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BUTLER JAMES, 1ST DUKE OF
ORMOND
A letter .... in answer to the .... Earl of Anglesey ....
his observations and reflections upon the Earl of
Castlehaven’s Memoires - London: 1682. pp. 4, 7.
Folio. A good copy in modern quarter calf. Wing O
448. A brief but scathing attack by the Duke dated
Dublin, 12 Nov. 1681 which begins: “My Lord, It is
now I think more than a year since I first saw a little
book, written by way of letter, called “Observations
and reflections on my Lord of Castlehaven’s
Memoires”: Wherein, though there are some things
that might lead the reader to believe that your
Lordship was the AUTHOR; yet there were many
more I thought impossible should come from you:
For it affirms many facts positively, which are easily
and authentically to be disproved: And from those
matters of fact, grossly mistaken, it deduced con-
sequences, raised inferences, and scatters glanc-
es injurious to the memory of the dead, and the
honour of some living: Amongst those that by the
blessing of God are yet living. I find myself worst
treated.” Sweeney 5123.
€250 - €350
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ANNESLEY, ARTHUR, EARL OF
ANGLESEY
A letter in answer to his Grace the Duke of
Ormond’s letter of November the 12th 1681 -
London: 1682. Folio. A good copy in modern
quarter calf. Wing A 3172. Arthur Annesley offers a
trenchant reply beginning: “My Lord, Your Grace’s
of the 12th of November, I received towards
the end of that month, and was not a little sur-
prised, after being threatened above a year with
your Graces answer to the “Observations and
Reflections on my Lord Castlehaven’s Memoires”,
which Your Grace takes notice you had seen
above a year before; to find them only most
satyrically burlesqued, and my intentions in the
writing of them most unnaturally misinterpreted
and misjudged, without giving instance of any one
particular, which could so much transport Your
Grace, or interest you to judge of a letter of mine
to another, with so invective heat and mistake.”
Annesley concludes with a list of contentious top-
ics on which he seeks information for his intend-
ed history. These include “The intrigues of the
Cessation, and Commissions for them, and the two
Peaces of 1646 and 1648 forced upon the King
by the Rebellious Irish. The grounds and trans-
actions about depriving Sir William Parsons from
being one of the Lords Justices .... The mystery
of Glamorgan’s Peace and his punishment .... The
passages concerning the Parliaments present of a
jewel to Your Grace.” etc. Sweeney 5124.
€250 - €350
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BUTLER, JAMES, 1ST DUKE OF
ORMOND
A proclamation concerning a cessation of arms.
Agreed and concluded on at Siggginstown, in the
county of Kildare, the fifteenth day of September
- London: October 21, 1643. 4to. A good copy in
modern half morocco. Wing I 605. Sweeney 485
quoting the Dublin edition which credits the agree-
ment on the King’s side to the “Lords Justice and
Council” and gives for date the 16th of September.
On the other hand this London reprint states that
it had been agreed to by James, Marquesse of
Ormonde, Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties
army in the Kingdom of Ireland, who it said was
acting on foot of a King’s commission dated the
31st of August. The Catholic team was headed by
Donogh Viscount Muskerry by virtue of an authority
given at Cashel on September 7th.
€200 - €400
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