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Life
fl.1745; author of Rebellion Defeated, or the Fall of Desmond (1745); Cutts’s connection with Ireland is unknown; his book concerns events after the Desmond rebellion of 1579 when Desmond’s cousin, Sir James Fitzmaurice, returned with a small force in 1579, to be followed by Desmond in the following year. Ormonde relentless pursues Desmond, who is finally killed by a party of soldiers in a cabin on a moutainside near Tralee
Works
Rebellion Defeated, or the Fall of Desmond printed for the author (London 1745) and dedicated to ‘Free-born Englishmen, Friends of Liberty, and especially those gentlemen in Associations established for the Defence of their Country [...] in opposition to the destructive schemes of France.’
Dram. Pers.: Chars. incl. Lord Grey, Fitzgyrald (Earl of Desmond); Allan and Blake (Jesuits); imag. chars. incl Castus, a gentleman, Aemula, wife ofMackveer, and Ablabiia, wife of Cavenaugh; Cavenaugh’s father, Mackfrenky, takes Desmond’s side against his son et al.; other chars. incl. two gentlemen, some peasants, and a blind bard. The whole in blank verse and highly declamatory, with no attempt at character-drawing [...] teems with rhetorical questions. (See G. C. Duggan, The Stage Irishman, 1937.)
Notes
Kith & Kin: Cutts is prob. related to Sir John Cutts, object of a elegiac poem by Nahum Tate entitled A consolatory poem to the right honourable John Lord Cutts, upon the death of his most accomplish'd lady. By N. Tate, servant to His Majesty (London: printed by R[obert] R[oberts] for Henry Playford in the Temple-Change MDCXCVIII [1698]) - and listed as Irish Poetry in COPAC - online; accessed 09.07.2023.
Namesake (s): 1] John Cutts was the author of a piece entitled "On the Death of the Queen: a poem (Licens'd March 9th,1694/5.) - not to be confused with On the death of the Queen [b]y a person of honour [i.e. John Cutts] (see COPAC - online; accessed 09.07.2023.) 2] The will of John Cutts (d.1670) is held in Llandaff Probate Records assoc. with the Church of England diocese of Llandaff, and identified with one John Sully Cutts, rector in Glamorgan.
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