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ARCHBISHOPS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOPS. George Browne Hugh Curwen. Adam Loftus Thomas Jones. Lancelot Bulkeley James Margetson Michael Boyle. John Parker Francis Marsh. Narcissus Marsh William King. John Hoadly Charles Cobbe. William Carmichael. Arthur Smyth. John Cradock. Robert Fowler. Charles Agar Euseby Cleaver John G. delaPoerBeresford William Magee Richard Whateley PAGE. 196 235 240 | 250 { 253} 275 * 280 283 284 290 298 330 339 Matthew de Oviedo Eugene Matthews Thomas Fleming } Peter Talbot. 5 Patrick Russell. i 342 343 3 344 347 * 349 352 J 353 354 > 360 Peter Creagh Edmund Byrne. Edward Murphy Luke Fagan John Linegar Richard Lincoln Patrick Fitzsimon John Carpenter John Thomas Troy Daniel Murray. PAGE. 370 384 390 430 446 457 459 465 466 466 469 471 472 480 488 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN, WITH MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN.1 *HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUTCHESS OF KENT, COUNTESS OF DUBLIN, Etc. *HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL OF MULGRAVE, LORD LIEUTE- NANT OF IRELAND, Etc. Academy, Royal Irish, 10 copies. Achonry, Rt. Rev. Dr. Mac Nicholas, R. C. Bishop of, and his Clergy herein named, 7 copies. Adams, Rev. B., Ballintobber. Alen, Lieut. Col., Lower Gardiner-st. Anster, John, Esq. LL. D., &c. *Antiquaries, Society of, Edin- burgh. Archbold, R. Esq., county Kildare. Archbold, R. Esq., Upper Dorset-st. Ardagh, Rt. Rev. Dr. Higgins, R. C. Bishop of. Ardill, T. Esq., Aungier-st. Armagh, Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, R.C. Archbishop of, and his Grace's Clergy not herein named, 25 copies. Arthure, B. Esq., Dominick-st. Arthure, J. Esq., Seafield, Swords. Bagot, J. J. Esq. D. L., Castle-Bagot. Baird, J. R. Esq., Civil Engineer. Baldwin, H. Esq., Barrister at Law. 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The following Names were communicated too late for insertion, in the above List : Bourke, Walter, Esq., Barrister at Law, Dublin. Craig, J. T. Gibson, Esq., St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh. Dalyell, Sir John Graham, Hanover-street, Edinburgh. Iona Club, Edinburgh. Loftus, Rev. Thomas, Annadown. O'Connor, Rev. John, Tipperary. Signet Library, Edinburgh, per David Laing, Esq. Skene, W. F. Esq., Edinburgh. Turnbull, W. B. D. D., Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh. MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. The Diocese of Dublin has been during so many centuries united with that of Glendalough, that it is difficult to treat of either exclusively. Together they extend over a surface of about fifty Irish miles in length by thirty-six in the greatest breadth, com- prising the whole of the County of Dublin, the most of Wicklow, a great part of Kildare, and portions of the Queen's County and Wexford, an estimated area of 477,950a., of which 142,050a. are in the County of Dublin, 257,400a. in Wicklow, 75,000a. in Kil- dare, 600a. in the Queen's County, and 2,900a. in Wexford. The acreable quantity of church lands belonging to the united sees, and lying within the above scope, has been returned in 1831 as 23,926a. profitable, and 7,100a. unprofitable, let at £3,202 per annum and £4,257 annual renewal fines. While a return of 1833 states the respective number and value of the benefices in both sees as, forty worth B 2 MEMOIRS OF from £30 to £200 per annum ; twelve from £200 to £250 ; eight from £250 to £300 ; seven from £300 to £350; eight from £350 to £400; four from £400 to £450 ; six from £450 to £500 ; nine from £500 to £550; four from £550 to £600; two from £600 to £650 ; four from £650 to £700 ; three from £700 to £750; four from £750 to £1000; two from £1100 to £1200; and one from £1300 to £1350 per annum. The gross income of those 114 benefices being calculated as £24,363 18s. 6d., ex- clusive of the values of thirty-eight other benefices not returned in the estimate. The patronage of the whole may be thus classified. — The Crown presents to fourteen ; the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and the three Chief Judges, in conjunction with bis Grace the Archbishop, to two ; the chapter of Christ Church, or its members separately, to ten ; lay patrons to eighteen, and the Archbishop to the remainder. The union of the bishoprics, alluded to, took place in the year 1214, and still subsists ; both having been thereupon divided into ten deaneries, severally styled ; — 1. Decanatus Christianitatis, Dublin; 2. Taney; 3. Swords ; 4. Ballymore ; 5. Bray ; 6. Wicklow ; 7- Arklow ; 8. Castledermot ; 9. Athy ; and 10. De Saltu Salmonis. The number has been since in- creased to twelve, the names of which stand thus in the Consistorial Registry of this diocese, viz. 1 . Deca- natus Christianitatis, Dublin ; 2. Swords ; 3. Lusk ; 4. Finglas ; 5. Newcastle ; 6. Taney ; 7- De Saltu Salmonis, alias Leixlip ; 8. Bray ; 9. Wicklow ; 10 THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. 3 Arklow ; 11. Ballymore ; and 12. Omurthy ; which last denomination includes the two more ancient deaneries of Castledermot and Athy. The dignitary, who presided over this most im- portant province of Ireland, was not only anciently honoured with a seat in the King's Privy Council in England, where he used to attend his Majesty in many weighty consultations, as shewn hereafter, but had also within his liberties of the Cross,* or his own church-lands, the rights of a prince palatine, with the power of even condemning to death criminals offend- ing therein, for whose execution a gallows was erected at Harold's Cross. It is, perhaps, needless to remark, that this extremity of jurisdiction is now altogether disused ; his seneschal, however, still holds a court for other purposes of the archiepiscopal authority, in a handsome structure erected in Upper Bride-street, adjoining to which is the gaol for confining debtors within his liberties. This officer is usually a bar- rister, selected by the prelate's appointment, as con- firmed by the respective deans and chapters of Christ Church and St. Patrick's, and the individual so named chooses his own register, who is always an attorney of the superior courts. The Archbishop also holds a Consistorial Court at the King's Inns, and, besides, his other extensive franchises, the regulation of the police in the manor or liberty of St. Sepulchre was, until modern enactments, vested in his officers, as fully as it existed in the city magistrates for the liberty * See " History of the County of Dublin," at "Swords" in 1465. b2 4 MEMOIRS OF of the citv ; he has, likewise, the right of a market in Patrick-street. There are in the diocese of Dublin two cathe- drals, a peculiarity in which Saragossa alone partici- pates. Both of those are situated within the city and liberties of Dublin, viz. Christ Church and St. Patrick's, of which it is only necessary here to remark, that the former was built about the year 1038, and that its chapter consists of the dean, precentor, chan- cellor, treasurer, the archdeacon of Dublin, and three prebendaries, besides two clerical and seven lay vicars- choral ; while the latter was built about the year 1190, on the site of an old parochial church which was said to have been erected by St. Patrick. Its chapter is constituted of a dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, the archdeacons of Dublin and Glen da- lough, and twenty prebendaries, the prebend of Cullen being united to the archbishopric. There are also in this establishment four minor canons, four clerical and seven lay vicars-choral. The present dignitaries and prebendaries of both cathedrals are as follow :— CHRIST CHURCH. Established. Roman Catholic, Dean. The Lord Bishop of Kildare. [Christ Church having Precentor. been constituted a ca- Chancellor. Rev. Stewart Segar Trench. thedral by Henry the Treasurer. Venerable Henry Cotton. Eighth, after his renun- Archdeacon of Dublin. Venerable John Torrens. ciation of the Pope's supremacy, its digni- PREBENDARIES. ties are not continued St. Michael's. Venerable Thos. B. Monsell. in the Roman Catholic St. Michan's. Rev. John Rowley. Hierarchy.] St. John's. Venerable T. P. Magee. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. Dean. Precentor. Chancellor. Treasurer. Archdeacon of Dublin. Archdeacon of Glendalough. Cullen. Kilmactalway. Swords. Si. Jagoe. St. Audeon's. Clonmethan. Wicklow. Timothan. Mullaghiddart. Castlehwck. Tipper, Tassagard. Dunlavin. Maynooth. Howth. Rathmichael. Monmohenock. Tipperkevin. Donaghmore. Stagonil. ST, PATRICK'S. Established. Very Rev. H. R. Dawson. Rev. John Wilson. Rev. Hosea Guinness. Rev. James H. Todd. Very Rev. John Torrens. Very Rev. J. Langrish. PREBENDARIES. His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. Rev. John Reade. Rev. W. Magee. Rev. W. H. Irvine. Rev. Charles Strong. Rev. M. L. Short. Rev. Archd. T. P. Magee. Rev. L. Coddington.. Rev. W. L. Mayers. Rev. George O'Connor. Rev. Walter Burgh. Venerable C. Irwin. Rev. M. Morgan. Rev. Thomas Tisdal. Rev. A. Irwin. Rev. J. Hunt. Rev. L. Fitzgibbon. Rev. John Crosthwaite. Rev. F. E. Trench. Rev. R. Daly. Roman Catholic. Very Rev. P. Coleman, (styled Vicar General.) Very Rev. W. Meyler, (styled Vicar General.) Rev. M. Flanagan. Rev. A. O'Connell. Rev. John Hamilton. Rev. W. Yore. Rev. M. Toole. Rev. Edan Redmond. Rev. W. Stafford. Rev. P. Woods. Rev. John Grant. Rev. James Campbell. Rev. M. Doyle. Rev. James Monks. Rev. Aug. Costigan. Rev. John Ennis. Rev. M. Kelly. Rev. J. W. M'Gauley. Rev. C. Rooney. Rev. J. Miley. Rev. C. J. Finn. Rev. J. Coleman. Rev. A. Roche. "Rev. J. Laphen, and .Rev. P. J. Doyle. Rev. J. P. Kearney, and ,Rev. W. Meagher. Rev. P. Cooper. 6 MEMOIRS OF It has been alleged by some, in order to account for the singular occurrence of two cathedrals in one city, that St. Patrick's was the cathedral of Glenda- lough, and Christ Church of Dublin. Mr. Mason, however, in his invaluable history of the former edi- fice, successfully combats this opinion, and proves that both belonged to Dublin ;* in accordance with which conclusion, it is to be observed, that, before St. Patrick's cathedral was built, or the union of the sees contemplated, the church, on whose site it was erected, was (in 1179) in Pope Alexander's Bull de- scribed as one of the parishes and within the diocese of Dublin ; while a contemporaneous Bull of the same Pope mentions the cathedral of Glendalough as being in the little city of that name, where its ruins are still identified. In 1214, as before mentioned, the two sees were united, for the reasons explicitly declared in the Tes- timonial of Felix O'Ruadan, Archbishop of Tuam, and of his suffragans to whom the Pope had occasion to refer the subject. The original of this curious ec- clesiastical instrument is still extant in the archives of Christ Church, and has the archbishop's seal pendant to it, but those of his suffragans have crumbled away. It is neither dated nor witnessed, but appears evi- dently from its contents to have been drawn up in the year 1214, immediately upon the death of Wil- liam Piro the last recognised Bishop of Glendalough, and refers to those grants and documents hereinafter * See Mason's Hist. St. Patrick's Cathedral, p. 4. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. more particularly noticed in the order of their respec- tive dates. The document is in the following words: " A letter concerning the Palls sent into Ireland. The testimony of the Archbishop of Tuam and his suffragans : Master John Paparo, legate of the Roman See, coming into Ireland, found a bishop dwelling at Dublin, who then exercised episcopal offices within the walls. He found in the same diocese another church (ecclesiam) in the mountainous parts, which was also called a city, and had a certain rural bishop (chorepiscopum), but the same legate appointed Dub- lin, which was the best city, the metropolis of that province, delivering the pall to that bishop who then governed the church of Dublin ; and he appointed that that diocese, in which both cities were, should be divided, the one part thereof to fall to the metropolis, the other to remain to him who lived in the moun- tains, with the intention (as we firmly believe), that that part also should revert to the metropolis, on the death of the bishop who then governed in the moun- tains. Which object he would have immediately effected, had not the insolence of the Irishry, who then had power in that territory, obstructed him. When the Lord Henry, King of England, learned from manv what had been the intention of the said legate, he granted the church in the mountains to the metropolis, adhering to the intention and will of the said legate. In like manner our present Lord John, King of England, having heard from the great and credible men of that territory, what the said legate did and intended, granted the said part to John the 8 MEMOIRS OF - predecessor of the present Archbishop of Dublin. Besides, that holy church in the mountains, although anciently held in great veneration on account of St. Kevin, who there led an eremite life, has been so deserted and desolate for the last forty years, that instead of a church it is a cave of robbers, and a hot bed of thieves, so that more homicides are committed in that valley than in any other part of Ireland, on account of its deserted and extensive solitude." Accordingly a Bull of Pope Innocent the Third, dated the 25th of February, 1215, details the par- ticulars of the above testimonial, and ratifies the union; while another Bull of the same Pontiff of the 18th of May, 1216, enumerating and confirming the suffragan sees of the province of Dublin, omits Glen- dalough, as then merged in it ; and a Bull of Pope Honorius the Third further enforces the acts of his predecessor in this matter. Immediately after this event, the chapter of St. Patrick's, having asserted that that of Glendalough was thereby abolished, transmitted a petition to the Court of Rome relative to the difference which arose thereout between them and R. de Bedford, then Dean of Glen- dalough, and afterwards Bishop of Lismore. The sub- ject was thereupon referred by the Pope to the said Felix O'Ruadan, Archbishop of Tuam, whose decree in favour of the chapter of Glendalough was confirmed by Pope Honorius in the first year of his pontificate,* from which time both chapters, although distinct cor- Allen's Registry. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. 9 porations, became canonieally united, and possessed of equal power and interest in all matters that con- cerned the diocese. It would be now extremely difficult to define the precise limits of the respective bishoprics, as they ex- isted immediately previous to the time of their union. From a consideration, however, of two Bulls of Pope Alexander the Third, both dated in 1 179? and extant in the Crede Mihi, and of certain grants of John Earl of Moreton, hereafter mentioned, the boundary of the see of Dublin may be defined, as having in- cluded Dalkey and its island, Kiltuc (near Crinken), Rathmichael, Kilgobbin, half Taney, Rathfarnham, Kilnasantan (St. Anne's church), Tallagh, Clondal- kin, Rathcoole, and by Alderg, &c. ; while the parallel of Glendalough comprised Shankhill, Stagonil, half Taney, Newcastle, Lyons, by Alderg, Confee, Lara- brien, Tachdoe, Stacumney, &c. Kilcullen was in- disputably in Glendalough diocese, Alderg was so much on the confines, that an inquisition was necessi- tated in 1329 to determine to which see it apper- tained, when, it being proved that it paid half a mark proxies to the Archdeacon of Dublin, the jury gave their verdict accordingly in favour of that diocese. Such having been the extent of Dublin as a dio- cese, it is to be observed, that as an ecclesiastical province it comprehended, with the sees of Dublin and Glendalough, those of Kildare, Ossory, Terns, and Leighlin, all being included within the civil pro- vince of Leinster. Under the Church Temporalities' Act, however, the Bishopric of Kildare is, on its next 10 MEMOIRS OF vacancy, to be permanently united with those of Dublin and Glendalough ; and, in like manner, the Bishopric of Ossory is on vacancy to be permanently united with those of Ferns and Leigh! in. The act also provides, that, on the next avoidance of the see of Cashel, that province is to be reduced to the rank of a bishopric, and, together with all its dependant sees, is to be suffragan to the Archbishop of Dublin, whose jurisdiction will then extend over the whole of Munster, the greater part of Leinster, and a certain portion of Galway in Connaught. Having premised thus much in relation to the statistics of the diocese, the records of its history next invite attention, and, although it would be difficult to attain any positive evidence that Dublin was the seat of a bishop's jurisdiction so early as the time of St. Patrick, yet, as he founded a church there about the year 456, it may be reasonably inferred, that he did not in that particular instance deviate from the practice of Episcopal Church Government, which he introduced in other parts of the island. Christianity, it may be here necessary to observe, had made some progress in Ireland before his mis- sion.* Tertullian in the first century mentions, that parts of the British Islands, which had never been approached by the Romans, were subjected to true Christianity, Britain and Ireland being both de- * See very fully on this subject, a prize "Essay" written by the author of this work, and published in the Royal Irish Academy Trans- actions, vol. xvi. part 1., from which the above is chiefly extracted, and where the authorities are given. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. 11 nominated by the Romans British Islands, and so Baronius construes the passage. Eusebius more than confirms Tertullian, for he asserts that some of the apostles had proceeded beyond the ocean to the islands called British, in which he is followed by Nicephorus, who, in his account of the dispersion of the apostles, says, that one chose Egypt and Libya, while another was appointed for the remote islands of the ocean, and for the British Isles. Vincentius of Beaumais particularizes James the son of Zebedee as having preached in Ireland, and selected seven dis- ciples there with whom he went to Jerusalem, where he suffered martyrdom ; to which Julian of Toledo, in his Chronicle, adds, that not only was St. James in Ireland, but that he addressed thence a canonical letter to the Jews who were scattered through Spain. The Irish annals further suggest this early intro- duction of the faith, when they allege, that in the middle of the third century Cormac King of Ireland carried on a theological discussion with its heathen priesthood so earnestly, that his sudden death is attri- buted to their provoked resentment. St. Chrysostom in the fourth century asserts, that the inhabitants of the British Islands not only believed in Christ, but erected churches and altars of sacrifice to God. Rupert states, that in 350 Elephius, the son of a Scoto-Hibernian King, suffered martyrdom, having been decapitated by the Emperor Julian, who was present at the execution ; and Gennadius records, that subsequently Celestius, when a very youth, wrote, from the monastery where he sojourned, three letters 12 MEMOIRS OF in the manner of little books to his parents in Ireland, which writings, he adds, are necessary to every one who has the love of God. This very Celestius, however, afterwards became the great disciple of Pelagius and the advocate of his heresy, in conse- quence of which he was in the year 412 condemned in the synod of Carthage ; St. Jerome, in the most obvious interpretation of his words, says, that Celestius was an Irishman, but some refer the words, according to the only other sense in which they can be under- stood, to Pelagius himself.* Prosper expressly writes, that St. Patrick was sent from Rome the first Bishop to those of the Scots (the Irish were then exclusively so called) that believed in Christ ; while Bede affirms, that it was not the custom of the Church of Rome to ordain a bishop for any nation, before Christianity had esta- blished some roots there ; and accordingly various saints are actually enumerated as of Ireland before St. Patrick, or Palladius who immediately preceded him. It has, however, been urged, in evidence of the paucity of this Christian congregation, that Palladius, when he was leaving this country in des- pair, considered two monks and three churches suf- ficient " for the spiritual service of the scanty con- verts."! Yet it should be considered that Palladius was scarcely one year in the country, and that his ministry was exercised but very partially : St. Patrick * See St. Jerome, Prol. ad L. 3. Comment, in Jeremiam, and Prol. ad L. 1. of the same Commentaries. f Bolland. Vita S. Patricii, p. 580. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. 13 admits, in the works attributed to him, that he did encounter, in the earlier portion of his progresses through Ireland, persons who had been baptized ; and undoubtedly his successful reception here must have been greatly attributable to these precursors. Their labours and pious exercises were the faint twilight of the Christian revelation, that first broke upon Ireland, and but foretokened the coining of him, who was happily to fulfil the alleged prediction of the Magian prophets,* and whom all tradition and bi- ography mark as the apostle of universal Ireland. It is not necessary here to enter into the contro- versies, that some Hardouins have sought to raise against the voice of history, in reference to the birth- place, the era, and even the existence of this Irish missionary. If the two last points of scepticism were as innocent as the first, they should never have been noticed ; all have, however, been discussed in the " Essay" before alluded to, to which it may here suffice to refer. The results of his preaching are yet more evident ; it threw a sudden charm over the island ; the inquiring flocked to him from every quarter, and went back to their families, converts and proselytes ; episcopal jurisdictions were marked out, and prelates and clergymen were appointed, in numbers sufficient for the labours of religious con- troversy and spiritual direction. Ecclesiastical schools were every where established ; the country was filled ■ " A perverse and obstinate prophet shall come from parts beyond the sea, to preach a new doctrine, to whom many will lend their at- tention, and few resist his progress." Colgan. Trias Thaum. p. 123. 14 MEMOIRS OF with bishops, priests, and religious bouses ; the monks dispersed themselves over every district, and no place was more justly celebrated for the sanctity and learn- ing of its several monastic fraternities. The retreats, which they selected, they cleared and cultivated with their own hands ; they fasted and prayed without in- termission, instructing even more by their example than their precept, until the country of their mission was hallowed by the glorious appellation — the Island of Saints. It has been remarked, that this " quick and easy reception of Christianity in Ireland, is an unequivocal proof, not only of the liberal and tolerating spirit of the religion it supplanted, but also of enlightened civilization and charitable forbearance, certainly with- out parallel in the early records of the Christian world." The glorious result must also bear eloquent testimony to the mild and conciliating manners of the new priesthood, the charities with which they insinuated their doctrine into the heart of the country, founding their seminaries where the Magi (as the pagan priesthood of Ireland were properly denomi- nated) had taught, enclosing their casiols in the groves of the ancient rites, carving the symbol of Christianity on the pillar stones of heathenism ; con- secrating, as stations for prayer, those wells which had been invested with immemorial superstitions, kind- ling the bel-tinne for purposes of innocent diversion, perpetuating the sacred fire on the altar of the Most High, and above all, constructing the simple models of their churches in the shadow of the round towers ; THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. 15 thus, in every scene and object, imperceptibly suc- ceeding to the veneration and authority of their pagan predecessors. 