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78 He returned home upon the Restoration, and was re possessed of his estate by the favour and interest of the Duke of Ormond. He died in Dublin, in September 1677; and was buried in the church-yard of Malahidert, about five miles from that city, where there is a tomb erected to his memory, but without any inscription that is apparent or legible.

During his retirement in France, he wrote, in Latin, in two books, "Vindiciarum Catholicorum Hibernæ," under the name of Philopater Irenæus. The first of which gives a pretty accurate history of Irish affairs, from 1641 to 1649; and the second is a confutation of an epistle written by Paul King, a Franciscan friar and a nunciotist, in defence of the Irish rebellion. This book of Mr. Beling's being answered by John Ponce, a Franciscan friar also, and a most implacable enemy to the protestants of Ireland, in a tract entitled, "Belingi Vindiciæ eversæ," our author made a reply, which he published under the title of "Annotationes in Johannes Poncii Librum, cui titulus, Vindiciæ Eversæ: accesserunt Belingi Vindiciæ," Parisiis, 1654, 8vo. He wrote also a vindication of himself against Nicholas French, titular bishop of Ferns, under the title of "Innocentiæ suæ impetitæ per Reverendissimum Fernensem vindicæ," Paris, 1652, 12mo. dedicated to the clergy of Ireland; and is reported to have written a poem, called "The Eighth Day," which has escaped our searches. When a student, however, at Lincoln's inn, he wrote and added a sixth book to Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, which was printed with that romance, London, 1638, folio, with only the initials of his name.

 

a name of which Ireland may justly boast, both for the brilliancy of his genius and his extensive stores of knowledge; but still more for the warmth of his benevolent