1784.

1789.

POSTMASTERS-GENERAL OF IRELAND.

(From a Return made to the House of Commons in 1844.)

William-Henry, earl of Clermont.
James, viscount Clifden; and

William Brabazon Ponsonby. July 16. 1806.
William Brabazon Ponsonby; and

Charles, lord Loftus. Jan. 14.

Charles, lord Loftus, afterwards earl of
Ely; and

1807.

Richard Hely, earl of Donoughmore;

and

Rt. hon. Henry Fitzgerald, commonly called lord Henry Fitzgerald. April

19.

Charles-Henry St. John, earl O'Neill; and

Richard, earl of Clancarty. May 2. Charles-Henry St. John, earl O'Neill; and

Laurence, earl of Rosse. Dec. 1.

By the act 1 William I. cap. 18, the two separate offices of Postmaster-General of Great Britain, and Postmaster-General of Ireland, were consolidated and united into one office, to possess the same powers, and to be subject to the same penalties, as the former two; and the appointments of the secretary and the other officers of the Post-office at Dublin, were thereafter vested in the Postmaster-General in London.

LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.

THE chief magistrate of Dublin had conferred upon him the distinction of "Lord" Mayor, by king Charles I., 1641; but the first Mayor that enjoyed the title was sir Daniel Bellingham, in 1665.- Connellan's Annals of Dublin.

1799-1800. John Sutton *, and John Exshaw.

1746-7. Richard White *, and William Walker. 1800-1. Charles Thorp.

ARCHBISHOPRICS AND BISHOPRICS OF IRELAND.

THERE were formerly four Archbishoprics and eighteen Bishoprics in Ireland, many of which included merged sees. By the Church Temporalities Act, 3 & 4 William IV., cap. 37. (passed Aug. 14, 1833), the Archbishoprics of Cashel and Tuam were eventually abolished, on the decease of the then existing archprelates; and the suffragan bishoprics were, in like manner, reduced from eighteen to ten by the union of certain of the sees, accordingly as they became vacant, whether by the decease or the translation of the respective prelates:

All these sees have now merged in the sees directed by the above-named act; the see of Clogher (united to Armagh in 1850) being the last.

ARCHBISHOPRIC OF ARMAGH.

ST. PATRICK, the Apostle of Ireland, built a church, and fixed a bishop's see, here in the year 444 or 445. One Daire, a man of great affluence and high reputation among his own people, granted the site whereon the church was built, near the river Callan. The bishops were not invested with the pallium until the year 1152 (March 9), when it was also conferred (at the hands of the cardinal-priest, John Paparo, legate from pope Eugene III.) on the sees of Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam. At that period, the dignity of "Primate of all Ireland" was recognised as belonging to the Archbishops of Armagh, of whom Gelasius was the first.

The archdiocese includes four parishes in the county of Derry, one-third of the county of Tyrone, and nearly all of the counties of Armagh and Louth. The province over which the Archbishop presides as metropolitan, comprises the dioceses of Meath, Clogher, Derry, Down and Connor, and Dromore, Tuam, Clonfert, with Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh. His grace is, ex officio, prelate of the order of St. Patrick, lord almoner to the queen, vice-chancellor of the university of Dublin, and a member of the Irish privy council. The episcopal residence is in Armagh.

Amalve (O'Murid)

1184

Thomas O'Connor

1185

Eugene (Mac Gillivider)

1206

Luke Nettervill

1220

[See vacant 3 years.]

[The see was vacant for some years, ex-
cept at the time that archbishop Dow-
dall filled it during the reign of Mary.]

Donato Fidatra; translated from Clogher 1227 Adam Loftus; resigned

Thomas Lancaster, friar of Salisbury
John Long

- 1562 - 1568

John Garvey; translated from Kilmore
Henry Ussher, archdeacon of Dublin -
Christopher Hampton, bishop elect of Derry
James Usher; translated from Meath (died

1589 1595

1613

- 1624

1272

- 1305

Walter de Jorse, Dominican friar; resigned
Roland Jorse, Dominican friar; resigned
Stephen Segrave, rector of Stepney, Lon-
don

Richard Fitz Ralph

David O'Hiraghty

Milo Sweetman, friar of Kilkenny

John Colton, dean of St. Patrick; resigned
Nicholas Fleming, a secular priest
John Swayn, rector of Gall Irim, Meath;
resigned

John Prene

1655)

John Bramhall; translated from Derry - 1661
James Margetson; translated from Dublin - 1663
Michael Boyle; translated from Dublin - 1678
Narcissus Marsh; translated from Dublin - 1703
Thomas Lindsay; translated from Raphoe 1714
Hugh Boulter; translated from Bristol
John Hoadley; translated from Dublin
George Stone; translated from Derry
Richard Robinson; translated from Kildare
(created lord Rokeby, of Armagh, in
1777)

1724

- 1742 - 1747

- 1765

William Newcombe; translated from Water-
ford

- 1795

John Mey

1444

The PRESENT (1851) Archbishop of
Armagh.

BISHOPRIC OF CLOGHER.

(Now united to the Archbishopric of Armagh.)

THIS see was founded by St. Macartin, who was one of the earliest disciples of St. Patrick, "an indefatigable assistant to him in preaching the word of God, so he was called the staff and support of his old age." He fixed the see at Clogher, where he also built a monastery "at the command of St. Patrick, in the street before the royal seat of the kings of Ergal." The diocese comprises the counties of Monaghan and Fermanagh, with parts of Tyrone, Donegal, and Louth. It is suffragan to Armagh, and on the decease of the present bishop, it will merge into that see. Incorrectness is the least fault in the accounts of the early bishops; we shall therefore name those

This prelate was appointed by the king; but the pope would never confirm him in the see, and appointed Robert Wauchope, a Scotsman, who was never allowed possession.

only, occurring previously to the twelfth century, that we find mentioned in contemporary histories.1

St. Cenfail: died in

Airmeadach; who is said to have written a

Miler or Miles Macgragh; translated to
Cashel, 1571; first Protestant bishop 1570
[See vacant many years.]

George Mountgomery, dean of Norwich in
England

1605

[He held the sees of Derry and Raphoe with this resigning these, he got Meath, which he held with this see until his death.]

Matthew Mac Catasaid I., chancellor
Armagh

731

898

929

1126

1139

1182

James Spottiswood

1621

Henry Jones, dean of Ardagh; translated to Meath

1645

Ross

of

1316

1320

Richard Tennison; translated from Killala
and Achonry; translated to Meath
St. George Ash; translated from Cloyne;
translated to Derry

John Sterne; translated from Dromore
Robert Clayton; translated from Cork and

John Garnet; translated from Leighlin
and Ferns

John Hotham; translated from Ossory
William Foster; translated from Kilmore
John Porter; translated from Killala
Lord John-George de la Poer Beresford;
translated from Raphoe; translated to
Dublin

1691

1697 - 1717

1745

- 1758

. 1782

1796

1798

1819

Hon. Percy Jocelyn; translated from
Leighlin and Ferns: deprived
Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham; trans-
lated from Leighlin and Ferns
[On the death of lord Robert Tottenham
in 1850, the see of Clogher was united
to the archbishopric of Armagh.]

1820

1822

ARCHBISHOPRIC OF DUBLIN.

THIS see is supposed to have been founded by St. Patrick, about the year 448. It became archiepiscopal in 1152. See Armagh. There are two cathedrals, both situated in the city of Dublin, a most rare thing; one is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and is called Christ-Church; the other is dedicated to St. Patrick. The diocese comprises, with the see of Kildare, lately annexed, the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, part of the King's and Queen's Counties, and a part of Wexford. The province includes the dioceses of Dublin, Kildare, Ossory, Limerick, Cork, Killaloe, and Cashel. The Archbishop is primate of Ireland, and is ex officio chancellor of the order of St. Patrick,

1 Sir James Ware names forty-five bishops between 506 and 1126; of whom eleven are named between the death of St. Macartin, in 506, and the death of Laserian, in 571.

2 The family name of this bishop is lost; for these that he is here called by are assumed names, according to a custom often practised among ecclesiastics, to express their devotion to Christ, or some saint. For Mælisa means the servant of Christ; and the other name, the son of the servant of St. Kiaran.

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