. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . ogether wastedand burned.^ The outlook could not have been blacker forhim. and in the summer of 1644 he joined other Irish peers inrepresenting to the King the unhappy and distracted condicion ofthe Itoyalists between the powerful armies of the Confederates andthe Scotch Covenanters. They said that their only security had Marquess of Ormondes Jlanuscripts, ii, 4, 37. ? Cane Papers, ix, 606 ; x, 619. 3 Jbid., xii, 424. * Trevelyan Papers, iii, 245. IN JACOBEAN
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . ogether wastedand burned.^ The outlook could not have been blacker forhim. and in the summer of 1644 he joined other Irish peers inrepresenting to the King the unhappy and distracted condicion ofthe Itoyalists between the powerful armies of the Confederates andthe Scotch Covenanters. They said that their only security had Marquess of Ormondes Jlanuscripts, ii, 4, 37. ? Cane Papers, ix, 606 ; x, 619. 3 Jbid., xii, 424. * Trevelyan Papers, iii, 245. IN JACOBEAN TIMES. Ill been the cessation; and as it was now expiring, they implored theKing to arbitrate between the Catholics and Protestants, and todeclare the Covenanters his enemies. To subsist in their presentdivided condition appeared to them vitterly impossible. Underthe burden of present misery, and fear of the future, Nicholas,Lord Howth, seems to have sank gradually, and he passed awaybefore December 22, on which dav his will was opened. Gilberts Hist, of Confederation and War in Ireland, iii, In the Prerogative Arms on Tomb. ( 112 ) CHAPTER VII. THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE DEVOLUTION. Nothing is more remarkable in the history of Howth than theserenity with wliich its owners regarded the great events of thelast half of the seventeenth century, and the security with whichthroughout that changeful period they held their estate and did notsuffer diminution of it even to the extent of a single acre. TheCommonwealth authorities could find no fault in the Lord Howthof their time, and the Parliament of James the Second and that ofWilliam the Third were in agreement as to the conduct of hisson being irreproachable. During the Commonwealth manyenvious glances must have been cast upon the peninsula by thehigh officials. They were not slow to appropriate to their ownuse any eligible residence in the neighbourhood of Dublin; andalthough the mountain of Howth was high aiul bar
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