T. Fleming, 3. THOMAS FLEMING, descended from the family of the barons of Slane, and a member of the Franciscan order, succeeded, and was the new Ro- consecrated in October 1623. This prelate during the same year obmish line of tained from Pope Urban VIII. a brief allowing Irish students to be Prelates in ordained "ad titulum missionis." See No. 70, inf. He died during the usurpation of Cromwell (1648-1660.) To him Colgan dedicated the Trias Thaumaturga. Dublin. A few extracts from Mr. Dalton's observations on this part of our Ecclesiastical History, may appear to the reader not inappropriate for insertion in connection with the name of the prelate here briefly noticed; viz: His connec- (pp. 402 seqq.) The synod of Roman Catholic Clergy which met at tion with the Kilkenny in May 1642, "agreed in declaring the war in Ireland to he rebellion of against Sectaries, and chiefly puritans, for the defence of the Catholic 1641. religion," the support of the king, queen, royal family, &c. Signed by, Hugh, Abp. Armagh. "Patrick, Waterford and Lismore. Rinuccini's "Thomas, Cashel. "Roche, Kildare. "John, Clonfert. "Emer, Down and Connor." and the proxies of Dublin, Limerick, Emly, and Killaloe, the vicar general of Waterford, Ferns, and Ossory, “Wardens," "Abbots," "Deans," "archdeacons," &c. (p. 408.) "John Baptist Rinuccini, Abp. Fermo, arrived in Ireland in the character of apostolic nuncio extraordinary; and on the 12th of November, 1645, presented himself with his credentials to the confederates there, announcing the objects of his mission, while he protested against the inference that he came to excite the [R] Catholic inhabitants of this kingdom against their king, and signified that nothing more agreeable to the supreme pontiff could take place, than that the confederates in Ireland, having recovered the free exercise of their religion, should observe due subjection, service, and reverence, to his serene majesty, though not a [R] Catholic. The conduct of this emissary was however fatally at variance with this fair and moderate representation of his commission." (p. 409.) Philip O'Sullivan Bear,' (MS. in the Library of Trinity Coll., Dublin, E. 3, 8. No. 26, f. 50,) this prelate is thus noticed by his common Irish name, at the head of the list of the " Ancient Irish, Ecclesiastical :”— "Owen McMahon, Archbushop of Dublin, which is the court of Ireland-who was brede in Salamanca by his Matics. appointment, and now in Ireland "-(See not. p. 910 sup.) In the same "Relation" at the head of the " English-Irished Ecclesiastical," occurs:-" Peter Lombard, Abp. [titular] of Armagh, lord Primate, in Rome." "Accordingly on the ensuing 23rd of February, [1648,] this emissary His deparbade farewell to a country which his intemperance had covered with ture. widows and orphans, ruin and rancour." (p. 418.) A.D. 1648. (p. 426.) "Great as were the difficulties in upholding the hierarchy But three of the established Church in Ireland, it was almost utterly impossible Roman tituthat the Roman Catholic could be represented. At the close lars in Ireof the year 1660 there were but three prelates of that faith in Ireland, land at this those of Armagh, Meath, and Kilmore." time. 4. PETER TALBOT, son of Sir Wm. Talbot, became a Jesuit in P. Talbot, Portugal in 1635, and finished his theological studies afterwards at FOURTH Rome. He was, after holding other offices abroad and at home, ap- Prelate of pointed to the titular archbishopric of Dublin, and consecrated thereto the new on May 2, 1669. Falling under charges of sinister designs in affairs of line in Dubstate, he found it expedient, in order to avoid the displeasure of go- lin. vernment, to leave this country and retire to Paris, where he was liv- A.D. 1669. ing in 1674. In the following year he returned to Ireland, but in 1678 was arrested at Malahide, on charges of treasonable practices, and committed to Newgate. He died in prison, A.D. 1680. Besides his Primatus Dubliniensis, already referred to, at p. 1244 sup., he was the author of many other works on religious and controversial subjects. See Ware, Writers, p. 191. N. B. On a flyleaf of a copy of Ware's Bishops, in possession of Geo. Petrie, Esq. is a brief list of these titular prelates of Dublin, from Matthew de Oviedo to John Linegar, in which before the name of Archbishop Talbot, occurs this entry : A. Plunket, said to have enjoyed titular dignity in Dublin. "ARTHUR PLUNKET, inter vivos anno 1673." Who this individual was, I cannot say; unless perhaps that he may A.D. 1673. have been a coadjutor bishop, acting for Talbot during his absence from Ireland. 5. PATRICK RUSSELL, the fifth titular archbishop of Dublin, P. Russell, had studied at Lisbon; and was for some time titular parish priest of FIFTH titu Garristown. He was consecrated in 1683; and died on the 14th June, larprelate of 1692. His remains were interred at Lusk church. the Dublin A.D. 1683; holds " "pro vincial councils." Under this prelate were held three titular provincial councils, series, whereat were framed sundry "Constitutions" published in 1685 and subsequently, for the ordering and settlement of the affairs of the Church of Rome in the same province, and regulating the conduct of her ministers and people: as, "that no [R.] Catholic should attend the protestant service, assist as sponsor at their baptisms, or contract marriage through their ministers." "That no priest having possession of a parish for three years, shall on that account presume to acquire a right A new mode to that parish without a regular collation obtained from the ordinary, of obtaining and that all such as have not yet received a formal collation must pro- the title of A.D. 1685. P.P. noticed. P. Creagh, E. Byrne, SEVENTH titular abp. of Dublin. A.D. 1707. E. Murphy, L. Fagan, late of this J. Linegar, TENTH. R. Lincoln, ELEVENTH. P. Fitz Si- A.D. 1763. cure one within six months, or be deposed:" a rule curiously illustrative of the manner in which the new priests of the preceding period had been establishing themselves in the titles of the different parishes, whose old and lawful pastors of the ancient line had received the reformed religion. Finally in these constitutions of Archbishop Russell the acts and ordinances of the titular synod of Kilkenny A.D. 1614, are "received, ratified, and ordered to be obbserved faithfully throughout the province." 6. PETER CREAGH, having been titular bishop of Cork, and subsequently of Tuam, was translated to Dublin in 1693: and died about A.D. 1706. "During all this period," says Mr. Dalton, “not a single notice of public importance has been discovered in connection with Archbp. Creagh, and even the period of his death is only inferentially suggested by the date of his successor's appointment." Abps. &c. p. 459. 7. EDMUND BYRNE succeeded in A.D. 1707. Of him I find this notice in the flyleaf of Ware abovementioned: he was "born in Fingal, educated in Spain; was parish priest first of Wicklow, and afterwards of St. Nicholas without; dyed about the 10th of February, and was bury'd in St. James's Church yard, 1723." 8. EDWARD MURPHY, "born in Balrudery, educated in Salamanca, was parish priest of St. Audoen's, Dublin, and from thence was promoted to be Bp. of Kildare, and afterwards [in 1724] translated to Dublin, which he held about four years; he dy'd about the 22nd of December 1728, and was bury'd in St. James's Church yard." (ib.) 9. LUKE FAGAN, "study'd in Sevil, and was parish priest of Baldoyle, from whence he was raised to the dignity of being [titular] Bp. of Meath, which he held 15 or 16 years; and from thence removed to Dublin [in 1729] which he held about four years. He dy'd Nov. 11, and was bury'd in St. Michan's, 1733." 10. JOHN (FLANAGAN) LINEGAR, "born in Church street, [Dublin,] studied at Lisbone." and having been appointed successor to Abp. Fagan, occupied the office for 22 years. 11. RICHARD LINCOLN succeeded in 1757; he died in 1762 and was interred in St. James's Church yard, Dublin. 12. PATRICK FITZ SIMON, “Dean of Dublin and parish priest of St. Audoen's," succeeded in 1763, and occupied the office for six years. 13. JOHN CARPENTER, “Prebendary of Wicklow, and curate of J. CarpenSt. Mary's in Dublin," was consecrated in that city on June 3, 1770, ter, THIRby the titular primate, Dr. Blake, and other prelates of his commu- TEENTH. nion. He died on the 29th of October, 1786, and was buried in St. A.d. 1770. Michan's Church yard. 14. JOHN THOMAS TROY, the next in this series of prelates, J. T. Troy, was a native of Porterstown, Co. Dublin, became in early age a Dom- FOURinican friar at Rome, and after some time was appointed Rector of the TEENTH tiCollege of S. Clement in that city. On the death of Dr. Burke, titular tular abp. bp. of Ossory, in 1776, he was nominated by the pope to the vacant of Dublin. office, and consecrated at Louvain in the same year by the archbishop A.D. 1786. of Mechlin, &c. From Os.ory he was translated to Dublin in 1786. His death took place in A.D. 1823. 15. DANIEL MURRAY, the present archbishop of the Church of D. Murray, Rome in Dublin, was consecrated in 1809 as "archbishop of Hierapolis FIFTEENTH. and coadjutor of Dublin," and became successor of Dr. Troy in 1823. A.D. 1823. sition of the From the preceding notices it appears, that the Present popresent coarbe of Richard Creagh in Armagh is titular digthe eighteenth who has occupied such an office nitaries of Armagh in connection with that see; and that in like and Dublin. manner the present coarbe of Matthew de Oviedo in Dublin is the fifteenth in the succession connected with this latter see; including in each case the eminent individual with whom the dignity first originated. Lists of the names of similar persons connected with the other Irish sees, during the first hundred years after the establishment of the Reformed religion in Ireland, may be found in Nos. 66 and 68 inf. Bull of for the ex communication of Queen Eli zabeth, &c. The Pre tended authority for this document. No. XLV. BULL OF POPE PIUS V. FOR THE DEPOSITION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. The following document is so intimately connected with our Irish Ecclesiastical affairs of the period in which it was issued, that, not being of immoderate length, it appears well deserving of a place in the present collection. (Vid. p. 777 sup.) "The Condemnation and Excommunication of Elizabeth, Queen of England, and her adherents, with the addition of other penalties, by Pope Pius the Fifth. (Bull. Roman. tom. ii. p. 229. Ed. 1638. Foulis, Rom. Treasons, lib. 7, cap. 3. Burnet's History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 377. Cardwell's Docum. Annals, 1, No. 74. Oxfd. 1844.) Pius, bishop, servant of the servants of God, for a perpetual memorial of the matter. "He that reigneth on high, to whom is given all power in heaven and in earth, hath entrusted one holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church, out of which there is no salvation, to one alone upon earth, by him to be governed in plenitude of power, namely, by Peter, prince of the apostles, and Peter's successor, the pontiff of Rome. Him alone he hath made prince over all nations, and all kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, consume, plant, and build; that he may preserve in the unity of the spirit, the faithful people knit together in the bond of charity, and preIts alleged sent them secure and inviolate before their Saviour. motive. "In the discharge of which office, we, who by the be |