Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-11

scaffold-not in the usual way, be it
understood. That scaffold was up against
church which was being built to his
order In honor of ST. Peter saint to-
ward whom he had devotion as oelnS
such ready man with stroke OF the
sword. So he was peerinG. around to see
for himself If the contractors work was
up to specification when this accident
happened, which seems to afford some
internal evidence that It wasn't
While INDUCING similar announcement
curiosity his descendant. Sir Hugh de
death in Meath. He was inspecting the
Notifications of castle he had built on
the site of st. Comedies celebrated
Church OF Durrow. and was standing
with his head bent over the moat when
an Irish kern crept up from behind; and
with n battleaN struck off his hesd.
which fell into the moat. then fled like
greyhound To carry the tiding to the chief
of Teffis. who had instigated this mean
exploit in revenge for former defeats.
Had Many Enemies.
That great Hugh de Lacy was DARK,
ugly little man. with small keen, brave
eyes, and in every way as French as an
Anglo Norman could be: also he was
more than a little Of a statesman, and
had he been as great a general as lie
was a superb soldier and military en-
gineer he would probably have set up
Ireland as an independent kingdom.
Strongbow hated him. and the English
king. whose viceroy he was. was glad
when he was dead AS it was. by just
such an instinct as had guided his tribe
in England, he got hold of the best land
in Ireland and drew line OF fortresses
to defend the western boundary of his
gains. and as still further line OF defense
he married for his second wife Rose of
Ccnnacht.
Great Hugh de Lacy's three sons were
all men after his own heart. and even
admired by the true Irish. Hugh, his
eldest. son of Rose of Monmouth. the
first wife. was the most powerful Anglo
Irish noble of the age he lived in and Is
called by the chronicler, Matthew Paris.
most renowned warrior. William the
Blue, elder son Of Rose O'Conor. was
progenitor of Pierce Oge Lacy. the IA
nous rebel in Elizabeths time. and was
the most active and triumphant man in
Ireland in his own time: and his brother
Walter is described in the Book of Cion-
macnoise as the bountifullest foreigner
In Steeds, attire and gold that ever came
to Erin. He had a granddaughter, Ma
tilda. married to Godfrey de Joinville OF
Hereford and Meath. a brother of that
wonderful Sieur de Joinville, the cru
sader. confidant of st. Louis, King of
France. and his biographer in one of
the great books of the world.
In Days Of the Tudors.
For centuries the de Lacys lived, their
interests between Hereford, Ireland and
France, but in Hereford they have Ions
been represented in the female line only
by the great west country ancient fami-
lies Of DevereuX and Scudamore. In Ire
land, when 1t came to the days of the
Tudors and the reformation, they took
the Catholic and popular side, with tn
usual results. which became only more
SO when the generations drew on and
they stood out as jacob .es In England
in was a de Lac, as Earl of Lincoln who
founded in the middle ages Lincoln's Inn,
one of the four surviving great institu-
lions of legal learning in the country.
Peter de Lacy. the most renowned mod
thirteen years Of age when he fought
under Sarsfleld at the siege of Limerick,
near where he was born, and his father
and at least two of his brothers fell not
long afterward in the service of France.
Young Peter did not die till he was every
body in Europes Old Peter Lacy, one of
the makers of the Russian empire. the
trusted friend and adviser of its other
gerat Peter. and held in the same trust
by Peter the Greats successor.
Joins Army at Age Of Twelve.
His son, Marshal Count Maurice de
Lacy, entered the army of Austria as
an ensign at the age of twelve, and to
unfold his military operations would
mean rehearsal Of the chief events of
the seven years war and bookfuls along
with that. In 1850 the Austrian emperor
wrote to him. You have made my army"
4 kinsman was the Russian Count Maui
rice de Lacy of GrOdno, the eccentric old
gentleman of whom the not severely &C
curate, but always amusing, Bunbury
tells us that he spoke English with the
brogue ever heard and divers
peculiarities otherwise associated only
with the leagues of old comedy, but he
was delightfully."- common-sense and would
bring a nightcap in his pocket and put
It on and go off to sleep during councils
Of war. Then when the board meeting
broke up and the talk ended he'd shake
himself up and go off and do the work
himself. being. as he used to say, al
ways for fighting"
So was it also with his kinsfok. the
lie Lacys. who gave themselves to the
service Of Spain gloriously.