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130 OftlaeA1zc:t1;'1'sno1>sg’ARMAGH.
through the feveral Diocefes, fubject to his Metropolis ; and applied other fmgl]
Revenues of the Church to the fame End. But thefe coming in flow, and fame
failing, all was very ihort of the neceiiary Charge, which he fupplied out of his
own Bounty, and fo perfected the whole F abrick. He was at conftderable Ex.
pcnces alfo, in repairing and adorning his Epifcopal Palace. ’NotwithPcanding
thefe Charities and publick VVorks; yet he was not unmindful of his own Fa.
mily. He laid out 8oool. in Ireland for the Settlement of two of his Children,
and was about purchaling an Efizate (after fold for 6ooo l.) which he might have
had cheaper : But underltanding, that part of it was Abby-Land, he refufed to
treat about it any further ; as he did in all things that he knew ever belonged
to the Church. This latter Sum, it is to be prefumed, he laid out in England ;
which raifcd fome caufelefs and unreafonable Clamours againit him, as if the had
done an Act of injuitice, in laying out what he had acquired ‘in Jrelzmd -izlib.‘
MICH.4EL BOTLE.
[Sum 1678. 05. 1702.]
I C HA EL Boyle, Archbiihop of Dulzliiz, and Lord High Chancellor’
of Ireland, was tranilated to this See by the King’s Letter, dated the"
27th of 7amzary 1678 ; and together with the Primacy, held the Otiice of Lord
High Chancellor ; which he adminiilred for about ‘twenty two Years, ’(=uiz)
from 1663 to 1685, when he was removed from it after King :7ame5’s Acceilion
to the Throne. He was three times one of the Lords']ufl:ices of Ireland, ('viz.)
in 167;, 1675, and 1684., each time in conjunction with Sir Artbur Forlm,
Lord Gramzrd. Qiite fpcnt with old Age, having arrived to his ninety third‘
Year (according to the Infcription on his Coliin) he died in Dzzlzlilz on the iolbl
or 1 rib of Deceml'cr 1702, and was buried about midnight, Without any F une-"
ral Pomp in St Przlriek’s Church, under the Altar ; the Chancellor of the Cathe-"
where.
i dral performing the laft Office, in the Abfence of the Dean. He was grcady’
impaired in his Hearing and Eye-light for near fifteen Years before he died, and:
towards the End of his Life, loft his Memory ; from whence it is thought it:
happened, that although he died very Rich, yet he fcarce left any thing to the’
Poor, or to Pious Ufes ;. being otherwife of a Difpoiition, both liberal and
publick fpirited. All he left to the Poor by his Will, 5 was twenty Shillings 3
piece to twenty Poor Men of the Parifh of St. Patriclc’s, and as much to ten poor‘
Men of the Parilh of St. Mitlnanr. He gave in his ‘Life time ‘two hundred"
Pounds towards erecting a new Gate-Houfe to the College of Dublin,‘ and joined
ina Contribution of tool to the faid College, with Thomas,‘ Bifhop of 0]”),
and Dr. j7eremv Hall, for buying Books for the Library. This Prelate built the
Town of Bl%ngton, and in it a magnificent Country Houfe, an elegant Chap.
pel, and a Pariih Church and Steeple, which he furniihed with a Ring of Six
Bells. From this Town his Son and Heir, Morougl: Boyle, took, his Title of
Vifcount Ble%;zglzm, being created in his Father's Life-time, "viz. on the 23d of
Augujt 1675. But the Title became extinct, by the Grandfon's dying without mhc
Male. To the Memory of this Prelate, his faid Son and Heir erected a Mo?
nument, crowned with a Mitre, in St. Mary's Church of Blg%;gm;, in (115
North Wall, and under it the Arms of the Sec of Armagb ; and upon a Plate
of Black Marble the following Infcription. .
c Prcrog. Ollie. ‘
Michael