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 WARE. 623 library of Trinity college,) enabled him on his return to Ireland, to publish a history of the Archbishops of Cashel and Tuam; and two years after, of the Archbishops of Dublin; both which he afterwards incorporated in his larger account of the Irish bishops. In 1628, he went again to England, carrying with him several MSS. which he knew would be acceptable to Sir Robert Cetton; and in this second journey, added consi derably to his own collections, through his acquaintance with Selden and other men of research and liberality. On his return home in the following year, he was knighted by the lords justices; and in 1632, he succeeded his father in his estate, and in the office of auditor-general. The duties of his new office, and his attendance at the privy council, to which he was called by Lord Wentworth, afterward Earl of Strafford, did not, however, prevent him from continuing his antiquarian labours. In the following year he published “Spenser's View of the State of Ire land,” dedicating it to the lord deputy; as he did after wards “Hanmer's Chronicle,” and Campion's “History of Ireland.” His Account of the Writers of Ireland, which has since been so ably enlarged and improved by Mr. Harris, who married his grand-daughter, appeared first in 1639. During the progress of the unhappy rebellion which commenced in 1641, Sir James Ware attended closely to the business of the council; and engaged, with other privy counsellors, in securities for the repayment of con siderable sums advanced by the citizens of Dublin, to pay the English troops sent over to quell the rebellion. The storm, however, which had arisen in England, rendering the presence of those troops necessary in that kingdom, a cessation of arms was agreed on for one year; a measure in which Sir James concurred rather from necessity than choice. Of h i s behaviour during this trying period, the Marquis o f Ormonde writes, “Even when his majesty's affairs were most neglected, and when i t was not safe for any man t o shew himself for them, h e then appeared most