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Robert Molesworth(1656-1725) |
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Dates (OS)
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Events relevant to
Molesworth’s Life
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Other Events
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1656-09
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Death of Robert Molesworth (father) (3rd), Robert Molesworth born (7th), Fishamble St. Dublin |
(Sept-Nov) Publication of Harrington’s The
Commonwealth of Oceana |
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1660-05-29
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Charles II’s Restoration – entry into London |
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1662 |
Birth of half-brother Henry Tichborne (ie mother Judith now married to Sir William Tichborne) |
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1666-09-03
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Start of Great Fire of London |
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1669-09
– 1670-09 |
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Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Amb. Ext. to Denmark |
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1671-08-04 |
Viscount Ranelagh’s ‘undertaking’ to manage
Irish revenues of the crown |
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1672-08-05
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Arthur Capel Earl of Essex Lord Lt. of Ireland |
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1672-10-16
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Entered Trinity Coll as Fellow Commoner |
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1675
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BA Trinity College, Dublin; Lincoln’s Inn,
London |
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1676-08-16 |
Marriage to the Hon Letitia Coote |
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1677-08-24 |
Duke of Ormond sworn in as Lord Lieutenant |
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1677-11-04
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William of Orange m. Princess Mary |
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1679-08-04
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Charles Coote, Lord Mountrath m. Isabella
Dormer |
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1680-01-28 |
Death of Chief Baron John Bysse |
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1680-06-30 |
Death of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, (aged 46) |
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1683-06-23
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Discovery of Rye House Plot to kill Charles II |
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1683-07 |
Death of Earl of Essex in the Tower (13th); marriage of Henry Tichborne to Arabella Cotton (28th) |
Princess Anne m. Prince George (Jørgen) (28th) |
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1683-12-07 |
Execution of Algernon Sidney |
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1684-01 |
Molyneux establishes Dublin Philosophical
Society. |
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1684-1688 |
Annual “voyages into forreign countreys.
allwayes takeing Holland in my way.” |
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1685-01-28 |
Death of Richard Butler, Earl of Arran, (aged 45) |
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1685-02-06
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Death of Charles II, succ. by James II |
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1685-03-20 |
Ormond leaves Ireland, no longer Ld. Lt |
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1685-07-06
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Defeat of Duke of Monmouth at Sedgemoor |
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1685-10-08 |
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Revocation of Edict of Nantes |
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1686-01-09 |
2nd Earl of Clarendon sworn in as Ld. Lt. |
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1686-06-05 |
Tyrconnell appointed to comand army in Ireland |
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1687 |
Col. Ld. Coote serving as capt of horse in Dutch army |
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1687-02-06 |
Tyrconnell sworn in as Ld Deputy in Dublin |
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1688-03-29 |
Col. Ld. Coote appointed treasurer and receiver-general to Princess Mary of
Orange |
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1688-06
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Birth of son to James II – Old Pretender (10th), Acquittal of the 7 Bishops & Invitation to William (30th) |
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1688-11
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William lands at Torbay (5th) |
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1688-12
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James II flees to France; (11th, 23rd) |
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1689-02-13
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William and Mary King & Queen |
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1689-03-12
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James II lands in Ireland |
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1689-05-02
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Molesworth attainted by Dublin parliament (7th); Sequestrated estate £2,825 pa |
Treaty of Vienna – The Grand Alliance (2nd), England declares war on France (7th) |
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1689-06 |
Credentials dated (6th), 1st Instructions dated (6th), 2nd Instructions dated (19th), Treaty of Altona signed (20th) |
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1689-07
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Arrives in Denmark (7th) |
Breaking of boom on River Foyle and relief of Londonderry (28th) |
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1689-08
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Agreement reached on treaty to hire Danish
troops (15th) |
Marshal Schomberg lands in Bangor Bay (13th), Carrickfergus Surrenders (28th) |
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1689-09-04 |
William III ratifies treaty to hire Danish troops |
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1689-11-06 |
Last troops set sail (arr. in Humber instead of Leith) |
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1690-03-13
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The Danish Force lands in Ireland |
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1690-05 |
First mention of Colonel Scot in correspondence, (last mention 1691-05)
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1690-06
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Arrival of Amerongen in Copenhagen (4th),
defeat of Anglo-Dutch fleet at Beachy Head
(30th) |
William lands nr Carrickfergus (14th) |
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1690-07
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Battle of the Boyne (1st), |
William enters Dublin (6th) |
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1690-09-03 |
Joined by family in Copenhagen |
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1691-09-29 |
Death of Amerongen |
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1692-05-23 |
French fleet defeated at La Hogue |
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1692-06-20
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Departure from Denmark |
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1692 |
Publication by Anthony Dopping, bp of Meath of Modus tenendi parliamenta in Hibernia (Dublin) |
Publication of John Locke’s Some Thoughts concerning Education. |
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1693-12-15 |
First publication of An Account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692. (13 editions published before 1700; 22 editions published by 1752) |
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1695 – 1699 |
MP[I] for Dublin |
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1695 – 1698 |
MP for Camelford |
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1697- 1713-01 |
Privy Councillor [I] |
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1698-03-23
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Fellow of the Royal Society |
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1698-04 |
Publication of William Molyneux’s The case of Ireland’s being bound by acts of parliament in England stated (Dublin) |
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1702-03-08 |
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Death of William III, succ. by Anne |
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1703 – 1705 |
MP[I] for Swords |
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1705- 1706-01 |
MP for Lostwithiel |
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1706-01- 1708 |
MP for East Retford |
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1711 |
Preface to translation of Francis Hotoman’s Franco-Gallia, first published without the preface but reissued with the preface in 1721. The preface was later published as The Principles of a Real Whig |
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1714-08-01 |
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Death of Anne, succ. by George I |
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1714 – 1716 |
Commissioner for Trade and Plantations |
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1714-10
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Privy Councillor [I] |
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1715 – 1722 |
MP for Mitchell |
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1716-07-16 |
Created Lord Molesworth, Baron of Phillipstown in King’s County and Viscount Molesworth of Swords, County Dublin. |
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1716 |
Preface to his daughter, the Hon M Monck’s
Marinda, Poems and Translations Upon Several Occasions |
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1717 |
A Short Narrative of the Life and Death of John Rhinholdt Count Patkul. |
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1721 |
Publication of Letters from the Right Honourable the Late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth, Esq; Now the Lord Viscount of that Name. Edited and with introduction by John Toland |
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1721- 1722 |
Commissioner in the Enquiry into the South Sea Bubble |
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1722 |
Toland’s final illness and death (March 11th); prospect of Molesworth standing as MP for Westminster. |
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1722 – 1723 |
Correspondence with Glasgow University
students and others Scottish admirers: William Stuart, George Turnbull, William Wishart and James Arbuckle. |
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1723 |
Some Considerations for the Promoting of
Agriculture and Employing the Poor. |
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1724 |
Frances Hutcheson finishes An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. With acknowledgement to Molesworth. |
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1724-12-03 |
Swift dedicates the 5th Drapier’s Letter to
Molesworth. |
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1725-05-22
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Death at Swords, Co Dublin. |
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