xt7qjq0stw34_5549 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Arthur Chichester clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Arthur Chichester clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_64/Folder_47/Multipage29085.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5549 xt7qjq0stw34 ’l‘he surname of the house of Donegal was anciently written
CIILENCESTER, and the family appears to have been one of
eminence in the co. Devon; quartering, according to Sir
William Pole, in his MS. Survey of Dermzshirc, the arms of the
ialcighs, the Beaumonts, the Willingtons, «he. The first who
settled in Ireland was,

Sm ARTHUR Cinciinsrmz, Knt., ‘2an son of Sir John Chiches-
tcr, Knt., high-sheriff of Devonshire in 1552 and 1578, and M 1’.
for the same co. in 1553 and ISU‘Z, by Gertrude, dau. of Sir
William Courtenay. lint. of I’owderliam Castle, co. Devon
(m: CHICIIESTER, Bart. of Raleigh). In 1603, he was sworn
of the privy-council; and in 1004, appointed Lorri-Deputy
oi Ireland, in which year he established two new circuits,
501111111}: the first justices of assize into Connauglit, and
reviving the Circuit of Munster, which had been discontinued
tor more than two hundred years, so that the circuits, which
had previously been confined to the Enf/lish pale, thence-
forward included the whole kingdom; and with such effect
that, in a. very short time, there were not found in all the Irish
counties so many capital offenders as in the six shircs of the

western circuit in England. Sir Arthur, in consideration of his
services, military and civil, obtained considerable grants of
land in the province of Ulster, and was created Baron Chichcslcr,
of Belfast, in the peerage of Ireland, ‘23 Feb. 1612. His lord~
ship continued in the government of Ireland for ten years
successively, and was re-appointed in July, 1613; in which year
the harp of Ireland was first marshalled with the arms of
England, and has since continued to be impressed upon the
coin of the realm. In Nov. 1615, he retired from his high ofiice,
and was appointed, in 1016,1ord-high-treasurer of Ireland. Lord
Chichcstcr chiefly resided at Carrickfergus, where he erected,
in 1618, a magnificent mansion called Joyinount. In 1022, he
went ambassador to the palatinate, and thence to treat ofa
peace with the emperor. During his residence at the imperial
court, being besieged in the city of Illainchina, or Munheini, by
Count Tilly, he rcmonstrated against the violation of the law
of nations in besieging an ambassador; to which Tilly replying,
that he noticed not his being an ambassador; his lordship
th is answered the inessengerz—“ Had my master sent me with
as many hundred men as he hath sent me on fruitlessnwssages,
your general should have known that I had been a soldier
as well as an ambassador." llis lordship m. Letitia, dau. of Sir
John Perrott, Knt. of I'Iaroldston, co. Pembroke, Lord-Deputy
of Ireland, widow of Vaughan Blackham, Esq.; and d. in
London, 19 Feb. 1624, when, leaving no issue, the_barony
expired, while his large estates passed to his brother, I -~ 1