it is
remarkable, that all his children travelled under the same gentleman's
protection, who has no small honour reflected on him from his
illustrious pupils. Upon his return from his travels, he found a war
ready to break out against the Scots, and was pressed by the earl of
Northumberland, the commander in chief of the expedition, to share in
reducing them; but this commotion subsiding, his lordship employed
himself another way. By his father's desire, who loved to settle his
children early in the world, he married lady Margaret Howard, daughter
to the earl of Suffolk, and setting out for Ireland, landed there the
very day the rebellion broke out, viz. Oct. 23, 1641. The post
assigned him in this time of danger, was the defence of his father's
castle of Lismore; in which he gave proofs of the most gallant spirit,
as well as political conduct: The first of which he shewed in the
vigorous sally he made to the relief of Sir Richard Osborn, who was
besieged in his own house by the rebels, till relieved by lord
Broghill, who raised the siege, and saved him and all his family[2];
and a strong proof of the latter, by advising Sir William St. Leger,
then president of Munster, to act vigorously against the Irish,
notwithstanding they produced the King's commission, which he was
penetrating enough to discern to be a forgery.

After the cessation in Ireland, lord Broghill came to Oxford, then the
residence of King Charles I. and paid his duty to that monarch, and
was honoured with many private audiences, when he represented to his
Majesty, the temper and disposition of the Irish Papists, and the
falshood of the pretended Committee they had sent over to mislead his
Majesty, that the King was convinced the Irish never meant to keep the
cessation, and that therefore it was not the interest of the English
subjects to depend upon it.

Now that we have mentioned the Irish Papists, one thing must not be
omitted, as it is both curious in itself, and reflects honour on lord
Broghill. Many years after the reduction of these rebels, his
lordship, who was then earl of Orrery, happened to pay a visit to the
duke of Ormond at Kilkenny, where he met with lord Muskerry, who
headed the insurrection, and produced a false commission for what he
did. Finding Muskerry in an open good humour, he took occasion to
retire with him, and to ask him in a pleasant manner, how he came by
that commission which had so much the appearance of being genuine:
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