A handsome silver punch-bowl (Plate LXXIX), made in London by
Anthony Nelme, and bearing the hall-mark of 1700, is stated to have been
used by the notorious " Hell-Fire Club," of which Henry Barry, fourth and last
Lord Santry, was so prominent a member.
In the eighteenth century the Irish gentry often sought to perpetuate female
excellence by calling their houses after their wives, as in Bessborough, Betty-
ville, Maryville, Lettybrook, and even Roseanna.* Thus Michael Frederick
(usually known as Frederick) Trench, of Ballynakill, Queen's County, having
erected a new house on his estate in 1773, and finding possibly that his wife's
name of Anna Helena Stewart did not lend itself to a dignified combination,
conferred on it that of Heywood, which had been her mother's maiden name !
The idea of a man calling his house after his mother-in-law seems singular.
This Mr. Trench was the only son of the Rev. Frederick Trench, by Mary,
daughter of Boyle Moore, and grandson of William Trench, of Ballinakill, great-
uncle to the first Earl of Clancarty. He was an amateur architect, designed the
Parish Church of Swords, as well as an addition to the Rotunda in Dublin.
Besides building this house, which is stated to have been remarkable for " great
family accommodation under moderate external appearance," he took considerable
pains in laying out the grounds, constructing three artificial lakes, and, in order
to make the scenery more romantic, borrowing ruins from the neighbouring
Aghaboe Abbey ! In 1777 Mr. Trench served as High Sheriff of the Queen's
County. Both he and his wife attained great age, living to be almost ninety.
