Excerpt from The Montgomery Manuscripts, 1603-1706: Compiled From Family Papers

Montgomery manuscripts were written by William Montgomery of Rose between the years 1696 and 1706, or during the last ten Of this learned old gentleman's personal history ing is known to the editor beyond the several curious autobiographical notices to be found in vohrme, and to which the reader may have easy access by means ofthe Index at the His memoir of the first Viscount Montgomery contains a vivid sketch of the Scottish settle in the territory of ard-uladh, at the commencement of the seventeenth century, and of the tswhich ledtothe extinctionofthe greathouseofo'neill inupper orsouthernclannaboy. Memoir of the second Viscount is unfortunately lost, at least for the present, having been ably carried away to Australia by the author's lineal descendant, captain Frederick Campbell gammy, who settled in that colony about the yw 1835. The memoir of the third Viscount etched us almost complete (although evidently wanting its introductory chapter), and is a truly Ihle contribmtion to the history of Ulster, from the outbreak of the great Irish rebellion in 1641, thepcriodolthekestoration m 1660. Thethirdviscount, whohad a commissionas com loom-chiefof the royalist forces 1n Ulster, was advanced to the dignity of an earl by Charles and took mount-alexander as the name of his earldom, from the family residence Combenin the oountyof Down, which had been so called in honour ofhis mother, ]ean tender, daughter of the first earl of Stirling. The memoir of the fourth viscount, second of mont-alexander, who died in 1716, appears to be complete, at least to the year 1706, the of the author's death. This second earl was appointed general of the northern Protestant s in 1688, and his memoir, containing some curious particulars of the revolutionary struggle Ester, will be read with deep interest. The memoir of Sir James Montgomery is quite imperfeco Mohaeonly scopy ofportionsofthe original. Inams. Account ofthe Savages hich the editor had access, there is a marginal reference to pp, 209, 310, of the lifter/sir er New, but the fragment which has been preserved would not occupy, probably, more My of the closely written quarto pages of William Montgomery's original memoir. The cribenhowever, has fortunately copied from the original such portions of the memoir as refer o Sirlarnes's public life. Including an account of his military operations in 1641, which preserved Inhabitants of the Ards from pillage and massacre, and kept that district open as an asylum for iatdeswhohadcocapcd thefuryofthe insurgentsin other localities, throughout Down, and the Mummies. For the memoirs above-mentioned the author derived his materials from Wpapcrs as hadnot beenstolcnor desu'oyedwhen Rosemount Housewas burned, in.

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