^{page 205 note *} According to another account the Christian name of the father of Denis Sheridan, the friend of Bishop Bedell, was “Donald.” See Dublin University Magazine for November 1852, article “Quilca and the Sheridan family.”

^{page 206 note *} On the deprivation of William Sheridan, the Bishoprics of Kilmore and Ardagh were again separated. The former was given to Dr. Wm. Smith, who was translated from Raphoe, and the latter to Dr. Ulysses Burgh, Dean of Emly. Dr. Burgh, who was consecrated in September 1692, dying a few months after, Ardagh was reunited to Kilmore under Bishop Smith, who died February 24, 1698, and was succeeded by Dr. Wettenhall (see p. 196). My kinsman, the late Rev. Richard Burgh Byam, Vicar of Kew and Petersham, was a great-great-grandson of Bishop Burgh.

^{page 206 note †} It is said in Bishop Mant's History of the Irish Church that the deprived Bishop of Kilmore died in poverty in London, but this is contradicted in the article on Quilca and the Sheridan Family, in the Dublin University Magazine for November 1852.

^{page 207 note *} Dublin University Calendar, 1870, pp. 354–5.

^{page 207 note †} The authority for this is the minister of Kiliasher or Killassar, co. Cavan, about 1740, in the article entitled, a “Description of Lough Erne,” in Add. MS. 4,436, Br. Museum. His words are that Denis Sheridan was ordained by Bishop Bedell, and was promoted to the living of Kiliasher, in the diocese of Kilmore, where he died at a great age, “and saw two of his sons generals in the Imperial service, a third Secretary of State and Commissioner of the Revenue, a fourth, Patrick Sheridan, Bishop of Cloyne, and the eldest (youngest is erroneously put down,) William, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.”

^{page 208 note *} In Brady's Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, Thomas is erroneously stated to have been born in 1641; but this year was no doubt the date of a birth in Denis Sheridan's family, that, namely, of the third son.

^{page 208 note †} A short account or state of Mr. Sheridan's case before the late House of Commons. In a letter to J. T. London, 1681, small 4to. King's Pamphlets, in the British Museum.

^{page 210 note *} In the Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection of Manuscripts, 139, B. 4, there are “Two memorials to the King from Thomas Sheridan, Secretary and Commissioner of the Revenue in Ireland, respecting the charges brought against him by the Lord Deputy, together with a letter from him to the President of the Council, a copy of the articles exhibited against him, the original report of the Irish judges thereon,” &c. 1688, ff. 118, 121, 146, 175.

^{page 211 note *} Swift's Works, by Sir W. Scott, vol. xii. pp. 485–6. 2nd Ed. 1824.