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Chapter XVIII. Captain Ambrose Bedell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Supplementary Chapters, Genealogical and Historical, compiled from original sources
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1872

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page 221 note * The original is preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and has I believe never before been printed. For procuring me a copy of it I am indebted to Professor Stokes of T.C.D. who has been unwearied in forwarding my undertaking.

page 222 note * This appears to be a mistake for December.

page 223 note * The English pale was a territory comprehending the county of Lonth in the Province of Ulster, and the counties of Dublin, Meath, and Kildare in Leinster. The rebels of the English pale were the descendants of the old English settlers in those counties who still adhered to Popery.

page 224 note * This Colonel Arthur Hill, of Hillsborough, second son of Sir Moyses Hill, as above said, was ancestor of the Marquis of Downshire and of the late Viscount Dungannon. From him the name of Arthur descended in the Downshire and Dungannon families, from the latter of which the Duke of Wellington derived it, his mother being the eldest daughter of Arthur Hill 1st Viscount Dungannon, who was second son of the grandson of Colonel Arthur Hill. H. R. H. Prince Arthur, again, was named “Arthur,” after the Duke of Wellington.

page 225 note * Reports from the Commissioners respecting the Public Records of Ireland, 1821–1825, folio, p. 96. Ordered to be printed 17 June 1829.

page 225 note † These lands were sold by Capt. Bedell Stanford, who died in 1857, to James II, Story, Esq.

page 225 note ‡ Tanner Collection, xxxvii. 147, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

page 221 note § Tanner Collection, xxxv. 68, Bodleian Library.

page 226 note * Clogie's Memoir, ut supra, p. 4.