page_title: Nicholas St Lawrence, 11th Baron Howth
section_title: Civil war and death
hierarchical_section_title: Nicholas St Lawrence, 11th Baron Howth / Civil war and death
caption_attribution_description: Howth Castle, Ireland. Ancestral home of the Earls of Howth.
context_page_description: Nicholas St Lawrence, 11th Baron Howth was an Anglo-Irish nobleman of the seventeenth century. The Lords of Howth for over a century had played a crucial role in Irish politics; but Nicholas, unlike many of his ancestors, preferred a quiet domestic life. During the English Civil War, his loyalty to the English Crown led to the forfeiture of much of his estates, and the troubles he endured during the conflict are said to have hastened his death.
context_section_description: On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Howth joined with other leaders of the Pale in waiting on the Lords Justices to assure them of their loyalty to the Crown, and to complain of the defenceless state of Dublin. In the early part of the Civil War the  Irish Royalist leader, the Earl of Ormond  relied greatly on Lord Howth and regarded Howth Castle as a safe refuge: Lord Howth played a key role in transmitting Ormond's dispatches to England.  As a result of his loyalty to the Crown, Howth's property suffered greatly: he was deprived of the substantial rents of his lands in Tyrone and Monaghan and he complained that his estate was "altogether wasted and burned". Under the strain his health seems to have given way and he died in December 1643.
caption: Howth Castle
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