Life
1749-1829; [Francis Peter Plowden]; b. Shropshire, ed. Saint-Omer; ord.
S.J.; Master of College at Bruges, 1771-73; returned to secular life on
suppression of Jesuits by papacy in 1773, being only a novice; ed. Middle
Bar; practised as conveyancer; bar, 1796; became an eminent legal and
political writer prosecuting the cause of Catholic Emancipation; wrote
on tithes and the British constitution, publishing pamphlets in opposition
to Pitt’s government of Ireland after the Union; issued of An
Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the Invasion [...] to
Its Union with Great Britain (1803); attacked by Sir Richard Musgrave
in Strictures (1804), and shortly issued enlarged edition of same
as The History of Ireland (1809), followed by The History of
Ireland from its Union with Great Britain in January 1801 to October 1810
(1810); fled to France to avoid libel charges, 1813; Prof. in Scots College,
Paris; d. Paris.
Works
An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the Invasion of
that Country by Henry II, to Its Union with Great Britain on the First
of January 1801 (London: C. Rowarth 1803); The History of Ireland,
from the Invasion under Henry II to its Union with Great Britain (1809);
The history of Ireland, from its Union with Great Britain, in January
1801, to October 1810 (1811).
Rep. Editions, The History of Ireland, from the Invasion under Henry II to its Union with Great Britain ;2 Volumes (London: Thoemmes Press [2000]) [€280.00]; The History of Ireland from its Union with Great Britain, in January 1801, to October 1810, 3 vols. facs. rep.] (London: Thoemmes [2000]), [€285.70].
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Notes
COPAC lists Traité du sacrifice de Jésus Christ (1778); An investigation
of the native rights of British subjects (1784); A supplement to the Investigation
of the native rights of British subjects (1785); Impartial Thoughts upon
the beneficial consequences of enrolling all deeds, wills, and codicils
affecting lands throughout England and Wales (1789); The case stated,
by Francis Plowden, Esq. conveyancer, of the Middle Temple. Occasioned
by the Act of Parliament lately passed for the relief of the English Roman
Catholics (1791); Jura Anglorum. The Rights of Englishmen (1792); Seasonable
reflections, adapted to the approaching fast, and recommended to the attention
of Christian people : [...] In an address from a minister to his parishioners
(1794); Church and State: being an enquiry into the origin [...] of ecclesiastical
and civil authority, with reference to the British Constitution (1795);
The Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Civil
and Ecclesiastical, &c. (1802); A Friendly and Constitutional Address
to the People of Great Britain (1794); A short history of the British
Empire during the last twenty months; viz. From May 1792 to the close
of the year 1793 (1794), and Do. [trans. into French as] Histoire abrégée
de l’empire britannique, depuis le mois de mai 1792, jusqu’à
la fin de l’année 1794 (1795); A Treatise upon the Law of Usury and
Annuities (1797); An Historical Review of the state of Ireland from the
invasion of that country under Henry II to its union with Great Britain
1st January 1801 (1803); A postliminious preface to the Historical Review
of the State of Ireland [...] Containing a statement of the author’s
communications with the Right Hon. H. Addington [...] upon the subject
of that work, some strictures upon the falsities of the British Critic
[...] and also some observations on Lord Redesdale’s letters to the
Earl of Fingall (1804); An Historical Letter from Francis Plowden, Esq.
to Sir Richard Musgrave [in reply to his strictures on "An Historical
Review of the State of Ireland"] (1805); The principles and law of tithing
: adapted to the instruction and convenience not only of gentlemen of
the profession of the law, but of all persons interested in tithes; illustrated
by references to the most leading and recent tithe cases (1806); The history
of Ireland: from its invasion under Henry II to its union with Great Britain
(1809); An Historical Disquisition concerning the rise, progress, nature
and effects of the orange societies in Ireland: intended as an introduction
to a work in hand, to be entitled the History of Ireland, from its union
with Great Britain on the 1st January 1801 to the year 1810 (1810); The
history of Ireland, from its union with Great Britain, in January 1801,
to October 1810 (1811); Do. [another edn.] with an appendix to vol. 1
& to vol. 3 (1811); An historical letter to the Rev. Charles O’Conor,
D.D. heretofore styling himself Columbanus: upon his five addresses or
letters to his countrymen (1812); and Do. [another edn.] (1831); A Second
Historical Letter to Sir J. C. Hippisley [...] upon his public conduct
in the Catholic cause [...] Occasioned by his animadversions upon the
author in the House of Commons in 1814 (1815); Human Subordination: being
an elementary disquisition concerning the civil and spiritual power and
authority, to which the Creator requires the submission of every human
being. Illustrated by references to [...] occurrences in the [...] agitation
of [...] Catholic Emancipation (1824). WORKS CONTRA: Strictures upon an
Historical Review of the State of Ireland; Or, a justification of the
conduct of the English Governments in that Country, from the Reign of
Henry the Second to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland [By Sir Richard
Musgrave.] (1804); The malecontent : a letter from an Associator to Francis
Plowden, Esq... / Associator (1794); A letter to Francis Plowden [...]
On his work, entitled Jura Anglorum. By a Roman Catholic clergyman [i.e.
Robert Plowden; sic] (1794); A Plain Statement of Facts, in answer to
certain charges adduced by F. Plowden, Esq. in his History of Ireland
against the Rev. P. Johnson, vicar of the parish of Derriaghy, and the
Orangemen of that parish (1[8]05). Also, Lettre à un Ami de Province (Seconde,
Troisième Lettre à un Ami de Province) [By H. Jabineau: relative to the
controversy caused by F. Plowden’s "Traite du Sacrifice de Jésus
Christ," and the "Dissertation sur le Saint Sacrifice de la Messe" by
B. F. Rivière called Pelvert] (1779); Lettre d’un Théologien [J.
P. Vion, called Dumont,] à l’occasion d’un écrit anonyme en
forme de carton [by B. F. Rivière, called Pelvert] contre le Traité du
Sacrifice de Jésus Christ [by F. Plowden]. (1778). LEGAL WORKS: The Case
of the Earl of Newburgh and Lord Viscount Kinnaird [by ?F. Plowden]; /
Earl of Newburgh [James Bartholomew Radcliffe] (1783); Reasons for the
late Earl of Newburgh [J. B. Radcliffe]’s application to parliament;
with an appendix comprising the case of the present earl [A. J. Radcliffe.
By F. Plowden]. MS. additions (1786); A Disquisition concerning the Law
of Alienage and Naturalization, according to the Statutes in force between
the 10th of June 1818 and the 25th of March 1819 [...] Illustrated in
an elaborate opinion of counsel written upon the claim of Prince Giustiniani
to the Earldom of Newburgh (1818); The King v. Graham: Refutation of the
charge of having improvidently and maliciously advised the prosecution
(1808); Crim. Con. Biography: or celebrated trials in the Ecclesiastical
and Civil Courts for adultery and other crimes connected with incontinency,
from the period of Henry the Eighth to the present time, by F. Plowden,
Esq., of Doctors’ Commons [pseud.] (1830); Records of the Chicheley
Plowdens, A.D. 1590-1913. With four alphabetical indices, four pedigree
sheets, and a portrait of Edmund, the great Elizabethan lawyer. [by] Walter
Francis Courtenay Chicheley Plowden (1914). Note also, Virginia: a comic
opera, in three acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane by
Mrs Francis Plowden [d.1827] (1800).
Hyland Books (Cat. 224) lists An Historical Letter to [...] Rev. Charles O’Connor, heretofore styling himself Columbanus, upon his 5 Addresses, or Letters to His Countrymen (1812) [Bradshaw 4728], port, viii+xii, 367+126, vii+17pp.; errata leaf, with 1p. index replaced in photocopy.
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