David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Killen testifies, “the critical circumstances in which Ireland was now placed, rendered it necessary that the government should be committed to more experienced and energetic hands than those who now held it under the Earl of Sunderland.” The Jacobite rebellion had broken out in Scotland, and a few of the Irish Peers were about to support it with volunteer troops. At last the Gazette announced, 23d August 1715, that Charles, Earl of Sunderland, having resigned the post of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Grafton and the Earl of Galway were appointed Lords Justices of that kingdom.” ”

“ God for the good that you do to mankind, grant you some easy years to do good upon earth, before you change for a happy eternity. So does desire and pray Lord Galway’s truly affectionate cousin, and faithfully such, to gratifie to the utmost of her ability,
“February 13, 1718 [new style.]
“R.Russell.”⁠ Threescore and ten of such years as Lord Galway had lived might seem to negative too plainly any such wish as the one expressed in the above letter; but it must be remembered that Lady Russell was twelve years his senior. ”

“ I, Henry de Massue, Earl and Viscount of Gallway, and Baron of Port Arlington, in the Kingdom of Ireland, being weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind, judgment, and memory, do make this my last Will and Testament in writing, in manner following:— First, I bequeath my soul to God’s mercy through Jesus Christ, and my body to the earth, to be privately interred by my executors, hereinafter named, in the Church belonging to the Parish wherein I shall happen to depart this life. ”

“ Love of wealth and honours would have kept him at home. Honourable principles and feelings brought him among us as a thoroughly qualified ambassador and soldier. The doubt is whether we were worthy of his offer of service to our struggling Protestant cause — not whether he was worthy of such honours and offices as we could bestow on him. ”

“ Geoffrey Fanning’s house was searched for arms — and as to the houses of the inhabitants of the County of Antrim, those baronies alone were searched which joined the sea-coast opposite to Scotland, and in or near to the estate of the Earl of Antrim, then a prisoner in the Castle of Dublin, and after the Pretender was landed in Scotland. Parliament adjourned from the 9th to the 20th of February. ”

“ And so he is introduced as “the Earl of Galway, a general in the army.” Nevertheless it was our old friend. Another old friend, Lord Tyrawley, was the Commander of the Forces in Ireland. The Viceregal speech artfully made use of the rising in Scotland, as implying that the Jacobites regarded their cause to be hopeless in Ireland. Several regiments were sent to North Britain, and their place was supplied by militia, as “a singular instance of the great confidence His Majesty places in the fidelity and good affection of his loyal subjects in Ireland.” ”

“ Lady Russell was his nearest surviving relative, and became his heiress at the age of eighty-four. The property of Stratton has passed out of Russell hands; and Lord Galway’s gravestone cannot now be recognised. ”

“ On the 25th of the same month, the Lords Justices were enabled to pass several Acts of the Parliament, particularly one for recognising King George’s title to the throne of Great Britain, France, and Ireland; and another Act for attainting the Duke of Ormond. The next business was the subjugation of the Phipps faction. On the nth December a military pension of £500 a-year was granted to Lord Galway in addition to his civil pension of £1000. ”

“ Giles' parish, Westminster, Lord Galway’s agent, and writer of the will; Everard Persevell (aged 63) , yeoman, of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex. It is specified after each legacy, that it is “to be paid within one year after my decease;” and as to annuities, they are “per annum for and during the term of his [or her] natural life, to be paid him [or her] by four equal quarterly payments, on the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of St John Baptist, and St. ”

“ Captain John Nicholas, of Dublin, £200. Henry Jordan, “my godson,” of Dun Shaclean, near Dublin, £100. Jacob Denis, of Waterford, clerk, £50.
V. — Legacies pro bono publico.
“Also, I give to the French Hospital in London, of which I am Governor, £1000, to be applied in such manner as Monsieur Philip Menard and the other directors of the said hospital shall think fit.” . . . “Also, I give and bequeath to the poor French Protestant Refugees in this kingdom, to be distributed to them by the Committee, £500.” . . . ”