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ENGLISH OF descent.

Erle of Kildare, Lord of Cohonay; Erle of Desmond, Lord of Connologh, was the second man; Sir Will. and Sir Ric. Burghe, Lo. of Clanwilliam; Burke, of Limerike; Lo. Burgh, Castelconel; Hurlies, Casies, Supples, Pursels, Lacies, of Ballingarry; Qr. Mtie. for Kenry, with. Edm. Fitzdant, clameth; Welshes, Keasis, Plants, Jordons, Verdons, Whites.

MERE IRISHE.

M'Shees, Gullogless; M'Bryan, Ogonaegh, Aregh; Brian Duff, O'Brien, O'Mulrea, O'Brien, Arlogh.

GOOD TOWNS.

Limericke, Killmalloc, Asketon, Emely.

CASTLES.

Adare, Loghger, Crome, Newcastle, Ballinity, Castleconel.

RIVERS.

Shenan; Havens, Limerick; Loughes.

FACTIONS IN MOUNSTER.

The most part of the Factions of this Province were grounded in the Erle of Desmond, who, heinge nowe dead, they are for the most part extinguished. The Geraldines and the Butlers are naturallie emulous the one of the other.

The M'Swines and M'Shees in faction.

THE NAMES OF THE BREEHOLDERS AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNTRIE OF LYMBURYCKE, as FOLLOWETH.

Imps. Sir William Burcke, of Castleconell, A. Ric. Burck, of Caherconlis, R. (Other names as in 635.)

No. 292 Harleian MSS.

DIARY OF EARL OF ESSEX'S PROCEEDINGS, 1599.

"There have come to his lordship, and simply without conditions submitted themselves to her Majesty's mercy: Vt. Mountgarrett, with his 5 sons and brother; the Lord Roche, Vist. Fermoy; the Lord Baron of Cahir; Teige O'Brien, brother to the Earl of Thomond; Thomas Bourk, brother of the Lord Bourk; Jas. FitzPeerce of the House of Kildare, etc., and others.

No. 627, MSS.

NAMES OF REBELS WITH EARL DESMOND, 1584.

(As per Inquis. Ush. MSS. 1589.)

Gibbon, Thos. McShurlye, or Karlye; Jas. Nagle, alias McErnellen; Ulick Leashy, gent. We find that the aforesaid Ul. Leashy was in rebellion and died therein, and for any lands he had ignoramus. Gerald Brown, ignoramus; qry. Odonog More, Hugh Lacy, Lord of Glanfleske,' to Cork (qry. England); Nagle Condon, Deanes of Broghel.

So far the Harleian MSS. on this subject. We conclude this chapter with the names of a few of the Protestant Bishops.

Bernard Adams succeeded John Thornborough as Protestant bishop, A.D. 1604. He was an A.M. of Trinity College, Oxford, and was appointed by King James. He expended large sums in repairing the cathedral, and furnished it with an organ. He died on the 22nd of March, 1625; was buried near the celebrated Cornelius O'Dea; and on his monument, which is a mural one, over the tomb of O'Dea, the following inscription was cut:BERNARDUS jacet hic en ADAMUS, episcopus olim, Omnia non vidit Solomonis, at omnia vana. O'Donog More must have been Lord of Glanflesk, not Lacy.

A bishop once, here Bernard's bones remain;
He saw not all-but saw that all was vain,

Then follow four lines in English:—

Sufficient God did give me, which I spent ;
I little borrowed, and as little lent,
I left them whom I loved enough in store,
Increas'd this bishopric, relieved the poor.

The monument contains these lines also:

Nemo mihi tvmbam statvat de Marmore faxit
Urnula Episcopolo satis ista Pusilla Pvsillo
Angli quis vivus fveram et testentvr Hyberni
Colicolæ quis sim defunctus testificentvr.

Which we thus translate:

Let none erect to me a marble tomb;
For a little prelate that little urn suffices;

What I was living, let the English and Irish tell;
The celestials, what I am now.

On the pillars of the monument there appear to have been emblems of the passion, the spear, cross, etc. These were defaced, as were the orna mental bosses and emblems on the lower part of the monument. sent, too, nothing more than the last lines above given can be read.

At pre

Francis Gough, Chancellor of the Cathedral of Limerick, A.D. 1626, was the next Protestant bishop after Adams. He was educated in New College, Oxford. He died in Limerick, 29th August, 1631, and was buried in St. Mary's Cathedral.

We should have stated that next to the monument of Geoffrey Arthur is another of about equal dimensions, with the following inscription cut in relieved Gothic letters:

Hic jacet Reberendus. Doms. Johannes Ffox quondam istius Ecclesiae decanus' qui diem clausit, extremam xxviii. die mensis Augusti,

Ann. Jomi. MDVIII. cujus aie propitietur Deus."

This tablet was removed, in the alterations of 1861, from beneath or near the Communion table to its present place. It is broken in the centre, and some difficulty exists as to that portion of the inscription in which the supposed word "decanus" occurs. There is no mention, however, of a John Ffox as dean of St. Mary's Cathedral.

The word is supposed to be Decanus-but it is very indistinct.

2 "Here lieth the Reverend John Fox, formerly Dean of this Church, who died on the 18th day of the month, A.D. 1508, to whose soul may God be merciful".

THE CATHOLIC

CHAPTER LVIII.

BISHOPS IN SUCCESSION-NACHTEN-MACRAH-RICHARD ARTHUR-APPOINTMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF PREACHERS BY RINUCCINI ON THE RESTORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL-O'DwYER-NEW PARTICULARS OF THE ATROCITIES DURING IRETON'S OCCUPATION OF LIMERICK— THE MONUMENTS OF ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL DURING ITS OCCUPATION BY THE PROTESTANTS-THE PROTESTANT BISHOPS IN SUCCESSION.

ACCORDING to Dr. Moran,' Cornelius Nachten succeeded Hugh Lacy in 1581; in White's MSS., however, there is a statement to this effect:

"I have in my possession a dispensation granted in the forbidden degrees of kindred to Leonard Creagh and Joan White in order to be married, which is dated the 6th of November, 1613, and signed Mathew Macrah, but the place where it was dated is not mentioned, which induces me to suspect that the said Mathew Macrah was the Catholic Bishop of Limerick before Richard Arthur. Said dispensation is written in Latin, and the granter says he granted it by authority vested in him by the Holy See".

The name of Mathew Macrah appears in the list of Bishops in White's MSS. as the Catholic bishop in succession to Hugh Lacy.

He

On the same authority we learn that in 1623 Richard Arthur succeeded in the episcopacy: he was a native of Limerick, and one of the family of which we have already written so much in the course of this work. was consecrated by David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory, on the 7th of September in that year, the Bishop of Cork and the Abbot of Holy Cross, Luke Archer, assisting at the ceremony. He received the Papal Nuncio, Rinuccini, in his cathedral of St. Mary's, again restored to its ancient possessors, on the 30th of October, 1645, the clergy and the municipal and military authorities, in solemn procession having accompanied Rinuccini from St. John's Gate to the cathedral. Dr. Meehan' states that even the Nuncio could not but admire the splendid crozier and mitre which Dr. Arthur used in the solemn function of receiving the Pope's ambassador on the threshold of his metropolitan church. These were believed indeed by some to be the work of some celestial artificer, and not of mortal hands, the legend running that on one occasion when there was a synod of prelates in Dublin, it so happened that the Bishop of Limerick went thither without his pontificals, and was thus compelled to seek throughout the metropolis a crozier and mitre. At length, having given up all hopes of obtaining them, a youth just landed from a ship, which a few minutes before had entered the harbour, approached and presented the bishop a case in which he told him that he would find the articles he sought for, and that if he liked he might keep them. When he sent a messenger in haste after the stranger to pay for the precious objects, the ship had weighed anchor and vanished beyond the horizon! The mitre, it is further added, was entrusted to a wealthy Catholic merchant to keep it from falling into the hands of the reformers, but he abstracted some of its precious stones and replaced them with false ones, a sacrilege which heaven avenged on 2 Irish Hierarchy in the seventeenth century.

Lives of the Archbishops of Dublin.

his posterity, for they all died in misery. In the time of Dr. Arthur, Rinuccini restored the services in the Cathedral of St. Mary's, and appointed the different preachers and the days on which they were to preach. The document which shows this, was found, as was the taxation given in the preceding chapter, among the papers of the Reverend Doctor Jasper White, precentor and parish priest of St. John the Baptist of Limerick; and the MS., according to an entry in White's MSS. by Dr. Young, was in his (Dr. Young's) possession in 1795. The following is a translation of this important document, which also gives the names of the religious orders who were in Limerick at this period:

"Distribution of preachers in the cathedral church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Limerick, and who are obliged to preach:

The Bishop should preach:

1. Sunday of Pentecost.

2. On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

3. On the festival of all Saints.

4. On the first Sunday of Advent. 5. On Christmas Day.

6. On the first Sunday of Lent. 7. On the festival of St. Patrick. S. On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

9. On Easter Sunday.

10. On the festival of SS. Peter and Paul Apostles.

The Dean is obliged to preach 1. On the Third Sunday of Lent. 2. On the festival of St. John the Evangelist.

3. On the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost.

4. On the Invention of the Cross. The Precentor Preaches

1. On the feast of St. Bartholmew the Apostle.

2. On the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle.

3. On the Second Sunday in Lent. The Chancellor preaches

1. On the third Sunday after Pente

cost.

2. On the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle.

3. On the fourth Sunday of Lent.

The Treasurer preaches

1. On the fifth Sunday after the Epiphany.

2. On Passion Sunday.

3. On Dominica in Albis.

The Archdeacon preaches

1. On Trinity Sunday.

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2. On the feast of St. Sylvester. 3. On Palm Sunday.

The Prebendary of St. Munchin's preaches

1. On Septuagesima Sunday, 2. On Easter Tuesday.

The Prebendary of Donaghmore, 1. On the 5th Sunday after Pente

cost,

2. On the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany.

The Prebendary of Ballycahane, 1. On the sixth Sunday after Pentecost,

2. On the second Sunday after Easter. The Prebendary of Kilpeacon, 1. On the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost,

2. On the third Sunday after Easter.

The Prebendary of Tullebracke, 1. On the eighth Sunday after Pentecost,

2. On the fourth Sunday after Easter. The Prebendary of Keilidy, 1. On the ninth Sunday after Pentecost,

2. On the fifth Sunday after Easter. The Prebendary of Ardeanthy, 1. On the 10th Sunday after Pentecost,

2. On the 6th Sunday after Easter. The Prebendary of Effin. The Prebendary of Athnid. The Prebendary of Croagh, 1. On the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. 2. On Easter Monday,

The Prebendary of Desert. The Rector of Keilchuman preaches, On the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. On the 14th Sunday after Pentecost

The Rector of Croom.
On the 15th Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Athalaca.
On the 16th Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Drommin.

On the 18th Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Newcastle.
On the 19th Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Monaghea.

On the 20th Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Rathronan.
On the 21st Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Mahunagh.
On the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Dundonal.
On the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
The Rector of Lismakery.

On the 29th Sunday after Pentecost

The Rector of Keilbridy minor.
On the 1st Sunday after the Epiphany

The Rector of Keilbridy major.
On the 2nd Sunday after the Epi-
phany

The Rector of Derryghealvan.
The Dominicans preach

1. On the feast of Corpus Christi.

2. On the feast of St. Laurence the Martyr.

3. On the second Sunday in Advent. 4. On the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Richard Arthur appears to have been Vicar General in 1613, and we learn on the authority of Fitzgerald's MS. narrative in T.C.D., but evidently of a subsequent date, under a heading, entitled, "A note of Archbushoppes and Bushoppes of Ireland consecrated and authorised by the Pope", under the head," Elected Bushoppes, but not as yet consecrated", the following, inter alia :

"Richard Arthure ellected of Limericke, resident there, and is releeved by special friends and kinsemen of his owne, and by privie tyethes". White states-

"Considering the troublesome times that he lived in, and that he did not enjoy the temporalities, yet he was a great benefactor to this see, as there are many valuable presents he gave it still extant. In 1624 he gave two plate cruets for wine and water, engraved and partly gilt; in 1625 he gave a large plate gilt crucifix hollowed within side for relicts, nicely engraved, with a pedestal or degrees of plate, set with stones, and in the upper cross there is inlaid in the form of a cross a very large relic of the holy cross of Christ; it was designed to be carried before the bishop in 1627. The same year he gave a large gilded chalice and patena enamelled; he gave a plate pax nicely enamelled, and the enamelled work representing the Crucifixion and the soldier piercing Christ's side with a lance. In 1634 he gave a gilt plate remonstrance for the sacrament, supported by four pillars and a cover over it. He was succeeded in the see of Limerick by Edmund O'Dwyer”.

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