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Title: Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ed to another outbreakof hostilities. Ormonde set up the standard of Charles II, but aftertaking Drogheda, he was defeated at Rathmines, and soon forced by-Cromwell to flee to France. During his expatriation he shared thevicissitudes and poverty of his master. Once one of the richestlandowners in Great Britain and Ireland Ormonde neither escapednor shrank from the beggarj- which was the lot of most of the exiles.In 1658 he made an expedition in disguise to England, in order todiscover the chances of a Rojalist rising, and onlj returned to hismasters Court after many adventures. His great ser\ices were fullyrecognized by the King who showered honours upon him at theRestoration. The Irish Parliament voted ^^30,000 to recompensehim for his losses, which were said to amount to the amazing suraof a million pounds; and his career made his appointment as theLord-Lieutenant of Ireland inevitable. In this capacity he had thedifficult task of reconciling the new Cromwellian settlers and the old
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JAMES BUTI.KR, FIRST DUKE OF ORMONDEFrom tlie portrait by Sir Peter I.cly in the National Portrait Gallery Face f 196 JAMES BUTLER 197 Anglo-Irish landowners without undue harshness to the natives.And his success was admirable. Ireland had never been so peacefulas in the reign of Charles II, and to Ormonde this peace was due.He fostered trade in spite of the absurd and jealous Acts of theEnglish Parliament, planted numerous colonies of individual settlers,and did all that he could to minimize religious hatreds. He incurred, however, the hatred of the worthless Buckingham,and in a weak moment Charles, who knew Ormondes worth,was persuaded in 1669 to deprive him of the Lord-Lieutenanc)-.Public opinion was more impartial. People called him the greatestsubject of any prince in Christendom, and said that he had donemore for his Prince than ever any yet did. He was electedChancellor of Oxford, and was paid many tributes of general respect.The King, too, was intlucnccd b) his upright charact

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