glanmorgan

Updated: May 21, 2025

At any rate, to one acquainted with the workings of the "Court of Wards," there is nothing surprising in the fact that Ormond, the descendant of so many illustrious men of the great Butler family a family at all times so attached to the Catholic faith, and which afterward furnished so many victims to the transplantation schemes of Cromwell should himself become an inveterate enemy to the religion of his own parents, and to those who professed it; and that he should employ the great gifts which God had granted him, solely to scheme against this religion, and prevent his native countrymen from receiving even the scanty advantages which Charles at one time was willing to concede to them, through Lord Glanmorgan.

Augustus J. Thebaud - Irish Race in the Past and the Present