BTW, does anyone know anything about the Duke of Ormonde, who served Charles II? I don't even know his name! 
His name was James Butler. He was the scion of a rich and ancient Irish family. He was orphaned at an early age and grew up in the household of the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he embraced the Anglican faith. As an adult, he increased his power in Ireland by marrying an heiress, adhering to the Anglican faith, keeping in touch with powerful friends at court, and by becoming the Earl of Strafford’s protégé.
After Strafford’s fall, he was put in charge of Ireland. He failed to prevent or subdue the Catholic rebellion, which was sparked in large part because of Strafford's policies, which he'd continued. During the Civil War, he found himself fighting both the Catholics and Parliament’s troops. He was empowered by the king to negotiate with the Catholics in the hope of winning their support for the Royalist side. Neither Charles I nor Ormonde wanted to make significant concessions, while the Catholics didn’t trust Ormonde, so it took a long time before an agreement of sorts was made. It didn't last long and brought little help to Charles. In 1647, Ormonde surrendered Dublin to Parliament rather than let the Catholics have it. He grandiloquently announced that he “preferred English rebels to Catholic ones” but what he really preferred was to keep his estates in exchange for the city.
He later returned to Ireland and tried to make a new deal with the Catholics at the request of the royal family. The Catholics were understandably reluctant to work with him and asked for someone else to be sent, but he refused to cede control to anyone but the Prince of Wales, who could not come at that time. After the execution of Charles I, Cromwell prepared to go to Ireland, which brought temporary unity there as everyone freaked out. Ormonde put up a fight of sorts after Cromwell landed in Dublin, but ultimately abandoned the Irish to their ghastly fate. He was welcomed with open arms by his dear friend Edward Hyde and other cronies at Charles II’s court-in-exile.
He assisted Henry of Gloucester after he refused to convert to Catholicism and even sold his Garter to raise the money needed to take him away from Paris. Circa 1657, he was given command of a regiment in the tiny army that Charles raised for service under the Spanish flag. He proved to be so incompetent that James, Duke of York (later James II) quite rightly had him stripped of his command. He was sent on a secret mission to London after Cromwell’s death in the hope that he could instigate a Royalist rising. His flimsy disguise was penetrated and he was quietly warned to flee or face arrest. He decided to dye his distinctive fair hair (he was nicknamed "James the White" because of it) to improve his disguise. He whipped up some hair dye on a hot stove and, without giving it time to cool, poured it over his head.

Despite his burns, he was able to make his escape without incident.
After the Restoration, Ormonde got his estates back and was given more land grants as well as Ireland to run, etc. He made certain that Charles honored Cromwell’s Irish land settlement, which dispossessed most of the Catholics and made the Anglican minority very powerful indeed. Although he allowed some Catholics to get their land back, he did his best to keep them weak and subdued, and succeeded in that goal. His best-known achievements were stopping Charles from giving Phoenix Park to one of his mistresses, and his efforts to make it possible for Irish cattle to be sold in England. Ormonde enjoyed Phoenix Park and had no wish to lose the use of it to Lady Castlemaine, an inveterate enemy of Edward Hyde. Raising cattle was a profitable business for large landowners in Ireland, who were largely Anglicans, so expanding the market was necessary to please that important power base.
After Hyde’s fall from power, Ormonde must have quaked in his boots. He’d kept abreast of events at court through letters and visits, but he’d never made powerful friends outside of Hyde’s clique, so he found himself bereft of support among Charles’s inner circle. Buckingham used all his power to fight him, and was even suspected of trying to have him murdered. He was forced to give up his post in Ireland, only to get it back a few years later. He lost his post for good once James II came to the throne.
Thomas Carte wrote Ormonde's first biography in 1735. Carte depicted him as a wonderful man who was loyal to the Stuarts and the Anglican faith through thick and thin. The myth of the “noble” Duke of Ormonde was thus born, a myth which has been followed by English historians to this day. In my opinion, with friends like Ormonde, the Stuarts didn’t need enemies. If he’d behaved differently on any number of occasions, the fates of the Stuarts and the history of Ireland would not be such sad reading.