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which sum, since it appears by a note under their hands that they received whilst they con- tinued in arms for your Majesty's service by my commission, I think reasonable for your Majesty to allow.

"He doth further demand some allowance for disbursements and services done by order from the Marquis of Clanricard,* whereof he doth not produce such evidence I can certify any opinion upon to your Majesty, but think fit that his rights to those pretences may be reserved to him till he can make it more particularly appear. He doth desire an allowance for a journey hither into Flanders upon the direction of the Lord of Muskry f to sollicit the Duke of Lorraine for supplys.

"I conceive the \\ayproposed by the petitioner for the satisfaction of what is justly due from your Majesty to him is not unreasonable, all which I humbly submit to your Majesty's determination. (Signed) Ormonde."

Which said Certificate we having duly considered do hereby not only allow and approve of same, but order and require the Lord Lieutenant, or other our chief officer or officers for the time being in our said Kingdom of Ireland to make effectual order as soon as it shall please Gcd to restore us to the possession of that our Kingdom, that all the several sums mentioned in the said certificate to be due to the said Patrick Archer amounting to the sum of five thousand eight hundred eighty three pounds nineteen shillings sixpence sterling be orderly and legally assigned upon the Customs of Waterford and Ross, and accordingly duly and fully satisfied and paid to our said subject Patrick Archer, or his Assignes, for his said good services seasonably performed when others declined their duty in that kind. And as for the said Patrick Archer's demands of allowance for disbursements and services done by order from our right trusty and entirely beloved cosen the Marquis of Clan- ricard, and for the said Archer's allowance for a journey he performed by direction of our right trusty and well beloved cosen the Lord Viscount Muskry, we will and ordain that the rights and pretences of the said Patrick Archer in these particulars may be reserved to him without prejudice till we receive further information from them, whereupon we shall better judge of the equity of his pretences and whereupon give further order there in ^

Given at our Court at Bruges, July 23, 1656, in the eighth year of our reign.

By his Majesty's Commands, (Signed) EDW. NICHOLAS.

Apparently very little of this debt was liquidated by 1663, for according to the above * Calendar of State Papers,' Charles II., by letters patent dated Jan. 28, 1664. acknowledged his indebtedness to Patrick Archer for the sum of 6,2947. 5s.

Clanricarde (1604-1657). Deputy in Ireland for Ormonde, 1650. Capitulated to the Parliament, 1652.
 * Burgh, Ulick de, 5th Earl and Marquis of

t Maccarthy, Donogh, 2nd Viscount Mus- kerry aiul 1st Earl of Clar.carty (creat. 1658). Commanded the royalist forces in Munster against Cromwell.

Patrick Archer eventually settled at, Riverstown, co. Meath. According to a- pedigree prepared by Charles Lynezar circa 1731, which was in the possession of Mr. Martin Archer-Shee, Q.C., in 1888, the- Riverstown Archers were a branch of the- famous Kilkenny family. My inquiry, in,- 1912, as to the parentage and family of Patrick Archer met with no response, but I think that I can now identify him, having- found an old skeleton pedigree, drawn uj> in the sixties of the last century, which endeavoured, but without success, to estab- lish a relationship between .the Archers o" Kilkenny, Wexford, and Wicklow. Patrick Archer was evidently the fifth son of Walter- Archer of Kilkenny and Cappaght (died Jan. 4, 1624-5) by his wife Elizabeth, Shee, and his eldest brother was Henry Archer, who died in 1645, having mar- ried Ellen, daughter of James Fitzharris* of Ross.

Between the years 1863-66 my family commissioned Sir Bernard Burke to establish* the connexion, if it existed, between the- Archers of Kilkenny and Wicklow ; and, at the same period, Capt. Lawrence Archer,. 60th Rifles, author of several editions of ' Brief Memorials of English Families of the- name of Archer ' (1st edition, Edinburgh, 1856) was on the same track. Both failed, in their endeavours, although Sir Bernard- expressed himself as morally certain that they were one and the same family. I sup- pose as a quid pro quo for his fees, " Ulster delivered himself of an ambiguous statement in his 'Dormant and Extinct Peerages,'' 1866. Under "Archer Barons Archer, of" Umberslade, co. Warwick," he wrote : " One- line, deriving descent from Tulbert L' Archer the Norman, was settled at a very remote- period at Kilkenny, in Ireland ; and its- descendants may still be traced in that kingdom, one being the present Graves > Chamneys Archer, Esq., of Mount Jomv co. Wicklow." G. C. Archer was my grand- father, and incidentally, he had been dead eighteen years. This statement was severely castigated by a correspondent of ' N. & Q.' signing himself " R. C." at 5 S. i. 167. The- alleged connexion between the Warwickshire- and co. Kilkenny Archer seems, at any rate, to have been pure fiction.

As I pointed out in my 1912 communica- tion, Patrick Archer's son, John, married a Wicklow Archer, and both he and his wife- were living at Riverstown in 1707, and had- two daughters. H. G. ARCHER.

Chettle Lodge, Blandford, Dorset.