John Bellew : a seventeenth-century man of many parts / Harold O'Sullivan

Includes bibliographical references and index

O'Sullivan tells how Bellew was a quintessential Englishman settled in Ireland with a law degree, a huge estate, and government posts until the rebellion of 1641. Suspected of collaboration with the rebels, he was expelled from parliament and outlawed. He then fought for the Irish and later for the crown, and was stripped of land and position when his side lost. From a small estate in County Galway, he spent years maneuvering to get back land and position, and managed to succeed almost completely and to keep hold of the land he had been exiled to as well