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The LIFE of the honourable Robert Boyle.

I was ſworn a privy counſellor of ſtate of the kingdom of Ireland by the lord Chicheſter, then lord deputy, at Chicheſter houſe, the 15h of February, being the day that I arrived out of England at Dublin, 1612.

I was created lord Boyle, baron of Youghall, on Michelmas day, the 29th of Sept. 1616.

I was created lord viſcount of Dungarvan and earl of Corke, the 26th of October, 1620.

Adam lord Loftus of Ely, and lord chancellor of Ireland, and I, Richard, earl of Corke, were ſworn lords juſtices for the joint government of this kingdom of Ireland, the 26th of October, 1629, with the entertainment of one hundred pounds ſterling per month to each of us.

I was made lord high treaſurer of Ireland, and ſworn the 9th of November, 1631.


The ſeveral days of the births of all the children, that God hath bleſſed me withall, with the places where they were born, and the names of their godfathers and godmothers.


1. My firſt ſon Roger, born at Youghall the 1ſt of Auguſt 1606. Sir Allen Apsley, Sir Thomas Brown godfathers, and lady Alice Fenton godmother. He died at Deptford in Kent, the 10th of October 1615, and was buried there.[1]

2. My firſt daughter, Alice Boyle (e), born at Youghall, the 20th of March, 1607; Sir Robert Tynt godfather, lady Fenton and Mrs. Bernard godmothers.(e) Married to the earl of Barrimore.

3. My ſecond daughter, Sarah Boyle, born at Dublin, the 29th of March, 1609; Sir William Uſher godfather, lady Winch and lady Ely godmothers. She was married to Sir Thomas Moore firſt, and then to lord Robert Digby, the 15th of December, 1626.

4. My third daughter, Lettice (f), born the 25th of April, 1610; earl of Thomond godfather, lady Chicheſter and lady Moore godmothers.(f) Married to the lord Goring.

5. My fourth daughter, Joan, born the 14th of June, 1611; Sir William Fenton godfather, and ——— Brown and lady Fenton godmothers. She was married to the earl of Kildare, Aug. 15, 1628, and had two children, Richard and Elizabeth.

6. My ſecond ſon, Richard, was born at the college of Youghall, the 20th of October, 1612; earl of Thomond, Sir Richard Aldworth, and Mr. Thomas Ball of London, godfathers, and lady Ann Parſons godmother. God grant he may ſerve and fear him religiouſly, and be a faithful ſubject and ſervant to the king's majeſty and his heirs, and live many years full of good works and of virtuous children, and be a worthy pillar and patriot in this kingdom. He being viſcount of Dungarvan, was knighted in my houſe in Youghall the 13th of Aug. 1624, by the lord Falkland, lord deputy general of Ireland; and my ſaid ſon departed Dublin, to begin his travels into foreign kingdoms, the 4th of June, 1632, I allowing him one thouſand pounds a year in his travels.

7. My daughter Catharine (g), born the 22d of March, 1614; Sir Robert Bolton godfather, lady Fenton and lady Harris godmothers.(g) Married to the lord viſcount Ranelagh.
(h) Doctor George Stanhope's letter to John Evelyn, Eſq; dated Sept. 6, 1703, and Mr. Evelyn's letter to Dr. W. Wotton, dated at Wotton in Surrey, Sept. 30, 1703.

  1. ↑ He died at Say's-Court in that town, and was interred in the pariſh church, were a monument was erected to him with the following inſcription (h):
    H. S. E. ROGERUS BOYLE, Richardi Comitis Corcacienſis Filius primogenitus; qui in Hiberniâ natus, in Cantio ſolo patris natali denatus, dum hic ingenii cultum capeſſit, puer eximiæ indolis præcacitatem ingenii funere luit immaturo. Sic luculenti, ſed terreni patrimonii factus exhæres, cœleſtem crevit bæreditatem. Deceſſit Anno CIƆDCXV. VI. Eid. VIIIbris.
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