Papers relating to the Duke of Ormonde's administration as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Overview
Transcriptions of pamphlets and correspondence and documents relating to the Duke of Ormonde's suppression of the rebellion in Ireland, mostly regarding public finance, as well as Ormonde's subsequent personal financial state.
Dates
- Creation: Approximately 1668-1688 [transcribed approximately 1713?]
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Full Extent
1 volume : 160 pages, stiff vellum binding, blind-ruled. Gold-tooled on light brown leather label on spine; right edge of label chipped and letter(s) missing. "Pro Patria" (Maid of Holland) with IV countermark. ; 31x20cm
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Volume written in a single fair hand, probably a clerk's, with a few corrections. The collection was formerly listed as "Collection relating to Ireland." Numbered items in the volume include:
Items 1-6. Attacks probably made circa 1668 and 1676 on Ormonde's handling of the Irish revenues in the 1660s, and replies thereto, i.e.: a manuscript copy of a printed attack; 4 third-person defenses of Ormonde; the hearing on May 12, 1676 at the Court in Whitehall of Ranelagh's attack and Ormonde's defense.
Items 7-16. "Papers copied from the originals found in the Duke of Ormonde's Red Desk after his death at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire," July 22, 1688, i.e.: 6 attempts at writing a vindication, an autobiography, or a history of Ireland; draft of a letter ostensibly to Ormonde from his factor Mathews about finances (actually written by Ormonde); letter from Ormonde to the King about his finances; letter from Ormonde to his successor the Earl of Rochester, Dublin December 28, 1684.
Physical Location
MS E29
Other Finding Aids
Detailed list of items found in volume available at ksrl.sc.ormondetranscript.pdf.
Custodial History
Phillipps MS 9046 (so marked in ink on inside front board), where it is called "Queries on the Present Condition of Ireland." Sir Thomas Phillipps' (1792-1872) source was Thomas Thorpe's (1791-1851) 1836 catalogue, item 933. The material in Thorpe's catalogue came from a number of libraries, including Sir Robert Southwell's. (Note that Southwell, a friend of Ormonde's, was writing a biography of him when he died in 1702. But most of the Southwell-provenance manuscripts in that lot were noted by Phillipps as being in pale Russia; the binding of our manuscript was not noted. In the 1720s Thomas Carte was collecting materials concerning Ormonde for the life that he published in 1736; but most of Carte's papers went to the Bodleian.) Marks in pencil, probably by bookdealers: "Ireland"; "921 8/8/-"; "a52.824"; "12/6"; "u/a."
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, P. S. O'Hegarty.
Subject
- Title
- Guide to the Ormonde Collection
- Subtitle
- Papers relating to the Duke of Ormonde's administration as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by am, 1961; alh, 1990; encoded by skt and mg, 2005.
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4197952246
- Preferred citation
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Ormonde Collection, Department of Special Collections, MS E29, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository