Lemuel Mathews, D.D. was a Welsh Anglican priest in Ireland'Irish Historical Studies Vol. 31, No. 124' Major Accessions to Repositories Relating to Irish History, 1998 pp. 558-561: Cambridge; CUP; 1999 during the second half of the 17thNational Archives and early 18th century.Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 'Ulster Bibliography. County Down Second Series, Vol. 12, No. 1' John S. Crone pp. 35-39: Belfast; Ulster Archaeological Society; 1906)
Mathews was born in Swansea and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 He was Chaplain to Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor from 1661 to 1667.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, Reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . Taylor appointed him the incumbent at Glenavy. In 1666 he became Prebendary of Carncastle in Lisburn Cathedral;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Vol III" Cotton, H. p271 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and the following year Archdeacon of Down."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Vol III" Cotton, H. p231 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 He became Vicar General of the diocese in 1690."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Vol III" Cotton, H. p232 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 In 1693 a Special Visitation deprived him of all his ecclesiastical offices."The Proceedings Against Archdeacon Lemuel Mathews at the Regal Visitation held at Lisburne (sic), 1693" p24: Published for the information of such as desire to know the True State of his CASE; Printed in the year 1703 Mathews then spent many years trying to regain his positions,"History of the Irish Presbyterian Church" Hamilton, T. p105: Edinburgh; T and T Clark; 1887 but was only successful with his prebend at Carncastle.
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