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EDWARDS's
Cork Remembrancer ;
O R,
TABLET OF MEMORY..
ENUMERATING
EVERY REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE
THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF CORK,
AND IN THE KINGDOM AT LARGE.-
JNCLUPING ALL THE
MEMORABLE EVENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE
BATTLES BY SEA AND LAND
JN THE PRESENT CENTURY.
ALSO, THE REMARKABLE
EARTHQUAKES, FAMINES, INUNDATIONS,
fcTORMS, FROSTS, FIRES,
AND ALL OTHER ACCIDENTS OF MOMENT,
I N
EVERT QUARTER OF THE GLOBE,
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD, TO THE YEAR 1792.
BY ANTHONY EDWARDS,
P.f BOOXSUJISR JND STJTJONER, CJSTIE'STREET,
DA
TO THE PUBLIC
SINCE the publication of the firjl CORK-
REMEMBRANCER, Jo many applications have
been made for that very tifeful work, as to induce
the prefent Editor to take up the matter, in which
he has been countenanced by a moft refpeftabk and
numerous lift of Subfcribers ; in gratitude for which,
he has extended his plan much beyond his original
intentions. Every event of material coufequence^
that has happened^ not only in thefe Kingdoms, but
in every quarter of the Globe, he has with great la-*
four, endeavoured to colietf. Many inaccuracies
Kill be found ; but hefmcerely hopes none of material
Moment will appear : if fuch >Jhould be difcovered^
the very complex nature of the work, he hopes, will
plead his excufe with his numerous friends ; for
which, as alfo for the many favours he has received^
he muft ever remain with the greateft gratitude,
THE PUBLIC'S MOST OBEDIENT
HUMBLE SERVANT,
THE EDITOR.
602911
ENGLISH LOCAL
/$, Edwards, Boolcfeller, Stationer, and Printer, oppofite
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intends publishing by Subfcription,
THE NEW CORK DIRECTORY*:
In which the Chriftian and Srrnames, place of refidence,
and occupation of every inhabitant of the City of Cork,
of any note, will be alphabetically arranged ; to which
\\ ill be added,
7'he Bounds of the City Suburbs and Liberties thereof.
Regulations refpecling Coaches, Chaifes, and Chairs to
hire ; Buying and felling Coals, and the carriage thereof;
Weigh-Houfes, and Pawn-Brokers; Ships -and Boats
coming to the Quay ; Cleaning the Streets, encumber-
ing them with rubbifh, or projected Buildings ; Driving
Cars or Caits; Breaking Lamps; Watchmen;
Combination among Workmen ; Market Jurors and
their authority; Building Parapet Walls to the Quavs;
Corn Trade and Bakers. Alfo,
A complete lift of the Freemen of the City of C rk,
as they are called over on the Pannel ; Lifts of the Phy-
ficians, Surgeons, and Attornies. Alfo, CornmiiTioners
for taking Affidavits in the different Courts. A lift of
the Bye Pofts from Cork, and the Days and Hours each go
out and come in at. A Docket of the various Tolls
and Cufloms paid in the City and Liberties of Cork, by
which the Country* Gentleman and Farmermav know when
^ind how they are impofed upon. Charitable Inflitutions
in the City, the proper Objects to be admitted, and the
Rules necefTary for their conforming to, the knowledge
of which may prevent many from with-holding their
charitable aid. A Schedule of the price of each piece of
(lamped Paper or Parchment, for any particular purpofe ;
with many other ufeful Pieces of Information.
Price to Subfcribers - - 2s. Sd.h.
To Non-Subfcribers - 35. 3d.
(C5* Some of the above Lifts being fubject to errors, by
Deaths, Removals, Partnerfliips, &c. to render the rlrft
attempt of this work perfect as poflible, the Editor will
thankfully receive, and diligently attend to any informa-
tion he may get in writing (previous to the firft of May,
1792) at No. 6, Caftle-ftreet, Cork, where a Book is
opened for the purpofe of entering Subscribers names, AS
Ub authentic information.
A
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
REMARKABLE EVENTS, DISCOVERIES, AND
INVENTIONS,
FROM THE CREATION TO THE YEAR.
BEFORE CHRIST.
4008 r I ^ HE creation of the World,, and Adam and
1 Eve. \
4007 The birth of Cain, the firft who was born of a
woman. 4
?ci 7 Enoch, for his piety, is tranflated to heaven.
2352 The old world is deitroyed by a deluge, which con-
tinued 377 days. *
2247 The_ tower of Babel is built about this time by
Noah's poiterity, upon which God miraculoufly
confounds their language, and thus difperfes
them into different nations.
2207 About this time, Noah is, with great probability,
fuppofed to have parted from his rebellious olF-
fpring, and to have led a colony of fome of t'u
more tractable into the call, and there either lie
CIT one of his fuccefl'ors to have founded the an-
cient Chinefe monarchy.
2234 The celoftial obfervations are begun at Pabylnn.,
the city which firft gave birth t>> lea
the iciences.
A ^c3 Mui..irP,
^^ REMARKABLE
2188 Mia aim, the fon of Harr, founds the kingdom
of Egypt, which lulled 1 663 yc;irs, down to the
conqucil of Camhyfes, in 525 before Chrifh
2059 Ninus, the fon of Belus, founds the kingdom of
Affyria, which laded above 1000 years, and out
of its ruins were formed the Aiiyrians of Babylon,
thole of Nineveh, and the kingdom of the Medes.
1985 The covenant of God made with Abram, when
he leaves Haran to go into Canaan, which begins
the 430 years of fojourning.
1961 The cities of Sodom and Gomorra are destroyed
for their wickednefs by lire from heaven.
1856 The kingdom of Argos, in Greece, begins under
Inachus.
1822 Memnon, the Egyptian, invents the letters.
1715 Prometheus tirft liruck fire from Hints.
163^ Jofeph dies in Egypt.
1574 Am on born in Egypt, 1490, appointed by God
liril high-prieil of the Ifraclites.
1571 Moles, b'-otlier to Aaron, born in Egypt, and
adopted by ) ) haraoh's daughter, who educates
him in all the learning of the Egyptians.
1556 Cecrops brings a colony of Saites from Egypt,
into Attica, and begins the kingdom of Athens
in Greece.
1555 Mofes performs a number of miracles in Egypt,
and departs from that kingdom, together with
6no,coo llrjclites, bei:des children, which comple-
ted the 430 years of fojouraing: they miraculoufly
pai's through the Red iSta, and come to the dcfart
M cinai, where Moles reee'n.'es from God, and deli-
vers to the people, the Ten Commandments, and
the ether laws, and ftts up the tabernacle, and in
it the ark of the covenant.
1546 Sea ma:idv,r conies from Crete into Phrygia, and
begins the kingdom of Troy.
1515 The Ifraelites alter fojourning in the Wilderness
forty years, arc led under Jolhua into the land of
CiUiaan, A\hcie they iix thcinfelvcs, after having
fubchied the natives ; ana the period of the iab't.a-
ticul year commences. The
EVENTS. 3
1503 The Deluge of Deucalion.
1496 The council of Amphi&ions eftablifhed at Ther
mop y lx.
1493 Cadmus carried the Phenician letters into Greece,
and built the Citadel of Thebes.
1490 Sparta built by Lacedemon.
1485 The firft fhip that appeared in Greece was brought
from Egypt by Danaus, who arrived at Rhodes,
and brought with him his fifty daughters.
IA^C T^y built by Dardanus.
1452 Tho Pentateuch, or five firil books of Mofes, ar^
wricten in the land of Moab, where he died the
year following, age J no.
1406 Ii or; is found iu Greece, from the accidental burn-
ing of the woods.
1344 The kingdom of Mycence beqins.
1326 The lithmian games inilituted at Corinth.
i-~5 Thy Egyptian canicular year began July 2cth.
1307 The Olympic games inilituted by Pelops.
1300 The Lupcrcalia inftituted.
1294 The tirft colony came from Italy into Sicily.
1264 The fecond colony came from Italy into Sicily.
1252 The city of Tyre built.
1243 A colony of Arcadians conduced by Evandcr
into Italy.
1233 Carthage founded by the Tyrians.
1225 The Argonautic expedition.
1204 The rape of Helen by Paris, which gave rife to
the Trojan war, ending with the deilru&ion of
the city in 1 184.
1 1 "6 Salarr.is in Cyprus built by Teucer.
1152 Afcar.ius builds Alba Longa.
1 1 30 The kingdom of Sicyon ended.
1 124 Thebes built by the Boeotians.
1115 The mariner's compafs known in China.
1104 The expedition of the Hcraclidae into Pelopor.ne-
fus; the migration of the Dorians thither; and
the end of the kingdom of Mycenae.
1 102 The kingdom of Sparta commenced.
1070 The kingdom of Athens ended.
A z 1051 David
y
4 REMARKABLE
1051 David befieged and took Jerufalem.
1 044 Migration of the Ionian colonies.
1008 The Temple is folemnly dedicated by Solomon.
996 Solomon prepared a fleet on the Red Sea to fend
to Ophir.
fjS6 Samos and Utica in Africa built.
979 The kingdom of Ifrael divided.
974 Jerufalem taken and plundered by Shifhak king of
Egypt.
911 The prophet Elijah flourished.
894 Money firil made of gold and filver at Argos.
884 Olympic games reltored by Iphitus and Ly-
curgus.
873 The art of fculpture in marble found out.
i>Cg Scales and meafures invented by Phidcn.
864 The city of Carthage, in Africa, enlarged by
queen Dido.
821 Nineveh taken by Arbaces.
814 The kingdom of Macedon begins.
lie i The city of Capua in Campania built.
759 The kingdom of Lydia began.
786 The fhips called Tr/'ra^v, invented by die Co-
rinthians.
779 The race rf kings in Corinth ended.
776 The era of the Olympiads began.
760 The Ephcri eftablifned at Sparta.
758 Syracufe built by Archias of Covinth.
754 The government of Athens changed.
753 Era of the building of Rome in Italy by Romu-
lus, firil king of the Romans.
747 The era of Nabonaffar "commenced on the 2 6th of
, February, the firft day cf Thoth.
746 The government of Corinth changed into a re-
public.
743 The tirR war between the MefTenians and Spar-
tans.
724 Mycenae reduced by the Spartans.
723 A colony of the Melienians fettled at Rhegium
in Italy.
720 Samaria taken after three years ficge, and the
kingdom
EVENTS. 5
fcmgc'om of Ifrael fmifhed by Salmanazer king of
Aifyria, who carries the ten tribes into captivity.
The firft eciip.fe of the moon en record.
713 Gela in Sicily built.
703 Corcyra, now Corfu, founded by the Corinthians.
702 Ecbatan m Media built by Deioces.
685 The fecond Melfenian war under Ariftomenes.
670 By/antium (now Constantinople) built by a co-
lony of Athenians.
666 The city of Alba dellroyed.
648 Cyrene in Africa founded.
634 Cyuxares befiegs Nineveh, but is obliged to raifc
the fiege by an incurfion of the Scythians, who
remained mafters of Afia for 28 years.
624 Draco publiihed his inhuman laws at Athens.
<5io Pharaoh Necho attempted to make a canal from
the Nile to the Red Sea, but was not able to accom-
pliih it.
607 Ey order of the fame monarch, foine Pheniciani
failed from the Red Sea, round Africa, and
returned by the Mediterranean.
606 The rlrit captivity of the Jews by Nebuchadnez-
y.ar. Nineveh deftroycd by Cyaxares.
600 Taales, of Miletus, travels into Egypt, confults
the priefts of Memphis, acquires the knowledge of
geometry, aftronoir.y, ;ind philofophy ; returns to
Greece, calculates cclipfes, gives general notions
of the univerfc, and maintains that an only Su-
preme Intelligence regulates all its motions.
Maps, globes, and the figns of tlie zodiac, in-
vented by Anaximander, the fcholar of Tlialcs.
598 Jehoiakm, king of Judah, is carried away cap-
tive, hy Nebuchadnezzar, to Babylon.
594 Solon ni;t(i(j Archon at Athens.
591 The Pythian games inititaicd in Greece, and
tr;.gdy fir:t acted.
588 Tlio firft irruption of the Gauls into Italy.
586 T.12 city of Jtruialem taken, after a liege of
1 8 months.
58-^ aptivity of the Je\vs by Nebuchadnezzar.
A 3 The
5 R E M A R K A B L E
581 The Ifthmian games reftored.
580 Money iirlt coined at Rcnie.
571 Tyre taken by Nebuchadnezzar after a fiege of
1 3 years.
566 The firil ceni'us at Rome, when the number ef
citi/ens was found to be 84,000.
562 The tint comedy at Athens acted upon a move-
able fcaffold. '
559 Cyrus the liril king of Perfm.
53^ The kingdom of Babylon finished; that city be-
ing taken by Cyrus, who, 111536, gives an cdiift
for the return of the Jews.
T34- The foundation of the temple laid by the Jews.
526 Learning is greatly encouraged at Athens, and
a public library firil founded.
520 The fccond edict to rebuild Jerufalem.
515 The fecond temple at Jerusalem id nnifhcd under
Darius.
.riD Kipp;ai baniilietl from Athens.
509 Tarquin, the fcventh and lail king of the Ro-
-, is expelled, and Rome is governed by two
. nd other republican magiiira v es, till the
b'iuk- c/f Fharliilia, being a f j ace oi 461 years.
The firft alliance between the Romans and Car-
th; ;
.-fus at Rome, 130,000 citi/ens.
. und burnt by tlic Athenians, which
ga' : to the Perfsan invulion of Greece.
< Lt R'-JliC.
i
LI- of citizens 150,700.
4< : t r . J at Roir ., (.r, in 488.
. atlion, September 2 Sth.
,, the Cj reck j.c-.t, iirlt- gaius th- prize ct*
tray; _-'. .
t Re me.
^Ki ! ng f-f Perlki, begins his expedition
ce.
/.Sc i'jnce of Therniopylas by LconiJas, ar.d
larais.
The
EVENTS. 7
476 The number of Roman citizens reduced to
103,000.
469 The third MeiTenian war.
466 The number of Roman citizens increafed to
124,214.
458 E/a - a is fent from Babylon to Jerusalem, with the
captive Jews and the veik:ls of gold and filver, &c.
being feventy weeks of years, or 490 years before
the crucifixion of our Saviour.
456 The Ludi Sec ul ares firil celebrated at Rome.
454 The Romans fend to Athens for Solon's laws.
451 The Decemvirs created at Rome, and the laws of
the twelve tables compiled and ratified.
449 The Decemvirs banilhed.
445 Military tribunes, with confular power, created at
Rome.
443 Cenfcri created at Rome.
441 The battering ram invented by Artemones.
452 The Metonic cycle began July i^th.
431 The Peloponnefian war began, and lafted 27
years.
430 The hiftory of the Old Teftament finillies about
this time.
A plague over the known world.
hi, the lad of the prophets.
A.CJ Tiie A '.humans entirely defeated by Lyfander,
which occasions the lofs of the city, and ruin of
the Athenian power.
401 The retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xeno-
.\ : the 30 tyrants expelled from Athens, and
democratic government reflored.
400 Socrates, the founder of mural philofophy among
the Greeks, believes the irrnh i lality of the foul,
a ilate of rewards and pumihnicnts; for which,
iu:d other fublinie doctrines, he is put to death Ly
the Athenians, \\hoibou after repent, and erect;. o
his memory a liatiic of brais.
: Tae feaic of LectilL-rnium ir.ili'.ul-;d, Cata-.
invented by Dionyiius.
394 Tli? Ctiiutlu.ui war be^uu*
* REMARKABLE
390 Rome burnt by the Gauls.
387 The peace of Antaicidas between the Greeks and
Perfians.
The number of Roman citi/ens amounted to
152,583.
384 Dionyhus begins the Punic war.
379 The Boeotian war commences.
377 A general confpiracy of the Greek ftates againft
the Lacedemonians.
373 A great earthquake in Peloponneftis.
371 The Lacedemonians defeated by Epaminondas at
Leuftra.
367 Prstors eltablifiied in Rome : the Licinian law
pafl"ed.
363 Epaminondas killed at the battle of Mantinea.
359 The obliquity of the ecliptic obferved to be 23
49' lo 1 '.
358 The Social war began.
357 Diony fins expelled from Syracufe.
A tranfit of the moon over Mars obferved.
356 Tne iacred war begun in Greece.
Birth of Alexander the Great.
343 Dionyfius II. expelled from Syracufe.
Commencement of the Syracufian era.
338 Philip of luacedon gains the battle of Chtrronara,
and thus attains the fovcrcignty of Greece.
335 Thebes taken and rafed by Alexander the Great.
334 The Perfians defeated at Granicus, May 22d.
333 They are again defeated at Iflus in Ciiicia, G&.
332 Alexander takes Tyre and inarches to Jerusalem.
331 Alexandria built.
Darius entirely defeated at Arbcla.
330 Alexander takes Babylon, and the principal citits
of the Perfian empire.
The Calippi period commences.
328 Alexander paiTes Mount Caucafus, and marches
icito India.
327 He defeats Porus, an Indian prince, nd founds
cities.
The
EVENTS. 9
326 The famous fedition of Corey ra.
5^4 His family exterminated, and his dominions part-
ed by his officers.
523 Alexander the Great dies at Babylon.
315 Rhodes almoft deftroyed by an inundation.
311 The Appian way, aqueduds, &c. conftruoled at
Rome.
308 The cities of Greece recovered their liberties for
a mort time.
507 Antioch, Seleucia, Laodicea, and other cities.
founded by Seleucus.
301 Antigonus defeated and killed at Ipfus.
299 The tiril barbers came from Sicily to Rome.
294 The number of effective men in Rome amounts
to 270,000.
293 The firfi fun-dial creeled at Rome by Pap iritis
Curfor.
285 Bionyfms of Alexandria, began his aftronomical
era on Monday June 26, being the firil who found
the exaft folar year to confift of 365 days 5
hours and 49 minutes.
The watch-tower of Pharos at Alexandria built.
Ptolemy Philadelphia, king of Egypt, employs
72 interpreters to tranilate the Old Teftament into
the Greek languages, which is called the Sepiutiglnt-,
284 The foundations of the Achaean republic laid.
283 The college and library founded at Alexandria.
282 The Tarentine war begins.
280 Pyrrhus invades Italy.
269 A cenfus at Rome : the number of citizens
278,222.
2^9 The firft coining of f.Iver at Rome.
265 The number of' Roman citizens augmented to
292,124.
264 The firft Punic war begins, and continues 23
years. The chronology of the ArunJclian mar-
bles compofed.
262 A tranfit of Mercury over the Bull's horn; the
planet being in 23 of ~ , and the fun in 29 30'.
260 Provincial Queftors eftabliihed at Rome.
~ The
10
The Romans firtl concern themfclves in navel
affairs, and defeat the Carthaginians at fea.
255 Regulus, the Roraan Cc-niul, defeated and taken
pi ilbner by the Carthaginians under Xantippus.
252 A cenfus at Rome ; the number of citizens
297,897.
247 Another cenfus : the number of citizens 251,2 12.
246 The records of China deftroytd.
241 Conclufion cf the fint Punic war.
240 Comedies fint a5ed at Rome.
237 Hamilcar, the Carthaginian, caufes his fon Han-
nibal, ac nine years old, to fwear eternal enmity
to the Romans.
236 The Tartars expelled from China.
235 Rome at peace \vith. other nations. The temple cf
Janus lv.:t.
231 Corficaand Su.rdina fubdued by the Romans.
The firft divorce at Rome.
230 The obliquity of the ecliptic obferved by Eratoft-
henes to be 23 ^i 1 2o u .
224 The ColoiTus at Rhodes overturned by an earth-
quake.
219 The art of furgery introduced at Rome.
218 Commencement of the fecond Punic war.
Kannioa.1 paiTcs the Alps and invades Italy.
216 The Romans defeated at Cannae, May 21 ft.
214 Synicufe befieged by Marcellus.
209 A cenfus at Rome : the number of citizens
227,107.
208 Afdrubal invades Italy ; but is defeated and
killed.
206 Gold firft coined at Rome.
202 Hannibal defeated by Scipio at Zama.
20 1 Conclufion of the fecond Punic war.
194 Sparta and Hither-Spain fubdued by the Romans.
192 A cenfus at Rome: the number of citizens
243>/o4-
191 Antiochus defeated by the Remans at Ther-
mopylae.
190 The firft Roman army enters Alia, and from the
fpoils
EVENTS. 1 1
fpoils of Antiochus brings theAfiatic luxury fir(t
to Rome.
188 The Spartans obliged to renounce the inftitutions
of Lycurgus.
179 A cenfus at Rome: the number of citizens
273,244.
173 The Jewifh high-priefthood fold by Antiochus
Epiphanes.
I 70 Paper invented in China.
The temple oi" Jerufalem plundered by Antiochus.
169 A cenfus at Rome : the number of citizens
212,805.
1 68 Macedon reduced to the form of a Roman pro-
vince.
The firil library erefted at Rome.
j 65 The temple of Jerufalem purified by Judas Mac-
cabeus.
164 A cenfus at Rome: the number of citizens
327,032.
162 Hipparchus began his aftronomical obfervations
at Rhodes.
161 Philofophers and Rhetoricians banifhed from
Rome.
150 The third Punic war commenced.
146 Corinth deftroyed.
Carthage, the rival to Rome, is rafed to the
ground by the Romans.
A remarkable comet appeared in Greece.
143 Hipparchus began his new cycle of the moon,
contifting of 1 1 1,035 days.
141 The Numantine war commenced.
135 The hiltory of the Apocrypha ends.
"33 Numantia dellroyed by Scipio.
1 24 A cenfus at Rome : the number of citizens
39WA _
105 The Cimbri and Teutones defeated the Romans.
1 02 The Teutor.es and Arnbrones defeated by Marius.
88 Rome bjf;e:>rd by the chiefs of the Maiian faction.
82 Sylla created perpetual dictator, at Rome.
69 A ceruus at Rome : the number of citi/ens 450,000.
66 Catiline's
12 REMARKABLE
66 Catiline's confpiracy.
55 Julius Cfffar makes his firft expedition into Britain,
CraiTub defeated and killed by the Parthians.
51 Gaul reduced to a Roman province.
50 A ccnflis at Rome : the number of citizens
320,000.
48 The battle of Pharialh between Cxfar and Prm-
pey, in which the latter is defeated.
The Alexandrian library, confifting of 400,000
valuable books, burnt by accident.
45 The war of Africa, in which Cato kills hirafelf.
The folar year introduced by Csnfar.
44 C;rfar, the greatsil of the Roman conquerors,
after having fought fifty pitched battles, and fiain
1,192,000 men, is killed In the fenate-houfe by
conip rators.
42 The republicans defeated at Philippi.
31 The battle of Aclium fought, in which Mark
Anthony and Cleopatra are totally defeated by
Oclavius, nephew to Julius C?efar.
30 Alexandria, in Egypt, is taken by Oclavius, upon
which Anthony and Cleopatra put themfelves to
death, andEgypt is reduced to a Roman province.
29 A cenfus at Rome : the number of citizens
4,101,017.
~- OSavius, by a decree of the fenatr-, obtains the title
of Auguftus Cjtfar, and an abiblute exemption
from the laws, and h properly the firft Roman
emperor.
The pantheon at R.ome built.
19 Rome at the height of its glory.
The temple of Jerufalem rebuilt by Herod.
Agrippa conftrucled the magnificent aqueducls at
Rome.
8 A cenfus at Rome : the number of citizens
4,233,000
5 The temple of Janns is fliut by Auguftus, as an
emblem of univerfal peace, and
JESUS CHRIST is born on Monday, Decem-
ber 25.
JFTER
EVENTS. 13
AFTER CHRIST.
i r i "i HE Vulgar Chrmian eni commenced from
J_ January i; the Saviour of the world being
then five years of age.
8 Jefus Chriil difputes with the dolors in the temple.
14 A cenfus at Rome, 4,037,000 citi/.en.s.
; 6 Mathematicians and magicians expelled from Rome,
i 7 Twelve cities in Afiu deitroyedby an earthquake.
? 7 Pilate made governor of Judea.
29 Jefus baptized in Jordan by John.
5 } He is crucified at Jerufalcm.
35 St. Paul converted.
3y St. Matthew writes his Gofpel.
Pontius Pilate kills himielf.
A conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars.
40 The name of Chridians firil given a: Anticch to
the followers of Chriit.
43 Claudius Cscf.ir's expedition into Britain.
44 St. Mark writes his G of pel.
50 London is founJud by tiie Romans: 368, furround-
cd by ditto with a wall, fume pails of which arc
ft ill obfcryahle.
51 Caractacus, die Briti/h kin^, ii carried in chains to
Rome.
52 The council of the ApofHes at Jenifalem.
f 7 St. L-i'ce writes his Gofpel.
56 Rotterdam built.
59 The emperor Nero puts his mother and brothers to
death.
Pcrfecutes the Druid-, in Britain.
60 ChriAianity introduced into Britain.
61 Boadicia, the Britiih queen, d-jicats the Romn.ns
but '. red foon after by Suetonius, gover-
nor of Bvir.iin.
? St. Paul is lent in bonds to Rome writes his
c-j-i.'tks betv/ecn 51 and 66.
B 63 The
14. REMARKABLE
63 The Acts of the Apoftle:. written.
A great earthquake in Alia.
64 Rome fet on Hre and burned for fix days upon
\\hich began (under Nero) Lhe tiril penccution
againil the Christians.
65 Many prodigies 1'een about Jcrufalem.
66 St. Peter and St. Paul put to death.
70 While the furious Jeus are dciiroying one another,
v.'ith mutual fury, Titus, 'the Roman general, takes
Jerufaiein, which is raied to the ground, and the
plough made to pals over it.
73 The philoibphers baniihed from Rome by Vefpafion.
79 The cities of" Pompeii and Herculaneum dclUxn cd
by an eruption of Vci'u.-iiH.
80 The Capitol and Pantheon ;it Rome dellroycd 07
lire.
83 The phtlofophirre expelled Rome bv Ij.aniri.ui.
85 Juiius A^vicd.!, governor vi .South Ihitain, to
]'joted the civili/ed ditcns ircm the incurfioiv-, <;t
tV.e Cal:;':irp. ; au:-, builds a line of forts between the
rivers Foith nnd Clyde; d:!eats the Caledonians
imdcr Galgacus on the Grampian liilis; and iijfl.
round li/itain, which ho difcovers to be <m
86 The C-.ipitolinc games inftituted by Dcmitian.
F8 The fecular games celebrated at Rome.
r^ TJie empir* of the Huns in Turt.ay deilroyed by
the Chir.tie.
The r.vangeliit John banifhcd to Patmos.
94 The fccond perilcuticn of the Chrillians under
Domitian.
;) St. John the Evangeliit wrote his Revelation
his Col pel in 97.
103 Dacia reduced to a Roman province.
105 A fti'cat earthquake in Aha and Greece.
ic, 7 The tl-ird perlecution of the Chriftians under
Trajan.
114 . duced to a Roman province.
A qrea' -:^ :u Chi: ..
li j Aliyriu iubuiu
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A mod terrible earthquake, attended with dreadful
ftorms of thunder and lighining, deilroys the
greatest part of Antioch.
Chriilians, 11,000, picked out' cf the army by
order of Trajan the emperor, and baniined.
117 Trajan is fucceeded by Adrian, who rebuilt the
walls of Rome.
The learned men in Trajan's time, were Plutarch
his mailer, Pliny the younger, Suetonius, Fiords,
Anlius Gcllkis, Lucius Epi*5letus, and Galen th
phyfician, came to Rome, and Scribonius Lart.r. ;
the phyfician, lived, Ceriathus the noted heretic,
Qjiiutus Cur'LU'.sihvi hiilorian, and Tacitus Ccr-
nelius, the hi."ron<in.
1:9 Plutarch, the author of the lives, was a native of
Cheronea ; he came to Rome in the time of Vci-
pailun and Titus, and returned to his own coun-
try about the death of Trajan, where two years
after, he dies in an advanced age, leaving his
v/orks to immcrtali/e his memory to die longed
time \ he died aged 69.
An infurreclion of the Jews, who murder 2OO ; ooo
Greeks and Romans.
A violent earthquake at Antioch.
1 20 1'Iicomedia and other cities i'wallowcd up by an
earthquake.
121 The Caledonians reconquer from the Roman? r>ll
the fouthcrn parts of Scotland; upon which the
tmperor Adrian builds a wall between Ncwcafte
r.nd Carlifie; but this alfo proving indFe&ual,
Pollius Urbicus, the Roman general, about the
year 134, repairs Agricola's forts, which he joins
by a wall four yards thick.
130 jerufalem rebuilt by Adrian.
132 The fecond Jewilh v/ar commenced.
135 The fecond Jewiih war ends, when they were ^11
banifhed Ju-dea.
139 Jnii.i writes his firft apology for the chriftians,
140 Dublin built.
141 A number of herefies appear about this time.
13 2
j6 REMARKABLE
14^ The V'orfi.lp of Ssrepis hirmduced at R.c;nc.
i-:z The crrpc-rcr A:>rcriu-s Pius ftcps the persecutions
again ft the chrJvians.
An inundation cf the !\ber, and an earthquake
at Rhodes.
if 3 The fourth perfection of the chriilians, under
Marcus Aurel'us Antor.ins.
iCC The Romans fend srr.baifaciers to China.
if 8 A plague over the knovr; v/cr^d.
} 88 The Capitol at Rrnr.e c, ftro^ed bv lightning.
iji A great pa/t cf Rome ueitroyed by fire.
2C-3 perfec-jtion of the chriftiani under Severus.
205 An earthquake ::\ Wales.
-ro Sevorus's wall in Britain
218 Tv. r o comets appeared at Rome: the courfe ot the
noil remarkable from eaft to well.
212 Abrv.it this time the Reman empire begins to de-
cline : the Eaibarir.ns 1, :pi.i '.heir irrupiicns, acid
the Gclhs have annual tribute not to niolefl the,
empire.
225 Mathematicians allotted to teach publicly at Re me.
236 The fixth pcriccuiion cf the chrii'tians, under Maii-
r.iin.
241 The Franks nr:l nien'.ioned in hiftory.
250 The fcvcnth perfecution, under Decius
252 A dreadful pcililcnce broke out in Ethicpia, and
fprtad o^er ihe world.
Tiie e'ghih perfecution, under Gallup
^r^ jvjrcpe ravaged by the Scythians and Goths.
::8 The ninth perfecution, under Valerian.
260 Valerian is taken priloner by Savor, king of Pcrf;a,
and fend alive.
The Scvthians ravaged the Roman empire.
The temple of Dianna at Ep.hcfus, burnt.
2f5r A great plague throughout the Reman envri";?.
262 Ear. hquakes in Europe, Alia and Africa, and three
days of darknefs.
274 Silk firft brought from India; the riar.ufaftoiy of
it introduced into Europe by feme monks, 551 ;
firit \voru b/ tlie clergy in Eaglandj 1534.
276 Wires
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276 Wines fir ft made in "Britain.
277 The Franks fettled in Gaul.
2 $4 The Diuclcfian era commenced Auguft 29th, or
September 171)1.
287 Caraufius proclaimed emperor of Britain.
2^;) A great c< met vitible in Mefopotamia tor. 29 days.
2 ji IVo emperors and t\vo Co-furs march to defend the
four quarters of the empire.
297 Alexandria dellroyed by Diocletian.
303 The tenth perfccution, under Dioclefian.
306 Conftantine the Great begins his reign.
308 Cardinals lirtl began.
312 Peftilence all over the ea!l.
313 The tenth perfecution ends by an euift of Conftnn-
tine, who favours the chrunans, and gives full
liberty to their religion.
314 Tinve bilhops, or tuthers, are fent from Britain to
aOirt at the council of AiLs.
3 I 5 Crucifixion aboliiheci.
^21 Obicrvation of Sunday enjoined.
325 Firrt geni'ial council at Niece, where 318 fathers at-
tended, ugainfl ArKis tro founder ol A:'i:inilni,
V'-hcre v/as compoied the famous Niccue Creed,
Tv/iich v:e attribute to them.
328 Con'i.mtine removes tlie ic:*.t of er/ij)i re from Rome
to By/.antium, which is> tluz-euf ter c:illed Conftan-
tinople.
330 A dreadful perfecution of the chrifnans in Pcvfisj
which lafrs 40 ycar.
532 Coii ;-.'ifes all tlie heathen temples to be
cl :
3?4 3'co..ODo Srrmatians revolted from their mailers.
336 Ariu$, tire t '.indcrof th.- A; 'na hcic-ly, J!<;:h.
.: r:,.l]'jd 1 Ickncplc.
337 Conitaniine dicth, and !c:tvcth th? empire among his
three ion;, vi/. Coallantinc, Coiiitans, and Con--.
ftanthis.
340 C'oniu'.niine, falling out v/i'h Con.lan* about rhe li-
n.i^ of hi^ ci!i[)ire, i. iLin.
13 3 K'^i-y
iS REMARKABLE
Hereby Conftans remains the matter of the weft,
and Conftantius of die eaft.
341 The gofpel propagated in Ethiopia by Foumentius.
Gaul invaded by the Franks.
344 Neocctfarea ruined by an earthquake.
350 Conftans is killed by the tyrant Magnentius, who
takes pofleflkm of the weftern empire.
3 j i Heathens firft called Pagans.
353 Magnentius having been defeated by Conftantius, and
driven out of Italy, kills himfelf, and Conftaa-
tius remains mafler of the whole empire.
358 An hundred and fifty cities in Alia and Greece
turned by an earthquake.
Romachus, three years king of Scotland, had his
head cut off, and put upon a pole.
360 Firft monaftery founded near Poictiers in France, by
Martin.
361 Conftantius is fucceeded by Julian the apoftate, reign-
ed two years, who reftablifhes the pagan worfhip.
363 The Roman emperor Julian, furnamed the apoftate,
endeavours in vain to rebuild the temple of Jeru-
falem.
364 The Roman empire is divided into the eaftern (Con-
ftantinople the capital) and weftern (of which
Rome continued to be the capital) each being now
under the government cf different emperors.
373 Bible tranflated into the Gothic language.
390 A fiery column feen in the air for 30 days.
395 Theodomis, called the Great, dies, and the empire
is divided between his two ions-, Arcadius and
Honorius, the former ruling in the eaft, and the
latter in the weft.
398 The learned men of this century were, Jamblicus,
Them! leu 1 ;, the philofophers, Eufebius the church
hiftorian, Oribauus the phyfician, Juvenus, Sedu-
lius, priefts and poets, Septimus Afer, Terentia-
' nus Maurus, A\iibnius, Rums and Fortunatus the
j nets, Macedonius, Photinus and Prifcilian, the
heretics.
Dathv, or Dahi M'JcSechra, grandfon of Moighne-
oUhin,
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odhin, king of Ireland, the 11 9th king of Ireland
of the Milefian race ; after having harraflcd the
Brii-ms, invades Gaul.
400 Bells invented by BHhop Paulinus, of Campagnta.
401 Europe over-run by the Goths, under Ahiric.
404 Another irruption of die Goths.
The kingdom of Calidonia or Scotland, revives un-
der Fergus.
406 Third irruption of the Goths.
The Vandals, Alans, and Sucvi, fprcr.d into France
and .Spain, by a conceilicn cf Honorius, emperor
cf the weft.
408 Chriftiun religion propagated in Perfia.
409 Rome taken and plundered by tiie Goths, Aug. 24.
412 The Vandals begin their kingdom in Spuir-.
4:3 The kingdom cf Burgundy begun in Aliace.
419 Many cities in Paloftine deftroyed by an earthquake.
420 Tiic lingdc-m of France begins upon the Lower
Rhine, under Pharamond. .
421 The Salicjue law promulgated.
.426 Tiie Romans, reduced to extremities at home, with-
draw their troops from Britain, and never return ;
advifing th~ Britons to arm in their own defence,
and truit to their own valour.
432 Go-pel prc'iched in Ireland by St. Patrick.
444. A'li Europe ravaged by the Huns.
446 The l-irviGr.s now Ui": to thcmfelvcs, are greatly lu 1 .-
ra'icd by the Scots and Pitfs, upon which they
cnce more muke their complaint to the Romans,
( . ,Mch they entitle, T!:e gron;is of the Britons ) but
receive no afTiRancS from that quarter.
447 Atlila (furr.amcd the Scourge of God) with his
Huns, ravage the Roman empire.
4/ 9 Vortigern, king of the Britons, invites the Saxons
into Biitair., againll the Scots and Pifls.
4172 The city (.f Venice founded.
4; 5 The Saxons having repulftd the Scots nnd Pi<5V<;, in-
Yit(- over lucre of tlieir countrymen, and begin
to c:ilabliili tlicmfelves in Kent, under Ilengilh
4 :':c, 1 co hto cut a ^reai ilcot, co^CtHing of i j 1 3 lliips.
476 The
2 REMARKABLE
476 The weftem empire is finiflied, 523 years after the
battle of Pharfalia ; upon the ruins of which fe-
veral new flares arife in Italy, and other parts,
confiding of Goths, Vandals, Huns, and other
barbarians, under whom literature is-extinguiihed,
and the works of the learned are deft roved.
480 A great earthquake at Constantinople) which 1 ailed
40 da vs.
493 St. Patrick died the i7th of March, in the abbey of
Saul, built by himfelf, and was buried there, being
about a quarter of a mile from Down, aged 120
years.
T-.alv reduced by Thcodoric, king of the Go;,>.
496 C'ovis, king of Fiance, baptized ; and chriiHanity
begins hi that kingdom
500 St. Bridget's Church at XUJarc built.
The learned men ci this century were, Nornus and
Avitus the poets, Sozomon the hiaorian, and
Socrates, the i hui-ch Mtion'an.
The famous men the fifth century in Ireland were,
St. Albe, Dubrach, Finch, Benigne, Seluaus,
Feredeline, St. Catald, Kicnan, &.c.
508 Prince Arthur begins his reign over the Britons.
510 Paris made the cnpit.J of the French dominions
515 Conftantinople befieged by VitaEanus, whoic fleet is
burnt by a fr.cnuum of brafs made by Proclus.
516 The computing of time by the chrifiiun era, is io~
trcduced by Dionyfius themonlf.
517 Five years drought ;md famine in Faleftine.
519 A bearded comet appears.
534 Eclif.irius, one of j-sftinian's generals, takes Carthage,
and deftro'.-s the kinf>dr.-,n cr" the Vaiulah i-i A
536 The rnjiKiifac'ture of iiik introduced at Ccaihuuinople
by two ir.dran monks.
540 Belikirius takes Home, and brings Vitige king of
Lily, prifoiicr to Ccnihmtinople.
Antioch aeftrcycd by tho Perllans.
541 E::filius the l;:lt ccnlal elected at Rome.
54.2 Ar.ticxh rcb-nh.
545 An earthquake ail over the word.
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The kingdom cf Poland founded.
553 T;:J empire of the Goths in Italy deu.royed by Narfes,
557 A terrible plague all over Europe, A Ha, and Africa,
which continues near fifty years.
565 Beliiatius died.
c'")S The Lombards founded a kingdom in Italy.
5^9 The Tov/er cf London built,
The Turks firil mentioned in hiftory.
575 The firf: monarchy founded in Bavaria.
5<-o Antioch deftroyed by an earthquake.
58 1 Latin ceafed to be fpoken about this time in Italy.
584 The origin of fiefs in France.
'V: city cf Paris dcilroyed by fire.
589 Rome overflowed by thcTybcr.
593 The Gufcons eftablulied tlicmfulves i:: the country
called by their name.
ry'j John, of Conftantinoplc, afiumas the title of univer-
ial bilhop.
597 Aognftuie themonfc, cornes into England with forty
monks.
600 Eminent perfons who fionrifhed in the fixth century
in Ireland, v/ere St. Ccllum Cille, St. Finiun, St.
1'arlah, Ct. Brendan, Sr. Congd, St. Kenny, St.
Clohrian, St. Bridget, St. Itn, with fcvcral others.
604 St. Paul's chirrrh in London founded.
^05 The ul" ( ; hcU>. introduced iutc churches.
6c5 Here bcpirs the power of the popes, by the ccncef-
iions of Photas, emperor of the Eai T .
EUielbert, king cf Kent, being by Auguflme con-
vcrtccl to th'- chriftian fi-ith, was the hiltrumentof
conyevtii\e Sebcvt, king of the Eafl:- Saxons, v/honi
he afliftcd in the building of St. Paul's church in
London, v/liore l;;ul flood the temple of Diana;
as allo the church of St. Pctcr'r, at WefimiaRcr,
thin called 'i .homey, v/here the temple of Apollo
flood ; and hirr.felf built tlic cadicdral churcjj at
Rochcftcr, dedicating it to St. Andrew.
622 Mahomet., the falfe prophet, flies from Mecca to Me-
dina, in .^labia, in the 44-th year of his age, and
ictli of his mhuftrv, \vlicnlr: laid the ibuuda'-ion
of
i* REMARKABLE
of the Saracen empire, and from whom the Ma-
hometan princes to this day claim their defcent :
his followers compute their time from this era,
which in Arabic is called kc?ira t i. 1, " the Flight."
*28 An academy founded at Canterbury.
630 The cathedral of Cork founded by St. Finbarr.
637 Jeru r alem is taken by the Saracens or followers of
Mahomet.
639 The epiicopal church of K:ll.iloe was founded about
this time, by the contribution of different kings.
641 Alexandria in Egypt is taken by the Saracens, and
the grand library there burnt by the order of Omar
their caliph or prince.
643 The temple of Jerufalem converted into a Mahome-
tan molquc.
653 The Saracens now extend their conquefls on every
fide, and retaliate the barbarities of the Goths and
Vandals, upon their posterity.
They take Rhodes, and deftroy the famous Coloflus.
England invaded by tiie Danes.
65o Organs firft uiedinchurch.es.
663 Glafs invented by a bifliop, and brought into Eng-
land by a Benedicline monk.
669 Sicily invaded, and Syraeufe deftroyed by the Sa-
racens.
685 The Britons, after a brave ftruggle of ner.r 150
years, are totally expelled by the Saxons, and
drove into Wales and Cornwall.
*/98 The Saracens take Carthage, and expel the Romans
from Africa.
700 Cracow built, and the firfl prince of Poland elected.
704 The firft province given to the Pope.
713 The Saracens cor.quer Spain.
714 France governed by Charier Mattel.
718 The kingdom of the Afturias in Spain founded by
Pelagic.
710 Chriflianity promulgated In Germany.
725 Charles Mattel, natural fon of Fspin, king of France,
defeats and routs 370.000 Saracens near Tours,
the grsateft part of their numerous army, toge-
ther
EVENTS, 23
thcr with their general Abderomus, being killed
on the fpot.
726 The controverfy about images begins, and cccafions
njany infurrec'Hons in the cuRern empire.
7:7 Tax of Peter's pence begun by Ina, king of WelTex.
735' Jnftitution oi the office of pope's nuncio.
74.6 Three years pcitilencc in Europe and Alia.
74tj Computing of' years from the birth of Chrift, began
to be tiled in hi 'lory.
749 Tlie race of Abbas become caliphs of the Saracens,
and encourage learning.
The empire of the Saracens divided into three.
752 The exarchate of Ravenna abolilhed by Ailolphus,
Ling oi the Lombards.
755 Commencement of the pope's temporal dominion.
762 The city of Bagdad upon the Tigris, is made the
capital for the caliphs of thebouieof Abbas.
Burials, which formerly ufed to be in the highways,
permitted in towns.
792 An academy founded in Pan-.
;y4 The Huns extirpated by Charlemagne.
797 .Seventeen days of unufnal'darkneis.
800 Charlemagne, king of France, begins the empire
of Germany, afterwards called the Weftern em-
pire ; gives the prefe:it names to the winds and
months; end ,:ivours to re:V>re Icrmilng in Europe,
but mankind are not yet difpofed for it, being
folely engrcJed in military enterprises'.
801 A great earthquake in France, Germany and Italy.
807 Jan. 31. Jupiter eclipfcd by the me on. March 17.
A large fpot feen on the fun for eight days.
Ko8 The mil defcent of the Normans on France.
870 St. Mary's Abbey at Trim built.
826 Harold, king of Denmark, dethroned by his fub-
jecls, for being a ciirli.
832 Painters bamfhed out of the eaftcrn empire.
836 The Flemings trade to Scotland for fiih.
K.5'8 The Danes in 60 Ihips arrive and take Dublin.
840 The Scots and Pitfs have a decifive battle, in which
. 01 nier prevail, vind both kijigdoms are ur.ited
by
24 REMARKABLE
by Kenneth, which begins the fecond period of
the Scottiih hiilory.
841 The fons of Louis le Debonnaire, falling out about
the partition of their father's dominions, a bloody
battle is fought near Fontenay in Burgundy,
\vherein the lol's on both fides amounted to 100,000
men.
842 Germany feparated from the empire cf the Franks.
52 Arm?.gh deilroycd by the Danes on Eafter-day.
*53 London burnt by the Danes.
856 An earthquake over the greateft part of the known
world.
?>6i Ruric the firft prince of Ruffia began to reign.
864 The Danes begin their ravages in England.
f'6~ Christianity propagated in Bulgaria.
868 Egypt becomes independent on the caliphs of
Bagdad.
72 Bells and clocks firft nfed in Conftant'mople.
Univerfity college in Oxford, as fome lay, -was found-
ed by king Alfred, fome fay he rcftored it only.
Laterl y Dr. Ratcliff gave 5000!. to build a new
front 40,000!. to erefi: a library, and 950!. a year
for public ufes. It has a mailer, twelve follows,
ten fcholars and two exhibitioners : the vice--
chancellor and protestors, are the viiltors.
873 France diftreiled by locuiis and peftilence.
874 Iceland peopled by the Norwegians,
8cotland invaded by the Danes.
^>75 A bearded comet appears in France.
078 Alfred the Great, after fubduing the Danifh invar
ders (againft whom he fought 56 battles by ft a
and land) compoies his body of la\vs ; divides
England into counties, hundreds, ty things ; in
^'90 erccls county-courts, having founded the
xmiveputy of Oxford in 886.
882 Cormack M'Cullen, king of Munfter, and Arch-
biihopof Cafhel.
388 A great battle between Maolfcachluin I. king of
Ireland, and the Danes.
The firft land-tax in England.
905 A v.ery
EVENTS. *5
895 The monafterv of Cluny founded.
902, The Danes, \vi a va't f.c.- ; : ( \v<jre ovrrthrcnvn by
the people of Dublin, vrith a great flaucjhter.
905 A very remarkable comet appeared in China.
Kome laker, by the Normans.
C)il The oHi'ji'.ity of the ecliptic obfervcd by Thcbit
to be 23 33' 30 1 '
912 T'lie Normans citabliJh themfclves in Normandy.
013 The Danes become mailers of England.
915 Cambridge univedlty founded.
02,3 Fiefs eftabliihed in Fnince.
925 SJgctVoi- elected fml KKirquis of Brandcnbnrv;.
928 Marquitate of MiiViia eftaWiihed.
t/37 Saracen empire divided by uiV.rpaticu Into fercij.
kir.gdo<ns.
941 Arkhrastic brought into Egypt.
(j6i CandL recdvcred trc vn the Saracens.
967 Antioch iwovercu from the Saracens.
X>9 Th-j race of Abbas extihgatihedfrOTn Europe.
975 Pope Boniface VII. is depofed und banillied for his
crimes.
977 Greece, Macerion, -and Thrace, ravaged by the
li'il:>;?.nan.s for ten yean;.
The ] ' \,v Otho.
979 Corojr.r.itm oath hrlt uied in En:;l.m *.
Juries firn J in ditr.o.
985 The D-.uies under Siieno, invud'j I En^l-.ir.d and
987 The Carlovinginn race in Fr i
99 1 'ic -.ire bru'.i'^ht into Europe
by the Saracens iroj-ri AruL-:^; iLif-r-j of thr al-
phabet were hhher:o c
993 '
99? ^ and N'lTwegiars.
( -lj.:tivc.
i I.
'..f>!i,|i;i;y (,f {},- uliptio nblVwcd by Abdul
2 q '-' 3 9 '.
P. -.hat of li-
C
REMARKABLE
rien rags hi 1170; the manufactory introduced
into England at Deptibrd, 1588.
The famous men of Ireland v>ho flour ifhed in the
9th and icth century, \\ere All)in, Clement,
Claude, Donough, Andrew, Patrick (inventor of
St. Patrick's purgatory) Johannes Scotus, Suihny,
Probus, Ccle, &c.
Henry the emperor, ailutncd the title of king of the
Ron
All the old chr.u hes are rebvik about this time in
a new manner of architecture.
1006 A plague in Europe for three years.
1007 A grci't irruption of Veuui;:.-.
1014. Saeno t".-. .jccmcs mailer of England.
Sept. 2?. A.l;;:oft all Flanders laid underwater by
On Gcc 2 id April, the famous batlle of
Clo:: ..jit, vherein the Danes were
'cated, \\ilh the lofs of i i,cco
. tn out of Ireland ; but the Irilh
king, Brian Bo-, o, was killed, aged S- N .
ic 15 Children forbidden by law tvj be fold by their pa-
s i;i I'lrgl;
io i 7 R;: : .ii of the colour of blood for three days in Aqu-
tain.
for 7. A new Ipecies of rr.ufic invented byArctir!.
.in;:, wife of Canute the Dane being barren,
r.iM a lying-in, andibpalm'd S>veyn a <hoe-
. her credulous hiuband ; this iham
v as king cf Norway. She :t)!ri. put another bite
lair.c hufha:u', Han <!' a pricll,
!)ec:;r.-:t.- king of England.
112-C Mao'f jackluin i I. king of Ireland, Aibmits liimielf
and kingdnn \vith iscco horfe to Bryan Boiroim-
he, J:ir.g of Munilcr, who ; -:lfeackluiu
,-, ( f the line
of li . , 12 years eletftcd king of Ireland.
Thi< . repaired the rcon;-.
lii'.d dellroyed; having fettled
EVENTS. 27
religion upon its ancient footing, he built public
fchocls and libraries, and erected new academies.
"William the fir ft b':r:i king of England.
Oiaus, king of Norway, an eafy good tempered
prince, attempting to recover his kingdom, which
Carnute the Dune \vrefted from him, was bar-
afij murdered by his own fubjecb;.
10^5 Tcgrul-Beg, or Tangrolipix, the Turkifh fultan,
eftabliihcs him'tlf in Konvfan.
The kingdoms of Cailile and Arragon began.
1058 Christ Church built by Sitrlcus ion of Amlacrns,
king of the Danes, of the city of Dublin, for fe-
cuJar canons.
The revenues of Brycn Lr-irolmhe, monarch of Ire-
li'xd, \ve-c :is follow : Connaught paid 800 beeves,
800 fat hogs ; Tyrconntl paid 500 of each ; Tir-
paid 60 rf each, ar.d 90 tons of Iron 5
Rathargians of Uliter paid 500 beeves ; Leinilcr
paid 500 fat hogs ; Orgitrls paid coo beeves; Lein-
iter paid bolide 300 beeves and 300 tens of Iron ;
Duo 1 . in Danes i ,o hogfhcads of v/ine ; Oiibry 60
beevc-;, 60 fat hogs, 60 tons of iron; Limerick
s, one ton of Claret daily. That great and
valiant prince Was bafel/ murdered by fonie rua-
;a--'ay ro\vardly Danes, on Good-Friday.
:: Boiroimh'-- i~ c.i itfter died of his wounds.
In the battle of Clcntarf fell his fon Murchard, and .
of the nobility: the Danes loft n,ooc jv.-n.
Aff.er the battle, Shricns v;ith the reliqnes of the
,d to Dublin.
1039 M: 11 IJ. reflored to the throne of Ireland.
V.' ;-.:.crford plundered and burnt by Dermpt, king of
< 'ler.
1040 ThcDar.es, afr.er fcveral engagements with various
fuccefs, arc about this time driven out of Scotland,
; ad never again return in a houile manner.
Smyrna deftroyed by an earthquake.
1041 Fir ft fermon at a coronation.
Til- Siisonline reftorcd under Edward the confeflcT.
C 2
jS REM ARK ABLE
1043 The Turks become formidable, and take pcfleinon
of Peril a.
The Ruffians come from Scrthia, and land in Thrace.
1049 'l^ c cathedral of Kilkenny iuppofed to have been
built about this time by St. Canice.
1050 Broad je;-Irf England firft ufed.
1054 Leo IX. the firft pcpe that kept up an army.
1C55 The Turks take Bagdad, and overturn the empire
of the Saracen;;.
1057 M:tlc'"lm III. king rf Scotland, kills the tyrant
M..cbeth at Dini'inr.an, ard marries the piir.cefs
Margaret, filter to Edgar Atheliiig.
Coventry, Y/ar.vick, by Leofnc ca.-l of ChcHtr, and
:dy Godiva, hence came peeping Tom,
:GO Prrr.ch Ungnage aud cuftoms iirft introduced into
England.
1061 Surnames appointed to be taken in Scotland by a
parliament neld in Fcrfat.
io6ij Jerafalem taken by the Turks from the Saracens.
(006 The ccnqueil of England by William (ihrnamed
thebaftard) duke of Normandy, in the battle of
Jlaftings vhere Harold is il.r'n.
Bo-.vs and arrc-.vs iritroduced into En-gland.
1068 Cm-few bell efta'nliiiied by William the Conqueror;
abcliihed in i ico.
1070 Feudal law introduced into England.
1074 Beheading of noblemen firfl introduced into Eng-r
land.
1075 Henry IV. ernpcror of Germany, and the pope,
quarrel about the nomination of the German bi-
ll, ops. Henry, in perancc, walks barefooted to
the pope tovards the end of January.
176 Tufiices c-f the peace firil appointed in England.
An earthquake in England.
Afia Minor, having been two years under the- power
f,f S;,lyman, is frcm this time called Turi.
'1080 Doomfday-book began to be compiled by onl^r of
\Yilliam, from a furvcy cf all the citatcs in Eng-
land, and rlniihed in icH6.
Tower of London built by dilto, to curb his Er.g'ifn
jctts;
EVENTS. 29
fucljetf s ; numbers of whom fly to Scotland, where
they introduce the Saxon or Englilh language,
are protected by Malcolm, and have lands given
them.
1084 Dublin, creeled into a bifhopric ; whofe firft bifhop
was one Patrick, an Eaftcrling, and chofen by the
city, who fcnt him to England, to be confecrated
by Lanfranc, arbifhop of Canterbury ,; and in
1 1 52 had the archiepifcopal dignity added to it,
as well as to Armagh, Caihcl and Tuarn, by Pope
Eugene the third.
1086 The order of Carthufians eftabliflied by Bruno.
1089 An university at Armagh, of confiderable fplen-
dor, erected by St. Patrick.
1090 Dymfty oi" Bathmeens or Aifaffins, begins in Irak,
and continues for 1 1 7 years.
1091 The S.ir.acsns in Spain, being hard prefled by the
Spaniards, called to their afiiftance Jofeph king
cf Morocco ; by which the Moors get poileffion
of all the Saracen dominions in Spain.
500 houfes in London were blown down by a tempeft.
1096 Firit cruiVidc to the Holy Land is begun under fc-
veral chriuian princes, to drive the infidels from
Jerafalcm.
Duelling, the firft public one ; with fmall fwords,
introduced in i 588.
The cathedral of Waterford built by the Oflmen,
and Malchus its firft bif!\ IP.
1098 Order of St. Tuened-ifl initiiut^d.
1099 Jeruf.ilem taken by the erufaders ; Godfrey elected
king of it ; and the order of knights of fit. John
uted.
Wcitminfler Hall, built by William Rufus ; that
ediiice, as it now Hands, was tin-bered and roofed
with IriJh oak, given to the king of England by
'furlough M'Feig, king of Lcahmoa, and molt
part of Ireland.
1100 Coats of :!rms firft introduced into England. Same
year Henry I. granted the privilege of making
wills,
3 1:0 1 Venice
3 o REMARKABLE
I to I Venice reduced to fhes.
IIC7 The firil king's fpcech, delivered by Henry L
1 1 10 Edgar Atheling, the lait of the Saxon princes, dies
in England, where he had been permitted to re-
lide as a fubiecl.
Learning revived at Cambridge.
Writing on paper made of cotton, coinmcn about
this time.
1117 St. Giles's, nn hofpital for 14 leprous pcrfons built
by the wife of Henry I. in which was a chapel,
that prefented each dying criminal with a bowl of
ale on his journey to Tyburn.
Ui8 Order of the Knights Templars inftituted, to dc-
f:r.d the Sepulchre at Jenrlakm, and to protect
chvi-Han ftrangers.
1119 Bohemia erevfted into a kingdom.
1.150 St. Mary's church built on the itland of Devenifh,
near Silverhill, in the county of Fermanagh.
Nivigah'e rivers, and canals to join rivers, iirlt made
in England by Henry I.
The kingdom of Portugal begnn.
1137 The pandect of Juiiiniun found in the ruins of A-
m:ilphi.
The city of York, with its cathedral and thirty-nine
churches, dcllrcyed by Hre the ^d. of June.
1 140 Canon law nr!t introduced into England,
i ; j i Faiflions cf the Guelphs und Cibellmes prevailed
about this time.
I 1 .(3 The Kc-an tu-nilited. into Latin.
i. [44 Peripatetic philofophy introduced into Germany.
11.51 Eour archbiikops ccniiituted, vi/. Armagh, Dublin,
Cafhel, and Tuam ; and 23 other biftops.
C-incTi law cr.ilc ( ted by Gratian, a monk of Bologna.
1154 ChriiliuTiity introduced into Finland.
7 15;') The < ity rf Mcfcow.'m Rufila founded,
i ; f:o Order of thf, Carmelites inilituted.
1 162 V/atcrford in Ireland built.
Lbndqn. Bridge, coafiftiug of 19 fmall arches,
built of
EVENTS.
1164 The ca'theJral of Deny was built by- Hathbert
O'Erokan, its tirft biihop ; in this he \v;is a(fifted
by Maurice M'Loghlan, king of Ireland.
Teutonic outer of religious knights begins in Ger-
many,
1.170 The Englifii -firft land in Ireland. In uC-8 Roderic
O'Connor, put Dennot> king of Ltinitcr, to flight,
for committing a rape on the wife of Teighernan
O'Rourke, king of Breifne : Dermot expelled h-s
kingdom, fled to England to folicit alliftance from
Henry II. v,ho being engaged in a w;tr with
France, inferred him to Stixmgbectv, earl of Pem-
broke, than at Briftol, who, on a promife of the
king's Daughter, Eva, in marriage, raifed men,
and csme ovi-r v/itii him, and loon recovered his
ft' mo-.-ies ; bringing Maurice and "William Fiu-
Genud vuh him, us cotemporaries.
The city of Cork h-iik.
Hcnry^l.-I. grants 10 Strongbow the vdiole province
Of I,!."'V
D\r '. ged and taken by. Raymond le Gros ;
Watert">rd ;-ii!b furrendcrs to him and William
Fiu Gerald.
Dynafly of F.itemites erukd in Egypt; the fovereigns
of th->: cf.uiiv.ry henceforth called Sultans.
72 Henry II. l.iiais in Ireland v/kh .400 knights, and
5000 men at arms, on the i 8lh of October, at
Watcrford, and is crcwned king of. Ireland ; the
clergy alff), confirmed die kingdom to him, and
when he had fettled his atlYn; in Ireland, he re-
turned to h : s cv/n dcn-inions, leaving Hugh de
J^icy with 20 kniglits, in Meat h, and the folcliers
in proper y ami-: -us, for th'i dctcnce of the country,
beftoraed upon the .raid-Hugh, the county of
Me;ith, and confrrmet! >it by his royal grant to his
po'k-rity. To 'Robert Fit/.-Stepiien, and Maurice
ri'y.-Gerali! (youi'. ,,r to- faid \Villiam
Herald) he gave the rntjimaud of the city of
Dul'/jn, ailcwing tht-m 20 knights for guard ; and
to Wiiliaru Aldclrrvjl, PhUip dc Hapigs, and
"Robert
52 REMARKABLE
Robert de Bruis, attended by 20 knights, lie left
the government of Wexford. Thus ended the
. monarchy of the Milefians, or ancient Iriih, which
commenced about 2,5:00 years before, in the per-
fons of Heber and H^remon, two of the ions of
Milefuis, king of Spain. From this time, Ire-
land became lubjec! to the Englifh government.
This year, Hugh de Lacy, Robert Fitz-Siephen,
Maurice Fitz-Gerald, and Robert de Bruis, were
appointed the firft governors of Ireland, which
;:t this time was divided into counties, when the
office of Sheriff was firft appointed.
Henry II. built a pavilion of platted twigs, near
St. Andrew's church, city of Dublin, where he
entertained feveral Irifli princes.
1173 lie by a grant of divers privileges, encouraged
a colony from Briftol to fettle in Dublin.
The firft charter granted to Dublin.
Hugh dc Lacy, an Englifh governor of Meath, was
fuch an cppreflbr of the poor, that Stanhurft fays,
a young man ilev him to rid his country of a
monfter.
A confpiracy in England formed again (I Henry, on
account of fair Rofamond, a concubine oi his.
11-4 PJ chard earl Strongbow erefted the order of knights
templars, at Kilmainham, near Dublin.
Richard earl Strongbow died of a mortification in
his foot, and was buried in Chriil church, Dublin-
Henry II. creates his younger fon Jchn, 1 2 years
old, king or lord cf Ireland, who grants charters
to Dublin and other towns.
1176 England is divided by Henry into fix circuits, and
jultice is difpenfed by itinerant judges.
1177 In England a fat ox fold for twelve-pence, flieep
four-pence, provender- for twenty horfes four-
pence, bread for a hundred men, twelve-pence.
Alracricl: de St. Laurence, and his fon Nicholas,
were v/ounded in an engagement with the Uluxr
Iriih in the county of Down, under the command
of John Courcy, when 15,000 vrcre killed: he
EVENTS, 33
anccHior to the barons cf Kotvth, nnJ to him
':in jchn, then earl of Moreton, granted the lands
of Kou'th.
1179 At Oxen-hall, near Darlington, the earth fuddenly
rofe to an eminence refembling a mountain ; re-
mained fo fevcral hours ; then iunk in as fuddenly
with a horrible noife, leaving a deep chafm, which
continues to this day.
The univerfity of Padua founded.
1 1 80 Glafs windows began to be ufcd in private hcufes
in England.
1 181 The laws of England are digefied about this time
by Ghnv'i]:?.
1182 Pope Alexander III. compelled the king 1 : of Eng-
land and France to hold the ftirrups of his fauuie
when he mounted his horfe,
1183 7000 Albigcnies maiiacred by die inhabitants of
lierry.
1 184 The office of jnfttces In eyre s inflituted by Henry II.
the laR inftance of their holding a court in any of
the forefts ir, believed to he in the reign of Charles
the
1185 John d-.- Courcy, earl of Ulflcr, lord lieutenant of
1 1 eland.
i;86 Stephen Riddle, th -2 lirft lord chancellor appointed
in LXublin.
1197 Ji-ruialcm taken by Sa]a<r:n.
1189 Sheriffs IrAl appointed in London.
1 190 Patrick's church built, ar.d Cl.nii church ; Dublia
rebniit.
1191 Pope Celcft'ne IIL k:c -r Hi.'ory IV's.
crov/n cff his }u;. .nt-cling, to fhcw his
prerogative of making and i ^making
1192 The battle cf Afcaion, injiu'ea, in v/hjt'i Richard
king of England, defeats S^iaci.i/s airny, <.c.\-
fifting of 300,000 combata.
1 193 Riclv.ird I. king cf England, taken prifonsr m Ger-
many, and ranfomed for ioo,oco marks.
1194 S-.vord of rlate carried at an Engliih k ing '.-> corona-
tiou by a king of Scotland.
Dim
34
E M A R K A L L E
D;':i st wit Droit ! firfr ufcd as a motto by Richard,
as a victory over the French.
1195 Denmark and Norway laid wafte by a dreadful
temped.
I ; 98 Inf;itiuion cf the order of the Hoi}- Trinity.
This year dies Rnderic OConnor, fometime king
cf Ireland, and in whom ended the Irifh r.^-
narchy, and fettled in the perfon of Henry II.
king of England.
1200 Chimnies were net kncwn in England.
Surnames now began to be ufed ; rirft among the
nobility.
Univerfity of Salamanca in Spain, founded.
Firft difpenfations granted by the pope.'
The abbey of St. Peter and Paul in the county of
Clare, built.
King John fold for 4000 marks, to "William de
Eraufa, all the lands of Philip de Wcrceftcr, and
all the lands of Theobald Walter in Ireland.
r 202 A(f!7.e cf bread firft appointed.
1203 The privilege of the De Courcy's (earls of Uliter)
ftanding covered before the kings of England,
granted tills year by king John, in tlie fecond year
of v> hofe rt-ign John de Courcy, earl of Uliter,
was filpplanted, and loft tlie king's favour; Hugh
de Lacy, the vounrrr. earl of Meath, who v-.-as
formerly joined with him in the government of
Ireland, alledging he had fpokcu feveral difre-
fpeflful \vords, higiily refieifling on the king about
tlie murder cf his nephew Arthur, duke of Eii-
tany, in France (v/hofe right to the crown was
before that of king John) at which the king being
forely cilpleaf ', ordered the ftid Lacy, wkow-. r ,
then governor cf Ireland, tofcize the earl of Ul-
fter, and fend him pri Toner to England. Lac;-,
v.'ho was the earl's grand enemy, gladly ol
rommand, and feventl times attempted to
take him by force, but finding that would not; do,
he at laft hired fome of the earl's own fervants to
betray their matter into his h;mus, whkh took
EVEN T S. 35
1203 effect on Good- Friday, 1203? for on that day,
the earl (according to the devotion of the times)
was walking unarmed and barefoot, round the
church-yard of Downpatriek, for penance ; Lacy
and his party came upon him unawares, and he
having nothing to defend himfelf but the pole of a
wooden croi's which itr.od in the church-yard, was
overpowered ar.d forced to yield, after he had
killed thirteen of Lacy's men. This great earl,
after being thus betrayed, was font priibner to
London, and after he hud been confined fome time
in the tower, a difprte arofe between king John,
of Endav.d, and Philip, Auguft king of France,
about the title to the Dutchy of Normandy,
which, to hinder the greater eiTufion of human
blood, was referred to r.vo c'v.iinpions'tc decide;
the French champion was ready, but r.onj of king
John's fubiccls would anfwer tfe challenge; upon
which the king was informed, that John de Ccurcy
] itj earl of LJlfter, who was then a prifoner in
the tower of Lonur.n, was the only man in his
dominions who could do it, if he would undertake
it ; the king being thus informed, lent twice to
the carl for that purpofe, but he refufed it each
time, fa> ing, /:/ '/i/- /V;.v, _/sr , im' unworthy
the adventure of tyf bloody /<v rca''.>n of. the ungrateful
returns hs ttiadt-Jer tuy fervicet and loyalty to t/:e crown,
. ^rlj-jnina v:s un'.^eard, at the fu:t cj~ ii.y rival and
/', Hugh de Lacy : but the king fending the
third time, to krow if he would light, for the ho-
nour of h : ;,-, he made this anfwer, that
for the crmvn and dignity of the realm, in lahich many
an koncft wci:: Irceih, again/} k;s r x/7/ (meaning ths
king) Ijball be cent nt. d to l:c.~. 'r.i JHV life. The day
of combat being appointed (in Normandy) >he
u'rl's own i'word was fcnt for out of Ireland; but
v.-lvjn th : , ;i.nd every thing was ready
for the fight, and the cliampiuns were entered the
lilts, in the prefer.': e of the kings cf England,
France, ;. ;hc Freach ch^nipicn not.
liking
36 REMARKABLE
1203 liking the [bong proportion of the earl's body, nor
the terrible weapon he bore in his hand, when
the trumpets founded the lait charge, he let
fpurs to his horfe, broke through the Hits, and
fled into Spain, from whence he never returned.
The French champion thus taking his flight, die
victory was adjudged to the earl of Ulltcr; but
the kings hearing of his great ftrength, and being
willing to ice feme trial of it, they ordered an
helmet of excellent proof, full faced with mail, to
be laid upon a block of wood, which the eurl with
one blow cut afunder, and itruck his fword fo deep
into the wood, that none there prefent but him felt"
could draw it out again ; which fword, togellut
with his armour, are to this day preferred in the
tower of London. After this nobh performance,
the king reftcrcd him to his former tides anticftate,
which was valued at that time at 25000 marks
fterling per annum, a valt income in thcfe days ;
and likewiie bade him afk for any thing die in his
gift he had a mind to, and ic ilunild be granted ;
upon which the carl replied, he had titles and ef-
tate enough, but ddiixu th-it he ;.nd his fucceifors,
the heirs male of his family (ai'tcr him) might
have the privilege, after their fhfi cbeifance, to be
covered in the royal prcfcncc of him and his fuc-
ceiTor:;, kings of England, which the king granted,
and the laid privilege is preserved in the family to
this day. The earl at terwavd.v iu living ia Eng-
land, attempted fifteen feveral times- to crofs the
(cas i: cm thence into Ireland, b.i: v* as every time
put b.uk ' y winds, whereupon he altered
his courie, ar.d went into France, vhcre he died
in the year 1210, leaving irTue by Africa his wi-
dow, daughter to Godficd, king of the lile of Man,
and of ihe wellern ifles of Scotland, Mylrs hi-;
heir and iucceilbr. Mylc', who fuccee'ded, was
<>ne of vhi; bail or fureties for his father's fidelity,
on his being rcleafed out of the tower in order to
J : ^h: ihc French champion, u; appears in the re-
EVENTS. *v
V I
1 203 cords of the fourth yc.ir of the reign of kino, John,
in thefaid tower. He was kept out of the cm Mem
. by Hugh de Lucy. who had a grant of
it from king John or. taking earl John, and fending
him prH~ou.:r 10 London ; for on Myles's clainiing
the earldom on his father's death, laid Lacy re-
that he would maintain king John's lo.lt grunt
of it to hi'^i'df, ur.ce earl John never r_:
Ireland to reverie his outlawry ; and the faid Lacy
being a great favourite of the king's, and a very
.rful man, i,l vies was forced to quit his preten-
iions, but v,-as created baron of Kinfale, and died
in ihe beginning of Henry Ill's, r
. inople taken by ths French and Venetians.
The inquiiition clt^l-lili.ei'.
lliipireo ':d eilabl'
The firft parliament in England.
Where Amfterdam now ;t:r.icir,, there \vas only a
'] c:;!t"e ;:rd vi]
:275 -\ of Dublin caftle laid.
^ns firft fummorsed to parliament.
12 zC The practice of phyiic v.-a? confined to ecclefi allies,
-.rom this time t;U ah: ut the year 1500.
London iacorpor;- . if; fir ft char-
ter tor clccVlr.g a lord niayor and other ma-
tes from king John.
Order of Fratres Mlmns eftabliflied.
Tlic pop: <:xc->mmu!iicatjd king John.
' 209 Firil btdlibeating at .Stamford in. Uncolufklre.
/: M-j'h^r:, ib called on acco;. fia .ighter
committed by ihc IriPi on a great number
ijriil:)} jvjopls, wlio inhabited Dublin, and wenl
i Cullcn's wood, on
r-Monday, \A\w\ the r>!Oim<:a ; ii (.-.
unon tln.ni and dcii
and children.
The works o! ,
into Europe.
.ire ''niportcd 1 iV'.m Greece i::
1210 V." I co;uLr..i -
3 8 REMARKABLE
Emperor Otho excommunicated by the pope.
Violent perfecution ot' the Albigcnfes.
King John met at Dublin upwards of 20 Irifh princes
vho 1'wore allegiance to him, and there c.uii'cd
them to eftablifh the Englilh laws and cuitoms.
Court of juitice firft erefted in Ireland.
Per.ce and farthings were coined in Ireland, by order
' ihn.
S:. C->r]\i tine's church at Waterford, founded by
"'<is, ion of a Norman.
12 II ?t. John the Evangelift's church in Kilkenny built,
in 3 The caftle of Dublin riniihed by bifhop Cummin.
1215 Magna Charta figncd by king John and the barons
of England.
Court c'f Cnr.mon Pleas eftabliiliedi
't'tl:e Dcminicans and Knights Kofpitallers
i'ou;
T]\e doctrine of tranfiibftantiation introduced.
iz:-' 'v'j-^ Alexander, and the v/hole kingdom of Scot-
l.ird excommunicated by the pope's legate.
Li-'Ai--, I'hil-p of France's fon, Liid claim to the
crovn (f England, and landed v,iih an ain.y <-.u
the ific of Thanct.
12! 7 l-o.ry TIL granted the city of Di'b'iin to the citi-
7c:i3, in fec-farip, at 200 marks per annum,
i .: 2 o A uror.omy and geography brought into Europe by
tlx .
1222 A great earthquake in Germany.
; A comet of extraordinary magnitude appeared in
Denmark.
1224 1 he cuilom paid in the city of Dublin, -were three-
pence for every lack of wool, fix-pence for every
h'il of hide, and two-pence for every barrel oi'
wine.
The cathedral of Drogh.cda built.
,o built by Maurice Eitz-Gerald, lord
jufticc cf Ireland.
j2Jo A league formed againfl the Albigenfes by the
prelates and 1
Marriage fill celebrated in churches.
The
EVENTS. 39
1217 The Tartars, under Giagis-Kan, emerge from the
northren parts of Alia, over-run all tiie .Saracen
empire, and carry death and defolatiou wherever
they march.
The priory of St. Mary and St. Edward at Limerick,
founded by Simon Minor, a citi/en of Limerick,
in the reign ot king John.
St. M.iry's-Abbey priory at Mullingar, built.
1228 Univerfity at Tholoufe founded.
Yarmouth becomes confidcrable for its fishery.
1230 Kingdom of Denmark diurefTed bv pc.ulcuce.
Kingdoms of Leon and Caftile united.
Pmill.i iubdued by the Teutonic knights.
Umx'eriity of Naples founded.
1231 The Alrnageft of Ptolomy tranflated into latin.
1233 The Inquifition begun in 1204, is j:ow trailed to
the Dominicans.
The houfes of London, and other cities in England,
France and Germany, (I'll thatched v,-i:I; il. ~w.
1234 Ccals difcovered at Newcaftk.
Cyder called wine, made in England.
1236 Antelamus made biihop of Armagh, and primate
of all Ireland.
Leaden pipes for conveying water, invented.
1237 Water firft conveyed to London by leaden pipes ;
it took near 50 years to complete it; the whole
being finilhed, and Che;,pude coiiduk erected only
in 1285.
1238 Univerfity of Vienna fourJjJ.
1239 A writing of this year's date on paper made of
rags ftill extant.
1240 England, miferably drained of its money by the
Popes, to the amount of 120,000!. per annum
i A our modern money, equal in point of expencc
of living to 720,000!. in our days.
1241 Firft puniihment of being hanged, drawn and
quartered.
The Hanfeatic league formed.
1245 A clear red fUr, like Mars, appears in Capricorn.
D 2
4 o REMARKABLE
1 247 . A marvellous and flrange earthquake over Ireland*
England, and all the weitern world,
i: 150 Painting revived in Florence, by Cimabue.
1251 W;iles iubducd, and Magna Charta confirmed.
1252 Magnifying glalscs invented by Roger Bacdn.
4253 The -famous afire nonrical tables composed by
Alonfo king of Caftile.
Linen "firft made in England,
i "4 Auricular confefllons nril introduced.
1276 Order of the Augtifiines eftablifhid.
1258 Stephen LcngAvord, lord juilice cf Ireland, gavi
battle to O'Neill and the rebels ci' Uhler at Down,
and Ilew 352, with O'Neill.
Counties fiiit lent members to parliament.
The Tartars take Bagdad, which tluiilics the empire
of the Saracens.
1260 The fed of Flagellantes appeared in Italy.
Seaman's co;.rpafs invented 1229, a Dutchman firil
nfed one at Venice 1260; improved at Naples
1302 ; its variation obferved 1538.
1262 The petty kings of Ireland ovn thcnifJvcs vafTids
to the Engliih crown.
1263 Acho, king of Norway, invades Scotland with
1 60 fail, and lands 20,000 men at the mouth of
the Clyde ; but they arc .cut to pieces by Alex-
ander III. who recovers thev/eftern Hies.
1264 Clement IV. (ihe fucceJlbr cf Urban) confirms
Charles in the kingdom, and crowns him a-t Rcr,:e,
J2^6 Cities and Boroughs firic reprefented in parliament.
12^1 The Tartars invade Chirr'.
1269 Hamburgh company incorporated in England.
The obliquity of the ecliptic observed by Cozah i> T a-
llrodni to be 23 39'
Maurice Fitx-Gen;ld, earl of Defmond, drowned
between England and Ireland.
The caille of RofcommoK, built by Robert UfTord,
lord juflice of Ireland.
1272 Academy of Florence founded.
1273 The empire of the prefent Auftrian family begun
in Gerniany.
rrri
1247 lae
EVENTS. 41
1274 The firft commercial treaty betwixt England and
Flanders.
1275 The knee ordered to be bent at the name of Jefus.
The city of London lends the crown of England
1 6,cool.
1279 280 Jews hanged for coining and clipping.
Edward I. commanded groats, pence, half-pence,
and farthings to be coined, and to pals current in
England and Ireland.
1280 The,cityof Waterford burnt.
Coals Hrft dug at Newcaftle, by a charter granted
the town by Henry III.
1282 Leweliyn, prince of Wales, defeated and killed by
Edward I. who unites that principality to England.
A great peililence in Denmark.
8000 French murdered at the Sicilian vefpers.
Academy de la Crufca founded.
1283 Alexander III. king of Scotland, killed by a fall
from his horfe near Kinghom.
1284 Edward II. born, and filled Prince of Wales.
1285 Kingdom of Scotland is difputcd by twelve candi-
dates, who fubmit their claims to the arbitration
of Edward king of England ; which lays the
foundation of a long and defolating war between
both nations.
Fencing-fchools in England prohibited as introduc-
tory to duels.
1288 In England a bufhel of wheat was fold for 4^.
1290 Jews were banifhed Eng^nd for ufury.
1291 Jjarriilers iirft appointed by Edward I.
Ptoltraais taken by the Turks. End of the crufadcs.
1293 A regular facceffion of Engliili parliaments from
tliis year, being the22d. of Edward I.
Baliol, king of Scotland, appeared to a fummonr,
and pleaded his cauie in WeftminRer-hall, Oct. 14.
1294 Parliaments edabln'hed in Paris.
1296 Scotch regalia and crown jewt-ls taken, and brought
to England with their cororiUtioa chair, now in
Weftmin;* -
>297 Admiral, the firft in Er.iand.
I) 3 ' ia 9 G Th"
42 REMARKABLE
1298 The prefent Turkifh empire begins in BithynJa,
under Ottoman.
Silver-hafted knives, fpoons, and cups, a great
luxury.
Tallow-candles fo great a luxury, that fplinters of
wood were generally uied.
Wine fold by apothecaries as a cordial.
The Scots defeated by the En;;liui ut Falkirk-
1299 Wind-mills invented.
An earthquake in Germany.
Spectacles invented by a monk of Pifa.
The year of Jubilee inftituted by Boniface VIII.
1500 From this time to 1500, the merchandifc of the
Eaft-Indies was brought into Europe by way of
the Red-Sea and the Nile, and frmetimes up the
Euphrates, and by caravans to Aleppo.
.Standard fixed by law for gold and filv^r.
Looking-glaffcs made only at Venice.
Woollen Ihirts frequently worn at this time.
Let no one pro fume (fays an edict of Charles VI.)
to treat with more than a foup and two difhes.
1371 A great part erf Dublin burnt, with St. Werburgh's
church ; buildings continued to be made with
\vattles and thatch.
1302 The mariner's compafs invented, by which a voy-
age could be performed in three months, which
1.x- fore took up three years.
UniverJity of Avignon founded.
1307 Bills of exchange firft in ufe.
i3'";8 The popes remove to Avignon in France for 70
years.
The firll mayor and bailiffs in Dublin.
1309 CrOckery-ware invented.
Lord Jeffrey Genvil became a friar at Trim.
1310 The bakers of Dublin drawn on hurdles through
the ftreets, tied at horfes tails, for ufmg faifc
weight-:.
Lincoln's inn focicty eftablifhed.
Tlie knights of St.jolm take poflcfilon of the ifleof
Rhodes.
EVENTS. 3 >
1314 The battle of Bannockhurn, between Edward II.
and Robert Bruce, which eftablifties the latter on
the throne of Scotland.
The cardinals fet fire to the conclave and feparate.
A vacancy in the papal chair for two years.
Philip IV. king of France, died by a fall from his
hovU; in hunting.
1315 Germany aiiUcied with famine and peftilence.
1318 Armagh battle fought pg-iin-ft Edward Bruce, who
was there taken and beheaded at Dundalk, and
with him 6200 Scots loll die-'; lives.
1319 Univerfity of Dublin founded.
1320 Gold firil coined in Chriitendorn.
An earthquake in England.
A company of linen-weavers from the Netherlands,
established in London.
1322 Edward II. furrcnders the crown to his fon.
1323 / :n;pli< n of Muur.t-JEtna.
Shi; !cnoa, Sicily and Venice, come to Eng-
land ; but no Engliih ihips as yet traded to the
Mediterranean.
1325 The firft treaty of commerce between England and
1327 The iiril broad-cloth made in England, by Jack of
Ncv.-berry.
1330 Giin,x.--vd(.T invented by a Monk of Cologn; firft
made in England, 1418.
Great guns invented by Swart/, a Cologne monk ;
ufed at the battle of Cre(fy in 1346, when Edward
had fors" pieces of cannon, which gained him the
battle ; they were nfed at the fiege (>f Calais hi
! 747 ; in Denmark 1 3 94; at fea, by Venice againfl
Geiioa, 1377 ; firR nfed in Spahi, 1406 ; 'firft made
in i>rafs, 153^ ; of iron, i 947 ; invented to flioot
wj'.ale?, 173 i ; firft tifed in England at the fiege of
jPenvick 1405; bombs and mortars invented 1634.
1331 Two Weavers from Brabant, fettled at York;
h fays king Edward, may prove of great
b'/nefk to us and our fuhieifb.
Flcrr.iih weavers, dyers, cluth drapers, linen-makers,
filk-
44 REMARKABLE
filk-throwftersj.&c. fettled at Canterbury, Norwich,
Sandwich, Colchefter, Maidftone, Southampton,
&c. on tvccount of the duke of Alva's pcrlecution,
1567 : they taught the Englilh the making or"
bai/.e, ferges, Norwich crapes, &c. The baize-
rnakers chiefly fettled at Colchefter.
The cattle of Arklow taken by the Irifh, and a great
number of the Engliih ilain : fame year, a great
famine in Ireland.
1532 The pope accufed of herefy.
1333 Wheat iold in Dublin at 6d. per bufhcl.
1337 The firft comet whofe courfe is deieiibed with an
agronomical exafmefs.
Europe infefted by locuits.
Luxury reftrifted by an Englifh law, wherein the
prelates and nobility were confined to two couries
at every meal, and two kinds of food in every
ccurfc, except on great feftivals ; it was alfo prohi-
bited all who did not enjoy a free eftate of I ool.
per annum, from wearing furs, ikins, or iilk ;
and the ufe of foreign cloth was confined to the
royal family alone, to all others it was prohibited,
1340 Heralds college inftituted in England.
Copper-money firft ufed in Scotland.
Parliamentary grants to the king were in kind ;
30,000 lacks of wool being in the grant.
Blankets firft made in England.
Gold firft coined in England. '
Creation to titles by patents, Crfl ufed by Ed-
ward III.
1346 Ich Dieti, the Bohemian motto, firft ufed by the
Prince of Wales after the battle of Creify.
1347 Durham battle, in which David, king of Scots, is
taken prifoner.
1 35 O r d tr f d lc Garter inftituted in England by Ed-
ward III. altered in 1577, and conlifts cf twenty-
fix knights.
Dauphine is annexed to the crown cf France, on con-
dition that the king's cldcft ion Urould always bear
the title of Dauphin,
1350 The
EVENTS. 4?
1350 The jnU'-u cf a hundred years reduced to lift;*, b/
Pope Clement VI.
Dyers, Brewers, &c. in the reign cf Edward I, bs-
ran to ufe fea-coal for fire.
5352 Turks firil enter Europe.
1353 Afiaand Africa defolated bylocufts.
1334 The money in Scotland till now the fame as m
England.
F-iril method of a fa;, ing bullion of gold and filv-r-.
13-55 Harlots, or common proftitutes, oaiiged to vr
firiped hoods of party colours, and their garments
the wrong fide outwards.
1356 Battle of Poicliers, in vhich king John of France
and his fon are taken prisoners by Edward the
Black Prince.
i 557 John, king of France, brought to England, and
ranfomed for 3,000,000 crowns, bat being unable
to pay it, he returned to England, and died ia
priii;n 1364.
Co.ils firit brought to London.
1358 Arms of Enrriand and France flrfl quartered by
Edv.-ard III.
Univeriity of Cologne founded.
Tamerlane be^-.m to reign in Perfia.
1360 Leather-mnney cc.incd in Fnmcc,
Lionel, eaii of Ulflcr, third fon cf Edward III,
lord lieutenant of Ireland.
A great plague in England and Ireland.
Tj$2 The law pleadings InKnrlaml cl -niFrench
to Engliih, as a favour from Edward III. to hi*
ptei
St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, burnt.
Military order of Janizaries efiablilhed among the
Turks.
1364 Four kiF.gs entertained by p. lord mayor cf London
at one t;,
The iiatutc nl" Kil'rcnny paflTed.
l";-ive r '!'; ; :y of C/oneva fc-vudtd.
Tl. rs from Del it, c.nived in England.
1369 John
46 REMARKABLE
1369 John Wickliffe, an Ejigluhlnan, begun to call m
queftion the doftrine cf the church of Rome about
this time, whofe followers were called Lollards.
1370 The office cf granJ-vi/.ir eftablillied.
A great peflilence in Ireland : a frOii from Septem-
ber to April.
1374 Bull-running at Titburry, StafFordlhire, inflituted.
1376 Woollen-cloth made in Ireland.
1 377 Inundation of the fea in Flanders.
Population of England in 1377 v/as 2,002,978 fouls
in 1483 4.688,000
in 1688 6,500,000
in 1786 8,coc,coo
137? Greenland difcovered by a Venetian.
1380 John Fhilpot, alderman of London, fitted oxit a
fleet at his own expeiice, r.nd took many pri-es.
WatTVtr, the rebel, killed by the lord mayor.
1382 The people had ;-n extravagant way of adorning
their lea ; they wore the Beaks or points of their
fhoes fo long, that they encumbered themfclves in
their walking, and were forced to tie them up to
their knees ; the ne gentlemean tied theirs with
chains of fu/er, or filver gilt, and others with
laces. This ridiculous cuftcm was in vogue from
the year 1382, but was prohibited, on the forfei-
ture of zofa. and the pain of curfmg by the clergy
1467. .
1384 The firft art of navigation in England; no goods
to be exported or imported by Engluhmen in fo-
reign bcttarns.
1386 The nril impeachment of a Chancellor, and the
firft by the Commons.
Windier caftle built by Edward III.
1388 Battle of Ottei burn, between Hotfpur and the carl
of Douglas.
Four lords jmliccs of England were banifhed into
Ireland by parliament ; li was not lawful for tlern
to make laws or give co'incil upon pain of death.
1389 Saffron firft brought to England by a pilgrim ; cul-
tivated in 1582.
Wines
EVENTS. 47
Wines fold at 2os. the tun; and the fecond fort at
135. 4tl.
1 39 1 Cards invented in France ; firfl ufed for Charles the
Sixth's amufement.
1392 Charles VI. king of France, loft his fenfes and of-
ten ib outrageous that his attendants were obliged
to bind him.
1303 Canary Ifles ciffcbvered.
130.1. King Richard II. lands at Waterford in Ireland,
ptem.ber 2d, attended with- 50,000 foot, and
4000 h( rib, who arriving in Dublin, granted the
the city a tax of a penny to be paid annually bj
every houfe ; he was crowned at Waterford,
1397 The gillir.g and pickling of herrings invented,
whu-h bjiore wCre all faked and dried for red-
herrings.
1309 Richard II. depofed September 29th, for violating
his obligation with his people (his coronation oath)
i.-.;d committed to the tower by Henry, duke of
LancanfteT; murdered in prifon February I4th.
Weftminfter-abbey rebuilt and enlarged Weilmin-
fter-bull ditto.
Order of the Bath mftitnted at the coronation of
Henry IV. revived in 1725; coniiiling of 38
knights;
1401 Welihmen forbid pxirchafmg lands in England.
1402 David, prince of Scotland, ftarved to death at
Falkland.
Tamerlane defeats and takes prifoner Saja/et, the
Turkifh fultan.
1404 The ftatutes of Kilkenny and Dublin were con-
firmed in a parliament held in Dublin, under the
earl of OrmonJ.
Hats invented in Paris; firft made in London, IJICL
1405 The fa ft bilhop that fuffered deatli in England by
fentcnce of the civil power.
Chaucer GeofFfy, the old Engliih poet, died agel
feventy.t\vo years.
1407 A great plague in London.
Tic
48 REMARKABLE
The fafhion of wearing collars of SS, in honour el
St. Simplicius, commenced.
1409 Thomas . Cufack appointed firfl mayor of Dublin.
P.'.inting in oil colours, invented at Bruges, by John
Van Eyck.
1410 Gr.iiJ-h.ill, London, built.
1411 Univeriity of St. Andrew's, Scotland, founded.
1412 Algebra brought from Arabia into Europe.
Sir William Gaicoigne, lord chief jurlice of the king's
bench, ccn:rni:ted Henry, prince of Wales into
c 1 ..:! c!y, for affaultinghim on the bench.
1413 Knights and citizens obliged to relide at the places
they rtprefented.
Henry V. landed atClontarf, near Dublin, Oct. i.
1414 Mu; : ket.s f.rfl raed in France, at thefiege of Arras.
1415 Battle of AgincQttrti gained over the French, by
:ry V. of England.
Sir John FalilarF, a brave officer at Agincourt.
1416 Parliament of Ireland removed to Trim.
ree popes at one lime at Rome.
1417 Paper made of linen rags invented.
1420 Maderia difcovered by the Portuguefe ; vines an<J
fugar-canes planted there.
142 1 Earl of Defmpnd overthrown by the Irifli, May 2 7,
Revenue of England amounted 10^.55,754.
1422 Firil conimifljon of array to raife the jiiilitia.
King Henry of England, crowned at Paris. The
latter end r,f Auguft, died that glorious and re-
nowned conqueror of France, Kenry V.
1424 Free-mafonry forbid in England.
p prohibited to be exported from England.
1425 Pumps iirft invented: the old bridge of Dublia
built, 1428.
1428 The fiegeof Orleans; the full blow to the Englirti
pr,wer in France.
Parliament petitioned agamft hops, as a wicked weed.
1430 Church benefices forbid to be held by foreigners.
Foreigner;-, indulged whh one Ivilf foreigners in
juries,
National
E V E N T S. .-. 9
1430 National debttirfi: contraficd in Henry VFs. i
; relent national debt commenced, and was
_ ...cocl. in i6y7; W.LS 46,603,100!. in i";;;
v/as 64,593,797!. i6s. 9'J. h. in 1747 ; w;is
74,780,8861. lis. 2d.]a. in i 757; was 110,603,836!.
i 1762; was 127,497,619!. whoie inte-
ic'l i to 4,526,392!. per annum, 1772;
and tlie debt was upwards of 200,000,000!. ia
1780; and 274,000,000!.' in 17:
1431 A great 'jar'jhv'juake at Lisbon.
Joan of. Arc, burnt for a w : tch.
.ndations ia Germany,
i^j jy The obliquity of the ecliptic observed by Ulug Beg-
t-> bo 23 JO 1 I 7".
1440 Printing invented by L. Coiler at Haerlam in Hol-
lanJ. : I into England by W. Caxton, a
mercer of London, 1471.
144- lie, built by John Skid^y, who was
that f of the ct. .-nv-a-ds r ;
.ieicendaiits l:</j in - -..here they hay;
i -.i'e. This c:t!l" . /Led by
the crown until 17^5 (. >:\ wa^
removed to a mav- 1 : :d in tiio ibutli libci-
;n do'.va.
1446 Ths Vatican library ibunded at Rome.
'i'iie fea bre:- i, and d'
ipo,oc5c
1 4 A '. ' -.-.I: fame year
it \v ; aent held in Trijn,
/ man llio-il 1 lh;.ve his upper lip, or
otlu :is an Iriili entniy.
1450 Cormac Mac furnamed Laider,
founded the ubb'jy ca'.l. -10, within
four mi'.js of C.i. : . ins.
I -r5
, i 123 years from its dedication b/
.e the Great, an.i ^200 : tiiC
"
/Jed.
All
5 o REMARKABLE
AttormeS in Norwich, Norfolk aud Suffolk reftraind,
and the number reduced from Ho to 14.
1457 Glafs firlT. manufactured in England.
1460 Engraving and etching on copper invented.
The obliquity of the ecliptic oblerved by Purbachius
and Regiomcntanus, to be 23 29'*
The fourth abbey in Youghall, reformed to ebfer-
vant friars, being before that time conventuals of
the francifcan order. The occafion of its eftablifh-
ment is faid to be thus : Maurice Fit/.-Gcrald was
Jbuih'ing a raQlc in the town, and wliile tht\ were
at work about the foundation, die workmen, or.
the eve of fome feiHval, came and begged a piece
of money from him to drink his health : the earl
ordered his eldeft fon to give it; but he, inftead
ct obeying his father's direction, abufed the work-
men ; which his father was ib concerned at, that,
inftead of carrying on the raftle, he creeled a houfe
of g r cv iVir.rs, took upon himil-lf the habit, and
died here in the 8ct.h year of his age, ann. 1256.
T! ; is houfe, according to Ware, was the hrll fnin-
pifcan friary in Ireland. Wadding lays, that fe-
vcr.il religious men were interred here.
TJcnvick taken by the Scr-s.
^ Mints eftabliihcd in Dublin for coining groats, tvro-
])cnny pieces, pence, half-pence, and fai things.
There weie eleven jiariih churches in and about Cork,
;is ;ippe;;rs by a charter granted by Edward IV.
vi/. i. St. Mary Shandon j 2. St. Catherine : 3.
.St. Brendan, all on the North of the river. 4.
C!-.rilt Clnrch ; 5. St. Peter's ; 6. St. John ; 7.
St. Nicholas ; 8. St. Bridget; 9. St. Marv Nard ;
10. Si. Stephen's ; thefefivc lail on the South lide
of il:t river ; and 1 1. St. Laurence's Chapel, near
':gate; befides the above, St. I'iubarr'.s, St.
Ann's, and St. Paul's, have been fmce built..
463 An .'i: pailed in Ireland for the fccurity of privilege
to members of parliament dining their fitting,
and for forty days before and after it.
Yoti';hal
E V N T S. 5-1
Youghal incorporated by Ed\vard IV- by the interefl
of Thomas, tht; ' i i of Defmond : and ifc
a parliament held at Wcxford, before Thomas,
carl of Defmond, an ac~l pafTed to ratify and con-
firm all letters patent, grants, franchifes and pri-
vileges, confirmations} &c. to the fuffrain, bailiff,
portrieve, "and commons ; or to the mayor, bai-
litF, portrieve, and commons of the town of
Youghal, by the king that now is, or any of his
progenitors.
1464 Youghal college founded by Thomas, enrlof Def-
mond ; confirmed by his fen James in 1472, and
by Maurice his brother 1496 ; the community at
fir ft confuted of a warden, eight fellows, and eight
finging men, who lived in a collegiate manner,
having a common table, and all other neceffaries
allowed them, with yearly ftipends, the whole
donation at the time of the foundation, being
worth 6ool. a year. In 1464, k ; ng Edward IV.
granted letters patent to Robert Miles and Philip-
Chriftopher, chaplains in the college church of
the 13. V. Mary of Youghal, to purchafe lands for
the ufe of this church, to the value of 20 marks
yearly, notwithstanding the itatute of mortmain;
and the fame patent pardons them for what they
had purchafed before this licence.
The foundation charter, and the appropriation of
the feveral tythes to this houfe, were confirmed by
Jordan, bi (hop of Cloyne, under his feal, and that
of William Roche, archdeacon of Cloyne, who
was then the bilhop's coadjutor. Pope Alexander,
by a bull, dated in 1494, confirmed thefe grants,
and gave the warden and fellows a licence to pur-
chafe others, and unite th:?m to the college. In
1590 Pope Julius bellowed the vicarage of Kil-
Jnacdonough to this houfe, and confirmed the
bulls of his predcce.Tors in its favour, In 1468,
Pope Pan! granted an indulgence to fuch pcrions
Z* contributed towards re-edifying the church of
Youghal. In the charter cf foundation, the patron
E 2 is
52 REM ARK ABLE
is filled earl cf Defmond, loi'd. of Decies, Icrd of
Imokilly, lord of the regalities and liberties of the
county of Kerry, and patron of this foundation.
/4^6 Another plague vifits Dublin and Mcath.
1467 By virtue of an aft of parliament, the great earl
of Defmond was beheaded at Drogheda, I5th of
) cbraary.
1470 The way firft found out for taking likenefiefs in
Flatter of Par;;, by And. Veroceti.*
Foil-offices firft. eftabliihed in Paris in England,
1642; regulated' by parliament, and made gene-
ral, 1657; and in Scotland, 1695. Increi-.led as
:ws :
,
1644 it yielded 5 5 cco per annum.
1674 10,000
i ('..64 2!,OCO
3674 43,OOO
7 65,000
1688 7"6,3l8
1*97 9>557
1710 in, 4617
1715 145,2271 grofs amount.
J744 2 35>49 2 \
1764 43 2, 084 J
1788 400,000 clear amount.
The majl nrft conveyed by ftage coaches, began
Aug. 2, 1785 ; began to be conveyed to Water-
ford by MUford Haven, 1787. The encreafe of
the revenue by the mail coaches was above 30,000!
in i 789.
$471 Margaret, queen to Henry VI. with her fon, taken
priftmer at the battle of Tev/kefbury, May 4th.
jy oi'the Greek language introduced into France.
1477 University of Aberdeen in Scotland founded.
W-.itche: invented at Nuremberg, in Germany ; firft
ufed in aftronomical obfervatjons 1500. The em-
peror Charles V. was the iirft v. ho had any thing
ttat might be called a vvatcl;, though fonie call it
k /mall 'table-clock, 1530. Watches firft brought
to
EVENTS. 55
to England from Germany 1597; fpring pocket
ones invented by Hooke 1658.
1479 Union of the kingdoms of Arragon andCaftile.
1.480 Swifs foldiers firit taken in the pay of France.
1482 Coaft of Guinea difcovered by the Portuguefe.
Edward IV. granted the charter of Kinfale, which
was called in Irifh, Cean Taile^ i. e. the head of the
fea ; alluding to the promontory called the Old
Head. The corporation forfeited their charter
upon the Spaniards landing in this town, anno.
1600, together with all their privileges; for on the
1 4th of October 1601, the burgelfes came to lir
George Carew, and requeftcd him to refiore their
charter, fcal, mace, and royal fhindard, which)
upon the arrival of the Spaniards, they had de-
livered him to keep ; the prelldent faid he could
not return them without directions from England,
but promifed to write to the queen in their favour,
which lie did, and foon after had an order to re-
ftore them, on condition that they iliould at their
own charges repair their walls,
King Edward IV. died in tli 42d. year of his age ;
he was one of the handfomeft men in all Europe,
Edward V. fucceeded his father the 9th of April,
but was never crowned ; this unfortunate prince,
was but twelve years of age when he began to
reign, which lafted but two years and twelve
days, himfelf and his brother the duke of York,
being bo tli murdered by the protector, Richard,
duke of Gloucefter, their uncle, who afterwards
ufurped the crown : they were lodged in the tower,
where it was cuftomary for the kings of England
to rciide before their coronation ; and the protec-
tor, upon the refufal made by Sir Robert Brack-
enbury, lieutenant of the tower, to be an accom-
plice of fo barbarous a fcene of villainy, gave the
government of it for one night Only, to lir James
Tyrvel, who had fuborned one Myies Foreft and
John Dighton, who in the dead time of the night,
entered the chamber where the two princes lay,
E 3 and
54 REMARKABLE
and ftifled them. The I order v/a? fent
to the lieutenant of the tower, as feme author ia^,
To ;./,
Kffufi f^ fear, />;\-y hid It ? r --'d.
So that by placing a comma after the word refute*
fignifies to fpare his life : whereas if it had been
placed after th.e word fcin; it would import taking
;iway his life ; hence by the mifplacing of a fmgle
comma, death en j tu-d.
Jane Shore obliged to do penance in St. Paul's ;
ftarved to dea'.h by Richard III.
14^3 Richard III. king of England, .and lad of the
cagcnets, is defeated and killed at the buttle
or' Bofuo:th, byHelrry (Tudor) VII. which puts
an end to the civil wars between the^unifes of York
and Lar^ sr a conteft of 30 yean,, and
tiis lofs of ioo,ceo men.
1486 I-ionry eitabiifhes fifty yoemen of the guards, the
landing army.
Henry, earl of Richmond, known by the name of
Pcrkin Warbeck, claimed the crov. n t'f England,
and was crooned king in Chi i ft church, Dublin ;
he w aded to the bafe flice of
; , ing's kitchen.
;, This } . . } v;as lent to the earl of Kil-
\'/. iix Iiand-gjins, or inufl^ets, out of Ger-
manv, v.-hlch his guards, diuirg the time that
d centinels before liis houfe in Tlunr a'->
:, bore on their moulders, the earl being at
this time lord deputy of Ireland.
< fea charts firft brovght to England by
; ;r.^.
ceyn introduces the ftudy of the Greek
^ngland.
rto a f.irrni.!:iMc cnc-rr.y -.o tire na-
, are entirely fui
; r.<! bec( nt \-'.\ 1 ' f ! - to rliat j^rinr:/
t:s, which are ill ol Spaniards,
vhofe ck-r.-'y i;fl th: i:,t;,;i:'-ition in ail it'; tortures;
snd ir, j 6c.-f .. near one million c-f the lvi')crs are
EVENTS. 55
driven from Spain to the oppofrte coail of Africa,
from whence they originally csme.
Lord Barry, of Barry' s-Cotirt,, fummoned to par-
liament as Lord Baron Barry. The fami]
long enjoyed die title of vilccunt Buttevant, and
were created earls of Barryiriore 1627.
1491 This year was called the diiVnal year, by reafon cf
the continu.u fall of rain all nef and au-
tumn, which caufed great fcarcity cf all forts cf
, throughout tlie kingdom of Ireland.
1492 America firil J.ifcovercd by Columbus, a Genoefe,
in the i'ervice of Spain.
The Moors expelled from Granada, which they bad
poifeiied upwards of 00 years.
Wormwood and other plants ufed for preferring
n..Ji liquors, bef;>vc the ufeof h-
1494 Sir Ed-.vard Poyr.ing, one of the king's counfellor?,
arrives in Ireland, and is rrude lord deputy; he
calls a parliament at Drogheda, where he pro-
cured (among many others) fol:.v-.> ir.;;
hills, vi/.. That no j t mould be called in
the kingdom wiviv : -ig a reafon; and a
bill to be tranfu/.tted for calling the fame
the great foal of Ireland to the king a n .o council,
with an approbation oft!
his majefty's leave ur.der the great foal of Eng-
land, tofummrnu t. Alfo the memo-
I'able law, which to this day ' v his name,
That tlie public ft; :a:id, thtii
lately ordained, be received alfo in Ir;..
/ijgujr.i nrft known in Europe.
TIQC Tlie venereal difeafe in into Europe.
J^yfj The Jews and Moors baniihed (Hit of Portugal.
Gerald Fir/- Gerald, call of Kildare, was declared
a tr:rtf;i 1 y 'ir L.dvvard Poyning, who w.:
Ireland ; he had the earl lent p-
ies, finding that the
; him, ro heir }.i r .\ article
tt/'/i. a- 1 ':-.L' I'tW, Vv-iicreu}-on the l.i: 1 .^ replied, ibxn
5 REMARKABLE
le Jliall rule all Ireland', and made him lord lieu-
tenant thereof, in which ftation he continued five
years ; he was the feventh earl of Kildare.
1497 The Portuguefe firft fail to the Eaft-Indies by the
Cape of Good Hope.
South America difcovered by Americus Vefpufius,
from which it has its name.
Com was fo fcarce this year, that a peck of wheat
in Meath, was fold at five IclTer ounces of filvcr,
a gallon of ale 6d. 'and a barrel of oats in Ulfter,
was worth a cow.
1499 North America difcoyered for Henry VII. by
Cabot, a Venetian.
In November, Perkin Warbeck, and his friend John
Walters, who was mayor and citizen of Cork,
were tried at Weftminfter by a jury of twelve men,
found guilty of high-treaibn, and hanged at
Tyburn. Their heads were afterwards fet up on
London-bridge. Philip Walters, the fon of John
beforementioned, was afterwards pardoned by the
king's clemency. But lord Bacon fays, that both
the mayor and his fon were executed with Perkin.
1500 Maximilian divides the empire of G.crmany into fix
circles, and adds four more in 1512.
Bra/il difcovered by the Portuguefe. Florida dif-
/xwered by John Cabot, an Engliiliman.
Painting in ckiaro obfcuro difcovered.
A great plague in England.
Jubilee year. Moft part of the town of Galway
burnt.
Virtues of Jefuits Bark difcovered ; firft brought te
Europe, 1650.
Auguft i ft, the charter of Cork was reftored, it be-
ing forfeited by the rebellion of the citizens ; and
a new one granted to the corporation, with an
enlargement of their privileges : they were allb
received into the favour of king Henry.
1501 The fort of Sligo taken by Rory O'Connor.
1502 A murrain in Ireland, which dcftroyed a great part
of tfie cattle in the kingdom,
1503 Sugar.
EVENTS. 57--
1503 Sugar-baking hrft found out by a Venetian.
1504 A battle fought near Galway, cttv.-een the earl of
Kildare and Ulick Bourk, \vherein the earl got
the day, and Ccw 2000 men.
A pestilence raged this year in this province ; and
the next feafon was^ollowedl DY a great dearth, of
which alib great numbers pcnihcti.
1505 Shillings rirlt coined in England.
1506 'Town of Trim burnt by lightning.
1507 Ifland of Madagascar discovered by theTcrtuguefe.
1568 America firll had negro (laves carried to it.
*5 C '9 Gardening introduced into England from the Ne-
therlands, from whence vegetables were imported
hitherto.
Henry VII. died 22d. of April; his fon Henry VIII.
was crowned 2.) th of J'.me fcilov/ing.
1510 The obliquity of the ecliptic oblervej by Wernenus
to be 23 28' 30- '.
1512 Caftlc of Bduill dcmolilhedby the earl of Kildare.
Royal Navy of England, lirft feruled.
1513 Maximilian the emperor, eniiiled as a fubjecl, and
fought as a captain under Henry VJII. againit
France.
Tlie battle of Flowden, in v.'hiclt Jarrte? IV. king of
Scotland is killed, with the flower of his nobility.
Benefit of the clergy taken from murderers.
1514 Cannon bullets of ilone (till in ufe.
1515 The firft Polyglot Bible printed at Alcala.
The kingdom of Navarre annexed to that of Caflile
by Ferdinand.
1516 The kingdom of Algiers fei/ed by EarbarofTa,
1517 Martin Luther began the Reformation.
Egypt is conquered by the T
The i;ir/.-\i">m cf the Mamnlukes in Egypt, over-
thrown by the Turks.
Queens of England, France and Scotland, in Eng-
land at one time.
China firft vifited by the Portuguefe ; conquered by
the eatlern Tartars 163').
1518 Difcovery of New Spain, and die Straits of Ma-
M.
5t REMARKABLE
1521 Henry VIII. for his writings in favour of pop'err,
receives die title of Defender of the -F.r:VZ irom Lis
Holinefs.
Philippine Ifles difcovered by the Spaniards.
Whale-bone found by the Engiifn mips at Cape-
Breton.
Richard Geld brought the king's fv.-oru, and pre-
fented it tt> the mayor of Cork.
1522 Rhodes taken by the Turks.
The firft voyage round the world performed by a
fhip of Magellan's fquadron.
Sir Edward Poyning died. A plague in the city of
Limerick.
1525 Hops firit ufcd in malt liquors in England.
1526 The Inquiil'irn eftabUihed in Portugal.
Lmheranifm eftablifhed in Germany.
1527 Rome taken and plundered by the imperial army.
1528 Popery abcKihed in Sv;eden.
A malignant diforder, called the fweating-ficknef?,
in Cork.
1529 The name of Proteftairt takes its rife from the re-
formed prcteftrag agninft the church of Rome, at
the diet of Spires in Germany.
1530 Union of the Proteftar.ts at Smalcalde, Dec. 22d.
Secretary of State's office eftabliflied in England.
The revenue of Ireland, by the lord treafurer's ac-
counts in cni'iilms tx:t;b:is & prof.cuis y did not at
this time, exceed 3040!. per annum.
153 1 A great earthquake at Ltibon.
O'Sullivr.n tells the following ftory -with great often-
tation : tliat an Englilh Ihip took a Spaniih velfel
tliat was fifhing near the Durfeys. Upon which
his grand-father, Dermot O'Sullrvan, prince of
Bear and Bantry (as he calls him) having noL'ce
cf it, manned out a fmall fquadion of Ihips, and
brought in both the Englifhman and the Spaniih
veflel to Bearhavcn. The Englilh captain he ;
hanged, and fet the other at liberty.
1532 The Court of Seffion inflituted in Scotland.
Three blazing liars appeared in two years fpace.
Foifoning
EVENTS. 59
Poifoning made treafon.
1533 Infurreftion of the Anabaptifis in Weflphalia.
Hemp and flax firft planted in England.
1534 The Reformation takes place in England, under
Henry VIII.
* Barbaroifa fcized on the kingdom of Tunis.
1535 The Reformation introduced into Ireland.'
Ten thoufand friars and nuns turned out of die mo-
nafteries in England.
The focicty of Jefuits formed.
Etching in copper with aquafortis, invented.
A JiiOit vic-L-r.t plague raged in the city of Cork.
1536 Annuities r-r pennons, firft granted 1512, when
3!. 6s. Sd. was given to a lady of the court for fer-
vices done, and 61. 138. 4d. for the maintenance
of a gentlewoman, 1536; and 13!. 6s. 8d. a com-
petent ium to fur-port a gentleman in the fludy of
the law, 1554.
1539 The firft English edition of the bible audiorifed; die
prefent tranflation rinifhcd 161 1.
About this time cannon began to be ufed in fh:'ps.
Six hundred and forty-five religious houfes fupprelfed
in England and \YVies.
This fummcr was fo dry in Ireland, that the Lee at
Cork, was a'moft c'ricd up, and feveral other ri-
vers ;iKo, f<,r want cf rain.
1540 Tlic variation of the compafs difcovcred by Sebaf-
tiiin Cabot.
Tiu: obliquity of the ecliptic obfcrved by Copper-
nicus to be 23 28' 8".
The order of Jefuits founded by Ignatius Loyola.
Ufe of quickfilver difcovured in refilling filver ore.
Sir Anthony St. Leger, gentleman of die king's privy
r1::miber, and knight of die garter, was fworn lord-
ticputy of Ireland, before whom a parliament was
held at Dublin, June 13, 33 Henry the VIII. in
which it was enacted, that the king and his fuc-
: s fliould be kings of Inland. To whom the
liiih and degenerated Eiij/lilli, made their feveral
iubraillioQi- b- indenture.
1541 Ireland
Co R. E M A R K A B L E
1541 Henry VIII. was proclaimed king of Ireland (of
which I was only ililed lord, but with
kingly power) in St. Patrick's, near Dublin ; in
.London 23d. of January, and confirmed by Pope
Paul in June 155*5.
1543 Silk (lockings rirll worn by the French king; firfl
worn in England by queen Elizabeth, 1561 ; the
fteel frame for weaving invented by the Rev. Mr.
Lee, of St. John's college, Cambridge, 1589.
Pins firlt ufed in England, j before wiiLh unie the
ladies wore (kewers.
Iron cannon and mortars made in England.
Bankrupts in England rirft - : by lav,'.
1544 Good lands let in England ac one ihiUmgper acre.
Is firft ufed by the horfe.
1545 The famous council of Trent begun, and continued
eighteen years.
Alderman Read of London, fent as a common fol-
d:er fcr refufir.g Kenry Vill. an arbitrary bene-
lice.
Needles were firft made in. England by a native- of
Jfidia ; the art loll at his death ; recovered by
Chriftopher Greening 1560, who was fettled with
his three children, Elizabeth, John, and Thomas,
by Mr. Darner, anceftor of the pitientlord Milton,
at Long Cicndon, in Bucks, where the mami-
ry has been carried on from that time to this
prefent day.
Fort-holes in fhips of war introduced.
v'lll. died of a fever and an ulcerated leg at
AYeRminiler, the 28th of January, having reigned
ears, 9 months and 6 days ; he was born 2.8th
ne 1491 ; married Catherine, infanta of Spain,
his brother Arthur, the 30!. of June 1509,
11 he devorced, and married Ann Sullen,
May 23, 1533 ; he was excommunicated by Pope
, Arguit 30'!:, 1535 ; he put Ann Bullcn, his
;J queen to liuatli, :nid rnarri:;!
;. 1536, w'ho dicdi.. -J, Octoi)er
- J 5;>7> kv diilbivcd the ixlieious j'
dons
EVENTS. 6r
lions in England 1539 ; married Ann of Clevcs,
January .6th, 1540; marri>>l Catherine Howard,
his iii'th wit'e, the 8th of Auguft following, and
beheaded her on Tower-hill, with lady Kochford,
February I2ih, 1542; married Catherine Parr,
his fixth wife July i2th, 1543, who iurvived him.
Public Stews fupprefied, which before were licenced.
.1547 Eirft fneriffs in the city of Dublin.
Fir it law in England efikbliftiihg the intefeft of mo-
ney at i o per cent.
Slave a ilatute made, enabling,' that a runagate
fervant, or any who lives idiy three days, be
brought before two juftices of the peace, an 1
marked V. with a hot iron on the breaft, and ad-
judged the Have of him who brought him, for tvo
years ; he was to take the laid ilave, and give him
bread, water, of finall drink, and refufe-meat, and
caulehim to work by beating, chaining, or other-
wile ; and if, within that fpace", 'he abfented hini-
felf 14 days, was to be marked on the forehead or
check, by an hot iron wiih an S. and be his mafter's.
flave for ever ,- lecond tleiertion felony ; lawful to
put a ring of iron round his neck, arm, or leg ;
a beggar's child might be put apprentice, and on
running away, a nave to his mailer ; obtained
their freedom by anival in England, 1772 ; abol-
i, lied in Poli ill Auftria, June 26, 1782; debated
on i;-! parliament, 17^9.
1 54$ The Reformation gained ground in Poland.
1549 Lord Lieutenants of counties inilituted in England.
A congregation of Proteftant Spaniards in London.
Dcrmot O'Sullivan, of Bear-haven, was this year
blown up in his caftle with gun-powder, by ac-
ciden'; ; and his brother Amlavus, who liiccej.l'.d
him, was } ii":ed toon after.
1550 Horfe guards inllitutctl in En;;!:aad.
The bank of Venn 1 .- this time.
Ballets of iron :inl ull-ii in KM:-;';"! J.
Knitting {lockings invented in Mpi'.ir..
to REMARKABLE
1551 G-eorge Brown, fome time archbifliop of Dublin,
was the firrt of the Roman clergy that adhered to
the Reformation cf the Protellant church of
England.
1552 The Paiis maflacre of Proteftants, Auguft 24th.
No taverns but in cities and towns, and thofe limited
to a certain number.
Books of geography and aftronomy defiroyed in
England, as being infected with magic.
The book of Common Prayer eftablilhed in England
by act of p.-irl-iamer.t.
1^53 King Edward VI. died the 6th of July. Mary
crowned queen, October ift.
Queen Mary reftores the Popiih bifhops, and counte-
nances the mais.
Circulation of blood through the lungs, fir/I made
public, by Michael Scrvetus, a French phyfician ;
C'ih'lpinus pnbliilicd an account of the general cir-
culation, of which lie I'.ad iorr.e confufed ideas,
a.id improved it afterwards by experiments 1569;
but it was fully confirmed by Harvey, 1628.
*554 Qu een Mary ordered mafs to be celebrated in
Dublin.
The Protoilant biflicp cf Meath expelled.
]i;hn llcgcrs the firii martyr, was burnt in London,
a: id biil.op Hooper at Glouceftcr ; billiop Ridley
and Latimcr, fuflfcred the fame inlniman deaths.
The kingdom of Aitracan conquercd-by the Ruffians.
15^ The Rutllan company eftablifhed in England.
Cfv.ches firll ufed in England. Wheat foid there for
2!. ^s. the barrel.
ij;r6 Archbifliop Cninmer was burnt at Oxford, andfuc-
ccedcd by Cardinal Pole.
; ; ;5? ; 'l/abeth began her reign.
I ' be-.n iii t'ie hands of the Englifli
for near two hundred years, farrendcred to France.
Quet-n Mary diei the 171!! of November, aged
ry-tiiree years.
;.;rcat iiorai of h.iil in Nortliamptcnfhire, the
ftoncs.
EVENTS. G-j
ftones of which meafured fifteen inches in circum-
ference, and deftroyed two towns, July 4th.
1559 The memorable, or wonderful yearj-fo called by
reafon of the death of the pope, emperor, and
feveral other great princes*
Cliurch Service firft performed in Englifh, May 8th.
Cuftom-houfe, Lcmd'on, firil in England burnt down,
and rebuilt, 1718.
Aft of uniformity paifed ; took place, 1662.
1560 The Reformation in Scotland completed by John
Knox.
Bull-fights in Spain, firft ufed.
1561 Livonia ceded to Poland.
1562 On the 3d. r>f April, the roof and part of the body
of Chrill church fell, by which the ancient mo-
nument of Strongbow was broke.
Ireland reduced into Shires, though we call them
counties.
1563 Knives firft made in England, by Thos. Matthcwr,
on Fleet-bridge, London.
The firft {lave trade on the coaft of Guinea by the
Englilh, was opened by John Hawkins, affiiled
by a fubfcription of fundry Englifh gentlemen ;
he failed from England with three fhips, purchafe J.
negroes, fold them at Hifpaniola, and returned
home richly laden with hides, fugar, and ginger.
v. Elizabeth.
Before this year, all Englifh iron-wire was made
and drawn by main ftrength alone, in the foreft
of Dean, and elfewhere, until the Germans in-
troduced the drawing of it by a mill. The greateil
part of the iron-wire and ready made wool-cards,
hithorto imported.
1564 The firft coach made in England, for the earl of
Rutland, by Walter Rippon.
1 5&1 The f rt ar *d town of Derry in Ireland, burnt.
Revolt of the Low Countries.
Malta attacked by the Turks.
Potatoes firil brought to Ireland from New Spain-
F 2 Durirtg
6 4 REMARKABLE
During the government of fir Henry Sidney, Mac-
Carty More, was created earl of Clancare. He
vent over to England and made a furrender of his
eftate to queen Elizabeth, which the regranted to
him by letters patent ; and after he had iworn
fealty, conferred on him the above title, and paid
the charges of his journey. He was, at the fame
time, made lord baron of Valentia. O'Sullivan
Bear alfo took out a patent for his eftate, wherein
was a provifo, that he fhould pay all fuch rents
and fervices as were due to the faid earl of Clan-
care.
1566 The 3 9 articles of the church of England eflablifhed.
1567 The earls of Ormond and Defmond at open v.ar
in Ireland.
The rebellion of Shane O'Neill, when O'Neill was
betrayed and {lain : this rebellion coft England
237407!. 35. pd. over and above the cefs on the
country, with the lofs of 35oofoldiers.
Sixty-fix conftables hanged for rebellion.
The old Royal Exchange in London built.
The firft phyfic-garden cultivated in England, by
John Gerrard, furgeon of London; that at Ox-
ford, endowed by the earl of Danby, 1652 ; that
at Cambiidge began 1763. Phyfic garden, Chel-
fea, began 1732.
1568 Labour of hufbandmen at different periods, frcra
1568, to the year 1788, in England.
1568 4d. per -diem.
1620 4h.
1632 6
1647 10
6
8
,698 8
i 7I 6 9
1740 10
160 i o
E V E N T S. 65
Tratfton-Abbey, granted by queen Elizabeth, to
Henry Guilford, gent, and fir. James Craig, on
their paying 7!. 155. it was founded anno. 122.;,
for ciflertian monks, by the Mac-Carty's. The
abbots of it formerly fat in parliament. The
monks pretended to have a piece of the crofc,
which, they faid, Barry-Oge, at a great price,
obtained and gave them ; this was fo firmly be-
lieved, that on every holy Thurfday, vaft multi-
tudes reforted to pay their devotions to this fuppoi-
ed relick. The monks came from Alba Landa,
in Wales ; and this houfe was called. De Alba
Trach'..
1569 Italian method of book-keeping brought to England"
Bonner, bilhop of London, died in the marfhalfea,
S,ej t. jth.
Lotteries lor repairing the fortifications on the coafts
of England, drawn at the weft end of St. Paul's
cathedral, for pieces of plate.
Perfian trade began; opened through Ruffia, 1741.
1570 Gauging invented.
The Dutch lay the foundation of their Common-
wealth.
Duelling, in civil matters, forbidden in France.
1571 Felt hats made in England.
The Hril printing in Irilh characters brought into
Ireland by Nicholas Walili, chancellor of St. Pa-
trick's, Dublin.
Diffcnters firfl ftparated from the church of England.
Ifland of Cyprus taken by the Turks.
They arc defeated at Lepanto.
Marcley Hill, near Hereford, was moved from its
fituation on Saturday evening, Feb. I yth ; con-
tinued in motion till Mond.iy following ; carried
along with it the trees, hedges and cattle on its
furlace ; overthrew a chapel in its way ; formed ;i
large hill 1 2 fathom high, where it fettled, and
left a chairn 40 feet deep and 30 long, whore it
Rood before.
A law, emitting that every perfoa above feven years
F 3 of
6 REMARKABLE
of age, fhould wear on Sundays and holidays a
cap of wool, knit made, thickened and drciicd in
England, by fome of the trade of cappers, under
the forfeiture of three farthings for every day's
neglect ; excepting maids, ladies, and gentlewo-
men, and every lord, knight, and gentleman, of
twenty marks of land, and their heirs, and iuch
as have borne office of worfhip in any city, town,
or place, and the wardens of the London com-
panies.
This year, queen Elizabeth gave a filver collar of
S. S. to Maurice Roche, mayor of Cork, for his
affiftance againft the rebels.
1572 A new ftar in Caffiopseia obferved by Cornelius
Gemma. It appeared in November, and dliV.p-
peared in March.
Fans, muffs, manes, and falfe hair, firft deviled by
the harlots in Italy, and brought into England
from France.
Prefbyterian meeting-houfe, the firft in England, at
Wandfworth, in Surry, Nov. 20.
1575 A great plague broke out in Dublin, on the 7th of
June, and continued till the I7th of October,
which carried off three thoufand perfons.
The fheriffs of the city of Dublin, held their courts
at Glafmanouge (now united to the city) in the
time of the plague, as being remote more from
it.
.15/6 The exercife of the Proteftant religion authorifed
in France : this toleration followed by a civil war.
The earl of Clanrickard taken prifoner, and lent to
the caflle of Dublin.
5>ir William Drury was appointed lord prefident of
Munftcr ; and two years after, was elected lord
juftice of Ii eland.
; -7 Three hundred people died at the affizes of Oxford,
by the flench of the prifoners.
Sir Francis Drake began his voyage round the world,
;.n.d returned in 1580.
ilory Oge O'Moure burnt Naa c , Catherlough,
EVENTS. 67
Lciglilin-bridge, Ballymore, Rathe col, and many-
other towns in Leinftcr.
1578 The firft treaty of alliance betwixt England and
the States General, January 7th.
1579 The Dutch fhake off the Spanifh yoke, and the
Republic of Holland begins.
Englilh Eaft-India Company incorporated efta-
blifhed 1600.
Englilh Turkey company incorporated.
The arch rebel, James Fitz-Maurice, lands in Kerry
with Allen and Saunders.
The rebels defeated by the earl of Ormond.
Calendar firft regulated by Pope Gregory.
Linen ftaining firft known in England.
Youghal fuffered much in the wars of the earl of
Defmond ; it was taken and facked by him in this
year ; and being regained by captain White, it was
again retaken by the fenefchal of Imokilly. White,
and moft of his men being fiain ; by this means
Youghal was left quite defolute, not a man ftay-
jng in it, except one poor friar ; but the old inha-
bitants were invited to return, a garrifon of 300
men being left for their protection. The mayor,
who had refufed a garrifon, and had perfidiouily
yielded the town to Defmond, was taken and
hanged at his own door.
1580 James Uflier, born in Dublin; afterwards Arch-
bifhop of Armagh.
Parochial regifter firft appointed in England.
Kingdom of Portugal feized by Philip of Spain.
Cuftoms of England amounted to but 14,000!. in
this year; to 50,000!. in 1592; to 148,000!. in
1614; to 168,000!. in 1622; to 500,000!. in
1642 - r to 1,555,600!. in 1720; to 1,593,000!. in
1721 ; to 1,094,000!. in 1744; tn 2,000,000!. in
in 1 74}) ; its officers deprived of voting for mem-
ber;; of parliament, 1782.
1581 Copper money firft ufed in France.
Sedans iiril introduced in England.
Pope
63 REMARKABLE
1582 Pope Gregory introduced the New Stile in Italy;
the 5th of Oftober being counted ijth.
Doclor Saunders the pope's nuncio, died of a famine
and the bloody flax in a wood, where his carcali
was partly devoured by wolves.
Tide ebbed and flowed three times in one hour, at
Lyme, in Dorfetlhire.
1583 Tobacco firft brought from Virginia into England.
The firft propofal of fettling a colony in America.
A remarkable circumftance happened in Dorfetfhire;
a field of three acres, with the trees and fences, at
Black-moor, moved from thence, palled over ano-
ther field, and fettled in the highway at Hearn.
1584 By an inquifition taken at Cork, Nov. 4, Bally-
narnony was found to be an ancient corporation.
Stephen Skiddy, alias Scudamore, by his will, bear-
ing date flic 28th of May, and the aythof queen
Elizabeth, bequeathed, among other legacies,
that the mafter, wardens and commonality of
vintners of the city of London, and their fuc-
eeflbrs, fhould, out of certain rents mentioned in
his will, pay yearly the fum of 24!. fieri, at tht;
common hall of the faid vintners for the time be-
ing, to the mayor of Cork, in Ireland, or his de-
puty, on the 2jth of March and 29th of Septem-
ber for ever ; to be by him distributed among ten
of the honeft poor of the faid city, of the age of
40 years at the leaft. The mayor of the ftaple is
governor of the faid hoipital and his fucceffors.
Every alderman nominates a perfon to the faid
hofpital in turn, as is done in St. Stephen's ho
pttal.
The Irifh from their peculiar cufloms, their appear-
ance and drefs, were in regard to the Engliih, a
foreign, we might almoft fay, a remote nation.
"When the chieftain O'Neal, went upon his villt
and interview wrh queen Elizabeth, he was ae-
companied, and continued to be attended in Eng-
land by a guard of Gallowglafles, armed with
the battle-axe, after the manner of their country,
their heads bare, their Jmir flowing on their Inoul-
dcrs,
EVENTS. 69
tiers, and their livien vefts with large fieeves, dyed'
\viih faiFron. He was received and treated as an
independent chje
1585 Ahjerine pirates tirft put to fea.
Fiihery of Newfoundland claimed by the Englifh.
1587 Mary queen of Scots, is beheaded by order of queen
Elizabeth, after eighteen years iniprifonment.
Copperas firil made in England, by Cornelius de
Vos, a merchant.
1588 This being the remarkable year of the defeat
of the Spanifh armada, by Drake and other
Englifh admirals, and their being afterwards dil-
perfed by ftorms and tempcfts, feveral of their
great fliips perifhed on the Irifh coaft. On Septem.
loth, the vice-prefident of Munlter had advice,
that two great fliips were, lo'l upon the coaft of
Connaught, in which 700 perfons were drowned,
and 150 taken prifoners : there were alib loft, in
the fame province, three great fhips in Sligo haven,
in which were 1500 men; in Tyrawly, one fhip
and 400 men ; in Clare-ifland, one fliip and 300
men ; in Dunglafs, one lliip and 400 men ; in
G'Flaharty's country, one fhip and 200 men; in
Irrife, two verTels, the men of which were faved
by other velfels ; in Munfter, there were two fhips
and 600 men loil in the river Shannon ; befides
one fhip burnt) the men of which efcaped in ano-
ther fhip ; in Tralee, one fhip and 24 men ; in
J")ingle, one fhip and 500 men ; in Defmond, one
fhip and 300 men ; with another loft in Loughfoile
in Ulfter, which had in her 1 100 men ; the whole
of their lofs on the coaft of Ireland, was 1 7 fhips
and 5394 men.
Henry IV. paries the edift of Nantes, tolerating the
Proteftants.
Duelling with fmall fwords introduced into England.
Fire-fhips firft invented.
1589 Sir Francis Drake, with five fliips of the line,
chafed into Crols-haven by the Spaniards in a much
larger fleet, and moored his Ihips under fhelter of
Corribiny-
7* REMARKABLE
Cnrribmy-hill ; the Spaniards failed up the har-
bour of Cork, and were furpriied at not feeing
the (hips they had been in chafe of; thus having
miffed their prey, they failed out again.
Coaches rirft introduced into England ; hackney act
1 693 ; increafed to 1000 in 1 770.
This year faifron was firft brought to England by
a pilgrim.
Tyrone enters into a confpiracy with the Spaniards.
1590 The city of Dublin granted the priory of All-
Saints for the foundation of an univcrfity.
Sail-cloth firft made in England.
Telefcopes invented at Middleburg, in Zealand, by
the children of one Janfen, a fpe<5tacle-maker,
v.ho in play, fet fome glafies at a diftance from
each other in their fingers, which they held up
againft a fteeple, on which they oblerved the wea-
ther-cock to appear much larger, and to come very
near them ; of this they acquainted their father,
who fonn improved the hint, and made it public.
Band of penfioners inftituted in England.
Tea and Porcelain of China firft mentioned.
Cheft at Chatham enforced by law.
Criminals were ordered transportation inftead of exe*
cution. Henry VIII. executed 72000.
Iron mills for flitting iron, the firlt in England, was
fet up at Daitford.
Jupiter's fatellites difcovered by Janfen.
1591 The Eaft-India company began. The Englifh make
their firft voyage to India.
Queen Elizabeth erected an univerfity in Dublin,
dedicated to the blefled Trinity, on the foundation
of an oldmonaflery called All-Saints; the firll
ftone v:as laid by Thomas Smith, Efq; mayor of
the city, attended with the regalia, March xgth.
Adam Loftus, archbidiop of Dublin, was the firil
provoft; Lucas Challoner, William Daniel, James
Fullerton, and James Hamilton, were the firft
fellows; Abel Welfh, James Ullicr, and James
Lee, the firft fcholarr.
EVENTS. 71
The firft patent for Printing.
1593 Above 1 8,000 people died of the plague in London.
Cadiz in Spain, taken by the Englilh, under the earl
of Eilex.
1594 The Jefuits expelled from France.
The obliquity of the ecliptic obferved by Byrgius to
be 23 30"
Cork-ftreet, in the town of Kinfale, was this year
burnt to the ground.
1595 Tyrone rebells, and takes the fort at Black-Water,
in Ireland.
Sir John Hawkins's' expedition againft Spanifh A-
merica.
The obliquity of the ecliptic obferved by Tycho-
Brache to be 23 29' zf.
1596 A great earthquake at Japan.
Another in Kent, where the hills became vallies full
ot water. >
1597 The firft act for the relief of the poor.
159^ Tyrone defeats the Engliih forces under Sir Henry
Bagnell, who is killed.
1599 The earl of Effcx, lord lieutenant of Ireland, lands
at Dublin the ijth of April: he makes a bad
truce with Tyrone, and returns to England, for
which he was impriioned by the queer..
1600 The earl of Ormc.nJ made prifoner by the rebels.
St. Helena firft poiFetfed by the Englifn ;' fettled 1651.
Ballincolly, a large cuftle, was an ancient feat of the
Barrets ; this cattle was garrikmed by Cromwell,
and, in the late wars for king James ; William
Barret was created a baronet, June 4, 1 665", the
title now extinct.
1 60 1 The carl of Eifex beheaded February 2jth.
The Spaniards landed :-t Kinfale with 4000 men,
and were bent out the 25th of October.
An aft paffcd to prevent men riding in. coaches, as
effeminate.
Jnfurance of fhipping began in England.
Lcrtl deputy Mountjoy built the fort on Hawlbowlin.
1602 The Jargeft fliip in the royal nuvy of England, at
the
72 REMARKABLE
the death of queen Elizabeth, was 1000 ton,,
340 mariners, and 40 cannon.
Decimal arithmetic invented by Simon Stephen, of
Bruges.
Kinalmeaky (formerly part of Carbery) forfeited by
O'Mahony in the earl of Defmond's rebellion ;
was by queen Lli/.abeth granted to Grenville and
Beecher, Engliih undertakers, by. -whom it was
firft planted and got the name of a barony. It
afterwards gave title to the noble Lewis Boyle,
lord vifcount Kinalmeaky, and baron of Bandon-
bridge, who was unfortunately llain at the fir/] it
oi Liicarrol. It was formerly a mere faftnefs,
bling all wood and bog, ib that the army could
not pals it, being obliged to go round by Kinfale,
in their march from Cork to the fiege of Dun boy,
in Bearhaven ; but it is now as well impro\ cJ as
any part of the country.
1603 Queen Elizabeth (the laft of the Tudors) dies, and
nominates James VI. of Scotland as her fuc-
cefTor:
Sir Walter Raleigh condemned November 1 7.
A law enadted, that no victualler fhould fell lefs than
one full quart of the beft beer for id. and two
quarts of the fmaller fort for id.
Sir James Fullerton, alib obtained a patent from king
James I. for feveral concealed church lands ; by
virtue of which patent he laid claim to the college
of Youghal ; but fir Richard Boyle gave him a-
fum of money for his title.
3604 A proclamation againft tobacco (ufed formerly for
phyfic) and a tax laid on it, without the conient
of parliament, of 6s. 8d. per pound, betides 2d.
formerly. It came from the Spanifh Weft-Indies ;
prohibited to be planted here, 1624 ; fubjectcd to
excife laws, 1789.
Sir Richard Boyle, in confideration of icool. paid
to the kilig, obtained a patent for all Sir Walter
Raleigh's lands in Ireland, in which the college
*.;l Yoi'ghall i particularly mentioned.
The
EVENTS. 73
The following remarkable incident, happened at the
li- ge of Bommel. Two brothers, who had never
leen, but had often been in queft of one another,
met here by accident. The eldeft, who was called
Hernando Diaz, having heard the other addrelied
by the name of Enciflb, the furname of their mo-
ther which lie had taken, a cuilom ufual in Spain,
interrogated him concerning feveral domeftic af-
fairs, which produced a difcovery. As they were
tenderly embracing each other, a cannon bail
carried off both their heads, without feparating
the bodies, which fell down together to the
ground.
1605 Gunpowder-plot diicovcred at Weftminftcr ; beiiigj
a project to blow up the king and both houies of
parliament.
A proclamation publilhed in Ireland, commanding
the popiih clergy to depart the kingdom.
The city of Cork and its liberties, were ieparateJ
from the county of Cork, and made a dMinc*.
county. The fame year, the corporations of Ban-
don, Cloglmakilty, Sec. began to fettle their future
form of government.
The hrit idea of attraction, taken up by Keplar.
1606 Oaths of iulogiancc firft adminiftered in England.
II. -ny Garnjt, tlie jcl'uit, on a conieilion of bc!nj>-
concerned in the gunpowder-plot, was executed
near .St. Paul's, March 2 8th.
Chriilianus, king of Denmark, came into England.
The lord Kinfale obtained letters of leave and re-
commendation to the king, from the lords juilices
und council ; among other particulars, they in-
form his ma jelly, that he hail given good tcfta-
mony of his loyalty to the cro\vn, in the ftrvice
at Kiniale, belide feveral ct;;ier acts of fidelity
and forwardnefs at other times, both in civil and
martial aiuars ; upon which, he obtained an an-
nual penikm of 133!. 6s. i-'d. from king James L
TIi; jjrlt ambulllulor lent to Turkey from England.
U The
74 REMARKABLE
1607 The bible tnmflated as it now (lands, by order of
king James I.
Towards the end of this year, and beginning of the
next, there was a moil dreadful peililence in the
city of Cork, vhich by degrees, ceafed of itfclf.
A confpiracy of the Irilh in Uliler, to furprife the
caftle of Dublin.
Allum firft made in England.
Colonies fint from England to Virginia.
.Saturn's fatcllites firfl difcovered.
King James, by his charter, dated at Weilminfter,
Jan. 20, an. reign 6, 1608, confirms all the pri-
vileges, fubndy and poundage excepted ; and in-
corporates them by the name of the mayor, bailifts,
and commonality of Youghal. Giants to the
r.;;iyor the office of admiral, and its perquiiites,
from Ardmorc-head, and Cable-ifland, up to
Toorcen ; as alfo the cuftom of murage, cranage,
k^yage, and anchorage of all goods imported and
exported. The mayor, bailiffs, &c. to be exempt-
ed frcm all juries held out of the town, except the
fuit concerns the king. All caufes to be tried by
the townfmen. All lands, &c. anciently belonging
to the corporationconiirmed. Two weekly mai kets
viz. on Y\ ednefday and Saturday, with t\vo annual
fairs on St. Luke and Afeenfion-day, granted to
the corporation, with courts of pye-powder, c.
Power to have a ftaple and a mayor, and confla-
iVIe.s of the fame, as the city of Dublin has. The
7i:aycr may appoint an alclci'man for his deputy,
,\)1 waifs, ilrays, gonds of felons, ixc, granted to
t!^e corporation. The mayor, recorder, and bai-
, lo bejuftices of the peace, and to hold feffions
of gaol delivery, otc. for the town. No freeman
to be irnpleadcd out of the town. The mayor to
be coroner, hvy-maller, and feodary. All perqui-
iites aiiiiiig tJiercfrom to be ibr th.c ufe of the cor-
poration. The mayor and recorder to be juuioeii
of the peace, in the county ot Cork; and t!u mayor
fu be cf the quorum, The mayor may appoint
clerk*
EVENTS. 7$
clerks of the market, a clerk of rvfli/e, and a clerk
of the aiiay, and no other peribn to intermeddle.
He can appoint a i'v.'ord-bearer, and may have a
fword carried before him. All lliips to load and
unload at the key, and no where elfe, unlefs by
the mayor's licence. A court of record to be held
every Friday, by the mayor, recorder and bailiffs,
or the deputy ; as alfo every Tuefday, to take
cognizance of all actions, real and perfonal. The
corporation has power to diftinguifh themfelves
into feveral guilds and fraternities (of which thers
are feveral in^ this town.) The late king James alfo
incorporated this place, by a new charter, April
18, 1688, which appoints Thomas Ronayne, efq;
mayor, William Fiu-Gerald and Thos. Vaughap,
jun. bailiffs, with 19 aldermen, 24 burgefles, a
recorder, and town-clerk. But this charter is of
no force.
The independency of the United States acknow-
ledged by Spaia.
The mulberry-tree firft planted in England.
New river cur, fmiihed in three years time ; the ma-
nager, Mr. Hugh Middleton, knighted by king
James ; runs 50 miles, and has about 200 bridges
over it ; brought to London, ,1614.
The cities of Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Limerick,
Tredagh, Galway. Rois, Wexford, Youghal,
Kinfale, and Knockfergus, had their charters re-
newed by the lord-deputy.
1-610 Galileo, of Florence, finl difcovers tke fatellites
about the planet Jupiter, by the telefcope, lately
invented in Germany.
Henry IV. is murdered at Paris, by Ravaillac, a
pried.
Thermometers invented by Diebcl, a Dutchman.
161 1 Baronets firfl created in England by James I.
An earthquake at Conftantinoplc ; 200,000 perfons
died there of the plague.
Bartholomew Legat, a biiliop, burnt for an Arian
heretic in London.
G 2 Finl
75 REMARKABLE
Finl voyage of the Englifh cr. the whale fifhery.
The tranquiiity of Ireland was fo well eitablilhed,
that king James reduced the army to 176 horfe,
.nd 1450 foot ; additional judges \vcre appointed,
circuit*; ei^tblifhed throughout the kingdom, and
fir John Davies obferves, that 1:0 nation urdtr tkt
fun loves equal and indifferent jxjhce better than the
Irifl).
if 12 The north-weft paflage to China attempted in vain
\v the EnglHh.
A conflderable part of the city of Cork was burnt
.!' v:n by an accidental fire.
Prince Henry died November 6th.
Kirg James I. on the i3th of April, 1612, directed
a letter to fir Arthur Chichexler, lord-deputy of
Ireland, in behalf of Owen Mac-Swiney, alias
Cv,-en Hogy, of Mafhanaglafs, to accept the fur-
render of his lands, and to grant a patent to re-
ftore them to him. Thus Owen was particularly
recommended to that prince, by the lord Danvcrs,
p refident of Muniler, and lir Richard Monifon,
vice-prefident, for having performed many faith-
ful fervices in that king's reign, and in queen Eliza-
beth's. He had alib ttitimonials from fir C. Com-
vrallLs, \vho was arribailador in Spain, of his loyal
and dutiful behaviour, and how much hefuffered tor
it in his fortune and reputation during his abode
there, by the malignity of his countrymen. Owen
Mac-Swincy, fon to the above Owen, was attaint-
ed, anno 1642, for being concerned in the Irifli
rebellion, and forfeited his efb.te. Mafhanaglafs
fignifies a urong hold or fortrds.
The caftle of Dundaneere, built by Barry-Oge,
ftands near the cor.fiuence cf the Brinny and
Bandon rivers. The Eaft-lndia company of Eng-
land had a fcttlcment liere for carrying on iron
works, and building large fLips ; for which ufcs
they purchafed the woods and lands for 7000!.
The following year two fliips of 500 tons were
krone bed
EVENTS. 77
'launched, and a dock was ere&ed for building
more ; they kept a garriflbn in the caftle.
1613 King James I. in a letter to fir Arthur Chichcfter,
propofes that Cork llioulJ be divided into two
counties ; but the project was for that time oppof-
ed by the firfl earl of Cork.
A parliament called, which had not been for twenty
years before.
1614 Napier of Marcheilon, .in Scotland, invents the
logarithms,
Powdering the hair firft introduced.
The lord of Kerry and lord of Clare, difpute prece-
dency, which was adjudged to the former.
A convocation held in Dublin, which eftabliihcd the
articles of religion.
Dying cloth in the wool firft invented.
1615 The Irilli parliament dilfolved.
Sir Thomas Overbury poiibned in the tower.
Bands for lawyers tirft ufed by judge Finch ; for
clergymen in about 1652.
Sir Oliver Lambert was fent to the ifland of Ila, to
reduce fome feditious Scots.
1616 The firft permanent fettlcmentm Virginia.
Shakcfpear died, aged 53, at Stratford upon Avon.
Sir Richard Boyle, firfl earl of Cork, created baron
Boyle of Youglul ; it Avas in this town. that the
firft potatoes were landed in Ireland, by fir Walter
Raleigh. The peifon who planted them, ima-
gining that the apple which grows on the (talk,
was the part to be ufed, gathered them ; but not
liking their tafte, neglected the roots, till, the
ground being dug afterwards to fow fome otber
grain, the potatoes were difcovered therein ; and,
to the great furprife of the planter, vaftly incrcaf-
cd ; from thofe few, this country was furnifhe:!
with feed. It is iid fir Walter brought them, to-
gether with tobacco, into Ireland, from Virgin!:!.
He alfo brought, the celebrated Affane cherry, at
the fame tnne, from the Canary iflands.
Coining wiih a uio nrft invcnied.
G 3
-5 R E M A R K A B L E
The city of Waterford's liberties, revenues and CTT-
iigns of authority, fei/.cd by order, under the
great leal, for feveral crimes.
Auguit 9th, fir Walter Raleigh, failed from the
harbour of Cork, on his kill unfortunate expedi-
tion to die Weft-Indies.
7618 On the 7th of November, Mr. William Gold, who
was tiie foregoing year mayor of Cork, delivered
tip in open court, to his fucceifor, four charters,
viz. thofc of Edward IV. Henry VIII. queen
Elizabeth, and the charter of king James I. as
alfo one quietus of the exchequer, for the fee-farm
rent of the city.
The town of Pkurs in Italy, was buried by a flicc
of the Alps falling, and all the inhabitants, near
2,200, perifhed ; a town in the f.uue neighbour-
hood was buried in the fume manner in the J3th.
century.
Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded October 29th.
. , jv.it comet icen in England.
1619 The orVlcr of baronets firll inftituted in Ireland,
September joth, by James I.
A rebellion in Bohemia, Auftria, and Hungary.
Procbrmation, directing houfes to be built with brick
.'s.
oy, an Engliihmar., confirms the doctrine
of the circulation of the blood, which had been
>roached by Servetus, a French phylician, in
t 1 55.1-
1620 The broad filk manufacture from raw filk, intro-
duced into England.
B-irbadocs difcovered by iir William Courtcen.
Navarre uniied to Fr.inc.e.
;Kr-mi)iiey u:1i introduced in England.
The famous d'otfor Uihcr made bilhop of Meatli.
T;v? fir ft peruke v/orn in France ; introduced into
i, 161^0.
ning-houfcs licenced in London.
> lad planted by tjie Puritans,
EVENTS. ft
The two parties of Whigs and Tories, formed in
England.
Sir Fit/-Gei aid Aylmer, of Donedca, in the county
of Kildarc, was the riril baronet in Ireland ; he
was created the 2jth of January, by letters patent
of James 'I.
Thomas vifcount Thurles, father to the firft duke
of Ormond, drowned.
1622 A dreadful fire happened in Cork, which cohfumed
the grcateft part of the city ; and the {hoe-niiikcrs
received a new charter from king James I.
The Palatinate reduced by the Imperialills.
Licences firft granted for public houfes.
Maffacre of the Engliih by the Dutch at Amboyna.
1623 The knights of Nova Scotia inftituted.
The Auguft atli/es for tlie county ut large, were
held at Bandon, by the intereft of the earl of
Cork.
1624 I)oclov Ulhcr made archbiftiop of Armagh.
Concealing the death of baftard children, deemed
murder.
The Thames mauc navigable to Oxford, by aft of
parliament.
1625 King James dies, and is fucceeded by his fon,
Charles I.
Th:.- iflunJ of Barbadoes, the firft Englifli iettlcmcnt
in the Weft-Indies, is planted.
A great plague in London, of which 35,417 pcr-
fons died.
The crown of England pawned with the Dutch for
300,000!.
Hackney-coaches began in London, and were only
25 in number.
Chrift church in Bandon built ; the cldeft grave ftone
^in this cliurch is dated 1629, over one Mr. Crofts,
on' of tJic firft hurgeffes of this .corporation.
The fi-.rts i>i" Cork ar-d Watcrfoul having been quite
neglected : the earl of Cork lent jool. to the lord
prcfuknt Villers, \\\'J.\ which thefe fnrts were
>nadc dcici^iblc. When lord Wimbleton ar-
riveU
ftv REMARKABLE
rived at Kinfalc, with the king's forces, lord Cork
took ten companies of foot, many of them being'
weak and wounded, and lodged and dieted them
near three monchs, upon his tenants ; he {applied
the general with 500!. and entertained him and all
his officers nobly, at Lifmore.
1626 Charles I. crowned, February 2d.
The inhabitants of London and Weftminfter, &<%
commanded by proclamation to keep all their
urine throughout die year, for making falt-petre.
The king ordered the lord-deputy to make n lord high-
fteward, &c. for die trial of the lord Dunboyn by
his peers, for killing a man in the county of Tip-
perarr.
1627 Sir Dominick Sarsfield was created lord vifcount
Kinfalc, to the great prejudice of this ancient and
noble family, and fet up his arms in die town ;
but upon a fair hearing before the earl Marshall,
of England, he was obliged to renounce the title
of Kinfale, and take that of Kilmallock.
The king ordered that Nathaniel Catlin, his fecond
ferjeant at law, Ihould have precedency of the at-
torney-general and folicitor-general.
England declared war again (I France.
1628 The building of Bofton in New-England.
1 629 The crown of England redeemed from the Dutch
by iron ordnance.
A great eruption of Vefuvius.
Board wages firil commenced with the king's fer-
vants.
This year, an nnufual appearance happened at Cork;
for notwithftanding the fun fhone out very bright,
die fky was darkened, all of a. fuddcn by an infi-
nite multitude of ftairs, which feemcd, like a
black denfe cloud, to hang over the city. When
they had patted the town, they were obferved by
the citi/.ens, to fight furioufly for feveral hours,
with a great noife, picking and wounding each
other with their bills, whereby great numbers of
them fell Uown to ihe carih, and iverc fain; many
of
EVENTS. #T
1629 of which, with the wounded, \rcrc taken up by
the citizens and country people.
The author (Thomas Carve) fays, that the like is
related by Leonelavius in rand, to have happened
anno 1587, in the month of December, on the
confines of" Croatia, near Wihitzium, in Hungary,
\vheie flocks of wild geefe were feen to fight with
each other ; and this happened before the invafiea
of the Turkv.
In the year 1756, the like happened in North- Ame-
rica, and was related in the pullic papers cf a
battle fecn at New Yoi k, between a great flock of
eagles and hawks.
The e.irl of Cork fays, that during the time of his
being in the government c Ireland, which was
four years, having bat loci, a month allowed
him ; he fpent, beiidcs his allowance, above 6oocl.
in maintaining hnfpitality and the dignity of the
dale ; nor, during that time, was there the Icatl
complaint made of him to his rnojefly, or to the
lords of the council of England. Adding, which
government I ruled with an upright heart, and,
dean hands, lie payed off all peri'ons, both in
the civil and military lift, without having the leaft
afilftance of treafure from England, and without
leaving the king a penny in debt; and whereas he
found an empty treafury, he left 7000!. in it (af-
ter paying every man) in the hands of the lord
Mount-Norris. He fays, that during the govern-
ment of the lord Falkland, the king's great north
tower, in the caftlc of Dublin, fell down j but he
had it re-edified with battlements, and piattVrrncd
it with lead, and Hx-inch plank upon the Icad^ fo
as cannon was mounted thereon ; for whicli he
p;iid out of his purfe 1200'. which, fays he, if it
had been done at the king's charge, aocol. would
not efTjcT: it,
1630 King Charles II. bom the 2Qthof May.
Caliico iirll imported by the Euft India company.
The
Sz REMARKABLE
1631 The tranlit of Mercury over the fun's diik, firft
obierved by Gaflendi.
The eavl of Caillehaven condemned and beheaded
in England for beaftly crimes.
The weitern co.iils of this county were infcfted by a
dangerous pirate, Nut, who not only robbed on
the leas, but alib made ieveial defcents on the
coafh In a letter from the lord preiidcnt St. Le-
ger, to the government, .he informs them, that
Nut had three ihips under his command, his own
bcirg a twenty gun Ihip, of 300 tons burden ; a
fhip which he took belonging to St. Malocs, of
1 60 tons, was his vice-admiral ; and the third,
which he had taken, belonging to Dieppe, alfo
mounted fifteen guns. At the time this letter was
wrote, viz. in May, Nut lay with his fleet at Crook-
haven, where he victualled, watered, and took his
wife on board.' Soon after, the government fent
him a pardon, which he at firft, refufed ; but in
a little time, he accepted it.
June 3oth, two Algerir.e rovers landed their men in
the dead of the night at Baltimore, and having
plundered the place, they made a great number
of the inhabitants prifonerx, with 100 of the
English, and carried them all to Algiers. The
earl of Straftord, in his letters, mentions the 5n-
folency cf thole rovers, who again infelled th:
coaft in 1636, being afiifted by the French, whom
he calls moft chriftian Turks ; for they frequently
landed their captives in France, and drove them
in chains to Marfeilles, whence they fliipped them
to Algiers. The earl propofed to lay out 40,000!.
*>f the country's money, in order to attack them,
even to thjir own ports. In a letter of his to Mr.
fecretary Cook, i5th of September, 1636, he tells
him, the Turks {till annoy this coaft ; they came
cf late into Cork harbour, took a boat which hail
eight fifhsrmen in her, and gave chace to two
more who faved themfelves among the rcck, the
townfmen looking on, at the fame time, without
means or power to afiiit thcm> The
EVENTS. 83
1632 The battle of Lut7.cn, in which Guftavus Adol-
phus, king of Sweden, and head of the proteftants
in Germany, is killed.
June ^d. the lord-deputy Wentworth fent an ingot
of filver, of 300 ounces, to the king, being the
firft fruits of his majefty's mines in Munfter.
1633 Galileo condemned by the Inquiiition at Rome.
Lruliana difcovercd by the French.
William Prynne, tried by the ftar-chamber, ftood in
the pillory 16}-), again in 1637, and took his feat
in the long parliament, November 28th, 1640.
Lacquer vamifh, firft ufed in the ftead of gilding.
Saw-mills firft creeled near London.
There was this winter, a prodigious flood in the river
Lee ; which, among other damages done to the
city of Cork, carried away both the north and
fouth bridges, and the caftles creeled thereon.
The firft exportation of corn and butter was to Spain,
as appears by lord Stratford's letters, which met
with very great fuccefs, the merchants making
large returns in ipecie. About the fame time they
began to barrel up their beef and butter, with
hoops bound about with twigs after the Englifii
manner, and fct two letters, B. C. the mark of
Briftol, on their barrels.
1654 This year, fir Roger Coppinger, mayor of Cork,
carried away the city charter, and alfo the fword
and mace.
Sedan-chairs firft in ufe.
Grandier burnt in France, for witchcraft.
By an order of council, Auguft ijth, the mayor lc<ft
was either to give up the butt of lack, as formerly
given him by the corporation for his entertainment
in lieu of 20 nobles, or pay the chamberlain 20!.
at his election.
1635 Province of Maryland plant-ed by lord Baltimore.
Regular pofts eftabliihed from London to Scotland,
Ireland, frc.
Thomas Parr, died November ijth j he lived in the
&4 H E M A R K A B L E
reigns of nine kings iir.d queens of England, and
was 152 years old.
Parliament of Ireland diilblved.
King Charles wrote to the government of Ireland,
to iilue out a proclamation to prefcrve the ayries
of hawks in this kingdom.
1636 The fliip Royal Sovereign, built; then the largeil
in the world.
Patent for copper and brafs coin in England.
A traniit of Mercury over the fun's diik, obferved
by Caffine.
1637 Stamp-office for cards and dice erected.
1638 A fea-fight between the Spaniards and Dutch.
William Chappel was confecratcd lord bifhop of
Cork, Sec. he had been a mofl fubtle difputant,
of which Dr. Borlace tells the following Itory :
That at a commencement at Cambridge, in tks pr;~
f't'.cz of Ja;,m /. ks fo ivarwly opprfcd tks refpond^nt
Dr. Roberts, that unable to fohe his arguments, h:
fill into a facon in the pulpit ; whereupon the kh>g
undertook to maintain the thejts, againft ^-jfxm Mr.
Chaffxl fs well profecutsd his argument, that his via-
penhgai'? God thanks, tliatthe opponent was his
fubject, and not the fubjed of any other prince :
and alluding to this pa/Jage, the titular dean of Cork,
long afterwards, refufid to enter hito a difputt r j:itb
him, although he ii'a s prejj'ed to it !>y the lord prefidcnt
St. L^er ; all'dging, that it had bien a cuj'oiu iv/'.*A
/;'/.'/ t'j kill his refpwdttit,
Monks-town is the neareft parifli, in Kerrvcv.rihy,
to Cork: the caftle was buiit.by the family cf
Archdeacon : it is large and in ruins, and is
flanked by four fquare turrets.
{659 A furveycr of wreftling, within three miles of
London, appointed ; in inch cileem was diat ex-
ercife.
A trar.lit cf Venus over the fun's difk, firft obferved
by Mr. Horrox, Nov. 24th, O. S. 5 h. 15 P. M.
An order cf council v.-as palled for making a new
EVENTS. 85
wooden brtdgs at the north end of the city of
Cork.
The king being refolvcJ to go in perfon to Yorlr, to
fupprefs or pacify the Scots, the lord Dungarvan,
eldcit fen to tlie earl of Cork, attended his nu-
jefly, and raifed 100 men at his own charge. At
the fame time, the earl fays, / fe.-.'t t-vo more of my
fefis, each with I oo borfe, to attend the ki'igt the rat-
Jing ettid accoutring of ivhich troops, coft rooo/. And
\\hen the king marched into the north \\ith his
army, the earl being then feventy-four years of
I'ge, and not able pcribnally to attend him, fent
his fon the lord liroghill to his majefty, to prefent
him with looobroad pieces of gold. Alfo, when
the new Irifh army was to be disbanded, the earl
of Cork entered into bonds of 8oool. upon which
i. he treafurer of Ireland was furniihed with money,
\i'/:. 4000!. in London, and the remainder he or-
' the receiver of his rents to pay into the
'->:.. liiry here.
King Charles i difbbliges his Scottilh fubjech; on.
which their army, under general Lellcy, enters
England, and takes Ne\vcaitle, bgiag encouraged
by the malecontents in England.
Tlie nialfacre in Ireland, when 40,000 Englifh pro-
teftants were killed.
The independency of Portugal recovered by John
duke of Bragan/.a.
The firil ana'.).;pliit mectiag houfe eftablilhcd in
Judge Berkely arrefted on his feat in the court oi'
kirig's-bcncli, and lent to prifcn, for giving his
. i .t itiip-money.
Caftle-M^gnsr, the feat of Richard Manner, agent
for die Ii ' ii ants of Orrery and Kilnm/c.
ii Cromwell was :;t Clcnmell, he went to pay
IIM cop.rt to him; but being reprefen ed as a vcrjr
troublefome p^rfr:i, and one who ' n vciy
bcjiion, Cromwell fent him with a
Icuev to . .aire, then covcnior of Cork t
H ia
&6 REMARKABLE
m which was an order to execute the bearer.
Magner, who fiifpeeled foul play, had icarce left
Clonmell, when he opened the letter, read the
contents, and fcalecl it up, inltead ot proceeding
towards Cork, turned off to Mallow, and deli-
vered it to the officer who commanded there, tell-
ing him, Cromwell had ordered him to carry it
to colonel Phaire. This officer had often preyed
.: Magaer's lands, for which he was rdblved
to be revenged. The officer, fufpec"ting no deceit,
' with the letter, which greatly lurprifcd the
governor of Cor,,, vho knew him to be an hencil
, and immediately lent an exprefs to Crom-
v. ell for further directions. Cromwell being ex-
trernely chagrined to be 10 ferved, lent orders to
he officer have his liberty, and to apprehend
,:ier, who took care to get out of his reach.
..u;L<ind lands were gi anted to the family
for 49 arrears j it is now the elhue
oi lir Standifb Hartilonge.
,\ committee from the houfe of commons, went to
.Ki.gl.ind to impeach the earl of Stafford, who was
aft i wards beheaded.
2^41 The caitle of Dundareck (which fignifics Mrmnt-
Profpecl) foifeited by Dcrjr.ot Mac.Carthy, in tl:e
7 cbellion.
(Fee Hrft bronglit to England by Mr. Nathaniel
Cunopius, a Cretan, who made it his common
beverage, at Baliol college, (JAlbrd.
C ;> .Saturday, the 2^d. of October (a day dedicated
'. Ignatius) }>ro.ke out tlie drcadiul rebellion,
and general defeclion of the IriOi.
SIi Pheiiiu O'Neal, having taken Dundalk, marched
\vitli ^coo men to Liiiengarvy.
Drcigluxia b.j ! ',eg'.<l by 14,000 rebels.
The forfeited eiiutcs in Ireland Ibid, amounting to
two millions and an half cf acre:;.
In die rebel] ion of 1641, the carl of Cork fliut him-
i'clf .up in the town of Youghal, in which he lit'
fcred
'EVENTS. S'7
fered very great hardfhips, and died in it during
thofe troubles.
The caftle of Mncrnmp, altered into a more modern
rtrufhire by earl Cla.nca.rty. It was built in king
Jehu's lime, focn after the conqueft by the C;>-
rews '(according to fir Richard Cox) but others
attribute it to the Daltons ; it was repaired and
bcautiSed by Tiege Mac-Carty, who died in it
i 565, who was father to the celebrated Cormac
Ma*c-Tiege. It is at prefent inhabited bv Robert
Hedges, efq; who keeps it in good order. Sir
William Penn, the famous admiral was born in it.
1642 News-papers nrft publi'hed in England, Aug. zzd.
their annual produce to government in 1788, was
129,000!. their number printed 15,564,203.
The caftle of Poulne-long, i. e. Ship-petal, built by
the Roaches (as appears from their arms over the
chimney-piece) was taken by the Bandonians,
whereby they gained a correfpondence to and
from Kinfale. It is now in the poffelfion of Thos.
Herrick, cfq;
King Charles impeached the refractory members,
which began the civil war in England.
5iir liaac Newton born on Sunday 25th December.
The caille of Limerick furrendered to the Irifh.
The battles of Ktlrufh, Tymachoo, Raconnel, Rofs,
and Ballintober.
1643 Galway furrendered to die Irifh, Auguft 6th.
King Charles demanded a ceifation of arms with the
Irifh, September yth.
Excife on beer, ale, &c. firft impofed by parliament.
Barometers invented by Torricelli.
Charter and other records of Cloughnalcilty, faved by
Mr. Walter Bird, who at the hazard of his life ef-
caped with them to Bandon, in the Iriili rebellion.
Two full companies of lord Forbes's regiment were
{lain in the town, 1642; the third company be-
ing Bamlonians, made good their retreat a full
mile, to un old fort on the highway to Rofs,
H 2 which
or,
S8 REMARKABLE
which they n:aintained till the reft of the regiment
came to their relief.
BaUirtcorrigg caille built by Randel-Oge Hurley,
as ibme iky, by his wii'e.
At Anna Itood a ftrong cafrle, that in the wars of
1 641 ftcod aficge of4years ; beir.g in the midft of a
bog, was deemed impregnable ; but was taken by
treachery in 1 745, and the whole garrifon put to
the fword in cold blood.
1644 ^ e P e pl e of Dublin numbered 2565 men, and
2986 women, proteitants ; 1202 men, and 1406
women, Roman catholics.
1645 Archbifhop Laud, beheaded January loth.
1646 Peace concluded with the Iriih catholics.
Blarney caftle, taken by Roger earl of Orrery (then
lord Brogh ill. ) It was the feat of the earls of
Clancarty, and flrongly fortified. The city of
Cork -was greatly annoyed by it in 1641 ; in queen
Eli/.aheth's time, it was reckoned one of the
ftrongcil fortrelfes in Munfter; the walls are 18
feet thick, and it waslikewile flanked with.bafl.ions.
1647 The famous battle of Knocknicofs, on the 1 3th of
November, between the half-ftarved Englifh, un-
c'cr the lord Inchiquin, and a numerous army of
:ifh, under the lord 1'aaf, wheieon depended
tte of this province, and where the Englifh
obtained a complete viclory.
The common prayer prohibited by proclamation,
June 2oth.
The Scots deliver up king Charles I. to the parlia-
ment, for 400,000!.
Owen Rowc burns the country about Dublin, fo
that 2co fires were feen from a fteeple there.
1648 Avotepafled, that writs Ihould no longer run in
the king's name.
Supreme authority voted to be in the houfe of com-
mons.
A new ftar obfervcd in the tail of the Whale, by Fa-
bricius.
\Vind-guns invented.
Charles
EVENTS. 89
Charles TT. proclaimed king, by the lord lieutenant
at Yonghal.
Prince Rupert arrived at Kinfale with 16 frigates,
and railes fome forces for Scilly, but was blocked
up. all the fummer by the parliament's navy.
King Charles I. brought before the pretended high-
court of jufticc, the zoth of January, fentenced
to death by Bradfhaw, the 2yth, and beheaded at
Whitehall the ^olh, aged 48 years; he was buried
in St. Geoige's chapel, Windfor.
Kingly government aboliihed by parliament.
Oliver Cromwell voted general of all the parliament
forces in Ireland. The Britifli army, under the
lord of Ardes, joined the king's party, and foon
after befieged Londonderry. *
The king's army, under Orrnond, encamped at Fin-
glafs, near Dublin.
Tr.'dagh furrendered to the lord Inchiquin; who hav-
ing foon after taken Dundalk and other garrifons,
returned to the camp at Finglafs.
Colonel Jones fully ing out of the city, totally routed
the king's forces at Rathmines, killing 4000, and
taking prifoners, 2517, with all the artillery and
baggage.
Oliver Cromwell landed at Dublin, with 9000 foot,
and 4000 horfe ; began his battery rext day, and
took Drogheda by Uorm, after being twice re-
pulfed. Dundalk immediately fubmiied.
Cromwell came before Wexford, arid fummoned
the town, which he took in three days by ftorm,
putting zcoo to the fword.
Owen Rowe and Ormond, came to an agreement.
After the taking of Rofs, Cromwell beiicged Wa-
terford, but drew off again.
The garrifons in the county of Cork revolt to him.
He marched out of winter quarters, and took
many fmall places in Munfter.
Sixty houfes blown up, including a tavern full of
company, oppoilte Barkin-church, Tower-it reet,
by the accidental blov.-ing up of fomc barrels of
H 3 gunpowder
90 R E M A R K A'B L E
gunpowder at a fhip- chandler's, J.;n. 4; a child 'a
a cradle -was found unhurt on the loads of the
church.
The lady of lord Roche defended the caftle of C,i:! 1 e-
Town Rorhe, in a mod gallant manner for feveral
days, again (I the parliament forces, whobeficgeJ
the caftlc with a buttery creeled for the purpoie.
When Cromwell was preparing to invell Kinfale,
nay or of the town delivered up the keys to
1'irn ; which hillead of returning (as cuftomary)
10 the maglftrate, he ban Jed them to colonel
Stuhher, the governor: it wa whifpered to Grom-
weJl, that Stubber was not over ftrict in any rcli-
r;inn ; may be not, replied Cromwell, but as he is
a J'jdierhe has honour, and therefoie \ve v. ill let
his religion alone at this time.
V." Ilium III. bom, November 4th.
Pendulums firft applied to clocks by Huygcns.
1650 Fornication made capital for the lecond (ijVencc.
Inceic ?.nd adullery, capital for the firlt offence.
Br:ail iirit made with yea ft by the Englifli.
Iho Hrit coiFec-houfe in England was kept by Jacob,
a Jew, at the fign of the angel, in Oxford ; Mr.
Edwards, an Englilh Turkey merchant, brought
home with him a Greek fervanr, who kept; the h'rll
houfe for making and felling coiTec in London,
1^52. The rainbow coffee-housfe, near Temple-
bar, was in 1657, prefcnteil as a nuifance to the
neighbourhood.
Ki.k-jnny iii:-re,:dercd to Cromv\-ell.
Clonmell bcllegod and furrendered after a vigorous
defence, which cof; Cromwell 2000 mui.
Tlie oan.lc of Macromp fought, v/here tlie Iriih were
routed.
Crmrmd fent to treat w:t.a Cromwell about the
L'. :n:s on which the proteitants of his party might
I L-Iievi.-.!.
C; "Gwcli embarked for England at Youghal, and
kit tl**. 1 c^nur.uii J. to Iretou, his fon-in-luw.
The
EVENTS. 91
The battle of Skirfolas fought, and the Irifti routed
by fir Charles Cootc.
Waterford furrendered.
1651 The feel called Quakers, appeared in England.
Donotigh, lord Mufkerry, with 4000 Iriih, marching
to the fiege of Limerick, defeated on Knockin-
chally-hi]l, by i ooo Engliih, commanded by lord
Broghili.
King Charles IT. crowned in Scotland, January ift,
en t-: red England with the Scots army, Aug. 6th ;
lay concealed in the royal oak, September 4th,
and efcaped to France a lecond time, O6t. ijth.
Limerick lurvendered to Ireton, \vho died there.
The laft battle fought in Ireland, was at Knockna-
cliilhy, where the Irifli were utterly overthrown
by the parliament forces, October 2pth.
2652 Rofs, in the county of Kerry (a catllc in an ifland)
yielded. up to Ludlow, after he had caufed a fmall
fhip to be carried over the mountains, and fet a-
fioatia the lough, which terriiied the enemy.
The lord of Mayo was condemned in Connaught,
and ihot. to ilcaih.
The Dutch colony ut the Cape of Good Hope, eila-
bli thed.
Galway furrenderej-, which was the laft town cf
importance, May I2th.
Admiral van Trump beat the Englifh fleet, and
failed through their channel with a broom at his
maintop, November 2Qth.
At Kilkenny was held the firft high court of juftice,
for trial of fuch as were acculcd of barbarous
murders in the rebellion,
Another was held in Dublin, where fir Phelim
O'Neal was condemned and executed.
j.^53 A fea-fight between the Englifh and Dutch on the
coaft of Holland, when- the Dutch loft 30 men of
war, and their admiral Van Trump was killeJ,
July 29th.
Rump parliament turned out by the army, April 20.
It was uccliircd that the rebellion wa endcJ.
Crom-welJ
f>2- REMARKABLE
1654 Cromwell afTumes the Proteclorfhip.
The air-pump invented by Otto Guericke, of Mag-
deburg.
Gravelins had 3000 people killed by an exnlofion
from a magazine.
Peace made between the two Republics, at the fup-
plication of Holland, who, in the two years war,
loft 700 merchant ihips, befides many of the navy.
Reipeft to the Engliih flag, ftipulated by an ai ti-
de in the treaty.
The fine broad-cloth of England fent to Holland to
be dyed.
1655 Archbifhop Ufherdied the ^iftof March.
The Jews admitted into England, after an expulfion
of 31^5 years. -
The Engliih, under admiral Penn, took Jamaica
from the Spaniards.
One of Saturn's iatellites obfcrvcd by Huygens.
Tripoli reduced by AdmiraTBlake.
In this year the city and county of Londonderry was
reftcred to the fociety, who had been deprived of
it by a decree in the ftar-chambci, 1636.
1656 The river Thames ebbed and flowed Us ice in three
hours, October 3d.
The firft manufacture of wove ftockings in France.
1657 Mugletonians began.
1658 Cromwell died,, and was fucceeded in the Proteftor-
fliip by his fon Richard.
The earl of Clancarty was firfl fummoned to par-
liament as baron of Blarney, by queen Elizabeth,
and created vifcount of Muikerry, and earl of
Clancarty, in 1658, the loth of Charles II.
1659 The officers to the army in favour of the king's
reftoration, furprized the caftle of Dublin and
Jones in it, and declared for a free parliament. .
Bradfhaw, the Regicide,' died October 31 ft.
1660 They accepted his majefty's declaration from
Breda, and concurred to his reiloratioa.
Franking letters firft claimed.
Charles II, proclaimed at Cork, on the 2pth
ef
EVENTS. 93.
of May ; fame day colonel Phaire v, ? as fent pn-
foner to Dublin.
King Charles II. was reftored by Monk, commander
ol th^ army, after an exile of twelve years in
France and Holland.
Charles II. gave a collar of SS to the mayors of
Dublin.
The people of Denmark being opprefTcd by the no-
bles, furrendcred their privileges to Frederic III.
who became abfolute.
Baize manufacture firfl introduced into England, at
Colcheiter.
King George I. born 28th of May.
King Charles II. made his entry through London to
Whitehall, being the day of his reiteration, and
his birth-day, May 29th.
Lewis XIV. married to the infanta of Spain, June
the i pth.
Poft-offices firfl eilablifhed in England.
Tea, coffee, and chocolate, firit mentioned in the
ftatute books.
January 3Oth, the carcaTcs of Oliver CrormvelJ,
Henry Ireton, and John Bradfhaw, were hanged
at Tyburn, and buried under the gallows.
Afparagus, artichokes, cauliflowers, lemons and
oranges, firft brought to England.
King James II. married to the lady Ann Hyde, Sep-
tember the 3d.
1 66 1 The duke of Ormond appointed lord lieutenant of
Ireland, October the 4th.
Logwood allowed by law to be ufed for dying.
Queen of Bohemia viiited England, May the iyth,
and died there.
Thi obli-.juity of the ecliptic obferved by Helvetius
to be 23 29' y' 1 .
1662 Mary, king William's qnccn, born April 3Oth.
The court of claims fat at the king's inns, Dublin,
February the 1510.
The Royal Society eflabliflied at London, by
Charles II.
Ths
r>4 REMARKABLE
The Lafteals difcovered by chance, in cperu'rig a
dog, by Afcellius, July 23 ; in birds, Lili, <Scc.
by Mr. Hewi'on, furgeon of London, 1770.
1663 The plot cf Jcphibn, Thom'pfon, Blood, &c. to
fei/,c the caftle of Dublin, diicovered June ift.
Tarnpike gates created,
Carolina planted : 1728, divided into two feparate
governments.
Pruilia declared independent of Poland.
Caulemartyr, formerly Ballymartyr; it was incor-
porated by the intereft of the earl of Orrery, who
creeled it into a borough, -with the nomination of
the chief magistrate, recorder, town-clerk, clerk
of the market, and other proper officers, to -the
earl and his heirs for ever, and with a privilege
cf fending two members to parliament.
1664 War proclaimed by England againft the Dutch.
Sir "William Penn, with part of his majeily's fleet,
failed from Dover, November 23d.
A bla/.ing liar ften in England, December 24th.
A proteilant militia raifed in Ireland, Sept. i6th.
The New Netherlands in Nrrth America conquered
from :li ^ Swedes and Dutch, by the Engliih.
Cattle were prohibited to be imported into England,
from Ireland and Scotland.
Exportation of corn from England, permitted by
law; bounty granted, 1689.
1665 This year, die magiitracy of Dublin was honoured
with the title of lord mayor ; Sir Daniel Beiling-
ham being the tirft that bore that tide ; 500!. per
annum being allowed by the crown to fupport that
honour.
Signals at fea, firft devifed by James II.
The plague raged in London, and carried off 68,oco
peribns.
The magic lantern invented by Kircher.
The firft London Gazettee, publifhed Feb. I5th.
A great plague at Lyons in France, when 6o,cco
perfons divd,
A glorious
EVENTS. 95-
A glorious victory obtained by his majefty's fleet,
under prince Rupert, over the Dutch, wherein 1 3
capital fhips were taken, and 14 deilroyed, June
the sd.
1666 War with France, January 2 6th; with Denmark,
the I gth ot' October following.
September 2d. about one o'clock in the morning, a
dreadful fire broke out in London, which coniiim-
ed 113,000 houfes ; the city gates, guildhall, 86
churches, among which was St. Paul's cathedral,
and 400 ftreets ; the ruins of the city were 436
acres, extending from the tower to the temple-
church, and from the north-eaft gate to Holbom-
bridge and Fleet-ditch. It broke out near the
monument, and burnt four days and nights with-
out intermiilion.
The duke of Ormond, lord lieutenant, made a pro-
through this county, and was efcorted by the
horfe militia of each barony, who made a rnie
appearance, the earl of Orrery, and chief gentry
of the county, being their officers, moftof whom
iei^ved in the civil wa: .
The lord lieutenant and council, confidered about
fending 105,000 bullocks, for the relief of London
lately burnt.
Tea firil ufed HI England.
Iniurance-olficcs firitfetup in London.
Dying and drefling of woollen-cloth, perfected in
England by one Brewer, from the Netherlands.
The militia arrayed ', thc-fe of Leiniter encamped on
the curragh of Kildare ; thofe of Dublin in the
city ; being on account of an expected invalion
fiom France.
Captain O'Brien (fon to the ca*l of Inchiquin) in
the Advice man of war, brought in three Dutch
pri/.cs which he had taken -; one of them was an
Indiaman of Boo tuns burihcn, with a very rick
cargo, befidcs thirteea thefts of' iilver, each con-
taining iSool.
Tie
REMARKABLE
The LIST fir 'CIVIL AFFAIRS.
Containing die feveral entertainments, by the year, of all
officers and others, ierving in our courts of juitice, in
the feveral provinces of Ireland: officers belonging to
the ftate ; officers of our cuuoms ; officers of the ex-
cife ; creation-money ; with other perpetuities and par-
ticular payments for bur fervicc ; which AVC require-
henceforth to be duly paid out of our revenues there,
by the hands of our vice-treafuier, or receiver-general
for the time being, according to the cautions here men-
tioned ; the fame to begin for, and from the firil day
of April, 1 666. x
C~j" Tbefe following payiiicnts are the cwftaist fsss to Ic
continued fa the feyer#l officer s^ without ch<ii>\>e from ihi:c to
tine.
The right honourable Arthur, earl ofl /. j-. a.
Anglefey, vice-treafurer, and general-re- > 50 o o
caver. J
Sir Robert Meredith, knt. chancellor^
of the exchequer
John BufFe, efq: lord chief baron of the 1
u
exchequer.
Sir Richard Kennedy, kt. fecond baron "j
of the exchequer. jj
John Povey, efq; third baron of the ex-"
chequer. J
Sir Audly Mcrvjn, knt. his majefty's ,
prime fer'fcar.t at Li\\ r .
Sir William Dcmvile, kt. his majefty's
attorney-general.
Sir John Temple, knt. his majcily's fo-"
licitor-geno al.
Philip Fern el y, e% his majeily's chief
remembnmcer.
IOO O O
\- 600 o o
300 o o
22O O O
2O IO O
75 6 o
75 o o
30 o o
Sir
EVENTS.
Sir James Ware, knt. his majefty's au-
ditor general, for his ancient fee per an-
num 184!. 6s. ^d. and for an augmentation
thereof, allowed by the former eilabiilh-
mcnt 50!. in all.
Tht Court of Exct:cr:ter.
Sir Allen Brodrick, knt. his majefty's "J
furveyor-general. j
Francis Lee, efcheator of the province \
of Leinfter. J
Efcheator of the province of Ulfter.
Efcheator of the province of Munftcr.
Efcheator of the province of Connaught.
Henry Warren, efq; fecond remem- }
brancer. j
Nicliolas Loftus, efq; cleark of the pipe.
Roger Moore, efq; chief chamberlain.
Sir Robert Kennedy, bart. fecond cham- 1
berlain. f
Maurice Keating, comptroller of the
Pipe-
John Longfield, ufher of the exchequer,"
for his fee per annum, 2!. i os. and for his
allowance for ink for the exchequer, xol.
per annum ; in all per annum
Thomas Lee, tnmicriptor and forcgin
oppofer.
Edward Ludlow, fummonitor of the
exchequer.
John Burnifton, marflial of the four-
courts.
Sir Theophilus Jones, knt. clerk of tlie
pells.
John Exham, clerk of the firft fruits,
and twentieth parts.
Thomas Gibion, crier of the court of
exchequer.
I
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o
6
13
4
20
5
o
20
5
o
20
5
7
17
6
'5
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IO
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5
o
7
o
o
15 o o
750
400
30 o a
2710 o
I l-j 4
Th
98 REMARKABLE
The Court of Kings-Bench*
The right honourable James, baron "J /. s. d.
of Santry, lord chief" jurticc of" his majef- '- Sco o o
ty's bench.
Sir William Aflon, knt. fecond juftice
of the faid court. ^ 500 o O
Thomas Stockton, efq; third iuftice of the 1
/ i J > 3CP o o
laid coiirt. j J
Sir \\ iiliam Ufiier, knt, clerk of the (
croxvn, of the faid court, j
"The Court cf Chancery.
The inoft revevcn.d father in God,T
Blichacl, l'-rd archbifhop of Dublin, lord > loop O D
chancellor of Ireland. j
Sir John Temple, fen. knt. n:after of
ie roll::.
Dr. Dudlev Loftus, one of the matters
e chancery. | 2 P p Q
Robert Moifom, efq; another n: after of }
the chancery. j"
George Carleton, clerk of tlie cro\vn in ^
chancery. j *
Tiie il.in George Cai'leton, clerk of the")
hanaper, for his ie.e per annum lol. los. /
and for an allovanre of paptr and parch- V 3^ JO P
;:x:itfcr the- chancery, per annum 25!. \
i.m J
1244 13 4
77r Court of Gomnun-Pkjs.
> c '.i; F.f.v.Tj\i Smith, knt. lord chief iuftice ] f
. , , ooo o
c, the cor/.nxn-pleas. j
Sir jeuire AIcxar.vLr, knt. feccnd jv.i- }
he /aid ccurt. 3
Rr.bcit Booth, eiq; tjihj jnfticc of the 1
f;d >. 1 3
Sir
EVENTS.
;~; r Walter Fuinkett, knt, prcthonotary ")
of the iai
99
/, /. d.
j 7 10 o
Sir George Lane, knt. cbrk of the tear- ")
chamber.
George Rutlidge, mar{kil cf the ftar-~?
chamber. j
Io
Officers attending the State.
Sir Paul Davis, knt. fecretary of ft^te,'
for his fee
The faid fir Paul Davis, for intern-'
gences
The faid fir Paul, clerk of the council,'
for his ancient fee, per ann. 7!. los. and
for an allowance for paper and parchment
40!. In all
Richard St. George, efqj Ulfter king at
arms
Richard Carvy Athlong, purfivant
Philip Carpenter, efq; chief ferjeant at
arms, at ys. 6d. per diem.
George Pigott, fecond ferjeant at arms,
for like allowance,
George Wakefield, purfivant,
William Rowe, purfivant,
Arthur Padmor, purfivant,
Thomas Lee, keeper of the council-
chamber.
Six trumpeters and a kettle-drum, at
6ol. each per ann. 420!. for their fee, and
61. per ann. each board-wages 42!. In all
I 2
20 o o
2CO O O
IOO O O
47 10 o
26 13 4
IO O O
ioo 7 6
ico 7 6
20 o o
20 O O
20 o o
1
1850
462 o o
"25 3 4
Charge
>cc
REMARKABLE
Charge of Circuits.
The chief and other juflices of affixes "1
in every the five circuits twice a year, per j- 1000
uimum. J
Robes for the judges, viz three in ex--
chequer, three in the king's-bench, three
in the common-pleas, matter of the rolls, ^ 173 6 8
and three of the king's council, at 13!.
6s. Sd. a piece per aim. making in all
Incidents.
Liberates under the feal of the esche-" 1
qucr yearly, viz. the chancellor of exche-
quer, 13!. f ; s. 8d. the chief remembrancer,
61. 135. 4d. clerk of the pipe, 61. 135. 4d.
the ulher, icl. the fecond remembrancer,
5], the chief chamberlain, 5!. the fecond >
chamberlain, 5!. clerk of the common-
pleas of the exchequer, 5!. fummoniter
and comptroller of the pipe, 5!. the cufto-
mer at Dublin for wax, paper, parchment
and ink, 3!. 155. In all per ann.
' Rent of a houfe for the receipts 25 o o
Keeper of the houfe for the receipts 500
Singers of Chriil church in Dublin, for
finging in the exchequer, and praying for
his majeily, at IDS. for every term per
annum.
Purfuivants of the exchequer for carry- 1
ing writ?. j
' Paper and parchments to the courts 150 o o
The nobility, bilhops, and counfellors,"!
which fhall refide and keep houfe in Ireland (
for impoft of wines, according to his ma- f
jelly's fpecial grace. J
508 !3 4
Befides impoit of wines.
EVENTS.
Provincial Officers.
William HaVy, efq; chief juftice of the )
province of MunHer. j
John Nayler, fccondjuftice of Manfter
Henry Batthurft, attorney of the pro-
vince of Munfter.
William Carr, efq; clerk of the council
of the faid province.
Walter Cooper, ferjeant at arms there
Oliver Jones, chief juitice in the pro- ")
vince of Connaught. )
Adam Cufack, efq; fecond juftice of that 7
province. 3
John Shadwell, efq; attorney for the \
tid province.
Sir James Kuff, knt. clerk of the coun- \
cil there. j
Thomas Elliot, ferjeant at arms there
Officers of the Citfloms.
Dublin.
Thomas Worfop, cuftomer of the port 7
of Dublin. j
William Maul, efq; comptroller,
Vv 7 ilium Scott, efq; fcarcher,
Wexford.
George Wakefield, cuftomer,
Polder, comptroller,
ICJt
/. /. d.
100 o 4
66 13 o
13 6 4
7 10 o
20 O O
IOO O O
66 13 4
20 o o
7 10 o
20 o o
7 10 o
7 jo o
500
20 O O
10 O O
500
Water ford and JRofs.
Sir John Stephens, cuftomer,
Frederick Chriftian, comptroller,
Thomas Tiat, fearcher,
13
'3 4
ic* REMARKABLE
/. /. d.
Cork,
Richard Scudamore, cuftomcr, 613 4
Robert Williams, fearcher, 500
ii 13 4
Kinfale.
Robert Southwell, cuftomer, 13 68
Jchn Brown, fearcher, 613 4
20 O
Dingk-IcouJh.
JohnSelby, cuflomer, 500
Limerick*
The cuftomer, 13 68
Montford Weftrop, comptroller, 13 6 8
John Lynch, fearcher, 500
3' '3 4
Gahvay.
John Morgan, cuflomer, 13 68
The fearcher, 500
18 6 8
Dropbeda t DnrJalk, and CarlingforJ.
Thomas Willis, cuftomer, 7 10 o
John Bulteelc, comptroller, 710 o
Hugh _ Montgomery, fearcher, 500
20 O O
Carrtckfergutt
Roger LIndon, cuftomer, 7 10 o
Samuel Wilby, fearcher, 613 4
'434
- Strangfird,
Nicholas Ward, cuftomer, 7 10 o
EVENTS.
Newcaftle, Dundrutfi) &c,
Robert Hard, fearcher at Ne\vcaftle,~j
Dundrum, Killaleagh, Bangor, Holy- /
wood, Belfaft, Olderfleet, St. David, L
"Whitehead, Ardglafle, Strangford, Bal- \
lintogher, and Donaghadee, J
103
/. /. d.
6 13 4
Creation-Money.
The duke of Ormond
The marquis of Antrim
The earl of Caftlehaven
The earl of Defmond
The earl of Weftmeath
The earl of Arglafle
The earl of Carbury
The earl of Cavan
The earl of Donegal
The earl of Clanbrazil
The earl of Inchtquin
The earl of Orrery
The earl of Montrath
The e.irl of Tyrconnel
The earl of Clancarty
The earl of Mount-Alexander
The earl of Carlingford
The lord vifcount Grandifon
The lord vifcount Willmot
The lord vi'ccunt Valcntia
The lord vifcount Dillon
The lord vifcount Nettervil
The lord vifcount Killulla
The lord vifcount Magennis
The lord vifcount Sarsfield and Kilmallakc
The lord vifcount Renelaugh
The lord vifcount Wen man and Tuarn.
The lord vifcount Shannon
4
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o
40
20
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i-5
o
i5
o
S
o
15
o
o
15
o
15
o
o
20
o
o
20
o
o
20
o
20
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20
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2O
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20
20
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104 REMARKABLE
The lor J vifcount Clare 10
The lord baron of Caliir 1 1 5 o
484. u 8
Where creation -money is granted to one and the fame
perfon ior two honours, that fum which is granted
with the higheft title, is only t be paid.
1667 Dr. Jonathan Swift, dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin,
born Nov. 3oth.
The peace of Breda, which confirms to the Englifti
the New Netherlands, now known by the names
of Fennfvlvania, Now- York, and New-Jerfey.
The Engliih fleet deftroyed at Chatham by the
Dutch.
Sheeratfs blown up by the Dutch fleet.
The militia of the city of Cork confided of 600 foot
and 60 horfe, all ready for duty.
A general peace proclaimed in Cork between Eng-
land, France, Denmark, and Holland.
3668 The peace of Aix la Chapelle.
St. James's Park planted, and made a thorough-
fare for public ufe by Charles II.
Bridge-town in Barbadoes burnt, April 1 8th.
Earl of Orrery impeached, but aco t uitted with ho-
nour, on which his naajcfly prefented him with 7000!. he
died 1679, aged 59.
The high fpire of St. Audoen's fteeple in Dublin,
blown down.
1 669 War with the Algerines, September 6th.
The ifland of Candia taken by the Turks.
1670 The Engliih Hudlbn's-Bay company incorporated.
The obliquity of the ecliptic obferved by Mengoli to
be 23 28' 24".
Blood fei/ed the duke of Ormond with an intent to
hang him at Tyburn, but prevented Dec. 6th.
Blue-coat hofpital in Dublin, built by the contribu-
tion of the citrzcns-
A %nal viftory obtained by captain Beech, and
ibzne
EVENTS. 105
fome more of his majcfly's {Hips, orer theAlge-
rines.
The wooden-bridge o"er the LiiFey, commonly called
the Bloody Bridge, built*
Henry Jenkins of Yorkfhire, died aged 169.
Maiming and wounding, made capital.
Cabinet council fir (I initituted.
Muflins from India, firft worn in England*
Salt-mines in StafFordfhire, difcovered.
Charles-Fort at Kiniale, began and received thajt
name by ,the duke of Ormond, who came to re-
view it : if coil 73000!. on the works to the fe_a,
100 pieces of brals cannon were mounted, carry-
ing from 24 to 42 lb< ball.
The channel to the fouth of the King's-marfh, now
called Dunfcombe's-marfh, was cut, and the quay
on the fame began to be filled up.
By a bye-law of the corporation, made November
the 8th, thefons of a freeman, at the age of 21
years are admitted to be free, without paying any
fine except officers fees.
1671 Blood attempted to fleal the crown out of tke
tower, May the 9th.
The play-houfe in Smock-Alley fell, and killed feve-
rVil, befides divers bruifed and hurt, Dec. 26th.
The apprentices in Dublin aflembled with an intent
to break down the wooden-bridge, twenty of whom
were feixed and committed to the caftle, but after-
wards as they were carrying to bridewell, under a
guard of Toldiers, they were refcued, and four
of them killed in the fray ; hence it was called
Bloody Bridge. The occafion of this riot wab on
account of a ferry belonging to the city, which
the building of this bridge effected.
This year a proclamation was iffued for all the cor-
porations to renew their charters ; the city of
Cork appointed Henry Bathurft, cl'q; to be their
agent for the renewing of theirs.
4672 Admiral earl of Sandwich, blown up in an engage-
ment with the French, May 28.
Shoulder-
?r.6 REMARKABLE
Shobtdet-knots firft ufed.
LOTUS XI V< over-runs great part of -Holland* when
the Dutch opened their fluiccs, being determined
to drown their country, and retire to their feltlo
ments in the Euil-Indies.
African company dlabliihcd,
The obliquity of thd ecliptic obferved by Richer to
be 23 28' 54 11 .
Farthings nnt csir.edby Government, Augtfft t6th.
The Dutch fleet defeated at Southwold-Bay, by the
duke of York, May the 28th.
Tobago, in the Well-Indies, taken from the Dutch,
December acth.
According to fir William Petty* there Vere no
more than 1,000,000 people in Ireland.
1673 The prince of Orange made Stadtholder.
Prince Rupert defeats the French fleet, Aug. 1 1 th.
dn alphabetical lift sf tic v$blttnen and gentlemen in the
:: of ir.s peace for I. his cr:>;:iy, /'/; the year 1773,
fxclujh'e of the naycrs cf Cork and Toughal, tke So-
verr(zn of Kinfale, ar.d the pryvcjl of Bandon, all for
tie fi>::e bshig. Note, Thus warfad "*, or thus f, were
appointed j:/n e th? year 1750.
Adderly, Thomas, efq; * Bernard, Roger, efq;
Aldworth, Boyle, eiq; Berkeley, rev. Robert,
Aldworth, Richard, efq; *BHgh. rev. Robert,
* Aldworth, St. Leger, efq; *Bousfield, Benjamin, efq;
*Anderfon, William, efq; *Bowerma*n, Henry, efq;
''Afne, Richard, efq; *Bo\vles, George, efq;
* Atkin, Walter, efq; *Brereton, George, efq;
*Auften, William, efq; * Brown, rev. Edward,
*Ball, Robert, efq; *Brov.-n, Richard, efq;
*Beecher, Edward, efq; * Brown, rev. St. John,
Bernard. Arthur, efq; *Bullen, John, efq;
*Berr/ard, Francis, fen. efq; *Bullen, Robert, efq;
Bernard, Francis, jun. efq; * Butler, Thomas, efq;
* Bernard, James, efq; CaJaghan, Robert, efq;
* Bernard, John, efq; *Capell, Jofcph, efq,
Carey
EVENTS.
107
Tarer, Peter, efq;
..m, efq;
*Ch_. MO;
*Chmn
Chinncry ; . !
*Colthar(t, fir Jrh'T. barU
*Cohh"rft, John, eiq;
* Connor, Roger, eiq;
Conron, '>.
*Coote, ChJdley, <-
*Coppinger, Maurice, efq;
Corker, Thonri, d<;;
* Cotter, lir Ts. Lu\vr. bnrt.
*Cowley, Williarr., eiq;
*Cr:jb, Michael, eiq;
Cre^d, John, efq;
* Crofts, Wills, eiq; '
*Cvokcr, Taylor, efq;
*Crofs, Philip, cj'-i;
Dalacourt, iiobc-rt, efq;
*I)aviei, Henry, ef<.};
Davieb, Rowland, efq;
Davier>, rev. Michael,
*l)ea:ie ; Jocelyn, efq;
* Fit7.-geralcl, Rrhert, efq;
, Robert Uniacke
efq;
F'it/ina'irice, hon. John,
oftj;
'
:
:lq;
*Gorden, R'. ;
*G:.'iiy, '
(- _ - efqj
*Kerric-k, Fuik^rcr. efq;
*H: -' ;',
*Hc\
*Hir . James,
Hoare, F Iwai d, tfq;
*Deane, lir Rct>.Tilfon J hnrt. ' 1 :
*Devonllure, Abrah im, efq; * ". ' ' ; '. r i :.. L m,
*Dcnoghtv, John, efq^ *U
*Drew, Francis, eiij; ^li;.. r q; of Ca
::n, Alexander, efq;
*Earberry, Matthias, eiq; *Hi !iard efq;
*Elphin, right rev. Jemnictt, - ; : 'hos. efq;
lord biiliop of" Ml.
ns, Eyre, efq; * j:.
*E\ansNicholus(ireerj, cfq-, hu, efq;
*Ev;uia, rev. T: eiq;
*Eyre, RiclrarJ, ci";; . ,.iq;
*l r uLkii:ev, Rig^s, efq;
*Fit/--gtrs.ld, Richard, cfc?; ' lq;
oi' MitchclH'j\vn,
ip8 REMARKABLE
f Knight, Chriftopher, efq; fPurdon, George, efq;
j-Lawton, Hugh, efq; fPuxley, Henry, efq;
f Leader, William, efq; Roberts, Randal, efq;
f Lille, right hon. John, lord f Roberts, William, efq;
baron of f Roche, Edmond, efq;
{Lloyd, Edward, efq; Rogerfon, John, efq;
Longfield, John, efq; f Rye, John, efq;
f Longfield, Richard, efq; fSt. Leger, Warham, efq;
fLumley, William, efq; fSealy, George, efq;
Lyfaght, John, efq; f Shannon, right hon. Rich-
f Lyfaght, Nicholas, efq; ard, earl of, ciiftos rot.
f Lyfaght, William, efq; f now, William, efq;
fM'Carthy, Ruby, efq; f Spaight, Thomas, efq;
fMannix, Henry, efq; f Spread, William, efq;
f Marfhall, John, efq; f Stawell, G.eorge, efq:
f Mailer, Hugh, efq; f Stawell, Samfon, efqj
fMeade, David, efq; f Stawell, William, efq;
f Mellefont, Richard, efq; f Steele, Robert, efq;
f Mockler, rev. James, f Strangford, right hon. and
Moore, Emanuel, efq; rev. Philip, lord viicount.
f Morris, Abraham, efq; f Sullivan, rev. John,
f Morris, Jonas, efq; f Supple, Edmond, efq;
f Mount- Cafhel, right hon.f Supple, James, efq;
Stephen, lord vifcount, Supple, William, efq;
f Newenham, fir Edw. knt. f Swayne, Benjamin, efq;
f Newenham, Robert, efq; f Tanner, Jonathan, efq;
Newman, Adam, efq; f Thornhill, Edw. Badham,
Newman, Richard, efq; efq; ,
fO'Callaghan, Daniel, efq; f Tifdall, rev. Michael,
f O'Leary, Denis, efq; Tonfon, Richard, efq;
Parker, John, efq; f Tottenham, Cliffe, efq;
f Parker, Matthew, efq; f Townfend, Edward Man-
Parker, Robert, efq; fell, efq;
f Parfons, Thomas, efq; f Townfend, Richard, efq;
f Pearcl, Chriftopher, efq; f Townfend, rev. Richard,
fPearde, Henry, efq; Townfend, rev. Horatio,
f Philpott, Ulher, efq; f Townfend, John, efq; of
f Purccil, James, efq; Mardyke
f Purcell, rev. Richard. Travers, Boyle, efq;
f Pardon., Bartholomew, efq; Travers, Robert, ciq;
Travers,
EVENTS.
105
f-Trnve -fe, Waher, efq; White, PJchard, efq;
f Underwood, Richard, efq; f White, Simon, efq;
-j-LTnkicke, John, efq; fWidenham, rev. Thomas,
}- Wall's, Henry, efq; fWitheral, Jofeph, efq; ,
f Warren, Robert, efq; Wriion, Henry, efq;
fWatkins, Weilrop, efq;
j" The reader will pleafe to note, that the above I'ijl JJ)oidd \
be placed aiiiwg the articles of 1773.
1674 The Dutch agree to honour the Englifh flag.
A witch tree, in fir Walter Bagger's park, in the
county oi Stafford, \vhich took two men five days
in felling it ; it lay 40 yards in length, the ilool
5 yards and 2 feet diameter, 14 loads of wood
broke in the fall, and 48 loads in the top ; there
;(, 8,660 feet of board and plank; it coll lol.
I /s. fawing ; the whole fubitance was computed
to be 97 tons.
October 7, arm. 1674, there was an order of council,
that a grant fhoukl pafs under the feal of the city
of Cork, of the place of prior of the -hofpital of
St. Stephen, to William Worth, efq; to hold the
fame as Richard Ward, efq; enjoyed it, which
grant the laid William Worth, efq; i.-> to depolit
hands of the mayor, together with the
rcfignation of the laid Mr. Ward ; and alfo, a'l
ds^and leafes 5 el a. .ing to the'lunds of the f.t'.J,
hofpital, in the n- 1 Jcs of the <:ity, iiu:il a
proper inftrument lie perfected by the ikid Willura
Worth, rdinquifhing all other titles to the fame
employ, but what lie iliall receive from the cor-
poranon ; v/liieli deed being perfected, the iaiJL
grant is to be delivered to the laid WiKkim Wortli,
* ;d John Bayly, mayor.
1675 Coffee-houic' 1 ; fiippreffed on accouiu of the liberty
'.n \vith t)ie poli'.ics of tht tii;
CulUcoe printing, and the IXuch-io-jn cuginc, firft
K Peter
no REMARKABLE
Peter Fox and Eve more, pretending to be palTenger"
in a rich ihip in Holland, bound for France, mur-
dered the mailer and feme of the crew, and l>:
her to Ireland ; they were all executed at St,
Stephen's-Green.
Phoiphorus, artificial fire, difcovered.
1676 Eiiex-bridge in Dublin, built by fir Humphry
Jarvis.
The following fubfidies were, this year, raifed in this
county. The earl of Coik, iiol. He paid more
than any nobleman in Ireland; for I rind the
duke of Ormord then paid but icol. the earl of
Barry more, 30!. earl of Carbery, 15! earl of
Clancarty, 40!. carl of Orrery, lol. Lord
Cotircy, 2!. Lady Clancarty, 15!. the bifhop-
rick.s of Cork nnd Rofs, 32!. l6s. the bifhoprick
of Cloyrc,.4i1. 45. the county of Cork and city'
Cork, 13^4!. ib's.
The fouth bridge of the city of Cork, built by the
/oration.
1677 Lady Mary -of England, daughter to James duke
married to 'VV ilium, prince of Orange.
iins invented.
The micrometer invented by Kircher.
1678 The peace of Nimegucn.
The habeas cc.rpus ad pafled.
range darknefs at noon-clay, Jan. 12.
; :eof "VViliiam Peters, at the bunch of keys in
High-llrecr, Dublin, was delivered of four Ions,
v,Lo dl lived lobe baptized, September [4th.
rich French pri/.es brought into Kinfale, by
the prince William, a Dutch man of war ; as were
: Dutch prizes, by the Invincible, a French
[hip of war.
Draw-bridges made on the north and fouth bridges
cf the city of Cork, by order e, it>rd Shannon, the
governor.
Burying in woollen, nrft began.
J-'ne loth, The corporation of the city of Cork, by
a tf/C-lavr, changed the mode of chofing a rr.ayor
EVENTS. m
arid flieriiTs which was. The 'mayor arid two
ihcriJi's made choice each man of three perfons out
of the council, being nine in all ; who, with the
prefent mayor and fherifFs, made twelve. Thefe
twelve went into die cattle, and there continued
till they made choice of three other peribns out
of the common council, to be offered to the free-
men as candidates for the mayoralty, one of whom
they defied by votes ; in cafe of diiagreement of
the twelve men until 12 o'clock at night, the
riayor and fheritfs made choice next day of three
more, and proceeded as before upon a choice of
three perfons to be candidates to the freemen for-
th e place of mayor. The mode adopted 'was,
that the mayor and fherifFs, as formerly, fhould
chofe three perfons, who were to retire, as before,
to the crtftle ; and if they difagreed until twelve
at night, the mayor was next day, at n o'clock,
to call a council, the majority of which were to
agree on three perfons to be on the election for
mayor.
A great comet appeared, and from its neamefs to
GUI earth, alarmed the inhabitants. It continued
vifible from Nov. 3, to March o.
William Penn, a Quaker, receives a charter for plant-
ing Pennfylvania.
168.1 The votes of the houfe of commons began to be
printed.
Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, was
executed at Tyburn for high-treafon, July ift.
. Bomb-ketches invented by the French.
1683 Earl of Eifex cut his throat in the tower, July I3th.
Siege of Vienna railed by 100,000 Turks, Sep. loth.
King Gecvgo IT. born Oclober 3Oth.
A fevere froi'l that Lifted thirteen weeks.
India flock fold from 360 to 500 per cent.
City Tholfel, Dublin, built.
Ivilmainham hofpital built at the charge of the army,
by the duke of Ormoud.
K z Penny-
jjta REMARKABLE
ny-pofl fet up in London and fuburbs, by one
Murray, an upholfterer, who afterwards affigned
the fume to one Dockwra : afterwards claimed by
tli-: government, who allowed the latter a per.fion
of 200!. a. year, in 1 7 1 1. Firft fet up in Dublin,
177.1.
A:\-n, f-.'.cci-) of England, married to prince George,
of Denmark.
1684 A great part of the caftle of Dublin was confirmed
by a rlrc that began about two in the morning ;
his excellency the earl of Arran, norrowly ei-
caping. The great magazine of powder, as alfo
the tower in which the ancient records of the king-
dom were kept, was happily preferred ; which
elfe had laid the city in ruins.
*65 Charles II. died, aged 55, and was fucceeded by his
brother, James II.
The duke of Monmouth, natural fon to Charles II.
raiicd a rebellion, but was defeated at the battle
of Sedgmore, and beheaded.
The edici of Nantz was revoked by Louis XIV.
and the Proteftants were greatly diihefled.
James II. and his queen, crowned April 23d.
Titus Gates, D. D. whipt, May 2oth.
Alderman Corhifn hanged, and Mrs. Grant burnt,
October 23d.
1686 The earl of Tyrconnel, fworn lord lieutenant of
Ireland, who, not being able to prevail on the
magistracy of the city of Dublin to admit Roman
catholics to their freedom, had a quo ivarranto
brought aga'nft the city charter, and appointed
pcpilli judges in every court.
The Newtonian philofophy publifhed.
1687 There were exported from Ireland ihi's year, 1 136*0
pieces of new draperies, and 1,129,716 yards of
iri/es.
An inundation in Dublin, and Eflex bridge broken
down, at which time a carriage palling over, fell
into the river, the coachman and one horie pe-
i lined.
Whit*
EVENTS. 113
\Thitc paper a: ft nade in England.
The Proteitant dilTcnters, to avoidperfccution, go in
great numbers to America.
The palace of Veriailks, near Paris, finiilied by
Louis XIV.
1688 The Revolution in Great Britain begins Nov. 5.
King James abdicates, and retires to France, Dec. 3.
King William and queen Mary, daughter and fca-
m-law to Janus, are proclaimed February 16.
Viicount Dundee Hands out for James in Scotland,
hut was killed by general Mackay at the battle of
Killycrankie ; upon which the Highlanders, wea-
ried with repeated misfortunes, diiperfed.
Smyrna deftroyed by an earthquake.
The nation, represented by its parliament, now fixed
the fo long-contefted bounds between the prero-
gative ci* the crown, and the lights of the people.
They prescribed the terms of reigning to the prince
of Orange, and chole him for their fovereign, in
conjunction with hisconfort, Mary.
February. 25th, die people of Bandon difarmed the
garrifon, but foon fin-rendered, and purchafed
their pardon for one thoufand pounds-,
imes, duke of Ormond died, July 21 ft.
'he art of foftening bones, firft found out.
Charity fchools firft began in England.
King James heard mals in a chapel belonging to a.
monaftery, on the north fide of the city of Cork ;
he was Supported through the ftrects of the city
by two francifcan friars, and attended by many
others of the lame order in their habits. The
poirerilons of this houfe were originally granted
to Andrew Skiddy, by queen Eli/.ubctb, who af-
figned them to the earl of Corfc, and by him gi-
ven to his fon, the lord Broghill, afterwards carl
of Orrery. This houfe is now entirely demoliilied.
1689 The prince of Orange landed at Torbay November
4th, 1688; proclaimed king, Feb. l^th, ifi.'y.
King James's abdication voted by the houfe of COJTN
Eicns, January 28th.
K 3 King
ii 4 REMARKABLE
j 689 March 1 2th, 3 7 French men of war arrived in Kin-
fale, and on the i4th, 5000 French landed.
King James's parliament fat till the zoth of July,
and palfed an aft of repeal of the act of fcttle-
inent ; and by an act of attainder, attainted near
3CCO Proteilants-.
King James iflued a proclamation for making brafs
money current in Ireland, June i8th.
William and Mary crowned Apiii i ith.
L ord chief juftice JelTereys died in the tower, April
1 8th, to which place ho had been committed Dec.
1 2th, 1688, by the lord mayor of London.
The college of Dublin tamed into a barrack for
popiihfoldiers, when the provoft and fellows were
difpoiTeifed. Dr. Moore, a popilh prieft, nominated
provoft, who, contrary to expectation, conducted
himfeif with prudence, and paid great attention
to the prefervation of the books and mzmufciipts.
The church tytlies appointed by act of parliament to
be paid to the Roman clergy.
The Prcjjteftants of Ireland difarmed by order of
Tyrconnel.
Duke Scomberg landed at Bangor with 10,000 men,
Augult I }th. Killed at the battle of the Boyne.
One thoufand Ennifkillincrs, under colonel Lloyd,
routed 5000 Iriih going to Sligo, and kilkd 700
of diem, September "th.
The brr.fs coin raifed by calling in the h:af-crown?,
and damping them anew for crowns, at Dublin,
December jd.
On the failure of brafs, king James had his image
imprefifcd oil pewter, which was alib to have been
jnrtdc current-, had it not been for kbg \VulianTs
\Ltory at the Boyre.
The land-tax palled in England.
r i'lie toleration-act paffed in dil
Several' bifliops were deprived for not taking the
to William.
Fuller, who pretended to prove the prince
of
EVENTS. U5
>f Wales fpurions, was voted by the commons to
be a notorious cheat, impoilor, and falie accufer.
Eprfcopacy aboliihed in Scotland.
1 690 The battle of die Boyne, gained by William againft
James in Ireland.
Limerick was befieged. Sarsfield furpri/ed and de-
ftroyed the great guns, with tin boats, ammunition
and provuions, at Ballynedy, within feven miles
of the befieger's camp, to which they were coming.
The town attacked, but not carried.
The fiege is railed.
King William returns to England.
Judges were appointed for the circuits of Munfler,
Leinfter and Ultler.
Londonderry befieged April 2Oth ; raifed July 31 ft,
after which the Dartmouth frigate forced her way
up to die town.
James II. failed from Bred with 17 fhips of war,
and landed at Kinfale.
Admiral Herbert attacked the French fleet in Ban-
. try Bay.
Mr. Richard Maiinfell of Cork, narrowly efcaped
being hanged for refuling to take the brafs money.
The day before the fiegeof Deny, 2000 Ennifldlli-
ners met major-general McCarthy with 6oco men,
whom they took priibners, routed iiis army, and
dcftroyed near 2000 men, \vith the lofs of about
ZO men on their I'd j.
The city of Ork made a refiftance for five days
againft a regular army, under the command of the
earl of Marlborough ; the garrifon, confiding of
4500 men, furrendered on Michaelmas-day, and
were made prifoncrs of war. Mac-Elligot, the
governor, took 500!. liom the inhabitants to fave
it from fire, an*! the next day fet lire to it at bodi
c: ;
The rryjgi Crates of Cork, reafTuming their places,
proclaimed kiiig \Villian 1 - and queen Mary, and
put the rity into fomc order.
October jd, Earl Maabojrcsgh ilor.mcd Charles-
fort,
ix6 REMARKABLE
fort, when it furrendcred ; it confided of 1200
" men, who had provificns for 1 2 monihs.
Sir CouJcfley Shovel took a frigate out of the har-
bour of Dublin, in fight of the Irifh.
June 1 4th, King William landed at Camckfergus.
June 1 8th, Colonel Luttcrell, governor of Dublin,
iffued an order, forbidding more than five Protef-
tants to meet together on pain 'of death.
June 3Oth, King William in viewing the Irifh army
by the Boyne, narrowly efcaped being killed by a
cannon ball which grazed his right fhoulder.
July zd, King James fled to Waterford, 1'rom thence
to France.
Sept. 22d, The duke of Grafton was mortally wound-
ed by a mufketball : a black fmith, who Hood at
the back of the old port-office, oppofite Sullivan's
quay, taking aim at the duke when he was giving
the word of command, Jhot him through the heart,
of which he died in a few hours. He was killed
on a piece of ground adjoining the fouth-mall,
which to this day is called Grafton's Alley.
October I5th, Kinfale furrendered.
Excife on beer and ale, firft impofed by act of par-
liament, November 25th.
1691 When fir Richard Cox was fent to govern this coun-
ty and city, and the militia thereof, notwithftand-
ing many Proteftants were difperfed and loft to
their country, heraifed in thiee weeks eight com-
plete regiments of dragoons, and three of foot,
which eleven regiments contained 6000 men.
Bottle-hill, midway between Cork and Mallow, is
remarkable for a ftout uirmiih, fought there bcv
tv.-een the Engliih and king James's forces, oa
the 29th of April, wherein the former got the
victory.
On the 1 2th of October, the Breda frigate, lying at
anchor in Cork harbour, with a number of Irilii
on board, took -fire and blew up.
Mark Baggot, taken in Dublin as a fpy in woman's
cloatks, was condemned and J^anged.
Tfie
EVENTS. 117
1691 The lord Tyrcovmel died at Limerick a day before
the army approached it.
Part of the Engliih army pa/Ted over the Shannon,
where the Iriili army was encamped, who pre-
fently reir;:;\tec'.
SI; L-reu to lord Grenrird,
AthloiK attacked, and the Englifh-town taken.
This year tin act paficd for the raifing 2500!. for the
relief of the inhabitants of Bander., to be levied
in the -counties cf Cork, Limerick, Clare, Kerry,
Tipperary and Waterford, in iha following man-
ner :
On the county of Csrlc, and in the city cf Cork 889 70
County of Limerick 282 5 6
The city and county of the city of ditto 55 18 6
Tiie county of Clare , 363 o o
Kerry 153 15 o
Tipperary, including Holy-Crofs 615 o o
Waterford 184 15 6
The city and county cf the city of ditto 55 18 6
The laid money to be put into the hands of the right
honourable the lord vifccunt Dungarvan, lord
high treafurer of Ireland, Francis Bernard and
EdWard Riggs, efqrs. or any two of them, which
ire to difpofe of as they fhould fee fit, for the
relief of the fuid inhabit ar-ts of Bandcn.
The Engliih ar.d Dutch Smyrna fleets anchored in
the port of Kinf.ile, and the grand fleets of both
nations at the mouth of the harbour, extending
from the Old-head to Youghal. Thus, the im-
portance cf Kin ; ale was again known to England,
when upon a fr.lfc al^rm, that the French fleet
v/as app; ;he men of \var could draw
into a line . without any trouble or con-
cern for the merchiintfhips, which were fecured in
the harbour; nor was this tlio only benefit Eng-
land received from Khif.ilc this fummer ; for the
\ 'i.iiiniaand Barbadoes fleets h'kewife took fanc-
tuary thei* , till an opportunity prefented to con-
voy thsra i'afe to their refpeclive ports
Count
MS REMARKABLE
Count Schorrtlverg '(fecond foil to the late duke)
created duke of Leinfter.
Mo-iV'-Mr St. Rath font from France, to command
the Iri'.li army.
Genera] Ginckle goes to the camp at Mullingar.
Sunday July i2th, was fought the decifive battle
of Aughrim, v/hen, after many fevere confli&s
and doubtfol (Kites, vidrory v/as declared in fa-
v: nr of king "\Vil1iam. The Iriih lofs amounted
to 7000 men, with theii' general St. Ruth, v.'ho
fell by a camion fhot as he came down the hill cf
Kilcomadcn. The lofs of the Engliih did not
amount to more than 600 killed, and 960 wounded.
July 26th, Galway ftirrcndered upon articles.
. O&obcr 5d, Civil and military articles were agreed
on for Limerick, and all the other forts then in
poiTeilion of the Iriih.
Odober 1 8th, The French fleet, confiding of 1 8
men of war, 4 fire-ihip?, and 20 fhips of burden,
arrived in the Shannon, with ammunition and
provifioris for the relief of Limerick ; in two days
after the articles were figned, there was news of
their being come to Dingle-Bay.
November ill, The lail of the Iriih march out of
the Englifh-Lown, many of whom were fliipped
cfF for France ; 120 of whom were carl away on
a rock in the Shannon. Their horfe were fliipped
oif at Cork afterwards.
March 2 gel, A proclamation was pnblifhed, decla-
ring the war of Ireland to be at an end.
Dec. 6th, The tranfport inips return from France,
and bring an account of the mean reception of the
Irifh who went there, wh'ri mnde feveral regi-
ments defert, who were not ihipped off.
Dec. 23d, Lord Lucan, and the reil of the Irifii
officers, went off at Cork.
1692 The Engliih and Dutch fleets, commanded by ad-
miral RufTel, defeat the French fleet off La
Hogue.
The mairucre of Glcncoe in Scotland, Jan. 31,0. S.
Earthnuake?
EVENTS. 119
Earthquakes in England and Jamaica, Sept. 8.
Hanover made an electorate of die empiie.
Royal College of phyficiaus incorporated. i5thDec.
Jan. i Qth, A great troll in Ireland, which hdd till
the middle of February.
Jvuv iota, Four French men of war, that were dif-
abledby admiral Rutfel in the battle of La Hogue,
\vere brought into Kinfalc by the king's fhips ;
and on the Til of Augnft, fir George Rook, -uidi
the fqtiadron under his ccmrr.;md, and 40 Englifh
and Dutch merehantfliips, luiweu in the lame
harbour.
1693 Two French privateers, entered Kenrnatre river,
and cut out a rich vcrTcl of 300 tons, \vhich was
lcc:i retaken by ;he Monck man of war.
The rleih'-ihambles of Cork erected by the corpora-
tion in the center of the city, at the expence of
481!. 55.
About one hundred men were killed at Dublin, by
the blo\\'ing up of a magazine, containing a
quantity of gunpowder.
Bayonets at the end of loaded mu lice ts, firf: iifed by
the French againfc the confederates, in the battle
of Turin.
Bank of England edablifhed by king William.
The fuil public lottery was drav/n this year.
C'MTiniilioners appointed to enquire into the forfeited
lands and goods in Ireland.
Hie battle of Lar.iicn in Flanders, where Luxem-
burg beat the En^Hfh, Jnly ?.9th.
1694 The tower of Linieiick fell fuddenly ; it contained
218 barrels c>f pcAvdcr, v/hich by the ihiking of
tlie floncs, took fire, and blew up ; it greatly fhat-
tered the town, killing about ico perfons, and
wounded many ethers.
Hackney coaches and chairs eftablifhcd by a& of
parliament.
Queen Mary died at the age of 33, and William
reigned alone.
Stamp duties inititutcd in England.
A flip-
I2 o REMARKABLE
A ftipftaff was fent by the houie of commons agav.iil
James French and Simon Dring, iheriis of the
city of Cork, for quartering Ibidicrs oa private
houfe-keepers.
1695 Latchelors taxed ; again in 1785.
Greenwich hoipkal began to receive 6d. per month
from ever) ; :. u.ui.
ca>.ed; again in 1784.
Kilmainham hofpital founded.
The ] \v-rnfhire man of war, had her deck blown
up by accident, in Kinfalc harbour, and thirty
men wounded.
In the v, inter of this year, and a good part of the
following fprmg, there fell in ievcral places of this
province, a kind of thick dew, which the country
people called butter, from 1.3 colour and con-
fidence, being foft, clammy, and of a dark yel-
low, as doctor St. George Aihe, then lord bilhop
of Cloyne, has recorded in the philofophical tranf-
n&ions ; it fell always in the night, and chieHy in
m.ulliy low grounds, on the top of the grafs, and
on the thatch of cabins, feldom twice in the fame
place : it commonly lay a fortnight without chang-
ing colour, but then dried, and turned black ;
fattle fed as well where it lay, as in other fields ;
it often fell in lumps, as big as the end of one's
ringer, thin and fcatteringly ; it had a ftrong ill
(cent, fcrnewhat like that of church-yards and
graves ; and there were mo ft of thr.t feafon very
Sinking fogs, fome fediment of which the biihcp
thought might poflibly have occauoned this ftink-
ing dew ; it was not kept long, nor did it breed
worms or other infefts ; yet the country people,
who had fcald or fore heads, rubbed them v lih
this fubftance, and faid it healed them.
October zd, Tins day was kept as a day of thankf-
giving i;i Dublin, for the prefervation of his ma-
jefty's peribn, and the taking of Namur in the
fight of the French army, though ico,oo
ilicng.
Captara
EVENTS. izi
Captain Walfh, a fubject of England, but com-
manding a French privateer on thcfe coaits, was
taken and hanged, April ijth.
The parliament of Ireland met, and voted a fupply
of 163,325!. Auguft27th.
The rolls, records, and papers, relative to the acts
of attainder, and other acts of king James's par-
linmcnt, -\tere cancelled and publickly burnt, Oc-
tober 2d.
1696 The peace of Ryfwkk.
Elections made void by bribery.
The town of Youghal having manned out a boat,
with about 40 feamen and foldiers, took a French
privateer that lay at anchor under Cable-iiland.
The privateer had ieized on forne boats belonging
to the town, and fent in one of them for provi-
fions, keeping the reft as hoftages. The French
l-o il five men in the engagement, and Patrick Co-
merford their captain, with the lieutenant and
fixteen more, were wounded.
Lords cnmmiOIoners of trade, firfl appointed.
French Protefhmts fettled in Ireland, and improved
the linen manufacture.
1697 The magazine at Athlone blown up by lightning.
The chamberlain was ordered to pay ieven guineas
to Mr. Walker, on his producing the great charter
of king Charles I. which \vus ioil and naiulng fe-
vcral years.
About tiiis time, feveral members in Dublin, and
other corporation towns, afl'ociated for promoting
reformation of manners, by bringing fwcarers and
Icvv-d perfons to public puniilimenr.
The old parifh of St. Michan's, Dublin, including
all that parr on the north fide of the river, was by
act of parliament divided into three pai ilhes, vi/..
the new St. Michan's, St. Paul's, and St. roraiy*
Unnn the Commons addrefs, king William !,'uv* '
cl. toTi-i'iity College.
T.his year, B. Van Homrigh, cfq; or.r rT tntr toia
miifioners ci' the revenue, wus lord niaycrof the
L t^i
^3 REMARKABLE
ci;y of Dublin; and heir g a perfon very fcrvicea-
Me to the crown and city, he obtained a collar of
SS a royal donation, for the chief magiftratc of that
city, to the value of near loool. The former
collar having been loft in king James's time.
T3ie Engliili parliament pa/fcd a vote for reducing
the army to 7000 men, and thefe to be native iub-
jcc":s; the king, to his great mortification, was
obliged to dilmifs even his Dutch guards.
1698 "Whitehall palace burnt, January 4th.
William MolypeuXj author of Ireland's Cafe, died
in iXiblin, October I3th.
The old barrack of Cork built.
Tracing people have ever aimed at exclufive privi-
leges ; of this there are two extraordinary inftan-
res : two petitions were this year prefented from
I'olkftone and Aldborough, Hating a imguhrr
giievance that they fuffered from Ireland, by UK-
L ill) catching herrings at Waterford and Wex-
ford, and fending them to the Streights, and there-
Foreftalling and ruining petitioners markets.
In tli is year, according to captain South's account,
in the Phil. Tranfact. No. 261, p. 591, there were
in the city of Cork 58 feamen, 34 tilherman, 91
boatmen, in all 183; whereof 111 were papills ;
Lnt the number is at prefent fb great, they are not
eafily to be reckoned.
The lords and commons of England addrefied king
AVilliam to employ his influence in Ireland, to
fnpprefs the woollen manufacture theiein ; to
which he anlwered the lords, that his majefty wiil
take care to dp what their lordihips required ;
;ir.d to the commons he anfwered, I fnall do all
that in me Ibs to diicourage the woollen trade in
Ire 1,
\ colony at the itlhrnus of Da-
lien in Ameiica, and calico r.ii.
Tlie creaty of Carlo\\:t/, bcLwccn U:e emperor and
tl = e Turks.
Th; :d ef-
tates
EVENTS. 123
tates of Ireland in thirteen truflees, to ^be folv!
for the public ufe, notwithstanding feveral grants
already made.
Tuckey's-bridge built, from Tuckey's-quay to.th;
eaft-manh, by captain Dunfcombe.
An Engliih law paifed this year to prevent the Iriili
exporting woollen goods, of which the following
is the preamble : " For as much as wool and wool-
len manufactures of cloth, ferge, bai/,e, keriles,
and other fluffs, made or mixed with wool, are
the greatefl and moil profitable commodities of
this kingdom, on which the value of lands, and
the trade of the nation do chiefly depend ; and
whereas quantities of like the manufactures have
of late been made, and are daily encreafing in the
kingdom -of Ireland, and in the Engiifh planta-
tions in America, and are exported from thence to
foreign markets, heretofore fupplied from Eng-
. land, which will inevitably fink the value of landi,
and tend to the ruin of the trade and woollen ma-
nufactures of this realm ; for the prevention thcie-
of, and for the encouragement of the woollen ma-
nufaftures of this kingdom, Sec."
Peter the Great quitted his dominions, animated by
the noble ambition of acquiring inilruction, and
of carrying back to his people the improvement
of other nations.
i 700 Charles XII. of Sweden, began his reign.
King James II. died at St. G^rmains, in die 68th
year of his age.
India filks prohibited to be worn in England.
Died at Windfor, the duke of Gloucester, in the
j 2th year of hh age ; a prince of early hopes, and
the only remaining bloifom of the prefent royal
family.
About this time the fint auction was in Britain, by
Klifha Yale, a governor of Fort-George in the
Eaft-Indies, of die goods he brought home with
him.
L 2 Exports
i2 4 REMARKABLE
1700 Exports from G. Britain in 1700, were 7,302,716!.
8s. ?d. imports were 5,970,175!. is. xod. In 1788
exports were 18,296,166!. izs. lid. the imports
were 17,804.024!. i6s. id.
The lands by which the blue-coat hofpital is fupport-
ed, were fet fo lew that there were but eight boys
tqpt ; but they are fmce confiderably increafed hi
value-, and at prefent there are 40 children provided
fer, with fuiKcient food, raiment and fchooling ;
and when of a competent age, are hound out ap-
prentice to trades and the fea fervice. This build-
ing owes its foundation to Dr. Edward Worth,
formerly bifKop of Killaloe, and dean of Cork,
ibiTiCtirne before the reftoration of Charles II.
The exports of linen from this kingdom amounted
to. but 14,1 12!. but in 1709, an aft having patted
in Ireland, enabling the lord lieutenant to appoint
truftees for the difpofal of the revenue granted for
the encouragement of the hncn manufacture j his
j^race the duke of Ormond, accordingly appoint-
ed truftees from each province, and aflcmbled
them on the loth of October, 1711, when the
deed of their appointment was read, and they
proceeded to the execution of their truft. From
this board, called the truftees of the linen and
hempen manufactures of Ireland, has the impor-
tant object of their appointment, received the moil
zealous and unremitting attention.
Charles XII. then only 1 8 years of age, made a de
ent on Copenhagen, and impatient to reach the
fhore, leaped into the fea fword in hand, when the
water role above his middle ; his example was
followed by his army, who put to flight the Da-
nifli troops that attempted to oppofe their landing.
Charles, who had never in his life before heard a
general discharge of mufkets loaded with ball,
a{ked major Stuart, who ftood rear him, what
the whiftling which he heard meant ; it is the
noife of the bullets, replied the mitjor, which they
fire againft your majefty : very well, faid the king,
this fhall henceforth be my mufic.
EVENTS. 125
( ;oi Society r-r the propagation of the gofpel in foreign
p.ivts, cfublilhed.
The Hanoverian fucceffion to the crown of England
figned by king William, the I2th day of June.
Charles XII. no fooner raifed the fiege of Copen-
hagen, in confequence of his treaty with the king
. of Denmark, than he turned his arms againft the
Ruffians, who had undertaken the fiege of Narva,
in Ingria, with 80,000 men. Charles, with only
8000 men, advanced to the relief of the place, and
having carried without difficulty, all the out-pofts,
he referred to attack the Ruffian camp. As foon
as the artillery had made a breach in the entrench-
ments, he ordered an aifault to be made with
icrewed bayonets, under favour of a ftorm of
fnow, which the wind drove full in the face of the
enemy. The Ruffians for a time, uVood the (hock
with firmnefs ; but after an engagement of three
hours, their entrenchments were forced on all
fides with great Daughter, and Charles entered
Narva in triumph. About 8000 of the enemy
were killed in the acYion, many were drowned in
the Narve, by the breaking down cf a bridge un-
tlcr the fugitives, near 30,000 were made prilbn-
ers, and all their magazines, artillery, and bag-
gage, fell into the hands of the Swedes. Charles
diimiired ; 11 his prisoners, except the officers,
whom he treated with generality. When the
C/ar was informed of the difafter, he was cha-
grined, but not difcouraged. " I knew that the
Swedes would beat us, laid he, but in time they
will teach us to beat them."
On the death of Charles II. of Spain, the duke of
Anjou, fecond fon of the dauphin of France, was
crowned at Madrid, by the name of Philip V.
The emperor dignified the eleclor of Brandenburgh
with the title of King of Pruffia.
Grand alliance formed between the Emperor, the
king of England, and the Sutcs-Gcneru!.
L 3 Levris
126 REMARKABLE
Lewis XIV. in violation of the treaty of RyiWick*
acknowledged the Pretender king of Great Britain
and Ireland, under tlie title of James III.
1702 King William died, aged 50, and was fucceeded
by queen Anne, daughter to James II.
The French fend colonies to the MriiifippJ.
War declared againA France on the feme day, at
London, the Hague, and Vienna.
Voltaire fays, after the taking of Baden, by the
marquis de Villars, a voice called out we are un-
done ; on hearing this all his troops fled. He ran
after them, crying " Come back, my friends, the
victory is ours, long Ih-e tic ki?:g !" The trembling
foldiers repeated, long live the king, but continued
to fly, and the marquis found the utmoft difficulty
^n rallying the conquerors.
The confederate fleets failed for Vigo, where the
Spanifh galleons, under efcort of 23 fhips of war-
were arrived. As the wealth on board thefe gal-
leons was confidered as the chief relburce of the
monarchy, and even of the whole houfe of Bour-
bon, Lewis XIV. expecting to fhave in it, the ut-
mort precaution had been taken to preferve them.
They were carried up into a bafon, through a
narrow entrance, one fide of which was defended
by a fort, the other with platforms mounted with
cannon ;. a boom was thrown acrofs the mouth of
the bafon, and within the boom the French fqua-
dron was drawn up ; but all tnefe cbftacles was
not fufRcient to difcourage the confederates, when
animated by the hopes, of fo rich a pri/.e. The
French admiral fet fire to his (hips, and the gal-
leons followed his example. The Britilh tars foon
wctiugui{hed it, and fix (hips of war were taken,
leven funk, and nine burnt ; of thirteen galleons,
nine fell into the hands of the conquerers, and four
\\ ere deftroyed ; the booty was immenfe, and the
condcmutior. of the houfe of Bourbon inex-
frcGibic
Borge,
EVENTS. j; 7
*n
Borge, a feat near Frederickftadt in -Norway, funk
into an ibyfs one hundred fathoms deep, which
inftandy became a lake, and drowned fourteen
perfons, whb 2,1 c head of cuttle.
Apothcr. :;-'t-iJ. from civil offices.
'Sej/iper L- ' I for die motto of the arms
of England,
1703 The olliqv.ity oi' 'Jvj ecliptic obferved by Bianchini
to be 23 28 1 2J 1 '.
Kidder, bilhop f Bath, and his lady, killed by the
fall of a (tack of chimmes.
The commons of Ireland expelled Mr. Afgill the
houfe, for his book, afTerting the poffibility of
tranflaticn to the other world without death.
Captains Kerby and Wade, fhot at lea for cowardice
Ap 1 ril 4th.
The Grand Seignior depofed, and his throne ufurped
by his brother, Sept. 29th.
The duke of Ormond, lord lieutenant of Ireland.
"1704 Gibraltar taken from the Spaniards by admiral
Rooke.
The battle of Blenheim won by the duke of Marl,
borough and allies againft the French.
The court of exchequer inilituted in England.
Foundations of die barracks at Dublin laid.
Pruflian Blue firft difcovered at Berlin.
Mr. Rochford, attorney-general, (tabbed with a knife
in St. Andrew's church, Dublin, by Mr. Chefwick.
Battle of Hochftet, where the duke of Marlborough
defeated the confederate forces of French and Ba-
varians, under die command of monfieurTallard
who was killed in ths engagement ; 1 3000 were
taken prifoners, and the remainder nioftly {lain
or fcattered, Augull 1 3th.
The number of Popiih clergy in each county in the
kingdom of -Ireland, returned to the clerk of the
council, purfuant to an act of parliament for re-
pRcring the Popifli clergy; 1080 in die whole
kingdom, of which number 4 were ia the city,
anc! c8 in tlie comity of Cork.
Tho
i*R REMARKABLE :
1705 The particulars of the fiege of Barcelona, as re-
lated by Voltaire, are too much to the honour of
this country to be omitted. The carl cf Peter-
borough, fays he, a man in every refpecl re-
fembling thofe imaginary heroes that the Spani-
ards have reprefcnted in their romances, propcfed
to the prince of Heffe Darrnftadt to force, fword
in hand, the entrenchments which covered fort
Montjoui and the town. The enterpri/e was ac-
cordingly executed with fuccefs ; but with the lofs
of the brave prince of Helle, who was killed in
the attack. The garrifon, however, ftill held out ;
when a bomb, directed at Montjoui, happened to
enter the magazine of powder, it blew up with a
terrible explolion, and the fort iiiuantly furren-
dered. The town foon after offered to capitulate;
and the duke of Popoli, the governor, came to
the gate, in order to adjuft the articles with Pe-
terborough : but before they were figned, tumul-
tuous fhouts being heard, *' You betray us!" ex-
claimed Popoli. " Whilft we, with honour and
" fmcerity, are here treating with you, your troops
" have entered the town by the ramparts, and
" are murdering, plundering, and committing
*' every fpecies of violence." " You are miila-
" ken," replied Peterborough : " thefe muft be
*' die troops of the prince of Darmftadt. There
" is only one expedient left to fave your town :
" allow me freely to enter it with my Engliflunen.
" I will foon make all quiet, and return to the
*' gate to finifh the capitulation." Thefe words lie
uttered with an air of dignity and truth, \
joined to a fenfe of prefent danger, induced the
governor to comply. Attended by fome of his
officers, he haftened into the flrects, where the
licentious foldicry, but more efpecially the Ger-
mans and Catalans, were pillaging the houfes of
the principal inhabitants. Ke drove them from
their prey ; he obliged them to quit even ihe booty
they had feized j and hs happily rescued from
their
EVENTS. 129
tLcir hands the duchefs of Popoli, wken on the
point of being diinonoured, and reftored her to
her hufband. In a word, after having quelled
every appearance of diforder in the town, he re-
turned to the gate, and finished the capitulation
with the governor ; to the no fmall aftonifliment
f the Spaniards, in general, at finding fo muck
honour and generofity in a people, whom they
had hitherto been accuftomcd to conlider only as
mercilefs heretics.
1 706 The treaty of union betwixt England and Scotland,
figned July 22d.
The battle of Ramillies, won by Marlborough and
, the allies.
Great eclipfe of the fun, May ift.
The aft of bankruptcy commenced in England.
A great part of the walls of the city of Cork being
in a ruinous condition, there was an order of
council to have feveral of the breaches flopped,
and all the ilairs leading thereto taken down ; andi
the fame year, a great part of the city wall facing
the eaft marfh, was taken down accordingly.
Auguftus, king of Poland, depofed, and Staniflaus
elected.
1707 The firfl Britifh parliament.
The allies defeated at Almanza.
The cuftom houfe of Dublin began to be built.
Sir Cloudelley Shovel was cafl away on the rocks of
Scilly, where his body was thrown afhore, Oc-
tober 22d.
Fires occafioned by fervants, punifhable.
Modena and Milan furrendered to th*. allied armies.
The Pretender (Chevalier de St. George) failed from
Dunkirk with a French fleet, 6oco land forces,
and io,coo arms, with an intention to enter the
Firth of Forth, but fir George Byng, with a
fuperior force, obliged him to go back to Dun-
kirk, with the lofs of one Lhip.
!?o8 Minorca taken from the Spaniards by General
Stanhope.
The
ijd REMARKABLE
The battle of OuJenarde won by Morlborough and
the allies.
A Ruffian ambaflfadpr arrefled by a lace-merchant,
which occaiioned a law for their protection.
Prince George of Denmark, huiband to queen Anne,
died October 2 8th, aged 56 years.
The foundation of the exchange in Cork laid.
An epidemic fever vifited Cork, from the month of
Auguft until January following, and again in
1718, 17*19) 1720, and 1721, as taken from
doctor Rogers's eilay on the endemical difeafes
thereof.
Liile furrendered to the combined army.
The Czar propofed a peace to Charles, who made the
follo\\ ing anfwer : " I will treat at Mufcow."
When Peter heard this haughty anfwer, he re-
plied, " My brother Charjes always affects to play
" the Alexander ; but he will not, I hope, find
" in me a Darius. "
-1 709 A general naturalisation of foreign Protcflants
enacted in England.
Mr. Euftace murdered his wife in Smithfield, Dublin,
and made his efcape, but being purfued by a ccn-
ftable, they fired a piiiol at each ether, and both
died on die fpot.
The ftatute in favour of literary property, patted.
Lewis XIV. offered the following terms of peace :
to yield the whole Spanifii monarchy to the Houfe
of Auftria, without any equivalent ; to cede to
the Emperor, his conqueits on the Upper Rhine;
to give Furnes, Ypres, Menin, Tournay, Lific,
Conde, and Mabenge, as a ban ier to Holland ;
to acknowledge die Elector of Brandenburgh as
king of Pruflia ; the duke of Hanover as ninlh
elector of the empire : to own the right of queen
Anne to the Britifti throne ; to remove the Preten-
der from the dominions of France; to acknow-"
ledge the fucceffion to the crown of Great Britain
in the Proteftant line; to reftore every thing requir-
ed by the duke of Savoy ; and to agree to the eel-
lion
EVENTS. ijt
lions made by the king of Portugal, by his treaty
\vith the confederates. All which were rejected.
The famous battle of Malplaquet : few battles in
any age, have been fo fierce and bloody; and
none perhaps fo long centefted, Jince the improve-
ment of the art of war, in conference of the in-
vention of gunpowder; 1 20,000 men were engaged
on each fide, and the confederate army gained
nothing but the field, with the lofs of ac,ooomen,
the enemy but half the number.
Tournay, one of the ftrongeft and moft ancient ci-
ties in Flanders, taken by the confederate army.
Poltowa, well ftored with every neceffary wanted by
Charles's army, befieged by him, which brought
on a general engagement in which he loft 9,000
flain, and 6000 with the king's military cheft ta-
ken ; 1 2, ceo fled, but were obliged to furrender,
for want of boats to take them over the Boiifthc-
nes ; Charles, accompanied with 300 guards,
with difficulty efcaped to Bender.
1710 Queen Anne changed the Whig miniftry for others
more favourable to the iatcreft of her brother, the
late Pretender.
The cathedral church of St. Paul, London, rebuilt
by fir Chri'lopher Wren in 37 years, at the expence
of one million fterling, by a duty on coals.
The Engliih fouth-fea company began.
Lewis XV. of France, bom February J r th.
The new lav palfed for adjufting the afii^e of breaJ.
Indian kings had audience of queen Anne, April 19.
This year the lail prcfenimcnt for killing wolves,
was made in the county of Cor!;.
Doway, St. Venant, Ikthunc, and Aire, taken by
the confederate army.
The battle of Elfinbury, where the Danes were
beat by the Swedes.
Robert Harlcy, c'.\[; (afterwards carl of Oxford)
-: (tabbed by Anthony Guifcard, who was then
iii-uLr examination before a committee of the
privy council, March f th, fince which time, it ii.
made
i 3 z REMARKABLE
made felony of death without benefit of clergy,
to affault, itrike, or wound any privy counfellor
in the execution of his office. Slat. 9, Aims.
c. 1 6.
Great plague began at Copenhagen, May 22d.
James, duke of Ormond, fworn lord lieutenant of
Ireland, July 3d.
An engagement between the Turks and Ruffians ;
the latter were beat and obliged to offer terms,
which were agreed upon.
1712 The Sultan ordered Charles XII. to quit his terri-
tories, wlio replied he could not go without i ooo
purfes ; the Sultan ordered him 1 209 ; he then
demanded 1000 more, which were refufed, and
the bafhaw of Bender was deiired to bid him de-
part, which he likewife refufed, and with his re-
tinue, confuting of about 300, threw up entrench-
ments on which they were attacked by 20,000
Turks, who took them prifoners before they had
time to draw their fwords. Charles, who was on
horfe- back between the camp and his houfe, took
refuge in thfc latter, attended by a few general
officers and domeftics ; with thefe he fired from
the windows upon the Turks, killed 200, and
bravely maintained his poft, till die houfe was all
in flames, and one half of the roof fell in. In
this extremity a centinel, named Rofen, had the
prefence of mind to obferve, that the chancery
houfe, which was only about fifty yards diftance,
had a ftonc roof, and was proof againft fire ;
that they ought to fally forth, take poffeffion of
that houfe, and defend themfelves to the latl ex-
tremity. There is a true Swede, cried Charles,
ruining out like a madman, at the head of a few
defperadoes, but was foon made priibner with
his companions.
A furious battle took place between general Stecn-
bock with 12000 men, and double that number
of Danes and Saxons ; and though the latter had
every advantage of pofition, they were entirely
routed,
EVENTS. 133
routed, and driven out of the field with great
daughter.
The expedition againft Quebec (from Ok! and New-
England) failed partly from the latcnefs of the
frafon, and partly from an ignorance in the navi-
gation of the river St. Lawrence ; ten tranfports
and 2000 men were loft.
The duke of Marlborough difmiired by Q. Anne.
The wooden bridge at die north end of me city of
Cork was taken down, and a fair bridge erected in
its place ; the piers, arches, and butments being
faced with hev>n ftone.
The queen agreed to a fufpenfion of arms ; the im-
mediate delivery of Dunkirk was the condition
of that indulgence, which was delivered up to
brigadier-general Hill, and its fortifications de-
molHhcd.
General Albemarlc defeated by Marfhall Villars,
and io'l lOjCOcmen.
Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun killed in a duel
in Hvde-p.'.rk.
Robert Walpole, efq; fent to the tower, January i yth.
Wedncfday, M;iy yth, Mary Eafbcrry was burnt at
gallows-green, for poilbning her huuSand Daniel
Eaibeiry, tallow-chandler, who lived in Paul-itreet.
1713 The peace of Ucrecht, whereby Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, New Britain, and Hudibn's Bay,
in North America, were yielded to Great Britain;
Gibraltar and Minorca, in Europe, were alfo con-
firmed to the faid crown by this treaty.
The wooden bridge at the fouth end of the city of
Cork was taken down, and a haudlbme ftone
bridge erected at the corporation charge.
1714 Queen Anne died at the age of 50, ami was fuc-
ceeded by George I.
Intel ell reduced to fi\-.' per cent.
A parliamentary reward offered for difcovering the
longitude.
The Piotefiant doors in the city of Dublin marked
with chalk, June i6th.
M The
i 34 REMARKABLE
The C/.ar made himfelf mafter of Abo, Borgo, de-
feated the Swedes at Taveilius, penetrated as far
as Vaza, gained a complete victory over them at
fea, and took the ifle of Oeland.
Charles XII. had luny kept his bed for ten months
with an affected ftckneL,, at Domet.ica, when he
received a letter from his filler, to inform him that
his minifters wanted to make peace with Rurhu
and Denmark, which effectually roufed hjm ; on
v/hich he wrote to the fenate, that if they pretend-
ed to aJfumc the reigns of government, he Avould
lend them one of his boots, from which they iliould
receive their orders, and fet out on his return im-
mediately. On his arrival he gave his only fur-
viving filler in marriage to Frederic, prince of
Uelle-Calle].
Ormond difmiUcd, and Marlborongh reilored.
1715 Lev is XIV. died, and was fucceeded by his greati
grand-fon Lewis XV. the late king of France.
The rebellion in Scotland began in September, under
the carl of Mar, in favour of the Pretender. The
action r-f Sheriffmu-r, and feveral others.
The obliquity pf the ecliptic obierved by Loaville to
be 23 28' 34".
The. greatefl eclipfc of the fun that had been for
500 years.
Agrcatfnow fell, which continued two months.
North-Gaol built by a tax on the inhabitants, and
;hc Green coat hoip-tui began to be erected the
fame year.
'lY-'.r. tirft difcovered at Virginia in America.
Cattle-Bernard, formerly Caille-Mahon (once the re*
lidenceof O'Mahnny) rebuilt by Judge Bernard.
Lord Bolingbroke, the carl of Oxford, and the duke
of Ormond, impeached; Ormond and Bolingbroke
cleaned to the Continent ; but .C- ter an
impriibnment of ty.o years, was brought to his
trial, and difmiiled for want of accufers.
The duke .of Beiwlck gives the following character
EVENTS. 135
1715" of Lewis the XIV. " No prince was ever Co little
" known as this monarch ; the Protoftants have
" reprefentcd him us a man not only cruel and
" falfe, but difficult of accefs. I have frequently
" had the honour ot' audiences from him, and
" have been very familiarly admitted to his pre-
" fence : and 1 can aifirm, that his pride was only
" in his appearance. He was born with an air of
" majcfty, which ftruck every one fo much, that
" no body could approach him without being
" fcized with awe and refpect ; but as foon as you
" fpokc to him, he foftensd his countenance, and
" put you quite at cafe. He was the moft polite
" man in this kingdom ; and his anfwers were ac-
" companied with fo many obliging expreffions,
" that, if lie granted your requeft the obligation
*' was doubled) by the manner of conferring it j
" and if he refufed, you could not complain."
M'Intolh and Forfter lead the Scotch rebels to Pref-
ton, where they were attacked, and furrendercd to
general C-irpenter. Sever;;.! reduced officers were
immediately foot as dcferters ; the noblemen, and
gentlemen were fent priibncrs to the tower, and
the common men were confined in the caftle of
Chefter and other fccure places.
The duke of Argyle, with only 5,300 men, attacked
and defeated the earl of Mar at the head of 9000
men at Drumblainc.
Doc. 22d, The Pretender landed at Peterhead in
Scotland, where be was joined by the earl of Mar,
and conduced to Pirth, whcie a regular council
was formed, and a day fixed for his coronation at
Scoon ; but the arrival of the duke of Argyle
obliged them to retire to Montrofe, where feeing
no hope of retrieving their affairs, they embarked
for France, accompanied by feveral other perfons
of dillinc~tion.
At the fiegc of Stralfund, the bombs fell as thick as
hail upon the houfes, and half the town was redu-
ced to aihes. One day, as Charles was dictating
M 2 fome
: 5 6 REMARKABLE
i
fome letters, a bomb burfting in the neighbour-
hood of his appartment, his fecretary dropt his
pen. " What is the matter ?" faid the king, with
a degree of chagrin, as if afhamed that any one
belonging to him fhould be capable of fear, -
" The bomb I" fighcd the intimidated fcribe, un-
able to write another word. " Write on," cried
Charles, with an air of indifference, " What re-
'' lation has the bomb to the letter I am di&a-
" ting ?"
1716 The Pretender married the princefs Sobiefka,
grand- daughter of John Sobidka, late king of
Poland.
An act pafied for feptennial parliaments.
'] he Emperor's army, commanded by prince Eu-
"one. defeated the grand vizer at Peterwaradin.
The famous quadruple alliance, formed between
France, England, Holland, and the Emperor,
Hgainft the violent ambition of Spain. By this
treaty the duke of Savoy was dignified with the
tide of King of Sardinia.
I .ft church in the city of Cork, being in a ruinous
condition, was taken down and rebuilt in 1720;
the iirft fermon being preached therein on Sunday
the 27th of November that year, by the reverend
Philip Townfcnd. The corporation gave 200!.
towards this building.
Earl of Derwentwater and vifcour.t Kenmure, be-
headed in London February 24th.
Juflice Hall and parfon Paul, hanged July I3th, for
being concerned in the rebellion.
River Thames dry both above and below the bridge,
vhercby loot paflengers went acrofs with great
eaie, September i4th.
The battle of Glanmire fought nn Saturday the i6th
of June, occafioned by the regiment who lay in
the old barrack, having turned out for their ar-
rears and pay, which being detained from them
feme time pall, they marched out of the barrack,
aad went up to lever Glailieen, \vith drums beat-
ing
EVENTS. 137
Ing and colours flying, crofied the lee, went to
the foot of Dublin hill, and encamped themfelves
in a field belonging to Peter Healy, where they
halted a few days, and then marched to Glanmire ;
at this time they were purfued by a regiment of
foldiers (who landed that morning at the Cove
of Cork) with two brafs field pieces, upon which
the mutineers made a ftand at the further fide of
the bridge, headed in particular by one of them-
fclves, a Dutchman,, named John Chriftopher
Gurvy, and forne others of their own regiment,
who made a refblute defence ; their ammunition
Having failed, they made ufe of their buttons as a
fubftitute for bullets, when at lad they gave way,
;;nd retreated in diibrder : the Dutchman, toge-
ther with Coffy and Holland, two of the ring-
leaders, were taken, tried by a court-martial,
and fhot at gallows-green ; man/ others were fe-
verely whipt.
1717 The Turks beiiege Belgrade, but were repulfed by
an inferior army under prince Eugene, on which
the Turks ceded Belgrade to the emperor.
Guineas reduced by parliament from twenty-two to
twenty-one i hillings.
Britifh linen exported duty free.
1718 A proclamation published by the lords juftices of
Ireland, offering io,cool. reward for the appre-
hending the late duke of Ormoiul, January 9th.
England offered 5000!. for apprehending him.
Colonel Henry Luttrell {hot in a hackney-chair, as
he was returning home from Lucas's coffee houfc,
Dublin.
The marquis de Palcotti, brother to the dutchcfs of
Shrewfoary, killed one of his fervants in London;
he was tried for it, found guilty, and executed.
The famous Quaker, Sir \Villiam Penn, died.
\vith Spain in the month of December.
Bctridge's alms-houfe in Cork, begun to be. built.
War v, as declared in Cork againft .Spain.
Akxii, the only f<m of Peter of Ruilia, by h's firft
M 3 ^'f-
3 REMARKABLE
wife, having led an abandoned life, he mride him
(jgn a iblemn renunciation of his right to die
vr, -id kail tlv.it deed iliould not prove fuf-
ficient to exclude the Czarowitz from the luccei-
,-. he was condemned to fuiFer death, which
<-j.ce and fuddenly. This was fup-
.d to be in conieqiience of Peter having a fon,
jter) by his beloved Catherine, who foon after
Sir George Bvnq engaged the Spamfh licet near the
ut of Sicily, and 'took ordeilroyed 21 (flips out
;-i 27; 14 were of the line.
M he kir.g of Sweden ikt dov.-n (a fecond time) be-
! ickfhiill, in the month of December,
-; -round v:as as hard as iron, :uiu the cold
fn intcnie^that the foldiers frequently dropped
down derui. In order to animate them, he expoied
h'irnfelf to all the fcverities of the clim-.ue, as well
as to the dangers of the fiege, fleeping even in
ihe open air,covered only with a cl nk. One
ht ;s he \vas viewing them carrying on their
. .pro-aches by ftar-iight, he was killed by a half.
pound ball, from a cannon loaded with grape (hot.
Though he cypired without a groan, the moment
he received tlu blow, he m'.tinaively pratpcd the
hilt of his iwovd, and was found with his hand in
that pofiticn, ib truly characleriftic of his mind.^
Baron de Goert-/, impeached for {landerotifly mif-
repre^enting the nation to Charley and beheaded.
1719 TheMilhiippifchemeatits height in France.
I.f.mbe's filk-throwing machine, containing 26,586
wheels, erected at Dei by ; takes up one-eight oi
a mile ; one water- wheel moves the reft ; and ^ in
24 hoirs it works 318,504,960 yards of organ/.ine
lilk thicaJ.
reut thunder and KgVtning in Dr.blin, which con-
..dfrcm two o'clock in the aiVernoon, tili five
the next morning;.
The uew barrack in Cork bu^lu
The
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1719 In this year the charitable infirmary was b-gun to
be erected in the old church- yard of Saint Mary
Shandon ; the work was fupported by the volun-
tary ilibfcriptions of feveral worthy peribns, and
the ihell of the houfe was finiflied in 1721. The
building is, in length, 70 feet, and 24 broad, and
is capable of receiving 24 Tick peribns, on three
1 ', four chambers on a floor, and two peribns
in each chamber. In every chamber there are
fire places, and all other convenieneies for the lick,
and a fair gallery on each floor for them to walk
in. Here are alfo a kitchen and (lore-room, a
chamber for medicines, with a convenient room
adjoining for the furgeon, and other offices ; un-
;io;ind, for the nurfe-tendcrs, Sec.
On the 1 5th of October, 1719, the corporation
grantad to captain Thomas Deane, a piece of
ground adjacent to St. Peter's church, to erecl a
fchool and alms-houfe thereon. And the houfc
was built accordingly for the education of forty
poor childi en, twenty of each fex, who are clothed
and t.mght: gratis to read, write, Sec. by a maftcr
and rriiltrefs, who are lodged and accommodated
in the fame building, and have 14!. per annum
ialary ; the flmi < f 52!. ye:irly, is bequeathed, by
the pious donor for the ufe of this charity, who
further gives a loaf of bread to each poor child
every Sunday. The late rev. archdeacon Pomroy,
minirter of this parilh, added fix boys to the foun-
dation, and gave i8ol. to be put to intereft for
this ufe. In the alms-houfc are maintained eight
poor people, 6 men and 2 women, who have a
weekly allowance of is. 6d. each. They have
alfo a ia'.t of clothes every other year, a great
coat, and other tteceffxnts. The building us plain,
and commodious for the p-.irpoie.
The 4'.i-ty, called Kyrle's-quay, on the ear! fide of
n.-. nli-gaol, was built.
Ulrica Eleonora, fifter to Charles XII. cltcT-ed queen,
but Hie icliiiqxiifhcd the crov.Tx to hcvhulband, the
prince
i 4 o REMARKABLE
prince of RefTe, who was chofen by the States,
and mounted the throne on the fame condition,
with his royal contort.
Philip V. of Spain acceded to the terms prefcribcd
by the quadruple alliance.
Seven thouihnd Swedes periihed in a ftorm of fnow,
upon the mountains of Rudcl and Tydel, in their
march to attack Dromtheim.
?720 South lea fcheme in England began April 7 ; was
at its height at the end of June, and quite funk
about September 29th, which ruined feveral hun-
dred families.
A great earthquake in China.
The plague broke out at Marfeilles, Auguft i6th. _
A charity fermon preached at all the churches in
Dublin, for the poor weavers, by order of go-
vernment, and the money gathered amounted to
!22;1. i-fs. ad.h.
June 1 6th, happened the unfortunate accident at the
four-courts, Dublin, at the trial of the two Mr.
Brigantines, for killing a conftable in golden-lane,
whereby twenty were crufhed to death, and feveral
wounded, by their crowding out of die courts
upon a falfe alarm of their being on fire.
The mard) ke (commonly called the rcd-houfe-walk)
firft laid out by Edward Webber, efq; town-clerk.
St. Nicholas's church in Cork, began to be creeled
on the 1 9th of January.
Late lord Gerald de Courcy, was by his grace the duke
of Grafiion, prefented to his majefty king George
the Firft, when he had the honour to kifs his
hand, and o aHert his ancient privilege ; and on
the 22d of June 1727, he was prefented by the
lord Cartaretto his late majefty, king George IL
by whom he was gracioufly received, had the ho-
nour of killing his hand, and cf being covered in
his prefence.
1721 Buttons and button-holes of cloth, prohibited by
law.
Inoculation firft tried on criminals.
St. Anne's
EVENTS. 141
1722 St. Anne's church began to be built upon the old
foundation where St. Mary ShanJon flood, and it
was determined to make it a diilincl paiilli, on the
demile or removal of the incumbent ; it was
creeled by fubfcription.
John, duke of Msirlborough, died June i6th.
Counfellor Layer hanged for treafon, March ryth.
Captains Henry Ward and Francis Fit/.gerald, were
hanged and quartered at gallows-green, Cork, on
Wednefday, April 1 8th, for enliiting men for the
fervice of the Pretender j they were profecuted
by Maurice Hayes.
William Roe flood in the pillory on Saturday the
1 9th, and was feverely whipt on Wednefday the
23d. of May, for repeating the following feditious
words : May ki/'g ^James the Third enjoy his c^vtt
again !
Daniel Murphy, on Saturday the 9th, and Patrick
Sweeney, on Saturday the i6th of June, were
executed at gallows-green, Coi'k, for enliiliiigmcn
for the fervice of the Pretender, at the profecu-
tion of Maurice Hayes ; they were tried by a ipe-
cial commiffion.
This year Ryland and Keating were executed for the
murder and robbery of Ifaac Watkins, of Water*
Park, CKJ; they both died innocent, as appeared
by the confeffion of William Lyne, who was, at
the fame aflr/es, convifted of cow-dealing; he
was tried by die fame jury with Ryland and Keat-
ing, but being unwilling to criminate himfelf, per-
mitted the blood of the two innocent men to be
fhed. Lync declared on the gallcws, that James
P-yrne and Michael Byrne, both brothers, himfelf
and another man not then taken, v/ere the only
perfons guilty of the faid murder and robbery.-
I-n about two years after, the two Byrnes were
executed at gallows-green for another murder, and
were remarkably impenitent at the time of their
death.
The
H* REMARKABLE
1723 The ground on which St. Paul's church is builf,
was granted by ilie corporation to the late bifhop
Broun, on May i/uh, and cHvinc fervioc wu:,, f-.r
the. firft time, celebrated therein, by the reverend
Edward Sampfon, Oflober 9th, 1726,
Prcteftion of foreign miniiters cancelled, J:i>i. r 7th.
Bills of pairs and penalties ordered againll the biihop
of Rochefter, March zd.
A patent for coining halfpence, granted to William
Wood, cfq; July 2 4th; Againft this projector,
Dean Swill: appeared in the character of the Dra-
per, expofed the defigns of the coiner, and rai/cd
fuch a fpirit as elFedtually baniilied him the king-
dom.
Great fire at Stockholm, May ift.
A fevere edi<3: in France .againil Proteftants, May
the 1 4th.
1724- An earthquake in Denmark.
A great eciipie of the fun, Monday May I2th.
The old cuftom-houfe being too fmall, was taken
down, and the prefent one erected the next year.
.Kaxus cfths Ccllsftors of the Port of Cork,ftnce 'King James.
Anno 1690 Sir James Cotter, knt.
1690 Chriflopher Carkton, efq; for king William*
1693 Arthur Bufhe, efq$
1698 Warham Jemmat, efq;
1716 Henry Arkwright, efq}
1717 William Maynard, efq;
1734 Hugh Dickfon, efq; and recorder of Cork*
1734 John Love, efq;
1734 Hugh Dickfon, efq; again.
7738 Hsnry Hamilton, efq;
i 743 Henry Cavendifh, efq;
1 746 Bellingham Boyle, clq;
1 749 John Love, efq; again.
1750 Sir Richard Cox, bart.
1755 Hon. James O'Bryen.
1767 tfon. Jofeph Lyfaght.
Befules
E VENTS. 143
JSefides a furveyor-general of the province, who
commonly re fides in this diftricl, and whole falary
js 300!, per annum, there a,re
A port-colleclor, at 150!. fy.lary.
A .colleclor of excile, at tool, a year.
Two furv r eyors, one en the quay, and one in tha
{lores, 6ol. each.
Three land-waiters, at 40!. each.
A riding furveyor, at 65!.
A walking furveyor on the out quays, 30!.
A (lore-deeper, 20!.
A tide-furveyor at Cove, 50!.
His deputy, 35!.
Surveyors at Crofs-haven and Paflage, 35]!. eaclu
A door-keeper of the Mores, 20!.
Three coaft officers, at 35!. each.
Twenty-five tide-waiters, at 30!. each.
Eight boat-men at Cove, and five more at Cork, 3$
20!. each.
Six boatmen at Paflage, at 1 81. each.
Two fcale porters, at 20!. e;u:h.
Twelve. fupernumerary tide-waiters, at 5!. each.
T .wo furveyors of excife, at 65!. each.
In the whole diftricl; iSguagers, at 40!. each. And
Two fupernumerary ones, at 30!. each.
1725 St. Finban's church taken down, and rebuilt in
Petti, emperor of RufTia, died,
1726 John Ward, of Hackney, expelled the hpufc of
commons for forgery, May 1 6th,
The call end of Nicholas's church in Cork, grently
damaged by thunder and lightning, on Monday
June zoth ; fome of the books and culhions werp
burnt,
Douglas factory began to be built.
$727 Ki;> : tlied in the 68th )'car of his age ; and
f'.iccctdcd by his only fun, George II.
Rafta,
J44 REMARKABLE
Ruflla, formerly a dukedom, is now eftablifhed as
a.n empire.
The aberration of the fixed ftars difcovered and ac-
counted for by doctor Bradley.
Sir Ifaac Newton died March, 28th.
A large whale came on ihore at Erris, in the county
of Mayo; the jaw-bone was 22 feet long.
1728 Linen-hail, Dublin, opened.
.There being a great fcarcity of provifions this year
in the cfty of Cork, a defperate mob arnfe, and
broke open the cellars of Hugh Millerd, efq;
mayor of Coik, and after doing a great deal of
mifchief, the army was called to fupprefs them,
when a few fhots were fired ; Alice Murphy, who
was looking oitt of her window, was uniortunate-
ly ihot dead, and not one guilty perfon hurt.
1729 In a parliament held at the blue-coat hofpital,
Dublin, motion for a 2 1 years fupplies negatived
by a majority of one.
Foundation of the parliament-houfe in college-green
laid.
-' The rirfl burial with linen fcarves at colonel Groyes's
funeral, in Dublin, Oftober ijth.
The North and South chapels in Cork built ; the"
fuiitb one was afterwards burnt.
So remarkable a fog in London, that feveral chair-
men miftook their way in St. James's-Park, and
fell with their fares into the canal ; many perlbns
fell into Fleet-ditch, and conuderable dnmagewas
done on the Thames, Jan. ift. in the evening.
A propoial was made in the houfe of commons, to
fet up a ballad-office in the city of Cork.
By Mr. Richard Fenton's account, who collected the
'duty on ccals applied to the building the cathedral,
Chnit-crmrch, and the work-houfc, there was re-
ceived, from Nov. 1719, to November 1726, being
7 jears, 1794!. and from the firft Nov. to March
the $d, 1729!. being three years and five months,
999!. 14=. the duty being is. per tun, making
each year communibus aim. 256!. 52. 8d. by
which
EVENTS. 145
which computation, there fecms to be " about 6000
tans of coals burned in this city yearly, amounting
to about 1 6 tuns and a half each day, and 500
tuns a month, 'which may be {applied by 150
ihips, feeing, one v\*ith another, 40 tuns ; there
ure allb great quantities of turf confumed here.
1730 Bra/il diamond mines difcovered.
The ancient city of Hercalaneum difcovered.
Silver mines difcovered at Britany in Trance.
The judge, fiieriff, and lev eral other perfons died of
the gaol ditlemper, at Blanford affi/.es.
Hannah Sjiell, the female foldier, had a penfion fet-
tled on her.
The dragon blown off the exchange of Cork.
1731 The heart of a man found at Waverly in Surry,
preferred 700 years infpirits.
Trie bridge on Hammond' s-marfh, leading to the
meeting-houfe, was erected ; and on the fame
canal are feveral other imaU bridges.
A nev.- bride\vcll creeled in Cork, at the expence of
the city.
Tit; Dublin fociety formed, and has continued to,
maintain the precedence of its merit unrivalled.
Pragmatic fanction guaranteed, by which the fuc'
cclLoa to the Auftrian hereditary dominions was
fee tired to the heirs female of the emperor Charles
the Sixth, in cafe he ihould die without male
ill tie.
L-UV pleadings ordered to be in Englifh.
This year there were 1,309,768 Roman catholics, ;
and 700,453 ProtCila*uts in Ireland.
The fhamblc.s and milk-market near the barrack in
Cork, built.
Timothy Croneen, for the murder and robbery of
Andrew St. Leger, efq; and his wife, was hanged
quartered and beheaded, at gallows-green, Cor::,
the 2 ^th day of January ; he was tried by a fpecial
commiliion, and immediately after his conviction,
was put into a c;irt, and conveyed to the place of
; his head was afterwards fpikcd en the
N fouth-
i 4 6 REMARKABLE
foutli-gaol. Joan Condon, for the fame murder,
'. J . was burnt the Saturday following.
1732 Kouli Khan ufurped the Periian throne, conquered
the Mogul empire, and returned \vith t\vo hundred
millions fterling.
Several public-fpirited gentlemen began the fettle-
ment of Georgia in North America.
May 2yih and 301)1, being Whit-Monday andTue
day, tfie weavers, combers, and other peribns be-
lomung to the clothing buiinefs, made an elegant
appearance through the ftrcets of Cork, with a
loom drawn by horfes, exhibiting to public view,
the pnclical part of their trade in all its various
1733 The JeMts expelled from Paraguay.
~ Seft called Mtihodijls aroie in England.
E-v. To fcheme introduced into the hoiife of commons,
and oppoled by every trading town in the king-
dom. For one week in this year it amounted to
J jS.oool. In 1744, it was 3,754,072!. In the
ae year the malt diftiliery ct London, was
A 5 :;cocl. The revenue was 3,847,000!. in 1 746.
i;U Forgery firft puniflicd with death in England.
Sto'ek-iobbing forbid by parliament.
The pi nice ot' Orange married in London to the pnn-
cd\ Royal, March Hth.
The French and their allies were fuccelstul in Italy.
The Spaniards made themfelves mailers of Naples
and Sicily.
Count de Mortcmar gained a complete victory over
the Impeiialifts.
The forces of France and Piedmont, under old
Marfnd Viilars and the king ol Sardinia, too*
Mium and oilier important places.
TheMarfliaFde Coigny, who iucceedcd to the com.
d of the French army on the death ot ViUars,
defeated the Imperial ills, in which their general
was killed ; they were again defeated atGuaftalla
where the prince of Vv h tcmberg was ilam ; on
tmjeror fued for peace,
EVENTS. 147
Tiftv {he-riffs of London appointed in one day, 35
of whom paid their fines, July zd.
Three tygers whelped in the tower of London, Au>
gult 2d.
Mr. Ford, one of ths fellows of Trinity-College,
Dublin, was ihot by one of the fcholars.
Mrs. Harris, a Quaker, prefented her majefty with
two caps of uncommon finenefs for the prince is
of Orange, as part of her child-bed linen, with
verfes in needle-work on them ; that for a prince
had the following lines :
Asprwidence to glorious William gave
T ! \/L- bapfy nations, ivL'cb he cai,ie tofavs ;
Sti-il viay kii:dhcav:n with rc\al lemurs blcff
His priacefy rxcs, a>;d Jstid us large increafe.
tf May it pleafe the Queen,
" A faiiliful iubjecl of thine, and one of thnfe
" called Quakers (a people who have diftinguiihed
" themfelves by their love to thy family) has been
" excited by the happy marriage of that amiable
" jirincefs thy eldelt daughter with the prince of
" Orange, to fhew that the pleafmg (thoughts of
" it remained witli lier many days ; I have, O
" queen ! with my own hands (tLough I am
" more than 64 y ears of age) wrought this linon,
" which I have taken the liberty to preient to thy
" royal hand ; I befeech thee fuffer thy grand-
" child to wear it, and may the Almighty, who
" has made thee mother of many children, make
" them and their children comforts to thee and
" to thy people. So prays thy humble but faHh-
" fulfubjed, Mary Harris."
735 Foity carcaffes of beef were fci/.ed and burnt before
the exchange of Cork, as not being lit for trani-
portation.
Portland lile had one hundred yards of its north end
funk into the fea, which did 4000!. damage to the
pier, Dec. 2oth.
The Derwcntwater eftate forfeited to the crown, in
N 2 the
H 8 REMARKABLE
the year 1715, appointed for the fupport of Green-
Vv-ich hofpital.
1736 Captain Porteous having ordered his foldiers to fire
upon the populace at an execution of a fmuggler,
was hanged by the mob at Edinburgh.
A tranfit of Metcury obferved by Caffini.
Prince Eugene of Savoy, died April loth.
War between the Empreis and the Port.
General Lafes reduced A?oph ; the Count de Mu-
nich forced the lines of Prekop, took Banievary,
and laid all Tartar}- wafte by fire and {word. Next
campaign, Munich entered the Ukraine, and in-
v-fcRed Oe/akow, which he carried, though de-
fended by an army of io,coo men.
1737 A dreadful hurricane at the mouth of the Ganges,
October loth.
The city of Venice made a free port.
Queen Carolina died November 2oth.
Plays required to be licenfed by the lord chamber-
la'me by pavliame'n*.
i"?8 Weftminfter-bridge, confining of 15 arches, be-
gun ; fini/hed in 1 750, at the expence of 389,0001
which was defrayed by parliament.
Thrt ofdei 1 of St. Jamiavms eftablifhed at Naples.
The value of the gold coin reduced in Ireland, Sep-
tember loth.
Gill-Abbey caftle fell down, after (landing 980 years,
i-"o Letters of marque iffued out in London agamft
Spain July 21, and war declared Oft. 23.
The empire of Indoftan ruined by Kouli Khan.
An intenfe froft ill Britain.
Henry lord baron Santry, tried by his peers, and
ibund guilty of i-ubbbg a man, of which he died,
April 27th.
The rtfer Dee made navigable from Hertford to
Ware, and fo to London, 12. George II.
Lou^h-a-Drippcl, near Dunmanway, did not freeze
in the ereat froft of this year. The famous lake
\'ei iu Scotland, never freezes ; but on the con-
frarv, in the molt violent frofts, great clouds and
' ' fteanii-
EVENTS. 149
1739 fleams arife from it. Rofemary, growing' in gar-
dens round it, fktod the fevereft frofts ; whereas
a far lefs intemperate winter, killed all that grew
in gardens fituated in warmer places. On the top
of a high mountain in Scotland, called MeaUFur-
venny, four miles weft of Lough-Nefs, is a lake
of cold frelh water, about 30 fathoms in length,
and fix broad, that could not be founded whh 100
fathoms of line ; this water is alib faid never to
freeze.
The riyer Lee was frozen up towards the end of this
year, after which a great fcarcity followed ; fo
that wheat fohi,the eniiiing iurnmcr for 2!. zs. the
kilderkin ; and in two years after was fold for
6s. 6d. the kilderkin.
Auguftus II. king of Poland, died in 1733 ; on this
event, Staniflaus Leczhrfks, whom Charles XII.
had inverted with the fovereignty in 1704, and
whom Peter the Great had dethroned, now be-
come father-in-law to Lewis XV. was a feccnd
time chofen king. But the emperor, aiSiled by
the Ruffians, obliged the Poles to proceed to a
new election. The elector of Saxony, fon of the
late king of Poland, who had married the emper-
er's neice, was railed to the throne, under the
name of Auguftus III. and Staniilaus, as former-
ly, was obliged to abandon his throne.
In 1734, France entered into an alliance with Spain
and Sardinia, and war began in Italy.
The duke of Berwick pafled the Rhine, reduced Fort-
Kehl, and inverted Phillipfburgh ; and the Count
de Belleifle conquered Trawback. Berwick was
killed, but Philiipfburgh was taken neverthelefs.
The marquis d'Asftld, who Succeeded to the com-
mand of the French army, continued the opera-
tions in the fight of prince Eugene, and in fpite
of that experienced general, and the overflowings
of the Rhine, the- place was forced to furrcnder.
War was declared this year again ft Spain, and Ad-
miral Haddpck fcnt to cruize off their coaft ;
K 3 Vernon
tco REMARKABLE
Version to command in the Weft-Indies, who took
Porto-Bello with only fix fliips and 240 foldiers.
Anfon was fent to ravage the coarts of Chili and
!\ru, and. 27 fail of the line, with frigates, &c.
icMt to the Weft-Indies to aft in confbrt with Ver-
:i, and co-operate with Anfon, bv means of in-
telligence to be received acrofs the Ilthmus of
en.
11740 S : -le!i;; s.akcnby the king of Pruffia.
Irr.prefled fcaman's bill.
Potatoes fold this year at 305. the barrel.
The evr.ptror Oh irles VI. died.
T'-e king of Prufiia offered to fupply the qvecn of
ingary with money and troops, to protect her
dominions, and place her huuSand on the throne,
.he would cede to him the lower Silefia,
\.-bicii flic refufed, and which produced three en-
Ciigemcnts, in which the Pruffian monarch was
Tiftorioi . V.'hcn the court of Versailles heard
of his fucccfs, they fent 50,000 troops towards the
Danube, and 40,000 on the fide of Weftphalia,
cp in awe the elector of Hanover, and pro-
d an application to be made to the princes of
upire to concur in the deftmction of the home
rf Ai'.flvi::, i-nd to fhare its fpoils.
C--iT.-i:p,.irket of Cork built.
The uirnmer afr.cr the hard fro ft, there was a large
pit dug at the back of the green in Shancion
church- yard, where fevcral hundred indigent ptr-
ions wn-e buiied for want of money to purchaie
graves for ihemfelvc s.
The iixpenny houfhokl loaf this year, weighed but
tvo pound ihirfccn ounces.
Timothy Hurly, H<^nora Hurly his wife, Timothy
Hurly his Yiv., Maurice Filihy his ibn-in-law,
Cornelius Fowloe, Michael Shinnick and JVlary
Lrudeen, were executed at gallows-grten, Eafter-
; day, April 5th, for ftealing a piece cif^linen-
cleth out of the dwelling-houfe of John Terry,
efq; CMC of the IkriiTs of the city of Corlc. Cor-
nelius
EVENTS. i S t
nelius Fowloe, declared on the galloxvs, a few
moments before he was launched into eternity,
that if he had his liberty, he would fteal the fhirt
and blanket, pointing to them where they were
drying on a buih oppofite the gallows, and jufl
before his face, without being discovered, not-
v.-ithltanding the multitude of fpe&ators then in
his prefence.
1741 The Quftorn-houft of Limerick burnt, October ad.
The Superb man of war, brought into Kinfale a
Caracca ihip, worth 200,000!. Dec. 25th.
The whole town of Omagh in Ireland, confumed
by fire, except the church and four houfes, May
th.: 4111.
In the dead of the nv;ht John Bodkin, with fome ruf-
h ins entered into his father Oliver Bodkin's houfe,
about thre,' miles from Tuam, murdered him, his
wife, and fon, with 3 maid fervants and 4 men.
The count de Belleille negociated a treaty between
Lewis XV. and Frederick III. in which it \?as fti-
pulated, that the elector of Bavaria, together
with the Imperil! Crown, flionld poflefs Bohemia,
Upper Auilria, and the Tyrclcfe ; that Auguilus
the Third ihnuld have Moravia, and Upper-Sile-
fia, and his Prutfian majefty Lower Silena, tlv:
tov/n of Nei/V, and county of Glat?..
Tlie elcclor of Bavaria appointed by Lewis general
of his army, with Belicifie and Broglio to adl un-..
dev him.
The parliament of England granted 3oO,odol. as a
fnppl ; to the queen of Hungary.
The elector, kined wi:li tlic French forces, funprifed
the city of J'a'fau, and elite-red Upptf Auftria
vi:h 70,000 men, took pofi'dfton of Lint/, ad-
ithma ic\-.- I'-agues of Vienna, and fent
a funinic-n.' to the governor to furrender the place.
The }utcn left it in the care of her htifband, and
jrals, and retired to Grefl^ery, \vherefhe
adcmbled the Stales, u;id addrcfFcd them as fol-
tl Abandoned
ni REMARKABLE
" Abandoned by my friends, perfecuted bv my
741 " enemies, and attacked by my neareft relations,
" I have no refourcc but in your fidelity and va-
*' lour. On you alone I depend for relict"; and
" into your hands I commit, with confidence, the
" fon of your fovereign, and my juft cauie." The
Palatines drew their fwords, and cried, " We will
" die for our king, Maria Therefa !" All were
inftantly in arms ; (ix armies were immediately
formed,' and the Elector was induced to moderate
his ideas, and march into Bohemia, where being
pined by 2O,coc Saxons, he laid ilcge to Prague,
'which was taken by the gallantry of count Saxo,
natural fon of Augufhis II. of Poland, who hud
entered imo the French fervice.
The elector of Bavaria was crowned king of Bohe-
mia at Prague, proceeded to Frankfort, where he
was elected Emperor, under the name of Charles
the Sevci'th.
The right rev. the lord bifliop of Cogher, has give?*
us the following relation, in the Philofophical
Tranfactions, N. 461, page. 813, Aug. 1741.
" His lordfhip met with "a man at Innifhannon,
" about 70 years of age, who, out of gratitude
" for a charity he had given him, (hewed him a
' curiofity, \vhich w-as that of his breafts, with
" which he affirmed, he had once given fuck to a
" child of li ; s own: his- wife, he faid, died when
the child was about two months old ; the child
" cryinf exceedingly while it was in bed with him,
' he gave it his breaft to fuck, only with an ex-
pectation to keep it quiet; but behold, he found
that the child, in time, extracted milk ; and he
affirmed, that he had milk enough afterwards
to rear the child. His breatls were very large
" for a man, and his nipple larger than is common
" in w T omen."
1 742 Firft ihips with Irifh coals arrived in Dublin, from
Newry.
A letter
EVENTS. 153
1742 A letter from admiral Matthews gave an account,
that a French man of war patfing in fight of the
fleet, and refufmg to pay the compliment to die
Britiih flag, the admiral fired at him, to biing
him tO) but the commander perfifting in his ob-
ftinacy, a man of war was ordered out to force
him to good manners, who, pouring a broadfide
into him, funk him direfrly.
Sweden declared war againlt Ruffia, to prevent the
emprefs Elizabeth (daughter to Peter the Great)
from aiding her fifter fovereign.
The Englifh nation efpoufed the caufe of the queen
of Hungary, and liberal iubJcriptions were opened
by private individuals, for the fbpport of Maria
Therefa. The parliament voted her 50,000!. aug-
mented the land forces to 62,000, fent 16,000
men under the earl of Stair, to make diverilons
in her favour, and ordered them to be joined by
6000 Heffians, and 1 6,000 Hanoverians.
The new-created emperor loft Lintz on the day of
his creation, though defended by 10,000 French ;
the Auftrians diflodged them from all their ftrong
holds, entered the emperor's dominions, defeated
Thoring at Memberg, and took Munich the capi-
tal, while prince Charles of Lorraine, with 30,000
infantry, and 1 8,000 cavalry, drove the Pruffians
out of Moravia and Olmentz, which they had
taken.
The Auftrians now turned their thoughts to attacking
liellcifle and Broglio, but the PrufTian monarch
being reinforced with 30,000, returned to affift his
allies. The armies met and fought, but neither
could be faul to have conquered.
The king of Pruffia began to ficken of fuch bloody
engagements, and to doubt the fmcerity of the
French. He concluded an advantageous peace
with the queen of Hungary. Auguftus III. did
the fame.
The French offered to evacuate Prague, c. provided
they were allowed their arms, &c. \vhieh the queen
would
I 5 4 REMARKABLE
1 742 \vou!J not confcnt to. MaiHebois was fent to their
aid with 42,000 men ; in his march he joined a
reinforcement of 30,000 under count Saxe, and
entered Bohemia without refiftance.
Belleiile and Brogiio were befieged by prince Charle*
at Prague, who changed it to a blockade, left the
care of it to 18,000 men, under the comrmnd of
Feftitz, and marched to oppofe Maiilebois. Mean
while, Belleiile and Brogiio formed the deftgn of
jcir.ing Maiilebois, and Feftitz being too weak to
oppbfe them, they left Prague, and marched to
Luitmaritz. Lorraine drove Maiilebois to the
Palatinate, while prince Lobkowitz obliged Belle-
ifie and Brogiio again to take refuge in Prague ;
the liege of which was relumed, but Brogiio made
his efcape in the difguife of a courier, and took
tile command of Maillebois's army. Bdleifle
out-manouvered the Auftrian general, and efcaped
from Prague.
As admiral Haddock with I4ihipsof the line, was
making ready to engage a SpaniJh fleet of 12 fail
and 230 tranfports, a French fleet flood in between
the two hoftile fleets with a flag of truce. The
French and Spaniards being engaged in a joint-
expedition, the French admiral was under the ne-
ceffity of acting in ccnfort with his mafter allies.
Admiral Leftock fent commodore Martin into the
Bay of Naples, to bombard that city, unlefs the
king would withdraw his troops, and fign a pro-
mife that they mould not acl in conjunction with
Spain during the war. The king was afraid, and
fent an ambiguous anfwer. The commodore hung
his watch to the flag-itaff, and faid he ihould only
wait an hour, that his orders were abfblute ; on
which the king immediately figned the promile.
The battle of Dettingen, won by the Englifh and
allies in favour of the queen of Hungary.
A dreadful plague in Sicily.
Seventeen thouiand geneva (hops abolifhed in Eng-
land*.
Kandkcr-
EVENTS.
'55
1743 Handkerchiefs firft manufactured at Paifley, in
So dand, when 15,8*6!. Avorth were made; in
1784, the manufacture yielded above 164,385!.
The exports from Cork were, 86,951 barrels of
beet", 19,256 barrels of pork ; 83,844 c\vt. of but-
ter ; 8,586 tanned hides; 37,509 raw hides;
16,054 cwt. of tallow ; and 420 ftone of wool.
Admiral Anfon took an Acapulco fnip, laden with
treafurc to the amount of 300,000!. beiides many
oilier valuable commodities.
Prince Charles of Lorraine, defeated the Imperi-
rJiils at Brenau,
Piince Lobko\\itz drove the French from all their
pofts in the upper Palatinate. They obliged Brog-
lio to abandon his rtrong camp ; after which, be-
ing joined by 12000. under count Saxe, yet did he
not think proper to ha/ard an engagement. He
retreated before prince Charles to Hailbrou. The
-ror rinding himiclf abandoned by his allies,
and llript of his dominions, took refuge in Frank-
fort, where he lived in indigence and obfcurity.
The king of Great Britain, and his fecond Ton, the
duke of Cumberland, with lord Cartaret, arrived
at the camp of the allies, where he found his army
41,000 ftrong, eager for battle, and in want of
provi nn. A battle commenced The French ca-
od by the nobility, marched on in deipera-
tion; the Briti<l\ infantry opened their lines, and let
them pa fs, then filled them, and cut them to pieces.
Terror fci/.c i ihe French army, every outcrying
" Save himfclf, who caai."
In the above blood}-, but decifive engagement, fir
Robert Rich's regiment having loll their ila^dard,
- piivate mun rode into a fquadron of French
h'Tfe, iword in hand, and retook it, for vhich the
king confci red on him the honour of Knight Bar-
ronet.
Captain Tucker took a Spiinifh regifter fnip, wcrth
IDC, cool.
400 houfes burned at Crcditon, neai Exeter.
His
, 5 <5 REMARKABLE
V743 His majefty's fliip, Monmouth, brought in two
prizes to the Downs, one of \vhich was a Spaniih
regifter fhip, worth 150,000!. befides 66 tons of
quicklilver.
Letters patent pafled, for crafting within the city
and liberties of Cork, one guild or fraternity of the
arts and myfteries of brewers and malilers. Al-
dennan Robert Atkins vas thereby appointed firft
mdler ; Mr. William Clarke and Mr. Matthias
Smyth, firft wardens.
When the Fame galley, captain Saunderland (one
of the Jamaica fleet that xvcre in the dreadful hur-
ricane) foundered atfea, all the crew perifhed ex-
cept one man, who took hold of one of the hen-
coops, and kept his head above water 30 hours,
when lie was providentially feen and taken up by-
captain Blackburn, of the Queen of Hungary.
j 744 War declared againft France.
Commodore Anibn returned from his voyage round
the world.
Admiral Balchen, in the victory man of war, loft
in Odober.
This fummer, the fixpenny houfhold loaf in Cork,
weighed I4lb. 6oz.
The firit diviiion of the Pretender's army, confifting
of 7000 French troops, failed from France, while
M. de Roquafeille, with 20 ihips of the line, failed
exultingly up the Britiih channel to protect the
tranfports and cover the landing of the troops ;
but a ilorm difperied them, and fir John Morris,
in a Britifh fleet, obliged the French to make the
beft of their way to Breft.
Breft magazine, 400 yards long, was deftroyed by
fire, to the value of 7.000,000!. in (tores befides
the building, January 1 9th.
The Victory man of war loft in a ftorm.
There were exported this year from Cork, 118,006
barrels of beef; 37,852 cwt. of butter ; 3,873
tanned hides; 50,850 raw ditto; 19,289 'cwt.
of tallow, and $67 ftouc of wool.
The
EVENTS. 157
1744 The combined fleets of France and Spain, defeated
by admiral Matthews ; Leftock itanding aloof
with his fquadron.
The prince of Omti, with 30,000, joined Don Phil-
lip, and palfed the Var : the whole county of Nice
iubmitted to them ; attacked the llrong poll of
Chateau Dauphine, where the king of Sardinia
was defeated : in this aclinn, the French and Spa-
niards had the boldnefs to clamber up rocks of an
incredible height, mounted with cannon, and to
pafs through the embrafures when the guns recoil-
ed. Don Philip invetled the ftrong town of Coni,
and the king of Sardinia being reinforced with
10,000 Auftrians, went to its relief, attacked the
French and Spaniards^ but was obliged to retire
with the lofs of 5000 ; however, Coni was rein-
forced, and Don Philip and the prince dc Conti,
railed the liege.
Count Brown with 6000 Auftrians, furprized Velitri
in the night, and fei/.cd a great booty ; the duke
of Modena, and the king of the Two Sicilies, \vka
difficulty efcaped.
The king of France put himfclf at the head of his
army, confiding of 120,000 men; the duke de
Noailics and marcfchal Saxe a<5led under him,
und can'.-jd every tiling bdore them ; Menin,
Yprcs, Fort-Knccke, and Furnes, fin-rendered ;
and the king entered Dunkirk in triumph.
Prince Charles of Lorraine, parted the Rhine, ard
entered Alface with 60,000 men ; the king ciif-
patched de Noailics with 40,000 picked men, to
join de Coigni, and liimfclf ft)lk)we<l with a
farther reinforcement ; and Saxe. who wa ; . left to
command, prevented the alli.-d army from gain-
ing any advantage during the campaign.
Prince Charles took Weiflenbtttg, and laid lower
Alface undo*- contribution.
The king of France was ili/.od vith a fever at Mctz.
The king of Prudia entered 1'oheniia.
Charles repaiied the Rhine in light of a mucli larger
O arn.y,
158 REMARKABLE
army, and went to the relief of that kingdonp,
Lewi-;, after liis recovery, laid ficge to Friburg,
which he reduced. The king of Pruifia made
liimftlf maftcr of Prague, Tabor, and all Bo-
hemia, to the caft of the Moldaw. Prince Charles
being reinforced, obliged him to evacuate his con-
queits, with the lois of 30,000 men, \vith all their
heavy baggage, artillery and waggons, loaded
vith prpviiions and plunder.
The Imperial general, joined by a body of French,
drove* the Aurtrians out of Bohemia ; and Charles
the Seventh once more got poflcfiion of his capi-
tal ; but the rapid progrefs of prince Charles of
Lorraine, filled him with apprehenuons, when
death came to his relief.
October 20th, A dreadful ftorm happened at Jamaica,
which did cp>fidcrable damage to the Jhipping ;
out of eight king's il.ips, and ninety-iix merchant
men, lying at Port- Royal, only his majcUy's iliip
Rippon, rode it .out, and ihe without niafts.
1745 !)-<:. zift, His majcfty's ihip Role, of 20 guns,
captain I'rankland, after a moft uneciu;;! fight,
t< ok a very large Spar.illi fliip containing 3 10,000
pit ccs of eight, and 5000 ounces of gold. The
cng-.igemcm iafted five hours, during which time
tjic\wo fhips were three times aboard of each
other. The prive was full of foldiers and lailors,
had near 100 killed ; the Rofe had (>nly 177 men,
iT'.c.ludlr.g oiEccrs ju;d boys, five of which were
killed, and twelve wounded.
The exports from Cork this year were, 75,594 l ir -
re'.s of beef; 70,620 cwt. of butter ; 5,36 1 tanned
hides; 27,578 raw ditto; 18,852 cwt. of tallow.;
and iioo (lore of woo].
Dean Swift dice', ard left ll.oool. to build St. Pa-
trick's hofpital, !'i.r lunatics and iJeots.
The Pembroke man ii" war, a 60 gun Ihip, lately
rebuilt and ri ;gcd at Chatham, having been or-
dered from thence to Black Stakes to take in her
gnni, overfct a^ Oic was gosn- Jowu tlw river,
EVENTS. 159
and upwards of 100 of her crew drowned, with
1'even officers and m;my v/omen th.it went aboard
her cither out of curiofity, or upon bufinefs. She
has fince been weighed, and upwards of eighty
dead bodies were taken out of her. The follow-
ing melancholy circum'ta nee (among many others)
is attefted by thofe who had the good fortune to be
fivcd, viz. One of the officers, as foon as I lie
fhip overfet, fwam to the alTiilance of h ; s wife,
whom lie faw floating, and bid her hold fall by
him, and doubted not they ihould reach the liiore ;
v/hich he had pretty near accomplifhed, when a
ehell or beureau which had floated off the iliip's
decV, ftruck againit her head fo violently, that ihe
let go hir hold, and was immediately drowned,
though her huiband endeavoured at the extreme
hazard of his own liie, to lay hold on her again.
A fad accident happened at the royal foundory at
Woolwich; where an old bomb-fhell, v%hich had
fomc days before been landed from on board one
of the tenders, and whofe charge had not been
drawn, took fire, and burfting, wounded fix of
the matrodes in fo terrible a manner, that two of
them died ; the third had both his legs and his
right arm cut off.
Copy of a letter from the lords of the admiralty to
the commiflioncrs of the navy.
" Gentlemen^
" His majefty having been pleafed in council to
" fign an order, defiling and directing us to lign
*' a bill on you, for paying unto lir Andrew
" Fountain, knt. warden c>f his majefty's mint,
" the fum of loci, for enabling him to provide a
" medal and chain of that value for Richard
" Hornby, mailer of the Ihip Wrightfon and Ifa-
" 1-ella, as a reward to him for his good fervicc,
" in not only defending the laid fhip, whofe crev^
" confiltcd but of five men and three boys, from
*' a French privateer of 75 men* but alfo by firing
" u fiiot in tie ftern of the priA'atcer, whcrcliy f):e
O 2 * blew
ito REMARKABLE
45 " b' A ' U P anc a cr crev/ P erie 5 an as na
" encouragement to others under the like circum-
" ttanees, to exert themitlves in the defence of,
" tlieir fnips, and the deltruclion of the enemy ;
" and you are likewhe to pay a bounty of 5!. to
" each of the five men, and 405. to each of die
" three boys belonging to the faid ihip."
The lords of the regency offered 30,000!. rexvard for
apprehending the eldeft Ion of the Pretender, who
it is fuppo&d is on his way to the Britifh dominions.
Shortly after which they received intelligence that
he landed at Lochaber.
L)on Phillip and Maillebois, with a powerful army,
obliged his Sardinian majefty and Schulenberg to
retire beyond the Tanaro.
Ccimt de Gages took Tortona, while the duke of
Modtnat(ok Par me and Glacentia.
.e city of Parie v.'as taken by affault, and Milan
farrenderecL
Don Phillip paifcd the Tanaro, compelled the com-
i.'ir.ed armies to take fhelter behind the Po. He
reduced Vaknza, Cafal, Afti, Gabrano, and
Vetrr-e, only 20 miles from Turin. The king or
Sardinia "w, fo apprehenfive, that he ordered the
army v ithin tlie cannon, and the pavement of the
ilreets to be taken up ; but Don Phillip clofed the
campaign with a triumphal entry into Milan.
In the 'beginning of the month of April, Armagh,
Omuoih, the county Tyrone, and the city of Deny,
\vere in the u'.moft difcreis from a mortality among
ittle, occaiioned by rotten hay and ftraw.
Thoufands were obliged to draw home thefe rot-
ten dead carcaifcs to eat. A humane gentleman
riTcred 500!. if five others ^would give the fame
lum each, to fend to England and Scotland for
^rain ;:nd oat-meal; but they were not to be found.
A young nobleman cave iccol. another gentleman
. whi>:h vnth the above 500!. making i,6col.
were laid out in the manner propoled.
Louifbyrg
EVENTS. u6i
1-745 Louifljiirg tilceft bj the Engliflv June ryth. Given,
up to the French in 1 749 ; retaken July 2 id. i 75^.
Cape Breton taken.
Cambricks from France prohibited ; re-admitted in
1786.
The Duke and Prince Fredenck privateers, brought
in two French pri/.es into Kinfalc, worth nearly
1,000,000 (terling ; the proprietors made an offer
of the fame to the king, to difpofe of as he thought
proper in profccuting the war, \vhich his majefty
accepted of.
The admirals and captains of the navy agreed to
fupport a regiment out of their falaries.
The lord lieutenant of Ireland iilued a proclamation,
offering a reward of 5O,ocol. for the Preur.dtr,
dead or alive, if he landed, cr attempted to land
on the coaft.
Char'e j VII. died, and was fucceeded by his fon jf.f-
eph, only i 7 years of age, who wifely concl.:d-:-d
a trea.y of peace (ihrough the mediation of his
Britannic majefty) with tlie queen r:f Hungary.
By this treaty llie agreed to reccgni/.e the Impe-
rial dignity, and to put the Ion in poikilion of ail
his father's dominions.
The king of Prufiia gained two bloody victories over
the Auftrians, under the prince of Lorraine, one
near Fridburg, the other at Slandent/. ; he invaded
Saxony, and made himfelf mafter of Drefden.
A treaty of peace concluded bc-i\veen Auguftus III.
and the king of PruiTia.
Marclhal Saxe (under whomde Noailies condefcend-
ed toacl) with 76,000 men invelled Tournay ; the
king and dauphin animated the army with their
pref:nce, and though the allied army confiiled of
only 53,000 men, under the duke of Cumberland,
a brave but inexperienced young prince : the Auf-
trians, by old count Konigfeg, and ihe Dutch by
the prince of Waldeek, as young and inexpeiien-
ced as the duke of Cumberland.
JMiirdhul Suxe, who to a natu, for war,
i>; 3 -REMARKABLE
^745 joined to a knowledge of the military art,
Vas no foonei informed of the purpofe of the con-
fc derate?, than he made the mod mafterly difpo-
tmons for receiving them. The French army \vas
]>oftedon a riling ground, with the village of An-
toine, near the Elcaut, on its right, thewoodot
.Barry on its left, and in front the village of Fon-
tenoy. In the wood, and at both thcl'c villages.
:-e erected formidable batteries of heavy can-
oon, and the intermediate fpace was farther de-
-f;;nded by itrong redoubts. The confederates,
-.vt-vcr, who had but imperfectly reconnoitered
the lunation of the enemy, ralhlypef lifted in their
reibiution of hazarding an attack. Nor were the-
French -without tlicir apprehensions of its confe-
quences, from the known valour of the Britiili
troops. The bridge of Colonne, over which the
king had p.iffcd the Efcaut, was accordingly for-
tified by entrenchments, and occupied by a ll-out
body of reierve, in order to fecvj-e'him a retreat,
,if necefiaiy. And to this danger he rrmft have
been expoied, had the Britifa troops been properly
iupported, and the duke of Cumberland's orders
duly executed.
Y- c allies were in mot : .on by two o'clock in the morn-
ing, ar.u the canonading began as ibon as it was
liglit. By r/tiie bo'Ji armies were engaged, and.
th&^aftion lofted till three in the afternoon. Never
v/as there a more defpcrate or gallant attack than
at made by the Britiih infantry, commanded
by the duke of Cvrmberlarid inperibn, afliiled by
ili John Ligonier. Though the fire from the ene-
jr.y's batteries was fo heavy, that it fwcpt oil' whole
i links at a i ingle difchanre, they continued to ad-
Yhey had been invuhieral)le, and drove
the French infantry before their lines. The French
cavalry in vain endeavoured to Hop their progrcfs.
Torniing tliemfelves into a column, they bore
town every thing before them, and baffled cvery_
rt vo "L.t ihc'ni into di 'order. The village ot
Antoinc.
EVENTS. 163
1745 Ar.toine was evacuated ; and marefhtil Saxe, con-
cluding that all was loH, lent advice to the king
to provide for his fafety, by repaffing th.e bridge
of Colonne. But Lewis XV, \\ho did not want
peritnv.il courage, feniible that fuch a Rep would
give a decided victory to the allies, refufed to quit
his poi}. His firrimefs faved his army irom ruin
and'difgrace.
Athamed to dsfert their fovereign, the French infan-
try returned to the charge ; the cavalry renewed
their efforts; and other circumfhinces cohtributed
to give a tinn to the battle. Tb<* Dutch, under
the prince Waldeckj having failed in an attack
upon the village of Fcirtcnoy, which valour might
have rendered fucccfsful, had ihamd'ully 'left the
field. An Er.glilh and Hanoverian detachment,
under brigadier Ingoldlby, had alfo mifcsrried,
through miftake, in a .practicable attempt to take
] o.'fetlion of a redoubt at the corner of the wood
of Barry, and immediately oppoiite Fontenoy j fo
that the Britilh cavalry, by the crols fire of the
enemy's cannon, were prevented from coming up
to the fupport of the infantry. This victorious
body, nr>v,- afl^iiled on all fides, fatigued with in-
ceflaiH fi:"ing, and galled by ibme field-pieces un-
expected' y j-.a-v.cd in 'front, was therefore obliged
to retire with the tofs of feven thotifand men, after
having iuccealvely routed almoit 'every regiment
in the French army. The lofs of the Hanove-
rians, who behaved well, Was alfo very great,
conlidering their 'numbers,. btit that of the Dutch
and AuSlruns inconl'ulerable.
Tlie French had near ten thotifand men killed, and
among thtfe a number of .perfons of dillin.ftion,
yet v.is their joy at their good fortune cxtrava-
y great. Their exaltation, in the hour of
trinrro'!, fc'jroedto bear a pro|;ortion' to tlie dan-
ger they had been in of a defeat. The princes of
the blood embraced each other on the field of bat-
tle-. And difiblvud in tears of mutual congrativ
luiior.
1 64 REMARKABLE
lation. They had, indeed, much reafon to T>e fa-
tisficd with dicir victoi y, which was followed by
the molt important confequenc.es. Though the
duke of Cumberland had led off his troops in good
order, and without lofing cither colours or Stan-
dards, the allies \vere never afterwards able, du-
ring the campaign, to face the enemy ; but lay
cntrenched, between Antwerp and Brutals, while
marefchal Saxe and count Loucndhul reduced, by
ilratagcm or force, Toumay, Qudenarde, Adi,
Dendermond, Ghent, Oftend, -Newport, and every
other fortified place in Aullrian Flanders.
" All the regiments," fays Vckaire, who is
rery accurate in his account of tin's battle, " pre-
" fcntcd themfelves, one after the other ; and the
" Engliih column, facing them on all fides, re-
" pulfed every regiment that advanced. From
" the moment the French and Swift guards were
< routed (adds he) there was nc thing but afto-
" nifhment and confwfion tlircughout die French
" army. Marefchal Saxe ordered die cavalry to
4< fall upon the Engliih column ; but their efforts
" were attended with little effect againft a body
" of infantry fo united, fo disciplined, and fo in-
?* trepid. If the Dutch (continues he) had pafild
" bct'ween the redoubts diat lay between Fontcnoy
' and Antoine ; if they had given proper affilt-
*' ance to the Englifh, no refource had been leit
" for the French ; not even a retreat perhaps for
" the king and die dauphin."
The Pretender failed from France, under convoy of
a 64, laden with arms and ammunition, which
ivas attacked by the Lion of 58 guns, and obliged
to return to Brett. The Pretender landed at Loch-
aber, was joined by about 3000 men, and pro-
ceeded to Edinburgh, which was to be furrender-
cd to him the next day, butfome of his Highland
troops attacked in the night, and took poflellicn ;
the caftle held out. Charles, to avoid the fire
from the cafllc, retired to Holy wood houfe ; here
te
E-VENTS. 16$
he kept a court, and had his father proclaimed at
the Crofs of Edinburgh. General Cope landed
at D unbar, where he was reinforced, and proceed-
ed towards the capital, with near 4000 hoife and
foot, but hearing that the enemy was on their
march to give him battle, he pitched his camp
near Prefton-Pans, and early in the morning about
3000 undisciplined and half-armed Highlanders,
advanced in hoftile array. Charles gave the word
of command, and drawing his fword, threw away
the fcabbard ; they rufhed on like demons, rc-
gardlefs of the artillery. The king's troops were
routed; 500 were killed, and 1500 mad; pri-
fbners ; the military cheft, cannon, colours, camp,
equipage and baggage, fell into the rebels hands.
Charles returned to Holy-wood houfe, where he
xvas joined by many noblemen and gentlemen ;
and after fome time, marched into England with
6000 men, and took Carliile. On hearing this,
the French projected an invafion ; but admiral
Vernon was fc> active, as to prevent it. Charles
then proceeded to Munchefter, where he letup r.is
head-quarters, and was furprifed at not being able
to raife more than 200 men ; on hearing that two
royal armies were marching towards him, a
council was called, and he determined to proceed
through Liverpool and Cheftcr into Wales, but
learning afterwards that thefe two towns were
fecured, and tho-bridges over the Merfey broken
down, he turned of?, and unexpectedly entered
Derby, where his father was proclaimed. A
ramp was formed in Finchley-common, where
George IT. took the field ; the Pretender held a
council-flf war, which determined him to m:rch
back to Scotland ; in their Way, the rear of his
army, under lord George Murmv, was attacked
by the duke of Cumberland, the duke waS re.
jmlicd, and Murray proceeded after the Pretender,
\vho augmented the garrifon of Cailifle, and pais-
ed into Scotland. The duke of Cumberland being
reinforced,
1 66 REMARKABLE
reinforced, retook Carlifle. Soon after Charles left Edin-
burgh, Giafgow and other towns railed troops for their
own defence ; and " Kiik and Ki?:g," was the cnly cry.
The majority of the people beyond the Tay, were for
the Pretender.
Spain fjnt money, and France troops, with a promife
of more.
Lord Lewis Gordon routed the laird-; of Macleod and
Monro, and obliged them to pafs the Spey.
The fociety of True Blues firft aiiembkd in Cork.
1746 Britilh Linen Company erected.
Lima deftroyed by an earthquake.
The Boyne privateer of Dublin, brought into Cork
a. pri-.eof four hundred tuns, computed at ;o 3 eccl. va-
lue, Trm. 21.
The Pretender feverely fleeced Giafgow for its loyalty,
and being joined by the French troops, and thofe under
Lovat and Gordon, invcited Stirling, which furrendered,
but^he caftle held out. General Hawley was fent to its
relief; the rebels repulfed him with great loft, and
Charles returned to take Stirling caftle. The duke of
Cumberland marched to its relief with 14,000 men, on
which the rebels raifed the liege, and proceeded north-
wards ; in their way they took Inverncfs, Fort-George,
and Fort- Augu fins, and obliged the earl of Loudon to
take refuge in the Ifle of -Spey. The duke of Cumberland
being joined by 6000 Heliums, parted the Spey, and gain-
ed a complete victory over the rebels at Culloden. Lovat
advifed him to rally his troops, and though 2000 High-
landers, and a body of Lowlanders, attended to know
his commands; though a fliip arrived from France with
j|o,oool. and icoo men came to his relief, he defired
them all to difperfe, and wandereJ fcr five months a
wretched fugitive, almoft dcftitute of the neceifaries of
life, when he embarked in a veiTcl for France. On his
arrival he was carciVed ; but when the court of Verfailles
found he could be of no farther life, he was ordered to
quit the kingdom ; and on his refufal, was feizcd, pinion-
ed and conducted to the Frontiers.
The
EVENTS. .167
The heroic attachment of a gallant youth, \vhofc name
is faid Lo have bctn Mackenzie, contributed greatly to the
efcape of tlic Pretender. About the 2Clh of July, when
Charles had fled for fafcty to the lop of the mountain of
Mamnyncalluro, iriLochaber, the king's troops furprifed
a party of his followeis in a hut, on the fide of the moun-
tain, and obliged them to furrender, after an obltinatc
reriftaru'C. One young man, however, made his efrapc.
The pviibnrTs aii'urcd the commanding ofncer that this
was the Pretender. Animated by the profpecr. of an iru-
raenfc reward, the foldiers eagerly purfi'.cd, and at lail
overtook the fugitive. They defired him to fubinit, as
rciiilance would be ineffectual, and intimated that they
knew who he was. He feemed to acquiefce in their mil-
take, but refuied quarter, and died with his iword in his
l:and, exclaiming as he fell, " You have killed your
prince !" Independent of thefe generous exprefilons, the
pe:fon flam refeinbled fo much, in all refpects, the del-
cription of the Pretender given to the army, that an end
vas immediately put to farther ptirfuit ; and although
government pretended to difcrcdit the -report, a general
belief of the Pretender's death prevailed, and little fearch
was henceforth made after him. An example of Inch
truly noble and difmtcreflcd afFeclion, fo glorious a ft_lf-
lacrilivre for the fafcty of another, is iVarcely to be met
with in the annals of mankind.
Mons, reckoned the ftrongcfl town in the world, held
cut only a few weeks. ,St. Guiflain and Charkroy, were
obliged tofubmit. Marefchal Saxe reduced Dinant, while
Lcuendhal took Huy. The allied army attacked Saxe,
but after a defpcrate engagement, was repulfed by the
enemy's cannon, with the lofs of 5000 men. The French
loft double the number.
Lewis XIV. concluded a peace with the king of Sar
dinia.
The king of Sardinia made hirnfclf mailer of Anty>
one of theurongeft pi. ices in Italy.
The coniederate army drove Maillebois from Ncvi ;
ravaged the Crcmonefc, uud tO(>k Lodi, Guallalla, Par-
me, and oilier places.
Maillebois
i63 REMARKABLE
1746 Maillcbois formed a junction with the Spanifh
troops and attacked St. Lu/.aro, but was repulfcd with the
lofs of 6000 killed, and as many wounued.
Phillip V. of Rp;ui, died.
Maillebois, in his rctitat, was attacked by the king of
Sardinia at Rotto Frcdo, andfuftaincd aievere lofs.,
Placcntia luncndercd.
Genoa furrcndered.
Count Brown entered Provence with 50,000 men, and
advanced to Dragninan.
Baron Roth inverted Antibes, which was st the lame
time bombarded by a Britifli fquadron under admiral
Medley, but the Marefchal de Bellcifle obliged the Auf-
trian general to relinquifh his ideas.
The army deftincd for Quebec, being detained too long,
made a cldcent on Port L'Orient, ivitliout effedt.
One Inmdred fail of the line, 2 artillery ihips, and
56 tranfports, v/ith 3,500 men, and ammunition; alfo
.40,000 iland of arms for the Canadians and Indians,
failed from France for the recovery of Cape Breton, but
through ficknefs and diftrefs of weather, did nothing.
France was defirous of peace, but fo infolent in her de-
Tnands, that the States-General propofed to augment their
forces in the Netherlands to 40,000, England to fupply
the fame, and the Emprefs 6a,ooo. Betides thefe, an ar-
my of 90,000 Auftrians and Piedmontefe, was to enter
Provence, while a fmalkr body Ihould keep the king of
Naples in awe.
France ordered 150,00010 aflemble in the Netherlands
under Saxe, to whom he gave the title of Marefchal de
Camp Generale, which had been conferred on the famous
Turenne.
The Spanifh army was confiderably augmented ; and
60,000 French were appointed to aft in Provence ; a
final trial of llrcngth feemcd rcfolved on by all parties.^
The following inftance of true and loyal patnotifm. c'(->
ferves to be recorded: As foon as the )oung Pretender
came to Glvifgow, he font for the provoft, and demanded
of Jiim the names of thofe that had fubfcribed for raiting
troops againft him, threatening to hang him immediutcly
ia
EVENTS. 167
1746 in cafe of a refufal; upon which the provofl
bravely and boldly replied, he would not give up
the name of any one perfon in the town ; but that
he himfelf had fubfcribed a greater funi than any
other perfon, as he thought it his duty ; and that
he feared not to die in fuch a caufe.
The Dublin privateer arrived in the bay, and brought
in a very rich Spairifh prize.
The Nottingham man of war took the Mars of 64
guns, and 550 men, after an engagement of two
hours, and brought her into Plymouth.
A Heet of merchantmen from Barbadoes and the
Leeward Iflands, under convoy of the Severn and
Woolwich men of war, fell in with the Terrible
and Neptune, two French men of war ; which
took three or four of them, and chacing the Severn
and Woohvich, took the former, but the latter
efcaped, and got into Lifbon.
Fort St. George in the Eaft-Indies, feized by 'the
French; reiloredin. 1780.
Admirals Matthews and Leftock, fuiFered the French
and Spanifh fquadrpns to efcape.
Highland drefs forbid in-Scotland ; reftored in 1782.
The militia of Cork coniifted of 3000 foot, and 200
horfe ; alfo an independent company, commanded
by colonel Henry Cavendilh, compofed of one
hundred gentlemen, extremely well difciplined.
1 747 Kouli Khan murdered.
A bottle that held two hogfheads, blown at Leith,
- in Scotland, January 7th.
Lord Lovat beheaded at Tower-hill for high-treafcn,
April ^th.
The clanfhip of Scotland entirely fubvertcd, and the
liberty of Englifhmen given them.
A fire in the city of Mofcow, which confumed 5000
houfes, June ift.
The town of Mullingar in the county of Weftrneath,
a'molt confumed by fire, July 29th.
The allied armies took the field in March ; lay inactive
weeks, and were destitute of forage, &c. while
P
I?e REMARKABLE
T-4.7 S?xc kent his troops warm at Bruges, Antwerp,
and Bruiiels. He detached Louendhal with 27000,
who took Sluvs, Sandburg, Hulft, and mar.y other
fortified places ; and pulLing his conqucfts, took
Axel and Tevneule, but making preparations lor
a deicent on Zealand, a Britiili iquadron defeated
his purpcie.
- prince of Orange declared Stallholder.
mous battle of Val, in which the united ar-
-d the French were engaged the whole day
Vful fuccefs ; the latter loft io,ccc, the
Thk n men. Such was the obfthvate, but,
The 1^ in which the Britifh troops diftm-
mi5 a. * greatly ; and if properlv iup-
\vith dotK - gained a complete victory :
:;'. rmer ooc^ of Lewis XV. that " The
partM battle, . -11, but fought all."
iruiihcJ themfelvv nm, September i6th.
ported, \vouid hav. ~c, Montalban, Vil-
Kence the Bon Mot
Englifh not only paid <, Breft, for the
'Louendhal took Btr'^en-op-Zc
The mai-tfhal de Belklile took MK '-eluding
iafnvnca, and Ventimiglia. ;intl 6
Afonnidnble army was prepared at 10
recovery of Cape Breton.
Admirals Anfon and Warren, with 1 4 fail, K
5o'gun fnips, fell in Avith 6 fhips of the liae,
frigates, having 30 fhips under convoy ; took
fhips of war, and 9 mcrchar.tment.
Commodore Fox fell in with a fleet cf merchantmen,
and took 46 of them.
Admiral Hav.-ke took 6 fhips of the line. _ ^
M. dc la Bourdc-i- ;}<, the commander in chief or
the fleettn.the Eait-Irdies, taken.
CaptainJfcojrniby, maftcr of n collier, who about
two v^* ago, with 5 men and 2 bo> f : , fought
u Fren* privateer of 10 carnage and 8 i'wivel
THUS, and 73 men, 6 hours, and at laft blew her
up, was at' court with the gold rnedal and cha.^
-vVjjgHn'T 13 ounces, about l:i^ neck, which VUG
prderfted to him by his majefty;
Captain Cheap, f the Lark, brought into Plymouth
EVENTS. 171
The Fitzroy and Knowles privateers, of Antigua,
with only 185 men, took the iiland of St. Bartho-
lomew, and made 400 white people prifoners.
1748 The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, by which a refUtu-
tion of all places taken during the war was to be
made on all fides.
The gaol of Kmfale took fire, and 54 prifoncre,
(chiefly Spanilh) periflicd.
The river Teviot flopped running, and its channel be-
came dry, leaving fiihes,c. on dry ground; and in
nine hours began to flow again in its regular way.
On February iQth, the rivei Kittle did the fame for
fix hours ; and on February 23d, the river Efke
flopped for the fame time : this lad river is as ra-
pi J as mod in England.
The French had near 50 merchantmen and 7 priva-
teers taken, in the Weft Indies.
A terrible fire broke out in Exchange-Alley, Corn-
hill, which fprcad three different ways, and con-
fumed 100 houfes.
His majefty's letter patent pafled.the great fea!,
granting to the corporation of the city t>f Cork,
two fairs to be held annually, in or near the Lough,
in the South liberties, on the Tuefday and Wed-
r.r'Ulay next after the 2jth of March, and the ijth
of AugufL
The magistrates of the city of Cork, opened a
work-houfe to receive all foundling?, beggars, &c.
purfuant to a late aft of parliament.
Captain Coater;, with four fail of the line, captured
three Spanilh regiftcr fhips, and two others, in the
face of nine Spanilh fail of the line.
A waggon load of money was brought from Dov^r
for the wfe of the merchants, to the bank, guarded
by foldiers.
A poor woman, in the earl of Mcath's liberty, aged
65 years, paffcd a (lone of four ounces and half
weight, without affillance, of which fhe had been
indtfpofed ubave fix years.
P 2 At.
i ;z REMARKABLE
- At the chriilening of a child of fir Nicholas Hacket
Carew's, at Beddington, Surry, the nurfe was fo
intoxicated, that after {he had undrefled the child,
inftead of laying it in die cradle, fhe put it behind
a large fire/ which burnt it to death in a few
minutes. She was examined before a magiflrate,
and faid fhe was quite fcupid and fenfelefs, fo that
fhe took the child for a log of wood ; on which
fhe was difcharged.
Art of fixing crayons difcovered.
The fteeple of Chrift church funk fo much at one
fide, that it was taken down as low as die roof of
the church.
In die fummer of this year, a fhower fell in and
about die town of Doneraile, of a yellowifh fub-
ftance, refembling brimftone, and had a fulphur-
ous fmell ; it lay but thin on the ground, and foon
cliflblved.
On Monday June i8th, about four of the clock in.
the afternoon, happened the moft violent ftorm
of hail that was known in the memory of man,
attended with licrhtning and thunder, which held
nbove a quarter of an hour; feveral hail-ftones
meafured five inches fquare, and others had five
or fix forks from the main body, of an inch long
each, which broke feveral windows, and did o;her
confiderable damages in and about Cork.
Admiral Bofcawen failed in attempting to reduce
Pondicherrf, and Admiral Knowles in an attack
upon St. Jago de Cuba.
Admiral Knowles took Port-Louis, demoliftied the
fortifications, and defeated a Spaniih fquadron of
equal force, and took one fhip of the line.
1 749 The intereil on the Britiih funds reduced to Three
per Cent.
Britiih herring-fHhery incorporated.
The colony of Nova Scotia founded.
Dublin Society incorporated.
Spire creeled on St. Patrick's fteeple, Dublin.
A general peace proclaimed at Dublin, Feb. i yth.
EVENTS. 173
1749 The count de la Gallifloniere, governor of Canada,
committed the lirlt hoftilities in Nova Scotia.
The chevalier de la Corne and father Loutre, defeat-
ed major Lawrence, near die mouth of St. John's
river.
Captain Rons, in the (loop Albany, took a French
ihip laden with ftores, and carriod her into Hal-
lifax.
Four Englifh vefTels were feized in the harbour of
Louifbourg.
Mr. Charles Lucas, of the city of Dublin apothecary,
was voted an enemy to his country, by the lion,
houfe of commons, and to be committed to New-
gate, Monday Oft. 1 6th.
Dennis Dunn executed near broad-lane, Cork, on
Saturday April I5th, for enliftir.g John M : Fall to
be a ferjcant in the French army.
A confidcrable body of locuRs ovarfpread a. grwt
part of Bavaria ; a great {warm paficd through
Aichach in three columns, each of which was 300
paces in breadth, and in the whole took up three:
hours in their pailage ; took its Might to Blumcn-
thal, darkening the air to fuch a degree that one
could not fee the fky. They were feen in Ingol-
ftadt, Ncubourg, Swabia, and Franconia.
Mr. Richard Meade of Bantry, to entitle him to a
premium given by the Rev. doctor Madden, fully
proved to the Dublin fociety, that he had within
the year, catched and cured 380,800 filli of differ-
ent kinds, fix fcore to the hundred ; and that tins
was no cafual thing, is evident ; as Mr. James
Spray of the fame place, catched and cured
4S2,500 herrings, and 231 ban-els of fprats, the
preceding y var. If private adventurers with fmall
funds, are able to do ib much, what may we not
reafonably expecl, if a fufiicicnt flock was raifed
to eflabliih a general fHhery on our coafls ?
Sp.iin, Portugal, and Italy, was the market for the
o"bovc.
It was computed that in the city and liberties of
P 3 JJ.ubllr,
774 REMARKABLE
Dublin, there were two thoufand ale-houfes, three
hundred taverns, and twelve hundred brandy
Ihops.
1 750 Earthquake in England.
Jan. 20, A bell was found in Killarney Lough, the
circumference whereof is as big as a table that
will hold eight people to dine at ; the clapper was
quite eaten with ruft, it had been ib long in the
water ; and they are now making a fteeple for it
in Killarney.
In the Old-Bailey feffions-houfe, the lord mayor, one
alderman, two judges, the greateft part of the
j ury, and a number of fpeftators, caught the gaol
distemper, and died.
Robert Long-, born in Bandon, both deaf and dumb,
did, by his own induftry, with very little affiftance
from any matter, acquire a confiderable know-
ledge of fome branches of the mathematics. He
had a perfect knowledge of the principles of geo-
graphy, and could calculate ecliples. He made
both globes, and dreAV the map and constellations
himfelf. He could furvey and guage, and alfo
read as far as words fignify the names of things,
or what the grammarians call nouns ; but he feem-
ed to h.ive no notion of the other parts of ipeech.
A wheel barometer of his making, and alfo feme
tables of his, for calculating the motions of the
planets, have been iliewn. This year he was living
in Mallow, about thirty-ieven years of age, mar-
ried, and had children.
Doctor Lyne, an Irifh phyiician, who died fome years
ago, of the finall pox, aged eighty-five, lived at
a place called Arloom, ra the half barony of Bear,
in this county. It was remarkable, that foi fifty
years together, no body died out of his houfe,
though he always had a numerous family. Kis
he life V.MS built in an odd manner; every window
had another oppoiite to it, none of which he ever
fuffered to bedim, or gla/.ed, but were continually
iept open, without uny defence againft the wea-
ther.
EVENTS. 175
ther. The room the doctor lay in had four win-
dows, two open on each fide his bed. Upon his
death, his foil glaxed all the windows ; fince which
time, there were feveral buried out of the lioufe.
Spanifh gold prohibited in Ireland, October I Qth.
One Jane Smith, a fifherman's wife, in the town of
Kinfale, was brought to bed of four boys, ail well
and likely to live ; they were baptized by the names
of George, Frederick, William, and Edward.
October 28th,_Mr. Rowe, an eminent painter, in
Aungier-ftreet, Dublin, went to bed in very good
health, and about five o'clock in the morning, he
flarted out of his deep, and ftruck his wife with
his eibow (by accident) when fhe cried out, You
have killed me! he replied, I am dead myfelf j
and never fpoke more.
1751 Frederick, prince of Wales, father to his prefent
majefty, died.
Antiquarian fociety at London, incorporated.
M. ilc Villiers obliged the Englilh Ohio company to
leave the banks of that river.
Mr. Clive (\vho went out to the Eaft Indies as a
writer) with 130 European foldiers, took Arcot,
and was afterwards bcfieged there by a numerous
army of French and Indians, under Cfcund Sai'o ;
but by his courage and conduct, he repelled all
the efforts of the aiTailants, and obliged them to
raife the liege. Soon after he received a reinforce-
ment, rurfued the enemy as fir as the Plains
of Arani, and gained a complete viftorv ; and
after a variety of bloody battles, the French and
their allies, were totally defeated at Trichionopoli.
1752 The New Stile introduced into Great Britain ; the
$d of September be ; ng counted the i-j-th.
Places, of interment about London licenf\L
Thomas Hierlihy, for enlifting William Tower" and
Thomas Dove, to ferve the French king; William
Fit/geraU and Ti"> : i:'s Fitzgerald, brothers, for
ig William Keating on the highway, of fix
lir.gs ir. money, were executed near Broad-Line,
Corli
i 7 6 REMARKABLE
" Cork, on Saturday April 4th. It is worthy of
remark, that \vhilft William Fit/.gerald was on his
trial in the city court, his brother Thomas (who
was accufed of the robbery, but not taken) being
confcious of his own innocence, carried a quart of
ale into the open court, and reached it to his bro-
ther in the dock; he was immediately i'ti/ed,- tried
by the fame jury, found guilty, and executed with
his brother.
Dennis JM'Cai :hy was executed on Monday May 4th,
for eniifting men for the French king's fcrvice.
1753 The Britiili mufeum erected at Mpntague-houfe.
Society of arts, manufactures, and commerce infti-
tutcd in London.
Marriage aft paMed.
The Jews naturalized by parliament, but the act was
afterwards repealed.
Colonel Waihington fets out on his remarkable jour-
ney to Lake Erie, October 1 4th.
Matthew Callaghane, aged eighteen years, was ca-
pitally convicted in the city-court, Cork, April
jyth, for the robbery of captain Cape"; at Glan-
rnire ; as foon as he received fentence of death,
he leaped out of the dock with his bolts on, made
his efcape out of the court, but was retaken the
fame day, and hanged at the corner of Bi oad-
lane. Since this tranfaction happened, the dock
in the city court has been made higher.
April i gth, Francis Taylor was buried in Peter' s-
churchyard, and the next morning was found fit-
ting up in the grave, his cap and fhroucl tore to
pieces, the coflin broke, one of his fhoulders much
mangled, one of his hands full of clay, and blood
running ircm his eyes. A melancholy inftance of
the fatal confequences of a too precipitate inter-
ment.
Three men and a child of nine years old, were burnt
to death in a lun^o in Bowling-green lane, May 2d.
1 754 A dreadful eruption of Mount ./Etna.
The Dey of Algiers aiiafiinateU by a foldicr, Dec, 1 1.
, A great
EVENTS. 177
A dreadful earthquake at Conflantinople, Cairo, &c.
September 2d.
M. de Contrecoeur deftroyed Logg's-Town in April,
and obliged captain Trent to abandon FortMonon-
gahela, fituated on the forks of that river.
May 24th, Washington defeated a detachment of
Contrecoeur's, commanded by Tounonville.
June 1 2th, Contrecoeur took poifeffion of the out-
lines of a fort planned by the Englifh, and when
finifhed, called it Fort-du-Queine.
June 2oth, The forts Beau-fejour and Bay-Verte,
reduced.
July 3d, Villiers obliged Wafliington to capitulate
in Fort-Neceffitv.
March 1 2th, Admiral Watfon, with fix men of war,
arrived in Kinfale.
March 25th, Colonel Aldercron's regiment embark-
ed for the Eaft Indies.
July 3d, Colonel O'Brien appointed collector of the
city of Cork.
Auguft 1 8th, Samuel Levy, a Jew, was baptized in
Peter's church, by the bifliop of Cork.
1755 Quito in Peru, deftroyed by an earthquake, April
tlie 28th.
Lifbon deilroyed by an earthquake, Nov. ift.
Amethifts difcovered at Kerry, in Ireland.
Extract of a letter from Peake, in the parifh of Agha-
bulloge, and county of Cork ; wrote by the rev.
Marmaduke Cox, in March 1755.
" Laft Thurfday, as feme labourers were mak-
ing a ditch, to enclofe a potatoe-garden, one of
them dropt his fpade into a deep hole, which
obliged him to open the earth, to get out his
fpade, where he found a paflage into fifteen,
fome fay fevcnteen, very large fubterraneous
rooms, 01 caverns; in one of which, by efti-
" mation, were above five hundred (keletons ; and
" in another, five fkeletons, all entire, and laid
" at a diftunce of about a foot from each other.
lexa-
173 REMARKABLE
T T55 " ^ exatnined one of the fkulls, and found it more
" perfect, and clean, than any boiling, or chirur-
" gical art could prepare it ; the teeth very regu-
' tf lar and diflinct ; but upon being expofed to the
" iiir, it opened, and mouldered to pieces. The
" bones were of a pale reddiib, or brick-colour ;
" Ibme others of them appeared, as if they were
" burned. The country people flocked in fo fail,
" on hearing of this antique place, that they trod
" the bones into powder, they being quite defti-
" tute of oil or fubftance ; for they were, indeed*
" as the fnadow of bones. Pu/vis & umbra Su-
" was !
" 'Tis imagined, there muft. be another paftage
" . to thefe fubten aneous chambers, from a Danilh
" fort, about one hundred and fifty yards from
" the prefer. t entrance, this being very narrow.
" The rooms are about five feet high. There are
" other chambers that are not got into ; the en-
" trance being defended by very large ftones, laid
" in the doors, which cannot eaiily be removed.
" Whether they were the habitation of the
" Aborigines Iri.fli, or contrived by the Danes,
" about the year Soo or oco, the curious may
*'-JudgA
" There was a beautiful carved wood comb and
a comb-cafe, found in one of the rooms ; but the
" air mouldered it into dull.
" 'Tis fuppofed, if an entrance can be made
" into thefe chambers, defended by the ftones,
" that fome curiofities will be found, that will give
" further light into this affair ; for one part of
" thefe caverns was their dwelling, and the other
" part the repofitory of their dead'"
Two French fliips of the line taken by part of ad-
miral Bofcawen's fquadron, on the Banks of New-
foundland.
The Terrible, one of the French fnips taken in the
lad war, was cleared and iheathed at Portfmouth
in tight hours and three quarters, by torch and
c audio-
EVENTS. 179
5 candle-light; fhe is of 74 guns, and takes more
(hcathing bo.ird than any oi" our mil rates.
Mr. Richard Foribrork, a bag-weaver, was buried at
Bermingham ; fjie directions for his funeral was
duly oblerved, viz. That half a-crown in queen
Anne's coin Humid be given to each bearer ; los.
to his fpinners ; 135. 6d. to the ringers for ringing
a peal ; that 240 quarts of the belt ale Ihould be
drank ; three ibngs fivng, and a battle fought be-
tween two cocks. He left many legacies to per-
fons who were to attend his funeral ; but if they
ilicd a tear, they were not entitled to their legacies,
ChriiHna Michelot, daughter of a vine-dreiTer at
Pomard, lived from the age of ten, till fourteen,
on water alone.
William James had his leg cutoff in the Liverpool
infirmary, without the lofs of blood.
June loth, T:u A-ci Je and Lys French fhips of war,
taken by admiral Eofcawen ; which may be juftly
deemed the commencement of hofliiities in Eu-
rope.
July 9th, General Eraddock's army defeated, and
hirnfelf killed, near Fort du Qucfne.
Dennis Shcchan, taylor, executed at gallows-green,
for die murder of his aunt, near Macromp ; he
afterwards came to life, and made his cicape.
June 2d, The marquis of Harrington, lord lieute-
nant of Ireland, landed in Cork.
Sa'.urday, il'iv. ill. A violent ihock of an earth-
quake felt in Cork, at 36 minutes paft nine in the
morning, but no damage happened.
October 23d, The nrfl market-jury iworn in Cork,
by John Rally, cfq; mayor.
'.The jury. Robert Travers, efq;
Noblet Phillips, burgefs.
Uflicr Philpott, burgefs.
Jai;:cs Chatterton, burgefs.
jc hn V/cbb, burgefs.
j< }m Swctc, burgefs.
John Wrixon, burgefs.
Stephen
1*0 REMARKABLE
Stephen Denroche, burgefs
Kevan Izod, burgefs
Nathaniel Lavit, merchant
Samuel Perry, merchant.
Peter Laulhe, merchant.
Paul Maylor, merchant.
Peter Ardouin, merchant.
Wm. Rickotts, merchant.
Andrew Franklin, gent.
John Deyos, merchant.
Stearne Tuckey, gent.
Robert Lane, merchant.
Francis Gray, merchant.
William Finch, merchant.
John Skeyes, merchant.
1756 One hundred and forty-fix Englishmen were confined
in the black hole at Calcutta in the Eaft Indies, by-
order of the nabob, and 123 found dead next
morning.
Marine fociety eftablifhed at London.
The king of Pruffia commenced hoftilities in the
month of Auguft in Saxony, Defeated the Au-
ftrians at Lo.
May 1 8, Great Britain declared war againft France.
May 20, An engagement between admirals Byng
and Galliflbniere, off Minorca.
June 29, Fort St. Philip, in Minorca, commanded
by general Blakeney, lurrendered to the French
under the command of marihal Richlieu.
Auguft 14, Fort Ofwego taken by the French.
Hanoverian troops arrived in England, Aug. i4th.
John Lott, taylor, for highway robbery on Bottle-
hill road, and Patrick Croneen, for enlifting men
for the French king, were executed at gallows-
green, the i ft of May. Lott afterwards came to
life, and made his efcape.
William Taylor, John Walton, and John Geale,
three foldiers belonging to general O'Farrel's re-
giment, were executed at gallows-green, the 2d.
cf O&cber, for committing a rape en the body of
Anne
EVENTS. ii
Anne Dunn, at Friar's-Walk, and robbing hc-
of wearing-apparel ; the whole regiment under
arms, furrounded the gallows at the time of exe-
cution.
The Fox-hunter privateer, captain Townfend, failed
from Cove on a cruize, and was never alter heard
.of, Auguft jth.
October 2 8th, The Blakeney privateer brought a
prize into Cove.
The grand Canal commenced, under the direction
of parliament and the navigation board ; bat ib
little progrefs was made in it, that the legillature
held out encouragement to private fubfcribers ;
and in 1772, ioo,oool. was fubfcribed towards
the fmifhing of it, which was completed from
Dublin to Monaftercven, in 1786.
Minorca furrendered to the French.
Mr. Pitt appointed chancellor of the exchequer.
1757 Francis l)amicn dabbed the king cf France with
a penknife : every retinement in cruelty, that hu-
man invention could fuggeit, were ufed to extort
feis rcafons ; he maintained a fallen filence in the
midft of the moil exquilitc torments ; or exprcfs-
cd hi.-; agony only in frantic ravings. His judgas (
tired with his obfiinacy, at la-ll thought proper to
terminate his fufferings by a death ihocking to hu-
manity; v hioh, ulthough the aft of a people who
pride themlelves on civility and refinement, might
fill the hearts of Savages with horror. One of his
hands was burnt in liquid flaming fulplrir ; his
thighs, legs, and arms were torn witli red hot
pincers : boiling oil, melted lead, rofin, und fill-
phur, were poured into the wounds ; and to com-
plete the ;r.\ful catallroplic, tight ligatures being
bound round Jus limb?, he was torn to pieces by
young and -vigorous horfc>.
A vein of cr;ai:; v.;.:. .. ;! o,cred at Bauin'toy, wVJch
iic(.n vvTonght with i'uch cfTeift, ;.'.-, to ibpi.-ly
- -.It-works ilvnv, at Port; Colerain^
Tb
l82 REMARKABLE
j--7 The king of Pruffia beat the Auftrians at Lowofitz,
where about 6oco were killed on each tide.
The Saxon army furrendered to the king cf Pruffia,
who made himfelf mafter cf Drefden. -
The French made themielves matters or Cleves,
Meuvs, Gnelders, the town of Embden, and what-
ever elie belonged to the Pruffians in Eaft-Frief-
land. ,
The famous battle'rf Prague, in which the I ruffians
we victorious, but loll 3000 killed, befides 6000
wounded, with 397 officers ; the Auftrians loft
about 12,000.
Freddie!: bcfiegcd Prague, but was obliged to draw
off part cf his army to attack prince Ferdinand
at Kolan, and was defeated ; the lofs was nearly
equal on both i;des ; about 20,000 were left dead.
The Ruffians took Mcmel, and defeated the Prui-
fians :vain near Norkitten.
The dnkc of Cumberland was defeated at HatUn-
bcck, by mareihal d'Etrces, and afterwards was
obliged to take refuge under the cannon (I Stade,
arid tp f.gn the iingular coiiventioa or Clofter-
Si'v.jn, Sept,
Cokr L! (Mive and admiral Watfon took Calcutta,
and Hughly (a place of great trade) and entirely
defeated Sulajiid Dowla, with io,ccc men.
The admirals Watfcn and Fccockc, v.ith captain
Cave, took Chandenagore, which was defended
v/uh 183 cannon.
qolcnelClrve defeated the Subah's army of 20,000
men, and took his artjllery and baggage.
The king of Pruffia defeated tho Frcncn and Impe-
fts at Roftack, vith the lofs of only 300 men ;
the ccir.blncd army loft 9000 men, with eleven
g ; ncral cheers, and 300 of inferior rank,
The \u!hiar.s took Schweidnitx ar.(i Breflaw.
Thckiftff of Pru^a debated the Auitriau army ot
o at Luthen, with 3 6,ooc ; the Auilnan
armv loft 6cco ; the Piiifflans took 2C,cco p
ers, V:co -.va^or.i, .ir.d ^oo piece, vi ennnon, ^c.
EVENTS. 183
1757 He then took Breflaw, and made 17,000 men
prifoners.
Fort -William taken by the Engliih.
On the 3 Ht of March, the duke of Bedford, lord
lieutenant of Ireland, obtained the king's letter
for 2c.oocl. to be laid out as his Grace ihould
think the moft likely to afford the moft fpeedy and
effectual relief to his majeity's poor fubje&s of this
kingdom.
The lying-in hnfpital opened by doftor MofTo.
The king of Pruffa invaded Bohemia. Defeated
the Auftriansat Reichenberg, April 21 ft.
December 2$d, Captain William Death, of the
Terrible privateer of London, killed in an engage-
ment with the Vengeance privateer of St. Maloes.
The ann-ils of mankind cannot fhew an effort of
more defperate courage, than was exerted under
the command of the laid captain Death. He had,
in the beginning of his ciui/e, made prize of a
rich merchant imp, and with this was returning
home to England in triumph, when he had the
misfortune to fall in with the Vengeance privateer,
iruch his fuperior in tbrce ; he having but twenty-
fix guns, the enemy thirty-fix, and a proportion-
able number of men. The Tcrrible's prize was
foon taken, and converted againft her; but though
fo unequally matched, captain Death maintained
a furious engagement. The French commander
and his iccond were killed, with two-thirds of his
company; but much more dreadful was the flaugh-
ter on board the Teriible. When the enemy
boarded it, they only found a fcene of (laughter,
filer.ce, and dcfolation. Of two hundred men,
nnly fixtccn were found remaining, and the fhip Lt-
felf fo (haltered, as fcarcely to be kept above water.
The following are the remarkable names of the
s: captain Death, lieutenants Spirit and
Choit, boatfwain Butcher, and quartcr-mafter
Debbie. She was launched out of Execution-dock
m London.
Q 2 The
TlEMAUKABLE
1758 The cuke of BrunfVicl: obliged the French to eva-
cuate Otterberg, Bremen, and Verden ; alfo the
town and caftle of iioya on the Wefcr.
Prince Ferdinand recovered the city of Minden, and
- took 4,060 ptiionerft
Commodore Holmes obliged the French to abandon
Erabden.
M. de Chcvert \vith 12000 men, attacked baron Im-
hoiF, and was repulied with great (laughter.
The kifi r "- of Pruffia took the Auftriun garrifon of
Sclnveidnitz.
Mareflial Daun defeated the king of Prufira at Kit-
litz, killed marefhal Keith and prince Francis,
und 7000 men ; the Auftrians loft the ime num-
ber.
..Admiral Ofborn took the Foudroyant or So guns,
jmd the Orphee of 64 guns.
Admiral Hawks difperfed and drove on fhore five
flips cf the line, 6 frigates, and 40 trarifports,
having on board 3000 troops.
Captain "Dennis, in the Dorfetlliire, took the Reafon-
able, a French imp of the line.
Admiral Hawke dcrlroyed the fhipping in Concalle-
Biy.
Lord Howe and general Bligh, took Cherburg, de-
rnoliflied the Mole, and took 2 1 pieces of cannon,
xvhich were triumphantly carried through Lon-
don, and lodged in the tower. They afterwards
landed at St. Cas, but were obliged to re-Smbark
hi a great hurry, with the lofs of 500 men.
General A mherft, with 14,000 men, and admiral
Bofcawea with 157 fail, arrived before Louis-
burg. General Wolfe took the light-houfe bat-
tery ; three French fhips of the line were burnt ;
6co feamen'm boats, under the captaius Laforey
and Balibur, boarded the remaining two (hips of
the line, deftroyed one which was aground, and
towed off the other in triumph, cm which Louis-
burg furreudersd.
General
EVENTS. 185
1758 General Abercrombie defeated at Crown-Point, in
which battle lord Howe was killed.
General Forbes took Fort du Quefne, which he call-
ed Fort-Pitt.
Commedore Keppel took Fort-Louis and Goree.
Feb. 1 8th, A matter of an Engliih merchantman,
trading up the river St. Lawrence, was taken pri-
foner, and detained near three years, by M. Mont-
calm, who would not admit of any exchange for
him on account of his very accurate knowledge
of all the coaft, antI"|9Srficularly the ftrength and
foundings of Quebec and Louisburg. It was
therefore determined to fend him to Old France in
the next packet boat, there to be confined till the
end of the war. In the voyage he was admitted
into the cabbin, where he obferved one day, that
they bundled up the packet and put it into a canvas
bag, having previoufly made it ready to be thrown
overboard upon any danger of being taken. They
were conurained to put into Vigo for provisions,
and alfo to gain intelligence of the ftrength of the-
Engliih in thofe feas ; there they found an Englifh
mar. of war at anchor. One night taking the op-
poit unity (all but the watch being afleep) thepri-
foner took the packet out of the bag, and having
fixed it in his mouth, filently let himfelf down the
(hip's fide, and floated on his back unto the wake
of the Englifh man of war, where, calling for
affiftance, he was immediately taken on board,
with the packet. The captain received him with
great kindnefs, tranfcribed the packet, and imme-
diately fent him poft over land to Lifbon, with the
copy of it. From Lifbon he was brought to Fal-
mouth in a (loop of war, and immediately fet out
poft for London, where he was examined by pro-
per pcrfons in the adminiftration, and rewarded
with a prefent fupply ; and by his own defire was
lent to Portfmouth, to go oat on board admiral
Bofcawen's own (hip, upon the prefent expedition
to North America.
April
i36 REMARKABLE
1758 April 1 3th, the Prince George man of war, of Ro
guns, commanded by admiral Broderick, took fire
oiF Lifbon, and out of 745 men that were on
board, 485 were loll.
March I3th, Mils Bab. Wyndhnm, of Salifbury,
a maiden lady of ample fortune, remitted 2000!.
ns a prefent to the king of PIT ilia.
April 2 1 ft. A terrible fire in Barbadoes, whieh con-
firmed izohoufes.
June lit. Florence Tjjpjyf|y. M. D. was tried in the
court of king's-bencF for high treafon, for holding
a fecret eorrefpondence with the French. He was
found guilty and condemned, but afterwards re-
prieved, and in September 1759, received a free
pardon.
Nov. 22d, The Dublin Trader, captain White, from
Parkgtite, loft ; fhe had on board for the linen
merchants in Ireland, 70,000!. in money, 80,000
in goods, and above fixty parTengers, among
whom were the earl of Drogheda and his fccend
fon, with feveral other perlbns of fortune.
November. 28th, Doctor Shebbeare, for a libellous
pamphlet, received fentence to ftand in the pillory,
and to be confined for three years.
Doctor Baldwin, after governing the college of
Dublin forty-two years, died, aged upwards of
ninety. By his will he bequeathed to the college,
in real and perfcnal property, to the amount of
near ioo,oool. Dodlor Gilbert enriched the li-
brary by a bcquetl of his books, 12000 volumes,
cholcn by himfelf in a long courfe of years for this
purpofe, without regard to expence..
The ftntue of George II. in brafs, erected in Ste-
phen's-Green, Dublin.
Prince Ferdinand obliged the count cle Clermont to
retire under the cannon of Cologne, with the lofs
of 7000 men.
The king of Prufiia defeated the Ruffians, who loft
1 5,000 men, the Pruffians only 10,000.
The duke de Eroglio defeated the Keiiiaii army,
EVEN T S. iS-j
758 neat Sangufliaufen, \vhich gave the French the
comm aid of the Weier.
Senegal tai--en by the Pmtifli, May ift.
January icth, The Huffar frigate, of 28 guns and
2 20 men, brought the Vengeance privateer of St.
Maloes, of 36 guns and 400 men, into Kinfale.
The Hullar had nine men killed and nine wound-
ed ; the Vengeance loll 1 70 men killed and wound-
ed. This was the privateer which engaged capt.
Death, of the Terrible.
July 8th, This day the greater): part of the crew be-
longing" to the City of Cork privateer, lying at
Cove, confined their officers to the c;,b!vn, and
forced from the fide a lighter, that had brought
pvovillcns for their ufe, and endeavoured to get
aihore, but fome on beard (well afreded to the
owners) made a fignalof diltrefs to a m.in of war
that lay near them, upon which them an of w;-.r
manned her long boat and purlued them; at whom
the privateer's men fired, which was returned ;
this being perceived on board the man of war,
they loaded two of their great guns with fmall
fhot, which they let fly at the lighter, killed two
men, and wounded fome others, after which they
readily prefied the remaind,--.
Sept. 2d. Captain Cole's velfe! foundered under the
Giant's Stairs, below PafTaqe.
October 2 6th, Seven Eaft-Indiamen arrived at Cove,
under convoy of the Colchefter of 50 guns.
Four Eail-Indiamen alfo arrived in Kmlale, with the
remains of colonel Aldcrcroivs regiment on board^
and landed at the cutlom-houfe quay.
This year an attempt was made to ai'Iallmate the king
of Portugal, on Sunday iught the 3d of Septem-
ber, when Antony Alvares Ferreira, and Jofeph
de Policarp de Azevcdo, lay in wait for his ma-
!Clly, who was then in his carriag.; returning from
a private vifit, and iired two Ihocs c.t his majefty's
perfon, frcm blundcrbufles loaded with. powder
and flugs, fix of which lodged in his majefty's
i88 REMARKABLE
body, which wounded and dilacerated from the
right fhouldcr along the arm, and down to the
elbow on the outiide, and alfo on the inner part
of the fame, and proceeded fo far as to offend the
foreaft ; but the flags were extracted, and his ma-
jefty recovered. /
1759 January i8th, Jofeph Mafcarenhas, duke of Aveiro;
Francis Affixes, marquis of Tavora ; lady Elenor,
marcliionefs of Tavora ; Lewis Bernard, marquis
of Tavora ; Don Jerome, Count of Attouguia,
Jofeph-Maria, of Tavora, adjutant of the military
orders of the marquis his father ; Blaize- Jofeph
Romeiro, corporal in the command or company
tinder the direction of the criminals; John Michael,
attending page to Jofeph duke of Aveiro ; Ema-
:rael Alvares Ferreira, keeper of the wardrobe t
the faid duke of Aveiro, and Antonio Alvares
Ferreira (one of the two criminals who fired the
ihots) were executed in the following manner, for
Attempting to kill the king of Portugal. Jofeph,
duke of Aveira, was broken on the wheel, by the
ruptuie of eight bones of his legs and arms, was
then burnt alive with the fcaffold on which he was
executed, till all were reduced into allies, which
vvere then thrown into the fea, that there may be
no more notice taken of him or his memory ; his
eftate confifcated to the ufe of the crown, being
diverted of all his honours and titles previous to
his execution ; his houfe demolilhed and rent in
pieces, reduced to allies, and covered with fait, in
order to obliterate every remembrance of his
name. Antonio Alvares Ferreira, and Jofeph de
Policarp de Azevedo, who fired at his majefty, the
latter having made his efcape, the former was
burnt alive, and his allies thrown into the fea.
Lady Tavora had her head fevered from her body,
being afterwards burnt to alhes, and thrown into
the fea. The reft of the criminals fuffercd the
ferae death as the duke of Aveiro,
i Bailee
EVENTS. i?9
1759 Bjflbec and Tiipoli deftroyed by an earthquakej
December 5'th.
General Wolfe was killed In the buttle of Quebec,
vl.irh was gained by the Britifh.
The Pruffiatis de Proved the Ruffian maga/ines in
Poland, took Anclem and Demen, and laid Bo-
' hernia under contribution.
The duke do Broglin took Retberg, Mindeti, and
Muniler.
Prince Ferdinand defeated Broglio at Minden, and
had the Britiih and Hanoverian cavalry under
lord George Sackville, come to his aiiiltance when
required, the French army -would have been ut-
terly dellroyed ; after \vhich he took Muniler, and
obliged th; French to evacuate Wcilphalia.
The king of Pruffia with 50,000, repulfed the Ruf-
fians with 90,000 at Cuncrfdorf, but was defeated
with the lofs of 16,000, the combined army
14,000. On repulfmg the RrnTians, the king of
Pruffia wrote the following note to his queen,
without waiting for the final event. " We have
" driven the Ruffians from their entrenchments :
" e^pecl within two houis to hear of a glorious
*' victory." After his defeat, he \vrote another
1 ironic note to her : " Rornove from Berlin with
" the royal family : let the archieves be carried
*' to Potfdam : the town may make conditions
*' with the enemy."
General Finck, with 2,009 nun, furrendered to
Marefhal Daun.
M. de Lally invaded Madraft, but was obliged to
raife the fiege.
Colonel Coote reduced Wandi.%vafli, and defeated
M. de Lally, who attempted to recover the Set-
tlement v.itli 13000 men.
Admiral Pocock defeated the French fcniadron under
M. d'Ache.
Surat taken from the Dutclo, for interfering in the
affairs of Bengal.
Admiral Rodaey fuccefsfully bombarded Haver-de-
Grace. Admiral
tf;o REMARKABLE
r 7 ro Adm. ILtwkc blocked up Conflans irr the harbon-r
of Breft.-
Bofcawen defeated the French fleet, and took two
ii'.ips of the line, and defiroyed two more.
Admiral Havvke' attacked Conflans; he ordered his
own Ihm to be laid alongfide the French admiral,
called iheSolciel Roy ale; theTheiee a^/^threwlier-
ieh bet\veen the two admirals ; orie.braadiide from
the Royal George, fent her to the bottom ; the
Super-be fliared the fame fate ; the Formidable
itruck her colours ; the Soleiel Royale drove on
it ore, and was burnt by her own people ; the
Hero burnt by the Britifli, and the Julie funk at
the mouth of the Loire. The Englifh loft two
(hips of the line in a gale of wind, after the
aftion, but the crews and part of the flores were
faved.
Captain Harvey, in the Monrnouth, and captain
Clements, in the Pallas frigate, watching the
French fleet in Breft, faw four ihips coming down.,
and com'e to clofe to the forts of Conquet, notwith-
ftand'n? four forts and a battery played on the
Monmouth and Pallas, which with difficulty
worked up, yet they brought out the four {hips in
fight cf die French fleet of 20 fhips of the line.
The Monmouth and Pallas kept a continual fire
en the forts ? and drove the French from their
guns feveral times.
Captain Bently, of the Wafpight, knighted for his
bravery in engaging two fhips of M. de la Clue's
fquadron for fome time.
Guadaloupe taken by the Britifh, May ift.
April i ith, London bridge (a temporary one) burnt
and totally destroyed.
April 2 6th, Marigalante, Grenada, and St. Martin,
taken by captain Cooke, by virtue of a commivfion
from fir Charles Hardy, at the head of n. number
of privateers, who put thernfclves under his com-
mand.
July
EVENTS. igi
1759 July 2$d, The Pruffian general Wadel, defeated at
Zullichau, by the count de SoltikoiF, the Ruilua
general.
July 251)1, Fort Niagara, in America, taken by ge
neral Johnlbn.
July 28th, Ticonderoga taken by general Amherit.
Awguit sd, Leipiic taken by the army of the Em-
pire.
December .|th, A Pruffiim detachment under gene-
ral Durecke, defeated at Meifien by the Auilrians,
in which engagement general Durecke was wound-
ed and taken prilbner.
March t6lb, William Parks and Chriftophcr Collis,
cfqrs. city fheriffs, \vith the fub-corporations, con-
fiding of the mailer and wardens of the refpeclivc
trades, a'Pembled at the Lough of Cork, elegantly
mounted on horfeback, where they formed accord-
ing to fenioiity, and rode feveral miles out of town
-to meet John Swete, efq; mayor of Coik, who
wu; then on his return from Dublin, where he
had been fome time, in confequence of an order
from the fuperior court, relative to quarterage.
July 5th, General FolKot's regim^it (commonly call-
ed the Royal Irith) encamped at Balliphehane,
and did not break up till Odober i7th. The city
militia did duty in their abfence.
Sept. 25th & 26th, The mayor, Iheriffs, matters and
wardens of the feveral trades, perambulated the
city-franchifes.
Feb. aftth, Sufannah HannoJces, an elderly woman
of \Vindgrove, near AyleiLury, was accufed by
a neighbour for bewitching her fpinning-wheel,
fo that flie could not make it go round, and offer-
ed to make cath of it before a magistrate ; on
which ihe hufband, in order to j^ltify his wife,
ioluled upon her being tried by the church bible,
and that the accvftr fliould !;: prefent : accord-
In _ was cond. lifted to the pariili church,
where fhe was ftiipt of all her cloaths to her iliift
and ',int!cr coats, and v/cighcd againll the bible;
where,
I92 REMARKABLE
1705 where, to the no fmall mortification of her act li-
fer, ihe outweighed, and was honourably acquit-
ted of the ch. J .:ge.
: May 2 1 ft, Died, Mr. James Sheile, farmer, of
Knocktopher, in die county of Kilkenny,
13.6 years.
June nth, The earl of Belvidere obtained a verdict
in the court of king's-bench, Dublin, agaiaft
' Thomas Rochfort, eiq; his brother, for 20,000!,
damages, befules coils, for criminal converfation
with his lordfhip's lady. This tranfaclion hap-
pened about fifteen years fince.
June 2 6th, Early in the morning, Jcnifon Shaftoe,
efq; .darted againil Time, to ride fifty miles in
two hours ; in the courfe of which he uled ten
horfes, and did it in eleven minutes and two fe-
conds kfs time than prescribed by the articles, to
the -ailonilhment of all prefent.
Prince Edward appointed to the command of the
Phoenix of 44 guns.
jDonald Cameron, of Kinnicklabar, in Rannach,
Scotland, died aged 130.
Auguft 5th, A moll daring robbery was committed
at Limerick ; two men entered the cuftom-houfe,
one of whom prcfented a piftol to the clerk's
breaPr, while the other robbed the houfe of iSocl,
in caih, and afterwards made their efcape, lock-
ins; up the clerk in one of the offices, though two
centinels were Handing at the door.
Sept. 2zd, An eminent London merchant rode four
horfes at Royfton in Hertfordfliire, for a wager of
thirteen hundred guineas ; he was to. go forty-
miles in two hours, and performed it in one hour
and forty-nine minutes. Bets to the amount of
ft vcral thoufands were depending.
Caober zd, The Friendihip, captain Breft, from
Cork to Hallifax, was taken by a French priva-
teer, who took out the mailer, and all the crew
except the mate and a boy, and put eight French-
cii board j but after feveral days poffeffiolij
the
EVENTS. 1$*
the mate watched his opportunity, feizei die an
and without putting one man to death, ftv
many of thtm as it was prudent to do tor his own
fafety, and by the afliitance of the boy, brought
the ihip fafe into Poo] harbour.
December i8th, Williatn Andrew Home, efq; of
Butterly-Hull, in DerbUliire, aged 74, ^HS exe-
cuted at Nottingham for the murder of a child
only three days old, thirty-five years before. The
only profecutor was his brother, who \vas privy
to this long-concealed murder, and was at laii in-
duced to difcover it, partly from uncafmefs of
mind, and partly from the cruel treatment he re-
ceived from Mr. Home.
1760 Thurot Linded at Carrickfergus, and pillaged the
town ; after lie put to lea, captain Elliot hi the
JEolus of 36 guns, and the Pallas .and Brilliant-,
of 32 guns each, came up with him, and after a
bloody engagement, took him and his fquadron.
Three of the principal banking houfes in Dublin ftop-
ped payment, and the remaining three difcounted
no paper, and in _ fuel, did no bufmefs. Public
and private credit, that had been drooping finc^
the year 1754, had now fallen proftrate. At n
K-v.il meeting of the merchants of Dublin,' with
iwcral members of the houle of commons, the ina-
bility of the former to carry on bufmefs, was uni-
verfally acknowledged ; nor from the: want of ca-
ivt.il, but from the fldppagg of all paper circula-
tion, and the refufal of the re
d'fcount the bills even cf the firfl hoaies. The
merchants and faders of Dublin petitioned the
houfe of commons, that they Ihouki e^i^age, to
the firft of May 1762, for each of the th:n fub-
fiiting banks in Dublin, to the amount of 50,000!.
for cadi b.in!:-; and' that an itddrefs !;o prei
_ lord licut'.nan:, to thank liis grace fr.r hav-
. directions that bank':; noivs ih< .
--d as cafli from the lev oral fu'jfcribers to ths
loan, and that lie would be T ,;!ca'"ei to give direc-
tion; . notes ihould be tiikui as calii in all
R payments
, 94 REMARKABLE
I -60 payments at the treafury, and by the fevcral col-
lectors for the city and county of Dublin.
The allied armies under the Hereditary Prince, de-
feated by the French ; in a few days afterwards,
he defeated them, and took the commander in
chief (M. Glanbitz) 177 officers, 2282 privates
priibners, befides killing a great number, and ta-
king all their Artillery and baggage.
Prince Ferdinand defeated the French at Wdrbourg,
but was defeated by M. de Caftris, at Campen, and
loll 2000 men.
The Prufiians defeated at Glatz ; their general and
4000 men killed, the remaining army of 7000,
threw down their arms, and furrendered to M.
Laudohn.
The king of Prailia defeated ths Auftnans, and killed
8000 men, and obliged mareilial Daun to raife
the fiege of Schweidnitz.
The allied armies took Berlin. Leipfic, Torgati, and
Wiriemberg fucceiiively furrendered to the Impe-
rialifts.
The French laid Halbcrftadt tinder contribution ; the
Swedes ravaged Pomerania ; and the Ruffians in-
veiled Collmrg by fea and land.
The king of Pruiiia, with 50,000 men, finding his
a&urs defcerate, came up to marefhalDaun with
80,000, ftrongly polled; and having made the
difpofition forthe attack, he divided his army into
three divifipns, and ordered his troops to be in-
formed tliat he was determined to conquer or die ;
they anfwcred, " That they would die, or conquer
with him." Having difpofed his. army, he led on
the center, and was received by a difchargc from
200 pieces of cannon ; after a vigorous attack,
he was repulied with great (laughter; and alter
bcir" three times led on, and as often obliged ta
e-ive ground, the king ordered his cavalry to ac.-
v-n-e, but they were foon forced to ictire, and
victorv feemed'ready to declare in favour cf the
Auihmns, when the left tliviiign under general
EVENTS, 195
1760 Ztothin, attacked the Auflrians In the rear; the
PrutTian infantry returned once more to the charge,
the cavalry followed their example, and totally
routed the Au (.Irian.-; ; lOjOoo were killed en each
iide ; 8,000 Auftriims, among whom were four
generals, were made prifoners, and marefhal Daun
was wounded. Night coming on, prevented many
more beinar taken. Thekirtgdf Pruffia recovered
O *-J
all Saxony, exce.pt Drefden.
Laudohn abruptly railed the liege of Cafel, and the
Pruflians railed the liege of Pomerania.
General Murray marched out of Quebec, and \vith
3000 men engaged M. de I^evi with ten battalions
of regular French troops, 6000 Canadian militia,
and a body of Indians, but being out flanked, re-
tired with the lofs of 1000 men 5 the French loll
zooo men*
The Ramillies of 90 guns, was loft on a rock called
Bolthead, near Plymouth ; only one midshipman
and 25 failors were faved, .and above feven hun-,
dred perifhed, Feb. i5th.
A huntfman near Torrington, in Bevonfnire, was
devoured by his own hounds.
Earl Ferrers was tried by his peers, and found guilty
of the murder of Mr. Johnfon, his ileward, and
wa.s executed May 5th.
Lord George Sackville was tried by a court-martial,
and pronounced unfit to ferve his majelty in any
military capacity whatfoever ; and his majefty
ordered his name to be ftruck out of the lilt of
privy counfellors.
The tower of a church at Peterfburg, which had
been newly built, fell down, and more than 500
people were either killed or maimed.
, Died, John Turner, who lived miferably in a garret
in St. Giles's ; under his arms were found two
bags, containing 136!.
Sept. 1 4th, was married at Clonmell, Patrick O'Neill,
aged 113, to his fevcnth wife ; he was born in
R z 1647,
REMARKABLE
1647, and enliibd for a dragoon in the I7tli '
( Charles rhe "Second, and -continued letting
their fucceffive majeiiics till 1746, when lie was
fK'char^.'.d, l;;:v. : rg been in all tlie battles, c.
king William and die duke of Marlborough.
Ho is new in perfect health, of found undcrftiiud-
-;:^, ant! walks without a flick.
At Berne, in Switzerland, a girl of nine years old
was delivered of a child.
re lias been lately difcovered in Italy a new na-
tion, which has fubfifted there for many hundred
T-ars. Thefe people live in feveral vil.ages in the
; 'tains, lying north of Verona and Vicenza,
d fpeak a language of their own, which hitherto
thought a corrupt German, but upon a clofer
cmjuiry is found to be pure Daniih. Segnicr
Marco Pezzo, has written a very learned dinerta-
lioii, to prove that thefe people are a remnant of
the Cumbrians, defeated by Caius Marius.
A hi.;rfe belonging to Mr. William Crofs, in Boggs,
near Hamilton, was gracing in a field until four
o'clock in the afternoon, when he was cbferved
to give over eating ; from that time his neck
veiled exceffively, until the fourth day, when he
died. To fatisfy the owner's curiofity, his neck
ivas opened, and a large adder w-as found in his
thioat, and ihe paits all around mortified.
It is remarkable that five fons of the earl of Banbury
have fuffered in action, within thefe few months
pad. Lord Wallingford, the eldeft, having re-
ceived a wound at Carrickfcrgus ; the fecond
Bounded at the taking of Guadaloupe ; the third,
a lieutenant Knolles, of the Beddeford man of
war, was killed in a late engagement with two
Trench frigates off Lifoon, and the fourth and
fifth, much wounded at Mindcn.
The thanks of the governots of the wcrkhoufe of
'Dublin, were presented to lady Arabella Denny,
for her unremitting attention to the foundling
children, but paiticukrly for a clock, lately put
up
EVENTS. 197
1760 up at her ladyfhip's expence, in the nurfery, with
the following inicription. " For the benefit of in-
" hints protected by this hofpital, lady Arabella
" Denny prefents this clock, to mark, that as
" children reared by the fpoon, muft have but a
" fmall quantity of food at a time, it; muft be of-
" fered frequently ; for whicli purpofe this clock
*' ftrikes every twenty minutes, at which notice,
" all the infants that are not afleep, mult be dii-
" erectly fed."
An Algerine zebeqne of 20 guns, was driven on
iliore near Penzance in Cornwall, and entirely
loft ; 1 50 of the crew got on Ihore, which greatly
alarmed the country people. It is twenty-four
years imce an Algerine cruizer was in any port in
England.
France was fo diftrefled in her finances, that the no-
bility and gentry, following the example of the
king, threw their plate into the public treafury,
in order to fupport the war in Germany.
King George II. died October 25th, in the yyth year
of his age, and was fucceeded by his prefent ma-
jefty, who, on the 8th of September, 1761, mar-
ried the princefs Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelita.
Ciowned 2 ad.
Blackfriars bridge, confiftingof nine arches, begun;
finifhed 1770, at the expence of 152,840!. to be
ciilcharged by a toll.
A tranlit of Venus over the fun, June 6th.
Earthquakes in Syria, October i ^th.
Timmary, on the coail of Coromandel, retaken by
the Englifh.
The English took Arcott on the fame coaft.
The French took Mavpurg by capitulation.
A terrible fire happened in the rope-houfe at Portf-
mouth, which did ioo,occl. damage.
The caftle of Dillenbourg furrendered to the French
by capitulation.
The French and .Saxons took Gottingcn.
The French uok Zingenhayn by capitulation.
R 3 Montreal
J9 8 REMARKABLE
1760 Montreal and all Canada, furrendereJ to the Ers
gliili by capitulation.
The count of Luiktia defeated general Wangenheim,
at Dramsfekt.
The town and caftle of Cleves, furrendered by ca-
pitula'.ion to the allies.
The city of Wii temberg furrendercd to the Imperi-
is by capitulation.
V.'irLe-rt.l^rg' evacuated by the Imperialifts.
November *i 8th, The feffions of parliament opened
by his prefer. t rnajefty, with a moft gracious
ipeech from the throne.
Three thoirfkiid Pruflian huflUrs took Roftock.
July new theatre in George's-ftrcet, Cork,
opened.
November 41 h, George III. proclaimed king in Cork,
The R h, Handafyde's, and Bagfhaw's
regiments lined the ftrcers, whiift the mayor, cor-
poratse ; ilia, attended by lieutenant-
governor Molefvvonh, ]->aracicd the tov,-n.
The town of Malta was furprifed the 6th ult. at the
near approach of a large fhip of Turkift conftruc-
ticn ; having a white Hag, with a crucifix at her
mizzen top, and a Turkilh pendant embroidered
v.'ith gold, that reached to the very fen. Boats
were immediately fent off, who were informed,
that it was a fhip of the grand iignicr's, com-
manded by his admiral, and called the Ottoman
Crown ; that fhe failed the fecond of laft June,
with two frigates, five galleys, and other fmall
vefills from the Dardanelles ; that the above-
mentioned admiral had been with this fhip only to
Smyrna, Scio, and Trio, and at length anchored
in the channel of Strangle, when he and his reti-
nue to the number of 300 perfons went on iliore.
The whole (hip's complement was 700 men, but
400 being on ihore the- 1 9th of Sept. the remaining
300 were attacked and overpowered by 70 chriftian
iluv. rnly with a knife each ; part being
killed, part obliged to jump overboaid, and the
reft
EVENTS. 199
red to fue for mercy. Thefe heroes, now no longer
Haves, bore away immediately for Malta ; but
\vere foon purfued by the two frigates and a Ra-
gufian Ihip, whom, by crowding fail, they efcaped ;
and the 8th, this Hup, mounting 68 fine brafs guns,
but boarded for 74, was brought fafe into die
harbour of Valalte, amidft die acclamations of
the people.
The order of Malta, as an encouragement to fuch
brave fellows, has made them the fole proprietors
of the (hip and ilaves, as well as of all die con-
tribution money, which latter is faid to amount to
a million and a half of florins, and other effects
on board. Deeds equal to this in heroifm, though
not in value, have been atchicved by our own
countrymen, feveral times during the courfs of
this war ; which at once proves what prefence of
mind and resolution may furmount, and what an
almoft incredible effeft it has where it is not cx-
pecled.
The grand fignlcr was, on this occafion, fo highly
offended widi the conduct of his admiral, diathe
difmiffed him from his fervice.
1761 Ofnaburg taken and pillaged by the French.
The tide ebbed and flowed four times in an hour, at
Whitby, July 17.
Potatoes fold this year at 295. the barrel.
Kis late rinjefty's ftatue creeled in Cork.
The duke de Broglio obliged prince Ferdinand to
abandon all his conquefts, to raife the blockade of
Zingenhayn, and the fiege of Caflel, and retire
behind the Dymel. Broglio was afterwards re-
pulied widi the lofs of 5000 men.
Eelleifle taken by commodore Keppel and general
Hodgfon.
Pondicherrv in the Eaft-Indics taken from the French.
General Lally and the garriibu, made prifon^rs by
--ote.
ndation of Poolbeg light-houfe laid. Finifned
in i-
Marefhai
200 REMARKABLE
1761 Marefhal Broglio and the prince de Soubife, defeated
at Kirch Dcnckern, by piince Ferdinand of Brunf-
wick, and the Britifh forces imder the marquis
of Granby ; 2000 men were killed and wounded/
and 3000 prifoners.
Prince Henry gained a fignal victory over the Auftri-
ans and Imperialifts in Saxony, took 4000 pri-
foners, and 365 waggons.
The garrifon of Dorften taken by prince Ferdinand.
Prince Xavier of Saxony, took Wolfenbuttle*
Coals firfl difcovered in Scotland, Nov. ift.
Colberg taken by the Ruffians under general But--
terlin.
Dominico taken from the French, by lord Rollo and
fir James Douglas.
A violent iliock of an earthquake at Cork and Kin-
fale, March 3 i it.
April 22d, The election for members of parliament
began in this city, and ended the 28th ; for John
Hely Hutchinfon, efq; 567 votes ; fir John Freke,
bart. 370 votes, and Thomas Ncwenham, efq;
295 votes ; whereupon the two former were re-
turned duly elecled.
June 1 8th and i9th, We had the moft conftant
thunder and lightning, attended with the heavieft
rain ever known. In the fouth liberties* a bull
and two cows were ftruck dead by lightning. At
Donybrook, the feat of the rev. Boyle Davies, a
large beam which fupported a floor over the cellar,
was fplit fo wide that a 24 pound ball may be put
into the chairn. There was not the leaft thunder
or rain at Bandon or Kinfale.
September i5th, Illuminations in Cork for queen
Charlotte's arrival in England.
Illuminations for the king and queen's coronation.
October 4th, The wooden-bridge adjoining the north
wier, fell down ; a woman and a boy were unfor-
tunately drowned by this accident.
A fox went into the houle cf Mr. M'Canhy, brewer,
iu Hanover-ftreet; jind killed Revert fowl. He
attempted
EVENTS. 201
176: attemrted it ir was itx'ed by the brewers,
and killed in the prefence of feveral fporting gen-
tlemen. He made great havoc k among the poul-
n St. Finbarry's, and was fuproiVd to have
rv n into town.
Died at Koningfoerg in PrufHa, captain F-mmfifli,
aged J 12 ; 93 years of which he had been in the
fervice of ?:
Died at Philadelphia, Mr. Charles Cottnil, aged 120
TB ; and in thr;e days after his wife died, aged
115. They livsd together in matrimony ninety-
eight years.
A farmer's wife at Glencaim, was delivered of four
fcr.s, three of which furvived. The father was
74 years old, and the mother 44.
I:: r.n engagement between the Tr/cany of Briftol,
cnptain Power, and the due de Biron privateer of
Dunkirk, the Tufcany blew up, and funk in a
fcv/ mimites, and out of 211 perfons, only the
captain and four or five were faved ; among whom
Vv'as a young infant that was blov.ii into the priva-
teer, and found on her deck after the explofion,
v,'5',hout having received theleaLl injuiy.
A canfe vas tried in the court of king's-bench,
Vofimii-iftcr, wherein Mr. Butler was plaintiff, and
j Bell i.lofendc-.nt, on an action for the defen-
dant's dog being loofe and biting the plaintilF's
hand, fo th it lie loft the ufe of three of his fingers.
The jury brought in a \erdict of two hundred
pounds dr.magcs.
The wife rf Mr. Bandon, page to the late king, de-
d of a ion, at tac age of 58, and her huf-
band 70.
Died at MitchelftowTi, John Newell, efq; aged 127,
j grnnchon to old Parr, who died at the age
(:' 152.
V. crkfrp Manor, t"\e feat of his grace the duke of
Norfolk, burnt to the ground ; the lofs was com-
puted at ioo,oooL
At
S02 REMARKABLE .
1762 At Gratz in Voigtlan, a man lived to the age of
135 yenrs, without any illnefs ; he had feen i'evcn
emperors of Germany.
Died, a peafant in Poland, in the 157 year/of his
age ; till within 1 2 days of his death, he worked
as day labourer.
A poor labouring family, near Biddeftown in Nor-
folk, had been lately aiilifted with a terrible difor-
der ; rhe limbs of ieveral of them having rotted
off, though without any injury to their health, or
the other parts of the body.
A centinel on duty at Chatham, was ftruck with
lightning ; the upper leather of his fhoe on his
left foot was fluttered ; a hole was made through
the blade of his fword, and about two inches of
the edge melted ; the hilt was melted and foldered
to his 'bayonet, as was one of the locks of his
mufket to' the iron ramrod ; his face was fcorched,
and he lay an hour fpeechlefs, but afterwards re-
covered.
A profeeution commenced againft Mr. Foote, for
introducing the character of Mr. George Falkner,
upon the public ftage ; after a long hearing, a
verdicl was given in favour of Mr. Falkner, and
Mr. Foote was feverely fined.
Cornelius Nepos, published at Mofkow, being the
firft claffical book printed in Ruflia.
Queen Charlotte's annuity fettled at ioo,oool. after
the king's death.
Martinico taken from the French, together with
St. Lucia, St. Vincent's, and Grenada iflands, by
a detachment of admiral Rodney's fleet, under
the command of commodore Swaaton, with briga-
dier WaliK and lieutenant-colonel Scott.
The Havannah taken from the Spaniards by the Bri-
tiih forces, under the command of general lord
Albemarle, admiral fir George Pocock, and com-
modore Keppel. The treafure found here may
be faid to equal a national fubiUy- The Neptune
of
EVENTS. 203
1762 of 70 guns, Afia 64, and Europa 64, Spanifh line
of battle ihips, -were funk at the entrance of the
harbour ; the Tyger of 70 guns, Reyna 70, So-
verano 70, Infanta 70, Aquilon 70, America 60,
Conqucftado 60, San Genuro 60, San Antonio 60,
Vingana/a 24, Thetis 24, and Marte 18 guns,
furrcndered to die Britiih commanders in the har-
bour of the Havannah, bcfides two Ihips of war
that were on the flocks, and fevcral merchant {hips
in the harbour.
The firft payment of the Havannah prize-money,
amounted to 516,185!. 35.
Preparatory to the taking of the Havannah, the
EngUlh troops found great difficulty in taking
Moro ; at lait a breach "was made, and they were
ordered to dorm it, which they did with fo much
ipirit and order, that the garrifoix was quite dif-
concerved : 400 were cut to pieces, the reft threw
down their arms, and received quarter. Don
Lewis de Velafco, the governor, having collected
a fmall body -of determined men, in an intrench-
mcnt around the flag- ftaff, glorioufly fell in de-
fending the enfign of Spain, which no intreaties
could induce him to ftrike. The generous and ci-
vili/cd viftors watcied his body with their tears,
id of exulting over it like barbarians, or tear-
ing it in pieces like favagcs, in vengeance of their
fulFerings.
E!i/.abcth, emprcfs of Ruflia died, and was fucceed-
ed by her r.ephe'-v the duke of Holflcin, under the
ram.e of Peter III. who, on coming to the throne,
ordered a ceHation of arms, and foon after entered
into an alliance with the king of Prnflia, and
joined p^rtof his forces to drive the Auftnans out
of Silelia.
Prince Henry of Brunfwick killed in a fkirmifli with
Broglio, near Munfter.
The king of IVuifia obliged marcflial Daun to aban-
a his ftrcng polls, and leave Schvveidnitz un-
covered.
The
204 REMARKABLE
1762 The Czar depofed, and Catherine invefced with
the Imperial eniigns ; he was thrown into prifon,
and died in three days.
The Emprefs withdrew her troops out of Silefia,
Pruflia, and Pomerania.
The king of PruOia defeated mareihal Daun, and
obliged Schweidnitz to furrender.
American philofophical fociety eftabliftied in Phila-
delphia.
The Englifh forces arrived at Liibon,
Miranda in Portugal, taken by the Spaniards.
Brag an za in the lame kingdom taken by the Spa-
niards.
The city of Chaves alfo furrendered to the Spani-
ards under count OReily.
War declared by Portugal agair.fl Spain.
The Danes invefted Hamburgh.
France declared war againtl Portugal.
St. John's in Newfoundland taken by the French,
but retaken September the 1 8th.
A dreadful cannonade at Bucker Muhl. This poft
was no more than a Bridge over the Ohme, de-
fended by a flight redoubt on one fide, and by a
mill en die other. The allies had no cover ex-
cept the redoubt, nor the French except the mill.
A dreadful fire and cannonade with grape ihot
was fupported between thefe two refolute bodies,
without a moment's intermiffion, or the leait
fiuckening on one fide or the other, for near fit-
teen hours, from the dawn of day to dark night:
Neither fide gave way, and this moft bloody con-
teft for a very trifling objcft in the end, left the
allies in the pofiefnon of their redoubt, and the
French of their mill ; the whole compafs of mili-
tary hiftoiy fatniihes no inilance of in obftinate
a difpute, ' The allies loft 600 men in killed and
wounded ; towards the clofe of the day the dead
bodies ferved to raife a parapet for the redoubt, in
the place of that which had been beat to pieces
by the cannonade.
EVENTS. scj
* 762 The Manilla and Philippine IHands taken from the
Spaniards by the Englifh, under the command
of admiral Corniih and brigadier general Draper.
National debt ia 1762 : Principal 1 10,613,836!. 8;.
Annual intere ft ... 3,792,594!. 33. ^d.
1 14,406,430!. us. 4d.
June 4th, Bow Bells rung for the firlt time; the
weight of them are as fallows : Firft bell 8 Ct.
3 qrs. and 7 Ib. Second bell, 9 Ct. 2 Ib. Third
bell, loCt. i qr. 4 lb. Fourth bell, izCt. 7 Ib.
Tilth bell, 1 3 Ct. 24 Ib. Sixth bell, 1 7 Ct. 1 1 Ib.
Seventh bell, 20 Ct. 2 qrs. 26 Ib. Eighth bell,
^4Ct. 2 qrs. 5 Ib, Ninth ball, 34 Ct. 2 qrs. 6 Ib.
Tenth bell, 53 Ct. 22lb.
At the fale at St. Paul's coffee-houfc, of Mr. Gills
collection of coins, Sec. the following fold as un-
der : One penny of Henry I. for 2!. 2s. one ditta
of Edward I. il. 98. one groat of Kenry Vllf,
il. 2s. one crown, half-crown, fhillir.g, and fix-
pence of queen Elizabeth, 3!. iSs. one hali-
..Towu and three-pence of Charles I. 2!. 155.
:i gold ring with aa ancient Runic infcription, 15!.
June 6th, A dreadful fire in Cat-lane, Cork, -\vhiclt
confunicd ^olioufcs.
Doftor Brambel, lord primate of Ireland, died.
Sale of Dunkirk to the French, by king Charles IL
Andrew Franklin, efq; mayor of Cork, obliged a
ferjeantand twelve men to mount guard regularly
every day at his houfc, during the lall 3 months
he remained -in ofHce ; he was oppofed by colonel
Molcfworth, lieutenant-governor of tho city ; bu:
the mayor, who was an upright fpirited magilira:.-,
loon liumblcd the military jurifdiction ; he iKcw-jd
liis prerogative as chief magiitn/te of tlie feconJ
city in the kingdom, and left fin example to his
fncceifors not unworthy of imitation.
, The definitive treaty of peace between Great-El i-
tain, France, Spain, and Portugal, concluded at
, February loth ; wijjch conJirmed to (Jrcat
S Britain
e $ REMARKABLE
Britain the extenfive provinces of Canada,
and Weft Florida, and part of Louifiana, in
'North America ; alfo the iflands of Grenada,
St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago, in the WeiU
Indies.
The Jefuits expelled from France.
The penfions on 'the Irift eftablifliment this year,
amounted to 66,477!. 53.
The definitive treaty of peace between the empreis
Queen and the king of PrulFra, figned die ijth
of February.
John Wilkes, efq; member of parliament tor Aylei-
bury, arrcfted on a general warrant figned by
lord Hallifax, one of the fecretaries of ftate, and
committed to the tower, under a' warrant figned
by him and the other fecretary, lord Egrtmont,
April 30th. .
The new excife on cyder took place, when the right
honourable George Grcnville was firft lord oi the
trealury.
The political paper, called the North-Briton, No. 45^
was publi.ckly burnt, by order of both houies oj
parliament.
Mr- nth, The workmen began to clear the channel
of the harbour of Cork, in order to build the New
Wall; and on Monday the 301*1, feveral hundred
labourers paraded the 'city with ipades and (hovels
on their Ihoulders, quitted their work at the New
Wall, and tumed out for eight-pence per day,
being then allowed but 6d.h.
One fide of the North main-ftrcet flagged.
The Red-houfe Walk.began to be improved.
1-64 The parliament granted io,oool. to Mr. Harnfon
for his clifcovery of the longitude by his time-
piece.
Famine and peft ilence in Italy.
An earthquake at Lifbon.
I,;idy Moieiwovth and her three children, burnt in
her bouie. . f
Ca the nth of June, the mayor and corporation oi
LinH'i)CK ?
EVENTS. *o?
tjmerick, proceeded bv water to Scattery-Ifland,
where he called a. court of admiralty, and then he
failed to the mouth of the river Shannon, where
ends the boundary of the city liberties. Here the
mayor, as admiral of the Shannon, ordered a gun
to be rired, to bring to one of his majefty's fbops
of war then in the river, which fhe not regarding,
only by hoi (ling out a flag, another gun was tired,
and foon after the mayor boarded the {loop ; the
crew of which, on hearing his errand, were im-
mediately ordered to compliment his worihip with
three cheers.
Regulations with refpect to franking letters, took
place.
rriiice Frederick, his majePcy's fecond fon, elected
biihop of Ofnaburg in Germany, by a conge d'elire
from his father, as elector of Hanover.
December 28th, Henry, earl of Shannon, one of the
lords judices cf Ireland, died.
1765 Kis maj;fty's royal charter palled for incorporating
the fociety of artiits.
An act parted for annexing the fovereignty of the
Lie of Man to the crown of Great Britain.
Grand Canal begun for making a navigation from
Dublin on thefouth fide to the Shannon ; incorpo-
rated in 1772. Paflage-boats plied to Sallins Li
1783; to Monailereven 1786.
Otaheite, or George the Third's liland, difcovered
June 1 8th.
Oak faw-dui firft difcovered ufeful in tanning.
There was a fcarcily, caufed by the failure of pota-
toes i.i general throughout the kingdom, which
diftre'ied the common people ; the fpring com had
alfo failed, and grain fo high, that it was thought
Gay to appoint a committee to enquire what
j'uight be the beft method to reduce it; and to pre-
vent a great dearth, two acts were palfed early in
this feffion, to (lop the diililleiy, and to prevent
the exportation of corn for a limited time. la
the fpring of 1766, thofc fears feem to have been
S 2 \vell
o c g REMARKABLE
-.1765 well founded ;. feveral towns were m great drftrtf*
for cor*, and by the humanity of the lord-lieute-
nant (lord Hertford) money was ilkiedout of the
trcafury to buy com for fueh places as applied to
his lordfliip for that jmrpoie.
The years 1770 and 1771, weie feafons of great
diltrefs in Ireland ; and in the month of February
'in the latter year, the high price of corn was men~
tioned from the throne, as an objccl: of the firft
Importance, which demanded the utmoft atten-
tion.
."In the years 177? and 1779, there was great plenty
of corn, but the mamufaflurers were not able to
buy, and many thouiands of diem fupported by
charity ; the confequence was that corn fell to Ib
}ow a 'price, that the farmers in many places were
not able to pay their rents.
: The bed of the river Ayre was quite dry for more
than half a mile, which continued fo till the tide
returned ; the fame was never known to happen
before cr fmce.
The river at Bourdeaui ebbed an hour and half, then-
flowed fifteen minutes, and then ebbed again for
an hour and half more ; which la-ft unufual ebbing
\vas followed by an ordinary flood, that continue*!
the ufual time.
M, Peter Kretzchmar fet one grain of barley in a
rich fpot, from which lie reaped in 1 8 months,.
15,000 ears, by tnmfplantation fixteen times.
The peruke-makers petitioned the king to cut off his
hair and wear a wig ; to winch his majefty anf-
-vered, " That he held nothing dearer to his heart
than the happinefs of his people; and they
may be aflured, he ihould at all times uie his
*< endeavours to promote their welfare." Several
rf the peruke-makers, who attended on this occa-
firm, gave fuch offence by their incor.Hfttncy in
wearing their own liair, that they had it cut off
fey the mob.
A iKtrrai
EVENTS. 209
176? A negro at Lifoor., named Firmein de Cofla, gave
the following molt furprifing initance of fidelity
and affection : " Heaving that his matter Emanucl
Cabral, vras taken up for killing a foldicr, he
quitted the wood; to which he had Hed for re-
fuge, and voluntary furrendered himlelf into
the hands of juftice, declaring that lie alone
was guilty of the aflaffination, and that his
matter was innocent ; accordingly the matter,
after a long examination, appearing innocent,
he was fet at liberty, and the negro hanged."
Died, Mr. Farrcl, in Maygard-ftreet, St. "Giles's,
who, by letting two-penny lodgings, amaffed up-
wards of 6oool.
Died at Carowby, Mr. Dominick Joyce, aged 1 20.
At an ordination at the chapel royal, a black was
ord.iir.ed, whole devout behaviour attracted the
notice of the whole congregation ; he was ihortly
after priePted.
At a itable in Piccadilly, two coach geldings were
fold by weight at one lliilling per Ib. and produ-
ced 57!.
At Surry aflly.es, Samuel Berry was tried for actually
committing a rape on his wife's grandmother,
aged 91.
A life-guard-man of Poland, celebrated for his great
voracioufuefs, was prefented to the court of Sax-
ony, and in the prefence of it devoured near
tv.-enty pounds of beef and half a calf roafted, be-
fkL-s otl'wji things.
Nicholas Wolley, efq; of Blelchington, Cumberland,
who died lately, left the beft part of his eftate to
his f<(0tman, who favcd his life about two years
before.
Died in Hog-lane, St. Giles's, a man of the name
of Duncan, who in a few years amaHcd 1200!. by
letting out barrows at fixpcnce per wcc'r:.
A captain in the 95th regiment of fot, obtained a
vcrdift with 400!. damages, againit a tradcfman,
for a malicious profecuticn on the charge of mur-
S 3 dr,
REMARKABLE
1 765 der, for v.-hich lie flood his trial in the city of Cor r
and no prosecutor appearing, he was acquitted.
Jmie ift, The Engliih colours were hoi tied on the
callle of Caftletown, the capital of the lilc of Man,
the fovereignty of that iiland being now annexed
te the cro\Vn of Great Britain ; in a few days af-
ter, his majefty was proclaimed throughout the
jtland, for which his majelly paid the duke of
Athol 70,000!. By an ab'ftraftof the clear reve-
nue of this i'iland, 'from 1754 to 1763, the me-
! ium was 7293!. per ann. of which the land re-
venue for the Ian; year was 1409!. 178. 6d. and
the income of the lands in the hands of the lord
of the Ifle, 107!.
The following articles, part of the curious collection.
f Egyptian/ Roman, und other antiquities, made
by Ebcnezev Muilel, cloy lately dtccafed, fold by
,.-,
ing Ch.a-lts IPs hat-button, for z\. i$s. The cur-
tana of James II. <f England, vir.d the fword of
James IV. of Scotland, taken at Floddcnfield,
*il I2s. A fcymeter taken from the balhaw of
Damalcns at tlie fiegc of Vienna, 5!. 55. King of
Madagafcar's fhirt, the queen's fhift, then- fafhcs,
belts, &c. il. s. Queen Elizabeth's gloves, knife
and fork, work-bag, pincufhion, and a tootlv-
pick ; M-.ry queen of ScotK hair-cap, Oliver Crom-
Avcll's night-cap, camp- pillow, filk faih, toliacco-
ftopper, and king Charles IPs. night-cap, 2!. i2s.
Queen Elizabeth's ftriking-watch, given by her
tcTonc of the wai-ders of the tower when flic quitted
her imprifonment there, zl. King Charles I's.
T/atch, given by him to biihop Juxon the morning^
f his martyrdom, 2!. 175. An earthen cann of
fr. Thomas a Bccket, finely wrought, i6s. Sir
Edmundbury Godfrey's dagger ; a large parcel oi
curious Went gloves ; the liar and garter worn
by the duke ot Marlborough at Blenheim battle -,
ditto of James II. Wilham III. and queen Anne;
Mid a piece of fringe weik made by Mary queen
EVENTS, 2n
of Wnii:im III. 2\. By this tlie crrions may
form fome judgment of the price of virtu in
England.
Two mowers near Wells, in Somerfctfliirc, cut down
four acres of grafs in an hour and feventeen mi-
nutes for a wager of aol. which they won by per-
forming it only one minute within the time : t\v
to one were laid againft them.
Nine whitcboys were killed and twenty made prifoi>
ers, in a fkirmilli with a party of dragoons near
Dungannon.
The wife of a collier at Sit'/.eroda, near Tprgau in
Saxony, was lately delivered of five daughters,,
who were all baptifed, but died foon after. In
the year 1732, a woman of the fame village, was
twice delivered in the fpacc of eleven months, of
three children at a birth*
In Lapland 12,0 head of rein-deer,, in one herd,
were ftruck dead by lightning.
A young woman walked 72 miles in one day, viz.
from Blencogo to within two miles of Newcaftle.
A red cow, the property of Mr. Thomas Stubbing,
of Hcmpfted in EfTex, brought forth three m;ik-
vhite-cow calves,, with red ears.
The emperor of Germany died.
A boat with three men, a boy, and a large dog,
ovciitt in croiling the river near Aberdeen; the
dog brought alhore one of the men, and then
went into the water and brought out the boy ; the
other two men got afhore of themfelves.
A c > lord William Campbell was Hilling near Henley
upon Thames, lie heard the cry of a man from
a dillance, calling out boat ! boat f fever.il of
Vvhicii, however, palled Rot far off without taking
the lead notice. At laft a man from the point of
an ifland, called out that there was a man drown-
ing : upon which lord William Campbell imme-
diately ftt out, and came to the place, where he
was llicwn fomethinglrke a man lying at the bot-
to wf :hs water. His lordihip ftirrcd the body
2iz REMARKABLE
1765 v/uh the pole of his boat, \vhick was twenty feet
long ; but as the pole had no hook to it, and his
lordihip finding it was lofmg too much time, he
in ft and y pulled off his coat only (his lady and
filter being in the boat) and jumped into die water,
which was fixteen feet deep, and although the man
v.-as under the trunk of an old tree, he brought
him up, and fwam to iliore with him. His lord-
jfiiip then ordered- him to be blooded, and by his
great care, in a fhort time brought him to breathe;
when, being carried home, lie foon after perfectly
recovered. He was a fervant to lord Palmetfton,
who was then on a vilit to a gentleman near that
place.
The late Mrs. Wolfe, mother of the brave general,
left icool. to the incorporated fociety in Dublia,
for promoting Engliih Proteftant working-ichools
in Ireland, and the refidue, after a few legacies
were paid, to be difpofed of among the widows
and families of the officers who were employed in
the military land fervice under her fen.
Thomas Scott, of York, rode his own horfe frora
that city to London, in thirty-two fuccdfive hours
and forty minutes, being 192 miles.
His royal highnefs the duke of Cumberland, died
fuddenly, and on opening him a coagulation of
blood about the fize of a pigeon's egg, was found
in the right ventricle of the brain. As he died
inteftate, the earl of Albemarle adminiftered to
him, by virtue of his majefty's fign manuel. John
Mezo, one of his huifars, having been given a fuit
of his cloaths, with all the vifible pockets turned
out, he found in a private one bank notes to tha
amount of 1 75 iL. which he was fo honeflt as to re-
turn to the gentleman in waiting.
At Avran-ches, in France, a woman, who had been
long afflicted with vapours and convulfions, which
at laft degenerated into a palfy, having been lately
blooded by order of her phyfician, and in his prc-
fence, the blood ran freely a little while, and then
{topped j
EVENTS. tij
1765 flopped ; when, upon examing the orifice, there
appeared in it a fmall white body, which, on being
drawn out with the point of a pin, proved to be
a live worm with two eyes, which were very vifi-
ble, and a muz/le with long hairs upon it, like a.
cat's whitkers. This curioiity is ftill preferved in
ipirit ol wine.
Two bricklayers were fined, one in a hundred pounds
the other fifty, for fuitering rubbilh to remain a
long time before lomc buildings carrying on by
them near red-lion fquare.
A child at Portifham, near Weymcuth, not two
years old, discharged a worm out of one of her
eyes, about an inch and half long.
A diamond of coniiderable value was found in the
ftomach of a woodcock, lately fhot at Seaton in
Northumberland.
The Pope's bull was fapprefTed by the parliament of
France, when it was declared that no bull or brief
for the future fhould be received, unleis attended
with the king's letters patent.
fjC6 April 2 1 ft, A ipot or macula of the fun, more tha
thrice the bignefs of our earth, paifed the fun's
centre.
The American ttamp-act repealed, March iSth.
A great earthquake at Conitantinople.
The Jefuits expelled from Bohemia and Denmark.
The chevalier de St. Gecrrge, died at Rome, Jan. 2cL
The arniy commitTions regulated in their prices, bf
a board of general officers.
Gibraltar nearly destroyed by a florm, Ftb. ^d.
Died, the reverend Mr. Mattinfon, curate of Pattcr-
dule in Weftmoreland, 60 years. The fir!} infant
he chriftcned after lie got holy orders, when fhe was
19 years old agretd to marry him, anil he afked
her and himlelf in the church. By this wife lie
had one fon and three daughters, and married
them all in his own chaich himfelf. His ftipend,
lill widiin tliefe 20 years, was only 12!. per an-
num, avid uever readied to 20!. yet out of this,
by
?T4 ~ REMARKABLE
1766 by the help of a good wife, he brought Up h's
children very well, died at the age of 83, grand-
father to 17 children, and worth loool. fterling.
Peter M'Kinley, Andres Zee kern ran, George Gidley,
and Richard St. Qmntin, four pirates, who inhu-
manly murdered captains Cochran and Ghvfs, on
board the Sandwich, were executed near St. Ste-
phen's green, Dublin.
Count Lally, commander in chief of the Frencli
forces the lad war in the Eaft Indies, beheadevi
-at Paris.
Her royal highnefs the princefs Matilda, was ef-
poufed by proxy, to Chriftran VII. king of Den-
mark.
James Marquis of Kildare, created Duke of Leift-
iter, Nov. 1 4th.
Wines imported on an avarage of three years, Aid-
ing 1766 4425 tons
i ?7 6 3331 ditto
1787 2061 ditto
Jn 1 754 The return of houfes in Dublin were 1 2,857.
Ellen Ellis, at Beaurnaris in Derby ftire, aged 72*
was brought to bed May loth ; fne had ben mar-
ried 46 year?, and her eldeft foil was 45 years old.
She had' not had a child for 25 years.
The number of houfes this year in Dublin, were
1.3,194.
Patrick Redmond, taylor,- wai executed r.t gallows-
green, the loth of September, for robbing the
dwelling-houfe of John Griffin. Glover the player
(who was then in Cork) took an active putt in
this man's reiteration ; after he hung nine minutes
and was cut down, he was perfectly relic-red to
lit"; by conftant friction and fumigation. He af-
terwards made his efcape, got drunk, went to
the play-houfe door (the night of his execution)
to return Mr. Glover thanks, and put the whole
audience in terror and confirmation. He was the
third taylor that made his efcups from the galiov, s
foice the year 1755*
lie
EVENTS. 21.5
1767 The Jefuits expelled from Spain, Venice, acd Ge-
noa, April 2d.
Martinico almoft deftroyed by an earthquake.
The Proteilants tolerated in Poland, Nov. ad.
The avaraue export oi" pork, for the laft five years,
Y.-;;S alxuit 40,000 barrels ; the like, ending 1774,
was 46,924 barrels ; the like, ending 1782, was
87,085' barrels.; and in the year 1787, it rofe t
101,859 barrels.
The avarage export of cattle, for the laft five years,
ending 1767 about 500 head
in 1774 1, 088 ditto
in 1782 2 '993 ditto
in 1787 1 2,99 3 ditto
Phelix M'Carlhy, baker, fined fifty pounds, and t*
liiffer three months imprifonment, for offering a
bribe to Samuel Ma) lor, efq; mayor of Coik ; he
A\"\S convicted on Saturday, i9th of September,
before prime-ferjeant Hely Hutchinfon, in the
city court.
Hugh Carletnn, efq; was elected Recorder of the
city of Cork, Auguil 24th.
The riayoralty-houie finiihcd. James Chatterton,
efq; was the firft mayor who inhabited it.
October 8th, A prodigious flood and fpring-tide. A
boat plied for fome time in the North Main-ftreet.
I 768 Academy of painting eftabklhed in London.
The Turks imprifcned the Ruffian ambafHidoj-, an<4
declare'.! war againfl that empire.
The Jefuits expelled from Naples, Malta, anJ
Parma.
Duration of Irilh parliaments limited to eight years.
A bill palled to impofc a tax on tea, paper, painters
colours, and glals imported into America!
A veifel was fci/ed at Boitc.ii, in confequence of her
having neglected fomc new regulations ; on which
the rnob attacked the houfes of the commiilioners,
ieftroyed tlie colleger's boats, and obliged the
cuftom-houfe officers to take refuge in
William.
REMARKABLE
July 2 i ft, The election in the county court-houfe
Cork, for knights of the {hire ; the numbers flood
as follows, vi/. For Richard Townfend, efq; 673
votes ; Arthur Hyde, efq; 67 i ; Sampfon Stawell
efq; 402; and fir' Robert Deanc, bart. 394 votes;
Richard Townfend and Arthur Hyde, efqrs. were
returned duly elected.
The right hon. John Hely Hutchinfon, and Braba-
ton Ponfonby, efq; were elected members for the
city.
Toulon's bank opened in Paul-ftreet, Auguft ill.
Septem. 8th, Kennedy's falt-houfe, at Cold-harbour,
was accidently blown up with powder. His fo
and maid-fervant unfortunately loft their lives.
1769 Paoli fled from Corfica June I3th. The iilaml
then reduced by the French.
Foundation of the Hibernian Hofpital, for the recep-
tion of foldiers children, Phcenix-park, laid. Open-
ed in 1770.
The fums remitted from Ireland to abfentees, a-
mounted this year to 1,208,982!. 145. 6d.
The foundation ftone of the royal exchange, laid by
lord vifcount Tovvnfend, lord-lieutenant of Ire-
land. It was deiigned by Mr. Cooky, and open-
cd for tranfaftmg bufmefs in 1 779. The expence
amounted to 40,000!. was defrayed by lotteiy-
fchemes conduced by the merchants of Dublin.
A flalh of lightning penetrated the theatre at Venice,
during the representation ; 600 people were in the
houfe, feveral of whom were killed ; it put out the
candles, melted a lady's gold watch-cafe; the
jewels in the ears of others, which were compe-
titions, and fplit feveral diamonds.
George lord vifcount Townlend, lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, arrived in the city of Cork, June jd.,
dined with the corporation at the mayoralty-houie
on Monday the 4th, and went to Chrift church on
Sunday the i oth of September.
Buttons rirft numlxired on officers coats. BufFwaift-
coats and breeches for foldiers.
Foundation
EVENTS. 217
1770 Foundation laid of the Hibemi.m Marine Nurfeiy,
Rogerfon's-qttay. Opened 17 73.
An earthquake at St. Domingo.
.Government repealed all the duties laid on articles
imported into America, ercept that on tea, which
was oppofed as much as all the others.
771 Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks, in his majefly's fliip
the Endeavour, captain Cook, returned from
voyage round the world, having made feveral im-
portant difcoverics in the South-fen;.
An emigration of 500,000 Tourgouths from the
coalts of the Cafpian Seato the frontiers ofChin;i,
Sohvay Mofs, bordering on Scotland, ten miles fnu
C'arlide, began to fwell, owing to heavy rains, and
upwards ot 400 acres of it rofe to fuch a height
above tlw level of the ground, that at laft it rolled
forward like a torrent, and continued its cowrie
iibnve a mile, fcooping along with it houfes, trees,
and every thing in its way ; it then divided into
H.ir.ds of different extent, from cne to ten 'feet
deep, upon which were farad hares, wild fcml,
&c. It has covered near 600 acre:, at Netherby,
to which it removed, and J.eftroyed about thirty
fmall villages ; it continued in rrunum from Sa-
turday to Wednefday, Dec. 31.
Commodore Knight in the Ramillies of 90 gur.^
with the Defence of 74, Centaur 7.1, Aja.-c 74,
Ilippon 64, and the Solebay of 28 guns, arrived
in Cork harbour, Jan. 31.
1772 The king of Sweden changed the conuitution front
ariftbcraey to a limited monarchy.
The Pretender n^ivricd a prince 1 "^ of Germany,
grand-daughter of Thcnuis, late carl of Aylei-
bury.
The emperor of Germany, e-'nref:> of Rufin.. and
the king of : -J tlie ki.ig of Poland
of a great part ' f liis domii ! v.s, \\hieh.thoy di-
vided aniotig themfel. 'Uition Grille moil
folemn treaties.
Negroes adiudeed lo b: free whilil in '.liis-coim-'-r.
J ri v T' 1 r *
1 ExplouoR
REMARKABLE
Explofion of gunpowder atChefter, which deftroyed
many of the fpeclators of a puppet-fKow, and
oreatly damaged feveral houfes, Nov. 5.
Captain Phi PP ?was fent to explore the North Pole ;
3 but having made 81 degrees was m danger of be-
ing locked up by the ice, and his attempt to dd-
cover a parfage in that quarter, proved fuutlcfs,
The Enu;lifh Eaft India company having, by co
' Left, or -treaty, acquired die extcnhve provinces
of Bengal, Orixa, and Bahar, containing httcen
millions of inhabitants, great irregularities were
committed by their fervants abroad ; upon which,
government interfered, and fent out judges, &c,
for the better admimftration of juftice.
Tl rewar between the Ruffians and the Turks proved
difiiceful to the latter, who loll the lilands m
the Archipelago, and on the fea we:e every wheie
XTnfuccelsful. c
The Americans deftroyed 342 chefts of tea.
Gener^ Gage arrived in America, and removed the
aficmblv to Salem. ,
rowerallvver, walked from London to York and
back again in nx days, being about 4* ^
Protections by noblemen ai>d foreign ambaiudors,
reftrained by parliament.
Several thoufand hands are row ^^ d ^^
ton manufacture in this kingdom; and t, ere =
evervreafon to believe, that the manutafture has
t ^en rootamongil us. It pfogrefs will be icen
L'vtufpeaing theLportations of the wod and y a, n
at ditont periods; on an avarage cf three )ears,
'773 2550 3 *
J|^ _
manufacture Jm arifen to cordlderable
EVENTS. 2*9
has eftablifhed it in our own, and forced it into
foreign markets. Our avarage imports of one
article alone, may convey an idea of its general
increafe, vi/.. That of drinking glalFcs, for three
years, ending
1773 -was in number 399,222 glares
1783 ditto 2?,2j.o ditto
1767 critic 4/>48 dirto
The firil ftone of the blue-coat holpital in Dublin.,
laid by the lord-lieutenant.
1774 Peace was proclaimed between the Ruffians and the
Turks.
The American colonies fent deputies to Philadelphia,
who aflumed the title of " The Congrefs of the
" Thirteen United Provinces," ;:nd all the powers
of government.
A bill parted for blocking up the port of Bofton ; in
confequence of which, the inhabitants entered into
a folemn league, by which they bound themfelvcs
to break oil all communication with Britain, 'till
the obnoxious acls were repealed.
The Congrefs met at Philadelphia, petitioned the
king, addfefFed the Britiih nation, and the Colo-
nies, and wrote a letter to general Gage, Rating
their grievances, and entered into feveral new and
fprrited rclblutions, &c. &c.
General Gage fortified the Neck which joins the
town of Boiton to the Continent, fei/ed the Pro-
vincial powder, ammunition, and miiitarv ftorcs
at Cambridge and Charleftown, and deprived Joha
Handcock of his commiffion as colonel of the
Cadets ; all which was remonfti ated againft by
the Americans. The governor, to reftore tran-
quility, if podible, called a general affembly, but
fo many of the council had reiigned their feats,
that he was induced to countermand its fitting by
proclamation. This meafure was deemed illegal;
the ailembly met at Salem, and after waiting a
day for the governor, voted themfelves into a pro-
vincial Congrefs, of which Mr. Handcock was
T 2 cboien
REMARKABLE
1774 chofcn prcfidcnt. A committee was appointed,
and Vv-aited dn the governor with a remonftrance,
concerning the fordiications at Bofton Neck.
Winter was approaching; every one faw that the
Spring \vas to be the feaibn for commencing hofti-
lities ; a lift of all thefenfible men was made out,
magazines of arms, &c. collected, and money
provided for the payment of troops.
The Americans began to feize on the military {lores
belonging to government, which commenced at
New-Fort in Rhode Ifland, where the inhabitants
carried off 40 pieces of cannon. New Hampfiiire
followed the example, andfeized a fmall fort, and
the ammunition it contained.
In Penniylvania, a convention was held, which ex-
pre/Ted a defire of reconciliation with the Mother-
Country, though at the lame time declaring, They
were, refolved to defend their juft rights, and de-
fend to the Lift, their opposition to the late afts
of parliament.
Stamp Aft commenced in Ireland, March 25th.
'February 12th, Early in the morning, Mf. Daniel
M'Canhy, fub-fiieriff of the county of Cork, and
a party of the aSthregjment, commanded by Mr.
King/ attacked the fortifications and intrench-
ments of Pratt and his forces at Kilruih, who
were lodged in the county gaol, Feb. 13.
The Cork Society for the relief and difcharge of Pcr-
fons confined for fmall debts, iuftituted June 1 7th.
1775 General Gage fent a detachment under colonel
Smyth and major Pitcairn, to deftroy the (lores at
Concord, which they effected with the lofs of 250
men killed; the Americans loft 60 men.
The fpirit of the Americans was fo railed, that an
army of 20,000 men formed a line of encampment
from Boxbury to Myftle, and afterwards joined a
a large body of Connecticut troops, under genera!
Putnam ; by this force Bollon was blocked up,
until generals Howe, Burgoyne, and Clinton,
with a confiderable reinforcemeat, arrived,
On
EVENTS. zjzi
1775 On the r 7th of June, the Engliin attacked the A-
mericans at Bunker's Hill, where the Britifn loii
1000 men, the Americans only 500; in this en-
gagement Chaiieftcrwn was burnt by the Englifli.
Colonels Eafter and Allen, without receiving any
orders from Congrefs, or communicating their
delign to any body, with only 250 men, lurpri/cd
the forts of Cro\vn-Point, Ticonderago, and the
reft that form a communication between the Co-
lonies and Canada ; 200 cannon, mortars and mi-
litary (lores, and two armed veflels, with materials
for the conftruftion of others, fell into their hands.
The Americans (hut up the troops in Bofton, who
vcrc reduced to fuch diftrefs, that they were oblig-
ed to fend out armed veifels to make prixes indif-
criminately, of all that came in their wav.
The congrefs in the mean time continued to act with
all the vigour which its conili tuents had expected.
Articles of confederation and perpetual union were
drawn up and fokmnly agreed upon, by which
they bound themfelvcs and their poilerity for ever.
Thefe were in fubftance as follows :
1. Each colony was to, be independent within itfelf,
and to retain an abfolute fovereignty in all domefue
aiFuirs.
2. Delegates to he annually elected to meet in con-
grefs, at fuch time and place as ihould be enacted
in the preceding congrefs.
3. This aflcrribly Ihould have the power of deter-
mining war or peace, making alliances ; and ia
Ihort, all that power which fovereigns of ilatcs
ufually claim as their own.
4. The expenccs of war to be paid out of the com-
mon treafury, and raifed by a poll-tax on m^ks
between 1 6 and 60; the proportions to be deter-
mined by the laws of the colony.
5. An executive council to be appointed to act ia
place of the congrefs during its rcccfs.
f>, No colony to make war with the Indians, wiih-
ut confcnt of concrete.
T V 3 7 . Tkc
222
REMARKABLE
7. The boundaries of all the Indian lands to be fs-
cured and afcertained to them ; and no purchaies
of lands were to be made by individuals, or even
by a colony, without content of congrefs.
8. Agents appointed by congrefs lliould re fide a-
rnong the Indians, to prevent frauds in trading
with them, and to relieve, at the public expcncc,
their wants and diftre'fes.
9. This confederation to laft until there fhoulcl be
a reconciliation with Britain ; or, if that event
ftiould not take place, it was to be perpetual.
General Walhington appointed commander in chief,
by the congrefs.
Generals Montgomery and Arnold attacked Quebec,
but were rcpulled, the former was killed.
Mr. Spooner at Tannvorth, in Warwickihirc, died
in the 75th year of his age ; he weighed 40 ftone
9lb. and meafurcd four feet three inches acrofs the
moulders.
X-aurence Kennedy was executed at gallows-green*
Cork, April 29th, for the murder of his father;
? ie was profccuted by his mother.
April 6, 7 & 8, The 35$, 49th, & 6$d regiments of
foot, embarked at Cork for Bofton.
May 1 2th, The 2 7. d, 4Oth, 44th, & 45th regiments
of foot embarked for New- York.
September 2 7th, The i jth & 55th regiments em-
barked for Bofton.
Dec. 22d, About 7 o'clock at night, the Marquis of
Rockingham. traniport from Portfmouth, with
three companies of the 32d regiment and their
baggage on board, befides women and children,
w as, in a hard gale of wind, drove into Roberts's
Cove, and at three in the morning was duihcd to
pieces on the rocks, and every foul onboard (ex-
cept three officers and about thirty private men)
pcrifhed.
1776 General Howe permitted the inhabitants to eva-
cuate Bofton, but was foon alter obliged to aban-
don it Umfclf, and leave feveral articles of value
behind
EVENTS. ?. 5
1776 behind him ; the Americans took pofleflion, and
fortified it, and declared themielvts independent
of Great Britain.
Several of the nobility, under Mr. Beanjeu, fallied
forth from Canada to relieve the capital, but were
defeated by die Provincials.
The Britifh reinforcements joined general Carleton,
and obliged the Americans to fly.
The Americans were drove out of Canada with the
lofs of 1000 men, of whom 500 were made pii-
{bners.
Lord Dunmore driven out of Virginia.
The Britilh fleet attacked Charlellown, but was re-
pulfed.
The Americans fitted out a fleet under commodore
Hopkins of 5 fhips, who failed to the Bahama
inlands, and made himfelf matter of the military
fl.on.-s.
General Howe landed on Staten Ifland, where he
was joined by a number of the inhabitants. Lord
Howe loon after joined him, who was armed with
a commUIion to make peace, which was rejected.
General Putnam rcpulfed at Long Iflaud, with the
lofs of 3000 men ; on which lord Howe fent ge-
neral Sullivan, who was taken prifoner, to eon-
grefs, to requelt a conference with any of them
as individuals. They appointed a committee,
confining of doctor Franklin, Mr. Adams, and
Mr. Rutledge, to wait on him, who \verepolitely
received, but which proved fruitlefs, as their final
anfwer was, That they were willing to enter into
any tieaty with Great Britain that might conduce
to the good of both nations ; but that they would
not treat in any other character but Independent
States. On this lord Howe determined to profe-
cute the war with the utmoil vigour, and fet about
the nioft proper methods for reducing New- York,
and advanced fo fat, that the Americans aban.
doncd it ; and in a few days, fome that (laid be.
hind, fet fire to it } and, though all poffible mean s
were
2-24 REMARKABLE
1776 were ufcd by the Britifh to extinguifh the flames*
one quarter of it was coniumed.
The two armies metal White Plains; the Americans
were worfted, and were obliged to abandon Fort-
Waihington and Fort-L.ee.
General Clinton took PJlode-Ifland.
General Lee taken prifoner by colonel Harcourt.
General Washington defeated the HeiTians at Tren-
ton, took 1000 prifoners, and feized their artil-
lery.
Norfolk and Portfmouth in Virginia, deftroyed br
the Britifh foixes, Jan. i.
Duchefs of Kingfton tried for Bigamy, convictad,
and degraded, April 2 ^.
Captain Cook firft circumnavigated the globe.
Sir Peter Parker, in the Briftol of 50 guns, arrived
at the Cove of Cork, Jan. 6th.
The Solebay arrived at Cove, with colonel Ethan
Allen, and other American priibners on board,
Jan. 2 1 ft.
Sir Peter Parker, in the Briftol, with the Acteon,
Solebay, Active, Lively and Phinx frigates, failed
for America from our harbour, with the I5th,
28th, 33d, 37th, 46th, 54th, and 5 yth regiments
on board.
Montreal taken by the Americans, Nor. i3'th.
May 2ift y The election began in the city of Cork,
and ended on the 29th, whert the numbers flood
as follows, viz. Richard Longfield, efq; 602 ;
the right honourable the Provoft 457 ; John Bag-
well, efqj 372; and Arthur Gethin Creagh, efq;
24 votes. Richard Longfield, efq; and the Pro-
voft were returned dnly elected.
Sheriff Lawton died in office ; he was fucceeded by
Charles Denroche, efq; on the rzth, and fwonv
into office the 26th of Auguft.
Guineas of 5 pwts. 8 grs. took place in the city of
Cork, Auguft 26th.
Jan. 1 6th, John Hayes and William Downey were
tried in Clonniell by fpecial eommiffion, before
Baron
E V E N T S. 22 j
Baron Scott and Juftice Henn, and convi&ed of
the murder of Arnbrofe Power, efq; of Barret' s-
town ; they were immediately taken from the
dock, and executed by torch light in the main-
ftreet, near the court-houfe.
Jan. 1 8th, William Mackey and Philip Berregrath,
were tried, conviclcd, and executed the fame day,
oppofite the gaol in Clonmell, being found guikr
on the white-boy ad, for breaking into the houfe
of John Watfon, efq; at Cartigan's-town.
April 5th, The rev. Mr. Grainger died fuddenly m
England, as he was administering the faciamenu
*777 General Prefect taken by the Americans.
The Britifh army landed at the head of the Elk, and
came to a general engagement with the Ameri-
cans, who were defeated with the lofs of 1000
killed and wounded, and 400 taken prifoners.
General Howe took pofletfion of Philadelphia, Oc"h 3.
The Americans attacked the royal army at Ger-
main Town, but were defeated.
Ticonderago taken by general Burgoyne.
The Americans retired to Saratoga.
General Burgoyne, diitrefled for want of provifion?-,
made an attempt on the Provincial magayjnts at
Ecnnington ; a detachment under colonel Baum,
advanced for this purpofe, but were utterly de-
feated, and the colonel taken pri loner.
The Americans under general Gates, attacked the
royal army at Stillwatcr, and were with great dif-
ficulty repulfed.
The Amei icans mrvde a dreadful attack on the royal
army, iu which general Fra/.cr was killed, and
the Germans were defeated with great {laughter.
The royal army, in danger of being furrounded, at-
tempted to retreat without fuccefs, and having
only provifions furlkient for three days, were ob-
liged to furrender by capitulation, at Saratoga.
Prin t r feHers properly fecured.
The pcniions this year amounted to 80,095!. 175. 6cL
Churiublc Mufical Society, Dublin, incorporated.
Juck
2 tf REMARKABLE
Jack the painter, executed March the loth, for fet-
ting fire to Portlmouth dock-Yard.-
The rev. do-ftor Dodd executed at Tyburn for for-
gery, June ayth.
The earl of Harcourt drowned in a well in Oxforal-
fhire, Sept. i 7th.
The firft ftone of the new guard-houfe, in Tuckey's-
ftreet, was laid by Hugh Lawton, mayor of Cork,
September i ith.
The Borne fociety firft reviewed by oolonel Bagwell,
in Wliite's bowling-green, Nov. 41! i.
778 Treaty between France and America.
Lord North's bill, received with indignation by ths
rnyal army, and defpifed by the coionifts.
Philadelphia evacuated.
French fleet arrived in America.'
Lord Howe attempted, with a veiy inferior force,
to engage B'Eftaing off Rhode liland, but the
fleets were parted by a violent itorm.
The Britifh army took poflcflicn of Georgia.
Genera'lPrevoft defeated the American's at Briar's-
Creek.-
D'Eftaing defeated at Savannah, by general Prevoft.
A treaty of alliance, amity, and commerce, figned
benveen the French and Americans, Feb. 6th.
The earl of Chatham interred in Weftminfter- abbey,
June 9th.
June 1 8th, The Licorne French frigate of 32 guns,
ftruck to the America, one of admiral Keppd's
fieet, after firft difrharging herbroadilde mto. the
America, being the firft French Ihip of war cap-
tured fmce the commencement of the prefent liof-
tilities.
July loth, The French fleet appeared ofFtheEdyftone,
-near Plymouth, and took the Folkflone cutter,
commanded by lieutenant William Smith.
The court of France iilued a declaration for making
reprifals againft Great Britain.
July 27th, Admiral Keppcl, with 30 Hups of the
lintv eiigaged the French admiral D'OrviH'iers,
with
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$778 with an equal number .of fhips. This was the
firfl general engagement at fea, fmce the com-
mencement of the prefent hoftilities ; admiral
Keppel had 133 men killed, and 373 wounded;
there was no Ihip taken or destroyed on either
fide.
July 29th, Great Britain iflued orders for making
reprifals againft the court of France.
Auguft 8th, The French fleet repulfed at Rhode-
liland.
The American magazines deftroyed in Bedford har*
bour, September jth.
The iiland of Dominica, under the command of lieu-
tenant-governor Stewart, iurrendered to the French
troops, under the marquis d'Bouille.
The ifiands of St. Pierre's and Miquelon in the Weft-
Indies, taken from the French, by commodore
Evans.
Pondicherry, in the End Indies, under the com-
mand cof general de Bellecombe, taken from the
French by major-general Munro.
The iiland of St. Lucia taken by the French.
The French repulfed at St. Lucia, and the ifland re-
taken by the Britiili troops.
Parliament, that always raifes money in Ireland on
eafy tejms, when there is any to be borrowed in
the country, this year gave 7 and a half per cent,
in annuities, which ia 1/73 and 1/75, were earned-
ly fought alter at 61. then thought to be a very
high rate.
The fums remitted by Ireland, from 1751 to this
year, to pay the troops few ing abroad, amounted
to 1,401,925!. 195. 4d.
The fums raifed by Great Britain, in time of peace^
are about ten millions ; in Ireland about one mil-
lion. The circulating calh of the former is elli-
rnated at twenty-three millions, of the latter ai
two millions.
In 1698, The export of our wool to England a-
jnouated to 377,520 ft one three-fourths; at 2
medium
8 REMARKABLE
jncdium of eight years to Lady-Day 172?, it was
only 227,049 ftone, which is 148,000 lefs than
in 1 698, and was a lofs of more than half a million
yearly to England.' In the latl ten years, the
quantity exported has been fo greatly reduced,
that in thofe years it only a'mounted to 1007 none
ii Ib. and in the lait year, did not exceed 1665
ftone, i 2 Ib.
September 7th, The firfl general field-day of all the
armed focieties belonging to the city of Cork.
Roman Catholics firft permitted to take long leafe's ;
ieveral of them attended at the city court-houfe,
and testified their allegiance, Sept. 29th.
Parliament Beer took plaee ; and at this time all the
ligns were taken down, purfuant to the act whick
commenced Auguft ift.
A boat going from Cork to Cove, with twenty me
and women on board, was loft near PailUge, and
all perilhcd except one man.
1779 A moil extraordinary eruption of Vefuvius, Au-
guft 8 ch.
The fiege of Gibraltar begun by the Spaniards,
July 8th.
Iriih parliament addrefFed the king for a free trade,
October i2th.
Armed Aflbciatkms (to the number of 80,000)
formed in every part of Ireland, under the deno-
mination of Volunteers ; which were cloathed,
armed, and disciplined at their own private ex-
pence, for the purpole of repelling any hoftile at-
tempt from a foreign enemy, and of preferring
trunquility and a due obfervance of the laws within
die kingdom. By the fpirited applications of thefe
Affectations, Poyning* law, and all the obnoxious
acts declaring the fupremacy of England over this
Kingdom, were repealed, and the Crown of Ire-
land rendered m&fc-iidsnt cf that of Great Britain*
Spain joined the confederacy againft Britain.
Fort Omoa taken by the Bntiili, but alierwards
evacuated.
The
E V E N T 3. 1 29
1779 The combined fleets of France and Spain joined
at Cadi/., amounting to between 60 and 70 fail of
the line, and paraded up the Engliili channel ; fir
Charles Hardy, with 35 fail of the line, was crui-
fmg in the Bay of Bifcay, ami was pailed by this
'great armament, without their having any know-
ledge of each other. Sir Charles, afterwards, the
wad being in his favour, gained die entrance into
the channel, without their being able to prevent
him. The combined fleets retired to their own
Ports early in the month of September, without
eflecling any thing.
The illand of St. Martin taken from the French by
the Britiih troops, under the command of ths
honourable Thomas Hodge, efq; Jan. 5th.
Ifland of St. Bartholomew taken from the French,
Feb. 1 1 th.
Maine and all its dependencies on the Malabar coafl
in the Eaft-Iiidies, taken from the French by the
Britiih troops, .under the command of colonti
Braithwait.
The revci end Mr. Hackman executed at Tyburn, for
the murder of mil's Ray, April icjth.
The illand of St. Vincent's taken by the French.
The Britiih courtiifueda manifefto, for making rti
prifals againtl the court of Spain.
The American army, under the command of gene-
jal Lincoln, repulfed at Stono- Ferry, South-Ca-
voliii-.i, by the troops under the command of
major-general Prevoit.
J'lie iiland of Granada, commanded by lord Macart-
ney, fj.lccn by the French troopsTunder the com-
mand of count d'E Puling.
Major- General Tryon, t-n an expedition in the Sound,
at Newhaven, Fail-field and Norwalk, had diffa-
re^t ikirmiflies with the Americans, wliere he
bud 20 men killed, 96 wounded, and 32 mitung.
The king's troops under the command of lieutcnant-
colonel Jolmfon, defeated by the Americans at
-F
U The
ijo REMARKABLE
$779 The Britifh troops under the command of colonel
M'Lane, on an expedition to Penobfcot, had 23
men killed, 33 wounded, and n milling, At
this time fir George Collier deftroyed the large
American fleet.
Goree taken by fir Edward Hughes.
Fort-Baton Rouge, on the Miffifllpi; in Weft-Flo-
rida, commanded by lieutenant-colonel Dixon, of
the i6th regiment, furrendered to the Spanilh
troops under the command of Don Ferdinando de
Galvez.
Poft- horfes firft taxed.
Pitch and tar made fiom pit coal, difcovc-red at
Briftol,
The bridge at Puertade St. Maria, near Cadi/,, fell
down ""loon as finifhed, while receiving the bene-
diction, and killed feveral hundred perfons that
were over and under it, Feb. 22,
jerfey attempted by the French, and their flapping
deftroyed in Concalc-Bay, May i.
Loid chancellor Thurlow, prefled by a lieutenant
and his gang, in Long-Acre, London, July 15.
The firft fancy ball introduced in the city of Cork
by lady Fit/gerald, Jan.. ift.
The Tartar privateer failed from Cove, March 4th.
Edward Newton, furgeon, killed in a duel with lieu-
tenant Dixon, April 1 6th.
June 4th, The city of Cork was alarmed with the
news of a French fleet having appeared off Bantry
Bay; drums inrt.antly began to beat to arms,
through every quarter of the city ; the volunteers
aflembled on the Mall ; the True- Blue fociety took
charge of the main-guard, the Highlanders quitted
it and joined the remaining part of the regiment
in the old barrack. Palms Weftropp, efq; mayor
of Cork, funmioned a council to confider what
was necefFavy to be done on fuch an alarming oc-
rafion. Several Roman Catholics took up aims,
.offered their ailifhmce to the volunteers, and dif-
linguiflicd thenifclves loyal fubjecls in the defence
f
EVENTS. 23.1
1779 of their country. Aboyf ten at night, the High-
land regiment marched from the old barrack to-
wards Bandon, they were met exprefs on the road^
countermanded, and returned next morning ; upon
the whole, it appeared to be an Englilh fleet ho-
vering off Cape Clear, who, on firing feveTal guns
in honour of his majefty's birth-day, gave fife to
the alarm and expected invalion.
Auguft 2d, Six regiments of infantry and two of ca-
valry, with a train of artillery, encamped at Bal-
linreanear Carrigaline, and did not break up till
Wednefday the 24th ot November following.
Auguft 23d, Six hundred and forty French prilbners
arrived here from Kinfale, and on the 25th were
eicorted moftpartof the way to Kilkenny, by the
different armed focieties of the city of Cork.
September 24th, Another alarm took place ; the
army in camp at Ballinrea (Truck their tents,
crolfed the country near Kinfale, and returned the
fame evening ; it proved to be the homeward-
bound Jamaica fleet which appeared on the coaft,
that occafioned this alarm.
Oclober i9th, The ftatue of Hugh Lawton, efq;
late mayor, was erected in the exchange.
1780 Sir George Rodney, appointed commander in chief
in the Weft Indies, proceeded in his way to relieve
Gibraltar, and met with 15 fail of Spanifh mer-
chantmen richly laden, under convoy of a 64 gun
Ihip and 4 frigates, all of which he captured.
About a week afterwards, fir George fell in with a
Spaniih fquadron of 1 1 fail of the line, took the
admiral's Ihip and four others, blew up die San-
Domingo of 80 guns, another of 70 guns was
loft on the rocks, and only 4 efcaped, much da-
maged into Cadi/..
After relieving Gibraltar, admiral Rodney proceeded
to the Weft-Indies, leaving the bulk of the fleet, to-
getherwith the Spaniih prizes under the conduct of
admiral Digby, who, in his way to England, took
U 2 ihe
2 3 * REM AUK ABLE
1780 the Prothc, a French 64, with part of a convey
laden with military ftorcs. Thus, fix (hips of the
enemy's line were added to the royal navy of
England.
Jan. 1 4th, 6 h. A. M. the thermometer fufpended
in the open air at Glafgow, ftood 46 below o.
Declaration of the armed neutrality at Peterfburgh.
Captain Cornwallis, on the Jamaica ftation, acquired
great honour by the gallant defence he made with
a very inferior force, againil M. de la Mothe Pic-
r-uet, who was himfelf wounded in the action.
Three naval actions between fir George Rodney and
admiral Guichen, productive of no decifive con-
fequences.
A large and valuable convoy, under the cohduA of
commodore Moutray, bound for the Eaft and
Weft Indies, were taken br the combined fleets ;
the men of war efcaped.
Colonels Baillie and Fletcher defeated by Hyder
Ally, at Perenbancum in. the Eaft Indies, after a.
defperate engagement, m whieh colonel Fletcher
was killed, and colonel Baillie wounded andtakeiu
Arcot befieged and taken by Hyder.
General Clinton went on an expedition to Charle?-
Tov/n, which furrendered on capitulation.
The Provincials attacked Staten-Ifland, but made a
precipitate retreat.
A ' larg-e body of French troops landed at Rhode-
Jila^'d.
;,eral Knyphanfen attempted to furpnfe tlie ad-
vanced pofts of general Wafhington's army, but
retreated without effefting any thing material.
Ivarl Comwallis obtained a very fignal viftory ovor
general Gates, in South-Carolina,
onel Tarlcton, with 350 men, furprifed general
Sumpter, and tr- tally deftroyed or difperfed his
Detachment, which corfiiled of 700 men, killed
150, and made 300 prilbncvs.
General Arnold deVtrted thefer\-iceof Cotigms.
^lajor Andre taken in difguife within the American
fries, and hanged as a fpy.
EVENTS. 233
1780 Major Fergufon, with 1,400 men, totally defeated
by the Americans at King's-Mountain.
General Sumpter with i ooo men, defeated at Black-
Storks, by colonel Tarleton, with only 1 50 men.
Dec. 2oth, Hoftilities commenced againft Holland.
Firft ftate lottery drawn at Dublin.
A dreadful infurrection in London, and riots in many
oilier places in the kingdom.
Lord Cornwallis defeated the Americans at Camden.
A dreadful hurricane in the Leeward Iflands, Oct. 9.
An extraordinary dorm of wind in England.
Woollen goods firft exported from Ireland to a fo-
reign market.
The caftle of St. John's, in Look-out-Iflands, taken
from the Spaniards by the Britilh troops under the
command of captain Polfon.
Fourt-Moultrie, on Sullivan's Ifland, taken by the
Britifh troops.
Five Eaft-Indiamen, and 50 merchant fhips, bound
lor the Eaft and Weft Indies, were captured by
the combined fleets of Fiance and Spain.
Forts Ann and George, furrendered to the Britiili
forces, under the command of major Carleton.
BafTan, on die coaft of Mallabar, furrendered to ge-
neral Goddard.
Illuminations in Cork, for the defeat of count d'E
taing at Savannah, and for the firft part of a free
trade granted to Ireland.
An acT: of parliament took place, that no perfon
ihould be imprilbned for any debt under five
pounds.
1781 Penfacola taken by the Spaniards, after a very gai-
lent defence.
Ifland of St. Euftatius, taken by admiral Rodney
and general Vaughan.
A valuable Dutch fleet of 30 fail, \vith a 60 gun
fhip, commanded by admiral Were, taken by the
Monarch and Panther, and Sybil frigate, after a
fliort engagement ; the Dutch admiral was killed.
U 3 The
2 3 4 REMARKABLE
1781 The Settlements of Dfcmerary, Iflequibo, and the
Berbices, furrendered to the Britiih.
Ifland of Tobago taken by the French.
Sir Eyre Coote defeated an immenie force command-
ed by Kydcr Ally.
Dutch Settlements en the Ifland of Sumatra, taken.
Xegapatam taken by iir Edward Hughes, and iiv
Hector Munro.
Trincomale taken from the Dutch.
A fecond attempt was made on the Ifland of Jerfey,
by a French army, under the command of M. de
Buttecourt, -who landed in the night and furprifcd
St. Helier the capital of the Ifland, and compelled
major Corbcit the deputy-governor, to fign a cu-
pituhiticr:, and iummoned Elizabeth caftle to fur-
render, but xvas gallantly attacked in the town by
major Pkrfen of" the 951!! regiment, at the head
of tome regulars and the militia of the iiland. 'I ha
French commander v:as killed, and his remaining
troops fun-end eied prilbners of war. The brave
major Pierfon was unfortunately ilain in the in-
ftant of victory.
Dreadful cannonade and bombardment of tlie town
and garrilbn of Gibraltar, from the Spaniih camp,
in which the town was deitroyed, and many of the
inhabitants periihed.
Fifteen merchantmen from St. Euftatius, taken by
M. de la Mothe Piquet.
Commodore Johnftone was attacked by M. Suirreiri,
in Port-Prayer-Bay.
Commodore Johnfrone took a fleet of Dutch India-
men, in Saldanha Bay.
General Elliot made a grand fally from Gibraltar,
by which he deftroycd the enemy's batteries and
works.
Defperate engagement on the Dogger-Bank, be-
tween admiral Parker and the Dutch fleet com-
manded by admiral Zoutman.
Admiral Kempenfelt took part of a convoy of French
Eaft and Weft InJtamen.
Colonel
EVENTS. 23$
! Colonel Tarleton totally defeated by general Morgan
at Ninety-Six.
Lord Corn \vallis defeated the Americans at Gailford.
Lord Rawdon attacked general Greene in his camp,
and defeated him.
General Greene attempted to ftorm the garrifon at
Ninety-Six, but was repulfed and obliged to retire.
A partial action between,the Britiih and French fleets,
off the Capss rf Virginia.
General Greene defeated -by colonel Stuart in South-
Carolina.
Fort Grifwold taken by ftorm.
Action between the Britiih and French fleets, off the
Chefapeak.
Lord Cornwallis blocked up in York town, by gene-
ral Wafhington.
General Clinton embarked at New- York with 7000
men, to relieve lord Cornwallis, but arrived too
late.
Lord Cornwallis with his army, confifling of 6000,
fin-rendered to general Walhingtm.
Oincers of the Board of Works, Great Wardrobe,
Treafurer of the Chamber, and Jewel Offiae, with
the Board of Green Cloth, and Cofferer of die
Hcufhold, abolifhed by parliament.
The foundation of the- cu-ftom-houfe of Dublin laid,
and built from the defigns of James Grafndon, efq;
v.ho conduced the excciuion. The eflirnate was
1^3,363!. but as numerous unforefeen incidents
nuift be added, with finishing the offices, &c. the
total expence \\ ill probably amount to, or exceed
200,000!. it is 209 feet deep, by 3 75 long, with
four fronts; the long-room is 65 feet by 70, and
30 feet high.
Prince William Henry, third fon nf his present ma-
jefty, was jh'e firft prince of the Blood Royal that
ever landed in North America.
Captain Donnclim executed at Warwick, for poifon-
ing fir Tlj'iodotLs> Boughtori, April yth,
The
2 3 $ REMARKABLE
1781 The garrilon of Gibraltar relieved by admiral
Darby, April 131!:.
General Arnold dsftroyed feveral American fliips,
and a vaft quantity of Tobacco, at Peterfburgh.
Sir Samuel Hood, with iSfhips of the line, engaged
Cunt de Graife with 24.
Thomas Lonergan, executed in Dublin, for poifon-
ing Thomas O' Flaherty, efq; in Kilkenny.
Henry Laurens, efq; late Prefident of the American
congrefs, admitted to bail, by lord chief j ufcice
Mansfield ; he was taken prifoner in an American
packet near Newfoundland, the 3d. of September,
and committed to the Tower of London on *
charge of high-treafon, the 4th of October.
The Spitfire failed from the Cove of Cork the jd,
and returned with a Dutch prize the 9th I 7 eb.
Shrove-Tuefday, Feb. 2yth, There was a violent
hurricane in the city of Cork.
March 1 8th, The 3d, igth, and 3Oth regiments of
foot, embarked at Monkftown for America.
June 1 2 tli, Carlifle Fort was this day named by ge-
neral Mocher.
Sept. 1 6th, Admiral Rodney arrived at Cove in the
Gibraltar man of war.
Sept. 22d. The inhabitants of Cork were greatly
alarmed by the report of an invafion ; the army
was under arms moil part of the day ; in the
evening when the alarm fubfided, the 66th & 671)1
regiments of foot, the Athcl Highlanders, with
the 1 3th and i8th regiments of light dragoons,
were drawn up on the Mall. General Irwin, ccm-
mander in chief, general Mocher, general Gabbet,
lord Rofs, colonel Lyons, colonel Crofbie, and fe-
veral other field-oflkeis, were prefent.
George Brereton, efq; one of the Duhallow Rangers,
was killed by an officer in the army ; he was in-
terred with military honours in Chvift church-yard,
attended by feveral parties of horfe volunteers.
The Volunteers of Ireland received the thanks of
both houfes of parliament.
St. Chiif.
EVENTS. 23?
1782 St. Chriftopher's taken by the marquis de Bouille,
after a moll gallant defence ; Nevis and Mont-
ferrat taken.
Memorable engagement of the i2th of April, be-
tween admiral Rodney and M. de GraiTe, in the
Weft-Indies, which lafted from fun-rife till lun-fet,
in which the French fleet were .entirely routed ;
the count de GrafTe was taken in the Vilkde Paris,
four other fhips of the line were taken, and one
funk.
Minorca taken by the Spaniards.
Admiral Barringtcn fell in with a French convoy,
and took the mcft of them, \vith the Pegafe and
1'Actionaire, two French fhips of the line.
Crand attack by the Spaniards on Gibraltar, which
was returned by a dreadful cannonade and bom-
bardment from the lines, the battering fhips, a-nd
the garrifon ; the Spanith admiral's ihip 1 and ano-
ther were fct on fire, and blew up iu the night ;
the -admiral and many officers and men were Hived
by the extraordinary exertions of captain Curtis
and his feamen, in the gun-boats, but the Spanifh
battering fhips were entirely deftroyed.
Lord Howe relieved Gibraltar with troops, ammu-
nition and provifions, and repa/Ted the Straits
without interruption from the combined fleets.
Several indeciiive engagements between fir Edward
Hughes and M. SuttVcin, in the Haft-Indies.
Trrncomale in Ceylon, taken by the Engliih.
Onore taken by ftorm, by general Matthews.
Cundapore taken by general Matthews.
General Matthews defeated by Tippoo Sultan, and
afterwards bcficged in Beumore, which he fur-
Tendered by capitulation. The capitulation waa
violated by Tippoo ; the general and principal
officers were foiled and imprifoned, the army
plundered and inhumanly treated, and the gene-
ral officers are faid to have been barbaroufly mur-
dered.
Centaur, Villc de Paris, leGlorieux, and
k Hector,
23* REMARKABLE
1782 le Heftor, with many other merchant fliips, loft
in a violent rtorm.
Georgia and South-Carolina, evacuted by the king's
troops.
Callicut on the coaft of Mallabar, taken by major
Abingdon.
Colonel Bra ithwaite, with a detachment of Britifli
troops, were taken prifoners by HyderAlly.
Vermont in North America, allowed by Congrefs to
be a free ftate.
The States of Holland refufed to treat of a peace
with Great Britain.
The Bahama Iflands taken by the Spaniards.
Twenty thouland feamen for the Britiih navy, uha-
nimoufly voted by the Commons of Ireland.
Seven thoufand houfes deftroyed by fire at Conftan-
tinople.
The marquis of Rockingbam die.d, June I2th.
Geneva taken pofieffion of by the troops of France
and Sardinia.
Earl Shelbume appointed firft Lord of the Treafu-
ry, July 5th.
Count de Grafle (prifoner to admiral Rodney) arriv-
ed in London, Auguft 3^.
Contractors with government difqualified for fitting
in parliament.
Influence of the Crown abridged by parliament : re-
venue officers deprived of their votes.
Six thoufand charity children met at St. Paul's, May 2.
Holland allowed the American independency.
Cape River Fort, on the coaft of Hunduras, takom
from the Spaniards by ftorm,
David Tyre, a French fpy, executed at Portfmonth.
The Royal George of 100 guns, overfet at Portf-
mouth ; admiral Kempenfelt with 400 feamen and
officers, and 200 women were drowned.
Numerous meeting of the Ulfter Volunteer Dela-
gates held at Dungannon, who publilhed a Decla-
ration of Iriih Rights, Feb. i jth.
Parliament f Ireland vtd its independence, and
EVENTS. t&
1782 made a declaration of conftttutional rights, Au-
guft 1 6th.
BritHh houfe of commons addre/Ted the king againft
further profecution of the American war, March 4.
Britiih parliament repealed the 6th George I. where-
by it renounced legislating for Ireland, June 20.
Iriili parliament palfed an aj5l for the reftoration of
the conftitution of Ireland, July z8th,
Henry Grattan, efq; made a fpeech in the Irifh houfe
of commons, relative to the rights and indepen-
dence of Ireland ; for which he was voted 50,000!.
by parliament.
Earl Temple fworn lord lieutenant of Ireland.
7 'he combined fleets damaged by a ftorm in Al-
gefiras Bay, and the St. Michael, a SpanUh 74,
drove on Jbore under the guns of Gibraltar, and .
taken by the garrifon.
Captain Afgill let at liberty from his fevere confine-
ment in America, by order of Congrcfs, and ar-
rived at New York.
An embargo laid on all porn in Ireland, Nov. i 6th.
Three men were fmothered in a. brew-houfe in Cork,
by the fteam of the beer.
In, June and July, a _aiforder called the influenza,
raged in .Cork, very few efcaped the malady ; it
.began with a meeting and running s.t the nole, a
fevere cough, attended with a fever, heavinefs,
and pain in the head, or with a wearinefs and a
pain in ulj die bones ; it ccmmorily went off in
three or fonr days.
Shocking inclement weather during the whole har-
veft ; in Oclober there was a great fcarcity of bread
which continued to the year's end, and perhaps
the worll that ever was made, owing to the conti-
nual rains which totally ruined the corn.
Admiral Graves arrived at Cove in the Bella mer-
chantman ; the Ramijlies 10 which he belonged,
having foundered at lea.
Peter's Church thrown down in order to be rebuilt.
The Ocean of 98 guns, admiraj Milbank, Foudror.
aitf
REMARKABLE
ant So, Afia 64, Panther 64, Fortitude 74, anal
Dublin 74, part of lord Howe's fleet, ai rived at
Cove.
A criminal confined in the bridewell, made a hole
through the roof, out of which he leaped, and
fell on a number of barrels on the head of a barrel-
carrier, who was paffing ;ilong, by which means
he fortunately laved his life, and made his efcape. ^
Four criminals broke out of North gaol, three of
whom made their efcape.
83 Preliminary articles of peace figned at Paris, be-
tween Great Britain and America ; on behalf of
Great Biitain, by Mr. Fit/herbert and Mr. Of-
wald ; and by Meflrs. Franklin, Jay, Adams and
'fefferfon, on behalf of America. By thefe preli-
minaries the king "of Great Biitain formally ac-
knowledges the Thirteen United Colonies to be
77v free, fovtrcign, and independent States of Ame-
rica,
A dreadful earthquake, attended with many extra-
ordinary circtimftances in Italy and Scicily.
The fun obfcured by a kind of fog^during the whole
fummer.
A '-volcanic eruption in Iceland, furpafling any thing
recorded in hi (lory. The lava fpouted up in three
places to the height of two miles perpendicular,
and continued thus for two months ; during
which time it covered a tract of 3600 fquare miles
of ground, in Ibme'places more than one hundred
feet deep.
A lar^e meteor appeared to the northward of Shet-
land, and took its direction fouthward, with a
velocity little inferior to that of the earth in its
nnnual courfe round the fun. Its trak obferved
for more than one thoufand miles.
The emperor obtained by treaty from Holland, the
navigation of the Schelde, from Antwerp to Sef-
tingen, with the ceffion of fome forts and terri-
tories.
Order of fhe knights of St. Patrick inftituted Feb. 15,
Treaty
EVENTS, 2 4 r
1783 Treaty of alliance between France and the States-
General.
Independence of the Irifh Courts of Juftice eftablifh-
ed by act of parliament.
Irifh National Bank eAablilhed June 2jth.
Chriilnings taxed in England.
Air-Balloons invented in France by mcnfieur IvTont-
golrier ; introduced into England, and Mr. LJJ-
narui afcended from Moorficldsj Sept. I5th.
National debt of England this year was 272 millions,
which were it to be laid down in guineas in a line,
would extend 4,300 miles in length ; if laid down
in fhillings, would extend three and a half times
round the globe; if ii*folid filver, would require
60,400 horfes to draw it, at 15 cwt. fcr each
horfe.
The Count Belgiofo Eaft-Indiaman, loft off Dublia
Bay, and all on board periihed ; fhe had 130,00*
dollars, befides a very valuable cargo.
The ingenious Mr. Scalding, perifhed in his diving-
bell, -in attempting to recover Tome of the matt-
rials of the above ihip.
Charles Byrne, the famous Irifh giant, died in Loa>
don ; his ccrple meaiured eight feet four inches.
Died at Norwich, the Widow Keepus, who had been^
tapped for the dropfy eighty times, and 6,553
pints of water taken from her.
The Bank of Paris, commonly called CaiiTe de
Elcompte, flopped payment, O&. zd.
A violent Ihock of an earthquake in die If! and of
Sicily, in the Two Calubrias, and at. Mclfin^
which continued to be felt for ibms months.
The ports of Dover and Calais, were opened for naj.-
icngers to and from Great-Britain und i ; ranee.
Another earthquake in Italy, which deftroyed the
remainder of Medina.
A violent hurricane at Venice, which caufed tl>; ft
to rife fo high as to overflow the whole city, April
ihe 1 1 tli.
X A^rribk
REMARKABLE
, A terrible fire at Attendant, in the Dutchy of Weft-
plwlia, which confumed 300 houfes, July 1 3 th.
TilriflparUamentdiffalved t JuJyisOt. .
A terrible fire in the town of Berol.hum, m the
Margravate of Anfpach, jvhich conlumed 200
Th^W^^f PihaWg took pofleffion of his bifhop-
rick, October 15th. ~
More than half of Bufdorf, -a large town of Pruffia,
was confumed by fire, Nov. 4th.
The Prince of -Wales firft took his foil in the Houfe
of Peers as Duke of Cornwall, Nov. Ilth.
Sir Evre Coote arrived at Madrafs and Brought
im two lacks of rupees ; he died m two
, burned by
c ntea, and 79 fouls loft, Aaft. 2 3 d.
On the ^eimds * the'biftu^ of 'Dromore, were
f und a pair of moule-decr horns, which meafurcd
fourteen feet four -inches from tip to t,p, as alio
Soffof the entire fkeleton (in the moil.perfea
p-cfervation) of the enormous animal that wore
?h m who/ from the length of the bones ot his
fore leg, is judged to have been about twenty
at a
the
Mr. Bowling, was executed out of one of the
Endows a? the new prifon m Green-ftreet,
Ac'counS'were received at the admiralty of the lofs
SSe Centaut, and of the dreadful haniftup? fuf-
fered by capt. Inglcficld, 1 6 days m an open boat
The ieVov.Jitic.rn took place; lord North and the
honourable Charles Fox, were fworn iecretur.es
Colonef Brathwaltc defeated by Hyder Ally's fen on
1 tl-e 1 8th of February; the fin render of Cuada-
^ lore on tii? 4*, and of Trmcpmah on the 17*
EVENTS. 2'43
1783 of April following, to the arms of the French
king-
January 6th, About 10 o'clock this morning, John
Dwyer, Calvin Booth, John Filher, alias Dogherty,'
of the 4th, and James Ward of the 49th regiment
of foot, four foldiers who were fentenced by a
general court-mart! il, to be fliot for defer tion,
were taken- from the gvtard-houfe in Tuckey's-
ftrect to the Lough of Cork, the place of execution,'
where Dwyer fullered ; the remaining three were
then called forward and pardoned conditionally,
on receiving rive hundred lalhes, and to be fent to
Africa.
The corporation admitted John Marfh, efq; his ma-
jefty's commitfary at Cork, to the freedom at large
of that city, and ordered it to be preferred to him
in a filver box, as a teRimony of their approbation
of his upright conduct and uniform integrity, in
the faithful difcharge and execution of his office.
The Two Friends of Cork, failed from our harbour
for Philadelphia, and carried the firft cargo legally
flipped from Ireland,' fince the commencement of
the American war.
Sorter reduced to three-pence half-penny per quart ;
it was firft argued and determined before the"com-
miflioners of his majedy's revenue in Dublin ;
and fecondly, on a folemn hearing before the" com-
miflioncrs of appeal, it was finally determined to
be fold at the above price all over the kingdom.
The Enterprize, an American fhip, from Rhodtf-
Jiland, arrived at Cove ; fhe had the Thirteen
Stripes flying at hrr top-mad head.
The firft dawn of Irifh liberty broke out in 1779*,
Ireland obtained her legiflative independence, with
t'l'j confent of the Britilh Senate, the i6th day of
April, 1783.
The eletfion for Knights of the Shire of the county
of Cork, began the 2^d of Auguft, 1783; Wil-
liam Chetwynd, efq; -high-flierifF. Sir James I,.
Cotter, bait, propofed Richard Towni'end and
X 2 James
.14* REMARKABLE
James Bernard, efqrs. Richard Longfield, efq;
prcpofed Robert King, commonly called Lord
Kingfborough ; and, Lord Kingftorough pro-
pofed Sir John Conway Colthurft, bart. State ef
the poll for each :
B. 1665. T. 978. K. 1198. C. 209.
Number of freeholders polled, 1 62 7. Election ended
October 3d.
Election for the City commenced Aug. I3th, when
the votes were, for the right hon. J. Hely Hutch-
infon, 650; Richard Longfield, efq; 615; John
Eagwell^efq; 564 ; and Augus. Warren efq; 475.
'Ratification of the treaty for the independence of the
United States r>f America.
Definitive .treaty between England and Holland,
e following new mmifters were appointed : Mr.
Pitt firftloulof the treafury and chancellor; Mar-
quis of Carmarthen, fecrctary of ftate ; Lord
Sydney, fecretaiyfor the home department ; Earl
Cower, lord president.
Slave-Trade aboliihed in Pennfylvania.
Lord Strangford, of Ireland, fufpended from voting
In the Info houfc of lords, for foliciting a bribe
In the caufe of Rochfort and Ely.
Mail-coaches firft eftablilbed to BriftoL
Poftage of letters advanced.
rait biihop in America \vas doctor Seabury, con-
fecrated Nov. 14.
Great Seal ftolen from the lord chancellor, and de
trcycd, March 24th.
Prhitiug-houfe commenced in Conflantinople.
C3odagh-caiUe, now in xuins, faid to have been built
by the M;vc-Swineys' who wers anciently famotis
for Iriih liofpitality. On the weft fide of the road
near Dunufky, there was a flcne fet up (which
ties in a ditch, fignifying to all perfons, to
r to the lioufc of Edmond Mac-Swiney for
entertainment.
A charitable Infirmary and Difpenfary inftituted at
lv
Mr. Bag-
EVENTS. 245
1784 Thxirfday, July aQth, was obferved throughout the
kingdom, as a general day of thankigiving, .in
confequence of the late peace.
Mr. Bagwell having petitioned the Houfe of Com-
mons againft the late return of members to re-
prcfent this city in parliament, which being tried
before a committee of the Houfe, the eleclion of
Richard Longfield, efq; was fet alide, and on
January 8th, came on the election to fill up the
vacancy, when Auguftus Warren, efq; was una-
nimoufly elected, Mr. Bagwell having declined the
poll.
Between the hours of 10 and 1 1 o'clock at night, a
rick of furze took fire, near the back of the North -
Chapel, by means of which ten cabbins were
burnt to the ground, Aug. 26th.
Engliih parliament difiblved, March 25th.
Sept. 3d, Some reapers in a field near BallincolL'p;,
difcovered the body of a man exceedingly putri-
fieil ; it was fuppofcd that the unfortunate wretch
got drunk at the races, and throw ing himfelf in
that fituation, where he could not poflibly be i'ecn,
was ftifled for want of afliftance.
Prince Frederic, biihop of Ofnaburgh, created Duke
of York and Albany in the kingdom of Great-
Britain, and Earl of Ulilcr in the kingdom of
Ireland ; tliefe titles are to dcfeend to his High-
nefs's heirs male lawfully begotten.
The right hon. William Pitt narrowly efcaped being
, fhnt, by a gardiner near Windfor, Aug. 1 7th.
1 he remains of Dr. Samuel Johnfon, were interred
m Weftminfler- Abbey, Dec. zoth.
December i8th, At Hciro (one of the Canary Iflcs
fubjetf to Spain) thirty-fcven convi^s from Ire-
land were landed out of the fiiip Dublin, for mu*
tiny ; they were all immediately put to the fword,
by order of the governor, on an iJjit Unit the
plague rr.gc'd among them.
X 3 Anguil
, 4 6 REMARKABLE
Auguft5th, Died at Matlock in Derby fiiire, Ann
Clowes, aged 103 : ihe meafured three feet nine
inches in height, and weighed only 48 Ib. The
houfe fhe refided in was as diminutive, in propor-
tion as herfelf, containing only one room, eight
feet fquare.
Ten thoufand houfes deftroyed by fire in Conftanti-
nople, moll of which had been built after the
fire of 1782.
1785 Eaft-India Company revived in France.
Firft air-balloon in Ireland afcended from Ranelagh
Gardens, Dublin, Jan. I9th.
A con^refs of reprefentatives from the different
counties of Ireland held in Dublin, for promoting
a parliamentary reform, Jan. 20.
Syilem of commercial intercourfe between Great-
Britain and Ireland, propofed in the liifh houfe
of commons ; but being ftrongly oppofed, was
withdrawn, Auguft 13.
At Winder in Derbyshire, near fixty people met
at a puppet-lhow, when the upper floor of the
boufe was blov:n up with gun-powder, and no hurt
done to the people below, Jan. 25.
.Attorney's tax commenced.
Vernal e u-rvant tax commenced.
'arty Walls regulated by parliament.
Patent medicines taxed.
Canal, which joins the Baltic and North Sea, opened
to all nations.
Mr. Chriiiopher Atkmfon, an expelled member ot
parliament, flood in the pillory for perjury.
On Callan mountain, there is a large ftone or monu-
ment, with an infcription in Ogham characters, de-
ji<rtmgit to be the burial place of the famous
C n$n, one of the Counaugb.t fewdifs V*C fell m
l-;i:tlt- ; the ftone is eleven feet fix inches long,
iVe - Sect Ijroad, undone foot thick ; it lies on an
AnfrieYidi above a fmall lake facing the fiiuth, on
a foft fiat quany, about eight miles from Enms ;
i= was clifcovercd this year by the right honourable
W. 13. Co-
EVENTS. 247
1785 W. B. Conyngham i n company with Mr. O'FJana-
gan ; the latter gentleman being lent from Dublin
for that purpofe, by the Royal Irifh academy.
The floor of the Seffions Houfe in New-Molton in
York-fhire, gave way, when 300 perfons fell 12
feet deep, but no lives were loll, Dec. 9.
The merchants of die city of Cork, fitted out a veflel
well fupplied with bread, water, beef, Sec. to
cruife ofF Cape Clear, for the purpofe of relieving
any veffels which the long continuance of eafterly
winds might keep at fea, April 3Qth.
June 1 5th, M. Pilatre de Rozier, and M. Ro-
main, afcended in M. Montgolfeir's fire balloon,
from Bologna, with an intent to crofs the Channel ;
in about twenty minutes after their afcent, the
balloon took fire, by which means thefe unfortu-
nate gentlemen loft their lives.
Auguft ? yth, A Solent hurricane at Jamaica, which
did confiderable damage; the like happened at
Carthagena in South America.
The Danube overflowed its Banks, in confequence
of which the adjacent country fuiFered great injury.
January 7th, Mr. Blanchard, accompanied by Dr.
JefTeries, took their departure from die Caftle of
Dovor, in his balloon for the Continent ; they af-
cended at one o'clock, and delcended on the coaft
of France at three.
Ti:J at Broadway- Farm, near Great Berkhampfted
in Hertfordihire, the peribn ditlinguiflied by the ap-
pellation of Peter the \VildBoy, who was picked
up in a wood in Germany, in the latter end of the
reign of George the Firft, while he was hunting,
by that monarch brought to England, who
placed him under proper matters ro have him in-
(l;r:'tcd in the Englifli language, but their endea-
vours proved fnuilds, as he could not be brought
to Riliculatc a Angle word.
j'T 20'.h, Their Graces, the Duke and Dutchefs
ct Rutland, arrived in the city of Cork, from the
feat of the rig] it Loa. Lord Donenule.
1785 his Grace was waited on by the Corporation, anil
addreffed in a mod dutiful and loyal manner by
the Recorder. H'rs Grace received them graci-
oufly, and returned a very polite anfwer to their
addrefs, and conferred the honour of knighthood
on the mayor. He was alfo attended by the lord
bifhop of Cork and the clergy of the dioecfes, with
an ad drefs, which his Grace received in the moil
favourable manner, and gave them the ftrongeft
affiirances of his countenance and protection.
They afterwards vifited Kinfale, where his Excel-
lency was prefented with his freedom, dined- with
the corporation, and conferred the honour of
knighthood on James Carty, fovefeign thereof;
and on the rath of Nov. a deputation from the
town of Youghall waited on his Excellency to
invite him to\hat town, which he gracroufly ac-
eepted ; vifited it on the Monday following, re-
ceived his freedom in a gold box, dined with the
corporation, and offered to confer the honour of
knighthood on the mayor, which he declined ;
after which there was a very brilliant aflembly
at which their Graces moxle their appearance,
where they were much pleafed.
Bee. 7th, A large part of the roek back of Mr.
Newenham's houfe, North-Abbey, fell down,
which entirely deftroyed his {tables and buried
three horfes in its ruins.
March 23d, Count Zembecari and fir Edward Ver-
non, accompanied by mifs Grice, attempted to
make an aerial excursion from London, but the
balloon not being intended for fo great a weight,
the young lady was (much againft her inclination)
obliged to corne out of the car, on which the bal-
loon afcended with great velocity, took a weftern
direction, and in a few minutes was out of fight ;
in about an hour the aerenonts defcended fafe,
near Horfham in Sufiex, about 37 miles diftant
from the place they afcended from. In the
following moftth Mr. Decker afcended at Briftol,
and
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and in an hour and feven minutes, descended on
the other fide Chippenham, about thirty miles
diftant.
His Excellency, John Adams, accompanied by co-
lonel Smith as Secretary (who was aid- de-camp to
general Wafhington during the American war)
arrived in London, as an ambaflador from the
United States of America.
A Marine Society eflabliihed in'Briftol; many poor
lads were cloathed and admitted into that femi-
nary for maritime knowledge ; a charity worthy
of imitation in this riiing country.
The Montague Eaft-Indiaman, burnt by accident at
Calcutta, Dec. 6th.
Died, in Berry-ftreet, London, in the 29th year of
her age, Mrs. Kelly, the noted Irifli Fairy, who
was only 34 inches high ; fhe was that morning
delivered of a child twenty-two inches long, with
Ynuch difficulty ; the child did not live longer than
about two hours after its birth. Mrs. Kelly had
been fhewn in Norwich fome time previous to her
death ; the fmallnefs of her figure, and the cir-
cumdance of her being pregnant, caufed a vaft
number of people to fee her, and {he was reckoned
the greateft curiofity ever feen.
1786 Foundation of the New Four Courts and Public
Offices, Dublin, laid.
Royal Irifli Academy at Dublin, incorporated Ja-
nuary 28th.
A Police eftabliflied at Dublin, and other parts of
Ireland.
June <jth, The Halfewell Eaft-Indiaman was unfor-
tunately wrecked at Seacombe in the Me of Pur-
beck, on the coaft of Dorfctfhire ; 1 66 perfons loft
their lives, among ft whrfm were captain Pierce,
his two daughters, and a number of young ladies,
befides other paflcngers.
In the church-yard of Aghabolloge, there is a ftone
railed St. Clan's Cap, by which the vulgar people
fwear on all common occafion:. ; and they pretend
if
2 5 d REMARKABLE
1786 if this (lone was carried off,- it would return to its
own place of refulence.
At Montpellier in France, a Booth wherein a play
was performing, fell down and killed 500 perfons,
July 31.
The Cork Society (one of die moft ufeful Charities in
the City of Cork) commenced, lending three
guineas inftead of two, intereft free, once a ioit-
night, to fifteen poor tradcimen.-
Auguft nth, A ftock of an earthquake at White-
haven in England, which continued for a few mi-
nutes.
Jan. 3 1 ft, Died at Paris, Count de Graflc, who
commanded the French fleet on die I2th of April
1782,
October 31^, Princefs Amelia died at London, aged
76 years.
Aug. zd, His majefly George III. attempted to be
ftabbed by Margaret Nicholfon, at St. James's,
for which fee TTls confined to a mad-houie. This
book records two fimilar attempts on different
monarchs how different the pnnifhment !
May 2 jth, Died at Lifbon, Don Pedro Clement, king
of Portugal, and F. R. S. aged 69 yerrs,
The San Pedro D' Alcantara, a Spanifti galloon from
Lima to Cadiz, with eight millions of dollars on
board, was (branded at Paniche, and 1 86 perfons
perifhed.
Articles of impeachment piefented by Mr. Buike,
againft Warren Haftings, elq;
George Robert Fitzgerald, efq; executed for the mur-
der of Patrick Randal Mac-Donald, efq; &c.
Edward Aylette, an attorney, ftood in tlie pillory
in Weftn-iiufter, for wilful and corrupt perjury,
Frederick II. King of Prufila, died.
1787 Turkifk manifefto and declaration of \rar againft
Ruffia, preceded on die i6th, by committing the
Ruffian ambaffador to tl;e cattle of the -
Tawers.
EVENTS. 2 5I
1787 Died at London, Mr. Frederick Pilion of Cork,
who wrote the following dramatic pieces : The
Invafion ; Liverpool Prize ; He Wou'd be a Sol-
dier ; Illumination, or Glazier's Confpiracy f
Deaf Lover; Siege of Gibraltar, &c. &c.
Disturbances in Holland, which produced arma-
ments on the part of France, England, and Pruf-
fia, ?.nd terminated in the fupprefllon of the
fomenting party in Holland by an army of Pruf-
fians.
Treaty of alliance between England and Holland.
Remarkable Aurora Borealis, Oct. 6.
Duke of Rutland, lord lieutenant of Ireland, died
Oflober 24-th. Grand funeral proceffion, Nov. 1 7.
Prince of Wales's debts paid by parliament.
Botany Bay fettlers rft failed from England.
Bifho-p ot 'Nova Scotia firft appointed, Auguft 1 1.
Cotton wool u fed in Engliih manufactures this year,
was valued at 7,500,007!. and weighed about
22,6oo,ooolbs.
Quantity of rum imported into England this year
was, 2,253,657 gallons, betides \yhat was Imug-
gled. Its duty was 46,943!. IDS.
Scarcity .Root, a kind of parfnip introduced and prp-
p^ijated in England, firft by doctor Letfom.
The play-houfe in Bury, in Lancafhire, containing
upwards of 300 perlbns, fell down during the per-
formance, and buried the audience under its ruins;
five were killed on the fpot, and many had their
limbs broke.
Dec. 3d, 'Arrived at the Cove of Cork, his majefty's
fliip Pegafus, Prince William Henry commander ;
who honoured the City with his prcfence for fe-
veral days, clincd with the corporation at the Man-
fion-houfe, and with tlie merchants at the King's-
Arms j went frequently to the aflembly, an<J
danced with feveral ladies ; parted fomc days with
the earls of Shannon and Grandifon ; dined with
the corporation of Youghal, and received his free-
dom of both places.
252 REMARKABLE
1787 Dec. 27th, Prince William Henry, in the Pegafus
frigate, arrived at Plymouth from Cork ; on his
pailage, a thunder florm broke over the Ihip fo
violently, as to tear fame of the fails and Haver
the main maft.
Sept. 2cl, A violent hurricane at the Bay of Hun-
duras, which did confulerable damage.
April 2d, One of the market boats from Cork to
Cove, \vas overfet, and eight people unfortunately
drowned.
The Parliament of Paris entered on their journals,
the letters patent which abolifhed the droits de au-
b:iine, and by which all Engliili fubjects dying in.
France, are to be coniidered as natural born iub-
je5ls.
May pth, Mr. Haftings v:as taken into the cuftody
of the Black Rod, and brought to the bar of the
Hbufe of Lords, to anfwer the charges of high
crimes arid mifdemeanors In ought againft. him by
the Commons of Great Britain.
An extraordinary eruption of Mount ./Etna, July i$.
Sept. 3d, Thomas Stone, a lunatic, taken up for
writing an extraordinary letter to the queen, in
which he avowed a pafllon for the Princefs Royal.
Some villains found means to conceal themfelves in
the Palace of the Arch-Bithop of Dublin, where
they murdered the porter and houfe-maid, and
afterwards fet fire to the Palace in feveral places ;
the flames were extinguifhed in a fhort time.
Augutt 3d, Violent ftorms at the Ifland of Domi-
nica, which nearly deftroyed it.
Lord George Gordon excommunicated from the pa-
ri(h church of St. Mary le Bonne.
July zoth, A Public Difpenfary, for the purpofe < f
iupplying the fick poor of the city of Cork with
medical advice and medicines gratis, was efta-
bliihed, by benefactions and voluntary fubfcrip-
tions. To this charity, all poor patients confined
to their beds by fevers, or any other acute difeafes,
are admitted on the recommendation of a bene-
factor
EVENTS. -5-3
faftor or fubfcriber. The number of patients who
have received the benefits qf this truly, valuable in-
ititution, from its commencement unto the laft an-
nual meeting, April 1 3th, 1791, are 12,462. .
To this laudable chanty, a Humane Society is
annexed, for the purpoie of recovering pcribns
apparently drowned ; a proper apparatus is always
kept in rcadinefs, and hcittdfrme gratuities given
to the perfons moft active in t&kjng up lucli unfor-
tunate obj eels, and giving the firtt information to
any of the phyficians of the medi'c'ul' committee,
or any other phyilcian rclldent in th' er -cityy or to
. the apothecary of the diipeniary, that the 'prdpcr
means may be immediately tiled for their reco-
ver j. *
1 7$ 8 Jan. 31 ft, Prince Charles Stuart died at Rome.
Fell, i 3th, The trial of the impeachment of Warren
Haftings, efq; commenced in the Houfe of Lords.
March ayth, A large bog, of 1500 acres, lying
between Dundrum and Cafhel, in the county
of Tipperary, began to be agitated in an c-xtraor-
dinar y manner. The rumbling noife from the
bog gave the alarm ; and on the 3001 i- burft, and
a kind of lava iffucdfrom it, which took its direc-
tion towards Ballygriflin and Golden, overfpread-
ing and laying walte a tracl of fine fertile land,
belonging to John Hyde, cfq; every thing that
oppoJed its couiib.was buried in ruins.
April 7th, Died at Conftantinople, Abdub Hamicd,
tlie Ottoman Emperor ; he WHS born on the 2oth
(>f March 1725, and afcendcd the throne on the
2 1 ft of January 1774, by die name of Achmct
the Fourth.
April 1 1 tli, A violent gale of wind at the Mauri-
tius, by which die French fulfered to thcimioun;
of 14,400,0x20 livres.
M.ly 25t3i, The P'-otclVant bifhnps of ! Scotland nr.n-.
nimoufly rcfolv r cd, that his. majeity khig (.
snd all the royal family, fhould be pra}cd for t
all their chappcls for the future.
Y bcfjr-
REMARKABLE
3ir
17 83 June ift/fhe famous St. Euftatiuscaufe w.ashear4
before the Houie of Lords, when Lord Rodney
\vas call with full cofts.
Tune 3 d, The earl of Mansfield refignej the office
' of Lord Chief Juitice of the King's-Bench.
Tune 4 th, His Roval Kighneis die Dauphin, died
' at Yerfailles, in the eight year < his age.
June icth, Three anJxiiladovs irom fippoc baib,
June ?4h; n ThVRuffians gamed a decifive viftory at
TuS'^X R^crt'l&on, efy received fentence of
1 death for the murder of George Nugent Rey-
nolds efq; and was executed February ifitli.
T X1 38 In London a violent ftorm pi thunder
lightning, and rain, by which par, of the jyal 1 cp
Tower-Hill was torn away, and die river lhame,
mcft violently a^iiu'ied, _ .
Tab i ^th, A dreadful ttorm happened at Pans ; the
^ 3 afi4 wa, dreadful beyond deicripuon : the
country tor-many fquare leagues wa^totally luui
wafte ; during the itorm, .enormous pieces oi ice
fell, <>f fevei-a pound, ! weight, which deftroyed a
vail number cf 'cattle ; the damage done exceeded
one hundred millions of hyre.s.
Tuly 2?th. Tho foundation ftone of St. Fatru.k ,-
Bridge' laid. Mr. Michael Shananan, architect
and contractor.
Dehnitive treaty between England and Pruum
Seon aoth, A violent Ihock ot an earthquake was
leVin die town of Borgo de San bepulero, ,ij
Italv, which lafted r.vo minutes; it threw down
fcveral 'churches, the palace, a:U a niunocr ot
A^omruitteefor the regulttion of Pilotaje and
other purpofes, tending to., promote trade and
commerce, dlabliilicd in the Fort of \cughalL
Infurreaion in die Auftrian Belgic provinces. _
1 he new Meat, Fift, Poultry, and vegetalJeMaiket .
the moa convenient m their kmd in Em op,,
opened in the city of Cor 1 *, Augua Ht, *-/-
EVENT S. 255
788 War between Sweden and Ruffia. This war had
nearly annihilated the naval power of Sweden.
The duty on coal this year amounted to 306^7 1 81.
when the quantity conl'umcd in London, amounted
to 765,880 chaldron??'.'
Doctor Kaye, dean of Lincoln, finding in his pirifli
three poor families, having from ten to twelve
children each, claimed the tenth child from each
family, and the parents joyfully complying with
his demand, the Doctor has tnken them under his
protection, and humanely feeds, cloathes, and edu-
cates them.
The Quakers in America have given freedom to their
ilaves ; erected and liberally endowed a very ca-
pital fchool at Philadelphia for their inftru^tion ;
and fuch of thefe poor Africans as chofe to con-
in fen ice, are paid wages, and put upon the
fame footing with the White";
The town of New Orleans dcuToyctl by fire.
The king of England attacked by a fevere illnefs,
attended by a derangement of intellect, for four
months.
7789 Died, the right, honourable Wolfran Cornwall,
fpeaker of the Engliih houfe of commons.
The riglit honourable William Wyndham Grenville,
elected fpeaker.
During his majeily's illnefs, the Prince of Wales paid
the ar.rir.nl donation of loool. to ^he poor of die
city of London, out of his own pocket.
The city of London rcfufed to vote an addrefs of
:", to Mr. Pitt, for his conduct during the re-
cy.
bill for the term of the king's illnefs, in-
troduced in the Britifh parliament.
During the king's illnefs, a motion was made in t*;?
EngliHi houfe of commons. and agreed to, that an
addreis be prefented to the Prince of Wak'?, pray-
ing him to take upon himfelf the regency of the
kingdom; and alib an adJrefs to her majefty,
Y 2 praying
~5<$ REMARKABLE
.1789 praying her to take upon herfclf the ccmtroul oi'
the houichold.
The reflations of thehoufe of commons to addrefs
the Prince and the Queen, were agreed to in the
houfe of lords.
Feb. 21, The Houfe of Lords and Commons of Ire-
land, waited upon his Excellency the Marquis of
."Buckingham, with their addrefs to hb Royal
Highneis the Prince of Wakf, requeuing him to
accept of the unlimited Regency of this kingdom,
during the continuance of his majefty's unhappy
mdiipofition ; which addrefs his Excellency re-
fufod to tranfrnit; whereupon the Lords appointed
his Grace the duke of Leinikr, and the right hon.
the earl of Charlemont j and the Commons named
the right hon. J. ONcil, right honour able Thomas
Conollr, right hon. William Braba/.on Ponfonby,
and James Sturat of Ivillymoon, efq; as com-
jiiiffioners to prefent the addiefs of both houfes, to
his Royal Highnefs.
The parliament palled a vote of cenfure on the lord-
lieutenant, for expreffions contained in his anfwcr
to their application lor conveying the faid addrefs.,
February 2oth.
The king declared perfectly recovered, 26th Feb.
1 he king refumcd the royal authority, Signified by
cpmmiflion to parliament.
Jan. 24, The king of France refolved to convoke the
States-General.
Pole Rcnier, Doge-of Venice, died March 4th.
U he body of Edward IV. difcovered by fome work-
men employed in repairing St. George's Chapel,
Windfor the body was in good prefervation.
The Sirius and Supply, with transports, under the
command of commodore Philips, made good their
voyage to Botany Bay. Thefe were the firft con-
victs lent to the above lettlemcnt, of which 40 died
upon the voyage, and 42 infants were born.
Captain Rodney, fon of the gallant lord Rodney,
vas formally acqua luted, that his claims to the.
appointment
EVENTS. 257
1789 appointment of a guardianfliip, according to pro-
mife, were forfeited by his fatheVs voting for the
Prince of Wales.
Lodovico Marinei, procurator of St. Mark, elected
Doge of Venice, April i6th.
Sept. 23d, The king, queen, and all the royal fa-
mily, attended by both houfes of parliament and
the whole court, attended Divine Service at St.
Paul's, 'to return public thanks for his majefty's
recovery ; this was the moil iplendid proceflion
ever feen in England.
Prince William Henry arrived at Portfmouth in the
Andromada frigate from Hallif'ax, April ipth.
The right honourable Lord Liffcrd, Lord Chancel-
lor of Ireland, died April 29th.
May 4th, States-General of France met at Verfailles.
Great difturbances in France, in confequence of
which many families of diilinclion came over to
England. ,
The abolition of the Slave Trade firft agitated in the
houfe of commons, May I2th.
The honourable W. Townfend put a period to his
exidcnce. May 131!).
Prince William Henry created Duke of Clarence,
May 1 8th.
June 4th, General Wafhington, prefident of the
United States of America, gave a grand enter-
tainment on account of the recovery of his Bri-
tanic majefty from his late dangerous illnefs. The
envoys of England, France, Holland, and Por-
tugal, and perlbns of the rail diftinclion, were
prefent.
June 9th, His majefty went to the Houfe of Peers
for the firft time fmce his happy recovery.
June i yth, The opera houfe in the Haymarket, con-
fumed by fire.
June ryth, The Tiers Etat, declared thcmfelves duly
conftitutcd the National A/lembly of France, and
proceeded to bufinefs ; a few days previous thereto,
hi 5 Royal Highnefs the duke of Oilcans-, and fc-
Y 3 reral
2$S REMARKABLE
3789 veral others of the nobility and clergy, joined
them.
Mr. Grenville, fpeaker of the houfe of commons, ap-
pointed Secretary of State, vice Lord Sydney.
Mr. Addington elected fpeaker of the houfe of com-
mons, vice Mr. Grenville.
The king's theatre hi the Hay-market, totally dc-
troycd by fire, June i 7.
Jane 2oth, Mr. Shine a cooper, was found fuffocatec!
in a hole near Wandesford's-bridge, Cork.
June 20th, The right honourable John Ffr/.gibbon,
was fworn into the office of Lord High Chancellor,
and the feals delivered into his cuftody ; the firft
Irifhman that ever filled this important office.
June 22d, Every member of the National Artembly
took a folemn oath never, to feparate, but to aficm-
ble together whenever circumftances lhall reqnire>
until the Conftitution fhull be eilabliftcd.
The French and Swifs guards refufcd to ferve againft
the nation.
June 2<;th, The nobles and clergy, at the icqueft of
the king, joined the Tiers Etat.
July 8th, His majcfty's royal mail-coach, eftnblifheJ
by Mefij-s. Anderfon, Fortefcue, and O'Don-
r.oghue (from Dublin to Cork) arrived this day
for the firft time, with his majelty's mail.
The duke of Orleans put himfelf at the head of forty
of the nobility and two hundred of the clergy.
A duel was fought between col. Lenox and Mr. Swift,
on account of ionic cxprelh'ons ufed by the latter
in a pamphlet ; the colonel wounded hib adVcrfary
in the body.
The duke of Orleans was elected prcfident of the
National AfTembly.
Mr. Whaley arrived in Dublin from his journey to
Jerufalem. By which hegained a wager of 20,000!.
July 8th, Great tumults in the French provinces; a
reut mob arofe at Mctz, on account of the dearth
cf flour: the governor ordered out two French
regiments) who rcuila' to aft ogaiaft the mob ;
two
EVENTS.
iyS<> two German regiments were then brought cut,
which raifed the indignation of the National
troops, who burft from their quarters, and joined
the populace ; a dreadful havoc k was the confc-
quence ; upwards of 1000 men were killed ou
each lide ; and at length the German troops were
overpowered ; the governor made his efcape.
An army of 35,000 men, encamped between Paris
and Verfailles, under the command of M. Broglio.
The National Aifembly addreffed the king to dilmifs
the S \vifs troops, which he refilled.
The king difmiifed M. Neckar.
In coniequence of the difmiflion of M. Neckar, th
populace began to arm thenifelves, and were im-
mediately joined by the French guards.
The populace forced the convent of St. Lazare, in
which was found a confiderable quantity of corn,
arms, and ammunition. The following day, the
Hofpital of Invalids was taken poffeflion of; all
the cannon, fmall arms and ammunition, were
immediately fci/.ed upon, and every one who choie
to arm hi'mfelf, was fupplied with what was ne-
certary. The cannon was dillributed in different
parts of the town.
A detachment with two pieces of cannon, went to
the Baftile to demand the ammution depofited
there : a ilag of truce had been fcnt before them,
which was aniwered by the governor (the marquis
do Launay) who neverthelcfs ordered the guard
to fire on them, and feveral were killed. The
populace enraged, rufhed forward to the a/fault,
when the governor agreed to admit a certain num-
} ", on condition that they Ihould commit no
violence. A detachment of forty accordingly
parted the drawbridge, which \vas inilantly drawn"
up, and the whole party maflacred.
The populace, enraged at this breach of faith, ag-
vraYatcd by j'uch glaring inhumanity, foon made
a breach ia the gato, and the fortrefa fnrrendered.
The marquis dc Launay was carried More the
Council
2So REMARKABLE
1789 Council at the Hotel de Ville, and ordered to be
beheaded, which was immediately put in execu-
tion at the Place de Greve ;' feveral other fufpecled
perfons underwent the fame fate, ami their heads
were fixed on poles and carried round the city :
the fame evening, the whole of the French guards
joined the people.
The king ordered the troops to retire from Paris and
Verfailles, and recalled M. Neckar.
July 26th, An engagement between the fleets oi
Ruflia and Sweden.
Auguft i ft, The Prince de Cobom^h defeated an
army of 30,000 Turks, in Wallachia.
An infurreclion took place in the Auftrian Nether-
lands, Auguft icth.
The Swedes gained a complete victory over a body
RuiTian.s, Arcgoft 220*.
Fermentations increafed at Bruflels, Auguft 24th.
Auguft 3oth, A Doge of Genoa eiedted.
Sept. yth, A deputation of Ladies from Paris, pre-
fented their jewels to the National Aflembly, for
the ufe of {heir cavalry, to the amount of 600,000
livres.
Sept. 1 7th, The National Aflembly declared itfelf
permanent, and refolved upon its unity.
A complete viclory gained by the Imperialifts and
Ruffians over the Turks in Moldavia ; and another
viftory gained by them in Tranfylvania, Aug. 31.
The Prince Bifliop of Liege left that city abruptly.
The celebrated Vandernoot, the patriot, attempted
to be affinated at Brabant.
The emperor publilhed a proclamation againft the
patriots of the Auftrian Netherlands, and exiled
Vandernoot.
Liege, by the flight of its biflaop, obtained its free-
dom, Sept. i2th.
The Manilla trade opened to fliips of all nations for
three years.
The Prince of Wales was prefented with the freedom
f Drogheda, by tli mayor and recorder, S*p. 1 7.
A riot
EVENTS. 2<5i
1789 A riot at Troves, in which the populace tore the
mayor to pieces, on account of fome regulations
he had made refpecting bread.
The Ruflians gained a complete victory over the
Swedes, Sept. 25.
The aflembly granted to the king die fufpending
Veto.
The Ifland of Corfica declared a part of die French
empire, and its inhabitants to be governed by the
French conilitution. All the fugitive Corficans
allowed to return, and exercife the rights of French
citizens.
Sept. 22d, The allied armies, under the command of
the Prince de Cobourgh, obtained a complete
victory over the Turks, on the Banks of the Rim-
nick.
September 2Qth, The Quay-Stone of the laft arch
of the New Bridge, was laid by Lord Dondugh-
more, Grand Matter of Irelarul, attended by the
fcverai Lodges of ancient and honourable Free-
Mafons in the city of Cork, at which time it got
the name of St. Patrick' s-Bridge.
Two boys arrived from Otaheitc, Oct. 6th.
Dreadful excciles committed at Paris by the women.
October I4th, Lord Wellmoreland appointed lord-
lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of the Marquis
of Buckingham.
A victory gained by the Imperial army over the
Turks, 6a. 19.
An earthquake near Florence, which overthrew a
cathedral, and Palace of the Pra-tor.
A tumult at Liege between the foldicrs and patriots.
The king of Spain made a public entry into Madrid,
October 21 ft.
Oct. 6th, The king and queen of France v.-ere con-
ducted by the PoifTardes from Versailles to the
Palace of the Thuilleries.
October 9th, The States of Brabant revolted from
ihe Emperor,
Martial
262 REMARK AB'LE
1^89 October 20, Martial law decreed by the National
Alterably.-
October 2 ad, The remuneration of the king's phy-
ikians, was fettled as follows : to doftor Willis,
the father, 1500!. per ann. for twenty-one years ;
t<- J-otf'T Wrllis, the fon, 650!. per ann. for life ;
to the other phyficians, thirty guineas for each
vjik to Windfoiy and ten guineas for eachvrfitto
Kew.
The National AfTemlTly agreed to affix to the king
^ ^ the title of rfftertr of the liberty of France.
The National AfTembly began to debate on the rights
of men and citizens.
Commotions at Bruftels, on account of the refugees
who took fhelter there. . Every part alib of Impe-
rial Flanders fhewed a difpofition- to follow the
example of the French.
An infurreclion at Boulogne fur Mer.
Spain and Sardinia" refilled to fupply the court of
of France with troops.
An artificial fcarcity of corn was made at Pains.
Mr. Gorden executed at Northampton, for ihooting
a fherifPs ofEcer, who come to arreft his father.
The Duke of Fitzjames experienced violent inlult
from the populace at Dunkirk.
An approaching revolution in the conftitutien of
Auftrian Flanders.
The new Sultan Selim, canfed the grand vizier -and
all his relations, to be ftrangled, and their effecls
to be confifeated.
The plague broke out at Conftantinople and Smyrna.
The Roman Catholics prefented addrefles to their
majefries, on the king's hnppy recovery.
A fine pillar of oriental granite difcovered at Rome,
twelve palms in height, and one and a half in dia-
meter ; a ftatue of a conlul, and two marble urns,
in die excavations going on intheground belonging
to the fepulture of Nero.
The earl of Caithnefs put a period- to his exigence.
Illuminations,
EVENTS. ?6 3
^789 -Illuminations, the moft general ever known in Loij-
don, on the restoration of the health of George
III. March loth.
Parliament of Ireland pa/Ted a. two months money,
bill, 23d March.
A dilpute happened between the duke of York and
colonel Lenox (nephew and heir to the duke of
Richmond) which terminated in a duel.
.Count Montfera was .iLe. fir ft v.'ho fell a victim to
popular fury in Paris,
Nov. 3d, Ecclefiaftical pofTeffions abolished in France.
. 5th, The National Aflemhly decreed, that in
future tliere rhould be no diftin&ipn of orders in
. Fiance ; by this deuce, all titles of nobility are
abolifhcd.
iXc. I4th, The National Aflembly decreed, that all
the Proteftant refugees, their heirs (of whatfoever
oe) and fucceirors, fliould be recalled, natu-
ralized, and put in full poiFeilion of their anceftor's
landed property.
The following is thefiaieof theCarron manufactory
in Scotland, the greateft perhaps of the kind ever
kiiown in the world : the weekly coiiiumption of
cf.ils amounts to n,coo tons, at 43. per ton ;
and the confcmption of each day is equal to th;'.t
^of the cit)^cf Edinburgh during the whole week.
As many coals, therefore, are confumed in the
Carron founderies as would fuffice to fupply a city
.o,coo inhabitants. A thoufanJ workmen arc
tlaily employed in this manufactory, whofe wages
.imouiit to 700]. per week, and 36,400!. per an-
num. The demands from abroad, and particu-
larly from Spain, continue yearly to encreafe.
Koyal Canal Company for making a navigation from,
Dublin on the north fide to the Shannon, incor-
porated i ft October.
Belt aft contains 30,000 inhabitants; Kilkenny 20,000;
Galway 15,000.
^Limerick contains 40,000 inhabitants, and h three
miles in circumference.
Charity,
z&f REMARKABLE
1789 The duke of Orleans arrived in London from Paris,
Oclober2ift.
A dangerous confpiracy difcovered at Bruflels.
An edict was publifhed at Bruffels, to inform every-
one to furrender their arms within twenty-four
hours, O&ober 2 7th.
Nov. 3d, A viclory gained by the Swedes over the
Ruffians.
An engagement between the Imperial troops and the
- patriots of Brabant, in which the patriots were
victorious, Nov. yth.
A fpirited manifefto to the emperor, publiilied by the
patriots of Brabant, Nov. i4th.
The city of Ghent furrendered to the patriots of
Brabant, Nov. 23.
Lord Aukland appointed ambaflador to the States-
General of the United Provinces, Nov. 28th.
Nov. 3oth, The national aflembly voted an addrefs
of thanks to lord Stanhope, and the members of
the Revolution Club.
Dec. The court of Chatelet, at Pari<, proceeded tp
the trial of Monf. de Bezenval.
The patriots of Brabant meet with great fucceft.
A mafiacre at Marli, in which many lives were loft.
I)ec. i 2th, The capture of BrufFels by the patriots.
Ghent reftored to tranquil ity, Dec. 24.
The Ottoman emperor caufed to be proclaimed by
the found of trumpet, his intention of putting
himfelf at the head of hi,-, army ; alfo, of the fur-
render of Bender to the Rnflia'ns.
The aifembly of the States of Brabant, were receiv-
ed at Biuflels with great rejoicings.
Charity, Working, and Sunday Schools, eftablifhed
in Youghall.
Jn Youghall, the Mall formed, and an elegant large
fquare building creeled thereon, confiding . of an
affcmbly, card, coffee, and billiard-rooms, at the
corporation expcnce.
Great rejoicings in the city of Cork, on account of
his majefty's happy recovery.
On
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1785 Jan. i yth, The City of Cork exhibited a melancholy
.ipechicle. A great fall of fnow for fome days,
dilfolved by a heavy fall of rain which continued
twenty-four hours, fwelled the river beyond any
thing hitherto known ; it rufhed through every
avenue leading into die city, and by four o'clock
In the evening, all the flat part thereof was co-
vered : it continued to rife until nine o'clock ; in
many parts it was five feet, and in fome feven feet
high. The inhabitants were terrified^at the unufual
light ; many of them were obliged to afcend to the
fecond floor of theii houfes, without meat or drink
for their families ; feveral boats plied through
many parts of the city, and afforded relief to thofs
who had not a mouthful of bread to give their
frightened children. Confiderable damage was
fultained by many ; happily but one life was loH,
(a man of the name of NOAH.) A cellar uat
the North Mall, an houfe at Baldwin's corner,
and two in Globe-lane, and a confiderable part of
fome of the quays, were fv/ept away ; feveral
other houfes narrowly efcaped the fame fate. Str
Patrick's Bridge, which at that time was creeling,
fuffered coufiderable damage ; two of its arches
that were nearly finished, were thrown down ; a
vefifel which broke from her moorings at ths Sand-
quay, beat with inch violence againft the above
bridge for feveral hours, as to accelerate its fall,
on which the waters above the bridge rapidly di-
minilhed ; and at three o'clock in the morning, re-
tired within their ufual bounds. The other bridges
received no very material injury.
Though many falls of fnow and rain, much heavier
than the above, have repeatedly happened in this
city and its neighbourhood, yet no flood equal to
the above, is fuppofed to have ever happened ia
Cork. Providentially it happened in the day time,
had it been othervviie, many lives mull have been,
loll ; the lofs of property muil have been irn-
rnence ; bedsj tables, chairs, implements of huf-
bandry, hay, ftruw, and timber, were brought
Z
266 REMARKABLE
down the river in great abundance ; a boat well
maimed at Leitrim kept a look outforiuch pn/es,
and put off v.Oitn they faw them apjiroifch ; ior-
tunately for Mr. Montjoy, who was fwtpt off
Batchelor's-quay, and niiraculoully efcaped the
piers of the north bridge, they perceived him alio,
and with ibme difficult}- brought him to^ ihore,
vhere the mode adopted by the Humane^ Society,
for the recovery of perfcns apparently drou ned,
v:as prilled on him with fucceis.
The w retched poor, whole lowly habitations parti-
cularly expoied them to this furious element, were
relieved by their fellow-citizens, who have ever
been highly diilinguifhed for benevolence, huma-
nity, and every other viitue which expands the
feelhw heart to relieve a fellow-creature.
1790 J*n. 5th, His Excellency the Earl of Weftmore,
"hind, a 1 . lived in Dublin.
Jar. 26th, 1'he national aiicmbly decreed, that none
of its members can accept from government any
place, employment, gilt, penfiop,' or gratification
of any kind whatever, even though lie ftiould rc-
linnuiih bis feat in the aficrrbly.
Feb. 4th, The kin- of France wciK to the national
afferrbly, and declared his ui : .cnt to the new con-
Rilution.
The empe-.or Jofeph II. died Feb. soth.
ieb. 2 .|th, The national ailembly abohihed all ho-
norary diitir.ftions, fupeiiority, and power, rc-
fukin^' from the /; -- - -
March 14th, Ca-t I arrived in London, and
bronoht intelligence of a mutiny on beard the
Bounty armed" ihip in the South Sea, on the
2 8ih of April, 1789, when the captain and fe-
venteen others were put into an open boat, and
tl ic C cean the extent
of .JCCG niilJ, arrived at Timor on the 1 2th of
mne.
Maich 1 9th, An experiment in aerology was mad;
at Pcrtlmouth, v/liich drew trgcther the greatelt
coucourfe of people tverfcea in that plate. Mr.
MUJ
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1790 Murray, an eminent optician and man of fcience,
dcfcended from the church tower in a parachute,
and came to the ground without receiving the
jinallcil injury. Mr. Murray went through the
\vhole procefs without the leail embarrafTment or
fear, and when elevated to the vaft height of the
tower, waved his hat, fainted the rrmlcttude, and
ieemed totally urdirhviyed, though the place on
which he ftood was fcarcely nine inches in dia-
meter.
March 2Oth, A very curious difcovery in natural
hiftory, took place at Blackwall. Mr. Perry, the
fhip-builder, planned and made one of the moil
extenfive \vet clocks in the kingdom ; for which
great undertaking, he appropriated feven acres
f -land. In digging the ground, regular ftrata
of fand, clay, c. were found, which afforded
materials foi 1 bricks; and at the depth of 12 or
14. feet from the furface, under the above ftrata,
numbers of very large trees were diicovered ; and
\vhatismoi1remarkable, aha/el nut hedge, with
jcrable quantities of nuts as they grew on
the tree:;.
March 22,1, A perfon convicted at the affi/.es of
Hertford, for the robbery of a farmer,, was dif-
coveicdby the i;tgr*city of a dog in the following
manner: the olrc/ulcr, fome time after the faA
.}i, being at St. Alban's market,
though at iinl unkno\\ r n'to the farmer, was Jingled,
,,nong die crowd by the dog f which by bark-
ing, fnarling, and other offenfive difpoiitions, io
much irritated ilie former, that not knowing tho
owner of the animal, he told him that he ought
t'i be profecutcd tor keeping fuch a dog unmnz
This exciting the farmer's attention, he fo
far recollefted th..- pcrlim of tlie other, his drcf^.,
occ. that he was apprehended, and was convi&ed
' - ")'
The celebrated Mr. Howard, died at Cherfon.
April 8th, Info parliament difiblved.
Z 2 Apiil
268 REMARKABLE
1790 April 1 7th, Doclor Benjamin Franklin died at Phi-
ladelphia, aged 84. He reqtiefted that the follow-
ing epitaph (which he compofed for himfelf fonie
years ago) might be infcribed on his tombftone ;
" The body of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer,
(like the cover of an old book,
its contents torn out,
and flript of its lettering and gilding)
lies here food for worms :
yet the work iticlf fliall not be loft,
kut will (as he believed) appear once mor*,
in a new
and more beautiful edition,
corrected and amended
by
THE AUTHOR."
The parliament cf Thouloufe, having pronounced
an Arrete againil the national afletnbly, the na-
tional troops in the neighbourhood alfembled,
frized all the members, and upwards of fifty
others of high rank, marched them to the Great
Square, where gibbets were inftantly ere&ed, and
they were all executed, tc the number of 182.
His majeily's Ihip, the Guardian man of war, ar-
rived fafe at the Cape of Good Hope, after a
moft miraculous efcape from an ifland of ice.
May i ft, The election for members to reprefent the
city of Cork in parliament ended, when the num-
bers Rood as follows : for the right hon. Richard
Longfield, 696 ; hon. John Hely Hutchinfon 605;
Benjamin Bousfield, efq; 450; whereupon die two
former were declared duly elected.
The Swedifh army repulied the Ruffians at Karnan-
koiky, May 4th.
Notification to parliament of the Spanifh hoftilities
at Nootka-Sound, and confequent armaments.
Liberty of the profs decreed in the national aiTemhly,
May
EVEN T 5. 269
1790 May 22d, The national afTembly refervedto them-
iel>-wS the exciufive privilege of making Avar or
peace.
June, At the final clofe of the poll for the elec~Hon
of members to reprefent this county in parlia-
ment, it appeared that the majority was in favour
of James Bernard, elq; and the right honourable
Lord Kingfborough ; \vhereupon the high-iherifF
declared them duly elected. Mr. Morris petitioned ;
and being tried by a committee of the houfe, lord
Kirjgfborough was declared not duly ejected ; Mr.
Bernard died in the interim. Writs were iilued lor
two other members, whereupon lord Kingiborough
a::d Mr. Morris, were elected without opposition.
June 71:1, Grand -prcceffion of the Nabob from Cli!:.-
pore to Calcutta, in order to pay his compliments
to earl Cornwallis, on his arrival in India.
Rhynwick Williams (commonly called the monfter)
found guilty.
July 4th, A defperate engagement between the Ruf-
fian and Sv.-ediih fleets, in which the duke of Su-
dermania was wounded, and the Rufiiuns gained
a complete victory.
July Qth, The king of Sweden having reinforced his
fleet, attacked the Ruflians, and after a. very ob-
durate engagement, totally defeated them.
Treaty of Riechenoaqh between Auftria and PrufTi;i,
whereby Auftria relihquiffied to the Turks, all
her conquefts, July 27th.
July 2Sth, The important event of opening the
Forth and Clyde nauu'atr.n from feu to fea, took
place by the failing of a track-barge beu
to the company of proprietors, from the 1:.
the canal near the city of Giafgow, to th
Clyde at Bowling-Bay.
The voyage, which is upwards of twelve miles, was
performed in Ids than four hours, durn:; uh'rh
period the vellel palled through nineteen locks, de-
fccnding thereby 150 feet from the fumrnit of the
canal into die Clyde. It required onb iour mi-
2 3 uuies
27 o REMARKABLE
1 790 nutes to pafs each of the locks, in which fpace the
vefiel defcended eight feet into the reach of the
navigation immediately below.
In the courfe of the voyage from Glafgow to Bow-
ling-Bay, the track-boat pa/Ted along that ilupcn-
tions bridge, the great aqueduct over the river
Kelvin, 400 feet in length exhibiting to the fpec-
tators below, the fmgular and new object of a
'vetfel navigating feventy feet over their heads.
The extreme length of the navigation from the Forth
to 'the Clyde, is exactly 35 miles, 16 of which is
upon the fnmmit of the country, 160 feet above
the level of thefea.
To this fnmmit the voyager is raifecl by means of
twenty locks from the eaftern fea, and nineteen
from the weft. Each lock is exactly twenty feet
wide, and feventy-four long within the gates.
The depth of the canal is precifely eight feet from
the furface of the water, and its breadth twenty,
eight feet.
The toll-dues payable upon the navigation, are 2d.
per ton for each mile, or 55. lod. per ton for the
extreme length of the canal.
Auguft i ft, A fhallop belonging to the fhip Ulyfles,
captain Campbell of Glafgow, by a fudden fquall
iliipped a fca in Montego-Bay, by which Ihe was
inftantly funk, and only one failor befides the
captain faved. Captain Campbell fortunately got
hold of an oar, and the failor of a gun-cafk,
which he held by the bung-hole. In tit is perilous
iituation, the captain touched .fomething with his
foot, which proved to be a fhark : this new terror,
inilead of disheartening, animated him; and, till
five o'clock in the morning, when he was taken
up by fome negroes, who heard his cries, he was
found defending himfelf againft the fliark. The
method he took was fometimes by preffing with
Lis hands and the whole weight of his body with
the oar upon the fliark, which made him fheer off;
at other times getting to the extremity of the oar,
and
EVENTS, 271
1 790 'and (Inking him ; and by thefe* and other ftrata-
gems that the moment fuggefted, he wonderfully
preferved himfelf from being dellroyed by the vo-
racious animal. The inark -was about 1 1 feet long.
Auguft 6th, Auftria renounced her alliance with
Ruffia, and concluded a feparate peace with the
Porte.
Preliminaries of peace between Sweden and Ruffia,
Auguft i4th.
Augu(li7th, The grand fleet, under the command
of loicl Howe, failed from Portfmouth.
Auguft 1 8th, It was decreed by the national a/Terri-
bly, that Proteftants of every denomination fhould
be equally eligible as Catholics, to places of public
truft.
In Augu ft 1 8th, 1788, the lightning was fo great
as to fplit part of the rock of the Giant's Caufe-
way 20 yards, and a cow had one half of her ikull
entirely feparated from the other.
Aug. 26th, The national aifenibly ordered the navy
of Fiance to be augmented to 45 fail of the line,
for the purpofb of fupporting the family compact.
Leopald II. king of Hungary, chofen king of the
. Romans, Auguft 3oth.
The celebrated Barrington, the pickpocket, fenten-
ced to feven years tranfportation.
Tklgic Provinces fubmitted to the emperor.
Hostilities in the Eaft Indies, between Tippoo Saib
and Englifh India Company.
Houfe of Commons voted the ptofecution of the im-
peachment of Warren Haftings, efq; govemor-
gcneral of Bengal, notwithstanding the difTblution
of parliament, which neceiFarily difcontinued it.
Sept. 1 3th, A detachment from general Mcadows's
army, under the command of lieutenant-colonel
Floyd, conlifting of 4000 men, were attacked by
Tjppoo Saib at the head of 14,000 cavalry, and
20,000 infantry, and a formidable train of artil-
lery ; when, after an obftinate engagement, the
enemy were defeated ; a number of Ikitith officers
\verc
272 REMARKABLE
1790 were killed and wbqpded: two davs afterwards
the colonel was joined by; general Meadows.
Sept. 1 8th, His royal highnefs the duke of Cum-
berland died.
The Turkifli fleet defeated by the Ruffians on the
Black lea.
Oclober loth, A great viclory obtained by the Ruf-
fians near the Cuban.
October 25 th, His Excellency the earl of Weil more-
land, lord lieutenant of Ireland, arrived in Cork ;
he conferred the honour of knighthood on Henry
Brown Hayes, efq; one of the "high iherifFs.
Convention between 'Great Britain "and Spain, the
27th ol (Mober.
Nov. 6th, The widow of Kaddoo Ghofe, who died
at Sinlay, near Calcutta, afcended the fnner.il pile
oi her hufband with the tuiial ceremonies. Her
refolution was fo determined, that, previously to
the cuftomary preparations for this fatal event,
flie diftributed her fortune, confiftir.g of feveral
thpufand rupees, among her family ; and the Bra-
mm prieits were not forgot in the' appropriation.
She was alfo poiFeiTed of feveral houfes, and a ta-
look, or farm, which were conveyed to her rela-
tions, together with her jewels and furniture ; fo
that the apprehcnfion of poverty could have ne
influence in this facrifice of h^rlitc.
Foundation Stone of firft lock of the Royal Canrd,
on Glafsmanogue road, laid by lord Weftmore-
land, and named Weftmors.' <, Nov. tzth.
Coronation of the emperor at Prcfburg, Nov. ij.
A ftandard of weights and meafures eftabUllied in
France.
Dec. i ft. M. Blanchard made his 37th aerial excur-
fion from Fragile.
Dec. 2d, The States of Brabant returned to their
allegiance.
Dec. 3 1 ft, There was fo thick a fog at Amfterdam,
that upwards of 230 perfons were drowned in the
Canals,
EVENTS. 273
1790 Canals, before any atTiftance could be given them,
though their cries could be diilin^lly heard.
The Gharlemont Packet loft, and 1 14 fouls perifhed,
only 1 6 efcaped.
The Auftrians, with an army of 2440, defeated the
Turks with 6000 picked men.
The chief magiftrate of the city of Cork, Richard
Harris, efq; itfued near two hundred cards, inviting
company to dine with him on Chriftmas Day, the
guefts till then entertained at the mayoralty-houie,
were of the firll fafliibn ; but his was of a different
defcription the diiirdied houfe and room-keepers.
The invitation cards were given to the different
clergymen of all perftiafions in the city, to diuri-
bute among the indigent of their feveral parifhes.
Macleod, a Scotchman, aged ' 02, walked ten miles
on die Hiimmerfrnkh Road for one hundred gui-
neas; two hours and a half were allowed him,
but he performed the talk in two hours and twenty-
three minutes.
A large Sunfifli caught near Cable-Ifland, and
brought into the harbour of Youghall.
At Leicefter affixes, a clergyman aged 63 years,
was convi&ed of felonioufiy folemni r /ing a mar-
riage, without publication of banns, or licence firfl
obtained, and was ordered to be tranfported for
fourteen years.
1791 Jan. iyth, A Sunday and Daily School was opened
on Hammond's-Marfh in the city of Cork, where
about 400 children of both fexes y and all perfua-
iions, are instructed in reading, writing, and ac-
rompts gratis ; proper books, &c. are procured for
the fcholars, at the expence of the charity, which
isfupported by fubfciiptions and donations.
March ad, The Albion mills in London, burnt to
the ground; the lofs wasimmenfe; 41,000!. of
which was infured ; the buildings and machinery
coft 55,000!. belldes a vaR ftock of grain, flour,
&c. Out of 4,000 fiicks of corn, only 30 were
fayed.
March
*H REMARKABLE
1 791 March 2 1 ft, Bangalore t;iken by Rorm by earl Corn-
wallis.
April 9th, The king attempted to goto St. Gloud,
but was flopped by the populace ; the national
guard refufed todiiperfe the multitude, and M. da
la Fay cite feeing his orders diibbeyed, religned his
command, but was afterwards prevailed on to re-
fume i r .
The reverend J^hn Wefley died, aged 8$.
June 2 1 ft, Tlie king, queen, and royal family of
France, efeaped from Paris, but were flopped
near the borders of the kingdom, and brought
back on the 2^'ch.
July 1 4th, In confequence of a meeting of gcntlemeA
at the hotel, Birmingham, to celebrate tue French
Revolution, a Large mob atfembled, and broke
the windows cf the hotel ; they afterwards def-
troyed the Prefbyterian meeting-houfes, doAor
Prieftly's hoir'e and valuable library, and many
other houfes belonging to the principal Diffenters
in the town and neighbourhood.
Sept. 2gth, His royal highnefs the Duke of York,
married to to the princefs royal of Pruffia.
Dreadful infurreclion of the Negroes in St. Domingo,
where a great number of Whites were killed, and
plantations destroyed to an immenfe value.
Nov. James Hafiar, an attorney, ftood in the pillory
in Dublin for perjury ; he was afterwards ftnick
off the lift cf attornies.
Nov. 2 1 ft, Their royal highnefies the Duke ancl
Dutchefs of York, arrived in London.
Lord Cormvallis attacked and defeated Tippoo Saib's
army, and made them retreat under the walls of
Serengapatam ; but on account of the monfoons,
was obliged to relinquifh die cbjec~l of his^ enter-
prize, and return to Bangalore. The monfoons
likewife obliged general Abercrombie to dcfcend
the Ga"ts, leaving behind him four 18 poundeis,
and a quantity of proviilons, liores, and camp
equipage.
Armaments
EVENTS. ,275
1791 Armaments of England, Hollar.-?, and Pruffia, ob-
liged Rullia to make peace with the Turks.
Parliament granted 45,000!. for making wet and
dry docks on thofe parts on the north and fouth
fides which communicate with the ports of Dublin.
An Apothecaries' Hall eftablilhed at Dublin.
A Mining Company eftablilhed.
Declaration of the Court of Ritrlia of her being
willing to yield up to the Turks, all her conquefts
during the war, excepting Oc/akow and its im-
mediate dependencies, as a barrier,
This year the Church at Youghall, a large antient
Gothic ftrufture, underwent a greater improve-
ment than it did thefe hnndied years pad.
The church now building at Peterfburgh is the largeft
in Europe; 2000 n. en have been working at it
thcfe twenty years, and are not yet at the top of the
walls. It is of polifhed marble, both infide and
out; the pillars are of one piece, 50 feet high;
ll'e bale and capitals of folid filvcr ; but the grcat-
clt curiofity of all, is the wooden box which covers
the whole from the weather, conftrufted in a par-
ticular manner. All the Empref/s buildings are
on the fame irnmenfe fcal<r.
Fort-Weftmoreknd Battery, on Spike-Ifland, at the
entrance of the harbour of Cork (intended to
rnunt one hundred guns) began to be tmilt by
Mr. Michael Shanahan, archilecl, under the di-
of that able engineer, colonel Valiancy.
The infulating wall and gnard-houfe for ilie intended'
gaol for the county of Cork, began Dec. 6th, by
Mr. Michael Shanahan, architcci.
Callle- Street widened, and the merchants CofTee-
Room built.
A houfe for the reception of lunatics, began to 1 e
built in Cork, tor which purpofe near 200!. was
collected by a charity pluy, o\\ing to the very
aclive exertions of Richard Harris, epj; mayor.
275 REMARKABLE
French JInpj of war taken by the Engli/h, fince the com-
mencement of hoftilities with that kingdom, which took
place the I 'Jth day of 'June, 1778.
Guns. Gi
ins.
La Ville de Paris
1 1 o De Clinton
Le Glorieux
74 Minerva
^ 2
Le Pegafe
74 L' Ellis
2$
Le Ardent
64 Le Neckav
2*
Le AvfKonaire
64 Unicom
28
Le Caton
64 La Dugueffeau
22
Le Jaibn
64 Le Hercule
LaPrcthee
4 L'Audacieux
24.
Solitaire
64 Rouen Soubifc
^
24,
Le Compte d'Aitoij;
64 Due de Ccgnj
T
2 4
Le Fayet
40 Sphynx
La Fortune
40 L'Adventure
24
Le A r to is
44 Le Chevireul
t
24
La Blanche
40 Sophie
t
22
L-j B ell ipo tent
40 LaPrincefs de Robqcque
2O
La Hebe
40 La Dunquerquoife
2O
L'Aigle
40 Pearl
18
L'Imperieux
36 Senegal
18
La Prudentc
36 Due d'Eflifac
16
La Nymphe
36 Guay Trouin
Le Monfieur
36 L'Abondance
18
La Eellc Poulc
36 Ceres
18
Menagere
40 M. d'Seignaly
16
Le Sartine
36 Albicore
16
La Pallas
32 Pelican
16.
La Licorne
3 2 Pigmy
J 4
LaDanae
32 Due d'Chartres
La Oifcau
32 Le Goree
H
L'Alcraene
32 Mutine
J 4
L'Americaine
32 Pilote
H
La Magicienne
32 L'Caereur
14
L'Eperance
3 2 Maurepas
12
La Colagne
32 Le Jeune Lion
12
L'Aimable
32 Le Renard
12
La Convert
32 La Gloire
8
Befides
EVENTS. 277
Befides the Le Ofar, of 74 guns, blown up, and La
Jjiademe of 74, funk by admiral Rodney on the i2th of
April 1782 ; Valeur 26, and Reclufe 24 guns, burnt by
fir James Wallace's fquadron, in Concale Bay ; La Ca-
pncieuie, 32 guns, taken by the Prudent, and burnt;
La Legere, 36 guns, deftroyed by the Nonfuch ; and fc-
veral others of Idfer force.
Sfaaijh fivfs /" isar t-.iken by the E>ig!:j7?, JJnte t?c commence-
ment of "boftilitiej ivith that kigdm t which took place t!:e
ii>tk of June, 1779.
.Guns. Guns.
Phoenix (now Gibraltar) 80 Santa Catiliria 34
rnncefTa 70 San Carlos 3Z
Diligente 70 San Raphael 30
Monarca 70 Santa Tcrefa zS
Guipufcano (now the") ^ San Bruno 26
Prince William) J Santa Leocadia 3^
St. JoJeph Del Carlos 52 Grana 2<>
St. Michael 74 Santa Pedrofa 2S
Santa Monica 36 San Fermin 16
Santa Margarita 36 San Vincent 16
Befides the San Domingo of 70 guns, blown up ; die San
Eugenio of 70, and the San Julian of 70, drivjii ou '!]>:.:
by adxniral Rodney, and dcihoy^d.
of ' : by t!.i ./-=/: .7', fir-'c {'..'
went if koftilltiei with tie State of Hottand t
place the zotb day if D.\\'inbc}\ I 780.
Mars (now Prince Ed-'
t f>r>
Gf-nr :
ward)
> V'CJ
Accra
Princefs Carolina
54
Hercules
Rotterdam
50
Mars
Mars
3 2
Fort ?.Iouree
St. Euftutla
28
Apam
Callor
3^
Bujico;
A a
33
32
24
24
D<,
REMARKABLE
Dogger Bank
Oreites
"Guns.
20 Pylados
1$ Zeuic
Guos.
'8
18
Eefides a 74 gun fliip, funk by admiral Hyde Parker,
off the Dogger Bank ; and a Dutch Dogger of 1 8 guns,
blown up by the Camelcon.
Congreft Jhips of nvar taken fy the EngliJJ^fiuce the comm
jncnt of boftiitties with America^ which took place the
day of jfue, 1774.
Guns.
Confederacy 36 Cumberland
Providence 32 -Sullivan "
Raleigh 3 2 Jafon
Trumbull 32 Morning Star
Delaware 28 Tobago
Virginia 28 Hetty
Charles-Town 28 Mifflin
Hullar 28 Alfred
Bofton 32 Columbus
Hancock 32 Independence
Wafhingtoa 24 Ranger
Alexander 24 Dalton
Lexington 32 Montgomery
Effirgham 28 Sturdy Beggar
Protedor 26 Mentor
Portfmouth 26 Rattleihake
Bellifarius 24 Surprife
Oliver Cromwell 24 Cabot
Bunker's-Hill 20 Rover
Tartar 20
Together with the Bon Homrne Rkhard, of 40 guns,
commanded by Pagl Jones, funk in an engagement with
the ikrapis of ^ 4 guns, which fhe took before fhe went
down. The Randolph of 36 guns, blown up near B;tr-
badoes, by the Yarmouth of 64 guns, and only rive of the
crew laved. The Warren of 64 guns burnt, with fixtoen
pthc/s of inferior force, at Penobicot, by fir George Col-
uns.
20
J20
20
14
H
20
2Q
20
20
26
20
20
I
18
16
H
H
EVENT'S. 279
lier's fleet : forty-four fail of armed floops, privateers,
and fchooners, with the Wafhington and Effingham fri-
gates, of 32 guns each/ burnt on the Delaware by cap-
tain Henry, of lord Howe's fleet. The number of priva-
teers, armed vcil'cls, brigs, fchooners, cutters, and floops
of private property, that have been taken and deftroyed
belonging to die Americans, fmce the commencement of
hostilities, are almoil innumerable.
Er.giif!} firi^s of war taken fy the French, jince ti: commence-
?tii'ri of the prefent hcfiilitiss, in 1778.
Guns. . Guns.
Ardent 64 Ariel 20
Experiment 50 Germaine 20
Hannibal 50 Gronoquc 20
Romulus 44 Ceres 18
Iris 32 Weafel 16
Richmond 32 Senegal 16
Montreal 32 Alert 14
Minerva 32 Alligator 14
Fox 28 York 12
Active 28 Thunder Bomb 8
Crcfcent 28 Zephyr 14
Lively 24
F-efides the Charon of 44, Guadaloupe 2?, Fowey 24,
Bonetta 24, and Vulcan fire-fhip, taken and deftroyed at
York iu Virginia ; the Quebec of 32 guns, blown up in
an engagement with the Surveiilant of 40 guns ; captain
Farmer, of the Quebec, finding his fhip totally on fire,
iuffercd himfelf to be blown up, fooncr than furrender.
Captured by Spain : The Penelope Englifh frigate of 28
guns, who had taken the Margate Spaniih Inip of war,
and was conducting her to port, when the prisoners fell
upon the crew of the Penelope, killed her captain, and
carried both {hips fafe into the iiland of Cuba. One ftrip
fince June 1 7 79.
28?
REMARKABLE
Englifh fliips of war captured by the Americans, firtfce
the commencement of hoftiUties in 1774: Scrapts 44
guns; Scarborough 20; Sandwich 24; Drake 165 Ata-
lanta 1 6 ; 1'horn 1 6 ; and the General Monk of 1 4 guns.
Englifo Ji:>ips of icar, loft by accident > fine: the csmmtncernent
cf the Amtrican oiw.
Gixns.
Ville de Paris 1 10
Royal George 100 Loft in Portsmouth Harbour.
Loft on their pa/Tage from Jamai-
ca ; moil of the crews periihed.
Loft near the Azores.
Loft at Gardiner's Ifland.
Loft in a hurricane in the Weft-
Indies, and all on board perifl:cd.
Loft near Bofton.
Burnt near Philadelphia.
Loft near the ChefapeaL
Loft on her paifage from New- York.
Burnt at Rhode-Iflam! to prevent
their being taken by die French fleet;
the crews were laved.
Loft near Breft.
Burnt near Charles-Town.
Loft near Rhode-Iiland.
Loft near Philadelphia.
Loft near New- York.
Loft on the Newfoundland ftatvoa.
Loft near New- Yoik.
Loft on the Jamaica ftation.
Loft on the Antigua ftation.
Burnt near Philadelphia.
Burnt on the coaft of Carolina,
Loft near Loui(bourg.
Glorienr
74
RarnilHes
Hector
741
74J
Centaur
74
Culloden
74
Thunderer
Sierling-Cadle
74]
64 J
Somerfet
70
Augufta
64
Terrible
74
Repulfe
3 2
Flora
J'JOQ
32
Lark
32
Orpheus
32
Cerberus
28
Falcon
18
King's Fiiher
l6 .
Arethula
^2
A ft a on
28
Syren
,28
Mermaid
28
Liverpool
28
Veftal
Pegafus
20]
i6j
Mercury
20
Ferret
H
Pomona
J 4
Merlin
16
Cruifer
8
Savage
8
EVENTS.
281
Otter
Supply
Glafgow
Swan
Spy
Phcenii
Andromeda
Laurel
Beaver's Prize
Scarborough
Deal-Cadle
San Vincente
Vitfor
Barbadoes Brig
Cameleon
Blonde
Guns.
1 6
26
20
1 8
20
44
28
28
18
2 4
24
16
16
16
HJ
32
Loft near St. Auguftine.
Burnt in the Weft Indies.
Loft near the Saltees (Ireland)
Loft near Newfoundland.
Loft in the Weft Indies, at the
time of the terrible hurricane, which
happened there the loth day of Oc-
tober, 1780; moftof the crews pe-
rifhed.
Loft near New York.
The Revolution War lafted from 1688 to 1696,
both included
The Succeflion War, from 1702 to 1713
Spanifh and French, from 1739 to 1748
The late War, from 1755 to 1762
The American War, from 1775 to 1782.
Total of years from the firft period to 7
the prefent \ 9 2
Total of war
Total of peace
Years.
}
ii
10
8
8
46
46
REMARKABLE
ROMAN CATHOLIC MAYORS OF CORK.
PROVOSTS.
Tears. Kixc JOHN'S Reign. 1326
1199 John Dilpenfer, 1 3 2 7
HENRY III. 1328
1236 Walter Eynoff, J 3 2 9
1249 Eliah Stackpole, 1 33
1251 John Wenchedon, 1331
2252 Walter Wriqht. 1332
MAYO R S. 1333
EDWARD I. *334
1272 Richard Morren, 1335
1273 Richard Wine, *3j6
1274 Richard Lee, *337
1 2 7 9 Walter Tardiff, 1338
1281 Walter Rate, 1 3 - o
1285 Peter RuiTel, '34
1287 William Pollard,
1290 Walter Tardiff,
1291 Walter O'Heyn. 1343
EDWARD II. J 344
1293 John Lavallan, J 345
13 10 John Walters, 1 34 ( J
1311 William Bond, J 347
1312 Nicholas de la Weily, 1 348
1313 William Hadvivre, 1 349
1314 Walter de Kerdiff, 1350
131;; Nicholas O'Heyn, 1351
1316 John de Ligrc, 1352
1317 Nicholas de la Weily, 1353
1318 Adam Mil kibury, J 354
1319 Stephen Coppinger, 135?
1320 Richard Delahoide, 1356
1321 Abraham de Stacpole 1357
1322 Walter Rt-ifch, 1358
1323 Gilbert Monk, 13-9
1324 John le Difpenfer,
1325 Richard Morraine. 1361
EDWARD IIT.
Ed\vard de Tailour,
Roger Tryal,
R(H;cr le Blon,
William Albus,
Nicholas Mim-aine,
Richard Polhvind,
Richard Lcleigh,
Richard Lcleigli,
Robert Lebolout,
Bernard de Mpntlbus,
John Wedlock,
John de Erpcncer,
John de Briitol,
John Fit/.- Abraham,
David dtfSlontibus,
Peter Rafhall,
Elias de Stacpole,
Walter Reiich,
William Pollard,
William Pollard,
"Walter c!e Kerdit^
Walter O'Keyn,
John Wallen,
Wm. deWandefpar,
Walter de Kerdiff,
Nicholas O'Heyn,
Nicholas Delahoide,
Walter dc Kerdiff,
Percival Hunt,
John Gallengar,
Walter de KerdiiT,
John Gallengar,
Adam Ruth,
Walter <lc KerdifF,
Percival Vincent,
Percival Vincent,
162 William
EVENTS.
1362 William Drooper,
3 Adam Ruth,
4 William Skiddy
5 William Skiddy,
6 Percival Vincent,
7 William Skiddy,
8 Jordan Kerdiff,
9 William Drooper,
*37 J onn Leblown,
1 John Leblown,
2 Thomas Thifh,
3 William Drooper,
4 William Downane,
5 Thomas Thiih,
6 William Drooper,
RICHARD II.
7 William Downane,
8 Thomas Thiih,
9 David Miagh,
1380 John Lombard,
David Miagh,
Robert Drooper,
John Mynne,
Tears. HENRY IV.
9 John Mainen,
1400 John Kapp,
1 Richard Lavallan,
2 William Sughin,
3 John Benefiat,
4 John Skiddy,
5 John Lignce
6 William Sughin,
7 John Wright,
8 William Sughin,
9 Thomas Morton,
1410 John Warner,
1 Thomas Murray,
HENRY V.
2 Thomas Mordonton,
3 Patrick Rice,
4 Thomas Mollentcn,
5 Robert Gardiner,
6 Robert Gardiner,
7 Robert Gardiner,
8 Robert Gardiner,
9 Thomas Mollenton,
1420 Thomas Mcllenton,
4 John Mynne,
5 John Mynne,
6 Robert Drooper,
7 Jolm Malby,
8 John Malby,
9 John Lombard,
1390, William Polent,
1 Redmond Kerrick,
2 Andrew Stacpolc,
3 Redmond Kerrick,
4 Robert Hemming,
5 John Waniner,
6 Thomas HoneybearJ,
7 Thomas Bnrdeys,
% John Warrincr.
Robert Bordernor,
HENRY VI.
2 Thomas-' Mollenton,
3 Pierce Drooper,
4 Robert Gardiner,
5 David Landebrook,
6 GeofFry White,
7 David Landebrook,
8 Edward Dantz,
9 GeofFry Waile,
1430 GeofiVy Gallaway,
1 Williary Anafey,
2 William Anaicy,
3 John Menia,
4 Gcoffry White,
John
&EMARKABLE
Tear;.
5 John Murrogh,
6 Godfrey Gallaway,
7 John Murrogh,
8 John Skiddy,
9 John Skiddy,
1440 John Meagh,
1 John Murrogh,
2 William Gc>y,
3 William Gold,
4 John Murrogh,
5 John Gold,
6 Richard Skiddy,
7 John Gold,
8 Patrick Gallaway,
9 John Gallaway,
1450 Richard Skiddy,
1 John Gold,
2 Richard Skiddy,
3 William Gallaway,
4 William Skiddy,
5 Richard Lavallan,
6 William Gallaway,
7 Richard Skiddy,
8 William Skiddy,
9 Patrick Gallaway.
EDWARD IV.
1460 Thomas Murrogh,
1 Richard Skiddy,
2 John Gallaway,
3 William Gold,
4 John Gold,
5 John Skiddy,
6 Richard Skiddy,
7 John Meagh,
S Godfrey Naiole,
9 John Mezca,
1470 Richard Skiddy,
i John Gallaway,
William Ga
3 Thomas Murtogh,
4 William Skiddy,
5 Richard Lavallan,
6 John Gallaway,
7 William Gallaway,
8 Richard Skiddy, '
9 William Skiddy,
1480 William Skiddy,
1 William Gallaway^
2 Richard Gallaway,
3 William Gallaway,
4 William Skiddy.
HENRY VII.
5 Patrick Gallaway,
6 William Gallaway,
7 William Skiddy,
8 Maurice Roche,
9 William Gallaway,
1490 John Walters,
1 Maurice Roche$
2 John Lavallan,
3 William Gold,
4 John Walters,
5 Thomas Coppinger,
6 John Lavallan,
7 Maurice RocKe,
8 John Lavallan,
9 Jchn Walters,
1500 Maurice Roche,
1 William Gold,
2 William Gallaway,
3 Edmond Gold,
4 John Gallaway,
5" William Terry,
6 William Skiddy,
7 John Skiddy,
8 Richard Gallaway.
HENRY Vlfl.
5> EUmond Gallaway,
Edmond
EVENTS.
28?
Tears,
Edmond Gold, 7
Edmond Terry r 8
John Gallaway. 9
John Roche, r 55
Edmond Terry, I
Richard Skiddy, 2
Walter Gallaway,
John Skiddy, 3
Nicholas Skiddj, 4
Patrick Terry, 5
Edmond Roche, 6
David Terry, 7
Richard Gold,
Maurice Roche, 8
Edmond Gold, 9
William Terry, 1560
John Skiddy, i
Walter Gallaway, 2
John Skiddy, 3
Patrick Terry, 4
Edmond Roche, 5
Richard Gold, 6
Patrick Gallaway,, 7
David Roche. 8
James Gold, 9
William Coppingor, 1570
Robert Meagh, I
Thomas Ronayne, 2
William Terry, 3
James Roche, 4
Richard Terry, 5
Chriftopher Creagh, 6
William Sarsficld, 7
William Skiddy, 8
James Gold, 9
Richard Gold, 1580
EDWARD VI. i
William Gold, 2
William Gold,
Patrick Meagh,
Thomas Ronayne,
Dominick Roche,
William Terry
James Roche,
MARY I.
Patrick Gallaway,
Richard Terry,
Chriftopher Meagh,
William Rarsfield,
William Skiddy.
ELIZABETH.
Dominick Roche,
Edmond Gold,
Edward Gallaway,
John Gallaway,
Andrew Gallaway,
Maurice Roche,
Stephen Coppinger,
Rich. Roche,
William Gallaway,
Edmond Gold
John Gallaway,
Andrew Gallaway,
John Meagh,
Maurice Roche,
Stephen Coppinger,
John Walters,
Walter Terry,
James Ronayne,
William Roche,
John Gold,
Walter Gallaway,-
Maurice Roche,
Thomas Sarsiield,
Chriftopher Walters,
Patrick Gallaway,
James
2*6
REMARKABLE
Tears.
3 James Roche,
4 George Gold,
5 Stephen Walters,
6 Stephen Terry,
7 Robert Coppingcr,
8 Edmond Terry,
9 John Skiddy,
1590 Dominick Roche, :
1 David Terr}-,
2 Henry Walfli,
3 Patrick Gallaway,
4 Francis Martel,
5 James Me?gh,
6 Patrick Gallawayy
7 George Gold,
8 John Skiddy,
9 James SarsfielJ,
1 600 \V illiam Mead,
1 John Mead*-
JAMES I.
2 John Coppinger,
3 Thomas Sarsrleld,
4 Edmond Terry,
5 Robert Coppinger,
6 William Sarsfield,
7 Philip Martel,
8 David Terry,
9 Dominick Roche,
i$io Edmond Galluvvay,
1 George Gold,
2 Dominick Terry,
3 Yv illiam Skiddy,
4 David Terry,
5 William Gold,
Tears.
6 John Coppinger/
7 Patrick Terry,
8 V\ illiam Gold,
9 John Coppinger/
1620 \\illiamTerry
1 Andrew Skiddy,'
2 John Ccppingcr,
3 John Roche,
4 John Roche,
. . CHARLES I.
5 Henry Gold,
6 Edmond Martel*
7 William Hoare, 1
8 David Terry,
9 James Murrogh,
1630 Thomas Ronayne,-
1 Maurice Roche,
2 Jcfferey Gallaxvay,'
3 W illiam- Roche,
4 Richard Roche,
5 Thomas Martel,
6 RobertMeagh,
7 David Meagh,
8 Patrick Lavallen,
9 Thomas Sarsfieldy
1 640 Thomas Gold,
1 Melcher Lavallen,
2 Maurice Roche,
3 John Roche,
4 Robert Coppinger,
5 James Lombard,
6 O^/" For ten years, no
Civil Magiftrate during
Cromwell's ufurpatioii.
PROTESTANT
EVENTS. 287
PROTESTANT MAYORS & SHERIFFS of CORK.
KING CHARLES IPs. REIGN.
MAYORS. SHERIFFS.
1656 John Hodaer, firli William Hodder, Philip Mat-
ProKitantmayor. .thews firft Proteftant Sheriffs.
7 William Hodder, RichardCovet,TimothyTuckey,
8 Philip Matthews, Richard Baflet, John Bailey,
9 Jonas Morris, R. Lane, Nobjet Dunfcomb,
1 660 Chriftopher Oliver Thomas ' Farren, John Flynn,
1 Walter Cooper, Chriftopher Rye, Nicholas King,
2 Richard Covet, R obert \\ ill.'nms, Thos. Crook,
3 James Vandeluen, \\ m. French, Richard Purdon,
4 Richard BaiTet, James Fjnch, Matthew Deane,
5 Noblet Dunicomb, Jn. Newenham, Pat. Ronayne,
6 Thomas Farren, Jn. Ha\vkins, Timothy Tuckey,
7 Chi-iitopher Rye, Thomas Mills, George Wright,
8 Chriftopher Rje, T. Kitchermaa, R. Pletcher,
9 Matthew Deane, Wm. Field, Richard Harvey,
j 670 James Finch, \\m.\Vren, Thomas Walker,
1 John Newenham, Jonathan Perry, John Bailey,
2 John Hawkins, Thomas Franklin, John Terry,
3 Thomas ftjilLi, James Mills, Thomas \\ ills
4 John Bailey, Robert Rogers, William Hull,
5 George \\ right, John Wriglit, Edward Webber,
6 \V illiam Field, Edward Youd, John Sealy,
7 Timothy Tu-ckey, \V illiarn Allin, Chnft. Crofts,
8 Thos. Hickerman, Wm. Malcborn, Richard Terry,
9 John Baily, Wjlh'am Ballard, Wm. Howe],
j 680 Robert Rogers, R ^ndall Hull, H. Fitzgerald,
1 William Alhv in, 'I jaomas Crone^n, Stephen Coot,
2 Richard Covet, \\ . Charters, Eleazer Lavers,
3 John W right, Zachary Cook, Samuel Bailey.
JAMES II.
4 Edward Webber, Edward Hoare, John Bailey,
5 Chriftopher Crofts, Daniel Crone, J. Champion,
6 Edward Hoare, 1 homus Brown, Edw. 'I^uckcr,
7 Vv : . Ballard & Ig- Wm. Coppinger, W, \\hite.
ssj this Gold, '
WILWAM
REMARKABLE
WILLIAM and MARY's REIGN.
Tear. MAYORS. SHERIFFS.
8 Patrick Roche, Bate French, Thos. Murrogh,
9 Dominick Sarsfield Patrick Aleade, Patrick Nagle,
i f)9Q William Ballard, \Vm. Roberts, Wm. Green,
1 Daniel Crone, Peter Renew, Samuel Love,
2 William Charters, John Whiting, Richard Slocond,
45 William Howel, James French, Simon Dring,
4 Peter Renew, John Rains, William Goddard,
5 Samuel Love, Edm. Knapp, Jona. Trifillian,
6 James French, 1 heo. Morris, F. Penninglon.
7 Will : am Roberts, Rich. Crabb, Thos. Kinfmell,
8 W illiam Goddard, W. Andrews, Edw. Yeamuns,
9 Theophilus i\l orris, Barth. Taylor, John Allen,
5700 John Sealy. Jos. Reddeck, Fran. CottreL
QUEEN ANN's REIGN.
1 Simon Dring, Jos. Franklin, Bernard Pore,
2 John \* hiting, W. Walters, Abraham vVatkins,
3 Edmond Knapp, IVJathias Smith, Edw. Brown,
4 W illiam Andrews, D. Perdriau, Row. Delahoide,
5 Francis Cottrel, Wm. Cockeril, Daniel Pierce,
6 Bernard Poye, Noblet Rogers, P. Harnilton,
7 Jofeph Franklin, Edward Hoare., John Hawkins,
& Ko\vland Delahoide W. Lambly, James Mbrrifion,
9 Noblet Rogers, Richard Phillips, Sam. Wilfon,
1710 Edward Hoare, 1 homas Barry, Samuel Allen,
1 Richard Philips, John Terry, Richard Addis,
2 Daniel Perdriau, Phil. French, Anthony Gol's,
3 John Allen. Abraham French, Jofeph Lavit,
GEORGE I.
4 .Edvrard Brown, Jn. MorrifTon, 'Hugh IV'illercT,
5 Philip French, John Morley, Francis Power,
6 \\ illiam Lambly, '! homas Sheares, Thrs. Bro-\\Ti,
7 Abraham French, W. Hawkins, Charles Cottrcl,
S John iMorlcy, JLd\v. Brocklefby, Jos. Auilin,
John
EVENTS.
Tear. MAYORS. SHERITFS.
9 John Terry, John Maunfel, George Fuller,
i 720 Jofeph Lavit, Samuel Croker, James Foucalt,
1 William Hawkins, W. Owgan, Auguftus Carey,
2 Daniel Pierce, Robert Atkins, G. Bennett,
3 Echv. Brockelfoy, Ambrofe Cramer, James Hulet,
4 George Bennett, Fran. Rowland, T. Pembroke,
5 Ambrofc Cramer, W. Bufteed, Jofeph Franklin,
6 Robert Atkins. Js. Crook, Ambrofe Jackibn.
GEORGE II.
7 Thomas Brown,
* Hugh Millerd,
9 John Atkins,
1730 Jofeph Auften,
1 James Hulet,
2 Samuel Croker,
John Atkins, William Lane,
Daniel Eagan, Thomas Auftea,
Francis Healy, Harding Parker,
Whitwell Hignet, J.. Baldwin,
James Pierfy, Robert Travers,
W. Newenham, A. Newman,
3 Thomas Pembroke Robert Dring, Walter Lavit,
4 George Fuller,
5 Ambrofe Jackibn,
6 Thomas Farren,
7 John Baldwin,
8 Adam Newman,
9 W illiam Fuller,
1 740 Haiding Parker,
Thomas Farren, W. Delahoidc,
Wm. Fuller, Thomas Brown,
Daniel Crone, Richard Bradfhaw
C. Carleton, H. Townfend,
Randall Wcilropp, Na. Barry,
John Terry, Noblet Phillips,
George Fuller, W illiam Clark,
1 Pvichurd Bradfhaw, \V ; illiam Taylor, W. \V 'inthrop,
2 William Owgan, Mathias Smith, H. Millerd,
3 Randall \\ r eltropp, Robert \Vmon, W. Ii;iruing,
4 \\' illiam VN'iutlirop Sir R. COY, bt. Ufner P, ilpotr,
5 Vv'alter Lavit, Nicliol^s Ford, David Bruce,
6 William Taylor, PJiin-.-ii.Uury, W. Holmes,
7 Hugh Millerd, XV. Bulked,' George Hodder,
James Chatterton, John l\xily>
John We'jb, John Swste,
Sir J. Frcke, bt. R. New'enham,
Francis Carleton, Hugh S .
John VVrixon, Stephen D.-nrothc
8 Dar.iel Crone,
9 William Holmes,
1750 Robert Wrixon,
i \V illiam Bufteed,
Mathias Smith,
3 Sir John Frcke , bt. John CofHvrt, Kevan Izod,
4 George Header,
JohnSmitbi Jofeph VVitheral,
li b John
REMARKABLE
'Tear. MAYORS. SHERIFFS,
5 John Reily, Samuel Maylor, Godfrey Baker,
6 '\A illiam Harding, Thomas Newenham, John Roc,
T Uflicr Philpott, Eoyle Trave^, P. VV eitvopp,
8 John Swete, V.'.' Parks, Chriftopher Gollis,
9 Phiueas Bury, And. Franklin, Dan. Connor.
.GEORGE III.
1760 Jofeph \Vithcral,
1 Andrew Franklin,
2 Jolm Vv rixon,
3 John Smith,
4 Boyle Travers,
5 V, ill-jam Parks,
6 Samuel Maylor,
7 James Chatferlcn,
8 Ncblct Phillips,
9 Godfrey Baker,
1 7 70 Chriilopher Collis,
1 John \V ebb,
2 John Roe,
3 Francis Rowland,
4 John Travers,
5 William Butler,
'> Hugh Lav
7 Thomas Owgan,
tf Fi.lms XVcftiT'pp,
9 John Harding,
1.7*10 Fr.in.-.is Carl-^ton,
i \\ alter 'i': -ivers,
1 .cnt,
3 Richard Kellet,
4 J.: '.:-.'( V),
5 Sir John 1^ .
f> Sii Sa^
; J.:
8 Kichard Purcell, .
H. Harding, Thomas O\vp;an,
\\ . J/itton, James Moniilon,
\\ alter Travers, Robert Lane,
Francis Rowland, \\ m. C(.ks,
Henry \\rixon, \Vm. Bntl-jr^
Samuel Rowland, W. \\ ileocks,
J(')m Travers, Jnhu Harding,
S. TAvogood French, H. La\\ ton,
Sobei Kent, Richard Lloyd,
Benj. Bousfield, Kich. Kell.'L,
Peter Cofl'art, Jafper Lu.
John \\ rixcn, Henry Pi.i:.k-y,
Richard Harris, John Franklin,
Kir.gL Jjcrry, Fr. Carlelon, juur,
Thomas Fuller, Philip Bennett,
Vv . Lavs-ton, M. R. Wcllropp,
1 'fhe,
John Day, \\ illiam Leyceiler,
Thrs. Harding, Richard Lane,
Chrif. Lawtcii, Hich.;u.l .!";
Michael Builecd, VeJian Pick,
James Kingrlon, A \lmcr Alien,
}'. Hutchiniln, PclerDr.mas,
John Tliompion, J. LinJ
J< h.n Shaw, Thomas VVaggett,
Allen, Hum. Croy/ley,
\'. iliiam Lumlev, Plen. Sadlicr,
Chriit. Ailen, Chriil. i
flowla. y.f. Piercy,
'-'trt Orpen, Piiul Maylcr,
Hehry
EVENTS.
MAYORS. SHERIFFS.
9 Henry Harding,"}'
who died, and [ r^, TT ,. . ,, T , r
was fticceeded by f Thos< Hardin g J un - N - Johnforr,
Hum. Crowly, J
1 790 Richard Harris, C. Fargufon, Sir H. B. Hayes,
i Henry Puxley, James Sadieir, Thomas Dorman.
GOVERNORS of the CITY of CORK, fmce the Revolution.
Lord Clare and Mon. Boileau, for King James, 1689
The Earl of Tyrone, and Colonel Roger M'El-"
ligot, governors ; lord-lieutenant of the County
for King James, Lord Moum-Cafhel ; deputy-
lieutenants,- Pierce Nagle, Daniel McCarthy Reagh,
OSullivan Bear, and Charles M'Carthy, alias
Donough, in the year.
Colonel Hales and Colonel Haftings, for King"
iiliam, upon the furrender of the city
> 1690
1691
Sir Richfiid Cox, knt. J 1691
Sir Toby Purcell, knt, - 1692
Sir James jefFcreys, knt. ~ 1705
James jeffereys, efq; 1722
General Gervais Parker, 1746
Lieutenant-General James St. Clare, J 752
Lord Robert Bertie, 17%
Colonel John Wynne, ! 1769
Nicholas Lyfaght, efq; I7/B
Thomas Pigott, efq; 1782
Mountiibri Long] field, efq; 1789
SHERIFFS of the COUNTY of CORK.
HIGH-SHERIFFS. SUB-SHERIFFS.
17^3 Richard To vvnfend, Charles M'Carthy,
4 fohn Lyfaght, * Thomas Allen,
r Philip Oliver, Edward Daunt,
6 Robert Kogcrs, V iiliam Heard,
B b 2
Year.
7
8
.3760
i
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1770
j
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
3780
i
9
1790
i
HIGH-SHERIFFS^
John Lyfaght,
Richard Longfield,
Abraham Morris,
Wallis Colthurft,
Abraham Dev.nfhrre y
Walter Baldwin,
Emanuel Moore,
Nicholas Dunfcomb,-
Walter Aikin,
Roger Bernard,
Nicholas Lyfaght,
Jonas Morris,
Hon. John S. Barry,
Benjamin Bousfield,
John Wallis,
Sir Robert Deane,
MafTey Hatchefon,.
Matthew Freeman,*
lames Uniacke,
Henry Baldwin,
William VYrixon,
\Villiam\Vrixon,
Hon. Hayes St. Leger,
Sir fames Cotter,
Abraham Morris,
William Chetwynd,
Thomas Hungerford,
R. Boyle Townfend,
Broderick Chinnery,
Win. W. Newenham, '
Sir N. Con. Colthurft,
George Dunfcombe,
JofephCapel,
Arthur O'Connor.
SuB-S-HERtrrs,
P ider Doe,
Thomas Farren,
Edward Irwin,
Daniel M'Carthy,
Robert Reeves,
John Warren,
Jonas Lander,
Daniel M'Carthy,
fames WherlanO,
Francis Kiernan,
Benjamin Hayes,
Daniel M'Carthy,
Thomas Chatterton*
John Warren,
James Gregg,
Daniel M'Carthj,
Peter Deane,
Noblet Rogers,
George Jack,
Daniel McCarthy,
W' illiam Philips,
Noblet Rogers,
George jack,
Daniel M'Carthy,
Abraham Abbott,
Thomas Warner j
John Minton,
John Pyne,
George Jack,
John Barry,
John Franklin,
John Pyne,
W illiam Allen,
\\ illiam Lane.
Mr. Fessman died in office, and was fuccecded by
JUDGES
EVENTS.
293
JUDGES in CORK, from 1753, 101791.
SPRING ASSIZ.ES.
1753 Baron Mountney,
Juftice Blenerhalfet,
4 Lord chief juf. Caulfield,
{uftice French,
5 Lord chief juftice York,
I uftice Marlhall,
6 Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
uttice French,
7 Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
| uftice French,
6 Juftice Marfhall,
juftice Robmfcn,
9 Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
Baron Dawion,
1760 Baron D;nvfon,
.:ce Marlhall,
1 Lord chief jus. Flood,
Juftice Scott,
2 Lord chief jus. ARon,
Serjeant Malone,
3 Lord chief jus. Flood,
I uftice Scott,
4 Lord chief Baron Willes,
Serjeant Patteffon,
5 Lord chief Barou Willes,
Juftice Tennifon,
C Lord chief jus. Clayton,
Serjeant Malone,
7 Baron Mountney,
Juftice Malone,
8 Lord chief jus. Clayton,
Serjeant Dennis,
9 Lord chid' jus. Clay Ion,
Baron Scott,
1770 Lord chief jus. Clayton,
Juftice Hcnn,
D b 3
SUMMER ASSIZES.
Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
Juftice French,
Lord chief Baron Bo^es,
Boylert Whitney, efq;
Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
juftice Marfliall,
Baron Mountney,
-John Smyth, efq;
Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
Juftice French.
Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
Juftice Kobinfon,
Lord chief jus. Willes,
Prime Serjeant Scott,
Lord chief jus. Caulfield,
Serjeant Malone,
Baron Dav.-ibn,
Prime Serjeant Tennifon,
Juftice Tenniibn,
Pr. Ser. H. Hutchinfon,
Lord chief juftice Afton,
Baron Mountney,
Lord chief juftice Afton,
Baron :M ountney,
Lord chief Baron Willes,
Solicitor-gen. Patterfon,
Baron Mouniney,
Serjeant Dennis,
luiiice Malone,
IV. Ser. IT. Hutclmifon,
Lord chief Baron Foi-ikr
Serjeant Dcrn:is,
Lord chief Baron Forfter
Serjeant Malone,
Lord chief Baron F
Juftice Malone,
Juftice
294- REMARKABLE
Teer. SFRIXG ASSIZES. SUMMER ASSIZES.
1771 Juftice Henn,
Counfellor Fitzgibbon,
2 Juftice Henn,
Solicitor-General Lill,
3 Juftice Henn,
Baron Power,
4 Baron Power,
Thomas Maunfell, efq;
5 Lord chief jus. Patteribn,
J uftice Henn,
C Baron Power,
Juftice Lill,
7 Serjeant Carleton,
luilice Lill,
$ Lord chief Baron Dennis,
Baron Power,
9 Juftice Henn,
Solicitor-Gen. Carleton,
1780 Lord chief jus. Patteribn,
juilicc Henn,
1 Lord Tracton,
! uftice Lill,
2 Lord Traclon,
Juftice Lill.
3 Lord chief Baron Burgh,
Baron Power,
4 Baron Power,
Juftice Kelly,
5 Lord chief B. Yelverton,
Baron Hamilton,
6 Juftice Kelly,
Sir Samuel Bradftreet,
7 Baron Hamilton,
Sir Samuel Bradftreet,
S Baron Hamilton,
Juftice Kelly,
<) Lord chief jus. Carleton,
Hon. Geo. Hamilton,
Lord chief jus. Forfter,
Juftice M alone,
Lord chief jus. Patterfon,
uftice Robinfcn,
uftice Robinfon,
\iftice Henn,
uftice Henn,
Baron Hamilton,
Juftice Robinfon,
Juftice Tenniibn,
Juftice Henn,
Juftice Lill,
Lord chief jus. Pattcrfon,
Juftice Henn,
Lord chief Baron Dennis
} uftice Henn,
Baron Power,
Juftice Lill,
Lord chief Laron Dennis
Juftice Henn,
Juftice Henn,
Baron Power,
Lord chief jui. Patterfon,
Juftice Henn,
| uftice Henn,
Baron Hamilton,
Lord Baron Earlsfort,
Chief Juftice Patterfon,
Lord Earlsfort,
Juftice Henn,
Chief Baron Yelverton,
J.uftice Henn, .
Lord Baron Earlsfort,
I uftice Henn,
Chief Baron Yelverton,
Juftice Henn,
Chief Baron Yelverton,
Jufiicc Henn,
Juftice
EVENTS. 207
Tear, SPUING ASSIZES. SUMMER ASSIZES.
1790 Tuftice Kelly,
Baron IVJetge,
l Baron Hamilton,
Juftice Kelly,
Juftice Herm,
Sir Samuel Bradftreet,
Chief Baron Yelverton,
Juftice Hellen.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MAYORS of YOUGHALL,
Tear.
1542 M. Portingall,.
3 J. Forreft,
4 W. Walih,
5 R. Bluet.
EDWARD VI.
6 D. Portingall,
7 R. Gough,
8 W. Walfn,
9 C. \Valfh,
1550 J. Bluet,
1 K. Gough,
2 F. Tobin,
MARY I.
3 W. Anyas,
4 W. > hears^
5 R. Gough,
6 T. Uniacke,
7 1\ Bluet.
ELIZABETH.
8 P. Ronayne,
9 T. Bluet,
1560 T. -Uniack,
1 J. Portingall,
2 F. Gallevan,
3 R. Gough,
4 T. Coppinger,
5 I. Walfh,
(> T. Bluet,
Year.
7 P. Bluet,
8 P. Forreft,
9 F. Anyas,
J 57 J- Portingall,
1 M. Bluet,
2 J. Portingall,
3 T. Coppinger,
4 T. Bluet,
5 J. Collins,
6 F. Anyas,
7 P. Bluet,
8 P. Forrefter,
9 P. Coppinger,
1580 f. Galleva'n,
1 F. Anyas,
2 T. Coppinger,
3 P. B rennet,
4 P. Brennet,
5 J. Kerring,
6 T. Coppinger,
7 H. Portingall,
8 Sir W. Raleigh,
9 W. Magner,
J. Ronayne,
i '}. Bluet,
3 J. Forreft,
4 ! Kerny,
5 H. Portingal,
REMARKABLE
Tear,
6 J. Bluet,
7 P. Walfh,
8 J. Forreft,
9 |. Ronayne,
1600 C. Collegne,
1 J. Kerny,
2 J. Gallevan.
| AMES 1.
3 J. Gallevan,
4 E. Coppinger,
5 J. Gallevan,
6 N. Gallevan,
7 J- Gough,
8 J. Kerny,
9 |. Every,
.1610 N. Gallevan,
1 J. Coppinger,
2 R. Gough,
3 T. Roynane,
4 J. Every,
5 E. Coppinger,
err 7&/ v-ftrr ^//. ; >' ! }
J. Collins, and J. Kernie, yf/j/? Bailiffs.
TV*?-.
6 J. Gough,
7 }. Every,
8 C. Hartford,
9 W. Blunt,
1620 W. Lewellan,
1 T. Holdfliip,
2 E. Gough,
3 \\'. Levvellin,
4 W. Bluet.
CHARLES I.
5; R. Gough,
"6 T. Coppinger,
7 E. Stout,
8 J. Coppinger,
9 T. Hoynane,
1630 P. Meagh,
1 D. Wafih,
2 P. Collins,
3 \\ r . \\ alfli,
4 F. Stout.
allowed as irtagiftratfs ;
MAYORS.
5 W. Bluet,
6 R. Gough,
7 J. Ronayne,
8 W. Gough,
9 M. Uniacke,
1640 T. Stout,
j J. Gallevan,
2 T. Stout,
3 T. Stout,
4 .!. Miller.
5 T. Stout,
6 A. \Varren,
7 R. iNiyers,
? T.Taylor,
BAILIFFS.
J. Ronnyne, . Gibbon,
M. Uniacke, j. Gallevan,
J. Coppinger, N. Nagl-e,
W. Gough, ). Gallevan,
T. Bluet, {. Ha/an!,
W. Coppinger, D. Bluet,
W. Kerine, N. Bagbeare,
D. Bluet, R. iMayeiT,
J. Clove, }. Bucknerr,
J. Vandelure, J. Tayloj,
T. \Vairen, R. Pratt,
J. Britifliford, T. Farmer. -
j. Brififtford, T. Farmer,
A. \\'aiidrick ? T. Farmer,
T. Warrcih
EVENTS.
Tear. MAYORS.
9 T. Warren,
1650 J. Langer, .
i A. Wandrick,
Z J. Britifhford,
3 J.Cox,
4 T. Fanner,
5 J. Morduck,
BAILIFFS.
H. Heard, G. Barnetf,
T. Stephens, F. Baker,
J.Cox, J, Mardock,
J.Sims, J. Farthing,
R. Gillet, T. Barker,
J. Nettles, T. Vaughan,
N. btout, N. Stout.
PROTESTANT MAYORS and BAILIFFS.
KING CHARLES II.
6 J. Farthing, J. Hanclcock, S, Clove,
7 J. Nettles, H. Stout, P. Godwin,
8 T. Vaughan, G. Davis, H. Davis,
9 T. Warren. J.Luther, A. Vaughan,
3660 H. Mayers, J. Stout, P. Hazard,
1 N. Stout, A. Vaughan, H. Spencer,
2 J. Stout r H. Deaton, W. Norman,
3 J, Langer, N. Stout, J. Hazard,
4 R. Giles, E. Percy, J. Pine.
5 T. Baker, W. Sargent, R. Swimmer,
6 J, Luther, S. Hayman, T. Hilgrove.
7 N. Deaton, J. Merrick, G. Giles,
8 J. Hancock, B. Morduck, W. Clove,
9 A. Farthing, E. Lowndz, .R. Waters,
1670 ?. Hayman, B. Bryan, R. Yeats,
1 E. Lowndz, T. Caibban, J. Gerald,
2 E. Lowndz, T. Cafoban, J. Gerald,
3 M. 5 pencer, A. Spencer, R. Lawndz,
4 E. Perry, J. Atkins, R. Bevit,
5 D. Atkins, R. Careen, W. Palmer,
6 N. Lucas, W. Hilbard, A. Hopkins,
7 J. Merrick, E. Crockford, J. Clove,
8 1. c pencer, J. Morduck, L. Dantner,
9 E. Lawndz, R. Paradiie, R. Ball,
1680 R. Yeats, F. Baker, W. Sargent,
2 F. Luther, J. Lucas, E. Nicholas,
3 J. Clove, J. Scanaclen, A, Vaughan,
4 R. Paradife, 1). Haliahjm, R. Giles,
JAMES
20 REMARKABLE
J A M E S II.
Tear. MAYORS. BAILIFFS.
4 E. Crockford, J. Cook, A. Luther,
5 J. Spencer, J. Hay man, R. Walter,
6 O'Cook, T. Vaughan, F. Farmer,
7 R, Giles, H. Row, W. Turbit,
WILLIAM and RJARY's REIGN.
8 N. Ronayne, T. Walters, D. Roe,
9 A. Perry, J. Scamaden, D. Lynch,
1690 R. Ball, "D. Seymour, D. Price,
1 F. Baker, 1\ Seymour* D. Price,
2 R. Giles, T. Croker, D. Donovan,'
3 F. Walters, S. Pavadife, L. Knight,
4 J. Lucas, G. Blackwell, D. Quade,
5 E. Nicholas, R. Far thine, T. Coufms,
6 T. Croker, S. Green, D. Bodwin,
7 J. Cook, E. Landz, T. Taylor,
8 J. Scamaden, W. Cooke, J. Salter, *
9 J. Cook, G. Salter, T. Elliot,
1700 J. Price. S. Hay man, F. Murdoch.
QUEEN ANN's REIGN.
1 T. Lucas, D. Luther, D. Murdock,
2 T. Croker, F. Mills, T. Buckner,-
3 D. Luther, T. Baker, E. Land/,
4 S. Hsryman, W. Knight, T. Carr,
5 T. Hayman, F. Seymour,- D. Farmer.
6 E. Land/,, C. Rea, F. Gea?ely,
7 J. Mills, A. Ryland, T. Seymour,
8 W. Cook, F. Oliver, T. Roper,
9 J. Luther,* J. Freemun, S, Gardener,
1710 B. Murdoek, T. Farmer, S. Knight,
1 F. Baker, J. Perry, }. Merrick,
2 T. Croker, G. Giles, H. Ball,
3 R. Giles, J. Lucas, R. Walters.
* J. Lutksr died in office, and was fuctseded ly M.Lueaf,
andvoatfutceeded by R. Giles-;
GEORGE
EVENTS.
Tw. MAYORS.
4 J. Knight,
5 G. Sakci,
6 J. Rvlund,
7 C. Rca,
8 R. Walters,
9 M. Lucas,
1720 T.'Crokcr,
1 E. Giilet,
2 H. Ball,
3 T. Uniacl e,
4 G. Giles,
T. Knight,
6 G. Suiter,
GEORGE I,
BAILIFFS.
O. Nicholfon, Champion,
' Green, E. Giles,
T. Cock, T. Farmer,
11. Taylor, G. Mannir,
Pratt, Giles,
S. Gieen, T, Croker,
T. Buckner, G. Mernyne,
Farmer, Cahill
T. Uniacke, J. Parker,
V aughan, Emington,
A. Taylor, C. Elmore,
R. Giles, C. Nixon,
B. Croker, P. Mills.
GEORGE II.
7 G,
8 L.
9 H
1730 W
i R
2
3
4
6 H
7 T.
8 N
9 S.
1740 G
T.
J.
B.
2 S.
3 J-
4 B
5 B
6 T
7 T.
Giles,
J
. Ball,
. Emington,
. Giles,
Parker,
Parker,
; Coghlan,
. Fi ^eman,
. Ttn.h\ en,
Fi
Rogers,
Euther,
Giles,
G;
Hayrnan,
'aan,
. CY
. Ct<
C
. Ma.
E. [ones, W. Coghlan,
R. Cozens, S. Gardner,
W. Emington, Rogers,
T. Fudge, J. Nealon,
J. Green, T. Cozens.
W. Coleman, E. Giilet,
H. Ruth v en, : Freeman,
T. Green, Mannix,
H. Rogers, F. Browne,
E.. Uniacke, S. Euther,
B. -Green, N. Rogers,
Uniacke, T. Fiflier,
S. Havman, T. Frencli,
T. Price, R. Dav,
T. Taylor, B. Merrick,
E. Green, J. Nixon,
S.Pratt, J. Mcr-.;j>,
T. Cook, J. Knight,
J. D.ty, J. Lander,
W. Taylo;, T. Child,
E. Green, E. Dartncll,
J. Haynuuj,, J, Pratt,
H. Rogers,
300
REMARKABLE
Tear. MAYORS.
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