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PRE FA CE .

The following H ist ory of a family numerous and I prosperous beyond recount, will, hope , prove acceptable

no w to their descendants . These are to be found in all

classes of society , and many have forgotten all about their forefathers and have not even a tradition remain

i ing. Nay, members of this family who st ll live as county families in Ireland have become so culpably careless that a few generations is the limit of their d knowle ge . It will show the difficulty of the historian and

n d o f genealogist, here at least whe it is state that

George Lewis Jones , who was Bishop of this Diocese

1774— 1790 I not , could gather a particle of informa I tion but the meagre facts have stated . ! I PRE FACE .

The transmission of physical conformation and facial expression , as well as that of moral qualities and defects , is an interesting study to the philosopher . In some u families you can trace for cent ries the same expression, featurmes and color, often the same height and very often li the sa e moral and intellectual qua ties . As a general

u - rule, the feat res of this wide spread family , no matter i whether rich or poor, gifted or gnorant , are marked n by peculiar characteristics that, o ce seen and noted

. . N . . . cannot well be forgotten Captain Jones, R , M P I for Londonderry, whom knew when a boy, now

Rear Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones, the Rev . Thomas

of I w J . Jones, Armagh Diocese, whom have kno n all n my life, and Robert Jones, my eighbor, have the s of r of ame class featu e, type expression, and would at once be known from their height— the same— and their

wc of features, hi h are alike, to be the same family This applies to every man of the same stock whom I have known here . The Joneses of whom I have written were a bold

‘ — ~ i s u c one . and a g fted race tern rep bli ans, except They helped materially t o change the fortunes of this u country at a critical period . Hence the s bsequen t III PRE FACE .

not ignorance about them . Who would like to trace the descendants of tha t heroic and simple- minded

a ? republic n general, Michael Jones But his very simplicity and republican spirit have served to cast v mi an impenetrable cloud o er his fa ly . wn I My opinions are my o ; my facmts believe to be true ; but no doubt I have made istakes . Put the blame for the one ag ainst the praise for the I o ther and shall be content .

ROBERT LEECH . D RUMLANE RECTORY, t Bel urbet, Ireland , 1 8 5 Oct . 18 7 , .

I I I E THE JONE S FAM L Y N RL AND.

CHAPT E R I.

PEDIGREE AND EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS O J NES .

or A of one o f t he Jones, p John, was the name of ind e en princely tribes the Cimbri . They ruled as p s dent p rinces when Wale was free . This was the of one of or o f name fifteen noble, princely, houses e o Wales . Th ir p ssessions were in North Wales, chief l ! y in Denbigh, Flint and Caernarvon . Some time after of o f the conquest Wales by Edward the First, King o f England, a branch this noble house settled in Lan i cash re . Here they lived for several generations, and in the time o f Henry the Eighth Sir Roger Jones o had possessions in Lancashire and was an Alderman of 41 hi 15 s London . In a son was born to him at L r si n wh m e d e ce h mas . o T o Lancashire , . he called )

’ “ Arch d all r e L an e G en r . Bu k s d d t y . ’ ’ M n H f St a ri n T o a a o o r o a e ra D . f s s ist y . P t ck s C th d l , ubli h m s V III for ne r o e in 1 a er . Jo 19 e ee h a 6 78 . S s , A chbish p , di d , g d C pt t h e Jon a e o re e es f mily b f this tim . E NE S AMIL I 2 TH JO F Y N IRE LAND . Sir Roger Jones steered quietly and steadily through the troubles that arose so thickly abou t the latter part of King Henry’s reign when Protestant ma and Ro an C tholic were alike exposed to danger and death from the religious uncertainty of the times . He espoused the sid e of the Reformers and sent his son of Thomas, as soon as he was proper years, to the

University of Cambridge , entering him at Christ

Church College . When he left the university of Cam d bri ge , which he did with great credit and reputation , fi he came to Ireland , at that time the proper eld for young men of good family who d esired to become l m eminent by the disp ay of re arkable talents or g reat

‘ courage . He was ordained soon after coming to that Kingdom and very shortly afterwards married a lady n of reputation and virtue named Margaret Purdo , f . o daughter of Adam Purdon , Esq , Lurgan Race , in the county of Louth . She had been married to a gentle of and man family position named John Douglas , who , d a u ying soon after their marri ge , left her a yo thful and richly dowered widow3" She proved an admirable helpmate for him in his suc cessful career and a good de al of his prosperity must be attributed to her great

l 1595. Wisdom and admirable qua ities . She died in The family o f Purdon still exists as a county family in

Ar a ! Ma on. ch l . s TH E J E S AMIL IN I E L ON F Y R AND. 3

Ireland . — By this marriage he became brother- in law to the of celebrated Adam Loftus, Archbishop Armagh and ’ Dean of St . Patrick s Cathedral . The career of these remarkable men was so distinguished , their friendship r for each other so great, and their prosperity so emark a fe w able , that words may not be considered altogether out of place concerning Adam Loftus . “ Adam Loftus was born in 15313 He was the second son of Adam Loftus, of Swines head, in the Y w county of ork , hose family did formerly possess considerable property as well in that as in other parts of England, and from them Adam received more than an ordinary allowance for his support and education at T n the University of Cambridge . hough a you ger son he inherited an estate situated abo ut L odingt on in Sir Kent, which his grandson, Adam Loftus, of Rath £30003 farnham , sold for ? Loftus studied at Christ Church Colleg e— the same at which Thomas Jones

’ 0 Re e r f t a r a e S . . He wa in 1 4. o s He e 6 5 7 di d , g d ( g ist P t ick s ) o Ar h o o f Ar a h 162a e 1 ran e a a n e 5 3. S p p i t d chbis p m g , g d t g th t Do or ra in h is we no wn H or o f o r and D o e e ct B dy , ll k ist y C k its i c s a h e wa at a e on 2no t t h e a no n a a e h o s a 8 . s uld y th t s th t tim ly . c ic l g v h md R ma n a o h or an a e o o we i a n s o h as ro e o r o C th lic ist i s h f ll d P f ss K en o f e a in o o but n r a H o r o f t he ill , B lf st , his p mp us , u c itic l ist y h Presbyterian C u rch .

W e Ro er ar o te Ma on. MSS . of I b t , q u d by s 4 TH E J NE S AMIL IN IRE L AND O F Y . afterwards entered . Early in Queen Elizabeth ’s reign she paid a visit to Cambrid ge and was so much struck with the splendid personal appearance of young Loftus and the remarkable eloquence he d isplayed in the performance of a public in the act University, that she promised to promote was d a a him , and shortly after he or ined she ppointed him one of her chaplains . 155 Loftus obtained in 7 the perpetual V icarage of C i ! edue in the D ocese of Lincoln , being then twenty u 11 of a e 56 six years g , and in J ne , , he came to Ireland as chaplain to the New Lord Lieutenant , the Earl of In O Sussex . ctober, of the same year, he was present o f Painst o wn ed by the Queen with the rectory , Diocese n 20th u o 1562 was of Meath , and the of Jan ary , , he appointed by the Crown Archbishop of Armagh and

Primate of all Ireland . As the Primatial See was at not a that time poor and a s fe place of residence , from ‘ O Neill a t the vicinity of , who was generally war u with the English , the Q een gave him also the Deanery ’ of St . Patrick s , which at that time happened to fall 156 was . 7 vacant He held both till , when he appoint o f i ed Archbishop Dublin , which , nferior in dignity to Armagh , was the more important in wealth and 6 05 i . 1 nfluence He held the See of Dublin till , when

’ V V F ra l ! 4 4. R er oed e o . . . 6 ym s , , P E MI I E L A D 5 TH JONE S FA L Y IN R N .

Thomas Jones succeeded him . He was for a time Lord Chancellor of Ireland also and occasionally one of the Lord’s justices (so the great co unt r wh en men are named who govern the y ‘ the Lord or Lieutenant is absent , when none is appointed ; but ’ at that time the Lord s justices were permanent, under

t he . Lord Deputy ) He accumulated great wealth, and u i ll had a very n merous fam ly, who a became rich and successful . His eldest son was ennobled by the title n n of Viscou t Lisburn and Baron Rathfar ham . The

Marquis of Ely descends from Robert, eldest brother who of the Archbishop , came over to Ireland and was ! Lord Chancellor . From his coming to Ireland till ‘ his death Adam L was n a Loftus one of the ruli g spirits of the g e . i His great property was for the most part acquired by the plunder of the church ' over which he was appointed t o rule , a crime of which most of the prelates of that time were equally guilty . He amassed a great estate for 6 9 . 11 his eldest son , Lord Rathfarnham In his de n n sce da t , Adam Loftus, Viscount Lisburn and Baron

Rathfarnham , was killed by a cannon ball at the siege o f i Limerick, as colonel of his regiment, while s tting in his tent . He was twice married . He left only one

a o n Re e r o f t h e a h e a M . r s g ist C t d l . ' J ’ “ ’ ' Se e Ha v e rt s H o r o f Ire an Re i a nd K en r y ist y l d . d s ill s ri Histo e s o f Pre sbyte ri an Chu rch . 6 H E E AMIL IN I E L A D T JON S F Y R N .

L ord ' Wh art on daughter, Lucia, who married Thomas, , to whom she brought the great estates of the family,

h r n 12 o f NV a t o 7 3 which her son Philip , Duke , sold in o f for to William Connolly, then speaker the u u Ho se of Commons . The D ke died in France in ' 131 is ue r 7 s fi without These estates, bought by Con s nolly, pa sed to Lady Louisa Connolly, sister of the u t o D ke of Richmond, who had been married the last

Connolly and on whom they were settled . Failing o ne of issue they passed from her to her nephew, the n Packenham (Lord Lo gford) family, who took the o f Co nnoll ' name yd These Connollys, the richest

' o ne Irel and hav e commoners at time in , lost almost all h of t eir property, part which, situated in Donegal, have a been purchased by Mr . Musgr ve, a successful iron monger of Belfast . Thus estates acquired by unfair means and increased by the plunder of the church and afterwards by the plunder of Irish gentlemen who fought for their o wn independence did not prosper in any of the families who were directly concerned in the u d pl n er or connected with them by marriage . They gradually melted away . Thomas Jones seems to have commenced a friend at ship with Loftus Cambridge that, greatly strength

Ma n a a ve — n e o s o o . s , b t s

’ n a H r a h nno n n o ran t o o f S a e c . 1Alli gh m s ist y B lly , Bu d , E FAMIL Y I E L A D 7 TH E JON S N IR N . i a . ened by their rel tionship , only ended with the r lives Jones worked in the Church of Ireland and occupied the dignified and important position of Chancellor o f ’ St . Patrick s Cathedral when Dean Gerrard died in n 1581. Gerrard had been a layma and was Lord w l . m Chancellor of Ire and Thomas Jones as unani ous I 1584 v elected Dean, which he held till , when he was a C t o h ppointed by the rown the bishoprick of Meat , H the first and most important see in Ireland . e had been recommended to the Queen by the Lord’s justices

—one o fw own - in- hom was his brother law, Archbishop “ — a erson b Loftus as p for is bearing, wisdom and other virtuous qualities fit to be advanced to a 158116 05 Jones held the See of Meath from to , when , — of - in upon the death his brother law, he was appointed by the Crown Archbishop of Dublin .

Thomas Jones was, besides this, for a time Lord of o ne v cl Chancellor Ireland , of the Pri y Coun i and a ’ one of Right Honorable, and several times the Lord s just icesd‘

' ’ M a n W “ o as a o ve . are H o r o f Ir h o s , b s ist y ish Bis ps .

Pa Ro W en are . Arch d all 1t t lls . . H TE R II C AP .

’ ST . PATRICK S CATHEDRAL .

ITs G N AND — W ORI I , FOUNDATION RESTORATION ITS EALTH AN D IMPORTANCE— POWERS OF THE DEAN — V ITS UNI ERSITY . ' of The Cathedral of St . Patrick, Dublin, which both Loftus and Jones were Deans, deserves a passing notice .

It takes its name from the Apostle of Ireland, St . s ‘ Patrick . He founded a religious house on the ite of a Druid temple and baptised the converts at a well

- long held famous and which , though now covered up and its site uncertain, is still mentioned in the traditions

’ of the place . A church had existed on the spot for 1190 centuries when , in , John Cronin, the first English

Archbishop , obtained a bull from the Pope and built 6 Cathe d ralfi Jocelin of and founded the , a monk

urners - in- u F in Lancashire, now Barrow Furness, bro ght 1185 Over by Sir John De Courcy, Earl of Ulster , about , who wmrote the lives of many Irish saints , interspersed with any fables and miracles, says that at the prayer

’ W n a o n e a w H o r o f D . M s . hit l s ist y ubli TH E E AMIL I I E L A D JON S F Y N R N . f t h O St . Patrick a wondrous Spring burst forth at e ’

a . place, ever after c lled St Patrick s Well, and that it wpossessed the power of healing the diseases of those who ashed in its waters .

e Bocthins i H ctor , an ancient Scottish writer, nforms

' us of that Gregory , King Scotland, then called Albin, in an expedition to Ireland in 890made a solemn pro

. 1883 cession to this church and well Lately in , when new l the floor was being sunk, that a tiled f oor and fine proper heating apparatus might be laid, a Spring o f water burst forth which had to be conveyed from

' cat hed ral at the considerable cost . This was probably l the ancient well of St . Patrick . Dub in was, however, in ancient times remarkable for the great number of f r n i ine Sp ings it co ta ned . These are now all covered ov er and all but forgotten . The Cathedral was anciently built without the walls o u f D blin in a valley called the Coombe (coom) . The name is still applied to a street and district

I r near the Cathedral . It s the most pe fect specimen n in the Kingdom of the early E glish gothic style . u Tho gh partially restored from time to time, of t la e years it had been falling into decay, when a citizen of Dublin, Mr . Benjamin Lee Guinness, a great brewer , determined to restore it . A e h is n for father of , Archbishop Marsh, had bee TH E NE S AMI IN IRE AND 10 JO F L Y L .

munifi ent a c benefactor to the church and had left property to found a library in connection with the

Cathedral . This library still exists, though it has of not realized the intentions its generous founder, ’

f . s under the name o Marsh s Library Mr. Guinnes expended altogether above on the rest ora of tion . Some time after the citizens his native city returned him unanimously to Parliament and the

’ n Queen conferred a Baronetcy o him . Some time after his death his eldest son was ennobled r il by the title of Lord Ad aun. His second son has

lately been made a Baronet . His only daughter is t o married Lord Plunket , who, being in holy orders, r u is als o A chbishop of Dublin . The G inness family are very wealthy and seem to have had a great bless ing since the restoration by their father of this f venerable ecclesiastical structure . A statue o Sir Benjamin has been placed by the ‘ people beside the Ar ilaun . d Cathedral When Lord , after he became a

peer, was giving up his share in the great brewery, his brother gave him a check for one million pounds ster in of ling payment his share . t f The leng h o the Cathedral is 300 feet . The breadth at the transepts 157 and the width of the nave 6 “ ’ ” 7 feet . There were monks walks all round the u ne b ilding in the thick ss of the walls , with protected

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a ur stone roof, p inted an az e blue and inlaid with d stars of gold . There were more than a hundre The u windo ws . va lts and aisles were supported by di forty great pillars , stant from each other eleven feet i and joined above by gothic arch l nes . The exterior wall was supported on the north side u m s w d e iarches by fo r buttres es, ith , and by five on the south . These have all been renewed . The pillars are e i i o fac d w th Caen stone . The h gh and imp sing steeple n l n has bee renewed and a bal and cross put o it . The ancient fine peal of b ells has been perfected and a great e clock has been placed in the tower that, at every thre fu hours, plays a beauti l selection of hymn tunes , f e ending with God Save the Queen . The ef ect of thes tunes, when heard by a stranger for the first time, is as as u v e surprising it is beautif l . The iew through som parts of the interior seems like that through a grove of l beautiful white pi lars . There were several churches erected within the rt s d Cathedral in ancient times, that is, po ion of si e off l aisles or transepts were closed by wa ls, and in these

divine service was carried on by other congregations . ’ The south aisle was formerly called St . Paul s Chapel .

Another portion of the south transept was called St . ’ ’ Stephen s Chapel . St . Mary s Chapel, which is east al and s of the choir, now c led The Lady Chapel, u ed H E E S FAMI I E A 13 T JON L Y N IR L ND. for v s n of the Archiepiscopal i itatio , as well as that the was Dean, used by the French Protestants as a place f m16 6 3l 1815: o W orship fro ti l The Dean Chapter , t he and c h with advice consent of the Ar hbis op , gave it f t on 23rd o 16 63. o them the December, It was opened

h . 166 6 s olemnly for public wors ip in , the Lord Lieutenant being in att endance with his court,and the '

' ‘ h s i t h t e Archbi hop pronounc ng e be nediction . The t n u Revocation of. the Edic of Na tes and the persec tion ' f ml “ o the Protestants drove any to Dub in and other n and c parts of Irela d, in every pla e facilities were f willingly given them for worship . Many o these of French refugees were members noble families, and ur mn s everal of o nobility are descended from these e ’ l own f r i who f ed from their land o consc ence sake . t u a . s Another chapel, c lled St Nichola , wi ho t the a f o . walls, occupied the gre ter part the north transept f e o . H re the parishioners _ the parish of St Nicholas, with o ut ac r t t he a was , had their pl e of wo ship ill Cathedr l . restored.

as 1t h There w another church called St . Nicholas w in i f n s o . is , that , within the ancient walls Dubli Th i s b e . a d now only remarka l for chantry, calle the f ’ i C o . s of . s hantry St Mary s , n the Pari h St . Nichola was c within the walls . It the only hantry existing in t he r for s e sw at - empi e , all other w re ept away the Ref 14 TH E J NE S AMI IN E A D O F L Y IR L N .

rmi n o at o . o ne At that time, however, this escaped , as it did the sharp eyes ofthe ecclesias tical commissioners 1832 in , when so many church endowments were swept 14 0 th away . This chantry was founded in 7 in e reign of o f Edward the Fourth , by the Earl Worcester and his wife, Sir Edward Dudley and his wife and some for other knights with their ladies as a chantry ever, where a priest should sing masses for the souls of the founders and the faithful deceased . Its revenues u remained ntouched, and the priest was always elected by the Protestant Church wardens of the Parish Of St . ! Nicholas . The last incumbent, named Tresham Gregg, n i D. D . , was a si gular, and in early life, a clever, v olent Of u du man . co rse he had no ties to do and was only t required o receive the very good annual income . For many years before his death he believed he had found out of i the secret liv ng forever, by some mystical mean ing hidden in a text in the Song of Solomon i n t he , old Hebrew Bible . He lived to a ripe age, but had at i last to succumb t o the great conqueror. He d ed last year and the chant ry has been abolished and its reven wn ues seized by the Cro . The Dean of this Cathedral held a position Of great power and influence . He ranked as a minor bishop . was r te n o ne of the He frequently Lord Chancello , Of ’ See L o rd Ch ance llo r Ball s Ob se rvatio ns o n this in t h e Re po rt o f E c Co m. o f 6 1. c . 86 TH E JONE S FAMIL Y IN IRE LAND, 15 ’ f L ord s justices . He had a vast amount o patronage f in his gift . He was head o a great ecclesiastical cor

oration of and - p six dignitaries twenty two prebends, o f of the head a corporation minor canons . There ’ was of t o also a corporation Vicar s choral , subject him

- r n alone, with twenty four chanting o si ging boys, organist, verger, sexton, and all the numerous assistants in l necessary such a great estab ishment . The Cathedral ’ was a great school for music . All the Vicar s choral were musicians ; most o f them followed it as a sole

profession . The Precincts of the Cathedral formed a place of

refuge in ancient times within which any criminal, no r h or he matte w ence he came from whom fled,

was safe . ' Dean held u of is own e The a co rt h , wher minor offences were tried and adjudicated on by his repre n i h d f n the se t at ve . a o ow He also a market his , with . f t He right o taxing all commodities brought o it . also

held an ecclesiastical court and was sole judge therein . The dignitaries and prebends had richly endowed

. t u and parishes They lived in rn at the Cathedral, To e performed service . support the whole ther were vast estates l n Dublin and its vicinity and through o ut at the country, given successive times by the piety

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One th ' a . e of of v rious benefactors of Prebends, that d n was a Swor s near Dubli , so rich mthat it was c lled the as m w Golden Prebend , and , in for er ti es, usually con

on n v ferred by the Pope some Italia relati e , who per ! n formed the service by deputy . Even after the livi gs b ishO ricks u 1832 and p had been so m ch cut down in , . one may estimate the wealth of the whole establish ment by the fact that the Vicar’s choral had £250 a for year each , singing on Sunday and thrice a week in the Cathedral . This short sketch of this celebrated Cathedral would be incomplete without noticing the Univers ity in con ' i 1309 nect onwith it . In Archbishop John Le ech

n u in . fou ded a niversity the Cathedral . He procured ! a b ull from Pope Clement t he Fifth and bestowed fi s ome endowments on it . This was among the rst f t r efforts o the English o restore lea ning in Ireland . In ancient times the country had been famed through out l the world, for her learning, and her schoo s and mn e as as n learned e wer numerous they were disti guish s of the ed . The trouble consequent On t he coming r e English had been very inju ious to . l arning in that of I a e part rel nd under the English rule , call d the Pale, for in those parts where the - people maintained their

Ma n so .

' e a M so n e a o o f B in an R e r nd in a . Se c py this ull Al s g ist . n no e e ceased to exist, and, there bei g r venues to excit o f es the cupidity the Government, it totally caped n r the public otice . It afte wards became Diocesan College for the Dio cese of Dublin, after Queen

Elizabeth founded Trinity College . It was, however,

“ n u l by ce turies, the oldest niversity or co lege in and u d Ireland , for many years after the fo n ation of n was the Dublin U iversity . There an acknowledge ment of the fact by the Provost and fellows b eing re e quired to have their comm ncements in the Cathedral . The writer of this notice was t he — last Head Master o f this ancient college— a singular coincidence that it should be founded and cease to exist under men of t he mn n n ow same na e . It exists u der a other form , with

all its ancient privileges and powers lost . f s D. s d o The Reverend John Jone , D . , a de cen ant A one of rchbishop Thomas Jones , was my predecessors f 10 r e 6 as Master o this Colleg . In 7 the Dean and Chapte f n him u f o the Cathedral gra ted the ancient ch rch o r th e Saint Michael Della Pole , in Ship St eet near 1 FAMI IN IRE A 8 L Y L ND .

! of Castle, for a college . Many my predecessors were eminent men and not a few att ained the dignity of bishop .

a e ra Re e r o f M n e Ma o n C th d l g ist i ut s . s .

H E E S MI I E A 20 T JON FA L Y N IR L ND .

arnin 1 Ard e 7 . , near Ferus, in County Wexford, ( James I ) His father had meanwhile acquired a large property for him in Dublin and its vicinity . He was Knighted and afterwards ennobled by the title of Viscount

v Ranelagh . He was created Baron Na an in the County o f l Ire Meath , and Viscount Rane agh , but was better known as Viscount Ranelagh . He was made Lord e s President of Connaught, wher he and his relation t acquired more proper y . He was married to Frances ! Moore , daughter of Gerald Moore , Viscount Drogheda .

' a f This title is now M rquis o Drogheda .

The Moores, Marquises of Drogheda, are descended from Irish princes who lived and reigned in Ireland . for more than a thousand years before the Christian

h ir immiat T e ed e Era . forefather was Connell Kearney , who was killed in attempting, during flight, to cross a' now the river at ford , ever after called Bel a Connell, ’ l o r Bal yconnell Connell s Ford, a beautiful village lying at the foot of a range of mountains in WVestern ’ n Cava . His son settled in what was afterwards Queen s ’ the O More County, ! and race , under the name of , were ’ among the boldest defenders o f their country s inde n n pe d e ce . An attempt was made during the wars to ’ r l d estroy the whole race of the O Mo es . Co onel

e Ma on a e ra R e r . C th d l g ist . s

’ “ a Jo e N e f a e 1Irish Annals nd yc s am s o Pl c s . ! me of . emb r this family ’ n o f V iscount Arthur Jo es, son Ranelagh , succeeded

n f 144. to the title o the death o his father in 6 He was also Lord President of Connaught, and, during th 141 e 6 twhe wars that followed rebellion of , and the ars between the King and Parliament, proved an an a able d an intrepid commander . Again and gain he routed the Irish armies and was the terror of his L h rin f . Cat e e foes His daughter, Lady n married irst l i the Right Honorable Sir Wi l am Parsons, Knight and Baronet, grandson and heir to the Right Honor in able Sir William Parsons, Baronet, Lord Justice the

of s . time Jame the First and his son, Charles the First ’ Lady Catherine s two e ldest sons died before her ; the third, Richard , was afterward created Earl of Rosse . s on Thi family, Pars s, Earls of Rosse, have been very

' ch aract er and remarkable for force and energy of , mrka l during the past generations have been re a b v

r n ifi distinguished for sc e t c research . The family of

Hav er Ma e e W ri h &c . ty , g , g t , ’ R i f Ma on e e r o r a in t a r Ca e ra . . ! g st Bu i ls S . P t ick s th d l s Ar hd all c . 2 TH E NE AMI L V IRE L A 2 JO S F L Y ND . Rosse are allied by marriage with many of the noblest of houses in the land, and so the blood Jones has mof spread through uch the nobility by their alliance

wft h . 16 58 this family The Lord Rosse died in , and

Lady Catherine , being young, handsome and well dowered , married Hugh Montgomery, Lord Viscount

. 1757 Alexander This title became extinct in , though there are many great families of the name Montgomery from the same stock still in Ireland . ' Lady Catherine Mount Alexander left £60 a year in ! forever to a school Donaghadee . The head o f s the Ros e family is Sir Lawrence Parsons, Baronet xmnt wn O a o Baron of , Viscount and Earl of Rosse o f k near Cassandra, only child Lord Haw , Resi dence , Birr Castle , Parsonstown , Ireland, and Heaton

Hall , Bradford , England . Viscount Ranelagh left an estate to found a school in Roscommon and another n at Athlo e , which was by act of Parliament vested in the incorporated society . Part of this Ranelagh estate of was situated near At1hlone, and the rental this 6d . 80 2s . 7 eah Ranelagh bequest in was , a y f ’ Another son of the Archbishop s was the Right

Honorable Sir William Jones , Privy Counsellor, Lord

f ~ Chief Justice and Lord Chanc1ellor o Ireland . He is E n o we S o o o o n 854 d d ch ls C mmissi , .

w o o n 1. E n o e S oo C 854 d d ch ls mmissi , of English property the family, and had resided there during the commencement of the Parliamentary r u f troubles, mar ied Margaret, grandda ghter o Sir O of H inchinb roke of O liver Cromwell, , sister liver L r h r l P ot e ct omH awt r . C omwel the Jo n y Jones, Esq ,

“ o f Mullinab ro x , County Kilkenny and We ford, is head of this family now . ’ Another son of the Archbishop s was Richard Jones

’ " n 16 15 u o whom was bestowed in , thro gh the father s of influence, the prebendary Swords, called the Golden 4 . 16 2 Prebend He had this till when he died . In 16 25 of wa s he was also made Dean Waterford , which f afterwards changed to the Deanery o Elphin . From him are descended the Jone ses of Slig o f who A fourth son was Robert, became a Fellow of Trinity College and in 16 15 Obtained in addition the f E ml o f 16 20 Precentorship of the Diocese y In he obtained several parishes in Cork , and while retaining all these emoluments he in 16 28 obtained the parish

a en o ee L r u e um S e M r r P t t Rlls . ib r .

’ “ B r e o n Fa e f u k s C u ty mili s .

Rear ra Sir L ew T o as Jone o f Fa r a H a e m. n 1Admi l is bi s , h ts was son o f a t a L w n e Jo ne o f o n S o 1884. C p i is s , C u ty lig , 24 TH E J E S AMIL I I E A ON F Y N R L ND . f o Kilconnell in County Donegal . s on n s t A fifth , Ellis Jo e , is , by the Pa ent Rolls in 1604 w , to succeed , hen the then occupant of the sinecure as v o f would die , Pro ost Marshal the Province of Munster} s A sixth son , Baptist Jone , beside other property, got a large estate of the confiscated lands in Co unty

Derry . He held it at a low rent from a London c n ompany, and is the ancestor of the Jo es family of County Derry f t so n Ano her , Joseph Jones , got the estate of Tully

l mnah n n C o o . cullin , in the Baro y of , near Cavan ! a d au ht e r The Archbishop had g , Margaret , named after h e r was t o mother, who married Gilbert

l mv ille Do A His son was Sir Wi liam , Baronet, ttorney

General , and inherited large property, in great part

him . procured for by the Archbishop A great deal of la Ire as in it y near the Cathedral, and on it built a c tle

f mil r sid e d f r n . n which the a y e o ma y years O this ’ ’

t t . proper y now are the s reets of St Peter s , Peter s Row and many others . He had valuable property at Santry

i i i in County Dublin , or g nally belong ng to the Church .

' i l n a a e n o r a r R . T rr t y Colleg e C e d . P t t lls n r m o IS e e als L ibe r M u e u . ' ' P nna r s S rve f y u y , ’ i P n a an a o n of U e r n n r s S rve . g Pl t ti lst , y u y

M a on a e d ra Re or . I! s . C th l c ds a . . Athen eum Club, London , S W The family is allied to many eminent families through the Empire .

Another son , and by far the most important, from the conspicuous part played by his children during that 1641— 16 6 0 troubled time of in Ireland , was Lewis

Jones . Though placed last, he is , perhaps, the second in his age , but, except eldest brother, he is the most f i an . m o remarkable The life th s , with the exploits

t o . of his sons, may well be left another chapter HA TE RIV C P .

TH E JONES MONUMENT AND vAU L T IN ’

ST . PATRICK S CATHEDRAL, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME PRINCIPAL PERSONS B URIED

THERE (CHIEFLY FROM MASON . ) h m 1579 T o as J In ones, then Chancellor, obtained a for place a vault in the Cathedral . A deed purport ing to be a renewal of a former grant is to b e found

- 2h in a f 8t book o Chapter Minutes . This deed is dated 1 i i as 579 e January, , and descr b s this bury ng place Situated between the rails of the altar and the Lord ’ Lieutenant s seat . It was granted upon consideration of paying £3for each interment beside the usual fees . On of the north side of the choir, near the balusters the altar and close to the family vault, is the monument of Archbishop Jones . This monument was repaired 1 f 29 o in 7 at the expense Lady Catherine Jones, to whom Dean Swift made application when he set about restoring those interesting memorials . Her polite answer to his letter is published in the last edition of ’ — ! I Swift s works (Vol . VI , page n e This mo ument is larg and imposing, and, next to

28 THE J E S AMIL IN IRE L A D ON F Y N .

i and n a h son to the Archb shop Viscount Ra el gh . S e of s c t was daughter Gerald Moore , the first Vi oun 23rd s Drogheda ; died November, and was buried in thi ’ “ ” we are Archd all s e vault, as informed by Pe rage , l 0 . V o . . a 32 IV , p ge 14 — 6 4 21t n s a Viscount Ranelagh , buried J uary . h ll— and Arc d a V ol. . (Cathedral MSS . IV , page 16 58— Sir William Parsons, Knight and Baronet ; on 3l st o n 20th died the December ; was buried the

a mu . was n Janu ry, in a very su pt ous manner He gra d of Sir r s son and heir William Parsons , Lo d Ju tice . e a o f He was married to Catherine, eld st d ughter a a Viscount Ranel gh . His eldest son, R nelagh Parsons ,

27th 16 56 . was buried here March , His second son i n 4 h f 18 H i n o t o s 6 5 . s so Will am the Augu t, third , ’

a d . L s Richard, was afterwards cre te Lord Rosse ( odge

Peerage . ) 1— 20th 6 69 . Lady Bridget Parsons, buried of July 16 6 9— Arthur, Second Viscount Ranelagh , buried ’

I . e 14 Ar h ll . c d a s e e V th of January . ( P erag , Vol , pag

16 75— t Catherine Jones, daughter of Ar hur, Second was l 0th O . Viscount Ranelagh , buried of ctober She

married first to Sir William Parsons, above mentioned , u and secondly to Hugh Montgomery, Earl Mo nt Alex

in 15 . n 7 7 . ander This, latter title became exti ct f u a erred a dukedom pon her husband, the celebr ted r on 9th f Richard Talbot . She was bu ied the O March .

T rconnell y , whatever were his faults, had the rare mta a erit of sincere at chment to an unfortun te master . He was Lord Lieutenant when Jarnes the Second had w l t o a . s abdic te Thi lady, his idow, was the e dest d co— of of aughter and heiress Richard Jennings , S a andridge , in Hertfordshire , and sister to S rah, first d uchess of Marlborough . She was the Miss Jennings the qualities of whose mind and person are so much “ r mrn nt e xtolled by Count G a o in his Memoirs . She h ad the faires t and brightest complexion that ever was s — . flaxe n count e een her hair a most beauteous , her nanee extremely animated , though generally persons e r an s o exquisit ly fai have insipidity . Her whole

person was fine, particularly her neck and bosom . The c harms of her pers on and the unaffec ted sprightliness o f her wit gained her the general admiration o f the a whole court . In these f scinating qualities she had l one one there other competitors, but scarce y , except except Miss Jenning s— maintained throughout the ” c b C haracter of un lemished hastity . 30 TH E J N E S AMIL IN IRE L AN O F Y D.

s was m t Her first hu band George , Count Ha il on , son o f n of of the Fourth Earl Abercor , Colonel an Irish “ in an l regiment the service of the French , d Marecha ” i 6 d u . 16 Camp He was killed at Av gnon in 7. By him — she had three daughters the eldest, Elizabeth , t o u married Richard , Visco nt Ross ; the second , who Frances, to Henry, the eighth Viscount Dillon , m’ commanded a regiment of foot in King Ja es s army and s n in Ireland , repre ented the Cou ty Westmeath in the Parliament convened by that King at Dublin

t i . the third, Mary, to Viscoun K ngsland ’ of T rconnell a e s s The Duchess y , ft r her hu band d s t o n ecea e, continued adhere strictly to the Roma i h u d a 05 . S e 17 Catholic rel gion ret rne to Engl nd in , e u d to f but soon aft r ret rne Dublin, where she ounded

r n . c a nunnery fo poor clares in Ki g Street . Mr Isaa st at e a she Butler in his MS . quoted by Mason, s th t

92 . o n s was when she died Her p rtrait, whe Mis e was r e k t J nnings, eng av d by Tom ins for Coun ’ rammn t u G o t s Memoirs from an original pic re by

h 130. r l t at i M r 6 t 7 V e e s . She died Arbour H ll, a ch , ’ (Carson s Weekly Journal . )

41— a E a f sse 28th of 17 o R b Rich rd , rl o , uried s was th e August . (Register . ) Thi Richard first Earl is a b d was and second Viscount . It s id y Lo ge that he ’ l a r . . V o . . bu ied in St Anne s (Peerage, II , p ge 1t ( Reg s er . ) 12 3rd f n 18 o . Viscountess Ranelagh, buried Ja uary i ( Reg ster . ) PTE R CIIA V.

LEWIS JONES DEAN OF ARDAG II BISHOP

OF KILLALOE . — D B H IM W . S S IFFICULTY A OUT IN ARE , ETC HIS ON

J . HENRY ONES, DEAN r s T m e e a L wis Jon s, the second son of A chbi hop ho s es was a of A a Jon , appointed by the Crown De n rd gh 16 06 and re l t he o f in , in he ceived a so Parish

Kilb l a . b , m Meath , from the Crown He held oth of

was v . these livings, each of which very aluable It may b e remarked that in noting the b enefi ces to which f m e n t o r ed s any the fa ily we e appoint , tho o ly tha t mn at b e are were presented y h Crown entio ed, while t mh as the same time Lewis Jones and o hers ig t have are many other livings from the bish op . These not w R are n mentioned, for, hile the Patent olls in Dubli fi ss all Castle , under the care of of cials, and acce ible to , the Registers o f episcopal appointments to parishes nd a a re os . are hard to get, in most cases l t e e e s o r It is probabl , therefor , that L wis Jone had the i h is a t t o o e liv ngs, obtained from f ther, in addi ion th s a en Ro P t t lls . A g reat d eal of histo rical co nfusion has arisen in i w ew es h s a ir connection ith L is Jon and f mily . S a en e s ab e we J m War , perhap the most valu l authority

. r s o u s was have on I i h hist ry and antiq itie , generally

se t o . t ns o suppo d be infallible His ra lat r and editor, H r who e t a ris , lived and wrot in the middle of the las has ed o o f e century, contribut a go d deal valuabl r f a h matter to the histo y o his country . H rris as u d his i not freq ently adde matter of own , and th s is h m f . t e o e t wo always correct Since ti e War , now

n r o of o on hist ori ce tu ies , a flo d light has been thr wn l cal matters at that time considered dark . Nationa archives and private collectio ns ha ve yielded up r has un a . b e their tre su es Harris been fo d to a careful,

c e has n. but at times, ina curate editor, while War falle i m h s t from throne, and ust yield to the more perfec o f e r and accurate researches mod rn histo ians . — f f e . o “ e The cel brated Dr Todd whose copy ar ,

’ ’ Harr Ware O o Me mir o 50. is s . l gy s , p .

a e n Ro IP t t lls . 3 TH E NE S FAMIL r IN RE A 4 JO I L ND.

l was with copious critica notes by himself, , at his death , so ld for £400 — a gre ater scholar and a be tter Irish

s a o f . cholar than Ware , s ys in his life St Patrick, ' “ Ware has attempted an absurd and impossible thing in gi ving the regular succession in the sees of the ” is o as O en t had n u a o ce o s . ncient Irish b h ps , , ft , hey s c ss r ’ a 1 e 2 of . . (Todd s life St Patrick, p g , No1te3)3Ware makes 6 to 1646 Lewis Jones bishop of Killaloe from , and s a of tates th t he was Dean Cashel previously, while f 14 o 0 Harris adds that he lived to the age , giving the n o f ames his four sons , Henry, Theophilus, Ambrose and t of Michael , s ating also that the printers of his edition 139 s mn Ware in 7 were three ladie descended fro o e

o f . these brothers , Sir Theophilus Jones O logy, minister of Cavan, who married the step d Of and l aughter Bishop Bedell , wrote his ife was c t ontemporary with the bro hers Jones, and mentions of d two them with whom he was familiarly acquainte , o f Henry, Dean Kilmore, and Michael, afterwards the u d istinguished Parl iamentary general . He te lls s they t wo n married ladies of County Cava , and he states they ’

W of . Ol ere sons the Bishop of Kilala ( ogy s life, page O s i Now, logy mistake Kilala for Killaloe , speak ng o f even contemporary events and persons , and indeed

m a s . akes many other mist ke in his yet valuable work

36 TH E S AMI E A E JON F L Y IN IR L ND . fi — m gures before their eyes have made it greater ak ing a man bishop over an extensi ve Diocese when 91 and receiving a Deanery and three parishes when 8 7! f t o e e. and whom , b fore tha time , no mention is mad Ft 1 , supposing even that Lewis, Dean of Ardagh , was s the ame with Lewis Jones, Dean of Cashel, he resigns his Deanery to his so n and lives without referrnent 16 25 16 29 clerical p for four years, to , when he obtains the Deanery of Cashel at the age of 57 an improbable supposition .

the cel eb rat ed W e was When ‘ illiam B dell appointed f 16 29 o a bishop Kilmore and Ard gh in , he was in ff anxious, his e orts to reform his church and Diocese, that each clergyman should have only one parish and should reside therein . He encountered a good deal o f f di ficulty in this matter, and was only partially n successful . A clergyman amed Johnson had a

- in parish Kilmore , but never resided in it , as he was a great architect and engineer and built the castles for th e a Strafford , Lord Lieuten nt in County Wicklow, I re . where generally resided Faithful Tate , the Rector n n Of Drumla e , was a other pluralist, for he had the Castle terra Parishes of , Drung and Larah at the same hi r . m B time Between and edell , whose palace wams nea him, there existed a strong friendship and estee , for B edell placed his son William in Drumlane under TH E JONE S FAMIL Y IN IRE L AND . 37

Mr . Tate, during the year of his diaconate .

Bishop Bedell, however, in order to give the greater i public emphasis to a pr nciple so sound in church life , u heroically gave p his See of Ardagh to Dr. Richard i ! f son n t . o , separati g from Kilmore The Dean

“ Kilmore at that time was Dr . Bernard . He had f m o several parishes, but resided in neither the , as he U l was private chaplain to Primate Usher, and sual y lived with him at Drogheda . Feeling the awkward i ness of his position, hav ng a real esteem for Bedell, n t o and being unwilli g quarrel openly with him , he 16 37 n J exchanged in with He ry Jones, and so ones became Dean of Kilmore four years before the great L reb ellion } f Shortly a ter Dr . Henry Jones became Dean of mar rre d ullunr C Kilmore he the daughter of Sir Hugh , L isnarnaine who lived in the neighborhood, at near the e Belturbet, and about same tim his younger brother Michael married her mot-herd: ullum— l ma C s Cu The anciently written , and in modern times Collum— were descended from an ancient and honorable family in Molland , in Devonshire . Their father had been a distinguished captain in ’ Queen Elizabeth s wars, and after the subjection of '

Cl o . e e MS . L e f e e o rne gy B d ll s if o B d ll by Bish p Bu t . ’ ' O o M e o r 1l g y s m i .

Cl o 50. : . 1g y, p AMI I I E 38 THE JONE S F L Y N R L AND .

! n mad f the Ki g dom had been e g overnor o Clough o u i ghter Castle, near Cavan, on an sland in the Erne, a nd enjoyed the large es tate and pay set apart for its mmn n Cu u a t e a ce . His son , Sir Arthur ll m , now held h are t e place for the King. Six brothers mentioned : ’ B who . enjamin , became Dean of St Patrick s and who H u h S ir Arthri r d had estates in Cavan ; Sir g , , Richar , l Lewis , and Philip . The family are sti l in existence in Ireland , in Opulence and respect . f an a ent er rr m Henry Jones was o ctive and p s g c n t o t he haracter, and know Government as a clever 16 1 and . J 639 an able man We find on the th of une , , a ss d e t o a of commi ion irect d Henry Jones, De n n m Kilmore, to enquire (among other thi gs) into atters relating t o t he Protestant leases in Ireland ; another n 23rd f di t o o o commission rected him the December, h f L n 1t 1690. 1639 o 8 o 1 ; and a like the January,

“ Cavan at that time is described by Cl ogy as the f ” MS G o . arden the Lord His , from the Harleian u Collection in the British Muse m , has lately been ’

fi t . for . printed the rst ime That, and a MS of Bedell s m an O son, Willia , in the Bodlei Collection at xford ,

d u . lately publishe , throw a val able light on those times At that time Cavan afforded the best society t o be

Se e Me o r o f Dean in Ma on and Wl ll in no e . m i Cullum s , his t s ' V I . . r Du lin ol . 1 a H o o f b 51 W e w See a en Ro . I P t t lls hit l s ist y , p TH E JONE S FAMIL Y IN IRE L AN D . 39 found outside the Capitol . Whether Dean Jones obtained property in Belturbet and its n wi or e vici ity by his fe, , which is more probabl , he obtained it in consequence of the commissions th he which, by royal authority , he was entrusted, became the owner of very considerable property in H e that neighborhood while still Dean of Kilmore . had built a castle on a beautiful island in upper Lough 1645 th e Erne before , when he was appointed by of t Crown bishop Clogher, in which See his island f n D. o is situated . He is styled He ry Jones , D . , Inischirche Inish rk ( i ) Castle , on his appointment as h ’ n b is op of Clogher . (See Pate t Rolls and see Liber n m Mu eru . ) ’ C Reill y, Prince of Cavan, descended from the of a u monarchs Ireland , had for gener tions r led his principality with wisdom and equity . He had so managed that few hostile incursions had ever d e vast at of ed that beautiful valley , and so, at the conclusion those terrible and devastating wars that towards the ’ end of Queen Elizabeth s reign had reduced the greater of n part Ireland to a desert, Cavan was almost the o ly spot that presented t o the eye that prosperity and great natural beauty for which the whole land had been so famous .

The Cavan, or the Hollow, the ancient name applied 0 TH E NE AMI L V IRE L A D JO S F L Y N . t o o ne ar o f t he co t was a c p t un ry , n iently called ' ’ Brefi n — r ffn R ill B e . O e s c y latterly, East y The y be ame mf asters o this fertile vale a bout the time of the E as in 112 g 7 co nglish Inv ion , min from the more w ’ . Bv O Sherid ans estern parts the help of the , a ’ ’ n a nd ft ra t h e O Re ill s O Ro rk oble a gi ed ce , y expelled e t a n o f es e beyond the moun i s W tern Cavan, into L itrim , ’ o r Breffn O O Sherid an West y, scar of that day marry ’ in t o f O Rorke and a co n g the daugh er , by the tre ty c war u e o f luding the , r ling ov r the western part ~ ’ C e s c t o O Reill avan , from the river Ern , ubje t y as

L a . ord P ramount The Cavan proper, that is, that u a e s r n part of Co nty Cav n forming a vall y, u rou ded by mountains of c ons ide rable e levation and bisected s by the river Erne, that with maje tic course flows

” through wood s o f grea t be auty and meads of eternal

s . g reen , is one of the mo t extensive valleys in Ireland

- s It is saucer shaped , surrounded on all side by moun fe tains , beauti i d by hundreds of charming lakes, and t h e monotony o f a dead level re lieved by the great n umber of gently swelling hills of no great elevation , f t ertile to their summit, hat form such a peculiar n of feature in this lovely county . O almost all these a nd are e is hills, they very numerous, th re a round e arthen fort, the inside of which , green as emerald , ms ' and a s for a sort of garden, the rem in of the deep or t o (Lis), fort, in which the chieftain resided , and f which his people flocked in time o danger. It was n of f surrou ded by the wide, deep moat, full water rom s a spring in the fort . Then, m the numerou lakes, crano es on there were formed g , that is, dwellings t o artificial islands, where the people resided and which

. crano es or all boats were drawn at night These g , of artificial habitable islets, form a great peculiarity the river Erne . All through this lovely valley there were objects of interest that carried the mind back to times and lan re . S o persons long past away There was , where a f l mkill o Co u b e church was founded before the time , 190 n o about , a green , fertile slope , overlooking the

Erne, a little distance from where I write ; and here a seat of learning was kept up that did not die out until the time o f Elizabeth .

L ou hou ht er— a l There was Trinity Island , in g g love y on island , which Clarus Mac Mailin, archdeacon of 1251 Elphin, founded an abbey in , the ruins of which h of still remain, wit the church the abbey in good preservation .

Clou hou ht e r g g castle, still nearer, rises in its lone loveliness, venerable by time and marred by war . ’ O Sherid ans Built by the , shortly after their coming 2 TH E - NE S FAMIL IN I E L A D A JO Y R N . d to this valley , it formed in those ays an impregnable n stronghold, domi ating the whole country by its

strength . o wn Nearer to my residence lies Drumlane, where the Ro u nd to we r and t h e ruine d fane T e r a o w a h i mystic sh d s c st , carrying us back almost to the world’s birth time the Round Tower founded probably before the time

“ l 2 o d 59 of Moses, and the Abbey in by the Prince

bishop . “ ” a t e Kild allon Then , little beyond, is h Relic, in , where repose the ashes of all that is great in Irish

; - e story, both before and after Christ , where the m nu l mental urn and the marb e pillar, by their number and n n the great skill of their co structio , attested the lofty station and great power of the Kings and Chieftains

who slept below . Now it is dwindled to a small e enclosed , graveyard , whose name alone, unint lligible

to the common people , attests its former greatness . “ ” “ The history of the Relic na Ree , or burying ” a pl ce of the Kings, has been translated from an

ancient Irish poem by a great poet .

There is the church founded by Dallan, the great l mkill p oet of o u b musician and the time of C , whose poem in praise of the Dove of the Churches should ll a . be known by All around, too , are traces of a

M I I E AN TH E JONE S FA IL Y N R L D . sucking out the life and blood and spirit of the people . m o r s No atter what good reasons are sent, what price

of no . were obtained, all was avail Poverty and distress seemed t o settle down on us lik e a dark night with no dawn . Even afte r t wo centuries and a half of landlord rule

“ s C of and Engli h civilization, avan the nineteenth r o ne of centu y is much poorer, with not man good r fortune for four, and immensely infe ior in educational ’ status to the Cavan of Dean Henry Jones and Bishop ’ im B edell s t e . CHAPT E RV I.

HE O F 141 T REBELLI N O 6 . — T HE JONES FAMILY— DEAN Jo NE s Brsuor JON E S BE CAME — A G ENERAL UNDE R CROMWELL MICHAEL AND THEO

PH IL J S FOR P L T U S ONES COMMANDER THE AR IAMEN . f 141 u o 6 u n The Rebellion , that b rst so suddenly po t he r no t s of count y, did e cape the keen observation

n as l as . . Dean Jo es, wel a few others Dr Richardson, o f Bishop Ardagh , saw the coming storm , and quietly converted al l his prope rty into money and retired to

E ngland a few months before the outbreak . Dean

and - t rs Jones his bro he , bolder spirits, though they

. saw foresaw the danger, quailed not before it They , t oo , that, happen what might , the Eng lish race would i c off . So all ome victorious , with the r property, their a wives and f milies, they awaited the issue . In no part of their history have t he noble Irish race been more maligned and worse treated than in that of s l 1641. For centuries have the gros s anders been n m u s of repeated, til the as acre Protestants at that f o . time came t_ o be considered as an Article Faith s d su I have, I believe, hone tly investigate this bject 46 TH E J E S AMIL IN IRE L AND ON F mY . with a patience and a co pleteness seldom or never n before attempted, mand I have come to the conclusio that there was no assacre at that time .

of The literature the subject is extensive, and a good ’ w ma H av ert s i r list of riters y be found in y H sto y of

. O Ireland logy , mentioned before , who lived all in te b through it County Cavan , though he is anima d y the most bigoted spirit against the Irish and thei r or i religion, cannot mention point to a s ngle murder On a t h . e committed the contr ry, he mentions that t he last of English, when departing from the County n in a body, nine mo ths after the Rebellion broke out, were parted with with regret by the Irish wh o an and accomp ied them to Drogheda, he states expressly that n o lives were lost . ’ n r m so The bishop s , William Bedell, ector of Ki aw wro b and ley, a neighboring parish, who te in a no ler n u 1n n manlier to e , has no note of any m rder this cou ty r e at the time . It pleased a pa ty in Ireland, who wer

a at i - b the t wo old he ded the t me y bigoted men , the ’ n Lord s Justices, Sir William Parsons and Sir Joh to e a w i e ar e Borlase , giv ill ng to the stori s of murders and s t h e mas acres that, some months after outbreak, Ii eland began t o be circulated . This party in were one in spirit with that party in England ag ainst whom I a . . the King, Ch rles , had to take up arms They I TH E JONE S FAMIL Y N IRE LAND . 47 formed part of that great party that at that time ' t brought the King to the block , over hrew the Church l and all but placed Cromwel on the throne . Men are . st il l d ivided in Opinion as t o the conduct of public

' t 1nod erat e m t par ies at that ime, but no man , no atter

Parliamn r o f e ta what party , but must confess that the ians fought for the liberty we have since enjoyed . They put forever a limit t o the authority of th e h a monarc , which had become standing menace to the freedom of mankind , and they curbed the power of the Church and the bishop , which for a long time and under various forms o f religion had shown a readiness to persecute fo r holding speculative Opinions differing from those in current favor . In the great struggle there were four parties in Ireland that gradually separated themselves from each

— a i other The N tive Irish party, who a med at getting i e their lands back aga n . These w re stirred up and

u o n t he -eccle siaSt ics t p shed by , in order hat the Roman

and Catholic Church might become predominant, e mo f r su e those estates which she had been deprived was at the Reformation . Secondly, there the Royalist

“ a t O p r y, of whom the great Marquis of rmond was the head . They consisted chiefly of English settlers who o f favored the Church England and Ireland . Thirdly,

Presb t erian there was the Scotch party, who were v s 4 THE E S AMI IN IRE L AND 8 JON F L Y .

as o r to a man, hated the Established Church death t poison , and were suppor ed by an army and an ex ri n d pe e ce general from Scotland . These consist ed o f a principally Scotch colonists in Ulster . L stly, there was the party in Ireland that favored the English and s i h Parliament oppo ed the K ng . T ese were head ’ at f e ed irst by the Lord s Justices, who often set asid ’ t u m the King s commands, and even ally beca e the l Irish Par iamentary party and sided with Cromwell . The Jones family t o a man threw in their lot with a a onl ex i as the Parli mentary p rty . The y cept on w 4 n . o 1 64 o Lord Ranelagh He f ught, till he died in , of n s s t the side the E gli h Loyali ts, and af er his death u the s n i un o r his son Arth r, eco d V sco t, d es not appea t s ml o have been so distingui hed as a i itary leader .

Wh out n u n en the Rebellion broke in Cava , it fell po the English and Scotch settlers like thunder from a h . e t r t e clear sky They wer otally unp epared, and stronghold s and castles that they we re bound t o buil d by the terms on which they rece ived their estate s were ll r not u a o b ad c . r b ilt at , in very ondition Lo d Lambert (now Earl of Cavan) had no stronghold o n his estate t here to which the people o f the county hi n. s a could fly for protectio He and l dy were , s t o b t besides, obnoxiou the Irish y their posi ion and r nor t he r se r t o r e cha acter, did P otestant ttle s trus lov t o the Church and the necessary but invidious d uty of w expelling them by a pmrocess o f l a fell t o Bishop Bedell after his appoint ent . For this Lad y Lambert hated him and was active in r aising up persons t o i ' . one n mm annoy him There was Major Bayley co and a n H Of e . e the troops at Cav n, before the R bellio H artlib or married Penelope , Hartley, a young lady of u a of e fort ne, d ughter a rich London merchant, whos c M r mother had married se ondly . Dillon , son of the n Earl of Roscommon brother of Lord Dillo , one of

’ ’ of t h the Lord s Justices . At the time her marriage e of mother was a resident in the Parish Kilmore . ’ not t he Major Bayley s brother William, liking ce of a f s t e appearan f air at that ime in Scotland , cam

a s rt e h is over to Cavan, m rried Mi s Ha ley, sist r to ’ Wi v brother s fe, and Obtained the li ing of Cavan . n Du Being instigated by Lady Lambert, he we t to blin , and from the influence he was able to bring upon t he g o r ri of Lord Lieutenant, obtained the livin pa sh ml ost — fille d i Te e p p , near Cavan at that t me by an was eminent Irish scholar named Murtagh King, who assisting Bedell in the translation Of the Bible into r s s I ish . For this grave eccle iastical crime he wa x mmmi e co i at e d b H e deprived and c y Bishop Bedell . was immediately ab solved and presented t o the living E E MI I I E A 50 TH JON S FA L Y N R L ND. o f Cavan by the Crown . Persisting in his offense

n . man a d having had Mr King, who was an aged , d ragged to prison by pursui vants sent down by the G overnment who had also again illegally presented ml t Te e os a him to p p , he was gain deprived and ex u comm nicated by the Bishop , being as quickly absolved d a by the Crown and presente gain to these livings . ad o f In the end Bayley , by the help of L y Lambert,

C . avan , conquered , and Mr King was allowed to remain i a in pr son, ag inst all law and justice . Mr . William Bayley was made bishop of Clonfert in Ireland by the 1644 King . The whole of thes e extrao rd inary proceedings may ’ ' be gathered from Bed ell s let t er t o the Archbishop of ’ f C . s o e anterbury, in Mr Prince life that pr late ; in ’

ones s O . J life of Bedell , and in that of logy When s entence o f excommunication was pronounced on a o r s person by the Bishop eccle iastical court, the ex c ommunicated was committed t o prison by the civil or power till he should be purged from his sentence, absolved. This continued the law till the time o f George the Third ; hence the necessity of absolving

Bayley . The only strongholds in the county were those at

Ke ila h a — Croaghan and at g , now C stle Hamilton the former und er Sir James Craig and the latter under

52 THE E S AMI RE A JON F L Y IN I L ND.

l one a- u d distant on y about and half miles, tho gh Be ell a was a very ctive man afoot, and a great walker . Here he was kept only for a fortnight, when he was set free and with his family and all his friends allowed to live ’ of O She rid an in the house the chieftain , who was a

Protestant and a rector, and lived near the bishop . 15h Here they were allowed to live till the t of the

. on 7t h following June He was set free the of January,

1642. ut o d 23rd The Rebellion broke on Sun ay, the ' f O 1641 i o . ctober, Bedell l ved in his own house till h m the 18t of Dece ber and during the short time he fi d was con ne his sons wives , etc . , were kept at Mr . r ’ She idan s house . During the short detention in Cloughought er Castle sermons and discourses were frequent among them , v O and if we are to belie e logy, who sometimes preach ‘ o f ed , the great burden of most these discourses f i t he o . was evils Popery All the wh le , be it remembered , their keeper was a Roman Catholic and ’

. O s n u so were their guards If logy accou t be tr e , it argues an amount of cons1d erat ion and forbearance not usually shown to pr isoners by those who have them in their power . I would much rather believe that the ’ bishop s d iscourses were more in accordance with his character . The bishop was d etained not quite three weeks. He E YH JONE S FAMIL Y IN IRE L AND . 53 ’ a d c me to Denis Sheri an s house , where , from the over crowding, he was taken ill nearly a month after, and th of 1642 7 . O died on the February, logy, his son in- law, states that a week before he took ill , he and the bishop and his son William being out walking, on their way home they came t o a drain which the bishop n t lightly leaped over . This put the you ger men o a great stand . And yet all Protestant writers assert that Bedell died from the effects of his rigorous imprison ment . But where was Dean Jones during the first months of this terrible massacre , when so many hundred n thousa d Protestants were murdered, according to e English writers, that more wer shown to have been ri put to death than were in Ireland altogether ! — and yet, strange to say, they all rose from the dead , for the whole number of Protestants that were in Ireland before the massacre some little time after appear ” alive and kicking . Where was the learned , the politic young Dean all these terrible months ? At his

own i w c . house , w th his ife and hildren, living in peace He knew how t o manage the people among whom he wl d e t, and though told that he would have to give up s his land , he smiled blandly, nodded assent and bided n his time . He k ew much better than Bedell the signs of the times, and that a short time would see the storm 54 TH E J NE S AMIL IN I E L AND O F Y R . s ettle and the clouds roll away .

b 23rd f o O The Re ellion began on the ctober, and e arly in November the leaders of the Irish party in Cavan induced Bedell to d raw up a statement of their ’ c ase as a Remonstrance to the Lord s Justices and the

Council in Dublin . They were anxious that Bedell s hould himself go with this Remonstrance from them . s He excused him elf, and the next most important and ' i one b e t o nfluential person, and likely to acceptable

was . the Government, Dean Jones He at once under u took the business, and started for D blin accompanied by some others, leaving his wife and children in their n hands . Dea Jones was most anxious to undertake ’ for the journey, he long ed to give the Lord s Justices — of and Council, among whom he had many friends

' which the Cavan leaders seemed unaware— a full verbal account of the strength and design of the

Northern rebels . The Remonstrance was presented on . the 6t h of November and the Government sent a b ut refusal, that the Dean might be accredited with in having performed his part a friendly manner, the ’ Lord s Justices and Council add that, as the Cavan leaders had been guilty of few excesses and no murders , if they would lay down their arms they should receive o wn pardon . Dean Jones, in his account of that time , lays stress on the fact that he was a prisoner among ! H E JONE S FAMIL Y IN IRE L AND . 55

was them ; but I cannot find where he a prisoner, nor t a h does he state i . There is no ccount to be met wit o f h u his having been released, nor of his aving s ffered any loss by violence .

n O Roe The rebels, u der their great general wen ’ O Neill n , made the southern and western part of Cava e “ their stronghold . Here, wh n pressed by the Scots ’ on o O O N eill t he the N rth , wen Roe would retreat to almost inaccessible mountains of Cavan and Leitrim At other times he had a standing camp on the eastern

a , bank of the Erne , some little dist nce from Belturbet b where e trained and drilled his recruits . (See ’ ’ of n M G ee s History Irela d . ) Sir James Craig had died of hardship and privation n the of duri g siege Croaghan . Sir Francis Hamilton, of Keilah , with the troops of Croaghan, had come to 1642 terms in June , , and had marched some of them to Dublin and some to Drogheda . In the meantime nd Cavan was completely in the ha s of the Irish , and for several years continued so, during which the English had abandoned their property and the clergy f s. o their houses and churche The Diocese Clogher, mh of e r ana consisting Monaghan and F g , was for the in most part in the hands of the Scots, who soon t rod uce d the Solemn League and Covenant and ex pelle d the bishops and clergy of the Established E AMIL I I E 56 TH E JON S F Y N R L AND .

in Church , so that all thme North the Scots with the Covenant were as deter ined agai1nst the Church as the Irish were in other parts , or mo e so .

Many of the Irish bishops fled to England . Some d ied there before the troubles were over. Some came back to their sees or were elevated to more important ones . Some fled to places of safety within the small portion of the island where the English had still a u thority , and died there during the continuance of

l . the troub e . Henry Jones did neither Too brave a

‘ ma b n to fear danger and too a le a man to be idle during such a crisis , when he could no longer exercise his spiritual functions and when he found his religion

a under ban , he put the lawn with his episcop l dignity d c nned in his pocket, the uniform , entered the ) rl1mnt 1l l a a e a I y a my of his brother Michae , and as commander, under the ambiguous name of Scout Master General— a name long since fallen into de sue

— v tude performed V aliant s er ice in the field . He held n mo f the import a t co mand Scout Master General through the whole war, and when the King had fallen and Cromwell was supreme , he still held the same ! 16 60 post, nor did he resign it till the Restoration , in ,

He nr Jo ne ho o f Me a h was t h e e an o f re e rv n y s , bis p t , m s p s i g ’ D n h r n h e o f h M Ir e . e S e a t e r e e e S . B d ll s ish Bibl is id , c i f t ib , ’ m anag e d t o sav e it fro m t he wreck o f Bish op B ed e ll s L ib ra ry in 1641a nd av e t o r e n Jone wh o e en ave it g it his f i d s , subs q u tly g TH E JONE S FAMIL Y IN IRE LAND . 57 when his brother Sir Theophilus Jones quietly succeed ed to his place, as he resumed his episcopal functions in the Diocese of Clogher . Bishop Henry Jones sat o n courtmartial that held their permanent sittings for a ’ n of in le gth time St . Patrick s Cathedral as Scout n ! t . Mas er Ge eral , where his name is still seen

. His brothers Michael and Theophilus became , from n of the comme cement the war, distinguished military

. o . leaders The philus served under his uncle, Lord n of Ranelagh , the Lord Preside t Connaught, and would seem to have served for a while in England, when part of th e Irish army was sent over by Ormond to assist the King after the pacification with the Irish 1 wh 643 o leaders m i This connection with his uncle , th e o followed r yal cause , and with the great Marquis of O o for rm nd , may account the fact that Sir ’ Theophilus inclined verv considerably to the King s side, and as we have seen, succeeded at the Restoration

t o M r Bo e a nd e e a on. o e ex e n e . yl sug g st d its public ti B yl p d d h o K H r II 00on e r en E o . £7 ro e o cc. t is bj ct . (P f ss ill , ist y , Fo r his dev o tio n t o C ro mwell and his act1v it y and tal e nt as S o Ma e r G e ne ra t o his a r Cro we l ave Brsh o H enr c ut st l my , m l g p y ’ Jo ne a ran o f L n h K no t h e an en e a o f th e L n e s g t y c s ck . ci t s t y ch s umm o f S e rfield in o n Mea no w t h e e e ne o f L or C u ty th . d m s d L an - o r K l J ur o f Ar o V o l V I Ne w e r e . enn o . . S c . . . S g f d ( i k y ch , , i s , 1 a e 867, p g

We fi nd a n h o wev er n er Monro in th e Nort in i him cti g , , u d h M 1642. G eo h e c an g g . 58 THE E FAM I E A JON S IL Y IN R L ND. t o a an important military comm nd . Michael Jones seems t o have been a stern republican ’ — a n man after Cromwell s ow heart . The Irish so Protestant party, if I may designate the whole body that at first acted against the Irish , gradually d t wo — became ivided into parties the Royalists, headed O 643 . 1 by rmond, and the Republican party In a sup ersed eas which had been granted by the King long before t o remove Sir William Parsons from the post of on Lord Justice, but not acted , was put in force O who t by rmond, obtained, in addition, an order o arrest Loftus Meredyth and Sir John Temple on the charge of contravening the royal will in the management of ff ff a airs . Public a airs were in a somewhat confused 1647 fi state from this till , the Scots ghting in the North , the English and Irish Protestants against the Irish in rm f ff i O o the South , w th ond at the head a airs, mean while the English Republican party growing stronger and their friends in Ireland increasing in boldness and 64 O out of resolution . In 17 rmond was turned t o t o Dublin, having had surrender all the regalia the

Parliamentary Commissioners . Colonel Michael Jones at once took possession of Dublin for the Parliamentary out of t o party . Soon after Jones marched Dublin or of Con encounter the Irish army, the Army the r it was fede ates, as called, commanded by General

TH E E FAMIL Y I I E L A D 60 JON S N R N .

e Governor of Dublin, which he kept for the Parliam nt th e o f O e l till arrival liver Cromw l shortly after, when the d ist in uish d m e he took g Parlia entary general, Jones ,

’ with him as his chief Lieutenant and left his brother, J n l Sir Theophilus ones, Gover or of Dub in . When

o - n Cromwell had c nquered and pacified the cou try ,

J s - in- Fle e twood his and John one , his brother law, and , , son- in- law, were members of the Commission appointed

s by the Parliament to govern Ireland, settle the Iri h n in Co naught, into which they were all driven, and o f ' divide the rest the country among the soldiers , for and the se their arrears of pay, among English who of had advanced money to the Government, most the orders in council at that time are signed by John b Jones . These orders have lately been discovered y d Mr . Pren ergast in the Castle of Dublin , where they

u . had lain for ages, neglected and nknown

of When Cromwell took the title Protector, John Jones and some others of the Commissioners strongly

disapproved of his conduct, and Michael and his

cousin seem to have fallen into disgrace , John being f dismissed from the office o Commissioner . After Cromwell’s death John Jones again appears as one of

the leading spirits who strongly advocated a republic .

When the Restoration took place , he seems to have

fallen into obscurity, though he appears to have lived E S I TH E JON FAMIL Y N IRE L AND . 61 on K his estates in safety, which were chiefly in ilkenny, where his descendants liv e to the present day as leading county people . Of Michael Jones little is heard till we find him as E s for Michael Jones , q , M . P . Duleek, County Meath f 1 in the Irish parliament o 6 6 3.

— — Both these men cousins were stern republicans .

' not for kin s They cared g or titles . Stern of purpose o f — and with a high sense duty, they possessed Michael, especially— that undaunted courage and resource in o f a the presence danger that characterize, in all ges,

( the born leaders f men, and in critical times lead men and f t o victory alter the fate o nations .

u : of Theophil s, brother Henry and Michael Jones

as in the m w a successful leader Parliamentary ar y . We have seen that he was left Governor of Dublin by l 164 t 9 . o Cromwel in He seems, however, have been mn c a n ore like He ry, the bishop , in h racter, tha Michael, and t o have kept the door of reconciliation to court favor open . He succeeded the bishop as Scout Master

’ General of the force s t ill his death . He was a friend o f O - t h e of the Earl of ssory, eldest son the great Duke

‘ - and his me ns c i . was o f O b a rmond, y a onsp racy which formed in 16 63b y some d iscontented Republican offi cers and Presbyterians for se1z1ng the Castle of Dublin and ov e rturning the Royal authoi'ity was THE E FAMI IN IRE AN 6 2 JON S L Y L D.

! TheO hil us se t h d iscovered . Sir p Jones ems o have ad a for t he large estates, chiefly in G lway, we find that son of s a eldest that time, called Theophilu , was mem of for ber Parliament County Leitrim, where the Jones n f r family had property and influe ce o a long time . E s of Theophilus Jones, q , Headford (near Galway) , f r 1695 3 . . o 170 was M P County Leitrim from to , and son e e s e father and ,mthe sam name, represent d the am place in Parlia ent till 17 s u e a Ambrose Jone , the fo rth brother, obtain d 1 h living from the Crown in 637. He ad obtained s c n other living from ecclesiasti al patro s . We know himhe s his h n little about till ucceeded brot er He ry 16 6 1 r B s of fo a as i hop Clogher in , which he held en 166 ran t few s 7 o year , wh , in , 1: he was t slated the see of his in Kildare, which he held till death 16 8 was t o the i h 7 . He allowed by the Crown hold r c living of Maynooth in addition . !

’ ’ a Ro W h e aws H o r P tent lls . it l ist y . en Ro 1Pat t lls . ’ re o 3Wa s bish ps . Mas on No e a en x , t s , pp di , CHA T E R V II P .

Y O . . HENR J NES , D D 5— 11— Br n r E AT II 1 r 164 6 6 s o M 66 1 BISHOP o CLOG HER OF 181— H rs DE S E NDANI'‘S 6 C .

se en Shortly after the Restoration, and as as the v s necessary instruments were complete, twel e bishop ’ were consecrated in St . Patrick s Cathedral, Henry of one of the conse crat Jones, bishop Clogher, being ing bishops ; b ut because he had been a commander t he for a time, it was thought better quietly by archbishops that he should not lay his hands on them u and politic and conciliatory as he ever was he acq iesced . 1mmed iat el s h f Almost y after he was made bi op o

Meath, which he held till his death . m f f — FrO his long tenure o the see o Clogher sixteen years— he amassed a great d eal of landed property in 641 . 1 that diocese He was, in , appointed by the Crown t o ascertain the damage the Protestants had on sustained by the rebels , and his representations and they were partial t o the Protestants— grants of land were g iven t o those who had suffered loss . His

s of e tates lay in that part Cavan adjoining Fermanagh, 64 TH E NE S AMI IN E A D JO F L Y IR L N .

of and M in the County Fermanagh in the County eath . From him are descended all those of the name of

Jones who held property in - Fermanagh o r Cavan and held the rank of gentlemen . Squire Jones, of Money in — a fi glass County Antrim ne county family, who , “ " ” in r the Landed Gent y of Ireland, by Sir B . Burke , “ me e l n only go back to the Bu p r Squire Jon s, of Caro a — . d in (Thomas Morres Jones, Esq ) is descende the _ i ’ . D. third generat on from Henry Jones, D This s 176 9 Thomas Morres Jone , who died in , was great n ‘ n of . and gra dson He ry Jones, Bishop of Clogher

. m me Meath He possessed lands in Fer anagh and L itri , ’ and was married t o the niece of Lord O N eill (French

“ an c t e r John) , who from his es ry and great states anked ’ n O Neill i hi . s e a as a pri ce Lord g ave w th ni ce , as the s of M l n e dowry, e tate oneyglass fee simple . Squir Jones also became possessed of the property called n r in t he t f ma hi o esb o o o o h e s l J , C un y Ar gh, w c th y til M n l a s w . e o e s as f hold Squir Jones, of yg , High , Sherif ma in g r h for County Fer an gh livin memo y . He as been a i r e rm mag st ate for D rry, Antrim , Down , A agh , Ferman agh and Cavan ; High Sheriff for Armagh, Antrim , rmn h i w and Fe a n all of h o . Do n a g , whic he h lds property Another branch of t he same stock was John Moutray E s r ff ermana h in Jones , q , who was High She i of F g 1 t 797. He had proper y in Fermanagh and about TH E E S FAMIL IN IRE A 65 JON Y L ND.

c . r Belturbet, where he resided mu h He mar ied a

‘ of t ‘ Miss Singleton , Fort Single on, in County Mona

- n i H e . o . a ghan , and had leg timate issue lived for . of r while in Ture, in the Parish D umlane, and is f o . m buried in the graveyard that parish A monu ent t o mf is put up in the church the me ory o his wife 1835 and himself . He died in . r n From Bishop Hen y Jones is desce ded , in the third of Nahillah the generation, the Jones family , that is, n u , , Hollow ear Belt rbet who have long held a leading , Of position in County Cavan . this family David 1763a ff u Jones was, in , ppointed High Sheri of Co nty was n. . Cava His father the Mr Jones, who bought

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fre eho ld . or of the , Drumlane early in f mDo tOi c the eighteenth century fro Thomas Sheridan , t t who had o pay the money o Dean Swift . This land

’ Nahillah . s still remains in the family . This Jone married a lady of Belturbet o f good family and great

“ ” “ o e e e beauty, called p pularly B auty Copeland , and v r since the name Co peland has been retained in this

family . ’ Many of Bishop Henry Jories s descendants in u ed f u a Fermanagh, s rround by the powerful and r g l of L who families Creighton ( ord Erne) , did not come

. r B L here till a later pe iod, and utler ( ord Lanesborough) , ' t o or Of t gradually sold their property one other hem , 66 THE E FAM RE A JON S IL Y IN I L ND. so that at present fe wof the name of Jones and still of h less t eir property remain about Newton Butler, t h e for b e of e hom a considera l time this family. ! A great- grands on of Bl shop Henry Jones was r in Alexander Jones, bo n early the last century and s o f o f Mullinahorn posses ed the lands Cullion , and Piper Hill lying around Newton Butler. He married s of a lady named Mi s Brooke , a member the Brooke f B h family o Fermanagh . Sir Victor rooke is t e present head o f this family ; the baronetcy has been f r in the Brooke family o several centuries . Sir Basil Brooke obtained an estate in Donegal at the Plantation o f Ulster and was made Governor of Donegal town

and c s . son astle by King Jame I His Henry, for his 41 t 16 o s ervices in , and his losses, b ained acres o f t he forfeited lands of Fermanagh in the beautiful v whi malley called Cole Brook, ch they have ever since ade their residence . The adjoining town is called

! 11on o Henr Jo ne Bi o o f C o e r an a T e s f d Me et c y s , sh p l g h th , . , was Jo n Jo ne who e s o n Jo n Jo ne was a e r o f e xan e r h s , s h s f th Al d

Jo ne o f on Mullina h o rn a nd e r Hl ll . Th e a r s , Culli , Pip P ish Registe r o f Ne wto n Butler ha vi ng be e n bu rne d m any y ears ag o w t h e h r Ia e n a o n o ut Jo n Jo ne a h e r a nd ith c u ch , ccid t lly f u d h s , f t w ne e t e So n e nt le e n o f e r e t &c . s o a e o f a e o f , g m B ltu b , , it s s d d s l e in e l a h a e n e an t o M o e ro r ro K e a r. J In a p p ty f m g , g tl m , s ph g h m ’ v w h W a t h i Mr. In a a er a e o e r e n 1709 . gh m s f th c m it illi m T hir and o a ne o e o r e e an ne ar i Ja e Jone d bt i d s m f f it d l ds th s . m s s n n e l h m me t in 15 a e e a t o f e n a s . 88 , , d sc d th s g

6 THE J N E S FAMI IN IRE A 8 O L Y L ND. while crossing the Ballyconnell mountains by a ' near

road to Swanlinbar, in company with his brother, h going to see cattle orilands e had there . At his death his child ren were very young and his widow very t he handsome . She soon married again, and greater part of the property gradually111left its rightful owners . 1884 0 0 In gentlemen from , who were seeking to e a u stablish a right to property about Sw nlinbar, Co nty

l f th am- C n to eo e o e of avan , said to belo g p p n e Taylor, ma n l h d eemed it of i portance s o e ink in t e cha in of evidence to get t he inscription from this gentleman’s ’ l t . G omb (Mr Elliott s) in allowhil graveyard , County na h t d n u r Ferma g . There is a ra itio abo t this Taylo property that it would never prosper in one of the ' n o r ame their relations, from the way it was obtained ; and e I have lately come across the sam tradition , with r m a some addition l particulars f o another source, that wou ld point to the possibility of its having been filched in some way from the Elliott family.

R is obert Jones, who still living at a very advanced 011 o f age his freehold in the Parish Drumlane , has ' issue . William , Thomas, James and Mary Jane lm h o . , Robert , Sara , Eliza and Catherine Thoinas William , , James, Mary Jane, Robert, Sarah and E h za t o f Y are all m the City and Sta e New ork ,

‘ marrie d a d v si1e and n all are ha e is , with the ex E IH E JONE S FAMIL Y IN IR L AND. 69 h 1 ce tion of w o s . p James, unmarried John lives at

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. home in Ireland with his parents and is unmarried . a Catherine died unmarried some years g o .

fi of J Christiana, fth child ohn and Elizabeth Jones, of u married Thomas Williams, Castlecomer, Co nty

Kilkenny , a master builder . His father, an architect, r t he - 18 79 e was mu dered by rebels in , leaving a wif and helpless family . This family of Williams are G riflith was e descended from Williams, who mad f n ‘ 141 o 6 bishop Kilken y in , a little before the m ' ; n Rebellion He was a Welsh an , born at Caernarvo Re st ora in 1589 . He came back to his see after the

1672 of 83. tion and died in , at the age He was a

1mle - had s p minded man , wonderfully learned , and a fondness for ' the mechanical arts and was a great science scholar . He was a sound churchman, a Fellow of d College , and though he cared not for worl ly

o s n and t he consideration, was fam u for his learni g f n innocence o his life . When the bishopric fell vaca t King Charles the First was importuned night and day “ ’ - r f r by bishop seeke s o the place . I ll give it to none f m“ o the , said the King ; I have a man in my eye ” “ ?” “ for it . Who is that said his courtiers . Doctor “ ” “ ” W . ! Yes illiams Doctor Williams said they . , “ ” said the King ; is he not learned enough ? They “ ” “ ” answered Yes . Is he not pious enough ? They TH E E FAMI I E A 70 JON S L Y IN R L ND .

“ answered that he was . Well, then, said the King, “ ” “ e t ? Oh is amus d , wha objection can there be , he ” “ s so poor . And it is becau e he is so poor that I give t it o him said Charles . During the civil war the a ff him3 Parliament ry party o ered £ 00 a year (fully equal t o now) if he would take it and agree of his with them, as his great talents and the holiness life would have added lustre to their p arty ; but his t oo h u n t principle was high : e wo ld o . He was much t o beloved in his see, but he appears not have got land or so founded family estates, like many others . mn s a d Thomma Willia s his wife have issue . of Ja es Jones, the sixth child John and Elizabeth hv es is married and m Scotland . David, the seventh f B o . child, married Miss Longmore, Knockbride oth — who are living and have issue John, is unmarried,

an Y . d Mary . This family also live in New ork of Catherine , the eighth child John and Elizabeth

Jones, was married and died a year after. H TE R III C AP V .

O JO O OF GE RGE LEWIS NES , BISH P KIL

MORE .

TH E J IN P T R L S E TC. ONES FAMILY NOTICES ATEN O L , George Lewis Jones was bishop of Kilmore from 14 1790 t o 77 till , when he was translated Kildare and

mad e Dean of r . o f g Christ Chu ch Cathedral He was the Jones family of this neighbourhood and was de of a scended from John Jones, a grandson Henry and b is member of the Na illa family . H daughter married mf o Robert Hu phries, a gentleman property about n of Swa linbar, who lost most his means by becoming t o who O or security Joshua Taylor, wned got the r d property already mentioned . Mr . Humph ies ied

- hearted a ed 33 one broken , g , leaving boy, named Thomas — — i and a daughter infants and a posthumous ch ld . who for t he Thomas, was destined the church, joined a of 1843 army and died paym ster the Cavan Militia in , of u and was buried in the vault his ncle, Captain

. Cross, in Kilmore, near Cavan _ He married a Miss Ball head Veitch, whose father was a gentleman near y His z ar . t o . in Cavan daughter, Eli abeth, is m ried Mr E AMIL I I E L A D 72 TH E JON S F Y N R N .

Finlay, who teaches a school in Kilmore . Thomas u ’ H mphries sister, Rose Ann , married Thomas Cham bers, County Fermanag h , and Phoebe married Thomas l i Dun Lilburn, whose fami y lived and are st ll about gannon, County Tyrone . The following are some of the appointments of the of family Jones, from the Patent Rolls f ’ 1581. as . o . Thom Jones Dean St Patrick s, Dublin .

4 . 158 . Thomas Jones Bishop of Meath . i u e . F r 105. . 6 Thomas Jon s Archb shop of D blin o a number o f years Lord Chancellor and Lord Justice f 1 . o 16 9 . William Jones Lord Chief Justice ’ King s Bench .

16 19 . Sir William Jones . Lord Chancellor and

Lord Justice .

1628 . . Sir Roger Jones Knight, Privy Councillor, — 11628 r 2 . : a Viscount Ranel gh July , Titles Ba on Jones o f Navan and Viscount Ranelagh in the County f o Dublin . — th f 26 . o 1606 . Lewis Jones . Dean Ardagh . June la Kilb . 8 . 160 . Lewis Jones Vicarage of in addition

E . . . . c 16 15. Robert Jones . T C D Pre entor of

Emly . f 120 . o 6 . Robert Jones Three livings in Diocese

Cork in addition . f a L . o 1629 . ewis Jones Dean C shel and three TH E JON E S FAMIL Y IN IRE L AND. 73 other Parishes .

f . 11 . 6 5 o . Richard Jones Prebend Swords In

1620three other livings . f 128 . . . 6 David Jones Two livings Diocese o l Dub in . f 1 25. n H . 16 o . e ry Jones Dean Ardagh (Lew s

Jones resigned . )

6 4. 13 Richard Jones . Deanery of Elphin . n f 1629 . . . John Jo es Rectory of Sego Diocese o

Armagh .

16 37. Ambrose Jones . Parish in Diocese of Meath . 1 f s o . 6 28 . Robert Jones . Pari h Kilconnell Done gal ih addition .

13. 6 7 Henry Jones . Dean of Kilmore . f 1645. . Henry Jones Bishopric o Clogher .

1604. as c Sir Ellis Jones . To suc eed in reversion f Provost Marshal o Munster .

16 10. D. . Thomas Jones, D . , Archbishop Com missioner for Plantation .

16 22. William Jones . Chief Justice . Commis si ner o for Settling the Kingdom . 16 1 f ’ O . . 7 . liver Jones Justice o King s Bench 16 62 . o f Oliver Jones . Chief Justice Presidency n of 1Co naug ht . 6 6 . 6 . Jones Viscount Ranelagh . Lord President of Connaught . TH E J N E S AMIL IN I E L A D O F Y R N .

16 63. . . . u 1 Michael Jones, Esq M P for D leek . 6 60. n Sir Theophilus Jo es . S cou t Master Ge1neral of the Army . 6 75. . Robert Jones, Gentleman Comptroller of

w . Customs, Gal ay

il i . f 16 2. G 7 W l am Jones entleman ( ather) . Comp troller for Galway and Derry . luh 1 . 8 C . 6 6 . m Sir Nicholas Jones Re embrances o f and Receiver First Fruits of All Archbishops . l 16 33. Lewis Jones . Bishop of Ki laloe .

16 1 n . . 6 . Henry Jo es Bishop of Meath i 6 1 . . 16 . Ambrose Jones B shop of Clogher

16 6 . 7. Ambrose Jones Bishop of Kildare .

16 6 7 Ambrose Jones . Dean of Christ Church (addition ) B 1 . 82 . 6 . Edward Jones ishop of Cloyne

. v e 16 6 9 . Francis Jones , Esq Sur eyor G neral of

Ordnance . 1 : 6 73. Richard Jones Viscount Ranelagh , Gov

c l . ruor of Ath one, Lord President of Connaught

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1 . 76 5. Charles Jones Viscount Ranelagh , Lord

President of Connaught .

1 . . . 76 3. David Jones , Esq High Sheriff of Cavan

14 . . 77 . Georg e Lewis Jones Bishop of Kilmore

179 7. John Moutray Jones . High Sheriff of Fer mana h g .

76 TH E J NE S AMIL IN I E L O F Y R AND. 13 7 7. o f l John Jones, Scholar Trinity Co lege . The following are some further particulars of the Jones family : 16 81— John Jones got a parish in Wexford .

D. was James Jones , D . , lately Chancellor of the

m. me s archdiocese of Ar agh His son is Ja Jones ,

D . D a well known clergyman in the same diocese .

. Thomas J Jones, Rector of a Parish in Tyrone , is , sprung from the Jones family of this neighborhood . E s His nephew, Thomas George Jones , q , was lately ar living in the parish of Drumlane . There e several

' clergymen of this family in the Church of Ireland, but not so many as there used to be . The Jones family suffered in the end by acting against the King, for they gradually sunk after the 16 60 Re storation in , and by degrees fell altogether nl o ut of the very high position they had held . The o y exception was Viscount Ranelagh , who fought on the side of the King throughout and after the Restoration f 14 o 6 7 . was raised t o the dignity Earl,

an As Lord R elagh is the head of the Jones family, it may not be uninteresting to trace the family from a point anterior to that from which I commenced at the

n . beginni g of this book Herbert, Count of Verman

dois in France , came over with William the Conqueror

1066 . in His son, Herbert Fitz Herbert, married HE N E S AMI IN IRE L A T JO F L Y ND. 77

d co - of u . L cia, aughter and heir Sir Robert Corbet r son Lord Alcester of Wa wick , their , was William nkin a lia s of Guarind ee A e . p J , Herbert , Lord Some gene alogists say that this William or Herbert was in f 110 reality the son o King Henry the First ( 0 and the Ranelagh and Herbert family hold this i A enkin or r op nion . William p J , Herbe t, married Gwenllio n of a Welsh , daughter Howell Ichon, prince, — J o f Wernd u and had four sons ohn , David , Howell and Thomas . The son and heir of John of Werndu was ancestor f f W rn u o f the family o Proger o e d .

was of David ancestor the Morgan family, and from o n Thomas, the f urth son , are desce ded the noble family l of Herbert, Ear s of Pembroke and Montgomery in

— Wales the first Earls in dignity in England . A u Howell p Gwillim , the third son , married Ma d , A d aughter o f Howell p Rice . He had the estate of

- - T reown n . in Mo mouth His great great grandson , John

f Tre own d - in 1481 A o p Thomas , marrie , , Anne, e of of Gwillirn n daught r David Morga , and had

William David , Morgan , Richard and Walter .

- n William s great gra dson , Sir Philip Jones, was Col onel of the Monmouthshire regiment and fought

for King Charles I . He was M . P . for Monmouth . Sir Philip was present in Raglan Castle when it was AMIL IN I E 78 TH E JON E S F Y R L AND.

a . taken by Fairfax , the Parliamentary gener l His

d Il erb ert direct descen ant is John Arthur Jone1s , of 885. Llanarth Castle and Clytha, County Monmouth , of s A David Jones , Chep tow , second son of John p b d Thomas , was succeeded y his el est son , Henry Jones , d d u of Middleton in Lancashire , who marrie the a ghter H is W of . as Daniel Acton , of Suffolk son Sir Roger a L i Jones, of Middleton and Alderm n of ondon , w th whom I began this history . His son was Thomas ,

Archbishop of Dublin . His eldest son, Sir Roger son Jones , Viscount Ranelagh ; his , Arthur ; his son , m d 14 6 7 Tho as ; his son , Richar , who 1in was created . 711 Earl of Ranelagh He died in , when the earl

. m dom became extinct Richard , the last earl , arried

Eliza, daughter of Lord Willoughby , by whom he

d . had two sons , who ied young, and three daughters

Eliza married the Earl of Kildare , eldest son of the

Duke of Leinster, through whom the Dukes of Leinster and the whole noble house of Fitzgerald spring from the Jones family ; and Frances was married mto Earl n d r d Coni gsby . Richar , the last Earl of Ranelagh , a rie secondly Margaret , daughter of the Earl of Salisbury . 159 7 t o The title lay dormant till , when it reverted

Charles Jones , the next heir, who became Viscount

’ resent V iscount is Ranelagh . The p Thomas Heron onlv Jones , Baron Navan and Viscount Ranelagh , E AMIL IN I E L A TH E JON S F Y R ND. 79

Ranela h b or1:i 1822 son of Thomas, Viscount g , . He u il served in the First Lifeguards and F s eers . He is of o f Inspector the English Volunteers, Colonel

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h . . . t he So ut . . Middlesex Rifles, etc , etc He is J P and

D . L . for Middlesex and Norfolk . His residence is

l n . . A bert Mansio , Victoria Street, London, S W lh W u am. . a . Ranel gh House , F , S , and Carlton Club — Az . f Family arms , a cross between our Pheons point in n — A ernb owed g dow wards ; or, Crest dexter arm in or armor, the hand in a gauntlet grasping a dart ; , — — 5 . 009270113 Supporters Two Griffins, Erminois Motto u Al i/Ii Vires . B rke , in his Peerage of Lord Rane

v lagh , gi es no other children to Archbishop Thomas b ut his o wn Jones forefather, Sir Roger, and Margaret, D mv ill who married Gilbert o e ; and he passed over the fact that Sir Roger Jones, of Middleton , Lanca ah shire , was also Alderman of L ondon in the time of o f Henry VIII . All this is a piece modern snobbery that would be laughable were it not so reprehensible .

Monk Mason , the highest authority in the kingdom u on the s bject on which he writes, says it was a sing ular coincidence in the lives of these t wo men (Adam Loftus and Thomas Jones) that they had each a more m o f nu erous and prosperous family than any their ’ n o f predecessors in the Dea ery St . Patrick s, or than any of their successors ; that the eldest son of each 0 T E E MI I 8 H JON S FA L Y IN RE L AND. d h e tc . W did was ennoble , y not Sir Bernard Burke take the trouble of looking out for the Baptismal Register of the archbishop’s children and their several n ? adva cements, etc . Pure students of history make and P short work of books of Heraldry the eerage, and there are few nobles whose pedigree could stand the in sifting examination of a historian . Here are two stances in which Lord Ranelagh makes a mistake in his t pedigree . The one arises from snobbery ; the o her u all beca se the descendants of the archbishop bult — himself took the side of Cromwell in 164116 60. There are few counties in Ireland where the name of not as t Jones does occur a county family, while hey furnish more landed gentry in Wales and the adjoi n ing counties of England than any other name . Squire of M one lass i Jones yg , descended from B shop Henry one Jones , was of the committee formed by the f 182 Dun Con vention o Volunteers that in 7 met at gannon and gave us a free Parliament , and he was one of fi ve from the whole of Ireland selected to watch and guide the movement in Dublin .

P. . 1800 . In John Jones, M , and Theophilus Jones,

P. M . , voted for the union of the Irish Parliament with . that of England . Both held Government posi ns tio , Theophilus being Collector of the Customs of

Dublin . I E J NE S AMIL IN T I O F Y IRE L AND . 81

‘ There are a great many oflicers in the Royal Navy f “ o . the name , and very many in the Army The Family of Jones in Ireland were able men in every department of public life, great statesmen, great l and o r l pre ates victori us gene als, while they have eft many distinguished marks o n the literary history of

Ireland for the last three hundred years . We had a brilliant young sculptor of this same stock and from this neighborhood , who died when attaining national eminence , and the President of the Royal Irish

Academy is Sir Thomas Jones , and this eminent man

Sprung from the same stock also . Everywhere the family are marked by an activity n and vital energy that speak well for their continua ce . l There is that equal blending of the physica , the mental and the moral n ever found b ut in pure r i ces of in it self fo r people . That is a strong guarantee their endurance , while the flashes of greatness and genius that occasionally burst forth would indicate a latent

’ intellectual energy that may suddenly ap car in more than one branch of the fam ily to enlighten and to guide their age .