Of all the girls in our town, The black, the fair, the red, the brown, That dance and prance it up and down, There's none like Nancy Dawson. The most important source of English Country Dance music from 1651 to about 1728 is the Playford books. The tune appears in the 11th edition in 1702, thirteen years before James lost his title. But I'm getting ahead of the story. The Butler family in question were apparently great administrators for centuries, and have a long history in both England and Ireland.
Long histories have their ups and downs.
A James Butler was made the first Earl of Ormond in 1328. Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn, was made Earl of Ormond in 1529. The first Duke of Ormond, the 12th Earl, managed to remain loyal to the House of Stuart during the Cromwellian usurpations, though he was also an able diplomat during the wars and remained exempted from Cromwell's Act for Settlement of Ireland. In 1661 Charles II made him Duke of Ormond of Ireland, and later of England as well. He served six terms as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and among his accomplishments established Dublin's Phoenix Park.