. The life and letters of the great Earl of Cork. (Ajuifs^^criy&sft^rvM/w^-iJC. CHAPTER XIII THE LORD JUSTICES SONS-IN-LAW 1630-1633 Doant thou marry for munny, but goa wheer munny is. Northern Farmer. In July of the year 1630 a boat, manned by a solitary sailor,put out with great precaution from the rocks of Howth andslipped with all possible haste across to Holyhead. Yet thissailor was no fugitive escaping from justice, or dare-devil insearch of adventure ; he was an official messenger from thegreatest man in Ireland, sent to warn three belted earls thatthey were in danger of being snapped u
. The life and letters of the great Earl of Cork. (Ajuifs^^criy&sft^rvM/w^-iJC. CHAPTER XIII THE LORD JUSTICES SONS-IN-LAW 1630-1633 Doant thou marry for munny, but goa wheer munny is. Northern Farmer. In July of the year 1630 a boat, manned by a solitary sailor,put out with great precaution from the rocks of Howth andslipped with all possible haste across to Holyhead. Yet thissailor was no fugitive escaping from justice, or dare-devil insearch of adventure ; he was an official messenger from thegreatest man in Ireland, sent to warn three belted earls thatthey were in danger of being snapped up by a pirate. It wassomewhat humiliating that the Lord Justice of Ireland coulddo no more to secure his friends safety than to pay amessenger five pounds to secretly warn them of their danger ! However, the warning was in time ; the party avoided thenotice of the pirate by putting out from Beaumaris, and theyall—Lord Ranelagh, Lord Kildare, and Lord Dungarvan,with Arthur Loftus and Arthur Jones, arrived without furtheradventures in Dublin
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