shaberon
23rd October 2023, 09:11
This may have the impression that I am going to talk about slavery and racism, and I am not going to do that.
Instead it is more like a reason one's ancestors may have emigrated to the American colonies.
So I am going to put something that is more like an insider's view. It's what it's like to discover the onslaught of the same factions that affect us today in the global sense beyond anything Irish. Knowing it all along.
At the same time, it may dispel some pre-conceived notions about how things work.
This happened for a quite strange reason which is not a Cabal whatsoever.
Then it reveals them both.
Firstly Ireland is nearly in Scotland as it takes about three hours to get here by medieval ship.
So the name "Scots" means "sea-faring Irish".
The first Kingdom of Scotland was founded by them and who my goat is named after:
Dal Riata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata) and Fergus the Great
The outcome of this story is Oliver Cromwell and ruined fortune. Dunskey is a symbol for this 1672 Parliamentary Transfer Deed of a Barony (https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=fc&fn=charlesii_trans&id=39383:&query=&type=trans&variants=&google=):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Dunsky_Castle_Near_Patrick_-_William_Daniell_-_ABDAG005857.jpg
Now there was once a brief tale of five or six pages which tells this story very elegantly, and I can no longer find it. Obviously it was before a 2020ish book, of which one review mentions:
Another story is of the most expensive consignment of wine in Irish history involving Con’s riotous party and tax evasion!
The big issue was if that really was "evasion", and the Irish did not recognize the authority of the tax being demanded.
Ireland had already been the scene of constant battles between Gaelics, Normans, and Scots, and then English.
And the Plantation happened during an especially determining point in the line of monarchial succession. Since perhaps not everyone knows the history of England, the rulership passed like this:
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)
James VI and I
meaning King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne from Elizabeth and became James I of England, i. e., king of two countries. So this is the beginning of "united kingdoms". His heirs will pass along the dual titles and everybody knows that and so the English throne becomes a big bone of contention. Moreover, James was Catholic, and the producer of his own King James Bible.
The first part of the story is about the Irish Con O'Neill, who had become one of the more successful lords in Ireland.
From another summary of the recent biography written by Roy Greer (https://www.bangorhistoricalsocietyni.org/DATABASE/ARTICLES/articles/000028/002833.shtml):
At Christmas 1602 Con O’Neill had a party. A servant was sent to get more wine in Belfast. It had been hidden in order to avoid paying tax. The wine was intercepted by the English. The servants went again to get wine, but there was a skirmish and one of the English soldiers was killed. Chichester arrested Con and imprisoned him in Carrickfergus Castle.
With the succession of James I in 1603, Con’s imprisonment became more relaxed. He got to know Thomas Montgomery, nephew of Hugh Montgomery. Thomas plotted with Con’s wife Eilish to release her husband. The plan was for Con to woo the jailer’s daughter. Thomas would take a boat and moor it off Carrickfergus. Con plied the English with wine. A rope was supposedly smuggled into the prison hidden in a cheese and Con used this to climb down and get into Thomas’s boat. They sailed across the lough to Bangor where Con hid in the tower of the Abbey for 3 days.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Bangor_Abbey_and_graveyard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_876776.jpg/485px-Bangor_Abbey_and_graveyard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_876776.jpg
Hugh Montgomery later took Con to London where a deal was made. Hugh was to get half of Con’s lands and in return obtain a pardon for Con.
Typically, when a king comes in, he decides who he is going to pardon or release from other punishments from the previous one. But some of the details are missing. By a page on Ulster Scots with Rope in a Cheese Round (https://discoverulsterscots.com/history-culture/hamilton-montgomery/settlement-story):
Another who saw an opportunity was Ellis O’Neill, Con’s wife. She made contact with Hugh Montgomery to see if he could use his influence with the new King to secure a royal pardon for Con. If he succeeded, Hugh Montgomery’s reward was to be half of Con’s wasted lands in County Down. Montgomery agreed. Hugh Montgomery then entered into a plan with his Ayrshire neighbour, Thomas Montgomery of Blackstone, who is described in The Montgomery Manuscripts, the family records, as “... a discreet, sensible gentleman ...”. Thomas was owner of a ship (or ‘sloop’) which traded between Scotland and Carrickfergus, and he was to implement a jailbreak plan very similar to one Hugh had used to escape from Holland a few years before.
In July, 1604, Thomas arrived in Carrickfergus and noted the identity of the Provost Marshall, who was also the jailer of the town. He then courted the Provost’s daughter, Annas Dobbin, in order to befriend her father. After an evening of well-planned drunken revelry in the castle jail, Thomas got a rope to Con, possibly inside a hollowed-out cheese. Con escaped from his cell, used the rope to scale the castle wall, boarded the boat at the harbour below, and he and Montgomery fled to Scotland.
The original story as I remember it was a *hacksaw blade* and rope.
So it was Con's wife who offered up part of Ireland for the work.
But there was interference as described by the Great Fraud of Ulster (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/70901/70901-h/70901-h.htm):
When they arrived at Court the suppliants encountered the ex-spy, Sir James Fullerton, brimful of craft and watchful of chances. He was the old comrade of Hamilton, and contrived a turn for him out of Sir Con’s distress. His influence was such that the King only granted the “pardon” on condition that the chief’s bargain with Montgomery should be recast and a third of his estate given to Hamilton. O’Neill was kept dangling about the Court for over a year before this composition was arrived at. Thus the chief was shorn of two-thirds of his lands instead of half, as the price of “mercy.” To temper the loss to Montgomery the King promised to throw in as many abbeys and monasteries as would make it good, but Sir Con had to submit to the condition that the new Patent should be made out in Hamilton’s name and accept his promise to assign a third to himself and Montgomery. Such was Fullerton’s fealty to his brother-spy. At his death Fullerton was honoured with a grave in Westminster Abbey.
By such help James Hamilton won a lodgment in Ulster. He at once hastened to Dublin, and presented two King’s Letters to the Deputy. One of them, dated the 16th April, 1605, entitled him to the entire of Sir Con’s property, while another of the 6th December, 1604, gave him land (unspecified) to the value of £100 a year. These warrants startled Chichester, who had expected to make his own of the whole of O’Neill’s possessions. In his eyes they revealed a woeful situation, for they conferred on an outsider “of his Majesty’s gift the countries and territories of Upper Clandeboye and the Great Ardes.” This manner of looting O’Neill fell out with his plans—a stranger had struck sickle in the corn he had sown.
Nobody asked the Hamiltons. Chiselers.
The way this is in our manuscripts (https://archive.org/stream/montgomerymanusc00montuoft/montgomerymanusc00montuoft_djvu.txt):
In the mean time, the Laird used the same sort of contrivance for Con's escape as he had here-
tofore done for his own ; and thus it was, viz. : — The Laird had formerly employed, for intelligence
as aforesaid, one Thomas Montgomery of Blac'kstown, a fee farmer (in Scotland, they call such
gentlemen feuers); he was a cadet of the family of Braidstane, but of a remote sanguinity to the
Laird, whose actions are now related. This Thomas had personally divers times traded with grain
and other things to Carrickfergus, and was well trusted therein; and had a small bark, of which he
was owner and constant commander; which Thomas being a discreet, sensible gentleman, and having
a fair prospect given him of raising his fortune in Ireland, was now employed and furnished with
instructions and letters to the said Con, who, on a second speedy application in the affair consented
to the terms proposed by the Laird, and to go to him at Braidstane, provided the said Thomas would
bring his escape so about as if constrained, by force and fears of death, to go with him. These
resolutions being, with full secrecy, concerted, Thomas aforesaid (as the Laird had formerly advised)
having made love to the Town Marshall's daughter, called Annas Dobbin (whom I have often seen
and spoken with, for she lived in Newtown till Anno 1664), and had gained hers and parent's con-
sents to be wedded together. This took umbrages of suspicion away, and so by contrivance with
his espoused, an opportunity, one night, was given to the said Thomas and his barque's crew to take
on board the said Con, as it were by force, he making no noise for fear of being stabbed, as was
reported next day through the town.
On these affairs, as also Con's escape and journey with Sir Hugh, and their errand, took
time and wind at Court, notwithstanding theirs (and the said George's) endeavours to
conceal them from the prying courtiers (the busiest bodies in all the world in other men's
matters, which may profit themselves), so that in the interim one Sir James Fullerton, a great favourite,
who loved ready money, and to live in Court, more than in waste wildernesses in Ulster, and after-
wards had got a patent clandestinely passed for some of Con's lands, made suggestions to the King
that the lands granted to Sir Hugh and Con were vast territories, too large for two men of their
degree, and might serve for three Lords' estates, and that his Majesty who was already said to be
overhastily liberal, had been over-reached as to the quantity and value of the lands, and therefore
begged his Majesty that Mr. James Hamilton* who had furnished himself for some years last past
with intelligencies from Dublin, very important to his Majesty, might be admitted to a third share
of that which was intended to be granted to Sir Hugh and Con. Whereupon a stop was put to
the passing the said letters pattent, which overturned all the progress (a work of some months) that
Sir Hugh had made to obtain the said orders for himself and Con.
The account of this transaction
given by our author differs in toto from that of the Stewart
Manuscript : the latter represents the laird of Braidstane,
not as concealing his designs from courtiers, but as re-
vealing them to James Hamilton, who had given up his
fellowship in Dublin College, and was then with his
friend, sir James Fullerton, living in great favour at the
Court of James I. Montgomery, when applying to
Hamilton for assistance in the affair, is further repre-
sented as promising "a half of his two parts, if by
his friends and means he might have access to work
out Con's pardon, and have the king's gift of the
lands to be divided among the three ; for it was
thought sufficient for them all. Mr. James Hamilton,
glad of this, makes way, first with the Hamiltons, then
with others of the English and Scottish nobility, that now
Montgomery is well heard and especially respected by his
majesty, and in a word, the grant is given out, — Con has
his life and a third part, Montgomery has a third, and Mr.
James Hamilton has a third part of Con O'Neill's estate
in Down." The introductory part of this extract is un-
doubtedly apocryphal. The laird of Braidstane did not
require to seek access to the king through the intervention
of Hamilton, Braidstane's own brother, George, as events
proved, was a special favourite with James, having acted
as his agent in England, as Hamilton had done in Ireland.
The earl of Eglinton, besides, was a very influential noble-
man, ready at all times to espouse and support his kins-
men's plans. Again, the division of Con O'Neill's lands
into three parts very much disgusted Montgomery, and
was an arrangement altogether different from the original
compact between him and O'Neill, at Braidstane. Ha-
milton's position as agent for sir William Smith gave him
a knowledge of the situation and extent of Con's lands,
and enabled him, especially when assisted by sir James
Fullerton's influence, successfully to combat Montgomery's
original plan. Hamilton was charged with betraying the
trust reposed in him by sir William Smith, who believed
he had a prior claim to most, if not all, the lands in dis-
pute.
I have no idea what Hamilton is doing. Ulster and the Lowlands have more or less been partnered for a thousand years. The bit that is exchanged in our voluntary agreement:
Antrim and Down
http://smithtree.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/11-2.png
Everything I know of always concerns that part of the local economy called "real work". And so the attempt in this domain consists of a few things like reasonable rent and the establishment of looms, in the way of the beginning of the industrial age. That is all the "new owner" really cares about. And, well, the place is pretty busted up already.
The Earl of Glencairn is a long-standing foe, while the House of Stuart is a close ally. This is what happens to the intended recipient of Ireland from the view of the Clan (http://smithtree.info/home.php/montgomery/):
The time that Hugh spent lying in a cradle appears to be the only time that he was not at war.
His history as a soldier began in Holland (aka: Netherlands) where he became a Captain of Foot in the Scots Brigade under the command of the Prince of Orange.
Hugh was drawn into a centuries long feud with the Cunningham Clan in the hills of Ayrshire, Scotland when the Cunninghams assassinated the 4th Earl of Eglinton, a Montgomerie. Hugh pursued the suspected assassin from Scotland, through London, across the English Channel and into the Inner Court of the Palace at The Hague. He confronted Cunningham, drew his sword and struck him in the belly. He thought his blow killed the man right there, on the spot, in the pristine palace court. Hugh fled the scene, seeking to escape what he assumed would be murder charges, but was captured and detained. The victim, Cunningham, was saved by his belt buckle which deflected Hugh’s sword. Hugh was incarcerated in a Dutch jail awaiting trial when a fellow countrymen and Scot soldier, helped Hugh escape back to Ayrshire.
In 1603 Hugh accompanied King James VI of Scotland as James advanced on England from Scotland with the intent of securing the throne of King of England and Ireland as King James I.
James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, positioning him to eventually accede to all three thrones: England, Scotland and Ireland.
Not sure if that happened before. England has been in the business of attacking Scotland since around the 1200s, so, putting a neighbor in charge might help that.
They had however smashed up Ireland rather heavily. Taking it in this condition:
The jailbreak was successful, the King pardoned Conn and Montgomerie took control of Down and Antrim; but not without a hitch. A fellow Scot, James Hamilton, interfered with Montgomerie’s scheme and was able to convince the King that he should receive a share of the O’Neill land acquired by Hugh and Hamilton secured neighboring counties in Ulster.
Hugh and his brother George soon populated their holdings in Counties Down and Antrim with lowland Scots who crossed the channel from Portpatrick in Scotland to Donghadee. Hugh established the first ferry service to run at regular intervals between Portpatrick in Ayrshire to Donghadee in the Great Ards of Ireland.
It had taken the British four hundred years of warfare to ‘gain control’ of Ireland. Ulster had been one of the last of the Irish regions to succumb to British forces. Largely Catholic before the conquest, Ulster was soon flooded with protestants in 1606 and the Catholic Irish reduced in population and power. English law stripped the people of Ireland of land ownership. An Irishman could rent no more than 2 acres, barely enough for subsistent living. This was how the plantation of the Irish countryside began. Though their lands had been seized, wealth removed, schools closed and language muted, the Irish would not surrender their will and desire to be free. Though disenfranchised in every sense of the word the rebellions would never cease, the risings continued, and the spirit of the Irish people would never be crushed.
Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Viscount Montgomerie acquired Dunskey Castle in February 1620. It is reported in the exchequer (ledgers) of the time as
“10 librat of antiqui extentus de Portry” including “3 mercatas de Marok cum castro de Doneskey”
The “castro de Donesky” or translated “fort of Donesky” was a ward of the Adair family between the years 1426 and 1580 when William Adair, by way of a marriage contract presented the castle to Rosina MacClellan of Galston whose brother, Sir Robert McClellan married Mary Montgomerie, the eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Montgomerie.
Schizophrenic. English law vs. Catholics. The place has a Brownie. But that is correct 1606--> is exactly a bulk migration. However what happens is, all the livery companies and guilds switch and go to Jamestown, Virginia, after 1607. Whatever may have been the benefit of this investment did not make it to Ireland.
Suddenly we are both leery of Catholic (i. e. papal) power, and we are not on Cromwell's side.
Dunskey Castle and The Great Ards
In 1637, the Second Viscount Montgomery (Hugh Jr) was made a member of the Privy Council, a powerful body of men who advised the monarch, issued executive orders, and provided a few judicial functions.
As ‘The Great Irish Rebellion of 1641’ gained steam, Hugh Jr was appointed Colonel, and played an active role in suppressing the Irish insurrection. As every century in the history of Ireland has been marked by multiple rebellions, it helps to know which rebellion was marked by a clash of Ireland and England (all of them) and which involved economic issues (all of them) and which were results of a clash of religious beliefs (all of them). Well, that was of no help at all.
As with his father before him, the Second Viscount Hugh Montgomery was a Scot by birth, but an Ulster Scot by residency. He was quelling a rebellion among the Irish Catholics of the north of Ireland and doing so on behalf of a Catholic leaning King Charles I. Hugh II was protestant and his protestant peers in the highlands were aligned with Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War, seeking to topple the King for whom the 2nd Viscount was fighting.
One thing is clear: the fear, deprivation, and mistrust cultivated by the Rising of 1641 permeates the fabric of present-day Ireland. The good news is that the name of Hugh II is not associated with the carnage among the innocent civilians. He simply killed the other team’s warriors sufficiently enough to claim a victory, crushing first the Irish Catholics and momentarily, the forces of Cromwell.
As to his oldest son:
An online bio of Hugh III reveals that he suffered a horrible fall as a child and was severely injured. His chest was pierced open and an extensive abscess formed, which on healing left a large cavity through which one could see his heart beating. He wore a metal plate over the opening for the remainder of his life.
He was strong enough to travel through France and Italy at age twenty.
It was at this time during the Hugh III 1642 European Tour, that his father Hugh II died in battle at Donegal, a Celtic man suppressing an Irish rebellion and giving his life for King Charles I of England. Hugh III, born in Ireland, then took over in service to the King. Hugh III was appointed to command his deceased father’s regiment in the King’s Royal army.
He quickly rose to the title Commander in Chief of the Royalist army in Ulster in 1649. His fortunes were tied to fate of King Charles I.
While King James, on a personal level, was bonkers, Cromwell is the main target of our criticism:
All three of the Viscount Montgomery clan (I, II and III) had been loyal servants of King Charles I. They were royalists from start to finish. Even as Cromwell and the Protestant Parliamentarians gained the upper hand during the English Civil War, the Montgomery men were the last to surrender their forces in the Great Ards. Hugh III had been the commander-in-chief of the Royalist army in Ulster in 1649 and seized successively Belfast, Antrim, and Carrickfergus only to eventually surrender to Cromwell as one of the last dominoes to fall to the Parliamentarians.
As Oliver Cromwell and Parliament seized control and decapitated King Charles I, Hugh Montgomery III boldly proclaimed his loyalty to the deceased King’s son, King Charles II. The powerless King Charles II appointed Montgomery as commander-in-chief of the royal army in Ulster on May 14, 1649. He was instructed to cooperate with James, Marquis of Ormonde. Hugh Montgomery III seized Belfast, Antrim, and Carrickfergus. Passing through Coleraine, he laid siege to Londonderry. Within four months Cromwell and his New Model Army forced Montgomery to retreat. Hugh III joined Ormonde in a final, failed effort against Cromwell.
The royal forces of Charles II went down in defeat and surrendered to Cromwell. Cavaliers loyal to the King scattered across the globe, many found their way to the Virginia Commonwealth. Hugh III was banished to Holland and forbidden to consult Charles II. Dunskey Castle and Broadstain, the properties of the Third Viscount Hugh Montgomery, were seized by Cromwell’s Parliament and distributed to John Shaw.
Rathmines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rathmines)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Baggotsrath_Castle_%28Co._Dublin%29.jpg/741px-Baggotsrath_Castle_%28Co._Dublin%29.jpg
Jones reported minimal losses, in return for inflicting 4,000 casualties, including 2,517 prisoners.
The victory allowed the Parliamentarian troops to create a defensive line covering the road between Dublin and the port of Ringsend, where Cromwell landed on 15 August, beginning the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Their victory secured Dublin, enabling another 12,000 troops under Oliver Cromwell to land unimpeded and begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
The Parliamentarian conquest was brutal, and Cromwell remains a deeply reviled figure in Ireland.
In addition, some fifty thousand Irish people, including prisoners of war, were sold as indentured servants under the English Commonwealth regime.
When you fall to these forces, for you and any close clans, they put you on a list:
...(McClellans, Shaws, Alexanders and Blairs) and issued writs for their arrest and execution; no trial necessary.
For three generations, the Viscount(s) Montgomery of Ards had been responsible for generating and maintaining a military force responsible to the King of England. When King James I first granted Hugh I the lands of Counties Down and Antrim he also charged him with the need to generate an army and collect taxes. This was the rule of law imposed on titled noblemen.
Hugh, the First Viscount, had done a spectacular job, recruiting families from Portpatrick, Scotland to Down and Antrim. He quickly organized a force of 1000 men. The overhead costs of maintaining troops and the loss to Oliver Cromwell forced the Montgomerys to borrow largely from one agent, cousin John Blair, who foreclosed on a mortgage and became possessed of numerous Montgomery properties including Dunskey. In the summer of 1653, the agency responsible for organizing properties under the rule of Oliver Cromwell then approved the transfer of the property from Blair to John Shaw. Andrew Wardlaw, representing Cromwell, notarized the transfer.
Under the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland,
landlords were bound to see that their Irish tenants should
learn to speak English within a limited time, and also
abandon their Irish names of Tiege and Dermot, then
almost universally used, calling themselves by the English
translations of such names.
Finally in Ireland:
With the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, the British restored King Charles II to power in 1660. The newly appointed king restored his loyal supporter, Hugh Montgomery III, to his properties and anointed him as the Earl of Mount Alexander. Hugh died suddenly and suspiciously at Dromore on September 15, 1663, while investigating Major Blood’s plot. Major Blood was one England’s greatest con artists, thieves and traitors. He staged a great, but failed heist of the King’s jewels from their secured location in the Tower of London. It would have surprised no one if Blood had Hugh III eliminated. It wasn’t proven.
If you were Protestant in Ulster then you experienced the Jacobite reprisal such as the more famous Siege of Derry 1689 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Derry):
Tyrconnell, and Irish Catholics in general, stayed loyal to James and many Irish Protestants hesitated to declare themselves openly for William. Tyrconnell took action against those who did, and by November 1688 only the Protestants of Ulster were still resisting. Two Ulster towns, Enniskillen and Derry, were to become the focal points of the first stage of the Williamite war.
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So there you have successively been attacked by the first Zionsts and the Jesuits.
That's Irish Orange.
The title went extinct in 1757.
So from the 1690s, a lot of Irish Protestants were looking to get to America. These are not the Pilgrim people who are Cromwellites.
America has been like a temporary haven from that stuff and surrendered back to it, Papistry and Zionism.
If you are Lowland Scot or Ulster Irish, you are basically the same and not the one interested in religiously repressive laws and such things. You'd tire of it quickly because things are difficult enough to begin with.
The actual setup for the Plantation was voluntary from an Irish woman and among connected people.
I get basically the same combined mental and physical sense from this metal music because of how it happened.
Nervosa
Jailbreak
_GgUoAN0NGQ
I get through the wire
To the other side
Sailing rivers of blood
To escape their control
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Black sheep
Mind police
Outlaw
Heart of danger
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
The best way to break the rules
Is to pretend that you follow them
Sick and tired of apologies
Empty heads full of fools
Full of fools!
March to the beat
Of your heart
This is your destiny's call
No need to compromise
Be your own god
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
It's my Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Jailbreak!
Instead it is more like a reason one's ancestors may have emigrated to the American colonies.
So I am going to put something that is more like an insider's view. It's what it's like to discover the onslaught of the same factions that affect us today in the global sense beyond anything Irish. Knowing it all along.
At the same time, it may dispel some pre-conceived notions about how things work.
This happened for a quite strange reason which is not a Cabal whatsoever.
Then it reveals them both.
Firstly Ireland is nearly in Scotland as it takes about three hours to get here by medieval ship.
So the name "Scots" means "sea-faring Irish".
The first Kingdom of Scotland was founded by them and who my goat is named after:
Dal Riata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata) and Fergus the Great
The outcome of this story is Oliver Cromwell and ruined fortune. Dunskey is a symbol for this 1672 Parliamentary Transfer Deed of a Barony (https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=fc&fn=charlesii_trans&id=39383:&query=&type=trans&variants=&google=):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Dunsky_Castle_Near_Patrick_-_William_Daniell_-_ABDAG005857.jpg
Now there was once a brief tale of five or six pages which tells this story very elegantly, and I can no longer find it. Obviously it was before a 2020ish book, of which one review mentions:
Another story is of the most expensive consignment of wine in Irish history involving Con’s riotous party and tax evasion!
The big issue was if that really was "evasion", and the Irish did not recognize the authority of the tax being demanded.
Ireland had already been the scene of constant battles between Gaelics, Normans, and Scots, and then English.
And the Plantation happened during an especially determining point in the line of monarchial succession. Since perhaps not everyone knows the history of England, the rulership passed like this:
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)
James VI and I
meaning King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne from Elizabeth and became James I of England, i. e., king of two countries. So this is the beginning of "united kingdoms". His heirs will pass along the dual titles and everybody knows that and so the English throne becomes a big bone of contention. Moreover, James was Catholic, and the producer of his own King James Bible.
The first part of the story is about the Irish Con O'Neill, who had become one of the more successful lords in Ireland.
From another summary of the recent biography written by Roy Greer (https://www.bangorhistoricalsocietyni.org/DATABASE/ARTICLES/articles/000028/002833.shtml):
At Christmas 1602 Con O’Neill had a party. A servant was sent to get more wine in Belfast. It had been hidden in order to avoid paying tax. The wine was intercepted by the English. The servants went again to get wine, but there was a skirmish and one of the English soldiers was killed. Chichester arrested Con and imprisoned him in Carrickfergus Castle.
With the succession of James I in 1603, Con’s imprisonment became more relaxed. He got to know Thomas Montgomery, nephew of Hugh Montgomery. Thomas plotted with Con’s wife Eilish to release her husband. The plan was for Con to woo the jailer’s daughter. Thomas would take a boat and moor it off Carrickfergus. Con plied the English with wine. A rope was supposedly smuggled into the prison hidden in a cheese and Con used this to climb down and get into Thomas’s boat. They sailed across the lough to Bangor where Con hid in the tower of the Abbey for 3 days.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Bangor_Abbey_and_graveyard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_876776.jpg/485px-Bangor_Abbey_and_graveyard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_876776.jpg
Hugh Montgomery later took Con to London where a deal was made. Hugh was to get half of Con’s lands and in return obtain a pardon for Con.
Typically, when a king comes in, he decides who he is going to pardon or release from other punishments from the previous one. But some of the details are missing. By a page on Ulster Scots with Rope in a Cheese Round (https://discoverulsterscots.com/history-culture/hamilton-montgomery/settlement-story):
Another who saw an opportunity was Ellis O’Neill, Con’s wife. She made contact with Hugh Montgomery to see if he could use his influence with the new King to secure a royal pardon for Con. If he succeeded, Hugh Montgomery’s reward was to be half of Con’s wasted lands in County Down. Montgomery agreed. Hugh Montgomery then entered into a plan with his Ayrshire neighbour, Thomas Montgomery of Blackstone, who is described in The Montgomery Manuscripts, the family records, as “... a discreet, sensible gentleman ...”. Thomas was owner of a ship (or ‘sloop’) which traded between Scotland and Carrickfergus, and he was to implement a jailbreak plan very similar to one Hugh had used to escape from Holland a few years before.
In July, 1604, Thomas arrived in Carrickfergus and noted the identity of the Provost Marshall, who was also the jailer of the town. He then courted the Provost’s daughter, Annas Dobbin, in order to befriend her father. After an evening of well-planned drunken revelry in the castle jail, Thomas got a rope to Con, possibly inside a hollowed-out cheese. Con escaped from his cell, used the rope to scale the castle wall, boarded the boat at the harbour below, and he and Montgomery fled to Scotland.
The original story as I remember it was a *hacksaw blade* and rope.
So it was Con's wife who offered up part of Ireland for the work.
But there was interference as described by the Great Fraud of Ulster (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/70901/70901-h/70901-h.htm):
When they arrived at Court the suppliants encountered the ex-spy, Sir James Fullerton, brimful of craft and watchful of chances. He was the old comrade of Hamilton, and contrived a turn for him out of Sir Con’s distress. His influence was such that the King only granted the “pardon” on condition that the chief’s bargain with Montgomery should be recast and a third of his estate given to Hamilton. O’Neill was kept dangling about the Court for over a year before this composition was arrived at. Thus the chief was shorn of two-thirds of his lands instead of half, as the price of “mercy.” To temper the loss to Montgomery the King promised to throw in as many abbeys and monasteries as would make it good, but Sir Con had to submit to the condition that the new Patent should be made out in Hamilton’s name and accept his promise to assign a third to himself and Montgomery. Such was Fullerton’s fealty to his brother-spy. At his death Fullerton was honoured with a grave in Westminster Abbey.
By such help James Hamilton won a lodgment in Ulster. He at once hastened to Dublin, and presented two King’s Letters to the Deputy. One of them, dated the 16th April, 1605, entitled him to the entire of Sir Con’s property, while another of the 6th December, 1604, gave him land (unspecified) to the value of £100 a year. These warrants startled Chichester, who had expected to make his own of the whole of O’Neill’s possessions. In his eyes they revealed a woeful situation, for they conferred on an outsider “of his Majesty’s gift the countries and territories of Upper Clandeboye and the Great Ardes.” This manner of looting O’Neill fell out with his plans—a stranger had struck sickle in the corn he had sown.
Nobody asked the Hamiltons. Chiselers.
The way this is in our manuscripts (https://archive.org/stream/montgomerymanusc00montuoft/montgomerymanusc00montuoft_djvu.txt):
In the mean time, the Laird used the same sort of contrivance for Con's escape as he had here-
tofore done for his own ; and thus it was, viz. : — The Laird had formerly employed, for intelligence
as aforesaid, one Thomas Montgomery of Blac'kstown, a fee farmer (in Scotland, they call such
gentlemen feuers); he was a cadet of the family of Braidstane, but of a remote sanguinity to the
Laird, whose actions are now related. This Thomas had personally divers times traded with grain
and other things to Carrickfergus, and was well trusted therein; and had a small bark, of which he
was owner and constant commander; which Thomas being a discreet, sensible gentleman, and having
a fair prospect given him of raising his fortune in Ireland, was now employed and furnished with
instructions and letters to the said Con, who, on a second speedy application in the affair consented
to the terms proposed by the Laird, and to go to him at Braidstane, provided the said Thomas would
bring his escape so about as if constrained, by force and fears of death, to go with him. These
resolutions being, with full secrecy, concerted, Thomas aforesaid (as the Laird had formerly advised)
having made love to the Town Marshall's daughter, called Annas Dobbin (whom I have often seen
and spoken with, for she lived in Newtown till Anno 1664), and had gained hers and parent's con-
sents to be wedded together. This took umbrages of suspicion away, and so by contrivance with
his espoused, an opportunity, one night, was given to the said Thomas and his barque's crew to take
on board the said Con, as it were by force, he making no noise for fear of being stabbed, as was
reported next day through the town.
On these affairs, as also Con's escape and journey with Sir Hugh, and their errand, took
time and wind at Court, notwithstanding theirs (and the said George's) endeavours to
conceal them from the prying courtiers (the busiest bodies in all the world in other men's
matters, which may profit themselves), so that in the interim one Sir James Fullerton, a great favourite,
who loved ready money, and to live in Court, more than in waste wildernesses in Ulster, and after-
wards had got a patent clandestinely passed for some of Con's lands, made suggestions to the King
that the lands granted to Sir Hugh and Con were vast territories, too large for two men of their
degree, and might serve for three Lords' estates, and that his Majesty who was already said to be
overhastily liberal, had been over-reached as to the quantity and value of the lands, and therefore
begged his Majesty that Mr. James Hamilton* who had furnished himself for some years last past
with intelligencies from Dublin, very important to his Majesty, might be admitted to a third share
of that which was intended to be granted to Sir Hugh and Con. Whereupon a stop was put to
the passing the said letters pattent, which overturned all the progress (a work of some months) that
Sir Hugh had made to obtain the said orders for himself and Con.
The account of this transaction
given by our author differs in toto from that of the Stewart
Manuscript : the latter represents the laird of Braidstane,
not as concealing his designs from courtiers, but as re-
vealing them to James Hamilton, who had given up his
fellowship in Dublin College, and was then with his
friend, sir James Fullerton, living in great favour at the
Court of James I. Montgomery, when applying to
Hamilton for assistance in the affair, is further repre-
sented as promising "a half of his two parts, if by
his friends and means he might have access to work
out Con's pardon, and have the king's gift of the
lands to be divided among the three ; for it was
thought sufficient for them all. Mr. James Hamilton,
glad of this, makes way, first with the Hamiltons, then
with others of the English and Scottish nobility, that now
Montgomery is well heard and especially respected by his
majesty, and in a word, the grant is given out, — Con has
his life and a third part, Montgomery has a third, and Mr.
James Hamilton has a third part of Con O'Neill's estate
in Down." The introductory part of this extract is un-
doubtedly apocryphal. The laird of Braidstane did not
require to seek access to the king through the intervention
of Hamilton, Braidstane's own brother, George, as events
proved, was a special favourite with James, having acted
as his agent in England, as Hamilton had done in Ireland.
The earl of Eglinton, besides, was a very influential noble-
man, ready at all times to espouse and support his kins-
men's plans. Again, the division of Con O'Neill's lands
into three parts very much disgusted Montgomery, and
was an arrangement altogether different from the original
compact between him and O'Neill, at Braidstane. Ha-
milton's position as agent for sir William Smith gave him
a knowledge of the situation and extent of Con's lands,
and enabled him, especially when assisted by sir James
Fullerton's influence, successfully to combat Montgomery's
original plan. Hamilton was charged with betraying the
trust reposed in him by sir William Smith, who believed
he had a prior claim to most, if not all, the lands in dis-
pute.
I have no idea what Hamilton is doing. Ulster and the Lowlands have more or less been partnered for a thousand years. The bit that is exchanged in our voluntary agreement:
Antrim and Down
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Everything I know of always concerns that part of the local economy called "real work". And so the attempt in this domain consists of a few things like reasonable rent and the establishment of looms, in the way of the beginning of the industrial age. That is all the "new owner" really cares about. And, well, the place is pretty busted up already.
The Earl of Glencairn is a long-standing foe, while the House of Stuart is a close ally. This is what happens to the intended recipient of Ireland from the view of the Clan (http://smithtree.info/home.php/montgomery/):
The time that Hugh spent lying in a cradle appears to be the only time that he was not at war.
His history as a soldier began in Holland (aka: Netherlands) where he became a Captain of Foot in the Scots Brigade under the command of the Prince of Orange.
Hugh was drawn into a centuries long feud with the Cunningham Clan in the hills of Ayrshire, Scotland when the Cunninghams assassinated the 4th Earl of Eglinton, a Montgomerie. Hugh pursued the suspected assassin from Scotland, through London, across the English Channel and into the Inner Court of the Palace at The Hague. He confronted Cunningham, drew his sword and struck him in the belly. He thought his blow killed the man right there, on the spot, in the pristine palace court. Hugh fled the scene, seeking to escape what he assumed would be murder charges, but was captured and detained. The victim, Cunningham, was saved by his belt buckle which deflected Hugh’s sword. Hugh was incarcerated in a Dutch jail awaiting trial when a fellow countrymen and Scot soldier, helped Hugh escape back to Ayrshire.
In 1603 Hugh accompanied King James VI of Scotland as James advanced on England from Scotland with the intent of securing the throne of King of England and Ireland as King James I.
James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, positioning him to eventually accede to all three thrones: England, Scotland and Ireland.
Not sure if that happened before. England has been in the business of attacking Scotland since around the 1200s, so, putting a neighbor in charge might help that.
They had however smashed up Ireland rather heavily. Taking it in this condition:
The jailbreak was successful, the King pardoned Conn and Montgomerie took control of Down and Antrim; but not without a hitch. A fellow Scot, James Hamilton, interfered with Montgomerie’s scheme and was able to convince the King that he should receive a share of the O’Neill land acquired by Hugh and Hamilton secured neighboring counties in Ulster.
Hugh and his brother George soon populated their holdings in Counties Down and Antrim with lowland Scots who crossed the channel from Portpatrick in Scotland to Donghadee. Hugh established the first ferry service to run at regular intervals between Portpatrick in Ayrshire to Donghadee in the Great Ards of Ireland.
It had taken the British four hundred years of warfare to ‘gain control’ of Ireland. Ulster had been one of the last of the Irish regions to succumb to British forces. Largely Catholic before the conquest, Ulster was soon flooded with protestants in 1606 and the Catholic Irish reduced in population and power. English law stripped the people of Ireland of land ownership. An Irishman could rent no more than 2 acres, barely enough for subsistent living. This was how the plantation of the Irish countryside began. Though their lands had been seized, wealth removed, schools closed and language muted, the Irish would not surrender their will and desire to be free. Though disenfranchised in every sense of the word the rebellions would never cease, the risings continued, and the spirit of the Irish people would never be crushed.
Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Viscount Montgomerie acquired Dunskey Castle in February 1620. It is reported in the exchequer (ledgers) of the time as
“10 librat of antiqui extentus de Portry” including “3 mercatas de Marok cum castro de Doneskey”
The “castro de Donesky” or translated “fort of Donesky” was a ward of the Adair family between the years 1426 and 1580 when William Adair, by way of a marriage contract presented the castle to Rosina MacClellan of Galston whose brother, Sir Robert McClellan married Mary Montgomerie, the eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Montgomerie.
Schizophrenic. English law vs. Catholics. The place has a Brownie. But that is correct 1606--> is exactly a bulk migration. However what happens is, all the livery companies and guilds switch and go to Jamestown, Virginia, after 1607. Whatever may have been the benefit of this investment did not make it to Ireland.
Suddenly we are both leery of Catholic (i. e. papal) power, and we are not on Cromwell's side.
Dunskey Castle and The Great Ards
In 1637, the Second Viscount Montgomery (Hugh Jr) was made a member of the Privy Council, a powerful body of men who advised the monarch, issued executive orders, and provided a few judicial functions.
As ‘The Great Irish Rebellion of 1641’ gained steam, Hugh Jr was appointed Colonel, and played an active role in suppressing the Irish insurrection. As every century in the history of Ireland has been marked by multiple rebellions, it helps to know which rebellion was marked by a clash of Ireland and England (all of them) and which involved economic issues (all of them) and which were results of a clash of religious beliefs (all of them). Well, that was of no help at all.
As with his father before him, the Second Viscount Hugh Montgomery was a Scot by birth, but an Ulster Scot by residency. He was quelling a rebellion among the Irish Catholics of the north of Ireland and doing so on behalf of a Catholic leaning King Charles I. Hugh II was protestant and his protestant peers in the highlands were aligned with Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War, seeking to topple the King for whom the 2nd Viscount was fighting.
One thing is clear: the fear, deprivation, and mistrust cultivated by the Rising of 1641 permeates the fabric of present-day Ireland. The good news is that the name of Hugh II is not associated with the carnage among the innocent civilians. He simply killed the other team’s warriors sufficiently enough to claim a victory, crushing first the Irish Catholics and momentarily, the forces of Cromwell.
As to his oldest son:
An online bio of Hugh III reveals that he suffered a horrible fall as a child and was severely injured. His chest was pierced open and an extensive abscess formed, which on healing left a large cavity through which one could see his heart beating. He wore a metal plate over the opening for the remainder of his life.
He was strong enough to travel through France and Italy at age twenty.
It was at this time during the Hugh III 1642 European Tour, that his father Hugh II died in battle at Donegal, a Celtic man suppressing an Irish rebellion and giving his life for King Charles I of England. Hugh III, born in Ireland, then took over in service to the King. Hugh III was appointed to command his deceased father’s regiment in the King’s Royal army.
He quickly rose to the title Commander in Chief of the Royalist army in Ulster in 1649. His fortunes were tied to fate of King Charles I.
While King James, on a personal level, was bonkers, Cromwell is the main target of our criticism:
All three of the Viscount Montgomery clan (I, II and III) had been loyal servants of King Charles I. They were royalists from start to finish. Even as Cromwell and the Protestant Parliamentarians gained the upper hand during the English Civil War, the Montgomery men were the last to surrender their forces in the Great Ards. Hugh III had been the commander-in-chief of the Royalist army in Ulster in 1649 and seized successively Belfast, Antrim, and Carrickfergus only to eventually surrender to Cromwell as one of the last dominoes to fall to the Parliamentarians.
As Oliver Cromwell and Parliament seized control and decapitated King Charles I, Hugh Montgomery III boldly proclaimed his loyalty to the deceased King’s son, King Charles II. The powerless King Charles II appointed Montgomery as commander-in-chief of the royal army in Ulster on May 14, 1649. He was instructed to cooperate with James, Marquis of Ormonde. Hugh Montgomery III seized Belfast, Antrim, and Carrickfergus. Passing through Coleraine, he laid siege to Londonderry. Within four months Cromwell and his New Model Army forced Montgomery to retreat. Hugh III joined Ormonde in a final, failed effort against Cromwell.
The royal forces of Charles II went down in defeat and surrendered to Cromwell. Cavaliers loyal to the King scattered across the globe, many found their way to the Virginia Commonwealth. Hugh III was banished to Holland and forbidden to consult Charles II. Dunskey Castle and Broadstain, the properties of the Third Viscount Hugh Montgomery, were seized by Cromwell’s Parliament and distributed to John Shaw.
Rathmines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rathmines)
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Jones reported minimal losses, in return for inflicting 4,000 casualties, including 2,517 prisoners.
The victory allowed the Parliamentarian troops to create a defensive line covering the road between Dublin and the port of Ringsend, where Cromwell landed on 15 August, beginning the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Their victory secured Dublin, enabling another 12,000 troops under Oliver Cromwell to land unimpeded and begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
The Parliamentarian conquest was brutal, and Cromwell remains a deeply reviled figure in Ireland.
In addition, some fifty thousand Irish people, including prisoners of war, were sold as indentured servants under the English Commonwealth regime.
When you fall to these forces, for you and any close clans, they put you on a list:
...(McClellans, Shaws, Alexanders and Blairs) and issued writs for their arrest and execution; no trial necessary.
For three generations, the Viscount(s) Montgomery of Ards had been responsible for generating and maintaining a military force responsible to the King of England. When King James I first granted Hugh I the lands of Counties Down and Antrim he also charged him with the need to generate an army and collect taxes. This was the rule of law imposed on titled noblemen.
Hugh, the First Viscount, had done a spectacular job, recruiting families from Portpatrick, Scotland to Down and Antrim. He quickly organized a force of 1000 men. The overhead costs of maintaining troops and the loss to Oliver Cromwell forced the Montgomerys to borrow largely from one agent, cousin John Blair, who foreclosed on a mortgage and became possessed of numerous Montgomery properties including Dunskey. In the summer of 1653, the agency responsible for organizing properties under the rule of Oliver Cromwell then approved the transfer of the property from Blair to John Shaw. Andrew Wardlaw, representing Cromwell, notarized the transfer.
Under the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland,
landlords were bound to see that their Irish tenants should
learn to speak English within a limited time, and also
abandon their Irish names of Tiege and Dermot, then
almost universally used, calling themselves by the English
translations of such names.
Finally in Ireland:
With the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, the British restored King Charles II to power in 1660. The newly appointed king restored his loyal supporter, Hugh Montgomery III, to his properties and anointed him as the Earl of Mount Alexander. Hugh died suddenly and suspiciously at Dromore on September 15, 1663, while investigating Major Blood’s plot. Major Blood was one England’s greatest con artists, thieves and traitors. He staged a great, but failed heist of the King’s jewels from their secured location in the Tower of London. It would have surprised no one if Blood had Hugh III eliminated. It wasn’t proven.
If you were Protestant in Ulster then you experienced the Jacobite reprisal such as the more famous Siege of Derry 1689 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Derry):
Tyrconnell, and Irish Catholics in general, stayed loyal to James and many Irish Protestants hesitated to declare themselves openly for William. Tyrconnell took action against those who did, and by November 1688 only the Protestants of Ulster were still resisting. Two Ulster towns, Enniskillen and Derry, were to become the focal points of the first stage of the Williamite war.
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So there you have successively been attacked by the first Zionsts and the Jesuits.
That's Irish Orange.
The title went extinct in 1757.
So from the 1690s, a lot of Irish Protestants were looking to get to America. These are not the Pilgrim people who are Cromwellites.
America has been like a temporary haven from that stuff and surrendered back to it, Papistry and Zionism.
If you are Lowland Scot or Ulster Irish, you are basically the same and not the one interested in religiously repressive laws and such things. You'd tire of it quickly because things are difficult enough to begin with.
The actual setup for the Plantation was voluntary from an Irish woman and among connected people.
I get basically the same combined mental and physical sense from this metal music because of how it happened.
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