Life
1613-1677 [or Bellings]; b. Belingstown; ed. Lincoln’s Inn; composed
6th book of Sidney’s Arcadia (1628); Irish MP, secretary to
supreme council of Confederation of Kilkenny, 1642; royalist ambassador,
1645-49; escaped to France and remained there until the Restoration; author
of an unpublished History of the Confederation, MSS issued by Sir
John Gilbert, 1882; d. Dublin; formerly thought to have written the Vindiciarum
catholicorum Hiberniae (1654) of John Callaghan. ODNB DIW
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References
Muriel McCarthy, ed., Hibernia Resurgens [Catalogue of Marsh’s
Library Exhibition] (Dublin: Marsh’s Library 1994), corrects false
attribution of Vindiciarum to Bellings, cited as Vindication in Cleeve & Brady (A Dictionary of Irish Writers, 1985
Edn.) [see McCarthy p.48.]
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Notes
Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers
(Dublin: Lilliput 1985) cite Belingstown as the birthplace of the author,
following the Dictionary of National Biography. However, there
is no Belingsown in the Shell Guide to Ireland (1967 Edn.) [check
RIA Atlas].
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