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EARL OF See also:ROGER See also:BOYLE See also:ORRERY (1621-1679)  , See also:British soldier, statesman and' dramatist, 3rd surviving son of See also:Richard See also:Boyle, 1st See also:earl of See also:Cork, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:April 1621, created See also:baron of Broghill on the 28th of See also:February 1627, and educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and, according to See also:Wood, 2 The See also:orrery, an astronomical See also:instrument—consisting of an apparatus which illustrates the motions of the See also:solar See also:system by means of the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork—invented. or at least constructed, by See also:Graham, was named after the earl . also at See also:Oxford . He travelled in See also:France and See also:Italy, and coming See also:home took See also:part in the expedition against the Scots . He returned to See also:Ireland on the outbreak of the See also:rebellion in 1641 and fought with his See also:brothers at the See also:battle of Liscarrol in See also:September 1642 . On the resignation of the See also:marquis of See also:Ormonde, See also:Lord Broghill consented to serve under the See also:parliamentary commissioners till the See also:execution of the See also:king, when he retired altogether from public affairs and took up his See also:residence at See also:Marston in See also:Somersetshire . Subsequently he originated a See also:scheme to bring about the Restoration, but when on his way abroad to See also:concert See also:measures with See also:Charles he was unexpectedly visited by See also:Cromwell in See also:London, who, after informing him that his plans were well known to the See also:council, and warning him of the consequence of persisting in them, offered him a command in Ireland against the rebels, which, as it entailed no obligations except faithful service, was accepted . His assistance in Ireland proved invaluable . Appointed See also:master of the See also:ordnance, he soon assembled a See also:body of See also:infantry and See also:horse, and drove the rebels into See also:Kilkenny, where they surrendered . On the loth of May 165o he completely defeated at See also:Macroom a force of Irish advancing to the See also:relief of Clonmell, and joining Cromwell assisted in taking the latter See also:place . On Cromwell's departure for See also:Scotland he co-operated with See also:Ireton, whom he joined at the See also:siege of See also:Limerick, and defeated the force marching to its relief under Lord Muskerry, thus effecting the See also:capture of the See also:town . By this See also:time Broghill had become the fast friend and follower of Cromwell, whose stern measures in Ireland and sup-See also:port of the See also:English and Protestants were welcomed after the policy of concession to the Irish initiated by Charles I . He was returned to Cromwell's parliaments of 1654 and 1656 as member for the See also:county of Cork, and also in the latter See also:assembly for See also:Edinburgh, for which he elected to sit .

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year as lord See also:president of the council in Scotland, where he won much popularity; and when he returned to See also:England he was included in the inner See also:cabinet of Cromwell's council, and was nominated in 1657 a member of the new See also:house of Lords . He was one of those most in favour of Cromwell's See also:assumption of the royal See also:title, and proposed a See also:union between the See also:Protector's daughter Frances and Charles II . On Cromwell's See also:death he gave his support to Richard; but as he saw no possibility of maintaining the See also:government he See also:left for Ireland, where by resuming his command in See also:Munster he secured the See also:island for Charles and anticipated See also:Monk's overtures by inviting him to See also:land at Cork . He sat for See also:Arundel in the See also:Convention and in the See also:parliament of 1661, and at the Restoration was taken into See also:great favour . On the 5th of September 166o he was created earl of Orrery . The same year he was appointed a lord See also:justice of Ireland and See also:drew up the See also:Act of See also:Settlement . He continued to exercise his See also:office as lord-president of Munster till 1668, when he resigned it on See also:account of disputes with the See also:duke of Ormonde, the lord-See also:lieutenant . On the 25th of See also:November he was impeached by the House of See also:Commons for " raising of See also:money by his own authority upon his See also:majesty's subjects," but the See also:prorogation of parliament by the king interrupted the proceedings, which were not afterwards renewed . He died on the 26th of See also:October 1679 . He married See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:Howard, 3rd daughter of See also:Theophilus, 2nd earl of See also:Suffolk, whose charms were celebrated by Suckling in his poem " The See also:Bride." By her he had besides five daughters, two sons, of whom the eldest, See also:Roger (1646–1681 or 1682), succeeded as 2nd earl of Orrery . In addition to Lord Orrery's achievements as a statesman and See also:administrator, he gained some reputation as a writer and a dramatist . He was the author of An See also:Answer to a Scandalous See also:Letter .

. . A Full See also:

Discovery of the Treachery of the Irish Rebels (1662), printed with the letter itself in his See also:State Letters (1742), another answer to the same letter entitled Irish See also:Colours Displayed . . being also ascribed to him; Parthenissa, a novel (1654); English . Adventures by a See also:Person of See also:Honour (1676), whence See also:Otway drew his tragedy of the See also:Orphan; See also:Treatise of the See also:Art of See also:War (1677), a See also:work of considerable See also:historical value; poems, of little See also:interest, including verses On His Majesty's Happy Restoration (unprinted), On the Death of See also:Abraham See also:Cowley (1677), The See also:Dream (unprinted), Poems on most of the Festivals of the See also:Church (1681) ; plays in See also:verse, of some See also:literary but -no dramatic merit, of which See also:Henry V . (1664), Mustapha (1665), Tryphon (acted 1668), The See also:Black See also:Prince (1669), See also:Herod the Great (published 1694), and Altemira (1702) were tragedies, and Guzman (1669) and Mr Anthonycomedies . A collected edition was published in 1737, to which was added the See also:comedy As you find it . The See also:General is also attributed to him . ORRIS-See also:ROOT (apparently a corruption of "See also:iris root "), the rhizomes or underground stems of three See also:species of Iris, I. germanica, I. florentina and I. pallida, closely allied See also:plants growing in subtropical and temperate latitudes, but principally identified with See also:North Italy . The three plants are indiscriminately cultivated in the neighbourhood of See also:Florence as an agricultural product under the name of " ghiaggiuolo." The rhizomes are in See also:August dug up and freed of the rootlets and See also:brown See also:outer bark; they are then dried and packed in casks for See also:sale . In drying they acquire a delicate but distinct odour of violets . As it comes into the See also:market, orris-root is in the See also:form of contorted sticks and irregular knobby pieces up to 4 in. in length, of a compact chalky See also:appearance . It is principally powdered for use in dentifrices and other scented dry preparations .

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