HISTOliY OF LIMERICK. h. ftula~ess:--Out of a due sense whereof, their Lordships have commanded Limerick, Galway, Clonmel, Carlow, Athlone, nricl inanj o!llc.r cit ics nut l In(, to sipuify unto you their dislike ol such pernicious practices, and that, they do (froin good grounds) apprehend, that persons co~i~inittingsuch mis- towns, now in the possession of the Royalists, through the opera t' ions of dellleanours do (under colour of such their wild carriage and proceedings) Coote and Broughill, only awaited the sign, to pronouncc openly in kvor of' advance some designs ~hichmay be of dangerous consequence to the public Charles II., who was speedily proclaimed king, ancl presentcd, not only a loyal good and safety, if not seasonably looked into and prevented; and do, there- address, but a present of twenty thousand pounds, with four thousnut1 fo tile fore, desire you to inquire into the truth thereof, and to take speedy and Duke of York, and two thousand to the Duke of Gloucester. 'I':lc Omn- effectual course that such persons as are come thither upon that account be wellian confiscations, however, laid the foundation of many fan~ilicsin the excluded the garrison, and not permitted to return or reside there. And if city and county of Limerick, to whom immense grants of land and houm any of the inhabita~ltsprofess themselves such, and shall at any time disturb were given, which were afterwards confirmed to them by the monarcll \\host: the congregations when assembled for the service and worship of God, or father some of them helped to bring to the scaffold, and who now, with a vthernise break the public peace, you are then to secure such persons, and weakness and treachery unparalleled in history, betrayed and ruined tliosc t,ilic care they be proceeded with according to due course of law in sach who fought and bled, and lost all because of their attachment to his causc..' cases lnovirled, having due regard to preserve (by all good ways and nmcans) It was thus that those were caressed who had enlisted under thc b:uiners of the good eovcrnment of that place, and timely to discountenance and sup- the usurper; whilst the Catholics, who expected to see justice done thrrn, press all dlsordcrs. were compelled to mourn over disappointed hopes, and to bend the folly of [T~oar~sIIERBERT, Clk. Council.] placing faith in princes. Whilst the rebellious regicides wre co~firmcilin Council Chamber, Dublin, 25th November, lG56.1 their broad lands, the ancient possessors were huuted to the fastnesscs ul Connaught, and forced to remain within the Mile End, that is, at the distance. The Quakcrs suffered in conscquence a very severe persecution in Lilnerick,2 of a mile from the Shannon, to which they were confined by the Act of nhcre several of them suffered imprisonment, and were scourged. Barbara Settlement ! Bronghill was created Earl of Orrery, Coote, Earl of Mount- Blagdon, a Quakeress, was banished by Colonel Henry Ingoldsby, Governor rath; Sir Maurice Eustace, the old friend of the Marquis of Ormoml, of Limerick. Hc was aided by Lieut.-Colonel Hurd and Major Ralph was made Lord High Chancellor; and Ormond himself who-h:d sunnomitecl Wilson in his violence to the Quakers, who first scttled,in the city two years all his difEculties and dangers, and now basked in the f~dleff~llgence of royal before the above letter was written, and who in 1671 built a meeting-house in Creagh Lane. ' I have given in the preceding chapter a list of some of those who obtained pants at this period, which grants were subsequently confirmed by Act of Charles 11. I annex a few others :-- William Pope obtained large grants in the Liberties of the City of Limerick, arnoonting in all to 900 acres. Grant to Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, (enrolled under the Act of Settlement, Nov. Cth, IGGG) comprised the lands of the manor of Tough, viz. Killaragh, Dromalty, Glauragh, and Tonnteriffo (part), 788a. Dromsally, 180a. Moybegan, Portenard, Glsssragh, and Rycesgh, 304a. Crepm and part Cregan, 12Oa. Cullinagh, and part of do., 72Sa. Annagh, 788a. Tobergariffe (parr), CHAPTER XXXI. 223a. Lohenbagh (part), 27a. Corastprecoone, or Carantirocoan, 301a. Caporenat Shenagh, or Capienahene, 310a. Tearaff and Cullenaghshiffe, or Terehiss and Cullenacliffe, 328a. Clungt- loghm, 27a. DEATH OF CROMWELL-ACCESSION OF CHARLES 11.-DISAPPOINTNENT OF Barony Outhneybeg, Co. Limerick, &c. CATHOLICS.-ILEWARDS OF THE REGICIDES AND ADVENTURERS.-GUNTS.- Grants under the Commission of Gmse." I'rinledJolio. TILADESMEN'S TOKENS.-GRANT OF FISHERIES TO SIR GEORGE YREST0N.- 1684. To Digby Fonlkes of various lands in Limerick and Cork. PS. 5 and C. LORD OILlLERY. -CORPORATION DOINGS, &C. &C. - Grant to John Crips, of estatesin the Co. of Limerick, and within the liberties. Id. p. G. Do. to Thomas Maunsell in this County. ld. p. 6. - Do. to George and Simon Purdon of lands here and in Clare Co. HEAVY Id. p. 7. " A blow and a !great discouragement" now awaited the Crom- - Do. to Joseph Stepney of lands in Co. Limerick. Id. p. 7. wellians in the death of their darling, who " was hurried to his woe" in 1657, - Do. to Thady Quin of lands in Clare and Limerick, including weirs and fisheries. Id. p. S. bequeathing a title which did not long survive him, to his son Richard - Do. to Joseph Ormsby. Id. p. 8. - Do. to Thomas Power. Id. p 9. Cromwell, vho wanted the sagacity, the talent, the unscrupulousness, and the .Do. to liobert Nayley. Id. p. 9. daring of his father to support a position which demanded at this time more Do. to Edward Rice of lands in the Barony of Cooello, Id. p. 12. even of those qualities than the Protector could lay claim to, to retain his Do. to Henry Widdenham. Id. p. 17. Do. to Brooke Briges. Id. 18. hold of power. With the exception of Ludlow and Sir Hardress Waller, Do. to Patrick Sarsfield. Id. IS. there were few others who were either able or willing to sustain a tottering 1685. To Laurence Clayton, in Cork Co., and in Limerick Co. and City. Id. 34. dominion. Broughill, Coote, Monk, Lambert, and others, who had raised - Do. in the City of Limerick to Doctor Jeremy Hall. Id. 36. - Do. to Samuel Burton. Id. 36. themselves tb fortune, if not to fame, on the Protectorate, now began Do. in Cork and Limerick, to Nicholas Lysoght. Id. 36. to desert a cause which, in more prosperous seasons, had been dear to them. - Do. in the liberties of Limerick and Rilmallock. Id. 37. - Do. within the City of Limerick, very extensively, to Archbishop Michael Boyle. ld.p.3i-6 1 Entries of Lettcrq, &C., h. 30, p. 2 12. Do. to Dame Mabell Tynte and to Henry Tynte. Id. p. 41. 1686. Grant of a small portion of lands in this Co., with extensive po~seasions in Mayo :in4 Pe: I'ulle~'~.iccouut of the persecutiona of the Quakers, &C. Sligo. Id. 46-7. - Do.-to Daniel Kebb. Id. 47. tqected. 'They vere told, when they presented their claiins 111 Londcn, t., desist from further applications, because one of their agents was Sir R-icholns snnshine, was raised to s Dukedom, andthe Wceroydty of Ireland, and Purcell, who was alleged to have subscribed a document by nl~ichthe agcnts of territories in eight counties.' the Suprcmc Council of the Confederates were emponwed to inakc n.i ofFcr of Thus the cqof hope which had been presented to the lips of the Irish the sovereignty of Irelalzd to thc Pope, or any Catholic priilcc, proxiclctl they C&holics, was rudely dashed from it by hands from which better treatment was received cssential assistance in the recovery of their civil and rcli; " 011s privileges. IliliL~tmust nre think of him who, described by Sir Roljert 8onthn-ell, is 1 1,ands granted to the Duke of Ormonde by the Act of Settlement and Court of 1. p. 132. said to be "the truc standard of his own office, regcneratiug therein ;hose Carte's &VL071d, Vol. 1 OLD PROPFXE LAsm CoUXTIEs Mr. Kelly pillars of a Church that Jo at the same time adorn as nell as suppo~tthe I- Galway &lr Nicholas Wogan Holy Fabric,"-whilst he (Ormond) in reference to his 01~11 acomn!on.; Kildare Bforris Fitzgerald position, observes, in writing of the Earl of Orrery's letters and c1espntcl.tcs: Lord Dunboyne Neath George Elackney "I know well and so does he, that I am born with some disadv~?utng~sas to Dublin Patrick Walsh the present juncture, besides my natural weakness and infirmkics, ancl such Kilnure, &c. James Butler Carrigbeg, &C. * - as I can no more free myself from than they from me. My f~fhcranti Waterlord .... Ulick Wall Edm. Birne mother lived and died Papists, and bred all their childrcn so, mcl 1, Ey GoJ's Catherlogh Kilcorle, &c. - . Gerald Nolan Galliceally, &c. , . merciful Providence was educated in the true Protestant religion, from n-hich r Balligowen, alias Smith'stown' { Walter Walsh I never swerved towards either extreme, not when it 11-35 most (lange~ousto I and New-Church . J . 511. Archer profess it, and most advantageous to quit it. My brothers and sisters, though Rathana, &c. Pierce Shortall Rathardmore . they were not man)-, were very fruitf~dand very obstiu;tc (thy call it con- Robert Shortan stant) in their \my; their fruitfulness has spread into a large allinnce, nud Tubrid, &C. Pierce Butler Ballynoran . John White thcir obstinacy has made it altogether Popish. It TVOLII~bc no sillall co~i~fort 'i &lyler's-town .