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 A N N A T. te and raillery, as is feldom to be met with in a fchool-di- " vine. This Jcfuit died at Paris in 1670. ANNESLEY (ARTHUR), earl of Anglcfey, and lord privy feal in the reign of king Charles IF. was born July 10, 1614, at Dublin, and continued in Ireland till he was ten years old, when he was fent to England. At fixteen he was entered fellow commoner at Magdalen college, Oxford, where he puifued his ftudies about three or four years. In 1634, he removed to Lincoln's Inn, where he ftudied the law with great afiiduity till his father fent him to travel. He made the tour of Europe, and continued fome time at Rome, whence he returned to England in 1640, and was elected knight of the (hire for the county of Radnor, in the parliament which fat at Weftminfter in November of the fame year; but the election being contefled, he loft his feat by a vote of the Lift of the houfe that Charles Price efq. was duly decled. In the be- ~ war ^ r Annefley inclined to the royal caufe, and fat in the parliament held at Oxford in 1643 ; but t afterwards reconciled himfelf fo effectually to the parliament, of Ormond, t ' iat ne was taken into their confidence, and appointed to go voJ,i.p.535. as a commifiioner toUlfter in 1645. There he managed af- fairs with fo much dexterity and judgment, that the famous Owen Roe O Neil was disappointed in his defigns ; and the popifh archbifhop of Tuam, who was the great fupport of his party, and whofe councils had been hitherto very fuccefs- ful, was not only taken prifoner, but his papers were feized, and his foreign correfpondence difcovered, whereby vaft ad- 3Lid. vantages accrued to the proteftant intereft. The parliament had fent commifficners to the duke of Ormond, for the de- la n ren i- or ; 5 livery of Dublin, but without fuccefs ; and the ftate of af- >iiit. or the r -'... ~ .' f, Rebellion in fairs ^UKing it ncceilary to renew their correfpondence with Ireland, him, they made choice of a fecond committee, and Mr. P' 7I> Annefley was placed at the head of this commiffion. The commifTioners landed at Dublin the /th of June, 1647; 3n< ^ they proved fo fuccefsful in their negociations, that in a few days a treaty was concluded with the lord lieutenant, which was figned on the ipth of that month, and Dublin was put into the hands of the parliament. When the com- miflioners got the fupreme power into their hands, they were guilty 'of many irregulaiities : Mr. Annefley difapproved of their conduct, but could not hinder them from doing many things contrary to his judgement : being therefore difpleafed with his fituation, he reiurned fpeedily to England, where he found all things in confufion. After the death of Crom-