Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series editors’ preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the confederate wars revisited
- 1 Holding on: the earl of Cork’s Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641–43
- 2 The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642
- 3 ‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46
- 4 ‘Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined’: Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644–45
- 5 The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642–48
- 6 The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642–48
- 7 The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47
- 8 The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649
- 9 The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics
- 10 Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft and the ‘deluded and seduced’ people of Ireland
- Index
7 - The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series editors’ preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the confederate wars revisited
- 1 Holding on: the earl of Cork’s Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641–43
- 2 The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642
- 3 ‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46
- 4 ‘Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined’: Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644–45
- 5 The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642–48
- 6 The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642–48
- 7 The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47
- 8 The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649
- 9 The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics
- 10 Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft and the ‘deluded and seduced’ people of Ireland
- Index
Summary
This chapter looks at the marquess of Ormond’s involvement with Archbishop Ussher and the running of the Church of Ireland, specifically the appointment of bishops. It shows not only the determination of Ormond to keep the church hierarchy filled with suitably able men – which was especially important during the negotiations with the confederates, in which the future of church property was paramount – but also his sympathies with Calvinist divines such as Dr Henry Jones of Clogher, who could provide robust opposition to the covenanters as well as the Catholics. The chapter thus provides yet another layer to the complicated negotiations conducted by Ormond in the mid-1640s, reinforcing the impression that the lord lieutenant was a politician of considerable ingenuity.
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- Ireland in crisisWar, politics and religion, 1641–50, pp. 138 - 154Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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