The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of CorkThe Great Earl of Cork was not born great, he achieved greatness in the teeth of as many difficulties as ever faced a hero of romance. He was but an obscure young lawyer, 'without, ' he says, 'a penny of certain income, ' when the great Elizabeth opened his prison doors, and swore that she found him a man fit to be employed by herself, and that she would so employ him.When once he had the chance of showing what he could do, Boyle's future was assured, and he served Elizabeth and her two successors so faithfully, that when Cromwell sheathed his sword after reconquering Ireland, he declared that had there but been an Earl of Cork in every Irish Province, the rebellion he had just crushed would never have broken out.Boyle's good work in Ireland was still remembered in the days of the Restoration. John Evelyn then wrote of him as a person of wonderful sagacity in affairs, and no less probity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.