SOME MEMOIRS OF CAPT. GEORGE MONTGOMERY. 
 
 B^'^^'HE Hon'''^ Geo. Montgomery (so called for our B^". Geo.') was born in Newtown^ and 
 bred at school there, but he not inclining to be a bookish man, (as his paidagogue said,) 
 P*-'^*^*'"! was sent to travel to learn (in Holland,) how to beare and uss armes ; I never saw him 
 carry a rapier, but a keen-edged broad sword, (called sweet lipps) fittest for hors service, in which 
 he delighted : he loved S''. James more than the Vise*, his eldest brother, and upon his father's 
 death bed contrived to gett to himself his sword (w'''' his Lo^ had borne when he was an officer 
 abroad,) and afterwards bestowed it to S". James, who carefully kept it and left it to his son W^.s, 
 who gave it to his son when he wrode in the 2* Earle's troop, without altering the old fashion hilt, 
 or handle: it was so trenchant and well metled a blade, that the edge did neither break out nor turn, 
 tho' struck ag'. a bar of iron — the old people in S". Hughe's days used no other ; for these swords 
 could cutt through a sleeve of maile, and break y° arm bone.'* 
 
 You have heard of his marriage with the ancient Laird of Garthland's daughter,5 with whom 
 (after two years stay there, and his eldest son Hugh,^ being born,) he came and lived on his estate, 
 neare Lisnegarvy, and prepared timber, &c. to build his house at Dunbratly,^ (by which name 
 
 ' BP. George. — Uncle of captain George. See pp. 95- 
 109, supra. 
 
 " Bo7-n in Newtoivn. — George, the youngest son, and 
 youngest child of the first viscount, was probably the 
 only one of the family born at Newtown. All the others 
 were born at Braidstane, but the author only men- 
 tions the birth of sir James in the latter place. See p. 
 304, supra. The lost memoir of the second viscount, the 
 eldest brother, contained, no doubt, a record of his birth. 
 As Newtown was George's birth-place, he could not have 
 been born prior to 1606. 
 
 3 His son W»i. — The author of the Mojitgoinery Manu- 
 scripts. 
 
 Ye arm bone. — At the time of the author's death, this 
 sword was in possession of his fon, James Montgomery, 
 who was a captain in the second earl's troop. If it de- 
 scended to captain P'rederick Heatley Montgomeiy, a 
 great great-grandson of James, the former probably carried 
 this interesting family relic with him to Australia. 
 
 s Garthlatid^s daughter. — See pp. 94, 95, supra. 
 
 * Son I high. — Afterwards of Ballylesson. See pp. 74, 
 252, supra. 
 
 1 House at Dunbratly. — Better known as Dutibracklcy, 
 the old name of the manor. For an account of the regrant 
 of this estate by the second viscount to trustees for the use 
 of his younger brolhei-, captain George Montgomery, see 
 p. 94, note 29, supra. The grandson of the latter was 
 known as Hugh Willoughby, having taken this surname to 
 
 inherit the estate of Carrow, in the county Fermanagh. 
 His eldest son and heir, Hercules Montgomery, married 
 Jane M'Neill, daughterof the rev. ArchibaldM 'Neill, chan- 
 cellor of the cathedral church of Down, and in considera- 
 tion of a maiTiage portion of ;^I,500, his father and 
 himself conveyed the nir.nor towns and lands of Dun- 
 brackley to certain tnistees tor ever, on the trusts fol- 
 lowing, namely : — To the use of said Hercules for life ; 
 remainder to his first and other sons in tail ; remainder 
 to said Hugh Willoughby ; remainder to Hugh Willoughby 
 Montgomery, second son of said Hugh Willoughby, for 
 life, and to liis first and other sons in tail ; remainder to 
 Hugh, earl of Mount Alexander, for life, and to his first 
 and other sons in tail ; remainder to the honble. Thomas 
 Montgomery (afterwards fifth and last earl) for life, and 
 to his first and other sons in tail ; remainder to William 
 Montgomery, esq. , and to his first and other sons in tail ; 
 remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh Willoughby 
 for ever. By this deed, a tnist term of 500 years was 
 vested in the trustees, for the purpose of raising ;^8oo 
 for the fortunes of the younger children of Hercules 
 Montgomery and Jane M'Neill, his vi'ife. This sum was 
 raised under a decree of the court of exchequer in the year 
 1745, the lands of Dunaught (now Duneight) and Lisnoe 
 being sold for this purpose. Hugh Willoughbydied in 1722, 
 and his son, Hercules, in 1732, the latter leaving by his wife 
 one child, Anne Montgomery, who, in 1719, married 
 Hector M 'Neill, of Taynish, in Scotland. This lady's 
 
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 himself and his manner court were stiled,) but y'' rebellion afores"^. made him and his family retire 
 to Newto\vne,8 and there he gott a com", to be cap*, of a troop (in his s'' brother's regiment of hors,) 
 W=^ he loved more than latin books, for he liked not any \)\it propria qucs. tnaribus. 
 
 He was the last issue of Dame Elizabeth Shaw? aforesaid, and on that acco"*. (as is usuall with 
 mothers towards such,) he was in his youthhood indulged by her in his pleasures, (as she had seen 
 him provided for in lands ■) he delighted in hunting, hawking, and fowling, in which his aged 
 fathers, masters of those games, were willing and ever ready to please him at his beck, and this 
 Jacob's venison,'° (whereof there was plenty before the country became populus,") was ever dressed 
 by his mother to relish with her old husband his father. 
 
 But these exercises could not make him the man w* his father desired ; and his mother's milk 
 must be removed by travell as afores''. and a master of arts waited on him to instill (by discourss,) 
 into him, the knowledge of what he had learned, and of what he should see, hear, or read abroad. 
 
 There was no court then at Holyrood house," yet Glasgow college and towne, Strivling castle, 
 
 mother died in 1736, and Hector M'Neill, her husband, 
 died in 1738. The names of the several townlands of the 
 manor of DrumhrackUn at this date were Duneaf^h, Cloe:her 
 otherwise Ballintogher, Lisnoe otherwise Lysni^ue, Bally- 
 ockles otherwise Ballyautjhleisky, Ballycarn, Bally- 
 lesson, Melagh, Knockbreckan, Drumbracklin, Rahur- 
 clagh, Ballinackbreekin, Ballylcenny, with the water and 
 com mill thereon. For denominational names of these 
 lands in 1630, see p. 94, note 29, supra. Anne M'Neill 
 bequeathed this estate to her second son, Archibald, charg- 
 ing it with the two sums of ;^8oo and £200, the former for 
 her daughter, Lyndon M 'Neill, and the second for her grand 
 daughter Margaret M 'Neill. At thedeath of Anne M 'Neill, 
 which took place in September, I7'^8, her eldest son, Roger, 
 and her younger son, Archibald, severally claimed the 
 estate, the former as heir, and the latter under his mother's 
 will, and after much litigation there was a settlement 
 between them in 1744. Archibald got a life interest in 
 the property, and Roger's heirs were to inherit afterwards. 
 The former made a will in 1781, leaving to his sister, 
 Lyndon M'Neill, the sum of £1,000, and to his brother, 
 Roger, 5s. 5d. The lands of Ballyockles were sold to 
 pay Lyndon M'Neill her claim. Roger's son, also named 
 Roger, in 1777, married Catherine Chambers, daughter of 
 Daniel Chambers, esq., of Rockhill, county of Donegal, by 
 whom he had a family, consistins: of a son, Daniel, and 
 three daughters, named Isabella, Elizabeth, and Catherine. 
 Isabella died in 1808, her fortune of £6.000 being 
 divide dbetween her two sisters. Elizabeth married 
 Charles Crawford, esq. Daniel M'Neill married Jane 
 Isaacs, and inherited the towns and lands of Ballyockles, 
 Ballylesson, Ballycaim, Mealough, and Knockbracken. 
 To discharge his debts, he sold to Richard Keown, after 
 1816, the lands of Mealough and Knockbracken for the 
 sum of ;^24,ooo, the remainder of the estate unsold being 
 of equal value. — 71/.?. Paper. 
 
 ^ To Newtmiine. — See p. 309, note 30, supra. 
 
 9 Daine Elizabeth Sham. — See pp. 86, 87, 247, sitfn-a. 
 
 '° yacoFs venison. — This allusion, taken in connexion 
 with the author's statement, that his mother "had seen 
 him provided for in lands," would lead to the conclusion, 
 that George, the youngest son, was more amply provided 
 
 for than the other members of the family had expected, 
 or perhaps approved. 
 
 Became popiilus. — This passing reference to the 
 abundance of venison in the district is curious. Deer 
 were numerous until the woods were cleared from the 
 lands of Clannaboy. In 1603, a captain Bodley came to 
 the adjoining barony of Lecale, on a visit to sir Richard 
 Moryson, then governor of Downpatrick. He describes 
 a sumptuous dinner at which he was present in the old 
 castle which formerly stood on the site now occupied by 
 the town clock in that town. In addition to various kinds 
 of game set before the guests, Bodley particularly men- 
 tions venison, and also a collar of brawn. See Ulstet 
 Jonrnal of Aixhceolo^y, vol. ii. , p. 88. William Mont- 
 gomery (see p. 117, supra J mentions that the first viscount 
 often amused himself hunting deer, wolves, foxes, badgers, 
 and hares, but he has no mention of the wild boar. 
 
 Holyrood house. — At the time referred to in the text, 
 about the year 1631, Holyrood palace and the other royal 
 residences in Scotland were let out to tenants. Holyrood, 
 however, was visited by Charles I., in June, 1633, but before 
 the king's advent it was necessary to give all other occu- 
 pants due notice to quit. The act of the Privy Council 
 for this purpose is headed Charges aganis Personis dwell- 
 ing ifi the Palace of Ilalyrudhous, and is as follows: — 
 
 " Apud Halyrudhous, ultimo January, 1633. 
 
 " Sederunt : 
 
 " Stratherne, Lauderdaill, B.Yle.s, Carnegie, 
 " WiNTON, B. DiTMBLANE, Areskin, Secretar. 
 
 " Forasmeikle as it is very necessary and expedient for the better 
 accomodating and lodging of his Majestic and his tryne in his Ma- 
 jesieis owne housses of the CastelHs of Edinburgh and Stirline. and of 
 his Palaces of Falkland and Dumfermline and Halyrudhous, that all 
 personis who dwellis within the saids housses, or possesse anie 
 roomes or chambers within the same, sail remove themeselffis, thair 
 servants, and goods furth thairof, and leave the same voide and red, 
 and delyver the keys thairof to his Majesteis Thesanrer and Deputie- 
 Thesaurer, or to the Maisters of his Majesteis Workes, to the intent 
 that all the saids houses may be readie and patent to his Majesteis 
 harbinger, and that he may designe and appoint the same to such of 
 his Majesteis tryne as he sail thinke meit. Thairfoir ordanis letters 
 to be direct chargeing all persons dwelling within anie of his Majes- 
 teis houses foresaids, or who possesse anie chambers or roomes 
 within the same, to remove thameselffis, thair servants and good 
 furth thairof and leave the same voide, and delyver the keyes thair- 
 of to his Majesteis said Thesaurer to the iit'^'^t Snd purpose fore- 
 
 X I 
 
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 towne and bridge, and Edinburg with the King's palace above named, and y* Parliament house 
 and other places, besides the castle and maiden's tower, (which is the glory of Edinburgh, and was 
 the seat of Pictish King's family, and y° nunnery of y' Royal Virgins,) now all worthy to be seen '3 
 and observed, besides the visits he was to make to y° Earle of Eglinton, and the Earle of Strive- 
 ling's daughters and sons,'"* and the kindred of both sides'^ whence he was descended, were also 
 dew, and so he was sent to Braidstane and thence to make y' s"* visits and views.'* 
 
 said, within 48 houres after the charge, under the paine of rebellioun. 
 And if they failye to denounce," &c. — Proceedings of t/ie Society of 
 Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. i., pp. iii, 112. 
 
 '3 Worthy to be seen. — The places here named were 
 among the most interesting in Scotland, and no doubt had 
 peculiar charms for this tourist, who belonged to a family 
 of decidedly antiquarian tastes and traditions. Glasgow 
 city was one of the oldest in the land, all its chroniclers com- 
 mencing their accounts of it with the story of St. Kentigem, 
 who founded his little church there in the middle of the sixth 
 century. Around it clustered at first a few wooden huts, 
 which, in process of time, grew and expanded into the 
 great city of Glasgow. A monkish legend affirms that 
 when St. Kentigem preached, the place on which he 
 stood was upheaved into a knoll, so that the saint might 
 be seen and heard the more easily by the vast multitudes 
 who thronged to his ministrations. The religious houses 
 that rose in time from the foundation laid by St. Kentigem 
 were numerous, and became centres of absorbing interest 
 and attraction from age to age. The references in the 
 city records to particular Altars in Glasgow are sufficient 
 evidence of this. Thus, there were the High Altar, with 
 its chaplaincy endowed by William the Lion ; St. Kenti- 
 gem's Altar, near his tomb, with its annual rent to 
 maintain the lights before it, while kings and nobles 
 contributed their presents of wax yearly for the same 
 purpose ; the Altar dedicated to Mary the Virgin, in 
 the lower church, "le crudes," or crypt, to sustain the 
 lights of which prosperous burgesses and their wives 
 contributed large sums from generation to generation ; 
 St. Servan's Altar, rebuilt in 1446 by David de Cady- 
 how ; St. Manchan's Altar, constracted of hewn and 
 polished stone, by Patrick Leche ; the Altars of St. John 
 the Baptist, St. Blasius the Martyr, and St. Cuthbert the 
 Confessor, together with very many others, situated in 
 and near the cathedral. Among the principal benefactors 
 of the convent of j^r/arj- alone, were Alexander III., 
 Robert I. , sir Alan Cathcart, sir John Stewart of Damley, 
 sir Duncan Campbell of Lochaw, sir William Forfar, 
 Alexander Conyngham lord of Kilmaurs, Isabell duchess 
 of Albany, Colin Campbell earl of Argyle, sir James 
 Hamilton of Finnart, and James V. — the lives of these 
 patrons reaching from 1246 to 1 540. The ancient and 
 celebrated university of Glasgow was founded by the 
 the authority of pope Nicholas V. in 1451. See Origines 
 Parochiales Scotitr, vol. i., pp. 2, 3. " Strivliiig castle, 
 towne, and bridge " owed their attractions also to their 
 age, their antiquities, their historical associations, and 
 their singularly picturesque situation. The Castle is the 
 most prominent place of interest in Stirling, and stands 
 on the western extremity of the ridge on which the town 
 is built. Stirling Bridge is the most noted structure of its 
 class in all Scotland. Its age is uncertain, but it is very 
 old-fashioned, being narrow, high in the centre, with a 
 
 gate formerly at each end, and each gate flanked by two 
 small towers. Its importance may be imagined from the 
 fact that until about forty years ago, this bridge was the 
 only access for wheeled conveyances into the north of 
 Scotland. Cosmo Innes, when tracing the residences of 
 David I., says, " He was attached to Dunfermline, as the 
 favoured foundation of his parents. He lived a great deal at 
 Stirling, fromwhose battlements he could look down upon 
 his own abbey of Cambuskenneth, and the little chapel of 
 St. Serf the Confessor of Culross, amidst as fair a scene as 
 ever churchman cultivated, or monarch ruled over." 
 — Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 119. But "Edin- 
 burg,'''' with its renovraed localities, was probably still 
 more attractive. From the time of the Anglo-Saxon 
 rule in Lothian, which commenced about the middle of 
 the fifth century, the castle of Edinburgh became the 
 occasional residence of the chiefs or kings of the Northum- 
 brian dynasty. One of the most potent of these chiefs 
 was named Edwin, and Ed-uin^s burgh is the name of the 
 city to this day. The Celtic name of the rock upon which 
 the castle or fortress stands was Magh-dun, which after- 
 wards became Maiden, because the place was anciently 
 known as Castriim Puellarum, and therefore said to be 
 the residence of such daughters of the Pictish or British 
 kings as chose to become nuns,! The castle became a 
 favourite residence of kings of Scotland at an early period. 
 St. Margaret resided in it during the fatal expedition of 
 her husband, Malcom, into England, and died there. 
 Her son, David, had a dwelling on the rock, and a garden 
 on the bank, between it and the church of St Cuthbert. 
 In later times, the Castle Hill continued to be the centie 
 of attraction in Edinburgh. On its north side, dwelt 
 Mai-y de Guise, the widow of James V., and regent of 
 Scotland from 1554 to 1560. 
 
 Striveling's daughters and sons. — See p. 92, note 23, 
 supra. 
 
 '5 Kindred of both sides. — These kinspeople were the 
 Montgomerys of Beith and the Shaws of Greenock. 
 
 Ye sd 'visits and views. — Scotland was then a land 
 of wonders, if we may believe the half of what is told by 
 her old chroniclers. The following is the concluding 
 chapter of a very curious tract, published in 1603, and 
 entitled Certayne Matters Concerning the Realmt of Scot- 
 land composed together. Among the objects of curiosity 
 were many which tourists and sight-seers of that day 
 would generally, no doubt, go to examine. As the tract 
 has become very rare, we give this chapter in extenso : — 
 " Among many Commodities, that Scotland hath common 
 with other Nations, it is not needfull to rehearse in this 
 place, in respect of their particulars, declared at length 
 before : It is beautified with some rare gifts in it selfe, 
 wonderfull to consider, which I haue thought good not to 
 obscure (from thee good Reader) as for example : — In 
 Orknay, besides the great store of sheepe that feede vpon 
 
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 Which being performed he took sea at Leith and sailed for Holland, (then y" school forwarr,) 
 
 the maine land thereof, the Ewes are of such fecundity, 
 that at every lambing time, they produce at least two, 
 and ordinarily three. There bee neither venemous or 
 ravenous beasts bred there, nor do Hue there, although 
 they bee transported thither. In Schetland, the lies 
 called Thulfe, at the time when the Sunne enters the 
 Signe of Cancer, for the space of twenty dayes, there 
 appeares no night at all ; and among the rockes thereof, 
 growes the delectable Lambre, called Succinum : Where 
 is also great resort of the beast called the Mertrik, the 
 skinnes whereof are costly furrings. In Rosse, there be 
 great Mountaines of Marble, and Alabaster. In the 
 South of Scotland, specially in the Countries adiacent to 
 England, there is a Dog of marueilous nature, called the 
 Suth-hound ; because, when as he is certified by wordes 
 of Arte, spoken by his Master, what goods are stolne, 
 whether Horse, sheepe, or Neat : immediatly, he ad- 
 dresseth him suthly to the sent, and followeth vnth great 
 impetuositie, through all kind of ground and water, by as 
 many ambages as the theeues have used, till he attaine to 
 their place of residence : By the benefit of the which 
 Dog, the goods are recovered. But now of late, he is 
 called by a new popular name, the Slouth-hound : 
 Because, when as the people doe live in slouth and idle- 
 nesse, and neither by themselves, or by the office of a 
 good Herd, or by the strength of a good house, they doe 
 preserue their goods, from the incursion of theeues and 
 robbers ; then haue they recourse to the Dog, for repara- 
 tion of their slouth. In the West, and North-west of 
 Scotland, there is great repairing of a fowle, called the 
 Enie, of a marueilous nature, and the people are very 
 curious and solist to catch him, whom thereafter they 
 punze of his wings, that he shall not be able to flie againe. 
 This fowle is of a huge quantitie : and although he be of 
 a ravenous nature, like to the kind of Haulks, and be of 
 the same qualitie, gluttonous, neverthelesse, the people 
 doe give him such sort of meate, as they thinke con- 
 venient, and such a great quantity at a time, that hee 
 lines contented with that portion, for the space of four- 
 teene, sixteene, or twenty dayes, and some of them for 
 space of a Moneth. The people that do so feede him, 
 doe use him for this intent : That tliey may be furnished 
 with the feathers of his wings, when he doth cast them, 
 for the garnishing of their arrowes, either when they are 
 at warres, or at hunting : for these featliers onely doe 
 never receive rayne, or water, as others doe, but remayne 
 alwayes of a durable estate, and vncorruptible. In all 
 the Moore-land, and Mosse-land of Scotland, doth resort 
 the Blacke Cocke, a fowle of a mameylous beauty, and 
 marueilous bounty : for he is more delectable to eate, then 
 a Capon, and of a greater quantity, cled with three sorts 
 of flesh, of diuers colours, and diners castes, but all de- 
 lectable to the use and nouriture of man. In the two 
 Riuers of Dee and Done, besides the marueylous plenty 
 of Salmon fishes gotten there, there is also a marueylous 
 kinde of shel-fish, called the Horse-mussell, of a great 
 quantitie : wherein are ingendred inniunerable faire, 
 beautiful!, and delectable Pearles, convenient for the 
 pleasure of man, and profitable for the use of Phisike; 
 and some of them so fayre, and* polished, that they be 
 equall to any mirrour of the world. And generally, by 
 the prouidence of the Almighty God, when dearth and 
 scarcity of victuals doe abound in the land; then the 
 
 fishes are most plentifully taken for support of the people. 
 In Galloway, the Loch, called Loch-myrton, although it 
 be common to all fresh water to freeze in Winter, yet the 
 one halfe of this Loch doth neuer freeze at any time. In 
 the shire of Innernes : the Loch, called Loch-nes, and the 
 river flowing from thence into the sea, doth neuer freeze : 
 But by the contrary, in the coldest dayes of Winter, the 
 I>och and riuer are both scene to smoake and reeke, 
 signifying unto us, that there is a Myne of Brimstone 
 under it, of a bote qualitie. In Carrik, are Kyne, and 
 Oxen, delicious to eate : but their fatnes is of so wonderfull 
 temperature : that although the fatnes of all other comest- 
 able beasts, for the ordinary vse of man, doe congeale 
 with the cold ayre : by the contrary, the fatnesse of these 
 beasts is perpetually liqued like oyle. The wood and 
 Parke of Commemauld, is replenished with Kyne and 
 Oxen, and those at all times to this day, haue beene, 
 wilde, and all of them of such a perfect wonderfull white- 
 nesse, that there was neuer among all the huge number 
 there, so much as the smallest blacke spot found to be 
 vpon one of there skinnes, home, or cloove. In the 
 Parke of Halyrud-house, are Foxes, and Hares, of a 
 wonderfull whitenesse, in great number. In Coyle, now 
 called Kyle, is a rock, of the height of twelue foot, and 
 as much of bredth, called the Deafe Craig. For although 
 a man should crie neuer so lowd, to his fellow, from the 
 one side to the other, he is not heard, although he would 
 make the noyse of a gimne. In the countrey of Stratherne, 
 a little aboue the old towne of the Fights, called Abir- 
 nethie, there is a marueilous Rock, called the Rock and 
 stone, of a reasonable bignes, that if a man will push it 
 with the least motion of his finger, it will moue very 
 lightly, but if he shall addresse his whole force, hee 
 profites nothing : which moves many people to be won- 
 derfully merry, when they consider such contrariety. In 
 Lennox, is a great Loch, called Loch-lowmond, being of 
 length 24. myles, in bredth, 8. myles, contayning the 
 number of 30. lies. In this Loche are observed three 
 wonderfull things : One is, fishes very delectable to eate, 
 that haue no fynnes to move themselves withal), as other 
 fishes doe. The second, tempestuous waves and surges of 
 the water, perpetually raging, without windes, and that 
 in time of greatest calmes in the faire pleasant time of 
 Summer, when the ayre is quiet. The third is. One of 
 these Isles, that is not corroborate nor vnited to the 
 ground, but hath beene perpetually loose ; and although 
 it be fertill of good grasse, and replenished with Neate : 
 yet it moves by the waves of the water, and is transported 
 sometimes toward one point, and other whiles toward 
 another. In Argyle, is a stone found in divers parts, the 
 which layd under straw or stubble, doth consume them 
 to fire, by the great heate that it collects there. In 
 Buquhan, at the Castle of Slains is a caue, from the top 
 whereof distilles water, which within short time doth 
 congele to hard stones, white in colour. In this Countrey 
 are no Rottoiis seene at any time, although the land bee 
 wonderfull fertill. In Lothien, within two myles of 
 Edinburgh, Southward, is a well-spring, called, Saint 
 Katherins wel, which flowes perpetually with a kinde of 
 blacke fatnesse, above the water : whereof Dioscorides 
 makes mention. This fatnes is called Bitumen aquis super- 
 tiatans. It is thought to proceed of a fat myne of Coale, 
 which is frecjuent in all Lothien, and specially of a sorts 
 
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 where he was welcomed for his ghelt,'^ and to y° Scotish officers of his kindred and of his father's old 
 acquaintance, where he stayed a campaign and a winter, and gained knowledge fitt to make him 
 an officer, serving that summer as a voluntary cadee. 
 
 His person was portly, his discours manly, and his heart stout. He could drink, smoake, and 
 can woimgh sproken, like a Dutchman ; but more soberly and courtvously than most of them. 
 
 His discourse was neither of philosophy, divinity, nor phissik, but good round (home spun) 
 rational sence, and both in body and inclination he was fitt for a wife, and indeed he was a desire- 
 able man of y" women, haveing natural allurements enow to gain their good will. 
 
 He was, (at his mother's entreaty) called home, and required to take a view of y' court at 
 Whitehall, and to see friends there, as well as to kiss y° king's hand, and to return thro' Scotl"* by 
 Edinbrugh and Braidstane, repeating his said visits, and to make two or three dayes stay at Garth- 
 land, because now he was become a man of good carriage. 
 
 His mother had enjoyned him this last visit, that he might appear as a wooer, for here was the 
 fair lady designed for his wife, viz. Grizel, eldest daughter of S'' John M'' Dowell (als M° Dougall) 
 laird of that ancient place last before spoken of.'^ 
 
 This our George liked y" match, w* he heard was intended for him, and being a fresh, young, 
 and well coraplexioned spark, and a traveller, made his addresses, w"*" were civilly receaved ; on 
 this encouragement he returned to Newtown to his mother's joy, that he had come home safe, and 
 and was liked of his mistress as she told him, but said she was not to declare her love, but accord- 
 ing to her parents pleasure, whereof he had no doubt ; and had spoke to them, who wrote thereof 
 to our Vis"' and Visc'^"" that they liked of their sonn whom they for their daughter above named ; 
 
 of coale, called vulgarly, the Parret coale : For as soone 
 as it is laide in the fire, it is so fat, and gummy, that it 
 renders an exceeding great light, dropping, frying, hissing, 
 and making a great noyse, with shedding and deviding it 
 selfe in the fire, and of that marueylous nature, that as 
 soone as it is laide in a quicke fire, immediately it con- 
 ceyves a great flame, which is not common to any other 
 sort of coale. This fatnes, is of a marveylous virtue : That 
 as the coale, whereof it proceeds, is sudden to conceive 
 fire, and flame, so is this oyle of a sudden operation, to 
 heale all salt scabs and humours, that trouble the outward 
 skin of man, wheresoeuer it be, fro the middle vp, as 
 commonly those of experience have observed. All 
 scabbes in the head, and hands, are quickly healed by 
 the benefit of this oyle, and it renders a marueilous sweet 
 smell. At Abirdene is a well, of marueylous good 
 quality to dissolve the stone, to expell sand from the 
 reines and bladder, and good for the Collicke, being 
 drunke in the Moneth of luly, and a few dayes of August, 
 little inferiour in virtue, to the renowned water of the 
 Spaw in Almanie. In the North Seas of Scotland, are 
 great clogges of timber found, in the which, are maniey- 
 lously ingendred a sort of Geese, called, Clayk-geese, and 
 do hang by the beake, till they be of perfection ; ofttimes 
 found, and kept in admiration for their rare forme of 
 generation. At Dumbartan, directly under the Castle, at 
 the mouth of the River of Clyde, as it enters into the sea, 
 there are a number of Claik-geese, blacke of colour, which 
 in the night time doe gather great quantitie of the crops 
 
 of the grasse, growing upon the land, and caiTie the same 
 to the Sea. Then they assemble in a round, and with a 
 wondrous curiositie, do offer every one his owie portion 
 to the Sea-floud, and there attend vpon the flowing of the 
 tyde, til the grasse be purified from the fresh taste, and 
 turned to the salt : and lest any part thereof should escape, 
 they labour to hold it in, with labour of their nebbes. 
 Thereafter orderly euery fowle eates his portion. And this 
 custome they observe perpetually. They are very fat, 
 and veiy delicious to bee eaten.." 
 
 '7 For his ghelt. — Ghelt, gelt, or more generally gilt, is 
 a Dutch A\ord, denoting cash, or current coin. Watson's 
 Collections, vol. i., p. 12, contains the following illus- 
 tration : — 
 
 " But wishing that I might ride East, 
 To trot on toot 1 soon would tyre ; 
 My page allowed me not a beast — • 
 I wanted gilt to pay the hire." 
 
 In Jamieson's Popular Ballads, vol. ii. , p. 321, the word 
 occurs in the following couplet : — 
 
 " Thoucht he had gilt that gat hyr han' ; 
 "iH^ gilt, na gear, ane herte dow wan.'* 
 
 Shakspere employs the word in the following passage 
 from his Henry V., act ii., scene i. : — • 
 
 '* Henry Lord Scroop of Masham and the third 
 Sir Thomas Grey Knight of Northumberland 
 Have, for the gilt of I' rance (O guilt indeed !) 
 Confirmed conspiracy with fearful France." — 
 
 See Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary. 
 
 Before spoken of. — See pp. 94, 95, sttfra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 353 
 
 our George plyd his sollicitations to his mother to speed y° affaire by making preparations for his 
 return to make a wife of his m", being over ears and head in love. 
 
 He was called by y' agnomen (Scotice too name) of Kinnshoker'9 (Anglice the hauke head) 
 from his eagerness (perhapps after his game,) and it may be also from his readynes to stoope at 
 female quarrys, because he was easily lured that way. 
 
 This gentl. (by y° 3'' Viscont, and by his brother, and by y° contry) was called Uncle George ; 
 by S' James and M'' Savadge^° was termed brother George, and by their descendants named uncle 
 George without other addition : arid the lord's brother was called Sq' James," and y° 4"" lord's 
 brother was, and is called Squire Henry=^ and no more, and now are properly called Squire Mont- 
 gomery^3 (sans cid as is spoken of Le Mounsieur, y° French-king's next brother) and no more without 
 designm' of y° X"''" name, but onely the l**'^ eldest son, vivant son pere. 
 
 This hono"^ gentl. was but a tenent for life, and held his land under y° 2^ Vis"', and his pos- 
 terity, as his chief landlords in fee, at a' smal rent, and an acknowledgmen' to be paid by every 
 male heire in possession (after his father's death) if he be arrived at 2 1 years of age, or when he 
 comes to bee so old, and this is named a releif in law.'* 
 
 The case being so, and this gentleman (who lived a widdower from A" 1646 till 1669 that he 
 dyed) being, since his lady's death, none of y° best managers of an estate, and his eldest sonn Hugh 
 (commonly called Ballylessan) being grown up, and an honest discreet man, he y° s"^ George was 
 pers waded to betake himself to a certain yearly rent-charge during his life, and his s'^ son Hugh 
 bound to pay it. 
 
 His affaires being thus settled by consent of his feo fees,^^ his said eldest son Hugh managed 
 y° states, and was obliged, for paym'' of a portion to his brother John and sister Jean ; and marryed 
 the daughter of Coll. Hercules Hanks^^ (who had not any other childe or grandchilde) and yett 
 ye° s"* Hugh had no portion by her, tho' her father had been a moneyed and landed man, and none 
 could tell (that I could learn) how his estate of both sorts vanished away, tho' he lived very 
 obscurely. 
 
 This Hugh hath, by his s^ wife, one son named Hercules (after y" s'' Coll) who is now A" 1698, 
 a comely well humoured gentl. unmarryed.'^ 
 
 '9 Kinnshoker. — This term may be translated Hawk- 
 head, from the two Irish words, ceann, a 'head,' and 
 seabhac (pronounced showak), a 'hawk.' 
 
 ^ Mr. Savadgc. — This was Patrick Savage, who mar- 
 ried the hon. George Montgomery's sister. 
 
 Sqf^. James. — See p 296, supra. 
 
 Squire Henry. — Afterwards third earl. 
 
 Squire Mo7itgomery. — In other words, it had become 
 the custom to drop tlie cliristian name of the eldest son 
 during the lifetime of his father, and prefix squire to his 
 surname, squire being a contraction of esquire. This 
 term is derived from the French escuyer, properly a 
 ' shield-bearer, from the Latin scutum, a shield, the duty 
 of an esquire or squire principally consisting in attending 
 on a knight and bearing his lance and shield. 
 
 A releif in law. — See the terms of this grant to 
 George Montgomeiy, at p. 94, note 29, stcpra. 
 
 =^5 His feo fees. — His feofees were sir James Montgomery 
 of Rosemount, Patrick Savage of Portaferry, Heniy 
 Savage of Arkeen, William Shaw of Newtowne, and 
 John Montgomery of Ballycreboy, to whom the lands in 
 the manor of Dunbrackly, or Dunbratly, ^^'ere granted in 
 ti-ust for the use of George Montgomery. See p. 94, 
 note 29, supra. 
 
 Coll. Hercules Hanks. — For a notice of this colonel 
 Hercules Hiincks, not Hanks, see p. 252, note ^t,, supra. 
 
 Gentl. unmarrycd.- — Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly states in 
 her Genealogical History, p. 44, that Hercules married 
 Jane Mac Neill, but there must be some confusion in this 
 account of the hon. George Montgomery's grandsons, as 
 the Hercules Montgomeiy who married Jane MacNeill 
 was the son of that Hugh Montgomery who assumed the 
 name of Willoughby, and who was half-brother of Her- 
 cules mentioned in the text. — See note 5, supra. 
 
354 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 The said Hugh marryed y" Lord Blayney's widdow,*^ by whom he hath a considerable estate 
 in fee farm and bish^'- leases renewed in his own name and cypher, a pretty lusty young gentl. 
 named Hiigh,^? who is marriagable, both for discretion and years. 
 
 This very good lady and her husband, the s"* Hugh, are of age and can speake for themselves, 
 and tho' they doo not, I hope their respective sonns will doo it, both orally and in black and white, 
 as I have done for my parents, so that I need not to be their histriographer, only I have this to add, 
 that this Hugh (the father of these two young gentl.) had a com"- for Coll. from y° Prince of Orange 
 (our good King W"-) and raised a regimenf of foot, w*^**' with y"" rest of y^ North Western and Lagan 
 forces, 'now broken by Majo'' Gen' Hamilton, at or near Clady foord ;3° as forany thing els I shall 
 forbeare to mention the same, yet I heartily wish wellfare to him and to all his concerns, as I hope 
 he doth to mee and mine, wee two (and his sister) being the onely persons alive of y* first Vise" 
 grand children, hee and I being bom before his Lo''"' death ; and so I take leave of him and return 
 to his father Cap'- Geo. Montgomery, who, being retired to Newtown as afores''-^' had occasions to 
 try his courage and skill, and to vent his anger and revenge ag'- the Irish rebells, who had wasted 
 his lands, so that he went gladly to make them pay him rent, and behaved himself to approbation 
 with his troop, continuing in service till O'C." army defeated y" K'" forces in Ulster. 3^ 
 
 The s*^ Grizzell, his loving and entirely beloved wife, dying A"- 1646, left him another son named 
 John (for her own father's sake) ;33 this son resembled his father much, and he haveing served as a 
 gentleman in our 2d Earle's troop, he raised a foot company and went a Cap'"' in y^ Earle of Ros- 
 common's regiment into France, where he died of sickness, unmarryed. 
 
 '^IBlaney's vnddcnv.— "'Vn& said Hugh" -was'the son of 
 George, his first -wife being a daughter of colonel Huncks, 
 and his second wife being Jane, daughter of John Mallock, 
 and widow of Richard, the fourth baron Blaney. 
 
 ^9 Named Hugh. — This was son of "said Hugh" by 
 his second marriage, and this " pretty lusty yo-ang gentl." 
 afterwards took the name of Willoughby to inherit the 
 estate ofCarrow, county Fermanagh. See note 25, sup-a. 
 Colonel Hugh Willoughby Montgomery's daughter 
 married colonel Alex. Montgomery of Ballyleck. Their 
 son, the Rev. Robert Montgomery, married Sophia 
 Mabella Tipping, with whom the estate of Beaulieu, near 
 Drogheda, came into the ^Montgomery family. The 
 Rev. Robert Montgomery was grandfather of its present 
 owner, Robert T. Montgomery, esq. In Beaulieu 
 churchyard are several beautiful monuments erected 
 at the graves of members of this family. On the 
 tomb of the Rev. Robert Montgomery is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of tlie Rev. Robert Montgomery, rector of 
 Monaghan, ivho died at Beaulieu, ■idfthof July, 182$, aged years. 
 Througlwut the course of a long life, and in most trying circum- 
 stances — which a strong sense of religion enabled him to support, — by 
 his mildness, benevole?ice, and integrity, he won the respect and affec- 
 tion of all who had the liappiness of knowing hiju, and of observing in 
 him the union of the gentleman and the truly Christian pastor. This 
 momtment is erected as a tribute of love and veneration to the best 
 of parents by his grateful andjijfflicted children, 
 
 " Alexander Johnston, Clk., . Thomas Montgomery, R.N., 
 " Kathn. Salisbury Hamilton, and Sidney Montgomery." 
 
 3° Clady foord. — The skirmish at [this place is some- 
 times described as the "break of Clady," but the defeat 
 
 did not amount to a rout. When king James had reached 
 Omagh, on his way to Derry, he sent forward a large 
 force to seize a ford on the river Finn, at Clady Bridge, 
 near Strabane, so as thus to secure that bank of the Foyle 
 on which the city of Derry stands. The protestant tro ops 
 stationed at this point bore no proportion in numbers to 
 those who were sent against them, and by whom they 
 were compelled to retreat rapidly, and with some loss of 
 men. Lundy had permitted this place to remain without 
 the necessary means of defence, with the object of render- 
 ing James's path as free from obstructions as possible. 
 
 3' To Newtown as aforesaid. — See note 6, supra. He 
 was compelled to leave his own residence in Ballylesson, 
 and seek safety at Newtown, on the outbreak of the rebel- 
 lion in 1641. Among the original depositions referring 
 to massacres in the year 1641, is one made by Archi- 
 bald Johnson, of , in Clanconnell, in 
 ■which he testifies that he had lived on captain George 
 Montgomery's lands, from which he had been driven by 
 a party of the Irish, who murdered two men, named John 
 Pratt and John Smith, besides stripping and mortally 
 wounding many others. — Volume of Depositions, lettered 
 Down, in Library of Trinity College, Dublin, MSS. F. 
 3- 8. 3378- 
 
 3^ Forces in Ulster. — This defeat occurred in 1 649, at 
 Lisnastrain, in the parish of Drumbeg. See p. 191, supra. 
 
 33 Father'' s sake. — Her son John was named for her 
 father, sir John Mac Dowell of Garthland. John Mont- 
 gomery is mentioned among those attending the first earl's 
 funeral See p. 251, sitpra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 355 
 
 She left also to him a daughter named Jean, (after y° 2d Viscountess) who is now, A"- 1699, 
 •f widdow of W"- Shaw, (formerly called of Newtown and afterwards of B. Stockart) Esq. 35 unto whom 
 she hath at this present living Hercules, Elenor, Ann and Sara ; this last is maryed and hath a 
 daughter to M''- Hugh Montgomery, whom I call y° gentle mariner, both from his extraction and 
 occupation. 
 
 The s'^ Cap'- Geo. (to whom I now turn again) after divers years being boarded at Rosemount 
 (to his heart's content) dyed in his son Shaw's house at B. Stockart, A°- 1674, and was burryed in 
 the chancel of Newtown by his father, brother and nephew, the first three Lords Montgomerys of 
 y" great Ards. 
 
 He was a good horsman (having practised at riding houses abroad) and expert he was at 
 running topp speed with a lance at his thigh, to take up glove or ring as afors''' and at making hors 
 matches and discerning horses, and was a man gott honor in our warrs, and had y° true principles 
 of honesty, affection and civility in him. 
 
 3* After the second Viscountess. — This daughter of 3S B. Stockart. — Ballystockart is a townland in the 
 captain the hon. George Montgomeiy, was named for parish of Comber. See p. 250, supra. 
 Jean Alexander, the wife of his eldest brother. 
 
356 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 NARRATIVE OF GRANSHEOGH.' 
 
 Rosem*, this i6*^ Nov% 1701. 
 SSSSjORTHY COSEN,^— What followes transcribed by Mr. Robert Watson3 from my original 
 wYf nS and now attested by my subscription, must be supplyed by your incerting the date of your 
 deeds with what other memoires you have of your family, but put the same in a 
 paper by it self that they may be added by the same hand to this now sent you. When you 
 return it to me for that effect I shall add them to my original and when you have all again 
 you may preserve them to be left to your posterity as a token of my love to you and them, and 
 as a vindication of mee if I shall be aspersed to have written in any otherwise of you or your ances 
 tors. I give my respects & service to you and yo'' espous'', & remain your affectionat Cosen to 
 serve you, 
 
 Will Montgomery. 
 
 For W"' Montgomery of Gransheogh, Living at Maghera,* 
 in y^ County of Derry — These. 
 
 I would have your son take notice, that our sirname in y' pattents of our family and in 
 the acts of parliament both of England & Ireland, & in all printed books historys and others in 
 our three kingdoms (wch I can shew you) is spelled as I subscribe it, as divers gents of Estate 
 doe, & as the Count Montgomery in Normandy still did, and yett doth, as I have prooved in a 
 paper I wrot to that purpose, Sr concerning y*^ rectifying of subscriptions of Sirnames, of which many 
 persons have heedlessly taken upon custom to write them the wrong way, wch imports an igno- 
 ance occasioned by carelessness. ^ 
 
 ' Gransheogh. — As this family stands next after that of 
 the author in relationship to the Mount- Alexander line, its 
 memoir will properly succeed those of the first viscount, 
 his sons, and their families. That the author had ob- 
 served this order in preparing his Manuscripts is evident 
 from the following statement with which he afterwards 
 introduces the notice of more distant branches: — " Now 
 having mentioned our sixth laird and his offspring, with 
 two cadets of former lairds of Braidstane, viz. : Thomas 
 of Blackstown and Gransheogh, and two other families, 
 viz.: Creyboy and Ballymagown — all Montgomerys, &c." 
 The memoirs of the families of Blackstown and Creboy 
 are probably lost, or may still exist among their Scottish 
 descendants, and but a small fragment remains to us of the 
 author's notice of the family of Gransheogh, but this frag- 
 ment plainly takes its place in the manuscripts preceding 
 tlie memoirs of tlie Ballymagown and the other families, 
 to whom the author briefly refers at the conclusion of his 
 work. The original of this fragment is preserved at 
 
 Tyrella, and had been previously in the possession of the 
 late major Mathews of Springvale. 
 
 ^ Worthy Cosen. — Tlie author's grandfather, the first 
 viscount, was cousin-german of John Montgomery, the 
 first settler at Gransheogh, and grandfather of the William 
 Montgomery to whom this letter is addressed. 
 
 3 Mr. Robert Watson. — Robert Watson was a teacher in 
 Donaghadee. His surname is sometimes misprinted 
 IValkcr in the first edition of the Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 This teacher is afterwards mentioned in the author's 
 Description of the Ards. 
 
 Maghera. — This gentleman appears to have resided 
 on his property at Maghera, county of Londonderry, until 
 his purchase of the Rosemount estate in 1719, from James 
 Montgomery, the author's son. 
 
 5 Caielesiuess. — The surname of Montgomery has as- 
 sumed a greater variety of forms than perhaps any other 
 with which we are acquainted. It appears that it has 
 been spelled forty-four different ways, during the interval 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 357 
 
 But the other Cadets geneology is more certain of whom I am now to write, viz. : — 
 John Montgomery of in Scotland, who was assistant in the Plantation^ under 
 
 the first Vise' for y" fourth Laird of Braidstane, called Adam first of that name, was grandfather 
 of them both ; which relation is called Oys in Scotland.? 
 
 This John had y' Townland of Gransheogh in Donnaghadee parish given him in fee farm Narrative 
 (at a small chief rent) by y' said Viscount when he was Hugh Montgomery, as appears by Gransheogh. 
 deed dated y^' of A°- i6^- The said John was murdered in his house there; wch 
 
 was broken into, & rifled in the night, by y* Irish Woodkerns? (we now call such Robbers, if 
 on foot, Torys,'° if on horseback, Rapparees)," his son Hugh, left as dead of his many 
 wounds by their skeins, but he crauled out (when the Irish were gone with their plunder), and 
 was by y^ neighbourhood found in a bush : for they liadjtaken the alarm from some one Servant 
 that had escaped, while the father & y^ son in their shirts were fighting with swords against the . 
 Irish and their half pikes. They murdered the said Johns wife also, and the rest of the servants." 
 
 lOOO 
 
 23- 
 
 Montgomerye, 
 
 1502 
 
 1170 
 
 24. 
 
 Montgumerye, 
 
 1502 
 
 H70 
 
 25. Mongumry, 
 
 1505 
 
 136* 
 
 26. 
 
 Mungumre, 
 
 1506 
 
 1362 
 
 27. 
 
 Montgumre, 
 
 1506 
 
 1362 
 
 28. 
 
 Muntogiimbery, 
 
 1509 
 
 1366 
 
 29. 
 
 Montgumiry, 
 
 1523 
 
 1392 
 
 3°- 
 
 Mungumbrie, 
 
 1527 
 
 1407 
 
 31- 
 
 Mungumbrj, 
 
 1524 
 
 1413 
 
 32- 
 
 Montgumrie, 
 
 1546 
 
 I42I 
 
 33- 
 
 Montgumrye, 
 
 1546 
 
 I42I 
 
 34- 
 
 Mongomery, 
 
 1548 
 
 1425 
 
 35- 
 
 Mnngbmry, 
 
 1562 
 
 1438 
 
 36. 
 
 Munguoine, 
 
 1562 
 
 1448 
 
 37- 
 
 Montgomrie, 
 Mungomery, 
 
 1563 
 
 1466 
 
 38 
 
 1565 
 
 1468 
 
 39- 
 
 Montgumerie, 
 
 1567 
 
 I47I 
 
 40. 
 
 Montgomeri, 
 
 1570 
 
 1483 
 
 41. 
 
 Montgummerie 
 
 1582 
 
 1488 
 
 42. 
 
 Montgomerie, 
 
 1632 
 
 1489 
 
 43- 
 
 Mungumrie, 
 
 1640 
 
 I50I 
 
 44 
 
 Mountgomery, 
 
 1674 
 
 between tlie commencement of the eleventh and the close of 
 the seventeenth century, as the following list will shew : — 
 
 1. Montgommerie, circa 
 
 2. Mundegumbri, circa 
 
 3. Mundegumeri, circa 
 
 4. Mundegumry, 
 
 5. Mundgumry, 
 
 6. Mungumbry, 
 
 7. Moungumry, 
 
 8. Montegomorri, 
 
 9. Montgomery, 
 
 10. Montegomerie, 
 
 11. Montegomery, 
 
 12. Montegomorry, 
 
 13. Mungumry, 
 
 14. Mongomry, 
 
 15. Montgumry, 
 
 16. Montgummery, 
 
 17. Muntgumry, 
 
 18. Montegomori, 
 
 19. Muntgumry, 
 
 20. Montgumury, 
 
 21. Mungumbre, 
 
 22. Montgumery, 
 
 — Fraser, Mevtoriah, vol. ii., p. 366. 
 
 * hi ihe plantafioii. — The editor has not been able to 
 ascertain the name of this John Montgomery's residence 
 in Scotland, or the date of his removal to Ireland. 
 
 ' Oys in Scotland. — Oye, oy, O, and oe, are forms of 
 this word, being the Gaelic Ua, or O, and denoting a 
 grandson or descendant. In Watson's Collections, vol. 
 i., p. 29, the term is used as follows : — 
 
 "Then nuist the laird, the Goodman's oye^ 
 lie knighted straight and make convoy." 
 
 The poet Allan Ramsay {Poems, vol. ii., p. 270) applies 
 the word to a girl thus : — 
 
 ** Auld Bessie, wi' her red coat bra', 
 Came wi' her ain oe Nannie." 
 
 It is employed by S|3alding, who only used the plainest 
 raid most familiar language in his chronicle. At p. 310 
 of vol. i., he says, "She left her oy Charles, son to the 
 Marquis, being but a bairn, with Robert Gordon, baillie 
 of Enyie, to be entertained by him when she cam' fra' the 
 Bog." See Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the 
 .Scottish Language. O, which has completely disappeared 
 in Scotch surnames, though Mac is so abundantly retained, 
 is supposed to have lingered in Galloway, in such forms as 
 Ahannay; women never were called by any name begin- 
 
 ning with O, but Ny was substituted — thus a female of the 
 O'Neill or O'Brien families would be Ny Neill, Ny Briain. 
 
 ^ A" 16. — The first viscount and his eldest son, Hugh, 
 on the 2 1st November, 1628, made a grant of Grangee or 
 Gransheogh to Hugh Montgomery, son of John, in 
 confirmation of articles of agreement, dated 19th June, 
 1622. This latter is probably the date which is only 
 mentioned in part by the author in the text. The rent of 
 Gransheogh in the deed above-mentioned was thirty 
 shillings. .See p. 134, note, 38, supra. 
 
 9 Woodkerns. — See p. 60, supra. It would appear that 
 woodkeme were employed by sir Arthur Chichester to 
 plunder the tenants of Hugh O'Neill. This fact is stated by 
 the latter in his " Articles exliibited to the king's most 
 excellent majesty, declaring certain causes of discontent 
 offered him, by which he took occasion to depart his 
 country. " See Meehan's Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, 
 pp. 201-3. 
 
 '° Torys. — Seep. 118, note 2^, supra. 
 
 " Kapparees. — The following reference to this class of 
 robbers occurs in Storey's Impartial History of the Affairs 
 of Ireland, p. 16 : — " Monday, the 9th September. The 
 soldiers had orders not to stir out of the camp on pain of 
 death, for they stragled abroad and plundered those few 
 people that were left, and some of them were murtliered 
 by the Rapparees ; a word which we were strangers to 
 till this time. Those are such of the Irish as are not of 
 the army, but the country people armed in a kind of an 
 hostile manner with half-pikes and skeines, and some 
 with scythes or Musquets. For the Priests the last three 
 or four years past vv'ould not allow an Irishman to come 
 to mass, without he brought at least his Kapparee along ; 
 that, they say, in Irish signifies an half-stick, or a broken 
 beam, being like an half-pike ; from thence the men 
 themselves have got that name ; and some call them 
 Creaughts, from the little Huts they live in ; these Hutts 
 they build so conveniently with hurdles and long Turf that 
 they can remove them in summer towards the Mountains, 
 and bring them down to the vallies in winter." The 
 author evidently confounds rapparees with the unfortunate 
 natives generally. 
 
 " 7he servants. — We have not been able to ascertain 
 the date of this massacre. On the 20th May, 1617, Hugh 
 Montgomery, of Granshage, obtained, with several othero, 
 
 V I 
 
358 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Hugh being so found, was carefully attended by a Surgeon, & recovered. I knew this gen- 
 tleman very well in his old age, & had many of the foregoing memories from him : he died 
 of a great age, & with his father, John, is buried in Donnaghadee church. '3 
 
 This wounded gentlemans second son, named John, was Master of Escury"* to the Earl 
 of Donnegall he married Creditably, & had severall children of both kindes. The said Gentle- 
 mans eldest son, Hugh, succeeded him in the freehold, and was chief Servant in our 2d 
 Visct's family.''^ He came to be (in the Grand Rebellion time) advanced by S' James 
 Montgomery to be a Captain in his Regiment, and also (by his procurement) was made Major 
 of foot, under S' Charles Coote, Lord precedent of Conaught, and did good service against 
 the Irish, whose cruelty aforesaid was not forgott. 
 
 This Major married in a good family of the M'Clellands,'? & had several daughters, whom 
 he matched well, & left but one son, named William, who with his wife Mar}' (eldest daughter 
 of Captain James M'Gill afores"*),'^ are yet living, and he had issue Lucy, who is lately dead, 
 unmarried, & a son named William, now (viz : A°'D'"- 1701), in y* College of Dublin at his 
 studys. 
 
 This William succeeded to his father, the Major, in the Lands of Gransheogh, and to a 
 B'" lease of Maghera in the Diocese of Derry, where he & Mary his wife now dwell, & hath 
 the great Townland of Ballyhennwood/9 and the quarter of Gortgribb°° near Belfast, in right 
 of his wife, as a purchase made by her said father besides a Lease of some lands near 
 Gransheogh, from our present second Earl, dated the day anno D™' 16 — 
 
 a grant of denization, but he may have been residing in 
 this country previously, as such grants were not always 
 obtained by settlers on their first coming to Ireland. 
 John Montgomery's wife was an heiress, and belonged to 
 a branch of the Stewart family. — Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly's 
 Genealogical History, p. 60. 
 
 '3 Donnaghadee church. — Tliere is a tradition in the 
 district that John Montgomery and the members of 
 his family then massacred were not buried in the church, 
 but in a field near their residence. It is stated that 
 they were buried in one grave, which was marked by 
 a large stone, and tenants on the farm were afterwards 
 prohibited from disturbing the soil within a certain 
 number of feet from this stone. If this tradition be true 
 the remains may have been subsequently removed to the 
 church or church}'ard of Donaghadee. 
 
 Master of Escmy. — Or Esciiyrie, meaning a squire's 
 place, or the estate of an esquire. This word also denotes 
 the stable of a prince or nobleman as the appropriate 
 place of the squire's duties. The French ccurie, a stable, 
 is itself from esciiyir, a squire, the attendant on a knight, 
 a principal part of whose duty was to look after his horse. 
 .See Cotgrave's French and English Dictionary, and 
 Wedgewood's Dictionary of English Etymology. Holin- 
 shed defines esquires or masters as "at the first costerals 
 or bearers of the armes of barrens or knights, and thereby 
 being instructed in martial knowledge, had that name for 
 a dignity given to distinguish them from common soldiers 
 called gregarii milites when they were together in the 
 field."- — Description of England, book, ii., c 5- 
 
 'S Earl of Doncgall. —-'ihK was Arthur Chichester, the 
 fir.t carl, who died in 1674. 
 
 Visconnf s family. — See pp. 12,4, note ^S, sn/rra. 
 Of the APClellands. — Probably his wife was a 
 daughter of sir Robert M'Clelland. See p. 88, conclu- 
 sion of note 6, supra. This Hugh Montgomery repre- 
 sented the borough of Newto\\Tiards in parliament from 
 1635 until 1641. — Mrs. Reilly's Genealogical History, 
 p. 61 ; see p. 120, note 26; and p. 134, note 38, jK/rn. 
 yames M'Gill. — See p. 251, supra. 
 
 '5 Ballyhennwood. — In the parish of Comber. 
 
 ^ Gortgribb. — Now Gortgrib, in the parish of Knock- 
 breda, barony of Lower Castlereagh. — See Reeves' Eccle- 
 siastical Antiquities, p. II, 379. 
 
 By her said y«Mer— Captain James McGill, father of 
 Mrs. Montgomery, had held other property in the vicinity 
 of Belfast, which he sold in the year 1672, to a merchant 
 of this town named Thomas Pottinger. This property 
 included portions of Ball)anacarrett and Ballyhackamore, 
 the corn mill known by the name of Owen Corke Mill, 
 with the nett profit of toll or mulcture thereunto belonging, 
 issuing and payable out of the towns and lands of Bally- 
 macarrett, Ballyhackamore, Ballyknockcolumbkill, Bally- 
 loghan, Strandtown, Ballymather, and Ballymaser. This 
 property appears to have been held jointly by captain 
 McGill and John Kelso, from the year 1669, but after- 
 wards came entirely in the possession of the former, who 
 sold it, as above stated, in 1672. — See Hamilton Manu- 
 scripts, pp. 56, 57, jwte. 
 
 =^ A)inoD"'"i 16. — This WilliamMontgomerypurchased 
 from tlie second earl of Mount Alexander the lands of 
 Flushing Hill, adjoining Grangee or Gransheogh, with 
 the tithes of the same, and also of Grangee, by deed 
 dated 3l5t August, 1682. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 359 
 
 This William, like his father, the s** Major, loves, understands, & keeps a good breed 
 of horses, & is one of the Corporation of horsebreeders^^ afores**. 
 
 I gave to the said Major (fairly depicted, and also to his son, the said William), their 
 true Coat of Arms, was, and is now, the same which the s"" Sir Hugh Montgomery, when 
 Laird of Braidstane bore, viz. : party per pale azure & gules, 3 flowers delice in chief, & 3 
 Annulettes Sett with turcoises in base, over them a lance & a sword, Salterwise, all the charge 
 being ore except the turcoises, & blade of the sword which are propper, with a cresent argent, 
 as the distinction of a second brother as followeth : the very same shield & charge Bishop 
 Geo. Montgomery, Brother of the s"* Sir Hugh, did seal with, & the like is now over the 
 Gatehouse window in Newtown. 
 
 I could not learn from young Langshaw,^^ (tho I spoak to him twice in IreP, and 
 wrote to him when he was in Scotl'*) either what y" bearings of that family, or Hazilheads,'^ 
 or of the house of Giffen^? were; nor haiii he informed mee what any of them have for their 
 crests, but this coat of yors hath an Armed hand holding a flower delice or. As for the motto 
 of these Arms ; it must have been the same with the Earl of Eglinton, viz. " Guarde Bieii," 
 (because our Montgomerys were from that family,) unless Sir Hugh took another diton, of w'*" 
 I know not , but now Sr Hughs posterity (& none els) may pretend to carry y** arms & use 
 y* motto of the Lord Vise*, of Ards, both w°'' were altered when they were first nobilitated.^^ 
 
 Will Montgomery. 
 
 ^3 Horsebreeders. — See p. 269, sxipra. 
 In Newtown. — See p. 109, supra. 
 
 ^5 Young Langshaw. — Young Langshaw was James 
 Montgomery, ninth laird of Lainshaw, parish of Stewarton, 
 county of Ayr. This gentleman's name appears on 
 the list of commissioners of supply for the country in 1696. 
 About the same year he was appointed clerk of justiciars 
 for life. He afterwards assumed the title of lord Lyle, 
 as representative of that noble family, and died in the year 
 1726. Our author had frequent opportunities of meeting 
 him in Ireland, as Lainshaw's sister, Jean, was wife to the 
 Rev. Alexander Laing, rector of Donaghadee, but he was 
 evidently so much engaged in important public affairs as 
 to have no time to spare for the discussion of heraldic 
 questions. He was entitled to bear the arms of Eglinton, 
 Montgomerie, Mure, Lyle, and Cunningham. His crest 
 was a cock, his supporters two leopards, proper, and his 
 motto An I ?nay. — Paterson's Parishes and Families of 
 Ayrshire, vol. ii., p. 455. This ninth laird of Lainshaw 
 who was "richly married in Edinburgh" had for his 
 wife Barbara Kennedy, daughter of John Kennedy 
 of Craig, or Barclanachan, in Carrick, but left no children. 
 He died about the year 1726, and was succeeded by his 
 nephew, David Laing, son of his sister Jean and Alex- 
 ander Laing, rector of Donaghadee. Laing took the 
 name of Montgomery. "Memorandum if is observed, 
 and Said by Mr. Ja. Montgomery y" young laird of Lang- 
 shaw (who hath a good imploymt in ye Courts of Judicature 
 in Scotland, and is richly married in Edinburgh, thaj- 
 genlly the Montgomeiys of that Kingdom (especially yo 
 cadetts of familys) have raised themselves by lands or 
 togher goods {i.e., marriage portions) gotten by women 
 whom they wedded. It seems when born they have been 
 
 wrapped in their mothers smocks, but that good fortune 
 hath not so universally happened to our Sirname in Ire- 
 land, as may be observed in the ensuing memoirs of them. " 
 The above is appended as a note to the author's Narra- 
 tive Concerning some oj the 3Iontgomerys in England (S?^ 
 Scotland. " 
 
 Hazilheads. — The armorial bearings of the Mont- 
 gomerys of Hessilhead were — Azure, two Lances of 
 Tournament, proper, between three Fleurs-de-Lis, or, 
 and in the chief point an Annulet, or, stoned, azure, 
 with an indention on the side of the shield, on the 
 dexter side. — Pont MS., Advocates' Library, as quoted 
 in Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, \o\. i., 
 p. 292. 
 
 ^^ Giffen. — The Montgomerys of Giffen bore the fol- 
 lowing heraldic device — Quarterly, first and fourth, three 
 Fleurs-de-lis, for Montgomerie ; second and third, three 
 Annulets, for Eglinton; over all, dividing the quarters, a 
 Cross waved or, and in chief a label of three points of the 
 last, denoting the next house in succession to the earldom 
 of Eglinton. — Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayr- 
 shire, vol. i. , p. 289. 
 
 First nobilitated. — Seep. \lo, note 1, supra. William 
 Montgomery, son of thegentlemanhere mentioned, to whom 
 the author addressed this letter, was twice married. His 
 first wife was Catherine, daughter of Francis Hall of 
 Strangford, the date of their marriage settlement being 
 22nd September, 1719. The following extract of a letter 
 from Mrs. Hall of Strangford to her brother, the bishop 
 of Dromore (Lambert), is interesting as containing a 
 statement of the value of the Grey.abbey property at the 
 time of this marriage. The return was furnished to Mrs. 
 Hall by captain Montgomery himself, on his proposal of 
 
36o 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscrwis. 
 
 This Coat Armoriall on the dexter side 
 belongs unto William Montgomery, gentl, 
 son of Major Hugh, son of Hugh, Gentl. ; 
 son of Hugh, Gentleman, all Montgomeries, 
 & freeholders of the lands of Gran- 
 sheogh in Donaghadee Parish, 
 Barrony of Ards, & County 
 of Down in Ireland, 
 \v<='^ last named 
 Hugh was son 
 of Robt Mont- 
 gomery, 2d bro 
 ther of Adam, 
 the 2d of that 
 name; the fifth 
 Laird of Braid- 
 stane in Scotland. 
 The first of w^^* 
 lairds was 2d bro- 
 ther to Alex Earle 
 of Eglintons Ancestor, 
 lord of Ardrossan, 
 a very Ancient 
 
 family of that rank in Scotland, all bearing the 
 surname of Montgomerie long before the batle 
 at Otterburn, A° D"^ 1388, ag' the lord Piercy, 
 who was taken prisoner by the hand of y* 
 lord of Ardrossan, who w* y, ransom money of 
 Piercy (commonly called Hottspur) built the 
 castle of Ponune,=5 & caused carve a spurr in y"= 
 stone over the door thereof, in memory of that 
 action, and of the victory (chiefly by his valour 
 & conduct) then obtained, Robt. the 2d being 
 King of Scotland. 
 
 The shield on this sinister side depicted, belongs 
 to Mary, wife of the said Wm. Montgomery, 
 the same being certified & sett out by lyon 
 king at Arms in Scotland in King Charles 
 the 2d's raign, unto her father James M'Gill of 
 kirkestown,3° Esqr., as descending 
 from the Viscounts Oxenfuirds 
 family, having only 
 the bordure w'^ a 
 new crest & motto 
 i here underwritten) 
 for distinction. 
 The original 
 grant being in the 
 James his posteritys 
 hands to bee seen 
 and is therein thus 
 blasoned, viz. 
 Gules, three mardotts 
 within a bordure argent. 
 The Crest is a Phoenix 
 in flames, on 
 a wreath of his 
 
 colours: an helmet befitting his degree, about 
 wch & the Armour is a mantleing gules, dubbed 
 Argent. Over all (for a motto) in an Escroule 
 is written. Sans fin; all to bee seen on this 
 paper is done], (as a memorandum of Love 
 and respect by the hand of mee, 
 
 Will Montgomery."3' 
 
 marriage with her daughter, and her letter embodying the 
 statement is in the possession of colonel F. O. Montgomery, 
 great-grandson of the purchaser of Greyabbey: — 
 
 "Yearly Value of Mr. Montgomery of Grangee's lands. 
 Rosemount about . . , . . . ;^300 o o 
 
 Grangee clear of chief and tythes . . . . 040 o o 
 
 Tenements and Lands about Newtown not lett 000 o o 
 Prolitts of the Lease of Maghera . . . . 340 o o 
 
 Half pay on the English Establis* with benefit 
 of Exchange 
 
 ^6So 
 
 " Debts with which the above mentioned Lands are chargeable. 
 To Mr. William Montgomery . . . . £,\,o^a a o 
 
 To Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery .. .. 0,350 o o 
 
 To Mrs. Marth Mont^^oniery .. .. 0.350 o o 
 
 To Mr. Edmonston M^GofTiciy .. ., 0,100 o o 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 361 
 
 Part of Mr, Montgomery the Elder's money 
 
 in my hand, which I have applied to my use 0,120 o o 
 To Col. Adam Downing by two bonds . . 0,800 o o 
 
 ;£2,790 o o 
 
 "This is a coppey of the Paper which he gave me: — 
 "A conveyance of Hugh, late Earle of Mountalexander, to Wil- 
 liam Montgomery of Grangee, Gent, of all that parcell of land 
 commonly known by the name of Flushing Hill, adjoining the lands 
 of Grangee, in the Barrony of Ards and County of Downe, together 
 with the tythes thereof both great and small, and all the tythes of 
 Grangee both great and small, bearing date the 31st day of August, 
 1682. The like conveyance of the lands of Flushing Hill aforesaid, 
 and the tythes thereof from Charles Campbell of Donaghadee, 
 Gent,, bearing date the 2nd day of September, 1682." 
 
 The letter, enclosing these documents, ends thus : — 
 
 '* I am boderd with trobel and company, so can say no more to 
 my dearest brother, but I am y' ever affect" sister and sarvant, 
 
 "Ann Hall. 
 
 "What I main is his reail astate, which will be in a few years 
 j^40o, and as for the lase, I lave it in his one power to improve his 
 fortune with.' " 
 
 Mrs. Hall's brother, Ralph Lambert, was appointed dean 
 of Down, on the 4th May, 1709; bishop of Dromore, on 
 the I2th of April, 1717; and bishop of Meath, on the 
 loth of February, 1726. He died on the 6th of February, 
 1731, and was buried in St. Michan's Church, Dublin. — • 
 Ware's Works, vol. i., pp 164, 267. Her daughter, 
 Mrs. Montgomery, died in 1723, leaving two sons — ■ 
 Edward, who died in 1726 ; and William, who suc- 
 ceeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1755. 
 The father re-married in 1725, with Elizabeth Hill, 
 daughter of Samuel Hill, whose grandfather was treasurer 
 of Ireland in the time of the Commonwealth. This lady 
 has left the following interesting record of her children 
 in a precious old Bible which had belonged to her mother- 
 in-law, Mary M°Gill, and which is now in the possession 
 of Hugh Montgomery, esq. , of Greyabbey : — 
 
 " I. Mary Montgomery, his eldest daughter, was born on the ist 
 of December, 1726 ; her godfathers were the lord bishop of 
 Meath (Ralph Lambert) and Rowley Hill, Esqr. , her uncle. Her 
 godmothers were Mrs. Catherine Rowley and Mrs Bailie of 
 Inishargey. 
 
 " 2. Hugh Montgomery was born on the 4th of September, 1727 ; 
 his godfathers were the Rev, Dean Gore, of Down, and William 
 Montgomery, Esq., of Killough. His godmothers were Mrs. Hall 
 of Strangford, and his aunt Mrs. Mary Hill. 
 
 " 3. Ann Montgomery was born on September the 20th, 1730. 
 Her godfathers were the Rev. Edward Matthews, and Francis 
 Hall, Esq., of Strangford ; her godmothers were Mrs. Montgomery 
 of Drogheda and Mrs. Letitia Hall of Strangford. 
 
 "4. Elizabeth Montgomery was born on Sept., ye 29th, 1731. 
 Her godfathers were Archdeacon Usher and William Savage of 
 Kirkestown ; her godmothers were her aunt Mrs. Sophia Hill and 
 Mrs, Mauleverer. She died Feb. the 27, 1738. 
 
 " 5, Rowley Montgomery was born Oct. ye 29th, 1732. His god- 
 fathers were Hugh Willoughby and Tom Tenison, Esqr. His god- 
 mother, Mrs, Alice Lambert. 
 
 " 6, Catherine Montgomery was born August the 20th, 1735. Her 
 godfathers were Mr. Tippen and her uncle Samuel Hill, Esqr. ; her 
 godmothers were Mrs. Rowelly and Mrs, Ann Hall, junr. 
 
 " 7. James Montgomery was born ye 14th Nov., 1736. His god- 
 fathers were Robert Maxwell, Esqr., of Finnebrogue, and his uncle 
 the Rev. Hugh Hill of Mounthill ; his godmother, Mrs. Hall of 
 Strangford. 
 
 "8. Robert Montgomery was born August ye 24th, 1738. His god- 
 fathers were Robert McGill, Esq., of Gill-Hall, and the Rev. Dr. 
 Bacon ; his godmother, old Mrs. Bailie of Inishargey. 1758, 29 De- 
 cember, died at Fennibrogue of a fever ; he is buried in Greyabby 
 Church. 
 
 "9, Letitia Montgomery was born Oct. ye 4th, 1741. Her god- 
 father, Mr. Hans Bailie; her godmothers, Mrs, Hall of Killough, 
 and Mrs. Ann Fortiscue. July the t2 I unhappily lost my Dr. child 
 by her falling into the cistern in the Court. 
 
 " 10. Samuel Montgomery was born on Trinity Sunday, May 
 f 29th, 1743. His godfathers were lord Kildare and colonel Welch; 
 is godmother, Mrs. Lucy Hardman of Drougheda. 
 
 "11. Arthur Montgomery born June y« 24th, 1744. His god- 
 fathers were the Rev. Bernard Ward and James Echlin, Esqr., of 
 Echlinvail ; his godmother, Mrs. Hill of Belvoir. He died July the 
 15. 1774- 
 
 "My Di- husband died April ye 17th, 1755. He is buried in 
 Grayabby Church, where lys seven of my children and a grand 
 child. 
 
 " My Dr Daughter, Mary Maxwell, died in Dublin, August, 1775. 
 She lys in a vault in St. Michan's Church. 
 
 " Her Dr child, William Maxwell, died August ye 19th, 1756, at 
 Fennibrogue of a sore throat. He is buried at Inch Church, he was 
 just 6 years old. His brother, Edward Maxwell, died 7 Oct., 1756, 
 of the same distemper, and is buried by him. 
 
 "Their sister, Elizabeth Maxwell, died at Springvale of the same 
 Distemper ye 28th December, 1756. She is laid by her grandfather 
 and many of her uncles and aunts in the vault of Grayabby Church." 
 
 =9 Castle of Ponoune. — -The chief who so distinguished 
 himself at the battle of Otterburn was sir John de Mont- 
 gomerie, who succeeded to the lordship of Ardrossan in 
 1367, through his mother, Elizabeth, a daughter of sir 
 Hugh Eglinton of Eglinton. Sir John's eldest son, 
 Hugh, was slain at Otterburn, fighting by his father's 
 side. " The spear and pennon of Percy were carried 
 along with the body of the gallant youth to Edinburgh 
 Castle (from thence, no doubt, conveyed to the family 
 burial-place at Eaglesham or Kilwinning), and the 
 trophies still remain in the possession of the noble house 
 of Eglinton. It is said that, when the late duke of 
 Northumberland requested their restoration, the late earl 
 of Eglinton replied — ' There is as good lea land here as 
 any at Chevy Chase, let Percy come and take them.' " — 
 See Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., 
 pp. 232, 233. 
 
 3° James MeGill of Kirkisto7V7t. — See p. 251, supra. 
 captain James M'^Gill married Jean, daughter of Alex- 
 ander Bailie of Inishargy, and by her had several children. 
 Their mother carefully recorded their names and the dates 
 of their births in the old family Bible mentioned in 
 the preceding note, which she bequeathed to her second 
 daughter Mary, who married William Montgomery. The 
 author calls Mary " eldest daughter" of Captain James 
 M^Gill, but according to her mother's account in the 
 following record, she was the second. Mrs. Jean M^Gill 
 mentions also the names of such of her children as died 
 before her, and the manner of their deaths : — 
 
 " Memorandam — Sarah M'-"Gill was born on the 23 of desember 
 being .Setterday about 5 o'clock in the efternoune 1648. 
 
 " Mcmr. — Mary M'^Gill was borne the last of november at 3 in 
 the morning on Scterday 1649. 
 
 " Memr.— Elessabeth M<^Gill was borne on the 15 day of agust 
 on frayday 1651. 
 
 " Memr. — Margratt M'^Gill was borne on the 19 of June 1653 att 
 6 in the morning. 
 
 " Memer.— hugh M'^Gill was borne on the 21 of Septtember 1655 
 on frayday att 7 in the morning. 
 
 " Memer. — Jeane M'^GiU was borne on the sixth day of octtober 
 
 1657 on teusday. 
 
 " Memer. — Kettreine M'^Gill was borne the 8 day of September 
 
 1658 frayday at 11 a clok. 
 
 " Memer. — William M'^Gill was borne on the 13 day of Jeanuerie 
 1660 on monday morning. 
 
 "Memr. — 2 Kettreine was borne on the 20 of October 1662 on 
 teusday morning. 
 
 " Memer. — The 2 Jeane M'^Gill was borne 2 day of June 1644 on 
 munday at ten a clok in the morning. 
 
 " Memer. — Anne M'^Gill was borne on the 7 day of June 1665 on 
 teusday in the efternoun. 
 
 " Memer. — Jeames M'^Gill was borne on the 6 day of apryll 1660 
 on teusday in the efternoun. 
 
 " Memer. — Kettreine M"-Gill 3 was borne on the forth of may 
 1672 on munday att night. 
 
 " Memer.— That my deire husband dcpearted this Lyff on the a6 
 of Jully 1683. 
 
362 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 " Meme"". — That my deir son Jeams M'^GiU was murdred att 
 Portglenone bridge with the barbrous lerisse on the 7 day of apryll 
 1689, he being just tuintie yeare ould the night befor his death. I 
 brought his bons honi in a box and lead them by his father." 
 
 [James M'^Gill served under lieutenant-cololonel Shaw, who 
 had charge of the trenches at Portglenone, and who being 
 attacked, on the 7th of April, by a superior force of the 
 Irish, was obliged to retreat after a gallant resistance in 
 which several of his officers and men were slain.] 
 
 *' Slemer. — That my deire sone hugh M'"Gill was killed with a 
 connone ball at the sedge of Achlone on the nynteine of Jullie 1690 
 he being in his thartie fyrst yeare of his edge. 
 
 " Jeane M'^Gill." 
 [The death of Hugh M'=Gill at Athlone is noticed by Storey 
 as having occurred on Sunday, the 20th of July, 1 690. 
 "That day," says he, "one captain Mackgill, a volun- 
 tier, was killed at our battery with a canon shot frtjm the 
 castle." — Impartial History of the Affairs of Ireland, p. 
 102. His death is also noticed by a brother officer, D. 
 Campbell, in a letter addressed to sir Arthur Rawdon, 
 and written from Carricknosure (Carrick-on-Suir) on the 
 24th, four days after its occurrence. " The lieutenant- 
 general," says the writer, " broke ground and lost but 
 about 14 men ; the enemy raised a battery, and poor un- 
 fortunate Hugh McGill would needs go to see it, tho' 
 dissuaded from it by every one ; his arm and shoulder 
 were shot from him by a cannon shot, of which he imme- 
 diately fell dead, and not much lamented, because every 
 one ;ondemned his going thither. — Rawdon Papers, pp. 
 327, 328.] 
 
 "Memorandom — That my deir mother marguat mertteine de- 
 pearted this Lyff on the 11 of november 1671, 
 
 '* Memerandom — That my deir feather allexander Baellie de- 
 pearted this LyfF on the tharteine of September 1682 of 
 Inshargie. 
 
 " Memerandom — That my deir brother eduard Beallie of ring- 
 difference pearted this lyff on the 25 of november 1682. 
 
 *' Memerandom — That my deir sister-in-lau eleissabeth dumbare 
 depearted this lyff on the seventh of agust 1683. 
 
 "Je\n M'^Gill. 
 
 " Memerandom — That my deir brother, John Beallie of inshargie 
 pearted this lyff on the thread of may 16S7. 
 
 " Memerandam — That my deir sister-in-Lau Sarah Leix pearted 
 this Lyff 
 
 " Memerandom — That my sone hugh's first chyld Lucy M'^Gill 
 was borne on the thred day of november 1685 in Casseell balfore 
 in the countie of fermanach. 
 
 " Memarandom — That my sone hughs 2 doughter Isabella was 
 borne on the elevent day of Januerie 1686 in belinester in the 
 countie of doim deed. 
 
 "Memerandom — That my son hughs thred doughter Lettishia 
 was born on the tenth of may 1688 in belinester in the countie of 
 doun ; she is dead. 
 
 "Memerandom — That my sone hugh M'^Gill's fourth doughter 
 Jean M'-Gill was borne on the 27 Jullie 1690 in belinester in the 
 countie of doun eight days after her fa[ther was killed at Athlone]. 
 See a preceding entry. 
 
 "Jeane M'-Gill of bellinestcrs Book which I promissed to my 
 doughter Mary att my death. 
 
 "Jeane M'-Gill off bellinester ought this Book. 
 
 This book I leave to my deer doughter Montgomrie of Gren- 
 choch, as witnes my hand, 
 
 "Jeane M'-Gill." 
 
 On or about the 27th of August, 1 660, William Montgomery 
 of Rosemount, esq., demised to James McGill the Ian Is 
 called Ballynester, alias Corbally, and the quarter land 
 called Ballymurchie, for the term of ninety years, at the 
 yearly rent of 5s. In the year 1694, Alexander 
 
 Browne of Coolsillagh obtained a judgment against Jane 
 McGill for a debt that had been contracted by her husband 
 in 1674, for which Ballynester and Ballymurchie were sold 
 to James Baillie of Inishargie. For these lands Baillie 
 paid £(i2. He afterwards sold them to William McGill 
 of Ballynester (son of James and Jane McGill), for the sum 
 of £\oo. In the year 1700, William McGill sold them 
 to Robert Hamill for £i\o, the latter transferring his right 
 and title of these lands to Ann Hill, for the sum of three 
 hundred and twenty one pounds. On the 28th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1707, a tripartite indenture between Robert Hamill 
 of Ballyatwood, esq., and Jane McGill of Ballinester, 
 widow of James McGill, of the first part, Simon Isaac of 
 Balliwalter of the second part, and Ann Hill of Hills- 
 burough, widow, of the third part. — MS. preserved at 
 Greyabbey. Mrs. Jean McGill, widow of captain James 
 McGill, died in the month of January, 1711-12. Shemade 
 her will on the 6th of December preceding, leaving to 
 her grandson, Samuel Madden, esq. , county of Fermanagh, 
 all her worldly goods and claims whatsoever. Another 
 grandson, named Robert Johnston inherited the lease and 
 residence of Kirkistown. According to articles of agree- 
 ment between these gentlernen, dated i8th January, 
 1711-12, Robert Johnston of Kirkistown, engaged to pay 
 to Samuel Madden the sum of ^^40 for his claim derived 
 through Mrs. McGill's will, and also to surrender up all 
 goods bestowed to him or his wife "and in particular one 
 silver tankard and large soop spoon." Johnston also 
 agreed to pay all servant's wages, and all "funeral ex- 
 penses as they now stand charged by Mr. John Chads his 
 Bill 'merct of Belfast." This agreement was drawn up by 
 William Balfour, esq., and Mr. James Montgomery, 
 clerk; both these gentlemen signing as witnesses. — MS, 
 prcscj~ved at Greyabbey. 
 
 3' Will Montgomery. — The "original" narrative of 
 Gransheogh, as well as that transcribed from it by Mr. 
 Robert Watson, is at Tyrella, both being given to the 
 late A. H. Montgomery, Esq., by major Mathews of 
 Springvale, 
 
 The dates of the deeds have not been inserted as requested, 
 nor have the documents been returned .' The original 
 narrative of Gransheogh is p.iged from 237 to 240, as being 
 of some general work, by Wm. M. These arms were 
 given with the other documents by major Matthews of 
 Springvale, and all copied by me, F. O. M." — MS. notes 
 of colonel Francis 0. Montgomery. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 363 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 OF HUGH MONTGOMERY OF BALLYMAGOUN.' 
 
 NOW write a narrative of Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagoun Esq" and his family, of good 
 Account in y" barrony of Ardes : & wherever known ; & will begin at his Ancestors, men- 
 tioning them briefly, because I want Memoirs of them. 
 I knew his father Mr. James Montgomery from June 1644 till his death 1647.^ 
 This Gentleman was born in y* North parts of Scotland, where his father was a minister of 
 Christs Gospel, His Grandfather being a Cadet of the House of Hazilhead^ in the west, who having 
 transported & transplanted himself thence, fixed his Roots near Monros,'* at a place called Hatoune," 
 in y* said Northern parts, & from him sprung divers male plants, whether removed by death, or 
 into a warmer richer soile beyond our seas I know not ; but when they were alive and at home 
 
 ' Of Ballymagoun. — This portion of the Montgomery 
 Manuscripts Wis, not included in the edition of 1830, its 
 existence being then unl'cnown. It was first printed in the 
 ninth volume of the Ulster Journal of Archeology, pp. 
 156-17 1, and 278-283, with an introduction and notes, 
 by the Rev. Dr. Macllwaine, incumbent of St. George's, 
 ]5elfast. This gentleman obtained it from Adam Dickey, 
 esq. , of Belfast, to whom it had come after the death of 
 his sister. The deceased lady received it (whether on 
 loan or as a gift does not appear) from the family of the 
 late Rev. William Montgomery of Ballyeaston, county of 
 Antrim, who died in the year 1809, and in whose family 
 it had been preserved. The author of the Mont- 
 gomery Manuscripts supplied ]5ortions of his work to 
 families specially noticed therein, and this fragment 
 was, no doubt, thus given originally to Hugh Mont- 
 gomery of Ballymagown, and transmitted through his re- 
 presentatives until it came into the possession of the Rev. 
 William Montgomery abovenamed. This minister was 
 introduced to the presbytery of Templepatrick on the Ilth 
 of March, 1756; on the 4th of May following, he came 
 to a subsequent meeting, bringing with him a certificate 
 from the Rev. Mr. Alexander of Castlereagh, most proba- 
 bly the minister of the congregation in which Mr. Mont- 
 gomery had been educated, and of which his father's 
 family were members. He was ordained, or settled in the 
 congregation of Ballyeaston, on the 27th of July, 1759, 
 and died there on the 24th of April, 1809. He is in- 
 terred in Rashee burying-ground, where a tombstone, 
 bearing the following inscription, marks his grave : — 
 1809. 
 
 Sacred 
 To t/w Metitory of the 
 Reveiend William Montgomery, 
 For 51 years Presbyterian Minister 0/ 
 Ballyeaston, 
 ]Vho died on the ■z^tti April, i8og, 
 Aged ^i years. 
 
 " He mas an Israelite indeed. 
 In lutiojn tliere was no gnile.^^ 
 Also, of CatJierine, his relict, ivJw died 
 in May, 18 18, aged ^1 years. 
 Also, 0/ tftree iiijant c/uldren. 
 
 ^ Till his death in 1647. — This clergyman has been 
 already mentioned by the author as attending the funeral 
 of the first viscount, to whom he was related. See p. 
 135, supra. James Montgomery was of the Hessilhead 
 branch, and the first viscount's mother was a daughter of 
 the sixth laird of Hessilhead. 
 
 ' Hazilhead. — Robert Montgomery, sixth laird of Hes- 
 silhead, who succeeded to that estate in 1602, obtained a 
 grant from bishop George Montgomery in Fermanagh, in 
 the year 1618. These lands he granted to his second son, 
 James Montgomery, on the 13th of August, 1623. In 
 1626, loth of May, this James Montgomery, who is styled 
 of Rouskie, conveyed to Malcom Hamilton, archbishop 
 of Cashel, two quarters of land, containing eight tates, in 
 the parishes of Aghalurker and Dmmmulley. — Morrin, 
 Calendar, reign of Charles I., p. 609. 
 
 Near Monros. — Montrose is frequently written Miin- 
 ros in old charters, and is so pronounced by the natives 
 of the district at the present time. — Neiu Statistical Ac- 
 count of Scotland, Forfarshire, pp. 27 1, 272; Cosmo Innes, 
 Sketches of Early Scottish History, pp. 7, 146, 153. 
 
 5 Called Hatoune. — Hatoune, or the Ha' town, in the 
 parish of Newbyle, Forfarshire, was not far distant from 
 Montrose or Munros. The Ha' or Hall, from which this 
 place had its name, was built, or rather rebuilt, by Law- 
 rence, lord Oliphant, in 1575. This castle was the 
 bishop's residence in 1689, and in that year was used as a 
 church, as appears from the following entry in the paro- 
 chial recoi^ds : — "The Prisbitry violently entered the 
 church by breaking up the doors thereof, so that from the 
 8th day of May aforesaid, the pariochoners did conreen to 
 the Haltoun, where they are to have sermon maintained 
 
364 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 they were called the nyne bold brothers of the Hatoune aforesaid. These Gentlemen were unkles 
 (by the Father) to the s"* Mr. James. 
 
 Whom I find to have marryed Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of a younger son of the Ancient 
 family of Dunrod/ her mother being eldest daughter? of John Shaw, Laird of Greenock, Shee was 
 also widdow» of Mr. David M'^Gill who dyed (as appears by his monument Stone in Grayabby 
 Church wall) y" 14*'' of Oct' 1633.^ 
 
 This Mr James was Chaplain to the first Vise' Montgomery, and appeared as such in the 
 procession at his Lo*" funerall, in Sep*'; A° 1636.9 
 
 He brought with him into Ireland (as I am Credibly told) 300* ster : and his father secured to 
 be paid unto him as much more, when himself should dy : which Last money was transacted for 
 About A° 1652 ; as shall herein be mentioned afterwards. 
 
 This M' James succeeding to M"" David afores* in his bed (and being thereby next cosen to 
 
 by the bishop of Aberdeen." — New Statistical Account of 
 Scotland, vol. ix., p. 591. 
 
 * Family of Dunrod.- — The founder of the Dunrod 
 branch of the Lindsays was John, a younger son of sir 
 James Lindsay of Cragie and Thurston, one of the slayers 
 of the "red Cumyn." From 1350 to '1602 there was a 
 regular succession of chiefs, their original residence being 
 Dunrod castle in Renfrewshire, from which they after- 
 wards removed to the Mains of Lanarkshire, where the 
 family had held estates from the time of Robert IL The 
 last lord of Dunrod was Alexander Lindsay, who became 
 an active partisan in the feud between the Montgomerys 
 and Cunninghams, on the side of the former. In the pro- 
 secution of this bloody work, Alexander Lindsay secretly 
 slew Leckie of Leckie, a noted bravo on the side of the 
 Cunninghams, and brother-in-law to Patrick Maxwell of 
 Newark. See p. 1 1, ^ziJ/^'fT. Lindsay killed him by a shot 
 from a farmhouse window, at Hagton Hill, near Glasgow, 
 and the perpetrator was not known until many years subse- 
 quently, when Lindsay himself, in his old age and poverty, 
 acknowledged that he was the slayer of Leckie. In 161 9, 
 Lindsay was compelled to sell the family estates, and he 
 is said afterwards to have subsisted miserably and disre- 
 putably as a warlock! In concert with certain reputed 
 witches among his former cottars at Innerkip, this once 
 haughty territorial lord, the last of a long line of barons, 
 esteemed the proudest in the West Country, lived by the 
 fees of sea-captains and fishermen, who trusted to his 
 black art to secure them against unfavourable winds! His 
 accomplishments as a warlock are asserted in the follow- 
 ing traditional rhyme, which is still familiar to the inhabi- 
 tants of Innerkip: — 
 
 " In AuMkirk the witches ride thick, 
 And in Dunrod they dwell ; 
 But the greatest loon amang them a' 
 Is auld Dunrod himsel'." 
 
 A popular ballad, written subsequently to this local rhyme, 
 describes Lindsay as a very formidable person indeed, re- 
 asserting as positively, his character of wizard : — 
 
 "Auld Dunrod was a goustie carl 
 As ever ye micht see, 
 And 'gin he was naa warlock wicht 
 There was nane in the haill countrie." 
 
 This old gentleman was a near relative, probably an uncle, 
 of Elizabeth Lindsay mentioned in the text. It would 
 
 appear that other relatives settled in Ireland about the 
 time at which she came with her husband, David M 'Gill, 
 to the Ards. The Bucknalls of Turin Castle, county 
 Mayo, and the Lindsays of Holymount, in the same 
 county, are of Dunrod descent, a fact established not only 
 by unbroken family tradition, but the absolute identity of 
 their armorial bearings with those of that ancient house. — 
 Lives of the Lindsays, vol. ii. , pp. 290, 293. The laird 
 sold the barony of Dunrod, in 1619, to sir Archibald 
 Stewart of Blackhall and Ardgowan. An advertisement 
 for the sale was drawn up on that occasion, and is now a 
 curious document, exhibiting, as it does, the attractions of 
 the property for purchasers, and containing a full list of 
 the laird's tenants, their holdings, their rents in silver and 
 in com, vittall, beir, maut, meill, salt, butter, cheise, 
 fouls, creills of peits, herring, rouch-wedders (unshorn), 
 tttrses of hay, daily service, and riding for service. The 
 advertisement concludes thus : — " Wt in ye ground abun- 
 dans of lymestaine and friestane ; in ye widdis all kynd 
 of temmir usuall in yis comitrie ; the miller takes na mil- 
 stanes farther yane ye mill floir or the mill geawell (gable). 
 Upone ye north syde ane commonty of mey awin, on ye 
 sowth syde lys ye common commontie ; wt. in Dunrod is 
 abundant of gud mos and turfe, qlk. wt. in werie few 
 years wil not be gattin for silver. Ye place is twa towns 
 and fourteine houssis, by (besides) ye throwgange (tho- 
 roughfare) turnpyk (circular stair), and transis (passage). 
 Yit it is bot four rumyeis (rooms), and ilk tour twyss 
 wantit, sa ye kirk ye first place and Buriall. [This is ob- 
 scure, but it pi-obably means that the laird would sell hi> 
 precedence in the kirk and in the burial-ground.] Yis 
 land falls (produces) mair than thretteen scoir of bolls 
 corne and beir, and fawis (yields) langle-lint and kemp 
 (hemp), ye quhilk is were foren and profitabill. It maws 
 threttie dark of hey: Of tydie ky mae thane nyne scoir, 
 by (besides) yowis, hors, and yell soumis. Ye onsettis 
 (farm-houses) ar weill biggit, and hes guid yardis, and ye 
 tenants int ye best of ye cuntrie." — Scottish Journal oj 
 Topography, &c., vol. i., p. 275. 
 
 1 Eldest daughter. — In George Crawford's Description 
 of the Shire of Renfrew, p. 125, Isabel Shaw, who mar- 
 ried John Lindsay, is said to be second daughter of John 
 Shaw of Greenock. 
 
 ^ October, 1633. — See p. 123, supra. 
 
 ' Ao. 1636. — Seep. 135, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 365 
 
 to our a** vise' and to S'' James Montgomery by affinity)'" he also filled the s** M' Davids Pulpit, as 
 Curate in Grayabby, till expelled thereout, by the ministers of the Scottish Army, wh'*' sett up 
 presbiterian Governm & y° League and Covenant in Ulster A" 1643." They Summoned him to 
 their Presbiterys, At one of which he disputed his right by Gospel & Law ; but to no purpose, 
 for they told him peremptorily, that he must renounce the Service book, and swear their Covenant ; 
 or he should be silenced, wh* he refusing to doo, told them, they were too many hounds, thus to 
 pursue one hare : But if they wold dispute with him one after another, he would doo it any 
 manner of way they would assigne : He was vexed by their frequent Citations, to be ridd of 
 which, he had an opportunity to meet him whom they call the Moderator on the Roade in equall 
 terms ; and then told him Roundly Mr. John, you and your brethren are a pack of usurpers 
 & you use club Law ag' raee, and are resolved to expell mee from my office & Sallary, and you 
 harrass me from place to place by your Sumons, but here I Swear, if you forbear not to trouble me 
 more, or if you presume to give sentence of excomunication ag' mee I will take my amends on 
 thy body and bones, for you shall wrong me too much to cause my Sallary be given from me. These 
 words (or the Like) mortifyd the fatt M"' John: and he had Care to stop further citations ; and so 
 saved his own bacon from being basted with a Cudgell." M" James, being thus hindered the exercise 
 of his office in his Parish, was made Chaplain to the Regiment by S'' Ja : Montg'' afores* and he 
 earned his pay truely as a Preacher and as a soldier ; heartning the men both ways, and by val- 
 orous example, ag' the Irish Rebells at Dundrum,'^ Ballydugan,"* in Lecahill and elsewhere, under the 
 command of his Coll : Last named. 
 
 This Gen*"" elder brother named Samuel'^ (who was at first an officer abroade, & then L* to y* 
 L'' Cromwel's Troop, but it being broke A° 1641) he became L' in S"' Ja : Montg'' troope, afterwards 
 he was major In Scotland : but disliking Gen" Lessly" march'^ into England ag' K. Ch : y° first, 
 he returned and was made by S' James afores"^ eldest Cap' of his Regiment : he dyed in Portaferry 
 and is buryd whe' Patt Savadge Esq"^ hath now his Seat in y' church ; over which there is an 
 
 '° Byajffiiiity. — In other words, Mr. James Montgomery kenny, on the 27th of March, 1692. He had also been 
 
 married Mrs. David M'Gill (Elizabeth Lindsay), who was rector of Castlecomer, archdeacon of Ossory, and after, 
 
 first cousin to the second viscount and to his brother, sir wards chancellor. — Cotton's Fasti Eccl. Hib., v. 165, 171. 
 
 James. At Dtmdrum. — Seep. 311, mpra. 
 
 " Ao. 1643.^ — See p. 127, supra. It is strange that Ballydughan. — See p. 321, supra. 
 
 Adair has kept silence on this case, although it must have '5 Named Samuel Montgomery, elder brother 
 
 created some noise at the time. Adair notices the case of of Mr. James, was a member of the court-martial which 
 
 one Hamilton of Dundonald, who repudiated the cove- met at Portaferry on the 2nd of March, 1642, to try ser- 
 
 nants, and was, in consequence, deposed as a worthless geant Walter Kyle for the homicide of lieutenant William 
 
 hireling. — Narrative, p. 120. Baird, both belonging to sir James Montgomery's regi- 
 
 With a CiidgclL—'Y\\\s "fatt Mr. John," who pni- ment. (Seep. 2,22, supra.) Hugh Montgomery of Bal- 
 
 dently gave way rather than have the argumentian ad lymagown, son of Mr. James, named one of his sons for 
 
 honiincm actually applied, was doubtless Mr. John his uncle Samuel. See Lodge's Peerage, edited by 
 
 Drysdale, a zealous covenanting minister, who, with Archdall, vol. iii. p. 8, 7wte. 
 
 Mr. James Baty, had been settled in the Ards, prior to Lessly's march. — This march occurred in 1 640. 
 the coming of the Scottish army, the one preaching to Samuel Montgomery returned probably in the following 
 Lord Clannaboy's, the other to the Lord of Ards' regi- year. His name stood first on the list of captains in sir 
 ment. Mr. Drysdale was a zealous covenanter, and suf- James Montgomery's regiment in 1642. See p. 322, jw/ra. 
 fered much for the cause during the course of his length- '7 Patt. S'ai'adge. — This was Patrick Savage of Derry, 
 ened ministry. See Adair's Narrative, pp. 94, 98, 122, a townland in the parish of Portaferry, (see p. 91, supra), 
 210, 277, 281, 294, 296, 298. The Rev. Dr. Hu^h who succeeded to the Portaferry estate in 1683, on the 
 Drysdale, supposed to be the son of the above Mr. John, death of his cousin Hugh, the nephew of sir James Mont- 
 became chaplain to the duke of Ormond, and died at Kil- gomery. Patrick Savage died in 1724. 
 
 Z I 
 
366 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 hollow place made in the wall — wherein it was designed his arms and epitaph should have been 
 jiut.'^ he died unmarried and left to y" s*^ M"" James 200* owing to the former Patt Savadge,'^ which 
 was lately paid to his son Hugh^*" of Ballymagown Esq^ 
 
 The said Mr. James being divers years a Widdower^' marryed the daughter of M' Hugh Mont- 
 gomery senescfiall^^ to the 2^. and 3*. Vise' of Ards, and by this Gent' woman had children \ I knew 
 one of them, called Rob' (a Pretty man) Like his father, but he dyed in his brother Hu' house 
 without marriage.^3 
 
 M' James dying A" 164^ left the said Hu (his son by the first Venter) about the age of 
 years but his other children were very young, and his widdow and they all were well provided for, 
 but she taking to husband one M'' Smith hee treated them all ill, w*" was both a Loss and a burden 
 toy° Hu (of whom this narrative is designed chiefly to speak) for his Stepmother dyed & the 
 other children were left bare and a charge to him. 
 
 I come now in the next place to prosecute my desygned undertaking as touching the first 
 Person herein named, viz : Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagown Esq'', whos s^ father (on his 2* 
 marriage) sent him to his friends in Scotland f' he returned and was at school both in Grayabby 
 
 (where he was born A° ) and at Newtown Also ; and then hee and I came acquainted and 
 
 intimate A" 1649. 
 
 A" 1649 I went to Scotland, thence to Holland, came to London & Dublin; & went twice to 
 London, and oftner to DubHn ; Soliciting for my Estate and making onely visits into the County 
 of Downe, till in or about A" 1656 and then my Intimacy with the said Hugh was renewed. 
 
 But long before this time viz. A° 1652, my late Dearest Vise'"* hearing of my fathers death=7 
 (unfortunate for us all) and that his chief papers etc : were lodged with S' Alex' Sutherland of 
 Duffus^^ (beyond Aberdeen) his Lo'' to the End they might be brought H ome for my use employed 
 therein Cap' Hu : M°Gill, brother uterin to the Hu : (who then remained w"" his other bro : by 
 f Same Venter, Cap' Ja : M-'Gill.)^? 
 
 The s*" Cap' Hu :3° haveing this opportunity (as being sent on my business into those northern 
 
 Should have been put. — This "hollow place in the 
 wall" probably remained unoccupied by a monument to 
 Samuel Montgomery. Harris has preserved no notice of 
 any epitaph or inscription in Portaferry old church, 
 although he mentions the existence of three niches in the 
 south wall, such as that described by the author in the 
 text. See State of the Ctunty of Dowu, p. 46. 
 
 Former Patt Savadge. — "The former Patt Savadge" 
 was son in-law of the first viscount, and died in 1634. 
 He was the brother of Rowland, whom he succeeded in 
 16 1 9, both being sons of a Patrick Savage who died in 
 1603. See p. 89, sttpra. 
 
 '° His son Hugh. — Hugh of Ball)Tnagown was son of 
 Mr. James. This money was not paid to the latter, to 
 whom it was left, for he died in 1647, but to his son. 
 
 =' A Wuidower. — After the death of Elizabeth Lindsay, 
 otherwise M'Gill. 
 
 " Seneschall.—\xi\(>io, " J. Montgomerie, Seneschall," 
 was a witness to the indenture between the first viscount 
 and the sixth earl of Eglinton. See pp. ill, 112, supia. 
 This J. Montgomerie was probably father to Hugh Mont- 
 
 gomery, seneschal to the second and third viscounts, and 
 whose daughter became the second wife of Mr. James 
 Montgomery the clergyman. 
 
 °3 Brother Hus house without marriage. — Rather in 
 the house of his half-brother Hugh of Ballymagown. 
 
 ^ Friends in Scotland. — Probably at Hatoune, near 
 Montrose, Forfarshire. See note 5, supra. 
 
 ^5 About Ao. 1656. — The reader may see these move- 
 ments on the part of the author more fully described in 
 the memoir of the third viscount, pp. 195, 199, supra. 
 Late Dearest Visct. — The third viscount. 
 
 =7 Father's death. — See p. 345, supra. 
 
 ^° 0/ Duffus.-Sne: p. 337, supra. 
 
 '9 Capt. Ja. McGill.—nw^ McGill, James McGill, 
 and Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagown, were sons of 
 Elizabeth Lindsay by diflferent husbands. 
 
 ■ The said Capt. iYw.— Captain Hugh McGill, whilst in 
 Scotland recovering sir James Montgomery's papers for 
 the author's use, also collected for Hugh Montgom.ery of 
 Ballymagown certain debts, or as much of them .ts could 
 be recovered from tie Scottish debtors. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 367 
 
 Parts) he transacted the Hugh's affaires with his debto" (as himself Lately told mee) to his Loss; 
 so it seems he Escaped not a Minority bad fate, as to that part of his Stock, which was due to his 
 father in Scotland ; perhapps those Aberdeen shire debt"" plaid a Northland game in his Concerns. 
 
 Anno 1656 (lately mentioned) y" Intimacy affors^ being renewed ; & there being a necessite 
 for me to goe again to Westminster, and I haveing had no hired serv' since I went to*Holland, The 
 s** Cap' Hu : and other friends thought it fitt both for me and the s'' Hughs Education, and to 
 save his Stock partly, that he should attend mee. Now this way of placing younger sonns or orph*' 
 in France, is accounted no disparagem', but an advantage to such youths in Seeing y' World, and 
 understanding affaires, & by contracting frendship of the family they serve in, rather than loiter 
 at home (like droans) devouring their own honey. 3' And I was glad; therein to oblige a kinsman, 
 and to have a faithfull helper in what I had to doe, and then we went together, and liked one 
 another so well, as we parted not for divers years. 
 
 In A° 1657, I was in suite of law ag' S'' B : O'Neile for possession of Ballyhornan, and happ- 
 ning to meet him, in the Remembraqf er of Excheq"^ office, wee fell on some discourses, wherein 
 Mutuall Reflections past. I had given him no wors language than he had used to me, and I 
 thought there wold be no more of it, in that place, but on a sudden the Baronett struck me a great 
 blow with his fist on y° mouth and nose which bruised and bled me abundantly. So that I could 
 not give him half Requitall, being soon parted by y' Clerks and Clyents ; but I should have payd 
 him that Debt on next Sight, had not the s*^ Hughs indignation Stomached him to that degree 
 (when he had heard of the Abuse done me) that unknown to mee, he finding the Bar' in the street 
 bestowed on his shoulders liberally and publiquely le coups de bastoun : for which Rash assault on 
 battery Hugh was immediately taken and confined, wherof word being brought to me I got him 
 enlarged, repiimanding him for takeing my Quarrel out of my own hand.s^ 
 
 3' Their (mm honey. — The history of almost every family 
 of rank furnishes illustrations of this custom. Among the 
 Montgomerys of Ards, we have other instances besides this 
 one mentioned in the text. This same Hugh of Bally- 
 magown, transferred his services from the author to the 
 third viscount, in whose household he lived and prospered 
 as a head servant for many years. Another Hugh Mont- 
 gomery (of Gransheogh) is mentioned by the author as at- 
 tending the funeral of the first viscount in his capacity of 
 servant to the second viscount. See p. 134, supra. It is 
 to be observed, however, that the practice was frequently 
 adopted from necessity, and only when the young gentle- 
 man's " own honey" was all gone. The following letter, 
 from dame Grissall Roos (lady Keir), to Anna, sixth 
 countess of Eglinton, is a curious illustration: — 
 
 " Madame, — My most deutiful commendations remembrit. Pleis 
 zour ladyship that this zung (young) gentilman, my sister the lady 
 Carnebeis sone, being deseyrus to be placit in service vlth sum nobil- 
 man, and hes villit me to mak my moyen for the saming in respect 
 his father hes sumquhat outschot him self in misgoverning his rent : 
 and I, accounting zour ladyship, and (my lord zour) husband, as the 
 most speciall freinds that I have to imploy, vill most affectuisely 
 request your ladyship that ze vill place this zung man ather in my 
 lord zour husband's chamber to putt on or aff his cloths and vait on 
 his lordship, or in quhat other office zour ladyship think meit for such 
 a ane, and I vill be ansuerahle to your ladyship that he sal be 
 faithful and obediant to my lord or zour ladyship in quhatsoever ze 
 imploy him. I think very to have met with zour ladyship for sin- 
 drie respects ; hot I bliss God that I heir so guid neues of your lady- 
 
 ship, and prays God that it may euer continue. Sua referring to 
 zoiu- ladyship's ansuer, I rest zour ladyship's louing ant to command, 
 
 " Gkyssall Roos. 
 
 lady Keir. 
 
 " Ochiltrie, the 5 of November, 1612. 
 
 " To my very guid lady, my Lady Countes of Eglintoune, this be 
 delyueritt." — Fraser's Memorials, vol. i., p. 182. 
 
 3= Out of my (nun hand. — The lands of Ballyhornan, 
 about which this dispute arose, are situated in Lecale. A 
 colonel Bryan O'Neill was traditionally known as the 
 butcher, because of his atrocities, perpetrated at several 
 places, throughout the county of Down during the massa- 
 cres of 1641. (See Harris's State of the County of Down, 
 p. 35.) He is not, however, to be confounded with an- 
 other Bryan O'Neill, whose extensive family estates had 
 been almost wholly swept away by confiscations from 
 time to time, and who was compelled to go abroad in 
 early life as a soldier of fortune. The latter served for a 
 titne in Holland under the Prince of Orange, and after- 
 wards in the army of Charles I. , being probably induced 
 to do so by his kinsman, Daniel O'Neill. For his bravery 
 at the battle of Edgehill, Charles conferred on this colonel 
 Bryan O'Neill the honour of an English baronetcy, by 
 the title of sir Bryan O'Neill of Upper Clannaboy. His 
 first wife was Jane Finch, a lady of the Nottingham 
 family, by whom he had one son, sir Bryan, the second 
 baronet, who became baron of the exchequer in 1687. 
 
368 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 The said Hugh was Likewise Zealous in Soliciting (as I instructed him) in Severall particulars 
 of that Suite, till I recovered Possession of Ballyhornan afores** wherein I placed his half brother y* 
 s** Cap' Hugh to Dwell. 33 Item I had an Order from Hen : Cromwell in his Councel Board, dated 
 the lo"" of July 1658 for haveing Y Quarters Rent of Florida Lands,3< due the last day of that 
 month, sequestered into the hands of our High Sheriff, who was then Major Bingley,35 I sent the 
 Order to him, by the s*^ Hugh, who used wonderfull diligence and circumspection therein, not only 
 
 His second wife was Sarah Savage, daughter of Patrick 
 Savage of Portaferry and Jean Montgomery, and cousin- 
 german of the author, William Montgomery. By Sarah 
 Savage, sir Bryan O'Neill left also one son, Hugh, who 
 became a justice of the king's bench. Mary, daughter of 
 the latter, married Charles O'Neill, of the Feeva, county 
 of Antrim, and died in 1790, aged one hundred years. 
 Sir Bryan, the first baronet, died about the year 1670. 
 He was twice member of parliament for the borough of 
 Downpatrick. His assault on William Montgomery, as 
 mentioned in the text, was in keeping with his character- 
 istic violence of temper, which occasionally involved him 
 in serious difficulties. The following extract from the 
 Comvions jfournals for 1662, has reference to this gentle- 
 man's demeanour as a member of the house: — " Capt. 
 Fitzgerald reported from the Com. appointed to take 
 into consideration the petition of the Serjeant at Arms 
 attending this House, against Sir Brj'an O'Neill, which is 
 as followeth: That whereas Sir B. O'N. having been by 
 warrant of this House, dated the 29th of November last, 
 committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms for a 
 breach of the privileges of this House; and whereas the 
 said Serjeant, upon request of the said Sir Bryan, took 
 bonds of the said Sir B. upon the 22nd of Deer, last for 
 his, the said Sir B.'s, surrendering himself into the custody 
 of the said Ser. , on or before the 2nd day of Feb. last, 
 and there to remain until discharged by the House; that 
 the said Sir B. outstayed the time limited in the said bond 
 three or four days ; whereupon the said Sergeant gave 
 orders to his men to find out and apprehend said Sir 
 Bryan; that on the 5th of Feb. last the said Sir Br. ap- 
 peared in the Lobby before the Parliament door; that the 
 said Serjeant having notice thereof, went out of the said 
 House to him, and after blaming him for not rendering 
 himself a prisoner at the time he was to come in, the said 
 Sir Br. refused to submit himself a prisoner, and resisted 
 the said Serj., opposing and assaulting him, giving foul 
 language, until at last the said Sir Br. was carried away 
 by the Serjeant's command, to the Serjeant's house; which 
 act of the Serjeant's, in taking the said Sir Br. again into 
 custody, the Com. did allow of as being in discharge of 
 his duty and trust reposed in him by this House, the said 
 Sir Br. so resisting and assaulting the Sergeant being a 
 breach of the privileges of this House. Ordered upon 
 question, that at the next sitting of the House, Sir Br. 
 O'N. be, by the Serjeant at Arms, brought to the Bar, 
 thereof thereto receive a reprehension for his violating the 
 privileges of Parliament by two particulars ; the first for 
 abusing Daniel Hutchinson, Esqr., a member of this 
 House; the other for affronting and assaulting the Serjeant 
 at Arms." — Commons' Journals, vol. ii. , p. 308. See 
 also vol. i., pp. 494, 495, 500- Of the second baronet, 
 archbishop King has the following notice in his State oj 
 (he Protestants 0/ Ireland, p. 53: — " He (Mr. Nugent, 
 
 afterwards baron Riverstown) was assisted on the bench 
 by sir Brj'an O'Neill, a puny judge, a weak man that had 
 nothing to recommend him but venom and zeal, being 
 otherwise disabled both in his reason and body. Only he 
 had the faculty to do what he was bid, especially when 
 it suited with his own inveteracy against Englishmen and 
 Protestants. This character may seem rigid, but as many 
 as knew him will not think it exceeds. " This sir Brj'an 
 and his brother Hugh, abovenamed, clung to the cause of 
 James H., and thus lost all the lands that had remained 
 to them from previous confiscations. See Burke's Vicissi- 
 tudes of Families, first series, p. 156. 
 
 33 Capt. Hugh to Dwell. — This was captain Hugh 
 McGill, who, it would thus appear, resided for a time in 
 Ballyhornan, a little distance southward from the old 
 castle of Kilclief. " Hugh Savage, of Portaferry, Esqr., 
 by deed of feoffment, dated 8th April, 1665, conveyed the 
 lands of Ballyrussally and Ballygan'egan, with those of 
 Ballyhindry, to James McGill of Ballyministragh, and 
 William Houston of Carricknebres, subject to redemption 
 on payment of 700I, and the interest, and at the yearly 
 rent of lOs until such redemption ; which mortgage was 
 in trust for Hugh McGill of Ballyhomon, and Hugh 
 Montgomeiy of BaUj-magowan, Esqrs. , 500I of the said 
 700I being McGill's money, and 200I Montgomer)''s; and 
 by a deed of partition, dated l6th September, 1675, they 
 made a division of the said lands; soon after which McGill 
 died without issue, whereby his interest descended to the 
 said James McGill, as his brother and heir, who took 
 Ballyrussally and Ballygarvagan as his proportion, at 6s 
 8d rent, and Montgomery took Ballyhendry at 3s 4d ; 
 and the said James McGill's interest coming by assign- 
 ments to Rowland Savage, of Ballygalget, he became 
 attainted, whereby the said lands and mortgage money o\ 
 500I were vested in the trustees, which by this deed they 
 sold to Charles Campbell, Esqr., of Dublin, on the 27th 
 Feb., 1702, for 687I 2s 4Kd, subject to redemption by 
 Patrick Savage, of Portaferry, Esqr., heir to the said 
 Hugh Savage, the mortgager." — Irish Record Com- 
 tnissioH Reports, vol. iii. , p. 384. 
 
 ^ Floi-ida lands. — See p. 211, supra. 
 35 Major Bitigley. — This was Richard Bingley, who 
 was high sheriff for Down in 1658, under the Protectorate. 
 He was appointed a justice of the peace for the same 
 county, under Charles H., on the 7th of March, 1663. 
 Two brothers of this surname came to Ireland in the 
 reign of James I., and became distinguished servants of 
 the crown. The elder, John, was appointed comptroller 
 of the musters and checks of the army, and the younger 
 Ralph, sei"ved with distinction as a military officer. They 
 were both honoured with the dignity of knighthood. See 
 Morrin's Calendar of Patent Rolls, reign of Charles I., pp. 
 136, i37> 146, 147. 372, 377. 396, 397- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 369 
 
 by a speedy delivery of y^ Order, but also in going to all the Tennants w*'' orders from y° Sheriff, that 
 they should come & pay him their Rent, The said Hu : Likewise persuading them to side me ; 
 this being but an Introduction to my getting possession of the Lands : wh* I had bought with 
 Debentures -.3^ & that they sh"* disreguard Coll: Barrow's Agents, in whose hands they were to come 
 no more ; and his management had good effects, as I had expected from his Care and Fidelity 
 therein, for, before the end of the s'' Month (as I remembered) I Sent down to him, another Order, 
 for possession wherein y" s* Hughs other brother Cap* Ja'' M°Gill assisted him, and the sheriff was 
 friendly and quick, in giving them possession for my use. Thus I had the iron beaten whilst it 
 was hott, because I had heard of 01 : Crom : sickness, and his death (which hapnd the 3*^ of yber) 
 came not to our knoAvledge a good while after, & so neither Sheriff nor y^ governors were super- 
 seaded till I recv"* atturnem' and the s"^ quarters Rent into my friends hand. 3? 
 
 After this Grand Affaire done, the said Hu : returned to me to Dublin, Where haveing seen 
 Richard proclaimed Protector, & commotions a brewing ; we came into this County, did our pri- 
 vate business, made visits, went again to Dublin, stayd not long there, but returned home; and we 
 parted not till K. Ch' Restauration : before which I had Seized Rosemount house, and Quintinbay 
 Castle, into my Possession. 3^ 
 
 It was much about this time' (as I think) the s"* Hu : desireing further Improvem* and ad- 
 vancm' that I willingly Resigned him into our late Visc*^ service. 39 J have guessed at the time of 
 the s"* Hughs engagement & mine to one another. 
 
 And I must here note, that I doe not remember of any Sett time of our continueing together, 
 or that any wages were conditioned for or demanded or given ; So it seems Wee joyned hands for 
 Better for worse, &c. Yet wee parted as afores"* (not as divorced couples A Mensa & Thoro) for 
 misdemannors, or Dislikes on either sides (the Causes for which M' Officiall makes his Separations) 
 but Loveingly and with hearty wishes for one anothers Promotion. This One mark of my Respect 
 to him comes now to my mind, (but I doe not mention it for any Vanity, or to boast, the gift being 
 Smal) that I equipped him in new Clothes from the Shopp when he was leaving me (Hee being 
 then also fitted by education) to be & appeare as our 3*^ Vise'' gentleman : and the s"* Hugh (some 
 months thereafter) bestowed and sent to me a delicat Sorrel nagg (wh. I called the Rose) & there 
 are still kind Giff Gaffs,'*°of one sort or other between us. And this I may further say, for us both, 
 that wee doe (and always did) Love each other, never thwarting one the other for anything of our 
 own Concerns (w"** cannot now interfere) And Likewise I must Note, that his bosome female frend,'*' 
 was ever Very acceptable Company to my better half, my dearest bed-fellow. 
 
 A° 1660 it was that our Hu : (so I now take leave to call him, because Hee) came into better 
 
 3* Bought with Debentures. — See this matter fully ex- 
 plained at pp. 208, 210, sicpra. 
 
 3? Into my friends hand. — See pp. 221, sufra. 
 
 3^ Into my Possession. — See pp. 221, 222, supra. 
 These matters are still more particularly referred to by the 
 author in his memoir of himself, itifra. 
 
 3' Late Viscts service. — The third viscount who died 
 in 1663. 
 
 ■*° Giff gaff's. — This phrase, which is still in use, is 
 formed from the present and preterite tenses of the verb 
 
 gif to give,— I give, gafhe gave, and is always em- 
 ployed to express mutual giving or obligation. The 
 phrase is sometimes divided, as in the following sentence: — 
 "In this world, I think that the giffs and the gaff's nearly 
 balance one another ; and when they do not, there is a 
 moral defect in the failing side." — Anjials of the Parish, 
 p. 344, as quoted in Jamieson's Etymol. Dictionary of the 
 Scottish Language. 
 
 "■^ Female friend. — By this title the author designates 
 Hugh Montgomery's future wife, Jane Hamilton. 
 
370 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 hands than mine, viz. (as I said) into our 3d Vise'' Service ; wherein (besides his Preferrm* He 
 attained to more Sorts of knowledge & to understand things at Court much better than he could 
 in 01' usurpation, when he was in my company. For our s** Vise' had that affection and afnance for 
 this our Hu : that (by Degrees) his Lo^* put him in the stations following, viz. Imprimis he made 
 him Gentl. (as I may term it) of his Bedchamber, to be first in the Morning, and Last at night 
 therein (except y* Ladys waiting woman) to See his Lo'" wound seringed,"*^ and to receave Orders, 
 for in the Dressing Roome attended y° Valet du Chamber and y' Page. Item his L'' made him 
 privy Purs filler ; and his Casheire &: Paymaster to all his Serv'', Shoppkeepers, Sadlers, Harnass 
 Makers, Tailors, etc. : and made him M' of his Escoury,'t3 giveing him Authority over all his men 
 Serv'', to Comand and Correct them, comitting the hireing and choice of them unto him also. 
 Now in all this, who cannot but see the Love & Trust I spoke of (in the beginning of the last 
 foregoing paragraph) couched under other words ? 
 
 These kind Reguards and Likeings, now increased in his Lo^ to our Hugh, on y^ grounds 
 following, viz', first, our Hugh was (as others were) 2d Cosen to his Lo'', by affinity afores"*: next 
 he had his name given him for his Lo^, for the 2d Vise'' Sake ; there haveing been none of his 
 Race (that I could Learn) of that name before himselfe, who was of y° S"" name also.'''* But the 
 chief motives w''' hightned the s*^ likeing to a Love, and to give him Large allowances for accidental 
 expences ; was our s* Hughs skill in chooseing and buying his Lo^^ (saddle and coach) Horses 
 and furniture : His care & conduct of the Stable, & makeing Provisions for the same : His 
 honnest frugal yet Creditable dispursem" therein : and in the Jorney his Lo'' made (w''' his Lady) 
 to Londonj+s Stay there. Return to Dublin, & aboade in it, & wherever his Lo^ travelled, and his 
 being carefull to have his Acc'^ often revised, examined and found Just : wherein our s* Hughs 
 Love and fidelity to his \,o^'^ service more & more appeared as they ought to be done, So that 
 our Hugh was deservedly his Lords Favorit, whence he obtained the designation of my Lords 
 Hugh, and so he was called by y° best Relations of his Lo*" family, as well as by y° dependants and 
 Tenants thereof. Hee not haveing (as yett) laid out his money on Lands, from which to be so 
 stiled as now he is, neither did I hear that his Lo^''' (at his entry to his Service) conditioned for, or 
 paid him any wages, but admitted himself & his serv' into his troop, duly free. 
 
 In all his Sunshine I am verily of opinion, that this our Lords Hugh (by which name I ^vill 
 write of him hereafter) made not any Hay to himself of his Lords grass. Hee having expectations 
 enough to be gratified or raised by his Lords own hand (to which he looked) and so needed not 
 to carve for himself, who in those dayes had aboundance at his will, but no Avife or children to 
 provide for, or to be covetous for their Sakes : besides these his considerations, his lawfull gatherings 
 and layings up, might be hindered ; in that he lived splendidly on the troop pay or allowances 
 afores'', and on the yearly products of his own money Stock, for his Lord's further credit (as he 
 
 Wound seringcd. — See pp. 152, 153, 241, supra. 
 *3 Mi: of Esconry. — See the meaning of this term ex- 
 plained at p. 358, supra. 
 
 Vs Sr name a/so. — In other words, the christian name 
 Hugh was unknown among the Montgomerys settled in 
 the north, near Munros, and was first introduced in that 
 
 family when Hugh of Ballymagown was named for the 
 second viscount. 
 
 45 ij/fA Jii_s Lady io London. — This journey was under- 
 taken immediately after the third viscount's second marriage, 
 and when he was appointed by the house of lords to go as 
 one of four commissioners to I-ondon. Seep. 232, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 371 
 
 ])crchance, then thought) In so much that carrying great Sailes, and Steering his Course in the fair 
 Weather, & gales of his Lord and ladys favor, and demeaning himself obligeingly and gentily in 
 liis converssation & haveing commendation for honest and Prudent Managements, I say under 
 these circumstances, & the Prospect men had of his arriveing to a good harbour of Advancem*, 
 He was Coveted for an husband by divers women, who had good fortunes (& indeed both for 
 personage, features & breeding he was gen'^ desireable of that Sex) for a match : and he might 
 have had a very Rich one in London (as I have often credibly heard told and believed) but 
 his dearest Lord was his best beloved, and he wold not leave him in that Citty, to Look after 
 a new Serv*, No not to gain a wife & much money too. And this was According to an Axiom 
 he held (& w''^ I heard him maintaine by discours) that every Gentleman (especially Private 
 ones) should have some Potent Personage of y® Nobility (if of kinn the better) to bee his friend ; 
 to scarr men from Atempting Injurys, and unto whom he may resorte for protection, when wionged: 
 And to take shelter under his Cover, in stormy times 3 it being necessary (sayd hee) and ])rudent 
 also to conciliate (at least) the bon Graces of Great men, if they be good men and truely noble, 
 otherwise to keep aloof from them. 
 
 I now come to the woefuU Month of September 1663 wherein death parted our dearest Lord 
 (the first Earle of Mount Alex') from us all : whose Hugh had been watchfully and carefully tender 
 of his L°P in his Last great Sickness in Dublin & in his lethargy in the Contry, whereof he dyed-t^ 
 and expired in his Armes. So he enjoyed & deserved Still his s*" Title, and was respected for it, 
 as I now come to recount. 
 
 Our Late Earle's Funerall (at w'''', next before the Hers, walked the Defunct's Secretary, 
 Dudley Loftus,'*7 & on his right hand y° s'* Lords late Hugh, in deep Mourning) being solemnly 
 performed;-*^ wee went with our new Eaile to Dublin, & the s"* Hugh was received into y° Kings 
 troope of Guards, w"" great expectations of Preferment in y° Army; being well known to y' Duke of 
 Orm** and all his sonns, & household, who reguarded him as y* late Earles Kinsman, and quondam 
 Chief Servant. 
 
 But his Grace going into England, & Governo" being changed, and the s'' Hu : getting no 
 Suitable Post offered him : He quitt y" Guards, and lived in our Contry, w"' his very good wife a 
 near relation of Kindred to y° Earle of Clanbrassil,*'- with whose Countess y° s"* Hu : was acquainted, 
 when his late Lord visited Mellifont, or sent him thither : and when She was in Dublin. 5° 
 
 This Hughs last martial emjaloy was a Com" from the Prince of Orange for being Cap' of a 
 foot Company, which he raised and Armed the best could be done in A° 168S. 
 
 These last two lines were an interjection, and I must recurr to the Series of this Narration. 
 
 M' James Montgomery afores"* his arrears of Pay as Chaplains' to the s*^ Regim*, and the s'^ 
 Samuels also as L' to the said S'' James Montgomerys troop, for the time he served therein, being 
 
 ■4S Whereof he dyed. — See p. 241, j/.'/ra. His death took 
 place at Dromore. 
 
 <7 Dudley Loftits. — See pp. 238, 252, siipra. 
 
 "■^ Solemnly performed. — See ]ip. 244, 253, supra. 
 
 Ye Earle of Clanhrassil. — His wife's father, Hans 
 Hamilton of Carnasure, was cousin to James, first earl of 
 
 Clanhrassil ; she was, therefore, nearly related to his son 
 Henry, the then earl. 
 
 5" She was in Dublin. — This lady was Alice Moore, 
 daughter of Henry first carl of Droghei'a, and niece of the 
 third viscount Montgomery's first wife, Mary Moore. 
 
 5' As Chaplain.— See notes 2, 13, 14, supra. 
 
372 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 by me (out of my Love to the s"* Hugh my fellow-traveller in the usurping times) on our Kings 
 restauration, carefully gott Stated to advantage, as from first to Last of the Service ; without trouble 
 or cost to him, the s^ Hugh joined the Debentures for the same, into the Lott of debt due to his 
 wives unkle, Cap' William Hamilton of Erinagh,^^ for Satisfaction whereof, a lott of credit was 
 drawn of Houses in Gallway, and lands within the mile line of y' River Shannon.53 And then the s* 
 Hugh was invited by his said unkle to manage the whole Lott for them both ; and to have a good 
 allowance for Agency, and y° worth of her Marriage Portion, joyned contiguous to the satisfaction 
 of the s* Arrears of Pay,54 and to have conveniencys for himself and his wife to live on, added 
 thereunto, wh* (for his encouragement to accept y° s** Invitation) should be his own. 
 
 But : 
 
 The s^ Hu: desireing to be the 2^ Earles Hugh (as he had been his fathers), and his wife (as I 
 may presume) enclineing rather to be near her mother, brother, sister, unkle also,S5 and other 
 kindred than a farr off among strangers, therefore y° s^ Hu : came and told me the said offers that 
 were made to him, for setling his Fortune in and about Gallway afores'', but withall said he would 
 first tender his Service to our Earle, and prayd me to know if his Lo^" would employ him ; I did 
 propose the Matter with full frendship, because I thought him fitt to bee imployed, besides he de- 
 servssd kindness at my hand. 
 
 Then about y" Latter end of A° 1667 (as I now think), the Hu : was made Receiver of the s 
 Earles Rents^^ (the common people calling him the factor, as they doe such agents in Scodand), 
 and afterwards he was Seneschall to all his Courts, upon Cap' John Mont.57 (y' late Earles Cosen 
 
 Hiimilton ofErinagh. — William Hamilton of Erinagh, 
 parish of Bright, in Lecale, was third son of John Hamilton 
 of ToUimore, brother of James first viscount Clannaboy. 
 Lodge's Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. iii., p. 7. 
 On the I7'h of March 1658, James Shane of Mullagh, 
 assigned to this captain William Hamilton the lands of 
 Kiltaghlins, Marshalstown, Erenagh, and Carrowmaltagh, 
 of which he (Hamilton) received a further grant from 
 Wingfield, second earl of Ardglass. "Captain Hamilton, 
 on acquiring these lands settled in Erenagh, in the house 
 now occupied by Mrs. James Graham, at tlie Three Roads 
 End, whence for the sake of distinction he was surnamed 
 of that place. . . . Under the Act of Settlement, he 
 obtained, 5th Feb., 1670, in equal shares with John Bush, 
 a grant of 206a. 3r. 25p. , of the two towns of Upper and 
 Lower Ballydergan, the forfeited estate of John Dovvdall, 
 at a rent of £2 iSs lod, and having purchased Bush's 
 interest, and from Alderman Hutchinson, the lands of 
 Clonmagherey, Terela, Ballyplunt, Glovett, upper and 
 lower Island-na-Muck, Island-boy, Clontabegg, 25 acres 
 of Commons, with the lough called Inisloughcullin, late 
 the estate of George Russell of Rathmullan, and also the 
 lands of Munnicarragh, he, by letters patent 2nd March, 
 1676, obtained a grant of the entire, whereby they were 
 erected into the manor of Hamilton's Hill, so named from 
 the Windmill Hill in Ballydergan." — Hanna's Account 
 of the Parish of Bright published in the Vmunpatrick 
 Recorder. 
 
 53 Ye river Shannon. — For this loi, in which captain 
 William Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery went together, 
 the debentures of the former amounted to the sum of 
 
 ^■55 1 6 17s 9d, and those of the latter to the sum of 
 ^^1382 2s I id. To satisfy these debentures, they were 
 assigned houses and lands in Galway, Clare, Dublin, 
 Meath, and Longford, the denominational names of which 
 possessions are printed at pp. 165, 166, of vol. iii. Irish 
 Records Reports. See also page 303. The 1649 officers 
 had assigned to them all the lands in the county of 
 Clare and in the province of Connaught to within a mile 
 of the sea and the river Shannon. 
 
 S"* Arrears of pay. — In other words, the lands assigned 
 to Hugh Montgomery as his wife's marriage portion ad- 
 joined those which he himself had obtained for his de- 
 bentures. 
 
 55 Uncle also. — Her mother, brother, and sister resided 
 at Carnasure in the vicinity of Comber. Her mother was 
 a daughter of David Kermedy of Killame. After the death 
 of her first husband, Hans Hamilton, she married a gentle- 
 man named Savage. Mrs. Montgomery had three brothers, 
 but William, the eldest, who inherited the family propertj' 
 at Carnasure, is probably the one here referred to by the 
 author. She had also three sisters, viz., Anna, Ursula, 
 and Matilda. Two were married, and one lived at 
 Carnasure. The unmarried sister is probably referred to 
 in the text. Her uncle resided at Erinagh, as above- 
 mentioned. — Lodge's Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol., 
 iii., pp. 7, 8. 
 
 5* Said Earless Rents. — This was the fourth viscount 
 and second earl. 
 
 57 Capt. John Montgomery. — This officer was second 
 son of the hon. George Montgomery, and a cousin 
 once removed to the first earl. See p. 151, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 373 
 
 German) his waveing to accept that office, and his speaking to his Lo'' in favor of the s"* Hugh ; 
 whom I beheve to have been Just in his ace*", though I was not put to Audite them ; but I have 
 the foot of one of them which I think faire, and have not heard hiLTi taxed to the Contrary 
 which his maligners would not have omitted had there been Umbrage for it. 
 
 The s'' Hu : (now twice or thrice dipt to be called my L*^'' Hugh again) was diligent in y" 
 Sonns, as he had been in the fathers bussiness, as every looker on might see. 
 
 I will mention one Material Instance thereof; for he came to me A° 1669 at Rosem and 
 brought a Letter from his Lord (wh'^'' I have) praying me to Superseade our Sheriff, M W" 
 Waring, who had entered his Lo'''^ Lands to levy Subsidys and Crown Rents, suffered (for about 
 4 or 5 years before then) to runn in Arreare, this was in his Lo''' minority, out of which he was not 
 gone till above two years after this time. 
 
 J was much perswaded by y* s^ Lo' Hu : to write and signe the Supersedeas, and to committ 
 thesame to his Speedy Management ; wh"*" wold putt off the presentgreat mischief that was comming 
 on his lyO'''* tennants by y° s'^ Sheriffs Gen' distrainning them. 
 
 Hee was importunate for his Lord's Concern, tho I shewed my grounds of fear, that I should 
 be left in y' sudds, by reason of his Lop's minority, but I dreaded most to be imposed upon 
 by ou' neighbour Earle, when I should be charged to Leavy his Lo^'^ like Arrears, wh* at this time 
 was put off by my said Supersedias : I was much swayd by my Lord's Hugh's Earnestness, but 
 compassion mooved me most, to prevent that imminent Storm from falling on y° Earle's tennants, 
 because these poore Sheepe paid their fleeces, and what had they done to incurr the Slashes of an 
 Exchequer Sword, 
 
 My Lord's Hugh lived those yeares at Cuningburn59 and in Newtoun, till much about y° time 
 (if I remember aright) that our Earle was 21 yeares of Age, viz., A" 1671,^° and then his Lo" 
 appointing Corns" for the affaires of his Estate and debts, the s** Hugh, tho nominated one of them, 
 would not be concerned therein,^' because that clashing against him might arise from Cap*" H. M.''^ 
 and his nephew H. C."'^ (likewise named one Com'') for their horses had stood in Severall Stables 
 before this time.*'^ Therefore he came to live at Ballymagown,^^ where he built and planted, as 
 
 5' Excheqiier Sword. — A supersedeas, in law, is 
 a writ whose purpose is to supersede proceedings 
 in an action. Hugli Montgomery, in the case here 
 mentioned, evidently urged the author for a supersedeas, 
 although no writ had been tal^en out expressly for the 
 occasion. This remedy is occasionally applied, on good 
 cause shown, in actions which, otherwise, ought to proceed. 
 The circumstances to which the author here refers were 
 probably such as to justify this application of the super- 
 sedeas without delay. William INlontgomery was asked 
 to act probably in virtue of his office as Ciistos Rotn- 
 lorum. 
 
 5' At Cunnmghiirn. — The lands of Cunningburn, with 
 those of Templechrone, Ballyblack, and Ballywaticock, 
 were sold by the second earl to sir Robert Colville, for 
 ;^3,ooo, on the 26th of November, 1675. Cunningburn 
 is between Newtownards and the present Mountstewart 
 house, on the side of Strangford lough. See p. 268, note 
 35, supra. 
 
 Ao 1671. — In the following year, 1672, the youthful 
 second earl married his first wife. See p. 266, supra. 
 
 Co7icerned therein. — Probably William Shaw was 
 appointed a commissioner, on Hugh Montgomery's refusal 
 to act. See pp. 265-267, supra. 
 
 Captii. II. M. — This gentleman was Hugh of Bally- 
 lessan. 
 
 '3 Nephr.v II. C.—U. C. was Hugh Campbell. See 
 pp. 265-267, supra. His mother was a daughter of John 
 Shaw of Greenock. 
 
 Before this time. — This is a proverbial saying, mean- 
 ing in this instance that the gentlemen referred to were of 
 different political sentiments, or at least had belonged to 
 different political parties. Hugh Montgomery of Bally- 
 magowan appears to have heen always a royalist, whilst 
 Hugh of Ballylessan, and Hugh of Gransheogh, had 
 served in the armies of the Commonwealth. 
 
 ^5 Ballyniagown. — This place was afterwards and is 
 still known as Springvale. The Rev. Hans Montgomery, 
 
 A 2 
 
374 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 you now See : his Purchase thereof haveing been made formerly, wherein he gratifyd y® possessor 
 by 100^ for his consent : as he did gain the good will of another person in his Purchase of Bally 
 Limp,^^ and in other concerns wh"'' he hath in fee farm paying Small cheifry to his wives kindred, 
 S Robert Hamilton^^ and his son, Mr. Hans,^^ who by his mother is heir of S" Hans Hamilton,^ 
 Baronet, as to his Lands tho not to his title of Honor at that time. 
 
 It is now seasonable to speak of his wife and their Children (the pretty modells of themselves) 
 tho but briefly, and then of his parts and enjoym'', concluding with some remarks, which some 
 may say are Superfluous, (because he is well known and trusted), but what is that to me ? who 
 intend the Satisfaction of those Montgomerys that Live afarr off in other countys,"° seldom (if ever^ 
 meeting, thereby knowing much less than wee his neighbours doo, besides this, I would have 
 mine and neighbours posterity know him as I have done. 
 
 Therefore be it known that this our Lords Hu ; his very good wife died before our troubles, 
 which came on us in A° 1688,''' God takeing her from the ensueing Evils, her body is interred (with 
 some of her children near it) in his burying place, about the pulpit in Gray abby church, to the 
 new roofeing whereof himself contributed very cheerfully the sum of five pounds Sterling money. 
 
 Their issue liveing are first M"" Hans Montgomery the eldest, a good Preacher (as his Grand- 
 father M"^ James was) Hee is Parson of Killinshee, Vicar of Ballywalter, and Curate of Grayabby 
 Parishes ; and hath them well Served : his residence (being hitherto unmarryd) is at Ballymagown 
 with his father, and his Ministration of God's word and Sacram'^ is at gray abby and Ballywalter 
 
 by turns 
 
 who succeeded to this property on the death of his father, 
 Hugh, in 1707, is described on the tombstone in Grey- 
 abbey as of Springvalc. He died in 1726, so that the 
 place liad received its present name prior to that date. 
 
 Bally Limp. — A townland in the parish of Bally- 
 walter, and barony of Upper Ards. 
 
 ^^ Sir Robert Hamillon. — Of Mounthamilton, county 
 of Armagh. Sir Robert married Sarali, only daughter 
 and heir of sir Hans Hamilton, of Monella and Hamilton's 
 Bawn, county of Armagh. Sir Roliert was created a 
 baronet in 1682. 
 
 Mr. Hans. — This son died in 1739, and with him 
 the second baronetcy became extinct. 
 
 *9 Sir Hans Hamilton. — This sir Hans, father-in-law 
 of sir Robert, and grandfather of "Mr. Hans" above- 
 named, was himself a nephew of the first viscount Clanna- 
 boye. Sir Hans died in 1681, his estates passing to his 
 son-in-law, sir Robert, father of "Mr. Hans." — Burke's 
 Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies. 
 
 ^° In other coiintys. — His father's family had settled in 
 the north of Scotland, where many members thereof 
 probably resided at the time this memoir was written. 
 
 71 In A" 16S8. — The inscription on the tombstone in 
 Greyabbey slated that she died on the 22nd of July, 
 1689. The following is the inscription : — 
 
 "here LYET ye body of HUGH 
 MONTGOMERY OF BALI.YMAGOUN 
 ESQK. AGED 72, & DEI'ARTED THIS 
 LIFE THE 31st OF OCTR. 1707, AND HAD 
 ISSUE SIX SONS AND SIX DAUGHTERS, 
 VIZ. HANS, HUGH, HASHLTON, JAMl.S, 
 SAMUF.L, VERE, ELIZABEl H, CATHEUINE, 
 JANE ELINOR, ALICE, 1ND CHRISTIAN. 
 
 HERE LYETH VE BODY OF 
 JANE HAMILTON WIFE TO HUGH 
 MONGOMERY, AGED 37, WHO 
 DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 22 OF 
 JULY, 1689. 
 
 HERE LYETH YE BODY OF VE REVD. 
 HANS MONTGOMERY OF SPRING 
 VLE ELDEST SON OF HUGH MONT 
 GOMERY, WHO DEPARTED THIS 
 LIFE YE 27th OF NOVEMBER, I726, AGED 
 58. & HAD ISSUE BY ELIZABETH TOWNLEV 
 HIS WIFE, FOURE DAUGHRS, 
 MARY, LUCY, JANE, AND ALICE." 
 
 1^ Ballywalter by turns. — This Rev. Hans Montgomery 
 was ordained a priest in March, 1691. In October, 
 1709, he married Elizabeth, sister to Harry Townley 
 Balfour, esq., of Piedmont, county of Louth. By her 
 he left four daughters, viz. — Maiy, married to Nicholas 
 Ford ; Lucy, married to alderman Harman, of Drogheda ; 
 Jane ; and Alice, married to Allan Bellingham of Castle- 
 bellingham. — Lodge's Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. 
 iii., p. 8, note. The inscription on the family tombstone 
 in Greyabbey states that he was 58 years of age at the 
 time of his death, November, 1726. On a tablet in 
 Castlebellingham church is the following inscription : — 
 
 Underneath the Chancel are 
 deposited the remains of 
 Alan Bellingham, Esqre., of 
 Castle Bellingham, who died the igth 
 June, 1796, aged 87 ; 
 Also, the remains of Alice 
 Bellingham, wife to the above, and 
 one of the daughters and co-heiresses 
 of the Rev. Hans Montgomery, of 
 Springvale and Grey Abbey, Co. 
 Down, who died on the 6th of 
 December, 1785, aged 68 years. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 375 
 
 Then is Elizabeth, wife of Cap " Johnston," commander of a foot Company in the Standing 
 Army in Ireland, this geii'' raised himself to this post by his Services in Flanders, to which he & 
 '.lis company is now A°. 1710 remanded, with whom his tender said wife is gone, Ledd by the in- 
 lireness and perfection of congugall Matrimoniall Love. 
 
 Also Hugh, a propper tall Gen", who served in y= Army dureing the warr ag' y« Ireish, and then 
 in the Duke of Ormonds troop of horse Guards in Flanders and Engl'i : Hee is a well bred grave 
 man, of good Reading and discours, free he is of all Camp or guarison Vices, his father at first sent 
 him to Sea & he was twice in America, and is now with the said Guards to push his fortune away 
 beyond our seas. He is now (A° 1702 in MayJ marryed to a Frenchman's widdow, a good for- 
 tune to him. 
 
 Next is Hamilton Montgomery, he served in Co' Russells^'* troop who had a love & care for 
 him, he being young, makeing him Comrade to his son of like age, and that Regim' being broke, 
 he as an Ensigne & is now a Lieu' to foot he is by his Aspect and voice more like a soldier of 
 Venus than Mars (tho fitt for both their camps). He is not above two years marryed to M}^ Grace 
 Ronane^s Eldest daughter of a Gen'' of good extraction, and hath a good portion, her unkle en- 
 
 In describing Hans Montgomery as of Greyabbey, the 
 writer of the foregoing inscription must have meant that 
 he (Hans) had been curate of that place 
 
 '3 Captn. Johnston. — For a notice of various members 
 of the Johnston family, see p. 54> note 33; pp. 134, 
 135, note, supra. The captain Johnston mentioned 
 in the text was probably the founder of the Gilford 
 branch. Sir William Johnston, of Gilford, who died 
 in 1722, married Nicholia, daughter of sir Nicholas 
 Acheson, by whom he left a family of four sons and 
 .1 daughter. His eldest son, Richard Johnston, esq., 
 succeeded to the family property, and was created a 
 baronet of Ireland on the 27th of July, 1772. He married 
 Anne, dauglUer of William Alexander, esq., by whom 
 he had issue one son, William, and two daughters, Mary 
 Anne and Catherine. His son, sir William, died un- 
 married, in the year 1841, and the title became extinct. 
 See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies. 
 
 '"i Col. Riissdl. — Ihis was most probably colonel 
 Theodosius Russell, whose name is returned as a claimant 
 1 gainst the forfeited estates of the earl of Clanrickard, 
 [ohn Burke called lord Bophin, Peter Martin, Walter 
 uurke, Bart. Russell, David Magee, David Power, and 
 John Power. See ZzV/^CVa;>«j, dr^c, pp. 268-270. "In 
 the year 1700 the lands of the Irish adherents of James II., 
 were sold by public auction, or 'cant,' at Chichester house, 
 i'^rom these forfeitures, amounting to upwards of one 
 Tiillion of acres, large grants had been made by William 
 III. to the foreign officers who had served under him in 
 he Irish wars. An act of resumption, however, replaced 
 ihese lands in the hands of the English parliament ; and 
 vhen sold, they were so much deteriorated in value, by 
 embezzlement and malversation, that the su:n they pro- 
 luced was comparatively small ; the greater part of the 
 •-■states of the Irish Jacobites, instead of having been applied 
 to reduce the heavy expenses of the WilHamite wars, thus 
 'erved to aggrandize and enrich a number of adventurers. 
 The claims of the various parties interested in these 
 estates began to be heard by the trusi-e"":, in September, 
 
 1700; and the sittings concluded in 1702. The particulars 
 of these proceedings are preserved in a large volume of 
 363 pages, printed in 1701, and entitled A List of the 
 Claims as they are entred zuith the Trustees at Chichester 
 IToiise on College Green, Dublin, on or before the loth oj 
 Ajigust, 1700. During the latter part of the period ap- 
 pointed for the registry of the claims the crowds attending 
 at Chichester house were very great, and on one day up- 
 wards of 300 petitions were presented. The sales termi- 
 nated on 23rd June, 1703. The auction bill was printed 
 on large sheets of paper, under the following heads : — 
 'Late proprietors' names, and nature of their estates; 
 denominations ; number of acres, Irish Measure ; yearly 
 rents, 1 702 ; real value per annum ; neat value to be set 
 at ; tenants' names ; quality of the land, &c. ; estate or 
 interest, claimed or allov/ed.' A collection of these bills, 
 containing the names of the purchasers, and the amounts 
 realized by each lot, was made by the late Austin Cooper, 
 and bound in a large volume with the following title : — 
 A Book of Postings and sale of the forfeited and other 
 estates in Ireland, vested in the Honourable Sir Cyril 
 Wich, Knt, Francis Annesley, Esq., James Hamilton, 
 Esq., John Baggs, Esq., John Trencliard, Esq., John 
 Isham, Esq., Henry Langford, Esq., James Hooper, Esq., 
 John Carey, Gent., Sir Henry Shere, Knt, Thomas 
 Harrison, Esq., William Fellowes, Esq., Thomas Rowlins, 
 Esq. , Trustees, nominated and appointed by act of parlia- 
 ment made in England in the eleventh and twelfth years 
 of the reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act 
 for grantiitg an aid to his Majesty by the sale of the forfeited 
 and other Estates and Interests in Ireland, and by a Land 
 Tax ift England, for the srueral purposes therein tnentioned. 
 — Gilbert, History of the Citv of Dublin, vol. iii., pp. 68, 69. 
 
 '5 Grace Ronane. — The name of this lady's father was 
 James Ronaine, whose estate, in the county of Cork, was 
 inherited by his brother, his daughters, Grace, Anastace, 
 Elizabeth, and Margaret, receiving dowries therefrom. 
 Grace, the eldest, who became the wife of Hamilton 
 Montgomery, received ^^400, Anastace or Anastasia, /"300. 
 
376 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 joying y« estate, & hath encreased the number of the Montgomerys, and hath reconcilled and 
 reduced his wife with her mother and sister to the Protestant Church Estabhshed by Law. 
 
 Then is Katherin raarryed to M"" Barnard Brett^* of Ballynewport in Lecahill, both the said 
 named Sisters are good wives, and have kind husbands (which is a sign of wives complacency) their 
 father consenting to their Wedlocks, and giveing his blessing to them. 
 
 James is the 4'^ son, a pregnant witty schollar, this yeore 1701 is his 4th in the University 
 at Dublin. 
 
 Jean the 3"^ Daughter resembles her mother. She is discreet and marriageable. 
 
 Samuel, y« son hath been kept severall years abroad at y^ Latin school, he may be a mer- 
 chant, to which mistery haveing prepared himself by learning Arithmetick (as he has done a fair 
 hand in writeing) he is now entered an apprentise, and if he chance to be infortunate in those Arts 
 he will make a stout Soldier?^ (the males all resembling their father in Courage), to which he is 
 more inclined than to study for a Bishoprick. 
 
 Eleanor, the youngest of them, is comely (as they all are) and well : she is entered into her 
 teens and no doubt will be Looked for. 
 
 In short they are all well Conditioned, and dutyfully humble and observant towards their father, 
 lovers of their Relations, and courteous to others. 
 
 and the others, £200 each. These portions were claimed 
 under a deed of settlement, dated the 27th of April, 1680, 
 made by James Ronaine, pursuant to mirriage articles, 
 dated the 15th of July, 1678, with Richard Donovane, 
 James Sarsfield, John Svviny, and Owen Callaghane. — 
 List of Ike Claims as they are entred with the T7-ustces at 
 Chichester House, &-'<:., p. lo. Grace Ronayne's father, 
 though of "good extraction," appears to have been re- 
 duced in means, which arose no doubt from the forfeiture 
 of his estate. The following letter, probably written by 
 him, and the accompanying list of plate, furnish melancholy 
 evidence of the decay of a once comfortable family : — 
 
 "Madam. — There hapned a difference betwixt y' husband and 
 mee about a small heire loome or Crosse belonging to my ffamily the 
 same with other things belonging to y"' father came to y' husbands 
 hands, y' father by sev'rall letters wch I have to produce ordred mee 
 to demand my s'l Crosse of y^ husband wcb when I have done he 
 submissively tould mee I should have the same & the contrary fell 
 out, the passage weare tedius Iieere to bee related, but in fine hed 
 wrongfully detaynes my Crosse and tells mee I shall not have it but 
 by due course of law playing uppon my p'sent weake condition, a 
 thing not becoming an honest gentleman to doc, y^ ffather alleages 
 that the Oossc ivas pawned to him for thirty shillings wcU I would 
 pay to y'' husband upon receit of my Crosse fur soe y*" ffather ordered 
 it. I offered y' husband a hundred pounds security in p.sence^ of 
 Aldn. Hannan y'' brother Laker and Mr. Laurence St. Laurence to 
 save hun harmlessefrom his ffather in their difference wch he refused. 
 This acct. I give y" that y" may nott for the future forgett it, and 
 excuse the trouble given y" herein by madam, y'' Servt., 
 
 "James Ronavne. 
 
 "An Inventory of Plate & Gould which I suppose is what plate 
 my father left & my mother now has. March y*^ 2Sth 1717. 
 
 "One large silv'' tankard, one sm.iU slW tankard, one small silv' 
 Skillott, 3 Kastards, 10 Spoones, one large Sauce Spoone, one 
 tumbler, 3 Salts, one dram cup large, one cup of moth"" of pearl, 7 
 plaine rings, 2 wth stones in im, one without a stone, 4 (pins) 
 Gould bended, one p^ of Gould buttons (taken up to be worn), one 
 long gould chain, one wth a stone, one large Silver Crosse, 2 p'' of 
 Ijobbs, one plain ring, one weare, 2 my wife vvcares, one dyned to the 
 turkey stone, do. broaken plate, 4 peec^ of old plate guilted, 12 
 iisker buttons, 6 broak" Spoones, 2 big and 4 little, one fork, one old 
 dram cupp, 8 dozen and 4 silver buttons, 2 small whissel, one bitt 
 
 of a broak" dram cupp & a bottle top screwe, 115 peeces of old coine, 
 one large buckle, one silv*" ring, 2 tomblers, one large sugar box, one 
 dram cupp round tumbler like, one salt good, 3 do. bad." — Trans- 
 actions 0/ the Kilkenny and Soiith-East of Ireland A rclueological 
 Society, vol. i., new series, pp. 168, i6q. 
 
 7* Mr. Barnard Brett. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, 
 edited by Archdall, vol. iii. , p. 8, note, describes 
 this gentleman as captain Bernard Brett, of Bally- 
 newbrett in Lecale. " Under the act of settlement, 
 Ballystrew was allotted to William Brett of Saul, and 
 afterwards of Ballynewport; but the widow of Patrick 
 Russell, to whom the lands had belonged, is said to have 
 gone to London, and to have so represented her case to 
 Charles IL, that the grant to Brett was abrogated and the 
 lands returned to the Russells. Among those attainted 
 in the county of Down by king James's parliament, in 
 1 689, were William Brett of Ballynewport, and his two sons, 
 Jasper and Bernard. The elder, Jasper, was a c!ergT,'man, 
 and, in 1700, married Mary, daughter of the Very Rev. 
 John McNeale, dean of Down, and vicar of Rathmullan. 
 In 1707, the Rev. Jasper Brett was a; 'pointed prebendary 
 of Rasharkin, county of Antrim, and, in 173 1, was 
 collated to the chancellorship of Connor. In 1720, he 
 was appointed vicar of Rathmullan, and in the following 
 year, he publislied an Essay against Smuggling. This 
 Mr. Brett died in 1736. His younger brother, Bernard, 
 or captain Bernard, who married Katherin Montgomery, 
 resided in the mansion house of Erinagh, from the year 
 1680." — Hanna's Account of the Parishes of Killough and 
 Bright, in the Doivnpatrick Recorder. 
 
 stout soldier. — It would appear that although 
 Samuel was originally prepared for mercantile pursuits, 
 he ultimately devoted himself to the military profession. 
 He died in 1715, and is described in the Register of 
 Mortcloths (see p. 185, note 39, supra), kept by the first 
 congregation of Belfast as "Capt. Sam: Montgomery of 
 Spring: Vaille." At his funeral, "7 Clockes at 3s. per 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 377 
 
 The fruitful! Mother of them all was Mrs. Jean Hamilton, eldest sister of James of Carnesure, 
 Esq'' (a well spoken man) hee had a good estate wh^i^ is now fain to his young (only) daughter, to 
 whom (if she dy witliaut children) the s'l Lords Hughs eldest Son &: M' George Ross his heire 
 (the offspring of the %^ Esq'^ other Sister) will succeed as next of Kinn.?^ 
 
 The Said Mother was an Excellent wife & housekeeper, not loseing (by neglect) any profit 
 ly^ch ye Garden, Dairy, or Flock yeelded (and the product was Valuable) more than served her 
 plentyfuU household & table. 
 
 She brought a considerable marriage Portion (called togher good in Scotland^?) and managed 
 her Matters with discretion. Shee was of a cheerfuU humor, and sometimes in joak of her many 
 children (most of wh'^'^ were young when she dyed) said they were her small profitts : on which 
 occasion, I once told her that they were all perquisits of matrimony (wh<=h she had contracted) and 
 belonged to her, as her own Act and deed ; that they were of God's sending as his blessings; & in 
 time would be beneficiall Servants to her. 
 
 Her husband (as I heard said) converted her from attending her mother to the Presbiterian 
 Meetings^" (for she lived after marriage severall months with her) when himself was in the Guards 
 at Dublin under the hopefull expectation afores'*) to be a constant conformist to our true Protestan^ 
 Church established by Law (as well as her children are) An happy man was he in that, and her, with 
 whom & them I have often communicated at our Lords holy Table. She was sincerely Pious and 
 bred her children to fear God, & Reverence their father, and Shewed them good examples of 
 Industry ; not Suffering them to be idle, yet still to go neat in their apparal : 'twas admirable to see 
 with what gravity and attention her youngest girls sat in church (to wh'^'' shee took them in her 
 CuUosh,^' herself driving the same exactly well,) so they could make no excuse to stay at home, for 
 she had them all Still in good Order, chiefly on the Lords day ; as if they had been dressed to go 
 to a Wedding, as brides maids, or to a christning as Partners. 
 
 Haveing thus touched upon mother and children, I will not yett pass by himself (my fellow 
 traveller, kinsman, & friend) in Silence but will not say many things of him, lest I be esteemed 
 too fond or a Partial Panegyrick. 
 
 Clocke" were hired from the congregation "pr. Mr. Jno. and got with her in tocher-good the lands of Orkney and 
 Young senor," and paid for on the 23rd July, 1715. Shetland, with all right, and title of right to them, per- 
 
 78 NextofKinn. — ^James HamiltonofCarnasure married taining to the King of Norroway at that time." — Pitscottie, 
 Christian, daughter of James Hamilton of Tollimore, and Chronicle, p. 72. "The first was married upon Sir 
 died in 1 69 1, his wife following the year after. They had William Crighton, heir to the said Lord Crighton foresaid, 
 a family of three daughters, two of whom died before their and got with her the land of Frendraught in tocher. — Ibid. 
 parents, and the youngest, Margaret, (born soon after her p. 26. 
 
 father's decease), was married to John Cuffe, afterwards ^° Presbyterian Meeting. — Her mother's name was 
 created lord Desart, in 1707. Mary Kennedy, a good presbyterian name in those 
 
 7' Togher good in Scotland. — This phrase denotes the days, 
 dowry brought by a wife to her husband. The following Her Ctdlosh. — The more usual forms of this word 
 
 illustrations are given in Jamieson's Etymological Diction- were calash and caleche, meaning a carriage similar in 
 ary of the Scottish Language: — "Peace wes reborat with shape to the present chaise. John Locke, in a letter to 
 the Danys in this sort. ' King CharHs douchtir Shee salbe his friend, Anthony Collins, says — "I endeavour to make 
 giuen in mariage to Rolland. — And Rolland with all the the best use I can of everything; and therefore, though I 
 Danis sail ressaue the Cristin faith, and in the name of am in despair to be wiser for these learned instructions, 
 touchqnhare sail haue all thai landis whilk wer namit yet I hope I shall be the merrier for them, when you and 
 afore Newstria." — Bellenden's Chronicle, Book X., c. 22. I take the air in the calash together." In a letter to 
 "King James IH., being of the age of twanty years, Jacob Tonson, the poet Dryden says— "I intend to come 
 taketh to wife Margaret the King of Norroway's daughter, up at least a week before Michaelmas, for Sir Matthew is 
 
378 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 First then, as to his outward parts, his stature is of a middle proportion ; His Complexion 
 Ruddy, and his Skin white ; His Nerves Strong and Agile (considering his Age, which is past his 
 Grand Climacterick.^^ He wears no wigg, his Haire is mous-colored, the intermingling white ones 
 not being near equall to y* Rest. His countenance is Spritely and cheerfull, yet can weare a frown 
 when needfull : his eyes quick gray & piercing ; his body and Limbs Shapely, and he wears his 
 habits neately, wh'^'^ are not cours but plain : he is early in going to bed and up rising from it, his 
 hours not being so late as tenn for the one, nor after Six for the other : his temperara' is a Right 
 Sanguine, Seasoned with ChoUer, yet his body (now in its declining state) is subject to Rheumatisms 
 and the grievous Gout, as to his Mind (so far as an Estimate may be made thereof from his 
 Actions, and the tree is best known by y* fruits) it is Generous as his Circumstances will permitt, 
 which have not brought him into any debt. It is a lover of Gentile and civil company which it will 
 cherish mostly in his own house, in wh<='> it delighteth to keep neat rooms & a Constant orderly 
 able, and well stored Sellers. So that a gentleman coming before, or after meale time, never or 
 Seldom, can miss of Souced or other cold meat : & for y<= bread, butter, cheese, and good liquor, 
 they are always at hand with an hearty wellcom to Gentlemen ; and hospitality to the needy. His 
 mind is not a wanderer or astray, but is fixed to becoming Principles. It abhors durty or mean 
 things, or ways ; It cannot endure to hear of any honest civil Gentlemans being traduced, or slighted 
 for his Age or Poverty, for he thinks no man (tho rich in money or lands) to be a gentle without 
 honesty & curtesy ; It stirrs up his indignation to censure (above board) any wrongs done, and 
 will not lett him spare to tell the faulty person thereof, when they next meet (if the matter be worth 
 an home reproof) but will not give it in his own house ; thus he prevents his words from being mis 
 reported and shows a friendship and an Ardor becoming a Gentleman. Its love, where Setled or 
 promised) is dureable, and shows itself in good effects, whereof his Advices given (when desired) 
 and sometimes (if need be) unasked, are not y'' least obligeing proofs of it. It ever had a com- 
 passionate pitty for indigent boys, that were towardly willing to serve a gentleman honestly, espe- 
 cially if they were born of Gentile parents. I will name but one of many he hath preferred, by 
 his recommendation. Hee is John Franks,^3 whose father was Provest Martiall in Tangier, and 
 his Mother a Sutler there; the boy knew not well where to geit meat, or Lodging in Dublin, but by 
 pence he gained in Singing ballads, or witty songs : him he got to our young Earle's Service, for a 
 diversion to his Lopp' Melancholy, and he did thrive so well therein that he was rich and well 
 marryed to a fair gentlewoman with a fortune before he left it. 
 
 He hath trained up all his children Vertuously, continuing (as their mother did) to instruct 
 them in their Agenda, in which he hath not failed to infuse the dutys of the fifth command wh=^ hath 
 the motive (St. Paul calls it promise) Annexed ; and he hath Suitable observances rendered him 
 
 •:;one abroad, I suspect a-wooing, and his caleche is gone 
 with him." — Richardson's English Dictionary. The 
 slandic word kialke, or kalke, denotes a dray or sledge, 
 md the Gaehc word Calchen, derived from it, means a 
 .quare frame of wood with ribs across it, used by the 
 Scotch for drying purposes. — Jamie<ion's Etyir.ological 
 Dictionaty. 
 
 Grand Climactcrick. — See p. 74, supra. • 
 "3 Johti Franks. — Nothing is stated farther in the 
 narrative to give us a knowledge of this gentleman's 
 family. He is one of the witnesses to the release given by 
 the author to the second earl of Mount- Alexander, for the 
 payment of his (the author's) wife's dowry. See p. 290, 
 note 5, supra 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 379 
 
 when other (Remiss or too Indulgent) Parents, have their sons and daughters great crosses and 
 disgraces to them, for want of this Care. And yet he is not Severe to grieve them, or to let them 
 want Education and decent Apparell, and fitting Liberty of visiting their kindred. 
 
 He keeps a Just and requisite hand over his Servants also, which makes them obedient, watch- 
 full, and dutifull, and so to like him, that I know not of any that left his Service till death or wed • 
 lock parted them. 
 
 In a word I doe not see a more orderly regular household any where ; without cursing swear- 
 ing, obscenity, Gameing, and debauchery, every one being industrious, and yet without noise. 
 Good useage and Awe ; makes hors his plow draw. 
 
 And he so began with theeves and tresspassers, that ever Since the rush bush keeps his Grass 
 and Cattle safely. 
 
 When the children were very young (and therefore wittless yet) they were not heard or seen to 
 Ramble or make a stirr, in so much that the Guests thought they were put out of the house, would 
 aske where they were kept, they were still made ready for appearance before they were called 
 for. 
 
 I have heard him say concerning Children's clandestine marriages to this purpose, that they 
 were fools to conceale their fixed resolutions from their Parents, who Surely would make the best 
 bargains for them : And for his own part toward them, as he wold straine and bind them (not by 
 any Severitys) to accept his choice for them ; So (for the love sake he had to their mother) he would 
 not altogether deny his consent to y^ Matches they made for themselves, if tollerably Reasonable ; 
 altho' he could not give his approbation nor the full kindness, Portion he intended, had they 
 asked his Council and concurrence. 
 
 He had often observed the Mischiefs of Suffering such breaches of Duty to goe unpunished, 
 and knew of y° miserys attending such precipitations, in a leape wh'^^ many times is made but once 
 in ones life. 
 
 He was not to learn that Ladds loves and Lasses Likeings wanted solid foundations, and 
 Strong Cement to make Congugal affections durable, and that the Honeymonth would soon be 
 over, when both, or either of y^ marryed Partys condition of liveing changed to wors, or became 
 less Splendid than it was formerly : giveing thus occasions enough to Repent at Leizure their Rash 
 inconsiderate Haste & Follie, for which easy or speedy Pardons and Reconciliations were not to 
 be expected nor must be given. 
 
 Therefore hee seeing some late examples in nighbouring and Related familys; Hee did openly 
 and smartly (on occasion discoursing thereof) display the undutyfulness and imprudence of such 
 Practises, expressing his high Detestation and Anger ag' them yet without threatenings, condemning 
 the fault in Thesi, onely, as not haveing grounds (whc^" I hope he never shall have) to feare the like 
 from any of his own well-educated offspring : for (as he used to say) Manners makes the man. 
 
 His Skill in Husbandry is seen to Excell his neighbours (even those whose trade it is and 
 Livelyhood) and he Cultivates his mind (whereof I have spoken in part) by reading good classical 
 authors, in Divinity and History ; haveing studied all sorts of mankind formerly, as he yet doth 
 new acquaintances (whereof he is not fond), which exercises are (for the most part) the Recreations 
 
38o 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 for his whole compositum or Person, to which may be added his Reception of Visitants which 
 recurrs frequently. 
 
 I cannot wholly pass by the Lords Hughs past and present Enjoym'^. I will only mention a 
 few of the best of them. 
 
 Imprimis (besides his obedient offspring, etc. before expressed) Hee had a triple Love for 
 him, or was beloved of Three persons, y" chiefest in y= Montgomery family of the Great Ardes : 
 viz. the first and 2^ Earles, and of myself He was loved also of y* Viscountess Dowager, and of 
 Cap' Geo. (their Lop= unkl) and his Sonns : Especially he was affected by Cap*" John afores"^ y* 
 younger deceased; as he is still by the elder (called Ballylessan^s)^ and his Son Hercules his heire, and 
 by my Son also, and hath the Respects of the Earle and his brother, and that family as he hath of 
 his nighbours, and of their acquaintances near & farr off. I said that this Earle was with him 
 at Ballymagowne, the day after the defeat at Drumore,^^ and hath seen him three divers times Since 
 then. 
 
 Among all whom (unless I should put in a by for myself) I cannot Equall any of their loves 
 for him unto that of his first and dearest Lords (whose memory he almost Idolizes, giveing his Lo' 
 preference in his esteem Clerical Laick, if words praises can confer that honor), for ; — 
 
 His s<i lA (I really think it) had more affection for this his Hugh than for all the three Cap' 
 Hughs viz : Shaw, Montgomery, Mi^Gill, tho he had advanced them in more lucrative stationary 
 employm', but this Hughs promotion was hindered by y« death of his Lo*' : who (I doubt it not) 
 entirely affected him : otherwise his Lo" had not excused and forgiven some of his errors (No 
 young man wanting them altogether) nor had not owned and Supported him ag* the envyous In- 
 trigues wh<=*> were contrived and sett on foot to disgrace and discard him, by Some persons, both 
 within & without doors of his Lop^ houshold. 
 
 This Hugh also enjoys this good fortune, that he is not Ey Sore to any of our family or others 
 by his Present Possessions and Acquests : Seeing he hath made his Purchases among the HamiltonS' 
 his wives said kindred, Fairley (as must be confessed) for he always had and still retains the Love 
 and Respects of them all ; he not taking any Part or Sideing in their differences.^' Neither hath he 
 
 Viscountess Dowager. — Catherine Jones, wife of the 
 first earl. See p. 250, note 55, supra. 
 
 ^5 Called Ballylessan. — Captain the hon. George Mont- 
 gomery's elder son Hugh was so called from having got 
 possession of that house prior to his father's death. 
 
 ^ Near Druinore. — See p. 241, supra. 
 
 ^^ In their differences. — These " differences" among the 
 Hamiltons, which became quite notorious at the time, 
 arose from a cause very likely to produce such bitter re- 
 sults. The first earl of Clanbrassil (of the first creation) 
 by his will dated 1 8th June, 1659, directed that in case of 
 failure of his sons, his estates were to be divided into five 
 equal parts among the eldest sons or issue male of his five 
 uncles, as the lands could be laid out in equal and just 
 divisions. His son Henry, the second earl of Clanbrassil, 
 who had married Alice Moore, daughter of Henry, the 
 first earl of Drogheda, died on the 12th of January, 1675, 
 without issue, leaving his real estates to his widow, the 
 countess Alice and her heirs, thus altogether ignoring the 
 devise in his father's will abovementioned. On the death 
 
 of the countess Alice, her brother Henry, the third earl 
 of Drogheda, became seized of the estates, excepting the 
 Killyleagh portion, which had been settled on the dow- 
 ager countess of Clanbrassil, then married to sir Robert 
 Maxwell. Sir Hans Hamilton and James Hamihon of 
 Bangor commenced several lawsuits on behalf of them- 
 selves and others, as representatives of the five uncles, and 
 claimed under the will of the first earl of Clanbrassil. 
 The earl of Drogheda was quickly brought to compro- 
 mise the matter with these numerous and powerful 
 claimants, and by deeds of the 17th and iSth of January, 
 1679-80, granted his interest in the estates to sir Hans 
 Hamilton and James of Bangor. Disputes then arose be- 
 tween these and the other claimants, but eventually, in 
 1696, the Clanbrassil lands were divided into five propor- 
 tions, for which the several claimants cast lots. By the 
 articles of partition, it was arranged that the several 
 parties should hold their respective propartions as 
 manors distinct in themselves. See Hanna's Account of 
 the parish of Inch, in the Bownfiatrick Recorder. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 381 
 
 had Law Suites ag' him, nor hath he moved Suites ag' men, but lived without giveing or receiving 
 disturbances, worth the while to be named. So that now it may be inferred from y° premises alone, 
 without help of what may be further said of him) that this Hugh had enjoyed been M'' of a 
 considerable stock of Humane Prudence, wh<='> is another happy enjoymen' or possession. 
 
 It is needless therefore, and because he is of Age and able (by his Actions) to speak for himself, 
 as it is Superfluous, to recount & to tell y= Readers of his, the s^ Hughs Orchards, Warrens, Dove 
 Coate, and his other buildings wh'^'^ are obvious to all Passengers. 
 
 On these contemplations I am withdrawing my Pen, leaving all other things needful to be in- 
 certed in this Hughs fuller History and character by his S*^ Eldest Sonn, who may learn Enough of 
 matter (whereof I am ignorant) from his (I mean his Fathers) own mouth, to be a supplem' here- 
 unto ; I haveing been brief therein : & perhapps a little disremembered in the points of time 
 (whereof I kept no dyary) or have been, it may be, otherwise mistaken, unwillingly: praying that 
 all my Errata (if any) in the foregoing pages may be Corrected and Amended : for I am Confident 
 that no one thing in any of them, doth deserve to be Expunged or Omitted, for inveracity or redun- 
 dancy. Yet I desire my writeing may be taken complexly (and not to be crumbled into Atoomes'^ 
 because I shall be best understood So : and for that I have bestowed some pains by this Picture 
 wh'^'': is like him in all the lines drawn therein) to represent him to his Posterity and my own, as 
 worthy their diligent imitation, in all his Vertues herein recited. Therefore I come now to a Con- 
 clusion, not heeding to Enlarge this Short narrative, by discanting on this Hughs Actions, in his 
 Severall other Capacitys and Stations of Justice for the Peace, Com"' for the Array, Subsidys, and 
 Pole monys, in all wh* he served his King and Country as worthy of Approbation. 
 
 Neither will I tire the Reader, by telling him all might be Said Concerning this Hughs and 
 my own travells by Land and Water together : and of our being Contemporarys (as it were nigh- 
 bours) these very many years past, meeting of later Yeares (Since our residences came to be So 
 neare as they are) almost Constantly on Lords day in our Heavenly Fathers house, partaking of 
 His word & holy Table therein at due Seasons Nor will I mention what may be Said of our 
 haveing been together in our own habitations and Publiq Inns frequently: nor what Jollity, harm- 
 less drollery, mirth and good Company we have had at Such meetings : or how free we were then 
 to take good Liquor (wh"^: gladdens the heart of mankind), but let it be remembered, wee still 
 
 After the death of Henry, the second earl of Clanbrassil, domestic insurrection, or provide for the public safety in 
 
 his countess married lord Bargany, a Scottish nobleman, case of invasions, it was usual for the crown to issue 
 
 who came in for serious trouble, and not much gain, by commissions of array, under which officers of trast were 
 
 his alliance with the countess. Although Hugh Mont- sent into every district to muster and array, or set in 
 
 gomery of Ballymagown did not take any part* in the dis- military order, such of the inhabitants as were available 
 
 putings of the Hamiltons among themselves he assisted for active duty. The commissioners of array were in- 
 
 in arranging certain difficulties which had arisen between structed to take up their position at such places as were 
 
 the Hamiltons and lord Bargany. See Hamilton Matin- considered most convenient for taking a general muster of 
 
 scripts, pp. 102 — 105. all the companies and forces, both of horse and foot, in 
 
 ^ To all passengers. — The improvements here referred the kingdom, and to examine their numbers, quality and 
 to were those made by Hugh Montgomery at Ballymagoun. arms. They were further required to examine the pro- 
 Harris, Stale of the County of Do-on, p. 68, referring to this visions supplied for the soldiers' use, and to investigate all 
 residence, says — "The lands about it are looked upon as informations touching abuses, frauds, or misdemeanours, 
 the best arable and pasture grounds in the Barony." This committed by any captain, lieutenant, muster-master, 
 superiority was, no doubt, in a great measure, owing to the officer, commissary, or victualler. They were always 
 care and skill of Hugh ^Iontgomery as a cultivator. enjoined to take convoys of soldiers for their protection, 
 
 ^' Coini" for the Array. — To protect the kingdom from wiien travelling from place to place. 
 
382 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 parted friends, as wee mett nor will I rehearse any of our other occurrances. Yett lett it be 
 known, that the I am now in the last paragraph of these meraoires ; I must not withhold or Suffer 
 to be forgotten a piece of this beloved Hughs Character, given of him when he was our present 
 Earle of Mount Alexanders Agent, and all eyes open and upon him, to observe him. I say given 
 of him by L' Montgomery 9° and approoved by y= Con tray, viz : 
 
 Whereas the s"* Lieu- (who was a Jocose Ingenious discerning Gen" &i a good fellow) had 
 made his Remarks freely on many men (great and small fish falling into his nett) ; He called one 
 Gen'' the Fox another he styled a wolf, a third he termed a weesel, for nimble insinuations and 
 activity to suck and gett favor and profitt : and such like Epithets he gave of the rest wh'^'': hitt 
 patt Enough ; but Speaking of this Hugh, he Said, my Lords Hu : deserved to be called the Lyon ; 
 for he acted Generously, his nature being to have a Noble Anger, according to Lyons, viz Parcerc 
 subjedis et debdlare siipcrbos.'^^ 
 
 Yett this is not all ; for this Hugh still was and is fitt and ready to make Peace, by Compro- 
 mises (when desired) between nighbours and Kindred Relations. 
 
 My Sonn and I (with firm Confidence and on good Grounds of Knowledge) choose him a 
 Fcofee in Trust, in our mutuall Setlements of our Estates made to each other in which he was 
 
 9^ Lt. Win. Montgomery. — In 1641, William Mont- 
 gomery served in the regiment of sir James Montgomery 
 as an ensign, see p. 322, note 65, supra. lie appears, 
 from the reference to him in the text, to have resided in 
 the neighbourhood of Ballymagoun and Rosemount, but 
 we cannot state positively to what branch of the family he 
 belonged. He was, probably, a son of Adam Montgomery 
 of Ballyalton and Ballyhenry. See p. 146, note 104, 
 supra. 
 
 9' Debellare stiperbos. — The kings of Scotland had this 
 motto on their arms. 
 
 9^ Aladi to each other. — This arrangement \\'as made in 
 the year i69I,between William Montgomery of Rosemount, 
 in the county of Down, esq. (the author), of the one part, 
 James Montgomery, esq., son to the said William Mont- 
 gomery, of the second part, and sir Robert Adair of Bal- 
 lymenagh, in the county of Antrim, knt., and Hugh 
 Montgomery of Ballymagoun, in the county of Down, 
 esq., of the third part. William Montgomery "to the 
 intent to preserve his Estate in his name and family, and 
 for the Love and affection he bears to his said son James 
 Montgomery, and in consideration that the said James 
 shall pay and discharge the severall Debts in the Sche- 
 dule hereunto affixed, mentioned, a. id sett forth, and for 
 and in Consideration of live shil'ing. sterling to him the 
 said William Montgomery by the said James Montgomery 
 before the ensealing and delivery of these Pre-;ents," — 
 granted to the latter all th^t th;.- " Mannour and Capitall 
 Messuage of Rosemount with -xW its Ri,/nts, Members, 
 ffranchises. Royalties, and Appurtenances, and also all 
 and singular out houses, barns, stables, Dovehouses, 
 orc'iirds, gardens, lands, meadows, pastures, water- 
 courses, fyshings, Tythcs of all sorts both great and 
 small, with all lasements, profits, comodilies, heredita- 
 ments whatsoever." Wiilain Montgomery reserved to 
 him.elf from his estate an annual sum of £2,9, to be 
 ]).ud to him liy his son at two equal payments at the 
 Feasts of Philip and Jacob and All Saints. He also re- 
 
 served certain privileges and benefits which are stated in 
 the words of the Indenture as follow: — " The said James 
 Montgomery doth by these presents covenant and agi-ee 
 to and with the said William Montgomeiy, that he the 
 said William shall and may at all times hereafter, during 
 his life have full and free liberty of ingress, egress, and re- 
 gress, for himself, sen'ants, or such as he may appoint to 
 hunt, hawk, fysh, or fovvle, or upon any other recreation, 
 upon any part of the premisses without the Lett, hinder- 
 ance, or molestation of him the said J -.mes Montgomery, 
 or any other person whatsoever claiming any title to tlie 
 premisses from, by, or under him: And the said William 
 Montgomery shall, during his life, freely, quietly, and 
 peaceably occupy, possess, and enjoy all and singular 
 the Rooms, chambers, and other the Conveniencies in 
 and about the Mansion house of Rosemount herein after 
 mentioned and sett forth (viz.): the said William Mont- 
 gomery shall have and enjoy to his own use during hi> 
 life all and every the Rooms and Chambers and other 
 Conveniencies built upon the first floor of the said Man- 
 sion house of Rosemount, except the Hall, wh.ich is tc 
 be enjoyed by the said William and James in comen be- 
 tween them, and also the said William shall have an(": 
 enjoy to his own use the pantiy with the back stairs there- 
 unto adjoining, together with the Cellar and Convenienc' 
 for botles under the gun flanker, and also the upper roon; 
 upon the north flanker, and the whole entire new slate- 
 stable, with the conveniencies and use of the brew house, 
 the three ovens, the mash house, and bleachyard, the 
 said William INIontgomery and James are to enjoy in 
 comen; the said William shall likewise have and enjo-.' 
 during his life to his own use the meadow commonly 
 known by the name of Shansdrum, and to have all com 
 and grain to be spent in his apartments iu the said Man- 
 sion house ground at the mill free of all toll and custom; 
 the said William to have turbary, and leave to cutt three 
 hunch'ed load of turf in that part of the mosse which 
 Hugh M 'Gill, Iimkeeper, had last year : And the said 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 mainly consulted ; and by another Writeing, Hee is one (even y" cheifest relyd on) Arbitrator to 
 determine differences, if any sh<* chance to arise between us (as there hath been none, nor are any 
 Likely to bee moved by either of us) Praised be God for it. 
 
 So that for a Conclusion of all the Premises (wh^^^ I think are sufficient to be remembered at 
 this time) I will now take the Liberty to claim again a Joynt title to him ; as I Quondam had, and 
 have not forfeited it, viz. to call him our beloved Hugh ; whom and all his I wish ever well to fare ; 
 and doo in particular desire that he may See my Earthly remains lodged in their proper prepared 
 resting Place : as I have often told him my hopes were he wold doe it, without Expectation of 
 being invited by a buriall letf, for nice Ceremonys were always needless between us ; tho mutual 
 respective differences were never wanting. 
 
 Fineally as a Valediction to y° Reader (if he be an envious or carping Momus) I say 
 
 Rode Caper ! vitem ; tamen, Hie cum stabis ad Aras, 
 
 In tua, Quod fundi, Cornua possit Erit." This Englished among my other works. 
 
 James Montgomery doth promise to cause the said turf, 
 and all grain and hay belonging to his father to be Led 
 home, and putt in the usual places, he said William giv- 
 ing meat and drink to those that shall carry and bring the 
 same, and pay for stacking thereof : And it is also agreed 
 that the said William shall have yearly a third part of all 
 the tyths of herrings that shall be received, and the third 
 part of all the fruit and pigeons, with sufficient quantities 
 of cabbages, cale roots, and herbs for his own and ser- 
 vants' use, and be at liberty to keep two sadle horses to be 
 grassd with his said sons sadle horses, and two milch cows 
 10 be grassd with his sons milch cows, and a work horse 
 to be grassd with his sons work horse." This document 
 was signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of James 
 Ross, Ch. Campbell, James Young, Thos. Craford, Not. 
 Pub. The following is the Schedule of Debts to be dis- 
 charged by Jaines Montgomery, esq. , pursuant to the Deed 
 ii)th in fnentioned" . — 
 
 "To James Dunlap of Kilwalgan, by stated accompt, .. 03 15 01 
 To Hugh M'Gill in Gray Abbey, Innkeeper, by two 
 
 bonds, . . - . ■ . 27 12 00 
 
 Remaining of Interest due Alsts 90 (1690) .. .. 030300 
 
 To James Boyd, Glastery's brother, August, 88 (1688] by 
 
 Book accompt, if yet unpayd, .. .. .. 00 16 02 
 
 To Wilham Little, yeo, by book accompt, . .. 00 09 06 
 
 r© James M'Donell of Dromardan, by book accompt, . . 00 1006 
 
 To James M'Neely of Slans, by book accompt, . . .. 00 09 00 
 
 To Symon Isaac of Dunover, by book account, . . . . 00 08 00 
 
 To John M'Corm'ck, Portaferry, by book accompt, .. 02 13 03i 
 To Adam M'Cormick, of the same, by bill of acct, and 
 
 borrowed . . . . . . ■ • • • .. 02 00 00 
 
 To John Park of Ballyhalbert parish, by bond, . . . . 05 00 00 
 
 Interest due from Alst 88 to May 91 (1691), . . . . oi 05 00 
 
 To William Little Taylor, by bond, . . . . . . 04 00 00 
 
 I nterest ending at May, 1691, .. .. ■• .. 01 00 00 
 
 To the said William by acct for work, 00 18 02 
 
 To Mr. Robert Pierce, Clke, for Sallery, . . . . . . 60 00 00 
 
 To Symon Isaac afforesd by assumpsit, . . . . .. 03 10 00 
 
 To William Nevin, Bally M'Crues, by bill, August, 1686, oi 04 00 
 
 More to him by bond, Jan.y, 1687, . . . . . . 11 00 00 
 
 for three years Interest . . . ■ . . . .. 03 06 00 
 
 To him also by late accompt . . . . . . . 00 10 00 
 
 To the Ex'''* of Thomas Wallace of Donaghadee 1686 . . 01 03 00 
 
 To William Pinckstan of the same by acct. 1686 . . .. 01 03 00 
 
 To John Montgomery of Creigboy by bond .. .. 03 10 00 
 
 Interest due at May 1691 about . . . . . . ., 01 12 06 
 
 To ffrancis Allen of Donaghadee 1686 .. .. .. 01 01 00 
 
 To Ditto by book accompt . . . . . . . . .. 01 02 00 
 
 To Hugh Montgomery of the same . . . • ■ . 00 06 00 
 
 To John Milling of the same by acct. . . ■ • .. 01 00 00 
 
 To James Ross of Portivo Esqr. by bill . . ■ . . • 00 18 00 
 
 To his son Mr. James Ross on a letter March 1688 . . 01 03 00 
 
 To Andrew Clarke iu Bangor Chanler 9i (1691) .. .. 03 03 06 
 
 To Hugh Garvan of the same Glasier .. -. .. 01 01 00 
 
 To Samu" Martin A Murry by bond payable 1688 . . 08 00 00 
 
 For Interest at May i6gi .. .. .. •• ..020000 
 
 To Mr. Thomas Knox of Belfast by bond . . . .. 05 10 00 
 
 To Mr. D.avid Smith of the same merchant .. .. 00 18 00 
 
 To Robert Cluggstone of the same. . .• .. .. 00 07 08 i 
 
 To M"^ Robert Nevin of the same by book acct. . . . . 02 00 07§ 
 
 To John Young of the same by book acct. . . . . 01 14 08 
 
 To James Young of the same merchant .. .. .. 04 18 02 
 
 Charges in April 1691 three years Interest . . .. .. 01 09 03 
 
 To John Smith of the same merchant .. .. .. 03 12 00 
 
 To John Chalmers of the same merchant . . . . .. 01 05 08 
 
 To Doctor Victor Iferguson . . . . . . . . .. 02 06 00 
 
 To Hugh Hamilton of Killeleagh, 88 (1688) . . . . 04 08 06 
 
 To S'^ Robert CoUvile by Rent charge as assigned to 
 
 Alex Dalzell and by two bonds interest till May 
 
 1691 . . . . . . . ■ ■ • • • - 83 16 00 
 
 To Provost Curry in Newtown by bill & acct . . . eo 17 06 
 
 To Robert Bell of the same shopkeeper by Letter . . 01 15 00 
 
 To Provost Montgomery of the same by book .acct. .. 03 01 oti 
 To Robert Montgomery of the same gent, by bill dated 
 
 December 1687 .. .. .. .. .. ..0305 11.} 
 
 To George fferguson of the same rests of book acct. .. 00 i8 01 
 
 To James Costian in Cumber glasier by book acct. . . 00 07 08 
 
 To Robert M'Kee Whan's brother in law . . .. .. 01 1500 
 
 To Mr, George Rogers of Lisburn . . . . . . .. 01 07 05 
 
 To James Smallett & Thomas Inglish in Edinbrough and 
 
 John Cochran Glasgow . . . . . . .. 25 00 00 
 
 Interest of the same till Lamas 1691 .. .. .. 02 16 00 
 
 To James Montgomery of Craftdyke in Scotland .. 01 04 00 
 
 To Servants Wages .. .. .. .. .. .. 17 11 06J 
 
 To Patrick Paton of Drumireagh by two bonds . . . . 50 00 00 
 
 For Interest till May 1691 .. .. .. .. .. 07 1000 
 
 To John Heslep of Ballyrusselly by bond .. .. 40 00 00 
 
 To him for Interest till ^lay i6gi . . . . . . .. 10 00 00 
 
 To Thomas Scott of Ballywalter, by bond . . . . 50 00 00 
 
 To him for Interest till May, 1691 . . . . .. .. 10 00 00 
 
 To Major Samuell Stewart by bond and Rent charge . . 300 00 00 
 
 for two years Interest till 1691 . . . . . . . . 050 00 00 
 
 To William Crafford John Crafford merchants in Belfast 
 
 as E.x*^^ of l"homas Aitkin .. .- .. .. 494 09 03 
 
 To John Moody of Cardy by bond . . . . . . loo 00 00 
 
 " The total whereof is fourteen hundred fourty seven pounds seven 
 shillings nyn pens & three farthings sterling." — MS. Papers pre- 
 sented at Greyabbey. 
 
 93 Cornua possit eril. — 
 
 Rode, caper, vitem ; tamen hinc, cum stabis ad aram. 
 
 In tua quod spargi, cornua possit, erit " — Ovid, Fasti^ i., 357. 
 
384 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Mr. James Montgomerys Arms, & Epithet, & a Metaphorical Epitaph on him are to be 
 seen painted on a board hanging neare the Pulpit in Gray Abby Church, or in my treatise of 
 funeralls,?-* and is here incerted as followeth, viz — 
 
 Predoctus, fidelis, et strenuus Evangelii Prseco Jacobus Montgomery gen. 
 in Artibus Magister (ex familia de Hasilhead in Scotia oriundus) 
 Militi Aurato (ejusdem utriusque nominis) curator Animarum, vigilantissimus 
 Cujus Spiritus migravit (e terris in Coelis) Deo datori 7" Martii Anno 
 a Christo nato 1647, Corpus autem (sub Cathedra Veritatis) hie jacet 
 Sepultum, Posteritasque Conditur, in Spe Avao-rao-fcos. 
 Epitaphium Metaphoricum 
 Occidit, hie (mirum !) nulla, SOL, nocte secuta 
 this sunn hath sett and yett no night ensued : 
 No wonder ! for God, here his light reneVd. 
 Posuit amicus L:M. A° a mundo Taxato 1692.95 
 
 W. M. 
 
 Treatise on fimeralls. — This treatise is not mentioned 
 in the list of the author's writings appended to his De- 
 scription of tht Ards. 
 
 95 Taxato 1692. — This inscription differs slightly from 
 that preserved by Harris. Seep. 135, «(?/^ 43, The 
 date of Mr. James Montgomery's death is here recorded in 
 full, being supplied to the author, no doubt, by Hugh 
 
 Montgomery, son of the deceased, after the inscription in 
 the abbey had been written. The date 1692, here re- 
 corded, is 1693 in the copy of this epitaph preser%'ed by Har- 
 ris. The capitals L ; M, in the last line, are the initial 
 letters of lubens vierito, written entire in the inscription 
 as it appeared to Harris. See State of the County oj 
 Doaun, p. 53. 
 
The Montgomery Mamuscripts. 
 
 385 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 OTHER MONTGOMERY S. 
 
 OW having mentioned our 6' Laird of Braidstane & his offspring with two cadets of former 
 lairds of Braidstane : viz. Thomas of Blackstoun^ and Gransheogh^; & two other familys, 
 viz. Creboy3 & Ballymagouns all Montgomerys, & being his next relations, I will not forget 
 (nor suffer to be buried in oblivion) our forenamed serjant & his Posterity : because of his good- 
 service done to y" s* sixt laird, my venerable grandfather. 
 
 You have heard he was called Robert Montgomery, ■> & that he was a chief Instrument in y* Robert 
 s'^ Laird's Escape, & that he brought his dutch wife with him. Them y" s** Laird entertained at 
 Braidstane, until his plantation in Ireland, that he brought them over & settled them in y' lands 
 of upper Cuningburns in the Great Ards (so called from the multitude of Coneys or Rabits that 
 were in the banks of the said Bourn or brook ) ; in fee farm, under a small chief rent. The deed 
 was only written in paper (as Scotish instruments of that nature comonly are), & not registered or 
 renewed, but was observed inviolate by all the three first Lords. 
 
 The deed had an Endorsment, every word written & signed by the said Laird (then Vise*), 
 wh* I have read, & it was (as neare as I can remember) in the following terms, viz. 
 
 I do hereby heartily recomend y^ within named Rob* Montgomery, & all his posterity heires 
 males, to y' favour of my son Hugh, «&; to all his descending heirs, leaving unto them all (who 
 shall be kind to him & them) my blessing on that Account, as a memorandum of my good will and 
 respect to y° said Rob' & his dutch wife, who under God wrought my delivery out of the Marshall- 
 sea in the Hague.^ 
 
 Yet notwithstanding all this care & kindness of the s* first three Lords, in the minority of 
 this present Earle, & unknown to him & his nearest relations of kindred, the s"* deed of fee farm, 
 so indorsed, was fraudently got out of the s'' Rob' his 2'' wifes hands when she was his widdow, 
 had his daughter & two sonns to maintaine all under ninteen yeares of Age. 
 
 William, y^ the eldest sen, served mee some years at Rosemount, and went into Scotland & 
 died unmarryed, he was a propper young man & had expectations there. 
 
 ' Blacksiotm. — See pp. 26, 28, 116, supra. sheogh as the first cousin of the first viscount ( Narrative of 
 
 " Gransheogh. — See pp. 356-362, supra. Gra)isheogh, p. 357, supra), he nowhere calls Patrick of 
 
 3 Crcboy. See pp. 28, 52, note 25, supra. Thomas H. Creboy cousin of the first viscount, but only brother-in- 
 
 '^oxAgom(irj,va.\ivi Genealogical History, represents both law (see p. 52, supra), nor does he ever speak of 
 
 Creboy and Gransheogh as descended from the two younger Creboy and Gransheogh as cousins-german. 
 
 sons of Adam, fourth laird, which, if so, would make this Robert Montgomery. — See p. 12, supra. 
 
 Patrick of Creboy first cousin of John of Gransheogh and 5 Cuningburn. — The name of a townland in the 
 
 of sir Hugh the first viscount. But although the author of parish of Newtownards. Seep. y]->„ supra. 
 
 the Montgomery Manuscripts designates John of Gran- ' In the Hague.— St^ ^. iz-i^, supra. 
 
386 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Henry, the 2'' son in A° 1689, I saw him Quarterm' in Earls of Egh'ntons troop, he is mar- 
 ryed & well setled. 
 
 The daughter was marryed to one maxwell, for whom I took paines & was at expense 
 
 to rid him out of troubles, for Rob'^ sake. 
 
 This memoir I think due to Rob'^ fidelity, & service to my grandfather, he generously fore- 
 going his halbert, his Pay and y° arrears thereof, & hazarding his life, for love of a gentlman of his 
 surname, then in distress ; on what account is before related. 
 
 Other Many Inferiour Montgomerys came over^ & had mortgages some of fifty, som' of one hundred 
 
 Montgomerys, ^ . . 
 
 pounds ster. on single townlands, paying a small chiefry and the tyth {w'^ ecclesiasticall right, our 
 
 first lord did not, nor would ascertain, the most of his lands belonged to Abbeys and Pryorys, and so 
 
 might have disposed of them) for Instance 
 
 Montgomery of Ballyhenny^ in Newtoun parish, had one thousand merks Scotesh mony on y* 
 
 town called Bihefts; & payd but one shill rent per annum, but when hee (and I believe also his son) 
 
 was dead, a favorit of another name, since y° restauration, had y^ redemption of the mortgage given 
 
 him by y" 3* Lord, it came to fifty pounds i3* and 04 as I thinke & he had above 20^ ster yearly out 
 
 of it. 
 
 Item John Montgomery of B:volIy (the son of one of the first planters) was remooved out of 
 his houlding (his fathers originall mortgage mony being given him) so he was forced to remoove & 
 take a farm in y" north west of Ireland, by w* change he lost, and incomer gained a yearly income, 
 for by a law made in King Char : y" martirs reigne, any mortgaged Lands, w"'' yeelded more than 
 io"' per cent.; all y° overplus rent might be counted up as paym* in part (pro tanto) of the original 
 mortgage mony, 
 
 I incert these two names onely to show that there were substantiall montgomerys (besides the 
 aforenamed) who came over as planters, besides Artificers & yeoman, & those whom (to avoid 
 ostentation) I name not : some of whose Posterity in newton parish and near it, are thriveing far- 
 mers, and well to pass. 
 
 Now that I have related most I had to say of our 6"' Laird and his three Sonns Hugh, James 
 & George & of his two Daughters, and also have written of y° 2'' Viscounts children, Elizabeth, 
 James, and Hugh y° 3'' Vise' and first Earle of Mount Alex'' and of his offspring, Jean, Henrj-^, 
 Katherin, Elizabeth, & of Hugh, y" 4th Viscount & 2"^ Earle now liveing. 
 
 It may be alleadged that I have Acted y° Panegyrist, and not noted their Imperfections and 
 appolog}-. faults (w"^ in any man is seldom overvveiched by his vertues) & so I must, or shall, be called too 
 favorably Partiall to y' stock from whence I am sprung, & to my fellow branches & nighbours. 
 
 7 Montgoi}urys came over. — The following persons of name of a towiiland in the parish of Newtownards. Hugh 
 
 this surname received grants of denization in 1617: — Montgomery of Ballyhenry was present at the funeral of 
 
 John Montgomery of Ballimacrosse, Robert and William the first earl in 1663. See p. 250, siip-a. 
 
 Montgomeiy of Donoghdie, Thomas Montgomery of 9 Eallyheft. — Now BaHyhafi; this is also a lowland 
 
 Knockfergus, John Montgomeiy of Redene, Matthew in the parish of Newtonards. 
 
 Montgomery of Donoghdie, Robert Montgomery of ' B:volly. — This is a misprint for BaUyroHey, a town- 
 
 Edenacanany, Robert Montgomery of Moneyglasse (now land in the parish of Donaghadee. John Montgomery of 
 
 the Glass Moss), and John Montgomery of Ballyraa- Bd/ie Rj.'lie was requested by Hugh Nevin to assist in 
 
 gorrie. — Calendar Patent Rolls, ]amc^ I., pp. 326,339. canying out the provisions of his will. Seep. 135, note 
 
 ^ Ballyhenny. — This is a misprint for li.dlyhcnry, the 41, sup-a. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 387 
 
 Therefor as to this Impeachm* I shall so farr defend my self & Reputation, as to Answe 
 thus, viz. 
 
 Imp'' if I saw my forefathers, or Relations, or Christian Nighbors nakedness or infirmitys, I 
 should (according to my duty & Love) cover them as Sem and Japhet did, rather than deride them 
 as Cham did Noahs, for which, his posterity Cainan was accursed. 
 
 Item it is a Maxim and Axiom in my books viz. De mortuis nil nisi bonum de absentibus nil 
 nisi verum, & the Truetli, (especially y« whole trueth) should not be told in all times and places, 
 where it may be scandalum acceptum ; tho non datum : except when upon Oath before a Magistrate 
 
 Item it is agt the designe of this natrative w"^ is (not to speak evill of any man but) to shew 
 y^ good Acts and qualifications of those Montgomerys I have named ; thereby to stirr up Posterity 
 to imitate their vertuous Examples : 
 
 But to come nearer the answer to y= objection, I protest y' Imitation of posterity is ye chief 
 end of my writeing. 
 
 2*1° to shew my gratitude to those I ow it, or to their children. 
 
 3''° to be an example that others after mee may begin where I leave off, & so continue ye me- 
 moriall of our hono'''^ family, better than I have done, or could doe (not haveing adverted and 
 begun sooner) for times past, & always to reguard trueth, as I have laboured and studdyed to doe. 
 
 But 4''^'y to come up closer to y= objectors (if any bee) I must tell them, that wee should doe 
 to all men as wee would they should doe towards us : & that I beUeve they doe not desire their 
 own sores (old or new) should be scarifyed or ripped open to view, but rather carefully plaistered 
 and concealed. 
 
 And 5''''>' (to speak to ye subject matter of ye objection) I again protest, I have written with- 
 out Bribe, or any expectation of Reward, & without varying from the trueth, either to the right or 
 Left hand (that I know of) but have pursued the straight Roade of Duty; w*^*^ I conceived I owed 
 to my family, nighbours and acquaintances of the surname of Montgomery: God haveing given 
 mee ability and leizure to performe as I have done. 
 
 I confess no flesh is faultless, nor myself (perhapps) in point of time, w<=^ I could not exactly 
 know, for want of Records thereof, but that those I write of were naturally or habitually vicious, 
 or were cursers, swearers, lyars, gamesters (at cards or dice etc.) simulators (alias dicti, hypocrites) 
 Idolaters, drunkards, gluttons, whoremongers (abusers of themselves with man or beast) man- 
 quellers {i.e. homicides) or suicides, proud, disloyall to the Crown, oppressors, cheaters, or any 
 ways wickedly profane, or presumptuous, and customary sinners, I utterly deny it, in Thes; : and 
 on the faith of an honest Christian, I believe as I now write, and I never did reade or learne to 
 the contrary. Yet for, and after all this ; All of them had some faults rather to be termed omis- 
 sions than comissions, their greatest & most frequent infirmity was to think men honest who pro- 
 fessed sincerity and trueth, & therefore they sometimes trusted before they tryed ; and were often 
 more Generous than was needfull ; and I know for certain, divers of them were imposed upon, 
 cheated and ill rewarded, after protestations, and oaths of sincerity, fidelity, and kindness given 
 to them : beyond which, no man can expect assurance without hostages. 
 
 I haveing in this appollogy sufficiently provided against asspertions of my foregoing writeings, 
 I shall now relate concerning other Montgomerys, for whom there can be no cause ot suspicion. 
 
388 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 derrygonnelly 'j'j^g gj.g(. j name is Hugh Montgomery of Derr}'gonnelly/° where he lives gentily, within ten 
 mijes of Enniskillen ; He is a Justice of Peace, and was a Cap' of hors when y^ fermanagh men 
 defended that town & County from Justin McCarty" comander of y^ Irish, A° 1689. 
 
 Hee is the eldest son of Mr Nicholas Montgomery of Derrybrosk" (near the s<i town) who was 
 L' in S"" Ja. Montg : Regimt after he was driven to flee for his life from y'= Irish in A° i64i. This 
 M'' Nicholas is aged 84 yeares, and was made M"" of Arts in Glasgow, and his father was M"" Hugh 
 Montg : whom our Bp Geo setled there,'3 and made him receaver of his Rents, in that part of 
 Clogher Dyoces. This Hugh dyed befor that y= rebellion broke out A" i64i. 
 
 This Nicholas had debentures in Irek for service before the 5'^ of June i649.'4 
 
 Robert his 2^ son is a L' in the Army and lives unmarryed with his father, he hath a good 
 fortune, and is a proper well-bred man. '5 
 
 Andrew his third Son is a good preacher, hath wife and children and a good liveing and stock 
 at Carrickmacross,'^ he is weP Loved and in great respect. 
 
 '° Of Derrygonnelly. — This gentleman is styled captain 
 Hugh Montgomery in Hamilton's Actions of the Ennis- 
 killen Men, p. 23 ; and also in M 'Cormick's Fm-ther 
 Account of the Actions of the Enniskillen Men, pp. 
 34, 53. This Hugh Montgomery signed the memorable 
 Declaration issued by the council of war held at London- 
 derry, on the 13th of April, 1689, requiring all who 
 were able and willing to fight for their "country and 
 religion to assemble at Clady-Ford, Lifford, and Long 
 Cassiway, bringing a week's provision themselves, and 
 as much forage as they can for horses. " 
 
 " Justin APCarty. — This was an experienced officer in 
 the army of James IL In May, 1689, he was created 
 viscount Mountcashel, and appointed commander of the 
 forces intended to reduce Enniskillen. Against the gal- 
 lant defenders of that town, Mountcashel led three regi- 
 ments of infantry and two of dragoons. In a battle near 
 Newtown Butler, this force was almost annihilated, audits 
 commander wounded and carried by the victorious Ennis- 
 killeners into the town, where he lay helpless, but care- 
 fully tended, for a long time. So soon as he had regained 
 sufficient strengtti to attempt an escape, he laid his plans 
 for this purpose, and succeeded. In Storey's Impartial 
 History, part i., p. 51, there is the following brief account 
 of this affair: — "The town of Enniskillen stands upon a 
 lough, and the water came to the door of the house where 
 he was confined, or very near it. He found means to 
 cornipt a servant, and to get two small boats, called ' cots,' 
 to carry him and his best moveables off" by night." He 
 made his escape to the Continent, and died in 1694, at 
 Barege, from the effect of wounds received at the battle 
 of Chantilly in 1 69 1. — D' Alton's King James's Irish 
 Army List, pp. 490, 494. 
 
 " Of Derryln-osh. — Seep. 99, sufra. 
 
 '3 Bp. Geo. setlcd there. — See pp. 99-101, supra. 
 
 tjth of June 1649. — His debentures, so far as we 
 can discover, were value for only ;^257 2s. 4d. — Irish 
 Record Commission Reports, vol. iii., p. 295. 
 
 '5 Well-bred Lieutenant Robert Montgomery's 
 
 arrears of pay, amounting 10^503 8s. 8d., were secured l )y 
 a grant from the savings made out for him and others, in 
 the name of William Montgomery, the author. — Irish 
 Record Commission Reports, vol. iii., p. 306. This lieuten- 
 
 ant Robert Montgomery had the honour of bearing the 
 standard at the funeral of the first viscount in 1 636. 
 See p. 134, note 33, supra. 
 
 Carrickmacross. — The Rev. Andrew Montgomery, 
 A.M., was admitted vicar of Maghe Rosse, or Carrick- 
 macross, in the year 1680. He rebuilt the glebe house 
 at Derryolim, as appears by a mutilated inscription found 
 there in 1841. The old church of Maghe Ross was re- 
 built in 1779. In the interior of its old tower is the fol- 
 lowing inscription, engraved on stone, with the crests of 
 Barton, Hill, Montgomery, and a bishop's mitre : — 
 
 "this church was ruinf.d in the rebellion of 1641, 
 
 AND rebuilt in THE YEAR 1682, 
 AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REV. DR. ROGER 
 BOYLE OF CLOGHER, WILLIAM BARTON ESQR. 
 ROBERT HILL, ESQR., 
 AND ANDREW MONTGOMERY VICAR OF THIS PARISH." 
 
 The area of the old church contains, among other sepul- 
 chral inscriptions, the following: — 
 
 Arms. In a lozenge, quarteriy, i and 4, az. three fleur de lis. or 
 lilontgonery. 2 and 3, G. three rings or, gemmed az. Eglinton. 
 
 " HERE LIETH THE BODY 
 OF MRS. ELIZABETH MONTGO 
 MERY DAVGHTER OF MR 
 ANDREW MONTGOMERY 
 MINISTER OF THIS PARISH 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
 THE 9TH DAY OF JVNE IN THE 
 
 TWENTY THIRD YEAR OF HER 
 AGE AND OF OUR LORD. 1716." 
 
 Among the church plate belonging to Carrickmacross is 
 a small silver cup, with the following inscription: — "The 
 Gift of the Reverend Mr. Andrew Montgomei^ to the Parish 
 of Magheross foryf useof y^sick." Arms. Montgomery, 
 impaling three unicorns' heads, a mullet for difference. 
 This clergyman was also admitted as vicar of the parish 
 of Magheracloone, in 1692, as appears from the registr)' 
 of the bishop of Clogher. It is curious that a Nicholas 
 Montgomery, A.M., a kinsman, no doubt, immediately 
 preceded him in both charges, which he had held from 
 the year 1664. In 1702, an Andrew Montgomer)', pro- 
 bably the minister above-mentioned, was admitted rector 
 of Killanny parish, which extends into the counties of 
 Louth and Monaghan. — Shirley's Account of Farney, pp. 
 163, 164, 171, 172, 173. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 389 
 
 Hugh Ve father of this Nich : was in esteem with our two first Vise'', as being come of braid- his Coate. 
 stane,'7 and his coat Armoriall (w* I caused to be engraven on a silver penner, and bestowed to 
 y« s** M"' Nich : as he had given a yonge mare for breed to my Son) is the same w'"^ y^ beareing of 
 the old lairds of Braidstane with a distinction of a Cadet, but y« kindred I know not, y« coat is 
 ye same with Bp : Geo : S"* Tho : montg and Gransheoghs. 
 
 This last Hugh the Ancestor used to make presents to ye s'^ two Vise" of fine colts or fillys, 
 haveing had, (as his posterity still retain) a good breed of that sort and other Catall, he is men- 
 tioned p. 54 as planted at derrybrosk aforsaid. 
 
 S"" Ja : montg : when he courted his 2d lady (margarit S"^ W"" Coles'? daughter) stayd severall 
 nights in this Hugh's house, and ye morning he was Bridesgroom, went from thence, being attended 
 by him and many Montg : (his tenents all well mounted) of w* Surname I saw neare one hundred 
 liveing within the 1 2 tates=° of Derrybrosk (the s<^ M"" Nich : his land from ye church) when I was 
 ther : looking for a troublesom reprizall.*' 
 
 Our present Hugh aforesd is marryed to a beutifuU granddaughter and heiress to Jo : 
 Dumbarr,^^ and his estate, whereof Derrygonnelly is ye chief mansion place, besides w'^'' he hath his 
 fathers, and his own purchases. 
 
 I was in A° 1696 three nights in his new house (for ye old walls are not rebuilt) it is a pleasant 
 seate, a River Running by it, within half a muskett shott, and thereon a corn and a tuck mill, in 
 w* one may walk dry in slippers, he hath a pretty garden, and a plantation of fruite trees, there to 
 also a pretty litle chappell opposite to the house door, about nine score yards from it [to w=^ one 
 may goe dry in like maner) built and endowed by Sr Jo : Dunbarr aforesaid, for a deacon to reap 
 prayers, homilys, or preach in, when the weather is badd. 
 
 I saw a rarity at that house, to witt a two edged sword of excellent metall, [w'^'' this Hugh 
 never caused to be made] but had it [I have forgott what he told mee thereof] in ye late warr 
 about Enniskillen. I am of y opinion there is no smith in Ireland can forge so good a blade : 
 or I saw it severly tryed. 
 
 The sword is inscribed on y° right hand side of the blade thus 
 
 Robertus Bruschius ) k pro christo \ 
 
 ScotorumRex j isio & on y reverse si de | et Patria j D : ER 
 
 '7 Braidstane— Yiw^, the founder of the Derrygonnelly 
 branch, is supposed to have been a younger son of the 
 fotirih laird of Braidstane. 
 
 1^ Tho:7nontg: — This Thomas permanently settled 
 in the county of Leitrim, and was of the Braidstane 
 branch also. In 1617, a Thomas Montgomery, then of 
 Carrickfergus, received a grant of denization. 
 
 '9 Sir IV. Cole.— See p. 157, supra. 
 
 ^° 12 tales. — The Tate, or Talhe, was the land measure 
 best known in the county of Feniianagh. It contained about 
 thirty acres. Of forfeited lands there were in the county 
 of Fermanagh 1070 tates, or 33,437 acres. 
 
 Troublesome reprizall. — William Montgomery, the 
 author, obtained among other latds, to satisify his debent- 
 ures, 741a. 3r. 33p. in the county of Fermanagh, one of 
 
 the denominations being Lisderney, alias, Montgomerys- 
 toivn. — Irish Rtcord Commission Reports, vol. iii. , p. 
 170. 
 
 Dumbarr. — Sir John Dunbar was an undertaker 
 of lands in Fermanagh to the extent of 1,000 acres, 
 called Drumere, where he built a bawne of stone and 
 lime 80 feet in length, 45 in breadth, and 14 in 
 height. In the time of Pynnar's visit, in 16 18, the 
 whole family of John Dunbar resided on this pro- 
 perty, and also the families of nine tenants, two of whom 
 had freeholds, and the others held leases of their lands. — 
 I'ynnar's Surrey in Harris's Hibemica, p. 172. In, or 
 about the year 1620, sir John Dunbar was high sheriff of 
 Fermanagh. See' 77/4" Spottiswoad Miscellany, vol. i., pp. 
 19, 20. 
 
 2 
 
390 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 There are some obliterated, or worn out words supposed to be y* cutlers name, the Lettrs being 
 seen but by halfs and quarters whereof wee could make nothing. ^3 
 
 This reciteall minds me that Speeds history says of the great Talbot sword, found in God- 
 wins sands (as I now think) whereon was written by aqua fortis (scarce known in those days) these 
 words viz 
 
 Sum Talboti ensis pro vincere Inimicos suos. 
 Now if this blade were good and trenchant, yett the Latin was bad and blunt enough. ^4 
 But to return to this Cap' Hugh himself, his wife & children (whom I saw in his new house 
 
 A° 1696) they are all comely and well favoured, & live in a good plentifull condition : and so I 
 
 .vish they may continue without occasion to use y° royall blade, unless the Queen or Lord Lieu* 
 
 please to kn* him w'*^ it. 
 
 This Cap* Hughs estate at present pays him above three hundred pounds per annum, and is 
 
 in half a winter days journy to S*^ Thomas montgonierys Lands & habitation in the County of 
 
 Letrim. 
 
 I hope he hath my picture yf^ I bestowd him, & for w* I paid twenty dollars to collonel 
 Roseworm an Hungarian and w"'' I delivered unto Robt Hamill to be carefully sent to him at 
 Derrygonnely. 
 
 In y' next place there is James Montgomery of Lissduff =5 a stout yonge man, he was bom in 
 
 Rosemount (his mother being my deare wives gentlewoman) when she marryed his father whose 
 
 name was Hugh ; but because there be many Montgomerys of that name, he was comonly called 
 
 GraveMornce {^^^ distinctionsake) Grave Morrice, in reguard his father was an officer under a Prince of that 
 
 name, beyond our seas.""^ 
 
 ^3 Could make no/h'ug.— 'Neither can we make anything See various interesting particulars of this warrior in dean 
 
 in our attempts to discover this remarkable sword. Tlie Butler's Notices of the Castle and Ecclesiastical Buildings 
 
 editor has made application to Scottish antiquarian autho- of Trim, p. 60. 
 
 rities on this subject, but although the author's statement Lisduff. — This place is situated about three miles 
 
 excited great interest, no information is forthcoming. The '"I'om the town of Longford. 
 
 earl of Enniskillen kindly took the troul)le of making in- * J i vond our seas. — A prince of Orange, in whose 
 
 quiries among the present representatives of the Derry- army Hugh Montgomery had served, was sumamed the 
 
 gonnelly branch, but in vain. It is quite possible, however, Cra-t'e, an epithet which was afterwards applied to this 
 
 that the sword of Bruce may be lying in some old store-room officer for the purpose of distinguishing him from the 
 
 in the county of FeiTnanagh. several others of the same name in the Ards. The prince, 
 
 ^ Bad and Hunt e/ioug/i. — Spied's noticeof the inscrip- whose nickname he retained, is thus described in Howell's 
 
 tion on Talbot's sword is as follows:— " That yee may Funiiliar Letters, pp. 30, 31.-— "This prince (Maurice) 
 
 know the man not to have been studious in fine phrases, ^'•'^■> cast in a mould suitable to the temper of his people, 
 
 vpon the one side of his sword-b!a>le was engraven Sum lie is slow and full of wariness, and not without a mixture 
 
 'lalboti, and vpon the other this boysterous blunt sen- of fear ; he is the most constant in the quotidian course 
 
 tence — Pro vincere inimicos jneos.'" — Speed's Historic of ^"d carriage of his life of any that I have ever heard or 
 
 Great Brituine, fol., 1632, p. 816. " Talbot's sword," read of; for whosoever know the customs of the prince of 
 
 says Camden, " was found in the river Dordon, and sold Orange, may tell what he is doing here every hour of the 
 
 by a peasant to an annourer at Bordeaux. It had this in- day, tho' he be in Constantinople. In the morning he 
 
 i,ex\y^\\.ox^,. Sum Tulboti,yi'Z(lQCX\^\l\. pro vincere inimi- awakes about six in summer, and seven in winter; the 
 
 cosmeos. 'But pardon the Latin,' says Fuller, ' for it tirst thing he does, he sends one of his grooms or pages to 
 
 was not his, but his camping chaplain's. It was a sword see how the wind sits, and he wears or leaves off his 
 
 with bad Latin upon it, but good steel within it. This waistcoat accordmgly ; then he is about an hour dressing 
 
 sword had belonged to the renowned sir John Talbot, himself, and about a quarter of an hour in his closet ; then 
 
 afterwards earl of Shrewsbury, who was repeatedly lord comes in the Secretary, and if he hath any private or public 
 
 deputy of Ireland, and of whom Shakespere said: — letters to write, or any other dispatches to make, he does 
 
 r I- „ it before he stirs from his chamber; then comes he abroad, 
 Is this the scourge of f r.mce ? , » i- i ii t 1 i » ^„ , 
 
 Is this the Talbot so much feared abroad and goes to his stables, if it be no sermon-day, to see some 
 
 That with his name the mothers still thc-ir babes ?" of his gentlemen or pages (of whose breeding he IS vei-y 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 391 
 
 This Hugh was one of the Duke of Ornionds troop of horse Guards, & getting no comand in 
 y° Army (as courage deserves to be encouraged) becaus he had no mony to purchas a comission ; 
 he therefor (being niarryed) betook himself to Lisdufif afores* (one of y° fower cartrons and an half 
 in Longford, w"** he had in satisfaction of his fathers, & L' Coll Hugh Montgomerys services in 
 IreP before Jane 1649 the same being ultra reprizes worth above thirty two pounds per annufn.^? 
 
 He lived there within three miles of Longford town, his wife & children were barbarously 
 abused by y° Irish in K : James his time : because himself was very active ag' them : he died, 
 about y"" sixty third year of his Age, And left fower sonns and three daughters, & his widdow : who 
 and her first fower children may tell of their shelter, and maintenance they had at first in Rosemount, 
 & other kindnesses I did to him and them, in passing the lands in my Pattent, and getting him pos- 
 session gratis ; and imploying him as my Agent in that con try, and being suerty for him etc. for 
 wh"*" I have had but ungratefull returns, but I leave y° said widdow and her children In God's good 
 hands, and wish prosperity to all of them that are alive. 
 
 The two last familys furnished mee with small matter of discourse, but to supply this defect 
 they are desired (to the honor of their Surname and extraction) to doe worthyly & to add the 
 relation thereof to the coppy of this Account (wh"'' to transcribe will not be denyd them), & 
 the same will be an appendix and supplement to what I have so briefly written, because of our 
 liveing so farr distant from one another, that I am the less informed in their concerns. ^9 
 
 But there are Montgomerys of greater name and fame for warlick feats than those two, & 
 some others before named : to these gentlemen I am a stranger, and therefore will speak of them 
 by hearesay from worthy men, only. 
 
 They are grand children of M' Alexander Montgomery, prebend of Do3° in y° County of Donne- 
 
 . V i J J Montgomery 
 
 careful) ride the great horse. He is very accessible to any much to them. These lands comprised the following lots,*^ '^'^ ofispung 
 that hath business with him, and sheweth a winning kind viz., Gurtinloe, I cartron, part, 112a. 2r. ; Derrymore, 
 of familiarity, for he will shake hands with the meanest I cartron, 523. and 24p. ; Aghanappa, 3 cartrons, 163a. 
 boor of the country, and he seldom hears any commander 2r. 4p. ; Cartron-Garrow, Tuaralin, and Cartron-Keele, 
 or gentleman with his hat on : He dines punctually about 2 cartrons and a quarter, 143a. 2r. 24p. ; Lisduffe, 2 
 twelve, and his table is free for all comers, but none under cartrons, Il8a. 3r. I2p. — all in the barony of Moydow, 
 the degree of a captain uses to sit down at it: After dinner county of Longford. — Irish Record Commission Reports, 
 he stays in the room a good while, and then any one may vol. iii., p. 176. From what the authorstates, we inferthat 
 accost him and tell his tale; then he retires to his chamber, the family residence of tlie Longford Montgomerys was in 
 where he answers all Petitions that were delivered him in Lisduffe, about three miles from the town of Longford, 
 the morning ; and towards the evening, if he goes not to The family residence was aftenvards known as Cartron- 
 Council, which is seldom, he goes either to make some Garimu. A daughter of the last heir male of this branch 
 visits, or take the air abroad. And according to this con- married a Mr. Nesbit of Dnmiaconnor, in the county of 
 stant method he passes his life." Monaghan, who held a highly respectable position, 
 Thirty two pounds per annian.— The author gives no "driving his carriage, when there were not five carriages 
 hint by which we can discover the particular families to in the county." Mr. and Mrs. Nesbit's family consisted 
 which these two 1649 officers belonged. Neither can we of two daughters, the elder of whom married a Mr. 
 distinguish them from so many other officers of the same Macaulay of Dublin; and the younger became the wife of 
 name, so as to be able to say how much their debentures the Rev. William Heniy of Tassagh, county of Armagh, 
 were worth. The Henry family for a time owned a portion of the 
 ^ That are alive. — The author here refers to some Cartron-Garrow property, whicli now, however, belongs 
 ' difficulty' between himself and the Longford Montgomerys, to Mr. Courteny, also a descendant of the Hugh Mont- 
 of which we have not heard any account. We know, how- gomery who originally settled here. — MS. Notes of R. 
 ever, that among the lands mentioned in William Mont- Cunningham, esq.. Castle Cooley, Londonderry. 
 gomery's patent, and assigned to him as satisfaction for his de- ^ In their concerns. — The materials intended to suppl}' 
 bentures, there weresgi acres in the district where this family the "appendix and supplement" here mentioned, are, pro- 
 dwelt, but as he got lands intended for them passed in his bably, in the possession of some descendants of the Mont- 
 jiatent, to save them certain expenses, we cannot discover gomerys of Leitrim and Longford, 
 how much of these 591 acres belonged to him and how Prebend of Do.— Sit f^i. 100, lOl, supra. 
 
392 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 gall, who (when debarred by y' Presbiterians to use the Word,3i) took the Sword, & valiantly weilded 
 the same ag' the Irish, and he gott a command (as M' Nicholas did) in wh'^'' he served divers 
 yeares in y^ begining of y" Grand Rebellion in Ireland, and never turned taile on y Kings cause 
 nor was Covenanter, so he well deserved y' Satisfaction wh"'' his posterity has for his s"* services 
 before June 1649.32 This M'' Alex' is mentioned in Bp. Geo. Montgomerys life, page 55, and 
 here follows his Epitaph lately given mee by M' Alex'' M^Causland. 
 
 Now Hee to Nature his last debt bequeaths 
 
 who, in his life, charged through a thousand Deaths. 
 
 One man, y' have seldom seen on Stage to doe 
 
 the Parts of Samwell, & of Sampson too. 
 
 fitt to convince, or Hew an Agag down 
 
 feirce in his Arms, & Priestlike in his gown. 
 These characters were due as all may see 
 to our Divin, & brave montgomery. 
 
 Now Judge with what a Courage will he rise 
 
 when the last trumpet sounds great Assize. 
 And for y° grave stone 
 
 By what here underlys you may conclude 
 
 what ere he bee, how either great, or good : 
 
 nor might, nor meekness can from death secure us 
 
 here lys a Parson utriusque Juris. 
 
 The s*" M'' Alex" son, major John Montgomery joyned himself to our third Vise*' party, &: was 
 taken by y" usurpers soldiers : whose officers had ordered him to be putt to death, and he had been 
 executed, had not the two Ladys montgomerys their request intervened. 34 
 
 3' To use the Word. — This was another case of deposition 
 by presbyterian authority, but unnoticed by Adair. 
 
 3^ Before June 1649. — Two 1649 officers are mentioned 
 of this name, one as captain Alexander Montgomeiy and 
 the other simply as Alexander Montgomeiy. The fonner is 
 no doubt the gentleman mentioned in the text, as the author 
 describes him as having, "gott a command," and as well 
 deserving the satisfaction enjoyed by his family on account 
 of his reward. His arrears amounted to ^^1764 lis. 8d., 
 which, with several other sums, were secured by a grant 
 of lands made in the names of Randal Clayton and 
 Andrew Lindsay. — Irish Record Coinis. Reports, vol. iii. , 
 P- 304- 
 
 33 Utriusque juris. — The following is the inscription on 
 the tombstone of Alexander Montgomery's wife in Doe 
 Church : Here lyeth ye body of Margaret Moulgomery, 
 alias Cunuiiigham, tvAo tvas ye wife of Alejcaiider Mont- 
 gomery, luhoe deceased the iSth of fuiie, Auno Domeny 
 1675, (ctatis. . ." The lady's age as recorded on tlie 
 stone is obliterated. This inscription is surmounted by 
 the Hessilhead arms impaled with those of Cunningham. 
 — .'!/.S'. Notes of brigadier-genercd George Montgomery of I lie 
 Biinltay Army. 
 
 3* Request intervened. — This major John Montgomery 
 was, most probably, captured at the defeat of Lisnastrain, 
 
 near Lisburn. See pp. igi, igz, suj>ra. Thetwo"ladye 
 Montgomerys," whose efforts to save him proved successful, 
 were no doubt the third viscount's mother and wife, — ^Jean 
 Alexander and Maiy Moore. "This major John Mont- 
 gomery resided at Croqhan, and his will was proved on 
 the 28th of August, 1679. He directed his body to be 
 buried in the chancell of Lififord church, and left ;^loo for 
 funeral expenses. He mentions his brother William, and 
 his dear kinsman, Dr. John Leslie. He bequeathed 
 Carran and Castle Oghry (still portions of the Convoy 
 estate) to his son, with a charge on them to his deare 
 wife. To his seven daughters, Catharine, Nichola, 
 Rebecca, Margaret, Mary, Eliza, and Ann, he left legacies, 
 — the largest, £'1$'^^ Nichola. His personal estate 
 amounted to ^1400. This will is sealed with the Hessil- 
 head arms. The seal has the initials A. , and probably 
 belonged to his father. Li Ulster's office, there is a 
 funeral entiy of this John Montgomery, which mentions 
 his son John, and his grandson, also named John. I have 
 followed this, and made colonel Alexander Montgomery, 
 deviser of the Donegal, Cavan, and Fermanagh estates, — 
 a second son. Croghan was sold by Robert Montgomery, 
 in the year 1800. Castle Oghrey is near Invor, count)- 
 Donegal. " — MS. Notes of brigadier-general George Mont- 
 gomery of the Bombay A rmy. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 393 
 
 I have seen m'' A.lex'' montgomery at Letterkenny not farr from Do, in A° 1643,35 and heard men 
 talk much to his credit for his valourous actions Ag' the Irish Rebells. 
 
 The first of his Grandsons was named John^'^ and was a major of Dragoons in Coll Rob' Echlins 
 regiment,37 1 saw him in October 1696 in Dublin he was a Taal propper person : as comely w^'all as 
 one shall see in a summers day. he was lately married to Y Lady moor (a great fortune) in Moun- 
 ster, but he died soon after, and left males and female children by his first wife. 
 
 Alex' y" 2* Grandson was and is still a capt in y* 3"* Regim , now A° 1704 a major because it 
 was not reduced : He marryed Cap' Coles^^ (in y" County of Monaghan) his daughter & heiress, and 
 now lives within two miles of Monaghan town, 39 and hath a son, this gent' hath a good Estate, and is a 
 thriving man and a great tenant to y° present duke of Ormond. 
 
 Rob' y' youngest brother^" is still a cornet in y° same Regim', & may gett a good fortune in 
 warr or peace if he live. 
 
 These three brothers are grand nephews'*' to the late S'' Albert Coningham,t^ as also their Coll 
 
 35 Iji Ao. 1643. — In 1643, the author was only ten years 
 of age, but old enough, it seems, to have enjoyed the 
 popular account of his kinsman's valorous exploits. 
 
 36 Was named John. — This was John of Castle 
 Oghrey, and founder of the family at Beaulieu, near Dro- 
 gheda, county of Louth. 
 
 37 Robert EchlMs regiment. — Robert Echlin was the 
 third son of Robert Echlin, esq., of Ardquin. This 
 soldier's father was the grandson of bishop Echlin, and 
 his mother was a daughter of Heniy Leslie, bishop of 
 Down and Connor, afterwards advanced to the see of 
 IVIeath. "In a lease of the lands of Ardquin from Dr. 
 Alexander, bishop of Down and Connor, to Charles 
 Echlin (as administrator to his father, John Echlin, late 
 of Thomastown), dated 1808, it is stated that the demise 
 was made 'also in consideration of the great services 
 done by Robert and Henry (Echlin and Leslie) formerly 
 bishops of the sees, — the one the great-great-great grand- 
 father, and the other the great-great grandfather of the 
 said John Echlin.' This lease I have. J. R. Rchlin." Sue 
 Crawford's Memoirs of the Echlins, edited by J. R. Echlin, 
 p. 25, note. 
 
 3^ Capt. Coles. — Alexander, the second grandson, 
 married, prior to 1696, Elizabeth, daughter of captain 
 Cole, of Ballyleck, and by this lady Ballyleck came into 
 the family of Montgomery. He is the ancestor of the 
 present family of Convoy, near Raphoe, formerly of Bally- 
 leck.— tI/^'. Notes of brigadier-general George Montgomery. 
 
 ^5 Monaghan taiun. — There is a tradition in TyhoUand, 
 within two miles of Monaghan town, that the first Mont- 
 gomeiy in that neighbourhood was a very hue- 
 looking man. Tradition also affirms that sometime prior 
 to his death, he had lost several head of cattle which 
 mysteriously disappeared from his pastures. Two men 
 were taken up on suspicion as the cattle stealers, tried, and 
 condemned on circumstantial evidence,— Mr. Montgomery 
 urging forward their trial, under the impression, of course, 
 that they were guilty. Hanging was then the certain doom 
 of convicted cattle-thieves, and these hapless men were 
 hanged. But soon afterwards, on the approach of winter, 
 the missing cattle re-appeared, coming forth from the ex- 
 tensive woods which then covered much of that district, 
 and into which they had withdrawn during the wann 
 
 season. Mr. Montgomery, it is said, was so shocked when 
 thinking on the fate that had befallen innocent men, that 
 he never afterwards came abroad, but sunk gradually into 
 his grave. — Local Tradition. Alexander Montgomery's 
 marriage with Elizabeth Cole, occurred prior to 
 1696, and he died in the year 1726. His eldest 
 son, Thomas Montgomery, is said to have been 
 disinherited, because he married without the consent, 
 or contrary to the wishes of his parents. He pro- 
 bably emigrated to America, for his third son, Richard, 
 became afterwards a general in the revolutionary service, 
 and was slain at the storming of Quebec, on the 31st of 
 December, 1775. These facts were communicated, in 
 1864, by lieutenant-colonel George Samuel Montgomery, 
 Bombay army, to Thomas H. Montgomery, of Phila- 
 delphia, author of the Genealogical History of the several 
 American families of this surname. — MS. Notes of Colonel 
 /-'. C'. Montgomery. 
 
 ^' Robt ye youngest brother. — This gentleman was ances- 
 tor of the Montgomerys of Bessmount. In Tyholland 
 church, near Monaghan, there is the following inscription 
 on the tomb of one of his descendants : — 
 
 Alexander Nixon Montgomery, 0/ Bessmount Park, dierf on tlu 
 ist 0/ Afrit, 1837, in tlie 76 year of his age. As a husband and 
 father, /icwasnneqnalled,and as a christian, will be held in venera- 
 tion by all classes and denominations of Society. "Mark the 
 perfect. " " Let me die the death of the righteous.'" 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Mont., ivifeof Alexander Nixon Montgomery, died 
 on tlie it/i of May, 1827, Aged years. 
 
 Mark Anthony Montgomery, late ensign in the -jbth Regiment, 
 died at Manchester, on the ■26ih of April, 1844. Aged m years. 
 
 Grand-nepheivs. — The three Montgomerys, brothers, 
 mentioned in the text, where sir Albert Cunningham's 
 grand-nephews, being the grandsons of his eldest sister, 
 
 married to Montgomery, esq., of Bonnyglen, 
 
 county of Donegal. — Lodge's Peerage, edited by .A.rchdall, 
 vol. vii., p.. 179. The Montgomerys of Bonyglen, or 
 more correctly Bun-na-glynn 'foot of the glen,' are 
 descended from William Montgomery, fourth son of the 
 first earl of Eglinton. Hugh Montgomery, of Auchinhootl 
 and Bowhouse, was grandson of this William. Robert, 
 third son of Hugh of Bowhouse came to Ireland, sojourn- 
 ing for a time at Rosemount, where he had a son born in 
 1660, and settling afterwards at Bun-na-glynn. His son, 
 
394 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Echlin is his next nephew'*^ who being L' Coll at his unkles death, gott Regim', for his remarkable 
 speakeing, and acting at y" fight of y" boyne, for King William bid him stay on y' ground he was in, 
 till he should come again, and Coll Echlin answered yo' Maj*^ shall find me here, alive or dead, 
 and by going over to y° K : when prince, and by coming with him from Holland into England. 
 
 There are other Montgomerys gent' of lesser account than the three last mentioned familys, 
 and are men having fee farm estates, greater than many (now eminent) men had to beginn the 
 world with, and therefore they are not to be neglected or forgotten. 
 
 The first w* I shall name was M' Hugh Montgomery of Newtoun in y' Ards, he was seneschalH3 
 
 Hugh the 
 
 Seneschall 01 all our second and third Visconts Courts, one of whose daughters was marryed to m'' James 
 Montgomery curat of Grayabby (mentioned in the memoires of his Son) as his 2*" wifc*^ The s'' 
 seneschall his eldest son Hugh dyed unmarryed, being an officer under our 3'' vise' and taken 
 prisoner (at y^ defeat his Lo^ had in lisnestrean A° 1649) he was (contrary to Laws of warr) shott 
 by order, and thrown into a sawing pitt, I know y° place where his bones yet ly.''^ 
 
 The s*" Seneschall his other Son David left his freeholds in Newton afores"^ being by his mother 
 (Jean Herriott)-*^ neare kinsman to y° first Lord Glenawlyj-ts & setled himself and family in his lo'" 
 Estate, in or about Ballygaly5° in y'' County of Tireowen, and when y^ s'' Lord and his Issue male 
 
 also named Robert, married the daughter of the Rev. 
 Alexander Cunningham, dean of Raphoe. — Playfair's 
 Family Antiijuity, vol. vii., p. 861, as quoted by T. 
 Montgomery, in his Genealogical History, p. 120. 
 
 <^ Sir Albert Coningham. — Sir Albert Coningham, or 
 Cunningham, was son of Alexander Cunningham, first 
 Protestant clerg)'man of Inver and Killymard, afterwards 
 promoted to the deanery of Raphoe, all in the county of 
 Donegal. He died in 1660 ; in the same year his second 
 son, Albert, was knighted, receiving with this honour, the 
 appointment of general of the ordnance. He commanded 
 his own regiment of dragoons at the Boyne, and was also 
 present at the siege of Limerick. Being ordered af tor- 
 wards to join the forces intended for the reduction of Sligo, 
 he sent his regiment forward, following by a shorter route, 
 with only a guard of ten men. On his way he was met 
 and slain by rapparees, in the mountains, near Boyle. 
 Sir Albert was a 1649 officer, but his arrears of pay only 
 amounted to £()'^ i8s. lod. See Irish Record (om- 
 mission Reports, vol. iii. , p. 304; Lodge's Peerage, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. vii. pp. 180-82. 
 
 ••3 Next nephc'M. — Colonel Echlin was nephew of sir 
 Alliert Cunningham, being the son of sir Albert's second 
 
 sister, who was first married to Hamilton, esq., 
 
 and afterwards to Robert Echlin of Ardquin. — Playfair's 
 Family Ajitiqiiilies, vol. iv. , p. cc. 'I'his lady must have 
 been Robert Echlin's second wife, his first wife being 
 Mary Leslie, daughter of bishop Heniy Leslie. The 
 editor of Crawford's Memoirs of the Echlins was not aware 
 of this second marriage. 
 
 ""^ Holland into England. — The incidents here referred 
 to were, no doubt, told at length in the author's account 
 of sir James Montgomery, but several portions of that 
 memoir are evidently wanting. 
 
 ^3 Senrschall. — See p. 366, supra. 
 As his wife. — See p. 367, supra. 
 His bones yet ly. — For the battle of Lisnastrain, see 
 pp. 191, 192, supra. 
 
 "■^ Jean Herriott. — Hugh the seneschall was probablv 
 twice married, his second wife being Jean Herriott, a 
 daughter of " Maister John Heriot, minister of the Word 
 at Kilbirnie," and Jean Barclay, his wife. Jean Herriott 
 was married to Hugh Montgomery of Irvine in 1615. — 
 Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol, ii., p. 
 120. This couple probably came to the Ards soon after 
 their marriage, the husband being appointed seneschal of 
 Newtown, an office which he held for several years. See 
 p. 366, supra. A John Herriott, probably brother of 
 Jean, held lands in the Ards adjoining those of John Shaw. 
 See p. 52, supra. On the front of a house on the south 
 side of Castle Street, Newtownards, opposite the ALarket 
 Cross, there is, or was in 1845, a stone inscribed thus : — 
 
 i6ig. 
 
 H. W. 
 
 I. H. 
 
 This house was probably the residence of Hugh Mon - 
 gomery and Jane Herriot his wife. The Flcur dc lis, fo 
 Montgomery, was cut in the stone between the letters H. 
 M. 
 
 '■'> Lord Glenawly. — The relationship of Jean Heriot I ■ 
 lord Glenawly came through the families of Barclay < ; 
 Kilbirnie and Hamilton of Ladyland, in the same parish 
 but we cannot discover the particular degree of relation- 
 ship that existed between them. Lord Glenawly wa- 
 eldest son of Archibald Hamilton, archbishop of 
 Cashel ; and he was uncle to the brave Gustavus Hamil- 
 ton, governor of Enniskillen in 1689. — Hamilton's ^c//(?«^- 
 of the Enniskillen /Men, p. 3. 
 
 5° Ballygaly. — This place is now known as Ballygawley, 
 in the parish of Errigal-Keerogue, and barony of Clogher. 
 Adjoining the present Ballygawley house, are still the 
 remains of an old residence, which are supposed to liavc 
 formed a complete hollow quadrangle of fortified buildings. 
 This had been probably the castle of lord Glenawly. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 395 
 
 dyed, the s"* David went to Carolina (as his sister says) but what is become of him, or his children 
 
 (not having heard of them these many yeares) I know not. 
 
 Item James Montgomery returning from his travells thro holland brought with him one Provost Hugh 
 
 " . . . Montgomery 
 
 Hugh Montgomery the son of a Montgomery m Scotland, who (on an assault made upon him ui & his offspring 
 
 Irwin by the Coninghams when the fewdwas between those two Sirnaraes)^' was left for dead on y° 
 streets) having rec"^ 17 or 18 wounds and therefore called ill slain Hugh). This Hugliy* son of him 
 first named, being in holland desolate of employment addressed himself to the said S"' James Mont- 
 gomery, and was entertained of him, and brought thro England to Ireland, and by him was pre- 
 ferred to our 2^ Vise', as his master of y° household : he being an acute knowing man and well 
 bred, and afterwards, by y° s'' Vise' and y° s"* S"' James means was marryed to a rich widdow in 
 Newton afors* ; and how beneficiall leasses were made fee farms, or freeholds for his sake, to be 
 and in ure to their children, of w* widdow he had one son named James, who was a Marriner, who 
 gott about five hunder acres in Jamica, (as his plantation), called the blew point, but he dyeing 
 unmarryed the right thereof came to y" children of y*" s"" Hugh by Eliza Graham^^ his 2** wife (sister 
 of W" Shaw" of Newton his first wife) by whom he had three sons and a daughter, the first whereof 
 was 
 
 Hugh a thriveing attorney employed by all our familys, till on his Client M' Curry of 
 in fermanagh his account hee was killed in a duell by one M'' Cole. 
 
 Item he had a 2^ son called William, who [being bred an Attorney under his brother Hugh 
 dyed under the phisitians hands. 
 
 Item he had Rob' 1701 now liveing who enjoys the said freeholds, and is still unmarryed. 
 
 The s"* first named Hugh [father of these three last named] was many yeares Provest of New- 
 ton afores" : had a brother named John, who was a rich merch', till in y* grand Rebellion time 
 1642, a great cargo of meale was taken from him by y° Scotish Army, on y' publiq faith, for which 
 he was never paid. 
 
 The s"* Johns Son, Hugh, enjoyed his possessions in and about Newton : and was many yeares 
 Provest of that town but he dyed of a long distemper of y' Gout A° 1699, and left his freeholds to 
 his Son Hugh bred an apothecary [w"" trade he left off, and is now dead Afore May 1702, and 
 hath left a widdow with children of both sorts. 
 
 The John had another son named Alexander, an hatter, who was well marryed in belfast and 
 is now dead having left children. 
 
 Item W"" Montgomery of Ballyskeogh [a gent' of better acc' than those two last named brothers, 
 had two sonns viz his eldest who marryed his cozen the Laird of Langshaws sister, he died in 
 Scotland where his offspring [men and women] now reside. 
 
 Tiuo Sirnames. — The Montgomerys and Cunning- son of Andrew and Dorothy, about the year 1 700, mnrried 
 
 hams. For notice of this feud, see p. 6, su/>ra. Eiizal)eth, daughter of Rev. Dr. Hawlcshaw, and died in 
 
 5= Eliza Graham. — lady and her sister, Mrs. \V. 1722, leaving one son, Richard, who sold north Tyrella 
 
 Shaw of Newtown, were doubtless members of the family of to Mr. Waring, and other lands to George Hamilton of 
 
 Graham of Glovett, in tiie parish of Tyrella. Dorothy Ballybranagh, for £1,200. See Hanna's Account of 
 
 Graham, the relict and administratrix of Andrew Graham Tyrella, in Doiviipatrick Recorder. 
 of Glovet, sold that estate to Jocelyn Hamilton, second 53 lym. Sha^v.—Scn p. 355, sup-a. 
 son of William Hamilton of Erinagh. James Graham, 
 
396 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Item he had Hugh (now liveing) a merchant in Belfast, who hath two sonns viz William a 
 Master Marriner, well marryed in Dublin. The other is named James an officer in the Queens 
 Navy but unmarryed. 
 
 Divers other Montgomerys, with their familys and 'flocks, are come out of Scotland, since 
 A° 1692, and have taken farms in Ireland, of whom I can give no certain account,54 and therefore I 
 here end my storyes of that S''name of w* there bee many rich yeomen whom I doe not know 
 and therefor turn my pen to other subjects, as imprimis of Learning. 
 
 Of Learning. 
 
 I hope the foregoing, and subsequent Remarks will not be called Reflections (as the word is 
 understood for as noteing, or taxing of faults) I intended no such thing ag* any particular man, much 
 less towards those Montgomerys I writ of ; but gen"^ I have touched at, and told you my meditations 
 on Some facts of y° Usurpers (as I am priviledged therein) because Loosers have leave to talk. 
 
 And tho I have observed in y* family of y'^ Great Ards, and their Cognations (from y* first to 
 y* Last now Living) that none of them was learned like our Geo : (as Learning is commonly 
 Esteemed, for Skill in Latin, Greek, & y' Ancient Oriental tongues.) So as to make them B^- 
 Secular Judges, or Phisicians, ; Yet I may Say for some of them, that they did not Read to these 
 purposes, or to gain fortunes thereby ; because they thought themselves Sufficiently provided 
 for as to Estates. And Indeed ever after A" 1641, the Times agreed not to encourage men to 
 Studdy those Professions : The use of y' Sword & y* Gun, was with less Labour (tho with more 
 dispised Hazard) acquired, (and without book too) Sooner than those Linguas ; w'*" fitt only 
 churchmen, best ; to interpret & vindicate (from Hereticall Glosses) the Volumes of y* Sacred 
 Scriptures. And it must be confessed that ex quovis Ligno, non fit mercurius : w'^'' in Scotts 
 Proverbs, is as much as, Spade Shafts beares no Plumbs. 
 
 Yet it cannot bee deneyed (but allowed) that such of our Family as were bred at Latin Schooles, 
 and that all of them had (till Some Lost it by neglect thinking it useless) a competency of 
 Latin, And S' J : M : tooke degree of M' in the Liberal Arts in S' Saviours CoUedge in S* 
 Andrews : but this was in times of profound Peace, when Gown men were in fashion. 
 
 However ; there might he others, & but Some few Such learned men ; w^ a great Skill in 
 
 54 I can give no certain account. — One such family has 
 been long known in the parish of Killcad, county of 
 Antrim. The late Rev. Henry Montgomery, LL. D., of 
 Dunmurry, a member of this family, was one of the most 
 talented of the many remarkable men who bore tliis sur- 
 name. Of several families thus settling in various parts of 
 Ulster, and evidently belonging to the same stock, another 
 was well known in the parish of Ramoan, county of Antrim. 
 The founder of this branch was named Hugh Montgomery, 
 who settled at Moyargei, in the above-named parish, not 
 later than 1620. His grandson, also named Hugh, died in 
 1719, and was buried in the old church-yard of Ramoan. 
 The latter left two sons, Hugh and Alexander. Hugh, who 
 was heir to the family property, sold the greater portion of 
 it to John Wilson of Carrickfergus. His son, Robert, sold 
 the remainder of the freehold in Moyarget, engaged deeply 
 in business speculations, and was unsuccessful. A younger 
 brother of the latter, named Alexander, was an oihcer in 
 
 the iiith regiment of foot, of which Hugh Percy, lord 
 Warkworth, was colonel. Montgomery's commission is 
 dated October, 1 76 1, and bears the autographs of George 
 HI. and George Grenville. The first-named Alexander 
 Montgomeiy lived and died in Moyarget. He left one 
 daughter, Mary, who married William Fullerton, a de- 
 scendant of William Fullerton, who distinguished himself in 
 the defence of Ballintoy castle against the Irish in 1641, and 
 a brother of Dr. Alexander Fullerton, who purchased the 
 Ballintoy estate after it had passed from the Stewart 
 family. See p. 80, note 41, supra. A daughter of this 
 couple, named Mary, married Adanr Hill of Moyarget, and 
 their son, William Hill, of the same place, died in 1854, at 
 the age of eighty years. With the Hugh Montgomery who 
 first settled at Aloyai'get came a kinsman named Robert 
 Giffen, who was, no doubt, also a Montgomery from the 
 barony of Gififen, in Ayrshire. The descendants of Giffen 
 emigrated to America early in the present century. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 397 
 
 Latin, Greek or Hebrew : Yet I cannot see any absolute necessity for any Person (other than 
 those intended for Clergymen) to disturb his braines, or trouble themselves (So long as they doe) 
 with obsolet words, or w*'' nouns, participles, etc. Genders, Cases, Moodes etc. 5+ (that are comonly 
 forgotten,; which at y° beginning to learn them, puzles and confounds, childrens notions, loads 
 their memories, and tire them into a disgust of all Such readings. 
 
 for I call him a learned man (in this or that Science civil or military) who hath most knov/ledge 
 therein ; how ever he come by it, and this may be, and was, had by divers of our family (they 
 gaining the french, dutch, or Italian) another way ; and in their own mother tongue (in which Last 
 the Ancients wrote those books for w^h they are now So much revered) and I cannot see why those 
 latin Authors Should be taught everywhere (as they are) without any great profit (or rather to the 
 prejudice of those who handle Such books) for those heathen writers especially y® Poets, gen"'' , doe 
 not benefit y° mindes and memorys of Christian youth but hurt them ; by takeing up roome 
 therein, & by looseing their time in Such Studys: wheras they might be better furnished, for the 
 
 55 Genders, Cases, Moodes, etc. — The author thus pro- 
 bably intends to condemn or correct a sort of mania that 
 had prevailed during many years previously among all, 
 even the humblest classes in Scotland, to acquire a know- 
 ledge of the Latin tongue, and especially to express their 
 thoughts in Latin verse. This power was considered such 
 a distinction in the seventeenth century, and was so gene- 
 rally possessed, that even so early as the year 1617, when 
 King James I. of England visited Perth, his visit was com- 
 memorated by several Latin poems, which had been 
 written for the occasion by merchants, and even trades- 
 men, of the place. Two volumes of Latin poems were 
 collected by sir John .Scott, and entitled Delitiee Poeta- 
 rum Scotoni/n, containing Latin verses from many hands 
 on a great variety of topics. The first volume contained 
 poems by archbishop Adamson, Henry Anderson, sir 
 Robert Aytoun, John Barclay, William Barclay, Mark 
 Alexander Boyd, sir Thomas Craige, James Crichton, 
 George Crichton, Henry Danskin, Thomas Dempster, 
 David Achlin, Peter Goldman, James Halkerston, David 
 Hume, Arthur Johnston, and John Johnston. The very 
 second name on this list, Henry Anderson, was that of a 
 small trader in Perth. The second volume contains 
 contributions of David Kynlock, Principal Melvin or 
 Melville, James Malcolm, lord Thirlstane, Thomas 
 Maitland, Thomas Muiray, Adam King, Thomas Reid, 
 John Rose, Andrew Ramsey, Hercules Rollock, Alexander 
 Ross, John Scot, sir John Scot, Thomas Leggat, George 
 Strahan, George Thomson, Florence Wilson, and David 
 Wedderburn. Several of the above-named writers had 
 no other or farther connexion with literature than what 
 was required to enable them to write Latin verses. — David 
 Irvine's Lives of the Scottish Poets, vol. i., pp. lo2, 103, 
 uote. Alexander Ross was the author of Cliristias, which 
 may safely be pronounced one of the queerest books ever 
 brought into existence. The following is the full title of 
 this work : — -Virgilii Evaw^disantis Christiados libri xiii. in 
 qttibus omnia qtice de Domino vostro Jesic Christo in 
 utroque testamenio vel dicta vel predicta sunt, altisona 
 Divina Maronis tuba suavissime decantatitur, injlante 
 Alexandra Kosaeo. 
 
 " Arma virumque Maro cecinit, nos acta Deumque, 
 Cedant arma viri, dum loquor acta Dei. 
 
 " Roterodami, 1653." 
 
 " By a marvellous ingenuity he strings together on a new 
 sequence nearly every line that Virgil wrote, adapted, 
 sometimes with the change of a word, sometimes with no 
 change at all, to what may be termed a poetical exposi- 
 tion of Christianity." — Burton's The Scot Abroad, vol. ii., 
 p. 124. 
 
 5* Memorys of christian youth. — In Mrs. H. B. Stowe's 
 Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, the following observa- 
 tions on this question occur at the close of letter xix. : — 
 "It is a curious fact that Christian nations, with one 
 general consent, in the early education of youth, neglect 
 the volume which they consider inspired, and bring the 
 mind at the most susceptible period under the dominion 
 of the literature and m.ythology of the heathen world ; 
 and that, too, when the sacred history and poetry are 
 confessedly su]3erior in literature and quality. Grave 
 doctors of divinity expend their forces in commenting on 
 and teaching things which would be utterly scouted were 
 an auLhor to publish them in English as original compo- 
 sitions. A Christian community has its young men 
 educated in Ovid and Anacreon, but is shocked when one 
 of them comes in English with Don Juan; yet, probably 
 the latter poem is purer than either. The English litera- 
 ture and poetry of the time of Pope and Dryden betray a 
 state of association so completely heathenised, that an old 
 Greek or Roman raised from the dead could scarce learn 
 from them that any change had taken place in the religion 
 of the world ; and even Milton often pains one by intro- 
 ducing second-hand pagan mythology into the very 
 shadow of the eternal throne. In some parts of the 
 Fa7-adise Lost the evident imitations of Homer are to 
 me the poorest and most painful passages. The adoration 
 of the ancient classics has lain like a dead weight on all 
 modern art and literature ; because men, instead of using 
 them simply for excitement and inspiration, have con- 
 gealed them into fixed imperative rules. As the classics 
 have been used, I think, wonderful as have been the 
 minds educated under them, there would have been more 
 variety and originality." 
 
 D 2 
 
398 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Latin; with Treatises like M"' Alex'' Ross his Virgilius Evangelizans," Buchanan,^^ or Johnstons^ 
 versions of K: Davids Psalms Cowleys Davideis^° etc. 
 
 For I observed in Holland, that Parents put not their Sonns to latin Schools, except 'tis 
 found (upon tryal) that they are ajit & desirous to learn it : And indeed it's necessary for clergy- 
 men, Travellers & Trafiquers, in Christondome (as y« Dutch are) to attaine a Little Congruous 
 Latin, for w"^*^ purpose if they find them apt & docile, they Send Such children (as Soon as they 
 have acquired y* knowledge of the alphabetts, & can read their horn-book :) I say they put them to 
 y= Latin or french Schools to learn to reade those Linguas, & to write fair orthography ; the one 
 being a recreation after the toile of the other : w'^'' enables them to be merch^^, (or factors rather) 
 Divines, physitians, & Travellers : So thus y^ time is Saved w'^'^ would be Spent in learning to reade 
 their own Dutch Tongue. 
 
 57 Virgilius Ev angel izans. — See note 54- — Ross also 
 published a work containing several remarkable pro- 
 ductions in prose and verse, and entitled, Md Heli- 
 coitium ; or Poeticall Honey, gathered out of the Weeds . 
 of Parnassus. London, 8vo, 1642. .Some of his Latin 
 poems are printed in Scot's Delitice Poetaruin Scotorum, 
 already mentioned. Among his prose works is one — 
 perhaps the best, certainly the most useful — entitled, 
 Vievj of all Religions, which has been translated into 
 French, Italian, and German, and which contains a 
 good portrait of the author. — Irving's History of Scottish 
 Poetry, edited by J. A. Carlyle, p. 574, note. Dr. Ross 
 adhered steadily to the cause of episcopacy in covenanting 
 times, and was compelled in consequence, to seek refuge 
 in England, where his genius and learning were far from 
 being appreciated as they deserved. Butler's sneer at him 
 in Hudibras was more popular than perhaps any of his 
 own most poetical efforts : — 
 
 *' There was an ancient sage philosopher 
 
 That had read Alexander Ross over ; 
 
 And swore, the world, as he conld prove, 
 
 W.as made of fighting and of love." 
 
 The following is an entry in Evelyn's Diary, under date 
 1st February, 1 653, during the exile of Ross in England : — 
 " Old Alexander Rosse (author of ' Virgilius Evange- 
 lizans,' and many other little bookes) presented me with 
 his book against Mr. Hobb's 'Leviathan." — Evelyn's 
 Memoirs, vol. i., p. 270. Sir Thomas Urquhart, a good 
 authority, speaks of Ross as "a most learned and worthy 
 gentleman, and most endeared minion of the Muses, who 
 hath written manyer Excellent books in Latine and 
 English, what in prose, what in verse, than he hath lived 
 yeers." — Irvine's Lives of the Scottish Poets, vol. i., p. 132. 
 
 5^ Buchaiiajt. — George Buchanan, the great Scottish 
 historian and poet, wrote a Latin version of the Psalms, 
 which is, perhaps, the most truly appreciated of all his 
 poetical works. Mackenzie, in his Scotch Writers, speaks 
 of Buchanan's translation as "executed with such inimit- 
 able sweetness and elegance that his version of the Psalms 
 will be esteemed and admired as long as the world 
 endures, or men have any relish for poetry." It is gene- 
 rally admitted that to Scotland belongs the honour of 
 having produced the finest Latin version of the Book of 
 Psalms. " At a time when literature was far from common 
 in Europe, Buchanan, then a prisoner in a foreign land, 
 produced a work which has immortalised his name, and 
 left scarcely anything to be desired — as far as the beauties 
 
 of diction and imagery are concerned — in a translation of 
 the sacred songs. There are twenty-nine different kinds 
 of measure in the work, in all of which he shows how 
 completely he was master of the varied forms of Latin 
 verse. His translation of the 104th Psalm has frequently 
 been selected as one of the finest specimens of sublime 
 poetry. A translation of Buchanan's Psalms into Eng- 
 lish verse was published by the Rev. C. J. Cradock of 
 Maryland, in 1754." — Allibone's Critical Dictionary. 
 
 59 Johnston. — Great as was Buchanan's fame for this 
 performance, he had a very able rival in Dr. Arthur John- 
 ston, a poet who was born near Aberdeen, in the year 
 1587, and who died at Oxford, in 1641. Johnston was 
 one of the best (if not the very best) Latin scholars of his 
 time. It is somewhat remarkable, and is a proof of how 
 justly he was able to estimate his own literary powers, 
 that he ventured to attempt the same great work which 
 Buchanan had already perfonned so well. Johnston's 
 Latin version of the Psalms of David — Psalmorum 
 Davidis Paraphrasis Poetica, et Canticoruin Ezangelicorum, 
 was published at Aberdeen, in the year 1 673. For many 
 years after its publication, the critics keenly disputed the 
 relative merits of Johnston's and Buchanan's versions, 
 some assigning the palm to one poet, and some to the 
 other. Of Johnston we have the following brief, but ex- 
 pressive notice from Morhof : — " Arturus fonstonus, in 
 Psabnoruin versione, queinadmodum et in operibns ceteris, 
 ubique purus ct ter sits est, ut ego quidein nihil in illo desi- 
 derare possim. " — Polyhistor, torn. i. , p. lo66. The follow- 
 ing editions of Johnstons Psalms have been published :— 
 Londini, 1637, 8° ; Aberdonice, 1637, 12° ; Middle- 
 burgife, 1642, 12°; Londini, 1647, 12°; Cantabrigire, 
 12°; Amstelredam, 1706, 24°; Edinburgi, 1739, 8°; 
 Edinburgi, 1739, 12°; Lond. 4°, 1741. 
 
 '° Cowley's Darideis. — Cowley wrote a poem entitled 
 Davideidos Liber Primus, which is also remarkable as an 
 effort in Latin verse. The author's opinion that such 
 books, in the education of youth, would be preferable to 
 the Roman classics, appears to have been pretty generally 
 adopted and carried out in Scottish seminaries and even 
 colleges. Our copy of Buchanan's version of the Psalms 
 was edited by Ruddiman, and printed in 1786. We ob- 
 serve from the fly-leaf that it originally belonged to a 
 student of King's College, Aberdeen, named James 
 Cameron, and that subsequently, in 181 5, it was the 
 property of another student named William Spence. 
 
THE Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 399 
 
 I am also of Opinion, that had wee English Schooles, and Academys, (as in France they have 
 in their own Speech) to teach Rhetorick, oratory, Logicks, physicks, (or natural philosophy) & 
 metaphysicks, medicin, navigation, merchandiseing & the mathematicks &c., And for y« Military 
 Art, & Disciplin ; & (for intermediall Recreations) Fenceing, Danceing, Carveing, Rideing, &c. 
 Then our Gentry and Noblemens Sonns would so (w'^ greater delight & Study, & with less ex- 
 pence of Time & mony) become Knowing (Ergo learned) men. for Lords & Lozells,^' would betake 
 themselves respectively to learn what were most propper, or Liked them best, & thus Wth Ease 
 improve their natural Talents. 
 
 For we see there are English bookes of All Arts & Sciences (originall or Translations) much 
 more correct & improoved, than the writeings of former ages. So that Teachers are only wanting, 
 & these may be had at y' Same Sallarys, W^"^ retain masters in the County Schooles, or other 
 Schooles endowed by Noblemen, for Encouragem' of builders in a new laid out town : w* masters 
 nevertheless ought (& may) be able to teach Latin, Greek &: Hebrew, to those who have Braines, 
 Leizure, Sedulity, & money, to travaill that Toilesome, Tedious roade about y° bush, to gaine a 
 frothy Admiration ; wheras Understanding & Knowledge, are the Same in every Contray or Lan- 
 guage, & doth not consist in learning Sundry Alphabets or Letf^ , (w'^'i (as I Said) is properest, for 
 Clergymen &: Travellers ;) for many Persons (Especially young Princes) without Gramar, learn 
 Latin, as also the French & Dutch Speeches, & y° Sciences by y° sole Conversation of Tutors ; the 
 Natures of men, born & bred high, (least of all and) Scarcely enduring the Fatigue Confinem' & 
 bondage of a gramar Schoole, to be cloggd with hard words of Participles, Gerunds, pronouns, 
 interjections, Genders, tences, moodes, & Such like designations; unintelligible to many Masters 
 themselves ; & w*:"^ are very burdensome to y^ memory, by reason of y° intricacy of their defini- 
 tions, w'^'^ at y° very first tryall. Seem insuperable to childrens Capacitys : it being implanted in the 
 Natures of all Mankind to affect, & Endeavour Liberty & ease, 
 octs i'l Now having taken this Liberty to descant, a Little upon Pedantick Learning you may read (if 
 you please) Some of my thoughts concerning Poesy. I have heard for an old Roman Adage iias- 
 cimtur PoetcR, fiunt oratorcs.. Yet this former wants Art to Methodize & Polish them, as well as 
 y" Latter. 
 
 Of Poesy. 
 
 It is Said that y' wofd Trotecris is derived from woteiv w* Signifys makeing & fiction, as well 
 Invention as writeing Verses, w'='^ are contrived in Severall Shaps and formes, as Statues are carved. 
 Rime and Meetre, from y« Greek Pt^/xos and /xerpov Signify admeasurm', & are two words, for tha( 
 one of Poesy & doe not import Lines or Sentences, w<=h chime, (Sounding alike at the ends of 
 them :) for then wee Should find no Latin or Greek Poesy except what y<= Monasticks aftbord us : 
 or their few apish imitators. But these Original derivative Nouns denote that Verses Should have 
 
 ^' Lozells or Losels. — Meaning such as have " lost or suddahilie disappointed his mischeefous drift." Spenser, 
 
 cast ofif their own good or welfare, and so are become in his Faii-ie Queen, book ii., c. 4, employs and explains 
 
 lewdeand careless of credit and honesty." In Holinshed's the word thus: — 
 
 1 38 1, there is the following illustration of „. , , 
 
 this word:-" But he that resisteth the proud and giveth ^'bV: t^ia^t^ boun.*:' neteTc^'t^ls m^n^! 
 
 his grace to the humble, would not permit the ungracious jje thought of honour ever did assay 
 
 devices of the naughtie and lewd lozzcU to take place, but His baser breast," &c. 
 
 amuv. 
 
400 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 certain foot, Some have three measures w'^'^ are Six foot called Tpifxerpov Some fewer measures 
 named Terpafierpov Some five termed Pentameters, Some Six, called Hexameters &c. hence Verses 
 
 are in Generall called Numbers, because the Severall Sorts of them are Scanned, reconed and 
 denominated, from y"^ number of their foot. 
 
 w'^'^ foot are words consisting of one or more Sylables of different extent (called quantitys) in pro- 
 nouncing Some Long and others Short : but I designe not here to discover the Poetic Art, haveing 
 Said more thereof els where -.^^ but certainly I may conclude (according to my observation) That 
 those Persons who are naturally enclined thereunto have more elevated & Refined mindes, than 
 those whose thoughts grovell, on gaining earthly things : & So (for y= most Part Poets miss those 
 left hand blessings, but it holds not ihat Poets must therefore be neglectors of estates, for poesy 
 may be used as a Recreation, & as a pollisher of Speech, & not be the employm' of Life. 
 
 I shall therefore mention onely a few of our Family who were endowed with that Accomplishment. 
 
 Imprimis Capt Alexr Montgomery, mother brother to our 6^ Laird. 
 
 ThisGentl man was an Excellent Poet, Witness his Poesy called the cherry & y^ Slae^* (that raaga- 
 
 ^- Thereof els where. — What the author may have writ- 
 ten on this subject is probably bst. We have nothing in 
 the Alamiscripts descriptive of, or defining the poetical 
 art, but there are certain references to poets belonging to 
 the Montgomery family, at p. 148, supra. 
 
 *3 Mother brother to our 6' laird. — See \i. 12, supra. 
 Alexander Montgomery, one of the most justly renowned of 
 the early Scottish poets, was thus uncle of the sixth laird of 
 Braidstane, afterwards first viscount Montgomery of the 
 Great Ards. This statementof the author is very interesting, 
 as it confimis the testimony of Timothy Pont respecting 
 the ijarticular branch of the Montgomerys to which tlie 
 celebrated poet belonged. In Font's TopO'j^raphy of Ctiti- 
 ninghame, written about the year 1610, there is the fol- 
 lowing passage : — " Hasilheid Castle, a strong old build- 
 ing, environed with large ditches, seated on a loche, 
 veil planted and commodiosly beautified : the heritage of 
 Robert Montgomery, laird thereof Faumes it is for y' 
 birth of yat renomet poet, Alexander Montgomery." The 
 poet was born in Germany, although he was of the family to 
 which Hessilheid belonged. The old castle consisted 
 principally of one capacious tower-shaped building, which 
 formed the original manor place of the poet's family. The 
 Hazlehead estate was a portion of the barony of Giffen, 
 and passed into the liands of Francis Montgomery of 
 Gitfen, in the year 1680. The latter, on getting posses- 
 sion, built certain additions to the old castle, which, with 
 the original structure, are now in ruins. It is curious that 
 although Montgomery's poetry must have greatly contri- 
 buted to the improvement of the generation in which he 
 lived, no sketch of his personal history or career was 
 written during his life, or even at the time of his death. 
 Being uncle to the first viscount Montgomery, the poet 
 must have been son to Hugh Montgomery, — probably 
 fifth laird of Hazlehead, — who is mentioned among the 
 lesser barons of Ayrshire Jts one of those who signed the 
 famous Band, in 1 562, for the maintenance of the re- 
 formed religion. This laird of Hazlehead, or Hesilhead, 
 had one daughter married to the fifth laird of Braidstane, 
 father of our first viscount ; and another daughter married 
 to sir William Mure of Rowallcn. These ladies were sis- 
 
 ters of the poet, and their children partook largely of tlic 
 poetical vein of their brother Alexander. Sir William 
 Mure's son and successor, also named sir William, was a 
 poetical writer of no mean pretensions. In a poem ad- 
 dressed by him to the prince of Wales, afterwards Charle- 
 I., sir William Mure thus refers to his uncle's celebrity: — 
 
 " Matchless Montgomery, in his native tongue, 
 In former times to that great sire hath sung ; 
 And often ravished his harmonious ear, 
 With strains fit only for a prince to hear. 
 My Muse, which nought doth challenge worthy fame, « 
 Save from Montgomery she her birth doth claim — 
 Although his Phccnix ashes hath set forth 
 Pan for Apollo, if compared in worth — 
 Pretendeth little to supply his place, 
 By right Jiereditar to serve thy grace." 
 
 The poet Montgomery is generally supposed to have beer 
 bom about the year 1546, but whilst the year is not posi 
 tively known, the poet himself has fixed the day on whicr 
 he was born, in the following lines : — 
 
 " Quhy wes my mother blyth when I wes borne ? 
 Quhy heght the weirds my weilfair to advance ? 
 Qii/iy 7i'cs my birth on Eister day at vionie ? 
 Quhy did Apollo then appeir to dance? 
 Quhy gave he nie good morrow with a glance? 
 Quhy leugh he in his golden chair and lap. 
 Since that the hevins are hinderers of my hap ?" 
 — Scottisli yoiirnat of Topog7-aphy, ^c, vol. i., p. 156. 
 
 Cherry and y .Sloe. — This poem, which is better 
 known than any of Montgomeiy's poetical efforts, was first 
 published in Edinburgh, by Robert Waldegrave, in the 
 year 1595, but MS. copies of it had been in circulatior: 
 several years prior to that date. James VI. published, ir 
 1584, his Revlis and Caiitdis of Scottis Poesie, which con- 
 tained large extracts from the Cherrie aud the Slae. Seve- 
 ral editions were printed in the interval between the close 
 of the sixteenth and tiie middle of the eighteenth centun'. 
 It is interesting to know that the Cherrie aud the Sla ■ 
 must have been one of the agencies which assisted in 
 moulding the wondrous poetical genius of Robert Burn? 
 The latter has some happy imitations of Montgomei7' • 
 style, and even certain etpially happy adoptions of his very 
 expressions. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 401 
 
 zine of pithy witt) and his Sett matches of flyteing in verse (ag' the Laird of Polwart) before King 
 James the 6' & his Scotish Court) out of W^i^ two Poems of few Sheets The Advocates in Edin- 
 brugh take many Oratorious and Satyricall Apothegems.^s Also his Dumb Solsequium : and his 
 confession of a Sinner ; (entituled his Lamentation) haveing for a Chorus (as it were at y= end of 
 every Stanza those words viz Peccavi Pater ! misere mei. then you may read his Non ardes ad 
 Deum converti, it being his morning Muse: and also See his Declinaa malo & fac bonum. w'^'' smal 
 remainders of his elegant writeings have had (as I verily beleive) above a thousand impressions in 
 London, Edinbrugh, Glasgow and Aberdeen (if alltogether be reconed) & will never faile to be 
 reprinted again & again in Scotland,^^ I do not think they have as yet been out done, tho paralelled : 
 The first named of them is lyrical, & is Sung to an harmonious musical tune, & were turned into 
 
 5^ Satyricall Apothegems. — The celebrated Flytiiig'mveri^ 
 between Alexander Montgomery and sir Patrick Hume 
 of Polwart, must have been written prior to 1584, as it is 
 quoted by King James in his Treatise on Scottish Poetry 
 (see preceding note) pubhshed in that year. This Flyting, 
 which does not possesses much poetical merit, was under- 
 taken by Montgomery and Hume in imitation of the earlier 
 and more celebrated Flyting between the poets Dunbar 
 and Kennedy. Both Flytings, however, are now only 
 curious as illustrating the peculiar adaptations of the Scot- 
 tish tongue to the expression of broad humour or satirical 
 abuse. All "the advocates of Edinburgh" were not ad- 
 mirers of Montgomery's Flytiiig, as might be inferred from 
 our text, for lord Hailes has said that the poem only 
 "tends to evince how poor, how very poor, genius ap- 
 pears, when its compositions are debased by the meanest 
 prejudices of the meanest vulgar." This announcement, 
 liovvevcr, savours much of a hyper-critical spirit. See 
 Irvine's Lives of ike Scottish Pods, vol. ii.,^pp. 200, 201. 
 The poetical talent of sir Patrick Hume dicl not die out 
 of his family with himself Grizzle Hume, a daughter of 
 the eighth baron Polwart, and known as lady Baillie of 
 Jerviswood, inherited this talent in an eminent degree, 
 but, unfortunately, the troubles of the times in which she 
 lived prevented its exercise, except in the production of a 
 few lyrics of great beauty, which are thoroughly Scottish in 
 thought and expression. She is the writer of IVcre na my 
 heart licht I wad dee, in which the following lines occur: — 
 
 " He had a wee titty that loo'ed na me, 
 Because I w.is twice as bonnie as she ; 
 She raised such a pother 'twixt him and his mother, 
 That were na my heart Hcht I wad dee. 
 
 His bonnet stood aye fu' round on his brow : 
 His auld ane lookil aye as well as some's new ; 
 But now he lets 't weare ony gale it will hing 
 And casts himself dowie upon the corn bing." 
 
 The following verses discovered, in her handwriting, 
 among a parcel of old family letters, were printed in the 
 Scots Magazine, new series, for 18 18 : — 
 
 "O the Ewe-bughting's bonnie, baith e'ening and morn, 
 When our blythe shepherds phy on their bog reed and horn ; 
 While we're milking they're lilting baith pleasant and clear- 
 But my heart's like to break when I think of my dear ! 
 
 " O the shepherds take pleasure to blow on tl;e horn, 
 To raise up their flocks o' sheep soon i' the morn ; 
 On the bonnie green banks they feed pleas;int and free — 
 But. alas ! my dear Heart, all my sighing's for thee '." 
 —See The Ladies of the Covenant, pp. 206—221. 
 
 Again and again in Scotland. — See note 63, sttpra: 
 Besides the editions of the Cherrie and the Slae which ap- 
 peared in 1595 and 1597, there were editions of Montgo- 
 inery's whole poetical works printed in the years 1605, 1615, 
 1629, 1636, 1645, i668, 1675, 1711, 1722, 1754, 1779, 
 and 1821. Besides the Cherrie and the Slae and the Flyt- 
 ing, he has written a lengthened and beautiful poem, 
 entitled the Mitids Melodic, together with a great number 
 of sonnets, odes, psalms, and epitaphs. He is almost the 
 only Scottish poet who has ventured to* write sonnets in 
 his native .Scottish language. Of the seventy sonnets, 
 there are many truly beautiful, both in thougfit and ex- 
 pression. Some of Montgomery's minor poems give us 
 glimpses of his life, which, like the lives of most poets, 
 was seriously beset with evil in various shapes. Here is 
 an illustration : — 
 
 " If lose of guids, if gritest grudge or grief, 
 
 If poverty, imprisonment, or pane. 
 
 If for guid-will ingratitude agane. 
 If languishuig in languor, but relief, 
 If det. if dolour, and to become deif. 
 
 If travell tint, and labour lost in vane. 
 
 Do propcriie to poets appertane, — 
 (^f all that craft my chance is to be chief: 
 
 Witli An:;',i^t, Virgin waunted his reward, 
 And Ovid"s I <\<: als lukles as the lave ; 
 
 Quhill Homer lived, his hap wes very hard, 
 yit, when he died, sevin cities for him strave. 
 
 Thoght I am not lyk one of thamc in arte, 
 
 I pingle them perfytlie in that parte." 
 
 In another sonnet, we meet the following reference to his 
 difficulties : — 
 
 *' I'his is no lyfe that I leid up-a-land. 
 
 On raw red herring, reisted in the reik ; 
 Syn I am subject som tyme to be seik, 
 
 And daily deing of my auld diseis ; 
 Ait bread, ill aill, and all things are ane eik ; 
 
 This barme and blaidry buists up all my be;s." 
 
 In the verses intended to celebrate the charms of lady Mar- 
 garet Montgomery, countess of Wintoun, and mother of 
 Alexander, sixth earl of Eglinton, we meet these lines : — 
 
 " Quhose nobill birth, and royal bluiJ 
 Hir better nature does exceid. 
 Hir native giftes, and graces grid 
 Sua bonteouslie declair indeid. 
 As wain and wit of womanheid 
 
 That sa with vertew dois ourficit, 
 Happie is he that sail posseid 
 In marriage this Margareit." 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Latin Verses, with the Same number of foot and unisons as in the Original ; A stupendious worI< 
 indeed ! fitt for the acute witts, of that Scottish friary (beyond our Seas) w'^'i undertook it 
 Item the 3*^ 6' Laird made most apposit appHcation of poesy (Latin and English) in discours as 
 afores : So that it may be believed, he at least understood poesy well, and it is probable he com- 
 posed Verses of his own. As for his Eldest Son our 2^ Vise' I never Saw him, nor have any of his 
 papers, but he being an Exactly bred courtier, & of ready witt, we may presume he was not alto- 
 gether out of that mode w'^^ ^y^s in vogue in his days.^^ 
 
 Then for our s<i Lairds 2^ Son, S" J. Montg : I have not only his philosophical & raathemati- 
 call writeings, but his Poeticall also, on wh'^'^ last ........ 
 
 & I will leave them ..... son who is a competent Judge of verses.^ 
 
 gr -^m Alex'', Earl of Striveling was & is (tho' dead) a famous speaking Poet, 7" as witnessetli 
 his Volume folio in Heroicks, lyricks, &: pindaricks, (& was also an acquireing able statesman, 
 purchajeing honor and lands) wh*^*^ writeings he stiles Recreations w''^ y^ Muses, for so they should 
 be & not works, as Ben Johnston called his Plays. 
 
 He also paraphrased the Psalter (whereof K : Ja : y^ first had turned Some psalms,) and the 
 book was Sett forth in Print, under the title of the Psalms of King David, translated by King James : 
 who intended to have had them Sung in churches :7' but English Bp^ diverted the designe, telling 
 
 These lines contrast favourably even with Tennyson's im- 
 mortal chant : — 
 
 " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 
 'Tis only noble to be good ; 
 Kind hearts are more than coronets. 
 And simple faith than royal blood." 
 
 *7 IVhich undertook it. — The author here refers to the 
 Latin paraphrase of the Cherrie and the Slae, Vi'ritten by 
 the well-known Thomas Dempster, author of the Historia 
 Ecclcsiastka Gentis Scotoriim. The fact of this Latin ver- 
 sion being signed by the initial letters T.D. S.P. M.B. 
 P.P., probably led William Montgomeiy and others to 
 suppose that several " acute witts of that Scottish friary" 
 were employed in the task. Thomas Dempster, however, 
 now gets credit for being the sole paraphrast, and the 
 initial letters are understood to be those of the words 
 Thomas Dempsterus, Scotia Patricias, Muresk Baro, Pro- 
 fessor Parisiensis, or Professor Pisanus, or Pandectarttm 
 Professor. See Irvine's Lives of the Scottish Poets, vol. 
 ii., p. 194. 
 
 Vogue in his days. — The fact that James VL was in 
 some degree a poet, and wrote verses, rendered the poeti- 
 cal art quite popular among the nobles for many years 
 after the king had passed away. 
 
 ^t^Judge of verses. — The author speaks in this passage 
 of leaving sir James Montgomery's poetical works in charge 
 of his (the author's) son, James Montgomery; but the 
 latter, although he may have been a competent judge of 
 verses, was not favourably circumstanced for attending to 
 such matters. These poems are either lost, or have been 
 carried by James Montgomery's descendant and represen- 
 tative to Australia. 
 
 7° Famous speaking poet. — See p. 73, note 14, w/ra. The 
 earl of Stirling's poems are all collected and published in 
 Alexander Chalmers' edition of The Works of the English 
 Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, 1810. 
 
 '9 Sung in churches. — In 1631, several years after the 
 death of James I., a complete version was printed at 
 Oxford, under the title of The Psalms of King David 
 translated by King James. But although Charles I. was 
 anxious to have it believed that his father was the author, 
 the truth is, king James's labours did not extend beyond 
 the thirty-first psalm. Dr. Williams, who preached his 
 funeral sermon, has the following reference to this 
 point: — " Hee was in hand (when God called him to sing 
 psalmes with the angels) with the translation of our church 
 psalmes, which hee intended to have finished and dedicated 
 withall to the only saint of his devotion, the church of 
 Great Britaine, and that of Ireland. This worke Tfaj- 
 staled in the 07ie and thirtie psalme." "In the genuine 
 verses of king James, and particularl}' in those of his later 
 volume, the phraseology is not veiy decidedly Scottish ; 
 but the phraseology of the Psalms is so materially English, 
 that they must all have passed through other hands. It 
 is therefore highly probable that his portion (thirty-one 
 Psalms) was revised, and the translation completed, by 
 some court poet ; and this poet appears to have been 
 William Alexander, afterwards earl of Stirling. In a 
 letter addressed to Drummond, and dated in the year 1620, 
 he apparently speaks of the king and himself being both 
 employed in versifying the psalms. ' I received your last 
 letter, with the Psalm you sent, which I think very well 
 done : I have done the same long before it came, but he 
 prefers his own to all else, tho' perchance, when you see 
 it, you will think it the worst of the three. No man must 
 meddle with that subject, and therefore I advise you to 
 take no more pains therein.' In 1627, two years after 
 the king's death, sir William Alexander obtained a 
 patent securing to him the sole right, for thirty-one years, 
 of printing, or causing to be printed, the Psalms of King 
 David, translated by King James." — Irving's History of 
 Scottish Poetry, edited by J. A. Carlyle, pp. 511, 512. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 403 
 
 his Ma'y that People had most of y« present psalms by heart, & would be loath to buy, or learn 
 this his new book ; besides y« Papists wold accuse y= old as faulty, because laid aside, & tax his 
 Maj'y as an Innovator,?* 
 
 This Earles Elldest daughter (our 2^ Viscontess) composed good Godly Verses, & her 
 EUdest Son our 3"^ Vise' was an Acurate Poet, I have Seen only a few coppys of his makeing & I 
 have one of them, w^^^ was an elegy made on y« death of his first Lady aforenamed. & his brother 
 James did make witty drolling Rimes ; as hath been afores<i : and this Earle is excelent at Poesy, 
 & is a great Judge of Such like pieces ; but his Lop hath laid it aside, and his modesty conceals 
 what he hath done. 
 
 Spotswood, History of the Church oj Scotl^Litd, p. 466, 
 referring to this joint-labour in the production of the 
 translation, says, "The revising of the psalms he (King 
 James) made his own labor, and at such hours as he 
 might spare from the publick cares went through a num- 
 ber of them, commending the rest to a faithful and learned 
 servant, who hath therein answered his Majesties expec- 
 tations. " 
 
 As an Innovator. — Charles I. was anxious to have 
 his father's translation (or rather that which bore his 
 name) adopted by the churches, and used in public wor- 
 ship throughout his dominions. The edition of 1631 
 was accompanied with the following royal announcement: 
 — " Charles R. Haueing caused this translation of the 
 Psalmes (whereof our late deare father was author) to be 
 perused, and it being found to be exactly and truly done, 
 wee doe hereby authorize the same to be imprinted ac- 
 cording to the patent granted thereupone, and doe allow 
 them to be song in all the churches of our dominions, re- 
 commending them to all oure goode subjects for that 
 effect. " This recommendation, however, produced almost 
 no effect, the bishops in England declining to use the 
 translation for the reasons stated by our author in the 
 text. The Scottish clergy violently opposed its introduc- 
 tion for two reasons, — first, because it had been under- 
 taken without the approbation of the church, and se- 
 condly, because it contained many poetical phrases unin- 
 telligible to the common people. These phrases occurred 
 principally in the psalms translated by the king, but al- 
 though sir William Alexander substituted other and better 
 expressions, there seems to have been an almost universal 
 opposition to this version. Among the IFoot/ro^v MSS. 
 lately printed in the Bannatyne AlisccUany, there are 
 several papers originally written to dissuade the people 
 from using it. In one of these papers entitled Reasons 
 against the Publick Use of this new Metaphrase of the 
 Psalmes, the writer says — "The people call them Men- 
 stries (Alexander's) Psalmes ; bot wee heir that another, 
 if not others, also hath had ane hand in them, and that 
 these have revised King James his part." When this 
 revision was set aside, others came forward for public 
 approval, among which were those of Zachary Boyd, sir 
 
 William Mure, and Francis Rouse. The last mentioned, 
 being recommended by the English parliament, was ap- 
 proved by the Westminster Assembly of Divines, and 
 reprinted in 1646. Principal Baillie, who was present in 
 the Westminster Assembly, as commissioner from the 
 Church of Scotland, in a letter dated January I, 1644, 
 says: — "An old, most honest member of the House of 
 Commons, Mr. Rous, has helped the old psalter in the 
 most places faulty. His friends are very pressing in the 
 assembly that his book may be examined, and helped by 
 the author in what places it should be found meet, and 
 then be commended to the parliament, that they may en- 
 join the public use of it. One of their considerations is 
 the great private advantage v/hich would by this book 
 come to their friend. ... I wish I had Rowallan's 
 psalter here, for I like it much better than any yet I have 
 seen." In the year 1647, the general assembly of the 
 Church of Scotland, having come to the conclusion that a 
 revision of Rouse revised would be necessary, " appointed 
 John Adamson to examine the first forty psalms, Thomas 
 Crawford the second forty, John Row the third forty, and 
 John Nevey the remaining thirty. The act enjoins that 
 ' in their examination, they shall not only observe what 
 they thinks neetls to b; amended, but also to set down 
 their own essay for correcting thereof, and for this purpose 
 recommends them to make use of the travels (works) of 
 Rowallen, Master Zachary Boyd, or any other on that 
 subject, but especially of our own paraphrase, that what 
 they finde better in any of these works may be chosen.' . 
 
 In the assembly of 1649 the subject of Rouse's 
 paraphrase was again resumed : six individuals were ap- 
 pointed to complete the revision, and to make a final 
 report to the commission at its meeting in the month of 
 November ; the commission was authorized to sanction 
 the corrected paraphrase, and published it for general use. 
 The version of Rouse was thus subjected to innumerable 
 changes and modifications ; nor would it have been suf- 
 fered to retain many poetical ornaments if it had origi- 
 nally possessed them." — Irving's History of Scottish 
 Poetry, edited by J. A. Carl vie, pp. 517, 518. See also 
 Paterson's Parishes and Painilies of Ayrsliire, vol. ii., 
 p. 192. 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 SOME MEMOIRES OF WILLIAM MONTGOMERY OF ROSEMOUNT, 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF DOWNE, ESQ., 
 WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, 
 Wherein are also his sentiments on divers subjects interjected, finished Ao D'" 1702.' 
 
 OW, that I may not disappoint the reader (who hath perused the foregoing pages) of his 
 curiosity, w'^'', perhaps, wold be gratify*, by tehing him a story of myself, & to recompence 
 his complacency and pains in y' Lecture of y° premisses ; & to be as bigg as my promise 
 I have again taken up my tired pen, and will vex my old decaying eys to give him my own Account 
 
 ' Ao Dili 1702. — -The following memoir, although only 
 a fragment of the author's account of himself, is a curious 
 and valuable addition to the Manuscripts already printed. 
 Unfortunately, it is but a part, probably about one-third, 
 of his autobiographical memoir, and brings down the 
 narrative of his life only as far as the year 1670. This 
 fragment occupies thirty-two quarto pages, written pretty 
 closely, and in the author's neatest hand, but the whole 
 memoir as prepared by him must have extended to at 
 least one hundred pages. In the MS. copy of his Memoir 
 of the Savadges, the author has a marginal reference to 
 92 of my Own Life-" and, as this page would have 
 brought his autobiography to about the year 1 700, it may 
 be reasonably presumed that we have, in this fragment, 
 not more than the third part thereof, if, indeed, so much. 
 The editor is indebted for this additional portion of the 
 MontgonuTy Manuscripts to the kinclness of Mrs. Sinclair, 
 late of the Falls of Belfast, and now residing in England, 
 whose great grandfather, colonel William Montgomery of 
 Killough, was grandson of the author. This colonel 
 William Montgomery married Isabella Campbell, seventh 
 daughter of the hon. John Campbell of Mamore, in 
 Lochaber, who was second son ol Archibald, ninth earl 
 of Argyle, and brother to Archibald, the first duke of 
 Argyle. By Isabella Campbell, colonel Wm. Montgomery 
 left three children viz.: one son, aUo named William, 
 and two daughters, Elii;abeth and Anna Helena. The 
 son was accidently killed, when a youth, at KilloLigh, in 
 the year 1736. El'izaijeth died unmarried. Anna Helena 
 married William Heatley, esq., of Riversdale, county of 
 Wicklow, leaving by him three sons and a daughter, 
 namely — I. C'f a barrister-at-law ; 2. IVm. Campbell, 
 an officer in the army; 3. John Montgomery, a student in 
 the Middle Temple; and 4. IsahelUi, who died unmarried. 
 The eldest son, Conway, in right of his mother, was per- 
 mitted to assume the name and arms of Montgomery, in 
 the year 1820. The following is a copy of the patent 
 granted on that occasion : — 
 
 "Whereas, His Majesty has been graciously pleased, by letter 
 
 under his Royal Signet and Sign Manual, bearing Date at Carlton 
 House, the twenty-ninth day of July, 1820, to Signify unto Karl 
 Talbot, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that he had been pleased to grant 
 unto Conway Heatley, Esq., Barrister-at-law, eldest Son of William 
 Heatley, Esq., by his wife, Anna Helena, daughter of William 
 Montgomery, Esq., of Rosemount, in the County of Down, Esquire, 
 by his wife Isaliella, daughter of the Honourable John Campbell of 
 Mamniore of the Kingdom of Scotland i^second Son of Archibald, 
 ninth ear', and only Brother of Archibald, the first Duke of .Argyle) 
 by his wife the Honourable Elizabeth Eiphinstone, daughter of John. 
 I^ord Eiphinstone, which William Montgomery was only Son and 
 Heir of James Montgomery, Esq., of Rosemount aforesaid, a younger 
 branch of the noble family of Montgomery, Viscounts Montgomery, 
 and Earls of Mount-.AIexander, His Royal License and Authority 
 that he and his Issue may take the surnames and bear the Armorial 
 Ensigns of Montgomery, with a view to perpetuate his descent from 
 the aforesaid nol^le families. 
 
 " By virtue of the Authority- in me vested under the great Seal of 
 Ireland, I do confirm unto the said Conway Montgomery, Esq., and 
 to his Issue, the Arms following — 
 
 Quarterly, First and Fourth. Azure three Fleurs de Lys, or. 
 Second and third — Gules, throe Gem U.itgs, ur, Sioned, Azure, on an 
 Inescutcheon Cjules — a Sword and Sceptre — in Saltire Proper ; the 
 whole within a Bordiire of Scotland, viz., or, a double Tressure. 
 Flory Counter- Flory Gules. 
 
 " Crest, on a Chapeau — a De.xter Gauntlet erect, and holding a 
 dagger proper. Motto — Honneur Sans Repo.s. The whole to be 
 borne by the said Conway Montgomery, Esq., and his Issue for ever 
 here after according to the Law of .Arms. 
 "(Signed) 
 
 " William Beth.\m. 
 " Ulster King of Arms." 
 
 Conway Heatley Montgomery left three children, viz. : 
 I. Frederick Campbell, a major in the 50th regiment. 
 In 1835, he accompanied his regiment to New South 
 Wales, where he received a grant of lands, and retired 
 from the service; 2. Caroline, married to Hugh Cathcart, 
 esq., heir to his uncle, sir Andrew Cathcart of Killoughan 
 castle, Ayrshire; and 3. Augusta, married to the late 
 Thomas .Sinclair, esq., of Beliast. Mrs. .Sinclair's great 
 grandmother, Isabella Campbell, had four sisters, the 
 eldest of whom, Alary, married the second earl of Rose- 
 berry; the second, Ann, married Archibald Edmonston, 
 of Redhall, esq. ; the third, fane, married John Camp- 
 bell of Carrick; and the fourth, Primrose, became the 
 wife of the ill-fated Simon Fraser, lord Lovat. Mrs. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 405 
 
 of myself — Even as I have made my Repository ; to be peculiar for my proper earthly remains, 
 and those of my 2"'^ self, namely, my deservedly Deare, Deare, and onely wife, whom I have 
 within these few months (by translation put in possession thereof), and in these two performances 
 I am not guilty of affectation or singularity, or designe to gaine applause thereby, but can shew 
 presidents of y^ like done by well approved writers, & thereby I have made use of my due freedom 
 in so doeing, and writing So I leave all Persons to theirs, in judgeing as they please : bee it by 
 
 Sinclair remembers her father and mother (who lived 
 o-enerally in England) coming to visit their kinsfolk, the 
 Edmonstons of Redhall. Their families had been still 
 earlier united by the intermarriage of James Montgomery 
 of Rosemount, Mrs. Sinclair's great-great-grandfather, 
 with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Arcliibald Edmonston, 
 owner of Redhall and laird of Duntreath. 
 
 = As bigg as my p>-omise. — The portion of his Manu- 
 scripts in which this promise was made has not been 
 printed, and is probably lost. 
 
 3 So doeing and ivriting. — The "two performances" 
 here referred to by the author consisted in writing an 
 account of his own life, and building his own tomb, the 
 "Repository" of which he speaks in the text. When 
 Harris visited Greyabbey, nothing appears to have been 
 known of this vault, or the curious inscriptions recently 
 found therein. On the 6th of September, 1843, the wall 
 that closed the arch to form the east end of the old church 
 in the Abbey was taken down, and when the rubbish was 
 cleared away, the " Repository" appeared. On the 
 removal of tlie flag that closed the front of it, a skull was 
 discovered lying on the left side of the entrance, and on 
 the right side a coffin, apparently perfect. The cloth that 
 had covered it was gone, and on being touched, the 
 coffin fell to pieces. Inside, there was a greasy substance, 
 but not a bone had remained in shape. Under the coffin 
 lay a coarse quarry flag, two feet broad, and five feet long, 
 having on it the following inscription cut into it, in round 
 hand, most probably by William Montgomery himself : — 
 Memento Mori 
 
 A Periph}-asis of this 
 Buriall Vault or Tombe or grave viz. 
 It is no comon charnel hons but our 
 Worms banqueting hall Sr' the Porch of 
 Atternitys Mansion Pallaces. 
 Mortuis infortnis cryj>ta hmc habitatio sicgue 
 htcolis ceu Domus est, quoquc pereiinis erit 
 The Premises Paraphrased 
 An hmnble noiseless da?k retireing Roovie 
 (as Mankinds Duefs lasting not last Home 
 a strifeless bed tis a Resting place 
 which allways Levells all of mortal Race 
 Goodmen from Griefs into our Lords joy goe 
 Freed from all Sinn, wants, toill, paine, sickness, moe, 
 IVfic this our consecrated Vault or Roome 
 Breaks up or takes from us ere day of Doome 
 a Portion viay for Swine or foxes bee 
 Loaded with just ReproachfuU Infamy 
 a grateful issue saves our liberty 
 
 This is for Wm. <5y Elizabeth Montgomerys alone 
 aj^late to ly in. Made Ao. Dni. 1702. 
 
 "On a common house slate, found leaning against the 
 left side of the Vault inside, was the following inscriptions 
 written in white paint, except the two first lines, which 
 are cut into the slate : — 
 
 This is directed to all Mankind 
 
 &r> mostly to our offspring 
 
 This Vault april Ao. Dni. 1699 " ^«*''^ 
 
 at ye cost* of Wm. Montgomery 
 
 of Rosemoitnt Esqr. reserving it for ye 
 
 Buriall place onely of himself ^ his be- 
 
 loved wife ye honble. Elizabeth sole 
 
 daughter of Hugh 2nd Lord Visct. Mont- 
 
 gomery of ye great A rds. 
 
 The said William contributed largely &^ was 
 constantly assisting to tlie roofing of this 
 Church let none therefore invade tJieir 
 Property 7ior Slight their eartiily remaijis 
 by ejecting them or intrudeing otJiers 
 into flieir wedded Mansion hous and 
 deserved quiet grave roome wJierein they 
 are layd to rest that tliey may rise together 
 at ye great ope?ieing day of generall judgment 
 For all irreverence and wrong done to tlie dead 
 as well as ye liveing. all glory bee to Cod 
 Amen 
 
 The coffin on the left side of the entrance was quite 
 gone, but the Skeleton perfect and in its place — a mass of 
 auburn hair lying round the base of the skulk It is re- 
 markable, that on the Slab which lies outside, over this 
 Vault, ic is stated that the Honble Elizabeth Montgomery 
 died on the 15th Nov. 1677, aged 42 years, and, on the small 
 slate inside, the Vault is stated to have been built, April, 
 A°Dni. 1699. WilliamMontgomerydiedonthe7th January, 
 1706-7, or twenty-nine years after his lady's decease, yet 
 her bones were perfect, but of his no vestiges remained. 
 His wife died when she was only 42, whereas be was 74, 
 and his bones -would, therefore, much sooner crumble to 
 dust. This Vault is evidently built on the spot where Sir 
 James Montgomery's ' 2 other virtuous ladies' and their 
 children rest — as stated in the Inscription on his monu- 
 ment." — MS. Notes of colonel F. O. Montgomery. Seep. 
 345, supra. The following inscriptions were found by 
 Harris on a monument "adorned with Cherubs' Heads, 
 the Rose, Thistle, and flower de lys. " : — 
 
 EniTA*ION EniyPAMMATIKON. 
 
 I71 Honoratuni Gnlielmiwi Moipitgomery de Rosemount Armi- 
 gerum, qui in Domino obdormivit qmo. die of January, Anno 
 XPI2T0rENIA2 1706-7. Mt. 74. 
 
 Armiger, ecce, manu, vita, literisque profundis, 
 Qtd largus, lampas, Coryhceus. fata peregit, 
 Lande, fide, genere, et dementia tum probitate 
 Luxit laudatus, prcecellens, vicit amatus. 
 
 At the bottom, 
 
 Idyllium fioc elaboravit et Sculpsii 
 A I. Duncan 
 
 ' It is not clear whether this should be written at ye cost or by ye 
 care. 
 
 X 2 
 
4o6 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 Censure or Approbation : Onely this Protestation I doe enter viz. That I need not write to procure 
 memory of my Name, Surname and dweUing ; because they will be spoken of whilst y' Act of 
 Explanation of the Act of Settling Ireland is read,* or the Records of y" green chamber of Trustees 
 of y° Officers who served their Maj'''' before y° s*** of June, 1649 ;5 or the two patents past to me 
 for y° s'* service, and for having reprisalls given mee, doe remain :^ or whilst y'^ inroUment of his 
 Maj**" K. Ch: y° 2"* patent to mee for being Gustos Rotulorum Pacis in this County of Downe is 
 legible. 7 
 
 And I premise also that this Narrative of myself must not be expected, as calculated for an 
 Ephemeris, or Analls of my Life, nor full account of my Ignorances, inadvertancys, or negligences, 
 & Faults, nor of the Qualifications which are called commendable : but a part, of both the good 
 
 The above inscription is headed lAH with AlemortcE 
 Sacnim under it, which escaped the attention of Harris, 
 and was kindly supplied to tlie editor by colonel F. O. 
 Montgomery. The following inscription appears on a 
 slab lying flat on the floor of the chancel: 
 
 Sit Hypogaujii hoc nobis (el Memorice) Sacrum. 
 The Hon. Elizabeth Mountgoiiieiy died tlie istk of November Anno 
 Domini Christi 1677, aged 42 years. Williaitz Mountgomery of 
 Rosemouiity Esq ; her only Husband^ continued a Widoiuer^ and 
 so died on tlie ^th day 0/ January Anno Dicti Domini 1706, being 
 years old. 
 
 Hugh, first Lord Viscount Mountgomery of tlie great A rdes (by 
 his two eldest sons) ivas grandfatlier of thetn luhose eartlily Remaitis 
 are laid in tlie Vaulted Tomli before this ISIanx Marble; bothwhicli 
 were 7nade for tlieir peculiar Repository by the Care, Pains, and 
 Cost, of the said William, in a due Deference to tJie said Elizabeth, 
 his good and only IVife. Tlieir only Issue James ia August 1687, 
 married Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Archibald Edmjnstone, 
 Laird of Duntreth, whose children no7v living are Elizabeth, 
 William, Martha, and James. Tlie dead were Anna, Helena, 
 Hugh, Jane, and Archibald ; being all God's lovely Loans. 
 
 Let tlien their Bones and Dust rest liere untost ; 
 
 Others, room luxving elsewhere , nothing's lost ; 
 
 Intruders (still) graceless Usurpers are. 
 
 Ones Tomb belongs not even to his Heir. 
 
 Tliem twice by God joined, none but he may sever. 
 
 Tin are laid up here, till he raise them for ever. 
 
 May all their Race be pious, and safe keep 
 
 This House and Bed, where in our Lord they sleep. 
 Corpora dant tumulo, sibilant quoq ; Carmine Saxum, 
 Quod impositum donavit Franciscus A lien A rmiger. 
 
 Readers, Remember Job, Ch. 19. Z'. 25. 26. 27. 
 
 Dent. Ch. 5. v. 16. and Ch. 27. v. 16. Endeavour 
 
 to obtain, Rom. Ch. 16. v. 24. A men. 
 
 Ric. Osborne Sculpsit. 
 — Harris, State of the County of Down, pp. 53, 54. 
 
 "The Slab over the Vault of Wm. Montgomery and 
 Elizabeth his wife, in Greyabbey, was broken by the fall 
 of a stone from the Tower, in January, 1839. The In- 
 scription on it commencing with sit Hypogicum hoc nobis 
 was accurately re-cut on a new slab, in all 
 respects similar, with the following added at the 
 bsttom : — -"The Slab wliich contained the original of 
 the above Inscription having been broken by a stone, 
 which fell upon it in the slorui of the 7th January, 1839, 
 Hugh Montgomery, Esq., of Greyabbey, ciused the 
 Inscription to be e.xaclly copied on the stone which is 
 placed in the same spot where the broken Slab lay, a. d. 
 1843." The author, William Montgomery, was succeeded 
 by his only child, James, who, in 1687, married Elizabeth, 
 eldest daughter of Archibald Edmonston of Ballycarry. 
 This lady died in the year 17 17, and her husband fol- 
 lowed in 1728. " On the 8th of October, 1834, the vault 
 in which they were interred was laid open whilst the 
 rubbibh of the fallen roof in front of the steps of the com- 
 
 munion platform in the abbey church was being cleared 
 away. This vault is placed on the south side of that 
 containing the remains .of the author. In the centre of 
 James Montgomery's vault lay two coffins ; the one on the 
 left had 1728 and the letter 'I' on it. Probably the 
 ' I ' had been followed by an ' M,' but as the lid was then 
 much gone, no other letters were to be seen. This date 
 and letter were attached to the cloth that covered the lid. 
 On the coffin to the right, in brass nails on the lid, was — 
 
 E. M. 
 
 Aged 50 
 1717. 
 
 In neither coffin were there any remains of bones, only a 
 part of a skull in that of 1728. There were remains of 
 other coffins of older date. I suppose these two above- 
 mentioned to have been those of James Montgomery, only 
 son of William Montgomery, author of the Manuscripts, 
 and Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Edniondstone, his 
 wife. They were married in 1687." — MS. Notes of 
 colonel F. 0. Montgojiicry. 
 
 Is read. — A clause, LXXXVIL, was introduced into 
 this act, providing, that for the debentures the author had 
 purchased, the commissioners were to set out for him so 
 much forfeited lands as would be sufficient to satisfy the 
 same, according to such rules and proportions as regulated 
 any other debentures. See p. 21 1, supra. 
 
 5 5/// of June, 1649. — The grant of lands and houses 
 made to ths author on behalf of the 1649 officers, is 
 dated 5 th October 20th Charles II. (i663). The 
 officers mentioned in this grant were lieutenant-colonel 
 Hugh Montgomery, lieutenant Robert Montgomeiy, 
 lieutenant Aliraham Smith, William Buckanon, major 
 Alexander Adair, and William Johnston. — Irish Record 
 Commission Reports, vol. iii. , pp. 1 76, 306. 
 
 ^ Doe remaine. — His patent for having reprisals is dated 
 25th August, 1668, and was enrolled on the 15th of the 
 following September This grant included 95a. 2r. 26p. 
 profitable, and 30 acres unprofitable land in Dromaghlish; 
 in Dunbegg, 6sa. ir. I3p. profitable, and 5 acres unprofit- 
 able, in the barony of Kinalarty, county of Downe, rent 
 £2 3s. id.; in Dunevilly, alias Rosernount park, 143 
 acres profitable, and 48 unprofitable, in the barony of 
 Ards, at the rent £1 i8s. 7d. ; of Lisderry, alias Mont- 
 gomerystown, in the barony of Magherastephana, county 
 of Fermanagh, 741a. 3r. 34p., plantation measure, at the 
 rent of ^10 OS. ifd. — Irish Record Commission Reports, 
 vol. iii., p. 170. 
 
 1 Is legible. — Seep. 242, sujra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 407 
 
 and bad, because I cannot otherwise choose, for Ipse Bernardtis non vidit omnia, And I think, ncc 
 memenisse potuit, nec mundo obligattis fait, cundorum de sua vita recordari ; nor no more are we 
 bound to expose ourselves totally than he was : 
 
 But Truth is Great and shall prevaile, 
 Tho Dev'lish calumnys assaile. 
 
 I begin then with my undertaking ; wherein I will trace the steps of Time (as near as I can) from October 
 my birth hitherto, and Leave what follows to be done by my son.^ 1633. 
 
 Imprimis as to the time and place of my birth & descent from both my Parents, I referr you 
 to Page third in S'' James Montg: Life,? for I designe to avoyd Repetitions. 
 
 Item I was cheated of my milk (the nurses husband having spoiled it) which put me in a 
 Decay, that with great care of my grandmother Stewart'° (who kept mee till I was in y° 1 1"" yeare 
 of mine Age), I escaped a consumption of Y Lungs, & I doe keep to this day, that Cough w""" I 
 contracted in y° Cradle. 
 
 but I arrived not to the stature of my father, uncles, or cosens germans : and yet am in equal Mount alex 
 height, to y° present Earle and his brother and thousands of men are lower many inches than mee. ander. 
 
 Item I was kept at School in Newtoun Stewart house, and thrived at my book ; for God 
 bestowed on mee an aptitude and a desire for it w""*" minds me of one Line I then learned, viz : 
 Ingenio pallet, cut vim Jiatura negavit. 
 
 I aspired to be a man as soon as I could ; and therefore had a picke, and a muskett made to 
 my size : and on y° 23'' of October, 1641", was in y° Garden performing y° postures of my Arms 
 with my grand father S" W'° Stewarts foot company ; himself viewing his soldiers & their Arms, & 
 exercising them ; when about fower houres afternoon (to our amazement) a man half stript, came 
 with a Letter, signifying y" Insurrections, Murthers, and burnings, on all sides, committed by y° Irish Rebel 
 Irish. The messengers one after another came (sweating and out of breath) from divers 
 quarters; with Like consternation and haste, (as Jobs escaped servants did, to tell him of his 
 Losses), and they related the crewell Massacres of divers person3,'3 also ere night many men and 
 women fled into towns, and S' W"» ordered his company & y" refugees in best manner for defence. 
 
 ^ By my son. — It is not probable that James Mont- " And his brother. — Hugh, who succeeded as second 
 
 gomery of Rosemount, the author's son, left any family carl of Mount-Alexander, in 1663, and his brother Henry, 
 
 memoirs. who Iiecame third earl in 1716, are the persons here re- 
 
 9 Sr James Montg: Life. — This passage in the authors ferred to. 
 
 memoir of sir James has not been printed, and is probably " "^-yd of October, 1641. — The date of the breaking out 
 
 lost. From the marginal note here occurring we find that of the great Irish rebellion. See pp. 251, 252, supra. 
 
 William Montgomery was born in October, 1633, but '3 Of divers persons. — It has been sometimes contended 
 
 there is no mention, throughout the Manuscripts, of the that the massacres in Tyrone were not perpetrated until 
 
 place of his birth. In the preface to the volume printed 1642, and then only in retaliation, or from a terror of 
 
 in 1830, it is stated that he was born at Aughaintain in the Protestant forces. No doubt, massacres of prisoners 
 
 Tyrone, on the 27th of October, from which it may be were committed in 1642 by sir Phelim O'Neill's adherents 
 
 supposed that the passage referred to in the text must have throughout several towns in Tyrone, after they had heard 
 
 been in the M.S. from which the memoir of sir James was of the slaughters done by English troops in the Pale, and 
 
 printed, in 1830. by Scottish troops at Newry, — but this curious and im- 
 
 " My grandmother Stezoart. — This lady, the wife of portant passage of the Montgomery Manuscripts proves 
 
 sir William Stewart, was Frances, second daughter of sir that Protestants had been massacred in Tyrone on the very 
 
 Robert Newcomen, of Mosstown, in the county of Long- first day of the lamentaljle outbreak. 
 
 ford. Her mother was Catherine, daughter of sir Thomas Lor defence. — Sir William Stewart, very soon after 
 
 Molyneux, chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland. — Lodge, the commencement of the rebellion, received a commission 
 
 Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. vi., p. 274. dated i6thNovember, under the king's signet at Edinburgh, 
 
 lion breaks 
 out. 
 
4o8 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 And that very night y° whole country (round about us) was in flames : & M' James Montgomery 
 of Ashra (a worthy gentl") was murdered after he had fought and gott quarters. 
 
 gr ^ym Leav' ,g a guard in his sd house, went next morning with his Lady and family to 
 to Derr)-. Strabane (where was a town full of Brittish Inhabitants, as also at Lifford, on y" other side of y' 
 river) & thence to Londonderry, ten miles further. 
 
 which town haveing been burned by Odogharty 39 years before that time,'^ y' Londoners did 
 enclose and fortify it with a stone wall, whereby it hath been (A° 1689) a 2'' time a refuge ag' y* 
 crewell Irish : from thence S'' W"" transported, into Glasgow, his Lady, his son Thomas (who was 
 about 2 years my senior,'^ with his grand daughter Francelina Semple, heiress and only childe of 
 Sir W" Semple of Letterkenny,'?, & myself, we two were there sorely taken by y^ small pox. 
 
 In y' town I was put to y* great school w* taught Lattine and despauters grammar 
 because I had gone through the Accidence in Ireland. 
 
 We continued above a year in Scotland, & returning to Derry, aboade therin, & I was at 
 School all y" while, for Newtoun and Aghentean Mannor houses were burnt, and y* contray far and 
 near was wasted. '9 
 
 return to 
 Derry. 
 
 for raising a regiment of lOOO foot, %vith a troop of horse, 
 and to take whatever measures might be in his power for 
 the safety of the country. He and his brother, sir Robert 
 Stewart, co-operated during that eventful crisis, and the 
 troops they hastily collected soon rendered most efficient 
 sen-ice against the insurgents. Their first movement was 
 to relieve the castle of Augher, in which captain Mervj-n 
 was besieged by sir Phelim Roe O'Neill. On the ex- 
 pulsion of the Irish, the Stewarts left a garrison at that 
 place, and following O'Neill, who was on his way to bum 
 the to\\Ti of Raphoe, they encountered him again at 
 Castlederg, and inflicted upon him a second crushing 
 defeat. Before the end of that year, they met and routed 
 the Irish near the gap of Baraesmore, and, on the l6th of 
 June, in the following year, they defeated a large force^ 
 imder the same leader, which he had collected from almost 
 every county in Ulster. — Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited 
 by Archdall, vol. y\. pp. 246, 247. 
 
 '5 That time. — Derry had been burned by sir Cahir 
 O'Dogherty in 1608, or thirty-three years prior to the out- 
 break of the rebellion in 1 641. For a notice of sir Cahir 
 O'Doherty's revolt, see pp. 20, 21, sup-a. 
 
 Tii'o yeurs my se/a'or.—SiT Wm. Stewart had five 
 sons, viz. sir Alexander (killed at the battle of Dunbar), 
 William, John, and Robert, who died unmarried; and 
 Thomas, mentioned in the text, who appears to have been 
 youngest of the five. When the male representatives of 
 Alexander, the eldest son, became extinct by the death of 
 sir William Stewart, the third viscount Mountjoy, in 1769, 
 the title of baronet devolved on the heirs male of Thomas, 
 the youngest son. The latter resided at Fort-Stewart,^ in 
 the county of Donegal, and was father of colonel Wm. 
 Buda Stewart, whose son Ezekiel, of Fort-Stewart, mar- 
 ried Anne, sister of the Rev. Bernard Ward. Their 
 youngest son, Annesley, became, in 1769, seventh baronet 
 in succession from the sir William Stewart mentioned in 
 the text. --Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. vL, pp. 247, 257. 
 
 " Of Letterkenny. — Sir William Stewart had two 
 daughters, the elder of whom, Catherine, was mother to 
 
 our author; and the younger, Anne, was married to sir 
 William Semple of Letterkenny. Lodge (ed. by Archdall, 
 vol. vi., p. 247), speaks of lady Semple as leaving an only 
 daughter named Anne, who became the wife of sir Charles 
 Hamilton of Killishandra, in the county of Cavan. Lodge 
 must have eiTed in the christian name of her daughter, 
 which the author records as being FraJtreliita, and William 
 Montgomery could not mistake in this point. Probably 
 the lady bore both names. 
 
 Despauters grammar. — The celebrated grammarian ^ 
 Despautere, was bom about the year 1460, at Ninove, a 
 little town of Brabant. Of him a writer in the Biographic 
 Universelle, vol. xi. , pp. 222, 223, says: — "On a de lui 
 des Riiditnents, une Grammaire, una Syntaxe, une 
 Prosodie, un Traite des figures et des tropes, im primes en 
 un vol. in fol., chez Robert Estienne, sous le titre de 
 Coimnentarii Grammatici ; la date en est de 1537; il 
 pamt ime autre edition a Lyon, de 1563, in 4°. La 
 grammaire de Despautere fut autrefois d' un grand usage, 
 surtout en France. Trop long-temps elle fit desespoir de 
 la jeunesse, a qui elle couta bien des larmes; il faUut bien 
 se contenter alors du seul livre qu'on possedal en ce genre. 
 . . . On a encore de Despautere (que Valere Andre 
 ne craint pas d' appeler le prince des grammariens de son 
 siecle), les ouvrages suivants. l. Orthographia, impriroe 
 a Paris, en 1 530, par les soins de Lae^^nus Cnicius; 2. 
 Ars Epistolica, qui parut en 1535; 3- ^'n Traite Dc 
 Accentibus et Punclis; 4. un traite De Carmiinim Generi- 
 bus. Despautere fut justement regrette des Savants 
 humanistes de son temps. On trouve, dans les lettres de 
 Gui Patin, cette epitaphe d'assez mauvais gout : Gratn- 
 maticavi scivit, multos docuitqiie annos: Declinare tamsii 
 non potuit tumiilwn. 
 
 '9 Far and near was wasted. — Sir William Stewart 
 deposed on oath in October, 1643, that three of his chief 
 houses, one new built church, two market towns, and 
 certain villages — all of which cost upwards of £2,200— 
 were burned down by the Irish at the outbreak of the 
 rebellion. He was also despoiled of the possession, rents, 
 and profits of his lands, worth near ^'2,000 a year, and 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 409 
 
 In this town I was Inclined to paint Coats of Arms, w* one Hart practised: and in May, 1644, 
 my father sent for me, by y° way of Colrain : I haveing never been in y° county of Down before then. ^° ^^^^ ^""^^ 
 I was attended (for a servant) by W" Coningham aforesaid, who was bred at school with me in 
 Derry; and he could write well ; Him (after 2 or 3 years) my father took to be his clerk, and you 
 have heard how he was with him at his death. 
 
 At Rosemount I found ray Cosen Hugh Savadge of Porteferry, May, 1644, and his two 
 sisters y* women were taught vocal and Instrumentall Music by Thomas Naale adduced to that 
 end ; and they had a school mistris to other purposes, & we had for our teacher M' Alex'' Boyd a Mr boid our 
 Mr. of Arts, who had traveld into France as Tutor to M" Echlin of Ardwhinns sons,=3 this gentleman 
 wrote very well, and instilled y^ French tongue insensibly in me, not as a task but recreation ; 
 wherein I took delight, because I would be like my father, who spoke it, & encouraged me to 
 learn. I had divers other cosens of y° Savadges, and Neighbours sonns, at School with me, • 
 whose company made my study the Less a burden to me, & when I was removed to y° great school 
 in Newtoun, those Savadges, & M' Boid my Tutor were with me, who by discourse made my task 
 easy, by being well understood.^'* 
 
 At this time Benburb fight in June 1646 occasioned my cosen Hugh Savadge and his sisters Benburb fight 
 with myself to be remooved to Carrickfergus, as to a place of safety,^^ & to be under our 2^ 
 viscountess (married to Major Gen' Monro'-^^) her La"^ care, & it was then that I took first liking 
 to her Daughter, whom I marryed A° 1660 : So early did Love steal into my heart, yet I perceived 
 
 of 800 sheep, 60 cows, 40 horses and mares, with corn, 
 goods, and chattels of great value. — Lodge, edited by Arch- 
 dall, vol. vi. , p. 274, note. Lodge quotes from the Deposi- 
 tions m the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. The private 
 residences burned were the two mentioned in the text, and 
 Ramelton castle, in the county of Donegal, which was 
 built in 161 8. The church destroyed at that time was 
 Ashra, now Ashroe, in the parisli of Kilbarron, near 
 Ballyshannon, which church contained the tomb of lady 
 Montgomeiy, the author's mother. See p. 345, sitpra. 
 
 ^ Befo7-e then. — See p. 2, supra. 
 At Ilis death. — See p. 344, supra. 
 
 =^ His two sisters. — See p. 91, supra. 
 
 =3 Ardiuhinns sons. — The Mr. Alexander Boyd of the 
 text was no doubt one of the numerous descendants, then 
 scattered throughout the Ards, of colonel David Boyd, the 
 original settler in that district. See pp. 41, S^i supra. 
 It is probable that Mr. Alexander Boyd was a son of 
 Thomas Boyd of Portavogie, who died in 1660, and that 
 he was named after Alexander Stewart of Bellamorrane, 
 one of the overseers mentioned in his father's will. The 
 following is Thomas Boyd's will, for a copy of which the 
 editor is indebted to the kindness of R. S. Nicholson, 
 esq., A.M., Ballow, county of Down : — 
 
 "To all Christian people whom this may concerne Seiideth greet- 
 ing, I, Thomas Boyd, of Portawogey, in the countie of Downe, and 
 province of Ulster, gent., being weeke in body yitt perfycte in 
 memone, doe committ my soule to God and my body to the Earth ; 
 Item, I leive my weiU beloued wyffe, Jaen Boyd, and Cap John 
 Shaw of Ballygellie, Executors to all my goodes, chettiles, detes, 
 and credcites, to call for them and shewe for them give neid so be, — 
 and to pay all my detes and creadites, I leive Ovieresiers to the exe- 
 cutors and my children, Cap. Alexander Steawart of Bellamorrane, 
 David Boyd of Gleashrey, John Boyd of Drumnawadie, and 
 Thomas Portiowse, Belliehemlie : Secondly, I ordeane my executors 
 
 to give unto my children lawfully begottin betwixt me and the afore- 
 said Jaen, my wyffe. portionnes to the one (un) portiouned childrine, as 
 the executors able and as they deserve. In testimony that this is 
 my act and deid, I have heirunto sett my hand the first of July, one 
 thousand six hundred and sixtie. 
 
 " Witness heirunto, "Thomas Boyd. 
 
 " William Shaw. 
 
 "Thomas Boyd." 
 
 In the probate of the above will, which is dated 14th 
 December, 1660, the testator's wife is styled Jane Boide, 
 otherwise Shawe. Mr. Alexander Boyd's pupils, whom he 
 accompanied to France, were Robert and Francis Echlin, 
 sons of John Echlin, esq., of Ardquin, and grandsons of 
 the bisliop. Robert, the elder, succeeded his father, and 
 about 1655 married Mary, daughter of Dr. Heniy Leslie, 
 bishop of Down and Connor, and afterwards bishop of 
 Meath. Francis, the younger, assumed the name of 
 Stafford on succeeding to the estates of his uncle, sir Ed- 
 mond Stafford. He resided at Clanowen, now Portglenone, 
 county of Antrim, and married Sarah Macdonnell, who 
 was a daughter of that colonel Alexander Macdonnell sent 
 to Scotland in 1644 in command of the forces furnishe'd 
 by the second earl to co-operate with Montrose. See 
 Archdall's Lodge, vol. i. , p. 202. The editor of the Echlin 
 Memoirs is mistaken in supposing (p. 23) that this Sarah 
 Macdonnell was a daughter of the earl of Antrim. Her 
 father was cousin to the second earl. The first earl had a 
 daughter named Sarah, married to sir Neal O'Neill of 
 Killelagh, county of Antrim. 
 
 I Vell tcJiderstood. — ' ' Those Savadges" were the author's 
 cousin Hugh, and the cousins of the latter, one of whom suc- 
 ceeded to the estate of Portaferry on the death of Hugh 
 now mentioned. 
 
 =3 Place of safety. — The alarm created in Ulster by 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 it not, I entertained it as a natural affection onely ; but upon her brothers release from Cloghwooter'!' 
 I found it more. 
 
 I had M' Geo: Lessly (the Bp of Downs brother) for our common schoolm'.^^ & also the said 
 M'' Boid for our particular Tutor. This M' Lessly had been ejected (by y° Scotch Army Chap- 
 lains) out of his Livings, & my father in friendship for his brother y* B^ (named at his father's 
 funeral) entertained him as chaplain at Rosemount, and to teach my cosen Savadge & mee, and 
 also kept his son Ambrose to bear us company: & afterwards as I believe he got y° s* Geo: to be 
 schoolm' in y° great school in Carrickfergus this friendship was done to him by my father, before 
 he had provided M'' Boyd for us ; and so at that time I thought not much on y" young Lady as a 
 Mistriss, but as a Cousen : prout Adagium rcfert. Otia si tollas periere cupidinis Arcus, w''' I thus 
 English 
 
 If Idleness away you throw 
 Then perish Cupids shafts, & bow 
 
 Thus I passed over these yeares in great felicity ; but did not then understand or value my happy 
 
 state, as it was Solutus a curis, all provisions layd in to my hand without my toile. 
 
 After some months residence in Carrickfergus we were remanded to Newtoun ;3o & there 
 
 intervened nothing memorable (as to myself) till harvest time A° 1649,3' that I was sent into 
 
 1 am sent to Scotland & Glasgow CoUedge, where the laird of Greenock (my fathers cosen) had placed me to 
 Glasgow Ao .. ,,- T ii-iTi/rxT>T 
 
 1649. diet at y° Prurnors table m y° Low hall, and hired Jo. Mooet for my bedfellow ; & proper 
 
 Tutor.3^ That winter I Learned Greek with content of mind : hopeing I might gaine an Estate by 
 
 my Book, seeing the usurpers were possessed of my fathers house and Lands, w'^'' was often told me, 
 
 & that therefore I must doe or begg. 
 
 the victoiy of the Irish at Benburb was increased 
 by the conduct of Monro, the Scottish general, who 
 fled from the field without cloak or wig, and never 
 paused until he reached Lisburn. He forthwith issued 
 orders to his soldiers to bum Dundrum, to abandon Porta- 
 down, Downpatrick, Glenavy, and other points, retiring 
 with all haste to Carrickfergus. Sir Phelim O'Neill 
 gave orders during the two days spent in pursuing the 
 Scots, to give no quarter, and take no prisoners. He 
 subsequently sent out foraging parlies, %\hose movements 
 struck terror to the hearts of all English and Scottish 
 settlers in Ulster, very many of whom fled to Scotland. 
 It was understood that the Irish general, Owen O'Neill, 
 had deten-nined to follow up his great victory, by carrying 
 the war into the Scots quarters, and, indeed, with this 
 view he had advanced as far as the town of Tanderagee. 
 Under these circumstances the alarm at Newtown may be 
 easily imagined, especially when it was known that viscount 
 Montgomery was a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. 
 Genl Monro. — See p. 1 68, supra. 
 Clogh-wooter. — See pp. 115, 165, supra. 
 =^ Coininon schoolinr. — This 'Mr. George Lessly' had 
 been rector of Ahoghil, alias Machiyhoghill, to which 
 living he was presented by the Crown in 1635, and from 
 which he was expelled by the presbyterians in 1642. 
 After the Restoration, he appears to have been appointed 
 rector of Clownish (Clones). He married Margaret 
 Montgomery, a grand-daughter of Mr. Alexander 
 Montgomery, prebendary of Doe. By her his family in- 
 
 herited the Ballyconnell estate, in the county of Cavan. 
 His son, George Leslie, afterwards Montgomeiy, repre- 
 sented the county of Cavan in parliament. — Liber Hiberiiia:, 
 vol. ii. , p. Ill; MS. Notes of brig. -gen. George Montgomery. 
 
 ^ School in Carrickfergus. — The editor can find no 
 contemporary reference to this school. It was probably 
 the diocesan school of Connor, removed in this centurj' 
 to Ballymena. See M 'Skimin's History of Carrickfergus, 
 pp. 168, 169, ttote. 
 
 3° Remanded to Newtoun. — The alann occasioned by 
 Owen Roe O'Neill's dreaded invasion of northern Ulster 
 soon subsided, that general being overtaken on his march 
 northward, by an express from the Nuncio Rinuccini, requir- 
 ing him to turn and march southward, for the purpose of as- 
 sisting the latter in breaking up the peace that had been 
 agreed upon between the supreme council of the confederates 
 and the marquis of Ormond, on the 29th of July. On receiv- 
 ing the nuncio's message, Owen Roe forthwith called a coun- 
 cil of war, at which it was resolved to march his whole army, 
 now increased to 10,000 men and 18 troops of horse, 
 directly on Kilkenny, and thus the counties of Down and 
 Antrim were spared a terrible visitation. 
 
 3' Ao. 1649. — This movement of the family was oc- 
 casioned by the utter defeat of the royalist forces at Lisna- 
 strain, near Lisburn. See p. 191, supra. 
 
 3' And proper Tutor. — The laird of Greenock was one 
 of sir James Montgomeiy's most useful friends in this emer- 
 gency, see p. 333, supra. "Jo. Mooet" was probably a 
 member of the family of Busbie. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 411 
 
 those admonitions being also formerly urged by my father, took deeper root in my consideration ; 
 when after Dunbar fight I was sent by him into Holland, & philosophy studys enjoyn'd me. Now 
 I began to see evidently from how happy an estate I had fallen ; for I wanted both a Tutor & a 
 servant, & was gone among strangers of another speech, not any way related to me, or my friends, 
 but as my father had purchased their kindness ; & made provision (left in their hands) for me, 
 These were Alex' Petry at Delft & D"' Adam Stewart at Leydan.33 
 
 When I Left Scotland I took shipping at Inverness, with an Issue and a pea in the nap of my 
 neck ; (w"^' from a year old till then) had been kept there. 
 
 You have heard that my father sent me from Dundeej^* with John Wilson merch', who Laded 
 y° Dutch ship wherein wee weighed Anchor for Holland or Zealand, but after ten days being at 
 sea a great storm arose, & drove us past our course to Amelandt.s^ Wee were (when the storm shipwrack, 
 ceased) sailed among gullets and sandbeds, & part of our keele was beaten off, & wee came to" 
 Anchor two hours before day ; it was but 5 faddom, and y' first of y^ ebb, when wee first struck : I 
 therefore persuaded y* master to fire his two Gunns, to signify our distress ; & great fishing boats 
 came before break of day & disloaded our vessel, from which was stolen the silver-hilted sword w"" my losses, 
 which our 3'* visct. had begirt me,^^ it being the first I had of that value, and also I lost the cloth 
 w* my father sent with me to be made in Clothes for mee. 
 
 This Amlandt is an Island of a German Lord (to whom I made a Latin speech in behalf of 
 our mercht) he is independant on any Prince or State : for he sends his Ambassadors (Tradesmen 
 or merchants) to all Sovraigns nighbors, when they are engaged in Warrs, & still obtains a new. 
 trality, and Freedom of Traffick among them all. His seniory (w"*" is like a chipp in Porridge) not 
 being worth their feare or Cove tousn ess ; so as to be concerned which way he Leane. He lives 
 wisely, & solitary, & plentifully. 
 
 We were now transported from his (nine mile long & narrow sandy) Island in a Gabart to 
 Daventer in West frisland ; thence I fared to Amsteldam & so to Leydan, in whose University my 
 station was sett, to acquire Philosophy, fencing, dancing &c with the Dutch & French Linguas : 
 and I had for companion A young French Gentl" ; we learned together, & had D' Stewart for 
 Teacher, & his sons for helpers our conversation was most in Latin ; I taught him Dutch, and 
 he bettered my French. 
 
 33 At Leydan. — See pp. 334, 335, supra. 37 For Jielpers. — The christian names of Dr. Stewart's 
 
 3* Fro?n Dundee. — The passage in the memoir of sir sons w ere David and Charles. The author, during his 
 James Montgomery recording this circumstance does not residence at Leyden dedicated one of his Disputations, or 
 appear in the volume printed in 1830, and is most pro- exercises, to Dr. Stevi'art and his sons, as follows: — 
 
 bably lost. _ r-i 1 Celebertimo, Doctissimo, Spectatissimoque viro, 
 
 35 To Aviclandt. — Ameland is one of a series ot islands Adamo Steuarto, in indyta 
 
 which extends along the coast from the extreme point of Lugd. Bat. Acad. Prof, ordinxrio 
 
 Vorth Holland, once forming a part of the main land etprimatio, Pra^sidi &r'Pra;ceptori 
 
 iiwiiu-ii^i, v^.iv-v. i'' , 1 . .-1 -1 „f meo dignisstino, inuliiis iHiJii 
 
 from which they have been detached by the violence 01 nominibus colendo reverendo, 
 
 the Zuyder-Zee. The passage between Ameland and the Nec Non 
 
 Frisian coast is dangerous, from its numerous shoals. The Fruditissimis clarhsimis y,ivenibus 
 
 channel is called a ^atte or ford. The island,_ which ^rfiS^^' ^ -^^^^ 
 
 belongs now to the Dutch province of Priesland, is about Carolo Steuarto, Philosophia 
 
 twelve miles in length. It contains some good pasture Theologia:, nec non lingvamm 
 
 land The inhabitants, about 3,000 in number, live diversarum peritUsimo, amicis 
 
 laiiu. iii^. jiiiicujiLc* w , ji 1, 11 meis mtegemmts 
 
 principally by fishing and making lime of the sea-shell * ^ 
 
 found on the coast. Doctrina mormnqiie candore pr« 
 
 3* Had begirt me.Stt ^. in, supra. ttantissimU adolescentibm. 
 
412 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 King Wil. 
 Hams Chris- 
 tening. 
 
 My printed 
 Theses. 
 
 My return to 
 England 1 652 
 
 In March (according to forreign supputation^^) 1651 I fell into a Canal in Delft at twylight in 
 y' morning, going to a treck schute39 for y" Hague, to see y" baptism of our present King, & hardly 
 escaped Drowning ; which made mee the summer following. Learn to swim. 
 
 I applyed myself to study, & did print two severall Disputations (yet extant & bound up with 
 my Opera Juvenilia ) w* I sustained publickly in y* schools at Leydan,'*" and stayed there till June 
 1652, that I heard of my fathers death. 
 
 Then my Tutors in Holland remitted me through Flanders by Ghent to Ostend, from whence 
 in y^ packquet boate (with my trunck) I landed at Dover, and so came to London. Nunquam 
 minus solus, quani cum solus : for all this while of my Travel I had no acquaintance, nor servant 
 but my thoughts, tongue, and hands, yet I was supplyed and supported by Gods friendship. 
 
 When his good Lor" the (late earle of Mount Alex') heard of his uncle my fathers death ; he 
 imploy'^ Cap Hugh M'Gill (whose brother therein (the s'* Lords Hugh) had debt owing to him in 
 the north of Scotland, and my fathers Papers & some goods were there also) to goe to S' Alex' 
 Sutherlands house beyond Aberdeen, to get the Papers &c w"'' my father left thereto and also to 
 get from the Lady Tweedale an hundred pieces of gold, which my father (in Like manner) had put 
 in her keeping for my use.''3 
 
 D. Johanni Laorico \ Sodalibtis 
 D. Antonio Scarpio] Commilitonibtis charissimis 
 Hasce Qnaestioiies 
 
 D. D. D. Guil. Montgomerius 
 
 Auth. Respond. 
 
 This dedication was kindly copied for the editor, from a 
 printed copy in the British Museum, by William Pinkerton, 
 esq., F.S.A. 
 
 38 Foreign suppiitation. — On the continent the year was 
 commenced on the 1st of January, as in Scotland— not 
 on the 25th of March, as in England. See p. 40, supra. 
 
 v> A Ireck schute. —A drag-boat. 
 
 4= Schools at Leydan. — The following is the title of one 
 of these Disputations as copied by William Pinkerton, 
 ..sq., F.S.A.:— 
 
 Qucestiones Philosophicis 
 Aliquot ] /lustres, 
 Qyas 
 
 Divino Annuente Numine, 
 Sub Praesidio 
 Claiissimi Doctissiiiiique Viri, 
 
 D. Adami Steiiarti, In Iiiclyta Acad. 
 Lndg. Bat. Philosophies Frofessoris 
 
 ordinarii St" p'iiitarii. 
 Publico Examini subjecit 
 Gidielmus Mont^omernis, Scoto-Hyb. 
 
 Auth. 6^ Respondens. 
 Ao dietn 8 Mnii, loco solito, post Merid. 
 I Arms of the College of Ley den) 
 L ngd. Batavor. 
 
 E. rr officitta Bonaventm cc <Sr= Abraluinii 
 Elsevir, Academ. Typograph. 
 
 CLOLDCLII. 
 4' My father's death. — "itt p. 344, sttpra. 
 4^ My father left the7-e.— Sue ^. 337. stip'a. 
 43 For my use. — Lady Tweeddale, to whom sir James, 
 !ie author's father, had entrusted this money, was Margaret 
 \Ionts,omerie. eldest daughter of the sixth earl of Eglinton 
 jy his first wife, the lady Anna Livingstone. Lruly 
 Margaret was born in 161 7, and became the second wife 
 of John Hay, first earl of Tweeddale, in the year 1642. 
 By this marriage, she had one son, William Hay of B. iL.n- 
 
 melzier. She married, as her second husband, William 
 Cunningham, ninth earl of Glencaime, high chancellor of 
 Scotland, but left no children by the latter. She died at 
 Edinburgh in January, 1655, where she, no doubt, resided 
 when sir James Montgomery of "Rosemount, in 1649, had 
 committed to her, for his son's use, the money — probably 
 his all — abovementioned. The \\ell-known Mr. Robert 
 Baillie, minister of Kilwinning at the time of lady 
 Margaret's marriage with the earl of Tweeddale, has the 
 following record of his own doings on that occasion : — "I 
 had been often grieved with the excessive drinking of 
 sundry of my parochiners ; When my Lord Eglintoun's 
 daughter, Yester, was going to be married, I went over 
 and admonished my lord, and his children, and servants, 
 that they would beware of excesse; and in regard my Lord 
 Setoun, Lord Semple, and other papists, would be present, 
 I entreated the ordinar exercises in religion in the family 
 might not be omitted for their pleasure ; notwithstanding 
 all were omitted. My Lord Eglintoun himself stayed 
 out of the kirk on Sunday afternoon to bear my Lord 
 Scatoun company. My Lord Montgomerie (Eglintoun's 
 eldest son) having invited all the company to his house, 
 there was among the lords more drink than needed : 
 among some of the gentlemen and servints evident drunken- 
 ness. One of the latter a few days afterwards, had a 
 quarrel with a person, at a place called Newcastle, and 
 was unfortunately killed by his antagonist. The fatal en- 
 counter had arisen from a drunken broil, but the slayer 
 was executed the following day. The day there 
 after, being Sonday, I was in high passion, Satan 
 having so much prevailed at my elbow, and in the 
 zeale of God, in presence of all, did sharplie rebuke all 
 sins came in my way, especiallie drankenness and coldryf- 
 ness in religion: somewhat also of the breach of covenant 
 was spoken. This was evill taken by many of the Lords, 
 bot Callender was most displeased : Eglintoun thought 
 himself publickly taxed, and complained to every one he 
 mett. . . . When my Lord Eglintoun, some twenty 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 413 
 
 Accordingly s* Cap* Hu M'Gill went & transacted for his bro : Montgomerys affaires (of 
 which to write is not incumbent on me, but it seems by what himself lately told me, there was a 
 minority evil fate on it, the Debtors standing upon all advantages to come at easy compositions. '»4 
 
 As to my own Concern, y° Cap' left the papers &c at a friends house, & came with the gold 
 or bills to London, & lived many months with me as Tutor, or Friend : at my expence: and he 
 was otherwise well rewarded then, & also when I recovered Ballyhornan hereafter mentioned. '•^ 
 
 At my first coming to London, I met with my cosen Savadge of Porteferry affores^, and was 
 steadable to him (his servant Plunket being sent to Ireland for a supply of money,)'*^ and to some 
 of the Worcester prisoners'*^ (wandering William*^ afores** for one) by means of Bills of Exchange, 
 w"'' I brought with mee out of Holland, and of money I got from some Scottish Merchants, who 
 had not payed (nor would pay to Cunningham) all that was drawn on them, by y° Bills w"*" my 
 father had brought from Edinbrough, but on my application to them, & by advice from their cor- 
 respondents they Accounted, and Answered the remainder to myself. 
 
 This W" Coningham was then at Harwich, to w"'' place I went (without a servant or company) 
 and he gave me the affors"^ relation of my father's death, I gave him supply & he came up and 
 stayed with me at Westminster above a month, and having bought for him a cork Legg & foot, I 
 furnished him to go home to his wife in Edinbourgh, and when he went, then came Capt Hu : 
 M'Gill with the recruit of gold afores^ A° 1653 his s*^ good L'^ was in London, and I returned 
 with him to Dublin afores"'.'*? 
 
 days thereafter, drew me bye, and admonished me sharplie 
 of that days extravagance and fame (as he spake), I told 
 him I had done nought bot my dutie, whereof I did not 
 repent, nor would not be directed by him in my sermons ; 
 and if he was displeased with my ministrie, he should not 
 be long troubled with it. These things going far and 
 broad, bot not by me directlie nor indirectlie, Glasgow 
 thought it then high time to stir." — Baillie's Letters, vol. ii., 
 pp. 6, 7, as quoted in Eraser's Memorials, vol. i., p. 82. 
 
 *^ Easy compositions. — See pp. 366, 367, supra. 
 
 *5 Hereafter meiitioHed.—\ix\{ox\xcaiX€\.y the portions of 
 the memoir in which this affair was mentioned is lost. 
 For a notice of Ballyhornan and captain McGill's residence 
 there, see p. 368, note 33, supra. 
 
 Supply of money. — This circumstance is afterwards 
 mentioned in the author's notice of the two Amieiit 
 Families of Savage. 
 
 47 Worcester prisoners. — The fate of these prisoners was, 
 in many instances, hard enough, and excited much sympathy 
 even among those who condemned the cause for which 
 they had fought. Nine of them were selected for trials 
 by court-martial, namely, the duke of Hamilton; the earls 
 of Derby, Lauderdale, and Cleveland ; sir Timothy 
 Featherstonhaugh, colonel Massey, captain Benbow, and 
 tlie mayor and sheriff of Worcester. The duke of Hamil- 
 ton died of his wounds four days after the battle. The earl 
 of Derby was beheaded at Bolton, in Lancashire, on the 
 15th of October. Sir Timothy Featherstonhaugh was 
 beheaded at Chester, on the 22nd of October; and captain 
 Benbow was shot at Shrewsbury, on the 15th of the same 
 month. Lauderdale, Cleveland, and colonel Massey, 
 were imprisoned in the Tower, as were also lieutenant- 
 general David Leslie, the earl of Carnwath, the lord 
 Crawford-Lindsey, sir David Leslie, the earl of Kelbie, 
 
 lord Bargany (Kennedy), and lord Oglebie. Twenty 
 members of the council of state, "or any three or more of 
 them had power to dispose to plantations all the prisoners 
 under the degree of field-officer taken at Worcester, or in 
 any other place, since the invasion by the Scots army, as 
 well those abroad in several garrisons as those that are 
 brought to London." It is to be hoped that few were sent 
 to the plantations, but it is certain that so long as the great 
 body of the prisoners were held in English dungeons they 
 were subjected to severe privations, and required very 
 much the charitable contributions of sympathisers to make 
 their lives endurable. Many of the English prisoners were 
 sent to Ireland to be kept at any sort of hard labour which 
 might be deemed most useful to the commonwealth. All, 
 or nearly all, the Scotch prisoners, were eventually re- 
 turned to their native country under certain stipulations. 
 Among the latter were major-general Dalzell and the 
 earl of Lauderdale, whose return afterwards proved a serious 
 calamity to their native land. See Bisset's History of the 
 Commonwealth, vol. ii. , pp. 200 — 14. Lauderdale com- 
 menced his career as an eminently staunch and zealous son 
 of the covenant. He seems to have continued in that 
 mood until the restoration. Whilst a prisoner in England, 
 he wrote to Baxter, on the 14th of December, 1658, as 
 follows: — "I wish I knew anywhere fit to translate your 
 books; I am sure they would take hugely. abroad ; and I 
 think it were Hot amiss to begin with the ' Call to the 
 Unconverted.'" See Calamy's Life, vol. i. , p. 102, note, 
 Baxter's books were probably not much consulted by 
 Lauderdale during his subsequent career, although he 
 continued no doubt under the impression that he had 
 heard and accepted the Call to the Unconverted. 
 
 Wandering William. — See p. 343, supra. 
 
 To Dublin aforesd. — See p. 199, supra. 
 
 F a 
 
414 
 
 The MuNIiaOMEKV MAi\iUSCHH'T:i. 
 
 Upon my comeing to y* County of Down, & staying some months there : my busines called 
 me to soUicite at Whitehall and Westminster ; & not haveing had a servant from my Leaveing Scot- 
 ^ ^ ^ . land till this time, I was advised by y* capt to entertaine his s* brother Montgomery ; but no bar- 
 Hugh Mont- gaine was made for Wages, nor was any demanded or given, He designing onely to spare his own 
 gomery. gtock, and to have oppertunity to see y' World, & to gett knowledge in Bussiness, wherein he had 
 not been as yet trained : this being counted no disparagem'- in France, where the Nobilitys 
 younger sonns will goe to their betters, and serve as gentl", to y° ends aforsd : so I was glad to 
 oblige a kinsman, and to have him as an helper in what I had to doe.-"^" 
 I return to And then my cosen y** s'' Hugh Montgomery and I went to Westminster, & were there more 
 Westminsttr. ^ry^ ^ winter, and returning to Dublin I comenced suite for Ballyhornan aforesd.^' 
 
 This was a Lease sold to my father A° 1647 by S"' Bryan Oneile & by him entered into, and 
 repossessed, when my father left Ireland. The remainder of this Lease (after my recovering it at 
 Law) was about 14 years unexpired, what my bounty then was to y* s^ Capt Hu : M'Gill, his 
 Widow, & others now aHve (as well as y« s"^ Hu : Mont : his brother) can tell, and I will not boast 
 of it.5^ 
 
 But I must not omit to mention my s^ cosen Hu : Mont : his zeale in y= bussiness ; who hav- 
 Hugh Mont- ing heard that y« s'^ S'' Bryan (in one of the offices) had spoken abuseively of mee, & with his fist 
 ^^To^Tner^ had given me a sudden blow on y« face that made mee bleed ; w='^ in that place (by reason of 
 standers that kept us assunder) I could not then requite, His unadvised concern for mee was such, 
 that unknown to mee next day he gave the Barronett (S"' Bryan) the Coups de Batoon: for which 
 rashness he was put in restraint, & word being brought to me, I soon had him enlarged, reprimand- 
 ing him for takeing my Quarrell out of my own hand. 53 I sent by y^ s<^ Hu : Montgomery to Major 
 Bingley High Sherif of y^ County of Downe, an Order of the then L<i Deputy Henry Cromwell & 
 his Council for sequestering into his hands, y' quarters rent due at y« last of that month by y' 
 tenents on my lands in Castlereagh Barrony, and therein Hu : Montgomery shewed great diligence 
 
 Order about 
 
 Florida, and circumspection; not onely m a speedy delivery of y= order (w* was dated y* 16'") unto y' 
 Sherif, but also giveing to all y' Tenants, with order from y« Sherif, that they should come and 
 pay to him their Rents ; by w^'^ care & management (according to instructions) and his owti Argu- 
 ments, he put them all from complying with Col Barrows Agent Atigt(sti?iew\io had used to receive 
 the rents quarterly. ^4 
 
 This was preparatory to my possession of these Lands, on w'^'^ I had placed y« Debentures 
 vv='^ I had bought ;55 and for paymt of y" money thereof, y« Late Lord was bound, as in 
 y« narrative of his L°p is recited as for other tilings of y« Hu : you will find them scatered 
 
 5° I had to doe. — See p. 367, supra. ^3 My ozu?i hand. — .See p. 367, supra. 
 
 5" Ballyhorttan aforesd. — Seep. Tfi"] . supra. _ Although 54 7 he rents quarterly. — Seep. ^6S, supra. Augustine, 
 
 the author here teiTns Hugh Montgomery his cousin, he who acted as agent to colonel Barrow, was probably one 
 
 could only have been a distant relative, being the son of of the two bearing this surname mentioned at p. 171, supra. 
 
 James Montgomery, a member of the Hessilheid branch. S5 JVhich I had bought. — See pp. 208, 210, supra. 
 
 Seep, ■^(^b, supra. Is recited. — The circumstance here mentioned is not 
 
 5' Boast of it. — Captain Hugh M'Gill resided at Bally- recorded in the printed memoir of the first earl. The 
 
 homan until the time of his death in 1690. See p. 368, passage in which it occurred is probably lost. 
 supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 415 
 
 elsewhere in y« foregoing pages, & chiefly contained in my Relation concerning his family :57 He 
 is now a Jolly Jovial householder and widower, and stirs seldom abroad : and when he is from Hugh Mont- 
 home he is jocose, and desirable company allways, and a good fellow (I doe not mean an Ale^"'"."(;{J',.'^''^" 
 bibber, or a wine sipper, and yet with frends he will take liberally of both) all weathers ; provided 
 Time, Place, Liquor & company be good, and no bussines be neglected. 
 
 The 7^^'' next after y^ s<^ order O: C: dyed on y= 3<^ day w<=^ had been twice auspicious to him 
 (viz at Dunbar and Worcester) fory« victories he then and there gott over y« Scotts.^^ not long 
 after his death : his eldest son Richard was proclaimed Protector of y^ commonwealth of England, 
 Scotland, and Ireland. 59 
 
 And I followed my bussiness of Possession, & at last (before notice of Olivers death) gott thro 
 all the bryars of opposition, wc>> Col. Barrow now gave mee, but was forced to seale three bonds, .^°sion?^^^ " 
 each conditioned for paym' of fifty pounds ster w'^*' is touched at in a foregoing narrative f° I have 
 likewise spoken often of my entring into Possession of Rosemount house & Cottins bay Castle, & 
 their lands.*' 
 
 I now come to y* yeare of God 1660. King Ch: y« 2^ restored, and myself also to our rights. 
 I marryd (in June that year) the Hono'''* Elizabeth Montgomery afores^- with y« Viscount her 
 brothers allowance,*^ this wedding was solemnized at Mount Alex'' before her mother, Major 
 Gen" Monro,*3 her brother James,** and many other friends, there being six Montgomery 
 gentl" haveing freeholds to waite on mee as the Bridegrooms men (so called vulgarly. *5) 
 
 Upon y= King's Restauration, y« s'' Hu: Montgomery (a while after it) went & served y« Earle 
 of Mount Alexander.** 
 
 After this I was imployed sufficiently in my Domestic Pleasures, & reparations, & entertain- 
 ments of visitants, and attending at Assizes and Sessions, as being Deputy Gustos Rotulorum Pacis 
 in this County, under y« s'' Earle, the office of w'^'^ was much imposed on by y"= Clerk of y« Peace, 
 to y' prejudice of y* King, Contry, &: of y^ Custos his Deputy ; but I regulated and advanced it 
 (to its rights) in a great Degree; till by being absent above one year in England in A° 1664 and 
 1665 attending y« young Earles affaires (as afores^) myself and my Deputy were outed by my Lord 
 Dunganon (als dictus CoUonel Trevor,)*? his interest with S"" Maurice Eustace*^ Lord Chancelor, 
 
 57 Concerning his family. — The family of Ballymagouii. chanan of the Eotown, near Movilla, as owing the testator 
 
 See pp. 363-384, stipya. the sum of eight pounds five shillings sterling. — MS. 
 
 5^ Over yc Scoffs. — Seep. 214, note I, supra. Her brot/u-r James. — This was the second son of the 
 
 5' Scotland and Ireland. — See p. 214, sup>-a. second viscount, born at Dunskey in 1639. 
 
 ''° Foregoing narrative. — See p. 21 1, ''5 So called vulgarly. — These were probably Hugh 
 
 And their lands. — See p. 221, supra. Montgomery of Ballylessan, Hugh Montgomery of Bally- 
 
 Her brothers allowance. — Or consent. The author's niaclady, Hugh Montgomery of Cunningburn (afterwards 
 
 wife was only daughter of the second viscount, who died of Ballymagoun), Hugh Montgomery of Ballyskeagh, 
 
 in 1642. Her mother remarried with major-gen. Monro. John Montgomery of Tullynegry, and Hugh Montgomery 
 
 '3 Genii. Monro. — In some fragment of his lost Manu- of Ballyhenry Another freeholder and gentleman of the 
 
 scripts, the author had probably recorded the time and name was Patrick Montgomery of Creboy. 
 place of Monro's death. The latter, no doubt, continued Earle 0/ Mount Alexander. — -Seep. 2i^(), supra. 
 
 to reside at Mount- Alexander until his lady's decease in Collonel Trevor. — See p. 224, supra. 
 
 1670. See p. 267, supra. He may have subsequently Sr Maurice Eustace. — Sir Maurice Eustace was son 
 
 resided at Cherryvalley, near Comber, the seat of Andrew of William Fitz-John Eustace of Castlemartin, in the 
 
 Monro, one of the commissioners for the arrangement of county of Kildare. He "was appointed Sergeant-at-Law 
 
 the second earl's affairs. See p. 265, note 24, supra. in 1634, and elected Speaker of the House of Commons 
 
 General Robert Monro was alive in 1680, and is men- in 1639, at which period he was characterized as a wise 
 
 tioiied, at that date, in the will of major William Bu- and learned and discreet man, of great integrity. In 
 
41-6 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 in whose disposall y* office is, being granted onely Durante Beneplacito regis : who excused his 
 intrusion in regard my Long absence allowed him to request y= office ; & that I made no profit of 
 it ; & that (before me) none but noblemen were employed in it ; that all y* rest of y« nobility were 
 under age ; that there were better gentl" in the com" than Capt Hu: Shaw^9 my deputy, and of 
 greater account and Estates in y« county, who grudged to yeeld y= Cushion, ruling y« books and 
 Precedency to him; & that indeed he was unfitt for y« place, unless he had stayed below 
 (at y= board) with y= bagg and y* record, to answer the bench : thus had he done, he had saved 
 my office to me, w* I intended to resign to the present Earle when he came to Age : Capt Shaw 
 might have done this without disparagem', or quitted y« precedency, & ruling y^ books to other 
 justices, w'^'^ would have freed him of that odium ; for he was called there in Court both as Senes- 
 chall to y^ s<^ Earle, & Deputy to mee, but Nemo omnihis horis sapit, however, Dunganon dyed, 
 and I was watchful that this Earle should againe have it, as he did A° 1683, & he made me his 
 T am made Deputy, as his father did. Nevertheless in Dunganon's time ; the trust was abused, and y office 
 Deputy, jyj^ jjjj.Q ^ slight, & y= keeping of y= records with y* vails, fees, profitts & rewards thereof drawn 
 into y' hands of y« Clerk of y« Peace who (as 'twas said farmd the office from the then Deputy 
 at Eight ;!^ib per annum &c. : but this perhaps was a misreport. 
 
 When I was reinstalld Deputy I reduced the Office (Almost) to its full height: & so it con- 
 tinued, advancing to perfection, till y* troubles A" 1688, after which this Earle was still Custos, & 
 by reason of my absence & indisposition to attend it, his Lop made the late Mr Hamilton of 
 Tollymore7° his Deputy; & I have not further enquired in it. 
 
 However I wrote a Treatise of that office, & dedicated, & gave it in manuscript to this present 
 Earle of Mount Alex', whose duty it is to re-establish y° same to its pristine splendor and order; for 
 y« j^.^ ye Contrys, and his future Deputys behoof, & his own honour. This Treatise is entered in 
 my Volume of Opera Senilia, 8c in y« Appendix to his Lop life, how well or ill done, let knowing 
 Justices be Judges: It may (if perused by my posterity) profit them with less cost & pains than I 
 was at gaine, & sett down my knowledge thereof 
 
 This much I have mentioned of that office, because it was all y^ preferment I had from y« two 
 brothers reigne:^* for all y^ Civil &: Military employments were disposed of at Court (at y« first 
 coming over of y' King) by those on whom the giving of them was granted by his Maj^y viz 
 Chancelor Hide, Albemarle, Ormond and others. ^3 
 
 1642, Charles I. appointed him one of theCommissioners to his death in 1665. He married Anne, daughter of Sir 
 confer with the Catholic Confederates; and in 1647, the Robert Colville, who survived him twenty years His 
 House of Commons voted him their thanks 'for his son, also named Maurice, became a Catholic levied an 
 singular affection to the English nation, his public services, infantry regiment for James 11., and was wounded at 
 and his earnest advancement of the Protestant religion.' Aughrim." — Gilbert's History of Diibliii, vol. ii. nn 
 On the Restoration, Eustace was appointed Lord Chan- 310-11. ' '' 
 
 cellor; and 'in regard that his estate had become weak Capt. Hu: Shaw. — Seep. 2^2, su/ra. 
 
 by reason of the late rebellion, and that the salai^ hereto- '° 0/ Tollyniorc. — See p. 319, supra. 
 fore allowed for the chancellor was not sufficient to sup- l^fy knowledge thereof. — These works are not now 
 
 port the dignity of that place,' Charles H. granted him an known to exist. 
 
 annuity of /'i, 500 out of the customs docquet, poundage, Two brothers reigne. — Charles II. and James II. 
 
 and subsidies of the city of Dublin, and town of E)rogheda. ^3 Ormond &^ others. — The cavaliers generally* had 
 Eustace was confirmed in his possessions by the Act of reason to complain on this account See p. 222 note 27 
 Settlement ; and continued to hold the chancellorship till supra. ' 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 417 
 
 Thus onely y= Nobility, who eminently suffered and served, came in Gratis, the Rest behooved 
 to buy places or want them: So that I was without them: and my nine yeares want of my estate, 
 and paying above 500 ^ib for y« Debentures afores*, & 150 ;^ib to Coll Barrow, & y= debt I 
 incurred during y« s'^ yeares, & my fathers debts, Suits of Law against mee &c hereinafter mentioned?* 
 particularly disabled me to buy, & discouraged me to borrow, therewith to purchase an imployment; 
 w<='^ is a Road to Preferment that never was travelled by any of our family, & I did disdaine it, 
 seeing there was due from y« Publick Faith, above ten thousand pounds, payable to me on my 
 fathers account; who had (pursuant to a reference from y« Lords Justices) a certificate of raising 
 & expending that sum, for y« King & Contrys service the payment of such debts being expected; 
 for general mention was made of such in y« Act of Setlem* aforesd." 
 
 After these bussinesses in our own County were performed, I was chosen Burgess by y"= Cor- 
 poration of Newtoun, to serve in Parliam*?^ but it cost the same nothing; by way of treate or other- ■ chosen 
 wise; whereas I could have taken from them, two shillings per diem:^? but on y^ contrary I be- Burgess, 
 stowed on y« town the K' Arms for y^ Town Court Hall, & y« Seale of Arms of y= Corporation 
 (now used by it) which cost me above three guineas.?^ & bestowed a guinea as contribution to build 
 y= Mercathouse nowslated.^^ 
 
 In the Election for Knts of y« Shire I stood for one ; Coll HilF" & Coll Trevor^' also jj^g Election 
 stood and I had carryed it from Coll Hill (with whom I debated) but for fals Musters of freeholders, for Knts of 
 which were made temporary ones, voting in his behalfe : & I must doe him the justice to say, that ^ 
 
 Hereinaftiv ineiitiojied. — The portion of his autobio- 
 graphy in which these law-suits were mentioned is lost. 
 
 75 Setlemt aforesd. — Seep. 2.11, supra. William Mont- 
 gomery, the author, obtained a grant from the ' Savings' 
 in trust for several 1649 officers, and also for himself, for 
 the sum of £<)g42 os yd. — Reports of Irish Record Coiii- 
 missioners, vol. iii., p. 307. From the tone in which he 
 refers to his affairs, it is doubtful whether he was ever 
 able to recover this large sum. 
 
 7« In Parliamt.—Ow the l8th of April, 1661, the 
 author and Charles Campbell, esq., of Donaghadee, were 
 elected members of parliament for the borough of New- 
 town. See p. 67, supra. 
 
 '7 Per Diem. — The author may here be said to have 
 made a virtue of necessity, for although the law would 
 then have awarded him two shillings per diem as a mem- 
 ber of parliament, yet the practice of receiving wages from 
 constituencies had virtually ceased. Indeed it had been 
 but very seldom acted upon for many years preceding his 
 election for Newtown in 1660. It was customary, on the 
 contrary, for persons offering themselves, as candidates for 
 election, to promise that they would not demand wages, 
 and even formally to release constituencies from their lia- 
 bility in this matter. County members could have other- 
 wise exacted four shilling per diem and borough members 
 only two shillings. In the reign of Edward IV. a member 
 of parliament agreed to receive a certain quantity of red 
 herrings at Christmas instead of the usual wages. The 
 abolition of the practice is thus referred to — and not ap- 
 provingly — by Samuel Pepys, in his Z'/j; j, on the 30th of 
 March, 1668 : — " We had a great deal of good discourse 
 about Parliament ; their number being uncertain, and 
 always ai the will of the King to increase, as he saw reason 
 
 to erect a new burrough. But all concluded (among the 
 rest Pemberton and North) that the bane of the Parlia- 
 ment hath been the leaving off the old custom of the places 
 allowing wages to those that served them in Parliament, 
 by which they chose men that understood their business, 
 and would attend it, and they could expect an account 
 from them, which now they cannot ; and so Parliament 
 is become a company of men unable to give an account 
 for the interest of the place they serve for." Marvell, who 
 died in 1678, was in the habit of receiving barrels of ale 
 from his constituents in Hull, which, in acknowledging, 
 he sometimes humourously intimated had a tendency to 
 render him forgetful of their interests. See Amos, Eng- 
 lish Constitution in the Reign of Charles II. , pp. 66-7. 
 
 7^ Above three guineas. — For an account of the octagon 
 building known as the market-cross at Newtownards, see 
 p. 68, supra. The town or corporation arms were "Azure, 
 a crescent with both horns upwards proper, from the 
 nombrill wherof ariseth a dexter arm and hand, armed, 
 holding a flower de luce, reaching to y"^ cheif of y' feild, 
 or : with this motto, viz. — Tous-Jours c?visant.'" The 
 author states, that the above armorial bearing "was Sir 
 James Montgomery's contrivance." — Description of the 
 Ardes, infra. 
 
 T> Noiii slated. — Harris, in 1744, notices the market as 
 " a handsome structure, on the west end of which is erected 
 a cupola, with a publick clock." This building had pro- 
 bably been repaired, and improved soon after sir Robert 
 Colville's purchase of the property in 1674. 
 
 ^° Coll Hill. — Colonel Arthur Hill, youngest son of sir 
 Moses Hill. 
 
 Coll Trevor. — Colonel Marcus Trevor, soon after- 
 wards created viscount Dungannon. See p. 224, supra. 
 
4i8 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 two months before this he put in for being elected one for y« County of Antrim, if I was resolved 
 to stand for Down : for he would not contend with the family of Ardes : and this he told me pub- 
 licly at his own table. I had not then setled on the matter, & so could not answer directly, 
 because application had not been made to y^ Countess of Clanbrazill,^^ but only to M"" Swadlin^s 
 her Agent who was written to : so the tenents of that Family were left to use their own discretion ; 
 and Coll Trevors friends & People (tho I would not oppose him as being an old Cavalier for y' 
 late King)^^ had combined with Coll Hills men for themselves, and they had all, or most of Ard- 
 glasses tenents ^5 to assist them, and M"" Bagnals tenents,^^ w''' y<= M'Gennises^^ & M'Cartens on 
 their side : But all y^ Montgomerys, and y« Savadges tenents, and friends, & many of y« Lord 
 Ardglasses came (uncounted) to vote for me : besides all M"" Fitzgeralds tenents *5 whom 
 Andrew Graham9° (Agent to that estate) had made for mee : So that notwithstanding the great 
 neglect in not courting y« Hamiltons, and other friendshipps ; I had carried the election, but for 
 those shamm freeholders made by one Ohoole :9' & for all them (many whereof were discovered in 
 Court) yet y* Poll surmounted my choosers, but by a very few : and this happened by the neglect 
 of application afforesaid, & that I was not skillfull enough in concerting that affaire, nor had I y' 
 keys of y« County to open, poise, and recon the Interests of Freeholders therein. — Those two 
 
 Of Clanbrazill. — This was Alice Moore, widow of 
 Henry second earl of Clanbrassil. 
 
 °3 M>: Swadlin. — This was probably John Swadlin, or 
 Swadlyn, who was elected one of the members of parlia- 
 ment for the borough of Killyleagh, in i66i. The follow- 
 ing extract from the Hamiltoji Manuscripts^ p. 91, exhibits 
 this agent in an unfavourable point of view: — "This 
 affair being thus transacted, my Lord (Henry second earl) 
 demanded the Will and keeping of it from his mother, as 
 being now only of his concern. My Lady Clanbrassill 
 (countess dowager, wife of the first earl) unwarily yielded 
 to it, which being done, my Lord gave it to his servant 
 Swadlin, then chief favourite, and bid him put it up 
 amongst his other papers, which being done, his lady 
 Alice suddenly withdrew to her chamber, and sent one to 
 direct Mr. Swadlin to come to her. He came instantly, 
 with all the papers they had then use for in his hands ; 
 then bid him shut fast the door; then said she, 'Swadlin, 
 give me that troublesome will.' He, looking only at the 
 endorsement, gave her the copy of the will ; she, likewise 
 satisfied and in a hurry, tore it all to pieces, and threw it 
 into the fire, where it was quickly consumed. 'Now,' 
 say'd she, 'it shall trouble us no more;' then went suddenly 
 and very cheerfully to my Lord and the rest of the 
 company, leaving Mr. Swadlin to put up his papers, 
 without discerning the mistake. . . . After some 
 time, my Lord and Lady . . got information that 
 Swadlin had ruined their affairs by taking bribes from the 
 tenants, and so lessening my Lady's rents, and thereupon 
 quarrell with him, and find him without defence, and very 
 guilty of betraying them for his own profit, which was a 
 sad truth, but their faults who trusted to him alone. Mr. 
 Swadlin is in a great perplexity and contempt and sets 
 about making off to sort his papers and his Lords for his 
 own ends. . . The contention heightens, and my Lord 
 is persuaded to put a padlock on Mr. Swadlin's closet 
 door, where all the papers were, and so dismisses Swadlin 
 from his service," &c. , &c. 
 
 84 For ye late King. — Trevor and Daniel O'Neill had 
 been sent from Ormond to the assistance of the royal- 
 ists under the third viscount Montgomery in 1649, but 
 cameonly to witness the total defeat of that party at 
 Lisnastrain. 
 
 *5 Ardglasses tenants. — See p. 307, supra. 
 
 ^ BagnalVs tenants. — Seep. 307, supra. 
 
 ^' AIcGennisses. — See p. 306, supra. 
 
 McCartens. — For an account of Kinelarty, the teri- 
 tory of the Macartanes, see p. 312, supra. 
 
 ^' Mr Fitzgerald^ s tenants. — See p. 308, supra. This 
 was Robert Fitzgerald who succeeded his cousin, the 
 eighteenth earl of Kildare, in 1 707, but who appears, from 
 the text, to have had possession of the family estate in 
 the county of Down at the time of the restoration. In 
 1663, he married Mary, daughter of sir James Clotworthy 
 of Monnimore, in the county of Londonderry (now 
 Af oneymore), and had by her a family of four sons and six 
 daughters. He died in 1697-8, and was succeeded by his 
 eldest surviving son, Robert, who became ninteenth earl 
 of Kildare. See Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, edited by 
 Archdall, vol. i., pp. 1 16, 1 18. 
 
 5*^ Mr. Andrew Graham. — This gentleman resided in 
 Tyrella. Alderman Hutchinson, who had obtained large 
 grants of forfeited lands in Down under the act of settle- 
 ment, leased several townlands to captain William Hamil- 
 ton and Andrew Graham. In the partition of these lands, 
 Glovet, containing 436 acres, andthelslandmucks, contain- 
 ing4i 9 acres, fell to Graham. His widow and administratrix, 
 Mrs. Dorothy Graham, sold her interest in the lands of 
 Glovet to Jocelyn Hamilton, subject, to an annual rent of 
 £20; and his grandson Richard Graham, soon after 1722, 
 sold the lands of upper Islandmuck (all in the parish of 
 Tyrella) to Mr. Waring of Waringsford, near Dromara.— 
 J. W. Hanna's Account of Tyrella in the Drwnpatriek 
 Recorder. 
 
 " One Ohoole. — O'Hoole may be a mistake for O'TooIe, 
 some one of the O'Neills of Castlereagh. 
 
The Montgumery Manuscripts. 
 
 419 
 
 were materialls w<='> my father and John Hamilton Esq' had ready on y« Like occasion ; besides y' 
 two Viscts (their brethren) present, to countenance them : & to see that y^ Poll was duly taken & 
 allowed. And also they had Sherif to befriend them : all w'='^ I wanted : & also y« expe- 
 rience they had to manage that affair,?^ nor had I any to help me therein : And to tell y« Truth 
 of my then thoughts, I believed that S' James Montg : Sonn and y« Earle of Mount Alexander, 
 onely brother-in-law, & next cousin, could not have failed to carry away that Prize : and so I made 
 that Leape (as I have done others) before I well Looked ; and without seeking deliberate advice : 
 which was not to be had at that time. 
 
 However divers understanding old gentl" wished me to bear y* disappointment without fret- 
 ting (& so I did) for they said that I had fought the batle fairly, and lost it onely by y« stratagems 
 of my rival, or his servants : & I know, (as I said openly at dinner) that knights and burgesses 
 were but equalls in the house, as to sitting & speaking therein, and knights of y« shire might be 
 coveted by reason ot its Sallary (w'^'^ was y« greater) & I disdained to think of it: and for y« honour 
 of it, I had enough, haveing contended without paction (or courting) for votes ; and I hoped to be 
 nothing y^ less in y* Contray & Governm' esteem, that I was over voted ; because some friends 
 were absent, and other men were newters, of which I should take no notice, nor of any other mat- 
 ter concerning y« management of that election ; so that I would not scruple to sign y« Indentures 
 thereof, (chiefly because I would not be troublesome either to y« house of Commons, or to my 
 nighbour in that which was of smal concern, or value to myself) 
 
 I have been large in this relation, for y« Liformation of my sonn, & his sonns, to be consi- 
 dered when ever they shall have like occasion to appear for their Contray :53 I have in this para- 
 graph told you some instances of y« vainty & properancy of my mind in y« matter therein recited : 
 and certainly I had then, some Phaetontal conceipts in my brain, w<^'^ were Augmented by flattery 
 
 9^ To manage that affair. — Seep. 382, supra. 
 
 95 For their Contray. — The author's representatives 
 ended with the death of his great grandson, who was 
 accidently killed at Killough, in 1736, when a mere youth. 
 After the sale of their estate in 1718-19, the influence of 
 the Rosemount family rapidly declined, and no member 
 thereof after the author's time, ventured to seek for parlia- 
 mentary honours. The arrangement, made by the author 
 for the advantage of his son, James, (see p. 382, supra), 
 does not appear to have produced any permanently favour- 
 able results, for the constant and severe pressure of family 
 debts soon compelled the latter to part with his estate. 
 On the 1 2th of November, 1703, articles of agreement 
 were concluded between James Montgomery, Elizabeth 
 his wife, and William Montgomery his father, on the one 
 part, and John Blackwood of Ballyleidy on the other part, 
 by which the latter, for the sum of ^i'lSSo purchased from 
 James Montgomery ' ' all that and those the townes and 
 lands of Ballyblack (with the islands thereunto belonging) 
 Ballyboley, Ballygrange, the quarter land of Le Cardy 
 alias Cardy part of Ballymurchy containing by estimation 
 fifty-three acres, possessed by David McLee and widow 
 Robinson, all lying and being in the parish of Greyabbey. " 
 John Blackvi'ood and his tenants were bound "to do suite 
 and service to the Courts of y*^ Manor of Rosemount, and 
 to grind all y° graine at y^ Mills of y^ said James Mont- 
 
 gomery that shall-grow and bee expended on y'^ said lands, 
 paying y' sixteenth graine as molter and toll for grinding 
 y^ same to the said James Montgomery, with y'^ sixty-fourth 
 part more of all graine that shall be brought to y' said 
 milles by all or any of y^ tenants of the said townlands, 
 to y"= miller or miliars, for their service & loadinge y"-' 
 same. And y' undertenants of John Blackwood living on 
 y' premisses shall pay their ordinary and accustomed dues 
 to ye minister of Greyabbey parish, viz. Christenings mar- 
 riages burials and Easter offerings." James Montgomery 
 continued bound to pay " to y"^ curate of Greyabbey yearly 
 y'^ usual sallary for his services of care of y" said parish." 
 James Montgomery and John Blackwood signed in pre- 
 sence of Jo. Saunders, Jo : Hamilton, William Catherwood 
 and Jo. Macormick. William Montgomery of Rosemount, 
 esqr. , and Elizabeth Montgomery, signed in presence of 
 Jo : Hamilton, William Catherwood, and Ja^. Macormick. 
 — Am. preserved at Greyabbey. On the 28th and 29th of 
 April, 1710, James Montgomery conveyed in mortgage to 
 James Ross of Newtown, for the sum of ^800 and the 
 interest thereof, the towns and lands of Greyabbey, Bally- 
 murphyislands, Boglebo, and Ballybrien. Isaac Macartney 
 of Belfast, merchant, having paid this sum together with 
 £6^ of interest, and advancing a further sum of £217,, 
 amounting in all to the sum of £io']T, got a conveyance 
 of the above named land from James Montgomery, which 
 
420 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 of those, who designed more or less (as occasion would serve turn) to make their profitt of mee. 
 for I was (too often) told of my fathers meritts, and of my own improvements (by being a traveller, 
 sollicitor. & a reader) and that my expectations of honour, & estates might be greater, & with such 
 like discourses was I entertained, as y^ fox comended y« crow for singing, till y^ cheese might drop 
 
 conveyance he in turn relinquished, on being paid by James 
 Bailie of Inishargie, in 17 19, the sum of ^2600, the then 
 amount of Montgomery's debt to him. — MS. preserved at 
 Greyabbey. On the 23rd of November, 17 1 7, articles 
 were agreed on between James Montgomery and his trus- 
 tees for the sale of the Rosemount estate. These trustees 
 were Hugh Savage of Ardkeen, Hugh Maxwell of Row- 
 bane, Robert Hamill of Ballyatwood, and John Mont- 
 gomery of Cregboy, in the county of Downe, Esqrs. , and 
 Henry Dalway of Marshalls' Towne, in the County of the 
 towne of Carrickfergus, Esqr. James Montgomery was 
 induced to sell Rosemount because he was "indebted 
 severall persons in severall sums of money amounting to 
 Three Thousand one hundred pounds and upwards, which 
 debt in a short time with the interest accruing thereon, 
 would sink the estate ; for preventing whereof, and making 
 provision for himself, and raising Portions for his child- 
 ren," the owner agreed to surrender it into the hands of 
 his trustees. James Montgomery had received ;^iooo 
 with his wife, who in this document is spoken of as 
 deceased. He had four children then alive, viz. William 
 and Edmondston, the oldest and youngest of the family, 
 and their, sisters Elizabeth and Martha. These articles 
 were signed in presence of William M'Gill, James 
 M'Donell, and Hugh Glass. — MS. preserved at Grey- 
 abbey. The following document connected with the sale 
 of the Rosemount property is now printed for the first 
 time : — 
 
 "A Memorial of Deeds of Lease and Release, indented Tripartite, 
 bearing date respectively the third and fourth days of July, 1717. 
 made beween James Montgomery, of Rosemount, in the County of 
 Down, Ksqr., and Alice i,Eli2abeth) Montgomery, his wife, William 
 Montgomery of Rosemount aforesaid, gent'", eldest son and heir 
 apparent of the said James Montgomery, and Hugh Savage of Ard- 
 km, Hugh Maxwell of Rowbane, Robert Hamill of Ballyatwood, 
 John Montgomery of Cragbuy, all in the said county of Down, Esqrs., 
 and H-enry Dallway of Marsiiallstown in the County of the town of 
 Carrickfergus, Esqr., Trustees of the said James Montgomery, of the 
 first part ; William Montgomery of Grangee, in the County of Down, 
 aforesaid, Esqr., of the Second part; and Elizabeth Montgomery and 
 Martha Montgomery both of Rosemount aforesaid. Spinsters, of the 
 third part; whereby the sd. James Montgomery, Elizabeth Mont- 
 gomery, his wife, and Wil liam Montgomery of Rosemount, HughSavage 
 Hugh Ma.vwell, Robert Hamill, John ftlontgomery, and Henry 
 Dallway, with the consent of the sd. Elizabeth Montgomery and 
 Martha Montgomery, and for the consideration of the sum of Six 
 thousand two hundred poimds. Sterling, to them in hand, paid by the 
 said William Montgomery, of Grangee, have granted, bargained, sold, 
 aliened, released, and confirmed unto the said William Montgomery 
 of Grangee, & his heirs, all that the manor of Rosemount, together 
 with the Scite, circuit, and precinct of the Abbey of Leigh, alias Jugo 
 Dei. alias Grayabbie, alias Hoare Abbey, and also the demesne lands 
 of Rosemount, and the Town and Lands of Grayabbie, Bogleboe, 
 liuetown, Ballymistore, Ballymurphy, alias Ballyinurcock, and the 
 islands & Peninsulas commonly called or known by the names of 
 Killhill, Island Buys, Island Middle, Island South, Island Chapel, 
 Island Bourtree, Inland Gobback, Island Longshelas and Channell, 
 with all Rocks and Scars, and all Kelp, wreck, and Sea- Weed grow- 
 ing or being, or that shall hereafter grow or be on the said Manor, 
 Towns, Lands, Rocks and Premises, or on the coasts or shores thereof, 
 or of any part thereof, or that belong, or are reputed to belong to the 
 same, and also one Messuage, house and garden, in the Green Well 
 Street, in the town and lands of Newton, and one yearly fc. f ■in, 
 rent of seven pounds fifteen shillings, issuing and payable out of the 
 
 town and lands of Ballybune, alias Ballybrian, and one yearly chief 
 rent or fee-farm rent of one pound, issuing and payable out of the 
 town & lands of Tullykeavan, alias Carrow Tullykeavan, together 
 with the Rectory of Grayabbie, and all and every the great and 
 small Tythes, oblations, and obventions, and portions of Tythes, 
 growing arising, or renewing, yearly, in or out of the said Town and 
 Lands of Grayabbie, Bogleboe, Butown, Ballymestore, Ballymurphy 
 alias Ballymurcock, Ballybrene alias Ballybrian, Carrow Tully- 
 keavan, demesne Lands and Islands aforesaid, and likewise all and 
 every the Tythes great and small, oblations, obventions, and ecclesi- 
 astical dues, issuing, growing, renewing, or payable, in or out of the 
 towns & lands of Ballybunden and the qu-arter of Killmuidd, alias 
 Killmond, and Ballymonestragh, which lately belonged to, or were 
 granted to Sir James Montgomery, Knight, by Letters Patent, of 
 King Charles the First, bearing date the 9th day of March, in the 
 13th year of his reign, together with the Church of Grayabbie, and 
 the right of nominating or presenting a Curate or incumbent to the 
 same, and also the Corn-mill of Grayabbie, and the suite service 
 Grist, Succon, Toll or Multure thereof, or to the same belonging, or 
 usually held, occupied, or enjoyed therewith, all which are situate, 
 lying, and being in the Barony of Ards and Castlereagh, and County 
 of Down aforesaid; and also Courts Leet, Courts baron, and Pie 
 Powder Courts, Markets, Fairs, Tolls, Clerk of the Market, Fishings, 
 Castle Fish, Wrecks, Waifs, Estrays, Deodands, Fines, Forfeitures, 
 Common Ways, Watercourses, Milldams, Mill draughts, floors. Bogs, 
 Loughs, and all other Royalties, Rights, Members, Easements and 
 Appurtenances to the said Manor, Towns, Lands, and Premises, or 
 any or either of them, belonging or appertaining in as full, ample, 
 and beneficial manner as the said James Montgomery did, could, or 
 might hold, occupy, possess, or enjoy the same, or any part, or 
 parcel thereof, together with the reversion, and reversions, remainder 
 and remainders, rents, issues, and profits, of the said Manor, Towns, 
 Lands, Tythes, and Premises, and every part thereof, and all the 
 Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Trust, Property, claim, and demand 
 of the said James Montgomery, Elizabeth Montgomery, William 
 Montgomery of Rosemount, Hugh Savage, Hugh Maxwell, Robert 
 Hamill, John Montgomery, and Henry Dallway, of in and to the 
 same, and all Patents, Deeds, Writings, and E\'idences thereto, or 
 to any part thereof belonging, or appertaining. To have and to hold, 
 to the said William Montgomery, of Grangee, his heirs and assigns 
 forever ; and the said deed of Re-lease doth likewise set forth that the 
 said William Montgomery of Grangee, his heirs and assigns, shall 
 have the full benefit and advantage of all agreements between the 
 said James Montgomery and John Blackwood, of Ballyleidy Gent", 
 for payment of the Crown rent and School-master's Salary, due or 
 payable out of the said Manor, by the said John Blackwood, his 
 heirs or assigns, and more especially all agreements and exceptions 
 in a Deed bearing date the 25th of November. 1700, and another by 
 which the said James Montgomery granted the Towns and Lands of 
 Ballyblack, Ballyboley, Ballygrange, Ballj^henny, and part of Bally- 
 murphy, part of said Manor of Rosemount to the said John Black- 
 ^\'ood, his heirs and assigns, the true intent whereof was and is that 
 the said John Blackwood, his heirs and assigns, shall pay the crown 
 rent of eight pounds per annum, issuing out of the said manor, and 
 the school-master's salary of Six Shillings and Eight pence per 
 annum in ease and discharge of the rent and residue of the said 
 Manor and Lands, granted to the said William Montgomery of 
 Grangee as aforesaid, which said deeds of lease and release are 
 witnessed by Rowley Hill and Robert Traill, both of the city of 
 Dublin, Gentn., and John Vaughan of Stewart Town, in the County 
 of Tyrone, Clerk, and James Baillie of Inischargie, in the County of 
 Down, Gentn. 
 
 .Signed and Sealed in presence of us Robert Johnston, Rowley 
 Hill, James Boyd. — I\IS. Paper boiotd itfi with the Copy 0/ Jnqiiisi- 
 sition of 1623, in the possession of R. B. Houston^ £sq., Orangefield. 
 
 The present owner of the Rosemount estate is fourth in 
 descent from William Montgomery, who purchased it in 
 17 1 7, and the eighth in descent from John Montgomery, 
 cousin of the first viscount, and original settler at Gran- 
 sheogh. See Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly's Genealogical History, 
 pp. 60-66. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 421 
 
 out of her mouth, for him to catch, but I looked not at, nor suspected any snake under our own 
 contray grass, tho I know there were many in England, Scotland, and beyond our seas ; of which I 
 was warned, and carefull : but now at home I was secure and negligent, thinking that (being almost 
 always in company of freinds, nighbours & obliged kindred, and meaning no evil to any man) tho 
 I were blind, they would be both eyes and hands for mee. 
 
 I had perused books but not read men, or bussines half enough, And I had y« same opinion 
 of other mens Professions, as of my own, that they were sincere and honest. This credulity was 
 my great error, (which I could not get rooted out of my mind,) to receive imposed impressions ; 
 and that it was occasioned thro inconsideration of y^ Medium between giving ready credit, 
 and its contrary vice of suspecting all things, and of being over diffident. I therefore 
 imagined (which was a timorous jealousy for my Credit) That if I should distrust of mens Protesta- . 
 tions, I should be Ingenerous, and Reflect upon myself, and perhaps wrong honest deserving men : 
 & (to be plain spoken) yett again I could not take it upon my conscience and Honor (to both 
 which I had an high regard) to use Subterfuges, & undue excuses, for shaking off some importu- 
 nitys : By all w"^"^ Imperfections, perhaps by an heedlessness, or Lazyness to inquire into mens de- 
 signes (w<=^ is a fault incident to those young men who think they enjoy enough, or will attain to 
 more worldly affluence) I was induced by persuasions drawn from charity and friendship, & by 
 promises of services, to Supply other men, out of my own recovered estate, before I had paid my 
 own and my fathers debts : whereof Divers were now taken on, and belonged to y^ Publick : as con- 
 tracted by y« Lords Justices order,9t not knowing, at Least not remembering, Proverbs That 
 Charity begins at home, & Eaten bread is forgotten; but Truth of them I had not as yet Learned 
 by any smarting experience. 
 
 And therefore as further instance of my mistakes of mens tempers, I add another of my Error in set- 
 Errors in my PoHtiques, for I imployed three of my tenents, one who had a beneficiall Lease from '^"^ 
 my father now expiring, at y= tenth part value in rent which it was at this time worth : and his 
 wife was a relation of his Lo^; the other was one that marryed a Montgomery, for whom my father 
 had a kindness, and her husband had received a troopers pay, & collected my fathers rents : the 
 other man was Shaw, and had maryed y^ daughter of one Shaw, who was receaver to my 
 grandmother and father, in y« Manor of Rosemount : & this Shaw was tenent under Coll Barrow,95 
 for his own father in Laws farm, but a ready coraplyer at my takeing possession [of y« lands, but 
 not in my entering to y« house ; y<= secret whereof was only imparted to y^ other two, who dealt 
 therein faithfully (as hopeing my being a kind landlord) and cautiously as fearing revolutions in 
 those variable times (for it was in february 1659) and dreading Barrows merciless severity, and 
 therefore they two contrived waryly on that account : for they adduced Math. Glass, who was 
 casheered from y^ Lease of his house (w'^"^ himself built) and from y^ orchard he had planted, and 
 was to leave them in three months : Him they easily persuaded to gett in at y« Parlour window of 
 my house aforesd (wherein no body lived) & to stay concealed till next morning; and then (pri- 
 vate notice being given me) I came without comitting any force, and entred in vacuo at y^ 
 
 M Justices Orr/^r. — See pp. 158—160, sup-a. 
 
 '5 Coll. Barrow. — See p. 203, supra. 
 
 G 2 
 
422 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 I am made 
 Trustee to ye 
 49 officers. 
 
 kitchen greate door, w^i"' s<i Mathew had unbolted, and left it hanging loose which was a good 
 possession, my title being Legal, & so I kept it ever since then : till I made it over (cum appurti- 
 nentibiis) to my sonn.56 
 
 The s<i Triumviri first described in ye last paragraph were y<= men I imployed to sett & lett 
 my lands (whilst I attended y= Parliament) ; how it came to pass I did not strictly enquire (nor did 
 I find out) but y« event was that my lands were under sett, & it was many years before I could 
 raise y* rents of them : how ever they were gratifyd as if they had done y^ best for my advantage. 
 
 And thus I passed y« following yeares, sometimes in Dublin, & sometimes at home, where I 
 lived as at his Maj'y^ Restauration, and as after my marriage : till after y« Com"^ to his Maj'y had 
 returned from England?? & the Parliam* had sate again, and had made a recess for awhile, and our 
 first Earle had come to his last doleful jorney to Newtoun as aforsd.?^ 
 
 You have an Account of my Actions in Reference to his sonn, before, At, and after his good 
 LoP= funeral : of w':'* some are related in y<= Memoirs of y« present Earle, and therefore shall not 
 be repeated.99 Yet I may mention that by recomendation from y^ green chamber (spoken of in 
 ye beginning of this narrative of myself) I had y« Duke of Albemarls and Ormonds joynt order to 
 be admitted a Trustee to Act for y= officers who servd K Ch : y« i^' & 2^ in y"= Warrs of Ireland 
 before y^ 5* of June 1649'°° ^.nd pursuant thereunto, I sat in y« s'^ Green chamber (in y« Custom 
 house Dublin) when I pleased : and went upon addresses with others of our number to y^ Govern- 
 ment : and attended at y« Court of Claimes when I pleased, either to further y= genii or my parti- 
 cular concern.'"' 
 
 9* To my sonn. — See pp. 382, 383, supra. In this pas- 
 sage, we have a curious account of the author's resuming 
 possession of Rosemount, althougli it is to be regretted that 
 he has not given us the names of all his assistants on that 
 occasion. See p. 221, supra. 
 
 97 prorn England. — See p. 232, note 66, supra. 
 
 9^ N^cwtoun as aforsd. — See pp. 237, 238, supra. 
 
 99 Not be ripealed. — See pp. 242, 261, 262, et seq. supra. 
 
 ICO Ye ^tk of June, 1649. — See p. 232, note 62, supra. 
 The trustees originally appointed for the (1649) officers, in 
 March, 1660, vftK Henry viscount Moore ; Arthur vis- 
 count Valentia ; John viscount Massereene ; Francis 
 lord Aungier ; John lord Kingston ; Richard lord Coloony ; 
 sir James Ware ; sir Tlieophilus Jones ; colonel Arthur 
 Hill ; colonel Marcus Trevor ; captain Robert Fitzgerald ; 
 sir Robert Newcomen ; sir Arthur Forbes ; sir Richard 
 Lane ; sir Patrick Wemyes ; sir George Lane ; sir John 
 Stevens ; sir Audley Mervyn ; sir William Flower ; col. 
 C. Coote ; colonel Francis Fowkes ; serjeant major Tho- 
 mas Harmon ; serjeant major George Rawdon ; captain 
 Hans Hamilton ; captain Robert Ward ; captain Richard 
 Gething ; Brian Jones, esq. ; Dr. William Petty ; Richard 
 Stephens, esq. ; James Cuffe, esq. ; Samuel Bathurst, esq. ; 
 and alderman Daniel Bellingham. These trustees were 
 re-appointed on the 22nd of May, 1662, and others added, 
 among the latter William Montgomery. Robert Ward 
 was appointed, January, 1561, register general for keeping 
 all duplicates of debentures, records, certificates, and other 
 writings, touching soldiers' debentures, for the satisfaction 
 of the arrears of the officers and soldiers employed in Ire- 
 land, during pleasure. — Irish Record Commission Reports, 
 voL iii., pp. 32, 33, notes. 
 
 My paj-ticular concern. — The vacant ground lying 
 between the northern side of Dame Street and the river 
 Lififey was selected by the government of James I. as a 
 site for new custom-house buildings in Dublin. A lease 
 for ninety years was taken in the king's name, on the loth 
 of November, 1620, from Jacob Newman, of ground ex- 
 tending from the river north side, in length south-ward 
 160 feet, and at the south end in breadth 106 feet, at a 
 rent of /^50, payable out of the fee-farm rent due by the 
 mayor, sheritTs, and citizens of Dublin to the crown. On 
 this site a new custom-house was erected some time prior 
 to the restoration, "which contained the additional con- 
 venience of a Council-Chamber, or place of meeting for 
 the Privy-Council of Ireland. Committees of the House 
 of Commons of Ireland are recorded to have met, in 1661, 
 in the 'Green Chamber of the new Custom House'; and 
 in the ' Garden Chamber' of this edifice Committees of the 
 Peers occasionally assembled in 1 662. . . By letters 
 from Whitehall, dated 20th September, 1671, Charles 
 II. directed that the 'custody, charge, and keeping of all 
 records, offices, inquisitions, books of entries, journals, 
 claims, schedules, contracts, deeds, transcripts, certificates, 
 reports, abstracts, accompts, rules, valuations, returns, 
 warrants, orders, instructions, and extracts,' copies, or 
 duplicates of them, and all other books, papers, writings, 
 rescripts, and muniments whatsoever, now or late in the 
 custody, or formerly belonging to the late Commissioners 
 for executing the Declaration of the 30th of November, 
 1660, for the settlement of Ireland, for executing the acts 
 of settlement, or any former Commissioners or Courts of 
 Claims, Qualifications, or others heretofore appointed for 
 settling or distributing of lands should be delivered to Sir 
 
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 423 
 
 I was also s'' yeare 1649 25 of June sworne Gentl" of y« Privy Chamber by W"" 
 
 ffleming, whose certificate thereof is yet extant, & also on Record in Whitehall, by vertue whereof 
 I had uninterrupted passage into all publique roomes there, and a key which Lett me into y« gallerys & 
 cockpitt from y^ Garden, and St. James park.'°^ 
 
 In this place I may also incert a passage or event of my Life, w'^'^ brought me an esteem and 
 deference in y« county of Antrim, town of Carrickfergus, & castle of Dublin, and it came to pass 
 as foUoweth viz. 
 
 When y« surprizall of Carrickfergus Castle'°3 by a Schoolmaster and some Olivarian Soldiers 
 had occasioned y^ duke of Ormond to send by sea, half y^ Royall foot Regiment and other com- 
 panys & himself to come for y« reduction thereof, I heard of his graces journey with y^ troop of 
 Guards and met him at Lisnegarvah. 
 
 Sworn Gentin 
 of ye Privy 
 Chamber. 
 
 Of ye surj-rise 
 of Cairickfer- 
 snis Castle. 
 
 James Shaw, surveyor-general of Ireland, to be kept and 
 preserved by him, . . . and that the three rooms in 
 the new Custom House Dublin, commonly called the 
 Green Chamber, formerly in the possession of the Trustees 
 lor the 1649 officers, with the presses, books, and writings 
 therein, be by inventoiy delivered into the custody of the 
 said Surveyor General, for the better preservation and 
 using of the said books, papers, writings, and premises.' " 
 — Gilbert's History of Duhliji, vol. ii., pp. 136, 137. 
 
 St. James Park. — The ' gallei^s' here mentioned 
 nm along the two sides of the grand banqueting house 
 and across the end over the door of entrance. There was 
 another smaller gallery for the use of the guards, which 
 was pulled down about the year 1839-40, when the in- 
 terior of the banqueting house undenvent a thorough 
 repair and restoration. The great attraction of this apart- 
 ment is the ceiling, with its series of paintings by Rubens, 
 but their vast height removes them beyond close inspec- 
 tion, and the spectator must be content to admire their 
 brilliant and harmonious colouring. The ' Cockpit'' has 
 long since disappeared, and the space once occupied by 
 it and the tennis court is now appropriated by the treasury, 
 and the offices of the secretaries of state. The ' garden' 
 adjoined St. James's Park, the latter stretching between 
 Whitehall and St. James's palace. Charles I. had fitted 
 up a chapel in the latter building, from which he walked 
 across this park to Whitehall, the place of his execution. 
 — Knight's Cyclopadia of London, pp. 5i> 52- 
 
 '°3 Stirprizall at Carrickfergus Castle. — This affair 
 at Carrickfergus, which occurred in the spring of 
 1666, was more serious in its nature and results 
 than the author's notice would lead us to infer. He 
 has thrown some new light, however, on the sub- 
 ject, by ascribing the surprisal of Carrickfergus castle 
 on that occasion to a "schoolmaster and some Oliva- 
 rian soldiers." Unfortunately, he "does not mention 
 the schoolmaster's name. McSkimin's account, collected 
 from Carte, Cox, and the Journals of the Irish IJoiise of 
 Commons, is as follows :— " l666. In April, the garrison, 
 consisting of four companies of foot, mutinied for want of 
 their pay, but were soon quelled. It is likely, however, 
 that their grievances were not redressed, for the mutiny 
 again broke out with greater violence, on the 22nd of the 
 following month. Choosing one Corporal Dillon for their 
 commander, they prepared for defending themselves. 
 They drew out a list of their grievances, inviting other 
 
 garrisons to join them, and sent a copy to the Earl of 
 Donegall, then in the town ; upon which he waited on 
 them, and did his utmost to bring them to order, but with- 
 out efi'ect. On the 25th same month, the Earl of Arran, 
 son to the Duke of Ormond, arrived at Carrickfergus, in 
 the Dartmoor frigate, with four companies of foot guards; 
 and on the 27lh his grace of Ormond arrived with ten 
 troops of horse. In the evening a general assault was 
 made on the town, the Earl of Arran attacking it by sea, 
 and Sir Wm. Flowers by land : on which the mutineers 
 retreated into the castle, with the loss of Dillon their com- 
 mander, and two others. The assailants had two killed 
 and six wounded. Same evening the Earl of Donegall 
 and the mayor effected their escape from the town ; and 
 so many of the mutineers deserted, that their number was 
 reduced to 120 men. On the next day, they hung out a: 
 white flag, and desired to capitulate ; and on the earl's 
 assurance of safety, one Proctor and another mutineer 
 were let down the castle wall, to treat of terms ; but the 
 earl refusing to listen to any proposal short of unconditional 
 submission, they returned into the castle. The mutineers, 
 however, although they had still a month's provisions, 
 surrendered at discretion the same day, about two o'clock. 
 On the 30th, no persons were tried, nine of whom were 
 executed, and the others sent to Dublin, whence they were 
 transported. Two companies of tlie guards being left in 
 the garrison, his grace returned to Dublin, on which the 
 House of Commons appointed a deputation of their body 
 to wait on him with their thanks for suppressing the 
 mutiny. The corporation received thanks of government 
 for their loyalty on this occasion, and gave a splendid 
 entertainment to the Earl of Arran ; and in the following 
 July, a company of militia being raised for the defence of 
 Carrickfergus, tlie mayor for the time being was appointed 
 to command." — History of Carrickfergus, pp. 62, 63. In 
 a letter from William Pinkerton, esq., F. S.A., to the 
 editor, there is the following interesting passage : — " I 
 have a full account of Ormond's journey to the North to 
 quell the mutiny. The chief mutineers were named Proc- 
 tor Dillon and Williams. Proctor Dillon (one name) was 
 killed, and Williams was hanged. These names are in a 
 letter written by the earl of Donegall. Sir Geo. Rawdon, 
 in a letter to Lord Conway gives an interesting account 
 of the whole affair. He met Ormond at Dromorc, and 
 was with him all the time assisting at the Court-Martial, 
 which was held in Joymount. Hji says that 10 men were 
 
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 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 YniukeofOr- We had heard two days before this, that castle was surrendered to y' party w^h came in 
 mounts' ' ^liipps (w'^'' had brought battering gunns) and to y= to^vn Guarison. Yet y« Duke (to put an 
 orderly end to that Little Rebellion and to prevent y« Like) came to Carrickfergus and was lodged 
 in Joymount house, so called by y"^ Lord Deputy Chichester who built it, and enclosd with an ad- 
 joining Garden, on y' ground given him by y« Corporation to that purpose. ^"-^ 
 
 His Grace dined publiqly at y« old Earle of Dunnegalls table where I made one of y^ sitters, 
 and was placed to my right, and had rather more than my due, because y^ Earle had ordered it to 
 be so/°5 
 
 Dinner & some Gen' discourses being ended, & ye Countess importuning the D: for pardon to 
 y« schoolmaster'"^ (w'^'' y^ Duke had a mind to avoid for that time) his Grace said he desired to 
 see y' Gardens, & then went to them I kept myself as neare as possibly I could to him. He 
 
 tried, condemned, and executed. But Omiond, writing 
 to the Secretary of State, after he returned to Dublin, 
 says that there were only 9 executed. One writer says 
 ' the townsmen added fuel to the fire.' But I hear nothing 
 of a school-master being implicated in the affair. The 
 prisoners were tried by Court-Martial for breach of the 
 Articles of War. There is a contemporai-y printed account 
 of the affair. The men had nine months' pay due them." 
 
 '""^ To that ftirpose. — 'Joymount House' was so named by 
 sir Arthur Chichester, who completed the building of 
 that noble residence in the year 161 8. In 1635, sir 
 \¥illiam Brereton described it as a " veiy statelye house, 
 or rather like a prince's pallace," containing "a verye faire 
 hall and a stately staircase, and a faire dineing roome, 
 carrying the proportion of the hall." But, says the same 
 ■ authority, ' ' the windowes and roomes and whole frame of 
 the house is over large and vast ; and in this house may 
 you observe the inconvenience of great buildings, which 
 require an unreasonable charge to keep them in repaire, 
 soe they are a burthen to the owners of them." Sir 
 Arthur erected Joymount on the side of an old building 
 known as the Pallace, which, in its turn, had occupied 
 the place where anciently stood the Franciscan Friary of 
 Carrickfergus, founded in the thirteenth century, either 
 by sir Hugh de Lacy or a chieftain of the Clan Aodha- 
 Buidhe branch of the O'Neills. Joymount house was 
 removed about a century ago to make way for the county 
 gaol and court-house in Carrickfergus. See a highly 
 interesting paper on 'The Pallace' of Carrickfergus, 
 contributed by William Pinkerton, esq., F.S.A. ,to the 
 Ulster ycntrnal of Arcluvology, vol. vii., pp. l-io. 
 
 Ordered it to he so. — 'Ye old Earle of Dunnegall' 
 was then in the si.xtieth year of his age, having been born 
 on the 1 6th of June, 1606. He was nephew to sir 
 Arthur, the builder of Joymount, and for his faithful 
 services to the cause of royalty, was created earl of Done- 
 gall on the 30th March, 1647. He died in Belfast, on 
 the 1 8th March, 1674, and was buried at Carrickfergus 
 on the loth of May following. — Lodge, edited by Archdall, 
 vol. i., pp. 334, 335. 
 
 To ye schoolmaster. — The first earl of Donegall was 
 thrice married. The countess referred to in the text (his 
 last wife) was Letitia, only surviving daughter of sir 
 William Hickes of Rooksholt, Essex. This lady's 
 second husband was sir William Franklyn of Mavorne, in 
 Bedfordshire. — Lodge, edited by Archdall, vol. i. , p. 335. It 
 
 is to be supposed that her pleading for the schoolmaster 
 was in vain, as Ormond seems to have dreaded the spirit 
 manifested by the mutineers, and thought that the crisis 
 required him to act with severity. Carrickfergus was 
 near Scotland, and its keepers' loyalty must be above 
 suspicion. Neither could the 'Oliverian' spirit be per- 
 mitted to show itself with impunity under any circum- 
 stances. It would appear, however, that Oliverianism 
 apart, the soldiers in Carrickfergus had too much cause 
 for complaint. "In the MSS. of Henry Gill, esq.," 
 says M'Skimin, "we find some additional and inte- 
 resting particulars of this mutiny, from which it appears 
 that the soldiers had been treated with the most cruel 
 neglect ; having been kept without pay upwards of three 
 months, and the inhabitants having long refused to credit 
 them. For some time prior to the mutiny, they had 
 existed wholly on such fish as they could find on the 
 shore, and even sea plants, which they boiled. Just 
 before proceeding to extremes, they waited on Hugh 
 Smyth, treasurer of this corporation, and humbly requested 
 2s. 6d. for each man; but he refusing any aid, they pro- 
 ceeded as just related. On the nine men being ordered 
 for execution, the common hangman refused to do his 
 office, and left the town, declaring that he "would rather 
 be hanged himself than hang men who had been so badly 
 treated." However, James Spring, an inhabitant of the 
 town, performed the hateful office, on being promised by 
 sir William Flowers for each man ; not one farthing 
 of which he ever received. Mr. Gill adds that had this 
 mean wretch possessed the humanity of the common 
 hangman, the men would have been saved ; as a reprieve 
 came for all a few hours after they were executed." — 
 History of Carrickjergus, pp. 63, 64. 
 
 'Then -went to them. — The gardens at Joymount are 
 noticed by sir William Brereton, who visited Carrickfer- 
 gus in 163s, as follows: — "Fine Gardens and mighty 
 spatious Orchards, & they say they lear goode store of 
 Fruite. I observed on either side of this garden, there is 
 a Dovehouse placed, one opposite to the other in the 
 corner of the garden, & twixt the garden and the Orchards, 
 a most convenient place for apricockes, or some such 
 tender Fruite, to be planted against the Dovehouse wall, 
 that by the advantage of the heat thereof, they may be 
 rendered more fruit-full & come sooner to maturitie, but 
 this use is not made thereof." — Ulster Journal oj 
 Archctology, vol. i. , p. 247. 
 
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 425 
 
 took out his perspective and turning round perceived mee attending neare him : and thinking 
 either I had matter of bussines to him, or that I could answer (as well as any other) the things 
 wherein he desired information ; & (as I thought) to place respect on me, as the then chiefest (and 
 almost the onely) Figure in our Family (to which his Grace always professed a friendship) : his Grace 
 (on some of those scores) called me, saying M"" Montgomery wee must talk together a Little : at 
 which I advanced, and y« rest of y= attending company held themselves at a distance. 
 
 The Duke had a mind to view the Lough, & chief places on y<= other side thereof: and that 
 part of ye Castle w'^'^ stood next ye town and sea : concerning all which I satisfyed his curiosity : & 
 of ye proprietors, their conditions as to estates. Inclinations as to presbiteriall governm', with their 
 predominant affections for y^ King : and this was done as I was particularly Interrogated ; after 
 every sight he had taken with his perspective. 
 
 He had looked also to the frigotts in the Road that brought his men : and to some merch' 
 shipps that anchored at Galmoy and he enquired of y^ comodiousness of the Lough for ship- 
 pmg and fishing : of all which I informed his Grace to his content ; I bringing in a discourse of 
 ye encouragement the onely trading merch'^ (who lived in Belfast) had, and also of y^ ad- 
 vantage it was to ye King that y* custom house were settled in that towne,'°9 and a bridge 
 built to join the two countys :"° Telling the D: also he would see the smal key and harbour 
 of Carrickfergus when he went into y' Castle, «& that I would there show him the place from 
 whence y^ Marquis of Antrim'" made his escape from Major Gen" Robert Monro : and Y very 
 
 Galmoy. — Galmoy was probably written by the author 
 in mistake for Gannoyle. "From the shallowness of the 
 stream at the Bridge of Belfast, Garmoyl or Carmoyl-Pool is 
 made use of as the harbour for ships trading to that town ; 
 where is a depth that twenty vessels may ride afloat at low 
 water, though within cable's length barks lie round them 
 dry, and from thence sail up at high water to the Kay of 
 Belfast." — Harris, County of Down, p. 127. 
 
 In that to'ivne. — The custom-house was built before 
 1689. In that year, one Gideon Bonnivert, probably a 
 French refugee, came with king William's army, and 
 landed at Donaghadee. Among the Sloane MSS. in the 
 British museum, one is labelled Bonnivert' s Journey" 
 and in it is the following notice of Belfast : — "The town 
 is a sea-port, there is in it the King's Custom House, and 
 you see, hard by it, a very long stone bridge, which is 
 not yett finisht. The town is compassed round about 
 with hills. The people very civill, and there is also a 
 great house belonging to my Lord Donegall, Lord Chi- 
 chester, with very fine gardens and groves of ash trees." 
 — Uliter Journal of Arcluwlogy, vol. iv., p. 79. 
 
 "° The two countys. — "The old map of Belfast, pre- 
 served in the MS. collection of Lambeth Library, as 
 well as the plan of the town, constracted about the year 
 1660, represents an extensive ford reaching in the direction 
 of the present Corn Market, and communicating with the 
 enclosure of the Castle. The remains of another ford, 
 composed of large stones, regidarly laid, which crossed 
 the river exactly opposite the Ballast Office, were lately 
 removed by the Ballast Corporation." — Reeves, Eccl. 
 A7itiquittes, p. 183. The constniction of a regular bridge 
 to "join the two countys" was not commenced until the 
 year 1682, and was not completed in less than six years. 
 
 The old Long Bridge, however, was a great work. 
 "The Bridge of Belfast," says Harris, "under which the 
 river Lagan empties itself into Carrickfergus Bay is one 
 of the most stalely Bridges in the Kingdom, consisting of 
 twenty one Arches, all turned with hewn freestone raised 
 in the Hill of Scraba, of which eighteen are on the county 
 oS. Do-ivn and three in the county of A?! trim, the 
 
 channel dividing the two counties running through the 
 third Arch. The whole Bridge, including the dead work 
 at each end extended over the marshy grounds, is 2,562 
 feet long, of which the twenty one Arches take up 840 
 feet) and the dead worJcs 1,722 feet. The breadth of the 
 arched part is 22 feet, and of the rest nineteen. It was 
 built at the joint expense of the two counties, and cost 
 about ^8000 (some say ;^i200o). In the spring of 1692, 
 seven of the Arches fell in, the Bridge having been 
 weakened by Duke Scomberg's drawing his heavy cannon 
 over it some time before, as well as by a ship driving 
 against it. But it was soon after repaired by a new charge 
 on the two counties, and has continued ever since in 
 tollerable good order till of late, having received consider- 
 able damage from winter storms and floods; and if proper 
 care be not taken (1740) it may probably suffer more. 
 Before it was built, the nearest I5ridge travellers had to 
 pass from one county to the other was Shav/s Bridge, 
 upwards of three miles South of Belfast, which was 
 formerly small, but now consists of six arches. Yet a 
 communication was maintained here over the Lagan by a 
 Ferry, where this Bridge now stands; which Ferry 
 probably gave name to the Town." — County of Down, 
 p. 129. 
 
 Marquis of Antrim. — This was Randal Macdon- 
 nell, the second earl of Antrim, born in 1609, and created 
 
426 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Rocks on which (as Irish tradition affirms) Fergus, the first King of Scots, was Shipp wrakt & lost 
 his Life.'" After his Grace had gone round Orchard and other words were used, and seen y 
 banqueting house (which is seated within a fresh water pond) "3 He walked thro the Town, the 
 old Earle and many of the best sort attending him, and y' s<i half Regiment and Guarison officers 
 and soldiers standing at their Arms and making a Lane : And y' Mayor '"t with his brethren (in 
 
 a marquis in 1 643. He was twice taken prisoner and 
 confined in Carrickfergus castle, and as often made his 
 escape. His first capture by Monro was made in June, 
 1642, at Dunluce castle, where he is described as having 
 entertained his captor hospitably. Macdonnell knew when 
 to be mild, or the reverse ; but in Monro he met an antago- 
 nist as cunning and unscmpulous as himself. His first 
 imprisonment only lasted a few months, he having escaped 
 in the December following, by the ingenuity of his esquire, 
 Archibald Stewart, who had the marquis conveyed out of 
 the castle as an invalid, and so artfully disguised that no 
 suspicion was aroused. For this act Stewart was tried 
 and executed at Carrickfergus in the month of July, 1643. 
 Macdonnell was captured secondly in May, 1643, in the 
 neighbourhood of Newcastle, county of Down, on his 
 return from making arrangements with the royalist party 
 in England to send troops from Ulster to co-operate with 
 Montrose in Scotland. His second escape was effected in 
 the October of the same year, by the assistance of colonel 
 Gordon, a member of the Sutherland family, who com- 
 manded a regiment in Monro's arniy, and who supplied 
 the marquis with a ladder of ropes, by which the latter 
 descended from a window in the castle. Colonel Gordon 
 was afterwards married to the lady Rose Macdonnell, 
 youngest sister of the earl of Antrim. At the time of this 
 escape the earl of Antrim's family was reduced to great 
 difficulties. His mother, the countess dowager of Antrim, 
 had resided at Ballycastle, in the county of Antrim, 
 until the close of the year 1642. There is the following 
 notice of this lady by the well-known Dr. Thomas Arthur, 
 at p. 137 of his AISS., and quoted by Lenihan in his His- 
 tory of Limerick, p. 155, note: — "1643. Dame Elis Ny 
 Neyl, countess dowager of Antrim, by reasons of the 
 warrs, was reduced to extremitie, and driven to pavne her 
 2 rings, a cross, and a ievvell of gould, inlayed with rub- 
 bles and dyamonds, to John Bainevill, for £20 sterling, 
 with a bill of sale past of them, unless shee liad redeemed 
 the same by the 20th of September, 1643, which not 
 being able to doe of her own moneyes, was driven to 
 mortgadge the premisses to Thomas Roch Fitz Pyers of 
 Byrr, merchant, for the said sume of £20, which she 
 delivered to the said Barnevill in redemption of the said 
 Jewells, and promised him, the said Roch £20 10s. for 
 lending her the said £20, from the 2nd of August to 
 Michaelmas ending 1643. And the said countess being 
 at Lymrick the 9th of September, 1643, desired me to 
 pay the said Thomas Roch the said sume of £21, and to 
 keepe her said Jewell in my owne custodie untill shee 
 were able to paye mee, to prevent future consumption 
 and inconveniences which may ensue unto the said ladye 
 through the accrueing interest sought by the said Roch. 
 I to pleasure the said countess payd the said Roch the 
 £20 aforesaid, and kept the said Jewells salfe for the said 
 ladye, demanding noe interest of moneyes of her. 30th 
 Aprilis, 1649, by vertue of the said lady dowager, her 
 letter, dated at Grangebegg, 290 Martii, 1649, I 
 
 delivered the said Jewells to Sr Connor O'Cuillenane, a 
 Franciscan fryer, from whome I received twentie pounds, 
 and five shillings, sterling, and who upon his oate, pro- 
 mised to see me payed of 15s. more, by May day then 
 next ensuing, instead of the 3 picatouns which were 
 counterfaiet, and that I would not then receave for my 
 Payment. John Arthure Fitzrobert, James Ryce Fitz- 
 John, Nichd. Wale, and Thomas Power Fits-James were 
 present." The above-named Dr. Thomas Arthur, who 
 always wrote Fitzwilliam after his name, was well- 
 known in Dublin as Dr. Fitzwilliam — (yonrnal oj the 
 Kilkenny and Soiith-East of Ireland Aixhieol. Society, 
 vol. v., new series, p. 20) — and under the latter name was 
 summoned to visit the first earl of Mount- Alexander in the 
 year 1 663. See p. 242, supra. In this celebrated phy- 
 sician's fee-book, under the year 1620, are the following 
 entries: — "I then went to the Lady of Arthur Chichester, 
 the Quaestor or Treasurer of this Kingdom, then living 
 at Carrickfergus in Ulster, whom, wYinn labouring under 
 dropsy, and forewarning her of her death within a few 
 days after my prognosis, I attended upon; he gave me 
 on the 25th of May £'^ o o. Being sent for on the 
 third of May, I \\ ent to Margaret Walsh, the daughter of 
 Cormack O'Hara, who was pregnant, and became con- 
 valesant without injury to herself or her child, £\ o o. 
 Sir Randal M'Saurley, then Viscount of Dunluce, sent 
 for me to Dunluce, and gave me £\ o o." This doctor's 
 " fees were of sufficient magnitude to enable him to realize 
 a large fortune, to purchase broad acres, and to lend con- 
 siderable sums of money to noblemen and gentlemen, 
 particularly to the Thomond family, and to some of the 
 then old Irish gently, who appear to have stood in need 
 of his advances." — Journal of the Kilkenny and East of 
 Ireland Archccol. Society, vol. v., new series, pp. 20, 22. 
 
 And lost his Life. — The tradition here mentioned has 
 long since ceased, and no person in the place would now 
 undertake to point out ' y* very I'ocks' where king Fergus 
 suffered shipwreck. It was no doubt, however, against 
 the utmost point of the rock on which the castle was 
 afterwards built, and which projects into the sea, so that, 
 at common tides, three sides of the building are enclosed 
 by water. The greatest height of the rock is at its 
 southern extremity, where it is about thirty feet, shelving 
 considerably towards the land, the walls of the castle 
 following exactly its different windings. See M'Skimin's 
 History of Carrickfergus, pp. 156, 157. 
 
 Fresh water fond. — This pond is not mentioned, 
 as far as we know, by any other writer. In a ''^ Note as 
 7vell of the great Losses as also of the good Service that 
 the poor inhabitants of Knockfergus have had and done. " 
 circa, 1578, it is mentioned that the town had been paved 
 and environed with ^stagnes' of water. — Calen^-ar of Carero) 
 MSS., 1 5 75- 1 5 88, p. 148. 
 
 And yc Mayor. — Anthony Hall was the mayor of 
 Carrickfergus in that year. He was appointed captain 
 of a company of foot raised (immediately after the sup- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 427 
 
 their formalitys) ushering his Grace all y' way from Joymount Gatehouse to y' Castle, wherein y' 
 Governor Coll John Mayert (my mothers cousen German) with his soldiers reed, him, & as many 
 of y« Attendants as would go in."s 
 
 His Grace went up the Stone Stairs (w'^'^ are on y* outside of y« Castle) and is y« onely 
 passage to y^ door of it whereat one enters to a roome the extent of the whole pile, and about 
 y^ middle thereof is y« well (now famous for its medicinal water especially to cure the Gout) whose 
 vertue, I have severall times found prevalent to that effect : it is enclosed with stone and lime 
 w^'' mounts about a yard above y^ floor of that first story, but the spring rises not near so high."^ 
 From thence we descended and came to the wall next the sea : and I guided his Grace to the very 
 spot where Randall M'^Donnell (als M<=Connell) M'^Sorleybuy (the s'* Marquis) made his escape 
 afores'* : and had left his comb and its case with his handkercheff and I showed the key and 
 harbour from the next walls, & the shipwracking Rocks afores*^ 
 
 His Grace stood a good while talking publicly of severall matters, & enquired if Fergus his 
 body was found, and where buried :"9 And there being none that answered, I told his Grace that 
 
 pi^ession of the mutiny of 16G6), within the town and 
 county of Carrickfergus "for his majestys service and the 
 defence of his Kingdom." His commission is dated the 
 I Ith of July in that year. — History of Carrickfergus, p. 301. 
 
 "5 j^s woidJ go in. — The name of colonel Jolm Mayert 
 is not mentioned in any of M'Skimin's lists of governors, 
 at pp. 164 and 370 of his History of Carrickjergus. Thi 
 governors' names between 1661 and 1675 are unrecorded 
 by him. 
 
 Not near so high. — The stone stairs by which Ormond 
 and his party entered the castle are not now available. 
 "On the left of the entrance," says M'Skimin, p. 158, 
 " is a small door, now built up, by which was formerly a 
 passage in the SE. corner, by helical stone stairs, to the 
 ground floor and top of the tower. In this passage were 
 loopholes for the admission of air and light; and opposite 
 each storey a small door that opened into the different 
 apartments. At present the ascent to the top is partly by 
 wooden stair,-, inside." The author's account of the 
 "famous" well in the castle is curious as being, perhaps, 
 the earliest existing notice of it. Henry Gill, an inhabitant 
 of Carrickfergus, who died in 1761, refers in his A'ISS., 
 quoted by M'Skimin, to the medicinal properties of its 
 water "in all scurbutuck disorders, the fame and success 
 of this well drawing numbers to it, to the no small ad- 
 vantage of the town." The water which was light, and 
 of "a sweetish taste," issued from "a crevice in the face 
 of the rock, not any kind of earth being nigh it. " In the 
 records of the corporation, there is the following entry : 
 —"March 16, 1695, Ordered, that new buckets be pro- 
 vided for the Castle Well, and that the same be cleared, 
 and the holes stopped, at the charge of the corporation; 
 and that Morgan Grogan and Moses Garvan be appointed 
 to deliver the water out of said Well, upon whom a yearly 
 salary is to be settled." Gill states that whilst the men 
 were engaged in the cleansing here ordered, "a great 
 quantity of old iron was taken out of it of an uncommon 
 make," and that afterwards, "it was observed the water 
 failed in performing those cures it had been famous for. " — 
 History of Carrickfergus, p. 159. William Montgomery 
 tells us, p. 1 50, supra. , that he was a martyr to gout during 
 
 the last ten years of his life, or in the interval between the 
 years 1696 and 1706. Is this a proof that the well, whose 
 waters "severall times" benefitted him, had losi its virtue 
 with the loss of its "old iron" in 1695 ? 
 
 His handkercheff. — The articles here mentioned were 
 most probably left by the marquis at the time of his second 
 escape, which appears to have been less ceremonious than 
 the former. The author gives us the Gaelic and English 
 forms of this nobleman's surname — M 'Donnell and 
 M 'Connell. I'he former was pronounced in Gaelic as if 
 it commenced with C, and Englishmen, in writing the 
 name, spelled it AP Connell. The second earl of Antrim 
 was graiidsoft of Somhairle Buidhe Macdonnell, more 
 familiarly known as Soiley Boy, or Sorleybuy. 
 
 Shi/^wracki7ig Rocks aforesd.- — The quay is situated a 
 little to the south-west of the castle, which overlooks it, 
 and from which the point formerly associated with the 
 shipwreck of Fergus is clearly seen. An old plan of part 
 of the town of Carrickfergus, — date about 1540 — represents 
 the pier as then in progress of being built, and from it 
 " we see that it was constructed by first placing a wooden 
 framework which was afterwards filled with stones." An 
 engraving of this plan (which is preserved in the Cottonian 
 collection), is published, in vol. \\\. of the Ulster fom-nal 
 of Archccology, accompanied by a truly valuable paper 
 from William Pinkerton, esq., F. S.A The little harbour 
 has undergone many changes even since that comparatively 
 modem date. 
 
 And where buried. — This Fergus, the son of Ere, 
 was the first of the Dalriadic kings of Scotland. He was 
 descended through Cairbre Riada, from Conaire II., 
 monarch of Ireland, who died in the year 220. At 
 the commencement of the sixth centuiy, Fergus Mac 
 Ere accompanied by his two brothers, Loarn and 
 Angus, led an expedition into Alba (Scotland), and took 
 possession of all the north-western coast and the adjoining 
 islands. Fergus bc;ame the fiijt king of the territory thus 
 occupied by colonists from the Irish shores, and was suc- 
 ceeded in this sovereignty by a long line of sixty Dalriadic 
 rulers, the last of whom being Alexander III., who died 
 in Liie year 1286. 
 
428 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Scotts history spoke of its being found, and that a place called Monks town (about three mlies 
 from thence) claimed the honor of preserving his Remains/'-'" but I believe that those Fryars, who 
 built the very smal chappel in that town land (& were not in being till long after St. Patricks days) 
 could not show any of Fergus his bones, but some bodys els instead of them : and so cheated their 
 credulous Irish converts, & the Highland Scottish votarys, who came over to see Ireland, & those 
 suppositious relicts of so greate and revered a man : for Real they could not be ; because the 
 Graves hungry stomack, would not have taken time from 330 years before y« birth of Christ till the 
 later centurys after it, to digest that morcell ; and I was of opinion that Fergus his body was not 
 embalmed, after the Egyptian manner, used when y^ Pyramides were made, or practised in Alex'' 
 the Greats time, contemporary to Fergus."' 
 
 The D: replyed I think so too, & said it was as uncertain who built the Pile of y^ Casde : 
 The Rocks or Craggs (in Irish Carrig) onely haveing right to beare Fergus name but I believe 
 said y^ Duke that as for the circuling walls (w'='' he noted were very irregular) it was King John 
 caused build them, or the greatest & oldest parts thereof,"^ for it seemed to him that the outer 
 
 "° Preserving his remains — This tradition is preserved 
 by M'Skimin, at least in part, History of Carrie k/ergus, 
 p. 8, nole, but it has now almost, if not altogether, died 
 out in the locality of Monkstown. The chapel at this 
 place is "now incorporated with Coole, and, conjointly 
 with it, forms the benefice of Carnmoney. The west wall 
 of the church is the only part which is standing : but the 
 area of the whole building is defined by the foundations, 
 measuring 63 feet by 17. The graveyard has been by 
 degrees converted into meadow, and the few interments 
 which take place here are confined within the bounds of 
 the church." — Reeves, Ecclesiastical Atttiquities, p. 69, 
 note. 
 
 Contemporary to Fergus. — The old Scottish chronic- 
 lers, in representing the reign of Fergus as occurring 330 
 years before Christ, are now admitted to have been entirely 
 at fault in their chronological conclusions. By far the best 
 authority on this point is the Irish Annalist Tighernach, 
 who states that in the year 502 of our era, ' ' Fergus the 
 great, son of Ere, accompanied by the race of Dalriada, 
 occupied a part of Britain, and died there." — Reeves, Eccle- 
 siastical Antiquities,, p. 319; See also Adamnan's Zz/c'^.S'/. 
 Cohimha, edited by Reeves, p. 433 ; Transactions oj the 
 Ossianic Society, vol. v., p. 177. P^rgus was the youngest 
 of the three brothers, and had Cantire assigned to him as 
 his portion of the conquered territory. His reign as 
 dynast, or king, did not commence until by the death of 
 his two brothers — (Loarn, who held the district now 
 known as Argyleshire, and Angus, to whom the islands 
 had been given) — the various portions in the possession of 
 the colonists could be consolidated. These events did not 
 probably occur before the year 512 ; and if, — as the 
 Scottish annalists affirm — the reign of Fergus lasted 29 
 years, his death may have taken place about 540, a date 
 at which there must have existed several christian churches 
 in addition to those founded by St. Patrick in person. 
 The fact of the burial of Fergus at Ballymanach, or 
 Monkstown, would lead to the conclusion that some such 
 establishment was found there to receive his remains. 
 eBfore Fergus had set forth on his expedition to Scotland 
 
 in 502, he granted land to the saint at Armoy, on which 
 to build a church ; and, in return, Patrick blessed him, 
 and predicted his future greatness. — Trias Thaum. as 
 quoted by Dr. Reeves, Ecclesiastical Antiquities, p. 244, 
 These circumstances, taken in connection with the charac- 
 ter of Fergus as a brave leader and wise king, would na- 
 turally render his grave an object of deep inte^sst to the 
 inhabitants of the Irish and Scottish coasts. The fact, 
 however, that his bones were, in after times, exhibited by 
 the monks to credulous "Irish converts" and "Scottish 
 votarys" is quite new to us ; and, so far as we are aware, 
 no tradition relating to such exhibitions now survives, in 
 the district. See Appendix P. 
 
 Beare Fergus name. — There can be no doubt, from 
 the position of this place on the coast, that the rock has 
 been occupied by a fortress from the earliest times, — pro- 
 bably long anterior to the days of Fergus. Tradition, 
 however, connects his name directly with the castle, af- 
 firming that the largest room, formerly in the third storey, 
 was his; and that his object in coming was to get cured of 
 a Iqirosy by the waters of the wonderful well already 
 mentioned ! These traditions would imply — what was no 
 doubt the fact — that a fortress stood there when he \isited 
 the place. — M'Skimin's History of Carrickfergus records 
 these traditions at p. 8, note, and p. 159. 
 
 "5 Oldest parts thereof. — The present building on the 
 rock at Carrickfergus exhibits the leading characteristics 
 of a Norman castle, and was no doubt built by De Courcy, 
 or some of his associates, soon after 1 1 77, being probably 
 walled, in part, by order of King John, who came there 
 in the year 1210. The castle comprised within its four 
 thick stone walls, the residence of a lord or chief, together 
 with a fortress and a prison, thus proving that the builders 
 were undoubtedly Normans, who had determined therein to 
 consume the fruits of the soil, to make war upon their ene- 
 mies, and to administer feudal justice among the people. 
 Before its erection, the natives probably had a fortress there 
 composed of mounds or ramparts, witliin which the people 
 of the place inhabited open dwellings of wood, turf, or 
 wattles. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 429 
 
 court, next y« town street, was of later erection,'^'' but by whom y« Worshipful! \\} Mayor (who 
 left his brethren and place without y« Castle) being asked, could give his Grace no knowledge in 
 either of points ; because (said he) the Letters Pattents (granted by Queen Elizabeth to erect 
 y= town into A Corporation) spoke nothing thereof. So he beheaved himself at that time Like the 
 honest priest, onely as his Breviary taught him.'^s These and sucli like discourses passed in 
 
 Of later erection. — For information respecting the 
 walls and other public erections in Carrickfergns, see 
 M'Skimin's History, third edition, pp. 106-11; and also 
 an interesting contribution to the Ulster Jotintal of 
 Archaology, vol. iii., pp. 272-291. It is rather sur- 
 prising that any walls remained to protect Carrickfer- 
 gns, at the date referred to in the text, considering the 
 many startling vicissitudes which had befallen the place 
 during the preceding centuries. The nature of these 
 vicissitudes may be to some extent understood, from the 
 following contents of a Carew manuscript, 1578, entitled 
 A Note as well of ike great losses as also of the good service 
 that the poor i7ihabitants of Knockfe7'gus have had and done: 
 — "They killed Brian Balloughe, lord of Clandeboye, 
 who continually annoyed the townsmen, with divers of 
 his men. In revenge, his son burned the town. They 
 were glad to compound with him for ^^40 yearly, whicli 
 has been paid ever since. The lord of Killholtoughe, a 
 traitor, took away all the cattle belonging to the town. 
 The mayor and twenty-four aldermen and freemen were 
 slain, and thirty-two taken, who were glad to pay all 
 their goods for their ransom. When the king's majesty 
 (Henry VIII.) was at wars with France and Scotland 
 there went a great navy of ships out of Scotland, with the 
 number of lo,ooo men, to aid the French Iving, and their 
 governors were the Earl of Arran, whose name was the 
 the Lord of Hamilton, and the Lord Flemmynge with him, 
 who landed at Knockfergus, and attempted to win the 
 town, but without success. The Lord Flemmynge's bro- 
 ther was slain, with 40 of his men. Not passing twelve 
 days after, the mayor with 200 men landed at Loughrean, 
 (now Loughryan) in Scotland, burned and spoiled much corn 
 and mani houses, and killed 60 men, besides a number 
 of cattle. At the same time the Lord of the Out Isles, 
 Donell M 'Donell, was agreed to serve the king for £600, 
 and came to Knockfergus with 4,000 men and 60 galleys. 
 The money being not ready, the mayor and others gave 
 him 300 beefs, and went in pledge for the payment of the 
 £600, after the payment whereof, they were forced to pay 
 £40 ere they were released. The lord of the country. 
 Con O'Neale, took away 400 kine, and slew the mayor 
 and constable of the king's castle, with 24 of the towns- 
 men. There came also Rory M'Quylen, who brought 
 with him M 'Lane's brother, with 600 Scots, meaning to 
 sack the town, and they set fire in four parts of it. The 
 townsmen killed one of the chiefest captains and 20 men. 
 By crafty means William Wallis, the mayor, and Mr. 
 Corbett were carried away by Con O'Neill, and were 
 forced to pay ;^50 for their ransom. An alderman was 
 also taken and most cmelly handled by him. Hugh 
 M'Boye O'Neill, being after him lord of that countiy, 
 compelled one of the aldermen to pay a ransom of ;^300. 
 Hugh M'Neale Oge, being a traitor, and lord of the 
 countrj' after him, came to Knockfergus with 1,000 Scots, 
 and set fire in four parts of the town. Not long after, 
 when Mr. Powell was discharged with his band from 
 
 Knockfergus, and the abbey was given to the said Hugh, 
 the latter challenged a wrong custom, and said if he had 
 it not, he would suffer neither man nor child to come out 
 of their liouses, but he would kill them ; so they agreed 
 to give him five tuns of wine and £10 yearly. Con 
 M'Neale Oge took away 100 neat and other cattle. Not 
 passing twenty days after he had placed 200 men by night 
 in the middle of the town, to kill Sir Brian M'Fellomy, 
 and then to win the town. Perceiving they were hardly 
 beset by him, they give to Sorolaboye M 'Donell ;i^^2o 
 sterling in wine, silk and saffron to assist them. Brian 
 Balloughe, laid a strain in the corn, and took all their 
 cattle to the number of 600. They wrote to Sorolaboy 
 for restitution, but he made excuse. Not long after, the 
 said Brian Balloughe took all their cattle, and they gave 
 him certain silk, saffron, and wine to have their cattle 
 again ; and the said traitor drank the same wine, and re- 
 ceived the said silk and saffron, and restored not one of 
 the neat back again, but cruelly handled the poor men 
 that went with the same unto him, and stripped them, 
 and took all their clothes from them. Captain William 
 Piers was then Constable of the King's Castle. Con 
 M'Neale Oge, in O'Neill's first wars, took all their cattle 
 divers times. Hugh Mc Fellomy, lord of that countiy, 
 demanded ;^40 beforetime paid to his ancestors. It was 
 paid until Sir Henry Sidney, by force of the Queen's 
 garrison, did cause the same to be stayed and withholden. 
 The town has been paved and environed with 'stagnes' 
 of water. Sydney gave them ;^20 towards the repair of 
 the church. The inhabitants have increased from 20 to 
 200. About 40 fishermen daily frequent the seas, and 
 there are about 60 ploughs belonging to the town. But 
 if order be not taken for the thorough victualling of the 
 Queen's soldiers there, the townsmen came not so fast 
 thither, butwill faster depart." — Calendar of Careiu MSS,, 
 (1575— 1588), pp. 146—148. 
 
 '-5 Breviary taught him. — Probably the earliest notice 
 of the existence of a corporation in Carrickfergns is to be 
 found in the record of a commission dated the 21st of 
 February, 1374, granting to the mayor and commons 
 permission to bring eight weys (six quarters, or 48 bushels) 
 of wheat to that town. In a record of the 2nd July, 1402, 
 Henry IV. is stated to have exempted the mayor and 
 burgesses of Carrickfergus from the annual rent of lOOs, 
 as the corporation had determined to rebuild the town, 
 which had been then recently burned by the king's enemies. 
 A charter of the 2ist March, the llth of Elizabeth, is re- 
 corded in a memoranda roll of the exchequer; and 
 another charter in the 44th year of the same reign. 
 Carrickfergus obtained four charters in the reign of James 
 I., the principal of which is that of the 14th December, 
 1613, enrolled in chancery. In that of 1st May, 1623, 
 the king erects a coi-poration by the name of "Mayor, 
 Constables, and Society of Mercliants of the Staple of the 
 Town." The charter of 1610 grants that the town and 
 certain adjoining lands "should be for ever one entire 
 
 H 2 
 
430 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Castle as occasion was given by y^ Duke, who at his going out of y= Castle Limits was receaved 
 again in formality as afores<^ by M"" Mayor who conducted him to his own house and gave his Grace 
 an evening Treate of good Wine^'^ (whereof all wee waiters drank freely) & then y* Duke marched 
 (ushered and attended as afores'^ ) to his Lodging, but others and I left him at y* s<* gate-house ; 
 and came to my own quarters, where 3 or four kinsmen supped with mee, and wee were as merry & 
 well pleased, as an Earl, a Countess, or Duke. 
 
 I was daily once or twice in y= Dukes Presence during his Residence in Carrickfergus. & I 
 waited on him to Belfast, where he stayed that night; & next morning I asked, and had leave to 
 return home with thanks from his Grace for my company and y^ informations I had given him. 
 
 I shall add to this one rancounter more, w^'' I had with Primate Bromhall"? (as I have had 
 many with his successor Margetson,'*^ who was ever civil and friendly to me) chief of the spirituall 
 most reverend Lords, (called also their Graces as Dukes are) to whom comeing to his first visitation. 
 
 I went, and (on purpose) mett him beyond Hillsborough, I had conversed with his Grace in 
 Holland after he had answered Le Melitiere his Letter persuading K Ch: y« 2d to turn Roman 
 Catholick,"9 and I had spoken to him severall times in Dublin: So he did welcome me by name, at 
 my first salutation on ye Roade. 
 
 county, incorporate, by itself, in re et nomine, and from 
 the counties of Down and Antrim, and all other counties 
 in Ireland, should be distinct and separate." The limits 
 of the county of the town of Carrickfergus are thus de- 
 fined: — "the east of the small river called Copland water 
 is the mear of the land near Braden island, from the bay 
 of Carrickfergus as far as the river runs to another river, 
 called Orland water; thence, the mear of the land extends 
 through the middle of the Orland water to Loughmourne, 
 and so to the north-west bank of the lough ; and from the 
 extreme north-west point of said lough, the mear of the 
 aforesaid land holds directly nigh the Reid mountain, to 
 the ford of Aghnehawe, by the bounds of the territory of 
 Ballinoure; thence to the head of the Read river; and so, 
 through the middle of the Bog of Carkenamady ; and so, 
 to the long stone called Carcam; thence to the three stones 
 called Slewnetrier, by the bounds of Ballinlyny and Balli- 
 noure aforesaid ; and so, to the bog upon the glen of 
 Altenabredagh, by the bounds of Ballinlyny ; and so, to 
 Camesholgagh, by the bounds of the territory of Carnetall ; 
 thence to Altballimanogh ; and so, to Fassermeigh, alias 
 Deers' lane ; thence to the head of a certain small river 
 falling into the bay of Carrickfergus ; near Cloghandogher- 
 tie, between another small river, called Silverstreame, and 
 the land of the town of Carrickfergus, which river, be- 
 ginning near Fassermeigh, is the western mear of the land, 
 and runs between the same and the territoiy of Carnetall, 
 to the bay of Carrickfergus; as also the whole scope and 
 precinct of land and water within those limits and bounds." 
 — Morrin's Calendar of Patent Rolls, reign of Elizabeth, 
 pp. 607-612. 
 
 Good wine. — M'Skimin states, History of Carrie/;- 
 fergus p. 63, that "the corporation received the thanks 
 of the'govemment for their loyalty on this occasion, and 
 gave a splendid entertainment to the Earl of Arran," son 
 of the duke of Ormond. 
 
 137 Primate Brotnhall. — This visit of Bramhall to Lis- 
 burn was to hold his Triennial Visitation. Lisburn 
 
 Church had been constituted by patent of Charles II., on 
 his restoration, the Cathedral of the United Diocese 
 of Down and Connor. John Bramhall was bom at 
 Pontefract, Yorkshire, in the year 1593. In 1633, he 
 came to Ireland on the invitation of deputy Wentworth, 
 and on the 26th of March, 1634, was consecrated bishop 
 of Derry, in the castle chapel, Dublin. In 1640, Bram- 
 hall, with sir Richard Bolton lord chancellor, and sir 
 Gerard Lowther, one of the chief judges, was impeached 
 by sir Bryan O'Neill and others, who charged them with 
 attempting to subvert the fundamental laws of this king- 
 dom. As the king, however, at the instance of Strafford, 
 who was then in the tower, wrote warmly in the bishop's 
 behalf, and as no very serious charges could be proved 
 against him, the prosecution was stopped. On the break- 
 ing out of the rebellion, in 1641, he retired to England; and 
 on the ruin of the royal cause in the latter countrj', he 
 removed to the Continent, residing in France, and after- 
 wards in Holland, until the restoration in 1660. On the 
 1 8th of Januaiy in that year, old style, Bramhall was ad- 
 vanced from the see of Derry to the archbishopric of 
 Arniagh, and died in Dublin, on the 25th of June, 1663, 
 in the 70th year of his age. — Ware's Works, edited by 
 Harris, vol. i. , pp. 116-24. See also his life prefixed to 
 his works (Oxford, 1842). 
 
 Margctson. — James Margetson was also a Yorkshire 
 man, being born at Drighlington, in that county, in the 
 year 1600. In 1635, he was promoted to the deanery of 
 Waterford, and in 1669, was installed dean of Christ 
 Church, Dublin. On the breaking out of the rebellion in 
 1641, he retired to England, where he lived until the resto- 
 ration. In 1660, he returned to Ireland, and on the 25th 
 of January, in that year, was promoted to the archiepis- 
 copal see of Dublin. On the death of Bramhall, in 1663, 
 Margetson was advanced to the primacy of Armagh. 
 He died on the 28th of August, 1678, and was buried in 
 Christ's church, Dublin. — Ihid. pp, 126-29. 
 
 Roman Catholick. — During Bramhall's exile in 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 431 
 
 Wee did ride & talk a great while together, & he had solutions to all his questions. His 
 Ghostly Fatherhood (as such) admonished mee to beware of Presbyterian Leven (now that I had 
 marryed the Daughter of a Lady who was a great Favourer of them'30 because) Sir (said he) you 
 well know that A° 1638 & 1639 in Scotland (& ever since) they have been both destructive to our 
 church and Kings and had occasioned most of y^ mischiefs w'^*^ came on them and us. I re- 
 
 France, Mons. de la Millitiere, councillor to the king of 
 France, wrote a treatise entitled Victory of Truth, or an 
 Epistle to the King of Great Brtiain, to invite him to 
 Embrace the Catholic Faith. The bishop of Derry replied, 
 and with such effect, that his praise was in all the reformed 
 churches on the Continent. His reply, which was 
 published at the Hague, in 1653, is entitled An Answer 
 to De la Millitiere' s Victory of Truth. — See Bramhall's 
 Works, vol. i., p. 26 (Oxford, 1842) ; AUibone's Critical 
 Dictionary, vol. i., p. 238. 
 
 '3° Favourer of them. — This lady, so favourable to 
 Presbyterians, was Jean Alexander, lady of the second 
 viscount Montgomeiy, and mother-in-law of the author. 
 See pp. 87, 140, note 7, and p. 267, supra. 
 
 '3' Church and Kings. — In these years came the great 
 reaction against prelatic power in Scotland, when covenant- 
 ing zeal, or wrath, swept the bishops utterly aside. In 
 the month of November, 1638, the first general assembly 
 seen in Scotland since 1618, met at Glasgow, and although 
 commanded by the royal commissioner to separate, the 
 members refused to do so, and proceeded without delay 
 to abolish episcopacy in Scotland, and depose the Scottish 
 bishops. On that occasion, sentence of deposition was 
 passed against John Spottiswood, archbishop of St. 
 Andrews ; Patrick Lindsay, archbishop of Glasgow ; 
 David Lindsay, bishop of Edinburgh ; Thomas Sidserfe, 
 bishop of Galloway ; John Maxwell, bishop of Ross ; 
 Walter Whytefourd, bishop of Brechin ; Adam Bal- 
 lantyne, bishop of Aberdeen ; James Wedderbum, 
 bishop of Dumblane ; James Guthry, bishop of Mur- 
 ray ; John Graham, bishop of Orkney ; James Fairlie, 
 bishop of Lismore ; Neil Campbell, bishop of the Isles ; 
 Alexander Lindsay, bishop of Dunkeld ; and John Aber- 
 nethie, bishop of Caithness. Before the passing of sentence 
 against the prelates, Mr. Alex. Henderson preached a ser- 
 mon, which, with the act of deposition, was printed in 1762, 
 in a pamphlet entitled The Bishops' Doom. No sooner had 
 the Scottish people expelled their bishops than they made 
 war on the king, and, in 1639, took up arms against 
 Charles I. The well-known presbyterian minister, Baillie, 
 who carefully watched and deeply sympathised with the 
 movements of the covenanters, speaks of the temper of the 
 latter, in 1637, as follows: — "No man may speak any- 
 thing in publick for the king's part, except he would have 
 himself marked for a sacrifice to be killed one day. I 
 think our people possessed with a bloody devile, farr above 
 anything that ever I could have imagined, though the 
 masse in Latine had been presented. . . . My fears 
 in my former went no farther than to ane ecclesiastik 
 separation, but now I am more afifrayit for a bloudie civill 
 war." — Baillie's Zi'/'/'i.'rj and Journals, 1841, vol. i., pp. 
 23 — 25. Connected with the deposition of the Scottish 
 bishops, and the excommunication of eight of their 
 number, viz., the bishops of Galloway, St. Andrews, 
 Brechin, Edinburgh, Ross, Murray, Argyle, and Dum- 
 blane, there are some curious incidents recorded, Hender- 
 
 son, the moderator of the general assembly at Glasgow 
 in 1638, speaks of these prelates in his official capacity as 
 follows: — "It is pittifull to see some hath such a great 
 conceat of their owne words, learning, and engyne that 
 they will not be ranked among uthers ; but as they thinke 
 themselves above uthers in gifts, so they thinke they 
 should be advanced above them in place — and, therefore 
 ane ordinary stipend cannot content them ; and then they 
 begin to tyre of praching and catechising ; and thus are 
 tane away with the caires and pleasures of the world and 
 idlenes. Therefore, ye have to consider what shall be 
 their censure. . . And ye shall understand, whatsoever 
 sentence the Assembly shall thinke fitt to pronounce 
 against these, (the eight abovenamed) it is all for their 
 good — forthe destruction of their fleshe that their saule may 
 be saved in the day of the Lord." David Dick, a clerical 
 leader in the assembly, concluded a speech on this question 
 as follows : — " Therefore, my opinion is, that we declairour 
 zeale for the Lord, and that the last censure, which is the 
 meanes to humble proud men should be given out against 
 them, though they should laugh at us for so doing ; for 
 since neither the troubling of this poor Kirk, nor our 
 prayers and teares could humble them, it is good the last 
 meane be assayed, and solicite God to votting" (voting). 
 Alexander Kerse, another reverend guide, delivered his 
 opinion thus: — "Solomon says 'he that breakes doune 
 ane hedge, a serpent shall byte him ;' and they have 
 brocken doune a hedge, and therefore the serpent of sharpe 
 excommunication shall byte them." Before pronouncing 
 sentence of excommunication, the moderator preached, 
 selecting as his text. Psalms ex. I, "The Lord said unto 
 my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine 
 enemies thy footstool." He then uttered the dread curse 
 in these words: — "Since the eight persons before men- 
 tioned have declared themselvesstrangers to the communion 
 of saints, to be without hope of life eternal, and to be 
 slaves of sin, therefore we, the people of God, assembled 
 together for this cause, — and I, as their mouth, in the name 
 of the Eternal God, and of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 according to the direction of this assembly, do excommuni- 
 cate the said eight persons from the participations of the 
 Sacraments, from the Communion of the Visible Church, 
 and from the prayers of the Church; and, so long as they 
 continue obstinate, discharges you all, as you would not 
 be partakers of their vengeance, from keeping any religious 
 fellowship with them ; and thus give them over into the 
 hands of the devil, assuring you, in the name of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, that except their repentance be evident, the 
 fearful wrath and vengeance of the God of Heaven shall 
 overtake them even in this life, and, after this world, ever- 
 lasting vengeance." Towards the close of the assembly's 
 meeting, lord Lindsay asked — "If any of these who are 
 excommunicat be content to make their repentance, shall 
 they not thereupon be presentlie receaved?" To the 
 Henderson, the moderator, replied: — "They may well 
 wait npon the next Generall Assembly ; or if any of this 
 
432 
 
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 plyed to his Grace I had lamented those Calamitys, and was yet sorry that y' prevailing party in y* 
 Long Parliament London and thro out all England, had contributed to bring those mischiefs by 
 calling in the Scotts, & joyning with them ag' y= I^ate Glorious Royall Martyr,'32 otherwise Presbi- 
 terians had not gott y^ footing they have in this unfortunate North part of Ireland :'33 however y* 
 
 be neir the poynt of death, and apprehending the terrors 
 of God, let the Presbicrie lowse them from the sentence, 
 if they be readie to cry out with bishop Adamsone — 
 'Lowse them, lowse them.'" Bishop Adamsone had, it 
 would appear, conducted himself in a very exemplary 
 style, calling out for the removal of some bann that had 
 been laid upon him, and handing in at the same time a 
 written testimony of his repentance. Whilst the case of 
 the bishop of Galloway v.^as under consideration, the 
 moderator made the following announcement: — "We 
 must not esteeme of mans faults according to the worlds 
 estimatione ; for }'e know if a man be not a drankard, a 
 theiff and robber, &c. , in their estimatione he is a goode 
 man, whatever fault he has utherwayes. But we of this 
 Assembly ought to thinke utherwayes ; not that I would 
 extenuat the foir-named faults, but are to consider their 
 habituall and ordinaiy transgressions of a publict law is a 
 great guiltiness; or, as schoolemen speakes Spiritnalia 
 peccata are greater than temporalia peccata. So say 1." 
 The bishop of St. Andrews- must have been a peculiarly 
 dangerous prelate, if we may judge from the following 
 statement of Andrew Melville, a well-known leader in the 
 assembly: — "That old dragon (the devil) had so stinged 
 him (the bishop) with avarice, and swalled so exorbitantlie 
 that he threatened the destruction of the whole bodie, if 
 he were not cutt off." When the case of the bishop of 
 Edinburgh came up for adjudication, "Mr. Andrew 
 Jeffray and Sir John McKenzie declaired that they saw 
 him bow to the altar. RTr. Andre Kerr and George 
 Dundas saw him dedicat a Kirke after the Popishe maner. 
 And the whole Asseml)ly in one voyce voited to his de- 
 position and excommunication." Among the charges 
 against the bishop of Aberdeen the principal one was that 
 having been a vehemently zealous presbyterian, he had 
 subsequently become not only prelatical but even a very 
 prelate! "Mr. John Row declaired that he subsciyved 
 the Protestation given in to the Parliament 1606, and that 
 there was no man more against Bishops in the toune of 
 Stirling nor he; and he was mightilie offendit at Mr. John 
 Grahame, who was taking a bishoprick, yet nevertheless 
 he was the man that took that bishoprick out of Mr. John 
 Grahames hand ; and since that all the brethren here 
 present were mynd he should be given to the Devill for 
 betraying the liberties of the Kirk. I remember when he 
 subscryvit the Protestation, he subsciyvit verie neir the 
 end of the paper, and it began to weare ; when he begrai 
 to get the bishoprick, we said he was going to loup the 
 dyke." Auldbar and Mr. David Lindsay declaired that 
 they, being in the Bishop's house when Auldbar said, 
 ' ' the only meane is to take away abuses and disorders in 
 this church was a free Generall Assembly," he rose in a 
 great flame and passion, and said, "the first Article he 
 would make then will be to pull the crown off King 
 Charles head." The bishop of Ross was accused by tlie 
 provost of Dumfries in "that when he was in their toune 
 on the Sabbath Day, they expected his comeing to the 
 Kirk; yet he cam not, but went to a excommunicat 
 Papists house, and stayed all day." Mr. Alexander 
 
 Kerse announced also of this bishop that "he is the viva 
 example and perfyte patteme of a proud Prelat, and enters 
 in composition with the Pope himselfe; and, therefore, let 
 him have his due deposition and excommunication." The 
 bishop of Dumblane's case was quickly disposed of — "I 
 heard, of late," said Mr. Alexander Kerse, "a notable 
 semion by a brother in Edinburgh, wherein he sent him 
 to the land of Nod : and let him be sent there and airested 
 theie with deposition and excommunication." "And the 
 whole Assembly, in ane voyce, except Keir, voited the 
 same." The bishop of Murray must have been an easy- 
 going churchman, but he paid the penalty. " Mr. Andro 
 Cant said he knew him to be a common ryder on the 
 Sabbath day, and likewayes that he was a prettie dancer, 
 as Mr. Thomas Aberaethie can testifie. At his 
 daughter's bridal he danced in his shirt. Likewayes, Mr. 
 Andro' said that he conveyed some gentlewoman to a 
 chapel, to make a penance, all bair footed. Mr. Frederick 
 Carmichall said that the bishop being, by occasion, 
 ryding from the church on the Sunday morning, he was 
 desyred to stay all night because it was the Sabbath day. 
 He answered he would borrow that piece of the day from 
 God, and be as good to him some uther gate." The 
 moderator concluded this part of his work by the following 
 warning to the public: — "Auent our Cariadge towards 
 excommunicat persons, I thinke civiU affaires may be done 
 with them — a naturall duety done to them, but civill 
 dueties verie sparinglie. " See Proceedings of the General 
 Assembly at Glasgow, 1638, as printed in the 1 856 edition 
 of The Scots If ortliies, pp. 663 — 698. 
 
 '3= Royall Martyr. — This union between the English 
 and Scots against Charles L took place in 1643. The 
 English, on that occasion wanted merely the forming of a 
 civil league with the Scots, but the latter insisted on a re- 
 ligious covenant. The two parties at length agreed on 
 the Solemn League and Coi>enant, a compact which could 
 not, and did not, long continue in force, as the parties to 
 it had very different objects in view. Baillie, writing from 
 London, on the 22nd September, 1643, says — "In our 
 committees we had hard enough debates. The English 
 were for a civill League, we for a religious Covenant. " — 
 Letters and jfournals, vol. ii. p. 90. Laing, refening to 
 this matter, in his History of Scotland, pp. 258, 259, says 
 — "The Solemn League and Covenant is memorable as 
 the first approach towards an intimate union between the 
 Kingdoms, but, according to the intolerant principles of 
 the age, a federal alliance was constmcted on the frail and 
 narrow basis of religious communion." See also Buckle's 
 Civilizaiio): in England, vol. ii., p. 337, from which the 
 above authorities are quoted. 
 
 North part op Ireland. — Certainly without this union 
 between the English and Scots, the covenant could not 
 have been ruthlessly imposed in Ulster, as it was, during 
 the following year ; but the " footing" which Presbyterians 
 held in the north was solely a result of the plantation, 
 which brought over from Scotland so many settlers of their 
 persuasion. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 433 
 
 malady was not incurable, seeing wee have good and prudent Bpp'^34 & ye Gentry being episcopall 
 & Conformists to the Service and Rites of y= Church Established by Law : As to mysely I told his 
 Grace that I had read, & bought Reliquae Sacrae Carolinse'35 & his Graces warning peice ag' y' 
 Scotts disciplin'36 & Lysimachus Nicanor/37 with other books of that sort, at y* Hague, from Samuel 
 
 '34 Prudent B/'P^. — These prudent spiritual watchmen 
 in Ulster were, — in addition to Bramhall himself, — Robert 
 Leslie of Dromore, George Wild of Derry, Jeremiah Tay- 
 lor of Down, Henry Jones of Clogher, and John Leslie of 
 Raphoe. The ceremony of their consecration in Dublin 
 was conducted in the most imposing style. The con- 
 cluding anthem, composed by dean Fuller, has the follow- 
 ing lines : — 
 
 " Angels look down, and joy to see, 
 Like that above, a monarchie ; 
 Angels look down, and joy to see 
 Like that above, an hierarchic?"— 
 
 See Mason's History of the Cathedral of St. Patrick, pp. 
 193. 194- 
 
 '35 Reliqida Sacra Carolitta:. — Or The Works of King 
 Charts I. collected together and digested in Order according 
 to their Several Subjects, civill and sacred. Hague, printed 
 by Samuel Browne, 8vo 1651. This publication contains 
 the Eicon Basilike,-^-^. 247, with title dated 1649; Papers 
 between Charles I. and Alexander Henderson, pp. 149- 
 324 ; a perfect copy of Prayers used by the king, occupy- 
 ing about sixteen pages. Prefixed to the volume is a 
 folding plate by Marshall representing Charles on one 
 knee. Anthony a Wood mentions an edition of this 
 book printed in large octavo, at the Hague in 1648-9. 
 See Lowndes, Bibliographer'' s J\Iani:al. 
 
 Scotts dicipline. — Bramhall's treatise is entitled A 
 Fair If arning against the deception of the Scotts Discipline, 
 4to 1649, and was intended to expose an elaborate mani- 
 festo from the Scottish presbyterians printed in 1641, under 
 the title of The Doctrine and Discipline of the Kirke oj 
 Scotland, as it -was formerly set forth by puhlicke authority. 
 And at this present commanded there to be practised in the 
 said Kirke, Anno 1641. Together -with some Acts ofgene- 
 rall Assemblies clearing and confirming the satne : As Also 
 An Act of Parliament by the King and three Estates of 
 Scotland, for rectifying the said Discipline. The First and 
 secofid Booke, 4to 1641. The well known Robert Baylie, 
 minister at Glasgow, replied to Bramhall's Fair Warning, 
 in a production whicli he called A RevirM of the Seditions 
 Pamphlets lately published in Plolland by Dr. Bramhell, 
 pretended bishop of London-Derry : in which his malicious 
 and most lying reports to the great scandall of that govern- 
 ment, are fully and clearly refuted. As Also, The Solemne 
 League and Covenant of thethree Nations justified and main- 
 tained, 4to, Delph, 1649. Throughout this reply, Baylie 
 spells Bramhall's name either i?r;7 //;//£■// ox Bramble,a.-nA con- 
 cludes by charging the bishop with inculcating a toleration 
 in religious matters of which the latter was i^robably inno- 
 cent or unconscious. Baylie terms this " black atheisme," 
 because " it will have the most orthodoxe beleever so to 
 think, speak, and act, as if the opinions of Lidependents, 
 Anabaptists, Turkes, Jewes, Pagans, or grosse Atheists 
 were as good, true and solide as the beleefe of Moses or 
 Paul were of the tniths revealed to them from heaven." — 
 p. 64. 
 
 '37 Lysimachus Nicanor. — This is an assumed name, the 
 
 real author of the book being John Corbet, minister of 
 Bonhill, near Dumbarton, who had warmly espoused 
 the side of the prelatic party, and was compelled, in 
 consequence, to fly from his covenanting foes and seek 
 an asylum in L'eland. Bramhall here recommended him 
 to the notice of Wentworth, under whose protection and 
 patronage Corbet employed himself in writing against the 
 Covenanters, whose proceedings, in 1638 and 1639, he 
 represented as seditious and treasonable. His first publi- 
 cation is entitled The Ungirding of the Scottish Armour, 
 or an A nswer to the Informations for defensive armes agaiiist 
 the Kings Majestic, "which 7vere drawn up at Edinburgh 
 by the common help and Industrie of the three Tables of the 
 rigid Covenanters of the Nobility, Barons, Ministry, and 
 Burgesses, and ordered to be read out of Pulpit by each 
 Minister, and pressed upon the People, to drazv them to take 
 up armes to resist the Lord's anointed throughout the whole 
 Kingdome of Scotland, ^to. Dublin, pp. 56, 163Q. Re- 
 ferring to tills publication. Bailie says, (i. 153,) ■" We had 
 thought him (Corbet) unworthy of a reply, and are content 
 of our advantage, that my lord-deputy permits to go out, 
 under his patronage, the desperate doctrine of absolute 
 submission to princes, — that notwithstanding of all our laws, 
 yet our whole estate may no more oppose the prince's deed, 
 if he should play all the pranks of Nero, than the poorest 
 slave at Constantinople may resist the tyranny of the great 
 Turk. " In the following year, Corbet published the cele- 
 brated treatise mentioned in the text, under the assumed 
 character of a Jesuit, expressing his great gratification that 
 the Scottish covenanters, judging from their intolerant 
 movements, had begun to show symptoms of their imme- 
 diate return to mother church from their former errors and 
 heresies. This treatise is entitled The Epistle Congratulatoric 
 of Lysimachus Nicanor of the Societieofjesu, to the Covenan- 
 ters of Scotland. Wherein is paralleled our siveet harmony 
 and correspondency in divers materiall points of Doctrine and 
 Practice, 4to, pp. 84, 1 640. In the parallel drawn by the 
 author between the Jesuits and covenanters " no less than 
 si.xteen points of resemblance and approximation are illus- 
 trated with singular ingenuity and learning, and corrobo- 
 rated by the most apt quotations from tlie writings of 
 popish canonists and protestant reformers. The conduct 
 of Charles and the cause of prelacy are defended with great 
 plausibility, but little regard to truth, while the tenets and 
 practices of presbyterians are reviled and satirised in a 
 strain of the most bitter sarcasm. This witty and anony- 
 mous pasquil proved much more provoking to the coven- 
 anters than the elaborate attacks of tlieir more serious and 
 formidable antagonists." Such is Dr. Reid's account of 
 Corbet's book, and from it we may infer how keenly the 
 leading covenanters, especially the ministers, smarted 
 under the author's lash. The presbyterian party at first 
 did not suspect that Corbet was the author, and ascribed the 
 autliorship of the book in turn to Bramhall, Henry Leslie, 
 bishop of Down and Connor, and John Maxwell, after- 
 wards bishop of Killala. Corbet was one of the victims 
 of the massacre in 1641, and the dire grudge entertained 
 
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 Brown A" 1651 and had them yet by me, useing them often to undeceive the deluded, & to confute 
 gainsayers to Episcopacy. So that I was confirmed as to it : and in a dislike to y« Presbiterian 
 Governors, who had affronted, and deserted y« Earle of Mount Alexander, when he stood up for 
 our K'' cause.'38 and that I had owned, and disputed in defence of those my dutyfull principles, in 
 y« usurpers times, w* kept me also out of my estate (as his Grace was' out of his) by Coll Barrow, 
 & other Fanaticks. So that neither my loyalty towards y« King, nor sonship in my Church, could 
 be shaken by that or any other Sect. And therefore I hoped his Grace would remember mee as 
 a fellow sufferer with him: & not only afford his Paternal Ghostly benedictions, but also his frendly 
 word, and assistance, to cure the wounds w'^'^ my Losses had made. 
 
 His Grace promised his furtherance to my Affaire, and what favour els lay in his Station to doe 
 when the same should be made known to him, as needful or convenient for mee. 
 
 Being sprinkled with this holy Water, and Hillsbrough house in view (where I dined) I let his 
 Grace ride on, and so others accosted him: After dinner we all went to Lisburn (als Lisnegarvey)'39 
 & next day stayd till the clergy show was over: aud when I had receaved his Graces blessing I re- 
 turned home. 
 
 After all this I was not one penny weight of silver (that is three pence) the better, nor the wors 
 for this journey (only pocketts were Lighter, & I was thereby eased of a little burden). But I had 
 
 towards him by the presbyterians is too evident from 
 the following shocking allusion to his death in principal 
 Bailie's Historical Vindication of the Church of Scotland, 
 p. 2 : — "In that most scurrilous and envenomed satyre 
 Lysimachus Nicanor his (Maxwell's) pen was thought to 
 be principall ; for this he got a warning from heaven so 
 distinct and loud as any uses to be given on earth, to re- 
 claime him from his former errors ; with his eyes did he 
 see that miserable man, John Corbet, who took upon him 
 the shame of penning that rable of contumelious lies against 
 his mother church, hewed in pieces in the very armes of 
 his poore wife ; this prelate himself in the mean time was 
 stricken down, and left widi many wounds as dead by the 
 hand of the Irish, with whom he had been but too 
 familiar." See Reid's History of the Presbyterian 
 Church, vol. i., pp. 248, 251. The fell spirit of religious 
 hate which actuated all classes in .Scotland during the 
 seventeenth century appears have taken possession even 
 of the gentler sex, to an alarming extent. Some curious 
 illustrations of this sad truth are supplied in the acts 
 of women of high rank. Thus, a presbyterian heroine, 
 named lady Anne Cunningham, wife of the second mar- 
 quis of Hamilton, permitted her zeal for the covenant 
 to swallow up, utterly, her maternal affection. In 1 639, 
 when her son James, afterwards duke of Hamilton, 
 came with an English fleet to the Forth, for the pur- 
 pose of overawing th6 rampant sons of the covenant, 
 his mother, mounting her horse, with pistols at her 
 belt and in her saddle-bows, dashed among the multitudes 
 assembled on the shores of Leith, declaring that, in 
 the cause of the covenant, she would be the first to 
 shoot her son, should he attempt to land. On the 
 opposite side, the conduct of lady Methven at a later 
 period, when episcopacy was master of the position, was 
 early, alt hough not altogether as rabid as that of 
 
 lady Anne Cunningham. On the 15 th of October, 1678, 
 
 lady Methven wrote from Methvenwood to her husband, 
 then in London, as follows : — 
 
 " My Pkecious Love. — A multitude of men and women, from east, 
 west, and south, came the 13 day of this October to hold a field con- 
 venticle, two bows draught above our church ; they had their tent set 
 up before the sun upon your ground. I seeing them flocking to it, 
 sent through your ground, and charged them to repair to your brother 
 David, the bailie, and me, to the Castle Hill, where we had but 60 
 armed men ; your brother with drawn sword and bent pistol, I with 
 the light horseman's piece bent, on my left arm, and a drawn tuck in 
 my right hand, all your servants well armed, marched fonvard, and 
 kept the one half of them fronting with the other, that were giiarding 
 their minister and their tent, which is their standard. . . . We 
 told them if they would not go from the parish of Methven presentlie, 
 it would be a bludie day ; for 1 protested, and your brother, before 
 God, we would ware our lives upon them before they should preach 
 in our regalitie or parish. They said they would preach. We 
 charged them either to fight or fly. . . . They seeing wc were 
 desperate marched o'er the Pow, and so we went to the church and 
 heard a feared minister preach. They have sworn not to stand with 
 such affront, but resolve to come the next Lord's day ; and I, in the 
 Lord's strength, intend to accost them with all that will come to assist 
 us. I have caused your officer warn a solemn court of vassals, 
 tenants, and all with our power, to meet on Thursday, where I intend, 
 if God will, to be present, and there to order them, in God and our 
 king's name, to convene well armed to the kirkyard on Sabbath morn- 
 ing by eight hours, where your brother and I, with alt our servant 
 men, and others we can make, shall march to them, and, if the God 
 of heaven will, they shall eitherfight or go out of our parish. . . . 
 my blessed iove, comfort yourself in this, that, if the fanatics should 
 chance to kill me, it shall not be for nought. I was wounded for our 
 gracious king, and now in the strength of the Lord God of heaven, 
 I'll hazard niy person with the men I may command, before these 
 rebels rest where ye have power." 
 
 In another letter to her husband, she says — "They are an 
 ignorant wicked pack ; the Lord God clear the nation of 
 them." — Kirkton's Histoiy, pp. 355, 361, as quoted in 
 T/it Ladies of the Covenant, Introduction, p. xv. 
 '58 Q{ff- j^'^ cause. — See p. 189, siip-a. 
 Lisnegarvey. — See p. 167, supra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 435 
 
 pleasure and good cheer (pious Bp Jeremy Taylor treating the Primate and Clergy, & all y« Gentry 
 that came to his Tables, after he had preached an excellent sermon) & I had also desireable com- 
 pany & discourses, & gained some knowledge in Ecclesiasticall Courts practise (to Learn I 
 chiefly went) for I had some Hitts to look to (and I knew I should be mentioned at that visitation: 
 and that my Absence would be misrepresented, & might turn to my prejudice : w=^ I prevented & 
 obviated, by being personally there. So the Reader may judge whether I went on a sleevless 
 errand: And also if I had (yea or No) penyworth for my mony, and Paines expended therein. 
 Now after these Last fower memorandas here interjected, the better to observe point of times & 
 to recreate y« Reader with diversity of matter, I will proceed to write of other sortes of affaires viz. 
 
 A° 1666 I took my Deare wife, and young sonM° (in his childs coats with leading Sleeves,) 
 unto Dublin, to visit the Countess of Mount Alex"'''' & other relations, & thence went to Trim, 
 Navan, and elswhere, to see our Rotten Cabbins and waste tenements, & some Lands in Longford 
 (w* were encumbered by other mens Claims) and had fallen to my Lott, for my fathers arreares of 
 Pay due before June i649."t' Such was my bad happ, to my great loss, toile, charge, & vexations; 
 meeting oppositions or fals Informations, to find out w'^'^ evils & to remedy them, I borrowed Mony 
 for this Journey. '■•s But we both being weary of Travell, & of dissapointm'^ in our hopes to have 
 seen excellent things, &: to get ready possession, and finding also great mistakes in y« Lott, w='^ 
 must be Rectified by y« Court of Claimes, & by y« Green Chamber afores'^, where y« Trustees & I 
 sate.''t'^ 
 
 Wee therefore came back to Dublin, and haveing rested above a week, and renewed our visits, 
 and after that bidding farewell to all friends (especially to our Deo re said Countess''*^) wee then 
 returned to Rosemount (which jorney cost me cinq solz in new clothes a la mode &c. & there we 
 stayed till summer 1667 that I went up to get the reprizalls for mistakes in my said Lotts. & 
 haveing pitched on, & picked up some parcells farr scattered, which I could not help tho I was a 
 
 Young son. — This was James Montgomery, the 
 author's only son, and only surviving child. 
 
 Countess of Mount Ahxr. — Catherine Jones, the 
 second wife of the first earl. See p. 230, supra. 
 
 ^■•^ yune, 1649. — His father's arrears, including pay as 
 a 1649 officer and his expenses in raising and equipping 
 troops in 1641, amounted to the sum of ^9,942 os yd, to 
 satisfy which the author obtained under the Act of Settle- 
 ment the several fragments of property here referred to. 
 The claims of the 1649 officers had not been provided for 
 in Cromwell's protectorate, nor by the parliament that 
 had assembled soon after the restoration. Some 
 ands, indeed, that had been set out to soldiers and 
 adventurers, were allotted to these officers, but this pro- 
 vision was not found sufficient ; and, to supplement it, the 
 forfeited Corporations and Houses within their bounds, 
 were added. To render these the more valuable, the 
 Act of Explanation provided that no Irish papist, although 
 innocent, should be permitted to enjoy any House within 
 a corporation, except the natives of Cork and Fethard. 
 The following is a list of the lands and tenements assigned 
 to the author, in satisfaction of his father's claims on the 
 government: — A tenement in St. Thomas street, Dublin, 
 rent, 12s 42d; Gurtiiiloe, l cartron, part, 112a. 2r.; Derry- 
 
 more, i cartron, 52a, and 24p. ; Aghaknappagh, 3 
 cartrons, 163a. 2r. 4p. ; Cartron-Garrow, Tuaralin and 
 Cartron-Keele, 2 cartrons and a quarter, 143a. 2r. 24p., — 
 all in the barony of Moydow, and county of Longford. 
 Total quantity 591a. and 24p. plantation measure, or 
 957a. 2r. 9p. statute measure. Total rent £i2 os o|d. 
 In Foare, county Westmeath, he was assigned eleven 
 cottages, twenty-one garden plotts, one acre of meadow, 
 one stang of pasture, and four waste places on which 
 cabins had stood, the total rent of all being 13s 2d. In 
 the town of Navan, county of Meath, he was allotted 28 
 ruinous houses, consisting generally of walls without roofs, 
 and yards and gardens attached, the total rent of which 
 was £'^. In the town of Trim, county Meath, eighteen 
 ruined houses with yards and gardens, the total rent 
 £\ lyd. In the town of Drogheda, six ruinous houses 
 with gardens and yards, rent 3s 3d. See Irish Record 
 Commission Reports, vol. iii., pp. 1 76. 
 
 '■•^ For this Journey. — Among those who gave the 
 author trouble were certain kinsfolk named Montgomery. 
 See p. 391, supra. 
 
 And I sate. — See pp. 406, 422, supra. 
 
 Deare said Countess. — See p. 230, supra. 
 
436 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 trustee)''*'' I returned home & stayd till summer 1668, when at ye said Countesses (Long and great 
 intreaty, our 2d Viscountess was perswaded to visit her in Dublin. "t? 
 
 This visit being condescended to & my wife, self, & childe also earnestly invited, the Countess 
 sent down her Coach, & we went up, and were met near Dublin by her L^p and other friends, wel- 
 comed and caressed with extraordinary civil deference, & affection by her L^p; who ever since she 
 marryed our Earle, (and till her death), caryed a Daughter and Sister Like Love to those our two 
 Northern Ladys, as appears in all her Letters to my deserving deare wife.'t^ 
 
 Our Entertainment was grand ; for an house and provision was prepared for us, & wee Lived 
 by ourselves as if wee had been at Mount Alex''- And Countess came with her young daughters 
 twice a week to dine with us, and she had her mother and Sister in Law as often with her, & herself 
 and children came some evenings also to beare us company : Whilst I took my Liberty to be with 
 them, or at y^ Court of Claimes, to rectify y« mistakes afores<^' for they were not all remedyed the 
 preceding yeare. 
 
 Wee visited the Lady Houth, and her children, & she returned the Compliments, and came 
 sometimes to dine at our house, 
 
 Harvest was now come, «Sr short days & therefore wee returned as wee came, y^ women & my 
 childe in y« Countess Coach ; my selfe and y« retinue attending and but little disordered by those 
 jorneys. 
 
 The Countess was engaged by promise to repay our visits, & she came next summer with her 
 son S"" Richard ParbOns'5° and her two daughters — (The Ladys Kathrin and Betty Montgomery)'^' 
 
 T/w I was a trustee. — For the date of his patent for 
 reprisals, and the names of the lands thus obtained, see 
 p. 406, note 6, supra. The grant in tnist to the author, 
 for himself and others, contains the following names of 
 officers, and sums of arrears due to them respectively : — 
 For William Montgomery — his father's arrears — ;^9,942 
 OS. 7d. ; Lieut. Col. Hugh Montgomery, 060 2s. lod. ; 
 Lieut. Robert Montgomery, £s'^2) 8s. 8d. ; Lieut. Abraham 
 Smith, £^,^ os. 5d. ; William Buckanon, ^352 lis. 2.; 
 Major Alex. Adair, £zi$ is. 4d. ; William Johnston, £^ 
 I2s. 4d. — Iiisk Record Commission Reports, vol. iii., p 
 306. 
 
 Her in Dublin. — The lady of the second viscount 
 Montgomeiy, afterwards wife of general Monro, must have 
 been of advanced age in 1668. She died in 1670. The 
 first countess resided in Aungier street, where she died 
 suddenly on the 8th of October, 1675. 
 
 Deare ivife. — The "two northern Ladys" were the 
 author's mother-in-law, the second viscountess ; and her 
 daughter, the author's wife. The countess was daughter- 
 in-law of the former lady, and sister-in-law of the latter. 
 
 At our house. — The dowager lady Howth, alive in 
 1668, and for several years afterwards, was a near kins- 
 woman of the visitors from Rosemount, being Jane Mont- 
 gomery, only daughter of George Montgomery, bishop of 
 Meath. In 1615, she married Nicholas St. Lawrence, 
 twenty-third baron Howth, and one of her daughters, 
 Frances, had been third wife of sir James Montgomeiy, 
 the author's father. The "Lady Houth" of the text was 
 no doulit the wife of her son, the twenty-fourth baron, 
 who succeeded to the estates at the death of her husband 
 
 in 1643, and who married Elizabeth, thewidow of colonel 
 Fitzwilliam. This lady Howth had five children, one of 
 whom, Mary, the eldest daughter, married Henry, third 
 earl of Mount- Alexander, in 1672. — Lodge, Peerage oj 
 Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. iii., p. 203. See p. 
 p. 289, supra. 
 
 S'' Richard Parsons. — Cathenne Jones, who was 
 the first earl of Mount-Alexander's second wife, had been 
 previously married to sir William Parsons of Bellamont, 
 county of Dublin. See p. 159, supra. Her son by him, 
 yA\o accompanied his mother to the Ards in the summer 
 of 1669, was then a youth. The following is sir J. Bernard 
 Burke's notice of the representatives of this distinguished 
 family, so far as the sir Richard mentioned in the text : — 
 "William Parsons settled in Ireland about the close of 
 Queen Elizabeth's reign ; and being a commissioner of 
 Plantations, obtained very considerable territorial grants 
 from the Crown. In 1602, he succeeded Sir JeofTry 
 Fenton, as surveyor-general of Ireland ; in 1610, he 
 obtained a pension of £10 a year, English, for life ; in 
 161 1, he was joined with his brother, Lawrence, in the 
 supervisorship of the crown lands, with a fee of £(x> a 
 year for life ; in 1620, presenting to the king, in person, 
 surveys of escheated estates, in his capacity of surveyor- 
 general, he received the honour of knighthood, and was 
 created a Baronet loth November in the same year. Sir 
 William Parsons represented the county of Wicklow in 
 Parliament in 1639, and was constituted Lord-Deputy 
 with Lord Dillon in 1640; but that nobleman being soon 
 removed, he was re-swom with Sir John Borlace, master 
 of the Ordnance. He continued in the government until 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 they were sometimes at Mount Alex"" as visitants but never at Newtoun, and Resided at Rosemount, 
 where (tho I say it) they were very Loveingly and well treated, being visited by y^ Gentry men and 
 women round about; and there this Earle'S^ was long and dangerously sick of a surfeit (as was sup- 
 posed) of fruit, and was cured by D"" Kennedy ; His L°ps brother Henry and sister the Lady Jean'^s 
 were sometimes there, this was A° 1669. 
 
 Then y= Shreevalty'54 came upon mee (w<:'^ put mee one way or other) in about 300 Lib. 
 
 1643, when he was removed, charged with treason, and 
 committed to prison, with Sir Adam Loftus and others. 
 He married EHzabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Alderman 
 John Lany, of Dublin, and niece of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, 
 by whom he had several children. He died at West- 
 minster in Feb., 1650, and was succeeded by his grand- 
 son, Sir William of Bellamont, co. Dublin (2nd baronet), 
 only son of Richard Parsons, Esq., by his 1st wife, 
 Lattice, eldest daughter of Sir Adam Loftus. Sir William 
 married Catherine, eldest daughter of Arthur Viscount 
 Ranelagh, and was succeeded by his only surviving son. 
 Sir Richard, 3rd baronet, who was elevated to the peerage 
 2nd July, 1681, as Baron Oxmantown and Viscount 
 Rosse, with remaindership to the male issues of his great 
 grandfather. He married 1st Anne Walshingham ; 2nd 
 Catherine Brydges, daughter of George Lord Chandos, 
 both or whom died without issue ; and 3rdly, in 1 685, 
 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir George Hamilton, and 
 niece of Sarah duchess of Marlborough, by whom he had 
 two sons and three daughters. He died in 1702, and 
 was succeeded by his eldest son, who was advanced to 
 the earldom of Rosse i6th June, 1718." Connected with 
 the origin of tiiis and some otlrer distinguished families 
 in Ireland, we have the following curious notice in 
 Memorialls of the Warre begim^i in 1 64 1, by James 
 Kearney, preserved among the Caric Papers in the 
 Bodleian Library, Oxford, and quoted by Mr. Prendergast 
 in his very valuable contribution entitled The Tory War 
 in Ulster: — "Shortly before this resolution, Philip 
 O'Dwire of Dounedromore, a gentleman of such quality 
 and estate, yt he could not brook the reviling language of 
 Sir William St. Leger [and he and the rest seeing] ye 
 Irish Estates exposed to men of meane birth, but aimed 
 to raise estates by the niin of innocents, so that Sir 
 Parsons and ye Earl of Cork, who within this sixty years 
 past coming as naked lads here, without either friends, 
 meanes, or learning . . . were glad, in the service 
 of one Keny, then Escheator General, to earne their 
 livelehood in his menial service, wherein they learnt those 
 tricks, acquiring by hook and crooke, lands, offices, and 
 livings, that they were shortly after the ablest men for 
 riches in the kindom . . . And, as for Sir John 
 Borlase, Sir W. St. Leger, ye Lord Esmond, Sir Chas 
 Coote, and others of their conditions, which being from 
 single soldiers, were by ye extension of ye favours of ye 
 succeeding Kings and Queens of England advanced to 
 wealth and dignities, yet they did not ascend by their 
 gallantry, for there was no occasion to draw their swords 
 from the beginning of King James's reign." — Journal of 
 Kilkenny and South-East 0/ Ireland ArchcEological Society, 
 vol. V. , new series, p. 37, note. 
 
 '5' Montgomery. — The lady Catherine Montgomery 
 was married to sir Francis Hamilton of Killyshandra ; and 
 lady Betty or Elizabeth became the wife of Raphael Hunt 
 
 of Dullardstow. — Mrs E. G. S. Reilly's Genealogical His- 
 tory. 
 
 This Earle. — The second earl of Mount- Alexander. 
 
 'S3 The lady Jean. — See p. 297, supra. 
 
 's** Then ye Sliretvalty came upon mee. — The author 
 does not mention the precise year in which he was high 
 sheriff for the county of Down, but we infer that it was in 
 1670. The festivities at Rosemount, to which he refers in 
 the text, took place in 1669, and immediately afterwards 
 came the unfortunate honour of ' the Shreevalty,' which 
 imposed upon him additional debt to the amount of ;^300. 
 Should this inference as to his year of office be correct, we 
 can thus supply from his MafUiscripts three names to the 
 imperfect list of high sheriffs for the county. The other 
 two names are those of Richard Bingley, who was sheriff" 
 in 1658 and William Wari?ig, who held this office in 1669. 
 See pp. 368, 373, siipj'a. Several names on the following 
 list have been kindly supplied to the editor by J. W. 
 Hanna, Esq. : — 
 
 1400. — Robert Fitz John Savage. 
 1585. — Thomas Woulf. 
 
 '593 } ™ Ralph Brereton of Killanleaghe. 
 
 1600. -Tiiiiuthy Castletown. 
 1605. — William Ward. 
 1607. — Edmond Burey. 
 1610. — Richard West. 
 
 1612. — George Stritsbury (Stotisbury). 
 
 1613. — Anthony Hawes. 
 1615. — Nicholas West. 
 
 1619. — Thomas Bands. 
 
 1620. — Nicholas West. 
 
 1621. — Piers Rutbergh. 
 
 1622. — James Peckham. 
 
 1623. — William Hamilton. 
 
 1624. — Nicholas West. 
 
 1634. -Henry Savage of Ardkeen. 
 
 1638. — William Reading. 
 
 1639. — William Burley. 
 
 1641. - — Patrick Shane of MuUogh and Erinagh. 
 
 1642. — Peter Hill of Hill Hall. 
 
 1655. — James Traile. 
 
 1656. — Bernard Ward of Carrignashanagh. 
 
 1657. — Capt. Roger West of Ballydugan. 
 
 1658. — Major Richard Bingley. 
 1659 —John Magill of Gil HaU. 
 
 1660. — Ralph Walsh. 
 
 1661. — (Sir) Robert Ward of Killough. 
 
 1662. — Nicholas Ward. 
 
 1663. — John Savage of Ardkeen. 
 
 1664. — James Lesley of Sheepland, Ardglass. 
 f-f- j William Lesley. 
 
 ^' ( Francis Aunesley of Cloughmaghericatt. 
 
 1666. — Richard Price of Farinfad. 
 
 1667. — Robert Ward. 
 
 1665. — William Shaw. 
 
 1669 — William Waring of Clanconnel. 
 
 1670. — William Montgomery o{ Rosamon [sic\ 
 
 1671. — James Ross of Portavo. 
 
 1673. — Francis Annesley of Cloughmaghericatt. 
 
 1673. — Sir Robert Maxwell, Knt. and Bart, of Killileagh 
 
 1674. — James Maxwell of Drum. 
 
 1675. — ^John Hawkins. 
 
43« 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Debt : by reason (in the first place) the judges \ 
 named Hugh Hamill (whose father Lt. Mathev/ 
 
 1676. — Randall Brice. 
 J677. — Francis Hall. 
 
 1678. — Hugh Eccles. 
 
 1679. — William Brett of Ballynevvport. 
 
 ^68i! I-J^'""^ Lesley. 
 
 1682. — Murt. McGennis of Greencastle. 
 
 1683. — Sir I'homas Fortescue, knt. 
 
 1684. — Patrick Savage of Portaferry. 
 
 1685. — Charles Ward. 
 
 1686. — Hugh Montgomery. 
 
 1688 } Valentine Russell of Coniamstown, Killough. 
 
 1689. — Richard M'Gennis. 
 
 1690. — Bernard Ward. 
 
 1691. — Samuel Warren of Waringstown. 
 
 1692. — Sir Arthur Rawdon, bart. 
 
 1693. — Richard Johnston. 
 
 1694. — Nicholas Price. 
 
 1695. — James Montgomery. 
 
 1696. — John Gibbons of Ballykinler. 
 
 1697. — James Bagly of Inishargy. 
 
 1698. — ^John Montgomery. 
 
 1699. — John Hultndge of Dromore. 
 
 1700. — John Hawkins. 
 
 1701. — Hugh Colvill of Comber. 
 
 1702. — Roger Hall of Mount Hall. 
 
 1703. — Hercules Montgomery of Ballylesson. 
 
 1704. — Nicholas Price of Saintfield. 
 
 1705. — Westenra Warren, 
 
 1706. — Mathew Ford of Seaforde. 
 
 1707. — John Norris of Newcastle. 
 
 1708. — Hans Hamilton. 
 
 1709. — Robert Ross. 
 
 1710. — Robert Johnson. 
 
 J711. — Michael Ward of Castleward. 
 
 1712. — John Maglll. 
 
 1713. — Western Warren. 
 
 1714. — Roth Jones, Jonesborough. 
 
 1715. — Toby Hall, Mount Hall, Narrow Water 
 
 1716. — Henry Maxwell of Finnebrogue. 
 
 1717. — Sir William Johnston of Gilford, knt. 
 
 1718. — Robert Hawkins of Gill Hall. 
 
 1719. — Simon Isaac of Holj'wood. 
 
 1720. — (jeorge Lambert of Dunlady. 
 
 1721. — James Ma.xwell of Rubane. 
 
 1722. — Cromwell Price of Hollymount. 
 
 1723. — William Montgomery of Rosemount. 
 
 1724. — Thomas Waring of Waringstown. 
 
 1725. — John Bayley of Inishargie. 
 
 1726. — Hon. Thomas Montgomery of Comber. 
 
 1727. — Robert Lambert of Dunlady. 
 
 1728. — Robert Needham of Newiy. 
 
 1729. — Mathew Forde of .Seaforde. 
 
 1730. — Edward Bayley of Ringduflerin. 
 
 1731. — William Savage of Kirkistown Castle, 
 
 1732. — Francis Savage of Ardkeen. 
 
 1733. — John Donnelson Lsaac of HolywoodJ 
 
 1734. — Samuel Waring of Waringstown. 
 
 1735. — Richard Johnston, junior, of Gilford, 
 
 1736. — Sanmel Close of Bannfield, 
 
 1737. — Arthur Hill of Bclvoir 
 T738. — Hill W^ilson of Purdysburn. 
 1739.— Francis Hall of Strangford. 
 J740. — Roger Hall of Mount Hall. 
 
 1741. — James Ross, the younger, of Portavo. 
 J742. — James Echlin of Rubane, now Echlinsville. 
 
 1743. —Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue. 
 
 1744. — Chichester Fortescue of Dromiskin, co. Louth. 
 
 1745. — Samuel Hill of Strangford. 
 
 1746. — Bernard Ward of Castleward. 
 
 1747. — Simon Isaac ofHolywood. 
 
 1748. — John Bateman of Maghereinch, Moira. 
 
 1749. — Sir John Rawdon, bart., of Moira. 
 '750- — Henry Waring, Waringsford. 
 
 1751. — William Annesley of Cloiigli, created Baron Glcrawlcy. 
 
 1752. — Mathew Forde of Seaforde. 
 
 1753. — Francis Price, Saintfield. 
 
 ere treated at my cost. 2^ I kept a clerk 
 was an old servant to rny father) iiistead of 
 
 1754- — James Johnson of Rademon. 
 
 1755- — William Montgomery of Greyabbey 
 1756. — Andrew John Mathews of Spring Vale. 
 I757- — Hon. Henry Moore of Dnimbanagher, 
 1758.— John Echlin of Ardquin. 
 
 1759- — Thomas Pottinger of Mountpottinger. 
 
 1760. - Charles Douglass of Gracehall. 
 
 1761. — Holt Waring of Waringstown. 
 
 1762. — Rob. Lambert Tate of Dunlady. 
 
 1763. — Patrick Savage of Portaferry. 
 
 1764. — Richard Magennis of Warrlngstown. 
 
 1765. — Richard Johnston of Gilford. 
 
 1766. — Nicholas Harrison of Oakley, Ballydargau, Killoug! . 
 
 1767. — James Baillie, Innishargie. 
 
 1768. — John Moore of Dnimbanagher. 
 
 1769. — John Kennedy of Cultra. 
 
 1770. — Charles Savage, Ardkeen. 
 
 1771. — Robert Ross, Rosstrevor. 
 
 1772. — James Waddell of Springfield, Dromore. 
 
 1773. — Gawen Hamilton of Killileagh. 
 
 1774. — Townly Blackwood of Castle Hill. 
 1775' — Charles Innis of Dromantine. 
 
 1776. — John Reilly of Scarva. 
 
 1777. — Charles Echlin of Echlinvale. 
 
 1778. — Daniel De la Cherois of Donaghadee. 
 
 1779. — John Knox ofWaringsford. 
 
 1780. — Hill Wilson of Purdysburn. 
 
 1781. — Cromwell Price of Hollymount. 
 
 1782. — Thomas Douglass of Gracehall. 
 
 1783. — Hon. Richard Annesley of Castlewellan. 
 
 1784. — Arthur Johnston of Rademon. 
 
 1785. — Lord Kilwarlin of Hillsborough. 
 
 1786. — James Arbuckle of Mary^vale, Donaghadee. 
 
 1787. — George Hamilton of Tyrella. 
 
 1788. — William Johnston of Gilford. 
 
 1789. — James Watson Hull of Belvedere. 
 
 1790. — Robert M'Leroth of Comber. 
 
 1791. — Francis Savage of Turf Lodge. 
 
 1792. — Hon. Robert Ward of Bangor. 
 
 1793. — Henry Savage of Rock-Savage. 
 
 1794. — Hon. Vesey Knox of Newry. 
 
 1795. — Roger Johnston Smyth of Ballykeele. 
 
 1796. — Daniel Mussenden of Larchfield, 
 
 1797. — -Thomas Waring of Newry. 
 
 1798. — Lord Charles Fitzgerald of Ardglass Castlt, created 
 
 Baron Lecale. 
 
 1799. — Marcus Corry of Newry. 
 
 1800. — Savage Hall of Narrow-water. 
 
 1801. — Nicholas Price of Saintfield. 
 
 1802. — Hugh Kennedy of Cultra. 
 
 1803. — Mathew Forde of Seaforde and Bailee. 
 
 1804. — Sir John Stevenson Blackwood of Eailyleidy 
 
 1805. — James Rose Cleland of Ratii;z:ael. 
 
 1806. - — Francis Turnlcy of Richmond Lodge. 
 
 1807. — Ross Thomson of Greenwood Park, Newrj-. 
 
 1808. — Andrew Savage of Portaferry'. 
 
 1809. — Robert Bateson of Orangefield. 
 
 1810. — lohn Lushington Reilly of Scarva. 
 
 1811. — William Sharman of Moira and Portadown. 
 
 1812. — David Gordon of Florida. 
 
 1813. — James Blackwood of Saintfield, 
 
 1814. — Arthur Innes of Dromantine. 
 
 1815. — William Edmund Reilly of Coolnacran, Loug'ibrickUnd. 
 
 1816. — Roger Hall of Narrow-water. 
 
 1817. — John Waring Maxwell of Finnebrogue. 
 
 1818. — Arthur Johnston Crawford of Crawfordsburn. 
 
 1819. — Francis Savage of Hollymount. 
 
 1820. — Matthew Forde of Seaforde. 
 
 1821. — Nicholas De La Cherois Crommelin, Carradore Castle. 
 
 1822. — Lord Viscount Glerawly of Castlewellan. 
 
 1823. — Edward Southwell Ward of Castleward, afterwards vis- 
 
 count Bangor. 
 
 1824. — William Montgomery of Greyabbey. 
 2825. — John M'Cance of Drumlough. 
 
 1826. - John Holmes Houston of Greenville. 
 
 1827. — John Echlin, Echlinville. 
 
 1828. — Viscount Newry of Mourne Park, Kilkeel. 
 
 1829. — Daniel De La Cherois of Donaghadee. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
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 the last subsherif (for whom good Baile was offered to me that I should be at no charge but 
 y° Judges Entertainment) but I feared no mischance; being then (as I thought) skilled in y'' 
 office, &: haveing an unsollicited kindness for said clerk : I embraced not that safe and saveing 
 offer which I now mention as another great error, especially because I trusted him without bonds- 
 men for his fidelity and right management) and I wrote for him, & imployed him, and meaning to 
 improove him, I allowed largely on him. every term, to attend my Attorney on Record (also called 
 Hugh Hamill'5«) that he might learn to practise for others, & he acted very duty fully, and was well 
 rewarded : he gained credit above all that had been subsherifs before him, insomuch that he was 
 imployed for several years successfully ; and gott to be under Senschall to the earle of Clan- 
 brazill ; he then maryed & built B : Attwood house'^^ where his son and heire now lives ; so that 
 my Love imploying his father, recommending him, & being bound for him to other Sheriffs, • 
 my countenancing him, and advices and instructions in affaires, gave the rise, and contributed 
 greatly to his attainments in the barrony of Ards. 3'''^'^ by a I>etter from our present Earle, I too 
 soon superseded Sheriff Waring'^? who was then going to Levy great Subsidys and arrears of 
 Kings Rent due by y° Viscountess, and his Lo" (then a minor) * * * 
 
 ******** 
 
 [830. — Nicholas Charles Whyte of Loughbriclcland. 
 
 [831. — William Miissenden of LarchfieM. 
 
 [832. — Arthur Innes of Dromantine. 
 
 [833. — Robert Gordon of Florida. 
 
 1834. — The Earl of Hillsborough, Hillsborough. 
 
 [835, — Narcissus Batt of Purdysburn. 
 
 1836. — Charles Douglass of Grace Hall. 
 
 1837. — David Robert Ross of Rosstrevor. 
 
 1838. — Thomas Johnston Smyth of Lisburn. 
 
 1839. — John Sharman Crawford of Crawfordsburn, Bangor. 
 [840. — Matthew Forde of Seaforde. 
 
 [841. — David Stewart Ker of Montalto, resigned in May. 
 :84i. — Robert Percival Maxwell of Groomsport. 
 :842. — Robert Edward Ward of Bangor Castle. 
 :843. — John Patrick Nugent of Portaferry. 
 
 1844. — John Reid Allen, Mount Panther. 
 
 1845. — Hugh Montgomery of Greyabbey. 
 
 1846. — Robert Batt of Purdysburn. 
 
 1847. — Thomas Morris Hamilton Jones of Moneyglass. 
 :848. — Richard Blakiston Houston of Orangefield. 
 [849. — William Keown of Ballydugan. 
 
 1850. — Archibald Hamilton Rowan of Killileagh. 
 iSji. — Robert Herron of Ardicon. 
 
 1852. — Samuel De La Cherois Crommelin, Carradore Castle. 
 
 1853. — William Brownlow Forde of Seaforde. 
 
 1854. — John Temple Reilly of Scarva House. 
 185s — Andrew Mulholland of Springvale. 
 
 1856. — Francis Charles Leslie, Ballyward. 
 
 1857. — John Andrews of Comber. 
 
 1858 — Samuel Murland of Woodland, Castlewellan. 
 18^9. — J. Charles Price of Saintfield. 
 
 1860. — John Blakiston Houston, Orangefield. 
 
 1861. — Ale.x. John Robert Stewart of Ards House, County Done- 
 
 gal.. 
 
 1862. — John Joseph White of Loughbrickland. 
 
 1863. — Daniel Delacherois of Manor House, Donaghadee. 
 
 1864. — Thomas M'Clure of Belmont, Belfast. 
 
 1865 — Aubrey William Beauclerk of Ardglass Castle. 
 
 1866. — John Cleland of Stormont Castle. 
 
 1867. — Andrew Nugent of Castleward. 
 1S68. — ^John Mulholland of Craigavad. 
 
 '55 Hugh Ham in. — See p. 139, supra. 
 '5* B: Ahuood House. — See p. 347, supra. See also 
 Harris, State of the county of Down, p. 68. 
 '57 Sheriff Waring. — See p. 373, supra. 
 
440 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 C H A p't E R XXV. 
 
 AN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 
 
 CONCERNING SOME OF MONTGOMERYS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, 
 COLLECTED OUT OF SEVERAL AUTHORS.' 
 
 Reader 
 
 I have herein gathered some notes as materialls for a Treatiss, or memoires, of the 
 Tribe, Nation, & Surname of the Montgomerys, which I pick' up as they occurred in my read- 
 ings, and now give thee the perusal of them to be pryed into as a piece of well-painted 
 Architecture or Landskip, which tlie following pages much resembles for the variety of objects 
 therein : Yett it may be worth our while to remember and consider previously how Surnames had 
 their Originalls, for Camdens Remaines tells us y* this way of differencing Famillys is not Gen:"y 
 of a thousand years standing. As to y' varietys of ways & Accidents by w'' they came to adhere 
 to y° persons and posteritys so distinguished : it were endless, (as impossible to trace out & recite 
 them) : I will only mention a few Instances. Imprimis I find Surnames Imposed by kings as 
 marks of Honor putt upon ye chiefe or founder of the sept, for their great merit : As y' Dug- 
 lasses first soe called, on Occasion of a brave Person who haveing rallyed y° Highland Scotts, was 
 pointed at, and shewn to y^ king as y* man that thereby, & with his valor and conduct, had recovered 
 y° victory from y" Danes : y"* words were in Irish (the true Ancient Scottish speech^) viz' (says one 
 to y° king) Sholto Duglas, w'*" is by interpretation. Behold this black haired, grayish, pale com- 
 plexioned man, which designation y^ king then gave him, as a Surname: and his Posterity have 
 
 ' Several authors, — The following curious treatise, so 
 characteristic of the author, is here printed for the first 
 time. This fragment of tlie Manuscripts, preserved 
 among the Family Papers at Greyabbey, originally formed 
 part of a much larger work, being paged 567-603. It 
 appears, however, to be complete iu itself, as it is paged 
 from I to 38 distinctly from the larger work, of which it 
 forms a part. If the memorandum at the end originally 
 belonged to this memoir, we infer that it was written 
 previously to the author's account of the Montgomerys 
 of Ireland. 
 
 ^ Irish ( the true ancient Scottish speech ). — Irish was the 
 prevailing language throughout the Highlands and Isles of 
 Scotland from an early period until the close of the seven- 
 teenth century. It was originally planted there by Irish 
 colonists from Dalriada — a territory extending from the 
 present village of Glynn to the Bush-foot, on the coast of 
 the present county of Antrim. — Reeves, Eccles. Aiitiquities, 
 p. 319; Reeves, Adainnan's Life of St. Colnmba, -pp. 
 433-438. A Gaelic poem of great antiquity, generally 
 known as the Albanic Diian, and a genealogical MS., the 
 most ancient now known to exist, point distinctly to the 
 
 Irish origin of the Islesmen and inhabitants of the western 
 Highlands of Scotland. So late as the sixteenth century, 
 the Lowland Scotch spoke of their neighbours in the 
 Highlands and Isles as the "Yrische," the " Yrische7nen of 
 Scot/and," the " Irishrie and of their language, as the 
 ' ' Erische," or ' ' £7-se," i. e. , Irish — Transactions of the Zona 
 Cliih, pp. 25, 27, 141. A peasant fanner, named Magee, 
 residing near the town of Ballycastle, on the Antrim coast, 
 has in his possession an ancient deed, conveying a grant 
 of lands in Isla to one of his ancestors, in the year 1408. 
 This deed, granted by Donnell Macdonnell, the then King 
 of tlie Isles, to Brian Vicar Magee, is written on goat-skin, 
 and expressed throughout in the purely Irish language of 
 the period. " Although a Scottish record," says Dr. 
 Reeves, "it is strictly conformable to the niles of Irish 
 orthography and construction, showing that th.e peculiari- 
 ties which now characterize the Scotch dialect of the 
 Gaelic did not exist in 1408, the date of this instrument.' 
 The reader will find a copy of this document, with a 
 translation and notes, by Dr. Reeves, in the Proceedings 
 of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. v., pp. 230-233. So late 
 as the year l6go, when a Bible and a Catechism wer>. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 441 
 
 retained it.3 Allsoe on a like occasion, as y' Duglasses : A Farmer goeing at plow (founder of A° Christi 942 
 
 ye yearc of 
 
 y' house of y° Earle of Erroll), with his two sonns ; seeing his countrymen (y° Highland Scotts), King Kenneth 
 flying from y^ Danes, he stopt them at a Pass, with y^ yoke of y" Plow oxen, & gathering many, he ^^^^^ 
 brought them about an hill & through a by way, Ledd them upon y° Danes rifeling their Camp : ten. 
 & with Great Slaughter defeated their Army. The Scottish King bountifully rewardes him, and 
 called him Hay, y* being y" word of Encouragement, which y'' farmer and his sonns often cryed out 
 aloud ; when he stopt and Rallyed the flyers aforesaid. 
 
 translated into the Irish language, for the use of the Irish 
 population, these Translations were circulated among the 
 people of the Highlands of Scotland, whose language was 
 even then almost identical. — Chambers's Doj?iesiic An- 
 nah of Scotland, vol. iii. , p. 39. See also Anderson's 
 Ixistorical Sketches oj the Native Irish. 
 
 3 Haveretaijied it. — Hector Boece is accountable for this 
 fabulous account of the origin of the surname of Douglas, 
 and of those of several other distinguished Scottish families. 
 This traditional account of the origin of the great house of 
 Douglas is supposed to have existed' since the close of the 
 eighth century, when Solvathius, the son of Eugenius, 
 was king of Scotland. The tradition sometimes speaks 
 of the Danes as the invaders of Scotland in that reign, and 
 sometimes of the Islesmen, under their leader or king, 
 Donnell Bane. The brave Dim Glas, who retrieved 
 his country's cause, is supposed to have left two sons, 
 the elder of whom became the founder of the family 
 in Scotland, and the younger the ancestor of the Scoti 
 Duglassi in Italy. Godscroft, who wrote the History 
 of Douglas upwards of two centuries ago, appears to have 
 rejected this account as improbable. " We do not know 
 them," says he, " in the fountain, but in the stream; not 
 in the root, but in the stem ; for vi e know not the first 
 mean man that did raise himself above the vulgar." 
 Wynton's Chronicle (Book VIIL, cap. vii. ), written 
 about the year 1425, states, that of the origin of the houses 
 of Murray and Douglas, divers men speak in divers ways, 
 so that he could affirm nothing for certain ; nevertheless, 
 as both bear in their arms the same stars set in the same 
 manner, it seems likely to many that they have come of 
 the same kin, either by lineal descent, or by collateral 
 branch. It is generally agreed, however, that the origi- 
 nal founder of the Douglas family received, at a very early 
 date, and for some cogent reason, large grants of land from 
 the crown, in Lanark; and it is more than probable that 
 the race derived its surname from these lands. "The 
 Douglas water, springing from the foot of Cairntable (a 
 hill on the borders of Kyle, 1,650 feet above the level of 
 the sea), flows westward for about eleven miles through 
 the pastoral dale and parish to which it gives name, and 
 about a mile beyond falls into the Clyde." In Wishaw's 
 Description of Lanark, p. 65, the writer describjii the 
 parish of Douglas as "a pleasant strath, plentiful! in grasse 
 and corne and coall," ljut this refers to the portions im- 
 mediately adjoining the Douglas Water, in the centre of 
 the parish, the other parts stretching away into rude 
 moors, or rising into heathy hills. The first well-recog- 
 nised owner of the manor of Douglas, which is coextensive 
 with the parish, was William of Diifglas, whose name ap- 
 pears as witnessing several charters lietween the years 1 175 
 and 121 3. He had six sons, of whom four were in holy 
 orders. His eldest son and heir, Archibald or Erkenbaid 
 
 oi Duneglas, held the family estate between the years 1213 
 and 1232. He was succeeded by his son, sir William of 
 Duneglas, who was one of the most active partisans in 
 Scotland of Henry HI., in the year 1255. In 1267, he 
 had possession of the manor of Fawdon, in Northumber- 
 land, held from Gilbert Umfraville, lord of Redesdale, and. 
 conferred on Douglas by prince Edward, son of the English 
 king. He died in 1276, leaving two sons, Hugh and 
 William. The former, who married Margery, sister of sir 
 Hugh Abernethy, died without issue in the year 1287, and 
 was succeeded by his younger brother, William. In 1289, 
 the latter, at the head of an armed band, carried off his 
 future wife Alianora of Lovaine, from the manor of her 
 kinsfolk, the Zouches, at Tranent, in Lothian. In 1 296, 
 he swore fealty to Edward I., in return receiving letters 
 for the restoration of his lands in the shires of Fife, Edin- 
 burgh, Berwick, Dumfries, and Wigton. This William 
 Douglas died a prisoner in England, about the year 1302, 
 and was succeded by his son, who was known as the good 
 sir fames Douglas, whose personal history is so intimately 
 associated with that of king Robert Bruce, and from whose 
 time the succession and the fortunes of the lords of Douglas- 
 dale are to be read in the common annals of their country. 
 Of tireir old castle, which witnessed many startling family 
 vicissitudes, only one ruined tower now remains, sur- 
 rounded by large ash trees, apparently as venerable in 
 years as itself. — Abridged from Origincs Parochiales Scotia, 
 voL i., pp. 152-160. 
 
 The flyers aforesaid. — The memorable battle of Long- 
 carten, or Longcarty, in the parish of Redgorten, and 
 county of Perth, must have occurred at a much later date 
 than that mentioned by the author in his marginal note. 
 The reign of Kenneth HI. did not commence until about 
 the year 970, and the battle here referred to is generally 
 supposed to have taken place in 980. On that occasion, 
 the Scots are said to have been surprised and outnumbered 
 by the Danes. After a desperate resistance, in which Ken- 
 neth courageously led, the Scots broke from him in panic, 
 rushing along a narrow defile, where they were met and 
 driven back on tlie enemy, by a countryman and his two 
 sons, who had indignantly witnessed their flight. 
 After the battle, Hay and his sons were introduced to the 
 king, who ordered them to be conducted in triumph to 
 Perth, granting ihem the lands of Erroll and others ad- 
 joining. It is saidhegave them their choice to accept as much 
 as would be included either in a hound's chase, or a hawk's 
 flight, and that they accepted the latter. Hay was created 
 thane of Erroll and received an armorial bearing, viz., 
 three escutcheons, gules, the supporters countrymen, armed 
 with yokes and bows : the crest a falcon with expanded 
 wings ; the motto Serva Jvgiim. The Hays of EitoU 
 con':rued in possession of these lands from the date of the 
 origuial grant in 980, until the year 1650. The repre- 
 
442 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Another occasion and Account is given in y° Scottish History of a contryman who Cutt 
 Robert y' third (commonly called y* bleerd Eye) out of his mothers belly : when as (by a fall from 
 her horse) at hunting she dyed in y° feild. This King (hunting in those grounds) was informed of 
 y^ Story, and sent for y'= man, and seeming to be angry for the Scarr on his eyes, (which had gott- 
 ten him y° nickname aforesayd) questioned him what he Sayd, when he urged and took upon him- 
 self to doe y° office of a midwife : The poor man trembleing, Answered, y' he told y' nobility, and 
 Ho\TClIs'°Lon- confessed he was but a Semple man (as they then called him), but y' God putt it in his mind, y' he 
 dinopolis : K. should save a Kings Life, and soe he had y° courage to doe as he did begging his Ma*^' Pardon 
 
 Ed. 4"" gave . . . . . 
 
 f surname of for y* Scarr he had given him unwittingly. Kmg Robert did then impose y^ surname of Semple on 
 Wm'^ LUtk-"^ y° ^ posterity ; and gave them y^ Lands of Southenan and y' title of Lord Sanple, 
 burye, because -which they enjoy in the West of Scotland to this day.^'s 
 
 excellent win- Some Familys have had their Surnames from their offices, as y' Stewards, Butlers, Mershalls, 
 der of a horn 
 at huntmc;. 
 
 sentativesofthis family have often distinguished themselves 
 subsequently in their country's history. By the assistance of 
 the Hays, chiefly, Robert Bruce won the decisive battle of 
 Barra, in 1 308. For this sei-vice the family of Erroll soon 
 afterwards obtained a grant from the crown of the parishes 
 of Cruden and Slains, and portions of the parishes of Lo- 
 gie Buclian, Ellon, and Udny. The chief of the family 
 was also appointed by Bruce to the office of hereditary 
 great constable of Scotland, the charter for this appoint- 
 ment (which is still preserved at Slains castle), being 
 dated at Cambuskenneth, 12th November, 1316. The 
 earl of Erroll, in virtue of his distinguished office, is by 
 birth the first subject in Scotland ; and, in right of this 
 privilege, on state occasions where the sovereign is pre- 
 sent, he takes precedence of all the other Scottish peers. — 
 PCoxxA^fifihom. Scottish Journal of Topography, &=c., vol. i., 
 pp. 387, 388. 
 
 5 Pf^est of Scotland to this day. — The celebrated house 
 of Sempill, Semple, or Sympill, appeared so early as the 
 reign of Alexander II. , but its chief honours and possessions 
 were acquired in the time of Robert Bruce, who granted 
 to Robert Sympill ' the haill land of Southennan, which 
 was the lairdsbip of the late John Balliol, witli the com- 
 mon pasturage of the Lairgs, to be held by him and his 
 heirs, in a free barony, paying us a silver pennie yearly, at 
 the feast of Pentecost." About the year 1330, or 1340, 
 William Sympill obtained a grant from the crown of the 
 barony of Elliotstoun, parish of Lochunioch in Strathgryfe. 
 The Sympills of Elliotstoun were bailies and chamberlains 
 of the barony of Renfrew under the high stewards of Scot- 
 land, and were afterwards advanced to the office of here- 
 ditary sheriffs of Renfrew, from the year 1406, Avhen that 
 district was erected into a distinct county. — Scottish Jonr- 
 7tal of Topography, &^c., vol. ii.. p. 292, note. The story 
 told in the text, and popularly believed in Scotland even 
 to this day, has reference to the birth of Robert 11., not 
 Robert III., as here stated. The death of Marjory Bruce, 
 the king's mother, popularly known as Queen Blcanc, is 
 believed to have been caused by a fall from her horse, 
 whilst hunting, between Paisley and the castle of Renfrew, 
 on Shrove Tuesday, the second of March, 131 5-16; and 
 the popular story further affirms that her child (Robert II.) 
 was brought into the world by the Cesarean opera/ion, 
 
 performed on the spot by a simple peasant.' Crawford in 
 his History of Rcnfrt-wshire, p. 41, records this legend as 
 follows : — "At this place, in the lands of Knox, there is 
 a high Cross standing, called Queen Bleari^s Cross ; but 
 no inscription is legible. Tradition hath handed do\™, 
 that it was erected on this occasion — Marjory Bruce, 
 daughter of the renowned Robert I., and \\ife of Walter, 
 great Steward of Scotland, at that time lord of this conntry, 
 being hunting at this place, was thrown from her horse, 
 and by the fall suffering a dislocation of the vertebra of 
 her neck, died on the spot. She being pregnant, fell in 
 labour of King Robert II. ; the child or foetus was a 
 CiTsar. The operation being by an unskilful hand, his 
 eye being touched by the instrument, could not be cured ; 
 from which he was called King BLarie. This, according 
 to our historians, fell out in the year 131 7." Lord Hailes 
 has remorselessly demolished this tradition by the statement 
 of a few facts. Thus, Fordun and Major record the birth 
 of Robert II., but say nothingof the strange circumstances 
 associated with that event in the popular story. Barbour, 
 who wrote during the reign of that king, and Winton, 
 whose chronicle was compiled soon after the death of 
 Robert III., are wholly silent as to the matters related by 
 Crawfurd, and so also are Bellenden, Lesley, and 
 Buchanan. Hector Boece not only omits any mention of 
 this story, but expresses himself in words w'holly incon- 
 sistent with it. Speaking of Marjory Bruce, or Stewart, 
 he \\\it\\\AOXi'!, died leaving a son yet a child. But 
 
 why should this lady be called a Queen because her son 
 became a King fifty-seven years after her death, or why 
 should she be called Blear-eye because her son was so 
 nicknamed when advanced ir. life, having had a remark- 
 able "inflammation in one of his eyes? Lord Hailes 
 conjectures that Robert II. got the nickname of Blear-eye 
 subsequently to the death of Robert III., to distinguish 
 him from the latter, who was known as Robert /ara/y'«>, 
 or the late Robert. Hailes farther thinks it improbable 
 that the lady should have been hunting on horseback so 
 near the time of her confinement ; and that beingi 
 Roman Catholic, she was not likely to be so employed on 
 Shrove- Tuesday. See his Annals of Scotland, vol. ii., 
 pp. 339-344 ; see also Archaologia Scotica, pp. 456- 
 461. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 443 
 
 Some have been Sumamed from a remarkable part of their face which hath stuck to y" Pos- 
 terity of y* Eminent Person who first was designed soe, as y' Campbells from one who had a wry 
 mouth (for Camheoll signifys soe much in y* high-Land Scottish speech) but of late Ages since y 
 ffamily of Argile grew great eminent and civillized ; they have rejected y" surname of M'= Allen 
 Moore and spell themselves Campbells as de Campo belli ; being more Hon"° than the former 
 Asterick given them, but perhaps some of them may cleare y* point to which I am a stranger.^ 
 
 The Clan Camerons (A great family and very Antient in y^ sayd High Lands) yett retaine 
 theire Surnames, as originally put upon their cheife (y° words Signifys a crooked or wry'nose) & 
 think noe shame of it.^ 
 
 * To wJuch I am a stranger. — Campbells were 
 anciently known as Maccallums, being descended from a 
 great-grandson of Diarmuid O'Duibhne, an Irish chieftain, 
 who married the daughter of a Dalriadic king, in Scotland, 
 about the year 512. The chief or head of this clan was 
 invariably known as the Mnccallum I\Ior. The clan name 
 Campbell \s popularly believed to have had its origin as the 
 author states in the text ; but modern senachies and gene- 
 alogists of the Argyle family come forward witir a more 
 acceptable, if not a more correct, derivation. Buchanan of 
 Auchmarhas the following account of this surname, which 
 our author, no doubt, had heard in some shape or other, 
 but to which he evidently attached little or no importance: — 
 "Malcolm O'Duin (a grandson of Diarmuid O'Duibhne), 
 after his first lady's death, went to France, and married 
 the heiress of the Beauchamps, or, as in Datin, Campus 
 bello, being niece to the duke of Normandy. By her he 
 had two sons, Dionysius and Archibald, who, from the in- 
 heritance got with their mother, changed their surname 
 from Oduin to Campbell. Dionysius, the eldest, continued 
 in France, and was ancestor of a family, designed Camp- 
 bell, in that kingdom, of which family was Count Tallard, 
 a mareschal of France, carried prisoner to England in the 
 reign of Queen Anne, and divers others of quality. The 
 second brother came to Scotland, as some say, an officer 
 in William duke of Normandy's army, at his conquest of 
 England, anno 1066. And coming to Argyleshire, mar- 
 ried his cousin, Eva Oduin, daughter of Sir Paul Oduibhne 
 (surnamed aiisporran, 'of the purse,' knight of Lochow). 
 She being heiress of Loehow, and he having retained this 
 surname of Campbell, as did his successors, the whole clan 
 of Oduibhne, in a small tra'ct of time, in compliance with 
 their chief, a;,sunied that surname, as did many others in 
 this kingdom upon the lilce occasion." — Ancient Scottish 
 Stirnames, pp. 31, 32, Glasgow, 1820. The clan Camp- 
 bell came to include other smaller clans, who eventually 
 assumed the leading name, although for a time retaining 
 their own tribe names. "Many families and small tribes 
 of Breadalbane in the sixteenth centuiy renounced their 
 natural heads, and took Glenurchy (Campbell) for their 
 chief. Many more, in Argjde and the Isles, must have 
 suffered a change from awe of Macallummore."— Cosmo 
 Innes on Scotch Surnames, p. 24. This writer in his 
 Sketches of Early Scottish History, p. 374, has referred to 
 this fact as follows :— " We find families and small tribes 
 choose Glenurchy for their chief, sometimes renouncing 
 their natural head, and selecting him as leader and pro- 
 tector, yet retaining their own patronymical designatioas. 
 
 These new subjects bound themselves not only to pay the 
 allegiance of clansmen, but to give the 'caulp of kenkynie,' 
 the Celtic equivalent for the Heriot of feudal customs ; to 
 visit the chief's house with sufficient presents twice in the 
 year; to serve in 'hosting and hunting;' and to be ready at 
 all times 'to ride and go' in their lord's affairs." The 'ken- 
 kynie' was the ' kincogish' of the Irish. See p. 43, note 42, 
 supra. The ancient and distinguished family of Argyle has 
 for many centuries exercised a great influence over the West 
 Highlands and Isles of Scotland. Like so many others 
 of the Scoto-Irish lords, this family owed much of its ele- 
 vation to the gratitude of King Robert Brace, for faithful 
 services rendered to him in his perilous career. Hence 
 his extensive grants to sir Neill Campbell of Lochawe, or 
 Lochowe, from the lands forfeited by the Macdougalls of 
 Lorn, the Comyns, and other leading supporters of the 
 Balliol party. The marriage of sir Neill with lady Mary, 
 sister of Robert Brace, attached the Campbells still more 
 closely to the dynasty established by the latter. Early in 
 the fifteenth century, sir Duncan Campbell of Lochawe 
 was one of the wealthiest barons in Scotland. His grand- 
 son, Colin, created first earl of Argyle, was chancellor of 
 Scotland, and acquired the entire lordship of Lorn. At 
 the close of the previous century, the family of Argyle had 
 commenced to supplant — sometimes by force, and not un- 
 frequently by fraud — the great Macdonnell chiefs, and as- 
 sisted by the forfeitures of James IV., the Maccallum Mores 
 soon acquired an influence almost as great as ever had 
 been enjoyed by the Lords of the Isles. See Gregory's 
 Highlands a?id Isles of Scotland, p. 84. 
 
 7 And think no shame of it. — The more modern 
 Camerons are not satisfied with this account of their sur- 
 name, which they now derive from Cambro, a Dane, or 
 Nonvegian, who married the daugliter and heiress of a 
 Scottish chief named Mac Martin, proprietor of that part 
 of Lochaber, afterwards possessed by Lochiel, the repre- 
 sentative of the Clan Cameron. "Cambro not only 
 retained his own name upon his marriage of the heiress of 
 the Mac Martins, a very old clan, but also from his own 
 proper name transmitted the surname of Cameron to his 
 posterity, which, in a tract of time, becoming the more 
 powerful, the whole remains of the Mac Maitins went 
 into that surname. . . . The dependents on this 
 surname are a sept of the Mac Lauchlans, the Mac 
 Gelveils, Mac Lonnies, Mac Phails, or Pauls, and Mac 
 Chlericks, or Clerks, and some others. These are all 
 originally Cameron-." — B.ichann.n's Ancient Scottish 
 Surnames, pp. 94, 97. 
 
444 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Other Familys assumed Surnames from device which their founders had, in their respective 
 Coats Armorial], sheilds, Targetts, or Banners, (This distinction is more Antient than surname?), 
 which Y Eminent Leaders of Troops, Companys, Brigades, or Arrays, used ; thereby to be better 
 distinguished and resorted to, in y^ warrs, and so y' famous Uter y' victorious British prince^ is 
 always mentioned w"" addition of Pendragon9 y' is a dragons head, w'*" was painted in his Banner, 
 y' he advanced against y* Romans. Some A Lyon, A Beare, A City, or y^ Like in their sheilds, 
 thence came the surnames of Lyons, Fitzurslys,'° De Burgos, &c. The family of Howth are called 
 
 ^ Uter. victorious British prince. — Of this prince's 
 father we have the following notice: — "And then, when 
 the men of Rome refused the tribute from the Isle of 
 Britain, because they were weary of defending it, on 
 ascount of the many wars in which they were engaged, 
 they went to Armorica to procure a king, and there they 
 got Cystenin (Constantine), brother of Aldwr, king of 
 Armorica, and he came to this island, and was proclaimed 
 king of the Isle of Britain. He was a good and merciful 
 man, and had three sons, namely, Constans, Ambrosius 
 (Emrys), and Uthyr Pendragon; and he erected three 
 cities, Caer Wmber, Caer Wster, and Caer Angow. He 
 was called by some Constantine the Deliverer, by others 
 Constantine the Blessed." — The Cambro-Britoii, vol. iii., 
 p. 364. The descent of Uttyr Pendragon is given some- 
 what differently by different writers. See Camli. Biogr., 
 p. 340 ; Cymmrodorion Transactiois, vol. ii., p. 140. 
 In the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, vol. i. , p. 4,89, is 
 given as follows : — " Uther Pendragon, ab Texvdrig, ab 
 Teithwallt, ab Mynan, ab Urban, ab Edrig, ab Breiclmvy, 
 ab Meurig, ab Meirchion, ab Cwyron Vrych, ab Arthonels 
 ab Efinydd, ab Gorddwzyn, ab Gorug, ab Meirchion 
 Vawd Mi/ar, ab Owen, ab Cyiiillin, ab Caradog, ab 
 Bran." This prince Uthyr was appointed by the Britons, 
 to carry off the monumental pile from Kildare, in Ireland, 
 known throughout Britain as the Giants' Dance. "If 
 you are desirous," said Merlin, ''to honour the burial 
 place of these men w'ith an everlasting monument, send 
 for the Giants' Dance, which is in Killarous, a mountain 
 in Ireland. For there is a structure of stones there, which 
 none of this age could raise without a profound knowledge 
 of the mechanical arts. They are stones of a vast magni- 
 tude and wonderful quality, and if they can be placed 
 here, as they are there, quite round this spot of ground, 
 they will stand for ever." When Uthyr, with 15,000 men, 
 arrived in Ireland, for the purpose of carrying these stones 
 into Britain, Gillomanius, king of Ireland, on hearing 
 their errand, smiling, said to those around him : — "No 
 wonder a cowardly race of people (meaning the Saxons) 
 were able to make so great devastations in the island of 
 Britain, when the Britons are such brutes and fools. 
 Was ever the like folly heard of? What ! are the stones 
 of Ireland better tlian those of Britain, that our kingdom 
 must be put to this disturbance for them ? To arms, 
 soldiers, and defend your country; while I have life, they 
 shall not take from us the least stone of the Giants' Dance." 
 But Uthyr is represented as having actually succeeded in 
 his expedition, carrying off the vast monumental pile, 
 wliich is now the jjile long known as Stonehengc, near 
 Winchester. — Jeffry of Monmouth's British History, 
 translated by A. Thompson, 1 718, pp. 246, 248. 
 
 9 Pciidragon. — " During these transactions at Win- 
 
 chester, there appeared a star of wonderful magnitude, 
 darting forth a Ray, at the end whereof was a globe of 
 fire in the form of a Dragon, out of wh(jse mouth issued 
 forth two ra3's ; one of which seemed to stretch out itself 
 beyond the extent of Gaul, the other towards the Irish 
 Sea, and ended in seven lesser rays." On Uthyr asking 
 Merlin the meaning of this portent, the latter replied : — 
 " The star, and the fiery dragon under it, signifies your- 
 self; and the ray extending towards the Galilean coast 
 portends that you shall have a most potent son, to whose 
 power all those kingdoms shall be subject over which the 
 Ray reaches. But the other ray signifies a daughter, 
 whose sons and grandsons shall successively enjoy the 
 kingdom of Britain." So soon as Uther's brother, Am- 
 brosius, died, and was buried " in the Giant's Dance, 
 which in his lifetime he had commanded to be made," 
 Uther was crowned king of Britain in his stead. The 
 latter "commanded two Dragons to be made of gold, in 
 the likeness of the Dragon which he had seen at the ray 
 of the star. As soon as they were finished, which was 
 done with wonderful nicetj' of workmanship, he made a 
 present of one to the cathedral church of Winchester, but 
 reserved the other to himself, to be caiTied along with 
 him to his wars. From this time, therefore, he was called 
 Uther Pendragon, which, in the British tongue, signifies 
 the Dragon's Head : the occasion of this appellation being 
 Merlin's predicting, from the appearance of a dragon, 
 that he should be king." — ^Jeffry of Monmouth's British 
 History, pp. 253, 254, 255, 257. On the death of Uther, 
 his son Arthur became a king of great praise over thirtj' 
 kingdoms ; and he \^■as styled Emperor of Rome. He 
 \\'as one of the most praiseworthy sovereigns of the whole 
 world : the most generous, the most valiant, and tlie most 
 merciful. He loved and honoured Caerleon on the Usk 
 more than any other place ; and he erected many religious 
 houses and monasteries, and gave them endowments and 
 salaries, and these will last for ever." — The Camhro-Briton, 
 vol. iii., p. 364. 
 
 '° Fitz-Ursulys. — "Campion, who wrote in 1 567, says 
 that Mac Mahon signifies ihe Bear's son ; and Spencer, 
 who wrote in 1596, says that the Mac Mahons of the North 
 were descended from the Fitz- Ursulas or De- Veres, who 
 fled from England during the Barons' Wars against Rich- 
 ard II. To which sir Charles Coote adds, in his Statisti- 
 cal Account of the County of I\fonaghan, that their ancestor 
 had murdered St. Thomas a Becket ! For their true de- 
 scent, viz., from Mathgha/nhain, lord of Famey, who was 
 slain at Clones, A. D. 1022, .see .Shirley's Account of the 
 Dominion of Barney, p, 140." — A'^ote hy Dr. O'Donovan in 
 O'Daly's Tribes of Ireland, p. 49. The old sept of the 
 Mac Swines of Doe Castle bore a salmon with an open 
 hand on their Arms, and probably from Serein, the Welsh 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 445 
 
 S' Laurence from y' S*' Holyday, because thereon y* Predicessor (who then was eminent and of 
 another Surname) obtained a famous victory over y° Irish." But when Surnames came to be more 
 common, they were assumed divers ways, as from Trades, so came y" Carpenters, Taylors, Smiths, 
 Bakers, &c." Some from complexions as Whites, Reids, Greens, &c.'3 But the most affected and 
 antient way was when Rich men stiled themselves by their Lands, or y* y" same was allowed to them 
 as designations, in Princes Charters. Thus MalQolm y° 3'^'^ (nicknamed Canmoore) K : of Scotts, 
 universally did : reserving a certaine Rent payable to y° Crowne, on every one who so held of 
 him.''* Thus it continued, promiscously among all y° Kings Tenannts, so y' y° surnames of familys 
 in y* kingdom was hardly knowne, even amongst neighbours^, Till a late Act of Parliament there, 
 in K : Cha : y^ 2^^ Reigne, obleiged y° Gentry to write, name and S''name before y° stile of their 
 Lands, or cheife Seate, as an addition in all their subscriptions, to Letters, bonds, Leases, or other 
 deeds? for example, one family of Shaw, subscribed onely Greenock : but now they write S/iaw 0/ 
 
 for a salmon, originally drew their surname. Minor 
 branches used the porpoise or herring-hog on their crest ; 
 and in the old graveyard of Doe Castle there is a tomb 
 with a figure apparently intended to represent a common 
 swine cut on it. "In the centre of the Mac Swines' 
 country there is a huge table-topped mountain called 
 Aluckish, which, from a certain point at sea, exactly re- 
 sembles the back of a porpoise or herring-hog rising up to 
 blow." The sept name may have come to the Mac 
 Swines from this circumstance. The reader may see a 
 curious account of the modern representatives of this once 
 powerful race in Meehan's Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnd, 
 p. S01-4. 
 
 " Over the Irish. — Tristram ^■o& original surname 
 borne by the family of Howth, — a race well-known in 
 Britain long previously to the Anglo-Norman invasion of 
 Ireland. Chroniclers are not agreed as to the particular 
 circumstances under which this surname was dropped and 
 that of St. Laiorence adopted, some affirming that the 
 change was made by sir Armoricus Tristram, because of a 
 victory he had achieved on that saint's day over the Irish, 
 whilst others maintain that it was in consequence of a grand 
 defeat inflicted on the Danes by one of his descendants, who 
 had made avow to St. Lawrence, that if victorious, he would 
 take the saint's name, and transmit it to his descendants. 
 — Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, edited by Archdall, vol. iii. , 
 p. 180. Hanmer is of opinion that the change was ac- 
 complished from another and much more agreeable cause. 
 When speaking of De Courcy, he says: — "He served 
 King Henry the Second in all his warres, and in France 
 he met with a worthy knight, Sir Armoricus Tristeram, 
 who married Courcy his sister ; and whether it was de- 
 rived of the Ladies name, or for that they were married 
 on Saint Laiurenee day, ever after hee and his posterity 
 after him was called Sir Armoricus de Sancto Laurentio, 
 whence the Noble house of Howtli is lineally descended." 
 — Ckronicle of Ireland, p. 297. 
 
 " Bakers, &'e. — Among surnames derived from Trades 
 are Miller, Miilter (a gatherer of the multures or mill 
 dues), Walker (from the walking or fulling mill), Fuller, 
 Girdwood (from hooping barrels, in England Hooper), 
 Brander (shortened into Brand), Barker (from curing 
 skins), Tanner, Currier (now Curry), Skinner, Boucher 
 (Butcher, often in Scotland.^^x;'^;-) Brewster, Sitter, Webster, 
 Litster(wm Lister), Cook, Kitchener, Taylor, Turner, Sadler, 
 
 Lorimer (bridle-maker), Glover, Boyer, Bowman, Fletcher 
 (from Flechier, arrow-maker), Smith, Cowan, Harper, 
 &c., &c. See Scotch Surnames, by Cosmo Innes, pp. 
 29, 30- 
 
 '3 Reids, Greens, <&^c. — The principal surnames derived 
 from this source are Black, Blackie, Duff, White, Why- 
 tocks. Bane, Grey, Brotvn, Red or Peid, Ruddiinan, Gree/t, 
 Blue, Scarlett, Dunne, Glass. 
 
 So held of him. — Malcolm, surnamed Canmore, is 
 generally understood to have first introduced the feudal 
 system into Scotland. It differed essentially from the 
 patriarchal rule which had previously existed in that 
 countiy, and which, indeed, was peculiarly cherished by 
 the Celtic nations throughout all Europe. Under the 
 patriarchal system the several districts of the land 
 were governed by chiefs and Ceann-tighes, or heads of 
 families, the former constituting the executive, the latter 
 the judges and juries of the respective clans. No capital 
 punishments were permitted by this system, and the right 
 of "pit and gallows" was unknown in Scotland prior to 
 the accession of Malcolm. The feudal system is supposed 
 to have been the growth of the invasions and conquests of 
 the Goths and Vandals. When introduced into .Scotland, 
 it changed, very materially, the aspect of affairs in that 
 country, although the patriarchal rule continued to influ- 
 ence its people long after statutoiy enactments had become 
 general. But Malcolm Canmore being by the new 
 system constituted not only the fountain of all honour and 
 power, but, what was more important, the rightful owner 
 and inheritor of all the land, he was thus in a position to 
 grant it on his own terms and conditions. One of these 
 conditions was that mentioned in the text, namely, that 
 the grantee shoidd take the name of the land, which was 
 no doubt deemed a necessaiy stipulation, from the fact 
 that these grantees were at first in many instances 
 foreigners. The system, however, soon found favour 
 among the native chiefs and ceann-tighes, who, although 
 requiied to sink their family surnames, so as that such 
 were " hardly known even among neighbours," received 
 with the new system the " power of pit and gallows," and 
 were indeed constituted petty sovereigns in their several 
 districts. For a list of Scotch surnames derived from 
 Lands, see the Essay on Scotch Surnames by Cosmo 
 Innes, pp. 44-53- 
 
 K 2 
 
.446 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Greenock, Prefixing their christian name and allsoe word S' if they be of Knights degree. But 
 y° nobility subscribe onely y° Title of Honor to w"='" they are advanced by -f Kings Letters Pattents. 
 The former Custom of y° Lowland Scottish gentry was introduced in imitation of y" French (w"" 
 w"^*" nation there was Antieht and Strict confederacy of a long duration, from Carolus IIL even till y* 
 union of Great Brittain, under K : James Y first), they sendeing their eldest sonns into Ffrance for 
 Education and y* younger to serve y* kingdom in y' warrs, their marchants exchanging their 
 Children with their Correspondents mutually, to breed them to be the better factors for trade. 
 But I heare of noe Ffrench Surnames among them except the Montgomerys,'5 yet of other things there 
 is plenty of Ffrench names and Ffrench words allsoe : Here it is noteworthy. That K : David observes 
 how Rich men gave their names to their Lands & I think y* was a Custom (probably not new) 
 in his time soe to doe : we find in Scotland and elswhere in these Kingdomes that it is frequently 
 done. Instances thereof may bee had both in Elder and Later times. As Huston of Huston, Raudoa 
 of Raudon, Craffords Burn, Newtown Buttler, Mount Morrice, and many such.^^ I presume this 
 practice (now and then) was from a natural! desire to perpetuate their Surnames and memory w""" 
 Instances of (on failor of Issue male and familys,) might be distinct, (as in many mens Cases happens) soe y° 
 Oblivion would swallow them all upp, were it not for coats of Arms and such like preservatives of 
 Absolem's Surnames and familys which have been used, to y° Like Intent, as, first Traditions, then heaps of 
 Pillar. Stones, Crosses (as mortimers) Pillars'^ (as Seths and Rachells) monuments, oblesks, sepulchers, 
 b iildings. And, (w* is best of all) written Records were invented and made. Take here one 
 
 y= 11. 
 
 Except the Montgomcrys. — There must have been 
 many such, however, although in our author's time some 
 had been corrupted and others had altogether disappeared. 
 In reference to this point Cosmo Innes says: — "Of those 
 now extant only a few are the surnames imported from 
 Xormandy. The names of Bruce and Barclay, Lmdsay 
 and Sinclair, indeed, if not so great as tliey once were, 
 still mark houses of ancestral nobility. But how many 
 have gone down the stream of time, and left no trace ! 
 Take the single district of the Border. The Dc Vescis, the 
 De Morevilles, the De Viponts, De Normanvilles, the 
 Avenels, the Randolphs — greater than all, the De Balliols, 
 are names now unknown, even in the traditions of Tweed- 
 side, where their forefathers ruled as princes. I fear it is 
 ajainst Mr. Aytoun's theory of the high antiquity of .our 
 extant ballads, that these names are not found in them. 
 Only the De Sulises have had the fortune of being sung in 
 ].;order minstrelsy, where they are not represented amiably, 
 being of the unpopular, indeed, unpatriotic faction. The 
 other names have either disappeared, or have suffered a 
 c'lange of a curious kind. The grand old Norman name 
 of De Vesci is now Veitch. De Vere, once still greater, is 
 with us Weir. De Montealto has come through several 
 steps, till it has rested in the respectable but not illustri- 
 ous name of Mcnuut. De Monte-fixo is Aliischet. De 
 Vallilius — De Vaux — De Vaus — by the simple blunder of 
 turning a letter upside down, has assumed the shape of 
 Vans ; while De Belassize, carrying us back to the times 
 of the Crusaders, has, in our homely mouths, degenerated 
 into the less euphonious name of Belsches." — Scotch Sur- 
 names, pp. 8, 9. At p. 53, the same writer gives the fol- 
 lowing as " A few extant Scotch Family Names, derived 
 from places in England and Normandy : — Balliol, Bar- 
 
 clay, de Berkelai, Bethune, Beton, Beaton, Boyle, Bruce, 
 Brus, Bysset, de Byseth, Bisset, Campbell, Charterip, 
 de Chartreux, Cheyne, le Chene, Corbet, Cumin, Gum- 
 ming, Comyn, Grant, Graunt, le grand, Haig, Hamilton, 
 de Hambledon, Hay, de la Haye, Lindsay, de Linde- 
 seye, Lyle, De ITsle, Lovel, Maule, Montgomery, Mow- 
 bray, Mortimer, demortuo viari, Mowat, de vionte alto, 
 Muschet, de monte fixo, Muschamps, de Muschamp, 
 Noi-vel, de NoiTnanvil ?, Ramsay, de Rameseie, Russell, 
 Ross, Ros, Rose, de Roos, Sinclair, de Sancto Clare, 
 Somervil, .Summerville, Umphravil, de Umphraville, 
 de Vaux, Vaux, Vaus, Veitch, de Vesci, Vipont, de zeteri 
 ponte. Weir, de Vere." 
 
 A7id many such. — In these instances, here mentioned, 
 one is selected from Scotland, one from England, and 
 three from Ireland. In selecting Crawfordsbiirn for an 
 illustration, probably the author may refer to the place so 
 named near Greenock. See p. 138, note 54, supra. 
 
 '7 Pillars. — The custom of erecting some description 
 of monument seems to be coeval with the human race. 
 In very early times — stretching far beyond the reach of 
 any records — upright stones were used to mark the last 
 resting-places of human bodies. In the simplest state 
 of society, and where there were but comparatively few 
 human beings, it was deemed enough to erect the 
 unhewn and unsculptured pillar, which, when assisted 
 by local tradition, would no doubt hand do\\'n to 
 many succeeding generations the remembrarc; of the 
 person whose grave it indicated. These pillar stones, 
 which were set up just as they had been raised from the 
 ground or taken from the quarry, are found throughout 
 Europe, Asia, and Africa. In later times the cusiom 
 prevailed of using symbolical figures, having reference to 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 447 
 
 Famous Instance and Proof of this practice, viz., The Inscription on a great leaden Cross (buryed 
 
 with and made for K : Arthur who instituted y" Round Table- Kn*°) found in the Isle of Ely reported 
 
 by Camden to have been dugg upp there, which Lay 15 or 16 foot under Ground. The words were 
 
 Hie facet Inclitus Rex Arturius sepidtus in Insula Avalonia.^^ But among other (beside y° afore- 
 
 sayd) ways how Surnames have stuck to persons and from them been derived to their Posteritys 
 
 and soe a new family (as it were) created, w"*" can claim no Pedigree is y' of giveing Surnames to 
 
 children disowned by their parents and found Layd in Church Porches, or elswhere to be taken up 
 
 and reared at y° Parish Charge : which I have heard was y° Lord Cravens Ancestor his case, so 
 
 found in y*towne bearing y* name. '5 Other Instances of other divers ways to y° purpose aforesayd, 
 
 I willingly pass over : because the premisses are fforraigne to my intended designe, which is not 
 
 general but speciall, and it being without my reach to Asscertaine whence the origin of y° Mont' 
 
 gomerys (in y° province of Normandy) is deduced, as being a Stranger to the Records y* y' Count 
 
 of y* surname may have & to what y° Ffrench Historys, (except Du Serres, de Girard and others) deGirard 
 
 or heralds, may mention thereof, viz : whether y° family are native Gauls and homologized (in their ^'^^ others. 
 
 stile) witli y° Normans : or came in with them into y' Contry (now called Normandy from y* Col- 
 
 lony, who transmigrateing from y" North part (perchance Danemark or Swedland) seated themselves 
 
 there. ^° I must lay that matter aside and not debate nor determinit : being, at present, totally Igno. 
 
 the buried persons by way of identification; but even then 
 the human mind still seems to have clung ^to this simplest 
 and earliest form of monument, these figures, including 
 that of the cross, being sculptured on the face of the 
 upright stone. There are rare instances, but of a much 
 later date, in which the pillar assumes the shape of the 
 cross. Indeed the original pillar "form survives more or 
 less throughout all ages, and in every variety of tomb, 
 even the most elaborate — whether as cairn, pyramid, 
 obelisk, or headstone. 
 
 In Insula Avalonia. — The following is Speed's ac- 
 count : — "When Henry the Second, and first Plantagenet, 
 had swaied the English scepter to the last of his raigne, 
 it chanced him at Penbrooke to heare sung to the Harpe 
 certain Ditties of the Worthy Exploits and Acts of this 
 Arthur (by a Welsh Bard, as they were termed, whose 
 custome was to record and sing at their feasts the noble 
 deeds of their ancestors), wherein mention was made of 
 his death and place of burial, designing it to be in the 
 Church-yard of Glastenbuiy, and that betwixt two pyra- 
 mides therin standing : Whenipou King Heniy caused the 
 ground to bee digged, and at seuer. foot depth_was found a 
 huge broad stone, wherein a leaden Crosse was fastned, 
 and in that side that lay downward, in rude and barba- 
 rous letters (as rudely set and contriued) this inscription 
 written vpon that side of the Lead that was towards the 
 stone : — 
 
 "Hie Jacet S^pultus Rex Arthnrius in Insula. Avalonia. 
 "Here lietii King Artltnr buried in the He of Avalonia." 
 
 "And digging nine foot deeper, his body was foimd in 
 the trunk of a Tree, the bones of great bignesse, and in 
 his scull perceived ten wounds, the last very great, and 
 plainely seene. His Queene Gueneuer, that had been neere 
 kinswoman to Cador duke of Cornwall, a Lady of passing 
 beauty, lay likewise by him, whose tresses of haire finely 
 platted, and in colour like the gold, seemed perfect and 
 
 whole vntill it was touched, but then (bewraying what all 
 beauties are) shewed it selfe to be dust. Giraldus Cam- 
 breiisis, a worthy author and an eye-witnesse, is the re- 
 porter of this finding of Arthurs bones. And the Crosse 
 of Leade with this inscription, as it was found and takei: 
 off the stone, was kept in the Treasury of Reuester of Glas- 
 tenbury Church, saith Stowe, till the suppression thereof 
 in the raigne of King Henry the Eight, whose forme and 
 rude letters we haue here expressed to thy sight. [Here 
 follows a drawing of the Cross.] The bones of King 
 Arthur and Queene Guenauer his wife, by the direction of 
 Ilony de Bloys, nephew to King Henry the Second, and 
 Abbat of Glastenbury, at that present, were translated 
 into the great new church, and there in a faire Tombe of 
 Marble, his body was laid, and his Queenes at his feete ; 
 which noble monument among the fatall ouerthrowes of 
 infinite more, was altogether raced at the dispose of some 
 then in commission ; whose too forward zeale and ouer- 
 hasty actions in these behalfes, hath left vnto us a want of 
 many truths, and cause to wish that some of their imploy- 
 ments had beene belter spent.'' — Chronicles, pp. 271-273. 
 
 '9 Bearing yt name. — See Camden's Britannia, trans- 
 lated and enlarged by R. Gough, vol. iii., p. 280. 
 
 ™ Seated themselves there. — Count Roger Montgomery, 
 who came to England in the year 1068 (and not in 1066, 
 as is generally supposed), had a son also named Roger, 
 who spoke of himself and his father in the act of founda- 
 tion for the Abbey of Troarn, as follov/s: — "Ego Ro- 
 gerius ex Normannis Normannus, Magni autem Rogerii 
 filius." See Eraser's Memorials, vol. i., p. I. In these 
 words Montgomery undoubtedly claimed for himself a 
 Scandinavian descent, although sir Francis Palgrave, on 
 the authority of the Monk of Jumieges, stoutly contests this 
 point in his history of Normandy and England, chap, v., 
 p. 28, as follows: — "He (Roger) designated himself as 
 Northmannns Northmanttorum, but for all practical 
 
448 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 rant thereof : but what I have read of y' Surname in France shall be remembered, after mention hath 
 been made of y" Montgomerys Familys in England, Scotland, and Ireland. However for y« Honor: 
 of y= nation in Genr", Let it be known (to all men) that there is at this day, the Tytle of a Count 
 or Earle (ye Dignity is all one tho ye words bee of divers Languages, in latin called Comes) in all 
 his Matyes four Kingdomes. viz. Count de Montgomery in Ffrance, Earle of Montgomery in Eng- 
 land, Earle of Eglinton in Scotland, and Earle of Mount Alexander in Ireland : The like wliereof 
 cannot be truly sayd (as I believe) of any other Surname in all y^ world. Now if any object 
 y' there is noe Montgomery Surname of an Earles dignity in England, and y' therefore my propo- 
 sition is untrue, I answer, first y all Tytles of Honor are in place and often used as Surnames to 
 keep memory of y° familys & their Surnames who by matches conveyed estates to theire Pos- 
 teritys and in this case (I have been told) y' y° Herberts succeed to y' Tytle as well as they retaine 
 Conway and theire former Tytle of Penbro or Penbroch, and doe write Penbroch and Montgomery. I am Sure 
 Kilultagh. Eglinton does so on y' account : as appeares in y° sequell of this Treatis. Item : I say in answer 
 to y* s'' objection, y' it is well known y' Bipps (toties quoties) as they are removed (they call it 
 translated) from one Sea to another, they subscribe (as for example) Dunnensis, Clogerensis, 
 Midensis, Armachanus, etc., which is in memory of their Bppricks and of y° names given them, 
 & so these denominations becom their pper Surnames (quatenus Episcopi) dureing their Sitting in 
 those Cathedralls : Then again to make y° proposition more apparent Truth, I say; y' there is y* 
 Title and hath been an Earle of y* Montgomerys Surname in those four illustrious Kingdomes : 
 and three of those familys very ancient (as will appeare hereafter), which (as for ought I know) is 
 without a Paralell in y° world. 
 
 Reader ! Undertakeing at Present (as memory and a few notes now by me will assist) to write 
 of y° Montgomerys of England I might ascend as High as y° Conquest ; for Then it was yt this 
 Surname came over with W"' Duke of Normandy, to abett his Title to y° Crowne of y' Kingdome, 
 4o°^no 3*7 Speed avers. That Roger De Montgomery Ledd y° vantgard of K. w™'^ Army at y« bloody 
 
 batle-bridge. bataile which gained him England," I crave leave to presume that this Hon'''^ person was not the 
 
 purposes he was a Frenchman of the Frenchmen, 
 though he might not like to own it. This an- 
 cestral reminiscence must have resulted from some pe- 
 culiar fancy; no Montgomery possessed or transmitted any 
 memorials of his Norman progenitors." But thus to set 
 aside count Roger's distinct assertion of his Norman de- 
 scent, some evidence would be necessary. Although the 
 family was not known in Normandy before the conquest of 
 that province by RoUo, or " Hrolf the Ganger," it may 
 have come there in some previous invasion from the north, 
 a supposition rendered highly probable by the readiness — 
 even the delight — with which the Montgomerys evidently 
 welcomed the coming of Hrolf. The facts, too, of the 
 Montgomei7s having retained their landed possessions 
 undisturbed by the northern conquerors, and of their 
 having soon fonned marriage alliances with the family of 
 Hrolf, lead to the same conclusion. Professor Le Heri- 
 cher, of the College of Avranches, referring to Roger 
 Montgomery's statement above-mentioned, remarks that 
 from it "we can see that if the language of the Scandi- 
 navians was then forgotten in Normandy, the pride of the 
 
 race was not." See Ulster Journal of Archceology, vol. 
 ix., p. 293. 
 
 Gained him England. — The passage in Speed occurs 
 in the eighth, not tenth book, as here stated in the 
 margin. The page, and number of the section, are cor- 
 rectly referred to by the author. In this passage, Speed, 
 when speaking of Harold on the day of the battle, says: — 
 " His enemies Vauward was led by Roger of Mount- 
 gomeiy and William Fitz-Osbeme, the same consisting 
 of horsemen out of Anjou, Perch, and little Brittaine." 
 This Montgomery was probably a young soldier, and son 
 to the then representative of the family. The father was 
 not present in the battle of Hastings, and did not come 
 to England until the year 1068. The Conqueror visited 
 Normandy in that year, and on his return to England, 
 we are told by Ordericus Vi.alis, the best authority on 
 this point, that "he was attended by Roger de Montgo- 
 mery, who, at the time of his former expedition to invade 
 England, was left, with his wife, governor of Normandy. 
 The king first conferred on him the earldoms of Chichester 
 and Anmdel, and after a time made him earl of Shrews- 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 449 
 
 Cheife of his Family (to witt y° Count de Montgomery, but rather his Uncle or Brother) because 
 he is not designed as such a count, and for y' he was advanced to y° Title of an Earle'^in Eng- 
 land, and had lands given him by y° Conquerour, and that his three sonns allsoe enjoyed y° Same 
 successively, and now remaining and residing in England, whereas the count Mon-Gomerys family 
 was then, & still is, of y' degree in Normandy : to w"*" (as it is reported) he was remanded, to y* 
 Administration of y° government of y' turbulent Dukedom, whilst K: W" was obleiged to stay and 
 settle his affaires and prosecute his victory in England. =^ 
 
 Camden denotes of this Roger y' y° City of Shrewsbury (inter alia) being by K: W" given him, In his 
 Hee pulled downe Fifty houses and built a Strong Castle on y° north side thereof, on a Riseing Rock,^3 p "^^""'^" 
 w°^ his 2.^ son Robert Montgomery de Belesm & (soe called from y^ place of his nativity as Edw"' of 
 Carnarvan, and other English Kings were in like manner surnamed), walled it about on y' side, 
 where it was not fenced with y° River : when as he revolted from K: Henry y° first in behalfe of Duke 
 Robert (commonly called y° Curt Hose) eldest Son of y° conquerour,^4 w* Castle (says he) hath 
 not been heard to have suffered assault or Hostility, but once in y° Barons warrs agt K: John. 
 Camden further says y' this Roger was created y° first Earle of Shrewsbury and had most of y" 
 Lands, in y' Shire, allotted to him.^5 And y' after him Succeeded his eldest Son Hugh,''^ ye 2'' ^ 
 Earle, mentioned by Speed to be killed by an arrow shott in his Right Eye repulsing y^ Norwegians 
 who Landed and were beaten in Anglesey, as hereafter shall bee more fully related. 
 
 In A° 1652 I saw in Westminster abby wall this Rogers coat of Arms and name Avritten under 
 
 bury." — Bohn's Edition of Ordericus Vitalis^ Ecclesiastical 
 History, vol. ii., p. 14. 
 
 Victory in England. — The author would seem to 
 argue in this sentence that the count and the earl were 
 two distinct persons, but the Roger de Montgomery 
 created earl of Shrewsbury in England was undoubtedly 
 count of Belesme and Alen9on in Normandy through his 
 wife, Mable de Belesme. — Ordericus Vitalis, vol. ii., p. 
 48, note 2. " This earl," says the same historian, "was 
 wise, moderate, and a lover of justice; and cherished the 
 gentle society of intelligent and unassuming men. For a 
 long time he had about him three well-informed clerks — 
 Godebald, Odelirius (father of Ordericus Vitalis), and 
 Herbert — whose advice he followed with great advantage. " 
 The earl had by his first wife (Mabel) five sons and four 
 daughters — viz., I. /v'i'&r/, count of Belesme and Alen9on; 
 2. Hugh de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury; 3. Roger 
 of Lancaster; 4. Philip, the grammarian, who died at the 
 siege of Antioch in the first ciusade ; 5. Armilph de 
 Montgomery, keeper of Pembroke castle. His daughters 
 were — I. Emma, abbess of Almenesches, who died on 
 4th of March, 1 1 13; 2. Matilda, wife of Robert earl of 
 iVIorton, half brother of the Conqueror; 3. Mabel, who 
 married Hugh lord of Chateauneuf. and was alive in 
 1131; 4. Sybil, wife of Robert Fitz-Hamon, lord of 
 Tewkesbury. On the death of Mabel, his first wife, 
 count Roger married Adeliza, daughter of Everhard du 
 Puiset, by whom he left one son, Everhard, who became 
 one of the royal chaplains. — Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. 
 History, vol. ii. , pp. 48, 1 95, and 7iote. 
 
 "3 On a Riseing Rock. — This reference is to the edition 
 of Camden's Britannia, published by Holland in 1637. 
 
 Shrewsbury arose from the ruins of the ancient Uricojiium 
 or Wroxeter. Camden states that ' ' Roger de Montgomery 
 first built the beautiful and strong castle overhanging the 
 Corve, and afterwards added walls, which include near a 
 mile in extent." This "Riseing Rock" stands at the 
 confluence of two streams known in Camden's time as the 
 Temd and the Corve. — Camden's Britannia, translated 
 by Gough, vol. iii., p. 3. 
 
 Eldest son of ye conquerour. — Robert was the eldest 
 son of Roger Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury. During 
 this revolt Robert walled round the side of Shrewsbury 
 castle where it was not defended by the river. On the 
 suppression of the revolt, Robert de Belesme was attainted, 
 and Henry I. kept the castle to himself, which was 
 afterwards known as the Prince's Palace. — Camden, 
 Britannia, vol. iii. p. 3. Robert, eldest son of the Con- 
 queror, was surnamed Curtoise, or Curt-Hose. 
 
 =5 Allotted to him. — Camden's Britannia, vol. iii., p. 9. 
 
 ^ Eldest Son Hugh. — Ordericus Vitalis, a better 
 authority in this matter than Camden, states (vol. ii., p. 
 195) that Hugh de Montgomery, who succeeded his 
 father, was the second son. He became second earl of 
 Shrewsbury in 1094. 
 
 =7 More fully related.' — See Speed's chronicles, 1632, p. 
 445. Ordericus Vitalis, vok ii., p. 203, thus notices the 
 same occurrence: — "Hugh de Montgomery succeeded to 
 the earldom of Shrewsbury, but some years afterwards he 
 was pierced by the stroke of a javelin by Magnus, brother 
 of the King of Norway, and died on the sea-shore ; but 
 his corpse was conveyed to Shrewsbury with great 
 lamentations, and buried by the monks in the abbey 
 cloister," 
 
450 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 it, as benefactor to y= buildings thereof, he was in rank or place y* 7*'' or S**" (as I remember) among 
 y' Contributors to y« s'^ building, or to y= convent thereof, but in A° 1644 I found that his name 
 and Arms, and all y^ rest (above 40 Ancient noblemens) were wholly razed out, as writeings (on a 
 stone table booke) are with a wett Sponge. 
 
 Cambden reports further yt Rogers 2^ Son, y sayd Robert de Belesme, being a cruell man to 
 his Hostages and to his owne Sons (whome he guelded and whose eyes he pluckt out, with his own 
 hands) was convict of High Treason, yett kept in perpetuall Prison by K: Henry y' i"* of y' name.** 
 I suppose this rigour (to his Sons) might be occasioned by their Cowardice, disobedience, neglect 
 of orders, or loss of Battaile^s (as strange Severitys (on like accounte even to y« inflicting of death by 
 Parents on Sons) hath been practiced by Roman Gen"', by Slrongbow &c.3° Saul allsoe, for a 
 
 \si of yt name. — Robert de Belesme was eldest, not 
 second son of Roger de Montgomery. Camden describes 
 him as "a man of savage cruelty, both to his own children 
 and to his hostages, whom he deprived of their eyes and 
 testicles with his own hands; but being at last convicted 
 of high treason, was condemned to perpetual imprison- 
 ment by Henry I. , and suffered the punishment due to his 
 atrocious crimes. " " Robert de Belesme was of a subtle 
 genius, deceitful and wily; in person he was stout, and of 
 great strength; intrepid and formidable in war; he was a 
 fluent speaker, but desperately cruel; his avarice and lust 
 were insatiable; he was an able manager of important 
 affairs, and toiled with the utmost patience through the 
 greatest earthly trials; he displayed great skill in con- 
 structing buildings and machines, and other difficult works, 
 and inexorable cruelty in tormenting his enemies." 
 Ordericus Vitalis, Eccles. History, vol. ii., p. 458. "The 
 character of this extraordinary man, whose great talents 
 distinguished him from most of the turbulent nobles of 
 that age, seems to have inspired all the contemporary 
 historians with horror. Henry of Huntingdom says, 
 'He was a very Pluto, Megaera, Cerberus, or anything 
 you can conceive still more horrible,' and gives details of 
 his cruelties, wliich are omitted by Ordericus. William 
 of Malmesbury particularly enlarges on the powers of 
 dissimulation, by means of which liis victims became his 
 prey." — Huntingdon's Letters to Warin, p. 31 1; and 
 Malineslury History, Bohn's edition, p. 432, as quoted in 
 Forester's Note, at p. 458 of Ordericus. Robert de 
 Belesme on being finally captured by Henry I., and 
 "not being able to clear himself of the countless and 
 enormous iniquities of which he was guilty, both against 
 God and the king, was, by the just judgment of the royal 
 court, thrown into the strictest confinement." He was 
 imprisoned first in Cherbourg, and afterwards at Warham 
 castle iu Norfolk, where he ended his days. — Ibid, vol. 
 iii. , p. 442, and note. This distinguished criminal is sup- 
 posed to have starved himself to death in his dungeon, 
 probably to escape some impending doom which would 
 have been more horrible. 
 
 ^9 Or loss of Battaile.- — It should be observed that the 
 atrocities here ascribed to Robert de Belesme are not men- 
 tioned among the catalogue of his crimes by the historian 
 Ordericus. This Montgomery was an inveterate enemy 
 of monks in general, and his reputation, therefore, would 
 not be in safe keeping in the hands of such chroniclers as 
 Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury. 
 
 Robert de Belesme appears to have inherited his mother's 
 violent and rapacious dispositions. Of the circumstances 
 connected with her death, Ordericus has the following 
 notice: — "At last the righteous Judge, who spares re- 
 pentant sinners, but exercises vengeance on the impenitent, 
 permitted that cruel woman, who had caused many great 
 lords to be disinherited and to beg their bread in foreign 
 lands, to fall herself by the sword of Hugh, from whom 
 she had wrested his castle on the rock of Ige, thus unjustly 
 depriving him of the inheritance of his fathers. In the 
 extremity of his distress, he undertook a most audacious 
 enterprise ; for with the assistance of his three brothers, 
 who were men of undaunted courage, he forced an entry 
 by night into the chamber of the countess, at a placed 
 called Bures, on the Dive, and there in revenge for the 
 loss of his inheritance, cut off her head, as she lay in bed, 
 just after enjoying the pleasures of the bath. The death 
 of this cruel lady caused much joy to many persons ; and 
 the perpetrators of this bold deed instantly took the road 
 to Apulia. Hugh de Montgomery, who was then in the 
 place with sixteen men-at-arms, on hearing of his mother's 
 murder, instantly pursued the assassins, but was unable to 
 come up with them, as they had taken the precaution to 
 break down behind them tlie bridge over which they had 
 crossed the river, to prevent them falling into the hands of 
 Mabel's avengers." — Eccles. History, vol. ii., p. 194. 
 
 '° By Strongboiu, &t=c. — This act of Richard earl of 
 Pembroke, surnamed Strongbow, is related by Hanmer 
 as follows : — " This Richard had issue by his first wife a 
 Sonne, a fine youth, and a gallant stripling, who following 
 his fatlier with some charge in battaile array, as he passed 
 by Idrone in Leinster, to relieve Robert Fitz-Stephens in 
 Wexford, upon the sight and ciy of the Irishmen, when 
 his father was in cruell fight, gave back with his company, 
 to the great discouragement of the hoste, yet the Earle got 
 the victory, and commanded with the teares in his cheekes, 
 tliat his son should be cut in the middle with a sword for 
 his cowardice in battaile ; he was buried in the church of 
 the blessed Trinitie in Dublin, where now his fiither resteth 
 by his side, and caused the cause of his death for an Epi- 
 taph to be set over him — 
 
 Nate ivgrate vtihi pugttanti terga dedisti, 
 Non j:u/ti, sed genii regno qiiogiw terga dedisti. 
 ' My Sonne unkinde didst flye the field, the father fighting hard, 
 Nor me, nor English birth didst weigh, nor kingdom didst regard.' 
 
 How the son pleaded with his father for the place of ser- 
 vice, and how the father answered, Sianilmrst hath many 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 451 
 
 Slender unwitting omission would have destroyed Jonathan. Allsoe he says yt this Rob' had a Cambden 
 younger brother named Arnulph de Montgomery, who succeeded as 4"' E: of Shrewsbury, who P- ^5i- 
 fortified the Town of Penbro (so Welshmen call Penbroch) w"* a Castle Stakes and Turfes, w"*" 
 was defended by Gerald of Windesore against all y« Welshmen of South Wales . . . and y* 
 . . . the Family of Carews of Carew Castle in this Tract, avouch themselves, to have been 
 called (aforetimes) de Montgomerys, and y' they are descended from y« sayd Arnulph.3' 
 
 Cambden allsoe describeing Montgomery Shire (which and Radnor were first made Shires in p ggj^ 
 K: Henry y° 8"' Reigne by Parliament) sayth y' much of y* Lands here and thereabouts, were 
 
 circumstances hereof, and delivered, that his own father in 
 his fury, and in the face of the enemy, cut him off, and 
 marvaileth that Cambrensis would conceale it, and in the 
 end taketh it as a matter of tmth, both by the testimony 
 of the Tombe in Christ Church, as also by the industry of 
 Sir Henry Sidney, Knight, a great favourer of Antiquities, 
 in preserving the same, to the knowledge of posterity." — 
 The Chronicle of Ireland, p, 293, 294. Richard, surnamed 
 Strongbow, was son of Gilbert earl of Pembroke, who 
 was son of Gilbert of Tunbridge, who was son of Richard, 
 who was son of Gilbert earl of Brion. A charter granted 
 by Strongbow to Adam de Erford, is still preserved among 
 the muniments of th(f Ormond family, which is accounted 
 for by the fact that Thomas de Hereford married Beatrix, 
 only daughter of Theobald Butler, thus establishing a 
 connexion between the families of Butler and de Hereford, 
 the latter of which soon became extinct in Ireland." See 
 yournal of the Kilkenny and Soittli-Easi of Ireland Arcliao- 
 logical Society, old series, vol. i., p. 502. 
 
 31 From ye sayd Arnulph. — Arnulph was fourth son of 
 Roger de Montgomery, and is generally described as 
 keeper of Pembroke castle. He also built Carew castle 
 in the same neighbourhood. Ordericus, Eccles. History, 
 vol. ii. , p. 203, says, "The prudent old earl obtained earl- 
 doms for his two remaining sons, Roger and Arnulph, 
 who, after his death, lost them both for their treasonable 
 practices in the reign of King Henry" (the First). The 
 same writer, vol. iii., p. 33, in speaking of the four 
 younger sons of the first Roger, says — "Roger, Arnulph, 
 Philip, and Everard, had no share in their father's inherit- 
 ance, the two eldest brothers (Robert and Hugh) having 
 divided the whole, as well on this side of the sea as the 
 other (in England and Normandy). However, Roger 
 and Arnulph, who ranked high among their countrymen 
 as knights and men of worth, by their father's advice, 
 married noble wives, procured for them by him, and both 
 were made earls, and for some time were distinguished 
 for their power and wealth ; but before their death, they 
 forfeited for their treason the honours and estates they had 
 acquired." Roger married the countess of March, being 
 hence known as oiPoitou. Arnulph married the daughter 
 of an Irish prince. Roger had large grants in Lanca- 
 shire, and Arnulph in Pembrokeshire, but it is doubtful 
 whether they were ever created earls. Their forfeiture 
 was incurred by their having (in common with their eldest 
 brother Robert), espoused the cause of Robert Curt-Hose 
 in 1 102. The following is the account of Camden to 
 which the author refers in the text: — "Upon the inner- 
 more and east creeke of this Haven, in the most pleasant 
 country of all Wales, standeth Penbroke, the Shire-towne, 
 one direct street upon a long narrow point, all rocke, and 
 
 a forked arme of Milford Haven, ebbing and flowing 
 close to the towne walles on both sides. It hath a castle, 
 but now ruinate, and two Parish churches within the 
 wals. But heare Giraldus who thus describes it— 'A 
 tongue of the sea shooting forth of Milford Haven, in 
 the forked end, encloseth the principall towne of the 
 whole country and chiefe place of Dimetia seated upon 
 the ridge of a certine craggy and long shaped rock : and 
 therefore the Britains call it Penbro, which signifieth as 
 much as a head of the sea ; and we, in our tongue Pen- 
 broke. Arnulph of Montgomery, brother to Robert Earle 
 of Shrewsbury, first in the time of King Henry the first 
 forfeited this place with a Castle, a very weake and slender 
 thing, God wot, of stakes and turfes, which, afterwards, 
 he returning into England, delivered unto Gerald of 
 Windsor, his constable and captaine, to bee kept with a 
 garrison of few souldiers; and immediately the Welshmen 
 of all South Wales laid Siege to the Castle.' But such 
 resistance made Girald and his company, more upon a 
 resolute courage than with any forcible strength, that they 
 
 missed of their pui^pose and dislodged 
 
 All those noble families of Giralds or Giraldines in Ireland, 
 whom they call Fitzgerald, fetch their descent from the 
 
 said Girald Upon another creeke 
 
 also of this haven, Carew Castle sheweth itselfe, which 
 gave both name and originall to the notable family 
 de Carew, who avouche themselves to have beene called 
 aforetime de Alontgomery ; and have beene perswaded, 
 that they are descended from that Arnulph de Montgo- 
 mery of whom I spake erewhile." — Britannica, edition of 
 1637, pp. 651, 652. The life of Sir Peter Carew, by John 
 Vovvell, alias Hooker, informs us that "his proper and 
 ancient name is Mongomeroye, but by reason that one 
 Eugenius his ancester did marry one Eugarthe, the 
 daughter of f-lhesius. Prince of Wales, and thereby made 
 baron of the castle of Carrewe, in the county of Pembroke, 
 the name of honor in course of time became to be the 
 name of the family, and so the natural and proper name 
 of Mongomeroy grew into the name of Carrewe." — 
 Calendar of tlie Carew Manuscripts, Ixxii., edited by 
 Brewer and Bullen, 1S67. See also Holiinshed, vi. , 376. 
 In Iioi, Arnulph Montgomery married a daughter of 
 Murtagh O'Brien, king of Munster; but the Irish, after 
 their defeat of Magnus king of Norway, attacked their 
 Norman allies, and determed to kill Arnulph. The latter, 
 "discovering the execrable frauds of this barbarous 
 people, made his escape to his countrymen, and lived for 
 nearly twenty years afterwards without having any settled 
 abode. At last, in his old age, having been reconciled 
 with the king, to outward appearances at least, he married, 
 and on the morrow of his nuptials fell aSleep after a 
 
452 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 given to ditto Roger de Montgomery, & he built y« Town and Castle of Montgomery, which his sayd 
 Son Robert forfeited, to K: Hen: ye i"', who gave them unto Baldwin Bellers, in marriage with his 
 niece Sybill de Ffalais. It is now possessed by y« Lord Herbert of Cherbury, descended from 
 S"' Herbert y^ first E: of Penbroch.32 
 
 The Welshmen (in spight to y« Surname of Montgomery for y= sayd Rob*" sake, who roughly 
 handled them) doe (even since y' grant) call it Trebaldwin, i.e. Baldwin's Towti.33 
 
 Now as to Hugh y« Eldest Son of Roger aforesayd, and so ye E: of Shrewsbury : I find in 
 Speeds History y' he and Hugh Lupus E: of Chester, under K. W™ Rufus, did Conquer Anglesey, 
 and did use great Cruel tys and Barbaritys therein ; At which time Magnus K: of Nonvay (son of 
 Olaus, who was y« Son of Harold Harfager) haveing Conquered Orknay Islands, Essayed to land 
 here, but by the sayd two Earls was repelled, and in y« Conflict Hu: Montgomer}' was shott in his 
 right Eye (as afores*) whereof he died in eight dayes. A Just Judgment of God upon him, because 
 his eye had noe pitty to spare y* poor Brittish, whose women and children (as well as men) fought 
 bravely (to admiration) in theire owne defence. 3* 
 
 banquet, and shortly expiring, left the guests to listen to 
 funeral dirges instead of an epithalamium." — Ordericus 
 Vitalis, vol. iii., p. 351. Robert Montgomery, son of 
 Arnulph (his father having been expelled from Ireland, 
 and the family possessions lost in England), retired to 
 Scotland, where he obtained lands fi-om Walter the 
 Steward, and was the first of his surname known in the 
 latter kingdom. — Eraser's Memorials, vol. i., p. 8. 
 
 3^ First E: of Penbroch. — Camden describes the castle 
 and town of Montgomery as situated not far from the east 
 bank of the river Severn " on the rising of a Rocke, having 
 a pleasant plaine under it." " The Englishmen," he con- 
 tinues, named the Castle Montgomery, and the Latines 
 Moits Gomericus, of Roger de Montgomery, Earle of 
 Shrewsbury ; who winning much land hereabout from the 
 Welsh, built it, as wee find in Doomsday hooke. But, 
 when his son Robert was attainted for Rebellion, King 
 Henry the Eirst gave this Castle, and the honour of Mont- 
 gomery, to Baldwin Bellers in marriage with Sybill oj 
 Palais his Niece. . . . Now the Herberts are here 
 seated, branched out from a brother of Sir William Her- 
 bert, the first Earle of Penbroke of that name." — Britan- 
 nia, editition of 1637, pp. 661, 662. 
 
 33 Baldwins Town. — An heir of Baldwin claimed this 
 property in the reign of Henry HL, that monarch having 
 raised up the castle from the ruins in which it had long 
 previously been permitled to lie. He granted a free bur- 
 rough to be called Montgomery. 
 
 V. In their oavn defence. — Hugh Montgomery was the 
 second, not the eldest son of Roger de Montgomery. (See 
 p. 449, supra.) The passage in Speed here referred to by 
 the author is as follows :— " But bearing a minde still to 
 subdue all Wales, he had first in his eye the iland Angle- 
 sey, against which he sent Hugh Montgomery Earle of 
 Shrewesbury, and Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester, who 
 there executed their conquests with very great cruelty, 
 cutting off the noses, arms, and hands of their resisters, 
 without regard of Age or Sexe, nor sparing either places 
 or Persons, sacred or profane. At which very time it 
 chanced Magnus King of Norway, the son of Olanus, 
 (the Sonne of Harold Harfager) to haue made his conquest 
 
 on the Isles of Orkeney, and then wafting along the seas, 
 sought to come on land in Anglesey, whom to impeach, 
 these Earles made all their powers : where Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, armed at all parts, but only the sight of his Beuer, 
 was shot into the right eye, whereof he dyed eight days 
 after." — Chronicles, p. 445, edition of 1632. Giraldus 
 Cambrensis, Ordericus Vitalis, and the Saga mention the 
 event of Hugh de Montgomery's death, but they make no 
 mention of the atrocities here charged by Speed to his ac- 
 count. Ordericus says — " However one day when the 
 inhabitants rushed to the shore in great confusion, to oppose 
 the Northmen, who appeared to be preparing to attack 
 the English from their ships, Earl Hugh, putting spurs 
 to his horse, and getting the people together in a body, 
 by virtue of his superior authority, that they might not be 
 cut off in detail, arrayed them against the enemy. Mean- 
 while a brutal Nonvegian, perceiving the gallant earl thus 
 actively riding about, suddenly shot him, alas ! at the 
 devil's instigation with a wizzing arrow. The earl fell 
 from his horse the same instant, breathing his last in the 
 flowing tide." The Saga relates that Montgomer>''s mor- 
 tal wound was inflicted by king Magnus himself : — " King 
 Magnus shot with the bow, but Hugo the brave was all 
 over in armour, so that nothing was bare about him ex- 
 cepting one tyt. King Magnus let fly an arrow at him, 
 as also did a Halogaland man who was beside the King. 
 They both shot at once. The one shaft hit the nose-screen 
 of the helmet which was bent by it to one side, and the 
 other hit the earl's eye, and went through his head, and 
 that was found to be the king's. " The version of Giral- 
 dus is as follows : — " Pirates from the Orkneys had come 
 into the island sound in long ships, and the earl hearing 
 that they were near the shore, ventured too rashly into the 
 sea on a strong horse to encounter them. Then the com- 
 mander of the fleet, whose name was Magnus, and who 
 was standing on the prow of his ship, shot an an'ow at 
 him, and although the earl was in complete armour of steel 
 which entirely protected his person from head to foot, ex- 
 cept his eyes, the arrow pierced his right eye, and penetra- 
 ting the brain, he fell dead into the sea." — Ordericus Vitalis, 
 Ecclesiastical History, vol. iii., pp. 2l8, 219, and tiotcs. 
 
The Montgomer y ' Manuscripts. 
 
 453 
 
 Cambden allsoe relates (out of records) y* Achelfleda, a lady of y'^ Mercians, first built ^^p- 59f of 
 yc City of Bridge North (corruptly soe called instead of Bragh morf, which is a Forest adjoining) '''^^ 
 which City was walled about by y« sayd Rob' de Belesme, brother and Heir of y« sayd Hugh de 
 Montgomery. 35 
 
 And Cambden says further (p. 591) y' y^ s"^ Roger did cause repaire an ancient ruined nunnery ditto, p. 591. 
 in Wenlock, wherein S' Millburge ye holy virgin lived and was entombed, he converting it into a 
 
 Pryary for black monks. 3^ 
 
 Hitherto wee have remembred Rog"" his two sonns Hugh and Robert, y* Last of whom wee 
 Left in ppetuall prison under Forfeiture, whereby his lands were disposed of to others : and 
 his blood tainted So y' y^ Hono'' could not descend from him : he haveing so barbarously abused 
 his sons, by whom wee may well suppose, there was noe Legall issue Left (if any at all), noe 
 
 35 Of V sayd Hugh de Montgomery. — The following is 
 the passage of Camden to which tlie text refers :—" Then 
 saw wee on the right banks of the Severn, Brug Morfe 
 (commonly, but corruptly called Bridg-iiorth) so called of 
 Burg or Biirrough, and Morfe, and a forest adjoining, 
 whereas before time it was named simply Biirgh, A 
 Towne fortified with wals, a ditch, a stately Castle, and 
 the Severn, which betweene the Rockes runneth downe 
 with a great fall : seated also upon a Rocke, out of which 
 the waies leading into the upper part of the Towne were 
 wrought out. Achelfleda Lady of the Mercians first built 
 it, and Robert de Belesme Earle of Shrewesbury w^alled 
 it." — Britannia, p. 591, edition of 1637. But Robert de 
 Belesme did not succeed to the possession of this place as 
 heir to Hugh, but by purchase from the king. "On the 
 death of Earl Hugh," says Ordericus (vol. iii., p. 220), 
 "his brother Robert de Belesme presented himself to 
 William Rufus and offered him three thousand pounds 
 sterling for his brother's earldom. Having thus secured 
 it, he exercised great cruelties on the Welsh during four 
 years. He built a very strong castle at Brignorth, on the 
 river Severn, transferrring the town and people of 
 Quatford to the new fortress." The original fortress 
 at that point on the Severn was built by Achfleda, (a 
 sister of king Alfred), so early as the year 912. "Robert 
 de Belesme, who was one of the most able engineers of 
 his age, surrounded it with walls, and created the Nomian 
 fortress, which, in after times, stood many sieges, but no 
 trace of it is left." — Ibid, note I. 
 
 3* For black monks. — Wenlock was celebrated in early 
 times for its lime, and subsequently for its copper mines, 
 "but much more known," says Camden, "in the Saxon 
 dayes for a most antient Nunnery, where Milbnrga, that 
 most holy Virgin, lived in great devotion, and was 
 entombed : the which Nunnery Earle Roger Montgomerie 
 repaired and replenished with Monks." — Britannia, p. 
 S91. Leland, in noticing this place (v. 182) says " Wen- 
 lock, a markett towne, where was an abbey of black 
 monkes, passing over an highe hille called JVenlock Edge." 
 Milburga, who founded the nunneiy in the year 680, was 
 daughter to king Meroald (whose body was buried there), 
 and niece to Wulpher, king of Mercia. After the setting 
 in of the reformation, the bones of St. Milburga were 
 burned in the market-place, opposite the entrance into the 
 church-yard. The abbey church was built at Wenlock 
 by Roger de Montgomery about the year 1080. During 
 
 the progress of that building the tomb of St. Milburga 
 was broken open, and from it, says William of Malmes- 
 bury, a sweet odour issued, which, among other miracles, 
 had the effect of cm ing the Jung's Evil. " The remains 
 of Roger de Montgomery's church, consisting of a south 
 transept, south aisle, and three massive round Saxon 
 arches of an adjoining building, shew it to have been very 
 magnificent. It was in length from east to west about 
 240 feet ; and from north to south, including the transept, 
 about 120. The choir appears to have been terminated 
 by a semicircular chapel. The cloister makes a farm 
 house, and the bottom of the south aisle is converted into 
 stabling. Its yearly revenue at the dissolution was £^oi. 
 It belongs now (1806) to Sir Watkin Williams Wynne." 
 See Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia, vol. iii., p. 
 21, and 7Zote. 
 
 37 Ditto folio 1074. — In the "Catalogue of Religious 
 Houses, Colledges, and Hospitals sometime in England 
 and Wales," given in Speed's Chronicles, p. 1074, there 
 are the following entries : — 
 
 See Speed, fol. 
 1074. 
 
 .Shropshire. 
 Of Dissolu- 
 tions towards 
 the end. 
 y^ sd Roger 16 
 of Wm. Conq. 
 108 1, gave 
 lands valued 
 at Dissolution 
 to ;^6iS4S 3d. 
 
 See Speed, 
 ditto, 
 
 fol. 1074.37 
 
 ' Shrewsbury 
 
 S. Peter 
 S. Paul 
 
 ( Roger Earle of Mont- 1 
 
 goinerie 1088 the 16 I Blacke Monkes, 
 
 S Milb 1 °^ "'^ I -^^'5 4S 3d. 
 
 ■ V Conqueror. / 
 
 ILeofrick E. of Mercia 
 ^er HoUinshead Ro- 
 IfJ'rf''!^^ Mont- I Blacke Monkes, 
 gomery & balop, ^434 os is. 
 i8oi II Wm. Con- I 
 queror per Fabian, ' 
 
 Roger de Montgomery made all his grants to the church 
 after his marriage with his second wife, Adeliza du Puiset, 
 "who was remarkable," says Ordericus, "for her good 
 sense and piety, and frequently used her influence with 
 her husband to befriend the monks and protect the poor. 
 In consequence, the earl repented of the ill turns he had 
 often done the monks, and prudently endeavoured to 
 efface his former errors, by his subsequent amendment of 
 life." Ordericus then quotes from earl Roger's charter, 
 "made freely before the great officers of his household," 
 in which, after the mention of several liberal Ciidowments 
 for churches in Normandy, the donor says — "Likewise in 
 England, I give two manors, Owne and Merston, in 
 Staffordshire ; the tithe of my cheese and wool at Paulton, 
 and all that I have at Melbourne, in Cambridgeshire; 
 and one hide of land at Grafham in Sussex ; and the land 
 
 L 2 
 
454 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 memoires (of such) remaining extant.s^ Yet nevertheless his brother Amulph (how he came to be 
 
 Earle is not recorded that I find, yet he must needs (in all probability) be thought to have been 
 
 largely provided for, in Lands by his sayd Father Roger and by his Eldest brother Hugh : for not- 
 
 ^^^^'^f'^^r™^ withstanding of his brother Rob*' forfeiture and loss of Montgomery Castle, Towne and Lands 
 pages I9(S20 <^ o j 7 
 
 of this treatiss. thereabouts, given to Baldwin Bellers aforesayd, yett I find this Amulph was 4*'' E: of Shrewsbury, 
 & was originall of y= Carews aforesayd, & y' hee Fortified Penbro as aforesayd : And so by his 
 father & Eldest brothers Grants to him out of their Large acquests & by his owne Conduct, or by 
 K: W" Rufus favour : he might have had very great Estate, & by y^ prudent Clemency of K: Henry 
 y« i"' towards him (hee being unconcerned in his brother Rob'' faults, & he allsoe being a PowerfuU 
 man) might have been restored to y« Hono'' of Earle of (and part of y' lands in & about) Shrews- 
 bury: of w"*" y« Tytle tooke ye name : I say upon these & other considerations : as of many worthy 
 actions performed by him in ye warrs, This Amulph might have been restored by y'= Sayd K: Henry 
 Lest hee should be too much alienated from him, to Duke Rob" claime, as beinge exasperated for 
 what was done to his brother de Belesme in prejudice to his right of succession ; but where History 
 is silent, or Latent, I will not pretend to divulge my Conjectures:^? 
 Pnrliaments ; I find (p. 241) in Vita Regis Stephani, the author speakeing of a Parliament held at Bourn 
 printed for Jo. Vadum {i.e. Oxford) upon the Kings complaint to those whom hee there calls Potent kicks ; and 
 i68?^^^'By^a Councell or perswasion of the magnates or Proceres Regni, I find, I say, that (inter alios) one of 
 naimless the lords committed to ward was the great Roger of Salisbury (the great favourite of the two W"" 
 Kings) afores*, the charge against him was this chiefly, viz., that without leave of y° King and Par- 
 liament, he had built & fortifyed a castle. 
 
 Now in this Devises,'*" (this was y° name of y^ castle) he did ensnare himself. The name & 
 fate thereof (sayeth the author) hath been since found (observed more than once) & yet they write 
 that it was the fairest castle in all Europe. This anonymous author cites Malmsbury (p. 242) who 
 was well acquainted with that famous Roger de Montgomery first earl of Salisbury, who thus gave 
 occasion, that (at this Parliament) the militia was settled in King and Pari : upon which this 
 Castle of Devises (which Roger called his own) was presently demanded, & (hee being then in 
 custody) it was at length yeelded. **##** 
 I suppose this Montgomery (spelled as above in y* citation of y° record) to have been either 
 Count James Montgomery, the son of James de Lorge (who did great things for the Protestant 
 religion in France, and who A° 1559 was put to death by y'' queen regent, or els he was that Neile 
 
 of Wulfine, the goldsmith, at Chichester." "He also appear that Arnulph received any of his grants from his 
 
 began the erection of a new monastery in honour of St. second brother, Hugh, who, with Robert, the eldest 
 
 Peter, prince of apostles, near the east gate of his own brother, divided all their father's estates. Amulph, 
 
 capital town of Shrewsbury, on the river Meole, where it through his father's influence, obtained large grants from 
 
 runs into the Severn. , . . He gave to St. Peter the crown. 
 
 the whole suburb situated outside the east gate, in token Devises.—\xi ancient records this place is called Di- 
 
 of which he jjledged his gauntlets on the altar. This visa:, De Vies, and Divisis. The name seems to have 
 
 grant was made in 1083. "He died there in the year arisen from the supposition that the town was a'/i'/i/if;^ be- 
 
 1094, on the sixth of the calends of August (27th July), tween the king and tlie bishops of Salisbury. The beauty 
 
 and was buried with distinction in the new church, and strength of its castle in early times were the wonder 
 
 between the two altars. "— Ordcricus Vitalis,.iS'fir/. A^/j/i^rj/, of Europe. It was built in the reign of Henry I., 
 
 vol. ii., pp. 195, 196,203. andthesite has been lately converted into pleasure grounds. 
 
 '^^^ Remaining extant. — See p. 450, ra/r^z. See Archccologia vol. ii., p. 191 ; Fenny Cyclopadia, 
 
 5» My conjectures. — See pp. 45 1, 452, It does not vol. viii., p. 448. 
 
 Author. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 455 
 
 Montgomery who was killed before the walls of Dola in Britannia Armorica, A° 1590 both 
 mentioned p. 25 of this my treatise, and p. 591 from y° beginning of this work, Queen Elizabeth 
 being contemporarys with them. 
 
 Sir Nicholas Montgomery of Cotely in Darbyshire his heiress Elizabeth was marryed to More- 
 vill of , & so he had that Montgomerys estate, w""^ together with ye said Morevills landsi^ 
 
 by- marriage descended to y^ first lord Baron of Okum't^ y" lord Cromwell who quartered the said 
 Morevills coate with his own : as appeared by a taffeta scutcheon sent by y'* countess of Ardglass 
 from her late lord (the last earl of Ardglass) his funeral, he being descended that way as well from 
 the Morevills & Montg. afors* as from the L** Cromwell baron of Okum, w"'' was sent by the s** 
 
 Ye said MorevilPs Lands. — The great Anglo-Nor- 
 man family of de Moreville, or de Morwell, settled in Eng- 
 land immediately after the Conquest in 1066, but it is soon 
 afterwards found north of the Tweed, and in posses- 
 sion of great power and distinction. So early as the reign 
 of David I., the office of High Constable of Scotland had 
 become hereditary in this family. Hugh de Morvil wit- 
 nesses a charter from this king to a Robert de Brus of all 
 lands " from the bounds of Dunegal of Strath Nith to the 
 bounds of Randulph Meschiiies,"in Estrahanet,now Strath 
 Annan. Richard de Morvill witnesses a charter from 
 Malcolm IV. to Walter Fitzalan, his steward, of the lands 
 of " Birchinside and Leggardswode, by their right bounds 
 to wit, as fully and wholly as King David my grandfather 
 held the lands in demesne." Richard and William de 
 Morevil witness a second grant of this king, to the same 
 Walter Fitzalan, of other lands, together with a confirma- 
 tion of the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had 
 become hereditary in his family. It was customary for 
 the great nobles at that period to hold and sell their fel- 
 lowmen as slaves or serfs. Thus, we find that Richard de 
 Morvil, the constable of Scotland, "sold to Henry St. 
 Clair, Edmond the son of Bonda, and Gillemichel his 
 brother, and their sons and daughters, and all their pro- 
 geny, for the sum of three merks ; but on this condition; 
 that if they leave St. Clair by his consent, they shall not 
 pass to the lordship of any other lord, nor to any other 
 lord or land than De Morvill." See Cosmo Innes's 
 Scotland in the Middle Ages, pp. 120, 141, 142, 201, 203, 
 207. The members of this family gave large grants to the 
 Church, and founded several rehgious houses in Scotland. 
 Richard de Morevill founded the celebrated monastery of 
 Kilwinning in Ayrshire. His wife, Alicia Lancaster, 
 and his daughter Dorathea, married to Philip de 
 Horssey, assisted in the pious work. Font's notice of 
 this foundation concludes as follows: — " The revenues of 
 this abby very grate and maney by their proper lands. The 
 founder thereof Sir Richard Morvil, layes interrid in the 
 new cemetery of this church, under a tome of lymestone, 
 framed cofhn-vayes, of old polished vorke, without any 
 superscriptioune or epitaphe. The structure of this mo- 
 nastery wes solid and grate, all of freestone cutt ; the 
 church fair and staitly, after ye modell of yat of Glasgow, 
 vith a faire steeple of 7 score foote of hight, zet standing 
 I myselve did see it." Font's account is printed in James 
 Dobie's notice of Kilwinning, which appeared in the New 
 Statistical Account of Scotland. See Paterson's Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii. ,p. 224. "Between the 
 years 1196 and 1214, Ellen of Moreville in exchange for 
 the land in Cunningham, which William of Moreville 
 
 her brother, devised to the monks of Melrose by his last 
 will," namely, the land which Simeon of Beumunt held, gave 
 them a certain piece of land in the territory of Kille- 
 beccokestun (or Gillebecchistun). ..... 
 
 -She gave to the monks also common pasture in the terri- 
 tory of the township, wherever her own cattle, or the cat- 
 tle of her men went to pasture, for seventy sheep with 
 their lambs till two years old, or as many wethers ; for 
 forty cows and a bull, with their calves under two years 
 old ; for forty o.\en ; for eight horses ; and for four swine 
 with their porkers under three years old; together with all 
 the common easements of the township, and free egress 
 and regress to and from the pasture, through the gran- 
 ter's lands and the lands of her men. I'he grant was con- 
 firmed by Alan of Galloway, constable of Scotland, the 
 son of Ellen of Morville, and of her husband Roland of 
 Galloway; and by King William the Lion. The lands of 
 Harehope in Tweeddale (included in the above grant) be- 
 longed to the abbey of Melrose at the Reformation." — ■ 
 Origifies Parochiales Scotia, vol. i., p. 214. "Between 
 1150 and 1153. Beatrix de Belchaump (wife of Hugh de 
 Moreville) granted to the canons of Dryburgh all that 
 land of Rogerburgh which she bought of Roger the jani- 
 tor. Her grant was confirmed about 1 153 by Richard de 
 Moreville her son. Between 1150 and 1153 King David I. 
 confirmed to them all the grants and alms which Hugh de 
 Moreville and Beatrix de Belchaump his wife gave them 
 for their maintenance." — Ibid., p. 473. 
 
 42 Ye first baron of Okum. — The founder of the family 
 of Cromwell, barons Okum or Okeham, was a splendid 
 illustration of what Mr. Smiles would call Self Help, but 
 whether he is mentioned as such by this author, we do 
 not, at this moment, recollect. His name was Thomas 
 Cromwell, and although he was born a blacksmith's son, 
 he became earl of Essex, vicegerent, and principal minis- 
 ter of Henry VIII. And although he lost the confidence 
 of the king, and was condemned and executed by act of 
 parliament, all his grand titles dying with him, yet there 
 was such noble vigour in his family that the name con- 
 tinued to be a great one in the annals of England and Ire- 
 land. His eldest son, Gregory, to whom our author re- 
 fers, was a member of the English house of peers in 
 1539, appearing as baron Cromwell of Okeham. On his 
 death he was succeeded by his son, sir Henry, whose son, 
 sir Edward, the third baron, settled in Lecale, probably 
 about the year 1604, being appointed in the following 
 year governor of Lecale, Dundrum, and the boijiers there- 
 of For his transactions with Fhelomy Macartane, the 
 native chieftain of that territory, and his (Cromwell's) de- 
 scendants, see pp. 218, 219, 223, 224, 29s, 307, supra. 
 
456 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Countess unto W"" Montgomery of Rosemount esq'', from y" %^ funeral.''-^ This account was given 
 
 ^3 Fro7n yi! said funeral. — Taffeta was the material of 
 which achievements or hatchments used at funerals were 
 made. See p. 144, supra. For the heraldic meaning of 
 the term scutcheon, see p. 143, supra. Vere Essex, 
 fourth and last earl of Ardglass, was born in 1623, and 
 died on the 26th of November, 1 687. In 1672, he married 
 Catherine, only daughter of James Hamilton of Bangor 
 and Erinagh, by whom he left one child, Elizabeth, bom 
 on the 3rd of December, 1674. His countess, who 
 afterwards remarried with general Nicholas Price of 
 Hollymount, survived until November, 1 725, being then 
 84 years of age. The family of the last earl of Ardglass 
 appears to have always lived on very neighbourly tenns 
 with the Montgomerys of the Ards, and this sending of 
 the taffeta scutcheon was in acknowledgment, no doubt, of 
 such friendly relations. The last earl of Ardglass was 
 one of the principal persons in attendance at the funeral 
 of the first earl of Mount-Alexander, in 1663. See p. 
 245, supra. Ardglass, from which the Cromwells derived 
 the name of their earldom is one of the most attractive 
 places in the north of Ireland, both by its natural beauties 
 and historical associations. Its name is translated 'the 
 green height or promontory,' which promontory is sur- 
 rounded on three sides by the sea, and commands a 
 magnificent view, including the bay of Dundrum, the 
 mountains of Moume, the Isle of Man, and the blue 
 summits of the Ayrshire hills. Of this place there is little 
 known prior to the invasion of De Courcy, although, 
 judging from its position, and the eagerness with which it 
 was seized by the Anglo-Nonnans, Ardglass must have 
 had a prominent place in the early history of Ulster. 
 Jordan de Saukeville settled here in the time of De 
 Courcy, and was confinned in his possessions de Ardglas 
 by Henry III., in the year 1217. At the commencement 
 of the fifteenth century, a trading company from London 
 was established in this town; and, to encourage its opera- 
 tions, Henry IV., in the year 1401-2, granted to 
 Nicholas Baylly four messuages and four carucates of 
 land in "Grenecastle, Ardglass, Ardwel (now Ardfole), 
 and Rosse, in Ultonia." Early in the same century, 
 Janico Dartus, or D'Artois, held the manors of Ardglass, 
 Ardwel, and Rosse, with their spiritualities, from Richard 
 duke of York, as heir of the earl of March, he being then 
 (1426) underage and in the guardianship of the crown. 
 In the year 1433, the town of Ardglass was destroyed by 
 fire. The cause of this destmction is thus noticed in the 
 annals of Ireland at that year: — "A great contest arose 
 in the Dubh-trian (Dufferin) between Niall Garv O'Don- 
 nell, M'Quillan, and Robert Savadge on the one side, 
 and Owen O'Neill and Mac Donnell of Scotland, Lord 
 of the Isles, on the other, in which the latter were 
 victorious. Such of the other party as escaped from the 
 Dufferin were mostly put to the sword at the Pass of 
 Newcastle. O'Neill with his party then marched to 
 Ardglass, which they bumed ; afterwards Mac Donnell 
 with his Scotts proceeded from Ardglass in their ships 
 to Inisowen, in Donegall." In the year 1453, Ardglass 
 was the scene of another great conflict, in which the 
 combined forces of the English and the Savages defeated 
 the Irish, under the leadership of O'Neill, Magenis, and 
 Macartan. The annals of Ireland have the following 
 notice of this battle, at the year 1453:— "The O'Neills 
 of Claneboy sustained a great overtlirow at Ardglass, by 
 
 the Savadges and the English of Dublin, who, with a 
 large fleet, pursued as far as the northern sea a Welsh 
 fleet, by which the shipping of Dublin had been plundered, 
 and the archbishop of Dublin taken prisoner; and on 
 their return, Henry, the son of O'Neill Buidhe, met the 
 English at Ardglass ; and they took him prisoner, and 
 slew Cu-Uladh, the son of Cahwar Magennis, heir to the 
 lordship of Iveagh; Hugh Magennis; Macartan; and 
 also fourteen leaders from the Route; and their entire 
 loss amounted to five hundred and twenty." During 
 Tyrone's rebellion, Ardglass was once more the scene of 
 furious conflict, one of its castles gallantly holding out 
 against the Irish during a long siege, until relieved in 
 June, 1601, by the deputy Mountjoy, who came expressly 
 with a fleet from Dublin for this purpose. After the 
 relief of the castle, the besiegers were overtaken at Duns- 
 ford, and entirely defeated; and two other castles in 
 Ardglass garrisoned by the Irish were then surrendered 
 to Mountjoy. The castle which Simon Jordan so 
 valiantly defended is still known by his name. During 
 the rebellion of 1 64 1, the Irish held Ardglass for a time, 
 but were soon expelled. Since that period the town has 
 been at rest, and has decayed or improved in proportion 
 to the neglect or care of its owners. There still exist the 
 remains of at least four castles in Ardglass, and there 
 were probably five, all supposed to have been built by 
 Anglo-Normans. Those best known, however, were 
 King's castle, Jordan's castle, Margaret's castle, and 
 Newerk or New Works. King's Castle stood on an 
 elevation at the west end of Ardglass. "The roof con- 
 sisted of large broad flags so placed in the walls that they 
 supported each other without the use of timber. The 
 walls were breast high above the roof on which ' turrets 
 were placed. To one of these turrets, on the eastern side, 
 there was a passage from the roof by a flight of steps. A 
 flight of stone stairs led from the ground to the summit. 
 A tower, of which the ruins remained with the castle, 
 was connected with it by a covered way. Previous to 
 the commencement of the present century this edifice 
 underwent a partial repair, the different apartments having 
 been rendered comfortable, and fit for the reception of a 
 respectable family. About the same period it was occu- 
 pied as a temporary barrack. A good drawing of King's 
 Castle, by Nicholl, is given in the Dublin Penny Journal , 
 vol. i., p. 313." Jordan's Castle is situated "in the centre 
 of the town, and is the loftiest and most elegantly con- 
 structed of all the othere. . . It has a crypt, and the 
 walls are surmounted by four turrets. On a stone near 
 the summit are some armorial bearings — a cross and three 
 horse shoes — supposed to be those of the family whose 
 name it bears." Jllargaret' s Castle "is a plain edifice, 
 almost square in its general form ; it stands about 260 
 feet south-west of Jordan's. History and tradition are 
 alike silent as regards Margaret's castle." jVeri'eri Castle, 
 or A^eiO Works, is supposed to have been rebuilt by Shane 
 O'Neill about the year 1570. "The greater portion of 
 this edifice was, in 1790, converted by Lord Lecale into 
 what is now Ardglass castle, the residence of Major 
 Beauclei'k. Since that time there has been no such place 
 as the A'etij Jl orks, that cognomen being entirely unknown 
 to the present inhabitants, as applied to a castle or 
 building. . . . With respect [to ttwo edifices usually 
 called Cowed Castle and Horned Castle, and which 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 457 
 
 by the lady Elizabeth Cromwellt't to M' Montgomery of Ballymagown-fS near Rosem' afors**. in com. 
 Dov/ne et Regno Hiberniss.'*^ 
 
 Therefore I will descend to Latter times & relate what I have observed concerning some few 
 remarkable persons of y' surname & of Lesser note for dignity & estate. 
 
 And first Let us heare (our often named author) Cambden in his descriptions of Scotland, 
 saying, That whence these Montgomerys should come he could not tell, But this hee knew, y* out 
 of Normandy, this Surname came into England & y* divers Familys there were of y* name& y' That 
 in Essex from w"*" S"' Tho. Montgomery (Kn* of y" order of y" Garter in K: Ed: y° 4th Raigne) 
 descended : gave Arms but a Little different from those of y® E: of Eglinton.*'' 
 
 The same Cambden also notes That John D : of Burbon taken in y° bataile of Agincourt, was 
 detained 19 years prisoner (in y° Castle of Melburn nere the River of Trent in Darbyshire) under 
 custody of S"^ Nicholas Montgomery y" younger. 
 
 Item, I find y' (long before these two Familys florished) one Phillip Montgomery seneschall 
 of K: Edw: y* i"' his Fforrest of Canoco, in Staffordshire, had a Tryall at Law, in behalfe of y" K: 
 against Randulph Quintyn Balife of y^ free Haye of Acrewas ; Take it in y" words of y" Record, 
 cited by y" L'' Chiefe justice Coke, in y* foiMh part of his Institutes ch: 73: p. 313 as foUoweth; 
 he cites y" case concerning Fforrest Laws, in Trin. Term 14°: Edward i: in Banco, Stafford Shire 
 w* are in haec verba vizt : 
 
 Philipus de Montgomery qui seqidtur dm Regl. petit versus RatiduIpJium Qiiyntin Balivum cus- 
 todiae liber ae Hayae, Regis, de Acrewas qua pertinet ad Sergentiam Regis Seneschall: Forestae Regis de 
 Canoco, et quae ab eadem Sergentia alienata est, sine assensu predecessorum Regis et Regum Attglice, et 
 RandulpJms venit, et per licentiam reddit dno Regi, inde ^eizinam suam &^c. 
 
 Camden, p. 
 271, Scotite. 
 
 S'- T. M. eg 
 
 Barterics. 
 
 P- 554- 
 
 Rot. 7, 
 XUi 
 
 A" 
 
 modern writers have always included to make up the 
 number to five, they were merely flanking towers or 
 bastions to' the curtain walls of Newark Castle, and, 
 therefore, ought never to have been included or designated 
 as castles." The foregoing notice has been abridged from 
 the account of Ardglass and its castles written by the late 
 J. A. Pilson, and printed in the columns of the Down- 
 Patrick Recorder. 
 
 Lady Elhabeth Cromivell. — This lady— who explained 
 to Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagoun the marriage alli- 
 ance between the family of Montgomery and Cromwell in 
 England — was the only child, as already stated, of tlie 
 last earl of Ardglass, by his countess, Catherine Hamil- 
 ton. See note 43, supra. On the death of her father, 
 she succeeded to the estates and English barony of Crom- 
 well, whilst the Irish titles of Lecale and Ardglass, being 
 limited to male issue, became extinct. As baroness Crom- 
 well, she assisted at twodistinguished ceremonkils, viz. , the 
 funeral of queen Mary, and the coronation of queen Anne. 
 On the 28th of Octolier, 1703, she married the right 
 hon. Edward Southwell of Kinsale, county of Cork, and 
 King's Weston, near Bristol. She died in childbirth on 
 the 31st March, 1709, leaving three sons, Edward, Robert, 
 and Thomas ; and one daughter, who died unmarried. 
 
 ■•5 Mr. Montgomery of Bally magozon. — This was the 
 gentleman known as "My Lord's Hugh," to distinguish 
 him from several other Hughs of this surname. See pp. 
 366 — 384, supra. 
 
 Ke^no Hilierttice.—I'he paragraph ending here, and 
 
 the three preceding ones, are written by the author on a 
 loose leaf, and directed by him "to be incerted next to 
 ye mark p: 13." These paragraphs are now printed in 
 the place thus indicated by "William Montgomery. 
 
 47 Ye yr - 0^ Eglinton. — Camden's v/ords are, p. 21, 
 Scotia: — "But whence the said surname (Montgomery) 
 should come, a man can hardly tell : this I know that out 
 of Normandie it came to England, and that divers fami- 
 lies there were of the same name ; but that in Essex, from 
 which sir Thomas Montgomerie, Knight of the Order of 
 the Garter, descended, in the reign of Edward the Fourth, 
 gave Armes a little different from these." — Edit, of 1637. 
 
 ■•^ Sr Nicholas Montgomery y« younger. — Camden's 
 words are, as translated by Holland ; — "Then not farr 
 from Trent is Melborn, a castle of the kings now decaying, 
 wherein John Duke of Burbon, taken prisoner in the 
 bataile of Agincourt, was detained nineteen yeeres, under 
 the custody of Sir Nicholas Montgomery the younger." 
 GoHgk's translation represents the prisoner as being "kept 
 nine years in the custody of Nicholas Montgomery," — not 
 Sir Nicholas. Leland (I. 24) describes Melburne castle, 
 two miles from Duddington, as "pretty and in metely 
 good repair." At the time of the Conquest, the lands 
 belonging to this castle constituted a royal demesne, and 
 so continued until the time of Henry II., who bestowed 
 the estate on Hugh de Beauchamp, whose son Oliver 
 gave it to his son-in-la«f, William Fitz-Geoffry, as a mar- 
 riage portion with his daughter. — Caniden, Britannia^ 
 edited by Gough, vol. ii., pp. 415, 419, and notes. 
 
 
 
458 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 It is to be observed y' if any Forest bee appendant to a Castle then y' Constable of y' Castle is 
 ever (by y^ Fforest Law) cheife warden of y' forest (which is so appendant) as this PhiUip was. 
 
 Ed^li t Item, There bee two families of y^ Montgomerys in England (partly knowne to my selfe) y' one in 
 
 Shropeshire,. worth at present about four hundred pounds p ann. I saw Edward a younger son of 
 this house in London, An° 1664 ; he was Q''. M". to y° E: of Oxfords Troop & did avouch himself 
 to be a Cadett of Roger de Montgomery (y° Castle of Shrewsbury which he built being in y' shire) 
 & said his fathers estate was brought low by adhereing to K : Ch : y° martir, and by paying compo- 
 
 1656. Wm. sition money to y^ usurpers on y' account. I had seen his elder brother William, An° 1656, in 
 Shrooeshire. Westminster, when I was soliciteing to be admitted to compound for myselfe.^s but in y* said yeare 
 1664 y° sayd W™ was then at home w* his old father, & with his owne wife & children whose 
 dwelling was not farr from Shrewsbury. 
 
 The other family was of Acton BurnelP" in * * probably descended from y' s* S"" 
 Thom: Montgomery & my acquaintance with y' old Gentl. & his two Sons was very accidental, & 
 because at present I know noe more, I now doe mention these Montgomerys Last of y' surname in 
 England (but y" Heralds office can informe y° curious more fully) you may be pleased to take y' 
 Story thereof as followeth. 
 
 An account of As I was goeing to y° old exchange A° 1665 I lookt into a large Shopp, wherein I thought 
 kd °e^conceni- there was noething but flax, I went in, to satisfy my curiosity & asked one of y" apprentices (an 
 ing Lewis handsome youth about 17 yeares old) whether Flax was Sold by wholesayle in London : Yes, sir, 
 
 Montgomery . ^ . . 
 
 f.nd his father, said hee, but what you see here is Slave Silk undyd, unspunn, &: not throved, adding that his 
 master traded into Turkey for noething els, but such Silk in Balls &: twisted Bundles, 6c kept a 
 Throveinghouse & men at worke : but as he was speaking, being called upon by y^ name of 
 Lewis Montgomery, hee went away in haste. I fearing hee might bee sent out on bussines, prayed 
 y° other apprentice to follow and tell him I was of his Surname & desired to speake with him, before 
 he went any way abroad. After a while he returned & haveing discoursed a little of his family, I 
 obtained leave for him to goe w ith mee to y* next Tavern, y' wee might bee acquainted & talke 
 further than was fitt to doe in y' shopp : wee drank & sate together near half an hour, but hee 
 not being in any reasonable manner, able to satisfy my inquisitive curiosity, he prayed to know my 
 Name and Lodgeing w* he tooke with his pen : & after two dayes I had his billet of Invitation to 
 dine w"* his father, as by his order : I went (as desired) to his house in Milk Street, &; was 
 curteously wellcomed by y' old Gentl : who told mee y' y* whole estate of Acton Burnell had been 
 his Ancestors, but by Iniquity & calamity of Times and some improvidences & necessitys of 
 his forefathers, it was all (to a little) gone from them and him : being in y" beginning of K : Hen : 
 ye gtha j-aigne five thousand Pounds old rent p Ann° : There was at dinner w*"" mee the Father 
 a widower, & y" sayd Lewis. There was allsoe at a side board another Son named Stephen in his 
 Long coats, about five yeares of Age & a daughter about fovver yeares elder, (Shee was black 
 haired but very comely of. a pure white and red complexion,) her brochers hayre was of a mouse 
 culler, and wee all were attended by one serving man. 
 
 *9 Aclon Buriiell. — Aclo.i Burnell was situated a little westward from Wenloclc in Shropshire. 
 5° Compound for mysdfe, — Seep. 199, stcpra. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 459 
 
 The old gentl" (whose name & memoires of his discourse are Lost) gave out his arms as 
 followeth viz : Hee beareth quarterly for all y' feilds argent ; in y^ first three flowers de lice Azure, 
 in y° 2^ one spread Eagle, propper, y° 2!^ as y° 2^ & y° fourth as y" first. It is probable (as I said 
 before) That y° s*^ S' Tho : Montgomery was cheife of this family, it being soe great an Estate & 
 enough then for a K' of y' Garter, & y' this old gentl" was but a Cadet thereof : who told me, y* y" 
 spread Eagle belonged to y° family of an Heiress, w"" whom his Ancestor had matched in marriage, 
 y" Account whereof is allsoe Lost, w"' y* other memoires aforesayd. 
 
 But I mett w"" y* sayd Stephen in Newtown of y" Ards on Saturday next following K: Wil-& Com. 
 liams arrivall at Carrickfergus, & thus it was viz'. A°T69C) 
 
 I went y' day to Newtown mercat to learn news & being at Provest Montgomerys,^' I heard y" June, 
 trumpeter of y" troop of Guards (under y* Lord Marlebroughs command as I think) calling to y° ^^^^ 
 Sayd Stephen (by his S' name) to come in : I observed him to be a pretty propper well timbred Stephen t 
 man much resembling my son, in face, Stature & Shape of body, w"*", & y° desire to understand news afb^sd''^ 
 made me invite him to a chamber, where I treated him & entertained him w*'' discourse, hee seemed 
 mighty Joyfull to meet any of this Surname, whereof he thought there had been none in Ireland ; 
 he prayed to be informed of our Family, & I did so. I did in part content him, referring y* fur- 
 ther Account, to gratify him therewith, when he came to Rosemount (w* was but 8 miles distant 
 from his quarters in Bangor) & gained his promise to visit me there. He was Brigadeer to y* 
 troope of guards &: in very good Equipage, civill & well bred ; w"*" made me covet his company at 
 my house, desiring to know more of his Family. It was y° 17*'' day of June 1690 y' y° s** Stephen 
 Montgomery (who writes his name as here spelled) came to rosemount ; he gave me account of 
 his Education, & services in Employments at Court & of quitting them, to take y° Post of a Briga- 
 deer in y' troop of Guards, to be neer y* Kings person & to Signalize himselfe in this warr of Ire- 
 land. He told mee allsoe of his fathers death & Sisters marriage (w* I think not proper to be 
 here recounted) by w* & other discourse, I understood he was y° same Stephen whom I had seen in 
 coats & brother to y* girle aforesayd. Hee told me y' his elder brother Lewis aforenamed after 
 his fathers death & for about five years after his apprentishipp ended, haveing trafficked to Tur- 
 key in y" Levant (in y^ same trade wherein hee had served) he quitted merchandizing & marryed 
 Doctor Arrice his daughter, who brought him a good portion, & y' he was then liveing in a 
 pretty house with gardens & Lands, in a quarter of a mile southward of S* Albans, haveing neare 
 four Hundred pounds rent per anno besides w''' he held in his owne hand& occupation. In requit- 
 tal of w''^ relations I gave unto y" sayd Stephen a briefe account of y*" Family of Ards & Mount- 
 Alexander ; of their descendants, theire Estates, titles, & missfortunes, for w* last part, he was 
 very sorry & much concerned : & (of himselfe) sayd that on all fitt occasions, & in all companys, 
 w* all y° Honor and advantages he could devise, he would make mention of y" Same, & soe we 
 parted well pleased w*'' one another. 
 
 The reader is desired (in like manner) to be contented & satisfyed, w*** y" premisses, till a 
 larger history of y^ English or other Montgomerys, may be had, for his peruseall and entertain- 
 ment : this being only raptim scripta * * * I have wondered that there haveing been 
 
 51 Frovcst ]lIonlgo/ncrys. — S>e.e. -p. 395, supra. 
 
46o 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 very many Montgomerys none have written of the familys * few gen" Instances * * * 
 Montgomerys are mentioned : I find p. 149 of charles MoUoys first book of marine affairs, ch : ii 
 titule of protection, by the law of Nations viz : 
 
 That Q : Eliz demanded Morgar (?) and other subjects fled into france for treason against her, 
 tlie french kings answer was, viz. 
 
 Si quid in Gallia machinarentur, Regem, ex Jure, in illos. 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 Reader ! because page 1 2 cannot in y' margent containe what (since y* transcription hereof) I 
 have mett with in Speeds Tables of y^ Account given of dissolved Religious houses (temper : 
 Hen : 8"") I have here incerted some memoirs of y" English Montgomerys therein mentioned. And 
 first of Roger de Montgomery, Camdens account of him (related in y' page; is confirmed with 
 this further viz. that s** Wenlock was by -f Roger, A" 1081 : 16* of Conq : (as Fabian 
 says) endowed, & in y° return of y' s'' dissolution it was valued at lb.434 cosh. oid. per annum. 
 See Speeds history, Book, nynth ch : 21, on y* backside of folio 1074 
 
 Item on y" same side (at y° topp) I find that y^ s* Roger did, in y" same year of our Lord 
 1081, endowe y° monastry of black monks in Shrewsbury, dedicated to St. Peter, St. Paul & St. 
 Melby, y® value whereof returned to K: H''- 8"" on its dissolution was per annum lb. 61 5 cosh. ood. 
 but there be no benefactors named to it since it was founded by him. I find also on y° backsyde 
 of folio of Speeds history 1052 of the dissolutions. That Sybill daughter of y* s*^ Roger Mont- 
 gomery, widow of Robert Fitz-hamon, temp. Hen. I™, founded a Preceptoria in Shengay, 
 for the Knights Templars, who were afterwards Knts hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, 
 which was returned to K : H : 8 : worth hb.i7S o4sh. o6d. 
 
 Item on y^ backsyde of folio 1076 in ditto Speeds history I find W" Montgomery (cum aliis) 
 recorded a benefactor to Y Priory of black monks benedictines in Tutbury; dedicated to St. Mary 
 returned value 244lbs. i6s. 8d.s^ 
 
 A FEW MEMOIRS OF YE MONTGOMERYS OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 The Place where they abound most & are most eminent is y' Shire of Air and Bailairry of Con- 
 ingham, (w"" being a Saxon word) is by Interpretation, y' Kings Habitation, Steade, or Dale. 53 
 
 52 Value 2i^bs. \6s. Sd. — The author has given correctly 
 the several references to Speed's table, as stated in the text. 
 
 53 Steade, or Dale. — The latter part of this local name, 
 viz. ham, or hame, looks like a Saxon termination, but 
 several well-informed writers claim the first portion of the 
 name as of Gaelic origin. "The combination of a Gaelic 
 substantive with a Saxon termination," says Paterson, 
 (Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. .p. 3), "may be accounted for 
 by the circumstance that the name, so far as we are aware, 
 does not occur in any document prior to the adoption of 
 patronymics, after the accession of Edgar to the throne of 
 Scotland, or what Chalmers calls the Saxon ]3eriod of our 
 history. Chalmers derives Cunningham from Cuniiig a 
 
 'rabbit,' and Paterson from Cninneag a 'milk-pail' or 
 'churn,' "the district having been celebrated from a re- 
 mote period for its dairy produce." A charter of David 
 I., prior to 1 153, gives the name of Cw/z^-^rt^ to the district, 
 which Paterson regards as the plural of Ciiniieag; and in 
 later documents it is Conyghanu-, which he thinks evidently 
 signifies the place or district of milk-pails. The derivation 
 of Cunninghame from Cunujiing, the name of an ancient 
 Northumbrian town, this writer supposes cannot be main- 
 tained, from the fact that the former was known as a local 
 name prior to the grant of the district obtained by Hugh 
 de MorviUe, constable of Scotland. — Paterson's Parishes 
 and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. , p. 4. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 461 
 
 Cambden in his Brittania p: 21 of his description of Scotland mentions Ardrossan Castle y author of 
 II' -Kr 1, 1 11 , A ■ r -1^-1 1 ^ thistreatise 
 
 belonging to y° Montgomerys: w he calleth a very Ancient & famous Family, as any other: Ihisaccouni. 
 
 have seen it, at a small distance, it is now Ruinous & uninhabited, a large Pile, and hath Spacious 
 
 Courts, and high walls: It looks noble (tho a Skeleton) and is bravely Scituated over y' Sea. only 
 
 y° Keeper of y" Stone walled Park (belonging to it) lives in some of y^ vaults thereof, or Lone 
 
 buildings adjoining to it, as I was told in Summer 1689 when I went y' way.^* 
 
 He writes allsoe of Ponuny Fort (so he calls it) built with y° Ransom money of Henry Piercy Camden 
 
 (nick-named Hotspur) whom y* Lord Montgomery tooke prisoner in y° Battaile of Otterburn, 
 
 The Scottish writers report, y' this bataile was fought y^ 21 of July 1388, and y*' victory was gott 
 
 mostly by y° valor & Conduct of y° sayd L: Montgomery, who with his ownehand, took y° s* Piercy 
 
 prisoner; & therefor had y"" Right to sett him to Ransome: with money whereof (how much I. 
 
 read not) he built y" Castle of Ponune & over y° door thereof caused carve y° Resemblance of a 
 
 spurr, in memory of y" sayd Action, Person & Ransomes^ This castle * * * * 
 
 s-* I went way. — This ancient castle, which stood on 
 a hill near the present town of Ardrossan, has been per- 
 mitted, since our author's time, to fall entirely into ruin, 
 as at present only two small fragments of it remain. It is 
 generally believed among the inhabitants of the Ayr- 
 shire coast, that Ardrossan castle was demolished dur- 
 ing the Cromwellian wars, and that its materials "were 
 shipped to Ayr, to aid in building the fortification 
 erected there by the troops of the Commonwealth." 
 See Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayi'shire, vol. 
 i., p. 226; Fraser's Memorials, vol. i., p. 13. Our 
 author's passing notice of the remains, in 1689, proves 
 that the general supposition as to the date and means of 
 its destruction must be erroneous. The castle must have 
 been in good condition at the commencement of the 
 seventeenth century, as Timothy Pont, who wrote about 
 the year 16 10, has the following curious account of it in 
 his Cunninghame Topographized : — "This castell is verry 
 strongly and Veille bulte, haveing in it maney roumes, and 
 a spring of frech Vatter, wich makes it the more strong. 
 In this castell ther is a touer, named ye red touer, and in 
 it a vaulte called Vallace Lardner, for this castell being in 
 possession of ye Englisch, Vallace used this stratageme; 
 He sett a housse hard by the castle a-fyre, that thesse quho 
 keipt the castell, not suspecting aney fraud, came out to 
 the reskue of the housse, quhome they imagined by accident 
 to have taken fyre. Bot Vallace, with a veill armed 
 companey, gifs them a very hote welcome, and kills them, 
 every mother's sone, and furthwith, forces the castell, and 
 wins it. In this deep vaulte, in the bottome of the read 
 touer, fiang he the carcatches of these Englisch, vich, to 
 this day, gave it the name of Vallace Lardner. There is 
 one thing to be admired in this fontane of frech vatter, 
 vich is in a vaulte in this castell, for it, lyke to the sea, 
 ebbs and flowes two severall tymes each 24 hours — 
 
 " Its bankes to pass doeth tueisse assay. 
 And tueisse againe reteir each day." 
 
 The ressone is, from the ebbing and flowing of the salt sea, 
 vich enuirrons the rocke quheron the castell standes, and 
 at each surge with horrible repercussions regorges the 
 frech water, not letting isseu from its spring, and so makes 
 the fontaine suell." When Pont wrote the above descrip- 
 tion, the castle of Ardrossan was occupied by the Mont- 
 
 gonierys as their principal residence, it having originally 
 come into their family at the close of the fourteenth century, 
 by the marriage of sir John Montgomerie of Eagleshame 
 with Elizabeth, the daughter and sole heiress of sir Hugh 
 Eglinton of Eglinton. The castle and barony of Ardrossan 
 had previously come into the possession of the Eglinton 
 family by a marriage with a daughter and heiress, probably 
 of the Berclays, who had been its owners from the com- 
 mencement of the twelfth century. — Paterson's Parishes 
 a?td Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. , p. 226. 
 
 55 Person Ransome. — The chief of this surname, who 
 so distinguished himself at the battle of Otterburn in 1388, 
 was sir John Montgomerie, the eighth in descent from 
 Philip de Montgomerie, one of the first of the family who 
 settled in Scotland. The castle of Polnoon, built by the 
 ransom forced from Percy after the battle, is corruptly named 
 Foniiny by Camden. — Britannia, p. 21 of Scotland, 1637. 
 "The original residence of the family of Montgomerie at 
 Eagleshame, was a castle situated at some distance from 
 Polnon, the site of which is marked on the large map of 
 Renfrewshire. Part of Polnoon was standing in 1676, 
 and is thus noticed in a Paper of instructions by the eighth 
 Earl of Eglinton to his friends, dated 21st April of that 
 year : ' That he (the factor) cause sight that pairt of the 
 house of Polnun that is now standing, and if it needs 
 pointing, to cause point it and dresse it.'" — Fraser's 
 Metjiorials, vol. i. , 14. "Polnoon stood on the bank 
 of a rivulet of the same name, about three quarters 
 of a mile south-east from the church. It has long been 
 a complete ruin, and only a part of the walls remain 
 standing." — Chalmers' Caledonia, vol. iii., p. 852, as 
 quoted in Fraser's xMemorials, vol. i., p. 14, note. The 
 spear and pennon of Percy, which were long kept at Pol- 
 noon, are still preserved among other trophies at Eglinton. 
 Paterson states, vol. ii. , p. 233, that a MS. Memoir of the 
 family contains a story about Percy's pennon and spear, 
 which appears, to us at least, apocryphal. The late 
 duke of Northumberland, it seems, requested the restora- 
 tion of these relics of Hotspur, and the late earl of Eglin- 
 ton announced in reply: — "There is as good lea land 
 here as any at Chevy Chase ; let Percy come and take 
 them." Eraser, Memorials, vol. i., p. X4, inserts the 
 following letter from Hugh, twelfth earl of Eglinton, 
 
462 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 This Lord Montgomery was Sisters son to Earle James Douglass who (being fain sick of some 
 sudden distemper) gave y° cheife comand of y' Army to his s'' nephew, himselfe being killed after- 
 wards in y° Conflict. 5^ 
 
 It is to be noted, That this Adventure was Long before this L : Montgomerys Posterity were 
 matched in marriage with y" heiress of y° Surname and Lands of Eglinton: y° w* allsoe y° sayd 
 Cambden reports : & sayeth further That his whole Lineage is faire and farr spread; that the Earl 
 of Eglintons arms as Montgomery are but little different from Sir Thomas Montgomerys of Essex, 
 Knight of the Garter, in K : Ed. the 4ths raigne as aforesaid. 57 
 
 And y* Gabriell de Lorge (called in y' French History, Count Montgomery) Cap' of y' Guards 
 
 of Scotts, instituted by Charles y^ K : of France, and made his Guard de Corps);58 ^^-^5 
 
 descended from y° Montgomerys of Govean. this is A Towne neare to Glasgowss & belonged to 
 y* L'*' Montgomerys. In John Johnston of Aberdeen^" his excellent Poems on y° Scottish Heroes 
 
 to his agent, Mr. George Russell, and dated Eglintoun 
 Castle, 8th October, 1807:— "A good many years ago, 
 the duchess of Northumberland, on being informed that 
 the castle of Polnoon was built by Harry Hotspur for his 
 ransome, and that the Percy arms were still to be seen, 
 sent a person to take a copy of them ; but no arms of any 
 kind was to be found. Veiy lately, Robert Montgomerie, 
 banker of Irvine, was with me at Eagleshame. During 
 the time he was there, he paid a visit to Hugh Mont- 
 gomerie. On looking about the house, Hugh Mont- 
 gomerie pointed out to him a stone built in the house, but 
 harled over so as not to be easily seen. This stone, in 
 his vanity, he said was arms which had been taken from 
 Polnoon castle ; but as he was told that he would be 
 obhged to pay for wearing arms, if they continued exposed 
 (or some such nonsense as this), he had them cast over. 
 I suspect these to be the very arms, and stole by Mr. 
 Montgomery. I wish to know, therefore, what steps I 
 ought to take to recover these ; for, undoubtedly, whether 
 Percy arms, or whatever they may be, they ought not be 
 allowed to remain with him, as he can have no right to 
 them whate ver. " The old ballad, entitled Memorables of 
 the Montgomeries, has the following allusion to the struggle 
 in which this old castle had its origin : 
 
 " Sir Hugh was slain, Sir John maintained 
 
 The honour of the day ; 
 And with him brought the victory, 
 
 And Percy's son away. 
 He with his ransom built Ponoon, 
 
 A castle which yet stands ; 
 The king well pleased as a reward 
 
 Did therefore give him lands." 
 
 5* In conflict. — Sir John Montgomery's mother was 
 Margaret, daughter of William first earl of Douglas. This 
 lady was half-sister of earl James Douglas mentioned in 
 the text, and not his daughter, as our author represents. 
 
 57 Raigne as afortsaid. — See Camden's Britannia, 1637, 
 p. 21 of his account, of Scotland. The "adventure" at 
 Otterburne occurred in 1 388, but sir John Montgomery, 
 must have been married to the heiress of Eglinton several 
 years prior to that date." See Paterson's Parishes and 
 Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., p, 232, Eraser's Memorials, 
 vol. i., p. 15. 
 
 5^ Ilis Guard de Corps.- — If Charles VII. of France was 
 not the foHjider of the celebrated Scots guard, he certainly 
 "adjusted its organisation as a permanent institution of 
 
 the French Court." Burton, Scot Abroad, voL ii.. 
 
 p. 47-9, says — " It is a pity we have no distinct account of 
 its origin, and can only infer from historical probabilities, 
 that Claude Fauchet is right in saying that it was formed 
 out of that remnant of the Scots who survived the slaugh- 
 ter at Vemeuil, and did not desire to return home." As in- 
 stituted, or reorganised, by Charles VII., "the Scots guard 
 consisted of one hundred gensdarmes and two htmdred 
 archers. The first captain of the guard who appears in 
 history — and probably the first person who held the office 
 — was John Stewart, lord of Aubigne, the founder of a 
 great Scots house in France. By a chivalrous courtesy, 
 the appointment to this high office was confided to the 
 king of Scots. This was an arrangement, however, that 
 could not last. As the two nations changed their relative 
 positions, and the guard began to become Scots only in 
 name, it became not only out of the question that the cap- 
 tain should be appointed by a foreign government, but 
 impolitic that he should be a foreigner. It is curious to 
 notice a small ingenious policy to avoid offence to the 
 haughty foreigners in the removal of the command from 
 the Scots. The first captain of the guard who was a 
 native Frenchman, was the Count of Montgomery, who, 
 for his patrimonial name, which corresponded with that 
 of an old Scots family, passed for a man of Scots descent." 
 Although this count Montgomery was born in France, he 
 was probably of Scottish extraction, as his title of de 
 Large or Largs implied. The conjecture of our author on 
 this point is at least ingenious. 
 
 A Tozvne ?teare Glasgow. — A part of Govean was sepa- 
 rated from the parish of Glasgow by the litde river KeUin. 
 Govean lay on both sides of the Clyde, comprehending the 
 present parish of that name, and what is now known as the 
 Gorbals. Prior to 1 147, David 1. granted Govean to the 
 see of St. Kentigem of Glasgow in pure alms. The church 
 was dedicated to St. Constantine, "who," says Fordun, 
 " was a King of Cornwall, who accompanied St. Columba 
 into Scotland, and preached to the Scots and Picts. " It 
 is added that he founded a monasteiy in Govean, and con- 
 verted all the inhabitants of Cantyre to Christianity', among 
 whom he at last suffered martyrdom. — Orgines Parochialcs 
 Scotia, vol. i., p. 17, l8. Although the Montgomery's 
 held lands in Govean soon after their settlement in Scot- 
 land, the date of their occupation is uncertain. 
 ^ Joh7i Jofmston of Aberdeen. — For a notice of this 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 463 
 
 (among them as such) I read of these four Montgomerys following: viz. That Hugh Earle of p. 42 of 
 Eglinton (a Brave person both for outward & inward Parts) was by his insidious nighbours (Feuds g^Q^j afore- 
 being then too frequent and mortal]) slain, by an Ambush Layd for him, at y° River of Annock 
 y' xiix day of Ap' An" Dni 1586. 
 
 Item Rob* Montgomery brother of y' s"* Earle (so insidiously murthered) haveing done very 
 incredible great Actions: in Requitall of his brothers Death; he layd aside his Arms, & Hostility, p 
 and Banished all RevengfuUe Appetites, and lived peaceably & dyed, composed in mind & 
 desmeano"' y° 20 of August 1596.^' 
 
 Now allsoe may be noted concerning this Family of Eglinton, That y" Earle onely bears & 
 writes or Subscribes, y* Title or Surname, to keep alive y° memory of y* Heiress, by whom in ton^famliy 
 marriage. An Estate came to it : as he likewisse doth, by quartering her Coate of Arms, w**" y' • note. 
 Montgomerys, (Theire Bearing) in y" same sheild Armoriall. And further ("observe worthy it is) 
 That all y° Sons and Brothers of y° sayd Earles carry y" Surname of Montgomery: y^ Eldest son 
 (vivant son Pere) being stiled y° L'' : Montgomery, & his Eldest son is called y* Master of Mont- 
 gomery w* out Addition of Christian name or place of Dwelling : as y® French King his next 
 Brother, is called The Monsieur & no more, i.e., sans Cul, as they phrase it in France. )^^ 
 
 This useage ariseth (as I am informed) from a Custom or Law in Scotland That where any of 
 
 y" nobihty, marry an Heiress of a Lower Degree of Honor than himselfe, then hee is not obliged y' 
 
 himselfe or Posterity should change their former Surnames; but only y' y° cheife of y' Family (so ofprece- 
 
 benefitted by y° accession of Lands & a new Estate) should subscribe & be called by y* Title &dencyas to 
 
 •' ' . matters 
 
 Surname of y° Heiress & beare her Coate of Arms w"" his owne: By which it appeares That y" with an 
 
 Montgomerys before y° marriage w"" y" Eglinton Heiress, was of a more Hono"° Family and 
 
 Extraction than Shee, and were Lords of Ardrossan.*3 But it is quite Contrary, where a nobleman 
 
 married an Heiress of a Family in Rank of Honor superior to his owne : for in this case y'" s'' nobleman 
 
 & his posterity (by y* match) doe Abdicate & Relinquish their former proper Surnames, & assume y" of Eglinton 
 
 Surname & Title of y° Heiress; y" cheife of y' posterity, Retaining only his old Title, yett Quartering Jjjj^^'^'^^^ 
 
 his Coate w*"" y° Heiress Arms, in y° 2* & part of y* Sheild, w"" y" Supporters he formerly used, gomery. 
 
 as I am told. Instances of this useage, or proofs I have not now at hand : but I know y' James 
 
 Duke of Monmouth Bastard of K. Ch: y^ 2^ was stiled S' James Scott, as I saw it graven in a 
 
 distinguished Scottisli poet, see p. "j, supra. The fourth ninghams, says : — " This unhappy fact cost much blood, 
 earl of Eglinton, slain at the ford of Annock, is thus and was afterwards honourably revenged by Master Robert 
 celebrated by Johnston : — Montgomery of Giffen, the nobleman's brother." See 
 
 ,„ , • , ^, ■ VaXtxiovi, Parishes a}zd Faniilies of Avrshire, •vol. \\.,x>-2'k6. 
 
 lUa opifex solers rerum, maeni semula Ulympi r^-, . ^, , ^, i i \- i i i ■ 
 
 Natura, immensis, ambltiosa opibus ; ^ "'S gentleman, who, after many deeds of blood, is re- 
 
 Illa sibi de te certans quae singula, rara presented by the author in the text as dying so comfortably, 
 
 Vix aliis, dedit hate cuncta benigna tibi. married Jean, daughter of sir Matthew Campbell of Lou- 
 
 Sic artus, sic ora, animos. sic pectora finxit, ,^0"' whom he had Margaret, his only child and sole 
 
 Cseteraque humanis anteferenda nolis : heiress. I his lady, who was born m 1583, married her 
 
 Vix aliqueni ut credas mortali seniine cretum, COUSin, Hugh, fifth Earl of Eglinton, by whom she had 
 
 Ast quales tulerimt secula prisca Decs. „o i&m[\y. At her death, the second branch of the family 
 — rrascr. Memorials, vol. 1., p. 51. r r^-n- i • . - r i • n ■' 
 
 of Gitfen became extinct. — Ibid, vol. i., p. 287. 
 August, 1596.— For the circumstances connected with f>2 p/i,-ase tt iti France.— ^tn p. 353, szipra. 
 the assassination of the fourth earl of Eglinton, and its «3 ZoriZ'^()/'yir</r(7^j-(Z«.—Scottishgenealogists now affirm 
 
 direful consequences, see p. 6, supra. The Broom- that the Montgomerys became lords of Ardrossan only 
 
 lands Manuscript, in allusion to the terrible revenge taken through the marriage of sir John Montgomery with the 
 
 by Robert of Giffen, the earl's brother, against the Cun- heiress of Eglinton. 
 
464 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 Plate of Brass (w"" other his Titles of Honor) sett over his chaire or stall of Precedency in y* 
 Chapell or Hall of y^ Kn'" of y" garter in Windsor Castle : And his children are of y' Surname by 
 reason of his acquiring y' Estate of Buccleugh (belonging to y° Scotts) by marrying y° Heiress of 
 y" Earle of Buccleugh^'t who was of y' Surname. 
 
 But to returne to our Montgomery Heroes mentioned by Jo: Johnston afores*, I find in p. 29 
 of his booke viz: That Count James Montgomery, son of James de Lorge, did many things, w"" 
 happy success for y* Reformed Religion, in France : This is hee, who (being in great Esteem & 
 Favour at Court) was invited & urged to runn at Tilt, or to just ag' & it was'at the Instance of 
 \ Serres •'^^"^ y° France : in w he gave him his deaths wound, by a Splinter of his Lance, which 
 
 30 June entered y° Kings Eye (of which y° King did acquitt him) it being an unlucky accident (wholly 
 S peed page ''•o^^"^'- Montgomerys will & occasioned by y° Ks: own procurement. This action speaks much to 
 ii?7- prove y^ opinion of That Counts Bravery ; in y* he was singled out, as worthy to cope (in y' martial 
 exercise) with his Prince ; who, in those feats of Arms, was very dexterous :^s And so Montgomery 
 scaped Scot-free at y* time, w* was y' 4*'' ol y" Ides of July, y' is y" 12 day of y' same month An° 
 Dni, 1559, as Johnston relates, but afterwards (viz 24 yeares) this count being besieged in Donfrona 
 in Normandy was made Prisoner of warr & on j° Surrender thereof was taken to Paris &: contrary' 
 to quarters and y° Articles, &: to y° Faith given (by y" Instigation of Catherin de Medices y" Ffrench 
 Queen) hee was beheaded in An° 1574. 
 
 I find allsoe Neile Montgomery de Lorge (son of y* sayd Count James) Famous for y* great 
 Dola in Renown he wonn in y^ Civill waiTS in Ffrance: Assisting strenuously & faithfully K: Hen: y' 4th of 
 ^hi^france''^-^^-'-^"^^ ^ Novarr, but hee was killed (by an unlucky wound) before y" walls of Dola in Brittania 
 
 Jo : John- 
 stons 
 Heroes. 
 
 ^4 Earle of Buccleugh. — Sir James Scott's mother was 
 Lucy Walters, or Barlow, whom Evelyn, Diary, vol. iii., 
 p. II, describes as a " browne, beautiful, bold, but insi- 
 pid creature." Her son bore so marked a resemblance to 
 colonel Robert Sydney, with whom she had previously lived, 
 that the latter, and not the king, was generally supposed 
 to be his father. The title of duke of Monmouth was be- 
 stowed upon him by the advice of Bristol and lady Castle- 
 maine. Lucy Walters called herself the wife of Charles, 
 and she was designated by others as his wife or mistress. 
 — Whitelock's Memorials, p. 649 ; Mercitrius Politicus, as 
 quoted by Ellis, third series, vol. iii., p. 352. For the cir- 
 cumstances connected with his birth, see Clarendon's Life, 
 p. 205 ; Clarendon's Papers, vol. iii., p. 180 ; Thurloe, 
 State Letters, vol. v., pp. 169, 178; vol. iii., p. 325. For 
 an account of the circumstances connected with his execu- 
 tion, see the Buccleugh MS., published by Mr. Rose, p. 
 65 of Appendix; Evelyn's Diary, vol. ii., p. 167; Bur- 
 net, vol. iii., p. 50 ; Somers' Tracts, col. i., vol. i., p. 
 216. These references are quoted from Lingard's History 
 of England, voh viii., p. 225; voh x., pp. 85, 87, 
 notes. As confirmatory of the statement in the text that 
 Monmouth assumed the titles of his wife's family, we quote 
 the following document, written by him in 1679, and 
 printed in Eraser's Memorials, vol. ii., p. 338: — 
 
 "James dulte of Buccleugli and Monmouth, Earl of Dalkeith and 
 Doncaster, Lord Scott of Askdale, Tindale, and Whitchester, Genc- 
 rall of his Majestie's Forces, &c. 
 
 " Permitt the bearer, Sir Robert Montgomery of Scarmerly, 
 quiettly to pabs, with his two servants and armes, to his dwelling 
 
 house at Scarmerly, without any hindrance or disturbance whatsoever, 
 as you will be answerable for the contrary. Given att the Camp att 
 Hamilton, the 23rd day of June. 1679. '* BucCLEt'GH. 
 
 "To all Officers & Souldiers 
 and others whom it may concern." 
 
 Very dexterous. — This accident, which made way for 
 Mary Stewart to the throne of France, occurred at the 
 jousts held in honour of the marriage of Philip H. with 
 Isabel or Elizabeth, daughter of Henry HI., and of the 
 marriage also of his sister Margaret to Emmanuel Philli- 
 bert, duke of Savoy, both happening on the 30th of June, 
 1559. Speed's account of the fatal accident to the king 
 is as follows: — "The French king, thus over-busie about 
 Scotland's state, was over-carelesse of his owne, when (at 
 solemnizing the marriages of his daughter and sister) he 
 would needs be a challenger at tilt, seconded by the duke 
 of Guize and Ferrara, wliich triumphant joy was suddenly 
 clowded by a sad catastrophe. For to runne his last (and 
 indeed his last) course in favour of his queene, he sent a 
 lance to the earle of Montgomery, with a command to 
 have him enter the Tilt; bui hee excusing himselfe from 
 running against his Majesty, alleged that fortune the daye 
 before, afforded him not to break one staffe, and that now 
 (as he feared) shee would put him to a second shame; but 
 the king, destiny so enforcing, and his date fully runne, 
 sent him a second command, which' Montgomery very 
 unwillingly obeyed, and breaking his lance upon the 
 king's cuirasse, a splinter thereof, his Beaver being some- 
 what open, struck him so deepe in the eye, that there- 
 upon shortly hee ended hia lite." — Chronicles, p. 1 137. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 465 
 
 Armorica y° ii"" of July An° Dni 1590. for this see page 45, on w'*" four Heroes, y' sayd Johnston 
 (as on y° rest) hath printed very excellent Poems. 
 
 Having, but now, cited two Scottish Montgomerys de Lorge (their Acts in France,*^ as briefly 
 related by John Johnston aforesayd), & having cited out of Cambden, one Gabriel de Lorge de- 
 scended of y' house of Govean (w'^'' house is a Cadett of y" Montgomery spoaken of at Otterburn 
 Fight) termed in y" French History (as he says) Count Montgomery. I think it will be worth y° 
 Readers while and my paines, to know whether this Addition (De Lorge) bee a pure French Title 
 of Lands in France, or rather a French designation by a Scottish Title of Lands in y^ bailiary of 
 Coningham, Added to these Montgomerys (now Last named) to difference them from y' Count de 
 Montgomerys Family in Normandy. And since wee are in y" Dark wee might stepp Leizurely & 
 groape for y' way. Guessing at it, y° best way wee can : Seing probabilitys (but not straining or 
 compelling them) to be our guides in this enquiry. 
 
 First then Lett us grant y' both y° English and Scotish Montgomerys, are originally sprung 
 
 from ye Greatly Ancient Stock and Root, yet alive in Normandy, it being There ever at Least 
 
 (since Surnames came to be generally in use : w* was before Willm Duke of y* Province invaded 
 
 and conquered England,) as may be gathered from what I have sayd of Roger y" first English Earl 
 
 of Shrewsbury, whose extraction and Paternall Family, whether it were Norman & came in w*** them 
 
 into y' country, where it now is ; or were old Gaulish & seated There, long before y' time, I have 
 
 (in y^ first Part of these discourses) Left to be determined by y° French Count, or History & y* Count de 
 
 mon : go- 
 
 Antiquarys of y* Kmgdom. This is known (as I said in y° Introduction of these Treatises) y' Sur- mery pre- 
 names have Stuck to Familys & their Posteritys, by reason of y" names of their Capital Dwellings, ^^Ijjf';!.'" 
 & Lands erected into mannors and Seignorys ; as well as Lands, have been called by their owners called, 
 names & surnames. 
 
 ^ Their acts in France.— French historians mention knowing how cordially the cniel queen would hear of his 
 
 two Montgomerys de Lorges, namely, count James, and destruction. Montgomery, who was forced to surrender 
 
 Gabriel, whom they call the son of James. The former, at Domfront, was immediately tried and condemned to 
 
 it is said, in order to sustain the pretensions of his birth, death, his children being degraded from the rank of no- 
 
 in 1543, purchased the county of Montgomery in Nor- bility. When he heard the latter part of the sentence he 
 
 mandy, which had belonged to his ancestors. In I545> quietly said — " If they have not the virtue of nobles to 
 
 he succeeded John Stuart, count d'Aubigny, as captain of raise themselves, I consent to the degradation." He was 
 
 the Scotch guard. He died in 1560, at a very advanced executed on the 27th May, IS74- See Biographic Uni- 
 
 age — between eighty and ninety — leaving several children, versdle. The following short notice of this family in 
 
 of whom Gabriel, the eldest son, was the most celebrated. France is written by professor Le Hericher, of the college 
 
 In 1545, Gabriel commanded troops sent to Scotland by of Avranches: — "Alexander de Montgomery, lord of 
 
 Francis I., to sustain the then queen, Mary of Lorraine, Ardrossan and Eglintoun, was cousin of James I., King 
 
 who had been appointed regent during the minority of of Scotland. From this nobleman descended Robert de 
 
 her daughter, Mary Stuart, afterwards queen of Scots. Montgomery, father of Jacques (James), who was cele- 
 
 After the catastrophe mentioned in the preceding note, brated under the name of ' captaine de Lorges.' In 1560, 
 
 he retired to Normandy, and visited Italy and Eng- this Jacques died in the service of Francis I., King of 
 
 land. In 1562, the first of the religious wars broke out, France. His son Gabriel I., who became the 'great' 
 
 desolating France for upwards of thirty years, during Montgomery, and who was the person who mortally 
 
 which Montgomery was greatly distinguished as a com- wounded King Heniy II., succeeded to the estates of his 
 
 mander on the side of the Protestant party. He had se- five brothers and sisters. He married Isabeau de Teral, 
 
 veral narrow escapes, the enemy being specially anxious lady of Lucey, and through her became seigneur of Lucy, 
 
 to capture him. He andColigni were formally condemned and of several paribhes in Avranchin, in Normandy. The 
 
 to death, and executed in effigy. He was in Paris at the family chateau (still known as the chateau de Moutgo- 
 
 massacre of St. Bartholomew, but having had warning, mery, but now unoccupied and going to ruin) is situated 
 
 Montgomery contrived to elude his pursuers. He was at Lucey, about three leagues from the town of Avranches. 
 eventually attacked by Martignon, who commanded a The present building is, however, comparatively modern, 
 
 very superior force, and who was anxious to capture him, having been built about the year 1620, by Gabriel II., son 
 
466 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 It is Likewise well known y' ever since French Kings did aggrandise themselves, by 
 Encroachments upon (& reduceing under their Dominion) y* neighbouring Earledomes ScDukedomes 
 as Brettany, Burgundy &c (& other places before then) but cheifly when y° s"" Kings began to fall 
 out, & quarrell with y° Kings of England & to encroach upon Aquitain, Guien, & other chief Terri- 
 torys (under one pretence or another). Then I say, & before y* Time, in the raigne of Carolus 
 Magnus^7 There was strict League offensive and defensive (as need was) at Least of Friendly Amity 
 & Assistance, made and upheld between y° Scottish & French Kings so y' they mutually sent 
 succours each to other when required : w"^ made y° Entercours for Tradeing between y* Kingdoms 
 both Familliar & Frequent : And y" Royall Allyances allsoe, were sometimes used as bonds for 
 confirmation, of a more solemn Friendshipp. It is allsoe Lippis & Tonsoribus notum and needs 
 noe proof That y" Towne and Parish of Larges is in the bailiary of Coningham, and shire of Ayre 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Wherein ye Montgomerys abound & are proprietors among w"'' of especiall note, is y« Ancient 
 Family called Lairds of Skermorely, for many generations of Knightly Degree, orriginally de- 
 scended from y^ s'l Ld Montgomerys Posterity since they were Earles of Eghnton,^? as appears by 
 y* sayd Lairds Coat of Arms, wherein y« 3 Annuletts adorned w* turcoises proper in a feild Gules 
 (w* was y« Heiress of y^ Surname of Eglintons bearing) are quartered with y= sayd Earles paternall 
 Coat as Montgomerys ; onely these Lairds have not a Tressure flowry contre flowerd de Lis, as y° 
 
 of the great Montgomery. The ancient castle of the 
 family stood at a short distance from it, on a cliff over- 
 hanging the river Lelune." See Ulster Journal of Arch- 
 (Bology, vol. ix. , p. 293. 
 
 Carolus Magnits. — The author accepts the popular 
 account of the origin of the Scottish League with France 
 as told by Hector Boece and other chroniclers of his class. 
 These writers tell us " how the emperor Charlemagne, 
 having resolved to establish a vast system of national or 
 imperial education, looked around for suitable professors 
 to teach in his universities, and perceiving Scotland to be 
 the most learned of nations, and the most likely to supply 
 him with the commodity he desired, he forthwith entered 
 into a league with Achaius the then ruling monarch of 
 that ancient kingdom." This is true in the main, 
 but the learned teachers were from Ireland, the name 
 Scotia being applied to no other country at the period 
 here referred to. This Scottish king, Achaius, began 
 his reign in the year 787. Modern Scottish writers 
 are inclined to ignore the existence of any such league be- 
 tween the two countries earlier than the thirteenth cen- 
 tury. At all events, it must have become firmer and more 
 efficient when Scotland began to war for independence 
 with England, and when English kings persisted in claim- 
 ing succession to the throne of France. The League was 
 then an important reality, as it enabled " the kings of the 
 house of Valois to fight their battle on British ground 
 without sending an army there, and provided to the Scots, 
 whenever they could safely leave their homes, an oppor- 
 tunity for striking a blow at the enemy and oppressor of 
 their land." — Burton's Scot Abroad, vol. i. , p. 3. 
 
 Aire aforesaid. — See p. 460, supra. 
 
 Since they -were Earles of Eglinton. — ^The connexion of 
 Skelmorlie with the main line can be traced to an earlier 
 date than the creation of the earldom of Eglinton. The 
 
 first ovnier of Skelmorlie was George Montgomerie, the 
 second son of Alexander first lord Monlgomerie, by his 
 wife, Margaret, who was a daughter of sir Thomas Boyd 
 of Kilmarnock. This George Montgomerie died in the 
 year 1505, having received from his father, in 1461, a 
 grant of lands, known as Skelmorlie in Ayrshire, together 
 with additions in the tarony of Renfrew. The eleventh 
 in descent from him was an heiress, Lilias Montgomerie, 
 who, in the year 1759, obtained an act of parliament 
 enabling her to sell the family possessions in Renfrew- 
 shire, and to expend the proceeds in the purchase pf lands 
 adjoining her Ayrshire estate. By her husband, Alexander 
 Montgomerie of Coilsfield in Tarbolton, she had a family of 
 five sons and three daughters. Her eldest son, Hugh, who 
 was born in 1739, succeeded his mother in the estate of 
 Skelmorlie, his father in the estate of Coilsfield, and in 
 1796, became twelfth earl of Eglinton, on the death of 
 his cousin Archibald, the eleventh earl. The husband of 
 Lilias Montgomer)', who was an officer in the army, 
 received the following interesting letter from his father — 
 written at Coilsfield— in 1731: — "I am glad to hear by 
 yours that the Town will soon be too hot. Sudden may 
 it be, and be you thankfull that you have a sweet and 
 pleasant air to come home to, where you are sure to be made 
 welcome by me, your mother and sisters. Having now 
 resolved to take yourself to a pleasant country gentlemanly 
 life of improving your own ground, which I think much 
 better than fighting for your neighbours — I hope that 
 motive of improving will excite you soon to leave Edin- 
 burgh — the sooner the better for us all, and therefore will 
 not insist furder, leaving you to the protection and direc- 
 tion of our great God." — YzXex%oxC^ Parishes and Families 
 of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 309, 311; Fraser's Memorials, 
 vol. ii., p. 146. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 467 
 
 Earles, but carryeth a naked Sword in Pale as an addition & Honorable distinction of a descendant 
 from sayd Earles Family. 7° 
 
 Now, being in this place, y« Reader is desired to entertaine himselfe a little, with a breife 
 account of a Buriall Monument made by the great Grandfather of the present laird. Sir James 
 Montgomery.7' There is to y^ Church in this Town of Largs an He adjoyned, the lower part whereof 
 is Levell with ye earth & is a Large Room (vv"" a window &: Door to it) it is very neat & clean & 
 Lightsome without any ill or unsavory Scent : Round about this Room there are many cavitys in^f^j^jj ^^g^ 
 ye wall thereof : each of them capable to receive one Large coffin & therein every Corps is shutt *?tif^"^^'^ 
 upp & lys alone, with an Inscription on y^ Free Stone, w"*" closeth upp y^ Receptacle for y* Person but is layd 
 who is there Left to his unalterable Lodging. Over y^ Place which is lofted are ye Pews & Seats m™tar 
 wherein y^ Laird & his Lady, Children & servants rest themselves in time of Sermon : & may con- , 
 veniently kneell at Prayers : And ye Funerall Trophees with ye Painted & Guilded Coates of Arms, 
 of ye Family, & their Matches, are to be seen, round about & on ye Seeling thereof, all very Curious 
 & Comely, to w"*" place they ascend by Staires without ye churche.?^ 
 
 But now lett us leave this Digression w"'" is intended but as a Parcell memoire of y' worthy & 
 Signall Family, seeing it were besides my Pretence (in this work) to write Historys of all y" houses 
 
 70 Ye said Earles family. — The following are the armorial 
 bearings of the Skelmorlie Montgomerys, as given by 
 Paterson (vol, ii., p. 312) and other Scottish authorities: — 
 Arms — Qurterly, first and fourth, azure, three fleur-de-lis, 
 or, for Montgomorie ; second and third, gules, three 
 annulets, or, stoned, azure, for Eglintoun. A svford in 
 pale, point in chief, proper for difference. Crest — A 
 heart and eye over it, proper. Motto — Tout bien ou rein. 
 
 7' Si> James Montgomery. — "The present laird," sir 
 James Montgomery, vAsa held the Skermorlie estates in 
 the time of our author, was eighth in descent from the 
 original owner, and was the great-grandson of that sir 
 Robert Montgomerie, who, in 1636, built the celebrated 
 Skelmorlie aisle in connexion with the old church of 
 Largs. Sir Robert succeeded his father in 1583, and died 
 in 165 1, having thus enjoyed the family estates during the 
 long period of sixty-seven years. He is described as a 
 man of great personal courage, a quality which was very 
 frequently tested in the feud between the Montgomerys 
 and the Cunninghams, in which both his father and 
 brother had been slain, and which also afforded him 
 ample opportunities of exacting a bloody revenge. He is 
 said to have "set no bounds to his wrath, but indulged in it 
 with such eagerness as to occasion very much bloodshed 
 of his enemies. For this he was afterwards seized with 
 remorse, and in expiation performed many acts of charity 
 and mortification in his latter days." Among these acts 
 was the building of tlie "buriall monument" spoken of 
 in the text. — Paterson's Parishes and Families oj Ayrshire, 
 vol. ii., p. 310. This Robert Montgomery was knighted 
 by James VI., and created a baronet by Charles I., by 
 patent dated 1st January, 1628. Of him Wodrow states 
 {Analecta, i., p. 372) that he was "a man mighty in 
 prayer, and much at it, but very short at a time. He 
 would have left company, when in his house, frequently 
 in a little time, and retired a little to his closett, as if it 
 had been to look at a paper, and it was known it was for 
 prayer." In 1593, he married a daughter of sir William 
 
 Douglas of Drumlanrig, with whom he got a tocher of 
 7000 merks. This lady's beauty is celebrated by Alexander 
 Montgomerie, the poet, in two sonnets addressed to 
 M. D. (Margaret Douglas). She died in 1624, and was 
 buried in the aisle built by her husband. The following 
 lines are inscribed over her resting place: — 
 
 " Bis duo, bisque decern transegi virginis annos ; 
 Ter duo terque decern consociata viro, 
 F.t bis opem Lucina tulit. Mas patris imago, 
 Spesque domus superest : Feniina jussa mori, 
 Clara genus generosa, animi speciosa decore 
 Chara Deo vixi, nunc mihi cuncta Deus." 
 — Fraser's Mejttorials, vol. i., p. 160. 
 
 ^^ Staires without ye churche. — This curious structure has 
 been very fully described by the late William Dobie, Esq., 
 of Grangevale, parish of Beith, in an interesting work, 
 privately printed at Glasgow, in 1847, and entitled The 
 Parish Churches and Family Bttrying- Grounds of Ayr- 
 shire. His description represents the family vault as less 
 attractive than it appears in our text, but the change has 
 evidently been wrought by time and neglect. "Every 
 person of taste," says Mr. Dobie, " must regret that such 
 rare and beautiful specimens of monumental architecture 
 in the ornamental style of the early part of the seventeenth 
 century, should be consigned by neglect to decay, and that 
 nothing should be attempted by the noble proprietor (the 
 Earl of Eglinton) to arrest the wasting ' deliberate malice' 
 of time." The aisle, which was built in 1636, measures 
 34 feet by 22. Above the entrance door, on a panel en- 
 closed with mouldings, the quartered armorials of Mont- 
 gomery and Eglinton, impaled with Douglas and Mar, 
 are neatly sculptured, and still ni good preservation. The 
 roof of tills aisle, twenty feet high, presents forty one 
 compartments of various fomis and dimensions, the central 
 panel being occupied by the emblazoned coats of Mont- 
 gomery and Douglas, with the family motto gardez bien. 
 Each of the remaining forty compartments is adorned by 
 the pencil, with representations of a religious, emblematical, 
 or heraldic character. The monument which was erected 
 
468 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 de Lorge^ of this Surname in Scotland : which may or doe deserve a Severall full Comemoration & therefor I 
 on^e.^ ^ return to y« mention of this Town and Parish of y« Larges & doe believe this to bee y= place, from 
 ye French have Stiled, y^ aforenamed Counts Montgomerys as to be De Lorge. 
 For I conceive y« transmutation of y= Letter A: into O: by y^ French, or of O: into A: by y' 
 Scotts (as it might easily) so it hath often happened in a Little time even in y^ Same Contry: 
 much more when a word is transplanted to another Kingdom & Language, but (of this) I forbeare 
 Instances to avoyd being Tedious & superfluous & because this change of vowells in Silabs, occurrs 
 to every observer : I pray to take one Example in point, & another of a much greater Alteration, 
 Cumins Forreigners in their designations of Scotch noblemen, who have resided abroade, viz. 
 
 two bro : The Cuminss were a great family of Earles Degree but being competitors w**" Rob' Le Bruce for 
 °"cafled ™ Crown of Scotland was forced to flee &: take service in France, The French King (upon their 
 de M esme. Address) asked y^ eldest brother his Surname, he answered in y^ mode of y' Contry de Cominges, 
 y= other brother replyed to y^ like Question, de Mesme and y= posteritys of those two brothers (w* 
 yett remain in France) are called accordingly: Likewise a nobleman of y^ Douglasses Surname 
 (goeing through Italy to Jerusalem with y^ heart of K: Robert Le Bruce to be burj'ed there) 
 doiiglasses lia-Ppened to Marry & Settle himselfe in Italy & his offspring are called Scoti to their Surname ; but 
 called retaine their coats Armoriall as in Scotland, tho perchance with some Addition, — thus Surnames 
 transplanted, easily are changed in part or in whole. 73 
 
 Now my beleife afores'^ is confirmed on these and other Considerations following, viz : That 
 John Johnston makes Count James & his Son Neil, both Montgomerys to be Scottish Heroes & 
 y' in y^ prose inscription (before his Encomiastick veres on y^ sayd Count James) he designes him 
 as foUoweth viz: 
 
 Jacobus MontgO'rnerius Cofnes ; 
 
 Jacohi Lorgiani Jilius multa et Religmie, in Gallia renata feliciter gesfit 
 
 Whence may be noted y' James y^ father hath not any Tytle of Hono"" added to his name, but 
 is called I^argiannus, i.e: of y= Larges to witt Laird, Lord, owner thereof And I suppose (as 
 Probable it is) y' his Son y^ sayd Count, travelling into France, was (for service done to yt Crown) 
 created a Count (as many Scottish Gentlemen of Small Estates arive by their valors & Conducts, 
 to be Counts in Sweeden, & of ye Empire itselfe ; w'^'' last is an Honor above Counts of other 
 Contrys. And noe doubt the said count James was in great Esteem at Court, when y* K: pitcht 
 on him, to try his Skill or Prowes in Turnament or Justing as afores^. The Montgomerys of 
 
 in the year l63(), stands across the aisle, being upwards 
 of eleven feet long, five in width, and eigliteen in height. 
 Considering the period of its constniction, this monument 
 is no less remarkable for the taste, variety, and finish of its 
 details, than the purity of its architectural profiles and 
 general proportions. In the family vault, situated below 
 the monument, "the two largest coffins are covered with 
 lead, and contain the relics of Sir Robert Montgomery, 
 and those of his lady. The coffin of the latter bears on 
 the ends her family .Trmorials, and on the cover in rai.icd 
 characters — J)amc. Aiargarel Douglas. Spouse. To. Sir. 
 Robert. Montgot?iery. The coffin of sir Robert is ornamen- 
 
 ted in a similar style, but on the cover, instead of his name, 
 
 there is the following inscription : 
 
 Ipse miJii praeviortnus fui,fato funera 
 Praeriptd. ittiicuin, idque Caesareuin 
 ExonplaT, inter tot mortales secjitus." 
 
 Signifying, " I was dead before myself ; I anticipated my 
 proper funeral : alone, of all mortals, following the example 
 of Cresar, i.e., Charles V., who, it will be recollected, had 
 his obsequies performed before he died" — Scottish yournal 
 of Topography, &c., vol. i., pp. 289, 293. 
 
 In part or in -<.oholc. — Many illustrations might be 
 mentioned, of these changes of Scottish surnames when 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 469 
 
 Covean of whom the s*^ Gabriell is descended, began at last by 7*= vulgar to bee called Goveans as 
 their Surnames. Likewise I observe y' in y^ Like Inscription preceding y^ s'^ Johnston's Eulogy of 
 ye afores"^ Montgomery it is thus worded viz 
 
 Nigcllus Montgomery Lorgiamis 
 Jacobi Co?nitis filius, Belli Gloria Clarissimus : & 
 
 Hence I note y' this Neil Montgomery is only stiled as his Grandfather James (before men- 
 tioned) was : & it seems allsoe y' his father y^ Count aforesayd, (being beheaded) did Loose (with his 
 life) ye Title of Hone as forfeited from himselfe & his Posterity & therefor it is y' there is soe bare 
 an addition to ye name of this Neil. 
 
 It is allsoe to be taken notice of yt this name Neil is very frequent in Scotland, & in ye Family 
 of Skelmorely,'''' which for ye most part, possess ye sayd Towne and Parish of y^ Larges : And y' " 
 ye Grandfather, with James y^ Count his Son, & this Neile ye Grandson, were Cadetts of ye sayd 
 Family of Skelmorely is highly probable from what is before sayd & because every Generation 
 thereof send some one (or more) younger sons to France, or other Kingdoms to raise their fortunes 
 by Warr, Trade, or by Study of Divinity Laws, or Phisick, as many noble Familys in England & 
 Ireland allsoe doe, and the heires marry at home. But we must not Leave this Neile dead & his 
 Posterity too, under ye walls of Dola, in ye French Brittania. 
 
 Wee found his father ye Count fighting for y^ Reformed Religion, Taken Prisoner, And (con- 
 trary to y^ Law of Arms quarters being given) beheaded at Paris, & thereby his Hono"" & Blood 
 tainted, and wrongfully & his posterity as outed from his French lands. 
 
 Wee have heard allsoe of himselfe (ye sa Neile) in ye Civill warrs (for ye s"^ Religion) Acting 
 to ye great glory of his name & giveing strong & faithful Helpe to Henry ye 4th K : of France & 
 Navarre. Surely then it may be reasonably concluded. That as a reward for his services & compen- 
 sation for his Death : The sayd King did restore his Posterity to y^ cleer Blood & Honor & Lands 
 whereof their Ancestor, y^ s*^ Count James, was possessed : For so much meritt & ye worth of 
 those two men, their offspring could not starve : or be unregarded by so Pruddent & Bountyfull a 
 K: as Henry Burbon was. 
 
 Note, That in converse with French officers and refugees, and by inquiry at others in 1697 and 
 1698, 1 am informed that the family of Montgomerys descended from the Count de Lorge are extinct 
 and that y^ title of de Lorge (which was imposed by them on their lands in France) was given to 
 the late Marischall de Lorge his father or to himself descended of the duke de Duras his family, 
 in K: Lewes ye 13""" raigne, and perhaps the said Montgomerys lands de Lorge also, for assisting 
 the Rochellers and Protestants in their defence against that French King. 
 
 And further as to this of ye Title, it is observed, y' y<= French generally doe not use to Sub- 
 
 the bearers of them had resided for some time in France. originally into the family of Montgomery at the commence- 
 Thus the Cunninghams became Coigans, Coninglajits, and ment of the fifteenth century, until absorbed in the Eglinton 
 Cogingands; the Gowries became Cohorys; the Morrisons, estates in 1783, not one bore the christian name of TVtv/. Nor 
 Mauri(o>is; the Drummonds, Dromonls; the Lawsons, does this name appear, even as having been borne by any of 
 De Lazuus; the Williamsons, U OilUtifons; the Stewarts, their brothers or sons! But A^eil was the most prevailing 
 Stujers, Sic, &c. See Burton's Scot Abroad, vol. i. , pp. christian name among the Montgomerys of Lainshaiv, at 
 — yg. least during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. See Pater- 
 T- 111 ye family of Skelmorely. — It is curious that of the son's Parishes and Pamilies of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 309- 
 (leven owners of Skelmorley, from the date that it came 311, 453, 454. 
 
 N3 
 
470 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts. 
 
 scribe Surnames, neither the Father nor any of ye Children as I am told : so y' it is more than 
 probable to mee, That y^ Count de Lorge (whose Eldest son in his Life time is called Sieur de 
 Lorge) a distinct family & come at first from Scotland, & not perticularly descended from ye Count 
 de Montgomery, of whom I shall now write breifly not repeating w" hath been Generally sayd of him. 
 
 And first I observed y' he wites himselfe De Montgomery w*'' out his Christian name or other 
 designation. 
 
 For y' in ye year 1664 I saw ye Count de Montgomery at White Hall ; he came over in Grand 
 Equipage with three French Ambassadors, The Cheife whereof was an old Abbott, who had a great 
 Revennue, & was a Bastard of K: Henry y^ 4"' aforesayed : King Charles ye 2^ called him unkle. 
 
 This Count de Montgomery was a little black haired man, very Brave in his Apparel & Re- 
 tinue ; I visited him once after I had first accosted him at Court ; my French Tongue was then a 
 little out of use, & he had noe good Latin (as I believe) scarce more than to say his creed & 
 prayers by. So far I could Learn Little of him, concerning his family, but y' his Ancestors had 
 been counts & great men in Normandy, and of Large Estates, ever since and before Duke William 
 conquered England. Hee was (as I fancyed) ill read in History & unskillfull of his Geneology (as 
 most men are careless of it) he sayd he had at home a Tree of his Predecessors names. Hee was 
 not then under any great comand in France, & truely I find little of his family in y" French 
 Chronicles, altho I have read and searched De Serres, de girard, & other Authors of y' kind, and 
 soe I Leave him & them. 75 
 
 returning to enquire (as I have done concerning James and Neill de Lorge soe likewise) of 
 Gabriel de Gabriell De Lorge : Now y* hee was Montgomery, And his Surname written as now I doe, is not 
 I'Oige- doubted : but y' he was of y" house of Govean, & stiled Count Montgomery de Lorge, and why 
 not de Govean is a Question w""" may thus be answered : viz. y' y^ Family of Govean might allsoe 
 be Lairds of Largs, as Mr. Francis Montgomery, y'' present Earle of Eglintons neerest brother, is 
 
 « Soe Heave him &= them. — The following account of 17- Charles II. de Valois fils puisne' le recut, 1326, en Tairie du Roi 
 
 the Comtes d'Alenfon was extracted from old records in ,3. 
 
 Normandy m the year 1840 :— iq, Pierre II. le Noble, son fils, mort 20 Septembre, 1404. 
 
 Les armes de i. Jean II. le Sage, son fils, en faveur duquel le Comte d'Alen9on 
 
 Montgomerie Comte d'Alen9on, d'azure au lion d'or arme et lamposse fut erige en Duche Pairie, le I'me Janvier 1414 ; tue k Agincourt, 
 
 d'argent — ecarlate de Belesme, qui est d'aigent a trois chevrons de 25th Oct. I'an 1415. 
 
 Gueules. 2. Jean III. le Bon son fils, mort I'an, 1475. 
 
 1. Comte d'Alen90n, Yves de Bellesme, mort I'an 944. 3. Rene' son fils. mort I'me Novembre I'an, 1492. 
 
 2. Guillaume I. son fils, mort I'an 1028. 4. Charles IV. son fils, mort 14 Avrii I'an, 1525. 
 
 3. Robert I. son fils, mort I'an 1035. Le 8 Fevrier, 1566, le Roi Charles IX. donna Duche d'AlenSon 
 
 4. Guillaume II. did Falves, chosse par a son frere, 
 
 5. Arnulfe, son frere, auquel succeda, 5. Frangois, mort 10 Juin I'an, 1584. 
 
 6. Yves II. son oncle, Eveque de Sies, mart I'an 1074. Le Duche fit partie de I'apanage de 
 
 7. Mabille, fille de Guillaume II. morte s Decembre, 1082, epouse 6. Charles de France, dnc de Berri par lettres de Juin, 1710 ; fut 
 
 de Roger de Montgomery. de Noveau reuni a la couronne par sa mort, s. p. 4iMaii, 1724. 
 
 SECONDE RACE. — Mrs. E. G. S. Reilly's Genealogical History, pp. 69. 70. 
 
 8. Robert de Montgomery, son fils Comte d'Alenson, mort I'an, 76 Francis Montgomery. — This Mr. Francis Montgomerj- 
 
 n^^?°' TTT f 1 T • v who acquired the lands of Govean and Hessilhead, resided 
 
 9. Guillaume III. dit Falvas, mort 29 Juni I an 1 171. , . ^, rr--rr ■ t • 1 r -r, • 1 i 1 
 ID. Jean, son fils, mort 24 Fevrier 1199. on his estate 01 Giffon, m the pansh of Beith, and was only 
 
 11. Juan, son fils, mort 6 Maii 1191. brother of Alexander, the eighth earl of Eglinton, who died 
 
 12. Guillaume IV. son frere, mort 1203. in ijoi.—Taterson's Parishes anii Fami/ies,o/ Ayrshire, vol. 
 
 13. Robert 111. son frere, mort 8 Septembre I2T7. •• „„o • tit c^v. 1 j 
 X4. Robert IV. fils posthum^, mort Aoiit 1219. 11. , pp. 238, 239. Francis Montgomery was one of the lords 
 
 TRoisiEME RACE • °^ ''^^ privy council, and a commissioner of the treasuiy, in 
 
 Alix, sa soeur, c€da en Janvier, 1220, le Comt^ d'Alengon au Roi, the reign of William III., and queen Anne. He was a 
 
 Phillipe-Auguste, ayeul de Saint Louis, qui au mois de Mars. 1263, member of parliament for the county of Ayr during many 
 
 le donna a undeses fils, years, and his name appears on the important Scottish 
 
 15. Pierre de France, mort s. p. 6 Aofit I an 1283. i-, ' ■ ■ ,. , ■ ^- ^- ..u • -..i. 
 
 En 1293, le Roi Philipe le Bel le donna a son frere, Commission which assisted in negotiating the union with 
 
 16. Charles, Comte de Valois, morf I'an, 1325. England of 1707. — Hid., vol. i., p. 288. 
 
The Montgomery Manuscripts. 471 
 
 Laird both of Govean & Hasilhead, w"'' Estates are distant some miles, & had several owners 
 Montgomerys for divers descents; but are now come by purchase money to y^ s*^ Francis : what 
 hinders then : but y'^ y° s"* Gabriell (by y" French King) might be styled from his possession in y° 
 Largs, & so called de Lorge. but y' he was a Scottish man is Evident, in y' he was descended of 
 Y house of Govean, and allsoe y' he was made Cap* over y° Scotts (as it was most proper to bee) 
 when y° Guard afores"* of y' nation was Listituted. 
 
 Now haveing cleered these points, as well as my knowledge in those matters could affoord, Speed's 
 I will proced to a Testimony or two, taken out of Speeds History of Englands monarchs, one 1"™'^'^^,^°'^ 
 relates (as I suppose) to a Scottish Montgomery : you have it in vita Elizabethse, page 1139, sect, gomerys. 
 29, where he says, y' Ambrose Dudley, Earle of Warwick, y^ Queens Gen" of some English Forces, 
 Landed at Newhaven y° 29th of October, 1562, where his Comission was proclaimed & oath taken : ' 
 and That Strength of Scottish men, were sent unto him from Deip, whereof Monsieur Montgomery Havre de 
 (thus y" surname is spelled, and not as y'' Count de Mongomery writes himselfe) was presently 
 made Governour : 
 
 The occasion of this support given by Y Queen was partly to gett Reparation for Seizures 
 made by y^ French of English Shipps, but mostly to favour y° Reformation of Religion : wherein 
 Monsieur Vidame and y° overruling inhabitants of Rouen, Deip, and New Haven were engaged. 
 Now I take this Montgomery (from his Surname so spelled) ; from his fighting for y" Reformed 
 Religion, & from y"" comand he had given to him over y" Scotts and over y' town, and y' firm trust 
 reposed in him by y'' English Generall, I say I take him therefor to have been a Scottish Pro- 
 testant, or of y' Extraction : AUtho perhapps bredd or borne in France, because y° Scottish 
 Lingua was necessary to Exercise his command over people of -f nation as y° French tongue was 
 for y* Townsmen. ^^ 
 
 This Montgomery certainly was a Famous Person : For hee being Governor of Roun, it was 
 gained from him ; tho with Loss of y' King of Navarrs Life, as he was veiwing where it was weakest. 
 
 The other mention y' Speed makes is (I believe) of a French Montgomery, you have it page 
 1035, sect. 129, in vita Henry 8: this Gentleman is called Monsieur Mungumery (there is u put 
 for o) of y° order of France (i.e., as I take it Knt. of Y Holy Ghost) who was sent to aid Scotland 
 w"* 5000 men to maintain y'' Breach between y" Scotts and King Henry y' 8th afores* touching 
 y* marriage of young Mary Queen of Scotts, & tis likely he might have been of y^ Family of Count 
 de Mongomery in Normandy, and so fittest to command the French auxiliary s.''^ I find in the 
 
 " For ye i02imsmi'n. — The 'difficulty' between the 78 77ie Frenc/i aitxi/iaiys.— When Mary queen of Scots 
 governments of England and France on that occasion arose was bom, in 1 542, Edward, the heir to the throne of 
 after the death of the young king Francis, who was sue- England, was a boy of five years of age. It seemed as if 
 ceeded by his younger brother, Charles IX. Although these two children should have been destined to form a 
 sir Henry Sidney had been sent into France to make peace marriage alliance, and by this means to have united the 
 between the parties headed respectively by Guise and two countries, which, for generations, had been desolated 
 Conde, yet the French fleet employed itself in seizing by bloody wars. Henry VIII., determined that this union 
 English merchant ships and imprisoning the men, "no should be accomplished, as the best, and, indeed, only 
 other cause alleaged, but that they were Hugonets." The means of effectually excluding French influence from 
 forces sent from England under the earl of Warwick, to Scotland. To secure so desirable a result, he demanded 
 obtain redress for these grievances, were strengthened by the custody of Mary, and being refused, he imperiously 
 Scottish troops from Dieppe, commanded by Monsieur dispatched a whole army to take the royal child by force. 
 i1/w/g-t;/«<?ry, an officer of Scottish extraction. This move- He would have undoubtedly done so, but for the inter- 
 ment occurred in September, 1562.— Speed's Cfu-onidis, ference of the French, who arrived in the Firth of Forth 
 1632, p. 1 1 39. in June 1548, and soon afterwards carried off the youthful 
 
472 
 
 The Montgomery Manuscripts, 
 
 rythmicall book of Wm. Wallace Acts, p. 143, that S' Neil Montgomery, as I presume of Skel- 
 morlie, was the the third person enter* the Barns of Aire, erected to hold a Justice Aire Court 
 before English Judges, 18 June, 1296, to pay homage for his lands, and was hanged with 18 score 
 Barons and Knights who were permitted to enter 7? but one at once, and y' murder not knowTi till 
 next day that they were all thrown out of Barns naked corpses : this was such another treacherous 
 massacre as the Saxons perpetrated on the nobility and gentry of the Brittaines, under cuUor of a 
 friendly meeting to treat of a linall Peace. * # * * * # 
 
 Memorandum — It is observed and said by Mr. Ja. Montgomery, y' young laird of langshaw^ 
 (who hath a good imploym' in the Courts of Judicature in Scotland, and is richly married in Edin- 
 burgh), that gen"" the Montgomerj^s of that kingdom (especially y' C^adetts of familys) have raised 
 themselves by lands or togher goods^' (i.e., marriage portions) gotten by women whom they wedded, 
 it seems when born they have been wrapped in their mothers smocks, but that good fortune hath not 
 so universally happened to our Surname in Ireland, as maybe observed in the ensuing memoirs of them. 
 
 Scottish queen to France. In the French forces a Monsieur 
 Mungumry held an important command. He was pro- 
 bably the officer referred to in the preceding note, although 
 Speed spells the name somewhat differently. 
 
 '9 Permitted to enter. — The author here refers to the 
 savage cruelty practised by Edward I. at the Barns of 
 Ayr (commonly called the Black Parliament), where, as 
 it is stated in the Coinplayiit of Scotlanri, " under culour of 
 familiarite, he gart hang, ciuelly and dishonestly, to the 
 nummer of sixten scoir of the maist noble of the cuntre, 
 in faldomis of cordis, tua and tua ouer ane balk." This 
 atrocious act was perpetrated " vnder culour of faith and 
 concord; quha comperit at his instance, nocht hefiand 
 suspittione of his tresonabil consait. " — pp. 144, 159, 160. 
 The passage in the " Rythmical book of Sr William 
 Wallaces Acts," to which the text refers, is as follows: — 
 
 " Stern men was set the entre for to hald,1 
 
 Nane micht pass in, bot aye as they were cald. 
 
 Schyr Ranald firste, to mak sewte for his land, 
 
 The knight went in, and wad na langcr stand ; 
 
 A rynnand cord thai slewit our his hed 
 
 Hard to the bawkt, and hangyt him to ded. 
 
 Schlr Bryss the Blayr, next wi' his eyme in past ; 
 
 On to the ded thai haistyt him full fast ; 
 ■ Be he entrit, his hed was in the swar 
 
 Tylt to the hawk, hangyt to ded rycht thar. 
 
 The third entrit, that pete was for thy 
 
 A gentill knight, Schir Neill of Wungumry 
 
 And other fell of landit men about, 
 
 Mony geid in, but no Scottis come out, &c," 
 — Wallace, b. vii., 1. 201. 
 
 On this subject we have the following remarks in Pater- 
 son's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. i. , p)5. 26, 
 27: — " The burning of the ISarns of Ayr is auothernotable 
 incident in the career of the patriot (Wallace.) . 
 According to Barbour, who is a credible authority, and Blind 
 Harry, the governour had summoned a number of the neigh- 
 bouring gentry to attend at the Barns, under the pretext 
 of holding a Justice Aire. As they entered the building 
 they were treacherously seized and hanged. Amongst 
 those who suffered were Sir Reginald Crawford, Sheriff of 
 Ayr, and maternal uncle of Wallace; Sir Neil Montgo- 
 mery of Cassilis; Sir Bryce Blair of Blair; and Crystal of 
 Seton. Wallace is represented by his biographer as hav- 
 ing been in the North, at the head of a considerable force 
 at the time. In this he differs from Blind Harry, wlio 
 makes the tr.igedy occur v.'hilc Wallace, leaving his uncle 
 
 at Kincase, had gone back to Crabie for the treaty of 
 peace. Learning on his return what had taken place, he 
 immediately collected all his adherents, and surrounding 
 the Bams at midnight, took signal vengeance by setting 
 fire to the building, and destroying all within. A number 
 of English soldiers lodged in the convent of Black Friars, 
 which stood near the Barns, were at the same time put to 
 the sword by the ecclesiastics ; which slaughter, it is said, 
 gave rise to the popular saying of the ' Friar of Ayr's 
 blessing.' Doubt has been thrown upon this event by 
 Lord Hailes, who, though in general critically correct, 
 allows his scepticism too much latitude ; but he has been 
 ably replied to by the late Dr. Jamieson, in his notes upon 
 Wallace. .... Lord Hailes, following 
 the English historians closely, and finding no mention of 
 the fact, was led to question the truth of it. Still, more 
 do we differ with Dr. Jamieson in thinking that the Barns 
 were, according to the diction of Blind Harry, merely the 
 English quarters, erected by order of Edward for the ac- 
 commodation of his troops.' If there is meaning in the 
 Latin and English languages, their quarters were literally 
 barns, erected for storing com. Blair, in the original 
 Latin, uses the word boreas, and his translator, Henr}-, 
 the corresponding English term, barns. Barbour, in his 
 Bruce, renders the nature of the building still more clear : 
 * Thus gate endyt his worthynes 
 
 And off Crawford als Schyr Ranald wes, 
 
 And Schyr Bryce als the Blar, 
 
 Hangyt in-lill a berne in Ar.' 
 
 We know from local history that Ayr had, in the verna- 
 cular of Blind Harry, 'gret bemyss, biggj't without th-: 
 town,' and that these barns were used, in connection with 
 the mills, as a depositoiy for the grain belonging to the 
 burgh. Each burgess had his toft of land, besides the 
 large extent held in common by the burgh, consequently 
 the barn or barns must have been ample which could 
 accommodate the whole of the produce. Barns of this 
 description existed, perhaps on the very spot where they 
 anciently stood, until a very recent period. SecurinS 
 the crop in stacks, we rather think, is a comparatively 
 modern practice — of old the whole crop was packed in 
 the barn, as is still the case in remote straths and glens in 
 various parts of the country. " 
 
 ^° Laird of langshaw. — See p. 359, supra. 
 Togher goods. — Seep, ni, supra. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbey lands in Ulster, forfeited, 20 ; granted to Hibbots 
 
 and Kinge, 32. 
 Abercorn, first earl of, 72; his will, zA; vicissitudes of 
 
 his family, 75. 
 Achelfieda, built Bridgenorth, 453. 
 
 Acton Burnell, a family of the Montgomerys settled at, 458. 
 Adair, family of Dunskey and Kinhilt, 112, 113. 
 
 , Robert, sir, 112; his Ballymena estate, II^, 122. 
 
 , William, 138. 
 
 Adams, a whole family of this name destroyed by wolves, 
 117. 
 
 Adventurers, who, 161. 
 Aitkin, Thomas, 135. 
 Alenfon, Counts d', descent of, 470. 
 Alexander TIL, defeats Haco, king of Norway, 26. 
 Alexander, Anthony, sir, second son of the first earl of 
 Stirling, 133. 
 
 , Charles, fifth son of first earl of Stirling, 133, 
 
 141. 
 
 , Jean, second viscountess Montgomeiy, date of 
 
 her death, 267. 
 , John, fourth son of first earl of Stirling, notice 
 
 of, 132, 141. 
 
 , William, sir, created first earl of Stirling, 24, 
 
 35; notice of, 73, 74; his promotions, 87 ; grants to, 
 in America, ; burial of, 92 ; his motto parodied, 
 88; his lands in Ulster, 3.; his version of the Psalms, 
 402. 
 
 , William, lord, eldest son of first earl of Stir- 
 ling, 133, 142. 
 Allen, James, 229, 233. 
 
 , John, 229, 233. 
 
 , lady, 226, 233. 
 
 — ■ — , P-obert, 229, 233. 
 
 , Thomas, 229, 232, 233. 
 
 , William, 229, 233. 
 
 Allen's Court, estate of, granted to the first earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, 229. 
 Amelandt, island of, 177, 411. 
 Amer Gaa, tombstone of, in Greyabbey, 147. 
 Anacloy, river of, where, 321. 
 Anchorite cells, 166. 
 
 Anderson, William, his Genealogical History, 2. 
 Annesley, Francis, of Clough, 320. 
 
 Armock, ford of, assassination of the fourth earl of Eg- 
 
 linton at, 6, iii, 116. 
 Antipater, quotation from, 63. 
 
 Antrim, marquis of, a kinsman of the Savages of the Ards, 
 
 89; his escapes from prison, 425-427. 
 , countess dowager of, her residence, 426 ; her 
 
 pecuniary difficulties, ib. 
 , town of, the meeting of British officers at, in 1645, 
 
 162. 
 
 Archery, the practice of enforced, 92. 
 
 Ardbraccan, bishop's house at, 102 ; bishop Montgomeiy 
 
 buried at, 109. 
 Ardes and Claneboys, occupants of in 1652, 323. 
 Ardglass, earls of, family settlement in Down, 218, 21-9, 
 
 307- 
 
 , tenants on the estate of, 418. 
 
 , town of, sketch of its history, 456. 
 
 Ardquin, Inquisition at, 35. 
 
 Ardrossan Castle, site of, and nunous condition, 461. 
 Ards, desolate state of, in 1606, 58. , 
 Argyle, marquis of, his reception of Charles XL, 338. 
 Armorial Bearings, of earls of EgHnton, no. 
 
 , of earls of Mount-Alexander, ill. 
 
 , of lairds of Braidstane, ib. 
 
 , of Montgomerys of Greyabbey, ib. 
 
 Arms, borne by the Montgomerys of Acton Burnell, 459. 
 Army, Scottish, arrival of, in 1642, 127 ; broken up in 
 
 Ulster, 174, 175. 
 Arran, earl of, at Carrickfergus, 423, 429. 
 Array, commissioners of, 381. 
 
 Arthur, Dr. Thomas, extracts from his fee-book, 426 ; 
 
 wrote Fitzivilliam after his name, ib. 
 Arthur, King, his burial-place, 447 ; account of his tomb, 
 
 ib. 
 
 Ascollin, John, complaint of, 121. 
 
 Asp, best wood for making arrows, 92. 
 
 Atchievement, what, 144. 
 
 Auchted claws, what, 225. 
 
 Augustin, captain, notice of, 171, 
 
 Ayr, Barns of, massacre perpetrated in, 472. 
 
 Badgers, Irish and other names for, 1 1 7. 
 
 Bagenal, Marshal, his notice of Upper Clannaboy, 79. 
 
 Bagnall, colonel, of Dunleckney, his fate, 202. 
 
 , Mr., his tenants, 418. 
 
 Bagnalls, the family of, 307. 
 Ballaghenery, massacre at, 319. 
 Ballyatwood house, by whom built, 439. 
 Ballydugan, house of, 321. 
 
 Ballyhornan, dispute concerning, 367 ; various owners 
 
 of, 368; recovery of, 413. 
 Ballymagowan, second earl visits, 283 ; occupation of, 
 
 373. 374; improvements at, 381. 
 Bankhead, Rev. John, bequests to, 277. 
 Barclay, Robert, dean of Clogher, notices of, 131, 140. 
 Bared or Barrad, what, 37. 
 Barkharn, or Barcham, Rev. John, notice of, 5- 
 Baronet, of Nova Scotia, 87. 
 
 Barrow, notice of, 203; colonel, 417 ; his severity, 421. 
 Bayly, Thomas, Dr., notice of, 257- 
 Beaulieu, the Montgomerys of, 354; inscription in church- 
 yard of, ib. 
 
 I 
 
11 
 
 Index. 
 
 Belesme, Robert de, eldest son of Roger de Montgomery, 
 450 ; his cruelties, ib.; notice of, ib.; walled the city 
 of Bridgenorth, 453. 
 
 — , Mable de, wife of Roger de Montgomeiy, 449. 
 
 Belfast, notice of, 21 ; Bonnivert's account of, 425; its cus- 
 tom-house, its bridges, ib. 
 
 Bellers, Baldwin, 452, 454. 
 
 Bells, six given to churches by the first viscount Mont- 
 gomery, 1215. 
 Benburb, notice of battles at, 164, 165, 409. 
 Berkley, sir John, 264. 
 
 Betty, Edward, the dwarf, account of, 113-I15. 
 Beverly, Mr., 249. 
 
 Bingley, major, high sheriff of county Down, 368. 
 
 Binnenhoff, the, reference to, 12. 
 
 Bishops, Irish, ceremony at their consecration, 433. 
 
 , Scottish, deposition of, 431, 432. 
 
 Blackhouse. where, 52 ; family of, 52, 53. 
 Blackstaff, river of, in the county of Down, 316. 
 Blackstown, farm of, 26, 
 
 Blackwater, victory of Hugh O'Neill at the, 24. 
 Blair, James, Mr., of Portpatrick, 135. 
 Blaney, fourth baron, his widow marries Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, 354. 
 Blearie, account of this nickname, 442. 
 Blondels, family of, 313. 
 Blood, major, sketch of, 236. 
 Blood, stained in, what, 150. 
 Bodach Sassenach, meaning of the phrase, 22. 
 Bodley, captain, is entertained at Downpatrick, 349. 
 Bonny-clabber, what, 38. 
 
 Booth, sir George, notice of his insurrectionary attempt, 
 218. 
 
 Borebrief, or Birthbrief, what, no. 
 Borlace, sir John, notice of, 159. 
 
 Boughton-Malherbe church, monument in, to Daniel 
 
 O'Neill, 83. 
 Boyd, Alexander, tutor to the author, 409. 
 , David, colonel, obtains a grant from Con O'Neill, 
 
 41 ; his purchase of lands in Grey Abbey parish, 53. 
 , John, 134. 
 
 , Marion, countess of Abercorn, letter of, 116. 
 
 , Robert, son of colonel David, 53. 
 
 , Thomas, of Whitehouse, 139. 
 
 , Thomas, member of parliament for Bangor, family 
 
 of, 237. 
 
 , Thomas, of Portavogie, his will, 409. 
 
 Brabazon, lord, his daughter marries bishop Montgomery, 
 loi ; notice of, 
 
 Braidstane, lairds of, 3, 4 ; lands of, 3 ; lands of sold by 
 third viscount Montgomery, 256. 
 
 , sixth laird of, his marriage, 10 ; his escape, 
 
 13, 14 ; created a knight, 29 ; is charged with spoil- 
 ing Coppran's barque, 121. 
 
 Bramhall, primate, notice of, 430; his Fair Warning, 433. 
 
 Breakens, what, 65. 
 
 Breda, Charles II. 's declaration at, 227. 
 Brereton, sir William, his notice of Lisbum, 246. 
 Brett, Bernard, of Ballynewport, 376. 
 Bridgenorth, walled by Robert de IJelesme, 453. 
 Brisbanes, burial-place of the, 10. 
 
 Broghill, lord, the principal counsellor of Richard Crom- 
 well, 216 ; assists in planning the restoration of 
 Charles II., 220. 
 
 Brownies, notices of, 184, 185. 
 
 Bruce, Robert, sword of, 389. 
 
 Brugh or Burgh, Edward, notice of, 170. 
 
 Bryansford, notice of, 319. 
 
 Buchanan, George, notice of his Latin version of the 
 Psalms, 398. 
 
 , William, major, notice of, 249. 
 
 Buccleuch, earl of, his funeral, 131. 
 
 Buckingham, the great duke of, 76. 
 
 Bugham, or Brechem, what, 37. 
 
 Bunyan, John, his names for time-servers, 259. 
 
 Bmgess, William, 135. 
 
 Burley, William, gent., 138. 
 
 Bury, or Barry, sir William, a parliamentary commis- 
 sioner, 220. 
 Busby, good wife of, 146, 147. 
 Butter, nissan, what, 38 ; found in bogs, ib. 
 Butts, what, 91. 
 
 Campbell, Charles, his letter, 123. 
 
 , Charles, captain, goes from Coote to Monk, 
 
 224 ; notice of, 249. 
 , Hugh, 250. 
 
 , Mungo, sir, sent to solicit regiments in Ulster, 
 
 325- 
 
 , meaning of this surname, 443 ; family of, ib. 
 
 Cameron, meaning of this surname, 443 ; family of, ib. 
 Canoco, forest of, 457. 
 
 Capel, Hemy, baron Tewksbury, his Irish policy, 286; 
 his death, 287. 
 
 Carew, family of, descended from Amulph de Montgo- 
 mery, 451. 
 
 Carlingford, castle of, when built, 314. 
 
 , presbyterian ministers impiisoned at, 238. 
 
 239- 
 
 Camasure, Hamiltons of, 372, 377. 
 
 Carr, Gilbert or Gibby, colonel, his ser\-ices for the 
 covenant, 340 ; engages in Blood's Plot, 341. 
 
 Carrickfergus, escape of Con O'Neill from, 26 ; conditions 
 of peace obtained at, 275 ; two attempts to seize, 276; 
 surprise of the castle of, in 1666, 423 ; escapes of the 
 marquis of Antrim from, 425-427 ; castle of, by whom 
 built, 428 ; sufferings of its inhabitants, 429 ; its 
 charters, 429, 430. 
 
 Carrickmacross, inscriptions in the old tower and church 
 of, 388. 
 
 Carrow, county Fermanagh, inherited by Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, 354. 
 
 Cashan, John, Con O'Neill's attorney, 41, 42. 
 
 CastlebeUingham, tablet in church of, 374. 
 
 Castlereagh, grand debauch at, 22 ; site of, 23 ; meaning 
 of the name, ib. 
 
 Cathcart, Robert and James, esqrs., of Ballymacreny and 
 Ballygovernor, 146. 
 
 Catherine de Medici, procures the execution of count 
 Montgomery, 464. 
 
 Catherwood, family of, in Donaghadee parish, 54. 
 
 , William, his purchase of lands, 54; attends 
 
 the funeral of first viscount, 134. 
 
 Caulfeild, Toby, sir, 260. 
 
 , William, first viscount Charlemont, t*. 
 
 Cavaliers, who, 203. 
 Cecil, Robert, sir, 35. 
 
 Cessation, of 1643, notice of, 324, 325 ; letters relating to, 
 from commanders of the British forces in Ulster, 325. 
 Cesses, Irish, account of, 46. 
 
Index. 
 
 iii 
 
 Chair, of inauguration, 33. 
 Chambers, Catherine, 349. 
 
 , Daniel, 349. 
 
 Chancel, meaning of the word, 122. 
 Chaplains, brought to the Ards, 61. 
 
 Charlemagne, his alleged league with Achaius king of 
 Scotland, 466. 
 
 Charlemont, fort of, why so named, 270. 
 
 , first lord, connected by marriage with Mount- 
 Alexander, 243. 
 
 Charles I., anecdote of, 91, 92; sons of, noticed, 178; 
 sold to the English, 333; anxious to have his father's 
 translation of the Psalms adopted in public worship, 
 403; works of, 433. 
 
 Charles II., proclaimed at Newtown in 1649, 68; his re- 
 ference to Daniel O'Neill's death, 84 ; his blasphe- 
 mous comparisons, 335 ; his return to Scotland from 
 Holland, 336; accepts the terms proposed by Scottish 
 estates, ib. ; his lieraldic requirements, 337 ; viewing 
 of the army, and its results, 341, 342 ; crowned at 
 Scone, ib. ; marches his Scottish army into England, 
 ib. ; is defeated by Cromwell at Worcester, ib. 
 
 Chase and Warren, meaning of the tenns, 43. 
 
 Chedchec, Chedzoy, Chedder, notice of, 9. 
 
 Cheese, not much used by the Irish, 39 ; found in bogs, 39. 
 
 Chesterfield, countess of, married to Daniel O'Neill, 83, 
 84 ; erects a monument to his memory, 83. 
 
 Chichester, Arthur, captain, notice of, i6o. 
 
 , Arthur, sir, notices of, 48, 50 ; designs of, in 
 
 reference to Con O'Neill, 37; urges the plantation, 
 
 , Arthur, sir, son of John of Dungannon, 246. 
 
 , Edward, lord, notice of, 154, 160. 
 
 ■ House, lands sold by public auction at, 375; 
 
 sketch of, 231. 
 Church lands, forfeited during the Commonwealth, 207, 
 
 208. 
 
 Cinel-Eoghain, their territory, 45. 
 
 Clady Ford, skirmish at, 354. 
 
 Claims, Court of, its corrupt character, 233, 234. 
 
 Clanbrasill, countess of, 418. 
 
 — • , first earl of, attacked by a Brownie, 183 — 185 ; 
 
 death of, in 1659, 224. 
 
 , Henry, second earl of, 246. 
 
 , earls of, their motto, 302. 
 
 Clannaboy, northern, its extent, 13^ 
 
 , Southern, or Upper, its situation, 13 ; sub- 
 divisions of, 35 ; notices of, 79. 
 
 Clarendon, Henry, lord, his letters referring to sir Robert 
 Colville, 280. 
 
 Classes, Act of, what, 338. 
 
 Clements, family of, noticed, 171. 
 
 Climacterick, gi-and, what, 74, 378. 
 
 Cloaks, mourning, hired in Belfast, 253. 
 
 Cloghwooter Castle, notice of, 165, 166. 
 
 Clonmel, surrender of Protestant delinquents at, 193. 
 
 Clotworthy, family of, noticed, 156. 
 
 ■ , John, son of Francis, notice of, 163. 
 
 , John, sir, 221. 
 
 Cloughmaghrecatt, notice of, 320. 
 
 Clough-oughter, castle of, 115. 
 
 Cochran, lieutenant-colonel, 250. 
 
 Cocks, or Cox, Samuel, notice of, 210. 
 
 Coghran or Cochran, Hugh, notice of, 163. 
 
 Coke, chief justice, record cited by, 457. 
 
 Cole, William, sir, notice of, 157; his great services in 
 1641, ib.; his letter, 157, 158; owing sir Jas. Mont- 
 gomeiy ^"500, 343. 
 
 Coles, captain, Monaghan, 393. 
 
 Colpaghs, meaning of the word, 38. 
 
 Colville, Alexander, D. D., 140; his influence in Ulster, 
 205 ; his alleged sorcery, ib. ; refuses the covenant 
 and repudiates the Presbytery, ib.; traditions respect- 
 ing, ib. 
 
 , Hugh, date of his death, 122. 
 
 , Robert, sir, builds a chapel in Newtown, 122 ; 
 
 date of his death, ib. ; purchases the manor and 
 lordship of Newtown, 267 ; purchases Templechrone, 
 &c. , 268 ; purchases the manor and lordship of Com- 
 ber, 268; his vast estates, 273, 274; slighted by 
 the Protestant leaders, ; acts as a mediator, 279; 
 character of, 280. 
 
 , Rose, lady, date of her death, 122. 
 
 Comber, lands in the manor of, 268, 269. 
 
 Comer, derivation of this name, 64; illustrations of the 
 word, 64. 
 
 Commenda, meaning of the phrase in commcndam, 28. 
 
 Commissions, several appointed in connexion with the 
 Act of Settlement, 232. 
 
 Commonwealth, great efficiency of its government, 199. 
 
 Compositions, Cromwell's liberality in granting, 199. 
 
 Comyns, their surnames in France, 468. 
 
 Coningham, Albert, sir, notice of, 394. 
 
 Coningham, William, an attendant on sir James Mont- 
 gomery, 344. 
 
 Conningham, sir James, knight, 140. 
 
 , Dan., or Dav., sir, notice of, 161. 
 
 Conway, Amy, dame, litigation concerning woods, 86. 
 
 , Edward, notice of, 170. 
 
 , earl of, his estates, 246 ; letter to sir George 
 
 Rawdun respecting Leckey, 238; extracts from his 
 letters relating to improvements, 246, 247. 
 
 , Fulk, sir, 77 ; lands in possession of, at his 
 
 death in 1624, 78. 
 
 — , colonel, is a bondsman for sir James Montgo- 
 mery, 182. 
 
 , members of this family noticed, 154, 155. 
 
 Cooper, colonel, governor of Ulster, 219. 
 
 Coote, sir Charles, besieged in Londonderry, 188; notice 
 of, ib.; his cruelties to the Irish, ib.; assists in plan- 
 ning the Restoration, 220 ; letter of Charles II. to, ib. ; 
 vast grants of forfeited lands to, 220, 221; story of 
 his rapacity, 221; invites Charles II. to Ireland, 224; 
 visits Rosemount, 328; receives contributions of men 
 and provisions from the Montgomerys and others, ib. 
 
 — — , Hannah, lady, visits Rosemount, 328; her family, 
 
 Coppran, Thomas, complaint of, 121. 
 
 Corbet, John, account of, 433, 434 ; the author of the 
 Epistle Congrahilatorie of Lysimachus Nicanor, ib. 
 
 , John, supposed son of Miles Corbett, 202. 
 
 , Miles, notice of, 202. 
 
 Coshering, illustrations of, 46, 47. 
 
 Covenant, Scottish, varieties of, 127. 
 
 , Solemn League and, in Ulster, 365 ; different 
 
 views of those engaging in it, 432. 
 
 Covenant-teachers, their influence in Ulster, 326 ; their 
 zeal for the covenant in Scotland, 326, 327 ; their 
 testimonies, ib. : excite the Scottish mob to plunder 
 in Ulster, 327 ; remonstrances against their conduct, 
 327, 328 ; doctrines and aims of, 333. 
 
IV 
 
 Index. 
 
 Coventry, Thomas, his account of viscounts Montgomeiy 
 
 and Hamilton, 8l. 
 Cowan, Mary, her dowry, 91. 
 Cowley, Abraham, his Davideis, 398. 
 Cows, prey of, from Iveagh and Kinelearty, 154. 
 Coyle, now Quoile, bridge over the, 320. 
 Crawford, Alexander, 248. 
 
 , countess of, 16. 
 
 , John, 138. 
 
 , Robert, 248. 
 
 Creaght, what, 59. 
 
 Crebilly, or Craigbilly, lands of, 90. 
 
 Creditors, list of the author's, 383. 
 
 CromYVfell, captain Edward, notice of, 160; sale of part 
 of the family estates to Matt. Forde, 223, 224. 
 
 , Elizabeth, lady, explains the relationship that 
 
 existed amon^ the Cromwells, Morevilles, and Mont- 
 gomerys, 455, 457; notice of her life, 457. 
 
 , Henry, appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland, 207; 
 
 endeavours to reconcile various religious factions, 
 209; invites their representatives to Dublin, ib.; 
 favours \Vm. Montgomery, the author, 210; favours 
 viscount Moore, 21 1; mildness of his government, 
 211 ; list of preachers pensioned by, 212; difficulties 
 of his position in Dublin, 215 ; resigns the lord-lieu- 
 tenancy, 217; his death, 218. 
 
 , Oliver, landing of, at Dublin, 191 ; his liberal 
 
 treatment of the author, 199; notices of his death, 
 214; magnificence of his funeral, 216; his letter re- 
 specting viscount Moore, 204, 205 ; his auspicious 
 day, 415. 
 
 , Richard, proclaimed Protector in Dublin, 
 
 214; his residence at Whitehall, 215 ; proceedings of 
 his parliament, ib.; his abdication and death, 216; 
 lampoons on, 217. 
 
 , Vere Essex, fourth and last earl of Ardglass, 
 
 his death, 295 ; his family, 218, 219. 
 
 Crymble, Waterhouse, notice of, 136. 
 
 CuUosh, what, 377. 
 
 Cunningburn, where, 373; author's account of the name, 
 385. 
 
 Cunninghams, their feud with the Montgomeiys, 6. 
 Cunningham, Alexander, son of John, 54. 
 
 , Andrew, of Drumfad, 138. 
 
 -, Anne, lady, her zeal for the covenant, 434. 
 
 • , James, of Gortrie, 136. 
 
 , John, gi-ant to, 54. 
 
 , John, of Newtown, 136. 
 
 , John, of Drumfad, 250. 
 
 , Jos., sir, 132, 162. 
 
 , William, Mr., of the Rash, 138. 
 
 , William, Mr. , feud with sixth laird of Braid- 
 
 stane, 11, 12. 
 
 , William, son of Thomas, his cork leg and 
 
 foot, 413. 
 
 Cunningham, or Conyngham, etymology of the name, 460. 
 Curtis, Robert, his letter to the second earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, 278. 
 Cusake, sir Thomas, his notice of Upper Clannaboy, 79- 
 Custodium, what, 211. 
 Cuttings, what, 46. 
 
 Dalway, John, his estate, 57 ; his grant to William Ed- 
 monston, 57. 
 
 Darby-house, where situated, 182 ; council of state at, ib. 
 
 Davies, lieutenant Edward, depositions of, 317, 318. 
 
 Davis, John, of Carrickfergus, gives bond to sir James 
 Montgomery for ;^788, 329, 330 ; notice of, ib. 
 
 Dawtrie, captain, sent by sir John Perrot to James I., 121. 
 
 Debentures, what, 208 ; sold by the soldiers, ib. 
 
 De la Cherois, Mary Angelica, last countess of Mount- 
 Alexander, 294 ; her will, 294, 295 ; her letters, 296, 
 297 
 
 Delft, notice of, 195. 
 
 De Lorge, inquiry as to the meaning of the title as applied 
 to the counts Montgomery in France, 465, 468, 470. 
 Denization, names of persons who obtained letters of, 56. 
 Derrybrush, or Derrybrask, account of, 99. 
 Despautere, the grammarian, notice of, 408. 
 Deugh, or Deughlin, where situated, 54. 
 Devise, what, 149. 
 
 Devises, its castle built by Roger de Montgomery, 454. 
 Diary, of a Scottish lady, quoted, 18, 19. 
 Dillon, Catherine, married to the second earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, 206 ; her death, ib. 
 
 — , Robert, lord, notice of, 159, 160. 
 
 Diton, what, 149, 
 
 Dives, sir Lewis, brings a royal commission to the third. 
 
 viscount, 181 ; notice of, ib. 
 Dixon, Thomas, depositions of, 318. 
 Do, notice of the district of, 100 ; prebend of, ib. 
 Dobbin, Annas, of Carrickfergus, 26. 
 Doit, meaning of the word, 198 
 
 Dola, Neile Slontgomery killed before the walls of, 455, 
 464, 469. 
 
 Dominies, meaning of the word, 127, 128. 
 
 Donaghadee, derivation of the name, 122; harbour built 
 at, 125 ; lands constituting the manor of, 54; Church 
 built in, 124; 
 
 — , John Montgomery buried in, 358. 
 
 Donegall, countess of, her efforts for the pardon of a ring- 
 leader in mutiny at Carrickfergus in 1666, 424. 
 
 , first earl of, 358. 
 
 , old earl of, 424. 
 
 Donfrona, or Domfront, in Normandy, count Montgomery 
 
 captured in, 464. 
 Doone, sir C. O'Doherty slain at, 21. 
 
 464. 
 
 Dorgh, meaning of the word, 23. 
 Dormont, Malcolm, 138. 
 Dorp, or Dort, meaning of the w'ord, 197. 
 Douglas, popular account of the origin of this surname, 
 440, 441 ; family of, 441. 
 
 , earl James, why not at Otterburn, 462. 
 
 Down, county of, names of gentlemen attainted, 272, 273. 
 Downey, James, the dwarf, 1 14. 
 
 Drogheda, early importance of, 176; storming of, 191. 
 Dromore, death of the first earl of Mount-Alexander at, 
 
 241; the break or rout of described, 281, 282, 380. 
 Drumniond, lady Jean, her dowry, 90. 
 Drysdale, John, threatened with corporal punishment, 
 
 365 ; his zeal as a covenanter, ib. 
 
 , Hugh, chaplain to the duke of Ormond, ib. 
 
 Dudley, Ambrose, earl of Warwick, 471. 
 
 Dueil weeds, what, 130. 
 
 Dufferin, early notices of the territory, 324. 
 
 Duffus, Alexander Sutherland, lord, is a friend to sir 
 
 James Montgomery, 337 ; his residence, his lady, 
 
 ib.; his family connexions, ib. 
 Duin-wassal, derivations and meanings of the term, 37, 38. 
 
Index. 
 
 V 
 
 Dunbar, battle of, 339. 
 
 Dunbar, John, sir, an undertaker, 389. 
 
 , Lilias, her Diary, 337. 
 
 Dunbrackley, or Dunbratly, estate of, 348. 
 
 Dundas, Hugh, 249. 
 
 Dundonald, trenches at, 324. 
 
 Dundram, early notices of, 31 1 ; view from, 316. 
 
 Dunduff, where, 93. 
 
 Dunfermline, countess of, extract of a letter from, 30. 
 Dunmore, house and park, notices of, 210. 
 Dunrod, family of noticed, 364 ; barony of, advertised for 
 sale, ib. 
 
 Dunskey castle, its site, 112 ; purchased by first viscount 
 
 Ards, ib.; its former owners, ib. 
 Dunsky, house of, haunted by a Brownie, 185. 
 
 Earls, Scottish, lists of, 5, 6. 
 Echlin, Hugh, 138. 
 
 , John, of Ardquin, 137; his family, 409. 
 
 , Robert, bishop of Down and Connor, deposes 
 
 four ministers, 124. 
 
 , Robert, colonel, notice of, 393, 394. 
 
 , Robert, Mr., 251. 
 
 Echlins, families of, in the Ards, 308. 
 Edinburgh, palace of, 350. 
 
 Edmonston, Alexander, of Ardfracken, 137 ; obtains a 
 grant of denization and settles near Carrickfergus, 
 ih. 
 
 , Archibald, son of William, joined his father 
 
 in the sale of Ballyvester to William Catherwood, 54; 
 joined his mother in the sale of Ballybrian to John 
 Peacock, 146; sells a portion of the Redhall estate, 
 58; represented Stirlingshire in the Scottish parlia- 
 ment which met in 1633, ib.; died in 1 636, ih. 
 
 , Archibald, son of Archibald, succeeds his 
 
 father, although a younger son, 58; his activity in 
 1688, 276; his letter to his son-in-law, James Mont- 
 gomery, ib.; died in 16S9, of over fatigue, ib. 
 
 , Isabella, wife of William, joins her son 
 
 Archibald in the sale of Ballybrian, 146 ; died in 
 1638, 58. 
 
 , James, brother of Wilham, obtains a grant 
 
 of denization, 57; settles at Ballybantry, 137; is exe- 
 cutor to the will of his brother William, ib.; pur- 
 chases lands from Hugh Mergagh O'Neill of Kilma- 
 kevett, ib.; attends the funeral of the first viscount 
 Ards, ih. 
 
 , John, is a witness to the deed of sale of 
 
 Ballybrian by Archibald and Isabella Edmonston, 146. 
 
 , Robert of Bovane, county of Tyrone, 137; 
 
 purchases lands in same county, in 1620, ib. 
 
 , Robert witnesses a deed of sale, 146. 
 
 , William, the first settler, seventh laird of 
 Duntreath, 57 ; obtains a grant from sir Hugh Mont- 
 gomery, in 1607, ih.; obtains a grant from John Dal- 
 way, in 1609, ih.; sells lands in the Ards, 54; dies in 
 1626, 58. 
 
 — — , William, the son of Archibald, 58; known 
 
 as the "dumb laird of Duntreath," ib.; curious ac- 
 counts of, ih. 
 
 , William, of Erj', county Tyrone, 137; was 
 
 son of Helen Cathcart, ih. 
 , family of, returns to reside at Duntreath, 276; 
 
 were always, in Ireland, staunch presbyterians, 276, 
 
 277. 
 
 Eglinton, castle of, destroyed by the Cunninghams, 16. 
 
 , Hugh, of, sir, baillie and chamberlain of Cun- 
 ningham, 16; his poetical talent, 148. 
 
 , Hugh, first earl of, when created an earl, 3, 4. 
 
 , Hugh, fourth earl of, slain at the ford of An- 
 
 nock, 6, III, 116, 463. 
 
 , Alexander, sixth earl of, 5 ; bis sons, 8; travels 
 
 from Seton to Eglinton, 16 ; extracts from his letters, 
 52 ; attends the funeral of the first viscount Ards, 
 134, 142. 
 
 , Hugh, eighth earl of, his marriages, 8. 
 
 Election, in county of Down, 305-311. 
 
 Elizabeth, queen, date of her death, 17. 
 
 Engagement, Scottish, object of it, 333. 
 
 Episcopalians, taught by events, 247, 275. 
 
 Era,smus' chapel, account of, 80 ; primate Ussher and sir 
 
 James Fullerton buried therein, 80. 
 Erinagh, Hamilton of, 372. 
 Erskin, James, sir, account of his family, 141. 
 — , Simon, ensign, 197. 
 
 Escheators, their office, 25 ; derivations of the term, ib. 
 Escury, master of, what, 358. 
 Essex, Arthur Capel, earl of, 269. 
 
 Estates, Scottish, committee of, accuse and condemn sir 
 James Montgomery, 331, 334; its method of raising 
 funds, 256. 
 
 Eustace, sir Maurice, notice of, 415. 
 
 Evil, king's, Charles II. touches for its cure, 223. 
 
 Exchequer, officers of, their unjust and oppressive acts, 
 29. 
 
 , Cromwell's, in 1654, how filled, 207. 
 
 sword, 373. 
 
 Explanation, bill of, its object, 261 ; disputes concerning, 
 262. 
 
 Fairbairn, James, 134. 
 Fairlie, castle of, 27. 
 Falconet, what, 316 
 Featley, Dr. notice of, 108. 
 
 Fergus, king, his shipwreck and death, 426 ; his supposed 
 burial-place, 427 ; his descent, ib.; his possessions in 
 Alba, 428 ; pilgrimages to his grave, ib. 
 
 Feuer, or fuar, what, 26. 
 
 Fevhardson, Finlay, notice of, 163. 
 
 Fews, the, early notices of the territory, 313. 
 
 Ffalais, Sybill de, 452. 
 
 Ffenell, Dr., attends the third viscount in Dublin, 213. 
 Fingal, account of the district of, 290, 291 ; Yolk of, 
 291. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Mr., his tenants, 418. 
 Fitzsymmonds, families of, in the Ards, 308. 
 Fitz-Ursulas, notice of the, 444. 
 
 Fitzwilliams, Dr. , asked to visit the first earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, 242. 
 
 Fleetwood, general, opposes Cromwell's designs, 208, 209. 
 
 Florida, manor of, 2 ; repurchased by the author, 210 ; 
 rents of, 368. 
 
 Flushing Hill, purchased by William Montgomery, 358, 
 361. 
 
 Forbes, Arthur, sir, notice of, 201. 
 , William, Mr., 135. 
 
 Forde, Matthew, purchases the Kinelarty estates, 223, 
 
 224, 307. 
 Forfeited lands, extent of, 232. 
 Fox, the, Irish name of, 117. 
 
vi 
 
 Index. 
 
 Frank-pledge, view of, what, 43. 
 Franks, John, 378. 
 
 Fraser, James, his Memorials of the earls of Eglinton, 2. 
 
 Fullerton, James, sir, notices of, 30, 48, 49, 50 ; grants to, 
 30 ; his interposition on behalf of Hamilton, 79 ; left 
 no issue, 79; retained a love for his early studies, 79. 
 
 FuUertons, families of the, in Arran, Dundonald, and the 
 Route, 80. 
 
 Funerals, the author's Treatise on, 384. 
 
 Gainsforde, Thomas, quoted, 45 ; his character as a 
 
 writer, 46. 
 Galbraith, family of, 158, 159. 
 
 , James, major, 164. 
 
 Gamester's fort, or Lisnegarvey, notice of, 167, 
 Garmoyle, notice of, 425. 
 
 Garrisons, northern, speedy reduction of, by Venables, 191. 
 
 Garthland, family of, 94. 
 
 Gelagh, or Gallaibh, to whom applied, 39. 
 
 Gerran, meaning of the term, 37. 
 
 Ghelt, meaning of the word, 352. 
 
 Giant's grave, a mound so called, 122. 
 
 Giff Gaffs, meaning of the phrase, 369. 
 
 Giffen, armorial bearings of the house of, 359- 
 
 Gillmore, John, 135. 
 
 , Katherine, depositions of, 318. 
 
 Gillespie, Patrick, his illness at Wimbledon, 340, 341. 
 Glasgow, its origin, 350; its numerous religious founda- 
 tions, ib. 
 
 Glass, Mathew, assists the author in getting possession of 
 
 Rosemount, 421. 
 Glenawly, lord, 394 
 Glencairn, ninth earl of, 201. 
 Gordon, John, sir, of Pingwheri-y, 137. 
 
 , John, of Aughlain, jun., 138. 
 
 Gordons, the, of Enbo, their feud with the Sutherlands, 
 
 337- 
 
 Gore, Ralph, sir, notice of, 159. 
 Govean, the town of, noticed, 462. 
 Governors of Ireland, chief, names of, 207- 
 Graham, Andrew, notice of, 418. 
 
 , Eliza, second wife of Hugh, the Provost, 395. 
 
 Grants from the crown, too large in Leinster and Mmister, 
 31- 
 
 Gray, Dr., embalms the body of the first earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, 241. 
 Greddan, meaning of the word, 39. 
 Green Chamber, of the New Custom-house, 422. 
 Greysteel, account of, in the Broomlands MS., 7. 
 Guards. Scots, when instituted in France, 462. 
 Gudeman, meaning of the term, 147. 
 Guillim, John, notice of his work on Heraldry, 5- 
 
 Hague, the, notice of, 12. 
 
 Hall, Ann, her letter and enclosure, 361. 
 
 Hamill, Hugh, of Roughwood, 139. 
 
 , Hugh, son of lieutenant Matthew, 438; attorney 
 
 on Record, 439. 
 Hamilton, Claud, lord, at Enniskillen, 282. 
 
 , Francis, sir, his residence, 230. 
 
 , Hans, Mr., notice of, 134, 374. 
 
 , Hans, of Camasure, 171; notice of, 185. 
 
 , Hans, sir, 374. 
 
 — , Jean, her dowry, 90. 
 
 , James, viscount Clannaboy, notice of, 31, 32; 
 
 feoffment to sir Hugh Montgomery, 42; grants church 
 lands to sir Hugh Montgomer)'. 49, 50; tactics of, 49; 
 his conveyance to Con O'lS'eill, 50 ; Con O'Neill's 
 whole lands granted to, 50; the Woods awarded to, 
 86. See also pp. 133, 142, 160, 162, 302. 
 
 , James of Bangor, inscription on his tomb, 283. 
 
 , James of Tollimore, his officiousness, 272, 273, 
 
 278 ; his selfish aims, 274, 384 ; is suspected by the 
 earl of Mount- Alexander, 285. 
 
 , John, lands in possession of, in the year 1623, 
 
 78. 
 
 , John, third brother of first viscount Clannaboy, 
 
 notice of, 305. 
 
 , Robert, sir, 374. 
 
 , William, captain, of Erinagh, 372. 
 
 , major-general, his descent on Ulster, 280, 281; 
 
 his family, 282 ; superseded, ib. 
 
 Hamilton, battle at, 341. 
 
 , duchess of, her character, 341, 342. 
 
 , duke of, retires to the island of Arran, 338. 
 
 Hamiltons and Montgomerys, their mutual love and defe- 
 rence, 81. 
 
 Hamiltons, the, their litigations, 75 ; their disputings, 380. 
 Harrington, sir John, his account of Tyrone's restoration, 
 24. 
 
 Harris, his volume on State of the County 0/ Doiu)i inter- 
 leaved by M'Skimin, 148. 
 
 Harvests, plentiful in 1606 and 1607, 62. 
 
 Harvey, Dr, William, his account of the third viscount 
 Montgomery's case, 152. 
 
 Haslepp, Matthew, 135. 
 
 Hatchment, what, 144. 
 
 Hatoune, where situated, 363; a Montgomery family 
 
 settled at, ib. 
 
 Hawks, illustrations of their value in former times, 
 119, 120. 
 
 Hay, popular account of the origin of this surname, 441; 
 family of, 441, 442. 
 
 Hazilhead, Robert, sixth laird of, 363; his daughter, the 
 mother of first viscount Montgomery, ib; armorial 
 bearings of the house of, 359. 
 
 Hazlehead, or Hasilheid, castle of, 400. 
 
 Heatley, Conway, assumes the surname and anns of 
 Montgomery, 404. 
 
 Henry H. of France, slain accidentally by coimt Mont- 
 gomery, 464. 
 
 Henneberg, countess of, strange stoiy, 196, 197. 
 
 Heraldry, definitions of, 130. 
 
 Hericher, professor le, his account of the Montgomery 
 family in Normandy, 465. 
 
 Herriott, Jean, her house in Newtown, 394. 
 
 Hertford estate, names of settlers on the, 246. 
 
 Hessilheid, or Hazlehead, estate of, 23 ; lairds of, 3. 
 
 Hill, Ann, of Hillsborough, buys lands in the Ards, 326. 
 
 , Arthur, notice of, 161; receives ;r^ioo for special 
 
 service, 182 ; returned for Down, 417, 418, 
 
 , Elizabeth, married to William Montgomery of 
 
 Rosemount, 361 ; her entries in the family Bible, ib. 
 
 — — , Francis, his family, 78 ; lands in possession of, at 
 his death in 1637, 79. 
 
 , Moses, sir, party to a tripartite indenture, 72; lands 
 
 in possession of, at his death in 1630, 78. 
 
 , William, of Moyarget, descended from Hugh Mont- 
 gomery of Ramoan, 396. 
 
 Hills, principal residences of, 305. 
 
Index. 
 
 vii 
 
 Hobbes, Thomas, notice of, 216, 217. 
 Hodges, cornet, 283. 
 
 , Mark, ib. 
 
 , family of, ib. 
 
 Hoff, or Prince's court at the Hague, notice of, 195. 
 
 Holinshed, quotation from, on the disuse of archery, 92. 
 
 Holyrood-house, document relating to, 349. 
 
 Horn, the surname of, 442. 
 
 Horsebreeders in Ulster, corporation of, 269. 
 
 Houses, how constructed by the Irish, 59 ; of settlers, how 
 
 constructed at first, 59. 
 Houston, Rev. David, his bond of compliance, 275. 
 Howth, Nicholas, baron of, marries bishop Montgomery's 
 
 daughter, loi ; their family, loi, 102. 
 Hudson, Jeffrey, the dwarf, account of, 114. 
 Hume, Grizzle, lady Baillie, her poetry noticed, 401. 
 
 , Patrick, sir, laird of Polewart, his poetry, ib. 
 
 Huncks, or Hanks, captain Hercules, notice of, 352. 
 , colonel Hercules, his daughter wife of Hugh 
 
 Montgomery, 353. 
 Hunsterdyke, or Hounslers Dyck, notice of, 196; tavern 
 
 there visited by third viscount Montgomery, 197, 
 
 198. 
 
 Huntley, marquis of, his daughters' dowries, 90. 
 Hyde, Edward, created earl of Clarendon, 227. 
 
 Indenture, original, between Con O'Neill and sixth 
 laird of Braidstane, 28 ; search for, ib.; not found at 
 Ayr or Irvine, ih. 
 
 , tripartite, 34 ; extracts from 49. 
 
 , between the first viscount Ards and the sixth 
 
 earl of Eglinton, 1 1 1. 
 
 Inquisition, of 1603, 50; of 1623, 28, 76. 
 
 Inscriptions on houses, 61. 
 
 Intolerance, inculcated by Scottish preachers, 245. 
 
 Ireland, sale and settlement of, 221. 
 
 Ireton, lord deputy, notice of, 193, 194. 
 
 Irish, meer, not permitted to take or purchase land from 
 
 the English, 29. 
 
 Gibeonets, author's account of, 61. 
 
 victual, names of traders in, 62. 
 
 , their respect for the first viscount Montgomery, 144. 
 
 leaders, names of commanding at Benburb, 165. 
 
 ■ , the language used in the Highlands and Isles of 
 
 Scotland, 440. 
 Isaacs, Jane, 349. 
 
 Iveagh, early notices of the territoiy, 312, 313. 
 
 James L, endeavours to allay the feud between the 
 Montgomerys and Cunninghams, 16; endeavours to 
 reconcile several feuds among others of his nobles, 
 17 ; his proceedings for this purpose, ib ; hears of 
 queen Elizabeth's death, ; commences his journey 
 to London, iS; festivities in his progress, his two 
 first proclamations, ib.; Caesar Casaruni, ih.\ accom- 
 panied and followed by large numbers of Scots, ih.; 
 first act in relation to Ireland, 25; fails to perform his 
 promises, ib. ; letter of, to sir John Perrot, 121; his 
 translation of thirty-one psalms, 402. 
 
 II., his accession, 269. 
 
 Jerden, John, 135. 
 
 John, king, caused walls to be built around Carrickfergus, 
 428. 
 
 Johnston, Arthur, notice of his Latin version of the 
 Psalms, 398. 
 
 Johnston, captain, probable founder of the Gilford 
 branch, 375. 
 
 , Edward, of Greengraves, 134. 
 
 , John, of Aberdeen, extract from his Latin poem 
 
 on the fourth earl of Eglinton, 463 ; his book of 
 Encomittms, 7. 
 
 , Robert, of Kirkistown, 362. 
 
 Johnstons, their feud with the Maxwells, 1 15. 
 
 Jones, Catherine, first countess of Mount-Alexander, 230; 
 date of her death, 230, 267; her children, 230; her 
 will and testament, ib. ; publishes Dr. Rust's sermon 
 on her husband's death, 245. 
 
 , Theophilus, sir, assists in planning the Restora- 
 tion, 219; family of, 164. 
 
 Joymount House, account of, 424; its gardens, ib. 
 
 Keeth, John, captain, 249. 
 
 Keith, family of, 163. 
 
 Kelburn, castle of, 27. 
 
 Kelso, or Kelcho, family of, 53. 
 
 Kelsoland, Patrick Shaw, laird of, 53. 
 
 Kenedy, Dan. (Dav.?), captain, 249. 
 
 , Fergus, Mr., 249. 
 
 , Hugh, of Girvan Mains, 139. 
 
 , Hugh, of Drumawhay, 138. 
 
 Kennedy, Hugh, of Greengraves, 131. 
 Kennedy, John, 135. 
 
 -, Thomas, of Pingwherry, 137. 
 
 Kerr, Thomas, esq., letter of, 28. 
 
 Kerrielaw, castle of, destroyed by the Montgomerys, 16. 
 Kildare, earls of, their possessions in county of Down, 
 308. 
 
 Kilkenny Castle, notices of, 242. 
 Killultagh, territory of, 36. 
 
 Killyleagh, seizure and partial demolition of its castle, 192. 
 
 Kilmore, church of, repaired, 124. 
 
 Kincogish, meaning of the term, 43. 
 
 Kinelarty, early notices of the territory, 312. 
 
 Kinloss, Bruces barons of, 30. 
 
 Kinnshoker, etymology of the term, 353. 
 
 Kirk, committee of the, conduct before the battle of 
 
 Dunbar, 338, 339. 
 Kitchen, meaning of the word, 329. 
 Knight's service, tenure by, explained, 33. 
 Knights-Bachelor, what, 49, 50. 
 
 Knights of the Shire, paid for their parliamentary ser- 
 vices, 308, 309. 
 Knox, Jean, of Ranfurly, her dowry, 90. 
 
 Lagan, meaning of the word, 183; notice of the territory 
 
 of the, ib. 
 Laird, meaning of the term, 147. 
 Lambert, Anne, her dowry, 91. 
 
 , general, opposes Cromwell's designs, 208, 209. 
 
 , Ralph, notice of, 361. 
 
 Lambeth manuscript, its notice of Upper Clannaboy, 79. 
 Langshaw, eighth laird of, his forfeiture and restoration, 
 280, 281. 
 
 , laird of, cautioner for sir James Montgomery, 
 
 333- 
 
 , James, ninth laird, notice of, 359. 
 
 Largs, account of, 26. 
 
 church, celebrated monument in, 467, 468. 
 
 Laud, archbishop, his letters on behalf of Daniel O'Neill, 
 84. 
 
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 Index. 
 
 Lauderdale, earl of, conceals himself, 338. 
 
 Learning, the author's remarks on, 396 — 399. 
 
 Lecale, early notices of the territory, 310, 311. 
 
 Lecky, Alexander, of Lecky, 139. 
 
 Leet, Court, what, 42. 
 
 Leicester, Robert Sidney, earl of, 154. 
 
 Leith, congregation of, its abject petition to Monk, 343. 
 
 Lenox, James, 136. 
 
 Leslie, Henry, bishop of Down and Connor, deposes five 
 ministers, 124; notice of, 141 ; preaches at Newtown, 
 143; letters of, in 1641, 151; pensioned by Crom- 
 well, 212. 
 
 Lessley, George, Mr., notice of, 410. 
 
 Lessly, Charles, Rev., a distinguished non-juror, 275. 
 
 — , David, general, his march into England, 365. 
 
 , John, bishop of Raphoe, pensioned by Cromwell, 
 
 212. 
 
 , captain J., 253. 
 
 Leveret, Albone, pursuivant, 130, 141. 
 
 , William, 130, 142. 
 
 Levitts, meaning of the term, 178. 
 
 Leyden, mount at, notice of, 195 ; its anatomy chamber, 
 
 ib. ; its university, ib. 
 Lindsay, Mr., 250. 
 
 Linen yarn, exportation of prohibited, 128. 
 Linlithgow, letter of Eleanor, countess of, 16. 
 Lisburn, list of its householders in reign of James I., 246. 
 Lisnastrain, rout of the royalists at, 191, 192 ; notices of 
 the affair, ib. 
 
 Littleburye, William, sir, receives the surname of Horn, 
 442. 
 
 Livery of Seisin, what, 41. 
 
 Loftus, Dudly, clerk to first earl of Mount-Alexander, 
 
 238, 252. 
 Longcarty, battle of, 441, 442. 
 
 Longevity, instances of, in county of Down, 146, 147. 
 
 Long Island, granted to sir William Alexander, 87. 
 
 Loudon, John, 135. 
 
 Loughs, in the Ards, 304. 
 
 Lozells, or Losels, meaning of the term, 399. 
 
 Lupus, Hugh, earl of Chester, 452. 
 
 Luss, family of, 3 ; lairds of, 4 ; estates of, ib 
 
 Lysimachus Nicanor, an assumed name, 433; account of, ib. 
 
 Maal or mahl bill, what, 19S. 
 
 MacCana, Edmund, Itinerary of, quoted, 87. 
 
 Macdonnell, Alexander Oge, 44. 
 
 James, sir, of Dunluce, 24 ; his visit to Edin- 
 burgh, 24 ; notices of, 24 ; date of his death, 45. 
 
 , James, lord of Isla and Cantire, date of his 
 
 death, 45. 
 
 ■: , John, surnamed Cathanach, 89. 
 
 , Randal, son ofSorleyBoy, obtains a grant of 
 
 the Route and Glj'nns, 24 ; in favour with the king, 
 
 24 ; first earl of Antrim, 45. 
 , Sorley Boy, seventh son of Alexander of 
 
 Isla and Cantire, 44 ; succeeds by law of tauistry, 45. 
 
 , Gaelic, pronounciation of the surname, 44. 
 
 Mace, Mr. James, 251. 
 
 Macgregors, clan-fight between, and the Colquhouns, 4. 
 
 Mackdonnell, John, depositions of, 318. 
 
 Maclellan, John, notice of, 126. 
 
 Mac Swines, of Doe castle, 444. 
 
 Madden, Samuel, of county Fermanagh, 362. 
 
 Magee, Brian Vicar, grant of lands in Isla to, 440. 
 
 Magennisses, grants to members of the clan, 306. 
 Maghera, William Montgomery of Gransheo-h resides at, 
 356. 
 
 Magnus, king of Nonvay, 452. 
 Malahide castle, seized by Miles Corbett, 202. 
 Malcolm, surnamed Canmore. notice of, 445. 
 Malone, William, notice of, 104. 
 
 Man, Isle of, flight of gentlemen from coimty of Down to, 
 283. 
 
 Manuscripts, Montgomery, account of, I. 
 
 , Broomlands, notice of, 2. 
 
 of John H. Montgomery of Bamahill, 2. 
 
 Margetson, primate, notice of, 430. 
 Marshall, the, of Carrickfergus, 25. 
 
 Mary, queen of Scots, her projected marriage, 471 ; carried 
 off by the French, 472. 
 
 Massacre of 1641, in county of Down, 317. 
 
 , letter of warning against the massacre sup- 
 posed to be contemplated in 1688 found in Comber 
 street, 271 ; consternation produced by this letter va 
 Dublin, ib. ; in Enniskillen, 272 ; in Derry, ib. 
 
 Mathews, Mr., MS. volume of his seimons, 298. 
 
 , major, of Springvale, documents given by him 
 
 to the family at Tyrella, 362. 
 
 Maurice, prince of Orange, surnamed the ' grave,' 390. 
 
 Maxwell, Arms of the family of, 143. 
 
 Maxwell, Patrick, Dr. in physic, 140. 
 
 — , Patrick of Newark, letter of, 11. 
 
 , Robert, bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, notice 
 
 of, 212, 213; his poetical address to Henry Crom- 
 well, ib. 
 
 , Robert, Mr , lands sold to, 292 ; family of, ib. 
 
 Maxwells, their feud with the Montgomerys, 11; their feud 
 
 with the Johnstons, 115. 
 Meal, exported to Scotland, 62; Scottish Acts to prohibit 
 
 its importation, ib. 
 Melboni Castle, near Trent, prison of the duke of 
 
 Bourbon, 457. 
 Melitiere, le, Bramhall's reply to, 430, 431. 
 Mellifont, stately house of, 200. 
 Melville, family of, 136. 
 
 , James, 138. 
 
 , Thomas, ib. 
 
 , William, 136. 
 
 Memorables of the Montgomerys, quotations from, 149. 
 Meredith, Jane, large bequests to, by the second earl of 
 
 Mount- Alexander, 299. 
 Mervyn, Audley, notices of, 156, 157, 162; treacherously 
 
 captured, 182. 
 Methven, lady, her remarkable letter, 434. 
 Milburga, St., founded the nunnery of Wenlock, 453. 
 Millen, Archibald, 135. 
 , John, ib. 
 
 Mills, water, notice of, 63; introduced in the Ards, ib. 
 Milton, John, his Imes on New Forcers of Conscience, 6^c., 
 335- 
 
 Ministers, Scottish presbyterian, their intolerant sen'i- 
 ments, 245. 
 
 , Ulster presbyterian, two slain at Rullion Green, 
 
 248 ; Jeremy Taylor's letter complaining of, ib. ; de- 
 nounce third viscount Montgomery, 258 ; sir James 
 Montgomery's account of, 331. 
 
 Mirk, Mr. James, 135. 
 
 Molloy, Charles, his book on marine afifairs, 460. 
 Molyneux, Daniel, Ulster king at arms, 130. 
 
Index, 
 
 ix 
 
 Monaster Leigh, a name for Greyabbey, J23. 
 
 Monk, George, general, nonce of, 169, 170 ; letter 
 of officers to, 181; his alliance with Owen Roe O'Neill, 
 1 79; his letter to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, ib. ; his 
 reasons for union with O'Neill, 180; articles of agree- 
 ment, ib. ; holds a council of war, 182; letter to major 
 Rawdon, ib.; takes side against the king, 183; his 
 duplicity, 224; extracts of letters from Cromwell and 
 Charles II. to, ib.; his honours and emoluments, 
 226 ; curious account of his marriage, 226, 227. 
 
 Monkroddin, lairds of, 53, 54. 
 
 Monkstown, the supposed burial-place of Fergus, 428. 
 Monmouth, James Scott, duke of, 463, 464. 
 Monogram, over the old church door at Newtown, 123. 
 Monro, Andrew, attends the funeral of the first earl of 
 
 Mount-Alexander, 252. 
 , George, sir, notice of, 201. 
 
 , Robert, major-general, notice of, 168, 169; cap- 
 tured and sent to the Tower, 181; his influence with 
 the Crom wells, 199; fortunate results of his marriage 
 with the lady of the second viscount Ards, ih. ; his style 
 as a narrator, 213 ; passages from his Expedition, &c., 
 ib.; his conversational powers, ib.\ alive in 1680, 415. 
 
 Monros, or Montrose, Montgomerys settled near, 363. 
 
 Montgomery, Adam, fourth laird of Braidstane, 3. 
 
 , Adam, fifth laird of Braidstane, 3, 116. 
 
 -, Adam, a carpenter in Newtown, 146. 
 
 , Adam, of Ballyalton, gent., 146. 
 
 , Alexander, sir, death of, at Newtown, 8; con- 
 tents of his trunk and purses, ib. ; was third son of 
 the sixth earl of Eglinton, ib.; grief caused by his 
 death, ib. 
 
 , Alexander, the poet, 1 2 ; notice of his Life 
 
 and Works, 400, 402; extracts from his poetry, ib. ; 
 supposed father of Alexander Montgomery, of Do, 
 100, lOI. 
 
 , A. M., probably initials for Alexander ^lont- 
 
 gomery, 4. 
 
 — , Alexander, prebendary of Do, 100; sup- 
 posed son of Montgomery the poet, 100, loi; date 
 of his appointment, loi; his arms, ib.; inscription 
 on his wife's tomb, ib. ; deposed by the Presbyterians, 
 392; his epitaph, ib. 
 
 , Alexander, captain, grandson of Mr. Alex- 
 ander, prebendary of Do, 393. 
 
 , Alexander, son of John the mercliant, 395. 
 
 , Alexander Nixon, inscription on his tomb, 
 
 ' 00 
 , Andrew, Rev , of Carrickmacross, 388. 
 
 , Anne, lady, dowry of, 90; letter of, 186. 
 
 — , Arnulph, notice of, 45 1 ; Carews, descended 
 
 from, 451, 454; succeeds as fourth earl of Shrewsbury, 
 
 ib. ; fortified the town of Penbro, ib. 
 , Catherine, lady, daughter of the first earl of 
 
 Mount-Alexander, married to sir F. Plamilton, 230. 
 , Cuthbert, attorney, takes livery and seizin of 
 
 Con O'Neill's lands, 51. 
 
 , David, son of Hugh, the seneschal, 394, 395. 
 
 , Edward, meets the author in London in 
 
 664, 458. 
 
 , Eleanor, youngest daughter of Hugh of 
 
 Ballymagown, 376. 
 
 ■ , ;,Elizabeth, wife of sir Hugh, introduces 
 
 watennills, 63 ; her farms at Greyabbey and Comber, 
 64; encourages woollen manufacture, 65 ; superintends 
 
 improvements at Newtown, 86 ; her care and over- 
 sight, 122. 
 
 , Elizabeth, lady, daughter of the first earl of 
 
 Mount- Alexander, 230; married to Mr. Hunt, 231. 
 
 , Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh of Ballyma- 
 gown, married to captain Johnston, 375. 
 
 , Ezekiel, poetical talent of, 148. 
 
 , Francis, of Giffen, only brother of eighth earl 
 
 of Eghnton, 470. 
 
 , Gabriel de Lorge, captain of the Scots guard, 
 
 462, 465, 470, 471. 
 
 , George, dean of Norwich, 9 ; his books 
 
 burned, 21; his appointments, 73; a privy councillor, 
 96; sent as a commissioner to Ireland, ib.; discovers 
 impropriations, ib.; his interviews with O'Neill and 
 ' O'Cahan, ib.; represents the grievances of the clergy, 
 ib.; appointed bishop of Derry, Raphoe, and Clogher, 
 97; his report on the ancient state of the bishop- 
 ricks, 98; appointed bishop of Meath, 100; his en- 
 couragement of planters, loi; his marriage, ib.; his 
 daughter's marriage dowry, ib.; erects a bishop's 
 house, 102; his family burial place, ib.; his monu- 
 ment, ib.; date of his death, 104, 108; his reception of 
 Ussher in London, 105; his interviews with him, 106, 
 107; had the rectory of Trim added to his other bene- 
 fices, 106; his death and burial, 109; his arms as repre- 
 sented in Christ's church, ib. ; his portrait at Howth 
 house, ib.; his family portraits burned in Newtown 
 house, ib.; portrait of, now in Armagh, ib.; his 
 grandchildren, ib. 
 
 , George, third son of first viscount Ards, his 
 
 birth at Ne^vtown, 348; travels in Holland, &c. , 94, 
 348, 351, 352; obtains his father's sword, 348; his mar- 
 riage, 94, 343, 352; his lands, ib.; his eldest son 
 bom, 348; attends his father's funeral, 142; his feats 
 of horsemanship, 177; forced to leave his residence 
 by the insurgents, 349, 354; his tastes and pursuits, 
 ib. ; his visits to Scotland, 349, 350; returns from 
 Holland, visiting London and Edinburgh, 352; his 
 feofees, 353; is tenant for life in his lands, 353; con- 
 tinued in active service until the defeat at Lisnastrain, 
 354 ; his descendants, 348, 349; his children, 354, 
 355 ; death of his wife, 355; dies at Ballystockart, ih. ; 
 is buried at Newtown, ib. 
 
 — , George, ensign, kinsman of first viscount, 
 
 133- 
 
 , Hamilton, lieutenant, son of Hugh, of Bally- 
 magown, 375. 
 
 , Hans, Mr., curate of Greyabbey and Bally- 
 
 walter, 374. 
 
 , Henry, third earl of Mount-Alexander, his 
 
 birth, 289; his portrait and marriage, ib.\ his places 
 of residence, 289, 290; his will, 291, 292; sells his 
 lands in the Ards to Mr. Maxwell, 292;- his family, 
 293, 294; his kindness to an orphan kinswoman, 
 295, 296. 
 
 , Henry, sir, of Giffen, second son- of sixth 
 
 earl of Eglinton, 8, n6. 
 
 , Henry, LL.D., of Dunmurry, 396. 
 
 , Hercules, son of Hugh of Ballylessan, 
 
 74; his marriage, 348, 353. 
 , Hew, a Scottish officer, letter of, describing 
 
 the state of the Ards in 1641, 309. 
 , Hugh, sixth Liird of Eraidstane, 3 ; 
 
 his descent, ib. ; his brothers, 9, 10 ; travels 
 
 3 
 
Index. 
 
 in France, lO ; captain of a Scottish regiment 
 in Holland, ib. ; death of his parents, ib. ; marriage 
 of his sisters, ib. ; returns to Braidstane, ib. ; his mar- 
 riage, II; his quarrel with the laird of Newark, ib. ; 
 challenges the earl of Glencairn's son, 12; assaults 
 him at the Hague, ib.; is imprisoned, 13; his escape 
 from prison, 14; his return to Braidstane, 16; carries 
 a packet from his brother to court, 17; reconciliation 
 with Glencairn's family, ib.; accompanies James I. 
 to England, 19; tneets his brother George at court, 
 ib.; their projects, 20; hears of Con O'Neill's diffi- 
 culties, 21; assists Con to escape from prison, 26; 
 receives Con under his protection, 27: his arrange- 
 ment with Con, ib.; accompanies Con to court, 29; 
 his plans thwarted by sir James Fullerton, 30-33; 
 enters into a tripartite indenture, 34; comes with Con 
 through Scotland into Ireland, 35; receives a deed 
 of feoffment from Con, 40; purchases from Con the 
 woods on four townlands, 41; receives a grant from 
 James Hamilton, 42; his interposition fortunate for 
 Con, 43-47; is created a knight, ib. ; when created a 
 knight, 48; grant of denization to, 51; brings chap- 
 lains from Scotland, 55, 61 ; his method of paying 
 them, 55; brings artificers from Scotland, 59; his first 
 residences in the Ards, 59i 61, 122; his controversies 
 with Hamilton, 72; obtains a king's letter for re- 
 grant, ib. ; requests and obtains an inquisition, 75; 
 created a viscount, 77; receives patent conformable 
 to Abercorn's award, 77, 78; contentions with viscount 
 Clannaboy, 80, 81; his improvements at Newtown, 85, 
 122; his letter concerning woods, 85; his litigations 
 concerning woods, 86; the woods awarded to him, 
 ib.; chosen an M. P., for county of Down, ib. ; gives 
 his daughters in marriage, 88, 89; grants lands to his 
 second son, sir James, 93; grants an estate to his third 
 son, George, 94; revisits Scotland in his widowhood, 
 1 10; receives a birth brief from the sixth earl of Eg- 
 linton, ib.; his arrangement with Eglinton respecting 
 family arms, ib.; by indenture acknowledges feudal 
 superiority of Eglinton, ill; marries the viscountess 
 of Wigton, 112; his purchase of Dunskey and Port- 
 patrick, ib. ; makes yearly summer visits to Scotland, 
 ib.; brings over a page to his lady in Scotland, 113; 
 buries his second lady, 115 ; visits his Scottish 
 kinsmen for the last time, 115, 116; is accidentally 
 hurt in returning from Scotland, ib.; sketch of his 
 life and character, 116-122; portrait of, 117; re- 
 paired the church at Greyabbey, 123; built church 
 and bell-tower at Donaghadee, 124; built a church 
 in Portpatrick, ib. ; bestowed bibles and prayer-books 
 on six churches, ib.; a firm friend to episcopacy, ib.; 
 bestowed bells on six churches, 125; fate of these 
 bells, ib. ; built a harbour at Donaghadee, 125, 126; 
 built a great school at Newtown, 126; endowed a 
 master of arts, ib.; encouraged the cultivation of 
 music, 126, 127; encouraged his plantations, 128 ; 
 beloved by the Irish, 129; account of his funeral, 
 130-143; lines to his memory by the author, 143; 
 his Funeral Certificate, 144; his devise and diton, 149; 
 his poetical and martial qualities, 148, 149. 
 
 , Hugh, second viscount, memoir of lost, I, 
 
 150; his marriage, 73, 74; builds a church and 
 steeple at Newtown, 123; fate of this church, ib.; 
 removes to Newtown-House, ib. ; attends his father's 
 funeral, 142; his active services in 1641, 153, 154; 
 
 his^death, 153; letter of, describing the state of the 
 Ards in 1641, 309. 
 
 , Hugh, third viscount, his travels, 15 1; re- 
 markable accident to, 152 ; his interview with 
 Charles I. at Oxford. 151-153; his accomplishments, 
 153; his letter to the sixth earl of Eghnton, ib.; 
 his letters to Ormond, 155, 156 ; taken prisoner at 
 Benburb, 165; the Presbyterians urge his liberation, 
 166; he obtains his liberty, 167; is escorted through 
 Lisnegarvagh and Belfast to Carrickfergus, 167, 168; 
 attends a council of war at Lisnegarvagh, 169; his 
 letter to the earl of Eglinton, 173; his negotia- 
 tions with Monk, 174; his marriage, 176; expels 
 Monk from Lisbum, 179, 186 ; receives a com- 
 mission as commander-in-chief, 181 ; reticence 
 regarding his commission, ib.; guards against cap- 
 ture by Monk, 182; feud with the Hamilton family 
 ceases, 183; compels the surrender of Carrickfergus, 
 187; seizes Belfast, ib.; marches to Coleraine, ib.; 
 his declaration, 187, 188; besieges Londonderry, 
 188; compelled to abandon the siege, 189; returns to 
 Newtown, 190; joins Ormond, and is driven from 
 Trim, 191 ; defeated at Lisnastrain, near Lisbum, 
 191, 192; surrenders himself to Cromwell at Clon- 
 mel, 193; excepted from pardon of life and estate, ih.; 
 is banished to Holland, 194; his grief in banishment, 
 197; his attendants whilst in Holland, ih.; visits a 
 tavern in Hunsterdyke, 198; solicits Cromwell for 
 leave to return, ib.; returns to Dublin, 199 ; is ad- 
 mitted to compound for his estate, 200; settles his 
 lady and children at Mellifont, 200; is prohibited 
 from living in Newtown, 201 ; is required to reside 
 in Dublin, 201 ; is permitted to stay at Howth, 202; 
 borrows ;^iooo from Dr. Colville, 205; falls into bad 
 health at Howth castle, 206; his lady dies in Dublin, 
 ib. ; places his children at school, ib. ; sent a prisoner 
 to Kilkenny, ih.; obtains leave to remove to LeLxlip, 
 ib.; resides with his mother at Mount-Alexander, 
 207; visits Dublin to " salute" his excellency, Henrj' 
 Cromwell, 213; is seized with an attack of palsy, ih.; 
 is peimitted to reside at Newtown, ih.; assists in 
 planning the restoration of Charles II., 219; reflec- 
 tions by the author on the harsh treatment of, 223, 
 224, 225 ; visits Whitehall after the restoration, 226 ; 
 arranges his affairs before starting for London, ih.; 
 appointed a commissioner to execute the king's de- 
 claration at Breda, 227; made a privy councillor, 228; 
 appointed Cttstos Rotidorum 228 ; created an earl, 
 229; his finn loyalty to the throne, 229, 230; ap- 
 pointed master of the ordnance, 230; his second mar- 
 riage, 230; visits London as a commissioner from the 
 lords, 232; obtains a grant of St. Wolstans, 232; 
 is compelled to surrender this property, 234 ; his 
 letter to the duchess of Ormond, 235 ; his easy cir- 
 cumstances, 235, 236; his great influence in the house 
 of lords, ih.; is dangerously ill, ii.y assists in breaking 
 up Blood's plot, 237 ; returns to Newtown, 238 ; 
 protects certain presbyterian ministers, 239; his last 
 iUness, 240; his death, 241 ; preparations for his 
 funeral, 244; his place of burial, 247; list of persons 
 attending his funeral, 248-254 ; his character, 254- 
 259. 
 
 — — , Hugh, fourth viscount and second earl, his 
 
 birth, 260; attends his father's funeral at Newtown, 
 ib.; obtains a reprise for St. Wolstan's, 264; comes 
 
Index. 
 
 to occupy the gate-house at Newtown, 265; appoints 
 commissioners to arrange his affairs, ib. ; marries 
 Catherine Dillon, 266; his debts increase, 267; is 
 freed from the burden of two jointures, ih. ; sells the 
 manor and lordship of Newtown, ih. ; marries 
 Eleanor Berkeley, 268; sells the manor and lordship 
 of Comber, ib. ; obtains a foot company and troop 
 of horse, 269; visits the duke of York in Scotland, 
 ib.; visits Westminster at the accession of James 
 II., ib.% confirmation of reprizal granted, ib.; ob- 
 tains a patent for Corporation of Horsebreeders in 
 Ulster, ih. ; appointed governor of Chai-leniont, ih.\ 
 obtains an appointment for the author's son, 270; his 
 knowledge of state matters, and how obtained, ib. ; 
 appointed Ciistos Rotuloi uni for county of Do\A n, ib. ; 
 constitutes the author his deputy in this office, ib.; 
 receives a letter of warning, 271; is one of ten ex- 
 cepted from pardon in Tyrconnell's proclamation, 
 272; joins the Protestants of Ulster against James's 
 government, 273; is appointed general commander, 
 ih.; fails in an attempt to seize Carrickfergus, 275; ob- 
 tains conditions of peace from the earl of Antrim and 
 others, ib. ; gives an information against sir Robert 
 Colville, 280 ; endeavours to arrest the march of 
 general Hamilton, ih. \ his troops defeated and dis- 
 persed near Dromore, 280, 281; escapes from Porta- 
 ferry to the Isle of Man, thence to England, 284 ; 
 his letter to bishop Pullen, 283, 284; his account of 
 his conduct as commander-in-chief, 284, 285 ; is 
 neglected by the court and government, 286; is ap- 
 * pointed master of ordnance, 287; his letter of re- 
 monstrance on being overlooked, 288; his appoint- 
 ments to assist in administering the Irish government, 
 ih. ; his speech in the house of lords, 292 ; his will, 
 299; his character, 300, 302; was lord justice of Ire- 
 land three times, 202; his illness from a surfeit of 
 fruit, 437. 
 
 , Hugh, sixth viscount and fourth earl, his 
 
 letter respecting the office of Cus/os Rottdonim, 270; 
 his marriage and death, 293. 
 
 , Hugh, of Ballylesson, son of captain George, 
 
 74; manages his father's estate, 353; marries a 
 daughter of Coll. Her. Huncks, ih. ; marries, as his 
 second wife, the widow of lord Planey, 354; had a 
 commission from the prince of Orange, ih.; his regi- 
 ment, with others, routed at Clady Ford, ih. 
 
 , Hugh, of Ballyhenry, attends the funeral of 
 
 the first earl, 250, 
 
 , Hugh, of Ballymagown, goes to Dublin for 
 
 Dr. Fitzwilliam, 241, 242; assists in preparations for 
 funeral of first earl of Mount- Alexander, 244; son of 
 Mr. James Montgomery, 364, 366; sent to Scotland 
 on his father's second marriage, 366; at school in 
 Greyabbey and Newtown, ib. \ his losses in Scotland, 
 367; goes as attendant to the author in Holland, 
 ih.; chastises sir Brian O'Neill, ib.; assists the author 
 in recovering Ballyhornan, 368 ; his useful services to 
 the author in procuring the rents of Florida, 368, 
 369 ; enters the third viscount Montgomery's 
 service, 369; presents a horse to the author, ih. ; his 
 discretion and integrity in the service of the third 
 viscount, 370, 371 ; retires to live in the country, 371 ; 
 receives a captain's commission from the prince of 
 Orange, ib. ; his debentures, 372; appointed receiver 
 by the second earl of Mount-Alexander, ih. ; appointed 
 
 seneschal in all the earl's courts, ih.\ instances of his 
 good services to the earl, 373; resides at Cunning- 
 burn, ih.; declines the oflice of commissioner, and 
 why, ih.\ removes to Ballymagown, ih ; his purchases 
 of Ballymagown and Bally Limp, 374; his wife's de- 
 cease before 1688, ib.; inscription on his family 
 burying-place, ib.; his children's narnes and mar- 
 riages, 374-376 ; his wife's excellent qualities, 377; 
 sketch of his personal appearance, character, and 
 opinions, 378, 379 ; his intimate friends, 380 ; assists 
 in settling the Hamilton disputes, ih.; his improve- 
 ments at Ballymagown, 381 ; his various appoint- 
 ments, ih ; his friendly and social intercourse with the 
 author, ih.\ his character, as given by lieutenant Wil- 
 liam Montgomery, 382 ; chosen feofee in trust for the 
 . author and his son, ih.; receives an account from lady 
 Elizabeth Cromwell of the relationship that existed 
 in the families of Moreville, Montgomery, and Crom- 
 well, 456, 457. 
 
 , Hugh, of Ballyskeogh, attends tne funeral of 
 
 the first earl, 250. 
 
 , Hugh, of Derrybrosk, 99, 136, 388; his de- 
 scent, 389; his presents to the first and second vis- 
 counts, 389. 
 
 , Hugh, of Derrygonnelly, 388; married to a 
 
 grand-daughter of sir John Dunbar, 389; description 
 of his residence, ih.; a curious relic in his house, ib.; 
 the author sends his portrait to, 390. 
 
 , Hugh, of Gransheogh, his desperate en- 
 counter with woodkern, 357; recovers from his 
 wounds, 358 ; lived to a great age, ib. ; is buried in 
 Donaghadee church, ib. 
 
 , Hugh, the second, of Gransheogh, 120, 134; 
 
 chief servant to the second viscount, 358; a captain 
 in sir James Montgomery's regiment, ib.; a major of 
 foot under sir Charles Coote, ib.; married in a good 
 family of the M'Clellands, ib.; left one son and 
 several daughters, ib. 
 
 , Hugh, of Islandmore, a cadet of the family 
 
 of Braidstane, 53. 
 
 , Hugh, of Newtown, servant to the second 
 
 Viscount, 134. 
 
 • , Hugh, surnamed Willoughby, 348, 353, 354. 
 
 , Hugh, son of Hugh of Ballymagown, 375. 
 
 -, Hugh, surnamed Grave Morrice, 370 ; settles 
 
 at Lisduff, near Longford, 391 ; his family barbar- 
 ously used by the Irish, ib.; the author's kind offices 
 to, (b. 
 
 , Hugh, the seneschal, 394. 
 
 ) Hugh, son of Hugh the seneschal, 394 ; 
 
 taken prisoner at Lisnastrain, ib.; shot, contrary to 
 
 the laws of war, ih. 
 , Hugh the provost, 395; his settlement in 
 
 the Ards, ih.; his family, ih. 
 , Hugh, eldest son of the provost killed in a 
 
 duel, 395 
 
 , Hugh, surnamed " ill-slain," 395. 
 
 ■, Hugh, son of John the merchant, 395 ; was 
 
 many years provost of Newtown, ih. 
 
 , Hugh, the apothecary, 395. 
 
 , Hugh, son of William of Ballyskeogh^ a 
 
 merchant in Belfast, 396. 
 ) Hugh, settled at Moyarget in Ramoan, family 
 
 of, 396. 
 
 , Hugh, eldest son of sixth earl of Eglinton, 134 
 
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 Index. 
 
 Montgomery, Hugh, second son of Roger, earl of Shrews- 
 bury, 452; became second earl, ib.; assists in con- 
 quering Anglesey, ib.; his cruelties, ib.; is slain 
 by Norwegians, ib.; several accounts of his death, 
 ih. 
 
 ■ , Hugh, sir, slain at Otterburn, 462. 
 
 — — — -, James sir, of Rosemount, his important ser- 
 vices, 77; his education and travel, 91 ; receives a 
 grant from his father, 93 ; his ' Obligation,' ib. ; 
 his marriage, ib. ; fined by the Irish house of 
 commons, 120; attends his father's funeral, 133, 
 142 ; his devise, 149 ; receives a commission from 
 Charles I., 157; his fathers-in-law, 158; his account of 
 O'Connally, 172; his third wife, 177; made prisoner 
 by Monk, 182; appears before the council of state, 
 ih. ; is permitted to return home, 186; his memoir, 303; 
 date and place of his birth, 304; his improvement on 
 the estate of Pat. Savage at Portaferry, 304 ; 
 memorable events in his life, 305 ; his election as 
 knight of the shire, 305,308; defeats Daniel O'Neill's 
 design, 310; his efforts to arrest the rebellion of 1641, 
 ib.; letter to Ormond, Dec, 1641, ib.\ his campaign 
 in Lecale, 311 — 325; letter from Downpatrick, 
 Dec, 1641,324 ; letters from Rosemount, 325, 326; 
 his interposition on behalf of Henry Savage, 327 ; 
 his good offices to sir Charles Coote, 328; his escape 
 at the taking of Sligo, 329; many important letters 
 to, in the author's possession, 330; his letters to Or- 
 mond in 1649, 331, 332 ; his escape to Scotland, ib. ; 
 summoned to appear before the committee of estates, 
 331 ; his defence of his own conduct, 333 ; his 
 Scottish friends, ib.; sentence pronounced upon 
 him, 334; Adair's account of him, ib.; retires to 
 Holland, ib.; returns to Scotland with Charles II., 
 336 ; conceals himself for a time, 334; his secret in- 
 terviews with the king, 338, 341; sets out incognito 
 for London, 343; is slain by pirates, 345; inscription 
 on his tomb in Greyabbey, 345, 346 ; his portrait, 
 346; his character, 346, 347. 
 
 ; James, curate, attends funeral of first vis- 
 count, 135; was born in the north of Scotland, ib.; 
 spimng from the house of Hazilhead, ib. ; his nine 
 uncles, 363, 364; marries Elizabeth Lindsay, widow 
 of Mr. David M'Gill, 364; was chaplain to the first 
 viscount Montgomery, ib.; brought with him into 
 Ireland, ^300, ; appointed curate of Greyabbey, 
 365 ; cited to appear before the presbytery, ib. ; his 
 reply, on meeting the moderator, ib.; prevented from 
 exercising his office in his parish, ib. ; appointed a 
 chaplain to sir James Montgomery's regiment, ib. ; 
 marries, as his second wife, a daughter of Hugh 
 Montgomery the seneschal, 366; his second family, ib. ; 
 his death in 1647, ib.; his epitaph in Greyabbey 
 church, 384. 
 
 , James, an officer in the navy, 396. 
 
 , Jame3, son of second viscount, 74. 
 
 , James, son of the author, family of, 74; is 
 
 appointed register to admiralty courts, 270 ; his ar- 
 rangement with the author, his father, 382, 383 ; 
 his vault in Greyabbey opened, 406. 
 
 — — , James, son of Hugh of Ballymagown, 376. 
 
 , James, of Rouskie, in Fermanagh, ih. 
 
 , James, of Lisduff, born in Rosemount, 390. 
 
 , James, sixth laird Hessilhead, 363. 
 
 , James, laird of Langshaw, 472. 
 
 Montgomery, James, colonel, fourth son of the sixth earl 
 
 of Eglinton, 8. 
 
 — , James de Lorge, 464 ; wounds Henry II. of 
 
 France, ib.; is executed by command of Catherine 
 de Medicis, ib.; descendants of, 465. 
 
 , Jean, daughter of first viscount, her dowry, 
 
 90 ; her death. 90. 
 
 , Jean, lady of second viscount, her mar- 
 riage, 73. 87 ; her presbyterianism, 124. 
 
 , Jean, daughter of the first earl, 297, 298; 
 
 her death at Chester, 297. 
 
 ■ , Jean, daughter of the hon. James, 296. 
 
 ■ , Jean, daughter of captain George of Dun- 
 
 bratly, married to William Shaw of Newtown and 
 B. Stockard, 355. 
 
 , Jean, third daughter of Hugh of Ballyma- 
 gown, 376. 
 
 , John, M.D., brother of first viscount, 9. 
 
 — , John, son of captain George of Dunbratly, 
 
 251, 354i 372. 
 
 , John of Gransheogh, 357 ; assists in tlie 
 
 plantation, ib.; his descent from the fourth laird of 
 Braidstane, ib. ; receives a grant of Gransheogh, ib. ; 
 is murdered by woodkem, ib. ; tradition respecting 
 his burial-place, 358. 
 
 -, John, second son of Hugh of Gransheogh, 
 
 358- , , . 
 
 -, John, of Newtown, servant to the first vis- 
 count, 135. . 
 
 , John, of Ballyrolly, 146, 386. 
 
 , John, of Tullynegry, attends tlie funeral of 
 
 the first earl, 250. 
 
 . • , fohn, son of " ill-slain Hugh," a rich m.er- 
 
 chant, 395. 
 
 , John, major, son of Mr. Alexander, 392 ; 
 
 his narrow escape from execution, ib.; his family, ib.; 
 his will, 
 
 , John, grandson of Mr. Alexander, 393. 
 
 , John H., manuscript of, 2. 
 
 , John, sir, of Eagleshame, at Otterburn, 
 
 461 ; his marriage, 462. 
 
 , Katherine, daughter of Hugh of Ballyma- 
 gown, married to Bernard Brett, 376. 
 
 , Lewis, of London and St. Albans, 458, 
 
 459- 
 
 , Lucy, daughter of William, first of Gran- 
 sheogh, 358. 
 
 , Mary, her marriage and death, 289, 290. 
 
 , Neil, sixth laird of Langsha.w, 133, 142. 
 
 , Neil, de Lorge, slain at Dola, 464, 469. 
 
 , Neil, sir, murdered in the Bams of Ajt, 
 
 472. 
 
 , Nicholas, of Derrj'brosk, 99, 100, 388 ; his 
 
 coat armorial, 389; his present to the author's son. 
 ib. ; sir James Montgomery's visit to, ib. ; his nume- 
 rous tenants named Montgomery', ib. 
 
 , Nicholas, of Melburn Castle, near Trent, 
 
 457- 
 
 , Patrick, brother of sir Hugh, 9, 149. 
 
 , Patrick, brother-in-law of sir Hugh, 27, 
 
 28,51. 
 
 , Patrick, of Creby, or Creboy, 248; known 
 
 as ' Long Patt,' 270 ; had loan of Montgomeiy 
 AfannscripfSy ib. 
 
 , Philip, seneschal of the king's forest, 457. 
 
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 Montgomery, Robert, sergeant, assists the sixth laird, 12, 
 
 385 ; settled in Upper Cunningburn, 385 ; his 
 
 family, 385, 386. 
 
 . , Robert, curate of Newtown, 112, 141. 
 
 — , Robert, grandson of Prebendary of Do, 393. 
 
 , Robert, third son of Hugh, the provost, 395. 
 
 , Robert, of Ballydamphe, gent., 146. 
 
 , Robert, lieutenant, son of Nicholas of 
 
 Derrybrusk, 134, 388. 
 
 , Robert, son of Mr. James, 366. 
 
 , Robert, master of Giffen, 7. 
 
 , Robert, of Giffen, brotlier of fourth earl of 
 
 Eglinton, 465. 
 
 , Robert, major-general, fifth son of sixth earl 
 
 of Eglinton, 8. 
 
 , Robert, sir, laird of Skelmorlie, II; notice 
 
 of his monument in Largs Church, 467. 
 
 , Robert, eldest son of Roger, earl of Shrews- 
 bury, 450 ; his cruelties, ih. 
 
 , Roger de, created earl of Shrewsbury, 449 ; 
 
 his children, ib.\ builds Shrewsbury Castle, ih.\ is 
 succeeded by his eldest son, Hugh, ; his coat of 
 arms in Westminster, 449, 450 ; builds the town and 
 castle of Montgomery, 452; repairs the nunnery at 
 Wenlock, 453, 460 ; doomed to perpetual imprison- 
 ment, ib.; extract from his charter, ih.; built the 
 castle of Devises, 454 ; endowed the monastery of 
 Black Monks at Shrewsbury, 460. 
 
 , Samuel, elder brother of Mr. James, 365 ; 
 
 lieutenant in lord Cromwell's troop, ib. ; lieutenant in 
 sir James Montgomery's regiment, ih. ; was member 
 of a court-martial at Portaferry, ih.\ his death and 
 place of burial, ih. 
 
 , Samuel, fifth son of Hugh, of Ballymagown, 
 
 376. 
 
 , Stephen, son of Lewis of London and St. 
 
 Albans, visits Rosemount, 459. 
 , Sybill, daughter of Roger, founds a Precep- 
 
 tory, 460. 
 
 , Thomas, fifth earl of Mount- Alexander, ex- 
 tracts from his letters to his father, 289 ; his marriage, 
 294 ; his will, ih. ; his death, ih. 
 
 , Thomas, of Blackstown, 26 ; carries Con 
 
 O'Neill to Scotland, 26 ; receives grant of lands, 28. 
 
 , Thomas, settled in Leitrim, 389. 
 
 , Thomas, sir, of Essex, 457. 
 
 , Thomas Harrison, his genealogical history, 2. 
 
 , William, author of Manuscripts, I; his ac- 
 count of himself, 150; when his Manuscripts were 
 written, ih. ; receives a sword from the third viscount, 
 177; meets the latter in Holland, 197, 198; petitions 
 for a 'composition,' 199; Cromwell's liberal treat- 
 ment of, ib. ; returns with the third viscount to Dub- 
 lin, ih. ; and thence to the county of Down, 200 ; his 
 bitter reflections on the 'usurpers,' 203, 204, 225; his 
 purchased debentures, 208 ; is liberally treated by 
 Henry Cromwell, 210; re-purchases Florida manor, 
 211, 368, 369, 414; obtains a proviso in the act of 
 settlement, 211; pays ^'150 to col. Barrow's son, ib.; 
 witnesses theproclaiming of Richard Cromwell in Dub- 
 lin, 214; assists in planning the restoration of Charles 
 IL, 219, 225; takes possession of his lands of Rose- 
 mount and Quintin Bay, 221, 369; is appointed a 
 justice of peace for county of Down, 228 ; is returned 
 member for the borough of Newtown, 231, 417; is 
 
 adjudged an ' innocent ' protestant, 232; procures a 
 decree of ' innocence' for the Smiths, ib. ; assists the 
 first earl to arrange his affairs, 240; goes to Dublin 
 with tidings of the earl's death, 241, 242; visits Kil- 
 kenny castle to inform Ormond of that event, 242 ; 
 solicits Ormond on behalf of the deceased earl's son, 
 ih. ; obtains from Ormond the appointment of Cnslos 
 Rottdorum, ih. ; letter of seventli earl of Eglinton to 
 Oitnond respecting, ih. ; consults with lord Ranelagh 
 on family matters, 243, 261; calls at Mellifont when 
 returning to Mount-Alexander, ih. ; invites Jeremy 
 Taylor to preach at the earl's funeral, 244 ; his epi- 
 taph on the first earl of Mount- Alexander, 254 ; goes 
 to London to obtain a reprisal for St. Wolstans, 260 ; 
 rough draught of his letter to Charles IL, 261 ; is 
 presented to the king, 262; is appointed guardian of 
 the second earl of Mount-Alexander, 263 ; obtains a 
 clause for reprise in the act of explanation, 264, 406; 
 is appointed on the commission for arranging the 
 earl's affairs, 255 ; is made deputy Ciistos Rotiilonan, 
 270, 416; had been 'outed' previously from this office, 
 270, 416; his letter releasing the first earl, 290; his 
 letter to William Montgomery of Gransheogh, 356 ; 
 coat of arms 'depicted' by, 360; his representation 
 of the Braidstane Arms, 362 ; takes as his attendant 
 Hugh, son of Mr. Jas. Montgomery, 367; assaulted 
 by sir Brian O'Neill, 414 ; his kindness to 
 
 Hugh Montgomery, 369 ; is presented with a nagg, 
 ib. ; his arrangement with his son, James Mont- 
 gomery, 382, 383 ; list of his creditors for small 
 sums, 383 ; his apology for the tone in which his Me- 
 moirs are written, 386, 387 ; obtains lands in Fer- 
 managh for debentures, 389 ; visits Derrygonnelly, ih ; 
 discovers a curious sword at Derrygonnelly, 389 ; his 
 good offices to the Montgomerys of Longford, 391 ; 
 sends his portrait to Derrygonnelly, 390 ; his difficulty 
 with the Longford Montgomerys, 391 ; appointed a 
 trustee for the 1649 officers, 406, 422; his birth- 
 place, 407 ; his early delicacy of constitution, ib.; 
 his account of the outbreak of 1 641, ib. ; is taken 
 to Strabane and Londonderry, 408 ; is sent to Glas- 
 gow with sir Wm. Stewart's family, ib. ; returns to 
 Londonderry, ib. ; commences to paint coats of arms, 
 409 ; is brought to Rosemount, ib. ; his tutors and 
 school companions, ib. ; is removed to Carrickfergus 
 after Benburb fight, ih. : enamoured of his cousin in 
 his thirteenth year, 409, 410 ; returns to Rosemount, 
 410 ; is sent to Glasgow college, ih. ; his devotion to 
 his studies, ih. ; is sent to Holland, 411 ; the vessel 
 wrecked at Amlandt, ih. ; his losses by this shipwreck, 
 ib. ; is placed at the university of Leyden, ih. ; his 
 Dedication of one of his exercises, ih. ; falls into a 
 canal at Delft, 412; prints two Disputations, ib.; the 
 title for one of his Disputations, ih. ; his Opera Jnve- 
 nilia, ih. ; he returns to England in 1652, ih. ; hears 
 at Harwich of his father's death, 413; comes to 
 Dublin, ib.; visits the county of Down, 414; en- 
 gages the services of Hugh Montgomery, ih. ; returns 
 to Westminster, ih. ; gets possession of Rosemount 
 and Quintin Bay, 415 ; writes a treatise on the office 
 of Custos Rotnloritm, 416; his Opera Sen ilia, ib.; is 
 deprived of his estate for the space of nine years, 
 417; bestows the king's arms, &c. , on tlie corporation 
 of Newtown, ih. ; loses his election for the county of 
 Down, 417-420 ; his error in settling his estate, 421 ; 
 
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 Index. 
 
 sworn gentleman of the privy council, 423 ; meets 
 Ormond at Lisnagarvy, ih.\ his account of Ormond's 
 visit to Carrickfergus, 424-429 ; his interview with 
 Bramhall, 430, 43 1 ; books bought and read by, 433 ; 
 his steadfast adherence to episcopal doctrines, 434; 
 attends the visitation at Lisbum, ib. ; dines at Hills- 
 borough, ih. ; entertained by bishop Jeremy Taylor, 
 435 ; takes his wife and son to Dublin, ih \ visits the 
 countess of Alount-Alexander and other relations, ib.\ 
 goes to Trim and Navan to look after his 'Lotts,' ib. ; 
 returns to Rosemount, ib. ; visits the countess in 1668, 
 436; is visited by the countess and her daughter in the 
 following summer, ih. ; is appointed high sheriff for 
 the county of Down, 437 ; incurs £"^00 of debt by this 
 appointment, 439 ; receives a taffeta scutcheon from 
 the countess of Ardglass, 456, 457 ; his memoir of 1 
 himself, 404; his repository or tomb, 405; inscriptions 
 found in his vault, 405, 406; his descendants, 406. 1 
 
 , William, attends the funeral of the first 
 
 viscount Montgomery. 142. j 
 
 , William, the first of Gransheogh and Maghe- ' 
 
 ra, 356 ; letter of the author to, ih. ; succeeds his I 
 father, major Hugh, 358; resides at Maghera, ib.; \ 
 owns the townland of Ballyhanwood and quarter of | 
 Gortgribb, ih. ; loves a good breed of horses, 359 ; 1 
 receives his coat of arms, ' fairly depicted,' from the 
 author, ib. ; his coat of arms and that of his wife Mary 
 McGill, 360. 
 
 , William, second of Gransheogh, at college 
 
 in 1701, 358 ; marries, as his first wife, Catherine Hail, 
 359 ; return of his yearly income, 359, 360 ; con- 
 veyance of Flushing Hill to. 361 ; marries, as his 
 second wife, Elizabeth Hill, ib. ; names of his second 
 family, ih. 
 
 , William of Ballyskeogh, 14I, 395. 
 
 , William, son of William of Ballyskeogh, 
 
 395 ; married to his cousin Langshaw's sister, ib. 
 
 , W'illiam, of Ballyheft, 138. 
 
 ■ ^ , William, lieut., an officer in sir James Mont 
 
 gomery's regiment, 322 ; his account of Hugh of 
 
 Ballymagown, 382. 
 
 , William, second son of Hugh the provost, 395. 
 
 • , William, son of Hugh of Belfast, a master 
 
 mariner, 396. 
 
 , W'illiam, Rev., of Ballyeaston, 363 ; owned 
 
 the original memoir of Ballymagown, ib. ; inscription 
 on his tombstone, ib. 
 
 , William, of Briggend, attends the funeral of 
 
 the first viscount, 139. 
 
 Montgomerys, instances of longevity among the, 146; 
 poets of this surname, 148, 149; Aleinoi-ables oi the, 
 quoted, 149; their preferments eanied only by valiant 
 services, 150; never stained in their blood, z/;. ; the 
 family motto, 302; the names known by, among them- 
 selves, 353; forty-four spellings of the surname, 356, 
 357; of Scotland, make rich marriages, 359 ; cf Ards, 
 not so fortunate in this matter, ib; many inferior 
 Montgomerys, 386 ; list of those who obtained letters 
 of denization, ib. ; many came from Scotland since 
 1692, 396 ; several of this surname well educated, ib. ; 
 of England and Scotland, 440-460 ; of Scandinavian 
 origin, 447 ; were represented by the dignity of a 
 count or earl in four kingdoms, 448. 
 
 Montgomristoune, a seat of the earls of Eglinton, 242 ; 
 letter written at, ib. 
 
 Monuments, none erected to the Montgomerys at New- 
 tovm, 145 ; nor in Scotland, il>. ; several classes of, 446. 
 
 Mooet, Mr. John, hired by the author, 410. 
 
 Moore, Garret, lord, notice of, 159. 
 
 , George, sir, of Mellifont, 177. 
 
 , Henry, viscount Drogheda, his family, 176; his 
 
 affairs, 204; created earl of Drogheda, 229. 
 
 , Mary, the first wife of third viscount Montgomery, 
 
 her death, 206 ; her children, ib. 
 
 , Patrick, settled in the Ards, 54. 
 
 , Quintine, of Aughneil, 54. 
 
 , Ursula, of Leixlip. 206. 
 
 Moreville, great family of, in Scotland, 455. 
 
 Mort cloths, kept for hire by first congregation, Belfast, 
 185. 
 
 Mount-Alexander, why so named, 93 ; townland of ib. : 
 return of family to, 175, 176; title adopted by the first 
 earl, 229. 
 
 Mountross, another foi-m of Rosemount, I ; a place so 
 
 called near Ardquin, 2. 
 
 , a place so called in Ayrshire, 2. 
 
 Mount-Stewart, in Tyrone, 94. 
 
 Mowatt, Margaret, of Ingliston, her dowiy, 90. 
 
 Moyarget, in Ramoan, a family of Montgomerys settled 
 
 in, 396. 
 
 Muir, Jean, of Glanderston, her dowrj', 90. 
 Muir, Patrick, of Aughneil, 138. 
 Mulachan, cheese, 39. 
 
 Mure, sir W^illiam, of Rowallan, his poetry, 148. 
 Murray, sir William, notice of, 132, 141. 
 
 M'Cartens, the, 418. 
 M'Carty, Justin, account of, 388. 
 M'Cashan, Hugh, of Ballygrange, 42. 
 
 , John, Con O'Neill's attome)-, 41. 
 
 M'Clellan, sir Robert, marries elder daughter of sir Hugh 
 
 Montgomery, 88 ; lands obtained by his marriage, 
 
 88, 89 ; his death, 89. 
 
 , Robert, sir, of Ballycastle and Ardkilley, 88. 
 
 M'Clelland, family of, in Galloway, 88. 
 M'Clellands, family of, in Londonderry, 358. 
 M'Dowall, ancient family of, 94 ; pedigrees of, 95. 
 
 , John, of Garthland, 41 ; 142. 
 
 M'Gill, David, curate of Greyalibey, 123; notice of his 
 
 family, ib.; inscription on his tomb, 124. 
 , Hugh, captain, son of David, assists in preparations 
 
 for funeral of the first earl, 244 ; left no issue, 347, 
 
 366, 368, 413. 
 
 , Hugh, son of captain James, slain at Athlone, 
 
 362. 
 
 , James, captain, son of David, 251; his lands near 
 
 Belfast, 358 ; his family, 361, 362. , 
 
 , James, son of capt. James, slain at Portglenone, 
 
 262. 
 
 , Jean, wife of captain James, her entries in the 
 
 family Bible, 361 ; names of her children, ib.; names 
 of her family connexions, ib.; bequeaths her Bible to 
 her daughter Mar)', 362; her will, ib. 
 
 , Mary, Mrs. Wm. Montgomery, her right in land.? 
 
 near Belfast, 358; her family arms, 360. 
 
 ■ , William, son of captain James, purchases Bally- 
 
 nester, 362. 
 
 M'Gennis, lord Iveagh, his movement in 1688, 271. 
 M'Gennisses, tenants of the, 418. 
 M-Kail, Hugh, 298. 
 
Index. 
 
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 M'Lee, Duncan, leased Ballyliannode, 53. 
 M'Mullin, Hugh, medical practitioner, 140. 
 M'Neill, Hector, 348, 349. 
 
 , Lydon, 349. 
 
 , Margaret, 349. 
 
 , Roger, 349. 
 
 Naale, Thomas, teacher of music at Newtown, 409. 
 Navan, seat of Episcopal residence at, 102. 
 Naill, a Scottish settler of this surname, 54. 
 Nevin, family of, in parish of Donaghadee, 53. 
 
 , Hugh, Mr., notice of his family, 135. 
 
 , Thomas, brother to the laird of Monkroddin, 
 
 S3- . . „ 
 
 , Thomas, of Monkroddin, jun., 13S. 
 
 , Thomas, sen., of Arkeen, 139. 
 
 , Thomas, of Ballycopeland, 250. 
 
 >7ewark, castle, notice of, 11. 
 
 Newcastle, notice of, 314, 
 
 Newcomen, Thomas, sir, notice of, 277. 
 
 Newtown, market at, in 1607, 59; erected into a Corpo- 
 ration, 67; enjoys the right of sending members to 
 Parliament, ib.; list of its members from 1613 to 
 1800, 67, 68; its market-cross described, 68 ; Charles 
 n. proclaimed at, in 1649, ih.; priory of, converted 
 into Newtown house, 85: Newtown house, burned 
 in 1664,87, 265; its site occupied by Colville-house, 
 ih.; rejoicings at, in 1649, 178; meeting of officers at, 
 186; lands in manor of, 267, 26S. 
 
 Nicholl, John, extracts from his Diary, 342, 343. 
 
 Nigrum theta, explanation of the phrase, 234. 
 
 Non-juroi-s, in Ulster, 275. 
 
 0'Cah.\n, Donald Ballagh, his interviews with bishop 
 
 Montgomery, 96; his fate, 97. 
 O'Conally, lieutenant-colonel, notice of, 171, 172, 173; 
 
 sent to press the solemn league and covenant in 
 
 Ulster, 326. 
 
 O'Dogherty, Cahir, sir, his youth, 19; his foster-brothers, 
 19 ; proclaimed* by sir Henry Docwra as the queen's 
 O'Dogherty, ih. ; knighted by Mountjoy. ib. ; his 
 marriage, 20 ; his residences, ib. ; his revolt and 
 death, 21 ; his estates granted to Chichester, ih. 
 
 O'Donnell, Nial Garve, extract from his 'informations,' 
 24. 
 
 Officers, 1649, 406 ; names of trustees appointed for, 422. 
 
 O'Hanlon, Redmond, account of his death, 1 19. 
 
 O'Hara, Cahil or Charles, his estate, 90; notice of his 
 family by ^lEngus O'Daly, ib. 
 
 , Thady, maixied to Catherine O'Neill, 84. 
 
 O'Hoole, sham freeholders made by, 418. 
 
 Oirear Caoin, supposed early name of Donaghadee, 122. 
 
 Okeham, baron Cromwell of, connected with the Morevills 
 and Montgomerys, 455; his career, ib. 
 
 Oliver's mirmidons, their overw helming influence in the 
 Commons, 247. 
 
 O'Neill, Brian, surnamed Fagartach, 13, 45. 
 
 , Brian Mac Felini, his letters, 59; his revolt, ih. ; 
 
 his assassination, ib. 
 
 , Brian, sir, assaults the author, 367, 414 ; is as- 
 saulted by Hugh Montgomery, ih. ; notice of his ca- 
 reer, 367, 368. 
 
 — • , Catherine, sister of Daniel, 84; married to Thady 
 
 O'Hara, ib. 
 , Con, first earl of Tyrone, 45. 
 
 O'Neil, Con, of Castlereagh, his descent, 13; his imprison- 
 ment, 21; his sons, 23; his wife, ih; his brothers, 
 ih; his escape, 26, 37; tenns with Braidstane, 27; 
 received at court, 29 ; his preference for Castlereagh, 
 33 ; pardon of, 36 ; grant from Hamilton to, 36 ; his 
 feoffment to sir Hugh Montgomery, 40; his grant of 
 woods to sir Hugh, 41 ; his releases to sir Hugh 
 Montgomery, 69, 70 ; his failures to sir Hugh, 82 ; 
 his residences after leaving Castlereagh, ib. ; supposed 
 date of his death, ib.; his burial place, ih.; destruction 
 of his castle, 83 ; his esteem for the first 'viscount 
 Montgomery, 144 ; his widow marries Henry Savage 
 of Ardkeen, 477, 483. 
 
 — , Con Oge, son of Con of Castlereagh, 22, 84, 
 
 321, 322, 323. 
 
 , Daniel, son of Con of Castlereagh, 22 ; his annuity 
 
 from lands in Castlereagh, 78; Clarendon's account 
 of, 83 ; Carte's account of ib. ; his marriage, 83, 
 84; his attempts to regain his estates, 84, 310; arch- 
 bishop Laud's letters concerning, 84 ; notices of his 
 death, ib. 
 
 1, Ellis ny, deed from Con to, 81, 82; her jointure, 
 
 475 ; her second marriage, 477, 483 ; date of her death, 
 ib. ; rivalry between viscounts Ards and Clannaboy 
 tor possession of her lands, ih. 
 
 , families of the, in the County of Down, 307. 
 
 , Henry Roe, son of Owen Roe, his cruel death, 
 
 188. 
 
 , Hugh, earl of Tyrone, restored, 24 ; received at 
 
 court, ib. ; proposal of, to James VI., ib. ; surrenders 
 to Mountjoy, 45 ; his flight, 96; manner of letting his 
 estates to tenants, 434. 
 
 — , Hugh Boy, son of Con of Castlereagh, 82. 
 
 — , Hugh Mergagh, grant to, 82 ; sells to sir Foulk 
 
 Conway, ib. 
 
 , Nial; son of Brian Fagartach, joined by the 
 
 Savages, 478. 
 
 , Owen Roe, notice of, 166; his letters to Charles I., 
 
 167; forms an alliance mth Monk, 179; his propo- 
 sitions, 180; his death, l66; is lamented by the Irish, 
 
 , Shane, surname of, 44; slain at Cushendun, 
 
 ib. 
 
 , Tool, or Tuathal, grant to, 82. 
 
 Orange, William I., prince of, 10, 
 
 , William II., prince of, his character and aims, 
 
 335, 336 ; furnishes a small squadron to Charles II., 
 336. 
 
 I , William III., prince of, sends commissions to 
 
 Ulster, 278 ; his letter to the earl of MountAlexander, 
 ib. 
 
 Ormond, Duke of, ingratitude of Charles II. to, 226 ; is 
 threatened with impeachment, ib. ; narrowly escapes 
 assassination, ib. ; his friendship for tlie family of the 
 first earl of Mount- Alexander, 262 ; visits Carrickfer- 
 gus in 1666, 423. 
 
 , marchioness of, liberally treated by Heniy Crom- 
 well, 2IO. 
 
 Orniond-Ossory, James Butler, earl of, notice of, 160. 
 Orphan children, preyed on by wolves, 118. 
 Orrery, Roger Boyle, earl of, his letter to Ormond, 236. 
 Orthodo.x, author's meaning of the term, 206. 
 Owen, Dr. John, chaplain to Cromwell, 210. 
 Oxmondtown green, rendezvouz of royalists at, 219. 
 I Oys in Scotland, what, 357. 
 
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 Index. 
 
 Palls, kept for hire by first congregation, Belfast, 185. 
 Papists, innocent, qualifications for restoring, 228. 
 Parks and houses, names of such as were not to be sold, 
 199. 
 
 Parliament, Irish, of 1661, account of, 231 ; disputes be- 
 tween the two houses, 241 ; of James II., names of 
 those attainted by, in county of Down, 272, 273; 
 members of parliament paid for their services, 417. 
 
 Parsons, sir Richard, notice of, 436, 437. 
 
 , sir William, notice of, 159. 
 
 Paterson, James, esq., letter of, 28. 
 
 Peacock, James, son of John, 146. 
 
 , John, of Tullykeavin, gent., 146. 
 
 Peebles, Thomas, letter of bishop Jer. Taylor referring to, 
 240 ; his knowledge of language and history, ib. 
 
 Penbroch, Herbert, sir Wm., first earl of, 452. 
 
 Pencils, or Pencels, what, 143. 
 
 Pendragon, account of this epithet, 444. 
 
 Pensions, list of preachers receiving, in the time of the 
 commonwealth, 212. 
 
 Pentland hills, Scottish army at the, 339. 
 
 Percival, sir J., notice of, 264. 
 
 Percy, Henry, surnamed Hotspur, his capture at Otter- 
 burn, 461; his ransom applied to the erection of 
 Polnoon castle, ib. 
 
 Perrot, sir John, letter of, to James I., 121. 
 
 Petry, or Petrie, Alexander, account of, 334, 411 
 
 Petty, sir William, purchases debentures, 208. 
 
 Pictland, its extent, 339. 
 
 Piepowder, Court of, what, 42. 
 
 Piracy, in Irish and Scottish seas, 122. 
 
 Plantation of Ulster, notice of its oppressive tendency, 
 25, 26 ; account of, 55, 56. 
 
 Plot, Blood's, names of conspirators in, 237 ; lists of such 
 as were punished, 238. 
 
 Poems in the Latin language, Scottish writers of, 397. 
 
 Poesy, the author's remarks on, 399 — 403. 
 
 Polnoon, or Ponoune, castle of when built, 361, 461. 
 
 Pond, fresh water, at Joymount, 426. 
 
 Pont, Timothy, quoted, 26. 
 
 Portaferry, town of 304 ; castle of, ib. ; estate of, 304, 
 305 ; Samuel Montgomery buried in the church of, 365. 
 Portmore, family of Johnstons settled at, 54. 
 , castle and park of, 246. 
 
 Portpatrick purchased by first viscount Ards, 112; church 
 built in, 124; harbour built at, 125; lands of, sold by 
 the third viscount Montgomery, 256. 
 
 Portrait, of a boy, preserved at Donaghadee, 285, 2S6. 
 
 Portraits, family, noticed, 117. 
 
 Posts between London and Edinburgh, 14. 
 
 Potatoes, when introduced, 64 ; writers on, quoted, ii. 
 
 Pourpoint, meaning of the term, 185. 
 
 Precedency, contests for, 4; law of, in respect to an heiress, 
 463- . , 
 
 Presbyterianism in Ulster, a result of the plantation, 432. 
 
 Presbyterians, abandon the siege of Londonderry, 119; 
 their union with royalists, 178; imitate their Scottish 
 brethren, 190; unite with episcopalians in l688; 
 their defection lamented by members of their own 
 body, 274, 275 ; taught by events to moderate their 
 aims, ib. 
 
 Presbyterian ministers, "cajoled," 222; their humiliation, 
 236; their interview with the lords justices, ib. ; their 
 dil'ficulties arising from Blood's plot, 23S, 239, 240. 
 
 Preston, Tiiomas, Ulster king at arms, 139, 142. 
 
 Preston, battle of, 173. 
 
 Primrose, the Belfast Apothecary, 241. 
 
 Proportions, of land, their extent, 55. 
 
 Protestants, northern, declaration of, in 1688, 273 , pro- 
 ceedings of, 273, 274. 
 
 Protesters, who, 139 ; list of the principal, 341. 
 
 Proverbs, quoted and illustrated, 255, 373. 
 
 Psalms of David, Rouse's translation of, adopted by the 
 Scottish kirk, 403. 
 
 Purfrey, Henry, 134. 
 
 Quarries, stone and slate, 61. 
 Querns, notice of, 63 ; their general use, ih. 
 Quintinbay, seized by the author, 221; its names explained, 
 221, 222. 
 
 Ranelagh, Catherine Boyle, lady, 260. 
 
 , Richard Jones, third viscount, ib. 
 
 Rapparees, notice of, 357. 
 Rathmines. battle of, 190. 
 
 Rawdon, Arthur, sir, compels sir T. Newcomen to retreat 
 from Lisnegarvey, 277; excepted from mercy, 279. 
 
 , George, notice of, 163. 
 
 , Helena, lady, notice of, 279. 
 
 Rebellion of 1641, outbreak of, 151, 309; progress of, 
 151; names of Irish leaders in, 151, 152; proclama- 
 tion declaring it ended, 201. 
 
 Regicides, fate of the, 227. 
 
 Regiments, twelve, raised in LHster, 278. 
 
 Reilly, Mrs. E. G. S., her Genealogical His'ory, 2. 
 
 Remonstrators, who, 339; list of principal, 341. 
 
 Rents, of Celtic chief, how paid, 40. 
 
 Repository, in Greyabbey, account of, 405. 
 
 Resolutioners, who, 340. 
 
 Restoration, rejoicings at the, 222, 223. 
 
 Ridere, use of the term, 346. 
 
 Ritlimers, Scottish, notice of, 148. 
 
 Ritson's country chorister, ballad in quoted, 18. 
 
 Ronane, Grace, family of, 375, 376. 
 
 —■ , James, letter of, 376 ; inventory of his plate, ib. 
 
 Roos, Gryssall, lady Keir, her letter, 367. 
 
 Rose, the name of a gift horse, 369. 
 
 Rosemount, when so named, 1,2; other places so named 
 in Ireland and Scotland, 2 ; date of fire at, 28; de- 
 struction of, by fire, 66; seized by the author, 221,421; 
 device over the entrance door, 347 ; arrangement re- 
 specting the estate of, 382, 383 ; sale of, in 17 1 7, 420; 
 estimate of its value in 1 719, 359, 360. 
 
 Rosen, general, appointed to command at Derry, 282 ; 
 his cruelties, ib. 
 
 Ross, Alexander, notice of his works, 397, 398. 
 
 Rouen, the king of Navarre killed at, 471. 
 
 Roundheads, meaning of the term, 203, 204. 
 
 Row, Samuel, Mr., 134. 
 
 Royalty, cause of, expires in England, Ireland, and Scot- 
 land, 198. 
 
 Rump, the, notice of 194; fagg end of Long Parliament, 
 1 98 ; re-assembles after Richard Cromwell's abdica- 
 tion, 217; revived and continued until the Restora- 
 tion, 221. 
 
 Russell, Geo. , of Rathmullen, 89. 
 
 , colonel, 375. 
 
 Russells, notice of several families of the, 314, 315. 
 Rust, Dr., preaches at the funeral of the first earl of 
 Mount-Alexander, 244, 245 ; notices of, 245 ; extract 
 
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 from his sermon at the funeral of the first earl of 
 
 Mount-Alexander, 258. 
 Rutherford, Samuel, his intolerant sentiments, 245. 
 Ryswick, notice of, 196. 
 
 St. Croix, or Sagadahock, granted to sir William Alex- 
 ander, 87. 
 
 St. Dominic, priory of, at Newton, 62; its walls roofed, 
 ih. 
 
 St. James' Park, where situated, 423. 
 
 St. Lawrence, origin of this surname, 445. 
 
 , Frances, her epitaph, 177. 
 
 St. Wolstan's estate of, granted to the first earl of Mount- 
 Alexander, 229 ; schedule of the property, 233 ; 
 grant of, to Mount- Alexander revoked, 234, 235 ; re- 
 prisal for, sought, 260. 
 
 Salys, or S.uillies, what, 131. 
 
 Saunderson, Robert, notice of, 163, 
 
 Savage, Elizabeth, married to Geo. Wilton, 91. 
 
 , Henry, of Ardkeen, 131, 139; his religious views, 
 
 328. 
 
 , Hugh, son of Patrick of Portafen-y, his education, 
 
 91, 413; sir James Montgomery's guardianship of, 
 182 ; resides at Camesure, 250; his death, 91. 
 
 — , Hugh, nicknamed 'Old Rock,' 237. 
 
 , John, son of Henry of Ardkeen, 252, 253. 
 
 , Mary Kennedy, Mrs., of Newtown, notice of, 
 
 185. 
 
 , Patrick, son of Rowland, of Portaferry, 366. 
 
 , Patrick, son of Patrick, married to Jean Mont- 
 gomery, 89; his children, 91 ; his death, ib. 
 
 , Patrick, of Derry and Portaferry, 365. 
 
 , Redmond, 366. 
 
 , Richard, brother of Henry, 136. . 
 
 , Richard, son of Robert, 136. 
 
 , Robert, 366. 
 
 • , Roland, 366. 
 
 , Sarah, her marriage, 91. 
 
 , Sheela, or Celia, wife of John M'Donnell sur- 
 
 named Ca/hatiach, 8. 
 ■ , families of this surname in the Ards and Lecale, 
 
 307. 308. 
 Schools, founded at Newtown, 126. 
 Scopes, of land, what, 55. 
 
 Scotch settlers in the Ards, their industry and prosperity, 
 
 66 ; surnames of many, 66, 67. 
 Scotland, curious account of its productions, 350-352. 
 Scottishmen, to hold the sea-coast, 32, 33. 
 Scottish Worthies, namis of some, 274. 
 Scrabo, freestone of, 61. 
 Scutcheons, what, 143. 
 Sea-oar, what, its uses, 62. 
 Sectarians, who, 178. 
 Semple, lord, 11. 
 
 , William, sir, 133, 141. 
 
 , William, sir, of Letterkenny, notice of, 408. 
 
 , popular account of the origin of the surname of, 
 
 442 ; the family of, ib. 
 Seneschal, the office of, held by Hugh Montgomeiy, 
 
 366. 
 
 Seton, Alexander, sir, sixth earl of Eglinton, 7. 
 Settlement, Act of, described, 231 j nine MS. volumes re- 
 lating to, 232. 
 Shannon, mile line of the river, 372. 
 
 Shaw, Arms of the family of, 143. 
 
 , Elizabeth, first viscountess, her burial-place, 
 
 247. 
 
 , Hugh, captain, deputy Gustos, 416, 252. 
 
 , Hugh, of Killbright, his will, 252, 253. 
 
 .John, of Greenock, family of, 51, 52; obtains a 
 
 grant of lands in the Ards, 52. 
 
 , John or James, his sons and daughters, 10. 
 
 , John, son of James, 133. 
 
 , Patrick, of Kelsoland, 10, 53. 
 
 , William, provost, 250. 
 
 , William, of Ballyganway, his descendants, 250. 
 
 Shaws, lairds of Greenock, their residences, 10, 11. 
 
 , of Ballygellie and Ballytweedie, 52. 
 
 Shaw-Stewarts, represent the Shaws of Greenock, 11. 
 Sheriffs for the county of Down, list of, 437, 438, 439. 
 Shrewsbuiy, priory for Black Monks at, 453. 
 Sidney, Henry, sir, his notice of Upper Clannaboy, 79. 
 , Henry, lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 286 ; his go- 
 vernment unpopular, 287. 
 Silk, slave, trade in, 458. 
 
 Skefflngton, John, sir, second viscount Massereene, 246 ; 
 
 notice of, 279 ; his losses during the revolution, ib. 
 Skelmorlie, castle of, 27; family of noticed, 466, 467, 
 
 469. 
 
 Slaves, bought and sold by Scottish nobles, 455. 
 Sleuth-hound, the, notice of, u8. 
 Sligo, taking of, in 1645, 329. 
 .Slutt Neales, woods of, 86. 
 
 Smith, Thomas, sir, notice of, 70, 71; his grant of the 
 Ards from Elizabeth, 71; his proposal to sell his in- 
 terest therein, 71; his non-fulfilment of the original 
 indenture, 71, 72. 
 
 , William, sir, notice of, 75 ; his tomb, ib.; his 
 
 renewed efforts to establish a claim to the Ards, 
 77- 
 
 , lieutenant, commander of a privateer, 344; hanged 
 
 with seventeen others, 345. 
 Smush, what, 39. 
 Soccage, tenure by, explained, 34. 
 Soldiers, provision for, 228. 
 Solemn league and covenant, what, 178. 
 Southwell, Robert, sir, inscription on his tomb 263. 
 Squire, etymology of the term, 353. 
 Stage-coaches between London and Edinburgh, 15. 
 Staple, bonds of, what, 176. 
 
 Statutes, 10 Henry VH., 23; I Henry VIH., 25; 11 
 Elizabeth, extracts from, 43, 46 ; Act for abolishing 
 the distinction of nations, 1612, 29 ; 17 Car. I., 161; 
 12 Charles H., 34. 
 
 Stewart, Adam, Dr., notices of, 335, 411. 
 
 , Andrew, his MS. quoted, 27; his account of 
 
 Con O'Neill's escape, ib. ; his account of first set, 
 tiers, 61 ; liberated, 239; inscription on his tombstone- 
 240. 
 
 , Alexander, sir, put himself at the head of the 
 
 Lagan forces, 183; notice of, ib. 
 
 , Alexander, captain, of Bellamorane, 249. 
 
 , George, lieutenant-colonel, 197. 
 
 , Katherine, date of her death, I, 120; her funeral 
 
 entry quoted, I, 120; her tomb, 120, 121. 
 , Robert, sir, his commisnion in 1 64 1, 157, 162 ; 
 
 tre.ichcrously captured, l82j his force joined by that 
 
 of Mervyn, 183. 
 
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 Stewart, Samuel, major, rented lands from the Boyds, 
 247. 
 
 , William, sir, notices of, 93, 94, 134; his commis- 
 sion in 1641, 157, 162; is told of the outbreak of 
 1 64 1, 407; his measures for its suppression, 408; his 
 houses burned, ib. ; his descendants, ib. 
 
 , William, Mr., son of sir William, 139. 
 
 Stirling, old countess of, 92; names of her children, ib.; 
 inscription on her parents' monument, ib.; came to 
 reside with her daughter, lady Ards, ib.; supposed to 
 have been buried at Newtown, ib. 
 
 Stirling, committees of kirk and estates retreat to, 340 ; 
 its castle, 350; its bridge, ib. 
 
 Stool of repentance, an engine of presbyterianism, 297, 
 298; illustrations of its uses, ib. 
 
 Stowe, H. B., Mrs., extract from her letters, 397. 
 
 Strafford, earl of, his disastrous administration, 128. 
 
 Strand, a well-known one, 316, 
 
 Straughan, or Strachan, colonel, his services for the co- 
 venant, 340; joins Cromwell, 341. 
 
 Strongbow, notice of, 450; his family, ib.; his cruel con 
 duct to his son, ib. 
 
 Strowans, what, 39. 
 
 Style, change of, 40. 
 
 Supersedeas, what, 373. 
 
 Surnames, how introduced, 440-446; derived from trades, 
 445; derived from complexion, ib.; derived from 
 lands, 445, 446 ; Scottish, instances of their change 
 in France, 469. 
 
 Sutherland of Duffus, sir Alexander, 366. 
 
 Swadlin, John, notice of, 418. 
 
 Sweating sickness, of 1551 and 1597, 10. 
 
 Sword, a remarkable one described, 348. 
 
 Tagg-RAGG, meaning of the phrase, 38. 
 
 Talbot, John, sir, inscription on his sword, 390. 
 
 , Richard, sketch of his family, 234; his influence 
 
 with the duke of York, his ambition, ib. 
 
 Tanistry, law of, what, 44 ; illustrations of, 45. 
 
 Tartans, worn by the Scots of Ulster, 65. 
 
 Taylor, Jeremy, writes to Ormond respecting the Pres- 
 byterians, 239; his letter to the seventh earl of Eglin- 
 ton respecting Peebles, 240 ; declines preaching at 
 funeral of first earl of Mount- Alexander, 244 ; diffe- 
 rent estimates of, ib. ; attends visitation at Lisne- 
 garvey, 435. 
 
 Tea, when first used in Scotland, 270. 
 
 Teagues, meaning of, as applied to Irishmen, 22. 
 
 Teirne, meaning of the term, 21, 22. 
 
 Terringham, or Ternyngham, Arthur, notice of, 160. 
 
 'J'itles, defective, commission for remedy of, 1 29. 
 
 Togher, meaning of the word, 321. 
 
 Togher good, illustrations of the meaning of the phrase, 
 377 > received by Montgomerys with their wives, 
 472. 
 
 Tories, their principal haunts in Ulster, 119; names 
 of chiefs, ib. ; severe law against, ib. ; hunted in 
 county of Down, ib. ; woodkem on foot so called, 
 357- 
 
 lownlands, distribution of, in Ireland, 55; MS. mapped 
 
 survey of, ib. 
 Towns, materials for building of, in the Ards, 61. 
 'I'revor, Edward, sir, 132, 141, 160. 
 , John, Mr., son of sir Edward, ib. 
 
 Trevor, Marcus, colonel, 139; assists in planning the res- 
 toration, 219; created viscount Dungannon, 224; 
 returned for Down, 417, 418. 
 
 Trevors, principal residences of the, 305. 
 
 Trim, rectory of, 106, 
 
 TuUaghmore, or Tollimore, notice of, 319. 
 
 Tumbledown Dick, a nickname for Richard Cromwell, 
 217. 
 
 Turners, copper coin known as, 87. 
 
 Tutbury, a priory of black monks at, 460. 
 
 Tweedale, lady, notice of, 412; Baillie's account of the 
 
 festivities at her marriage, ib. 
 Tyrconnell, duke of, his proclamation, 272. 
 
 Ulster, lords and captains of, 43 ; territories of, 44. 
 
 Ussher, James, D.D., his marriage, 98; his family, 99; 
 his controversy with Malone, 104 ; doctor of divi- 
 nity, ib. ; receives recommendatory letters, 104, 105 ; 
 seeks to be parson of Trim, 105 ; his movements 
 known to bishop Montgomery, ib.; his reception by 
 Montgomery in London, ib. ; is introduced to the 
 king, 107 ; is appointed chaplain in ordinary, ib ; the 
 king orders him to preach, ib ; his reluctance, ib. ; 
 his successful effort, 108; receives royal promises and 
 favours, ib. ; repudiates the authority of the Westmin- 
 ster Assembly, ib. ; his regret for the loss of his MSS. , 
 109. 
 
 Uter, notice of this British prince, ^144. 
 
 Vallance, Robert and Margaret, lOO, loi. 
 Varro, P. Terentius, quotation from, 145. 
 Vaughan, sir James, notice of, 160. 
 Venison, plentiful in Clannaboy, 349. 
 Vespasian, his goodness, 212, 213. 
 
 Wallace, George, Mr., 251. 
 
 ■ , William, sir, avenges the death of his friends, 
 
 472. 
 
 Waller, sir Hardress, notice of, 220 ; surrenders Dublin 
 
 Castle to Coote, 221. 
 Wallingford House, its site, 215 ; meeting of officers in, 
 
 ib. 
 
 War, court of, at Portaferry, 322. 
 Wards, families of, in the Ards, 308 
 Waring, William, high sheriff of county Down, 373, 
 439- 
 
 Watson, Robert, a teacher at Donaghadee, 356. 
 Well, a famous one in Carrickfergus Castle, 427. 
 Wenlock, ancient nunneiy of, converted into a priory for 
 
 Black Monks, 453. 
 White, family of, at Leixlip, 234. 
 
 Whitehall, galleries of, 423; when the council of state 
 first met there, 198. 
 
 Wigton, viscountess, marries the first viscount Ards, 112; 
 refuses to reside in Ireland, ib.; her death and fune- 
 ral, IIS; her family, 112, 115. 
 
 Wilton, George, assists in planning the restoration, 
 219. 
 
 Winchester dry measure, what, 329. 
 Wintoun, Margaret Montgomerie, countess of, 7. 
 Witchcraft, supposed case of, at Cammoney, 205 ; a*' 
 Irvine, ib. 
 
 Wolf-dogs, proclamation against their removal from Ire- 
 land, 1 18. 
 
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 Wolseley, William, colonel, notice of, 287. 
 
 Wolves, rumours concerning among the settlers, 60; their 
 depredations, ib. ; Irish names for, 117; various 
 means used to destroy them, 117, 118; great increase 
 of, ih. 
 
 Wood-kern, rumours concerning, among the settlers, 60 ; 
 their depredations, //).; names of noted, 119; mas- 
 sacre by, 357. 
 
 Woods, on Slutt Neales, by whom cut down. 86; granted 
 
 by Con O'Neill to sir Hugh Montgomery, 41, 69; 
 abundant near Belfast, 69 ; litigations concerning, 
 85, 86. 
 
 Woollen manufacture in Ireland, 65. 
 
 Worcester, battle of, 197; prisoners taken at, 4.13. 
 
 Year, distinction between the civil and historical, 40. 
 
 Yew trees, why planted in churchyards, 92. 
 
 York, duke of, his residence in Holyrood, 269, 270. 
 
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 ,, 286, 289, 290, notes 68, 3, a„ /or Lilly read Lely. 
 
 ,, 303, note ii,/or 1820 read 1835. 
 
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