160 ARMAGH. 



churches the primate has alio built, and done 

 confiderable reparations to the cathedral. 



He has been the means alfo of erecting a 

 public infirmary, which was built byfubferip- 

 tion, contributing amply to it himfelf. 



A public library he has erected at his own 

 expenfe, given a large collection of books, and 

 endowed it. The room is excellently adapted, 

 45 by 25, and 20 high, with a gallery, and a- 

 partments for a librarian. 



He has further ornamented the city with a 

 market-houfe and fhambles, and been the di- 

 rect means, by giving leafes upon that condi- 

 tion, of almoft new building the whole place. 

 He found it a neft of mud cabbins, and he will 

 leave it a well built city of ftone and flate. I 

 heard it alTerted in common converfation, that 

 his Grace, in thefe noble undertakings, had not 

 expended lefs than 30,0001. betides what he 

 had been the means of doing, though not di- 

 rectly at his own expenfe. 



When it is confidered that all this has been 

 done in the fhort term of 7 or 8 years, I fhould 

 not be accufed of exaggeration, if I faid they 

 were noble and fpirited works undertaken up- 

 on a man's paternal eftate, how much more 

 then are they worthy of prai'e when execut- 

 ed not for his own pofterity but for the public 

 good ? Amidit fuch great works of a different 

 nature, it is not to be expected that his Grace 



fhould 



