Description of a great sepulchral mound at Aylesbury-road, near Donnybrook, in the county of Dublin, containing human and animal remains, as well as some objects of antiquarian interest, referable to the tenth or eleventh centuries / by William Frazer.

  • Frazer, William
Date:
[1879]
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Credit: Description of a great sepulchral mound at Aylesbury-road, near Donnybrook, in the county of Dublin, containing human and animal remains, as well as some objects of antiquarian interest, referable to the tenth or eleventh centuries / by William Frazer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    XII.—On certain Papers relating to Ladt Bellastse, and the Private History of James II. when Duke of York. Bv W. Frazer, F.R.C.S.I. [Read, November 29, 1879.] Who was Lady Bellasyse ? She was a lady who might have been Queen of England, Susan Armine, the daughter of Sir William Armine, of Osgodby, Lincolnshire; her mother was Mary Talbot, niece of the Earl of Shrewsbury. She married Henry Bellasyse, son and heir of Lord Bellasyse, and nephew of Lord Fauconherg; he was created Knight of the Bath, hut appears to have been a rash, fooH,sh man; he quarrelled with his dearest friend, Tom Porter, Groom of the Chambers to Charles II., and for a punctilio of honour they killed each other; the duel took place in Covent Garden, in 1667. His widow captivated the affections of the Duke of York, afterwards James II., and only relinquished her claim for substantial reasons, now for the first time, I believe, fully known, although part of the consideration was her receiving a peerage for life from Charles II. in 1674, when she became Baroness Bellasyse of Osgodby, having suc- ceeded to her family estates upon the death of her parents. Ten years afterwards she was married to a gentleman named Fortrey, of whom little is known, and she survived him. Her son, Henry Bellasyse, succeeded in 1684 to his grandfather, as Lord Bellasyse of Worlaby, and died about 1690. He married Anne Bradenel, sister of the Countess of Hewborough, and she afterwards married Charles Lennox, Duke of Bichmond. Lady Bellasyse herself died 6th January, 1713. Bishop Burnet, in his Sutory of His Own Times, gives an inte- resting account of this lady, referring to whom he says:— “ The Duke [of York] was now looking for another wife. He made addresses to the Lady Bellasis, the widow of the Lord Bellasis’s son. She was a zealous Protestant, though she married into a popish family. She was a woman of much life and great vivacity, but of a very small proportion of beauty, as the Duke was often observed to be led by his amours to objects that had no extraordinary charms. Lady Bellasis gained so much on the Duke, that he gave her a promise under his hand to marry her; and he sent Coleman to her to draw her over to popery, but in that she could not be moved. When some of her friends reproached her for admitting the Duke so freely to see her, she could not bear it, but said she could show that his addresses were honourable. When this came to the Lord Bcllasis’s ears, who was her father-in-law, and was a zealous papist, and knew how untractable the lady was in those matters, he gave the whole design of bringing in their religion for gone if that was not quickly broke ; so he, pretending a zeal for the King and the Duke’s honour,