Life
1638-1716 [var. 1636]; b. Coleraine; ed. Westminster Sch.; MA TCD, 1667;
DD, 1672; benefice of Cloyne dioceses, 1661; archdeacon of Armagh, 1662-63;
dean of Cork, 1667; bishopric of Limerick, 1673; bishop of Tuam, 1678,
where he built the palace, stripping the older establishment for his roof;
retained one-fourth of all tithes for his own use; warden of Galway; withdrew
to London, 1689; returned to Ireland, 1692; appt. Chief Justice; published
sermons; father 12 children. ODNB FDA
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Works
Ed., The Works of ... J. Bramhall (London 1676); A Sermon Preached
at Windsor before his Majesty (London 1684); A Sermon Preached
before the Lord Lieutenant and the Two Houses of Parliament in ... Dublin
(London 1692); A sermon preach’d to the Protestants of Ireland,
in ... London ... October 23 1689, being the day appointed for an anniversary
thanksgiving for the deliverance ... from the bloody massacre of rebellion
begun by the Irish papists on the 23rd of October 1641 (London 1689).
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Notes
Jon. Swift: In Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture
(1720), Jonathan Swift acknowledges that his phrase about [a law made
for] ‘burning every Thing that came from England, except their People
and their Coals’ is taken from Vesey.
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