* She was his step-mother's niece, the Archbishop's second wife being Anne, daughter of
Col. Agmondesham Muschamp. In his Will Denny Muschamp describes himself as of "the Pell
Mall, in the County of Middlesex, Esq."

f Dictionary of National Biography.
% He quotes with approval "a pleasant saying " of his that " Ireland would never be happy till a
law were made for burning everything that came from England, except their people and their coals."
(The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. vii, p. 19.)

§ A Great Archbishop of Dublin, edited by Sir Charles S. King, Bart., p. 83.
|| "Dr. Vesey, then Archbishop of Tuam, fixed on this spot, nine miles from his See, built a neat
commodious house on a little eminence, laid out fruit and flower gardens round it, brought a river to
run through them, and encompassed the whole with walks and groves of stately trees." — Journal of
John Wesley, Sunday, 4 July, 1756.
Abbeyleix. 13

The above-mentioned Sir Thomas Vesey had a singular career. Born at
Cork in 1673, of which city his father was then Dean, he received his
education at Eton, and Christ Church College, Oxford. At the University
he was diligent in his studies, being eleoted a Fellow of Oriel in 1695, and
graduating as a Master of Arts two years later.*

It is said that he had early intended to take Orders, but it was not till 1699,
after he had returned to Ireland, that the young baronet was ordained a deacon.
Preferment in his father's diocese naturally followed, and in the following
year, soon after he was priested, he was presented to a Galway living, and
preferred to the Archdeaconry of Tuam — an office which he resigned in 1703.
