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l^atbarli ColUgr l.tt)rars

FROM THE GIFT OF

ERNEST BLANEY DANE

((Mass of 1893)
OF BOSTON

Sfjis Book

IS THE PRIVA

ARTH UR V

■Ulster

PARLIAMENTARY MEMOIRS

PEEMANAGH

TYEONE,

1613 «> 1885.

THE EARL OF BELMORE.

DUBLIN:
ALEX. THOM & CO. (LmrtBD), 87, 88, & 89, ABBEY-STREiGT

1887

[Jli rights reserved.]

PREFACE.

The earlier portion of this work, viz., the Parliamentary
Memoirs of Fermanagh, was published in 1886. I now
reissue the remainder of the edition, with the Parlia-
mentary Memoirs of Tyrone, with which county I am also
connected, as a sequel.

Further information has caused me to revise the Intro-
duction, and the notices of Henry Blennerhasset, Sir
Michael Cole, Sir Robert Cole, Sir Qustavus Hume, Richard
Cole, and Hugh Henry Mitchell ; and I have made other
corrections and additions in the Appendices. Appendix TV.
will be found to contain a large amount of additional
information about the Cole Family in Fermanagh. In
Appendix V. will be found corrections or additions to
various Fermanagh Memoira — Sir John Davies, Roger
Atkinson, Sir Robert Cole, Colonel James Corry, Dr.
Christopher Erwin, Colonel Abraham Creighton, Colonel
John Corry, Nicholas Archdall and his son Colonel Mervyn
Archdall, Armar Lowry Corry, Hugh Henry Mitchell, Sir
John Blaquiere, Nathaniel Sneyd, Viscount Crichton, the
list of Members of the Parliament, 1874, Viscount Cole,
and to Appendices II. and III. It also contains notes to
the Memoirs of Sir Audley Mervyn, Sir Phelim O'Neill,
James Stewart of Killymoon, and Andrew Knox, in the
Tyrone series. Appendix VI. contains references to two im-
portant divisions in the Session of Parliament of 1753-4,
with a division list. Appendix VII. is a list of the Crown
Tenants in Fermanagh in 1678 ; whilst Appendix VIIL is
a list of the High Sheriffs of Tyrone, and Appendix IX. a
list of those in Fermanagh and Tyrone, attainted by King
James' Parliament in 1689. The Tyrone Memoirs, like
those of Fermanagh, will be found to be preceded by a
Special Introduction.

Castlkcoolb,

30 Auffustj 1887.

INTRODUCTION,

The Redistribution Act of this year (1885), coupled with
the Franchise Act of 1884, has entirely altered the conditions
under which the people of Fermanagh will in future be
represented in the House of Commons. The county, which
has since 1613 returned two members to that House, will
be divided into two Electoral Divisions, called North and
South Fermanagh respectively, each returning a single
member ; whilst the Borougli of Enniskillen will be entirely
merged in the northern division of the county. It seems
that the present is a fitting time to place on record what
can be gathered concerning those who have represented our
people and their forefathers during this lengthened period ;
and that such a record will not be without interest. I have
therefore essayed the task, availing myself of the assistance
which has been freely rendered by a few friends, in collecting
information, and of such standard works of reference as
were at hand, and available for the purpose. Any special
sources of information will be found noted in the proper place.

It will be seen that as regards the county, the members
have been always chosen from amongst the landlords or
their immediate relatives. Most of those who were actually
landowners have been residents ; whilst the gi'eat majority
of the principal resident families have had at least one turn
in the representation. I have taken the list of membei-s
as they are given in the Parliamentary Return of 3877.
From this it appears that the Cole family has had seven
members who nave represented the county, the Archdall
family five, the Corry family three, the Brooke family
three, the Crichton family two, the Hume family (now
succeeded in the county by the Loftus family) two, and
the Maguire, Davies, Blennerhasset, and Irvine families,
one each.

Of these families, the circumstances attending that of
Archdall are, as far as I know, unique in Parliamentary
history — five members of this family, belonging to only
four successive generations, have continuously held one of
the county seats for a period of upwards of one hundred
and fifty-three years without interruption to the present day.

* The borough of Enniskillen received its charter on the
27th Febiniary, 1612-13, which constituted Enniskillen,
therein designated the town or village and whole island of
*See CaL S. P. Jac. I (Ireland) 161 1-14, p. 294.

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Iniskillin, &c, (except only our fort or castle of Eniskilling),
into a parliamentary and municipal borough, and appointed
»* the nrst Provost and fourteen free Burgesses, the following
persons : —

Captaine William Cole, esq., Provost

Sir John Wishert, knight.

Boger Atkinson, esq.

Robert Cathcart, esq,

Henrie Huninges, esq.

Thomas Barton, esq.

Edward Sybthorpe, gentleman.

Thomas Shaw.

WiUiam Hall.

Nicholas Ozenbrooke.

Alexander Dunbar.

Edward Moore.

Alexander Wigham.

Fferdinand Biufeild.

Joseph Walters.

How far, during the earlier period of its history, Ennis-
killen could claim to be an open borough, I do not know.
Looking at the names of its numbers in the parliaments of
1613, 1634, and 1639, 1 see no trace of the predominating
influence of the Cole family, which prevailed from the time
of the Restoration down to the Reform Act of 1832 ; and in
fact practically to a great extent since ; for though there
have been frequent contests of late years, the candidate
supported by that family has invariably secured the seat.
Four of the first six members were strangers to the town,
(although in the parliamentary return, the residence of one
of them, Mr. Famham, is given as Enniskillen, I suspect
erroneously). The other two members, Captain Atkinson
and Mr. Champion, were successively owners of Castle Coole.

Captain Cole did not sit in the Parliament of 1613 — as Sir
William Cole he sat for the countv in the Pai'liaments of
1634 and 1639. In the latter year nis eldest son, Michael,
must have been of age. Pai^liament met in the last days of
1639-40 ; and Michael Cole served as sheriff of the county
in 1640, and his son Michael sat in Parliament in 1661 ; yet
we do not find that Michael, the elder, ever sat in Parliament.

From 1661 downwards to 1832, the borough was obviouslj'
a dose one. Amongst its representatives from the former
date to the present day, we find thirteen members of the Cole
family. Of these, one had previously represented the County
and two did so subsequently. Thus between County and
Borough, Fermanagh nas in nine successive generations,

sent seventeeu members of this family to the House of
Commons * In addition, four members were connected
with that family by marriage,t one of whom, however,
elected to sit for anotlier constituency ; three were county
gentlemen unconnected with the' Cole family 4 and the re-
mainder were strangers.

In latter days the politics of the Representatives for both
county and borough have been invariably Tory or Conser-
vative. Probably at one time most of them would have
been called Whigs. During the time of the Irish Parlia-
ment, three county elections were controverted (by petition),
in each case without effect; viz., those of 1613, 1776, and
1783.

I have included amongst the members for the borough
all the persons who are given in the Return of 1877,
although four of them, viz. : — Mr. A. L. Corry, Sir John
Blaquiere, Mr. Beresford and Mr. Sneyd, elected to serve for
other constituencies.

In the case of the earlier Parliaments, those from 1613 to
1695 inclusive, the dates of return of members, and their
residences, with two exceptions are given. From the
Parliament of 1695 inclusive, to the Union, the return is in
a different form, and they are not given,§ But the Parlia-
ment of 1695 is prefaced by a Table giving the dates of the
commencement and the conclusion of each Parliament down
to 1800. From this table I have taken the dates which I
have placed before the names of the members during this
period

In the case of bye elections prior to the Union I have
had to go to the Journals. The dates of the warrants for
new writs are generally to be found in them. Sometimes
also there is a notice by name, of a new member being

* Arranged according to generations thej are as follows : —

1. Sir Willian Cole, Knt.

2. Sir John Cole, Bart

3. Sir Michael Cole, Knt. ; Sir Robert

Cole, Knr. ; Sir Arthur Cole,
Lord Ranelagh and his brother
Richard Cole.

4. John Cole.

6. John Cole, Lord Monntflorence.
6. William Cole, 1st Earl of Ennis-

killen, and the Hon. Arthur Cole
Hamilton.

7. William Cole, 2nd Earl of Enuis-
killen ; the Hon. Sir 6. Lowry
Cole, and the Hon. Arthnr Cole.

8. William Cole, 3nl Earl of Ennis-
killen ; the Hon. Henry Cole, and
the Hon. John Cole.

9. Lowry Egerton, Viscount Cole.

t These were \rmar-Lowr}' Corry, John M*Clintock, Richard Magenis, and
Viscount Crichton.

^Colonel Abraham Crichtoni John Corry, and Bernard Smith Ward.

§ These returns were in fact ordered by the House of Commons at different
times, and both included the Parliament of 1695. The y were reprinted by the
House of Lords in 1879 and 1880. I have generally used the Lords* copy,
Vol. ii. (1880).

*b2

sworn. In one instance the Journals are altogether at fault,
as will be found explained in the case of John Corry, in
the Parliament of 1703. In 1801 the names only are given,
the only dates being apparently for bj'e elections.

From 1802, the return is ma/ie in another form. The
names and residences are usually given, apparently as taken
from the return, and the dates follow. In all caises the
names of constituences are given in a separate column.

A MS. will be found referred to several times as " the
Phillipps MS." This is a Manuscript entitled " History of
the Co. Fermanagh, with the antient families of the same,
written 1718-19. An alphabetical Table of y* most Remark-
able Brittish families in y* County of Fermanagh, proceeding
according to y* first letter of each simame, wherein by y«
pages annexed to their names y* description may be found
in y« book at y* same page." This MS. whose introduction
is initialled T or I, formerly belonged to Sir Wm. Betham.
On his death it was sold to the late Sir Thos. Phillipps, and
is now in the library of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham. In
the catalogue it is at page 238, No. 13,293, Betham MSS.

I have never had the opportunity of examining the
original ; but I have had several extracts from it. Although
the writer's style, as well as his speUing of proper names, is
often faulty, his information appears to have been on the
whole very accurate, and fairly complete.

I have given a list of the High Sheriffs in the Appendix.
It may be useful to assist in verifying dates, and succeeding
generations of families.

I have besides given in the Appendix an account (compiled
for me by a friend) of some of those properties in the Barony
of Lurg, a large part of which originally belonged to
fiimilies now no longer existing in our county, I had added
there also a genealogical table of the Mervyn family, which
1 have often had to refer to, as having intermarried with
the families of Fermanagh.

I have gone as a rule more at length into the memoirs of
the earlier than of the later Members, particularly those
belonging to the same family. Materials for the purpose
have generally proved more abundant ; and the first, oi* first
two membei-s of a family have naturally exhausted the
family histoiy. To have written anything approaching a
complete history of the careers of two distinguished Repre-
sentatives of the borough, viz. : — Mr. Henry Flood, and Mr.,
afterwards Lord Chief Justice Whiteside, would have ex'
ceeded the limits of my space, even had I had the ability to
do so, or the necessary materials at hand.

PARLIAMENT OF 1613.

Dftte.

1618—19 April,

1618-30 April,

Nftme.
. Sir Hexuy FolUott, knt,

Sir John Dayyes, knt, .
. Roger Atkinson, esq.,
Humphry Famham, gent,

.B^yshannon^i Fermanagh

. Coole, . . ) iDishklllln
. Enlskillen, . t Borough.

MEMOIR.

I. — Sib Henby Folliott, or Ffolliott.

Sir Henry Folliott was son of Thomas Folliott, of Pyrton,
county Worcester, by Katherine Lygon his second wife.
He was lineally descended from a younger branch of the
old baronial mmily of Folliott, which was established in
England at the Conquest. He was knighted 6th September,
1599, and commanded a regiment at the victory of Kinsale.

Sir Henry was Governor of Ballyshannon, county
Donegal, and acquired property in the county Fermanagh.
Pynnar's Survey of Ulster, anno 1618-19, under the h^td
of "The Precinct of Coole and Tircanada " (in the county
Fermanagh), " allotted to Servitors and Natives " has the
following : —

LXIIL, 1,500 acres.

'* Sir Henry Folliot, Knight, hath one thousand five hundred
acres, called New-Porten. * Upon this proportion is a strong bawne
of lime and stone, one hundred and fifty feet long, 120 feet wide
and 12 feet high, with three flankers; -within the bawne there is
a strong house of lime and stone, three stories high, himself with
his lady and family dwelling in it. Near unto this bawne he hath
made a town consisting of eleven houses, all inhabited with
Scottish and English fietmiliea. He hath also a water mill for
com."

The precinct of Coole here mentioned is not the present
barony of Coole, then known as Cool-noirer, part of the
barony of Knockninny ; but the northern part of Tirkennedy.
The " town " of eleven houses was, no doubt, the original

* Kew Pirton in the true f onn, lilie New Tork.

of Ballinamallard. Sir Henry Folliott was by letters patent,
dated 22nd January, 1619, created Lord Folliott, Baron of
Ballyshannon. No Parliament met after the year 1615, until
1634, when, Lord Folliott having died in 1622, his eldest son
Thomas (by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Strode,
who married, secondly, the Earl of Boscommon), took his
seat in the House of Lords, on the 14th July. This latter
peer together with Lords Digby, Esmond, and Blayney,
appear by the Lords' Journals, to have tmsuccessfully dis-
puted precedence with Lord Castlestewart. On the 31st
July, 1697, his son (by his wife Rebecca French), Henry
third Lord Folliott, took his seat in the House of Lords ;
and the title became extinct on the death of this peer, with-
out surviving issue, in 1716.

It appears from the Calendar of State Papers (James I.,
161 1-14),* that a petition was lodged on the 31st May, 1613,
against the return of Sir Henry Folliott and Sir John Davies,
to this Parliament for Fermanagh, alleging that —

" Connor Roe M'Gwire and Donnell McGwire were elected; not-
withstanding the sheriff falsely returned Sir Henry EoUiot, and
Sir John Davys, who have no residence there. Captain Goare
pulled the beard from the face of Brene M*Thomas M'Gwire, for
giving his voice with Connor Roe and Donnell McGwire." (Page
362).

The result is mentioned (page 440, No. 781), 12th Novem-
ber, 1613. " The Commissioners examined witnesses on both
parts, and for any thing appearing to them, the sheriff
made a just return of Sir Henry Fohot and Sir John Davys.
Concerning the force said to have been used, it is confessed
upon oath by Bryan Maguire, whose beard was said to be
pulled from his face, that Captain Gore did shake him by
the beard, but pulled no part of it away, nor did him any
other hurt."

TL — Sir John Davies, Attorney-General, and Speaker of

the House of Commons.

Sir John Davies was the third son of John Davies of

Tisbury in Wiltshire. The record of his admission into

the Middle Temple Society, says that his father was "late

of New Inn, gentleman." When not yet fifteen, he was sent

to Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1585, as a commoner of

Queen's College. He became B.A- in July, 1690. He

removed meanwhile from Queen's to the Middle Temple, in

* This is giyen more fnlly in the Calendar of the Carew Papers.

February, 1687-8. ^ Upon some little provocation as
Anthony Wood relates, ne bastinadoed Richard Martin "
(afterwards Recorder of London), "when they were at
dinner in the Temple Hall," for which oflTence he was
expelled in 1597-8. He returned to Oxford, where,
in 1699, he published a poem on the Immortality of the
Soul, which he entitled " NoscE Teipsum." This he
dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. He afterwards, owing to
the success of this eflfort to gain the Queen's favour, praised
her through twenty-six acrostics, each beginning "Elizabetha
Regina." When the Queen was to be entertained by Mr.
Secretary Cecil, Davies, now considered a professed wit,
was summoned to furnish his share of gratulations. He
was chosen into the last Parliament of Elizabeth which met
27th October, 1601, where he displayed considerable activity.
In 1 601, having made ample submission before Chief Justice
Popham and other Judges, and having been forgiven by
M£U*tin, (who had himself in 1591 suffered expulsion from
his Inn and who had now become his antagonist in Parlia-
ment), he was, by the influence of Lord EUesmere, the
Chancellor, restored to his chamber in the Middle Temple.

At the commencement of the next reign he posted to
Scotland, and was introduced to King James, who asked if
he was NoscE Teipsum. On learning that he was, his
Majesty graciously embraced him.

Li 1603, under the patronage of Sir Robert Cecil, Davies
was sent as Solidtor-Qeneral to Ireland, and, 17th April,
1606, appointed Attiomey-General. He subsequently
married Eleanor the third daughter of Lord Audley,
afterwards Earl of Castlehaven, a military English Noble-
man, who possessed the greater portion of the estate now
owned by Lord Belmore, in Tyrone. They had one son
who died a youth, and one daughter, Lucy, who, having
married Ferdinando Hastings, carried the blood of Davies
with his fortune, into the family of Huntingdon. Davies
was called to the degree of Segeant at Law (in England),
in Trinity Term, 1606, and was knighted 20th January,
1604. He retained his office of Attorney-General of Ireland
notwithstanding his degree of Serjeant, the king having
specially dispensed with his presence in England. The
Lord Deputy, having determined in July, I6(>7, to make a
judicial progress through Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Cavan,
joined me Attorney-General with the Chief Justice as
the Judges of Assize for performing this service. Sir
John wrote the Earl of Salisbuiy a very elaborate account

of this circuit, which is published in Davies* Historical
Tracts (from " The Life " written by Geo. Chalmers, prefixed
to which work most of these particulars are taken).

Davies obtained for himself, besides an assignment of 600
acres in the precinct of Orior, Coimty of Armagh, called
Comechino, granted to Lord Audley, and passed to his son-
in-law, an assignment of Lisgoole Abbey, from Sir Henry
Bruncker, who had a grant of them, November 12, 1606,
in the County Fermanagh ; for which county he was elected
in 1612, one of the two first parliamentary representatives
it had ever chosen. The House of Commons consisted of 226
members, of whom, at the opening of the session, appeared
121 of the Protestant party, and 101 of the Eoman Catholic.

'' This approzimation to equality had been alone sufficient to
create great intrigues and altercation in any popular assembly.
But, among the members who were then assembled to choose a
Speaker, and who were animated by a sense of ancient antipathy
and of recent opposition, the tumult approached nearly to the
bloody scenes of a Polish Diet. Sir John Davies was proposed as
Speaker by the Court ; Sir John Everard, who had been an Irish
Judge, but resigned because he could not take the oath of
supremacy, was supported by the Roman Catholic party. The
house divided. The court members went out according to parlia-
mentary form. But their opponents, considering themselves the
majority of legal representatives, placed Sir J ohn Everard in the
chair as dxily elected. And nothing remained for the real majority
but to remove the intruder, and to place the true Speaker in the
same chair. The perseverance of the majority induced the minority
to secede from an assembly which they thus found they could not
rule.** {Vide Davies' HistoriocU Tracts^ ^^ Life of Sir J. DcmeSy"
by G. Chalmers,)

The great body of the people applauded the seceders, and
the Lord Deputy prorogued ParliMnent to allow men's minds
to cool, and the seceders to lay their complaints before the
King. ' They were patiently heard, but the complaints about
elections were all declared groundless, except those of two
boroughs which had been erected after the issuing of the
writs. Nobody was gratified, but every one was obliged to
submit When Parliament reassembled* it did not occur to
anyone that an English House of Commons would not have
allowed the King in Council to decide disputed elections.
On this occasion Sir John Davies delivered an elaborate
speech which, in spite of some inaccuracies, is said to have
been unquestionably one of the most learned and instructive
orations ever pronounced by the speaker of the Parliament
in either Kingdom. {Vide *' Life of Sir John Lames*' quoted'
above.)

*' He minutelj traced the hiBtory of the Iriflh Tjegislataie^ which
from the epoch of Poynings' Act, waa extremely complex ; and he
throws maiij rays of light on a subject which was iq those days
involved in peculiar obscurity." ( Vide " Life of Sir John Davies.**)

This Parliament — which hadreoognised the Kind's right to
the crownof Ireland— had paased an Act of generalindemnity
forlatecrimes, with the exceptions of Tyrone, Tyrconnel, and
O'Dogharty — ^had repealed Uie ancient laws which prohibited
intercourse between the English within the Pace, and the
Irish without — ^had given an entire subsidy to relieve the
Eling from the contmual expense of supporting the Irish
Government — aud had endeavoured to improve the police of
the country — was after several prorogations dissolved in
October, 1615.

In 1616, Sir John Davies published his " Reporte of Cases
adjudged in the King's Courts in Ireland '' being the earliest
Insh reports ever published; andinl619(his"Life"is in error)
he finally retired from Ireland. In 1620 he was elected
member for Newcastle-under-Lyne in the English Parlia-
ment ; but seldom spoke except on the affairs of Ireland.
He died on the 7th December, 1626, of apoplexy, in the 67th
• year of his age, having previously supped with the Lord
Keeper Coventry, who had given him assurances that he
was about to be appointed Chief Justice of England, in
the place of Sir Kandolph Crew.* He was buried in St.
Martin's in the Fields Church, London.

The following is the entry in Pynnar's Survey of Ulster
(1618-19) respecting Sir John Davies' estates in Fermanagh,
Armagh, and Tyrone respectively.

*^ The Precinct of Clinawly, allotted to Servitors and Natives.

LI., 1,500 acres.
''Sir John Davis, Knk^ht, hath one thousand five hundred
acres called lisgoweley. [Lisgoole.]

** Upon the Abbey Lands there is built a fair stone house, but
* no Bawne, and on this proportion there is not anything built."!
** The Precinct of Orior, allotted to Servitors and Natives."
CLXXV., 500 acres.

''Sir John Davies, Knight, hath five hundred acres called
Oomechino.

" Upon this there is nothing at all built, nor so much as an
English tenant on the land."

• His daughter said that he had even purchased his robes,
t Besides his Lisgoole purchase from Sir Henry Brnncker, Shr John Davies
reoeiyed a middle proportion in the same harony of Clanawly called Moyeghyane,
' that part of Cleenish which is on sheet 16 of the Ordnanoe Survey. The grant
was dated Jan. 9, 1611.

Precint of Omey. (Omagh).

CXXXVL, 2,000 acres.

" Sir John Davis, Knight, hath 2,000 acres called Gavelagh

and Clonaghmore^ cdias Castle Dirge, alias Castle Curlews. Upon

this Proportion there is built two strong and fair Castles of Lyme

and Stone, but no Bawne to them."

These were but a small portion of the grants made to
him.

III. — Roger Atkinson, Esq.

Captain Bop^r Atkinson came to Ii*eland about the time of
the war with O'Neill which commenced in 1595. In 1603 he
was granted by letters patent a pension of four shillings a day
during good behaviour, exchanged in 1604, for another
patent granting him six shillings a day. On 10th November^
1604, he was created Provost Marshall of Lough Foyle, and
of the forces and garrison of Derry and elsewhere in Ulster,
vice Philip Browne, deceased ; with a standing fee of four
shillings a day, and all the perquisites thereto belonging.
He held this office till December 2nd, 1605, when he was
succeeded by Richard Mxtrsden. His name appears in 1608,
amongst the list of Captains in Ireland discharged since
Michaelmas, 1603 ; and he is forther spoken of, as one of
those "bom in England." It a^in appears in 1610 amongst
" the servitors and pensioners m pay, ready to undertake."
He received a patent, dated 20th January, 1611-12, of the
Manor of Coole; and on the 30th March, 1612 (the new
year began in those days on the 25th March), he had another
patent of lands scattered over the counties of Meath, Dublin,
Longford, Westmeath, Louth, and Roscommon. The Manor
of (^ole, comprised the greater part of the present Castle
Coole estate ; to which at some time previous to 1639, he
added, probably by purchase, the lands of Augharynagh
which was originally a separate grant made to Richard
Magwire, gentleman. This small proportion is comprised
in Uastle Coole demesne, and some land immediately adjoin-
ing on the Tempo road side of the Great Northern Kail-
way of Ireland. Captain Atkinson was a '* Servitor," and
Mr. Magwire a " Native," in the technical language of the
Ulster Plantation. Atkinson's name appears second in the
first list of free burgesses of Enniskillen. Captain Atkinson
was one of the first two Parliamentary representatives of
the town, in the Parliament of 1613-15 : and in 1611, 1614,
1619, 1620, 1621, and 1634, he was High Sheriff of Fer-

managh. In 1618 he surrendered his pension of six
shillings a day, which was granted to Sir William Cole. In
1623, however, both of them were in the list of pensioners
in Ireland. In 1623 he was one of the Commissioners in
Fermanagh, one of the six escheated counties.
In Pymiar's survey (1619) he is thus noticed : —

"LXV., 1,000 acres.
** Captain Roger Atkinson hath 1,000 acres called Coole. Upon
this Proportion there is a strong bawne of lime and stone^ 60
feet square, with 3 flankers. He hath a strong stone house, in
which his wife with his family dwelleth. He hat£ two freeholders
all resident on the land. Here are two water mills, one for com,
and another a tuckingmilL"

In the Plantation grants the acreage mentioned must be
understood to mean " profitable acres," for inferior lands
were usually thrown in to a considerable extent

In 1639 Captain Atkinson, now, no doubt, grown old,
and apparently childless, obtained a new grant of his Fer-
managh estates (Coole and Augharainy) under the denom-
ination of Manor Atkinson, in which were embodied certain
provisions under the commission for remedy of defective
titles, the quit rent being nearly doubled in this new grant.
In 1640 he sold the manor to Arthur (Champion, esq., of
Shannock, obtaining immediately afterwards a licence from
the King to alienate, which was necessary, and for which
a fee of £5 was charged. He, however, took a lease from
the purchaser of the estate for his own and his wife Edith's
life, and was still residing at Castle Coole when the Re-
bellion of 1641 broke out. In a deposition, still extant in
Trinity College Library, and made in 1643, he deposes that
"the 23rd Oct., 1641, he was possessed of, and was con-
strained to forsake and depart from, Castle Atkinson aforesaid,
for safeguard of his life, &c., &c." He puts his losses as
follows : —

£ 8. d.
''His charge of building of his castle, and
houses, and plantinge, and closing of his
gardens and groundes, the some of . . 1,700
TTiH cafctle — hoiisehould stuff, and other goods,

worth the siun of 1,008 11 6

Item — lease lands at the rent of £30 per

annum, worth the sum of . . . . 210

The sum totall is . 2,918 11 6

Besides frehold lands for the several lives of
the said Captain Roger Atkinson and Edith,
his wiffe, yeilding the yearly rent of . . 260

The Commissioners who took the deposition have added
a note i —

'' The land above is sold to Mr. Champin, and an estat only
left for Mr. Atkinson and his wife, for their two lives, paying £20
per annum to Champin ; and after either of their deaths ^100 per
annum.''

rV. Humphrey Farnhah, Gent.

Mr. Famham's name is spelt in the Commons' Journals,
Femham. Of his early history, I cannot obtain any infor-
mation. He was returned as one of the Members of the
Borough of Enniskillen, to the Parliament of 1613, in which
it appears by the frequent mention of his name in the
journaLs, he took an active part, no doubt in support of the
Court party. He made a motion, on the 3rd November,
1614, for the observance of the 5th November as a holiday
in Ireland, like as in England ; ''and it was thought a good
motion.'' On the 9th May, 1615, he made a motion to relieve
the poor from the payment of exactly the same tax as the
rich, for the wages of the Members for boroughs. This
abuse was referred " to the Committees, that examine the
abuses of Sheriffs." On the 8th February, 1616, he received
a Patent as Summonister of the Exchequer, and on the
23rd a concordatum of £929 lis. English, was granted to
him, as so much formerly by him disbursed for the new
building of the gate-house of the Castle of Dublin, and
other reparations within the same, by virtue of His
Majesty's special directions, contained in the 25th article
of instructions to the Deputy. The amount of this money
was taken upon oath by Sir John King and Sir Francis
Annesley. On July 20th, 1622, a grant was received by
him (then residing in Dublin) of the wardship of Thomas
Delahoyd of Lou^shinny, co. Dublin, and of James Pierse,
of Ballyill. On 12th December, 1623, his name appears
amongst the Commissioners in the six escheated counties in
Ulster, as a Commissioner for Cavan and Fermanagh. He
may have been someway connected with the "V^ldrons,
who were the first grantees of Famham, county Cavan,
which place was originally called Famam, a modification of
the Irish name of the townland Faman, then Famam, then
Famham, so changed (according to one writer), through the
inter-marriage with one of the Famham family.

dogie says that Sir Richard Waldron built a castle near
Cavan, called Famham Castle, from the name of his place
in England ; another writer says that it was called from
his wife's name.

Pynnar, in 1618-19, says " Thomas Waldron, Esq., son
and heir to Sir Bichard Waldron, knight, deceased, holdeth
2,000 acres called Dromhill and Dromellan." Upon this
was a bawne of sods, 200 feet square, and four flankers, but
much of it fallen down.

*^ The Castle or Stone House is now finished, and himself, with
his mother, the Lady Waldron, with all their family are dwelliug
in it. There is built a town consisting of 31 houses, all inhabited
by English. There is also a Windmill. There is a Thoroughfare,
and Common Passage into the country, and here is a Uttle tillage."

PARLIAMENT OF 1634.

Date. Nune. Bealdeiioe. Conititaeiioy.

1634—8 July, . Sir WillUm Cole, knt, . EnliOdllen, > Fennanagh

Sir John Home, knt., . Castle Hume, t Coontj.

1684—3 July, . Sir John Burlaaey, knt, . Dublin, > Eniakillen

Faul DavlB, Esq^ (knt,) . ditto, ) Borough.

MEMOIR

1— Sir William Cole, Knt.

It appears from an ancient pedigree, dated 1630, in the
possession of the Earl of Enniskillen, that Sir William Cole
was the 12th in lineal male descent from William Cole, of
Hutensleigh, in the county of Devon, who was living A.D.
1243. His father was Emanuel Cole, third son of Thomas
Cole, of London. His mother was before her marriage,
Margaret I^ram. Sir William, having performed milits^
service, in m>Uand, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, raised
a regiment of horse, in Devonshire, towards the close of
that Queen's reign, from the neighbourhoods of Axminster,
Honiton, and Lyme Regis, for service in Ireland. This
regiment comprised amongst the men, names still known in
Fermanagh, as Willis, Walmsley, Coalter, and Frith. The
Hassard family also came from Lyme Regis. Sir William
Cole received a patent dated 15th May, 1G07, by which he
was appointed Captain of the long boats and bargees at
Ballyshannon and Lough Eame, witn a fee of three shillings
and four pence a day for himself, and eight pence a piece, a
day, for nis men ; and he settled at Eimiskillen on the 10th
September following. {Vide Archdairs Lodge's Peerage.)
He was Captain* of the Castle of Enniskillen, and was named

• The Cole pedigree alluded to below, sajs " and owner.**

" Lessees for 3 lives 7, viz.
8 having 60 acres le piece.
4 having 30 acres le piece.

the first Provost of the borough, upon its incorporation on
the 27th February, 1612-13. He served sa Sheriff of Fer-
managh in 1 616, 1623, 1626, and 1627. He received a grant
of land in the first year of King James. In Pynnar's survey
we find that Sir William Cole had 1,000 acres called Come-
grade, upon which proportion there was a bawne of lime and
stone, 68 feet long, 56 broad, and 12 high, with two flankers.
Pynnar found, planted and estated on this land,

' lliese have all taken the oath of
supremacy, and are able to
make 18 men armed; and he
hath a good water mill."

Sir William had also in Magheriboy, 1,000 acres called
Dromskeagh, of which however Jeremy Lynsey had been
the first patentee.* Here was a bawne of ^lime and stonef
68 feet square, 13 feet high, with four flankers, and a stone
house or castle three stories high, strongly wrought. He
had also an excellent windmill. On wiis land were of
British families, freeholders, two having 120 acres apiece ;
and lessees for years, eleven, viz., one having 120 acres, two
having 90 acres jointly, seven having 60 acres apiece, and
one having a tenament at will These thirteen families had
all taken the oath of supremacy and had eleven tenants
under them, being able to make 34? men. Sir William
married Susan, daughter and heiress of J. Croft, and
relict of Stephen Segar, Lieutenant of the Castle of Dublin.
By her he had, besides two daughters, two sons, viz., Michael,
who was Sheriff in 1640, and who married Catherine,
daughter of Sir Laurence Parsons, 2nd Baron of the Ex-
chequer, and died before his father (intestate ; administra-
tion granted in 1663, to his son Michael) ; and Sir John
Cole, l>art., of Newland, county Dublin. Sir Bernard Burke,
says that Sir William Cole raised a regiment which he com-
manded against the rebels all 1643, with important success.
The pedigree before alluded to is headed as follows: —

"}The genealogy or pedigree of the Right Worshipful and
Most Worthy Captain, Sir William Cole of the Castle of Ennis-
killen, in the county of Fermanagh^ in the kingdom of Ireland,
knight, who faithfully served Queen Elizabeth in her wars of
Holland and Ireland, and sithence in like manner served ELing
James, and his Majesty that now is, in eminent places and offices,
as well in their martial as civil affairs ; and is lineally descended
of the ancient house of Cole of Devon and Cornwall, wherein is
set forth the descents lines and branches of the several
families of that house and simame, together with their

* TbiB inclnded Fortora. t The present old Castle of Portora.

t 'rhe apelling of the original is here modernized.

matches and alliances to other right noble and worship-
fiil families ; their arms and ensigns ; carefdUj collected out of,
and proved by divers Records, Wills, Evidences, Inquisitions,
Monuments, and the Visitations and Books of the Office of Arms
at London, and other authentic authorities, as hereunder foUow-
eth ; CKemplified this 30th day of July, in the Eoxth year of the
reign [of] our dread Sovereign Lord Charles, by the Grace of
God, Sing of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, Ac. Anno Domini, 1630." •

Sir William Cole had Twith others) a narrow escape of his
life during the Rebellion of 1641. The following account
of it is derived from the present Lord Enniskillen's recol-
lection of the story, as told to him by an old Mr. Johnston,
who was the last of his race, — ^whose family formerly pos-
sessed property about Ederney, near the scene of the
incident, — ^and whose ancestor was one of those who escaped
on the occasion.

" In the year 1641, Sir William Cole and a ^reat number of the
Protestant gentry of the county Fermanagh, were invited to dine
with Colonel Rory M'Guire, who resided at Crevinish Castle, in
the barony of Lurg, in the said County, t The Castle was situated
at the end of a straight avenue, the road being paved, and broad
grass plots on each side of it. As Sir William Cole dismounted
from his horse, at the entrance, a man — ^I think named Coughlin
— ^who was in some way previously connected with his family,
took his horse, and, whilst doing so, whispered in his ear, * Your
horse will be ready in ten minutes.' This as you may suppose,
in those times, was a sufficient warning for a man to be on his
guard ; consequently, shortly after the party sat down to dinner,
Sir William rose to go out of the room. The host said to him, ' I
hope you are not going away. Sir William ' — or some such words
as thosa Sir William's answer, was ' 1 am obliged to retire for
a short time ; but you see I am not going, as 1 leave my hat and
sword in the window.' He went to the door where he found
Coughlin with two horses saddled. They both mounted and
galloped off, their escape not being discovered, as they rode on the
green sward by the side of the avenue. The remainder of the
Protestant gentiy, when they foimd that Sir William did not
return, became alarmed, rose up in a body, and made their escape.
They were too strong a party to be interfered with.

" Sir William Cole and Coughlin, rode direct to Enniskillen,
where the latter gave a full account of the intended rising ; Sir
William sent it off immediately to the Castle in Dublin, where
it was the first intimation received on the subject.

" The plan of M'Guire, and the other rebels at Crevinish was, to
fall upon the party after dinner, when they had drunk plenty of
wine, and massacre them all.

* An extract from the Phillips MS. respecting; the Cole family will be fonnd
in connexion with the Memoir of John Cole, M.P., on pp. 50, 51, further on«
t Now the property of the Trustees of the Vanghan's Charity.

^^ Aooording to Histoiy, Sir William Cole's express to Dublin
Oastley was delayed on the road, which was most unfortonate."

The following is the descent of the Cole family, of Flor-
ence Court, to the present time : —

1; William Ck>le, of Hntenddgfa, in
the 00. of DeroD, liYod in 1348.
9. Boger, of the nme,

8. Boger, ....

i. John, of DeYon and Cornwall,

fi. Sir John,)i>f Nythiun,

6. William,

7. Sir John,

8. John (aeoond ton),

9. William (seoond 0on),

10. John, .

11. Thomai, of London, .
19. Emanuel (third eon), .

Wife's name onknown.
Do. da

Do. do.

, married Anne, d. of Nioholaa Bodmgan

married l£argaret, d. of Sir Henry BewpeU.

married Agnes, d. of Sir — Fitzwaryn.

married Jane, d. of Bobert Meriot, of Devon.

, married Elisabeth, d. of Sir Biohard Weston, o(

I Wiltshire.

. married Mary, d. and h. of Thomas Arohdeaoon.

married Elisabeth, d. of Thomas Hargrave, of

I London,

married Margaret, d. of — Ingram, and aunt of
*| Sir Kobert Ingram.

18. Sir William, of the Castle of married Susan, d. of John Croft, of Laneashire,
'^ I relict of Stephen S^gKt, Lieutenant of

I the CasUe of Dublin,

married Catherine, d. of Sir Laurenoe Parsons, of

I Birr,

married (Seoond wife) Elizabeth, d. of Sir John

iCole, of Newland, ilp., and sister of
Lord Baron Banelagh.
married (First wife) Florence, d. and h. of Sir

I Booohler Wrey.

married Elizabeth, d. of Hugh Wlllougbby Mont-

I gomery, of Carow, co. Monaghan.

married Anna, d. of Galbraith Lowry, of Ahenis,
I M.P., and Sarah Corry, of CasUe Coole.

Eneskillin, m.p.
14. Michael,
18, Sir Miohael, ii.p.,

18. John ,if.p.,

17. John, Lord Mountflorenoe,

18. William WlUoughby, Earl

of Enniskillen.

19. John Willoughby, Eari of

Enniskillen.
30. WiUiam WUloughby, Earl
of Enniskillen.

married Lady Charlotte Paget, d. of Henry, Earl

I ofUzbridge.

married Jane, d. of James Casama^or.

91. Lowry Egerton,yisoount Cole married Charlotte, d. and oo-heir of Douglas Baird.

(seoond son). |

99. Hon. John Henry Michael

(seoond son).

II.'-SiB John Hume or Home.

Patrick HomOi of Polworth in Scotland, had two sons, viz.,
Patrick, of Manderstown, and Alexander, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh from 1593, who on the 15th October, 1591, ob-
tained a Crown charter of the lands and barony of North
Berwick. His sister also was the prioress at North Berwick
, till her death. Upon the death of Alexander, in July,
1597^ John, the eldest son of Patrick of Manderstown,

snoceeded to the lands (barony) of North Berwick, which
were sold July 1st, 1633, to Sir William Dick. Sir John
had two brothers, Alexander and George. The latter, having
accompanied Eang James to England, was created an
English peer, 7th July, 1C04, as Lord Berwick. He had
been Treasurer of Scotland, and was on the 3rd July,
1605, further created Earl of Dunbar in the Scotch peerage.
He was also a Knight of the Garter, Chancellor of the i&t-
chequer, and Master of the Wardrobe. Archbishop Spottis-
wode, of St. Andrew's, elder brother of James, !Bishop of
Clogher, says of him —

^'In the end of the year 1611^ the Earl of Dunbar departed
this life at Whitehall ; a man of deep wit^ few words, and in
His Majesty's service no less faithful than fortunate, l^e most
difficile afiairs he compassed without any noise, and never re-
turned when he was employed without the work performed that
he was sent to do."

With his help, his brothers Sir John and Alexander had
every opportunity of being forwarded in their projects in
connexion with the Plantation of Ulster. Sir John enjoyed
court favour firom 1603, and had a handsome pension until
he obtained his grant in 1610. Pynnar says that ''Sir John
Humes hath 2,000 acres called Carrynroe," on which pro-
portion was a bawne of lime and stone 100 feet square, 14
feet high, having four flankers for the defence. There was
also a fair strong castle, 60 feet long, and 21 feet broad. He
had made a vill^e near the bawne, in which were dwelling
24 &milies. He found planted and estated on this land^ of
British natives —

" Freeholders, 4, viz, : —

2 having 1 20 acres le piece,

2 having 100 acres le piece,

Lessees for years, 9, viz, : —

1 having 240 acres,

1 haviDg 120 acres,

6 having 60 acres le piece.

1 having 40 aores«
Cottagers, 11.

1 having 30 acres.

2 having 6 acres le piece.

1 having 5 acres.

2 having 4 acres le piece,
1 having 3 acres,
4 having 2 acres le piece

To this. Sir John Hume added by purchase in 1616, firom
William Fuller, a Scotchman and the first patentee, ''1600
acres called Moyghusse." Upon this Pynnar found nothing

Total, 24 families, are all resi-
dent on the land, and most
of them have taken the
Oath of Supremacy, being
able to make 30 men with

built in 1618-19. Of British families he found a good number
of men ; but they had no estates, but by promise from one
year to another, viz. : —

These 15 have tenants
under them, andare said
to be able to make 30
men. There is good
store of tillage, and no
Irish families thereon,
as I am informed."

" Freeholders, 3, viz. : —

3 having been nominated for
freeholders, but not resident.
Lessees, 12, viz. : —

2 having 120 acres le piece

1 having 90 acres.

9 having 60 acres le piece." ^

In 1626 Sir John purchased another small proportion,
estimated at 1,000 acres, called Drumcose, from his brother
Alexander, the first patentee. Pynnar, however, in 1618
found this in the enjoyment of Sir John's eldest son George.
On it was a bavm of lime and stone, 80 feet square and 12
feet high. He says —

" There is no House in it, I foand but very few to appear
before me ; for the Undertaker was oiit of the countiy ; but the
land was well planted with British families, and good store of
Tillage, and not any Irish family that I could learn of. But I

" Lessees for life, 8, via, : —

1 having 300 acres.

2 having 60 acres jointly.

These have taken the Oath
of Supremacy, and, as I
am informed, the rest
of the tenants have no
estates but promises,"
By the union of these three estates, Sir John Hume
became the largest proprietor in the county. The advowson
of the parish of Innismacsaint was an orifi;inal adjunct of
the manor of Ardgorte,* which is in that parish. Moyglass is
in Bossory parish, and Drumcose in Innismacsaint, Devenish,
and Trory. Sir John Hume died 26th September, 1639,
and was succeeded by his son George, createa a Baronet in
1671. Sir George was succeeded by his son Sir John, who died
in 1695, and was in turn succeeded by his son Sir Gustavus.
The estates ultimately passed to Mary, eldest dau^ter of
Sir Gustavus Hume (by his wife Mary, daughter of the
Earl of Drogheda), who on the 18th of August, 1736,
married Nicholas, afterwards second Viscount Lofbus of
Ely (a kinsman, but not an ancestor of the present
Lord Ely), who was created Earl of Ely eight days
before his death, which occurred on 31st October, 1766. In
the Commons' Journals, this gentleman is described as the
Hon. Nicholas Loftus, commonly called Nicholas Loftus
Hume. He sat for Fethard borough, county Wexford. The
earldom having expired in November, 1769, on the death of

* Ardgorte ib the nune in the Pateut, bnt Carr;^iiroe in Pynnar.

his only son Nicholas (unmarried), it was re-created on the 5th
December, 1771| in favonr of his brother Henry, fourth
Viscount, all of whose honours, however, expired at his
death, 8th May, 1783. The estates then passed to the Right
Hon. Charles Tottenham, son of his sister, the Hon. Eliza-
beth, who was successively created Baron Loftus in 1785,
Viscount Loftus of Ely in 1789, Earl of Ely in 1794,
Marquis of Ely in 1800 in the peew^e of Ireland, and
Baron Loftus in that of the United Engdom in 1801 —
from whom the present Marquis of Ely descends.

Sib John Bublasby, or Boblase.

Burlasey seems to have been the phonetic way of pro-
nouncing the name of Borlase» or Borlace. It is, however,
sometimes written Burlacy, Burlassy^and Burlasev; but Sir
John and his son Edmund, always wrote it Borlase. The
£EimiI V is an old CJomish one, deriving their name from Bor-
lase, m the parish of St. Just. Burial is a house and manor
in the hundred of Pyder, counfrv of Cornwall, near the
north-west coast. Sir John iSorlase was bom about
1579. His father was a Comishman, probably of the Pen-
deen family, but his mother was an Isham of Northampten-
shire, and nearly allied te the family of de Vere, Earls of
Oxford. Probably through the latter interest he obtained, in
1620, a command in the regiment sent out te the Nether-
lands under the command of the Earl of Oxford. Carte, in
his life of Ormonde, says of him, " Sir John Borlase had in
Holland entertained the principles of the Calvinists, but had
none of their turbulent spirit : he was quiet and easy in his
nature, and of ordinary parts, and without either art or
design. He had been brea a soldier in the Low Countries,
where he served before the truce of 1608. He had behaved
himself very well in the commands wherein he had been
employed there, and had gained a good reputation for his
military skill. When he returned from abroad he was
thought a proper person to keep up discipline in the Irish
army ; haa a company of foot ana a troop of horse given
him, and was, upon Lord Gaulfield's resignation, made Master
of the Ordnance in 1634. He had made no great gain by his
employments, and had but a moderate fortune. He was a
good soldier, but understood nothing else." He is mentioned
m the Calendar of State Papers, Jac. L, 1616-26, as one of
the King's colonels, at wnose earnest desire one John
Quarles. '* Merchant Adventurer to the King," had furnished

provisions to the value of £8,400 to the E^ing's troopers
beyond l^e sea in 1624. In 1634 he was returned as
one of the members for Inishkillin Borough. In 1638 we find
him attending the Council board as a Privy Councillor. His
second son was Edmund, who in 1650 became an M.D.
of Leyden, and afterwards, on the 7th August, 1660, was
incorporated of the University of Oxford. He settled at
Chester, where he was a successful medical practitioner. His
father's documents and his own industry enabled him to
produce two able works upon Ireland, viz., (1.) " The Reduc-
tion of Ireland to the Crown of Enrfand, with the Governors
since the conquest of King Henry II., Anno. 1172 ; a brief
account of the Bebellion of 1641 ; also the original of the
University of Dublin and the College of Phvsicians." (2.)
'' The History of the Irish Rebellion, traced m)mmany pre-
ceding acts to the grand eruption the 23rd October, and
thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, 1662." He had
been a member of the University of Dublin, of which he
writes: —

" To which I must profess I owe a filial reverence, not as one
of the foundation, but of the society."

He died subsequentlv to 1682. Probably this son
Edmund, was the one who, in 1634, was the subject of an
application by Sir John, through the Lord Deputy Went-
worth, for some favour at Oxford, at the command of Arch-
bishop Laud. In the March of the following year Laud
writes: —

^< For the Master of the Ordnance, I thank him very heartUy
that he is so moderate and reasonable in his suit for his son. But
I hope that I have now ordered all things so as that his son shall
now have his degree with the love and liking of Christchurch, and
without impeaching upon the University Statute, wbich is much
better in itself, and much more for the yoimg man.''

And again, on the 1st May : —

<^ I am glad the Master of the Ordnance is satisfied. And you
may assure bim bis son (if he be not wanting to himself) will bave
more good and credit this way than in a degree per saUum"

To return to Sir John Borlase. His son, in his history,
says of him, that he was —

" One well known to His Majesty by the eminency of bis
(employments abroad, and the opinion he bad of his integrity and
skill in military affiurs, the discipline of the army having been
under his charge since his arrival there."

In the Parliament of 1639 Sir John Borlase was returned
for the Borough of Belturbet On the departure of

the Earl of StraflTord, Christopher Wandesford, Master ol
the Rolls, was appointed Lord Justice on 1st April, 1640.
But he dying on the 3rd December following, Robert Lord
Dillon and Sir William Parsons, Master of the Court of
Wards, were appointed Lords Justices on the 15th
December. But an outcry was raised against Lord Dillon,
who was married to Lord Strafford s sister, and they were
superseded. On the 9th February, 1641, Sir John feorlase
and Sir William Parsons were appointed. During their
administration the Irish Rebellion broke out, and Sir John
appears to have shared his colleague's unpopulari^ with
the native Irish. The Irish journal of 1641 says (in Irish) —

^' The persons who held the situation of Justices iq Ath-cliath
(Dublin) were Sir William Parsons, Master of the Court of Wards,
and Sir John Borlase — two without feeling or mercy."

However, it appears from Carte, that when made Lord
Justice, " He was now grown old, inactive, and indolent,"
leaving the exercise of his authority to his colleague, who
was very willing to relieve him of it. Lord Clarendon speaks
thus of these Lords Justices (Hist, of the Rebellion, app. M.,
vol. VI., p. 304, ei Ox£) :—

" One of which had never been a man, and was now a child
again : and the other, though a person of gi*eat experience and
subtilty, so obnoxious, that in so inquisitive a time he did not
exercise the necessary acts of sovereignty, but from his first
entrance upon the command suffered an invasion to be made on
the rights of the Grown and the dignity of his office."

And again : —

*' It must in the first place be known that when these two
priests (Higgins and White), were put to death, the war was
conducted and carried on by ihe two Houses of Parliament ; that
the Government of Ireland was in the hands of the two Lords
Justices, Parsons and Borlace, who, upon the cruelty first practiced
by the Irish Catholics in the beginning of the Rebellion, had for-
bidden any quarter to be given, and ts^en all ways to incense the
soldiers against the natives, and principally against all priests ;
and the Marquis of Ormonde was then orJy Lieutenant-General
of the army, and received all orders from the Lords Justices who
were jealous of him, as a person who dissembled not his devotion
to the King, and who were directed to watch his acts as striotly
as if he had been their enemy."

Sir John Temple, however, speaks of them in very diffe-
rent language. He says in his history, published in J 646,
that they were —

** Both esteemed persons, of great integrity ; and the Master <^
the Wards, by reason of his long continued employment in the

StAte^ his particular knowledge of the kingdom, much yalued, and
will beloved among the people. They took the sword upon the
9th February, 1640, and in the first place they applied
themselves with all manner of gentle lenitives to mollify the s^arp
humours raised by the rigid passages of the former government"
(Hist., p. 23, ed, 7th.)

Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlase were discharged
from office by the King on the 30th March, 1643, and on the
next day Sir John Bonase and Sir Henry Tichbome were
appointed Lords Justices, and sworn in on the 12th May.
On the 13th November the Marquis of Ormonde was
appointed Lord Lieutenant, and sworn in on the silst
January, 1643-4. Sir John s administration consequently
ceased, but he continued Master of the Ordnance until his
death in 1648. He retired to England on ceasing to be Lord
Justice, and died in Great St. Bailholomew's, London, March
16th, 1647-8, in the 72nd year of his age, and lies there
buried in the east end of the northern side of the chancel of
the church, near the communion table.

Sir Edward Bisse in his notes on Johannes de Bodo Aureo,
thus treats of the family of Borlase. He gives an engrav-
ing of the remarkable arms of the family, which are
'' Ermine, on a bend sable, two cubit arms couped, issuing
from a cloud proper, rending a horse shoe argent"

<< The head of the family has in his possession a charter of
William, son of William the Oonqueror, granting to his predecessor,
Borlasius, Lord of the Castle of Talfer in Normandy, Borlase in
Cornwall. And this Borlase has for a long period been the princi-
pal seat of the family of the Borlases, connected by marriage with
the heirs of the famUies of Payton, Reytone, Trevinor, Buscowen,
Kindown. From whom have spnmg the Borlases in the county
of Buckingham ; an illustrious family, endowed with large estates,
acquired by marriage with the daughter and heir of BsJdwin, an
eminent Member of Parliament, and Chief Justice.

<^ From this family also sprung John Borlase, Esq., Enight, who,
when he had retired from his xuilitary commands, which he held
as well in Holland, as in Germany and Denmark, was subsequently
associated with Sir WiUiam Parsons, when, after the removal of
the Earl of Strafford, they were called as Lords Justices to the
discharge of the Viceregal functions. More ambitious of a
character for virtue, than of the aggrandizement of himself and
his ^BLmily by the increase of his substance, and one who while he
despised riches, was diligent in the cultivation of uprightness and
real piety. WiUi like integrity he also continued to the day of
lusdeaih to discharge hia duty as Master^leneral of the Ordnance

in Ireland. By his mother's sido, who was of the Ishams of
Northampton, he was connected with the most ancient and noble
family of the Barls of Oxford, to whom he was allied, as well by
heroic virtues as by blood." (Translated from the Latin.)

Amongst the Sheriflb of Bucks are to be found the follow-
ing members of the Borlase family : —

1567, John Borlase, Esq., of Bockmere in Oreat Marlow.
1588, John Borlase, Esq., of the same.
1601, William Borlase, Eisq., of the same.

In 1628 Sir William Borlase endowed the sohools of
Great Marlow.

IV.— Paul Davts, Esq., afterwards Knight.

It appears from Sir B. Burke's '' Elxtinct and Dormant
Peerages " (1883) that Sir Paul Davys, of St Catherine's,
county Dublin, and of Kill, ooimty of Kildare, was son of
John Davis of Kill.* He was general and principal Clerk
of the Coimcil, one of the Commissioners appointed in 1660
to settle the affairs of Ireland, a Privy Councillor and
Prime Secretary of State for Ireland in 1661. He sat for
Enniskillen in the Parliament of 1634, for the county of
Donegal (being then a knight) in that of 1639,t and forth^
county of Kildare in that of 1661. He had hurge grants
in the county of Donegal. Paul Davis married first
Margaret, eldest daughter of Arthur Ussher, esq., and
by her (who died 20th July, 1633) had a son, James,
who was buried at St. Audoen's, Dublin, 22nd July,
1638. He married secondly, Anne, sixth daughter of
Sir William Parsons, bart., (of Garradyce, county Leitrim,
Surveyor-General of Ireland, M.P.,) and sister of Catherine
Lady Santry, and of Elizabeth, wife of Sir William
Ussher. By this lady he had issue — George, buried 11th
March, 1660; Sir William, knighted 3rd August, 1662; Sir
John, who will be noticed presently ; and Ursula, married Sir
Francis Blundell, and died s. p. 1673. Sir William, (who
was M.P. for the city of Dublin in 1661). was Recorder of
Dublin, and be married first, 27th July, 1664, Martha
Boyle, daughter of Michael, Archbishop of Armagh and

• John Davys had three elder sons, viz., John ; Thoma.*, who died December,
1884 ; and Lawrence, who married Alzon Latj-n, a' d died April, 1684
t Commona Joonial.

Lord Chancellor. She died May, 1680, leaving a daughter
Mary, who died unmarried, 1 7th August, 1683. Sir William
married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of George Fitzgerald,
fifteenth Earl of Kildare, and widow of Callaghan, third
Earl of Clancarty — by whom he had no issue. He was
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, and
dying in September, 1686, at his house in Dublin, was
buried at St. Audoeu's in that city, on the 24th of the same
month. Sir John Davys, third son of Sir Paul, married
Anne * ♦ • , and had issue two sons and a daughter — ^Paul,
Robert,and Anne. Sir Paul,his eldest son, was,in I705,created
Viscount and Baron Mount Cashell, and married Katharine,
daughter of Callaghan, third Earl of Clancarty. She died
April, 1738; they had issue— 1, William, died in 1702;
2y Charles, died in 1703 ; 3, James, who succeeded to the
peerage as second Yiscount, on his father's death, 6th
August, 1716, and died, aged <J, 10th March, 1718-9 ;
4, Edward, third and last Viscount, who succeeded his
brother, and died unmarried in July, 1736. Loid Mount
Cashell had also two daughters — 1, Elizabeth, married to
the Honorable Justin MacCarthy, second son of Donagh,
fourth Earl of Clancarty (her first cousin) ; and 2, Margaret^
married June 15, 1738, James, Viscount Buttevant, after-
wards third Earl of Barrymore.

A very large fiat stone still remains in the Church of Si

Audoen, Dublin. It is without armorial bearings or any

adornment whatsoever, and bears this inscription —

Faulus Davys Eques Auratus

Sibi SuiiBque

H. M. P.

Amen, Veni Domine Jesu,

Apocal XXII.-XX.

Anno Dom, 1638.

Beneath it are laid many members of the Davys family,
as appears both by the Parish Register, as well as the
"Funeral Certificates," in Ulster's Ofiice, Dublin Castle.

The Davys Arms, are, sable, on a chevron argent, three
trefoils slipped vert.

On the 23rd July, 1661, on the motion of the Master of
the Wards, that an attachment might issue, an information
was read in the House of Commons, made by one John
Bime, that Sir Paul Davys had been in possession of certain
sequestered lands in Saggard, in the county Dublin, first by
lease " derived from the late usurpers," and since by His
Majesty's authority. That one William Den had several
times since the 8th of May last, warned the tenants of the

lands not to pay their rents to Sir Paul Davys — that on the
loth of the present July, he, by force, caused several acres
of meadow to be mowed, which on Saturday last he carried
off the land, threatening when opposed, to kill any one who
should resist him ; and that he would arrest, at Dublin,
any tenants who should pay rent to Sir Paul Davys : — also,
that one John Den did hinder Sir Paul's tenants from mow-
ing the meadows on part of the land, and demanded the
eighth sheaf of com ; and on the 22nd July (the previous
day) he, John Bime, one of the tenants, having sent mowers
to mow the meadow, the said John Den forcibly turned
them out of the meadows, and did so again on that day (the
23rd) ; and said he would put his own mowers to mow it.
The House thereupon ordered William and John Den to be
brought to the bar by the Sergeant at Arms, to answer for
violating the privileges of Parliament, in disturbing the
possessions of Sir Paul Davys, a member thereof. A warrant
was accordingly issued by the Speaker, Sir Audley Mervyn.
John Den was brought, in custody of the Sergeant at Arms,
to the bar on the 30th, and being on his knees, and the
Sergeant at Arms standing by him, with the mace on
his shoulder, the said John Den apologized for his fault,
saying it was committed through i^orance. Whereupon,
" aiter a reproof was given him by the Speaker for his said
crime, he was appointed to withdraw." It was then
ordered that he be discharged from his present restraint,
paving his fees. A like order was made in the case of
WilliiunDen.

On the 11th December, 1662, the House of Lords sent
messages to the Commons by Sir William Aston, and Justice
Booth, one of which was that they had taken into considera-
tion the great services and merits of Sir Paul Davys, knight.
His Majesty's piincipal Secretarv of State and Qerk of the
Council, and have thought that be should receive a reward
out of the £23,500 for officers' fees, and desired the concur-
rence of the House in such a representation. The House
being, before the message from the Lords, in debate how Sir
Paul Davys, &c., should receive a reward for his great care
and pains, in modelling and ordering bills transmitted firom
the Council Board into England since the sitting of the
Parliament, resumed the same, and after much time spent
therein, ordered that they agreed with the message of the
Lords, and that on the morrow. Colonel Clayton, with sa
many members as pleased to accompany him, should repair
to the Lords, and signify so much unto their lordships.

PARLIAMENT OF 1639,

Date.

168»-t lUrcb, .

. Roiye Hagnire. esq., —

}

Fermanagh

Sir WUliam Cole, knt, . . Ennlaklllen

Coantj.

194% . .

. Magnin expelled 39 June, 1643,
for the Rebellion.

1689-10 Haroh,

. Captain John Borlalae, knt, . Dnblln,

Iniahkillin

Arthur Champion, eaq., . . Shannook, .

Borongh.

MEMOIR
I« — RoBYE Maouibe, Esq.

Colonel Rorye Magaire was younger brother of Connor,
2nd Lord Maguire and Baron of Enniskillen. He married
Deborah Blennerhasset, daughter of Colonel Audley Mervyn,
and relict of Sir Leonard Blennerhasset, and bad two sons,
viz, : — Rory Oge Maguire, a colonel in the army ; Philip ;
and a daughter, Mary ; who were all living in 1677.

Tully Castle, neai* Benmore, was occupied in 1641 by the
Hume family ; and on the outbreak of the Rebellion in
October, all tiie English and Scotch families crowded into
it. On the 24th December it was assaulted by Rory
Maguire, and was at length surrendered to him by Lady
Hume ; upon which he pulaged, dismantled, and burned it,
and it has never been repaired or rebuilt.

He was also called Roger, and sumamed the '' Drover,"
and was of Hassettstown. At the trial of his brother Lord
Maguire, John Cormick deposed that —

"Presently after, upon the 29th October, one ^Captain Ron
MaoGuire took upon him the managing of all businesses in his
absenoe; he fortified first the Castle Hasett, wherein hedwelt himself;
he took in the Castle of one Edward A Idrich, esq. ; he put out all the
English there ; he went to the town, burnt that, but killed none
of tiie men ; went thence to another place, and hanged Eleazar M
(sie, in original) [Middleton], one that was Clerk of the Peace of the
the county ; and from thence ne went to Newtown, four miles off from
it, took in the town, stript and disarmed aU the Protestants that
were in the church ; tho next day after marched away, and killed and
destroyed most of the English in those parts , murthered Arthur
Champion, esq., and many more." (Trial of Connor Lord Maguire,
p. 225, quarto, Dublin, 1724.)

The following are extracts from " The Irish Rebellion"
of 1641, by Sir John Temple, Ent, at that time Master of
the Rolls, and one of His Majesty's Most Hon. Privy
Council of belaud. (Published at Dublin, 1713.)

'' It is true Sir William Cole upon the very first apprehensions
of something that he conceived to be hatching among the Irish,
did write a letter to the Lords Justices and Council, dated 11th
October, 1641, wherein he gave them notice of the great resort
made to Sir Fhelim O'Neal in the county of Tyrone, as also to the
house of the Lord Mac-Guire in the county of Fermanagh, kc, dec.
And for that which was reveiled to Sir William Cole upon the
21 October (the same month) by John Gormacke and Flaherty
Mac Hugh from Brian Mac-Oohanaght Mac-Guire, touching the
resolutions of the Irish to seize upon his Majesty's Castle of
Dublin, &0., dKS., I find by the Examination of John Cormacke
taken upon oath at Westminster, November 18, 1644 — ^That the
said Sir William Cole did despatch letters to the Lords Justices
and Council the same day to give them notice thereo£ But I
can also testify that those letters (whether they were intercepted,
or that they otherwise miscarried, I cannot say) came not into
their hand& " Page 1 6.

The Lord MacGuire having come up to Dublin, to be ready to
seize the Castle on the day appointed, was arrested the night
before, as stated in a letter of the Lords Justices and Privy
Council to Lord Leicester, the Lord Lieutenant. — Ibid., p. 27.

*' We gathered that the Lord Mac-Guire was to be an actor in
surprizing the Castle of Dublin, wherefore we held it necessary to
secure him immediately, <bc. His Lordship observing what we
had done fled from his lodging early before day, it seems disguised,
for we had laid a watch about hii3 lodging, iic. In the end the
Sherifis of the City found him hidden in a cockloft in an obscure
house far from his lodging, where they apprehended him."

'< The Chief of the Northern Rebels t^at first appeared in the
execution of this plot within the Province of Ulster were Sir
Phelim O'Neal, Turlough O'Neal (his brother), Eoury Mac>Guire,
brother to the Ix)rd Mao-Guire," &c., &c — Ibid., p. 34.

** There were some murders committed the very first day of the
rising — they had particular instructions from the Loi<d Mao-Gmre
to kill Master Arthur Champion^ a Justice of Peace in the coxmty
of Fermanagh, who with several of his neighbours were murthered
at his own house upon the 23 of October in the morning,'' &e,
—Ibid,, p. 79.

"Within the county Fermanagh multitudes were presently
killed in cold blood, some taken at the plough — others as they sate
peaceably in their own houses — others travelling upon the ways,
all without any manner of provocation by them given — suddenly
surprized and unexpectedly cut off. At the Castle of Lisgool,
within that county, above 150 men, women, and children, almost
all consumed by fire. At the Castle of Moneah, near 100 British
there, slain all together. And the some bloody company of Eebels
were no sooner admitted into the casde of TuUah, which was

delivered up into the hands of Roury Mac-Guire, upon composition,
and faithful promises of fair quarter, but that within the very court
they began to strip the people and most cruelly put them to the
sword, murdering them all without mercy. At Lissenskeagh they
hanged or otherwise killed above 100 persons, most of them of
the Scotch nation ; for after once they had the English in their
power, they spared none of them, but used all the Scots with as
much cruelty as they did the English. This county was very
well planted by the British undertakers, and all of them and their
Tennants in a very short space, after a most horrible manner,
quite destroyed or utterly banished from their habitations." —
iWrf.,p.83.

In a note on the above, Sir John Temple says :«—

" Roury Mac-Guire upon the 24 October, 1 641, came with his com-
pany into Lissenskeab, and desired in a friendly manner to speak
with Master Midleton who had the keeping of the Oastla The first
thing he did, as soon as he was entered therein, was to bum the
Records of tiie County whereof Master Midleton was the keeper,
being Clerk of the Peace, which he enforced him to deliver unto
him ; as likewise one thousand pounds he had in his hands of Sir
William Balfour's — which as soon as he had, he compelled the said
Midleton to hear Mass, swear never to alter from it, and imme-
diately after caused him, his wife, and his children to be hanged
up ; and hanged and murdered one hundred persons besides at
least in that town. These particulars and several others set
down at large in a Relation sent me in by Sir John Dunbar, knight,
one of the Justices of Peace within the county of Fermanagh."
— /6«£.,p.83.]

Sir Audley Mervyn, brother-in-law of Rory MacGuire,
made a statement before the Commissioners of the House of
Commons, appointed to inquire as to the outbreak of the
Rebellion, to the effect, that in October, 1641, after the
outbreak, Rory MacGuire paid him a visit at Oastle Trelick
(to which he bad succeeded on the death of his brother
Captain James, in the preceding July), to say that the Rebels
intended to employ him to go to England, to represent to
the King on what grounds they had te^ken up arms, and on
what conditions they would lay them down. He declined
the mission, and tried to persuade MacGuire from further
prosecuting his designs. Though he failed in this, he yet
partially succeeded m getting him to repress for a little the
mry of the fire and sword. He then gave notice to the
Protestants, &c., to dispose themselves towards Deny,
whither he himself, with his wife and children and two
sisters escaped in the night Such as remained were mas-
sacared. (Fasciculus Merviensia)

Id 1687 Cuconnaght Mac-Guire was High Sheriff of
Fermanagh.

Rorye Maguire was both vigorou8andtruculent,and finally
was slain at Jamestown, otherwise Carrick Drumrusk in 1648.
His elder brother, Connor Maguire, second Baron, was bom in
1612, and executed in February, 1644. His father, Brian
Roe, the first Baron, was bom in J 589. His patent is dated
Srd March, 1628, and he died 10th September, 1633.

II.— Sir Willum Cole, Knt., re-elected.

III.— Captain John Borlase.

Captain John Borlase, subsequently Sir John Borlase,
junior, was one of the sons of Sir John Borlase, his pre-
decessor in the representation of the borough of InishkilUn,
but now returned for Belturbet, county Cavan. He was a
soldier of acknowledged merit, having been knighted, and
eventually receiving wie Lieutenancy of Ordnance —

'* In 1641, the Lords Justices having appointed Sir Henry Tich-
bome, Colonel and Crovemor of Drogheda, to complete his raiment,
ordered Sir John Borlase, junior, Captain ; lieut-Colonel Byron,
Captain ; and Lieut.-Colonel Wemnond, Captain ; wbo though
they had all been in former employments, field officers, yet out of
zeal to the present service, came as private Captains." — Borlase,
History of Irish Rebellion, page 44.

Captain Bichard Rives, commander-in-chief of Sir John
Borlase's, the Lord Justice's troop, ^rrisoned at Belturbet,
having distinguished himself, both in Cavan, and on the
march back to Dublin —

"Performed afterwards, being Sir John Borlase's junior's
lieut. -Colonel, very many honorable services, as at Athboy near
Trim with the Lord lisle, where they notoriously beat up the
Rebels' quarters, as elsewhere, viz.: Kells, Carrickmacross, the
Earl of Essex's castle in Monaghan, which they took from the
Rebels, with a considerable advantage in October, 1642, highly
deserving the pubUc notice." — Ibid,, p. 48.

^'On the 12th January, 1641-2, the rebels about four in the
morning, made a breach in the wall of Drogheda, and a large party

enterecl the town. In repulsing them, Sir John Borlajse junior
took a prominent port, ' hasting so speedily, undrest, and witii that
courage to the breach made beside the Nunnerj, that his service
there in falling upon the enemy who fought it stoutly, was very
remarkabla'"— /Wrf., p. 82.

'' On the first of March, 1641-2, Sir John Borlase junior Lt.-
Col., had the command of -four companies, with which he faced
the enemy at Colp, and beat them down with much disadvantage,
securing at that time £200 worth of Com, burning withal such
of the enemy's lodgings as remained of the former day's work at
Colp, and returned with great satLsfiiction." — Z&ui, p. 90.

'' After the relief, the inhabitants became straitened for food,
and with great difficulty a boat was manned for Dublin, that the
State might be informed of its condition ; in endeavouring which,
the Aldermen and Mariners of the town seemed very backward,
till the Governor threatened to make some of the Aldermen them-
selves prove Mariners in that service ; whereupon at last men
were found, and commissioners sent to the Lords Justices, to
inform them of the miseiy of the town ; in which service Sir John
Borlase junior and others were employed ; who having obtained
some men, and two pieces of battery, returned with a very satis-
factory supply." — Ilid., p, 83.

In August, 1642—

*' The Lord Moor, Sir John Borlace junior, and Colonel Gibson,
with 1,500 men, two pieces of batteiy, and two field pieces,
marched into the counties of Louth and Meath, took the castle of
Sedan (Syddan), slaughtered 500 rebels, and cleared three
counties of the enemy." — ^Cox, History, Vol IL, p. 108.

On the accession of the Marquis of Ormonde, Jan. 21,
1643-4, Sir John Borlase's regiment was reduced.

''In 1647, the new Governors (the Parliament) reduced the 11
old broken regiments to 7, under the Earl of Kildare, Lord Moor,
Colonels Tichbome, Borlase, WiUoughby, Bayly, and Flavier, and
made Colonel Michael Joues. Commander and Governor." — Hid,
Vol. n., p. 194.

In 1649 Cromwell cashiered and disbanded the seyeu old
regiments, formed by the Parliamentary Commissioners in
the year 1647, which Jones bad continued in Dublin, allow-
ing the Colonebi, for all the time, a small pension. —
History, p. 284.— Jfrid., Vol, IL, Car. IL, p. 9.

In Whitelocke's Memoirs are occasional notices of Sir
John Borlace, junior — p. 45.

" The chief commanders before Lyme, were Prince Maurice and
Sir John Borlase."— p. 86 a. [p. 169, recte; 170 6. ; p. 186 6.,

half way down ; p. 195 6, n. 26 ; p. 290, last line ; pp. 666, 674 a,
n,17; May, 1678 01675).]

" After Sir John Borlaoe junior's mission, Nov. 4, 1641, to
Drpgheda, he became Colonel, and Lieutenant of the Ordnance.
He and some brother ofiicers were led to join with the most
excellent and truly noble Henry Lord Viscount Moore, afberwards
Lieutenant-Qeneral of the Horse ; who was unfortunately slain at
the beginning of the treaty of the first cessation. These all served
cheerfully under his command, though the change of fortune hath
sufficiently evidenced in some, how little is to be trusted to one's
merits, if favour be not also put into the balance." — Beductiony
p. 242.

It was not till the Elestoration, that the Lieutenants of
the Ordnance had separate patents, while the Masters of
ihe Ordnance had the conduct and charge of horsemen.
The Lieutenants were appointed by their patenta There-
fore we do not find any patent for Sir John Borlase, junior.
It is to be observed that in the printed account of the
trial of Lord Maguire in 1645, among those who furnished
testimony against him was " Sir Edward Borlacey," whose
name is not to be met with elsewhere — (Aphor. Disc, voL 1,
p. 618-626). Possibly " Sir Edward " is an error for " Sir
ohn." Sir John Borlace died 15th February, 1675-6.

<< 1654, June 27.— Petition of Colonel Sir John Borlase to the
Protector. Is oonstrained by his condition to beg some of the
money assigned him for the expence of his journey to Ireland,
there to serve the public. Begs speedy dispatch, and a supply of
the arrears of his pension, granted when he was disbanded, and
four years unpaid, that he may go to Ireland and find some sup-
port^ and not be detaLned in a perishing condition, after spending
his youth, and the rest of his family's broken fortune in fiedthful
service.

'< With reference thereon to Council, 17 May, 1664."

Annexed.

" B.elation of the case and desires of Sir John Borlase, late a
Colonel in the service, to similar effect. Served from the begin-
ning of the rebellion in Ireland. Was disbanded on the arrival
of the army from England. Commanding the old foot regiment
at the defeat of Lord Ormond, near Ihiblin, had a pension assigned
him to be paid in Dublin. His father who was Lord Justiciary
in Ireland, sold their estate to pay his expences, and left him
engaged in great sums, so that by suits and long imprisonment,
he has exhausted all he or his friends could raise." — Calendar of
State Papers (Domestic Series), 1654, p. 222, No. 48.

Lady A.lice Borlase.

« 1654, Nov. 8. Petition of Lady Alice Borlaae to the Pro-
tector.

" Has long had a pension of 500 marks a year, of which £4000
being in arrears, the late Parliament settled on her £4 a week :
but it was stopped the 24th of June last.

" Very sickly and nearly 80 years old : begs for her £4 a week
with arrears.

'* Payment of £4 a week ordered Dec. 12, 1654."— Cal. State
Papers (Domestic Series), p. 392, No. 10, and 409, No. 55.

*^ 1653. Lady Borlase, for service of her husband, to whom
she brought an estate of £7000. 500 marks a year pension. —
Arrears £3500.'*— Cal. State Papers (Domestic), p. 135.

Li the year 1654 she was aged near 80, and therefore she was
bom in 1574, or so.

It is probable she was the widow of Sir John Borlase, senior,
and mother of Sir John, junior, who at this period was able for
active work. Supposing him to have been 30 years of age in
1641 when he was in defence of Drogheda, he would be bom
about 1611, and therefore of an age to be Lady Alice Borlaoe's
son.

IV. — ^Arthur Champion, Esq.

Arthur Champion was an Englishman. His brother,
John, who inherited his estate, is described in a deed in my
possession, dated 14th January, 1641-2, as of the Tower
Liberties ; and the English estate, as premises in London
and Essex. He acquired first an estate in Fermanagh called
Shannock, near Rosslea^ and not far from the town of
Clones. He served an Sheriff in 1639, and in the same
year he was returned to Parliament as one of the members
for Enniskillen ; and in April, 1640, purchased the Castle-
coole estate firom Captain Roger Atkinson, to whom
however he thereupon granted a lease of it for the joint
lives of the Captain and of Edith his wife. He did not
however survive to enter into full possession of his new
property, for, on the 20th October in the next year, he
was, as before stated, slain by Colonel Rory Maguire's (the
member for the county) party of the rebels. His wife,
Alice, in her deposition made after his death —

<<Saith that on the 23rd day of October, 1641, her said late

husband was assaulted, and cruelly murthered before his own gate
in Shanoge aforesaid, by the Maguires, and others their adherents,
whereof ^e well remembereth that there were present at the same
murthering of him, Don Oarrage Maguire of [blank] in the
oountie of Fermanagh, gent., Edmond Oarragh Maguire of Annagh-
hard in the said county, gent., Redmond M'Owen Maguire, of
r 1 in the said countie, gent., and Patrick Oge Macrosse

Maguire, of Borfadda in the said countie, gent., and others to the
number of 100 persons or thereabouts, and that they murthered
and killed also with him the said Arthur Ohampin, six other persons
at Shanoge aforesaid, as, namely, Thomas Champin, Thomai
Iremonger, Humphrey Litfclebury, and Christopher Linis, gent.,
John Morrico, and Hugh Williams, yoemen. And that afterwards
they killed and murthered thereabouts about the number of
XXIY. Englishmen more.

"And she hatli heard the said Kebells say, that they were
specially commanded and directed by the Lord Maguire (now in the
Castle of Dublin), that they should not spare the said Arthur
Champin her husband, biit murther and kill him, and the
Crosses that were his followers and tenantes; and sayth that after
they had killed the said Arthur Champin they murthered and
killed Henry Crosse, and did hang up Joseph Crosse, as they
were commanded by the said Lord Maguire. And that afterwards
they forcibly entered the said Castle of Shanoge, and upon all
other the goods and chattels, jewels, money, plate, household
stuff, stock of cattle, come, manor and lande aforesaid Tvithin
the county of Fermanagh aforesaid. And immediately after they
had so entered the said Castle, they burned it downe to the
ground. Also they burned the Castle of Coole, alias Castle
Atkinson, which said Castles and buildings are valued at one
thousand six hundred pounds." — MS. in Trinity College Library,
quoted in my History of the Two Manors of Finagh and Coole,
pp. 98-101. *

Alice Champion deposes to a good deal more. She was
kept a prisoner with the rebels for nineteen weeks, till she
gave a rebel, named Laughlin Roe MacMaghan, £20 to
carry her to Mr. Edward Dowdall's, in the county Meath,
who provided her with men and horses to take her to
Castleknock. But, on the way, she again fell into the
hands of the rebels, who forced her to return to Mr. Dowdall's
house at Monkstown. She was afterwards —

" Deluded and conveyed " by Sir Richard Greenville and Sir
Thomas Newcomen, " by a safeguard to the citty of Dublin ; and
within that time of her soe being amongst them, heard and suwo
what she deposes.'' — Same MS.

Arthur Champion left —

" No issue by his '^'ife AUce, nor any other heir but his brother
John Champion, who with Alice his sister-in-law retired to

Slngland, and there disposed of his title (in 1646) to Emery Hil),
in trust for Henry Gilbert^ esq., who had married Alice. Alice
died, and Gilbert married Galthrid St. Leger, and in 1655,
Gilbert and Galthrid conveyed the Manor of Ooole to John Corry
of Belfast." — Entry in a catelogue of deeds b^ Maigetson Armar,
esq.^ of Castleooole^ anno. 1727.

PAKLIAMENT OF 1661.

Data Num. B«aideiiM. Cmglitamof.

1661-16 April, . . Sir John Cole, Bart, . . Newland, Dublin.

Wm. Davys, esq.
1663-11 April, . . Henry Blennerbaset, vice

Davys, deoeaaed, . Caakle Haaset

1661-17 April, . . Michael Cole, esq. (knt) . Eniskillen,

Robert Cole, esq. (knt.) . Ballymaokj,

00. Tippermry.

Fermanagh
County.

Borough.

MEMOIR

I. — Sm John Colb, Bart.

Sir John Cole, of Newland, co. Dublin, was the second son
of Sir William Cole, of the Castle of Enniskillen. He was
created a baronet in 1660. He married Elizabeth, daughter
of John Chichester, Esq., of Dungannon, and had a large
family. Two of his sons, Arthur and Richard, will be noticed
further on ; another (the second) was named Michael One
of his daughters (Elizabeth) was the second wife of his
nephew, Sir Michael Cole, from which marriage the Earls of
Enniskillen are descended

11. — ^William Davys, Esq.

William Davys or Davies, was a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Fermanagh, and resided at Enockballymore
in that county. He married Jane, daughter of the Rev.
James Hatton, Minister of Monaghan ; by whom he had
two sons, Hatton and Edward ; and a daughter, Jane.

In Pynnar, p. 161, we find the following : —

" XLVIII., 1,000 acres.

Robert Boges was the first patentee.

Edward Hatton hath 1,000 acres called Clancame. Upon
this proportion there is an excellent strong house and bawne,
all of lyme and stone, and well slated, for the King's service
and strength of the county. He hath a water-mUl for com
by his house, and within half a mile he hath built four very
good timber houses, and six more are in building. This
town standeth on the common road in the country. Him-
self m a minister* and a good teacher of the Word of Qod.

T find planted and estated on this land, of British birth,
freeholders 2.

1 having 120 acres.
1 having 130 acres.

Lessees, 6, viz. :
1 having 240 acres.
4 having 60 acres.
Cottagers, 8, viz. :
Each of tiiese have a house
and garden plot and four
acres of land.

There are but two of these
that have taken the oath of
supremacy.

I find not above twenty
men in all, and these are well
armed.''

Edward Hatton, M Jl., is returned in the Regal Visitation of
1622, as Prebendary of Tighallon, Chancellor of Clogher, and
Rector of Galloon (Clogher), Archdeacon of Ardagh,
Rector of Clonarney, and Vicar of Delvin (Meath), accord-
ing to the inquest held at Eniskillyn, 30th March, 1638.
He died on 29th September, 1630 (but, by the funeral certi-
ficate in Ulster's office, on 1st October, 1632). His son,
James Hatton, father of Jane, wife of Wm. Davys, M.P., was
ordained deacon by James, Bishop of Clogher, 5th July,
1 631, and priest by same prelate. He was coUated to Qaloun
(Galloon) alias Dartrye on July 6th, 1631, as successor to his
father, and was inducted by James Heygat^, Bishop of Eil-
fenora, and Archdeacon of Clogher, on 24th July, 1631. He
died in May, 1637, leaving a son Edward, aged six years.
Anne Boggus, widow of Robert Boges, or Boggus, the first
patentee, andafberwardswifeoftheRev. Ambrose Conyi^ham,
D.D., at the same inquest, claimed a jointure payab^ out
of the proportion of KnockbaUyTnore, (diaa Cloncame.
Anne, widow of James Hatton, re-married with Thomas
Peters. William Davys served as Sheriff' for Fermanagh in
1659 and 60. He died in Dublin, and was buried at 8.
Audoen's on February 11th (Ulster's office). The funeral
certificate is signed by his relict Jane [Hatton], otherwise
Davys. He left issue, 1, Hatton, 2, Edwaid, and one
daughter Jane. Hatton matriculated in Dublin University
as a Fellow Commoner on February 21st, 1670, being then
aged 15 years ; he was bom at Currogh,co. Fermanagh (? now
Carogh, near Clones), educated under Mr. Jones, and having as
his College tutor James Eyan. His name is not recorded in the
list of graduates, so that he probably died young, during his
college career. Edward, his orother, entered Trmity College
as a Pensioner on 19th June, 1676, being then aged 16 years.
He was educated under Mr. Dunbar, had as his College tutor
Philip Barbour, obtained a scholarship in 1682, and
graduated B.A. Vemia (at the Spring Couunencements) of
same year. He sat as M.P. for the borough of Clogher iii the

3«

Parliament of 1692, and was Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1697.
His sister and heiress, Jane, married Bernard Ward, Esq.,
and was grandmother of Bernard Smith Ward, M.P. for
Enniekillen in 1769. Bernard Smith Ward's mother was
Meliora Greighton, aunt of the first Lord Erne {vids page 64,
further on). He died unmarried in 1770, and Knockbally-
more passed by will into Lord Erne's famUy, and is now
theproperty of the present EarL*

The arms of Davys, as they appear in the original funeral
certificate, still preserved in Ulster's oflSce [FE. x 39], are —
Sable a fesse between three cinquefoils, ermine. A coat
altogether different from that of Sir Paul Davys, before
treated of in this work.t

III. — Henbt Blennebhasset.

Henry Blennerhasset was the second son of Sir Leonard
Blennerhasset, knt, of Castle Hasset, and his wife Deborah,
daughter of Sir Henry Mervyn.

In the early part of the l7th century there were several
families of the name of Blennerhasset in Ireland, all of
English extraction, derived originally from the family of
Blennerhasset, who were located in Norfolk. One, coming
directly to Ireland from Flymby in Cumberland, was
Blennerhasset, of co. Kerry, which still continues. The
head of this family was Robert, M.P. for Tralee, who with his
aged father Thomas, came to Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's
reign, and received a grant of part of the forfeited Desmond
estates. It appears from "Black Jack's Book"} that a
cousin-german of Robert's, was Sir John Blennerhasset,
a supernumerary Baron of the Exchequer **an ancient
counsellor, and by the opinion of the Chancellor of England
and some of the judges, thought meet for it" (Lib. Mun.,

* In his will, dated 8th January, 1661-2) proved in 1662),Wmiam Davys mentions
(besides his children and wife) his brother, Morgan Davys, and also his friends
and kinsmen, Matthew, John, and Ferdinando Davjs. Ferdinando Davys is
described as of Castle Davys, county Tyrone. <* Fardinandoe Davis, Esq., of
Lisgold, near EniskiUen ** (Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1678\ was buried at St.
Audo^ns, Dublin, Aufnistlst, 1694 (P. R.) He left a daughter and heiress, who
married Charles Wallis of Dublin, and had issue five sons, of whom Davis, Ralph,
Charles, and Samuel were living on the 6th May, 1 702. Mrs. Elizabeth Wallis
died April 2nd, 1701, and was buried at St. James*, Dublin.

t **•••• a Sacramental cup (still in use), was presented to the parishioners
[of Eniskeene, or Inniskilling] with this inscription: — 'Poculum EcclesisB
Parochialis de — Eniskeene ex dono Edvardi Davis generosi, anno 1688.' ** — Rev.
W. H. Bradshaw, ^* Enniskillen Long Ago," p. 11.

X The authority for these relationships is a MS. dated 1788, known as
"Black Jack's Book," and written by John Blennerhasset, of Castle Conway»
CO. Kerry.

Pt 2, p. 51). He was, from 1620 to 1623, Chief Baron, as
successor to Sir Wm. MethwolA*

Another family was that of Sir Edward Blennerhasset^
who died in 1628, and who, in 1610, had a grant in Fer-
managh called Bannaghmore. He had also a moiety of
another grant called Tolmakin,and the advowsonof Maghera-
culmoney. His son Francis took out a fresh patent in 1 630.
In 1660, Edward Blennerhasset of Parkthorpe, near Nor-
wich, was in possession of the Manor of Bannaghmore, or at
least of the western portion of it. He made his will, dated
1660, and proved in Ireland in 1663. He gave by it, all
his lands in Ireland to his eldest son, who should be living
at the age of 21, and £.500' to each ot his younger children.!
If his real and personal estates (amongst which he mentions
a place called Horum Hospital, I presume in Norfolk) should
not suffice, then the balance of each £500 was to be raised
out of his Irish and Norwich landed estates. By a codicil
dated 4 December, 1662, he ordered aU his landn, &c. in
Fermanagh and Monaghan, to be sold to discharge his debts.
For a further notice of this property which lay at the north
of Fermanagh, see Appendix II.

The last family to be noticed is that of Thomas Blenner-
hasset of Horseford, co. of Norfolk, esq., who was perhaps
a brother of Sir Edward's, and who was a Plantation
candidate in Sir Henry Hobert's company, then possessing
an income of £l20 per ann. On the 30th June, 1610, he
passed a patent for the middle proportion of Edemagh (now
Edemey), in the barony of Lurg, county of Fermanagh.
With this proportion of 1,500 acres, he had also at flie
same time a ^rant of 500 acres more, being half the small
proportion of TuUymochein or Tolmackin; and in 1616 he
nad a further grant of 760 acres in the same district

Thomas Blennerhasset died on the 11th March, 1624-5,
leaving two sons. Samuel the elder and next heir, was born
about 1601, and was then aged 24. He was Sheriff in
1622, and he did not long survive his father. Leonard, the
second son, afterwards Sir Leonard, who succeeded to the

* Sir John Blennerhasset died 14th November, 1624, and left by Drsnla his wife
(her will dated April 16, proved May 2, 1638), three daughters, viz. :— (L) The
wife of Charles Monck, (2) Dorothy, married Mr. Sacheverill, and (8) Anne, wife
of PhOUp Femelly. In *' Black Jack's Book,*' it is stated that the father of
Henry, the subject of this memoir, was another consin-german of the above-men-
tioned Bobert ; but as this would imply that two brothers were both named
" Thomas,** it is more likely that the relationship was somewhat further removed.

f He does not name the eldest son. Those he does name were Edward, John,
and Elizabeth, Hia wife's maiden name was Palgrave.

*p3

eitate on his brother's death, took out a fresh patent on
the 27th October, 1630, of the manor of Castlehasset, con-
taining the above-named component grants. He died on the
2()th May, 1 639. In his will, which is in the Record Office in
Dublin, I find that he mentions his wife Deborah — ^his
three sons, Audley, Henery, and Leonard — and his two
daughters, Katherine and Lucie. Lady Blennerhasset was a
daughter of Sir Henry Mervyn, of Petersfield, Hants, and
of Westminster — a distinguished naval officer, sometime
" Admiral of the Narrow Seas." — ^Her brother wasSir Audley,
Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1661. As the
Irish branch of the Mervyn family, though a Tyrone one,
has been much connected by marriage with Fermanagh
families, and will be frequently referred to in this memoir,
I have compiled a genealogical table, mostly from a work of
Sir William Drake's (privately printed), entitled " Fasciculus
Merviensis," which will be found in the Appendix.

Lady Blennerhasset remarried Colonel Rory Maguire, and
I find that her son Henry Blennerhasset left by his will
dated 1677, to his brothers Rory and Phillip Maguire, all his
" horses, mares, colts, and foals" (excepting "her saddle nagge,"
a chestnut, and another horse callea by a name that looks
like " Sibannis," in the crabbed writing of the will, and
which he left to his wife). He also left to each a case of

Eistols, and to Rory, his sword. To his sister Marie Maguire,
e left fourteen cows.

In 1662, Henry Blennerhasset succeeded William Davys
as Member for the county of Fermanagh, and in 1664 he
maiTied Phoebe, daughter of Sir George Hume, of Castle
Hume. By her he had no son, but two daughters — the
eldest, Deborah, married first, Christopher, eldest son of
Sir Gerard Irvine. Christopher Irvine died in 1680, leaving
her a childless widow of fifteen or so. She married, secondly.
Captain James Colquhoun, of Manor Cunningham, county
Donegal, second son of Sir James Colquhoun, Bart., and
Penwell, his wife, daughter of Sir James Cunningham,
of Manor Cunningham, who died in Flanders, in 1699,
by whom she had two daughters — ^Lilias, who married
Alexander Squire, having by him, who died in 1725, two
sons James and Stewart, and one daughter Deborah — ^and
Penwell, who married Dr. James Irvine (cousin of Dr.
Christopher Irvine, of Castle Irvine), of Manor Cunningham,
Physician to the Pretender at Rome, and had by him, one
daughter, Julia, and a son, James, of Manor Cunningham,
who died there without issue in 1756. She married thirdly.

Wm. Hamilton, but without issue. She married lastly, Cap-
tain John Cochrane, by whom she had one son Henry, and
one daughter Martha,*andshediedatCrevenish Castle in 1716.

Henry Blennerhasset's second daughter was Mary, who
maiTied Major Charles Bingham, of New Brook, County
Mayo, who was killed at the battle of Aughrim. By him
she had a son, afterwards the Eight Hon. Henry Bingham,
BiR, sometime one of the Lords Justices of Ireland, and
the ancestor of the present Lord Clanmorris.

Henry Blennerhasset's will is dated the 20th March,
1677. In it he provided that if he left no son, his wife
Phoebe, was to have a joinfure of £250 ; and if he did, then
£200 a year. Should he leave a son by another wife, he
made some arrangement with regard to^his daughters. He
however died leaving Phoebe his widow, and she remarried
Dr. Christopher Irvine, her son-in-law's cousin, who finally
succeeded to the Castle Irvine estate, and will be noticed
hereafter as M.P. for Fermanagh. In 1670, Henry Blenner-
hasset had conveyed a portion of his property called the
Lack estate, now belonging to Colonel Irvine of Killadeas,
to WiUiam Irvine of Ballindulla, the common ancestor of
both the present Fennanagh families of th e name. Crevinish
Castle (the Manor House of Castle Hasset), was Eeniy
Blennerhasset's residence ; and it was here that Deboi-ah, his
mother, was residing during the rebellion of 1641 with her
second husband, Colonel Rory Maguire, who fortified it.
After Henry's death we find from one of the letters
still in existence, from Dr. Irvine to his wife Phoebe
(Henry's widow), that he had control over Crevinish. He
says in a letter dated 22nd May, 1697, directed to his wife
in Edinburgh —

" I did give John Moffet power to set a new' Manor Hasset.
Mr. Kirkwood did no good in Crivinish. The house is ruinous,
and the orchards spoiled. J did cause to set it and the mUl to Mr.
William Hamilton, who will take more care of it, and is to dwell
in it himself. If Debora [his stepdaughter] comes over she will
have what rooms with us as will be convenient. She writes fre-
quently to Mr. Maguire. He exi)ect8 extraordinary favours at her
request. I did cause Robert King to pay a bill of forty pounds
wMch she did draw on John Moffet, &c., &c.'*

Henry Blennerhasset served as High Sheriff of Fermanagh
1658 and 1661. As his eldest brother, Audley, was only six
years old in 1639 (Ultonia), Henry could only have been at
the utmost twenty-eight when he was elected for the county.

* " Black Jack's Book" savs that Martha was bom in 1709, and Henry in 1712.

IV. — Michael Cole, Esq.

Michael Cole, subsequently Sir Michael Cole, knt., was the
only surviving child of Michael Cole (who was the eldest
son of Sir Wuliam Cole (whom he predeceased), by his wife
Catherine Parsons.)* Administration of his father's effects
was granted to this younger Michael in 1663, probably
soon after he came of age. Sir Michael Cole married, first,
Alice, daughter of Chidley Coote, esq., of Killester, who died
Aug. 28th, 1671; aU of their children died young. He
married, secondly, on the 20th of Feb. following, his cousin
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of, Sir John Cole, bart., the
member for Fermanagh in this Parliament of 1661-6. The
bride was not quite fifteen. Of this second marriage there
are numerous descendants. Sir Michael, who was re-elected
to the Parliaments of 1692, 1695, and 1703, died on the
11th February, 1710-11, in London. Sir Michael Cole
appears to have been absent from Ireland at the time of
the Revolution, as his name (as Cole, Sir Michael, knt.,
Dub.), is in the list (under Article iv.) of all persons being
residents in England, who were to signify their loyalty
*'(in case the King goes there)*' by the 1st Oct., 1689, and
on his certificate to the Chief Governor of Ireland they were
to be discharged, otherwise to stand attainted. Tn 1705,
Archbishop King wrote to him at " Egham, near Stains,
Middlesex." (V. p. 345). Sir Michael Cole was High Sheriff
Fermanagh in 1670 and 1686.

V. — Robert Cole, Esq. (afterwards Knight).

Robert Cole was the seventh and youngest son of
William Cole, by Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Deards,
silkman, of London.t

Sir Robert Cole's wife lies buried under the Belfry of
St. Michan's Church, Dublin, with the following memo-
rial: —

" I shall see the Lord in Glory.

Hereunder lyeth, the body of Anne, Lady Cole, daughter of John
Spratt, of Grainge in Oxfordshire ; firat, relict of Sir Robert Cole,
of Ballymakey, in the county of Tipperary, Knight, with whom
she came over to Ireland in the year 1670. Afterwards the
relict of Colonel Thomas Whitney, of Newpaas, in the county of
Westmeath; who Departed May 30***, 1716, in the 62"* year of
her age."

Sir Robert

* See Appendix lY. for a fuller account of the earlier members of the Cole
family in Fermanagh.

t Vide alBO App. Y., p. 844.

was attainted by Kiag James's Parliament of. 1689 as an
absentee, when he is described as of Dublin.

Lady Cole bequeathed £100 for the support of an English
school at Ballymackey, which is a townland and parish in
the north riding of Tipperary, situate about five miles east
of Nenagh.

I>ARLIAMENT OF 1689.

King James II. summoned a Pariiament in 1689, to which
Fermanagh and Enniskillen made no returns, being in the
hands of the Protestants. This Parliament is not recognized
in the Lords and Commons Journals; but the lists of
members will be found in Harris' Life of King William,
App. pp. xxxii-v.

PARLIAMENT OF 1692.

Dftte. Name. BMldemoe. Constltaenej.

1699,90th Sept., . Abraham Craighton, esq., . Cram Castle, . > Fermaoagh

James Oorry, esq., . . Castleooole, . f Coonty.

9l8t8ept, . Sir Michael Cole, knt., . SnisldUen, . ) InlshkUUn

Sir Arthur Cole, bart, . Newland, Dablin,) Boroogh.

MEMOIR
I. — Abraham Cheightok, Esq.

Colonel Abraham Creighton's family claimed descent from
a branch of the Crichtona, Viscounts Frendraught in
Scotland, which title ceased in 1698. He was the son of
John Creighton, Esq., of Crum Castle, by Mary Irvine, of the
family of SirGerard Irvine, of Castle Irvine. Colonel Creighton
commanded a regiment of foot at the battle of Antrim,
and died in 1705. He was Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1673.
His son David was celebrated for his defence of Crum
Castle in 1689, against a large body of King James's
army. He was M.P. for Lifford borough in the Parlia-
ments of 1703, 1713, 1715, and 1727. In the list of 1715
ho is styled ** Hon. Brigadier David Creighton." One or
more of his descendants appear to have sat for this borough
until the Union. Colonel Creighton's name appears in the
list of attainted persons, in 1689, as ** Creighton, Captain
Abraham, Ferm./' under Article I.

The Crichton family were not original patentees in Fer-
managh. Cram is included in part of the Lord Mount-
Whauey's patent, called Kelspenan, and came into the family
by Colonel Abraham's marriage with the daughter of Bishop
Spottiswode of Clogher. The property now owned by the
family about Lisnaskea, was the grant to the Lord Burleigh
(now represented by Mr. Balfour, of Townley Hall, county
Louth), and was called Carrowshee alias Bellbrd (Balfour),
where he built a house at Castleskeagh, where Pynnar found
also a Castle in 1G18-19.

The following is the descent of the Crichton family from
John Creighton to the present day :

1. John Creighioo, . married Mary Irylne.

2. Abraham Cretghton, m.p. . married Mary, dau. of the Bt. Rev. James Spottla-

11 wood, Bishop of Clogher.

8. David Creighton, m.p. for married in 1700, Catherine, 2nd dau. of Richard

Llfford. II Southwell, esq., dster of the 1st Lord

II South welL

4. Abraham, Lord Sme, . . married Elizabeth, dau. of Lord Chief Jnstioe

H Rogerson, of the King's Bench.

5. John, 1st Earl of Erne, 3nd son, married Catherine. 2nd dau. of the Rt Rev. Robt

II Howard, Bishop of Elphin.

0. Col. John Creighton, 2nd son, married Jane, dau. of Walter Weldon.

7. John, 8rd Earl of Erne, . married Selina, 2nd dan. of the Rev. Charles-Cobbe

II Beresford.

8. John Henry, Yisct Crlohton,M.p. married Lady Florence Cole, 2nd dau. of the 8rd

II Earlof Enniskillen.

9. Hon. Henry William Crichton.

II. — James Corey, Esq.

Captain James Corry was the owner of Castlecoole, in the
second generation of his family. His father, John Corry,
was it is believed a native of Scotland ; the anonymous
Phillips MS. in the library at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham,
states that —

" Tlie family of Corry was formerly remarkable in Scotland for
their vallour, by ye frequent warrs which sometimes happened
between England and Scotland."*

James Corry's mother was Elizabeth Johnstone, of the family
of the Marquis of Anandale. His father John, was for some
time a Merchant at Belfast, and purchased the Castlecoole
estate from the heirs of Arthur Champion, iu 1655-6. He
was a Justice of the Peace for Fermanagh and Ca van, and was
appointeda Commissioner for levying subsidies in Fermanagh

*Videp,68.ftirth«raiu

in 1662. Hft was Sheriff in 1666, and died in or after
1681 — ^probably about 1684— and was succeeded by his
son James, who must have been born in 1633 or 1634, as
according to an inscription on his portmit at Castlecoole,
he was in his 62nd year in 1695. James Corry, married
firstly in or about 1663, Sarah, daughter of Oliver Anketell,
of the county Monaghan, and seems for a time at least to
have resided in Enniskillen, where he served the offices of
Churchwarden and Vestryman. His wife was dead in 1679.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Fermanagh, and in 1666
was appointed Captain of a company of foot, raised or to
be raised in that county. In lb"83, a marriage was aiTanged
between James Corry and Lucy Mervyn ; and a settlement
dated 1st December, was executed by her father, Henry
Mervyn, M.P, It is however uncertain if the marriage took
place. In 1692, Captain Corry was elected M.P. for Fer-
managh, and appears to have remarried in the same year
Elizabeth Harryman, of London, from whom however he
soon separated. On the 24th November, 1692, he was ap-
pointed Colonel of a Regiment of Horse Militia to be raised
in Fermanagh. On the 52nd October, 1694, he was sworn
in, one of the free and principal Burgesses of Enniskillen.
On the 20th December, lb96, he was appointed a Deputy
Governor of Fermanagh, and on the 25th June, 1705, he
was appointed by the Duke of Ormonde to be Gtovemor
of the county. He also held an office called '' Master of the
Game," and served as Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1671. He
continued to represent Fermanagh in Parliament until his
death on the Ist May, 1718. James Corry made extensive
purchases of property in Longford, Fermanagh, &c., and
rebuilt the House at Castlecoole, which house remained in
existence until 1797, when it was accidentally burnt, about
the time that the present house was first inhabited.

At the time of the troubles of 1688, being one of the princi-
pal ma^trates in the district, he was in favour of admitting
King Jamus's troops into ihe town. The townspeople
however resisted this, and appear to have been on bad
terms with him for some time afterwards. For in the
following year, after he had joined in acknowledging King
"William and Queen Mary, they objected so strongly to
receiving him as Governor of the town, that his appoint-
ment was not carried out, and he retired to England, leaving
at Castlecoole a garrison of horse and foot, which he had
raised and maintained.

After the skirmish at Comagrade with the Duke of
Berwick's forces, the Governor of Enniskillen ordered

Castlecoole to be burnt, to prevent its occupation by the
enemy, and the garrison to be withdrawn into the town.
His name appears in the list of those attainted in 1689,
under Article I., as " Corry, Captain James, Ferm."

In the old manuscript before alluded to, he is said to
have been —

" Remarkable in this county for his prudent conduct and for-
wardness in administering justice to poore and rich ; a man of
sound judgment that observed the la>vs of God and Man, and
forwarded the Commonwealth.''

The following is the descent of the Corry fiimily from
John Corry to the present time :

1. John Corry, . . m. Elicftbeth Johiwtone.

II
S. James Corry, m.p. . m. Sarah, daa. of Oliver Anketlll, of co.

II Monaghan (1st wife.)

8. John Corry, m.p. . . . m. Sarah, dan. and oob. of William Leslie, of

CO. Antrim, and granddaa. of the
Rt Rev. Henry Leslie, Bishop of
Meath.

n II II

4. Leslie, Martha, eldest Sarah Corry. m. Galbraith Lowry, m.p„ of Ahenis, flow

M.p.for dan. ; m. fid- Snd dan.

Killy- mend Leslie

begs, (Leslie- Corry),

d.nnm. m.p.

1741.

Tyrone.

II
5. Armar Lowry-Corry, Earl of Bel- m. Lady Margaret Bntler, eldest dan. of
more, Srd son. ii Somerset Hamilton, 1st Earl of

II Carrick (Ist wife).

C Somerset, Earl of Belmore (3nd son.) m. Lady Juliana Butler, 9nd dan. of Henry

II Thomas, 2nd Earl of Carrick.

7. Armar, Earl of Belmore, . . • m. Kmily, 2nd dan. and ooh. of William

II Shepherd of Bradboume, oa Kent

8. Somerset Richard, Earl of Belmore, . m. Honorla, 2nd dan. of Captain John Glad-

II stone, B.N., and granddau. of Sir

II John Gladstone, Bart

0. Armar, iTisoount Corry.

III. — Sir Michael Cole, Knt., re-elected

IV.— Sir Arthur Cole, Bart., of New land.

Sir Arthur Cole was the eldest son and successor of Sir
John Cole, the second son of Sir William, who has been
already noticed as representing Fermanagh county in the
Parliament of 1661. In 1715 he was elevated to the Peerage
as Baron Ranelagh of Ranelagh, and survived until 1754?
when his title became extinct. He was attainted in 1689
under Article I., as " Cole, Sir Arthur, bartu of Newland,
Dublin city."

PARLIAMENT OF 1695.

Began 27th August^ 1696. Ended Uih June, 1699.

!>■««. Name. R«gid«iM«. CoiwUtaenry

1696, 9th August . Junet Cony, eiq., . CMtlwoole, . ) Fermaaagh

ChrlBtopher Enrln, m.d., . CuUelrwtD, . t County.

„ 30th AugoBt . Sir lliehael Cole, knt. . . Iniaklllen, . ) InlBkiUlo

Colonel Abimhun Greighton, Cmm Caftle, . j BaroQi^.

MEMOIR.

I.— James Corby, Esq., re-elected.

11. — Chbistophkr Erwin, M.D.

The family of the Irish branch of which Dr. Irvin was at
this time the head, although spelt Erwin in the journals,
and Irwin in two commissions of array for the county
Fermanagh — one in Queen Anne's reign, and one in that of
George Ii. — ^was anciently, as in modem times, spelt Irvine.
The Irvines, or Irvings, held originally a district in the
county of Dumfries, near the borders of Scotland and Eng-
land, including the ancient manor of Irvine, on the river
Esk, and the ancient parish of Irvine, on the river Kirtle,
where Bonshaw in modem times became the chief seat of
the family. To one of the family, William de Irvine, who
became head of the House of Dram, King Robert Bruce gave
Royal Charters in 1309 and 132.3. In 1513 Christopher
Irvine, of Bonshaw, was killed at the Battle of Flodden
Field. He left a son, WiUiam, of Bonshaw, who, in 1520,
was in turn succeeded at Bonshaw on the 5th August by his
son Christopher, who was taken prisoner at the Battle
ol DaJswinton in Feb., 1548.* Christopher, who died in
Aug^ 1555, left two sons. From the elder son Edward,
of Bonshaw, who died in 1605, descended the family
of Bonshaw, which in the main line became extinct in 1839,
in his eighth descendant, John Robert Irvine, of Bonshaw,
who died unmarried, when Bonshaw pa^ssed to a distant
cousin. The second son was Christopher, of Robgill, who
received from King James VI. a Royal Chai-ter, dated 29th
Oct., 1574, of Northfield, Annan, and Goldlands. His second
son, John, married Marion, the daughter of the Laird of
Newbie, and had a son Christopher, who married his cousin
Blanche, daughter of Edward Irvine, of Stapleton, and
acquiredpropefty in the county Fermanagh by purchase in
1613. He was a Commissioner for levying subsidies in Fer-

* HollinBhed. Edition of a.d. 1686, p. 846.

managh in 1631and died in 1666. He had four sons, the eldest
of whom was Dr. Christopher, of Edinburgh, bom in 1618, a
learned author, banished from Scotland and imprisoned by
the Covenanters. Dr. Irvine married Margaret, daughter of
James Wishart, of Pittarow (son of Sir James, by Lady Jane
Douglas, third daughter of William, ninth Earl of Angus),
and nad by her the subject of this memoir, Dr. Christopher
Irvine, M.D., born in 1642, who married Phoebe, daughter of
Sir George Hume, Bart, and widow of Henry Blenner-
hafisett. He was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1689 and
1690, and in 1693 succeeded his uncle, Sir Gerard Irvine
(who had died in command in the Duke of Schombei^s camp
at Dundalk in Oct., 1689), at Castle Irvine, county Fer-
managh. Dr. Irvine sat for Fermanagh county in the Par-
liaments of 1695 and 1703, and died without issue 9th May,
1714. His brother James, Surgeon-General of the Army in
Scotland, and also his nephew Christopher, who died in
childhood, predece^ased him. His uncle. Sir Gerard (High
Sheriff in 1672), created a baronet 30th June, 1677, from
whom he had inherited Castle Irvine, had had two sons —
first, Christopher, bom in 1654, married Deborah, eldest
daughter of Henry Blennerhasset, M.P., and died without
issue in 1680; and, secondly, Charles, an officer in the
annv of Charles II., who died unmarried in 1684 — ^both
in their father's lifetime. Another uncle, Lancelot, had
died young unmarried. Dr. Irvine's youngest uncle had
been William, of BaUindullagh, co. Fermanagh (High Sheriff
in 1681), who, whilst a lieutenant of Horse, had been
wounded at the Battle of Worcester, 3rd Sept., 1651. He
married Elizabeth Gledstanes (daughter of Col. Herbert
Gledstanes, an officer under Gustavus Adolphus, and
Governor of Walgast), and was attainted by King James's
Parliament of 1689, aud died in 1691. William Irvine had
two sons. Col. Christopher, who succeeded Dr. Irvine at
Castle Irvine, and was the ancestor of the present owner ;
and John, Captain of Horse, who obtained the Eilladeas

S)perty, and who was great-great-great-grandfather of
lonel Irvine, the present possessor of that estate. Edward
Warde was the first patentee of Necam, or Castle Irvine ;
but he conveyed it within a month to Edmond Sutton,
son and heir of Therrington (Harrington) Sutton, esq., of
Kallam, Nottingham (vide Appendix). In 1618-19 Pynnar
found Sir (Jeraxd Lowther in possession of this proportion
of 1 ,000 acres, with a strong bawn and a house, and near
the bawn a village of ten houses, and a Market house and
a water mill. This village, now known as Irvinestown, was

formerly called Lowtherstown. There were sixteen British
families, besides under-tenants; able to make 28 men with
arms.

The descent of the Irvine fieumily is shown in the followinc:
table :- ^

1. Clurlstopher, of Bomhaw, killed

at the battle of Flodden Field, 1518.

S. William of Bonahaw.

3. Christopher of Bonshaw.

4. £dward from whom
descended the Irvines of
Bonshaw, which Line
became extinct in the
i line in 1889.

7. Dr. Christopher
of Edinburgh.

4. Christopher of BobgilL

6. John, married UarUm Johnston.

6. Christopher, married Blanche IrYlne.

8. Dr. Christo-
pher, M.P. for
Fermimagh.
(succeeded Sir
Gerard at
Castle Irrine).

Sir Qerard, Bart,
of Castle Inrlne

Lancelot WiOiam, married
(d.yonng>. Eliaabeth Gledstaues.

James Christopher Charles
I (b.l664,d.l680). (d. 1684.)
9. Christopher
(died young).

8. Christopher, mar. indly, Dorothy,
(of Castle Irvine, dan. of Jeflkey Brett>
succeeded Dr.

Inrlne, m.p.)

9. Christopher, mar. 9ndly, Elinor, dau.

I and co-heir of Audley
Menryn.

10. William, M.p. fbr Ratoth, 1769, m.

|3ndly, Sophie, dan.
of Gorges Lowther,
of Kilme, co. Meath.

11. Gorges Marcos, m. Elizabeth, dan. of

I Judge I^Arey, of
Dnnmow, co. Meath.
IS. William Darcy, m. Maria, dau. of Sir
Henry Brooke, of
Colebrooke, Bart.

8. John, m. 1st, Elisabeth Hamilton.
(ofEilladeas.)

9. Christopher, m. dTane, dau. of the Bay.
William Green, of
KiUeeher.

10. John, m. Calherine, dan. of Dr. Joseph

Story, Bishop
Kilmore.

11. Gerard, ^l Catherine, dan. of Robert
I Hassard, of Skea.

19. John, married Sarah, dau. af Thomas

I Towers, of Bushy
Park, CO. Tipperary.
18. John Gerard, m. Elisabeth, dau. of
I William Daniel, of
Ballymaokney, co.
I Monaghsn,
14. John Ctorard.

18.

Henry Merryn ■
(eldest son).

Daroy - Irvine,
Castle-Irvine.

14. Henry Huntly, died a minor,

of 18. William D*Aroy, m. Louisa, dau. of

(8rd son.) { Oapt Cockbum, b jr.

14. Charles Cockbum,mar. Fanny Eath-

(3nd son.) I leen, dau. of CuL

lioyd, of 00. M:nag-

I han.

16. Charles William.

By his will, dated 8rd August, 1713, Dr. C. Irvine be-
queathed to his cousin Christopher Irvine, esq. [who was
his heir-male and next-of-kin], £500 together with all his
housdiold goods, furniture, plate, &c. To Mrs. Lilias

Squire, *alias Colquhoun, and her heirs, &c., the interest on
the one half of the debts due him out of the Manor Cun-
ningham estate. To Mrs. Penwell Colquhoun* the other
half of the said debts. To his cousin Dr. James Irvine, all
his books both in Scotland and Ireland, and the half of the
debts of New Grange. To his cousin Christopher Carleton,
of TuUvmargey, £100. To his cousin John Wiseheart, only
son to his cousin William Wiseheart, of Clontevrin, £100.
To his cousins John Irvine, of Ballindulla, and his brother
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Irvine, lands in the Manor of
Castlehassett. Then follows several legacies to his servants,
&c. To his godson Christopher McGregor, son to his agent
Patrick McGregor, £30. To his cousin Christopher Irvine,
esq., the remamder of all his personal estate m Scotland,
and Ireland. Christopher Irvine, esq., Dr. James Irvine,
and Patrick M'Gregor, were named executors. Proved 18th
June, 17 14.

The following entry respecting the fieunily of Irvine, has
been extracted from the Phillipps MS.

MS. Phillipps, 18,293, page 136.

'^Irvik in Fermanagh."

" The original of y* worthy family of Irvin in ifermanagh was
Christopher Irvin, Esq who purchased a considerable estate in
ffermanagh in the Beigne of King James y* first of England. He
was blessed w**^ three hopefull sons. The eldest was Christopher,
a Graduid Doctor for King James in Scotland, to whom the King
granted large gifts. The second son was the renowned forward
Gent S' Gerard Lrvin, Bart, being first lieu* Coll" to j* Earl of
Granard in y* King's service, wherein he was veiy remarkable in
serving his King and country, as are more at large intimated to
be one of his most faithful subjects, by which he gained the King's
favour. In those days Judge Lawder [Lowther], being one of the
barrons inExcheq' possessed y* mann'calledman' Lawder, and dying
w%ntheires left y* said man' to a friend in England, except some
p^ thereof, which y* aforesaid Christopher Irvin Esq' had pur-
chased from y* said Judge Lawder, being Godfather to his son y*
said S' Gerard ; but after the wars of '41 and y* decease of his
father. Sir Gerard purchased y* rest of y* man', w*** y^ man' of
Hunins and other lands in this county, and immediately when he
came in possession, b^an y* building of Castle Irvin w^ many
other costly buildings and retinues. He was blessed w*"* two sons.
The eldest called Christop' was married in y* andent family
of Hassitt daughter to Henry Hassit Esq', and dyed w**out
heires. Y* second son Charles dyed also w%ut issues. The third

* Daughters of his step-daiightflr Deborah Bletmerhaseet, by her eecond
marriage.

son of y* aforesaid Christopher Irvin, Esq', was William Irvin, Esq.,
who enjoyed seuftll lands by purchase in y* Barroneys of Loige
and Magheristafanagh in this county. He was Justice of y*
peace and sometimes high Sheriff of y* county. He being blessed
w*^ foure famous sons to succeed : the eldest of whom is the now
Etas [extant] Coll" Christopher Irvin of Castle Irvin Esq', being
chief successor of his remarkable family in ffermanagh, and is
blesst w^ two sons called Christopher and Charles. The second
son of Will™ Irvin, Esq. was Cap*" John Irvin, a gentleman of
credit and good account, whose eldest son is Chrisu)pher a young
forward gent in y* army at Scotland, whose poste I cannot ex-
plain at present. The third son of William Irvin was Col"
Charles — ^y* fourth was Lanclott, <fec.

Irvin of Bonshaw beareth in their Coate of Arms (thre(?)ephonln
elafes slipt vert)

III. Sm Michael Cole, Knt., re-elected.

IV. Colonel Abraham Creighton, re-elected

PARLIAMENT OF 1703.

Began 21st September, 1703. Ended 6th May, 1718.
Name. Constitaonoy.

Sir Miobael Ck>le, Knight, )

John Cole, Esq., > InnlwMlHng Borough.

John Cony, Esq., in plaoe of Sir Michael Cole, deceased, . »

MEMOIR
I. — Colonel James Corry, re-elected.
II. — ^Dr. Christopher Irvine, re-elected.
III. — Sir Michael Cole, re-elected,

IV. — John Com, Esq.

John Cole was the eldest son of Sir Michael Cole. He
married fii-st in 1707, Florence, only daughter of Sir
Bourchier Wrey, bart., of Trebitch, in Cornwall. Florence-
court, the present seat of the Cole family, derives its name
from this lady, who died in 1718. He married, secondly,
Jane, daughter of Robert Saunderson, Esq., of Castle
Saunderson, county Cavan. He was sheriff in 1724, and
died in 1726.

The following is the notice of the Cole family in the
Phillips MS.

MS. Phillipps, 13293. p. 103.

"COLB."

'' The originall of y* remarkable family of dole in ffermanagh
was Sr. William Cole, a brave forward prudent gentleman of
considerable estimation and streak (sic) in y* Government both
before and in y* warrs of 1641. He was chief Landlord of
y* Towne, Castle, and liberties of Eniskillen. The two man's of
Portora and Comagrade were confirmed to him before y* warrs
affores'., and when the Kebellion of '41 begun, all y* forces of
ffermanagh did enlist under him. He was Gk)v*nor of y* said
Garrison of InniskiUin and forces of the country dureing y* said
warrs, by whose prudent care and conduct the country and
circumjacent neighb. were preserved dureing y* said warrs, which,
together with his forward exploits in other ptes of Ireland, made
him remarkable to y* parlim^ of England and Ireland. His
eldest son and heire the wors'pfuU Michael Cole, Esq., was married
to S'. William Pensons his daughter, who was Lord Chief Justice
in Ireland, and by this Lady begott his son and heire, the late
Sir Michael Cole of Iniskillin, a Gentleman reputed excellent and
wise, prudent, honest, and well natured. He was first married to
ColP. Chitley [Chidley] Coote's daughter, whose brother was Earl
of Montrath, and by this Lady had seven children, all deceased.

The second son of S'. William Cole, was S'. John Cole Barr^
A famous remarkable gentleman of hon'. and renowne of
-p-o-r-t-e-l-y — b-r-g-h-t— a-n-d — ^b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l— p-s-o-n — a Coll", of
horse and foot, and remarkable in militaiy affaires^ and married
to y* Earl of DoonagaJrs sister. Her maiden name Chichester, a
vertuous lady, by whom S'. John had many children, one of
whose daughters was man:ied to y* Lord Moore, Earle of Drogheda ;
and the aforesaid 8'. Michael Cole after y* death of his first Lady,
Coll". Chittly Coote's daughter aforesaid, married y* Lady Elizabeth,
daughter to y* s'. Sir John Cole Barr^., by whom Sir Michael
Cole had sixteen children, all deceased but three. And by Articles
of Enter-marriage betwixt S'. Jo', and S'. Michael Cole, ^e estates
confirmed to S'. John Cole,iuy*BarroneyofClinawly,[nowGlenawly]
in fferm^ was settled upon y* said Lady Elizabeth, his daughter,
and the lawful heires of her body by y* said S'. Michael, whose
oldest son and heire is John Cole, Esq., who now possesses all
y* estates, in Town and Country, belonging to y* family of Cole,
in y* county of ffermanagh. He was first married in !&igland to
a daughter of S'. Bourcluer Wrey, Barr**. of Taustock, in Devon-
shyre, a vertuous young Lady of great renowne, who died in
Dublhi, August, 1718, and left foure lawfull sons, the eldest Mr.
John, y* 2nd Mr. Bouichier, y* 3rd Mr. Michael, y* 4th Heniy.
The Baid John Cole^ Esq., after y* death of his worthy father, B'.

Michael Cole, who dyed in London, an*. Dom., feb'y y* 11th, 1710,
manageth all his father's estates in Towue and Country, renewed
and adorned the ancient buildings of his progenitors^ built stables,
coach houses, and forwarded seu'all new buildings in y* Towne of
IniskiUin, besides, y* in his time are made more new Boades in
seu'all places in this ooantry than all his predecessor in their
time did for many yeares. He also begins very costly and
sumptuous buildings on his estate in Clinawley, soe that by his
contrivance and notable emprovem**. many poore families are sup-
ported, being a man of high spirit, quick and sharp of apprehen-
sion, very forward in his undertakings, and of great Retinues.
He is now married in y* family of Col" Robt. Saunderaon, of
Castle Saunderson, in y* county of Cavan. He is parliam* man
for y* Burrough of Iniskillin, and one of y* most leading men in
the county."

v.— John Corey, Esq.

1 assume this John Oorry to have been John, the only-
son of Colonel James Corry, and who was subsequently
member for the county. No notice of the new writ being
moved for on Sir Michael Cole's death, or of John Corry's
being sworn in, appears on the journals of the House of
Commons. His name however appears in the list of members
at the commencement of every session of this Parliament,
in place of Sir Michael Cole, except that of 1704, when Sir
Michael's name is omitted, and in one instance Sir Michael
is prematurely stated to be deceased. Sir Michael died on
11th February, 1710-11, in London, during the recess. I
therefore conclude that John Corry was elected after that
date, and occupied the seat for the single session which re-
mained of this Parliament, beginning on the 9th July, and
ending the 9th November, 1711. The compilers of tne list
of members, which is evidently not contemporaneous with
the MS. of the journals, found probably the return, without
the date, and did not know when Sir Michael Cole had died.

♦b2

52
PAELIAMENT OF 1713.

Began 25th November, 1713. Ended Ist August, 1714.
?a^^s"cT^".^.^^"*7 : : : :fFenn««H^h county.

^t^^T^-. : ; : : :}^^^m^r^rou,u.

MEMOIR.
I— Sir Qustavus Hume, Bart.

Sir Gustavus Hume was great-grandson of Sir John
Hume, Knt., who had represented the county in the
Parliament of 1634. His father was Sir John Hume,
second baronet, who had married Sydney, daughter of
James Hamilton, of Manor Hamilton. His grandfather
was Sir George Hume, the first baronet, who married a lady
named Alice, of what family I do not know.

Sir Gustavus married Mary Moore, daughter of the Earl
of Drogheda, and had three sons, all of whom predeceased
him, viz. — Moore, Gustavus and George. Moore was killed
by a fall from his horse in 1722 ; the traditionary account
of which catastrophe long remained on the shores of Lough
Erne. Consequently, upon his death in 1731, the baronetcy
passed to Charles (younger son of his uncle, the Rev.
George), who d. s. p. 1750 : the elder son, John, having died
before Sir Gustavus : whilst the estates passed to the eldest
of his three daughters, Mary, who married in 1736 the Hon.
Nicholas Loflus, afterwards Viscount Loftus and Earl of
Ely, who assumed the name of Hume.* Sir Gustavus'
second daughter, Lucy, died young, and his youngest
daughter, Alice, married, in 1746, George Rochfort.

Sir Gustavus Hume was high sherilffof Fermanagh in 1701.
He was subsequently a Privy Councillor, and died in 1731.

II. — Colonel James Corry, re-elected.
III.— Richard Cole, Esq.
Richard Cole was the sixth son of Sir John Cole, of New-
land, and brother of Sir Arthur, shortly afterwards created
Lord Ranelagh. He had sat during part of the last Parlia-
ment since 1707 for St. Canice, alias Irishtown borough,
county Kilkenny, in place of Sir C. Wandesforde, Viscount
Castlecomer, and now took John CoiTy's place for Ennis-
killen. He was maternal uncle to his colleague, John Cole.
He married, first, Penelope, daughter of Sir William Evans,
of Kilcreenin, county Kilkenny, bart. ; and second, Mary,
' 'lighter of Maurice Keating. He died without male issue

529.

jq^ IV.— John Cole, Esq., re-elected.

The, • FiA, pp. 16-19.

PARLIAMENT OF 1715.

Began 12tli November, 1715. Ended llth June, 1727.

Rt Hon. Sir GnstayuB Hame, bart, A

James Cony, esq. (after deceased), . .V Fermanagh county.

John Corry, esq., )

SSliS?^^!. : : : : :}Enniridnenboraogh.

MEMOIR

L — ^Rt. Hon. Sir Qustavus Hume, re-elected.

IL— Colonel James Corey, re-elected.

III.— Colonel John Oorry.

I suppose this to be the same person as the John Corry
who entered Parliament for the first time in 1711, as before
stated (vide Parliament of 1703). He was the only son of
Colonel James Corry, who, having represented the county
since 1692, died, aged about 84 or 85, on the 1st May, 1718.
His mother was Sarah Anketill, of Anketill Qrove, in
Monaghan. From the date on a mourning-ring in my
possession, he must have been bom in 1666, or a littie earlier.

It is stated in the Trinity College entrances, where he
entered as a Fellow Commoner on the 5th May, 1686-7,*
that he was bom in Enniskillen, and was then aged 18 ;
which latter statement must have been a mistake, if the
date on the ring is correct. He is also stated to have been
educated hy Mr. Ryder, at Kilkenny ; and his college tutor
was Dive Downs, rfterwards Bishop of Cork and Ross.

A certificate t riven to his father by the Provost and
Burgesses of Enniskillen, under the corporate seal, and dated
30th October, 1702, which states, inter alia, that —

*^ His (James Cony's) only sonn, having serVd theire Majesties
throughout ye late warr both in Ireland and Flanders,"

shows that he was subsequently a soldier. I do not
know what his rank in the army waa. On or about 7th
February, 1701, he married Sarah, daughter and co-heir
of William Leslie, of the county Antnm, who was one
of tiie younger sons of Henry Leslie, Bishop of Meath,
a collateral of the Rothes family. By her he had an only
son, Leslie, B.A of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was
a Fellow Commoner, who succeeded him at Castle Coole in
1726, when still a minor ; and also, on the 11th April, 1740

* I am told that the College year hegsn on July 9th.
t Two Ulster Diaaon, p. 187.

as Colonel of the Fermanagh Regiment of Foot Militia, to
which rank John Cony had been appointed on 17th Sep-
tember, 1716. Leslie Cony served as Sheriff of Fennana^h
in 1737, and was elected M.P. for Killyb^, in Donegal, m
1739, and appointed, 1 7th May, 1740, one of the Deputy-
CovemoTS or Fermanagh. He died young and unmarried
at the early age of about 30, sometime between 13th
Februaiy, 1740-1, when he made his will, and June 2nd,
1741, when it was proved.

To return to John Corry. He was Sheriff in 1711, and
succeeded his father at Castlecoole on the 1st May, 1718 ;
and a. new writ having been moved for Fermanagh on
July ist, 1719, he was returned on the 21st July as M.P.
for the county. I possess a Latin certificate of his return
(" Loco Jacobi Cony ar. defunct ") signed by the Sheriff,
Robert Hassard, Esq. He died 11th November, 1726, aged
60. His family became extinct in the male line on his son
Leslie's death, unmarried, in 1 741, when his eldest daughter,
Martha, who inherited his Longford and part of his Fer-
managh estate, took with her husband, Edmond Leslie
^sometime M.P. for Newtownlimavady), the additional name
of Corry ; which name, upon their dyii^ without surviving
issue, was assumed by his second daughter, Sarah, and her
husband, Galbraith Ix)wry, M.P. for Tyrone county.* Leslie
Corry beoueathed his Monaghan estate to Mr. liowry, and
Castlecoole and such of his Fermanagh estates as he had
power over, to his brother-in-law and cousin, Margetson
Armar, who, in 1736, had married his third sister, Mary ;
and who was Sheriff in 1742, and for some time Colonel of
the Militia. A fourth daughter of John Corry, named Eliza-
beth, married first, Archibald Hamilton Esq., and second,
Captain James Leslie.

The following is extracted from the Phillips Manu-
script : —

^'CoRBT IN Fermanagh."
Copied fi^om MS, R)illips, 13,293, p. 111.

*^ The chief of the family aforesaid in ffennanagh is John Cony
Eaq' a worthy A forward Justice of y* peace A; Coll* in the militia,

* Including Edmund Lealie-Gorry and Oalbraltli Lowiy-Cony, ten members of
the Cony family have (been members of tbe House of Commons, arranged by
generations as follows, viz: — 1. CoL James Corrj. 2. Col. John Corry. 8. CoL
Leslie-Coriy, Captain Edmund Leslie-Cony, and Galbraith Lowry-Corry. 4.
Armar Lowry-Coiry, first Earl of Belmore. 5. Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl.
6. Armar Lowry-Cony, Srd Earl, and the Right Hon. Henry Corry, sometime
First Lord of the Admiralty. 7. Lieut^CoL Hon. Henry Cony of the Coldstream
Guards. The constituencies they were returned for have been Fermanagh, Ennis-
killen, Tyrone, Newtownlimayady, and Ballyshannon. The first and second
Earls of Belmore were once each respectively returned for Eniudkillen and Tyrone,
and Ballyshannon and l^ne, and tlected to lit for T^one.

being son & heire to Col' James Oorry, who was i*emarkablo in
tlu8 oounty for his prudenfc oonductand forwardness in adminia^r-
ing Justice to poore & rich ; a loan of sound Judgm* y^ observed
y laws (^ God & man, & forwarded y* oommonwealtii ; he had
seu'all callings in j* publick [servioej, being Justice of peace,
Parliam^man, Master of y* Game, & sometimes high sheriffe of the
County, yet in all his undertakeings, behaued himselfe w* such
prudent care <fe good conduct y^ none ootdd controull his actions,
but rather seemed a president [precedent] for young Gen^ to fol-
low his maxims k gooid directions ; his Dwelling seate was Castle
Coole, about an English mile eastward from ImskiUen, which Castle
was rebuilt in a stately & costly mann' by him, togetlier w*'' many
other buildings and emprovm**, as are stable^, CoachhoiiseBy
orchards, pleasant treese, & quicksettSy w^ Bampards & (Jates for
defence of this Castle. There is also a costly Deere parke built on
his estate, all built at y* expences of y* said Coll' James Conyy
except some p** form'ly built by his father John Corry Esq', who
was Justice ofy* peace in this county after j* warrs of 1641,
untill he dyed, i was the first who purchased this handsome estate
in ffermanagh belonging to this family, & afterwards was enlarged
by y* late Coll" James Corry who dyed in CasUe Goole y* first of
May 1718; & now Coll" John Corry succeeds, who enjoyes another
es** in y* County of Antrim, by right of his wife being heiress and
Daughter to Wil"" ImIj Esq', her name is Sam Lasly (Leslie) A
is derived from the Earll of Rattish [Bothes] in Scotland. Her
eldest son by CoP Jo* is called I«sly [Lediej Corrr, Col Javies
Conyes mother was of the family of Johnston who dmve them-
selves from the Marquess of Anaodale in Scotland. The young
Coll" John Corryes mother was of y* ancient family of Ancle [Anke-
till] <fe of great relaticms. The femily of Corry waa formerly re*
markable in Scotland for their vallour by y* frequent warrs which
sometimes happened betweene England & Scotiland ; & beareth in
their Coate of Arms

Argent a saltire Couped Gules, etc. '*

IV.— John Cole, Esq., re-elected,

v.— Richard Oole, Esq., re-elected,

f '

PARIJAMENT OF 1727.

Began 28th November, 1729. Ended 2frth October, 1760.
nie Rt Hon. sir Gtutaym Hume, \

HSota'xIS^EBq./ln ^*ot ttr <k»tei^ IfoHi«; [ ''«™«*«J^ Co«»*J-
deoeaaed. J

Riehard Cole, Esq., )

Jamee SannderBoii, Esq., > EnnlakUlen Borongli.

John Cole, Esq., in pUoa of Bifibvd CoU, deoew^ « .)

MEMOIR
I.— Sir Gustayus Hums^ rejected.

II. — ^Henby Brooke, Esq.

The first of this family settled in Ireland was Sir Basil
Brooke, who came over in Queen Elizabeth's time, served
under Blount, Lord Mountjoy, and was appointed Clovemor
of the town and castle of Donegal (the ruins of which last
still exist), and one of the Commissioners for the settlement
of Ulster. He obtained large crown grants in Donegal

Pynnar found, in 1618-19, that—

** Sir Basil Brooke, knt, hath 1000 acres called Edonecame.
Upon this there is a bawne of lyme and stone, and in it, a honse in
building, in which there dwelleth an English man.**

His son Sir Henry, also Governor of Donegal, received
(says Sir Bernard Burke), in recompense for liis services
during the rebellion of 1641, grants of land in the county
of Fermanagh. Sir Henry married twice — 1st, Elizabeth
Winter, daughter of John Winter of Dyxham, county Glou-
cester, from which marriage descend the county Donegal
branch of this family ; and, 2ndly, Anne, daughter of Sir
George St. George, by whom he had a son Thomas (the
ancestor of the Fermanagh Brookes), who married Catherine,
daughter of Sir Arthur Cole, and was father of Hemy
Brooke, Esq., now elected for the county of Fermanagh.
Henry Brooke served as Sheriff in 1709.

The following is the descent of the Brooke family, of
Colebrooke, county of Fermanagh : —

1. Sir Baiil Brooke, married Eliiabeth, dan. of Thoe. Leloester, of Toft.
9. Sir Henrf Brooke* married 2iidl7, Anne, dan. of Sir Geoige St George.

8. Thomas Brooke, married Catherine, eldest dan. of Sir Arthur Cole, Bart

i. Henry Brooke, ilp., mairied Lettioe, dan. of Alderman Beqjamin Burton of Dublin.

ft. The Rt Hon. Sir Frands Brooke, married Hannah, dan. of Henry Prittie of
Arthur Brooke, Bart, I Dnnalley.

ILP., died without

male issue, 178ft. I

e. Sir Henry Brooke, Bart, mairied Harriet, dau. of the Hon.

so created, 1899. I Jolm Butler^md granddao.

I of Brinsley, 1st Yitoount

I Lanertrarough.

Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart, m.p., mairied the Hon. Julia Hen-

(Srdson.) rietto Anson— maid

of Hon. to the Queen
—dau. of Sir Geoige
Anson, o.c.b.
Sir Victor Brooke, Bart, married Alice, 9nd dau. of Sir Alan
I Belllni^liam, Bart

9. Arthur Brooke.

III.— Nicholas Archdall, Esq.
Nicholas Montgomery, Esq., of Derrygonnelly, son of Hugh
Montgomery, by Catherine, daughter and heir of Richs^

Dunbar, of Derrygonelly, married 1st, Angel Archdall, heir of
her brother, Ed ward Archdall ; and, 2ndly, Sarah Sprawling,
and left four sons by her, viz., Robert, Richard, Nicholas,
and Edward. Of these, Nicholas married Mary, niece and
heiress of Bishop Walter Cope, took her name, and inherited
the Cope estate of Drummilly, over Loughgall, county
Arma£;h.

Nicholas Mont^mery served as Sheriff in 1723, and
having assumed his first wife's name of ArchdaU, was elected
for the county of Fermanagh in 1731, in place of Sir Qus-
tavus Hume, deceased; and he and his descendants have
retained one of its seats in unbroken succession to the
present day.

Pynnar found, in 1618-19, that in Lurge and Coolmac-
keman, appointed to English undertakers —

<< John Archdall hath 1000 acres called Tallana. Upon this
proportion there is a bawne of lime and stone with 8 flankers 15
feet high ; in each comer there is a good lodging slated, with a
house in the bawne of 80 feet long and 3 stories high, with
a battlement about it ; himself with hu family are there resident
He hath also a water mill, and in two several places of his land he
hath made two villages, consisting of 8 houses a piece.

*' I find planted and estated upon this land, of firitiah famili<

Freeholders 6, viz. :
1 having 200 acres.

1 having 120 acres.

2 having 40 acres le peace.
2 having 30 acres le peece.

Lessees for years 10, viz. :

4 having 240 acres jointly.

2 having 30 acres le peece.

1 having 60 acres.

1 having 20 acres.

1 having 40 acres.

1 having 15 acres.
Cottagers 4, viz. :

These having each of them a
house and 1 acre of land. .

He had also 1,000 acres called Drumragh, in the barony
of Magheraboy, which waa originally granted to James QiU
(or (Hbbs) ; from him demised to James Hamilton, and from
him to John Archdall, 26th February, 1617. On this Pvnnar
found a bawne, with a house building, and 6 freeholders, 5
lessees for years, and 3 cottagers, in all fourteen resident
British families, able to make twenty-six men armed

And these 20 are able to
' make 42 men, and 7 of these
have taken the oath of supre-
macy."

The following is ttc descent of the Archdall family of
Castle Archdall, county Fermanagh (which settled in Ireland
•temp. Elizabeth), to the present owner, and also to the re-

i)resentative of the county in the present ParUament, be-
onging to this family —

John Archdall, of Nonom Hall, Korfolk,* and of co. Fermanagh, died 81 Aug., 1621.
Edward Archdall, born 1604, married Angel, dau. of Sir Paul Gore.

WilUam Archdall, SherilT 1667 and 1699, bl Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Merryn, of

I Trillick .

Merryn d. raddenly, Edward m.l8t Angel married Nicholas Mont-
^ ^.. ^ gomery (eat f or Fer-

97 December, 1726. Frances Cald- Succeeded to the
Sheriiri714. well, 9nd, Eliza- estates 1729 or 1730,

beth Cole, and and died 1749 or 1746.

d. B. p. Sheriif

1722.

managh as Nicholas
ArchdaU).

Colonel Meryyn Archdall, m.p., m. Hon. Mary Dawson, dan. of Viscount Carlow, and
I sister of the 1st Earl of Fortarlington.

I 1 1

General Mervyn Colonel William Edward married Matilda Humphreys, of
Arc hdall, m.p. Archdall Archdall. | Ballyh alae, co. Caran.

Mervyn Archdale, m.p., 1884-74, (present William Arohdale, if.p., the present

owner of Castle Archdall). representative in Parliament.

The following is extracted from the Phillipps MS. 13293,
p. 95 (AJ). 1718-19).

Archdale in Fermanagh.

" The originall of y* familj^ of Archdale in this County, was
John Archdale, Esq'., who in y* Reigno of K. James y* first of
England, came to fiermanagh f|*om Norsom Hall in Norfolksbire,
wherein his ancestors bore a considerable stroake in Church and
State, as are intimated in histories. This worthy gent, purchased
a handsome estate in y* £arroney of Lorge in this county, from
Sir John Vayle Knight, on V* estate are many pleasant and
fertile Islandes, excellent soyle for stood mares, for fattening
oxen or weaders ; ye woods whereof might purchase a considerable
estate. His eldest son and heire Edward Archdale, Esq., succeeded,
and married Sir Paul Gore's daughter, by whom he begott his son
and heire tbe now extant TV ill™. Archdale, Esq., who purchased
y* pleasant lands called Collidaises, many years before y* warrs of
88 ; and after y* said warrs did purchase a handsome estate from
^Will"'. Wallace, Esq', all contained in y* county of ffermaaagh.
The said "William Archdale, Esq., married in j* worthy family of
Marvin, daughter to Henry Marvin, Esq., who was son and heire
to S' Audley Marvin, Bart. [Knt.], who was Councill at Law and
Attorney Gen. all for King James y* first [Charles the second] of
Engl., and by this Lady, wSl". Archdale base two hopeful sons ; y

^yen in "Burke,*" and the Phillipps M.S The Calendar of State Paper
, Suffolk.*

459

eldest son and heire is Coll°. Marvin Archdale, a hopeful young
gent, of Learning and Education. Y* Ancient seate of this family
in fierm\ is Castle Archdale ; and y* said Will"^. Archdale being
now a grave ancient gent, have spent y* whole course of his life
under a commendable reputation endued w^ honesty and charity^
delighted much in planting, building, and emproveing, free from
presumption or pride, tender and mercifull to his fellow's. Attended
with prudence the benefits of his good presidents and examples
may be expected from his successors. This family beareth in
their archieum*' and ensigne armoriall.

" Hire Tolbets, two in chief and won[ one] in base and a cheveron
betweene.

" Ffor y* crest, a tyg's head sett in a crown.

" Hie motto— Data fata sequta."

IV. — BiCHABD Cole, Esq., re-elected.

v.— James Sanderson, Esq.

James Sanderson of Drumcassidy, now Cloverhill, county
Cavan, was the second son of Jamoa Sanderson by Anne
Whyte of Redhills. He married Maria, daughter of Broghill
Newburgh of Ballyhaise (by Miss More of Saiestown, county
E^dare, a descendant of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor,
tem/p. Henry VIIT.) He served as sheriff of Cavan county
in 1 732. His will is dated 1 5th April, 1767, and was proved
on 15th March following. Mr. Sanderson lefl issue —

I. Alexander, bom 1734. Entered Trinity College,
I7th January, 1750, as a Fellow Commoner.
II. Francis of Drumcam, county Cavan.
III. Robert.
I. Mary, married Mr. Atkinson.

Alexander, his eldest son, succeededatCloverhill. He mar-
ried Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Madden, D.D., of
Manor Waterhouse, county Fermanagh. He served as sheriff
for Cavan county in 1775. He died on June 26, 1786 (will
proved 14th March, 1787), leaving, with three daughters, an
only son,

James Sanderson, of Cloverhill, born 29th March^ 1763|
died 8th August, 1842, d.l. and J.P., sheriff for Cavan county
in 1800, who married on June 16, 1799, Eliza, daughter of
Isaac Walker, Esq., of Newry, county Armagh. He had issue,
with six children who died young, James, died unmarried,
aged26,May6, 183L

1. Mary Anne, late of Cloverhill, died 12th June, 1873.

2. Lucy, married, 18th November, 1827, Samuel Winter
of Agher, county Meath,£sq.,and died 11th Nov^nber^l864.

3. Elizabeth.

4. Frances Alexandrina married 10th February, J 830,
Richard Winter Reynell of Killynon, county Wesianeath,
Esq., and died on 31st October, 1874.

Samuel Sanderson, now of Cloverhill, J.P. and D.L.,
sheriff of Cavan 1875, bom 1834, is third son of Samuel
Winter and Lucy Sanderson, and assumed the name and
arms of Sanderson by Royal Licence on the death of his
aunt, in 1873 ; he married 1st March, I860, Anne^ second
daughter of the late John Armitage Nicholson, Esq., B.L.y of
Balrath, county Meath.

A portrait of James Sanderson, Esq., M.P., remains at
Cloverhill, county Cavan. It is said to be by Belshazzar
Denner, the Dutch painter.

VI.— John Cole, Esq.

John Cole was son of John Cole, the M.P. for Enniskillen
in several preceding Parliaments, by his first wife, Florence
Wrey. He succeecfed his father at Florence Court in 1726,
and nis great uncle and cousin Richard Cole, who died in
1729-30, in the House of Commons, and continued to sit for
EmdskiUen through this long Parliament, until within a few
weeks of its dissolution in 1760, when he was created Baron
Mountflorence, of Florence Court, on the 8th September of
that year. He served as Sheriff in 1733. He died 30th
November, 1767, having married Elizabeth, daughter of
Hugh Willoughby Montgomery, Esq., of Carrow, county
Monaghan.

PARLIAMENT OF 1761.

Began 22nd October, 1761. Ended 28ih May, 1763.

Hcnryn ArohdriJ, Esq I Femumaifh County.

Arthur Brooke, Esq.. f ^ '

Hon. wmum WUlonghby Colo, > „ . ^„ «

fUohAxd Gorges, tbe Elder, Esq., > Ennlddllen Borough.

Biohard Gorges, Jan., Esq., in place of William Willoughby >
Cole, Lord Monntiiorenoe.

MEMOIR.
L— Mervyn Arohdall, Esq.

Colonel Mervyn ArchdaJl was the son and successor of
Nicholas Archdall, M.P., by his first wife, Aogel Archdall

He married the Hon. Mary Dawson, daughter of Viscount
Carlo w, and sister of the first Earl of Portarlington, bom
August 12, 1738, by whom he had issue four sons and eight
daughters.* He served as Sheriff in 1773.

II. — ^Abthur Brooke, Esq.

Arthur Brooke (subsequently the Right Hon. Sir Arthur
Brooke) was the eldest son and successor of the former
member Heniy Brooke, by his wife Lettice, daughter
of Alderman Benjamin Burton, of Dublin. In the next
Parliament, that of 1769, we find him a baronet ; in the
succeeding one, that of 1776, a Privy Councillor. He
married Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Fortescue, esq.,
of Reynoldstown, countv Louth, and sister of the first Lord
Clermont, by whom he left two daughters ; Selina, married
the first Viscount de Vesci ; and Letitia married the Rt. Hon.
Sir John Pamell, Bart. He served as Sheriff in 1752.

HI — ^The Hon. William Willoughby Cole.

The Hon. William Cole was the eldest son and heir of the
first Lord Mountflorence, and brother to the Hon. Arthur
Cole-Hamilton. He married in 1663, Anne (or Anna) second
but eldest surviving daughter of Galbraith Lowry, m.p. for
Tyrone, by his wife Sarah Cony. Be subsequently became
the first Earl of Enniskillen. He was for some time Colonel
of the Fermanagh Militia. He was bom in 1736, and died
in 1803.

IV.— RiCHAED Gorges, Esq., the Elder.

Richard Gorges, the elder, was grandson of Robert Gorges,
LL.D., of Kilbrew, who sat in Parliament for Bandon
borough, in the Parliament of 1661, and for Ratoath borough,
in the county Meath, in that of 1692. His jEsither was
Richard Gorges (baptized in 1662), son of the above Dr. 9 ;,
Gorges, by his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Adam Loftus; '
who havingentered the army rose to the rank of Lieutenant-
GeneraJ. He sat in the Parliament of 1 703, for Coleraine,
being also returned for Bandon and for Ratoath; in 1713
he sat for Ratoath and again in 1715. He married first in
1704, Nichola-Sophia Hamilton, second daughter, and after
her brother's death, co-heir of the first Lord Glenawly, and
relict of Sir Tristram Beresford, by whom she was the mother
of the first Lord Tyrone, of the Beresford family ; and she
dying in 1713, he married secondly, Dorothy Stopford,

* Poeket FMrage, 1790l It giyes only three gone, hoirever, at that date.

Coitniess of Meath, widow of Edward, fourth EatL They
died, she on the 10th and he on the 12th August, 1728, and
were buried in one grave at Eilbrew. Richard (jbrges the
son of the (General, was first returned to Parliament for
Augher borough, county Tyrone, 3rd December, 1739, and
now to the Parliament of 1 66 1 , for Enniskillen. He married
Elizabeth Fielding ; their son Richard Gorges, died a Colonel
of Dragoons, having married in 1755, Catherine, daughter of
Thomas Christmas.

V. — ^RiCHABD Gorges, Esq., the Younger.

Richard Gorges, the younger, of Catherine's Grove, county
Dublin, was the nephew of nis colleague, being the only son
of his younger brother Hamilton Gorges. He was educated
at Brazenose College, Oxford, and in 1775, married the
daughter and heir of Arthur Francis Meredith of Dollards-
town, in the county of Meath, and was created a baronet
by the name of Richard Gorges Meredith. He was first
elected for the borough of Enniskillen, 4th February, 1768,
in the place of Mr. Cfcle, now become a Peer as second Lord
Mountflorence ; and was re-elected in July of the same year,
to the Parliament which first met in 1769.

PARLIA.MENT OF 1769.

Began 17th October, 1769. Ended 5th April, 1776.

S:.^'r«SSSl:*ESr' : : : .JFern^h count..

Armar Lowry Corry, Esq.,

Richard Gorges, the younger, Eiiq.,

Bernard Smith Ward, Esq., in place of Armar Lownr Li?««i.ipiii^ d^-^-k

Corry. who made his election to sit for Tyrone, . f^^nnisldUcn Borough.
Hugh Henry Mitchell, Esq., in place of Bernard Smith

Ward, deceased.

MEMOIR.
I. — ^Sm Abthub Bbooeb, re-elected.
II— Colonel Msbvtn Abchball, re-elected.
ni. — Abmab Lowby Cobby.

Armar Lowry-Corry was the third but only surviving son
of Qalbraith Lowry, M.P., of Ahenis, county Tyrone, by Sarah,
second daughter and eventual co-heir of John Corry, M.P. for
county Fermanagh, 1719-26 ; whose name Mr. Lowry had
assumed after that of Lowry in 1664, on the death of Captain

Edmond Leslie Corry, M.P. for Newtownlimavady, the huB-
band of the eldest co-heiress, Martha Corry, who had taken
the Dame of Corry after Leslie in 1741 , on the death of Leslie
Corry, of Castlecoole, m.p. for EalliWgs. Mr. Qalbraith
Lowry Corry having retired from Paniament at the dis-
solution of 1768, his son Armar was elected at the ^neral
, election to succeed him in his seat for Tyrone ; and having
been also elected for Enniskillen, elected to serve for the
county of Tyrone ; which he continued to do in this and
the next Parliament, until created a Peer, as Lord Belmore,
in 1781. He became a Viscount in 1789, and an Earl in
1797. He married first, in 1772, Lady Margaret Butler,
daughter of the first Earl of Carrick, by whom he had three
children, viz., Galbraith, who died young ; Somerset, some
time M.P. for Tyrone, and eventually Earl of Belmore ; and
Juliana, died young. Lady Margaret Corry having died in
1776, Mr. Lowry Corry married secondly, in 1780, Lady
Henrietta Hobart, eldest daughter and co-heir of the second
Earl oi Buckinghamshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and
previously Ambassador to St. Petersburg. By this mar-
liage he had an only daughter, Louisa, afterwards Countess
of Sandwich, who died in 1862. H^ mai-ried thirdly, in
1794, Mary Ann, daughter of Sir John Caldwell, Bart., and
died in 1802. Lord Belmore was at the time of the Union,
of which he was a determined opponent, patron of the
boroughs of Belturbet county Cavan, and Ballyshannon
county Donegal, The only political incident in his career
in the House of Commons on record is, that he voted against
the Government on the 9th October, 1771, the second day
of the Session, during the viceroyalty of Viscount Townshend,
on a motion relative to the public accounts.

A very curious division list was formerly in my posses-
sion, in which those who voted in the majority in one of
the divisions on this occasion, were some of them described
by not very complimentary epithets, of which " a placeman "
was amongst the mildest ; whilst the list of the minority
was headed, "The men who were honest, even in Townshend's
daya" Mr. Lowry-Corry served as Sheriff of Fermanagh
in 1779.

rV.— Richard Gorges, the Younger, Esq., re-elected.

V. — ^Bernard Smith Ward, Esq.

Bernard Smith Ward had a common ancestor with the
first Lord Bangor, in Bemaid Ward, who married a daughter
of Major West. Their eldest son was Nicholas, from whom
the Viscounts Bangor descend ; the second was CromweU ;
and the tbird Bernard, who married Janet, the heiress of the

family of Davys of Knockballymore, county Fermanagh; and
had a daughter, Jane ; and a son, Nicholas, who married
in March, 1741, Meliora, eldest daughter of CoL David
Creighton, of Crom Castle, grandfiither of John Viscount
Erne, and died in 1751. The subject of this Memoir was
their only surviving son. He entered Trinity College as a
Fellow Commoner 1 2th May, 1759, where his tutor was Mr.
Law ; and he died unmarried, having sat for Enniskillen
for a single session — that of 17()9 ; (Vide ArchdaU's Lodge's
Peerage, VoL vi. p. 69, under ** Viscount Bangor"), after
which Knockballymore passed by will into Lord Erne's
family. Bernard Smith Ward's will was dated the 8ih and
proved the 25th May, 1770.

The following extract from the Phillips MS. 13293, p.
163, respecting " Ward in Fermanagh," has beeu sent to me
with a note by the copyist, that the accounts of the family
of Ward, are found on the last pages of the MS., which is
very much obliterated by dirt, and destruction of portions
of the pages. The words in italics are an attempt to supply
to some extent, a probable rendering of the defective
portiona

" Ward in Fermanagh.'*

"The originall of this remarkable family is [was] Bernard
Waady Esq.y being a Zt6erall high mvnl^ed Gent, of cimaiderahlQ
s^ake in y* county ^ dent^ of great families. The chi^e/them
now extant is Nicholas Ward, esq., y* heire to Bernard Ward,
Esq., to whom QvomweU Ward, his eldest brother,* dying w***out
i8»ae^ left his estate and whole entayle in Fermanagh. These
worthy brothers were sons to S' Biyan [Bemardl Ward, of Castle
Ward, in y* Comily of Down, and y* aforesaid Nicholas being y*
lawfuU se [«ucce«9orj of this family in fiermanagh, a hoi^fiM yoimg
gent, who now detams ye Inherttortoe of this family in ffermanagh,
d&SGendsd to him by his mother and grandmother . . . .f I
referr their Coate of Arms to y* . . . . Heraldry — j* said
BernapdWard,Esq.,wasCapt.m[()weq/^K.Chas.y*2*r«^wiente,}and
Crom" his eldest brother ^ Captain of horse in £1. Chas. time, and lived
in KjnoMallymore. Capt. Bryan [Bernard] Ward lived in y* Castle
BeW&more ; the ironworks of Burross, in y* Co. of Mayo, were
built for him, and for his brother, Nicholas Ward."

* ThiB is an error, aa Nicholas, the ancestor of Lord Bangor, was the eldest brother
of both Cromwell and Bernard Ward. Cromwell Ward, married Jane Leslie, and
left one son, Henry, under the guardianship of his mother (Dismiss in Chanoerr
11th May, 1686), who died without issue. The statement, moreover, is incon-
sistent at any rate as reprards Knockballymore, with that which follows, and which is
undoubtodlj a correct one, as regards the acquisition of that property by Bernard
Ward. But perhaps Cromwell had a distinct estate in Fermanagh. These
brothers had four sisters, who married respectively into the families of Smith,
Hull, Ferran, and Stewart of Ballintoy, County Antrim.

tThat is Janet Hatton, and Janet Davys. Vide "" Wm. Davys," p. 84.

% This wwd is abnviated, but I think that ** regiment '* must have been intended.

" Ward in Fermanagh."

'< In J* Heigne of Eing Charles y* second of England, the two
sons of S' Bryan [BemardJ Warde, of Castle Warde, in y* County
of Downe, were Captains m y* King's service, Cromwell y* eldest
was Capt. of horse ; his Brother Bryan [Bernard] Capt. of ffott
Their dwealling at Knockballimore and Bellamore. The Iron
Burross in y* county of Mayo*, was built by BemarcL They
were liberal highminded gentlemen. The chidfest of whom now
succeeding is J^ichotaat High Sheriff of the 90unty of ffermanagh.
Ml the present yeare, 1720, His Uncle Cromwell having died in

• . . . , his brother Bernard succeeded; whose son and
heire y* now extant Nicholas, completed y* buildinge of Knock-
ballimore, y* estate off/' Hatton family y descended to this family
by Jcvnet Hatton of y* &mily, who was grandmother to the extant
Nicholas Ward, Esq. This h,m\\j possesses leaseholds and freeholds
also in y* county of Mayo. Theirs eoate of arms I can't explain."

Hugh Henry Mitchell.

Mr. Mitchell was a banker in Dublin. His name also
appears in the Liber Munerum as Commissioner of Bar-
racks in 1772 and 1776. His grandfather had married
Jane, daughter of Robert Henry, a Presbyterian Minister,
widow of a Mr. Finlay, and sister of Hugh Henry,
Esq., M.P. for Newtown limavady in 1713, and Antrim
Borough from 1727-43. His father, Henry Mitchell, of
Qlasnevin, Co. Dublin, was also a banker, and M.P. for
Castlebar, 1747-61, and for Bannow 1761-8. He died 2nd
August, 1768, leaving by his wife Marv, besides four
daughters, Hugh Henry (the subject of this memoir), of
Qlasnevin and Merrion Castle; M.P. for Ballyshannon
1766-8, and for Enniskillen in 1771. Mr. Mitchell's will
(dated 9th Sept., 1812, codicil 14th Jan., 1818), was proved
27th April, 1830. His eldest son, Hugh Henry, Colonel of
the 26th Foot, married 17th July, 1804, Lady Harriet
Somerset (who died 1st June, 1865), yoimgest daughter of
Heniy, 5tn Duke of Beaufort, E.Q., and had a son Hugh,
and two daughters. {Vide also App. V., p. 347).

PARLIAMENT OF 1776.

Began 18th June, 1776. Ended 25th July, 1783.

Xame. Conetitvenoy.

Bt. Hon. Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart \ Femumash County.

Mervyn Archdall, Esq., > ^^ '

Sir ArohibaldAoheflon, Bart, ), ^ ^^„ ^

John Leicfa, Em,, V InnisUUen Borough.

Bt. non/Henry Flood in place of Sir Arohibald AcheMn,)
LordGotford.

* Vide ** BnrriflhooV ^ Lewis' Topographical Dictionary, pagea 282-8.

.'MEMOIR. '

I. — Sm Arthur Brooke, re-elected.

II. — Colonel Archdall, re-elected.

III. — Sir Archibald Acheson.

The first of this family in Ireland /according to Sir
B. Burke), was Archibald Acheson, of Qosford,in the county
of Haddington, N.B., who obtained a grant of land in the
county of Armagh, in 1611, and another in Cavan, 1612.
Pynnar in 1618-19, found Ai'chibald Acheson in possession
of 2,000 acres, called Clancamy, in the Precinct of the Fewes,
county Ardmagh (of which Sir James Douglas had been the
first Patentee;, on which was a bawne of lyme and stone,
being 100 feet long, eighty feet broad, and ten feet high ;
with four flankers^ two stories high, and thirteen feet wide
within the walls, which serve for good lodgings. There was
also a Castle begun, eighty feet long and twenty-two feet
wide, then two stories high. There were seven houses near
inhabited by British tenants. He had in the bawne a
great store of arms, and could arm 129 men. There were
twenty-nine families on the estate, and twenty-nine more
in a town called Clancamey, and he could make 173 men
armed. He had besides 1,000 acres, called Carrowdownan,
in the Precinct of TuUaghconche, county Cavan (of which
John Browne was the first patentee). The bawne* of stone
and clay, 100 feet square, with four flankers, and nine feet
high, was standing on a mountain. There were twenty-one
English and Scottish &milies, making twenty-eight men.
Mr. Acheson was created a baronet of Nova Scotia on 1st
January 1628-9, and in 1630 obtained a tract of land in
that province. He was Solicitor-General, a Senator of
Justice, and for many years Secretary of State for Scotland,
which latter office he continued to fill till his death, at Let-
terkenny, county Donegal, in 1634. His great-great-grand-
son, Sir Archibald, ^the sixth baronet, ttie subject of this
memoir, was created Baron Gosford in 1776, and Viscount
Qosford, in 1785. He married Mary, youngest daughter of
John Richardson, Esq., of Richhill, county Armagh, by whom
he had Arthur, his successor, created Earl of Go^nl, in 1806.

IV.— John Leigh, Esq.
John Lei^h was certainly not a member of the £Eimily of
Rosegarland, Co. Wexford, which long shared the Parlia-
menlixy influence in the borough of New Ross, with the
Tottenham family. It has been suggested, that he belonged
to the family of Leigh of Drogheda, and the County Louth.
He may have been the John Leigh who was appointed
Recorder of Drogheda in 1762.

* Or rampart

John Leigh, who married his cousiu Sarah, and died
without issue in 1810, aged 78, was the eldest son of John
Leigh, Esq. His grandfather was John Leigh of Drogheda,
who married about J 695, Mary Boleyn, widow of Godfrey
Boleyn, of Fennor, county Meath, and second daughter of
Edward Singleton, M.P. for Drogheda. Mr. Leigh died in
1731, leaving three sous, viz.: —1st, John, who died in 1738
(and who was the father of the subject of this memoir ; and
also of Edward, F.T.C.D., who died unmarried in 1759 ; and
of a daughter who also died unmarried) ; 2nd, the Rev.
Edward, who married his cousin, Sarah Morris, and died
about 1759, leaving an only child, Sarah, who about 1760,
married her cousin, John Leigh, as before mentioned ; and
3rd, Francis, who died in 1778, having married Ann Bing-
ham. Their eldest daughter, Letitia, married Blayney
Townley Balfour Esq., the great-grandfather of the present
owner of Townley Hall, county Louth. Their son, Blayney,
married Lady Florence Cole, 1797.*

v.— The Bight Hon. Heney Flood.

Mr. Flood, one of the most eloquent and prominent members of
the Irish Parliament, was the son of Wai-den Flood, Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench. He first entered Parliament
as Member for the county of Kilkenny, in place of Viscoimt
Duncannon, become Earl of Bessborough. The new writ
was moved for on the 16th October, 1759. His father was
at this time Member for Callan borougfh, in that county.
At the general election of 1761, Mr. Flood unsuccessfully
contested Callan ; but the election of James Agar, esq., being
declared void, Mr. Flood was elected, and was sworn on
the 11th January, 1762. In the Parliament of 1769, he was
returned for both Longford borough and Callan ; and elected
to sit for Callan. In that of 1776, the Rt. Hon. Heniy
Flood and Mr. Langrishe (Sir Hercules Langrishe) were re-
turned, but declared not duly elected, on petition ; and the
Hon. Pierce Butler and George Agar, esq., were seated in
their places. The allegation of the petition was that the
sheriff, being under the influence of Mr. ilood, directed the

* I have seen a draft TriiBt deed of asaignment, now the property of the present
Mr. BaLfonr, of the 8th May, 1778, between John Ogle of the first part, Hamilton
Gorges, John Leigh, and Blaney Balfour, Esqrs., and the Right Hon. WiJliam
Lord Mountflorence, on the second part, and my great grandfather, Arraar Lowry
Corry, on the third part. This seems to point to the probability of the Mr.
Leigh who was M.P. for Enniskillen, being the same person as the John Leigh,
who was a party to a deed in wliich Lord Monntflorence was the person
henofldally interested.

precept for holding the election to one Ambrose Smith as
sovereign^ instead of to the Rev. Arthur Webb» the proper
sovereign. That Mr. Smith had held the election improperly^
and refused some votes, and accepted others, and that several
corrupt and undue means were used to influence voters to
vote against petitioners. Also that Mr. Webb had attended,
and (having taken the oaths as sovereign), with several
hiwfui burgesses, took another poll, and made an in-
denture returning the petitioners, which was ready to be
produced. The election of 1761, which had been declared
void on Mr. Flood's petition, turned on a similar point,
counsel for the sitting members admitting that the sheriff,
Benjamin Kearney, had directed the precept to Mr. Wemyss,
as sovereign, instead of to Mr. Charles Flood, the l^al
sovereign.

To return to Mr. Flood. He was elected for the borough
of Enniskillen, in the place of Six Archibald Acheson,
now Lord Qosford. The writ was issued on the 27th
November, 1777, on the very day that an election com-
mittee had reported against Mr. Flood's petition for the seat
held by the Hon. Edward Butler, for the county Kilkenny, .
on the ground of bribery and undue influence. It appeared
that the sheriff was taken Ul during the poll, and that Mr.
Mood had assented to his not continuing it, to the danger of
his life ; as it was improbable (he alleged) that^ notwith-
standing he had a great number of freeholders ready to
vote for him, he should be returned against such undue
influences. Mr. Flood therefore petitioned, but was imsuc-
oessful ; and Mr. Butler retained his seat, until he vacated
it on becoming Viscount Mountgarrett.

In iJie Parliament of 1783, Henry Flood, esq., was returned
for the borough of Kilbeggan, county Westmeath; after
which Parliament, which ended in 1790, he disappears from
the House of Commons. Mr, Flood's career is alreiBwiy public
property ; and I shall not here attempt to give a sketch of
it, further than to say that having in the earlier part of it,
acted usuallv in Opposition, he solicited and accepted in
1777, the valuable office of one of the three Vice-Treasurer-
ships worth £3,500per annum, which were generally reserved
for members of the English Parliament ; he was also swoiii
on the Privy Council. But becoming dissatisfied with his
position with what was called the pa&ot party, he returned
in 1780, to the Opposition : whereupon the king removed his
name fix)m the list of Privy Councillors ; and he resigned
his Yice-TreaBurership— (iVoude, ''English in Ireland/'
voLa,p.297).

PARLIAMENT OF 1783.

Begun 14th October, 1783. Ended 8th April, 1790.

rolonelMerTynArchdaJl I FennaiuigkCowitT.

Hon. Arthur Cole Htmilton, i

Right Hon. Sir John Blaqttiere, K.B., . . . ^

John M'Glintoek, esq . ^«, *

JuneB Stewart, of Fort Stewart, eaq., in place of Sir ^Inniflklllen Borough.

John maqniere. who made his eleoti<m for Garling- (

ford. J

MEMOIE.

I.— Colonel Mervyn Auchdall, re-elected.

11.— The Hon. Arthur Cole Hamilton.

The Hon. Arthur Cole was the younger of the two sons of
John, first Lord Mountflorence. He married (says Sir Ber-
nard Burke) in 1780, Letitia, daughter and heireas of Claude
Hamilton, esq., of Monterloney, co. Tyrone, on which occa-
sion he took the name of Hamilton after that of Cole. He
left a son, Claude William, bom in 1781, who married in
1805, Nicola Sophia, daughter of Richard Chaloner, of Kings-
fort, CO. Meath, and dying in 1822, left two sons, Arthur
Cole Hamilton, esq., of Seltrim, co. Tyrone ; and Richard
Chaloner, esq., late of Kingsfort There was a severe contest
at this election of 1783, when the numbers were— Colonel
Mervyn Archdall, 1323— the Hon. Arthur Cole-Hamilton,
1287 — Colonel Wm. Irvine, 1229— and the Right Hon. Sir
Arthur Brooke, Bart., 1225. Sir Arthur Brooke petitioned
against the return of Mr. Cole Hamilton ; and Mr. Irvine,
as well as several freeholders, against that of Colonel
Archdall. Sir Arthur Brooke's interest is alleged to have
been ** closely united" to that of Colonel Archdall, during
this election ; and apparently Mr. Cole Hamilton and Mr.
Irvine, wlio were brothers-in-law, stood together. In the
result both the sitting members retained their seats, the
petitions being withdrawn.

Arthur Cole Hamilton, was appointed in 1798, a Com-
missioner for Barracks, and waa re-elected on 22nd January,
1799. Lord Comwallis, writing to the Duke of Portland,
January 23rd, 1799, complains of Major Cole-Hamilton and
others having voted against the Union, but seems to have
hesitated as to the expediency of removing l^em from office,
as he had done Sir John Pamell and the Prime Sergeant*

III.— The Right Hon. Sir John Blaqutere, k.b.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Blaquiere, of the 17th Dra-
goons, bom in 1732, who waa retumed for fiiniskillen, but

elected to sit for Carlingford, oo. Louth, was, according
to Sir Bernard Burke, uie fifth son of John Blaquiere,
esq., of a noble French family (who emigrated from France
in consequence of the revocation of the edict of Nantes,
and settled in London as a merchant, where he died in 1753).
He came to Ireland in 1772 as Chief Secretarjr to the Lord
Lieutenant, Lord Harcourt. In 1774 he was mvested with
the Order of the Bath, created a Bai'onet in 1784, and
was elevated to the Peerage in 1800 as Lord de Blaquiere.
He also held the office of Great Alnager of Ireland, which
office is now held by his descendant, the present Lord de
Blaquiere. An account of his career in Ireland will be
found in the second and third volumes of Mr. Froude's
" History of the English in Ireland,*' including the gra-
tuitous duel forced upon him by Mr. Harvey Bagenal, soon
after his arrival in Ireland, in which he refused to do that
gentleman " the honour" of firing at him, as he had no
quarrel with him. Lord ComwaJlis, writing to the Duke
of Portland, on the 4th December, 1798, cms his Grace's
attention to Sir John Blaquiere's services in connection with
inducing two of the English Militia regiments to agree to
remain in Ireland. He says " We are much indebted to his
firm and able conduct at the moment, and perhaps a little
to his former hospitality, for our success with the Leicester
and South Lincoln regiments, which contributed very
essentially to give a favourable turn to the whole busmess ;
and I earnestly request that your Grace will have the
goodness to mention Sir John Blaquiere's services on this
important occasion, to His Majesty. — (" Comwallis Corres-
pondence," voL iii., p. 4,)

The following are the terms in which, on the 9th June,
1800, Lord Cornwallis mentions Sir John Blaquiere in his
list of persons sent to the Duke of Portland, recommended for
the Irish Peeragefor their services in connection with theUnion.

<' The Right Hon. Sir John Blaquiere, Bart., k.b., has exerted
himself through the whole contest of the Union question, both in
and out of Parliament, with great zeal, and has exposdd himself
personally in the warmest moments of debate with great spirit,
and been repeatedly an object of the fury of the populace, who
twice attacked his house. He has also kept the friends of
the measure together by his constant conviviality. Having
filled offices of considerable trust under His Majesty, and faith-
. fully served him for a long series of years, and having married an
heiress of considerable fortune in the County of Deny, he trusts
His Majesty will raise him to the dignity of the Peerage, and
confer on him the title of De Blaquiere, which his ancestiy
enjoyed in France."

Writing to Major-Qeneral Ross on July 11th, 1800, Lord
Comwallis «ay8 of him. — " • * • *, he governed this
country for some years, and he has since held his rank in
Dublin, as a political character of no small consequence ;
and there were some critical periods during the contest,
at which his leaving us would have exposed the success
of the Union to great hazard. I have now by a very
difficult nogociation, prevailed upon him to relinquish the
Representative Peerage, &c/' — (Ibid, vol. iii., p. 227). Lord
De Blaquiero consented to accept a pension of £1,000 a year
(Ibid. p. 278, note) in lieu of the Representative Peerage
which had been promised to him by Lord Comwallis, but
which had been objected to in England. He had previously
obtained compensation for his sinecures to the amount of
more than £3,200 a year.

Sir John Blaquiere married in 1775, Eleanor, daughter of
Robert Dobson, of Anne's Grove, co. Cork. He died 27th
August, 1812.

IV.— John M'Clintock, Esq.

John M'Clintock, of Drumcar, co. Louth, was, according
to Sir Bernard Burke, a member of a branch of an ancient
Scottish family, which has been established in Ireland for
nearly three centuries. Alexander M'Clintock purchased
estates in the co. Donegal in 1597, which he left to his son,
Alexander, of Trintagh, co. Donegal, who was succeeded bv
his son John, who, in 1687, married Jane (or Janette), fourtn
daughter of John Lowry, of Aghenis, co. Tyrone, who died
in Londonderry in 1689 during the seige, and who was great

Sandfather of the first Lord Belmore and of Lady Ennis-
Uen. John M'Clintock, the subject of this memoir, was
the grandson of John M*Clintock and Jane Lowry, being
the third son of their third son John ; and was thus cousin to
Lady Enniskillen, which may probably account for his
representing the borough of Enniskillen in this Parliament.
He succeeded his uncle Alexander, at Drumcar, co. Louth, in
1775. He married, in 1766, Patience, daughter of William
Foster, esq.., uncle of Lord Oriel ; and, dying in 1799, was
succeeded by his son John, the father of the first Lord Rath-
donnelL Mr. M'Clintock repi^esented Belturbet borough in
the Parliament of 1790.

V. — James Stewart of Fort Stewart

James Stewart of Fort Stewart, was the son and heir
of Sir Annesley Stewart, Bart., of Fort Stewart, and tiie
same person who subsequently as Sir James Stewart,

represented ilie county of Donegal, in the Imperial Parlia-
ment. This family (says Sir Bernard Burke), is of the same
ancestry as Lords Galloway and Blantyre. Sir William
Stewart, knt., of Wigtonshire, having become an undertaker
in Ulster, was created a baronet of Ireland in 1623. He
was also a Privy Councillor in the reigns of James the First
and Charles the First, and served as a ndlitary officer during
the troubles in Ireland. He was succeeded by his eldest
son Sir Alexander, whose heir, Sir William, was in 1682
created a Peer as Baron Stewart of Ramalton, and Viscoimt
Mountjoy. Lord Mountjoy was succeeded by his son William,
a lieutenant-general in the army, and master-general of the
ordnance, who married Anne Boyle, the eventual heiress of
Murrough, Viscount Blessington. Their eldest son William,
third Viscount, was created in 1745, Earl of Blessington ;
but the peerage became extinct on his death in 1769, when
the baronetcy devolved on Annesley Stewart, the great-
grandson of the first baronet, and grandson of his second
son Thomas of Fort Stewart. The baronetcy has now passed
to a descendant of Sobert, the third son of the first baronet
— ^the present Sir Augustus Stewart.

PARLIAMENT OF 1790.

Began 20th May, 1790. Ended 11th July, 1797.

Colonel Menryn Archdall \

Hon. John Willoughby Cole, commonlj called Lord VU- V Femuuiafch Conntj.

ooimt Cole, }

Hon. Arthur Cole HamiltoD \

Richard Magenia, Jun., eaq., f T««i.wiii.«i»«iw«»i.

Hon.Lleiit-Ccl.GalbralthLowr7Cole>plaoeof lUohard f IimiBkUlenBorough.

Magenis,who accepted office, Collector of CayanDistrict, )

MEMOIR.

I. — Colonel Meevyn Archdall, re-elected.

II.— Hon. John Willoughbt Cole, commonly called
Lord Viscount Cole.

Viscount Cole was the eldest son of the first Earl of
Enniskillen. He was bom 23rd March, 1768, and married,
15th October, 1805, Charlotte, fourth daughter of Henry,
first Earl of Uxbridge. He was a Knight of St. Patrick,
and was elected a Representative Peer in the Imperial Par-
liament in 1804, to fill the second vacancy which occurred
amrongst the original twenty-eight Peers elected at the

tJnioiL He was created Baron Qrimstead in the Peerage
of the United Eongdom, 11th August, 1815 ; and was loi
some time Lord Lieutenant and Custos Kotulorum of Fer-
managh. He was also Colonel of the Fermanagh Militia.
It appears from the Comwallis Correspondence (Vol. III.,
50), that Lord Cole was an opponent of the Union with
ireat Britain. On the 24th January, 1799, however, Mr,
Ponsonby, having moved " as a substantive resolution, an
amendment (on the subject) which had been rejected the
night before," and Lord C^tlereagh having protested against
this course, " on this Mr. Fortescue, member for the county
of Louth, expressed shortly his determination to oppose Mr.
Ponsonby's resolution. He said he had acted under the
sentiments of his constituents, and if they should alter their
opinion, he should change his own, and that he never would
consent to bind himself against their possible resolutions.
Lord Cole, with much warmth, protested against the resolu-
tion on similar grounds ; Mr. Acheson, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. J.
C. Beresford, and Mr. French, followed with eagerness ; and
Mr. Ponsonby, feeling the temper of the House, withdrew it.**
Henry Alexander, esq., writing on the 16th January, 1800,
to the Ri^t Hon. Thomas Pelham, and referring to Sir
Laurence r arsons' amendment to the Address, says —

'^ John Claudius Beresford, Lord Cole, and Geo. Ogle, all admit
that cases might occur when a union might be eligible, but deny
the present necessity."

And again —

** The House as yet in good humour from the very great in-
fluence of Latouche s speech [in favour of Government! and Lord
Cole's manly, good-humoured, but professedly loyal style of
opposition, and sincere, I am sure, on his sida" (Ibid.y pp.
162-3.)

III. — ^Thb Hon. Arthur Cole Hamilton.

Mr. Cole Hamilton had been member for the county of
Fermanagh in the last Parliament.

IV.— Richard Magenis, Jun., Esq.

Mr. Magenis was son of Richard Magenis, who was, I sup-
pose, the person who sat during part of this Parliament for
the borough of Fore, co. Westmeath (Lord Downahire's
borough). Mr. Magenis, junior, had married (as his first wife)
in 1788, Lady Elizabeth Cole, second daughter of the Earl
of Enniskillen. He was for some time Lieutenant-Colonel

of the Fermanagh Militia, and resided, about the end of the
last and beginning of the present century, at Chanter Hill,
neiar Enniskillen. He inherited considerable landed estates
in the counties of Antrim and Down, which his family had
acquired by purchase in the beginning and middle of the
last century respectively, one or more of his predecessors
having been in the profession of the law. His eldest son.
Major Richard Magenis (who lost an arm at the Battle of
Albuera), succeeded him in his property, and, dying without
issue in 1863, was succeeded by his nephew, T^ieutenant-
Colonel Richard Magenis (son of his next brother, Colonel
Henry Magenis, of the 87th Regiment), who married Lady
Louifia Corry, and who was in turn succeeded, in 1880, by
his brother, the present (Hon.) Major-Gteneral Henry Cole
Magenis, retired from the Royal Artillery.

Mr. Miagenis will appear again as representing the borough
in the Imperial Parliament. His uncle was Dean of Eil-
more, and his fourth son by Lady Elizabeth was Sir Arthur
Magenis, G.C.B., who ended his career in the Diplomatic Ser-
vice as H.B.M.'s Minister at Lisbon, and who died in 1867.
Mr. Magenis was appointed Collector of the Cavan district,
and retired from Parliament in 1797.

V. — ^LiEUT.-CoLONEL HoN. Gaxbeaith Lowrt Cole.

Colonel Cole was the second son of William Willoughby.
first Earl of Enniskillen, by his wife Anne, daughter of
Galbraith Lowry, wlp., who married Sarah Corry, of Castle
Coole. He was bom the 1st May, 1772, and having
attained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the army, entered
the Lrish Parliament as member for the borough of Ennis-
killen, in succession to his brother-in-law, Richard Magenis.
The Speaker's warrant for the writ was issued on the 21st
February, 1797, and he was elected in March. He there-
fore only sat during the last session of this Parliament.
He was however re-elected to the Parliament of 1798, and
voted in 1799 against the Union with Great Britain. It
appears from a letter from Lord Comwallis to the Duke of
Portland, Secretary of State for the Home Department,
dated 16th May, 1799, that Colonel Cole subsequently
applied to Lord Castlereagh, to be appointed Escheator of
Munster (an office analogous to that of Steward of the
ChUtem Hundreds), to enable him to vacate his seat on
going abroad. He intended to have his place supplied by
his brother-in-law, Mr. Balfour, of Townley Hall (who had

married his Bister, Lady Florence Cole, in 1797). But Mr.
Balfour had, at a meeting in the county Louth, moved a
resolution in the following terms : —

^ That if an Union be enacted by the Legislature of this King-
dom, either contrary to, or without the advice of the assembled
freeholders and burgesses, the submission of the people of Ireland
thereto will be a matter of prudence and not of duty."

This, Lord Comwallis considered as " a recurrence to first
principles, if that measure should be carried," (Comwallis
.Correspondence, VoL III., pp. 97-99). Colonel Cole's request
was consequently refused. Lord Comwallis writing to the
Duke of Portland on the 19th May, says —

" I thought it rather unreasonable that Colonel Gole^ imme-
diately after receiving a militaiy favour from the Eling, should
desire to have the prerogative employed to introduce into Parlia-
ment an individual who had publicly treated the recommendation
from the Throne with such marked and unconstitutional dis-
respect."

The Opposition, through Mr. Dawson, the member for
Monaghan, took the matter up, and asked Lord Castlereagh
to state whether he had not refused the Escheatorship of
Munster, to Colonel Cole, who was ordered upon foi-eign
service, because he understood his successor would oppose
an Union. A warm debate ensued, and Mr. Claudius
Beresford moved an address to the Crown, to grant a pen-
sion to Colonel Cole, in order that he might vacate his seat ;
whereupon the adjournment was moved, as Lord Com-
wallis says " to prevent so improper a motion fr^m being
inserted in the Journals." On a oivision, 47 voted for the
adioumment, and 32 against it.

The Duke of Portland, however, came to the conclusion,
and advised the Lord Lieutenant, that it would be better
in future, not to depart from the English custom of, as a
general rule, affording members the opportunity to vacate
their seats. In the following year (on January 18th), we
find that Colonel Cole had vacated his seat on being
appointed to the office of Gentleman at Large ; his place
however was filled by Mr. Henry Osbome. Mr. Balfour
became member for Belturbet (Lord Belmore's borough) in
place of Charles King, deceased. The Speaker's warrant
for the writ for Belturbet had been issued during the
recess. Mr. Osbome was sworn on the 3rd, and Mr. Balfour
on 5th Febmary, 1800.

The Hon. G. Lowry Cole represented Fermanagh in the

Imperial Parliament from 1803-23. Sir Beroard Burke
says of him, that he was—

" G.C.B. ; a General in the army, Colonel of the 27th foot, and
Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, of the Island of Mauritius,
and of the Cape of Good Hope. Sir Lowry Cole received the
repeated thanks of both Houses of Parliament for his eniineut
and gallant services during the Peninsular War.*'

As Major-General, he commanded, under Marshal Beresford,
the fourth division at the battle of Albuera, and executed a
movement which materially contributed to winning the day.
I have before me a "Correspondence," which originally
appeared in the United Service Journal in 1840, arising
out of a statement in Napier's " History of the War in the
Peninsula," upon the subject as to whether General Cole
or Lieut.-Colonel (afterwards Field Marshal Lord) Hardinge,
D.A.Q.G. of the Portugese army, was entitled to the credit
of the decisive movement.

In the course of this correspondence I find Sir Lowry
Cole writing as follows to the Editor, on the 6th January,
1841 :—

''In this attack, and in canning the enemy's position, the
Fusileer Brigade lost 1,000 men (47 Serjeants and 953 rank and
file) out of 1,500 rank and file, and 46 officers, among whom 3
were commanding officers, — an example of steadiness and heroic
gallantly, which history I believe cannot surpass, and which is
fully deserving of the encomiums passed upon it by Colonel Napier,
in his account of the battle of Albuera.

'< In the very high state of discipline of the Fusileer Brigade,
commanded by officers of the acknowledged professional merits and
talents of the late Sir William Myers and Colonel Ellis, and the
present Sir Edward Blakeney, I can claim little merit for the
execution of this movement ; but I feel that I have an undivided
claim to all merit that may attach to the responsibility of
undertaking and directing it under the circumstances I have
mentioned."

General Cole appears to have been himself wounded in
this action. He married, on the 15th Jime, 1815, Lady
Frances Harris, second daughter of James, 1st Earl of
Malmesbury ; and died 4th October, 1842. A monument has
been erected to his memory, on the Fort Hill, Enniskillen ;
and another in the chancel of Enniskillen Church.

PARLIAMENT OF 1798.

Began 9tli January, 1798. Ended Slst December, 1800.

Name. Constitnenoy.

Colonel Mervyn Archdall, . . . ) t7«,^.„.„k p^.,..*.

Hon. John Cole, commonly called Lord Visoonnt Cole. . f *^e™«»V'» Countf.
Hon. lientenant-Colonel Oalbraith Lowry Cole, . . "^

Hon. Arthur Cole Hamilton, ..... (. tc«„i.wii.« -n^,^.,^
Henry Oebome. Bsq.. in place of Colonel Cole, who accepted f ^"»»«"« Boroutfi,
office of Qentleman-at-large to Lord lieutenant )

MEMOIR.
I. — Colonel Mebvyn Abchdall, re-elected.

II. — Viscount Cole, re-elected.
III. — LiEUT.-CoL. Hon. Q. L. Cole, re-elected.
IV. — Hon. Akthur Cole Hamilton, re-olected.

V. — Henry Osborne, Esq.

Henry Osborne was the fifth son of the Right Hon. Sir
William Osborne, Bart., sometime m.p. for Dungarvan, and
brother to Charles Osborne, Esq; (afterwards iSght Hon.),
who was his colleague at the beginning of this parliament
in the Borough of Carysfort, and who was from 1802 to 1817
a Justice of the King's Bench. Mr. Henry Osborne voted
against the Union on the 26th January, 1799 — and I presume
that it was in consequence of this vote that he vacated his
seat shortly afterwards — Lord Carysfort the Patron of the
Borough, being a supporter of the Union. The Speaker's
warrant for the new writ was issued on the 11th February,1799.
Mr. Osborne was returned for Enniskillen at the commence-
ment of the next session, and was sworn on February 3, 1800.
He succeeded as tenth baronet, on the death of his nephew
Sir William, in infancy ; and died 27th October, 1837.

PARLIAMENTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Parliament of Great Britain, 1796. Of the United Kingdom, 1801.

Name. Constitaenoy.

John Cole, oommonly caUed Lord Vtooonnt Cole, . . f * "managh County.

Arthor Cole Hamilton, ...... Snniskillen Borough.

These were the same persons who had represented the
^constituencies in the last Irish Parliament, Mr. Osborne
excepted,— one of the seats for Enniskillen having been
abohshed

PARLIAMENT OF 1802.

Date
of Retain.

Coiistitiieii<7.

19thJul7, 180S,

81st Jolj. 1806,

^ Coantj.

EimiskiUen
Borough.

Name.
John Wlllooghb^ Cole, oommonlj called Lord Vis-'

ooont Cole of Florenoe Court, County Fennanagh.
Colonel Menryn Arohdall. of Cutle Arohdall, Jr.;
Galbraith LowryCole, £sq., of Florenoe Court, vice\

John WiUoughby Cole, commonly called LordV 37th June, 1808.

yi«)Ount Cole, 'created Earl of Ennlskillen. )

John Beretford, Esq., ..... 81it July, 1809,
William Burroughs, Esq., of Berkeley-square, County)

Middlesex, rice John Beresford, Esq.. who elected [■ 94th Dec, 1809,

to serve for the County of Waterf ord. )

John King, Esq., of Haldimaa House, Hertford,)

England, vice Sir William Burroughs, Bart, f ..^^.M-.^h lann

appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme f "*''""^*"*'*^»

Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal y
William Fremantle, Esq., of Englelield, Countyv

Surrey, England, vice John King, Esq., who'

accepted the Stewardship of the Chlltem Hun-f

dreds. County Bucks. )

MEMOIR.

I.— Viscount Cole, re-elected.

II. — Colonel Meevyn Arohdall, Junior.

Colonel Archdall was the eldest son and successor of the
former member, by his wife the Hon. Mary Dawson* He
married Jane, daughter of Gustavus Rochfort, of Rochfort,
county Westmeath, but left no issue by her ; and was suc-
ceeded in his estates by his next brother. Colonel William
ArchdaU.

Colonel Mervyn Archdall became in due course a General
in the army. He was also Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle
of Wight, and died in 1639. He retired from Parliament in
1834.

Ill— The Hon. Galbrafth Lowry Cole, formerly Member
for Enniskillen in the Irish Parliament.

-I
.4

IV.— Right Hon. John Beresford.

A note to Ross*s Comwallis Correspondence, VoL III.
p. 424, says —

<< The Right Hon. John Beresford, second son of Marcus, first
Earl of Tjrrone, and brother of George, first Marquis of Waterford,
bom March 14, 1738, died November 28, 1805; married first,
November 12, 1760, Anne Ck>nstantia, daughter of the Comte de
Ligondes; and second, June 4, 1774, Barbara, daughter of Sir

* Should be ro c ceedad m Earl of EnniakiUen.

William Montgomery, Bart. He was a Commissioner of Customs
from 1770 to 1780, when he became Chairman of that Board till
ISOl ; daring a great part of this time he was one of the confiden-
tial advisers of the Castle [i.e., one of the Irish Cabinet]. In
1772 he was appointed jointly with his son Marcus, who died
before him, to the Patent office of Taster of Wines. He was made
a Commissioner of the Treasury, in December, 1793, . . . . He
represented the County of Waterford, from April, 1761, till his
death. He went to England to discuss financial and conmiercial
matters with Government."

Lord Cornwallis writing to Mr, Pitt, October 25, 1798,
says —

"I transmitted your letter to Mr. Beresford, who is in the
county of Derry, and encouraged him to undertake the journey
which you proposed to him. He is a sensible and well-disposed
man, and may give some useful hints, especially on commercial
points."

This was at the time when the Union was under con-
sideration. Mr. Beresford was, by his first wife, father of (be-
sides his eldest son Marcus), Qeorge, Bishop of Eilmore (the
father of the present Lord Primate of Ireland), and of the
Right Hon. John Claudius Beresford. The Custom House
in Dublin was built under Mr. Beresford's auspices, and it
would seem to have included an oflicial residence, for the
present Primate (his grandson), once told me that he was
bom in it.

Mr. Beresford did not sit for Ennisldllen, having elected to
sit for his old constituency, the County of Watertbrd.

V. — ^William Bubroughs, Esq.

The following notice concerning William, afterwards Sir
William Burroughs, is from Courthorpe's Extinct Baronet-
age:—

"Burroughs, of Castle Bagshaw, co. Cavan, Ireland, and
Berkeley Square, co. Middlesex. Created [a baronet] 1st Dec,
1804.

" Sir William Burroughs created as above, Advocate-Greneral in
Bengal under the Government of Marquess Cornwallis. Married
Letitia, daughter of William Newburgh, of Ballyhaise, and
Drumcam, co. Cavan, Esq., but, dying s.p.m., the title became
extinct."

According to the Parliamentary Return of 1877, Sir
William vacated his seat for Enniskillen, on being appointed

one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of
Fort William, in Bengal, and his successor, Mr. King, waa
returned 14th March, 1806.

VI.— John King, Esq.

John King is described in the Parliamentary Return as
of Haldiman House, Hertford. The " Return of Owners of
Land ** for Hertfordshire gives no clue as to his identity, or
that of his family; nor is any King, of Haldiman House,
mentioned in it.

VII.— William FRsaiANXLE, Esq., subsequently the Right
Hon. Sir William Fremantle, G.C.H.

William Henry Fremantle,* of Englefield Green, Surrey,
who was returned member for Enniskillen in July, 1806, was
the youngest son of John Fremantle, Esq., of Aston Abbots,
Buckinghamshire. He served in Ireland as Aide-de-Camp,
and afterwards as Private Secretary to the Marquis of
Buckingham when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Mr. Fremantle filled the office of Secretary to the Treasury
during the Administration of Lord Grenville; and was
elected for the borough of Saltash, county Cornwall, in the
Parliament of 1806 ; for Orkney and Shetland, 7th May,
1808 ; and for the borough of Buckingham in 1812, which
place he continued to represent until 1827. He was Con-
troller of the Household in the reigns of George IV. and
William IV., and Deputy Ranger of Windsor Park, having
been created a Privy Councillor and Grand Cross of the
Hanoveiian Order of the Guelph. He was re-elected for
Buckingham 11th Februanr, 1822, after appointment as one
of the Commissioners for tihe afl&.irs of India. (Pari. Return,
1877). He married Selina, widow of the Honorable
Felton Hervey, and died in 1850, at the age of 83, leaving
no issue. Sir William, who was uncle to the present Lord
Cottesloe, was {vide *' Burke's Peerage) great grandson of
John Fremantle, Esq., of an ancient family in Hants, a mer-
chant at Lisbon, and grandson of John Fremantle, Secretary
to the Customs Board, who died in 1766.

* Information partly supplied by Lord Cottedoe.

PARLIAMENT OF 1806.

Date

Name. of Betarn. Conitltaflaoyk

Brigadler-Oeneral Galbraith Lowry Cole, of MarM

bank, 00. Fennanagh I irth Nov ift(M f J'enn*n»«h

Major-Q«nepalMeiTynApchdall.ofCartleAroh- h I'tn «ot., 180«, ^ County.

dall, 00. Fermanagh, * .... J

Nathaniel Sneyd, of Bawnboy. 00. Cavan. 20th Not., 180«, { ^jJjSi!"

Blohard Henry Alexander Bennet, Captain, > . i>..t.viii^

RN., vice Nathaniel Sneyd, Bkj., who f- 14th Jan., 1807, 4 ^SSJSl

eleetedtoeenrelortheeountyof Cavan, . ) * Jwrongn.

MEMOIR.
I — Hon. Brigadier-General Q. L. Cole, re-elected.
TI. — Major-General M. Archdall, re-elected.

III. — ^Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq.

Mr. Sneyd was a member of the eminent firm of wine
merchatitts of that name in Dublin. He made his election
to sit in the Irish Parliament of 1798 for the borough of
Garridk,yCO. Leitrim, having been also elected forEnnis^ond
voted against the Union. He represented the borough of
Ennis in the first Imperial Parliament, but sat for the
county of Cavan in the Parliaments of 1801, 1802^ 1806,
1807, 1812, 1818, and 1820. He did not sit for £nniskillen.

IV — Captain R. H. A. Rennet, rjt,

1 can find nothing further about this gentleman than that
he represented the torough of Launcest(m, co. Cornwall in
the next Parliament fthat of 1807), in place of Earl Percy,
who elected to serve for Northumberland ; Captain Bennet
being returned on the 17th July.

PARLIAMENT OF 1807.

Name. of retom. COkurfitoeiicy.
Brigadier-Qeneral Oalbhdth Lowry Oole, of MarM

bulk, oonnty Fermanagh, f «- jj , -q- f FermaMnh

lUjo^a«neralMeryynArohdall,ofOa«fcleArohdall^f "*y»^'^' • \ Cowity.

oonnty Fermanagh, J

Charles Poohin, Esq, of Barkby Hall, oonnty) tiMRv irat (Bnnlsklllen

Leloester P* "V. IW7, . | B^^ngh.

MEMOIR.

I. — BRiGADiER^OtsNteAL HoN. ft LowuT GoLE, re-dected

II. —Major-General Archdall, re-elected.

IIL— Charles Poouin, Esq.
Charles Pochin, of Barkby, county Leicester, sprung
from an ancient family in that county, was tenth in descent
from Richard Pochin, who married Elizabeth Willoughby,
heiress of Barkby. Mr. Pochin succeeded his second cousin^
Miss Mary Pochin (daughter of William Pochin, M.P. for
Leicestershire, 1780-98, who died in 1798), in the Barkby
estate. He married Anne, daughter of Clement Winstanley,
esq., of Brameston, but left no issue by her, on his death in
1817 ; when he was succeeded by his brother Geoi^, whose
son Wi]liam, of Edmondthorpe Hall, succeeded in turn in
1831 {vide Burke's Landed Gentry, 1875).

PARLIAMENT OF 1812.

of ntani.

NamA.
Major-Gen. Oalbndth Lowry Cole, of Florence)
Court, county Fermanagh, > 9 Nor., 161S,

' ' " - - "U

Conakltiinioy.
(Fermanagh
iaeat.-<taeralMerv7nAnl>daU.ofCastteAiohdall,> ^ County.

BlehardMa8enli,ienr.,Eiiq. M Oct, WIS. {^JSJ*

MEMOIR

I. — Majob-Oenebal Hon. O. L. Cole, re-elected.
11. — ^Lieutenant-Qen. Abchdall, re-elected.

III. — RiCHABD MaQENIS, SeNR.

Mr. Mwenis was the same person whose memoir has
been already given as representing Enniskillen in the Irish
Parliament of 1790, till he accepted office in 1797.

PARLIAMENT OF 1818.

Date
of retmn.

Name.
Lient-Gen. Sir Oalbndth Lowry Cole, o.an., of^

Ident-Gen. 'Menryn Aichdall. of CaeUe ArehdaU^ ( * ^^^' ^'^®»
oonntj Fermana^ )

Richard Magenis, Esq., aenr., of Cannon BOIA «. «„.. ..,«
Kaidenhead. oonnty Berks, J- 24 June, 1118,

ComtitncnQf.

(Fermanagh
I County.

(EnnlBklllcn
t Boroogh.

MEMOIB.

L— Lieut.-Gen. Hon. Sir G. L. Cole, re-elected
n. — ^Lieut.-Gen. Abchdall, re-elected
IJL— KiGHABD Magenis, Esq., Senb., re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1820.

Dftte
Name. of retunu CosBtitiMiiejr.

tieat-GeiL EHr Galbndth Lowiy Ck>le, O.O.B., of k
Marlbank, comity Fermanarh, •C««m— kiooa \

Lieat-Gen. Mervyn Arobdall, of Castle Ajrchdall^f ^ **W>» **«'• • ]
eoimty Fermanagh, ) iFemumagh

Aimar Lowry Corrj, oommonly called Lord Yia-') \ Coimtj.

eovnt Coiry, of Caatle Coole, oonnty Fermanagh, f o mr.^v « oa* I
Viet Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, appointed Gorer-f * "*'^ ""• * ^
aaroflhaMMiffirtna. )

Richard Magenis, Esq., aenr., of Camion Hill,S iftVa^v «ma (EnnigkiUen
Maidenhead, Beriuhire, .... J "''■"'*• "*®' ' t Borough.

MEMOIR.
I. — Lieut.-General The Hon. Sib G. L. Cole, re-elected*
II. — Ldsut.-Oeneual Aschdall, re-elected.

III. — ^Abmar, Lord Viscount C!orbt.
Yisoount Corry was the eldest son of Somerset, second
Earl of Belmore, by his wife, Lady Juliana Butler, second
daughter of Somerset Hamilton, Esurl of Caorrick. A vacancy
having occurred for Fermanagh about the time of his at-
taining his majority, he left Oxford without graduating, and
after a severe cont^t with Sir Henry Brooke, of Colebrooke,
who ultimately retired, he was returned for the county at
the bye-election of 1823, caused by Sir Lowry Cole's ac^-
ceptance of the Qovemment of the Island of Mauritius.
He was born 24th December, 1801, and married 27th May»
1834, Emily Louise, second daughter and co-heir of William
Shepherd, Esq., of Bradboume, Kent. Of this marriaee were
issue four sons and four daughters, viz. : — Sons : 1. Myself;
2. Rear- Admiral Armar; 3. Frederick, who died in 1855,
at the age of fifteen; 4. Major and Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry of the Coldstream Guards, and of Edwardston,
county Suffolk — sometime MP. for the county Tyrone ; and
daughters : 1 . Lady Louisa, married in 1860 to the late Lieut.-
Colonel Richard Magenis, grandson of the Member for
Enniskillen, in this Parliament ; 2. Lady Mary, died in 1854,
aged thirteen ; 3. Lady Florence, married in 1876 to William '
KW-Eing, Esq., of Staunton, Herefordshire ; and 4. Lady
Emuy, died in 1864, aged twenty. Lord Corry was reelected
to the Parliaments of 1826 and 1830. On the 5th February,
1829, he seconded the address in reply to the King's speech;
and on the 6th March, he spoke briefly on going into Com-
mittee, against the Roman Catholic Disabilities Removal
Bill. He succeeded his father as third Earl of Belmore^
April, 1841, and died 17th December, 1845, aged forty- three.

IV.— Richard Magenis, Esq., Senr., re-elected

•PARLIAMENT OF 1826,

Date
' Kame. of BetoriL Gonsfltnenoy*

General Meiryn Archdall, of Cattle Arohdall,\

oounty FeitDaaaglL ' aa.^ r «««« (Fennamurh

Armar, Lord Vieoonnt Corry, of Castle Coole,f MndJoiie,1896, | connty!
county Fepnanagh. )

^wSSiiSSrf ' '^"' ^- "^ ^'^''''*' ^^} Wti' J«ne. 1836. ^

Arthur Henry Cole, Baq., of Florence Court. coimty\ I BmiiakUien

Fermanagh, vice Biohard Magenis, Esq.. who' .^ - . ,„. f »>fongh.

accepted the SteWluddiip of the Chlltem Hun-f ***** '^®'*" "*•• ^

dreds, county Buoka. )

MEMOIR.

I.-^-GiaTE»AL Archdall, re-elected
11. — ^Viscount Oorry, re-elected.
III.— Richard Maqenis, Esq., re-elected
IV.— The Hon. Arthur Cole.
Mr. Arthur Cole was the fourth son of the first Earl of
Enniskillen. He was bom 28th June,l780, and died unm. in
1844!. He succeeded his brother-in-law, Mr. Magenis, as M P
for Enniskillen, 11th February, 1828.

Lord Comwallis writing to Major-Qeneral Ross, 19th
January, 1801, says of him —

. " 1 shall give the Honourable Arthur dole, Lord EnniskiUen's
youngest son, to whom Mr. Dundas, at my request, has given a
Madras writership, a letter of introduction to you ; . . • . He
is a very fine lad, and modest, and well-behaved."

In a note it is stated —
f " He (Mr. A. Oole) was a very distinguished Civil Servant of
the East India Company, and showed singular firmness and decision
during the Madras mutiny." — CorrmaUis Gorreapondence. voL iii.
p. 333.

PARLIAMENT OF 1830.

Date
^^90^9' of Return. Constitiiener.

MerTynArdidall.E8q.,ofCa«UeArohdaU.co.Fer. ) vwwui««ioy.

Arm^lJ^ ConV. winuninly ladled Vlaixnint J- WthAug..l88a. i ^^^^
Corry, of Castle Coole, county Fermanagh. . J

^;j.2SSb?'!' ^••<>'/><^^«C°'^<«; } 5thAug..l880. { ^^J^

MEMOIR
I.-^Gen£RAL Archdall, re-elected.
II.— Viscount Corry, re-elected.
IIL— Hon. Arthur Cole, re-elected.

85
PARLIAMENT OF 1831.

Date
Nime. ofBetiirn. ComBtltaenoy.

MenrTD Arohd«ll, Esq., of Castle Arohdall, oo. \

Fermanagh, ' lAthMaT laai i ^•™»n^'>

WIDlam Cole, oommonly called Viscount Cole, of ( **™ "*^' **•*» I Oonntj.
Florenoe Court, oo. Fermanagh, . . . /

^^^^^;^'-^^^^^^ ^- } 5thMay.l8«l. { ^SSlSSS^

MEMOIR.
I. — General Abchdall^ re-elected.

n. — ^Viscount Cole.

Viscount Cole, the present Earl of Enniskillen, bom 25th
January, 1807, was the eldest son of John WiUoughby,
second Earl, by his wife, Lady Charlotte Paget. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society, and ll.d., late Colonel Com-
manding, and now Hon-Colonel the Fermanagh Militia ; and
is Imperial Qrand Master of the Orangemen* Lord Ennis-
killen succeeded his father as third Earl 31st March, 1840,
until which time he continued to represent the county.
He married, first, 16th January, 1844, Jane, eldest daughter
and coheiress of James Casamaijor, Esq., aiid by her, who
died 1865, has two surviving sons — 1, Lowry Egerton,
Viscount Cole ; 2, Arthur, married, 1877, Adelaide, dai:^hter
of James Blackwood, Esq., of Melbourne ; and four daumters,
viz. — 1, Lady Charlotte, married, 1875, James Smyth Barry,
Esq.; 2, Lady Florence, Viscountess Crichton; 3, Lady
Alice ; 4j, Lady Jane. He married, secondly, 1865, the Hon,
Emma Brodnck, eldes^t daughter and coheiress of Charles,
sixth Viscount Middleton, but has no issue by her.

III.— The Hon. Arthur Cole, re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1833.

Date
Name. of return. CooBtttuenoy.

Merryn Aiehdall, EBq.,t)f Castle Archdall, county'^

Fermanagh, .
William WiUoughby Cole, oommonly called Via-'

count Cole, of Florenoe Court, county Fermanagh,,
Merryn Archdall, Esq., rejected after accepting-
the Stewardship of tlie Chiltem Hundreda, county >
Bucka* >

19 OeCL, 1882, .

' Fermanagh
County.
- 97 June, 1834,

]■

Arthur Henry Cole, Esq., of Florence Court, oounty) i* n<u. iqao ( EnnisUUen
Fermanagh, ^ 18 uec. 1883, . J ^^^^

MEMOIR
I. — General Mebytn Abchdall, re-elected.
IL — VisooxjNT Cole, re-elected,

« Should be ** elected in place of Qeii«ral Manrja 4n)h4AQ w|ia acf^tod,** &e.

m. — Mervyn Ahchdall, Esq.

Mervyn Archdall, the present head of the family, suc-
ceeded, his uncle, General ArchdaU, in the representation of
the county, shortly after attaining his majority. His father
was Edward Archdall of Riversdale, and ultimately of Castle
Archdall, third son of Colonel Mervyn Archdall, M.P., and
his wife the Hon. Mary Dawson. His mother was Matilda,
daughter of William Humphreys, Esq., of Ballyhaise, county
Cavan. Mervyn Archdall served for some years in the 6th
Enniskillen Dragoons, where he attained the rank of
Captain. He represented the county continuously until the
Qeneral Election of 1874. He married Emma^ daughter of
Jacob Goulding, Esq., who is deceased.

IV.— The Hon. Arthub Cole, re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1835.

Date
Name. of return.

William Willonghby Cole, commonly called Lord)

Viecoimt Cole. V 14 Jan. 1885, .

Mervyn Archdall, Esq., . , . .)

Arthur Henry Cde, Eeq., of Florsnoe Court, coonty) ^ , . g«.
Fermanagh, . • • .f •« • •

MEMOIR

L — ^Viscount Cole, re-elected.
n. — ^Mervtn Archdall, Esq., re-elected.
III.— The Hon. Abthue Cole, re-elected.

Gonstltnenoy.

(Fermanagh
t County.

(EnniflkiUen
t Borough.

PARLIAMENT OF 1837.

Date
Name. of return.

Merryn Archdall, Eaq., of Biyendale, county Fer-\

WUliam Willoughby Cole, commonly called Vls-f ^ ^^^'* ^®'^'

count Cole, of Florence Coort, county Fermanagh,)
Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke, Bart, of Colebrooke,')

r Fermanagh, vice Visooant Cole, called to ^^^ AnriL 1840

ity]

Upper House,

the
Ennialdllen,

^h, vice Viscount Cole, called to f,^ ,
le, as Baron Grinstead, Earl of f'" ^

Arthur Henry Cole, Esq., of Florence Court, county) ,. *„.^ . a,,
Fermanagh, f '^ ''^^* ^^^'

MEMOIR.
I. — ^Mebvtn Aechdall, Esq., re-elected.
II. — ^Viscount Cole, re-elected.

CoDstitnenoy.

^Fermanagh
County.

t Enniskillen
Borough.

EEL— Sir Abthur Brook, Bart.

Sir Arthur Brooke was third but eldest surviving son of
Sir Henry Brooke, of Colebrooke, first baronet of the
second creation. He was great nephew of the Bight Hon.
Sir Arthur Brooke, whose memoir has been akeady given.
Sir Arthur married, in 1841, the Hon. Julia Anson, maid of
honour to the Queen, by whom he had three sons, viz. — ^first,
Sir Victor— second, Harry — third, Arthur Basil, died 1884? ;
and one daughter, (Jonstance, married Colin Campbell, esq.,
of the Royd Scots Greys. Sir Arthur Brooke died 21st
November, 1854.

IV.— The Hon. Arthur Cole, re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 184L

Date
VamA. of Betom. Gonstttiienoy,

Sir Aithnr Brliuley Brooke, Bart., of Colebrooke, •\

M^^l^dali, Esq.; of Blyeradale^ oo.'Fer- ( ^^^^^Y^^U { coonty.

maoagh, J

Arthur Henry Cole, Esq., SthJuly. 1841. {^SSJ^^

Henry Arthur Cole, Esq., of Florenoe Court,')
oounty Fermanagh, yloe Arthur Henry Oole,f ig*,^ j .-^ j^^^

esq., who aooepted the Stewarfahip of the f ""**'"'••"**• ^^'
Chiitem Hundredi, oo. Buoke, , . )

MEMOIR*

I. — Sir Arthur Brooke, re-elected

II. — Mervyn Archdall, re-elected.

IIL— The Hon. Arthur Cole, re-elected.

rV. — The Hon. Henry Arthur Cole.

The Hon. Henry Cole is the second son of the second Earl
of Enniskillen, by his wife. Lady Charlotte Paget, and was
bom 14th February, 1809. He entered the army in 1828
as Comet in the Inniskilling Dragoons. In 1835 he got an
unattached company, and exchanged as Captain into the 7th
Hussars, in which he remained until 1842, when he retired
on half-pay. He remained on the half-pay list for many
years; and on retuing from the army, was granted the
brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, with the right to wear
the uniform. He was for some years Lieutenant-Colonel
of the Fermanagh Militia. Colonel Cole, who is unmarried,
served as Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1834, but resigned in
order to stand for, and was subsequently M.P. for Fer-
managh.

PARLIAMENT OF 1847.

Name.
Mervyn ArohdAll, Esq., of BlTendale, oonaty

Fermanagh, Captaiii in the Tnnt»MiHnj

Pragoona,

Sir Arthur Brindey Brooke, Bart., of Golebrook.

county Fermanagh,

Henry Arthur Cole, Esq., of Florenoeoourt,

oounty Fermanagh,

Jamet Whitetlde, leq., q.gl, vioe Henry Arthur

Cole, Esq., who accepted the Stewardship of

the Chlltem Hundreds, oounty Bucks,
James Whiteside, |Bsq., re-elected after appohit.

meat as SolioitoiwOaieral for IreUnd,

Date
ofBetum.

12th April, 1861.

Coostitaen^f

Fermanagh
County.

Enniskillen
Borough.

Ditto.

. 9th Mar., 1862, Ditto.

JIEMOIR

I. — Oaptain Abchdall, re-elected.

IL — Sm Abthur Brooks, re-elected.

in.— The Hon. Henry Cole, re-elected.

IV.— James WnrrEsiDE, Esq., Q.C.

Mr. Whiteside, the eminent orator and advocate, was the
son of the Rev. William Whiteside. He was called to the
Irish Bar in 1830, and became a Queen's Counsel in 1842,
and a Bencher in ] 852. ' He was the leading counsel for the
defence in the trial of O'Connell, and at a later period was
counsel for Miss Longworth in the celebrated case of Long-
worth V. Yelverton. He entered Parliament for the first
time in 1851, and was appointed Solicitor-General for Ire-
land in the Earl of Derby's first Administration in 1862.
He was appointed Attorney-General for Ireland in Lord
Derby's second Administration in 1858, and Lord Chief
Justice of Ireland on the resignation of Chief Justice Le-
froy, soon after Lord Derby formed his third Ministry in
186G. Mr. Whiteside represented Enniskillen until 1859,
when he retired in order to stand for the University of
Dublin, in place of Mr. George Alexander Hamilton. He
was returned for the University on Uie 11th February, 1859,
and continued to represent it until appointed Lord' Chief
Chief Justice in July, 1866. Mr. Whiteside married
Bosetta, daughter of William Napier, esq., of Belfast, and
sister of the Bight Hon. Joseph Napier, Lord Chancellor of
Ireland ; but bv her (who died 17th March, 1885,) left i^o
issue. Lord Chief Justice Whiteside died in 1876, Afljer

his death a fine statae; by Mr. Bruce J07, was erected in his
memory in St, Patrick's Cathedral, DubUn, by subscription.
Another statue, by T. Woolner, was placed in the Hall of
the Four Courts, Dublio.

PARLIAMENT OF 1852.

Date
Name. of Betrnn. Confltitnenoy.

Uervyn ArohdaU, Esq., of Rivfindala, county Fer-1 ^

Sir Arthur Brinaley Brooke, Bart., of Colebrooke.f "^^ ^^^' *®*^* I Fermanagh
Connty Fennanagh. ) [ County.

^S!?ok1^!^lS;2S.*'*^'^''^^^ •tndDec.l854,J

James Vhtteslde, Esq., the SoUoitor-General for) .^^ . .^ .^.q. (EnulBkiUen
Ireland. f ^^ ^^^* "**• \ Borough.

MEMOIR

I. — Mervyn Abghdall, re-relected.
II. — Sir Arthur Brooke, re-elected.

III.— LlEUT.-COLONEL HON. HeKRY CoLB.

Colonel Cole's memoir has been already given as Member
for Enniskillen.

rv.— James Whiteside, Esq., Q:C., re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1857.

Date
Name. of Betum. Coutitnenoy.

Mervyn Arohdall, Esq., of Caetle Arehdall, County\

Fermanagh. f ^^h ^nvii iak? (Fermanagh

Henry Arthur Cole, Eeq., of Florence Court, County r ^^ ^**"' '^^^^^ \ County.

Fermanagh. )

James Whiteside, Esq., of Mouutjoy-square, Dublin, 38th March, 1867,
James Whiteside, Esq., of Monn^Joy-square, Dublin, )

re-elected after appointment atf Attorney- General • 9th March, 1858,

for Ireland. 3

John Lowry Colo, Esq., vice James Whiteside,')

who accepted the Stewardship of the Manor of 9l8t Feb., 1869,

Hempholme.

MEMOIR
I. — ^Mervyn Archd all, re-elected.
II.— LiEUT.-CoLONEL HoN. HenrtOole, re-electcd.
Ill — James Whiteside, Esq., Q.C re-elected.

Enniskillen
Borough.

IV.— James Whiteside, Esq., Q.O., re-olected.

V. — The Hon. John Lowby Cole.

The Hon. John Cole was the third surviving son of the
second Earl of Enniskillen, by his wife. Lady Charlotte
Paget. He was born 8th June, 1813. He did not enter any
profession, and served as High Sheriff of Fermanagh in L84>2.
He died unmarried 28th November, 1882, having represented
Enniskillen in Parliament from 1859-68.

PARLIAMENT OF 1859.

Date
Name. of Setoni. Coutttoaioy

Henry Arthur Ode, Esq., of Florence Court, Connty )

Fermanagh. f ,... „ ,^-. (Fermanafh

Merryn Archdall, Egq.. of Oasde Arehdall. County f "™ "*5^' ^®*®' \ County.
Fennanagh. )

John Lowry Cole, Esq 8rd May, 1859, EnnlakiUen

Borough.

MEMOIR.
L — Hon. Henbt Ck)LE, re-elected.
II,_Mkrvyn Archdall, Esq., re-elected.
IIL — Hon. John Cole, re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1865,

Date
Name. of Return. Constitueney.

Merryn Arehdall, Esq.. of Castle Archdall, County)

Henry Arthur Cole, Eeq., of Florence Court, County f 18tl» J'lly. W««. { ^^S!^^
Fennanagh. )

John Lowry Cole. Esq. Ktb July, 1865, EnniskiUeti

Borough.

MEMOIR.

I. — Mervtn Archdall, Esq., re-elected.
IL— Hon. Henrt Cole, re-elected.
III. — Hon. John Oole, re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1868.

Not., 1868»

Name.
Meiryn Arohdall, Esq., of Caatle Archdall, ooonij^

Femuuiagb, . J

Henry Arthnr Cole, Esq., of Florence Coart» eonnty

rftmmniMrn, . • • •

John Henry, oommonly ealled Viaoonnt Gridhton, 18 No7., 1868,

MEMOIR.

Date
of retnm. Ck>n8tita6noy.

tjj"

(Fermanagh
X County.

EnnUklUen
Borough.

I. — Mervyn Abchdall, Esq., re-elected.

IL— The Hon. Henby Cole, re-elected.

III. — Viscount Crichton.
Viscount Crichton is the eldest son of John, third Earl
of Erne by his wife Selina, second daughter of the Bev.
Charles Cobbe Beresford, formerly rector of Termonmaguirk,
county Tyrone. Lord Crichton was bom 16th October,
1839, and married 28th December, 1870, Lady Florence
Cole, second daughter of the present and third Earl of
Enniskillen. He was appointed a Lord of the Treasury,
in Mr. Disraeli's second administration, in 1876, and held
office until 1880. In the latter year he was elected M.P,
for Fermanagh, and is now one of the sitting members for
the county.

PARLIAMENT OF 1874.

Bate
of retom.

18 Feb., 1874,

CooBtltveiioy.

fFermanagh

* ( County.

(EnniBklllen

* ( Borough.

jEnnlBkiUen:
' ( Borough.

Name.
Wlltiam HimiphreyB Arohdall, Bmi., of BiTendale.'

county Fermanagh, . ....

Colonel Henry Arthur Cole, of Florence Court,

county Fermanagh, .
John Henry Crichton, commonly called Viscount) ^ p.m. .,...

Crichton, of Crone Cartle, county Fermanagh, .i * '•"• ^^^*'
John Henry Crichton, oommonly called Vlfloount\

Crichton, of Crone Castle, county Fermanagh, re-f . . » . ....

elected after appointment as one of the Lord^sr ^^ '®° * ^^^"

Commissioners of the Treasury, . . J

MEMOIR.
L — ^William Humphhets Aechdall, Esq.

William Arohdall is the second son of the late Edward
Archdall, esq., of Riversdale and Castle Archdall, by his
wife Matilda, daughter of William Humphreys, esq., of
Ballyhaise. He was bom in 1814, and married in 1846,

Emily, eldest daughter of the late Hon. and Rev. Charles
Mauae, rector of Enniskillen, and Ki'and-daughter of the
first Viscount Hawarden, by whom he has no issue. Mr.
William Archdall served as Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1845,
and for Tyrone, in 1861. He is now one of the sitting
members for the county of Fermanagh.

XL— The Hon. Henbt C!ole, re-elected.
III. — ^Viscount Cmohton, re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1880.

Dftte
Nune. of retom. Contlltaeney.

William HnmphreyB Archdall, . . ( The Parliamentary Retaml x.--„.«.-fc

John Henry, commonly called Viscount ( ends with the Parliament "i^S^J!!*"

Crichton, , i of 1874. The retnms most }. «>«»ty.

Lowry Egerton, commonly called Vis- j have been made in April, 1 Enniakillen

count Cole, . . ^ \^ 1880. J borouj^

MEMOIR.

I. — William Humphbets Archdall, Esq., re-elected.

II. — ^Viscount Ceichton.

Lord Crichton's memoir has been already given, as
member for Enniskillen.

ni.— Viscount Cole,

Viscount Cole, is the second but eldest surviving son of
tihe present and third Earl of Enniskillen, by his wne Jane,
eldest daughter and co-heiress of the late James Casamaijor,
esq. He was bom 21st December, 1845, and served in the
Rifle Brigade. He married, 12th July, 1869, Charlotte
Marion, daughter and co-heiress of the late Douglas Baird,
esq., of Closebum county Drumfries. lK)rd Cole is now
the sitting member for Enniakillen.

APPENDIX L

HIGH SHERIFFS, COUNTY FERMANAGH.

This list is imperfect at the beginning. The earlier
Sheriffs can only be made out with considerable difficulty,
and until the year 1655, a degree of uncertainty attaches to
the list. At iu*st the office seems to have been imposed by
tiie authorities at Dublin Castle, and the same Sheriff
often continued for many years. Officials from Dublin
seem to. have been appointed also at first. In the following
list the spelling of the names< has been modernized, thus,
Creighton is given as Crichto^i — ^Rhynde as Rynd, &c., &ci

In 1605. Shane'MeHngh.
„ 1606, Edmond Bllia.
„ 1607, James Plunket, he mn again

Sheriff in 1609 and 1613.
„ 1608 and 161A, WUliam Cole, again in

1633,l697(a8 Str WUliam Cole).
„ 1610, Thomas Brown.
*„ 1611, Boger Atkinson, also In 1614,

1619, 1630, 1691, 1684.
„ 1618, Thomas Flowerdewe.
„ 1614, Edward Sibthorpe ; Boger

Atkinson.*

In 1616, John Arehdale.
„ 1639, Saml. Blennerhasset.
„ 1694, Samuel Haylea, also previoasly,
„ 1635, Sir John Wemyss.
H 1696, Sir John Dunbar, again in 1683.
„ 1639, Arthur Campion.
„ 1640, Michael Cole
„ 1641, George .Qasooignok
„ 1649, Stephen Allen.
„ 1643, Bryan Stapleton^
„ 1646, Thomaa Coote.

The Regular List begins only from the year 1655.

In 1665, Nicholas Willoughby.
„ 1656, Thomas Coote; Nicholas Wil-
loughby.
„ 1657, Nicholas Willoughby.
„ 1658, Henry Blennerhasset.
,. 1659, William Darye.
„ 1660, WUUam Davys.
„ 1661, Henry Blennerhasset
„ 1669, Sir John Hume, Bart
„ 1668, Nicholas Willoughby.
„ 1664, James Caldwell.
„ 1665, Gilbert Bodes.
,; 1666, John Conry.
„ 1667, WUUam Arehdale.
„ 1668, Sir WilUam Gore,
n 1660, Sir Henry Brooke, Knt
„ 1670, Michael Cola
„ 1671, James Corry.
„ 1673, Gerard Ir?ine.
„ 1678, Abraham Crlchton.
„ 1674, Henry H^slett, or Hassettt
„ 1675, panlel Eceles.
„ 1676, Jason Hassard.
,, 1677, James Caldwell.

In 1679, Walter Johnston.
„ 1680, James Somenrilla
„ 1681, William Irrine.
„ 1689, David Rynd.
„ 1688, John Criohton.
M 1^84, Lancelot Carleton.
H 1685, Hugh Montgomery.
„ 1686, Michael Cole.
„ 1687, Coconnaght Magulfe.
„ 1688, Coconfaaght Ma^nire.
„ 1689, Christopher Irvine.
„ 1690, Christopher Irvine.
„ 1691, George Buchanan.
„ 1699, William Arehdale.
„ 1698, Henry Caldwell
„ 1694, William ElUott
„ 1695, Jason Haward.
H 1696, Gilbert Ecdea.
„ 1697, Edward Davys.
„ 1698, GUbert Eceles.
„ 1609, Lancelot Carleton.
„ 1700, Charles Wallis.
„ 1701, Sir Gustavus Hume, Bail
„ 1709, Hugh Montgomery.
„ 1708, Alexander Acttesoh.

„ 1678, Ferdinand Davys.

* On 37th June, 1615, Gormiok MaoBedmond Moyle Maguire. swore en <
tlon, that in harvest last, he being Bailiff receiver to Captain AtUnaonv t^e High
Sheriff of the odunty of Fermanagh, saw and heard so-and-so. OaL&F; 1016-35,
p. 79.

f Blennerhasset This name was sometimes abbreviated

1 1704, Allen Catboart

, 1705, AV alter Johnston.

, 1706, John Cilohton.

, 1707, Junee Johniton.

> 1708, John Bynd.

, 1709, Henry Brooke.

» 1710, Samuel Madden.

, 1711, John Cony.

. 1712, Joseph Ecdes.

, 1713, Hugh Montgomery.

, 1714, Merryn Arohdale.

» 1715. John Crichton.

» 1716, Christopher Irvine.

, 1717, James Johnston.

, 1718. Guy Carleton.

, 1710, Bohert Hassard.

, 1730. Nicholas Ward.

, 1721, Henry Greene.

, 1722, Edward Archdale.

, 172S, Nicholas Montgomery.

, 1724, John Cole.

. 1725. Christopher Inrine.

, 1726, Daniel Ecdes.

, 1727, John Enery.

, 1728, James King.

, 1720, Hugh Montgomery.

. 1780, Sir John Caldwell, Bart

, 17S1, Francis Johnston.

, 1782, Francis Johnst4>n.

, 1788, John Cole.

, 1784, Christopher Inrine.

, 1785, Jason Crawford.

, 1786, William Smyth.

, 1787, Leslie Conry.

, 1738, Henry Crawford.

, 1789, James Crawford.

, 1740, John Hamilton.

, 1741, Balph Crawford.

, 1742,MargetsonArmar.

, 1748, Gecnge Nixon.

, 1744, George Yanghan.

. 1745, Dayid Bynd.

, 1746, Sir St. George Gore St Geoige,

Bart
, 1747, Edward Smyth.
t 1748, Jason Hassard.
, 1749. Samuel Molynenz Madden.
, 1750, Bohert Ecdes.
, 1751, George Dunhar.
, 1752, Arthur Brooke.
, 1758, James Thompson.
, 1754, John Conlson.
, 1755, James Nohle.
, 1756, Sir James Caldwdl, Bart
, 1757, William Townley Balfour.
, 1758, William Irvine.
, 1759, Andrew Crawford.
, 1760. Shr Balph Gore, Bart
, 1761, Alexander Nixon.
, 1762, Alexander Crawford.
» 1768, John Irvine.
, 1764, John Enery.
, 1765, John Crosier.
, 1766, Edward Madden.
, 1767, Arthur Cooper.
, 1768, Joseph HaU.
. 1769, Hugh Montgomery.
. 1770, John Coulson.
, 1771, Jason Hassard.
, 1779, William Hassard.
, 1778, Menrys ArohdaU.

In 1774, Hon. Abraham Criditon.

.. 177A. Henry Bicbardson.

„ 177<i, Alexander Gordon.

„ 1777, Edward Barton.

M 1778. Hon. Arthur Cole.

„ 1779. Armar Lowry Corry.

., 1780, Hugh Maguire.

„ 1781, Andrew Johnston.

„ 1782, John M'Clintodc.

„ 1788, John Bichardaon.

„ 1784, Humphrey Nixon.

„ 1786, George Nixon.

„ 1786, Francis Brooke.

„ 1787, William Barton.

„ 1788, John Johnston.

N 1780, Ambrose Upton.

n 1790, Biohard Irwin.

„ 1791, John ArmstroBig.

„ 1792. Eyles Irwin; William O'Brien.

., 1798, Samud Madden.

„ 1794, WiUiam Tredennidk.

„ 1795. John Watkins.

„ 1796, Bobert Wdr.

„ 1797, John Moutray Jones.

„ 1798, Sir John Caldwell, Bart

„ 1799. Hamilton Irvine.

„ 1800, Andrew Nixon.

„ 1801, John King.

„ 1802, James King.

„ 1808, Gerard Irvine.

„ 1804, George Nixon.

„ 1805, John Bicbardson.

„ 1806, Samud Lyle ; George Lendrom.

„ 1807, George Ledie.

„ 1808, John Madden.

H 1809, Humphrey Stewart Nixon.

„ 1810, James Auchinleck.

„ 1811, Christopher L'Estrange.

M 1812, John Aiken.

,. 1818, Edward ArdidaU.

„ 1814, Hon. John Crichton.

„ 1815. Jamas Denham.

„ 1816, Bichard Dane.

„ 1817, Andrew Crawford.

„ 1818, George Hassard.

n 1819, John Irvine.

„ 1820, William D'Aroy Irvine.

„ 1821, John A. Tredennick.

M 1822, Charles D. Madden.

„ 1828, Edward Denny.

„ 1824, Michad Jones.

H 1825, John Colpoys Bloomfidd.

„ 1826, John Mayne.

,. 1827, John Crichton.

„ 1828, Sir Henry Brooke, Bart

„ 1829, Ambrose Upton Gledstanes.

„ 1880. Alexander FitsGerald Crawford

„ 1831, Arthur B. Brooke.

„ 1882, Lord Viscount Corry.

„ 1888, Henry M. Bicbardson.

,. 1884, FoUioU W. Barton.

„ 1885, James Lendrum.

,. 1886, William Hall.

., 1887, Hugh WiUiam Barton,

„ 1888. George Hassard.

„ 1889, John Brien.

„ 1840, Simon Armstrong.

„ 1841, Alexander Nixon; James

Johnston.
„ 1843, Hon. John L. Cole.
„ 1848, Bichard Hall.

In 1844, John Q. V. Porter.

tnl866,

H 184S, William AralkdalL

n 1867,

» 1844, Jolm NettarriUe Biake.

„ 1868,

, 1847. Capel 8t George.

.. 18«9,

u 1848, John Madden.

.. 1870,

M 1849, Paol Dane.

n 1871.

M 18M, Thomas Hamilton Jones.

„ 1851, William Jones.

H 1879,

H 1859, John Gerard Irrine.

.. 1878,

n 1858, James Halre.

„ 1854, Hon. Heuy Arthur Cole ; Hon.

„ 1874,

Henry Carendish Boaer.

« 1875,

n 1855, Bobert Collins.

„ 1876.

„ 1856, George F. Brooke.

n 1877.

w 1857, Hon. Hemy Criehton.

., 1878,

H 1858. Franeis J. Graham.

n 1870,

n 1880,

„ 1860, Edward Maguirei

« 1881.

n 1861, Nioholas M. ArehdalL

n 1889,

„ 1869, Edward Irwin.

„ 1888.

» 1868, Charles R. Barton.

H 1864, Lord Visoonnt Cridhton.

„ 1884,

,» 1865, John Brady.

,. 1885,

» Alexander W. Bailey.

> Sir Viotor A. Brooke. Bart
, John M. A. C. Blehardun.
, John Dawson Brien.
, Lord '^nacoont Cole.
, Hugh De Fellenhiirgh Mont-
gomery.

, Edward ArehdalL

. Sir WilUam Emerson Tennant,

Bart
, John C. Bloomfleld.
, Gooige C. Lendmm.
, George Carleton UEstrange.
, Bobert Edgeworth Johnston.
. William Collnm.
, Merryn Arehdale.
I, Bobert Hassard.
, Peter L. Peaooeke.
, Thomas Teeran.
.John Porter Porter (fonnerly

John Porter Arohdale)

> Edward M. Arohdale.
» William D'Aroy Irrine.

APPENDIX IL

The following account of the Plantation of the Barony of
Lurg,&c.,has been compiled for me by the Kev. Christopher
• Irvine.

At the Plantation of Ulster deven out of the eight baronies
constitutuig the coimtj Fermanagh, were distributed amongst the
three classes of settlers to whom grants of lands from the Grown
were given, vi& : — Natives, Sei^itors, or those holding offices
under Govenmient, and Undertakers. The Undertakers were
selected from Hsts of applicants f(6r lands in England and Scotland,
hnd were bound under very strin^nt conditions. On this aocoimt
oertaih baronies were selected foi^ them exclusively — the baronies
of Lurg and Glankelly for English — and those of Magheraboy and
Enockninny for Scotch Undertakers. The other baronies, Clan-
awley, Tirkennedj, and Coole, were allocated to Natives and
Servitors indiscriminately. The exempted barony, that of Maghera-
Stephana, had been reserved for Connor Roe MacGuire, the loyal
representative of the MacGuires, the ancient lords of the county.*
In oonveyiog the several baronies to the settlers, church lands
and grants, abbey lands, school and college grants, d^x, were

In arranging the lands for allocation to the Undertakers, they
were grouped into proportions of three sizes — large (2,000 acres
arable), middle (1,500), and small (1,000) — which were consti-
tuted into manors by the letters patent granted to the settlers.
But this division was in great measure only nominal, and was soon
broken in upon — many portions of land of different sizes were
found not included in any of the original proportional grants, and
these were generally granted to neighbouring imdertakers. The
undertakers were not permitted to select their own locations, but
had to accept whatever lands were (gpranted to them. Many were
therefore r^y to sell their portions, while others who wished to
settle, preferred to select their own locality by purchasing from
the original undertaker& Thus the threefold division of property
was not adhered to. According to the terms of the tenure by
which each undertaker received lands they were bound to keep so
many men armed for the King's service according to a regulated
schedule. " Every undertaker of 500 acres of escheated lands ifl
tied to have in readiness in his house upon the said land for his
own defence and the King's service, 3 muskets and calivers,

« HiB successor Brian Maguire, Lord Baron of Enniskillenf dying lOth SepL^
1688, ivas succeeded by his son again, Connor, the celebrated Lord Maguire, who,
for taking a leading part in the Bebellion of 1641, suffered confiscation. Another
Brian Hf^pute, descendant of the great Guconnaght Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh,
hdd a large grant of lands in Tirkennedy barony, as a native^ and dying 24 April,
1666, was succeeded there by his grandson (nepos) Cnconnaght, who joined King
James IL, and was his sheriff for Fermanagh, in 1687 and 1688. [Inq., Ulst, Ferm.
e Sept, 1689, and 1 Feb., 18 Car. U., quotid mbte^ueiUfy/or brevUp a$ Ultonia].

S hand-weapons, to furnish 6 men. Every undertaker ' of
1,000 acres, 6 muskets and calivers, 6 hand-weapons, to arm 12
men. Every undertaker of 2,000 acres, 12 muskets, <kc., 12
hand-weapons, to arm 2i men. Every undertaker of 890 acres,
5 muskets, dzc, 5 hand- weapons to arm 10 men, dsc."*

In the distribution of precincts for English undertakers (to be
settled in the two baronies selected for them), the following names
were chosen from the lists of approved applicants, viz. : —

Sii* Edward Blennerhasset, knt., for a large proportion (2,000
acres).

Thomas Blennerhasset, esq., for a large proportion (2,000 acres).
These were to be located in the barony of Clankelly.

Thomas Flowerdew, esq., for a lai'ge proportion (2,000 acres).

Edward Ward, gent., for a small proportion (1,000 acres).

Henry Hnnnings, esq., for do.

Thomas Barton, esq., for do.

John Sedborongh, esq., for do.

Eobert Oalvert, gent., for do.

Eobert Boggas, gent, for do.

John ArchdaLe, gent,, for do.

These were to be located in the barony of Lorg or Coolmao-
keinan, which was supposed to contain one great and seven small
proportions.t

The barony of Lurg consisted of the two half-baronies of Lurg
in the north, and of Goolmackeman in the south. At the actual
distribution it was found to consist of two middle proportions and
six smalL The two middle proportions were granted to Sir
Edward and Thomas Blennerhasset, and as they had been promised
two large ones, to make up their amount one of the other small
proportions, which Fynnar states was originally given to John
Thurston, was divided between them. These grants comprised
the north of the barony, or Lurg proper. The other five propor-
tions, situated in Coolmackeman, were distributed (in order from
north to south) to John Archdale, Henry Hunnings, Edward
Ward, Thomas Barton, and Thomas Flowerdew. As Thomas
Flowerdew had been promised a large proportion — ^to make up for
his having received only a small one in Lurg, he was allotted
another small proportion in Clankelly, that of Lysresk, which was
constituted into the manor of Shanoke. The remaining names on
the list^ John Sedborough, Bobert Calvert, and Robert Boggas,
were provided with small proportions in Clankelly, which barony,

* Bales of the Plantotion recorded in the Commission to Captain N. Pynnar, Ac
t Calendar of Stote Papers, James I., 1611 to 1614, page 201, No. 884.
At page 815, No. 606, their resideoces in England are given as;— John Archdale
of Danham, Suffolk { Thomas Flowerdew, of Hetberset, Norfolk ; Thomas Blen-
nerhasset, of Horsford, Norfolk; Henry Honnings, of Darsham, Suffolk ; also John
Thurston, of Hoxson, Suffolk. The latter was intended for a grant but did not
finally receive one. The list is given agnin in the Calendar of State Papers, 1606 Ui
1610, page 548, No. 948.

with the additional grant of a small proportion to Sir Hugh
Worrall, knt., was also thus exhausted.

The proportions or manors in Luig were as follows : —

L — Baitkaghmobb.

This manor extended from Belleek along the borders of the
county to the river Bannagh. It was granted to Sir Edward
Blennerhasset^ by letters patent, 3rd July, 1610. It included
the islands in tiie north of Loch Erne, the Boa Island^ and
those adjoining, viz., Lustymore, Oroneimsh, Inishtowirch,
<fec.* In the account of this proportion, 22nd September, 1611, it
appears that Sir Edward did not himself settle there, but Ms son
fSuncis did, who " was agent for his father there, "f In this pro-
portion there was found a parcel of lands not included in the
grant, and so Francis Blennerhasset obtained a fresh grant of tUs
parcel or portion under the conditions of the plantation, " to have
each parcel of land furnished with a musket or caUver and a hand
weapon, to arm two men, Ac^** dated 25th March, 1619, or 17
James I4 Pynnar, in his survey, describes upon this proportion
'^a strong bawne" and a ''stone house," all finished, JBVancis
Blennerhasset and his family dwelling in it.§ He found planted
and estated upon the land, in all, twenty-two British fieunilies, in-
cluding four freeholders, who, with their under-tenants, were able
to make forty men and " store of arms in his house." This house
seems to have been the original castle, now called Castle Caldwell.
According to Pynnar, Francis Blennerhasset had bmlt ** a village
near unto the bawnu, consisting of nine houses of good cage-work."
This village probably gave place to the present village of Belleek.

IL — ^Edebnaoh, or Eoerkey.
It extended from the previous proportion eastward and
souTihward, including the islands of Downinishbane or White
Island, kc It was granted to Thomas Blennerhasset, esq.,
30th June, 1610.|| In 1611 it was found that Thomas
Blennerhasset had arrived to settle, and " has with him six
persons, one a joiner, another a carpenter, and three other
workmen, with one tenant."ir In this proportion there were
found two portions or parcels of lands not included in the original
grant. These were made over to Thomas Blennerhasset ia two

* CaleDdar Patent Bolls, Irish Chiancery, page 164 (8th James I.) AH these
grants were subject to a stated rent due to the CrowUi and to be held liable to the
conditions, &c., of the plantation.

t Calendar of SUte Papers, James I., 1611 to 1614, page 105, No. 286,
Carew MS.

I Calendar of Patent Bolls, Irish Chancery, 17th James I., page 42& In-
quis Ultonia, Charles I. (81).

§ The dimensions of these bawns and castles are given f uUj in Pynnar and the
1 Muis. Ultonia.

fl Calendar of Patent BoUa, Irish Chancery, James L, page 168, 8th James L,
Parti.

% Calendar of Sute Papen, James I., 1611 to 1614, page 105, No. 28G.

grants, for one of wliich no rent was to be charged, SOth June,
1615.* Pynnar found here a bawn of stone, and within the
bawn a house, his wife and family living therein. " He hath
begun a church.t He hath also a small village, consisting of six
houses built of qage-work, inhabited with English." This village
was Kesh, and iSie residence Grevenish Castle. Pjnnar states
that he foui|i four freeholders on the land, total seven families,
British, who, with their under-tenants, can make twenty-six
men.

IIL — ^TOLMACKBW.

This proportion lay next Edemagh, and was divided,
Sir Edward Blennerhsususet receiving half of it, and Thomas
Blennerhasset the other. These grants were included in the
patents of their original grants, t But Sir Edward's portion seems
to have been soon dispos^ of, and probably the whole proportion
came to be included in Thomas Bleimerhasset's estate.

rV. — ^TALLAKAfin.

This proportion, including the island of Orevinish-aghey, lying
south of the previous ones, was conveyed by letters patent to
John Archdale, esq., 13th July, 161 2.§ Though the patent
was thus issued in 1612, he must have received this grant at the
distribution in 1610, as in the account of the Plantation of the
year 1611 the grant is mentioned, ''John Archdale, 1,000 acres,
nothing done " || In the letters patent, his proportion is consti-
tuted into the manor Ajrchdale. In the patents of 1610, the name
of the manor is identical with that of the proportion, but in those
of 1612, the manor is named from the undertaker. In this pro-
portion there was also found a parcel of land not included in the
original grant, which was conveyed to John Archdale, by patent^
14th June, 1617. IT Pynnar states that there was erected by
John Archdale, at the time of his survey, a stone bawn with a
house in the bawn — ''himself and his family there resident."

* Calendar of Patent Rolls, Irish Chancery, 18th James I., Part I, page 288.
Inqnis. Ultonia, Charles I. (2) at Creyenish, 4th April, 4th Charles L ''There
was also a certain tate called Farrarell adjoining the said proportion of Edemagh,
of which no grant was ever made hy either Ki£g James I. or Charles I.*

t It appears from Ultonia, inquisition taken at Crevenish, 4th April, 4th
Charles I., that this church was a chapel huilt within the precincts of the castle.
The old parish churches were dilapidated, and in building new churches it was not
unusual at first, for greater safety, to erect chapels of this kind ** capella sive
ecclesia. ** consecrated, adjoining the castle. The chapel at CKvenish ip still recog-
nized as a burying place for a few families.

t Calendar Patent Rolls, Irish Chancery, pages 168, 164 ; 8 James I.,
Parti.

§ Calendar of Patent Rolls, Irish Chancery, page 288, 10th James L

II Calendar of State Papers James I. 1611 to 1614, page 123.

^ Calendar of Patent Rolls, Irish Chancery, James I., paL^e 824, subject to flie
conditions of the Plantation and a Crown Rent. John Archdale also acquired in
1617 the proportion of Dromra, in the Barony of Magheraboy, from James
Hamilton, who had acquired it from James Oibbs, the original undertaker.
These grants expressly stated that the lands were to be held in common soccage,
and not under the burdensome tenure described **in capite*' or "by knights
service,*' Ultonia Inquis., at Enniskillen, 27th April, 1628 (7).

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He fomid planted, and estated on this land of British families
twenty (of whom six were freeholders) able to make forty-two
men. Pynnar also states that John Archdale " has a watermill,
and in two several places of his land he hath made two villages
consisting of 8 houses apiece.'* It is impossible to know what
villages Pynnar here refers to as none such existed subsequently.*

V. — Neearnet.

This proportion was at £rst conveyed to Edward Warde, gent.,
by grant dated 13th May, 1611 (9th James I.) f From him coi^
veyed on 7th June, 1611 to Edmond Sutton, son and heir of
Therrington (Harrington) Sutton, esq., of Kallam, I^otting-
ham. From him tlmnigh Thomas Barton in 1613, to Gerard
Lowther, Judge of the Common Pleas, Ireland. % The account
of this proportion in 1611 states — "Edward Warde, 1,000 acres,
has not appeared nor any for him, nothing done."§ P^nnar's
account has been already given above.

VL — Dbomtkshik.

This proportion, including the island of Inishclare, was con-
veyed first to Thomas Barton, of Norwich, 27ih September,
1610, II and by him in different parcels to several purchasers at
different dates, viz. : —

1. 31st August, 1613, to Christopher Irvine, Lettermore, <bc.

2. 6th September, 1613, to Lancelot Carleton, Kossfad, &c

3. 17th June, 1615, to Gerard Lowther, Druminshhi (the
whole proportion with exception of the parts here mentioned).

4. 17th May, 1616, to Henry Flower, Rossclare (came after-
wards to Gerard Lowther).

5. 2nd June, 1618, to Henry Lord FfoUiott^ Sydare, &c.1f

Gerard Lowther, Lancelot Carleton, and Christopher Irvine
were from the Borders of England and Scotland; and being
connected by marriage, they acquired these lands together in the
same locality, by pui^ase from Thomas Barton, in 1613.

•At the Inquisition held in Enniakillen 27th April, 1629, it wafi^found that
John Archdale had built a atone bawne on the tate of Killonure and " a Castell or
Capital measuage adjoining to the aforesaid Bawne." The tenure is " in fee and
common soccage and not in capite nor in ioccage in capite nor by knight's servioe."

t The Grant of this Proportion is not included in the Irish Chancery Calendar
of Patent Rolls— it must have been therefore entered in the English Chancery at
London-^which was the case with many original grants. A confused reference
is given in the Calendar of State Papers, 1611 to 1614, page 817, No. 608:—
"Patents already enrolled in Ireland "—amongst others, "Edward Ward of
Hairington Sutton, Nakamey, 1000 acres."

% Ultonia Inquis. at Enniskillen, 10th April, 6th Charles I. (15>

§CaL State Papers— 1611 to 1614, page 128.

ilThe grant of this proportion also is noi included in the published Irish
Chancery Calendar of Patent BoUs, it must have also been entered in England.

^ Ultonia Inquis. at Enniskillen, 10th April, Gth Charles I. (15). Ultonia
Inquis. at Bath, 8rd January, 18th Jamea I. (2).

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The two proportions of Nekamey and Druminshin, having
come (parts mentioned excepted) into th^ hands of Qerard Low-
ther, he obtained a patent, dated 20th February, 1618, constituting
these two manors into a manor of Lowtherstown or Lowther,
with licence vo hold a weekly market on Tuesday, at Lowtherstown,
and two fairs^ one on the 1st and 2nd May and the otlier on the
15th and iBth August. * A fuller account of Gerard Lowther
is given at the end of this note.

Lancelot Carleton was a younger son of Thomas Carleton
of Carleton Hall, Cumberland. "Carleton Hall is the ancient
Manor House of the Family of Carletons, who appear to have
settled here soon after the Conquest." f La Dugdcde's visitation^
1665, the family is traced through seven generations of "Thomas
Carletons " to Sir Thomas, who, dying without issue in 1638, was
succeeded by his next brother Gerard Carleton's line, which
became extinct in 1707, when Carleton Hall was sold. Lancelot
Carleton of Rossfad, dying 1st October, 1619, was succeeded by
Thomas Carleton, and he again by Lancelot Carleton, who married
Marian or Mary, daughter of Christopher Lrvine and widow of
Andrew Johnston, of Beirholme, Co. Dimifries. Prom them is
derived the family of Richardson of RossflEui (the present owner
Lt-CoL John Richardson being seventh in descent from them),
through a female heiress, Jane, daughter of Major Guy Carleton, of
Rossfad, High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1718. From Christopher
Carleton, Major Guy's next brother, Lord Dorchester is descended.

Christopher Irvine also acquired from Thomas Barton, by pur-
chase, the lands of Coolgarren, &c. These lands formed originally
part of the manor or proportion of Drumkeen, or Newpirton, in
the Barony of Tyrkennedy, which had been granted to Lord
Folliott as a servitor,J the Barony of Tyrkennedy being one of
those allocated to servitors and natives. Lord Folliott had
exchanged these lands with Thomas Barton for another parcel of
lands forming a portion of the Manor of Druminshin.§ The
two proportions of Druminshin in Coolemackeman, and of Drum-
keen, in Tirkennedy, not only bordered but interlapped each
other, and the boundaries were rectified by transferring lands
from the Manor of Druminshin, in Lurg, to the Barony of Tyr-
kennedy. A^ the lands in Tyrkennedy which Thomas Barton
had received in exchange from Lord Folliott were conveyed to
Christopher Lrvine, he came thus under the less stringent con-
ditions applicable to the baronies allocated to servitors. And as

* Calendar of Patent Rolls, Irish Cbancerj, James I., page 860.
t History of Cumberland by William Hutchinson, page 840.
X *' Sir Henry Folliott has the government at Ballyshannon by letters patent.
It is continued in the establishment, with the fee of ten shillings per diem. There
is under this government the whole county Fermanagh.** Calendar of State
Papers, James L, 1606 to 1608, p. 402.

§ 2nd June, 1618, Henry, Lord Folliott, exchanged the lands of Coolegarren, &e.,
with Thomas Barton, who hi exchange conveyed the lands of Dmmurer, &c.,
paroels of the proportion of Druminshin. Ultonia, Fermanagh, Inquis. (2), 8rd
Janiury, 18th Jamea I. Inqnia. (4), 27tb February, 1622.

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the lands in Druminshin which he had previously acquired from
Thomas Barton (Letteimore, &c.) adjoined and were intercepted
by these lands in Tirkennedy, they (dso were now included in the
Barony of Tirkennedy ; so he was not subject to the conditions of
the Plantation in respect of these lands, which were no longer
reckoned to the undertakers' Barony of Lurg or Goolmackeman.

Vn. — ^ROSSGWIBB.

This proportion (including the Islands of Gorwullen, Inish-
divaue, and Inishdoney) was granted to Thomas Flowerdew, 17th
June, 1610.* In 1 61 1 Thomas Flowerdew is described as resident.
" He has brought over two freeholders, and five copyholders, and
has cast a trench about an old * rath,' and is buUdu^ an English
house, &c."t He probably settled on his proportion in Clankelly;
as he seems to have neglected that in Luig, and to have disposed
of it as far as he could to Gerard Lowther and Ohristopher Irvina

Adjoining this proportion, there was a parcel of lands that had
not been included in any grant. These were conveyed now to
Thomas Barton, by letters patent, dated 10th January, 1616^
This portion of land was purchased from him by Christopher
Irvine, who by the conditions of his tenure became bound " to
keep fourr able men att all tymes dwelling uppon the premises to
be in a readiness for his Majesty's Service and to be trayned and
serve in all musters, and findmge, and havinge allways in a
readiness upon the premises two corselettes, two pikes, two muskets,
or two calliversy with furniture to arme fouiT men withalL''§

VIII. — DOWBOSSB.

This proportion was granted to Henry Honnynge or Hunning,
by patent, dated 28th October, 1612, constituting it into the
manor of Honnynge, with a market on Saturday in the town of
Hunning (lisnaiick), and a fair annually on the 24th March and
the day after.|| In 1 61 1 " Henry Gunning (Hunning), 1 ,000 acres,
has taken possession, but done nothing ; "IF so that he must have
received this grant in 1610, though the patent was issued only

* Calendar of Patent Bolls, Irish Chancery, 8th James L, page 167.

t Calendar of Sute Papers, James I., 1611 to 1614, page 128.

t Calendar of Patent Kolls, Irish Chancery, 14th James I., page 809. Part 2,
Till, 9. King James I. seized of the lands of Bnnnanedullagh, &c, by letters
patent, dated 10th January, 18th James I., conveyed them to Thomas Barton, to
be held by fealty only, in fee, and common soccage, and not in capite, nor in
•oocage in capita, nor by knights service, &c This parcel was granted under
the usual conditions prescribed for Undertakers, and subject to a Crown->rent.
Ultonia Inquis, at KnntskiUen, 10th April, 6th Charles I. Thomas Barton was
enabled to procure this grant the more readily as an approved Undertaker, but he
took it out only to dispose of it to Christopher Irvine.

8 Quoted in snbeeqnent Deeds. Castle Irvine Records.

I Calendar of Patent BoUa, Irish Chancery, 14 James I., page 802; xiz., II.

IT Calendar of State Papers, at above.

lOS

in 1612. Pynnar found this proportion possessed by Edward
Sibihorpe and Heniy Flower. He found on it a bawn of stone,
but no house. *^ Near to the Bawne there is built a village in
which there are 14 houses, inhabited with English families, but I
saw not their Estates, for the Undertakers were out of the country,
and none to bring them together." The village here referz^ed to
was lisnarogge, now Lisnarick.

A commission was issued in 1624 to see how far the several
undertakers had complied with the conditions of their tenure
in setting theii* lands only to British tenants. The following is
the Betum of the Barony of Lurge, made at an Inquisition
taken at Enniskillen on the last day of February, 1623 (1624),
before Sir Paul €k)re, Captain Roger Atkinson, and others (follow-
ing the proportions in the above order) : —

I. — BAm^AGHMOBB, in possession of Francis Blennerhasset.

58 Irish tenants.
II. & III. — ^Edebnagh and Tolmaokbn, in possession of

Thomas Blennerhasset. 95 Irish tenants.
lY. — ^TuLLANAGH, in possession of John Archdale. 9 Irish

tenants.
Y. — ^Nbcabnbt, in possession of Sir Gerald Lowther. No
Irish tenants.
YL — DsoMiKSHiK, in possession of Sir €(erald Lowther,
Thomas Carleton, and Lady Folliott. 1 5 Irish tenants.
YII. — ^RosQUiRB, in possession of Sir Gerald Lowther,
and Christopher Irvine. No Irish tenants, but it
is inhabited by British.
YIIL — DuBOSS. Henry Hunninge, deceased. 5 Irish tenants.*

Ab several of these proportions had thus been forfeited by
the Undertakers violating the conditions of the Plantation, new
grants had to be obtained from the Crown in which the Crown
rents were doubled, &o.

Francis Blennerhasset obtained a re-grant of his lands, Ban-
naghmore, 24 July, 1630.t He had a dispute with the Bishop
of Clogher, which is thus recorded : — '^ Francis Blennerhasset was
upon contempt of the Bishop^s court pronounced excommunicate,
who therefore caused the Bishop to be convened before the Lord
Deputy, Lord Falkland, at the Council Table, where being
commanded to absolve Blennerhasset, he, in obedience to that
Table, did readily perform the same. Yet, nevertheless, the said
Blennerhasset, being of a contentious and unquiet spirit, does
continue to vex the Bishop with suits."]:

« Calendar of Stote Papers, James I., 1615 to 1625, page 465, Ko. 1157.
28 Feb., 1624.

t Calendar of Patent and Cloee Rolla of Chancery in Ireland, Charles I., by
James Morrin, pages 572, 578.

$ Calendar of Patent and Close Bolls of Chancery In Ireland, Charles I., by
James Moirin, page 404.

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It is probable that FranciB Blennerhasset did not survive 1641.
As abready mentioned, Edward Blennerhasset, of Parkthorpe,
Norwich, his sucoessor, ordered hj his will all this property to
be sold. It was disposed of in various parceb cdrc. 1662, <bc., the
manor itself, the cajstle, and Belleek, ha^dng been acquired by
James Caldwell, who was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1664,
and created a Baronet in 1683. Erom him the present owner,
Benjamin Bloomfield, Esq., is descended.

Leonard Blennerhasset, son of Thomas Blennerhasset, ob:
tained a re-grant of his lands of Edemagh, &c., constituting them
into the manor of Oastlehassett, 27th October, 1630. * He obtained
licence for a com mill upon the river of Cash or Letterkeene,
and a market each Wednesday in the town of Cash (Kesh) or
Letterkeene, and two fairs on the 20th September and the 20th
May. I His lands were held by two tenures — some by the usual
grant '* in fee and common soccage,*' according to the original grant
to his father, and some by the cumbersome tenure, ''in capite, and
by knight's service."t On this account he was entitled to be
knighted. Though Sir Leonard held so many islands in Loch Erne,
Inishmakill, White Island, <!bc., yet he claimed, at least in part,
the island Crevinishaughey, which had been included in the
original grant of Tullanagh to John Archdale. In the Inqui-
sition, 1629, it is stated, in I'elation to the Proportion of
Tullanagh-— '' the moyetie of the island of Crevenish Aghie or
Crevenish Killeagh, or greater part thereof, is withholden from
the said proportion (Tullanagh) and incroached upon by Leonard
Blennerhassett, Esq., or his assigns, these four years past, and
the same doth still withhould and keep back from the said pro-
portion, pretended to be church land."^

As ali^dy mentioned above, this property came, on the death
of Phoebe, widow of Henry Blennerhasset, son and successor of
Sir Leonard, to be divided between their two daughters, Deborah
and Mary. Deborah's only son, Henry Cochrane, succeeded to
Crevenish Castle, which came from him to George Yaughan, who
was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1744. Mary's son, Henry
Bingham, disposed of his half of the property in 1719, to Colonel
Christopher Irvine, of Castle Irvine, and othera§

Edward Archdale, eldest son and successor of John Archdale^
obtained a re-grant of his lands of Tullanagh, dc, on the 22nd
December, 1629.|| This property has continued ever since in his
family, and is now held by his descendant, Captain Mervyn
Archdale, of Castle Archdala

* Calendar of Patent and Close Rolla of Chancery, by J. Morrin, page 557.

t Ultonia Inquisition, Charles 1. (48), a.d. 1639.

X Ultonia Inquis. at EnnlslLiUen, 27 April, 1629.

§ Tripartite Deed, dated 10th September, 1719 (6th George I), between
Christopher Irvine^ Gerard Ijvine, and William Homphries.

Calendar i'atent and Close Bolls of Chancery, Charles I., by James Morrin,
p. 481.

105

All the remainder of the barony of Lnrg, the other four propor-
tions, cam6 now (with the exception of the '' estates of inherit-
ance " conveyed to Christopher Irvine and Lancelot Carleton) into
the hands of a second Sir Gerard Lowther.

The proportions of Nekai-ney and Drumiushin, were re-granted,
with the same licences as before, under the same name of the
Manor of Lowther, to Sir William Parsons and Sir Adam Loftus
(the fellow Commissioners of Sir Gerard Lowther) to secure his
title.*

Edward Flowerdew, who had succeeded his father, Thomas
Flowerdew, in the proportion of Lisreske or Shanocke, in Clan-
kelly, and Kossgwire in Lurg (so far as the latter was not disposed
of) obtained a re-grant of both these manors, 13 August, 1629,t
and so completed the legal conveyance of Eo»9gwire to Sir Gerard
Lowther and Christopher Irvine.

The Manor of Hunnings passed through several hands. Henry
Flower, who held it in 1623, was succeeded there by his son,
Thomas. A re-grant of it was made, 29 June, 1 630, to Edward
Hatton and John Greenham X ^m. whom it came finally to Sir
C^erard Lowther.

Sir Gerard Lowther having acquired these proportions, obtained
a licence for three annual fairs in the town of Lowtherstown, on
the 30th November, 1st May, and 15th August; also a weekly
market, on " die Martis," in the same town ; and two annual fairs
in the *' Yil de Lisnarrog," on 25th March and 4th October, and
one weekly market on " die Satum."§ The tenure is described
in the inquisition, held on the death of Sir Gerard Lowther, as
" held de Rege, as of the Castle of Dublin, in fee and common
Boccage and in capite, and by knight's service. "§

In 1667 Sir Gersuxl Irvine, son of Christopher Irvine, pur-
chased the whole from Henry Lowther who had succeeded to the
possession on Sir Gerard Lowther's death.||

The Gerard Lowther, referred to on page 101, was the fourth son
of Sir Richard Lowther (ancestor of the Earl of Lonsdale), who, as
High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1567, arrested Queen Mary of Soot-
land, on her landing in England. His uncle, Gerard Lowther,
brother of Sir Richard, was a Bencher in Lincoln's Inn, and he him-
self was a £arrister-at-Law in England. It was he who most pro-
bably was High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1594 (though it might
have been his uncle or his nephew for he had a nephew of the name

* Calendar of Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery, by James Morrin, p. 545.

t Calendar of Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery, by James Morrin, p. 515.

X Calendar of Patent and Close Rolls, &c., by J. Morrin, page 573.

§ Ultonia, Charles II. (4), 2 September, 1662.

II Deed of conTeyance of " all that the lordship, manor, and land-t of Lowthers-
towne, with the capital messnage, fortilage, &c., and the Manor of Hunnings or
Hunningstowne, Ac,** by Henry Lowther (hdr of Sir Gerard Lowther) to O^ard
Irvine, dated 2ard December, 19th Charles XL (1667> Record in the Rolls Office,
Four Courts, Dublin.

106

at Gerard also) and m.p. for Oumberlaiid in 1601. He was ap-
pointed by Eling James I. an additional Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas, Irelandi 24th August, 1610. (Liber Munerumi
part 2, page 37.)

Qerard Lowther was knighted in 1619, and died 14th October,
1624, when Richard Lowther succeeded to his property of Low-
therstown. In Dugdale's Visitation he is called Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas but this is not correct as he was only second
Justice when he died (Calendar of State Papers 1615 to 1625,
page 546).

This Sir Gerard had a younger brother Lancelot (seventh son
of Sir Richard) also a Barrister, who was appointed third Baron
of the Exchequer, Ireland, 1 1th January, 1617. He died without
issue, 10th January, 1637.

A nephew of Sir Gerard's and Sir Lancelot's, William Lowther,
Clerk of the "Warrants, Court of Common Pleas, Ireland, settled at
Skryne, county Meath, and was ancestor of the Lowthers of Kilrue.

In Dugdale's Visitation of Cumberland, 1664, Sir Gerard Low-
ther is said to have left no issue. It is not certain therefore who
the Richard Lowther who succeeded him was — whether he was his
brother Richard (sixth son of Sir Richard's) who is stated in
Dugdale's Visitation also to have died without issue, or his nephew
Richard who was a Barrister-at-Law.

This Richaixi Lowther, of Lowtherstown, died in 1630, when the
property passed into the hands of a second Sir Gerard Lowther.

There is some difficulty in relation to this second Sir Gerard
Lowther, as Burke and all the genealogists have confounded him
with the first Sir Gerard who died in 1624.

He was appointed Attorney-General of Munster, 26th Novem-
ber, 1621, which he resigned in 1623. (Liber Mun., &c.,
page 186). He was then appointed second Baron of the
Exchequer, Ireland, 14th September, 1628 (lb., page 51). He
was knighted soon after, and as Sir Gerard, knt., was appointed
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, I3th March, 1633 (1634), in
place of Sarsfield, deprived by the Star Chamber, England. He
married first, Anne Welbury, then Anne, daughter of Sir Lawrence
Parsons, and afterwards Margaret, daughter of Sir John King.

By what title he succeeded to the Manor of Lowtherstown on
the death of Richard Lowther does not appear. His mother was
the sister of Edward Malhame, of Clonaghill, King's Counly. He
was pi-obably a nephew of the first Sir Gerard — ^a son of that
Judge's elder brother, Sir Christopher Lowther, of Lowther, by
a second marriage.

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108

In 1629 Sir Qerard Ijowther was appointed with Sir William
Parsons and Sir Adam Lofbus, Commissioners in relation to the
convejanoe and securing of grants already effected in Ulster.
He then obtained letters patent making a re-grant of the Manor
of Lowther or Lowtherstown after the death of Richard Lowther,
dated 28th June, 1630, to his fellow Commissioners (in trust for
himself) — ^the Commissioners securing the estates of those who had
already procured portions of the manors included (as Christopher
Irvine and Lancelot Carleton) previously.

In 1632, this Sir Qerard libwther purchased from Edward
Flowerdue his interest and title in the Manor of Kossgwire
and shortly after, conveyed by Indenture, dated 8th November,
1632 (8th Charles I.), to Christopher Irvine, all his property in
Fermanagh, for a term of thirty-one years. By this indenture he
conveys " all that the Manor of Lowther, <fec., the Courts Leet and
Couiis Baron, kc, the markets, fairs, d^c, also the whole Manor
of Rossgweere," &c., &c. " in as large, ample, and beneficial manner
as the said Sir Gerard Lowther now hath the same to grant and
demise." "And the said Christopher Irwinge doth covenant to have
always resident upon the premises five and twenty sufi&cient and
able men to answere his Majesty's service, &c" "And that he
shall not alien his whole estate in these premises unto any until he
first have made an offer thereof unto the said Sir Gerard Lowther,
&c., and that he, <&c., shall be first preferred in the sale thereof
giving as much for the same as another will give, Sue" " Provided
always that he shall not alien any part thereof to the mere Irish
conti'ary to the covenants in the several letters patents made of the
presents, <fec.*' " Saving and always excepting out of the present
covenant the estates and leases made and to be made, by the Hon.
Sir William Parsons, Knt, Bart.^ and Sir Adam Loftus, of Rath-
famham, Knt, and the said Sir Gerard Lowther, &c», by virtue of
the order of the Lords Justices and Councell made befoi-e the
granting of the Letters Patent of the said Manor of Lowthers-
town unto the said Sir William Parsons and Sir Adam Loftus,
&c." " And it is agreed that the acceptance of this lease shall not
be any way hurtful or prejudicial unto the estates of inheritance
that the said Christopher Irwynge hath made unto him by the said
Sir William Parsons, Sir Adam Loftus, and Sir Gerard Lowther,
of lands, &c., within the Manner of Lowther, or to the state of
inheritance that the said Christopher Irwynge hath in Bonnani-
dullagh, &c. <kc., parcells of the possessions of the proportion of
Rosgwire, Ac."

In the troubled times that followed. Sir Gerard Lowther obtained
a fresh Patent of his office of Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, 7th October, 1639. (Liber Muner, page 36). He was
impeached for his connexion with the Earl of Strafford, 4th March,
1641 (Rush worth, vol. iv., page 214). He then turned over to the
Republican party and submitted to the Commonwealth. He was
appointed by Oliver Cix>mwell Commissioner of the Great Seal,
14th June, 1656 ; was continued in office by Richard Cromwell,

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7tli October, 1658 ; and died in Dublin without issue, 3^rd April,
1 660. £7 his connexion with the Republican Government he was
able to assist Christopher Irvine and his sons in eluding the fate of
Royalists and Malignants, which they had incurred by adhering
to the side of Charles T. in the contest and by afterwards joining
Charles II. in his unsuccessful attempt after the death of Charles I.
Sir Gerard Lowther left his property by will to Heniy Lowther,
of Cockermouth, Cumberland, who disposed of the whole to
Sir Gerard Irvine in 1667. It consisted of the Manor of Lowther
(which included the original Manors of Nekamey and Dromyn-
shin), the Manor of Roa^p^ire, and the Manor of Duross or Hun-
ningstown.

At the time of the Plantation the whole barony of Ltirg and
Coolmackeman, with a small exception, seems to have been
included in only three parishes. The first two described as the
^ p*och de Maghery, Culmany, et Eemey,''* were contiguous
pcurisheB extending over the half-barony of Lurg, and part of the
barony of Tir-hugh, county Don^;al. They comprised four ancient
ecclesiastical parishes or divisions : — (1) the parish church of Collyn-
vine or Maghery Cole Mayne — (2) the parish church of Termon-
magrath — (3) the parish church of Ballycongaile, and — (4) the
Chapel of Killtyeman, or Kiltiemy.f

At the Plantation the advowson of the former was conveyed by
the Crown to Sir Edward Blennerhassetin his grant. Originally
the great Cuconnaght MacGwire had all advowsons, presentations,
and rights of patronage of all parsonages and vicarages within
Fermanagh, until the Pope, by the Council of Trent, took them
nominally from him, though practically he retained his privileges.
Subsequently the advowson of the two parishes. indicated came
into the hands of the Bishop.

At the time of the Plantation there seems to have been only
two churches in use in this district — one of which was at Cam,
the ancient parish church of " Kemey," between Pettigo and Loch
Derg, in County Donegal, which is stated to have been so very
inconvenient, situate near a mountain at the remotest part of the
parish, that its transference to a better site at Rossbeg was re-
commended in 1639.J: Accordingly the church, whose remains
are still extant, was erected here, close to the castle. It was known
locally as Templemoyle.

Tins palish of Cam, or Eemey, was called Termonmagrath,
because its spiritual lands were possessed by the Clan Magrath,
and is now known by the name of Temple-Cama It extended
from Belleek across to the eastward of Pettigo, including part of the
Boa Island, and as far as the great rock of Ardshankie (Ardshankil),
stretching into the county Donegal to Loch Deig. The parish
church was afterwards erected in the town of Pettigo. In 1792

* Inqids. Ultonia Fennan., Ko. 8, Car. I. . 4, April, an. 4 (1628>
f Spiritual Landes, barony of Lnrgue. Inqutsi UUt Tntrodaction«
X Inq. Ult. Fennan. No. 48, Car. h

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several townlands were set off from the rest of the parish, and
erected by Act of Council into the separate |)ari8h of Belleek.

The pcurish church of Ballycongaile, or the " Chapel of Balli-
ooonnell "* (as its spiritual lands were held by the Clan Oonyly
or Connelly as Corbes) has not been identified. There is indeed,
near Belleek, in the Barony of Lurg, the remains of an ancient
church, with its cemetery close by, at Keenaghan Lough, of which
no memory has been preserved, and therefore no means exist for
identifying it with Ballyconnell. The modem church at Muckross
is also situated in the ancient parish of Cam.

The other parish of the district, Maghericolmanny, Maghery
Cole Mayne, Collynvine, or Magheraculmoney (as it is now
called) included the modem parish so called as well as the present
parish of Dmmkeeran, which was subsequently taken out of
Maghera Oulmoney.

^e spiritual lands of Maghera Culmoney were in possession of
the Clan Imoldomyne or O'Muldowne, as Corbes. O'Muldowne,
the Herenagh, besides his dues to the Bishop in money, had to
provide also <' fewer nights refeccons in the said Bischops two
visitacons and not else, viz., two nights in May visitacon, and two
nights at All Hallontide visitacon, and for want of flesh and
wine or aqua vite, fewer shillings,*' — and also " at every hallontide
half a beofe or 3 shillings and 4 pence,'' and " 30 ffiraghans of oate
bread or 5 shillings in Ueu thereof/'t

It is likely that the *' capell' sive eccM," built at Crevenish,
served for this parish till the parish church was rebuilt on its
ancient site. A local name of the parish was Templemaghery.
The parish church of Dmmkeeran was built at Tubrid, the
institution of the Yaughan charity. The parish of Colaghty or
Lack was formed out of parts of both these parishes, and its church
near Lack built, in 1844.

The chapel of Killtyemy was a grange of the Abbey of Asheroe,
Co. Donegal The spiritual lands were possessed by the Munter
Slevine, as Corbes. As all abbey lands came to be forfeited to
the Crown they were disposed of by grants. Francis Qofton
and then Lord Folliott acquired the " Grange " of Killtiemy or
Magherikiltiemy,} and it subsequently came to the Archdale
family, the present owners.

The second parish of the barony at the Plantation, Derrimoylan
or Derryvullan, occupied the southern portion or half-barony of
Coolmackeman, but there does not seem to have been any church

* Appendix to XHtouia, No. VI., Inquisition held at Enniekillen 18th September.
7th James I. (1609).

t Appendix to Ultonia. No. VI. Enniskillen Inquis. 1609. The Parish of
Magheraculmoney is here said to have had " a Parson and Vicar Gollative.**

% Calendar of Patent Rolls Irish Chancery, James I., page 541. " Henry Lord
Folliott purchased also from Francis Gofton, Esq., 31 small tates called the Qnmge
of Killteame, paroeQ of the Abbey of Asheroe.* Ultonia, Inquis. (2\ 8rd
January, 18th James I.; also (4), 27th Febrouy, 1622.

Ill

ezistiiig In it at that time. This parish extended also oyer a
large pari of the harony of Tjrkennedy, in which the parish
church was situated. There was also ''in the said parish of
Derrymoylan one chapel caUed Magherinecrosse in Fairen-
eriaght,"* part of l^kennedy (now the separate parish of Maghera-
croes). It was situated in or adjoining the manor of Drumkyn or
New Pirton, granted to Sir Hemy Folliott, Eiit., 16th May, 1 61 l.t
Sir Henry (afterwards Lord Folliott) obtained a licence io hold
a weekly market on Wednesday, and two annual fairs on Februaiy
2nd and July 25th at the town of New Firton (now Ballina-
mallard).t But as Coolmackeman was thickly peopled with
British settlers, a church was soon erected at Lowiherstown or
Irvinestown, which in its ruin still boasts of having been served
by the celebrated Dr. Delany. The modem church is built not
far from the old church site.

This part of the parish of I>erryvullen also included the
" Chappell of Bally McSagort," whose spiritual lands were held
by the munter Axauie.§ It was a grange of the Abbey of
Usgoole. It was situated close to the lake shore, and seems to
have had a connexion with the opposite islands, Downinishbane
or White Island, and Davys Island. On the former of these
islands the remains of a chapel still exist, and on the latter an
abbey or other ecclesiastical building — all probably possessed by
the monks of Lisgoole. The possession of these church lands
seems to have been enjoyed by Sir Leonard Blennerhasset^ who
through this claim, ajB already mentioned, " incroached " upon the
island of Crevinishaughey also. The Church of Castle ArchdaU
erected in 1841 represents this ancient chapel.

Besides the two parishes mentioned, the barony included also
a small part belonging to the parish of Devenish. In the island
of Devenish existed the Priory of Colidei, the monks of which
belonged to the House of secular Canons caUed Culdees. This
priory possessed a parcel of lands on the shores of Loch Erne, ||

* Appendix to Ultonia, Na VI. Inqairition at EnniflkOlen, 18th September, 1609.
The ii«me is given aa " MahernycroflBe,**— Ultonia, Jac. L (2;, 8rd Jan., 1621.

f Ultonia, Jac- 1., Inquisition at Hath, 8 Jan., 18th Jamw J. This pro-
portion or manor is described as lying in Femeragha, within the precinct of the
barony of Coole and Terkenneda. The northern part of the modern barony of
Tirkennedy, was in the seventeenth century' called the half-barony of Coole.
IVide the Irish Historical Atlas of 1609, Map. II., 8]. Femeragha or Farren-
criaght seems to have been a local name of this part of Ckwle and Terkennedy.

t Ultonia, Jac. I., Inquisition at Rath, 8 Jan., 18th James I. Calendar of
Patent Rolls, Irish Chancery, James I., page 824.

§ Ultonia, Introduction. ** In the half barony of Coolemackeman is the chappell
and grannge of Balli Mclteggart, &c " — Appendix to Ultonia, No. VI.

In this half-barony of Coolemackeman there is also an old graveyard at Lis-
narrick.

II ** The five tates of land, Killendoghan, &c., lying in the half b«rony of Cool-
mackeman, are parcell of the possessions of the late dissolved Priorie of CoUidea.**
-Appendix, Ultonia, No. VI — Inquitition at Enniskillen, 18 Sept, 1609. The
priory was in poesession of these lands in 1180. — Archdale^s Monaitticon.

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called from tbem the Killadeas, where they Iiad a chapel, Ac.',
known locally as *' The Yellow Church." Thua their poesessionB,
came to be included in the parish of Devenish.

The parish of Devenish lay chiefly along the south-west of the
lower Loch Erne, in the barony of Magheraboy, but it extended
also across the lake, and besides this portion in Luig included
also a portion of the barony of Tirkennedy. In 1778 both these
portions on the north-east of Loch £me were set off from the
rest of the parish of Devenish, and erected into the perpetual cure
of St. Michaers, Troiy. Killadeas was made a separate parochial
district in 1869.

APPENDIX III.

INDEX TO MEMBERS.

Acheson, Sir Archibald, 66.

Archdall, GoL Mervyn, 60, 62, 65, 69,

72, 77. bit.
Gen. Mervyn, 78, 81, Ut, 82, bit^

88, 84, bis, 85, bit, .

Gapt Mervyn, 86, bit, ter, 87, 88,

89, bit, 90, bit, 91.

Nicholas, 56.

Archdale, William, 91, 92.
Atkinson, Gapt Roger, 10.

Belmore, Earl of, tee Goiry, 62.

Earl of, tee Gorrv, Viacount, 83,

84, Mc
Bennet, R. H. A., Gapt b.ii., 81.
Beresford, Right Hon. John, 78.
Blaquiere, Right Hon. Sir John, 69.
Blennerhaaset, Heniy, 86.
Borlase, Gapt John, 29.
Brooke, Henry, 56.

Right Hod. Sir Arthur, 61, 62, 65.

Sir Arthur, 87, bU, 88, 89.

Burlaaey or Borlase, Sir Jofaji, 19.
Burroughs, Sir William, 79.

Champion, Arthur, 82.

Gole HamOton, Hon. Arthur, 69, 78,

77, Kf.
Cole, Hon. Arthur, 84, bit, 85, 86, Mi,

86, 87, bis.

Shr Arthur, 44.

Gen. Shr Galbraith Lowry, 74, 77,

78, 81, Ml, 82, bit, 83.
Lieut-GoL Hon. Henry, 87, H8,

89, 6m, 90, 6w, 91, 92.

Sir John, 84.

John (1), 49, 52, 55.

John (2), 60.

Hon. John, 90, bit, ter.

Sir Bf ichael, 89, 44, 49, bit,

Sir Robert, 40.

Richard, 52, 55, 59.

Viscount (1), 72, 77, bit, 7a

Viscount (2), 85, bit, 86, bit.

Viscount (8)» 92.

Sir William, 18, 29.

Hon. Williain, 61.

Corry, Armar Lowry, 62.

GoL James, 42, 45, 49, 52, 5a

Gol. John, 51,53.

Viscount, 83, 84, bit.

Greighton, Gol Abraham, 41, 49.
Grichtoo, Viscount, 91, 92, bit.

Davies, Sir John, a
Davys, Sir Paul, 23.
Davys, WUliam, 84.
de Blaquiere, Lord, see Blaquiere, Sir
John, 69.

Enniskillen, Earl of, tee Hon. William
Gole, 61.

Earl of, see Hon. John Cole, 72.

Earl of, see Gole, Viscount, 85.

£r?nh or Irvine, Christopher, 45, 49.

Faruham, Humphry, 12.
Flood, Right Hon. Henry, 67.
FoUiott, Sir Henry (Lord FoUiott), 5.
Fremantle, Right Hon. Sir W., 80.

Gorges, Richard, sen., 61.

Richard, jun., 62, 63.

Gosford, Lord, see Acheson, Sir Archl-
bnld, 6a

Hume, Eight Hon. Sir Gustavus, 52,

58.5a
Shr John, 16.

Irwin or Irvine, Dr. Christopher, tee
Erwin, 45, 49.

Kmg, John, 8a

Leigh, John, 6a

M'CUntock, John, 71.

Magenis, Lt-GoL Richard, 78, 82, bit,

Maguire, Gol. Rorye, 2a
Mitchell, Hugh Henry, 65.
Mountflorence, Lord, tee Cole, 60.

Osborne, Henry, 77.

Pochin, Charles, 82.

Ranelagh, Lord, see Cole, Sir Arthur, 44.

Sanderson, James, 59.
Sneyd, Nathaniel, 81. ,
Stewart, James, 7L

Ward, Bernard Smith, 68.
Whiteside, Right Hon. James, 88, 89
Mff,90.

DuBLni : Printed by Albz. Thom fc Co., 87, 88, A 89, Abbey-itrest.
The Queen's Prhiting Office.

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PARLIAMENTARY MKMOIRS OF TYRONE.

INTRODUCTION.

In extending the Parliamentary Memoirs of the counties
with which I am connected, to that of Tyrone in which my
Lowry ancestors formerly resided, and in the representation
of which my family largely shared from 1747 down to the
year 1880, 1 have followed the same plan and arrangement
as I adopted formerly in the case of the Fermanagh
Memoirs, which form the first part of this volume.

For the materials for the notices of several of the princi-
pal persons* in the Parliaments of 1613 and 1634, 1 have
been mainly, if not entirely indebted to my friend Dean
Reeves, now the Bishop of Down, &c., who kindly allowed
me to make use of his manuscript collections. He also
supplied me with the pedigree of William Balfour, M.P. for
Augher in the Parliaments of 1713, 17 15, and part of that of
1727 ; which I had failed to find or obtain elsewhere.

The information concerning other persons has been
derived from various sources, which I have usually
mentioned, such as Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormonde,
The Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons, Arch-
daU's Lodge's Peerage (edit. 1789), Sir Bernard Burke's
Peerage and Baronetage and his Landed Gentry, Playfair's
Baronetage and other authorities. I have been greatly
assisted in my researches by a friend resident in Dublin,
who has hunted up for me a great deal of miscellaneous
information. Another friend, resident in Tyrone, has also
given me some. aid, and has compiled the list of Sherifis of
Tyrone in App. VIII., as he did on a former occasion that of
the Sheriffs of Fermanagh, which forms App. I. He has also
compiled App. IX.

♦Viz., Ridgway, Roe, More, PoUerde, Birchenahaw, Erskyn, Tichborne,
Spottiswode and Fortescne.

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As regards the connexion of particular families with the
county and its boroughs I have little to say. It will be
seen that many members who at first sight appear to have
been strangers, were connected with resident families by
marriage. The only families which have had a long more
or less continuous connexion with the representation of the
County, are the extinct family of Mervyn, the Stewarts of
Killymoon, and my own. The Mervyn family rivalled to
some extent that of Archdall in Fermanagh, which held one
seat uninterruptedly from 1731 to 1880. Commencing in
1639, the Mervyns filled one seat for Tyrone county (if King
James II.'s Parliament of 1681^ which is not officially
recognised, be not counted), uninterruptedly down to 1747.
B'ive members followed each other in four generations ; in
this also like the Archdalls, except that a younger brother
preceded an elder one in the last generation. It should^
however, be added, that in the seventeenth century there
were long gaps of time, without any Parliament at all.
The last Mervyn, Henry, who died in 1747, leaving his
estates to the Archdall family, was immediately succeeded
by the first member of my own family, who represented
the county, viz. : Galbmith Lowry. He and his son, Aroiar
Lowry Corry filled one seat till 1781, when the latter was
created a peer, as Baron Belmore. In the succeeding
generation my grandfather, then Viscount Corry, sac for
the county from 1797 to 1802. My late uncle, the Right
Hon. Henry Corry, was first elected in 1825, at the age of
twenty-two, and sat till his death in 1873; when my
brother, Henry Corry succeeded him, and sat till 1880.

The name of Stewart often occurs ; but the members of
that name will be found to have belonged to more than one
family. Of that of Killymoon, William Stewart represented
the County from 1748-68, James from 1768 to 1812, and
another William from 1818 to 1830.

Of the Hamiltons, only two have represented the un-
divided county, viz. : James of Donalonge, afterwards the

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sixth Earl of Abercorn, in the l:*arliaments of 1692 and
1695 ; and the late Lord Claude Hamilton in several
Imperial Parliaments. Lord Einest Hamilton, now sits
for the Northern Division of Tyrone. Many Hamiltons,
descendants of the first Lord Paisley, will be found to have
sat for Tyrone boroughs, especially Strabane ; as well as two
gentlemen of the name at least, whose connexion with the
Abercorn family, if any, I cannot trace.

From 1695, the Knox family in Dungannon, rivals that of
Cole in Enniskillen. Down to 1874, in every generation,
one or more members of that family (twelve in all) have at
some time or other represented the borough of Dungannon.

The earlier memoirs, will, as a rule, be found to be the
fullest. Many of the members in the Parliaments of 1613,
1634, and 1639, were important official or political personages
in their day, and played a part in the history of the countiy.
I may refer my readers to Carte's Life of the Duke of
Ormonde, (Edit. 1736.) as giving a clear and on the whole
impartial history of those times, especially of the two latter
Parliaments. I may also mention, as explanatory of some of
the allusions which will be found in the memoirs, that in the
Parliament of 1634, which was called for obtaining military
supplies, for a thorough settlement of the nation, and for
improving the ordinary revenue of the Crown,* the Ijord
Deputy Falkland, afterwards Earl of Strafford, took care to
ensure the return of as many officers as possible. In that
of 1631), there was also a Government party of the same
class ; whilst until the rebellion of 1641 broke out, the
opposition consisted of a coalition between the Puritan
party, of whom Captain Mervyn was a representative, and
the Roman Catholics. The rebellion was commenced by a
few of the Irish Roman Catholic gentry, mostly, if not
entirely of Ulster, and some of the Irish i)rie8thood ; and
the Catholic gentry of the Pale and others of English
descent, were driven into it, evidently much against their
will by the action of the Lords Justices, who forbad them
* Carte, voL i., pp. ff9, 60.

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to remain in Dublin. When they went to their country
homes, the native Irish helped themselves to their goods, and
rendered them liable to be considered as rebels, for aiding
and abetting rebels. However, Lord Clanricarde, Mr. Richard
Martin and other gentlemen in the west, appear to have
maintained their loyalty unimpaired. After the rebellion
broke out,* the Roman Catholic members of the House of
Commons seem to have been practically prevented fix)m
taking any part in what from thenceforward to the Union
was in effect an exclusively Protestant House, excepting of
course in the Parliament of 1689, called by James II., which
is not officially countied.

Tyrone has provided seats for two Speakers of the Irish
House of Commons, vLz. : Sir Audley Mervyn, m.p. for the
county, and Sir Ralph Gore, m.p. for Clogher; in addition
to another — Mr. E. S. Pery — who, though returned for Dun-
gannon, elected to serve for Limerick City; and in later
days, for one Cabinet Minister, Mr. Corry, First Lord of the
Admiralty, m.p. for the county.

By the Act of Union, three of the Tyrone boroughs were
disfranchised, and the remaining one, Dungannon lost one of
its members.

*^* I have found in my authorities general chargeii of corruption
brought against two members who are subjects of these memoirs. Such
charges may have been true ; but, as at the distance of more than two
centuries, it would be extremely difficult to disprove them if they were
not true or were exaggerated, whilst it was very easy to make them, I
have thought it best to pass them over unnoticed.

* By the order of the House of June 2l8t, 1642, obliging Members to take the
Oath of Supremacy. (See Commons Jonmals.)

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PARLIAMENT OF 1613.

Date.
1613, 33rd April,

„ 8th May,
„ 2iid May,

„ 6th May,

„ 10th May,

Nune.
Sir Thomas Bldgway, knt.

and bart
Sir FranolB Roe, knt,
George 'N^atkina, gent.,
William Ferrar, gent.,
Sir Garrett More, knt.

Sir Hugh Pollerde, knt,
Lieut James Montgomery,
Daniel Molynenx, esq.

Ralph Birchenshaw, esq.

(knt)
Edward Skorye, esq. .

Basidonoa.
Tor Mohan,

Devon.
Monntjoy,

]

Constitaenoj.

Tyrone
County.

Mellefont,
Louth.

__ [ ClogherCity.

ont, )

z ^

Thomas Court, >■
near Dublin. )

: \

Dungannon
Borough.

Strabane
Borough.

Agher
Borough.

MEMOIR.

I. — Sir Thomas RroawAT.

Sir Thomas Ridgway was son of Thomas Ridgway, Esq.
of Tor, CO. Devon, by Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas
Southcote, and grandson of John Ridgway, by Elizabeth
Wentford. He was born about 1582, at Torwood, in the
parish of Tor Mohun, or else at Tor Abbey. Prince in his
" Worthies of Devon" is uncertain which of the two places
was his birthplace. He was employed in Ireland in a
military capacity in the time of Queen Elizabeth. In 1612
he was made a baronet of England, and was created a peer
of Ireland on the 25th May, 1616, as Baron of GsJllen
Ridgway. He was advanced to the Earldom of Londonderry,
23rd August, 1622. He married Cicely, sister and co-heiress
of Henry Macwilliam, and was succeeded, as second Earl, by
his eldest son, *Sir Robert, who married Elizabeth, daughter
and heir of Sir Simon Weston, knight, of Lichfield, and who
was father of Sir Weston Ridgway, the third BarL The
third Lord Londondeny married Martha, daughter of Sir
Richard Temple, Bart, and left with several daughters, two
sons, Robert, and Thomas. The elder, Sir Robert Ridgway,
fourth Earl of Londonderry, married Lucy, daughter of Sir
William Jopson, Bart, and had two daughters, his co-heirs,
viz.: — Lucy, married to Arthur, fourth Earl of Donegall, and

* Lord Londonderry's other children were Edward, Macwilliam, and Cassandra,
wife of Sir Francis Willoughby.

1S2

died without children, July 10th, 1736 ; and Frances, who
married the Bight Hon. Thomas Pitt, who was created Earl
of Londonderry. The fourth Lord Londonderry died on the
7th March, 1713-14, when all his honours became extinct.
His son-in-law, Thomas Pitt, the first Earl of the second
creation, was the second son of Thomas Pitt, Esq., Governor
of Fort St. George, and grandfather of the first Earl of
Chatham. The Right Hon. Thomas Pitt, was created Baron
Londonderry in 1719, and on the 8th October, 1726, Viscount
Gallen Ridgway, and Earl of Londonderry. He was sub-
sequently Captain-General of the Leeward Islands, and died
at St. Kitts, September 12th, 1729. His eldest son, Thomas,
the second Earl, died unmarried 25th August, 1735. His
second son, Ridgway, succeeded as third Earl, and also died
unmarried, in 1764. [Vide Burke's extinct Peerage.]

To return to the subject of this memoir. It appears
from the State Papers that Sir Thomas Ridgway was
Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, and Treasurer at War, in 1605 ;
for on the 29th June he received leave of absence for three
months.— S. P. 300.

On the 29th April, 1606,

" Sir Thomas Carey, the Treasurer here, set to Sir Thomas
Ridgeway, who he saith will succeed him, his house which he built
for an hospital, value above £4,000."— S. P. 459.

On the 30th April it is stated that

"A gentleman of very good sufficiency, lately appointed
Treasurer at War, Sir Thomas Ridgeway, will arrive about
August."— S. P. 461.

On October 20th there was a warrant to administer the
oath of a Councellor of State to Sir George (recte Thomas)
Ridgeway, Knight, appointed Treasurer at War, and Receiver
General of the Revenue, &c. — S. P. ii., 6

On 29th,

" Sir Thomas Ridgeway, His Majesty's Treasurer, after encoun-
tering a violent tempest arrived at Wicklow with His Majesty's
treasure in his charge." — S P. ii., 31,

He arrived in Dublin on October 31st.

There is very frequent mention of Sir Thomas Ridgeway
in the State Papers. Amongst other things we find that, on
the 2nd July, 1608, Sir Arthur Chichester reports that the
Treasurer has arrived here in the Tramontane, with prisoners,

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having seen the taking of Rirb Castle [? Benburb.] Sir
Arthur writes to Lord Salisbury : —

^'The Treasurer's presence and personal adventure in that
service have brought it to this pass with greater expedition than
they expected, which makes amends for his going without
acquainting the Deputy and Council, and besides the approbation
he has gained, he deserves the King's good allowance and his
(Salisbury's) approbation." [" A Grand Letter," Dean Reeves.]
— S. P. ii., 594, 596, 597.

On the 3rd July, Sir Thomas Hidgeway, writing to
Salisbury, congratuktes his lordship on his worthy advance-
ment, explains his reasons for gomg, and relates the two
montiis' proceedings. — S. P. 599, G05.

On the 6th July, Sir Arthur Chichester writes to the
Lords of the Council : —

" That he had sent forces, and our noble Treasurer, with his
knowledge, accompanied them. The Treasurer in this latter
prosecution, took upon him a painful, hazardous, and perilous
journey, for which he could give him no recompense but thanks.
His eldest son, Eobert, who is about sixteen years of age, was with
Chichester, when the news of [Sir Cahir] O'Dogherty's death came
to him ; the remembrance of his father's merits, and the surety he
has of his future deserving, made him joyfully give him the honor
of knighthood. He prays them to allow his act in that kind, in
respect of his youth, and to excuse him to the King." Dundalk,
6th July, 1608.— S. P. pp. 606, 607, 608.

On July 20th the Lords of the Council approve of
Chichester's Proclamation, as also his bestowing of knight-
hood on the Treasurer's young son. — S. P. ii, p. 617.

On June 18th, 1608,

"It was advertized that Sir Cahir O'Dogherty (after the slaying
of Sir Henry Oge O'Neill, in Donegal * * * *) Sir A. Chichester
received intelligence that he has come down into Tyrone with
some 400 Light men, where he preyed and burned the town of
Kennard, Sir Henry Oge's chief place. They tried to force his
castle, but without success." — S. P. ii, 568.

On the 15th September, Bryan Oge [na Savagh]
MacMahon with Sir Cahir and others, entered into rebellion
at Lisglin, in Toaghie. But Sir Cahir was slain at Kilma-
crenan, on Tuesday, July 6th, 1608. — Cal. Jaa i,p. i58a^
See also S.P. iL, 608.

On 13th March, 1609, Brian Oge was slain at Cargagh-

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Hugh, in Milliade, co. Armagh. They had been on the look
out for him. August 3, 1608.— S. P. iiL, p. 8.

On the 18th March, 1609, a commission of inquiry as to
his estates was ordered ; and on the 28th March, 1609, in
pursuance of the same, an Inquisition was sped at Monaghan,
and found the various denominations thereof

On the Slst March, 1609, Sir Arthur Chichester, writing
to Sir John Davys, draws his attention to the County Mon-
aghan. He says : —

" More of that Sept will play the part of Brian-na-Savagh, their
kinsman, who never submitted himself to the course of justice
until he brought his head to stand upon one of the gates of y* city.
Has promised to make a lease of Brian-na-Savagh's land to Mr.
Treasurer, and on getting a further estate therein, he will un-
doubtedly build there, and place a yoimger son or friend upon
it, which would be very available for the King's service, and
for the reformation of that part of the country." — S. P. iii. 178.

Writing to the Privy Council, April 7th, 1609, Sir Arthur
says: —

" Has no other occurrence of importance to certify out of
these parts, than that of late he has gotten the head of Brian-
narSavagh M*Mahouna, a notable rebel for many years past.
He was brother to that M'Mahoune who was executed at Mon-
aghan (in the Government of Sir William Fitzwilliam's), by
whose attainder the lands of that country for the most part
accrued to the Crown." — S. P. iiL, 188.

On the same day Sir Arthur recounts to Salisbury the
death of Brian-na-Savagh M'Mahoune, who had been a rebel
these two years. — S. P. iii., 189.

On the 28th April, Sir John Davys writes to Salis-
bury —

*'If his Lordship shall think it fit that Mr. Treasurer may
have Brian-na-Savagh M*Mahon*8 land in fee-farm, whereof the
Lord-Deputy makes mention in his letter, he (Davys), knows
his industry and good mind to do good things so well, that he
verily thinks it would be a profitable bounty to His Majesty."
S. P. iii, 201.

This was followed on the^l5th May, 1609, by a letter
from Sir Thomas Ridgeway himself to Salisbury. He —

" Deems it his duty to attend the joint letter, sent from the
Lord-Deputy and this Council, concerning Bryan-na-Savagh
M*Mahon's late lands, with those few lines to his Lordship only.
Prays his support of their's and his mutual request ; that bar-
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portion excepted, which was mortgaged by Bryan, and must
be compounded and paid for by His Majesty's grantee); and
this last month being the only time of retaining them in place,
and of drawing thither honest tenants and inhabitants, for this
year ensuing, unless otherwise it be left (as heretofore) at large,
and subject to be made a den and receptacle of thieves and
rebels upon every occasion. There appeared to the Lord-Deputy
and Council a necessity so to settle it speedily, that at once
the King's rent might be secured and increased, the place civi-
lized and strengthened, the stomach of the country thereabouts
stayed, and some good exemplary beginning made in this kind
of cases for the better future service of His Highness. Upon
which motives principally, what has been done here is done,
and that desired to be done there is now desired All which
he humbly and willingly submits to his Lordship's grace, judg-
ment, and best liking, with resolution of modesty and patience,
when he finds unexpected rubs ; and of a true measure of hearty
and effectual thankfulness and endeavour to deserve better, when
he finds favour." — Dated from Rathfamham, 15th May, 1609.
S. P. iii., 204.

But it appears from the Patent Rolls that a grant, dated
May 2nd, 16C9, was made to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, of the
entire territory called Upper Trough. — Cal. Pat. Jac. L p.
149, b.

The denominations were very numerous, and were con-
tained in the " Ballybetaghs " of Ballyleggachory, Bally
Drummarrall, Clonoad, Ballineguire, BaUiglaslagh, and
Ballydrumbanchor. All which were parcels of the estate of
Brian Oge M*Mahoune, otherwise Brian M'Sarvegh, slain in
rebellion, and were lately granted to said Brian, and his
heirs male. Licence was given to Sir Thomas to hold a
Wednesday market at Clonleigg, and a fair on the Monday
next after the feast of Peter — rent 138. 4cJ., Irish. Also to
hold a Court JJeet for the whole at Clonleigg ; a Court Baron
at Leggachorry for that Ballybetagh ; a Court Baron at
Drunmiarrall for that Ballybetagh; a Court Baron at
Clonleigg, for the Ballybetagh of Ballyclonocide, &c., the
tates of Cargins, &c. He and his heirs male to appear and
serve the Crown in all journeys, roads, and hostings within
County Monaghan, and its confines, with all his posse of
horse and foot ; and, if twenty miles without the limits,
with one horseman, and two footmen, armed and provided.
To build a castle, or house of stone or brick, within five
years, thirty feet long, and twenty broad, at least, with
a court or bawn about it, in any convenient place on the
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years to plant ten English tenants at least with a term for
life. 2 May, 7 Jac. I. On the 22nd August following there
was a further grant to Sir Thomas Ridge way, Knt.,Treasurer-
at-War. The lands in the preceding patent were granted to
him, his heirs and assigns, for ever, to hold of the Castle of
Dublin, in common soccage, by fealty only, at the same rent
and services. Also licence to hold a Saturday market and
fair, on Monday after St. Peter's day, at Lurgan. A Court
Leetat Lurgan for all the premises, and a Court Baron then
for the ballybetagh of BaUyglaslagh, and tates of Cargin,
&c., which market and fair and courts were changed from
Clonleigg to Lurgan. — Cal. p. 1496.

The early patent of 7th May, 1609, seems to have been
informal, for the King's letter for such grant bears date
June 28th of that year. — CaL Pat. Jac. I., p. 142 and
1536, Duplicate.

Just before this we find Sir Arthur Chichester writing to
Lord Salisbury : —

"The noble Treasurer, who will adventure at the hardest
terms (when it shall give furtherance to His Majesty's designs),
now offers to undertake a double portion, or more, if it stands
with the rules of the project" — S. P. iii., 193.

In 1610 we find a grant, dated 29th May, to Sir Thomas,
under the Plantation, of the greatproportion of Portclare,
and Ballykirgir, of 2,000 acres. This was in the barony of
Clogher, county Tyrone. Sir Thomas was in London on
Plantation duty at this time, (having been appointed a
Commissioner of Plantation, 16th March, 1609), and his
patent is not enrolled in the Irish Chancery Records. —
Inqn. Tyrone, No. 8, Car. I. S. P. iii., 171.

On the 3rd December, 1610, Sir Thomas had a grant of
the great proportion of Largie, in the precinct of Dun-
gannon (in the present Barony of Lower Dungannon, County
Tyrone). This was created into the Manor of Eidgewaie. —
CaL Pat. Jac. L, p. 1836.

In September, 1611, we find : —

"Sir Thos. Ridgeway, Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer-at-War
in Ireland, undertaker of 2,000 acres [in the precinct of Clogher],
has appeared in person. His agent is Emanuel Ley, resident this
twelve months, who is to be made a freeholder under him. Sir
Thomas brought from London and Devonshire, the 4th May,
1610, twelve carpenters, mostly with wives and families, who
have since been resident, employed in felling timber bought of
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in any part of the Barony of Clogher, or elsewhere nearer him,
viz : — 700 treeSy 400 })oards and planks, besides a quantity of
stone, timber for tenements, with timber ready for the present
setting up of a water mill. He is erecting a wardable castle and
house, to be finished about the next spring. Ten masons work
upon the castle, and two smiths. One Mr. Farefax M'Laughton,
Robert Williams, Henry Holland, and three of the said carpen-
ters are to be made freeholders ; other families are resident,
wherewith he will perform all things answerable to his cove-
nants."— S. P. iv., 124, Carew.

In 1611, amongst servitors and natives, we find Sir Thomas
Ridgeway, Treasurer at Wars, 2,000 acres in the precinct of
Dungannon, as servitor ; his carpenters providing timber, &c.,
for building next spring — 8.P. iv., p. 130.

On 10th October, Sir Thomas writes from Rathfiimham
to Lord Salisbury —

''The preparations for the Clogher plantation being now
awakened and summoned by his lordship's own i>en, as well as by
the Lord Carew's presence, shall go onward with all speed. His
castle itself is yet but two stories high ; but notwithstanding it
shall be finished this winter, the roof being made, and all kind of
workmen and materials in place. The cause of the backwardness
thereof was his having employed his masons in finishing a castle
in the Desert of Gallen [in the Queen's County], the former in-
habitants whereof broke out in seventeen rebellions within the
space of sixty years. Makes the castle within the proportion he
had of his lordship, the less, partly for expedition's sake, but
principally as being the more smart and wardable." — S.P. iv. 144.

A supplemental grant was made to Sir Thomas and his
brother ueorge in their proportions in the precinct of Clogher,
17th May, 1615.— Cal. Pat. Jac. L, 2996.

On Ibth July, 1611, a grant was made to Sir Thomas
Bidgeway of a Monday market and two yearly fairs at
Au^er, on All Saints and May 1st, with courts of piepowder
and theusualtoUs. Andon April22nd,1613,a grant was made
to Sir Thomas Ridgeway in Clogher barony, of certain lands
including Augher. oir Thomas was within four years to settle
on a parcel of land called Augher, twenty English or Scots,
chiefly tradesmen and artificers, to be burgesses of a town
to be called Agher, to be incorporated within four years,
with a convenient place for the site of a town, church,
churchyard, market-place, and public school. The town to
consist of twenty bui^gesses, besides cottagers, to whom he
was to assign houses and lands; and thirty acres for a
common at the rent of fourpence each burgess. He was
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on the 5th November. In Clogher parish, is the townland
of Augher tenements, 222 acres. The town of Augher had
in 1861, 494 inhabitants ; in 1841 it was more populous
than Clogher or live-mile-town, and is still in excess of
Clogher. — Cal. Pat. Jac. i., p. 2566.

The warrant for the incorporation of the Boroughmaster
and Burgesses of Augher was dated, April 6th, 161»S. The
charter was dated April 15th. The electors were Emanuel
Lea, Boroughmaster ; Fenton Parsons, Daniel Gray, Thomas
PoweU, Jolm Reyly, John Bennett, Thomas Pynney, Thomas
Hetherington, Francis Skott, Richard Skott, and Richard
Fener — CaL Jac. i. p. 256a. S. P. iv. p. 336.

On May 13th the first Members were returned, viz.,
Ralph Birchensha, Esq., (afterwards Knight), and Edward
Skojrre, Esq.

On the 7th August, 1614, the Member for Augher was
unseated.— S. P. iv., p. 498.

Sir Thomas Ridgeway seems, in 1608, to have had some
negotiations with Sir Thomas Coach, who had married the
widow of Alexander Cosby, Esq., of Stradbally, for the
Stradbally estate (Queen's County), whereby he acquired
his interest in it ; and he also acquired the Desert Gallen
estate, at Leix, in the Queen's County, where he was busy
building his castle, in October, 1611.

On the 18th August, 1612, an order was made for a grant
of incorporation of BaJlynekill, in Gallen Ridgeway e, into
a borough ; and on 17th April, 1613. Sir Thomas Ridgeway
and Aruiur Brereton were returned the first Members of it.
— S.P. iv., p. 123.

On 1st May, 1630, Sir Thomas, then Lord Londonderry,
mortgaged certain lands to John AncketelL

Besides the extensive grants to Sir Thomas Ridgeway,
the small proportion of BaJlymakell, containing Cavan-
ballygaly [JBaUygawley], County Tyrone, and other lands
was granted to his next brother, George Ridgeway, July
12th, 1611. These were in the parish of Errigal Keerogue,
and formed the manor of Thomascourt. Sir Francis
Willoughby, who had married Cassandra, Sir Thomas's
daughter. held,in 1611-12, the great proportion of Fentonagh,
parish of Donaghcavy. Captain John Ridgeway also had
1,000 acres in Castlerahan barony, County Cavan. He
obtained subsequently, 14th August, 1 612, further lands in
the same barony. In September, 1611, Captain John
Ridgeway had brought 120 gieat oaks from Fermanagh,
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loads from Bealturbet ; he has made a watercourse for mills
in a stony rocky ground, which cost him £25, as he says.
Has agreed for 500 barrels of lime in Meath to be brought
him on demand. Has removed five Irish houses near his
castle and built two other Irish houses in the great Island.
Has an English millwright, smith, and farrier, with their
wives, families, and necessary tools, and an EIngUsh and
Irish house carpenter with their wives and famuies ; two
or three other families of several trades, and has contracted
at Bealturbet for a boat for use at Loudi Eaure. In
Pynnar's survey this estate had passed to Captain Culme.
Sir Thomas' (then Lord Londonderry) eldest son, Robert,
and his son-in-law, Sir Francis WiUoughby, on the 10th
December, 1631, madegiiints to his youngest son, Macwilliam
Ridgeway ; and on the 16th January, 1632, to his second
son Edward. Cappaneshimagh aMas Ballyragget le Moat
is mentioned as one of his townlands. — Cal. Pat. Jaa i., p.
186a. lb. p. 1866. S. P. iv, pp. 130-1.

In .^nnar's Survey, 1618-19, we find under the head of
" The Precinct of Clogher, allotted to English Undertakers,"
that the Lord Ridgwaie had 2,000 acres, called Portclare
and Ballykillgirie. Upon this proportion was bmlt a
Bawne of lime and stone, fourteen feet square, with four
flankers, a castle, three stories high, and an house besides,
" all, with the Bawn, being of lyme and stone." On this
land were planted of British families viz. : — 2 Freeholders,
9 Lessees K)r lives, and 9 Lessees for years. These twenty
families, with their under Tenants, were able to make fifty-
six men with arms.

" The said Lord Ridgwaie hath three hundred and fifteen acres
at the Agher, for the which he is to buUd a town, and hath per-
formed, viz, : —

There are made fifteen Houses, whereof two of them are of Lyme
and Stone, and the rest are all Gage work and couples.

Each of these have to their House that be principal Buigesses,
two acres, and to them that are single Burgesses one acre, besides
commons for cattle, the whole number of Burgesses must be
twenty."

Augher was a Parliamentary borough until the time of the
Umon, when Lord Abercom was the patron.

In tiie Precinct of Dungannon, allotted to servitors and
natives. Lord Bidgwaie had 2,000 acres called Large, upon
which was a Bawne of lime and stone, 1 60 feet square, 14
feet high, and four flankers, and a House in it of Timber.
There were dwelling three English families upon the Land
near the Bawne.

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We find aJflo that in the Precinct of Clogher, George
Ridgwaie, gentleman, had 1,000 acres called Thomas Court,
on which was a Bawne, but no House. There was planted
on this land, of British Tenants — one freeholder, six lessees
for three lives, and four lessees for years, in toto eleven
families, able to make twenty-six men with arms.

Turning to his more personal history. Sir Thomas
Ridgway is said to have been of the Posse Comitatus
of Devon in the 32nd and 42nd years of Queen
Elizabeth, if there is no mistake in the catalogue
found in Sir William Pole's and Mr. Eisdon's MS.
of Devon. He was High Sheriff of Devon in 1600,
when he was knighted (vicS Prince s " Worthies of Devon**).
In King James's time, he was a Privy Councillor in Ireland ;
Deputy Treasurer and Commander General, and Treasurer
of Wars for several years together. He was one of the
Officers-Qeneral in 1613, and was reckoned next in the
list to the Lord Deputy, Lord Chichester, Baron of Belfast.

In 1808 (Sep, 2) we find in the State papers,

''The King acknowledges the good deserts of Sir Thomas
Kidgeway and Mr. Marshall in the aid they both have giren him
in this Survey."— S. P. iii., 19.

On the 15th of Sep. in a List of Foot is found "Sir
Thomas Ridgeway, Treasurer, 100, at Gallen in Leix." —
lb. p. 33.

On Oct. 15, Sir Thomas Ridgeway, writing to Lord
Northampton, commends the Chief Justice and Attorney-
General to his favour. The small colledge is progressing
favourably. An Act for Commencement mis been held, ana
very laudably performed, in all sorts ; one Doctor and four
Bachelors in Divinity having been created, and one Doctor
in Civil Law, with nine Masters and seven Bachelors of
Arts. From the Treasury near Dublin- — lb, iii, pp. 69, 70.

11th Nov. Amongst the Captains of Foot, on 5th Nov.,
1608, was Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Treasurer, 100. At
Gallen in Leix. — S. P. iii, 97.

On March9, 1609, Sir A. Chichester writes to Salisbury :—

" For albeit Mr. Treasurer (who is likewise Receiver) be a very
worihy and most upright gentleman, yet seeing he cannot attend
that service in person at all times, he cannot foresee andprevent the
abuse and deceit of inferior officers, to which they have in this
Kingdom of long time been inared."---S. P. iii., 157.

In 1609, Sir Thomas was on March 16th, made a Com-
missioner of Plantation. — S. P. iii., 171.

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Miler Magrath writes January 23rd, 1610, to Sir Thomas
Ridgeway, to procure him the Bishoprics of Eillala and
Achonry.— S. P. iii., 353.

June 9th, It) 10, The King has heard and considered the
particulars concerning the Plantation entrusted to Sir
Thomas Ridgewajr's delivery, whose sufficiency he highly
approves. — S. P. lii , 549.

On July 19th The Lord Deputy advises Salisbury that
Sir Thomas Ridgeway, their Treasurer, came to Dublin on
the 5th of July; careless of his own safety, came over in a
small boat of seven or eight tons, a vessel very unfit for him
to adventure in, had not the consideration of His Majesty's
service carried him beyond what was fitting. — S.P.iii., p. 480.

Sep. 30, 1610, Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Treasurer at wars
—20 horse— 20 footmen Ih. 507.

On Oct. 12, 1610.— Sir Thomaa Ridgeway writes to
Salisbury that he learns, by a letter from Henry Reynolds,
that an information has been made against him for defects
of payment. He is deeply distressed. He prays to be
judged by his books, by which he will stand or falL He
appeals to the Lord Deputy, and to allow this public ser-
vice for the punctuality of his payments. — lb. 515.

On Oct. 14, Sir Arthur Chichester writes from Rathfam-
ham to Salisbury that money is very scarce. Mr. Treasurer
has given bills. Mr. Treasurer is much grieved and dis-
contented. — lb. 516.

On Dec. 10th Sir Thomas Ridgeway requests licence from
Salisbury for his three sons to travel for three years in
France, Italy, and other places. He writes frx)m Rath-
femham.— /6. 529.

On the 8th May, 1611, there is a warrant of fiant for the
absence of Sir Robert Ridgeway, Knt., in order to travel —
lb. iv., 49.

On May 9th Sir Thomas writes to Salisbury about a re-
mittance. It is impossible to borrow money. His books
are prepared for examination. — lb. iv., 51

On Sep. 10th, 1611, Sir Thomas is in the List of Privy
Councillors. — lb. iv., 102.

On Sep. 19th, he writes to Salisbury that he should be
early in shipping the treasure for fear of the storms. He
concludes with a request as to his undertaking in the
barony of Clogher. — lb. iv., 103.

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The fine paid by Sir Thomaa, in 1609, on defective titles
was £26 138. 4rf.— S. P. iv., 104.

In September, amongst pensions and annuities for officers
of the Exchequer, we have Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Vice-
Treasurer and Receiver-General, 1602, £6«l 138. 4d.—S,T?.
iv., 110.

Sir Robert Ridgeway, Master of the Hawks and Gfeme,
formerly Sir Geoffiy Fenton, during good behaviour, 1611,
£8 178. 9id— S.P. iv., 197.

On December 20th, 1611, Sir Thomaa writes, from Rath-
famham, thanks to Salisbury for payment. He had better
be in his grave than long continue a Treasurer here in a
necessitous time, besides doubt of misconceiving or misre •
porting there, both which he knows will shorten nis days. —
S. P. iv., 181.

On the 13th November, 1612, there is an order for the
incorporation of the town of BaJlenakill, in Gallen- Ridge-
way, Queen's County, by the name of Soffirane or Provost
and Burgesses of said town. Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Knight
and Baronet, and his son Sir Robert Ridgeway, Knight, are
amongst the first Burgesses. — S. P. iv., p. 299.

Another document contains the names of the Sovereign
and Burgesses thus — ^Thomas Vicars, Gent., Sovereign for
the first year; Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Knight and JBart. ;
Sir Robert Ridgeway, Knight ; Henry Reynolds, Esq. ;
Arthur Bruerton, Captain Marmaduke NeUson, Thomas
Smyth, the Preacher of God's Word; Edward Brooke,
Gent.; Abraham Rogers, Gent.; James Rochfort, Gent.;
Henry Wright, (Jent. ; William Wright, Gent. ; John

Golding. The days for the two fayres are one on the

5th November, the other, Thursday in Whitsun week.
['* On neither of which days is there any fair thereabouts, or
in Ireland." — Dean Reeves.] The liberties of the Corporation
to extend throughout the whole manor of Gallen-Ridgeway,
the castle and barone in Ballynekill, and to the same castle,
only excepted parck or impaled demesne.— S. P. iv., 319.

On the 23rd AprQ, 1613, Sir Thomas Ridgeway was re-
turned by the Sheriff for the County Tj-rone. He had
thirty -four votes, and Tirlagh O'Neill (" who cannot speak
English") twenty-eight votes. As before stated, on the
17tti April, Sir Thomas Ridgeway, of Tor Mohun, Devon,
and Arthur Brereton, Esq., were returned the first members
for the Borough of BaUenekill, Sir Thomas sat for Tyrone.
— S. P. iv., 362.

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On the I8th May, 1613, Sir Thomas Ridgeway proposed
Sir John Davys as Speaker of the House of Commons.

*^ According to that direction they immediately departed into
the House of Commons to make choice of a Speaker; where,
having taken their places and sitting quietly some time, Sir Thomas
Ridgeway, Baronet, Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer at Wars, and
one of the Privy Council of this Realm, rose up, and after some
expressions of joy to behold an Assembly of so many worthy
Knights and Gentlemen in a Parliament in this Kingdom, de-
clared that the first thing they were to do was to choose a
Speaker; and having expressed at large with what gifts and
abilities the person fit for that place should be qualified, he named
Sir John Davys, Knight, Attorney-General for this Kingdom,
being one of the Sei'geants-at-Law in England, to be the fittest
person to supply that place ; and Mr. Treasurer and Mr. Marshall
numbered the House, like tellers, standing at the door; and,
having declared him elected, lifted him into the chair.*' —
S. P. iv., 400.

On 7th August, 1615, we have a letter of Sir Thomas
Ridgeway to Sir R. Winwood concerning an Act of
Subsidy.— S. P. v., 85

Again, in August, nine reasons for the continuance of the
office of Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer at Wars in one
man's hands. The offices held jointly, by Letters Patent,
under the Great Seal of England, were so held by his pre-
decessors, and the present Treasurer for nine years space ;
in which nine years he confidently avers that there was
never more done in Ireland for the King's honour and profit,
and stability of the Kingdom, with so little money out of
England, than in the same time. — S. P. v. 88-89.

In 1616 (? in April) the Lords of the Council write to
the Lords Justices, directing them to inquire and certify
the state of the reckonings between the Treasurer Ridgeway
and seven captains.— S. P. v., 124.

On July 1 4th, 1616, there was a Commission to Sir Henry
Dowcra as Treasurer at War in Ireland, during pleasure ;
and a grant of the same, July 16th. — lb. 128-9.

On the 25th, Lord Chichester was appointed Lord High
Treasurer of Ireland. — lb. 131.

On the 24th December, Sir Thomas Ridgeway was no
longer on the Commission for completing the Plantation of
Ulster.— i6. 138.

On the 31st December, Deputy St John writes to Win-
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sealing of Sir Thomas Ridgeway's Patent for liis creation,
and to send it to him, whidi he has caused to be done, and
now he is a Lord.— 76. 143.

The grant to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Knt. and Bari,
and his heirs male, of the title and dignity of Lord Ridge-
way, Baron of Gallenridgeway, in consideration of his
services in the Plantation of Ulster, and erecting several
fortresses in the Northern parts of Ireland, was dated 25th
May, 14th Jac. L, 1616.— Cal. Pat. Jac. i, p. 3116.

In 1617, is found " A. brief collection of several sums of
money, paid by the late Treasurer Ridgeway, with other
demands not allowed in his last account, ending June, 1616,
to be considered and recovered." — S. P. v., 175.

In 1617, we have in the State Papers — " What the Lord
Deputy and State shall think fit to be allowed by His
Majesty unto the said late Treasurer, in respect of his per-
sonal services and assistance, by himself and his troop of
horse, under his leading, in the expedition against the
traitor, Sir Cahir O'Doughertie, and his adherents, and like
assistance by him and his said troop towards the taking of
the said rebel's several castles to His Majesty's use, and re-
leasing of the said Bishop of Derrie's wife. Captain Henry
Yaughan, Sir Basil Brooke's young son, or other English
prisoners and good subjects from their former captivity in
the said castles when they were in the enemy's custody ;
for which he demands upon the shutting up of his final
account by the sum of £168 188., though he avers it cost
him thrice as much, besides the often adventure of his per-
son, followers, and retinue. Also money obtained by
William Browne, late the petitioner's deputy receiver of
the Treasure of Ireland, and paid to himself, for the fee of
collector's tenth of the impost — £372 10«.; also demanded
by the said late Treasurer, for his entertainment, £230 ISs. ;
same, £1,082 0«. l*irf., English; sum total, £5,937 78. S^d,
English."— Signed by Francis Goften.— S. P. v., 176.

In 1617, we find a petition from Neale King. He refers
to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Knight, as to his services in Done-
gal. He had taken orders, and asked Christopher, Lord Bishop
of Derry, to bestow upon him some church living ; but got
a cold andsuccourless answer. There is also his iMormation.
S. P. v., 178. i6.,p. 179.

On 21st October, 1618, there is a Commission to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, &c., to take an account oif
Thomas, Lord Ridgeway, Treasurer at Wars in Ireland. —
a P. v., 216,

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1618, Muster Roll of County Tyrone— The Lord Ridge-
way, 2,000, 48 men, 6 muskets, 10 culivors, 7 pistols, 3 hal-
berts, 28 swords.— S. P. v., 221.

February 26tli, 1619, Lord Ridgway to be ordered to
bring up the Bonds given by the Captains of Forts, &c. —
lb. 226.

The following is an account of the manner in which Lord
Ridgeway obtained the Earldom of Londonderry.

Lord Balfour finding the Bishop [of Cloghei] to be weary
of lending, he offered the Bishop a bargain he had of the
Lord Ridgewaye, who had mortgaged the castle and
demeanses of Agher to the Lord Balfour. This Agher was
within a mile and a half of Clogher. The Bishop then,
haviug no demeanses nor houses left him by his predecessors,
he hearkened to the bargain and bought for £800.

Sir James Areskin by this time was come over go Ireland
with his Majestie'd grant for makiug some nobleman an
Earle. He being of the Bishop's old acquaintance, he resorted
often to the Bishop's house, craving the Bishop's advice for
making his best profit of the King's said graunt. The honor
was oftered to manie uppon verie easie tearmes. But at last
Robert Barclay, Dean of Clogher, tooke in hand to make
the bargaine betwixt the Lord Ridgewaye and Sir James,
uppon advantageous conditions to Sir James, and muche
more than ever he expected. So the Dean draweth the
bargain, which was thus : —

^^That Sir James Areskin should have the reversion of the
castle and demeanses of Agher and 2,500 acres, lying adjacent to, in
possession, and Sir James should assure him of the honour." — Ltfe
of Bishop James Spottisivoode, p. 104.

The following is the statement of the case in the Patent
Rolls, July 16, 1622 ;—

''James, <kc. — ^We cannot but with singular comfort and
contentment observe in the general improvement of that our
kingdom of Ireland since our happy reign here, the same is
furmshed with worthy personages, both of ^e British and Irish
birth, who besides their virtues and merits, are possessed with fair
and plentiful estates, out of which consideration, when the names
of certain noblemen there were presented unto us, as of persons
capable of higher advancements, being otherwise made known unto
us on sundry occasions, formerly for their deserts in our service,
and extraordinary value in that our realm, we did graciously
resolve to make choice of ore of that number for the present, upon
whom we should be graciously pleased to confer the honor, title,
and dignity of an Earle of that our realm ; and for that purpose we
have herewith sent you a true note of such names as were so

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presented unto us, being nine in all^ liye of English, and four of
Irish birth, letting 70U further to understand that, whensoever
any one of the said nine lords contained in this inclosed note, shall
signify unto you his desire of our gracious favour, extended in this
behalf, that it is our royal pleasure, that he shall have with all
convenient expedition our letters patent made unto him, by the
advice of some of our learned counsel there, thereby to make,
ordain, constitute, and create him an Earl of that our kingdom, to
have and enjoy the name, title, and dignity of an Earl, to him,
and the heirs male of his body heretofore begotten and to be
begotten, with all rights, privileges, preheminences, prerogatives,
immunities and allowances of an Earl, in as large, ample, and
beneficial manner as any other Earl oi that kingdom doth or ought
to hold, or enjoy the same. — ^Westminster, 16 July, 2(>th."

Lords of the birth of Ireland: — Lord Viscount Gormanston,
Lord Viscount Mountgan*ett, Lord of Killeene, Lord of
Houth.

Lords of the birth of England : — ^Lord Viscount Powers-
court, Lord Viscount Moore, Lord Ridgeway, Lord Folliott,
Lord Caulfield.

This is a true note of the names of the said nine Lords
presented to his Majesty, in such a manner as is mentioned
in his Majesty's letter, dated 16th of July, 1622.

" May it please your Lordsliip. — A noble and careful proffer of
the right and title of an Earl being made unto me by an honor-
able and loving friend, unexpectedly and unaymingly by me, I take
God and him to witness, upon the grounds [and] contents of the
£ing Majesty's letter or warrant, dated at Westminster, the 16th
day of July last, 1622, I am now induced by his persuasion and
his honorable dealings with me in this and other niatcers for the
more good of me and mine, to consent thereunto, and do hereby
desire your Lordships honorably and favourably to sign your
Lordships' warrant, and seal the patent according lus Majesty's
gracious intention expressed in the said letter, and according
like grants in like cases. Besting evermore, humbly ready at
your Lordship's command.

" ToMAS Ridgeway.

"BaDynikill, August 8, 1622."

^' To the right honorable my singular good Lords, the Lords
Justices of Ireland.

" Let this letter be enrolled together with the King's letter
concerning the honor now to be conferred upon the Lord
Ridgeway."

Adam Loftus, Chancellor.

Inrolled upon the 20th August, 1622, upon the requisition
of Sir James Erskyn, Knight.

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The details of the bargain are fully learned from the
Inquisition of 15th September, 1629. (No. 8, Car. L, Tyrone.)

The following are the dates of the several transactions : —

July 16, 1662. King's letter for selection and nomination

of eligible Lords.
Aug. 8, „ Lord Ridgeway's letter of acceptance.
Aug. 19, „ Conveyance of lands in consideration,

executed at Augher.
Aug. 26 „ On request of Sir James Erskine, the

Chancellor orders enrolment of King's

letter and Ridgeway's acceptance.
Aug. 23, „ Patent of Earldom to Ridgeway.

King James had, by letters patent, 23rd May, 1610,
granted to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, now Lord Ridgeway,
Earl of Londonderry, the great proportion of Portclare and
BaUykilgir. The names of the lands, of which Agher
is one, are recited in the Patent.

The King, also, 7th July, 1611, being seized of the small
iroportion of Ballymachell (names of the townlands recited)
'd by patent, dated 12th July, 1611, grant the same to George
Ridgeway ; who on the 22nd July same year was seized of
the same, under the name of the Manor of Thomascourt. So
seized, the two brothers did, on the 19th of August, 1622,
at Agher, by deed, assign to Sir James Erskine, Knight, the
whole of the two proportions with the advowson of Errgell,
with the rent also ol the proportion of BaUyloughmaguiffe,
and 17 other balliboes in the barony of Clogher, for ever.

The lands of the Manor of Agher are recited in an Liquisi-
tion 16th September, 1639. (Ulster Inquisitions, Tyrone,
No. 47, Car. I., Tyrone.)

On the death of Sir James' son, the Rev. Archibald
Erskine, there were two mortgages against the estate ; one
dated January 1, 1639, to William Madden, for £200 (lb. No.
JO, Car. IL), and the other January 1, 1639, for £240, to his
son- in law, William Richardson, and his wife Mary.

An Inquisition was taken in 1661 upon the estate of Rev.
Archibald Eiskine, of Agher, and the copious rental is
evidence of the vast consideration which changed hands on
the 19th August, 1622 ; the Favor Royal estate representing
but a portion. When he died (in 1645), Mary, his daughter
and co-heir, was eighteen years of age and unmarried,
(lb. No. 19, Car. II.)

Thomas, Earl of Londonderry, died 24th January, 1631 , his
son and successor being then thirty-six years of age.

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II.— SiK Francis Rob.

The name of Roe was in old times often written Rooe.
Francis Roe was, it is believed, son of Robert Roe, of Low
Layton, near Wanstead, in Essex; which Robert was a
j^ounger son of Sir Thomas Roe, in 1568 Lord Mayor of
London. Sir Francis is supposed to have been a younger
brother of Sir Thomas Roe, a skilful and able diplomatist,
and steady patron of literature, who was the medium
through whom the Bodleian Library was enriched with a
valuable collection of oriental manuscripts, about the same
time that the great Barocci collection was presented by the
Earl of Pembroke ; and above all, he was the agent, both in
the presentation and carriage to England, of the famous
Codex Alexandrinua of the Greek Bible. He was on terms
of intimacy with Archbishop Ussher, who, writing in 1644,
designated him, "vir clarissimus et optimus." He had
been knighted by King James in March, 1604; was sent
out in ) 621 as ambassador to the Grand Seignior ; and the
happy effects of his negotiation have been felt by the
English nation almost to the present day. He died on the
6th November, 1644.

Francis commenced his career in a military capacity, and
served with great distinction in the Elizabethan War in
Ireland. He comes to view in Moryson's History, in 1598,
as one of the " old captains." In the year following Captain
Roe was stationed with one hundred men at Ardee. In
1601, we find him transferred to Armagh ; and in the
October of that year he had a command, as Lieutenant-
Colonel, of Sir Oliver Holmes' regiment at the battle of
KinsaJe ; and honourable mention of his name is made in
the despatches of Mountjoy. This engagement completely
broke the power of the Irish, and the general was able to

Sroceed to the north for the reduction of Tyrone. The
istorian of the period relates as follows : —

" From Dungannon the Lord Deputy sent Sir Richard Mory-
son with 500 foot to meet Sir Arthur Chichester, who came with
his forces from Lough Sydney (Lough Neagh), and landed within
a few miles of Dungannon, where, they being met^ did, according
to the Lord Deputy's directions, begin to radse a fort. In the
meantime, the Lord Deputy having utterly banished all Tyrone's
partakers out of those parts, marched five miles from Dungannon
to Lough Sydney, where Sir Arthur Chichester lay with his
forces ; and his Lordship encamped there till he had made the
fori defensible, to contain above 1,000 foot and 100 horse, which
wa£ to be victualled from Carrickfergus by the way of the said

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Lough. The fort of his LoFdship's barony he called Moantjoj,
and made Sir Benjamin Barry (his Lieutenant, and now one of the
Colonels of the army) governor of the same for present service ;
which being done, the command of the fort was left to Oaptain
Francis Roe." — (Itinerary, p. 218.)

On the 1st January, 1603, Captain Francis Roe was
stationed here in command of 150 men; and the same also
had appeared in the returns of May in the same year. In
consideration of his services at Kinsale and elsewhere, he
was knighted by Sir George Carew, the Lord Deputy, on
the 29th September, 1603. The official entry is as fol-
lows >—

"Sir Francis Roe, knighted in His Majes^' the chastell in
Dublin, ye 29 of September, 1603."

Peace being established, the army was considerably re«
duced, and we accordingly find, in the year following, " Sir
Francis Roe keeper of Mountjoy and the temtory, fifty
men." In 1604, 1606, and 1606, we find him still with
his men in the Fort of Mountjoy ; and in January, 1608, a
representation of the state of Ulster mentions that—

^' Sir Thobie Oolferlde and Sir Francis Roe have the superin-
tendence of the upper part of Tyrone, with the county of Ard-
maghe."

In this year a body of 700 foot having been sent over
from England, a detachment of fifty men was sent to Sir
Francis Koe, so that the Mountjoy garrison was restored to
its former strength. In 1608, as is shown by what follows,
he added to the defences of the fort : —

^< Sir Francis Roe, knight, for reinforcing the rampier, makLog.
the parapet higher and larger, and making the ditch broader and
deeper, and for other reparations and works done upon His
Majesty's fort of Mountjoy, by concordatum, October 16, £90."

Among the instructions from Government for the Trea-
surer in January, 1610, we find: —

" He would have Sir Toby Caulfield undertake Clancan, and
Sir Francis Roe, Munterdelvin, and such other lands adjoining to
these forts as is convenient for them. These gentlemen are of
ability, and can give good furtherance to the Plantation, if
they may be encouraged to imdertake those feist countries upon
reasonable conditions."

In the same month notice is taken, for the Plantations, of
Captains of companies who have certain houses ; amongst
whom was Sir Francis Roe, with lands near Mountjoy,

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Mounterdelvin, &c. This bore reference ti> a grant in con-
templation, to which effect was given by letters patent,
dated 19th June, 1610, as follows: —

" From the King to Sir Francis Roe, knight, in county Tyrone.
The castle or fort, and town of Mountjoy, with 300 acres of land
thereto belonging and adjoining, viz. — ^parcel of the two towns of
the Backe extending to the wood in the north part thereof — all
that part of the two towns of Mullaghterorie, whereon the castle
of Mountjoy is built, extending to the wood on the north and
west parts thereof ; the town and lands of Cloneterackierge, which
extends to the said wood ; the town and lands of BaUibegge,
parcel of two towns of Aghie, Dromdrige, and Aghierghill,
extending towards the east, from the bounds lately assigned by
the Lord Deputy Chichester, and next adjoining to the fort of
Mountjoy ; being lands reserved to the Crown out of the Earl of
Tyrone's letters patent. To hold for 21 years from Michaelmas
next." 19th June, 8th Jac.

This fort, of which the remains are still to be seen, was
situated in the north part of the parish of Clonoe, in the
barony of Dungannon Middle (Ordnance Survey, Tyrone,
sheet 47). It stood on an eminence near the shore of
Lough Neagh.

In a list of Servitors thought meet to be Undertakers in
the Plantation of Ulster, Sir Francis Roe seems high up
among the names.* So, on the 28th of February, 1611, he
had a grant of 1,000 acres, being a small proportion, situate
in the middle part of the parish of Desertcreat, a few miles
north-west of his Mountjoy holding. The premises were
indicated.

In 1611 we find—

" The Castle of Mountjoy, upon Lough Chichester (Lough Neagh,
pi-eviously called Lough Sydney), besides the old fort, wherein are
many inhabitants, both English and Irish, together with Sir
Francis Roe's foot company. Here is a fair castle of stone and
brick, covered with slate and tile, begun in the late Queen-s time,
and finished by His Majesty, of earth, well ditched, and flanked
with burworks. In this castle Sir Francis Roe, the Constable,
and his family dwell."

The military importance of the place was enhanced on the
20th October, 1612, when orders were given to draw up a
fiant, on incorporation, to Nicholas Roe, Sir Francis Roe,
Knt., Francis Aiislowe (Annesley), William Clarke, John
Hamson, Thomas Ashby, Grifl^ Williams, Rhyse Morgan,
Henry Towne, Robert Burton, Christopher Morice, John
Mullarie, and Richard Sanderson, by the names of ProTost

* The Manor of Roe, seventeen balliboes and §, estimated at 1,000 acne, now
over 8,600 acres.

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and Burgesses of tiountjoie, enabling them to send Bur-
gesses to Parliament,

This project does not appear to have been carried into
effect, there being four boroughs already in the county ; two
of them, Agher and Clogher, close together.

In 1613, April 23rd, Sir Thomas Ridgeway, and Sir Francis
Roe, were returned to Parliament as Knights of the Shire
for Tyrone. Sir Francis was at the head of the poll; but the
opposition alleged that the greater number of freeholders
elected Captain Tirlagh O'Neill to be joined with Sir Fran-
cis Roe, but that the Sheriff had returned Sir Thomas
Ridgeway in his place.

There was a deed dated June 13th, 1616, by Sir Francis
Roe, of Mountjoy, Knt., whereby he confirmed to Sir
Garrett Moor, of Mellefont, Knt., Sir Roger Jones, Knt.,
and Sir Nicholas Whyte, sons-in-law to the said Sir
Garret Moor, and George Whyte, of Dundalk, all the manor
called the Manor of Rooe, in the county of Tyrone,and barony
of Dungannon, with sixteen balliboes, and all the castles,
lands, &c,, containing 1,000 acres, with all courts baron
and leet, &c. —

"The lands purchased by me joiQily with Dame Margery,
my wife, of Brian Dowlin, the chief of his name, excepted."

To hold to the said Garrett, Sir Roger, Sir Nicholas, and
George, their heirs and assigns, for ever, of the chief lords of
the fee, by the service due and accustomed. There was also
a covenant of further assurance, whereby he appointed his
well-beloved "in trust," Robert Townsly, of Mountjoy,
yeoman, his lawful attorney, to deliver quiet possession. The
true intent was that the feofiers, their heirs and assims, and
the survivor of them, should be served of the aforesaid manor
and lands, to the use of the said Sii- Francis, and Dame
Margery, during their lives ; and then to pay to his brother,
Thomas Roe, if he be living, the sum of jblOO English ; and
to his brother, Nicholas Roe, if he be living, the sum of £50 ;
and to his sister Dorothy the sum of £50 ; and after these
charges were performed, the said feoffers and the survivor
should dtand and be served of the manor and lands, to the
use of Thomas Moore, one of the sons of the said Sir Garrett,
and his heirs, for ever. The tenants who consented were
Owen Roe O'Quin, Dowallagh Danill, Alexander M'Donnell,
Thomas May, Robert Townsley, GUleduff Quin, Tirlagh
O'Doras, and William O'Doras, being several lessees for years.
(Cal. Pat., Jac. I., p. 508 a). Deed to same effect, 31st May,
1616 (ih.)

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From the above it appears that Sir Francis, though mar-
ried, had no issue, and that his estate of Manor Koe paased
into the Moore family, now represented by the Marquis of
Drogheda. His wife's name was Margerie Bagenall, as
appears by his funeral entry, quoted farther on. Three years
met the date of the foregoing deed, Fynnar made the follow-
ing report on Manor Roe : —

'' Upon this there is a good bawne of earth, with a quickset
set upon it, and a good deep ditch about it. There is within a
very good small house of brick and stoue, inhabited by an
Engli^ gentleman and his family. There are also about the
bawne seventeen houses, which are inhabited with British
tenants, who have estates for years, and have taken the oath of
supremacy."

It would appear from this that Sir Francis did not occupy
his house of Manor Roe, but let it to a fellow countryman ;
he, himself, possibly resided at Drogheda, of which place he
was Mayor in 1620, at the time of his death.

In reference to the occupation of Mountjoy Fort, the
Government, July 7th, 1610, had ordered that at the next
avoidance the same should be passed to Sir Thomas Coach,
with the same entertainment and emoluments enjoyed by
Sir Francis Roe. But Sir Francis made answer —

"To the fort there doth belong neither fee, ward, nor any
manner of other entertaynment, without which to pass the
castle and fort unto him were dangerous, his own ability being
insufficient to maintayne and defend it^ Besides which it is
granted to me by Letters Patent during my life"

Sir Francis was able to hold it efficiently, in virtue of his
military detachment, and his pay as a commissioned officer
in command.

Besides the lands which he had obtained from the Crown,
Sir Francis became lessee of large tracts of Church land,
under the See of Armagh, and other property.

It was found at an Inquisition sped at Dungannon, 28th
December, 1630, that Sir Francis Roe had died in the reign
of James I. His will, dated June 1st, 1616, was proved
before the surrogate of Primate Hampton, on the 22nd
August, 1622, by his widow. Lady Margery. He had
died on June 26tii, 1620, and she was now married again,
being swoin as " l)omina Margerie Roe, alias Downame,'*
being now the third wife of Dr. George Downham, Bishop
of Derry. Having a life estate in all Sir Francis' lauds,
she was a widow not to be despised, and further was
not advanced in life, for she survived her second husband.

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and lived to 1656, when her stepson, James Downham,
who was both Rector of Tynan and Dean of Armagh,
succeeded to her chattel property and church leases. A
memoir of this clergyman by his distant successor in both
preferments, Dr. Reeves (now Bishop of Down, &c.), will
be found in the September, 1881, number of the Palatine
Note Book, pp. 161-162.

By Sir Francis Roe's deed of settlement of June 30th,
1616, Sir Garrett Moore and three others were appointed
trustees of his Manor Roe estate, for the use of him and
his wife Margery, during their life, with remainder to Sir
Thomas Moore, second son of Sir Garrett, first Viscount of
Drogheda; but this Sir Thomas died without issue in
1623, when his interest in Manor Roe passed to his niece,
Letetia or Lettice Moore, the only child of his elder brother,
who had predeceased his father. She was bom in 1615,
and was an heiress of great promise, having a fortune of
£4,000. Of John Moore, the seventh son of Sir Garrett,
the first Viscount, Lodge has the following notice (Peerage,
Archdale's ed, VoL ii, p. 100) : —

'^ John, on whom the aforesaid Sir Francis Roee, by another
deed of feofiment, dated 31st May, 1616, settled all his leases and
£irms, goods and chattels, after his decease; except the eight
townlands called Desertcreff [now Desertcreat], l^ing 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, daring
the interest therein being."

The lease of the estate, under the See of Armagh, was
renewed by Primate James Ussher, for sixty years, firom
July, 1634, to Lady Margery Roe; and by her will,
November, 1660, was bequeathed to her stepson, James
Downham, in which she includes —

" That httle plate yet left, to my well beloved sonne-in-law
(stepson), son and heyre unto the late Bishop of Deny, now
deceased, who according to his abihtie hath from time to time,
hitherto been the greatest reliever of the wants and necessities
which I underwent since the beginning of theis troublesome times,
of all the friends I have."

A King's letter for the Lady Margery Roe, relict of
George, Bishop of Derry, dated 22nd September, 1634,
recites that Dame Margery Roe petitioned that her late
husband, being desirous to build and plant upon some of the
mensales of the said Bishopricke, a convenient house for
himself and his successors, did in his life effect the same, at
the expences of 2,000 marks sterling, or thereabouts, of his

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own and her means ; the revenues of his Bishopricke being,
as she pretends, most expended in hospitalitie and marryenge
of his children. That she should be paid the quarter's rent
and revenue of the Bishopricke due at May last, her husband
dying about a week before quarter's day, and the present
bishop renouncing any claim thereto, granted the same to her,
provided it was under £200. Bishop BramhaU acted hand-
somely in the matter, and procured the interest of Arch-
bishop Laud in obtaining this favour ; and in reference to
this we find him writing to Laud, 20th December, 1634 —

" My Lady Roe is your Grace's daily beadswoman."

In the funeral entries in Ulster's office we find —

" Sir Francis Roe, Enight, deceased at Drogheda, being Maior
of that towne, tbe 26th of June, 1620. He was buried there
honorably the 13th July folio wiuge. He had to wife Margerie,
daughter nal of Sir Nicholas Bagenall, sometime Marshall of tbe
Army, but had no issue by her. Arms — Gules, on a bend dexter,
between three garbs, or as many cross crosslets fitchy of the first,
with Bagenall, a bar sinister.''

In 1620, and again in 1624, Lady Roe appears in the
rentals of the See of Armagh, as tenant of twenty-nine
balliboes of the Church lands estate.

CLOGHER.

III. George Watkins, Gent

I have been unable to ascertain any particulars about
Mr. Watkins, who sat for Clogher in one rarliament only.
Nor can I find any trace of a Charter of the borough or
city, earlier than 1629, tem.. Car I. It appears, besides,
that a number of documents relating to Clogher were burnt
about the middle of tbe last century. The bishops seem to
have practically nominated the members for this place
without dispute, down to the year 1800, when there was a
petition, and the members fii*st returned were unseated, as
will be noticed in the proper place.

IV. William Ferrar, Gent.

About Mr. Ferrar I can find nothing more than that he
sat for one Parliament for Clogher.

In the Liber Munerum, Vol vii., p. 51, we find —

" Civitas Clogher — 193, Georgius Watkins, ) ^ . „

194, WUUemus Ferrar, / "®°«''^i-

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DUNGANNOK

V. Sir Garbet Moore.

Sir (larret Moore, the ancestor of the Marquis of Drogheda,
was the second son of Sir Edward Moore, Knt., second son
of John Moore (by his wife Margaret, daughter, and at
length heir, to John Brent, Esq., and widow of John Bering,
of Surrenden, in Plukly), and grandson of Thomas Moore,
Esq., of Benenden, Kent. A very fiill account of this family
will be found in Archdale's "Lodge's Peerage" (1789), VoL ii,
pp. 82-115.

" Sir Edward Moore, Knt (says Lodge, p. 90), became heir to his
cousin, Nicholas, of Oranebrooke and Wigmore, and, with his
brothers, were the first of the fiEtmily that settled in Ireland,
in the leign of Queen Elizabeth ; 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 1579 by Sir William
Drury, Lord Justice, not long beforo his lordship's death in the
camp between Limerick and KiLmallock ; and for his many eminent
services, both at home and abroad, was rewarded by ^e Queen
with a lease of the dissolved Abbey of Mellefont, with its appur-
tenances in the County of Louth, which he made the principal
place of his residence, and where his posterity remained" [a
grant in fee having been subsequently made to his son. Sir Gerald
(or Garret)],* '^ t3l the late Earl of Drogheda removed to Monas-
terevan, now Moore Abbey, in the County of Kildare, the seat of
the late Viscount Loftus of Elye, which descended to his lordship,
as heir of that fEunily." " In the wars, carried on for the reduction
of the Earl of Tyrone, Sir Edward was a principal commander,
&c" '' He married, first Mildi^, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas
Clifford, of Chart, in Kent, Esq. ; and secondly, Maigery, daughter

S rather widow — vide the note to page 93 of the Peerage] of John
^rabazon, of Eastwell, in the County of Leicester, Esq., the widow
of Mr. Warren, and of Mr. Blount ; and had issue four sons, &c.,"

of whom Sir Gerard, commonly called Sir Garret, was the
second, but on his eldest brother, Henry's death, without
issue by his wife, Mary Agarde, became uie eldest.

Sir Gaxret Moore, who succeeded his fiekther at Mellefont,
served under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Deputy
Mountjoy in the war with Tyrone and the Spaniards ; and
in September 1599, when the Earl of Essex left xhe kingdom,
had tne command of 100 foot at Ardee, with 25 horse at
Kells and Navan. On the 13th November, 1600, he was
with the Lord Deputy at the fight — Carlingford — against
Tyrone, when his ensign was killed ; and about the

• Vide Note.— Lodge, p. 98.

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beginning of that month, 1602, was sent by the Deputy into
the Breny, when all the rebelssubmitted and gladly received
Her Majesty's protection ; Tyrone at the same time sending
by Sir Garret to the Lord Deputy, an absolute submission
to the Queen's mercy, bearing date 12th November. And
the Queen dying the 24th March, 1602, the news was im-

etrted to the Lord Deputy on the 27th, in the night, at
ellefont; and his lordship being warranted by Her
Majesty's letters to receive Tyrone to mercy, had upon the
24tii commissioned, and the next day sent Sir Garret, and
Sir William Godolphin to treat with him. The said 27th
they arrived at Charlemont, where Sir William staying for
his troop of horse, Sir Garret rode that night to TuJlyhoge,
and conferred with Tyrone, who being resolved to obey the
Deputy's command, accompanied them to Mellefont, and
made a most humble submission in writing, which he pre-
sented publicly on his knees; and the Queen's death beingpro-
claimed 3rd April, he renewed his submission to Kin^ James,
and Id May attended the Lord Lieutenant into En^and.

On the 9 th June, 1603, he and William Moore of Barn-
mead, and Brent Moore, had the grant of a pardon for all
treasons and other offences ; on the 20th of same month he
was made Seneschal of the county of Cavan and town of
Eells; on the 22nd November, 1609, constable of the castle
of Philipstown, for his life, and that of Edward his son.
In the Parliament of 1613, he was member for the borough
of Dungannon ; on the 20th May, 1616, appointed of council
to the President of Munster; and on the 8th July, in the
same year, he was rated 100 marks for the subsidy then
granted to the King. In 1616, Sir Garret was captain of
twenty-five horse, at 48. a day ; and His Majesty taking into
consideration his great and manifold services to the crown,
was pleased, in testimony of the favour he bore him, to create
him and his heirs male Baron Moore of Mellefont, by privy
seal, dated at Newmarket, the 15th February, 1615, and by
patent at Dublin, the 20th July, 1616; the day after which
(being Sunday) his Lordship and the Lord Ardee was
[werej so created by the Deputy, after a sermon preached in
St Patrick's cathedral by Dr. James Ussher, then chancellor
of that cathedral, from these words, Acts xvii. 2, " There
were more noblemen than they which were at Thessalonica."
(Lodge, VoL ii., pp. 95, 96, 97.)

By privy seal, dated at Westminster, 5th January, 1621,
the King thus writes : —

** Whereas, we did not long since give a Royal testimony to the
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and well-beloved Sir Oarrett Moore, of Mellyfonte, whereby for
the eminency of his own virtues, and the good services done by
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
accustomed zeal and integrity in 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 Yiscount of that kingdom ; these
are therefore to require you, &c.**

He was accordingly created Viscount Moore of Drogheda,
by patent, 7th February, 1621. (lb. p. 97.)

The Lord Deputy 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 touchmg His Majesty's special
service, the Lord Moore was appointed, 1 5th July, 1624,
one of the commissioners and Keepers of the peace in the

1)rovinces of Leinster and Ulster during his absence. His
ordship married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry CoUey, of
Castle Carbery, in the county of BLildare, knight; and dying
at Drogheda, 9th November, 1627, at sixty-seven, was
interred in St. Peter's church, 13th December, having had
issue by her (who remarried with Sir Charles Wilmot,
created Viscount Wilmot of Athlone, 4th January, 1620,
Lord President of Connaught, and Privy Councillor to King
James and Charles I., and she, deceasing 3rd June, 1654, was
buried 3rd July by her first lord) seven sons and five
daughters.

Lord Moore was succeeded in his honours by his third
son. Sir Charles Moore. The two elder sons predeceased him,
viz.. Sir Edward, who had mamed Elizabeth Vaughan, by
whom he left an only daughter and heiress^ Letitia, whose
fortune was £4,000, and Sir Thomas, who married Lady
Sarah Boyle, second daughter of the first Earl of Cork, but
left no issue by her.

VL — Sm Hugh Pollerde or Pollaed.

Prince, in his "Worthies of Devon," p. 640, gives a memoir
of Sir Lewis Pollard, Knight, and one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas, m England. Sir Lewis married
Agnes, daughter of Thomas Hext of Kingston, by whom he
hfui eleven sons and as many daughters. Three of his sons
obtained the honour of knighthood— of these Sir Hugh was
the eldest. He was knight^ at Richmond bv Song James L
on May 15, 1605, and probably came to Ireland with Lord

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Chichester, who was also a native of Devonshire. Pynnar
(p. 209) gives an account of Lord Chichester's settlement at
Dungannon ; it included thirty English families. Sir Hugh
Pollajxi, of Dublin, on 8th June, 8 James I. (1 610), had a grant
of licence to sell starch in Leinster, Munster, Connaught
and Drogheda Town for twenty-one years. On October 9.
17 James I. (1619) he had a grant from the King of the
duties on the importation of tobacco and tobacco-pipes for
seven years, at a rent of 208. English [Pat. Rolls, Jac. I.].
Previously to these, on L8th January, 6 James I. (1608), Sir
Hugh Pollard, Knt, had a grant from the King of the
exclusive privilege of '* planting woods and making charcoal
in Munster province." All these licences would seem to
prove the fact that Sir Hugh was engaged in commerce.
His name does not appear in Pjomar amongst the planters
of Ulster ; nor is his death registered in the Books of
Funeral Certificates in Ulster's OflGice, Dublin Castle. A
family of the same name, also from Devonshire, hab been
seated in the Coimty Westmeath since the reign of Elizabeth,
where it still holds a considerable estate at Rathgraffe, now
CastlepoUard.

Sir Hugh PoUerde was returned one of the first members
for Dungannon on the 2nd May, 1613. He married Dorothy,
seventh daughter of Sir John, and sister of Sir Arthur
Chichester, first Baron of Belfast (vide Lodge, vol. i., p 317),
where Sir Hugh is described as of King's Nimpton [Devon],
Ent. This connection accounts for his representing Dun-
gannon.

STRABANE.

VII. — Lieutenant James Montgomery.

James (afterwards Sir James) Montgomery, second son to
the Right Honourable Sir Hugh, first Viscount Montgomery,
of the Ards, county of Down, and sixth Laird of Braidstane in
Scotland, by Elizabeth, second daughter of John Shaw, Laird
of OreenocK, was of Biosemount, county Down, M. A. of the
University of St. Andrew's, Gentleman Usher to King Charles
I., and agent to his father, Hugh first Viscoimt Montgomery.
He was married three times; first to Katharine, eldest
daughter of the Right Honourable Sir William Stewart,
Knight and Baronet, by Frances, second daughter of Sir
Robert Newcomen, of Mosstown, county Longford, and
Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Molync ux. Chancellor of
tiie Exchequer in Ireland, temp. Elizabeth. By hei he had
issue, William. She died 15th February, 1636, and was
buried at Ardstraw, county Tyrone. Sir James Montgomery

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married secondly Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir William
Cole, of Enniskillen ; and, thirdly, in 1647, the Honourable
Frances St. Laurence, daughter of Nicholas, twenty-third
Lord Howth, by his first cousin Jane, daughter and heir of
George Montgomery, Bishop of Meath. She died in child-
bed October, 1648.

Sir James was shot by pirates, and was buried at sea
12th March, 1651-2. His will was dated 6th June,
1651, and was proven 16th July, 1661. He was father
of the author of the Montgomery Manuscripts, written
1696-1706, and printed from flie MS., and edited by the Rev.
George Hill [Belfast, Archer and Sons, 1869]. The curious
inscription on his tomb on the north side of the altar in
Grey Abbey Church is given by Harris, in his " Antient and
Present State of the County of Down," pp. 50-1. His return
for Strabane was evidently through his connection with Sir
William Stewart, a large proprietor in that neighbour-
hood : —

" The Honourable Sir James Montgomery, a person of know-
ledge, courage, piety and worth, well educated at schools and
universities (as lus Manuscripts yet extant do shew), travelled to
France, Italy, Germany and Holland, learned those linguas, and
made profitable observations relating to Peace and War, returning
home, studied at the Inns of Law^ soliciting his father's business
at the Royal Court, at the Council Table, at the ParUament and
Prerogative in England, and before the Government and Four
Courts in Ireland, was second son of Hugh, first Viscount
Montgomery of Ards, and Gentleman-in-Ordinary of the Privy
Chamber to King Charles the Martyr, Colonel of Foot, and
Captain of Horse, which he raised at his own expense and by his
credit, and maintained by his prudence and industry fifteen months
in the barony of Lecale, which he preserved all that time from the
Irish of this country and their assisting neighbours, and many
other valuable services performed during all that war (the Records
whereof are kept).

" He was twice married, viz. — Ann. 1631, to Katherine,
eldest daughter of Sir William Stewart, Knight, Baronet and
Privy Councillor; ann. 1630 to Margaret^ eldest daughter of Sir
William Cole, of Enniskillen, Knight ; and ann. 1647 to Francesse
St. Lawrence, third daughter of Nicholas, Lord Baron of Howth.
His first lady being embalmed, and kept two months, was put in
a black marble coffin, and laid five feet above ground in the middle
of her monument, which was ciuious and sumptuous, of divers
colours, all polished marble, inscribed with mottos and verses of
her own composure, and gilded in every fit place, which standing
in Newton-Stewart Church, was with it burned and demolished
by the Irish, ann. 1641, Behold its Pourfile on a Board near
this.

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*^ His other two virtuous ladies and their children (which died
before them) he buried over against this monument, to all whose
memory it is, the carved device and armouries at the defunct's
expense long ago made, his only grandchild James (also now assist-
ing), of gratitude, painted and erected by W. M. primi ventris
sola proles, the year of the Word's Peace and Happiness
MDCXCIIL JEt. 62."

On the top of the first coat of arms is this date, 1641.
There are verses, &c., painted on the pedestals of the pillars
on each side of the monument not easy to be read ; on a stone
underneath : —

EniTA*ION.

" Sir James by Pirates shot and therefore dead. I 12th of March,
By them in the sea solenmly buried. ) 1651-2.

AnOSTPO*H.

To the Sub-w^rial Elements.

Devouring Hades ! th'ever hungry earth,
Would'st and shall eat up all that's of thy birth,
Fal'n in thy lap, by Death of any kind,
But whom the Waters drink and lost day find.

Step to 1st Corinth., ch. xv. v. 6.

Yet graves and waves must all such guests restore
At that great day to live for evermore :
Tho' he's deceased, his noble acts and name
Longer than this can last, shall live by Fame.

Prov. ch. xxii., v. i. ; Eccl. ch. vii., v. 5.

AUeluiah.

Thus angels sung, Glory to God on high, )

Peace upon earth, good will tow'ards men may be, >
So always pray, and always pray ought we. j

Usee pio animo, Filius ejus, Unicus, Mense Aprilis Anno a
Salvatore Mundi Nato, MDCUI. excogitavit ilium lugebatque
LondinL

At my full height my length did not surpass

My father's shadow, as at noon it was.

Cannina mea tribuunt, Fama perennnis erit

Sir James' portrait, in possession of Mrs. Sinclair, < is the like-
ness of a tall, muscular, noble-looking man.' "

MorUgomery MSS. pp. 345-6.

James Montgomery was returned as one of the first
Members for Strabane, 6th May, 1613.

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VIII.— Daniel AIolynettx, Esq.

Daniel Molyneux was Ulster Eing-at-Anns,* so appointed
in 1586. He was the eldest surviving son, says Sir Bernard
Burke, of Sir Thomas Molyneux (of a junior branch of
Molyneux, Earls of Sefton), who, born in Calais, and falling
into the hands of the enemy at the capture of that place,
was ransomed for 500 crowns. He came to England in
1568 ; in 1576 was sent to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and obtained extensive grants
of land. Daniel Moljnieux was the author of a celebrated
collection of Irish family history, now amongst the MSS.
in Trinity College, Dublin. He married Jane, daughter of
Sir William Usher, the Qerk of the Council. His eldest
son Thomas, Governor of Wicklow, was killed by the
rebels in 1642. His third and eldest surviving son,
Samuel, of Castle Dillon, County Armagh, and Chief
Engineer of Ireland, was father of William Molyneux
(his third son and ultimate heir), MP. for Dublin
University in 1692 and 1695. This gentleman, a well
known man of science in his day, was the author of
" Molyneux's Problem," f Mid also of a political pamphlet,
" The Case of Ireland," for which he was threatened with a
prosecution, the annoyance and worry of which is said to
nave shortened his life. Mr. William Molyneux was the
friend of Locke — ^their portraits, side by side in one frame,
are now in the library at Castle Dillon.

Mr. William Molyneux was succeeded by his eldest son,
the Right Hon. Samuel Molyneux, some time a Lord of the
Admiralty, and Secretary to George II. when Prince of
Wales. He died without issue in 1727, and on the deadi
of his widow (Lady Elizabeth Capel) in 1759, the estates
reverted to his uncle Thomas. Thomas was bom 1661, was
Physician-General to the Army in Ireland, and was created a
Baronet in 1730. Sir Thomas married Catherine Howard,
aunt of the first Lord Wicklow,and died in 1733,leaving (with
four daughters) Sir Daniel, who died unmarried, in 1738, and
the Right Hon. Sir Capel, M.P. for the University of Dublin.

* In the Commons Jounmls we find : — 8 Die ApriliB, 1647 — It ib onlered that
the King-^f-Arms ^hall, by the next hitting of the Hooae, bring in a Patent
and Schedule of hifl Fees, formerly taken by Molyneux and Treeton, late Ring^
of-Arms, and the Act of State.

f The Right Hon. John Ball, LL.I)., in his ^Reformed Church of Inland**
(Longmans, 1886), in a note to page 162, says— "Locke terms Molyneux * that
very ingenious and studious promoter of real knowledge, the learned and worthy
Mr. Molyneux,* and mentions a problem proposed by him to illustrate the degree
in which ideas attributed to the sight are acquired from experience. * Enay on
the Human Understanding,* book iL, chap. 9, sec. 8.**

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Sir Capel erected the obelisk near Castle Dillon, to com-
memorate the ^vival of the constitution of Ireland in 1782.
He died in 1797. To him succeeded his eldest son Sir Capel,
who died in 1832, without issue, when his half-brother,
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas succeeded. He died in
184«1, and was succeeded by his son. Sir George, who died
in 1848. To him succeeded, as seventh Baronet, his only-
son. Sir Capel, who married, in 1863, Mary, eldest daughter
of Sir Peter Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, by whom he left,
at his death, in 1879, an only daughter and heiress, Julia,
who succeeded to his estates. The baronetcy devolved on
his great uncle (brother of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas,
fifth Baronet), the Rev. Sir John, formerly Rector of Sud-
bury, Suffolk, and Hon. Canon of Ely ; who, dying within
two months in the same year, was succeeded by his son, the
Rev. Sir John Charles, ninth Baronet; of Barcheston Rectory,
Shipton-on-Stour.
A copy of a print of Daniel Molyneux, M.P., is in existence.

AGHER
IX. — Sib Ralph Bibchenshaw.

" Sir Ralph Burdenshaw, Knight, OomptroUer of the Musters,
deceased on Sunday, the 8th December, 1622. He had to wife,
EHzabeth Warbiirton, and had issue Adam."

"Arms — Burdenshaw and Warburton" — (Funeral Entry,
Ulster's Office.)

" Henry Andrew, Clark of the Crowne of the King's Majesty's
Bench, Esq., departed this mortall life, the viii. of January, 1634,
and was buried in the Cathedral Church called Christ's Church,
or the Blessed Trinitie, in Dublin, the 10th of the same month
aforesaid. He had to his first wife, Eliza, daughter of

, the relict of Sir Ralph Bardenshaw, Knight,
sometime Comptroller of the Mustei-s, in Ireland, by whom he
had no issue. His second wife was Constans, daughter of Henry
King, of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublyn, and relict of William Barker,
Esq., sometime Surveyor of His Majesty's Wards and Liveries and
Examinator of His Majesty's Court of Chancery, by whom he had
no issue."

<* Thomas Burchenshaw, sonne of Thomas, had issue by
Katherine, his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Pigott, of
Lanlamon, foure sonnes, of three of which in another place —
Here only of John, third sonne.

John Bichenshaw, third sonne of Thomas and Katherine his wife
had issue, Randolfe Burchenshaw^ who had to wife, Julian,
daughter of John Bird, by whom he had issue Rafe Barchenshaw,
Comptroller of the Musters of His Majesties forces in Ireland,
who had to his first wife, Jane, daughter of John Rogers ; and

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now to his second, Eliza, daughter of John Warbui-ton, of London,
by whome (beside divers dead younge) he liath issue, Adam and
John ; and by his first wife he hath issue, Antonie Birchenshaw, his
eldest Sonne, and tour daugliters, Anne, Elizabeth, Ales, and
Marig." (Funeral Entry, Ulster's Office.)

Antonie was a Commissary of Musters in 1603, at 38. 4d.
a day. He was discharged in 1606, on reduction.

The name is variously spelt, Birchenshaw, Birkenshaw
(Cal. S.P. (Dom.) ) j Burdenshaw, Bardenshaw, Burchenshaw
(funeral entries) ; Birchingham (Ussher, Works, xvL, p. 3o2),
Byrchingshawe, Birchinsha, Burchensha, Burchensaw — Cal.
S.P. (IreL), 1603-1606, Index.

The following letter of BaJph Birchenshaw to Burghley,
dated February 29, 1596, discloses the nature of his occu-
pation in early life, which was only more developed as he
advanced in life ' —

*' On entering into the abuses of the distribution of the allow-
ance given to the soldiers. I informed Sir Thomas Wilkes, who
acquainted your Lordship therewitL You approved the instruc-
tions for reformation of abuses about apparel, ordered me to
Flushing, and promised to send orders, without my dealing
therein beiug known to the captains. But they got to know,
were furious at the apparel being taken out of their hands, and
tried to get it undone, but only succeeded in getting that office
taken from me and given to Mr. Allen, deceased. I was treated
so violently by them, that the States of Zealand wrote to Her
Majesty about it. 1 gave the letter to you, but obtained no satis-
faction, and had to put up with their barbarous cruelty. On the
death of Mr. Smith, surveyor of apparel in Brittany, I was aj)-
pointed to that office. 1 did my best, but I found so many
deficiencies in the companies that the checks for 44 weeks came
to £3,280. I convinced the Treasurer (Sir Thos. Sherley) of this.
I was then discharged from pay, 12 Feb., 1595.— Cal. S.P. (Do-
mestic), 1595-7, p. 177, No. 59. I wish to be considered
according to my deserte, since by my means only, all the check
to be allowed Her Majesty for apparel has come.''

In 1596, Aug., we find — "Checks gathered by Ralph Bir-
kenshaw on 26 companies upon the books of Thomas Diggs
(Muster Master), from 26 captains named, are £1,803 28. 2a. ;
by Birkensha, £9,366 158. 2d."— /6., p. 275, No. 126.

On the 14th October, 1596, Ralph Birkenshaw writes to
Lord Burghley : —

<'I have suffered great wrongs, and got many and mighty
enemies, by my service to Her Majesty in the Low Countries and
Brittany, but have obtained no redress. I have now received, by
the Queen's command, the muster roll and warrant books during

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Mr. Digges' employment, that it may be seen bow the check may
be raised. He had promised in his lifetime to raise it a great
deal. The books are erroneous and imperfect. I wonder anyone
in trust would be so negligent. It must have broken the heart
of Mr. Digges to perceive that the Queen had lost so much by his
oversight.

'^ I have saved Her Majesty's coffers the last five years, more
than any has done before." — 76., p. 293, No. 60.

The defalcations of Sir Thomas Sherley, treasurer at war
for the Low Countries, partly from his own recklessness,
and partly from the frauds of an underling, Wm, Beecher,
were so great, that in 1597 he was thrown into prison. He
had been twenty weeks imprisoned on August 28, 1597. —
(lb., p. 493, No. 95). In the same year (September 5) Beecher
writes to Cecil : —

" Though, after eight years' service and waste of my substance,
it augments my sorrow to be thus tormented with Smith and
Birchenshaw," &c.— 76., p. 498, No. 108.

On the 26th September, 1697, Birchenshaw writes to
Burghley : —

" As you have limited a day for Sir Thomas Sherley and Mr.
Beecher to bring in their books and acquittances, <fec. — A more un-
conscionable and unfaithful dealing was never committed by any of
like quality as has been by Beecher, in the payment of the forces
in foreign parts."— ^6., p. 504, No. 122.

On the 4th October, 1697, Birchenshaw again writes to
Burghley : —

"Your late displeasure taken with me,*' &c. — lb., p. 508,
No. 132.

On the 12th October Beecher writes to the Council: —

" Mr. Smith and Birchenshaw have detained all my books and
writings these two months." — lb., p. 512, No. 138.

On the 16th October, Ralph Birchenshaw, writing to
Burghley, gives an account of Beecher's transactions and
money dealings. — lb., p. 616, No. 146.

The result of this whole transaction, characterissed as it
was by waste, neglect, peculation, and fraud, was the ruin
of all concerned in it, except one. Beecher and his fellows
were beggared and disgraced; and Sir Thomas Sherley,
after a protracted imprisonment, was liberated only to take
the steps necessary for the sale of his estates. All his
goods had been seized by the sheriff in 1688, at Wiston
House, and in 1696 the yearly income of his lajids was

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£1,429. His condition is briefly but expressively described
by Roland Whyte, who, writing to Sir Robert Sydney, in
1597, says: —

** This aftemoone the Lords were at my Lord Treasurer's about
the accounts of Sir Thomas Sherley. I am sory to heare that
his own Doings hath undon hym, for yt is sayd he owes the
Queen more than he is worth. I was told by one of good
Account that his Living racket is but 1,000^, a yeara He had
good Friends, but now by his own Indiscretion he hath in sort
lost them."

His imprisonment on an execution, 1603 (Sydney's State
Letters, vol. ii., p. 31), while he was Member of Parliament
for Steyning, raised an important question of privilege, and
resulted in an enactment, which was the first legislative
recognition of this claim. — (Hallam's Court History, vol. i.,
pp. 302, 303 ; ed. Lond., 1854). The Shirley property in
this branch has long since changed hands. During the
Conunonwealth, Sir John Fagge was in possession of Wis-
ton, which now is enjoyed by a member of the Goring
family, Fagge's descendants in the female line : —

" The most interesting memorial at the present day,** as Mr.
Evelyn Shirley observes, " of the remarkable and unsatisfactoiy
career of the elder Sir Thomas Sherley is the fact, of which, I
think, there appears Httle doubt, that he was the person to whom
King James I. was indebted for the idea of the creation of the
baronetage.**

His son. Sir Thomas Sherley, in a memorial to the King,
reminds him (" Stemmata Shirleiana,** p. 265 ; see also,
pp. 248, 258):—

" My father (being a man of excellent and working wit) did
find out the Device for making of baronets, which brought to
your Majesty's coffers well nigh £100,000.**— /6., p. 256.

The third party connected with the pecuniary mismanage
ment of affairs was Ralph Birchenshawe, who was the first
to detect the malversation of the money supplies, the first
to correct the abuse, and the principal agent in winding up
the complicated accounts. In consideration whereof a war-
rant was issued by Elizabeth, dated July 22nd, 1599,
ordering the delivery, as the " Queen's free gift,** to Ralph
Birchenshaw, employed in the accounts of Sir Thomas
Sherley, late Treasurer at War, of the sum of two hundred
pounds.— Cal. S.P. (Domestic), 1598-1601, p. 255.

Birchenshaw seems to have continued in the enjoyment
of favour and emolument to the end of Elizabeth's reign ;

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and immediately after the accession of James I. we find him
similarly employed in Ireland ; for Lord Mountjoy, writing
to the English Government, April 27, 1 600, says : —

" I send you a copy of this muster, taken by Mr. Birchenshaw."
Cal. S.P. (IreL), p. 30, No. 42.

And in the same month there are repeated the instructions
given to Mr. Birchensha, in 1599, which, as framed with
special regard to Ireland, indicate that in that year his
employment lay in that kingdom.

His services had now become so valuable in Ireland that,
in order to secure the permanence of tliera, and to secure
adequate remuneration and rank. King James, by Privy
Seal, bearing date the 23rd March, 1604, instituted and
conferred upon him the oflSce of Comptroller of the Mustera
and Checques on the Irish Establishment in manner as
follows : —

" The King being credibly informed of the manifold good ser-
vices done to Queen Elizabeth and himself, by the painful
endeavour of his servant Ralphe Birchensha, Comptroller of the
Musters and Checques in [reland, whose travail in the due execu-
tion of that olEce, had saved and acquii*ed to the Crown, great sums
of money in the expenses of the late wars ; therefore at his humble
suit, and in recompense of his faithful services, and for his en-
couragement to continue a dutiful and true Minister between the
King and the army, in the affair of the Musters, his Majesty
granted to him the office of Comptroller of the Musters and
Checques of the army in Ireland, with the fee of 20«. a day, bs
hereinaftor set forth, to be received out of the checques imposed
upon any part of the army, without any further charges to the
Crown." Patent dated Dublin, September 4, 1604, for life. —
(Lib, Mun, pt. ii, p. 112.)

On the 13th December, 1604, the Lords of the Council
write to Sir George Carey, stating that the Earl of Kildare,
having by warrant come to London with ten men in attend-
ance, he had been chequed of his own entertainment, as
captain of foot and horse, and for the entertainment of the
number of his men that came over with him, and upon which
it was ordered : —

" Let Mr. Birchenshawe and Mr. Carrol consider of the con-
tents of this letter, and give satisfaction to EarJe of Kildare."
— (CjJ. S.P. (Ii-el.) p. 216, No. 288).

Among the payments to be made by the clerk of the
cheque for the year ending January 1, 1605, are the follow-
ing, under the head of " OflGicers of the Musters" : —

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"Ralph Birchinshawe, Controller, per diem, 208. Od
Anthony Birchinsha, a Commissary of Musters, at 3«. 4cZ.
per diem. (6 such) 20«. Od." This Anthony was Ralph's
eldest child by his first wife.

The Lords of the Council in England, wrote, January 20,
1606, to the Lord Deputy : —

'^ Delivering their good opinion of Ralphe Burchenshawe,
Comptroller of the Cheques, and urging payment to him of the
arrears of his entertainment." — {lb, p. 387, No. 628.)

Next day the Lord Deputy wrote to the Earl of Devon-
shire on financial matters, and proposing a reduction in the
military department, and requested him to send over Sir
James Fullerton and Mr. Byrchingshawe, fully instructed
in his pleasure touching that business, (lb. p. 388, No.
629.)

With a view to reducing the army, and for the discharge
of commissaries, &c., it was ordered, that the six conmiis-
saries of Musters, the sixth of whom was Anthony
Birchensha, should be clearly discharged, (lb. p. 395,
No. 639.)

In 1606, September 26, Sir A. Chichester in Council,
objecting to the reduction of soldiers* pay to sixpence a day,
took occasion of Mr. Birchinshawe's journey to London to
give their Lordships satisfaction regarding the pay of horse
and foot (lb. p. 576, No. 871.) And next day writing to
the Earl of Salisbury, he prays to be excused in trans-
mitting his collections in loose papers, by Mr. Birchinshaw,
to be preserved by his Lordship.

Mr. Birchenshaw next prepared a petition to the Lords of
Council, according to his instruction from the Lord Deputy
of Ireland, 29th September, 1606. A very interesting
document, having reference chiefly to the evil consequences
of reducing the soldiers* pay. (lo, p. 580, No. 876.)

Mr. Birchenshawe^ October 7, 1606, communicated a
statement of the prices of provisions, which wei*e as
follows : —

'' Fat beef is sold for a quarter of the price it coats in ESngland,
fat mutton for a third, and wheat for one-half. A fat goose costs
sixpence ; a chicken, a penny ; a hen, twopence ; a pig, eightpenoe.
At Kinsale 12 fresh herrings are sold for one penny, and 20
mackerell for the same." (Cal. S.P. 1606-8, p. 2, No. 6.)

The Lords of the Council, November 14, 1606, wrote to
the Lord Deputy and Council, declining to raise the soldiers'
pay from Irish to English currency. They conceive that
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pressed by Byrchensha, arise rather from scarcity of money,
than from the smallness of the pay. {lb, 21, No. 86.)

In the same year, Ralph Birchensha, Muster Master,*
returned an account of the Lord Lieutenant's (Earl of
Devonshire) horses, showing in what condition the troop
was received from the late £arl of Essex, and how it after-
wards stood. (/6. p. 53, No. 95.)

Sir Aiiihur Chichester, January 14, 1607, takes the
opportunity to acknowledge receipt of the letters by Mr.
Birchenshawe, delivered to him the 29th of last month.
{lb. p. 79, No. 104.)

On the 21st January, 1607, Sir Geofirey Fenten, writing
to the Earl of Salisbury, refers to the late despatch brought
by Mr. Birchenshaw. (26. p. 87, No. 113.)

Next day. Sir A. Chichester and the Council had answered
two of the Lords' letters brought by Mr. Birchinsha, &c.
lb, p. 89, No. 114.)

On the 28th January, Ralph Birchinshaw, writing to the
Earl of Salisbury, observes, ** he himself is an inferior oflScer,"
and that his highnesses direction requires that he should put
his hand to his mouth. {lb. p. 97, No. 122.)

On the 20th February, Sir A. Chichester, writing to Lord
Salisbury, says, that many dissensions have arisen since Mr.
Pawlett came to Derry. He has sent Byrchinsha into
(Jlster, and Sir James Fullerton is going to the other parts.
{lb. p. 113, No. 147.)

On the 9th October, 1607, Sir A. Chichester informs
Salisbury that he purposes to send over Mr. Byrchinsha
to receive supplies at Chester, whose presence there will
prevent the abuses in the numbers and quality. {lb. p. 303,
No. 399.)

On the 24th March, 1608, Birchenshaw writes to the Earl
of Salisbury, that within a few days he is returned from a
dangerous and painful journey, when in fifty-one days travel
he had but two days rest, and completed 700 miles, Irish, in
that journey. Another very great journey not long before,
had been taken by him. He complains that he who labours
to save the Prince's treasure, wants the judgment of other
men, who may be content, so they can feather their own
nests and enrich their posterity, to pass over the King's
profit. Is grateful for nis Lordship s speech delivered on
his behalf at the Council table at his last being there. {lb.
p. 443, No. 614.)

On the 3rd June, 1608, Birchinshaw, writing to Lord
Salisbury, refers him to Sir James Fullerton for s&>tementa
* Comptroller of Masters.

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relative to the army. He calls his attention to the existence
of certain abuses.— h(/6., p. 549, No. 744.)

On the 27th February, 160f, Birchinsha writes to Salis-
bury, thanking him for his good opinion of his service : —

'^ I saw a letter of Mr. Norton's written to a great man here —
' Such a man (naming him) shall come strongly armed against Mr.
Berchensha/ "

He defends himself from the charge of presumption —
" In expecting an answer to such a poor snail as himself, &c"

(CaL S.P. (Irel.), 1608-10, /6., p. 152, No. 276.)

On the 14th April, 1609, he reports to Salisbury that he
has returned firom a journey of 460 miles, and has delivered
his certificate of musters to the Lord Deputy. Complains of
the inordinate desire that some commanders have for their
private profit, and reouests that his allowance may be paid
m sterling money. — (76., p. 191, No. 340.)

Again, on October 29th, he expresses to Salisbury his
hope that his suit for his allowances, to be paid in English
money, may be granted some other time. In support of his
claim to this favour, he states his diligence and lus long and
faithful services.— (TJ., p. 303, No. 509.)

On the 29th January, 160^, we find Mr. Birchenshaw as
a servitor, willing to become an undertaker in the Planta-
tion.— (ft. p. 367.)

In the Com/mona' Journals, Vol i., p. 10, we find, 1614 —

^' Bor. Agher, Badulphiis Birchenshaw, Armiger, Clericus de
la Gheoque ;"

and on February 8th, 1615 (in the Gal. S.P., 1615, 25, p.
13)—

" Ralph Birchensha, Comptroller of the Musters."

In April, 1618— (76., p. 189, No. 409)— the Lord Deputy
is ordered to assist Sir John King and Mr. Burchenshaw in
taking the musters.

On the 6th April, 1618, Ralph Birchensha was knighted
at WhitehaU.

On the 18th May following, it was in contemplation to
abolish or alter the oflBlce then held by Birchenshaw ; and
to this end steps were taken to provide for his wife and
son, at such time as he should be removed by death.
Accordingly the Lord Deputy ordered the Attorney-General
to prepare a fiant of a grant to Elizabeth, widow of Ralph
Birchensha, of an annuity of £100, English, according to
the King's Letters Patent of April 3rd— {lb,, p. 192, No. 411.)

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The date of this order was May 6th, 1618 ; and the same
day a similar order was made for an annuity of £50 to Adam
Birchensha, to take effect on the death of his father Ralph. —
(lb. p. 192, No. 413.)

Ralph Birchenshaw was still in office on December 23rd,
1620 ; for at that date a reference was ordered to Sir John
King and Sir Raphe Birchensha ; in the absence of the for-
mer the latter supplied the desired information. — {lb., pp.
309, 310, No. 715.)

Sir Ralph Birchenshaw died on the 8th December, 1622.

Sir John King was Muster Master General in 1615.

The Lord Deputy (Lord Falkland) writing to the Council
of England, January 14th, 1623, acknowledges the receipt
in their letters concerning Sir Ralph Birchensha's papers,
which, before receipt, Sir John King had taken possession
of. He suggests that Sir Ralph's place should not be filled
up, as useless, as the Muster Master did his duty. It was
intended in the last establishment that it should cease upon
his death; and therefore he obtained a grant from His
Majesty of two several pensions of £150, per ann., to his
wife and son, if they should survive him, which they were
then to enjoy.— (i 6., p. 398, No. 978.)

After Birchenshaw's death, the office of Comptroller of the
Musters and Checques remained for four years unfilled ; but
in 1627 Sir John Bingley was appointed to it ; the King
having by Privy Seal, dated 5th Januaiy, thus expressed
his pleasure : —

" Whereas, heretofore, the office of Comptroller of the Musters
and Checques was foimd of necessary use in that kingdom, and
granted to Sir Ralph Birchensha, who held the same, not only in
the time of wars and troubles, when the army was great, but after-
wards when the army was reduced to a small number during the
peace, and had an allowance of 208., English, by the day, for the
execution of the said place ; since which time we are informed
that the office was, after the death of the said Sir Ralph, for the
use of our charge, suppressed and left out of the late estabhshment,
the army being then small, and the Muster Master with his com-
missaries, thought sufficient to discharge the service in those secure
and peaceable times; but now the necessity of our affidrs having
caused a large increase of our forces, in that our Kingdom ; and we
considering of how great importance it is to keep the same strong,
and the companies full, to be ready upon all occasions of service,
have thought to revive the office, conceiving the same to be of
good use now, both for the due imposing of checques, and exact
discovery of the defects of our army from time to time ; and
therefore we have made choice of our well beloved Sir John
Binglie, &c."

(CaL, Pat., Car. I. (Irel.), p. 136.)

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The office was however finally suppressed in March, 1697,
when George Fitzgerald, Esq., retired on a pension of £200
a year. — (Lib. Mun., Hib., pt. ii., p. 112.)

In the Liber Munerum, Vol vii., p. 51 , is this entry —

"B. Agher — 199, Badulphus BirchenshaWy Armiger, Olericus
de la Oheoque.**

Joseph Birchenshaw, Fellow of Exeter CoDege, Oxford,
who, in 1738, was collated to the Rectory of Clonleigh, in
the Diocese of Deny, bom about 1701, was of a Devonshire
family ; which was probably the quarter whence Sir Ralph
Birchenshaw originally came.

X. Edward Skobye, Esq.

No information can be obtained about Mr. Skorye. There
was on English bishop, named John Scory, consecrated, at
Croydon, to Rochester, August 30th, 1551; translated to
Chichester, 1552 ; and to Hereford, 1559, where he remained
until 1585. He assisted at the consecration of Archbishop
Parker. A careful search has been made into this prelate's
family history, but no clue was found to connect Mr.
Edward Skorye with the family.
In the Liber Munerum, VoL viL, p. 51, is this entiy —
"B. Agher— 200, Edwardus Skorye, Armiger."

PARLIAMENT OF 1634.

Date. Nftme. B«ridaiic6. CoiiflataMMjr.

1634, I7t]i June, . Sir Jameg Erakyn, knt, . Favour Royal, .> Tyrone

Sir Henry Tiohbome, kst , . Bleflslngbome, .) Ooonty.

„ 19th June, . Sir Henry Spotteswood, knt., Newtown Leitrim) ni^._ ^.

Edward AMOugh, esq. f Qogher City.

H 17th June, . Sir Faithfhll Fortesoae, knl > Dongannon

John Perkins, esq., Dungannon, .f Boroogh.

98rd Jane, . BiohardFitzgerald, eeq., . Dublin, .[ Strabane

Charles Mouncke, esq. f Borough.

Robert Meredith, esq. > Agher

James Eresklne, esq. > Borough.

I. Sir James Erskkyk cUiaa Areskin, now AsKiNa
" Sir James Erskine,* Knight of the Bath, at the coronation of
King James I. (eleventh son by birth, but, by the death of his
brethren without issue, third sou of Alexander Erskine, second
son of John, Earl of Marr, in Scotland), took wife, Mary, daughter
and co-heir of Adam Erskine, Lord of Cambus Kenneth in Scot-
land ; by whom he had issue, four sons and one daughter, viz.,
Henry, eldest son, who died without issue; John, second son,
who died also without issue ; Archibald^ third son, who took to
his first wife, Beatrice,! daughter of the Right Rev. Father in
* He waa designated '« of Cloagh." t She died befora 1680.

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God, James Spoteswoody Bishop of Clogher ; and for his second
wife, Lettioe, daughter of Sir Paul Gbare, Baronet ; James, fourth
son ; * and Anne, the only daughter, married to Eiobert Moutraj
of Scotland.

<< The above-mentioned Sir James departed this mortal life at
Dublin, the 5th of March, 1636, and was interred in the parish
church of St Michan's, Dublin."

" The truth of the premises, as testified by the subscription
of the said Alexander Erskine, son and heir of the said
James, onto the ofiice of Ulster Kin^ of Arms, the lOih of
March, 1636, to be there recorded." (Funeral entries,
Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle, Vol vii., p. 156).

Mr. Mioutray, of Favor Royal, (>)unty Tyrone, is the
direct descendant of Anne, youngest daughter of the above-
mentioned (Rev.) Archibald Erskine, by his second wife,
Lettice Gore, daughter of Sir Paul Gore, and of her husband,
John Moutray, the son of Robert Moutray of Scotland, by
his wife, Anne, daughter of Sir James Erskine. John
Moutray and his wife, therefore, were first cousins — by her
he inherited the Favor Royal estate. In succeeding

Sinerations, their son, James Moutray, married Deborah
ervyn ; their son, James, married Rebecca Corry of Castle-
coole; their son, John, married Elizabeth Montgomery;
their son, James, M.P. for Augher, married Hester Ejiox,
but left no issue; and John Corry married Mary Anne
Repton, and by her had Anketell, bom, 11th May, 1797;
died, December, 1869; and the Rev. John James, born,
16th April, 1802.

Archibald Erskine was an AM. of one of the Scotch
Universities. He was ordained deacon and priest on the
same day, December 9, 1 023, by Malcolm Hamilton, Arch-
bishop of Cafihel. His various preferments were —

1. Aughnamullen, September 24th, \ Removed thence

1627. f 20th Nov., 1629.

2. Rectory, and Vicarage, and Prebend t&ad Robert Boyle

of Tullycorbet, April 2nd, 1629, ) succeeded.

3. Inismacsaint, on the pi^esentation of Sir John Hume,

December 10th, 1628.

4. Rectory and Prebend of Devenish, 30th November, 1629.

Adam Simpson succeeded him there 29th August, 1633.

5. Errigal Keerogue, on the presentation of his father ; which

was worth to him £80 a year. He was instituted to it
by Archbishop Ussher, December, 1633. He continued
to hold Inismacsaint with this, but had resigned his
former preferments.

*Jamea was a Colonel, and M.P. for Clogher, 1684.

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Sir James, who was a Privy Councillor,* was returned
Member for the County Tyrone, as of Favour Royal, June
17th, 1634. He died, 6th March, 1636.

" Sir James Areskin, perceiving he prevailed nothing by clam-
peringe with the Bishop of Clogher, he desired to be reconciled to
the Bishop, and soon after died at Dublin, where the Bishop of
Clogher was requested by his son and other friends, to make his
funeral sermon, and did accordingly." (life of Bishop Spottes-
wood).

In early life, Sir James Erskine and Bishop Spotteswode
had been fellow students at Glasgow College, and fellow-
servants at the Court of James VI., before his accession to
the throne of England.

Dr. Spoteswode came to Dublin in 1621, and had not
long been consecrated, when Sir James arrived there, which
he did in July 1622 ; Sir James was a poor man, but played
his cards so weU with the blank patent for an earldom,t
which he had the disposal of, under certain conditions, that on
the 29th of August, he had acquired from Sir Thomas, Lord
Ridgway, in return for the patent, the great proportion of
Portclare and BaUykirger, with the small proportion of
Ballymakell, being already possessed of Augher and its
appurtenances; and on July 12th, 16 SO, he passed a patent
for the whole, together with the advowson of Errigal-
keerc^ue, the parish in which the estate lay, which was
created the Manor of Favour Royal, in reference in the
choice of this name to the Royal Favour which, as the
terms of the patent sets forth, was an acknowledgment on
the part of the grantee of the indulgence shown by the
Crown, which was graciously pleaaed not to take advantage
of a defect in the original title — (Cal. Pat. Rolls, Car. I., p.
99). The old man died in March, 1836, having for
ten years lived on very unfriendly terms with the Bishop
of Clogher, who was father of his son Archibald*^ wife;
upon which the estates descended to his eldest surviving
son,- the said Archibald, who died in 1645. The Augher
estate then went to Mary, Archibald's eldest daughter,
who married Mr. Richardson; J and the Portclare estate
went to Anne, who married, for her second husband, John
Moutray. The advowson was exercised alternately, by the
heads of these two families till 1803, when, by deed, dated

*Vide Commons* JoninaU, Vol i, p. 76; where the name, J. Erskyne, is
appended to an Order in Conncil, sent down to the House, about a qn«rrel be-
tween Captain Price and Sir John Dungan, two Members.

t Vide Memoir of Lord Ridgway, pp. 135-7.

{ Now represented by Sir John Richardson Bunburv, of Castlehill, Co. Tyrooa.

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April 18th, Sir William Richardson, of Augher, Bart., dis-
posed of his right of alternate presentation to John Cony
Moutray, in consideration of £2,000, from which time to the
Disestablishment, the advowson became the sole right of
the Moutray family.

The marriage befween Sir James's son, Archibald, and
Beatrice Spoteswode had been brought about by a strata-

Sim, which will be noticed in a later memoir — (vide Sir
enry Spottiswood, p. 167). It had taken place before
October 29th, 1622, for at that date a patent of denization
was granted to Beatrice Spoteswode cdids Areskin.

I cannot fix the date of Beatrice Spottiswode's death, but
it was before 1636. Mary (who may, or may not have been
her daughter) is stated to have been under eighteen in
1645, the year her father died. Nor have 1 ascertained who
Anne's first husband was ; but she had no issue by him.

XL — Sir Henry Tichborne.

Benjamin Tichborne of Tichborne, Hampshire, was sheriff
of the county of Southampton in 1579 and 1603. In the
latter year he proclaimed, within his jurisdiction, the
accession of James the First, with such zeal and enthusiasm,
that ever after he was a special favourite of that monarch,
who, on successive occasions, knighted him and his four sons ;
the third of whom, called after his father, received the
distinction in 1618 ; and two years after was advanced to
the baronetage. By Amphilis Weston Sir Benjamin had
four sons, all knights, and three daughters. He died in
1621. Of his sons, Henry, the fourth, was knighted at
Tichboume, 29th August, 1623. He was bom in 1581, and
was from his youth trained up in military discipline in
Ireland and the Low Countries ; and was by fames I.
preferred to the command of an independent company of
foot, in Ireland, and constituted Captain and Governor of the
Castle of Lifford. He was living at Dunsoghly, about four
miles from Dublin, on the breaking out of the Irish
Rebellion on 23rd October, 1^41, and was obliged with his
wife, to take refuge in Dublin on the evening of the 24th.
On that day the Lords Justices and Council sent for him
and after some debates on the condition of the times, and
the quickest way to prevent the growing danger, it was
concluded by the Board, that he should forthwith raise a
regiment of 1,000 men, and march with all expedition into
Drogheda.* On the 26th October, early in the morning, he

*Sir Faitliful Fortescue, having resigned the command of Drogheda (see hia
memoir, p. 171), Sir Henrj Tichborne was appointed to snooeed him.

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began his levy, and using great diligence, with continued
pains and travel, he completed, armed, and led his regiment
to Drogheda, within the space of nine days, where he entered
very seasonably on the 4th of November. On the 8th of
June, 1651, he wrote a narrative of the .siege, in the form of
" A letter to his lady, of the siege of Tredagh, and other
passages of the wars of Ireland, where he commanded."
This memoir is printed in the quarto and octavo editions of
" The Irish Rebellion of 1641 by Sir John Temple ; " and in
the quarto edition of 1724 occupies pages 171-199 of the
work. In the edition (the 7th) octavo, Cork, 1766, it
occupies pages 291-339. By his heroic, as well as prudent
conduct, he so animated his men, and dispirited the enemy,
that at length they drew off with great loss, before the Earl
of Ormonde (who intended to raise the siege) marched out of
Dublin.

Being afterwards reinforced, he defeated the rebels in
several encounters, and forced those of the Pale into Ulster ;
in consideration of which services, he was sworn of the
Privy Council, and on the 12th May, 1642, one of the Lords
Justices of Ireland, in the room of Sir William Parsons, as
is thus narrated by Lord Clarendon : —

"Whereas Sir William Parsons and Sir John Burlacy had
continued Lords Justices, fi*om and before the death of the Earl of
Strafford ; the King finding that Sir William Parsons (who was a
man of long experience in that kingdom, and confessed abiUties,
but always of suspected reputation) did him all imaginable dis-
service, and combined with the Parliament in England about this
time (1643), removed Sir Wilham Parsons from that trust, and in
his room, deputed Sir Henry Tichboume, a man of so exceUent a
fame, that though the Parliament was heartily angry at the
removal of the other, and knew this would never be brought to
serve their tiu-n, they could not fasten any reproach upon the
king for this alteration." — History of the E^llion, vol. ii, p. 638
(Ed. Oxford, 1S49).

He continued a Lord Justice till the Marquis of Ormonde
was sworn Lord Lieutenant ; and during his administration
(which was for two years), endeavoured by all ways to
support and relieve the distressed Protestants, with such
zeal and disinterestedness that he preserved the good
opinion of the King and Parliament ; for when the Royal
cause was quite ruined, and the Marquis of Ormonde had
surrendered Dublin to the Parliament forces, they yet kept
Sir Henry Tichboume in pay, as also continued him in the
government of Drogheda; and he, joining their general

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forces, was a means of gaining a great victory at Dungan-
hill (now Baldungan near Skerries), on the 18th August, 1647
— 6,000 of the rebels being killed on the spot ; but after the
murder of King Charles, he forsook the service, till the well-
wishers of the royal family were enabled to show themselves ;
and then he had a chief hand in the movement for a
restoration of the old constitution.

In consideration of these services, King Charles II.
constituted him Field Marshal of his forces in Ireland,
which he held to his death in 1667, in the eighty-sixth year
of his age.

He sat in the Parliament of 1661, for the borough of
Sligo, being then a Privy Councillor, and was one of the
agents from the House of Commons to the King in that
year, about the Act of Settlement.

He was buried at Drogheda, together with Jane his wife,
daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen, Bart., who predeceased
him by about three years. By her he had five sons and
three daughters, viz., Benjamin, captain of horse, killed at
Balrothery, oetatia 21. William of Beaulieu, who suc-
ceeded his father, and wm knighted by Charles II,, Richard, a
major, d. unm. Henry d,8.p. Samuel d. young. Elizabeth
m. Roger West. Amphuis m. Rupert Broughton, and
Dorcas m. William Touleth.

The second son, William m. Judith, daughter of Chief
Baron John Bysae, and had at least five sons, viz., Henry,
who succeeded him — William, third son, captain R.N., d.
1692. John, a colonel ; Richard d. unm. 1692, and Bysse d,
1704. The eldest son Henry, was created Lord Tichborne
(Baron Ferrard). He was born 1663, knighted 1694, and
killed 1704, aged thirty-nine. He married in 1683, Arabella
Colton of Combermere, and had, besides one daughter,
Salisbury, three sons, viz., Henry, who succeeded him, bom
20th April, 1684, and died 1709, when the peerage expired.
William, d.8.p. and Colton died young. His daughter
Salisbury married William Aston and had a son Tichborne.
Their daughter Sophia m. Thomas Tipping, whose daughter
Sophia Mabella, married the Rev. Robert Montgomery,
Rector of Monaghan, and had a son the Rev. Alexander
Johnston Montgomery of Beaulieu, whose son Richard
Thomas, is the present occupant of Beaulieu.

Sir Henry Tichbome's estates were Beaulieu, near
Drogheda (above-mentioned), and Blessingboume, in the
county Tyrone ; both of which are now enjoyed by gentle-
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purchased* in or before 1736, by Margetson Armar, Esq.,
afterwards of Castlecoole, who on his death left it by will in
trust for his sister Elizabeth's son, Hugh Montgomery, Esq.
The Blessingboume estate came to Sir H. Tichbome in
the following manner : —

" July 7, 6 Car. I. Grant to Henry Tichbome, Ac, the middle
proportion of Ballyloughmogmffe, containing 1,500 acres, in the
barony of Clogher and counties Tyrone and Fermanagh, and of the
lands of Glansawiske (?), containing 240 acres in i^e barony of
Strabane. All the premises were erected into a manor called the
Manor of Blessingboume, a tan house in Ballynalurgan, and a
weekly market at BaUynaliirgan — ^tbe " Town of Lurgan," now
Fivemiletown."

CLOGHER.

III. — Sir Henry Spottiswode.

Doctor James Spottiswode came to Dublin in April, 1621,
and shortly after was consecrated Bishop of Clogher. At
that time he had by his wife Agnes, a son, Henry, and a
daughter, Beatrice, both grown up and ready for settlement
in l3e. And now the prospects of the Bishop's family hav-
ing brightened by the change from a poor living in Norfolk,
to a well endowed bishopric, the attractions of his children
became proportionately greater. Accordingly, as the father
in his autobiography relates —

" The Bishope of Cloghor havinge but two children, and both
marriageable, a sonne and a daughter, Sir James Areskin, by the
Lord ^dfoure's advise, made a motionf for marryinge a sonne of
his, a Master of Art, to the Bishopp's daughter, upon whom he
would bestow the lands of Agher. Soon after, the Lord Bal-
foure, seeing the Bishoppe much grieved, he made a project to
him how to defeat Sir James Ai^skin, and his sonne, of their
evil intentions. He discoursed to the Bishopp of Sir James
Areskin's povertie, and his intention to make up his decayed
estate by the Bishopp's means. * He peroeaveth your sonne (sayd
he), to be uicklie, and assureth himself to gett all you have in
the end ; but if you will be advysed by me (sayd he), I will teache
you how to defeat them of theire purpose, and how to strengthen
yourself with a better friendshippe in this kingdome. There is
(said he), a mayd, a niece to the Viscountesse of Valencia, both
wise and vertuous, and like to be a great match. For my neigh-

* Sir Henry Tichborne, who was the husband of Mary Edwards, who remarried
Henry Mervyn of Trillick, was in possession of the estate in 1712. She was
alive in 17S6.

t /.s a proposal

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bour, Sir Stephen Butler (sayd he), was offerred to have 1,500 lb.
with her, and greater matters in ho[>e. I will find the way (sajd
he), to make Sir Stephen leave of the suite. If your sonne, then,
can compass the mayd's goodwill, yon male make up a fayre
estate for your sonne. Lett your daughter drinke as she hath
brewed.' "

"The Bishoppe reply ed that he had alreadie consented to
ann other motion made unto him by Sir Stephen Butler himself,
for his brother's daughter, a beautifuU gentlewoman, and well
bredd, with whome he offerred securitie for 1,200 lb. portion.
The ijord Balfour replyed that that gentlewoman had confessed
to himself she was handfast* before she came out of England,
and that Sir Stephen made the offer onlie to hinder the match,
and to renue his old suite. So never took rest till he made
up the match betwenne the Bishoppe's sonne and the Ladye
Valencia her niece."

Hitherto the Bishop's family were aliens, and not admis-
sible to civil privileges, and it was deemed advisable that
they sl\ould put themselves in a position of freedom in Ire-
land. Accordingly, by patent dated October 29th, 1622, a
grant of naturalization was made to Agnes Spotswood, the
Bishop's wife, Henry Spotswood, and Beatrix Spotswood,
alias Areskin, all of the Scottish nation and blood, to enjoy
all the customs of Englishmen, according to the laws of
England. (Pat. Rolls, Jac, I.)

The Viscountess Valencia was Grizel (eldest daughter of
Sir Richard Bulkeley, of Beaumaris), who was married to Sir
Henry Power, of Bersham, in Denbighshire, who was raised
to the Viscounty of Valencia, in Ireland, 1st March, 1620.
Her niece was a daughter of Tristram Bulkeley, of Castle-
bamhiU, in Anglesey. Lancelot Bulkeley, Archbishop of
Dublin, was Lady Valencia's brother.

About this time the Bishop and his family having no place
of residence at Qogher, became tenant to Sir William Cole
for the Plantation Castle of Portora, beside Enniskillen, and
he and his son Henry were the ostensible occupants of it ;
and with it he must have had a good farm, at least as much
as is now held with the Royal School which now stands
upon it; for in 1626 there was a stock of forty or fifty
English cows on the premises belonging to Sir Henry Spots-
wood, the Bishop's son. In the Patent Rolls (Car. 1. 1626, p.
516), mention is made of Sir Henry Spotswood, of Portora—

" In 1626 the High Sheriff of Fermanagh was mortally stabbed
in an encounter between the Bishop's servants and Lord Bal-
four's men at lisnaskea, and law proceedings against the Bishop,
of a very serious nature, were the consequence. In the emergency,

* 7.6., engaged.

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in the management of their affiurs, that they can suffer no prejudioe
by the disabilities of any one person serving and observing their
commands. Thus have I seen a tender parent placing one of his
little ones before him in the saddle^ and seemingly entrusting the
reins in his hands, when secretly the command rested in his own,
an act evidencing affection, Mrithout impeachment of his care."

His speech, after the approval by the Lords Justices of
his election as Speaker had been on the 11th May, signified
by Bramhall the Lord Primate as Speaker of the House of
Lords,* consists mainly of a very long preface containing a
panegyric upon the King, the Lords Justices, the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and the House of Commons, full of
similies and quotations largely taken from the Bible, and
applied in what in this day would seem somewhat question-
able taste ; and contains also several Latin quotations and
one Greek one. There is one pun upon the King's name. —
Having done with the Peers, to whom he said in conclusion;
". . . you are the Lyons which support Solomon's
Throne ; Justitia tirmatur solium ; et nulla est tarn misera
servitus, quam ubi jus est incertum et vagum;" he turned
to the Commons thus —

" But stay, I see a glittering Constellation, though of lesser
stars, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, the Eepresentative of
the Commons of this Bangdom : these are the Guards of Charles-
waine, and move upon the poles of Loyalty and Love ; these
are no planets or erratic stars, but such as will fight in their order
against every Sisera j and of these stars it may be said

Asira regxvrU homineSy
of these stars it may be said

Sed regit astra DeiLs"

On June 18th following, the House of Commons —
" Ordered upon question, that this House do think fit that
certain j>ersons who are members of this House, should be sent
into England, to attend upon His Majesty, and there to agitate
and solicit such matters and instructions, as from time to time
shall be given unto them."

This was in view of the Act of Settlement. They
attached great importance to this matter, to which they
requested the concurrence of the Lords, and a conference
thereon. The Lords appointed the Earls of Kildare and
Clancarty ; Viscounts Ranelagh and Baltinglass ; the
Bishops of Meath and Elphin, and Lords Athenry and
Howtn, a committee to manage the conference ; which was

•The Primate was appointed Speaker bj Patent, because the Lord Chancellor
was acting as one of the Lords Justices. It is curious that the Speaker of the
Lords on this occasion, was one of the persons, whom Mervyn had conducted the
impeachment of, for High Treason in 1648.

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to be held next morning at eight o'clock (June 20th).
On the 22nd, the Bishop of Elphin reported from the con-
ference the Commons' reasons, which shortly were (1) for
preserving entire His Majesty's Declaration for the setUing
of Ireland. (2) To prevent private addresses to His
Majesty such as were being then made, in opposition to
that Declaration, by public agents for the Kingdom, the
Parliament sitting, without the authority of Parliament,
but acting against it. (3) For protecting the Declaration,
in reducing it to an Act, on which depended the settlement
of Ireland. (4) In respect of other great concernments, the
particulars whereof would appear after, and that persons
should be at hand qualified to give His Majesty on occasion,
the sense of Parliament. (5) That there should be Com-
missioners for presenting His Majesty, in address from
Parliament, with the thanks and acknowledgments of the
Kingdom, for the great things done and granted by His
Majesty to his people in Ireland. (6) For clearing up
misrepresentations made to His Majesty, of the affections of
the Parliament to His Majesty, it not being convenient nor
safe to lie under such jealousies.

The House ordered that the consideration of the matter
should be the first business on the next sitting day (June
25th). On that day the Lords ordered a message to be sent
to the Commons, in the course of which we find, " and
touching the Commissioners over the water, for executing
the Declaration, they desire a free conference only." On
the 26th they passed an order that they concurred with the
Commons, in sending Commissioners into England for the
service of His Majesty and the good of the Kingdom ; and
that the number of Commissioners irom their House should
be four, one from each bench, to be such as were then in the
Kingdom. They were to be elected by ballot. The Com-
mons were informed by message. On the 27th the
Commons returned thanks to the Lords for their con-
currence. The House of Lords at a second sitting at 5 p.m.
on the same day, had their ballot ; Viscount Massareene, the
Lord Treasurer, the Lord Digby of Geashill, and the Bishop of
Down being appointed to take the ballot. The result was that
the Earl of Kildare, *Viscount Montgomery, the Bishop of
Elphin, and Lord Kingston were chosen to go to England.

On the 2nd July the House of Commons ordered that the
number of their Members to be sent into England should be
eight, to be chosen by ballot, at their first sitting next
morning. Accordingly next day, the Master of the Wards,

*Created Earl of Mount Alexander almost immediately.

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Sir Theophilus Jones, Colonel Shapcote, and Sir Bichard
Eerie were appointed to take the votes; which done,
it was found that Sir Audley Mervyn, Sir Henry
Tichbome, Sir Arthur Forbes, *Colonel Trevor, Sir
Theophilus Jones, Sir William Petty, Sir John SkeflSng-
ton, and Mr. William Temple had been chosen. Mr.
Bichard Stephens was appointed Clerk to attend upon the
Agents, who were given leave of absence from the House,
to follow their own occupations for four days. On the 6th
the House resolved not to receive reports from any of their
committees, nor to proceed in any other business depending
before them, until tney had first perfected the Instructions
to be given to the Agents to be sent into England ; secondly
had had a conference with the Lords for their concurrence
with such instructions ; and lastly had resolved upon raising
money for the maintenance of the said Agents in England.
On the 8th Mr. William Temple was ordered to take a mes-
sage to the Lords for their concurrence, and speedy reply
(as the welfare of the Kingdom would receive much preju-
dice if there were not speedy despatch), and to ask for a
conference. On the 9th Mr. Temple reported the Lords'
answer, that they had taken the whole business into consi-
deration, and would return a speedy answer by messengers
of their own. On the 11th the Commons sent Mr. Caulieild
to the Lords to press for a reply, as they had bound them-
selves from going on with any other business till that was
ended ; who brought back answer from the Lords, that they
had dissolved themselves into a Grand Committee, before
whom the business was under consideration, and as soon as
the report of that Committee should be approved or dis-
approved of, a further answer should be sent by messengers
of their own.

On the 12th the Commons resolved, upon consideration
of a report from a Committee appointed to consider of the
best expedients for raising money for supply of the Agents
to be sent into England, that £3,300 should be forthwith
raised, and that the Members serving for each particular
county, including the cities or boroughs within the same, do
provide the sum of £100, as also the citizens serving in this
House for the County of the City of Dublin £100, making
in all, there being thirty-two counties, besides the County
of the said City, £3,300. The House was meanwhile to
adjourn until 8 a.m. next day, at which time it was to call
itself over. Meanwhile the Members for each county, cUy,
and borough within the same, were to meet and consult

* Afterwards Lord Duogannon.

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together for raising £100 amongst themselves, for the pre-
sent supply of the Agents to be sent into England, and by
one of their number give account of what time they would
have said sum of £100 in readiness for the use aforesaid.
Accordingly next morning the House was called, and all
declared they would have the sum of £100 ready on next
Monday, except the Members for Cavan, who woiJd have it
ready by Tuesday next at furthest ; the Members within

the County of Clare , and of Dublin not having met

together, were not ready for an answer, but would be on
Monday next. On this day, five additional Agents were
added to the number to go to England, namely, Sir Peter
Courthrop, Sir James Cuffe, Sir Francis Butler, Richard
Jones, and Martin Noell, Esqrs.

The next sitting day, July 1 5th, Mr. Abdy, Mr. Noell,
Alderman Hutchinson, and Mr Boyd were appointed a
Committee for receiving such money, as should be paid
them either in specie, or by bill of exchange in England ;
such bills to be made payable to the Commissioners, or any
three of them, or their order. They were to give acquit-
ances to the persons paying the same, under their hands
and seals, and not to dispose of any part without the Order
of the House. And in regard that it was thought fit, that
the interest at the rate of ten per cent, for six months as
also the cost of transmitting each £100 into England by
bill of exchange, should be secured in like manner with the
principal sum, it was therefore ordered that for each £100
paid down in specie, the sum of £5 be paid over and above,
that being the rate of exchange. On every biU the Com-
mittee received they were to give the like allowance of £5
for exchange, and in their acquitances to include the said
exchange and interest for six months. The Committee to
meet at 2 o'clock that afternoon at Alderman Hutchinson's
house in Winetavem-street, for putting the order into exe-
cution; and to report to-morrow morning what sums they
had received, which members of any county were behind
in their payments, and the cause of such obstruction. If
the £3,300 should happen thereafter to be repaid by distri-
butions upon the counties, it was then to be subdivided
upon the counties in such manner as the House should
thereafter direct and order. It was further ordered that
whereas the aforesaid sums, with £10 for interest and
exchange, were to be raised from the Members serving in the
present Parliament, and the said sums had been procured
upon the security of only some of the Members of the said
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that as weU the rest of the Members now in town, excepting
the Members serving for Trinity College near Dublin, who
had not joined in the said security, as those persons absent
by, or without leave, do also engage and enter into the same
security with those, that have already taken up, and pro-
vided the said moneys.

On the 15th July, Mr. Jones reported that the Commons
Committee had propounded to the Lords Committee in con-
ference, that as in regard the address to His Majesty was
the Act of both Houses, therefore it might be presented to
His Majesty, by the Agents going into England from both
Houses. The Lords in the conference had replied that they
would make known the same to the House of Lords, who
would send answer by messengers of their own. On the
17th, the House ordered Mr. Richard Jones, with as many
members as pleased to accompany him —

'*To repair immediately to the House of Lords, and desire
their Lordships that they would be pleased to give a speedy
return and answer, as to their concurrence with that House, in
the instructions to be given unto the Agents to be sent into
England, they having now lain before their Lordships many days,
and there being an emergent necessity of the said Agents going
away with all possible expedition ; and because the season of the
year was hot, and diseases in that city, many and daily in-
creasing, and harvest-time approaching; and also for that the
Parliaments both in England and Scotland did intend to adjourn
about this time ; therefore, that that House did intend accordingly
to adjourn, and desired their Lordships would do the lika"

Mr. Jones reported that he had delivered the message to
the Lords, who had answered that they had taken the
same into their consideration, and would return a further
answer by messengers of their own.*

The House on the same day, appointed a large Committee
to inquire into the Liformations given that day to the
House, as did and might endanger the safety of the

*The nnsaDitai^' state of Dublin at this time is shown by the following
order passed on the 17th June previously: — "Ordered that William Dave's,
Esq., Recorder [and Member for] the City of Dublin, be and is hereby required to
acquaint the Mayor of the said City, that this House do take notice of the
great number of Beggars, that are in the said City and Suburbs thereof, who,-
intruding themselves into all houses to beg, do oftentimes carry with them
from bouse to house, those infectious and pestilential diseases, which are at
present very rife in the said City, by which means they daily become more
spreading ; and also that b}' the dirtiness of the streets, the great quantities of
filth and dung that lie in many yards and backsides within the said City and
Suburbs, the stink and smell of the blood and entrails of horses, that are usually
at the doors of farriers, and by the permitting of swine to go and feed in and
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Kingdom, who were to report at 5 o'clock, and to send six
of their number to wait upon the Lords Justices according to
an Order of the House. Of this Committee, were to be all
the Agents appointed to wait upon His Majesty in England.
The House, however, itself appointed a Committee of six,
to go to the Lords Justices, all of whom were on the
larger Committee, to inform ihem of what they had learned
from several of their Members, and to desire their special care.
Upon the 18th, it was ordered that none of the Agents
appointed to go into England to attend upon His Majesty,
were to appear before him, or to solicit any of those public
instructions drawn up by the House, till the rest of the
Agents or the major part of them be also present.

On the 19th Mr. Shapcote reported that a Committee of
the Commons had conferred with one of the Lords, who
expected something to be propounded from them, until they
were informed that the ground of meeting with their Lord-
ships was to know what they had to offer. The Lords had
replied that they thought it most fit that the Address to be
presented to His Majesty, should be sent over from both
Houses; that they had made great progress with their
instructions ; and that in the interim, that no time might
be lost, a course might be thought of for raising money to
defray the charges of the Agente. They also included other
matters upon aU of which they desired a free conference.

The Commons sent Mr. William Temple to the Lords to
acquaint their Lordships that they had received a report from
their Committee at the conference consisting of several
particulars, and all matters of weight

" But as there was degrees in all things, even so there was
one among the rest of tliem of the greatest moment, namely, that con-
cerning the Instructions ; and therefore to move their Lordships, that
there maybe a free conference upon that particular, to-morrow morn-
ing, at nine of the clock, and that afterwards the rest of the heads be

health of the People within the same thereby much endangered ; and thereupon
the said Mr. Davys is to desire the said Mayor, in the name of this House, to
cause all the said annoyances for the future to be removed and prevented, as also
the streets of the said City, which are now much broken, to be amended; and
further he is to acquaint the said Mayor, that there are great quantities of dung
and other rubbish daily carried unto and laid upon the strand of the River
belonging to this City, insomuch, as it is feared the said River will, in a small
process of time, be stopped up, and thereby the trade of this City utterly lost ;
and thereupon to desire the said mayor also, that all the aforesaid annoyances
be forthwith remedied, or else that this House must be forced to take some
other way and means for the prevention thereof." The seneschals of places adjoin-
ing, but outside the Mayor's jurisdiction, were to have notice of this order. A
Committee was further appointed to repair to the Mayor, that he would prevent
Sabbath breaking.

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immediately resumed into consideration, and directions given for
a free conference upon them to the same Committee/

The answer to the said message was, that their Lordships
could wish themselves readier than they were as concerning
the instructions ; and for that reason, loath to fix a positive
time, not knowing what inconveniences might happen in
their debates, but that they would send an answer to-morrow
morning by messengers of their own.

On the 22nd of July Mr. Shapcote reported from the free
conference with the Lords, " that at first they were at a
stand who should begin, but at last the Commons did, and
in this manner : they acquainted the Lords that many days
since instructions were sent up by the House of Commons
unto the House of Lords, for the Agents to act upon, that were
to be sent into England, unto to which their Lordships'
concurrence was desired; which it seemed their Lordships had
not thought fit to give, by their desiring a free conference ; the
nature oi which ^ing always to debate of cases in difference
between both houses ; and therefore the Commons desired
the reasons, wherefore their Lordships dissented from the
said instructions ; the Lords answered they had considered
our instructions, but thought fit to prepare instructions of
their own, which they propounded to be read, that thereby
it might be seen what agreement there was between both,
which was accordingly done/'

The main difference was that the Lords wished to add an
instruction concerning making additional provision for the
poorer bishoprics, and they wished that the agents should
be instructed to lay the King's declaration of the 30th
November " at His Majesty's feet, to do therein as to His
Majesty's judgment and mercy should be thought fit/'
Then followed an argument as to which House had used the
most suitable form of words — the Commons thought the
Lords' words left it to the King's discretion whether he
should stand by his declaration or not. " At length their
Lordships said, that the declaration had been before the
House of Commons, who approved thereof; but their
Lordships had some objections against the same, yet would
leave all at His Majesty's feet." The Lords wished the
House of Convocation to have the leave of both Houses to
solicit Hia Majesty. As regarded Corporations the Lords
wished to use the words British and Protestant, instead of
English and Protestant, and ''that in those corporations
may only continue such, as* are of the conmiunion of the
Church of England, and have given testimony of their
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instructions, one in relation to the doubling ordinance * the
other as to their Commissioners acting according to such
further instructions as they should receive. To the last
three particulars no reply was made to the Lords. As re-
garded raising of money, the Commons in answer had
acquainted the Lords " that they had raised some money
for the present supply of their agents, and conceived the
best way of raising of more for their future supply, to be by a
bill immediately to be prepared, and sent over to His Majesty."

The Lords would seem to have decided to adhere to their
own instructions, eighteen in all. They decided to supplicate
His Majesty that Viscount Mayo (being a Protestant and of
English parents) should be restored to his estate ; that the
Lord Biittas should be restored to his estate ; also in favour of
the Earl of Clanrickard and the Earl of Westmeath, and
" the rest of the thirty-six first named in the Declaration."
They represented the smallness of the revenues of the Provost
of Trinity College, and supplicated that £300 a year out of the
forfeited lands next adjoining, might be added to the Provost-
ship for ever. That His Majesty would make void all contin-
uary and previous reprisals, and reprisals de bene esse, &c. ;
and that no charters might be renewed or restored before the
commissioned officers, who had arrears due to them before
5 June, 1649, should be thoroughly settled. They asked
that the salaries of the Judges might be increased ; that
Church robbers might be excepted &om the Act of Indem-
nity; that the lands which the Bishop of Meath was
possessed of, before 29th May, 1660, might be restored to
him ; and such other things as are pursuant to former
instructions, &c. [Lords* Joumcds, 26 July, 1661.]

t The King granted the Lords' requests in favour of Lord
Mayo, the Bishop of Meath, the Provost, and the Judges.
Lord Brittas and also Viscount Kilmallock's cases were left
to be decided by the Commissioners for executing the Act.
Suitable answers were given to other requests,— ^^i. Jour,,
21 Jan., 1661.]

The Commons, after receiving this report, dissolved them-
selves into a Grand Committee to debate the instructions of
both Houses, and the House (after much time spent in debat-
ing them) was resumed, and ordered that the House should

*The Doubling Ordinance was as follows— ** That such of Ihem ** (the
Adventurers) " as should then deposit a fourth part of what they had formerly
subscribed and paid, should have so many acres of land added to what was
allotted by the former Act of Parliament, as should make their former proportion
of acres double to what was granted by that Act ; and whosoever would subscribe
de novo, should have the like double proportion of land for his new subscription."
lliis was a resolution of the English House of Commons, June 19th, 1643. The laud
was to be provided out of the estates of the Trish Rebels, expected to be forfeited.
(See Carte, VoL I., p. 465.) I believe that the Lords concurred.

1 1 think that the Lords must have sent these requests to the King, through
their own Agents, and that the Commons did not join in them. Vide, pp. 200-2.

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dissolve into a Grand Committee again, at 9 a.m., next day.
This was accordingly done, and after ftirther debate, it was
resolved to report to the House, as the sense of the Com-
mittee, " that there be some alterations made in the former
instructions, prepared by the House for the agents, in hopes
of the Lords compliance therewith, and that this committee
do dissolve."

*' The House being again sat, Colonel Bridges reported, thai
he had attended upon the House of Lords, with a message of this
House, from whence he received thiu answer, that they very
joyfully accepted of the message, and had accordingly appointed
three of their House to meet with a committee of this House at
the Council Chamber at three of the clock in the afternoon."

Sir St. John Broderick was sent with a message to the
Lords that the House of Commons had taken what had
passed at the conference into consideration ; that they had
gone through a great part of the instructions, and hoped to
bring them to that maturity, as to have them ripe for a
further conference that morning.

The Lords sent back answer, that they would sit, in
expectation to hear s'^mething further from the Commons,
till 12 noon. However, when the latter were ready with a
message, they were informed that the Lords had risen ; so
they adjourned.

Next morning, July 24th, Captain MuUineux moved —
that since the £3,300 was given for their agents, they were
increased by five, and that therefore there should be a
further supply, or the number reduced to eight. Thereupon
a great debate arose. At length the question was resolved
on whether the question should be put for debating the
number ol the agents. On a division the yeas were 56 ;
the noes, 50. Then the question was put, whether the
House would give way to enter upon tne debate of the
last five additional agents to be sent into England. The
yeas were 56 ; the noes, 53. The debate was adjourned to
] o'clock next morning.

When it was resumed, many arguments were used for
and against the additional agents going to England, *' and
at last it was the result of the House, that the ensuing
question should be drawn, and then a question put, whether
the said question should be put, yea or nay." On question
whether the additional agents be continued or rejected,
the previous question was negatived. It was ordered that
the motion for fixing a day for the agents to go to England
should be resumed next morning.

On that day, July 26th, Alderman Huchinson having
reported that some members had not paid in their moneys

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to the ccmmittee appointed to receive the £3,300, they
were ordered to bring in their money or bills without fail
by Monday next; and the committee was to see where
£400, or thereabouts, could be raised on good security. One
member from co, Clare, and several from the counties of
Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow, were ordered to attend to
show cause, why they had not paid to the committee the
money for the agents. The Commons then sent an urgent
message to the Lords to hasten the agents away * The
Lords replied that they were on urgent business, but would
dispatch it with all speed, and if the Commons stayed awhile,
they would send an answer by messengers of their own. La
due time the Lords asked for a free conference at five
o'clock. The Commons agreed, appointed the same com-
mittee to manage the conference, and adjourned to three p.m.
The committee was to offer, that the 20th October would be
a convenient day to adjourn to, and Thunaday next, to
adjourn on. The House then adjourned till the conference
was cDded.

Later, Colonel Shapcote reported from the conference
about instructions. The Lords had not amended the Com-
mons' instructions, but had prepared new ones under nine
heads. Thoy took notice of those prepared by this House,
but said some of theirs had been omitted. They would
discuss the reason of the Commons' instructions, but not the
things themselves so as to make any alteration in them.
That out of desire of compliance they had departed from
their first instructions; "and for a final agreement had
digged up their foundations, and prepared new instructions,
from which they could not recede, and unto which they
hoped this House would concur."

As regarded money, the Lords' Committee had been in-
formed what money the House had raised upon their own
members' particular security, and that it was hoped that
the Lords would do the same, to be secured by a Bill to
be passed by both Houses, and to be transmitted into
England by the Lords Justices, according to Poyning's
Act. The next particular was about the adjournment.
(They might have saved themselves the trouble of this,
as the Lords Justices prorogued the House five days after-

* Col. Arthur Hill was to '' acquaint their Lordships, that the hastening away
of the Agents is so absolutely necessary, as that every day's delay is an uncon-
ceivable predjudice to the Kingdom ; that by all the intelligence, which the
Members of this House receive from their friends in England, it is an admir-
ation and wonder there what grounds and reasons there can possibly be, for
reUrding the Agents all this while; likewise intimating that if they do not
speedily come over, the predjudice will be much greater than we are aware
of,'» Ac

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wards, and indeed it was so in all nine times during the
next nine months, during which there were seven sessions).
Amongst other matters, the Lords wanted an answer about
Lord Baltinglas' case, who claimed a balance of £275 as
due to him, when an Agent to England in 1640.

On the 27th the Lords sent a message respecting the
supply for Agents, that it might be done by Bill ; and in
which Bill they desired to be included the £275 for Lord
Baltinglas, and also £2,000 which had been awarded to the
Bishop of dogher (John Leslie), for losses sustained by
him whilst BLwiop of Raphoe, during the Rebellion. The
Commons answered in effect that they would not keep the
Lords messengers waiting, but if they (the House of Lords)
would sit awhile, would send an answer by messengers of
their own. They ordered Lord Baltinglas* money to be
included in the bill, and sent a message to the Lords, that
they had ordered that £12,000 should be the sum to be
raised by the Bill. They appointed a committee of eight
to join one of the Lords to attend the Lords Justices in
the Council Chamber, about drawing up the Bill At a four
p.m. sitting they ordered that Wednesday next, the wind
and weather serving, be the peremptory day for the Agents
going into England; and they appointed a committee to
acquaint the Lords Justices therewith, and to desire
favourable letters of recommendation for the Agents unto
His Majesty. A committee was appointed to consider the
instructions of both Houses, and to see how far they could
bring them into accord. The care of this order was
particularly recommended to Colonel Arthur Hill.

On the 29th July, Colonel Dillon reported from the Con-
ference, that the Lords' Committee there did not think it
seasonable to join in desiring the Lords Justices to prepare
and transmit into England a bill for £12,000, in respect
there was no way prescribed how the same should be ap-
portioned upon the respective counties within this Kingdom.
The House then ordered upon question, that the rule for the
applotment of the money upon the respective counties, &c.,
be according to the rules of the last three months' assess-
ment, the same not to be drawn into a precedent, to the pre-
judice of any particular county ior the future. Philip
Femeley, Esq., the Clerk of the House of Commons, was
appointed Receiver of the £12,000, he to give security to
the persons empowered to receive the same, to the value of
£24,000, for making a true, &c., accompt thereof to the
House. The money was to be disposed of to such uses as
the House should appoint.

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Mr. Richard Jones reported from the Committee ap-
pointed to wait on the Lords Justices, that when they were
informed of the agents' names, they would give their letters
of recommendation.

The House ordered that they agreed to the first, second,
third, and fourth instructions, and would consider the rest
to-morrow morning. They adjourned to eight a.m. next day.

On the 30th the House agreed to the remaining four of
the instructions, and sent a message to the Loi-ds to ask their
concurrence in them. The Lords replied that they had con-
sidered the instructions, but being long, they would send an
answer to them by messengers of their own.

The House then appointed a Committee to manage a free
conference with the Lords, to deal intei^ alia with the
manner of raising the £12,000. The said Committee was to
inform the Lords, that it was the sense of the House that
the members of their Lordships' House, to be sent into
England, should have double the proportion of money out
of the £12,000, that any of the members of the House of
Commons should receive, excepting only Sii' Audley
Mervyn, the Speaker, whose allowance was to be equal with
any of the Lords. The House adjourned to two p.m.

In the afternoon Colonel Dillon reported from the Con-
ference that the Commons' Committee

" Did faithfully improve those Reasons, which they were com-
manded to give unto the Lords, concerning the manner of raising
£12,000. In relation whereunto, their Lordships made these
three objections— first, that the House of Commons had taken
upon them to charge the Lords, by levying the same upon a Land-
rate, as in the time of the late Usurper; secondly, that the Com-
mons had bound them up by a vote ; and lastly, that the old way
of raising money for the agents in the year 1640, was the best
rule for apportioning the said £12,000," (fee.

Alderman Huchinson reported that the Committee to re-
ceive the £3,300, cannot fix upon a certainty in procuring
the sum of £400 as was lately recommended unto them ;
" Yet, if the Gentlemen of the several counties, &c., who want
money ordered to be paid by them, and know not where to take it
up, do come to the said Committee, they will give them the best
advice they can, how they may be supplied."

Then the Housegave leave to Mr.Caulfeild,aMember, one
of the Masters in Qiancery, to go to the House of Lords to
bring down a message, always saving the privileges of the
House therein. The message was partly, that the Lords had
voted that the £12,000 should be raised according to the

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rule and method observed in 1640. The Commons sent back
answer that they had the Lords* message under consideration,
and would send back an answer by messengers of their own.

Then they ordered that the instructions sent up to the
Lords, were to stand as the instructions for the members of
the House ; and adjourned till next morning at seven o'clock.

On the 31st July, the Committee to receive the £3,300,
were ordered to pay £400 to Sir Audley Mervyn, £200 to
each of the other members who were to go to England, and
the £500 balance, to the said members, or any seven of
them, by bill of exchange, to be disbursed as they should see
cause.

TheHouse then formally nominated the thirteen members
to go to England, viz.. Sir Audley Mervyn, Sir Henry
Tichborne, Sir Arthur Forbes, Colonel Trevor, Sir Theophilus
Jones, Sir William Petty, Sir John Skeflington, Mr. William
Temple, Sir Peter Courthrop, Sir James Cuffe, Sir Francis
Butler, Mr. Richard Jones, and Mr. Martin Noell. The
Speaker was always to be one to attend on His Majesty.
The House then declared that they did not expect the
£3,300 to be enough for the agents, but if it should please
God to bring the House together again, they would take
steps to raise a further sum. The agents were empowered
by the consent of any seven or more of them, to raise an
additional sum not exceeding £3,000, for the advancement
of the service, and they were to be indemnified by a vote of
the House. The Committee, formerly appointed to wait on
the Lords Justices, were to immediately attend upon them,
and saving to the House their privileges, signify the names
of the agents to them. The instructions were ordered to
b^ engrossed and delivered to the Speaker, and Members to
take with them copies of all orders, &c., as they should
think fit, for the bettermanagingof the proceedings. Later on
the House ordered that Members who might interpose their
security beyond their own counties, should be indemnified.

Colonel Dillon reported that the Committee had waited
on the Lords Justices, and renewed a former message for
letters of recommendation. Their Lordships had replied
that they would meet that afternoon, and satisfy the House
in their desires.

The Committee for the £3,300, was enlarged by adding
the names to it of Alderman Preston, Alderman Hatfield,
and Mr. Thomas Howard.

Then the agents were empowered to represent to His
Majesty the condition of those persons whose lots were fixed,
or might fall upon such unprofitable lands as were not worth
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that those who took leases from the late usurped Powers,
from which they might be removed by lawful authority,
might have the same compensation for their disbursements,
as the adventurers and soldiers were to have by His Majesty's
declaration of Nov. 30th. And further to submit that
when aU the forfeited lands in Catherlagh (Carlow) were
set out to adventurers and soldiers, that are removed from
the Duke of Ormond s lands, if there were any such who
should through deficiency of lands remain unsatisfied, they
might be reprised in such way and manner as His Majesty
should think fit. After they had passed a few more orders,
the Commons were summoned to attend the Lords Justices
in the House of Lords, and Parliament was prorogued to
September 6th. This looks like a surprise, as on the
previous day only, the Lords Justices had sent the Commons
a message about their adjournment by Sir Paul Davys, the
Secretary of State, in order that they might be ready to
immediately pass a Pole Bill, on its return from England.
On the Gth Sept , 1661, Parliament met again until the 10th.
The House of Commons proceeded to choose a temporary
Speaker, It is stated in the journals, that

" Whereas this House thought fit to send into England, Sir
Audley Mervyn, Knight, their Speaker, to attend His Majesty,
in order to the dispatch of their humble addi*esses to His
Majesty, which of themselves are of that nature, that, though
His Majesty is willing to afford them the greatest part of his
time, could not be returned by this day, the Gth September,
1661, the day to which the Parliament was prorogued; and
whereas His Majesty, both from the assurance he hath of
the serviceableness of the said Sir Audley Mervj'^n in order to
that dispatch, as also desirous to answer the trust reposed by
this House in him the said Sir Audley, hath thought to con-
tinue [him] in attendance in England."

Therefore they elected John Temple, Esq., His Majesty's
Solicitor-General, to be Speaker, until Sir Audley Mervyn,
their first Speaker, should return, and no longer. Mr.
Temple was accordingly presented to the Lords Justices in
the House of Lords ; made a short and eloquent speech in
excuse of himself, received the approbation of their Lord-
ships, and returned to the Commons with the mace carried
before him.

The principal business of this short session was to pass
two bills, viz., a money bill, and a bill entitled an Act
« That this, or any other Session of this Parliament shall not
determine by His Majesty's Royal assent to this or any other
bill or bills, to be passed in this or any other Session, which
shall be in this present Parliament."

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On the 9th Sept. a number of members in Kildare, Dublin,
Leytrim, Wicklow, and Donegal, and the members for the
city of Dublin, were ordered to show cause why they had
not paid the money for the Agents in England. On the 10th
the House appointed a Committee to draw up a letter to the
Agents in England, to the effect that the House expected to
hear from them of the progress of their business, and to
remind them not to neglect in future to give the House (when
sitting) an account of their proceedings. The Speaker was
to sign this letter, without further authorization. A question
was then moved that a further instruction should be given
to the Agents to supplicate, that the time for putting in
claims according to His Majesty's declaration should be
enlarged. A division took place, when the yeas were 20 ;
the noes, 21.

Then a message from the Lords Justices by the Usher of
the Black Rod came, desiring the attendance of the Commons
in the House of Lords. The Commons first passed an oi*der
to be entered and sent to the Sheriffs for affecting the pri-
vilege of members, and then went to the Lords, when the
Lords Justices gave assent to the two bills, and prorogued
Parliament to 10th Oct.

On the 10th Oct. Parliament reassembled. Three letters
from the Agents were read, reporting the progress of their
proceedings, and a letter of thanks was ordered to be sent
to them.

The Agents having represented that Colonel Carey Dillon
had been serviceable in the negociation they went upon, the
House ordered that a suitable reward should be made to
him. The Lords Justices sent a message that certain
members of the House, who had lately been sheriffs, should
be ordered to perfect their accounts in the Court of
Exchequer; but the House came to no judgment in the
case, as they were sent for to the House of Lords, and
Parliament prorogued to the 6th Nov. next.

On the Ctn Nov., two letters from the Agents, one of the
8th, and one of the 15th October, were read to the House.
The Speaker was ordered to acquaint the Agents that they
had been received, and of the care of the Lords Justices in
transmitting a bill for raising money for their supply.
Afterwards the House having sent a message to the Lords
Justices, that a bill might be prepared and transmitted [to
England] for the suppression of the Popish Hierarchy, and
a message to the Lord Chancellor, that certain Irish papists
had gotten themselves into the conmiission of the Peace in
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might be superseded, and none such again appointed, and a
message having been received from the Lords about
protections, Parliament was again prorogued to 6th Dea

On that day the Parliament met again. On the 10th the
Commons informed the Lords Justices that few members
were in town, and that little business was before them, and
unless the Lords Justices had important business for their
consideration, they thought it better to adjourn for eight or
ten days. On the 1 1th Sir John Temple brought a message
from the Lords Justices, that they had held a Council early
that morning, and that owing to the sickness of the Earl of
Montrath (one of them), they thought it better to prorogue
that afternoon, to Jan. 21st, which was accordingly done.*

Parliament reassembled on the 21st January. On " this
day several letters unto the House from their members in
England attending upon His Majesty were read, giving an
account of their progress in the business committed to their
trust, in one of which was enclosed his Majesty's answer
unto the Instructions given unto the said members."

These, having been read, were ordered to be entered
amongst the acts, orders, and ordinances of the House.

His Majesty's answers were as follows : —

The first instruction was merely the order to present the
unanimous address of both Houses to His Majesty, and did
not need or receive an answer.

The second instruction was to represent the impoverished
and contemptible Revenues of the Bishoprics of Kildare,
Ferns and Leighlin, and of Clonfert, and to request that
augmentation might be made to them out of such forfeited
lands as were excepted out of, or were not intended to be
confirmed by His Majesty's declaration or otherwise, as His
Majesty should think fit, so that Ferns and Leighlin (united)
and Clonfert might be made worth £600 a year ; and Kildare,
being the second Bishopric in the Kingdom, £800 a year.
It appears by the Lords' Journals of the 26th July, that
Kildare was worth only £95 a year. Also to request that
other Bishoprics, which were united, might continue so. The
reply was that His Majesty had made competent augmenta-
tion for the Bishoprics therein mentioned, as would appear
by the Bill of Settlement.

The third instruction was to thank His Majesty " for his
laying so good a foundation for the settling of this kingdom,
as is contained in His Majesty's gracious declaration of the
30th November last," &c. This needed no reply.

*Lord Montrath died of the nm all-pox, December 18th, 1G61, and was buried
in Christ Church, February 6tb. (Lodge, Vol. ii., p. 76.) This determined
the Commission of the Lords Justices, which was renewed to the Lord Chancellor
and Lord Orrery.

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The fourth instruction was to solicit His Majesty not to
allow any person to solicit before His Majesty or Council,
any public affairs, without the appointment of either the
Lords Justices, or other Chief Governor, one or both Houses
of Parliament, or the House of Convocation, durincr the
continuance of that Parliament. This was granted as desired.

The fifth instruction was to render His Majesty thanks
for securing cities and other corpoi-ate and walled towns, in
the hands of the Protestants., and to supplicate His Majesty
that the same, viz., Dublin, Cork, Y'oughall, Kinsale,
Limerick, Galway, Waterford, and all other cities, &c., and
all other seaports within the kingdom whatsoever, "may
be so continued in the hands of, and be inhabited by such
as shall manifest their communion with the Church of Eng-
land, by their taking the oath of supremacy," saving any
mercy or favour intended to any particular person by His
Majesty's declaration.

The answer was that His Majesty had left the care
hereof to the Lords Justices and Council, till the Lord
Lieutenant should arrive ; from whom it will be expected,
that after his airival, the said cities should be secured.

The sixth instruction was to ask, that those who had ad-
vanced monies upon the doubling ordinance, should be
satisfied, proportionable with the adventurers who laid out
theirs upon the Act of the 18th Caroli, in case His Majesty
should adjudge that the lands set out for the satisfaction of
monies advanced upon the said doubling ordinance, be not
confirmed by the declaration.

The answer was, that order was taken therein as would
appear by the said bilL

The seventh instruction was to move that the whole
security, by His Majesty's declaration appointed, for the
satisfaction of arrears of such Protestant Commission officers
who served in Ireland before June 5th, 1649, and had re-
ceived no satisfaction since that date, might be preserved
entire to the uses in the said declaration mentioned, so as no
part thereof might be otherwise disposed of or restored, sub-
sequent to the said declaration, until reprizes for the same
were first legally assigned, and set out for the security of the
said officers, as by the said declaration was provided for in
the case of adventurers and soldiers ; and that all assistance
should from time to time be given to these agents appointed
by the Commissioners, who liave the management of the said
security, "in their lawful and just desires, they having
highly merited by their actings and sufferings for His
Majesty's Royal father of blessed memory, and the Protestant
interest of this kingdom." The original t^ext of the latter

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part of the above is very obscurely worded. The answer
was, that what His Majesty had gianted or should grant,
from off the forty-nine men, should be supplied out of the
third part of the forfeited lands in the county of Dublin,
out of such lands as should accrue by the doubling ordinance,
and out of the discovery of false admeasurement or con-
cealments ; and care would be taken that this be provided
accordingly.

The eighth instruction was, that for the advancement of
the Protestant religion, and securing His Majesty's interest
in the kingdom, the adventurers, soldiers, and all others who
should receive benefit in the settler.ient of the kingdom by
the declaration, may be obliged to such rules of plantations,
pursuant to the Acts of 17 and 18 Caroli, as should be
agreed on by both Houses of Parliament of the kingdom.

" There is order given herein," is the answer. As to the
order of the House, of 31st July, praying for the giving
relief to persons whose lots were not worth the quit rent;
(2) that those who took leases from the late usurpers, of
lands, &c., from which they might be removed by lawful
authority, might have similar satisfaction for their disburse-
ments, as soldiers and adventurers were to have under His
Majesty's declaration ; and (3) that when all the forfeited
lands in Carlow were set out to adventurers or soldiers re-
moved from the Duke of Ormonde's lands, any who were
not so satisfied might be reprized as His Majesty should see
fit : no reply appears to have been given about the quit rents.
The second point concerning leases was to be considered
and compared with the forty-nine security, and the Com-
missioners to be appointed for the execution of the Act,
were to lay down a rule lor compensations in this case,
according to their discretions. A rule had already been
given concerning the adventurers removed from the Duko
of Ormonde's lands.

The order was given at Whitehall, the 16th Dec,
1661, "by His Majesty's command," and signed by Mr.
Secretary (Sir Edward) Nicholas.

Then Sir Paul Davys, the principal Secretary of State,
moved —

" That the great care and providence of the Members of this
House employed in England, were evident by the good progress
they had made in that negociation, and therefore it was necessary
a course shall be thought on for sending them over monies, that
so they might be in a condition of returning back, as soon as they
had compleated their business : that there was to that end, in pur-
suance of a former vote of this House, a bill for £15,000 sent out
of England by His Majesty, which he desired might be read."

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The bill was then read a first and second time, and com-
mitted to a Grand Committee next morning, but no further
progress seems to have been made with it.

On the 22nd Jan. (next day), a Committee was appointed
to prepare a letter to the Agents, to be signed by the
Speaker, acknowledging their letters, and thanking them
for their care and pains, which the House would endeavour
to see requited, though the shortness of the Session pre-
vented their doing so at present. They were also to
acquaint the Agents that in pursuance of their desires, they
were to choose three of their number to continue the
negotiation, and the rest might return when they should
judge it convenient. This was dwie, and the letter is
entered on the Journals.

After two more orders had been made, the Lords Justices
prorogued the House to Feb. 20th, on which day it was
again prorogued by their proclamation to the 4th March.

On the 6th March, the House sent a message to the Lords
Justices to transmit a bill for raising £20,000 for the Agents
in England.

The preceding day, March 5th, the House had agreed to
an address to His Majesty, that no provisoes might be
inserted in the Bill of Settlement contrary to the Declara-
tion and the Instructions. A committee was appointed to
prepare this address, from whom, on the 6th, Colonel Clayton
brought it up and reported it to the House. It was signed
by the Speaker, and Dr. Robert Gorges, a Member of Parlia-
ment, was appointed to carry it over to England, and with
the Commissioners already there, to present it to His
Majesty. It is stated that he was then going to England,
and should expect no recompense for his service, more than
the honor of being by them conceived worthy to be instructed
in that affair. The Speaker was to sign two lettera, one to
the Duke of Ormonde (the Lord Lieutenant), to inform him
of what had been done, and to ask his favour that the address
might be presented to Ilis Majesty ; the other was to the
agents. The latter was directed to Richard Jones, Esq.,
Col. Marcus Trevor, William Temple, and as many of the
rest, i&c, as were at present in London. Later in the day
the Lords Justices gave the Royal assent to a Customs,
Excise, and New Impost Bill, and then prorogued to the 21st
March.

Parliament met again on the 21st March, and was again
prorogued on the 22nd until I7th April, 1662. No mention
is made of the Agents.

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Parliament met again on the 17th April, 1662, and the
session lasted until the 16th April, 1663,

On the 20th April, Sir Anthony Morgan reported from h
conference of both Houses, touching the obligations of
Members of both Houses for the money raised for their
members, and the disengaging them from them. The Lords
knowing that the raising of money was only proper to
proceed from the House of Commons, had said that they
would not take upon them to name the sum. But hearing
that the Commons had already passed a vote for £20,000,
they were willing to make a joint application to the Lords
Justices to transmit a bill for that sum, or whatever other
sum the Commons should think fit, to be disposed of by
directions from both houses.

The Commona thereupon, ordered that £20,000 should be
the sum, and sent a message to tell the Lords, and to ask
them to join in a m(f ssage to the Lords Justices. Sir Arthur
Forbes reported the Lords* concurrence; that they had
appointed their committee of four, and that they desired that
the two committees should meet at three p.m., at the Green
Chamber,* in the new Custom House. The Commons
appointed a committee of eight : — Sir Arthur Forbes, Sir
Theophilus Jones, Sir John Cole, Dr. Loftus, Sir James
Graham, Sir Francis Hamilton, Sir Oliver St. George, and
Colonel Dillon. They recommended by the committee to
the Lords Justices, that they should send the bill into
England by William Rosse, Esq. The Lords' committee
were : — The Earl of Drogheda, the Bishop of Meath, and
Lord Coloney, and Lord Caulfeild.

On the 24th the Commons reappointed the same persons
a committee, to attend on the Lords Justices for their
answer. The House then divided on theii adjournment to
May 1st. — Ayes, 41 ; Noes, 26.

By the first of May, Sir Audley Mervyn had returned
from England. The fii-st business on that day was to appoint
Sir Theophilus Jones, Dr. Loftus, and Mr. Shapcote, a com-
mittee to prepare an order congratulating him on his safe
return ; and another of thanks to Mr. Temple, the Acting-
Speaker. They were as follows: —

" This day, Sir Audley Mervyn, knight, His Majesty's Prime
Sergeant-at-law, and Speaker of this House, returned to the Chair,
having been for the space of nine months employed as public
Agent from the House, to atttjnd His Sacred Majesty in England,
touching the greatest affairs of this Kingdom, and especially the
Act of Settlement j and upon liis taking the chair, consideration
being had of the acceptable and signal sei-vices by him performed
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in England, as also of his prudent care and successful industry to
promote the honour of His Majesty, and happiness and welfare of
his loyal subjects of this Kingdom, in that his agency ; he received
hearty thanks, together with ample expressions of the House's joy,
congratulating his safe return ; cuid, to convey the memory of his
merit, and the House's sense thereof to posterity, it was ordered
that this memorial be entered among the acts, orders, and
ordinances of this House."

" This House taking into consideration the ^rreat services per-
formed to this Hiri Majesty's Kingdom, by John Temple, Esq., His
Majesty's Solicitor-Geneml, whilst he supplied the chair as Speaker,
during the absence of the now Speaker, Sir Audley Mervyn,
thought lit to render him the hearty thanks of this House, and to
order the same to be registered amongst the acts, orders, and
ordinances of this House, as a due testimony of his merit, and
an earnest of a farther and seasonable consideration to be had of
his services, expences, and hinderances in the piirsxdt of his
private benefit, occasioned by his attendance on this House."

The Bill of Settlement was read a first time on the 6th
May, that is, being apparently literally read, it was com-
menced on that day ; again proceeded with on the *9th and
I2th, and finally on the 13th, having at their eight a.m.
sitting adjourned till to-morrow the call of the House,
again proceeded with it. " The House having read through
the Bill of Settlement, and finding it to be late, adjourned
until the afternoon at three o'clock." In the afternoon they
finished reading it the first time. The next day they began
to read it a second time, and further proceeded with
it on the 15th. On that day, in the afternoon, the House
dissolved itself into a Grand Committee on the distribution
of the £20,000 ; Dr. Loitus in the chair. On the 16th he
reported what persons were to be considered out of the
money to be raised by the Bill : —

1. That the agents should be fully rewarded for their

great services.

2. That the Lords' Commissioners be also considered.

3. That the Bishop of Cork's services be considered.

4. Also, Sir Heneage Finch, the English Solicitor-

General, and Sir George Lane, ** for their great in-
dustry and labour to promote the good and settle-
ment of this Nation."

5. That John Temple, Esq., receive a proportionable

reward for his services whilst Speaker.

6. That <Jolonel Carey Dillon receive a suitable reward

for his services in England and assistance given to
the agents.

* On the 9th it is stated that the House made a further progress with the Bili,
^ and read unto the end of the instructioiu contained in the said BilL"

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7. That the Lord of Kingston and the Master of the

Wards be taken into consideration, having been
employed as agents by the Lords Justices and
Council into England, and by the Lords Justices
recommended to the House.

8. That the Bishop of Clogher and Lord Baltinglass be

paid the sums before voted them by the House.*

9. That the Bishops of Cork and Elphin, and the Dean

of St. Patrick's, employed as Agents to His Majesty
by the National Synod and Convocation be re-
warded out the said monies.

10. That the Clerk of the House, and his Assistant, the

Chaplain, the Sergeant-at- Arras and his under
oflScers, as also the under clerks, and the rest of
the Ministers and attendants of the House be
severally rewarded for their respective services.!

11. That the monies laid out by the Dean of Christ

Church, and paid to him by some members of the
House, be reimbursed to them out of the said
monies.}

12. That Captain Rosse receive a reward ''suitable to his

great diligence and celerity in his journey into
England and his return, with a seasonable provision
for the continuance of this Parliament."

13. That Mr. William Sommers receive £50 in pursuance

of a former vote.

14. In consideration of the great sufferings of the Lord

Caulfeild and his family, by occasion of the late
horrid rebellion, and of his great services in appre-
hending and biinging to justice Sir Phelim O'Neill,
and in regard to the reward promised by the then
Lords Justices for bringing Sir Phelim's head; the
committee recommended that Lord Caulfeild should
be considered for that his service, out of the uses,
intended to be satisfied, out of the money intended
to be raided by this Bill.

There were conferences between the two Houses about
the Bill, and the money to be raised and distributed ; and
there seem to have been some points raised by the Lords
Justices ; and the Lords desired that the reasons to be sent
to the Lords Justices might be drawn by the Commons,

♦ This, of course, bad nothing to do with the journey of the Ag^ents to Eng-
land in this Parliament.

f I gather that this was n.ercly the ordinary payment of their salaries.
X This seems to have been i;46 for pews in Christ Church Cathedral.

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" and that in the sums to be raised, there may be a considera-
tion had of the present poverty of the Kingdom/'

It appears from the Journals, that in the end, after much
disputing between the two Houses, and the expression of a
wish by the Lords that the £20,000 should not be exceeded,
the total sum was raised to £23,500; but this included
other mattera besides the expenses oi the Agents and what
was connected therewith — for example, the Bishop of Clogher
got £2,000 on account of his losses, whilst Bishop of Raphoo
in 1 641. Lord Caulfeild, £500 ; Lord Baltinglass, his £275 ;
and sundry payments for the service of both the Houses.
For the English business. Sir Audley Mervyn was to have
£1,000 ; the Solicitor-General for England, £2,000; and Sir
George Lane, £1,000, for their assistance there; and Mr.
Temple, £500, for acting as Speaker during Sir Audley
Mervyn's absence. Mr. Femeley, the Clerk of Parliament's
accounts in regard to this Bill, appear not to have been
passed till 1666 ; and even then some of the money which
should have been paid to him had not come in ; but he was
discharged from all that had passed through his hands.*

• It appears from the Journals of the 9th April, 1683, that £21,600 had been agreed,
by a Committee of Lords and Commons to be thus disposed of :
£ 8. d.

The Earl of KUdare, . 800

The Earl of Mount Alexander, 800

Bishop of Elphin, . . . 80u
Baron of Kingston, . 800

Sir Audley Mervyn, . . l,uoo
Sir Henry Tiehborne, . . 4(X)
Sir Arthur Forbes, ... 400
Colonel Trevor, ... 400
Sir Theophilus Jones, . . 400
Sir William Petty, ... 400
Sir John Skefflngton, 4(j0

William Temple, Esq., . . 600
Sir Peter Courthorp, . 400

Sir James Cuffe, . . . 400
Sir Francis Butler, ... 400
Bichard Jones, Esq., . . 400 o
Sir Martin NoelL. . . . 400
Interest and Exchange, . 1,436
Sir Heneagre Finch, Solicitor- 3,000

Qeneral in England.
Sir George Lane, . . . 2,(>00
John Temple, Esq., Solicitor- 600

General in Ireland.
Mr. Thomas Agar, Sec. in 800

England.
Pews in Christ Churchj 40

For drawing the Security, . 22 11
(The above sums to be paid first )
The Lord Bishop of Clogher, 1,700
The Lord of Baltinglass, 206

John Keating, Esq., . . 160 o
Mr. John Davys, ... 76
Dr. Sterne, for overseeing 37 10

the Printing of the Act.
Mr. John Burniston, in the 160

whole.
The Lords' eight Waiters, 120

£16 u piece.

Mr. Richard Stephens, .
Mr. John Vesey, Chaplain to

the H. of Commons, for

reading Prayers.
William Craige, the Door-
keeper.
Commons' four Waiters, £16

each.
Mr. William Somera,
Mr. William Rosse,
Lord Caulfleld,
Carey Dillon, Esq., .
The Bishop of Corke, as a

gratuity from the H. of

Commons
Master of the Wards, .
Sir Edward Nicholas, his

Clerks.
Loid Mount Alexander,
Sir William Aston,
For the S«>rgcant of either

House, each of them £160.
For biin^nng the Miice,
William Fitzpoi-alcl, Esq., .
John Koatinjjo, E^q., by the

Lord Ranolagh and Bishop

of Meath'a undertaking.
Mr Richard Warburfcon,

Assistiint Clork.
The Earl of Kildare,
The Bishop of Elphin,
Colonel Marcus 'rrevor, Lord

Dungannon.
Richard Jones, Esq.,
Mr. Hall, the Black Rod,

£ «. d,

112 10
76

88 10

800

276

600

876

376

150

800

160

226

I 76

, 100

Total, . £21,496 1
Remains, 4 19

The Commons ordered that their Clerk, Mr. Philip Femeley, should have sixpence
in the pound for his trouble out of the £23,600.

It will be seen that £2.0o0 was yet to be distributed. Some of the above persons
were probably only paid on account, till the whole money to be raised should have
come in.

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I have given at considerable length, the hiRtory of what
passed in the House of Commons respecting the journey to
England — it is interesting, partly from the leading part
taken by Sir Audley Mervyn — and partly as showing the
Parliamentary manners and customs of the day.

This journey to England seems to have been the culmi-
nating point of Sir Audley's career. We find in Sir William
Drake's account of him, that the House of Commons desired
that stricter rules than those imposed by the King's de-
claration, should be laid down for ordering the proceedings
of the Commissioners for executing the Act of Settlement
The Commons, composed principally of " Adventurers "
and Soldiers, guided by self-interest, desired that facilities
should be afforded to the Cromwellian grantees, and
obstacles, practically insurmountable, interposed to prevent
the Irish claimants from recovering their lands. The House
attended on the Lord Lieutenant on 13th Februarj'^, 1662-3,
and Sir Audley made one of his omtions, which, however,
appears from his language to have been a written docu-
ment. *' The House thought not fit to intrust it to the bare
expressions of a Speaker, had he been of the greatest
abilities, therefore have they committed it to this instru-
ment, that it might remain as a record of their endeavours
that the hard late and ruin of an English interest in this
Kingdom, might not bear date under the best of Kings,
under so vigilant a Lord Lieutenant, under the first, and if
not prevented, like to be, the last Protestant Parliament
that ever sat in this Kingdom.*' It was desired inter alia
that when an Irish claimant was dismissed, he should leave
his deeds and charters in the Court. (Proposal 7.) Sir Audley
said: —

" As to that part that desires the wiitings of nocent persons to be
left in the Court, it cannot work a prejudice to them ; for the
lands being adjudged against them, to what purpose will the
writings operate in their hands *? But, sir, I correct myself. They
will have an operation. And this puts me in mind of a plain but
apposite similitude. Sir, in the North of Ireland, the Irish have a
custom in the winter when milk is scarce, to kill the calf and re-
serve the skin ; and stuffing it with straw, they set it upon four
wooden feet, which they call a Puckan, and the cow will be as fond
of this, as she was of the living calf. Slie will low after it, and
lick it, and give her milk down, so it stands but by her. Sir,
these writings will have the operation of the Puckan ; for wanting
the lands to which they relate, they are but skins stuffed with
straw. Yet, sir, they will low after them, lick them over and over
in their thoughts, and teach their children to road by them instead
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on the sight of these Puckan writings, and entail a memory of
revenge, though the estate tail be cut off. Sir, how little so ever
this may weigh, yet in the Government of Rome, when the Tar-
quins were put down, not only all monies and sculptures, that
might retain their memory, were by public sanctions decried, but
such Innocents* as retained the name were forced to assume new
ones. The Israelites remembered the flesh pots of Egypt when
manna was before them^ but when they wanted water they
murmured."

This was known as the Speaker's "Puckan" speech. It
takes more than thirteen pages of the Jov/maU, The House
ordered by resolution that the Speaker's speech should be
printed in Dublin. This was done, and it was reprinted in
London, and distributed with great industry by those who
desired to stir up a Protestant cry.

The speech was very badly received by the Lord
Lieutenant. In the firat place His Grace seems to have
considered that the application should have been made by
way of petition. The House applied on the 20th by Sir
William Davys, the Recorder of Dublin, for an answer. The
reply was that at the time he had promised as speedy an
answer as the weight and number of the particumrs could
permit. That since, they had been taken into consideration,
and he would give answer next day. The House ordered
Sir William Davys to prepare reasons in writing for theii*
application, and no answer having been received by the 24th,
tney sent a petition to the Lord Lieutenant against an
order made by the Court of Claims on the 16th inst, and
concluded thus —

"The House likewise prays, that your Grace will please to
return an answer to the Particulars expressed in a late application
humbly presented imto your Grace ; which though offered as a
humble Advice, was never intended to have access into your
Grace's presence, but under the character of a most submissive
petition. And they shall pray.

" A Mkbvyn, Speaker."

On the 27th, a repoi-t of the Lord Lieutenant's answer
was brought up by Mr. Richard Jones. His Grace had
said that he would have sent an answer at the time he had
promised, had he not feared that he must, as things stood,
nave had to send one which

'* Would not much contribute to the maintaining of that fair
correspondence he desires should always be maintained between
the State and the Commons ; that although he had just exception

* ^ Innocent** and ** Nocents '* were technical expresfflona in uae at this period.

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against the manner of the deliveiy, yet he was resolved that thoee
for whom he appeared should not suffer for want of any formalities ;
that therefore he and the Council had done that which they
judged fit for their relief; that now he was very glad we had
addressed ourselves in a manner which became us ; in a manner
which was suitable to that power to whom we applied ourselves,
which was the King's power; that as to the matter of our
desires, he and the Council would do in it, what they should
think just and fit ; and that this was all the answer that could
at present be sent ; neither did he know whether any further
answer would ever hereafter be necessary; but if it was it
should be sent."

On the 10th the Speaker acquainted the House, that he
had received a letter from the Duke of Ormonde, to be com-
municated to the House, which admitted a long debate. His
Grace in this letter recapitulated what had taken place, and
the substance of his former message, with which he had
had good cause to believe the House could not but rest
.satisfied —

'* But since that our answer, and much contrary to our expecta-
tion, as well as to the cussurance brought to us from you, Mr.
Speaker, and whilst the things desired were under the proper
deliberation appointed by the Act, to our admiration we find
that they are exposed to the world in print with inconsequent
inferences — viz., ' That this is the critical time, when Religion,
the established religion, in in danger to be undermined, by casting
the predominancy of Temper upon a Popish Interest,' with other
expressions, in which, as there are some things that seem to be
assumed as rights belonging to that House, whereof we cannot
allow, so they lay much more weight upon the importance of
the matters desired for securing the Protestant religion, than
was needful or convenient. The effect of these unhappy
expressions had been that too many English Protestants had in
despair sold their lots and adventures at vile and under rates, or
compounded with the old proprietors on very ill terms, and very
] prejudicial to the English plantations, as well as diminishing the
King's Quit rent, &c. ; and the discouragement it must give to
Protestant strangers to plant amongst us," &c.

He also informed them that he had discovered a conspiracy
by make believe Protestants to seize the Castle of Dublin,
as if the Protestant religion and English interest were more
than in danger of being undermined, when he knew that
nothing was more His Majesty's care than the preservation
and increase of both, and nothing more particularly required
of himself " as His Majesty's servant in this Kingdom, nor
shall be heartily endeavoured by us." He points out at great
length the consequences that would have flowed from the
plot if successful, &c., and the care of the Government, and

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concludes with his reasons for writing this letter. He signs
himself, " Your very loving firiend, Ormonde." The House
appointed a large Committee (over forty) to prepare an
answer. They expressed their amazement in it that any-
thing they had said should be so wrested by wicked men,
as to be taken as a pretence to design anything against
His Majesty's authority, or should have discouraged Pro-
testant settlers. They hoped his Grace would rather ascribe
these things to some other cause. They assured him of
their confidence in himself; that in any orders made by the
House, they never intended to proceed further " than might
be agreeable to our Loyalty to His Majesty, our duty to
your Grace, and the trust reposed in us.'' This reply was
to be taken by Sir Paul Davys, His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Kingdom, the rest of the Privy
Councillors who were members, and such other members as
might please to accompany him. The Lord Lieutenant
in reply by Sir Paul Davys, on the 16th, said that he would,
before returning answer, consult the Privy Council; and
would be glad to have an opportunity to continue, as
formerly he had done, the representing of the House to
the King in such a manner as might be both for their honour
and advantage ; the fruit and effects whereof, he doubted
not, they would receive from Hi& Majesty.

Sir William Drake says that the Dublin printer of the
Puckan speech was prosecuted, and the London one ar-
rested, at the instance of the Government, and thinks that
this incident deprived Sir Audley Mervyn of any further
Court favour. He was Prime Sergeant ; and on the 21st
Feb., 1662-3, the House had given him leave to appear as
such before the Court of Claims, as his abilities would
conduce much to His Majesty's advantage in trials determin-
able there. On the 10th of Anril, 1663, after the Earl of
Fingall's claim had been heard there, against several soldiers
and adventurers, the House ordered the Speaker, neni con,
to make a collection of the heads of the several arguments,
both by himself, and the Council of the said Earl delivered,
to be preserved for future use ; stating that he had argued
the case with great faithfulness and learning. On the 14th
of April the House sent an humble petition to the Duke of
Ormonde, showing that for almost two years Sir Audley
Mervyn had continued Speaker of their House, in the dis-
charge of which tnist they acknowledged to have received
very great satisfaction, so as they were sensible of the loss sus-
tained by want of his practice as a lawyer, especially in such a
time, and his necessary expense to maintain the honour of his

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place. They asked his Grace to represent their humble
desires in his advantage to His Majesty, so that their
Speaker might receive a testimony of His Majesty's favour
and bounty, suitable to his merits and condition. Sir Arthur
Forbes and others were to take the message, and Sir Arthur
reported next day, that His Grace had kindly accepted of
the message ; that he would peruse precedente in the case,
and then do therein as the exigency of the present times
would permit. The House was adjourned till the 25th May,
but was before that day prorogued, and Parliament did not re-
assemble for two years and a half — 26th Oct., 1665. It then
sat till 7th August, 1666. I find Sir Audley Mervyn attend-
ing to the routine duties of his office. One of the last orders
given to him as Speaker was to reinforce a former applica-
tion to the Lord Lieutenant that Mr. Vesey, the chaplain,
might be paid £200 for reading prayers. This was on the
6th. On the 7th I find as follows :—

" The House then repaired to the House of Lords, where Hi a
Grace the Lord Lieutenant being sitting, the Speaker of the House
of (^ommons, in a brief speech, repeated the many beneficial Acts
for His Majesty and the people which had been passed in this
Parliament, presented other bills, which had lately passed both
Houses for the Koyal Assent, and so concluded his speech.''

After the Royal Assent had been given, the Lord Chancellor
made a very full and eloquent speech, expressing the Lord
I lieutenant s sense of their loyalty and diligence, and declared
Parliament dissolved. Apropos of the diligence, I find on
the 28th June, Sir Paul Davys bringuiff a message from the
Lord liieutenant, complaining of the fewnciis of the
Members that attended, and the late hour at which they
met — that hour being usually nine a.m. The close of this
Parliament appears to have terminated Sir Audley Mervyn's
public career. He died on the 24th Oct., 1675, and was
buried on the 26th at St. Werburgh*s, Dublin (Smith's Law
Officers, p. 187); having made his will on the 18th of the
same month. By an inquisition taken on 13th Oct., 1687,
at Kilmainham, he was found to have died seized of the
town and lands of Baldwinstone, County Dublin.

Sir Audley was twice married — first to Mary Dillon, by
whom he had Henry, his heir (of whom hereafter), and Lucy,
who died unmarried, 1st Jan., 1671, and was buried at St.
Werburgh's, Dublin : secondly, to Martha, daughter of Sir
Hugh Clotworthy, by whom he had Hugh, of Naul, Co.
Meath, George, and Christian married to William Cecil
of Tewin, grandson of the third Earl of Salisbury, k.g.

There is a verj'- quaint full-length portrait of Sir Audley
Mervyn at Biversdale and another at Castle Archdale.

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A pedigree of the Mervyn family will be found in my
Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh, App. III.

Twenty years after Sir Audley's death, the House of
Commons sent an address to the then Lord Lieutenant,
Lord Cape), concerning "a debt of £6,000, due to the
children of Sir Audley Mervyn, Knight, formerly Speaker of
the House of Commons, in this Kingdom, for his long and
faithful service to the Protestant interest of this Kingdom."
This was sent over to the Treasuiy, and by that Board
ordered to be laid before the King (William III.) It was
again minuted as " read and respited," but there is no trace
of the money being paid. The Commons stated that it had
never been paid either to himself or his children, or any
other person, to the utter ruin of his family unless relieved
therein. They asked that £3,000 might be paid to Henry
Mervyn's eldest son, Audley, and the other moiety equally
between Hugh and George Mervyn. The petition presented
to the House of Commons on the 5th Oct., 1695, by Hugh
Mervyn, Henry Mervyn, and George Mervyn, Esqs., had set
forth that their father, Sir Audley Mervyn, then Prime
Sergeant, had been chosen Speaker in 1661. That the Par-
liament had continued to the end of 1666. That for a great
part of that time, he kept a public table, and was at other
considerable expense, to support the dignity of his place.
That he was not allowed, during the whole time, to
practice as a Lawyer, either in the Four Courts, or Court of
Claims then sitting, and when all the gentlemen of the
Long Elobe made so great advantage by their practice, the
whole Kingdom being then upon the Settlement. That he
had never received any satisfaction for his services or
sufferings, nor the usual stipend of £500 per ann. That the
House, several times, by some of their Members who were
of the Privy Council, had put the then Government in mind
of their Speaker, and by address had prayed the Duke of
Ormonde to recommend him effectually to His Majesty for
£6,000. That some of the chief Ministers of State in
England had, by frequent letters to Sir Audley, held out
hopes that they would so warmly support him, that he
could not fail of satisfaction; but that the Popish
Party seemed to conspire to his ruin, and had by their
agents at the English Court so efiectually frustrated all en-
deavours in his favour, that he had proved unsuccessful.
That his family were obliged to sell a considerable part of
their estates to pay his debts, contracted whilst in the
service of the House. That petitioner Henry, had stifTered
equally with any gentleman in the Kingdom, of the Irish,

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in the late troubles. That they had burnt two of his houses,
and the town of Omagh, which entirely belonged to him ;
and that he had often heard from some of the Irish gentry
that he had not suffered so much, had not his father, Sir
Audley Mervyu, so zealously and constantly espoused the
Protestant interest, in disfavour of the Irish ; and that the
petitioners had no way of redress but by favour of the
House. Petition referred to a Committee consisting of Mr.
Molesworth, Lord Moore, <fec. {Comnions' Journaly Vol. II.,
pp. 80, 81.) See also App. V., p. 349, for a note.

CLOGHER.
III. — George Wandesforde, Esq.

George Wandesforde, the senior Member for the City of
Clogher, in the Parliament of 1639, was probably a relation
of Christopher Wandesforde (the friend of the Earl of
Strafford), Master of the Rolls, Lord Deputy in 16*1, and
M.P. for KUdare County in this Parliament, who wa.s
ancestor of the (extinct) Viscounts Castlecomer, and Earl
Wandesforde.

Into this Parliament there were elected, besides
Christopher and George Wandesforde, William Wandesforde
for Lifford, Michael Wandesforde for Thomastown, in Kil-
kenny, John Wandesforde for Inisteoge, in the same county,
and William Wandesforde again for Ballinekill, in King's
County.

IV. — Henry Manninge, Esq.

Henry Manninge, the jimior Member for Clogher, was of
Drumbrogus or Drumbrocus, county Fermanagh. He was
Chancellor of the Diocese of Clogher, and married Ursula.
fourth daughter of James Heygate, Bishop of Kilfenora,
Archdeacon of Clogher, Rector of Clones, Derryvullan,&c.

DUNGANNON.

v.— John Chichester, Esq.*

John Chichester, Member for Dungannon in 1639, was the
nephew of Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland
from 1604 for ten years or more, created Baron Chichester
of Belfast in 1612 ; on whose death in 1H24, without issue,

* It does not appear that the title of Honorable was used by the children of
Peers at thie early date ; but sometimes by Privy Councillors^ as in the case of
Sir Robert Meredith. The title of Right Honorable was used by the represenU-
tives of the Crown, Lord Lieutenant. Lord Deputy, or Lords Justice^ unless a
Duke, as in the ease of Ormonde, who was " His Grace."

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his large estates passed to his brother, Sir Edward, who was
created a Baron, and also Viscount Chichester of Belfast in
1625. Sir Edward's eldest son Arthur was created the first
Earl of Donegall in 1647, in consideration of his services
against the rebels when Colonel Chichester ; with remainder
to the heirs male of his father. His second son, John, was
the subject of this memoir. According to Sir Bernard
Burke, he was colonel of a regiment in the service of
Charles the Second, and sergeant-major of the army in
1647. He died in 1648, leaving issue by his wife Mary
Jones, daughter of Roger, first Viscount Ranelagh and
Baron Jones of Navan, besides two younger daughters,
Frances and Mary — two sons, Arthur, who succeeded his
uncle in 1674-5, as second Earl of Donegall; John, the
ancestor of the present Lord O'Neill ; and Elizabeth, the wife
of Sir John Cole, Bart., M.P. for Fermanagh, whose eldest
surviving son, Sir Arthur Cole, wa.s, after the abeyance and
supposed extinction of the Viscountcy of Ranel«gh, by the
death of the 3rd Viscount and first and only earl in 1711,
created in 1715 Baron Ranelagh. Lord Ranelagh died
without issue in 1754, aged 90. In 1759 the original
Viscountcy and the barony of Jones were claimed by and
allowed to Charles Jones, Esq., great great grandson of
the first Visc(»unt, which titles have only lately become
extinct by the death of the seventh Viscount.

VL— Thomas Madden, Esq.

Thomas Madden, the junior Member for Dungannon, was
of Baggotsrath near Dublin. He was Comptroller to the
Earl of Strafford, and was the eldest son of John Madden
of Bloxham Beauchamp, Oxfordshire, and brother of
Robert Madden of Donore, County Dublin, ancestor of the
Maddens of Maddesbrook, and of Oliver Goldsmith * Mr.
Thos. Madden married Elizabeth Petti ver of Middleton
Cheney, North Hants. He died 30th January, 1640-1, and
was buried at St. James', Dublin. His son John, of
Enfield, Middlesex, one of the Attorneys of his Majesty's Court
of Castle Chamber, and general solicitor of Parliamentary
sequestrations, 1644-1649, married in 1635, Elizabeth, eldest
daughter of Charles Waterhouse, of Manor Waterhouse,
County Fermanagh ("who died in 1638 at Enniskillen
during the assizes, as he was on his knees in the church at
public prayers,"; by Ethelred Butler, sister of Sir Stephen
JButler, ancester of the Earl of Lanesborough, and widow of

* Vide Biirke*s Landed Gentry.

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Michael Hamon of Pirton, Herefordnhire. She died in 1640,
Mr. Waterbouse had a son Charles of Manor Waterhoase,
who married in 1634? Elizabeth Cope, and had four sons,
who all died unmarried, and a daughter Anne who married
Patrick Harrison, and had a son, Charles. (See Archdale's
Lodge's Peerage, 1789, vol. ii., pp. 392-3, note.) The
Waterhoase property, passed in time to Elizabeth Madden's
descendants. Her son John Madden, M.D., was the father
of the well-known Revd. Dr. Samuel Madden of Manor
Waterhouse, F.T.C.D., the founder of the "Madden
Premium,"* from whom descend the two families of Madden
of Hilton, County Monaghan, and Madden of Roslea,
County Fermanagh, the present representatives of which
families are his great great grandsons.

VII.— Sib Phelim O'Neile.

Sir Phelim O'Neile of Kinard or Calidon, succeeded to
the vacancy for the borough of Dungannon, caused in 1640
by the death of Mr. Thomas Madden.

Sir Phelim O'Neile was descended from Owen O'Neill,
grandfather by the father's side of Con the lame, who had
been the undoubted head of Sept;T and was bom in
1604. Jlis grandfather was Sir Henry O'Neile ; and at an
inquisition held on 30fch March, 1609, he was found to be
next heir to his grandfather, and was then five and a half
years old. Notwithstanding when Captain Pynnar made
his survey in 1618-19, the only O'Neile that he found with
an estate in "The Precinct of Dungannon, allotted to
Servitors and Natives," in which Kinard was situate, was
Tirlagh O'Neile, who had 4,000 acres — double what either
of the two next largest landowners, Lord Wingtield, or the
Lord Ridgwaie had. The entry runs thus ; —

" Tirlagh O'Neale hath four thousand acres — upon this he hath
made a piece of a Bawne,t which is five feet high, and hath been
BO a long time — he hath made no estates to his tenants, and all of
them do plough after the Irish manner."

Who Tirlagh was, I do not know — ^possibly an uncle,
who managed the estate during Phelim's minority.§ Webb,

* By Dr. Madden's will, this premium, arising out of his estate in the Corporation
of Belturbet, was to be given, in one undivided sum, to the best disappointed
candidate at the Fellowship Examinations at Trinity College, provided that there
were at least two such — Vide the Trin. Coll. Calendar. Dr. Madden died in
1798.

t Vide Carte's Life of Ormonde. VoL i., pp. 348-9.

X A sort of rampart.

§ Sir Phelim had a brother, Captain Torlogh O'Neile.

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in his compendium of Irish Biography, quotes from Carte as
follows : —

*^ Sir Phelim was a person of very mean natural parts, and
improved them very little in his English education, whilst he was
a student at I^incolns' Inn ; during which time he h£ui professed
himself a Protestant, but changed after, if not before his return
into Ireland ; and then entering upon his estate before he had
discretion enough to manage it or to conduct himself, ran into all
the follies and extravagancies of youth ; and having thereby
contracted a heavy debt, and mortgaged in a manner all his
estate, was the more liable to receive those impressions and en-
gage in tiiose measures, which the other conspirators suggested to
him. Old Tyrone had died 1616, and his son had no children;
so that Sir Phelim as the nearest to them in blood, and the
greatest in interest among the O'Neiles, saw himself in a fair way
of being set up, as the head of that family, and of succeeding to
those vast possessions, and that absolute power, which the
O'Neiles had been used to enjoy in Ulster."

Sir Phelim O'Neile married first a sister of Sir Conne
Magenis, who died in 1641. The next year he married a
daughter of Thomas Preston, created Viscount Taragh in
1650, and who was the fourth son of the fourth Viscount
Gormanston.* Thomas Preston had married Madame Bren-
ner, a Flemish widow lady, daughter of Charles Van der
Eycken of Bruges, and by her had several sons and daughters.
One of the latter was Lady O'Neile. They had a son, Phelim.
Lord Taragh, in his will made 6th October, 1655, proved 4th
September, 1688, thus alludes to this grandson : —

*' I leave my sonne Su* James others are pro-
vided for. I leave him the care of little Phelim."

The marriage of Sir Phelim and Miss Preston was thus
commented on in " Apporismical Discovery," p. 53 : —

" Preston's daughter married Sir Phelim O'Neyle 1642 at
Kilkenny — a Dutch born, with the onely portion of some fewe
armes, and hopes to foment the said jealousies for the future."

This Lady O'Neile could not have lived very long after
her marriage; for, as will hereafter appear. Sir Phelim
married, in 1649, as his third wife, Lady btrabane, to whom
it is said he was paying his addresses, when he besieged her
castle at Strabane in 1G41.

As has been already stated, Sir Phelim seized Lord Caul-
feild (and the Fort of Charlemount), on Friday, 22nd Oct.,
1641, whilst dining with him. On the same night he
marched to and seized Dungannon. Lord Caulfeild. about
fifteen weeks afterwards was murdered at Kinard Castle. At

♦ Vide ArchdaU'e Lodge, vol iii., p. 82.

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the same time fifteen or sixteen English and Scotch tenants at
Kinard Castle were also killed. Kinard Castle was Sir Phelim's
own residence ; bwt he appears to have been absent at the
time of the murders (Lodge, Vol. III. pp. 140-1). It appeared
from the deposition of Mrs. Jane Beer, that not long after
Lord Caulfeild*s murder, the murderer (Edmond Boy
O'Hugh) was arrested and confined in Armagh GaoL
Three sentinels, an Englishman, a Scotchman, and an Irish-
man, were set over him ; but he escaped along with his
gaoler. Sir Phelim caused the sentinels to be arrested and
threatened to hang them all. The two former were executed,
but the Irishman was released. The gaoler afterwards
returned to his place, and remained there unmolested and
unquestioned by Sir Phelim.

It is further stated that Sir Phelim O'Neill took the
King's Broad Seal from the confirmation patent of the
estate to Lord Caulfeild's father, and affixed it to a sham
commission, which he pretended was granted by the King
authorizing him to raise the Rebellion.*

On the I7th Nov., 1641, a warrant for a new writ was
ordered to issue for Dungannon, in Sir Phelim's room ; but
no return seems to have been made to it. Col. Rory Maguire,
Member for Fermanagh, and Philip M*Hugh O'Rely, were
also expelled at the same time, for their share in the
rebellion, and the cruelties and atrocities of which they had
or were alleged to have been guilty, t

Carte relates (Lite of Ormonde, Vol i., pp. 848-9) that
Sir Phelim was, in 1642, a rival with his cousin, Owen
0*Neile, for the headship of the sept of O'Neile. Sir
Phelim had the best right to it ; but Owen had the most
merit. Owen was an experienced though cautious soldier,
had served in the Imperial and Spanish armies, and when
a Colonel had been made Governor of Arras, which he had
defended against the French, who besieged it in 1640, and
which he had suiTcndered to them on such honourable
terms, that he had gained thereby a great reputation, and
the respect of the enemy. Sir Phelim was forced to drop
the title of The O'Neile which he had assumed ; and the
Ulster gentlemen (in rebellion), at a meeting at Kinai^d,
unanimously chose Owen to be their Commander-in-Chief;
but neither of them to be The 0*Neile,

" The first thing that the new General did was to express his
abhorrence of the cruelties that had been committed upon the
English, and to send a few prisoners that wore left of them, safe

• Lodge, Vol. III. p. 142.

* Carte entirely acquits Mr. O'Reilly of anv personal charge of inhumanity.
Vol. I., p. 174.

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to Dundalk. He told Sir Phelim that he deserved to be treated
m the same cruel manner ; in detestation of their actions he
burnt some of the murdei-ers' houses at Kinnard ; and said with a
warmth unusual to him, that he would join with the Enriish
rather than not bum the rest" *

Sir Phelim O'Neile in 1642, when he heard of the taking
of Newry by Lord Conway, went in the beginning of May
to Armagh, m breach of his promise under his own hand and
seal at the capitulation, murdered one hundred persons and
burnt the town and cathedral church. In one of his frantic
fits he caused Mr. Blaney, m.p. for Monaghan, to be handed
m his own garden. (Carte, Vol I., p. 176.)

After Ireland had been reduced by Cromwell the Par
hamentary Commissioners having withdrawn provisions
from the enemy, by their prescribed lines within which all
were bound to inhabit, as a further means to reduce them
they put a price upon the heads of those who still persisted
in their rebelhon, and upon Sir Phelim O'Neile £100 to
whomsoever should bring him dead or alive. A countryman
^ve notice of his being in an island in the North to
WiUiam Lord Caulfeild, brother and second in succession to
Toby, who had been murdered. He, with a party of horse
and foot, entered the island by means of boats, seized him
and conveyed him to Dublin, where, on the 23rd of February'
1652-3, he was examined and made a confession. He saui
that about a quarter or half a year before the rising the plot
wa^ discovered to him by the Lord Maguire and RoJer MoorP •
and that they ajid Philip O'Rely and himself, hid several
times met m Dublin and discoursed of it. He further said
at some of the meetings Colonel John Barry, Sir James
Dillon, Anthony Preston, and Hugh MacPhelim were
present. An oath of secrecy was administered to him at
Nelson's house in Cafitle-street, by the Lord Maguire and
Roger xMore. It wa^ agreed that he was to take Charle
mount ; Lord Maguire, Enniskillen; Barry, Preston, More
andPlunkett, the Castle of Dublin; Sir James Dillon the fort
of Galway ; and Sir Morgan Cavenagh and Hugh MThelim
the fort of Duncannon. The then Government was to be
altered, new Lords Justices made, and addresses sent to the
King. He, with his forces in Ulster, was invited to come to
the siege of Drogheda by several lords and gentlemen of
the Pale, including Lords Fingal, Qormanston, Slane 'and
Louth. That when he came they gave him at Bewlev
(Beaulieu), a commission signed by them, appointing him
commander-in-chief of all the forces then at the siege? ITiat
on the 22nd Oct., at a meeting at Monaghan, he was chosen

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commander-in-chief of Ulster, and a commission given him
by Phelim MacHugh O'Reily, Colonel MacMahon, the
Maguires, O'Neiles, Magenniss, MacMahons and others.
That afterwards, by order of the Supreme Council at
Kilkenny, he was made President of Ulster ; but denied he
was chosen Earl of Tyrone at the Hill of Tullahogue, or
subscribed any letter in writing as Earl of Tyrone.

However, Captain John Perkins' deposition to the &ct of
his being so chosen, as already shown in that gentleman's
memoir, was put in. Tried upon these examinations and
other evidences of his guilt, and on full proof of his cruelties
to the English, he was sentenced to die by the Court of
Justice, and his head to be fixed on the ffate which stood at
the foot of the bridge, which accordingly was put in
execution. — (Ludlow's Memoirs, as quoted by Lodge).

In Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography, it is stated
that Mr. Prendergast, in his Cromwellian Settlement, clears
him of the charge of having murdered Lord Caulfeild,
quoting from that work as follows : —

" He treated him and his family with great care, when he sur-
prised the fort of Charlemont, on the 23rd Oct., 1641 ; and there
Lord Caulfeild was kept till the 14th January, 1642, when he
was sent with an escort to Oloughouter Castle. He was shot in the
back by Edmund O'Hugb, a foster brother of Sir Phelim, and
was tlius murdered in the absence, and without the knowledge
of Sir Phelim. That Sir Phelim had no part in this murder
is certain.**

This is probably correct — one of the other persons
murdered at the same time, is said to have been a very near
relation of Sir Phelim. But, having engaged in rebellion.
Sir Phelim had to bear the responsibility of the con-
sequences of his actions. (See App. V., p. 351.)

Sir Phelim had married thirdly, Ijady Strabane [Lady
Jean Gordon], youngest daughter of the first Marquis of
Huntley. On referring to the Ulster Inquisitions, I find that
her son, James Hamilton, Lord Baron of Stral3ane, joined
Sir Phelim O'Neale in rebellion at Charlemount, on the 20th
July, 1 650. The fort was, however, taken by the army of
the Commonwealth, August 6th, 1650, when Lord Strabane
and others fled to the woods and bogs of Mountereling, in the
county Tyrone, and was the same day taken prisoner by
a party of the Commonwealth's army, whereby all his
manors, &c., were forfeited to the Commonwealth of England.
Afterwards, on the 13th August, he accepted a protection
from *Sir Charles Coote, commander-in-chief of the army of

* Earl of MoDtratb after the Restoration, and one of the Lords Justices.

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the Coinmon wealth. On the 31st December he broke the
protection, and again joined Sir PheUm,

"And was in the co. of Tirono [ ] called by the name of
Drummurrogh, which hee, the eaid Phelim O'Neale had, then and
there acting and advising, and countenancing of the said rebellion,
with said Sir Phelim and many other rebells. On the 1st July,
1649, the said James Hamilton, Lord Baron of Strabane, did accept
and take a commission from one of the said rebels, to raise and
arme a troope of horse, for and on behalf of the said rebells."

The result was that Lord Strabane's estates were forfeited,
and when the inquisition was taken tempoi^e interregni at
Strabane, the 9th August, 1()58, were with some specifieH
exceptions, in possession of Edward Roberts, Esq., of Dublin,
one of His Highnesses Auditor-Generals in Ireland.

<< The said Lord Baron was, the 1st August 1650, a papist, and
a Roman Catholic papist recusant, and on the 16th of June, 1655,
at Ballyfatten, neere Strabane, he died a Roman Catholic and
papist recusant" (Ulster Inq., Tyrone, 1. Tempore Interregni,
Strabane, 9th August, 1658.)

An inquisition, taken at Dungannon, the I7th June, 1661,
sets out in detail Sir Phellemey O'Neale's estate as it was
on the 23rd October, 1641 — the day after the rebellion began.
It consisted of thirty-one townlands in Tyrone, amongst
which I recognize Caledon in " Cologen," " Leaght McNaus,"
now Loughmacnab, and "Magenis, * now I believe Aghenis.
for some time in later years the residence of my own family,
before Mr. Armar Lowry-Corry fthe first Lord Belmoie)
succeeded to Castlecoole, on the death of his mother.

It appears, however, to have been considerably mortgaged,
including *' seven ackres in the toune and feeldes of Kenard."
The inquisition ends thus :

^* The several statute staples and judgments aforesaid the jury
have not scene, therefore know not how much of the said several
sums was really paid, or to be paid."

This estate (which I presume was forfeited), or the bulk
of it, was granted in 1660-1 to William Hamilton of Lough
Currine, whose granddaughter, Margaret Hamilton, ^e
heiress of his son and successor, John, married the fifth
Eaii of Orrery in 1738. It was sold towards the end of
the last century to the ancestor of the Earl of Caledon.

With regard to Sir Phelim O'Neile's marriage with Lady
Strabane, we find in Archdall's Lodge, Vol. v., p. 114, note;
speaking of that lady, that

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*' She expended above £1,000 in building the castle, courtyard,
and garden wallB about the castle of Strabane, which in the be-
ginning of the rebellion of 1641, were all demolished ; all the
furniture burnt and destroyed ; and in December that year she
Was taken prisoner by Sir Phelim 0*Neile (who then was paying
his addresses to her), and by him carried from Strabane, whidi he
burned, to his own house of Elinard ; where he kept her two or
three days, and then sent her to Sir George Hamilton, telling her
with great ostentation — * That he would never leave off the work
he had begun, until Mass should be sung or said in every church
in Ireland, and that a Protestant should not live in Ireland, be he
of what nation he would.' She afterwards became his wife, and
was reduced to so indigent and deplorable a condition, as, in 1656,
to accept the sum of £5 from the State, towards her relief." —
(Lodge — Bill in Chancery, and deposition of Captain John Perkins,
of Dungannon, taken 8 March^ 1643-4.)

The date of her marriage is stated to have been 1649.

Sir Phelim left a son, who, as Colonel Gordon O'Neil,
was returned to King James II. *s Parliament for Tyrone, in
1689 — ^and who was constituted by that monarch Lord
Lieutenant of Tyrone. His Christian name seems to point
to his being Lady Jane Gordon's son, notwithstanding a
legendary story, related on the authority of an old man in
Tyrone, and given in the Ulster Archceologiccd Journal,
which would make his mother a daughter of the second
Duke of Hamilton. As the Duke died in 1651 of a wound
received at the battle of Worcester, he could not have been
in Tyrone, when Sir Phelim was executed in 1653. The
execution, moreover, took place iii Dublin, and the story is to
my mind clearly apocryphal

VIIL — KiCHARD Fitzgerald, Esq., Re-elected.

IX. — James Galbraith, Esq.

Colonel James Galbraith, who was the junior member for
Strabane in the Parliament of 1634, was, according to Sir
Bernard Burke, of a Scotch family of some antiquity. He
was a kinsman of John Galbraith, Esq., of Roscavy, near the
present viUage of Beragh, county Tyrone ; the ancestor of
John Galbraith, Esq., of Clanabogan, near Omagh, who is the
seventh in descent from him. — (Seo. Burke's Landed Gentry.)

Colonel Galbraith had three daughters. The eldest, Anna,
was the wife of the Kev. James Sinclair, of HoUyhill, near
Strabane, whose daughter, Anna, married my ancestor,
Robert Lowry , of Aghenis, and was grandmother of the first
Earl of Belmore, and the first Countess of Enniskillen. The
second. Angel, married William Wray, of Ards. The third,

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Margaret, married William Hamilton, of Caledon or Kinard,
county Tyrone. His son, John, had an only daughter and
heiress, Margaret, Countess of Orrery.

Colonel Galbraith was one of '* divers Lord Spiritual and
Temporal, Knights, Gentlemen, and others of the Scottish
nation, inhabiting in the Kingdom of Ireland," who, in 1639,
signed a Petition to the Lord Deputy and Council against
the " Covenant." Those who signed were (Viscount) Mont-
gomery, J. (Lord) Claneboy, James (Spotteswoode) Bishop of
Clogher, John Leslie,BishopofRaphoe,Henry Leslie, Bishop of
Down, Andrew Stewart, William Stewart, James Montgomery,
William Semphill, Francis Hamilton, Robert Han way, James
Craige, John Cunningham, Robert Stewart, (Sir) Henry
Spotteswoode, J. Dunbarr, Thomas Bruce, Archibald Areskyn,
William Bayley, William Fullerton Archdeacon of Armagh,
William Hamilton, John Hamilton, Robert Maxwell, William
Fullerton Prebendary of Armagh, Alexander Richardson,
Alexander Colville, Archibald Hamilton, James Wishert,
Christopher Irwing, Archibald Stewart, Arthur Monipenny,
John Kaimes, Patrick Reynolds, John Cunninghisim, James
Galbraith, WUliam Stewart, James Edmonstoun, and Robert
Lesley.*

I find from the Journals, that on the 7th April, 1635, Mr.
Galbraith, who was then Member for Killibeggs, county
Donegal, was fined £10 for his default and neglect of atten-
dance on the House, but the fine was taken off on the 11th,
as his default had been caused by a sudden sickness which
befel him, he paying the fees as if he had petitioned.

He was Member for St. Johnston's, county Donegal, in
1661. On 31 January, 1666, he was fined £10 for beingr
absent from the House, when called over the third time.

From a kinsman of Colonel Galbraith's was descended Sir
James Galbraith, Baronet, so created 1813, extinct 30 April,
1827. Sir James was Registrar of the Diocese of Derry,
and lived at Amey Park, near Strabane. He had three
daughters — Mrs. Stanhope, mother of the eighth Earl of
Chesterfield ; Mrs. Stewart, wife of Dr. Stewart, of Lifford,
county Donegal; and Mrs. Delap, of Monellan, in the same
county. There is a tablet to his memory in St. George's
Chapel of Ease, Lower Temple Street, Dublin.

* ** Before the end of May [1644], there was scarce an officer left in Ulster but
who had submitted to the Covenant, except Sir James Montgomery, Sir Robert
Stewart, and his Major, James Galbraith, of the old Scots, and those of the three
English regiments before mentioned. Carte, Vol. I., p. 493.

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AGHER

X. — Captain Robert Birone.

Captain Birone or Byron, afterwards Sir Robert Byron,
the senior member for Agher, served on the Royalist side in
the civil war, and was Governor of Liverpool. — (Burke),

Sir Robert was the third son of Sir John Byron, K.B., of
Newstead, by Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux.
His eldest brother was the first Lord Byron. Sir Robert
Byron married Lucy, daughter of Thomas, Lord Delawarr ;
his daughter, Cicely, married in 1665, Charles Balfour, of
Castle Balfour, county Fermanagh. Their daughter Lucy
married first, Hugh M'Gill, Esq., and secondly, Blaney
Townley, Esq., by whom she was the ancestress of the
present Mr. Balfour, of Townley Hall, county Louth.

On the 30th Dec, 1660, Sir Robert Byron was appointed
a Colonel of Foot. — (Carte Papers, Index of King's Letters,
p. 135). On the 29th January, 1660-1, he was to have
Wallop's estate (one of the Regicides), near Enniscorthy,
Enniscorthy Castle and other lands. — (lb. p. 281). His half
ay was to continue during his absences — Feb. 22, 1660-1
lb. p. 339). Sir Robert Byron was, on Oct. 31st, 1661, to
be Master of the Ordnance (in Ireland) in lieu of Lord
Mount Alexander, deceased. — (lb. p. 883),

XL — John Carnes.

Mr. Carnes, of Parsonsto wn, was of a Scottish family, as he
was one of those of the Scottish Nation who subscribed the
petition against the Covenant already alluded to in the
memoir of Colonel James Galbraith. There is a Parsons-
town near Celbridge, county Kildare, as well as in the King s
County. I do not think that this gentleman ever sat in
Parliament ; for there is in the return of Members of Parlia-
ment, 1880, an amended return for Clogher, dated 7th March,
1639, the reason of which I cannot explain. This agrees
with the list in the Commons Journals (which omits to notice
Mr. Carnes entirely) and gives the Members* names as Capi-
taneus Robertas Birron, and Capitaneus Williemus Peaslie.

Mr. Graham, in his Derriana, mentions David Cairnes of
Knockmany, County Tyrone, as one of the chief defenders of
Derry in 1688. He was a burgess, and was M.P. for London-
derry in 1692 and 1695. William Cairnes, of Dublin,
merchant, was m.p. for Bel&vst in 1703.

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XI. — Captain William Paiseley (or Peaslie).

There is a pedigree of the Peaslie family in Ulster's office, in
Dublin Castle. From this I lind that George Paisley, Esq., of
Aseott, Co. Oxon., had a son Bartholomew, of Punchestown,
Co. Kildare, who was, in 1632, Comptroller to Viscount
Wentworth (Earl of Strafford), Lord Deputy of Ireland. He
died 28th Sep., 1638, having had by his wife KAtherine de
la Moore, of Moore and Walton, Co. Oxon., four sons, viz.,
William ; George, a Lieutenant in the army, who died e. p. ;
Bartholomew ; and Henry. The two elder sons, William
and George, were, in 1629, appointed joint Sergeants-at-
Arms in Ireland, with a fee of £20 per annum; the
Sergeants-at- Arms' duty requiring him to attend not only
the House of Commons (when there was one), but some-
times also the Lord Deputy and the Lord Chancellor. — (See
Morrin's Patent Rolls, Car. I. 3, 1629).

In the Parliament of 1634 (Nov. 8th), we find from the
Journals, that the Sergeant-at-Arms was ordered to bring
William Peasley, Esq., and James Sheppard, before the
House, to answer for the offence of serving a subpoena, at the
suit of Peaslie, upon Mr. Tallis, a member.

William Peasley, who was returned for Agher in 1639,
was, in 1636, the grantee of Knocknamaes, in the King's
County.— (Records of Rolls. Ch. I., p. 376). In the list of
officers for my Lord Ormonde, 23rd April, 1640 (raised for
the expedition into Scotland), there occui's in Sir Charles
Coote's regiment, " Captain William Peisley, Sergeant
Maior.''

On the 27th May, 1641, a warrant lor a new writ was
ordered for Agher, in place of Captain William Peaslie, after
a division in which the ayes were 92, the noes 83 ; Captain
Audley Mervyn being one of the teU^rs for the ayes. The
Parliamentary return assumes that Peaslev was deceased,
but I believe wrongly, as Captain Wilham Peasley of
Knocknamaes, was returned subsequently for the king's
County (24th Jan., 1645), in place of Sir William CoUey,
deceased ; and I can only trace one individual of the name.
Audley Mervyn was an active leader of opposition ; Peaslie
belonged to the Government party, and I believe that he was
voted out of his seat.

Captain Peasley does not seem to have been a pleasant
person to deal with. In December, 1641, he was under the
command of Sir William St. Leger, President of Munster,
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Ballyowen and Eliogurty, county Tipperary, on account of
the carrying off by the rabble of the common sort and a
parcel of idle young fellows, of some cattle and sheep from
the former to the latter place, belonging to Mr. W. Kingsmill
of Ballyowen, who was brother-in-law to the Lord President ;
when he (Sir William) killed and hanged several persons,
some of them innocent. From thence Captain Peasley
mai'ching to Armaile, killed then seven or eight poor men
and women, whom he found standing abroad in the streets
near their own doors inoffensively ; and passing over the
river Ewyer early in the morning, marched to Clonoulta,
when meeting Philip Ryan, the chief farmer of the place, a
very honest and able man, not at all concerned in any of the
robberies, going with his plough iron in a peaceable manner
to the forge, where he used to have it mended, he without
any enquiry either gave orders for, or connived at, his being
killed, as appeared by his cherishing the murderer. From
thence he went to Goellyn bridge, where he killed and
hanged seven or eight of Dr. Gterald Fennel's tenants, honest
inhabitants of the place, and burned several houses in the
town ; the cattle of the country people, which he met in his
march, being all taken up by him, and sent in great numbers
into the county of Cork.

The Captain went from thence to meet the Lord Presi-
dent, where several of the chief nobility and gentry of the
country, being surprised at these rash and cruel proceedings,
waited upon his lordship with their complaints, which were
rejected, and the Captain applauded for what he had done.
(Carte, Vol. I., p. 265.)

On the 13th April, 1647, Sir Erasmus Burrows and Sir
William Gilbert, who had been on the 6th inst., " spoken
to at the Committee of both Houses, to view the Guard of
the Castle/' reported that they had done so, and had
found only six men on the Guard, and one sentinel at each

fate. They had " asked a corporal of Captain Peisley, who
ad command of that guard, who showed him [them] the
said eight men, and told them there were two upon the
Castle. That immediately Captain Peisley comming in, they
in a civil manner demanded of him, where his officer was ;
who told them he went out to recreate himself, and would
come by and bye. That Sir Erasmus told him the Guard
was very slender, and some of his soldiers Papists, and
were ill-affected, and were gone to the enemy. That
Captain Peisley in a very high manner said. ' they lye that
said so ;' and that there is a great stir with a company
of Stickards and Babblers, without cause/'

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Then follows a note of the debate : —

" Captain Peisley. — I wished them to go about the work ; but
six men upon the guard. Here is a great deal of Furies.

" Mr. !L9wis. — That the report of both Houses may be allowed
off.

'*Mr. Speaker. — ^That the report is in writing, therefore the
words may be in writing.

" Mr. Speaker. — Tender as a Member, but are pleased to give
you time until to-morrow, to put in your answer in writing."

On the 29 th April we farther find : —

" Mr. Speaker. — That this that Captain Peisley hath delivered
under his hand, is sufficient satisfaction unto both tbe Members
of the House, therein concerned, for the traducing of the said
Members.

'* Memorandum. — The Parties ordered to withdraw.

" Mr. Cosby desired, that both the report and the answer of
Captain Peisley might be withdrawn out of the House ; where-
upon he was called to the Bar, and being called, explained him-
self, that the Members of the House may be reconciled, and the
Business may be no more thought of."

Captain Peisley married Lettice, second daughter of Dr.
James Caulfield, and sister of William, second Lord Caulfeild,
of Charlemont. She had previously married, 1627, Francis
Stanton, Esq., of Shropshire. They had an only daughter
and heiress, Mary, who, in 1664, married Hector Vaughan,
of Dromoyle, King's County. — (See Burke's Landed Gentry;
" Vaughan of Golden Grove,'* for the remainder of the
fiajnily history).

I understand that the family of L'Estrange, of Moystown,
King's County, was formerly " Peisley-L'Estrange."

KII. — Richard Mabtin, Esq., vice Paiseley.

Of Mr. Martin's family I cannot speak with certainty. I
understand that several Richard Martins are on record as
contemporaries. He, however, evidently belonged to the
county Galway. He was elected in place of Captain Paiseley,
the writ being issued after a division on the 27th May, 1641.

" It beiug put to the question whether a writ should issue for a
new election, instead of William Peaslie, the Yeas carried it.

Numberers— Captain Mervin ) - , ^

Mr.AdamOusacke [^o^^^eYea.

Numberers-Mr.TibbotTaafie [fo^ the Nay.
Mr. John Chichester ) ^

The Yea, 92. The Nay, 83."

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No bint is given in the order of the House for issuing ibe
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to issue the writ, as to
the cause of a vacancy. Mr. Martin would appear to have
satin the previous Parliament — ^as I find that on 7th April,
liiSo, he was fined (in his case £10), with sundry others " for
the defaults and neglects of their several duties and
attendances unto this House," &c. The fine was remitted
next day, as his absence was caused by the sickness of bis
wife, in the country, and he had returned again in the
afternoon— he paying his fees as if he had petitioned.
There is an " e" at the end of his name in the Parliament of
16'i4, but I presume he is identical with the Member for
Agherin 1641.

I find in Carte's History of the Duke of Ormonde, Vol. I.,
Book TI, p. 134, that the King's design in 1641, of sending
the disbanded soldiers abroad tor service under the King of
Spain, of the army which had been raised for service in
Scotland, but which had got no further than Carrickfergus, was
opposed both in England and in the Irish Parliament. He
says — " . . . and the Irish Commons then sitting,
where the Roman Catholic and Puritan parties had a great
majority, declared against the transporting of such a number
of soldiers out of their nation, Mr. Patrick Darcy, Mr.
Garret Chevers, Mr. Richard Martin, and others of the
leading men, ur^ng with great vehemence and seeming
passion, the ill will that Spain had always borne to England,
and their fears lest those very forces, acquainted with every
creek of the Kingdom, and naturally fond of their religion,
might be sent back to raise a flame in their own country,
i'c, &c." This opposition put a stop to the matter till
August, " when the Irish Parliament being adjourned to
November, and the English appearing satisfied to allow of
such a number, the King reoBdled his other warrants, and
allowed only Colonels Taaffe, Porter, John and Garret Barry,
to levy and transport 4,000 men out of Ireland for the King
of Spain's service."

Carte thinks that if the whole (7,000) disbanded
men had been allowed' to go, " there either would have been
no Rebellion at all in that Kingdom [of Ireland in October,
1641], or if there had, the rebels would never have b^enable
to form an army, but must have been suppressed by the first
regular troops sent a^inst them."

Mr. Martin's conduct seems to confirm the idea, that
Captain Peisley had been ousted from his seat for Augher,
by the combined majority, to make way for him.

Carte (Vol. I., p. 215-6) also speaks of Mr. Richard

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Martin, in common with Mr. Patrick Darcy and Mr. Geoffrey
Browne, as " some of the leading Roman Catholics, and who
made afterwards a very considerable figure in the Supreme
Council and general assemblies of the confederates," " men
of good sense, and generally esteemed," who, " wrote from
Dublin after the Rebellion broke out, to the Earl of Clan-
ricarde, letters expressing their detestation of it, full of zeal
for his Majesty's service, and of careful advices to him " (as
governor of the town and county of Galway) "for preserving
the county of Galway, which they had known all their
lives, it being the place of their constant residence where
their estates lay, and for which they served in Parliament
in peace and security, importuning him much tu make
further offers of service to the state."

Speaking of Lord Clanricarde's endeavours to secure the
county of Galway in 1642, Carte says (Vol L, p. 324) —

"Sir Richard Blake, Sir Robucke Lynch, Patrick Darcy,
Richard Martin, Patrick Kirovan, the Recorder and others, had

laboured to prevent the commotion in the town [of

Galway], and when it broke out had retired from thence, to avoid
the fury of persecution. He now engaged them to return thither,
and to use their endeavours to curb or banish turbulent spirits,
and to quiet the ill humours which were too rife in the place."

Mr. Richard Martin was one of the agents chosen by the
Irish General Assembly at Kilkenny, after " The Cessation,'*
to attend the king at Oxford in 1644, which they reached
24 March, 1643-4. Nothing however could be settled then,
and the matter having been referred to the Marquis of
Ormonde (the Lord Lieutenant), Mr. Martin was one of the
agents selected on August 11, 1644, to go to Dublin about
arranging a Treaty of Peace. Thomas Fleming, the titular
archbishop of Dublin, had been also named as one of the
agents ; but the Lord Lieutenant objected to him, adhering
to his resolution to admit none of the clergy to treat on that
subject. The Assembly justified their choice, but to remove
the difficulty, thought tit that he should stay at home,
together with three laymen, viz., the Marquis of Antrim,
Sir Richard Everard, and Richard Martin, who did not care,
or were hindered to attend at the treaty. (Carte, VoL I., pp.
499-516.)

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PARLIAMENT OF 1661.

Date.

CoDstitoenoj.

1661-18 April, .

* ) Tyrone
J County.

Sir Arthur Forbes, bart.. . Cartle Forbea,
Longford.

18 April,.

. Edward Cook, ll.d., . . Dublin,

. \

18 July, .

Matthew Draper, etq. . —
. John Paine, esq., vice Draper,

deceased Dublin,

[ciogberCity

13 April..

. Sir Arthur Chichester, knt, . Dungannon,

' ) Dungannon
j Borough.

Sir Thomas Bramhall, bart, . Rathmullyan,
Meath .

27 April,

. Alexander Staples, esq., . Lissaa,
John Craige, esq. —

■N

l86ft-«8 Not., .

. Sir Peter Hanrey, knt., yioe

^Strabaae

Staples, expelled 14 Xo-

Borough.

yember, for the plot in

1883 Dublin. .

. J

1668- 8 Joly, .

. James Hamilton, Woe Har-

Tey, deceased, ... —

94 April, .

. Henry Merryn, esq., . . Trellicke, .

. > Agher Bo-
. i rough.

Richard Palfrey,eeq, . .Dublin,

MEMOIR.

I. — ^AUDLEUS Mervyn Miles. Primarius Serviens Domini
Regis ad Leges ; Prolocutor Domus Communium.* (Sir
Audley Mervyn, Knight — Prime Sergeant-at-Law —
Speaker of the House of Commons) — Re-elected.

II, — Sir Arthur Forbes, Bart.
Sir Arthur Forbes, the junior member for Tyrone in this
Parliament, and one of the Agents sent to England about
the Act of Settlement, was the first Earl of Granard. We
find from Sir Bernard Burke's Peerage, that he was the
eldest son of Sir Arthur, the first baronet of Nova Scotia,
who settled in Ireland in 1620, was created a baronet in
1628, and obtained extensive territorial possessions in
Ireland, and particularly in Longford. He was killed in a
duel at Hamburg in 1632, where he had gone as Lieutenant-
Colonel of a regiment, to assist Qustavus Adolphus, King of
Sweden. He married Jane Lauder, of the Bass. His son
Arthur was bom in 1623, took the royalist side in the
rebellion, and served under Montrose. Sir Charles Coote
sent him to Brussels in February, 1659-60, to the Marquis
of Ormonde, " that he might assure the King of his duty,
and to give him an account of the state of the Kingdom."
(Carte, Vol. II., p. 203.) He was created a Privj- CounciUer
of Ireland in 1670, and appointed Marshall of the Army
• Commons Jovmals. Uat of Memben, 1661.

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there. He served as one of the Lords Justices in 1671, and
again in 1673. He was created Baron Clanehugh, and
"Viscount Granard in 1675. He was made Colonel of the
18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, and Lieutenant-General
in the Army in 1684, and on the 30th December, created
Earl of Granard. He suggested the foundation of Kil-
mainham, the Royal Hospital, Dublin, to King Charles XL
He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen ;
by whom he had five sons ; and a daughter, Catherine, wife
of Arthur, 3rd Earl of Donegal. He died in 1696. The
first Sir Arthur Forbes was great grandson of Sir Alexander,
first Lord Forbes, in Scotland.

CLOGHER.

III.— Edward Cook, Esq., ll.d.

Dr. Edward Cooke, senior member for Cloghor, bom in
1636, was the son of Dr. Alan Cooke, a civilian, and
Bishop Bedell's (of Kilmore) unfriendly Chancellor, by a
daughter of James Heygate, Archdeacon of Clones, and
Bishop of Kilfenora. The son Edward, was also a civilian,
and proceeded LL.D. of Dublin, Jan. •26th, 1661-2. He was
one of the three masters in chancery, who had seats in the
House of Commons in the parliament of 1661. It was,
properly speaking, their duty to attend the House of Lords,
and the dispute between the Houses, at the commencement
of the Session, on the subject, has been already noticed in the
memoir of Sir Audley Mervyn. On the 26th July in that
session, the judges having gone circuit, the House gave Dr.
Edward Cooke and Dr. Dudley Loftus, leave to attend the
House of Lords as assistants to that House, for that session.
Dr. Cooke died young. He was of Manor Hygate, county
Fermanagh, and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral
Dublin, in May, 1667, aged 31. His father died Dec. 1641 ;
his mother May, 1643 " vel eo circiter." (Inq. 2, Car. ii.
at Enniskilling, April, 1662. — Funeral entries, Ulster's
Office.)

IV. — Matthew Drapek, Esq.

Mr. Draper's name is omitted entirely from the list of
members in the Commons* Journals, which, it is stated, was
compared with a list of those who sat in Parliament at the
time of a call of the House on May, 13th, 1666. I know
nothing about him.

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Carte mentions (Vol. I., p. 524), a Lieutenant Draper as
being concerned with other officers of the garrison in a futile
plot to seize Drogheda in 1645. Timely information, how-
ever, reached Lord Ormonde, and they were arrested on
January 5th, and sent prisoners to Dublin.

v.— John Paine, Esq.

Captain John Paine was returned for Clogher on the 16th
July, 1661, vice Draper, deceased. In the Carte Papers,
Index of Kings' Letter, 336, it is stated as follows :—

" Captain John Paine to be Director-General of Fortifications
and Plantations (as intended by the Marquis of Ormond), as fully
as Sir Josias Bodley, or Sir Thomas Rotheram, or Captain
Pamier (Pynnar) held the office."-~Feb. 22, 1660-1.

DUNUANNON.
VI. — Sir Arthur Chichester.

Sir Arthur Chichester, the senior member for Dungannon,
was the eldest son of Col. John Chichester (brother of the
first Earl of Donegal), who has been already noticed as
member for Dungannon in 1G39. On the 6th April, 1668,
Sir Arthur was —

" Jointly with his brother John^ made Clerk of the Pipe, and
Chief Engrosser of the Exchequer for their respective lives ; also
22 May 1672, had a reversionary grant to succeed his uncle in the
government of Carrickfergus j and 16th Jime, 1675, was made
Custos Rotulorum of the county of Donegal, as he was by another
patent of the same date, of the county of Antrim ; on the 7th May,
1689, he was attained by King James' Parliament as an absentee,
but sat [as a Peer] in King William's Parliament, 5th October,
1692/' (Lodge (1789), vol. i., p. 337.)

He married Jane, daughter of John Itchingham, of
Dunbrody, county Wexford, by whom he had four sons and
three daughters. [Ibid,] Sir Arthur Chichester succeeded
his uncle, as second Earl of Donegall, 18th March, 1674. I
cannot find the date of his death, but his son and successor
(Arthur, third Earl, who lost his life 10th April, 1706, at the
fort of Monjuich, and was buried at Barcelona), sat in the
House of Lords on 1st October, 170S.

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VII. — Sir Thomas Bramhall.

* Sir Thomas Bramhall, created a baronet on the 31st
May, 1662, was the younger son of John Bramhall, Arch-
bishop of Armagh and Lord Primate, by Eleanor Halley ; by
whom he would seem to have had a family of two sons and
three daughters. The eldest son died, and was buried in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 28th March, 1661-2. The
Archbishop died in 1663, and was also buried there.
Primate Bramhall's will states that his son Thomas was
unmaxTied at its date, 5th Jan., 1662 ; but he afterwards
married Elizabeth, daughter of the Secretary of State, Sir
Paul Davys. (For an account of whom see my Parliamen-
tary Memoir of Fermanagh, p. 23.) Lady Bramhall, married
secondly Sir John Topham, LL.D.9 Master in Chancery, by
whom she had a son, James, whose memoir will be
found in the Parliament of 1703, and dying in 1682-3,
was buried at St. Audeon*s, Dublin. Sir Thomas' sisters
were — (1) Isabella, who married the Hon Sir James
Uraham, son of the Earl of Monteith, and had a child,
Eleanor, or Helen, married to Sir Arthur Rawdon, ancestor
of the Marquis of Hastings. Through this excellent lady
the Bramhall property passed into the Rawdon family.
(See Graham's "Derriana," page 53.) (2) Jane, married
to Alderman Toxteth of Drogheda, who died Jan., 1668 ;
and (3) Anne, married to Standish Hartstrong, Baron of
the Exchequer in Ireland.

Sir Thomas Bramhall was of Bramhall, Rathmoylan,
County Meath, and was probably buried there.f His father
the Archbishop, when Bishop of Derry, was, as mentioned in
Sir Audley Mervyn's Memoir, impeached by the House of
Commons, together with the Lord Chancellor Sir Richai-d
Bolton, Chief Justice Sir Gerard Lowther, and Sir George
Radcliffe, as being Lord Strafford's councillors and assistants
in High Treason. Mervyn conducted the impeachment, Sir
Maurice Eustace, Prime Sergeant, being Speaker. This was
in 1640-41.

In 1661, Bramhall being then Speaker of the House of
Lords (the then Lord Chancellor, the same Sir Maurice

*0n the I7th June, 1661, he was fined £5 for faults and neglects, as Dr. Thomas
BramhalL

t On the 14th April, 1663, the Prunate preferred a Petition to the House of
Lords about some lands claimed to be part of his manor of Belgree (Co. Meath),
alleged to be withheld from him by Edmond Hackett of Priestown. On the 15Ui
a Commission was ordered from the Lord Chancellor, to distinguish the just raears
and bounds between the manor of Belgree and Priestown. The lands in dispute
were called the Den, the Swinesden, Gelugstaffe, and Ballinicgarnon.

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Eustace, serving at that time as one of the Lords Justices),
it fell to his lot to have to announce the approval of the
Lords Justices, of Sir Audley Mervyn*s election as Speaker
of the House of Commons. Shortly afterwards the Lords
appointed on 25th May, a committee, consisting of the Earl
of Kildare, Viscount Montgomery,* Viscount Eanelagh, and
Lord Santry, to search the records of their House for any-
thing that might impugn on the honour of the late Earl of
Strafford, in order to expunging the same. On the 30th
they enlarged the order, so as to include *' His Grace the
Lord Primate, Speaker of this House ; the Lord Chancellor
Bolton, the Lord [C. J.] Lowther, Sir George Radcliffe, and
such others as were impeached." On the 18th Jime they
ordered that the two orders should be communicated to the
Commons, and that they should be invited to deal in the
same way with their own records, if they should think
fitting. On this 16th July the House of Commons resolved
that nothing in the " Petition of Remonstrance '* reflected
on the Earl of Strafford, nor were the other persons mentioned
therein — but that anything else that did reflect injuriously
on them should be expunged. Particulars of this impeach-
ment will be found in Bishop Mant's (of Down) History
of the Irish Church. The attack was made by Sir Bryan
O'Neil, the representative of the Eoman Catholic party, sup-
ported by Protestant non-conformists. Bishop Mant says
that Bramhall was advised by his friends to remain in Deiry ;
but, conscious of his integrity and innocence, he hastened to
Dublin, and appeared next day in the Parliament House,
greatly to the astonishment of his enemies, who made him a
close prisoner. He then quotes from Bishop Taylor, who
says that above 200 petitions were put in against him, and
himself denied leave to answer by word of mouth. He
answered the petitions in writing, sometimes twenty in a
day, so that his very enemies were ashamed and convinced.
They were found to decline the particulars, and to accuse
him of going about to subvert the fundamental laws. In the
end, says Bishop M ant, the King interfered, and the Bishop was
at length restored to liberty without any public acquittal

The Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords Justices in 1661,
writes as follows to the Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of
Ormonde, concerning Archbishop Bramhall's appointment as
Speaker (Mant, Vol. I., p. 631):—

" His Majesty having empowered the Lords Justices to appoint
a fit person to be Speaker of the House of Lords, I proposed My

* Created Earl of Mount Alexander in this year.

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Lord Primate, well known in the orders and proceedings of that
House, having sat in two parliaments ; a constant eminent sufferer
for his late and now Majesty ; and that in such a choice we might
let the dissenters and fanatics see what we intend as to Church
Government. Besides it was but requisite, the Church which had
so long suffered, should now in the chief of it receive all the
honours we could confer on it. My Lord Chancellor for some
days dissented therein, but at last concurred ; and this day My
Lord Primate sate in that chaiucter.''

Bishop Mant says that —

" By means of the Primate's diligence and activity many advan-
tages were obtained for the Church during this session of Parlia-
ment. Several of the Bisliops procured an augmentation of their
revenues, and the inferior clergy recovered much of the forfeited
impropriate tythes."

The Archbishop died in his 70th year, 25th June, 1663.
Graham in his "Derriana" mentions that he had purchased
amongst his acquisitions in Ireland, an estate which included
Omagh, for £6,000, which he had received for his estate in
England. He began a plantation there ; but after the
Restoration Sir Audley Mervyn claimed it, and in the event
retained it. At the time of ttie hearing of the cause in one
of the Law Courts in Dublin, the Primate was seized with a
fit of palsey, so that he sunk down in the Court, was carried
out senseless, and so continued to his death (p. 55). His
funeral sermon was preached by Bishop Jeremy Taylor (of
Down and Connor and Dromore). In the course of it he
said —

*^ There are great things spoken of his predecessor, St Patrick,
that he founded 700 churches and religious convents; that he
ordained 5,000 priests ; and with his own hands consecrated 350
bishops. How true the story is I know not ; but we were all
witnesses that the late Primate, whose memory we now celebrate,
did by an extraordinary contingency of Providence, in one day,
consecrate two Archbishops and ten Bishops ;"• and did benefit
to almost all the churches of Ireland ; and was greatly instrumental
in the re-eodowments of the whole clergy ; and in the greatest
abilities and incomparable industry was inferior to none of his
antecessors." (Mant, Vol. I., p. 612.)

« Viz., Margetson, afterwards Lord Primate to Dublin, and Pollen to Tuam,
Archbishops; and Michael Boyle, afterwards Lord Primate, to Cork and Ross;
Parker, to Elphin ; Price, to Ferns and Leighlin ; Wild, to Derry ; Singf>, to
Limerick ; Hall, to Killala ; Baker, to Waterford and Lismore ; Robert Leslie, son
of the former Bishop of Down, and then of Meath, to Dromore; Worth, to Killaloe;
and Jeremy Taylor, himself, to Down and Connor, Bishops.

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And again Bishop Taylor said —

" He was a wise prelate, a learned doctor, a true friend, a great
benefactor fco others, a thankful beneficiary where he was obliged

himself He was a man of great business and great

resort. He divided his life into labour and his book. He took care
of his churches when he was alive, and even after his death, having
left ^500 for his cathedral of Armagh and St. Peter's church in
Drogheda. He was an excellent scholar, and rarely well accomp-
lished ; first instructed to great excellency by natural parts, and
then consumated by study and experience

" It will bo hard to find his equal in all things. For in him
were visible the great lines of Hooker's judiciousness, of Jewel's
learning, of the acuteness of Bishop Andrews .... His
phowed his equanimity in poverty, and his justice in riches ; he

was useful in his country, and profitable in his banishment

He received public thanks from the Convocation of which he was
President, and public justification from the Parliament when he
was Speaker ; so that, although no man had greater enemies, no
man had greater justifications." (Mant, Vol 1., p. 643.)

Archbishop Bramhall came to Ireland as Chaplain to the
Lord Deputy Wentworth, afterwardEarl of Straflford. He was
a native of Yorkshire, educated at Sydney Sussex CoUege,
Cambridge. He became celebrated for a disputation with
three Jesuit Priests after having returned from Cambridge,
and consequently was appointed Chaplain to Archbishop
Matthews of York. He was a member of, or at least an
assistant, at a regal visitation in Ireland under Lord Deputy
Wentworth, in 1G33 ; and before being Bishop of Derry was
Archdeacon of Meath. (Mant, Vol. I., pp. 444 & 737.)

Sir Thomas BramhalFs will is dated 14th June, 1667. He
left a daughter and heiress, Elinor, who probably died young.
He was also elected for Tuam in 1661, but elected to sit for
Dun^annon, being succeeded in Tuam by Major Robert
Ormsby.

Dubig, in his History of the Kings Inns, 1806, p. 148,
says that Sir Thomas "... son and heir of his (Strafford s)
favourite prelate, Bramhall, was called to the Bar under
Cromwell's usurpation, unwillingly concealing a hatred to the
ruling powers, from attention to property, and a prospect of
personal promotion.'*

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STRABANE.

VIII. — Alexander Staples, Esq.

Alexander Staples was the eldest son of Sir Thomas
Staples, of the Middle Temple (created a baronet of Ireland
18th July, 1628), fifth son of Alexander Staples, of Yate
Court, Gloucestershire. His mother was Charity, daughter of
Sir Baptist Jones, Knt., of Vintnerstown, County Derry.
By his wife Elizabeth, he left two daughters — Elizabeth,
who inherited her father's English estates, and Charity. He
appears to have died before his father, his will being dated
28th May, 1665 (Burke). His brother Robert succeeded to
the baronetage, and from him descends the present Sir
Nathaniel Staples, of Lissane, County Tyrone.

Mr. Alexander Staples was implicated in the " 1663 plot."
He was arrested by Sir Arthur Forbes on May 24th, the day
before Deny was to have been surprized, and taken as a
prisoner to Culmore. He was afterwards pardoned upon a
confession of his guilt (see Carte, voL ii., pp. 267-70), but
he was in consequence of this plot expelled the House of
Commons, on 14th November, 1665, together with Robert
Shapcote, Thomas Boyd, Thomas Scott, John Chambers, John
Ruxton, and Abel Warren. The order of expulsion, which
is very long, commences thus —

'^ Whereas this House was informed that Robert Shapcote,
Alexander Staples, John Ruxton, Abel Warren, Thomas Scott,
John Chambers, and Thomas Boyd, Esquires, Members of this
House, were engaged in the late wicked and horrid plot, to have
surprized His Majesty's Castle of Dublin, and to have seized on
the person of his Grace, James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant
General and General Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland, and
to have involved the three kingdoms in blood ; whereupon this
House humbly desired His Grace the Lord Lieutenant, would be
pleased if he thought fit, to send such Infonnations and Examina-
tions to this House, as related to those particular persons, that so
this House might make such necessary inquisition into matters of
fact, as might enable them to proceed against the said persons, as
if innocent might vindicate and clear them ; or, if not innocent|
might subject them to such censure of this House, as in such sort
might satisfy the Honour and Reputation of this House, against
which they had so highly offended. Li answer to which desires
of the House, His Grace the Lord Lieutenant did, by the hands
of Mr. Attorney-General, send copies of the Examinations to be
delivered to Mr. Speaker, for the use and satisfaction of the
House, all which said examinations were severally and distinctly
read, and that several times," &c.

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Upon this the House ordered the suspension of the members
till the further pleasure of the House was known. After
serious and solemn debates Mr. Speaker was ordered to
extract particular charges out of the examinations, and to
charge them at the Bar of the House. The accused
members were ordered to attend on the 13th November to
make their defence, notice to be given them by the Sergeant
at Arms. But none of them so appeared, though called for.
His Grace had this very day (the 14th) sent by Mr.
Attomey-Qeneral the original informations and confessions
which were read and considered by the House, whereupon
it was resolved upon question, Tiemiae contradicente —

(1.) That all the said persons were engaged in the said desperate
and traiterous plot.

(2.) That had not the plot, by the blessing of God upon the
wisdom and vigilance of i^e Lord Lieutenant, been prevented, it
would have engaged the three kingdoms under dreadful and sad
consequences.

(3.) That the Paper, being an intended Declaration, written
by the hand of Thomas Blood, late of Samey, one of the ring-
l^uiers in the said conspiracy, and sent <&&, (be, to the House,
and distinctly read, is scandalous, treasonable and false in every
particular," and they therefore desired His Grace to command it,
or a copy, to be burnt by the common hangman.

(4.) All the persons to be expelled, and Mr. Speaker to issue
new writs.

(5.) The further prosecution of the persons left to the Courts
of Justice, " the said House, not having had any opportunity,
through several necessary prorogations, to proceed against them,
in a parliamentary way."

(6.) Mr. Speaker to attend the Lord Lieutenant^ and express
the sense of the House, at so great deliverance, by his prudent
management, and to return him thanks, &c., &c.

It is clear from the Lord Lieutenant's reply that criminal
proceedings were not taken against them ; for he says —

«* It is true the Bling's mercy hath met with and triumphed
over their crimes, but if they have not learned the modesty of
forgiven offenders, you have taught them ; and whatever they do,
the King will thank you for the Instruction."

FromtheLordlieutenant'sletteraboutSirAudleyMervyn's
" Puckan Speech," it would seem that this plot was got up by
persons who did not think His Grace a sufficiently good Pro-

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testant. This may account for the leniency shown them. The
House of Commons wished for a bill of disqualification to be
prepared and sent into England^ to exclude them, and others,
for finding of whom a Committee was appointed to search
the informations, from any future civil, military, or eccle-
siastical employment; but nonesuch was passed, and probably
the Gk)vemment thought it well to let the matter drop,
with their expulsion from the House. At any rate the
Lord Lieutenant evaded the subject in his reply to the
Commons address above alluded to, and ordered to be
entered in the Journals on the 20th November, 1665.

IX. — John Craige, Esq*

It is on record, in the Commons Journals, of John Craige,
the junior Member for Strabane in 1661, that he was one of
those who were fined on the 1st February, 1665-6, for being
absent from the third call of the House, on that day.
They were all fined £10, except Mr. Tarleton, who was fined
£50. I do not know who Mr. Craige was, but I think it
probable that he was a relation, and perhaps a descendant
of Sir James Craige, who appears in Pynnar's Sui'vey of
1618-19, as having 2,000 acres in the precinct of TuUagh-
conche, county Cavan, called Drumheda and Kilagh. John
Craige may very possibly have been his son or grandson.
Sir James Craige of Keilagh, near Eilleshandra, is mentioned
in the Ulster Inquisitions (Cavan)*, and Bishop BedelFs
Life, Camden Society, Vol. for 1872. He was one of the
signatories of the Petition against the Solemn League and
Covenant. A.D. 1639. See p. 223.

X. — Sir Peter Harvey, vice Staples, expelled.

Sir Peter Harvey of Dublin, who succeeded Mr. Staples
for Strabane in 1665, married Abigail, sister of Maurice
Berkeley, and had a son Peter. He was Knighted at
Whitehall or Windsor, 25th October, 1664, and had a giant
of arms in Ireland in 1665. He was one of the Farmers of
His Majesty's customs and excise for Ireland. His son
Peter entered Trinity College, as shown by the Matricula-
tion Book thus :— " April 7, 1685, Pens. Peter Harvey. Fil
Peter eq, -^ts 19. Natus Dublin, Educatus Carlow, sub

* Taken at Cavan, Castletalbot, and Kilkshandra, 1629. No6. 24, 27, and 2a

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Mr. Young. Tutor, Geo. Thewles." He became Scholar,
1687, and graduated B.A., Vem. 1691 ; MJL, ^st. 1693.

Sir Peter's will was dated 10th May, 1666, in which year
he died.

[Information furnished from Ulster's Office.]

XI.^rAMES Hamilton, vice Harvey, deceased.

Although it is not so stated, either in Burke's or Archdails
Lodge's (1789) Peerages, I think that James Hamilton who
succeeded Sir Peter Harv^, Knt., for Strabane, was
probably the eldest son of Sir George Btamilton of Donalong,
near Strabane. It appears from the Journals that he took
his seat on July Srd, 1666, and Parliament was dissolved on
August 7th following. If this is so, his mother was Mary,
sister of the Duke of Ormonde, third daughter of Thomas,
Viscount Thurles. James Hamilton died in the life time of
his father, of a wound received in a naval engagement with
the Duteh, on the 6th June, 1673, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey. He was Colonel in the service of
Charles II., and Groom of the Bed Chamber. He married
in 1661, Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Colepepper, and
left issue, James, sixth Duke of Abercorn, of whom later on
as M.P. for Tyrone ; George, Colonel in the Foot Guards^
killed at the battle of Steinkirk, in 1692; and William of
Chilston, Kent, who married Margaret, second daughter of
Sir Thomas Colepepper of HoUingboume.

The entry of Mr. Hamilton's taking his seat, rims thus
in the Journals—

"3 Die Julii, 1666. A certificate was this day read in the
House from the Clerk of the Hanaper, whereby it appears that
James Hamilton, Esq., was returned as one of the Burgesses to
serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Strabane, in
the stead of Sir Peter Harvey, Knight, deceased ; the said Mr.
Hamilton being then sent for, was accompanied into the House
with several Members, who took his place according to the said
Return."

The following inscription to his wife, is on MountgaveKn
Castle, county Donegal (near St. Johnston) : —

<<The Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of John, Lord Cole-
pepper, and Widow of Coll. James Hamilton (who lost his life at
sea, in the service of his King and Country), purchased this
Manor, and annexed it to the opposite estate of the Family, which
patemall estate itself was improved by her prudent management
to nere the yearly Income of the Dower she received thereout.

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She hath also settled her younger son, William Hamilton, Esq.,
in an estate acquired in England of equal value in the Purchase
to this, and given every one of her numerous offspring some con-
siderable mark of her parental care. Her eldest son, James,
Earl of Abercome and Viscount Sti-abane, hath caused this in-
scription to be placed here for the information of her posterity,
from whom she hath merited the most grateful acknowledgments,
and to whom she hath sett so valuable an example."
Anno 1704."

AGHER
XII. — Henry Mervyn, Esq.

Henry Mervyn, the Senior Member for Agher, was the
eldest son and heir of Sir Audley Mervyn, the Speaker of
this Parliament. He was Member for the county of Tyrone,
in the Parliament of 1692. He was twiced married : jSrst
to Hannah, daughter of Sir John Knox, by whom he had
Audley, M.P. ; Elizabeth, who married William ArchdaU ;
Martha, who married Edward Carey ; Deborah, who married
James Moutray ; and Lucia, who was to have manied James
Corry of Oastlecoole. I have in my possession an engrossed
settlement, dated 1st December, 1683, executed by Henry
Mervyn, but not by Captain Corry or by the lady, from
which I infer that the marriage did not take place. As Sir
William Drake omits her name from amongst Henry
Mervyn's children, in Fasciculus Merviensis, she probably
died young. Her fortune was £600. Her jointure was to
have been £90 a year. Henry Mervyn married secondly,
Susannah, Lady Qlenawley, and daughter of Sir William
Balfour, but by her left no issue. She was the mother of
Arabella Susannah, Lady Magill, and afterwards Lady
Dungannon, and of Nichola Sophia Lady Beresford. Henry
Mervyn seems from the tenor of a deed in my possession to
have been dead by the 9th February, 1697-8.

XIII.— Richard Palfrey, Esq.

" A Mr. Palfrey was Master of Syth*s Geild, in St. Michan's
Chiirch, Dublin, on the 22nd September, 1664, and refused to
give an account of its revenues to the Churchwardens, unless by
order of the Lord Lieutenant or Lord Deputy and Council.
Signed, Stephen Pilkington."

" 22nd September, 1664. John Teare."

From 8t. Michan*8 Veatry Book,

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Whether or no this was the Member for Agher I cannot
say. He does not seem to have been at all a prominent
Member of Parliament.

In the Matriculation Book of Trinity College, Dublin, we
find: —

"May 28, 1670. Pens. Richard Palfeey, Mis 15. Parens,
Richard. Natus Com Dublin. Educatus Sub, Mr^. Jones. Tutor,
Michael Ward."

This Richard was probably son of the Member for Augher,
in 1661.

PARLIAMENT OF 1689.

King James II. summoned a Parliament in 1689. This
Parliament is not recognized in the Lords and Conmions
Journals ; but the lists of the members will be found in
Harris' life of King William. App. pp. xxxii.-v.

Tyrone County Bent to it .... Colonel Gordon 0*XeiL

Lewis Doe, esq.
Dongannon Borough .... Arthur O'Neill, esq.

Patrick Donelly, eeq.
Strabane Borough Christopher Nugent, esq.

Daniel O'Donnelly, gent.

Clogher and Agher Ko members, being In the hands of the

Protestants.

Of the above persons Colonel Gordon O'Neill was son of
Sir Phelim O'MeiE His christian name leads to the infer-
ence that his mother was Lady Jane Gordon, youngest
daughter of the first Marquis of Huntly, and widow of Lord
Strabane, who married Sir Phelim O'Neill after he had
burnt her castle at Stmbane in 1641, and taken her prisoner.
King James II. appointed Colonel O'Neill to be Lord-
lieutenant of Tyrone. At p. 326 of Archbishop King's
" State of the Protestants under James II.," Colonel Gordqn
O'Neill, is named as first on the Burgess Roll of Strabane,
*'Son of Sir Phelim O'Neill, the gi^eat Rebel, who was
hanged, drawn, and quartered. He burnt Strabane in
1641."* Lewis Doe "of Diingannon" was probably the
person of this name, who was one of the Receivers-General of
the Revenue ; Sir Henry Bond being the other.f It appears
from Sir Bernard Burke's armoury (1st Edit.) that there
was a family of this name in Slafibrdshire.

Arthur O'Neile was " of Ballygawley." (co. Tyrone) (Oldmizon.)
Patrick Donelly was " of Dungannon." (lb,)
Ohristopher Nugent was of" Dublin." (Ih,)
Daniel O'Donnelly was *' of Dublin." (lb.)

^Archbishoo King. " State of the Protestants under James II.** App. p. 322,
8rd Edition, London, 1692.
f Ibid. p. 888, and Oldmixon.

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PARLIAMENT OF 1692.

Date.

Oonstitaeney.

1692-23 Sept.. .

. Henry Mervyn, esq. . Treliok,

. > Tyrone
. ) Comity.

James Hamiltoii. esq. . . Dona]onge,

90 Sept, .

. Edward Davies. esq. . —

■

• ClorflierClty.

17 Oct, .

John Bogerson, esq., knt (vice

Ludlow), for Boyle . DnbUo, .

17 Sept. .

. Sir Robert Staples . Lyssan, .

. j, Dmigannon
. > Borough.

John Hamilton, esq. . . CalUdon. .

98 Sept..

. Sir Matthew Bridges, knt . Dnblin. .

. f Strabane
• 1 Borongh*

OU^er M'Caosland. esq., . Strabaae, .

1» Sept. .

> AgherBo-
. f rough.

James Moatrmy, esq. . . Angher, .

MEMOIR.

L— Hbnby Mervyn, Esq.

Mr. Mervyn had been one of the members for Agher in the
Parliament of 1661.

II.— James Hamtlton, Esq.

Captain, or properly, Sir James Hamilton, Bart, (but he
declined to use the title), was eventually the sixth Earl ot
Abercorn. He was the grandson of Sir George Hamilton,
Bart, of Donalong, fourth son of the first Earl, and was the
eldest son of the Col. James Hamilton, whose memoir I have
already given under the idea that he was the member for
Strabajie, elected in 1666. He succeeded his father at the
age of 17 as groom of the bed chamber to Charles II., and
was afterwards in the military service of James 11., in whose
army he commanded a regiment of horse. He was a
member of James' Privy Council.

" But," says Lodge (vol. v., p, 121) no sooner did he perceive
the king's intentions to introduce Popeiy, than he quitted his
service, became an officer under King William at the Revolution,
and carried arms and ammunition to the relief of Londonderry,
when beseiged by King James' army, in which his uncle Richard
Hamilton was a lieutenant-Creneral and did all he could to
distress the beseiged ; but by means of this supply the city was
enabled to hold out till Major-General Earke sent in further relief
from England, which occasioned the seige to be raised."

He succeeded to the Earldom of Abercorn in 1706, on the
death of his cousin Charles, the fifth earl, and sat as such

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in 1706 in the Parliament of Scotland. King William the
Third called him to his Privy Council, and created him in
1701 Baron of Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane in
Ireland, with the annual fee of £13 68. Sd. He first sat in
the Irish House of Lords, 21st Sept., 1703. He married
in 1686 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Reading, of
Dublin, Bart., by his wife, Jane, relict of the first Earl of
Montrath, and died in London, 28th November, 1734;
having had issue by her, nine sons and five daughters.
His second son, James, a Privy Councillor in England and
Ireland, and F.RS. was his successor as seventh Earl.

OLOGHER.
IlL— Edwabd Davies, Esq.

Edward Davies, the senior member for Clogher, was
second son of William Davies or Davys, of Knockballymore,
county Fermanagh, and member for that county at the time
of his death in 1661 — ^by Jane, grand-daughter of the Rev.
Edward Hatton, of Clancame or Knockballymore, and
Minister of Monaghan ; and daughter of the Rev, James
Hatton, who held the parish of Galloon, in Fermanagh and
Monaghan. James Hatton left at his death in 1637 a son,
Edward, aged six years. Knockballymore would seem to
have passed ultimately to Jane Davies. Edward Davies
entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a pensioner on the 19th,
June, 1676, being then a^ed 16 years. He graduated B. A.
and obtained a Scholarship in 1682. His elder brother
Hatton, who was entered in Trinity College as a Fellow-
Commoner in 1690, probably died young. Edward Davies
was High Sherifl^of Fermanagh in 1697. At his death his
sister Jane, the wife of Bernard Ward, Esq., became his
heiress. She was grandmother of Bernard Smith Ward, the
member for Enniskillen in 1767, who died in May, 1770.
After his death, his mother having been Meliora Crichton,
Knockballymore passed into Lord Erne's family, and it still
remains in it It is at present the residence of the Bishop
of Clogher.

IV.— Stephen Ludlow, Esq.

Stephen Ludlow, the junior member for Clogher, but
who elected to sit for Boyle, having been also elected for
Newtownlimavady, was, I believe, the Stephen Ludlow who

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was one of tne six clerks in the High Court of Ohanoerv
in Ireland, and died in 1721. (See Archdale*8 Lodge, vol.
iii., p. 74.) He was the only son of Henry Ludlow, second
son of Sir Henry, who died in 1643, by Letitia, daughter of
Thomas, Lord Delawarr, and whose eldest son, Edward, was
the celebrated general of the Parliamentary army. Stephen
Ludlow, whose mother was a Miss Webster, married a Miss
Lachard, by whom he had two sons and four daughters.
His eldest son, Peter, was memberfor Meath in 1719 and 1727.
He married Mary, daughter of John Preston, county Meath,
of the Qormanstown family, and their fourth, but only
surviving son, Peter, was created Baron Ludlow in 1755,
and Viscount Preston and Earl Ludlow, in 1760 ; all in the
Peerage of Ireland.

V. — John Rogerson, Esq.

John Rogerson, afterwards Sir John Rogerson, Alderman
and Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin, who was returned to
serve for C!logher,in place of Stephen Ludlow, who, elected to
sit for Boyle, was knighted by His Excellency Lord Viscount
Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on 12 June, 1693.
(Honors conferred in Ireland, p. 6, Ulster s office.) He was
the father of the Right Hon. John Rogerson, Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench, whose daughter, Elizabeth,
maiTied Abraham, first Baron Erne.

DUNGANNON.
VI. — Sir Robert Staples.

Sir Robert Staples, the senior member for Dungannon,
was the second son of Sir Thomas Staples, of the Middle
Temple, and grandson of Alexander Staples, of Yate Clourt,
Gloucestershira (Vide Burke's Peerage.) His brother
Alexander's memoir as member for Strabane in the Parlia-
ment of 1661, has been already given. Sir Robert succeeded
his father as second baronet, and married Mary, eldest
daughter of John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam. The present
baronet. Sir Nathaniel Staples, is descended from their fifth
and youngest son, the Rev. Thomas, Rector of Derryloran,
whose son, the Right Hon. Thomas Staples, member for

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Antrim, was, by his second marriage with Henrietta^
daughter of Richard, seventh Viscount Moles worth, fiither
of we Bev. John Staples, Sir Nathaniel's father. Sir
Nathaniel succeeded his uncle the late Sir Thomas, Q-C^and
Queen's Advocate in Ireland.

Sir Robert Staples died 23rd Nov., 1714, and was suc-
ceeded by his eldest son, Sir John ; who, having only
daughters, was succeeded by his brother Alexander, the
fourth son.

VIL — John Hamilton, of Calidon,

John Hamilton, of Calidon, the junior member for
Dungannon, was the eldest son of WilUam Hamilton, Esq.,
of Calidon, otherwise Kinard, who was one of the 1649
debenturers, that is, persons who received debentures
in lieu of pay for military service, which after the
Restoration were satisfied by lands — ^in his case to a
great extent out of Sir Phelim O'Neile's estate. William
Hamilton married Margaret Qalbraith, daughter of Colonel
Galbraith, whose memoir has been already given at page 222.
Their children were — (1) John, M.P., the heir, who married
17th Feb., 1708, Lucy, second daughter of Anthony Dopping,
Bishop of Ossory, and died Jan., 1713, having issue, William,
who aied young, and Margaret, Countess of Ossory; (2)
William ; (3) Captain James, who died in 1730 ; (4) Hans ;
(5) George; (6) Hugh; who all died unmarried; (7)
Elizabeth, who, in 1698, married John Leslie, Dean of
Dromore ; (p) Agnes ; and (9) Magdalene, who both died
unmarried — the former in 1740 ; the latter 16th March,
1763, aged 90.»

The following inscription is on the Communion Paten, in
Caledon Church : —

*^ Hanc patinam sacfam Johamies Hamilton de Calidon et Lucy
Hamilton, alias Dopping, uxor ejus ecclesia parochiali sancti
Johannis de Aghaloo. D. aimo dom 1712."

On it are also the arms of Hamilton impaling Dopping.
The Hamilton arms vary somewhat from those of the
Abercom family.

A tombstone with the following inscription, has lately
been removed to the tower of Calidon Church, from the
churchyard : —

*See Archdale'8 Lodge, vol. i., p. 197, and th« inflcripUon on the tambttone.

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«W The Coat of Arms. H

"HIRE LYETH THE
^'BOBYOF . . . . ♦
"WILLIAM HAMILT
"ON WHO DYED IN
" MARCH 1 74 1 AND
"MARGERY HAMILTO
"N HIS WIFE WEO
"DIED IN JULY 1674.
"ALSO THE BODY OF
"CAPT' JAMES HAMIL
"TON AT LOUGH .... J
"NAB SON TO THE AB
"OVEWILL^&MARG
"ERY WHODS-ED ....
" 1730 AGED ....

The Hamilton arms were, gules 3 cinque foils ermine, on
a chief or a lion passant guardant of the first, between two
thistles., proper. Cre.st out of a ducal coronet or, a demi lion
gules, holding in the dexter paw a thistle of the first. Im-
paling Dopping, gules a chevron ermine, and in base a flute.
A fesse chequy argent and azure.

"This stone was supposed to be without inscription, and a
fanner's family used the ground as a burial ground .... One
winter day, the Bells, to whom T refer, removed the flat stone for
the interment of one of the family, and the stone was not replaced
for some days, that the ground might consolidate. In the mean-
time it lay inclined, and a severe frost loosened the moss, and a
following rain washed a portion of it off. I went one day to
enquire why the stone had not been returned to its place, and
looking closely at it, I made out clearly, the letters CAPT*, and
my curiosity was excited, and I got all the moss carefully washed
away, but, alas ! could make out no more letters, although it was
manifest that the stone had been wrought with raised letters. T
then tried heel ball rubbed over sheets of paper, and made out a
few letters, but not enough to decipher the inscription. I then
softly rubbed it with handfulls of fresh grass, and little by little
the letters were made out ; and working at it fur an hoiur or so
each day, for nearly a week, I made out all that I have sent you. **
(Extract from a letter, 30th December, 1886, communicated to
ma)

" Of the eldest son John (the M.P., as you inform me), we have
few traces, but the Inscription on the Paten ; and his (I believe)

♦ Captain. f 1674.

X Louglimacnab, or " Leaght-mac-kanabb ; the monumental stone of the son of
the Bishop " (Reeves). Now called Milbeny.

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signature after that of the then Archdeacon (strangely enough)
William Hamilton, in the Vestry Book. The signature is a
peculiar one, somewhat as followB : — Jo. Hamilton, and appears
from 1699 (April), up to 1712, April, between the Archdeacon's
signature, and that of Kobt Lowry, with a few exceptions.
(Ibid.)

Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Lowry (of Aghenis) were first
cousins by marriago, Mr. Hamilton's and Mrs. Lowry's
mothers having been daughters of Colonel James Galbraith.

The following are the terms of the King's letter in favor
of " Hamilton of Lough Currine."

" Feb. 28, 1660-1.
"Charles Rex,

Right trustie, &c. Having taken into our princely considera-
tion, not only the maity faithful personal services and sufferings
of Captain William Hamilton of Lough Currine, in the county of
Tjnrone, in Ireland, but the extraordinary expression of his great
affection unto us, by laying out and disbursing a considerable simi
of money, which was expended by Captain John Hamilton,
brother to the said William (who was slayne in our service), in
levying a troope of horse in Ireland and transporting them to
Scotland, and from thence into England, in the service of our late
Royal Father in a time when the exigencie of our affaire stood
most in need of such exemplary assistance. All which hath
manifestly appeai'ed unto us by credible and unquestionable
certificates. And being willing to give him, the said Captain
William Hamilton, some testimony of our kind acceptance of his
said services, and to afford him likewise some mark of our princely
regard for the same, Doe therefore hereby will and require you,
that out of such forfeited lands as are in l^e barony of Dungannon
in y* county of Tyrone, within our realme of Ireland, and which
by our late Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland, are ap-
pointed for satisfaction of Arrears before 1649, you forthwith
cause full satisfaction be given to him, the said Captain William
Hamilton, his heirs and assignes, of all such arrears as upon
accompt shall appear to be due to the said Captain William
Hamilton (which we do will and require you forthwith to cause
state), either in his own rights or as heir and administrator to
others, for his or their personal services in the war of Ireland.
And if there be not sufiicient quantity of such forfeited lands in
the barony of Dungannon, as may satisfy the arrears due to the
said Willmm Hamilton, his heirs and assigns, to have full satis-
faction of what shall remaine due to him, over and above the
said lands in the barony of Dungannon, out of the like forfeited
lands in the baronies of Ardagh and Granard, in the county of
Longford in Ii'cland aforesaid. And for such and so much of the
said lands, as you shall cause to be laid out unto the said Captain
William Hamilton, his heirs and assigns, in satisfaction of the

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arrears aforesaid, at a reasonable and ordinary rate of appraise-
ment, it is our will and pleasure, and we do hereby will and
require you that you take care that letters patent thereof, under
the Great Seal of Ireland, bee granted to the said Captain William
Hamilton, his heirs and assigns, at and under such rents, tenures,
and services, as in and by our late Declaration for the Settlement
of our said Kingdom of Ireland, is expressed. And in so doing
&c., (be.

Given at our Court, at Whitehall, 28th February, 1660, in the
thirteenth year of our reign.

By His Majesties Command,

Edward Nicholas."

Under a clause in each of the Acts of Settlement and
Explanation, passed respectively in 1662 and 1665, Captain
William Hamilton, of Lough Currine, in the county of
Tyrone, claimed payment of the debenture debts, due to him
for service in the army and by purchase from others, in lands
forfeited by Sir Phelim O'Neile. The first step taken by
the Commissioners upon this claim was to refer it to their
Sub-Commissioners for report.

John Pettie and Thomas Taylor reported that they had
examined and computed the debt due to claimant in his own
right for service, and as executor, administrator, and assignee
of others,andthattheyfoundittoamountto£19,763 198. lid;
and after a retrenchment of 7^. 6d in the pound made from
this sum, there remained to be satisfied in lands, after the
Act rates, a sum of £12,352 10«. ; and they returned to the
Commissioners a list of lands forfeited by 0*Neil in Tyrone
and Armagh, and a Rendu to supply a deficiency in Longford,
to be passed in certificate, to said Captain William Hamilton,
his heirs and assigns for ever. Among these lands are those
of Keynardtown, &c. The extent of the lands thus to be
dealt with were 6,311 acres, Irish plantation measure, in
Tyrone, at a quit rent to the Crown of £85 38. 3Jd ;
8,864 do., in Longford, at a quit rent of £179 98. lid ; and
1,841 do., in Armagh, at a quit rent of £24 17s. 2d

The Commissioners, by their certificate and decree, ratified
and confirmed this award of the Sub-Commissioners by two
instruments, respectively dated 21st and 28th December,
18 Car. IL, 1666.*

By letters patent founded on said certificate, and dated
27th February, 19 Car. II.,t the same lands, at said quit rent,
were granted to said Captain William Hamilton, of Lough
Currine, in county Tyrone.

By further letters patent,t bearing date 15th July, in the

♦ Lib. IT., p. 611. t Lib. vuL, p. 117. t Lib. xv., p. 165.

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twentieth year of the reign of King Charles IL, all the said
lands, at the same quit rents, were regranted to William
Hamilton, late of Lough Curran, and now of Kenard, in
the county of Tyrone. The object of this patent was to
erect the lands into two manors, with Courts Baron, and
Courts Leet.

Those in Longford were created into the manor of Moate,
whilst those in Tyrone and Ardmagh were created into the
manor of Caledon, which it is expressly stated was an ancient
manor, known by the name of Kenard.

The Fifteenth Annual Report of the Commissioners of
Ireland, VoL iii., p. 107^ 108'^ gives a list of the denomina-
tions, acreage, profitable and unprofitable, and other minute
details." — (Information communicated by the Rev. VV. A.)

The "Gentlemans' Magazine," for the year 1738, announced
the marriage, on 30th June, of the Earl of Orrery with
Margaret Hamilton, of Tyrone, in Ireland, "one of the largest
fortunes in Europe."

The Hamilton estate was ultimately sold to (I believe)
the first Earl of Caledon ; having been previously offered, it
is said, first, to Sir Calvert Strange's ancestor, and then to
the first Earl of Belmore, whose former residence at Aghenis
was close to Caledon.

STRABANK
VIII. — Sir Matthew Bridges.

Sir Matthew Bridges brought news to Ireland of the
Prince's birth — ^the son of James II. He was knighted by
Tyrconnell, in the Castle of Dublin, on the 18th June, 1688,
" but went immediately after to England, without paying
any fees at all." — (Honors conferred m Ireland, in Ulster s
office, VoL xii., p. 60.)

Sir Matthew Bridges, in December, 1691, ''produced His
Majesty's Commission to him " [the Governor of the London
Society], " as Governor of LondonderryandColeraine[? should
be Culmore], and required the usual salary of £200 a year,
payable to the Governor of Culmore Fort, and the acres
belonging thereto, respecting which the Society determined
to consult counsel"— [ Concise view of the Irish Society. —
Captain Matthew Bridges, vice Phillips.] Patent September
13th, 1684, during pleasure.

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IX.— Oliver M'Causland, Esq.

Oliver M'Causland was the elder son of Alexander
M'Auselane (whose grandfather, M'Auselane, of Glenduglas,
migrated to Ireland, temp. Jac. I.). Alexander served in the
army before 1649 ; settled in Tyrone, and became possessed
of the Manor of Ardstraw, Mountfield. He married Genet,
daughter of Edward HaU, of New Grange, county Meath,
and dying in 1675, was succeeded by his elder son, Oliver,
M.P. Oliver married Anne, daughter of James Hamilton, Esq.,
and had a son Oliver, who had large estates in the county
Donegal, and was father of John, M.P. for Strabane, 1735-6,
whose memoir will come further on. {Vide Burke's Landed
Gentry.)

In a Rental of the See estate in Derry, cir. 1703, Oliver
M'Causland is thus noticed : — No. 26, Ardstra — ^yearly
value £80, Tenant, M'Causland, Oliver. " This was lately
renewed. The tenant is a man of interest, probity, and
prudence, but it is set at an easy rate."

AGHER.

X. — ^Archibald Richardson, Esq.

Archibald Richardson, the senior member for Augher was
the son-in-law of the Rev. Archibald Ei'skine, of Augher
Castle, whose father was the Sir James Erskine, who repre-
sented Tyrone in 1634 {vide p. 161). His wife, Mary, the
eldest daurfiter, brought him the Erskine estate, adjoining
Augher. This estate appears to have passed to his nephew
St. George Richardson, Esq., who married Elizabeth Bun-
bury, the eldest daughter of Benjamin Bunbury, of Kilfeacle,
who died in 1765. They had a son William, created a
baronet in 1787 ; who in 1775 married Eliza Richardson,
and had a son. Sir James Mervyn Richardson, who married
Margaret, daughter of James Corry Moutray, of Favor
Royal, county Tyrone.* Sir James, in 1822, assumed the
additional name and arms of Bunbury, and was father of
Rev. Sir James Richardson Bunbury, of Castle Hill, county
Tyrone. {Vide Burke's Peerage.)

• The Portclare or Favour Koyal estate of the Enkine famOy went with the
youngest daughter Anne, who married her cousin John Moutray (see p. 162).

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XI. — James Moutray, Esq.

James Moutray, the junior member for Augher was of
Favor Royal, in the immediate vicinity of Augher, which
estate he inherited through his mother, Anne Erskine,
daughter of the Rev. Archibald Erskine. He was the son
of John Moutray, whose father Robert Moutray, of Scotland,
had married Anne, daughter of Sir James Erskine, M.P., for
Tyrone in 1634, whose memoir has been already given.
His father and mother were consequently first cousins.
James Moutray married Deborah, one of the daughters of
Henry Mervyn, m.p. for the County. Their son James,
married, in 1698, Rebecca, eldest daughter of my ancestor
Colonel James Corry, and had a son, John, who married
Elizabeth Montgomery. The latter couple had a son, John
Corry Moutray, who married Mary Jane Repton. A por-
trait of this gentleman is in the Grand Jury room at Omagh,
the meetings of which body he rarely missed during a long
adult life. He was father of the late Anketell Moutray,
bom in 1797, and died Dec, 1869 ; and of the Rev. John
James, the late owner of Favor Royal, whose third son,
Anketell, is the present owner.

Mr. James Moutray's (m.p.) will was dated 19th March,
1718-9, and proved in 1719. The only mention of this
Moutray in the Journals is on the 2l8t Feb., 1703-4, when he
and James (/Qrry, father-in-law of his son, had leave of
absence granted them " to go into the country, upon extra-
ordinary occasions" as the phrase then ran. This was, I
presume, to attend the wedding of Colonel Corry's youngest
daughter, Elizabeth, with Mr. James Auchinlech ; the date
of which, hitherto somewhat dubious, this circumstance, I
think, tends to fix. The difficulty of the date arises from
the very youthful age, at which, if it is correct, the two eldest
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Auchinlech, Rebecca Leonard,
and Margaret Enery, must have married, viz., in their
fifteenth and sixteenth years, respectively. This, however,
was not without precedent, as Lady Cole (then living), the
widow of Sir Michael, was in her fifteenth when she
married in 1671 ; and Deborah Blennerhasset (the co-heiress
of Henry Blennerhasset, m.p. for Fermanagh), who had onlj-
lately died, must have lost the first of her four husbands,
when only fifteen. (See the Parliamentary Memoirs of
Fermanagni p. 38).

25S
PARLIAMENT OF 1695.

Begun 27 August, 1695. Concluded 14 June, 1699.

Date. Name. Reddenea. Constittioney.

1696—13 AngoBt, . Henry Meryyii, Esq., . . Trellok, . . ) Tyrone

James Hamilton, Esq., . . Donalong, . . f County.

33 Augost, . WUli&m Wolscley, Esq., . -. ^ '

Henry Tenison, Esq., . Dillon8town,Loath

19 September, Sir Bobert Staples, bart., vice ^, . ^^

Wolesley for Longford, . Lyssan, . . f-Clogher City.
Richard Johnson, Esq., vloe

Tenlson for Co. Monaghan, — ^

7 Augost, . Thomas Knox, Esq., . Dungannon, . ) Dnngannon

John' Hamilton, Esq., . . Callldon, . .) Borough.

14 August, . Audley Mervyn, Esq., . . Trellck, . . f Strabane

Oliver M*Cau8land, Esq., . Strabane, . . > Borough.
80 August, . Sir Thomas Pakenham, knt, . Tullenally, West- \

meath. f Agher

Dayid Crelghton. Esq., . . Crum, Per- r Borough.

MEMOIR.

L — Henky Mebvtn, Esq. — Re-elected.

II.— James Hamilton, Esq.— Re-electeA

CLOGHER.
III.— William Wolseley, Esq.
Brigadier Wolseley, who was returned for Clogher, but
elected to serve for Longford, was the celebrated Colonel
Wolseley who commanded the Protestant forces at the
battle of Newtownbutler, and the Inniskilling regiment at
the battle of the Boyne. He was the youngest son of
Robert Wolseley, Esq., Clerk of the King's Letters Patent,
created a baronet in 1628, the ancestor of Sir Charles
Wolseley, of Wolseley, County StaflTord, and of Viscount
Wolseley. Brigadier Wolseley was, subsequently to the battle
of the Boyne, appointed Master of the Ordnance, sworn of
the Privy Council, and constituted one of the Lords
Justices of Ireland (See Burke's Peerage).

IV. — Henry Tenison, Esq.
Henry Tenison, of Dillonstown, co. Louth, returned as
junior member for Clogher, but who elected to sit for the
county of Monaghan, was the eldest son of Richard Tenison

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then Bishop of Clogher. In the late Mr. Shirley's History
of the county of Monaghan (p. 254), there is a notice of the
Lough Bawn estate which was once a part of the great
estate of Coll MacBrian MacMahon, but, as it appears by
the Book of Distribution, adjudged after the rebellion of 1 641
to belong to Captain Edward Carey; it was then known as the
Ballybeta^h of Balljrfremer (Ballyfreaghniore, the town of
the large heath), containing twelve tates. It would seem
afterwards to have been in the possession of Henry Tenison,
a Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland, eldest son of Richard
Tenison, successively Bishop of Killala, Clogher, and
Meath,* who in 1709 leased it for ever to William Barton,
of Thomastown, in the coimty of Louth, Esq. (the lessee of
the Barony of Famey, and Knight of the Shire for the
county of Monaghan, in the Parliaments of 1692, 1695, and
1703). His daughter, Margaret, married Richard Tenison,
next brother of Henry, who in 1724 made over his interest
in this estate, which he calls the Ballybetagh of Ballyfremer,
to John Woods, of Lisanisk, near Carrickmacross, on a lease
for three lives renewable for ever ; but by the marria^ of
William Tenison, of Priorland, in the county of Louth, Esq.
(nephew of Richard), with Margaret, daughter of Mr. Woods,
it eventually returned to the Tenison family, the present
owners of Lough Bawn, a seat which owes everytnii^ to
the good taste of the late proprietor, William Tenison, Esq.,
who died in 1839.

From an accompanying pedigree (p. 255), it appears that
the Bishop was son of Thomas Tenison, of Camckfergus ;
and that Henry Tenison married Anne Moore ; from whom
descended Thomas Tenison, Justice of the Common Pleas,
&c.

V. — Sm Robert Staples, Bart.

I have already given Sir Robert Staples' memoir, as
member for Dungannon, in the last Parliament. He was
elected for Clogher in place of Brigadier Wolseley, who
elected to sit for LongfonL

VI.— Richard Johnston, Esq.

It appears frt)m the Journals that Mr. Knox and Mr.
Johnston on the 4th Oct., 1695, petitioned the House of
Commons respecting a breach of privilege by Dean John
Leslie, of Dromore, and a Mr. Wallis, by entering into

• Of I^iUala, 1682; of Clogher, 1691 ; and of Bieath, 1697 to 1705.

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possession of some tithes which they claimed to be the
owners of. The next day Captain Johnston petitioned
against Mr. Hales, the minister of Dromore, and Mr. Roth
Jones, his attorney, for a breach of privilege, not specified.
This seems to indicate that he belonged to the family of
Sir William Johnston, Knt.,of Gilhall, near Dromore, county
Down. Sir William, who died in 1722, married in 1686,
Nicola, daughter of Sir Micholas Acheson (by Anne, only
daughter of Thomas Taylor, of KeUs, ancestor of Lord
HeiSfort), and had by her, with other issue, a son Richard,
father of Sir Richaixl, created a Baronet in 1772. (See
Archdall's Lodge, VoL vi., page 82.)

I find in Archdall's Lodge, Vol. iii., p. 8, that Hans
Hamilton, of the Clanbrassu family, of Camysure, near
Comber, had a daughter Jane, who married Hugh Mont-
gomery, of Ballymagown, and was buried in Grey Abbey
church, before the Revolution, in which her husband was ,
Captain of a Company. Their daughter, Elizabeth, mamed
a Captain Johnston. As a matter of dates, Captain
Johnston, M.P., may have been her husband, and Sir William
Johnston, his son, or else his brother.

In the Montgomery MSS., p. 375, Note 78, we find: —

"There is Elizabeth [daughter of Hugh Montgomery, of
Ballymagoim], wife of Captain Jonston, Commander of a foot
company in the standing army in Ireland. This gentleman
raised Imnself to this post by his services in Flanders, to which
he and his company is now [1710] remanded ; with whom his
tender said wife is gone, ledd by the entireness and perfection of
conjugal, matrimonial love."

The Captain Johnston mentioned was probably the founder
of the Gilford branch of the Johnstons.

Sir Richard Johnston, Bart., married Anne, daughter of
William Alexander, Esq., by whom he had issue, one son,
William, and two daughters, Mary Anne and Catherine. This
son, Sir William, died unmarried in the year 1841, and the
title became extinct. [See Burke's' Extinct and Dormant
Baronetages.]

With regard to the Johnston name in the county Down,
the following note (39) occurs in a Montgomery MS., p. 184,
referring to Edward Johnston, of Greengraves : —

" Several families of this name were early settled in the Ards
or Castlereagh. James Johnston, the elder, and James Johnston,
the younger, are men examined in the depositions referring to
events in 1641, as having been engaged in the massacre of the Irish,
which took place in the barony of Castlereagh."

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This deposition is printed in the notes connected with
the author's memoir of Sir James Montgomery. (See
vafra,) A respectable fiimily of the name of Johnston
was settled at Kirkistown, in the parish of Ardkeen. Mr.
Edward Johnston, of Kirkistown, was married to a
daughter of Captain James Magill, of Ballyvester. This
Mr. Johnston's son, named Robert, inherited the house and
lease of Ballyvester, at the death of his grandmother, Mrs.
James M'Gill, which happened in January, 171^; his
sister, Mrs. Madden, of Fermanagh, getting the chattels and
personal property. [MS. preserved at Grey Abbey, county
Down.]

DUNGANNON.
VII. — Thomas Knox, Esq.

Thomas Knox, the senior member for Dungannon, was
the eldest son of Thomas, fourth son of Marcus Knox, of
Glasgow, (who was second son of William, of Silvyland,
county Renfrew, which he inherited from his mother). His
mother was Elizabeth Speedy, daughter of a Danish gen-
tleman, who came to Scotland in the suite of Queen Ann of
Denmark. Mr. Knox settled at Dungannon in lt)92, was
one of the Privy Council, and for many years represented
Dungannon. His heirs having failed, his Irish estates
devolved upon his nephew Thomas, son of his brother John,
and father of the first Viscount Northland, whose son
was created Earl of Ranfurly. (See Burke's Peerage. ^

VIII.— James Hamilton, Esq. (of Callidon), Re-elected.

STRABANE.
IX. — AUDLEY MERVrN, ESQ.

Audley Mervyn, the senior member for Strabane, was the
eldest son of Henry Mervyn, the member for the county, by
Hannah, daughter of Sir John Knox. He served for Tyrone
in the Parliament of 1715, until his death in 1717. He
married the Hon. Olivia Coote, daughter of Lord Colooney,
by whom he had a large family. Two of his sons represented
Tyrone.

In an " Armagh MSS.," quoted in Graham's " Derriana,"
is or was this couplet, referring to the defence of Derry
in 1688.

" Then Audley Mervyn from Omagh was sent
To join our forces with a Regiment."

X.— Oliver M'Causland, Esq., Re-elected.

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AGHER.

XI. — Sir Thomas Pakenham, Knt.

Sir Thomas Pakenham, the senior member for Agher, was
eldest son of Henry Pakenham (second son of Robert
Pakenham, of North Witham), Captain of a troop of horse
in Ireland, which was disbanded in 1655. Captain
Pakenham got lands in the county Wexford, and also
Tullynally, now called Pakenham Hall, and other lands in the
county Westmeath. He was M.P. for Navan, and died in
1691, aged about 80. Hjs eldest son, Thomas (by his first
wife. Mary, daughter of Thomas Lill, of Tnm, county
Meath), was bom in 1 661, knighted by King William III
in 1692, and created Prime Sergeant in 1695. He married
Mary, daughter of Richard Nelmes, Alderman of London,
and had, with other issue, Edward his heir, father of the first
Lord Longford, so created in 1756. Lord Longford's widow,
who was the heiress of the old Elarls of Longford, of the
Aungier family, a title which had expired in 1704, was
created Countess of Longford in 1785, and the Earldom was
inherited in 1794«. by her grandson, the third Baron. (Vide
Burke's Peerage).

XII.— David Ceeighton, Esq.

David Creighton, the junior member for Agher, was the
person, who (as is stated in Archdall's Lodge s Peerage, at
the early age of about eighteen), gallantly defended Crom
Castle wi^ a newly-levied force, against King James
II.'s army in 1689. He was MJP. for Lifford (the
family borough till the Union) in the Parliaments of
1703, 1713, 1715, and 1727 tiU his death in 1728. He was
the second son of Colonel Abraham Creighton,* by Mary,
daughter of James Spottiswode, Bishop of Clogher, and
married in 1700, Catherine, daughter of Richard Southwell,
father of the first Lord Southwell; by whom he had
Abraham, first Baron Erne. Crom Castle in Fermanagh, was
the family residence; but the LitTord property was the
original estate of the Crichton family, in IrelanAf I
believe that Crom came through the marriage with Miss
Spottiswode. Mw)r-Qeneral David Creighton, who was
Governor of the Koyal Hospital at Kilmainham, Dublin,
died in 1728-9.

* Vid* Parliamentary Meoioirs of Fermanagh, p. 41.

f This was the Drnmboory branch of the family. James Crichton of the
Aghelane branch porchased that proportion in the Barony of Ejiockninny. He
died before 16^5. (Penes, Rev. C. I.)

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PARLIAMENT OF 1703.

B^un 21 September, 1703. Concluded 6 May, 1713.
Name. ConsUtaenoy.

?^^jr^^: ::::::: j Tyrone co«n.,.
i^B^^'^'^Hm^^.. : : : : : ;} Augi.«B«r««h.

Captain mchard St. George. ) Cipher Borcmgli

Captain Henry St. George, f City.

Thomas Knox, Esq \

OUver St. Georg, Esq.. . - ^' ^ - ••••>. Dongannon Boroas]
Edward Brloe, Esq.. in place of St. George, who elected tof ^»*n8«"»«" «»™"«'
stand for the Borough of Carriok. )

i"»«» S^baaj, Esq.. ) gt^abane Borough.

Oliver M'Cansland, Esq., I ^''«»"« «wrvH«tt.

MEMOIR
I.— RiCHABD Stewart, Esq.
The Hon. Richard Stewart was the third son of Sir
William Stewart, created in 1682-3 Baron Stewart of
Ramalton and Viscount Mountjoy, and constituted Master-
General of the Ordnance for life, and Colonel of a regiment
of foot. In 1686 he served at the siege of Buda, where he
was twice dangerously wounded, and soon after his return
to Ireland was made a Brigadier-General of the army, with
the pay of £497 10«. a year. He was the posthumous son
of Sir Alexander Stewart, great grandson of Sir William
Stewart, of Aughentean, and of Newtownstewart, county
Tyrone. A longaccount of him and of his adventures during
the troubles of James II.'s time, will be found in Archdall's
Lodge's Peerage of 1789, pp. 248 to 253. He was attainted
in 1689, kept in confinement till 1692, when being released,
he joined William III. in Flanders, and was killed at the battle
of Steinkirk on the 24th August in that year. He married
Mary, eldest daughter of Richard, Lord Coote of Coloony,
by whom he had six sons and two daughters, who survived
their infancy. The eldest son, William, the second Viscount,
married in 1 696, Anne, younger daughter, and at length heir,
of Murrough, Viscount Blessington. Their son William,
the third Viscount, bom in 1709, was in 1745 created Earl
of Blessington, at whose death all the peerages became
extinct, his sons having predeceased him. The baronetcy
has descended to Sir Augustus Stewart, of Fort Stewart,
county Donegal.

The second son. Captain Alexander Stewart, married
Mary, daughter of William Tighe, Esq., of Dublin, and had
an only daughter, Anne, the wife of the Right Hon. Luke
Gai-diner. (Lodge, Vol. vi., p, 253.)

Richard, the ttiird son, was the subject of this memoir.

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He died unmarried, 4th A^ugust, 1728. He will appear
again in succeeding Parliaments. Captain Arthur, the
fourth son, died unmarried in 1723. The fifth and sixth
sons, Charles and James, will both appear as members for
Tyrone.

Of the daughters, Mary married, first, John Preston, of
Ardsallagh, county Meath, whose daughter and heir, Mary,
was mot£er of Peter, Earl Ludlow ; and secondly, George,
Earl of Granard. Catherine, the second daughter, married
Arthur, son of Hercules Davis, of Carrickfergus, county
Antrim.

XL — ^AuDLEY Meevyn, Esq.

Audley Mervyn was member for Strabane in 1695.

AUGHER

III. — James Moutray, Esq.

James Moutray, Esq., the senior member for Augher,
was the person who sat in the Parliament of 1692 for that
borough.

IV. — John Hamilton, Esq., of Callidon.
Mr. Hamilton was one of the members for Dungannon in
the preceding Parliament.

CLOGHER,
v.— Captain Richard St. George.
Captain Richard St. George (who lived to become a
Lieutenant-General), the senior member for Clogher, and
who was of Kiliwsh, was uncle of St George Ashe, Bishop
of Clogher, and was the eldest son of Henry St. George, of
Athlone, an officer in the Irish army of Charles IL (from
which monarch he obtained a grant of the estate of Woods-
gift, Co. Kilkenny, in 1666), by Anne, daughter of Alderman
Ridgeley HatiSeld, of Dublin, whom he married, 3rd June,
1669. His grandfather was Captain Richard St. George,
Governor of Athlone, who went over to Ireland in the
beginning of the seventeenth century, and was the third
son of Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux King-at-Arms,*
in lineal descent from Baldwin St. George, one of the com-
panions in arms of the Conqueror. General Richard St.
George married, in 1696, Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Coote
of Coloony, and died in 1755, leaving no issue by her. To
the Parliament of 1695, Mr. Richard St. George, probably

♦ This geDtleman*a eldest son, Sir Henry, was Garter King-at-Arms, and two
of the tatter's sons were Garter also, and the third, Ulster King-at-Arms.

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the same person as the General, was elected for the borongrh
of Qalway and the borough of Carrick. A petition against
the return of Mr. St. George and of Mr. Ormsby (who was
also elected for Castlebar), was presented by Edward Eyre
and John Staunton. The complaint was that though the
Sheriffs, Thomas Connids and Francis Knapp, Esqrs., were
the proper persons to manage the election, yet the Mayor,
Thomas Simcock, Esq., on the day of the election, Tuesday,
20th August, 1695 " (being friend and partial to the said
Richard St. Geoige and Robert Ormsby), came to the
Sheriff's County (jourt in his formalities, attended with his
constables and other officers to awe the people, and there-
upon ordered his officers to admit none into the Tholsel
(being the place of election) but freemen, excluding the
freeholders." The latter got in, nevertheless, with difficulty,
to assert their right, and demanded of the Sheriff to admit
them to vote, whereupon Robert Shaw, the Town Clerk,
declared they had no votes, and the Mayor ordered them to
be turned out. The freeholders "by voice and view"
before being turned out, unanimously declared themselves
for the petitioners. On a poll being demanded, the Town
Qerk gave the Sheriffs a list, and told them that none were
to vote but such as were on his list, which consisted only of
the Common Council, the Masters of Corporations, and a
few freemen, although the Charter expressly said that the
commonality should have votes, and they had always voted,
and particularly in the late Parliament several of the
freeholders had signed the indentures of election, and on
this occasion had been applied to to vote for St. George and
Ormsby by themselves, and by Thomes Revett, the Deputy
Recorder, and by the Town Clerk. The Sheriffs had
refused the votes of freemen, as well Protestants as others,
but menaced them for insisting thereon. Mr. Ormsby had
threatened to commit one of the Protestant freeholders if
he did not desist; and the Mayor and Town Clerk had
forced some of the poor freemen to vote for Ormsby and St
George. The Sheriffs had returned St. George And Ormsby,
though, as the petitioners alleged, they had more than
douUe the number of voters with them that the sitting
members had. On the 31st August this petition was
referred to the Committee of Elections and Privileges ; and
on the 20th September, Mr. Brodrick reported from it iu
favour of the sitting members. On the same day Mr.
Richard St. George made his election to sit (or " stand, '* as
they then called it) for Galway, his place in Carrick being
filled by Arthur Cooper, Esq. {Vide Burke's Peerage, '* St.

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George^ Bart," descended from the General's youngest
brother, George). I learn from an article in the Cfraphw of
26th February, 1887, that Gteneral St. George was Colonel
of the regiment called at the time of his death and afterwards,
" St. George's Crossbelt Dragoons,** but now the 8th Royal
Irish Hussars.

VI. — Captain Henry St. Gkorqe.
I suppose Captain Henry St. George to have been the
next brother of General St. George. He died unmarried in
1723. {Vide Burke's Peerage.) Like his brother, he was
uncle of Bishop St. George Ashe.

DUNGANNON.

VII.—Thomas Knox, Esq., re-elected for Dungannon.

VIII. — Oliver St. George, Esq. (afterwards Rt. Hon.)

Oliver St. George though elected for Dungannon, was
also returned for Carrick, county Leitrim ; and in this
Parliament served for that borough; though he sat for
Dungannon in the Parliaments of 1713, 1715, and part
of that of 1727. He was son-in-law ol his colleague
(as returned for Dungannon), having married his eldest
daughter, Mary Knox, in 1701. She had no issue,
and survived her husband till 1747. (Archdall's Lodge,
'* Knox, Lord Welles," Vol. vil, p. 198). Oliver St. George
was the younger son of Sir Oliver St. George, knt. and bart.,
of Carickdrumbruske, county Leitrim, created a bart. 1660,
(son of Sir George, the second son of the Clarenceux King-
at-Arms) [see memoir of Richard St. George, p. 259], who
represented the county Galway in the Parliaments of 1661
and 1692. Sir Oliver was appointed one of the Commissioners
for settling the affairs of Ireland in the 12th Car. II. He
married Olivia, daughter of Marcus Beresford, esq., of Cole-
raine ; by whom he had two sons. Sir George, his successor ;
and Oliver, the subject of this memoir ; who was a Privy
Councillor in 1715, and who died prior to 13th Oct., 1781,
when the new writ was ordered in his place for Dungannon.
The elder brother. Sir George, 2nd baronet, having been
M.P. for the county Roscommon in the Parliaments of 1692,
1695, 1703 and 1713 (returned also for Carrick in 1713, but
elected to sit for Roscommon after a petition had been
decided in his favour against Mr. James Donellan), was made
a Privy Coimcillor by George L, and created in 1716 Lord
St George. His patent recited that he was —

'^ Eldest son of Sir Oliver St. George, who for his good services
in the restoration of Charles II., was the first baronet created in

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Ireland by that monarch ; and is the twenty-first heir in a direct
line, descended from Baldwin St. George, a fellow soldier of
William the Conqueror. Justly have we bestowed additional
honours upon a gentleman of so distinguished a character, who
upon the account of his ancient family is already illustrious ; inas-
much as among his ancestors (dignified with knighthood iu the
reign of Henry III.) he reckoned those who, by intermarriages in
the houses of the Argentines, Barons of England, became allied
to the noble family of DeVere and St. John, and to Margaret
Beauchamp, grandmother of King Henry VIL, our famous pro-
genitor. Nor yet umst we pass by in silence (lest we should seem
to pay to the glory of his forefathers what is due to his own
singular merit) that we now think fit to enoble him for his steady
adherence to us, and tbe succession in our line, and by that means
to the Protestant Religion, and the laws of his country."

On the 27th of October, 1727, Lord St. George was made
Vice- Admiral of the Province of Connaught ; he married
Margaret, daughter of John, Viscount Massareene, and dying
the 4th August, 1735, aged 84, left by her, who died in
171 1, Mary, bom 10th August, 1693 ; married 20th Dec,
1714, to John Usher, esq., M.P. for Carrick, who for his
services in Flanders in the reigns of King William and
Queen Anne was made Governor of the town of Galway,
and Vice- Admiral of Connaught ; and dying in May, 1741,
had issue by him (who died the same year) one son, St.
George Usher, heir to his father; and two daughters —
Olivia, who in 1736, married Arthur French of Tyrone,
county Galway ; and Judith, to George Lowther of Kilbrue,
county Meath.

St. George Usher, the only son, was m.p. for Carrick in
1641 ; and lOth May, 1673, was created Baron St. George of
Hatley St George, county Leitrim. He married Elizabeth,
heiress of Christopher Dominick of Dublin, and dying at
Naples in January, 1775, left an only daughter, Emilia
Olivia, Duchess of Leinster, wife of the second Duke. ( Vide
Play fair's Baronetage, pp. 48, 49.)

IX, — Edward Brice, Esq.

Edward Brice (who was returned for Dungannon in place
of Mr. Oliver St. George, who elected to sit for Carrick) was
a connexion apparently of his colleague, Mr. Knox, whose
wife, Mary, was daughter of Robert Brice of Kilroot.
Edward Brice of Belfast (and probably also of Lisbum) was
son of Randal Brice of Kilroot, and of Castle Chichester,
county Antrim. His will was proved 7th September, 1738.

By his wife Jane he had a son, Edward, and a daughter
Jane, married to Harry Maxwell, esq.

In later days, an Edward Brice was a Trustee of the
Linen Board ; possibly the grandson of the m.p. of 1703.

STRABANE.
X. — James Topham, Esq.

Lady Bramhall, daughter of Sir Paul Davys, Secretary ot
State, and the widow of Sir Thomas Bramhall, m.p. for
Dungannon in 1661, married secondly. Sir John Topham.
The senior member for Dungannon in 1703, was their son.

The father. Dr. or Sir John Topham, was a Master in
Chancery, Vicar-General of Dublin, &c.

Lady Bramhall was his first wife. She was buried at St.
Audeon's, Dublin, on 18th March, 168§, and her son
James, was also buried there on 14th Nov., 1724 (P.R.)

Sir John Topham, who was ll.d., Jan. 25th, 1666, died on
the 3rd April, 1698, and was buried in his father-in-law, Sir
Paul Davis* tomb, in St. Audeon's. His will was dated 1 9th
July, 1697. Sir John's second wife was Elizabeth, daughter
of Colonel John Jephson, and widow of William Becket,
Prime Sergeant. By this lady he had a daughter, Penelope.
The second wife died in 1692, and was buried at St Michan's,
in Mr. Randall Becket's tomb (P.R.)

Sir Patrick Dunn (after whom the hospital in Dublin is
called) was brother-in-law to Sir John Topham.

XL— Oliver M'Causland, Esq., re-elected.

PAELIAMENT OF 1713.

Began 25 November, 1713. Concluded 1 August, 1714.

Name. Coiutitaenoy.

Richard Stewart, Esq., ) Towv«^ n^n^*.

AudleyMervyii,8entor.E8q., | Tyrone County.

WiUiam Ballour, Esq > ..^^ i»«^«^k

Henry Mervyn. Esq. J- Angher Borough.

Colonel Richard St George, > Clogher Borough or

Thomas Ashe, Ksq., ) City.

^^B^'^r^^in. : : : : : : :}i>-«-onBorongh.

glL^^.rH'SirtoW«,\- • : : : : : jStrabane Borough.

MEMOIR.
I. — Richard Stewart, Esq. (The Hon.) re-elected.
He elected to sit for Tyrone, having been also returned
for Castlebar.

XL — AuDLET Mervyn, Senior, Esq., re-elected.

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AUGHER.

III. — William Balfoue, Esq.

William Balfour, esq., was of the Manor of Carrowshee,
county Fermanagh, which included lisnaskea. The history
of the family is as follows: — Sir William Balfour, a
distinguished cavalry officer, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1627,
and knighted by James I., became a gentleman of the bed-
chamber to Charles I. ; and in 1630 was appointed Lieu-
tenant of the Tower of London. He had great money
transactions with his kinsman. Sir James Balfour, created
Lord Clanawly, in Ireland ; who in 1634, demised for the
consideration of £3,228, to Sir William for a thousand years,
at the rent of a pepper com, all his lands and possessions in
the county of Fermanagh. Pynnar makes Sir James
Balfour's 3,000 acres called Carrowshee, alias Belfour, " and
2,000 acres in a remote place, and out of all good way," to
be in the precinct of Knockninny, allotted to Scotch under-
takers. This, however, does not mean that it was in the
modem barony of that name, now confined to the opposite
side of Lough Erne — or at least that part of the estate which
he calls Castle Skeagh (Lisnaskea — the fort of the white
thorn), where he had begun a bawn* of lime and stone,
seventy feet square, and a house of the same length, intended
to be three stories and a half high. There was a plot laid out
for a church, seventy-five feet long, and twenty-four feet
broad. There was also a school, sixty feet by twenty, and
two stories high. The town, which was on the only
thoroughfare into the country, consisted of forty houses of
timber work, and a mud wall, adjoining a house which Sir
James and his family were then dwelling in. There is still
at Lisnaskea a ruin of what was, I presume, the castle.
The old church of the parish (Augherlurcher) was at a little
distance from the town ; the present church adjoining it
being modem. Pynnar found planted in 1618-11), on these
two proportions, eighty-two men armed, but none of them
had any estates as yet, or at leastwise they did not show
him any. Lisnaskea is now in the barony of Maghera-
stephana. Lord Clanawley died on the I8th of October of
the same year that he parted with his estates.

Sir William Balfour, during the troubles, became an ultra-
parliamentarian, and was chiefly instrumental in winning the
battle of Edge-hill, against his king, patron and benefactor.
His will was dated 16th July, 1660, and proved 2«th

*An enclosar^

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January, 1661-2. By his wife Isabella, he had two sons,
and three daughters. The latter were Emilia, wife of the
Earl of Moray ; Isabella, wife of the Master of Burghley ; and
Susan, married, after 1661, to Hugh (Hamilton), Lord
Qlanawley.

The eldest son, William, was joined by name with his
father in the warrant for a pension of £250 a year, dated
1st November, 1627 ; and died before August, 1659.

The second son, Cliarles Balfour, of Castle Balfour (Lis-
naskea), married in 1665, Cicely, daughter of Sir Robert
Bjnron, M.P. for Agher in 1639 ; and the subject of this
memoir, William BjOlbur, M.P. for Agher in the Parliament
of 1713, again in that of 1715, and in that of 1727 till his
death, was their only son. He died unmarried in 1739,
his successor, Richard Gorges, being sworn on 8th December
of that year. Charles Balfour had also a daughter, Lucy,
who was twice married — first, in 1691, to Captain Hugh
Magill, of Kirktown, county Down, by whom she had Jane,
the wife of the Rev. Samuel Madden, D.D., of Manor-
waterhouse, the ancestor of Mr. Madden, of Hilton ; and,
secondly, to Blaney Townley, Esq., of Piedmont, county
Louth (6. 1692),* by whom she had Henry (Balfour), who
succeeded to his uncle William Balfour's estates in 1739.
He was succeeded by his son, Henry Charles, who died
without issue. Lucy Balfour's second son by her husband,
Mr. Townley, was Blaney Townley (Balfour), who took the
name of Balfoiu' from his uncle William, and succeeded to
the estates on the death of his nephew, William Charles.
He married Marv Townley, relict of a son of Bishop
Tenison (of Clogher), and had Blaney Townley Balfour,
bom in 1743, wo predeceased his father, having married
20th February, 1768, Letitia Lei^ (of the Leigh family of
Droffheda, and county Louth).t Their son, Blaney Townley
Balfour, bom 28th May, 1769, succeeded his grandfather in
the estates. He married 17th October, 1797, Lady Florence
Cole, fourth daughter of the first Earl of Enniskillen, by
Anne Lowry, sister of the first Earl of Belmore. This Mr.
Balfour, who was M.P. for Belturbet, county Cavan, 1797-8,
and Sheriff of Louth in 1792, agreed in 1821 with the then
Lord Erne to sell to the latter the Fermanagh estates for
£82,500. The completion of the sale, however, was delayed
for some years. He died in 1856. He was succeeded at

* It would appear that BCrs. Townley might, as far as age was concerned, have
been her second ha8band*9 mother,
f See Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh, page 66^

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Townley Hall, county Louth, by the late Blaney Townley
Balfour, Esq., who in 1843, married Elizabeth Reynell; by
whom he had the present Blaney Townley Balfour, Esq. ;
the Rev. Francis Richard ; and Kathleen Agnes.

IV. — ^Henry Mebvyn, Esq.

Henry Mervyn was the eldest son, and successor of
Audley Mervyn, M.P. for the county, and great grandson of
Sir Audley. He sat for Augher in this Parliament, and the
next (1715), and for T>Tone in that of 1727, until his death
in 1748. He married Mary Edwardes, of CasUegore, widow
of Sir Henry Tichbome, but had no issue by her. He sold
at different times portions of the Mervyn estates, part of
which came into the possession of my family, and a portion
of which, viz., Letfem, Legacurry, and most of Beagh, is still
my property. He petitioned for leave to bring the heads
of a bill into Parliament for the sale of part of his estate
in Tyrone to pay incumbrances on the 26th September, 1725.
Leave was given on October 8th.* After his death the male
line of the Mervyn familj' became extinct, and his sisters
considered that the reversion of some of the lands sold
should have vested in them. An action was commenced

Xthem against one of the purchasers, Mr. Strong, but
r considerable litigation, the rights of the piurchasers
were sustained.

Captain D'Arcy Irvine, of Castle Irvine, county Fermanagh,
who is descended from Eleanor Mervyn, Henry's eldest sister,
is the heir of line ; but owing to some disagreement between
Henry and his nephew, William Irvine, M.P., the portion
of the property remaining unsold in Tyrone passed to the
Archdale family, who are descended from Henry's aunt,
Elizabeth Mervyn, daughter of the elder Henry, by Hannah
Knox, who married William Archdall, and was mother of
Angel Archdall, the ultimate heiress of the original Archdall
family, who married Nicholas Montgomery, afterwards
Nicholas Archdall, M.P., great grandfather of the present
owner of Castle Archdall and of the Trillick estate of the
Mervyns.

CLOGHER.

v.— Colonel Richaed St. Qeoege. Re-elected for

Clogher.

* Similar leave had been giren to his brother, Audley Merryn, on Slat October,
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VL — ^Thomas Ashe, Esq.

Thomas Ashe was probably brother of Bishop St. George
Ashe, for in the Matriculation Book of Trinity College,
Dublin, p. 2, we find on the same day that the Bishop
entered, there entered also (November 14th, 1671) Thos.
Ashe, aged 15, son of Thos., Esq., county Roscommon, edu-
cated under Mr. Norris; tutor, Mathew Foy. Mr. Ashe,
the Bishop's father, had married Mary, daughter of Captain
Richard St. George, and sister of Mr. Ashe s colleague.

DXTNGANNON.

VIL— Thomas Knox, Esq., Re-elected for Dungannon.

VIII. — Oliver St. George, Esq., Re-elected for Dungannon.

STRABANE.
IX. — Oliver M'Causland, Esq., Re-elected for Strabane.

X. — GusTAvus Hamilton, Esq.

Gustavus Hamilton, of Redwood, in the King's County,
was the second son of Major-General Gustavus Hamilton, a
member of the Privy Council, who was created Viscount
Boyne 20th November, 1715. Lord Boyne had been chosen
by the Protestants Governor of Enniskillen in 1689, during
the troubles. He was for some time (1703-15) M.P. for the
County Donegal, Gustos Rotulorum of that county ; and
Vice- Admiral of the Province of Ulster. He also commanded
a regiment at the siege of Vigo, and behaved so well that
Queen Anne presented him with a considerable quantity of
plate. He wasthe youngestsonof SirFrederickHamilton.who
was fifth and youngest son of the first Lord Paisley. He died
the 16th September,1723, in the eighty-fourth year of his age,
having married Elizabeth, second daughter of Henry Brooke,
of Brookborough, county Fermanagh, by whom he had three
sons — Frederick, who married the eldest sister of Viscount
Limerick, and was father of the second Viscount Boyne,
having died vita patris, 10th December, 1715. Gustavus,
the subject of this memoir, and Henry, sometime M.P. for

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county Donegal, and joint customer and collector of the port
of Dublin in 1727, from whence in 1738, he was removed to
the collection of the port of Cork.

Gustavus of Redwood, the second son, married Dorothea,
only daughter of Richard, Lord Belle w, ( who married secondly
David Dickson, Esq.) He had by her two sons and five
daughters. The sons were (1) Frederick, who succeeded, in
1748, his cousin Gustavus, as third Viscount Boyne ; the
latter^s younger brother, James, a Lieutenant in the Royal
Navy, having died on board the Mediterranean Fleet in
1744? ; and (2) Richard, who succeeded to the estates of the
second Viscount at his death ; and in 1772, to the peerage,
on his own brother's death without issue by his wife
Elizabeth Hadley.

Gustavus Hamilton was, in the Parliament of 1715, elected
to succeed his elder brother Frederick, in the county of
Donegal, in the vacancy caused by his death. He died
26th February, 1734-5. {Vide Archdall's Lodge's Peerage,
voL V. " Viscount Bojnie.")

Clogher Borough
^ City.

PARLIAMENT OF 1715.

Begun 12th November, 1715. Concluded Uth June, 1727.

Name. Congtitaency.

Attdley Menryn, Esq. (after deoeasedX )

Charles Stewart, Esq., V Tyrone County.

Andley Merryn, Esq., )

wlSSmSffir^i... : : : :} A«gh« Boroogh.

Colonel Richard St. George,

Henry St. George, Senior, Esq.,

Thomas Ashe, Esq., in the room of Henry St G«orge, who

made his election for the Borough of Athlone.
James Cogbill, Esq., In the place of T. Ashe, deceased, .

Eight Hon. Thomas Knox, V t^„„^„«„„ ii/».«„»k

Right Hon. Oliver St. George, \ Dnngannon Borough,

Hon. Richard Stewart, \

Oliver M»Cau8land, Esq., f H*-n»««o iLr.».n<rK

Henry CoUey, Esq., In the place of O. M'Causland, . .f »«*»«»« Borough.
John M*CauBland, Esq., In the place of H. Colley, deceased, .)

MEMOIR
I. — ^AuDLEY Mervyn, Esq., re-elected.

II. — Charles Stewart, Esq.

The following is the account given in Archdall's "Lodge,"
Vol. vi. pp. 254, 255, of Admiral the Hon. Charles Stewart,
fifth son of the first Viscount Mountjoy. " Charles, who
being brought up to the sea service, was gradually advanced

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to the command of BeveraJ ships of war, and in 1697, in an
engagement with the French oflF Dover, lost his right hand,
being then only sixteen years old. In October, 1715, he
was chosen to Parliament for the county of Tyrone; and the
King, in 1720, appointed him commander-in-chief of a
squadron of ships to cruise against the Sallee Rovers, and
also plenipotentiary to treat of peace with the Emperor of
Morocco. In consideration of this and other services. His
Majesty, 14th December, 1725, gave him an annuity of
£300 for life. On the 20th June, 1729, he was made Rear-
Admiral of the Blue squadron, in the room of Admiral St.
Loe, then deceased, and received orders to proceed to the
West Indies to take upon him the command of the squadron
in those seaa In July, 1732, he was appointed Rear-
AdmiraJ of the White, and 23rd February, 1733, Com-
mander of the Devonshire, a third rate-ship ; also, SOxh.
April, 1736, constituted Vice- Admiral of the White, and
was elected Burgess for Portsmouth 10th Februaiy fol-
lowing; but died 4th February, 1740, unmarried.** He was
brother of Richard Stewart, whose memoir has been already
given.

III.— AUDLEY MkEVYN, EsQ.

Audley Mervyn was the second son of Audley Mervjm,
M.P., for Tyrone, and succeeded him in the representation
of the county in 1717. The new writ for Tyrone was or-
dered to be issued August 29th, 1717. He died unmarried.
In 1721, he petitioned that the heads of a bill might be
brought in for the sale of a part of his estates to pay his
father's debts. This was granted, and the bill transmitted
to the Lord Lieutenant, to be sent into England in due
form on 7th November.

AUQHER.

IV. — ^Henby Mervyn, Esq., re-elected for Augher.

V. — William Balfour, Esq., re-elected for Augher.

CLOQHER.
VI.— CoLOMEL Richard St. George, re-elected for Clogher.

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VIL— Henbt St. Qboeqe, Seniob, Esq.

Henry St. George had been one of the members for
Clogher, in the Parliament of 1703. He now made his
election to sit for Athlone. On Slst October, 1721, he
complained of breach of privilege by Robert Nugent, for
forcibly entering on his limds neai* Athlone, and breaJdng
down several ditches thereon, and keeping part thereof in'
his own hands. Also against Edward Dowling, for a breach
of privilege by forcibly enteiing on the lands of Kilbegly
and nianatogher, and part of the woods and lands of Cloon-
idtagh, in the coimty of Roscommon, and disturbing Mr. St
George and his tenants in their possessions, during time of
privilege.

VIII. — ^Thomas Ashe, Esq.

Mr. Ashe, now elected for Clogher in Henry St. George's
room, was one of the members for the city in the last
Parliament.

IX. — Jambs Coghill, Esq.

The new writ for Clogher, in place of Thomas Ashe, Esq.,
deceased, was ordered on the 29th August, the first day of
the session of 1723. The last session had ended ISiJi
January, 1721-2. Mr. Coghill took his seat on 11th Sep-
tember, 1723. He was younger brother of the Right Hon.
Marmaduke Coghill, one of the members for the University
of Dublin, Judge of the Prerogative Court, and some time
Chancellor of the Exchequer, who died unmarried March
9th, 1788. Dr. James Coghill, who was LL.D., and Register
of the Court of Prerogative, was originally descended iix)m
John Coghill or CockhUl, of Knaresborough,in Yorkshire, and
was the younger son of Sir John Coghill, Knt., LL.D., and
Master in Chancery, by his wife Hester, daughter of Tobias
Cramer, of Ballyfoile, county Kilkenny. Sir John died in
1699. Dr. Coghill married Mary, sister of Thomas Pearson,
Esq., of Beathmore, in Meath, M.P. for Ballyshannon, and
Collector of the Port of Drogheda. By her he had an only
surviving child, Hester, who married Charjes Moore, second
Lord Tullamore, and Earl of Charleville. They had no
issue, and the titles became extinct at his death in 1764.
Lady Charleville remarried Major John Mayne, who took
the name of Coghill, was M.P. for Newport, in England,
was made a baronet in 1778, and died in 1785. She was
living in 1789. (See Archdall's Lodge, Vol. IL, pp. 91, 92.
Note to Moore, Earl of Drogheda.)

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DUNGANNON.

X.— The Right Hon. Thobias Knox, re-elected for
DungannoiL

XL— The Right Hon. Oliveb St. George, re-elected for
Dungannon.

STRABAITE.

XII. — Hon. Richard Stewart,

Mr. Stewart, now elected for Strabane, was the former
member for the county. (See p. 258.)

XIII.— Oliver M'Causland, Esq., re-elected.
XIV.— Henrt Colley, Esq., in place of 0. M'Oauflland.

A new writ for Strabane was ordered on the first day of
the session, August 29th, 1723, and Mr. Colley was returned
in place of the deceased member, Mr. M'Causland. Henry
Cofiey was the fourth, but elder surviving son of Heniy
Colley, Esq., of Castle Carbery aZiaa Ark-hill, by Mary,
only daughter of Sir William Usher. In ArchdaJl's Lodge's
Peerage, vol. iii., p. 65-66, we find a copy of «n inscription
on a monument, erected in Castle Carbery church by the
elder Henry, in memory of his father, Dudley Colley, M.P.
for Phillipstown in 1661, which gives some family history
as follows : —

" This monument was erected by Henry . Colley, Esq., in memory
of his father, Dudley Colley, alias Cowley, Eeq., great grandson of
Sir Henry Colley, cUias Cowley, of Castle Carbery, knt., who built
this chapel and burial-place for his family, who are interred
therein, with their wives : Ann Warren, daughter of Henry
Warren, of Grangebegg, Esq. ; Elizabeth, daughter of George
Sankey, of Balenrath in the King's County, Esq. j and Catherine
Cttsack, daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack, knt., then Lord Justice
of Ireland. Sir Henry Colley, aliaa Cowley, was knighted by
Qneen Elizabeth, in the second year of her reign, and made one
of Her Majesty's most honourable privy council. Henry Colley,
now living, son of Dudley Colley, married Mary Usher, and had
issue by her six sons and six daughters; whereof two sons, Henry
and Bichard, and six daughters, are now living. She was the only

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daughter of Sir William Usher, of Bridgefort, Kt., by his Lady
Ursula St. Barb, and lyeth here interred, for whose memory aLso
this monument was made, the 10 day of July, Anno Dom., 1705."

Henry CoUey, the subject of this memoir, the elder son,
married in January, 1710, Lady Mary Hamilton, third
daughter of James, Earl of Abercom, and left, at his death
10th February, 1723-4, Henry who died 1st March following,
aged about three; and two daughters, Elizabeth, bom
1720 ; and Mary, born 11th July, 1723, and manied in
October, 1747, Arthur Pomeroy, first Lord Harberton.

Henry Colley's younger brother, Richard, a^umed the
name of Wesley, as heir and in accordance with the will of
his first cousin, Garret Wesley, of Dangan, ooimty Meath,
who died suddenly, 23rd September, 1 728. He was for some
time Auditor and Reg^trar of the Royal Hospital, near
Dublin ; was appointed in 1713 Second Chamberlain of the
Court of Exchequer ; High Sheriff of Meath in 1734 ; was
M.P. for Trim ; and was created Baron Momington 9th July,
1746. His son Garret was, in 1760, created Viscount
Wellesley and Earl of Momington, and was father of the
Marquis Wellesley; Lord Maryborough; the Duke of
Wellington ; and Karl Cowley.

XV.— John M'Causland, Esq., in place of H. CoUey,

deceased.

John M'Causland, who was returned for Strabane in place
of Mr. Colley, deceased in Feb., 1723-4 — ^the writ being
ordered the first day of next session, 7th September, 1725
— was grandson of Oliver M'Causland, so long the former
member. According to Sir B. Burke, his father's name
was Oliver also; his mother's name is not given. John
M'Causland was of the Manors of Stranorlar and Castlequin,
county Donegal, and married Amy Jane, daughter of Thomas
Norris, Esq., of the county Down. He &ed somewhere
between the 6th May, 1728, and the first day of the next
Session, 23rd Sep., 1729 ; and was succeeded in the repre-
sentation of the borough by his son Oliver, who, however,
did not long survive.*

* These dates make me suspect ttiat Sir B. Burke is in error, and that John
was a son and not a grandson of the elder Oliver, who died in 1723 ; for John had
a son of age iu 1729.

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PARLIAMENT OF 1727.

Began 28th November, 1727. Concluded 25th October, 1760.

GonBtituenoy.

Name.

Hon. Blohard Stewart,

Henry Mervyn, Esq.,

Robert Lindsay, Esq , in place of Hon. Blohard Stewart, de-
ceased

Hon. James Stewart, In place of Hon. Robert Lindsay, Jcs-
tioe of Common Pleas.

Galbraith Lowry, Esq., in place of Henry Menryn,

William Stewart, Esq., in place of Hon. James Stewart, de-
ceased. ^

Right Hon. Richard Tlghe

William Balfonr, Esq.

William Richardson, Esq., in place of Richard Tighe, de-
ceased.

Richard Gorges, Esq., in place of William Balfonr, deceased,

St George Richardson, Esq., in place of William Richardson,
deceased.

Right Hon. Sir Ralph Gore, Bart

Sylvester Gross, Esq.,

Right Hon. Sir Walter Gary, in place of Sylvester Cross, de-
ceased.

Richard Vincent, Esq., in place of Sir Ralph Gore, deceased,

Nehemiah Nixon Donellan, Esq., in place of Right Hon.
Walter Gary, deceased.

Right Hon. Oliver St George,

Charles Echlin, Esq.,

Thomas Knox, Esq., in place of Oliver St. George,

Thomas Knox, Jan., Esq., in place of Charles Eohlln, de-
ceased.

Hon. Charles Hamilton,

John M^Caosland, Esq.,

Oliver M^Caosland, Esq^ in place of John M'CaDsland, de-

Tyrone County

Augher Borough.

Glogher Borough or
City.

Dnngannon Borough.

Strabane Borough.

William Hamilton, Esq., in place of Oliver M*Causland de-
ceased.

MEMOIR.

I. — Hon. Richard Stewart.

Mr. Stewart was the Member for Strabane in the last
Parliament, but previously for the county, in 1703 and 1713.
He died 4rth August, 1728.

II. — Henry Mhrvyn, Esq.

Henry Mervyn was Member for Augher in the last two
Parliaments.

III. — ^Robert Lindsay, Esq., in place of the Hon. Richard
Stewart, deceased.

The new writ for Tyrone was ordered on the first day
of the Session, 28rd Sept., 1729. Robert Lindesay, ofLoughry,
county Tyrone, appointed a Justice of the Common Pleas
in 1733, was bom in 1679, and married in 1707, Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Singleton, of Drogheda, sister of Chief
Justice Singleton of the Common Pleas, and had two
children, a son and a daughter, who both died unmarried.
(See Burke's Landed Qentxy.) The Lindesay family appear

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to have been amongst the original Patentees in Tyrone.
Pynnar in 1618-19 found Mrs. Lindsey, late wife of Robert
landsey, with 1,000 acres called Tullahoffue, with a Timber
House, in which she and her family dwelt, and with twenty-
tenants, able to make thirty men with arms. TuUahogue
waa anciently the seat of the O'Hagan's.

IV. — ^The Hon. James Stewart in the place of the Hon.
Robert Lindset, Justice Common Pleas.

The Hon. James Stewart was the sixth and youngest son
of the first Viscount Mountjoy. He was baptizSi 25th
October, 1687, and was Major to the train of Artillery, which
he resigned in January, 1747. On the 15th February, 1731-2,
he married Rebecca, elder daughter, and co-heir to Robert
Stewart, of Castlerothery, in the county of Wicklow, Esq.,
and died 9th March, 1747-8. (Archdall's Lodge, VoL VI.,
p. 255.) He succeeded Mr. Justice Lindsay in the county ;
the new writ being ordered 5th October, 1733.

v.— Galbraith Lowry, Esq., in place of Henry MERVYN^Esq.

Henry Mervyn died in 1747-8, the new writ being
ordered on the 14«th January. Several new members were
sworn on 4th March, amongst whom was probably Mr.
Lowry, who is not separately mentioned in the journala

Galbraith Lowry was the third, but second surviving son,
of Robert Lowry, Esq., of Aghenis, county Tyrone, a Com-
missioner for Escheated Land in Tyrone and Armagh, who
purchased, in 1705-6, an estate at and near Sixmilecross, in
that county, from Lady Dungannon, * the co-heiress of Lord
Genawley ; besides other lands to a considerable extent, at
different times, includiog Aghenis, which his father, John
Lowry (son and heir of James Lowry, of BaUinagorry, near
Strabanet), appeai-s to have rented previously to his death
in Derry during the Siege.I Robert Lowry married Anna
Sinclair, daughter of the Rev. James Sinclair, of Hollyhill,
near Strabane, by his wife, Anna, one of the daughters of
Colonel James Galbraith, M.P. for Strabane in 1639.
Robert Lowry had, besides daughters, four sons, viz., John,
bom in 1699, died unmai-ried in 1724; (2) Robert, M.P. for
Strabane, in the next Parliament, who succeeded to the
Sixmilecross estate, but lived at Melberry, or Loughmacnab,

* Lady Dungannon's first husband iras Sir John Magill, of Gill Hall, Go. Down.
Her sister, Lady Beresford, was the other oo-heiress.
t Administration granted 1668.
X His nuncupative will was made there, June 24th, 1689.

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near GaJlidon and Aghenis ; (3) Oalbraith, who succeeded his
father at Aghenis, and from whom he took a considerable
landed estate under his will; (4) The Rev James, Rector
of Cloghemy,* which he afterwai'ds exchanged for Desert-
creight. He also inherited considerable landed property
from his father, and was the ancestor of the Lowiys uf
Pomeroy, and the numerous branches of that family.

Robert Lowry, senior, died in 1 729. On the 26th July,
1733, his son, Qalbraith, who was bom in 1706, married at
Castlecoole, Sarah, the second daughter of Colonel Jolm
Corry, M.P., deceased, and sister to Leslie Corry, afterwards
MP. for Killybegs, co. Donegal. They had seven children,
viz., (1) Robert, bom 1734, died young ; (2) John, bom 1736,
died at Castlecoole, 1752 ; (3) Sarah, bom 17:38, died 1739 ;
(4) Armar, bom 1742, died 1802, being then first Earl of
Belmore ; (5) Anna (Anne) bom 1740, died 1802, being first
Countess of EnniskiUen : (6) Sarah Corry, bom 1745, died
1746 ; (7) Mary, bom 1748, died unmarried in 1774.

On or about Feb. 20th, 1740-1, Mrs. Lowry's brother,
Leslie Corry, died immarried. Part of his estates in Longford
and Fermanagh were settled on his eldest sister, Mrs. Edmond
Leslie, who, with her husband, then took the name of Corry.
Captain Leslie Corry was afterwards M.P. for Newtown-
limavady, co. Derry. The remainder of his estates he be-
queathed to his other brothers-in-law. Those in Fermanagh,
to Mr. Armar, the husband of his third sister, Mary ; those
in Monaghan, (of no great extent) to Galbraith Lowry.

In 1759 Mrs. Leslie Corry (Martha Corry) died, when
Mrs. Lowry succeeded to her estates in Longford and Fer-
managh ; and in 1664, on* Captain Leslie Corry 's death, Mr.
and Mrs. Lowry, together with their surviving son, Armar,
and their daughter, Mary, assumed the additional name of
Corry. In 1064, also, Qalbraith Lowry succeeded his elder
brother, Robert, in his Sixmilecross estate.

Mr. Lowry was absent through illness from two very im-
portant divisions of the House of Commons, in 1753, as
appears by an address to William. Hamilton, Esq., M.P. for
Strabane (which will be noticed further on).t He was
re-elected to the Parliament of 1761. He retired at the
end of that Parliament in 1768 ; and his son, Armar, suc-
ceeded him in the representation of the county in the next

* Cloghemy was originally part of Termonmagiiirk. co. Tyrone, and diocese of
Annagh, in the alternate presentation of the co-heireases. It was divided by Order
in Council, in 1733; Cloghemy falling to Mr. K Lowry; Termon, to Lord
Tyrone, Lady Beresford's son, who, however, did not get her estates in the
ndghbourhood, she having married, secondly, General Gorges.

t Fufe also App.YI.

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one. He died December 28th, 1769, and was buried in Calli-
don churchyard. His widow, in 1774, on the death of her
sister, Mrs. Armar, succeeded to Castlecoole, under her brother-
in-law. Colonel Armar's will ; and died in 1779. Mr. Galbraith
Lowry added considerably to his estates in Tyrone, includ-
ing portions of the Mervjm estates.

VI. — ^William Stewart, Esq., in place of the Hon. James
Stewart, deceased.

On the 10th of March, 1747-8, the new writ was ordered
for Tyrone ; both the members for the county having ap-
parently died since Christmas, 1747. William Stewart,
who was returned in his room, was of Killymoon, near
Cookstown, of a family which has died out in the county in
the present century. (See James Stewart, p. 295.) He took
his seat od the 5th April, 1748.

Sir Bernard Burke says that James Stewart, of Bally-
managh, co. Tyrone, was the ancestor of this family, but
this is considered by some to be an error. (Vide " Sir John
Stewart, Bart.")

AUQHER

VII.— The Rt Hon. Richard Tighb.

The Rt. Hon. Richard Tighe, the senior member for
Augher, and who had been member for Newtown, county
Down, in 1715, was son of William Tighe, of Dublin, Esq.,
by Anne Lovat ; and grandson of Alderman Richard Tighe,
who was M.P. in Cromwell's parliament. His eldest sister,
Mary, was the wife, tirst, of Alexander Stewart, second
son of the first Viscount Mountjoy, by whom she had an
only daughter, Anne, baptized in 1697-^S (17 Feb.), manied
in 1711 (as is stated in Archdall's Lodge, Vol. vi., 263) to
Luke Gardiner, afterwards Deputy Vice-Treasurer of Ireland,
and a Privy Councillor, who died 1753. She re-married
the Rev. John Hodder, of Barberstown, county Dublin,
Mr. Tighe died on Wednesdav, July 27th, 1736, "after a
tedious indisposition." (" Pue s Occurrences,'* July 31st,
1736.)

VIII. — WiLLUM Balfour, Esq., re-elected.

IX. — William Richardson, Esq., in place of Richard
Tighe, deceased.
William Richardson, who succeeded Mr. Tighe for Augher,
was of Somerset, near Coleraine, county Derry. His family
has lately become extinct in the male line, but the property
is at present in the possession of Mrs. Torrens and her un-
married sister, aunts of the late Mr. Richardson.

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Mr. Richardson was appointed agent of the Irish Society
of London, on the I7th July, 1729. He was a friend of
Dean Swift. He represented Augher until after the session
of 1753, the new writ being ordered on 7th October, the first
day of the session of 1755.

X. — Richard Gorges, Esq., in place of William Balfour,

deceased.

I have already given a memoir of the family of Richard
Gorges (the elder) at pp. 61-62 of my Parliamentary Memoirs
of Fermanagh, when he sat for Enniskillen in the Parliament
of 1661. He was grandson of Robert (Jorges, LL.D., of
Kilbrew, M.P. for Bandon in 1661 ; the son of General
Richard Gorges, M.P. for Coleraine in 1703, and for Ratoath
in 1713 and 1715, who married, first. Lady Beresford (the
heroine of the Beresford ghost story) ; and secondly, Dorothy
Stopford, Countess of Meath. I believe that he inherited
Lady Beresford*s estate in Tyrone, called the Manor of
Moyener, with part of Finagh. With the exception of the
alternate presentation of Termonmaguirk, she left it away
from her son, Lord Tyrone, to General Gorges, her second
husband. She had been Nicola Sophia Hamilton, one
of the co-heiresses of Lord Glenawley, her brother, who died
a minor. Part of this estate now belongs to Sir John
Stewart, Bart., of Ballygawley. Mr. Richard Gorges married
Elizabeth Fielding. Their son, Richard Gorges, died a
colonel of dragoons ; having married, in 1755, Catherine,
daughter of Thomas Christmas. Mr. Gorges took his seat
for Augher on December 8th, 1739.

XI. — St. George Richardson, Esq., in place of William
Richardson, deceased.

St. George Richardson was nephew (see Burke's Peerage)
of Archibald Richardson, of Augher Castle, and M.P. in the
Parliament of 1692. He succeeded William Richardson,
being sworn 1st November, 1755, in the representation of
the borough. He married Elizabeth Bunbury, of Kilfeade,
eldest daughter of Benjamin Bunbury, Esq., whose
three sons died without issue; and by her had a son,
William, created a baronet in 1787, who died in 1830, and
whose son, afterwards Sir James Merv^^n Richardson, as-
sumed in 1822 the additional name of Bunbury. He mar-
ried Margaret, daughter of James Corry Moutray, of
Favoiu* Royal, and by her had the present baronet, the Rev.
Sir John Richardson Bunbury.

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CLOGHER

XII.— The Right Hon. Sir Ralph Goee, Bart.

Sir Ralph (Jore, of BeUeisle, or Ballymacmanu8, county
Fermanagh, senior member for Clogher, was the fourth
baronet. His earliest ancestor on record in Archdall's
Lodge's Peerage, VoL iii. p. 277, is John Gore, Esq., of
London, whose son Gerard was buried in St. Mary
Magdalen's Church there, where was a monument with this
inscription : —

" Here lye the bodies of Gerard Gore, citizen,
'' Merchant Taylor and Alderman of London,
" and of Helen, his wife, who lived together
" (married) 67 years ; the said Gerard died .
« the 11th day of December, 1607, in the 91st
'' year of his age ; and she departed this life
" the 13th day of February, in the aforesaid year,
" being 75 years old."

They had three children, a daughter, Sarah, married to
Sir Edward Tumour, ancestor to the Earl of Winterton ;
and two sons — Sir Paul, ancestor of Sir Ralph ; and Sir
John, merchant tailor and alderman of London, and Lord
Mayor in 1624.

Paul, the eldest son, came to Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's
reign, and was commander of a troop of horse. In 1602,
he was sent by the Lord Deputy Mountjoy with the Queen's
protection to Rory O'Donnell, who had petitioned to be
admitted to mercy, with directions to bring him to the
Deputy, then in Connaught. Captain Gore biought him
to Athlone, where, with O'Connor Sligo, he made his sub-
mission to the Queen, and in the following year was created
Earl of Tyrconnell. For this service Captain Gore received
a grant from the Queen of the barony of Boylagh and
Bannagh, in Donegal. King James, however, granted these
lands, of which he had been for some years in possession,
to the Earl of Annandale ; and in lieu thereof granted him
landa in Fermanagh, called Manor Gore, containing 1,348
acres*, said to be a much inferior estate. In 1613, he sat
for Ballyshannon in Parliament, and 8th September, 1621,
was created a baronet. He married Isabella, daughter of
Francis Wickliffe, and niece to the Earl of Strafford. He
died in September, 1629, and was buried in the Aibbey
Church of Donegal, having had issue six sons and seven
daughters, viz. : —

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1. Sir Ralph, his heir.

2. Sir Arthur, Bart., ancestor of the Earl of Arran.

3. Colonel Henry, whose only surviving daughter

married Sir Kobert King, grandfather of Edward,
Earl of Kingston ; and secondly Robert Choppyne,
of Newcastle, co. Longford.

4. Sir Francis, of Artarman, co. Sligo, Knt.

5. Robert ; and 6, Charles.
Of his daughters —

1. Lettice was the second wife of the Rev. Archibald

Erskine, the ancestor of the families of Moutray
of Favour Royal, and of Richardson Bunbury,Barts.
The first derives from his youngest daughter,
Anne, the child of Lettice Gore ; me latter from
Mary, his eldest daughter, but whether by Lettice
Gore, or by his first wife, Beatrice Spotswood,
daughter of the Bishop, I have not been able to
ascertain.

2. Angel, ancestress of the Castle Archdall fiamily,

married Edward Archdall, Esq.

3. Elizabeth, married Henry Wray, Esq., of Castle

Wray, co. Donegal.

4. Isabella, married the Rev. Humphrey Galbndth.

5. Anne, married Mr. Stewart, of Dunduffe.

6. Sidney, married Lewis, third son of Sir Edward

Wicgfield, of Powerscourt ; and 7, Rebecca.
Sir Ralph, the second baronet, was during the Irish
Rebellion of 1641, with many British inhabitants, besieged
at Manor Gore, and nearly compelled to surrender to the
Irish. The Laggan forces, consisting of three regiments,
refused to hazard themselves for the relief of the besieged ;
but Dr. John Leslie, Bishop of Raphoe (and afterwards of
Clogher, he who defended Bamsmore Gap, co. Donegal),
made a successful attempt and relieved him. Sir Ralph
received from Charles I., in November. 1641, a Colonel's
commission to command 500 men for the relief of the
Rebellion. He married Anne, second daughter of William,
second Lord Charlemont, and by her had Sir William, third
baronet, of the Privy Council to Charles II., and in 1684,
appointed Custos Rotulorum of Leitrim. He died in 1710*,
having married Hannah, elder daughter and co-heir of
James Hamilton, son and heir of Sir Frederick Hamilton,
of Manor Hamilton (fifth son of the first Lord Paisley).
She was niece of Gustavus, first Viscount Boyne.

* Lodge sajB, 1700 — But his son sat as Ralph Oore, esq., up to and ending the
Session of 1709, for Donegal Borough.

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By her he had —

Sir Ralph.

William, Chaplain to the House of Commons in 1716,
and successively Dean of Clogher (1716) and of Down.
In 1723, the House of Commons petitioned the Lord
Lieutenant to promote their Chaplain, and he promised
to do so. This seems to have procured the Deanery of
Down for him. He seems to have resided in 1723 near
Castlecoole, in Fermanagh.

Captain Frederick, who in 1744 was appointed Provost
Marshall-General of Ireland, and died in 1761.

Speaking of the Scots force sent to the North of Ireland
in 1642, under General Robert Monroe, Carte says (Vol. i., p.
308, 309) :—

" They were much better provided in this respect [pay and
provisions] than the British forces, raised by Sir Ralph Gore, Sir
W. Cole, Sir W. and Sir Robert Stewart, in the county of
Donnegal, the Lords Chichester, Ardes, Clanbdeboye, Sir James
Montgomery, Sir Arthur Tyiingham, Colonel Chichester, Colonel
Hill, and others in those northern parts, in virtue of his Majesty's
commissions, who^ though they had borne the brunt of the war,
in the height of the rebels' fary and power, had endured all the
hardships of a winter campaign, and had done eminent services,
had not yet been put on the establishment, nor received any
pay, nor been supplied by the Parliament with any provisions,
ammunition, or clothes, though their extreme wants in all these
respects had been fi^uently represented to the two [English]
Houses, and relief solicited by agents sent expressly for that
purpose.'*

During the summer of 1642, the Scots forces had been
in a bad condition for want of pay and provisions ; whilst
the Laggan forces, as they were called, had been left to shift
for themselves. Notwithstanding that they had borne the
brunt of the war during the winter season, and had been
raised, maintained, and in great part armed at the expense
of their officers, who were all gentlemen of the country, they
were for a long time left off the establishment. At length
the Lords Justices prevailed with the English Parliament to
order that they should be allowed pay from 1st July, 1642,
but it sent no relief to those distressed troops till Oct. 5th,
when they ordered a supply of £14,000 in money, ammuni-
tion, and provisions, to be sent to Carrickfergus for them.
But even this does not seem to have been sent, and it is
certain, from Lord Montgomerie"s letters of Nov. 4, 1642,
and Jan. 5, 1642-3, that it had not then been then
received, and that the troops were in great distress, so that
a year passed without any relief being sent to this force,

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which consisted of eight regiments, and nine troops of horse.
(Ibid,, p. 350.)

The Lieutenant-GeneraJ, the Marquis of Ormonde, had a
severe illness in the year 1642, during which the Lords
Justices made an alteration in the command of those forces
(the Laggan forces). The colonels (including Sir Robert
and Sir William Stewart, Sir Ralph Gore, and Sir William
ColeJ used to command by turns. On Sep. 4th the Lords
Justices gave a commission to command-in-chief to Sir
William Stewart, notwithstanding that Sir Robert Stewart,
though a younger man, was a more active and experienced
officer. This arrangement, however, created dissatisfaction ;
and on Dec. 15th, a new commission superseding Sir
William's authority, was issued " to the former Commis-
sioners, with some others added to the number, empowering
them to act as before in the government of those parts."
{Ibid., p. 365-367.)

Sir Ralph, the fourth baronet, the subject of this memoir,
became in right of his mother possessed of the Manor
Hamilton estate ; and having adorned the island of Bally-
macmanus, in Lough Erne, county Fermanagh, gave it its
present name of BeUeisle. On the 9th of Oct., 1714, he
was sworn of the Privy Council, and on the 8th August,
1717, was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. He
sat for the borough of Donegal (as Ralph Qore, Esq.) in
the Parliament of 1703, including the session of 1709;
after that in the same Parliament, as Sir Ralph Gore,
Baronet. In the Parliaments of 1713 and 1715 he sat
for Donegal county; and in that of 1727 for Qogher
borough. On the 13th Oct, 1729, he was unanimously
elected Speaker, in the place of William ConoUy, who
resigned from ill-health ; the following day he was pre-
sented to the Lord Lieutenant in the House of Lords.
He made on that occasion two brief speeches, which
are on record in the journals ; very different from the in-
flated harangues of Sir Maurice Eustace, and Sir Audley
Mervyn, in 1639 and 1661 respectively. On the 22nd April,
1730, and again on 24th April, 1732, he was sworn one of
the Lords Justices of Ireland. He died on the 23rd Feb.,
1732-3, and was buried in Christ's Church, Dublin; and
the Hon. Robert Boyle, afterwards Earl of Shannon,
was chosen Speaker in his place. Sir Ralph married
first, a daughter of Sir Robert Colvill, of Newtown,
county Down ; and by her had Hannah, married in
1727 to John Donnellan, Esq. ; and Rose, married in July,
1733, to Anthony Malone, sometime Prime Sergeaait, and
Uncle to Lord Sunderlin. He maii*ied secondly Elizabeth,

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only daughter of St. George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher
from 1697 to 1717, and Bishop of Deny till 1718. The
Bishop's mother was Mary, daughter of Captain Richard St.
Greorge, and sister of General Richard St. George, m.p. for
Clogher in 1703 and 1713 ; and his wife was Jane St. George,
who died in l74«l,daughterof SirGeorgeSt.George,Knt.,M.p.of
Dunmore, county Galway, brother of Sir Oliver St. George,
Bart., the father of Lord St George, and the Right Hon.
Oliver St. George before mentioned. (See p. 261.) By the
death of Sir George St. George's only son, Richard, who died
in 1726, without issue by his wife Anne Eyre (of Eyrecourt),
his four sisters, Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Parsons ;
Emilia, wife of Dean Carleton (of Cork) ; Mrs. Ashe ; and
Catherine, wife of Charles Crowe, Bishop of Cloyne,
became his heirs. Mrs. Crowe's son, Sackville Crowe, died
unmarried. The two elder sisters had no issue ; so that in
time Lady Gore became the heiress of her grandfather, Sir
George. By Sir Ralph, Lady Gore had (besides daughters)
two sons. The eldest, Sir St. George Gore, was returned
Member for Donegal county in 1741, of which county he
was appointed governor ; he married 22nd Sep., 1743,Anne,
only daughter of the Right Hon. Francis Burton, of Bun-
craggy, and sister to Francis Pier point, late Lord Conyngham.
She dded at Bath in 1745, and he died in 1746, without issue.
His brother, Ralph, succeeded him as sixth baronet. He
however took the name of St. George in addition to that
of Gore, having inherited his mother's estate of Dunmore,
county Galway, whether now, or at her death, I do not
know. But he was, I have some reason to suppose,
popularly known as Sir Ralph Gore. Lodge says that it
was his brother who took the name of St George after
Gore, but the Commons Journals do not bear that out.
He, however, appears as " Gore St. George " in the list of
Sheriffs of Fermanagh, in the Record Office, Dublin. Ralph
was bom at Belleisle in 1725, and having been educated in
Trinity College, Dublin, joined the army in 1744, as
lieutenant in Johnson's or the 33rd foot. At the battle of
Fontenoy, 1745, his right arm was shattered by a musket
ball ; but he soon recovered, and was present in every
material action, during the two next campaigns. At the
battle of Val, or Lafieltt, fought on 2nd July, 1747, the
lieutenant-colonel and major being early wounded, the senior
captain killed, and the captain of grenadiers detached, the
command of the battalion devolved on Sir Ralph, then
Captain Gore, who behaved so well, that the next day
the Duke of Cumberland returned him thanks at the head
of the regiment He succeeded his brother as M.P. for

Donegal, taking his seat as Sir Ralph Gore St. G^rge, in
the place of Sir St. George Gbre, deceased, on the 2l8t Decem-
ber, 174j7 ; and he was joint-governor of that county with
Lord Leitrim and Sir William Conyngham. In 1760, he
was appointed lieutenant- colonel of the 92nd Donegal Light
Infantry (reduced in 1763), of 900 men, which he raised and
clothed in four months at his own expense. In 1764,
he was created Baron Gore. In 1768 he was created
Viscount Belleisle ; and Earl of Ross in 1772. He became
colonel in the army in 1772 ; major-general in 1777 ; was
advanced to the Irish Staff in 1779 ; and to Lieutenant-
Gteneral in 1782. In 1781 he was appointed Colonel of the
32nd or Cornwall regiment of foot ; and 1788 Commander-
in-Chief in Ireland, in the absence of Lieutenant-General
the Right Hon. William Augustus Pitt. He married first
in 1754, Catherine, the eldest sister of the Right Hon.
Thomas ConoUy. She died in 1771, without surviving
issue. In 1773, he married secondly Alice, youngest
daughter of the Right Hon. Nathaniel Clements, and sister
of Lord Leitrim, by whom he had an only surviving* son,
Ralph, Lord Gore (Viscount Belleisle) who, however, died
before his father. Lord Ross died early in the present
century, when all the titles became extinct. Belleisle and
the estate is now the property of J. G. V. Porter, Esq., having
been purchased by his father, the late Rev. J. G. Porter, eldest
son of the Bishop of Clogher of that family, from Sir Richard
Hardinge (whose first wife was a Miss Gore) or from his repre-
sentatives after his death in 1826. Lord and Ladv Ross are
buried in a vault under Lisbellaw Church, in the county
Fermanagh — Lisbellaw being situate in Manor Gore.
During the minority of Sir St. George Gtore, the estate
was managed under a power of Attorney from Lady
Gore, by Mr. Armar, one of my predecessors at Castlecoole,
and I have a rental of it in my possession.

Lodge remarks that in the Session of 1751 there were
nine Gores in Parliament, viz., Sir Ralph, Sir Arthur
(afterwards Earl of Arran), both for Donegal County;
Frederick, fifth son of the Dean, for Tulske ; Paul Annesley,
of Castlestown, brother to Sir Arthur, for county Mayo ;
William of Woodfort, grandson of Sir Arthur, first baronet
(of the Arran branch), for county Leitrim; Ralph, of
Barrowmount, for Kilkenny ; and of the Tenelick Sfamily
(grandsons of the first Sir Arthur), Arthur, for county
Longford; John, late Lord Annally, for Jamestown; and
Henry of Tenelick, for Killibeggs. The unanimity of the
nine Gores long continued proverbial ; their influence in the

* /.e.. at the date of AxchdairB Lodge's peerage, 1789.

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Senate better imagined than described. Amongst the toasts
at the meeting of the Patriot Club of the County of Antrim^
on Thursday, September 5th, 1754, were " The Nine Gores "
and " The Four Malones." (" Universal Advertizer " (1754),
p. 215.) There is an equestrian portrait of Lord Ross at
llorence Court, the seat of Lord Enniskillen. I have also
a portrait (on a screen) of a black race horse of his when Sir
lialph Gore, called Orlando (which ran at Newmarket and
elsewhere).

XIII. — Sylvester Cross, Esq.

Sylvester Cross, Esq., the junior member for Clogher,
appears to have been a connection of Bishop Steame, for-
merly Dean of St. Patrick's, and Bishop of Clogher from
1717 to 1745.

Sylvester Cross, of Cork, merchant, whose will was dated
21st October, 1642, and proved 30th December, 1643, was
father of Epinetus Crosse, of Crosse's-green, in the county
of the city of Cork, who was High Sheriff of the county in
1680. He married Susanna, daughter of Edward Worth,
Bishop of Killaloe, and had issue with a daughter, Alicia,
Sylvester Cross, of Cork, M.P. for Clogher, whose will was
dated 21st July, 1720, and proved in 1729.

As regards his connection with Bishop Steame, the
Steame family intermarried with the Dunsterville family.
Septimus Dimsterville in 1678, married Mary, daughter of
Philip Oosse, of Carrigrohane, i.e., Cross's-green, and had
two daughters. Mary was probably sister of Epinetus Cross,
and her daughters were — Catherine, who married Sylvester
Shepherd, and Ellen, who married David Elliott. Sylvester
Crosse was, I assume, the person mentioned in Archdall's
Lodge, vii., p. 278 (Maude, Lord de Montalt), who was the
second husband of Anne Maude, by whom he had no issue.*
Her first husband was Jerome Ryves, Dean of St. Patrick's ;
Anne Maude's nephews. Sir Thomas and Sir Christopher
(second and third baronets), were successively created
Barons de Montalt, and the latter. Viscount Hawarden.
The new writ for Clogher, in Mr. Cross's room, was ordered
on 5th October, 1731, so he must have died after the end of
the Session of 1729.

XIV.— Bight Hon. Walter Cary, in place of Sylvester
Cross, deceased.

The Right Hon. Walter Cary, who succeeded Mr. Cross
for Clogher in 1731, was of the same family as Rowland
Cary, of Everton, Bedfordshire. He appearsf first to have
been Clerk in Ordinary of the Privy Council (in England),

* It appears by his will that his wife's name was Anne.
t Vide the " Herald and Genealogist.*'

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and of the Board of Green Cloth, and a member of the
Board of Trade and Plantations, and to have been M.P. for
Clifton Dartmouth Hardness borough, in Devonshire, in the
British Parliament, from 1727-57. What office he held in
Ireland I cannot exactly ascertain, but I think it was called
that of Principal Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant ; and he
was re-elected for his English seat after appointment to an
office of profit by the Crown, on the 29th May, 1729. He
was re-elected for it again in 1734, in 1741, in 1747, and in
1754. On the 23rd May, 1757, Sir Richard Howe, Esq., was
elected in his room for Clifton, whilst Mr. DoneUan succeeded
him in Clogher,* He took his seat for Clogher on the 18th
of October, 1731. In this Session, we find " Mr. Secretary
Cary," bringing the Lord Lieutenant's commands to the
House — ^this must, I think, have been Walter Cary — ^though
there was a Henry Cary sitting contemporaneously with him
for Coleraine, probably of the county Derry &mily of the
name. Curiously enough, both these gentlemen died in the re-
cess prior to the Session of 1757, and the new writs to supply
their vacancies in Clogher and Coleraine, were ordered
on the same day, viz., the 1 1 th October, 1757. Henry Cary
was never a Privy Councillor, and on 1st April, 1734, he
was granted leave of absence to go into the country for a
month, under the designation of Henry Cary, Esq. There
was also an Edward Cary for Londonderry county, from
1741-2 (new writ ordered January 18j. On 12th October,
1733, I find '*Mr. Secretary Cary" informing the House
*' that their addresses for laying before this House the public
accounts of the nation, and the several establishments, civil
and military, had been presented to His Grace the Lord
Lieutenant, and that His Grace had given directions ac-
cordingly." On the 8th November, 1735, I find "Mr.
Secretary Carv," by command of the Lord Lieutenant,
delivering to the House a message from the King, and then
being appointed first on a committee to draw up an address
of thanks to His Majesty. In the index,t under the head of
"Accounts," No. 85, the Right Hon. Walter Cary is referred
to as having corresponded in 1732 with the Commissioners
of His Majesty's Revenue ; and, in fact, for a considerable
time, having acted as a principal Minister of the Crown
would do. Yet I find that there is no trace in Ulster's
office, of his having ever held a Patent office in Ireland.
The office of Principal Secretary of State, or Principal
Secretary of the Council, had been granted in 1720 to

* I do not think that at this period a member of the IrUh Hoase of Commons
oould resign his seat, or at any rate ever did so. Mr. Gary probably never
attended the Irish House after he ceased to hold office under the Irish Grovemment.

f Commons' Journals, 1782.

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Edward Southwell, and Edward Southwell, junior, jointly,
and there does not appear to have been another grant till
1755. The Right Hon. Edward Southwell, M.P. for Kin-
sale, died before 5th October, 1731 (new writ ordered), and
E. Southwell, junior, M.P. for Downpatrick (also Right Hon.
from about 174S), I suppose in 1755. The oflSce of Chief
Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant (a different one from that
of Principal Secretary of State), was only instituted eo
nom/me in 1760. But I am inclined to think that Mr. Cary
was Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant without a patent.
Lord George Sackville, son of the Duke of Dorset (Lord
Lieutenant from 1731-7, and 1751-5), I find acting in the
same way as Mr. Cary later on, and he is described in the
division list given at p. 355 as " Principal Secretary to the
Lord Lieutenant, Clerk of the Privy Council"

Mr. Walter Cary married in 1738, as his second wife,
Elizabeth Collins. (Entry at Somerset House, London.)
At his death, in 1757, he bequeathed £160 to the poor
of Everton, Bedfordshire, the receipt for which, dated 1764?,
is printed in the " Herald and Genealogist." By this time his
widow and her executor and residuary legatee were both dead
also, and the receipt was given to the executor of the latter.

XV. — Richard Vincent, Esq., in the place of Sir Ralph
Gore, deceased.

The new writ for Clogher was ordered on the 6th
October, the first day of the Session of 1733. In the matri-
culation book in Trinity College, Dublin, is this entry, 14th
July, 1727— "Pens. Rich Vincent, sets 17. Fil : Abraham,
Panni Lanei Mercator*, Natus Dublin. Educatus Naas. sub
M"" Carr. Tutor, Dr. Gilbert, V.P.'' He graduated B.A.
Vem. 1733, and M.A. Easter, 1736. He is styled, " of New
Abbey, KUdare." This may probably refer to the son of tiie
member for Clogher.f It may be observed that the Rev.
William Vincent, F.T.C.D., had been Rector of Enniskillen,
in the Diocese of Clogher, from 1666-83, and that the Rev.
Richard Vincent, Rector of Donaghmore, near Dungannon,
had died on the 17th January, 1730-31. The latter may
probably have been father of the member.

Mr. Vincent's name will be found with the opposition in
the division list given in App. VL, p. 354.

XVI. — Nehemiah Nixon Donellan, Esq., in place of the
Rt. Hon. Waltek Caby, deceased.

Nehemiah Nixon Donellan, of Artane, county Dublin,
was the son of Nehemiah Donnellan, of Nenagh, m.p. for the

* Merchant of ivooUen doth.

t The Sheriff of Tyrone in 1774 was " Richard Vincent."'

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county Tipperary fi'om 1737, by his wife Catherine, relict of
Thomas Jones of Osbertstown, county Kildare, esq. ; and
daughter of Sir John Meade, bart,, m.p. (ancestor of the Earl
of Ulanwilliam), who was one of the most distinguished
lawyers of his time * Sir John Meade married Elizabeth,
second daughter of Pierce Viscount Ikerrin (see Lodge, vol.
iii., pp. 295-6).

Mr. Donnellan took the additional name of Nixon, having
married the daughter and heiress of David Nixon, of Ravens-
dale, county Kildare, by his wife Arabella Ludlow. He
died in 1783 (see Lodge, vol. iii, p. 75. — *'Earl Ludlow").
The new writ for Clogher in Mr. Gary's room, was ordered
on the first day of the session, 11th October, 1757.

There had been a Nehemiah Donellan, Archbishop of
Tuam, from 1595 to 1609 (Mant's Hist of the Church of
Ireland, voL i., p. 741).

At a later period James Donellan was Justice of the
Common Pleas, 30th November, 1638 ; a^n 13th July,
1655, and Chief Justice of that Court, 30th November, 1660.
He had licence as Chief Justice of Connaught 10th January,
1638, and held the post with that of Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas. He died 1665. Another Nehemiah Donellan
was made Serjeant at Law, 29th December, 1692 ; Prime
Sergeant, 10th May, 1695 ; Commissioner of the Great Seal,
1696 ; and Baron of the Exchequer, 27th December, 1703.
He died 1706. .

DUNGANNON.

XVII. — ^The Rt. Hon. Oltveb St. Oeobge, re-elected for

Dungannon.

XVIII.— Charles Echlin, Esq.

Charles Echlin, the junior member for Dungannon, was the
eldest son of John Echlin of Ardquin, county Down (great

Sindson of Dr. Robert Echlin, Bishop of Down emd
nnor), who married in 1678, Hester, only daughter and
heiress of William Godfrey, of Coleraine, esq. ; and by her
had twenty children (see Memoirs of the ancient family of
Echlin of Pittadro, Glasgow, 1747, p. 26). Charles Echlin
married in 1709, Anne, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Thomas
Knox, esq., of Dungannon, and Mary his wife, daughter of
Robert Bruce of Eilroot, but had no issue by her (Lodge,
voL viL, p. 198). He died sometime after the session of 1753.

XIX. — ^Thomas Knox, Esq., in place of Oliver St. Oeobge,

deceased.
Thomas Knox was the only son of John Knox, brothei
of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Knox (whose memoir has been
* Tempore, Kings James IL and William III., and Queen Anne.

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given), and heir to his uncle. He was elected for Dun-
gannon in place of his cousin's husband, Mr. Oliver St.
George; the writ being ordered on 13th October, 1731.
He married Hester, daughter of John Echlin of Ardquin,
county Down, and by het had two sons, Thomas and John ;
and four daughters, the eldest of whom, Hester, married
James Moutray of Favor Royal, m.p. for Augher in the
Parliaments of 1761 and 1769. They left no issue (see
Archdall's Lodge, vol. vii., p. 199, and Burke's Landed
Gentry, " Moutray of Favor Royal").

XX. — Thomas Knox, Junior, Esq., in place of Charles

Echlin, deceased.

Mr. Thomas Knox, junior, who was sworn 1st November,
1755, was the eldest son of Thomas Knox (whose memoir
was last given), by Hester Echlin. He was bom 29th April,
1729 ; married in 1753, Anne, second daughter of John,
Lord Knapton, and sister of Thomas, first Viscount de
Vesci He was created Baron Welles in 1781, and Viscount
Northland in 1791. His eldest son was the first Earl of
Ranfurly (1831), and Baron Ranfurly in the United King-
dom (1826). He died 5th November, 1818.

STRABANE.

XXI. — ^The Hon. Charles Hamilton.

The Hon. Charles Hamilton was the ninth son of James,
sixth Earl of Abercorn, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and
heir of Sir Robert Reading, of Dublin, by Jane, widow of the
first Earl of Montrath. Lord and Lady Abercorn had
fourteen children. Charles, who was baptized the 4th
November, 1704, was member for Strabane all through the
Parliament of 1727- CO. In 1738, he was appointed Com-
troUer of the Green Cloth to the Prince of Wales, and
represented Truro in the British Parliament of 1741-7. In
1743 he was re-elected for Truro after appointment as
Receiver-General and Collector of the Revenues in the
Island of Minorca. He married, and lefb issue by his wife
(whose name is not given in Archdall's Lodge), of which his
eldest daughter, Jane, married in 1750, Mr. Moore, author
of " Fables for the Female Sex," and his youngest daughter in
the same year married Kanton Cowse, Esq., of the Board of
Works. One of his sisters, Lady Mary Hamilton, married
Henry Colley, Esq. (elder brother of the first Earl of
Momington), who was member for Strabane in part of the
Parliament of 171 5-27.

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XXII. John M'Causland, Esq., re-elected.

XXIII. — Oliveb M'Causland, Esq., in place of John

M'Causland, deceased.

Oliver M'Causland was son of John, his predecessor in
the borough, whom he did not long survive. The writ in
his father s room was ordered to issue on 23rd September,
1729, and in his own room on the 15th October, 1733. He
married Anne Jane, daughter of William Hamilton, of
Waterhouse, by whom he had John, the great grandfather
of Oliver M'Causland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, county Derry.

XXIV. — William Hamilton, Esq., in place of Oliver
M'Causland, deceased.

William Hamilton is styled in the Liber Munerum as of
Dunnemanagh, which is, I suppose, Donemanagh, in the
barony of Lower Strabane. He was the grandson of John
Hamilton, of Dulater, county Tyrone, who married his
cousin, Sarah Hamilton, who was granddaughter of Sir
Claude, third son of the first Lord Paisley, and brother of
the first Earl of Abercom. Her father was Sir Claude's
eldest son, William Hamilton, of Manor Elieston, and she
was the child of his first marriage. By the death of her
brothers by that marriage without issue, her son, John
Hamilton, of Dulater, succeeded to the Manor EUeston
estate ;* and was the father of William, the subject of this
memoir. William married Catherine Stewart, by whom he
had Sir John Stewart Hamilton, created a baronet in 1780.
He married first a Miss Eaton, by whom he had no issue ;
secondly, Sophia Hamilton, daughter of the third Viscount
Boyne, by whom he had one child, who died young ; and
thirdly, Susan, daughter of Philip Maguire, Esq., of Tempo,
county Fermanagh, by whom he had Sir John C/harlea

After the two important divisions in 1753 (see App. VI.,
p. 352), which have been referred to in the memoir of
Qalbraith Lowry, addresses from the country were pre-
sented to various members of those who had votea in
opposition. Amongst others given in the " Universal Ad-
vertizer," of 1764, 1 find the f (Slowing : —

''To William Hamilton, Esq., one of the Eepresentatives of
the Borough of Strabane, and one of the Deputy Qovemors of the
county of Tyrone —

**May it please your Honour, — We, the undernamed sub-
scribing freeholders of the Manor of Fintona, having a true sense
of your constant endeavours to promote the real interest of this

• The late Sir James Hamilton, of Woodbrook, waa descended from William
Hamilton's eldest son by his second wife, Beatrix Campbell, vis., Claud Hamilton
of Monterloney.— (See Bnrke, Edition, 1832).

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kingdom, beg leave to return you our most grateful and sincere
thanks for jour steadiness in two critical debates, this last Session
of Parliament ; and for your patriot care and resolution on every
public occasion, so dismterestedly demonstrated. We cannot
view you in a proper and grateful light without reflecting seriously
on our unhappy situation in being deprived, by sickness, of the
attendance of our worthy Knight of the Shire, Galbraith Lowry,
Esq., of whose candour and patriot worth we are all convinced.
We hope, on every occasion which may happen, not only to demon-
strate our gratitude and thanks for past services, but likewise to
distinguish between the real and pretended Lovers and Friends of
this country in particular, and the Kingdom of Ireland in generaL

" We are. Sir,
** Your most obedient humble servants,

''Charles Eocles.

" John Keb, &c., Ac."

PARLIAMENT OF 1761.

Began 22 October, 1761 ; concluded 28 May, 1768.
Name. Coxutitaency.

ZTm^K^'^-: ; : : :} ^^^^

^^rjJS^X^"^'. : : : : : :\ ^^.^-^

Hon. William Moore, in place ofSamuel Low, deceased, .) ur^^ii,/.

Tliomae Knox, senior, Esq., )

Thomas Knox, Junior, Esq., .,....}- Dongannon Borough .

William Hamilton, Esq. )

Robert Lowry, Esq ^

John HamUton, Esq., in place of William Hamilton, I

deceased. V Strabane Borough.

George Montgomery, Esq., in place of Robert Lowry, I

deceased. J

MEMOIR.

I.— Galbraith Lowby, Esq. (from 1764, Lowry-Cony),
re-elected.

II. — William Stewart, Esq., re-elected.

AUGHER.

III. — William Montgomery, Esq.

William Montgomery was of Qarvey, near Augher, it is
understood ; but the l/U>er Munerum styles him " of
Dublin."

IV. — James Moutray, Esq.

James Moutray was of Killy brick, county Tyrone.
He was great grandson of the Member in tiie Parlia-

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ments of 1692 and 1703, of the same name, and
grandson of James Moutray and Hebeoca, daughter of
Colonel Cony, M.P., of Castlecoole. His father was John
Moutray, and his mother Elizabeth Montgomery. He
married Hester, daughter of Thomas Knox, senior, M.P.
for Dungannon in this Parliament ; but had no issue by her.
He died in Dawson-street, Dublin, 17th May, 1777. (London
Magazine for June, 1777, page 440,)

CLOGHER.
V. — Sm Capel Moltneux, Bart.
Sir Capel Molyneux, the senior Member for Clogher, was
of Castle Dillon, county Armagh. He was the second son
of Thomas Molyneux, Es^,, Physician-General to the Army
in Ireland, created a Baronet in 1730 ; by Catherine Howard,
aunt of the first Lord Wicklow. He was great grandson of
Daniel Molyneux, MP. for Strabane, 1613 ; and succeeded his
elder brother Sir Daniel, whe died unmarried in 1738.
Their youngest sister was the wife of John Qamet, Bishop
of aogher from 1758 to 1782. In the Parliament of 1769,
Sir Capel represented the University of Dublin, and in that
of 1776, Clogher again, being then a Privy Councellor. He
married first, Elizaoeth, daughter of WiUiam East of Hall-
place, Berks ; and sister of »Sir Edward East ; and by her
had Sir Capel, fourth Baronet ; and George, M.P. for
Granard. He married secondly, EUizabeth only daughter of
lieutenant-General Adlercron, sometime Commander-in-
Chief in the East Indies; and had by her Lieutenant-
General Sir Thomas, fifth Baronet ; from whom descends
Miss Molyneux, the present owner of Castle Dillon ; and
John, grandfather of the present and ninth Baronet, the
Rev. Sir John Charles Molyneux. Sir Capel Molyneux
erected the obelisk, near Castle Dillon, to commemorate
the Constitution of 1782. He died in August, 1697.

VI.— Sabiukl Low, Esq.

Samuel Low was the eldest son of Samuel Low, Comp-
troller and Surveyor of the Ordnance, by Anne Sands. He
was called to the Bar, and was a Commissioner of Appeals.
He died sine prole in 1765 (Lib. Mun.) His family came
from Brittany to Bewilley in Worcestershire. Three sons
joined Cromwell*s army; of whom WiUiam (a Major)
obtained the estate of Newtown in Westmeath ; and George
(a Lieutenant) obtained lands in Moy-Cashel Barony,
county Westmeath ; and had a son Samuel, who was the
father of the Member for Clogher.

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VII. — ^The Hon. William Moork, in place of Samuel Low,

deceased.

On the 22nd October, the first day of the session of 1765,
a new writ was ordered for Qogher, in the room of Mr.
Low, deceased. The Hon. William Moore, who was
returned, was the fourth but third surviving son of Lord
Ki] worth (so created 14 July, 1764), who became Viscount
Mountcashel, ?.2 January, 1766. His eldest brother
Richard, bom in 1725, died unmarried in 1761. His brother
Stephen, became Earl of Mountcashel; and his brother
Colvill was MP. for Clonmel. William Moore represented
Clogher again in the Parliament of 1769. During the latter
part of that of 1776, from 1781*, and in those of 1783 and
1790, he represented Clonmell. He married Anne, daughter
and co-heir of William Fowkes, Esq., and dying 21
November, 1810, left issue, Stephen of Saperton, M.r. for
Clonmell in the last Irish Parliament, that of 1798 ; and
William, of Moore-hill and Saperton, who died in 1849 ; fimd
Helena, married to Robert Percival Maxwell, of Finnibrogue,
county Down. (See Burke's Peerage — also Lodge, VoL III.,
p. 365.)

DUNGANNON.

VIII — Thomas Knox, senior, re-elected.

IX — ^Thomas Knox, junior, re-elected.

STRABANE.
X. — William Hamilton, Esq.,, re-elected.
XI. — Robert Lowby, Esq.
Robert Lowry, the junior Member for Strabane, wtis the
second but eldest surviving son of Robert Lowry, of
Aghenis, near Calidon (who died 1729), by Anne Sinclair of
HoUyhiU, near Strabane. He was elder brother of Qalbraith
Lowry, at this time Member for the county. He was bom
the 3rd February, 1702-3, and in 1724, married Katherine
Dopping, eldest daughter of the Rev. Anthony Dopping,
then l>ean of Clonmacnois, afterwards Bishop of Ossory ;
who was son of the well koown Anthony Dopping, Bishop
of Meath, at the time of the Revolution. His father made
a settlement on the occasion of this marriage, bearing date
10 September, of so much of the Manor of Finagh, as he
had purchased from Lady Dungannon,t and most of which
now constitutes the greater part of my own estate in
Tyrone. In 1733, he joined Lord Tyrone in getting a
division made of the advowson of Termonmaguirk, the

* Writ iflsued during the Recess by the Speaker.

t Go-heireas of Lord Glenawley, with her sister, Lady Beresford.

agreement providing for drawing lots out of a hat, as to
who should take which part. He who got the part with
the church, was to pay i'20 to the other, towards building
a second church. Mr. Lowry got the part known afterwards
as Clogherny, on which I believe the church stood ; and
Lord Tyrone and he, having temporarily presented Arch-
deacon Este (Archdeacon of Armagh), to the parish, the
next year (1731), he presented his own brother James to
Clogherny ; who held it until 1745, when he exchanged it
with Dr. Dobbs for Desertcreight. Dr. Dobbs held it till
1775, when he died; when Armar Lowry-Corry (the
first Lord Belmore), presented to it his cousin, John
Lowry, who held it till 1794, and then resigned it in
favour of his son James, who held it until his death in
1852. In 1828 Trinity CoUege purchased the advowson for
£14,000 from the second Earl of Belmore ; and in 1853
presented to it the Rev. Dr. Dixon, T.O.D., and afterwards
Archdeacon of Armagh. At disestablishment the College
received £11,000 compensation for it; the living being the
largest in Ireland — only one living (also a coUege one), with
a younger incumbent, was compensated for at a higher rate.
In 1885 the late Primate presented to it, on lapse after
Archdeacon Dixon's death, the Rev. William Percival Magee,
the present incumbent.

To return to Robert Lowry — His wife was niece of his
neighbour, Mrs. Ebmilton of Calidon, whose husband, John
Hamilton, M.P. (see p. 246) had been first cousin to his
mother ; both of them being grandchildren of Colonel James
Galbraith, M.P. (see p. 222). Katherine died without issue,
at some uncertain date ; and, according to Lodge, vol. vii.,
p. 193, Robert Lowry married (secondlj') the daughter of
the Rev. Archdeacon Hamilton (probably of Armagh) — living
in 1712 (see p. 24?^). I have some reason to suppose that
this lady's name was Margaret, but beyond the mention in
Lodge, little is known about her for certain. She had no
children, as the estate passed at once, on Mr. Lowry's death
in 1764, to his brother, Galbraith Lowry, under the settle-
ment, free of any jointure or portions ; nor did he mention
his wife in his wilL So he probably survived her. He
died Slst August, 17^4. He left some townlands he
had purchased to his brother, the Rev. James (see my
History of Two Ulster Manors — p. 28.)

Mr. Robert Lowry is twice mentioned in the Journals.
The first time, on the 24th December, 1761, when a petition
from him was presented to the House, that Patnck and
William M'Crj'stal might not have benefit by the heads of
a Bill for the relief of insolvent debtors. This claim, which

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would now be considered extravagant, was apparently
granted, as of coarse ; as the petition was referred to the
committee of the whole House on the heads of the Bill, who
were empowered to insert such a clause. Such petitions,
however, were by no means confined to Members of Parlia-
ment. A long list of such occurs on one page of the Journals
later on. The other mention of Mr. Lowry is on the 16th
April, 1764, when leave was given to him to go into the
country for a month, for the recovery of his health. He
however, died on the 31st August following. Mr. Robert
Lowry served as Sheriff of Tyrone in 1726.

XII.— John Hamilton, Esq., in place of William Hamilton,

deceased.

John Ebmilton was, I suppose, John Stewart Hamilton,
the son of William Hamilton, whom he succeeded in the
representation of Strabane ; the writ being ordered 13th
October, 1763. He was created a baronet in 1780, and
continued to represent Strabane till the end of the Parlia-
ment of 1790-97, when he had been rendered incapable of
re-election by the Act of 1793, to exclude pensioners and
certain placemen from the House of Commons. His
marriages have been already given in his father's memoir.
He died in 1803. The High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1764, wa^s
" John Hamilton," as well as in 1741 and 1744?.

XIII. — George Montgomery, Esq., in place of Robert
Lowry, deceased.

The Liber Mvmerwm styles George Montgomery, returned
for Strabane in 1764, in place of Mr. Robert Lowry, as of
Ballyconnell House, which is in county Cavan. The Rev.
George Montgomery bought the estate there, about 1760,
and was connected with the Enery family of that county.

PARLIAMENT OF 1769.

Began 17th October, 1769; concluded 5th April, 1776.
Name. Coiutltiienoy.

iis:fls:2;ffi:^\ : : : : : :\ -^-^o^^.

SSS-i^rfSiJSrt. :::::::} A«gh«rB<«,.gh.

Hon. William Moore, > Clogher Borosgh

John Staples Esq., > or City.

Thomas Knox, the elder, Esq., *)

Thomas Knox, the younger, Esq., f Tfc„„«,„„«„ u^^^^k

John Knox, Esq.. in pliS)e of Thomas Knox, the elder, f ©"ngaimon Borough.

deceased. J

Rt. Hon. William Brownlow, v

John Hamilton. Esq., f fl*--K««- n».»„»k

Claudius Hamilton, Esq., in place of William Brownlow, f »*»*>*'»« Borough.

who made his election to serve for the county uf Armagh, )

MEMOIR.

TYRONE

I. — ^Armar Lowry-Corrt, Esq.

Mr. Lowry-Corry, who now Bucceeded his father, GaJbraith
Lowry-Corry. as Senior Member for Tyrone, the latter
having retired at the end of the last Parliament, was also
returned for the Borough of Enniskillen, but elected to sit
for Tjrrone. I have already given a notice of him in my
" Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh," at pages 62 and
63. It wiU therefore suffice to say here, that he continued
to represent Tyrone until created a peer in 1781 ; and that
he eventually became, in 1797, the first Earl of Belmore.
He died suddenly at Bath, 2nd Feb., 1802. He served
as High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1769 ; and for Fermanagh in
1779.

Mr. Corry unsuccessfully contested Longford county
in 1765. The poll stood on Tuesday, November 26th, as
follows : — Hon. Captain Pakenham (elected), 314 ; Ralph
Fetherston, esq. (elected), 300; Hugh Maguire, esq., 168;
Armar Lowry Oorry, 60. (Pue's Occurrences).

II._ James Stewabt, Esq.

James Stewart was of Ballymoon, near Cookstown, county
Tyrone. (See App. V., p. 352, for a note.) He was probably
the son of William Stewart, the late member. He continued
to represent the county until the Union, against which he
voted. He also sat for Tyrone in the Imperial Parliament
until 1812.

This family is now extinct in the county. The first
member of it, on authentic public record, is "William
Stewart, of Killymoon, gent.," who was attainted in 1689

AUGHER.

III.— James Moutray, Esq.— Re-elected.

IV. — ^Hon. Robert Rochfort.

We find from ArchdalFs Lodge, Vol III , pp. 29, 30, that
the Hon. Robert Rochfort was the third son of the first
Earl of Belvedere. He was bom in 1743, and married the
daughter of John Nugent, of Clonlost, county Westmeath,
by whom, who died in 1785, he had no issue. In the Par-
liament of 1769, Mr. Rochfort was returned both for
Augher and PhiUpstown, and made his election to sit for
Augher. In 1776 he was elected for the county Westmeath,
and continued to sit until the lafit Parliament before the

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Union ; he was elected to that Parliament, but died before
it met, on the 9th Jan., 1798, being succeeded by Gustavus
Rochfort, Esq., who was (I suppose) his first cousin, son of
his uncle George, by Alice, daughter of Sir Gustavus
Hume; and who married in J 779, Frances, third daughter
of John Bloomfield of Redwood, King's County. The writ
for the vacancy in Westmeath, caused by his death, was
ordered on the first day of the new Parliament of 179S.

CLOGHER.

V.-^The Hon. William Moore.— Re-elected.

VI.— John Staples, Esq,

John, afterwards the Right Hon. John Staples, was the
son of the Rev. Thomas Staples, rector of Derryloran, fifth
son of Sir Robert Staples, the second baronet, who married
Grace, daughter of John Houston, Esq., of Castlestewart,
county Tyrone, and co-heiress of her brother, John Houston
(vide Burke's Peerage). Mr. Staples was bom on the 1st
March, 1736-7, and married, first, Harriet, daughter of the
Rt. Hon. William ConoUy, of Castletown, county Kildare,
by whom he had, with two daughters, a son William, who
married in 1797, Anne, daughter of Sir James Stewart of
Fort Stewart, and died in 1798, leaving a son, William, who
died at the age of fifteen. Mr. Staples married, secondly,
the Hon. Henrietta, daughter of Richard, Viscount Moles-
worth, by whom he had four sons and five daughters. The
eldest son of this marriage was Sir Thomas Staples, Q.C.,
and Queen's Advocate in Ireland, who survived until' 1865*
when he died in his 90th year, having succeeded his cousin'
Sir Robert, as seventh baronet in 1832 ; and was in his
turn succeeded by his nephew Sir Alexander Staples.

Of the daughters, the eldest, Grace, married in 1807, the
Marquis of Ormonde ; and the second, Frances, married
in 1804, her cousin the Hon. Richard Ponsonby, sometime
Bishop of Deny.

Mr. John Staples served as Sheriff of Tyrone in 1766.
He represented in 1776 Ballyshannon Borough, in the
Parliament of 1783; and in part of that of 1790 the
Borough of Limavady, county Londonderry; and the
county of Antrim in the rest of the Parliament of 1790
being sworn on the 16th Feb., 1796, in the place of Hugh
Boyd, Esq., deceased; again in that of 1798; and in the
Imperial Parliament of 1801. He voted for the Union in
1800, when he was Examinator of Customs.

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DIJNGANNON.

VII. — Thobias Knox, Esq., the elder, re-elected.

VIIL— Thomas B^nox, the younger, re-elected.

IX. — John Knox, Esq., in place of Thomas Knox, the elder,

The Parliament of 1769 was summoned to meet on the
1st August, 1768, but thence continued by several proroga-
tions to the I7th October, 1769. Meanwhile Mr. Thomas
Knox, the elder, had died, according to Lodge, on the 25th
March, 1769, and a new writ was ordered for Dungannon
in his room, at the commencement of the session. Although
it is not so stated in the peerages, his successor must have
been his second son, John, who, on the 21st March, 1766,
married the only daughter of Henry Waring, Esq., of
Waringstown, county Down, and by her had issue two
sons, viz., Henry, and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas, who
married Emma, daughter of Thomas Williams, Esq,, and
had by her Henry, who died unmarried ; Captain Thomas,
R.N. ; and Lieut-Colonel Brownlow William, m.p.

STRABANR
X, — Right Hon. William Brownlow.

The Rt. Hon. William Brownlow, of Lurgan, county
Armagh, was the son of William Brownlow, i^q., M.P. for
Armagh, in several Parliaments till his death in 1739, by
Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of the sixth Earl of
Abercom, and grandson of Arthur Chamberlain, Esq., who
assumed the name of Brownlow, having been left the estate
of his maternal grandfather, Sir William Brownlow, Knt.,
the first of the family who settled in Ireland. The Rt. Hon.
William Brownlow was baptized on the 25fch April, 1726,
and married in 1754, Judith Letitia, eldest daughter of the
Rev. Charles Meredyth, of Newtown, county Meath, Dean
of Ardf ert ; and by her had two sons ; William, who died
without issue in 1815; and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles,
father of the first Lord Lurgan. Mr. BroWnlow married
secondly, Catherine, third daughter of Roger Hall, Esq., of
the county Down, by whom he had two sons and five
daughters. Of the latter, Isabella, the second, married the
fourth Viscount Powerscourt; Elizabeth, the third, the
fourth Earl of Damley ; and Frances Letitia, the youngest,
the second Viscount de Vesci. (See Burke's Peerage.) Mr.
Brownlow was also returned for the county Armagh, and
elected to serve for it, as he did in succeeding Parliaments,
and continued to represent that county until his death in
1794.

?98

XI — John Hamilton, Esq., re-elected.

XIL— Claudius Hamilton, Esq., in place of the Rt. Hoil
William Brownlow.

On the 21st February, 1772, Mr. Claudius Hamilton
presented a petition, that Robert Wilson, a prisoner for
debt in Omagh Gaol, might not be included in the BiU for
the relief of insolvent debtors; this was referred to the
Conunittee on the Bill. This is the only notice I find of
this gentleman in the Journals, who was, I think, Claud (or
Claudius), son of William Hamilton of Beltrim, county
Tyrone. He was descended from Sir Claud Hamilton,
second son of the first Lord Paisley, whose son. Sir William
(of Manor Elieston), married as his second wife, Beatrix
Campbell, and had by her Claud of Monterloney, who, by
his wife Isabella, had William, father, by his wife Mary, of
the subject of memoir (as I suppose), and Claud of Strabane,
ancestor of the Hamiltons, baronets of Woodbrook; and
father also of Letitia, the wife of the Member for Strabane
of whom I am writing.

Mr. Claudius Hamilton had by her a daughter and heiress,
Letitia, who, in 1780, married the Hon. Arthur Cole, M.P.,
second son of Lord Mountfiorence, who took her name in
addition to his own, and was father of Claud, bom 1781,
died in 1822, having married Nicola Sophia Challoner, by
whom he had the present Major Arthur Cole-Hamilton, of
Beltrim, county Tyrone, who succeeded his grandmother at
Beltrim, in 1823; and Richard (Challoner) ol Kingsfort,
county Meath, in which he succeeded his mother. (Vide
Burke's Landed Gentry, 1877).

Mr. Claudius Hamilton's will was proved in 1782. He
served as Sherifl^ of Tyrone in 1748.

PARLIAMENT OF 1776.

Began 18th June, 1776 ; concluded 25th July, 1783.

Kame. Constitneiioy.
Amuur Lowry Corry, Esq., .....

James Stewart, Esq., „ • • • ;. • • • l Tyrone County.

Nathaniel Montgomery, Esq.. In place of Armar Lowry r * z™"" vvmii,/.

Corry, Lord Baron Belmore,

Hamilton, Esq.,

Fortlck, Esq.,

George Hamilton. Esq. i Aughcr Borough.

William Fortlck, Esq J * »vrouga.

Rt. Hon. " "" ■

Thomas St <

Thomas Knox, Esq.. \

^^^Z^wS^l^i^ in 'nlaii of ThonLui Kiiox.'Lord ^ ^i^gsjinon Borough.

Bt Hon. William Eden, in place of Thomas Knox, Lord
Baron Welles.

S^^olTo^fSir^- : :::::} ^'^'^r,^^

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MEMOIR.

I — ^Abmar Lowrt Oorrt. — Re-elecled,

II. — James Stewart, Esq.— Re-elected.

Ill — Nathaniel Montqomert, Esq., in place of Anuar
Lowry Ooiry, Lord Belmore.

Nathaniel Montgomery, Esq., Colonel of the Tyrone
Militia, of Qarvey, near Augher, in that county, was the
son of Alexander Montgomery, Esq., M.P. for county
Monaghan, and Gteneral of Volunteers, by his second wife,
Eleanora, daughter of Acheson Moore, Esq., of Qarvey. His
grandfather, John Montgomery, had also been M.P.for county
Monaghan. (See Burke's Landed Gentry, " Montgomery of
Beaulieu.'*) Colonel Montgomery, who ultimately took the
name of Moore in addition te that of Mont^mery, married
Mary Anne, daughter of Alexander Boyd, of Ballycastle, in
the county of Antrim, by Anna Maria, daughter of Viscount
Gosford, and by her had Alexander James Montgomery,
of Garvey and Fassaroe, who married Sussanah, daughter of
George Mateham, Esq., by Catherine, sister of the great
Lord Nelson, and had by her, Major-General Alexander
George Montgomery Moore, of Garvey, commanding the
South-eastern district, who married 30ui September, 1857,
the Hon. Jane Colbome, third daughter of Field Marshal
Lord Seaton.

In 1786 Nathaniel Montgomery Moore served as sheriff
for Tyrone. He represented Strabane in 1798.

AUGHER.
IV.— George Hamilton, Esq.

George Hamilton was of Tyrella, county Down ; whose
sister, Elizabeth, had married her cousin, Mr. Baron
(George) Hamilton, of Hampton Hall, Balbri^an, county
Dublin, for some years M.P. for Bel&st, but who had just
been promoted to the Bench, and who established the cotton
manufactory* at Balbriggan, and whose son, Alexander,
ultimately succeeded his unde George at Tyrella.

This fiEkmily claims descent from a son of Sir James
Hamilton, of Evandale. Hugh Hamilton settled at Lisbane,
near Bangor, county Down, tempore Jac. L He was the
father of John, of Bally vemon and Ballymenock, county
Down, whose family became extinct in his^-eat-grandson,
Alexander. A younger son of Hudi Hamilton, was
Alexander, of Eillyleagh, who married Jean Hamilton, and

* Baron Hamilton presented a Petition to Parliament for a grant in aid of this
manofactore in 1781. (See Commona' JoaraaU.)

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died in 1676. They had a son, Hugh, who married Mary
Ross, of Rostrevor, and whose eldest son, Alexander, M.P.
(of Knock, county Dublin), married Isabella Maxwell, ol
Finnebrogue, county Down. By her he had — (1) George,
Bishop of Ossory, grandfather of the present Henry
Alexander Hamilton, Esq., ol Hampton Hail; (2), Robert;
(3), George, Baron of the Exchequer, who married his cousin,
Elizabeth; by whom he had Alexander (ultimately of
Tyrella, as stated above), who married Catherine, daughter
of Thomas Burgh, Esq., and had the Rev. George, who
married Anne Pepper ; and by her was father of the late
Right Hon. George Alexander Hamilton, M.P. for Dublin
University, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Per-
manent Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, and ultimately
one of the Church Temporalities Commissioners in Ireland,
and a Privy Councillor in Great Britain and Ireland ; who
was succeeded at Hampton Hall by his cousin, H. A. Hamilton,
as above ; (4), Charles. A younger son of Hugh Hamilton
and Mary Ross, was George, of Tyrella, county Down, who
died in 1773, having married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Echlin, Esq., and sister of Sir Robert Echlin, by whom he
had George, who I believe to have been the Member for
Auffher in 1776, and the subject of this memoir, and who
died unmarried 6th July, 1796 ; and Elizabeth, wife of
Baron Hamilton, whose son, Alexander, as before shown,
succeeded at Tyrella on his uncle's death.

V. — William Fortick, Esq.

A William Fortick had (in 1715) a grant of arms from
Ulster's office. He is described as of the city of Dublin, and
descended from a family resident in Utrecht in Holland.
The M.P. for Augher was probably his son.

The wiQ of Sir William Fortick, Knt, waa dated 1787,
and proved 1789.

There is in Denmark-street, Dublin, an Alms House,
which has a tablet inserted in front, with this inscription : —

" This Charity House was built and endow*
in the year 1755 by Tristram Fortick,
a citizen of Dublin, late of Fortick's Grove,
in the county of Dublin, Esq.,
for the us© of reduc* women
Who had liv" in good credit and repute.**

This Tristram was probably a brother of Sir William.
His estate went to endow this alms house.

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CLOGHER
VI. — Right Hon. Sib Capel Molyneux, Bart.

A memoir of Sir Capel Molyneiix has been already given,
when he was Member for Clogher, in the Parliament of
1761.

VII. — ^Thomas St. George, Esq.

Thomas St. George, Esq., was third son of the Rev. Arthur
St George, d.d.. Dean of Ross, who was third son of Henry
St. Geoi^e, of Woodsgift, county Kilkenny, the father
of Lieut.-General Richard St. George, M.P., and of Henry,
M.P., who have been already noticed (see pp. 259-Bl) in the
Parliament of 1703. His mother was Jane, daughter of Sir
Thomas Molyneux, Bart. He was therefore nephew to
his colleague. Mr. Thomas St. George, who was a Com-
missioner of the BaiTack Board, was bom in Oct., 1738 ;
he married, the 15th August, 1776, the Hon. Lucinda
Acheson, fourth daughter of Archibald, Viscount Gosford
(who married, secondly, Jeremiah French, Esq.), and died
1st April, 1785. He had five sons ; the second of whom
was father of Acheson St. George, Esq., of Woodpark,
county Armagh (see Burke's Peerage, " St. George, Bait.")

DUNGANNON.

VIII.— Thomas Kj^ox, Esq.— Re-elected.
IX. — Charles O'Hara, Esq.

Charles O'Hara was, I suppose, the same person who was
M.P. for the county Sligo, from 1783 untU the Union, and in
the ImperialParliament until 1826 ; and who was of Annagh-
more, county Sligo.*

He was bom 26th April, 1746. He was the son of Charles
O'Hara, Esq., of Annaghmore, of an ancient Irish family, by
Lady Mary Carmichael, eldest daughter of James, Earl of
Hyndford. He married Mary, daughter and heiress of
John Cookson, M.D., ol Yorkshire, and had three daughters ;
the second of whom, Jane, married Arthur Brooke Cooper,
Esq., of Cooper's HiU ; and their second son, Charles, took
the name of CHara, and is of Annaghmore and Cooper's
Hill, the elder one having only left a cfiiughter.

* In the returns of the Imperial Parliament he is generally described as of
Nymphsfield.

Union ; he was elect.
it met, on the 9th Jm
Rochfort, Esq., who w
his uncle George, 1
Hume; and who mai
of John Bloomtield c
for the vacancy in \
ordered on the first d

v.— The Hon.
VL-

John, afterwards tli
son of the Rev. Thorn
son of Sir Robert St<\\
Grace, daughter of J
county Tyrone, and c<
{vide Burke's Peerao-
March, 1736-7, and iM
Rt. Hon. William Coi-
by whom he had, wit
married in 1797, Ami'
Fort Stewart, and di« ■
died at the age of fill
the Hon. Henrietta, d
worth, by whom he I
eldest son of this mju
and Queen's Advocat<
when he died in his !>'
Sir Robert, as seven'
turn succeeded by his

Of the daughters, tJ
Marquis of Ormonde :
in 1804, her cousin th
Bishop of Deny.

Mr. John Staplas s-
He represented in 1 .
Parliament of 178o ;
Borough of Limava*'
county of Antrim in -
being sworn on the 1 ( i
Boyd, Esq., deceased ;
Imperial Parliament o
1800, when he was E\

303

PAKLIAMENT OF 1783.

jogun Uth October, 1783. CJoncludea Stii April, 1790.
Ifame. Constituency.

Stewart. Esq., ]■ Tyrone County.

licl Montgomery, Esq., '

m BichardBon, Eflq., I

Vaufrhftn Brooke, Esq., . • • • -^•. • v A ugher Borough.

HaveTBsq., In place of Henry Vaugban Brooke, f * ^

who el^ed to serre for Donegal county. ^

r ---.'Esq,, , I

-:uEmi, ; -v I-.— fl* n^,.«.«' }- Cflogrher Borough or City.

. lock. Ksci, in place of Thomas St Georgre, T -© /

, i dmuDtJ ^^^^'^ ^'^'Ti 1

;rr.^KHti"Pl-= ..ktrion-KdmuodsUto.; [" 1>—««UK» Borough.
' «i,., tnaiiu "1» eltcLion for Limerick city. J

iiiiiieroy. Eeq {. Strabsne Boroogh.

n atovfUrt HamDUin. B»rt., '

MEMOIR.
I,_j AMES Stewabt, Esq.— Re-elected,
j^ Nathaniel Montgomkbt, Esq. — Re-elected.

AUGHER.

III,_WlLLIAM KlCHABDSON, ElSQ.

, m RichfirrlBon, of Au^her (Jasue, ine Member for the
«u£rh of Auglier (as 1 teUeve) m the Parliament of
Ti I suspect, however, that he waa Sfc. Qeoi^e

.nhoua great uncle, as he must have been an old man
1,^5 hia fatheiwn-law, the Rfv. Archibald Eiskine,
■i^ died in 1045. William Richardson s mother was

fF died in iu*''>- vvJuLi*"* lir — ^cT "^^w-"

Sfeth Bunbury, of Kilfeacle. Mr. Richardson was

naother was

ii'eth Bunbury, oi iviueauic. -— —--uardson was

-JTl Baronet of Irdaud, SOth August, 1787. and his

ZtoP^t^ '^'^ «»'=h m the liat of members m the Journals

th? sLion of 17SS. In 1798 he «tt for BaJlyshannon

*ueh county Done-al, in plaxje of Visojunt Corry. who

* I to serve for fyrune. He married m 1775, Eliza

SI and had (with three daughter.) a son. Sir James

i^ Richardson-Burvhury, who, 20th Apnl 1822.

"iS the additional nam. of Bunbury. during his father's

'""^eS^ William Richardson survived untU 29th

^ber 1830. He serve.l as Sheriff of Tyi-one in 1789.

IV -Henby Vaughan BROOKE, Esq.

^W.„rv V-iu-han Brooke, Esq.. was the head of the family
RBS>e%:Uan.agh blanch of which is represented b^

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X. — ^The Right Hon. William Eden, in place of Thomas
Knox, Lord Baron Welles.

The Rt. Hon. Mr. Secretary Eden was elected for Dun-
gannon, in place of Thomas Knox, Lord Welles, during the
recess preceding the Session of 1781, which began on Oct.
9th. Lord Welles had been created a peer on the 8th
January, 1781. Mr. Eden was, we find from Burke's
Peerage, the third son of Sir Robert Eden, Bart., of West
Auckland ; and was at first a barrister-at-law. He was a
Privy Councillor in Great Britain (and of course in Ireland),
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and Ambassador to
France, &c. He was created Baron Auckland, in Ireland,
the 18th November, 1789 ; and Baron Auckland in Great
Britain, 22nd May, 1793. He married, 26th Sept, 1776,
Eleanor, daughter of the Rt Hoa Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart.,
of Minto; and was grandfather of the present Lord
Auckland.

STRABANE.
XI,— John Stewart Hamilton, Esq. — Re-elected.

I account for the additional Christian name of Stewart
being now added to describe Mr. John Hamilton, by the
fact that in this Parliament the name of another John
Hamilton appears as Member for St. Canice or Irishtown
Borough, county Kilkenny.

XII. — Henry Pomerot, Esq.

Heniy Pomeroy, bom the 8th Dec., 174'9, was the eldest
son of Arthur Pomeroy, Esq., m.p. for the county Kildare,
who was created Lord Harberton.of Carbery, county Kildare,
on the 10th October, 1783, and Viscount, 5th July, 1791,
by Mary, elder daughter and co-heir of Henry Colley, Esq.
of Castle Carbery, sometime m.p. for Strabane during part
of the Parliament of 1715-27 (see p. 271), and elder brother
of the first Lord Momington. Mr. Pomeroy married, 20th
January, 1788 or (1778)*, Mary, second daughter of Nicholas
Grady, Esq., of Grange, county Limerick, by whom he had
one son, Henry, bom in 1789, who predeceased him in 1804.
Mr. Pomeroy was the second Viscount Harberton; and
dying 80th Nov., 1829, was succeeded by his brother
Arthur— (see Burke's Peerage).

* Lodge gives 1788; Burke 1778. From the date of the son's birth (who is
not mentioned by Lodge in 1789) the later date seems the most probable one.

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PARLIAMENT OF 1783.

Begun Uth October, 1783. Concluded 8th April, 1790.
Name. Gonstitneiicy.

SSSiSS'SS^t^ir^. Bii., ; : : : : :}Tyrone county.

WiUlam Rlohardson. Esq., )

Henry Vaaghui Brooke, Esq., L A«-i.o«"D^«««»fc

Samnel Hayes, Esq., in place of Henry Vanghan Brooke, f ^^^^ uorongiL

Esq., who elected to serve for Donegal county. ;

Thomas St. George, Esq., S

jSS^^ndScSSSil^.,inpl^ VClogherBoroughorClty.

deceased. )

Rt. Hon Edmond Sexton Pery, S

Hon. Thomas Knox, It\ -b i.

Lorenxo Moore, Esq., in place of Et. Hon. Edmnnd Sexton f I>«»««nno"i Borough.

Pery, who made his election for Limerick city. j

Kh^sL^^ttoniBari., ! ! J Stratane Borough.

MEMOIR.

I. — James Stewabt, Esq. — Re-elected.

II. — Nathaniel Montgomebt, Esq. — ^Re-elected.

AUGHER.

III.— William Richaemon, Esq.

William Richardson was the son of St. George Richardson,
Esq., who was, according to Sir Bernard Burke, nephew of
William Richardson, of Augher OasUe, the Member for the
Borough of Augher (as I believe) in the Parliament of
1692-5. I suspect, however, that he was St. George
Richardson's great uncle, as he must have been an old man
in 1695, his father-in-law, the Rev. Archibald Erskine,
having died in 1645. William Richardson's mother was
Elizabeth Bunbury, of Kilfeacle. Mr. Richardson was
created a Baronet of Ireland, 30th August, 1787, and his
name appears as such in the list of members in the Journals
for the Session of 1788. In 1798 he sat for Ballyshannon
Borough, county Donegal, in place of Viscount Corry, who
elected to serve for Tyrone. He married in 1775, Eliza
Richardson, and had (with three daughters) a son, Sir James
Mervyn Richardson-Bunbury, who, 20th April, 1822,
assumed the additional name of Bunbury, during his father's
lifetime. Sir William Richardson survived until 29th
October, 1830. He served as Sheriff of Tyi-one in 1789.

IV. — ^Henrt Vaughan Brooke, Esq.
Henry Vaughan Brooke, Esq., was the head of the family
of Brooke, the Fermanagh branch of which is represented by

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Sir Victor Brooke, of Colebrooke (see Burke's Peerage, " Sir
Victor Brooke. Bart."). He was the son of Basil Brooke,
of Brooke Hill, county Donegal, by Jane, daughter of Henry
Wray, of Castle Wray, county Donegal, by whom he left no
issue. He was fifth in descent from Sir Basil Brooke, who
went over to Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's time, served
under Blount, Lord Mountjoy, in the north, and was
appointed Governor of the Town and Castle of Donegal ;
and was also one of the Commissioners for the Settlement
of Ulster, and obtained from the Crown large grants of land
in the county Donegal.

Pjmnar found in 1618-19, in the precinct of Kilmacrenan,
allotted to Servitors and Natives, that " Sir Basil Brooke, Kt.,
hath a thousand acres called Edonecame. Upon this there
is a Bawn of lime and stone, and in it a house m building, in
which there dwelleth an English Man." These acres were of
course, as usual, " profitable " acres, the remainder not being
measured.

Mr. Henry Vaughan Brooke, was also returned for the
county Donegal, and elected to serve for it. He was
returned for it again, in 1798 ; but I do not find his name
in the Union division list in 1800. He had served in the
Parliament of 1776-83, for the Borough of Donegal. He died
in 1807, having devised his estate to his nephew, Thomas
Grove, Esq., who assumed the name of Brooke. His nephew,
Henry Brooke, of Dublin and of Brooke Hill, then became
the head of the family.

V. — Samuel Hayes, Esq., in place of Henry VaughanBrooke,
Esq., who elected to serve for Donegal County,
Samuel Hayes was the only surviving son of Charles
Hayes (son of Challis Hayes, Esq., Vice-Uonsul at Lisbon),
by Deborah Holditch of Totnes. Mr. Samuol Hayes married
Mary, daughter and heir of William Basil, Ksq., of Dromboe
Castle, county Donegal. He was created a baronet in 1789,
and died in 1807. He was the great-grandfather of
the present Sir Samuel Hayes, Bart., of Drumboe Castle,
county Donegal. There wa.s another Samuel Hayes (of
Avondale), sitting for Wicklow Borough, in this Parliament,
(See Burke's Peerage, " Hayes, Bart.'*)

CLOGHER.

VI.— Thomas St. George, Esq.— Re-elected,

VII. — Sackville Hamilton, Esq.

Sackville Hamilton (afterwards Right Honorable) was the
third son of the Hon. Henry Hamilton, third and youngest

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son of the first Viscount Boyne, joint customer and collector
of the Port of Dublin, and afterwards removed to that of
Cork, M.P. for county Donegal from 1729-30 to 1743, by
Mary, eldest daughter of Joshua Dawson, Esq., of Castle
Dawson, county Londonderry. Mr. Sackville Hamilton was
baptized 5th April, 1732. He first served in Parliament for
the Borough of St. Johnstown, county Longford, being
sworn 24th July, 1780, in place of Sir Ralph Fetherston,
deceased. At the date of ArchdalPs Lodge's Peerage (1789)
he was principal secretary in the civil department of the
(jovemment.* In 1783 he was returned for Clogher, and
also for Rathcormack, county Cork, but elected to serve for
Clogher. He served again for Clogher in the Parliament of

1790, till he accepted the office of Escheator of Munster, in
1795,t to make way for Mr. Secretary Pelhara. In 1796, being
then a Privy Councillor, he was retumedfor Armagh Borough,
in place of Gteorge Rawson, deceased, and sworn on 15th Octo-
ber. He married Arabella, daughter of George Berkeley, D.D.,
afterwards Bishop of doyne, and died in 1818.

VIII. — John Francis Cradock, Esq., in place of Thomas
St. George, deceased.

The new vrrit for Clogher, in place of Mr. Thomas St.
George, was ordered on the 26th April, l785. The vacancy
was filled by the election of John Francis Cradock (or
Caradoc), afterwards General Cradock, and Lord Howden,
(so created 19th October, 1819.) He was the only son of
the Most Rev. John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin, by Mary,
relict of Richard St. George, Esq., of KUrush, and daughter of
William Blaydwin, Eisq., of Boston, Lincolnshire. He was
born 12th August, 1762 ; and mamed 17th November, 1798,
Lady Theodosia Meade, daughtjer of John, first Earl of Clan-
William, by whom he had an only son, John Hobart, second
Baron, a Lieutenant-General in the army, G.C.B.. K.H., &c., &a
The first Lord Howden was created a peer of the Cnited
Kingdom in 1831. In the Parliament of 1790 he was re-
turned for Castlebar, being then a Lieutenant-Colonel ; and
it appears from the excuse offered for his absence in February,

1791, from calls of the House, that he had sailed with his
regiment in the previous summer for the West Indies. In
that of 1798 he was elected for Midleten, county Cork, in
place of Richard Hardinge, who accepted the oflSice of
Escheator of Munster, and was sworn on the 20th February,
1799, being then a Major-General ; but accepted the office
of Gentieman-at-Large to the Lord Lieutenant in 1800, his

* This, 1 sappofle, answered to Under SecreUry.
t New writ, Bftarch 24.

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successor, the Rt. Hon. Richard Annesley, being sworn on
the 8th May, General Cradock^ then was returned for
Thomastown, and sworn 19th May, 180i). He was Colonel of
the 43rd regiment of foot, G.O.B., and G.C. of the Imperial
Ottoman Omer of the Crescent; which orders were bestowed
upon him for his distinguished services in Egypt (Burke,
Edit., 1832).

General Cradock was Commissioner of Barracks in 1794
and 1796 (being then a Colonel). He was Quarter-Master-
General in Ireland in 1800 — as appears from his urging
that circumstance as a reason for beingexciised from serving
on the Clogher Election Committee. This reason the House
on a division reused to accept. General Cradock was
second to the Rt. Hon. Isaac Corry, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in his duel with Mr. Grattan ; which arose out
of an altercation between them in the House of Commons
on the occasion of one of the Union debates, February,
18th, 1800. Mr. Metge, M.P. for Tallaght, was the other
second. Mr. Corry was wounded in the arm. It had been
decided that if either party had been killed or disabled, the
other was to be considered to have paired with him. The
Speaker tried to prevent the duel, which appears to have
been fought whilst the debate was still proceeding, in the
midst of a frenzied mob, and in presence of the Sheriff, who
did not interfere officially, but endeavoured to effect an
amicable arrangement. (Ross Cornwallis Correspondence,
Vol. III., pp. 195-196). General Cradock was Governor of
the Cape of Good Hope from 1811 to 1814.

DUNGANNON.
IX. — ^Rt. Hon. Edmund Sexton Pert.

Mr. Pery, who was bom in 1719, was Speaker of the
House of Commons from 1771 (when Mr. Ponsonby resimed,
objecting to present an address of the House to the Lord
Lieutenant, as he considered it as practically condoning a
breach of the Privileges of the Commons) to 1785, when,
on his retirement from that office, he was elevated to the

Seerage as Viscount Pery. His peerage expired at his
eath in 1806. His brother, the Rt. Rev. William Cecil
Pery, Bishop of Killaloe in 1781, and of Limerick in 1784,
was created Baron Glentwoi-th in 1790 ; and his eldest son
was created Viscount Limerick in 1 800 ; Earl in 1803 ; and
Baron Foxford in the United Kingdom, in 1815. (See
Burke's Peerage.)

Mr. Pery elected to sit for Limerick city, which he had
previously represented from 1761.

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X. — Hon. Thomas Knox.

The Hon. Thonisis Knox, afterwards first Earl of Ranfurly,
succeeded his father as Viscount Northland in 1818. He
will be noticed again as Member for the county.

XI. — Lorenzo Mooke, Esq., in place of Rt. Hon. Edmund

Sexton Pery, who made his election to serve for Limerick

city.

Mr. Lorenzo Moore, who was now elected for Dungannon,
sat in the Parliament of 1798 from 23rd April for Ardfert
borough, county Kerry; being elected to succeed Mr. Robert
Day, who became a Justice of the King's Bench. In 1800,
being then Ranger of the Curragh, ho voted for the Union.

Lorenzo Moore was grandson of the Rev. William Moore,
Rector ot Kiltennagh, diocese of Ferns, and son of William
Moore, of Tuiiahan, county Wexford, by Frances, his wife.
The Rev. William Moore married Alice, sister of Henry
Whitfield.

Lorenzo Moore was Colonel of the Battleaxe Guards, and
died a Major-General at Dresden, on 18th March, 1737. His
sister married the Rt. Hon. Gteor^e Ogle, whose statue re-
mains in St. Patrick's Cathedral, DubUn.

XII.— Henry Pomeroy, Esq., re-elected.

XIII.— Sir John Stewart Hamilton, Bart., re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1790.

Began 20 May, 1790~conchided 11 July, 1797.

Name. Constituency.

James Stewart, of KlUymooD, Esq ) Tvronn Pnnntir

Hon. Thomas Knox, f Ty~n« County.

Thomas Coghlan, Esq., ^

Edmond Stanley, of DubUn, Esq. f .„„^^, Tift,«n»h

John Stewart, Esq . In the place of Thomas Coghlan. f ^^8^^^ Borough.

deceased. J

Sackvllle Hamilton, Esq., ^

Richard Townsend Herbert, Esq., f ^. . ^. ^,.

Right Hon. Thomas Pelham . in place of SackviUe HamUton, f ^*o«"«' ^"7.

who accepted office of Kschcator of Munster. j

Hon. John Knox x

Hon. George Knox, ........(y^ -^ .

James Verncr, Esq., in place of John Knox, who accepted f ^^^^gannon Borough.

office of Escheator of Munster. )

Sir John Stewart Hamilton. Bart i a*,^K««- i»^^„.k

Hon. Henry Pomeroy, \ Strabane Borough.

MEMOIRS.

I, — James Stewabt, of Killymoon, Esq., re-elected.

11. — Hon. Thomas Knox.

The Hon. Thomas BLnox, eldest son of the first Viacount
Northland, has been already noticed as Member for Dungan-

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non. He was created Baron Kanfurly in the United King-
dom in 1826, and Earl of Ranfurly, in Ireland, in 1831.
He succeeded his father as Viscount Northland in 1818.
He was bom 5th August, 1754; married, 2nd June, 1785,
Diana Jane, eldest daughter and coheir of Edmond Viscount
Pery (who died in 1839), and died 26th April, 1840.
AUGHER.
III. — Thomas Coghlan, Esq.

Thomas Coghlan was sixth in descent from Sir John
MacCoghlan, of Cloghan, who married Sabine MacDalachan,
was knighted in 1569, and died 18th July, 1590. Sir John
was succeeded by his son John, who was knighted by the
Earl of Essex in 1599; and who married Mary, daughter
of Art MacCoghlan, in 1571. They had a son, Garrett, who
died 17th April, 1629, and was buried at Clonmacnois on
the 19th, having married Honora, daughter of Sir Richard
Burke, Earl of Clanricarde and St. Albans. Garrett had a
son, John of Garry castle, who died before 1663, leaving, by
Constance his wife, a son, John Coghlan (whose will was
dated 8th May, 1705), and who was twice married. His
first wife was Joan Fitzpatrick of Cajstletown ; his second,
Cowly Dowling, who remarried Thomas Butler of Ballina-
sloe. By Joan Fitzpatrick he had three sons. The two
elder,Ca ptain Garrett and Captain James, d. s. p. The thiixi,
FeUx, married twice; first, Elena, daughter of Esmond
Malone of Dublin ; and secondly, Ismay Daly of Killileagh.
He died February, 1758, having had by his first wife Thomas,
the subject of this memoir ; and a daughter, Margaret Maria,
wife of a Mr. Pritchett. By the second wife, Ismay Daly, he
had four daughters : (1) Rose, who married Hyacinth Daly,
son of Denis Daly of Raford, county Gal way (who died 1782),
by whom she had the Right Hon. Denis Bowes Daly (died
1825), and Margaret, wife of Sir Skeifington Smyth ; (2)
Bridget; (3) Joanna; and (4) Frances. Thomas Coghlan
married Anne Cary of Dungiven, county Londonderry ; but
had no issue by her. His will was dated 2nd December,
1772, and proved 28th March, 1794. In 1791 he was
excused from attendance on committees, being sixty years
of age and upwards. His successor in Augher was sworn
March 25th, 1794.

Thomas Coghlan, who was of Cloghan (King's County),
sat for Castlebar in the Parliament of 1776, and for Carling'
ford in that of 1783. He had pensions amounting to £850,*
and his address was given in Samuel Watson s " Gentle-
man's and Citizen's Almanack for 1784" as of Dublin

• Viz. :— £300 a year from 7 June, 1776, £S60 a year from 26 Nov., 1788,
and £900 a year from 8 August, 1789. (Antbologia Ulbemica, vol. n., p. 887.)

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Castle, and of Strawberry Hill, Banagher, King's County; but
I cannot discover that he held any office. Had he survived
until the election of the next Parliament, Mr. Coghlan would
have come under the provisions of the Act 33, Geo. iii.,
chap. 41 (1793), for securing the Freedom and Independence
of the House of Commons, by excluding certain placeholders,
as well all pensioners under the Crown, or the husbands of
pensioners, from sitting in the House of Commons^ There
IB a pedigree of the Coghlan or MacCoghlan family in
Ulster's office*

IV.— Edmond Stanley, Esq.

Mr. Stanley, of Dublin, was a member of the Bar. In the
next Parliament, he sat for Lanesborough Borough, county
Longford ; and in 1799, being then a Sergeant-at-Law, voted
for the Union.

Mr. Stanley was appointed third Sergeant-at-Law by
patent dated 10 December, 1793; and first Sergeant, by
patent dated 1 July, 1801.

Mr. Edmond Stanley was the second son of Edmond
Stanley, the elder, of Athlone, whose will, dated 4 February,
was proved May, 1763. He was grandson of Robert Stanley,
of Inchmore, who was buried at St. John's, Roscommon,
in 1720.

V. — John Stewart, Esq., in the place of Thomas Coghlan,

deceased.

John Stewart, Esq. (afterwards Right Hon.), a member of
the Bar, who succeeded Mr. Coghlan as Member for Augher,
being sworn on the last day of the Session, March 25,
1794, was the eldest son of the Rev. Hugh Stewart, Rector
of Termon-ma-guirk, county Tyrone, from 1791 to 1800;
by his wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Hamilton.
He was bom 1757 ; and maxried Mary, daughter of Colonel
Archdale, M.P. for Fermanagh ; by whom he had with other
issue. Sir Hugh Stewart, second Baronet, father of the
present Sir John Marcus Stewart, by Julia, daughter of
Marcus Gage, Esq., of Bellarena, county Londonderry.

Mr. Stewart was, in the Parliament of 1798, returned for
five places, viz. : — ^Augher, Strabane, Portarlin^n, Bangor,
and Askeaton (county Limerick),and elected to sit for Bangor.
He was re-elected and sworn 5 March, 1798, on acceptance
of office as Counsel to the Commissioners of Revenue; and
elected again, and sworn 15 August, 1798, as Solicitor-

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General. He subsequently (in 1800), became Attorney-
General, but resigned apparently in the same year. He
voted for the Union in 1799.

Mr. Stewart was created a Baronet in 1803, as Sir John
Stewart of Athenry, county Tyrone. He was the great-
great-grandson of Captain Andrew Stewart, ' who accom-
panied Lord Ochiltree (the tincestor of the Earl of
Castlestewart), to Ireland ; and settled at Gortigal, county
Tyrone, about 1627- Sir John Stewart was High Sheriff
of Tyrone in 1809.

CLOGHER.

VI. — Sackville Hamilton, Esq., re-elected.

VII. — Richard Townsend Herbert, Esq.

Richard Townsend Herbert, Esq., belonged to a
family which was a branch of that of Herbert of Muckross,
county Kerry.

His great-grandfather, Arthur Herbert, married Mary,
daughter of George Bastable,of Castleisland, and had George,
who married Jane Fitzgerald, daughter of the Knight of
Kerry ; by her he had the Rev. Arthur, who married Helena,
third daughter of Colonel Richard Townsend,* and their son
was the subject of this memoir.

Mr. Townsend married twice : — first, Emily Herbert ; and
secondly, Jane, daughter of Anthony Stoughton, of Bally-
horgan ; by whom he had, the Rev. Arthur Herbert, who
married Jane, daughter of the Rev. Maynard Denny, of
Church-hill, and had the Rev. Arthur Herbert, Rector of
Castleisland. Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert, was a
younger son of Mr. Richard Townsend Herbert. In part
of the next Parliament, Mr. Herbert sat for the Borougn of
Granard, being sworn 3 February, 1800.

VIII. — The Rt. Hon. Thomas Pelham, in place of Sackville
Hamilton, who accepted the office of Escheator of
Munster.

Mr. Pelham, who ultimately became the second Earl of
Chichester, was the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant.
I find that he had held that office as far back as 1783 —
under Lord Northington's administration. The new writ
for Clogher, in place of Mr. Hamilton, was ordered on the
24th March, 1795. In the Parliament of .1783, he had
represented Canick-on-Shannon, and in that of 1798, he
sat for the borough of Armagh till he vacated his seat, by
accepting the office of gentleman-at-large to the Lord Lieu-
tenant. His successor. General Lake, was sworn on the
15th January, 1800.

♦M.P. for Cork, 1776.

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We find in the "Cornwallis Correspondence" (Ross,
vol. ii., p. 430) in a letter from Lord Cornwallis to the
Duke of Portland (the Home Secretary), 7th November,
1798, that Mr.. Pelham then desired to resign the Chief
Secretaryship on the ground of ill health ; a note says that
he had been desirous of doing so for some time, but the
Duke had urged him to remain, and only yielded to his
wishes on the 2nd November. Lord Cornwallis recom-
mended Lord Castlereagh as his successor.

On the 26th September, 1800, Lord Camden in a letter
to Lord Castlereagh, suggested that the latter should resign
the office of Keeper of the Signet, in favour of Mr. Pelham,
on the understanding that the office of Chief Secretary
would not in future be in the gift of the Lord Lieutenant,
but of the Prime Minister, and thus be more permanent in
its character. Lord Castlereagh replied by placing the
office of Keeper of the Simet at Mr. Pitt's disposal, but
suggested that when Mr. relham resigned the office of
Secretary of State, it should be permanently affixed to that
of Chief Secretary, {lb., Vol. iii, p. 293.)

Mr. Pelham was Secretary of State for the Home Depar1>-
ment. In 1801, he was summoned to the House of Lords
in his father's barony; and in 1807, became Postmaster-
General, having succeeded his £sither as second Earl of
Chichester in 1805. He married, in 1801, Mary, daughter
of the fifth Duke of Leeds, and died in 1826.

Mr. Pelham represented the county of Sussex in the
English Parliament from 1780 tiU his succession to the
Peerage.

■ DUNGANNON.
IX. — ^The Hon. John Knox.

Mr. John Knox was the second son of Lord Welles,
created Viscount Northland in 1791. He became a Major-
General in the army, and Governor of Jamaica, and was
lost on his passage to that island in 1800. — (S^ Burke's
Peerage, " Earl of Ranfui-ly ").

X. — ^The Hon. George Kjnox.

Mr. George Knox was brother of his colleague, being fifth
son of Lord Welles. He was subsequently a Privy CounciDor
and D.C.L. He manied, first, Anne, daughter of Sir Robert
Staples, Bart. ; and secondly, Harriet, daughter of Thomas
Fortescue,Esq. ; by both of whom hehadissue. Hediedin 1 827.
(See Burke's Peerage). In the Parliament of 1798, he sat
for Dublin University, and in 1799, voted against the
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from his office. He continued to represent the University
till the dissolution, in October, 1806. On March 28th, 1805,
he was re-elected on appointment as one of the Commis-
sioners of the Treasury in Ireland.

XI. — James Verner, Esq., in place of John Knox, who
accepted the office of Escheator of Munster.

The new writ was ordered for Dungannon on the 22nd
February, 1794. Mr. Verner, who was returned for Dun-
gannon in place of Mr. John Knox, was the elder son of
David Verner, Esq., by Elizabeth Crossle, by whom he had
a large family. His youngest son, William, M.P. for the
county Armagh, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, having
succeeded, in 1788, to the estates of his paternal granduncle,
Thomas Verner, Esq., of Churchhill, was created a baronet
in 1846, and died in 1871. He was father of the present
Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, Bart., late M.P. for county
Armagh.

Mr. James Verner was High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1790.

STRABANE.

XII. — Sir John Stewart Hamilton, Bart., re-elected.

XTII. — Hon. Henry Pomeroy, re-elected.

PAKLIAMENT OF 1798.

Began 9 January, 1798. Concluded 31 December, 1800.

Name. Constitnenoy.

James Stewart, Esq., ^

Hon. Somerset Lowry Corrv, commonly called Lord f fr„«««^ r"«««»»

Viscount Cony. }■ Tyrone County.

William BaUey, Esq

John Stewart, of Aughlnree, Esq.,

James Galbntith, Esq., in place of Mr. Stewart, who made \- Angher Borough.

his election tor Bangor.

Sir John Tydd, Bart

Thomas Burgh, Esq

Jonah Barrington, Esq., in place of Sir John Tydd, who

accepted the office of Escheator of Leinster.
Lieutenant- General William Gardiner, in place of Mr.

Burgh, a Commissioner of Accounts.
Rt. Hon. Richard Annesley, in place of Mr. Barrington,

who accepted the office of Escheator of Munster.
John King, Esq., ) In place of General Gardiner and Mr.
Charles Ball, Esq.,) Annesley, daclared not duly elected.

Hon. Charles Knox,

James Verner, Esq

Richard Fortescue Sharkey, Esq., in place of Mr. Knox,

who accepted the office of Escheator of Gonnaught.
Hon. John Knox, in place of Sharkey, who accepted the

office of Escheator of Munster.

Nathaniel Montgomery Moore, Esq., \

John Stewart, Esq., f Rf«,h«no n^^^^^K

Andrew Knox. Esq., in place of Mr, Stewart, who made f ^trabane Borough

his election for Rsagor. )

••Clogher aty.

Dungannon Borough.

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I. — Jambs Stbwart, Esq., re-elected.

IL — Hon. SoMEBSET LowBT Cobby, commonly called Lord
Viscount Corry.

Viscount Cony was the second, but only surviving son
of Armar Lowry Corry, first Earl of Belmore, who formerly
represented the county, by his first wife, Lady Margaret
Butler, eldest daughter of Somerset Hamilton, Earl of
Carrick; his elder brother, Galbraith, having died very
young. He was returned also for Ballysliannon, which was
one of his father's boroughs, but elected to sit for Tyrone.
In 1800 he married his first cousin, Lady Juliana Butler
(who died in 1861), and by her had Armar, M.P. for
Fermanagh, and third Earl of Belmore; the Rt. Hon. Henry
Cony, M.P. for Tyrone from 1825-73, sometime first Lord
of the Admiralty, fieither, by Ladv Harriet Ashley, of
Montagu, Lord Rowton; and Sarah, died young. Lord
Corry represented the county again in the m^t session of
the Imperial Parliament. He succeeded his father, 2nd
February, 1802. In 1819, he became a representative peer
for Ireland, and was Qovemor of Jamaica from 1829-32.
He died at Leamington in 1841.

Lord Corry moved the address in answer to the Lord
Lieutenant's speech, on the first day of his sitting in Parlia-
ment. But like his father, when the Union question arose,
he was a strong anti-unionist In 1800, on the report of
the Union Bifl, he made a motion against it. A short
resum^ of the debate will be found in the " Constitution **
newspaper of the 7th June, 1800. The motion itself was
too long to be all printed in one day's number of the paper.
It waa rejected by 135 to 77. The report was earned by
155 to 87.

Lord Cony succeeded, in November, 1798, the Marquess
of Abercom as Lieut.-Colonel Commandant of the Tjo-one
Biilitia (who had held that rank from the embodiment of
the regiment in July, 1793). The name of the rank was
changed to Colonel, apparently in 1802. Lord Belmore
resigned in 1804, and was succeeded, on 11th August, bv
Lord Caledon, whom he had made lieui-Colonel, 9th
May, 1801. He was later on in life Custos Botulorum of
Tyrone.

AUGHER.

III. — William Baillie, Esq.

Captain William Baillie, of the Tyrone re^ment of
Militia, was the son of William Baillie, Esq., of Timaakea,
county Tyrone, who married Eleanor Morris Mar. Set,

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dated 15th August, 1753), and who died before 1781, his
will being dated 17th November, 1767. Timaakea is near
Stewartstown. There seems to have been a residence at
Timaakea in 1632 ; as there is a carved stone with that
date in the old house, now a coach-house. There are also
stones which bear the dates of 1676 and 1753. The namie
of William Baillie the elder, appears in public records from
1740 to 1753.

The name of William Baillie the younger, the subject of
this memoir, appears also in such records from 1778 to
1805. He disentailed the trust estate by deed, dated 20th
Mav, 1786, and as evidenced by marriage settlement of
24th January, 1786, married Sarah, second daughter of the
Rev. Hugh Stewart, of Tynan, county Armagh, Rector of
Termonmaguirk, county Tj-rone, from 1791 to 1800, by his
second wife, Harriet Anne, widow of George Scholes, Esq.,
of High Bank, Manchester. He was therefore brother-in-
law of Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Stewart, of Athenree,
M.P. William Baillie was appointed High Sheriff of
Tyrone on 16th February, 1787, and on 2 1st December, 1791,
to the Commission of the Peace for the county. He voted
for the Union in 1799, Augher being then Lord Abercom's
borough. He was succeeded in the estate by his brother,
Theodore, whose name appears in public records fiom 1789
to 1813, and who died ci/rca 1825. He had had three
daughters, viz., EUen, who died before her mother and pre-
sumably her father also ; Catherine, who succeeded
him ; and Julia, who died before both her sisters. Catherine
died unmarried, and left the Tirnaskea estate to Thomas
Robert Gage, Esq., who under the will assumed the name of
Baillie, in addition to and before that of Gage ; and who is
the present Solicitor to the General Post Office in Ireland.
Although there was no blood relationship, there was a
iamily connexion apparently between the Baillie and Gage
families through the family of Sir John Stewart ; the
first wife of Sir Hugh, the second baronet, being a Miss
Gage. (See Burke's Peerage.)

IV.— John Stewart, of Aughinree, Esq., re-elected.
Mr. Stewart elected to serve for Bangor borough. As will
be seen below, he was also returned for Strabane and
Portarlington. He became Solicitor-General in this year.

V. — James Galbraith, Esq., in place of Mr. Stewart, who
made his election for Bangor.
Mr. Galbraith, who was elected in place of Mr. Stewart,
was son of James Galbraith, Esq., of Londonderry, by

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Elizabeth, daughter of John Whitehill, of Clach. His
OTandfather was Samuel Galbraith, of Duuduff^ Point,
County Donegal, who married Jane, daughter of John
Clarke.

Mr. Qalbraith was created a baronet in 1813. He
married Rebecca Dorothea^ daughter of John Hamilton, of
CasUegiven, county Donegal, by whom he had, with other
daughters, Jane, who married in 1820 Captain Charles
Stanhope, by whom she was mother of George Philip,
eighth Earl of Chesterfield.

Sir James Qalbraith died in 1826 without male issue, and
the baronetcy became extinct.

OLOGHER.
VI.— Sir John Tydd, Bart.

On the 20th Juno, 1776, and again, in consequence of the
prorogation of Parliament on the 15th October, 1777, John
Tydd, of aonreker, and Hugh Walsh, of BallykiUcavin, both
in the Queen's County, petitioned against the return of Lord
Viscount Jocelyn, and Sir John PameU, for Maryborough.
The result was, that Sir John PameU was allowed to retain
his seat, but Mi\ Tydd was seated in place of Lord Jocelyn,
(26th January, 1778). Why a distinction was made is not
very obvious, as the petition impugned the entire legality
of the election, as well as the correctness of the return. In
1780 and 1783 Mr. Tydd's name appears in the Liber
Munerum as a Commissioner of Appeals. In 1783 Mr. Tydd
sat for Ardfert in place of the Right Hon. John Scott, who
elected to serve for Portarlington. In 1790 he was returned
for Ballinakill borough, in the Queen's County. On the
5th February, 1795, we find John Tydd, Esq., asking the
House of Commons for compensation for the extraordinary
trouble he had been at in executing the office of Paymaster
of Premiums granted for inland and canal carriage. A
similar petition was presented by Sir John Tydd (now a
baronet) on 4th February in the following year.

Sir John Tydd was returned for Clogher in the Parliament
of 1798, but accepted the office of ^cheater of Leinst^r,
and Mr. Barrington was sworn in his room on the 30th
April, 1798. On the 4ith of April Sir John was sworn for
Fore (county Westmeath) in the place of the Hon. Richard
Annesley, who elected to sit for Blessington. But on the
19th February, 1800, we find Mr. Burgh, his colleague in
Clogher, sworn in his room for Fore, he having accepted the
office of Escheator of Munster Sir John's name aoes not
appear in the Union division list of 1799.

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In 1799, Sir John Tydd was Pasmiaster of Com Bounties,
and a sum of £800 was voted to him on 22nd February,
in that capacity. (See Commons* Journals.)

Sir John Tydd was created a baronet 24«th July, 1795.
He married May, 1772, Diana, daughter and co-heir of
Benjamin Bunbury, Esq., of Kilfeacle. He died without
issue 1806. His widow's will was proved in 1821. Sir
J ohn was son of French Tydd, Esq., of the King's County
(by Elizabeth Moore, his wife), who was fourth son of
Thomas Tydd, of Knockerley, in the King's County (by
Mary French, his wife), and grandson of Francis Tydd,
of Faganstown, county Limerick (who died in 1702) by
Elizabeth, his wife, sister of Peter Padfield. There is a very
full pedigree of this family for five generations in the Will
collections. (Information obtained fix)m Ulster's Office.)

Sir John Tydd was of Lamberton, in the Queen's County.
Lady Tydd was sister of the wife of St. Gteorge Richardson,
M.P. for Augher, 1755-60. He was a friend of John Scott,
Earl of Clonmell (Chief Justice), and an executor of his
wilL

VII.— Thomas Burgh, Esq.

Mr. Burgh at the time of the Union Division in 1799,
was Secretary to the Lords of the Treasury, and of course
voted for it.

In 1776, 1 find Thomas Burgh of Chapelizod, and Thomas
Burgh of Oldtown, both elected for Ati&y, county Kildare.
Again in 1783, one of them (I presume the subject of this
memoir), represented it again. In 1790, Thomas Burgh
represented Kilbeggan, Westmeath.

The father of the Member for Clogher, also Thomas Burgh,
married Anne, daughter of the Right Reverend Dive Downes,
Bishop of Cork, by whom he had, William, LL.D. and
Thomas, of whom I now treat, who became Comptroller-
General and Commissioner of the Revenue. He accepted
the office of Commissioner of Accounts in or about the
beginning of 1800, which vacated his seat for Clogher; but
on the 19th Feb. of that year was sworn for Fore, in the

5 lace of Sir John Tydd. Mr. Thomas Burgh married Anne,
aughter and heir of David Aigion, Esq., by whom he had
General Ulysses Burgh, second Lord Downes, in which title
and peerage he succeeded his cousin. Lord Chief Justice, Lord
Downes.

VIII.— Jonah Barrington, Esq.. in place of Sir John Tydd,
Bart, who accepted the office of Escheator of Munster.

Mr. Barrington was sworn on 30th April, 1798. I find
in a note to page 67, of Vol. III. of the " Comwallis Cor-

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respondence," that Mr., afterwards Sir Jonah Barrington,
was bom about 1764, and died 8th April, 1834. He married
in June, 1789, a daughter of Edward Grogan, Esq., a silk
mercer ; and sister-in-law of Lundy Foot He was Judge
of the Admiralty Court, but was removed from the bendi
on an address to the Crown, voted by both Houses of Par-
liament, in 1830. He was M.P. for Tuam from 1790 to
1797. He voted against the Union in 1799, being then
Judge of the Admiralty Court.

He retired from Parliament after the session of 1799.

IX. — Lieutenant- General William Gardiner, in place of
Mr. Burgh, a Commissioner of Accounts.

General Gardiner, who was returned in place of Mr.
Burgh in 1800, but unseated on petition, was the grandson
of the Rt. Hon. Luke Gardiner, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland,
who married Anne Stewart, the heiress of the Stewarts of
the Mountjoy family — (see page 2oS\ Their son was the
Right Hon. Charles Gardiner, who married Florinda,
daughter of Robei-t Norman, of Lagore, county Meath ; and
had the Right Hon. Luke Gardiner, created Baron and
Viscount Mountjoy (who was father of Charles John, Earl
of Blesbington), and the subject of this memoir, General
WiDiam Gardiner, who married Harriet, daughter of the
Rev. Sir Richard Wrottesley, Baronet, of Staffordshire.
General Gardiner was sworn 3rd Feb., 1800. The petition
alleged that the records, which would show who had the
right of voting, had been suppressed. In point of fact, no
charter for this borough, bearing date as far back as 1613,
when it first returned members, cai» be found or traced.
Some of the Clogher records have, I believe, been destroyed
by fire ; and the Bishop practically had nominated the
members.

X. — Rt. Hon. Richard ANNESLEY,in place of Mr. Barrington,
who accepted the office of Escheator of Munster.
Mr. Annesley, who was also unseated on petition, was
sworn 3rd Feb., 1800. He was the second son of Viscount
Qlerawley, and succeeded his elder brother, as Earl Annesley,
in 1802, by virtue of a special remainder. He was born in
1745, and married in 1771 Anne, daughter and heiress of
Robert Lambert of Dunlady, county Down. He died in
1824, and was the grandfather of the present Earl. In 1776
he represented Coleraine, and in 1790, Newtownards, county
Down. He was returned to the Parliament of 1798 for
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Bit for the latter. In 1800 he had accepted the office of
Escheator of Munater, Mr. W. Saurin being sworn in his
room on 3rd February. He was himself sworn on the
same day for Clogher, but being unseated, he succeeded
General Cradock for Middleton, county Cork, being sworn
May 8th, 1800. Being then a Commissioner of Revenue,
he had voted for the TJnion in 1799.

XI. — John King, Esq., in place of General Gardiner,
declared not duly elected.

James King of the House of Barra, Aberdeenshire, settled
in the county of Fermanagh, in the Reign of Charles I. He
married Nichola Johnston, and was ancestor of the family
of King of Corrard, county Fermanagh, now represented by
Sir Charles S. King, Bart., Corrard, and of the subject of this
memoir by a younger branch.

His fifth son, Charles King, married Katherine Galbraith,
sister of Robert Galbraith, of Clonconick, county Leitrim ;
and died in 1714, leaving two sons ; the second of whomi,
John King, of Mossfield, Clogher, county Tyrone, bom 1703,
died 1777, leaving by his wife, Katherine, an only son,
Charles E^ng, of St. Angelo, county Fermanagh, and of
Fardross, county Tyrone ; who was M.P. for Swords, 1776—
1783, and for Belturbet, 1797-1799. He was succeeded
on his death by Blaney Townley Balfour, Esq. He was
High Sheriiar, county Tyrone, 1782, was bom 1737, and
died 1799, leaving by his first wife (who died in 1777), the
subject of this memoir, his second wife being Katherine,
daughter and eventually co-heiress of James Gledstanes, of
Fardross, county Tyrone.

His only child, John King, of St. Angelo, county Fer-
managh, and of Fardross, coimty Tyrone, was Major in the
Fermanagh Militia (Com. dated 10 February, 1794), and
distinguished himself with his corps in action against the
rebels in 1798. He was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1801 .
He was in 1800 seated on petition, as M.P. for the borough
of Clogher; which he is said to have carried against l£e
Bishop of Clogher's interest, and he continued to represent
it till the Union. He was sworn 29th March. He married
Elizabeth, only daughter of Garrett Wall, of Coolnamuck
Court, county Waterford, and died 12th September, 1810,
leaving two sons and one daughter, viz. : — CM)tain Charles,
74^h Highlanders, wounded at the siege of JBadajoz, 1812,
who died 8. p. 1843 ; Lieutenant John, Boyal Marines, died
XLTmL ; and Letitia, who married 1806, Lieutenant-Colonel
John Godfirey, eldest son of the Rev. Luke Godfrey, ll,d.,

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Treasurer of Cloyne; who died in 1813; and she died in
1833, leaving issue : — John, Major 43rd Bengal light
Infantry, bom 8th June 1810; d.unm., 14th August, 1878 ;
and Barbara (deceased), married the Rev. G. S. Hughes, of
Hyde House, Leamington.'*

XII.— Chables Ball, Esq., in place of the Right Hon.
Richard Annesdey, declared not duly elected,

Charles Ball, was son of John Ball, M.P. for Drogheda
(who voted against the Union in 1799), and Sergeant-at-
Law; and grandson of the Rev. Stearne Ball, Military
Chaplain, and Curate of Drogheda. He left no issue.
Lieutenant-Colonel F. F. Ball, of 17 Granby Gardens, is
his nephew. Mr. Ball was sworn 29th March, 1800.

DUNGANNON.
XIII. — Hon. Charles E^nox.

The Hon. Charles Knox was the sixth son of the first
Viscount Northland. He afterwards took Holy Orders
and became Archdeacon of Armagh. The present Lord
Primate (late Bishop of Down), is bis second soa He died
in 1825.

The new writ tor Dungannon was ordered on the 28th
January, 1799, in the early days of the session.

XIV.— James Verner, Esq., re-elected.

XIV. — Richard Fortescue Sharket, Esq., in place of the
Hon. Charles Ejiox, who accepted the office of
Escheator of Connaught

Richard Fortescue Sharkey, probably the M.P. for Dun-
gannon, graduated in Trinity College, Dublin, B.A., Vem.
1778, and LL.B. November 11th of the same year. Mr.
Sharkey seems to have been absent from the division on the
Union, 1 799. He accepted the office of Escheator of Munster
and a new writ was ordered for Dungannon in his room
18th July, 1800.

XVL— The Hon. John Knox, in place of Sharkey, who
accepted the office of Escheator of Munster.

Major-General the Hon. John Knox had already sat for
Dungannon in part of the Parliament of 1790. As the
Irish House of Commons only sat four times after the writ

* The above is mainly derived from MSS. by the Rev. Samuel Madden, of
Manor WaterhooBe, io the possession of the present Sir Charles King, and f it»m
infonnation derived from Sir Charles.

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was ordered, parliament being prorogued on 2nd August,
he could not nave taken his seat in 1800, and his name con-
sequently does not appear on the journals. Colonel Stuart
Ejiox however has included him in a list he has ^ven me,
taken firom a record of Dungannon members in his posses-
sion ; and he was elected to the Imperial Parliament

STBABANE.

XVIL — Nathaniel Montgomeby-Moobe, Esq.

Colonel Montgomery-Moore's memoir has been already
given (p. 299) when representing the county as Nathaniel
Montgomery.

XVni.— John Stewart, Esq.

Mr. Stewart, who was also returned for Augher,
Askeyton, Portarlington, and Bangor, elected to sit for
Bangor.

XIX« — ^Andbew Knox, Esq., in place of Mr. Stewart, who
made his election for Bangor.

Andrew Knox was of Prehen, county Donegal, and was
Colonel of the Donegal Militia. He married Mary, daughter
of Dominick M'Causland, of Daisy Hill, county Londonderry,
and had, with other issue, (Jeorge, who married Anna
Maria, daughter of Robert Johnstone, Esq., of Magheramena,
county Fermanagh, and had George, now of Prehen. He
was descended from Andrew Knox, Bishop of Raphoe from
1 611-33, previously Bishop of Orkney. ( Vide App. v., p. 352.)

PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1796.

First Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1801 ; dissolved 29th

June, 1802.

Name. gjJS^'. Conrtltuenoy.

Jame9 Stewart, Esq., ) . Tyrone

Somerset Lowry Cony, commonly called Lord \- — -J ccmntv

Visconnt Corry. > ^ ^ouniy.
John Stewart, Esq., of Athenree, co. Tyrone, )

vftje Somerset Lowry Ck>rry, commonly called S- Ist Karob, 1803, Ditto.

Lord Viscount Corry, Earl of Belmore. )

John Knox, Esq — { BoroS^h."'

Sir Charles HamUton. Bart, ©foe John Knox, ? ^ut Nov., 1801, Ditto.

MEMOIR.
L — Jambs Stewabt, Esq., re-elected

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IL — Viscount Oorry, re-elected.

in. — ^The Right Hon. John Stbwabt, in place of
Viscount Cony.

The Right Hon. John Stewart was the former Member
for Bangor, afterwards Sir John Stewart, whose memoir has
been already given. He was Attorney-General in 1800, and
was created a Baronet in 1803.

DUNGANNON.

IV.— Hon. John Knox.

Major-General the Hon. John Ejiox, whose memoir has
been already given, was lost on his passage to Jamaica, of
which he was governor. He is stated in Burice's Peerage
to have died in 1800 — but news travelled slowly in those
days, which would account for the delay in filling his seat,
whidi he could never have taken.

V. — Sir Chables Hamilton, Babt.

Sir Charles Hamilton, of The Mount, county Middlesex,
K.C.B., Admiral of the Red, was son of Captain John
Hamilton, R.N., created a Baronet in 1776, for his gallantry
at the siege of Quebec in 1775, by Cassandra Agnes,
daughter of Edward Chamberlayne, Esq., of Mangersbury,
county Gloucester. He succeeded his father in 1784. Cap-
tain John Hamilton had been the son of John Hamilton,
Esq., of Chelston, by a dau^ter of Dr. Wright of London,
and grandson of the Hon. William Hamilton, of Chilston,
brother of James (sixth Earl of Abercom), by Margaret,
second daughter of Sir Thomas Colepepper, Ent., of
Hollingbume, Kent

! Sir Charles Hamilton was bom 25th May, 1767, and married
19th April, 1803, Henrietta Martha, only daughter of George
Drummond, Esq., of Stanmore, Middlesex; by whom he left
at his death, 14th September, 1849, Colonel Sir Cliarles
John James Hamilton, of The Mount, third Baronet ; who,
14th December, 1833, married Mary, second daughter of
William Wynne, Esq., of Dublin, who died 25th May, 1879,
without issue.

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PARLIAMENT OF 1802.

Summoned to meet at Westminster, 31st August, 1802 ; dissolved
24th October, 1806.

Name. Date of Setom. Conrtitaenoj.

James Stewart, Esq., of Killymooii, .) to*h t«i. ijim i Tyrone

John Stewarts Esq!; if Atheiee. . . ,\ 19th July, 180S. \ 'cojuaiy.

George Knox, Esq 19th Jnly, 1809. { ^^S^

sir Charles Hamilton, Bart., vice George Knox, )

Esq., who elected to serre for Trinity College, S 9th June, 1808, Ditto.

Dnblin. )

MEMOm.

L— James Stewabt^ of Eillymoon, re-elected.

II.— The Right Hon. John Stewart, of Athenree, re-
elected.

III. — ^The Hon. George Knox.

The Hon. Doctor George Knox's memoir has been already
given in the Parliament of 1790. Mr. Knox served for the
University in that of 1798, and also in 1801. He was now
again returned, and elected to serve for it. He was re-elected
for it 28th March, J 805, after appointment as one of the Com-
missioners of the Treasury in Ireland. He had resigned
the office of a Commissioner of Revenue in 1799, after
voting against the Union.

lY,— Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart., vice Knox.

Sir Charles Hamilton had sat in part of the last Parlia-
ment for this borough.

PARLIAMENT OF 1806.

Summoned to meet 15th Dec., 1806. Dissolved 29th April, 1807.
Name. Date of Return. Gonstitaenoy.

George Knox, Esq., of Dungannon, . llth Nov., 1806, { bot^^

James HamUton, commonly called Lord )

Hamilton, vice George Knox, Esq., who \ Slst Jan., 1807, . Do.

elected to serre for the UniTenity of DnbUn. )

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MEMOIR

I. — Jamei^ Stewart, Esq., of Killymoon, re-elected.

II.— Thomas Knox, Esq.

The Hon. Thomas Enox, was the eldest son of the first
Viscount Northland, whom he succeeded 5th November,
1818. On the 6th of July, 1826, he was created a peer of
the United Kingdom, as Baron Ranfurly ; and 14th Ssptem-
ber, 1831, was created Earl of Ranfiirly in Ireland. He was
bom 6th August, 1754, and married 2nd June, 1785, Diana
Jane, eldest daughter and co-heir of Edmond, Viscount Pery,
formerly Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He died
26th April, 1840. He sat for Dungannon in 1783.

III. — George Knox, Esq., re-elected.

The Hon. George Knox again elected to serve for the
University.

IV, — Viscount Hamilton.

Viscount Hamilton was the eldest son of James, ninth
Earl, and first Marquess of Abercom, by Catherine,daughter
of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart, of Sprotborough, Yorkshire.
He was bom 7th October, 1786, and married 25th Novem-
ber, 1809, Harriet, daughter of the Hon. John Douglas,
granddaughter of James, fifteenth Ear] of Morton (who
married secondly the Earl of Aberdeen, the Prime Minister
in 1853). Lord Hamilton died 27th May, 1814, leaving
James, the late Duke of Abercom; the late Lord Claud
Hamilton, M.P. ; and Lady Harriet, wife of the late Admiral
Baillie Hamilton.

PAELIAMENT OF 1807.

Summoned to meet 22nd June, 1807. Dissolved 29th Sept., 1812.
Ntme. Date of Betmn. Conftltoeii^.

Claud Hsmilton, oommonly called Lord Claud ) a«^ ^ .^g. jDongaiinoii
HamUton. ) ^*'' ' I Borough.

Claud Scott, Eiq., of the city of London, vice )
Claud Hamilton, commonly called Lord [■ 8th March, 1809, Do.

Claud Hamilton, deoeaied. )

MEMOIR
L — James Stewart, of Killymoon, re-elected,
IL— The Hon. Thomas Knox, re-elected.

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III. — Lord Claud Hamilton.

Lord Claud Hamilton was the youngest son of the first
lUarquess of Abercorn, and brother of his predecesssor in the
representation of the borough of Dungannon, Viscount
Hamilton. He died unmarried in 1808. {Vide Burke's
Peerage.)

IV.— Claud Scott, Esq.

I have not been able positively to identify Mr. Scott,
but from his description in the rarliamentary return, not
taking the "city of London" quite literally, I suppose him to
have been the eminent banker of that name, of W estminster
and of Lytchet Minster, county Dorset ; bom 11th May,
] 742, and created a Baronet 8th September, 1821. n.e
married, 8th September, 17H7, Martha, only child of John
Eyre, Esq., of Stepney ; and left at his decease, 27th March,
1880, an only son. Sir Samuel, second baronet, great-grand-
father of the present Sir Samuel, sixth baronet. (See Burke's
Peerage—*' Scott, Baxt., of Lytchet Minster.")

PARLIAMENT OF 1812.

Summoned to meet 24th Nov., 1812. Dissolved 10th June, 1818.
Nmme. Date of Betam. Constitaenej.

^^\^:^^B^.ofl^yg.^ley.: '.} «Otii Oct. 1812. . TyroneCoonty.
George Peter Hollbrd,E«i I7th Oct., 1812, . {^5^^^

MEMOIR

I.— The Hon. Thomas Knox, re-elected.

n.— Sir John Stkwaet, Babt.

The Rt. Hon. Sir John Stewart, of Ballygawley, now a
baronet (so created in 1803), had sat for the county f5pom
1802 to 1806, as John Stewart of Athenrea He had been
formerly Attorney-General for Ireland for a short time in
1800.

III. — Geokge Peter Holford, Esq.

George Peter Holford was second son of Peter Holibrd, a
Master in Chancery, by Anne, daughter of William Nutt ;
and grandson of Robert Holford, also a Master in Chancery,
by Strah, daughter of Sir Peter Yandegent. He was of
Westonbirt, countyGloucester ; and marri^ Anne, daughter
of the Rev. Averill Daniell, Rector of Clonleigh [Linord]

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diocese of Deny. He died the 29th April, 1839. She died
18th March, 1842. Mr. Holford was of Park-lane, London.
Mr. AveriU DanieU died aged 77, August 5th, 1821. His
wife was daughter of Bishop Averill orLimerick.

PARLIAMENT OF 1818.

Summoned to meet 4 August, 1818. Dissolved 29 Feb., 1820.

Name. Date of Return. Constitiieney.

Slp John Stewart, Bart, of OreenhiU, co. Tyrone.) , - w i ai a isr».«. o.*-«*
William Stewart, Esq., of KlUymoon, co. Tyrone.} * ^"^^^ ^*^®* ^*^"* County.

Dongannon
Borough.

Thomas Knox, Esq., 96 June, 1818. | I>5n«w«M)n

MEMOIR.

I. — Sir John Stewart, Bart., re-elected.

II.— William Stewart of Killymoon.

Colonel Stewart, of the Tyrone Militia, was the son of
James Stewaii of Bjllymoon, who so long represented the
county from 1768 to 1812.

III.— Thomas Enox, Esq.

Thomas Knox was the grandson of the first Viscount
Northland, by whose death, on the 6th November, 1818,
and the succession of his own father to the viscountcy, he
became the Hon. Thomas Knox. He succeeded as second
Earl of Ranfurly in 1840. He was bom 19th April, 1786, and
married, 28th February, 1815, Mary Juliana, daughter of
Primate Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh, and son of the
Earl of Bute. He died 29th May, 1858.

PAHLIAMENT OF 1820.

Summoned to meet 21 April, 1820. Dissolved 2 June,

Name. DtteofBetnm. Conatttnenoj.

2SiJ*^^£*®'^5*^iirn, '.^ • • '\ WMireh.l8W. Tyrone County.
WllUam Stewart, Esq., of KfllymooD, . . .) > * ^ /

Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Esq.. of Aheni8,'\

ooonty T^one, and Caatlecoolc, county Ver-j- 97 June. 18*i6, ditta

managb, vice Sir John Stewart, Bart, de

Borough.

Thomas Knox, Eaq. 18 March, 1890, -[ P«""w»

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MEMOIR

I. — Sir John Stewakt, Bart., reelected

II. — William Stewabt of Killymoon, re-elected

III.— The Hon. Henry Thomas Lowhy Corry.

Mr. Corry, who was returned for the county in July, 1825,
was the second and youngest son of Somerset, second Earl
of Belmore, by his wife, Lady Juliana Butler, second
daughter of Heniy Thomas, Earl of Carrick. He was bom
in fiutland-square, Dublin, March 9th, 1803, so wsua now
twenty-two years of age. As he retained this seat unin-
terruptedly till his death, 5th March, 1873» more than forty-
seven years afterwards, he was then not only, I believe,
father of the House of Commons, but had sat for Tyrone
considerably longer than any other Member has ever done.
In Sir Robert PeeFs Ministry of 1834, he was made Comp-
troller of the Household, and a Privy Councillor. In 1841
he became Junior Lord of the Admiralty, and Secretary of
that Board in 1845. He refused office in Lord Derby's
first Administration, in 1852, being a freetrader; but was
again Secretary to the Admiralty in Lord Derby's second
Ministry in 1858. In 1866 he was appointed Vice-President
of the Council, and on his sixty-fourth birthday, in 1 867,
accepted the office of First Lord of the Admiralty (with a
seat in the Cabinet), which he held till the Ministry resigned
in December, 1868. Mr. Corry married, 18th March, 1830,
Lady Harriet Ashley, second daughter of the sixth Earl of
Shaitesbury, and had Gertrude, married in 1861 toStanlake
Batson, Esq., of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, and died in
1874 ; Armar Heniy, who married Alice, daughter and heir
of the late Thomas Greg, Esq., of Ballymenock, county
Down ; Montagu, for some yearb private Secretary to the
Bt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, and one of
the Secretaries of Legation on the occasion of his special
mission with Lord Salisbury to Berlin in 1878 ; and who
was created Baron Rowton, 1880 ; and Alice, died in 1885,
who was for some time Lady in waiting to H.RH. the
Duchess of Edinburgh. Aghenis was never Mr. Corry's
residence, but merely the place which qualified him, when a
property qualification was necessary for Members.

IV. — ^The Hon. Thomas Knox, re-elected.

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PAELIAMENT OF 1826.

Summoned to meet 26 Jtily, 1826. Dusolved 24 July, 1830.
Ntme. DatoofBatnm. CSomUtooier.

Thomas Knox, EBq 2l8t June. 1826, ^D^>««^?tt

Borough.

The former members re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1830.

Summoned to meet 14 September, 1830. Dissolved 23 April, 1831.
Name. Date of Return. Conatitnenoy.

8ir2,S?'Sw^^BaA..ofBaUygawiey. •' '} '"^^"^'^ "*'• ' '^yroneCoonty.
Thomas Knox, Eaq 6th Aug., 1880. . {^^^^^^

MEMOIR.

I.— The Hon. Benbt Corkt, re-elected.

II. — Sir Hugh Stewabt, Bart.

Sir Hugh Stewart was the eldest son of Sir John Stewart,
the former Member. He was bom, 14th May, 1792, and
married, J 9th January, 1826, Julia (who died, 1830),
daughter of Marcus Gage, Esq., of Bellarena, county Deny,
by whom he had the present Sir John Stewart, and a
daughter, Mrs. Olphert. He married, secondly, 28th February,
1837, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Henry Lucas St.
George, Rector of Dromore, diocese of Clogher i by whom
he had two sons and three daughters.

Sir Hugh Stewart died in November, 1854. (See Burke's
Peerage).

III.— The Hon. Thomas Knox, re-elected.

PARLLA.MENT OF 1831.

Summoned to meet 14th June, 1831. Dissolved 3rd Dec., 1832.
(This was the last unreformed Parliament.)

Name. Date of Return. ConBtttneney.

hJi^1»5$^'S5;.^ :::;;} "^ ^y* *»**• TyroneCoimty.
John Jamei Knox. Esq 9th May, 1881. {^^gj|^

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MEMOIR.

I. — Sir Hugh Stewabt, Bart., re-elected

II.— Hon* Henry Cokry, re-elected.

IIL— The Hon. John James Knox,

The Hon. John James Knox, lieutenant-Colonel in the
army, born 3rd April, 1790, was the fourth son of the first
Earl of Ranfurly. He married Mary Louisa, daughter of
Edward Taylor, Esq., of Bifrons, county Kent, and had a
daughter, Emily, who married Robert Dundas, Esq., of
Amiston, Midlothian. Colonel Knox died 9th July, 1856.

PAKLIAMENT OF 1833.

Summoned to meet 29th Jan., 1833. Dissolved 29th Dec., 1834.

Name. Date of Betum. Gonstitoeney

Henry Thomas Lowry Corry. Esq I i7ihD«j. ifiS9 TwoneCoontT

Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart f " ^^®®- "'*• Tyrone County.

John Jamee Knox, Esq., 12th Dec, 1889. {^^JJJ^

The former members re-elected,

PARLIAMENT OF 1835.

Summoned to meet 19th Feb., 1835. Dissolved 17th July, 1837.

Name. Date of Return. Constituency.

Claud Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud )

Hamilton, of Barona' court, county Tyrone. > 90th Jan., 1835, Tyrone County.
Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Esq., . . )

John James Knox, Esq. 9th Jan., 1886. {^B?^h?

MEMOIR

Lord Claud Hamilton was the second and youn^t son
of James, Viscount Hamilton (eldest son of the first Marquess
of Abercom, who died vitapatiia in 1814), by Lady Harriet
Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Morton, and afterwards
Countess of Aberdeen. He was bom 27th July, 1813 ; and
married 7th August, 1844, Lady Elizabeth Proby, second
daughter of the third Earl of Carysfort ; by whom he had
a son, Douglas, now in the Coldstream Guards, married Lady
Margaret Hutchinson in 1882, and has a son, Granville,
bom 1883, and three daughters (see Burke's Peerage.)
Lord Claud Hamilton filled the offices of Treasurer of
the Household (with a seat at the Privy Council) in 1852

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and 1858-9, and of Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
1866-68; he died in 1884. He was defeated when a candidate
in the next Parliament for Tyrone, at the general election of
1837, by Lord Alexander, who appears from some election
papei-s in my possession, to have been a candidate also in
1835, but was elected again in 1839 ; and sat uninterruptedly
till the general election of 1874, when he was defeated by
Mr. Ellison Macartney. He was a candidate again in 18S0,
but was defeated by Mr. Litton, afterwards one of the Land
Commissioners.

11. — ^The Right Hon. Henry Corry, re-elected.

HI. — The Hon. James John Knox, re-elected.

PAKLIAMENT OF 1837.

Summoned to meet 11th Sept., 1837. Dissolved 23rd June, 1841.
Name. Date of Return. Constituency.

Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Esq., . . \

James Dupr^ Alexander, commonly called Lord y 7th Aug., 1857, Tyrone County.

Viscount Alexander. )

Claud Hamilton, Esq., commonly called Lord ^

Claud Hamilton, vice Lord Viscount \ 6th May, 1839, Do.

Alexander, Earl of Caledon.

Thomas Knox, Esq., commonly called Lord ) ^^^ .„^ ,a„- (Dunffannon
Viscount Northland. \ 2nd Aug., 1837, | Borough,

.. „ . ... ..... .^

Thomas Knox, Esq., vke Viscount Northland,
who accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltem J- 9th June, 1838, Do.

Hundreds, county Bucks.

MEMOIR.

I. — ^The Right Hon. Henry Corry, re-elected.

II.— Viscount Alexander.

Viscount Alexander, the eldest son of the second Earl of
Caledon, was bom 27th July, 1812. He was a captain in
the Coldstream Guards. He married the 4th Sept., 1845,
Lady Jane Grimston, fourth daughter of the first Earl of
Verulam, by whom he had the present Earl of Caledon, and
other children. He succeeded his father in 1839, and was
subsequently a representative peer for Ireland. (Vide
Burke's Peerage.)

III. — Lord Claud Hamilton, vice Viscount Alexander.

Lord Claud Hamilton was the former niembei", and now
filled the vacancy caused by Lord Alexander's succession
to the Earldom of Caledon.

IV. — Viscount Northland.

Viscount Northland had sat before as Thomas Knox, Esq.,
and the Hon. Thomas Knox, from 1818 to 1831.

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V. — Thomas Kjsox, Esq., vice Viscount Northland.

Mr. Knox was Lord Northland's eldest son, and sub-
sequently third Earl of Ranfurly. He was bom 13th
Nov., 1816; married 10th Oct., 1848, Harriet, daughter of
James Rimiugton, Esq. of Broomhead Hall, Yorkshire, and
had issue, the fourth and the present Earls of Ranfurly, and
Lady Agnes Knox, married to Nugent Daniell, Esq.,
Bengal C. S. He succeeded his father as third Earl of
Ranfurly, 21st March, 1858, and died 2()th May of the
same year. (See Burke's Peerage.)

PAKLIAMENT OF 1841.

Summoned to meet 19th August, 1841 ; Dissolved 23rd July, 1 847,

Constitaency.

Name. Date of Betom.

Henry Thomaa Lowry Corry, Esq.* . . )

Gland Hamilton, Esq., commonly called Lord > fth Jnly, 1841, Tyrone County.

Claod Hamilton. )

Henry Thomaa Lowry Corry, Esq., re-elected '

, - )

after appointment as one of the Lords Com- V 23rd Sept., 1841,
missioners of the Admiralty. )

Thomas Knox* Esq., commonly called Lord ) ^ . j„, .a.. (Dnngannon
Viscount Northland. f sra juiy. I84i, ^ Borough.

The former Members re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1847.

Summoned to meet 21 at September, 1847 ; Dissolved 1st July,

1852.

Name. Date of Return. Constituency.

Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Esq., . . )

Claud Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud V 10th Aug., 1847, Tyrone County.

Hamilton. /

Claud Hamilton, Esq., commonly called Lord \

Claud Hamilton,re-elected after appointment V 19th March, 1869,

as Treasurer of the Household. )

Thomas Knox, Esq., commonly called Viscount ) ^^^ ^ jg^^

Northland. ) » » •

Thomas Knox, Esq., commonly called Viscount \

Northland, who accepted the Stewardship of V 3rd Aug., 1860,

the Chiltem Hundreds, county Bucks. )

'William Stuart Knox. Esq., vice Thomas Knox, '\

commonly called Viscount Northland, who I i^*v w^v ,0.1

Hundreds, county Bucks. )

William Stuart Knox, Esq., re-elected after >^ o... M»rt^h iftso

appointmentasone of the Grooms in Waiting. ]" ^«n laarcn, i»&i.

appointment as one

MEMOIR.
I. — Rt. Hon. Henby Cokry, re-elected.

Do.

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II — Lord Claud Hamilton, re-elected.

III. — Rt. Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, re-elected after
acceptance of office.

IV. — Viscount Northland, re-elected.

V. — Viscount Northland, re-elected after accepting
the Chiltern Hundreds.

VI. — Hon. William Stuart Knox.

Lord Northland, owing to continued bad health, having
been obliged finally to resign his seat, was succeeded by his
brother the Hon. William Stuart Knox, in Feb., 1851. He
attained the rank of Major in the Army, and is now Honorary
Colonel of the Ulster Artillery Militia. He continued to repre-
sent Dungannon until J 874. He married, 26th August, 185G,
Georgina, youngest daughter of John Rooper, Esq., of Abbots
Ripton, Hunts ; and has a son, Thomas Granville, born 1868,
and two daughters.

VIL — The Hon. William Stuart Knox, re-elected on
accepting office.

PAKLIAMENT OF 1852.

Summoned to meet 20th August, 1852. Dissolved 2l8t March,

1857.

Name. Date of Eetarn. Constitaency.

Henry Thomas Lowry Cony, Esq., . . )

Gland Hamilton, commonly called Lord Cland V 39th July, 1863, TyroneConnty.
HamUton. )

Wmiam Stuart Knox, Kaq 13th July, 1863» {^^^^X

The former Membera re-elected.

There were contests at this election. The numbers
were : —

County, I Dungarmon,

Rt. Hon. Henry Corry, . 8,3«9 I Hon. Major Knox, .100

Lord Cland Hamilton, . 3,383 WilUam Holmes 23

Captain Hlsgins, . . 979 |

PAKLIAMENT OF 1857.

Summoned to meet 30th April, 1857. Dissolved 23i'd April, 1859.

Name. Date of Return. Constituency.

Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, Kaq » . . \

Cland Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud >- 4th April, 1857, TyroneConnty

Hamilton. )

Claud Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud \

Hamilton, re-elected after appointment as V 11 tb March, 1858, Do.

Treasurer of the Household. )

William Stuart Knox, Esq Slst March. 1857 j ^ 3°^^^°

The former Members re-elected,

P 2

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PARLIAMENT OF 1859.

Summoned to meet 31st May, 1869. Dissolved 6th July, 1865.

Name. Date of Retarn. ConBtitaency.
Henry Thomas Lowry-Coriy, Esq., , . )

Claud Hamilton, Esq., commonly called Lord >- 10th May, 1859, Tyrone Conntv.

Claud Hamilton. )

WiUiam Stuart Knox, Esq., a Mijor inH. M. > ^ ,^ ,«^« ( Dungannon

Service. ; 8rd May, 1859, | Borough.

The former Members re-elected.

I think it was at this election that Major, afterwards
Colonel Blackall (of the county Longford), afterwards
Oovernor of the Gold Coast and of Queensland (where he
died in 1871), came forward in the Liberal interest.
" Thorn's Almanac " does not record a poll.

PAKLIAMENT OF 1865.

Summoned to meet 15th August, 1865. Dissolved 11th
November, 1868.

Nwe- Date of Return. Constituency.

Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry, Esq., . . \

Claud Hamilton, commonly caUed Lord Claud [• 18th July, 1866, Tyrone County.

Hamilton. } ^ *

Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry, re-elected after )

appointment as Vice-President of the Com- 5- 18th July, 1866, Ditto

mittee of Council for Education. )

Claud Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud )

Hamilton, re-elected after appointment as V 20th July, 1866. Ditto

Vice-Chamberlaln of the Household. )

William Stuart Knox, Esq., .... 14th July 1865 i I^^ngannon

• ( Borough.

The former Members re-elected.

PAELIAMENT OF 1868.

Summoned to meet 10th December, 1868 ; dissolved 26th
January, 1874.

N»°*e- Date of Return. Constituency.

Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry, Esq., , . . \
Claud Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud >• 24th Nov., 1868 i ^y^**®

Hamilton. ) ^ ' ( County.

Captain Henry William Lowry-Corry, of Castle- )
coole. CO. Fermanagh, vice Henry Thomas 5- 16th April, 1878, Ditto
liOwry-Corry, deceased. )

Wmiam Stuart Knox. Esq., .... i7th Nov., 1868. i Dungannon

V Borough.

MEMOIR.

L— Right Hon. Henry Corey, re-elected.

II— Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, re-elected.

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in. — Captain Hon. Henry William Lowry-Corry.

Captain and Lieutenant Corry, of the Coldstream Guards,
who was now elected to succeed his uncle, was the fourth
and youngest son of Ai-mar, third Earl of Belmore, by his
wife Emily, second daughter and co-heir of Wflliam
Shepherd, Esq. There was a severe contest at this election ;
Captain Corry having only a majority of three votes over his
opponent, Mr. John Ellison Macartney, of Clogher Park A
petition was tried before Mr. Justice Fitzgerald (now one of
the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary), and a scrutiny held.
Mr. Macartney having apparently turned the scale in his own
favour, abandoned the petition before the scrutiny was con-
cluded, and Captain Corry retained his seat. He was re-
elected in to the next Parliament.but at the end of it, retired in
favour of Lord Claud Hamilton, who had been beaten by Mr;
Macartney. Lord Claud, however, was again unsuccessful,
being beaten by Mr. Litton. Havingattainedthe rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel and Major, Colonel Corry served with the
Coldstream Guards in the Soudan campaign in 1885. He
is now a Colonel in the army.

He married in September, 1876, the Hon. Blanche Edith
Wood, youngest daughter of the first Viscount Halifax, by
whom he has a son, Henry Charles, bom 1887, and two
daughters, Emily and Alice. He succeeded in 1864, his
grandmother, Mrs. Shepherd, at Edwardstone Hall, Suffolk,
under the will of her brother, and his great-uncle, Charles
Dawson, Esq. He is a J.P. for Suffolk.

IV. — Colonel the Hon, Willdlm Stuabt Knox,
re-elected.

PARLIAMENT OF 1874.

Summoned to meet 5th March, 1874. Dissolved 24th March, 1880.

Kame. DateofRetom. Constitaenoy.

John WllUam EUiflon Macartney, Eeq., . .) lath Feb ia74 i Tyrone

Captain Henry William Lowry-Corry. . .j io"» '»". io«». -^ County.

Thomas Alexander Dickaon, Esq., merchant* > -.^ ^^ i--. f Dnngannon

of MiUtown House. Dnngannon. f 6tn Fe&.. 1874. -j gorough.

MEMOIR.
I.— John William Ellison Macaetnet, Esq.
Mr. Ellison Macartney, who was now returned at the
head of the poll for Tyrone, the numbers being : Macartney
4,710, Corry 3,170, Hamilton 2,752, is the only son of the
late Thomas Ellison, Esq., by Catherine, second daughter of
Arthur Chichester Macartney, Esq., K.c, of Murlough,
county Down. He was born in 1818, and succeeded his

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uncle in 1858 ; and in 1859 assumed his name of Macartney
in addition to that of Ellison. He married 1851, Elizabeth
Phoebe, eldest surviving daughter of the Rev. John Grey
Porter, of Belleisle, county Fermanagh, from whom she derived
the Palace, Clogher. His eldest son William Macartney,
is now M.P. for South Antrim. His younger son, Thomas,
late Lieutenant, R.N., has assumed his grandfather's name
of Porter. (See Walford's County Families).

II. — Captain Hon. Henry Corby, re-elected.

III.— Thomas Dickson, Esq.

Mr. Dickson, who defeated Colonel Knox by 121 votes
to 109, is of Milltown House, Dungannon, and is a mill-
owner there.

PAKLIAMENT OF 188C.*

Name. Date of Retarn.

John William Ellison Macartney, E«q., . .) » j. ,oo«

Edward Falconer Litton, Esq., q.c f ^^^^* *^®®*

Thomas Alexander Dickson, Esq., in place of)

Edward Litton, Esq., appointed a Land Ck)m-> „ 1881,

missioner. )

Thomas Alexander Dickson, Esq., April, 1880,
Thomas Dickson, Junr., Esq., vice Thomas Alex-

Constituency.
Tyrone County.

ditto.

( Dungannon
i Borough.

ditto.

andei Dickson. - ) " *®®^'

MEMOIR.

L — John W. Ellison Macartney, Esq., re-elected.

II.— Edward Litton, Esq.

Mr. Litton, of Ardavilliner, Cloyne, ccunty Cork, a
Member of the Bar and Q.C., is of a Huguenot family. He
defeated Lord Claud Hamilton for the county, by a small
majority of about 44 votes. In 1881 the Land Act having
been passed, Mr. Litton was appointed one of the original
Land Commissioners, together with Mr. Justice 0'Hagan,and
the late Mr. E. Vernon. Mr. Litton married in 1^77,
Adelaide, daughter of the late Clifford Trotter, Esq. He
was called to the Irish Bar in 1 849, and was made Q.O in
1874.

IIL — Thomas Alexander Dickson, EsQ,yvice Litton.

Mr. Dickb'on resigned his seat for Dungannon in 1881,
in order to contest the county with Colonel Stuart Knox[
whom he defeated.

IV. — Thomas Dickson, Junior, Esq.
Mr. Dickson is son of the preceding Member, whom he
succeeded in Dungannon in 1881.

* Note. — Tiie Parliamentar}' Return ends with the Parliament of 1874.

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APPENDIX IV.

NOTES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE OOLE
FAMILY, OF FERMANAGH.

Sir William Colb.

It appears by the Commons Journals, 11 Nov'. 1640 — that Sir
William Cole, M.P. for Fermanagh, waa one of a Committee sent
into England by the House of Commons to the King, with a
Remonstrance of Grievances to be presented to His Majesty. A
letter from the Committee, dated the last day of December,
appears on the Journals of 23 Feb., 1640, together with the
Speaker's (Sir Maurice Eustace's) answer.

In 1645 the English Parliament resolved to send iBl 0,000 to
the Scots Army, and clothes and provisions to the other British
forces in Ulster. Tliese were to be distributed by a committee,
which could not stir till the money was ready; "Sir Charles
Coote. laiely made by them President of Connaught, was therefore
hastened over [from England] with the Lord Foliot, Sir W. Cole,
and Lt.-Col. Wingfield, to prepare matters for their coming'' (Caxte,
vol. i., p. 535). After the King's death, the Lord Lieutenant,
the Marquis of Ormonde, attempted to gain Sir Charles Coote
from the Parliamentary party, but in vain. Coote had, in
December before (1648), seized Sir Robert Stewart and sent him
to England. He also secured Major Areskyn, and apprehended
Colonel Mervyn, and sent him in the next ship to the Parliament.
" Coote did not like the chief officers of Sir William Cole's regi-
ment ; and, therefore, about the same time (Dec. 22) issued a
warrant for seizing Lt.-Col. W. Acheson, Major Graham, Captain
Hugh Rosse, and others of the garrison of Eniskilling. Those
gentlemen were seized and clapped up in the castle of the place,
pursuant to the order ; which was not attended with those con-
sequences, which the authors of it expected. These officers were
exceedingly beloved by the soldiers, as well as by their brother
officers ; and had not been many days in prison, before all the
regiment, meeting with a favourable opportunity, took arms in
their behalf, seized Sir W. Cole, and made themselves masters of
the town and castle of Eniskilling. The officers being released,
took upon them the command of the place and regiment, and
sending Captain Rosse to the Lord Lieutenant, obtained from
him proper commissions for that purpose, Acheson being made
colonel of the regiment, and the others advanced in their order."
(Carte, vol. ii, p. 59). As it will be seen that in his Will, dated
8th October, 1653, Sir William Cole made provision for the
custody of the Castle of Enniskillen, he was probably reinstated
in his command when General Monroe gave up Enniskillen to Sir
C. Coote in April, 1650. (lb., p. 112.)

In his Will, Sir William Cole sets out the names of certain
meadows and parks near Enniskillen, such as " the great meadow
in the Island of Inishkillyn, and the little Island next Rossory,

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the great; meadow next Eossory "; and others which I cannot
identify. These produced in all £40 a year. The profits of his
two boats, he puts down at £10 a year. As the Castle of Inish-
kiilyn, being part of the public Defense, could not, by the terms
of his Patent, be left in the hands of a Minor, he left the safe
custody and keeping of the same to his son, Colonel, afterwards
Sir John Cole, during his grandson Michael's minority. It appears
from the Patent Rolls that Sir William had at one time a lease
granted to him of the Castle, for twenty-one years.

Sir William Cole was buried "in St. Michan's Church over
the water," in Dublin, October, 1653. [Funeral entry in
Ulster's Office, Vol xi. 6, and xiv. 6.]

Sir William's eldest son and heir, Michael, had married
probably in July, 1640 ; the settlement of certain lands in
Feimanagli (as recited in Sir William Cole's will, now in the
Record Office in Dublin, dated 8th Oct., and proved 28th Oct.,
1653), being dated 7th July, 1640, in which year Michael served
as Sheriff of Fermanagh.

Michael's wife was Catherine, daughter of Sii' Laurence
Parsons of BiiT. He is expressly stated in his father's will, to be
deceased ; * and I think it may be inferred from the terms of the
wDl, that Catherine had also died prior to 8 Oct., 1653 ; and that
there was then no surviving issue of the marriage except Michael,
whose name appears in the matriculation book of Trinity College,
Dublin, thus " 1659, June 21,t Mich'- Cole, Sociorum Com-
mensalis, Filius unicus Mich. Cole, annos natus sedecim et quod
excurrit. Natus Deny, Educatus ibidem sub M™* Gregory, et
Dublin sub M~- HiU ; Tutor, Mr. Saunders."

Search has been made in the Derry cathedral register, which
begins in 1642, in hope of discovering the baptismal entry of
Michael Cole. It has been found that a Michael Cole had a
daughter " Anne," whose name (without stating whether baptized
or biuied), is registered there Sep. 30, 1642 ; and a son " William,"
baptized Dec. 27 following. Unless "William " was some months
old when baptized, a younger brother, unless a twin, could not
have been 17 in June, 1660 ; but if the age is not precisely given
in the matriculation book, Michael might have been an elder
brother of William. It may be mentioned also that a Mr. Thomas
Cole buried a wife in October, and married another in December,
1649, as appears by the Cathedral Register. It is of course
uncertain if " Captain Michael Cole " of Derry was identical with
Sir William's eldest son. Mrs. Cole's relations however, on the
mother's side — ^the Philips family — were of the county Derry, her

* In the Commons* Journals of March 31, 1647, we find •* Whereas, upon the
Petition of Sir Maurice Eustace, asjainst Captain Cole, for one and forty pounds
seven shillings, being referred by His Excellency unto the Rt HonW«- the Lord
Chancellor, about two months since, the said Captain Cole hath paid but ten
pounds, and that in broken Payments ; the said Captain Cole is forthwith to make
payment of the Remainder of the said one and forty pounds seven shillings, or
else to appear in this House to shew cause to the contrary." If this " Captain
Cole " was Su: William^s son Michael, he must have died after this date. He may
however have been his son John.

f That is June 21, 1C60, as the College year began in July.

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mother being the only daughter of Sir Thomas Philips of
Newtownlimavady ;* and it is stated that the name appears in
the Cathedral Register.

It appears from the Commons* Journals, that Michael Cole the
younger was returned as M.P. for Enniskillen, 17 April, 1761.
Assuming that his age is rightly given in the matriculation book,
he must at most have been under nineteen at the time of his
election.! Administration of his father's effects (he having died
intestate), was however granted to Michael on the 7th April, 1663 ;
which looks as if he had then lately come of age. His name
appears in a MS. book in Ulster's Office, last amongst a list of
Knights made in 1664.

Michael's colleague in the representation of Enniskillen in this
Parliament, was Robert, afterwards Sir Robert Cole of Bally-
macky, co. Tipperary. This gentleman was seventh and youngest
son of Sir MichaeVs father's second cousin William Cole,J who
married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Deards of London.

Sir Michael Cole married young. His first wife was Alice,
(probably second) daughter of Colonel Chidley Coote, of Killester
near Dublin (brother of the first Earl of Montrath), by his wife
Alice Philips. They had seven children,§ all of whom died young.
Of these the only one of whom there is a certain record is Chidley ;
concerning whom we find in the parish registers of St Michan's
Church, Dublin : —

'* 1684, August 21. Buried Chidley, the son of Sr. Michael
Cole, Kn*- and of his deceased Lady Alice, in the Chancell of
this Church." In a MS. F. 4. 2. p. 8. dorso, in the Library of
Trinity College, Dublin, Steame collection, '* Christening and
Burials in Dublin in the 17th cen./' we find (probably taken from
St Michan's register), '* Cole, Chidley, s. of Mich., K** and Alice,
defunct, bur. 21 August, 1684."

At page 91 of "Irish Genealogy," MS. F. 3. 23, it is stated
that Mich. Cole, Miles^Alicia d. of Chidley Coote, fil. Car.
Coote. b., and Anne Philips.

Chidley.

Of the other children we cannot speak certainly, but in St.
Michan's register are found the following entries : —

"1666,May 24.— Buried William Cole, son of Michael Cole, Esq."

" 1666, Sep. 19. — Buried Alice Cole, daughter to Michael
Cole, Esq., in the Church of St Michan's."

" 1666, Feb. the 11. — Buried Katherine Cole, the daughter of
Michael Cole, Esq., in the Church of St Michan's."

"1666, Feb. the 21. — Buried Anne Cole, the daughter of
Michael Cole, Esq., in the Church of St Michan's."

* Archdairs Lodge's Peerage, Vol. ii., p. 68.

t There was an order of the House of Commons made on 27th May, 1641,
against the return of minors to Parliament. This probably lapsed with the Parlia-
ment in which it was made.

X Son of William an elder brother of Emanuel Ck>le.

§ Vide Betham-PhiUips MS.—" Cole '* quoted at p. 50.

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The Christian names of these children (for they probably were
children), as well as the period of their deaths, would seem to point
to the probability of their being the childi-en of Sir Michael Cole,
and *^ his Lady Alice/* notwithstanding their father, who became a
Knight in 1664, being described as " Esq.," a mistake which might
have been easily made by the Vestry Clerk, who, it is said, made
the entries in the register. At the same time there was another
Michael ('ole then living, viz. — " Michael Cole, of St. MichaeFs,
Merchant," who m. " Marg'* Taylor, of same, widow."* It is
possible, but not probable, that the above were his children by a
former marriage. Their names also appear in MS. F. 4, 2.

In the EnniskUlen parish register we find an " Elizabeth Cole,
Bur. 8th July (or August), 1669." It is not stated whose daughter
she was.

Lady Cole died in 1671. In St. Michan's register we find,
" 1671, Aug. 27. — Buried the Lady Alice Cole, the wife of Sir
Michael Cole, Kn*' in the Chancell of this Church, under y* Com-
munion Table." Noted also in MS. F. 4, 2.

In a note to Archdall's Lodge's Peerage (1789), vol. ii, page 68,
(Earl of Montrath), we find that Lady Cole's father, by his will
made the 1st, and proved 28th November, 1668, left his son-in-law,
Michael Cole, " Esq. ," and Alice, wife of the said Michael Cole,
and their heirs, in ultimate remainder to certain lands which he
bequeathed in the first place, to his OMm eldest son, Chidley, and
his heirs, with remainder to his second son. Philips^ and his heirs,
&c. Michael Cole was at this time actually a Knight.

Sir Michael Cole appears to have remarried about six months
after his first wife's dea,th. The following entry is in St. Michan's
register : —

« 1671,t ffebruary 20.— Married S' Michaell Cole, Knight, and
Elizabeth Cole, the daughter of S' John Cole, Knight, by the
s* Doctor Hinde, psuant to A Lycence from the Consistory Court,
Dublin, to him directed." The bride was only fouiiieen, for in the
same register we find, **1656. — Elizabeth Cole, the daughter of
Collonell John Cole, Esq', was borne the 16th day of March,
I656,t and bapt. on the 22nd day of the same moneth." This
marriage is noted in MS. F. 4, 2.

By this wife (who survived until 19th August, 1733), and upon
whose issue Sir John had settled his Glenawley estate,§ Sir
Michael is stated in the Betham-Philips MS., to have had sixteen
children, only three of whom were alive at the date of the MS.,
1 718-19. Many of these children died young ; and the first name
in St. Michan's register does not appear until 1677, when we
find:—

'* 1677, Aug. 22, bapt. Eliz"*" daughter of Sir Michael Cole,
Knight, and of his Lady Elizabeth." Then—

" 1677, Aug. 28.— Buried Eliz*>»., the daughter of S' Michaell

* Cons. m. license granted 11th April, 1667.
t 167J.

§ Including what is now Florence Court

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Cole, Knt., and of his Lady Elizabeth, neere S' John Cole's seat
in the Chancell."

This child is also noted in MS. F. 4, 2, T.C.D., and the burial
again erroneously, as that of Sir John's and his wife Elizabeth's
child on the same day.*

In the family pedigree at Florence Court we find, " Catherine
Jane Cole." No date is given, but her name occurs before that
of " Mary," the second name given in the St. Michan's register.
It may be noticed that the Florence Court pedigree does not con-
tain the name of Elizabeth, the eldest da,ughter, bom and died in
August, 1677.

At St. Michan's we have —

" 1679, May y* First— Bapt. Mary, the daughter of S' Michaell
Cole, KnS and of his wife. Dame EUz**»."

In MS. F. 4, 2, before quoted, we find —

'*Cole, Mary, D. of S'. Mich : and Eliz. bp'. 11th May, 1679;
bur. 17th May, 1679."

At St. Michan's we have —

" 1680, April 12.— Bap\ John, the son of S'. Michaell Cole,
Kn\, and of his Lady Eliz*^." Noted also in MS. F. 4, 2. This
son was the eventual head of the family. He died in 1726.

At St. Michan's we have further —

**1681, July 2°^— Bap\ Michael, the son of S' Michael Cole,
Kn», and of his Lady Elizabeth." Noted also in MS. F. 4, 2, but
date wrongly given as June 2nd. This son's will was dated 1757,
and proved 1768.

Again we find at St. Michan's —

" 1683, Aug. y* 14.— Bap*. Chichester, the son of S' Michael
Cole, Kn*., and of his wife, Dame Elizabeth." Noted also in MS.,
F. 4, 2.

In the pedigree at Florence Court, we find next —

" Fenton Cole, of Drumkeen, co. Cavan, Esq., 4"* son, and of

Silverhill, in the county of Fermanagh = Dorothea, da. of ,

relict of Saundei^son. Adm. 6th July, 1736."

In MS. F. 4. 2, we find—

** Cole, W», son of S' Mich., and Eliz., bpt. 18th April, 1686."
This is probably taken from St. Michan's register, but I have no
extract later than 1684.

In the Florence Court pedigree we find lastly —

" AKoe Cole and many other children all died young."

In another MS., called " Irish Genealogy," F. 3, 23, p. 235, we
find, '^ Mich. Cole de Inniskillen— Mil = Eliz.

" Wm., loanes, Fenton, Mich., Chichester, aV *

This probably means that the sons were living, but that Alice
was dead sine prole.

In another MS. in T.C.D., F. 4, 3, which is a list of Protestants
who had left (** fled from" in original) Ireland in 1688, is found,
"Cole, S'. Mich. Inniskilling, with 5 children. Real estate
[£] 1070."

* This is of oonne a mere oopyi8t*8 error.

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Sir William Cole's second son, Colonel Sir John Cole, was pro-
bably unmarried at the date of his father's death, in Oct 1653 ;
but married shortly afterwards, Elizabeth, daughter of John
Chichester, of Dungannon, m.p.,* brother of the Earl of Donegall,
by whom he had a large family, of whom we can trace fourteen.

At St. Michan's we find : —

(1.) " 1655. Chichester Cole, the sonne of Collonell John Cole,
was baptized the 4th day of October, 1655."

" 1656. Jan. 26, Chichester Cole, son to Collonell John Cole,
was buried the 26th of January, 1656." t

(2.) " 1656. Elizabeth Cole, the daughter of Collonell John
Cole, Esqr., was borne the 16 day of March, 1656,J and bapt. on
the 22 day of the same moneth." This was the second wife of Sir
Michael Cole, her first cousin, whom she married Feb. 20, 1771,§
whilst still in her fifteenth year.

(3.) The next child involves a slight diflBculty. In ArchdalFs
Lodge's Peerage, vol. ii., p. Ill, it is stated that Henry, third
EJarl of Drogheda, in July 1675, married Mary, second
daughter of Sir John Cole, of Newland, near Dublin ; || and that
she died 10 May, 1726, having had eight sons and two daughters.
Under the head of " Enniskillen," vol. vi., p. 48, she is differently
placed amongst her sisters ; but if she married in 1675, she must
have been bom about 1658.

The entry in vol. ii., of Lodge, p. Ill, is given on the authority
of a " MS. pedigree."

The Betham-Phillips MS. at Cheltenham, speaking of Sir John
Cole's wife, says ; — " Her maiden name Chichester, a vertuous
lady, by whom S'. John had many childi'en, one of whose daughters
was married to y* Lord Moore, Earle of Drogheda."

(4.) 1660. In MS. F. 4, 2, we have, " Cole, Whl, son of Jo.,
Kt. bur : 15 Jan. 1660."

In St. Michan's we find : —

(5.) " 1663. July 30 was bapt. John Cole, son to S'. Jno. Cole,
Elnt., and Dame Eliz"*. his wife." A duplicate entry at page 20
says :

" 1663. John Cole, son to S'. John Cole, Kn*., and to y« Lady

* Vide p. 216. 1 166#, 1 166f § 177 J.

II It is said that a gronp of streets in the neighbourhood of the present General
Post Office in Dublin, were originally called after Ilenry Moore, Earl of Drogheda,
viz., Henry-street, to the immediate north of the Post Office ; Moore-street,
running out of it northwards ; Earl -street, the continuation of the line of Henry-
street, towards Amiens-street, eastwards ; Off-lane, now changed to Henry-place,
between and parallel to Upper Sackville-street and Moore-street ; and Drogheda-
street, which formerly occupied the western side of Lower Sackville-street, from
Henry-street to the Liffey, southwards. On the western side of Moore-street and
parallel to it, is Cole*8-lane, probably called after Sir John Cole, who had a
residence in St. Mary's Abbey, hard by ; or after his daughter Mary, Countess
of Drogheda. Mary-street is the continuation of Heniy-street westward. The
pariBh in which Henr}'-street is situated, is St Mary*s, ani was, I believe, cut
off St. Michan*8, the church being built in or about Queen Anne's time. Upper
Sackville-street was originally known as ^* The Mali" Lower SackviUe-street is
much wider than Drogheda-street, which it superseded, which probably is why
Carlisle bridge was rather to one side of its alignment.

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Elizabeth Oole was borne on Monday, being y* 27th July, 1663,
and baptized y* 30th day of y* same moneth."

" 1666. April 5, John Cole, son to S'. John Cole, in y* Church,"
[i,e, buried] p. 256.

In MS. F. 4. 2, we have :—

" Cole, Jo. S. Jo. K. b. 27, bpt. 30 Jul. 1663, S. Mich. bur.
5 April, 1666, St. Mich ;

(6.) The next child is Arthur, afterv/ards Sir Arthur, and sub-
sequently Baron Ranelagh. * The Florence Court pedigree says
that he died 12th Oct., 1754, aged ninety. This would place the
date of his birth in 1664, his brother John having been born 27th
July, 1663. He married first, Catherine, second, but eldest sur-
viving daughter of William, third Lord Bjrron, by his wife
Elizabeth, daughter of John, Viscount Chaworth. He married
secondly, 26 June, 1748, Selina, eldest daughter of Peter Bathurst,
Esq., of Clarendon Park, Wiltshire. It may be remarked that he
married his second wife in 1748, nearly seventy-seven years after
his sister Elizabeth had married Sir Michael Cole. He left no issue.

In the Florence Court pedigree we find without dates ; —

(7.) " Catherine," who married Thomas Brooke, Esq.

(8.) " Letitia," who married Wm. Fitzgerald, d.d.. Bishop of
Clonfert.

'' Mary." This was Lady Drogheda, noticed before.

(9.) *' Michael Cole, of Castlelough, in the county of Tipperary,
Esq., second son, died 1726." The pedigree does not notice the
three eldest sons, Chichester, who died in 1656, William, who died
in 1660, and John, who died in 1666.

Michael must have really been the fifth son. In the Matri-
culation Book, T. CD., we have, 1686, Oct. 13— ^'Michael Cole,
setas 18, Parens John Eq. Aur., co. Dublin, educatus
Drogheda, sub. M'- Morris ; Tutor Eugene Lloyd. "^

In St. Michan's Register we have —

(10). " 1671. Dec. 8. Baptized Richard the son of S' John
Cole, Knt, and of his wife Madam Elizabeth." He was M.P.
for St. Canice, county Kilkenny, and afterwards for Enniskillen,
and died in 1729."

At St. Michan's we find—

(11). '" 1674. May 29. Baptized Edward the son of S' John
Cole, Kn*, and of his wife Madam Elizabeth."

'' 1674. Jan' 9, buried Edward, the son of S' John
Cole, Kn', and of his wife, Eliz*'*, in the chancel betwixt
Coll. Shapcote's seate and the bigg stone under y* longe peice of the
bigg stone that is broken off."

In the Florence Court pedigree we have, without dates —

(12). " Frances," the wife of Sir Thomas Domvill.

(13). "Margaret," the wife, first of John Burdett, Dean of Clon-
fert, and second of Thomas Lloyd, of Croghem, in Roscommon.

* His grandmother, Mrs. Chichester, was Mary Jones, daughter of the first
Viscount Ranelagh. After the death of the third Viscount, and only Earl, the
viscountcy went into abeyance in 1711, until 1759. Meanwhile, Sir Arthur Cole
was created and enjoyed the title of Baron Ranelagh.

842

Lastly, at St. Michan's we find —

(14). "1679. July 25. Bap Alelisha y* daughter of Sir
John Cole, Km., and of his wife, Dame Elizabeth.''

"16«0. Dec. 28. Buried Alesha y* daught' of S' John
Cole, Knt., and of his Lady Elizabeth, close by her brother
Edward, who was buried the 9th Jan. 74, under the broken stone
in y* Chancell between Coll Shapcots' and the s** S' John's
seates."

Richard, Edwai-d, and Alicia are all noted in MS. F. 4. 2.
Edward, like his three eldest brothers, does not appear in the
Florence court pedigree.

In the Enniskillen parish register is found — Michael, son of
John Cole, hapt. 6 April, 1667, and bur. 8 Feb., 1668-9. This
could not have been Sir John's son, who survived until 1726,
and who was 18 in Oct., 1680.

The next is the child of John, son of Sir Michael. " Florence
Cole, d. of John Cole and Florence, was baptized 20 April,
1715." She married Arthur Newburgh. " Miss Cole, d. of John
Cole. Bur. 17 Nov., 1717." This also I suppose to be a child
of John and Florence.

The following are also found at Enniskillen : —

" 8 Feb., 1668. Mary, daughter of John Cole. Rfector] bap'."

" 18 Nov., 1696. Winfry Cole, an old woman. Bur."

" 1699. A child of William Cole. Bur."

" 1701, May 3 Ist.— Elizabeth Cole, of William and Ann. Bap."

" December 24, 1 706.— Mistress Cole. Bur."

At St. Michans, Dublin, 1716, Jan. 27.— "Bur* Mrs. Cole,
widdow, on the north side of the Belfry."

In the Matriculation Book of T.C.D. we find, 1725, Sep. 26,
Soc : com : John Cole, tetas 17, Parens John arm. Natus Dublin,
Educatus Enniskillen sub M~ Grattan, Tutor, Mr. Thompson."
This was John first Lord Mountflorence.

Copy of the certificate of Arms (with eleven quarterings) of Sir
William Cole, Knight :—

" Theis are the Armes of Sir William Cole of the Castle of
Eniskelline, in the county of Fermanagh in Ireland, Knt., who is
discended of the Ancient Farailie of the same name of Devonshire,
together with the Armes of tlie Lady Susan his wife, daughter and
heire of Henrie Croft, late of the Countie of Lancaster, Gent. •
As appeareth by the Bookes of the office of Armes this 7 th
Novem^ 1629.

Ex' per

WiLLM Penson,

Lancaster."

In the descent of the Cole family, given on p. 16 of the
Fermanagh Memoirs, at line 31, for "Carow, county Monaghan,"
read " Carrow, county Fermanagh."

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APPENDIX V.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sib Johv Davies.
On page 8, line 8, for "them," read "it."

Roger Atkinson.

From MSS. penes Sir Charles S. King, Bt., Corrard.

*•' A Muster Roll of y Province of Ulster "—Add : MSS.
4770. B. M.

CNo date, but must be 163-.)

" The Muster Roll of the County of ffarmannagh."

"Captain Roger Atkinson his servitors lands 1000 acres the names
of his men and armes —

1. George Wilson

. Sword onely

2. William Moore

* fi »i

3. Peter Duffin .

* ff 1*

4. John Skarlet youngei

11 »i

5. John Skarlet elder .

6. Thomas Zacke *

* 11 11

7. John Hunter

* *) 1*

8. John Brewer

^1 fi

9. Zachary Pampaynet

»i »>

10. William Barret,

No armes t

11. Robert Prowing §

11 11

12. JohnDnffyn .

11 i»

1 8. John Baffin youncer
14 Thomas Calbreath

11 >i

M l»

15. Frauncis Brangan

It «t

1 6. John Shearerton

> >1 11

17. William Johnston

1* 11

18. Robert Story

»1 91

19. John Eliot II .

•t )t

20. Thomas West

}« )f

21. Toby Brewer

11 11

22. Thomas Atkinson 1 .

11 11

23. Andrew Williamson .

24. Thomas Calbreath .

1* 11

25. William Zack

99 99

Barony de Tyrkenedy."

* ? Zacke - Jaik or Jack, an old Aberdeen name. — C. S. K.

f Should be liampayne. — B.

^Having *'no armea" does not necessarily imply poverty, as Ld. Balfonr of
Clenawl/s two eldest sons are so described.

§? Browning.— C. a K.

II ? Elliot.— B.

^The undertakers and servitors enrolled sons and other relatives amongst
their •' men," perhaps, Thoa, A, was a relative. — C. S. K,

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Descent of Sib Robert Cole.

Sir William Oole was the son of Emanuel Cole, third son of
Thomas Cole, by Elizabeth Hargrave. The eldest son of Thomas
and Elizabeth, was William, who married Anne (who died in 1600),
daughter of Michael Colles, of Bradwell, county Bucks. On the
great family pedigree at Florence Court, is this note — "By
inquisition taken at Guildhall in London, 6 Feb., 1 Jac.
Regis AnglisB e' [1602], it appears that William Cole, sonn of
this Thomas Cole, died 16 Feb., 43 Eliza; seized in fee of an
house and garden in Coleman Street, London, wherein his said
father did lately dwell ; and that Michael Cole was his sonn and
heire, then aged 20 years and 9 months, and the King's Warde."
Besides Michael, William had a son William, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Deards, of London, Silkman ;
and had by her seven sons (whose names are entered altogether on
the sinister side of the coat of arms on the Florence Court
Pedigree of 1630, instead of the wife's arms ; which caused me
to overlook Robert's name in preparing his original memoir). Their
names were Arthur ; William ; Michael ob* ; Humphry ; Natha-
niel ; Thomas, and Robert.

Mr. James Edwin Cole, who printed privately a genealogy of
the Cole family in 1867, says that this youngest son Robert, was
(the future) Sir Robert of Ballymackey.

The other sons, besides William, of Thomas Cole and Elizabeth
Hargrave," were the Rev. Thomas Cole, b.d. d. s. p. ; Emanuel,
ancestor of Lord Enniskillen ; and Solomon, of Lyds, county
Southampton, bom 1547, died 1629, and left issue.

James Cobry.

(Vide Fermanagh Memoirs, pp. 42-44).

" James Corry, Esq.," and " Jas. Corry, Elder," is found amongst
the names of persons owing the testator money in the will of
Robert Davis of Lmiskillinge, blacksmith, made and proved 1675.

" MSS. King Correspondence," penes Sir C. S. King, Bt.

" Pall Mall, Augt. 3rd, 1705.

S'.

I rec a letter from you when 1 was at Tunbridge about
Iniskillin. As soon as I came to town, [ waited on his Grace the
Duke of Ormond, he told me he had spoke to the Queen about
the affair, and was in hopes to pcure a brief in England. He said
if I remember right that Corry the Knight for the Shire had
pressed him much in it, and he had engaged to him to do his best,
and M'. Portlock, his Seci'etary, told me the same again. I left
a memoriall with M'. Portlock for his Grace, and [he] seems
zealous in it ; My Ld. ordered me to do so. I am of opinion that
you should if possible wait on his Grace, and make him sensible of
the case of that poor town, for none can do it more feelingly nor
has a better title to do it. I have heard that there was some con-

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test amongst the people whom they should employ about this
matter. 'Tis necessary to pitch on psons that will be gratefull
[i.e. acceptable] to the Duke his Grace, for if anything be obtained
it must be by him. I give you this hint because a little mistake
may spoil alL My respects to my Ldy. I recommend you to
Gd, and am &c.

W. Dublin.*
S*". Michael Cole, Eghain near
Stains, Middlesex."

" Tunbridge Wells, Augt. 12, 1705.

May it please your Grace,

I mentioned to your Grace the affair of Iniskillin and found
your Grace well appris'd of it, the bearer Sr. GustaMis Hume, is
employed by the miserable inhabitants to rep'sent their condition
to your Grace and solicite your Grace's favour in their behalf. He
is a gentleman that has an estate in the neighbourhood of the
Town and has bin an eye witness of the miserable condition of it,
The sight of which together with their importunity has p'vailed
on him to undertake this journey. They entirely depend on your
Grace's mediation to procure a Brief for them here in England or
such other assistance as her Majesty shall think fitt. I find he is
sensible how forward your Grace was to favour them, and I told
him that I hoped there woul'd be nothing else to do for him, [i.e.
for him to do,] but to acknowledge in the name of those that sent
him, your Grace's goodness in so readily espousing their interest.
He believes my letter may help to Introduce him to your Grace,
which occasions the trouble of this to your Grace which I hope
your Grace will pardon. All the return your Grace must expect
for this and the many good offices you have done for Ireland am
the pray" and acknowledgements of all concerned for its welfare
and more particularly of My Lord,

Your Grace's &c.
To W. Dublin t

His Grace the Duke of Ormond."

Christopher Erwin, m.d.
( Vide pp. 45 and 47.)

The authority for the statement that Christopher Irvin, of
Bonshaw, was killed at the battle of Elodden Eield, is a family
account of "The original of the Irvines," written in 1680 by Dr.
Christopher Irwin, Historiographer Koyal of Scotland, of which
a MSS. copy on parchment, by his son (the subject of this memoir),
is extant. He says, at p. 12, that the Christopher who got sasine
of Bonshaw in 1520, " was grandchild to Christopher of Bonshaw,
who was killed at the fields of Flowdon."

On page 49, linos 14 and 15 should read, " Irvin of Bonshaw
beareth in their Coate of Arms (three hollin leafes slipt vert)."

♦ Wm. Kinff, D.D., successively Bp. of Dcrry aiid Abp. of Dublin (1650-1729)
t These letters refer to a disastrous fire. Jiee my " Two Ulster Manors," p. 146.

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Col. Abbaham Crbightok.

(Pa«e 49.)

For "reelected" read "was the former member for Fermanagh."

John Cobry.

( Fide Fermanagh Memoirs, p. 54.)
The following baptismal entries ap])ear in the Enniskillen

Parochial Register : —

"March 8th, 1704.*— Martha Oorry, of Captain John and

Sai-ah."

'* March 13th, 1706.1— William Corry, of Captain John Corry

and Sarah."

" August 26th, 1708. -^ohn Corry, of Captain John and Sarah "
"September 22nd, 1709.— Sarah Corry, of John and Sarah."
"January 9th, 1710.t — Mary Corry, of Colonel John Corry

and Sarah."

"October 30th, 1712.— Lesly Corry, of Colonel John Corry

and Sarah."

"December 15th, 1715. — Elizabeth Corry, of Colonel John and

Sarah."

Of the above children of Colonel John Corry, M.P. for Fer-
managh, 1718-26, and Sarah Leslie his wife, William and John
must have died before 18 February, 1709-10, as they are not
alluded to in a settlement of some property made at that date, by
their grandfather, Colonel James Corry, of Castlecoole, M.P. for
Fermanagh, 1692-1718 (see my '* Two Ulster Manors," p. 164).
Leslie Corry was the third, and not as stated at page 53 of the
Fermanagh Memoirs, the only son of John Corry ; and he was
28 when he died, and not as stated on page 54, about 30.

A deed of assignment, dated 29th March, 1742, between
Margetson Armar, Edward Mathews, and Edmond Leslie Corry
and Martha, his wife, recites that Leslie Corry had d. s. p. on or
about 20th February, 1740-1 ; and that Mary Armar (nee Corry)
had attained the age of 21 on or about 28th December, 1733 ; and
Elizabeth Corry 1^ done so on or about 24th November, 1738,
an obvious mistake for 1736, as she is mentioned in her grand-
father James Cony's will, dated in 1715.

CoiTy seems to have been the name of a place in Dumfries, from
which the family probably derived its name. When the Regent
Murray, in 1569, came to Dumfries to receive submission from
the chiefs there, it is mentioned on the 25th October — " The Lard
of Johnestoun obleist him to cans the Lard of Corry cum to my
Lordis Regentis Grace and answer, &c." (Acts of the Privy
Council of Scotland, Vol. II., p. 48, 49, Ac.) It is thought probable
however, that in 1569, the Laird of Corry was a Johnston, the
original proprietor having either sold his property or had it con-
fiscated before that date, as was not uncommon in those turbulent
days.

• 1704-6. t 1706-7 . J 1710-1.

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Abchdall.
( Vide pp. 60 and 69 of Fermanagh Memoirs.)

The name of the second wife of Nicholas Archdall, M.P., was
Sarah " Spurling," not " Sprawling."

The following are copies of Oolonel Mervyn Ajrchdall's Election
addresses in 1783 : —

To the Electors of the County of Fermanagh. —

I hear that it is industriously reported that I do not mean to
offer myself to your consideration at the next General Election,
because I have not begun to canvass eighteen months before the
probable dissolution of this Parliament.

As I am not conscious that I have ever done, or ever shall do,
anything to forfeit your esteem, be assured I never will submit to
have the four seats of tMs independent county monopolized by
one family. You have too much spirit to suffer it. 1 will trust
to that, and my past and future conduct to be my supports on the
day of election.

I am, (Gentlemen, your obliged and faithful humble servant,

M. Abohdall.

To the real independent Electors of Fermanagh.

Qbntlembn,

1 return you my sincere thanks for the spirited, effectual, and
disinterested support you honored me with on the late election for
your county. I shall ever endeavour to merit it. The High
Sheriff has also my acknowledgements for his impartial conduct
during a tedious poll.

I am, with great esteem, Gentlemen,

Tour obliged and faithful servant,

Mervtk Arohdall.
Enniskillen, Sep'. 18, 1783.

ArMAR TiOWRY CORRT.

(Firfep. 62.)
In line 40, for « 1664 " read " 1764."

Hugh Henrt Mitchbll.
(Page 65.)

On the 8th March, 1766, a new writ was issued for Bally-
shannon in the room of John Gustavus Handcock, Esq., deceased,
and Hugh Heniy Mitchell was returned. Again on the 26th
February, 1771, a warrant for a new writ was ordered for Ennis-
killen in place of Bernard Smith Ward, deceased, and Mr. Mitchell
was returned. On the 6th February, 1772, four several orders
were made by the House of Commons, that the proper officer should
lay before the House particulai accounts of the expenditure of
sums of money paid to Hugh Heniy Mitchell, esq., in 1769 and

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1770, for putting in order the Castle of Dublin, and the Parlia-
ment House, and for repairs and works at the Castle, and at
Leixlip« This was done, and the accounts appear in the Appendix
for 1772, on pp. cccclxi.-ii.-iii.

Mr. Mitchell had four sisters, viz. : —

Mary (d. 1 May, 1759), m. Dec. 1755, MacCarrel King,

Margaret, m. Robert King.

Anne, m. Aug. 1766, Maurice Coppinger, m.p., Sergeant-at-Law.

Catherine, m. Aug. 1766, the Rt. Hon. John Monck Mason, m.p.

He had besides his eldest son. Colonel H. H. Mitchell, anothei*
son, Pierpoint Oliver Mitchell, and four daughters, viz. : —

Anne, m. Hans Hamilton, m.p.

Mary Harriet, m. Dec. 1799, the Rev. James Langrishe, Arch-
deacon of Glandelough.

Elizabeth, m. Stewart.

Catherine Sarah.

The daughtera of his eldest son, Colonel Mitchell, were : —

Margaret Harriet Isabella, m. the Rev. Thomas Walpole, of
Stagbury.

Charlotte Gertrude, m. 1825, John I^eveson Gower, of Bill Hill.

The families of Henry and Finlay with which Mr. Mitchell was
connected through his grandmother, were both banking families.
[Pedigree communicated by Mr. Brutchaell.]

Sir John Blaquierb.

(Videpp, 69-71.)

Sir John Blaquiere's wife, whom Lord Comwallis spoke of as
an heiress, was, it is believed, descended from one of the co-heiresses
of Alderman Tomkins, of Prehen, county Londonderry. The
eldest daughter of the Alderman married Andrew Knox, ancestor
of the present Colonel Knox, of Prehen ; and the remaining one
married the ancestor of the present John Barre Beresford, Esq., of
Learmount, in the same county.

Alderman Alexander Tomkins erected in 1678, a monument in
Derry Cathedral, to Alexander Tomkins, b. 1598, d. 1624, and
to Margaret his wife, b. 1612, d. 1G74. The Alderman, as Captain
Tomkyns, took a leading part in 1 689, in the proceedings connected
with the siege of Derry.

Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq.
(Vide p. 81.)

The Venerable Weltenhall Sneyd, Archdeacon of Kilmore,
married Barbara, daughter and oo-heiress of Captain Francis
Marsh, eldest son of Dr. Francis Marsh, Bishop of Kilmore, 1672,
and Archbishop of Dublin, 1681-94.

Edward Sneyd, m.p., for Carrick-on-Shannon, 1777, and who
died 1781, manned Hannah Honora, daughter of James King, of
Gola (son of John King of G(jla, third son of James King, of
Corrard and Gola), High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1728, by his
wife Catherine, youngest daughter of William Gore, d.d., Dean of
Down. Their son was Nathaniel Sneyd; m.p.

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Viscount Criohton.
(Page 91.)
Viscount Crichton is now the 4th Earl of £me.

Parliament op 1874 — Names of Members.
(p. 91.)

For " Crone Castle " read " Crom Castle."

Viscount Cole.
(Page 92.)
Viscount Cole is now the 4th Earl of Enniskillen.

A pp. II., p. 104, line 35.
Note. ^Deborah Blenerhasset's representatives, lillias Squire
and James Irvine, disposed of Crevenish Castle in 1740, to George
Vaughan, of Buncranagh.

Ib., p. 110, line 89.
For " second parish " reaid " remaining parish."

In the List of Sheriffs of Fermanagh.

In 1639, for " Campion " read " Champion."
In 1662, for "Sir John Hume, Bart." read "John Hume."
In 1670 and 1686, for " Michael Cole " read " Sii- Michael
Cole."

Sir Audley Mbbvyn.

(Fwfep. 214.)

It may seem strange why a person so apparently influential, and
filling so important a position as Sir Audley Mervyn did, should
have been unable to obtain payment of the large sum (£6,000)
alleged to be due to him by the State up to the time of his death,
and which it seems doubtful if his heirs ever recovered ; and the
adverse influence of Irish Roman Catholics^ by their agents, with
the English Government, seems to be an entirely unsatisfactory
explanation of the matter.

Some casual references to him in the second vol. of Carte's
Ormonde, seem to me to aflbrd a clue. The salary of £500 a year
as Speaker, which formed pai-t of the claim, and which it was
alleged had not been paid to him, was not, probably, in strictness
a salary, such as modern Speakers would count on with certainty,
but the usual honorarium which the House of Commons voted,
but which " the St-ate," as the Government was then called, would
exercise its own discretion about proposing or sanctioning.

The first incident which I allude to will be found at p. 82 of
Carte, Vol. II. Lord Ormonde, then Lord lieutenant, shortly
before Cromwell arrived in Ii-eland in 1649, was negotiating to
gain over to the King's (Charles 11.) side Owen O'Neile, the
Greneral of the Ulster Irish army. He commissioned Bishop John
Leslie, of Raphoe, and Colonel Mervyn to settle the terms of his
submission. Leslie did so ; but Mervyn, instead of carrying out
this duty, went to Sir Charles Coote, who held Deny for the
Parliamentary painty, and made his own peace with him,, imagining
that the kingdom would soon be reduced to Cromwell.

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After the Restoration, and when the ''Bill of Explanation "
being prepared, sundry "great" or influential men, of whom Sir
Audley Mervyn was one, took under their protection, for valuable
consideration, certain gentlemen who had been in rebellion and who
were anxious to avoid losing their estates by forfeitures, and de-
sired to get provisos inserted in the Bill, by which they should be
restored to their estates. The matter will be found fully described
in Carte, Vol II., pp. 295-7. The Duke of Ormonde greatly
disapproved of this sort of traffic in '' protections."

The original Bill of Settlement as sent over by the Lords
Justices to England, was so entirely diKapproved by the King and
Council, that they would not attempt to amend "what they
thought wrong in the very foundation," and the Lord Lieutenant
and Coimcil of Ireland were ordered to draw up and transmit a
fresh Bill. The Duke objected to many of the provisos of the
former Bill, and the king would have struck them out The duke,
however, on consideration, "when he was going to ingratiate
himself with a people in order to reconcile their estranged affections
and different interests," and could not make, for want of time, a
thorough examination of each case, thought it better to let them
all stand, and in the amended Bill of 1663 ' a clause was added
empowering the Lord Lieutenant and Council to give such further
instructions and rules to the Commissioners appointed to execute
it, for their proceedings as they should judge fitting. It was upon
this clause IJiat the House of Commons went, when (in 1662-3)
they presented to his Grace that extravagant set of rules and
directions for the Commissioners, which have been already
mentioned." The adventurers and soldiers in the House were
dissatisfied at several of the Irish, notwithstanding the severity
of the rules, having been able to prove "their innocency." (lb.
p. 263.) This was the occasion of Sir Audley's *' Puckan " speech
mentioned in the text The King greatly resented the action of
the Parliament, and was on the point of sending orders for a disso-
lution, but thought better of it.* The King was already acquainted
with Sir Audley Mervyn as one of the " agents " from the House
of Commons in 1661, and on the occasion of the Duke oi Ormonde's
appointment to the Lord Lieutenancy, had listened to him when,
as Carte says (lb., page 237), " he made in his quaint, tropical,
unintelligible manner of haranguing, a like speech of thanks in
the name of the Commons to his Majesty," as the Bishop of
Elphin had done for the Lords.

Carte says, in another place (lb., p. 314), alluding to what was
called the 1663 Plot, for being concerned in which Mr. A. Staples
and six other members were expelled from Parliament in 166.5
(as shown at page 237). '' Too many of the House, and indeed

* The Act of Explanation was not actually passed till 1665. It received
the Royal Assent on December 2drd. The text of a very outspoken letter
from the King to the Lord Lieutenant, in which, inter aZui, he objects to the
TOte of the House of Commons ordering the printug of the Speaker's speech, and
confines then* liberty of speech to their House, will be found in Carte, Vol. ii.,
pp. 811-3.

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the Speaker hiiiiBtlf (accoiiling to some informations which the
Lord Lieutenant's piiidence made him conceal) had been dabling
in it, and were afraid his Grace had evidence enough against them ;
80 that," when the question of the expulsion of the mt^mbers as
had been proved by clear evidence to have had a hand in the plot,
was before the House, "there was a general contention who
should show their zeal in a point where none could appear cool
without raising suspicions of his own designs."

I conclude from all this, that though the Government did not
wish to quarrel with Sir x\udley Mervjnand his powerful friends
in Parliament, yet that they had little or no confidence in him,
and no inclination to be of service to him ; and that they simply
ignored the representation of the House of Commons in his favour
during his lifetime, as the Government of William III. did those
in favour of his heirs after he had been for some twenty years dead.

It appears from Carte, Vol. II., pp. 221-2, that in 1661, the
Chancellor (being one of the Lords Justices, before whom the
Parliament was to be held), could not sit in the House of
Lords. He at first proposed that Sir James Barry, Lord Santry,
to be speaker in his room, but Lords Orrery and Montrath having
some exception to him, pi-eferred the Lord Primate (Bramhall),
who was appointed.

" There were warm debates in the House of Commons about the
choice of a Speaker, which post Sir Audley Mervyn was so desirous
of, that hearing the King had recommended Sir W. Domville, his
Attorney-General, for tJ^at post, he wrote into England, repre-
senting his own merits in having been thrice imprisoned for his
afiections to the Crown; protending that when he was, during
Sir James Barry's illness, called by the late Convention to the
chair, they had promised whenever they sat in a Parliament to
choose him Speaker; and desiring for these reasons that His
Majesty would not interpose in the case, but leave the Commons
to their free choica The King granted his request, and the
Primate when he directed that House to elect a Speaker, telling
them that the King did not insist on his recommendation, Mervyn
was chose. Sir W. Domville was suspected of favouring the Irish,
as the other was of being inclined to the Presbyterians. Mervyn
was zealously supported by all the interest of the adventurers ;
but as the soldiers did not so well like him, it was thought
DomviUe would have carried it, had not the King's receding fix>m
his recommendation, been deemed a determination in favour of
his rival."

Sir Phelim O'Neill.

(See p. 220.)

Carte says (Vol. II., p. 157), that in the year 1652, "The
Parliament having now reduced Ireland, thought fit to erect at
Dublin an High Court of Justice (as they called it) for the trial
of persons who were charged with those murders [ue., ' committed

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in the beginning of the rebellion '] ; in which it is not a little
remarkable, that though they used very hard measure to several
gentlemen in the southern parts of the kingdom, who were (like
Colonel Walter Bagnal) condemned upon slight pretences and false
evidence ; yet (except Sir Phelim O'Neile whom they would have
pardoned and rewarded, if he had been profligate enough to have
falsly accused the late king of giving him a Commission) there
was scarce any body taken up and tried for those murders in
Ulster, where the massacres first began, and where far the greatest
part of the cruelties upon British Protestants were committed."

James Stewart (of Killymoon).

(Page 295 )

The town of Cookstown, which is very near Killymoon, was
founded by " Allan Cook, who had a lease for years renewable
under the See of Armagh, upon whose land the old town was

built about the year 1609 ''— "The present

town was built about the year 1750, by Mr, Stewart, its then

proprietor." "A patent for a market and

fairs was granted to Allan Cook, Aug. 3rd, 1628." (Lewis's
Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, p. 395.)

Andrew Knox.
(Page 320.)

The following is the descent of the family of Knox of Prehen,
County Londonderry : —

Andrew Knox, d.d., son of Uchter Knox, of Knox, (fee, Renfrew-
shire, by his wife Isabel, daughter of the Earl of Glencaime, was
Bishop of Orkney and the Isles, and translated to Raphoe 1611
— died 1633. He acquired the Castle and Lands of RathmuUan,
foimerly the property of Sir Mulmorie M'Swyne.

Thomas, took part in the Siege of Derry, 1689 — married Mary
Wray.

Andrew, m.p., county Donegal, married Honoria daughter and
co-heiress of Alderman Tomkins of Prehen — will proved 1741.

George, married Jane Mahon, sister of Maurice first Lord
Hartland, Strokestown House, County Roscommon.

Andrew, Colonel Donegal Militia, m.p. for Strabane, married
Mary M^Causland, daugJiter of Dominick M^Causland, of Daisy
Hill, County Derry.

George, Captain 5th Dragoon Guards, married Anna Maria
daugliter of Robert Johnstone, of Magheramena, Co. Fermanagh.

Colonel George, now of Prehen.

ERRATA AND ADDENDA.

{To/oaowpapeSb2,)

HUMPBBT FABNBAM.

^ ^ Page 11.

I find the following in the OommonB Journals.
, J Die Sabbati 10 Oct., 1614.

, ).. "The Speaker [spake] to Mr. Femham touching Disorders.**

':' Die Jo via. 10 Nov., 1614.

"Mr. Femham moved, and it was resolved, that Bnrgesses returned ont of

'^'^ ' Clogher, Athlone, and Gowran, ought not to have the privileges of the House."

n'j'e^' The burgesses for Ologher were Mr. Watkins and Mr. Ferrar. I suspect that

^ ' there was some question as to the right of the city to return members at all.

(See page 144.)

Henbt Blennsbhassst.
Page 87, second note.

The unnamed eldest son was Sir Augustus, who sold the Oastle Oaldwell pro-
perty in 1671 to James OaldwelL (Vide Allingham's History of Bally shannon.)
Page 88, line W,
lilias Colquhoun m. Alderman Albert Squire of Derry. (Lodg^a M8&, Brit.
"^'^ Mus.)

i" ABBAHAM CBEIOHTON.

.^ -^ Page 41, line 1.

For ""Xord** read Xairde/Mountwhaney. rr<<l« p. 861).

Dr. CHBI8T0PHBB BBWIN.
'' Page46,linefi.

iiih I am informed that the Scotch pedigrees read **Sir John*' for **Sir James"

;< Wishart

BIGHABD GOBOES the elder.
Page 61, line 81.

For** Catherine, daughter of Sir Adam Loftns,** read **Jane, third daughter of
Sir Arthur Loftus of Bathfamham.**

BIOHABD QOBOES the younger.
Page 61, line U.

There is a question about Richard being the only son of Hamilton Oeoi^es, as
Hamilton Georges, junr., was High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1801.

iMTBODUOnON.

SS "J: } ^^ IWkland read Wentworth.

DANIEL MOLTNBUZ.

Page 16L— The mother of Daniel Molyneux was Catherine, daughter of Lodovick
Blobarte, of Bruges.

Sir James Ebsktn.
P. 161, ) Instead of Alexander it seems that Archibald is meant as " son and
L. 9. > heir" of James.

Note!' } ^<*r Clogher read Augher,
P. 168, line 81. For 1886 read 1686.

Captain JOHN Pbbeikbl
l! ^15. } ^^ father read grandfather.

6ir Pheliu O'Neill.
Page S16, line 86.

The Tirlagh O'Neile mentioned by Pynnar was not an uncle of Sir Phelim. He
was the eldest son of Sir Arthur O'Neale, who was the son of the great Sir Tirlagh,
called Lenagh, who was the son of Keale O'Neale, and the rival of the G'Neales,
Earls of Tyrone, being chosen'* The O'Neale" on the death of Shane O'Nealein
1867. Tirlagh, on account of the loyalty of his father in suppressing the outbreak
of O'Dogherty in 1606, obtained a grant of two proportions, 8,800 acres, in the pre-
cinct of Dungannon, to be made into the Manor of Caslan.— (Pal t^"^-*?!. James
L, 9 Dec)

Sir Phelim's father Tirlagh Oge aNeale, having died before the FlantatiOD
grants were made, his mother, Catherine Ny Neale, obtained a grant of the manor
of Einard for her ion's future benefit She married, secondly, Robert Hovenden,
Gentn who died SI May, 1641, and whom she sarvived. Her yonnger son, Tirlagh,
obtained a grant of Ardgonnell, oo. Armagh, but was attainted for having joined
his brother. Sir Fhelim, in the rebellion of 1641.— (Fat Bolls, lb. Ultonia, Inquis.
Tyrone, ziii. Charles IL, 17 June, No. 8. Inqais. Armagh, Charles IL, 20 June, 1661.
No. S, No. 8. and No. 9.)

JOHN Cabnes.
l!% } -^<w Clogher r«M« Augher.

ALBXANDEB STAPLES.
P. 987, L. 10.

In Ultonia, Inqnis. Tyrone, ziii Charles IL, 17 June, No. 7, it is given :—
** Thomas Staples, Knt and Bart, was seized of the lands of Ballyinlome, Ac^
containing 100 acres, Co. Tyrone. He died 81 May, 1668, when his son and heir was
S8 years of age, unmarried. Baptist Staples, Bart, being seized of the above
premises, conveyed them to Alexander Staples, Esq., his younger brother, who is
now in possession of them."

Alexander therefore did not die before hlB father, as supposed at page 887, line 10-
(probably because he was never baronetX but the reason evidently was that his
elder brother, Baptist, had succeeded to the Baronetcy. Sir Bobert, If he was
younger than Alexander, could not have been the second son (as stated at p. 145,
line 88), nor could he have succeeded his father as second Baronet (as stated at
same page, line 88). He must have succeeded his brother, Sir Baptist, as third
Baronet

JAMES Hamilton.
£^* } ^o*" I>"ke read EarL

Sir ROBERT STAPLES.
l! ^mI i ^^ Becond read third or " a younger."

L. 88.--Sir Robert did not succeed hlB brother as second Baronet See above note-
to Alexander Staples.

JOHN Hamilton,
l! ^* } ^^ Ossory read Meath.

RiCHABD and Hbnbt St. Geoboe.

P. M».
L. 96;
P. 961,

Ij.

96; I
Wli I
11. )

For uncle read cousin.

Thomas ashe

£**•! } JPor sister read aunt

Gustatub Hamilton.

P. 967, ) QustavuB Hamilton was created Baron Hamilton tn 1716, and Viscount

L. 19. ) Boyne in 1717.

Major-General Gustavus Hamilton, first Viscount Boyne, joined the Protestants
of the North in their xising against Tyrconnell, and was chosen (Jovemor of the
County Donegal He was appointed to command the Protestant army that
assembled at Coleraine, and when General Richard Hamilton, at the head of the
Irish army of King James, advanced against him and invested Ooleraine, he
defeated him with great loss, 37 March, 1689, securing the safety of that town until
it was decided to fall back upon Derry. As Colonel he commanded a regiment at
the battle of the Boyne, where he had a horse killed under him, and he served
subsequently with distinction throughout the war in Ireland, especially at the
capture of Athlone, 1 July, 1691, when he led the Grenadiers tn the forcing bf the
passage of the river Shannon.

He was not, as stated in the text, the Oolonel Onstavns Hamilton who was
Governor of Enniskillen in 1689. This latter was great grandson of Sir Gland
Hamilton, of Coconagh in Scotland, grandson of Dr. Malcolm Hamilton, Arch-
hishop of Oashel, who died in 18S9, and eldest son of his yonngest son Lodovick,
(a Colonel in the Swedish army, created a Swedish Baron with his brother Hngh
(first Lord Glenawley in Ireland) in 1964), by a Swedish lady related to King
Onstavns Adolphns.

RIOHABD QOBOB&
L.**lll } ^orlWlreadntl.

Bight Hon. Sir BAIPH OOBB.
L *J; j- JVir Bister read anni

BIOBABD ynvOXMT.
£ *i8* J ^^ tether read uncle.

WILLIAK HAMILTON.
L.'^ } J^or" third- read "second."

THOXAS KNOX.
j^ **J» I After was read originally.

Geobgb Hamilton.
P-WO, I jv^r^-George^rMd "Hugh."

Henbt VAUOHAN BBOOKB.

, ords **by whom he left ]

L. 4. j Memoir was the issue, and he d. 8. p.

P.tOi, ) JVw nephew read cousin. Henry BrooL.

L. 95. I his father Gnstavus being younger brother of BasiL

Geobob pbtsb Holvobd.

l! **4l 1 ^^ ^"^^ ^^^ mother.

PABLIAMBNTOF1880. DATS OF BXTDBN.
Page 8S4, line 19.

Omit the before 1881. Writ issued Aug. SSnd, 1881, and Mr. T. A. Diokson

sworn 7th Feb., 188S.

THOXAB A. DiOSflON.
Llneta

Omit lines 88, 89, and 40, and read "Mr. Dickson's election was declared void
June 14th, 1880, for an illegal payment by an Agent.** (Vide Hansard's Debates.)

line 48.
F&r " 1881 " read " 1880, sworn July 8th."

Sir WILLIAM OOLB.
Page 887, line 1 and note.

Lodge is in error in making Mrs. Cole's mother, Anne or Alice Ooote, the only
daughter of Sir Thomas Philips. She had an elder sister Dorothy, who married
in 1886, her husband's uncle, William Parsons, second son of Sir lAurenoe
Parsons, of Birr.

HUQH HBNBT MIOHELL

Page 848, line e.

As the date of Mary Mitchell's marriage with M. King, for Dec^ 1788, read 1 Jan.
ITM.

NATHANIBL SNETD.
Page 848, line 40.

F&r "Welten Hall" read "Wetten Hall. Line 48, add "Bdward Sneyd was
HP. tiU his death."

P. 804, ) Ondt the words ** by whom^he^ left no issue." The subject of the
P. 804, ) •^•?''. nephew jTMd cousin. Henxy Brooke wmjh^ H. V. Brooke,

ANDREW EKOZ.
FftgeB5i,line8a

ThonuA, the eldest son of Biihop Andrew Knox of Rsphoe, who died 7 Nov.
less (not in 168B as stated), was Bector of Olondevaddock, and also Bishop of the
Isles from 1619. He married Prudence, daughter of Peter Benson of Shragmore,
CO. Derry. The Knox family of Prehen is descended, not from him, but from the
next of his four brothers, Andrew, who m. Bebecca, dau.ot Lt-CoL B. GaJbraith,
of Dowish, ca Derry, whose eldest son Andrew, of BathmuUen, engaged in the
siege of Derry, and by Mary, his wife, had two sons, Andrew, of Oarhevenacan-
nannagh, attainted in 1689, and who seems to have d. s. p. before his father ; and
G^rge, who married Mary Wmy, and had Andrew, M.P. for co. Donegal, who m.
Honoria Tomldns, as in the text, and by her acquired Prehen. His will was
dated 177S. Besides his son Qeorge, he had a daughter Marian, shot by John
M'Naghten..

The Lairds of Knock, Benf rewshire, descended from the eldest son of Uchtred
Knox, father of the elder Bishop.

APP. vn.
Pages 159 and S60.
Far '*4»*' read '49 (i&, AD. 1649X wherever the expression occurs.

Page 161, lines 11 and 64.

These Townlands are mentioned in my ** Hist of Two Ulster Manors," ppk 117,
1S8, 171, Ac.

FURTHER ERRATA ET ADDENDA.

Page 16, line 8S.

Read '* Carrow, oo. Fermanagh," instead of *' Carow, co. Monaghan."
Page 18, lineB S3, 34.

Read " ante 1639," for •* in 1671."
Page 36, line 18.

Read "gister" for "daughter."
Page 36, line 83.

After *' Feb. llth " insert " 1661."
Page 37. line M.

After '* son " insert ** (Sir Angustos).**
Page 41, line 81.

After " M.P." insert " for Agher in 1695, and ".
Page 44, line 18.

Read " Blanch " for ^ Elizabeth."
Page 53, line 87.

After " only " read " surviving."
Page 64, line 7,

Read "28" for "about 30."
Page 66, line 46.

After "Arthur" insert "Douglas."
Page 67, line 3.

Read " Spurling " instead of " Sprawling."
Page 6S, line 40.

Read ** 1764 *' instead of " 1664."
Page 66, line 9S.

Read ** (Mrs. Mitchell m. secondly, 1739, John Finlay, Esq., of Dublin)."
Page 80, line 6.

Read " Aldenham " instead of " Haldiman " as the correct name.
Page 93.

According to the Betham-Phillipps MS. Adam CSathcort was Hiffh SherilT of
Fermanagh (probably after 1643). The following have served as Sheriffs since 1886 :

1886. Charles Cockbum Darcy-Irvine.

1887. Francis John Graham (2nd time).

1888. John Arthur Irwin.

1889. Alexander William Bailey (2nd time).

1890. Arthur Tod CoUum.

1891. John Gerard Christopher Irvine.

1892. William Brady.

1898. Patrick Joseph Conway.
1894. John Brien Frith.
1896. Lord Viscount Corry.
Page 166, line 84.

Read -71789" for "1709." He was alive in 1781,
Page 167, lines 4, 6.

According to *' Ultonio, Cor. L, 6," Tichbome was in possession of the estate,
Jan. 16, Anno 4, Car. L The grant of July 7, 5 Car. L, must have been a con-
firmation.

Page 222, line 84.

Read "1639" for "1634.'
Page 227, line 6.

Read "of" for "off."
Page 231, lino 18.

After ** of " insert " Clogher, and Rector of ".
Page 251, s. v. " Agher."

Jane, eldest dau. of Captain James Galbraith, of Rathmoran, Fermanagh, was
wife of Archibold Richardson, of Augher, and had a son James (Qy.H.S for Tyrone,
1734), at the time when her father made his Will, proved 10 June, 1678.

■VI

Page 25S, line 14.

Bead after '* Montgomery,'* **dau. of Alex. Montgomery, of Ballileck, co.
Monaghan."
Page 25S, line 26.

Bead ** John " for •* James," and ** son-in-law *' for " f ather-in^w."
Page 2S8, line 27.

What follows ** ran " is incorrect, as James and Elizabeth Anchinlech had two
sons, and were therefore married, before this date.
Page 265, line 17.

Bead •* thrice " for ** twice."
Page 26A, line 20.

Bead after** Hilton," "Lucy (widow of Hugh MaglU, of Kirkistown), m. 4 Jnly,
1708, CoL Bobert Johnston (d. Oct., 1718). and had issue by himr— Lodges MSS., and
Will of Wm. Balfour, 1737. Mr. Townley appears to have been her Srd husband.
Page 266, line 21.

Bead ** thirdly " for ** secondly."
Page 266, line 24.

Bead ** William Charles " instead of ** Henry Charles."
Page 276, line 28.

Bead ••1764 "for ''1769."
Page 276, line SO.

Bead •* 17M " for ** 1664."
Page 294, line 80.

Bead after "Montgomery," instead of ** bought"* . . . ** about 1700," ** succeeded
to," . . . ** bought in 1724 by his maternal uncle, OoL Alex. Montgomery, of Convoy
House, ca Donegal, M.P."
Page SOO, line 2.

Insert before ** of Bostrevor," ** Fister (not dau. as in Burke) of Bobert Boes."
Page 80S, line 27.

Bead " Archibald " instead of " William."
Page 807, hue 18.

Put a full stop after ** Battle-axe Quards** and insert "A flrsl cousin and
namesake."
Page 807, line 19.

Bead -1787 "for** 1787."
Page 887, line 12.

For *' in 1664," read ** after 1664, and before 1672."
Page 888, line 6.

Bead " about 1670 " for " in 1664."
Page 339, line 82.

Fenton Cole m. Dorothea Saunderson, 6 March, 1724, and she was buried at Ennis-
killen, 4 March, 1737. (Enniskillen P. B.)
Page 846, line 4.

John Corry probably had an eldest child called James (after his (John's) father),
who perhaps was bom in Dublin, circa 1708.
Page 348, line 40.

Bead ** Wettenhall " instead of ** Weltenhall."
Page 868. The following have served as High Sheriffs of Tyrone since 1887 ;—

1888. Hugh de Fellenburg Montgomery.

1889. Sir William Samuel M'Mahon, BarU

1890. Emerson Tennnnt Herdman.
189L John Kdox M'Caintock.
1892. William King Edwards.
1898. William Hutchinson Poe.
1894. John Herdman.

1896. Francis Porter Gunning.
John Hamilton who served as High Sheriff in 1709, was of Caledon ; William
Hamilton in 1786, was of Anghlish ; John Hamilton in 1741, was of Mountjoy ; Claud
Hamilton in 1748, was of Aughlish ; William Hamilton in 1767, was of Mossville ;
John Hamilton in 1764, was of Donemanagh.

353

APPENDIX VI.

I learn from " The Universal Advertizer," Dublin, ITS!-,
the particulars of the Divisions alluded to in the Memoirs of
Mr. Lowry and Mr. William Hamilton, pp. 274 and 289. The
Opposition appears to have been really led by the Speaker
and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Honorable Henry
Boyle. He and his friends seem to have been consequently
deprived of their employments under Government.

On the 2nd November, 1753, the House was moved that the
Resolution of the House of 6th March, 1752, should be read;
whereby it was resolved that Arthur Jones NeviU, Esq., Surveyor
and Engineer-General, should at his own expense, and without
any further charge to the publick, be obliged to procure the
several persons with whom he hath contracted for the building,
rebuilding, and repairing the Barracks, to make good the defecte
in the works by them respectively contracted for, and to staunch
and finish the same in the most effectual manner, so as to make
the said Barracks fit and convenient for the reception of his
Majesty's troops.

Then the House resolved that it would on that day fortnight
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House to enquire
whether Arthur Jones NeviU, Esq., late Engineer and Surveyor-
General, had carried out their order.

On November 16 the House gave an Instruction to the Com-
nuttee, to enquire whether Mr. NeviU had used any and what
endeavoiurs towards making good the defects of the Barracks,
bmlt, rebuOt, and repaired by him.

The House then resolved itself into the said Committee, and
continued to do so for several days afterwards tUl the 23rd
November, on which day Mr. John Rochfort reported from the
Committee two resolutions, to the effect that Mr. NevUl had
not carried out the terms of the resolution of November 2nd,
1752, and that he had not used reasonable and proper endeavours
towaids doing so.

To which resolution the House agi'eed.

Then Colonel Richard Boyle, seconded by John Cole, Esq.,
moved, That the said Arthur Jones NevUl, Esq., late Engineer and
Surveyor-General, in not complying with the Resolution of this
House, hath acted in manifest contempt of the authority thereof.

This being the foundation for the expulsion which foUowed,
occasioned debate, which lasted tUl Ten at Night, when the
Question was carried by a majority of Eight votes.

TeUers for the Ayes : —

Sir Richard Cox, Bart., Collector of Cork Port, I .g.

Colonel Uichard Boyle, ELlest son to the Speaker, |
1. Right Hon. Thomas Carter, Esq. ; Master of the Rolls, Clerk of

the Crown in the King's Bench, and Privy-Counsellor.

354

8.
4.
5.

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

11.
12.
13.
U.
15.
16.

18.

19.

•20.

'22.

•23.

24.

25.

•26.
21.
28.
29.
;iO,
31.
32.
33.

34.
35.
36.

37.
38.
39.

40.
41.
42.

43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.

Anthony Malone, Esq. ; Prime Ser^eant-at-Ijaw.

Hon. John Caulfield, Esq. ; one of the Clerks of the Privy Seal.

Cosby Nesbit, Esq. ; Collector of Cavan.

Bellingham Boyle, Esq, ; Registrar of the Prerogative Court, and
Pensioner.

Edward Ban^, Esq. ; Physician- General to the Army.

Michael OMirien Dilkes, Esq. ; Quarter- Master- Greneral.

Henry Grore, Esq ; Captain of Foot.

William Cooper, Esq. : Master in Chancery and Chief Examiner.

Right Hon. Sir Compton *)omville, Bart. ; Clerk of the Crown
and Hanaper, and Privy-Counsellor.

Robert Sandford, the younger, Esq. ; Lieutenant of Dragoons.

Edward Herbert, Esq. ; Comptroller of the Port of Chester.

James Wemys, Esq. ; Captain of Foot.

John Gore, Esq. ; Councd to the Commissioners of the Revenue.

Edmond Malone, Esq. ; King's Council.

Nathaniel Clements, Esq. ; Teller of the Exchequer, Ranger of
the Phoenix Park, and Master of the Game.

Frederick Gore, Esq. ; Clerk of the Quit Rents.

Robert Roberts, Esq. ; Deputy-Chief- Remembrancer.

Henry Boyle Walsii^ham, Esq. ; Captain of a Troop of Horse.

Gustavus Lamburt, Esq. ; Collector of Trim.

Richard Malone, Esq. ; Third Sergeant-at-Law.

Hon. Thomas Southwell, Esq. ; Constable of the Castle of limerick.

Charles Gardiner, Esq. ; Master of the Revels.

Francis McCartney, Esq. : Captain of a Company of Foot.

Patrick VVemys, Esq. ; Half-pay Lieutenant on the British Estab-
lishment.

Edward Smith, Esq.
Thomas Adderlev, Esq.
Arthur Upton, Esq.
James Hamilton, Esq.
Sir Edward O'Brien, Bart.
Arthur Hyde, Esq.
Emanuel Pigott, Esq.
Rt. Hon. James Tynte, Esq. ;

Privy Councillor.
Sir John Freke, Bart.
John Lysaght, the elder, Esq.
John Lysaght, the younger,

Esq.
John Magill, Esq.
William Harward, Esq.
Sir John Conway Colthurst,

Bart.
Andrew Knox, Esq.
Sir Ralph Gore St. George, Bt.
Rt Hon. Sir Arthur Gore,

Bart. ; Privy Councillor.
Abraham Creichton, Esq.
Thomas Montgomeiy, Esq.
Bemuxl Ward, Esq.
James Stevenson, Esq.
Alexander Hamilton, Esq.
Sir Samuel Cooke, Bart.
Sir Archibald Acheson, Bart.

50. Robert Sandford, the elder,

Esq.

51. Nicholas Archdall, Esq.

52. John Cole, Esq.

53. John Eyre, Esq

54. John Bmgham, Esq.

55. Sir Maurice Crosbie, Knt.

56. John Blennerhasset, the

yoij^er, Esq.

57. John Blennerhasset, Esq.

58. Arthur Blennerhasset, Ksq.

59. William Crosbie, Esq.

60. Kdmond Malone, Esq.

61. Sir Kildare Dixon Borrows,

Bart.

62. John Digby, Esq.

63. Robert Downes, Ksq.

64. Walter Wddon, Esq.

65. Ralph Gore, Esq.

66. Richard Dawson, Esq.

67. Joseph Deane, Esq.

68. Richard Trench, Esq.

69. Henry L'Kstrange, Esq.

70. William Gore, Esq.

71. Hufh Crofton, Esq.

72. Gilbert King, Esq.

73. Hon. Henr}' Southwell, Esq

74. Edward Taylor, Esq.

355

75. Edward Gary, Esq.

76. William Soott, Esq.

77. Henry Hamilton, Esq.
7S. Henry Gary, Esq.

79. Sir Arthur Newcomen, Bart.

80. Arthur Gore. Esq.

81. Thomas Packenham, Esq.

82. Thomas Burgh, Esq.

83. Thomas Newoomen, Esq.

84. Robert Parkinson, Esq.

85. John Ruxton, Esq.

86. John Hamilton, ffsq.

87. James Cuffe, Esq.

88. Annesley Grore, Esq.

89. Henry Mitchel, Esq.

90. Arthur Francis Meredyth,

Esq.

91. Joseph Ashe, Esq.

92. Chicmester Fortescue, Esq.

93. Thomas Cooley, Esq.

94. Gorges Lowther, Esq.

95. Marcus Lowther Crofton,

Esq.

96. Alexander Montgomery, Esq.

97. Thomas Dawson, Esq.

98. Warner Westenra, Esq.

99. William Henry Dawson, Esq.

100. Henry Sandford, Esq.

101. William Sandfoi^d, Esq.

102. Thomas Mahon, Esq.

103. Joshua Cooper, Esq.

104. Nehemiah Donnellan, Esq.

105. Richard Penefather, Esq.

106. Kinffsmill Penefather, Esq.

107. Mathew Jacob, Esq.

108. Charles Echlin, Esq.

109. Thomas Knox, Esq.

110. William Hamilton, Esq.

111. Richard Vincent, Esq.

112. Beverly Usher, Esq.

113. Aland Mason^ Eso.

1 14. Shapland Carew, Esq.

115. John Colthurst, Esq.

1 16. Richard Aid worth, Esq.

117. George St. George, Esq.

118. John Hochfort, Esq.

119. Oeesar Colcough, Esq

120. Robert Doyne, Esq.

121. Anderson Saunders, Esq.

122. Abel Ram, Esq.

123. Stephen Trotter, Esq.

124. Daniel Falkiner, Esq.

Prosperity to Ireland.

Tellers for the Noes.

Thomas Lehunte, Esq. ; Counsellor-at-law, )

Agmondisham Yesey, Esq. ; Accomptfint-General, |

116.

1 . Rt. Hon. Lord George Sackville, Son, and Principal Secretary to

the Lord Lieutenant, Clerk of the Privy Council, Colonel of a
Regiment of Horse, and Privy Counsellor.

2. Robert Maxwell, Esq. ; Second Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant.

3. Rt. Hon. John Ponsonby, Esq. ; Commissioner of His Majesty's

Revenue and Privy Counsellor.

4. William Bristow, Esq. ; Commissioner of Hi» MajesQr^s Revenue.

5. John Burke, Esq. ; Commissioner of His Majesty's Revenue.

6. Hon. Richs^ Ponsonby, Esq. ; Secretary to the Commissioners of

His Majesty's Revenue.

7. Warden Flood, Esq. ; Attorney- General

8. Philip Tisdal, Esq. ; Solicitor- General and Judge of the Prerogative

Court

9. Philip Bragg, Esq. ; Lieutenant- General and Colonel of a Regi-

ment of Foot.

10. Arthur Dobbs, Esq. ; Governor of North Carolina.

11. Robext Burton, Esq.; Colonel of the Battle-ax Guards.

12. Hon. Robert Jocelyn, Esq.; Son, and Secretary to the Lord

Chancellor, and Auditor-General.

13. Hon. Thomas Butler, Esq.; Adjutant- General.

14. Hon. Robert Butler, Captain of the Battle-ax Guards.

15. David Bindon, Esq. ; Pensioner.

356

16. Hon. James O'Brien, Esq. ; Collector of Drogheda,and Pensioner.

17. Anthony Jephson, Esq.; Half-pay Captain.
IR. Richard Tonson, Esq ; Collector of Baltimore.

19. John FoUiot, Esq. ; Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, and Governor

of Ross Castle.

20. Rt. Hon. Arthur Hill, Esq. ; Privy Counsellor.

2 1 . Hon. Edward Brabazon, Esq. ; Pensioner.

22. Sir Charles Burton, Knt, ; Pensioner.

23. Hon. Bysse Molesworth, Esq. ; Principal Clerk in the Revenue

Secretary's Office.

24. Hon. John Butler, Eso. ; Joint Clerk of the Pipe.

25. Hon. Brinsley Butler, Esq. ; ditto.

26. Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. ; Collector of Mallow.

27. Sir William Fownes, Bart. ; Packer, Searcher, and Guager in the

Port of CorL

28. John Graydon, Esq. ; Pensioner.

29. Rt. Hon. Luke Gardiner, Esq. ; Deputy Vice-Treasurer, and Privy

Counsellor.

30. Boleyn Whitney, Esq. ; Commissioner of Revenue Appeals, and

King's Council.

31. Alexander Nesbit, Esq. ; Pensioner.*

H2. Anthony Marlay, Esq. ; Commissioner of Revenue Appeals, and
King^» Council.

33. Thomas Tenison, Esq. ; Commissioner of Revenue Appeals.

34. Thomas Bligh, Esq. ; Lieutenant- General, and Colonel of a Regi-

ment of Horse.

35. Robert Cuningham, Esq. ; Captain of Foot, and late Aid-de-camp

to the Primate, t

36. Owen Wynne, the younger, Esq. ; Major of Dragoons.

37. John Wynne, Esq. ; Captain ol Foot.

38. Robert Marshal, Esq. ; Second Sergeant- at- Law.

39. Right Hon. Sir Thomas Prendergast, Bart. ; Privy Counsellor.

40. Robert Handcock, Esq. ; Collector of Athlone

41. Rt. Hon George, Lord Forbes; Lieutenant- Colonel of Foot.

42. Hon. Henry Loftus, Esq. ; Clerk of Coast Permits in the Port oi

Dublin.

43. Walter Hore, Esq ; Judge Advocate-General.

44. Hugh Skeflfington, Esq. ; Comet of Horse.

45. James Smyth. Esq. ; Collector of Dublin Port.

4f>. John Maxwell, Esq. ; Prothonotary of the Common Pleas.

47. Eaton Stannard, Es(|. ; King's Council.

48. Hungerford Skeffington, Esq. ; Pensioner.

49. William Sharman, Esq.

50. William Richardson, Esq. :

Armagh.

51. William Browlow, Esq.

52. Sir Richard Butlor, Bart.

53. Sir I^ichard Wolseley, Bart.

54. Samuel Bindon, Esq.

55. William Annesley, Esq.

56. Joseph Leeson, Esq.

57. Robert Scott, Esq.
.^>H. Matthew Forde, Esq.

59. Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby,

Esq.

60. Francis Leigh, Esq.

61. John Graham, Esq.

62. Edward Bolton, Esq.
6:). James Saunderson, Esq
64. Charles Daly, Esq.

65 Robert Trench, Esq.

66. Thomas Staunton, Esij.

67. James Daly, Esq.

68. Robert Blakeney, Esq.

♦ Mr. Alexander Nesbit was a Solicitor, I believe.

f I presume in his capacity of one of the Lords Justices.

357

69. Heniy Bingham, Esq.

70. Maunce Keatinge. Esq.

71. Thomas Bargh, Esq.

72. William Evans Moires, Esq.

73. Harvey Moires, Esq.

74. James Agar, Esq.

73. Nicholas Aylward, Esq.

76. Benjamin Biirton, Esq.

77. Richard Ponsonby, Esq.

78. Sir Laurence Parsons, Bart,

79. Henry Lyons, Esq.

80. William Molesworth, Esq.

81. Eyre Evans, Esq.

82. Charles Smyth, Esq.

83. Richard Maansell, Esq.

84. Philip Oliver, Esq.

85. Hercules I^ngford Rowley,

Esq

86. Richard Jackson, Esq.

87. Henry Bellingham, Esq.

88. Wm. Henry Fortescue, Esq.

89. Thomas Fortescue, Esq.

90. Robert Ross, Esq.

91. Anthony Foster, Esq.

92. John Brown, Esq.

93. Nathaniel Preston, Esq.

94. John Preston, Esq.

Q5. Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart.

96. Thomas Taylor, Esq.

97. George Evans, Esq.

98. William Wall, Esq

99. Jonah Barrington, Esq.

100. Owen Wynne, the elder, Esq.

101. Stephen Moore, Esq.

102. William Stewart, Esq.

103. William Richardson, Esq.,

Augher.

104. Samuel Barker, Esq.

105. Charles Tottenham, Esq.

106. John liCigh, Esq.

107. James Stopford, Esq.

108. Hon. Nicholas Loflus Hume,

Esq.

109. Thomas Loflus, Esq.

1 10. \Villiani Tiche, Esq.

111. Anthony Brabazon, Esq.

1 1 2. Richard Chapel Whaley, Esq.

113. Edmond Sexton Pery, Esq.

114. John Stratford, Esq.

115. C'harles Usher, Esq.

1 1 6 Robert Perceval, Esq.

The Second List is headed " Insula sacra et Libera."
" A List of the members of the Hon. House of Commons of
Ireland who voted for and against the Altered Money Bill, which
was rejected on Monday, the 17th day of December, 1753."

December 14, 1753.

A Bill intitled, An Act for the Payment of the sum of £77, 500, or
so much thereof as shall remain due on the 25th December, 1753, in
discharge of the National Debt, together with interest for the
same at the rate of £4 per cent, per annum, from the said 25th
day oi December, 1753, until the 25th day of March, 1754, was
read the first time in the House of Commons.

On the same day a Committee was appointed to examine what
alterations have been made in the Heads of Bills sent from this
House, this session of Parliament, and where the same have been
so made.

December 15.

Mr. Upton reported from the said Committee that there was
an alteration made in the above Bill, by inserting in the Preamble
the following words : —

" And Your Majesty, ever attentive to the Ease and Happiness
of your faithful subjects, has been graciously pleased to signify,
that you would CONSENT, and to recommend it to us, that so

much of the money remaimng in Towr Majest/ifs Tretuwry^ as
should be necessary, be applied to the discharge of the National
Debt, or of such part thereof as should be thought expedient by
ParliameTit,^^

On the same day the Bill was read a second time.

December 17.

The House went into a Committee to take the said Bill into
consideration.

Right Hon. Thomas Carter, Esq., Master of the Rolls, Clerk
of the Crown in the King's Bench, and Privy Counsellor, in the
Chair.

The Committee agreed to all the enacting paragraphs and title
of the Bill, but disagreed to the Preamble, by a majority of five
voices.

The proceedings of the Committee being reported immediately, the
House agreed thereto, and rejected the said Bill without a division.

" Hie niger est, hwac tu, Romane, caveto.^'

Teller for the Ayes : —

Edmond Sbxton Peet, Esq. — 117.
The greater number of the members who voted with the Govern-
ment against the resolution which led to the expulsion of Mr.
Nevill, supported them again on this occasion. Nicholas
Archdall, Sir Compton DbmviUe, Nathaniel Clements, and
Richard Trench, who have previously opposed them, now gave
them their votes.

Vindices Lihertatis,

Teller for the Noes : —

Sir Richard Cox, Bart., Collector of Cork Port.— 122.

The greater number of those who had voted in November for
the resolution which led to the expulsion of Mr. Nevill now voted
with the Opposition. In addition they had with them : —

The Right Hon. Henry Boyle, Esq.; Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and Privy Counsellor, and Speaker of the House of
Commons. Also Sir Richard Butler, Edward Bolton, and Thomas
Loftus.

The following names are absent from the second division who
had voted in the first, viz. :— (Against Govemment) Edward
Barry, William Cooper, Edward Herbert, Henry Mitchell, Thomas
Cooley, and Thomas Knox. And (for Government) Hon. Thomas
Butler, James Daly, Nicholas Aylward, Richard Ponsonby, and
Charles Tottenham.

There were also some members in this division who had not
been in the former one, viz. : — (For Government) Hon. George
Hamilton, Cromwell Rice, XJssher St. George, and Richard
Gorges ; and against Government, Thomas Carter, junior, Robert
Hickman, and Oliver Anketill. I may have missed some mem-
beiV names in comparing the lists.

359

APPENDIX VII.

[Penes Sir Chables Kino, Bart.]

List of Obown Tenants in Co. Febmanagh, 1678. — Rental.*

(Record Office, Dublin.)

I have modernized the spelling of names and placed them in
more correct alphabetical order. — C. S. E.

Aldridge, Kdwd.
Allen Stephen.
Anckittell, Mathew.
Archdale, Wm.
Atkinson, Roger.
Austin, John.

Ob., Oct., 1634. Balfour, James, Lord.

Baxter, Martin.
Ob., 1639. Blennerhassett, Sir I^eonard^ Knt.

„ Francis.

Wm.
Brooke, Sir Henry, Knt
? Ball. Bttll, Samuel.

Butler, Francis.

Caldwell, James.

Carew, Robert.
One of the '' 49 Officers.'* Cathcart, Adam.

Ob., 1666.

Champion, Arthur.
„ Edward.

One of the '' 49 Officers." Cheslen, John.

Clandeboy, James, Lord.

Cock, Francis.

Cole, Sir John, Bart.
„ Sir Michael, Knt .

College, Dublin.

Connyes, Fdward.

Copeland, Edward.
Ob., 1660^1. Cormuck, John.

Curry, John.

* It does not follow that all these persons were alive in 1678. For instance,
Roger Atkinson was probably dead. He had sold his grant long before to Artfaur
Champion, and it was now held by John Corry, in addition to another for which
his own name appears. But the names >vere kept on in the KentaL — B.

360

Dillon, Robert, Lord.

„ Carey.

,, Charles.
Dunbar, Sir John, Knt.

Evett, Margaret.
,, Richard.

Ob., 1686-8

Folliot, Thos., Lord.
Forster, Arthur.
Francklin, Richard.

Ob., 1690.

Lucy, d. of Sr. John Davis.

Archd. of 4rdagh.

Ob., 1 Oct., 1632.

A son of Bp. Jaa. Heygate.

Gore, Sir Ralph, Bart.

TTamilton, John.

„ Malcolm.
Hannington, Maria.
Harrison, George.
Hassard, Jason.
Hastings, Ferdlnando, Lord

„ and Lucy, his wife.
Hatton, Edward.

Heygate, John.

Hume, Sir George, Bart.

Humphrey, Thomas.

Irvine, Gerard.

One of the " 49 Officers.'
Ob., 1693.

Vivens, 1674.

Johnston, Walter.
Jones, Roger.

K.
King, James.

Ob., Jul v, 1681.
Ob., Feb., 1700.

Leonard, John.

I .eslie, Dr. of Theolog :

Lo^vther, Henry, Assign Henry Lowther.

361

Aged 76 in 1680.
Ob., 1602.

Ob., Nov., 1677.

Vivens, 1634.

Ob., circa, 1638.
Vivens, 1621.

Mackie, Thomas.
Magoire, Lord.

„ Bryan M^Coron.
Merricke, Richard.
Monmouth, Jas., Duke of.
Montgomery, Gabriel.
„ William.

Moantmorris, Francis, Ix>rd

O
O'Neil, Art Oge.

Peirce, Ralph.
Pitt, John.
Potter, Geor^.
Puckridge, Richard.

Rbynd, David.
Roscommon, Jas., Earl of.
Rotheram, Sir Thos. (V Knt.)

S.
Slack, Robert, Clk.
St. George, George.

Walmesley, John.
Waterhouse, Charles.
West, Henry.
Willoughby, Nicholas.
Wyett, Dr. Thomas.

The value for public "Value of Lands in Coin, Fermanagh, 1659.
purposes equivalent " Derrykellaghan —
for Crown Rental. a. r. p.

AVm. Moore, 17 00

8. d
05 : 00."

Jno. Leonard, 29 1 30 J ^^ * ^^ • ^"

" Derryhame —

a. r. p. ,.

Wtt. Moore, 70 00)"*

Wm. Montgomery, 02 00 / "^ *

Crown Rental, 1623.

In Bar: Knockninny, Michael Balfour, Junr.,
"colter vocat., the Lard of Mountwhany"
(not a Lord but a Laird).

Crown Rental, 1668.

Walter Johnston, tenant of Inishgrenry, in B
Magherystephana.

APPENDIX VIII.

HIGH SHERIFFS, COUNTY TYRONE.

The list is imperfect at the beginning, and a degree of
uncertainty attaches to some of the earlier names mentioned
in it. The spelling of the names is given, as far as possible,
in their more modern form.

1606.

Sir Henry Oge O'Neil.

1696.

John T^esley.

1607.

Edmond Leigh.

1697.

James Moore.

1610.

John Leigh.

1698.

William Latham.

1612.

John Meade.

1H99.

William Cai-nes.

1613.

James Glapham.

1700.

John Caulfeild.

1614.

John Leigh.

1701.

James Moore.

1616.

Edmond Blomer.

1702.

Thomas Knox.

1620.

Sir William Caulfelld.

1708.

Sir Robert SUples, BarL

1621.

Feu ton Parsons.

1704.

Andrew Stewart (or Stuart)—

1622.

Alexander Sanderson.

Thomas Morris.

1624.

Sir Daniel Leigli.

1705.

Thomas Morris.

1684.

Edward Torleton.

1706.

Stewart Blacker.

1638.

William Hamillon.

1707.

John Gamble— Robert Lowry.

16S».

Terence O'Neil— Thomas Bayley.

1708.

Robert I^wry.

1640.

Sir Thomas Staples, Bart.

1709.

John Hamilton.

1641.

Edward Maxwell.

1710.

Patrick Hamilton.

1650.

Edward Richardson.

17n.

Henry Stewart.

1667.

Sir George Acheson, Bart.

1712.

Acheson Moore.

1668.

John Morris.

1713.

James Young.

1659.

James Stewart.

1714.

Claud Hamilton.

1660.

„

1715.

Henry Mervyn.

1661.

Alexander SUples.

1716.

William Richard.Hon

1662.

William Richardson.

1717.

Richard Maxwell.

1663.

Thomas Goulboume.

1718.

Audley Mervyn.

1664.

William 3Ioore.

1719.

Robert Lowry.

1666.

Robert Stewart (or Stuart).

1720.

Daniel Eccles.

1666.

Sir Arthur Chichester, Knt,

1721.

John Moutray.

1667.

Arthur Newburgh.

1722.

George Gledstanes.

1668.

Samuel Hill.

1728.

Thomas White,

1669.

Hugh Edwards.

1724.

John M'CausIand.

1670.

Alexander M'Cautilaud.

1726.

William Babingtou.

1671.

Claud Hiimilton.

1726.

Robert Lowry, jun.

1672.

John Anthony.

1727.

WUliam Colhoun.

1678.

Gilbert Kcclea.

1728.

George Magee.

1674.

Edward Edwards.

1729.

Thomas Singleton.

1676.

i«

1730.

Oliver M'CausIand.

1676.

Oliver M'Causland,

1731.

Hugh Edwards.

1677.

Robert Lindesay.

1732.

John Sinclair.

1678.

John Moderall.

1733.

Galbraith Lowry.

1679.

Patrick Hamilton.

1734.

James Richardson.

1680.

Archibald Richardson.

1735.

William HamUton.

1681.

Thomas Maxwell.

1736.

John Houston.

1682.

James Moutray.

1737.

George Conyngham.

1683.

Chiud Hamilton.

1738.

William Stuart (or s^tcwart)

1684.

James Cilligan.

KiUymoon.

1685.

Edward Edwards.

1739.

Oliver M'CausIand.

1686.

Henry ^lervyn.

1740.

John M'CausIand.

1687.

Terence DouucUy.

1741.

John Hamilton.

1688.

1742.

Francis White.

1689.

John O'Neil.

1743.

David Richardson.

1690.

1744.

John Hamilton.

1691.

Oliver M'CausIand.

1745.

Alexander M'CaiislauJ.

1692.

Aodley Mervyn.

1746.

Charles Eodes.

1698.

Patrick HamUton.

1747.

Thomas Singleton.

1694.

Charles Kcclea

1748.

Claud Hamilton.

1696.

James Moutray.

1749.

William Blacker.

363

756.

767.

758.

759.

760.

761.

763.

768.

764.

766.

767.

768.

769.

770.

771.

772.

773.

774.

776.

777.

778.

779.

780.

781.

782.

788.

784.

785.

786.

787.

788.

789.

790.

791.

792.

793.

794.

796.

797.
1798.
1799.
1800.
1801.
1802.
1803.
1804.
1805.
1806.
1807.
1808.
1809.
1810.
1811.
1812.
1818.
1814.
1816.
1816.
1817.
1818.
1819.

Thomas Goodlatte.

Thomfts Knox.

Alexander Stuart, of Drumesplll.

John Cairnes.

James Tisdall.

Andrew Thomas Stoart (Lord

Castlestaart).
Lawrence O'Hara.
WiUiam HamUton.
John M'CaosIand.
Andrew Knox.
Robert M'Clintock.
Francis Houston.
James Moutray.
Sir Robert Staples, Bart.
John Hamilton.
James Colhonn.
John Staples.
Willlaia Conrngham.
William Irvine.
Armar Lowry Corry.
James Caulfeild.
Hamilton Gorges.
Daniel Eccles.
James Moore Hamilton.
Richard Vincent
Alexander M'Causland.
Thomas Knox.
Sir Edward Loftus, Bart.
John Richardson.
Thomas Knox J un.
James Alexander.
John M'Cliutocic.
Charles King.
John Ferguson.
George Gledstanes.
George Sinclair.
Nathaniel Montgomery Mooro.
William BaiUle.
Robert Lindesay.
Sir William Richardson, Bart.
James Vemer.
Samuel Galbraith.
Hon. Arthur Cole Hamilton.
Charles Crawford.
John Corry Moutray.
George Lenox Conyngham.
Gorges D'Arcy Irvine.
William Hamilton.
Thomas Knox Hanyngton.
William Richardsoq.
Richard C. Maxwell
Sir Thomas Lighton, Bart.
Hamilton Gorges, jun.
George Perry.
Charles Eccles.
WlUiam M'Clintoek.
John Maokey.

WUliam Richardson Qoodlatto.
Jones Crawford.
Sir John Stewart, Bart.
Hugh Montgomery.
Claud Cole Hamilton.
Robert WlUiam Lowry.
James Lowry.
Hon. Andrew G. Stuart.
John Dickson Eccles.
Arthur L. Galbraith.
Robert Bateson.
WUliam Lenox Conyngham.
George Lendrum.

820
821,
832.
828.
824.
825.
826.
827.
828.
829.
830.
831.

882.
883.
834.
885.
836.
837.
888.
889.
840.
841.
842.
.843.
844.
846.
846.
847.
848.
849.
860.
851.
852.
853.
854.
855.
856.
857.
858.
859.
860.
861.
862.
868.
864.
866.
866.

867.
868.
869.
870.
871.
872.
878.
874.
875.
876.
877.
878.
879.
880.
881.
882.
883.
884.
885.
886.
887.

James Cuulfcild.

Robert Waring Maxwell.

Sir James Stron^e, Bart.

WlUiam Vemer.

WUliam Stewart Richardson.

Sir Robert A. Ferguson, Bart.

Samuel Vesey.

Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart

Mervyn Stewart.

John Ynyr Burges.

Arthur W. Cole HamUton.

Sir James Richardson Bunbur/

Bart.
Thomas R. Browne.
Samuel Galbrulth.
Robert Montgomery Moore.
Charles Eccles.
Charles John Gardiner.
James Lendrum.
Edward H. Caulfeild.
Thomas Houston.
John Lindesay.
Charles Boyle.
Joseph Qoil.
Robert Gordon.
James M. Stronge.
WUUam D'Arcy Irvine.
Francis J. Gervals.
Richard Lloyd.
Andrew Ferguson Knox.
Robert W. Lowry, Jun.
Henry D'Arcy Irvine.
William Vemer.
WUliam L. Ogllby.
Alexander G. Stuart.
Daniel Baird.
AnketeU Moutray.
Frauds J. Graham.
WUliam F. Black.
Sir John M. Stewart, Bart.
Frederick Lindesay.
Sir James John HamUtoo, Bart
Wmiam Archdall.
Samuel W. BlackaU.
Viscount Hamilton.
Hugh Gore Edwards.
George Perry M'Clintock.
WilUam FltzwUliam Lenox Cony n

WiUiam Cole HamUton.

James Alfred Caulfeild.

Ynyr H. Burges.

Viscount Stuart.

J. B. Gunning Moore.

Thomas Auchinleck.

John MulhoUand.

James Corry J. Lowry.

John Samuel Galbraith.

Thomas Greer.

AnketeU Moutray.

John Gerard Irvine.

George Waller Veaey.

James H. Stronge.

Fitzameline Maxwell AncketUl.

George Cosby Lendram.

Robert Hawkes ElUa.

Hugh Gore.

John M. A. C. Richardson.

James Brace.

H. Knox-Browne.

364

APPENDIX IX.

A Liat of those attainted by King James II. in ]va Parliament
held in Dublin, 1689, l>elonging to the Counties of Feimanagh
and Tyrone, as given by Dr. William King, Dean of St. Patrick's,
in the Appendix to his work on the State of the Protestants of
Ireland, &c. Dublin, a. d. 1713.

Fermanagh.

Sir James Caldwell of Bellick, Bart.
Sir John Haines of Castle Humes,

Bart.
Charles Caldwell of Belllck, Esq. (son
and heir-apparont of Sir James Cald-
well).
Capt. Abraham Creighton of Cmm.
David Bynd of Dervoland, Esq.
William Wiflshart of Clunteffrin. Esq.
Gustavus Hamilton of Moynea, Esq.
William Erwyn of Ballydullagh, Esq.
Christopher Brwyn of the same, Esq.,

his son.
Walter Johnston of Millick, Esq.
George Bochanon of Enniskilling, Esq.
Francis Johnston of DerrycholA(?ht,

Gent.
William Barton of Boo Island, Gent.
Robert Johnston of Aghanaeo, Esq.
Lt.-Col. Hugh Montgomery of Corrard.
Robert Montgomery of Derrybroske,

Gent.
James Creighton of Cmm, Gent.
James Aghineleck of Bellaghinlcck,

Gent.
Andrew Forster of Drumgoone, Gent.
Hugh Rosse of Bossdagaen. Gent.
Chnstopher Carleton of Bohne, Gent.
John Moffett of Letterboy, Gent.
Adam Betty of Came, Gent.
Rowland Betty of Ardvemy, Gent.
John Betty. do. do.

John Croizier of Cavan, Gent.
Laurence Grafford of Cavancarragh,

Gent.
Jason Hassart, sen., of Mullivesker,

Gent.
Jason Hassart, jun., of Eillnemaddue,

Gent.
Lt. William Ellet of Staraghan.
Robert Catcarth of Creaghmore, Gent.
.Archibald Hamilton of Drammarry,

Gent.
Gabriel Shore of Maghervboy, Gent.
Edward Morton of Mullenegough,

Gent
Lt. William Smith of Greenish.
Thomas Winslow of Derryvore, Gent
John Folliott of Filleun, Gent.
William Green of Killeter, Clerk.
John Leonard of Magwyorsbridge,

Gent
?atrick Breadan of Derryboy, Gent
Thomas Ellet of Galoone, Gent
Dr. John Lesley of Derryvoland

Parish.
Allen Oathcart of Enniskilling, Gent.
William Oottington, do. do.

Thomas Dunbarr, do. do.

do.

William Smith of donnish. Clerk.
John Andrews of Kinobir, Clerk.
John Font-er of Camemaekaaker,

Gent
Thomas Bird of Llssanaskea, Gent
William Browning of Beallanamallagh,

Gent
George Cashell of Dromlne, Gent
Robert Clarke of BnnlBkllllng, Mer-
chant
James Delapp, sen., Enniskilling Gent
James Delapp, Jun., da do.

Alexander Forker,
Thomas Shore,
Matthew Webster,
William Frith,
William M'Cormock,
John HaU,

William Clole of ColehilL Gent
Bartholomew Drope of Oarrowrasky,

Gent
James Johnston of Magherybov, Gent
Richard Evett of Magherestepnenagh,

Gent
-— Merick do. do.

Thomas Humphery of Atighvenuhue,

Gent
Wiliam Humphery of Dmmaad

Gent
John Croi2ier of Crockneale. Gent
James Qallhowne of Crevenlsh, Gent
Charles Bingham, do. do.

Alexander Johnston of MullaghMllo-

gagh, Gent
Hugh Montgomery of Carhue. Esq.
Thomas Rosgrave of Glordonochoe,

Gent
Ezekiel Webb of EnnisklUin, Clerk.
George Humes of CuUencrunaht

Clerk.
Comet John Maddison of Cloony-

Jonn Meanes of Stramreagh, Gent
John Humphery of Mountersadaghane,

Gent
Edward Pockridge of Gortnadridge,

Gent
Henry Walton of Laghnagalgreene,

Gent
William Walton do. do.

John Booreman of Coolebegg, Gent
John Abercromley of Dramcroe, Gent
Robert Qalbraith of Drumadoon, Gent
George BUet of Tully Gent
Alexander Wyre of Managhan, Gent
Thomas Ohlttogc of Cash, Gent
William Little of Drumenagh, Gent
John Humen of Aghrim, Gent
William Little of 2bdimisin, Gent

365

JameB Dnndas, Oent
Hugh Oatbcart of TnUyshanlan, Oout
Alexander Oathcart of Elnnisway, Gent
James Cathcart do. do.

Andrew Johnston of Drumbeggan,

Qent.
James Hamilton of Tollycreevy, Gent
John Eeer of Dromsilagn, Gent.
Robert Johnston of Ginuavan, Gent.
Thomas Hinston of Killerny, Gent
Heurv Bobinson of Bossorolbane,

Gorit
James Elliot of Sborchin, Gent
Bobert Elliot, do. do.

Thomas Elliot of Gallune, Gent.
Daniel Armstrong of Ghlve, Gent
Bobert Armstrong do. do.
Captain James Corry of Castlecoolc.
John Creighton of Aaghaloan& Esq.
Oharles Belfore of Lisneskea, Esq.
William Belfore, do. do.
Captain Hugh MagiU.

Captain Edward Da\*y8of Knockbally-

morc.
James Humes, son and hetr-apparent

of Sir John Hmnes.
John Dunbar of Killcoe, Esq.
William Arsdall of BummiminTer,

Esq.
Francis Butler of Newtown, Esq.
Andrew Hamilton of Maghorycrossc,

Clerk.
George Hamilton of Bolin, Qeni.
Alexander Atchison of Toniheage,

Gent
Bernard Ward of Knockballimore,

Gent.
Captain Thomas Brookes of Maghere-

stephenagh, Gent
FoUiott Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon.
Sir Michael Cole of Enniskilling, Knt

Jane Davys of ^ Widow.

Anna Catherina, Lady Hamilton of

Tullykeltyre.

Ttroke.

William CanlfleUU Viscount Charle-

mont
Wilham Stewart, Viscount MountJoy.
Sir Bobert Staples of Lissane, Bart
Lt-CoL Joseph Gordon.
Robert Kerr of Omagh, Gent
Thomas Kerr, do. .do.
John Hamilton of Callidon, Esq.
Robert Huston of Castlestewart, Esq.
Alexander Sanderson of Tullylagan,

Esq.
Francis White of Ballymagrane, Gent
William Goodlett of Derrygally, Gent
William Cunningham of Coagh, Esq.
John Cornwall of Mullaghmargret

Gent
James Moore of Garvy, Esq. (son to

William Moore).
James Moore of Tully, Gent
James Moore of Derryoretty, Gent
Thomas Kerr, sen., of Dunnaghmore,

Gent
John Morris of Gortnaglash, Clerk.
Henry Maxwell of Glenarb, Gent
James Maxwell, do. do.

Alexander Woods of Kinard, Gent.
John Lowry of Aghiennib, Qent.
Bobert Lowry do. do.

John Lowry, lun., do. do.
Thomas Leech of Belloragh, Gent
William Leech do. do.

William Moore of Anaghloghan, Gent
David Keams (Cairns) of Askragh,

Ohwnes Eccles of Fentonagh, Qent.
Samuel Eccles do do.

John Graron of Aghir, Qent.
James Nisbitt of Killeffreene, Gent
Adam Tate of Ballygafly, Gent
Charles Hamilton do. do.
Captain Archibald Hamilton of Stan-
Henry Mervyn of Omagh. Esq.
Audley Mervyn of Trenck, Gent
William Garvan of Derry, Gent
Francis Delapp of Moylagh. Gent
Andrew MacOausIand of Claraghmore,

Gent
QeOTge Hamilton of Moy, Gent
JamM Hamilton of Downlong, Bsq.

Bobert Hamilton of KiUiloony, Gent
James Hamilton of Ardnoblisg, Mer-
chant
William Hamilton of Ballyfattane,

Gent
Matthew Babington of Umey, Gent
George Walker of Dunaghmore, Clerk.
John Lesley, jun., of Tirkirnaghane,

Gent
William Stewart of Killemoon. Gent.
Oliver MacCausland of Bash, Esq.
George Hamilton of Callidon, Qent.
Alexander Bichardson of Drom, Gent
William Bichardson of Tullyreave.

Gent
William Swan of Farlagh, Gent
John Ayerly of Manner Bod, Esq.
John Williams do. do.

Alexander Creighton of Lissanean,

Gent
Bobert Lindsy of Mannor Lysdsey,

Esq.
Hugh Stewart of Gortgil, Gent
Bobert Hamilton of Kllleman, Gent
Symon Hassington of Boreau, Gent
Captain William Moore of Garvey.
John Speere of Mullaghmossagh.
John Burley of Macknagh, Gent
Andrew Darragh of Dromard. Gent
James Stewart of Killeman, Gent
John Willson of Ballue, Gent
Captain Thomas Collson of Drumkee.
John Willson of Dromconnor, Gent
John Speer of Kinard.
Bobert Hamilton of Carrowbegg.
Archibald Bichardson of Springtown.
James Mutray of Favour BoyaL
John Keames of Agharonan,
John Keames of Olaremore.
William Lee of Killing. Esq.
James Gladsteanes of uordross, Gent
John Byrny of Gortmore.
Henry Grason of Agher.
John Hamilton of Comamuoklagh,

Gent
Adam Morrison of Coolegarry.
James Moor of Lissaleen.
John Wallow of Clanblogh, Gent
Bobert Beery of Corekrive.
John Hinderson of Bally vedan.

366

Archibald Irwlng of Timpain.
John Christall of BallynegoraKh.
John Neely of Ballynesazart, Gent.
John Harvey of Tidlytfllsn.
William Bratton of Aghar.
Hugh Willson of Ballymatown. Gent
Thomas Moor of Ballinclogh. Gent.
John Moor do. do.

John Er wing of Mullenboy, Gent.
John Moor of Anaghaloghan, Gent.
Patrick Rtewart of Dromskeeny, Gent
Joseph Mounteeth of Creevnnirare,

Gent
Randall Charletyn of Bathkeeragh,

Gent
John Robinson of Dorey, Gent
Thomas Edy of Diiu, Gent
George Mervin of Mullaghbane, Gent.
Mongoe Walkinshaw of Mullingaugh,

Clerk.
Robert Echlln, Dean of Tuam.
Michael Mospe of Enniskillen, Clerk.

William Campbell of Newtownstewart,
Gent

John Hayre of Xcwtownstewart, Gent

Robert Carson do. do.

Samuel Law of Carrighee, Gent.

John White of Skariffeckeerino. Gent

Thomas Maxwell of Strabane, Gent.

Adam Evans of Strabane, Gent

Thomas Edy of Killeaghgoge.

Patrick Hamilton of Dergal, Gent

James Young of Clady, Gent.

David MacLeneghan of Upper Cladv,
Gent

John CaldweU of Maghernekeeragh.

Andrew MacLenaghan of Keele, Gent.

James Hayre of Siscable, Gent

Lewis Trevor, Viscount Dungannon.

James Hamilton of Dunmanagh, Gent

Anne, Viscountess Dowager of Dun-
gannon.

Margaret Hamilton of Callidon, Widow.

$67

INDEX OF MEMBERS.

Acheson, Sir Archibald (let Lord Qo8-

ford), 66.
Alexander, Viscount (8rd Earl of Calo-

don). 889.
Anneslev, Rt, Hon. Bichard (2nd Earl

AnneBlcy), 817.
Archdall, CoL Mer\Tn, 60, 62, 66, 60, 72,
77, W«, 847.

Gen, Mervyn, 78, 81, bis, 83, bin, 83,

84, bis, 85, bis.

Oapt. Mervyn, 86, bis, Ur, 87, 88, 80,

fete, 90,"

v«,, .V, Us, 91.
- Nicholas, 56.

Archdale, William, 91, 98.
Ascoufih, Edward, 170.
Ashe, Thomas, 267, 270.
Atkinson, Captain Roger, 10, 843.
Bailey or Baiilie, Willtom, 318.
Balfour, William, 264, 269, 276.
Ball, Charles, 319.
BarriuRton, Sir Jonah, 816.
Bennet, Capt RH. A., RN., 81.
Beresf ord, ut. Hon. John, 78.
Birchenshaw, Sir Ralph, 152,
Birone, Captain Robert., 224.
Blaquiere, Rt. Hon. Sir John (Ist Lord

de Blaquiere)^9, 848.
Blennerhasaet, Henry. 86.
Borlase, Capi John (Sir John Borlasc,

junr.), 29.
Bramhall, Sir Thomas, 883.
Brice, Edward, 262.
Bridges, Sir Matthew, 260.
Brooke, Rt Hon. Sir Arthur, 61, 62, 65.

Sir Arthur, 87, W*, 88, 89.

Henry, 56.

Henry VaughML 808.

Brownlow, Rt. Hon. William, 297.

Bnrlasey or Borlase, Sir John, 19.

Burgh, Thoma8J|16.

Burroughs, Sir William, 79.

Cames, John, 224.

Gary, Rt. Hon. Sir Walter, 284.

CauJfeild,Toby (8rd Lord C^ulfeild ), 18u.

Champion, Arthur, 88.

Chichester, Sir Arthur, 283.

CoL John, 214.

Coghill, James, 270.

Coghlan, Thomas, 808.

Cole, Hon. Arthur. 84, bis. 85, 86, bis, 87, bis.

Sir Arthur (Lord Ranelngh), 41.

Gen. Sir Galbraith Lowr>', 74, 77,

78, 81. fe<«, 82, Mji,83.
Lt.-CoL Hon. Henr>', s7, 88, 80, hh,

90, bis. 91, 92.

Colonel Sir John, 84.

John (1), 49, 52, 55

John (2), (LordMountflorenoe), 60.

Hon. John, 90, bis, ter.

Sir Michael 89, 44, 49, bis, 886.

Richard, 52, 65, 69.

Sir Robert, 40, 844.

Viscount (1), (2nd Earl of Ennis-

killon), 72, 77, bis, 78.
Viscount (2), (8rd Earl of Ennis-

killen), 85, bis, 86, bis.
Viscount (8), (4th Earl of Ennis-

kUlen), 92, 849.

Sir WUllwn, 18, 29, 885.

Hon WiUiam Willoughby (Ist

Earl of Ennlskillen), 61.
Cole Hamilton, Hon. Arthur, 69, 78, 77, bis.
Colley, Henry, 871.

Cook, Di*. Edward. 281.

Corry, Armar L. (Ist Earl of Belmore),

62, 296, 899, 847.

Col. James, 42, 45, 49, 52, 58, 844.

CoL John, 51, 58. 846.

Rt Hon. Henry. 886, 827, bis, 828.

bis, 829, bis, 880, bis, 881, bis 882, Ms,

ter.

CoL Hon. Henry, 888, 884.

Viscount (2), (8rd Earl of Belmore),

88, 84, bis.
Viscount (IX (2nd Earl of Belmore),

818,831.
Cradock, Gen. John Francis (1st Lord

Howden), 806.
Craige, John, 289.
Creighton, Col. Abraham, 41, 49, 846.

Brigadier Da\id, 257.

Crichton, Viscount (4th Earl of Erne),

91, 92, bU, 849.
Cross, Sylvester, 284.
Davies, Edward, 244.
Davies, Sir John, 6, 848.
Davys, Sir Paul. 28.
Davys, William, 84,
Dickson, Thomas Alexander, 884, his.
Dickson, Thomas, junr., 884^
Doe, Lewis, 242.

Donellan, Nehemiah Nixon, 286.
Donnelly, Patrick, 242.
Draper, Matthew, 281.
Eo hlin, Charles, 287.
Eden, Rt Hon. William, 802.
Erskyn, Sir James, 161.
Ereskin, James, 179.
Erwin or Inline, Christopher, M.D., 45.

49, 845.
Famham. Humphry, 12.
Ferrar, William, 144.
FitzgeraliLRichard, 176, 228.
Flood, Rt Hon. Henry, 67.
Folliott Sir Henry (1st Lord FoUiott), 5.
Forbes, Sir Arthur (Ist Earl of Granard\

280.
Fortescue, Sir Faithfull, 17a
Fortlck, William. 8U0.
Freemantle, Rt Hon. Sir W., 80.
Galbraith, CoL James, 882.

Sir James, 814.

(Jardiner, Lt.-Gen. William, 817.
Gore, Rt Hon. Sir Ralph, 278.
Gorges, Richard, senr., 61, 277.

Kichard, junr., 62, 68.

Hamilton, Hon. Charles. 288.

Sir Charles, 821, 822.

Lord Claud (1), 834.

Lord Claud (2), 828, 829, 880, 881,

bis, ter, quar. 882, bis, ter.

Claudius, 298.

George, 299.

Gustavuji, 267.

James, 840.

James (6th Earl of Abcrcom), 243,

858,
John (Sir John Stewart), 294, 29K,

802, 3«»7. 312.
- — John (of Callidon), 246, 256, 269.

Rt Hon. Sackville, 304, 310.

Viscount, 828.

William. 289, 392.

Harvey, Sir Ptfer. 889.
Hayes, Sir Samuel, 804.
Herbert, Richard Townsend, 810.

868

Holford, George Peter, 324.

Hume, Kt. Hon. Sir Gustavus, 6S, U, K.

Sir John, 16.

Irwin or Irvine, Dr. Christopher, see

Erwin, 46, 49, 84«.
Johnson. Bichard, S54.
King, John (EnnisklUen), 80.

John (Ologher), 818.

Knox, Andrew, 820, 853.

Hon. Charles, 819.

Hon. George, 811, 882, 823.

^^ John, 297.

Hon. John, 811, 319, 821.

Hon. John James, 828, bin, 829.

Rt Hon. Thomas, 2M, 261, 267, 271.

Thomas, 287, 292, 297.

Thomas, Jnnr. (Lord Welles and

Visconnt Northland), 288, 292,

297, 80L
Hon. Thomas (1), (1st Earl of

Banf orly), 807, 828, bis, 324.
Hon. Thomas (2), (2nd Earl of

Banfurly), 825, 326, 827, bis. 829.
Hon. Thomas (8), (8rd Earl of

Banfnrly), 880, bis, 881, bis.
Colonel Hon. William Stuart, 831,

&u, ter^ quoKy 332, bis, 883.
Leigh, John. 66.

Lindsay. Robert (Hon. Mr. Justice Lind-
say), 278.
Litton, Edward, Q.C., 834.
Lowry, Ghilbraith (Lowry-Corry), 274,

290.
- — — Robert, 292.
Low, Samuel 291.
Ludlow, Stei^en. S44.
Macartney. W. Ellison, 833, 834.
M*Cau8land, John, 272, 289.

Oliver (1), 251, 256, 263, 267, 271.

OUver (2), 289.

M'Clintock,John,7L

Madden, Thomas. 216.

Magenis, Lt.-CoL Richard, 73,82, &<>, 83,84.

Maguire, CoL Rorye, 26.

Manninge, Henry, 214.

Martin, Richard, 227.

Meredith, Sir Robert, 178.

Mcrvyn, Sir Audley, 181, 230, 349.

Audley (1), 266, 269, 268, 268.

Audley (2), 269.

Henry (1), 241, 248, 263,

Henr^' (2), 266, 269, 273.

Mitchell, Hugh Henry, 66, 347.
Molyneux, Sir Capel, 291, 301.
Molyneuz, Daniel, 18L
Montgomery, George, 294.

Lieutenant James (Sir James), 148.

Nathaniel (Montgomery-Moore)

299, 308, 320.

William, 290.

Moore, Hon. William, 292, 296.

Lorenzo, 307.

More, Sir Garrett, 146.
Mouncke, Charles, 178.
Moutray. James (1), 262, 269.

James (2), 290, 295.

Northland. Viscount (1>. {see Hon. Thos.
Knox) (2), 326, 826, 827, bis.

Northland, Viscount (2), isu Hon.
ThomaA Knox) (8), 810, bu, 881, ftte.

Nugent, Christopher, 242.

O'Donnelly, Daniel, 242.

O'Hara, Charles. 801.

O'Neill Arthur, 342.

Col. Gtordon, 242.

Sir Phelim, 216, 35L

Osborne, Henry, 77.

Paine, John, 282.

Paiseley, Captain William, 226.

Pnkenham, Sir Thomas, 267.

Palfrey, Richard, 241.

Pelham, Rt. Hon. Thomas (2nd Earl of
Chichester), 810.

Perkins, Captain John, 172.

Pery, Rt. Hon. Edmund Sexton (Vis-
count Pery), 806.

Pochln, Charles, 82.

Pollerde, Sir Hugh, 147.

Pomeroy, Hon. Henry, 302, 807, 812.

Richardson, Archihaid, 251.

St. George, 277.

William (1), 276.

William (2), 808.

Ridgway, Sir Thomas, 121.

Rochfort, Hon. Robert, 295.

Roe, Sir Francis, 138.

Rogerson, Sir John, 246.

St. George, Captain Henry, 261, 270.

Rt. Hon. Oliver, 261, 267, 271, 287.

Lt-General Richard, 269, 266, 269.

Thomas, 301.

Sanderson, James, 69.

Scott, Sir Claud, 824.

Sharkey, Richard Fortescue, 819.

Skorye, Edward, 161.

Sneyd, NathanieLSl, 848.

Spotteswood, Sir Henry, 167.

Staples, Alexander, 287.

Rt. Hon, John, 296.

Sir Robert, 246, 264.

Stanley, Bdmond (Sergean,t-at-Law),

309.
Stewart, Hon. Charles, 268.

Sir Hugh, 327, 828, bis.

Sir James, 71.

Hon. James. 274.

James (of KiUymoon), 296, 299, 808,

307, 813, 820, 822, 823, 2>te.
Rt. Hon. Sir John, 800, 814, 820, 821,

829, 824. 886, 826.

Hon, Richaj^d, 268, 268, 271, 278.

William (1), (of Killymoon), 276,

29a

William (2), (of do.), 826, 826, 327.

Tenison, Henry, 268.

Tichbome,Str Henry, 164.

Tighe, Rt. Hon. Richard, 276.

Tophom, James, 268.

Tydd, Sir John, 816.

Verner, Jame.s 812,819.

Vincents Richard, 286.

Wandeaford, George, 214.

Watkins, George, 144.

Ward, Bcmarcl Smith, 63.

Whiteside, Rt. Hon. James, 88, 89, bis. 00

Wotoeley, Brigadier William, 268.

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