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Congreve's Irish Friend, Joseph Keally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Kathleen M. Lynch
Kathleen M. Lynch*
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Fifty years ago Edmund Gosse observed: “We should know little or nothing of what happened to Congreve between 1700 and 1710 if it were not for the Keally letters.” The further statement must be made that in over two hundred years little or nothing has been discovered concerning the friend to whom those letters were addressed. Gosse knew only that Joseph Keally was of “Keally Mount, Kilkenny” and that he was “a relative of Bishop Berkeley.” Congreve's recent biographer, Mr. D. Crane Taylor, unaware of Keally's early death, deplores the “most regrettable” loss of letters later in date than those of Berkeley's Relics but concludes that Congreve and Keally “unquestionably remained close friends.”

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PMLA , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , December 1938, pp. 1076 - 1087
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1938

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References

Note 1 in page 1076 Edmund Gosse, Life of William Congreve (London, 1888), p. 141.

Note 2 in page 1076 Ibid., p. 142.

Note 3 in page 1076 D. Crane Taylor, William Congreve (Oxford, 1931), p. 210.

Note 4 in page 1076 The present attempt to build up a brief biography was made possible by two grants which I received from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Note 5 in page 1076 George Dames Burtchaell, Genealogical Memoirs of the Members of Parliament for the County and City of Kilkenny (Dublin, 1888), pp. 74–75.

Note 6 in page 1076 Pue's Occurrences, XLVI, from Tuesday May 9 to Saturday May 13, 1749.

Note 7 in page 1076 [W. R. Chetwood] A Tour Through Ireland (Dublin, 1748), p. 216.

Note 8 in page 1076 The Chronological Remembrancer (Dublin, 17S0), p. 75.

Note 9 in page 1076 Saunders's News-Letter, January 8, 1783.

Note 10 in page 1077 On December 1, 1689, Lancelot Stepney was appointed consul at Oporto, Portugal. See Narcissus Luttrell, A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs (Oxford, 1857), i, 614.

Note 11 in page 1077 Lodge and Archdall, The Peerage of Ireland (Dublin, 1789), vi, 256–257.

Note 12 in page 1077 Ibid., v, 138–140.

Note 13 in page 1077 Letter xxxii.

Note 14 in page 1077 See Add. MSS. 28,888, f. 268; also Add. MSS. 39,311, f. 1, f. 3, and f. 5.

Note 15 in page 1077 Burtchaell, op. cit., pp. 64–66.

Note 16 in page 1078 One of the volumes saved in 1922, when the Public Record Office of Dublin was destroyed, was a Prerogative Will Book, 1664 To 1684. The volume contains John Keally's will, ff. 309–310.

Note 17 in page 1078 See T. U. Sadleir, “The Register of Kilkenny School,” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Liv (1924), 155–156.

Note 18 in page 1078 Ibid., 64 and 159. Joseph Keally was to marry Elizabeth, younger sister of the Monck brothers.

Note 19 in page 1078 Historical Manuscripts Commission. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P. New Series, vii (London, 1912), 444.

Note 20 in page 1078 The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and of His Brother, Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester . . . ed. S. W. Singer (London, 1828), i, 499.

Note 21 in page 1078 Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part i (London, 1876), 345.

Note 22 in page 1078 [William King] The State of the Protestants of Ireland Under the Late King James's Government (London, 1691), p. 192. King James replaced the Duke of Ormonde's school with a Royal College, in the charter of which, dated February 21, 1689, Dr. Hinton was declared attainted. See Walter Harris, The History of the Life and Reign of William-Henry . . . (Dublin, 1749), p. 234.

Note 23 in page 1079 Historical Manuscripts Commission. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P. New Series, viii (London, 1920), 390.

Note 24 in page 1079 See Luttrell, op. cit., i, 490, 500, 510.

Note 25 in page 1079 King, op. cit., p. 288.

Note 26 in page 1079 Burtchaell, op. cit., pp. 89–91.

Note 27 in page 1079 Historical Manuscripts Commission. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P. New Series, vii, 483.

Note 28 in page 1079 Luttrell, op. cit., i, 602.

Note 29 in page 1079 Luttrell, ii, 59.

Note 30 in page 1079 Ibid., 74.

Note 31 in page 1080 Admissions To House & Chambers, 1658 To 1685, Middle Temple, f. 589.

Note 32 in page 1080 See Luttrell, op. cit., iii, 125 and 351; iv, 188, 229, 263.

Note 33 in page 1080 On Wednesday, October 6, the Duke of Ormonde “sett forward for Ireland.” See Luttrell, iv, 288. There has been some uncertainty as to whether Congreve's letter was written in 1697 or in 1707. The references to the Peace of Ryswick, the Duchess of Ormonde's sojourn in Kilkenny, and the Duke of Ormonde's approaching journey to Ireland clearly establish the date as 1697.

Note 34 in page 1080 The Mourning Bride, Poems, & Miscellanies By William Congreve, ed. Bonamy Dobrée (Oxford, 1928), p. 503.

Note 35 in page 1080 For the earlier and later impressions of Kilkenny of Mary, Duchess of Ormonde, see Add. MSS. 28, 927, f. 161, and Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part i (London, 1879), 769.

Note 36 in page 1080 This fact was noted by George A. Aitken, The Life of Richard Steele (London, 1889), i, 65n.

Note 37 in page 1081 A List of the Claims as they are Entred with the Trustees At Chichester-House on College Green Dublin, On or before the Tenth of August, 1700 (Dublin, 1701), p. 121.

Note 38 in page 1081 The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, ii (Dublin, 1796), 447.

Note 39 in page 1081 Impartial Occurrences, Foreign and Domestick [later Pue's Occurrences], June 2, 1705.

Note 40 in page 1081 Ormonde MSS. 164, f. 476. In 1711 Nutley became a Judge of the Queen's Bench. See The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, op. cil., ii, 719.

Note 41 in page 1081 The Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland (Dublin, 1874), 83.

Note 42 in page 1081 Ormonde MSS. 167, f. 676.

Note 43 in page 1081 Dobrée, op. cit., p. 508.

Note 44 in page 1081 Ibid., pp. 514–515. This undated letter (xliii) was obviously written in the autumn of 1705. There is a reference to the Porters of Arundel Street, who by June of the next year had moved to Surrey Street. See Dobrée, p. 499.

Note 45 in page 1081 Letter xxxi must have been written in 1705, although it has been assigned to 1708. See D. Crane Taylor op. cit., p. 191n.

Note 46 in page 1081 Ormonde MSS. 169, f. 807.

Note 47 in page 1082 Dobrée, op. cit., p. 499. According to local tradition in the parish of Paulstown, County Kilkenny, Joseph Keally was a very corpulent man. When he drove up the long avenue (now a grass-grown lane between hedges) to Kellymount House and reached the rising ground near the house, another horse had to be sent down to assist in drawing the carriage the rest of the way.

Note 48 in page 1082 George Monck Berkeley, Literary Relics (London, 1789), p. 397.

Note 49 in page 1082 See Dobrée op. cit., p. 505 and p. 509. Mr. D. Crane Taylor, op. cit., p. 203, misinterprets the statement: “I hear you have increased your family by two” [a daughter and a brother-in-law] and infers that Keally's family was “enlarged by the birth of twins.” Keally may have had a son John who died in infancy. In The Register of the Parish of S. Peter and S. Kevin, Dublin, 1669–1761 (Exeter and London, 1911), p. 185, under christenings for November, 1709, occurs the entry: “Jon, yeson of Joseph and Eliz. Kelly of Stephens Greene, bpt13th.”

Note 50 in page 1082 See “Autobiography of Pole Cosby,” Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts, v (1906–1908), 87.

Note 51 in page 1082 Berkeley, op. cit., p. 384.

Note 52 in page 1082 Liber Munerum Hiberniae . . . Being The Report of Rowley Lascelles of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. i, Parts i–iv (1824), 136.

Note 53 in page 1083 Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, op. cit., ii, 664.

Note 54 in page 1083 Add. MSS. 39, 311, f. 3.

Note 55 in page 1083 Dobrée, op. cit., p. 509.

Note 56 in page 1083 Ibid., pp. 513–514.

Note 57 in page 1084 Ibid., p. 495.

Note 58 in page 1084 Ibid., p. 507.

Note 59 in page 1084 Berkeley, op. cit., p. 402.

Note 60 in page 1084 Ibid., pp. 393–394.

Note 61 in page 1084 Dobrée, op. cit., p. 489.

Note 62 in page 1084 Ibid., p. 496.

Note 63 in page 1085 Ormonde MSS. 172, f. 1000.

Note 64 in page 1085 Berkeley, op. cit., pp. 398–399.

Note 65 in page 1085 Dobrée, op. cit., p. 498.

Note 66 in page 1085 Ibid., p. 491.

Note 67 in page 1085 Ibid., p. 486.

Note 68 in page 1086 Berkeley, op. cit., p. 391.

Note 69 in page 1086 Dobrée, op. cit., p. 506.

Note 70 in page 1086 Ibid., p. 504.

Note 71 in page 1086 Ibid., p. 497.

Note 72 in page 1086 Ibid., p. 492.

Note 73 in page 1086 Ibid., p. 502.

Note 74 in page 1086 Ibid., pp. 505–506.

Note 75 in page 1087 Ibid., p. 494.

Note 76 in page 1087 Ibid., p. 511.

Note 77 in page 1087 Ibid., p. 513.