appointed to this Church. His successor here was William Chappel, who had been John Milton's tutor at Cambridge, and who, according to Symmonds, was the reputed author of the celebrated "Whole Duty of Man:" he was afterwards Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and Bishop of Cork and Ross. The titular Bishop of Down and Connor, who died in 1628 during his imprisonment in the Castle, on a charge of conspiring with foreign powers against the government, was buried in this churchyard at four in the morning, before the citizens were astir.

"St. Warburr's," says a writer in 1635, "is a kind of cathedral ;* herein preacheth judicious Dr. Hoile about ten in

Next to the church, and almost on the site of the present passage into the female school, stood Blue Boar-alley, so called from a sign at its entrance; it ran to the rere of Daly's tavern, in which, down to the year 1818, the principal Orange lodges of Dublin used to hold their meetings. Next to this, from an early period, was located the "Main Guard" of the city, referred to in the following extracts from the original unpublished official record of the proceedings of the Courts Martial, in Dublin, during the Protectorate.

"Att a Court Martiall held at the Castell 190 Martii, 1651.”

"James Lutrill Informant; Evan Jones Defdt, soldier under Captn. Hewlett:

"This day the Defdt being convicted for stealing the Iron and sockett of a pump worth 5s. of the informant's goods, ordered, that he shall ride the wooden horse at the maine guarde, with two musketts att each heele, with the iron and sockett att his necke and inscription on his breaste for one hower." "Symon Donelan Informant. Thomas Worthen and Thomas Kardell Defdts. 2 Julii, 1652. The Defendants being accused for the violent taking of 5s. in money and 8s. worth of goods from the Informant and others in protection, and thereof founde guilty, it was ordered, that they should be whipt from the main guard to ye Gallows and backward againe to ye sd guard, each of them to receive 40 lashes, being first dismounted and reduced as foote souldiers into Captn Woodcock's Company."

The station of the Main Guard appears to have been afterwards used as a watch-house, but the vestiges of its original use were preserved in the name of "Gun-alley," situated next the watch-house, and in which, at the commencement of the present century, the parish engines were kept. "Blue Boar-alley" and "Gun-alley" have been entirely erased by the erection of the modern parish schools on their site.

The Goldsmith's Hall was held till late in the last century in the house nearly opposite to Hoey's-court: it was the general place so early as 1742, for holding auctions of plate and valuables. In this Hall was the office of the Assay master and receiver of the duties upon plate.

The "Yellow Lion" Tavern was also in Werburgh-street; in it we find a lodge of Free Masons meeting so early as 1725. Here also was the "Cock Ale-house," over which, in 1746, William Kelly, the fencing master, kept his school. He was the son of Cornelius Kelly, of whom we have before spoken. John Bowes, the Solicitor-General, and after

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the morning, and three in the afternoon; a most zealous preacher, and general scholar in all manner of learning, a mere cynic." Dr. Hoyle, the friend of Ussher, and the "tutor and chamber fellow" of Sir James Ware, was elected Professor of Divinity in, and Fellow of, Trinity College, Dublin; he sat in the Assembly of Divines, witnessed against Laud, and in 1648 was appointed master of University College, Oxford. In the seventeenth century St. Werburgh's church was the burial place of many of the chief Anglo-Irish families the gallant Sir Arthur Blundell, who had served in Elizabeth's wars, and commanded the troops sent from Ireland to assist Charles I. at Carlisle, was interred here in 1650; as was also in 1666, Sir James Ware, Auditor General, confessedly the ablest Anglo-Irish antiquary of his time. "He was buried," says his biographer, "in the Church of St. Werburgh, in the city of Dublin, in a vault belonging to his family, without either stone or mental inscription. But he had taken care in his life time to erect a monument for himself by his labours more lasting than any mouldering materials. To the dis-: grace of the literary classes of Dublin, no memorial marks. the resting place of one of the most distinguished scholars ever produced by their city. Ware's fame was not

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wards, in 1756, Lord Chancellor, resided in Werburgh-street from 1730 to 1742; and here in 1732 died Edward Worth, one of the most eminent physicians of his day in Ireland. Being suspected of Jacobitism, he was satirized under the name of "Sooterkin,” in a poem published in 1706, and accused of being an atheist. Dr. Worth was the greatest and most "curious" book collector of his time. He left his library, valued at £5000, to Stevens' Hospital (where it is still preserved), together with £100 for fitting it up, and a legacy of £1000. One thousand volumes

of his collection were left by him to Trinity Collge, Dublin, with an annuity of ten pounds for a yearly oration in praise of Academic learning. He also bequeathed £120 per annum, for ever, to Merton College, Oxford, where he had received his education. The remainder of his immense property devolved to Edward Worth of Rathfarnham, a distant relative.

In Werburgh-street, towards the middle of the last century, resided Edmond Dillon, an apothecary and the most expert player at hurling of his time. To him was apprenticed William O'Reilly, who afterwards became one of the best comedians of his day. On his death, in 1791, his funeral was attended to the churchyard of St. James, with the largest concourse of people seen for many years; so deep was the regret of the citizens of Dublin at losing their favorite actor, who, it may be observed, was nephew to the famous Count O'Reilly of Spain.

confined to Ireland; his writings are well known and esteem ed onthe Continent, and their high merit was recognized, even at the time of their publication, by Bochart, Selden, and Sir Robert Cotton. In 1672, Edward Wetenhall was curate of St. Werburgh's He was appointed Bishop of Cork and Ross in 1678, and of Kilmore in 1699. A noted controversialist he wrote against Baxter, Stillingfleet, and William Penn; and attacked Sherlock in a treatise entitled-" The Antiapology of the melancholy Stander by," 4to, 1693. He also wrote "The Wish: being the tenth satire of Juvenal, paraphrastically rendered in Pindarick verse," published at Dublin in 1675, and dedicated to Murrogh, Lord Viscount Blessington. Wetenhall was the author of the well known Greek and Latin Grammars which have gone through innumerable editions, and are still in use. William King, subsequently Archbishop of Dublin, and author of the celebrated treatise, "De origine mali," was minister here from 1679 to 1688. In King James's time, Pierce Butler, Viscount Galmoy, a distinguished soldier, was, "for some insolent or ill ⚫ actions committed by him in these days in the Parish Church of St. Werburgh's, Dublin, ordered to do penance in the said church, but it was remitted for some certain mulct to be given for the use of the poor of that Parish." "This," says a contemporary, "I saw publickly performed at a vestry in the said church."

Samuel Foley, who succeeded Dr. King, was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor in 1694, in which year he published, in the "Philosophical Transactions," the first account given to the public of the Giant's Causeway. "Good John" Stearne, afterwards Dean of St. Patrick's, officiated here from 1702 to 1706. He was distinguished by his munificence to our literary establishments, his splendid collections of books and manuscripts, and his unbounded charity to the poor, as well as by his profuse hospitality; for Dean John's "beef and claret" were long famous in Dublin. Edward Synge was for six years minister of this parish, "preaching almost constantly to crowded congregations:" owing to his zeal for the House of Hanover, he was promoted in 1714 to the Bishopric of Raphoe, and in 1716 to the See of Tuam. His theological works are highly esteemed, and have been published in four volumes. He incurred much censure for some expressions used in a sermon at St. Werburgh's, on Sunday, 3d October, 1714 : a

contemporary manuscript in our possession states, "that it was publicklie said in the City that the Doctor was preaching a new religion;" he accordingly printed the obnoxious sermon, as he says himself, "to put a stop to the false and altogether groundless reports that had been spread abroad concerning it." Dr. Synge, it has been remarked, was the son of one Bishop, the nephew of another, and the father of two Bishops, namely, Nicholas, Bishop of Killaloe, and Edward, Bishop of Elphin, commonly called "Proud Ned."

In this church, in the last century, the charity sermons for relief of the surviving soldiers who had fought for King William III. were generally preached. The ungrateful manner in which those men were treated by the party who owed its ascendancy to their exertions, has been noticed by a late Presbyterian writer:

"Instead of being in any wise rewarded, they did not even receive the amount of pay which was acknowledged by parliament to be justly due to them. In 1691 the officers and men of both garrisons constituted Colonel Hugh Hamill of Lifford, their agent and trustee, and authorized him to make the necessary applications to the crown and to parliament for their arrears. Seven years afterwards he resigned this office, and his brother, William Hamill, who resided principally in England, was appointed in his room. He used every effort in his power on behalf of his employers, but without success; and in 1714 he published a statement of his proceedings and a strong appeal to the public, entitled A Memorial by William Hamill, Gent., agent and trustee for the officers and soldiers of the two late garri sons of Londonderry and Enniskilling in Ireland, their relicts and representatives. Dedicated to his principals.' Lond. 1714, 8vo. pp. 40. This effort in their favour met with no better success; and he was again compelled to lay their hard case before the nation in a second publication with this sarcastic and significant title, A view of the danger and folly of being public-spirited and sincerely loving one's country, in the deplorable case of the Londonderry and Enniskilling regiments; being a true and faithful account of their unparalleled services and sufferings at and since the Revolution. To which is added the particular case of William IIainill, Gent. their agent.' Lond. 1721, 4to. pp. 74. From this work it appears that, after two and thirty years tedious and fruitless negotiations, the following arrears were still due to the eight regiments that formed the garrison of Derry during the siege :-Baker's regiment, £16,274. 9s. 8d; Mitchelburn's, £9,541. 16s.; Walker's, £10,188. 13s. 6d.; Munroe's, £8,360. 2s.; Crofton's, £7,750. 11s. 6d. ; Hamill's, £8,969. 13s. 6d; Lane's, £8,360. 2s.; Murray's, £5,312. 9s. 6d. ; making a total of £74,757. 17s. 8d., not a farthing of which appears to have been ever paid."

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Although recent researches among original documents have proved that the garrison of Derry* vastly exceeded the number of its besiegers, and that the history of other events of these wars has been equally falsified, no palliation is to be found for the shameful manner which the Irish Williamite officers and soldiers were defrauded by their employers.

In 1715, we learn from official authority that the parish church of St. Werburgh's was "so decayed and ruinous, that the parishioners could not with safety assemble therein for the performance of Divine Service, and likewise, so small in extent, that great numbers of the conformable inhabitants were forced either to neglect the public worship of Almighty God or repair to other parish churches,” and as the parishioners were mostly shop-keepers and tradesmen who paid “great and heavy rents, the king granted the plot of ground on which the Council Chamber formerly stood, towards the rebuilding of

The account hitherto received of the siege of Derry in 1689 is now proved by incontestable evidence to be totally false. When that town was besieged, the number of its armed garrison amounted to 12,000 men, exclusive of 20,000 inhabitants; yet, although aided by an English fleet of 30 sail, they allowed themselves to be blockaded for three months by a miserably provided force of 6,000 Jacobites, who were unable to make any regular attack on the place, and obliged to divide their men to oppose the Enniskilleners. The Williamites, who deserved merit for their services in these wars, were deprived of their just recompense by the fraudulent and mendacious representations of the Rev. Colonel George Walker, who arrogated all the merit to himself, and while the foreign soldiers were fully paid, Colonel Mitchelburne and other Irishmen, deserving well of the Prince of Orange, were allowed to die of starvation.

Another gross misrepresentation still exists with regard to Colonel Lundy, Governor of Derry. "The real facts connected with Lundy's conduct in the North, and afterwards in London, are, that he appeared before a Parliamentary Committee, where, on examination, he alleged, as the cause of his want of success, that he could not get the Ulster Williamites to stand before the Irish; and, moreover, he offered to submit to a trial in Derry itself, for whatever could be alleged against him. But a Committee of the principal Williamites-on which was, amongst others, his reverend calumniator, and the self-assumed military Governor of Derry, Walker-gave it as their opinion, that it was not expedient such a trial should take place. Yet this Lundy, whom the Ulster Williamites evidently would not dare to try, because they could not find him guilty of any thing, but not being able to resist the Irish in the field with a set of runaways, has been annually burned in effigy ever since by the Derry Orangemen, as a traitor." For further remarks on the falsification of the history of the Irish wars of the Revolution, as demonstrated by the researches of Mr. O'Callaghan, the reader is referred to the IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. I., 452, 462.