New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-20
NIB. PARNELDS ANCESTORS.

From The Mdnchester Tines
On hrs fathers side Mr.. Parnel can boast OF o
younger branch was raised to the peerage IN lS4l,
as Baron Congleton-for they were originally .
Cheshire family. MI. Parnelfs estgraudfather,
Sir John Parnell was chancellor Of the Exchequer.
Privy Councillor and Lord Of the treasury in tho
Irish Government for q considerable period petwesn
1882 and 1900. 1t is recorded In Burke tbas ne
was strongly opposed 20 the Act Of Union between
Great Britain aud Ireland; but 1T appears from
incidental notices in Mr. Froude's volumes tnat DO
was one Of the men upon whom the English Gov
eminent could place most reliance IN opposing inc
iercer patriots of she school Of Grattan. gen.
GRAFTON or two further back Mr.. ParneH counts
among his ancestors two Judges and one Lord Chief
Justice of tho Irish Court OF Kings Bench. so snat
q triple stream Of she blOod-judcisl News IN ms
veins and there is no wonder that during the recent
trial for conspiracy he felt at ease IN place where
several of his family had presided:
But the most notable scion OF the stock. snoo
out close to the root since he Was tho son OF the hrss
PaInell known to fame, was the celebrated Ut.
Parnell the poet, AFehdeaeOn of ClOgheI, and the
friend Of S%S and pORs n,a,ne n s son1cs of
Queen Anne, Swift and ParneH were togetner IN
London. They ran in couples. Their pursuit was
the same. though Switts scent was the keener, and
he was too im pIeenably ent.enched in his own
superiority to be ca Jable Of feeling jealous OF nus
brother paTson. On the contrary, he patron1ed
him infinitely, took hun 20 all the great houses.
introduced HIM TO the whole round of his aristo-
cratic friends, and prided himself upon having 90
arranged matters that the Ministry appeared 10 Do
more anxious to become acquainted with Dl. Pai-
nell than DR.. Parnel to become acquainted with the
Ministry. u hoise mp Parnell," he writes IN his
Journal to stella partly to spite the enviCqs iIs6
with Lord Bolingbroke to correct ParnelPs poem:
l made him show all the places he dfsElked, ana
when Parnell has corrected fuilY ne shalI pr1nt
it," This was poem in which Swift bad persuaded
Parnell to introduce lines in praise OF Boiling
broke But Swift had some difficulty in Keeping
Parnell up to the mark A fortnight later ne
writes: This rogue Parnell haa not vet corrected
his poem and would fam have 1t out"
The year after Swift got bis deanery and went BACK
y. -. ID. nnlf -
Finglass, in the diocese of Dublin. with four nun
drC1 year. The poet was, as | have SAID, the brst
scion Of the Parnell stock a few words must now
DC given To the stock itself Sir Bernard Burke says
briefly that he belonged to family long resident az
COnglctOn in the County of Cheshire, that ne pef-
chased an estate in Ireland in the time OF Charles
H.. and fixed his abode in that Kingdom. Johnson,
IN his Lives of tho Poets" says he was a ION.
mOnwealths man, who. at tho Restoration, lelb
Conglcton, in Cheshire. where his family hiia Deen
established for several centuries and setting IN
Ireland purchased an estate which, with Ms lanus
IN Cheshire, descended to the poet" Thomas Far;
nell. whoever be may have been. had no Janus
| In Cheshire worth speaking Of His name does not
appear among the InaRnatcs or the county MS
family may have lived tor centuries ut CODgeton,
hut If 80 twas in a state OF Obscunty. Dr. Johnson
describes him as Comm0nwealths man anu
the only record OF PAInel and that II oil IhOmSs
Parne occurs in the Will OF James Bradsnawe, Oh
MARBLE Hail. President of she High Court OF JuStlce
which sent Charles l. to the seatfod. BY thls VIII,
| winch was executed in 1853, Bradshawe devised
portion OF his estates on trust To my good irlend
| esq. and my trustc servant. Thomas Parnell" IL
is interesting note that by the same Will the sum
! OF 6 10 was left with Mr. John Milton
| The poet started life rs Wing, though ne after
! ward turned Tory along with Swift, and for the
same reasons; 1t is intnrestirs to know that the
| fortunes of the Parneil family began in a place
with which we in Manchester are so familiar. anu
| which Is almost in our suburbs Nos less inter,
| estinV is Thomas PaInelPs connection with one Of
| the notable men of the Commonwealth. As acting
| trustee under Bradshawe's will, he may have paid
| the c 10 legacy 70 Mr.. John Milton" But Thoma'
Parnell was an English importation into Ireland
| IIa vas one OF the class who swarmed over ant
settled upon land which had been wrnng from th n
| native posscssoIs. MIR. PsTneils family have al
! wavs been part of the English garrison" They
have had their share of onees salaries titles and
| pensions They have pOcketed their portion OF The
| national plumber. Their name does not figure IN
| MIR O'Harts Irish Pedigrees." IL is English and
| Cheshire all over smackng of sIlabubs and cheese.
MIR Parnell represents but one-half OF this epleene
| descent The other half is TRANSATLANTIC. He IL
now fervent Irish patriot, and talks rs II he had
! born right to SPEAK in the name OF the people OF
| Ireland At any rate he must DO accepted on such
merits as he can make out and not on the strength
| of II utioti qualifications.