FRENCH, Right Rev. Nicholas, D.D. The Historical Works of the Right Rev. Nicholas French, D.D., Bishop of Ferns: The Bleeding Iphigenia; The Settlement and Sale of Ireland; Letters; Unkinde Deserter of Loyall Men and True Frinds. Two volumes in one.

Dublin: James Duffy, 1846. 12mo. pp. (1) lxxx, [4], 143 (2) vi, [11], 6-202. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on green morocco label on spine. A very good copy. Rare.

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Nicholas French (1604-1678), bishop of Ferns, was born in Wexford and trained for the priesthood at the Irish College in Louvain. Following his ordination he returned to Wexford as parish priest. During the rebellion he was ""a violent enemy of the king's authority, and a fatal instrument in contriving and fomenting all the divisions which had distracted and rent the kingdom asunder"". He took an active share in the deliberations of the first Supreme Council of the Confederates, and was a bitter opponent of the Marquis of Ormonde.
After the Restoration, a long correspondence ensued between him and Fr. Walsh on behalf of Ormonde, relative to his return to Ireland, which ended in 1665, with the following words: Seeing that I cannot satisfy my conscience and the Duke together, nor become profitable to my flock at home, nor live quietly and secure, his anger not being appeased, you may know hereby that I am resolved after dog-days to go to Louvain, and there end my days where I began my studies.
He busied himself in writing a number of political tracts: A Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's Settlement and Sale of Ireland (1668); The Bleeding Iphigenia (1674); and an attack on Ormond, The Unkinde Desertor or Loyall Men and True Frinds (1676). All three were published in Louvain and were reprinted and published by Duffy in 1846 and 1848.
Edited by S. H. Bindon; preface signed, S. H. B. Each work has special titlepage. Contents: Vol. 1. The Bleeding Iphigenia. Settlement and sale of Ireland. Letters of French, from P. Walsh's History of the Irish remonstrance. 1674. Vol. 2. The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Frinds [the Duke of Ormonde].

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