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 1920 SIR MAURICE EUSTACE 259 X Dels. 8/35, pp. 1653-5. 15 AprU 1665 Sir Maurice Eustace to John Keating My deare nephew I finde by the lyste of the names of lands sent hither by my Lord of Kingston to the 49 men ^ that those parcells of land in the county of Kildare vizt Blackball and Little Newtown, past vnto me by Letters Patents by his Matie, and now in my quiett possession, are intended by his Lordshipp to bee amongst divers other lands secured by the explanatorie bill of Settlement now vnder consideracon in England. I therefore desire you to appeare for me therein and to vse all possible meanes for the pre- servacon of my right which is but juste, being precedent to my Lord of Kingstons presentes. There are divers others as the 49 men &c who are grieved with this proceeding of my Lord of Kingston, and will endeavour to give a stop vnto him soe as I goe not single and alone in this businesse, vis vnita fortior. And soe leaving this buisinesse to your management I rest your most affectionate unckle Maw. Eustace Can 15 Aprill 1665. These for John Keating Esqr. at Mr Bells house behinde the new Exchange in the Strann London. The Hereditary Prince-Bishops of Montenegro It has always been asserted in all histories of Montenegro that from 1697 to 1852, when Montenegro ceased to be a theocracy, the dignity of Vladika, or prince-bishop, was hereditary in the Petrovich family, of which King Nicholas is the present head. My attention has, however, been drawn to a volume of * Tran- scriptions from the Viennese Government Archives ' {Ispisi iz bechkih drzJmvnih arhiva), published in 1913, and containing an account of the confidential mission of a certain Austrian colonel, Pavlich, to Montenegro in 1781. This officer found the Vladika Sava Petrovich (whose death has hitherto been dated 1782) already dead, for he mentions (p. 74) a dispute about Sava's property, while the reigning bishop was not a Petrovich at all, but Arsenije Plamenatz, a member of that well-known Monte- negrin family which has in our time produced a war minister in the old Vdivoda Ilia Plamenatz, a foreign minister in M. Petar Plamenatz, and a prime minister in M. Jovan Plamenatz. Indeed, two years earlier Arsenije Plamenatz signed as ' Metropolitan of Crna Gora ' a document dated 9 April 1779.^ He was, however, of no account in public life, owing to his drinking habits (pp. 60, 96). The fact of his having been bishop, although concealed in official publications for dynastic reasons, has been treasured in his family, and is mentioned by the Montenegrin ex-premier, M. Radovich, in his pamphlet Le Montenegro, son passe et son avenir, published in 1918, at p. 20. William Miller. 1 For the ' Forty-Nine Men ' see R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Stuarts, iii. 14. S 2
 * Vladan Georgevich, Crna flora i Avstrija, pp. 4, 5.