severe head wound at the Battle of New Ross on 18 March 1643, an injury his sister later suggested contributed to his death in 1649. While most of Ormond's officers wanted to remain neutral in the dispute between Royalists and Parliamentarians, Charles was anxious to use their troops to help him win the war in England, and Lucas helped negotiate a Ceasefire or "Cessation" with the Irish Catholic Confederacy in September 1643. Lucas stayed in Ireland before returning to England in October 1646, when he applied to the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, who restored his estates for a fine of £637. Although his younger brother Charles was executed after the Siege of Colchester, Lucas himself did not participate in the 1648 Second English Civil War and died at home in Lexden before October 1649. References Sources 1649 deaths 1598 births Military personnel from Colchester Thomas Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War People of the Irish Confederate Wars English military personnel of the Eighty Years' War Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge People from Colchester