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PETER [VALESIUS] WALSH (c. 1618-1688)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER [VALESIUS] See also:WALSH (c. 1618-1688)  , Irish politician and controversialist, was See also:born at Mooretown, co . See also:Kildare, and studied at See also:Louvain, where he joined the See also:Franciscans and acquired Jansenist sympathies . In 1646.he went to See also:Kilkenny, then in the hands of the See also:rebel " confederate Catholics," and, in opposition to the papal See also:nuncio See also:Rinuccini, urged, and in 1649 helped to secure, See also:peace with the See also:viceroy See also:Ormonde . Persecuted from this See also:time by the irreconcilable supporters of the papal claims, and even in danger of See also:death, after See also:Cromwell's See also:conquest of See also:Ireland he lived obscurely in See also:London and abroad . On the restoration he urged his See also:patron Ormonde to support the Irish See also:Roman Catholics as the natural See also:friends of See also:royalty against the sectaries, and endeavoured to mitigate their See also:lot and efface the impression made by their successive rebellions by a loyal remonstrance to See also:Charles II., boldly repudiating papal See also:infallibility and interference in public affairs, and affirming undivided See also:allegiance to the See also:crown . For eight years he canvassed for signatures to this address, but in spite of considerable support the strenuous opposition of the See also:Jesuits and See also:Dominicans deterred the See also:clergy and nearly wrecked the See also:scheme . From 1669 until his death he lived in London, much respected for his honesty, See also:loyalty and learning . Ex-communicated by the Franciscan See also:chapter-See also:general in 1670,, he remained a devout adherent of his See also:church, although he maintained friendly relations with the Anglicans, accepting their orders and attending their churches . He made a full submission to See also:Rome before his death, though the fact has been questioned . He wrote (1672—1684) a See also:series of controversial letters against See also:Pope See also:Gregory VII.'s See also:doctrine of papal supremacy over princes; a voluminous See also:History of the Remonstrance (1674); Hibernica (1682), a worthless history of Ireland; in 1686 a reply to the Popery of See also:Thomas See also:Barlow (1607—1691), See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln; and other See also:works . In these writings he consistently upheld the doctrine of See also:civil See also:liberty against the pretensions of the papacy . See S .

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Gardiner, History of the See also:Great Civil See also:War; G . See also:Burnet, History of his own Times, i . 195 ; T . See also:Carte, See also:Life of Ormonde (new ed . 1851) ; Dict . Nat . Biog. lix .

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