Orders in land at this resident rall" in va the other. Bernardins some eight or nyne verrie good of the vaschollers, Jesuits some two and twenty good schollers, rious Eccl. of our order of St. Frances some six score, and of them Ireland. some twelve good schollars: ev'ry order gov'ned by his owne supperior and Chapter; of priests aboute foure hundred, some ignorant and some learned; In this land No Romish thereis noe Bp: of our religion, but DAVID KEARNEY, bp. in IreArchbp of Cashell, for the primate of Ardmagha time, save FLORENCE Archbp: of Tuaime OWEN Archbp: of Dub- D. Kearney. lin CORNELIUS Bp of Killaloe doe live beyond the seas, Four others They have in this kingdome theire vicare genrall, abroad. RICHARD CARRALD for Dublin MATHEW CRAGH for Kil- Names of tiloloe, There are alsoe in other diocese Vicar generals tular “viappointed by the said archbishopps. In Corke ROBT. cars geneMEAGH in Kerrie RICHARD CONNEL, in Limerike RICH- rious Irish ARD ARTHUR, in ROSS JAMES KEARNIE, in Imoaly, JOHN sees at the FITZ DAVID, in Lissmore and Waterford Doctor WHITE same period. in Kilkenny LUKE ARCHER, in Laghlen Doctor MORIERTAGH, in Meath RICHARD BROWNE, in Elfine OWEN M'C BRIAN, in Clonfeart DERMOTT O'DOLEANE, in Killmacuo FARGUSIUS KEAGAN, in Fearns JAMES WALSHE, These David Kearbe gracious matie that joyning w'th the said Archbp: of ney and David Roth, Casshell, DAVID ROOTH, the Pope's prothonotary and said to be Jesuits that gov'ne the people that receave fines out of the chief inEcclesiasticall living sand Abbyes, they that make spirit- stigators of uall lawes that have correspondency beyond the seas, and schisthat sends and receaves l'tres. They never admit us the matical mispoore friers to theire chapters, they never ymp'te [i. e. chief in the impart] vnto vs theire mynde they keepe us from the ad- kingdom. ministrac'on of the Sacramts and yf they could for shame from preaching the Gospell it is they that suspends the Juryes for p'senting of recusants. It is they that p'vented the ellection of protestants for the parlyamt. we the poore Franciscans have noe dealing in their gov'mnt; living poore upon almes though earnest in our religion and in preaching the same daiely prayeing for the Kings seditious Royall p'son progenie and Councell as we will dutiefullie for evermore. 24 June 1613. "FR. THOMAS FITZ GERALD." No. LXVI. Some notice of the MS. SUNDRY LISTS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL EMISSARIES OF ROME EM- (from the same MS.) The MS. from which the matter of the preceding in which the Article is transcribed was anciently classed under following the lettering D. 1. 14, and afterwards as I. 59: to be found. it is now, however, bound up with other matter, matters are so as to form the second portion of the present E. 3. 15 which portion was originally numbered by folios from 1 to 33. The "Declarac'on" of Thomas Fitzgerald given in the last article occupies from folio 24. 1. med. to f. 28. 2, top. Peter Lombard's Commission to D. Rothe (No. 62, sup.) is on the last fol. (33.) The "Exhortation and Remission to the Catholiques of Ireland" commences on fol. 4, middle of page 1, and ends on fol. 5, middle of page 2. A good deal of the MS. is taken up with curious lists of the priests, friars, &c. of Rome, employed in Ireland at the period referred to in the last Article. Of these lists the most important portions are here subjoined, with notes indicating the portion of the original MS. which they occupy, and the places where they may be found respectively in that record. On fol. 6, p. 1, med. or lower, commences the following: "No: 1613. "The names of Sundrie priests and friers w'thin some dioces and counties of Ireland. "That you may see what numbers of priests were come over, and whether yt were not tyme to looke to their seducinge of the subjects. "In the countie of "A note of the names of severall priests and Kerrie. Sreligious men that live in the province of Mounster. 66 'RICHARD CONNELL a philosopher and a divine Vicar generall of the diocese of Artfeart. [Then follows for the same county, a list of the names of 21 others, priests, Franciscans, &c.; among whom "Friar THOMAS FITZ EDMOND GERRALD, preacher of the order of St. Francis."] "In the county of Limerick. "In the county of Corrke. RICHARD ARTHURE vicar-generall of the diocese of Limerick." [followed by a list of 23 priests, friars, &c. including "JOHN FITZ DAVID "t of the order of St. Dominic.] "ROBERT MIAGH vicar generall of the diocesse of Cluaine and Corck. • Vid. pp. 1345 seqq. sup. +Vid. p. 1349, sup. "In the county of Waterford. "In the countie of Tiperarie, "JAMES KEARNY,* vicar generall of Ross." [With 28 others, priests. &c.) "Doctor JAMES WHITE Vicar generall of Lismore and Waterford," [With 25 others, priests, jesuits, monks of S. Bernard, 1 Augustin, Franciscans, &c.] "DAVID KEARNAIE, archbushoppe of Cas S sell." [With 22 others, jesuits, priests, "Doctor Keating," &c. ending thus: "and many other whose names I forgott."] "MAHON MACRACH vicar generall of the "In the county of diocese of Killalowe, Clarr, "In the county of Galway, "In the county of Mayo, [And 13 others, 6 of them "franciscan simple friers and verrie old," after whom immediately follows in like order ;-] "A note of some priestes and religious men that doe ordinarilie live in the province of Connaught. "FRANCES O'MOLLEAGHLIN vicar generall Sof Tuame," [And 26 others, priests, Jesuits, Franciscans, Dominicans, &c. including "Rowland Boorck provinciall of the order of St. Dominicke."] “HENRY BRANNAGH preacher," [And 6 others.] "A note of such as dwell in severall counties of the province of Linster. *Noticed at p. 1349 sup. ; and so of the others following. This was the famous Dr. Geoffry Keating, author of Keating's History of Ireland, who was living and performing the offices of a parish priest, at the period here mentioned, on the confines of Tipperary and Limerick. "In the countye of Rilkeng, "In the county of Wexford, "In the county of Kildare, "In the county of Dublin, "DAVID ROOTH prothonotarie from the S pope for the bussnes of this realme. "LUKE ARCHER, vicar of Osserie," [And 25 others, priests, Jesuits, Franciscans, &c.] "JAMES WALSHE vicar generall of Fearnes." [And 12 besides, including one Bernardine Abbott, Jesuits, Franciscans, &c.] "ROBERT LAWLER priest.' [2 other priests and 2 Jesuits,] "JOHN PRESTON preacher of the order of S. Frances," [And 16 others, including "Christopher Hollywood, provinciall of the Jesuits."] "RICHARD BROWNE vicar generall," [And 14 others.] "In the county of} "DOCTOR MURISON preacher," Lawrth, [And 6 Franciscan Friars, of whom one is "TIRLAGH CRODAN.t] "I remember noe more of theiro names though I knowe manie of them in other counties." [These lists of names occupy 7 pages, ending with fol. 9. On fol. 10 we find the following, commencing at the head of page 1.] • The individual here named was no doubt the same as was concerned in the prosecution recorded at p. 860 sup. It may be in consequence of that action that he is here simply named priest, although placed at the head of the list for this county, where in the other cases we find mostly a "vicar generall." ti.e. the preacher, I suppose, whose acquaintance we formed in No. LXIV.sup. |