He lived till July, 1689. On the last day of his life he was apparently in excellent health; but at midnight he was attacked by a violent fit of colic which proved fatal in four hours.
BURIALS IN JULY, 1689.
28 |Marquis of Ruvignie.28 |
The above is a true Extract from the Register of Burials belonging to the Parish Church of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, taken this 20th day of July, 1863,
By me,
NOTES.
In the course of Chapter II., panegyrics on Ruvigny are often quoted. The panegyrists are Rachel, Lady Russell (p. 122), Marshal Turenne (p. 124), St Evremond (pp. 124, 129), Bishop Burnet (p. 134), Lord Clarendon (p. 124), Benoist, the historian of the Edict (pp. 125, 135, 142), Lord de Magdelaine (p. 129), Pasteur Daillé (p. 130), the Due de St Simon (p. 131), Coleman (p. 134), Madame de Maintenon (p. 137), Pasteur du Bosc (p. 142).
The following names, connected with refugee biography, occur in this Chapter:— Marquis de la Foret and Pasteur De L’Angle (p. 128), Frederic Duc de Schomberg (pp. 131, 139), Pastors Allix and Menard (p. 133), Rev. Richard Du Maresq (p. 135), Jean Rou (p. 135), Mademoiselle de Ciré (p. 136), Messieurs Le Coq and De Romaignac (p. 142).
Chapter III. (pp. 144 to 219). Henri De Ruvigny, Earl of Galway (born 1648, died 1720), was the elder son of the Marquis De Ruvigny, and first cousin of Rachel, Lady Russell. He was an officer in the French army, and also, like his father, an ambassador and a deputy-general. In 1685 he became a refugee in England. He succeeded to his father’s French title and estates in 1689, and was advised to live as a private gentleman and public benefactor, in which case Louis XIV. would not have confiscated his property. But, in 1691, he insisted on joining the English army, and served in Ireland with great distinction, as Major-General the Marquis de Ruvigny, and Colonel of Ruvigny’s Horse (formerly Schomberg’s). In 1792 he was enrolled in the Irish Peerage as Viscount Galway and Baron Portarlington; and in 1697 he was created Earl of Galway. He was a Lord-Justice and Acting Chief-Governor of Ireland from 1697 to 1701. He was General and Commander-in-chief of the English troops in Portugal and Spain from 1704 to 1707, and Ambassador at Lisbon from 1708 to 1710. He was again a Lord-Justice and Acting Chief Governor of Ireland in 1715-16. My memoir of this gallant and excellent nobleman is divided into seventeen sections:—
- His career as a Frenchman, p. 144.
- His refugee life before enrolment in our army, p. 149.
- The Irish Campaign of 1691, p. 149.
- His services as Major-General the Viscount Galway, p. 151.
- His services as Lieutenant-General and Ambassador in Piedmont, p. 155.
- His appointment as one of the Lords Justices of Ireland, and his elevation to the Earldom of Galway, p. 162.
- The Earl of Galway and Irish Presbyterians, p. 166.
- The Earl of Galway’s government of Ireland, from 1697 to 1701, p. 168.
