A History Of The Life Of James Duke Of Ormonde

Author : Thomas Carte
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230020990
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde Volume 1 written by Thomas Carte and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1736 edition. Excerpt: ...and Mac Hugh being suspected, they gave information against him to Lord Ikerrin. His Lordship committed him to prison, whence Mac Hugh making an escape, fled the country for some time, but returning was seized again, confessed the fact, and was executed for it with two of his accomplices. The Gentlemen indeed in this part of the Kingdom, were exceeding careful to prevent bloodshed, and to preserve the English from being plundered; several instances might be given thereof; but few deserve better to be particularized, than Sir Rich Everard Baronet, who having before the Rebellion planted the greatest part of his estate with English tenants, and at the beginning thereof observing the force and violence which the rabble were disposed to use against all of that Nation, and fearing that he should not be able to protect them all from their insolence and rapine, soon sent the richest of them away with their stock and goods into the English quarters. But there was still left a number of families that were poor and unable to remove, consisting of eighty eight persons; these he kept and maintained at his own charge till the middle of June 1642, when finding that in the heat of the war he should not be able to protect them longer from violence, he conveyed them and their goods safely to the English garrison of Mitchelslown. When that place was afterwards taken by the Irish, he lent to some of those families, which were very poor, to come to him, maintaining them for a long time, till at last he sent them away safe to the place they desired. As soon as the Cessation was made, some of these poor tenants came back to him, and he settled and protected them on his lands, till Cromwell came into the country. All this was fully proved by several of the said...