BOYLE. 
Ireland ; who, being engaged in bufinefs, and not knowing 
who It was that delired to fpeak to him, for a while de¬ 
layed hint accede, which time he fpent pleafantly with the 
fecretary’s daughter, then a child in the nurfe’s arms. But 
v hen Sir Jeoft'ery came, and faw who lie had made day 
fomewhat too long, he civilly excufed it. But Mr. Boyle 
replied, he had been very well employed, and had (pent 
his time much to-his fatisfadtion in courting his daughter, 
it' he might obtaine the honour of being his fon-in-lavv. 
At this Sir Jeotfery fniiled, to hear one who had been for¬ 
merly married move for a wife carried in arms, and under 
two years old, and afked him if he could day for her; to 
which he frankly antwered him that he would, and Sir 
Jeotfery as genefoufly promifed him that he {hould have 
his content.” They both kept their words afterwards very 
honourably, and Mr. Boyle actually-married this lady, 
Mifs Catherine Fenton. He received on his wedding-day 
the honour of knighthood from Sir George Carew, lord- 
deputy of Ireland, who was his-particnlar friend. March 
12, 1606, he was fvvorn a privy-counfellor to king James, 
for the province of Mnnfter; Feb. 15, 1612, lie was fworn 
a privy-counfellor of fiate of the kingdom of Ireland; 
Sept. 29, 1616, he was created lord Boyle, baron of Youg- 
liall; Oct. 16, 1620, vifcount of Dungarvon, and earl of 
Cork. OCt. 2 6, 1629, lie was appointed one of the lords 
juttices of Ireland, and held that office feveral years. Fe¬ 
bruary the 16th following, the earl loft his countefs, by 
whom he had no lefs than (even tons and eight daughters. 
Nov. 9, 1631, he was conftifuted lord high treafurer of 
Ireland, and had intereft enough to get that high office 
made .hereditary in his family. On the breaking out of 
the rebellion in Ireland, in 1641, he immediately raifed 
two troops of horfe, which he put under the command of 
his fons, the lord vifcount Kinelmeaky, and the lord Brog- 
hill, maintaining them and 400 foot for fome months at Ins 
own charge. In the battle which the Englifh gained at 
Lilcarrol, Sept. 3, 1642, four of his fons were engaged, 
and the eldeft was (lain in the field. The earl himfelf died 
about a year after, on the 15th of September, in the le- 
venty-eighth year of his age ; having fpent the laft, as he 
did the firft, year of his life, in the fupport of the crown 
of England againft Irifti rebels, and in the- fervice of his 
country. Though he was no peer of England, he was, 
on account of his eminent abilities and knowledge of the 
world, admitted to fit in the hcufe of lords upon the wool- 
packs, ut confiliarius. When Cromwell faw the prodigious 
improvements he iiad made, which he little expedited to 
find in Ireland, he declared, that, if there had been an earl 
of Cork in every province, 'it would have been impoffible 
for the Irifh to have raifed a rebellion. 
He affedted not places nor titles of honour until he was 
well able to maintain them, for he was in the thirty-feventh 
year of his age when knighted, and in his fiftieth when 
made a baron. He made no large purchafes till he was 
able to improve them ; and he grew rich on eftates which 
had ruined their former polfetfors. He increafed his wealth, 
not by hoarding, but by l'pending; for he built and walled 
feveral towns at his own coft ; but in places fo well fitua- 
ted, that they were foon filled with inhabitants, and quick¬ 
ly repaid the money he had laid out with intereft, which 
lie as readily laid out again. Hence, in the fpace of forty 
years, he acquired to himfelf what in fome countries would 
have been efteemed a noble principality ; and, as they came 
to years of difcretion, he beftowed eftates upon his fons, 
and married his daughters into the beft families of that 
country. He outlived nioft of thofe who had known the 
meannefs of his beginning; but he delighted to remem¬ 
ber it himfelf, and even took pains to preferve the me¬ 
mory of it to pofterity in the motto which he always tiled, 
and which he caufed to be placed upon his tomb, viz. 
“ God's providence is my inheritance." In June, 1632, he 
committed the moll memorable tranfadtions of his life to 
writing, under the title of “ True Remembrances,” which 
are publifhed in Dr. Birch’s “ Life of the Hon. Mr. Ro¬ 
bert Boyle:” in thefe he remarks, that, though he raifed 
fuch a fortune as left hinv no room to envy any of his 
neighbours, yet he did it without care or burden to Ins 
confcieoce ; and he hack the fatis fait ion of feeing three of 
his fons made peers before his death. 
BOYLE (Richard), earl of Bridlington and Cork, fo- 
cond foil to the former, was a nobleman of unblemifticd 
loyalty, and of untainted integrity in times of the greatc.t 
corruption. He was born at Youghal), October 20, 1612, 
w hile his father was in the beginning of his pfo-fperity, and 
only Sir Richard Boyle. lie diftinguiftied himfelf by his 
loyalty to Charles I. He not only commanded troops, but 
raifed and for a long time paid them, and continued to 
wait upon the king as long as any one place held out for 
him in England, and then w as forced to compound for his 
eftate. He contributed all in his power to the reftoration , 
on which Charles II. raifed him to the dignity of earl of 
Bridlington, in Yorldhire, in the year 1663. He died Jan. 
15, '697, in the eighty-fixth year of his age. 
BOYLE (Roger), earl of Orrery, and fifth fon of 
Richard great earl of Cork, was born April, 1621, and 
created baron Broghill in the kingdom of Ireland when , 
but (even years old. He was educated at the college'of 
Dublin, and about the year 1636 lent with his elder bro 
ther to make the tour of France and Italy. After his re- ■ 
turn he married lady Margaret Howard, filler to the eatl 
of Suffolk. During the rebellion in Ireland, he command¬ 
ed a troop of hoiTe in the forces raifed by his father, and 
on many occafions gave proofs of condnCt and courage. 
After the death of Charles L he retired to his feat at 
Marfton, in Somerfetftiire, where he lived privately till 
1JS49. In this retirement, reflecting .on the perfonal in¬ 
jury he fuffered, whilft his eftate was held by the Irifti re¬ 
bels, he refolved, under pretence of going to the Spaw 
for his health, to apply perfonally to Charles II. for a 
commiftion to raife forces in Ireland, in order to reftore 
the king, and recover his ow n eftate. He defired the earl 
of Warwick, who had an intereft in the prevailing party, 
to procure a licence for him to go to the Spaw. He pre¬ 
tended fo the earl, that his'fole view was the recovery of 
his health ; but, to fome of his friends of the royal party, 
in whom he thought he could confide, he difeovered his 
real defign ; and, having raifed a confiderable film of mo¬ 
ney, came to London to profecute his voyage. The com¬ 
mittee of ftate, foon informed of his whole defign, deter¬ 
mined to proceed againft him with the utmoft feverity. 
Cromwell, at that time general of the parliament forces, 
and a member of the committee, was no flranger to lord 
Broghill’s merit; and, confidering that this young noble¬ 
man might be of great ufe to him in reducing Ireland, he 
entreated the committee, that he might have leave to talk 
with him, and endeavour to gain him over, before they 
proceeded to extremities. Having obtained this permif- 
fion, he difpatched a gentleman to lord Broghill, to let 
him know that he intended to wait upon him. Broghill 
was furprifed at this meffage, having never had the lead 
acquaintance with Cromwell. But, whilft he was expoftu- 
lating with the mefienger, Cromwell entered the room, and 
told him in few words, that the committee of ftate were 
apprifed of his going Over, and applying to Charles Stuart 
for a commiftion to raife forces in Ireland ; and that they 
had determined to make an example of him, if lie had not 
diverted them from that refolution. Broghill interrupted 
him, and allured him that the intelligence was falfe ; for 
that he was neither in a capacity, nor had an inclination, 
to raife dillurbances in Ireland. Cromwell, inftead of mak¬ 
ing any reply, drew from his pocket fome papers, which 
were the copies of feveral letters Cent by lord Broghill to 
■perfons in whom he 1110ft confided, and put them into his 
hands. Broghill, finding it was to no purpofe to diftemble, 
a(ked Cromwell’s pardon, and entreated his advice how 
to a< 5 t in fo delicate a conjuncture. Cromwell told him, 
that, though he had been a (iranger to his perfon, he was 
not io to his merit and character; that he had heard how 
gallantly his lordftiip had behaved in the Irifti w ars ; and 
therefore, (inee he was named lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 
and 
