Identifier: historyofcountyd05ball (find matches)
Title: A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ball, F. Erlington (Francis Elrington), d. 1928
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) -- History
Publisher: Dublin : Alex. Thom
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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herprofessed to be in great want of money, and began again to thinkof leaving Ireland. Once more Chichester urged that suchemployment might be given him as would enable him to live where he was a principal member of the commonwealth ; andhe was more successful than on the previous occasion, forChristopher, who followed the letter to the Kings court, was 1 Cal. S. P.,Iiel., 1606-08, p. 515. - lbid.,i,.bZo. ^/4u/., 1G08-10, p. 191. * Ibid., 1606-08, p. 53o. Sir Garret Moores father, Sir Edwr.rd Moore, wasniiirried several times, and much confusion has arisen asto his wives, and as to theirsomewhat numerous liusbands. According to a Harleian Manuscript, one of his wiveswas the widow of Wontworth of Essex (Diet. Nat. Biog., xxxviii, 347) ; and, as willbe mentioned later on, (.hristophers wife was a daughter of that liouse. In a pedigreeof her familj licr father is said to have married as his second wife the widow of SirEdward Moore. Which of the two versions is correct 1 cannot determine.
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X o OS IN JACOBEAN TIMES. 99 given a command in the army such as he had long coveted.Whether his visit to England was undertaken to press his claimfor employment, or to strengthen his position in regard to thecharge against Moore, is not clear; but the charge against Moorewas discussed while he was at Court, and a promise of encourage-ment and comfort was given him on account of the enemies whomhe had made in doing service to the King.- He stayed in Englandonly a week or two, but on his return to Ireland he was confined toHowth for some months by what he calls a strange disease. Hismilitary command does not seem to have proved so profitable as heexpected, and in September he wrote to the Earl of Salisburypraying for some further mark of the Kings favour. Unless itwere granted to him, he said that he would go to reside in England,as he preferred to live on small means there than in Ireland, andhe asked for a reply soon, as the best season to obtain a tenant forhis castle and demesne wa

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