MRP: 9th April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO

9th April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. 105-106

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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. 105-106]

Aprill y:e 9:th 1663

[f. 105]

Deare Brother

Once more give mee leave to sallute thee haveing an opportunity to send to Cap:t Millett,^[1] this inclosed was sent mee last night from M:r Raworth:^[2] I had forgotten in my severall lres to advise you y:t I recvd a Dimond Ring sent you by Cap:t Browne^[3] from Bimgee Parrack^[4] & 4 good Cornelian Rings large some of them, fitt for Banstrings (sic) [?]: I gave severall of them a way, as to M:r Vincent,^[5] M:r Bultell [Bulsell?]^[6] & other freinds, as I saw occasion, But lett mee tell you they weare not excellent, for hee y:t sent them in his lre promised to send you six good ones by y:e Truroro but I received none; y:e Dyamond I prayed M:r Dunckar^[7] to vallew hee offered mee 4s 10: & sayed hee would gett but Tenn shillings by it; my Brother Long^[8] was with mee, this day hee sayes hee wcvd á lre from Dixey Naper^[9] the young Roger Nevington^[10] & young Stevens;^[11] weare sorely putt to it, for they had noo provision for them of Bedding, w:ch you know I had provided

[f. 106]

by yo:r order & sent it aboard yo:r Shipp by Tenell [??]; pray Broth:r as it lyes in your way doo Dixy Naper all y:e good you cann, my Brother Longe often putts mee in mind of yo:r promise to shew his Godson^[12] all y:e favour you cann; Now á Word of y:e Lord Aungier^[13] it is not Certaine knowne whither hee bee slaine or not, it is y:e talke of y:e Towne, sum (sic) affirme it others denye it, yett Both patyes very Considerable, but if you will know my sednce [?]; I verily beleeve hee is slaine, & most are of my minde; I have looked in y:e Bannyans lre & finde hee sent y:e Chaw (sic), a Dyamond Ring, 4: Cornelyan Rings, & a Japan Stick, by M:r Nicho:s Buckeridge,^[14] y:e Bannians name is Bhimgee Cullian Parrack^[15] I deligt to take any occasion to Converse w:th you; O Deare Geo: shall I once more bee soo happy as to Injoy thy good Comp:a Truely I will answeer my selfe & hope God hath such a Blessing in store for mee & y:e rest of thy deare relations, wee all want thy presence, but in pticular my selfe who am destitute of a Comfort & support w:ch thow weart to mee in all my straights; Deare Brother Continew to love her y:t Loves thee, & shall ever acknowledge her selfe

Thy most highly oblidged
Sister
Elz:a Dalyson

Aprill y:e 9:th , 1663:

Deare Hart Cap:t Millett hath á Cristall Boate w:ch hee sayes you & hee will stoore [?] yo:r good wishes to mee much Longs to yo:r hands, & protestes it was maine Cause which putt him upon this voyadge, hee protestes a high [XXXX] for you, & designes now to signifie soo much to you, w:ch as you soo Cause lett him know I have; S:r Geo: Smyth^[16] hath a high vallue for him w:chbesides yo:r owne inclinations will make you love him who is yo:r Servant; But I am ever thine.

E.D

Notes

Sir Francis, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (b., 1558, d. 1632)

Francis Aungier was the eldest son of Richard Aungier, Esquire and Rose Steward. Richard Aungier was a barrister of Gray's Inn. The Aungier family originated from Cambridgeshire.

Francis attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering Gray's Inn in 1577, being made reader in 1602. He was appointed to the irish Privy Council, was made Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and was knighted all in the year 1609. Reappointed Master of the Rolls of Irleand by Charles I, 1625. Commissioner of the plantations at Munster in 1616 and Longford in 1620. Appointed a commissioner of the Great Seal in 1619. Created Lord Aungier, Baron of Longford in 1621. Resided in Dublin, having purchase the lands of the White Friars monastery.

Married three times; firstly to Douglas Fitzgerald; secondly to Anne Barne; thirdly to Margaret Cave. Five children by first two marriages, the eldest son being Gerard Aungier, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford, and the second son being Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Died 1632.^[17]

Gerald Aungier, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford (b.?, d. 1655)

Married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Onslow of West Clandon in Surrey. Died a widow in 1655, with no issue, and was succeeded by his nephew.^[18]

Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, & 1st Earl of Longford (b.?, d. 1700)

Son of Dr. Ambrose Aungier (b. ?, d. ?), Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Lancelot Bulkeley, the Archbishop of Dublin. Francis Aungier's brother was Ambrose Aungier, 2nd earl of Longford.

Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, was a captain of a troop of horse in 1660. He was made Viscount Longford in 1668 and obtained a patent for the incorporation of the town of Longford. He was created Earl of Longford in 1677. Appointed commissioner of the revenue in 1682 and keeper of the great seal in 1697.

Married firstly, Jane Carr, daughter of Sir Edward Carr of Hillingdon, and secondly, Lady Anne Chichester, younger daughter and co-heir of Arthur, 1st Earl of Donegal, widow of John Butler, 1st Earl of Gowran. Died without issue in 1700, when his titles went to his brother Ambrose Aungier.^[19]

Gerard Aungier (b. ?, d. 1677)

The second son of Dr. Ambrose Aungier and Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Lancelot Bulkeley, the Archbishop of Dublin. His elder brother was Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron of Aungier of Longford, who inherited the title from his uncle Gerard, 2nd Baron of Aungier of Longford, in 1655. At the death of Ambrose, 2nd Earl of Longford, in 1704, all the titles became extinct

Gerard Aungier had a younger brother, Ambrose, who succeeded his elder brother as the 2nd earl of Longford, in 1700, and two sisters, Douglas (sic), who married Edmund Ludlow, Esquire, in 1669, and Alice, who married Sir James Cuff, M.P.

Appointed to Surat in XXXX. Appointed governor of Fort Saint George, 1669.

Died 1677, a widower.

Possible primary sources

Bodleian Library, Oxford; Carte papers

MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 48: 17 April 1660 : Lord Aungier to Ormond :
- Written from: London
- Assures Lord Ormond of the writer's grateful sense of favours conferred upon his father, and his desire to find, or for Lord Ormond to open to him, some means of testifying it.

MS. Carte 30, fol(s). 667: 22 May 1660 : Aungier to Ormond
- Written from: London
- .. "We have a knot of Commissioners from Ireland attending the Parliament here, who being themselves concerned (and particularly Sir John Clotworthy) in the new 'Purchases' there, refuse to think themselves secure in any Parliament which shall be called in Ireland, except they can exclude out of the 'Act of Indemnity', ... all those who have had any hand in the Rebellion [i.e., not the great rebellion, but the Irish insurrection of 1641.]; - under the notion [that] they would [thus] comprehend all those of the Pope's Religion who have been either sequestered [sequestrated], or in arms. This work is driven hard. "And," adds the writer, " those exceptions which Your Lordship finds in the enclosed 'Proviso' have not been gained without some difficulty" ... Craves his Lordship's instructions thereupon, by the bearer ...

MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 81: 5 December 1660 : Albemarle to the Lords Justices of Ireland
- Written from: Cockpit [Whitehall]
- It is the desire of H.R.H. the Duke of York that Major Henry Bridgman be appointed Lieutenant of the Lord Aungier's standing troop of Horse in the King's Army of Ireland.

MS. Carte 41, fol(s). 310 : 13 December 1660 : The King to the Lords Justices of Ireland
- Written from: Whitehall
- Francis, Lord Aungier, to be Captain of one of the Standing Troops of the Army aforesaid. (i.e. Standing Regiment of Horse, in the Army aforesaid, whereof the Duke of Albemarle is Colonel)

Lord Aungier to Ormond MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 141-142 7 April 1661
- Contents: Describes, in detail the expedients, and fraudulent practices, in relation to "adventures" for lands confiscated, or intended to be confiscated in Ireland, to which the late Parliament at Westminster had recourse, in order to carry on the rebellion against his late Majesty; and more particularly the process called "doubling", according to which, says Lord Aungier, "whoever [had] first adventured £1,200; upon his advancing of £300 more, he had £3,000 allowed him, upon account", and for this £3000 had land, according to the "rates" set down for each Province respectively, in the Act;... "so that in every £3,000 thus doubled his Majesty is cheated of £1,800" [In Leinster, for every £600 a thousand acres of land were directed to be set out to the adventurer] ...The writer then adds various recommendations as to the course by which these abuses may be remedied or lessened, in the new settlement.

Aungier to Lane: written from Dublin MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 230 July 1661
- Contents:
The malice of some of the writer's enemies has excluded him from being one of the Lords Commissioners appointed to attend his Majesty, but therein, "they have", he adds, "done me a greater courtesy than they imagine, for thereby I shall have time to mind my own concerns, and those of my friends, and in particular yours, and your friends' recommended to my charge"; of the progress wherein he adds an account ...

Aungier to Ormond: written from Dublin MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 254 19 July 1661
- Contents:
Continues his report of parliamentary and of other political affairs in Ireland... Thinks that "The Bishop of Meath will die, at last, an honest man", - " for he has locked in close with us, & his parts are not a little useful to us. He is of opinion that Lords Mountrath and Orrery would not have one Irishman restored [to his estates] if they could prevent it. They are likewise grown very good friends with the Fanatics, who are all very good subjects, since their lands have been sold."... Humbly begs the Duke's favour, in relation to the writer's troop of horse.

NOTE: Extensive letters in the Carte papers of Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Lonford, in the Carte papers

British Library

Frances, Lord Aungier (1675): SEE: MS now in BL:

Essex Papers. Vol. IX. (ff. 462). June— Bee. 1675.

1. Account of the quarrel between the Lords and Commons, by
Francis, Lord Aungier ; London, 5 June, 1675. f. 21.

TNA

C 5/488/17 Godfrey v. Aungier: Middlesex. 1664

DEL 10/2 Signed will of Jane, widow of Gerald, Baron Aungier of Longford (dorse: Exhibited June 20 1662) 1661 Mar 31
- Jane Aungier, widow, would have been the aunt of Gerard Aungier, Sir George oxenden's friend and correspondent

PROB 11/163 Russell 1-57 Will of Sir Francis Aungier, Baron of Langford, Lord Aungier, Master of the Rolls in Ireland 26 February 1633
- Great-uncle of Gerard Aungier, Sir George Oxenden's friend and correspondent
PROB 11/158 Scroope 64-117 Will of Doctor John Aungier, Doctor of Law of Trinity College Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 12 October 1630
- How is Dr John Aungier related to the Aungier family of Dublin?

Possible secondary sources

Calendar of the state papers, relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office, 1660-[1670], Volume 1 (London, 1905)

↑ Captain Nicholas Millett, commander of the Loyal Merchant
↑ Robert Raworth, a lawyer of Gray's Inn and legal advisor to Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden
↑ Captain Browne may have been Captain Arnold Browne
↑ Bhimgee Parrack was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ ?John Vincent, a lawyer
↑ It is not clear who Mr Bultell was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Mr. Dunckar was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Long was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Dixy Naper was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Roger Nevington was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Stevens was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Long's godson was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Lord Aungier was Francis, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, the elder brother of Gerard Aungier. Francis had inherited the title from his uncle, Ambrose, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford, in 1655. Francis and Gerard were the first and second sons of Dr. Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and of Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Lancelot Bulkeley, the Archbishop of Dublin. Francis was a captain of a troop of horse in the Irish army, and presumably it was some dispute of honour which led to the rumour that he had been slaine. The rumour, however, proved to be wrong, and Francis lived till 1700, when the titles were inherited by his youngest brother, Ambrose Aungier. The titles became extinct on Ambrose's death in 1704 (Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18; Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS. Carte 41, fol(s). 310 : 13 December 1660 : The King to the Lords Justices of Ireland, Whitehall: 'Francis, Lord Aungier, to be Captain of one of the Standing Troops of the Army aforesaid [Standing Regiment of Horse, in the Army aforesaid, whereof the Duke of Albemarle is Colonel]
↑ Nicholas Buckeridge was XXXX
↑ Bhimgee Cullian Parrack was XXXX. See Missing faces
↑ Sir George Smith, London merchant
↑ 'Aungier- Baron Aungier, of Longford, Viscount Longford, and Earl of Longford' in Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18; 'Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Aungier,_1st_Baron_Aungier_of_Longford, viewed 28/01/12
↑ 'Aungier- Baron Aungier, of Longford, Viscount Longford, and Earl of Longford' in Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18
↑ 'Aungier- Baron Aungier, of Longford, Viscount Longford, and Earl of Longford' in Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Aungier,_1st_Earl_of_Longford, viewed 28/01/12

[1] Captain Nicholas Millett, commander of the Loyal Merchant

[2] Robert Raworth, a lawyer of Gray's Inn and legal advisor to Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden

[3] Captain Browne may have been Captain Arnold Browne

[4] Bhimgee Parrack was XXXX. See Missing faces

[5] ?John Vincent, a lawyer

[6] It is not clear who Mr Bultell was XXXX. See Missing faces

[7] Mr. Dunckar was XXXX. See Missing faces

[8] Long was XXXX. See Missing faces

[9] Dixy Naper was XXXX. See Missing faces

[10] Roger Nevington was XXXX. See Missing faces

[11] Stevens was XXXX. See Missing faces

[12] Long's godson was XXXX. See Missing faces

[13] Lord Aungier was Francis, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, the elder brother of Gerard Aungier. Francis had inherited the title from his uncle, Ambrose, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford, in 1655. Francis and Gerard were the first and second sons of Dr. Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and of Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Lancelot Bulkeley, the Archbishop of Dublin. Francis was a captain of a troop of horse in the Irish army, and presumably it was some dispute of honour which led to the rumour that he had been slaine. The rumour, however, proved to be wrong, and Francis lived till 1700, when the titles were inherited by his youngest brother, Ambrose Aungier. The titles became extinct on Ambrose's death in 1704 (Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18; Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS. Carte 41, fol(s). 310 : 13 December 1660 : The King to the Lords Justices of Ireland, Whitehall: 'Francis, Lord Aungier, to be Captain of one of the Standing Troops of the Army aforesaid [Standing Regiment of Horse, in the Army aforesaid, whereof the Duke of Albemarle is Colonel]

[14] Nicholas Buckeridge was XXXX

[15] Bhimgee Cullian Parrack was XXXX. See Missing faces

[16] Sir George Smith, London merchant

[17] 'Aungier- Baron Aungier, of Longford, Viscount Longford, and Earl of Longford' in Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18; 'Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Aungier,_1st_Baron_Aungier_of_Longford, viewed 28/01/12

[18] 'Aungier- Baron Aungier, of Longford, Viscount Longford, and Earl of Longford' in Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18

[19] 'Aungier- Baron Aungier, of Longford, Viscount Longford, and Earl of Longford' in Bernard Burke, A genealogical history of the dormant: abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (London, 1866), p. 18; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Aungier,_1st_Earl_of_Longford, viewed 28/01/12

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