John Temple (judge)

[1] After a year's imprisonment he was exchanged, and in 1645 was chosen MP for Chichester in the Long Parliament of the English House of Commons[2] in compensation for the harsh treatment he had undergone.

Its statements were received with unquestioning confidence, as the work of a professed eye-witness who could speak with authority, and did much to inflame popular indignation in Britain against the Irish.

[4] Temple's Irish Rebellion was often praised by authors hostile to Roman Catholicism, including John Milton [5] and Voltaire.

However, he voted with the majority on 5 December 1648 in favour of the proposed compromise with King Charles, and was excluded from Parliament under Pride's Purge.

When this work was completed, he returned to England in 1654, and, expressed his willingness to resume the regular execution of his old office of Master of the Rolls.

In recompense for his services he received on 6 July 1658 a grant of two leases for twenty-one years, the one comprising the town and lands of Moyle, Castletown, Park, etc., adjoining the town of Carlow, amounting to about 1,490 acres, in part afterwards confirmed to him under the Act of Settlement 1662 on 18 June 1666; the other of certain lands in the barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin, to which were added those of Lispoble (or Lispopple) in the same county on 30 March 1659 for a similar term of years.

On 6 May he obtained for the payment of a fine of £540, a reversionary lease from the queen mother Henrietta Maria of the park of Blandesby or Blansby, Pickering, Yorkshire, for a term of forty years.