patrick. His widow married Michael O'Flaherty, Esq., of Park, near Spiddal, in the county of Galway, son of Roderick O'Flaherty, the celebrated antiquarian and historian, author of the 'Ogygia,' and many other works. Roderick O'Flaherty outlived his son Michael, who died without issue, and who assigned his estate of Park to his stepson, Rickard Fitzpatrick, who was Sheriff of the town of Galway in 1730, and M. P. from 1749 to 1761, in which latter year he died without issue, and was succeeded by his nephew, Edmond Fitzpatrick, Sheriff of Galway in 1769, 1789, 1794, and 1797.

George Morris, by his marriage with Catherine Fitzpatrick, obtained the property at Spiddal, where, and at the house in the west suburbs of Galway, afterwards called Dominick-street, his descendants have since resided.

John Fitzpatrick died in the year 1709, at the house of his son-in-law, George Morris, in the west suburbs of Galway, leaving personal chattels to the amount of £6000 and £1500 in gold and silver, as appears by his will.

Andrew Morris, Esq., of Spiddal and Galway, was the only son of George Morris, and intermarried with Monica Browne, of the ancient family of Gloves, near Athenry, in the county of Galway. He left two sons, George and James.

George Morris, Esq., died in India, leaving two daughters, who married respectively Major Macan, of the county of Louth, and Sir Lionel Smith, a Judge in India.

James Morris, Esq., of Spiddal and Galway, married Deborah Lynch, daughter of Nicholas Lynch, Esq., of Galway, merchant, and niece of George Staunton, Esq., of Cargins, in the county of Galway, whose son accompanied Lord Macartney on his embassy to China, and received a baronetcy. James Morris died in 1813. He had three sons: 1, Ambrose Morris, Captain in the 64th Regiment, killed at the battle of Talavera, in Spain, and who was unmarried; 2. Michael Morris, of Spiddal and Galway, who died in 1826 unmarried; and 3, Martin Morris, Esq., J. P., of Spiddal and Galway, born in 1784, and married in 1822, to Julia, daughter of Doctor Charles Blake, of Galway. He was the first High Sheriff of the county of the town of Galway, in the year 1841, and was the first Catholic who held office since 1690. He died in 1862, and left two sons:

I. Michael, of whom presently.

II. George Morris, Esq., of Well Park, Galway, J. P. for the county and for the town of Galway. He was High Sheriff of the town for two consecutive years-1860 and 1861-and was unanimously elected M. P. for the town in April, 1867. He retired at the general election in November, 1868.

The Right Hon. Michael Morris was born in 1827, at Dominick-street house; was educated in Galway; entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1847, obtaining the first Moderatorship and Gold Medal; he was High Sheriff of the town of Galway in 1849; was called to the Bar the same year; became Recorder of Galway in 1857, and was the first Catholic who filled the office; was made a Queen's Counsel in February, 1863; was elected M. P. for the town of Galway at the general election in July, 1865, having the largest majority any member ever was returned by; became Solicitor-General for Ireland in July, 1866; was re-elected M. P.; became AttorneyGeneral for Ireland in October, 1866, and one of Her Majesty's Privy Council; was again unanimously re-elected M.P. in February, 1867; was raised to the Bench as one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in March, 1867. He married, in September, 1860, Anna, the daughter of the late Right Hon, Baron Hughes, and has, with daughters, one son, Martin Henry Fitzpatrick Morris, born in 1867.

Arms. Or a fess dauncettie sable; a lion rampant on base sable.
Crest.-A lion's head, erased, argent guttee de sang.
Motto.- Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos.

NOTE 3.-PAGE 622.

Captain Roger O'Shaughnessy.

This unfortunate officer, whose fine property was confiscated after his death, was brother-in-law of the Colonel of the regiment, Lord Clare, being married to his Lordship's sister, Lady Helena, by whom he had two children, William and Helena. See O'Shaughnessy's pedigree in this work. Mr. O'Callaghan, in his ably-written history of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, page 336, speaking of this William, who died a Major-General in the French service, says that he commanded a troop in Ireland in 1689. "In 1689, or on the commencement of the war in Ireland, William O'Shaughnessy, then only about fifteen, was captain of a company of 100 men, with which he served there, till sent to France in the spring of 1690, in the regiment of the Hon. Daniel O'Brien (afterwards that of Clare), and July 10th, 1691, was commissioned by Louis XIV. as a captain in that corps." Now, most probably, the date of the commission given by Mr. O'Callaghan was the period when William O'Shaughnessy first entered the regiment of his cousin, the Hon. Daniel O'Brien, which was then in France. In none of the lists of officers who served King James in Ireland— not even in D'Alton's King James's Irish Army List for the year 1689—can I find the name of William O'Shaughnessy. Now, it is quite evident that the painstaking Dermot Oge Cloran, who wrote so much, particularly about the O'Shaughnessy sept, with whose history he was so well acquainted, and whose muniments were in his possession for many years, in one of his documents, kindly lent to me by Henry Cloran, Esq., M. D., says, 'William O'Shaughnussie, who is now a student, or soldier in France.' The inference to be taken from this quotation is, that William O'Shaughnessy left Ireland in his youth, a student, to complete his education in a French college, which was then usual with the gentry of this country. It is not likely that if he left this country a captain in the army, he would, when abroad, leave his regiment and enter college. It was usual with the Jacobite gentlemen in those days, when their education was completed, to enter the army; and the cautious Dermot Oge, knowing that William O'Shaughnessy intended doing so, in speaking of him, adds the words, or soldier' after student, which shows plainly that he was not then aware whether he had left college and entered the regiment of his first cousin, the Hon. Daniel O'Brien. Dermot Oge also plainly states that Captain Roger O'Shaughnessy, William's father, who served in the Yellow Dragoons, the regiment of his brother-in-law, Lord Clare, never recovered his health after receiving a letter from his beloved and only son, William, complaining bitterly of 'some bad treatment' which he received at the college he was attending. This, in all probability, meant corporal punishment, and it is not likely that such would be inflicted on a captain in the army. William was a high-spirited youth, and, probably, this bad treatment caused him to join the army sooner than he otherwise

would have done, as, according to the traditions of the Cloran and Blake-Forster families, he joined his cousin's regiment in France the year of his father's death. This also agrees with the text.

NOTE 4.-PAGE 622.

Captain Robert Forster.

This gentleman, who joined the Yellow Dragoons in 1690, was one of the witnesses to the will of John Forster of Crushnahaun, afterwards, when he became head of his family, of Clooneene and Rathorpe, who died at Dublin in 1703.

NOTE 5.-PAGE 622.

Captain James MacDonnell.

This gentleman was cousin of Lord Clare, the Colonel of the Yellow Dragoons. He was the eldest son and heir of Daniel MacDonnell, Esq., of Kilkee, and his wife, Penelope, third daughter of Daniel More O'Brien, of Dromore and Dough Castle, county of Clare, by Eleanor, his wife, daughter of Edmond Fitzgerald, commonly called the Knight of Glynn. The sister of this Penelope MacDonnell, Honora O'Brien, married her kinsman, Conor, second Lord Viscount Clare, of Carrigahoult Castle. In D'Alton's King James's Irish Army List for the year 1689, this officer is incorrectly called James McDaniell, and is placed fifth in the list of captains.

NOTE 6.-PAGE 627.

Colonel Simon Luttrell.

This brave officer was the eldest brother of Colonel Henry Luttrell, and is thus spoken of by Lodge in his account of the Earl of Carhampton's family:-"Simon, the eldest son, was Knight of the Shire for Dublin, and Lord Lieutenant thereof in the reign of King James II.; Governor of the town and garrison of Dublin, a Privy Councillor, and Colonel of a regiment of dragoons; he adhered to the fortune of King James II., com. manding an Irish regiment on foreign service, and was killed at the battle of Landen in 1693. He married, pursuant to Articles dated 16 August, 1672, Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Newcomen, of Sutton, in the county of Dublin, Bart. ; but having no issue, was succeeded by his brother Henry." It is necessary here to remark, concerning the treachery of Colonel Henry Luttrell, so fully alluded to in Note 115, page 509 of this work, that Lodge says-" At the beginning of the century, when party contests ran high in this kingdom, many injurious and groundless imputations arose against the character of Colonel Henry, touching his conduct at Limerick, and in the battle of Aughrim, but he was sufficiently justified on the former head by a letter from Thomas, Earl of Westmeath, a nobleman of the most strict honour and veracity." Any one anxious to see this letter will find it in the Appendix to Harris's Life of King William, page 73, and in Ferrar's History of Limerick, page 354-5.

NOTE 7.-PAGE 624.

Captain Francis Forster.

This gentleman was the second son of the Major, and raised many men for King James during the war. He afterwards received a Colonel's commission from the King, on undertaking to raise a regiment in Ireland, should his Majesty return to assert his claims. He is also alluded to in Notes 12 and 185, pages 431 and 562.

NOTE 8.-PAGE 625.

Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Carroll.

D'Alton, in his King James's Irish Army List for the year 1689, incorrectly calls this officer Thomas. I have seen several returns and contemporary MSS. in which the patronymic of this officer is written with the 'O,' a letter which may be regarded as the Hall-mark of native Irish respectability.

This regiment formerly belonged to Colonel Thomas Trant, and, before him, to Sir James Cotter, called by Story, in his history of the war, Sir James 'Cotton.' He also states that the regiment consisted of six companies of sixty men each.

NOTE 9.-PAGE 625.

Colonel Thomas Maxwell.

This officer was afterwards Brigadier-General Maxwell.

NOTE 10.-PAGE 626.

Colonel Thomas Haggerston.

In all probability, this gentleman was Thomas, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Haggerston of Haggerston, Bart., Governor of Berwick, by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Howard, of Corby Castle, county of Cumberland. For an account of his family, see Note 165, page 547.

NOTE 11.-PAGE 626.

Colonel William Mansfield Barker.

This officer was slain at the battle of Aughrim, having previously obtained the rank of Brigadier-General. He is called 'Maunsell Barker' by D'Alton.

NOTE 12.-PAGE 628.

Major James Gibbons.

D'Alton, in his list, incorrectly calls this officer Gibbs.

NOTE 13.-PAGE 628.

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Porter.

Mr. D'Alton, in his King James's Irish Army List for the year 1689, gives Porter as Major in the Regiment of Fitz-James, and says 'the above Major, whose Christian name does not appear on this roll, was, it may be presumed, the Colonel James, member for Fethard in 1689, as he was early promoted to the rank of second Lieutenant-Colonel in this regiment.' This, however, could not have been, as, according to the MSS. of the Chevalier O'Gorman, he held that rank when the regiment was first raised. Therefore Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Porter should not be confounded with his contemporary, Colonel James Porter, M. P.

NOTE 14.-PAGE 631.

Colonel Sir Walter Blake, Bart.

Hardiman, in his History of Galway, says, on the authority of what he calls an original MS., that Sir Walter was the first Catholic gentleman who received a commission from William III., having raised a regiment of foot for his service after the surrender of Galway. I would certainly like to know where this original MS. was found; for, through the kindness of Sir Thomas E. Blake, D. L., of Menlough Castle, I was permitted to examine all his family papers, but could find no trace or record of Sir Walter having served in the army of William III. The tradition in the writer's family is, that he always held aloof from the Williamite Government. There is a painting of Sir Walter at Forster-street House, the residence of Captain Blake-Forster, in his Mayoralty robes, on the back of which is a curious and elaborate inscription.

NOTE 15.--PAGE 631.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Madden.

D'Alton, in his list for the year 1689, calls this officer Edward.