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Ormonde (JAMES BUTLER D DUKE)

JAMES BUTLER, 2D DUKE OF, an English military officer; ried Anne, daughter of Lord Hyde, afterborn in Dublin in 1665. In 1682 he marward Earl of Rochester. As Earl of Ossory he served in the army against Monmouth, and also held an office in the palace under James II. After his accession to the dukedom by the death of his grandfather in 1688, he took his share in the Revolution conflict, but afterward, at the coronation of William and Mary, he acted as lord high-constable. He was present at the battle of the Boyne, at the head of William's life guards. He soon became popular.

In 1702 he was placed in command in the expedition against Cadiz; in 1703 he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and in 1711 Commander-in-Chief of the land forces sent against France and Spain. After the accession of George I.

Ormonde somehow fell into disgrace with the king, and was impeached in 1715 of high treason, and with the re- ORNDORFF sult that his estates were attainted, and he was deprived of all his honors. He retired into France, where he attached himself to the Jacobite court, and spent many years in the secret intrigues of the Pretender and his followers. A collection of letters written by him in the organization of the abortive attempt by Spain to invade England and Scotland in 1719, were in 1890 brought to light, and in 1896 issued by the Scottish History society. He died abroad in 1745.

ORMULUM, a Transition English metrical translation of the Gospel history.