BORLASE, Edmund. The History of the Irish Rebellion, Trac’d from many Preceding Acts, to the Grand Eruption The 23d of October, 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, 1662.

London: Printed for Robert Clavel, in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1680. Folio. pp. [32], 327, [1], 138, [14 (Index)]. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary full calf, covers ruled in gilt. Spine professionally rebacked. A near fine copy.
Wing B3768. .
Anonymous. By Edmund Borlase. Folding table [Accounts for Subduing the Rebellion] facing p. 230. Part-title on p. [391]: A collection of murthers in several counties of Ireland. With list of subscribers, an index and an appendix.
Edmund Borlase (1620-1682) historic writer and physician, was son of Sir John Borlase, who received the appointment of master-general of the ordnance, Ireland, in 1634, and held office as Lord Justice here from 1640 to 1643. He was born in Dublin and is stated to have been educated at Trinity College and Leiden where he received the degree of doctor of physic in 1650. He subsequently settled in Chester, where, according to Wood, he “practised his faculty with good success to his dying day.” Borlase in 1660 received the degree of doctor of medicine from the university of Oxford. He enjoyed the patronage of Charles Stanley, Earl of Derby, to whom he dedicated a treatise. The present tome is Edmund’s best known work and was undertaken chiefly with the object of demonstrating that the English government in Ireland had not acted against the royal interests nor unjustly towards Irish Catholics.
He obtained a copy of an unpublished treatise on Irish affairs by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon which he plagiarised for this work. The period covered is that leading up to “the grand eruption the 23 of October, 1641” and thereafter through to the Act of Settlement of 1662.

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