pamphlet addressed to the house and to Fairfax, Bradshaw, and Cromwell, entitled ‘Good Service hitherto Ill-Rewarded, or An Historicall Relation of Eight Years Service for King and Parliament in and about Manchester and those parts,’ London, 1649. It was reprinted by John Palmer in his ‘History of the Siege of Manchester’ in 1822. Bradshaw's advice to the town council to pay him (7 July 1649) was not followed. In July 1651 Rosworme again petitioned parliament (see broadside in Brit. Mus. The Case of Lieut.-Coll. Rosworme), and stated that his wife and children had to be relieved by strangers.
On the 19th of the following month (August 1651) Rosworme was appointed engineer-general of all the garrisons and forts in England, with 10s. a day for himself and 2s. for his clerk. He went to New Yarmouth to report on the ‘fittest places for some fortification to prevent the landing of foreign forces,’ and in September to the Isle of Man to report whether any defences were desirable there. On 17 April 1655 an order in council increased his pay by 10s. a day when actually on duty, and he was promoted to be colonel. On 26 June 1659 he attended the committee of safety, and on 19 July he was nominated engineer-general of the army, a change of title. There is no further record of him. He probably died in exile after the Restoration.
[Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649–59; Ormerod's Tracts relating to the Military Proceedings in Lancashire during the Great Civil War (Chetham Soc.); Iter Lancastrense (Chetham Soc.); Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcombe (Chetham Soc.); A Discourse of the Warr in Lancashire, 1655 (Chetham Soc.); Vicars' England's Parliamentary Chronicle, God in the Mount, God's Arke and the Burning Bush; Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Occasional Papers Series, vol. xiii. 1887, Military Engineering during the Great Civil War, 1642–9, by Lieutenant-colonel W. G. Ross, R.E.; Rushworth's Historical Collections; James Wheeler's Manchester, 1836; Gardiner's Great Civil War, 1642–9.]
ROTELANDE, HUE de, or RUTLAND, HUGH of (fl. 1185), Anglo-Norman poet, was connected with the English district on the Welsh border. In his ‘Ipomedon’ (l. 10569) he says, ‘A Credehulle a ma meisun.’ The reference is no doubt to Credenhill, near Hereford, but De La Rue says wrongly Credenhill in Cornhill, and this mistake has been followed by Wright and others. It is questionable whether Rotelande can mean Rutland, and Mr. Ward conjectures that possibly Rhuddlan is intended. From an allusion in the ‘Ipomedon’ it is clear that Hugh wrote it after 1174. The ‘Prothesilaus’ contains lines in honour of Gilbert FitzBalderon, who died in 1190–1, and was lord of Monmouth and father of John de Monmouth [q. v.] In another passage of the ‘Ipomedon’ Hugh refers to Walter Map as a romance writer like himself [see under Map, Walter]. Hugh was the author of two Anglo-Norman romances in verse: 1. ‘Ipomedon,’ a poem, of about ten thousand lines, printed at Breslau in 1889 from Cotton. MS. Vesp. A. vii. and Egerton MS. 2515 in the British Museum, and a fragment in Rawlinson MS. Misc. 1370 in the Bodleian Library. Hugh professes to translate from the Latin. It is possible that he used the ‘Fabulæ’ of Hyginus. An account of the romance, with some extracts, is given in Ward's ‘Catalogue of Romances.’ A critical study of the text was published by Signor Adolfo Mussafia in 1890. 2. ‘Prothesilaus,’ a romance, by Rotelande, which is a continuation of the ‘Ipomedon,’ is preserved in a manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris.
[De La Rue's Bardes, ii. 285–96; Wright's Biogr. Brit. Litt. ii. 338; Ward's Cat. of Romances in the Brit. Mus. i. 728–34; Ipomedon, ein französischer Abenteuerroman, ed. E. Kolbing und E. Koschwitz; Sulla critica del testo del romanzo in francese antico Ipomedon. Studio di Adolfo Mussafia (Kaiserliche Academie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte … Philosophisch-historische Classe, Vienna, 1890).]
ROTHE, BERNARD (1695-1768), Irish jesuit. [See Routh.]
ROTHE or ROTH, DAVID (1573–1650), Roman catholic bishop of Ossory, son of John Rothe, was of an Anglo-Irish family long settled in Kilkenny, where he was born in 1573. Roth, who appears in Latin writings as Rothæus, was educated chiefly at Douay, where he graduated in divinity, and he returned to Ireland about 1609 (Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 235). He entered the Roman catholic priesthood, and in a list of ex-students of Douay furnished to the archdukes in 1613 Roth is mentioned as ‘sacerdos B.D.’ (Cal. of Carew MSS. vi. 286). In 1616 he published the first part of his ‘Analecta Sacra’ (the second part appeared in 1617; they were probably written 1610–11). Two dedications are prefixed to the first part—one to the emperor and other orthodox princes, the other to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I, as the possible halcyon during whose tender years (nidulatio) King James might be induced to give peace to the church. The second part was dedicated to Cornelius O'Devany [q. v.]
