i'V COLLINS'S peerage of Cnglattti: GENEALOGICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND HISTORICAL. GREATLY AUGMENTED, AND CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT TIME, BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, K. J. IN NINE VOLUMES. VOL. IX. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, OTRIDGE AND SON, J. NICHOLS AND CO. T. PAYNE, WILKIE AND ROBINSON, J. WALKER, CLARKE AND SONS, W. LOWNDES, R. LEA, J. CUTHELL, LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND CO. WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO. C. LAW, CADELL AND DAVIES, J. BOOTH, CROSBY AND CO. J. MURRAY, J. MAWMAN, J. BOOKER, R. SCHOLBY, J. HATCHARD, R. BALDWIN, CRADOCK AND JOY, J. FAULDER, GALE, CURTIS AND CO. JOHNSON AND CO. AND G. ROBINSON. 1812., T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London, CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. BARONS FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME. Page JllooRE, Lord Moore 1 Loftus, Lord Loftus 33 Butler, Lord Butler 58 Proly, Lord Carysfort 137 Arden, Lord Alvanley 143 Abercromby , Baroness Abercromby 149 Fitzherbert, Lord St. Helen's. . . • 156 Elphinston, Lord Keith 168 Hutchinson, Lord Hutchinson 1/9 Mitford, Lord Redesdale '. 182 Law, Lord Ellenborough 187 Hill, Baroness Sandys 192 Perceval, Lord Arden 230 Holroyd, Lord Sheffield 233 Middleton, Lord Barham 246 Collingwood, Lord Collingwood, (since extinct) 250 Erskine, Lord Erskine 25 1 Browne, Lord Mounteagle 2/6 Montgomery , Lord Ardrossan 283 Maitland, Lord Lauderdale 296 Forbes, Lord Granard 311 Crewe, Lord Crewe 326 {337 Ponsonby, Lord Ponsonby of Imohilly 343 Kennedy, Lord Ailsa 346 Campbell, Lord Breadalbane 37 1 Gardner, Lord Gardner 381 Sutton, Lord Manners . 385 Gambier, Lord Gambier 387 Johnstone, L.ord Hopetoun 392 IV CONTENTS. Page Percy, Lord Percy 517 Extinct Peerages from 1@S2 to the present time. • 393 Extinct Peerages from the accession of the House of Tudor to 1682 441 Clai?ns of Peerage 4S6 K5- The Reader is requested to turn also to the Addenda at the end of the Volume for the latest dates, and a few corrections, of every article. THE PEERAGE OF ENGLAND MOORE, LORD MOORE. [Marquis of Drogheda, in Ireland."] This noble family is of French extraction, from which kingdom they came very early after the Conquest into England ; and ac- quiring a good estate in the county of Kent, made the manor of Moore-Court their residence, until they removed to Moore-Place, in Benenden, in the said county, which they held for many gene- rations. Mr. John Philipot, Somerset Herald, who drew the pedigree of this family in l6l2, tells us, that their surname was assumed from the lands which they originally possessed at More- Place, in Rolvinden and Benenden, in Kent. But he should have said More-Court, in Iviechurch* in the same county. He begins with Thomas de la More, Esq. who held the manor of More-Place, whence the name was variously written De More, De la More, Atte-More, until the general relinquishing of such prepositions before names was practised, when it deter- mined also in this family, which was about the time of Henry VI. 2 They were seated here as early as King Henry IPs reign; and John de More de Iviechurch, was possessed of it in King Edward I's reign, as appears by a fine levied in the 9th year of it, between John, the son of Thomas de Iden, and the abovementioned John de More, by which the said John passes away land to John de More, of Rolvenden. Hasfed's Kent, III. 4.98. VOL. IX. B 2 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. This Thomas was living in the re:gn of Henry II. as is proved by a deed, wherein his grandson is styled John, the son of Henry, son of Thomas de More, whereby he purchased from John, the son of Thomas de Iden, a certain croft abutting upon his own lands; and this deed bears date at More-Place, on St. Vincent's day, 12S0, Q Edward I. Henry de Mors, his son afore-mentioned, as is proved by several deeds, had four sons; viz. First, John, his heir. Second, Thomas (who sold his lands to Henry Fitz-Geffery Coote; from him descended Matthew More, who held certain landi within the hundred of Blackburne, next to Rolvinden, by knight's service, and paid his aid for them 20 King Edward1 III. when the Black Prince was made a Knight, as appears by the records of the aid enrolled in the Exchequer.) b Third, Stephen (who disposed of his estate at Maplesden, m Kent, to his brother, Thomas.) Fourth, Charles. John de More, of More-Place, the elclesfson (in some deeds written Atte-More), died about 7 King Edward II. having pur- chased divers lands from Ralph Ramsden, with others in Benen- den, from his brother, Stephen, and married Matilda, daughter of William Falkinden,c by whom he had two sons; First, Thomas. Second, Scoland, who had lands confirmed to him by his uncle Charles. Thomas, who succeeded, by Joan his wife (who survived him,, and purchased lands 10 Edward III.) had John, his heir, who lived in the time of Edward III. and died seised of his paternal inheritance, leaving two sons; First, Thomas. And, Second, John, who by deed, dated on St. Mark's day, 46 Ed- ward III. were appointed feoffees in trust for the lands of Stephen Collett, lying in Sandhurst, next Benenden. Thomas de More, the elder son, marrying Catharine; the co- heiress of the family of Benenden, of Benenden ('whereof John de Benenden held a Knight's fee there 20- Edward III. and bore for his coat armour, Azure, a lobster, Or, which is now quartered b Lodge coll. c Which is proved by a deed of Stephen de Mrre, dated z King Edward II. whereby he confirms certain lands, he held in Benenden, to his brother, John, the said Matilda his wife>- Thomas and Scolaad their sons. (Lodge.) LORD MOORE. 3 by the Marquis of Drogheda) : his family, on that match, trans- planted themselves to Benenden, where they built a house called Moore-Place, and possessed a fair estate, until John Moore, Esq. sold it to Mr. William Watts, in the first year of Queen Mary's reign. By her, who outlived him, he had two sons; First, William. Second, John. William, the elder, married Catherine, daughter and heir to Anthony Aucher, Esq. (branched from the ancient family of Aucher, of Losenham, in Newenden, not far from Rolvinden, where Sir Thomas Aucher, in the time of Henry III. founded a monastery for Carmelite friars; and these Auchers of Kent, were descended from the family at Copt-Hall, near Waltham Abbey, in Essex, where they had continued from the conquest of Eng- land)/ and had issue, First, Thomas, his heir. And, Second, John. Thomas married Agnes, daughter and heir of Robert Austen, and was father of William Moore, of Moore- Place, Esq. who married Mar- garet, daughter and coheir to John Brenchley, Esq. Lord of the manor of Benenden, by his wife, Margaret, daughter and heir to Richard Golding, 21 Henry VI. (of which family was Sir Wil- liam Brenchley ,e Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and died in 1446, as she died in 1453, without issue), and with her he got the inheritance of Moat-Lands and Bettenham, in Kent. He lies buried in the church of Benenden, in Kent, with his father-in- law; as appears by this inscription in the chancel window on the north side: Orate pro animabus Johannis Brenchley et Willielmi More. Walter Moore, of Benenden, Esq. was his son, and reco- vered certain lands in Smallhide and Tenterden, which had been entailed upon the issue of his grandfather, Thomas, by Agnes d The last branch of this ancient family of Aucher, who were Baronets, and seated at Bishopsboume, near Canterbury, expired in the male line early in the last century. The sister and heir married Dr. Corbet, who left by her several coheirs. e Sir William married Joane de Benenden, coheir of John de Benenden ; on his death the manor of Benenden went to John de Brenchley abovememioned. Basted, ut sufr. 1 1 . 4 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND Austen his wife, niece to Robert Jane, in case her said uncle should die childless, and proved that, contrary to his intail, the said Robert had given those lands to his bastard son, which of right belonged to him, who was the son of William, son and heir to Thomas More and Agnes Austen, cousin and heir to the said Robert Jane. This Walter's will is recorded in the office of wills at Canterbury, and shews that he died in 1504, 1Q Henry VII. leaving by Alice his wife (who brought into the family lands in the parishes of Brokeland, Fayerfield, Brensett, and Snave, in Kent), two sons; First, Thomas, of Benenden, his heir. Second, William, who married Elizabeth, one of the three daughters and coheirs of William Betenham, Esq. with whom he had the ancient seat of Betenham, in the parish of Crane- brooke, where he resided, and was father of Nicholas Moore, of IVingmore, in Elham, who married Clara, daughter of John Toke, of Goddington and Great-Chart, in Kent, by Cicely, daugh- ter of Sir Thomas Kempe, Knt. and dying in 1556/ at Wing- more (4 Queen Mary), without issue, gave all his lands by will to the sons of his cousin, John Moore, of Pluckley. Thomas Moore, of Benenden, Esq. eldest son of Walter, made his will in 1519, 11 Henry VIII. which is recorded in the pre- rogative court of Canterbury, and proves that he had three sons ; First, John. Second, Edward. And, Third, Thomas, whose posterity settled in Norfolk. John, the eldest son, alienated More-Court to John Watts, 1st of Queen Mary.s He married Margaret,11 daughter, and at length heir to John Brent, Esq. widow of John Dering, of Sur- renden, in Pluckley, by whom he had one daughter, Anne, first/wife of Sir Henry Duke, of Castle- Jordan, in the county of Kildare, Knt. And six sons; viz. First, Owen, who went to Ireland, and died without issue. Second, Sir Edward, ancestor to the Marquis of Drogheda. f There is a memorial for him in Elham church, by which, according t» Hasted, it appears that he died at Wingmore, May Sth, 1577, aged fifty-nine. Hasted, HI. 343. E From which family it passed to Norris ; and from thence to Thomas Hallct Hodges, Esq. whose son, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. is the present owner. n John More appears to have removed to Pluckley, in consequence of thir marriage. LORD MOORE. 5 Third, George, who died childless. Fourth, Sir Thomas, of Croghan, ancestor to the late Earl of Charleville.'1 i Sir Thomas Moore came into Ireland early in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth ; who, by the advice of her commissioners for setting her lands in Ireland, according to the tenor of certain instructions, signed by her Majesty at Litch- field, zd August, 1575, granted and confirmed unto him (by the name of Tho- mas Moore, of Crcglnn, Gentleman), by indenture, dated $& December, 1577, the castle of Castletown, with all the messuages, orchards, gardens, and 758 .cres of land in Castletown, Kilcorboighe, the castle of Tougher, &c. in the King's County, with all other the castles, lands, advowsons, patronages of churches, aad hereditaments, which ever were reputed as parcel of the said premises; to hold the same for ever of the crown, as of the castle of Philipstown, in capite, by the twentieth part of a Knight's fee, and subject to the conditions of plantation ; which were, that he and nis heirs, whenever summoned so to do, should attend with the greater part of their domestics and tenants, armed in a warlike manner, with victuals for three days, upon the chief governor, or such as should be ap- pointed by him, for the defence of the King's County, or to go upon any border- ing Irishmen of the said county; to answer all Hostings, after the rate and value of his lands according to the law and custom of the realm; to maintain constantly upon the premises, five able horsemen of English birth, surname, and blood, for the better inhabiting and preserving the same, funished with good and sufficient horses and arms, as well offensive as defensive; to pay the crown rent of 9I. 9s. 6d. Irish, with a customary day, called a plough-day, for every plough employed upon the lands, or to perform such work, at such time and place within the said county, as the constable of the castle of Philipstown should appoint, or in lieu threof, 3 s. for every customary day, at the election of him and his heirs. For whom he further covenanted, that the chief governor might, from time to time, cut and carry away, at pleasure, all kinds of wood growing upon the premises, for such buil lings as they should appoint to be erected for the use of the Crown in that county ; that they should not make use of the Breaiune or Brchon La-w, in any cause whatsoever, against any subject responsible to the laws of Ireland; and that his sons, and able servants, should use, for the major part, the English tongue, habit, and government; and yearly repair before the constable of the castle of Philipstown, or in his absence, before the sheriff of the King's County, at the said castle, on the first day of September, and bring all the men under their go- vernment, from the age of 16 to 60, to be mustered, and answer for their respec- tive actions within the county for that year, &c. Sir Henry Sidney, in his instructions from Denbigh, 17th September, 1580, to his successor the L. D. Grey, how to proceed in his government, thus writes: " My Lord, I had forgotten three kinsmen of mine, Sir Edward More, Owen More, and Thomas More; one of them was my man, and now the Queen's; the other my Lord of Warwick's, and now a Knight; the third, my man still: 1 pray your Lordship let them know, that I forget them not." * He was afterwards knighted for his service against the Irish, by whom he was at length murdered in his castle of Castletown, and was succeeded there by his son, * Sidney Letters, I. zt>2. 0 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Fifth, Nicholas, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert Southwell, Knt. And, Sir John Moore, Knt. who, in 1^99, held his castle of Croghan for the Queen; after which he was knighfed, and made considerable additions to his estate; namely the town of Clonfert, by purchas- from Anthony Marche; the town of Crutrnullcghrosse, with 186 acres; the castle of Raiiuramun, with 155 acres; and by virtue of the commission for the plantation and deposition of lands in the county of Leitrim, and the territory of Lly O Carrol, King James I. 23d April, 1622, granted to him and his heirs, the castle, town, and lands of Tullamoore, KMcruttin, and divers others, containing 1147 acres, glebe lands excepted., in the King's County, to hold in common socage as of the castle of Dublin; with a Tuesday market, and a fair on St. Peter's day at Tullamoore. He married Dootnv,* fifth daughter to Dr. Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland; and making his will 10th April, 1633, orders h'rs body to be bur.ed in the parish church of Croghan, in the sepulchre of his father, provided for his wile and children; and then leaves his blessing to his son Thomas, and his posterity ; whom he enjoins, and charges upon the blessing of a loving father, and as he should answer to the contrary before the Majesty of God at the day of judgment, that he should not trouble, vex, or molest his mother, for, or concerning her jointure, or his brothers and sifters concerning their poj> tions, but, to his uttermost power and ability, assist and comfort them, as became a natural brother to do. He appoints his wife and son, W^keley, executors; and requests his noble kinsmen and friends, Charles, Lord M°°'ej Sir Robert Loftus, and Sir William Cooley (in whom he reposed most confidence and trust), to be overseers of his will and children; and prays his children, upon his blessing, to be governed and directed by them on all occasions that should concern their advance- ment, and especially in the disposition of themselves by marriage. He died 26th of that month, and had issue by her, who died 8th July, in same year, and was buried the 15th, fourteen children, who died in their infancy, and three sons and six daughters, who survived; viz. First, Thomas, -f- his successor in estate. Second, Gerald, who died in his youth.J Third, Adam of Croghan, who died unmarried, 10th November, 1636, and by his nuncupative will that day, left to his sister, Anne, 200I. and to his sisters, Thomasine and Elizabeth, sol. a piece. § Daughter Thomasine (by some said to be the second), was married to Tho- mas Wakeiey, of Bailyburley, otherwise Wakeley's-Town, in the King's County, Esq. Jane (by some made the eldest), married to Anthony O Dempsey, of Claney- gawnan, in the Queen's County, Esq. (eldest son of Sir Terence O Dempsey, created Viscount of Clanmalier, 22d December, 1631), and by him, who died there in 1638, before his father, and was buried in the chapel of Killmolahy, she had Lieutenant-Colonel James O'Dempsey, who died childless; and Dorothy, who died young. Mary,-married to Sir Matthew De Rinzy, otherwise De Rynzyt, Knt. * MSS. pedigrees penes, I. L. -f Ulster's office. J Id. § Ulster, and Prerogative office. LORD MOORE. 7 Sixth, Lieutenant-Colonel Brent Moore, who in virtue of the commission for the plantation of Longford, passed patent 23th Dorothy, first to Hamond Lestrange, of Castle-Strange, in the county of Ros- wmmon,Esq. by whom she had Thomas, who left no issue; and Elizabeth, mar- ried to John Crofton, or Kilbrian, in the said county, Esq. second son to George Crofton, of the Moate, and brother to the last Sir Edward Crofton, Bait. Her second husband was Richard St. George, of Athlone, Esq. and by him, who died in April 1667, she had a daughter, Manila, married to Joseph Jackman, father by her of St. George Jackman, Attorney at law. Elizabeth, married to James Walteley, Gem, Anne, alias Thomasine, to Nathaniel Huett .* Thomas Moore, of Croghan, Esq. had a special livery of his estate, lSth June, 1634, for the fine of 100 I. Irish; and in virtue of the commission for re- medy of defective tides, ha i a confirmation, 1 ith July, 1638, of the castle and lands of Croghan, Otherwise Castletown, otherwise young Cawlestown, Tulla- moore, and all other his estate in the King's County, which was erected into the manor of Croghan, with liberty to impark 2000 acres, &c. And 19th March, 1639, the last Lord passed patent, for holding two fairs, 29th April, and joth October, yearly, at Tullamore. In the parliament of 1634, he was member for Philipstown ; married Mjrgaret, daughter of Sir Ambrose Forth, of Cabrjgh, near Dublin, Knt. Judge of the Prerogative court, by Anne, daughter of——— Cusack, of Lismullen, county of Meath, and by her, who remarried with Philip, young-st son of Sir Robert Digby, had two sons, and one daughter; viz. John, his heir; Ambrose, f wdio married the Lady Catherine Finch, youngest daughter of Thomas, the first Earl of Winchelsea; and Anne, married to William Moore, of T.ullavin, in the county of Cavan, Esq by whom she had Archibald, who left no is daughter of Tobias Cramer, of Ballyfoile, county o, Kilkenny, Esq.: the said Sir John died in 1699, and left issue two sons; viz. Marmaduke, LL.D. Judge of the court of prerogative, Chancellor of the Exchequer, member of the Privy-coun- cil, and representative in parliament for the University of Dublin, he died unmar- ried 9th March, 1738, and was interred in the chapel of Drumcondra : James, abovementioned, was the younger son ; he married Mary, sister to Thomas Pear- son, Esq. of Beathmore, in the county of Meath, member of parliament for Bally- shannon, and Collector of the port of Drogheda, and deceased 4th September, 1734. Lady Charieville, sole heir to her father, married to her second husband, John Mayne, Esq. a Major in the army, who on his marriage as=umed the name of Coghill ; he served in the British parliament for the borough of Newport, was created a Baronet, 25th July, 1778, -f and died 14th November, 1785. Her Lady- ship survived him. \ k Sidney's Letters, 1. 2S2. * Lords Journals, IV. 148. f Beatson's Index, pl I. 208. % 1 Edit. IV. 217. 322. 10 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. daughter of Captain Peter Nottingham, of Ballyowen, in the county of Dublin, widow of Nicholas Gernon, of Miltown, in Louth, Esq.1 and dying in 1722, was succeeded by a son of his own name. Sir Edward Moore, Knt. second son, became heir to his cousin, Nicholas, of Cranbrooke and Wingmore, and, with his brothers, was the first of the family that settled in Ireland, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ;m a reign, noted in history for many signal and memorable events, wherein sir Edward had a large share, and so distinguished himself in her armies by his courage and conduct, that he was knighted in 15/9 by Sir William Drury, L. J. not long before his Lordship's death, in the camp between Limerick and Kiimallock; and for his many eminent services, both at home and abroad, was rewarded by the Queen with a lease of the dissolved abbey of Mellefont, with its appurtenances, in the county of Louth," which he made the principal place of 1 Who, by deed dated 2#th October, 16S5, settled 600I. a year on her as a- jointure, but if she married, only 60 1 a year j and died at, or about Michaelmas 16S.2, leaving issue by her two sons, George, who died without is;ue, at Miltown, Atk November, 1693 ; and Fete;-, who difd without issue, at Dromiskin, 1st Au- gust, 169;. (Rot. p. de. A0. 7". Gul. III. zA. p. D.) ** Apparently in consequence of their connection with Sir Henry Sydney, the Lord Deputy, whose seat was at Penshurst, in Kent. n The Queen, by instructions to the L. D. and Chancellor for the time being, dated at Westminster 24th October, 1565 (7 Eliz.), granted him a lease in rever- sion, for twenty-one years, of the dissolved monastery and lands, spiritual and temporal, of Mellefont, paying such reasonable fine within certain years, as to the L. D. and Council should seem convenient. Whereupon they made the folkwing order : " Forasmuch as the said house and lands are situated near unto the bor- ders of Ulster, and hath in all times of rebellion in those parts, been subject to the invasion of the enemy, and is not in such times defended from burning and spoil, but with such an excessive charge, as in a manner the whole commodity doth no more than bear the expenses of such a force as may defend it} and that in all such times the said Edward hath not shunned that place, but maintained hospitality plentifully ; whereby he hath not only relieved many of her Majesty's servants and subjects, but defended the same land?, and thereby given an example to others, and a relief to the whole county of Louth : and for as much further as in the same instruction her Majesty's express pleasure is., that consideration be had to the situa- tion of the place, adding these words, "That the house standeth upon the Irish country, and is chargeable to defend : We have condescended, and by authority of the same instruction agreed, that the said Edward shall pay to her Majesty for a fine of his said lease in reversion, the sum of 45 1. current money of this realm, the same to be paid at the feast of Easter, which shall be in the year of our Lord God i 570.; tor payment whereof the said Edward shall with one sufficient suretie enter into LORD MOORE. U bis residence, and where his posterity remained, till the late Earl of Droeheda removed to Munasterevan, or Moore- Abbey , in the county of Ki Mare, the seat'of the late Vi count Loftus, of Elye, which descended to his Lordship, as heir to that family. In the wars carried on for the reduction of the Karl of Tyrone, Sir Edward was a principal commander; and it is observed, that he and Sir Francis Stafford were, in 1509, the only English house- keepers in the county of Louth, all the lands being wasted by the Ulster rebels. To the general hosting at the hill of-Tarah, 24th September, 1593, he and Sir Edward Brabazon brought three horsemen; and ]Oth March, 1601, he was constituted Constable of the fort of Philips-town, with the fee of two shillings, Irish, a day for himself, with eight pen e apiece for twelve footmen, during good behaviour, which upon his surrender, and in conside- ration of his services, and those of his son, Sir Gerald, was re- newed to them 2d March, 1609, during their respect ives lives. He married, first, Mildred, daughter anH coheir to Nicholas Clifford, of Chart, in Kent, Esq. and, secondly, Margery, daugh- ter" of William, fourth son of John Brabazon, of Eastwell, in the bande in the chancery, for the due answering thereof to her Majesty's use. Givea at Dublin 1 June 1566, in the eighth year of her Highness's reign." " H. M.den. Rob*. Dillon. Francis Agarde. " N. Bagnal. Tho. Cusake. James Bathe." * He had accordingly a lea:e by patent, 2Cth June that year; and held also all the lands and temporalt.es of the hospital of St. John of Arde?, by lea'.e, dated 25th July, 1579, for forty-one years from Michaelmas 1591 ; which were granted in fee to his son, Sir Gerald, as the monastery of Mellefont also was. King James likewise granted to him a lease ef the hoipital of Mounterconaught, in the county of Cavan, for twenty-one years, to commence 6th March, 1605, at the rent of 15 d.j the hospital of Dromlomman, at the rent of 2 s. and 6d.; and that of Bally- linch, at the rent of 3 d.; all which premises, and such other lands as he held by iease, were granted in reversion 23d April, 160$, for sixty years more. • Rather his widow; for in the Bishop of Clogher's MS. N° 18, 4t0. is this memorandum: That on Thursday the 30th of December, being St. Andrew's day, the worshipful Lady More, wife to the worshipful Sir Edward More, Knt. Bacheior, was buried in the cathedral church, called Christ Church, where was prepared a fair herse, covered with black bayes, and the outer rayles were covered with black cotton, and the said herse was well garnyshed with Scotchyons of her arms, and with the arms of all her four husbands; viz. Sir William Brabazon, Master Waren, Master Blondt, and Sir Edward More; and also with a great number of pencils of the several arms. The corpse of said Lady More, was wor- ihipfully conducted from her place of Melivant unto the city of Dublin, and Ulster * Rot. pat. de. A" 12" E!iz. d. R.4. 12 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. county of Leicester, Esq. the widow of Mr. Warren, and of Mr. Blount, and had issue four sons; viz. First, Henry, who married Mary, daughter of Francis Agarde, of Fawston, in Staffordshire, Esq. Privy Counsellor to Queen Elizabeth, and an eminent person in Ireland during her reign, who lies buried in Christ-Church, Dublin, under a monument yet remaining; and died without issue by her, who after became the first wife of William Makewy, of Ballyneskeagh, in Meatb, Esq.P Second, Sir Gerald (commonly called Sir Garret Moore), created Viscount Drogheda. Third, Sir John, who left no issue. Fourth, William, of Barmeath, in the county of Louth, whose son and heir, Richard, married Anne, daughter of Patrick Cashell, of Dundalk, Gent, and dying 6th January, l6'34, was interred in the church of Dysert, having had five sons and three daughters; -viz. William (a Captain in the wars of 1641, who after the re- storation had a warrant dated 13th December, 1660, to be a Captain of foot, and married Catharine, daughter of Garrett Coo- ley, of Ardree, Esq.); Garrett; George; Robert; James; Mary (married to George Waven, of Wavenstown, in Louth, Gent.) Elenor; and Maud. Sir Garret Moore, second son, first Viscount Drogheda, who succeeded his father at Mellefont, served under the Earl of Essex and the L. D. Mountjoy, in the war with Tyrone and the Spa- niards; and in September l5Qg, when the Earl of Essex left the kingdom, had the command of one hundred foot at Ardee; with twenty-five horse, at Kells and Navan. November 13th, lOoo, he was with the L. D. at the fight of Carlingford against Tyrone, when his ensign was killed; and about the beginning of that month, 1602, was sent by the deputy into the Breny, where all the rebels submitted, and gladly received her Majesty's protec- tion; Tyrone at the same time sending by Sir Garrett to the L.D. King of Arms met the corpse 3 miles from Dublin, and wearing the Queen's coat of aims, brought the said corpse unto St. Catherine'!, church, and theie it remained Irom Tuesday until Thursday aforesaid, and was then brought unto the said church of Christ Church. (Lodge.) P Which William died 21st March, 1636, and was buried at Rathcor, leaving Francis Makewy, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of Thomas Hussey, of Mulhussty, in Meath, Esq.; Catharine, married to Chailes, son of Richard Perkins, of Athboy, Esq.; and Alice, to Andrew Pollard, of the county of Devon, Esq. (Ledge.) LORD MOORE. 13 an absolute submission to the Queen's mercy, bearing date 12tli November. And the Queen dying 24th March, 1602, the news was imparted to the. L. D. on the 2/th, in the night, at Melle- font; and his Lordship being warranted by her Majesty's letters, to receive Tyrone to mercy, had upon the 24th commissioned, and the next day sent Sir Garret, and Sir William Godolphin, to treat with him. The said 27th they arrived at Charlemount, where Sir William staying for his troop of horse, Sir Garrett rode that night to Tulloghoge, and conferred with Tyrone, who being resolved to obey the Deputy's commands, accompanied them to Mellefont, and made a most humble submission in writing, which he presented publicly on his knees: and the Queen's death being proclaimed 3d April, he renewed his submission to King James, and in May attended the L. L. into England. 1 On the 9th June, 1603, he and William Moore, of Barmead, and Brent Moore, had the grant of a pardon for all treasons and other offences; 20th of the same month, he was made Seneschal of the county of Cavan, and town of Kells; and 22d November, 16O9, Constable of the castle of Philipstown, for bis life and that of Edward, his sen. In the parliament of 1613, he was member for the borough of Dungannon; 20th May, 1015, appointed of council to the president of Munster; and 8th July, same year, he was rated 100 marks for the subsidy then granted to the King. 1 The castle and lands of Ballyscaolan, Krivagh, and divers others which had been granted ioth July, 1599, to Sir Anthony St. Leger, Sir Gerald purchased the same 26th November, 1600; and 22d January, 1610, had a grant of 1000 acres, called Ballymonehon, in the barony of Orier, and county of Armagh. By patent, dated 4th June,i6iz, he had a confirmation in fee of the Abbey of Mellefont, %vith all its appurtenances, the Priory of Duleeke, the Hospital of St. John Baptist of Ardee, the manor of Shenlis, the monastery of Gallen, with many other lands and hereditaments; and the rectories and tithes of Duleeke, Killcarvan, Eight- Castles, Moorechurch, Stamullen, Cloneallway, Ardcathe, Tymoll, Macestown, Dowth, Rathkenny, Killmessane, Rathconnel, Castletown, Killowane, Croya- neston, Kilcowle, Hollywood, the Grallach, the Naul, Cowloge, St. Mary and St. Peter, in Drogheda, Julianstown, Mullengar, and Maghericloo, in Ferine, in the counties of Louth, Meath, Westmeath, Dublin, Monaghan, and King's County. And his Majesty having granted, 21st February, 1610, to Henry King, Gent, one great house, called the Fermory, &c. in or near Dublin, parcel of the possessions of St. Mary's Abbey; whose interest by mean conveyance being passed to Sir Gerald Moore, the King, lest any imperfection might make the said patents defective, was pleased to grant him a new one, 9th February, 1619, of the Abbey of Mellefont, and all the aforesaid premises, which were very large, to hold in common socsge, at the yearly rent of 694 1. os. 3 d. 2q. Irish, twenty pecks of corn, and to fur- nish arid maintain two horsemen, and one archer for ever. 14 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. In I6l6, Sir Garrett was Captain of twenty-five horse at 4s. a day; and his Majesty taking into consideration his great and ma- nifold services to the crown, was pleased, in testimony of (he fa- vour he bore him, to create him and his heirs male, Baron Moore, of Mellefont, by privy seal, dated at Newmarket, 15th February, 1615/ and by patent, at DubKn, 20th July, ]6l0; the day after which (being Sundy), his Lordship and the Lord Ard^e, was so created by the Deputy, after a sermon preached in St. Patrick's cathedral by Dr. James Usher, then Chancellor of that cathedral, from these words, Acts xvii. 11. There were more noblemen than they which were at Thessalonica. By privy seal, dated at West- minster 5th January, l62l,s the King thus writes, " Whereas we did not long since give a royal testimony to the world of the gracious opinion we had conceived of our right trusty and well- beloved Sir Garrett Moore, of Mellefonte, whereby, for the emi- nency of his own virtues, and the good services done both b) himself and his ancestors to our Crown, we were pleased to advance him to the dignity of a Baron of that our realm; forasmuch as his accus- tomed zeal and integrity to our service, together with his porte and carriage since that honour was conferred upon him, have made him in our princely judgment worthy of a greater, we are therefore pleased to create him a Viscount of that kingdom; these are therefore to require you, &c." He was accordingly created Viscount Moore, of Droghcda, by patent, 7th February, 1621.' The L. D. Falkland making a progress to oversee the late plantations, and to settle the government in those remote parts, for the administration of justice, preservation of peace, and other causes touching his Majesty's special service, the Lord Drogheda was appointed, 15th July, l£>24, one of the commissioners and r In which his Majesty thus writes : " Forasmuch as it hath been observed in the regimen of all states, that nothing doth more excite and inflame the minds of men to the love of virtue and honourable courses, neither that any means is more powerful to quicken the endeavours of such as are employed in any service, to deserve well therein, than when they see rewards and preferment, with places and titles of honour, to be conferred upon such persons as are accounted to be men' of eminent virtue and action, either in civil or martial administration of public affairs. We do therefore let you know, that we have taken into our considera- tion, the great and manifold services, performed to us and our crown, by our trusty and well beloved subject, Sir Geratt Moore, of Mellefont, Knt. and in testimony of the favour we bear him, and of our gracious accepting of those his faithful en- deavours in our service, we have thought fit t» advance him te the state and dig- nity of a Baron of that kingdom." (Lodge, and Rolls.) s Rot. Ao 1 9«> Jac. I. 2" Second, Sir Thomas Moore, knighted by Sir Oliver St. John, on whom and his heirs, Sir Francis Rooe, of Mountjoy, by deed of feoffment, 3d June, 101 6, settled the manor of Rooe, &c. in the county of Tyrone, containing 1000 acres, in reversion after the decease of him and his wife, Margery. He married the Lady Sarah Boyle, second daughter of Richard, the first Earl of Cork, by whom he had no issue,2 and dying 1st December, l6'23, aet. 30 (having been but a short time married), was buried 4th in St. Patrick's, Dublin/ and his Lady remarried with Robert, Lord Digby.1' Third, Sir Charhs Moore, who succeeded to the honours. Fourth, Sir James Moore, of Ardee, Knt. who married0 Jane/ u Ulster's Office. x Inq. post ejus mortem, which mentions his sons according to their seniority, and that Sir Edward, and Sir Thomas were dead without issue. J Decree in Chancery. z Ulster's Office. a Id. *> See that Title. = Ulster's Office. d This Lady, Jane Moore, of Ardee, deposed, ist March, 1641-2, that c< when the rebellion began, she was seised in her demesne, as of freehold ror her life, of certain lands and tithes, in the county of Louth, for her jointure, of the yearly rent of 377 1. 8s. and that her daughter, Alice, held certain lands and tithes, in the counties of Louth and Managhan, assigned unto her for her portion, till she received thereout 2000I. the said Lnds being worth 500 1. a year ; from all which lands she and her daughter were expelled and deprived by the rebels; and when the rebellion began, she had owing to her 901- debts, and 200I. for rents; all which she was persuaded she had lost, and was deprived of by the rebellion, her ■debtors being rebels them.elvcs." f Lodge.) !6 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. third daughter of Edward, the first Lord Blayney, and died 27th February, l639,e having had three daughters ■, Anne, Alice/ and Jane, who all died young; and his widow remarried with Sir Robert Sterling, Knt.s Firth, Arthur, of Dunmoghan, m the county of Louth, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John King of Boyle, and dying Oth April, l635, left two sons: Charles, then six years old, who died without issue; and John,* who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Honeywood, of Pett, in Kent, by whom he had two sons; John; and Henry, who died childless. John Moore, Esq. the elder son, seated at Drumbanagher, in the county of Armagh, served in parliament for the borough of Charlemountj and married, first, Catharine, fourth daughter of Patrick Savage, of Portaferry, in the county of Down, Esq. by whom he had two daughters; and, secondly, Mary, daughter of William, Viscount Charlemount, and by her had four sons, and two daughters; viz. First, William-Henry, his heir. Second, John, born 21st De- cember, 1726. Third, James (of Liverpool, Merchant, who 20th July, 1753, married Anne, daughter of Hawtrey, of Wa- terford, and niece to the late Richard-Chapel Whaley, of Whaley- Abbey, county of Wicklow, Esq. Fourth, Arthur, born 2d De- cember, 1734; Mary, born 21st February, J 727» deceased; and Sarah, born 20th July, 1733. He made his will 30th March, 1749 (proved 30th May, 1752), and in pursuance thereof was interred in the church of Kellevy. William Henry, born 26th December, 1725, succeeded at Drumbanagher, 1st May, 1752, and 20th October following, married to his first cousin, Anne, daughter of Rev. Charles Caulfeild, of Castle-Stewart, county of Tyrone.' Sixth, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Moore, who was an officer in the army for the reduction of Ireland, and in lf)54, had a pen- sion from the then government of 10 s. a week, and five of his brothers, Lord Moore's children, had 31. 17s. a week, which was continued in 1665, out of the district of Trim. He died unmar- ried, in September 1602, and left his estate by will, dated 13th September, and proved 14th October, to his sister, Blaney, and to his brother, John, whom he appointed executors. Seventh, John, on whom the aforesaid Sir Francis Rooe, by another deed of feofhnent, dated 31st May, 161G, settled all his leases and farms, goods and chattels after his decease; except the ' Decree in Chancery. f MS. ped. g Decree in Chancery. h Inq. taken at Armagh, iSth August, 1635. » Collections. LORD MOORE. 1 7 eio-ht townlands called Desert-Crieff, being church lands, in the county of Tyrone. And after his wife's decease, the said eight townlands to the use of the said John Moore, during the interest then in being. Ursula was married to Sir Nicholas White, of Leixlip, in the county of Kildare, Knt. (grandson of Sir Nicholas White, of St, Catharine's, Master of the Rolls), and had issue two sons; Ni- cholas, and Arthur. Frances,k to Sir Roger Jones, of Dollardstown, in Meath, Knt. and died 23d November, 1620, having issue, Arthur, Thomas, and Margaret. Anne, to Sir Faithful Fortescue, of Dromiskyn, in the county of Louth, died 5th September, 1634, and was buried in St. Fa- trick's. Eleanor, to Sir John Denham, Chief Justice of the King's Bet?ch, and L. J. of Ireland, and in l6l7, made Baron of the Ex- chequer, in England. She lies buried with him (who died 6th January, 1638), in the chancel of Egham church, under a fine monument, with this inscription to her memory: The Lady Ellen or Denham, second wife of the said Sir John Denham, and one of the daughters Of Sir Garrett Moore, Knight, Lord Baron of Mellifont in the kingdom of Ireland, whom he married during his service in Ireland in the Flace of Chief Justice there, and by whom he had issue a sonne,1 now living, and a daughter Interred with her, of whom she died in Child-Bed. • Et quae fuit Mitis et Mansueta, Pia, Casta, et Formosa, nunc in Pulvere dormit. Ecce non habes Unde gloriaris, nisi Jesum Christum. Jane, some time Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, became the wife of Henry, Lord Blayney. Charles, the second Viscount Drogheda, was twenty-four k MS. pedig. penes J. Lodge. 1 The son was Sir John Denham, the Poet , surveyor to the works of King Charles II. and author of the celebrated poem of Cooper's Hill; he died in March 68 8. (Lodge.) VOL. IX. C J8 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. years of age at his father's death™ and 13th August, 1 628, ap- pointed one of the commissioners for the granting anew of the escheated lands in Ulster}" was present in parliament 14th July, 1634-° and 24th, was appointed one of the committee of griev- ances, and for taking into consideration such acts as were fit to be propounded to be passed, and such statutes as, being in force, were fit to be repealed} he was again present 4th November, the first day of the second session, at which time he was of the Privy-council, and a member of the committees for grievance and privileges.'' In 1640, he was Captain of sixty-three carbines, with the pay of ll. 4s. a day, and five spare horses, at two shil- lings a day each; and from the breaking out of the rebellion to the time of his death, acted with great resolution and vigour aarainst the abettors of it. His Lordship, 26th October, upon the first discovery of the rebellion, having notice of the imprisonment of his sister, Blayney, and her children, with the surprizal of her castle, the towns and castles of Newry, Carrickmacross, Charlemount, Monaghan, Tanderagee, Mountjoy, Cloghwoter, Dungannon, and many other places of strength in the North, he went from Mellefont to Drogheda, in the midst of the night, with his troop of sixty-six horse, very completely provided, and on his arrival summoning the mayor and aldermen, excited them to a speedy and vigorous preparation for their defence, who gave him indeed fair promises, but their actions being no way correspondent (not above forty men, very ill armed, being mustered by the town), he advertised the state, of the bad condition, and imminent danger the place was in; which it was not possible to preserve without further strength, both of horse and foot; for, should the enemy make any sudden approach, or attempt to surprize the town, he found such poor preparations for defence within, such apparent signs of dis- loyalty, and all things in so desperate a confusion, that, with his best endeavours, he should not be able to give a good account of the place. However, he was so far from being discouraged, that conceiving his presence necessary, he removed his family thither j prepared some old ordnance for use, and had them mounted; the m Inq. post mortem patris. n In virtue of the commission of grace, he had a release and confirmation, 20th September, 1639, of all his estates in the counties of Louth, Meath, Westmeath, Dublin, Monaghan, and King's County, with licence to impark 4000 acres, free warren, and many other privileges. » Lords Journals, I. 2. p Idem. I. 27. LORD MOORE. 19 walls repaired ; and the ditch scoured; but finding all ineffectual without further succour, he rode to Dublin in a dark night, and so effectually represented both the weakness and importance of Drogheda, offering in the council-chamber this very exemplary motion, to augment his own troop to 100 horse, and to raise 100 foot at his own charges, that he obtained a promise of speedy succour; the state in a few days raised a regiment of 1000 foot, and placed them under the command of Sir Henry Tichburne, who had a commission of government for the town, with which he arrived 4th November; and in the mean time, Captain Sea- fowle Gibson, having a commission and arms for 120 men, raised them in Drogheda in the space of two hours, who that very night were set on the watch, and kept to so hard duty, that his Lord- ship and the Captain watched ten nights successively, and in several sallies killed 200 rebels, and look eighty prisoners, of whom six only suffered death. His Lordship made another journey to Dublin, to be present at the second session of the parliament, which sat 4th November; and generously offered (seeing Sir Henry Tichburne's regiment was not sufficient to secure the town), to raise and clothe 600 men; to make fourteen independent companies at Drogheda a complete regiment, by which the whole county of Louth might possibly have been secured; but this offer was not accepted. However, his affections to the King, and detestation of the rebel- lion, were so fully discovered to the rebels, by these earnest and noble offers, that, taking the advantage of his absence, they sat down before his house of Mellefont, on Sunday, 24th November, with 1300 foot, intending to surprize it; which (after a very brave defence, so long as their powder lasted, from the few left to guard it, consisting only of twenty four musketeers and fifteen horsemen), was entered with great cruelty and slaughter of the foot, who yielded • on quarter (the horse vigorously charging through the enemy, got safe to Drogheda), and Colonel Coll Mac-Brian Mac-Mahon, with his soldiers, destroyed and carried away of goods and cattle to the amount of 20001. and killed twenty-eight of his Lordship's servants, the most of whom they would not suffer to be buried. The rebels, to the number of 1400, 30th November, besieged Drogheda, which they reduced to extreme distress; forcing them to subsist on the flesh of dogs, cats, and other animals; and 12th January, by the assistance of their Popish friends in the town, having made a breach in an obscure part of the wall, 500 of them 20 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. marched, at four o'clock in the morning, so far into the town, that thinking it their own, they alarmed the governor by a great shout, who running down stairs with his pistols in his hands, and being seasonably joined by the Lord Moore with fifteen horse, they put them to flight, with the loss of above 200, and some officers; which, with other successful sallies, so dispirited the Irish, that they drew off with great loss, before the Earl of Or- mond, who intending to raise the siege, marched out of Dublin. March 1st, with Sir John Borlace, in a sally he took the castle of Colpe; and 5th, routed his ungrateful tenants near Tullagh- allan, on the north side of Drogheda, with the slaughter of seven officers, and near 400 soldiers; taking prisoners, Captain Rory Mac-Arte Mac-Cross Mac-Mahon, and Barnewall, of Ratheskett, with good store of arms, whereby the siege of Drogheda was raised, and the garrison was at leisure to visit the enemy's quar- ters; in this action he exposed his person to great danger, and being known, was surrounded by about 200 of the enemy, who endeavoured to seize him, crying out, This is my Lord Moore, when he had but seven horse in his company, the rest being en- gaged at a distance; yet he retreated not, but charging them, many were killed, and the rest scattered. On the taking of Dundalk soon after (in which he had a share), Sir Henry Tichburne was left with a sufficient force to preserve it, and the present government of Drogheda was com- mitted to his Lordship; at which time the Earl of Ormond, in a council of war, resolved to prosecute the rebels; but that Lord being summoned to Dublin on affairs of great importance, the work fell wholly on the Lord Moore and the Governor, who were recruited with four companies of 1000 foot, two troops of 200 horse, and two pieces of battery; so that 21st March he burned the country about Slane; entered Ardee the 23d, with the slaugh- ter of about 400 Irish, his Lordship doing much execution with his own hand; and being certified that 1300 rebels were fortify- ing the town of Navan, he marched the 25th, early in the morn- ing, with 200 horse, some dragoons and musqueteers, drew up within half pistol shot of the gates, killed twenty men, fired the country, and returned with a large supply of cows, and 600 sheep. The King/i by privy seals dated at York, 30th June, and at Stoneley Abbey, 20th August, 1642, constituted him governor of 1 Rot, Can. i2, 19, ;o Car. I. f. R. 5. LORD MOORE. 2i the tounty of Louth, and barony of Slane, whereof he had a grant by commission, 10th September/ with the fee of 10s. a day, and power to prosecute all rebels, traitors,- &c. in considera- tion, as his Majesty expressed himself, " That to the hazarding himself, and the loss of all his estate, he had contributed very much, as well before as during the siege of Drogheda, to the pre- servation of that town, and performed many other acceptable services there, since the beginning of that detestable rebellion, towards the suppression thereof, for his better encouragement to proceed chearfully in the said service, and to the end he might be the better enabled thereunto." In August same year, with 1500 men, and four pieces of can- non, he took the strong castle of Seddan, with the slaughter of 500 men, whereupon the Lords Gormanston and Netterville, quitted the fort of Nobber, and the castle of Newtown: by which the counties of Louth and Meath were cleared of the enemy. But after performing many brave and signal services, he lost his life, /th August, 1643, at Portlester, in Meath, by a cannon-shot, as he was upon an eminence, giving directions for the assault. He married Alice,s younger daughter of Sir Adam Loftus, Viscount Ely, and by her (who broke her leg near the foot, by a fall from her horse, occasioned by a sudden grief arising on the first sight of St. Peter's church in Drogheda, where her dear Lord Jay buried, on Wednesday, 10th June, 1649, and dying 13th, of a gangrene, was that night buried by him in the family tomb), he had five sons, and four daughters; viz. First, Henry, his successor. Second, John, who died young. Third, Garret Moore, of Ardee, Esq. an officer for the reduc= tion of Ireland before 5th June, 1649} after that was brought 'about by the parliament, he was permitted, 9th March, 1654, to compound for his estate, at two years and six months purchasej amounting to 10231. 16s. and died without issue in 1665/ o r Rot. Can. (and not 12th Sep. as generally asserted), and decree 2d July, 1695, N° 7, in which the settlement of his estate, and maintenance and fortunes of his children, dated 22d February, 1637, leading the uses of four several leco- veiies in Hilaiy Term 1634, is set forth. » Ulster's Office, t He made his will 17th January, 1664. (proved 13th November, 1665), wherein he calls himself, the second son of Charles, late Lord Viscount of Drog- heda : and being possessed, for many hundred years to came, of the site of the late priory of St. John of Ardee, he devised the same, in case of his death without 22 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND Fourth, Randle, also of Ardec, who married, first, Jane, elder daughter of Edward, the second Earl of Meath ; and, secondly, Priscilla, daughter of Armitage, Esq. having issue by the former, Edward, buried at St. Catharine's, Dublin, 8th October, \QQQ; Brabazon; and Mary, married to William, Viscount Dun- cannon. He was attainted by King James's parliament 7th May, 16SQ, when his estate of 5001. a year, was seized and sequestered. Brabazon Moore, of Ardee, Esq. and of Mount-Terrible, in the county of Monaghan, died 13th August, 1721, having issue by Su- sannah his wife, whose will was proved 16th January, 1737, three sons, and three daughters; William; Edward: Randle, of Mount- Terrible, who became heir; Mary, married to Mr. Cunningham; Hannah, to Packenham Smith, of Stonetown, in the county of Louth; and , to Rev. Philip Gayer, of Carrickfergus. Fifth, Adam, who died 27th May, 1666, and was buried in? St. Peter's, at Drogheda, leaving Randle, his heir. Mary, born in 1031, was married in December 1 648, to Hugh, Viscount Montgomery. Sarah, married in 1653 to William, Viscount Charlemount. Anne, born in 1634, and married in 1657, to Thomas Caul- feild, Esq.u Lettice, born after her father's death, 15th January, l643,x was married, 1st July, 1661, to Hercules Davis, Esq. son and heir to John Davis, of Carrickfergus, Esq.y Henry, the third Viscount, and Jirst Earl of Drogheda, upon his father's death, was recommended by the Earl of Ormond, to succeed him in his employments; whereupon the King, by war- issue, to his executors, to discharge out of the first yearly profits, all his Jebts, fu- neral expenses, and legacies; remainder to his brother, Randle, for life, remainder of part to the Lady Jane Moore, his wife; remainder of the whole to the said Randle; and in case he left females, ioool. to be raised thereout if one daughter, and 1800I. if more than one; remainder to such person as should be second son of his brother, Henry, Earl of Drogheda, and his heirs male ; remainder to the said Earl, his executors, administrators, and assigns. Appointed his brother, Randle, and Lady Jane his wife, executors ; gave to his dear brother, Adam Moore, all his (1649), arrears, and the bond of Anthony Townly and George Gregory, for 500 1. and gave his ten months arrears to be disposed of by his brother, Randle, to his servants. (Lodge, and Prerogative Office.) 11 Decree in Chancery, 1657. x In a decree, dated 2d July, 1695 (No. 7), she is said to be about six months pld at her father's death, but afterwards, in the same decree, she is said to have at- tained the age of sixteen years on 15th January, 1659 ; which proves her to b« horn 15th January, 1643. (Collections.) v See Lord Graaard, patest. LORD MOORE. 23 rant, dated at Oxford, 8th October, and by commission2 at Dub- lin, 13th January, 1034, gave him his troop of horse, and the government of the counties of Meath and Louth, the barony of Slane, and town of Dundalk, all the forces and inhabitants within the same, power to execute martial law, and the fee of 10s. ster- ling a day, from the date of the commission. On llth January, 1(542-3, he was chosen one of the commissioners, to receive the propositions of the Irish confederate recusants; and in 1045, re- pairing to the court in England, the King (he being under age), favoured him with a special livery of his estate. In 1647, upon the surrender of the government to the English parliament, he had the command of a regiment given him, with which, in l6lgt he helped to reduce the kingdom: his estate was afterwards se- questered by the parliament; but, upon his petition, 8th April, 1653, he was permitted to enjoy one full third part thereof, and to receive the issues and profits till further order, paying contri- bution and other country charges; also, upon his further setting forth, that his estate was extended for the satisfaction of a debt to Walter Burrowes, and others, and liable to several other bur- thens, whereby he was reduced, and like to continue in a very sad and distressed condition, without any manner of relief for the support of himself and family; the government, 10th October, 1653, ordered, that his house of Mellefont, the park, with the deer therein, and 309 acres of land, in such places next adjoining and lying close together, as he should chuse, should be exempted from the power of such extents, for the maintenance of himself and family. And further, upon his petition touching a composi- tion for his estate, an order of reference was directed, 10th Ja-» nuary, 1(354, to the commissioners general of the revenue, requiring them to consider thereof; who returned, that the total of his yearly estate did amount to 40S71. 15 s. and that the yearly quit- 2 The commission runs thus: To our right trusty and well beloved cousin> Henry, Lord Moore, Lord Viscount of Diogheda, greeting. Know ye, that we being most tenderly sensible of the great loss we sustain in the person of our cousin Henry-Charles, Viscount Moore, your father, late slain in our service, whose un* fortunate death is not more truly lamented in these kingdoms than by ourself, who have taken special notice of his worth and valour: and we conceiving it fit, as an expression of our valuation of so noble and deserving a personage, to take into our royal care you, the now Lord Viscount Moore, his son, who hath here given us proof of your zeal to our service, and hopefulness to become a true follower of your said father's steps and worth, to succeed him in the charge he bore in this king- dom ; have, for the reasons aforesaid, and for your encouragement to do us like ac~ ceptable services, constituted, &c. 21 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. rents payable thereout were 6111. 3 s. 6d. that he might be ad-* mitted to compound for the remainder, being 34761. lis. 6d. at two years purchase, amounting to 6Q53). 3s. And his Lordship returning his personal estate to be worth 2001, only, he was to pay 201. for that by way of fine, for which he had an order of composition, 5th February, to pay the same as follows; viz. 20001. on 1st August, 1054} 20001. 1st February, 1 655; 20001. 1st August, l6o6; and 9/31. 3s. at or before the end of two years from 1st February, 1654. January 20th, 1(556, he was made C. Rot. of the county of Louth ; after the restoration (IQth February, 1660), Captain of a troop of horse, Governor of Drogheda, and of the aforesaid county; and for his services and affections to the King and his country, was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Drogheda, by patent dated 14th June, l66l. In the parliament of that year, 1st July, his Lordship, with others, was appointed to take into consideration the smallness of the salaries of the judges, and masters of the chancery, and the fees of the several officers of the courts, and to report what regulations were fit to be made. On the 17th, he reported that the committee found the fees of the judges and masters in chancery to be inconsiderable, and therein had made such an addition as might make their mainte- nance comfortable, and answerable to that dignity and trust which his Majesty had given unto them. On the 23d, be was joined with the Lords Howth and Kingston, to join with a committee of the House of Commons, in a request to the L. Lieutenant for licence to transplant wool into England as formerly, in order to remedy the great inconveniencies that arose to the trade of Ire- land, by obstructing the same.a On 22d May, 1662, he was one of the Commissioners entrusted for satisfying the personal arrears of the commissioned officers who had served the Kins:s Charles I. and II. in Ireland, before 5th June, 1049, as he was again 26th October, 1675; and 20th October, 1663, made C Rot. of the county of Louth.b a Lords Journals, 1. 25$. 263. 266. b Thtee thousand acres of profitable lands in the baiony of Dund ilk, having been granted by the usurped powers to Robert Reynolds, of the Middle Temple, Esq. and the King highly resenting the many loyal and faithful services of his Lordship and his father, held himself concerned in honour and justice, to grant him some marks of his grace and favour; and therefore, 19th September, 1663, granted to him and his heirs all the said premises, wherein were contained, the castle, town, and lands of Balhegan, at the yearly rent of 39 1. is, 2d. LORD MOORE. 25 His Lordship married Alice/ fifth daughter of William, Lord Spencer, of Worm-Leighton (sister to Henrv, created Earl of Sunderland), by the Lady Penelope Wriothesley his wife, eldest daughter of Henry, Earl of Southampton, and sister to Earl Tho- mas, Lord High Treasurer of England/ who died in ~\QQJ ',- and deceasing 11th January, 16/5, had issue three sons, and three daughters; viz. First, Charles; and, Second, Henry, successive Earls of Drog-* lied a. Third, William-Hamilton Moore, Esq. (who married Eliza- beth, second daughter of Francis Lennard, Lord Dacre of the South, and widow of William, the third Earl of Meath, by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth, born 4th June, 1(568.) Lady Alice (first married in May 1667, to Henry Hamilton, Earl of Clanbrassil, who died in January 1675; secondly, in 1676, to John, Lord Bargany, of Scotland; by neither of whom she had issue, and died in Roscommon-House, Dublin, 26th December, 1677.) Lady Mary (married, first, to "William Ramsay, the third Earl of Dalhousie; secondly, to John, the second Lord Ballenden, both Peers of Scotland; and, thirdly, to Samuel Collins, Esq. M. D. who left her a widow in April 171O, she deceasing 1/th March, 1725.) Lady Penelope, who married Randal, Lord Slane, and lies bu- ried in the east chapel of the Hermitage, on the south side of the town of Slane, over the banks of the Boyne, under a large raised tomb, on which are engraven the arms of her father and mo- ther.6 c After the troubles of 1688 were ended, her Ladyship preferred a petition to King William, setting forth, that she had lost the benefit of her jointure, being 1000 1. a year for three years, the less of which, being all she had to live on, had reduced her to a very low condition, and prayed to have a giant of such debts as were due to her grandson, Lord Slane, when she was his guardian, out of the estates of Randal, Marquess of Antrim, and Sir John Fleming, Knt. whereupon, she had a grant, 15th October, 1^94, of 20C0I. out of the said debts, upon the report of Sir Richard Levinge, Solicitor General (to whom her petition was refer- red), that she had lost upwards of 2500 1. and that the said Lord Slane, being in- dicted and outlawed of high treason, his real estate was granted to Godart, Earl of Athlone ; but not the personal estate. (Lodge.) d Decree dated 2d July, 1695, No. 7. e And this inscription : This is the coat of Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda, and Dame Alice Spencer his wife, whose daughter, Penelope Moore, is second 26 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Charles, the second Earl of Drogheda, was appointed, January 2d,f 1676, C. Rot. of the county of Louth ; and married in l66g,z- Letilia-Isabella, daughter of John Robartes, Earl of Radnor, then Lord Robartes, Baron of Truro, and L. L. of Ireland, by whom he had two daughters; Isabella, buried at St. Bride's, Dublin, Sth July, 1673; and Alice, buried there 18th October, 1664; and his Lordship dying in Dublin, 18th June, 1679,11 without surviv- ing issue by her (who remarried with William Wycherley, Esq. the Dramatic Poet), his brother Henry became the third Earl of Drogheda. He assumed the surname of Hamilton, as heir to the Earl of Clanbrassil,' and be- fore his succession to the honours, lived at Tully, in the county of Kildare. In King Charles II's reign he was a comet of horse, and 3d July, 1679, made C. Rot. of the counties of Louth and Meathj as he was, 1st April, 1686, of Meath and the Queen's County, by King James II. of whose Privy-council he was sworn 28th February, 1684; and by whose parliament, in 16S9, he was attainted, and had his estate sequestered. After the Prince of Orange's landing in England, his Lordship and the Earl of Ros- common were appointed Colonels to raise men for the service of Ireland, and at the taking of Carrickfergus, 26th August, 1689, wife to Randal, Lord Baron of Slane. The said Dame Alice Spen- cer, was daughter to William, Lord Baron of Worm-Layton (whose son being killed at Newbury, in his Majesty's service, was before, by Charles I. his said Majesty,'created Earl of Sunderland.) Mother to the said Dame Alice, was Penelope Wriothesley, daugh- ter of Henry, Earl of Southampton, whose brother, Thomas, Earl cf Southampton, son to the said Henry, was created Lord High Treasurer of England, and died anno 1667. This monument was erected by Randal, Lord Baron of Slane, married, first, to Elenor Barnewall, who here is interred, daughter to Sir Richard Barne- wall, of Crickstown, Knt. and Bart, and after to the Lady Pene- lope Moore, daughter to Henry Moore, Earl of Drog- heda, anno 1667. f Rot. Can. 290 Car. II. 4*. pars. f. S Articles dated 28th October, 1669, whereby St. Mary's abbey and lands, to the value of 800 1. per annum, were settled as a jointure; 4000I. being his wife?3 fortune; 200, 21° Car. II. 3a. p. f. R. 44. h Decrees, 2d July, 1695, No. 7. 1 Henry, Earl of Clanbrassil, by his will, dated 27th March, 1664, devised all his feal estate to his wife, and her heirs; which she bequeathed to her brother, Henry, Earl of Drogheda; who, after an expensive law-suit, sold his interest therein, by deeds of lease and release, dated 17th and 18th February, 1679, for 2400 1. to Sir Hans Hamilton, Bart, and James Hamilton, of Bangor, Esq. LORD MOORE. 27 commanded a regiment of foot, with which he was at the battle of the Boyne; 9th August, 169O, he led the advance-guard on the first approach of the army to the siege of Limerick, when discovering some of the enemy on the top of a hill, three miles distant from the town, he drove them under the very walls; and at the general attack (the 27th), half his Lordship's grenadiers entered the breach, and were actually in the town, but the regi- ments appointed to second them, having no orders to proceed far- ther than the counterscarp, stopped there; by which means the Irish, who were running from the walls, seeing but a few men enter, rallied, and beat the grenadiers back with great loss; 30th of that month the siege was raised, and the King departing for England, his Lordship was sworn (1st December), one of his Privy-council, and on the following day he signed the proclama- tion, forbidding any trade to be carried on with France, or any correspondence to be hoklen with the French King or his subjects. He took his seat in parliament 5th October, l6g2.k The company of the Royal Fishery of Ireland being incorpo- rated, 3d March, 1691, consisting of a governor, deputy governor, and twelve committees, to be called the courts of assistants of the said company, his Lordship was one of the first members thereof;1 and 10th July, 1696, was constituted one of the L.J. of the king- dom; he continued in the command of his regiment, until the disbanding of it in 1698, when the King ordered the colonels of the disbanded regiments to have 8 s. a day, in consideration of their faithful service. In 1699, his Lordship, Francis Annesley, John Trenchard, James Hamilton, Henry Langford, Sir Francis Brewster, and Sir Richard Levinge, were constituted commission- ers to take account of the forfeited estates in Ireland; for his ser- vices in which capacity, the sum of 10001. was given him (7th March), by the Commons of England. He was again sworn one of the L.J. 4th April, 17OI, as he was a third time, 22d De- cember that year, and was of the Privy-council to Queen Anne. In July 1675, he married Mary,™ second daughter of Sir John Cole, of Newland, near Dublin, Bart, sister to Arthur, Lord Ra- nelagh; made his will, 25th May, 1713, and dying 7th June, k Lords journals, I. 447. 1 June 29th, 1693, he had the grant of a Friday market and four fairs, to be held at Tully, in the county of Kildare, upon 17th March, 15th July, 6th October, and 21st December, at the yearly rent of twenty shillings. w MS. pedigree. 2S PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. 1714, had issue by her, who died in Dublin, 10th May, 1726, eight sons, and two daughters; viz. First, Charles, Lord Moore, heir apparent. Second, Arthur, baptized 25th April, 16/8, died without issue. Third, Rev. Dr. Henry Moore, baptized 1 lth February, 1681, was Rector of Malpas and Wilmslow, in Cheshire, and married Catharine, only daughter of Sir Thomas Knatchbull, of Mersham- Hatch, in Kent, Bart, widow of Sir George Rooke, Vice-admiral of England, and by her (who died in London, 19th August, 1755), he had three sons, and one daughter; viz. First, Henry, born in 1709, who died in 1/30. Second, Thomas Moore, born in 1716, D.D. (of Slow Hall, county of Norfolk, and Rector of Framp- ton-Cotterell, in the county of Gloucester, who, 15th May, 1/53, married the daughter of William Lay, of Downham, in Norfolk, Esq.) Third, John, who was an Admiral, and created an Eng- lish Baronet, March 4th, l/66.n And Mary, married in December 1759, to Rev. Poulter Forrester, grandson of James Forrester, Esq. of Bradtield, Berks, and died March 27th, 1799. Fourth, Rev. Dr. John Moore, was presented, 30 November* 1708, to the vicarage of St. Catharine, Dublin, and 27th Novem- ber, 1713, appointed chaplain to the House of Commons. In January 17O8, he married Elizabeth, younger daughter of Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, widow of Edward Devenish, Esq. and died 1st June, 17 16, having had issue by her, who died 26th September, 1741, two sons, and three daughters; viz. Henry, born 9th April, 1710; John, who died suddenly in May 1744; Mary, born 2d April, 1711, died the 4th; Mary, bu- ried at St. Catharine's, 3d July, 1715; and Mary, married 21st August, 1735, to Skeffington-Randal Smith, Esq. son and heir to Dr. Edward Smith, Bishop of Downe and Connor, who left her a widow, 23d October, 1J48. Fifth, William Moore, of Ardee, alias Moore-Hall, in the county of Louth, Esq. chosen in October 1715, member of par- liament for Ardee, and 1719, was Sheriff of the said county. In March 1/17/ he married Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Edward Parkinson, of Ardee, and sister to Robert Parkinson, Esq. Coun- sellor at law, and dying 1st April, 1732, was buried in the church n See Kimber's Baronetage, III. 227. His eldest daughter married Sir Charles Bampfylde, Bart. • Articles, dated 23d, 24th March. LORD MOORE. %q of Ardee, leaving one son, Henry, who married the daughter of Smyth, Esq. and one daughter, Mary. Sixth, Robert, member for the county of Louth, and borough of Belfast, in the parliaments of Queen Anne and King George I. who i1 married the Lady Anne Lennard, youngest daughter, and at length heir to Thomas, Earl of Sussex, and Lord Dacre (who died in 1715), afterwards Baroness Dacre, widow of Richard Lennard Barret, of Bell-House, in Essex, Esq. and also widow of Henry, Lord Teynhamj by her he had issue one son, Henry. Seventh, Capel, baptized 20th October, 1(X)3, was chosen to parliament for Bangor, in October 1 /13 ; married the Lady Mary Powlet, daughter of Charles, Duke of Bolton (by his second wife), and widow of Charles Q'Neile, of Edenduffecarrick, in the county of Antrim, Esq. (who died in 1716), and had one son, and two daughters. Eighth, Edward, baptized lGth January, 1(X)4, was buried at St. Michan's, 5th October following. Daughter, Lady Alice, baptized 2pth December, lfj/9, was married 11th September, \6g7, to Sir Gustavus Hume, of Castle- Hume, in the county of Fermanagh, Bart, and died 13th April, 1750. Lady Elizabeth, baptized 29th March, 1686, and married 24th January, 1704, to George Rochfort, of Gaullstown, Esq. whose widow she died 30th March, I'JZQ, and was there buried, leaving a son, George, created Earl of Belvedere. Charles, Lord Moore, the eldest son, baptized 1st December, j67o> was member of parliament for Drogheda, in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne; married, 24th August, l6gg, Jane, daughter and heir to Arthur, Viscount Loftus, of Elye; and dying 21st May, 1714, a few days before his father, was buried at Mellefont, having had three sons. First, Henry, ivho succeeded his grandfather. Second, Edward, who succeeded his brother. Third, Charles, who died an infant. Henry, the jourth Earl of Drogheda, born 7*h October, 1700, took his seat igth of that month, 1721, in the house of Peers, and was member in the English parliament, which met 5th P See a pardon granted to him for this marriage (she being a Papist), dated at Westminster, 3d Febuary, 1726, enrolled 6th June, 1727, A0 13 George I. j. p. D. 1 Lords Jour. II. 702. 30 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. June, 1^22, for Caraelford, in Cornwall. He married, llth Fe- bruary, 1719, Charlotte, eldest daughter of Hugh Boscawen, Lord Viscount Falmouth, and by her (who was born in 1/02, died 4th April, 1745, and was buried at Twickenham, in Mid- dlesex), had an only daughter, who died an infant. Departing this life 28th May, 1727, he was succeeded by his brother, Edward, thejifth Earl of Drogheda, who was born in 1/01 ; he took his seat in the house of Peers 2Sth November, 1727/ was called into his Majesty's Privy-council in May 1748, and was Governor of the county of Meafh. In 1727, his Lordship married to his first wife, Lady Sarah Ponsonby, eldest daughter of Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough, and by her, who was born in March 1711, died in Dublin, 19th January, 1730, and was in- terred at Monasterevan/ had four sons, and one daughter 5 viz. First, Henry, Lord Moore, born 1st May, 1728, and died at Toulose, in France, in August 1752. Second, Charles, Lord Moore, who succeeded his father. Third, Ponsonby, who was made a Lieutenant 25th February, 1750, and in January 1753, a Captain, in the room of his bro- ther, Charles, Lord Moore, who resigned, and afterwards one of the commissioners of the Barrack-board. In November 1768, he married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen, Lord Kilworth; she died at Bath, in August 1777; and in April 17SI, he married, secondly, Catharine, sister to Frederick Trench, of Wood-Lawn, county of Galway, Esq. Fourth, Edward Loftus, born 29th December, 1736, entered into Holy Orders, and was Chaplain to the House of Commons, drowned 1758. The daughter, Lady Sarah, married 13th August, 1748, to William Pole, of Ballyfin, in the Queen's County, Esq.1 His Lordship married, secondly, 30th September, 1737," Bridget, daughter of William Southwell, Esq. brother to Thomas, the first Lord Southwell; and by her, who died at Bath, 27th July, l/6l, had issue, two sons, and two daughters. Fifth, William, born llth December, 1742, and died 8th August, 1762. Sixth, Robert, born 12th December, 1743, an officer in the array, married Margaret, daughter of James Stephenson, of Kil- r Lords Journals, III. 2. s Reg. Par. Mon. Evan, t See Lord Wellesley, Vol. VIII. « Registry, St. Andrew. LORD MOORE. 31 deigh, in the county of Down, Esq. and had issue, Sarah-Henri- etta, married, in 1798, William French, Esq. brother of Lord Ashtoun; Frances ; and Elizabeth-Richarda. The daughters were, Lady Lucy, born Oth May, 1/39; and Lady Alice, in October 1/40, who died young. His Lordship, in his passage from England to Dublin, was unfortunately lost, 28th October, 1/58, together with his fourth son, the Rev. Edward Loftus, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Charles, the sixth Earl of Drogheda, first Marquis of Drog- heda, and first Lord Moore, of England, who was born 2Qlh June, 1/30, and is Colonel of the eighteenth regiment of light dragoons, which he raised; and a General in the army, October 25th, 1/93. He is also Governor of Meath, and of King's and Queen's Counties, and Constable of Maryburgh castle. He took his seat in parliament ]Gth October, 1759,x 12th Jan. same year, was appointed Governor of the county of Meath, and in December 17O9, Governor and Custos-Rotulorum of the Queen's County; his Lordship is a member of his Majesty's Privy-council in Ireland; and on the institution of the most illustrious order of St. Patrick, had the honour of being nominated by the Sovereign, to be one of the original knights companions of that order, and with the other knights was installed in St. Patrick's cathedral, 17th March, 1783. February 15th, 1/00, he married Lady Anne Conway, eldest daughter of Francis, Earl of Hertford, then L. L. of, Ireland; she was born 1st August, 1744, and died 4th November 1784. On June 27th, 1701, his Lordship was raised to a Marquisate, by the title of Marquis of Drogheda. His Lordship had issue by the above Lady Anne his wife, First, Charles, Lord Moore, born 23d August, 1770. Second, Lord Henry, Captain in the Warwickshire militia. Third, Lady Isabella, born 22d November, 1700, deceased in June 1787. Fourth, Lady Elizabeth-Emily, born March 14th, 1771, mar- ried February 2d, 1797, George Frederick, Earl of Westmeath. Fifth, Lady Mary, born August 17th, 1772, married October 2d, 1791, Alexander Stewart, Esq. only brother of Robert, Earl of Londonderry. Sixth, Lady Gertrude. Seventh, Lady Alice, born September 177O, died 1789. x Lords Journals, IV. 14S. 32 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Eighth, Lady Anne died February 1/88. Ninth, Lady Frances, married in 1800, the Right Hon. John Ormsby Vandeleur. On January 13th, 1801, his Lordship was raised to the British Peerage, by the title of Lord Moore, of Moore- Place, in Eng- land. Titles. Charles Moore, Marquis and Earl of Drogheda, Vis- count Moore, of Drogheda, and Baron Moore, of Mellefont; also Baron Moore, of Moore-Place, in England. Creations. Baron Moore, of Mellefont, in the county of Louth, 20th July, l6Sl, 14 Jac. I.j -Viscount Moore, of Drogheda, 7th February, 1621, 1() Jac. I.j Earl of Drogheda, 14th June, l66l, 13 Car. II.; Marquis of Drogheda, June 27th, 1791; and Baron Moore, of Moore-Place, in England, January 13th, 1801. Arms. Azure, on a chief indented, Or, three mullets pierced, Gules. Crest. In a ducal coronet, Or, a Moor's head, proper, wreathed about the temples, Argent and Azure. Supporters Two greyhounds, Argent. MottO. FoRTIS CADERE, CEDERE, NON POTEST. Seat. Moore-abbey, six miles from Kiidare, and thirty from, Dublin. LORD LOFTUS. 33 LOFTUS, LORD LOFTUS. [Marquis of Ely, in Ireland] The paternal name of the late Marquis of Ely was Tottenham, which he exchanged for that of Loftus, in right of his mother, who became the heiress of that noble family, in whom the Irish peerage was several times extinct, and revived. The noble family of Loftus is descended from Edward Loftus, of Sivineshead, in Yorkshire, who had issue two sons ; viz. First, Robert, ancestor to the first Viscounts Ely. Second, Adam, Archbishop of Dublin, ancestor (in the female line), to the present Peer. Robert Loftus, eldest son, had three sons. First, Robert, Serjeant at Law, who died September 5th, J 602. Second, Adam, created Lord Elye. Third, Francis, who, 22d February, l6og, had a pension of 2s. a day. He died July ]4th, 1629, having issue by his wife, Isabella, daughter of William Usher, Clerk of the Council (who was buried at Christchurch, in November 1597L two sons, and six daughters ; viz. Arthur, Adam, Mary, Jane, Margaret, Alice, Eleanor, and Anne. Adam Loftus, first Viscount Elye, second son of Robert, was created LL.D. made Judge of the Marshal-court, 17th Septem- ber, 1597, and 8th November, 1598, a Master in Chancery; was knighted in the reign of King James I. and in 1603, was made Keeper of the Great Seal, appointed of Council to the Earl ofThomond, President of Munster; represented theKiDg's County VOL. IX. D 31 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. in parliament; was called into his Majesty's Privy-council j and 13th May, 1619, constituted Lord High Chancellor of Ire- land ; in which office his conduct was so acceptable to the King, that he rewarded his services and merits with the title of Viscount Lojtus of Ely e, by privy seal dated at Westminster, 23d April,a and by patent 10th May, 1(322, on 4th of which month he was appointed one of the L. J. and being continued in his post of Lord Chancellor by King Charles I. 11th April, 1625, was again L.J. of the kingdom in 1629 and 1(33(3. On the breaking out of the rebellion, his Lordship signed the proclamation 23d October, l64l, notifying the discovery thereof, and requiring all men to stand upon their defence; but before 5th February following, he lost by the rebels to the value of 83301. and 210(31. a year, and leaving the kingdom to avoid the storm, died at Midlam, in Yorkshire, and was buried in the church of Corkham. He married Sarah,, daughter of Bathow, and widow of Richard Meredyth, Bishop of Leighlin, and by her, who died 1st August, 1(350, had issue four sons, and two daughters. First, Sir Robert, the eldest son, was knighted by the L. D. St. John; he married Eleanor, eldest daughter and coheir to Francis, son of Sir Francis Ruish, of Castle Jordan, Knt. who died 18th November, 1 629, and he deceasing at Mellefont, 11th October, 1(340, before his father, was buried in St Patrick's cathe- dral, Dublin; having issue by her, who died 27th May, 1630, one son, and one daughter; viz. Henry, who died young, 9th November, 1640, before his grandfather. And, Anne, born in 1626, became heir, and was married to Richard Lennard Barrett, of Bell-house, in the county of Essex, Esq. to whom she carried a considerable estate at Clounes, in the county of Monaghan; she died 4th April, 1659, and was buried at St. a There is no preamble to the patent, but the privy seal we insert verbatim 5 " Among others of our best deserving subjects in that kingdom, we have for m ny years together, taken especial notice of the faithful and industrious ser- vices performed, in many kinds, by our right trusty and well beloved Sir A. Loftus, Knt. our Chancellor of that our realm; and in a gracious consideration of his nvrirs, we are pleased out of our goodness and favourable respects to him, to look beyond himself, and to add to that eminent office of Chancellor, which we have bestowed upon him, such a title of honour as may descend upon his posterity, for hissak"; that thereby his virtues may be recorded to future ages, so long as there shall remain an heir male of his house." (Rot. anno 20 Jac. I. 1a. p. d. R. 9. both privy seal and patent.) LORD LOFTUS. 35 Audoen's Dublin, having had issue by him, who died in l6g5, Dacre, who married Jane, daughter of Arthur, Earl of Donegd, and from him descended the Lord Dacre, of Bell-house, in Es- sex; a daughter, Anne, married to Carew Mildmay, of Mark's- Hall, in Essex; and Richard and Dorothy, who died unmarried. Second, Edward, the second son of the Lord Chancellor, suc- ceeded to the title. Third, George, the third son, died 12lh May, l6GO. Fourth, Francis, the fourth son, died 1st December, l6'2g.h The daughters were, Lettice,c first married to Lieut. -Colonel Philip Fernley; and, secondly, to Nathaniel Desborough; and the younger daughter, Alice, married Charles, Earl of Drogheda, and carried the Elye estate into that family. Edward, the eldest surviving son, and second Viscount Elye, was, 26th May, 1664, made Cust. Rot. of the county of Kildare; married Jane, daughter and coheir to Arthur Lyndley, of Midlam- Castle, in Yorkshire, Esq. and dying on Easter-Day, 11th April, lt)SO, aet. 82, was buried 22d of that month in the chancel of the church of Monaster Evan,d having issue by her (who died 1-ith November, 1014, and was buried with him, having made her will 27th October, proved 23d November, 10S4, and bequeathed JOOl. to her daughter, Kirk, and the like sum to her daughter, Alice Fernley; 201. to the poor of the parish of Monaster-Evan, and left her son, Arthur, Viscount Elye, executor and legatee) ;e one son, Arthur, who succeeded to the title. And two daughters; Sarah, who was first married to Charles Kirk, and had issue a son, Charles/ she became afterwards the wife of Henry Townley, of Athclare, in the county of Louth, Esq. And the second daughter, Alicia/ married to her first cousin, Henry, son of the aforesaid Philip Fernley, by whom she had the Rev. Philip Fernley, of Monaster-Evan, who having no surviving issue by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Justice Ward, devised his estate by will, dated 30th January, 1731, to Jane, born in 171 1 (daughter of his sister, Jane, wife of Colonel John Tichbume),, and her heirs; remainder to Charles and Ponsonby, younger sons of Edward, Earl of Drogheda, and their heirs respectively. b Ulster's office. c Cromwell's Rolls, 2a. p. D.R. 1, «• Rot. Cant. 16 Car. II. 3d p. f. Parish Registry of Monaster-Evan, e W. { Rot. Pat. de anno 33 Car. II. 23, p. d, 8 Ulster's Office. 36 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND Arthuk, the third Viscount Elye, married, first, Douglas, daughter and heir to William Savage, of Castle-Rheban, in the county of Kildare, Esq. but had no issue by her, who was in- terred at Monaster- Evan; secondly, in December, 1676, Anne, daughter of William Hawkins, Esq. aunt to the late Sir William Hawkins, Ulster King of Arms, and widow of Sir Andrew Owens, Knt. who was drowned in a boat nearSutton, county of Dublin; and by her, who died 17th March, 1/02, and was buried at St. Werburgh's, Dublin, in her father's vault, had issue two sons, and a daughter; viz. First, Edward, who died young. Second, Arthur, who died 3d September, l6gg, and was bu- ried at Monaster Evan. And, Jane, the daughter, was married to Charles, Lord Moore, an- cestor to the Marquis of Drogheda. His Lordship married, lastly, 2d April, 1702, Letitia, sister to Hercules Rowley, of Summer-hill, in Meath, Esq. and dying 6th November, 1725, ast. S2, was buried 16th, in the family vault; and having no issue by her, who remarried with Nicholas Loftus, of Loftns-Hall, Esq. after created Lord Loftus, the estate devolved on Henry, the fourth Earl of Drogheda,11 in right of his mother. We return now to Adam Loftus, second son of Edward, of Swines-head aforesaid, which Adam was born at Swines-head, and receiving a liberal education in the University of Cambridge, by a more than ordinary allowance for his support in his studies, he appeared to advantage before Queen Elizabeth, at a public act, by performing his part as a florid orator and subtle disputant, which so engaged her Majesty's approbation of his early abilities, joined to a comely person and address, that she encouraged him to proceed in the course of his studies, by a gracious promise of his speedy preferment. Accordingly, her Majesty soon after sent bim to Ireland, in quality of Chaplain to Thomas, Earl of Sussex', L. L. where his first provision was the Rectory of Painstown. in the diocese of Meath, to which he was presented 8th October, 1561 (3 Eliz), and by privy seal, dated 30th of that month, was nominated to the Archiepiscopal See of Armagh (being styled therein Professor of Divinity), but did not receive his mandate for consecration and investiture until 20th of January, 1562-3, which was then dated at Westminster, and his writ for restitution to the * l/lster's Office arjtl Lodge, edit, ^54, I. 331, 332. LOP.D LOFTUS. 37 temporalities 3d March following. By privy seal, dated at West- minster 6th Jan. 150*4-5, the Queen directed, that he should hold the Deanery of St.Patrick's incommendam; and by patent, bearing date 8th August, 156",' he was translated to the See of Dublin, having a little before taken the degree of D. D.; was made Keeper of the Great Seal, 25th March, 1573, during pleasure, and again in 1577; being constituted Lord Chanceilor of the kingdom, 22d June, 1578, in which high office he continued to his death. i In which year, before his translation to Dublin, he obtained the following patent for bearing aims: Omnibus procenhus et praedaris et nobilibus viris, ad quos persentes literae pervenerint, salutem. Nicholaus Narbon, alias Ulvester. principalis Heraldus et Rex Armorum totius Regni Hiberniae cum debita com- mendatione Nobilitatae vestrae constare non dubito, quomodo equitas exigit eC ratio dictat, quod homines virtuosi laudabilis dispositionis et vitas honorabilis Sint propter eorum famam et condigna rrerita honorati et remunerati, non solum in eorum propriis personis, dum hac fruuntur caduca et transitoria vita, qua: cum licet quam brevis sir, memoria tamen ipsius propter prseclaia gesta farinora quam legum efficere par est, verumetiam aliis ex eorum corporibus procreati sint in quolibet loco honoris signorum et exemplorum. Ac turn Nobilitas et etiam hu- manitatis demonsuatior.e prse cseteris honorandi et extollendi, ea vizi, intentione, ut per eorum exempla, eorum pcsteii et alii magig conentur vitam suam validis- simorum armorum aetibus operibusque clarisSimis exercere. Et quia Adamus Loftus, S.T.P. Archiepiscopus Armachaniae totiusque Hibcrniae primas, propter ejus varias virtutes ad tantam functionem dignum existimaverunt et elegerunt, adeooue justum et aequum videtur, ipsum inter alios prcceres et virtuosos homines "honorandum numerandumque esse, cum tanta honoris longEva functi ipsum ad eundem effectum exaltat et decorat de generosis infamatis Familia et ab antique Armis decoratus ex Armorum Registris descendisse constat ; tamen cum sit in- certus sub quibus modo et forma, aut utrum secundum armorum leges progeni- tors Stii arma sua gestabant, atque propter hoc nolens alicui geneiosi v;l homini nobili pra?judicare, me praed. Ulster instanter applicari, et ei arma et insignia, quae ipse et hieredes sui posthac absq. alicujus prsejudlcio gestare possit, connecta et debito ordinata assignare vellem. Egoque dictus Ulster Armorum Rex, hanc suam petitionem fore justam et rationi corisonantem debite consideravi, auctcri- tateDominse nostras Reginrs qua in hac parte fungor, et virtute suarum litera- rum patentium mihi in hac parte concessaruriij quibus me principalem Heral- dum et Armorum Regem totius Regni sui Hiberniae constituit et deputavit, con- cessi et ordonavi, sicut per praesentes concede et ordino eidem Adamo Loftus ipsum Haeredesq. suos arma sequnitia gestare et portaie, viz. crucem auratam guttis sanguinis aspersam inter quatuor pellicanos pectora sua vulnerantcs et san- guinen. suum fundentes in C2mpo azurato. Habendum et tenendum dicto Adamo Loftus et haeredibus et posteris suis cum decentibus differentiis eis pertinentibus haec arma vel insignia de caetero uti et gaudere in perpetuum. In cujus rei testi- monium ego prsedictus Ulster principalis Heraldus et Armorum Rex totius Regni Hiberniae prsesentes literas tarn Sigillo Armorum meorum, quam Sigillo officii mei et manus mese subscriptione corroborayi, (Collect.J 33 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. He hnd the honour to be four times one of the Chief Gover- nors of Ireland, viz. in the years 1582, 1585, 15Q7, and 15pyj and having had a large share in the foundation of Trinity College, near Dublin, was, by the charter, appointed the first Provost thereof, which he resigned 5th June, 15Q4, with the Queen's li- cence, wherein her Majesty expressed her great satisfaction in his administration. His Grace departed this life, at his palace of St. Sepulchre^ Dublin, 5th April, 1605, St. 72, or 74, and was buried in St. Patrick's church, within the rails of the altar, on the right hand of the Earl of Cork's monument. He married Jane, eldest daugh- ter of Adam Purdon, of Lurgan-Race, in the county of Louth, Esq. (by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Little, of Thornchill, Esq.), and by her, who was buried in the said church 21st July, 15Q5, had twenty children} of whom eight died young, and the survivors were, First, Sir Dudley Loftus, of Rathfarnham, near Dublin, a stately castle, built by his father, of whom hereafter. Second, Sir Edward Loftus, appointed Serjeant at Law 1st November, 15Q7, and knighted by Robert, Earl of Essex, L. L, 24th September, 1599; ne married Anne, daughter and coheir to Sir Henry Duke, of Castle-Jordan, in the county of Meath, Knt. and died at the siege of Kingsale, 10th May, 1001 (as appears by an inquisition taken at Trim), his Lady dying in childbirth, 6th July following, of a daughter, who died 21st of that month. Third, Adam, a Captain of horse, who was killed in the Byrne's country, six miles from Wicklow, 29th May, 1599, u'tt-" married. Fourth, Sir Thomas Loftus, of Killyan, Knt. of whom pre- sently. Fifth, Henry, a twin with Sir Thomas, died young. Daughter Isabella, was first wife to Sir William Ussher, Clerk of the Council, who was knighted on St. James's-day, 1603, by Sir George Cary, Lord Deputy; and she was buried in Christ Church, Dublin, 13th November, 1597, having had issue two sons, and six daughters; viz. Arthur, who married Judith,, daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen, Bart, was drowned at Den- nybrook, 2d March, 1628, and was ancestor to the spreading family of Ussher; Adam, who died unmarried. Daughter, Mary (married to William Crofton, Esq. and had one son, William, of Temple- House, in the county of Sligo, Esq. who married Rose, daughter of Sir John Peiton, of Nevernan, LORD LOFTUS. 39 Bart.k whose only child, Mary, carried that estate to her hus- band, George Perceval, Esq. and one daughter, Mary, first mar* ried to Silvester Kennedy, Esq. whose line is extinct;1 and, se- condly, to Sir Paul Davys, Knt. Secretary of State, whose daugh- ter and heir, Ursula, was the first wife cf Sir Francis Blundel, Bart.); Jane (married to Daniel Molyneux, Esq.); Margaret (to Sir Beverley Newcomen, Bart, whose daughter and heir, Catha- rine, was first married, 29th August, 163J, to Richard Parsons, Esq. ancestor to the late Earl of Rosse; and, secondly, to Sir Hubert Adrian Verveere, Knt.); Alice (to Sir Thomas Philips, of Newtown-Lemavady, in the county of Deny, Knt. by whom she had one son, Thomas, who died childless; and two daughters; Dorothy, married, lgth July, 1626, to William, son of Sir Lau- rence Parsons, of Birr; and Alice, to Colonel Chidley Coote, of Killester); Eleanor (to Sir Christopher Foster, Knt. Alderman of Dublin, and had three sons, and four daughters; Richard, who married Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Michael Hewetson, Treasurer of Christ Church; George and John, who both died unmarried; Margaret, first married to Walter Harding, Esq.; and, secondly, to Rev. Richard Underwood, Dean of Lismore; Rose, wife to Thomas Leman; Elizabeth and Anne, who both died unmarried); and Anne, to Sir Robert Meredyth, Knt. Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, by whom she had a numerous issue. Anne, first married to Sir Henry Colley, of Castle-Carbery, in the county of Kildare, Knt.; secondly, to George Blount, of Kidderminster, in Worcestershire, Esq. by whom she had an only daughter, Elizabeth (married, first, to Robert Blayney, of Tregonan, Esq.; secondly, to Thomas Clotwoi thy, of Ballysagart., in the county of Tyrone; and, thirdly, to Francis Clotworthy, brother to Sir Hugh, of Antrim, Knt. and by him had Hugh, John, Frances, and Mary); and, fourthly, to Edward, Lord Blayney,™ Catharine, first, to Sir Francis Berkeley, of Askeyton, in the county of Limerick, who was knighted at Kilmallock, by Robert, Earl of Essex, 2d June, 15QQ, and had one son, Sir Maurice, who married the daughter of Sir Francis Slingsby, Knt. and four daughters; Catharine, married to George Courtenay, of Powder- ham-Castle, in Devon, ancestor to the Lord Viscount Courtenay; Elizabeth, to George Crofton, of Moate, in the county of Ros- eomon, Esq. ancestor to the family of Crofton, Baronets; Frances, k Lodge, S Idem, * Idem, 40 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. first to Thomas Blayney, of Tregonan, in the county of Montgo- mery, Esq.; and, secondly, to James Purcell, of Croagh-Purcell,- in the county of Limerick, Esq.; and the youngest, to John Tay- lor, of Ballynorth, in the said county, Esq. by whom she had two sons, William and Robert.0- The said Catharine married to her second husband, Henry Berkeley, Esq. but by him she had no issue. Martha, the first wife of Sir Thomas Colclough, of Tynterne- Abbey, in the county of Wexford, Knt. and she dying 1 9th March, 1609, was buried in St. Patrick's, Dublin 3 having had four sons, and five daughters. Dorothy, to Sir John Moore, of Croghan, male ancestor to the late Earl of Charleville. Alicia, to Sir Henry Warren, of Warrenston, alias Billybrett, Knight, Governor of Offaley, and dying 15th November, 1608, without issue, was buried at Ballymac-William. Margaret, to Sir George Colley, of Edenderry, Knt. Sir Thomas Loftus, of Killyan, in the county of Meath, and of Tymoghoe, in the Queen's County, the fourth son of Arch- bishop Loftus, was made Constable of the castle of Wicklow 19th May, 1596, and knighted 24th September, 1599, by Robert, Earl of Essex. On 12th December, ](5lO, he received a grant of the monastery of Clonard, commonly called St. Peter's Abbey, with other lands, in the county of Meath, the tithes excepted, to hold by the twentieth part of a Knight's fee; which premises, with others in the county of Kildare, were confirmed to his son, 11th April, 1639, in virtue of the commission for remedy of de- fective titles. He married Ellenor (or Ellin),0 daughter of Ro- bert, and sister to Pierce Hartpole, of Carlow, and of Shrule, in the Queen's County, Esq. and deceasing at Tymoghoe, 1st De- cember, 1635, was buried the 14th in St. Patrick's church, having had four sons, and two daughters; viz. First, Sir Dudley, his heir. Second, Adam, who married Dorcas, daughter of Richard Cosby, of Stradbaliy, in the Queen's County, Esq. and had three sons; Thomas, Robert, and Adam, who all died unmarried; and three daughters; Ellen, married to Vincent Kidder, of Aghaboe, in the Queen's County, and of Rochtstown, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq.; Anne, to John Beard, of Court; and Martha, to n Lodge. 0 His will, dated 29th November, 1635, Prerog. Office. LORD LOFTUS. 41 Walter Taylor, of Rainhole, both in Queen's County, and had issue, William and Anne. Third, Edward,'' who married Mary, daughter of Bryan, of Whiteswall, in the county of Kilkenny, E>q. and had Thomas, his heir, who by Thomasine, daughter of Heywood Oxburgh, of Eovyn, in the Queen's County, Esq. had two sons, Edward and Thomas. Fourth, Francis, died unmarried. Jane, was married to John Bryan, of Whiteswall, alias Bawn- more, Esq. and had four sons, and one daughter ; James (who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Popham Soulhcote, of Boni- trany, in Devonshire, Knt. and had John, James, and Henry, who died young; Popham, Pierce, Jane, Eden, Elizabeth, and Margaret, died young : and Margaret, who arrived at maturity); Thomas; Edmond; John; and Ellinor, wife of Pierce, Viscount Ikerrin. Anne, to Francis (son of Richard), Cosby, of Stradbally, Esq. and died in November, 1&73; having issue by him, who died in 16/4, Alexander, of Stradbally, who by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Lestrange, of Moystown, in the King's County, Esq. had a numerous issue; Ellen, married, first, to Alexander Barrington, of Cullenagh, in the Queen's County, Esq.; and, secondly, to Pierce, son of Patrick Bryan, Esq. Counsellor at Law; Dorcas, to Walter Byrne; and other children. Sir Dudley Loft us, of Killyan, the eldest son, for the fine of 201. English, had a livery of his estate 13th March, l63/';ci in November, 1626, he married Cecilia/ daughter of Sir James Ware, the elder, , Auditor-General of Ireland, and died in lfj48, having issue by her, who was buried, 20th March, 1666, in the church of St. Werburgh, Dublin, one son, Thomas; and two daughters; Elizabeth, married to Jeremy Jones, of Belaghy, in the county of Sligo, Esq.; and Eleanor, first married to George Colley, of Edenderry, Esq.; secondly, to Colonel William Duck- enfkldj and, thirdly, to Sir Edward Tyrrell, of Lynn, in West- P His father's will. <3 His father being seised of the manors of Killyan and Clonarrl, the advowson of the Vicarage of Clonard, with the site of the abbey there, and other lands in the county of Meath, and having made a deed of feoffment thereof 25th Novem- ber, 1629; and Sir Dudley and his Lady having levied a fine in Trinity Term, 13 Car. I. the said alienations being made without licence, he had a pardon for the same by this patent. r Rot. anno 7 and 8 Car. I. D. being a receipt from his father to her father for her portion of ioool, dated 30th November, 1631. 42 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. fneath, who, 20th May, l68fj, was created a Baronet, with limi- tation of the honour, in default of issue male of his body, to Ed- ward Tyrrel, junior, his nephew, and his heirs male ; and by him she had an only surviving daughter, Catharine, married to Robert Edgworthe, of Longwood, in Meath, Esq. Thomas Loftus, of Killyan, Esq. married, first, Susanna, daughter of Henry Elkenhead, Esq. by whom he had two sons and three daughters; and, secondly, the daughter of Dr. Simon Digby, Bishop of Dromore, widow of John Giffard, Esq. and by her he had a son, Adam. His children by the first wife were> Dudley, his successor 3 Edward; who dying unmarried, left his estate to his nephew, Edward; Cecilia, married in lfJSl, to Wal- ter Weldon, of Rahinderry, in the Queen's County, Esq. whom she survived, without issue; Anne, to Lewis, second son of the said Jeremy Jones, Esq.; and Susannah. Dudley Loftus, of Killyan, Esq. bore a Captain's commission in Colonel Richard Coote's regiment of foot; married Anne, daughter of Thomas Smyth, of Drumcree, in Westmeath, Esq. and left issue four sons, and two daughters; viz. First, Thomas, his heir. Second, Arthur, Major to Colonel's Wolfe's regiment of footj who died at the camp of Fort George, in Scotland, 31st July, 1753, unmarried. Third, Edward Loftus, of Grange, near Monaster-Evan, in the county of Kildare, Esq. who married Lettice, daughter to Ro- bert Loftus, of the King's County, Esq. and had one son, Dudley, born in 1753, who died in England in July, l//0.s Fourth, Rev Smyth Loftus, Vicar of Coolock, in the diocese of Dublin, and Rector of St. Peter's, in Drogheda, who, in April, .1745, married Sarah, daughter of Brent Smyth, of Dublin, Esq. widow of Thomas Nevile, of Nevile's-Grove, in the county of Dublin, Esq. and died in 1782, having had issue by her, who died Qth August, 1761, Dudley, Thomas, and Alice, who all died un- married. Daughter, Susanna, married 1st August, 1730, to Joseph Ashe, of Ashefield, in Meath, Esq. member of parliament for Trim, and had four sons, and two daughters; Richard, Thomas, Joseph, Dudley, Alice, and Anne. Elizabeth, married in December, 1 731, to Laurence Steele, of Rathbride, in the county of Kildare, Esq. who left her a widow. 5 Lodge. LORD LOFTQS. 4* 6th January, 1750, with three sons, and one daughter; Laurence, Thomas, Arthur, and Mehetabel. Thomas, the eldest son, who succeeded at Killyan, served in parliament for the borough of Clonmines, and 2d May, 1734, married Alice, daughter of Robert, late Earl of Belvedere, but by her, who died 13th July, 1748, had no issue; he married, secondly, 7th December, 1750, Jane, daughter of Robert Perceval, of Knightsbrook, in the county of Meath, Esq. and died 15th January, 1768, having had issue, Dudley, now of Killyan, born 20th October, 1764; Jane; Anne, married to Ralph Smyth, of Ralphsdale, county of West- meath, Esq.; Martha; and Maria.1 "We now proceed with Sir Dudley Loftus, of Rathfarnham, Knt. eldest son of the Archbishop. He was born in 156 1 (as ap- pears by an inquisition taken at Trym, finding him heir to his brother, Sir Edward), and was knighted 15th October, 15g3, by the L. D. Fitz-William. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Bagenal, of Newry, in the county of Downe, Knt. and died in his manor-house of Killcloghan, 6th April, 1616, having issue six sons. First, Sir Adam, ancestor to the family of Viscount Lislurne, of whom presently. Second, Nicholas, of Fethard, ancestor to the Marquis of Ely. Third, William, who died a religious in Spain. Fourth, Dudley, killed in the. Isle of Rhee, unmarried. Fifth, Edward, of Ballynebamey, in the county of Wicklow, who, 10th August, 1637, in virtue of the commission for remedy of defective titles, had a grant of 650 acres of land, in the terri- tory of Ely-O'Carrol, and King's County; and died at the age of eighty-seven years, having issue by Anne, daughter of George Hartpole, of Shrule, in the Queen's County, Esq. five sons, and four daughters; Dudley, who died childless; Adam, who mar- ried Penelope, daughter of Robert Street, and had issue Henry, John, Phoebe, married to Bowdell Dewary, of London; and Anne;u Thomas; William and Arthur, who both died young; Anne, married to Cromwell West, of Monaster-Evan, and had no issue; Eleanor, to Michael Lewellin; Jane, to George Stawell; Mabel, who died young; and several other children. Sixth, Samuel, who married Mary, daughter of Nicholas J Collect. " Lodge. 44 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Bagenal, of Dunleckny, in the county of Carlow, Esq. (by his wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Colclough, by his wife, Martha, daughter of Archbishop Loft us), and had two sons, and two daughters; Dudley, who married a Russian Lady; Nicholas* who left no issue; Martha, married, first; to Thomas Davis, of Kilkenny, by whom she had Dudley, Roger, and Elizabeth, mar- ried to Mr. Wolverston; and, secondly, to Captain James Sinock, by whom she had John and James, who died young; and Eliza- beth, to Gerald Wallis, of Cullenstown, in the county of Wexford, by whom she had Bagenal, Anne, Mary, and Eleanor.x Sir Adam Loftus, of Rathfarnham, the eldest son of Sir Dudley, was twenty-six years old at his father's death, and for the fine of 172I. 8s. 8d. had a special livery of his estate 27th May, l6l8.y On 24th December, 1(524, Sir Adam Loftus and x Lodge, y On 28th June, 1613, he lwd a grant of 1000 acres of profitable land, in the territory of the Murrowes, and county of Wexford (except 20 acres in Kill- mallock, adjoining to the church there, for the glebe thereof), which were created the manor of Rathaile, with 600 acres in demesne; but surrendering the same to the Crown 19th February, 1616, he received a confirmation thereof 31st January, 1617. On the ijth June, 1 615, he and Sir John King, of Baggotrath, being Assignees of Sir Charles Wilimot, passed patent for the castle, town, and lands of Graungemagherie; the chapel called Moore-Aghrym, and the castle and lands of Tawnagh, in the county of Galway; the monastery of Cavan, in the county of Cavan; the rectory of Crewagh, in the county of Dublin; the monastery, of house of Friars Preachers, near Cork; the Franciscan Friary of Killaly, in the county of Tipperary, a Monday market, and a fair, on 1st August, at Kilkenny- West, in Westmeath; the manor of Belgree, in the counties of Dublin and Meath; the preceptory, mar.or, or lordship of Crooke, the Ferry from Passage to Ballyhack, in the county of Waterford ; the Franciscan Observant Friary of Trym, with the church, &c. thereof, in the county of Meath ; St. Laurence's church, with three houses adjoining, in Cork; the manor of Rathmore, in the county of Limerick ; a Monday market, and a fair on St. Catharine's day at Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo; the monastery, or priory of the Blessed Mary, in Ter- monfeighan; with many other lands and hereditaments in die counties of Gal- way, Mayo, Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Cork, Roscommon, Kerry, Meath, Westmeath, Waterford, Tipperary, Sligo, Queen's, Limerick, Donegal!, Ar- magh, Louth, and Wicklow, in the cities of Dublin and Cashel, and the town of Athlone. And receiving his Majesty's directions from Westminster, 18th July, 1618, to surrender all his estate, and have the same confirmed to him and his heirs by a new patent; he did so, and the patent passed the seals 20th March following, in which were comprised, among many others, the preceptory, manor} or lordship of Killcloghan, the castle of Bannowe, the manors of Rahaile and Laghorne, with many rectories in the county of Wexford, the castle, town, and and* of Rathfarnham, Oldcourte, the prebend, town, and lands of Tymothan, &c, n the county of Dublin, with a fair on Stt Peter's day, and two days following, LORD LOFTUS. 43 Richard Parsons, of Dublin, Esq. became joint Patentees (for life) in the office of Surveyor, and third Judicial Officer of the Court of Wards and Liveries, with the yearly fee of 100 marcs ; which, upon their surrender, 26th May, 1(530, was granted the next day to his brother, Nicholas Loftus, Esq. and the said Richard Par- sons, for life, with the fee of 501. English a year. On 30th May, 1627, Sir Adam Loftus, the Lord Primate, the Lord Docwra, and Sir William Parsons, were appointed Keepers of the Great Seal, during the Lord Chancellor Ely's absence in England; on 6th May, 1636, he was constituted Vice-Treasurer, Receiver-General of the Revenues, and Treasurer at War, being then sworn of the Privy-council; and 30th April, 1638, was commissioned with Sir George Radcliffe, and Sir Robert Meredyth, to inquire what of- fences, negligences, concealments, frauds, or contempts against any laws, statutes, and proclamations, or other abuses whatsoever, had been, or should be committed by any merchants, officers, or others, whereby the King, or his farmers of the revenue, had been, or should be defrauded of the customs, subsidies, and im- posts; and to punish, and bind over any persons by recognizances, or bonds, to answer the offences whereof they should be impeached before the L. D. the Privy-council, the Court of Castle Chamber, the Exchequer, or elsewhere; to commit them to prison, and dis- charge, or otherwise deal with them, as they should think fit. He married Jane, daughter of Walter Vaughan, of Golden-Grove, in the King's County, Esq. by whom he had eight sons, and nim$ daughters; viz. First, Sir Arthur, his successor. Second, Adam, who died young. at Rathfarnham ; and a fair on St. Bartholomew's day, and for two days after, at Templeton, in the county of Wexford On 3d August, 1628, he passed patent for 1000 acies of arable and pasture land, and 2648 of unprofitable mountain, wood, and bog, in the territory of Ranelagb, and county of W'tklow, to hold by the twentieth part of a Knight's fee, and the rent of 7I. English, which were erected into the manor of Knockra, with a demesne of 400 acres, courts, and other privileges. By indenture, dated 27th N^vtmber, 1637, James, Earl of Or- mond, conveyed to him and Sir Robert Meredyth, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ajad their heirs for ever, the manor, abbey, and town of Leix, the rectories, advow- sons, and presentations to the vicarages of the abbey of Leix and Clonkeine, with, other lands and tythes in the Queen's County. And, in virtue of the commission for remedy of defective titles, he received a patent of confirmation, dated 3d April, 1639, of the manors of Balljnegargie, Knockra, Ballymounton, Rossahane, and other hereditaments, in the county of Wicklow, which were created one entire rnanor, by the name of the manor of Knockra, with liberty to impark jooo acres, to hold courtSj, and to enjoy many other privileges and jurisdictions. 46 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, Third, Dudley Loftus, Esq. LL.D. educated in the Univer- sities of Dublin and Oxford, where having finished his studies, he returned tc Ireland upon the breaking out of the rebellion, and his father procuring a garrison to be placed in his castle of Rath- farnham, had the command of it given to his son, Dudley, who did good service, and defended the city from the incursions of the Irish, inhabiting the neighbouring mountains. He was a great civilian; and 24th June, 1651, appointed Deputy Judge Advocate within the province of Leinster, with the salary of 100l.z in which year he was joined with Sir Edward Bagshaw, and Mr. Wilcockes, as Commissioner^ of the Revenue, with the like sa- lary; and in 1(554, was Judge of the Admiralty, with the same annual fee; having also a pension of twenty shillings a week, and Lady Loftus ten shillings, included in an order, 25th December, 1651, issued by the Commissioners of Parliament. On 20th De- cember, 1655, he and Robert Jeoffieys, Esq. were joined in the office of Ingrosser of the great Roll of jhe Clerk of the Pipe, and chief Ingrosser of the Exchequer, for life; and that year he was made a Master in Chancery, which was renewed to him upon the restoration, with the fee of 20l. English, by patent dated 23d Ja- nuary, l660,a being made also Judge of the Prerogative Court and Faculties, and Vicar-General of Ireland, which employments he held till his death, in June, 16Q5, aet. "JJ, and he was buried in St. Patrick's church. He married Frances, daughter and heir to Patrick Nangle, Esq. eldest son of Thomas, styled Baron of Navan; and by her, who died 18th June, lfJC)l,b had two sons, and five daughters; Dudley, Adam, Mary, Jane, Letitia, Frances, and Catharine, who all died young, or unmarried, except Letitia, the wife of Mr. Bladen. Fourth, Walter, Captain-lieutenant of 0/th foot in 1540, with the pay of twenty-five shillings a day; and 30th March that year, was appointed, for life, with Henry Kenny, Esq. Clerk of the Pells and Tallies of the Exchequer, and Clerk of the Treasury there. He died unmarried. Fifth, Francis, died young, 1st December, 1629. Sixth, Richard, died unmarried. Seventh, George, died unmarried, 11th March, l660> and was buried in Christ church. Eighth, Robert. * Civil Lists in Council Off. a R0t anno 12 Car. II. 2 p. f. b Ulster's Off. LORD LOFTUS. 47 Daughter, Letitia, was the first wife of Richard Parsons, Esq. son and heir to Sir Willam Par-ons, L.J. of Ireland; and dying 26th October, 1633, was buried the 29th in St. Patrick's church. Anne, first married to Richard, son and heir to Sir Laurence Parsons, of Birr, Knt.; and, secondly, to Cain O'Hara, Esq. by whom she had two sons; Adam, who married Isabel, daughter of Sir Francis Gore, Knt.; and Charles. Elizabeth, married, first, to Nicholas (son of Matthew) Ford, of Killile3gh, in the county of Downe; and, secondly, to John Muschamp, of Drumanakelly, in the same county, Esq. and by the latter had Loftus Muschamp, who marked Mary, daughter of John Hill, of Kilmainham, near Dublin, Esq. William; Thomas; Agmondisham; Francis; Adam; Henry; and a daughter, Eliza- beth, married, first, to Rev. James Wall, of Athy; and, secondly* to John Towers, of London. Mary, married in \Qb3, to Thomas Boyd, of Dublin, mer- chant, and by him, who died in October, \6g6, had issue Thomas, who died unmarried; Adam and Charles died young; Anne; Jane; and Letitia; of whom, Letitia, the only survivor, was mar- ried, first, in July, 1682, to William, Lord Boyd, son and succes- sor to William, the first Earl of Kilmarnock; and by him, who died 20th May, 1G92, had William, the third Earl (who died 22d November, 1/17, and was father of Earl Wri liam, whose unfor- tunate engagement in the rt-bellion of 17-+6, brought him to the scaffoll); Thorn. is Boyd, Esq. Lord Advocate; and Mary, who died unmarried. In May, l6g2, she remarried with John Gar- diner, Esq. and by him had an only daughter, Charlotte-Maria. Margaret, married to Sir Walter Burrowes, of Giltown, in the county of Kildare, B3rt. and had no issue. Jane, to William Markham, E^q. and had three sons, and one daughter; Abraham, born lpth July, 1G5G; Adam, 16th July, 1657; Richard, 3d August, 1608; and Jane, married to Rev. Mr. Egan. Catharine, to Arthur Eostique, or Bostwick, Esq. and had a daughter, Mar caret. Grissel, died unmarried, 9th February, 1(5/2, and was buried in St. Patrick's church, Dublin, in her father's burial place. Sarah, married, first, to John, son of Osborne Itchingham, of Dunbrody, in the county of Wexford, Esq. by whom she had two sons, Adam and Osborne j and a daughter, Jane, heir to her bro- 48 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. thers, who was first married to Arthur, Earl of Donegal. Her second husband was Sir Thomas Dancer, Bart, and by him she had Sir Thomas and Sir Loftus Dancer, Barts. Mary and Sarah, who died )oung. Sir Arthur Loftus, of Rathfarnham, Knt. in the parliament of 1639, represented the county of Wexford ; was appointed, 24th May that year, Provost-Mareschal of the province of Ulster ; and in 1040, was Captain of 97th foot, with the pay of fifteen shillings a day, and Major of foot, at nine shillings a day (his father then commanding sixty-three carbiniers, at twenty-four shillings a day, with five spare horses, at two shillings each) ; after the rebellion commenced, he was Lieutenant-colonel to Sir Charles Coote's re- giment, and Governor of Naas; and in 1654, he had a pension, and Lady Loftus another pension of ten shillings a week, each, included in an order from the Commissioners of Parliament, dated 25th December, 1 65 1. In 1624, he married the Lady Dorothy Boyle, born 31st December, 1617, whose marriage articles bear date 4th March, 1624, she being then in the eighth year of .her age, sixth daughter of Richard, Earl of Cork, and dying 4th De- cember, 1659, was buried the l6th, in St. Patrick's church, hav- ing issue by her, who remarried with Talbot, died 26th March, 166S, and was buried with her first husband the 29th, four sons, and three daughters; viz. First, Adam, who died young. Second, Adam, created Viscount Lislurne. Third, Richard, born in \&6Q. And, Fourth, Robert, born in l6lO; both died unmarried. Daughter, Letitia, married to Thomas Coningsby, of Hampfon- 'ourt, in the county of Hereford, Esq. was rr other of Thomas, ,ord Clanbrazil, and Earl Coningsby; and of a daughter, Eliza- beth-Philippa, married to Michael Browne, of Hampton-Wafer, in the said county, Esq. Eleanor, to Theobald, Viscount Mayo. Jane, born in September, 1643, was married to Robert GorgesA of Kilbrew, in the county of Meath, Esq. LL.D. Adam Loftus, of Rathfarnham, Esq. first Viscount Lis- lurne, was appointed, 2 1st October, 1674 (upon the surrender of Henry Brounker, Esq.), Ranger and Master of the Game of the Phoenix-Park, near Dublin, and of all the King's Parks, Forests, Chaces, and Woods, in Ireland; and was advanced to the Peerage by privy seal, dated at Whitehall, 5th January, 1635^ and by LORD LOFTUS. 4c» patent0 the 29th of that month, by the titles of Baron of Rath* farnham, and Viscount Lislurne; he had a pension of 30001. a year on the military establishment, commencing 1st January, 168/ ; commanded a regiment of foot at the taking of Carrick- fergus for King William, 26th August, 1689; and being at the siege of Limerick in 1691, was killed (15th September), by a cannon-ball, discharged from the town, as he was coming out of his tent, which he had placed in the trenches, and was buried the 28th in St. Patrick's cathedral. He married, first, Lucia, daughter and coheir of George Brydges, sixth Lord Chandos, by his second wife, Jane,d daughter of John Savage, Earl Rivers; and, secondly, Dorothy, daughter of Patrick Allen, Esq. by whom he had no issue. But by the former wife he had one son, James, who died an infant; and one daughter, Lucia, who being married to Thomas, Lord Wharton, carried the estates of Rathfarnham, &c. into that family, which her son, Philip, late Duke of Wharton, 31st July, 1/23, sold, for the sum of 62,0001. to William Conolly, Esq. Speaker of the House of Commons, and L. J. of Ireland. We return now to Nicholas Loftus, of Fethard, Esq. second son of Sir Dudley Loftus, son and heir of the Archbishop, ancestor to the Lord Loftus. He was born 1st February, \5$lf was Sheriff of the county c The preamble. Cum eximia merita & virtutes praedilecti & fidelis subditi & consiliarii nostri Adami Loftus, armigeri, nobis abunde innotuerint; comme- morantes etiam immaculatam ejus erga nos fidelitatem, ac complurima egregia & acceptabilia servitiu, quae nobis hucusque praestitit; hinc est quod nos praefatum Adamum Loftus perpetuo regii fuvoris nostri monumento, posteris suis transmit- tendo, ornare & decorare decrevimus ; ac etiam ad statum & dignitatem Baronis & Vicecomitis hereditarium hujus regni nostri Hibernias promovendum censui- mus. Sciatis igitur, &c. d See title Pitt, Lord Rivers, in Vol. VII. e On 10th July, 1618, he had a grant of the town and lands of Ballyellis, containing 736 acres, in Mac-Damore's country, and county of Wexford; and 28th August, 1639, in virtue of the commission for remedy of defective titles, had confirmed to him and his heirs the manor, lordship, and late preceptory of Kilcloggan ; the rectories of the Hooke, Templetowne, Ballybrashill, and Much- Rochestowne; the advowson and presentation of the vicarage of the Hooke; with many other lands and chief rents in the said county, which were created the ma- nor of Killcloggan, with many privileges, and also the castle, town, and lands of St. John's Lees, near Tyrenure, in the county of Dublin. And an act of parlia- ment having passed in the reign of Charles I. for the exchange of lands between him and George, Bishop of Femes, in the said county, the manor of Feathard, alias Fidert, alias Fighdart, in the barony of Shelburne, was thereby conveyed £0 VOL. IX. E 50 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of Wexford in 1620; and was joined, 15th January, 1625, with Thomas Stockdale, of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, Esq. (for life), in the office of Clerk of the pells and writings of the tallies, counter-tallies, and bills to the receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer, and Clerk of the Treasury there, which they surrendered 31st August, 1636, and the same was granted, 30th March, 1640, to his nephew, Walter Loftus, and Henry Kenny, Esqrs. and the survivor of them. And 20th March, 1628, the King creating a new office of an Examinator in the Court of Chancery, conferred it on him and Robert Bysse, Esqrs. for life, with the like fees and perquisites, as were taken by the former examinator of that court, or by any examinator of the court of Chancery in England. He was also some time Deputy Receiver to Sir Adam Loftus, Vice- Treasurer of Ireland j and during the troubles of 1641, sent SOOl. to King Charles I. to Oxford, as a help against the parliament; disbursed large sums of his own, and borrowed others upon his credit, towards the payment of disbanding the Irish army in Ul- ster, in the year 1641. On 28th May, 1623, he married Mar- garet, daughter and heir to Thomas Chetham, of Nuthurst, in Lancashire, and of Hacketstown, in the county of Dublin, Esq. and dying in 1666, was buried on the North side of the chancel of the church of Fethard, pursuant to the directions of his last will, dated 27th September that year, whereby he ordered, that he should be buried in the night-time, without any ceremonies, assemblies, or mournings, but privately, as soon as he should be dead; and desired his wife and children not to wear any mourn- ing for him. He had issue by her (who was born 21st April, lfl04, and died in October, 1 666, fourteen days before him, with whom she was buried), eight sons, and six daughters. First, Adam, born 14th February, 1626. Second, Chetham, born 12th March, 1629. Third, Dudley, born in 1634, all three died young. Fourth, Sir Nicholas, who succeeded to the estate. Fifth, Henry, of Loftus-Hall, heir to his brother. Sixth, Thomas, born 1st June, l63p, died unmarried. Seventh, John, born 14th May, 1640, married the daughter him and his heirs for ever; and it being enacted, that he should allow the Bishop the sum of 300I. towards the building of a dwelling-house for himself and his *uccessors, upon the Bishop's lands in the town of Femes, the Bishop, izth July} 1 641, acknowledged the receipt thereof, according to the purport of the act, and made a surrender to him of the said premises. LORD LOFTUS. 5% of Butler, and having no issue, made his brother, Henr3r, his heir; died in 1684, and was buried at Fethard. Eighth, , born 1st February, 1642, died young. Daughter, Jane, born 14th February, 1623-4, was married to Nicholas Devereux, of Ballymagar, in the county of Wexford, Esq. by whom she had two sons, and one daughter; James, of Ballymagar; Nicholas, of Baldwinstown, in the county of Dub- lin ; and Margaret, married, first, to Arthur Chichester, of Prospect, Esq.; and, secondly, to Rev. Denis Driscoll, of Stone- house. Anne, born 8th February, l()30, was married 1st. May, 1 649, to Nicholas Bolton, of Brazeel, in the county of Dublin, Esq. and dying 2d January, 169O, had issue. Phaebe, born 1st August, 1632, was married to John Otway, of Clonhogan, in the county of Tipperary, Esq. and had six sons, and two daughters. Alice, born 2d February, 1637. Eleanor, born 1st December, 1641, was married to John Cliffe, of Mullrancan, in the county of Wexford, Esq. and died 3d Sep- tember, 1700, having four sons, and two daughters. Margaret, born 6th May, 1650, was married to Robert Tho- rold, of the county of Lincoln, Esq. and had a son, Robert. Sir Nicholas Loftus, of Fethard, the eldest surviving son, was born 11th November, 1635, and married 25th February, 1662, to his first wife, Susan, daughter of Thomas Adderley, of Innishannon, in the county of Cork, Esq. by whom he had a son, Thomas, who died young; and a daughter, Margaret, married to Thomas Mildmay, of Lisburne; and by his second wife, Eleanor, third daughter of Sir Edmond Butler, of Garryhundon, in the county of Carlow, Bart, he had three sons, and seven daugh- ters; Edmond, Dudley, Adam, Juliana, Eleanor, Mary, Arabella; Letitia, Anne, and Elizabeth. But the sons dying without issue, the estate descended to his brother, Henry Loftus, of Loftus-Hall, Esq. who was born 31st De- cember, 1636, and for some time resided at Dungulph, in the county of Wexford, being denominated of that place, when (13th October, 16S9), he purchased from William Leigh, of Ballagh- borrow, 208 acres of the lands of Templenetrohy, in the barony of Bantry; as he did 281 acres more of the said town and lands, 10th February,, 1684, from Cary, Earl of Roscommon; and 26rb 52 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. May, 1^03, from the trustees of the forfeited estates, all that part of Fethard, lying in the barony of Sbelburn. He married, first, Amy, daughter of John Gorges, of Coleraine, Esq. by whom he had one son, Gorges, who died young, and three daughters ; Jane, married to Thomas Mansell, of Gallskill, in the county of Kil- kenny, Esq. Edith ; and Margaret, married to Highgate Boyd, of Rossclare, in the county of Wexford, Esq. His second wife was Anne, daughter and heir to Henry Crewkern, of Exeter, in De- vonshire, widow of Oliver Keating, of Ballynunry, Esq. and de- ceasing, in a very advanced age, in \7\Q, left issue by her two sons; First, Nicholas, Lord Loftus. And, Second, Henry, who died unmarried. Nicholas Loftus, of Loftus-Hall, Esq. first Viscount Ely, the elder son, was left a minor; but, after he came of age, was returned to parliament for the county of Wexford, which he re- presented until his Majesty was pleased to advance him to the Peerage, by the style and title of Baron Loftus, of Loftus-Hall, by privy seal, dated at Kensington 24th August, and by patent/ f The preamble. Whereas we have long experienced the faithful services of our trusty and well-beloved Nicholas Loftus, of Loftus-Hall, in the county of Wexford, in our said kingdom of Ireland, Esq. as one of the representatives of our subjects in our House of Commons, in our said kingdom of Ireland, and his inviolable atfachment to our Royal person, family, and government, and his firm adherence to the interests and liberties of his country; we have determined to call him, the said Nicholas Loftus, to our advice and assistance in the grand council of our House of Peers, in our said kingdom of Ireland : a dignity which we confer, as well in regard to his known loyalty, abilities, prudence, and use- fulness to our interests, as his extensive property and alliance; being derived from a race of ancestors, distinguished for their antiquity and important services to our royal predecessors, and our said kingdom, and were therefore raised to some of the greatest honours and preferments in church and state; his ancestor, who first settled in that our said kingdom af Ireland, a zealous assertor of the Protestant religion, having been promoted to the dignities of Archbishop of Ar- magh, Primate of all that our said kingdom of Ireland, and Archbishop of Dub- lin, and, at the same time, of Chancellor of that of our said kingdom of Ireland, stations usually filled by persons of superior learning and merit, and seldom united in the same person; and having employed part of his wealth, in times of danger to the state, in defence of our said kingdom, by erecting a castle at Rathfarnham in our county of Dublin, in our said kingdom, which afforded protection to our English subjects: and Sir Adam Loftus, nephew to the said Primate, having been created a Baron and Pi-count, in the reign of King James I. by the title of Adam, Lord Viscount Loftus, of Ely, and constituted Chancellor of our said kingdom, and frequently appointed to assist in Government, as one of the Lords Justices of that our said kingdom : and Adam Loftus, Esq. the then eldest heir LORD LOFTUS. 53 5th October, 1751, and 7th November following, he took his seat in the Upper House/ being also, in September 1753, made a member of his Majesty's Privy-council, was nominated a Go- vernor of the county of Wexford, and was further advanced in the Peerage, being created discount Loftus, of Ely, in the king- dom of Ireland, by privy seal, dated at Kensington 28th June, and patent at Dublin ipth July, 1/56; by this title he sat in the House of Peers 21st November, 1757;h made his will 23d March, 1758, added a codicil thereto 26th July, 1703, and died in Capel- street, Dublin, 31st December that year, aged seventy- six He married, first, Anne, second daughter of William, Lord Viscount Duncannon, sister to Brabazon, Earl of Bess11 rough, by whom he had two sons, and three daughters, that survived their infancy ; secondly, Letitia, daughter of John Rowley, of Castleroe, in the county of Derry, Esq. and widow of Arthur, Viscount Loftus, of Ely; but by her, who died 19th July, 1765, at Sum- mer-Hill, in Meath, he had no issue. His children were, first, Nicholas. Second, Henry, of Richfield, of whom presently. Mary, married to William Alcock, of Wilton, in the county of Wexford, Esq. of the family, having been created by King James II. Baron of Rathfarnham, Viscount Lisburne; and who, by a remarkable heroic conduct in the army, at the time of the Revolution, as a Colonel in the service of our great predecessor, of glorious memory, King William the third, before our city of Limerick in our said kingdom, assisted in maintaining and preserving the cause and invaluable blessing of the Protestant religion, at the price of his life ; and by his death with- out issue male, the person whom we are now advancing to the dignity of Peerage, remains the eldest branch of this ancient and ennobled family, being immediately descended from Sir Dudley Loftus, a younger (he was the eldest son), son of the said Primate, whose descendants and family, from the reign of our royal predeces- sor Queen Elizabeth, have been promoted to, and have honourably discharged a series of offices of distinction and trust, in that our said kingdom; and have ren- dered their useful services to the Crown and the realm, by their representations in our House of Commons, in our said kingdom; and we consider such an ex- traction and alliance through an ancient line of venerable and noble progenitors, joined with the known personal qualifications, and past long experienced conduct and services of him, the said Nicholas Loftus, as sure and ample pledges of his discharging the important trust of great Counsellor in our House of Peers, in our said kingdom, to the service of our person, crown, and government, and to the welfare and advantage of all our subjects. Know ye therefore, &c. (Rot. 25 Geo. II. 2. p. f.J % Lords Jour. III. 7S9. h Idem. IV. 95. 54 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Anne, to Charles Tottenham, Esq. Surveyor-General of the province of Leinstef, and Member of parliament for the borough of New Ross. And Elizabeth, married to John Tottenham, son of Charles. Nicholas Loftus, Esq. the elder son, second discount Ely, and first Earl of Ely, was returned to parliament for the borough of Bannow, in October, 1739, as he was in 1761, for Fethardj Was appointed, 27th August, 1753, Deputy-Governor of the county of Wexford ; succeeded to the title of Viscount on his fa- ther's demise; in March, 1764, was appointed Custos Rot. of the county of Wexford} sat first in the House of Peers, 8th May, 1764/ 13th of that month, took his place as a Privy Counsellor at the Council Board; and he was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Ely by patent at Dublin, 23d October, 1766. His Lordship died 31st October that year, and having married, 18th August, 1736, Mary, elder daughter and heir to Sir Gustavus Hume, of Castle-Hume, in the county of Fermanagh, Bart, by her, who died in October, 1740, he had an only son, Nicholas Loftus, the second Earl of Ely, who was born ilth September, 1738, was appointed a Governor of Fermanagh, 2d October, 1767, and died unmarried, 12th November, 1769, in Dominick-street, Dublin, when the estates, pursuant to his will, vested in his uncle, Henry Loftus, on whom also the titles of Viscount and Baron devolved. The said Henry, third Viscount, and third Earl of Ely, was born 18th November, 1709, resided, before his accession to the honours, at Richfield, was High Sheriff" of the county of Wex- ford in 17443 served many years in parliament for the borough of Bannow, and was Clerk of the coast permits; on the decease of his nephew, Nicholas, the second Earl, he became fourth Viscount Ely, and sat first in the House of Peers, 10th November, l769-k In November, 177] , he was created Earl of Ely, and had his introduction to parliament by this title, 5th December that year.1 On the institution of the most illustrious Order of St. Patrick, his Lordship was nominated a Knight Companion, but was not in- stalled. He married, first, in 1745, Frances, daughter of Henry Monro, of Roe's-Hall, in the county of Down, Esq. she dying in August 1774, without issue; he married, secondly, in 1775, the 1 Lords Jour; IV. 325. k Idem. 513, ' Idem. 596. LORD LOFTUS. 55 daughter of Hugh Bonfoy, Esq. but by her Ladyship, who sur- vived him, had no issuej and he dying 8th May, 1733, the titles became extinct, but the estates devolved, pursuant to his will, on the issue of his sister, Elizabeth. Which Elizabeth married, 31st December, 1736, to John Tot- tenham, Esq. (son of Charles Tottenham,"1 of Tottenham-Green, in the county of Wexford, Esq.), and died before 1/54, having by him, who was created a Baronet, 2d December, 1780, and died in 1787, a son and successor, Sir Charles, the first Marquis of Ely, and first Lord Loftus. He served in parliament for the borough of Clonminesj and having succeeded to the estates possessed by his uncles, Ni- cholas and Henry, late Earls of Ely, in the counties of Wexford and Fermanagh, he assumed their surname, and was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of Ireland, pursuant to privy seal, at St. James's 3d May, and patent at Dublin 28th June, 1785," and by the title of Lord Baron Loftus, of Loftus-Hall, in the county of Wexford, he had his introduction to the House of Peers 2d July, 1785.° On December 24th, 178*3, he was created Viscount Loftus of Ely ; on February 15th, 1794, he was further elevated to an Earl- dom, by the title of Earl of Ely; and on December 29th, 1800, was created Marquis of Ely. On January 19th, 1801, he was advanced to a British Peerage, by the title of Baron Loftus, of Long Loftus, in Yorkshire. His Lordship was sworn of the Privy-council in Ireland, ap- pointed a Governor of the county of Wexford} and in January* 1789, was constituted joint Postmaster-General with the Right Hon. William Brabazon Ponsonby. In June, 1766, he married Jane, elder daughter and coheir to m Charles Tottenham, just now mentioned, member of parliament for the town of New Rosse, was generally known by the name of Tottenham in his boots, which appellation arose from the following circumstance: having braved the in- conveniencies of a severe gout and bad weather, he rode post from the county of Wexford, and arrived in his boots at the House of Commons in a critical mo- ment. The question, whether any redundancy in the Irish Treasury should there continue, or be sent into England, was in agitation — Mr. Tottenham gave the casting voice in favour of nis country; and in memory of this, his patriotic conduct, a good likeness of him, in his travelling dress, was soon after engrave,n> >n the attitude of ascending the steps of the Parliament Hous?. n Rot. pat. 25 Geotge III. R. 4;. 0 Lords Journals, V. 630. 56 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Robert Myhill,P of Killarney, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq, and by her had two sons, First, John, present Peer, born 15tb February, 1770. Second, Lord Robert-Ponsonby, born 5th September, I773,q now Lord Bishop of Killaloe, married, May 21st, 1807, Alicia, third daughter of Cornwallis Maude, Viscount Ha warden, by whom he has a son, born May 8th, 1808. His Lordship dying March 22d, 1806, was succeeded by hie eldest son, John, present and second Marquis of Ely ; and second Lord Loftus, of Long-Loftus. His Lordship married in May, 1810, Miss Dashwood, daugh- ter of Sir Henry Dashwood, Bart. His Lordship is a Privy Counsellor, Governor of Fermanagh, and Colonel of the Wexford militia. Titles. John Loftus, Lord Baron Loftus, of Loftus-Hall, in the county of "Wexford ; Viscount, Earl, and Marquis of Ely; and Lord Loftus, of Long-Loftus. Creations. Created Baron, 28th June, 1785, 25 George III. j Viscount, December 1809; Earl, February J5th, 1794; Marquis, December 29th, 1800; and Lord Loftus, of England, January 19th, 1801. Arms. Sable, a chevron ingrailed, ermine, between three tre- foils slipped, Argent. P James Myhill, of Killarney, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. married Han. nah, daughter of Joshua Paul, of Rathmore, county of Carlow, Esq. by his wife, Mehetabela Saunders, of the family of Saunders-Grove; and died 1st December, *737> having had issue by her, Robert, his heir ; James, in Holy Orders; and William, of Abbey-Grove, county of Kilkenny. Robert, the eldest son, who succeeded at Killarney, married Mary, daughter of William Eiilingsley, of Three- Castles, in the said county, Esq. and died 1st April, 1740, having had issue three daughters; the younger of whom, Mary, dying young, the survivors became co- heirs, and were, Jane, married as in text ; and Hannah, who married Hercules, son of Robert Langrishe, Esq. and by him, who was created a Baronet 24th Ja- ouary, 1777, served in parliament for the borough of Knocktopher, and was a Commissioner of his Majesty's Revenue, had issue, Robert, who served in par- liament for Knocktopher, and married Anne, daughter of the late Bellingham Boyle, and grand-daughter of Primate Hoadley ; James; Mary-Jane, married to James Wilson, of Parsons-town, in county of Wicklow, Esq. Elizabeth, to Rev. Christopher, son of the late Judge Robinson ; and Hannah. (Lodge, edit. 1 754, I. 310, and Editor.) 1 Ulster's Office. 1 .«*- LORD LOFTUS. 57 Crest. On a wreath, a boar's head erased and erect, Argent, langued, gules, with these words, Loyal au Mort, over it. Supporters. Two eagles, Argent, with beaks and legs, Or, each charged on the breast with a trefoil, slipped, vert. MottO. PREND MOY TEL QUE IE SUI. Chief Seats. Loftus-Hall, in the county of Wexford, sixty- five miles from Dublin 5 Rathfarnham-Castle, one mile from the metropolis; and Castle-Hume, in the county of Fermanagh, eighty- two miles from Dublin. 58 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. BUTLER, LORD BUTLER. [Earl of Ormond, in Ireland."] The original descent of this illustrious family is diversely de- duced by genealogists/ but we shall begin with Herveius, who a « We are told, that Mr. Roberts, Ulster King of Arms, in Ireland, took a great deal of pains in compiling a Genealogical History of the family of Ormond, wherein he labours to prove, that the name of the family was originally Walter, or Water; and in support of this, he brings a great number of instances, from which it appears, that Theobald, after he was Butler of Ireland, subscribed Theo- bald Walter, to charters of King John; and he likewise shews, that his descend- ants preserved the surname of Walter, down to the time of James, the first Earl of Ormond, who styled himself, Jacobus Walter Pincerna Hibern'ue. We are, likewise, told in support of this notion, that Walter is also a name of office, and that it signifies the ruler over any of the King's forests; and this upon the au- thority of Richard Verstegan: but as that writer is not very correct, I am apt to think he is a little mistaken here, and that the office he means was styled, not Walter, but Waldtgrave; and that Walter is a contraction or corruption of Wald- theerj i. e. the lord or owner of a wood, answering to the word Sylvester, Syl- vius; so that taking this all together, it is not at all improbable, that the father of Theobald might use this surname. Sir Robert Rothe, who put the last hand to another very laborious account of the descent of this noble family, which was written by his father, a Barrister at Law, and Counsel to Thomas, Earl of Or- mond, in Queen Elizabeth's time, declares expressly for the surname of Becket, and will have Theobald, Butler of Ireland, to be the son of Walter Fitz-Gilbert, i. e. son of Gilbert Becket; and many writers concur in deriving this family from Walter Becket, a younger brother of Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury. That the Earls of Ormond were descended some way or other from the family of Becket, is asserted in an act of parliament ; but this does not prove the surname of the family was Becket, since they might be descended as well by marriage; which notion may be supported from two pedigrees, wherein it is so laid down: %ut as these pedigrees are inconsistent with each other, so the Rev. Mr. Carte LORD BUTLER. 59 is unquestionably proved by Sir James Ware, and William Ro- berts, Esq. Ulster King of Arms in the reign of King Charles I. and by the indisputable authority of ancient records, to be the true and direct ancestor of the family. He accompanied the Conqueror in his expedition to Eng- land, and obtained large possessions in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lancaster; in which he was succeeded by Herveius Walter, his son, having also a daughter, Alicia, who became wife of Ormus Magnus. Herveius Walter (which continued the surname until dis- used by Edmond, Earl of Carrick), when (according to the cus- tom), the Christian name only was to be used with the title), married Maud, eldest daughter of Theobald de Valoines, and had issue five sons; First, Theobald, the first Butler of Ireland. Second, Hubert. Third, Walter. Fourth, Roger. And, Fifth, Hamon. Hubert, the second son, was born at West-Derham, in Nor- folk, where he built a monastery; and encompassed the Tower of London with a strong wall and deep moat: he was brought up, with his brother, Theobald, under Ranulph de Glanville, Justice has clearly shewh, that they are ifreconcileable to truth. But the Rev. Mr. John Butler, a clergyman in Northamptonshire, being dissatisfied with all the accounts he had met with, and even with that of the famous Sir William Dugdale, who to say the truth, speaks very cautiously of this family, being sensible of the imper- fections of his materials, resolved to set this whole matter in a new light; and the story he tells is this : That Richard I. Duke of Normandy had, besides his son, Richard II. by Gunora, another son by a Lady whom he does not mention, whose name was Geoffrey, Count of Brionis; who had issue Gisslebert, who was guardian to William the Conqueror. He had also two sons; Richard, Earl of Clare, and Baldwin. This Richard, Earl of Clare, was Cupbearer to William I. and had five sons ; Gilbert, Roger, Walter, Robert, and Richard : these two last mentioned often supplying their father's place, took from thence the surname of Bouteillen. Robert, after his father's death, became Cupbearer to Henry I. and had issue Walter, and other sons. Walter succeeded him as Cupbearer, and was Baron of Baynard Castle; and the eldest son, Theobald, the first Butler of Ireland. This reverend antiquary has taken a great deal of pains to shew, that the surname of Botiller was mueh ancienter than the grant of this office to Theobald; whence he would infer, that the surname of the family was not either Walter or Becker, but Botiller or Butler. All this very eminently demonstrates, that it is a fruitless thing to expect either exactness or certainty in matters of this nature; and, in- deed, having looked into the pedigrees of several families of this name in England, I find different accounts of its origin ia almost every one of them." Kifpis's S'wgr. Brit. III. 56. 60 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of England, his uncle by the mother's side; and in Henry lid's reign, was one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and Dean ot York; whence King Richard I. advanced him (1st November, II89), to the See of Salisbury; and being taken prisoner in the Holy Land, where he commanded the English forces at the sieo-e of Aeon, was translated (while there), in 1193, to the See of Canterbury; and on his return, made Chancellor, Chief Justice, and Treasurer of England ; which last great trust he ma- naged so well, that in two years (besides defraying the public expenses), he saved the King of his own revenue 1 10,000 marcs. He died of a fever, in July 1205, at his manor of Teynham, and was buried 13th, at Canterbury. Theobald, the eldest son, attended King Henry II. into France, when that Prince came to an agreement with the French Kino- on the behalf of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered 28th December, 1171; and the next year accompanied him into Ireland, where he served in the reduction of the king- dom, and being rewarded with very large possessions, made it the place of his residence;15 having also conferred upon him the Butlership of Ireland, in the year 1177, whereby he and his successors were to attend the Kings of England at their corona- tion, and that day present them with the first cup of wine; for which they were to have certain pieces of the King's plate. Some time after, that. King granted him the prisage of wines, to enable him, and his heirs, the better to support the dignity of that ofnce.c In 1185, he was witness to a charter of King John, then Earl of Morton , to the canons of Lanthony, of the lands of Bally- bemmer, and other estates. In 1 Richard 1. he accompted to the pipe-roll in the Exchequer 72I. 6s. 8d. of the suitage of the Knights of the honour of Lancaster. In 11 94, he was appointed by his brother, Hubert, collector of the fees to be paid to the King by those who should perform tournaments, or feats of arms in England; viz. from an Earl, twenty marcs; from a Baron, ten; a Knight, who had lands, four; and a Knight who had no lands, two marcs. In that reign he was a benefactor to the abbey of Furnes, in Lancashire; was a person of large possessions'1 in b Rothe's Registry. c By this grant, he had two tons of wine out of every ship which broke bulk- in any trading port of Ireland, and was loaden with twenty tons of that commo- dity, and one ton from nine to twenty; see a decree, dated 12th February, 1584, 270 D. and proportionably for a less quantity, if it amounted to nine tons. d Amongst which, was the lordship of Preston, in Amunderness, in Lanca- LORD BUTLER. 6l England and Ireland, being a Baron of both kingdoms; and, 6 Richard I. was appointed Sheriff" of the county of Lancaster, in which office he continued to the first of King John inclusive, and founded a monastery therein at Cockersands, as he also did at Arklow, for Cistertian Monks,e endowing it with his lands on the South side of the river, the Salt Pits, and the island of Arklow, to found the abbey on. He likewise, in 1205, founded and endowed with all the lands of Wodeney O'Flinn, the impropriate rectories of Thurles and Arklow/ the Abbey of Wotheney, or "Woney (Abington), in the county of Limerick, having in the year 1200, founded and liberally endowed that of Nenagh, in the county of Tipperary, being a priory or hospital of St. John Baptist, for the maintenance of Augustine canons, with a provision, that at least thirteen sick persons should be maintained in the house, with the daily allowance of a loaf, drink, and a dish of meat; and as their possessions should increase, so the number of canons were to be augmented, s In 1204, he gave two palfreys for license to go into England, and dying in 1206,1' was buried in a tomb, made for him in Wo- theney Abbey. 'He married Maud, daughter and heir to Robert de Vavasor, a great baron of Yorkshire (with whom he had the manors of Edlington and Newborough, and the lands of Bolton), and by her, who was afterwards married to Fulk Fitz-Warine,k had one son, Theobald, and a daughter, Beatrix, to whom he gave a large estate in marriage with Thomas de Hereford, after whose death she remarried with Sir Hugh Purcell, Knight. Theobald, the second, was about six years of age at his fa- ther's death, and attaining his full age 5 Henry III. had a livery of his estate 18th July, 6th of that reign; and thereupon assumed shire, which was confirmed to him and his heirs by the charter of King Richard, 22d April, 1 1945* to hold by the service of three Knights fees, and con- taining almost half that county. He had also a grant of the lands of Incheme- holmoe, Kilpoch, Kylinewy, Stachmoyl, Voshehan, Kylcarnewy, and divers others, with the advowson of the churches, and all liberties, from Richard, Arch- bishop of Dublin, yielding to the Bishops of that See two marcs of silver yearly, and to each of the cathedral churches two pounds of wax at Easter. And John, Earl of Morton, gave and confirmed to him the castle and town of Arklow, with the appurtenances, to hold by the service of one Knight's fee. e Mon. Ang!. Vol. II. p. ioz5< f R°the's Register. g Mon. Angl. VoK II. p. 1044. h Rothe's Register. i Idem. k Idem. * Rothe. 62 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. the surname of Butler, from the said office of Chief Butler of Ireland. He gave a considerable part of bis lands at Sleiwn, with the tithes that lay near the church, to the priory of All- Saints, in Dublin,1 and in 1247, was L.J. of Ireland. He married Joan, eldest sister and coheir to John de Marreis (de Marisco), (father of Herbert, father of Sir Stephen de Marreis, who died issueless 14 Richard II.) a considerable Baron in Ireland, to whose estates, both in this kingdom and in England, his posterity suc- ceeded ; and departing this life in 1248 (33 Henry III.), was bu- ried in the abbey of Arklow; and left Theoeald, the third, who was then also six years of age,ra and adhered to the King in his wars with the Barons. He mar- ried Margery, eldest daughter of Richard de Burgo (ancestor to the Earl of Clanrickard), with whom he had, besides other lands, the manors of Ardmaile and Killmorarkill," and being buried by his father at Arklow, left Theobald, the fourth Butler of Ireland, who assisted King Edward I. in his wars with Scotland, and married Joan, fourth and youngest daughter of John Fitz-Geoffrey-Fitz-Peter de Bar- ronis, Lord of Kirtling, and L. J. of Ireland, youngest son of the famous Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, Lord Justiciary of England ; and co- heir with her three sisters to her brothers, John and Richard. (She brought him the manor of Faubridge, in Essex; the hamlet of Shippeley, in Hants; the manor of Shire, in Surrey; the ham- let, called the Vacherie, and the manor of Ailesbury, in Bucks),0 and dying 26th September, 1285, in the castle of Arklow, was buried in the monastery there, leaving issue by her, who died about 1303 (31 Edward I.) two daughters, Maud and Joan; and eight sons. First, Theobald. Second, Edmond, created Earl of Carrick. Third, Thomas, ancestor to the Baron of Dunloyne. Fourth, John. Fifth, Richard. Sixth, Gilbert. Seventh, Nicholas, elected Archbishop of Dublin by the Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity in January 1306, but was never consecrated. Eighth, James. 1 Rothc's Register. n; Idem, and Inq. post mortem taken in 1249) which found that he die.) seised of the lands of Bellagh, and other lands, in Staffordshire; the manors of Whkhton, in Lancashire; and Tiberley, in Yorkshire. n Rothe. ° MS. Annals in Trin. Coll. LORD BUTLER. 6s Theobald, the fifth honorary Butler of Ireland, was present in the Irish parliament of 1295, and stands the fifth on the roll. In the Spring of 12Q6, he attended the King in his invasion of Scotland, and accompanied him in all those expeditions, wherein Edinburgh, with the loss of 25,000 Scots, and all the fortresses of that kingdom were reduced ; and gained a great reputation by his valour. In 1297, he? purchased from Philip de Rupella, the manor of Bree, in the county of Dublin, with all the lands of the Brinns; and also the cantred of Omany, in Connaught, the lands in Cronn, and divers others. ^He died unmarried, at his manor of Turvey, 14th May, 1299, and was buried 27th, in Wotheney-Abbey, be- ing succeeded in estate, and the Butlership of Ireland, by his brother/ Edmond, Earl of 6 ar rick, who, in 1302, sat in parliament as a Baron, by the name of Edmond le Botiller, and about the feast of St. Hillary that year, recovered the manor of Hollywood, near Ballymore, from Richard, Archbishop of Dublin (except the ad- vowson of the church), reserving to the See two pounds of wax, and half an ounce of gold, yearly, and releasing all his right to one messuage and five acres of land, with their appurtenances, in Luske. He was knighted in London, by King Edward II. in 1309, and that year, with John, after Earl of Kildare, dispersed the rebellion in Connaught and Offaley; and in 1312, being L.D. he repressed the incursions of the Byrnes and Tooles, numerous and potent clans, and forced them to submit; and being a great encourager of servitors, made a noble feast at Dublin, on Sunday, 29th of September, 1313, when he created thirty Knights:8 by patent, dated at Langley, 4th January, 1314, he was L. J. of Ire- land, with the fee of 5001. a year; and 9 Edward II. held a par- liament at Kilkenny, to raise a subsidy for defence of the realm, against Edward Bruce and the Scots 3 for his services against whom, and the rebellious Irish, he was created Earl of Carrick Mac-Griffyne, in the county of Tipperary, by patent, dated at Lincoln, 1st September that year, 1315; and by a record of the same date,1 had given him the return of all the King's writs in the cantreds of Oreman, Elyogerth, and Elyocarroll, in Tipperary; to which was added, 12th November, 1320, all the lands of Wil- liam de Carran, in Finagh and Faymolin, in the county of Wa- P Rothe says, the deeds of purchase are in Birmingham Tower, 26 Ed- ward I. 1 Rothe's Registry. r u. ( MS, Ann. 1 Enrolled, anno ioEliz. D. 64 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. terford; in which year (after many services against the O Mores, O Tooles, O Byrnes, O Murroughs, and other Irish septs), going on pilgrimage into Spain, to the shrine of St. James of Compo- stella, he died after his return to London, 1 3th September, 1321, and was buried on St. Martin's eve at Gowran, in the county of Kilkenny. In 1302 he married Joan, daughter of John, the first Earl of Kildare, and by her had three sons, and two daughters; First, James, his successor in the Earldom and Butlership of Ireland. Second, John, who died in 1330, from whom the present Earl of Carrick derives his descent. Third, Laurence, who on the vigil of St. Cecilia the Virgin, in 1329, with Sir Henry Trahern, were taken prisoners by O Nolan, in Sir Henry's house of Kilbegg; in revenge of which, his bro- ther, James, wasted their country. His daughter, Joan, was married, 1321, to Roger Mortimer, second son of Roger, brother to Edward, Earl of March. , to Sir Thomas Dillon, of Drumrany, ancestor to the Viscount Dillon. James, first Earl of Ormond, who succeeded, was under age at his father's death, but notwithstanding his nonage, had a license, 3d December, 1325, for the fine of 2000 marcs, to marry whom he pleased; and 1st March, 1326, had a grant and confirmation of the prize- wines; and was created Earl of Ormond (the north part of the county of Tipperary), by patent, bearing date, 2d No- vember, 1328, at Salisbury, the King then holding a parliament there, with the creation-fee of 101. a year out of the fee-farm of Wa terford; and by patent, dated at Wallingford seven days after, in consideration of his services, and the better to enable him to support the honour, had given to him the regalities, liberties, knights fees, and other royal privileges of the county of Tippe- rary, and the rights of a palatine in that county, for life; which being re assumed by that King, were restored to him again 23d April, 1337, and with the prize- wines (which were also" re- assumed by the King, 17th November, 1343), were granted in fee to his son, James, and his heirs male, 5th June 1372 (46 Ed- ward III.) in virtue of which grant they were enjoyed by the family until the year 1716. In 1336 he founded the friary of Carrick-Begg, on the river " Rot. Anno 17 Edward III. D. R. 8. LORD BUTLER. 65 Suir, in the county of Waterford, for Franciscan Friars; to whom, 3d June that year/ he gave his castle and estate of Carrick, of which they took possession on Sunday, the feast of St. Peter and Paul.}' He is characterised by Clynn, the Annalist, to be a libe- ral, amicable, facetious, and comely person, and dying in the flower of his youth, 6th January, 1337, was buried at Gowran; having, in 132", married Elenor, second daughter of Humphrey Bohun, the fourth Earl of Hereford and Essex, High Constable of England (by Elizabeth his wife, seventh daughter of King Ed- ward I.) and by her, who after married Sir Thomas Dagworth,7- had two sons, and one daughter; viz. First, John, born at Ardee on St. Leonard's day, 1330, died an infant. Second, James. And, Petronilla, the wife of Gilbert, Lord Talbot, ancestor to the Earl of Shrewsbury. James, the second Earl nf Ormond, was born at Kilkenny, 4th October, 1331. and given in ward, 1st September, 1344, to Maurice, Earl of Desmond, for the fine of 2300 marcs; and after- wards to Sir John Darcy, L. J. of Ireland, who married him to his daughter, Elizabeth. He was usually called the noble Earl, on account of his descent from the Royal Family; and by the Irish, James the Chaste, an appellation procured by his modesty and virtue. Through his extraction, and in recompence of his services, he obtained several grants of lands, and other favours, from King Edward III. and Richard II. April 18th, 1359, he was appointed L. J. of the kingdom; as he was again, 15th March, 1360, in which year he published proclamations, and made divers regulations, for the advancement of the English interest in Ire- land; and did great service against the rebellious Irish in the provinces of Ulster, Leinster, and Munster. September 8th, 136l, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, third son of King Edward III. being made L. L. he attended him from England with many other great men, having an allowance for himself, of 4 s. a day; and for his * MS. Annals in Trin. Coll. Y Id. z A commission, dated at Dublin, iSth October, 134.4, l8 EdWilrd **'• was granted to this Thomas de Dagworth, and Alianore his wife, of the custody of the castlts of Nenagh and Moialiny, with the appurtenances, and the manors of Karkenlisse, Bretage, and Carricmacgriffin, in Munster; which by reason of the minority of James, Earl of Ormond, were in the King's hands, to hold till he accomplished his full age, rendering yearly into the Exchequer the lull extent hereof. vol ix. r 66 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. retinue, 2s. a piece, for two Knights ; 12d. for twenty seven Esquires; 6d. for twenty hobellars, armed; and 4d. for as many unarmed. In 1632, he slew 600 of Mac Murrough's followers at Teigstaffen, in the county of Kilkenny; and 22d April, 1364, was appointed L. D. to the said Duke of Clarence; as he was L.J. 24th July, 1376, with the usual salary of 5001. a year; in which office he was continued by King Richard II. On 2d April, 1372, he was made Constable of the castle of Dublin, with the fee of 181. 5s. a year; was summoned to the parliaments held by King Richard II. j and l6th January, 1381, had a commission dated at Cork, during pleasure, to treat with all rebels, English and Irish, though indicted and outlawed, and to grant them safe conducts, in order to reform them to peace, and preserve the tranquillity of the country; so as such treating should not tend to the prejudice of the King's faithful subjects. He died 18th October, 1382 (or 1363), in his castle of Knock- topher (near which he had, in 1356, founded a friary for Car- melite Friars), and was buried in the cathedral of St. Canice, in Kilkenny. By his said wife (who remarried with Sir Robert Herford, and by her deed, 5 Richard II. surrendered to her son all her dower in Ireland, except that of the prize wines), he had two sons, First, James, his heir, then under age. Second, Thomas, who by commission, dated at Kilkenny 25th May, 1389, was constituted, with Nicholas White, of Clonmell, the King's Justices in the county of Cork, during pleasure, to inquire upon oath, of all seditions, transgressions, felonies, oppres- sions, conspiracies, confederacies, and other crimes whatsoever, committed against the King or his liege people, and to administer justice throughout that county, &c. And two daughters; Ellen, married to Gerald, Earl of Des- mond, and died in 1404; and Joan, to Teige O Carrol, Prince of Elye, and died of the plague in 1383. James, the third Earl of Ormond, by building and making the castle of Gowran his usual residence, was commonly called Earl of Gowran; but, 12th September, 13C>1, he concluded the pur- chase of the castle of Kilkenny ,a which became the chief seat of a This castle was built by William, Earl Marshal, the elder, who came int» Ireland in 1207, und a'so founded the house of the Black Friars there ; and his son, William, succeeding him in 12:0, granted a charter to the town, 6th April, 1223, LORD BUTLER. 67 the family. He also built the castle of Dunfert (commonly called Danes-Fort), and in 1386, founded a friary of Minorites at Ailes- bury, in Bucks. In 1384, he was deputy of the kingdom to Philip de Courtenay, the King's cousin ; and, 25th July, 130/2, again made L.J. as he was in 1401; and 26th October, 1404, on the departure of Sir Stephen Scrope to England. By corr mission, dated at Carlow, 12th February, 13S8-y, he was appointed » by- reason of the excessive losses and damages sustained by the King's liege subjects in the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, by the Irish and English rebels), Keeper of the Peace, and Governor of those counties, and the people thereof, as well within liberties as without, with full power to treat with, to execute, to protect, and to give safe conduct to any rebels, &c. In 139/, he assisted Edmund, Earl of March, L. L. against OBrien; and in 1399, took prisoner Teige O Carrol, Prince of Elye, who escaping the year after from Gowran, was slain in 1407, by the L. D. Scrope. By commission dated at Kilkenny, Qth May, 1400, he, Sir Ed- ward Perers, and others, were appointed Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the counties of Kilkenny, Wexford, Waterford, Tipperary, Cork, and Limerick; and, 30lh May, 1404, a writ, dated at Trim, by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, L. L. was directed to him and John Lumbard, appointing them justices or commis- sioners of Oyer and Terminer in the county of Kilkenny, to ad- journ the parliament summoned to meet at Kilkenny; and on the anniversary of St. Vitalis the Martyr, in 1404,b he held a parlia- ment in Dublin, which confirmed the statutes of Dublin and Kil- kenny, and the charter of Ireland. Being a mighty strong man, he is styled in some annals, the head of the chivalry of Ireland; which kingdom he governed to the content of the King, and his good subjects.0 He married Anne, daughter of John, Lord Welles, and dying 7th September, on the vigil of the Blessed Virgin/ 1405, at Gow- ran, greatly regretted, after his return from invading O Connor's country, was there buried, leaving two sons, First, James, his heir. Second, Sir Richard Butler, whose god-father was King Ri- with privileges which they enjoy to this day. The Earl of Ormond purchased the castle, with divers manors and lordships, from the heirs of Sir Hugh le De- spenser, Earl of Gloucester, and Isabel his wife, daughter and coheir to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. > MS. Annals T. Coll. c Lodge. * Annals. 6s PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. chard II. of whom mention will be made hereafter, as great grand- father of Pierce, eighth Earl of Ormond. James, the fourth Earl of Ormond, commonly called the White Earl, was a man of good parts, and master of a great share of learning (which at that time was very rare in noble- men), and before he attained his full age, was, on Whitsunday, 4 Henry IV. together with the King, knighted by John, Duke of Bedford, the King's uncle and regent; after which, returning into Ireland, he accompanied the deputy, Scrope, in his invasion of Mac-Murrough's territory, when that sept was routed, and O No- lan, with his son and many others, made prisoners ;e and being informed, that Walter de Burgo and O Carrol had ravaged the county of Kilkenny, they marched to Callan with such expedi- tion, that they surprised and defeated the rebels with the slaugh- ter of at least 800. f On his return to Dublin, not yet being of age (for that year his wardship was granted to Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, son of King Henry IV.) he was left L. D. of the king- dom, his commission bearing date 18th December, 1407, 9 Henry IV. and held a parliament there, which again confirmed the statutes of Dublin and Kilkenny, and the charter granted un- der the Great Seal of England.s Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, having a son born in Dublin, well known afterwards by the name of George, Duke of Clirence, his Lordship and the Earl of Desmond, were god-fathers. In harvest, 1412, he accompanied Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, into France; in which year Henry V. mounting the throne, he was in great favour with that victorious Monarch;11 by whom he was appointed L. L. by a very large commission, bearing date 10th February, 1419; and landing at Waterford 10th April, held a parliament /th June, on St. Laurence's day,' which granted the King two subsidies, and to himself seventy marcs; after which, he made great preys upon OReil)y,k Mac-Murrough (who at that time made all Leinster e Annals. f Id. 3 Id. h At his motion, his Majesty fiist created a King cf Arms in Ireland, ap- pointing John Kitely, Herald in England, to that office, by the title of Ireland King of Arms; which continued as long as the Kings of England were styled Lords of Ireland, when it was altered by Henry VIII. to that of Ulster King of Arms, Bar: holomew Butler, York Herald, being the first so appointed ; and his son, Philip Butler, was the first pursuivant at arms in Ireland, being so created 1 6th June, 1552, by the title of Athlone Pursuivant, by John, Duke of Northum- berland, E.u-' Marshal of England. « Annals. k MS. Annals in T. Coll. LORD BUTLER. 69 tremble), Mac-Mahon, and others; for his services against whom the parliament granted him a further sum of 300 marcs, after the feast of St. Andrew.1 On the nones of May 1421, a slaughter was committed on the family of the Earl, whilst L. L. near the monastery of Leys, where twenty-seven Englisii were slain; the chief of whom were Parcel and Grant, noblemen, ten were taken prisoners, and 203 saved themselves by flight, in the castle; and /th June, the Earl invaded Leys, and obliged the Irish to sue for peace. m King Henry V. deceasing 31st August, 1422, his Lordship was continued in the government until the arrival of Edmond Mortimer, Earl of March, to whom, yth May, 1424, he was made deputy, as he was the next year to John, Lord Furnival, and again 15th April, 1426"; and 13th September following, he sent James Cornwalsh, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, to lay before the King and council the state of affairs, and to prosecute several matters relating to the benefit and preservation of the kingdom, for which he was allowed 6s. 8d. a day. Also, 28th August, 1427, he declared to the council, that he had expended forty marcs in resisting Gerald O Cavanagh, an Irish enemy, who had lately assembled a multitude of Kerns, to destroy the King's sub- jects; for which sum, he had a liberate 11th October following; and, the day after, another for fifty marcs, for maintaining and keeping in safe custody, divers Irish hostages, for the good con- duct of Bernard Mac-Mahon and Neylan O Donnel, captains of their nations, Owen O Neile and Meiler Birmingham. In 1440, he was twice again made Chief Governor; first, as L.L. and after as L.D. and that year had the temporal ties of the See of Cashel granted to him for ten years, after the death of the Archbishop, Richard O Hedian. In 144.3, he was again made L.L. and 24th June, 1444, he assembled at Drogheda many of the Privy-council, nobility, and gentry, of the English Pale, and declared, that he had now held the place of Chief Governor of the kingdom for the space of three years and more, and that it had pleased the King, by his letter and writ under the privy seal, sent by Robert Mansfield, Esq. groom of his bedchamber, to command him over to his presence, without delay or excuse, not- withstanding the commotions then subsisting in Ireland; where- fore he required of them, that they would declare before the said messenger, if he had committed, during his government, any ex- 1 MS. Annals in Trin. Coll. m Id- 70 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. tortion contrary to the laws, or had been remiss in executing the laws. Whereupon, after some time spent in consideration of his conduct, Sir James Allen declared, that there was not one there that could in any matter complain of him, bnt were all fully thankful to him for his good and gracious government; for the pains he had taken in defence of the land, having undergone great and continual labours; and had also, besides the allowance of the government, been at great expense for the honour of the King, and defence of the kingdom; and added, that if at that time he should leave the kingdom, it would be exposed to great danger; and desired, that Richard Wogan, Chancellor, father Hugh Middleton, or Robert Mansfield, would repair to the King, and procure a safe passage for him; and declare, that there was then great confederacy to destroy his liege subjects, and that if it pleased his Highness to give the L. L. leave to stay till Michael- mas, so that his subjects might gather in their harvest, it would be a great comfort to them, and confusion to their enemies. Upon this representation, the King dispensed with his attendance in England: but two years after (14-16), some of the Lords and Commons petitioned his Majesty for his removal, setting forth, " That he was old and feeble, and had lost many of his old castles for want of defence, and therefore was not likely to main- tain, much less enlarge, the King's possessions in Ireland." Upon this he was dismissed, though ihe bishop and chapter of Cork, the Corporations of Cork and Youghall, the Lords Barry, Roche, and others, gave a full testimonial of his great services; which, however, had this good effect, that the next year, when the Earl of Shrewsbury, L.L. accused him of high treason before the Duke of Bedford, Constable of England, in the Marshal's court, the King quashed the accusation; and examining the cause himself, was so fully convinced of its being founded in malice, that he or- dered all the proceedings to be cancelled, and declared by patent, 20th September, 1448, « That the Earl of Ormond was faithful in his allegiance, meritorious in his services, and untainted in his fame: that no one should dare, on pain of his indignation, to re- vive the accusation, or reproach his conduct; and that his accusers were men of no credit, nor should their testimony be admitted in any case." And a writ reciting all this, dated 21st November, attested by his mortal enemy, Richard, Archbishp of Dublin, de- puty to his brother, Shrewsbury, was sent to the Magistrates of Limerick, and other towns, to cause proclamation thereof to be made throughout the kingdom. LORD BUTLER. ;i His Lordship was a great lover of history and antiquities, and gave lands for ever to the College of Heralds, for which, until the reformation of religion, he was prayed for in all their public meetings, and constantly after remembered as a special benefactor. He built the castles of Tuleophelim, Nenagh, Roscrea, and Templemore; and gave the manor and advowson of Huckcote, in Bucks, to the Hospital of St. Thomas D'Acres, in London, which was confirmed by parliament, 31 Henry VI. at the suit of his son. He married, first, Johan, daughter of Gerald, the fifth Earl of Kildare, who dying, 3d August, 1430, was buried in the said hospital; and, secondly, in 1432, Elizabeth, daughter of William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny, and widow of John, Lord Grey of Wilton; but by her, who died 6th August, 1452, a few days be- fore him, he had no issue; having by the first, three sons; First, James. Second, John. And, 3. Thomas, successive Earls of Ormond. And two daughters; Elizabeth, the second wife of John, the second Earl of Shrewsbury, and died on the Saturday after the na- tivity of the Virgin Mary," in 14J3; and Anne, who died unmar- ried, and lies buried in the church of Shene, in Surrey, under a marble gravestone, on the North side of the high altar, with this memorial : Hie j ace t Annafilia Comitis ^'Ormond, qua Obiit iv. die Januar. Anno Dni mccccxxxv. He died at Ardee, 23d August, 1452, on his return from an expedition against Connor O Mulrian, and was buried in St. Mary's Abbey, near Dublin; being succeeded by his eldest son, James, the fifth Earl of Ormond, and Eakl of Wiltshire in England, who was born 24th November, 1420, and knighted when very young by King Henry VI. with whom he was in great esteem. He attended Richard, Duke of York, Regent of France, into that kingdom; and, in consideration of his adherence and fidelity to the Lancastrian interest against the House of York, was created a Peer of England, 8th July, 1449, by the title of Earl of Wiltshire, to him and the heirs male of his body; and in 1450, constituted one of the commissioners, to whom the custody of Calais, the tower of Risebank, and Marches of Picardy, were n MS. Annals in Trin. Coll. fl PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. committed for the term of rive years. In 1451, he was made L. D. of Ireland; the next year, succeeding his father in the title of Orrnond, was appointed L. L. 12th May, 1453, for ten years; and that year going to England, he undertook, with the Earl of Salisbury, and other Lords, the guarding of the seas for three years, receiving the tonnage and poundage to support the charge thereof;0 also 15th March, 1455, was appointed Lord High Treasurer of England; and shortly after attended the King at the battle of St. Albans, where the Yorkists prevailing, he fled, casting his armour into a ditch; yet, on a turn of affairs, w^s re- stored to his post of Treasurer, 37 Henry VI. and the next year created a Knight of the Garter, and made Keeper of the forest or park of Pederton, in Somersetshire, and of Cranbourn Cbace, in the counties of Wilts and Dorset. He soon after fitted out five great ships of Genoa, to fight the Earl of Warwick's fleet, with which he sailed to the Netherlands ; but returning before the battle of Wakefield, fought 31st December, 1460, he commanded one wing of the army, which enclosed and slew the Duke of York, father of King Edward VI. but 29th Match, 146], being at the bloody battle of Tovvton Field, he was taken prisoner by Richard Salkeld; beheaded at Newcastle 1st May, and in the ensuing parliament, which met 4th November, attainted. He married three wives; first, Avicia, only daughter of John Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, Duke of Touraine, in France, and heir to her brother, Humphry, who died 16 Henry VI. j to his second, Avicia, daughter of Sir Richard Stafford, a great heiress; and to his third, Lienor, eldest daughter of Edmond Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and Earl of Montaigne, in Normandy, and co- heir to her brother, Edmond, Duke of Somerset, beheaded 5th May, 1471, two days after the battle of Tewksbury, for his adhe- rence to the Lancastrian line;»' but having no issue, was succeeded by his brother, John, the sixth Earl of Orrnond, and Baron Rochford, who was knighted at Leicester by the Duke of Bedford, the King's uncle,* for his faithful adherence to King Henry VI. for which he was also attainted ; yet by King Edw. IV. was restored in blood, and to all his estates, except the manor and hundred of Rochford, and other lands in Essex. That King was used to say of him, " That he was the goodliest Knight he ever beheld, and the finest gentleman in Christendom; and that if good breeding, nurture, and liberal • Lodgf. P U. i| i(j# LORD BUTLER. 73 qualities were lost in the world, they might all be found in John, Earl of Ormond." He was a perfect master of all the languages of Europe; and there was scarce a Court in it, to which that Prince did not send him as Ambassador; but, in a fit of devotion, making a journey to Jerusalem, he died in the Holy Land, 1478, unmarried, and was succeeded by his only brother, Sir Thomas Butler, the seventh Earl of Ormond, who was also attainted; but, in November 1485, restored by Henry Vllth's first parliament; and the statutes made at Westminster, 1 Ed- ward IV. which declared him and his brothers traitors, were utterly abrogated. He was soon alter sworn of the Privy-council of England; in 149 1, accompanied the King with a powerful army, in aid of Maximilian the Emperor, against the French; in I4(j2, was appointed Chamberlain to the Queen; and in Sep- tember that year, sent with Thomas Goldston, Prior of Canter- bury, Ambassadors to Charles VIII. King of France, to transact a treaty between the two Crowns. In 1494, he accompanied the L. D. into Ulster, when the territories of O Hanlon and Magen- nis were wasted; and 14th October, 14g5, was summoned as a Baron to the English parliament, by the title of Thomas Or- mond de Rochford; and in 1497, sent Ambassador to the Duke of Burgundy. He departed this life 8th August/ 1515, and was buried in the church of St. Thomas D' Acres, London, now called Mercer's Chapel, in Cheapside, with this epitaph to his memory, as pre- lerved by Weever: Hie jacet Thomas fi 'litis Jac. 6. Ormandice, ac f rater Jac. 6. Wilts et Orm: qui quidem Thomas ob. 2 die Aug. 1515, et Anno regni Regis Henrici 8. /• cujus, &c.s Leaving issue by Anne, daughter and heir to Sir Richard Hank- ford, by Anne, eldest daughter of John Montacute, the third r This appears by inquisition taken that year in the county of Dublin, find- ing that he diet] seised of the manors of Luske, Turvy, Rushe, and Ballscadden. He left 40,00c 1. in money, besides jewels, and as much land in England, as at this day would yield' 30,000 1. a year, so that he was said to be the richest subject of that time; on 31st July before, he made his will, and therein left to his grand- son, Sir Thomas Bulleyne, and his issue male, remainder to Sir Thomas St.Leger, and his issue male, remainder to the next issue male of his grandfather, James, Earl of Ormond, « a white horn of ivory, garnished at both ends with gold, and corse thereunto of white silk, barred with bars of gold." Lodge. * Weever, p. 400. 74 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Earl of Salisbury/ two daughters, heirs to his estate in England, containing seventy-two manors, with several other lands, and to several lands in Ireland ; whereof Anne, was married to Sir James St. Leger, ancestor to the family of Eggesford, in Devonshire} and Margaret, to Sir William Bullen, Knight of the Bath, by whom she had Sir Thomas Bullen, created 18th June, 1525, Baron and Viscount Rochford, and 29th November, 1527, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond; who dying in 1533, had issue by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk; George, Lord Rochford, beheaded 1/th May, 1536; and two daughters, the Ladies Anne and Mary; the younger of whom was married to William Carey, father by her of Henry, Lord Hunsdon: and the elder, 25th Jan. 15 J2, to King Hen. VIII. and after living his wife three years, three month-!, and twenty-five days, was beheaded 19th May, 1536, and buried in the chapel of the Tower, leaving one daughter, the Lady Elizabeth, born at Greenwich on Sunday, 7th September, 1533, who succeeded to the Crown of England and Ireland, on Thursday, 17th November, 1558. To Thomas, Earl of Ormond, succeeded his next heir male, Sir Pierce Butler, descended from Sir Richard, younger son of James, the third Earl of Ormond. Which Sir Richard was seated at Poolestown, in the county of Kilkenny, and married Catharine, daughter of Gildas O Reily, Lord of the county of Cavan; by whom he had. Sir Edmond Butler Mac Richard, who built the castle of Pot- letsrath, and the castle and bridge of Carrick, and dying 13th June, 1464, was buried in the Grey Friars, Kilkenny, leaving issue by Catharine (who died in 1506), daughter of Moelrony O'Carrol, Barbatus, three sons; First, Sir James. Second, Walter. And, Third, John, who had two sons; Pierce (the father of Richard Butler Fitz Pierce, who died childless) ; and John-Oge, whose son, William Butler Fitz-John-Oge,u was attainted of felony at Kil- kenny, and executed in Queen Elizabeth's reign. Walter, the second son, had issue, Edmond of Poolestown, who had four sons; Walter, Peter, Theobald, and Richard. Peter, the second son, was of Roscrea, and by his wife,, Catharine de 1 Lodge. a Lodge's Collect. LORD BUTLER. 75 Burgo, had three sons, who all died without issue, and were, Ed- mond; Walter, who being a commander under the Emperor, had given him the lordship of Hesberg, in Germany, which descended to the House of Poolestown ; and Theobald, who died in Poland in 1634. Walter Fitz-Edmond, the eldest son, who succeeded at Poolestown, had issue Sir Richard, his heir j Thomas, of Clonmore, in the county of Carlow, and a daughter, Joan.x Sir Richard, of Poolestown, died 20th August, 1619, leaving Edmond, Richard, Peter, and Walter. Edmond was then twenty-four years of age, and 20th November, l6"28, had a special livery of his estate. He married Eilice,v daughter of Nicholas Shortall, of Claragh, in the eounty of Kilkenny, and dying 2 1st April, ld36, was buried in Kilkenny, according to the directions in his will, bearing date the 13th, because his ancestors were used to be buried there ; having had issue, Walter, Theobald, Pierce, Richard, Thomas; Ellice, married to Murtogh C:ivenagh, of Garryhill, in the county of Carlow, Esq. Margaret, Anne, Elizabeth, and Ellen. Sir Walter, the eldest son, was created a Baronet by privy seal, dated at Ox- ford 19th April, 1643, and by patent, at Dublin 8th July, 1645, and marrying Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Richard, the third Viscount Mountgarret, left issue by her, who died 21st August, 1636, Sir Richard Butler, of Poolestown, the second Baronet, who died in 1686, leaving one son ^by his wife, Elizabeth, who remarried with Theobald Denn, Esq.) Sir Walter;2 and three daughters; whereof , was married to Pierce Aylward, of Shankill, in the county of Kilkenney, Esq. and had a son, Ni- cholas, the father of John Aylward, Esq. late of the same place; and Hester,3 in May 169S, to James Butler, of Cournellane, in the county of Carlow, Gent. Sir Walter Butler, the third Baro- net, was born in 1679, and died 8th October, 1723, having been for some time lunatic. He married in April 1697, Lucy, daugh- ter of Walter Butler, of Garryricken, Esq. and by her, who died in 1/03, had one son, Richard, who died before him, and a daughter, Mary, who after the decease of her mother, was taken into the care of her uncle, Thomas Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. by x It was agreed upon by bond, dated ioth January, 1573, that Richard should many Ellen, daughter of Gerald, and grand-daughter of Edmond Blanchvield, and that the said Gerald's eldest son, Leonard, should marry the said Walter Butler's daughter, Joan.* y Chan. Decree, dated 12th February, 1596. 2 Id. * Id. * Chan. Decree, dated 12th February, J .{96. ?G PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. whom she was sent abroad to a convent,, where sheb became a professed Nun. Sir James Butler (eldest son of Sir Edmond Mac Richard), sided with the house of Lancaster against King Edward IV. for which he was attainted j but when that King was settled on the Throne, he overlooked this mistake in his conduct, and an act of parliament passed in Ireland, repealing all attainders, judgments, and outlawries, against him the said James Butler Fitz-Edmoud Fitz Richard; and the King, in consideration of his faithful ser- vices from that time, granted him, 11th April, 1468, among other things, the manor and advowson of Callan, for life: and 12th October, 1477;> he was constituted by John, Earl of Ormond, his attorney and deputy, to manage his lands and jurisdictions in Ireland; by virtue whereof, he laid down a certain order for the reformation and good government of the town of Carrick. He was well beloved in his country, being a promoter of peace; was knighted, and built the castle of Nehom, near Gowran; but dying l6th April, 1487, was buried in the priory of Augustine Eremites at Callan, of which priory he was the founder. He married Sawe (Sabina), daughter of Donnell Reogh Mac Murrongh Cavenagh, Prince of his Sept, and by her, who died in J 508, left issue two sons, and two daughters. First, Pierce, who became Eighth Earl of Ormond. Second, John Fitz James Butler, Esq. whose only daughter and heir, Margaret, was married to Edmond Blanchville, of Blanchville's-Town, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. First daughter, Margaret, was the second wife of Sir Alex- ander Plunket, of Rathmore, Chancellor of Ireland in the reign of King Henry VII. Second, Ellice, the first wife of Sir George Fleming, of Ste- phen's-town, second son of James, Lord Slane, and was mother of James, who by Ismay, daughter of Sir Bartholomew Dillon, of Riverstown, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, had Thomas, who succeeded to the title of Slane, c and was ancestor to the Lord Slane. Sir Piekce Butler, the eighth Earl of Ormond, in 15 J 6, ac- companied the Deputy into Imaly against O Toole, O Carrol, and other rebels; and 6th March, 1521, was appointed L. D. to Thomas, Earl of Surrey, his intimate friend, who consulted him during his Administration, in all matters of moment; and he did * Chan. Decree, dated 1 2th February, 1596. e Lodge's Collect. LORD BUTLER. 77 very great service in suppressing rebellions, and distributing jus- tice to all good subjects. May 13th, 1524, he was made Lord Treasurer of Ireland ; and the King conferring the title of Ormond on Thomas Bullen, Viscount Rocheford, at his earnest suit, did in lieud thereof create Sir Pierce (who to satisfy the King's pleasure, had been contented to resign his ancient and rightful title of Or- mond), Earl of Ossory by patent, dated at Westminster 23d Fe- bruary, 1527, with the creation annuity of 20l. out of the manor of Newcastle of Lyons, in the county of Dublin. Soon after this he returned to Ireland, where, 13th May, 1528, he was chosen L. D. by the Council, and proceeding through the city on horseback to St. Mary's Abbey, was there sworn into that office. e And Thomas Bulien, Earl of Ormond, dying without issue male, the King, 22d February, 1537, restored him to the title of Ormond, which was confirmed to the family at the suit of his son, James, Earl of Ormond, by act of parliament 6th No- vember, 1541; and in consideration of the eminent services of himself and son, performed in the wars of Ireland, he had a grant and confirmation, dated at Westminster 23d October, 1537, to them respectively for life, and to the heirs male of his body, of all their estates f in the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Carlo w, d The King also, jth November, 1526, granted to him aid his heirs male, the manors, castles, and hereditaments of Callan, Ballycallan, Dammagh, Kylma- nagh, in the county of Kilkenny ; Lyssronagh, and Kylmore O Cushing, &:c. in Tipperary. e By patent, dated at Westminster 26th February, 1534, the King granted t» him and his heirs male, all such lands as he should conquer or recover from the Irish rebels in his dominions of Ossory, to hold in capite 3 and made him Senes- chal, Constable, and Governor of the manor and castle of Dungarvan, with the fee of 100 1. a year for life; remainder to his SJn and heir, James, for life 5 re- mainder to the son and heir of the said James, for life ; remainder to the King^ and his heirs for ever. And 31st May,* 1535, being, with his son, made Go- vernor of the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterford, and the territories of Ossory and Ormond, they engaged to use their utmost endeavours to recover the said castle of Dungarvan fiom the forcible intrusion of the Eail of Desmond; and to resist the usurpations of the Bishop of Rome; which Sir R. Cox observes, is the first engagement he had met with of that kind. f Consisting (among other hereditaments, of the manois of Gowran, Dun- fert, Knocktopher, Kilkenny, Glashare, Rosbarcon, Carrick, Killandule, Thurles, Knockgraffan, Nenagh, Rcscrea, Rathvile, Clonmore, Leighlin, Rushe, and Bal- lescaddan. (Lodge.) * Rot, Pat. Annjs 19, 2; Henry VIII. f. 78 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wexford, Waterford, and Wicklow, to hold by the service of one Knight's fee. He was a man of unshaken honour and integrity ; familiar and liberal to his friends; an enemy and severe scourge to rebels and malefactors; was very religious through the course of bis life; and every year, in the last fortnight of Lent, retired from all business, and lay during that time in a chamber near St. Canice church, called Paradise; where, by prayers and alms, he prepared himself for the reception of the sacrament on the approaching festival of Easter. He and his Lady, with whom he lived many years in great honour and prosperity, planted great civility in the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary; and, to give that people an example of industry, brought, from Flanders and elsewhere, arti- ficers, whom they employed in their castle of Kilkenny, to work diaper, tapestry, Turkey carpets, cushions, and other like works, some whereof remained there till of late years. He married in 14S5, Margaret,? second daughter of Gerald, the eighth Earl of Kildare, and dying in the favour of his Prince, and the love of his friends, 21st or 26th August, 153y, was buried under a monument in the chancel of St. Canice's church, leaving issue three sons, and six daughters; viz. First, James, his successor, commonly called the Lame. Second, Richard, created Viscount Mountgarret.h % She survived him a few years, and led a most exemplary life for charity and devotion; she built a school near the church-yard of St. Cninice ; rebuilt the castle of Gowran, and was called the great Countess of Ormomi. Stanihurst thus writes of her: " The Earl was of himself a plain simple gentleman, saving in feats of arms; and yet nevertheless he bare out his honour and charge of his go- vernment very worthily, through the singular wisdom of his Countess; a Lady of such port, that all the estates of the realm crouched unto her; so politic, that no- thing was thought substantially debated without her advice; she was manlike, and tall of stature ; very liberal and bountiful ; a secure friend ; a bitter enemy ; hardly disliking whe>e she fancied, not easily fancying, where she disliked." h Richard, first Viscount Mouritgarret, the second son, is described to have been a Knight of goodly personage, and as comely a man as could be seen; he was a very honourable and worthy gentleman, and performed many great services to the Crown of England ; as a recompense for which, the Lords of the Council, in their letter to the L. D. St. Leger, dated at Windsor 5th August, 1550, trans- mitted * the directions of King Edward VI. to create him Viscount Mountgarret,\ * Rot. Can. 4 Edward VI. d. f In the records, this name is variously written, as Monkegarret, Montegarrete, and in the patent of creation Montegarret. (Lodge.) LORD BUTLER. 79 Third, Thomas, slain by Dermoid Mac Shane, Mac Gill-Pa- trick, of Ossory, and left an only daughter, Margaret, first married which was accordingly done by patent, bearing date at Dublin 23d October follow- ing. In the reigns of that King and Queen Mary, he was Keeper of the castle of Femes; and 20th March, 1558 (1 Eliz.), joined in a commission of martial law with Sir Nicholas Devereux, for the territories of Faosaghbentry and Le-Moroes country: also, 13th April, 1.559, was in two several commissions for the preser- vation of the peace in the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Wexford, during the absence of the L. D. Sussex in the North, upon his expedition against Shane O Neile; and 12th January following, was present in the parliament then opened by the said L. D. He departed this life in 1571, and was buried in the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, in a tomb, whereon is engraven his effigies in ar- mour, with his feet resting against a dog, and a circumscription now defaced; what remains legible being Richardus Butler, Vicecomes Montgarret, Qui obiit 20. Decebris 1571 . He married to his first wife Eleanor, daughter of Theobald Butler, of Nechum, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. by whom he had Edmund, his successor ; secondly, Catharine, daughter and heir to Peter Barnewall, of Stackallan, in Meath, Esq. and by her he had a son, Barnewall, who died unmarried; thirdly, in 1 54 1, Anne, daughter of John Plunket, Lord Killeen, from whom he was divorced in the first year of their marriage: having issue in all, five sons, and four daughters ; viz. Edmund and Barnewall aforesaid ; Pierce, ancestor to the family of Caher, otherwise Clounegeragh ;* John and Thomas, who both left issue; EUice, or Cicely, mar- ried to Walter WaUh, of Castlehoel, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. (and by him, who died 19th May, 16 19, had five sons ; Robert, whose eldest son, Walter, when eighteen years old, succeeded his grandfather; Edmund, James, William, and John) ; Maigaret, to Sir Nicholas Devereux, the younger, of Ballymagin, in the county of Wexford, Knt. and had no issue ; Elinor, first, to Thomas Tobin, of Cumpshinagh, in Tipperary, Esq. secondly, to Gerald Blanchville, of Blanch- villestown, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. and, thirdly, to Thomas, Lord Cahier; and Ellen was the first wife of Sir Oliver Short-li, of Ballylarkin, in the said coun- ty, Knt. by whom she had James, his successor. Edmund, the second Viscount Mountgarret, did great service against the rebels of Leix, Upper Ossory, and other countries bordering upon the Pale, being a stout and valiant man ; and was well beloved in his country, especially in the county of * By deed, dated 2d June, 1653, his father enfeoffed John Devereux, Dean of Femes, and others, in the manor and lands of Caher, alias Clounegeragh, Sec. to the use (in part) of his said son, Pierce, and Margaret Devereux his wife, for life, and the remainder, in which Caher was included, to his heirs male. And he deceasing 30th June, 1599, had three sons, Edward, James, and Thomas, besides daughters : Edward, who succeeded, was twenty-two years old at his father's death ; built the house of Caher ; married Catharine, daughter of Sir Richard Masterson, of Femes; died 9th September, 1628, and left two sons, and two daughters i Pierce, Rkhard, Mary, and Joan. 80 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. to Rory O More, of Leix ; and, lastly, to Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, of Lackagh. Kilkenny, where he made his general abode, having a particular esteem for the inhabitants thereof, in whose quarrel and defence he was ever ready to spend his blood. In the parliament, held at Dublin 12th January, 1559, he represented the county of Carlow; and in August 1579, accompanied the L. D. in his Munster expedition against the Spaniards, sent over by their King. and the Pope, to disturb the Government. In 1585, he satin Sir John Perrot's parliament; and in \6cz, being sensible of his decline of life, he made his will, and therein recommends his soul to God, his Maker, Saviour, and Redeemer, and his body to be buried in hi» father's tomb; and deceasing 24th November that year, lies there interred. He married Grany, or Grissel,* daughter of Barnaby, the first Lord of Upper Ossory* and had issue eight sons, and as many daughters; viz. Richard, his successor. James, of Tullahinch, or Tenehensy, in the county of Carlow, engaged in the rebellion of 1641 ; he married Catharine, daughter and coheir to Thomas, Lord Slane, and widow of Pierce Butler, of Grangedouske, Esq. after which marriage he lived at Douske, and left f a son, Edmund, who married Susan, daughter of Tho- mas Luttrel,J of Luttrelstovvn, in the county of Dublin, Esq. Edward. Thomas. Pierce, of Killagheen, in Tipperary. Theobald, ofTynehinch, who married, first, Lettice, daughter of Fitz- gerald, of the Queen's County, by whom he had four sons, Gilbert, who left ns issue by his wife, Margaret Shee; Edmund, slain at Linch'sknctk, without issue; Edward ; and James, who married Ellen, daughter of Blanchville. His second wife was the daughter of Mac-Cody, and by her he had a daughter, Elinor. Gilbert; and John, both died young. Hellena was married to Walter, Earl of Ormond, and died jSch, January, 1631. Ellen, to Lucas Shee, of Upper-Court, Esq.§ * Decree in Chancery, 4th June, 1592. j Decree, 10th March, 1603, and Lodge. % Pedig. Earl Carhampton. ^ Sir Richard Shee, of Kilkenny, Knt. died 10th August, 1608, leaving twa sons ; viz. the said Lucas his heir, then thirty years old, and married ; and Marcus Shee, of Shee'stown, Esq. great grandfather to Richard Shee of that place, Esq. who died loth December, 1748, leaving by Dympha, daughter of Robert, Lord Trimbleston,3 Marcus, his heir, since deceased. Lucas, who married as above, was the pious founder of the hospital of Jesus, in Kilkenny, by his father's ap- pointment; and 4th November, 1608, certain ordinances, statutes, and constitu- tions were agreed upon by the L. D. Chichester and the Privy-council, for the Lodge. LORD BUTLER. 81 Lady Margaret, first married to Thomas, second son of the Earl of Desmond ; and, secondly, to Barnaby, the first Lord of Upper Ossory. Eleanor, the first wife to Morgan Mac-Bryan Cavanagh, Chief of the Sept, called Sleight-Dermot, of Polomonty, in the county of Carlow, who died at Bor- rass 19th June, 1636, and was buried at St. Molash, having sixteen children; of whom five sons, and four daughters survived, and were, Bryan, his successor, who married Ellen, or Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Colclough, of Tynterne, in the county of Wexford, Knt.; Charles, who married Uny, daughter of Sir Bryan Mac- Mahon, of the county of Monaghan, widow of Gerald Byrne, of Roscrea, Esq.} Arthur, who married Mary, daughter of Edmund Fitzgerald, of Brownsford, in county of Kilkenny, Esq.; Richard; Garret; Elinor; Graijy, married to John Comerford, of Ballybirt, Esq.; Elizabeth, to Edmund Wale, of Ruchlin, in the county of Carlow, Esq.; and Mary, to George Wolverston, of Piperstown, in the county of Dublin, Esq. Mary, to Bryan O'Connor, Esq. Elice (or Elizabeth), to Walter Dalton, otherwise Daton, of Killmodalin, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. Margaret, to Oliver Grace, of Carney, in Tipperary, son and heir to Gerald Grace, of Liegan, Esq. and he died in 1626. Anne, to Edmund Butler, Lord Viscount of Galmoy.* regulation of the master, brethren, and sisters, and of their estate. This hospital was founded for such as were either blind, lame, impotent, diseased, or aged, not able to work or get their living, and such as were poor, and not worth 5 1. He died 27th July, 1622, and was buried in St. Mary's church, Kilkenny, leaving by her, who survived him, two sons, and six daughters, Robert, his heir; Edmund, who left no issue by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Nicholas Dormer, of Ross, Esq.; Robert, the eldest son,a married Margaret, daughter and coheir to Sir Ri- chard Masterson, of Femes, and had Richard Shee, Esq. who carried an Irish regiment to Flanders, into the Spanish service, during the exile of King Charles 11^ most of which was lost at the siege of Arras. He married, first, Catharine, daugh- ter of Sir Richard Everard, Bart, by whom he had a daughter, Margaret, married to Richard, Lord Mountgarret, as will follow; and, secondly, Bridget, daughter of Malone, by whom he had Edmund Shee, of Cloghrane, Esq. whose son, Richard, died there in 1743, leaving an only son. * Pierce, or Peter Butler, of the abbey of Duiske, or Dowske, was also called Peter, or Piers Butler, of Grange-Douske, Esq. of which abbey, with all the spi- ritual and temporal livings thereto belonging, or parcel thereof, he was seised, by deed indented from Thomas, Earl of Ormond, dated 18th June, 1597, to hold to the heirs male of his body, in which he was succeeded by Edward, his son, (2) who married Catharine, daughter and coheir of Thomas Fleming, Lord Slane, who died oth November, 1597, and by her, who married Jam:s Butler, of Dowske, Gent, brother to Lord Mountgarret,1' had the said Edward, Viscount Galmoy, and Sir Richard Butler, of KnoctopKer, whose son, Colonel Thomas Butler of a Lodge. t> Chan. Decree at Rathfernon, 10th March, 1603. VOL. IX. G 82 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Lady Catherine, first married to Richard, Lord Poer; secondly, to James, Earl of Desmond, and died in 1552. Lady Joan, to James Butler, Lord Dunboyne. Joan, to William O'Farrell, of Ballintobcr, in the county of Longford, Esq. son of -O'Farrell (Bane), of Annally. Richard, the third Viscount, in 1599 (being then son-in-law to O'Neile, Earl of Tyrone), partook in his rebellion against Queen Elizabeth, and with his kindred that place, was engaged in the wars of 1641. Sir Edward Butler, 2d April, 1618, received a grant of the abbey of Duiske, with divers other lands, in the counties of Kilkenny, Wexford, and Carlow, which were erected into the manor of Graige- duiske, with power to hold there a Thursday market, and two fairs, on the feasts of St. Barnabas, and St. Simon and Jude. He resided at the Old-Abbey, and at Lowgrange, in the county of Kilkenny 5 and by privy seal, dated at Oxford 31st January, 1645, and by patent, 16th May, 1646, was created Viscount of Gal- moy, in the said county; by his said wife he had two sons, and two daughters; Pierce ; Thomas ; , married to • ■ Masterson, of the county of Wex- ford, Esq. and — — — , to Thomas Davells, of Killisheen, in the Queen's County, Esq. Thomas Butler, the younger son, died in 1667, and by Catharine, daughter of Geoffrey Fanning, of Ballingany, in Tipperary, Esq. who remarried with Charles Mac-Carthy, of Rathlin, in the county of Carlow, Esq.a had an only daughter, Anne, born in 1663, and married to William Coke, of Painstown, near Carlow, Esq. Governor of that county for King James II. whose son and heir, Thomas Coke, Esq. married Helen, daughter and coheir to Nicholas Purcell, Esq. titular Baron of Loughmoc, in Tipperary, great nephew to James, the first Duke of Ormond, and had issue one son, William, and one daughter, Anne, married in December 1750, to Thomas, Viscount Kenmare. Pierce Butler, of Barrow- mount, Esq. the elder son, was a Captain of horse in the King's army during the troubles, and being taken prisoner in the battle of Lampston, was killed (after safe quarter given), by Captain William Bolton, in 1650, his father then living, and having married, in November i6z6, Margaret, second daughter of Nicholas, Vis- count Netterville, left twelve children, of whom, Edward succeeded his grandfather. Nicholas died in 1653, without issue; Richard died in 1684, or 1678, leaving by Anne, daughter of Edward Wolley, Bishop of Clonfert, a daughter, married to Mr. Minchin, of the county of Tipperary; James died without issae; Edmund 5 and of the daughters, four were married 5 viz. Jane, to Walter Murray, of Rath- villy, in co. Carlow, Esq. Mary, first, to Mr. Lewis, of Ballyogan; and, secondly, to John Tobin, of Cumpshinagh, Esq. Frances, to Harvey Morres, of Castle- Morres, Esq. created Viscount Mount-Morres ; and Ellinor, to William Grace, of Ballylinch, Esq. Edward, the second Viscount Galmoy, married Ellinor, daugh- ter of Charles White, of Leixlip, Esq. widow of Sir Arthur Aston, Knt. and had issue, Pierce, his successor ; and Richard, who married Lucia, daughter of Cavenagh, Esq. and had a daughter, Sophia, wife to — — — Hay, of the county of Wexford ;b and a son, Pierce, of Newton and Urlingford, who married Domvile, Pedigree of Hay, penes J.L. b Lodge. LORD BUTLER. 83 Lady Ellice, first, to Mac Morrish; and, secondly, to Gerald Fitz John Fitzgerald, of Dromana, Lord of Decies. Lady Eleanor, to Thomas Butler, Lord Carrier. and followers, to the number of 130 foot, and 20 horse, held out the castles of Ballyragget and Colechill, or Cullihill. Being twenty-four years old at his father's death, he had a special livery of his estate 22d February, 1605 j* and sat in the parliament of 1613, 1615, and 1634; and after the rebellion of 1641 commenced, his Lordship being a man of years and experience, was joined in commission with the Earl of Ormond by the L.J. to govern the county of Kilkenny, and provide for the peace and security thereof; upon that Earl's removal to Dublin, to take upon him the command of the army, he was solely invested with the supreme au- thority of ordering the forces raised by the county, and securing it. But being alarmed by the designs, which (as was confidently said, and then generally be- lieved by the Roman Catholics), had been formed against the Lords of the Pale for extirpating their religion, with its professors, out of the nation, he came to a resolution of taking up arms, and to embark himself and family in op- youngest daughter of Sir Robert Hartpole, of Shrule, in the Queen's County, Knf. and dying in 1716, had four daughters, and three sons; Edmund, of Urlingford, after of Newtown, who married, and had issue five sons;1 William, of Bayswell; and Alderman Richard Butler, of Kilkenny, who died 28th June, 1753. Pierce, the third Viscounty was created LL.D. 6th August, 1677, by the Duke of Ormond, Chancellor of the University of Oxford ; commanded a troop of guards in King James's army; was outlawed nth May, 1691 ; and was one of the Commissioners for agreeing on the Articles of Surrender, on behalf of the Irish inhabitants of the city and county of Limerick, and the counties of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Sligo, and Mayo, which were ratified and confirmed by patent, bearing date at Westminster 24th May, i6c.i.u He married the daughter of Toby Mathew, of Thomas- town, in Tipperary, Esq. and left Edward, his successor, who was Colonel of foot in King James's army, and retired into France, where he died without issue; hence, had it not been for the attainder, the honour would have devolved on the aforesaid Edmund Butler, of Newtown, eldest son of Pierce, son of Puchard, youngest son of Edward, the second Viscount Galmoy.c * Which he afterwards surrendered to King James, and in consideration of his faithful and acceptable services, had a confirmation thereof 9th January, 16195 with the creation of the several manors of Bealaragged (Ballyragget), alias Do- naghmore, Cowlechill, Kenlis, Bollin, otherwise Ballyeyen, Urlingford, and Mountgarret, with power to hold courts ; to impark 2000 acres, with freewarren and chace ; liberty of tanning leather ; and to hold a Thursday market, and two fairs, on the feasts of St. Barnabas and St. Bartholomew, and the day after each at Ballyragget. Also, 9th January, 162 1, he had a further confirmation thereof by two patents ; and by virtue of the commission of grace, King Charles I. for the fine of 270 1. 9th February, 1638, released to him all his lands in the counties of Kilkenny and Wexford, confirming the aforesaid privileges. Lodge. b Id. c Id. 84 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Lady Ellen, to Donogh O'Biien, Earl of Thomond. James, the ninth Earl of Ormond, was a most honourable and worthy nobleman, and in great esteem with King Hen. VIII. posing a step, which appeared so destructive to his religion and interest. That this was his design, is manifest from his letter * to the Earl of Ormond, with the de- ** The letter runs thus : " My Lord, since I have been forced into this ge- neral cause by the example of some, as innocent and free from infringing of his. Majesty's laws as myself, who have been used in the nature of traitors, I forbore, for avoiding your displeasure, to acquaint you with my proceedings and other mo- tives therein : but now, for fear of being mistaken by the state, concerning my loyalty, and presuming of your Lordship's favour and good meaning towards me, I make bold to send you, here inclosed, an exact remonstrance of those principal grievances, that have procured this general commotion in this kingdom; where- with 1 shall humbly desire your Lordship to acquaint the L. J. and Council, to the end they may, by a fair redress of them, prevent the fearful calamities, that doubt- less shall ensue for want thereof. It is not my case alone, it is the cass of the whole kingdom; and' it hath been a principal observation of the best historians, that a whole nation, how contemptible soever, should not be so incensed by any Prince or State, how powerful soever, as to be driven to take desperate courses, the event whereof is uncertain, and rests only in the all-guiding power of the Omni- potent. This has been most lively represented by the French Chronicler, Philip de Comines, in the passages between the Duke of Burgundy and the Switzers. I need not press this matter further (a word is enough to the intelligent), and I cannot harbour any thought of your Lordship, but that you are sensible of the mi- series of this kingdom, whereof you are a native, and do wish the quiet and tran- quillity thereof. 1 do, for a further expression of my own sincerity in this cause, send to your Lordship here inclosed my declaration and oath, joined with others, which I conceive to be tolerable, and no way inclining to the violation of his Ma- jesty's laws, whereof I am and always will be very observant, as becomes a loyal subject, and « My Lord, " 25 March 1642. Your Lordship's humble servant, MOUNTGARRET." In confirmation hereof, It appears from the deposition of William Parkinson, of Castlecomer, Esq. that so little were his Lordship's inclinations to take up arms against his Majesty, that Walter Butler, of Poule'town, Walter Bagenal, of Dunleckney, and Robert Shee, of Kilkenny, Esqrs. were the chief instruments that made him do so; and so high was the insolence of those rebels grown, that the deponent had read a petition of one Richard Archdecne, Captain of the Irish- Town of Kilkenny, and the Aldermen of the city, directed to the Lord Mountgar- retand his Council desiring (among other things), that Philip Purcell, of Eallyfoile, Esq. his Lordship's son-in-la>\, might be punished for relieving the Protestants. Also, the titular Bishop of Cashel, Tullogh Oge O'Neile, brother to the arch rebel Sir Phelim, and the Popish citizens of Kilkenny, petitioned the rest of the council of Kilkenny, that all the English Protestants there should be put to death; where- LORD BUTLER. 85 In the last session of whose parliament, held 13th June, an act passed for confirming the title of Ormond, of the following tenor, viz. " Whereas sithence the 9th year of the reign of the noble claration and grievances incbsec' ; and this he was the better enabled to do, by reason of his alliance to most of the gentlemen of the county of Kilkenny ; who being generally of his religion, readily joined with him, and attended him with a numerous train to the city of Kilkenny, into which he was admitted, and there declared his reasons for taking possession of it, and entering into arms; and by public proclamation strictly enjoined all his followers, not to pillage or hurt the English inhabitants, either in body or goods; in which de- sign he so far succeeded, that there was not the least act of bloodshed com- mitted. Kilkenny being thus seised by his Lordship, he detached parties to secure other adjacent towns, which was done with such success, that in the space of a week, almost all the towns and forts in the counties of Kilkenny, Waterford, and Tipperary were in the power of these Irish forces ; after which, being chosen by those who prosecuted the same cause, General of all the forces raised by the gentlemen of the ccuntry, he marched into Munster, and took Dodd's Castle, with the castles of Knockordane, Ballahey, and Mallow; but the count r of Cork insisting upon making a General in their own province, he looked on himself to be principally levelled at, and retired with his forces into Leinstei, where he met the Earl of Ormond with a powerful army, and gave him battle at Kiilrush, in the county of Kildare, ioth April, 1642 ; but being entirely de- feated, he returned to Kilkenny, and was chosen President of the Supreme Council formed there in the Summer of 1642. March iSth following, he was at the battle of Rosse, fought by General Preston against the Marquis of Ormond ; and in 1643, with his son, Edmund (Roe), was at the taking of the castle of Borrass, in the Queen's County ; and with the Lords Netterville, Ikerrin, Upper Ossory, and Castlehaven, at ths siege of Ballynakill, which surrendered 5th May, after a siege first begun 26th November, 1641, during which time, about 900 men, women, and children, endured much want and misery, receiving very little relief from the state, and no arms at all ; so that upon the surrender, 753 were alive, the rest being slain, and dead by sickness. He continued to act in this war, but with as great mo- deration and care of the distressed Protestants, as the violence of the times would permit him to exercise ; and dying in 165 1, was excepted (though dead) from pardon for life or estate by Cromwell's act of parliament for the settlement of Ireland, passed 12th August, 1652, having been outlawed before. He lies buried under a handsome monument in the chancel of St. Canice church, with this inscription : unto Alderman Richard Lawless in excuse answered, that they were all robbed before, and he saw no cause that they should lose their lives; and at divers other times, when it was pressed that the English should be put to death, the Lord Mountgarret, with his son, Edmund, and his son-in-law, Purcell, by their strength, means, and persuasions, prevented it. 86 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Prince of famous memory, King Edward III. unto 6 Henry VIII. James, James, James, James, James, John, and Thomas Butler, Earls of Ormond, have had and enjoyed, the one after the other, D. O. M. Sacrum 111.'""5 ac Nob.mus D'nus Richardus Butler, Vicecomes de Mount: :garet, Baro de Kells, &c. t\ antiquissimis primaries in Hibernia Nobi: rlitatis Familiis oriundus, utpote Petri Butler Or* -.moniae et Ossorise Comitis, ac Margaretas Fitz: Gerald Filiae Comitis de Kildare, Pronepos. Vir Religione in Deum, Pietate in Patriam, Fidelita: :te in Regem, Pace Belloque conspicuus; de Rege, Regno, Ecclesia Dei, pro quibus farther periculo: :sis et maxime turbatis Temporibus stetit, optime Meritus; felicis ac fcecundaa Prolis Parens, sibi, Majoribus ac Posteris, hoc Monumentum pie posuit; Memoriam sui nunquam niorituram reliquit. Obiit Ille An'o 16— Defunctis et Nobilissimae Vice-Comitum De Mountgaret Familiae bene precare Viator. He married, first, Margaret, eldest daughter of Hugh O'Neile, Fail of Ty- rone, by whom he had three sons, and five daughters ; and, secondly, Tho- masine (who at her confirmation took the name of Elizabeth,* and was so called in 1619), daughter of Sir William Andrews, of Newport Pagnel, in the county of Bucks, who dying without issue in 1625, he married, thirdly, in July f 163T, Margaret, daughter of Richard Brantbwaite, Esq. Serjeant atLaw, and widow of Sir Thomas Spencer, of Yarnton, in Oxfordshire, Bart, where she was buried in 1655, having no issue by him. His children by the first wife were, First, Edmund (Roe), his successor; he resided at Bally roe, county of Kil- kenny, in the lifetime of his father.^ Second, Edward, of Urlingford, who married Mary, daughter of Edmund Fitz- Patrick, and being engaged in the rebellion, was apprehended in 1652, by Col. Daniel Axtell,§ Governor of Kilkenny, when several informations were taken * Ulster's Office. f Articles, dated 23d July, 1631. ~l Lodge. § Colonel Axtell (who, like many more of Cromwell's officers, knew better how to use the sword than the pen), gives the following account of his appre- hension, in his letter to the President of the High Court of Justice in Dublin, " My Lord, I have sent your Lordship the inclossed examination against Mr. Edward Butler, secount Son to the late Lord Mount Garrott, and 1 shall only give your Lordship my nowledge concerning him ; when I had rtceiv'd Orders LORD BUTLER. 8? the name, honour, degree, style, title, and dignity of Earl of Or- mond, with a yearly annuity of 101. Irish, in of and upon the fee farm of the city of Waterford, for the better maintenance of the against him, and he was examined personally 16th February, before Colonel Thomas Herbert and Robert Doily, members of the High Court of Justice (as it was called), sitting at Dublin, when he declared, that he had lived atUrling- ford for twenty years past or thereabouts ; that in 1 641, or the year after, he had the command of a foot company, which he laid down in 1642, and was not in arms since, but continued at his said dwelling-house, and from that time med- dled not with any military employment; and denied that he had been engaged in any acts of rebellion: but the contrary being fully proved by the depositions of Captain Abel Warren, and others, he was executed at Kilkenny. Third, Captain Richard Butler. Elizabeth was married to Sir Walter Butler, of Poolestown, Bart, and died 2 st August, 1636. Ellice, to Andrew Fitz-Patrick, of the Queen's County, Esq. Margaret, in July 1631, to Sir Richard Bealing,* of Tirrelston, in the county of Dublin, Km. and died 6th August, 1635^ from the Com. of Parlimt. to apprehend all such Perssons in these Parts that had bin guilty of sheedinge the English innoscent Blood in the first Year of the Rebellion, I send a Party in the Night to cease the said Butler, but he was not at hombe, and he hearing that thaire was a Cesuer of bloodguilty Persons, he fleed into the Bogs and Fastnesses (out of the Parliament Quarters), for his Safty, and thaire contenewed until he was going (in a disguise Habitt), to Spaine with some Irish officers, and prouidencially taken between Thomas-Town and Wa- terford by some soldiers (that knew him), of Cpt. Ffrankes Troop. I shall not ad, but remayne, my Lord, KilKeney, y Your Lordspp humble Servant Ffebb. 1652. D- Axtell." * He was son a and heir to Sir Henry Bealing, of Killessin, or Killessy, in the county of Kildare, by his wife, Maud, and was some time a member of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny, and died in September 1677, having seven sons; Sir Richard, Henry, James, Francis, Christopher, Marrion, and Alson;b and a daughter, Helen, the first wife of Sir John Hales, of Woodchurch, in Kent, Bart. Sir Richard, the eldest son, was Secretary and Treasurer of the Household to King Charles the lid's Queen ; and marrying, in December 1670, Frances, daughter and heir to Sir John Arundel, of Langherne, in Cornwall, his children by her (who died 6th December, 1713. at. 62), were obliged to take the name of Arundel, to enable them to inherit her estate; whereof Mary (or Catharine), was married to Sir John Fleming, of Staholmuck (son of James, third son of William, Lord Slant), and the eldest son, Richard Arundel Beal- ing, of Langherne, Esq. married Anne, sister of Thomas, Viscount Gage, and f Articles, 16 Aug. i6%$. Rot. Claus. de As. 7, 8 Car. I. D. » Harris's Ware, 165-. b Lodge Collect. S8 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. said name of Earl of Ormond; and from the decease of the said Thomas, which died the said 6 Henry VIII. unto the lQth year of his Grace's reign, for that the said Thomas, late Earl of Ormond, ", to Philip Purcell, of Ballyfoile, Esq. a Captain in the rebellion of Joan, first, to Sir Richard Masterson, of Femes. Knt. to whom she was second wife; and he dying in 16.27, she remarried with Sir Philip Paulet, of Garrylough, in the couny of Wexford (fourth son of Sir Anthony Paulet, Go- vernor of Jersey, and Captain of the guard to Queen Elizabeth, son and heir to Sir Amias Paulet), and dying in 1633, had issue by him, who died 16th May, 1636, and was buried at Femes, Joseph, who died unmarried, and Mary. Edmund (Roe), the fourth Viscount Mountgarret, in January 1641, was one of the Commissioners, deputed by the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford, to take the city of Waterford into their government, and to seize all the goods of the English, for the maintenance of their war, which they called the Holy War of the Confederate Catholics ; but the Mayor and Council of the city prevented that attempt, and about the middle of March following, procured ships for the escape of the Protestants. He acted in concert with his father during the progress of the rebellion; whose example he followed in pro- tecting the English, and endeavouring to restore peace to the kingdom : " of which King Charles II. was abundantly satisfied, and particularly by certificate 'of the Marquis of Ormond, and other good testimonies, that he was very active and earnest to incline the Irish to a submission to King Charles I. in 1646, and did then solemnly publish the peace in the city of Kilkenny, whereof he was Governor, for which he was committed by the opposers thereof, who kept him in durance for the space of three months ; yet, after the interruption of that peace, he used his utmost endeavours to restore it; corresponded with the Marquis, then L. L.; offered to come to him to Dublin ; and followed him to France, where he tendered his service to the King; attended the Marquis to Ireland in 1648, and constantly adhered to his Majesty's authority, employing both his person and purse in his service; acting as Colonel of a foot regiment, and Captain of horse in his army, until the Marquis's recess from Ireland; with whom he went again into France, and attended his Majesty's fortunes abroad, serving as a Captain of foot in his army. The King therefore being dying in February 1724, left two daughters his coheirs; Frances, married 21st June, 1733, to Sir John Giffard, of Burstall, in Leicestershire, Bart, who died in June 1736, and was there buried; and Mary, 27th January, 173S, to Henry, then eldest son of Henry, Lord Arundel of Wardour, whom he succeeded in 1746, and had two sons; Henry, bom nth April, 1740; and Thomas, 4th October, 1742; his Lordship dying 12th September, 1756, was succeeded by Henry, who, 31st May, 1762, married Maria-Christina, only daughter and hen to Benedict Conquest, of lrnham, in the county of Lincoln, by whom his Lordship had issue.* Set Vol. VII. art. Arundel ,f Wardour. a Collins, Vol. VII. p. 54. LORD BUTLER. 89 died without issue male of his body, Peter Butler, Knight, as cousin and next heir male to the said Thomas, that is, the son to James, son to Edmund, son to Richard, brother to James, father sensible of the many hardships his Lordship had suffered for him, both at home and abroad, conceived himself bound in honour and justice, to re-establish him in the possession of his estate, whereof he had been deprived by or under colour of any actings of any usurped power in Ireland ; and accordingly, in his publie declaration touching Ireland, provided for him by name, as meriting a parti- cular reward and favour ; and to render that intended grace the more speedy and effectual, his Majesty, by letter from Whitehall,* ist March, 1660} re- quired that special care might be taken for his immediate restoration and esta- blishment in his estate," which was performed accordingly by the acts of set- tlement; his Lordship having received a pardon, dated at Westminster 12th December before, for all treasons, levying of war, rebellions, insurrections, &c- committed before 10th June, 1659, and 12th July, 1670, had an abatement of the quit-rents, imposed on his estate, by the acts of settlement. -(• He married ta his first wife the Lady Dorothy Touchet, second daughter of Mervyn, Earl of CaMlehaven, and by her, who died at Park's-Grove, near Bally- ragget, icth February (being Sh rove-Tuesday), 1634, and was buried the nth, in the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny,! had two sons, and two daughters ; First, Richard, his successor. Second, James, who died young ; Margaret, who died unmarried; and Eliz-ibeth, married to Sutton, of the county of Wexford. He married, secondly, in 1637, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Simeon, of Brightwell, in the county of Oxford, Knt. by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Edward, Lord Vaux, of Harrowden, and dying iu 1679 § (oppressed with age and infirmities, having been for some time bed-rid), had issue by his second wife, who died iSth February, 1 673,(1 anc^ was buried at St. Michan's, Dublin, a daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, Edward Butler, of Ballyragget, Esq. for whose restoration to his estate of Ballyragget, Bailymartin, Knockroe, Damerstown, &c. (settled on him by a. fine, levied 13th December, 1670), chargeable with ioool. for the fortune of his sister, Elizabeth,** which had been possessed by Colonel Daniel Axtell, the King sent his directions, 4th December, 1660, in pursuance whereof he was confirmed therein by the acts of settlement. He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Matthew, of Thomastown, in Tipperary, Esq. by whom he had * Rot. Can. 13 Car. II. 3. p. f. R. 6. f Lodge. % Idem. § By his will, dated 13th October, 1673, he bequeathed to his son, Ed- ward, all his goods and chattels, rents, debts, and credits, and appointed him executor; and by a codicil, dated 28th June, 1678 (proved 24th June, 1679), gave to his son, Richard, ahorse of iol. price, or 10I. to buy one; to his daughter, Sutton, iol.; to his sister, Elizabeth Butler, of Paulstown, 10L; to his sister, Ellis Fitz-Patrkk, iol. ; and to his uncle, Theobald Butler, of Tynehinch, iol.B II Ulster's Office. ** Lodge. a Prerog. Office. go PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, to the said Thomas, late Earl of Ormond, as well by our Sovereign' Lord the King that now is, Grace's sundry letters patents, and many his letters missives and otherwise, as also by all others has three sons; Edmund, who, 13th October, 1694, married Rose, daughter of O'Neile, of Dublin, Esq. and died without issue; George; Pierce, who died childless ; and a daughter, Anne, married to Dudley Bagenal, of Dunleck- ney, in the County of Carlow, Esq. and was mother of Walter Bagenal, Esq. who died in 174J, leaving Beauchamp, his heir, and other children. George Butler, of Ballyragget, Esq. 20th May, 1700,* married Catharine, eldest daughter of John, Lord Kingston ; he died 19th September,f 17 3 z, hav- ing had issue by her, who died in April 1762, three sons, and two daughters ; James; Edmund, born in 1721 ; Gerard-Alexander, in 1725; Mary, married to Ralph Standish-Howard, Esq. only son to Ralph Standish, of Standish-Hall, in Lancashire, Esq. (and by him, who died of the small-pox at Kilkenny, in April 1735, had one son, born 2zd October following) ; and Frances, married 15th November, 1740, to Sir John Stanley, of Nether-Alderiey, in Cheshire, Bart, whose great-grandfather, Thomas, 25th June, 1660, was advanced to that dignity. James Butler, Esq. the eldest son, born in March 171 1, married on 18th May, 1734, Frances, daughter and heir to Robert Dillon, of King- street, Dublin, Esq. Counsellor at law (who died 6th March, 1735, and lies buried under a table monument in St. James's church-yard), by his first wife, Mary (and she died in childbirth of the said Fiances, being the first child), J eldest daughter of Sir Richard Talbot, of Malahide, Esq. (who died in August 1703), by his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Robert Talbot, of Cartown, Bart, and deceasing at Ballyragget, 20th March, 1746, had issue by her, who died 17th November, 1749, George, who died 10th March, 1735, and was buried with his grandfather at St. James's ; Robert, who married, first, the daughter of Lord Bellew ; secondly, 7th September, 1779, Elizabeth, daughter of Mar- maduke, late Lord Langdale, and dying in June 17SS, was succeeded in his estates by his next surviving brother, James, titular Archbishop of Cashel; Edward, James, George, and Mary. Richard, the fifth Viscount Mountgarret, in the reign of Charles II. served abroad as Captain in the French army; but, after King James's accession to the throne, returned to Ireland, was made a Captain of horse, and 4th June, 1689, led on the forlorn hope against the city of Londonderry, when he was taken prisoner, for which and his other services, he was outlawed, and forfeited his estate; 29th October, 1692, he laid claim to his seat in parliament, and took the oath of fidelity ; but being required to take the oath of supremacy, and * Marriage Articles, 14th February, 1699 (whereby she had 2,5001. for- tune, and a jointure of 500 1. per ann.) f He made his will 2d August, 1750, and left her sole executrix and heir.a X Lodge. Collect. a Prcrog. Office. LORD BUTLER. gi been named, reputed, accepted, and taken as Earl of Ormond, and had and yearly received the said annuity of 10 1. Irish; and after again our said most dread Sovereign Lord by his letters pa- make and subscribe the declaration according to act of parliament, he refused so to do, declaring it was not agreeable to his conscience;* whereupon the Lord Chancellor acquainted him, that he knew the consequence cf his refusal was, he could not sit in that house; and, 19th October, 1698, the Lords came to this resolution : that those Lords, whose ancestors stand outlawed, shall not sit in this House, nor their names be continued in the roll of this House in right of such ancestors. And, that such Lords, who stand outlawed on record, shall not have privilege to sit in this House, but ought to be struck out of the roll of this House. -j- From which privileges (though the outlawry was re- versed), this noble family was excluded, on account of their religion, except Richard, the seventh; and Edmund, the ninth Lord, who conformed to the established Protestant religion, in which persuasion he educated his son. His Lordship married, first, Emilia, daughter of William Blundel, of Crosby, in the county of Lancaster, Esq. by whom he had three sons ; Edmund, his heir; Richard, and John, whose posterity reside abroad ; and two sons, and a daughter, who died young. His second wife was Margaret, only daughter of Richard Shee, of Shee's-Court, Esq. and widow of Gilbert Butler, by whom he had no issue, and dying in February 1706, was succeeded by his eldest son.t * Lords Jour. I. 466. f Ibid. I. 690. \ November 15th, 171;, he complained to the House of Peers of a breach of privilege committed against him, when their Lordships appointed a com- mittee to enquire whether his father, Richard, or any of his ancestors, under whom he derived his honour, is or were outlawed of high treason, and whether such outlawry or outlawries remain of force : and upon report from the said Lords committees, it appeared to the House, that the outlawry of Richard, Lord Viscount Mountgarret, for the rebellion of 1641, was not reversed. Where- upon, they ordered his Lordship's name to be expunged out of the list of Peers. But his Lordship at that time not being able to offer sufficient proofs of the re- versal of the said outlawries, deferred doing so, until 5th October, 1721, when, by petition, he prayed the aforesaid premises to be taken into consideration, and to grant him a re-hearing. The petition was referred to a select committee of all the Lords present ; and the Lord Viscount Strabane reported from the said Lords committees, that, on examination of the matter to them referred, and from the testimony of Mr. Thady Dunn, it appeared, that Philip Sava ge, Esq. in the year 1637, was Clerk of the Crown of the Court of King's Bench, and the said Dunn produced an affidavit, sworn by the said Philip Savage, be- fore Godfrey Boate, Esq. one of the Judges of the said Court, 24th November, 1716, which the Lords committees thought proper to" lay before the House, and is as follows : Philip Savage, Esq. late Clerk of the Crown, and Prothonotary of his Ma- jesty's Court of King's Bench, Ireland, came this day before me, and made oath on the Holy Evangelists, that he being in. Trinity Term, iCj;, and for 92 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. tents the 29th year of his reign, made to the said Peter, did name the said Peter, Earl of Ormond, sithence which time the said Peter till his death, and James, his son and heir, father unto these pre- Edmund, the uxtk Viscount, who, by petition to the House of Lords, 5th October, 17ZI, claimed his privilege of parliament; which (upon full proof that the outlawry of Richard, Lord Mountgarret, for the rebellion of 1641, had several years before and after, and until the month of August 171 5, Clerk of the Crown, and Prothonotary of the said Court of King's Bench, did, pursuant to the annexed rules of the said Court of King's Bench, 10th June, 1687, cause records of judgment of reversal of two several outlawries, grounded on indict- ments of high treason; viz. one in the county Cork, and the other in the county of Kildare, alledged to be committed by Richard (heretofore), Lord Vis- count Mountgarret, in the rebellion, which broke out in this kingdom, 23d October, 164.1, to be made up and enrolled, for which this deponent did about that time, receive the fees due to him for making up and enrolling the same; and this deponent is very sure the same were made and enrolled accordingly, he having perused and often seen the said roll in the said office, and did, by order of the House of Peers of Ireland, cause certificates of the said reversal to be made out and certified to the House of Peers, and to the King at Arms of the said kingdom, the first time the parliament sat in this kingdom after the rebel- lion, which was in the year 1688; and this deponent further deposeth, that though there were several writs of error brought to reverse the outlawries against several other Lords of the said kingdom, for the said rebellion of 1641, whose heirs brought such writs of error as aforesaid, and obtained the like rules for their reversal, yet they were not reversed, nor the records of their reversal made up and enrolled, by reason none of them required the same to be done, except the said Lord Viscount Mountgarret, and Pierce, heretofore Lord Vis- count Ikerrine, whose records of reversal were made up and enrolled, as afore- said. And this deponent further deposeth, that several records of his said office, being in the late troubles of this kingdom, removed to several places, to be for safe custody kept, and likewise being to this deponent's certain know- ledge, several times carried by this deponent's deputy to the House of Peers, and to the late trustees of forfeitures in this kingdom, pursuant to an act of parliament made in England, the said records of the reversal of the said Lord Mountgarret's said outlawries, are, by that means, as this deponent verily be- lieves, mislaid. Jur. cor me 24° Die Novembris 1716. P. SAVAGE. GODFREY BOATE. Said Dunn further deposed, that a motion was made in the Court of King's Bench, upon the said Savage's affidavit, in Michaelmas term 1716, as he be- lieved, but no rule was made thereon. And Richard Butler, Esq, deposed, that he was in the Court of King's Bench, when the said Court was moved by Sir Richard Levinge, then a Counsel at the Bar, upon the said Savage's affidavit, and to have the ucord made up of the reversal of the outlawry of Richaid, late LORD BUTLER. 93 sent, has by our said Sovereign Lord and all others, been named, called, accepted, and taken, as Earl of Ormond aforesaid. In consideration whereof, and for the right, faithful, and laudable been reversed in the year 1687), being allowed by a resolution of the House, he delivered his writ of summons the 9th of that month, and took the oath of allegiance. He married, first, Mary, daughter of- Buchanan, of London- derry, Esq.; and, secondly, Elizabeth, widow of Oliver Grace, of Shanganagh, in the Queen's County, Esq. which Oliver died 8th June, 1708, and his Lady dying in London, 13th June, 1736, was buried in the church of St. Giles in the Fields; and his Lordship departing this life in Dublin, 25th June, 1735, was buried at St. Canice, Kilkenny ; having issue three sons, successive Lords of Mountgarret, and one surviving daughter, Emilia, married in 1712, to Hugh Reilly, of Ballinlough, in the county of Meath, Esq. who dying without issue, he remarried Elinor, only daughter of Sir David O'Neile, Bart, and dying 8th August, 1761, aet. 77, left a son of that place.* Richard, the eldest son, and seventh Viscount, took his seat in parliament 7th October, 1735, f but did not long enjoy the honour. Deceasing in Dublin, 14th May, 1736, he was buried in St. George's church. October 19th, 171 1, he married Catharine,J sister to Charles O'Neile, of Edenduffecarrick, of Shane's-Castle, in the county of Antrim, Esq. and leaving no issue by her, Lord Viscount Mountgarret, in the year 1641 ; but that Lord Ch. J.Whitshead, upon inquiry whether the Attorney-General had been attended, and being in- formed that he was not, the Court thought proper not to make any rule there- upon. All which the Lords committees thought fit to lay before the House, and is submitted to your Lordships. The resolutions of this House of 16th December, 1715, were then read. Resolved, that upon reading the journals of this House, and consideration had of the report made by the Lords committees, to whom the consideration of the petition of Edmund Butler, late upon the roll of Peers of this House, by the name of Edmund, Lord Viscount Mountgarret, was referred, it appears to this House, that the two outlawries of Richard, Lord Viscount Mountgarret, for the rebellion, which began in this kingdom on 23d October, 1641, are reversed. The order for expunging the name of Edmund, Lord Viscount Mountgarret out of the List of Peers of the House, 16th December, 1715, being then read, it is ordered by the Lords in parliament assembled, that Ulster King of Arms do forthwith insert into the list of Peers of this House, the name of said Ed- mund, Lord Viscount Mountgarret. Pursuant to these resolutions of the Lords in his favour, he delivered his writ of summons in the usual manner, 9th October, and took the oath of alle- giance; but the declaration and oath of abjuration being read to him, he re- fused to take the one, or make the other, but desired leave to consider thereof, and then withdrew. (Lords Jour. II. 461, 462, 700, 701, 702.) * Lodge. f Lords Jour. III. 3c 1. + Articles of that date. 94 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. service which the said Peter, and James, his said son and heir, ever have done the King, our said Sovereign Lord's Majesty, his Highness of his most bounteousness and goodness, extended to who died ijth April, 1739, ana" was buried at St. Michan's, Dublin, the honour devolved on his brother, James, the eighth discount, who served many years in the Emperor's army ; and in the campaign on the Rhine against the French in 1735, signalized him- self. In January 1736, he married Margaret, second daughter of John, Lord Trimleston, but dying suddenly without issue, 13th May, 1742, was succeeded by his only brother, Edmund, the ninth Viscount Mount garret, who conformed to the established church, 7th November, 1736, and 10th October, 1749, took his seat in parlia- ment.* He married Anne, eldest daughter of Major Toby Purcell, of Bally- martin and Cloghpooke, in the county of Kilkenny, and died 6th March, 1750, leaving by her, who died in June 1764, an only son, Edmund, the tenth Viscount, sworn a Barrister at Law, 25th November, 1749 ; took his seat in House of Peers, nth November, 1751. f In 1744, he married Charlotte, second daughter of Simon Bradstreet, Esq.* Counsellor at Law, and by her, who died at Paris, 27th March, 177S, and was interred at Barony Church, near Ballyconra, had issue three sons, and two daughters ; viz. First, Edmund, his successor. Second, Richard, § entered into Holy Orders, and was presented to the rec- tory and vicarage of Tullophelim, in the county of Carlovv. Died August 1795. Third, Simon, f| Counsellor at Law, married, January 18th, 1795, Miss Lynch, and died May 19th, 1797. Elinor** died 28th April, 1762, aet. 15, unmarried ; and was buried at Ba- rony Church. Anne-Emilia,ff unmarried. His Lordship deceasing 9th Febmary, 1779, was interred with his Lady in Barony Church, near Ballyconra, in the county of Kilkenny, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edmund, the eleventh Viscount, who was born 27th July, 174$, took his seat in parliament, 26th November, 1779, XX ancl' married, 7th October, 1768, * Lords Journals, III. 719. f Ibid. 790. J Simon Bradstreet, Esq. Counsellor as Law, was created a Baronet 14th July, 1759; he married the daughter of Bradstreet, of Kilkenny, Esq. and died 26th April, 1762, leaving issue by his relict, who deceased 25th De- cember, 1779, Sir Simon, the second Baronet, who married, 9th October, 1755, Anne, sister to the late Right Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart, and dying with- out issue, was succeeded by his only brother, Sir Samuel, Barrister at Law, chosen Recorder of Dublin, which city he represented in parliament, till 13th January, 1784, when he was constituted a Justice of the Court of King's Bench. The daughters were, Emilia, married to Colonel Zobell, deceased ; and Char- lotte, married as before. (Collections. J § Ulster's Office. || Id. ** Id. ft Id- XX Lords Jour. V. 141. LORD BUTLER. 95 the said James, son to the said Peter, and to the intent that all desires, ambiguities, arguments, reasons, and questions for the title that hereafter mought chaunce to sourde rise, or be made to the said James, or any other the heir male of the body of the said Peter, concerning the same name of honour of Earl of Ormond, and the annuity aforesaid of 101. Irish; is contented and pleased that it be enacted and established by this present parliament, that the said James, and the heirs male of the body of the said Peter, his said father, have, hold, inherit, and enjoy the said name, honour, degree, style, title, and dignity of Earl of Ormond, and the said annuity of 101. Irish, to be provided off the said fee farm, of the said city of Waterford, for the better maintenance of the said name of honour of Earl of Ormond, in as ample manner and form, and with the like preheminences and auncientie as any the above named Earls of Ormond at any time has had, used, or enjoyed,-" which act of parliament was exemplified by an inspex- imus at the instance of Thomas, Earl of Ormond and Ossory, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, 10th April, 15/3, 15 Eliza- beth. On 5th July, 1532,' he was made Lord High Treasurer of Ireland for life; after which, he had a special livery (without date), of his estate, granted to him as son and heir of Earl Pierce deceased ;k and 11th May, 1535, was appointed Admiral of the kingdom, with the custody of all the ports thereof. In 1534, he to Lady Henrietta Butler* (born 15th August, 1758), youngest daughter of Somerset Hamilton, the eighth Earl of Carrick, and by her, who deceased in 178$, his Lordship has issue four sons, and one daughter; viz. Edmund, born 6th January, 177 1,-f- prcent Peer. Somerset-Richard, born in December 1771,^ married Mrs. Kelly. Henry, born in February i773-§ Pierce, born 6th May, 1 774.IJ Charlotte-Juliana, born 6th August, 1778,** married, August 7th, 1779, John Carrington Smith, Esq. His Lordship dying July 17th, 1792, was succeeded by his son, Edmund, twelfth Viscount, who was created Earl of Kilkenny, December 20th, 1793. His Lordship married, June 20th, 1793, Elizabeth Fowler, eldest daughter of Dr. Robert Fowler, Archbishop of Dublin. 1 Enrolled. 15 Jac. I. i» p. D. R. 7. k Rot. pat. de As. 28, 29, 30, 31 Henry VIII. f. * Ulster's Office. f Id. } Id' § W. |Id. ** Id, q6 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. not only refused to join with his kinsman, Thomas, Lord OfFaley, in his rebellion, who earnestly solicited his concurrence by letter; but in his answer told him, he had rather in that quarrel die his enemy, than live his partner; and when that Lord thought to force him to a compliance, by invading his lands, he resolutely opposed him, and in an engagement at Jerpoint, near Thomas- town, slew many of his followers; but being himself sore wound- ed, was carried to his house at Dunmore; and the enemy appre- hending another battle with fresh forces, retired out of the coun- try, and were soon after subdued. He was created Viscount Thurles, by patent 2d January, 1535, the Privy Seal for which runs thus : " By the King, " Trusty and right well beloved, we greet you well, and woll and command you, that with convenient speed ye, under our Great Seal, of that our land of Ireland, being in your custody, ye address out in due form, our letters patents for the creation to the honour, name, style, and dignity, of our right trusty and well be- loved counsellors, the Lord Jamys Buttler, High Treasurer of that our land of Ireland, to the name of Viscount Durles, and the Lord Leonard Grey, Marshal and Lieutenant of our Army within the same, to the name of Viscount Grane, in like form and manner as was used in the creation of Viscount Gormanston. And these our letters shall be your sufficient discharge in this behalf. Yeven undre our signe at the town of Southamptone, the thirde day of October, the 27th year of our Reign. " To our Right Trustie and well beloved counsellor of Trvm- leston, Lord Chancellor of our land of Ireland, or to any other having the custody of our Great Seal."1 May 31st, 1535, he was made joint Governor, with his father, of the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterford. In 1536, he timely opposed the disturbances in Munster, begun by James, Earl of Desmond; and the L. L. Grey going to England with the Fitz-Geralds, he marched to Cloamell, to extinguish the remains of their rebellion, which he did, by reducing Dungarvon, Youg- hall, Cork, and other places of strength; and restored peace and quiet to the whole country. In consideration of his services to the Crown, he had a grant, > Rot, As. zi, 28, 29, 30 Henry VIII. f. LORD BUTLER. 97 4th January, 1539, of the priory and rectory of Kenlis, &rc. ia the county of Kilkenny; the manors of Rathvillie, Clonmore, and other lands of the ancient possessions of the Earls of Kildare. Also, 5th May, 1542, the King conveyed to him and his heirs the moiety of the monastery of the Friars Minors of Clonmell, with all the lands thereto belonging,,to hold by the eighth part of a Knight's fee. He was commissioned, 8th August, 153p, to pursue and take into protection the rebels of Connaught, and such as were in arms in the South parts of Monster: and 10th April, 1543, was, by special commission, authorized to levy and lead men through the counties of Tipperarv, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Ormond, and Desmond; to imprison as he saw fit; to pursue and give protec- tions for suppressing rebels, and quieting the country; and the next year was, with others, sent by the L, D. and council, into Clanrickard, to pacify a tumult raised there, after the death of Ulick, chief of that country, which he soon performed. In 1545, at the King's instance, he went General of the Irish forces into Scotland, in aid of the Earl of Lenox, with twenty-eighty ships, to recover that Earldom to Matthew Steuart, of which he had been dispossessed; but without success; for when he came upon the Scotch coast (where the Hamiltons had promised to deliver the castle of Dunbritton to Lenox), he perceived a vast army ga- thered to oppose him, whereupon, by common assent, he returned into England; and 17th October, 154(3, himself and thirty-five of his servants were poisoned at a supper at Ely-House, in Holborn, of whom, James White, Steward of his household, and eighteen more died, and he languishing until the 28th, then deceased. His body was interred in St. Thomas D' Acres, according to the orders he had given in a codicil to his will, but his heart was brought into Ireland, and deposited in the cathedral of Kilkenny. His will, whereby he disposes of his estate, bears date 10th March, 37 Henry VIII. and the codicil, 18th October of that King: in which, after directing his burial, he says, " Item, That my sonne and heyre being in the Prince Grace's Court, shall have me basinc and ewer, which I have here, a silver pott, a salte, a nywe boll, a trencher, and a spone of silver. Item, my wyfe to have me best bracelet of golde sent her for a token. Item, to me Lord Chan- cellor of England, me nywe gilded goblet, with the cover, for a token. Item, Mayster Fitz-Williams to have a nywe boll of them that were made of late, for a token. Item, Mayster Houthe to have his pension of twenty nobles yearly duryng his lyfe. Item, VOL. IX. H 98 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Lewes Bryane to have White's- Wall duryng his lyfe free, as he hath it before;" with several other legacies. He married Joan, daughter and heir to James, eleventh Earl of Desmond, with whom he had the manors of Clonmell, Kill- sherlane, and Killfeacle, in Tipperary, and had a special livery of his estate (no date), granted by King Henry VII I. m and by her (who after married, first, Sir Francis Bryan, Knight Marshal of Ireland; and, secondly, Gerald, Earl of Desmond, and died in 1564:), had seven sons; viz. First, Thomas, Viscount Thurles, his successor. Second, Sir Edmond Butler, of Roscrea and Clougbgrenan, who, in 1502, was in commission for preservation of the peace in the county of Carlow, during the Deputy's absence in the North against Shane ONeile; and in 156/ was knighted, and had a grant for the return of all writs in the cantreds of Oremon, Elyo- gerth, and Elyocarrol, in Tipperary : but after this, with his bro- thers, Edward and Pierce, he went into rebellion, raised great commotions in Munster, and was declared a traitor; yet, on his submission, being pardoned, and with his brother, Pierce, surren- dering his estate to the Queen, 10th October, 1570, had a pardon (together with their brother, Edward), dated at Gorhambury, 12th March, 1573, of all their treasons," after which he did great service in Leix against the O Mores. He married Eleanor, second daughter cf Sir Rowland Eustace, Viscount Baltinglass, sister to James, Viscount Baltinglass (who was in rebellion against Queen Elizabeth, and died without issue) ; and dying at Ennisteige, was buried in the cathedral of St. Canice, leaving issue four sons, and two daughters; viz. First, Pierce, the eldest, to whom by inden- ture, 14th October, 1593, the Queen granted a lease in reversion for forty years, of Ballysax, in the county of Kildare, parcel of the possessions of the late Duke of Norfolk and the Lord Berkeley, who were coheirs, and then in lease for twenty-one years to Ro- bert Nangle, Gent. After the death of Thomas, Earl of Ormond, earnest pretences were made to King James I. by the said Pierce Butler, who proved with much confidence, that he was the son and heir of Pierce Butler deceased, who was nephew to the said Earl, and had he lived, would have been the next heir male in- heritable to that honour; and to himself, the right of the Earl- dom would now of right appertain, if he could prove himself to ■n Rot. pat. As. 28, 29, 30, 31 Henry VIII. f. 11 Ibid. 15, i6Eliz. f. LORD BUTLER. gg be the true and lawful son and heir of the said Pierce, by Mary his wife, now wife of one Molloy, the King, by letters from New Market, 5th February, 1623, directed a commission to issue, that this pretence in respect of the violation it had to a great family, should be duly examined, for discovery and manifestation of the truth; and accordingly, 12th May, 1()24, the L.D. Falkland, Donogh, Earl of Thomond, Francis, Lord Aungier, Master of the Rolls, and Laurence, Lord Esmond, Privy Counsellors, were commissioned to examine the said Mary Molloy,* and all other witnesses, as should be nominated by the said Pierce Butler, as they should think fit, for finding out the truth of the premises.0 He left an only daughter, Ellen, married to John O Carrol, chief of his name, and she died in December 1620, leaving issue, John, Elizabeth, and Joan.P Second, James. Third, John. And, Fourth, Theobald, who all died without children; the last of whom had by patent, dated at Westminster 13th July, 1603, the titles of Ormond and Ossory entailed and secured to him, after the death of Thomas, then Earl of Ormond, without issue male; remainder to the heirs male of his great-grandfather, Pierce, Earl of Ormond and Ossory. He was also created, 4th August follow- ing by patent, at Westminster (or at Hampton-Court), discount Butler, of Tiilleophelim, in the county of Carlow; of which county, 18th June, 1605, he was made Governor and L. L. He married his cousin-german, the Lady Elizabeth Butler,'' only daughter of the said Thomas, Earl of Ormond; but dying soon after, in January l6l3,r was buried in St. Canice church. The two daughters were, Joan (married to Teige, Lord Upper Ossory, died in 1631, and was buried at St. Canice's); Catharine, the fourth wife of William Fitz-John Eustace, of Castlemartin, in the county of Kildare, Esq. (father of Sir Maurice Eustace, Chancel- lor of Ireland), and by him, who died 25th June, 1635, she had no issue. s Third, John Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. who married Catharine,, daughter of Cormac MacCarthy Reagh, and dying at his seat, 10th May, 15/0, was buried in Kilkenny, leaving Sir Walter But- ler, of Kilcash, who became Earl of Ormond; and two daughters; Joan, married, first, to Nicholas Shortall, of Upper Claragh, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. and by him, who died there 14th September, 1(500, had seven daughters, coheirs; viz. Catharine, • Rot. Pat. anno 22 Jac. I. 1 a p. D. R. ;. P Ulster Office. 9 Ibid. r Ibid. » Lodge. too PEERAGE OF ENGLAND Mary, married to Patrick Denn, of Grennan, in the said county, Esq. Joan, Ellin, Ellinor, Ellice, and Anne; her second husband was Sir Oliver Shortall, Knt. Eleanor, the second daughter, mar- ried Thomas Prendergast, of Newcastle, in Tipperary, Esq. Fourth, Walter Butler, of Bally nenoddah, Nodstoivn, or Moy~ aliffe, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of MacBrien O Gonagh, and dying in 1650, was buried at Kilkenny; leaving one son, Pierce, and two daughters; viz. Joan (married to John O Dwyer, of Dundromy, in Tipperary; and by him, who died in January 1(527, had Philip, their heir, who married Gyles, daughter of Meiler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashell ; Connor, Donogh, Mar- garet, and Winifred); and Ellice, first married to John Sherlock, of Mothe, in the county of Waterford, Esq. by whom she had Patrick, and other children; secondly, to Sir Edward Gough, by whom she had a son and a daughter; and, thirdly, to Sir Lau- rence Esmond, a wise and worthy man, who did great service to the Crown, in Ireland, and other countries; represented the county of Wicklow in parliament, in 1613, was Governor of the Fort of Duncannon, Major-General of all the King's forces in Ireland, and 'created Baron of Lymbrick, in the county of Wex- ford, 20th May, 1622; he died 26th March, 1(545, and .she de- ceasing 16th January, before him, was buried at Ardkavan, in the said county. Pierce Butler, Esq. of Nodstoum, was only two years old at his father's death; he married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Purcell, Baron of Loughmoe, and dying 21st February, 1627, was buried in the abbey of Holy-Cross, having issue, James his heir; Richard, of Rorane (who married, first, Fynola, daugh- ter of Carroll O Carroll, of Beaghagh; and, secondly, Ellen, daughter of Gerald Wale, of Coolenemucky, in the county of Wa- teiford, Esq. by whom he had Pierce, his successor at Rorane), Ellen, Joan, Ellenor, married, 9th November, 1618, to Nicholas Meyler,u Gent, with whom her uncle, Laurence, Lord Esmond, gave 3001. English, half of which his Lordship bestowed upon her, and the other half was to be repaid him;x Margaret, and Mary. James, the eldest son, had a special livery of his estate pth December, 1628, married Ellinor, second daughter of Sir John Fitz-Gerald, of Dromana/ and dying 5th February, 1633, had issue ten sons, and three daughters; Walter, Thomas, Ed- jpiond, John, Pierce, James, Edward, Theobald, Gilbert, Richard; ' Lodge. u Decree in Chancery, 16*7. % Rot. de As. 15, I i EHz. f. y Decree ut antea. LORD BUTLER. 101 Ellen, Ellane, and Ellice. Walter, who succeeded at Nodstown, was then twenty-one years old; had a special livery 26th No- vember, 1634; and 20th February, 1637, in virtue of the commis- sion for remedy of defective titles, and for the fine of 1 33l. 6s. 8d. Irish,2 had a confirmation of his estate by patent; but engaging in the rebellion of 1641, went about New- Year's Day that year to the city of Cashell, and with others, rifled that place, with the murder of fourteen of the inhabitants. This branch of the family ceased in the time of King Charles II. Fifth, James, who, 20th January, 1560, had a lease for twenty-one years, of the monastery and lands of Duiske, in the counties of Wexford and Carlow, at the rent of 15l. during the life of Charles Cavanagh, the late Abbot, and after his death 25 1. a year, maintaining two able horsemen for the defence of Ireland, and reserving three couples of tithe corn;3 which, with other hereditaments, on the recommendation of the L. D. Sidney, were granted 10th August, 1567, in fee-farm to his son, James. He married Margaret, daughter of James Tobin, of Cumpsenagh, Esq. by his wife, Catharine, daughter of the Lord Dunboyne,b and had the said James, his only son, who left no children. Sixth, Edward Butler, of Cloghinche, in Tipperary, Esq. who married Margaret, eldest daughter of Richard, the fourth Earl of Clanrickard, and had one son, James, who died childless. Seventh, Pierce Butler, of Grantsioum, in Tipperary, and of Leix-Abbey, of which place he was nominated, when he was pardoned, 12th March, 1573, for his rebellion against the Queen. On him/ his wife and children, his brother, Thomas, Earl of Or- mond, 14th May, 1595, settled Ballygurteen, and other lands in Tipperary, to be holden of the manor of Donowghill, by the for- tieth part of a Knight's fee, and 41. rent. He married Catharine, daughter of John, Lord Poer, by whom he had six sons; James, his heir; William, Thomas, Edward (who by Ellen Blanchville his wife, who remarried with James Walsh, of Greaghlaghbegg, in Tipperary, Esq. left an only daughter and heir, Elynor, about a year old at his decease, who became the wife of Richard Butler, of Killenaule, Gent.); Richard, of Killenaule; Edmond, and several daughters; whereof, Catharine was married to John To- bin, of Killahay. James, the eldest son, was of Killmoyleagher, or Killveleigher, married Anne, daughter of Meiler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashell, and left one son, James Butler Oge, living z Lodge. » Idem. h Collect. c Rot. ut untea. 102 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. in (he reign of King James I. who married, first, Ellen, daughter of the Earl of Qrmond; and, secondly, Mary, third daughter of Thomas, Lord Kerry ; by the former he had two sons, Pierce and Theobald. Pierce, of Killmoyler, and of Bellacarren, married Catharine, elder daughter and coheir to William Bowen/of Bally- adams, in the Queen's County, Esq. by his first wife, Bridget, daughter of Sir Robert Tynte, Knt. and had issue three sons, and one daughter, Hellen, married to Creagh, of Conge, in the county of Mayo, Esq. by whom she had Stephen Creagh Butler, of Brittas, in the county of Limerick, Esq. Hellen, married in September 1/40, to George Macnamara, of Conge, Esq. by whom she left Mary, Hellen, and Phoebe;'1 and Mary unmarried. The sons were, First, James Butler, of Killveleigher, and of Bally- adams, Esq. Page of Honour to King Charles II. who 10th March, 1692, married, first, Margaret, daughter of Caryll, Lord Viscount Molyneux, widow of Jenico, the seventh Viscount Gormanston; and, secondly, Mary Dennis, in England; and died, 3d January, 1738, aet. 94. Second, Thomas, Counsellor at Law, who died 18th May, 1/46, unmarried, and was buried at Killardriff, near Killmoyler, in the tomb of his ancestors; he bequeathed his Tip- perary estate to his nephew aforesaid, Stephen Creagh, now Ste- phen Creagh Butler ; and his Queen's County estate to his natural son, William Butler. e Third, Captain John Butler, who went into Spain with his regiment, and having married Frances, daugh- ter of Theobald Matthew, of Thomastown, E^q. left one son, James, who died unmarried: and two daughters, Elizabeth, mar- ried to Thomas Arthur, of Ballyquin, in the county of Clare, Esq. who left her a widow, 23d December, 1/55, with one son, and one daughter, since deceased; she remarried with Mr. Luke Wall;f and Catharine,? to Mr. Benjamin Ellard, of Cork, who died in 1750. Thomas, the tenth Earl of Ormond, being at his father's death only fourteen years old, it was ordered by the state, that the L J. with the army, should draw into those parts of the country, to preserve the peace and his inheritance; and that the rule of the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, should be committed to his mother, his uncle, Richard, and other friends. He was brought up from his infancy in the Court of England, where he was in- structed with King Edward VI. who took great delight in his d Bill in Chancery, filed 27th April, 1757. e Idem. f Lodge. S Bill in Chancery. LORD BUTLER. 103 company, at whose coronation, 20th February, 1546, he was made a Knight of the Bath; and was a youth of such hope?, that the King, 8th September, 1548, directed the L.D. Sir Edward Bel- lingham, to allow him 200 marcs a year during his minority; and 1/th October, 1551, ordered a year's release of his wardship. He served as a volunteer under the Duke of Somerset in his Scots expedition, and behaved with great bravery in the battle of Mus- selburgh. In Queen Mary's reign he commanded a troop of horse, and gave extraordinary proofs of his fidelity and courage, as a Lieutenant of the horsemen, in suppressing Wyat's rebellion in 1554; after which, in November, he came to Ireland, and in July 1556, accompanied the L. L. with a body of 200 horse, and 500 foot, which he maintained at his own charge against the Scots Islanders, who made a descent into Ulster, and besieged Carrickfergus, when he distinguished himself in the battle fought 18th of that month, in which the Scots were entirely routed: 10th August, 1557, he served against another body of them, who had invaded Tyrconnel; and soon after relieved the Earl of Tho- mond, besieged in his castle of Bunratty, and took the castle of Clare; after which, 20th June, 155S, attended with many gentle- men, he joined the L. L. in the county of Limerick, on his march against Donald O Brien, the Earl of Thomond's uncle. This zeal and activity in the service of the Crown, induced Queen Mary to confirm his patent for the regalities and liberties of Tipperary, and the prize wines, 11th March, 1555; and 13th December, 1557, to grant the religious houses of Athassil, Jerpoint, Callan, Thurles, Carick, Kilcowle, and Tulleopbelim, with all their hereditaments in the counties of Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Wa- terford; the manor of Kilrush, in the county of Kildare, &c. the monastery of Athassil, to him, his heirs, and assigns; and the rest of the premises to his heirs male, to hold by the service of the twentieth part of a Knight's fee, and the yearly rent of 4g\. 3s. 9d. Irish. Which reserved rent Queen Elizabeth remitted, and con- firmed the said grant, 8th March, 1562; having, 27th January, 1560, given him a discharge of all such sums, as he stood in- debted to the Crown, for arrears of rent in the Exchequer, or any other Court, owing for the Earl, his father: and whereas in the time of Edward VI. he was appointed to repair to Ireland for service to be done there, one year before he had sued out his li- very, during which time he had the farm of his own lands granted to him, the rents whereof for that year remained unpaid; the Queen, in consideration of his good service, discharged him from 104 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. the same, as she also did the arrears of rent due upon certain lands, granted to him by Queen Mary: also, for his services against the traitors of Leix, by patent, dated 28th February, 1562, she granted to him and his heirs male, the abbey of Leix, in the Queen's County, with all its lands, estimated at 8201. and 3d October, 1563, in fee-farm, all the possessions of the monastery of the Holy Cross, advowsons of churches excepted. By privy seal, 30th June, 156p, as a reward for suppressing the rebellion of his bruthers, who by strength of arms endeavoured to assume their right to a certain territory, claimed by Sir Peter Carew, which they could not maintain by the laws, he was restored to the prize wines of Youghall and Kinsale, which had been seques- tered in 15(33, on a claim laid to them by Garret, Earl of Des- mond; and had his lands exempted from all cesses and impositions, subsidies to the Crown excepted, by reason of the damages he had sustained, and the impoverishment of his tenants by the rebels, which exemption was confirmed by King James, 5th December, lGll. He received other considerable grants from Queen Eliza- beth; viz. 24th September, 15/4, the estate of John Burnell, of Ballgriffin, in the county of Dublin, Esq. forfeited by treason, and three carracutes in Rathnemeddagh, county of Westmeath. And making suit to the Queen, that in consideration of his faith- ful services performed in the affairs of Ireland, she would grant to him in fee-farm 1001. Irish (in lands), a year, which grant she was pleased to make by privy seal at Greenwich, 7th Jul)', 1513, containing the manor of Old-Rosse, and other lands : also 12th December, 15/8, he had a grant of the rectories of Dunmore and Donnghmore, with many others in Kilkenny, Tipperary, Carlow, and Wexford; and at his Lordship's instance, King James I. by patent 26th November, 1604, granted to him and his heirs, all the premises contained in the patents of Queen Mary, by the twentieth part of a Knight's fee; and all contained in the patents of Queen Elizabeth, at the rent of 101. 5 s. Irish.11 He continued in the esteem of Queen Elizabeth throughout her long reign; she considered him as her relation, and had the highest opinion of his capacity, fidelity, and zeal for her service., which he took all occasions to promote and advance, by suppres- sing the commotions in Munster, and elsewhere, of which out- public histories relate many particulars, and shew his services to have been very considerable. The Queen, 26th August, 1559 11 Lodge. LORD BUTLER. 105 (in the first year of her reign), made him Lord Treasurer of Ire- land, in which post he continued to his death, and 30th of that month was sworn of her Privy- council. April : d, 1503, he was joined with Richard, Lord Mountgarret, ?nd others in commis- sion, to preserve the peace in the counties of Kilkenny and Lip- perary, during the Deputy's absence, against Shane O'Neile; 6th October that year, he was in commission to make inquiry in order to redress all offences in ecclesiastical matters; also, 21st Novem- ber, 1564, was commissioned to prosecute and subdue, as notorious rebels and traitors, such of the O'More's and their adherents, as before the 28th of April preceding, had not submitted to the ob- servation of such orders as were taken and concluded for them by the Earl of Sussex, L. L.' and was generally named in all commissions of public importance. In 1575, the L. D. Sidney ap- pointed him L. L. of the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, whom, in November that year, he splendidly entertained in his castle of Kilkenny, when on his Leinster progress ; and the O'More's having almost ruined the county of Kildare, Rory Oge, their chief, was prevailed on by his Lordship to come and submit to the Lord Deputy in Kilkenny. By patent, dated 6th January, 1578, he was made Governor of the province of Munster, when he subdued O'Sullivan More, took many of that sept prisoners, and delivered them to the L. L. Sussex; he also subdued Pierce Grace, Rory Oge, and the Mac Swiney's, and taking the Earl of Desmond prisoner, destroyed 46 of his captains, 800 notorious traitors, and 4000 common soldiers.k In 1581, the Queen con- stituted him Lord High Marshal of England, in which office he continued for a time, until (at his earnest suit), he was discharged; the cause moving him to surrender this honourable employment, was the apprehension that he should be tied to continual attend- ance in England, and thereby be made a stranger to his own country, a thought he could not endure. He arrived at Water- ford about the end of January 15S2, with a supply of 400 men, and a commission, appointing him General of Munster. He ob- tained also two-pence a day in addition to the soldier's pay, which, with permitting them to enjoy what spoils they took from the enemy, procured him the general love of the army.1 He was present in the parliaments of 1559 and 1583, sitting in both as Lord High Treasurer. August 15th, \5g-i, he was ap- pointed Chief Leader (in the Deputy's absence), and commander 1 Lodge. k Ibid. I Decree in Chancery, 4th June, 1592. 106 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of the forces in Leinster; and in 1595, the fort of Blackwater be- ing destroyed by the Earl of Tyrone, his Lordship joined the L.D. at Ardee, in his march to relieve it, attended with 80 horse, and 200 foot, furnished and victualled at his own expence; and the L.D. returning from that service, left him with his men to defend the place, which having done, and supplied it in January follow- inv with ammunition and victuals for six months, he returned to Dublin, and111 was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter, 23d May, 15f)6; in the next year the rebels growing very formidable, and the Deputy, 13th September, marching into the North, his Lordship was appointed General of Leinster, but without either army or ammunition, which the L. D. took with him; a want, however, that he supplied, for he took the field at his own charge, where he continued all the months of October and November to cover the castles of Leighlin and Carlow; and in the beginning of December, was ordered to take on him the command of the army at Dundalk, having been, 29th October, by a particular commission, appointed Captain and Lieutenant- General of all her Majesty's forces in Ireland by sea and land ; and by her letter from Westminter 15th November, had the prin- cipal charge of all martial services, with the entertainment of 100 marcs by the month, thirty horsemen, and as many footmen in wages. After which, Tiroen applied to him to procure a com- mission to treat with him, which being obtained, they met at Dundalk, 22d December, and Tiroen making his submission in writing, a cessation of arms for eight weeks was concluded on nine certain articles, and his Lordship sending his submission and grievances to England, received authority to make a final conclu- sion with the rebels; meeting him again at Dundalk, 15th March, he received him and all the inhabitants of Tyrone to mercy, and upon his entering into conditions to renounce the name of O'Neile, to keep the peace, disperse his forces, Sec. at his Lordship's in- stance a general pardon passed" to Tiroen, 11th April, 159«S; yet, though he received it, being resolved to continue his disloyal courses, he never pleaded it; so that in the year lO'OO, he was outlawed upon an indictment brought against him in September 1595. He continued to prosecute the rebels with great vigour; and held, in 1599, all his castles in the county of Kilkenny, and six in Carlow, for the Queen; and the L.D. Mountjoy, arriving 26th February that year, his Lordship advertised him of Tyrone's m Lodge. p Hid. LORD BUTLER. 10/ motions in Munster, in which province he employed his forces so well, that in the beginning of January loOO, he expelled Red- mond Bonrke, and others,, oat of Ormond, with great loss; killed his brother, Thomas Bourke, and forced Redmond, with his company, into the river Nore, where seventy of his men were drowned, and all his baggage lost. But 10th of April same year,0 going eight miles from Kilkenny, to parley with Owen Mac-Rory O'More, he was treacherously taken prisoner, and detained by him to 12th June, where he obtained his liberty by delivering hostages for the payment of 30001. if he should seek revenge for that injury; but the custody of the provinces of Leinster and Munster being committed to him, his Lordship (notwithstanding his hostages were in Owny's hands, who in a little time found means to escape), abated nothing of his wonted activity and seve- rity; and securing those parts by the submission of the rebels, went to defend the Pale, against the incursions of the Irish, whilst the Deputy was in the north, and in 1001, executed twenty-nine rebels in the borders of Kilkenny and Tipperaryj? 28th May, 1603, he had his commission of Lieutenant-General of the army renewed by King James I. His Lordship having lost his sight about fifteen years before his death, departed this life at his house in Carrick, 22d Novem- ber, l6L4.i This shews, says the author, how erroneous is the following account, given by Mr. Anstis, Garter King of Arms, in his History of the Garter. " Thomas, Earl of Ormond, married Lora, daughter of Sir Edward Barklay, of Beverston, widow of John, Lord Mount joy, and also of Sir Thomas Montgomery, Knight of the Garter, which Earl Ormond, in his will made in 1(315" (a year after he was dead), " mentions Dame Lore, late his wife, by whom he had a daughter, thst lies buried at Sheffield, in Yorkshire);" he died in the eighty-second year of his age, and was buried, 17th April, in the choir of St. Canice church, where a monument was erected for him by Sir Walter Butler, Ms suc- cessor in the Earldom: the work was executed by Nicholas Stone, of London, statuary, for which he was paid 100 1. in hand, and 3001. more when finished and set up.1' He married three wives; first, Elizabeth, only daughter of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, but by her, who was buried in the chapel of St. Paul, in Westminster, he had no issue. 0 Lotge. P Ibid. 1 Ib:d. * Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, 4f.o. Vo!. II. p. 24. 108 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Secondly, Elizabeth, only daughter of John, the second Lord Sheffield; and by her, who was buried at St. Canice, Kilkenny, 21st April, l601 (or according to Sir G. Carew, her death seems to have happened in November or December 1000; for the Earl, 26th November^ met the Lord President of Munster, to whom he was of counsel, at Clonmell, to consult about the prosecution of the rebels in the borders of Ormond; which he readily undertook, and would have immediately performed, had not the immature death of his most virtuous and honourable Lady, the lamentable tidings whereof were now brought him to Clonmell, oppressing his aged heart with miserable sorrow, caused the same for a time to be deferred),3 he had Two sons and a daughter. Thirdly, Helena, daughter of David, Viscount Buttevant, and widow of John, son and heir of Richard, Lord Poer; but by her, who died in 1642, he had no issue. His children were, First, John, Viscount Thurles, born in 15S1, who died an infant, and was buried in St. Paul's Chapel, Westminster. Second, Thomas, buried in the church of Carrick under a flat *tone, yet remaining, with this circumscription : Here Uelh Entombed the Bodie of Thomas Butler Esquier, Son to the Righte HoniU tK Erie of Ormond and Ossory, &c. who dyed being Shirife of the County of Typerary 12 of Jamt. Anno Dom. 1005. So that the only daughter, Elizabeth/ became heir, and was first married to Theobald, Lord Tulleophelim," as before observed; and, secondly, to Sir Richard Preston, created 6th June, 1014, Lord Dingwall, in Scotland, and Earl of Desmond; and she dying in Wales x 10th October, 1628, had issue by him,who was drowned in his passage from Dublin to England 2Sth of the same month and year, an only daughter, the Lady Elizabeth Preston, born 25th July, 1615, and married to James, Duke of Ormond, as here- after. He was a man of very great parts, admirable judgment, vast experience, and a prodigious memory ; his capacity and talents s Pacata Hiber. 1 Rot. Inq. post. mort. Tho. Comit. Ormoniie 10th Oct. 1631, and Ulster Office. u Ibid. x Ibid. LORD BUTLER. log rendered him equal to the most Important and difficult employ- ments, and his loyalty made him fit to be employed in those of the greatest trust, in the most intricate and dangerous situation of affairs. He was a very comely and graceful personage, and of a black complexion, which made the Irish give him the sobriquet of Duff'e, and gave occasion to the Queen to call him her black husband. He was in his time the flower of his country; and all his life kept the greatest house, and used the most hospitality, of any person in the kingdom; and for his valour, wisdom, libera- lity, and virtue, was greatly honoured, not only in England and France, but in all other realms where he was known, and was com- monly called and taken by them to be the pattern of true honour. He repaired his castle of Kilkenny , and house of Carrick, at great expense; made a deer-park at the Earl's-Cragg, near Kilkenny; built the castle of Drehednefarney, near Holy -Cross, as a strength for the county of Tipperary, against the O'Mulrians, and other Irish borderers; and by his will, appointed his nephew, Walter (after Earl of Ormond), to build an hospital in Kilkenny, leaving lands of his own purchase for maintenance thereof, and that he should procure a charter of incorporation, with license of Mort- main; which he did, bearing date 16th May, 1631, by the name of Master, Brethren, and Sisters, of the Hospital of our most Holy Saviour Jesus Christ, of Kilkenny. Sir Walter Butler, of Kilcash, eleventh Earl of Ormond, for his devotion, styled Walter of the beads and rosaries/ was son of John, third son of James, the ninth Earl of Ormond; and did scood service to the Crown in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, when, with his own company, and some few gentlemen of the county of Tipperary, he pursued the traitor, Redmond Bourk, and forced him to fly into Spain, with the slaughter of his bro- ther, Thomas, and many of his followers, taking his brother, John, prisoner, who was soon afterwards executed at Kilkenny. In this action Sir Walter was wounded. He succeeded to the honour; became the eleventh Earl, and thought to have taken possession of the estate entailed upon him, but was opposed therein by Sir Richard Preston. The King, to support a favourite, took upon him to make award himself in the case. The Earl refusing to submit, the King seized upon all his estate, and imprisoned him in the Fleet, where he continued for sight years, in a most shameful want of all things. The beha- y French's Unkind Deserter, p. 2$. li PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. viour of King James, reflects particular disgrace on the character of that monarch; for he became convinced that he had made an unjust decision; he was sensible that he ought to unravel what he had done, and yet he persisted in depriving the. Eari of his right, and in suffering him to be kept a prisoner for so many years.2 He married Hellena, eldest daughter of Edmond, the second Viscount Mountgarret, and dying at Carrick, 24th February, 1532, was buried 18th June, 1033, at Kilkenny, having issue by her (who died 38th January, 1(5.3 l,a and was buried there 27th March), three sons, and nine daughters; viz. First, Thomas, his heir apparent, who died before him. Second, James, who died young in England. Third, John, who died in France, without issue. Margaret was married to Bryan, Lord Upper Ossory. Catharine, to Pierce Power, of Monaghalargy, in Tipperary, Esq. second son of Richard, Lord Poer. Elian, to Sir Pierce Butler, the first Viscount Ikerrin. Hellena, to James Butler, of Grellagh, Esq. eldest son of James, the second Lord Dunboyne, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Connor, Earl of Thomond. Joan, to George Bagenal, of Dunleckney, in the county of Carlow, Esq. ancestor to Beauchamp Bagenal, of that place, Esq. Mary, died unmarried. Elizabeth, married, first, to Sir Edmond Blanchville, of Blanch- ville's Town, by whom she had Gerald, who dying before them, 21st February, 1(546, they erected a monument to his memory in the cathedral of Kilkenny ;b and, secondly, to Richard, sixth Earl of Clanrickard. Eleanor died unmarried, in l633.c Alice, married to Terence (or Turlogh), Mac-Ibrien-Arragh. Thomas, Lord Thurles, the eldest son, was Governor of the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterfotd, and the territo- ries of Ossory and Ormond; but was unfortunately drowned in his passage from England to Ireland, near the Skerries, 15th De- cember, 1619; leaving issue by Elizabeth (who, according to Mr. Carte,d lived a widow near fifty-four years, and died at Thurles, in May 1673, in her eighty-sixth year; but " in this particular (says the Author), as well as in others, Mr. Carte is mistaken, z Biograph. Biitazn. a Ulster's Office. b Lodge, c See Lord Caher. «• Hist. Duke of Ormond, Vol. II. p. 44$. LORD BUTLER. Ill for she remarried with George Matthew, of Thurles, Esq.) e daughter of Sir John Pointz, of Acton, in the county of Glouces- ter, Bart, three sons, and four daughters; viz. First, James, successor to his grandfather, created Duke of Ormond, one of the ablest statesmen, and worthiest persons of the age in which he flourished. Second, John, who died unmarried at Naples, on his travels, in 1636. Third, Richard, of whom presently, as ancestor to the present Earl. Ellen, married to Donogh, Earl of Clancarthy, and dying in April 1682, set. /O, was buried 24th in the chancel of St. Michan's church. Elizabeth, first married to James Purcell, Esq. titular Baron of Loughmoe, by whom she had one son, Nicholas/ and two daughters; Catharine,s married to Nicholas Darcy, of Platen, in the county of Meath, Esq.; and Mary,'1 to Cheevers, of Mountown, E^q ; Nicholas, Baron of Loughmoe, married Rose, daughter of Marcus, Viscount Dungannon, and had issue, Nicho- las, his heir, who died 4th March, 1722; and by Alice, daughter of Valentine, Lord Kenmare, left only daughters; whereof, Helen, married Thomas Coke, of Painstown, in the county of Carlow, Esq. and' had one son, William, and a daughter, Anne, married in December 1/50, to Thomas, Viscount Kenmare. Her second husband was Colonel John Fitz-Patrick, of Castletown, in the Queen's County,' and she dying 6th December 16/5, was buried the 8th in St. Patrick's church. Mary, married to Sir George Hamilton, ancestor by her to the Marquis of Abercorn, and died in August 1680. Eleanor, to Sir Andrew Ayhner, of Donedea, in the county of Kildare, Bart. Richard Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. the third and youngest son, had a confirmation (by virtue of the commission of grace), 24th June, 1639, of the lands of Kilcash, Garryrichen, and many others in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny ; with a limita- tion thereof to his heirs male; remainder to the respective heirs male of Walter, Earl of Ormond; Pierce Butler Fitz-Walter, late of Nodstown; Pierce Butler Fitz-James, of Grantstownj Sir Ri- chard Butler, Lord Mountgarret; Edmond Butler Fitz-Richard, e MS. Collect, of Adam Molyneux, No. 12, 23, in Bib. T. Col. Dub. and Council Office, Lib. Ord. No. 1. See LancLff, in jJrchiaWt Irish Peerage. { Ulster. 3 Idem. •> Idem. » Ulster's Office. 112 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of Poolestown; James, Lord Dunboyne; Theobald Butler, Lord Cahier; remainder to the right heirs k of Walter, Earl of Ormond ; and the creation of the premises into the manors of Kilcasb, Ballenla, and Garryricken, with free warren, and liberty to im- park 1000 acres. In 1641, he joined with the Irish, by whom he was made Governor of the county of Waterford; and in January, sent as one of the commissioners for the county of Tipperary, to take the city of Waterford, and seize all the goods of the English, for the maintenance (as they termed it), of the holy war of the Confederate Catholics ; but they were prevented by the mayor and council, until an opportunity of shipping was got to preserve the goods. He was a reputed Lieutenant-General among the re- bels, and acted with great vigour in that station, reducing Caper- quin, and other places. He married the Lady Frances Touchet,' youngest daughter of Mervin, Earl of Castlehaven, and dying in 1/01, had issue three sons, and four daughters. First, Walter, his heir. Second, John. Third, Thomas. Lucia, married to Sir Laurence Esmond, of Cionegall, county of Carlow, son and heir to Sir Thomas, of Ballytroman, county of Wexford, Bart, and she died 7th April, ldS5, leaving issue, Laurence, Richard, John, Walter, Frances, Elizabeth, and Lucia.™ Mary, married to Christopher, Lord Delvin, and died 28th March, 1737. Frances, to Sir Patrick Barnwall, and was buried 1st February, 1709, at St. James's church, Dublin (being mother of Sir George Barnwall, Bart ) And ■ , married to Sir Redmond Everard, of Fethard, in Tipperary, Bart, who died in l6b6', and left issue, Sir John Eve- rard, Bart. James, and Margaret. Colonel John Butler, the second son, married Catharine, daughter of James Aylmer, of Cragbryen, in the county of Clare, Esq. widow of Sir Nicholas Plunket; and dying in March 1714, had issue, Richard Butler, of JVestcourt, in the county of Tippe- rary, Esq. who married Helen, third daughter of Thomas Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. as hereafter; and a daughter, Mary, married to Mr. Galway, of Lota, near Cork. Walter Butler, of Garryricken, Esq. the eldest son, married the Lady Mary Plunket, only daughter of Christopher, the second ■< Lodge. I Ulster^ Office. » Ibid. LORD BUTLER. 113 Earl of Fingall, and dying the year before his father, left three sons, and four daughters. First, Thomas, successor to his grandfather. Second, John Butler, of Garryrichen, Esq. who married Frances, daughter of George Butler, of Ballyragget, Esq. and had an only son, Walter, who succeeded to the estates of the Earl of Arran, 17 66. His son, John, was restored to the title of Earl of Ormond, and was father of the present Earl. Third, Christopher, titular Archbishop of Cashel. , married to Tobin, of Cumpshinagh, Esq. by whom she had one daughter, first married to Valentine, youngest brother to Richard Talbot, of Malahide, Esq .5 and, secondly, to Powell, Esq. Frances, to Mr. Gould, merchant. Lucy, to Sir Walter Butler, of Poolestown, Bart. , to Maurice Fitzgerald, of Castle Ishin, in the county of Cork, Esq. by whom she had two sons, and a daughter, Mary, married, first, to Justin, Earl of Fingall ; secondly, to Va- lentine, Viscount Kenmarej and, thirdly, to John, Lord Bellew. Thomas Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. eldest son, who succeeded his grandfather, was Colonel of a regiment of foot in the army of King James II. and in l6§6, married the Lady Margaret Burke, eldest daughter of William, Earl of Clanrickard, widow of Bryan Magenris, Viscount of Iveagh, and deceasing 1738, had issue by her, who died at Kilcash, 19th July, 1744, three sons, and five daughters; viz. First, Richard, killed by a fall from his horse at Kilcash, in 1/11. Second, Waiter, who died unmarried, of the small-pox, at the Royal Academy at Paris. Third, John Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. who succeeded to the estates of the Earl of Arran, and married in April 17^3, the daughter of Stoney, Esq. grand-daughter of General Webb, and niece to Earl Powis; he died 24th June, \J66, with- out issue, and she remarried 24th October, 177^ with the Rev, Alleyne Walker, LL.D. of the Hermitage, county of Surrey." Mary, married to Bryan Cavanagh, of Borrass, in the county of Carlow, Esq. who left her a widow, 22d April, 1741, with one son, Thomas, and six daughters; Margaret, Hellen, Frances, Lucy, Honora, and Mary. « Collect, VOL. IX. I 1 14 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Honora, in November 1 720, to Valentine, Lord Kenmare, and died of the small-pox in 1730, having two sons; Valentine, who died young; Thomas, the late Lord, born in 1726; and two daughters; Hellen, married in 1738-0, to John, then son and heir of Nicholas Wogan, of Rathcoffey, in the county of Kildare, Esq. who left her a widow in 1743;° and Catherine. Hellen, first to Mr. Esmond, brother to Sir Laurence and Joha Esmond, Barts. who died 17th December, 1736, by the accidental discharge of his gun, when fowling jP and, secondly, to Richard Butler of Westcourt, as before observed. Margaret, to George Matthew, of Thurles, afterwards of Thomastown, Esq. and died 30th July, 1743, leaving one daugh- ter, who died in 1752. Catharine, became the third wife of James Mandeville, of Ballydyne, in Tipperary, Esq. and had no issue. James, the eldest son of Thomas, Lord Thurlcs, and successor to his grandfather, Walter, was the twelfth Earl of Ormond, and first Duke of Ormond. He was born in the year l607q (ac- cording to Mr. Carte, he was born at Clerkenwell, London, 19th October, l6l0,r but it appears from the undoubted authority of an inquisition^ taken at Clonmell, 21st April, 1622, after his fa- ther's death, before the King's Commissioners, upon the oaths of twelve gentlemen of the county of Tipperary, that he must have been born in 1607. The words of the inquisition are these: " Praedictus Thomas Vicecomes Thurles 15t0 die Decembris Anno Dom. 1619, obiit & quidam Jacobus Butler, communiter vocatus Dominus Vicecomes Thurles, fuit filius et haeres praefati Thomas Butler, et quod praefatus Jacobus Butler, tempore mortis prasdicti Thomae fuit aetatis duodecim annorum, et non amplius.") He was granted in ward, 26th May, 1623, to Richard, Earl of Desmond, and by order of King James I. educated under the eye of Doctor George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, who took care to have him instructed in the Protestant religion, as professed in the church of England, to which he adhered with great constancy and steadi- ness to his death. On 7th February, 1626, his Majesty, by privy seal, directed that he might receive all the rents of his lands, which were in sequestration on account of the lorsg unhappy differences between his grandfather and the said Earl of Desmond, concerning their o His will proved 15 December, 1743. Prerog. Omce. P Lodge. q Carte, Vol. I. p. 9. ' Hist. J. D. Ormond, Vol. I. p. j. LORD BUTLER. 115 respective titles to the estate; to which, in 1029, he put as happy a period, by gaining in marriage the Lady Elizabeth Preston, only child of the said Earl of Desmond; who being then very young, and in ward to the Earl of Holland, he was forced to pay that Lord 15,OOOl. in lieu of her wardship and marriage: soon after which, he retired with her to Acton, in Gloucestershire, ten miles from Bristol, where he employed his time in learning the Latin tongue; and after about a year's stay with his uncle, Sir Robert Pointz, came to Ireland in the conclusion of the year l0'3O; where, 2d June, 1032, for the fine of 566'1. 13s. 4d. he sued out a livery of his Lady's estate, as he did of his own, 15th August, 1033, for the fine of 960I. Irish. In 1031, he purchased a troop of horse; and in 1034, gave an uncommon instance of his undaunted resolution, in opposing the commands of the Lord D. Wentworth; who calling a parliament to meet 14th July, at the castle of Dublin, published a proclama- tion (to prevent any ill effects from their animosity, which was now risen very high), that no member should enter with their swords. All obeyed except this young Lord; who told the Usher of the Black Rod at the door, when he demanded his sword, that he should have no sword of his, except in his guts. Being the only Peer who sat that day in the house in defiance of the pro- clamation, it so fired the Deputy, who was not accustomed tc have his orders disobeyed, that his Lordship was called upon in the evening to answer it; who thereupon produced his Majesty's writ, calling him to parliament, Cinctum cum Gladio, or Per Cincluram Gladii. Which answer being unexpected, and find- ing him likely to prove an untractable companion, it was in deli- beration that night between the L. D. and his two friends, Sir George Ratcliffe and Mr. Wandesford, whether to trample under foot, or to oblige so daring a young man, who was now also grown so very popular ; when the more benign extreme being resolved on, he was taken into favour/ and by the Deputy, in his letter of lOth December, recommended to the King to cajl him into his Privy-council, as a person of solid judgment, grave and sober carriage, and good affection to his Majesty's service; who (added to that testimony), considering both his nobility and worth, thought fit to encourage and enable him for his service; and therefore, by his letter from Westminster, 20th January, 1634.. ordered the Deputy to call him into the Privy-council.1 s Biog. Brit. t Anno 1 1 Car I. do. p. D 116 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. In 1638, his troop was taken from him; but he was promoted to the command of a troop of cuirassiers, consisting of a captain, lieutenant, cornet, and 101 horsemen, with the pay of 24 s. a day, and five spare horsemen, at 2s. (5d. each; and 25th May," 1639, made C. Rot. Pacis, of the county of Kilkenny; also, in 1 640, advanced to the command of a regiment of horse, with the pay of 11. 10s. a day; and 16th September, appointed Lieutenant- general of the horse, at 41. a day, and Commander in Chief of all the forces in Ireland, in the absence of the L. L. Strafford, which were then raised by that Ear], and rendezvoused at Carrick- fergus, to assist the King against the Scots; but were the same month (upon the pacification), ordered to be disbanded, which was not executed till June 1641. On October 23d that year, the rebellion broke out, and his Lordship being then at his house in Carrick, the L.J. by an ex- press, notified the discovery of the plot; advised him to stand upon his guard; to make the best provision he could for the defence of the country about him; and desired him presently to repair to Dublin with his troop of horse: and the King referring the whole business of Ireland to the parliament of England, they made the Earl of Ormond (that the army might be led by an honourable and promising person), Lieutenant-General ; who being approved by the King, as one, who by his relations, integrity, and quality, was pitched on as the fittest person for that employment, his Ma- jesty confirmed him therein by his letter from Edinburgh of the 31st of that month: in which situation he behaved with indefa- tigable activity and undaunted resolution; for, as soon as an army could be raised, he marched from Dublin (31st January), took the castle of Lyons; routed the rebels at Kilsaghlan; secured Naas with a garrison, and placed in the town a new Sovereign, eight Burgesses, and fifty families of despoiled Protestants; and having lost a trumpeter, with four soldiers, by the garrison of Tipper, he marched thither, and caused it, with all therein, to be blown up; after which, 15th April, 1642, he gained a very signal victory over the Irish army under the Lord Mountgarret, at Kilrush, on his march from Athy to Dublin, killing 700 men, and taking all their ammunition, the General's waggon drawn by eight oxen, and twenty colours. For this great service he received (yth August), the following letter of thanks from the Speaker of the House of Commons, accompanied with a jewel of 6201. value: » 15 Car. I. 9. p. f. LORD BUTLER. 11/ « My Lord, " I am commanded by the House of Commons, to let your Lordship know, that with much contentment they received infor- mation from Ireland, of the good service performed by you against those wicked bloody rebels ; and in testimony of their good ac- ceptance and esteem of it, they do present you with this jewel, to be unto you a remembrance of their affection, as also a pledge of their intentions of taking all occasions to acknowledge your merit, continuing in the same zealous endeavours to serve this state and the true religion, by the suppression of that unnatural rebellion. These lines will further assure you, that no misreports or false scandals, which any malicious tongue may have raised concerning you, can make the least impression on them, who can easily see through such empty clouds, and fasten a clear judgment upon true and honourable desert} — my Lord, you have here the public expression of the sense of the House, made unto you by their own command} receive now, I beseech you, the tender of his particular service who heartily prays for the continuance of your prosperous success, in so pious a cause, and desires to remain " Your Lordship's most humble, and " most affectionate servant, « WILLIAM LENTHALL, Speaker." 15 April, 1642. To the Right. Honourable the Earl of Ormond and Ossory, Lieutenant- General of his Majesty's Army in Ireland. x And at the same time, the King, on his part, by privy seal, dated at Nottingham, 23d August, 1642, directed a full discharge to be given him, of what mortgages and debts he stood engaged for to those in actual rebellion, and for which the said mortgages were given; and also by patent, dated at the same place the 30th of that month, created him Marquis of Ormond? In November lt)41, he was joined in commission with the Lord Mountgarret, to govern and command such forces as they should raise, and be armed by the state, for the defence of the county of Kilkenny; and by commission dated at Oxford, 11th January, lGi2, he was joined with Ulick, Earl of St. Alban's x Commons Jour. y Rot. pat. Annos 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24-Car. I. f. the articles arc here enrolled. I IB PEERAGE OF ENGLAND and Clanrickard, Earl of Roscommon, Viscount Moore, Sir T. Lucas, Knt. Sir M. Eustace, Knt. and T. Bourke, Esq. to receive the propositions of the Irish confederate recusants. In March ]<3i2, he took the castles of Castlemartin, Kildare, Tully, and Timolin; whence marching to Ross, he obtained on the 18th, a complete victory, though at a great disadvantage, over General Preston. Soon after which, a proposal being set on foot by the King, for a cessation of arms with the Irish for one whole year, he was appointed to conclude it by the King's letters, dated at Oxford 23d April, 3d May, and 31st July, 1643, and by com- mission under the great seal, dated at Dublin 3 1st August, he was authorised to treat and conclude for his Majesty, and in his name, with his said subjects, upon a cessation of arms for one whole year, to begin at such time, as to him should be thought fit, and upon such articles and agreements, as to him should seem necessary for his Majesty's service; or otherwise to break off the treaty, as he should see cause. Accordingly, he concluded the treaty 15th September, by which they were to pay 38,OOOl. and send succours to the King, in England : and l6th November, his Lordship sent to England about 2000 men; and 3d December, 1300 foot, and 140 horse, under the command of Colonel Robert Byron. The cessation being thus concluded, his influence, fidelity, and diligence became so conspicuous, that it was thought ne- cessary to confer upon him the government of the kingdom; and accordingly being appointed by the King at Oxford,2 13th November, 1643, L.L. oj Ireland, he was swrorn 21st January following; and 23d March, had a reversionary grant of the go- vernment of the fort of Duncannon, after the death of Laurence, Lord Esmond, with an augmentation of the warders, from thirty to one hundred; and that nobleman dving 26th March, 1(545, he had a grant thereof passed to him, 5th December, 1646, for life. The Irish agents presenting to the King several propositions in order to a firm and settled peace, his Majesty appointed the Marquis of Ormond, by commission dated at Buckingham, 24th June, 1644, to treat concerning the establishment of a firm and perfect peace in Ireland; and if he found it not reasonable to con- sent to such propositions, as should be made for a full peace, then to conclude on a further cessation of arms. By virtue of this corn- 's Carte, Vol. I. p. 475. LORD RUTLER. ng mission he concluded a peace, consisting of thirty articles, which were signed and sealed 28th March, l6-l6; whereby the Irish were to furnish a body of 10,000 men for the service of the King against the Parliament; and he had a commission, 17th August, authorizing him to give out commissions for raising officers, as well natives of Ireland, as others his Majesty's subjects. He continued in the government until the year l647,a when, with the King's approbation, he concluded a treaty with the Par- liament's Commissioners, 18th June, for delivering into their hands the next day all the garrisons of the kingdom, which he did, together with the city of Dublin; and 28th July, the regalia of the government. He then left the kingdom, and landed 2d August at Bristol; about which time the King being delivered by the Scots to the English army, and brought a prisoner to Hamp- ton Court, he attended his Majesty there, who received him with extraordinary grace, as a person who had served him with great zeal and fidelity, and with the universal testimony of all good men. After some stay, he embarked on board a shallop, in the obscure and unguarded port of Hastings, in Sussex (25th Decem- ber), which safely transported him to Dieppe, in Normandy; whence he waited on the Queen and Prince of Wales at Paris, by whom he was consulted in every transaction, being a person most depended upon to begin to give a turn to their fortune, and re- commended to them by the King for that purpose. Here he held a close correspondence with the Lord Inchiquin, on whose promise to prepare the province of Munster to receive him as the King's L. L. he ventured over, and arrived at Cork,b 29th September, 104S; whence, 11th October, he went to his house of Carrick, and there treated of peace with the Commis- sioners of the General Assembly, which (17th January), was so- lemnly confirmed and proclaimed at Kilkenny; on the 30th of which month the King being beheaded, the Marquis received the news with inexpressible grief, and a suitable resentment; and 17th February, King Charles II. continuing him L. L. he caused him to be solemnly proclaimed Kjlh March, and used his utmost endeavours to recover the kingdom to his obedience: which prov- ing ineffectual, he appointed the Marquis of Clanrickard his De- puty; and again leaving Ireland, 6th December, 16"50, arrived safe in France, where he gave the Queen an aecount of the con- a Chanc. Decree at. Rathfernon, 10th March, 1603. * Carte, 11, 39. 120 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. dition of the kingdom: and for these his services to his King and country, was excepted from pardon for life or estate, by Crom- well's act of parliament for the settlement of Ireland. When the King returned to Paris after the defeat at Worces- ter, he was sworn of the Privy-council 3 and constantly attending his Majesty, was consulted by him in all his affairs. In ] 654, with great steadiness of spirit, he brought the Duke of Gloucester from the Queen at Paris to the King at Cologne, to prevent his being perverted in his religion ; and soon after attended the Prin- cess Royal from the Hugue to the King; as he did his Majesty in his journey to Frankfort ; and was present at the interview with Christina, Queen of Sweden, at Koningstein. In June following he was dispatched to engage the Duke of Neuburg's interest, to dispose the Court of Brussels to espouse the King's cause, and promote a treaty of alliance between their Britannick and Catholic Majesties. When the King settled at Bruges, and raised four regiments, he gave the command of one, in December 10'5(5, to the Marquis, that the Irish might be tempted to come over and increase his forces ; and by the Marquis's interest, the town of St. Ghislain, in which the French had a garrison., was delivered up to the Spaniards in the beginning of 1657, a service of great importance, considering its vicinity to Brussels ; and in February after, he was present at the Duke of York's attempt upon Mar- dike, when he had his horse killed under him. Having been elected a Knight of the Garter, 18th September N. S. 1649, he constantly wore the ensigns, though not installed or invested with the habit till 15th April, l66l; and on his Ma- jesty's restoration was appointed, 1st June, 1660, Lord Steward of the household ; sworn of his Privy, council ;c made a Lord of his Bedchamber; and soon after, L. L. of the county of Somerset; High Steward of the city and liberties of Westminster, Kingston, and Bristol; and was restored to the Chancellorship of the Uni- versity of Dublin, which he had held before the usurpation, and soon redressed the evils, which had befallen it in that period. In consideration of his distinguished loyalty, services, and suf- ferings, he was created a Peer of England, 20th July, 1660, by the titles of Baron Butler, of Llanthony, and Earl of Breck- nock. November 30th, 1660, the King, by his declaration from Whitehall, appointed the Duke of Albemarle, and the Marquis, c Carte, II. 200. LORD BUTLER. 12 1 Trustees for the several towns of Ireland, and other the securities for the satisfaction of the arrears of the forty-nine officers. Fe- bruary 7th, 1660, he was made Colonel of a regiment of horse, and Captain of a foot company; 30th March, l66l, created Lord High Steward of England, to assist at the coronation on the 23d April, in which solemn procession he walked immediately before the King, and carried St. Edward's crown, wherewith his Majesty was crowned. That very day (30th March), he was created Duke of Ormond, in Ireland^ with the creation fee of 401. payable out of the Ex- chequer: and the county of Tipperary, which had been seized by King James I. was restored to him by patent, 2d April, 1662. The preamble: Cum summe dilectus et fidelissimus Consangui- neus noster Jacobus Marchio Ormondiae et Ossorise, Vicecomes Thurles, Dominus Baro de Arclo, Dominus Regalitatum et Liber- tatum Comitatus Palatini Tipperariae, Cancellarius Universitatis Dublinensis Baro Butler de Lanthony in Comitatu nostro Mon- mouth in regno nostro Angliae, Comes de Brecknocke in Dominio nostro Walliae, unus a Sanctioribus nostris Consiliis tarn Angliae quam Hibernise, Dominus Seneschallus Hospicii nostri, unus No- bilium a Cubiculo nostro, et nobilissimi Ordinis Garterii Miles, Comes ex Comitibus praedictae Ormondiae per circiter quatercen- tum annos, semper intactae fidei, semper aut bello aut pace con- spicuus, merita Majorum tot et tantorum propriis superaverit, nee dum satisfactum judicemus duorum Regum debito, et utriusque nostrum singulari benevolentia congestis in eum hnctenus Honori- bus quum et ipsum in statum gradum, stilurn, titulum, dignitatem, nomen et honorem Ducis Ormondise in Regno nostro Hiberniae praedicto sublimari censuimus. Sciatis igitur quod nos ex uberiori gratia, mero motu et certa scientia, nostris propter servicia satis per se nota alibi etiam succinctim repertita et ab ipsae indies re- nova, praefatum Jacobum in honorem Ducis Ormondiae in regno nostro Hiberniae praedicto ereximus, &c.L To this the King added the county-cross of Tipperary; which giants were confirmed by act of parliament; and by the acts of settlement he was restored to his whole estate. November 4th, 1661, he was declared L. L. of Ireland, which gave universal satisfaction: and arriving at Dublin, 27th July/ 1662, after a dangerous passage (being the day of the same month, J Carte, II. z20. c Rot. p. Anno I j Car- u ^ p f R j6 f Carte, II. ^57. 122 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. on which, fifteen years before, he had been compelled to deliver up the government to the English parliament), he continued in the administration until 14th February, 1668, when he was suc- ceeded by John, Lord Robarts; and the parliament of Ireland, as a testimony of their gratitude and affection, presented him with a gift of 30,0001. but his removal (accomplished by the Duke of Buckingham, and other enemies), prevented his receipt of 98,2561. due to him, which made him all his life struggle with many diffi- culties, and at his death, leave debts of 89,3241. 13s. lOd. after having lost for his loyalty, beyond all profits received, 868,5901. 16s. gd. His Majesty, by patent, dated at Westminster, 23d April, 1662, having thought fit to raise in England a regiment of 1200 foot, to be his regiment of guards in Ireland, authorised his Grace to raise and transport them into this kingdom, and to give com- missions to such as he should think fit to be officers. February 20th, 1663, he was made Commander of the Port of Passage, in the county of Waterford, pursuant to privy seal at Whitehall 19th January preceding; in which the King writes, " Whereas we understand that our Fort at Passage, in our county of Water- ford, on the other side of the water from our Port of Duncannon, in our county of Wexford, is of great importance, and that it may tend very much to our service, and the safety of that harbour, and of the parts of the country thereabouts, that good correspondency and intelligence be held between those our forts; and our Royal Father having, by his letters patent, granted the command of the said Fort of Duncannon unto you, during your life; we think fit, that for the ends and purposes aforesaid, you have the command also of our said Fort of Passage, and the town of Passage, East and West, during your natural life, with power to appoint a Deputy." s And, 24th July, 1669, he was empowered to hold Court of Sessions and Gaol Delivery, in the county Palatine of Tipperary. August 4th, 1669, he was chosen Chancellor of the University of Oxford, on the resignation of Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, who earnestly recommended him to be his succes- sor, having a great and just opinion of his integrity and honour; and to shew the higher esteem of him, he did this at a juncture when his Grace was out of favour at Court. January 1/th, 16/2, he was joined in commission with Prince Rupert, and others, to S C.irte, II. 381. LORD BUTLER. 12S inspect the affairs of Ireland; viz. the execution of the acts of settlement; the disposition of forfeited lands; the state of the revenue,'1 &c. and 24th August, 1 677, he was a third'1 time sworn L. L. of Ireland, in which station he continued till 1682, when with great difficulty he procured leave to go to England; and, Qth November following, was created an English DuKE,k retaining the title of Duke of Okmond, with the creation fee of 401. a year, in consideration of his faithful services, and particu- larly for his keeping the kingdom of Ireland quiet all the time of the Popish plot, whilst England was in the utmost distraction. He was commissioned with others, 14th March, 1683, for the remedy of defective titles; and whilst he continued in England, attempted to have a parliament called in Ireland, but ineffectually, and, upon the disappointment thereof, returned in August 1684, with a heavy heart, as he declared to many in Ireland.1 February 15th, 1684, he was continued by King James II. Lord Steward of his household, and constituted Lord High Stew- ard of England for his coronation,"1 at which, 23d, April, 1685, he assisted, by carrying the same crown as before at the corona- tion of King Charles II. This solemnity performed, he returned to Ireland; but in March following was recalled, and on his ar- rival at Court, found himself in displeasure with the King; had his regiment taken from him; and perceiving the measures which the King was pursuing, would carry him to the most violent actions, he entertained dismal apprehensions of what might ensue, which are thought to have hastened his death, that happened 21st July, 1683," at his seat of Kingston-Hall, in the county of Dor- set; and 4th August he was interred in Westminster Abbey. During his administration of affairs in Ireland, he procured many favours from the Crown for the public benefit of the king- dom. In August ]660, he prevailed with the King to fill the four archiepiscopal, and twelve episcopal sees, with the most emi- nent men to be found among the Irish clergy; at which time great endeavours being used to prevent the admission of Episcopacy, and the constitution of the church of England, the clergy of Ireland addressed themselves to him for protection, and soon felt the good effects of his interposition: and the grants he procured for them, drew from all the Bishops then in Dublin an address of thanks, in the name of all the orthodox clergy of Ireland. And that the h Carte and Lodge, i Cute, p. 463. k Ibid. p. J24. 1 Carte and Lodge. m Cart", p. 543. " Ibid. II. 549. 124 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. kingdom might never want an able and learned clergy, be had a body of statutes drawn up for the government of tbe University of Dublin, to whom he was an eminent and singular benefactor in many respects. At a considerable expense and labour he revived the linen manufacture, die foundation of which was laid bv the Earl of Strafford, to which is owing its uow flourishing state. He obtained die allowance of a free trade to all foreign nations, either in war or peace with England. He procured the King's letter for incorporating a College of Physicians in Dublin, to improve the science, and reform the practice of physic in Ireland (which society had the grant of a new charter, 29th September. ldO-M He accomplished the foundation of the hospital near Dublin, fox ancient and maimed officers and soldiers of Ireland) which loth February, t683, was incorporated a body politic of governors, to have perpetual succession, &c He founded a public school called the College of Kilkenny, and endowed it with lands to the amount of 40l. a year. He set up and encouraged at a great expense, both the wc id linen manufacture?. And lived to see four Kings, three of d for fifty-seven years, with an un- shakt :- untainted loyalty, as all his ancestors had done re him. He had seen three general ove him; his father, it uncle, Thomas, Earl of Ormond; and as many below him, his son, his grandson, and his great-grandson, Thomas, wl tng in the room but a few hours before hi* Id. Thus he passed through a long life, and variety of fortunes. with honour and re] : being beloved and esteemed by the good men of all parties; and died as much regretted, as it was ssU nun to be, without courting popular applause, or -.... any other rule in his conduct, than doing what, in his own judgment , was right. v Life of tiiis great man at K ppis's B':og. Brit. i'oi. III. o He was Lord Clarei . whe ays, K there had ix n . . ■ . quis :" Orrr.ond. was Lord T'-.urles, and the C M of the Exchequer;* \. - .'.-■•• both c bus ess, the one I . rod the oth« met at Paris of the Monarchy . x rso . :hat there could not l>? . - men. The M with him 1 - • v:2 Hima LORD BUTLFR. 12 5 By his aforesaid Lady (who was godmother with (he Duchess of Buckingham to Queen Man-, died of a fever- 2 1st July, 1684, in the sixty-ninth year of her age. and was buried in Westmin- ster Abbey)., his Grace had issue eight sons, and two daughters; viz. First, Thomas, born in 1632, who died before he was two days old, and was buried at Kilkenny. Second, Thomas. E.irl ttfOssory, of whom hereafter. Third, James, born in 1035, who did not live above two days, and was buried at Kilkenny. Fourth, James, born 24th March. 103d, and dying 3d April, 1655, was buried in Christ Church, Dublin. Fifth, Richard, born loth June, 1030, was created 13th May, ldo2, Baron Butler, of Claughgrenan, Fiscount of Tullogh, and Earl of Arran, with limitation of the honours to the issue male of his brother, John; was sworn of the Privy -council 2(5th August, lodJ, and Lord Buti.br, of Weston, in England. Purchasing the Isles of Arran from Erasmus Smith, Esq. he sible industry and application. The King was abundantly satisfied in the friend- ship they had for each other, and trusted them both entirely; nor was it in the power of any, though it was often endeavoured by persons of no ordinary account, to break, or interrupt that mutual confidence between them, during the whole time the King remained beyond the seas; whereby the King's affairs were car- ried on with the less trouble. And this friendship was so great to him, that without it he coulc: ne the weight of that part of the King's b-.:- which was incumbent on him, nor die envy and reproach that attended the trust." " The Marquis ef Ormond (adds the noble Historian in his own Life), was the person of the greatest quality, estate, and reputation, who had frankly en- gaged his person and his fortune in the King's service, fiom the first hour of the troubles, and pursued it with thai ge and constancy, that when the King was murdered, and he dessrted by the Irish, contrary to the articles of the peace which they had made with him, and when he could make no longer defence, he refused all the conditions which Cromwell offered, who would have given him all his vast estate, if he would have been contented to have "lived quiet!) in some of his own houses, without further concerning himself in the quarrel; and t i himself without so much as accepting a pass from his authority, in a little weak \essel into France, where he found the King, from whom he never parted, till he returned with him into England. And having thus merited as much as 3 subject can do from a Prince, he had much more merit and esteem with the King than any other man: and the lustre the Chancellor was in, was no less from the declared friendship the Marquis had for him, than from the great trust his Majesty reposed in him.* * Burnet's character of him is not quite so high. 126 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. had a confirmation thereof, and of divers other lands, by several patents under the acts of settlement. The King having 13th No- vember, 1665, ordered certain light-houses to be built in or near the ports of Dublin, Carrickfergus, Waterford, and Kingsale, for the preservation of his ships, which were to pay a certain duty for the charge and maintenance thereof} his Majesty, 2Qlh March, 1667, granted those that were then built (viz. two upon the Hill of Howth, one in the Isle of Magee, two near Kingsale, and one at the Tower of Hooke, otherwise the Tower of Rcsse), to his Lordship for sixty-one years, at the rent of 40s. September 1st, 1666, he was made Alnager of Ireland} and 15th May, lrj/l, had a warrant to receive the pay of two common soldiers out of each field company, and of one soldier out of every other company in his Majesty's regiment of guards in Ireland: of which regiment having the command, he did good service in reducing the muti- neers of Carrickfergus; and also behaved with distinguished valour in the sea-fight of 1673 with the Dutch; for which he was created 27th August that year, a Peer of England, by the title of Bauon Butler, of Weston. October 21st, \6"J5,' he was made C. Ro- tulorum of the county of Carlow; and 2d May, 1682, sworn deputy to his father in the government of the kingdom; being also, 10th September, 1684, made Marshal of the army, with the fee of 52l. 17s. 8d. per month, which was renewed to him 16th July, 1(385. He first married in September l66'4, the Lady Mary Steuart, only surviving child of James, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, who died 30th March, 1655, and heir to her brother, Esme, who died in 1666, oet. 10; but by her (who died 4lh July, 1688, at the age of eighteen years, and was buried iQth August, at St, Canice's cathedral in Kilkenny,'! with ail the pomp that her qua- lity and the memory of her virtues deserved, the like solemnity having never been seen in Ireland), he had no issue; he married, secondly, in June 1673, Dorothy, daughter of John Ferrers, of Tamworth-Castle, in Warwickshire, Esq. and by her, who de- ceased 30th April, 1715, had several children; whereof his eldest son, Thomas, was buried in the choir of Christ Church, 7th June, 1681; two others died in 1685; Elizabeth, born in 1677, who died before him, and only one daughter survived him (he died 26th January, ]685, and was buried in Westminster Abbey), which was the Lady Charlotte, born 30th November, 1678, and P Rot. Can. z; Car. II. 4* p. D. '1 ULter's Office. LORD BUTLER. 127 married, 1st June, l6QQ, to Charles, Lord Cornvvallis, whose widow she died 8th August, 1725, and was mother of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, and grandmother of Charles, the late Marquis. Sixth, Walter, born 6th September, 1641, died in March 1643, and was buried in Christ Church. Seventh, John, born in 1643, was Captain of the troop of horse guards in Irelaiidj and 13th April, 1676, created Baron of Agherim, Viscount of Clonmore, and Earl of Gowran, with this preamble: Nos regia mente nostra recolentes eximiam fidelitatem et immaculatam Ligeantiam praedilecti et perquam fidelis consan- guine! et conciliarii nostri Jacobi, Ducis Ormondiae, SeneschalK Hospitii nostri regii, ac etiam quamplurima egregia et perquam acceptabilia servicia tam nobis quam regali patri nostro, beatas memoriae, per praefaturn Jacobum, Ducem Ormondiae, tam in se- peralibus regn.i nostris, quam in partibus transmarinis prsestitaj considerantes etiam merita, et Virtutes Domini Johannis Butler, tertii fiiii prsefati Jacobi, Ducis Ormondiae, ac servicia per eum nobis hactenus irapensa, quae nobis abunda innotuerint, hinc est quod nos praefaturn Dominum Johannem Butler perpetuo regii favoris nostri monumento Posteris suis transmsmittando ornare et decorare decrevimus, ac eum ad status et dignitates— Baronis, Vicecomitis, et Comitis regni nostrT Hibernise promovendum cen- suimus. Sciatis igitur, &c.r pursuant to privy signet, at Whitehall, 10th February, in the preceding year.8 In January 1676, he married the Lady Anne Chichester, only daughter of Arthur, Earl of Donegal ; but his Lordship travelling to Paris for the recovery of his health, died there in August 1677, leaving no issue, whereby the titles ceased. Eighth, James, born in 1645, who being carried to take the air, and the horses running away with the coachman down the Phoenix-Hill, near Dublin, the woman, who had the care of him, in her fright threw him out of the window, and he was killed by the fall, 20th May, 1646, being six months old. Lady Elizabeth was born 29th June, 1640, married, in 1656, to Philip Stanhope, the second Earl of Chesterfield, to whom she was second wife, and died in July 1665.1 Lady Mary, born in 1646, was married at Kilkenny 27th Oc- tober, 1662, to William Cavendish, the fourth Earl (after Duke) of Devonshire, and was grandmother of William, Duke of Devon- r Rot. zS Car. II. i». p. f. R. jy. t idem< d. R. 2;. * See an account of her in Grammont-s Memoirs. 128 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND- shire, L. L. of Ireland: dying 31st July, 1710, she was buried in Westminster Abbey. Thomas, Earl of Ossory, and Loud Butler of More-Park, in England, the eldest son, born at Kilkenny, 8th July, 1634, by the time he was twenty-one years of age, gave such proofs of his genius, prudence, good disposition, and virtue, that Sir Robert Southwell then drew his character, and shewed him to the world in very lively colours. " He is (says he) a young man with a very handsome face ; a good head of hair; well set; very good- natured; rides the great horse very well; is a very good tennis- player, fencer, and dancer; understands music, and plays on the guitar and lute; speaks French elegantly; reads Italian fluently; is a good historian; and so well versed in romances, that if a gal- lery be full of pictures and hangings, he will tell the stones of all that are there described. He shuts up his door at eight o'clock in the evening, and studies till midnight; he is temperate,, cour- teous, and excellent in all his behaviour." February 8th, l66t), he was made Colonel of a regiment of foot in Ireland; 13th June, l66l, Colonel of the next regiment of horse that should become void; and, on the Earl of Mountrath's death, succeeded to his troop of horse, and regiment of foot; was appointed the lpth, Lieutenant-General of the horse; sworn of the Privy-council, l6th April, l66l; and his Majesty judging it of importance to his service, that he should be qualified to sit in the House of Lords in Ireland, thought fit to direct the L. L. by writ or otherwise, as had been accustomed, to call him to sit in the said House of Lords, by privy seal at Hampton Court, 22d June, l662,u at which time he represented the city of Bristol and the University of Dublin; and 8th August, being brought by the Commons to the bar of the House of Lords, an order was made, that by the consent of the Earl's Bench, the Earl of Ossory should be placed above all of that degree. By patent l6th September, 1665, he was x constituted Lieu- tenant-General of the army in Ireland; and the next year a Lord of the King's bedchamber; was sworn in June of the Privy- council of England; and 14th September, summoned by writ to the English parliament, by the title of Lord Butler of More- Park. In the years 1664 and 1668, he was deputy to his father; and 24th April, 1669, had full power granted him to give licenses for u R>r. 14 Car. II. 3. p. f. » * Idem. 17 Car. II. 1. p. D. R. 34.. LORD BUTLER. 129 the transporting of wool. In January 1671, he received a com- mission to command the Resolution, a third-rate ship, and ano- ther in April 1672, to command the Victory, a second-rate; and 3d June, behaved with great valour and conduct in Southwould- Bay fight with the Dutch, endeavouring to lay Admiral de Ruy- ter's 9hip aboard, but he sheering off avoided the engagement: the Earl of Ossory however gained so much reputation, that when he returned to Court, he was, 30th September, elected a Knight of the Garter, and 29th October instalied at Windsor. In November he was sent Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of France, with compliments of condolence on the death of Louis- Francis, Duke of Anjou, and at his parting was presented with a jewel of 20001. value. May 17th, 1673, the King gave him the command of the St. Michael, a first-rate ship, then newly built, and made him Rear Admiral of the Blue squadron, in order to that great sea-fight against the Dutch, which happened shortly after, wherein, as Anthony a- Wood says, he gallantly acted be- yond the fiction of a romance. After the fight, he was made Rear Admiral of the Red squadron; and 10th September, displayed the Union flag, as Commander in Chief of the whole fleet, in the ab- sence of Prince Rupert, by the King's special command. November 10th, 16/4, he embarked for Holland, to treat with the Prince of Orange concerning a marriage with the Lady Mary, eldest daughter of James, Duke of York; was appointed in Au- gust 1675, a Commissioner of the Admiralty; had a pension 13th March following, granted for three years, of 26661. 13s. 4d. a year; and 18th November, 1676, was sworn Lord Chamberlain to Queen Catharine. In July 1677, he joined the Prince of Orange at the siege of Charleroy; and in February following, going over to command the English forces in the pay of the States, had a commission from them to be Colonel and Captain of one of their six regiments, being also made Major-General, and Commander in Chief of the English Brigade, by the Prince of Orange's patent; and in the campaign of ] 674, was fought the famous battle of Mons, in which the Mareschal de Luxemburgh was forced to retreat, and the Earl of Ossory gained so much glory ; the States of Holland, the Duke de Villa Hermosa, governor of the Low Countries, and the King of Spain himself, in a letter under his own hand, acknowledging his great services in that campaign. But this excellent nobleman x (of whom enough cannot be x See K'ppis's high praise of him in Biogr, Brit, II. 85. VOL. IX. K 130 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. said), was snatched away by ?. fever at Whitehall, 30th July, 1680, to the universal regret of England, and the general grief of great part of Europe, and his body was conveyed to the family vault in the cathedral of Kilkenny. He married, 17th November, 1659, N. S. the Lady Amelia Nassau, eldest daughter of Louis, Lord of Beverweart, La Leeke, Odyke, and Auverquerque, Governor of Sluys, natural son of Mau- rice, Prince of Orange, by Madame de Beverweart, Countess of Mecklin, and had issue by her, who was naturalized by act of parliament, 13th September, 1660, and buried in Christ Church, 25th January/ l6'84, six sons, and as many daughters; who all died young or unmarried, except two sons, and three daughters j viz. First, James, Duke of Ormond. Second, Charles, Earl of Arran. Third, Lady Elizabeth, married in July 1673, to William- Richard-George, the ninth Earl of Derby, died 28th June, 1717. and was buried 12th July, in Westminster Abbey. Fourth, Lady Emilia, born 29th May, 1660, and died 30th March, 1760, unmarried.2 Fifth, Lady Henrietta, married in 1696, to Henry D' Auver- querque, Earl of Grantham, her first cousin, and died 11th Octo- ber, 1724. James, the second Duke of Ormond, was born 29th April, 1665, in the castle of Dublin, when his father was deputy to his grandfather; was educated in Christ Church, Oxford, till his fa- ther's decease, when he was complimented with the degree of Master of Arts, after which (by his grandfather's order), he re- turned td Ireland/ and went a volunteer in April 1684, to the siege of Luxembourg, then invested by the French, whence he returned to London in July, and was made Colonel of a regiment of horse in Ireland. In May 1685, he was appointed a Lord of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and serving in the army, was sent down into the West against the Duke of Monmouth, and had a share in the victory over that unfortunate nobleman, 6th July, at Sedge- more, near Bridgewater. He was elected Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Oxford, 25th July, 1688, in the room of his grandfather, and installed 23d August, at his house in St. James's-square. To his power he opposed the despotic measures of King James's Court; and 17th November, 1688, joined with several Lords and Bishops, in a petition to the King, to prevent, by calling a free y Ulster's Office. z Lodge. a Ibid. LORD BUTLER 131 parliament, the miseries his person and kingdoms were exposed to ; but meeting with a sharp answer, his Grace left the Court, along with Prince George of Denmark; and declaring for the laws and liberties of his country, was one of the first of the English nobility that went over to the Prince of Orange; for which King James seized his estate in Ireland, to the value of 25,0001. a year, and 20th April, 1&Q2, excepted him out of his general pardon 5 his parliament at Dublin having attainted him, 7th May, lQSg. On King William's advancement to the throne, his Grace, 14th February, 1088 (the day after the King and Queen were proclaimed), was made a Gentleman of his Bedchamber, and Co- lonel of the second troop of guards; installed a Knight of the Garter, 5th April, 1689, and 11th, constituted High Constable of England, for their Majesties coronation. In I69O, he attended his Majesty into Ireland; was at the Battle of the Boyne, and two days after detached with his uncle, Henry, Lord Auverquerque, and nine troops of horse, to secure and take possession of the city of Dublin; and the King after- wards advancing towards Kilkenny, his Grace was dispatched from Castledermot, to secure that city and the adjacent country from plunder; when his Majesty came there, lpth July, he splen- didly entertained him in his castle, attended him into England and Holland, and 29th July, 1693, was at the battle of Landen, wherein he charged the enemy at the head of one of Lumley's squadrons, received several wounds, and having his horse shot under him, was rescued by a gentleman of the French guards from the hands of a villain about to stab him; being thus taken prisoner, he was carried to Namure, where he signalized his cha- rity, by distributing a great part of his revenues to his fellow pri- soners, by the hands of Count Guiscard, the governor;1" but was after exchanged for the Duke of Berwick, made prisoner by Bri- gadier Churchill, and when at liberty, attended his post in the army, where the grandeur of his table and retinue were an honour to the English nation, as his valour had been an example to the nobility. c By Queen Anne he was appointed, 20th April, 1/02, Com- mander in Chief of the land forces, sent against France and Spain, when he destroyed the French fleet, sunk the Spanish galleons in the harbour of Vigo, and took the fort of Redondella, for which he received the thanks of both houses of parliament. b Lodge. c ibid. 132 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. June 24th, 1/02, he was made L. L. of the county of Somer- set; and 4th February following, her Majesty declared him L.L. of Ireland, where he was received with every demonstration of joy; and during his stay, till the year if06, in this high post, go- verned with more affection from the people, and kept his Court in greater splendor, than ever was known in this kingdom. In 170/, he was appointed Colonel of the third troop of horse guards; J 9th October, 17 10, again declared L. L. of Ireland; and 1st January, 1711, made Colonel of the first regiment of foot guards, and declared Captain General, and Commander in Chief of the land forces in Great Britain, or which were or should be employed abroad, in conjunction with the troops of the allies; which post (his commission being signed 26th February)/ he held till the treaty of Utrecht in 1713. June 26th that year, he was made Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports, and Constable of Dover Castle; and on the Queen's death, was one of the Privy-council who signed the pro- clamation, declaring King George I. to be the only lawful and rightful King of Great Britain; on whose arrival, he was gra- ciously received by his Majesty; appointed, 9th October, 1/14, of his Privy-council in Ireland; and L.L. of the county of Somer- set; from which he was removed a few days after, as he had been ISth September before from being Captain-General of the army, the Lord Viscount Townshend then acquainting him, that his Majesty hsd no longer occasion for his service in that quality, but would be glad to see him at Court. The parliament meeting 1/th March, 1714, his Grace was impeached, 21st June, 1715, by Mr. Secretary Stanhope, of high treason, and the House of Commons voted that he should be im- peached accordingly ; whereupon being advised to avoid the impending storm of a parliamentary prosecution, although it is presumed by many, had he waited to stand his trial, that his in- nocent and good intentions in all his actions, would have cleared him from the imputed guilt;e he retired, 8th August, into France, and was 20th of that month attainted, his estate forfeited, and honours extinguished; and the parliament of this kingdom, 26th June, 1716, passed an act, for extinguishing the regalities and liberties of the county palatine of Tipperary; for vesting his estate d Lodge. e See b;s conduct in the campaign of 1712 vindicated, in a pamphlet pub- lished in 1715. LORD BUTLER. 133 in the Crown ; and for giving a reward of 10,0001 for his appre- hension, should he attempt to land in Ireland. But the same English parliament passed an act, 24th June, 1/21, to enable his brother, the Earl of Arran, to purchase his estate, which he accordingly did.f This great, but unfortunate nobleman, married to his first wife, 15th July, 1682, Anne, eldest daughter of Laurence, Earl of Rochester, who dying, 25th January, l684,s of a miscarriage in Dublin, aged seventeen years and three days, was buried in the family vault in Christ Church; he married, secondly, 3d August, 16S5, Mary,1' eldest surviving daughter of Henry, first Duke of Beaufort, and by her, who died l(Jth November, 1/33, in the sixty-ninth year of her age, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, he had one son, Thomas, born 26th September, 1686, who died 27th February, 1689, and was there buried. And five daughters; whereof the Ladies Mary, Emilia, and Henrietta, died in their infancy. Lady Elizabeth died unmarried, 20th April, 1750, and was buried with her father. And Lady Mary was married, 21st October, 1710, to John Lord Ashbumham, and dying 2d January, 1/12, set. 23, without surviving issue, was buried at Ashburnham. f " When Stanhope moved for his impeachment (says Coxe), Hutcheson, member for Hastings, made a long speech in his behalf, and urged many palliat- ing circumstances ; and Sir Joseph Jekyll, whose principles and conduct had always proved him a sincere friend to the Protestant succession, spoke warmly on the same side. The debate continued above nine hours, and Ormond had so many friends, that his impeachment was carried only by a majority of forty- seven. The proceedings against Ormond would not, in all probability, have been conducted with much asperity, had he preserved the moderation, which, under his circumstances, would have been becoming; but, on the contrary, whilst his conduct was under inquiry, before the secret committee, he lived in an unsuit- able style of magnificence, affected to court popularity, and saw with compla- cency, his name made the signal of tumult and disloyal exclamation! Even after his impeachment, Devonshire had arranged for him a private interview with the King; but far from availing himself of this kindness, and contrary to the pro- mise extorted from him by his Tory friends, he withdrew from the kingdom, and precluded the possibility of a return to his native country, by instantly entering into the service of the Pretender. Having once embraced that desperate measure, he was too honest and zealous to act like Bolingbroke, and obtain a pardon by sa- crificing the interest of his new master; or by entering into a compromise with his prosecutors." S Ulster's Office. h See Dryden'j beautiful Dedication of his FABtES to hero 134 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. His Grace resided chiefly at Avignon; had a pension from the Court of Spain of 2000 pistoles; and departing this life 1 6th No- vember, 1745, N. S. his corpse was brought into England, and deposited 22d May, 1/46, in the family vault, in King Hen. VII's Chapel Westminster Abbey. Charles, Earl of Arran, and Lord Butler of Weston, in England, the younger son of Thomas, Earl of Ossory, was born 4th September, 1671, and by King William made a Lord of his Bedchamber; Colonel of a regiment of horse; and, by privy seal, dated at Whitehall 15th January, l6c)3, and patent, 8th March following, created Baron of Cloughgrenan, Viscount of Tullogh, and Earl of Arran; and also a Baron of England, by the tide of Lord Butler of Weston. The preamble: Nos regia mente recolentes eximia merita et virtutes praedilecti et fidelis sub liti nostri Caroli Butler, filii secundo geniti egregii viriThomae nuper Comitis de Ossory, necnon fidelitatem erga nos illustrem, ac res per ilium contra inimicos nostros fortissime gestas, in magnam re- rurn nostrarum emolumentum, quae omnia simul cum partus ejus nobilitate et haercditario ejus erga coronam nostram Angliae stu- dio, nobis amplissime innotuerint. Hinc est quod nos praefatum Carolum Butler pro talibus meritis perpetuo regii favoris nostri monumento posteris suis transmittendo ornare et decorare decre- vimus. Sciatis igitur, &c. His Lordship, 14th January, 1702, was made a Brigadier- General of her Majesty's armies, and 22d April, 17O8, a Lieu te- nant-General. By patent, 6th June, 1712, he was constituted Master of the Ordnance, in the room of Lieutenant-General In- goldsby deceased, but this he resigned on the Queen's demise. In July J 713, he was made Governor of Dover Castle, and Deputy Warden of the Cinque Ports, which he also resigned at the same time. On 10th September, 1715, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford; and 28th February following, Lord High Steward of the city and liberties of Westminster. He married Elizabeth, fourth and youngest daughter of Tho- mas, Lord Crew, of Stene, but by her, who became coheir to her uncle, Nathaniel, Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham (who died with- out issue I8th September, 1721), and died 21st May, 1756, his Lordship had no issue, and deceasing 17th December, 1758, ast. 88, the titles became extinct. But the estates devolved, pursuant to the settlement made by his Lordship, first, on his sister, Lady Emilia Butler, and on her death to LORD BUTLER. 135 John Butler, of Kilcash, Esq. who dying 24th June, 1766, without issue, Walter Butler, only son of John, second son of "Walter, of Garryricken, eldest son of Richard, of Kilcash, the youngest son of Thomas, Lord Thurles, son of Walter, the eleventh Earl of Ormond, succeeded. He married Eleanor, eldest daughter of Nicholas Morris, of the Court, in county of Dublin, Esq. (son of Sir John, and great uncle to the late Sir Redmond Morris, Baits.), and by her, who died January 1 794, had three daughters, First, Frances, the elder, married to Cavanagh, of Borris, in county of Carlow, Esq. and died January 1802. Second, Susan, to Cavanagh, Esq. of the same family. Third, Lady Eleanor? who resided many years in Llangollen Vale, married, August I lth, 1S08, Cornelius O'Callaghan, Viscount Lismore. And an only son, John Butler, who, on his attainder being reversed, became Earl of Ormond (of which he would have been the sixteenth Earl, but for the attainder). He was elected to parliament for the county of Kilkenny, and married, 26th February, I/69, to Lady Anne Wandesford, only daughter and heir of John, Earl of Wandesford (who deceasing in 1784, his titles became extinct, but) whose estates devolved on Mr. Butler (in right of Lady Anne), who, on the death of his father, succeeded also to the estates of the Earl of Arran, and then represented the several fa- milies of Ormond, Kilcash, and Garryricken. By Lady Anne his Lordship had issue, First, Walter, present Earl. Second, John Wandesford, born 1/72, died 1796. Third, James Wandesford, born 1773, M.P. for the county of Kilkenny; married, October 12th, 1807, Grace Louisa, daughter of the Right Hon. John Staples, of Lissan. Fourth, Lady Elizabeth, born 1777, married Cavanagh, Esq. Fifth, Charles, born 178I, Lieut.-Colonel of the 14th light dragoons, in July 1810; and M.P. for Kilkenny. Sixth Lady Eleanor, born 1788. His Lordship dying in January 1796, was succeeded by his eldest son, Walter, present and seventeenth Earl of Ormond, and first Lord Butler of Llanthony. His Lordship was born in 177O5 and was created a British 136 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Peer, by the title of Loud Butier, of Llanthony , January 13th, 1801. His Lordship married, March 1/th, 1805, Anne, only daugh- ter and heiress of Job Hart Pryce Clarke, Esq. by Anne, sole sister and heir of Godfrey Clarke, Esq. of Sutton-Hall, in Derby- shire. His Lordship is a Knight of St. Patrick. Titles. Walter Butler, Lord Butler of Llanthony ; also Earl of Ormond and Ossory} Viscount Thurles; and Baron of Arklow, in Ireland. Creations. Baron Butler of Llanthony, January 13th, 1801 ; an Irish Earl, September 1st, 1315. Ar ms. Or, a chief indented Azure. Crest. On a ducal coronet, Or, a double plume of five ostrich feathers, and thence on a wreath a falcon rising, all Argent. Supporters. On the dexter side, a falcon with wings ex- panded Argent, beaked and membered Or; on the left a male griffin beaked, membered, radiant, and gorged, with a collar and chain Or. Motto. Depkessus extollok. Chief Seat. Sutton-Hall, Derbyshire. LOUD C MIYSFORT. t*7 PROBY, LORD CARYSFORT. The family of Proby came originally from Wales, and were there named Ap-Probyn, but they have flourished for many ages in the county of Huntingdon. Randolph Proby, of the city of Chester, settled at Bramp- ton, co. Hunt, at the latter end of the fifteenth century; and by his wife, the daughter of Bernard, had two sons, First, Ralph Proby, of Brampton, Esq. who was living about the year 1580, and died in 1605, without issue. Second, Sir Peter Proby, Knt. who succeeded his brother at Brampton, and at Elton, in the same county; he served the high office of Lord Mayor of the city of London in 1622; in 1618 he was styled of Rans, in the county of Bucks, and died in 1024, leaving by Elizabeth, daughter of John Thoroughgood, of Chi- vers, in Essex, Esq. and relict of Edward Henson, of London, Gent, five sons, and one daughter; viz. First, Sir Heneage. Second, Edmund Proby, D.D. a considerable benefactor to Jesus-College, Cambridge. Third, Charles, who married the daughter of Torriano, of London, Esq. and had a son, William, who succeeded after- wards at Elton; and was ancestor of the present Peer. Fourth, Henry, of the Middle -Temple, Esq. who, by his wife, Ellen, daughter of William Benham, of London, merchant, had two sons, and three daughters; viz. Edward; Henry; Anne; Elizabeth; and Ellen. Fifth, Emanuel, who married Mary, daughter of John 138 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Bland, of London, merchant, and had Peter, George, and Su- sanna. The daughter, Walsingham, became the wife of William Downhall, Esq. Sir Heneage, the eldest son of Sir Peter, born in 1600, was of Elton, and of Rans, in Huntingdon ; he was Sheriff of the county of Bucks, and in many parliaments represented the borough of Agmondesham in that county. In 1661, he married Ellen, daughter of Edward Allen, of Finchley, in the county of Middle- sex, Esq. and died 10th February, 1667; leaving issue by her, who died 12th June, 167S, aged seventy-two, two daughters, Elizabeth and Helen; and three sons; viz. First, Sir Thomas. Second, John, who succeeded his brother. Third, Heneage, who died 7th May, l66g, aged twenty- seven. Sir Thomas, the eldest son, was created a Baronet, 7th March, 1662, and died in l6sg, being about forty-five years of age. In 1660, he represented the borough of Agmondesham, in Bucks, and in l6'3l, served in parliament for the county of Huntingdon; he married Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton, of Conning- ton, in the county of Huntingdon, Bart, by whom he had issue one son, Thomas, who died on his travels, unmarried; And three daughters; viz. Alice (born in 1§73, who became the wife of Thomas Wentworth, of Harrowden, in the county of Northampton, father of Thomas, the last Earl of Malton, and Marquis of Rockingham); Frances and Elizabeth died unmar- ried. The said Sir Thomas dying without surviving male issue, was succeeded in the estate of Elton by John, the second son of Sir Heneage, who represented the county of Huntingdon in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne, and died in the year 1710; he married Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Cust, Bart, and had an only daughter, Frances, who died unmarried in 1/11. Hence we return to Charles, third son of Sir Peter Proby, Knt. who married a daughter of Torriano, of London, Esq. descended from an ancient family of that name in Italy; and by her had two sons. First, William. LORD CARYSFORT. 139 Second, Charles Proby, D. D. Rector of Tewing, in Hertford- shire, who married Mary, daughter of Richard Harrison, of Balls, in the county of Hertford, Esq. and had several children; o. whom, Susanna, Ethelreda, and Jane, survived their infancy. William, the eldest son, sometime Governor of Fort St. George, in the East Indies, succeeded his cousin, John, at Elton, 17 10; he married a daughter of Robert Cornwall, of Berington, in the county of Hereford, Esq. and by her had issue, Editha, who married Sir John Osborne, of Newtown, in the county of Tipperary, Bart. And two sons; viz. First, Charles, who died unmarried. And, John Proby, Esq. who succeeded his father; he represented the county of Huntingdon in October, 1722, as he after did the borough of Stamford in parliament in 1734 and 1741, and died in 1/00, at Ipswich, in Suffolk, leaving issue by his wife, Jane Leveson, daughter of John, .the first Lord Gower (she died 10th June, 1/26), one daughter, Caroline, who died unmarried, and five sons; viz. First, John, created Lord Carysfort, of Ireland. Second, William, who died at sea, unmarried. Third, Thomas, Major of Lord Howe's regiment, who was killed at the attack of the lines of Ticonderago, in North Ame- rica, unmarried. Fourth, Charles, a Captain in the royal navy, afterwards a Commissioner of the navy at Chatham, who married Sarah, daugh- ter of Pownall, Esq. and had issue, First, the Rev. Charles Proby, Rector of Stanwick, co. Northamp. married his cousin, Catharine Proby; and, Second, Baptist-Leveson; and also daugh- ters. Fifth, Baptist, Rector of Doddington, in the Isle of Ely, and of Thornhaugh, in the county of Northampton, and Dean of Lichfield, died January 16th, 180/; he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Russell, and had several children; of whom, the Rev. Eaptist-John married a sister of the late Sir Nigel Gresby, Bart. ; Charles is Vicar of Tachbrooke, and Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks; Joshua-John Brownlow, died at Bengal March 4th, 1810, in the civil service of the East India Company; Mary, married Francis, now Lord Seaforth; Catharine, married her cousin, the Rev. Charles Proby; Caroline, married Edward Grove, Esq. of Shenstone Park, co. Staff.; Susan, since deceased; and Anne. John, the eldest son, first Lord Carysfort, was born 25th 140 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. November, 17^0, O. S. He was elected to parliament for the borough of Stamford, in the county of Lincoln, in 1746, and afterwards served for the county of Huntingdon ; he was ap- pointed a Lord of the Privy-council in Ireland, by his late Majesty, and a Lord of the Admiralty in Great Britain. In 1761, he was created a Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath; and was, in 1763, re-appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. He was raised to the Irish Peerage by the title of Baron Carysfort * of Carysfort, in the county of Wicklow, pur- suant to privy seal, at St. James's, 9th December, 1751,b and by patent at Dublin, 23d January, l/52,c by which title he sat in parliament, 7th October, 1755.d 27th August, 1750, he married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Joshua, the second Viscount Allen, and coheiress to her brother, John, the third Viscount ; his Lordship deceased at Lisle, in Flanders, ISth October, 1772/ and was buried at Elton, leaving issue by her, who died in March, 1783, John-Joshua, who suc- ceeded to the honour; and Elizabeth, born 14th November, 1752, married Thomas James Storer, Esq. who died November 10th, 17925 and died his widow, March 19th, 1808. John-Joshua, the second Irish Peer, frst Earl, and first Lord Carysfort of Norman Cross, co. Hunt, was born 12th August, 1751; took his seat in the House of Peers 12th Octo- ber, 1773 ;f and having the honour to be appointed a Knight Companion of the most illustrious Order of St. Patrick, was in- stalled with the other Knights, in St. Patrick's cathedral, 17th March, 1783. On August 18th, 1739, his Lordship was advanced to an Earldom, by the title of Earl of Carysfort; and on January 13th, 1 801, was created a British Peer, by the title of Lord Carysfort, of Norman-Cross, co. Huntingdon. March 19th, 1774, he married the daughter of Sir William Osborne, Bart.s and by her had issue three sons, and two daugh- ters; viz. a In his Lordship's patent of creation, he is called John Proby, junior. b Rot. anno 25 Geo. II. 3. p. D. R. 49. c Idem. R. 18. A Lords Journals, IV. 18. e Ulster's Office. f Lords Journals, IV. 684. £ Sir Richard Osborne, of Ballyntaylor, in the county of Waterford, was created a Baronet, 15th October, 1629, having been appointed by King James I. 4th October, 1616, with Henry Osborne, Gent. Clerk of the King's Courts, and Prothonotary within the city and county of Limerick, and in Tipperary, Clerk or the Crown and Peace, and Clerk, of the Assizes in the said counties, which they LORD CARYSFORT. 141 First, William-Allen, Lord Proby, a Captain in the navy, died at Surinam, August 6th, 1604. surrendered to King Charles I. 26th January, 1629. He died in 1667, leaving three daughteis ; the elder married to Beverley Usher, Esq. the second to Pomeroy, Esq. and the third, to Richard Odell, Esq. Sir Richard had also three sons; viz. Sir Richard, his heir; Nicholas, whose son, Thomas, succeeded to the title; and Roger, who acquired a considerable estate, and died childless in 1679. Sir Richard, the second Baronet, died in 1685, or beginning of 1686, leaving Sir John; and Richard, who became non compos mentis. Sir John, the third Baronet, in 1669, married Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Thomas Walsing- ham, of Scadbury, in Kent, Esq. by Anne, fourth daughter of Theophilus, second Earl of Suffolk (whose third daughter, Margaret, married Roger Boyle, the first Earl of Orrery). Sir John dying without issue, 4th April, 1713, was succeeded by Sir Thomas Osborne, of Thekincorr, or Tuckincorr, in the county of Waterford, son and heir to Nicholas, second son of the first-mentioned Sir Richard; which Sir Thomas, the fourth Baronet, married twice; the name of his first wife we have not recovered, but he married, secondly, in 1704, Anne, youngest daughter of Beverley Usher, Esq. before-mentioned. She remarried, in August, 17 17, with Francis Skiddy, of Dublin, Gent. Sir Thomas died 10th October, 1713, having issue by his first wife an only son, Nicholas, who, in 16S4, married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Laurence Parsons, of Birr, Bart and dying before his fa- ther, left issue four sons, and four daughters; viz. Sir Nicholas, successor to his grandfather; Thomas, who died unmarried; John, who succeeded to the honour; Laurence; Frances; Arabella, married to Robert Marshall, Esq. appointed, 24th April, 1754, second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas; Mary, married, 22 1 December, 1716, to William Moore, Deputy Muster-Master-General, and by him, who died 18th March, 1735, had Osborne-John, baptized 12th November, 171 8, Beresford, and other children; and Catharine, who died unmarried. Sir Nicholas, the fifth Baronet, married, first, Mary, daughter of Doctor Thomas, Lord Bishop of Limerick, with whom he had 2000 1. portion, and died 13th Ja- nuary, 1718, having issue by her (who remarried with Major Ramsay, and had a daughter, Mary, married to William Rochford, Esq. younger brother to Robert, late Earl of Belvidere ; and her Ladyship died at Clontarff, 9th February, 1762 ) ; two daughters; viz. Anne, aged nine years at the death of her father, married to Henry Vereker, of Roxborough, in county of Limerick, Esq. and Dorothy, aged eight years at the death of her father, married 3d April, 1 73 8, to William Taylor, Esq. Collector of Limerick, and styled of Moyallow, who died 15th May, 1746. John, second son of Nicholas, became, on his brother's demise, the sixth Baro- net; he was bred to the profession of the law, was member of parliament for the county of Waterford, resided at Newtown, in the county of Tipperary, and died Ilth April, 1743. He married Editha, daughter of William Proby, Esq. father of John, the first Lord Carysfort, and by her, who died 19th January, 1745, had issue six sons, and four daughters; viz. Sir William, his heir; Nicholas; Tho- mas; Charles, in the army, who died in 1782; Arthur; John, in the army; Editha (who married, first, Robert Wallis, Esq. a Lieutenant of horse; and, secondly, jst August, 1767, Henry L'Estrangc, of the King's County, Esq. who left her a widow); Frances; Arabella, married to Stearne Tighe, Esq. and Emma, 142 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Second, John, Lord Proby, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and Captain in the first regiment of foot-guards; late M. P. for the county of Huntingdon. Third, Granville Leveson, a Post-Captain in the navy, I8O7. Fourth, Emma-Elizabeth, died May 24th, ] 79 1 ; and Gertrude. His Lordship married, secondly, April 12th, 1787, Elizabeth Grenville, sister to George, Marquis of Buckingham; and by her has had issue, George, died April 19th, 1791. Charlotte, born February 10th, 17S8. Frances, born 1/S9- Elizabeth, born April \Qth, 1792- His Lordship was appointed Privy Councillor, and Joint- Guardian of the Rolls in Ireland, 1789. His Lordship was sent Ambassador to Berlin, May 24th; 1800; and Ambassador to Petersburgh, in 1801.h Titles. John-Joshua Proby, Lord Baron Carysfort, of Carys- fort, in the county of Wicklow; and Pari of Carysfort; Baron Carysfort, of Norman-Cross, in the county of Huntingdon. Creations. Created 23d January, 1752, 25 George II. an Irish Baron; Earl, August 18th, 1789; and a British Peer, January 13th, 1801. Arms. Ermine, on a fess, Gules, a lion passant, Or. Crest. An ostrich's head, erased at the neck, Argent, gorged with a ducal coronet, holding in its bill a key, Or. Supporters. The dexter, an ostrich, Argent, gorged with a ducal coronet, holding in its bill a key, Or, as the crest. 1 he sini- ster a talbot, Vert, armed and laugued, Gules. MottO. MaNUS H.EC IN1MICA TYRANNIS. Seats. Elton-Hall, in the county of Huntingdon; and Stil- lorgan, four miles from Dublin. to Doctor Henry Coghlan, grandson of Doctor Kerry Maule, Bishop of Meath. Sir William Osborne, the seventh Baronet, was elected to parliament for the bo- rough of Carysfort, 20th March, 1749 5 he rnariied Elizabeth, elder daughter of Thomas Christmas, Esq. of Whitfield, county o. VVaterford, and deceased in No- vember, 1783, having had issue seven sons, and three daughters; of whom, two sons, and one daughter survived; viz. Sir Thomas, the eighth Baronet; John- I'roby; and Lady Carysfort. (Lodge, edit. 1754, II. 65. n. Collins, III. 134. Roll's and Ulster's Offices, and Collections.) h His Lordship is author of a volume of Dramatic Poems, published in 1810; highly commended by the British Critic of the same year. LORD ALVANLEY J43 ARDEN, LORD ALVANLEY. The elder branch of the Ardernes" (says Lysons, in his Cheshire), " whose chief seat was at Aldford, where they had a castle, became extinct in the principal line, by the death of Wal- keline Arderne, in or about the reign of Richard II. The present John Arden, Esq. for so the family have of late years spelt the name, is descended from Sir John Arderne, a younger brother of Walkeline beforementioned, whose posterity settled in the pa- rish of Stockport, in the fifteenth century} and he is also the re- presentative of the Barons of Montalt, and of the ancient family of the Dones, of Utkington and Flaxyards. A younger branch of the Ardernes settled at Alderley, about the beginning of Edward the Third's reign, and ended after a few descents in a female heir, who married into the Weever family, whose heiress married the ancestor of Sir J. T. Stanley, Bart. The Ardernes of Leicester- shire, were descended from a younger son of Ralph Arderne, of Harden, in the fifteenth century."a Johannes de Arderne, Lord of Watheford, 12 Henry III. was father of Walkeline de Arderne, Chief Justice of Chester, Lord of Aldford, Alderley, and Wever, jure uxoris, who married the heiress of Oreby,b and had issue, Sir Peter de Arderne, Knt. who, by Margaret his wife, had Sir John de Arderne, Lord of Aldford, from 3 to 33 Ed- ward I. who, by Margaret, was father of A younger son, Peter, of Audley/ who died 1346, and a Lysons's Britannia, II. 362. b ibid. 4S0. c He had two daughters j Christiana, married to John Fitton, S. P, ofBul- lin; and Margaret, to Richard Weever, of Weever. 144 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Sir John Arderne, Knt. son and heir, 8 Edward III. who. by Elen, daughter of William de Wasteneys,d had three e sons. First, Walkeline de Arderne. Second, Sir John, of whom presently. Third, Sir Thomas de Arderne, of Aldford, 35 Edward III. whose great grand-daughter and heiress married Thomas Stanley, second son to Stanley, of Lathom. Sir John de Arderne, second son, was father of Henry de Arderne, Esq. who, by Elen, daughter and coheir of John Whetenhall, of Whetenhall/ was father of Sir Ralph Arderne, of Harden, who died 1420,? and, by the daughter of Stanley, of Hooton, had a younger son, Thomas, from whom came the Ardernes of Leicestershire: also, John Arderne, of Harden, son and heir, who, by the daugh- ter of Heaton, of co. Lane, had two daughters, and one soil} viz. Mary, wife of Dukenfield, of Dukenfield. Jane, wife of Thurstan de Holland, of Denton, co. Lane, and Ralph Arderne, of Harden, son and heir, who died January 14th, 31 Henry VIII. having married Matilda, daughter of Thomas Davenport, of Henbury, by whom he bad a son and daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of Randolph Minshull : and John Ardern, of Harden, who died 5th Edward VI. having married Anne, daughter of Robert Hyde, of Norbury, by whom he had four sons, and two daughters. Elen, wife of Thomas Shrigley, of Borstal. Jane, wife of William Dukenfield, of Dukenfield. John, of whom presently. Francis ; a second John ; and Robert. John Arderne, of Harden, Esq. son and heir, married Frances, daughter of John Leigh, of Boolhes,'1 by whom he had five younger children j viz. Ralph, Richard, Agnes, Jane, and Ursula; and John Arderne, of Harden, Esq. son and heir, who married Mary, daughter of Henry Holland, of Denton, by whom he had issue, First, Henry Arderne, son and heir. d Lysons's Britannia, II. 803. e Maud, daughter of Sir John de Arderne, married John de Warwick. Ibid. Til.' f Lysons, ut stipr. 368. 3 Ibid. 4.69. h Ibid. 696. LORD ALVANLEY. 145 Second, Francis.' Ralth Arderne, Esq. (a descendant, probably son, of one of these), married Eleanor, daughter and coheir of John Done, Esq. of Utkington, who died about 1629. Sir John Arderne, Knt. their son and heir, was grcatk grand- father of the late Lord Alvanley. In the parish church of Stockport, in the county of Chester, is the following epitaph: At the foot of this pillar lye the remains of John Ardern} of Harden, Esq. who died at London, May the 2Jth, A.D. 1/03, Anno JEtatis 40. He left issue behind him two daughters; Margaret and Ca- therine, by Anne, second daughter of Sir William Ingleby, of Rip- ley, Bart, who, in just esteem of her husband's virtues, erected this monument to his memory, and to admonish thee, Reader, that he was worthy thy imitation; for as he zvas singularly happy in all the virtues of a private condition, so the great concern he shewed in procuring the authority of the legislature, to enable him to do honourable right to his family, though to the diminution of his own revenue, shows his goodness was not confined to himself: and his known ability might have rendered him a public blessing, had not the circumstances of the times he lived in, hindered him from entering upon public action. Reader, farewell! imitate his virtues if thou canst, or honour, at least, the mtmory of him who possessed them.m John Ardern, of Arden, in Cheshire, Esq. had issue by the heiress of Pepper, of Yorkshire, First, John Arden, now of Stockport,n Esq. and of York- shire. « llarl. MSS. 1435, fol. II. k James Arderne, Esq. is said to have built a brick house in the Forest of Delamcre, of which he was Chief Constable, about the middle of the 17th cen- tury. Ibid. 799. J For an account of Dr. James Ardern, Dean of Chester, probably his uncle, see Wood's Ath. II. iqz, and Lys^ns, 574. ^ From Le Neve's Monimenta Anglicana, Vol. I. p. 64. n Where he resides occasionally in an ancient house, which has been long in the family. Lyso/is, 783. In the old hall of Harden, which is now only occupied as a farm-house, are several portraits, most of which had belonged to the Crewe;, and were brought from Utkmton Hall: among the most remarkable is that of Mrs. Jane Lane, who VOL. IX. J. 146 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Second, Richard Pepper Arden, first Lord Alvanley, who was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of A. B. ] 766; and of A. M. J 766, of which he be- came Fellow; and afterwards studying the law, was called to the Bar; attained a silk gown; and iu 1/82, was appointed Soli- citor General; and in 17&4, Attorney General. He was also Chief Justice of Chester. He also received the honour of Knighthood. In 1788, he succeeded Lord Kenyon in the high office of Master of the Rolls. In December 1782, he was elected M. P. for Newton, in the assisted the escape of King Charles II. represented as concealing the Crown un- der her cloak; and a half-length of Judge Clinch, in his robes. Harden is in the township of Bredbury, in the parish of Stockport; and is supposed to have been brought to the Ardens by marriage with the heiress of Bredbury in early times. Ibid. The Tcrporley and Utkintcn estates came by marriage with the coheir of the Dones. " Sir John Done, who was knighted by King Jarrfes, at his house at Utkinton, in 1617, on occasion of the King's hunting in the Forest of Delamere, of which he was hereditary Bow-bearer, died in 1629: his only ton, J >hn Done, Esq. dying either before, or soon after him, without issue, the estates were di- vided among the three surviving sisters; Jane, who died unrnarrieJ; Mary, wife of John Crewe, Esq.; and Eleanor, wife of Ralph Arderne, Esq. Upon a parti- tion, the manor and advowson of Torporltry, and the man-r of Uckinton, were al- lotted to Jane, the eldest sister, who, by a deed of February 12th, 1662, settled those estates to the use of herself for life, with remainder to her sister, Mary, for life, with divers remainders over; upon the determination of which, the premises so settled, were to be divided into six parts; two sixths were limited to Sir John Arderne (then son, and heir apparent to h s sister Eleanor), and his heirs; and the other four sixths to Henry, Ralph, James, and Philip, younger brother of the said Sir J' hn, to each of them and his heirs, one sixth. These estates became afterwards the subject of litigation in the Cour' of Chancery ; and so continued till the year 1725, when a partition was decreed between the children of Eleanor the youngest sister of Mrs. Jane Done (who married Ralph Arderne, Esq."), in the following proportions: two sixths of the manors, with Utkinton-Hali, which had then lately been the seat of Sir John Crewe, were allotted to Sir John Ar- derne, Knight, great grandfather of John Arcen, ,Esq. the present proprietor; one s.xth to Henry Arderne, the ancestor of Mrs. Glegg, in whom it is now vested; one sixth to Ralph A:derne, whse el. est daughter brought it in mar- riage to Jonathan Hulle\ ; another sixth part vas allotted t" the Dean *nd Chap- ter of C lester, as e'evisees of Dean Arderne, who died in 1691, hating bequeathed the chief part of his estates to that body; the remaining sixth part was allotted to Philip Arderne, and having been devised by him to the Dukenfkld family, was purcha.ed in 1773, of Sir Nathaniel Dukenfield, Bart, by Philip Egerton, Esq. of Oiiton, father of Jvhii Egerton, Esq. the present proprietor." Lysous, at supr. 789, 790. LORD ALVANLEY. 14? Isle of Wight; and in 1/S4, for Aldborough, in Yorkshire. In 17()0, he was elected for Hastings, for which he vacated his seat in April 1/9-1, and was immediately elected fur Bath; to which he was re-elected in 1/.Q6\ and which he continued to represent till his accession to a Peerage. In May 1801. he succeeded Lord Eldon, as Lord Chief Justice of ths- Common Pleas; and on that occasion was ele- vated to the Peerage, bv the title of Lord Alvanley, of Alvan- ley? in Cheshire by pa'ent, dated May 22d, 1801. His Lordship died March Jyth, 1804, having married Miss Bootle, eldest daughter of the late Richard Wilbraham Bootle, Et>q. of I.athom Hali, in Lancashire, by whom he had issue, First, William, present Peer. Second, Richard Ardrn. Third, Francis, Fourth, Catharine. His Lordship's remains were interred on the 26th, in the Rolls chapei, Chancery Lane. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John Strachey, D D. and the body was deposited in a vault on the right side ot the communion table. The cofhn-plate was thus inscribed: Richard Pepper Arden, Lord AlvanlfiY, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Corrmon Pleas, One of his Majesty's Right Honourable Privy Council. Died March iQth, 1S04, aged 5Q.P His Lordship wa« succeeded by lus eldest son, V\ ilmam, present and sfcond Lord Alvanley, who ob- tained an Ensigncy before his father's death in the Coldstream regiment of tooi guards, and afterwards a Lieutenancy, which he exchanged in summer IS 10, for a Company in the 50th regiment of foot. 0 " The manor of Chantey, in the parish of Frodsham, was held und°r the Fit2alans, Earls of Arundel a; an early period, by Richard de Pierpoint and Robert de Alvanley, who sold t to Sir Philip de Orreby, father of Philip, whose daugh- ter and heir, Agnes, brought this manor, and other possessions, in the reign of Henry III. to Walkeline de Arderne, ancestor of John Aid n, Esq. the prrs ;u proprietor. A farm-house, called Al-janley-Hall, occupies ths site of an ancient mansion, belonging to the Arden family, called . y Webb, in 162Z, « a very fine house, belonging to Henry Arderne, Esq." Lyseus, ut sufr. 660. P See Gent. Mag. Vol. LXX1V. p. 383, 384. 148 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Title. William Arden, Baron of Alvanley, in Cheshire. Creation. Baron of Alvanley, by patent, May 22d, 1S01. Arms. Gules, three cross crosslets fitchy, Argent, a chief, Or, a crescent for difference. Crest. A plume of feathers issuing out of a ducal coronet. Supporters. Two talbots, collared. Motto. Patiencia vinces. Seat. BARONESS ABERCROMBY. 149 ABERCROMBY, BARONESS ABERCROMBY. I he surname of Abercromby, like others of great antiquity, is local, taken from the lands of Abercromby, in the county of Fife, which was the ancient possession of this family. The Abercrombies of that Ilk, were very considerable gentle- men. Thomas Abercromby, of that Ilk, in the reign of King James II. was one of the Lords of Session, or what at that time was a committee of parliament, who were from one session to another appointed for the administration of justice, anno 1457. He left a son, Thomas, his successor in the barony of Abercromby, And a daughter, Margaret, who was married to Maule, of Panmure. And from this Thomas the line of the family continued till the reign of King Charles I. anno l64p, that Thomas Abercromby sold the Barony of Abercromby to Sir James Sandilands, of St. Monance, who was created Lord Aber- cromby in the year ] 647. The most ancient cadet of this family of Abercromby of that Ilk, was Abercromby, of Birkenbog, in the shire of Banff, whose predecessor was Humphredus de Abercromby, a son of the house of Aber- cromby, who obtained a charter and grant from King Robert the Bruce, of the lands of Harlhill and Ardun, pro homagio et ser- vitio suo, as the charter bears; which is still extant in the custody of Sir James Abercromby, of Birkenbog, Baronet. It is without date, but appears to have been about 1315, the seventh year of the King's reign, immediately after the battle of Bannockburn, 150 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, when that immortal monarch began to reward the loyalty and valour of such of his subjects as had served him hitherto with merit and fidelity. This Humphrey Abercromby, of Har thill, was succeeded by Aalexandek de Abercromby, who acquired from Patricias Hay, dimidiam partem terr r de Ardhuienyh, to be held of him and hi-; heirs in feu do et hcereditate. To the deed the grantor's seal is appended, and (he witnesses are Domino Willielmo Episcopo /iber- donensi, Domino David Fleming, milite, Johanne de Periston. The charter is grante l in the reign of King David II. To this Alexander succeeded another Alexander de Abercromby, designed of Pitmithen; and to him succeeded his son and heir, Alexander Abercromby, of Pitmithen, as is vouched by a precept out of the chancery, by King Janus HI. for investing the said Alexander in the lands of Har hill, Pitmithen, l'ilmacby, Halton, and Ardoun, in comitatu de Garioch. The instrument of sasine is dated the 4th of August, 1484, the 25th year of the King's reign. Then sucee-ded James Abercromby, of Leg and Birkenbog, who is also de- signed of Pitmithen. He was married to Margaret Ogilvie, daugh- ter of Sir James Ogilvie, of Findlater and Deskford, and was slain with King James IV. at the battle of Flodden. He was succeeded by Geokge Abercromby, of Pitmithen, his son, who, by Christian his wife, a daughter of Barclay, of the Barclays, of Gartlay, had Jamfs, his son and heir, who succeeded him, and married Marjory Hay, a daughter to William, Earl of Errol. Ali xander Abercromby succeeded to James, and married Margaret, daughter of Leslie, of Pitcaple, who was again suc- ceeded by Alexander, his son, who married Margaret Leslie, daughter of William Leslie, of Balquhain, by whom he had James Abercromby of Birkenbog, and Alexander, who was Laird of Fitternier, father of Alexander Abercromby, of Fitteinier, who, by Jean his wife, daughter of John Seaton, of Newark, had Francis Abercromby, of Fitternier, who was by King James VII. created Lord G I as if or d for life, in regud that his children by his wife, Anne, Baroness of Semple, were to succeed to the BARONESS ABERCROMBY. 151 honours of Lord Semple; of which marriage is descended the pre- sent Hugh, Lord Semple. The Lord Glassford had a younger brother, Patrick Ab^r- cromby, M.D. who wrote the Lives of the Scots warriors, in two volumes, with great exactness and ingenuity. The above James Abercromby, of Birkenlog, was succeeded by Alexander Abercromby, of Birkenbog, who was Falconer to Charles I. He married Elizabeth Beaton, daughter to Beaton of Balfour, by whom he had First, Sir Alexander Abercromby, Baronet. Second, John Abercromby, of Glasshangh. Third, Walter Abercromby, of Braconhilly. Sir Alexander married, first, Jean Urquhart, of the family of Urquhart of Cromarty ; and after her, Jean Sutherland, of the fa- mily of Kilminity; and, lastly, Elizabeth Baird, daughter to Sir James Baird of Auchmeddan, chief of that name; by which last Lady he had First, Sir James Abercromby, of Birkenbog. And, Second, Alexander Abercromby, of Tillibody, who suc- ceeded to his cousin, George Abercromby, of Keith (who was an ancient cadet of the family of Birkenbog), in the lands of Til- libody.a George Abercromby, of Tillibody, Esq. married Mary, daughter of Ralph Dundas, of Manour, Esq. and had issue, First, Sir Ralph. Second, Barnet Abercromby. Third, Sir Robert, K. B. a General in the army, and Colonel of the /5th regiment of foot. Fourth, Alexander, died in 17^5. Sir Ralph was born about 1738; and on May 23d, 3750, obtained a Cornetcy in the second regiment of dragoon guards; and rose, April 24th, i;62, to the rank of Captain in the third regiment of dragoons. Ascending through the intermediate gra- dations of rank, he was appointed, November 3d, 1761, to the Colonelcy of the 103d foot. September 28th, 1/&7, he was pro- moted to the rank of Major General. November 5th, 1 7y6", he obtained the command of the seventh regiment of dragoons. iving been nearly forty years in the army, having served * a Nisbst's Heraldry, pp. \zz, i:;. 152 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. •with honour in two wars, and being esteemed one of the ablest, coolest, and most intrepid officers in the whole British forces, he was employed on the Continent under his Royal Highness the Duke of York, in the commencement of the present war. In the action on the heights of Cateau, he commanded the advanced guard. At Nimeguen he was wounded. He conducted the march of the Guards from Deventer to Ochensaai, in the retreat of the British out of Holland, in the Winter of 17Q4-5. In August 1795, he was appointed to succeed Sir Charles Grey as Commander in Chief of the British forces in the West Indies. March 24th, 1796, Grenada was suddenly attacked, and taken by a detachment of the army under his orders. He after- wards obtained possession of the settlements of Demerara and Issequibo, in South America. St. Lucia was next taken by some difficult exertions, in which the ability of this eminent Com- mander was signally displayed. St. Vincent's wis, by the middle of June, added to the British conquests. Trinidad, in February 1797> shared the same fate. He returned the same year to Europe; and in reward for such important services, was invested with the red ribbon, appointed to the command of the regiment of Sccch Greys, intrusted with the governments of the Isle of Wight, Fort George, and Fort Augustus, and raised to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He held for a time the chief command of the forces in Ire- land. In that command he laboured to maintain the discipline of the army, to suppress the rising rebellion, and to protect the people from military oppression, with a care, worthy alike of the great general, and the enlightened and beneficent statesman. From that station he was called to the chief command of the forces in Scotland. His conduct in this distinguished appointment gave universal satisfaction. When the great enterprize against Holland was resoived upon, Sir Ralph Abercromby was called upon again to command under his Royal Highness the Duke of York. The difficulties of the ground, the inclemency of the season ; delays, though inconve- nient, yet unavoidable; the disorderly movements of the Russians, and the timid duplicity of the Dutch, disappointed our hopes of that expedition. But, by the Dutch, the French, the British, it was confessed, that even victory, the mo:t decisive, could not have moie conspicuously proved the talents of this illustrious officer. His country applauded the choice, when he was sent with BARONESS ABERCROMBY. 153 an army to disposses the French of Egypt, 1S01. His experience in Holland and Flanders, and in the climate of the West Indies, particularly fitted him for this new command. He accomplished some of the first duties of a general, in carrying his army in health, in spirits, and with the requisite intelligence and supplies, to the destined scene of action. The landing, the first disposi- tions, the attacks, and the courage opposed to attack, the spirit with which his army appears to have been, by confidence in their leader, inspired ; the extraordinary superiority which the British infantry under his command evinced, to that which was thought the bravest and best disciplined infantry in the world, demonstrate that all the best qualities of one of the bravest commanders were in Sir Ralph Abercromby united — that they were all summoned forth into activity in the glorious achievements amid which he fell. His private character was modest, disinterested, upright, unstained by any negligent or licentious vice. He was a good son, brother, father, husband, and friend, as well as an able and heroic general. His remains were conveyed on board Admiral Lord Keith's flag-ship to Malta, attended by Col. Sir John Dyer, to be there interred in the commandery of the Grand Master, with the highest military honours. b The following just tribute to his memory is extracted from the London Gazette, from Lieutenant-General Hutchinson (now Lord Hutchinson), dated Head- Quarters, Camp, four miles from Alexandria, April, 3d, 1801 : " We have sustained an irreparable loss in the person of our never sufficiently to be lamented Commandi-r in Chief, Sir Ralph Abercromby, who was mortally wounded in the action, and died on the 28th of March. I believe he was wounded early, but he concealed his situation from those about him, and continued in the field giving his orders with that coolness and perspicuity, which had ever marked his character, till long after the action was over, when he fainted through weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him, more than any other person? but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that, as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the fc Gent. Mag. Vol. LXXI. pp. 480, 4S;. 154 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. the annals of his country — will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity." c e Epitaph humbly proposed for General Sir Ralph Abercromby, in St. Paul's. By Sir Herbert Croft, Bart. 11 So may some gentle viuse, With lucky -words favour my destined urn ! And, as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud!" Lycldas. " Epaminondas, Wolfe, time's roll shall tell, In weeping victory's fond embraces fell ; Egypt has seen a third as greatly die, Whose loss from victory drew as deep a sigh. Brave Abercromby stamped his British name, Where A lexander trac'd the path to fame. On the last pyramid late time shall find His glorious name with gallant Nelson's joined. While Keith his corse, with each sad sailor's praise. To Malta's vaults of chivalry conveys; While Aridington's * fine feelings dress his bier, On which brave Moiia* dr ps a soldier's tear; Britain decrees her chief this sacred stone, Which makes her thanks, though not his glory, known. Her thank:, not grief; for widow, child, or friend, Who mourns so grand, so classic, proud an end ? Here, ye young warrior?, every vacant day, In holy pilgrimage your visits pay Here, sailors, soldiers, wish for such a doom; While Valour worships at a hero's tomb! Touch the live stone; the electric light'ning feel; On patriot marble whet your patriot steel. Bid fondest mothers, wives, and children pray, They may survive, to boast so great a day! May see their sole delight, with scarce a sigh, • The envied death of Abcrcrombie die! Let his immortal tomb thus speak to all : " Weep not, should those, you love most dearly fall; And wish to die yourselves, at your lov'd country's call." Gent. Mag. November 1801. " With pleasure (says a correspondent of Mr. Urban), I have read the let- ter of the ingenious patriot Sir Herbert Croft, together with his Epitaph on the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby, which is worthy the appropriated first page * Lord Moifa (Rawdon), and Mr. Addington, introduced his praises into their speeches in parliament. BARONESS ABERCROMBY. 155 Sir Ralph Abercromby married Mary-Anne, daughter of John Menzies, of Femton, in the county or Perth, Esq. Her Ladyship, as a reward for her husband's gallant conduct, was created Baroness Abercromby of Aboukir, and of Tulli- body, in the county of Clackmannan, by patent, dated May 28th, 1801, with remainder to her issue male by her late husband ; by whom she has issue, First, George, married, January 1799, Montague, third daughter of Viscount Melville, and has Georue, born May 1801. Second, John, a Major-general in the army, and Colonel of the .53d regiment of foot. Third, James, M P for Midhurst, married, June 14th, 1802, Mi-is Leigh, eldest daughter of Egerton Leigh, of High Leigh and Twemlow, in Cheshire, Esq. and has a son, born April 1803. Fourth, Alexander, Major of the 81st foot. Fifth, Anne. Sixth, Mary. And, Seventh, Catharine. Titles. Mary Anne Abercromby, Baroness Abercromby of Aboukir, and Tullibody. Creation. Baroness by patent, May 28th, 1801. Arms. Argent, a chief Gules: being the arms of Menzies. Supporters. On either side a greyhound parted per fesse, Ar- gent and Or, collared and lined Gules, charged on the breast with a thistle proper. Chief Seat. Tullibody, in the county of Clackmannan. of your Monthly Repository. Nevertheless, were it possible to contain still greater merit, I hope never to see it, " used," nor any other, even if the col- lected efforts of every classic genius could be united in the formation. I have long indulged a hope of seeing announced, that on the mural monument, under the invincible standard, will be transcribed the sympathizing narrative from the dispatches of Sir John Hely Hutchinson, now Ba'on Alexandria. " Not the iesplendent and refulgent coincidence of united tdlents, can form any thing more truly sublime, energetic, descriptive, or congenial to an English- man, than the aforesaid ,'ccount, written at the time, and on the spot, whilst all the affections and feelings were warm with the event. Not the Greek epi- gram of Byzantine Antiphiius, to the memory of Agricola, nor the most tender lamentations of Tacitus on the same great man, are more truly pathetic than those worrit of the surviving Commander of Egypt. Should any other epitaph be adopted, it will fail, like unto a masterly copy of an incomparable original." Gent. Mug. Dtcemher 1801, p. 1070. 156 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, FITZHERBERT, LORD ST. HELENS. The two families of Fitzherbert of Norlury, and Fitzher- bert of Somersall-Herlert and Tissington, in Derbyshire, can be traced in that county as early as the origin of surnames. They are said to have been of the same stock as the ancient baronial house of Fitzherbert, of whom Herbert Fitzherbert was Lord Chamberlain to King Stephen, and was lord of the Forest of Dene, in Gloucestershire. On this subject a memorable dispute occurred between Brooke the Herald, and Camden, in conse- quence of an assertion of the latter in his Britannia. " Herbert (says Camden) married the sister of William, Earl of Hereford, and in her right was Lord of Dene, from whom de- scended the noble family of Herbert ja hence also, if we shall credit the heralds and escutcheons of arms, Anthony Fitzherbert, that great lawyer, and Lord Chief Justice of England, took his original. But I think he rather descended from the worshipful family of Fitzherberts, in Derbyshire." To this Brooke answered, " Whoever shall derive the said Anthony, or any of that family of Fitzherberts, from any other original than that of Herbert, who married the sister of William, Earl of Hereford, have and shall err from the truth." I am clear that Camden was nearer the truth than Brooke. That the Lord Chamberlain, and the Fitzherberts of Derbyshire, might be descended from a common ancestor, is probable from the similarity of names (and perhaps from that only) ; but dates will not allow the latter to have been descended from the former.'' a But see on this subject, Vo!. III. art. Pembroke. b See a discussion of this subject by the present Editor, in Gent. Mag. Vcl. LXF1I. p. 64,-. LORD ST. HELENS. 157 But what is more, even the two Derbyshire families, of Nor- bury and Somersal-Herbert (of which that of Tissington is a younger branch), cannot be traced to a common origin. Their fountain-head is lost in the abyss of time. Their very arms, which are of venerable antiquity, inasmuch as their usage of them can be exhibited from the time of Henry II. are totally dissimilar: but this is by no means conclusive against a common progenitor; because those of Norbury took theirs c in allusion to the coat of their feudal chief, Ferrers, Earl of Derby; and might perhaps on that account desert the common family coat. The ancestors of the present Peer hue borne the same arms as Stephen Fitzherbert, the Lord Chamberlain. d William Fitzherbert,6 of Somersal-Herbert, co. Derby, had issue, William Fitzherbert, of Somersal, who was father of Thomas Fitzherbert, of Somersal, living 56 Henry III. who had issue, Nicholas Fitzherbert, of the same, 27 Edward I. who, by Maud his wife, had John Fitzherbert, of the same, 32 Edward III. who had issue by Eleanora his wife, Walter Fitzherbert, 7 Henry IV. who was father of John Fitzherbert, of Somersal, temp. Henry V. who f had three sons; viz. First, John Fitzherbert, of Somersal, 38 Henry VI. who, by Joan his wife, had a daughter, Joan, who died a nun, and John Fitzherbert, of Somersal, 3 Richard III. who, by Margaret, daughter of John Kinarsley, of Loxley, co. Staff, had, First, Ro- bert. Second, John, a priest. Robert, eldest son, was of So- mersal, 13 Henry VII. and by Isabel, daughter of Chambers of Staffordshire, had issue, First, Nicholas. Second, Walter. Third, c Vaire, sur tout, a bend. The coat of Ferrers, was vaire, Or and Gules. d F r an account of this Baron, and his family, see Dugd. Bar. I. 624. e The family o; Norbury are descended from William Fitzherbert, who had a grant of the manor of Ncrbury from the Prior of Tutbury, in 1125, 25 or 2 Henry II. H's s n, John, wis farlier of John, whofe son, William, gave Nor- bury to h;s on, I enry, 'ii 1267. Fron him de eri.ie, who died 1 53K, ai d was buried in Norbury church. Set their pedigree in Tcpographtr, II. 225. ♦ The pedigree I ., iowrd in Hail. MSS. 5809, state; his if'e to have been ■-!;::.;! rofRoben Frauncis, cuus'n. and hen of Thomas Clanville 5 but this is probably a onfusion with the wives of his two younger sons, who married the . ; of Era 158 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. .Hugh. Fourth, John. Fifth, Robert. Sixth, Joan, wife of Edward Columbell, of Nettleworth. Nicholas, son and heir, 27 Henry VIII. had by a daughter of John Peverton, of Cheshire, First, John. Second, Nicholas, who married Margery, daughter of Careswell. Third, Robert, who married Alice, daughter of Riclnrd Smith, of Coventry. Fourth, Another Robert. Fifth, Thomas. John Fitzherbert, of Somerset!, son and heir, married Anne, daughter of John Feme, and had (besides a younger son, Edward), Robert Fitzherbert, of Somersal, son and heir, who by the daughter of Gilliot, was father of Francis Fitzherbert, of Somersal, who by Anne, daughter of William Browne, of Mar- son, co. Derb- had two daughters. s Second, Nicholas Fitzherbert, of Upton, of whom presently. Third, William Fitzherbert, who married Margery, daughter of Robert Frauncis, of Foremark, co. Derby, by Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Clinton, Knt. by Joan (widow of John Staunton), daughter and coheir of Ralph Me.ignell, of Langley- Meignell, co. Derb. By this Margery, William Fitzherbert had issue, First, Ni- cholas Fitzherbert, who died 3 I Henry VIII. leaving three daughters, Cicely, married to Robert Richardson; Anne, mar- ried to Thomas Banister; and Dorothy, married, first, to Everard; and afterwards to Clarke.'1 Second, William Fitzh-rbert, died S.P. Third, Thomas Fitzherbert, of Melborne, father of William and Robert. N cijolas Fitzherbert. of Upton, already mentioned, second son of John of Somersal, obtained Upton and Burton-Overy, co. Leic. with Tissington, co. Derb by marriage with Cicely, another daughter of Robert Frauncis, of Forewark, by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Clinton, by Joan, daughter and coheir of Ralph Meignell; of which Joan, Lady Clinton, the will may be found at length in Nichols's Leicestershire, Vol. III. p. 709.' By Cicely Frauncis, Nicholas Fitzherbert had issue, 2 This branch still resides, or lately resided at Somer was admitted a Pensioner of St. John's; where his private tutor was the late Rev. William Arnald, whose un- common talents and acquirements must, no doubt, be still re- membered by many individuals of that society. He became B.A. in 1774; when he obtained the first of the two gold medals given annually by the Chancellor of the University, for the encourage- ment of classical learning. In 1775, being then making the tour of France and Italy, he was presented to one of the University Travelling Scholarships; and he took his degree of M.A. by proxy, in 1 777. He was employed, at an early age, in the diplomatical profes- sion ; having been appointed, in March 1777, to the post of his Majesty's Minister at Brussels. He resided at that Court till Aug. 1782; when he was sent to Paris with the commission of sole Plenipotentiary for negociat- ing a peace with the Crowns of France and Spain, and the States General of the United Provinces: which arduous and important work he had the happiness to accomplish, by the conclusion of the several preliminary treaties with those Powers, which wer-. i<54 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. signed at Versailles in January 1783. He had also a leading share in negociating the peace with America, which was concluded at Paris at the same period. And though these treaties were censured at the time by a vote of one branch of the Legislature, the test of experience evinced the political wisdom, as well as the solidity of the principles on which they were framed. Since they produced a ten years' peace, during which the British Empire enjoyed the highest state of prosperity to which it had ever at- tained. And it may be truly affirmed, that the war which after- wards broke out, arose not from any seeds of discord which had been left uneradicated by the peace of 1783, but solely from the fatal effects of the French Revolution: an event which has been so justly and emphatically described by Mr. Burke, as " mocking all calculations framed by wisdom, and founded on experience." In Aug. 1783, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to Catharine II. Empress of Fvussia; whom he accompanied in 1/87, on her memorable tour to the Crimea. At the close of the same year, he returned to England ; was created a Privy Counsellor; and appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In the Spring of 1/80, he resigned that employment, and was sent as his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague. And in May 1/91, he repaired to Madrid, invested with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary, and with the necessary powers for accommodating the differences which had arisen at that period between Great Britain and Spain, respecting the right of British subjects to trade at Nootka Sound, and to carry on the Southern Whale Fishery. These differences were amicably adjusted by the convention of the Escurial (signed in October 1/90), which was highly approved by the King, and both Houses of Parliament. And his Majesty was pleased, as a reward for his Ambassador's services in negociating it, to create him an Irish Peer, with the title of Baron. St. Helens. In 1/U3, he concluded a treaty of alliance between his Majesty and the Crown of Spain. But the climate of that country dis- agreeing with his health, he quitted it in the beginning of \7q4, and was appointed Ambassador at the Hague; where he remained till the ensuing winter, when the legitimate government of the Dutch Republic was overthrown by the invasion of the French. His latest fortign mission was to St. Petersburgh; whither he was sent as Ambassador in May 1801, to congratulate the Em- peror Alexander on his accession to the throne of Russia ; and to propose terms for accommodating the differences which had arisen LORD ST. HELENS. 165 between Great Britain and the three Baltic Powers, towards the close of the reign of the Emperor Paul, and had occasioned the attack against Copenhagen, and other mutual hostilities. This negociation he happily brought to a conclusion, within the short period of a fortnight after his arrival in Russia, by the signature of the Convention of St. Petersburgh, of the 17th June, 1801. The benefits of which accommodation are described in a recent work (Harris's Preface to his Translation of Gentz's State of Eu- rope), in the following terms: " This Convention is one of the most important treaties in the annals of history; since it has not only put an end to the dangers which threatened the safety of England, and the tranquillity of Europe, at the present moment} but has in all human probability prevented the recurrence of those dangers, by means of its wise and salutary provisions, which are equally just in themselves, and satisfactory to all the parties con- cerned in it. It seems to have left no dubious point of maritime law, which might serve as a pretext for any future quarrel with Great Britain, or as a handle for any future intrigues of France. The Powers of the North stand pledged to support the system which they were lately bound to oppose; and the equitable con- cessions which we have consented to make, have added double force to the rights on which we were bound to insist." Addresses to his Majesty, approving of this Convention, were voted by both Houses of Parliament: and immediately after its signature, Lord St. Helens was promoted to a Peerage of the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron St. Helens, of the Isle of Wight. In September 1801, he attended the coronation of the Empe- ror Alexander at Moscow; where (in October), he signed a treaty with the Danish Plenipotentiary, in virtue of which, that Crown became an acceding party to the Convention of St. Petersburgh. He also concluded, in March 1802, a similar treaty with the Ple- nipotentiary of the Crown of Sweden; and, having thus accom- plished all the objects of his mission to Russia, he returned to England in the autumn of the same year. He has since had the honour of being appointed one of the Lords of the King's Bed chamber; an office which he was led to accept, by his sentiments of personal attachment and duty to that truly virtuous and excellent Sovereign, to whom he has been in- debted for so many gracious and unsolicited marks of favour. But from the impaired state of his health, and other considera- tions, he is now unfeignedly desirous of being permitted to retire 166 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. from all further business, and to pass the remainder of his life amidst the comforts of repose and Jeisure,and of the society of his friends and family. To this reward he conceives himself to be fairly entitled, by the anxious labours of nearly thirty years; and amongst its chief enjoyments will be the conscious recollection, that, in the discharge of all the more important commissions here enumerated, as well as of many others of lesser moment, it was no less constantly his good fortune, than it was uniformly the earnest and primary wish of his heart, to be materially instru- mental in restoring or confirming the blessings of peace.''11 n The private memoir, from whence the biographical notices in the latter part of this article are drawn, is closed with the following just and interesting remarks: " It has been well observed by an ancient writer, that ' history is phi- losophy teaching by example;' a definition which may justly belong even to so confined a species of historical writing as the account of a private family, if it describes not merely the genealogy, but the virtuous lives or actions of the indi- viduals whom it records: since it thus tends to impart to their posterity, both the knowledge of what is praise-worthy, and the desire of practising it. All the nearest relations of the present family of Fitzherbert were men of business. Those among them who were heirs to easy fortunes, having been endowed with hearts and understandings, which led them to contemn a life of idleness, and to adopt such useful and honourable pursuits, 2s might enable them to confer bene- fits upon others, and to deserve well of their country; they had a relish for learning and the arts; and they were lovers of peaceful employments and of peace itself, in preference to warfare and the occupations belonging to it. Above all, foyalty to their Sovereign, and attachment to monarchy, distinguished them from a remote period; and at the same time they were careful to temper it by a sincere regard for the British constitution, and for those principles of genuine and well- regulated Liberty, which form its chief characteristic and excellence." As Lord St. Helens is descended in the female line from the celebrated judge, Sir Anthonv Fitzherbert of Nor bury, already mentioned, it may not be improper to say something more of that learned man here. Sir Anthony was third son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury, by Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of John Marshall, of Upton and Sedisha'l, co. Leic. He was educated at Oxford and afterwards studying the law, attained the rank of Serjeant, November 18th, 15 10; and in 1522, was knighted, and made one of the Judges of the Common Fleas; in which, carrying himself with great pru- dence, justice, and knowledge, he became at length the oracle of the law; and was admired by all for his profundity in it. He was author of various works, not only on law, but on hushandiy ; some of wnich are now exceedingly rare (see Ce/isura Literaria; and British Bibliographer.) His great work, De JSatura Bre~ ■vium, is highly praised for its utility by Blackstone; who culls it, " A Digest of that most ancient and highly venerable Collection of Forms, the register of such writs as are suable out )f the King',', Courts: in which every man who is injured, will be sure to find a method of relief exactly adapted to his own case, described within the compass of a few lines, and yet w.thout the omission of any material circumstance." He died May 27th, 1558, and was buried in Norbury LORD ST. HELENS. 167 Titles. Alleyne Fitzherbert, Lord St. Helens of the Isle of Wight; and also Lord St. Helens of Ireland. Creations. Baron St. Helens of the Isle of Wight, July 31st, 1801; also Baron St. Helens of Ireland 179L Arms. Gules three lions rampant, Or. Crest. On a wreath a cubit arm in armour, erect, the hand appearing clenched within the gauntlet, all proper. Supporters. On each side an unicorn reguardant, Ermine, armed, maned, and ducally gorged, with chain reflexed over the back, Or. Motto. Intaminatis honoribus. Seat. church. Set Wood's Alh. I. 50, and Biogr. Diet. VI. 171. He married Ma- tildu, daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Cotton, of Hjmstall-Redware, co. Staff, by whom he had four sons, and three daughters. Two grandsons, Thomas and Nicholas, were learned Ecclesiastics of the Catholic persuasion; and died, one in 1640, st. 88; the o.her in 1612, both at Rome. Anthony Fitziierbert, father of Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Finherbert, of Thsington, appears to have been son of John, second son of the Judge. (See T4 guns each, the Echo sloop, and some Indiamen with troops, he immediately sent proposals to the Governor of the Cape, to surrender that settlement to his Majesty's arms; which being refused, the nece-sary measures were taken to reduce the place by force. In this attack the America had two men killed, and four wounded, and the Stately only one man wounded. On board the other vessels the enemy's shot did some damage, but none were killed or wounded. In the bay were five Dutch East Indiamen, which were taken possession of: three of them from Batavia, with valuable cargoes on boaid, and two from Amsterdam, which 174 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. had delivered their cargoes previous to the arrival of the British squadron. The next day the enemy endeavoured to regain the important position they had lost; having drawn out their whole forces from the Cape Town, with eight field pieces, but were every where repulsed. Upon this occasion Captain Hardy, of the Echo, and Lieutenant Coffin, of the Rattlesnake, particularly distinguished themselves; " having (according to the General's report) crossed the water with the seamen and marines under their command, received the enemy's fire without returning a shot, and manoeuvred with a regularity that would not have discredited veteran troops.'- Jt cannot be improper here to remark, nor is it foreign to our subject, that our seamen and marines have invariably acted in the same laudable manner, and deserve similar honourable com- mendations, whenever they have served on shore with the land- forces. From this time nothing took place but some partial and un- important operations, till the 4th of September, when the Ad- miral was joined in the bay by fourteen sail of Indiamen, hav- ing on board a large body of troops, under the command of Major-General Alured Clarke. Upon this accession of strength, the Admiral and General determined to make an immediate at- tack upon the Cape Town; accordingly, the troops, artillery, and stores, were landed with the greatest expedition from the India- men, which was completely effected by the 1 4 1 h ; and on the morning of that day the army began its march, each man carrying four days provisions, and the volunteer seamen from the Indiamen, dragging the cannon through a deep sand. At Wyneber, a post at a small distance from the Cape Town, the Dutch had planted nine pieces of cannon, and collected their forces, as they had determined to make a firm stand; but they were so resolutely pushed by the British troops, as to be under the necessity of abandoning their position; and nearly at the same time they were alarmed by the appearance of Commodore Blanket, with three ships, which the Admiral had detached into Table Bav, to cause a diversion on that side. Further resistance on the part of the Dutch being now fruitless, the Governor sent out, the same evening, an officer with a flag of truce to solicit a suspension of arms for forty-eight hours, in order to settle the terms of capi- tulation: this was agreed to for twenty-four hours; and the articles of surrender, which were very favourable to the unfortunate colo- aists, and bespoke the highest probity, disinterestedness, and LORD KEITH. 175 humanity in the British Commander*, being settled, Cape Town and its dependencies were next morning put into the hands of the British troops. Thus fell the Cape of Good Hope, one of the fairest posses- sions of the Dutch in the East, and at former periods one of the most flourishing colonies that the industry of man had ever planted at so great a distance from the mother country; but, at the time of its surrender, in a condition ot decrepitude and weakness ana- logous to that into which the parent state in Europe had fallen. As a naval station, it proved highly useful during the continuance of the war, by affording a shelter to our ships, and a convenient place of refreshment for their crews; and by facilitating the ex- peditions which afterwards took place against some of the Dutch settlements in the Indian seas, as well as those to the Red Sea^ connected with the French invasion of Egypt. In his dispatches to the Secretary of State, General Clarke made the following honourable mention of our Admiral, which it would be improper in this place to omit: " The general cha- racter of Sir George Keith Elphinstone (says he), and his ardent desire to serve his country, are too well known to receive addi- tional lustre from any thing I could say on that subject; but I should do injustice to my own feelings, if I did not express the obligations I am under for the ready and cordial co-operation and assistance that he afforded upon every occasion, which so emi- nently contributed to the successful issue of our joint endeavours." A. former dispatch from Major-General Craig, has the following passage: " My sense of the obligation I am under to Sir George Elphinstone, is such, as I should not do justice to in an attempt to express it: his advice, his active assistance, and cordial co- operation on every occasion, have never been wanting, and entitle him to my warmest gratitude." Whatever was the state of decay into which the colony of the Cape of Good Hope had fallen, as it was likely to prove a valuable addition to the strength of Britain in that quarter, and particularly as a point from whence the Dutch settlements in India could be attacked, with great probability of success, it was determined, on the part of the new Government of the Batavian Republic, to make a strenuous effort for its recovery. Accordingly a squadron of nine ships of war, and a store-ship, sailed from Holland in the spring of the year 1796, for the express purpose of retaking the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived off Saldanha Bay early in the month of August. Admiral Elphinstone having received intelli- 176 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. gence that a hostile fleet was off the coast, he put to sea in quest of them, and was so fortunate as to discover them at moorings in Saldanha Bay. He immediately dispatched an officer to the Dutch Com- mander with a request that, to prevent the effusion of human blood, he would surrender the squadron under his command to the British fleet, intimating, that resistance to a force so superior must expose them to certain destruction. Admiral Lucas, the Dutch Admiral, perceiving that it was impossible to escape, and that opposition would be fruitless, surrendered the whole of his fleet on terms of capitulation on the l/th of August. After the performance of these services, Admiral Elphinstone quitted the command at the Cape, and sailed for Europe in the month of October. He arrived at Crookhaven, in the Monarch, with the Daphne in company, on the 22d of December; and having learned that the French fleet was upon the coast, and had been dispersed by a gale of wind, made exery preparation to put to sea in quest of them. His laudable exertions, however, proved unavailing 3 for before he could get to sea, the French ships had either fallen into the hands of our cruisers, or, favoured by the extreme stormy weather which at that time prevailed, had re- gained their own harbours. On the 7th of March, 1 797 > his Majesty was pleased to confer on Admiral Elphinstone the dignity or a Baron of the kingdom of Ireland, by the title of Lord Keith, on account of his eminent services at the Cape of Good Hope; and in the month of May the same year, he was sent to Sheerness, on one of the most un- pleasant occasions on which an Officer could be employed, to superintend the naval preparations against the mutineers, who at that time unhappily held the command of several of his Majesty's ships at the Nore, and had committed various acts of insubordi- nation and outrage. This threatening storm being dispelled, Lord Keith for a short time commanded a detachment of the Channel fleet, and had his flag flying on board the Queen Char- lotte, a ship never to be forgotten in the annals of the British navy. Towards the latter part of the year 1798, Lord Keith had his flag on board the Foudroyant, of 80 guns, one of the ships em- ployed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean, under the orders of the Earl of St. Vincent ; and on the 14th of February, I /Q{), he was promoted from Vice Admiral of the Blue to be Vice-Admiral of the Bed. On the 23d of June the same year, the Earl of St. LORD KEITH. i;; Vincent resigned to him the command of the Mediterranean fleet, and returned to England for the recovery of his health. The season for brilliant operations was in some degree over in that quarter, in consequence of the severe losses which the enemy had sustained, and were in no condition to repair; but much praise was due to Lord Keith for the excellent disposition of the force under his command, and the judgment with which he stationed his cruisers, so that few of the enemy's vessels ventured out of port without falling into the hands of some of our ships of war. On the 1/th of March, 1800, Lord Keith had the misfortune to lose his flag-ship, the Queen Charlotte, by fire, in Leghorn roads; by this melancholy accident upwards of 600 gallant men lost their lives, and one of the noblest ships in the British navy was destroyed. Lord Keith was on shore at Leghorn at the time the conflagration happened ; and hoisted his flag on board the Audacious, and afterwards shifted it to the Minotaur. His Lord- ship then proceeded with part of his fleet off Genoa, which place contained a strong French garrison under General Massena, and was besieged by an Austrian army under General Melas. As there was little probability of being able to reduce the place by any other means than famine, it was an object of the greatest im- portance that all supplies by sea should be cut off; and this ser- vice was so effectually performed by the squadron under Lord Keith, that in the beginning of June the French General was obliged to capitulate, being reduced to the greatest extremity for want of provisions. On the 1st of January, 1801, a general promotion of Flag- officers took place in honour of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland; and on that occasion Lord Keith was advanced to be Admiral of the Blue. His flag this year was on board the Foudroyant, of 80 guns, and he commanded the naval force employed against the French on the coast of Egypt. His conduct on this important station was fully equal to the high promise which his exploits on former occasions held forth to his country; and on the surrender of the French army in Egypt, Lord Keith was on December 15th, 1801, created a Peer of Great Britain, by the title of Lord Keith, with remainder, on failure of issue male of his body, to his daughter. He also received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and VOL. IX. N 178 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. was presented by the city of London with a sword of the value of one hundred guineas.1 His Lordship had afterwards for some time the command of the fleet in the Downs, &c. His Lordship married, first, April 9th, 1787, Jane, daughter and sole heiress of William Mercer, of Aldie, in the county of Perth , Esq. and by her (who died December 12th, 1789), had issue an only child, Margaret-Mercer, on whom the English ba- rony is in remainder. His Lordship married, secondly, January 10th, 1808, Hester, eldest daughter and coheiress of Henry Thrale, of Streatham, in Surrey, and Crowmarsh, in Oxfordshire, Esq. and member of parliament for Southwark, in 1768 and 1775^ hy whom he has issue. His Lordship is Admiral of the White, Knight of the Bath; and of the Turkish Order of the Crescent] Secretary, Chamber- lain, Keeper of the Signet, and Counsellor of State for Scotland; and for Cornwall to the Prince of Wales; and Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household to the Duke of Clarence. Title. George Keith Elphinstone, Lord Keith; also Lord Keith in Ireland. Creations. The English honour dated December 15th, 1801 ; the Irish honour dated Arms. Argent, a chevron Sable, between three boars headi erased, Gules. Supporters. Two Savages proper with laurel garlands about their head and middle, holding in their hands darts, with their heads upwards. Crest. A Lady, from the middle richly attired, holding a castle in her right hand; and in her left a branch of laurel. Motto, Cause caused it. Chief Seat. * We cannot forbear remarking here, that the attention invariably shewn by the city of London, during the late war, to our brave naval officers, was equally honourable to the members of that patriotic and most respectable Coporation, an4 the heroes on whom its rewards and favours were bestowed. LORD HUTCHINSON. 179 HUTCHINSON, LORD HUTCHINSON. John Hely, of Gertrough, in Ireland, Esq. had issue by the daughter of Earbury, John Hely, who afterwards took the name of Hutchinson, an only son. He was called to the Bar in 1748; returned to the Irish parliament for Lanesborough in 1759, and for the city of Cork in 1761, which he continued to represent till his death. He was appointed Prime Serjeant at Lawin 17^2; Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 17G4; and Secretary of State for Ireland, and Keeper of his Majesty's Signet, or Privy Seal, in 1777- He was also a member of the Privy-council. He married June 8th, 1751, Christian, daughter of Lorenzo Nixon, Esq. of Murny, in Wicklow, and niece and heir of Rich- ard Hutchinson, of Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary, Esq. This Lady was raised to the Irish Peerage, by the title of Baroness Donoughmore, of Knocklofty aforesaid, by Privy Seal at St. James's, dated September 23d, 1783, and by patent at Dublin, October 16th following, with remainder to the heirs male of her body. She died June 24th, 1788. He died in 1795, leaving issue by her, First, Richard, born January 29th, 1756, who succeeded his mother as Baron Donoughmore, in 1788, was created Vis- count Donoughmore on November 7th, 1797, and Earl of Do- noughmore, December 2gth, 1800, with a special remainder to the heirs male of Christian, Baroness Donoughmore, by the Right Hon. John Heley Hutchinson. His Lordship is a Lieut. -General in the army, and Governor of Tipperary, and one of the Peers elected for life to represent the Irish Peerage in the British House of Lords. 180 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Second, John, Lord Hutchinson, of whom presently. Third, Francis, born October 26th, 1759, called to the Bar in 1782, elected M.P. for the University of Dublin 1/Q6; married Miss Nixon. Fourth, Abraham, born March 20th, 1766, late a Captain in the 74th regiment of foot. Fifth, Christopher, born April 5th, 1767, elected M.P. for the city of Cork to the Imperial parliament I8O7, married De- cember 24th, 1792, Miss Bond, daughter of Sir James Bond, Bart of Merion-square, Dublin; and by her, who died March 30th, I796, had a daughter, born November 2d, 1793. Sixth, Lorenzo, born October 6th, 1768, married Miss Blake. Seventh, Christiana. Eighth, Mary, married Thomas Smith, Esq. Ninth, Prudence. Tenth, Margaretta. Sir John Hely Hutchinson, K.B. (second son) now Lord Hutchinson, was born May 15th, 1757; Major of the 77th regiment of foot, September 2 1st, 178I ; Lieutenant- Colonel of the same regiment March 21st, 1783; Colonel in the army Oc- tober 1st following; Major-General in the army August 5th, 1799; Lieutenant-General, and Commander in Chief in Egypt, in May 1801; nominated by warrant a Knight of the Bath, 28th of the same month. He was also M. P. for the county of Cork. Mention has already been made of the battle of Aboukir, and of the death of the gallant leader of the British forces on that occasion, under the article of Abercromby. The chief command then fell (as has been stated) to General Hutchinson. Under him the French were driven from Rosetta; from Rahmanich; and finally from Alexandria, which surrendered on September 2d, 1801. The operations against the enemy's works commenced on August 17th. " I have the honour (says the General, in his dispatch to Lord Hobart) to inclose you a copy of the capitulation, and also a list of the number of persons for whom the enemy have required ship- ping; by this it appears, that the total of the garrison of Alexandria consisted of upwards of eight thousand soldiers, and one thousand three hundred sailors. This arduous and important service has at length been brought to a conclusion. The exertions of indivi- duals have been splendid and meritorious: I regret that the bounds of a dispatch will not allow me to specify the whole, or to men- tion the name of every person who has distinguished himself in LORD HUTCHINSON. 181 the public service. I have received the greatest support and assistance from the general officers of the army. The conduct of the troops of every description has been exemplary in the highest degree j there has been much to applaud, and nothing to repre- hend; their order and regularity in the camp have been as con- spicuous as their courage in the field." For these services Sir John Hutchinson was raised to the Bri- tish Peerage, by the title of Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria, and of Knocklofty , in the county of Tipperary, by patent dated December 5th, 1801. His Lordship was appointed Colonel of the 74th, or Highland regiment of foot, March 24th, 1802. He was installed a Knight of the Bath in King Henry Vllth's chapel, in Westminster Abbey, May lpth, 1803; and appointed a Lieutenant-General in the army September 25th following. Titles. Sir John Hely Hutchinson, Knight of the Bath, Ba- ron Hutchinson of Alexandria, and of Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary. Creation. By patent, December 5th, 1801. Arms. Per pale Gules and Azure, a lion rampant within an orle of cross crosslets fitchyj a crescent for difference. Crest. A wyvern, standing on a ducal coronet. Supporters. Two wyverns, each charged on the breast with a crescent. Motto. FoRTITER GERIT CRUCEM. Chief Seat. 182 PEREAGE OF ENGLAND. MITFORD, LORD REDESDALE. Sir John Mitford, of Mitford Castle, in the county of Northumberland, in the time of William the Conqueror, left a daughter and sole heir, Sibil, who married Richard Bertram, a great baron, who came in with the Conqueror. Matthew Mitford, brother of Sir John, was father of Peter Mitford, father of Eustace, father of Hugh, father of Adam, fa- ther of Roger, father of Gilbert, father of Sir John, father of William, father of John, father of Thomas, father of Bertram Mitford, of Mitlord, in the county of Northumber- land, Esq. who, by Margaret, daughter of Lisle, of Felton, co. Northumberland, had issue Gawen Mitford, who by , sister of Sir Thomas Forster, of Etherston, co. Northumberland, Knt. had issue Cuthbert Mitford, who by Anne, daughter of Wallis, of Akeld, co. Northumberland, was father of Robert a Mitford, living l6]5, who married Jane, daughter of John Mitford, of Seighill, co. Northumberland, and had issue Cuthbert Mitford, who died in his father's lifetime, having by Mary, daughter and heir of Christopher Wharton, of Ufferton, co. Durham, a In the Visitation of Northumberland by St. George, of 1615, this Robert /s recotded to have been " born out of wedlock," and had assigned to him a bor, dure goboni round his arms. The original of this Visitation Book was purloined from the Herald's College before the time of Dugdale, who presented a copy of i c to the college. But the above was taken from a transcript in th- Harl. MSS' 1448. f. 35. As no notice was taken of this fact in the subsequent Visitation made after the Restoration, it may be presumed it was then either unknown, or not considered authentic. LORD REDESDALE. 183 Robert Mitford, aged fifty-six, in 1664. He died in 1674, having married Philadelphia, daughter of Humphrey Wharton, of Gillingwood, co. York, by whom he had issue, First, Humphrey Mitford, of Mitford, co. Northumberland, Esq. aet. 34, in 1666, who married Frances, daughter of Sir George Vane, of Long-Newton, co. Durham, Knt. and was an- cestor to the Mitfords, of Mitford Castle. Second, Cuthbert Mitford, died S. P. Third, John Mitford, of whom presently, as ancestor to Lord Redes dale. Fourth, Edward Mitford, M. D. ob. S. P. Fifth, William Mitford, Rector of Elsden, married. Sixth, Michael Mitford, ob. S.P. Seventh, Barbara, wife of George Reeveley, of Newton Un- derwood, Esq. Eighth, Mary, wife of George Tunstall, of Newcastle, M. D« Ninth, Anne, wife of Patrick Crow, of Roseden, co. North- umberland. Tenth, Eleanor. Eleventh, Mary. John Mitford, third son, was of London, Merchant. Pie died 1720, and was buried at Bow, in Middlesex. His will is dated 4th August, 1726; and was proved February f)th following. He married Sarah, daughter and coheir of Henry Powell, of London, Merchant. She died 1739. Her will is dated July 12th, 173Q, and was proved January 28th following. By her he had issue, First, William, of whom presently. Second, John, who died S. P. and was buried at Bow, in Mid- dlesex. Third, Samuel, who married and left issue. Fourth, Charles, who died S. P. Fifth, Philadelphia, who died April 24th, 1722, aged forty- nine, and was buried in the cloisters of Christ Church Hospital; having married Sir George Merttins, Knt. Alderman, and some- time Lord Mayor of London, who died November 3d, 1727, aged sixty-three, and was buried near his wife. Sixth, Barbara Mitford. William Mitford, eldest son of John, was of Newtown and Gilbury House, co. Hants. He died J/47, and was buried at Bol- dre, in that county. His will is dated 7th January, 1745, and was proved in Feb. 1747. He married Margaret, daughter of Robert Edwards, of Wingfield, co. Berks, and of London, Merchant, bu- ried at All-Hallows Church, Thames Street. She was sole sister 154 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of her only brother, William Edwards, of Wingfield, Esq. who died S. P. in January 1737- By her he had issue, First, Robert Mitford, who died S.P. and was buried, first, at All-Hallows the Great, in Thames Street, and afterwards at Wingfield. Administration was granted June 2gth, 1/37, to his father. Second, William Mitford, of Lovell's Hill, co. Berks, Esq. one of the Six Cleiks in Chancery; also of Maules, co. Berks; living unmarried 1777* Third, John Mitford, of Newton House and Exbury, co. Hants, Barrister at Law, died in May \JQ\, and was buried at Boldre on the 23d of the same month. He married at St. George the Martyr, co. Middlesex, on September 13th, 1740, Philadel- phia,b daughter of Willey Reveley, of Newby Wisk, co York, Barrister at Law, by the daughter of Henry Neale, of London, Merchant. She was buried at Wingfield, co. Berks, January 9th, 1797. By her he had issue three daughters, and two sons; viz. Mary, eldest daughter, baptized at St. Andrew, Holborn, March 2d, 1744-5; died unmarried at Bath, and was buried at Charlcombe, near that city, April 23d, 1800 Frances, second daughter, baptized at St Andrew, Holborn, May 4th, 1750, living unmarried 1S02. Philadelphia, third daughter, baptized at St. Andrew, Holborn, July 20th, 1751, living unmarried 1802. William Mitford, Esq. eldest son, of Exbury aforesaid, born b Elizabeth, the other daughter of Willey Reveley, married Thomas Ed- wards Freeman, of Battesford, co. Gloucester, and of Hailey Street, co. Middle- sex, Esq. who died February 15th, 1808, and was buried at Battesford. He was son ofWalter Edwards, of Ham, in Surrey, Esq. who died December 24th, 1758, and was buried at St. James's church, Bristol, by Mary h,s wiie, who died July 12th, 1736, only daughter of Richard Freeman, of Battesford, in the county of Gloucester, one of the Lords Justices of Ireland, and sometime Lord high Charts ttdlor of that kingdom, who died in Dublin, November 20th, 17 10, by hlizabeth, his first wife, daughter of Sir Anthony Keck, Knt. who died April Cth, 1700. Lord Chancellor Freeman married, secondly, Anna, daughter of Richard Marshall, Esq. She died January 1 ith, 1726, leaving issue by him a daughter, Anne, who died unmarried, October io:h, 1728, aet. 23, and a son, Richard Freeman, of Battesford, Esq. who died March 1 ith, 174.1, S. P. aet. 39. Thomas Edwards Freeman had issue, by Elizabeth Reveley, a son, Thomas Edwards Freeman, who died in his father's lifet.me, leaving by Mary, daughter of John Curtis, of Butcombe, co. Som. Esq. who died 1782, an only child, Eli- zabeth, who died S. P. March 16 th, 1808, the wife of Thomas Heathcote, Esq, $on of Sir William Heathcote, Bart, LORD REDESDALE. 185 in St. Andrew, Holborn, February 10th, and baptized there March 7th, 1743-4, is one of the Verdurers of the New Forest j was many years Lieutenant-Colonel of the South Hants militia; and was sometime representative for Newport, in Cornwall; and in 1802, &c. for Beeralston, co. Devon. He is well known as a scholar and historian: more particularly for his History of Greece. He married at Great Farringdon, co. Berks, on May 18th, 1766, Frances, daughter of James Molloy, Esq. of Dublin, by Anne, daughter, of Henry Pye, Esq. of Farringdon, co. Berks, by Anne, sister of Allan, Earl Bathurst. By her, who died at Epsom, in Surrey, April 27th, 1776, and was buried at Wingfield aforesaid, on the 2()th of the same month, he had issue, first, William Mitford, sometime Lieutenant of the royal fusileers, born May 26th, 1767, in the parish of St. James's, Westminster; buried at Clifton, co. Gloucester, December 29th, 1790, unmarried. Se- cond, Henry Mitford, a Captain in the royal navy, born Septem- ber 12th, 1769; married at Antigua, in 1796, Louisa, daughter of Anthony Wyke, Esq. Attorney-General of Montserrat : she died in May 1801, and was buried in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, June 1st following, leaving issue an only son, William Beveley Mitford, born in the parish of All Saints, Southampton, June 7th, 1800; who dying June 21st, 1801, at Fulham, co. Mid- dlesex, was buried there the 25th of the same month ; also two daughters; Frances, born at Antigua, August 8th, 1797; and Louisa, born at Antigua, December 21st, 1798. Their father was lost at sea on . Third, John Mitford, of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law, born May 25th, 1772. Fourth, Ber- tram Mitford, of the Inner Temple, born October 1st, 1774. Fifth, Charles Mitford, born in September 17/5; died May 9th, 1776, and was buried at Paddington, co. Middlesex. Sixth, Frances, only daughter, born June 22d, 1 768, in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square; died August 1780, at Bristol, and was buried at Clifton, on the 2uth of the same month. Sir John Freeman Mitford, now Lord Redesdale (second son of John Mitford, and Philadelphia Ueveley), was born in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, August 18th, 174S, O. S. was of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law; Solicitor General, 1793; Attorney General, 1799; successively M. P. for Beeralston, co, Devon; and East-Looe, co. Cornwall; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1801; Chancellor, and Keeper of the Great Seal, of Ireland, 1802; and advanced to the Peerage by the title of Baron Redesdale, of Redesdale, in the county of Northumberland, by patent, dated February 15th, 1802. 186 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. His Lordship resigned his high office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1807 > in which he was succeeded by Lord Manners. By Royal Sign Manual, dated January 28th, 1809, he and his issue, when and as they shall respectively be in possession of the estates devised by Thomas Edwards Freeman, Esq. deceased, are enabled to take the surname of Freeman, and to bear the arms of that family quarterly with his and their paternal arms. His Lordship married, June 6th, 1S03, at St. George's, Han- over Square, Lady Frances Perceval, daughter of John, late Earl of Egmont, by Catherine Compton, his second wife ; and by her has issue, First, John Thomas Mitford, only son and heir apparent, born at Port Rush, in the county of Antrim, September 9th, 1805, and baptized there privately on the 15th of the same month; and in Ely Place, Dublin, on the 19th November following. Second, Frances Elizabeth, born in Ely Place, Dublin, April 11th, 1804. Third, Catherine, born in Harley Street, London, April 10th, 1807. Title. John Freeman Mitford, Lord Redesdale, of Redesdale, in Northumberland. Creation. By patent, February 15th, 1802. Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth, Argent, a fess between three moles, Sable, Milford. Second and third Azure, three fusils in fess, Or, and for distinction, a canton ermine, Freeman. Crests. Mitford. A dexter and sinister hand couped proper, supporting a sword in pale, Argent, pomel and hilt Or, transfix- ing a boar's head, erased, Sable. Freeman. On a wreath a demi-wolf Argent, sup- porting between the paws a fusil, Or, and for distinction, gorged with a collar, dancette Gules. Supporters. On either side, an eagle rising, Sable, beaks and legs, Or; about the neck a wreath of shamrock proper; and charged on the breast with a fusil, Or. Motto. iEftUABILITER ET DILIGENTER. Scat. LORD ELLENBOROUGH. 18? LAW, LORD ELLENBOROUGH. Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, who died August 14th, 1787, at his seat at Rose Castle, in Cumberland, in his eighty-fifth year, was the father of the present Peer. This venerable prelate was born in the parish of Cartmel, in Lancashire, in 1720. His father was a clargyman, descended from a family3 which had been situated at Askham, in West- moreland. He received his education at the schools of Cartmel and Ken- dal ; from the latter of which he went to St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1723, he took his degree of B. A. and in 1727, M. A. and was elected Fellow of Christ College. In 173/> he was presented by the University to the rectory of Greystoke, in Cumberland ; where, in 1739, he went to reside, and in 1713, was appointed Archdeacon of Carlisle. In 1749, he took his degree of D. D. and in 1754, was elected Master of St. Peters College, Camlridge, and served the office of Vice-Chancellor. In 1760, he was elected Principal Librarian; and in 17^4, Professor of Casuistical Divinity. In 17<53, he was preferred to the Archdeaconry of Staffordshire, and a prebend in the church of Lichfield, by his friend and former pupil, Dr. Corn- wallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, then Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. In 1764, a Prebend of Lincoln, and in I/67, the twelfth stall of the church of Durham, were conferred upon him by the inte- rest of the late Duke of Newcastle. a Law, the Projector (for a full account of whose family, see Nichols's Lei- cestershire) bore the same arms, 188 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. In February Ijty, he was promoted to the See op Carlisle, by the unsolicited recommendation of the Duke of Grafton, who had a short time before been elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was first known to the public by a translation of Arch- bishop Kings " Essay upon the Origin of Evil, with Notes" into which were introduced most of the important topics of natural re- ligion. This work appeared in 1729. In 1734, he published, " An Enquiry into the Ideas of Space, Time, Immensity, and Eternity;" and in 1745, Considerations on the Theory of Religion; to which were subjoined, " Reflections on the Life and Character of Christ; a Discourse on the Nature and End of Death under the Christian Covenant; and an Appendix, concerning the use of the word Soul, or Spirit, in Holy Scripture, and the state of the Dead there described." Besides these his larger works, he pub- lished a tract upon the nature and end of catechising ; several pieces in the controversy concerning an intermediate state; and in 1774, a pamphlet, intituled, Considerations on the Propriety of requiring a Subscription to Articles of Faith. During the early part of his residence in the University, he enjoyed the friendship of the late eminent Dr. Jortin; and for many years carried on a correspondence with Dr. Hartley, upon the subject of that author's celebrated work. He preserved a long intimacy with the learned Archdeacon of Cleveland, whose death happened at nearly the same age, and same time. With these excellent persons he was united, as well in an anxious and diligent search after moral and evangelical truth, as in a cordial love of civil and religious liberty .b b ' Our old correspondent Eugenio* (says the Gent. Mag.) * has furnished us with the following character of this good Prelate, from the MSS. of the late Rev. John [ones. " Dr. Law, a gentleman of excellent parts, extensive learning, great integrity, and of a most sweet, benevolent, and Christian disposition; very modest, free, and open in conversation, devoid of ceremony; an honour to his country, and to the University wherein he presides. His character is universally known, and approved by all wise and good men. I shall here minute down only a few particulars, the rest may be added afterwards. 1 heard him with great pleasure perform his exercise for his Doctor's degree, at the public Schools in Cambridge, January 1748-9. Dr. Parne, the Moderator pro tempore, was his opponent, who (I believe) was foiled. The Moderator soon after grew mad, and died. One great Doctor (head of a great college) refused to sign his testimonial ; saying, ' h; did not like either his person or his doctrine.' Yet afterwards was leconciled, when Law became head of St. Peter's College, and made him frequent visits, &c. Dr. Garnet (brother to the Bishop of Femes), dining, as I also did, LORD ELLENBOROUGH. 18$ His Lordship married Miss Christian, daughter of John Chris- tian, of Unerigg, in the county of Cumberland, Esq. and had issue, First, Bridget, who died an infant. Second, Edmund, who died young. Third, John, the late Lord Bishop of Elphin, a man of emi- nent talents, who was supposed to have assisted his friend, Dr. Paley, in the composition of his Moral and Political Philosophy. He died at his house on St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, March 19th, 1810 j leaving no issue by his wife, Anne, widow of Tom- linson, Esq. of Carlisle. Fourth, Mary, married to the Rev. James-Stephen Lushing- ton, late Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, deceased, by whom she with the former of these two, told him he was going to pay a visit that afternoon to Dr. Law. « You do very well (said the entertainer), I respect him, although I cannot approve of his opinions in some things, and opposed his degree.' Dr. G. said, < Whatever his opinions be, this is very certain, and allowed by all, that he is a sweet-tempered man, an excellent scholar, and a true Christian.' The other assented. I waited on Law that evening, and told him what had passed. • Yes (said he), we begin now, though contrary to my expectation, and without my seeking, to be pretty thick; and I thank God, who reconciles me to my ad- versaries.' A certain great author, who did not at all know him, nor his cha- racter, said (very uncharitably), that he must be a wicked man for proposing such an opinion. His wife, an excellent woman; a Christian in disposition, as well as name. They have sustained great afflictions with great resignation. Many children, and great charge. Their income not even yet answerable. On Sundays, in the afternoon, he instructed the young men of his college^ designed for orders, in the original language, sense, and design of the New Testament, and of the Old, in the Hebrew, &c. and has nothing more at heart than teaching the Christian religion in its native purity and simplicity, of which he was a complete master. Archbishop Potter, he told me, disliked his doctrine about inspiration; and re- proved him. Warburton told him, he disparaged the church by which he got his bread. Archbishop Herring, on hearing of his Thesis at Cambridge, said to him, ' I neither justify nor condemn you. If your doctiine be right, I am no loser; if wrong, I am but as I was: I am in the hands of a just and merciful God, to whom I wholly commit myself. I believe his Gospels, and am persuaded you do so as much as I, though we may have different sentiments about some particulars. We shall both of us, I hope, meet in Heaven.' When, in going his rounds to the heads of houses, presently after his keeping this act, he came to Dr. Castle (the worthy Master of Corpus Christ! College), he said to him, in his blunt and honest manner, ' 1 know that this is reckoned a Socinian tenet; but I believe you deserve the degree, and will readily sign your testimonial.' In his return from London and Cambridge, after this bout, he kindly called upon me at Alconbury, related to me many particulars, staid a night, and would put me to na expense." J. J. igo PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. had sons, and a daughter, married to the Rev. Thomas Edwards, LL.D. of Cambridge. Fifth, Ewan, married Henrietta, eldest daughter of Dr. Wil- liam Markham, late Archbishop of York; has issue four sons, and four daughters. Sixth, Edward, the present Peer. Seventh, Elizabeth) and, Eighth, Christian, both died un- married. Ninth, Joanna, widow of Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bart. Tenth, Joseph; and, Eleventh, Edmund, both died unmar- ried. Twelfth, Thomas, married to Anne, daughter of Curtis, Esq. of Carolina ; has issue one daughter. Thirteenth, George-Henry, D. D. Prebendary of Carlisle; married Miss Adeane, daughter of the late General Adeane; has issue three sons and five daughters. Edward Law (sixth child, but third son), now Lord El- lenborough, was born about 1749, and after receiving his education at the Charterhouse, and at his father's college of Pe- terhouse, Cambridge, studied the law with great industry; attained in due time considerable practice; was appointed a King's Coun- sel; and in 1801, on the change of administration, when Mr. Addington was elevated to be Premier, was raised to the high office of Attorney General; and in the following year, on the death of Lord Kenyon, was nominated Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench; and created a Peer, by the title of Lord Ellenborough, of Ellenborough, in the county of Cumberland, by patent, dated April 10th, 1802. His Lordship married, in October 1802, Miss Towry, daugh- ter of George Philip Towry, Esq. (formerly a Captain in the navy), and by her has issue, First, Edward Law, now at Oxford. Second, Charles Ewan. Third, Mary. Fourth, John. Fifth, Elizabeth. Sixth, Anne. Title. Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Creation. By patent April 10th, 1802, LORD ELLENBOROUGH. 191 Arms. Ermine, a bend engrailed Gules, charged with three mullets Argent, between two cocks, of the second. Crest. A cock, Gules. Supporters. Two eagles, each charged on the breast with a mitre. MottO. COMPOSITUM JUS FAS&UE ANIMI. Chief Seat. His Lordship resides at Waldershare, near Dover,, in Kent, which he rents of the Earl of Guilford. 192 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND HILL, BARONESS SANDYS. This is a different family, in the male line, from the family ot Sands of the Vine, in Hampshire, who were elevated to the Peerage by King Henry VIII. The pedigree of this family, as recorded in the Heralds Visi- tations of Lancaster, "Cambridge, and Bucks, made in the years 1567, 1619, and 1634, begins with Robert Sandes, of St. Bees,71 in Cumberland^ who had two sons, First, John, of Furness Fells, in Lancashire, of whom pre- sently. Second, Thomas, father of Roger, whose son, William, had Robert and William, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- liam Orford, by whom he bad a son, Robert, who married Elea- nor, daughter of John Skelton; and four daughters, Jennet, Eli- zabeth, Mabell, and Joan. John Sandes, of Furness Fells, above mentioned, married Margaret, daughter and heir of William Rawson, of Yorkshire, by whom he had a daughter, Margaret, married to Sir Richard Bray, Knt. by whom she was mother to Sir Reginald Bray, K. G. And a son, William Sandes, of Cumberland, who married a Vide Strype's Hist, of Reformation, chap. 3;, p. 362, printed 1709. h In 1377, 1 Richard II. Richard del Sandes was returned M. P. for Cum- berland Prynnes Brief Register, 323, 324. In 14. Richard II. Thomas del Sandes was returned M. P. for th- same. Hid. 4x0, 411. In 18 R chard II. he was again returned for the same. Ibid. 429. BARONESS SANDYS. 193 argaret, daughter and heir of John Gerrard, of Turvey, in the county of Bedford, and had six sons, of whom Geokge (according to the said Visitations) resided in Lon- don, and had to wife Margaret, daughter of John Dixon, of Lon- don, by whom he had a numerous issue. This George Sandes (who in the early editions of this work s erroneously called William) writes himself of Estwaite Fur- nese, in the county of Lancaster, in his last will and testament, which bears date April 23d, 1548, 2 Edward VI. and by the preamble, he appears to be a Protestant : his words are, ' Con- sidering the uncertainty of my life, I commit my soul into the custody and hand of our Saviour Jesus Christ, trusting surely, that through the sprinkling of his blood, 1 shall be partaker of the inheritage prepared for the faithful.' The rest of his will shews him to be a person of sound reason- ing and judgment; and he made an equal disposition of his estate among his children, of whom, as therein appears, was George Sandes, who died in his lifetime, and left a son, Roger Sandes, to whom he bequeathed half of Watside- park, &c. which George was slain at Muselborough-field, on September 10th, 154/, in battle against the Scots. To his son, Christopher, he left his estate at Gaithwaite, in Lancashire, with other lands, after the death of his mother. He died without issue male, leaving only two daughters. To William, his son, jointly with his brother Christopher, he bequeaths his lease of Hawkshead-church, and three bloom smiddyes, with all the ore which he had in Mithland and Low- Furnese, paying to Miles and Anthony, his sons, and their bro- thers, a hundred pounds. This William died without issue. He further wills to his said sons, Miles and Anthony, equally and jointly, all his rights in Louson-p3rk, Parkamore, and the one half of Watside-park; also divers other lands and leases to William and Christopher before mentioned; and legacies to his daughter, Anne; and to his grand-daughters, Agnes, Marga- garet, and Elizabeth, daughters of George Sandes. Then fol- lows: ' I will also, that my son, Edwin Sandes, vicar of Havershavi, shall have of my goods, &c. 201. desiring him heartily, upon my blessing, to see this my last will and testament fulfilled, and good rule and loving order to be had among his mother's brethren, and sisters, and children of my said son George. Moreover, it is my will and mind, that in case any of ray sons, or others, be vol. ix. o 194 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, not contented, lovingly and jointly, to fulfil this my last will, that then they, which offend and break this my said will and testament, shall forfeit all such possessions, &c. bequeathed to them; and the same to be at the sight of John Preston, Esq. and other supervisors of this my said last will and testament." He constitutes his sons, William, Christopher, Miles, and Anthony, his executors; and John Preston, Esq. his son, Edwin Sandes, vicar of Haversham; William Dixon, Miles Dixon, Thomas Benson, Richard Mackereith, William Sawrey, Miles Sawrey, and Richard Sandes, of Lancaster, supervisors; appoint- ing, that if his estate be not sufficient to discharge the legacies, that they should then be lessened, at the discretion of Mr. Pres- ton, and Edwin Sandes, his son, vicar of Haversham. From Anthony Sandes, the third son, descended Miles San- dys, of Garthwaite-hall, in the parish of Hawkshead, in Lanca- shire. Of Edwin, the fourth son, I am principally to treat. Miles Sandys, the fifth son, being bred to the law, was one of the Society of the Middle Temple, Clerk of the Crown, and Master of the King's Bench office. He left by Hester his wife, daughter of William Clifton, of Biimpton, in com. Soroers. four sons.c First, Sir Edwin Sandys, of La timers, in Buckinghamshire, who married Elizabeth, daughter, and at length sole heir, of William, Lord Sands, of the Vine, in com. Hants, by d Catharine his wife, daughter of Edmund, Lord Chandos, and had issue by her Colonel Henry Sandys, who was killed in the service of Charles I. 1(544, and had c by Jane, daughter of Sir William Sandys, of Missenden, in Gloucestershire, Knt. four sons; First, William. Second, Henry. Third, Miles. And, Fourth, Edwin; also six daughters; Hester, married to Humphry Noy, of Carning- ton, in Cornwall, Esq. son to William Noy, Attorney-general to Charles I. Alathea, to Francis Gofton, Esq. Mary, to Dr. Henry Savage, Principal of Baliol-college, Oxon; Jane, to John Harris, of Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, Esq. Margaret, to Sir John Mill, of Tachbury, in com. Southampton, Bart, and Margery, to Sir Edmund Fortescue, of Fallow-Pit, in com. Devon. Bart. Wil- liam, eldest son (on the death of his uncle, William, Lord Sands,, only son of William, Lord Sands, by Catharine, daughter of Ed- c Visit, de com. Buck, praed. '• Celebrated for her beauty by George Gascoyur, the Poet. See Percys Br.llaets. e Ex Steromate. BARONESS SANDYS. 195 mnnd, Lord Chandos, who died without issue on November 12th, lf>29f). inherited the title of Loud Sands of the Vine, in right of his grandmother, Elizabeth, beforementioned, and had summons to parliament accordingly. He married Mary, youngest daughter of William, Earl of Salisbury, and dying without issue in 1668, was succeeded in the honour by Henry, Lord Sandys, his brother and heir, who dying unmarried, as did also his bro- thers, the title lies dormant. The second son of Miles Sandys, beforementioned, was s Sir William Sandys, of Flatbury, in Worcestershire,'1 and of Mis- senden, in Gloucestershire, from whom the family at Missenden, and Brimsfield, in Gloucestershire, descend. Sir George, the third son, died without issue; but from Henry, the fourth son, who was of Harwood, in com. Bucks, and manied Mary, daugh- ter of Sir Richard Conquest, of Houghton-Conquest, in com. Bedf. Knt. a progeny is yet remaining. I now return to Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (the fourth son of Grorge), of whom, and his descendants, I am prin- cipally to treat. As he was distinguished for his great learning and eminent abilities, and one of the first reformers of our reli- gion from Popery, divers authors have given some account of him, without a due consideration or examination of facts, particularly as to the place of his birth: it is said by some to be at London; by others, at Conisby, in Yorkshire; but 'by the famous Mr. Dodsworth, the antiquary, it is positively asserted to be at Hawks- head, within the liberty of Furnese, in Lancashire; who alledges, that in token thereof, he built a free school there, and endowed it with 301. per annum, for a master and usher, out of lands in Hawkshead, and several tenements in Yorkshire. It is governed by trnstees, according to statutes given them by the said Arch- bishop; and over the door of the school is placed a fine stone, on which is engraved his arms, and the following inscription: Memoriae reverendissimi doctoris divinitatis Edwini Sandys, eboraci olim archiepiscopi, Scholse hujus fundatoris, Daniel Rawlinson, civis Londini, Grais- dale com. Lancastrian oriundus, posuit anno Domini 16'75. f MS. I. 8. f«l. 22, in Offic. Armor. 8 Visit, of Gloucestersh. 1683, not. K. 5, fol. 2 ! 2, 213, in Offic. Arm. h See an account and character of him in Nas/'i IVorce tier dure. 1 Ex Collect. Rati. Thoresby de L-eds, F.R S. in MS. Sciiptores Ebor, ig6 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. He was one of the first who conformed to the Protestant religion, and for the constant profession of that faith, chose a voluntary exile in Germany, during all the reign of Queen Mary. His troubles and imprisonment are reported at large by Mr. Fox, in his Book of Martyrs, out of which I shall recite some particulars, which shew him to be a person of courage, honour, and integrity. He was educated in St. John's college in Cambridge, and took his degree of Doctor of Divinity in that university, k before the month of September, 1552, when he had a grant of a prebend within the church of Carlisle, vacant by the death of Bellas. In 1549, 3 Edward VI. he1 was Master of Catherine-hall, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; and so truly zealous for the reformation, that fearing1" an alteration in religion, he shewed himself of the party of the Lady Jane. Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford," gives this account of him: " Having, by Northumberland's command, in the pulpit, impugned Queen Mary's cause, and defended that of the Lady Jane, he behaved him- self with such wisdom and moderation, although upon the short warning of some few hours, that he abundantly satisfied the Duke, and yet did not so deeply incur the displeasure of the ad- verse party, but that his friends prevailed with the Queen for his pardon; so that after a year's imprisonment he was set at liberty, and presently fled over into Germany. After the death of Queen Mary, returning from voluntary exile, he was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, from which See he was translated to London, and thence again to the Archbishoprick of York. A man, for his learning, virtue, wisdom, and extract, very famous ; but more especially happy in his issue, whereof many were admirable for their endowments, both internal and external, and of whom wc have, in our age, seen three honoured with knighthood." July 25th, being St. James's day, 1553, he° was brought pri- soner from Cambridge, and committed to the Tower, with the Duke of Northumberland, and others of quality. Queen Mary, before King Edward's laws were repealed, and particularly that act for the communion service,? procured Dr John Young, Master of Pembroke-hall (who had made himself famous for contesting with Martin Bucer, in Edward VI's time), to be chosen Vice- Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; and the noted Ste- k Strype's Memorials, Eccl. & Civil. Vol. II. p. 531. 1 Le Neve's Fasti Eccl. Anglicanse, p. 395. . "» Strype's Memorials, Vol. III. p. 11. « Annals of England, p. 27Z. 0 Strype'a Memorials, Vol. III. p. i£. P Ibid. p. 52. BARONESS SANDYS. 197 phen Gardiner, the restored Bishop of Winchester, and Chancellor of the university, having wrote to the society of Catharine-hall, recommending Mr. Cosin to be chosen their Master, in the room of Dr. Sandys, because he was married, they, for their own safety, thought it convenient to comply. The same author observes/' that after about a year's imprison- ment he was discharged, and observing the fury coming on all that were resolved to stick to the true religion, and would not comply with the newly restored papal superstitions, he made his escape out of England, and took up his residence at Strasburgh, where the Gospel was professed, and where he openly declared himself a Protestant. He had for his companions, John Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, Edmund Grindal, afterwards Archbishop of York, and Canterbury, successively, with others of the clergy j and these learned Knights, Sir John Cheeke, Sir Richard Morri- son, Sir Anthony Cooke, Sir Peter Carew, Sir Thomas Wroth, and many more, mentioned by Bayle. But I shall now recite some particulars of his troubles. rThe Duke of Northumberland, after he came to Cambridge with his army, sent for Dr. Sandys, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Par- ker, Dr. Bill, and Mr. Leaver, to sup with him; and among other speeches, said, ' Masters, pray for us, that we speed well,' &c. and required Dr. Sandys to preach on the morrow. The warning was short for such an auditory, yet he did not refuse, but went into his chamber, and so to bed. He rose at three of the clock in the morning, took his bible in his hand, and earnestly prayed to God that it might fall open where a most fit text should be for him to treat of. The bible fell open upon the first chapter of Joshua, where he found a text for that time, the most convenient he could have chosen. Responderuntque Josuce atque dixerunt, omnia, qucs prcecepisti nobis, faciemus, et quocunque miseris ibimus: sicut obedivimus in cunctis Mosi, ita obedimus et tibi, tantum sit Dominus Deus tuus tecum, sicut fuit cum Mose, qui contradixerit ori tuo, et non obedierit cunctis sermonibus quos praceperis ei, moriatur, tu tantum comfortare, et viriliter age. This text most fitly served for the purpose; and as God gave the text, so (saith my author) gave he such order and utterance, as drew many tears from the audience. In the time of his sermon, one of the guard lifted unto him, in the pulpit, a mass book, and a grail, taken the night before by 9 Sttype"s Memorials, Vol. III. p. 146, 147. 1 Fox's Book of Martyrs, Vol. III. p. 7S7. 193 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Sir George Haward, with certain of the guard, out of Mr. Hurle- ston's house, where Lady Miry heard mass, and had not been long gone. The Duke, with the rest of the nobility, required Dr. Sandys to put his sermon in writing, and appointed Mr. Leaver to go to London, and get it printed. Dr. Sandys required one day and a half for writing it, and at the day appointed, Mr. Leaver came ready booted to receive it of him. As he was deli- vering of it, Mr. Adams, one of the beadles, came weeping, and prayed him to shift for himself, the Duke being retired, and Queen Mary proclaimed. Dr. Sandys shewed no concern at what was said, but delivered the sermon written. The Duke of Northumberland that night sent for Dr. Sandys, to proclaim Queen Mary in the market-place at Cambridge, and told him she was a merciful woman, and that he had sent to know her plea- sure, and looked for a general pardon. The Doctor replied, ' My life is not de?r unto me, neither have I said or done any thing that urgeth my conscience ; for what I have spoke of the state, I have instructions warranted by the subscriptions of six- teen counsellors; neither yet have I spoke further than the word of God and the laws of the realm do warrant me; come of me what God will; but be assured you shall never escape death, for if she should save you, those that now rule will kill you.' That night the guard apprehended the Duke, and certain grooms of the stable were as busy with Dr. Sandys; but Sir John Gates, laying in his house, sharply rebuked them, and drove them away. The next day he advised the Doctor to walk in the fields; and in the mean time, the University, contrary to all order, had met together in consultation, and ordered Dr. Mouse, and Dr. Hatcher, to repair to Dr. Sandys's apartments, and fetch away the statute book of the University, the keys, and such other things as were in his keeping, which they did. Dr. Mouse had been an earnest Protestant the day before, but was now turned Papist; and though Dr. Sandys had done much for him, he was now his great enemy. The bell ringing for their meeting, Dr. Sandys returned out of the fields, and sending for the beadles, required them to wait on him to the schools, according to their duty. No sooner was the Doctor (the beadles going before him) come into the regent house, and had taken his chair, but Dr. Mouse, with a rabble of unlearned Papists, went into a by-school, and conspired to pull him out of his chair. Dr. Sandys began his oration, — expostulating with the Uni- versity, charging them w^th great ingratitude 3 declaring he had BARONESS SANDYS. 199 aaid nothing in his sermon but what he was ready to justify; and their case was the same with his, they having not only concealed, but consented to that which he had spoken. And as he was re- membering them how beneficial he had been to their University, and their unthankfulness to him, Dr. Mouse came in again with his conspirators, about twenty in number. One laid hand on the chair, to pull it from him; another told him that was not his place; and another called him traitor: but being of great cou- rage, and perceiving they used violence, he drew a dagger, and had dispatched some of them, if Dr. Bill, and Dr. Blith, had not fallen upon him, and prayed him for God's sake to hold his hands, and patiently bear that great offered wrong. By their persuasions he was contented, and the tumult ceasing, he ended his oration; and having monies of the University, he there deli- vered the utmost farthing. He gave up the books, reckonings, and keys, and surrendered his office, ' praying God to give the University a better officer, and to give them more thankful hearts,' and so repaired to his own college. The day after there came to him Mr. Jerningham, and Mr, Thomas Mild may; Jerningham told him it was the Queen's pleasure that two of the guards should attend on him, and that he must be carried prisoner to the Tower of London, with the Duke of Northumberland. Mr. Mildmay said, he marvelled, that a learned man would speak so unadvisedly against so good a Prin- cess, and wilfully run into such danger. Dr. Sandys replied, ' I shall not be ashamed of bonds, but if I could do as Mr. Mildmay can, I need not to fear bonds: for you came down against Queen Mary, and armed in the field, and now return for Queen Mary; before a traitor, and now a great friend. I cannot, with one mouth, blow hot and cold after this sort.' On this, his stable was robbed of four excellent geldings, and an inventory taken of all his goods by Mr. Moor, beadle of the University. He was set on a lame horse, that halted to the ground, which a friend of his perceiving, prayed that he might lend him a nag, to which the yeoman of the guard consented. At the end of the town some Papists resorted thither to jeer him; and some of his friends, who mourned for him, to take their leave of him. He was guarded, with the Duke, and others to London, and coming in at Bishopsgate, one, like a milk-wife, hurled a stone at him, which hit him on the breast, so as like to have made him fall from his horse; to whom he mildly said, ' Woman, God forgive it thee.' Ashe came through Towei hill -street, another 200 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND woman, standing in her door, cried, ' Fie on thee, thou knave, thou knave, thou traitor, thon heretic!' whereat he smiling, she said, Look, the desperate heretic laughs at this jeer. On which a wo- man on the other side of the street, answered, Fie on thee, neigh- bour, thou art not worthy to be called woman, railing upon this gentleman, whom thou knowest not, neither yet the cause wdiy he is thus treated. Then she said, Good gentleman, God be thy comfort, and give thee strength to stand in God's cause, even to the end. Thus he passed into the Tower, the first prisoner, on St. James's day. The yeomen of the guard took from him his borrowed nag, and what else soever he had. His man, Quinting Swainton, brought after him a Bible, and some shirts, and such like things; the Bible was sent in to him, but the shirts, &c. the yeomen of the guard kept. After he had been in the Tower three weeks, in a bad prison, he was put into Nun's-bower, a better prison, and with him Mr. John Bradford. On October 1st, 1553, the day of Queen Mary's coronation, their prison door was set open (ever shut before) and Mr. Mitchel, his old acquaintance, who had been a prisoner in the same place, came in to him, and said, * There is such a stir in the Tower, that neither gates, or prisoners, are looked to this day. Take my cloak, my hat, and my rapier; you may go out of the gates, without being questioned; save yourself, and let me do as I may.' A rare friendship: but he replied, ' 1 know no just cause why I should be in prison, and thus to do, were to make myself guilty; I will expect God's will; yet must I think myself most bounden to you.' On which Mr. Mitchel, finding him re- solute, departed. Whilst Dr. Sandys, and Mr. Bradford, were in close prison twenty-nine weeks, Mr. John Bowler, a very perverse Papist, was their keeper; yet, by often conference with him, at length began to dislike Popery, and to favour the Gospel; so that on a Sunday, when they had mass in the chapel, he brought the service-book, a manchette, and a glass of wine; and Dr. Sandys ministered the communion, according to the reformed religion, to Bradford, and to Bowler. When Wyat was in arms against Queen Mary, Dr. Cranmer, Dr. Ridley, and Mr. Bradford, were cast into one prison; and Dr. Sandys, with others, were sent to the Marshalsea : and Wyat coming into Southwark with his army, he sent two gentlemen into the Marshalsea to Dr. Sandys, to let him know he should be glad of his company and advice, and that the gates should be set BARONESS SANDYS. 20] open to all the prisoners ; but the Doctor desired him to tell Wyat, ' It this rising be of God, it will take place; if not, it will fall: for his part, he was committed by order, and would be discharged by the like order, or would never depart.' Thomas Way, the keeper of the Marshalsea, appointed unto every preacher a man to lead him in the street for the air, but he himsi-lf walked with Dr. Sandys; and discoursing very familiarly with him, the people took notice of him, and prayed to God to comfort him, and strengthen him in the truth; on which the Keeper said to the Doctor, ' I perceive the vain people would set you forward to the fire; you are as vain as they; if you, being a young man, will stand in your oven conceits, and prefer your own knowledge before the judgment of so many worthy prelates, an- cient, learned, and grave men, as be in this realm; if you so do, you shall find me as strait a keeper, as one that utterly disliketh your religion.' Dr. Sandys replied, ' I know my years young, and my learning small; it is enough to know Christ crucified; and he hath learned nothing, that seeth not the great blasphemy that is in Popery. I will yield unto God, and not unto man. I have read in the scriptures of many godly and courteous keepers; God may make you one; if not, I tiust he will give me strength and patience to bear your hard dealing with me.' On which the Keeper said, ' Do ye then mind to stand to your religion ? ' Yea (said the Doctor) by God's grace.' ( Truly (saith the keeper) I love ye the better; 1 did but tempt you. What favours I can shew you, ye shall be sure of, and I shall think myself happy if I may die at the stake with you.' And he ever after shewed Dr. Sandys all friendship. He laid him in the best cham- ber in the house, and would not suffer the Marshal's men to lay fetters on him, as others had. He sundry times suffered him to walk alone in the fields; and permitted his wife, Mr. Sandys's daughter of Essex, a gentlewoman beautiful both in body and mind, to resort to him; they had the communion there three or four times, and a great resort of communicants, who offered Dr. Sandys money, but he would receive none. He was then in the prime of life, and admired for his learning, eloquence, sobriety, and other virtuous morals. His exhortations to the people were delivered with that energy, as drew tears from many, and made them abhor the mass. After he had been nine weeks prisoner in the Marshalsea, he was set at liberty, by the mediation of Sir Thomas Holcroft, the Knight Marshal. Sir Thomas sued earnestly to Dr. Gardiner, 202 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Bishop of Winchester, for his deliverance, but could not prevail, except Dr. Sandys would be one of their sect; and then, he said, he should want nothing. He wrung at last out of the Bishop, that if the Queen could like of his deliverance, he would not be against it; which was Sir Thomas's last request. Thereupon he made interest with two ladies of the privy chamber to move the Queen to it, who was contented, if the Bishop of Winchester ap- proved of it. Sir Thomas watched his going to speak with the Queen, and followed him with a warrant for setting him at liberty; and prayed the two ladies to put the Queen in mind of Dr. Sandys. On which she said, ' Winchester, what think you of Dr. Sandys? is he not sufficiently punished? And Gardiner, renumbering his promise, said he was not against it, if her Ma- jesty liked to discharge him. Saith the Queen, ' Then truly we would he were set at liberty.' On which Sir Thomas Holcroft immediately offered the Queen the warrant, who signed the same, and caused Winchester to subscribe his name thereto. The war- rant was given to the Knight Marshal again; but as the Bishop went out from the Queen, he called to Holcroft, commanding him not to set Dr. Sandys at liberty, till he had taken sureties of two gentlemen, bound in a bond of 5001. each, that he should not depart the realm without licence. Holcroft also made it his business to find sureties for him; and having discoursed with two gentlemen of the North, friends and cousins of Dr. Sandys, they agreed to be bound in body, goods, and lands, for him. He then sent for the Doctor to his apartments at Westminster, requiring the keeper to accompany him. He came accordingly, and found Sir Thomas Holcroft in his garden alone, who immediately imparted to him his long suit, with the proceeding, and of what effect it had; much rejoicing he was so fortunate to procure him his liberty; and that nothing remained for him to do, but to enter into bonds, with his two sureties, not to depart the realm. The Doctor answered, ' I give God thanks, who hath moved your heart to mind me so well, and I think myself most bound to you; I hope God will requite you, and I never shall be found unthankful; but as you have dealt friendly with me, I will also deal plainly with you. I came a freeman into prison, I will not go forth a bondman. As I cannot benefit my friends, I will not hurt them; for if am set at liberty, I shall not stay six days in this realm, if I may get out. It there- fore I may not get forth free, send me to the Marshalsea again, and there you shall be sure of me.' BARONESS SANDYS. 203 Holcroft was much displeased with his answer, and told him a change would shortly come; the state was but a cloud, and would soon shake away; that his cousin, Sir Edward Bray, and his wife, would gladly receive him into his house, where hr never need come at church; and that Lady Bray hated Popery, adding, that he would not so deal with him, to li.se all his labour. But no persuasions could prevail with him to enter into bonds; which Holcroft perceiving, generously said, ' Seeing you cannot be altered, I will change my purpose, and yield unto you. Come of it what will, I will set you at liberty; and seeing you mind to go over sea, get you gone quickly as you can. One thing I require of you, that while you are there, you write nothing to come hither, for you may undo me.' He friendly kissed Dr. Sandys, bid him farewell, let me answer Winchester as I may; and com- manded the keeper to take no fees of him. Returning with the keeper to the Marshalsea, he staid there that night, and the nrxt day gave a dinner to all the prisoners, taking his farewell of them with many tears, particularly of Mr. Saunders, who, at his own request, was permitted by the keeper to be bis bed-fellow. Their parting was very sorrowful, with many tears, the one falling on the other's neck; and so he de- parted, clearly delivered, without examination or bond. From thence he went to the King's-bench, and there talked with Mr, Bradford, and Robert Farrer, Bishop of St. David's, then prison- ers. He comforted them, and they praised God for his happy deliverance. He went by Winchester's house and there took boat, and came to William Banks, his friend, in London, with whom he remained one night, and the next night shifted to an- other friend's house: and there he learned that search was made for him. Dr. Watson, and Mr. Christopherson, coming to the Bishop of Winchester's, Chancellor of England, told him, he had set at liberty the greatest heretic in England, and one who, of all others, had most corrupted the University of Cambridge. Whereupon the Bishop sent for all the constables of London, commanding them to watch for Dr. Sandys, then in the city; and whoever of them should bring him to him, should have five pounds for his labour. The Doctor, on knowledge cf this, for greater safety, conveyed himself by night to Mr. Bertie's house, a stranger, who had been a little time in the Marshalsea prison with him, and was a good Protestant, and dwelt in Mark-lane. There he was six days, and one or two of his friends repaired to him. He after- 204 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. wards went to Mr, Hurleston, a skinner, dwelling in Cornhill ; where he caused his man Quinting, to provide two geldings for him, in order to ride into Essex, to Mr. Sandys, his father-in-law, where his wife was. At his going to bed in Hurleston's house, he observed a pair of hose too long for him, made whilst he was in the Tower, by one Benjamin, a Protestant, dwelling in Birching-lane. He was not permitted to speak to him, or take any measure of him, but only look on his legs, whereby they were not made fit for him: these hose he prayed the mistress of the house to send to some taylor to cut them two inches shorter. She sent them by her boy to the next taylor, who chanced to go to Benjamin that made them, and was then a constable, and acquainted writh the Lord Chancellor's orders. The boy required him to cut the hose; on which he said, ' I am not thy master's taylor.' Whereupon the boy replied, ' My master's taylor dwelling far off, I came to you, as our ne£t neighbour; for it is far night, and he wants them early in the morning.' Benjamin knew his own work, and said, ' These are not thy master's hose, but Dr. Sandys's, which I made for him in the Tower.' ' Saith he, Go to thy mistress, pray her to sit up till twelve of the clock, and then I will bring the hose, and speak with the Doctor to his good.' At midnight, the mistress of the house, and Benjamin the taylor, went into Dr. Sandys's chamber, but prayed him not to be afraid of their coming. He answered, ' Nothing can be amiss; what God will, that shall be done.' On which Benjamin told him, ' he made his hose, and by what chance they came into his hands; God used the means, that he might admonish him of his peril, and advise him how to escape it.' He then acquainted him, that all the constables of London, whereof he was one, had orders to watch for him; and some were so greedily set, that they prayed, if he took him, to let them have his carriage to the Bishop of Winchester, and he should have the five pounds. He further told him, that it was known his man had provided two geldings, and his intentions to ride out at Aldgate in the morning, where he would surely be taken. ' Follow my advice (said he) and, by God's grace, you shall escape their hands. Let your man walk all the day in the street where your horses stand, booted and ready to ride; the good man's servant of the house shall take the horses, and carry them to Bethnal-green, and his master shall be booted, and follow after, as if he would ride. I will be here with you to-morrow, about eight of the clock. It is both term and BARONESS SANDYS. 205 parliament-time; and when the streets are full, we will go forth, look wildly, and if we meet your brother in the streets, know him not.' Accordingly Dr. Sandys, cloathed like a gentleman, in all re- spects, looking as one who had been long kept in prison, was conducted by Benjamin through Birching-lane, and from one lane to another, till he came to Moor-gate, and from thence to Bethnal- green. He there found the horses were ready, and Mr. Hurle- stone ready to ride with him as his man. The Doctor pulled on his boots, and taking his leave of Benjamin, would have given him great part of that little he had, but he refused it. However, Dr. Sandys on his return to England, remembered him thank- fully. He rode the same night to his father-in-law's, Mr. Sandys, where his wife was; but he had not been two hours there, before Mr. Sandys was acquainted that two of the guards would that night apprehend his son-in-law. Thereupon he was immediately guided to an honest farmer near the sea, and took up his abode with him two days and two nights in a chamber, without stirring out of it; after which he was shifted to one James Mower, a ship-master, who dwelt on Milton shore, and was to sail with the first fair wind to Flanders. Whilst he sta'd in expectation of a fair wind, Mower brought to him forty or fifty mariners, to whom he gave, an exhoitation, which they liked so well, that they pro- mised to die for it, ere he should be apprehended. On May 6th, being Sunday, the wind served, and at the shore Dr. Sandys met Mr. Isaac, of Kent, with his eldest son, who from the good opinion he had of the Doctor, sent his son with him; and Dr. Cox also embarked in the same ship, Cockerill com- mander. They were within sight, when two of the guard came thither to apprehend Dr. Sandys; but they happily arrived at Antwerp, and were immediately invited to dinner by the famous Mr. Locke. Before they had dined, George Gilpin, secretary of the English house, and kinsman to Dr. Sandys, came and whis- pered in his ear, ' That King Philip had ordered search to be made for him, and to apprehend him.' Hereupon they rose from dinner in a very great shower, and went out of the gate toward the land of Cleve: they had the good luck to light on a waggon, and hasting away, came safe to Ausburgh, in Cleveland, where Dr. Sandys staid fourteen days, and then set out for Strasburgh; where, after he had lived one year, his wife came to him. During his abode in that city, he fell sick of a flux, which kept on him 206 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. nine months, so that his recovery was very doubtful. He had a child, which died there of the plague; and his wife, after some time, fell sick of a consumption, and died in his arms. After this, two of his friends left him, Edmund Grindal (after- wards made Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth) who went into the country to learn the Dutch tongue, and Sampson, who went to attain the Hebrew language. Dr. Sandys continued still at Strasburgh, supported by Mr. Isaac, who passionately esteemed him, and was ever more ready to give, than he to take. The Doctor had of him above 100 marks, which he paid again; and by his other gifts and friendship to him, shewed himself a grateful man. His wife (as was said before) being dead, he went to Zurike, and for the space of five weeks was in Peter Martyr's house. As they sat one day at dinner, the news of Quee'i Mary's death was brought, and Dr. Sandys was sent for by his friends at Strasburgh. Mr Martyr and Mr. Jarratt were very joyful, but Dr. Sandys was very grave; ' it smote into his heart (as Fox writes) that he should be called to misery;' but it is more rational to believe, that he was thoughtful of the almighty power of God, in so wonderfully delivering him, and bringing about the means of returning to his native country. Bullinger, and other ministers, entreated him, before he took his leave, to return to Strasburgh, where he preached. He and Dr. Grindal came to London the same day Queen Elizabeth was crowned. Soon after, he was onee appointed by Queen Elizabeth, and her council, to manage a conference before the Lords and Com- mons at Westminster, against the Popish Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln, &c. on these three propositions:1 ' First, It is against the word of God, and the custom of the ancient church, to use a tongue unknown to the people, in common prayer, and administration of the sacraments. * Secondly, Every church hath authority to appoint, take away, and change ceremonies, and ecclesiastical rights, so the same be to edification. ' Thirdly, It cannot be proved by the word of God, that there is in the masse offered up a sacrifice propitiatory for the quick and the dead.' On the conference it was agreed to put all questions and an- swers in writing; but the Popish Bishops (Winchester and Lin- s Hollingshed's Chronicle, p. 1182, 11 83. ' Ibid. BARONESS SANDYS. 207 coin) departing (as Hollinshed recites) from all order, and manifestly varying from their own, were committed to the Tower) and the conference came to no effect. Camden, in his History of Queen Elizabeth, hasu observed, that on the deprivation of the Popish Bishops, in the second year of Queen Elizabeth, the most learned, that could be found among the Protestant divines, were recommmded to the vacant Sees, and that Richard Pate, Bishop of Worcester, having left the kingdom of his own accord, Archbishop Tarker, consecrated Edwin Sandys, a fluent and eloquent preacher, Bishop of Worcester. His conge dVlire bears date November 12th, 155Q,X and he was elected the 25th of the same month. On the 17th of De- cember, 155g, 2 Eliz. the Queen signified to Matthew [Parkei] Archbishop of Canterbury,'' that having granted her conge d'elhe to the dean and chapter of Worcester, they had elected Edwin Sandys, D. D. to the said See; she therefore commands him to consecrate him, which he did accordingly on the 21st of the same month, in the Archbishop's chapel at Lambeth. And by another commission,7- she commands the escheators of the coun- ties of Worcester and S:ilop, and marches of the said counties; Sir William Hewytt, Lord Mayor of London, and her escheator there; as also her escheator of the county of Middlesex, to re- store the temporalities of the said See to Edwin Sandys, D. D. elected Bishop of that See, by the deprivation of Richard Pate, the late Bishop. On June 2d, 15/0, hea was elected to the See of London; and the Queen, on July 1st, 1570, strictly commands Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, to confirm him; and likewise bher escheators in the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Hertford, Sussex, Worcester, Huntingdon; and Sir Alexander Avenon, her eschea- tor in the city of London, and Mayor thereof, to restore the temporalities in the said counties to Edwin Sandes, elect-bishop. The same year, hec was in the commission to inquire, by a jury, into all treasons, misprisions of treason, insurrections, mur- ders, felonies, burglaries, manslaughter, riots, escapes, contempts, unlawful assemblies, and oppressions; but more especially into " H;st. of Engl. Vol. II. p. 376, 377. x Le Neve's Fasti Eccl. Ang. p. zq^. ? Rymer's Feeders, Vol. XV. p. 550- z Ibid. p. ^;?. a Le Neve, p. 180. •> Rymer, Vol. XV. p. 683, 684. c Ibid- P- 724> 7^5- 208 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. all conspiracies, confederacies, meetings, &c. contrary to an act of parliament, passed in the first year of the Queen's reign, inti- tuled, " An Act for the uniformity of common prayer and ser- vice in the church, and administration of the sacrament;" and to hear and determine the same, according to the laws of the land. The Queen, on February 14th, 1576, commissions1' Edwin, Bishop of London, Robert, Bishop of Winchester, and other Bi- shops, to confirm Edmund, Archbishop of York, in the Arch- bishopric of Canterbury, to which he had been elected by the Dean and Chapter of the said See. On January 19th, 1577, the Queen1-' granted her conge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of York to elect an Archbishop to the said See, vacant by the translation of Edmund Grindall to Canterbury; whof thereupon, January 25th, elected Edwin Sandys, Bishop of London, to that See: and the Queen, March 8th, 1577, ^commissioned Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, and other Bishops, to confirm Edwin, Archbishop of York. Also, on March l6th following,'1 the Queen commanded her escheators in the counties of York, Lincoln, Surrey, Middlesex, Northum- berland, Gloucester, and marches of Wales, Nottingham, and the Mayor of the town of Nottingham, her escheator in the said town; her escheators in Westmoreland, Cumberland; her Chan- cellor in the county palatine of Lancaster, to command the es- cheator in that county; the Mayor of the city of York; the Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull, her escheators there; to restore the temporalities of the See of York to Edwin Sandes, elect- archbishop. On May 14th, J5/8, 20 Eliz. he was in commission,' with Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, President in the North, Richard, Bishop of Durham, and others, to visit the church of Durham, which had undergone great damages, by the insolency, neglect, and injuries done by the Dean, Canons, and other officers of the said church; and they were impowered to inquire into the ma- nagement of the revenues thereunto belonging, &c. This good prelate continued Archbishop of York, about twelve years, and, as Bishop Godwin relates,k departed this life August 8th, 1588, and was buried at Southwell. But Sir Gilbert De- thick, Garter King of Arms in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, has d Ryrr.er, p. J-,2. 767. e Ibid. p. 768. f Le Neve, p. 3 11. S Rymer, Vol. XV. p. 768. h Ibid. p. 77,. i Ibid. p. 785. k Catal. of the Bishops of Ergl. p. 492. BARONESS SANDYS. 209 left an account of the funerals of those persons of quality that he buried; wherein he recites,1 that Edwyn Sandys, Archbishop of York, late Bishop of London, and before Bishop of Worcester, died at Southwell, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, Wednesday, July 10th, 1588, and was buried there the 15th of August fol- lowing, with great solemnity. The Antiquities of Worcester, printed in 1717, page 10^, recite, that though Godwin, and others, assert he was buried at Southwell, they are mistaken; whereas he lies buried at Hawkes- hed, in Lancashire, among his ancestors; and has, in honour of him, i'n the North isle, appropriated to his family, an inscription to his memory, the samo as was at Southwell. But this is an error, for he was indisputably buried in the collegiate church of Southwell;™ where is a curious monument, on the North side of the choir, with his effigies lying at length, with a book in his hand, and his children kneeling on one side; and round the verge is this inscription : A Edwinus Sandes, Sacra? Theologian Doctor, postquam Wigorniensem Episcopatum annos X, totidemque, tribus demptis, Londinensem gessisset; Eboracensis sui Archi-Episconatus annos xn. vitas autem LXIX, obijt Julij x. An. Dom. 1588. At the head of the monument is this epitaph : Cujus hie reconditum Cadaver jacet, genere non humilis, vixit dignitate, locoque magnus; exemplo major; duplici functus Episcopatu, Archiepiscopali tandem amplitudine etiam illustris*. honores hosce mercatus, grandipretio, mentis Virtutibusque. Homo Hominum a malitia & vindicta innocentissimus: magnanimus, apertus, & tantum nescius adulari; summe liberalis, atque misericors, Hospitalissimus, Optimus, Facilis, & in sola Vitia superbus : scilicet, haud minora, quam locutus est, vixit & fuit. In evangelij praedicandi laboribus ad extremum usque halitum mirabiiiter assiduus; A Sermonibus ejus nunquam non melior discederes, Facundus volebat esse & videbatur. 1 Funerals, MS. not. A. 3. in Bibl. Joh. Ans'.is, arm. m Dugdule's Hist, of the Church of Southwell, p. jo. VOL. IX. p 210 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, Ignavos, sedulitatis suae conscius, oderat. Bonas Literas auxit pro facultatibusj Ecclesise patrimonium, veluti rem Deo consecratam, intactum defendit. Gratia, qua floruit apud Illustrissimam mortaliuraElizabetham, eflecir, ne hanc, in qua jacet, ecclesiam tu jacentum cerneres, Venerande Praesul, utriusque memorandum fortunse exemplar, qui tanta cum gesseris multo his majora, animo ad omnia semper impavido perpessus es: Carceres, exilia, amplissinnrum facultatum amissiones, quodqu^ omnium difficillime, innocens praeferre animos consuevit, immanes contumelias. Et hac re una votis tuis minor, quod Christo testimonium, etiam sanguine, non praebueris; Attamen qui in prosperis tantos fluctus, & post agonum tot adversa, tandem quietis sempiternae portum, fessus mundi, Deique sitiens, reperisti. xEternum lastare : vice Sanguinis sunt sudores tui : Abi lector, nee ista scias, tan turn ut sciveris, sed ut imiteris. At his feet under his arms '. Verbum Domini manet in sternum. Which inscription is recited in Sir William Dugdale's History of the Collegiate. Church of Southwell, p. 50; and there never was any monument for Archbishop Sandys, at Hawkeshead, in Furness, in the county of Lancaster. He made his last will and testament a year before his death, when he was in sound health and perfect memory, as he expresses himself. And the preamble being so very remarkable, and shew- ing his rare virtues and wisdom, I shall, for the satisfaction of the curious, insert it, as truly worthy of being known.11 « IN DEI NOMINE, AMEN. " I Edwin Sandes, minister of God's holy word and sacra- ments, Archbishop of York, although most unworthy ; often minding the frailty and uncertainty of man's .life in general, and n Ex Registr. vocat. Drury, Quire 30> not. 75, in Cur. Praerog. Cantuar. BARONESS SANDYS. 2U withal, feeling mine own manifold infirmities in particular, both by my years, and for my sins; and also remembering, that when the Lord God shall say, Redde rationem villicationis iua, I, amongst others, shall appear before the tribunal seat of Christ, to receive in this body according to that I have done, be it good or evil. I reckon that in myself a Christian duty, with Ezechias, Disponere mea. And considering, that as I brought nothing into this world (for naked I came out of ray mother's womb) so can I carry nothing thereout, but naked 1 must return again, even earth to earth, and carcase to worms, the way of all flesh. While the Lord God hath lent me the leisure, being presently in sound health of body, and of perfect memory, I humbly thank him for both; even thus I discharge myself of those talents which the Lord hath committed unto my charge, and make my last will and testament in such sort as followeth: First, and above all, my soul and spirit I commend, with David and Stephen, into the merciful hands of my gracious God, and loving father; assuredly believing, by faith, and certainly trusting, by hope, that he, in the fulness of his good time, best known unto him, and least unto me, will receive the same unto himself; not in respect of any my deserts,, for my righteousness is but a very dunghill, and defiled cloth,, but of his own free mercies, and for the alone merits of his only Son., mine only Saviour, Jesus Christ ; who being without any sin, was made a curse and sacrifice for all my sins, that I might be made the righteousness of God in him; who, in his own body, bare all my transgressions upon the tree, that by smart of his stripes, and blood of his wounds, I might be healed; who hath cancelled upon the cross the whole hand-writing that was acrainst me, that I might not only be entertained as a servant, or recon- ciled as a friend, but adopted as a son, and accepted as an heir with God the Father; and an heir together with Jesus Christ, who is also made unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctincation and redemption. And as in this faith, and full assurance of my perfect redemption, by the death and only deserts of Jesus Christ, the true lamb of God, and very lion of the tribe of Juda, I have and do live; so in the same firm and stedfast faith and hope 1 end my sinful life, and gladly yield up, with all immortal and mor- tal bodies. Secondly, Although this body of mine is but a clod" of clay, a prison of my sou), my will is, that it shall be buried, neither in superstitious nor superfluous manner; yet for that it hath been, and, as I trust, not only a vessel of the Gospel, but likewise a temple of the Holy Ghost, I require, that the ,ame be 212 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. so decently and conveniently brought to ground, as appertained to a Christian, a servant of Almighty God, and a man of my call- ing; pitting no doubt, but that I shall see my Redeemer with mine own eyes, and be covered with mine own skin, and that the Lord Jesus shall make this my vile body like unto his glorious body, whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself, Re- posita est hac mihi spes in sinu meo. Thirdly, Because I have lived an old man in the ministry of Christ, a faithful disposer of the mysteries of God; and, to my power, an earnest labourer in the vineyard of the Lord, I testify before God and his angels, and men of this world. I rest resolute, and yield up my spirit in that doctrine, which I have privately studied, and publicly preached, and which is this day maintained in the church of England ; both taking the same to be the whole council of God, the word and bread of eternal life, the fountain of living water, the power of God unto salvation, to all them that do believe; and he seeking the Lord besides, to turn us unto him, that we might be turned, lest, if we repent not, the candlestick be moved out of his place, and the Gospel to a nation that shall bring forth the fruits there- of: and further protest, in an upright conscience of mine own, and in the knowledge of his Majesty, before whom I stand, that in the preaching of the truth of Christ, I have not laboured to please man, but studied to serve my Master, who sent me 3 not to flatter either prince or people; but by the law, to tell all sorts of their sin; by the Spirit, to rebuke the world of sin; of righte- ousness, and of judgment, by the Gospel, to testify of that faith which is in Jesus Christ, and in him crucified. Fourthly, Con- cerning rites and ceremonies, by political constitutions authorised amongst us: as I am and have been persuaded, that such as are set down by public authority in this church of England, are no way either ungodly or unlawful, but may with good conscience, for order and obedience sake, be used of a good Christian; for the private baptism to be ministered by women, I take neither to be prescribed or permitted; so have I ever been, and presently am persuaded, that some of them be not so expedient for the church now; but in the church reformed, and in all this time of the Gospel, wherein the seed of the Scripture hath so long been sown, they may better be disused by little and little, then more and more urged. Howbeit, 1 do easily acknowledge our eccle- siastical policy, in some points, may be bettered, so I do utterly mislike, even in my conscience, all such rude and indigested plat- forms, as have been more lately and boldly, than either learnedly BARONESS SANDYS. 213 or wisely, preferred ; tending not to the reformation, but to the destruction, of the church or England. The particulars of both sorts, reserved to the discretion of the godly ; which of the latter I only say thus, That the state of a small private church, and the form of a large Christian kingdom, neither would long like, nor can at all brook, one and the same ecclesiastical governments. Thus much I thought good to testify concerning there ecclesiasti- cal matters, to clear me from all suspicion of double and indirect dealings, in the house of God ; wherein, as touching mine office, I have not halted, but walked sincerely, according to that skill and ability which I received at God's merciful hands. Lord, as a great sinner, by reason of my frail flesh, and manifold infirmi- ties, I fly unto thee for mercy. Lord, forgive me my sins, for I acknowledge my sins. Lord, perform thy promise, and do away all my iniquities; hasten the coming of thy Christ, and deliver me from the body of sin. Veni tito, Domine Jesu, cloath me with immortality, and give me that promised crown of glory. So be it. And as concerning those worldly things, which God of his bountiful goodness hath given for our use; thus as a steward of the same, for the discharge of my duty in that behalf, I dispose of them. First, therefore, I will, ordain, and appoint, that my funerals, and debts whatsoever, be paid and discharged byr mine executrix, hereafter to be named, out of my whole goods. After which he recites, that by indentures, bearing date the 4th of June, in 18 Eliz. between him the said Edwin on the one part, and Miles Sandes, of Larimers, his brother, Francis Wil- ford, Edward Fenner, and Roger Brigges, Esqrs. on the other- part; they the said Miles, Francis, Edward, and Robert, did severally covenant and grant to him, his executors and assigns, that such person or persons as he should nominate and appoint, should and might hold, &c. and take the issues, profits, &c. of one messuage and a lodge, and land and pasture, called Curse- wold-park, alias Crudeswood-park, within the county of Kent; which the said Miles, Francis, Edward, and Robert, had of the grant of Henry Leonard. Esq. &c. as by the same indenture more at large appeared^ he how, by Ms last will and testament, ap- i the said issues, &c. to his wellbeloved wife, \y les. Ke further declares, -that if it should please God that Eliza- beth >. ,- 0f jcinn Norton, late of Rippon. in the 214 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. county of York, Esq. deceased, and George Sandes, his youngest son, shall hereafter fortune to marry together, that then Thomas Spencer, and Thomas Porter, their heirs and assigns, shall assure and convey all such messuages, lands, &c. as John Samond, Gent, and Anne his wife, did heretofore convey to them, and their heirs, unto the aforesaid George Sandes, and Elizabeth Norton, and the heirs of their two bodies, lawfully begotten; and for de- fault of such issue, the remainder to the said Elisabeth Norton, and her heirs. And if the said George Sandes, and Elizabeth Norton, do marry together, he then wills that the said Elizabeth Norton be discharged of her wardship, and value of her marnage, which belongeth unto him, and ot all charges and expenses he has disbursed about the same, &c. He further wills, that his wife, Cicely Sandes, shall have the custody and bringing up of his children, Thomas Sandes, Henry Sandes, and George Sandes, so long as she continues a widow; and all that time to have in her hands, as well the annuity granted out of the manor of Ombersley, to the said Thomas, Henry, and George, as all other portions, patents, leases, &c. till they come to their full age; but if his said wife, Cicely Sandes, should marry before his children come to full age, that the several an- nuities, &c. be committed to his sons, Samuel Sandes, and Edwin Sandes, on sufficient bonds entered into by them, to see the same, and every part thereof, truly employed to the uses of his said sons, Thomas, Henry, and George. And whereas, according to his ability, he had sufficiently pre- ferred and advanced all his children; viz. both his daughters, Margaret Awcher, and Anne Barne, by marriage, to his great charges; as also all his sons; viz. Samuel, Edwin, Miles, Tho- mas, Henry, and George, by leases, patents, annuities, and other- wise; whereby they ought not, by reason of the custom of the province of York, to claim their filial portions of his goods and chattels; he declares, that his said sons and daughters should hold themselves contented, and not make any claim of his execu- trix, &c. And albeit that he had so provided for his children, according to his ability, as aforesaid; yet, for a further declara- tion of his fatherly good- will towards them, and that they may continue in their hearts and minds a thankful memory of the same, he bequeaths to his eldest son, Samuel Sandes, one bason and ewer of silver, double gilt, one salt, double gilt, and one dozen of silver spoons, with feather-beds, &c. therein mentioned, three geldings, &c. also his black armour of proof, made for hi* BARONESS SANDYS. 215 own body, with five other armours, at the discretion of his exe- cutrix. He bequeaths to his second son, Edwin Sandes, one bason and ewer, parcel-gilt, one silver salt, double gilt, one dozen of spoons, and one nest of small bowls, double gilt, with a cover j also feather-beds &:c. two geldings, and one armour. To his third son, Miles Sandes, a big square salt, double gilt, a dozen of silver spoons, and a standing cup of silver, double gilt, feather- beds, &c. two geldings, and one armour. To his fourth son, Thomas Sandes, one silver bowl, double gilt, with a cover, marked with the letter M; feather-beds, &c. one gelding, and one armour. To his fifth son, Henry Sandes, besides his own plate, given him when he was christened, one small round salt of silver, double gilt, with a cover, one gelding, one nag, and one armour, &c. and 30l. current money. To George Sandes, his youngest son, besides the plate given him at his christening, one nest of silver pinked bowls, double gilt, with a cover, a small square salt, double gilt, a gelding, a nag, one armour, &c. To his eldest daughter, Margaret Awcher, one great salt of silver, with a cover, and furniture, &c. To his daughter, Anne Barne, one great salt of silver, double gilt, with a cover, a dozen of silver spoons, and one ambling nag, fit for her own saddle; all at the, appointment of his executrix. He bequeaths to his brother, Christopher Sandes, lOi. and 30l. that he oweth him. To his brother, Anthony Sandes, 101.; and to his daughter, Cicely, 10 J. To his servant and kinsman, David Sandes, 20 1. and one good gelding, at the assignment of his executrix. T& every one of his household servants, at his decease, half a year's wages, and meat and drink for two months after. He moreover wills, that Dr. Toby Matthews, Dean of Durham, and his son, Edwin Sandes, should dispose of all his books of learning, except those in English, which he leaves to his wife, Cicely, to dispose of among his children ; reserving to the said Edwin, such as the said Dr. Matthews shall think fittest for his study. The residue of his goods. and chattels, not before bequeathed, his funeral debts, (and dilapidations, if any should happen to be), being first discharged, he gives to his loving and faithful wife, Cicely Sandes, in full sa isfaction of that her third part of his goods, due by the custom of the province of York, and makes her sole executrix ; requiring her, as she' will answer in good con- 216" PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. science before Almighty God, to see this his last will and testa- ment truly performed. He constitutes supervisors, his trusty and well-beloved fiends, Sir Christopher Wrey, Knt. Lord Chiet Justice of England; Dr. Toby Matthews, Dean of Durham ; his loving brother, Miles Sandes, Francis Palmes, and his son, Samuel Sandes, Lsqrs. heartily praying them, for all the good-will they have borne him, to give their best advice and assistance to his said executrix; and bequeaths to each of them 101, And it any doubt, question, or ambiguity, should happen to arise, of this his Jast will, he uesires it maybe decided by his supervisors, or three oi them; whose declaration he wills, that as well his s id wire and children, as all others having interest in his will, shah stand and abide, without any contradiction, on penalty ot losing their several legacies, &c. He corjcludes: ' This is the last will and testament of me, Edwin Sandes, Archbishop of York, written this first of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred fi urscore and seven, and in the nine and twentieth year of (he reign ot our sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, by the grace of God, ■ ueen of England, &c. Whereunto I have subscribed with mine own hand, my name and set my seal, requiring the same inviolably to be observed of my wife and children, and of all others mat have any interest therein, as they will answer me before God.' The probate bears date May 22d, l.f>(}0, and administration granted to Cicely his lady, the executrix. She was his second wife, and sister to Sir Thomas Wilford; she died ° February 5tb, l6lO, and uv.) buried at Wood ham Ferrers, in Essex, where a monument is erected to her memory. Before a great Bible, printed by Richard Jugge, Queen's prin- ter,1574, in the Archbishop's own hand, are the names and birth- days of his children, which he had by his said wile Cicely; and were all living, October 1st, ItyQ, viz. Samuel Sandes wa.-> born on December 28th, at three of the clock in the morning, in the year of our Lord God, 1560: his godfathers, Clement Throckmorton, Esq. John Pedder, Dean of Worcester; his godmother, Mrs. Anne Berrovv. Edwin Sandes was born on December 9th, at six of the clock u History of Essex, Vol.1, p. 201. BARONESS SANDYS. 217 in the morning, in the year of our Lord God, 156l : his god- fathers, Thomas Russel, Knt. Thomas Blount, Esq. his godmo- ther, Mrs. Margaret Sheldon, widow. Miles Sandes was born on March 29th, at twelve of the clock in the morning, in the year of our Lord God, 1563: his god- fathers, Miles Sandes, Esq. Thomas Fleet, Esq. his godmother, Mrs. Pedder. William Sandes was born on September 13th, at four of the clock in the afternoon, in the year of our Lord, 15(35 : his god- fathers, William Ligon, John Lyttleton, Esq. his godmother, Mrs. Joan Perry. [He died in his youth.] Margaret Sandes was born on December 22d, at three of the clock in the afternoon, in the year of our Lord God, 1566: her godfather, John Folliot, Esq. her godmothers, Lady Margaret Russell, Mrs. Anne Dastcn. [She was married to Anthony Aucher, of Hautes -Bourne, in Kent, Esq. and had issue Sir An- thony Aucher, and Edwin Aucher, who are both mentioned in the will of her mother, and a daughter, Mary, wife to Sir William Hammond, p of St. Albans, in Nonington, Kent, Knt.] Thomas Sandes was born on December 3d, at three of the clock in the afternoon, in 1566: his godfathers, Thomas Lucy, Knt. Walter Blount, Esq. his godmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Pack- ington. Anne Sandes was born on June 21st, at eight of the clock in the morning, 1570. her godfather, John Packington, Esq. her godmothers, Mrs. Anne Washbourne, Mrs. Anne. Colles. [She was married to Sir William Barne, of Woolwich, in Kent, and had issue, as appears by the will of her mother.] Henry Sandes was born the last day of September, between eight and nine of the clock at night, in 1572: his godfathers, Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, William, Lord Sandes 3 his godmo- ther, Lady Margaret Talboies. Ita est Edwin us London. George Sandesi born the second day of March, at six of the clock in the morning, in 15/7: his godfathers, George, Earl of P From hence was descended James Hammond, the elegiac poetj and hence come the family of Hammond, still resident at St. Aibac's Court. , was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-council, at St. James's, and took his place at the board accordingly. Resigning those places on December 20th, 1743, he was created a Peer of Great Britain, by the style of Lord Sandys, Baron of Omhersley, in the county of Worcester, and made Cof- ferer of his Majesty's Household ; from which he was removed on December 22d, 1744. However, in January 1756, he was vested with the offices of Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's forests, parks, chases, and warrens, south of the river Trent; which he resigned in December following, when he was chosen Speaker of the House of Peers: but on February 13th, 1759, he was de- clared Warden and Chief Justice of all his Majesty's forests, parks, Sec. north of Trent. His Lordship was continued a member of the Privy-council, at' the accession of the present King, on Oc- tober 25th, 1/60, and likewise in the said offices of Warden and Chief Justice of the forests, 8cc. beyond the Trent, until March, 0 He was the active opponent of Walpole; and by Smollet called '• the . trwi'io'i-makir " BARONESS SANDYS. *2? 1761, when he was appointed first Lord of Trade and the Planta- tions, but gave up that place in February, 1?63. His Lordship, in 172'L married Letitia, eldest of the two daughters and coheirs of Sir Thomas Tipping, of Wheatfield (or Whitfield), in the county of Oxford, Baronet, by Anne his wife, daughter, and at length heir of Thomas Cheek, of Pirgo, in the county of Essex, Esq. (lineally descended from Sir John Cheek, Preceptor and Secretary of State to King Edward VI.) by Letitia his wife, eldest of the two daughters, and at length sole heir, of the Honourable Edward Russell, fourth son of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford, and brother of William, the first Duke of Bed- ford, and sister to Edward Earl of Orford. Her Ladyship died in May, 1^79, and was buried at Ombersley. By her he had seven sons, and three daughters: First, Edwin, the late Lord Sandys. Second, Cheek, who died in 1/37, unmarried. Third, Thomas, who died young, in 1728. Fourth, The Hon. Martin Sandys, who on February lpth, 1/62, ranked as a Colonel in the army, being then made Major in the second regiment of foot-guards i; was one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber, and Equerry to the late Duke of Cumberland ; and on June 7th, 1760, wedded Mary, only child and heir of William Trumbull (alias Turnbull), of Hamstead park, in Berk- shire, Esq. who died on May 24th, 1/60; and was the only son and heir of Sir William Trumbull (Secretary of State in the reign of King William) by L:idy Judith, his wife, daughter of Henry Alexander, fourth Farl of Stirling, in Scotland, by whom he had issue two sons, William and Edwin, who died young, and a daughter, Mary, married to the late Marquis of Downshire, and now Baroness Sandys. He died in iy6g,v and his Lady a few months after him. Fifth, Letilia. Sixth, William, who died on October 31st, 17!9, and was buried at Ombersley. Seventh, Anne, married, at Ombersley, 21st July, 176S, to Christopher Bethell, Esq. Eighth, John, who died in Germany. Ninth, Catharine, who died in 1736; and, Tenth, Henry, who died in 173/. His Lordship departed this life April 21st, 1770, and was bu- ried at Ombersley; being succeeded by his only surviving son, P Q^ieie, December 26th, 1768, at his seat at East-Harr.stead Park, Berks? 228 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Edwin, second Lord Sandys, who was chosen member for Droitwich, in Worcestershire, in 1747; was elected for Bossiney, in Cornwall, in 1754; and on April 27th, 1762, was chosen re- presentative for the city of Westminster. In April 1/57, was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, but resigned soon after. He was also one of the Vice-Presidents of the Westminster Infirmary. On January 26th, 1769, his Lordship was married to Anna- Maria, daughter of James Colebrooke, of Southgate, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. sister to Sir James and Sir George Colebrooke, Barts. and relict of William Paine King, of Fineshade, in North- amptonshire, Esq. He died without issue 1801. Dr. Nash having observed of his father, that he was " a very useful, diligent senator, a warm, steady friend, a good neighbour, a most hospitable country gentleman, and provincial magistrate;" adds of the son, Edwin, second Lord Sandys, that he was born in 1725, and was educated at Eton, where he was one of the best scholars of his time, especially in the Greek language, which he read when he was near seventy. He was a Lord of the Admiralty, during Lord Granville's short ad- ministration in 1746; and though he was closely attached to Lord North, during the whole of his time, and constantly voted with him, yet he never obtained any employment: he might have been useful in a post of diligence and form, and would have been pleased to be employed. He had no great judgment of his own, but was easily guided; very conversant in English history, and forms of parliament, especially of the House of Commons, which he constantly attended while a member; namely, from the time he came of age to his father's death, either for Droitwich, a Cornish borough, or Westminster. In private life he was per- fectly good-humoured, and obliging; a great lover of anecdote, and an agreeable companion. He came late into possession of his estate, and during the lifetime of his father was confined to a very narrow allowance, which he bore with great patience, and true filial piety. His make was large and corpulent; his appetite great, though he was not intemperate. He married a sister of Sir George Colebroke, widow of Mr. King, of Northamptonshire, who left her his whole estate, by which means she was a great fortune to her second husband. This, together with what he in- herited from his mother (the daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Tipping, of Wheatfield, in Oxfordshire, Bart.) who had a fortune of above 170,0001. enabled Lord Sandys to live very handsomely, BARONESS SANDYS. 229 hospitably, and charitably, which he always did. Although the family estate of the Sandyses was not 15001. a year, all together would have been a very ample fortune, if his father had not im- paired it by Worcester elections, and, perhaps, by a considerable sum lent to Frederick, Prince of Wales."i His niece and heir, Mary Sandys, daughter of his brother Martin, and widow of the Marquis of Downshire, was created Baroness Sandys of Ombersley, with remainder to her second and other younger sons, June 15th, 1802. See title Hillsborough in Vol. IV. Titles. Mary Hill, Baroness Sandys, of Ombersley. Creation. By patent June 15th, 1S02. Arms. Or, a fess, dancette, between three cross crosslets fitchee, Gules. Crest. On a wreath a griphon segreant, per fess, Or and Gules. Supporters. On each side a griphon, per fess, Or and Gules, collared dancette, of the last. Motto. Probum non Pcenitet. Chief Seat. Ombersley, near Worcester. S Nash's Worcestershire. 230 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND PERCEVAL, LORD ARDEN. His Lordship is paternally descended from the Earls of Egmont, and" is the eldest son of the late Earl, by his second wife., Lady Catharine Compton, daughter of Charles Compton, Esq. (by his wife, Mary, sole daughter and heir of Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart, and sister to Charles, and Spencer, successive Earls of North- ampton). This Lady died June 11th, 1784, having been created an Irish Peeress, by the title of Baroness Arden, of Lohort Castle, in the county of Cork, May 23d, 1/70. She was married, January 26th, 1756, to John, first Earl of Egmont, by whom she had, First, Charles-George, the present Lord. Second, The Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, now Chan- cellor of the Exchequek, &c. and M. P. for Northampton, born November 1st, 1762} married Jane, second daughter of the late Sir Thomas-Spencer Wilson, Bart, by whom he has issue. He was educated to the Bar; Solicitor-General, 1801 ; Attorney-Gene- ral, 1802; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1807; Premier, 1800. Third, Henry, born June 26th, 1765, and died July 1772. Fourth, Mary, bora July 15th, 1758; married, April 2d, 1781, to Andrew Berkeley Drummond, Esq. eldest son of Robert Drummond, Esq. of Cadlands, in Hampshire, by whom she has issue Mary, bom April 20th, 1793; and Andrew- Robert, born July 28th, 1794. Fifth, Anne, born December 15th, 1759, died August 1st, 1772. Sixth, Charlotte, born January 31st, 176I; died February W)th, following. LORD ARDEN. 23 i Seventh, Elizabeth, born December 12th, 1/(53. Eighth, Frances, born December 4th, 17675 married, June (3th, 1803, John, Lord Redesdale, late Lord Chancellor of Ire- land. Ninth, Margaret, born 176Q; married, December 6th, 1803, Thomas Walpole, Esq. late Ambassador to the Court of Munich, nephew of Horatio, Earl of Orford, and has issue a daughter, born October 2d, 1804, and a son, born in September 1S05. Charles George, eldest son, now Lord Arden, succeeded his mother in the Irish Barojiy of Arden, of Lohort Castle, in the county of Cork, on June 11th, 1784; and was farther advanced to the British Peerage, by the title of Lord Arden, of Arden, in the county of Warwick, on July 20th, 1802. In 1783, his Lordship was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, which he retained till 1800. In 1803, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the East India Board of Controul. In , he succeeded to the very lucrative place of Register of the Court of Admiralty ; and before he was advanced to the British House of Lords, sat in parliament for Launceston, War- wick, and Tctness. In 1804, he was appointed a Lord of the King's Bed- chamber. His Lordship married, March 1st, 1787.. Margaretta-Eliza- beth, eldest daughter of the late Sir Thomas-Spencer Wilson, Baronet, of Charlton, in Kent, by whom he has issue, First, Catharine, born July 15th, 1789. Second, Helena, born August 27th, 1790. Third, Charles-Thomas, born November 20th, 1791 j died February 1/th, 1793. Fourth, John, born April 13th, 1793. Fifth, George-James, a Midshipman on board H. M. S. Le Tigre, born March 15th, 1794. Sixth, Edward, born July 30th, 1795. Seventh, A son, born December 25th, 1796. Eighth, Another son, born November 22d, 1799. Titles. Charles George Perceval, Lord Arden, of Arden, in the county of Warwick, and Lord Arden, of Lohort Castle, in the county of Cork. Creations. Lord Arden, of Arden, by patent, July 28th, 232 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. 1802 j also Lord Arden, of Lohort Castle, in Ireland, May 23d* i;;o. Arms. Argent on a chief indented Gules, three crosses patee of the first. Crest. On a wreath, a thistle proper. Supporters. Two griffins Azure, seme of fleurs-de-lis, Or, ducally collared, chained, beaked, and unguled, Or. Motto. Sub cruce Candida. Seats. Lohort Castle, near Mallow, in the county of Cork; tnd Nork House, near Ewell, Surrey. LORD SHEFFIELD. 233 HOLROYD, LORD SHEFFIELD. The name of Holroyd is of great antiquity in the West Riding of the county of York, and is derived from the hamlet or estate of Holroyd, or Howroyd, as it is pronounced in Bark-island, six miles from Halifax, which they formerly possessed. The name has been differently spelled; viz. Howroyde, Howlefoyde, Hoo- leroid, Holerode, Holroide, Holroid, Holeroyd, Holroyd, &c. The origin of which has been derived by antiquaries from the Anglo-Saxon How, an hill, foi&, which word signifies, when ap- plied to land, such as was barren and uncultivated, and which on that account paid only twopence per acre, and was freed from the service of grave, and other taxes. This origin well suits the soil and situation of Holroyd (now the property and seat of Jo- shua Horton, Esq. uncle to Sir Watts Horton, of Chadderton, in county of Lancaster, Bart.) which joins to the mountainous coun- try separating Lancashire from Yorkshire, called Blackstone-edge. The name Holdenroid is also to be found in Holstein, &c. whence the Anglo-Saxons came. It appears from grants, ancient deeds and records, that Wil- liam de Howroyde possessed the lands of Howroyde in the reigrj of King Edward I. John, his son, was living 8 Edward III. 1335. His son, John de Howroyde, 30 Edward III. Henry de Howlroide, 2 Richard II. Thomas de Holroide, 9 Richard II. John de Holroid, in the same King's reign. John, his son, 3 Henry IV. Hugh de Holroid, of Barkisland. and Gracia his wife, granted two oxgangs of land in Barkisland to John Faber, 8 Henry IV 234 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND 1407, to which deed a seal is appendant, being a rose, encircled with the words " S. Hugonis de Holroid" which was afterwards increased to Jive roses in saltire, now borne by the family, and shows the antiquity of the coat. John Holroyd, of Barkisland, was living in the time of Henry V. Isaac, his son, 16 Henry VI. Isaac Holroyd, S Edward IV. Thomas Holroid, 7 Henry VI I. John Holroid, 12 Henry VIII. Isaac Holroyd, 37 Henry VIII. John Holroid, 18 Elizabeth. • Henry Holroid, 40 Elizabeth. George Holroyd, 3 James I. John Holroid, 20 James I. Isaac Holroid, 15 Charles I. Which Isaac had several chil- dren, and his son Benjamin left a son, Isaac; another son, Na- thaniel, left a daughter named Elizabeth; but these elder branches eucled in a female. Isaac Holroid, Esq. his younger son, went into Ireland in the reign of Charles II. and acquired considerable possessions in that kingdom. He distinguished himself as a strenuous friend to the Revolution, and died in the year 1706. He married four wives, but had issue only by Mary Holroyd, his first cousin, one son, John, and one daughter, Mary, who married Isaac Ambrose, Esq. Clerk of the House of Commons in Ireland, and left an only child, Elizabeth, who married Hugh Eccles, Esq. John Holroyd, Esq. born in lf380, only son and heir to Isaac abovementioned, resided occasionally in England and Ireland, and married Sarah, the daughter of William Elwood, Esq.;i and » Jonas Elwood, Esq. had thrte sons; viz. William, Samuel, and Natha- niel, and two daughter:, Sarah (who married Vanbubbart, Esq. whose daughter, Anne, married Bellew, Esq. and left two daughters; viz. Anne, married to William Shepherd, whose son John married Miss Ludlow; Catha- rine, the second daughter of Bellew, married Henry White, Esq. whose younger daughter, Catharine, married Thomas, Earl of Westmeath.) Anne, the younger, died unmarried. The S3id William Elwood married Sarah, daughter of John Tornlir.son, Esq. (whose second daughter, Dorcas, married John Bolton, Dean of Derry, and his daughter married Robert, father of Thomas Norman, of Lagoie, Esq. and of Florinda, who became the wife of Charles Gardiner, Esq. father of the Right Honourable Luke Gardiner); and had Sarah and John in the text. Anne, married to John Godly, Esq. Margaret, to Charles Woodward, Esq. the said son John, born in 1685, and died in I 741, unmarried. Samuel, Joseph, and Daniel, who left no issue. Pedigree. LORD SHEFFIELD. 235 sister and coheir to John Elwood, Vice- Provost and Representative in Parliament for the University of Dublin; he died in 1729, leaving: issue two sons and one daughter. The sons were First, Isaac, his successor Second, William, the second son, born in London in 1712, was beneficed in the county of Wicklow, and died in 1768, leaving two daughters ; Sarah, married to Rev. Moore Smyth ; and Mary, to Rev. J. Alley, and is since deceased, leaving one son. Isaac Holroyd, Esq. the eldest son, was born in July, 17O8. He was educated at Hackney school, and afterwards at Doctor Sheridan's in Dublin. He was entered at the University of Dub- lin, and afterwards studied the law at the Middle Temple, Lon- don ; but did not pursue that profession, preferring the piivate walk of life. He married Dorothy, the youngest daughter of Daniel Baker, of Penn,:.in county of Bucks, Ei,q. (by Martha, daughter of Sa- muel Mellish, of Blyth, in the county of Nottingham, Esq by his wife, Jane, daughter and coheir to Thomas Prouse, of Hiiiers- down, in the county of Somerset, Esq. widow of Tobias Harvey, ancestor to Stanhope Harvey, of Womersley, in county of York, Esq.)} and deceasing at Bath 1 lth May, 17/8, in the seventieth years of his age, was interred at Fletching, in Sussex, in a got hie mausoleum, adjoining the church, which was erected for the family. On the front of the monument are the following in- scriptions: H. S. E. Isaacus Johannis & Sarae Holroyd filius Literis humanioribus A pueiitia usque imbutus lis excolendis unice vacavit; Et qui ad reipublicjc negofia Scientist copiam et ingenii ubertatem Facile convertisset Tranquilitati & vitae umbratilis otio Omnia post habuit. Minime tamen officiorum oblitum Testantur servi, amici liberij Honesti rigidus sectator, Be nevolentia nee non comitate insignis, 23<5 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Option cujusque laudibus cumulates. Nemini non desideratus E vita excessit. Natus 1708. Vixit annos 70. Familia unde oriundus stirpe Anglo-Saxonica Quae in villa, ejusdem cognominis agri Eboracenisis^ Sub tempore Edwardi primi consederatj Et Carolo secundo imperante In Hiberniam migraverat; Angliam regnante Georgio secundo repetens In hac demum vicinia Sedem sibi stabilivit. Dorotheas Isaaci Holroyd uxori Danielis Baker de Penn in comitatu Buck : filiae Piae, probas, casta?, Mariti, natorum, amicorum, amantissimae, Marito, natis, amicis, dilectissimae. Nat : MDCCIV. Vix : anno LXXIII. Matris optimas Haud immemor filius Posuit. M. S. Danielis Isaaci & Dorotheae Holroyd filii natu tertii Qui militise deditus Animum strenuum & for tem Lepida urbanitate ita temperavit, Ut nihil illi arduum, Ille nemine non jucundissimus Rei beliicae sic obivit inunia Ut veterani nominis Adolescens exaequaret gloriam, Annum vicessimum quartum nondum egressus Paucis selectus extra ordinern propositus est Ad arcis Moro oppugnationem in insula Cuba Superaatis audacter munitionibus Vulneribus Confossus LORD SHEFFIELD. 237 Occubuit victor. Tumulum egregio iuveni Ipso in vallo ubi honos partus Maerentes posuere commilitiones. Dorotheae, Isaaci & Dorotheas Holroyd filiae natu minima Quae morum sanctitate Vera rel'gionis pio atque assiduo cultu Suavissima animi benignitate Eximiam formae pulchritudinem Gratiorem reddidit. Immature erepta est MDCCLXX. Vix : annos XXV. Johanni Gulielmo Holroyd Optimae indolis summae spei puero Pater maerens posuit, MDCCLXXII. Vix t annos IV. mens III. dies IV. The issue of the said Isaac, by his wife Dorothy (who died in Sheffield Place, 29th August, 1777 > and was interred at Fletch- ing), were four sons, and four daughters ; viz. First, Isaac, who died in the eighth year of his age. Second, John, the present Lord Sheffield. Third, Daniel, who distinguished himself on the breaking out of the war with France; in 1756 he was appointed Ensign in the 18th or royal Irish regiment of foot, and in 17^9, Lieutenant in a new raised regiment of infantry, the 9CKh> under the command of Colonel Morgan. He distinguished himself at the capture of Belleisle, and at Martinico, where he commanded the grenadiers of the regiment, particularly on the 24th of January, at the bold attack of the heights, which were thought impregnable, and commanded St. Pierre. From Martinico the regiment went to the siege of the Havannah; the difficulties and success of which are well known. Four officers, of which he was one, and thirty- six men of the regiment, on an out-post, repulsed a body of five hundred Spaniards, by whom they had been attacked on the 24th of July, just before day-break j for which service they wer* 238 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. thanked in orders by General Lord Albemarle. At last, through the length of the siege, and the ravages of the climate, the army being greatly weakened, and its situation become desperate, it was resolved, as a last resource, to storm the Moro Fort. Not- withstanding the health of the gallant officer, of whom we have been speaking, was at that time much impaired by fatigue and the disorders incidental to the climate, yet he offered himself to command a detachment of the regiment, to act as a forlorn hope. He was obliged to pass to the breach (which would admit only one man a-breast) along a narrow ridge of rock, hanging over the sea on one side, on the other side was the ditch, upwards of sixty feet deep. The Spaniards had placed a thirty-two pounder opposite to the breach, behind a traverse, loaded with the. parings of ball, &c. which being fired, killed about ten men ; the detach- ment forced its way into the fort; Velasco, the Governor, was mortally wounded ; the garrison gave way, but a priest with a dozen men, got into a tower, and firing from thence, this pro- mising young man was shot dead on the spot; he fell highly re- gretted by the whole army. Of the forlorn hope, which consisted of about forty, two of the three officers, and two-thirds of the men, were killed; but they were the whole that fell in this ex- traordinary attack, the boldness of which entirely confounded the Spaniards. The sustaining party followed the forlorn hope, and four hundred of the eight hundred Spaniards in the fort were put to the sword. It is well known, the Havannah being com- manded by the Moro, surrendered in consequence of this success- ful attack. Daniel Holroyd was buried on the glacis of the Moro Fort. Fourth, Flwood, the fourth son, died young. The daughters were, , who died soon after her birth; Sarah-Martha, lately living, unmarried, at Bath; Martha, who died young; and Dorothy, who died in 1//0, in the twenty-fourth year of her age, unmarried, and was buried at Fletching. John Holroyd, the only surviving son, now Lord Sheffield, entered into the army in 1/DO, when the regiment of light dra- goons, called the Royal Foresters, was raised, under the command of the Marquis of Granby, in which corps he was Captain of a troop. When the peace was concluded in 1763, and the regiment was disbanded, he travelled three years over the principal parts of Europe, visiting the several courts of France, Italy, and Germany, and returned to England in \j60.h b In these travels he first became acquainted with Mr. Gibbon, the historian. LORD SHEFFIELD. 239 In 1768, in default of issue male of his mother's family, he succeeded to their estates in Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire., and Middlesex, and at the same time added the name of Baker to his own, in conformity to the will of his uncle.c c The Family of Baker, originnlly of Kent, was seated at Perm, in the county of Bucfongliam, about a century ago; and Daniel Baker, who lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth, married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Richardson, Esq. brother to John Richardson, Alderman of London, and to Richard Richard- son, who was a Judge; and by her (who died 15th February, 1660) he left issue two sons, Daniel, his heir; and John, who died unmarried. Daniel was born in 1627, and married 20th M .y, 1657, Barbara, daughter of John Steele, Alderman of London (by his wife Anne, daughter of Nicoll, Esq.); he died in 1700, and was buried at Penn, having had issue seven chil- dren; John and James, and two daughters named Anne, died in their infancy. The survivors were, Daniel; Sarah, born 12th Mjrch, 1658, married Narcissus Luttrell, Esq. of the family of Dunster-castle, in Somersetshire, and left an only son, Francis, who died without issue; and Elizabeth, born 10th November, 1678* and married to John Verney, Viscount Fermanagh, grandfather to Ralph, Earl Verney. Daniel, the only surviving son, succeeding his father, resided many years it Penn, in Buckinghamshire; and in the year 1711, was High Sheriff of that county. By his wife, Martha Mellish (abovementioned) whom he married in the year 1680, he had nine sons, and eight daughters, four of whom died in their infancy. The survivors were, First, Daniel, his heir, who was born in 1688 ; he resided at Penn, and died in 1738, unmarried. Second, Samuel, born in 1689, D. D. Chancellor and Canon Residentiary of York, also Rector of Tettrington and Dunnington, in that county ; he died in 1749, unmarried. Third, John, born in 1690, a Portugal merchant; on the death of his elder brother he retired, resided several years at Penn, and died in 1759, unmarried. Fourth, James, born in 1693, Vicar of Stamfordham, in Northumberland, died in 1768, unmarried. Fifth, William-fVJellish, born in 1708, resided in Pcrtugal as a merchant, and died in 1730, unmarried. First, Anne, eldest daughter, born in 1686, married to Thomas Mead, Com- mander of a squadron of ships of war in the West Indies, in Queen Anne's reign, and by him had an only daughter, who married Sir Fitz-Williams Barrington, Bart. Second, Sarah, born in 1695, married to Henry Long, of Totteridge, Herts, who was Captain of Admiral Wager's ship when he took the galleons in the West Indies; and she died in childbed, but left no issue. Third, Elizabeth, born in 1697, died in 1766, unmarried. Fourth, Martha, born in 1698, married Henry Faure, of Ey;ham, in Surrey, Esq. and left three daughters ; viz. Margaret, who died unmarried ; Anne, mar- ried to Denis Farrier Hillersion, of Elstow, in Bedfordshire, Esq. and left two daughters; and Dorothy, married to Daniel Falkiner, of Abbotstown, in countjr ef Dublin, Esq. \ 240 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. From the year 1767 he resided at Greave-hall, in Yorkshire, and principally at Sheffield-place ,d in Sussex j where he distin- guished himself as an active magistrate, and useful country gen- tleman. Fifth, Barbara, born in 1699, married to Richard Andrews, of West Sheene, Esq. and left one son, John, who died in 1768, unmarried. Sixth, Maria-Josepha, born in 1701, married to Thomas Atkinson, of Grove, in the county of York, Esq. and died in 177S, leaving no issue. Seventh, Joanna, born in 1703, married to Thomas Carter, of Westowe, in Cambridgeshire, Esq. and left three daughters 5 viz. Martha, who died unmar- ried; Elizabeth, living and unmarried; Harriet, married to Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. Commander in Chief in America, &c. and died, leaving two sons (one of whom has married Lord Sheffield's youngest daughter), and two daughters. And, Eighth, Dorothy, born in 1704, who married Isaac Holroyd beforemen- tioned. Daniel the father, died in 1727, and was buried at Penn, as was also his wife, Martha, who died in 1752. In memory of the family of Baker are two elegant monuments of marble in the church of Penn, with the following inscrip- tions : H. M. P. Pia? memoriae sacrum Hie juxta conquiescentum Danielis Baker armigeri Barbarseque uxoris ejus d The estates and manor of Sheffield, in Sussex, from which his Lordship takes his title, are very considerable, and give name to the Hundred. The house 3s large and elegant, and situated in an extensive park, mid-way between East- Grinstead and Lewes. The first foundation is not known, but it has undergone great alterations, especially within these few years. It is in the best gothic style, and in a battlemented frize, which goes round the house, are introduced the arms of the possessors of the Lordship or Manor of Sheffield, from Edward the Con- fessor's time, when, as appears from Doomsday-book, it belonged to Earl Godwin. In 1068, William the Conqueror granted it to his half brother, Robert de Mor- taigne, Earl of Cornwall. 25 Edward I. 1296, it belonged to Laurence de St. Maur. 32 Edward I. 1304, to John de Ratriden. 35 Edward I. 1306, to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. 3, Edward III. 1360, to Henry, Duke of Lancas- ter. 48 Edward III. 1375, to Roger Dalyngrigg. z Richard III. 1484, to John, first Duke of Norfolk. 13 Elizabeth, 1570, to Thomas, third Duke of Norfolk, who in 1 57 1, the year before he was beheaded, sold the manor, &c. of Sheffield to Thomas, Lord Buckhurst; whose grandson, Richard, Earl of Dorset, sold the same 21 James I. 1623, to Sir Christopher Nevill, son of Edward, Lord Abergavenny, and ancestor to the present Lord. Anne, Baroness Dowager of Abergavenny, marrying to her second husband John, Lord Dclawar, this manor passed into that family in 1744* aii^ ~'rcm l^e sald ^ord Dclawar, to John Baker Holroyd, by purchase. LORD SHEFFIELD. 241 In the year 1778, when the war with France broke out, the militia of the county of Sussex being embodied, for the first time, in the month of March that year, under the command of the Duke of Richmond, he entered into it as Major, and was indefatigable in his attention to the regiment. Quorum alter de honesta stirpe ortus Per septuaginta duosque annos in urbe versatus Officiisque ejus quibusdam insignioris tituli Summa cum laude perfunctus Repencina morte prereptus obiit In hac villa vicessimo Augusti 1700 Seculum ante actuni claudens Multumque desideratus Ob integritatem nunquam temeratam Morumque candorem placidum simul & sequabilem Universam nee non b;nevolentiam & humanitatem Gestumque late exemplarium Quacunque relatione positum spectes Sive filii vel parentis Conjugis vel amici Subditi vel magistratus Altera bisquinque solum per annos superstes Fide & operibus bonis plena Lentissima tandem emaciata morte Ad beatorum sedes aiuecessum virum Ductore Chiisto atque auspice secuta est Exediam villa Augusti etiam tertia 1710. Filio suo unico Danieli post se relicto (Qui hoc in parentis pii sui gratique animi testimonium Seris duraturum nepotibus ext uxit) Duabusque filiis quarum Sara major nam Nupta est Narciss. Lutterell de Hospitio Graiensi armig. Elisabetha autem minor honoratissimo domino Johanni Verney de Cleydon in hoc comic. Baronette Vicecomiti de Fermanagh &. Baronis de Belturbet apud Hibernos. Valeas. Koc rr.onumentum Poni jussit Sibi & Marito benemerenti Danieli Baker Ab antiqua stirpe in comitatu Cantii oriundo Martha E Mellishiorum familia de Bligh in comitatu Nottinghamiensi llle XLI ann'u in hac parochia Cum uxore placidissima Liberaliter & honeste peractis E vita deccssit MDCCXXVII VOL. IX. p 242 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. In the Summer of 1779> when the combined fleets of France and Spain were upon the coast of England, he offered to raise a regiment of light dragoons without expense to the public, which offer was graciously accepted by his Majesty, and he was permit- ted to nominate all his officers. The regiment was completed in a few weeks, and called the Sussex, or 22d regiment, as much distinguished by its men, horses, and appointments, as by its mi- litary discipline. In February, 1730, he was elected to parliament for the city of Coventry without opposition, and soon distinguished himself by his spirit, his clearness of judgment, and a manly boldness of expression. In June, the same year, during the very extraordi- nary insurrection and disturbances in London, he was eminent for his activity.6 At the head of a detachment of the Northumber- land militia, he was the first to put a stop to the outrageous vio- lences of the mob at Mr. Langdale's in High Holborn, and at Holborn-bridge, where he had an opportunity of displaying cou- rage, coolness, and humanity. His Majesty, by privy seal at St. James's 10th December, 1/80, f and by patent at Dublin gth January, 178l,s advanced him to the Peerage of Ireland, by the name, style, and title of Ilia pietatis erga Deum & amoris erga suos Exemplar probe spectatum Usque ad annum MDCCLI1I remansit Felicis connubio filios IX filias VIII enixa est Quatuor tenera a.*tate ereptis Reliqui fere senectutem attingerunt k non impares virtutibus parentum De hac numerosa stirpe Johannis Baker Holroyd De Sheffield Place in comititu Sussexiensi Solis probis virilis superstes atque haeres Hoc marmore Mandaia avice explevit MDCCLXX. 6 When Parliament was besieged and insulted by an intoxicated multitude, and when the person who bi ought together that, multitude, had frequently gone out to the people, and represented, or rather misrepresented, to them what was passing in that House, to which he belonged, it is said that Mr. Holroyd stopped him with some threats; adding, " that heretofore he had imputed his conduct to madness, but that new he was convinced there was more malice than madnesa jn it." f Rot. p. d. Anno 21 Geo. III. 2 a. p. f. S Idem. R. 35^ LORD SHEFFIELD. 243 Lord Sheffield, Baron of Dunamore,h in the county of Meath. And by letters from St. James's,1 1/th September, 1783, his Ma- jesty was pleased further to create him Baron Sheffield, of Ros- comon, entailing the honour, in failure of heirs male, on his issue female; the patent passed accordingly 19th October same year.1* At the general election the preceding September, through the flagitious conduct of the corporation of Coventry, and the sheriffs, his re-election was prevented, and no return made,- after a long hearing before the House of Commons, the sheriffs were com- mitted to Newgate for their proceedings, and a new election was ordered, which began the latter end of November following: through the same management of the corporation, the poll was continued four weeks and two days; and notwithstanding a great majority in favour of Colonel Holroyd and Mr. Yeo, Sir Thomas Halifax and Mr. Rogers were returned; but on a second petition to the House, the two former members, viz. Colonel Holroyd and Mr. Yeo, were declared duly elected. Soon after the conclusion of the war in the beginning of 1783, he had an opportunity of shewing still further the variety and extent of his abilities, by the opposition which he almost singly made to a bill brought into parliament during the Marquis of Lansdown's administration, for the regulation of the trade and intercourse with the American States. He pointed out the mis- chievous tendency of the system, and by perseverance and unre- mitted attention to the bill in every stage, it was at length stop- ped, and a temporary power given to the King in Council, to regulate the intercourse with the new States; but the system was only suspended, the subject led to an inquiry the most extensive that could be conceived, and it was not likely to be understood, if his Lordship had not thrown together in a pamphlet a most extraordinary body of information, with his observations thereon; the title of the pamphlet was, Observations on the Commerce with the American States; and in the year 1785, his Lordship pub- lished a Tract on the Manufactures, Trade, and present State of Ireland} His Lordship afterwards sat in parliament for Bristol, for many h Dunamore, or Dunaghrnore, a manor and estate in the county of Meath, was purchased by his Lordship's ancestor, ab„ut a century ago, from the Earl of Denbigh and Desmond. 1 Rot. p. d. Anno 24 Geo. III. 1. p. f. k Idem. 1 The Editor, for a further account of these transactions, begs leave to refer to the Pamphlets allud:d'te. 244 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. years, till on July 29th, 1802, his long services to the political economy of his country, both as a senator and an author, were re- warded by an elevation to the British House of Lords, by the title of Lord Sheffield, of Sheffield, in Sussex.™ In 1767, he married, Jii st, Abigail, only daughter of Lewis Way, of Richmond, in Surrey, Esq." (by Abigail, his third wife, only child and heir to John Lockay, Esq. by Abigail, daughter and heir to Sir Roger Hill, of Denham, in the county of Bucking- ham.)0 By this Lady (who died April 3d, ] 793), he had issue First, John-William, who died young, aet. 5. Second, Maria- Josepha, married October 11th, 1796, John- Thomas Stanley, Esq. now Sir John-Thomas Stanley, Bart, of Alderley, in Cheshire, and has issue Maria- Margaret, born July 2Sth, 1797; and Lucy, born June 28th, 17983 Louisa ; and Isabella. Third, Louisa -Dorothea, married, March 14th, 1797, her cousin, Major-General William-Henry Clinton, eldest son of the m In 1796, his Lordship edited the Memoirs and Posthumous Works of his friend, Mr. Gibbon ; and has since published other useful tracts on agriculture and commerce. n Ulster's Office. 0 Sir John Hill, of Hounston, in county of Somerset, the sixteenth in de- scent from Sir Roger, mentioned in the text, was made a Knight Banneret by EdwarJ III. in whose reign he died, as appeals from the office of inquest, taken the 15th of that King. Robert Hill, Esq son to Sir John, married Isabella, sister and heiress to Sir Thomas Fitchet, of the said county, Knt. by whom he had the manor of Spaxton. Sir John Hill, of Spaxton, in the county of Somer- set, Knt. grandson to Robert aforesaid, married Jean, daughter and heiress to William Bannister (by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress to Philip Walles- leigh, Esq.) John Hill, of Spaxton, grandson of Sir John 1st mentioned, mar- ried Cecily, daughter and heiress to Robert Aston, Esq. whose son, John Hill, married Cecily, daughter and coheiress to John Sturton, E^q. by his wife Catha- rine, daughter and heiress to Thomas Fitz. Payne. This John left his estate to Robert, his heir, who married Dorothy, daughter and heiress to Thomas Flan- nock, of county of Cornwall, Esq. William, grandson of the said Robert, removed to Yard, in the said county of Somerset, and his son, Roger Hill, Esq. in the time of King Henry VIII. removed to Poundesford, in said county, whose lineal heir, Roger, of Poundesford, Esq. by Catharine his first wife, daughter of Giles Green, of the county of Dorset, Esq. had issue William, and by Abigail, his second wife, daughter of Brampton Gurdon, of the county of Suffolk, Esq. had Sir Roger, first mentioned, who in the reign of Cha les II. settled at Denham, in the county of Bucks, and upon the death of his brother, William, without issue, became possessed of the estate of Poundesford. His representative and great grands )n, Benjamin Way, of Denham, Esq. married Elizabeth-Anne, eldest daughter of William Cooke, D. D. Provost of King's College, Cambridge, Dean of Ely, &c. and had several children. LORD SHEFFIELD. 245 late Lieutenant -general Sir Henry Clinton, Knight of the Bath, grandson of Francis, Earl of Lincoln, and has issue Louisa-Lucy; Maria-Augusta; and Henry, born July 23d, 1602. His Lordship married, secondly, December 26th, 1794, Lucy Pelham, daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Chichester, and by her (who died January 18th, 1797) he had issue a son, still-born, in 1795. His Lordship married, thirdly, January 9th, 1798, Anne, daughter of Frederick North, second Earl of Guilford, Knight of the Garter, and has issue, George-Augustus-Frederick-Charles, born March l6th, 1802. Titles. John Baker Holroyd, Lord Sheffield, of Sheffield, in Sussex; Baron of Dunamore, and Baron Sheffield, of Roscomon, in Ireland. Creations. Baron Sheffield, of Dunamore, in the county of Meath, 18th December, 178O, 21 George III.; and Baron Shef- field, of Roscomon, in the county of Roscomon, 20th September, 1783, 23 George III.; also Lord Sheffield, of Sheffield, in Eng- land, July 29th, 1802. Arms. Quarterly of four; first, Azure, on a fess dancette, Argent between three griffins passant, wings endorsed, Or, three eschallops, Gules; second, Azure, five roses seeded in saltire, Ar- gent, for Holroyd. Third, Ermine, on a chief, Gules, a demi lion rampant issuing, Or, for Elwood. Fourth, Azure a fess, Or, between three swans heads erased, Argent, ducally gorged, Or, charged with as many cinque-foils, Gules, for Baker. Crest. On a wreath, a demi-griffin, wings endorsed. Sable, holding between his claws a ducal coronet, Or. Supporters. The dexter a lion, reguardant, proper. The sinister, a horse, proper, bridled. Motto. QuEM TE DEUS ESSE JUSSIT. Chief Seats. Sheffield-place, in the county of Sussex; and Greave-hall, near Ferry-bridge, Yorkshire. 246 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. MIDDLLETON, LORD BARHAM. Alexaneer Middleton, D. D. Professor and Principal of King's College, Aberdeen, in 1663, died in 1684, leaving issue George Middleton, D. D. Principal also of the College afore- said, who died 1J26, having married Janet, daughter of James Gordon, of Seaton, in the county of Lothian, Esq. by whom he left issue Robert Middleton, Esq. eldest son, Collector of the Customs at Alloway, in North Britain, who, by the daughter of Dundas, of Leathim, in the county of Stirling, in North Britain, Esq. had two daughters, and two sons ; George, and Sir Charles. Helen, eldest daughter, married Wight, Esq. a Captain in the army. Janet, second daughter, died unmarried. Geoege Middleton, Esq. eldest son, of Moss Hall, in the county of East Lothian, was Comptroller of the Customs at Leith, and dying 179L was buried at Leith, having had issue by Eliza- beth, daughter of Wilson, three sons, and four daughters} viz. First, Charles, a Lieutenant in the navy, died, unmarried, in India. Second, Robert Gambier Middleton, a Captain in the navy, and Commissioner at Gibraltar. Third, George died an infant, and was buried at Leith. Fourth, Helen, married Rode- rick Macleod, Rector of Weeley, co. Essex. Fifth, Elizabeth, married John Martin Leake, E-q. of Thorpe Hall, co. Essex, a Commissioner for auditing public accounts. Sixth, Janet, mar- ried 1793, John Thomson, Esq. his Majesty's Naval Officer at Leith, by whom she hac Elizabeth, her only child, living 1806. Seventh, Wilhelmina, died unmarried, and was buried at Leith. Sir Charles Middleton, Bart, second son, now Lord Bar- LORD BARHAM. 24; ham, being brought up to the sea-service, very early distinguished himself ; and while Commander of a twenty-gun ship, in the West Indies, by his spirit and assiduity, took and destroyed a great number of privateers, and afforded such effectual protection to the trade and commerce there, that the House of Assembly of Barbadoes voted him their unanimous thanks, and a valuable sword. In 1758, he was made a Post-Captain 3 in 1787. a Rear- Admiral; and in 1793, a Vice- Admiral ; in 1795, Admiral; and in 1805, Admiral of the Red. In 1778, he was appointed Comptroller of the Navy ; and October 23d, 1781, raised to the rank of a Baronet of Great Bri- tain. He was sometime also M.P. for the borough of Rochester, in Kent. In 1805, he was appointed to the high station of First Lord of the Admiralty, in the room of Lord Melville; and was also First Commissioner for revising the civil affairs of the navy. At this time he was also elevated to the British Peerage, by the title of Lord Barham, of Bar ham Court, and Teston, in the comity of Kent, by patent dated May 1st, 1805, and in default of issue male, the dignity of a Baroness, to Diana Noel, wife of Gerard Noel Noel, of Exton Park, co. Rutland, Esq. and the dignity of a Baron to her heirs male. His Lordship is also a member of his Majesty's most Honour- able Privy-council. His Lordship married, at St. Martin's in the Fields, Margaret, daughter of James Gambier, Esq. Warden of the Fleet, and aunt of James, now Lord Gambier; and by her, who died at Teston, in Kent, about 1792, had an only child, Diana Middleton, married, at St. George's church, Hanover- Square, on December 20th, 178O, to Gerard Noel Edwardes, of Exton Park, Cottesmore, Ketton, and Catmore Lodge, all in the county of Rutland, sometime representative in parliament for the county of Rutland, who was born at Tickencote, co. Rutland, July 17th, 1759, and assumed the name and arms of Noe , by royal sign manual, May 5tb, 1798, in compliance with the w 11 of his maternal uncle, Henry, Earl of Gainsborough, dated July 27^ 1795.* 1 He is son of Gerard Anne Edwardes, of Welham, co. Leic. and Ticken- cote, co. Rutl. Esq. who died Octob.r 29th, 1773., and was buried at Welham y Lady Jane, second daughter, and at length coheir, of Baptist Noel, Earl el 248 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. The said Diana Noel has issue by her husband aforesaid, First, Charles Noel Noel, born in St. George's, Hanover- Square, October 2d, 1781. Second, the Rev. Gerard Thomas Noel, born December 2d, 1782, now Vicar of Rainham, in Kent, married, in Ireland, 1806, a daughter of Sir Lucius Obrien, Bart. Third, Horace Noel, born November 13th, 1783, a Captain in the 18th, or royal Irish Infantry. Fourth, Henry Robert Noel, born at Laxton, co. Northton. in December 1784, a Midshipman on board the Crescent frigate ; died in the West Indies. Fifth, William Middleton Noel, born May 2d, 1789. Sixth, Frederick, born at Betchworth, Surrey, April 25th, 179O, a Midshipman in the navy. Seventh, Arthur-Anne, born May 30th, 1791 j died October 7th, 1793. Eighth, Francis-James, born May 4th, 1793. Ninth, Berkeley-Octavius, born at Brighton, co. Suss. Decem- ber 3d, 1704. Tenth, Leland Noel, born at Letherhead, Surrey, August 2 1st, 1796. Eleventh, Baptist Wriothesley, born July l6th, 1797- Twelfth, Edward Andrew, born at Edinburgh, January 2d, 1802. Thirteenth, Lonisa Elizabeth, born January 20th, 1786, mar- ried in February 1807, William Henry, eldest son of Henry Hoare, Esq. Fourteenth, Sophia Catmore, born May 20th, 1787. Fifteenth, Emma, born February 26th, 1788, married Henry Obrien, of Blatherwick Hall, co. Northampton, Esq. Sixteenth, Augusta Julia, born at Betchworth. Seventeenth, Charlotte Margaret, born at Betchworth. Eighteenth, Julia Hicks, born at Edinburgh, October 4th, 1800. Titles. Sir Charles Middleton, Bart. Lord Barham, of Bar- bara Court, and Teston, in Kent. Gainsborough, and sister cf Baptist and Henry, successive Earls of Gainsborough. Lady Jane was born atExton, May 25th, 1733, and married there Oct. 8th, 1754. The said Gerard Anne ^.dwardrs was a natural son of Lord Anne Hamilton (third son of James, second Duke of Brandon, &c.) by Mary, daughter and sole heir of Francis Edwardcs, of Welham aforesaid, &c. LORD BARHAM. 24p Creation. By patent May 1st, 180.5. Arms. Per fess Or and Azure, a lion rampant within a tres- sure flory counterflory countercharged. Crest. On a wreath a tower Sable; from the battlements a demi-lion issuant Or, between the paws an anchor erect proper. Supporters. On the dexter an angel habited in a vest, Argent, zoned Or, her mantle flowing purpure, wings elevated; and on her head a celestial crown, gold; in her exterior hand, a sword erect proper. And on the sinister a sea horse proper, maned Or, gorged with a naval crown Azure, in the mouth a thistle proper. MottO. FORTIS IN ARDUIS. Seat. Teston, near Maidstone, Kent. 250 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. COLLINGWOOD, LORD COLLINGWOOD. Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Lord Collingwood, who was rewarded with that title on November 20th, J 805, for the immortal victory of Trafalgar, died without issue male on March 7th, 1810, aged sixty, before the present work could be finished at the press. He does not properly therefore belong to the present place. But it would be unjust to deprive him of a memorial in these volumes. His pedigree therefore, his services, and his character, shall have a place in an Appendix. His Lordship left two daughters, his coheirs. LORD ERSKINE. 251 ERSKINE, LORD ERSKINE. Although it is not above four hundred years since the Erskines had any title to the Earldom of Marr, yet this illustrious family, considered in itself, is very great and eminent, if we respect either its antiquity, or the many great employments and prefer- ments they have been honoured with these four hundred years past; and though we cannot show the precise time when, or by whom the name was first assumed, yet it is certain, it was derived from the Barony of Euskine, in the shire of Renfrew, and so being a local surname, is of consequence very ancient; though the first mention found of them, is no higher than the time of King Alexander II. in the twelfth of whose reign Henry de Erskine is witness in the gift which Amelick, brother of Maldwin, Earl of Lennox, made to the chanons of Paisly of the patronage of the church of Roseneth, with the tithes thereunto belonging, for the welfare of the King his sovereign lord.a Sir John de Erskine, Knight, his successor, is a witness to that donation, which Walter Stewart, Earl of Monteith, made to the Abbot of Paisly, of the church of St. Colmonel, for the good of his soul, according to the devotion of those days.b He was the father of Sir John de Erskine, and he of First, William, who succeeded him in the Barony of Erskine, and of, Second, John, who obtained a grant from James, High Steward of Scotland, of sundry lands within his tenement of a Char, of Paisly ad Annum 1216. b Ibidem ad Annum 1263. 252 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Largis; in which deed he is designed Joannes de Ershine, Jilius Joannis de Erskine, Jilii & heredis Joannis de Ershine Mil.itis,c reserving the lands which William, the son of Sir John Erskine, held of him there. Sir William Erskine, the next of this noble family, was a forward asserter of the right of King Robert Bruce, to whose in- terest fa:thfully adhering, he was one of those patriots, who in the year 1322, joined the Earl of Murray and Sir James Douglas, when they made an expedition into England, where his gallant behaviour procured him the honour of Knighthood,1' and other marks of the royal favour. He left behind him two sons. First, Robert, his successor. And, Second, Sir Alan Erskine, who obtained the barony of Inch- martine, in Perthshire, by the marriage of the heir of Sir John, of Inchmartine, Knight, which came the same way to the Glens, and so to Sir Andrew Ogilvy, ancestor to the Earl of Finlater, in the reign of King James II. Which Sir Robert Erskine, of Erskine, being a person well versed both in peace and war, was no less conspicuous for his firm and stedfast loyalty to King David, than his father had been to King Robert, even when his interest was at the very lowest, and the usurper Baliol upon the throne ; for as soon as the loyal- ists took the field, and declared for their lawful Sovereign, Sir Robert Erskine joined the Lord High Steward, and other patriots, who fought with, and defeated the rebels, and thereby recovered a great part of the country to the King's obedience, for which he was afterwards rewarded as his singular merit deserved. When a treaty was set on foot for redeeming King David from captivity, when he was taken prisoner at the battle of Dur- ham, anno 1346, Sir Robert Erskine, Lord of Erskine, as he is called in the record, was one of the commissioners employed in that honourable negociation f but that treaty not taking effect, he was always one of the plenipotentiaries that were appointed for the same purpose, and renewed every year, though all of them were unsuccessful till the year 135/, that Robert, Lord High Steward, guardian of Scotland, then commissioned Sir Robert ' This charter is a noble document for the family of Marr, for it distinctly instructs three distinct generations; and though it be without date, yet it is cer- tainly before 1309 tint the granter died ; it is apprehended its date is about 1300 from the witnesses, viz. Ro. Episc. Glasguen, Reginald de Crawfurd, Milite, Joann. de Erskine, Walter, d Logan, &c. *' Barber and Abercromby. e Rymer's Fcedera. LORD ERSKINE. 253 Erskinc, and other noble persons, to treat about the redemption of the King, and a final peace with the English nation, who at length agreed, that King David should be released, set free, and ransomed for 100,000 merks sterling money, to be paid yearly by 10,000 merks, till the whole sum was paid; to which no man seems to have contributed more frankly than Sir Robert, and gave his eldest son one of the hostages for performance of the treaty/ This signal loyalty to his distressed Sovereign could not fail to be nobly rewarded; and therefore his Majesty no sooner returned home, than he constituted him Justiciary for the northern district of Scotland, anno 135Q,s and the same year he was ap- pointed to go upon a solemn embassy to France, to renew the ancient league betwixt the two Crowns, Sir John Grant, and Norman Lesly, Esq. being his colleagues.'1 Also, in 1364, he was appointed one of the Commissioners to treat about a final peace with those named by the King of England for the same effect, when a truce was prorogued betwixt the two nations;' not long after which, Sir Robert Erskine was constituted Lord High Cham- berlain, in place of Mr. Walter Biggar, Parson of Enrol, k in the 40th of his reign, and made High Sheriff of the county, and Go- vernor of the castle of Stirling during life,1 likewise of Edinburgh and Dumbartoun. All which he had under his command at the death of the King, 1371,™ when he declared for King Robert TI. which contributed not a little to bring that Prince peaceably to the throne, and to extinguish the hopes of any other pretender to the crown. Having done all the service he could for King Ro- bert II. toward his advancement to the throne, his Majesty did not then forget to di-pense his royal favours to him, and more particularly he made him a grant of an annuity of forty merks sterling, formerly payable to the crown, out of the barony of Cadzow, which he exchanged with Sir David Hamilton for his lands of Alands, Barns, and Barnhill, within the barony of Ren- frew." But his Majesty's bounty did not stop to him here, for soon thereafter he bestowed on him a third part of the revenue accru- ing to the crown out of the borough of Dundee, together with a third of the lands of Pitcaraeh,0 then in the crown, by the de- mise of John Campbel, Earl of Athole. f Rymer. ' S Chart?- in publ. Archivis. h Rymer's Fcedera. • Ibidf m. ■<• Me I'oirs of the OlTicers of State MS. penes me. 1 Chana. in Rotulis Dav. II. "i Mr. Winton's His ory MS. " Charta in Rotulis Robert! II. " Hariington's Collections from ths Registers. 254 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. He was a great benefactor to the church; for to the cathedral of Brichen, he gave a yearly rent out of the barony of Dundee, for the support of two priests, to celebrate divine service for the good estate of himself and his wife during their lives, and for the health of his soul after his departure hence, and the souls of his ancestors and successors for ever. Also to the monks of Cam- buskenneth, he made over his right to the patronage of the church of Kinnoul, with the lands of Fintalach, pro salubritate status nostri & Christians Keith spousce nostra; dum vixerimus, & pro salute animarum nostrarum, cum ab hac luce migraverimus; nee non pro salute animarum omnium antecessorum, £5 successorum nostrorum, & omnium Jidelium defunctorum.v He married, first, Beatrix, daughter of Lindsay, of , and again Christian, relict of Sir Edward Keith,i and dying anno 1385, left issue, two sons, and a daughter. First, Sir Thomas, his successor. Second, Sir Nicol Erskine, of Kinnoul.1' Which branch in the reign of King James II. determined in an heir female, Chris- tian, daughter and sole heir of Sir John Erskine, of Kinnoul, married to Sir Robert Crichton, of Sanquhair, ancestor to the E3rl of Dumfrise. Third, Marion, married to Sir Maurice Drummond, of Con- «raig.s Sir Thomas Erskine had a large share of favour with King Robert II. by whom he was raised to the honour of Knighthood, and in 1384, appointed to go to England upon a solemn embassy, to treat about the prorogation of a truce betwixt the two realms. He was no less valued and esteemed by Robert III. for his wis- dom, prudence, and experience: for in 1392, that King sent him his ambassador into England, to treat with that state upon affairs of the highest consequence.' It is not unworthy our remark, that in both the commissions tne King calls Sir Thomas Erskine con~ sanguineus noster. He married, first, Janet, daughter of Sir Edward Keith, of Sinton, Knight, by Christian his wife, daughter and heir of Sir John Monteith, and of Helen his wife, daughter of Gratney, Earl of Mar,u by whom he had Robert, his successor. P Chartulary of Cambuskenneth belonging to the Earl of Mar. M Charta in publ. Arch. r I find a charter granted by King David II. to this Nicol Erskine, of the lands of K.:nnoul, upon the resignation of his father, anno 1366. 5 Genealogy of the Drummonds, by Major-General Diummond. • Rymer's Foedera. « Charta penes Comiteai de Mar. LORD ERSKINE. 255 And next, Jean, daughter of Barclay, of . By her he had a son, John, who was the first Baron of Dun,x in Forfarshire, of whom branched the Rrskines of Pittodry/ whose ancestor, Sir Thomas Erskine, of Brichen, was Secretary of State in the reign of King James V. Robert, Lord of Erskine, the next of this noble family, in imitation of his ancestors, signalized his loyalty to King James I. when that Prince was a prisoner in England, and as soon as an attempt was made by the Governor toward effecting his Ma- jesty's freedom, anno 1421, z Robert, Lord of Erskine, was one of the Commissioners appointed to go to England, to ascertain the faith of the treaty: and as soon as it was finally concluded in the year 1424, he was one of the hostages sent into England for the security of the ransom.1 But the King being unwilling to be deprived of Sir Robert's services, upon the payment of the first moiety of 2000 merks, he was by the King of England's order set at liberty upon the 19th of June, I425.b Upon the death of Alexander, Earl of Mar, anno 1436, he laid claim to the half of that Earldom, in right of his mother j and accordingly was served heir to Isabel, Countess of Mar, his cousin, before the Sheriff of Aberdeen, on the 22d of April, 1438/ and thereupon assumed the title of Earl of Mar.A But the ministry in the minority of King James II. instituting a process against his Lordship in reference to his right, and the case coming to be tried, it continued a long plea with the Crown, which was not determined in his days, death putting a period to his life, anno 1453.° Leaving issue by Stewart, his wife, daughter to the Lord Lorn, Thomas, his successor, and a daugh- ter, Agnes, married to Henry Douglas, of Lochleven, ancestor to the Earl of Morton. Which Thomas did prosecute his father's claim to the Earl- dom of Mar with all the vigour imaginable, but having a power- x Charta in Rotulis Robercii III. ad annum 1399. V Charta in Publ. Archivis. z Rymer's Fcedera. a Mr. Rymer's Foedera Anglise, where I find that at this time the yearly revenue of the Lord Erskine's estate did then amount to 1000 roerki sterling money, which was a very great sum in those days. h Ibidem. c The writs relating to this, I have seen among Sir John Cuningham's papers. d I have seen a charter granted by him, wherein he is designed Rob. Cjmes ie Mar, Dominus Erskine, Patricio Galbraith tcrrarum de Garscadnr, iata 1444.. c Cuningham's Collections. 256 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. ful party, the King, to deal with, at length a final sentence was given against him in parliament, on the 5th of November, 1457,' which he was obliged to acquiesce in: but notwithstanding the hard measure he thought he had undergone from the crown, and which might have been thought would have made him ready to have taken all occasions of being severe to it, yet he was a person of so much honour and virtue, that in the succeeding reign of James III. when he had a very fair opportunity to be revenged, he no sooner saw the ways of duty towards the King declined, and his just power invaded by a strong party of the nobility, than out of pure conscience to serve his Majesty when he was in dis- tress, he frankly engaged in his quarrel, and when the war broke out, accepted a command in the army, in which he continued till the very end, that the King was miserably killed in the field of Stirling on the 11th of June, 1488, where some authors, without any just ground, have asserted that his Lordship had the same fate with his master: but that it was not so, evidently appears from several memorials concerning him after that time.? He married Janet, daughter to the Earl of Morton; by her he had Alexander, his successor, and two daughters; Elizabeth, married to Sir Alexander Seaton, of Touch, '' and had issue. Mary, to William Livinstoun, of Kilsyth,1 and had issue. Alexander, Lord Erskine, was Governor of Dunbartoun castle in the 15th of King James IV. and of the privy-council to that Prince. He founded a chaplainry within the parish church of Alloa of his own patronage, In honor em sancta iff individuct Trinitatis, patris, filii iff spiritus sancti leatte Mariae virginis, is Sancti Kentigerni, to which he mortified a certain annuity, for the maintenance of a fit and qualified person, to celebrate divine service at St. Katharine's altar, pro salute animce quondam Ja- cobi III. Regis Scotorum, pro prosperitate JacObi moderni Regis, necnon pro salute animce sui ipsius, & animce Christianae Crich- ton quondam sponsce saee iff pro salute Elense Hume sponsa sua; moderns, iff omnium heredum iff successorum suorum.k By f Information of the Earl of Mar, concerning his right to the Earldom of Mar. S There are several charters in the register of charters, granted to him in the y?ar 1489. h The Viscount of Kingston's History of the Family of Seton, MS. penes roe. i Charta penes Vicecomitem de Kilsyth. k Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum 1497. LORD ERSKINE. 257 Christian his wife, daughter of Robert, Lord Crichton, of San- quhar,1 he had Robert, a son, and two daughters; Christian, married to David Stewart, of Rossyth;1" and Agnes, to Sir Wil- liam Monteith, of Carse. Which Robert, eleventh Lord Ershine, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Campbel, of Lowdon, ancestor to the present Countess of that name, and had issue, First, John, Lord Erskine. Second, James Erskine, of Sauchy, hist of that branch cf Balgony." Katharine, married to Alexander, Lord Elphinstoun; and Margaret, to John Halden, of Gleneagles,0 and had issue. This Lord accompanying his sovereign, King James IV. to the battle of- Flodden, was there slain with the flower of the no- bility and gentry, on that memorable day, 9th September, 1513, and was succeeded by John, twelfth Lord Erskine, his son, who being a nobleman of great honour and probity, upon the untimely death of James IV. had the tuition of the young King, James V. committed to him; and Stirling castle being thought the most proper place for his resi- dence, his Lordship was then made governor thereof. In that high trust he approved himself with so much fidelity, that the King, when he came to age, highly valued him, insomuch that he sent him upon a solemn embassy into France, anno 1534, to propose a match betwixt the King and a daughter of that Crown; which having performed to his Majesty's satisfaction,? he soon thereafter em- ployed his Lordship in the same quality to Henry VIII. of Eng- land, to congratulate that King for their joint prosperity, and to consult with him about a marriage betwixt his nephew, King James, and a daughter of the Duke of Vendosme, whom the French king had ottered him, his own daughter being of a weak 1 Genealogy of the Houe of Erskine MS. m Genealogy of the Family of Rossyth from the Writs of that House, MS. penes me. n There is a charter in the public rolls to this James Eiskine of the lands of Little Sauchy, and Katharine Stirling his spouse, and to their heirs: they had issue James Erskine, of Balgony, and Mr. William, who got the parsonage of Campsay upon the Reformation, in commendam : he was afterward promoted to the Commendatory of Paisly, anno 1579, and after that, in 1587, made titular Bishop of Glasgow, though all the while he was aLaick: he afterwards was knighted by King James VI. and left a daughter, Janet, marr.ed to Sir William Alexander of Menstray, first Earl of Stirling. ° Chaita in Rotulis Jac. V. P Buchanani Historia Rerum Scoticarutft. VOL. IX. S 255 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. and sickly constitution/* which office he discharged with exact- ness and fidelity, and was one of those peers who attended his master into France when he espoused Magdalene, daughter of Francis I. anno 1537. Upon the King's death in the end of the year 1542, he had the keeping of the young Queen, Mary, his infant sovereign, committed to him in Stirling castle: which great trust his Lord- ship discharged with the same fidelity he had done in her father's minority till the year 154S, when the Governor and the three estates thought fit to order him to carry over his royal pupil into France. He married Margaret, daughter of Archibald, Earl of Argyle, by whom he had First, Robert, Master of Erskine, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Solway, anno 1542, for which he was obliged to pay a ransom of 2001/ before he obtained his freedom. He married Margaret, daughter of William, Earl of Montrose;9 but was slain at the field of Pinky, September 10th, 1547,1 leaving no lawful children. Second, Thomas, Master of Erskine, who being a nobleman of great parts, was employed in several embassies into England," whereby he won great reputation to himself, and served his coun- try very faithfully. He married Margaret, daughter of Malcolm, Lord Fleeming:x but was taken away in the flower of his age, leaving no lawful issue behind him.y Third, John, who succeeded his father in the honour, and was thereafter Earl of Mar. Fourth, Sir Alexander Erskine, of Gogar, ancestor to the Earl of Kelly. Fifth, Arthur Erskine, of Blackgrange. Margaret, married to Robert Douglas, of Lochleven, ancestor to the present Earl of Morton. She was also mother to James, Earl of Murray. H Mr. Drummond of Hawthornden's Life of King James V. r Rymer's Foed. Ang. s The contract is in my Lord Montrose's charter chest. I Balfour's Annals. There is a genealogy of the Mouse of Mar, that men- tions that Robert, Master of Erskine, left a natural son, Mr. David Erskine, who was Commendator of Drj burgh ; from whom come the Erskines of Seafield. II Rymer's Foedera Anglise. x Charta penes Comitem de Wigton. 7 The genealogy of the House of Mar mentions, that Thomas, Master of Erskine, lefc a natural son, Mr. Adam Erskine, who was Commendator of Catn- buskenneth : he with his friend, the Commendator of Dryburgh, were two of the instructors of King James VI. with George Buchanan. LORD ERSKINE. 259 Elizabeth, to Walter Seaton, of Touch,2 and had issue. Janet, to John Murray, of Polmais,a and had issue. John, thirteenth Lord Erskine, and Earl of Mar, was a per- son of such noble nature, generous disposition, and other bright qualities, as rendered him very capable of acting the part of a most consummate statesman, which he did afterward in the highest and most eminent stations a subject could attain to. Being at first a younger brother, his father judged the best way was to provide for him in the church, and therefore having given him education accordingly, he was in due time made Commendator of Inchma- chomoe in the end of King James V's reign, no doubt for his bet- ter support in the prosecution of his studies to qualify him for a higher office in the church; but both his brothers dying without heirs of their bodies, he was obliged to quit the character of a churchman and marry, in order to raise up heirs to the family: which he did, and matched with Annabella, daughter of William Murray, of Tillibardin, paternal ancestor to the present Duke of Athol, by whom he had John, his successor, and a daughter, Margaret, married to Archibald, Earl of Angus. Upon his accession to the honour, through the demise Of his father, though he was but then a very young man, he had so fair a reputation, and was so generally well esteemed, that the Queen Regent thought fit, in the year 1553, b to give his Lordship the command of the castle of Edinburgh, in which station he behaved so well, that he preserved himself in the good opinion of the Queen's Majesty, and the whole nation. When Queen Mary returned from, France, anno 15Gl, her Majesty having made choice of a new Privy-council, my Lord Erskine was named one of that number; in which station he soon rendered himself very gracious to the Queen," insomuch that she made him a grant of the Abbey of Inchmachomoe, and diverse other church lands then newly dissolved. His interest at Court now being very great, he thought it a favourable opportunity, and a proper season for him to renew his claim to the Earldom of Mar, and having made a good title through a long deduced pe- digree from Gratney, Earl of Mar, his pretensions being sup- ported by the Queen's countenance, his claim was allowed and ratified by act of parliament. And though my Lord Mar was a very zealous Protestant, it is worthy our remark, Queen Mary z Charta in publ. Archivis. a Ibidem k Dr. Anderson's Hisioiy of Scotland MS, in Biblioth, jurid. Edin. 260 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. trusted him as much as she could have done any of her own pro- fession, which she did eminently manifest by the confidence she reposed in him; for as soon as she was happily delivered of the Prince, James VI. her Majesty committed him to the tuition and custody of the Earl, in the castle of Edinburgh, then under his command, and he discharged that great trust so well, and was so much superior to all temptations of infidelity, that when the Earl of Bothwell had married the Queen, he could not prevail with my Lord Mar, either by promises or menaces, to deliver up the Prince to him, which was the thing in the world, that wicked Earl had set his heart most upon, when it is known his Lordship could have made his own terms: in the end, when Bothwell found all his offers rejected, he was glad to allow the Earl to carry the Prince to Stirling castle, of which he himself was heritable governor, and then delivered up Edinburgh castle to Bothwell, on the 21st of May, 1506, who immediately placed a creature of his own, Sir James. Balfour, in it, by which means, the Earl of Mar became, under God, the happy instrument of the Prince's miraculous preservation during his long minority: however, he still retained great duty and affection to the Queen, even after things came to an extremity; so it would aopear, that nothing but a pure principle of conscience for the preservation of the heir of the kingdom, first engaged his Lordship in the company of those who set the crown upon the head of the Prince, when he was an infant little more than one year old. When the civil war began, I do not find this generous and prudent Lord much en- gaged on either side; for his particular province being to take care of his royal pupil, he staid himself much with him, and as he grew up in years, gave him a princely education, appointing the famous Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Peter Young, Mr. David Erskine, Commendator of Carabusketmeth, and Mr. Adam Erskine, Com- mendator of Dryburgh, to be his instructors; gentlemen who wanted none of those qualities which were to be wished to be in the persons to whom the education of a great and hopeful Prince was committed, and for framing his mind and manners in his young and tender years. My Lord Mar bore no public office in the state till 1571, when, upon the death of Matthew, Earl of Lennox, the Regent (the Earl of Mar was a nobleman so generally well esteemed), he was, on September the 5th, by the unanimous consent of the King's paity, chosen Regent of Scotland in his room. In which great office he had, says one, that the court were entertained with the greatest magnificence imaginable, out of the profits of the crown; and it was observed by the English nobility, who attended the King in that progress, that his Majesty appeared with no less lustre at Holy-Rood-House than at Whitehall. He continued in the Treasurer's place till 1630 ; his Lordship being grown aged and infirm, he resigned the office, which was immediately put into the hands of the Earl of Morton, and declining to be put into any other public employ- ment, he retired to his seat in the country, wdiere death put a period to his days, on the lo'th of December, 1635, aged seventy- nine. He married, first, Anne, daughter of David., Lord Drummond, by whom he had John, his son and heir. Next, the Lady Mary Stewart, Daughter of Esme, Duke of Lennox, by whom he had a numerous issue; viz. 264 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. First, Sir James Erskine, who, in right of Christian his wife, daughter and sole heir of Robert Douglas, Earl of Buchan, came to enjoy that honour, the King bestowing the title de novo, upon him and his heirs male. Second, Henry, Commendator of Dryburgh, Lord Cardross, ancestor to the present Earl of Buchan, and to Lord Erskine, of whom presently. Third, Sir Alexander Erskine, Commendator of Cambusken- neth, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in the reign of King Charles I. Fourth, Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, ancestor to the Earl of Rosslyn, for whom see Vol. V. Fifth, Sir John Erskine of Otterstoun. Sixth, Sir Arthur Erskine of Scots-craig. Seventh, William Erskine, Esq. Lady Mary, eldest daughter, married to William, Earl Mari- shal; and next, to Patrick, first Earl of Panmure. Lady Margaret, to John, Earl of Rothes. Lady Martha, to John, Earl of Kinghom. Lady Catharine, to John, Earl of Haddingtoun. John, third Earl of Mar, was made one of the Knights of the Bath, at the creation of Henry, Prince of Wales, on the 30th oi May, lfjio, and thereafter, July 20th, 1615, he was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-council, and named one of the Senators of the College of Justice: which station he prudently and faithfully discharged till, 1620", his Lordship was removed upon a general statute, that no Peer could be an Ordinary Lord of the Session. Whether it was this, or any other act of uukind- ness he met with from the court, I cannot say, but it is certain, upon the first appearance of the troubles in 1638, his Lordship being then Governor of Edinburgh castle, his Majesty did not seem to be absolutely satisfied of the affection of the Earl to his service, and therefore removed him from that command, and put the castle into the hands of Major-general Ruthven, as a person on whom he could firmly rely, and yet his Majesty was willing that his Lordship's remove might not be attended with any act of disobligation, and therefore gave him 30001. which the Marquis of Hamilton gave security for. When the civil war broke out, he applied himself with great resolution and fidelity to the King's service, and therefore was reckoned among the first rank of Ma- lignants, and suffered accordingly. He married Jean, daughter of Francis, Earl of Errol, by whom LORD ERSKINE. 265 he had John, his successor in the honour, and a daughter, Eliza- be;h, married to Archibald, Lord Napier; and departing this life in 1654, was succeeded by John, his son, fourth Earl of Mar, who, during the whole course of the civil war, most eminently signalized his loyalty to King Charles 1. He was one of the Peers who joined the Marquis of Montrose at the battle of Philiphaugh; after which, he had the General's leave to capitulate, which he did upon no other terms, than laying down his arms, and living quietly at his own house, retaining always his affection and fidelity to the crown, to his dying day. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Walter, Earl of Buc- cleugh; and again, Mary, daughter of George, Earl of Seaforth, By her he had Charles, his son and heir, likewise three daughters. Barbara, married to James, Marquis of Douglas. Mary, to John, Earl of Glencairn. Sophia, to Alexander, Lord Pitsligo. Charles, ffth Earl of Mar, his son, was one of the Lords of the Privy council to King Charles II. and King James VII. During whose reign he was Colonel of a regiment of foot. He died in the flower of his age, April 23d, J 689, leaving issue by Mary his wife, daughter of George, Earl of Panmure, First, John, his son and heir, a man of extraordinary abilities. Second, James Erskine, of Grange, who was by the special favour of her Majesty Queen Anne, promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, in 1/0(3, and thereafter made Justice Clerk. Third, Colonel Henry Erskine, who was killed at the battle of Almanza, in Spain, anno J707, to the great grief of his noble relations. Fourth, Jean, married to Sir Hugh Paterson, of Bannockburn, Bart. John, sixth Earl of Mar, being the heir of a noble and illus- trious family, as soon as he came to age, her .Majesty Queen Anne took him into her immediate care, made him first a Privy- counsellor, gave him the command of a regiment of foot, and made him a knight of the order of St. Andrew, in the beginning of her reign. In 1/05, her Majesty promoted him to be Secretary of Slate in the room of the Marquis of Annandale; and the next ensuing year, his Lordship was named one of the Commissioners to treat of an union betwixt the two nations; which being agreed to by 266 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. the respective parliaments of both kingdoms, his Lordship, throughout the whole affair, merited so well of the court, that he had a pension settled on him as an equivalent for his Secre- tary's place; which was then suppressed, and consolidated into the Secretary-office of Great Britain. In 17O8, the Queen named his Lordship of her most honourable Privy-council, and striking in with the Earl of Oxford, on the change of the ministry, he was in 1713, preferred to be Third Secretary of Great Britain, which had been vacant from the death of the Duke of Queensberry; in which eminent station his Lordship continued till after the death of his mistress, the Queen. Upon the arrival of King George in Britain, his Majesty was pleased to acquaint the Earl a few days thereafter, that he had no longer occasion for his service in the quality of Secretary of State; to which his Grace the Duke of Montrose was preferred on the 24th of Sep- tember, 1714. Disgusted at this treatment, he retired to his estate in Scotland, where unhappily for his country, he raised a rebellion, and proclaimed the Pretender, at Kirk-Michael, in Perthshire, September 11th, 1715; but having made an attempt on the King's troops at Perth, in which his horse was shot under him, he made his escape beyond seas, and in 1716, was attainted of high treason. He followed the Pretender to Rome, and re- mained in his service till 1721. He then removed to Paris, where he remained till 1729; and thence retired to Aix la-Chapelle for his health, where he died in May 1732. He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Kinnoul,c by whom he had only two sons; First, John, who died an infant. Second, Thomas, Lord Erskine. Secondly, Frances Pierpont/ daughter of Evelyn, Duke of Kingston, by whom he had one daughter, Lady Frances Erskine, on whom King George I. settled .the same fortune as she would have been entitled to under her mo- ther's settlement. She married Mr. James Erskine, son of her uncle, Mr. Erskine, of Grange, by whom she had two sons; John Francis, and James Francis, both officers in the British service. Thomas, Lord Ersline, enjoyed his father's forfeited estates, « All the original writs mentioned, on which the foregoing Account of the Family of Mar is supported, are taken from the writs of the family, the public registers, Spotiswood's History, and Rymer's Fcedera Angliae. d Sister to the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose letters to her are well known. LORD ERSKINE. 267 which were conveyed in 1739 by his uncle, Mr. Erfekirie, of Grange, who bought them of the Commissioners for the benefit of the' nephew. He married Lady Charlotte Hope, daughter of Charles, Earl of Hopetoun, and was living 1764. We now return to James Erskine, eldest son of the second marjiage of John, second Earl of Mar, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, and Knight of the most noble Order of the. Garter, by the Lady Mary Stewart, second daughter of Esme, Duke of Len- nox. He married Mary Douglas, Countess of Buchan: upon which marriage/ the right of succession to the Earldom of Buchan (which before had been to the heirs whatsoever), was by a charter under the Great Seal, proceeding upon a resignation, limited to the said Mary, Countess of Buchan, and the said James her hus- band, and the heirs male of the said marriage, which failing, to the said James's nearest lawful heirs male whatsoever. Which James, Earl of Buchan, being a person of great merits and accomplishments, and much in the favour of King Charles I. (to whom he was a Gentleman of his Bed-chamber), lived most of his time in England, where he had issue by his said wife, James, his eldest son and heir, and John, who died unmarried; as also two daughters, Mary, married to Alexander, Lord Pitsligo, and had issue ; and Margaret, married to Sir James Graham, son to the Earl of Monteith. * c Sir James Stewart, second son of Sir James Stewart, called the Black Knight of Lorn (son of John Stewart of Innermeath, son of Robert of Shanbo- thy, son of Sir James Stewart, fourth son of Su- John Stewart, of Bonkyll, younger brother of James, seventh Lord High Steward of Scotland, who was grandfather of King Robert II.), was raised to the dignity of the Peerage, by the title of Earl of Buchan, Lord Auchterhouse, &c. 1469: he died before 1499. His son, Alexander, second Earl, died before 1505, and was succeeded hy his son, John, third Earl, who was one of the Privy-council to King fames V. with whom he was in great favour. His son, John, Master of Buchan, died before him, being killed in the battle of Pinkie, 154.7, and the Earl himself dying 155 1, his honours devolved on his granddaughter and heir, Christian, Countess of Buchan. This Christian married Robert, second son of Sir Robert Douglas, of Loch- levcn, brother of William, Earl of Morton, and he became in her right fourth Earl of Buchan. They were succeeded by their son, James Douglas, fifth Ear), who was served heir to his father, in 1583, and died August 24th, 1601. He left an only child, Mary Dougias, Countess of Buchan, so designed, in 1606. She married James Erskine, eldest son of th; second marriage of John3 Earl of Mar, as above said. 26s PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. After the death of whom, he married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Knevit, of Buckenham Castle, in the county of Norfolk, Bart, by whom he had issue, Dorothy, married in England to Walker, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. and several other children, who died young. To whom succeeded James, second Earl of Buchan, his eldest son and heir, who by his wife Mary, daughter of William, Earl of Dalhousie, had issue one son, William, who succeeded him, and five daughters; Marjory, the eldest, married, first, to Fraser, of Inderalachie, Esq. and, secondly, to Charles, Lord Fraser; Anne, the second, to James Canaries, D. D. Henriette, the third, to Thomas Forbes, of Tolquhoun, Esq. and Jean, the fourth, to George Gray, of Hackerton, Esq. Which William, third Earl of Buchan, having joined himself at the Revolution, in 16S8, to those who took up arms in Scotland against the late King William, brought himself thereby into much trouble: for being soon after taken by that King's troops, he was committed prisoner to the castle of Stirling, where, though by the intercession of his friends his prison was at last much enlarged, he continued to his death, which happened anno 1690, without leaving any issue, having never been married. To whom succeeded David, Lord Cardross, his nearest heir male, being great grandson and heir to Henry, the first Lord Cardross, who was brother to James, Earl of Buchan, grandfather to the said William last deceased. The honour and title of Lord Cardross, had its beginning in anno 1604, when James VI. of Scotland, and I. of Great Bri- tain, by his charter under the Great Seal, bearing date on March 27th in the said year, erected the said Lordship in favour of John, Earl of Mar, Lord Treasurer of Scotland, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, his heirs and assigns; in pursuance whereof, the said Earl, in anno \Q\5, assigned and disponed the same, and whole rights thereto belonging, to Henry Erskine, his second son, by the Lady Mary Steuart, his second wife, daughter of Esme, Duke of Lennox, a Lady near in blood to his said Ma- jesty ; who, as a further mark of his royal favour, was also pleased to bestow on the said Henry, the abbey of Dryburgh, in Teviot- dale, formerly a seat of monks of the order of Promontre; the said abbey, with the lands and tythes thereto belonging, being, by a special act of parliament for that purpose, dissolved from the crown. LORD ERSKINE. 269 Which Henry, first Lord Cardross, married Margaret, only daughter of Sir James Ballanden, of Broughtoun, and sister of William, first Lord Ballanden, by whom he had David, his only son and heir, and one daughter, Mary, who was married to Sir John Buchanan of that Ilk, in the county of Stirling, and had issue; and dying anno 1606, was succeeded by David, second Lord Cardross, his only son, who, anno 1645., married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Hope, of Craighall, Lord Advocate, great grandfather to the present Earl of Hopeton, by whom he had issue, Henry, who succeeded him, and a daughter, Margaret, mar- ried to William Cunningham, of Boquhan, in the county of Stir- ling, mother, by him, of Henry Cunningham, of Boquhan, Junior, representative of the burgh of Stirling, and district thereof, in the parliament anno 17 12. His Lordship married, secondly (anno 1655), Mary, second daughter of George Bruce, of Carnock, and sister of Edward and Alexander, both Earls of Kincardin, by whom he had issue four sons, and three daughters. Alexander, the eldest son, died young. William, the second, Deputy Governor of Blackness castle, a person of great integrity and honour, married Magdalen, daughter of Sir James Lumsden, of Innergelly, in the shire of Fife, and had issue by her, William, his eldest son and heir, and James. John, the third, who, upon all occasions, appeared with great zeal in the cause of religion and liberty, and thereby acquired an universal esteem, retired into Holland some years before the Re- volution, in 1688, when he accompanied the Prince of Orange in his expedition into England, a little before which, he had a com- pany of foot bestowed upon him in Holland; and soon after, upon that Prince's accession to the throne, was made Lieutenant Governor of Stirling castle, and afterwards Governor of Dumbar- ton, and a Lieutenant-colonel of foot. In l6g5, he was chosen a Director of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, and by them sent, with others, in 1696, into Holland, and other foreign parts, to manage the affairs of that company. In pursuance whereof, such progress was made at Hamburgh, and encouragement given from other parts, as had, in all appear- ance, been attended with the desired success, had it not been for things very unexpected and surprising, and too well known to need mentioning. He married, first, Jean, daughter and heir of William Muir, of Caldwell, in the shire of Renfrew 3 but she 270 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. dying soon after, without issue, he married, secondly, Anne, eldest daughter and coheir of William Dundass, of Kincavill, in the county of Linlithgow, Advocate, by whom he had John, his eldest son and heir, and several other sons; also one daughter, Mary, yet unmarried. Charles, the foarth son, being a Captain of foot in the Low Countries, in the service of the late King William, was killed there, at the battle of Stenkirk, the 24th of July, 1692. Veronica, his eldest daughter, married to Walter Lockhart, of Kirtoun, in the county of Lanerk, and had issue. Magdalen, the second, to Alexander Monypenny, of Pitmilly, in the shire of Fife, and had issue. And, Mary, the third, died young. To which David, Lord Cardross, succeeded, anno 16/I, Henry, his eldest son and heir, third Lord Cardross, who, being a person of universally acknowledged merit, and, upon all ©ccasions, a strenuous asserter of the rights and liberties of his country, met with many hardships in the late reigns, with which having, struggled long, with great firmness and constancy, he at last withdrew into Holland, where he was kindly received by the Prince of Orange, afterwards King of Great Britain, whom he accompanied in his expedition into England, in 1<5S8. And upon that Prince's accession to the throne (of which he was a zealous promoter) had several marks of his favour bestowed upon him, being soon after made a Privy Counsellor, General of the Mint, and Colonel of a regiment of dragoons. He was, at the same time, appointed by parliament one of the Commissioners for treating of an Union with England. Upon all which occasions he behaved himself so as to maintain the character he had all along had, of a person of untainted integrity and honour. He died at Edinburgh the 21st of May, 1693, and forty-fourth year of his age, having, in 16/ 1, married Katharine, second daughter, and at length sole heir, of Sir James Steuart, of Stra- brock, in the county of West Lothian ; by which Katharine he had issue, First, David, who succeeded him, and was afterwards Earl of Buchan. Second, Charles Erskine, Advocate. Third, William, Deputy-governor of Blackness castle, who married Margaret, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel John Erskine, Deputy-governor of Stirling castle, and had issue by her, one son. John, and a daughter, Jean. LORD ERSKTNE. 271 Fourth, Thomas, and five more; who all died young. Also three daughters; Katharine, the eldest, married to Sir William Denham, of Westshields, in the county of Lanerk, Baronet, but had no issue by him; secondly, to Daniel Campbell, of Shawfield. Mary, the second, married James Nimmo, Esq. And Anne, the third, married to Archibald Edmonston, of Duntreth, in vice comitatu de Stirling. David, fourth Lord Cardross, his eldest son and heir, suc- ceeded, and upon the death of William, Earl of Buchan, anno 1695, without issue, became also fourth Earl of Buchan. This David, fourth Earl of Buchan, in anno 1697, married Frances, eldest daughter, and since sole heir of Henry Fairfax, of Hurst, in the county of Berks, Esq. only son and heir of Henry Fairfax, Esq. second son of Thomas, Viscount Fairfax: by the which Frances, Countess of Buchan, the said Earl had nine sons; First, Henry David, Lord Auchterhouse, born in September 1699, who died very young. Second, David, Lord Auchterhouse, born in April 1/03, who died an infant. Third, Henry David, Lord Cardross and Auchterhouse, born 17th April, 1/10. Fourth, Fairfax, born February 8th, 1712. Fifth, George Lewis, on January 30th, 1714, born deaf and dumb. And, Sixth, George Augustus, on December 2/th, 17'5, who died very young, and three more, who died soon after they were born. Also seven daughters; Lady Katharine Anna, married to William Fraser, of Fraser- field, son of Alexander, Lord Saltoun. Lady Frances, married to the celebrated Colonel Gardner, for whom, see Doddridge's Life of that pious man. Lady Alethea, and Lady Willelmina Carolina, who both died infants; and three others, who died soon after they were born. His Lordship was one of the Council of Trade appointed by parliament in anno 1/05, when by an act passed in Eng- land, the importation of Scots linen cloth and cattle into that kingdom was prohibited, and matters seemed to run high be- twixt the two kingdoms, in which commission his Lordship behaved himself so as to gain uniyerial esteem, as he did 272 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. upon all other occasions, when employed in the public service, wherein he always eminently distinguished himself by his un- shaken zeal and constant appearance for the honour and interest of his country, as well during the reign of King William, in which he was a Privy Counsellor from the year 1697, till the death of that Prince, as during that of her Majesty Queen Anne, bv whom he was also constituted of the Privy-council; as also one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer, and Governor of Blackness castle; in all which he continued till after the conclu- sion of the treaty of Union, anno 1707 > which he opposed in par- liament to the very last, being of opinion, as his Lordship then declared, that several of the articles agreed upon were inconsistent with the honour of his country, especially of the Peerage, against which he therefore entered his protest, and was soon after removed from all public trust. But on the accession of his Majesty King George to the crown, for the security of whose succession his Lordship had on all occa- sions exerted himself with the utmost zeal, he had again several marks of favour bestowed on him; having been appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of Police, and Lord Lieutenant of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan, as he was also, to the general satisfaction, elected one of the Sixteen Peers for Scotland to the first parliament of Great Britain called after his Majesty's arrival in this kingdom. He was also elected one of the Sixteen Peers 1722, 1727. Dying in London, October 15th, 1745, he was succeeded by his son, Henry ~Dx\it>, fifth Earl of Buchan, who died December 1st, 1767, having married Agnes, daughter of Sir James Stewart, of Goodtrees, Bart, and by her, who died December 11th, 1778, had issue, First, David Stewart, sixth and present Earl of Buchan. His Lordship commenced his political career under the patron- acre of the late Earl of Chatham, while Lord Cardross, in the di- plomatic department. But he has passed the larger portion of his time in literary retirement, cultivating the Muses, and occasion- ally laying before the public the fruits of his acquirements. More than twenty-five years ago he published a pamphlet on the state of the Scotch Peerage; and has since given the Lives of Fletcher of Saltoun, and others: and frequently been a correspondent of the various periodical works of the day. He married, October 15th, 1771, Margaret, daughter of Wil- LORD ERSKINE. 273 liam Fraser, of Fraserfield, Esq. nephew to the late Earl of Buchan, but has no issue. Second, Henry, a man celebrated at the Scotch Bar, who, in 1/S3, was appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland, which he re- tained only till the commencement of the following year; but to which he was again appointed in 1S0(5; but held it as short a time. In Match 1806, he was returned M. P. for the boroughs of Haddington, &c. and at the general election the same year, for the borough of Dumfries, &c. and aggin for the same in 180/\ He married Christiana, daughter of George Fullat ton, Esq. and by her, who died in May 180-1, has issue, first, Henry. Second, George. Third, Elizabeth Crumpton, who married in September 1801, Colonel Callender. Fourth, Henrietta. Third, Thomas, now Lord Erskine, of whom presently. Fourth, Lady Anne- Agnes, who died October 5th, 1804: Fifth, Lady Isabella, married, January 21st, 1//0, William Leslie Hamilton, Esq. who died October 1/80, Attorney-general of the Leeward Islands, without issue; and married, secondly, April 23d, 1/85, the Hon. and Rev. John, the last Earl of Glen- cairn, who died September 24th, 1/0(3, without issue. Thomas, third son, now Lord Erskine, a man, whose splerdid career at the English Bar is familiar to the nation, ori- ginally embraced the military profession ; but left it young, for a sphere for which his brilliant talents were adapted; and retiring to Cambridge, and studying there for a short time, went from thence to Lincoln's Inn, qualified himself for an advocate in the Court of King's Bench; and being admitted to the Bar in 1/78, immediately distinguished himself by his oratory, at the trial of Admiral Keppel, whence he rose almost instantly into full prac- tice, and led the Bar, in all appeals to juries, for nearly five and twenty years. It is impossible to describe the grace, bea'uty, and copiousness, of his eloquence; it was totally unlike any thing in the same sphere, either at the time, before, or since. The silver tones of his voice, the lightning of his eye; the incessant blaze of his imagery; his touching appeals to the heart; and his profuse com- mand of language, overwhelmed every feeling and cultivated mind with delight and astonishment. Nor was his judgment less correct, than his talents were bril- liant. I have heard those who are best capable of forming an opinion say, that his prudence and sagacity as an advocate, weie as decisive as his speeches were splendid. He could discriminate VOL. IX, T 2^4 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. with as much labour snd niceness, as he could illumine by the stores of his inexhaustible fancy. His inclination, no doubt, led him to give the excursive powers of his mind full play; but he had the ability of the most minute discernment and profound in- vestigation, whenever the occasion required it. In short, he is a man formed in the prodigality of nature; and, to whomsoever honours be grudged, they cannot be said to have been unjustly won by Lord Erskine. On February Sth, 1S06, he was appointed Lord High Chan- cellor of England, and created Lord Erskine, of Restormel Castle, in Cornwall. He resigned the chancellorship in the following year, when Lord Eldon was re-appointed. His Lordship married, March 2Qth, 1//0 (being then an officer of the first regiment of foot), Frances, daughter of Daniel Moore, Esq. M. P. for Great Marlow (who died December 26thj 1S05), and by whom he had issue, First, Frances, who married, January 20th, 1S02, to the Rev. Dr. Holland, Rector of Poynings, in Sussex, and of Beaudesert, in Warwickshire; and has issue, first, Thomas Agar. Second, Erskine- William. Third, Frances-Elizabeth. Second, Elizabeth, who was married, November 1/th, 1?Q8, to her cousin, Captain David Erkine, of the 31st regiment, and died August 2d, 1800, without issue. Third, David Montague, who married January 1800, Fanny, daughter of General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia, in North Ame- rica, and has issue, first, Fanny. Second, Thomas. Third, John. He is a Barrister at Law, and Commissioner of Bankrupts]; was elected M. P. for Portsmouth, 1800; and appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of Ame- rica the same year. Fourth, Margaret. Fifth, Mary, who was married, January 26th, 1805, to Ed- ward Morris, Esq. M. P. for Newport, in Cornwall, a Master in Chancery. Sixth, Henry David. Seventh, Thomas. Eighth, Esme-Stewart, in the army. Whilst a Commoner, his Lordship represented Portsmouth in parliaments 1^83, l/QO, l/Qd, 1802. Titles. Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine, of Restormel Castle, i Cornwall. LORD ERSKINE. 2J5 Creations. By patent February 8th., 1800. Arms. Azure, three garbs Or. Crest. On a wreath, a dexter arm, couped below the shoul- der, grasping a batton, or rugged clubb, both proper. Supporters. On the dexter side an ostrich, in his mouth a serpent; on the sinister a griffin; the one charged with a mullet under the wing, the other on the shoulder. Motto. Trial by jury. Seat. 2;5 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. BROWNE, LORD MOUNTEAGLE. [Marquis of Siigo, in Ireland.'] I his noble Lord is said to derive his descent from Sir Anthonyy the first Viscount Montague of England, who was seated at Cow- dray-castle, in the county of Sussex, and of whose family a? younger branch, Richard, is reported to have come3 into Ireland at the head of an independent company in the service of Queen Elizabeth.1* On the division of Conaught into counties by Sir Henry Syd- ney, L.D. in 15&5,c Captain Browne fixed his residence at the Neale, in the county of Mayo, of which county he was appointed the first high sheriff; and having strenuously endeavoured whilst in office to inculcate civility, industry, and obedience to the laws, he lost his life by the hands of the then uncultivated natives/1 He was succeeded by his son Josias, who was living in 1(536, and was then denominated of the Nealc, in the county of Mayo, where he was succeeded by his eldest son Sir John, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, by Sir William Alexander, Earl of Sterling, in Scotland, J/th June, l636.c In a It is said, however, in a late Gent. Mag. that his father was a resident in Ireland. b Ulster. c Harris's Tab. y the late Sir John Browne, Bart.) S Lodge. 273 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Westport, and deceasing at the Neale, 8th May, 173/, without issue by her, who died 24th September, 1/47, he was succeeded by his next brother. Sir John, the Jifth Baronet, first denominated of Raheens, and after of the Neale. June 30th, 1/22, he mar- ried, first, Margaret, one of the three daughters and coheirs of Henry Dodweil, of Athlone, in the county of Roscomon, Esq. She died 23d April, 1 /3Q, and was buried in the cathedral of Kildare. He married, secondly, Catharine, daughter of Sir Walter Blake, Bart, and widow of Denis Daly, of Carrownekelly, in the county of Gal way, Esq. By her he had no issue, but by his first wife had George, and John, successive Baronets j Dodweil; Henry, a lawyer of eminence in Jamaica; Palmer; and one daughter, Julia, married to Edmund Burke, of Curry, in the county of Mayo, Esq. He deceased after 1755, and was succeeded at the Neale, by Sir George, the sixth Baronet, who married Anastatia, eldest daughter of Denis Daly, of Rafford (by Lady Anne his wife, eldest daughter of Michael, the tenth Earl of Clanricarde); by her he had Margaret; Anne; Letitia; and Georgiana: and deceasing without male heirs, was succeeded by Sir John, the seventh Baronet, who purchased his seat of Gaulston-park from the Earl of Belvidere, served in parliament in 1777, f°r tne ^°" rough of Newtown, and represented the borough of Carlow, and was created Lord Kilmaine, November loth, 17S9. In April 1764, he married Alicia, second daughter of James, Viscount Charlemount, sister to the late Earl, and had issue, first, James- Caulfeild, second Lord Kilmaine. Second, John. Third, George. Fourth, Alicia, married to John Longworth, of Cragan-castle, in Westmeath, Esq. Fifth, Mary-Sarah, married Francis Long- worth, Esq. Emily-Juliana, married the Rev. John Cromie; and Letitia, married Major John Ross. James Caulfeilp, second Lord Kilmaine, married the Hon. Anne Cavendish, daughter of Lady Waterpark, and has four sons, and a daughter. We return now to Colonel John Browne, second son of Sir John, the first Baronet, who received a liberal education, being- bred to the profession of the law; he was afterwards a colonel in King James's service, was taken prisoner at Galway in July 1691, and again at Limerick, where he was materially concerned in drawing up the celebrated articles of capitulation of that city; he married, first, Anne, eldest daughter of George Hamilton, fourth Lord Strabane} she died 14th August, lOSQ;' seoondly, Maud., '' Ulster's Office, and Letter from Sir John Browne, Bart. i See title Abercorn in Vol. II. LOUD MOUNTEAGLE. 279 second daughter of Theobald, the third Viscount Mayo, and de- ceasing after 1/05, left issue, by the latter, two sons and three daughters ; viz. First, Peter, his heir. Second, Valentine, who married Bridget, daughter of Colonel James Talbot, of Mount-Talbot, in the county of Roseomon, and of Temple-Oge, in the county of Dublin, by whom he had only one daughter. Bridget, married to Edward, twentieth Baron of Athenry; Elizabeth, to John Birmingham, of Kellbegg, in the county of Miiyoj and Mary, married Sth July, 1702, to Sir Theobald, sixth Viscount Mayo. Peter, the eldest son, married Mary, daughter of Denis Daly, Esq. one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, in the reign of King James IT. and by her was father of John Browne, Esq. first Earl of J It am out, representative in parliament for Castlebar in l/4o, and for which he continued to serve until 20th August, 1/00, when by privy seal at Kensington of that date, and by patent at Dublin 10th September following,k his late Majesty King George II. was pleased to advance him to the Peerage, by the title of Baron of Mount- Eagle, in the county flf Mayo. He sat as a Peer in parliament 22d October, 1761 ;x 24th July, 1/68, by privy seal at St. James's, and patent at Dublin 21th August following,"1 he was further advanced to the dignity of Viscount JVestport in the same county, by which title he sat in parliament 17th October, l/()Q,n and by patent at Dublin 4th December, IJJl,0 was created Earl of Altamont, for which honour the privy seal bears date at St. James's 22d October pre- ceding. His Lordship took his seat on the Earl's Bench, 5th De- cember, I771.P In December 1/29 ne married Anne, eldest surviving daugh- ter of Sir Arthur Gore, Bart, and sister to Sir Arthur, Earl of Arran, and deceasing 4th July, 1//6, at Westporf, left issue by his Lady, who died /th March, 1// 1, six sons and one daughter, Lady Anne, who married in 1/63, Ross Mahon, of Castle -Gore^ k Rot. Anno 34 George II. 2a. p. D. R. 40, and Signet Office. 1 Lords Jour. IV. 206. m Rot. Anno 8 George III. 2a. p. D. R. 37. n Lore's Jour. IV. 503- • Rot. Anno 12 George III. 2a. p. D. R. 3, P Lords Jour. IV. 596. 2S0 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. in the county of Gal way, Esq. and has a numerous issue; the sons were: ( First, Peter, Lord "Westport. Second, Arthur, Lieutenant-colonel of the 28th regiment of foot, and a Colonel in the army, where he served thirty-three years; appointed Constable of Carrickfergus, and elected to par- liament for the county of Mayo. He married Anne, daughter of Mr. Gardiner, of Boston, in New England, by whom he had John, Major of the 6/th regiment of foot; George; Henry; Anne; and Louisa, married, July 6;h, ISC3, Lieut. -Col. Browne, of" Browne-Hall, in Mayo. He died at his house in Gloucester- street, Dublin, 2 1 st July, l/7[), aged forty-nine years. His widow died in July ISO/. Third, George, Collector of the Revenue of the district of Foxford and Newport, who served in parliament in the room of Iiis brother Arthur, for Mayo, and is deceased. — He jnarried Dorcas, daughter and coheir to James Moore, of Newport, Esq. Prime Serjeant at Law in Ireland, by whom he had an only daughter, Margaret, married to Dom i nick -Geoff ry Browne, of Castlemargaret, county of Mayo, Esq. and died in July 17S2, leaving issue. Fourth, James, called to the Irish Bar in Trinity term 1769, and appointed Prime Serjeant at law in May 1/80, which on ac- count of ill health he' resigned in July 1?67> when his present MajVsty was pleased to grant him a pension of lOOOl. per annum. He served in parliament for the borough of Castlebar, and died unmarried, in November 1790. Fifth, Henry, appointed a Captain in the fifth or royal regi- n eht of dragoons 20th January, 17*31 : he has since retired from the service, and married a daughter of the late Sir Henry Lynch, Bart, aunt to Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, Bart, but has no issue. Sixth, John, the youngest son, was bred to the sea service, was after appointed Collector of Newport and Foxford, which he has resigned. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Mr. Cocks; secondly, Rosalinda, daughter of Mr. Gilker; and hath issue by the first wife, two daughters, Emily, married in January 1788, to Domhiick Browne, of Ashford, in the county of Galway, Esq. and Mary/i Peter, the second Earl, was seated at Mount-Browne, in Mayo, for which county. he served in parliament in iJ7g} and Information of R. Ousleyi E^q. Almon, Debrett, &c„ LORD MOUNTEAGLE. 281 Was appointed Governor thereof with Sir John Browne, Bart, and 27th January j 177S, sat first in the house of Peers, on the death of his father/ On lriih April, 1752, he married Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Denis Kelly, of Liscluffe, in the county of Galway, Esq. and of Spring-garden, in the county of Mayo, formerly Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, on which marriage (his Lordship having thereby acquired a very considerable estate;, he assumed the name of Kelly. He died at Westport, 28th December, 1780/ having issue by his Lady (who died 1st August, 1/Ci5), two sons and four daugh- ters; viz. First, John Denis, Lord Westport. Second, Denis, a Privy Counsellor in Ireland, formerly an officer in the third regiment of horse, served the office of Sheriff for Mayo in 178fj, and represented that county in the last parlia- ment; to which he had also been returned in the Imperial Par- liament, 1801, 1802, 1S00, ISO/. Lady Anne, married 18th August, 1785, to 'Otway, first Earl of Desart; Lady Mary, died 10th June, 1776; Lady Elizabeth, married, August 17S6, Ross Mahon, Esq. of Castlebar; and Lady Charlotte, married John Mahon, Esq. John-Denis, the third Earl of Altamont, and first Marquis of Sligo, and eirse Lord Mounteagle of Great Britain, re- ceived his education atEton, was appointed High Sheriff of Mayo in 1/79, served in parliament for that county till his succession to the honours, sat first as a Peer on the death of his father, 22d November, 1/S1," was appointed a member of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council in 178;?. On December 29th, 1800, he was created Marquis of Slicro; and on February 20th, 1806, was elevated to the British Peerage by the title of Lord Mounteagle, of Westport and Mayo, in the united kingdom. On May 21st, 17SI, he married Sophia-Charlotte, daughter and ccheir of Richard, Earl Howe, K. G. and dying June 2d, I8O9, was succeeded by his son, Howe-Peter, second Marquis of Sligo, and second Lord Mounteagle, born May isth, i"S8. r Lords Jour. V. 31, s Ulster. - Fielding's Peerage. 9 Lords Jour. V. 240. 282 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Titles. John-Denis Browne, Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Alta- mont, Viscount Westport, and Baron of Mount-Eagle, all in the county of Mayo ; also Lord Mounteagle, in England. Creations. Baron of Mount-Eagle, lgth September, 1/(50, 34 George II. Viscount Westport, 24th Aug. 1768, 8 George ITL and Earl of Altamont, 4th December, 1771, 12 George III. Marquis of Sligo, December 2()th, 1800, Irish honours; and Baron Mounteagle, of the united kingdom, February 20th, 1806. Arms. Sable, three lions passant, between two gemels, in bend Ardent. Crest. On a wreath, an eagle displayed, Vert. Supporters. The dexter a talbot, the sinister an horse, each gorged with an Earl's coronet. MottO. SUIVES RAISON. Chief Seat. Westport, in the county of Mayo, 128 miles from Dublin. LORD ARDROSSAN. .23$ MONTGOMERY, LOUD ARDROSSAN. [Earl of Eglintoun, in Scotland.'] Eglintoun is the name of a lordship and castle in Airs hire, from whence its owner took a denomination, tempore regis Mai- col mi. Bryce de Eglintoun, son and heir of Eglun, Lord of Eg- lintoun, acquired certain lands from the community of the vil- lage of Irvine, quas Radulphus Jilius & hares quondam. Hugo- nis de Eglintoun, dedit Communitati & Burgensibus dicte villce datum in vigilia saiicti Mattheii, anno gratice millesimo ducente- si/no quintof from whom in a continued series descended Sir Hugh Eglintoon, of that Ilk, who was Justiciary of Lothian, anno I36l.b He married Giles, daughter of Walter, Lord High Stewart of Scotland, sister to King Robert II. upon whose advancement to the throne, he obtained diverse grants of lands, and several employments, but leaving no male issue, his estate went to his daughter and heir, married to Sir John de Montgomery, of Eaglesham, Knt. whose ancestor Rogeu de Montgomery, son to Hugh de Montgomery, a noble Knight of French extraction, nearly allied to William, Duke ot Normandy, was one of those nobles who accompanied this victorious Duke into England, and commanded the body of his army in the memorable battle of Hastings, in Sussex, anno 10()0\ where King Harold was slain, and the victory and crown of England accrued to the Conqueror, for which signal service King William bestowed on him very large gifts, and both gave a Charta penes Burgum de Irvine. h Dtummond's History, published anno 1710. 284 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Lira the territory and honour of Earl of Arundel, with the Earl- dom of Salisbury.0 Being also a person of singular devotion, he founded, and most amply endowed the abbey of St. Peters, at Salisbury, where he at length took upon him the habit of a monk, and died 1(X)4, leaving issue by Mable his wife, daughter of Wil- liam de Talvaise, a great baron in Belesm, five sons 5 first, Hugh, died without issue. Second, Robert. Third, Roger. Fourth, Philip. And, Fifth, Arnulph. Which Robert was knighted by the Conqueror the sixth of his reign, and always enjoyed his favour, but upon his death he adhered to Robert Cuithose, against Henry I, and assisted him in the battle, where he was routed and taken prisoner. This ex- asperated P^ing Henry so much, that he banished this Earl, and discountenanced his friends. Then it is, and with much probability supposed, that Philip de Montgomery came for Scotland, and fixed his residence in the county of Tiviotdale, upon the Border, where he became a power- ful man. In the time of Malcolm IV. frequent mention is made of Robert de Mundegumery, i. e. Montgomery, who is one of ihe many witnesses to Walter, High Stewart of Scotland's foundation charter of the monastery of Paisly, anno Christi 1 \Q0.d The next in order of succession taken notice of, if not his son, is Allen* cle Mundegumbri, Knight, who held diverse lands in the tenement of Innerwick, of the Lord High Stewart of Scot- land:6 he is a witness to the charter of Robert Avenel, of his wood of Polwarth, to Arnold, Abbot of Kelso, anno 1221, ' with whom he himself settles about the tithes of his lands of Inner- wick, which had been in dispute between him and the convent; he left issue, Sir John* de Montgomery, Knt. his son, who shared the in- Jieritance with William de Haukerstoun, which he obtained by Helen his w:ife, daughter and coheir of Robert de Kent, in Inner- wick;'^ but more of this Sir John I have not discovered, saving, that jointly with the foresaid William, he was a benefactor to the Monks of Kelso for the health of his soul.h From this to the time of Robert II. by many advantageous s^nd honourable marriages, and their great and signal services done c DugiLle's Baronage of England. d Chirtukiry of Paisly. e Ibidem. * Crnrtulury of Kelso. " Ibidem. * Djuglas makes Sir Alan son, noi father of Sir John. J' Ibider.i. LORD ARDROSSAN. 285 r to the crown, both in the wars and otherways, this family became possessed of diverse fair lordships. But omitting some traditions, I descend to Sir John' Montgo- mery, of Eglesham, Knight, who married the daughter and heir v of Sir Hugh Eglintonn, of that Ilk; which Sir John was in that expedition made against the English at the battle of Otterburn, anno 1388, where James, Earl of Douglas was slain. Here he behaved very valiantly, and took Henry Percy, son to the Earl of Northumberland, prisoner, and for his ransom obliged him to build the castle of Punoon, the chief messuage of the Lordship of Eglesham; he had issue three sons; Sir Hugh, Sir John, and Alexander. First, Sir Hugh, a brave and gallant youth, lost his life in the service of his country, at the field of Otterburn, where his death is particularly remarked in this old heroic poem, He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloath-yeard long Into the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery, So right his shaft he set, The gray goose wing that was therein, In his heart-blood was vveet. Sir John, the second so?i, first Peer, succeeded to the estate? he was sent into England one of the hostages for the ransom of King James I. anno 1423 ;k and at the solemn inauguration of the said Prince, he was one of the Barons on whom the honour of knighthood was conferred in 1424, and one of the Peers who sat upon the trial of Murdo, Duke of Albany, where we find that unhappy Duke condemned to lose his head, though the records are wholly silent as to his crime. This Lord, who was raised to the Peerage in 1427, married Agnes, daughter to the Lord Max- wei, by whom he had, Alexander, his son and heir, second Peer, who indeed first raised the grandeur of the family, being a man of great parts. King James I. chose him a Privy Counsellor, and in 1430, constituted him jointly in commission with Sir Alexander Cuningham, to be Governor of Kintyre and Knapdale; and the next ensuing year J Douglas makes this Sir John great great grandson of Sir A'art k Mr, Ryjuer's Faedera Ang 2SS PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. * he was, with Alexander, Lord Gordon, and Mr. John Methven, Secretary of State, sent to England to treat of the continuing a peace betwixt the two realms, which was at length concluded by them, having survived the many difficulties and factions of King James Fs reign. I find he was of the Privy-council to his son, King James IL anno 1440, from whom he obtained several bene- ficial grants from the crown, in consideration of his good and laudable services, not only performed to himself, but to his fa- ther of blessed memory. This Lord was twice sent Commissioner into Englandjk the first time in 1444, and the other in 1457- Li both commissions he is designed, Alexander, Dominus Montgo- mery. Fie took to wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Boyd, of Kilmarnock,1 by whom he had issue, First, Alexander. Second, George Montgomery, of Skelmurly, ancestor to the Montgomerys of Skelmorley, Baronets. Third, Mr. Thomas Montgomery, the third son, was Parson of Egelsham. He had likewise several daughters: first, Margaret, married to John, first Earl of Lennox. Second, Janet, to Sir Robert Cun- ningham, of Kilmaures, ancestor to the late Earls of Glencairn. Third, , to Alexander Hume, of that Ilk. Fourth, Jean, to John, Lord Kennedy. Fifth, Agnes, to William Cuningham, of Glengarnock. The precise time of this Lord's death, which happened be- tMeen 1451 and 1454, I have not found. He was succeeded in his estate and honour by Andrew, eldest son, third Peer, Warden of the Marches 1457, who died before 145Q. By Elisabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Patrick Hepburn, of Hales," he had three sons ; Alexander, Robert, and Hugh. Alexander, the eldest, after his grandfather's death was Lord Montgomery. And, Robert, the second son, first of the Montgomerys of Broad- stone,0 of whom, Hugh, Earl of Mount-Alexander, of the king' dam of Ireland, was the lineal heir. Alexander, succeeded as fourth Peer, and was Warden of the Marches July 25th, 1459. He died 1487, having married Catherine,'1 daughter of Gilbert, Lord Kennedy, by whom he had k Rymev's Foedera Angliae. 1 Genealogy of Eglintoun. In Account of the Family of Eglintoun, n Genealogy of Eglintoun. r' Charta penes Dominum Grenock. Charta in publicis Archivis, LORD ARDROSSAN. 23/ Hugh, his successor. Second, James Montgomery, of Smeithston. Third, John. Which Hugh, Jirst Earl, upon the accession of King James IV. to the crown, was named of his council, and in 148p, he obtained a errant of the Constabulary of his Majesty's castle of Rothsay,1' the King ever treating him with particular marks of his favour, and at last was pleased to create him to the dignity of Earl of Eglin- toun, anno 1503/ He married Helen, daughter of Colin, first Earl of Argyle, by whom he had three sons, and several daughters. First, John, called Master of Eglintoun. Second, Sir Neil Montgomery, of Lainshaw, who bad a grant from his father of the lands of Lainshaw, Galowbery, Crevocb, Kilbryde, Milstonflct, Bradfurow, the temple land of Stewartoun, Holowchaple, Langanfee, Charlewrak, Longford, Crochdow, and Lochdernell, in Airshirej8 the lands of Airdoch, and Nether- Craig, in Renfrewshire. Moreover, by marriage of Margaret, daughter and sole heir of Quintine Mure, of Skeldon, he consi- derably increased his fortune, his estate in all amounting to 100 merk land of old extent, and thereupon he added to his coat of arms Argent, three mullets Azure. He was killed in a feud by the Lord Bo)d, in June 154/, having had two sons by the said Margaret his wife. First, John, who married Margaret, daughter of Robert, Lord Boyd, but died without succession. Second, Sir Neil, who succeeded him, whose descendants were the Montgo- merys of Linshaw, and Lords Lyle, he marrying Jean, daughter and sole heir of John, last Lord Lyle. The third son was William Montgomery, of Greenfield, who acquired the lands of Stane, in Airshire, by marriage of Elisabeth, daughter and sole heir of Robert Frances, of Stane.1 This branch divided itself afterwards by means of Hugh, a younger son, who became the root of the Montgomerys of Auchinhood, and his cadets. Margaret, first daughter, married to William, Lord Semple. Second, Marjory, to William, Lord Somervel. The third, Maud, to Colin Campbel, of Arkinglass, but had no issue. Fourth, Isa- bel, to John Mure, of Caldwell, in Vicecomitatu de Renfrew, and had issue. Fifth, Elisabeth, to John Blair, of that Ilk. Sixth, Agnes, to John Ker, of Kersland, in Vicecomitatu de Air, and had issue. 1 Chartajn publicis Archivis. r Ibidem. 1 Charta penes Jacobum Montgomery de Lainshaw. 1 Charta in Rotulis Jacobi IV. ad annum I5y&8. 2f8 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Here it is requisite to observe, that John, son and heir appa- rent to this Earl, when the feuds run high betwixt the contending parties of the nobility in the minority of king James V. was killed in a scuffle between the Earls of Arron and Angus, on the street of Edinburgh, 30th of April, 1520,u leaving behind him a son and a daughter, by Elisabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Archibald Ed- monston, of Duntreath;x viz. Hugh, who succeeded his grandfather. And Christian, wife of Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrio-, ancestor to the late Duke of Queensberry, who died in December 1810. ' Which Hugh, second Earl of Eglinton, was of the Privy- council to King James V. as he had been before to John, Duke of Albany,- Governor of Scotland in the said King's minority, and was one of the Lords to whom his Grace committed the tuition of that Prince, upon his going to France to concert measures with that court for carrying on a war with England, anno 1520:5' yea, the said King had such an esteem of this Lord, that when he went to France in order to espouse Magdalen, daughter of Francis I. anno 153(5, he appointed him one of the Governors of Scotland, the Earl of Huntly being joined in commission with him. His wife was Marion, daughter of George, Lord Seton, by whom he had only a son, Hugh, third Ear!, his successor in the honour, who, as soon as he came to man's estate, married the Lady Jean Hamilton, daughter of James, Duke of Chattelrault, Governor of Scotland, wdrich marriage was dissolved in 1562, they standing in the fourth degree of consanguinity, the Pope's dispensation not being ob- tained}2 and then by the permission of the Bishop of Rome, he is allowed to marry Agnes, daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Tnnerpeffrey, widow of Sir Hugh Campbel, of Lowdon: by her had four children : First, Hugh, Earl of Eglintoun. Second, Robert Montgomery, of Giffen, who married Mar- garet, daughter of Sir Matthew Campbel, of Lowdon, by whom he had one daughter, Elisabeth, his sole heir, married to Hugh, Earl of Eglintoun. Margaret, eldest daughter was married to Robert, first Earl of " Hume's History of the Family of Douglas. x CharU penes commitem tie Eglintoun. y Holinshed's History of Scotland, 2 Orginal div;rc?, still extant. LORD ARDROSSAN. 2SQ Winton, mother by him of George, second Earl of Winton, and of Alexander, Earl of Eglintoun. Agnes, the second, married to Robert, Lord Semple, and had issue. This Earl stuck close to Queen Mary in the time of her greatest distress: he put himself in arms in her behalf, and was personally engaged in the battle of Lang-side,a where he, together with the Lord Seton, and many Barons of account, were taken prisoners, after which he thought fit to tender his submission to King James VI. and lived peaceably t ill his death, which happened in the month of June 1585;b his estate devolving on Hugh, his son, fourth Earl, who was barbarously murdered on the score of a private quarrel, by John Cuningbam, of Coln- beith, and his adherents, the 12th day of April, 158Q,C whereby his country was deprived of an honour and ornament, his Prince of a faithful and able subject, and his family of a singular advantage. Mr. John Johnston wrote the following epitaph in praise of him: Ilia opifex sollers rerum, magni temula Olympi Natura, immensis ambitiosa opibus; Ilia sibi de te certans quae singula, rara, Vix aliis, dedit hsec cuncta benigna tibi. Sic artus, sic ora, animos, sic pectora finxit, Caeteraque humanis anteferenda notis: Vix aliquem ut credas mortal! semine cretum, Ast quales tulerunt secula prisca deos. Invidiosa uimis visa haec mortalibus. Ergo Tollere mox properat insidiosa manus. Fortunam ingentem gravior saepe exitus urget: Praecipitique vides fulmirie magna quati. He left a son, by Giles his wife, daughter to Robert, Lord Boyd, Hugh, fifth Earl, who succeeded him in bis estate and honour. This Earl in l603,d obtained a grant to himself, his heirs and assigns, upon the resignation of MY. William Melvil, erecting the dissolved abbey of Kilwining, formerly a seat of Benedictine Monks, with all the lands and tithes, either in property or supe- a Crawford's Memoirs. h Charta in publicis Arc'uiv's. c Dr. Johnston's Scots Heroes. A Charta in publicis Archivis, 5th jantiary, 1603. VOL. IX. v» U \ 2go PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. riority, which had belonged at any time thereto, into a temporal lordship, with the patronage of the churches of Kilwining, Irvine, Dunbartoun, Kilmarnock, Loudoun, A.rdrossan, Kilbirny, Dairy, Dunlop, Beith, Stewartoun, Stevenson, Dreghorn, Pearston, Kil- bride, and Kilmachomal. He married Elisabeth, daughter of Robert Montgomery, of Giffen, but dying without issue in 1012/ his estate, by virtue of an entail made by him, came to Sir Alexander Seton, his cousin german, sixth Earl, who changed his name to Montgomery, but he could not enjoy the title of Earl, without the King's special allowance; which, soon after, his Majesty was pleased to bestow upon him, for the great merit of his ancestors, with the dignity and precedency formerly enjoyed by Hugh, Earl of Eglintouu, last deceased. This Earl was among the number of those Peers who engaged themselves against the King, anno 1 63 8, upon the first commencing of our bloody civil war : he had the command of a regiment in the army that was sent to Ireland, anno 1 642, toward the suppressing the rebellion of the native Irish :f he was likewise personally en- gaged in the battle of Longmarstonmuir, anno 1643, in the ser- vice of the Parliament of England against the King, where he behaved with abundance of courage, yet his Lordship still retained a respect and affection to his Majesty's person, and no man more abominated the murder of the Lord's anointed than he. He heartily concurred with, and was extremely satisfied with the restoration of King Charles II. by whom he was constituted Captain of his guard of horse, s anno 1650; and the next year, while he was raising forces in the Western parts for the King's service, he was surprised at Dunbarton by a party of English horse, and sent prisoner to the town of Hull, and afterward re- moved to Berwick upon Tweed, suffering likewise the sequestra- tion of his estate till the restoration made restitution to him, anno 16(50. His first wife was Anne, daughter of Alexander, first Earl of Linlithgow, by whom he had First, Hugh, his success'or in the honour. Second, Sir Henry Montgomery, of Giffen, died without chil- dren. Third, Sir Alexander, a Colonel in Ireland, in which kingdom he died. e Spotiswood's History. f Guthry's Memoirs. S My Lord Kingston's History of the Family of Winton- LORD ARDROSSAN. 29 1 Fourth, Colonel James Montgomery, of Coelsrleld, ancestor So the present Earl. Fifth, Robert, who in his youth making choice of a military life, went over to the wars in Ireland. Anno 164'?., he was first made a Captain in his father's regiment, after which he listed himself in the service of the Parliament of England, where in time he arrived to the degree of a Major-general, and acquired the reputation of a man of courage, and a good officer: he firmly adhered to King Charles II. and in his Majesty's service he gave many signal proofs of his loyalty and valour on several occasions, especially at that memorable encounter at Dunbar, 3d of Septem- ber, 1650, in which action he performed the part of a brave and valiant commander; likewise he commanded in the quality of Major-general of the horse in the royal army at Worcester, 3d of September, 1051, where he received diverse wounds, and had the misfortune to be taken prisoner, whence making his escape out of the castle of Edinburgh in disguise, anno l65Q,h he got beyond sea to the King, and returned with his master, anno 1Q6O, being one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed Chamber. He married Margaret, daughter of James, Viscount of Kilsyth, by whom he had James Montgomery, Esq. his son and heir. His Lordship had likewise two daughters; first, Margaret, married to John, first Earl of Tweedale; after his death, to Wil- liam, Earl of Glencairn. The second, Anne, died unmarried. He married to his second wife Margaret, daughter of Walter, Lord Bucleugh, widow of James, Lord Ross, but by her he had no succession. And arriving to the seventy-third year of his age, he departed this life the /th of January, l66l, his estaste and honour devolving on Hugh, his son, seventh Earl, who was a man of perfect loyalty in the time of our civil troubles, as appears in all the ac- counts of those times, particularly by the Memoirs of the Bishop of Dunkeld, his cotemporary. In ]()43, he raised a troop of horse, with which he marched in person, and fought valiantly at Longmarstonmuir, and several other battles and skirmishes, and continuing to adhere faithfully to the royal cause, he was there- fore excepted out of Cromwell's indemnity, in 1(354.' h History of Seton, by the Lord Kingstnun. * Original Act of Indemnity, penes me. 2p2 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. By Anne, his first wife, daughter of James, Marquis of Ha- milton, he had one daughter, Lady Anne, married to James Farl of Findlater. Also by Mary, his second wife, daughter of John, Earl of Rothes, he had First, Alexander, his successor. Second, Francis Montgomery, of Giffen, who was one of the Lords of the Privy-council, and one of the Commissioners of the Treasury in the reign of King William and Queen Anne. He was appointed one of the Commissioners upon the part of Scotland to treat upon a nearer union with England in 170f">, which was at that time completed. He had no issue by Margaret, his first wife, daughter and sole heir of Alexander, Earl of Leven; but by Eli- sabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair, of Loehermackhouse, in Vicecomitatu tie Haddii gtoun, he had, first, John Montgomery, Esq. member of parliament for the county of Air. Second, Alex- ander one of the colonels in her Majesty's foot guards, who died a very hopeful youth of his death wounds at the battle of Al« manza, in 171I3 also Elisabeth, a daughter, married to Patrick Ogilvy, of Lonmay. This Earl had moreover five daughters; First, Mary, married to George, Earl of Winton, sans issue. Second, Margaret, to James, second Earl of Loudon. Third, Christian, to John, fourth Lord Balmerinoch. Fourth, Eleanor, to Sir David Dunbar, of Baldoon, in Viceco- mitatu de Wigtoun, Bart, and had issue. Fifth, Anne, to Sir Andrew Ramsay, of Abbotshall, Bart. Lie departing this life, anno 1669, was succeeded by Alexander, his son and heir, eighth Earl, who was named one of the Lords of the Privy council, 1st of May, 1680, and dying in the end of the year 1/01, left issue by Elisabeth his wife, daughter of William, Earl of Dumfries. First, Alexander, the next Earl. Second, Major Hugh. And, Third; Major John Montgomery. And, Mary, mairied to Sir James Agnew, of LoehnaWj and had issue. Which Alexander, ninth Earl, was one of the I ords of the Privy-council to King William, and one of the Commissioners of the Treasury. In 1/00, he had a patent to sit and vote in the parliament of Scotland, as Lord High Treasurer, all officers of state, though neither peers, nor elected as commissioners, having by the constitution a place in parliament, and the crown a right, LORD ARDR03SANT. 2g3 when an)' one of the offices was vacant, to appoint one to re- present in parliament the said office. Upon the dissolution of the parliament in 171O, he was, on the JOth of November the same year, elected one of the Sixteen Peers of Scotland to the parliament of Great Britain; also to the par- liament in 1713, also in 1/1 1, his Lordship was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Chamberlain-court, which W3S then erected. He died 1~20, having married, first, Margaret, daughter of William, Lord Cochran, son and heir of William, Larl of Dun- donald, by whom he had two sons; First, Hugh. And, Second, Alexander; who both died in the year lrjyfj. Also four daughters, first, Catherine, married to James, Earl. of Galloway, and had issue. Second, Eupheme, to George Lockhart, of Carnwath, and had issue. Third, Grace, to Robert, Earl of Carnwath, and had issue. Fourth, Jean, to Sir Alexander Maxwel, of Monrieth, Bart, and had issue. His second wife was Anne, daughter of George, Earl of Aberdeen, by whom he had a daughter, Lady Mary, married to Sir David Cunninghame, of Milncr tig, and had issue. His third marriage was with Susanna, daughter of Sir Archi- bald Kennedy, of Colzean, Bart, by whom he had seven daugh- ters. Lady Elisabeth, married to Sir John Cunninghame, of Ca- prington, Bart. Lady Helen, married to the Hon. Francis Stewart, son of the Earl of Murray, and had issue. Lady Susanna, married to John Renton, of Lamerton, Esq. and had issue Lady Margaret, married to Sir Archibald Macdonald, of Mac- donald, Bart, and had issue the late Lord Macdonald, &c. Lady Frances. Lsdy Christian, married to James Murray, of Abercairny, Esq. and had issue. Lady Grace, married to Eayne, Esq. The Karl was succeeded by his eldest son, Alexander, the tenth Earl, who was unfortunately shot on October 2-ith, i;6j, by Mungo Campbell, from whom he was 2Q4. • PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. endeavouring to take a gun, with which the murderer was sport* ing in his Lordship's grounds.k Dying unmarried, he was succeeded by his only brother, Archibald, the eleventh Earl, who married, first, October l6th, 1770, Jane Ogilvie, daughter of George, eighteenth Earl of Crawford, who died in January 177S. And, secondly, Frances, sister of Sir William Twysden, Bart, of Roydon Hall, in Kent, and had issue; First, Mary, born March 5th, 1787, married, March 29th, 1803, Archibald, Lord Montgomery, son of the present Earl of Eglington, Second, Jane^ born May 20th, 1788, and died November J 6th, 1805. The Earl was a General in the army, and Colonel of the 51st regiment of foot, and was frequently returned one of the Sixteen Peers. His Lordship deceasing in 1/9*5, without issue male, the honours and the ancient estate of Eglington devolved upon the descendants of the abovenamed Colonel James Montgomery, of Coilsjield, who married, first, Jane, daughter of William Primrose, of Carrington, Esq. and by her had two daughters; and, secondly, Catharine Arbuckle, wi- dow of John Baillie, Esq. of the Abbey, and had issue, a son, Alexander, of Coilsjield, who married Lilias, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Montgomery, of Skelmorlie, and had issue by this marriage, his eldest son, Hugh Montgomery, the present and twelfth Earl, and first Lord Ardrossan; by which last title his Lordship was advanced to the British Peerage, February 1st, 1SO0. His Lordship married his cousin, Elcrmora Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton, Esq. of Bowertree-hill, in the county of Ayr, and has issue two sons and two daughters, viz. First, Archibald, Lord Montgomery, a Major-general in the army, married, March 29th, 1803, Lady Mary Montgomery, eldest daughter of Archibald, the eleventh Earl of Eglington. Second, Roger, in the royal navy, died January 1799- Third, Lilias, married to D'undas Macqueen, Esq. Fourth, Jane. Titles. Hugh Montgomery, Earl of Eglington, and Lord Montgomery, in Scotland; and Lord Ardrossan, in England. k See Dodsley's An. Reg. 1770, p. 219. LORD ARDROSSAN. 2QS Creations. Lord Montgomery, 1427; Earl of Eglington, JoO.'J, Scotch honours; and Lord Ardrossan, in England, February 1st, 1S06. Arms. Quarter]}' first and fourth Azure, three flowers-de- lis, Or; second and third, Gules, three annulets, Or, stoned, Azure; all witLin a border, Or, flowered and countei flowered, Gules. Supporters. Two dragons vert vomiting fire. Crest. A maid holding in her dexter hand a man's head, and in the sinister an anchor. Motto. Garde bien. Seats.. At Eglington, in the county of Air; and Ardrossan, in the same county. 296 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, MAITLAND, LORD LAUDERDALE. \_Earl of Lauderdale, in Scotland.'] It appears from sundry ancient deeds and evidences, that the Maitlands were very early possessors of the barony of Thirl- stane, in Hadingtounshire; for I find that Dominus Ricakdus de Mautlant gave to the Monks of Dryburgh terras suas de Hauhentside in territorio suo de Thirle- stane pro salute animus suae C5* -sponsa; suce antecessorum CS* succes- sorum suorum in perpetuum* Likewise he gave in pure alms to the said convent, Omnes terras quas Walterus de Giling tenult in jeodo suo de Thirlestane £5 pastura in communi de Thirlestane ad quadraginta oves sexaginta vaccas & ad viginti equos. To Sir Richard succeeded William de Mautlant, his son, in the barony of Thirlestane, who ratified and confirmed to the monastery of Dryburgh, omnes terras quas Dominus Ricardus de Mautlant pater suus fecit dictis Monachis in territorio de Thirlestane.h The next of this noble family I have found, is Thomas de Thirlestane, who gave in free alms to the religious of Dryburgh, Decimas Molendini sui de Thirlestane/ pro salute anhnce suce; and to the Abbot of Kelso he grams a wadset of diverse lands within the territory of Thirlestane,'1 for a certain feu duty to be paid to him by the convent for ever. Sir Robert Maitland, successor to the former, obtained a grant of the lands of Lethingtoun, from Sir John Gillard, Knt, 3 Chaitulary of Drj burgh in the Lawyers Library, MS. « Ibid. * Memoirs of the Family of Lauderdale,. MS. b Ibid. LORD LAUDERDALE. 297 Lord of Yester, to be holden blanch of the granter, which is confirmed the 15th of October, 17th of King David II. anno 1340*.s He was succeeded by John, his son and heir, who designs himself Joannes de Maut- lant, Dominits de Thirlestane, films & lucres Rolerti Mautlant quondam dom'ini ejusdem, when he makes a donation of the lands of Snaldon to the Monks of Dryburgh, pro salute animce sua;, Patris & Matris su anno 1567> Lethingtoun 's ■wisdom and repu- tation was such, that both parties couried him to be of their side; but he did not determine himself to any party at first, but did fall in with either of them as he thought they intended the honour and safety of the Queen, and the good of the country; and as he could not justify the Queen's actings, so he. was a strenuous op- poser of those, methods that were taken against her by her own subjects at the court of England, as importing high contempt against their native princes, and highly derogatory to the honour of Scotland, in subjecting it and their Sovereign to the cognizance of a foreign court; but his warmest side was ever toward the Queen, in whose interest he appeared, by joining with Sir Wil- liam Kirkakly in keeping out the castle of Edinburgh against the young King, and the authority of the Regent, for which he was 0 Irving's Lives of Scotch Poets, II. ic.4.. P Historical Account of the College of Justice, MS. S Memoirs of the Family of Lauderdale, MS. * Charta in publicis Archivis. » Ibid. 1 Memoirs of the Family of Lauderdale. " Charta in Rotulis Marix R^gma?, data 4 December, 1558. 300 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. deprived of the Secretary's place, anno 1570.x This celebrated man makes a conspicuous figure during the turbulent reign of Queen Mary, in the pages of Robertson. In 1558, he was ap- pointed Principal Secretary of State to the Queen. The elegant historian gives the following character of him: " Maitland had early applied to public business admirable natural talents, im- proved by an acquaintance with the liberal arts; and, at a time of life when his countrymen of the same quality were following the pleasures of the chase, or serving as adventurers in foreign armies, he was admitted into all the secrets of the cabinet, and put upon a level with persons of the most consummate experience in the management of affairs. He possessed, in an eminent degree, that intrepid spirit, which delights in pursuing bold designs, and was no less master of that political art and dexterity, which is neces- sary for carrying them on with success. But these qualities were deeply tinctured with the neighbouring vices ; his address some- times degenerated into cunning; his acuteness bordered upon ex- cess of subtlety and refinement; his invention, ever fertile, sug- gested to him, on some occasions, chimerical systems of policy, little suitable to the genius of the age; and his enterprising spirit engaged him in projects vast and splendid, but beyond his utmost power to execute. All the contemporary writers, to whatever fac- tion they belong, mention him with an admiration, which nothing could have excited but the greatest superiority of penetration and abilities." In 1573, he joined with Kirkaldy in keeping the castle of Edinburgh against the young King; but the garrison at last mutinied, and the castle was surrendered to Drury, to whom Kirkaldy and Maitland became prisoners. Morton insisted they should iuffer the punishment due to their rebellion. He first confined them to separate prisons; and soon after, with Eliza- beth's consent, condemned Kirkaldy and his brother to be hanged at the cross of Edinburgh. Maitland, who did not expect to be treated more favourably, prevented the ignominy of a public execution by a voluntary death, and " ended his days," says Mel- ville, " after the old Roman fashion," 1573. Leaving issue, by Mary his wife, daughter of Malcolm, Lord Fleming, a son, James, who died without male issue, and a daughter, Mary, married to Robert, first Earl of Roxburgh^ His brother, Sir John Maitland, born about 1537, became x Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. V Johnstoni Historia rerum Britannicarum. LORD LAUDERDALE. 301 finally his heir mile. Though originally in the interest of Queen Mary, who made him Lord Privy Seal, 156/, he was made a Se- nator of (he College of Justice, after Morton's fall, and advanced to the office of Secretary of State, 1584 In 1580, in defiance of the intrigues of his enemy, Captain James Stewart, he was appointed Lord High Chancellor; and, together with that dignity, enjoyed all the power and influence of a prime minister. He was created a Peer by the title of Lord Maitland of Thirle- stane, May 1 8th, )5gO. He was author of a poem preserved by Pinkerton, containing a Satire Jgarus Sklandereus Toungis; and of several epigrams in the Delkice Poetarum Scotorum: he died in 15g5. " This year/ says Robertson, " the King lost Chancellor Maitland, an able minister, on whom he had long devolved the whole weight of public affairs. As James loved him while alive, he wrote, in honour of his memory, a copy of verses, which, when compared with the compositions of that age, are far from being inele- gant." He married Jean, only daughter of James, Lord Fleming, by Barbara his wife, daughter of James, Duke of Chatlerauk. By her he had John, his successor. And one daughter, Anne, married to Robert, Lord Seaton, son and heir apparent to George, first Larl of Winton. This worthy Lord, who made his exit out of this world on the 3d of October, 1505, as has been said, was interred at the church of Hadingtoun, King James honouring him with this epitaph of his own composing: Thou passenger that spies with gazing eyes, This trophie sad of Death's triumphant dart, Consider when this outward tomb thou sees, How rare a man leaves here his earthly part : His wisdom and his uprightness of heart, His piety, his practice of our state; His quick engine so verst in every art, As equally not all were in debate. Thus justly hath his death brought forth of late An heavie grief in Prince and subjects all, That vertue, love, and vice do bear at hate, Though vitious men rejoices at his fall. 302 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. As for himself, most happy doth he die, Though for his Prince ii most unhappy be. John, second Lord Thirlestane, the Chancellor's son, was a nobleman of great honour and probity, and managed his affairs with that conduct and discretion, that he made considerable ad- ditions to his fortune. He was much favoured by King James VI. who created him first Viscount of Lauderdale, and thereafter honoured him with the title of Earl of Lauderdale, by letters patent bearing date 24th of March, l624.z It seems that he bad no state employment, save that he was some short time President of the Council, and one of the ordi- nary Lords of the Session, from which he was removed anno l62G.a I think it not foreign here to remark of this noble Lord, that he was so very well acquainted with his own affdirs, that he made exact inventories of all his charters and writs, which was very happy for the family afterwards, for the charter chest being concealed under ground for preservation in the time of the civil war, the writs were so entirely defaced at the Restoration, that they were become illegible, but by reason of the character this Earl had of integrity, these very inventories were by order of par- liament appointed to supply the place of the ancient records and evidences of the family, the clerk register signing every page of the book in which they were written. This worthy Lord1, departing this life in February 1045, c was interred at the church of Hadingtoun with his ancestors; and the learned Mr. Drummond, of Hawthornden, made this epitaph upon him: Of those rare worthies who adorn'd our North, And shin'd like constellations, thou alone Rcmainedst last, great Maitland, charg'd with worth Second in vertue's theatre to none, But finding all eccentric in our times, Religion into superstition turn'd, Justice silene'd, exiled, or inurn'd, Truth, faith and charity reputed crimes, z Chaita in Rotulis jacebi Vf. a Balfour's Ann.iir. k See his character in Lord Clarendon's Hist. V. 134., c Bishop Guthrie's Memoirs from 1638 to 1649.. LORD LAUDERDALE. 303 The young man destinate by sword to fall, And trophies of their countries spoils to rear; Strange laws the ag'd and prudent to appal, And forc'd sad yokes of tyranny to bear, And for, nor great, nor virtuous minds a room, Disdaining" life thou shroud'st thee in thy tomb. By Isabel his wife, only daughter of Alexander, Earl of Dum- fermling, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, by Lilias his wife, daughter of Patrick, Lord Drummond, he had First, John, Duke of Lauderdale. Second, Robert, who married Margaret, daughter and sole heir of John Lundin of that Ilk, by whom he had one daughter, Sophia Lundin of that Ilk, married to John, Earl of Melfort. Third, Charles, thereafter Earl of Lauderdale. John, second Earl, afterward Duke of Lauderdale, and Earl of Guilford, in the beginning of the civil war was among the most forward for the covenant, and prosecuted it for some time with the most eminent animosity. d He was much trusted by that party in the. management of affairs both in church and state. When he was a very young man, his Lordship was sent one of the Com- missioners from the church of Scotland to the Assembly of Divines at Westminbter, anno 1043, for the framing a new model of go- vernment in the church. The next year he was appointed one of the Commissioners from the States of Scotland to treat with the King at Uxbridge;e but that treaty ending without the effect desired, he was again commissioned from the parliament to treat with his Majesty at Hampton Court in the year l64/,f the con- clusion of which was the raising an army from Scotland toward therescue of his Majesty. As soon as the army was ready to march into England, his I ordship was sent over to Holland to require that the Prince of Wales might repair to the Scots army, which was agreed to in the treaty; but the misfortune that befel the army at Preston put a stop thereto, so that the Earl, after a few weeks stay at the Hague, bent his course homeward to employ his interest for serving the King; but before he came thither, he came to understand that the state of affairs was so much altered, that the engagement was declared unlawful, and to what penalties he himself and all others who were die promoters thereof were liable to; whereupon, 4 The Earl of Clarfer.don's History of the Civil War. e Ibid. f Ibid. 304 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. without suffering his ship to go into any port, he returned again into Hollands to offer his service to the Prince, who by that time was become King by the murder of his father. Here my Lord Lauderdale staid till after his Majesty's coming over to Scotland in 160O: his Lordship soon followed, though he was not admitted to come near the court, or so much as wait upon the King till the meeting of the parliament 16.51, wherein all the different parties seemed to be united for his Majesty's service.11 His Lordship marched with the King into England. Upon the loss of the army at Worcester he was taken prisoner, and com- mitted to the Tower, where he underwent a long and severe im- prisonment for the space of nine years. At length by the restoration of his Majesty, in 1660, he ob- tained his liberty, when his Lordship became the Prime Minister of State; and for the space of twenty years he disposed of all the offices and honours of the kingdom entirely without a rival. He was first constituted sole Secretary of State anno l6'6l, President of the Council, one of the extraordinary Lords of the Session, first Commissioner of the Treasury, when the treasury was turned into commission, and one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bed-chamber: also, in 1669, he was appointed High Commissioner to the parliament, and bore the same character in four succeeding sessions, and had the honour likewise to represent his Majesty's person in the Convention of Estates 16/S: in all which important trusts deporting himself with great ability, his Majesty in testimony thereof, upon the 2d of May, \Q"J1, raised him to the dignity of Duke of Lauderdale, and to the heirs male of his bodyj' also upon the 25th June, 23th of Charles II. his Grace was made a Peer of England, by the title of Eakl or Guilford, k and one of the Privy council in that kingdom 3 and last of all, as a further testimony of his Majesty's favour, he was elected one of the Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter. But notwithstanding all those high advancements in honour and preferments, together with the loud and uninterrupted favour of his Prince ; upon a new turn of affairs at court toward the end King Charles's reign, his Grace was obliged to resign all his of- fices, except those that were to continue during his life, and he 8 The Earl of Clarendon's History of the Civil War. h Ibid. i Charta in Rotulh Caioli II. ad annum 1672. * Sir William Dugdak's Earonageo England, Vol. II. LORD LAUDERDALE. 305 died under a cloud soon thereafter, on the 24th of August, 1682, and was interred in the vault of his family at Hadingtoun church, where you may read this inscription on a tablet of brass fixed on his coffin : In Spem beatce Resurrectionis, Hie conditur illustrissimus fcff nolilissimus Princeps at Domi- nus, D. Joannes Dux de Lawderdale, Marchio de March, Comes de Lawderdale £s" Guildford, Vicecomes Maitland, Dominus de Thirtestane, Muslehurgh, Bolton, tff Petersham ; s&pius ad Par- liamenta &' Ordinum hujus Regni Conventus tenenda Prorex; a Restauratione Regia Majestatis, per 20 Annos solus, pro Regno Scotice, Regum Optimo, Carolo Secundo, a Secretis; Prases Secreti Concilii; pr,rdicto potentissimo Regi, in Regno Anglice, a Secre- tioribus Conciliis & ex Culiculariis Pr'nhariis unus; Castelli Regit Edinburgeni Constalularius cs1' Gulernator: Nobilissimi Ordinis Garterii Eques. Natus 21 Maii M. DC. XVI. Leidintonce. Obiit 24 Die Augusti, prope Fonles de Tun bridge, Anno humance Salutis M.DC.LXXXIL JEtatis 68. " The Earl of Lauderdale," says Burnet, " afterwards made Duke, had been for many years a zealous covenanter; but in the year 47 he turned to the King's interests; and had continued a prisoner all the while after Worcester fight, where he was taken. He was kept for some years in the Tower of London, in Portland castle, and in other prisons, till he was set at liberty by those who called home the King. So he went over to Holland, and since die continued so long, and contrary to all men's opinions, in so high a degree of favour and confidence, it may be expected that I should be a little copious in setting out his character, for I knew him very particularly. He made a very ill appearance; he was very big: his hair red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was loo big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the historians, ancient and modern : so that he had great materials. He had with these an extraordinary memory, and a copious but unpolished expression. He was a man, as the Duke of Buckingham called him to me, of a blundering understanding. He was haughty beyond expression, VOL. JX. . X 300 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND abject to those he saw he must stoop to, but imperious to all others. He had a violence of passion that carried him often to fits like madness, in which he had no temper. If he took a thing wrong, it was a vain thing to study to convince him : that would rather provoke him to swear, he would never be of another mind : he was to be let alone : and perhaps he would have forgot what he had said, and come about of his own accord. He was the coldest friend and the violentest enemy I ever knew: I felt it too much not to know it. He at first seemed to despise wealth: but he delivered himself up afterwards to luxury and sensuality: and by that means he ran into a vast expense, and stuck at nothing that was necessary to support it. In his long imprisonment he had great impressions of religion on his mind: but he wore these out so entirely, that scarce any trace of them was left. His great ex- perience in affairs, his ready compliance with every thing that he thought would please the. King, and his bold offering at the most desperate counsels, gained him such an interest in the King, that no attempt against him, nor complaint of him, could ever shake it, till a decay of strength and understanding forced him to let go his hold. He was in his principles much against Popery and arbitrary government; and yet, by a fatal train of passions and interests, he made way for the former, and had almost established the latter. And, whereas some by a smooth deportment made the first beginnings of tyranny less discernible and unacceptable, he by the fury of his behaviour heightened the severity of his ministry, which was liker the cruelty of an inquisition than the legality of justice. With all this he was a Presbyterian, and retained his aversion to King Charles I. and his party to his death." This great Duke married, first, Anne, daughter and coheir of Alexander, Earl of Hume, by whom he had only one daughter, Anne, married to John, second Marquis of Tweedale. And after her death, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and heir of William Murray, Earl of Dysart, widow of Sir Lionel Tolmache, of Helmingham, but by her had no succession. The Duke of Lauderdale dying thus without male children, the dignity of Duke extinguished with himself, the honour of Earl devolving upon Charles Maitland, of Hattoun, his brother; which Charles, third Earl of Lauderdale, was constituted Treasurer Deputy, anno 1670, as his Lordship was also one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and General of the Mint during the ministry of the Duke his brother. He married Elizabeth., daughter and LORD LAUDERDALE. 307 heir of Richard Lawder, of Hattoun, by whom he had a nume- rous issue. First, Richard, fourth Earl of Lauderdale. Second, John, fifth Earl of Lauderdale. Third, Charles Maitland, Esq. who married Lilias, daughter to Sir John Colquhoun, of Luss, widow of Sir John Stirling, of Kier. Fourth, William Maitland, Esq. who married Christian, daughter and heir of Robert, Viscount of Oxenford. Fifth, Alexander Maitland, Esq. Sixth, Isabel, the eldest daughter, married to John, Lord El- phinston. Seventh, Mary, the youngest, to Charles, Earl of Southesk. This Earl died upon the 9th of June, 169],1 the honour de- volving upon Richard, his son and heir, fourth Earl of Lauderdale, who in his younger years was bred up to every thing that was proper to qualify him for those great employments his ancestors had en- joyed in the state, and his improvement so far exceeded his years, that he was very early admitted into the Privy-council, and made Lord Justice Clerk, anno 1681; but his father-in-law, the Earl of Argyle, having made his escape out of the castle of Edinburgh, and some letters of his being intercepted and deciphered, whereby it appeared some had been written to him; and though the mat- ter of them was very innocent, yet it being correspondence with a person condemned, it brought him under a cloud,"1 and he was deprived of his place.; but notwithstanding, he continued invio- lably devoted to the interest of King James, and upon the Revo- lution he followed the fortune of the said King into France, where he died "some years thereafter, leaving no surviving issue by Anne his wife, daughter of Archibald, Earl of Argyle, so that the title of Earl of Lauderdale came to Sir John, his brother, fifth Earl, who being bred a lawyer, was promoted to be one of the Senators of the College of Justice, anno \68Q, and thereafter to be General of the Mint, which office he enjoyed till his death, which happened the 13th of August, 17 10.° By Margaret his wife, only daughter of Alexander, Earl of Glencairn, he had three sons; viz. l Public prints of 169 1, in the Lawyers' Library. ro Memoirs of the Earls of Lauderdale. n He is known as the translator of Virgil. " History of Europe for 1710. 308 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. First, James, Lord Maitland, who in his father's time mar- ried Jean, daughter of John, Earl of Sutherland, and dying in the beginning of the year 1710, left one daughter, Lady Jean, Second, Charles, the next Earl. Third, John, a Colonel in the guards. And a daughter, Elizabeth, married to James, Earl of Hynd- ford. Which Charles, sixth Earl, was constituted General of the Mint upon the removal of Alexander, Earl of Hume, soon after King George's accession to the crown. He was also constituted President of the Court of Police, and Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff of the county of Mid Lothian, and was returned one of the Sixteen Peers for Scotland, 17-1 1; and died July 19th, 1744. His Lordship married Elizabeth Ogilvy, daughter of James, fourth Earl of Findlater and Seafield, the last Chancellor of Scot- land, by whom he had issue, First, James, the late Earl. Second, Charles, married, first, to Miss Barclay, heiress of Towie, by whom he had a son, Charles, who died November 28th, 1795; secondly, to , daughter of Peter Haldane, of Gleneagles, Esq.; and, thirdly, to Janet, daughter of Sir Moncrief, Bart. Third, George, an Archdeacon in Ireland, died in 1763. Fourth, Richard, Adjutant-general in America, died August 24th, 1772. Fifth, Alexander, a General in the army, and Colonel of the 49th regiment of foot, married Penelope, daughter'' of Colonel Madan, of Hertfordshire, who died December 20th, 1805, aged seventy-five. Sixth, Frederick, Captain in the navy, married to Miss Dick, and died on December 16th, 1786, leaving issue a daughter, mar- ried April 4th, 1/93, to Henry Scrymgeour, Esq. Seventh, Patrick, married to the Countess dowager of Rothes, and deceased May 17th, 1797, leaving. one daughter, Mary -Tur- ner, born in 1775. Eighth, John, died June 29th, 1779- Ninth, Elizabeth, married, first, to James Ogilvy, Esq. of Rothemoy; and, secondly, to General Anstruther. Tenth, Margaret, died unmarried. Eleventh, Janet, married Thomas Dundas, of Fingask, Esq. P Cousin to William Cowper, the Poet. LORD LAUDERDALE. 309 and died December 30th, 1805, having had issue, Thomas, a Ge- neral in the army, who died in the West Indies, and to whose memory a monument is erected in the cathedral church of St. Paul j and Charles, now M. P. for the county of Berks. His Lordship was succeeded by his eldest son, James, the seventh Earl, who was born in 17 18, and married, in 174g, Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Lomb, Bart, (by the daughter and heir of Thomas Turner, Esq. of Ueden, in Kingston, near Canterbury), by whom (who died on July 18th, 1789) he had issue, First, Valdave-Charles Lauder, who died young. Second, James, the present Earl. Third, Thomas, a Privy Counsellor, commanding the forces in the Island of Ceylon, and a Lieutenant-general in the army. Fourth, John, in the army, who died in October 1768. Fifth, William Mordaunt, a Brigadier-general in the army; married, first, April 2Sth, 1797, to Miss Napier, daughter of Major-general Napier; and, secondly, the widow of Dalhousie Watherston, Esq. of Manderston, in Scotland, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Walker, of Tilehurst, in Berks. Sixth, Charles, who died young. Seventh, Hannah, who died young. Eighth, Elizabeth, who married, March, 1770, to David Ga- vin, Esq. by whom she had issue a daughter, who married, Sep- tember 2d, 1794, John, Earl of Breadalbane. Ninth, Mary Julian, married March 9th, 1773, to Thomas Hogg, Esq. and has issue. Tenth, Hannah-Charlotte, married April 18th, 1785, the sixth Marquis of Tweedale, who died May 18th, 1804, leaving issue. Eleventh, Jane, married, first, December 22d, 1787, Samuel Long, Esq.; and, secondly, in 1808, William Houston, Esq. a Brigadier-general in the army. Twelfth, Anne, married, July 1st, 1783, Francis Dashwood, Esq. The Earl deceasing August 17th, 1789, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, James, the, present and eighth Earl of Lauderdale, and first Bakon Lauderdale, of England. His Lordship married, August 15th, 1782, Eleanor, only daughter of Anthony Todd, Esq. by whom he has issue, First, James, Viscount Maitland, born July 12th, 1784, M.Pf for Camelford, 1806. 310 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, Second, A son, born June 10th, 1785. Third, Another son, born March 4th, 1789. Fourth, A daughter, married May 8th, 1807, Robert Fraser, Esq. Fifth, a daughter, born October 10th, 1792. And, Sixth, A son, born November 5th, 1793. His Lordship before his accession to the Peerage sat in the House of Commons for Newport, Cornwall, 1780 3 and for Malmsbury, Wilts, 1784 3 and has always taken an active part in politics. In 1790, he was returned one of the Sixteen Peers of Scotland. In the administration of Lord Grenville, 1806, his Lordship was sent Ambassador to Paris to negociate a peace. On February 15th, 1806, his Lordship was elevated to the British Peerage, by the title of Lord Lauderdale of Thirlestane. Titles. James Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount, and Baron Maitland, of Thirlestane, in Scotland 3 and Lord Lauder- dale of Great Britain. Creations. Lord Maitland, May 15th, 159O3 Viscount, 16163 Earl of Lauderdale, March 24tb, 1 624, Scotch honours; and Lord Lauderdale of Great Britain, February 15th, 180(5. Arms. Or, a lion rampant couped in all its joints Gules, within a double tressure counterfiowered Azure. Supporters. Two eagles proper. Crest. A lion sejant full faced Gules, holding in his dexter paw a sword proper, hilted and pomelled Or, in the sinister a Flower-de-luce Azure, crowned Or. Motto. CONCILIO ET ANIMIS. Seats. Lauder- Forth, in the county of Berwick 3 and Hatton, in the county of Edinburgh. LORD GRANARD. 311 FORBES, LORD GRANARD. [Earl of Granard, in Ireland.'] This family, says the ancient Scotch historian Boece, as quoted by Sir David Dalrymple, were at their beginning called Bois/ but by killing a mighty bear that infested the country, they assumed the name of Forbes, and the coat armour which they now use. They had sundry grants of land in the Mearnes, from King Robert firuce, and the lands of Forbes in the shire of Aberdeen, from King Alexander II.; from whose reign, in the thirteenth century, that castle hath been the seat of the chief branch of the family. Alexander Forbes, the son of Alexander Bois, loyally adhering to King David Bruce (son of the said Robert), against Edward Baliol, who by the assistance of King Edward III. had usurped the crown of Scotland in 1331, was killed in the battle of Dupplin the year after. To him succeeded Sir John Forbes his son, who was knighted by King Robert II. successor to his uncle David (in whose service his father was killed), and being seated at Castle Forbes, was styled Sir John Forbes of that Ilk (a term used in Scotland, when the name of a family and seat are the same), and acquiring from Thomas, Earl of Mar, several lands in the county of Aberdeen, a In 1304, King Edward I. took the castle of Urquhait, and 'slew every person in ir, except the wife of Alexander Bois, lord of the castle, who was then pregnant; the child proved a boy, and he having slain a mighty bear, that in- fested the country, he received the appellation of For-Beast, and this was af- terwards corruptly pronounced Forbej. (Annals of Scotland, by Sir David DjI- rymple, Vol. I. p. 311.) 312 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. was confirmed therein by the charter of the said King, in 13Q3 ; and in 16Q5, appointed Justiciary within the bounds of Aberdeen, and Coroner of that shire. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Kennedy, of Dunure, by whom he had three sons, First, Sir Alexander, his heir. Second, Sir William (who married Margaret, daughter and heir to Sir William Frazer, of Philorth, with whom having the barony ofPitsligo, and a son, Alexander, he was ancestor to Alex- ander Forbes, created 24th July, 1633, Baron of Pitsligo, whose descendants long enjoyed that title.) Third, Sir John, the third son, who obtained the Thanedom of Formartin, by the marriage of Margery, daughter and heir to Sir Henry Preston, of Formartin, and was founder of the family of Tolquhon, from whom branched those of Foveran, Watertown, Colloden, and others. Sir Alexander, the eldest son, obtained a grant to him and his heirs, 10th December, 1423, from John, Earl of Buchan, of the lands of Mickle-Fintry, Blacktown, and Ballcross; and mar- rying Elizabeth, daughter of Douglas, left issue James, his heir, and a daughter, Annabella, married to Sir Patrick Gray, of Kynneff, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King James II. of Scotland, and b ancestor to the Lords Gray. Sir James, who succeeded about the year 1444, was knighted, and created Lord Forbes by King James II. and taking to wife Egidia, daughter of William Keith, Earl Marishall, had issue two sons, First, Sir William, his successor in title and estate, ancestor to Lord Forbes, of Scotland. Second, Patrick Forbes, of Corse. And a daughter, married to Malcolm Forbes, of Tolquhon. From Patrick Forbes, of Corsse, the younger son, de- scended Sir Arthur Forbes, of Castle-Forbes, in the parish of Clon- gish, and county of Longford, who, by patent dated at Dublin 1st April, 1622 (with James and Robert Forbes, Gentlemen, all na- tives of Scotland), were made free denizens of Ireland; and in pursuance of his Majesty's commission, dated 29th January, 1620, for the plantation of the county of Leitrim, the territories of O'Ferrall, Delvin, M'Coghlan, and Kilcoursie, in the King's County; of Iregan, in the Queen's County; and part of Clancoi- 11 Douglas, p. 312. LORD GRANARD. 313 man, in Westmeath; the King granted and confirmed to him for ever, 500 acres of arable and pasture land, and 670 of wood and bog, in the barony of Mohill, and county of Leitrim. And fur- ther (by virtue of the commission dated 30th September, 1619, for the plantation of the county of Longford, and the country of Elye O'Carroll, in fhe King's County), his Majesty granted to him and his heirs the lands of Clongisse, Ballymacbrian, and others, in the barony and county of Longford, containing 600 acres arable and pasture, and 668 acres of wood and bog; which were erected, with the lands granted to the said James and Ro- bert Forbes, into the manor of Castle-Forbes, with usual privileges, a Thursday market, and a fair on St. Bartholomew's day at Clon- gisse, and were confirmed 9th August, 1637, to his son, Sir Arthur, by virtue of the commission for remedy of defective titles, dated 7th September, 1636, in reversion after his mother's death, at the yearly rent of 14l. 12s. 2d. h. English, whereof 31. 5s. was added by way of increase, by virtue of the order and agreement of the late composition; and were further confirmed to him in fee, with other lands, 20th September, 1039. September 26th, 1628, he was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia; and having, by petition to the King, made discovery, that certain royal fishings did belong to his Majesty in the pro- vince of Ulster, having therein received the advice of the com- missioners for Irish causes, who seriously examined his proposi- tions, and certified their opinion; his Majesty, by letter from Westminster, 21st October, 1628, required the L. D. Falkland to inform himself of their quality and value, and after due exami- nation of all particulars, to cause his counsel to prosecute the eviction thereof into his Majesty's possession, by a due and legal course of proceeding/ wherein Sir Arthur was to give his best help and furtherance; after which the Deputy was authorised to grant unto him such a proportion as his Lordship should think fit; and in further recompense for that particular service, the King was pleased to bestow upon him, by Concordatum, out of the overplus of the value and first profits of the rest of the said royal fishery, not leased to him, the sum of 3001. English. He married Jeane, daughter of Lowther, Esq. and dying as by inquisition 14th April, 1632, had issue by her, who sur- vived him/ c Lodge Collect, d Her Lidjship was a great sufferer by the rebellion of 1641, as appears by 314 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND Sir Arthur, his heir, first Earl of Granard, then nine years of age; who was a person of great interest in the province of her deposition, sworn 3d September, 1642 (before John Watson, William Aid- rich, and Henry Brereton, Esqrs. commissioners for taking the examination of Protestants, concerning their losses and sufferings), wherein she declares, that about 25th October, she was robbed by the Irish rebels in the counties of Long- ford, Cavan, and Leitrim, of her means and goods to the value of 620I. 8 s. in cattle; 1S2I. in horses and mares; 331 1. 8 s. in sheep and hogs ; 156 1. 3 s. ^.A. in household-stuff, &c. the charge of building the house of Castle-Forbes, with the bawne, out-houses, gardens, orchards, and improvements, 1000 1.; stock in the farm-house, 40I.; corn in ground, 107 1.; corn in haggard, 140I. ; due debts, 289 1. 8 s.; her sons cloaths, worth 25 1.; a cloak-bag of small clothes of her own, worth 40s.; and she was also deprived of, and by the rebellion had lost the possession of the lands there (containing 600 acres), 129I.; and of 200 acres with the plantation house, and with the proportion of Drumeal, worth 47 1. a year, besides the charge of building that house and mill there, coming to 40 1. ; and also of the possession, rents, and profits of 200 acres, in the proportion of Home and Dirvellane, worth 20I. 10 s. per annum, and of the lands called the two Burgess-plots, in the corporation of St. Johntown, of the yearly rent of 14 1.; besides the charge of the buildings thereon, worth 120I. ; and of the proportion of land, containing 500 acres, in the county of Leitrim, of the yearly rent of 80 1, besides the charges of the building of the castle, bawn, and mill, upon the said lands of BalligeciL', amounting to 160 1.; and also of her lands, containing 1000 acres in the county of Cavan, being her jointure by her first husband, worth 260I. a year, &c. The feeding and relieving poor despoiled Protestants, to the number of 220, from about the 1st November, 1641, to 2d August, 1642, who otherwise must have perished, when she and they stooping to a most miserable and woful want, were enforced to desert the castle on quarter, go to Dublin, and at their coming away, leave to the rebels, arms and ammunition, worth 50I. so that her losses amounted to 3774.I. 8 s. 4'd. besides the future loss of her lands and means, worth 561!. 16s. a year. Her Ladyship's behaviour during the as- saults made on her house by the rebels, deserves particular notice; and it appears by the depositions of Arthur Auchmuty, of Castle-Forbes, and Martin Johnston, taken before the said commissioners, 13th September, 1642, that her Ladyship in the very beginning of the rebellion, fearing the dangers which ensued, she en- deavoured to furnish her castle with arms, ammunition, provisions, and men, to resist the rebels; and gathering all her British tenants in the county of L ngford, kept as strong watch and ward as possible. And the rebels soon after robbing all her tenants, with those of the Lady Longford and Sir John Seaton, who there- upon fled to Castle-Forbes for relief, and taking the castle of Longford, murder- ing the garrison after quarter given, prepared to besiege Castle-Forbes, and being 500 strong, built cabbins within musket-shot, and took their cattle, but were re- pulsed four several times ; when beleaguring the castle anew within pistol-shot, and making many trenches, they shot in at the windows, and killed some in the house and some on the walls, but with the loss of about eighty by the fire from the castle. After this they took the ivell by surprise, and in order to deprive the besieged of water, seized a Scottish man that endeavoured to go to the castle, and LORD GRANARD. 315 Ulster, and in the distracted time of the rebellion, an officer of horse: and being zealously affected to the royal interest, " was a commander in the northern parts of Scotland for King Char. II. which," as Sir Philip Warwick writes, " some time after Wor- cester fight cost the English some pains and marches, because the commanders were choice men, such as the Lord Glencairn; Sir Arthur Forbes, and Middleton ; yet Monk at length defeated them; and the very isles of Orkney, the Hebrides and Shetland, were reduced." After this he returned to Ireland, and being com- prehended within the articles made by General Monk with the Lord of Lome, and by the fourth head thereof, to enjoy his estate in Ireland, if the same was not disposed of; the government, in consideration that it did not appear that he ever acted, assisted, or countenanced the rebellion in Ireland, and that the levying of war by him was only in Scotland or England, ordered 17th Au- gust, 1655, that he should enjoy his estates in the counties of Leitrim and Longford. When the Restoration was concerted, between the Lord Broghill and Sir Charles Coote, he was sent to Brussels by Sir Charles, to assure the King, if he would please to come into Ireland, the whole kingdom would declare for him; hanging him, ripped up his belly, and threw him into the well. The castle being near starved for want of water, dug a h. le forty feet deep in the bcrwne, and re- covered water; and when any went out privately to seek relief, the rebels, from time to time, muidered and left them to be devoured by dogs and fowls, calling the Protestants of the castle, puritan dogs and heretics ; traitors to God and the King ; and threatening that man, -woman, and child should be cut off. When no relief was expected from the army, the Lady Forbes gave all her great horsts to eat; and after they were all spent, the besieged eat the stinking cow-hides, which had lain on dunghills in the batane from Christmas, or All-hallow tide, before; and were enforced to dry and grind upon quernes all the old sour grains of malt they could get, and bake them for bread, and the poorer sort eat the weeds from off the dunghills, so that they were put to strange misery and want. And when her Ladyship and Lady Seaton, by letters, earnestly desired leave for the poor to go into the garden, or before the castle-gate, to eat the giass, they refused, with say- ing, they -would hep them till the ravens did eat their guts. And two children going forth to eat weeds, the one was shot dead, and the other wounded. After which a poor woman, whose husband they had apprehended, going to beg his life, with two children at her feet and one at her breast, she and her sucking child were slain, one of the others had his neck broken, and the third hardly escaped. When the besieged were driven to that exigence, that they had nothing to eat, but were all very near to famish, then with much difficulty, Lady Forbes obtained quarter, to march away with their wearing clothes and arms to Trim, where 220 persons, through many dangers and miseries, were conducted, and thence escaped to Dub- lin. (LoJge.j 316 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. but the King, well knowing that Ireland must wait upon the fate of England, resolved to attend the vicissitude there, and dismissed Sir Arthur with such letters and commissions as he desired. Upon the Restoration he was considered, for his great abili- ties, as a fit person to compose the unsettled state of this king- dom, and was accordingly, 19th March, appointed one of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, for putting in execution his Majesty's declaration of 30th November, for the settlement of Ireland,e as he was again, 22d May, 1662; having, 9th Fe- bruary, 1(360, been made Captain of a troop of horse; and in l66l, was member of parliament for Mullengar/ In 1(363, the execution of a plot being intended on the 25th of May, by sur- e Collect. ( The King, as a reward of his services, and in satisfaction of a certain arrear, made him two grants, 2d April, and 27th July, 1661, of divers houses, gardens, castles, meadows, the Dominican abbey, with the park there to belong- ing; the abbey of the Canons regular, Sec. in Mullingar, which were confirmed by the Acts of Settlement : and the said town, with others in Westmeath, were, 9th March, 1674, constituted into the manor of Mullengar, with liberty to send two burgesses to parliament. And by the same grant, divers lands were an- nexed to the manors of Castle-Forbes and Aghevehunson, with power to empark Soo acres for deer :n each; and there being a Thursday market, and two fairs, 24th June and 1st November, at Mullengar, the King granted him two additional fairs, to be holden there iSth August and 26th March. He had also two grants upon the Acts of Settlement, of the lands of Esker, Orem, and others, in the county of Longford; and 1 8th January, 1678, an abatement of the new quit- rents imposed by the said Acts. And John Hollywood, of Amine, in the county of Dublin, Esq. being seised of several lands in that county and elsewhere, by decree of the Court of Claims; remainder to the crown, on failure of his issue male, his Majesty, 26th February, 1680, granted the same to the Lord Granard, consisting of the manors of Artaine, otherwise Tartaine, and great Hollywood's lands in Santry, with divers others in the counties of Dublin, Meath, and Wex- ford, to hold to him and his heirs for the term of 1000 years, at the yearly rent of 3 d. per acre, to commence from the expiration of Hollywood's interest. Also 17th May, 1678, his Lordship, and Colonel Alexander M'Donnel, of Drumers- naw, jointly purchased from Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, for 4C00I. the ma- nor of Lymrick, in the county of Leitrim, of which, zist March, 1680, they made a division, whereby his Lordship had all that part which lay in the barony of Moyhill (except the mill of Dromcree, and three parts of a curtron of Drom- cree thereto adjoining), and the cartron of Dromgillerane, in the larony of Lei- trim; and with Sir George Lane, Sir William Flower, Sir John Stevens, Sir Matthew Appleyard, and Colonel Robert Sandys,* he took to farm four baronies from the commissioners appointed to manage the forty-nine security in the county of Longford. * Collect. LORD GRANARD. 317 prising the castles of Dublin, Drogheda, Deny, and other places of strength, and to seize the person of the Duke of Ormond, L.L. Sir Arthur Forbes being then in the North, found reason to sus- pect that an insurrection was speedily intended, and discovered the designs formed for the surprise of Deny, Culmore, Lema- vaddy, and Raphoe; but as there was not a party of horse in the counties of Tyrone and Donegall on which he could depend, he resolved to run all hazards to prevent the intended mischief; and 24th May, secured Staples, member of parliament for Strabane, the chief conspirator, whom he imprisoned at Culmore; which when the soldiers in Derry understood, they thought fit to con- tinue in their duty; and the conspirators in the North finding their schemes hereby defeated, fled into Scotland to avoid their deserved punishment. After this he was sworn of the Privy-council, and 9th August, 1670, on the death of Marcu3, Viscount Dungannon, in consi- deration of his eminent loyalty and good services, and as a mark of the King's favour, was made marshal of the army, to have for his ordinary retinue one trumpeter and thirty horsemen lightly armed, with the pay of 687I. 8 s. 4d. a year; and moreover, had a pension of 6001. a year for secret services, without accompt, which on the establishment, commencing 1st January, 1687, was augmented to 6341. 12s. a year. On the 12th June, 1671, he was appointed one of the L.J. of the kingdom, as he was again 5th July/1675; and 26th Oc- tober that year, for the (1649) officers, pursuant to the King's declaration for the settlement of the kingdom,^ and by privy seal, dated at Whitehall 23d September, and h patent at Dublin 22d November that year, was created Baron Clanehugh, and Viscount of Granard, with the creation fee of 131. 6s. 8d. payable out of exchequer. April 1st, 1684, he was made Colonel of the royal regiment S Lodge Collect. h The preamble. Cum eximia merita et virtutes prsedilecti et fidelis sub- diti nostri Arthuri Forbesse Baronetti, Mareschalli exercitus nostri in regno nosr.ro Hiberniae, ac ad praesens unius Justiciariorum nostrorum dicti regni nostri Hi- berniae nobis abunde innotuerint : Commemorantes etiam immaculatarn ejus erga nos fidelitatem ac complurima, egregia ac acceptabilia servitia qua nobis hucus- que praestitit ; hinc est quod nos praedictum Arthurum Forbesse perpetuo regii favoris nostri monurnento posteris suis transmiitendo ornare et decorare decrevi- mus; ac cum ad statum et dignitatem Baronis et Vicecomitis hasreditarii hujus regni nostri Hiberniae prornovendum censuimus. Sciatis igitur, &c. Rot. pa% anno z7 Car. II. 4a p. d. 318 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of foot in Ireland; and 10th September, a Lieutenant-general of the army; and his Majesty by privy seal, dated at Whitehall 29th November, and by patent' 30 December that year, was pleased to advance him to the dignity of Earl of Granard, with the an- nual fee of 20 lk King James II. also on his accession, continued him in the pest of Lieutenant-general of the army, 20th June, 168.5, with the fee of 6341. 12s. a year; being 20th March pre- ceding, constituted one of the L. J. and with his colleague, Mi- chael, Archbishop of Armagh, having 50001. a year granted during his Majesty's pleasure. But being pressed by the Council for orders to empower the Roman Catholics to commit, without bail, any person accused, he grew weary of the government, and by letters to England, desired to be dismissed; but that party representing him to the King, as a person fit to be kept in his Majesty's inte- rest, being very prevalent in the North, the King wrote him a letter with his own hand, giving him assurance, th>. t nothing should be acted prejudicial to the Protestant interest, of which his Lordship was at that time very jealous. However, he soon found the King's proceedings in Ireland very contradictory to this assurance, and his Lordship asserting the cause of the Protes- tants, was, 24th March, 1689, dismissed from being Chairman of the council. December 1st, 1690, he was sworn of the Privy-council to King William; and the next day, signed the proclamation, for- bidding all their Majesties subjects of Ireland to use any trade with France, or to hold any correspondence or communication with the French King and his subjects. Colonel Michelburne marching with a detachment of his regiment, 500 militia foot of the province of Ulster, two troops of dragoons, and six field pieces, and encamping at Drumcliefe, about three miles from Sligo, gave an account to the Earl of Granard,1 who, 13th Septem- ber, 1691, joining the Colonel with the forces under his command before Sligo, his Lordship caused batteries to be rais d, and in- sinuated to the enemy such apprehensions of his artillery, which ' The preamble. N s reg'u mente nostra recolentes quamplurima bona at icceptabilia servkia nobis per praeditectum et perquam fidelem consanguineum et consiliarium nostrum Arthurum Vicecomitem de Granard praestita; ipsum pras- fatum Arthurum Vicecomitem de Granard, in altiorem honoris classem et in statum, gradum, et dignitatem Comitis hsereditarii hujus regni nostri Hiberniae promovendum censuimus. Sciatis igitur, &c. * Enrolled 20th May, 1686, 2° Jac. II. 41 p. D. 1 Lodge Collect. LORD GRANARD. 319 they were made to believe he had brought with him, that they surrendered that strong fort on the 15th ; 600 men marching out under SirTeige O Regan, leaving sixteen pieces of cannon, when Colonel Michelburue was made the governor. October 20th, 1692, he took his seat in parliament, and two days afterwards was appointed of the committee, to prepare an address, containing the humble and hearty thanks of the House of Peers to their Majesties, for the great care they had taken in delivering this kingdom from Popery and slavery.01 He built the church of Castle-Forbes, and settled the linen manufacture at that place; and dying in or about the year l6g5, was there buried. He married Catharine (whose personal estate of 5001. was seized by King James),n daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen, of Mosstown, in the county of Longford, Bart, widow of Sir Alex- ander Stewart (ancestor to the late Earl of Blessinton), and by her, who died in Dublin Sth December, 1714, and was buried with him, had issue five sons, and one daughter; viz. First, Arthur,0 his successor. Second, Robert," killed at the siege of Buda in 1686, and bu- ried in a monastery near Vienna. Third, Francis, <• on whom, jointly with his brother Thomas, King Charles II. (having a just sense of their father's services), by letter from Hampton Court, 17th July, 16/4, settled a pension of 1831. 8 s. a year, for their respective lives, from the death of Arthur, Earl of Donegall, on the civil list, which was continued 1st January, 16S7. He died unmarried. Fourth, Patrick/ died also unmarried. Fifth, Thomas,s died without issue. The daughter, Lady Catharine,1 was married to Arthur, the third Earl of Donegall, and died 15th June, 1643. Sir Akthur, the second Earl of Granard, succeeded his father 1st March, 1(385, in the command of his regiment j made a lease to King William, 4th December, 1/01, of the ground on the east side of Mullengar, whereon the barrack is built; and having a pension of 5001. a year, had the same confirmed by privy seal 10th April, and by patent 21st July, 1703,u in consideration of his, and his father's services to the crown, for the life of himself and Queen Anne, and 2d August, 1707, he took his seat in the m Lords Journals, I. 457. n MS. pedig. penes J. L. • Ibid. P Ibid. S Ibid. r Ibid. s Ibid. 1 Ibid. « Rot. Can. 20 anno 3a p.f. R. 28. S20 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. House of Peers.* He married in October 1678, Mary/ eldest daughter of Sir George Rawdon, of Moira, in the county of Down, Bart, whose great-grandson, Sir John, was created Earl of Moira, and dying at Symon's Court, near Dublin, 24th August, 1734, was interred at Castle-Forbes; having had issue by her (who died 1st April, 1724, and on the 3d was buried at St. Mary's, Dublin, whence she was conveyed to Moira), three sons, and two daughters; viz. First, Arthur, Lord Forbes/ killed in a duel in Flanders, un- married. Second, Edward, Lord Forbes, an officer in the army, and killed at the battle of Hockstet, 13th August, 1 704, unmarried. Third, George, Lord Forbes, a his successor. First daughter, Lady Jane,b was married to Major Josias Champagne, of Portarlington, who died there suddenly, 1st May, 1737, leaving by her, who died in October 1760, at Lumville, in the Queen's County, an only son, the Rev. Arthur Champagne, A. M. presented 1st November, 1741, to the Rectories of Castle- petre, Croghan, and Killclonfert; 12th April, 17^2, to the Vicar- ages of Monasterroris and Killclonfert, in the diocese of Kildare; and 3d October, 17^6, to the Vicarage of Mullengar, in the dio- cese of Armagh, and to the Deanery of Clonmacnois, in February 1761. He married the daughter of Major Hammon, and by her, who died 21st August, 1784, had issue four sons, and six daugh- ters; viz. Rev. Arthur Champagne (married in 1788 to a daugh- ter of Homan): George, also in holy orders; Forbes, and Josias, both Generals in the army. The daughters were, Jane (mar- ried, 1 1th April, 1767* to Henry, now Earl of Uxbridge.) Letitia (married, 18th December same year, to George Stepney, of Dur- row, in the King's County, Esq. and had issue by him, who died in 1783, two sons); Mary-Anne (13th November, 1782, to Sir Charles Desvoeux, Bart.); Deborah, to Rev. Samuel Close; Eli- zabeth, unmarried; and Harriet, in 1783, to Erasmus, eldest son of Sir' Kildare Dixon Borrowes, of Gilltown, in the county of Kildare, Bart.c Lady Dorothy, second daughter, died unmarried 17th May, 1729, and lies buried in St. George's Chapel, near Dublin. Sir George, the third Earl of Granard, being brought up in x Lords Journals, II. 179. y Articles, dated zi-2zd October, 1678. z MS. ped. a Ibid. *> Ibid « See Duke of Leinster, n, and information Lord Giar.ard. LORD GRANARD. 321 the royal navy, received a commission from Queen Anne, l6th July, 1706, appointing him commander of" a small ship of warj whence, in 17OS, he was promoted to the Sunderland, a fourth rate of sixty guns, and in 1713 removed to the Greenwich of the same rate. He served in the British parliament for Queenbo- rough, in Kent; and 2/th February, 1725, being summoned by writ to the House of Peers in this kingdom, by the title of Lord Forbes, took his seat 7th September following." November 25th, 1729, he was appointed Captain-general and Commander in chief, in and over the British Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, with full power, not only to appoint a court of judicature, and nominate persons in the several provinces to administer the oaths, and to pardon or condemn any pirates or other criminals, but to erect platforms, castles, fortifications, and towns, and to furnish the same with ordnance and ammunition, necessary for the de- fence of those islands; and ]Oth December, it was ordered by the House of Peers, that he should have leave to be absent from the service of that house to attend his said government/ but in June following he resigned this commission. In 1731 he commanded the Cornwall, a third rate of eighty guns;f and in April 1733, was appointed his Majesty's Plenipo- tentiary to the court of Muscovy, in which embassy he embarked pth May, and arrived at Petersburgh 21st June; during his resi- dence at which court, he was constituted, 11th May, 1734, Rear- admiral of the white-flag, and receiving his commission 25th June, was recalled from his embassy. The Czarina, at his audi- ence of leave, expressing a great sense of his Lordship's merits, and her satisfaction in his being sent to her court, presented him with a diamond rin^ of great value from her own finger, with her picture enriched with diamonds, and 6000 rubles in specie. De- cember 17th, 1/34, he was made Rear-admiral of the red; from which, 30th April, 1736, he was advanced to be Vice-admiral of the blue; and in June 1738, appointed Commander in Chief of a squadron of ships designed for the West Indies, which he not long after resigned. At his death, he was senior admiral of the British navy. In 1741, his Lordship was returned member of parliament for the boroughs of Air, Irwin, &:c. in Scotland) was one of his Majesty's Privy- council 5 and Governor of the counties A Lords Jour. II. 167. e Jour. III. 106. f October 4th, 1733, he had a grant of a Thussday markft, and four fairs, 3d May, 26th July, 8th September, and 21st November, at Dromlisk, in the county of Longford. VOL. IX. V 322 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. of Westmeath and Longford, which he resigned in 175(5, and was succeeded in that of Longford, by his eldest son, on 8th Oc- tober. He married Mary, elder daughter of William, the first Lord Mountjoy, relict of Phineas Preston, of Ardsallagh, in Meath, Esq. and deceased 2Qth October, 17&5, aged eighty, leaving issue by her who died 4th October, 1755,s one daughter, Lady Mary, married to Irvine, of Edinburgh, Esq, and two sons; viz. First, George, Lord Forbes, his successor. And, Second, John, appointed, 24th October, 1738, Commander of the Portmahon, of twenty guns, then stationed on the coast of Ireland ; whence he was removed, 10th August, ljjg, to the Severn of fifty guns; and Qth July, 1/40, to the Tiger of fifty. In 1741, he commanded the Guernsey, of fifty guns, in the Me- diterranean, under Admiral Nicholas Haddock, as he did the Norfolk, of eighty guns, 22d and 23d February, 1743, with great bravery and conduct, under Vice admiral Matthews, in the en- gagement with the united fleets of France and Spain near Toulon; was made, 15th July, 17^7; Rear-admiral of the blue squadron, and soon after appointed Commander in Chief in the Mediterra- nean. October 18th, 1770, he was made Admiral of the white flag, and afterwards Admiral of the fleet, and General of the ma- rine forces. August 26th, 1758, he married Lady Mary Capel, born 13th October, 1722 (fourth daughter of William, third Earl of Essex), and died March 10th, 1796, leaving by her, who died gth April, 1782, two daughters, twins, born in 17&); viz. Catha- rine Elizabeth, married to the Hon. William Wellesley-Pole, bro- ther to the Marquis of Wellesley, and has issue; and Maria-Eleanor, married the Hon. John Villiers, brother to the Earl of Clarendon. Sir Geokge, the fourth Earl of Granard, succeeded his fa- ther; 6th October, 1726, he was made an Ensign in Colonel Dis- ney's regiment of foot; a Captain, 25th April, 1 729; 17 Lords Journals, IV. 341. LORD GRANARD. 323 first cousin, Letitia, daughter of Arthur Davys, of Carrickfergus/ and died l6th October, 1769, leaving issue by his Lady, who de- ceased 19th May, 1778, one son, Sir George, the ffth Earl, who was born 2d April, 1740, and took his seat in parliament 16th November, l/6g.k He mar- 1 John Davys, Esq. was an Alderman of Carrickfergus, and representative thereof in the parliament of 1630, as he was for the county of Antrim in 1661 ; made hi? will 17th January, 1663, proved 22d April, 1668 j* he left issue, Hercules, Henry, and John. Hercules, the eldest, served in parliament for Car- rickfergus in 1G61 and 1695, and died 14th March, 1711, and having married, 1st July, 7661, Lettice, youngest daughter of Charles, Viscount Moore, of Drogheda,f had by her, who was born 15th January, 1643, f two sons, John, his his heir; and Hercules, father of Arthur Davys, of Carrickfergus, Esq. who served in the parliament of 1713, for said town, and by Catharine h's wife, younger daughter of William, the first Viscount Mountjoy, had issue William- Henry ; Hercules; daughter Mary, married as in text; and Anne. Jehn, the elder son, of Carrickfergus, and also of Hampstead, near Dublin, was returned to parliament for Charlemont 12th March, 1704, served for Carrickfergus in 1703, and died 12th March, 1743. || He married, 10th April, 1699, § Anne, eldest daughter of William, the second Viscount Charlemont, and by her, who was baptized 20th January, 16S9,** had issue seven sons, and seven daughters; viz. Hercules, buried at St. Mlchan's 22d September, 1704; William, buried there, 10th October same year;f -j- John (baptized 7th December, 1705, was Sheriff of Carrickfergus in I741, died unmarried 6th August that year, and was buried at Si. Mary's); Charles, heir to his father; Henry, born 1st March, 1710, died young; James (born 20th July, 1712, and appointed 21st October, 1742, Comptroller of the ordnance stores; 6th July, 1749, he married Mary, daughter of William Pol?, of Bally fin, in Queen's County, Esq. and died at G!as- neven, county of Dublin, 5th April, 1761, without issue) ;jj Caulfield (bora 1st September, 17 14, appointed in July 1742, a Lieutenant or foot, and died un- married); daughters, Anne, Lettice, and Mary, died young, before October I7i4;|||| Sarah (married 7th April, 1740, to Thomas Callaghan, Esq. younger son of Cornelius Callaghan, counsellor at law, and died 13th August, 1745, leaving two sons and two daughteis); Judith (born 8th February, 1715, married n 1740, to John Tuckey, of Dublin, Surgeon, and had issue); Alice (baptized icth April, 1717, and married to Michael Howard, Merchant of Dublin, but had no issue); and Jane, born 19th May, 17 18. Charles Davys, of Hampstead, Esq. who succeeded his father, was made Second Lieutenant in Colonel Folliott's regiment of foot, in April 1744, served the office of Sheriff for the county of Dublin in 1745, §§ and died unmarried. k LoHs Journals, IV. 513. * Prerogative Office. -J- Ibid. X Decree, July 1695. j| Chancery Bill, 1 5th June, 1 76 1. § Articles dated 5. ** Lodge, 1st Edit. II. 101. ff Registry of that parish. XX Chancery bill ut antea. |||| St. Mary's registry. $§ Prerogative Office, and St. Mary's registry. 324 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. ried, first, in 1759, Dorothea, second daughter of Sir Nicholas Bayley, of Plas-Newyth, in the Island of Anglesey, Bart, by Ca- roline Paget, granddaughter of William, Lord Paget, and by her, who died at Knights-bridge 24th February, 176'4, had only one son. First, George, Lord Forbes, born 14th June, 1760. He married, secondly, 20th April, 1766, Lady Georgina- Augusta Berkeley, sister to Frederick Augustus, late Earl Berkeley, born 18th September, 17493 by whom he left two sons, and four daughters; viz. Second, Henry, born 22d September, 176O, married, Decem- ber 29th, 1794, Elizabeth Preston, second sister of John, Lord Tava. Third, Frederick. Fourth, Lady Anne-Georgina, born 7th July, 1772, married in 1797, Colonel Archibald Macneil. Fifth, Lady Augusta, born 4th October, 17/3, married in 1798, Major-general Leith. Sixth, Lady Georgina-Louisa, born in December 1779.. mar- ried, June 19th, 1806, Sir William Call, Bart. Seventh, Lady Elizabeth, born in December 1780. His Lordship dying l6th April, 1/80, his Lady remarried with the Rev. Samuel Little, D. D. and has issue. Sir George, the sixth and present Earl, and first Lord Granard of England, was born 14th June, 176O,1 and took his seat in parliament 15th November, 178I jra and on February 15th, 1806, was raised to the British Peerage, by the title of Lorj» Granard, of Castle-Donnington, in Leicestershire. He married, 10th May, 1779, Lady Selina-Frances Rawdon, fourth daughter of John, Earl of Moira, born 9th April, 1759, and by her has issue, viz. First, George-John, Viscount Forbes, born May 3d, 1785, a Captain in the 3f)th regiment of foot. Second, Elizabeth-Mary, born December 3d, 1786, married, October 15th, 1S07, George-Augustus-Henry-Anne, Lord Ran- cliffe. Third, Selina-Frances, born July 20th, 1788, and died in 1791. ■ Fourth, Adelaide Dorothea, born August 10th, 1789. Fifth, Francis-Reginald, born September 17th, 1791- Sixth, Ferdinando, born December 1793, and died February 13th, 1802. 1 Ulster. m Lords Journals, V. 237. LORD GRANARD. 325 Seventh, A daughter, born February 23d, 1795. Titles. Sir George Forbes, Earl and Viscount of Granard, Baron Clanehugh, Lord Granard, of Castle-Donnington, and Ba- ronet. Creations. Baronet of Nova Scotia, 26th September, 1628, 3 Car. I.j Baron Clanehugh, and Viscount of Granard, in the county of Longford, 22d November, 1675, 27 Car. II.; Earl of Granard, 30th December, 1684, 36th of that reign ; and Lord Granard, of Castle-Donnington, February 15th, 1806. Arms. Azure, three bears heads couped, Argent, muzzled, Gules. Crest. On a wreath, a bear, passant, Argent, guttee de sang, muzzled, Gules. Supporters. The dexter, an unicorn, Erminois (yellow pow- dered with black) : the sinister, a dragon, with wings expanded, Ermine. Motto. Fax mentis incendium glorije. Seats. Castle-Forbes, in the county of Longford, two miles from Longford, and sixty-two from Dublin; Clanehugh-Lodge, in the county of Westmeath, four miles from Mullengar. 32d PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. CREWE, LORD CREWE. !f T Ihe township of Crewe, in the parish of Bar thorn ley, in Cheshire, which lies about four miles' S.W. by S. from Sandbach, was," says Lysons, " from a very early period, the seat and in- heritance of the family of Crue, or Crewe. About the year 1288, Thomas de Crewe became possessed of a knight's fee, parcel of the barony of Wich-Malbank, which, in 1253, had be- longed to Philippa, Countess of Warwick ; this comprised the lordship of Crewe, to which some other manors were attached as parcel of that lordship. About the year 1300, Joan, eldest daughter and coheiress of Thomas de Crewe, the last male heir of the elder branch of the family, married Richard Praers, whose granddaughter brought Crewe, in marriage, to Sir Robert Fulles- hurst, or Foulshurst, one of Lord Audley's Esquires at the battle of Poictiers. Sir Christopher Hatton purchased it of the Fouls- hursts in 1 3/8. " About the year 1610, Sir Randal Crewe, Serjeant at Law, descended from Patrick, a younger brother of Thomas de Crewe (whose daughter, Joan, three centuries before, brought this estate to the Praers family), purchased the manor of Crewe of Sir Chris- topher Hatton's heirs, and built Crewe-Hall, which, with the manor, continued in his descendants of the male line till the death of John Crewe, Esq. in lfJ84; Anne, his elder daughter, and eventually sole heir, married John Offley, Esq. whose an- cestors had been settled at Madeley Manor, in Staffordshire, as early as the year 123/j John, his eldest son, took the name of Crewe, by act of parliament, in I7O85 and was grandfather of LORD CREWE. 32; of the present proprietor, who, in 1806, was created Baron Crewe."'-1 Patrick Crewe, a fourth son (and younger brother of Tho- mas de Crewe, whose heiress married Foulshurst), had two sons; of whom, David, the younger, was ancestor to the present Peer. But the elder was ancestor to the Crewes of Pulcroft; the co- heiresses of which family married into the families of Boydell, Chetwode, Leycester, and Wetenhall. Of David Crewe, the younger son, the posterity settled at Soonde. Thomas Crewe, great grandson of David, married a daughter of Henry Norbury, Under-Treasurer of England in the reign of Henry VI. And to his second wife, Margaret, daughter of John Patrick, of Nanttvich ; in consequence of which he settled in that town. His descendant, John Crewe, of Nantwich, Gent, (whose monument remained in the church of that place, till taken down when the south gallery was erected; of which, however, the inscription is preserved in Dugdale's Visitation), had issue by Alice Mainwaring his wife, two sons.b a Lysons's Britannia, II. 502. b Ralph Crewe, a younger son of Thomas Crewe, of the Nantwich family, was of Alvaston in the reign of Henry VII. and left an only daughter, married to an ancestor of the Walthalls. The Crewes of Cholmondeston, are said to have been descended from one of the younger branches of the Crewes, of C-ewe Mall, and one pedigree derives their descent from a younger son of Thomas Crew?, son, oi Thomas, who first settled at Nantwich: this branch is supposed to be extinct; none of the family have for many years resided at Cholmondeston. The Crewes, or as they have generally spelt their name, Crues, of Crewe, near Farnaon and Holt, in Denbighshire, are represented in some pedigrees of the family as de- scended from David, a younger son of Thomas Crewe, who died in the rei^n of Edward I. The pedigree in Barthomley church, drawn up by Sir William Dugdale, makes no mention indeed of this David, or of the Crues of Holt, and C ewe near near Farndon; but they are represented as descended from the Crewes, of Crewe- Hall, in a very copiuus pedigree in the British Museum,* which appea-s to have been drawn up hy Randle Holme, from the communications oi Sir John Crewe, of Uikinton. These Crues, of Crewe, became exiinct in the male line in the fifteenth century; the coheiresses married Dod and Bird, and the heiress of Bird married Stringer. The Crues of Holt were of that place from the reign of Ri- chard IL till the death of Samuel Crue, Esq. in 1770: Thomas Crue Dod, Esq. his sister's son, is the present representative of this familv." Lysorts's Mag. Brit. V4.U. p. 37I. * Harl.MSS. No. 2119. 328 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. First, Sir Randal, ancestor of the present Peer, of whom hereafter. Second, Sir Thomas Crewe, of Stene, co. Northampton, Serjeant at Law; married Temperance, daughter and coheir of Reginald Bray, of Stene, in Northamptonshire, by whom he had four sons, and five daughters; viz. First, John. Second, Thomas. Third, Nathaniel. Fourth, Salathiel. Fifth, Anne. Sixth, Pa- tience. Seventh, Silence. Eighth, Prudence. Ninth, Tempe- rance, wife of John Browne, Esq. she died September 22d, 1634, aged twenty-five. Their mother, Temperance, died October 25th, 1619, set. 38. Sir Thomas died February 1633, set. 68. John Crew, of Stene, in the county of Northampton, Esq. son and heir to Sir Thomas Crew, Serjeant at Law, was twice chosen M.P. for Northamptonshire, in 15 Charles I. and 12 Charles II. During the usurpation he continued faithful to his Prince; and by his great prudence (with no small hazard), loyally contributing his best endeavours for the happy restoration of King Charies II. in testimony of his Majesty's gracious accep- tance of this his laudable service, he was by letters patent, bear- ing date at Westminster the twentieth day of April, in the thir- teenth year of his reign, advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this realm, by the title of Lord Crew of Stene, and to the heirs male of his body. He married Jemima, daughter and coheir of Edward Wal- grave, of Lawford, in com. Essex, Esq. By whom he had issue four sons (the rest dying young) ; viz. First, Sir Thomas Crew, Knt. Secondly, John. Thirdly, Nathaniel, Bishop of Durham. And, Fourthly, Walgrave; as also two daughters; Jemima, mar- ried to Edward, Earl of Sandwich; and Anne, to Sir Henry Wright, of Dagenham, in com. Essex, Bart. His Lordship died December 12th, 1679, &*■- 72- Thomas, second Lord Crewe of Stene, by Mary, his first wife, who died July 4th, 1658, daughter of Sir George Townshend, late of East-Raynham, in com. Norf. Baronet, had issue, John, who died in his youth; and two daughters.; Anne, married to Jollyf, of co. Staff. Esq.; and Temperance, the wife of Sir Rowland Alston, son and heir to Sir Thomas Alston, of Odell, in com. Bedf. Baronet, and remarried to Sir John Wol- stenholme. And by Anne, his second wife, daughter and coheir to Sir William Airmin, of Osgodby, in com. Lincoln, Bart, (widow of Sir Thomas Woodhouse, of Wilberhall, in com. Norf. Bart. LORD CREWE. 329 and afterwards remarried to Lord Torrington), he had four daughters, his coheirs; viz. First, Jemima, wife of Henry, Duke of Kent. Second, Armyne, wife of Thomas Cartwright. of Aynho, Esq. Third, Elizabeth, wife of Charles, Earl of Arran. Fourth, Catharine, wife of Sir John Harpur,c of Callce, co. Derby, Bart. His Lordship died November 30th, 1697, aet. 74, and was suc- ceeded by his brother, Nathaniel, Bishop of Durham, third Lord Crewe of Stene. " Bishop Crewe," says Hutchinson, d in his History of Dur- ham, " was the fifth son of John, second Lord Crewe, of Stene, in the county of Northampton, by Jemima, daughter and co- heiress of Edward Walgrave, of Lawford, in Essex, Esq. He was born at Stene on the 31st of January, 1633, and, in 1652, was admitted Commoner of Lincoln College in Oxford, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, the 1st January, 1655, and soon after was chosen Fellow of that college. The 29th of June, 1(558, he took the degree of Master of Arts. At the restoration, he declared heartily in favour of the crown and hierarchy, and in 1663, he took the degree of Doctor of Law, and soon after went into holy orders. On the 12th of August, 1608, he was elected Rector of Lincoln College, upon the decease of Dr. Paul Hood. On the 29th of April, 1669, was installed Dean of Chichester, and held with that dignity the Precentorship, in which he had been installed the day before} he was also appointed Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II. In 167I, upon the translation of Dr. Blandford to the See of Worcester, he was elected Bishop of Ox- ford in his room, and consecrated the 2d of July, being allowed to hold therewith, in commendam, the Living of Whitney, and the Rectorship of Lincoln College; but the latter he resigned the 10th of October, 1672. In 16/3, he performed the marriage-ceremony of James, Duke of York, and Maria of Este. Through that Princess's interest (with whose measures he seems to have been very compliant), he was translated to the opulent See of Durham. In the beginning of the year 16/ 5, he baptized Katharina-Laura, the new-born daughter of James, Duke of York. The 26th of April, W76, he was sworn of the Privy-council to Charles II. Upon the accession of James II. to the crown, he was in great favour at court, being thought most obsequious to the will of the c In right of this descent, the present Sir Henry Harpur has within thcsf •few years taken the name of Crewe. «l Hutchinson's History of Durham, Vol. I. pp, 555, 556, 557, 558. 330 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Sovereign: accordingly, on the 29th of December, 1685, he was made Dean of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, in the room of Henry, Bishop of London, who had been removed; and within a few days after admitted of the Privy-council. In 1686, he was ap- pointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical com- mission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour. Bishop Bdrnete says, " He was lifted up with it, and said, now his name would be recorded in history; and when some of his friends represented to him the danger of acting in a court so ille- gally constituted, he said, he could not live if he should lose the King's gracious smiles; so low and so fawning was he." By virtue of that commission, he appeared on the 9th of August at the pro- ceedings against Henry, Bishop of London; and was for suspend- ing him during the King's pleasure, though the Earl and Bishop of Rochester, and Chief Justice Herbert, were against it. Imme- diately after that Bishop's suspension, commissioners were ap- pointed to exercise all manner of ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the diocese of London, of which Bishop Crewe was one. The 20th of November following, he was present at, and consenting to the degradation of Mr. Samuel Johnson, previous to the severe punishment that was inflicted on that eminent divine. In the quality of an ecclesiastical commissioner, he countenanced with his presence a prosecution carried on in May 1 687, against Dr. Peachy, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, for refusing to admit one Alban Francis, a Benedictine Monk, to the degree of Easier of Arts in that University, without taking the oaths/ And in July the same year, he offered to attend the Pope's Nuncio at his public entry into London; but his coachman refused to drive him." His name was again inserted in a new ecclesiastical commission, issued out this year, wherein he acted during the severe proceedings against Magdalen College in Oxford, for refusing to elect one Anthony Farmer their President, pursuant to the King's mandate. The Bishop continued acting as an ecclesiastical commissioner (being styled the Grand Inquisitor thereof), till October 1688, when that commission was abolished. Towards the end of the year 16S/, he was employed, with the Bishops of Rochester and Peterborough, to draw up a form of thanksgiving for the Queen"s being with child. Thus he constantly complied with the King's e Vol. I. p. 676, edit, 17Z4. { Kennet's Cumpl. Hist. p. 501. S Kennel's Compl. History, p. 594. S.ilmjrfs Li' :s of English Bishops, F- 397- LORD CREWE. 331 designs, and constantly coincided with his humours, till he dis- covered that the Prince of Orange's party was likely to prevail : this induced him to absent himself from the council-board; and as he was servile, so he was abject: he threw himself in the way of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to tell him he was sorry for having so long concurred with the court; and begged to be re- conciled to his Grace and the other Bishops.11 He found it was now time to retract, change his countenance, and counterwork his former principles; and in the convocation that met in January ] 688-9, to consider of filling the throne, he was one of those who voted on the 6th of February, that James II. had abdicated the kingdom.' Notwithstanding all this, bis thorough compliance with the late court's arbitrary designs, had rendered him so ob- noxious to the nation, that he was excepted by name out of the pardon granted by William and Mary the 23d of May, l6g0.k The Bishop was so terrified with this public mark of ignominy, that he absconded for a time, and actually fled beyond sea. Ken- net1 says, " that he despaired of any favour at the Revolution, and was once got beyond sea in a flight; but being brought back by the importunities of a domestic servant, he made fresh interest in the new court and parliament, and bought off the complaints of Mr. Samuel Johnson, and others, who had suffered by him.'' Bishop Burnet likewise tells us,m " The poor Bishop of Durham, who had absconded for some time, and was waiting for a ship to get beyond sea, fearing public affronts, and had offered to com- pound by resigning his bishopric," was now prevailed on to come, and by voting the new settlement, to merit at least a pardon for all that he had done; which, all things considered, was thought very indecent in him, yet not unbecoming the rest of his life and character." By what means he effected his purpose is not easy to determine; but it is certain, he made his peace with the court, and preserved his bishopric: in order to secure himself the pos- session of that dignity, he was forced to permit the crown to dis- pose of, or at least to nominate, to his Prebends of Durham as they should become vacant.0 h Rennet's Compl. Hist. p. $27. i Wood's Alb. Ox. k Stat. 2. William and Mary, sac. 1. chap. 10. 'P. 597. 1,1 Vol. I. p. 822. n He offered to resign the biihopric to Dr. Burnet, and trust to his genero- sity for the pjyment of loocl. a year out of it ; but he was of too scrupulous « conscience to accept it upon any such terms. 0 Biog. Brit. p. 1521. 332 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. By the death of his two elder brothers in l6gi, he became Baron Crewe of Stene; and about the 21st of December in the same year, he married, but left no issue. During the rest of King "William's reign, he remained quiet and unmolested, though not much considered. In 1710* he was one of the Lords that op- posed the prosecution then carried on against Dr. Sacheverell, de- clared him not guilty, and protested against several steps taken in that affair. In the latter part of his life he applied himself chiefly to works of munificence and charity: he was a great benefactor to Lincoln College, whereof he had been Fellow and Rector; and laid out laige sums in beautifying the palace at Durham. Many men have been canonized tor much inferior works of beneficence than those of this Prelate; his mistaken principles in the affairs of government, though they stain his memory, under the pens of political writers, are all obliterated from the benevolent mind by his charity and extensive acts of munificence. p A short time before his death, June 24th, 1720, his Lordship devised to trustees, his estates at Bamborough, and elsewhere, in Northum- berland, then lately purchased, and of the annual value of 13121. 13 s. or thereabouts, for various munificent and charitable purposes, which are detailed at length in Hutchinson's History of Durham, I. 558, &c. He held the See of Durham forty-seven years; as he had done that of Oxford three; continuing a Bishop fifty years, three months, and two days; which was longer than any Englishman ever enjoyed that honour, except Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, who held the Sees of Worcester, Ely, and Canter- bury, fifty-one years, and twenty-one days. His Lordship dying without issue, the title of Lord Crewe of Stene became Extinct with him. The character given of hh Lordship by Dr. Kippis, in the Bio- graphia Britannia, is much less flattering than that of Mr. Hutchinson. He observes, that " there was little in the cha- racter and conduct of this Prelate, which could entitle him to a place in the Biographia. He was distinguished indeed, by pass- P Dr. Kippis, in the Biographia Britannica, observes, that " this encomium would have been more just, if the Bishop's generosity had not been displayed so late in life ; and indeed if it had not been for the most part posthumous. His benefrxtions during the space of forty-seven years were not to be compared with those which, in eleven years, had flowed from his predecessor in the See of Durham, Dr. Cosin." LORD CREWE. 333 ing through a variety of ecclesiastical preferments; by being the Rector of a college; and by sustaining for an uncommon length of time a very high rank in the church; but he was not celebrated cither for his learning, or for other eminent qualities. We do not read of any thing that was published by him; and his bene- factions to Lincoln College did not take place till he was between eighty and ninety years of age. As a Peer of the realm, he makes no figure in the annals of his country, unless his having joined in some Tory protests is to be considered in that light. The chief historical event of his life reflects nothing but dishonour on him; we mean his being one of King James IPs ecclesiastical commis- sioners, together with his behaviour in that character, which was marked with servility. Indeed this servile spirit had been dis- played by him many years before, on his promotion to the Bishop- ric of Durham," &c. " Vanity was among the other qualities which detracted from the Bishop of Durham." But, " with all the faults of the Bishop, he was possessed of some amiable quali- ties. He was hospitable, generous, and charitable; though it is said, that his charity was sometimes observed to be exerted with too much ostentation. He made large bequests by his last will to the purposes of religion, education, and charity;"0! as has been already mentioned. His Lordship married, first, Penelope, daughter of Sir Philip Frowde, who died set. 44, March gth, l6gQ; and, secondly, Do- rothy, daughter of Sir William Forster, of Bamborough, in Northumberland, who died October 15th, 1/15, aged 42. His Lordship died without issue, September 18th, 1721, aged eighty-eight, and was buried at Stene. We now return to Sir Randolph Ckewe, elder brother te Sir Thomas Crewe, of Stene, Serjeant at Law. Fuller, with his usual quaint vivacity, says in his Worthies of Cheshire, " Sir Randal Crew was born in this county, bred in the study of our municipal Law, wherein such his proficiency, that (after some steps in his way thereunto), in the 22d of King James, he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, and therein served two Kings, though scarce two years in his office, with great integrity. King Charles's occasions calling for speedy supplies of money, some great ones adjudged it was useless to venture on a parliament (for fear in these distempered times, the physic would side with the disease), and put the King to fur- ^ Kippis's Biogr. Brit. IV. 439, 44.0, 441. j:M PEERAGE OF ENGLAND, nish his necessities by way of loan. Sir Randal being demanded his judgment of that design, and the consequence thereof (the imprisoning of recusants to pay it), openly manifested his dislike of such preter-legal courses; and thereupon, November yth, 1(320, was commanded to forbear his sitting in the court; and the next day was by writ discharged from his office; whereof he disco- vered no more discontent, than the weary traveller is offended, when told that he is arrived at his journey's end. " The country hath constantly a smile for him, for whom the court hath a frown. This Knight was out of office, not out of honour, living long after at his house in Westminster, much praised for his hospitality. " Indeed he may the better put off his gown (though before he goeth to bed), who hath a warm suit under it; and this learned Judge, by God's blessing on his endeavours, had purchased a fair estate, and particularly Crewe-Hall, in Cheshire (for some ages formerly the possession of the Fulshursts), but which probably was the inheritance of his ancestors. Nor must it be forgotten, that Sir Randal first brought the model of excellent building into these remote parts; yea, brought London into Cheshire, in the loftiness, sightliness, and pleasantness of their structures. One word of his Lady; a virtuous wife being very essential to the in- tegrity of a married judge, lest what Westminster-Hall doth con- clude, Westminster bed-chamber doth revoke. He married Julia, daughter and coheir of John Clipsby, of Clipsby, in Norfolk, Esq. with whom he had a fair inheritance. She died at Kew, in Surrey, in l623j and lietli buried in the chancel of Richmond, with this epitaph: " Antiqua fuit orta domus, pia vixit, inivit Virgo pudica thorum, sponsa pudica polum." " I saw this worthy Judge in health 1642, but he survived not long after." r Sir CLirsBY Crewe, son and heir of Sir Randolph, had two sons ; First, John. Second, Randal Crewe, Esq. whom Fuller thus records. " He drew a map of Cheshire so exactly with his pen, that a judicious tye would mistake it for printing; and the graver's skill and in- r Fuller's Worthies, Cheshire, 178. LORD CREWE. 355 dustry could little improve it. This map I have seen; and, reader, when my eye directs my hand, I may write with confidence. This hopeful Gentleman went beyond the seas, out of design to render himself by his travels more useful for his country, where he was barbarously assassinated by some Frenchmen ; and ho- nourably buried with general lamentation of the English at Paris, 1656." John Crewe, Esq. of Crewe-Hall, son and heir, married Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir John Done, of Utkinton-Hall (who died 1629), and by her had issue, Sir John Crewe, of Crewe-Hall, and Utkinton, whose wife was Mary, daughter of ThonKis Wagstaff, Esq. of Tachbrook, in Warwickshire, who died in 1686. His successor (perhaps first cousin), was John Crewe, Esq. (great grandson of Sir Randolph), the last male heir, who died 1684, leaving two daughters, his coheirs; of whom, Elizabeth, the youngest, married Charles Turner, Esq. but died without issue. Anne, eldest daughter, and eventually sole heir, married John OfRev, Esq. of Madeley, in Staffordshire; and by her had issue, John, of Crewe- Hall, his son and heir, who took the name of Ckewe by act of parliament in 17OS; and was elected repre- sentative for Cheshire in 1707, 1708, and 1/22; and died 1749. He married , daughter of ■ Price, Esq. and was father of First, John. Second, Charles, elected M. P. for Cheshire, at his brother's death. John Crewe, of Crewe-Hall, Esq. who was elected represen- tative for the same county in 1734, 1741* and 1747> and dying 1752, left issue by his wife, the daughter of Richard Shuttle- worth, Esq. First, John, present Peer. Second, Richard, late in the army, and married. Third, A daughter, married the late Dr. Hinchcliffe, Bishop ©f Peterborough, who died 1796, by whom she had a daughter, married to Lieut. -General John Tadwell Watson. John Crewe, eldest son, first Lord Crewe of Crewe, was born 1742; and was elected representative in parliament for Cheshire, from 1768 to 1806; when he was elevated to the Peer- age, by the title of Lord Crewe, of Crewe, in Cheshire, by patent dated February 25th, 1806. 336 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. His Lordship married, in 1766, Frances- Anne, only daughter of Fulke Greville, Esq. Envoy Extraordinary, in 1766, to the Elector of Bavaria, and Minister to the Diet of Ratisbon (only son of the Hon. Algernon Greville, second son of Fulk Greville, fifth Lord Brooke, by Mary, daughter and coheir of Lord Arthur So- merset, fifth son of Henry, Duke of Beaufort, K.G.) and has issue, First, John, a Major-General in the army, married, May 5th, I8O7, Miss Hungerford, of Calne, in the county of Wilts, and has issue a daughter, born March 29th, 1808. Second, Emma, married, April 21st, I8O9, Foster Cunliffe, Esq. son of Sir Foster Cunliffe, Ban. Title. John Crewe, Lord Crewe, of Crewe, in Cheshire. Creation. By patent February 25th, 1806. Arms. Quarterly first and fourth Crewe, Azure, a lion ram- pant Azure, armed and langued Gules. Second and third Offley Argent, a cross fieure Sable, charged with a lion passant of the field. Crests. First, Crewe. Out of a ducal coronet a lion's gamb. Second, a demi-lion issuant from a wreath, holding a sprig of — in his paw. Supporters. On the dexter a lion; on the sinister a griffin. MottO. NON INFERIORA SECUTUS. Seat. Crewe-Hall, Cheshire; for an engraving, and descrip- tion of which, see Lysons's Mag. Brit. Vol. II. LORD BEAUCHAMP. 337 LYGON, LORD BEAUCHAMP OF POWICK. Anne Beauchamp/ second daughter and coheir of Richard Beauchamp, Lord Beauchamp of Powvck, whose father a " Beauchamp's Court was the habitation of the honourable family of the Beauchamps, who descended from Walter Beauchamp, second son of Wa't-er Beau- champ, E irl of Worcester, and Baron of Elmley, in the time of Henry III. From this Walter Beauchamp, of the second house, came Sir John Beauchamp, of Powick, Knt. Baron of Powick, and Lord of Parliament; and from the said Wal- ter's brother, by a female line, issued the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII. tl Walter (or according to their pedigree, William) Beauchamp, the father, had issue three sons, who gave for their arms part of their Ladies coats; viz. William, Lord Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester and Warwick, and Baron of Elm- Jey, who gave six crosslets. Walter, Lord Beauchamp, of Powick, who settled at Beauchamp's-Court, and gave six martlets ; and John, Lord Beauchamp, of Holt, who gave six billets."* William de Beauchamp, who died $3 Henry III. left issue by Isabel^ sister and heir to William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick; First, William, Earl of Warwick. Second, Walter, of Powick and Altester., Third, John, of Holt. Fourth, James, 5th Richard I. Fifth, Joan, wife of Bartholomew de Sudeley. Sixth, Sarah, wife of Richard Talbot. Walter Beauchamp, of Alcester and Powick, 24 Edward I. Steward of the Kou ehcld, died 1303, and was buried at the Grey Friars, Smithfield, Lon- don. By Alice, daughter of Tony, he had issue, first, Walter, who died S. P. 1328. Second, William, ob. S. P. And, third, Giles Beauchamp, who had issue John Beauchamp, who had issue, * Nash's History of Worcestershire, Vol. II. p. 26s VOL. IX. Z 358 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. John, Lord Beauchamp of Powyck, was so created 25 Henry VI. and died 1475, married Thomas Lygon, Esq. George Lygon, Esq. was living in the time of King Ri- chard II. and was father of Richard Lygon, Esq. living 10 King Henry IV. whose son, Thomas Lygon, Esq. married Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Bray; which Sir Robert lived about the year 131 1, and bore for his arms, Gules, a fess Or; and two mullets in chief Ar- gent. Crest, a man's head pierced Salle. By this match came Madresfield Court, co. Wore, and by her he had issue, William Lygon, Esq. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Gilford j a widow, 18 P'.dward IV. who took upon her the vow of perpetual chastity. They had issue Thomas Lygon, beforementi ^ncd, Esq. who married Anne, daughter and coheir of Richard, Lor, I Beauchamp of Powyck, as abovementioned. By her he had issue Sir Richard Lygon, of Madresfield. co. Worcester, Knight. He married M'rgaret, daughter and h.-ir ot William Greville, a Judge of the Common Pleas, 1510. She brought him Aries Court, nea- Cheltenham, co. Glouc. and by her he had issue, First, William. Second, Arthur Lygon, buried at Malvern, July 28th, 1570. Third, Ralph, buried at Malvern, February 10th, 1564. Fourth, Mary, July 25th, 15/3. William Lygon, Esq. eldest son, died September 8th, 1567; and was buried at Malvern. He married Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Dennes, Knt. by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth, who died 159O3 and a son, First, William. Second, Walter, from whom came the Barons of St. Amand. William, eldest son, 16 Richard II. married Katherine, daughter of Ge- rard de Usflet, and had issue, Sir John, created Lord Beauchamp of Powyck, 25 Henry VI. died 14.75, and was buried at the Gray Friars, in Worcester, leaving issue by his wife, Margaret, who died 1487, and was buried near her husband. Richard, second Lord Beauchamp of Powyck, who married Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir Humphry Stafford, Knight, and le/t three daughters, his coheirs; First, Anne, wife of Richard Lygon. Second, Margaret, wife of William Rede. Third, Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke, who inhe- rited Alcester, and whence come the Grevilles and Veineys. LORD BEAUCHAMP. S3p Richard Lygon, lord of the manor of Madresfield, who died October 2d, and was buried ar Malvern, October 17th, 1584. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Russell, of Strensham, co. Worcester, Knt. who was buried at Malvern, December 14ih, 1576, and by her had a daughter, Penelope, wife of Robert Wal- weyn, of Newland, Gent, who died January 14th, 15Q6; Anne buried at Malvern, October 2Qth, 1003; and a son and heir, Sir William Lygon, of Madresfield, b Knt. who sold many manors. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Knightley, of Granborougl), co. Warwick. She was buried at Malvern, March 28th, 1631. They had issue, First, William. Second, Henry, died July 11th, ]6Q6. Third, Elizabeth, married Henry Bromley, of Upton. Fourth, Katharine, died l6'60, and was buried at Upton. William Lygon, of Madresfield, Esq. eldest son, died Ja- nuary 20th, 1680, ast. 68. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Egiocke, of Egiocke, co. Wore. Knt. who died Novem- ber 1668, aet. 59. She was buried at Malvern, with the follow- ing inscription : Hie jacet Maria uxor Gulielmi Ligon de Madresfield armigeri film Francisci Egiocke Militis, et cohceres fratris. Ohiit decima Nbvembris, 166S, eet. suce 50. " Stay, passenger! and from this dusty urne, Both what I was, and what thou must be, learrie: Grace, virtue, beautie, had no privilege, That everlasting statute to abridge, That all must dye: then, gentle friend, with care In life for death and happiness prepare." ft F'cbiiis hoc posuil tkalami consort Mortuus est Jan. 20, lfJSO, sEtatis sexagesimo octavo." c Madxestiild was made a garrison in the civil wars. The Lygons were at hat time on the parliament side; but soon dispossessed of their garrison of Ma- dresfield; and a governor being appointed by the King, it held out for him to the end of the war: after the surrender of Oxford, it held out till Worcester was surrendered^ and then had honourable terms allowed it. Nad's Worcestershire. II. 117. 340 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. They had issue, First, Richard Lygon, of Madresfield, Esq. who died with- out issue April 15th, 1 687, «*• 4(), and was buried at Malvern; having married, first, Bridget, daughter of Talbot; and, secondly, Anne, eldest daughter to Sir Francis Rus«el], Bart who remarried twice. Her last husband was Sir John Guise, of El- more, co. Glouc. She died February 22d, 1 73 1-5. Second, William, of whom presently . Third, George, died April 3d, 1680. Fourth, Elizabeth, wife of John Walsom, died April 1674. Fifth, Anne, wife of Edward Bull, of Hallow- Park, Gent. She died April 17th, 1/07, and was buried at Hallow. William Lygon, of Madresfield, Esq. second son, and heir to his brother, died March Ifjth, 1720, eet. 7Q, and was buried at Malvern, having married, August 7th, 1688, Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas Corbyn, of Hallend, co. Warwick, Esq. She died October 29th, l6gg, set. 42, and was buried at Malvern. By her he had issue, three sons, and one daughter; viz. First, William Lygon, Esq. born April 10th, lf)Q1, who died without issue before his father, September 4th, 1716, aet. 2rJ, having married Margaret, eldest daughter of Charles Cockes, of Worcester, Gent, who remarried Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of England. Second, Corbyn Lygon, Esq. who married, June 3d, 17;^, Jane, daughter of Isaac Tulley, of Covent Garden, Silk Mercer, and left a daughter, Margaret, of Hallow-Park, who died with- out issue. Third, Thomas Lygon, born August 4th, l6y6, died April 2d, 1711. Fourth, Margaret Lygon, married Reginald Pindar, of Kempley, co. Gloucester, by whom she had three sons. She re- married — Biddulph, of Ledbury, co. Heref. Esq. and died September 14th, 1736. Her sons by her first husband were, First, Reginald, of whom presently. Second, Philip Pindar. Third, William Pindar, married Katharine Baker, and had a son, Reginald, and a daughter, Katharine, married Jeremiah Ba- ker, of Bristol, Esq. Reginald Pindar, Esq. eldest son, become heir to the Ma- dresfield family, took the name of Lygon, and married Susan- LORD BEAUCHAMP. 341 aah, daughter of William Hanmer, Esq. of Battisfield, in Flint- shire. He died December 25th, 1788. " His life, which was long, happy, and honourable, was spent in constant, unwearied, and unremitted exertions in the service of his country, his friends, and his neighbours. As a magistrate, he was a conscientious supporter of the laws, to which he gave vigour and efficacy by precept, by example, and by authority. His private life was emi- nently distinguished by the most engaging affability, honourable hospitality, and general philanthropy; and, by a peculiar felicity of manners, he won the hearts and secured the respect of all who had the happiness of knowing him. He had one merit, unknown to those who were not intimate with him, and in which he ex- celled even Socrates, or any of the ancient philosophers; he was naturally of a very hasty, peevish, and passionate temper, which, by his strict attention to the principles and practice of the Chris- tian religion, particularly as to the government of his mind, he entirely conquered, and scarcely ever lost himself; and, in the general course of his life, was as remarkable for meekness and moderation, as for any other virtue whatsoever."0 He had issue a daughter and son; viz. Elizabeth, married to the late Hon. John Yorke, third son to Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, who had issue by her an only daughter, Jemima, first wife of the Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew. William Lygon, only son and heir, now Lord Beauchamp of Powyck, was elected M. P. for the county of Worcester from 1774 till his elevation to the Peerage, to which he was raised by the above title, February 26th, 1806. His Lordship was born July 25th, 1/47, and married Miss Dean, only daughter of James Dean, Esq. by whom he has issue, First, William, M. P. for the county of Worcester. Second, John Reginald. Third, Henry Beauchamp. Fourth, Edward Pyndar. Fifth, Reginald James, died young. Sixth, Felicia-Jemima. Seventh, Emma Susanna. Eighth, Sophia-Margaret. Ninth, Jemima-Catharine-Louisa. « Dr. Nash. 342 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Tenth, Georgina-Emma-Charlotte. Eleventh, Emily-Esther-Anne. Title. "William Lygon, Lord Beauchamp of Powyck, Creation. By patent February 26th., 180t). Arms. 1 Crest. > See the wood-cut. Supporters. ) MottO. Ex FIDE FORTIS. Seat. Madresfield- Court, Worcestershire LORD PONSONBY. 343 PONSONBY, LORD PONSONBY OF 1MOKILLY. His Lordship's grandfather, the Right Hon. John Ponsonby, second son of Brabazon. the first Earl of Resborough, in Ireland, and Baron Ponsonby, of Sysonby, in England; was born in March 1713 ; was Speaker of the House of Commons, and six times one of the Lords Justices of Ireland. He married, September 22d, 1743, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, second daughter of William, third Duke of Devonshire, Knight of the Garter, and died De- cember 12th, 178Q, leaving issue, First, William- Brabazon, Lord Ponsonby, of Imokilly. Second, John, born December 24th, 1748, died August ptb, 1761. Third, The Right Hon. George, born March 5th, 1755; ap- pointed Lord High Chancellor of Iket.anf), March 25th, 1806; which office he resigned in I8O7 ; now M. P. for Tavistock; married, May 18th, 1/81, Lady Mary Butler, eldest daughter of Brinsley, the second Earl of Lanesborough (by Jane Rochefort, only daughter of Robert, Earl of Belvidere.) Fourth, Richard, born July 17th, 1758; died young. Fifth, Frederick, born March 18th, 1763; died July 28th, 1769. Sixth, Catharine, born April 29th, 1747? married, December 15th, 1763, Richard Boyle, late Earl of Shannon, Knight of St. Patrick, and has issue, Henry, present Earl, &c. Seventh, Frances, born February 18th, 1757; married, De- cember 13th, 1774, Cornelius O'Callaghan, Viscount Lis- more. 344 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Eighth, Caroline, born December 28th, 1759; died ia 1768. Ninth, Charlotte, born December 22d, l/6l; married, July 10th, 1780, Dennis-Bowes Daly, of Dalystown, in Gal- way, Esq. M. P. for Galway, and died at Paris, August 27th, 1781. Tenth, Henrietta, born March 12th, 1765. William Brabazon, the eldest son, was M. P. in the first Imperial Parliament for the county of Kilkenny, and was created a Peer of Great Britain, by patent, March 13th, 1806, by the title of Baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly. He was born September 15th, 1744; and in 1784, elected M.P. for the county of Kilkenny, in the Irish Parliament, and the same year appointed Joint-Post Master General of Ireland. And married, December 25th, 179^, the Hon. Louisa Molesworth, fourth daughter of Richard, third Viscount Molesworth, and had issue, First, John, the present Lord. Second, Richard, in Holy Orders; married Frances, second daughter of the Right Hon. John Staples (grandson of Sir Robert Staples. Bart.) by Henrietta, eldest daughter of Richard, third Viscount Molesworth. Third, George, Knight of the shire for Cork; married, April 7th, 1807, the eldest daughter of John-Jacob Gledstanes, of Anns- gift, in Tipperary, Esq. Fourth, William, a Lieutenant-colonel in the army, and a Lieutenant-colonel of the fifth dragoon guards; married, January 20th, 1807, the Hon. Miss Fitzroy, sister to George, Lord Southampton. Fifth, Mary-Elizabeth, married, November 10th, 1794, Charles, Earl Grey, and has issue. His Lordship deceasing November 5th, 1806, was succeeded by his eldest son, John, the present Lord. John Ponsonby, second Bakon Ponsonby, of Imokilly, in the county of Cork, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His Lordship married, January 13th, 1603, Lady Elizabeth- Frances Villiers, fifth daughter of George, fourth Earl of Jersey^ and sister to the present Earl. title. John Ponsonby, Lord Ponsonby, of Imokilly, in the county of Cork. LORD PONSONBY. 345 Creation. By patent, March 13th, 1S06. Arms. ~\ Crest. f The same as the Earl of Besborough. Supporters. C See title Ponsonly of Lysonly, in Vol. VII. Motto. J Seats. Bishop's-Court, Kilkennyshire; and Inchiquin Castle, Cork. 346 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. KENNEDY, LORD AILSA, [Earl of Cassilis, in Scotland.'] The progenitors of this noble and illustrious family were consi= derable proprietors, and had large possessions in the west of Scotland (particularly Carrick) before surnames were much used in this country. That a family of rank and figure in Carrick, were the un- doubted ancestors of the Kennedies of Cassilis, and that they assumed their surname from their being head or chief of that family, is sufficiently instructed by the following connexion of authentic documents and charters from father to sonj so that those historians, who allege that the first of this family came from Ireland, must have been in a mistake. I. Duncanus de Carrick flourished in the reign of Mal- colm IV. who succeeded to the crown of Scotland, anno 1153. Being possessed of a considerable estate in Carrick, he and his posterity were for some time designed by that name. He left issue a son and successor. If. Nicholaus de Carrick, who made a donation to the nuns of North-Berwick, of the patronage of the church of St. Cuthbert at Maybole, in the reign of King William the Lion, who succeeded to the crown in 1 1 65, and died anno 1214. In this donation he is designed Nicholaus de Carrick filius Duncani, &c.a He was succeeded by his son, III. Rolandus de Carrick, who in the reign of Alexander II. sbtained a charter from Nigellus, Earl of Carrick, of the bailiary * Append, to Nisbet, Vol. II. p. 39, ct chart, in pub. archiv. LORD AILSA. 547 of Carrick, to be caput totius prosapiae suae (or chief Of his kin- dred), and to have the command of all the men in Carrick under the said Earl, and his successors, &c. to him and his heirs for ever; which is afterwards confirmed by King Alexander III. the 27th year of his reign, anno 1276, in which he is designed Ro- landus de Garrich, filius de Nicolai, filii Duncani, &c.b All which is fully narrated and confirmed by King Robert II. anno regni secundo. This family being evidently possessed of a large estate, and head of a considerable tribe or clan, began to be called Kenna- dies, from the Galic or Celtic word, Kean-na-ty, which signifies head of the house, or chief of the clan ; and in that country the word Kennady is called Kennaty to this djy. There are several charters in the records, wherein the same persons were designed Carrick in the body, and Kennady on the margin,0 in the reign of King Robert II. by which it is ceitain that Carrick and Kennady were promiscuously used by the heads of this family for a considerable time, though iheir cadets gene- rally took the name of Kennady. Roland was succeeded by his son, , IV. Sir Gilbert de Carrick, who in several authentic writ- ings is designed son of Roland, particularly in the submission of a difference betwixt him and the nuns of North-Berwick j in which Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, father of King Robert Bruce, and Robert, Bishop of Glasgow, were arbiters. He is therein designed Gilbertus de Carrick, miles, filius Rolandi, &c. and his seal, which is thereto appended, hath the very same shield of arms which the family of Cassilis carries at this day; which shows, that they had the double tressure floree, and contrafloree, with flower-de-lisses to their arms, long before they matched with the royal -family.*1 This Sir Gilbert was often designed Kennady, and had lands in his possession of the same designation, which appears by the following charter of confirmation from the Earl of Lennox to his son> V. Sir Gilbert de Carrick, or Kennady> who succeeded him. There is a charter of Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, &c. Facta Gilberto de Carrick, filio et haeraedi domini Gilbert! de Carrick. miiitis, de terris de Buchmonyn, Kennady, Cromicame, Blairfode, k Ibid, et chart, in pub. archiv. " Ibidem. * Nisbet's Append, et cart, in pub, archiv. 348 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. &c.e to which, Malcolm, son of the above Earl, Sir Adam More, and Gilbert Drummond, are witnesses. This Sir Gilbert died about 1290, and was succeeded by his son. VI. Duncan de Carrick, or Kennedy, who made a dona- tion of his patronage of the church of Kilbryde, in Carrick, to the nuns of North-Berwick, wherein he is designed, Duncani Alius domini Gilbert! de Carrick, militis, &c.f As he had begun to drop the name of Carrick, and was more frequently designed by the name of Kennedy, as caput totius pro»apiee, so the cadets of the family, who were now become nu- merous, followed his example, laid aside the name of Carrick altogether, and embraced that of Kennedy, of which there are many examples in our records; but whether any of them were brothers or sons of this Duncan, I cannot determine, viz. Alexander Kennedy was chancellor to John Baliol, anno 1295.8 John Kennedy swore fealty to King Edward I. anno 129f3.h Hugh Kenredy did the same.' Fergusius Kennedy, &c. is to be found in the chartulary of Levenax,k in the beginning of King Robert Brace's reign, &c. and probably a son of Duncan. Duncan was succeeded by his eldest son, ■\ II. Sir Gilbert de Carrick, or Kennedy, who obtained a charter from King Robert Bruce, which contained a full remis- sion for his surrendering the castle of Lochdown to the 'English) in which charter he is designed, Gilbertus de Carrick, miles, filius Duncani, &c. ante 1319- By the same charter, King Robert again receives him into favour, restores him to the government of the castle of Loch- down, and all the lands thereto belonging, which have been part of the property of Cassilis ever since. The witnesses are, Ed- wardus de Brus, Jacobus senescallus Scotiae, Thomas Ranulf, Jo- annes de Menteith, Nigellus Campbell, Jaccbus dominus de Douglas, Alexander Fraser, &c. which is afterwards confirmed by King Robert II. anno regni secundo, 1372.m e Chartul. of Levenax, penes Mac-Farlane, p. ?0. f Nisbet's Append, p. 39. 5 Remarks on Ragman's Roll, p. 20. h Prynne's Collections, Vol. III. p. 6$2. i Ibid. p. 658. k Charter of Levenax, p. Ji. ' Chart, in pub. archiv. m Ibidem. LORD AILSA. 349 He got also possession of the lands of Dunnure, which after- wards became their chief title; and he was the last of this family who was designed by the name of Carrick. He left issue a son and successor, VIII. Sir John Kennedy, of Dunnure, who, in many authen- tic writs, is designed, rilius Gilberti de Carrick.1" He was a man of good parts, was often employed in nego- tiations of the greatest importance, and always acquitted himself with fidelity and honour. He was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the English at Newcastle, about King David's redemption, anno 1354, though it was not completed till 135/.n He got a charter from King David II. of several lands in co- mitatu de Carrick infra vicecomitatum de Air, anno 1360. He likewise acquired from Marjory, daughter of Sir John Montgomery, Knight, the lands and larony of Cassilis, which hath been in the family's possession ever since. The same was ratified by a charter from King David II. anno 1362.° In the reign of said King David, he founded a church at May- bole, in Carrick, with a chaplainry, which he largely endowed. The foundation charter, in which he is designed, Johannes Ken- nedy, dominus de Donnonure, bears, pro salubri statu mei, Mariae uxoris meae, et liberorum suorum quamdiu egerimus in humanis, et pro animabus nostris, &c. to which his seal is appended; also sigillum domini Gilberti Kennedy, militis, filii sui et haeredis: all which is narrated at large in a charter of confirmation of King Robert II. testibus Johanne, primogenito suo, comite de Carrick, Roberto comite de Menteith, Willielmo comite de Douglas, Jo- hanne de Carrick, cancellario Scotiae, Willielmo de Keith mares- callo, Jacobo de Lindsay, Roberto de Erskine militibus, &c. dated at Dundonald, anno regni primo.J He obtained from said King Robert a charter, medietat. ba- roniae de Dalrymple, & infra vicecomitatum de Air, que fuit Mal- comi filii Adae de Dalrymple, &c. anno 1371. Also a charter medietat. baroniae de Dalrymple, &c. cum per- tinen. quae fuit Hugonis filii Rolandi de Dalrymple, &c. anno By said Mary, his spouse, he left issue three sons: First, Sir Gilbert. m Chart, in pub. archiv. % Chart, in pub. archiv. and Mr. Hay's Vindication of Eliz. More, p. 87. • Chart, in pub. archiv. Ibid* n Rymer's Fcedera, Tom. V. p. 791. 350 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Second, Sir Hugh Kennedy, of Ardstincher, who acquired great reputation and honour, for his gallant behaviour in the French wars against the English, under the command of John Stewart, P2arl of Buchanji for which he was honoured by the King of France with arms; viz. Azure, three jlower-de-Usses Or, which he and his successors marshalled in the first and fourth quarters, with those of Kennedy in the second and third.1' Mr. Nisbet farther says, that the Kennedys of Margenie, Thirskhill, and Binning, in the shire of Air, are descended of this Sir Hugh, because they carry the jlower-de-iisses in their arms, which no other family of the name of Kennedy does;s and that the Ken- nedies of Bargeny, were long proprietors of the barony of Ard- stincher, which was the designation and inheritance of this Sir Hugh, he. Third, John, who appears to have been ancestor of the Ken- nedies of Culzean. John Kennedy, of Culzean, who got a charter from King James II. of several lands in Airshire, anno I44g, was his son, or grandson;1 which estate afterwards returned to the family. Sir John was succeeded by his eldest son, IX. Sir Gilbert Kennedy, of Dunnonure, who, when very young, was one of the noble Scotch heirs that were sent hostages to England for King David's ransom, anno 135/.U He got a charter from King Robert II. villae de Kirkintulloch, dated anno 13/3." He was a man of singular merit, and in great favour with King Robert III. who first conferred upon him the honour of knighthood, and afterwards gave him a great many lands in the Earldom of Carrick, then in the crown.* There is a confirmation of Duncan, Earl of Lennox, of a charter granted by dominus Gilbertus Kennedy, dominus de Dun- nure, miles, terrarum de Buchmonyn, Kennedy, &c. in favour of John Kennedy, son of Fergus, &c. anno 13g3;z to which domi- nus Johannes de Maxwell miles, dominus de Pollock, Alexander de Levenax, Gilbert de Cochrane, &c. are witnesses. He married, first, Mary,* daughter of Sir James Sandilands,. ©f Calder, by whom he had two sons. 1 Cravvfurd's Notes upon Buchanan, r Nisbet, Vol. II. p. 59. s Ibidem. t Chart, in pub. archiv. u Rymer'- Feed. Tom. VI. p. 35 and 109. x Chart, in pub. archiv. y Ibidem. .» Chartul. of Levenax, p. -1. * Crawford's Novrs on Eucharrn LORD AILS A. 35 1 first, Gilbert, who died in the French service without issue. Second, Thomas, who, according to Mr. Crawfurd,b was an- cestor of the Kennedies of Bargeny; but a-! I have not seen the old writs of that family, I shall not pretend to determine whether they are descended of this Thomas, or of Sir Hugh of Ardstincher, as before noticed, though the former appears to me most pro- bable. Sir Gilbert married, seccndly, Marian, daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell, of Calderwood, by whom he had a son, X. Sir James Kennedy, who carried on the line of this family, and obtained from King Robert III. a charter of confir- mation of the bailiary of Carrick, to be caput totius prosapiae, and to have the command of the militia, &c. The King's charter bears, dilecto consanguineo suo Jacobo Kennedy, militi, &c.c He married Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of King Robert IH. Countess Dowager of Angus; and got a confirmation from the same King, now his father-in-law, of the lands and barony of Dalrymple, to him and Mary Stewart, the King's daughter, his spouse, dated at Dundonald, anno I405.d This Sir James was unhappily engaged in a quarrel with his brother, Sir Gilbert; in which Sir James lost his life (his father being then alive), leaving issue by the said Lady Mary Stewart, two sons; First, Gilbert, afterwards Lord Kennedy. Second, James, who devoted himself to the church, entered into holy orders, and became a true ornament to his profession. For true piety, and universal benevolence, he was exceeded by none. He was promoted to the See of Dunkeld, anno 1438, and translated to the Bishopric of St. Andrews, e anno 1440. He was one of the privy council to King James II. and chancellor of Scotland in anno 1444. He was one of the regents oi the kingdom in King James Ill's minority, and had the chief direction of all state affairs; which he managed with such prudence and discretion, that his whole conduct was universally approved. He founded St. Salvator's college in St. Andrews, and nobly endowed it. His other acts of piety and munificence are too nu- merous to be here narrated. He died on 1 1 th of May, 14(56, and was interred in the noble % b Cravvfurd'3 Peerage, p. 73. c Chart, in pub. archiv. and Nisket's Append, p. 39. 4 Chart, in pub. archiv. « Mr. Keith'? Catalogue of Bishops, p. i2. 352 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. chapel of St. Salvator's college, in a beautiful and stately monu* ment, which he erected himself. We shall sum up this great man's character from Buchanan, who says, " that he surpassed all men in point of authority ; that his prudence was held in the highest estimation ; that he was la- mented at his death as a public parent,1 &c." XI. Gilbert, first son of Sir James Kennedy, and Lady Mary Stewart, succeeded his grandfather in all his lands, and obtained from his uncle, King James I. a grant of the heredi- tary constable wick of the castle of Lochdown, dated 14th May, 1430.S He obtained from King James II. a charter, constituting him heritable bailie of the earldom of Carrick; caput totius prosapias suae, Sec. to him and his heirs for ever.h He got also from the same Prince, charters of the lands and barony of Cassilis, and a great many other lands, too numerous to be narrated here 5 which shews what a vast estate the family was then possessed of. He was afterwards dignified with the title of Lord Kennedy, anno 1450.' He was nominated one of the six regents in the minority of King James II t. though his brother, the Bishop, had the chief management of all public affairs. * He married Agnes, daughter of Herbert Lord Maxwell, by whom he had a son, John, Lord Kennedy j and two daughters. First, Catherine, married to Alexander, Lord Montgomery, ancestor of the Earl of Eglintoun.k Second, Marian, married to Sir John Wallace, of Craigie.1 He was succeeded by his only son, XII John, second Lord Kennedy, who obtained a charter from King Jaines II. Johanni Kennedy nlio et haeredi dilecti consanguine! nostri Gilberti donj^ni Kennedy, terrarum de Gar- brach, Bordelands, &c. anno I45g.m He was a man of good parts, was of the privy council to King James III. and was one of the commissioners appointed to treat of a peace with the English, anno 1484." He married, first, Jean, daughter of Alexander, Lord Mont- gomery, by whom he had a son, David, afterwards Earl of Cassilis. He married, secondly, Lady Elizabeth Gordon,, daughter of * Crawfurd'a Peerage, Buchanan, &c. &c. &c. S Chart, in pub. archly. *> Ibidem. « Ibidem. k Ibidem. J Ibidem. m Ibidem. n Rymer, Tom, XII, p. 241 and 267. LORD AILSA. 36 George, Earl of Huntly, widow of William, Earl of Errol, by by whom he had a son.° Alexander, ancestor of the Kennedies of Gervan-mains and Barquhanny;P and a daughter. Jean, married to Archibald, Earl of Angus. He died in 1508, and was succeeded by his eldest son. XIII. David, third Lord Kennedy, who being a man of great honour, courage, and intrepidity, was in high favour ■with King James IV. from whom he obtained a charter officium halivatus de Carrick, dilecto consanguineo suo Davidi Kennedy miliii et haeiedi apparenti dilecti consanguine! sui Johannis do- mini Kennedy, &c anno 14S9.1 And a charter of the lands of Bagry and Borlands, to him and Agnes Bonhwick, his spouse, and the longest liver, &c.r Also a charter of the lands and barony of Cassilis.s He was likewise one of the privy council to King James IV. who was pleased further to dignify him with the title of Earl of Cassilis, anno 1509, or inter November 1509, and March 1510/ He marred, first, Agnes, daughter of William, Lord Borth- wick, by whom he had a son, Gilbert, his heir. He married, secondly, Lady Margaret Boyd, daughter of Tho- mas, Earl of Arran, by Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of King James II. but by her he had no issue. He was killed in the service of his country at the battle of Flowdon, on 9th September 1513, and succeeded by his son, XIV. Gilbert, second Earl of Cassilis, who being a man of great accomplishments, was often employed in foreign ne- gotiations. He was appointed one of the privy council to King James V. and was sent ambassador to England with the Earls of Lennox and Glencairn, to treat of a peace, anno 15 16, and again in 1524." He joined in the association with several other noble Lords, to rescue the King out of the hands of the Earl of Angus, for which he suffered greatly, and was put to several hardships by the prevailing party of that time. » Chait. in pub. archiv. P Ibid, ad an. 149$. q Ibidem. ' Ibidem. s Ibidem. * Production of the decreet of ranking, anno 1606, in the Lawyer's Library. Edinburgh. u Rymer, Tom. XIII. p. 531, and Tom. XIV. p. ao» VOL. IX. 9 A 364 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. He married Isabel, daughter of Archibald, Earl of Angus/ by whom he had two sons. First, Gilbert, Earl of Cassilis. Second, Quintin, abbot of Crossragwell, who was a man of singular piety, and great austerity of manners; and dying in 1564, was canonized for a saints The Earl was murdered at Prestick, 22d December, 152/, and succeeded by his eldest son, XV. Gilbert, third Earl of Cassilis, who was highly esteemed by King James V. and was one of the Scotch nobles that accompanied that Prince to the battle of Solway, anno 16 12, where he was taken prisoner, and carried to London, with many more of his countrymen. He was soon afterwards released for a ransom of one thousand pounds sterling.2 When a prisoner, he had the opportunity of conversing fre- quently with King Henry VIII. who had a particular friendship for him, and shewed him several marks of his favour, by which he gained him over to his party; and he used all his interest to promote a match betwixt Queen Mary of Scotland, and Prince Edward of England; which King Henry had very much at heart, but could not yet effectuate. In 1554, the Earl was made Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, in which office he acquitted himself with honour and fidelity .a He was afterwards one of the Scotch peers that were sent to France, to assist at the marriage of Queen Mary with the Dau- phin ; which accordingly they saw accomplished, on the 24 th April, 155S.b He married , daughter of , by whomc he had issue, two sons and two daughters. First, Gilbert, fourth Earl of Cassilis. Second, Sir Thomas of Culzean, ancestor of Sir Thomas Ken- nedy, of Culzean, Baronet, of whom afterwards.^ First Daughter, Lady Jean, married to Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney. Second, Lady Catherine, married to Patrick Vans, of Banbur- row, Knight. The Earl died at Dieppe, in his return from France, 28th No- vember, 1558, not without suspicion of poison.6 x Crawford's Peerage, anl Scots Comp. Y Ibidem. z Rymer, Tom. XIV. p. 796. » Lives of the Officers of State. b I'udem. c Crawfurd's Peerage, and Scots Comp. 41 Chart, in pub. archiv. e Spotswood's Church Hist. LORD AILSA. 365 XVI. Gilbert, fourth Earl of Cassilis, succeeded, and was appointed one of the privy council to Queen Mary, anno 1562, and continued long faithful and steady to her interest. Upon the breaking out of the civil war, he joined the Queen's forces, and was at the battle of Langside, where her Majesty's troops were entirely defeated, anno 1568, but he afterwards sub- mitted to the authority of the young King.f He got a charter from King James VI. Gilberto comiti de Cassilis domino Kennedy, &c. of a great many lands, anno 1575) and 15/6.S He married Margaret Lyon, daughter of John Lord Glammis,, by whom he had two sons. First, John, Earl of Cassilis. Second, Gilbert, designed Master of Cassilis, whose son suc- ceeded to the earldom, as will be shewn hereafter. Ke died in 1576, and was succeeded by his eldest son, XVII. John, fftk Earl of Cassilis, who being young at his father's death, was carefully educated by his uncle and guardian, Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culzean ; and was made Lord High Trea- surer of Scotland, in the room of Walter, Lord Blantyre, anno l599-h He obtained a charter from King James VI. of a great many lands, anno 1599.' He married Jean, daughter of James, Lord Fleming, Lady Dowager of Thirlistan; but dying without issue, anno 1615, his estate and honours devolved upon his nephew, XVIII. John, sixth Earl of Cassilis, son of Gilbert, the Master, who was second son of Gilbert, fourth Earl of Cassilis, before mentioned. He obtained a charter from King James VI. terrarum de Inch cum piscariis in lacu; with many other lands, anno l622.k He was a man of great honour and integrity, and endowed with many excellent qualities. He adhered firmly to the interest of King Charles I. during all the time of the civil war; and after the murder of the King, he was, with the Earl of Lothian, Lord Burleigh, and others, sent commissioners to King Charles II. then at Breda, upon which his Majesty came to Scotland, and was crowned at Scoon, anno 1651. f Ibid. Crawfurd's Peerage, Scots Comp. S Chart, in pub. archiv h Sputswood's Church Histoiy. i Chart, in pub. archiv k Ibidem, 366 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. After the battle of Worcester, when all the loyalists were dis- persed, the Earl of Cassilis could never be prevailed upon to make the smallest concession or acknowledgment1 to Oliver Cromwell, even after he was Lord Protector. He married, first, Lady Jean Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Haddington, by whom he had a son, and two daughters, viz. James, Lord Kennedy, who was put in fee of the estate, by a charter under the great seal) but he died before his father, with- out issue. First Daughter, Lady Margaret, married to the celebrated Doctor Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury. Second, Lady Catherine, married to William, Lord Cochrane, son and heir apparent of William, Earl of Dundonald. He married, secondly, Lady Margaret Hay, daughter of Wil- liam, Earl or Errol, by whom he had a son, John, Earl of Cassilis; and two daughters. First, Lady Mar// Kennedy. Second, Lady Elizabeth He died anno 1668, and was succeeded by his son, XIX. John, seventh Earl of Cassilis, who was served heir to his father and brother, anno l669.n He $ot a new charter of all his lands upon his own resigna- tion anno 1671.0 He came early into the Revolution, and was appointed one of the privy council to King William, anno 168Q, and soon afterwards was made one of the Lords of the Trea- sury, p He married, first, Lady Susan, daughter of James, duke of Hamilton, by whom he hid issue a son, John, Lord Kennedy, and a daughter, Lady Anne, married to John, Earl of Rnglen; of whom, Wil- liam, late Earl of March, and Duke of Queensberry, was heir and representative. He married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of ————— Foix, Esq. by whom he had a son, James, who died without issue, and a daughter, Lady Elizabeth. 1 Bishop Burnet's History, I 52. m Chart, in pub. archiv. n Retour in Chancry. ° Cliart. in pub. aichiv. P Crawfurd's Peerage, and Scots Comp. LORD AILSA. 367 He died in 1702. XX. John, Lord Kennedy, first son, and heir apparent of John, seventh Earl of Cassilis, married Elizabeth, daughter of 1 ■ Hutchison, Esq. by whom he had a son, John, his heir j and dying anno l/OO, was succeeded by his son, XXI. John, who succeeded also to his grandfather, anno 1702. He was the eighth Rail of Cussilis, and governor of the castle of Dumbarton, &c. He married Lady Susan Hamilton, daughter of John, Earl of Selkirk and Ruglenj and died without issue, anno 1/dQ, which ended the male line of Gilbert, eldest son of the third Earl of Cassilis. He was by his own destination, succeeded in his estate by Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culzean, his undoubted heir male, descended from Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culzean, second son of Gilbert, third Earl of Cassilis. This Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culzean, married Elizabeth, daughter of — — M'Gill, of Cranston-Riddel, by whom he had issue, First, James, his successor. Second, Alexander, who carried on the line of this branch. Sir James, of Culzean, married Anne Stewart, by whom he had a son, James, who died without issue, whereby the succes- sion devolved on Sir Alexander Kennedy, of Culzean, second son, who mar- ried a daughter of Kennedy, of Ardmillan, by whom he had a son and successor, John Kennedy, of Culzean, who was served heir to his father Sir Alexander, February 8th, 165G, and died 1665; leaving by his wife, Margaret, daughter of John, Lord Bargeny, by Lady Jean, daughter of William, Marquis of Douglas, a son, Sir Archibald Kennedy, of Culzean, who succeeded, and was served heir to his father in April 1672; and being in great favour with King Charles II. was created a Baronet >682. He married Elizabeth Leslie, daughter of David, Lord Newark, by whom he had two sons, and one daughter. First, Sir John. Second, David Kennedy, Esq. an eminent lawyer. His daughter, Susan, married Alexander, Earl of Eglinton, by whom she had a numerous issue. He died in 1710, and was succeeded by his eldest son, 368 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Sir John Kennedy, of Culzean, second Baronet, who died in July 1712, leaving issue by his wife, Dame Jean Douglas, of the family of Mains, three sons; First, Sir John, his successor. Second, Sir Thomas, who succeeded to the earldom of Cas41is. Third, David Kennedy, advocate, who succeeded his brother; Sir John Kennedy, of Culzean, third Baronet, dying without issue 1744, was succeeded by his brother, Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culzean, fourth Baronet, who, on the death of John, eighth Earl of Cassilis, succeeded 10 the estate of Cassilis, 1759; and claiming the honours, became ninth Earl of Cassilis. He died without issue November 30th., 1/75, and was succeeded by hb brother, David, who became tenth Earl of Cassilis. His Lordship deceased December Sth, 179^, without i-sue, and was succeeded by his remote cousin, and next heir male, Alexander Kennedy^ who, after a claim before a tori) i.ittee of privileges, was admitted to the title of eleventh Earl of C 't tsilisi And his Lordship died December 29th, 1794, havin > ...:ried ■ who died December 29th, 179:5, and left issue by her a daughter, Lady Anne, married July 2 1st, 1795, to William Henry Digby, of Ireland, Esq. and a son and liar, David, who became twelfth and present Earl of Cassilis, and having been elected one of the .sixteen Peers of Scotland, 179§, and 1802, was, on Novemuer 4th, 1800, raised to the British Peerage, by the title of Baron Ail? 4. His Lordship married, June 1st, 1793, Margaret, daughter of John Erskine, Esq. of Dun, by whom he has issue two daugh- ters, and his son and heir, Lord Kennedy, bom June 4th, 1600., Titles. David Kennedy. Lord Ailsa, in Great Britainj also Earl of Cassilis, and Lord Kennedy, in Scotland. Creations. Baron of Ailsa, by patent, November 4th, I8O65 also Earl of Cassilis in Scotland, 1509; and Lord Kennedy, 1450. 3 Perhaps sprung from Alexander; a younger son of John, second Lord Ken- nedy. But not having been able to /tain any in ormaticn from his Lordship; and not having be n !uci.- ■■ euougb to iet a sight of rhe printed case laid before the Committee o: Privileges on his Lordship's claim, the Editor is necessitated to leave the pedigree of this uranch uneiucidated. LORD AILSA. 369 Arms. Argent, a chevron Gules, between three crosa cross- lets fitchy, Sable, all within a double tressure, flowered and coun- terflowered, with fleurs-de-lis, of the second. Crest. On a wreath, a dolphin naiant, Azure, Supporters. Two swans proper. MottO. AVISE LA FIN. Seats. Ailsa, and Cassilis, Airshire. fr?o PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. CAMPBELL, LORD BREAD ALB ANE. [Earl of Breadalhane, in Scotland."] Sir Duncan Campbell first Lord Campbell of Ar gyle, wha died 1453, had issue by Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of Ro- bert, Duke of Albany, First, Archibald, ancestor to the Duke of Ar gyle. SeeVol.VII. Second, Sir Colin Campbell, a man of good courage, great parts, and magnanimity, who travelled much into foreign coun- tries, and was one of the Knights of Malta. He got the lands of Glenorchy from his father, to which he added several considerable acquisitions. He married, first, Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of Duncan, Earl of Lennox, by whom he had no issue. He married, secondly, Lady Mary Stewart, eldest daughter, and coheiress of John Lord Lorn ; on account of which marriage, this family have always quartered the arms of Stewart of Lorn with their own. By her he had a son, Sir Duncan, his heir. He married, thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Robert Robertson of Strowan, bv whom he had another son, and a daughter, viz. John, who was bred to the church, and was Bishop of the Isles, in 1506. Margaret, married to Sir Archibald Npier, of Marchiston. He married, fourthly, Margaret, daughter of Luke Sterling, ©f Keir, by whom he had a third son, Sir John, who was ancestor of the Campbells of Lawers, and Earls of Loudon. By her he had also a daughter, Helen, married to William Stewart, of Balindoran, a grandson of Murdoch, Duke of Albany, LORD BREADALBANE. 371 of whom several families of the name of Stewart, in Perthshire^ are descended. Sir Colin died in the beginning of 1498, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Duncan Campbell, of Glenorchy, a man of good parts, and much in favour with King James IV. who married Lady Margaret Douglas, daughter of George, Earl of Angus, by whom he had three sons, and one daughter ; viz. First, Sir Colin, his heir. Second, Archibald, ancestor to the Campbells of Glenlyon. Third, Patrick, whose daughter married Toshach, of Monyvaird, an ancient family iu Perthshire. He accompanied the King to the fatal battle of Floddon, where he lost his life, 1513. He was succeeded by his eldest son, ' Sir Colin Campbell, of Glenorchy, a man of merit and ac- complishments. He married Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Athol, uterine brother of King' James II. by whom he had three sons, and one daughter; First, Duncan; ~) ' Second, John; Vail successively Lairds of Glenorchy. Third, Colin; J Fourth, Catharine, married to Sir William Murray, of Tulli- bardin. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Duncan, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Colquhoun, of Luss, by whom he had an only daughter, Marga- ret, married to John Macdougal, of Raray, in Lorn; and dying in 1534, without issue male, was succeeded by his brother, Sir John Campbell, of Glenorchy, who married Marian, daughter of Sir Archibald Edmondstone, of Duntreath, by whom he had two daughters. First, Margaret, married to Alexander Home, of Argathie. Second, Christian, married to Edward Redheugh, of Culta- bragin. Dying without issue male, he was succeeded by his brother. Sir Colin Campbell, of Glenorchy, a man of prudence, wis- dom, and sagacity. He was a great promoter of the Reformation, and was joined in commission with the Earls of Morton, Gowry, and others, for settling and establishing the policy and church government anno, 1573. He built the house of Taymouth, in Breadalbane; which is 372 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. still the chief seat of the family. He got charters under the great seal, of several lands and baronies, and married Catherine, daugh- ter of William, Lord Ruthven, by whom he had issue four sons, and five daughters; viz. First, Sir Duncan, his heir. Second, Colin Campbell, of Ardbeath. Third, Patrick Campbell, of Achinryre. Fourth, Archibald Campbell, who got part of the barony of Monzie, by marrying the daughter and heiress of Andrew Toshach, of Monzie; but died without issue. Fifth, Beatrix, married Sir John Campbell, of Lawers, ances- tor of the Earls of Loudoun; the Campbells of Aberuchil being descended of a younger son of this family. Sixth, Margaret, married to James, Earl of Glencairn, and had a numerous issue. Seventh, Mary, married to John, Earl of Menteith, and had issue. Eighth, Elizabeth, married to Sir John Campbell, of Ard- kinlas, and had issue. Ninth, • — , married to ■■ ■ ■ Napier of Merchistom Sir Colin died in 1584, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Duncan Campbell, of Glenorchy, who, being a man of singular endowments, and possessed of many excellent qualities, was in great favour with King James Vf. He was one of the great barons who assisted at Queen Anne's coronation, in 15g0, and got charters under the great seal of several lands. In the year l6l7, he was made heritable keeper of the Fo- rests of Mamlorn, Berinaken-Sauche, or Bendaskerlie, Finglen- beg, and Finglenmore, with many ample privileges, which before had been in his family only by temporary gifts from the Crown. He was made Knight-Banneret in 1627, and High Sheriff of the county of Perth for life. He married, first, Lady Jean Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Athole, Chancellor of Scotland; by whom he had seven sons^ and five daughters; viz. First, Sir Colin, his heir. Second, Sir Robert Campbell, of Glenfalloch, who succeeded his brother. Third, Duncan, who died young. Fourth, John Campbell, of Achinryre. Fifth, Archibald Campbell, of Monzie, of whom are descended the Campbells of Lochlan, Finab, and others. LORD EREADALBANE. 373 Sixth, Duncan. Seventh, Alexander; both died young. Eighth, Jean married Sir John Campbell, of Calder, and had issue. Ninth, Anne married Sir Patrick Ogilvie, of Inchmartin, and had issue. Tenth, Margaret married Sir Alexander Menzies, of Weem Eleventh, married to Irvin, of Drum. Twelfth, married to Macdougal, of Don- nolioch. Sir Duncan married, secondly, Julian, daughter of Patrick Lord Sinclair, by whom he had a son, Patrick, who obtained from his father the lands of Edin- ample. Also a daughter, Jean, married to John, Earl of Athole, and had issue. He died 1631, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Colin Campbell, of Glenorchy, who got a charter under the great seal, terrarum baroniae de Lude, &c. He married Lady Juliana Campbell, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Loudoun; but died without issue in 16-iO, and was succeeded by his brother, Sir Robert Campbell, of Glenorchy, formerly of Glenfalloch, who married Isabel, daughter of Sir Lauchlan Macintosh, of Fore- castle, Captain of the Clanchattan; by whom he had issue five sons, and nine daughters; viz. First, Sir John, his heir. Second, Sir Colin, of Mochaster, of whom hereafter, as ances* ior to the present Earl. Third, William Campbell, of Glenfalloch. Fourth, Alexander Campbell, of Lochdochart. Fifth, Duncan Campbell, of Auchlyne. Sixth, Margaret, married to John Cameron, of Lochiel, mo- ther of the brave Sir Evan Cameron. Seventh, Mary, married to Sir James Campbell, of Ardkinlas. Eighth, Jean, married to Duncan Stewart of Appin. Ninth, Isabel, married to Robert Irvin, of Fidderit, son of Alexander Irvin, of Drum. Tenth, Juliana, married to John Maclean of Lochbowie. Eleventh, ■, married to ■ Robertson of Lude. Twelfth, , married to — — Robertson of Fascalzie. Thirteenth, , married to Toshach of Monyvaird. Fourteenth, • , married to — Campbell of Glen- 3yon, 374 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir John Campbell, of Glenorchy, who was a man of good parts, great honour, and universally esteemed. He got charters under the great seal of several lands. He married, first, L'dy Mary Graham, daughter of William, Earl of Menteith, Sirathern, and Airth, Lord Justice General in the reign of King Charles I. by whom he had a son, Sir John, afterwards Earl of Breadalbane; and A daughter, married to Sir v^lexander Menzies, of Weem. He married, secondly, Christian, daughter of John Muschet, of Craighead, by whom he had several daughters; of whom are descended Campbell of Stonefield; Macnau^hton of that Ilk; Campbell of Airds; and Campbell of Ardchattan, &c. &c. He was succeeded by his son, Sir John Campbell, of Glenorchy, first Earl of Bread d bane, a man of sound judgment, great capacity, and accounted one of the ablest statesmen of his time. He gave many instances of his loyalty and attachment to King Charles II. during the usurpation; and gave great assist- ance to General Middleton and his forces, in the Highlands. He used his utmost endeavours with General Monk, to declire for a free parliament, which he thought was the most effectual way to restore the King. For all which his good services, King Charles was pleased to create him a Peer, by the title of Earl of Caithness, 28th June, 1 6/7 > which title he afterwards exchanged for that of Breadalbane, &c. with his Majesty's approbation; upon which he got a new patent, with the former precedency, " To him and any of his sons, by his first wife, whom he should think fit to name, by a writ under his hand any time of his life, &c. &c.s The words of the patent are, " Creamus, &c. praefatum Johan- nem Campbell, et quemcunque ex filiis suis, inter euro et de- mortuam dominam Mariam Rich, ejus primam sponsam, procrea- tum, quern dictus Johannes Campbell, per scriptum et denomi- nationem sub manu sua, quocunque tempore ejus vitse, nominare et designare idoneum judicabit; haeredesque masculos ex corpore dicti sui filii (ita designand.) procreandos; quibus deficientibus, haeredes, masculos procreatos seu procreandos, ex corpore dicti Johannis Campbell; quibus deficientibus, propinquiores et legiti- mes ejus haeredes quoscunque, comites de Breadalbane et Hol- land, vice-comiies de Tay et Paintland, dominos Glenorchy, Be- nederaloch, Ormelie, et Weik, &c. data l3tio Augusti, 1681." He was likewise in great favour with King James VII. was one of his privy council, and served him faithfully while he con- LORD BREADALBANE. 375 tinued on the throne; but after he went away, and there appeared no further hopes of his returning, the great love and affection he had to his native country, made him bend all his thoughts to get peace and tranquillity settled in the nation; and therefore he used his utmost endeavours to get the Clans to lay down their arms, judging it impossible for them to accomplish their designs. His behaviour at this period of life has been censured by some, thousr'n his conduct in general is vindicated by others. Thus Lord BreaJa'bane, according to Bishop Burnet, makes a disadvanta- geous figure in the affair of Glr ncoe, of which the Bishop gives the following account : " There was, at this time, a very barba- rous massacre committed in Scotland, which shewed both the cruelty and the treachery of some of those who had unhappily insinuated themselves into the King's confidence. The Earl of Braidalbin formed a scheme of quieting all the Highlanders, if the King would give twelve or fifteen thousand pounds for doing it, which was remitted down from England; and this was to be divided among the heads of the tribes, or clans of the Highlanders. He employed his emissaries amoig them, and told them, the best service they could do King James, was to lie quiet, and reserve themselves to a better time; and if they would take the oaths, the King would be contented with that, and they were to have a share of the sum that was sent down to buy their quiet; but this eame to nothing; their demands rose high; they knew this Lord had money to distribute among them; they believed he intended to keep the best part of it to himself; so they asked more than he could give: among the most clamorous and obstinate of these, were the Macdonalds of Glencoe, who were believed guilty of much robbery, and many murders; and so had gained too much by their pilfering war, to be easily brought to give it over. The head of that va.ley had so particularly provoked Lord Braidalbin, that as his scheme was quite defeated by the opposition that he raised, so he designed a severe revenge. The King had, by a proclamation, offered an indemnity to all the Highlanders that had been in arms against him, upon their coming in by a prefixed day to take the oaths; the day had been twice or thrice pro- longed; and it was at last carried to the end of the year )6cjl; with a positive threatening, of proceeding to military execution against such as should not come into his obedience by the last day of December. " All were so terrified that they came in; and even that Macuonaid went to the governor of Fort William, on the last of 3?6 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. December, and offered to take the oaths; but he, being only a military man, could not, or would not tender them; and Mac- donald was forced to seek for some of the lesfal magistrates, to tender them to him. The snows were then fallen, so four or five days passed before he could come to a magistrate; he took the oaths in his presence on the fourth or fifth of January, when by the strictness of law he could claim no benefit by it; the matter was signified to the Council; and the person had a reprimand for giving him the oaths when the day was past. " This was kept up from the King; and the Earl of Braid- albin came to court, to give an account of his diligence, and to bring back the money, since he could not do the service for which he had it. He informed against this Macdonald as the chief person who had defeated that good design ; and that he might both gratify his own revenge, and render the King odious to all the Highlanders, he proposed, that orders should be sent for a miltary execution on those of Glencoe. An instruction was drawn by the Secretary of State, to be both signed and counter- signed by the King (that so he might bear no part of the blame, but that it might lie wholly on the King), that such as had not taken the oaths by the time limited, should be shut out of the benefit of the indemnity, and be received only upon mercy. But when it was found, that this would not authorise what was in- tended, a second order was got to be sighed and countersigned, that if the Glencoe men could be separated from the rest of the Highlanders, some examples might be made of them, in order to strike terror into the rest. The King signed this without any enquiry about it; for he was too apt to sign papers in a hurry, without examining the importance of them. This was one effect of his slowness in dispatching business : for as he was apt to suffer things to run on, till there was a great heap of papers laid before him; so then he signed them a little too precipitately. But all this while, the King knew nothing of Macdonald's offering to take the oaths within the time, nor of his having taken them soon after it was past, when he came to a proper magistrate. As these orders were sent down, the Secretary of State writ many private letters to Levingstoun, who commanded in Scotland, giving him a strict charge, and particular directions for the execution of them: and he ordered the passes in the valley to be kept, describing them so minutely, that the orders were certainly drawn by one who knew the country well. He gave also a positive direction, "bat no prisoners should be taken, that so the execution might he LORD BREADALBANE. WI as terrible as was possible. He pressed this upon Levingstoun, with strains of vehemence, that looked as if there was something more than ordinary in it; he indeed grounded it on his zeal for the King's service, adding, that such rebels and murderers should be made examples of. " In February a company was sent to Glencoe, who were kindly received and quartered over the valley; the inhabitants thinking themselves safe, and looking for no hostilities; after they had staid a week among them, they took their time in the night, and killed about six and thirty of them, the rest taking the alarm, and escaping: this raised a mighty outcry, and was published by the French in their gazettes, and by the Jacobites in their libels, to cast a reproach on the King's government, as cruel and barba- rous; though in all other instances it had appeared, that his own inclinations were gentle and mild, rather to an excess. The King sent orders to inquire into the matter; but when the letters, writ upon this business, were all examined, which I myself read, it appeared, that so many were involved in the matter, that the King's gentleness prevailed on him to a fault; and he contented himself with dismissing only the Master of Stair from his service. The Highlanders were so inflamed with this, that they were put in as forward a disposition as the Jacobites wished for, to have rebelled upon the hrst favourable opportunity: and indeed the not punish- ing this with a due rigour, was the greatest blot in his whole reign, and had a very ill effect in alienating that nation from the King and his government." His Lordship was a great enemy to the Union in 1/C(5, think- ing it inconsistent with the honour and independency of his coun- try. It is alleged he was engaged with my Lord Mar in the rebellion anno 1/15; but his advanced age, and the great loyalty of his sen, the Lord Glenorchy, made his conduct in that affair to be overlooked. He married, first, Lady Mary Rich, daughter of Henry, Earl of Holland, in England, by whom he had issue two sons; First, Duncav, who died unmarried. Second, Jrhn, Lord Glenorchy, who became his heir. He married, secondly, Lady Mary Campbell, Countess Dow- ager of Caithness, and daughter of Archibald, Marquis of Argyle, by whom he had a son, Mr. Colin Campbell, who died in the flower of his age. He had likewise a daughter, Lady Mary, married to Archibald Cockburn, of Langton, Esq. 37S PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. The Earl died in 1716, in the eighty-first year of his age, and was succeeded by his son, John, second Earl of Breadallane, who was one of the six- teen peers for Scotland to two British parliaments, called to meet in 1/34 and 1741 ; was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Perth; and was a firm friend of the present establishment, both in church and state. He married, first, Lady Frances Cavendish, daughter and co- heiress of Henry, Duke of Newcastle; but she died without sur- viving issue. He married, secondly, Henrietta, sister to Edward, first Earl of Jersey, and daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, Knight, son of Edward, Viscount Grandison, by whom he had a son, John, his heir; and two daughters. First, Lady Charlotte, a lady of fine accomplishments, died unmarried. Second, Lady Harriot, who, in 173(5, was appointed one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber to their Royal Highnesses Amelia and Caroline. This Earl died in 1752, and was succeeded by his son, John, third Earl of Breadallane, who, in 1718, was made Master of the Horse to the Princess Royal. In 1720, he was Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the court of Den- mark. In 1725, he was created one of the Knights of the Bath. In 17275 he was member of parliament for the borough of Saltash, in the county of Cornwall; and after his father's death, was elected one of the Sixteen Scotch Peers to the British parlia- ment, anno 1754. He marred, first, Lady Amabell Grey, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Henry, Duke of Kent, and by her he had a son, Henry, who died young; and a daughter, Lady Jemima, who, in May 1740, was married to Philip, then Viscount Royston, eldest son, and apparent heir of Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and suc- ceeded to her grandfather, Henry, Duke of Kent, as Marchio- ness Grey, in June following. (See title Baroness Lucas, in Vol. VII.) Her mother, Lady Amabell, dying at London, in March 1726, the Earl, in 1730, married, secondly, Mrs. Arabella Pershall, granddaughter and hei/ess of Sir Thomas Pershall, of Great Sng- nal, in the county of Stafford, Baronet, by whom he got a very LORD BREADALBANE. 379 considerable estate in that county; and by her, who died Septem- ber 2d, 1762, had issue, First, George, who died in his infancy. Second, John, Lord Glenorchy, married to Willielmina, second daughter of William Maxwell, of Preston, Esq. a cadet of the noble family of Nithsdale, and sister of Mary, countess of Sutherland. He died before his father, without male issue, No- vember 14th, 1771. His Lordship dying without surviving male issue in July 1782, the earldom then descended to the next collateral heir male; de- rived from Sir Colin Campbell, of Mochaster, uncle to the first Earl, whence was descended Colin Campbell, of Carwhin, Esq. who died March 30th, 1772, having married, January 28th, 1758, Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Archibald Campbell, of Stonefield; and by her, who died August 1786, had issue, First, Jane, born December 1st, 1758, died March 23d, 1769. Second, Elizabeth, born July 28th, 176O; died October 5th, 1774. Third, John, present Peer. Fourth, Colin, born December 12th, 1764, a Captain in the army, died in June 1792. John Campbell, eldest son, succeeded his collateral relation, the late Earl, as fourth Earl of Breadalbane, in July 1782. His Lordship was born in 1762; and was elected one of the Sixteen Peers in 1784, 179O, 1796, 1S02, and was raised to the British Peerage, by the title of Lord Breadalbane of Taymouth Castle, in Perthshire, November 4th, 1806. His Lordship was Colonel of the Breadalbane Fencibles in the late war, and in I8O9, was raised to the rank of Major-General in the army. His Lordship is also Counsellor of State for the Prince of Wales in Scotland, and F.R.S. His Lordship married, September 2d, 1793, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of David Gavin, Esq. Esq. of Langton, by Lady Elizabeth Maitland, daughter of James, seventh Earl of Lauderdale; and has issue, First, Lady Elizabeth, born July 5th, 1794. Second, John, Viscount Glenorchy, born July 10th, 1795. Third, Lady Mary, born October 26th, 1796. VOL. IX. 2 b SSO PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Titles. John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane, and Viscount Glenorchy, in Scotland ; and Baron Breadalbane, of Great Britain' Creations. Earl of Breadalbane, and Viscount Glenorchy, 16/8} and Baron Breadalbane, of Taymouth, November 4th, 1806. Arms. Quarterly; first and fourth, girony of eight pieces, Or and Sable ; second, Or, a fess cheque, Argent and Azure; third, Argent, a galley, Sable, her oars in action, and her sails furled close. Crest. On a wreath, a boar's head erased, proper. Supporters. Two stags of the latter, altered and unguled Or. Motto. Follow me. Chief Seats. At Castle Kelchurn, in Glenorchy, Argyleshire: and Taymouth Castle, in Breadalbane, Perthshire. LORD GARDNER. 381 GARDNER, LORD GARDNER. Theophilus Gardner, of Coleraine, in the county of London- derry, in Ireland, by Margaret, daughter of White, left issue William Gardner, of Coleraine, who commanded a com- pany in the defence of the city of Derry under King William, and died young; leaving by , who survived her husband, and was living 1689, William Gardner, Esq. Lieut-Colonel of the 11th regi- ment of dragoons, born at Coleraine, March 24th, Ifjpi; who died, August 14th, 17G2, and was buried at Uttoxeter, co. Staf- ford. He married at Preston, December 7th, 1729, Elizabeth (born December 5th, 1708), eldest daughter and coheir of Va- lentine Farrington, of Preston, co. Lancaster, M. D. by Agnes, daughter and heir of Pricket, of Nutland Abbey, co. West- moreland, Esq. She died August l6th, 1783, and was buried at Leyland, co. Lancaster. By her he had issue, First, William, Liverpool merchant, born 1731, died un- married October 27th, 1788. Second, Anne, born 1733, married Thoma Dixon, of New- castle on Tyne, Gent, and died in November 1803. Third, Agnes, born November 1735. Fourth, Elizabeth, died 1738. Fifth, Valentine, late a major in the army, born May 16th, 1739; married, first, in 1762, Alida, third daughter of colonel Robert Livingston, of Livingston Manor, New York, and she died in September 1791, leaving issue, William-Linnaeus, a cap- tain in the army: he married, secondly, December 1st, 1/92, at Bath, Frances, second daughter of Samuel Holworthy, of Els- 382 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. worthy, in Cambridgeshire, widow of Framingham Thurston, of Weston, in the county of Suffolk, by whom he has issue Valen- tine, born in 1794. Sixth, Mildred, died unmarried December 29th, 1758. Seventh, Henry, died November 28d, 1740. Eighth, Alan, the first Peer. Ninth, Sarah, born May 26th, 1745; married, November cub, 1771* Henry Humphreys, Esq. of London, merchant: she died May 27th, 1/78, leaving issue two sons, and a daughter. Tenth, Henry-Farrington, born in 1746, colonel com- mandant of the 20th dragoons; died at Jamaica, unmarried, July 20th, 1792. Eleventh, Margaretta, died unmarried November 8th, 1777- Twelfth, Dorothy, born September 29th, 1 751 ; married at St. Augustine, in East Florida, May 10th, 1772, Robert Barrie, Esq. in the army, who died in 1775, leaving issue: she married, second, September 22d, 1784, George Clayton, of Lostock-Hall, in Lancashire, Esq. and has issue. Alan, first Lord Gardner, born April 12th, 1742, mar- ried in the Island of Jamaica, May 29th, 1769, Susannah Hyde, sole daughter and heir of Francis Gale, of Liguania, in Jamaica, by whom he had issue, First, Alan Hyde, the present Peer. Second, Francis Farrington, born June 21st, 1773, in the navy; married, May 4th, I8O9, Miss C. V. Straubenzee, third daughter of the late Charles S. V. Straubenzee, of Yorkshire, Esq. Third, William- Henry, born October 6th, ]774, in the royal artillery; married, February 20th, 1S03, Eliza-Lydia, third daughter of colonel Fryers, and has the foilowing issue, Anne- Europa, born December 10th, ] 804; Eliza, born June 17th, 1806, and Susan, born August 20th, 1808, and died in August I8O9. Fourth, Henry-Coatley, died November 5th, 1792. Fifth, Herbert, born August 20th, 1781, in the royal artil- lery; married, November 7th, 1804, Miss Cornwall, youngest daughter of the late John Cornwall, Esq. and has issue, a son, born August 20th, 1808, a daughter, born May 1810, and a daughter, born January 14th, 1811. Sixth, Edward, born March Qth, 1784. Seventh, Valentine, born 1785, died February 1st, 1786. Eighth, Valentine-William, born March 20th, 1787, in the navy; married, August 18th, 1810, Alicia-Anne, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Radford, rector of Hardmead, Bucks. LORD GARDNER. 383 Ninth, Samuel-Martin, born August 10th, 1769. Tenth, Susannah-Hall, born July 1st, 1773 ; married, Ja- nuary 7th, 1794; John Cornwall, of Hendon, in Middlesex, Banker, deceased, and she died June 20th, ] 802, leaving issue. His Lordship commenced his naval career in 1755; in 176O, he was appointed lieutenant of the Bellona : in 1766, he was pro- moted to the rank of post -captain. In 1785, he was appointed commodore and commander in chief of his Majesty's ships at Jamaica; and in 1790, was elected one of the representatives for the borough of Plymouth, and in the same year was appoined one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; in 1793, was promoted to the rank of Rear- admiral of the Blue; and in 1/Q4, was appointed Rear-ad- miral of the White, and in the same year major general of the marines, and received a gold chain from his Majesty's hands, as a mark of his royal approbation of his conduct, in the actions of May 29th, and June 1st, in the engagement under Earl Howe. On July 4th, in the same year, he was promoted to be Vice- admiral of the Blue; and on the 6th of the following month, was created an English Baronet. November 3d, ] 7Q5, he received the thanks of the House of Commons in his place, for his conduct in the action off Port L'Orient (under the command of Lord Bridport), where he was second in command; June 13th, 1796, he was elected one of the representatives in Parliament for the City of Westminster; Feb- ruary 14th, 1799, he was advanced to the rank of Admiral of the Blue. August 30th, 1800, he was appointed commander in chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels employed on the coast of Ire- land; on December 13th following, was created a Peer of Ire/and, as Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter; in July 1802, he was re-elected one of the representatives for the City of Westminster. On November 15th, 1806, he was created an English Peer, as Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter, in the county of Stafford, In the same year he had the command of the grand fleet, and was Admiral oe the White. His Lordship died January 1st, 1809, a»d was succeeded by his eldest son, Alan-Hyde, the present and second Lord Gardner, born February 6th, 1772, who following his father's profession, was promoted very early to be a Post-captain; and is now an Admi- ral, and had lately a command in the North Seas. His Lordship married, March 1796, first, Maria, only daugh- 384 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. ter of Thomas Adderley, of Innishannon, Esq. by Margaret, first wife of the present Earl of Buckinghamshire, which marriage was dissolved by act of parliament. His Lordship remarried April I8O9, Charlotte, daughter of Lord Carrington, and by her, who died 1811, had issue, First, Alan-Hyde, born January 29th, 1810. Second, A daughter, born December 29th, 1810. His Lordship was promoted to be Rear-Admiral of the Red, August 1st, 1811. Title. Alan Gardner, Lord Gardner, of Uttoxeter, co. Staf- ford; and Lord Gardner, in Ireland. Creations. Lord Gardner of Uttoxeter, co. Stafford, No- vember 23d, 1806, by patent; Lord Gardner of Ireland, Decem- ber 23d, 1800. Arms. Argent, on a chevron, gules, between three griffins heads erased, Azure, an anchor, erect, with a piece of cable, be- tween two lions chevron-ways, Or. Crest, A demi griffin, Azure, collared and lined, holding an anchor, Or. Supporters. Two griffins, Azure, murally gorged and rest- ing their dexter paw and hind off leg upon an anchor, Or. Motto. Valet anchora virtus.* a Susanna Hyde Gale, mother of the present Lord Gambier, was daughter of Francis Gale, of Liguanea, in Jamaica, by Susanna, daughter of William Kali, of Jamaica, which last Susanna was living in 1794) ast. circ. 68; and which Francis died in September 1774, xt> 47 > an<* was buried at Kingston in the said island ; and was eleventh son of Jonathan Gale, of Fullerswood, in the parish of St. Elizabeth, in Jamaica, Colonel of the militia of that island, who was born March 10th, 1676, and died there April 21st, 1727, having been married at the. parish ofVere, May 18th, 1699, to Eleanor , who was buried at St. Eli- zabeth, October 16th, 1723. He was son of John Gale, born 1637, who went, when a youth, to Jamaica, at the first conquest of it by Penn and Venables, in 1665, and is supposed by family tradition, to have been a younger son of the fa- mily of Gale, of Aikham, in the Ainsty of the city of York. He settled at the Cashear, in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, and was some time a Major in the army in the said island. He died October 9th, 1689, aet. 52, and was buried in his garden at the Cashear, where his tomb still remains. His wife, Mary, born 1647, died 1711, aet. 64. LORD MANNERS. 365 SUTTON, LORD MANNERS. Lord George Sutton, third son of John Manners, third Duke of Rutland (for whom see Vol. I. p. 4SS), married, first, in De- cember 1749, Diana, daughter of Thomas Chaplin, Esq. of Blank- ney, in Lincolnshire, by whom he had seven sons, and six daughters; viz. First, George Sutton, Esq. born August 1st, 1/51, M. P. for Newark, 1774, and for Grantham, from 17SO to 1802, He inherited the Lexington fortune, and died 1S04, without issue. Second, John, born July 12th, 1752, formerly a Lieut. -Co- lonel in the guards, now heir to his brother, married, April 1778, Miss Manners, by whom he has a daughter, and several sons, of whom a younger son, is a captain in the navy; another in holy orders. Third, Robert, born January 5tb, 1754, a captain in the navy, blown up in the Ardent man of war. Fourth, Charles, born February 14th, i755, Dean of Peter- borough 1791; Bishop of Norwich 1792; Archbishop of Can- terbury 1804 (on the death of Dr. John Moore), married Mary, daughter of Thomas Thoroton,a Esq. of Nottinghamshire, by whom he has two sons, first, Charles-Manners Sutton, M. P. Judge-Advocate, married, July 8th, 181 1, Miss Charlotte Denison.b Second, Francis, a captain in the Coldstream regiment of foot guards; and ten daughters; First, Mary, married to the a Descended from the brother of Dr. Thoroton, the Historian of Notting- hamshire. Mrs. Sutton's eldest brother, Thomas Thoroton, Esq. M.P. is now -eated at Flintham, in Lincolnshire, on the borders of Notts. b D-ughttr of John Dennison, Esq. of Ossington, Notts. 386 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND Hon. and Rev. Hugh Percy. Second, Diana. Third, Louisa, Fourth, Charlotte. Fifth, Frances. Sixth, Anne Maria. Seventh,, Isabella. Eighth, Catherine. Ninth, Rachel. Tenth, Catherine/ Fifth, Thomas, now Lord Manners. Sixth, William, died an infant. Seventh, Francis, Lieutenant in the 85th foot, died at To- bago 1/81. Eighth, Diana, married April 21st, 1778, Francis Dickens, Esq. late M. P. for Northamptonshire. Ninth. Harriet, died an infant. Tenth, Charlotte, born in 1764, married, June l6tb, 1789, Thomas Lockwood, Esq. and died 1790, leaving issue. Eleventh, Louisa-Bridget, born in 1766, married, June l6th, 1 790, Edward Lockwood Perceval, Esq. son of the Rev. Edward Lockwood. Twelfth, Mary. Their father married, secondly, February 5th, 1768, Miss Mary Peart, by whom he had a daughter, born August 4 th, 1770.. married, July 2d, l/QQ, the Rev. Richard Lockwood, of Fifield. Essex. Lord George Sutton, died January 7th, 1783. Sir Thomas, fifth son, now Lord Manners, was born Fe- bruary 24th, 1756, educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge, called to the bar; appointed Solicitor General 1802, and knighted; Baron of the Exchequer, 1805, and elevated to the high office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, I8O7, on which occasion he was also created a Peer of Great Britain, by patent, dated April 14th, 1807, by the title of Lord Manners, of Fos- ton, in Lincolnshire. His Lordship married, in 1803, Miss Copley, sister to the present Sir Joseph Copley, Bart, but has no issue. Title. Sir Thomas Manners, Knight, Lord Manners of Fos- ton, in Lincolnshire. Creation. Lord Manners, by patent, dated April 14th, I8O7. Arms and Crest. The same as the Duke of Rutland, with a crescent for difference. Supporters. On the dexter side a unicorn Argent, horns, hoofs, and tufts, Or; on the sinister the same, charged with a portcullis, Sable. Motto. Pour y parvenir. c See Vol. I. p. 488. PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. 387 GAMBIER, LORD GAMBIER Nicholas Gambier, of the parish of St. Mary le Bow, Lon- don, Gent, came from Caen, in Normandy, and settled in Encr- land about 169O. He died about February 1724, having married Hesther , who surviving him a short time, was buried at St. Mary, Aldermary, London, November 13th, 1724. By her he had four sons, and two daughters. First, James Gambier, of whom presently. Second, John, living 1741. Third, David died unmarried, and was buried at St. Mary, Aldermary, London, November 18th, 1726. Fourth, Esther died unmarried, and was buried at St. Mary, Aldermary, London, January 7th, 1759. Fifth, Susan Gambier. Sixth, Henry Gambier, of St. Mary le Bow, London, born in 1694. By his wife, Catherine Judith, who died at Hackney, in Middlesex, about 1/66, he had a daughter, and two sons, viz. first, Hesther Judilh, baptized at St. Mary le Bow, September 20th, 1 724. Second, Samuel Henry, baptized at the same place October 13th, 1725. Third, William James Gambier, born in the city of London, August 24th, 1718, died at Camberwell, in Surrey, March Ifjth, 1797* ar)d was buried there, having married, March 3 1st, 1744, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Richard Venn, Rector of St. Antholin's in the city of London, and by her, who died March 17th, 17