Major John Vereker having resigned his commission as major, was succeeded by Lieutenant John Prendergast Vereker, commission dated 1811.

The regiment again marched to Cavan in the month of June, 1812.

In the month of May, 1813, the regiment proceeded to Cork, and remained there until the disembodiment of the militia in consequence of the peace of Fontainbleau, and it marched to Limerick for disembodiment in July, 1814.

In the month of July, 1815, the regiment was again embodied. Only one major being allowed on the new establishment, Major Tomkins was selected to serve. The head quarters, etc., proceeded to Kinsale and Charlesfort in August and September of that year, and remained there until again disembodied, on the 22nd March, 1816, in Limerick, when the privates numbered 393, and the full establishment of officers was present.

On the decease of Lieutenant-Colonel Gough, in 1837, the Honourable Charles Smyth Vereker succeeded him as lieutenant-colonel, and the Honourable Standish Prendergast Vereker succeeded Major Tomkins in the majority in 1842. On the 7th December of the latter year, John Prendergast, third Viscount Gort, who had served in the regiment as major during its second embodiment, succeeded his father as colonel.

In the year 1854, in consequence of the war breaking out with Russia, and in compliance with the provisions of the new militia act, the city of Limerick regiment was made an artillery corps of three companies and 234 rank and file.

On the 3rd February, 1855, the regiment was embodied, and on the 28th September following, marched from Limerick to Kinsale, (forty years having then elapsed since the regiment were stationed there in 1815).

Some months after, whilst the regiment was stationed at Youghal, a disastrous fire was observed before the early dawn of morn to have broken out in the main street, and which bid fair to destroy the whole town, but through the indefatigable exertion of the officers and men, the fire was kept under, thereby saving much property, and, in all human probability, many lives, that must otherwise have been inevitably destroyed by the flames.

The town council of Youghal at their next meeting passed a warm vote of thanks to the officers and men of the regiment for their praiseworthy conduct on that occasion. And on a more recent occasion, in our own city, on the morning of the great fire in William Street, in 1860, the conduct of the Limerick artillery was the theme of general admiration.

While these pages were passing through the press, the regiment has lost its esteemed colonel, Viscount Gort. He had held a commission in the corps for fifty-nine years, for fiftyfour of which he served as a field officer. He was a good officer, and much attached to this regiment, with which his family has ever been intimately connected. Since it was first raised, seventy-two years ago, it has been commanded, without intermission, by the first, second, and third Viscounts Gort; and the present and fourth possessor of the title has been as major for twenty three years, and commandant since 1854.

COUNTY OF LIMERICK REGIMENT OF MILITIA.

As regards the county regiment, Robert, first Lord Muskerry, was the colonel appointed in 1793. The corps was considered a very efficient one, and was given the title of Royal by King George III., in its first embodiment, prior to 1800. Lord Muskerry continued colonel until his death in 1818, when he was succeeded by the Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon, afterwards third Lord Clare, who, on his death was succeeded by the Right Hon. Wm. Monsell, M.P., the present colonel, J. Dickson, of Clounshire, was lieutenant colonel for many years, and on his death was succeeded by the present Lieutenant-colonel S. A. Dickson, late M.P. for the County of Limerick.

VOLUNTEER CORPS OF THE COUNTY.

The following is a list of the Volunteer Corps of the county, as they stood when war broke out again between England and France, at the close of 1804:

Pages 151-2, 690, 708.-While these sheets have been going through the press a controversy has arisen on the subject of the ancient arms of Limerick, in which an endeavour has been made by a writer in one of the Limerick newspapers, to show that the City Seal does not represent the ancient arins. In sustainment of this allegation, the writer refers to the figure of the castles on the stone described at pp. 151-2, which he states represents the ancient arms, and to the figure cut on the Mayoralty House stone (1720), and now placed in front of Newtown Pery Mills, Henry Street, and also to the figures on the stone at the city Brewery, Newgate Lane (1739), none of which have the cross, neither have they the flag or ensign. The engraver of the cut at page 152 is in some particulars not exact, and I here reproduce the inscription and figure just as they are:

The above figure bears no resemblance whatever to any representation of the City Arms that has ever been recognised as such; it appears rather to be a representation of the New Tower and gate built in 1643, viz., Mungret GATE tower the stone in question having been fixed in the walls of that tower, as we are assured on the authority of White's MSS. (p. 151-2), and it lay, after the destruction of Mungret Gate, among rubbish, until placed at Plassy Mills, by Mr. Maunsell. Lewis, in his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, article Limerick, gives the City Seal (but in a reduced shape), as we have given it, fac simile, at page 690. That seal having been cut in the reign of the first George, who ascended the throne in 1714, and died in 1780, and very probably cut in the early part of that reign, before the Mayoralty House stone was cut, and certainly many years anterior to the stone at the city brewery; we may conclude that it is an exact copy of a more ancient seal, and that by prescription and right, it contains a true representation of the ancient accredited arms of Limerick. Limerick was one of the Irish cities designated "Royal", and holding a charter directly from the crown of England before the close of the thirteenth century. Dublin, Cork, and Waterford were the other Royal Irish cities. Galway did not enjoy the designation or privilege, and though strongly fortified, and protected by the chief of the great Anglo-Norman Sept, of which the Marquis of Clanricarde is the present representative, was obliged to pay an annual tribute of twelve tuns of wine, as already stated at page 56, in 1277, to Dermot More O'Brien of Tromora, for the protection of its harbour and commerce. Lewis gives a representation of the seals of Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, as well as of

This gentleman, I am informed, filled the office of lieutenant-colonel of the county Limerick regiment for some time; he was father of George Leake, Esq., who built the house at Rathkeale abbey, where the family had its residence for a very long period of time, and was grandfather of George D'Alton Leake, Esq., for several years master of the county Limerick fox hounds, and remarkable as a keen sportsman. At D'Alton Leake's funeral the members of the county hunt all attended in hunting costume; and at the express desire of the deceased, the huntsman and hounds followed his remains, to the family vault in Rathkeale churchyard. D'Alton Leake was the brother of the late William Leake, Esq., who filled the office of county sub-sheriff with popularity and respect. George D'Alton Leake died unmarried; his brother William married Anna Maria, sister of E. F. G. Ryan, Esq., R. M., Midleton, and M. R. Ryan, Esq., J.P., Templemungret, leaving one child, Maria Alice, the last survivor in the direct line of the Leake family.

Limerick, and to none of them has exception been taken, or a question been raised. The mayor's seal of Dublin and Waterford was similar to that of Limerick, viz., three lions passant on a shield; but the Limerick seal does not appear to have existed since the mayoralty of Dr. John Barrett in 1768, when it bore the legend, "Sigillum civitatis Limer", as printed in Ferrar's History of Limerick, p. 229, instead of "majoris Limer". Some of the borough boundary marks give both cross and ensign.

In Dineley's Tour through Ireland, in the reign of Charles II, which is being published in the Journal of the Kilkenny Archæological Society, by E. P. Shirley, Esq., M.A., M.P., we are also informed that Mungret Gate bore the above inscription, and that a similar inscription was on "Key-Gate" (Quay-Gate), but with the year MDCXLII.

Limerick gives the title of earl and viscount to the family of Sexton Pery.

I.

EMINENT NATIVES OF LIMERICK.

The pages of this work teem with proofs of the existence in every age of eminent natives of Limerick, which has given prelates to the Church, statesmen to the cabinet, warriors to the field, writers in several branches of literature, including philosophy, divinity, history, romance, etc., etc.; chemists, naturalists, poets, and painters. The index shows where their names appear throughout the preceding pages, and it is not necessary that they should be recapitulated here. Suffice it to say, that in arts and arms, in literature and science, in music and in song, Limerick has had no superior amongst the provincial cities of Ireland; and that it continues to uphold the well won fame for which it has been through so many generations preeminently distinguished. As to Gerald Griffin, we have already referred with honour to his splendid fame. Amongst the most eminent of Limerick men, mention should be made of the late Major General Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B., of Thornfields, whose administration as governor of New South Wales, to which he was appointed in 1831, forma, according to the work of R. Terry, Esq., late one of the judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, “the brightest page in the annals" of that colony, and whose name has been held in merited honour there. In his early military career, he was severely wounded in action in Spain and Flanders. The late Sir Aubrey de Vere, Bart., of Curraghchase, was an exquisite poet, the author of Mary Tudor, a Lamentation of Ireland, Julian the Apostate, and other poems and dramas. His son Aubrey De Vere, Esq., is also an elegant poet, whose publications abound in the most patriotic and truly Catholic sentiments. In song, and as an actress, the late Madame Catherine Hayes, who was born in the house, No. 4 Patrick Street, Limerick, was one of the most eminent of her time, her fame having extended all over the world. She was Prima Donna at the Royal Opera House of San Carlo, Milan. She sang and acted not only in the principal capitals of Europe, but in those of America, California, Australia, etc. In London and Dublin she was a deserved favourite, whilst in the city of her birth her popularity was unbounded. She was called "the Swan of Erin"; and having realised a large fortune by her wonderful voice, she lived respected and esteemed, and died in London on the 11th of August, 1861, having bequeathed her riches to George John Power, Esq., of the county of Waterford. George Osborne, son of an organist of the Protestant Cathedral, of same name, went early in life to Paris and studied under the first masters, and distinguished himself as a public performer and composer. He had to leave with all the English residents in Paris after the Revolution of 1848. Mr. Osborne materially assisted in forwarding Catherine Hayes as an artist when she first visited Paris in 1844. Of remarkable persons to whom no reference has been already made the following names occur:——

LITERATURE, ETC.

Kennedy, Matthew, Judge of the Admiralty, 1705.

Keogh, John, born at Rivers,-Mathematical and Oriental Scholar, 1650. An inscription over one of the halls at Oxford testifies to his having solved a mathematical problem in which all others had failed.

Nihill, John, F.R.S., " Observations on the pulse".

Fitzgibbon, John, born at Ballysheeda, 1708, “Cases determined at Westminster", "Es on Commerce":

Martin, John, M.D., 1770-"On the Castle Connell Spa".

Webb, Daniel, born at Maidstone-" Correspondence of Music and Poetry".

Woulfe, Peter, Tircullane, 1730. Reputed the first chymist in Europe.

Duhigg, Bartholomew, 1752-"Law Reports".

Hayes, Sir John M'Namara, Physician to the Prince of Wales, and Inspector Genera Ordnance Hospitals, 1797. Of unbounded generossty to his countrymen.

Jackson, Walter, Musician.

Ouseley, Ralph, M.R.I.A.,-Antiquarian, whose tomb is in St. Mary's churchyard.

This truly gifted and accomplished lady had been married to Mr. Bushnell, an American gentle n died some short time before her.

Tierney, Sir Matthew, educated at Athlacca, physician to George III., noted for great friendship to his countrymen; dying in 1845, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother Edward, who was one of the Crown Solicitors for Ireland.

Ouseley, Sir Gore, Ambassador in Persia, and afterwards at St. Petersburg.

Long, St. John, died 1834, medical practitioner; acquired notoriety in London by his specifics for consumption and other diseases generally considered incurable; not being educated for the profession, he was twice put on his trial for the death of his patients, and on one of these occasions no less than sixty-three persons of the higher classes appeared in his favour."Discourses on the Art of Healing".

Fitzgerald, Rev. Patrick, Vicar of Cahircorney, educated at Bruff. "History of Limerick".

NAVAL AND MILITARY HEROES.

Wolfe, Captain George, grandfather of General James Wolfe, one of our brightest heroes, whom the elder Pitt, discerning his genius, and disregarding the conventional claims of seniority, entrusted with the conquest of French America.

Blakeney, Lieutenant General Lord, 1720, signalized by his famous defence of Port Mahon in Minorca, against the French; his monument is in Kilmallock Cathedral.

Coote, Sir Eyre, born at Ash Hill, Kilmallock; the Conqueror of Hyder Ali.

Nagle, Admiral Sir Edmund, born near Bruff, and

Seymour, Admiral Sir Michael; both full often "rocked in the cradle of the deep", and distinguished for gallant and successful actions.

Croker, Major William, of Ballynagard, received the particular thanks of the commanderin-chief, for his conduct in the Indian war against Holkar.

O'Grady, Col. Neale, of the Kilbally owen stock, commander of an infantry regiment at the battle of Aspern, fought between the Austrians and Napoleon in 1809, and was amongst the officers who received public thanks from the Archduke.

To these might be added the names of many who in the recent war in the Crimea have proved worthy of honourable mention; Massys, Westropps, and Mr. Martin Gubbins, whose "noble conduct" is mentioned by the late General Havelock; etc., etc.

Pages 80, 579, 580.-In reference to Bishop John Coyn, or Quin (the brother of the ancestor of the Earl of Dunraven), we have given the fullest details to show that the venerable prelate ever clung with unabated attachment to the Catholic faith, notwithstanding the assertion made in the state papers of Henry VIII. (quoted at page 80), that he had taken the oath, with the mayor and other citizens of Limerick. Dr. Moran, to whom ecclesiastical historical literature is so much indebted, has contributed a paper to the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, No. XIII,* to prove that Dr. Quin had always remained steadfast to his principles, and furthermore that Hugh de Lacy's name is enrolled in the precious list of those "qui nunquam ab unitate sanctæ matris Ecclesiæ deviàverunt", and that he is described as "vir in fide Catholica constans, qui dum vocabatur a reginæ Angliæ commissariis, rogatus ut morigerum se in omnibus præberet ipsi reginæ, hoc responsi dedit: Unum agnosco in terris Ecclesiæ summum caput, eique et non alter obedientiam dare pollicitus sum, itaque nun quam a proposito desistam".1 Bruodin states that Hugh de Lacy was confined in Cork jail, and thence escaped to France during the reign of Edward VI. So great was the confidence of the Holy See in the prudence and devotedness of the zealous bishop, that Dr. Moran adds, "Episcopal faculties were expedited for him from Rome in 1575, and these faculties were given to him for the whole province of Cashel".

Page 554.-In reference to the Liber Niger, or Black Book of Limerick, another copy of this valuable record has been made and has been presented to the Right Rev. Dr. Butler, Catholic Bishop of Limerick, by the Very Rev. Dr. Russell, President of Maynooth College. This copy is admirably executed, and is bound in black morocco leather.

Pages 756-7.-William Tennison Pery, second Earl of Limerick, Viscount Limerick, and Baron Glentworth in the Irish peerage, and Baron Foxford in that of the United Kingdom, died on Friday, the 5th of January, 1866, suddenly, of bronchitis, in London. He was the second son of Henry Hartstonge, Lord Glentworth, eldest son of Edmund Henry, first Earl of Limerick, and Alice Mary, the only daughter and heir of Henry Ormsby, of Cloghan, county of Mayo, by Annabella Tennison, second daughter of Mr. Tennison Edwards, of Old Court, county Wicklow. The deceased earl was born 9th October, 1812, and married, first 16th April, 1838, Susanna, daughter of Mr. Wm. Sheaffe, and niece of the late Sir Roger Hall Sheaffe, Bart., which lady died 21st August, 1841. His lordship married, secondly, 6th April, 1842, Margaret Jane, only daughter of Captain Nicholas Horsley. By his first marriage he had surviving issue an only son, William Hale John Charles Lord Glentworth, born 17th Jan., 1840. By his second marriage, which was dissolved in 1862, the late earl leaves a family of six sons and one daughter. He succeeded to the family honours on the death of his grandfather in Dec., 1844. Lord Glentworth, before mentioned, succeeds his father as third earl. He married in 1862, his cousin, Miss Gray, daughter of the Rev. Henry Gray, vicar of Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, and Lady Emily Caroline Gray. The present earl was formerly *Fowler, Dublin. Ex Archiv. Vatic. in appendix to Archbishops of Dublin, p. 240.

in the Rifle Brigade, but retired from the army in 1862. The remains of the late Earl were interred on Friday, January 12, in the Pery Chapel, St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.

Page 187, etc.-Lord Inchiquin-Lucius O'Brien, fifth baronet, is the thirteenth baron of Inchiquin; he is brother of the late William Smith O'Brien, Esq., and of the Hon. Edward, Robert, and Henry O'Brien. He is one of the representative peers of Ireland; and his pedigree proves his descent from Brian Boroimhe, Monarch of Ireland in A.D. 1002.

NATIVE BARDS.

Of bards who wrote in Irish, natives of the county of Limerick, there have been several, viz., David O'Bruadair (Broderick), who was living in 1692; Patrick Kelly, who died in 1741; John Roberts lived in 1778; Patrick Fennell, a schoolmaster at Ballingarry in 1771; John Lloyd, He whose contributions in Irish fill some pages of the collection of the Poets of Munster, and who wrote a short history of the county of Clare, was a native of the county of Limerick. resided principally in the west of Clare, and taught in private families there. His death was attended by melancholy circumstances at Moyarta, about the year 1790. John Tuomy, some of whose poems also appear among the collections above referred to, died in 1775, in Limerick; Maurice Griffin, who lived at Slevereigh, near Ballingarry, in 1778; James Daly, of Loughmore, who was living in 1770, and who composed several exquisite elegies; Thomas Gleeson, of Adare, an expert Latin and Irish scholar; David O'Clery, of Newcastle; James Kennedy, of Kilmallock; Andrew M'Mahon, who kept a tanyard, at Limerick, and who wrote several satires; Nicholas O'Donnell, a native also, who was "high sheriff of the Appolonian court, Cork". These are among the Irish writing bards. In the present century Patrick O'Kelly, author of Killarney, and other English poems, and mentioned in Lockhart's life of Scott, resided here for many years. He was, we believe, a Roscommon man by birth. Edward Moran, in 1823, wrote and published several meritorious verses which he dedicated to Thomas Moore; Mr. Moran afterwards became attached to the Globe and Traveller newspaper in London, of which he was sub-editor for some years. J. Walsh also wrote some good verses, as has the latest of our local bards Michael Hogan, the "Bard of Thomond", who has published several pleasing ballads, and whose poems have appeared in a collected form.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL.

The restorations and improvements in this cathedral, of which we have given the history, etc., in previous chapters, have not concluded with the year 1865. More recently, additional carved oak stalls have been placed in the aisle; and the spirit which urges these improvements is likely to add further to the beauty, etc., of this ancient and historic church. Through the generous exertions of the Hon. Robert O'Brien (Old Church), in conjunction with Richard Bourke, Esq., (Thornfields), and aided by the Dean and Chapter, the prebendal stalls in the western end of the choir have recently been backed with oak frame work, filled with plate glass; and it is hoped that ere long the adjoining arch on either side shall be furnished with similar fittings, the effect of But much, very which, both in the way of ornament and comfort, was most desirable. The heating of the cathedral by hot air is also projected, and other improvements are in posse. much as has been already accomplished by munificence, energy, and good taste, there remains a large supplement lacking, before perfect restoration shall be achieved.

LIMERICK CIVIC HOSPITALITIES.

Alderman Tait, the proprietor of the great Army Clothing Factory, and Mayor of Limerick for 1866, inaugurated his mayoralty by a very sumptuous banquet, followed by one of the most numerously attended balls ever given in Limerick. The banquet, which took place at New Hall, Prospect Hill, on Thursday night, the 18th of January, 1866, was attended by nearly four hundred persons, comprising the members of the Corporation, the Catholic bishop of the diocese, the head of the Presbyterian congregration in Limerick, the county and city members, a large number of the gentry, professional and mercantile classes of county and city, the officers of her Majesty's Engineers, of the 73rd Highland Regiment, of her Majesty's iron clad ship Prince Consort, of the Artillery, etc., etc. The hall was a scene of dazzling splendour; the decorations were in excellent taste. On the following night the ball given by the Mayor and Mrs. Tait, took place, and was attended by about 1,300 of the nobility, gentry, citizens, ete. CLARE AND LIMERICK COPPER COINS AND TOKENS.

Page 200. The numerical references in the plate of the Clare and Limerick copper coins, do not belong to Dr. Smith's list given at page 200. The author could not obtain copies of No. 6, 7, and 15 in Dr. Smith's catalogue for the engraver, by whom the figures have been placed at his own discretion.

Pages 235-6.-" Thomcore Castle", so called in the Arthur MSS. Dineley in his Tour Through Ireland, etc., reign of Charles II., calls it Droumore, and gives a sort of derivation of its meaning, but inconsistent with the authentic particulars given by Dr. Arthur; Whitc (MSS.) also calls it Thomcore; and is followed by Ferrar as quoted.

NOTE ON GEOFFREY ARTHUR'S EPITAPH.

Page 578.-Reading "qui", the more accurate version is, "do thou, who passing shall say a Pater and Ave be on thy guard". But perhaps we should read “quod”,