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Journey to the North, August 7th, 1708

Author: Samuel Molyneux

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Robert M. Young

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Notes

'Cousin Dopping' mentioned by Molyneux was Samuel Dopping, a son of Anthony Dopping, (1643–1697). Anthony Dopping was Church of Ireland bishop of Meath, and married Jane Molyneux (a sister of Samuel Molyneux's father). Samuel Dopping was elected MP for Armagh in 1695, 1703, and 1714, and for Trinity College in 1715 (see S. J. Connolly's article on Anthony Dopping in the Oxford DNB). 'Mr Connelly' of Newton Lemnavady is William Connolly (1662–1729), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and, at his death, the richest man in Ireland (see Patrick McNally's article in the Oxford DNB). 'Mr Richardson' mentioned in connection with Legacorry, or Rich Hill, was Major Edward Richardson. More information about Rich Hill (or Richhill) can be found on the website of the Richhill Building Preservation Trust.

Sources

    Manuscript Source
  1. Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 883/2.
    Editions
  1. See below.
  2. W. H. Patterson (ed), Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1874/75, 35–41.
    Further reading
  1. Gerard Boate, Ireland's Naturall History (London 1652. Reprinted as 'Gerard Boate's natural history of Ireland', edited, with an introduction, by Thomas E. Jordan, New York 2006). [Available on CELT.]
  2. Thomas Dinely, Observations on a Tour through the Kingdom of Ireland in 1681 (Dublin 1858, reprinted in Kilkenny Archaeological Society's Journal, Second Series, 4 (1856–57) 143–46, 170–88; 5 (1858–59) 22–32, 55–56; 7 (1862–63) 38–52, 103–109, 320–38; 8 (1864–66) 40–48, 268–90; 425–46; 9 (1867) 73–91, 176–204).
  3. Edwyn Sandys, Draught (and Engraving) of Giants Causeway, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 20 (London 1698).
  4. Thomas Molyneux, 'A Letter from Dr. Thomas Molyneux to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians and R. S., containing some additional observations on the Giant's Causeway in Ireland', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, for June 1695, No. 241, vol. 20 (London 1698) 209–223; doi 10.1098/rstl.1698.0041.
  5. James Ware, The antiquities and history of Ireland (Dublin 1705).
  6. Thomas Molyneux, A Discourse concerning the Danish Mounts, Forts, and Towers in Ireland (Dublin 1725).
  7. William Petty, A geographical description of the kingdom of Ireland, newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations. Containing one general map of the whole kingdom with 4 provincial and 32 county maps, (. . .) The whole being laid down from the best maps viz. Sr. Wm. Petty's, Mr. Pratt's, &c. with a description of each county collected from the best accounts extant (London 1728).
  8. Sir Henry Piers, 'A Chorographical description of the County of Westmeath, written A.D. 1682 by Sir Henry Piers, of Tristernaght, Baronet,' in: Charles Vallancy, Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis, vol. 1. (Dublin: Thomas Ewing) 1770.
  9. Walter Harris, The antient and present state of the County of Down. Containing a chorographical description, with the natural and civil history of the same ... With a survey of the new canal; as also, a new and correct map of the County. Dublin, Printed by A. Reilly, for Edward Exshaw 1744. (Reprinted Ballinahinch 1979).
  10. Thomas Wright, Louthiana: or, an introduction to the antiquities of Ireland: In upwards of ninety views and plans: representing, with proper explanations, the principal ruins, curiosities, and antient dwellings, in the county of Louth. Divided into three books. Taken upon the spot by Thomas Wright (. . .) Engraved by Paul Foudrinier (London 1758).
  11. John Mitchell, The present state of Great Britain and North America, with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered (. . .) (London: printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1767).
  12. Capel Molyneux, An account of the family and descendants of Sir Thomas Molyneux, ed. T. Phillips (Evesham 1820).
  13. Samuel Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London 1837) (available online at http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php).
  14. Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hibernica, 1188: J. F. Dimock (ed.), Topographia Hibernica et expugnatio Hibernica, Rolls Series 21. Vol. 5 of Giraldi Cambrensis Opera (London 1867).
  15. Alice Effie Murray, History of the Commercial and Financial Relations between England and Ireland from the Period of the Restoration (London 2nd edition 1907). [Available online at CELT, includes rich details on economy and trade in the eighteenth century].
  16. Walter G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (Dublin 1913) [available online at http://www.libraryireland.com; see entry on Edwyn Sandys].
  17. Éamonn Ó Tuathail, 'Arthur Brownlow and his MSS', Irish Book Lover 24 (1936) 26–28.
  18. A. M. Fraser, 'The Molyneux family', Dublin Historical Record, 16/1 (1960–61) 9–15.
  19. K. Theodore Hoppen, The common scientist in the seventeenth century: a study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683–1708 (1970), p. 272.
  20. James Stevens Curl, The Londonderry plantation, 1609–1914: the history, architecture, and planning of the estates of the City of London and its livery companies in Ulster (Chichester/Sussex 1986).
  21. Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, 'An Ulster settler and his Irish manuscripts', Éigse 21 (1986) 27–36. (On Arthur Brownlow of Lurgan).
  22. Jean Agnew, Belfast merchant families in the seventeenth century (Dublin 1996).
  23. William H. Crawford, The management of a major Ulster estate in the late eighteenth century: the eighth earl of Abercorn and his Irish agents (Dublin 2001).
  24. Kieran Clendinning, 'The Brownlow family and the development of the town of Lurgan in the 17th century, English origin and the Ulster plantation, part 1', Seanchas Ardmhacha 20:1 (2004) 100–123.
  25. Kieran Clendinning, 'The Brownlow family and the development of the town of Lurgan in the 17th century : Part II — William Brownlow and the formation of the Manor of Brownlowsderry', Seanchas Ardmhacha 20:2 (2005) 106–132.
  26. C. J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source-material for Irish historians (Dublin 2009) no. 9.
  27. Arthur Chapman, 'Lurgan's early Quaker settlement', Review: journal of the Craigavon Historical Society 9:3 (2010–11) 14–15. (On Arthur Brownlow of Lurgan).
  28. Anne Saunders, The London Letters of Samuel Molyneux, 1712–13 (London 2011).
  29. Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, 'The circulation of manuscripts in Ireland, 1625–1725', in: James Kelly and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (eds), Irish and English: essays on the Irish linguistic and cultural frontier, 1600–1900 (Dublin 2012).
  30. Brenda Collins, 'The Conway estate in County Antrim: an example of seventeenth-century 'English' building styles in Ireland', in: Olivia Horsfall Turner (ed), 'The mirror of Great Britain': national identity in seventeenth-century British architecture (Reading 2012) 165–186.
  31. Richard Sharpe, Roderick O'Flaherty's Letters to William Molyneux, Edward Lhwyd, and Samuel Molyneux, 1696–1709 (Dublin 2013).
  32. On Samuel Molyneux, see Oxford DNB, online edition at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18925.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Robert M. Young, Journey to the North, August 7th, 1708 in Historical notices of old Belfast and its vicinity. , Belfast, Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, Royal Ulster Works (1895) page 152–160

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Created: By Samuel Molyneux (1689–1728) son of William Molyneux (1656–1698) Date range: 7 August to 24 August 1708.

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