Transcript:Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Baronetage/Ireland

Complete Baronetage.

{The notes and memoranda for the Baronetcies of Ireland from volumes I–V are transcribed below.—Transcr.}

Baronetcies of Ireland,(^a)
1619–1800.

[volume 1, page 223]

Note (^a).—For a vast quantity of original and valuable information (mostly obtained from hitherto unexplored sources) respecting these Baronetcies, the editor is indebted to George Dames Burtchaell, M.A., LL.B., Barrister at Law, now (1900) of the Office of Arms, Dublin, author of a very valuable and critical work, entitled The Genealogical Memoirs of the M.P.'s for Kilkenny (1888). Sir Arthur Vicars, Ulster, has kindly and very fully replied to several queries concerning them, while C. M. Tenison (of Hobart, Tasmania) has contributed a considerable amount of facts from his copious genealogical collection.

[FIRST PART,
VIZ.,] CREATIONS BY JAMES I.
30 July 1619 to 27 March 1625.(^b)

Note (^b).—The description of each grantee and (down to 1772) the date of each creation is taken from the list in a bulky work (two huge vols., folio) entitled Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniœ, 1152–1827, published by the Irish Record Commissioners (1832). As far as 27 July 1772, that date being (as stated) the end of Lodge's Baronetage, this list seems to furnish full particulars, but not so between that date and 1800, during which period the date of the year only is given. After the Union, however, the exact date and description is given of some forty-five Baronetcies, from that of “ Crofton,” 9 July 1801, to that of “ James,” 11 Jan. 1822, conferred on natives of Ireland, all of which, of course, were Baronetcies (not of Ireland, but) of the United Kingdom. This circumstance throws some doubt on to the acumen of the editor, or editors, of these vols., in dealing with other Irish matters. It appears to have been (erroneously) assumed that because by a special clause in the Irish Union Act the Crown was enabled to continue the creations of Peers of a non-existing kingdom, the same anomalous power was therein granted to it (and actually exercised) as to Baronetcies.

[Instituted by letters under the Privy Signet, dat. at Apthorpe, 30 July [1619] 17 Jac. I, and by letters patent at Dublin, 30 Sep. following. In the warrant, 24 Jan. 1620/1, for the creation of the Baronetcy of Coote, the King thus refers to his reasons for extending that dignity to Ireland :—“ Having cast our eyes upon that kingdom, we find, to our comfort and the glory of that age, that Ireland, which was heretofore a place of rebellions and troubles, is now by the happy peace which it hath enjoyed under our government, become as our other kingdoms replenished with many worthy and well deserving men ; and to the end that they may not want encouragement from us, we did purposely institute the dignity of Baronets in that realm to be conferred upon them, that their virtues and our grace might be made known both to the present, and succeeding times.”]

• List of creations by James I.

[volume 2, page 249]

SECOND PART,
VIZ., CREATIONS BY CHARLES I.
27 March 1625 to 30 Jan. 1648/9.

• List of creations by Charles I.

[volume 2, page 272]

Baronetcies [I.] not on record, 1640–1648 ;
ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.

Memorandum.—As in England (see Memorandum on p. 236), so in Ireland there were apparently some Baronetcies conferred during the Civil Wars, of which no patent, nor even docquet or warrant was enrolled. A complete list of these is unattainable, but the following persons, herein arranged alphabetically, seem to have been among them.

[volume 3, page 304]

THIRD PART,
VIZ., CREATIONS [BY CHARLES II],
30 Jan. 1648/9 to 31 Dec. 1664.(^b)

Note (^b).—The date of 31 Dec. 1664 has been arbitrarily selected as comprising (notwithstanding the chronological disparity of the division) an approximate half of the number of Baronetcies of the three Realms created between 30 Jan. 1648/9 (the death of Charles I) and 1 May 1707, the date of the Scotch Union, after which epoch the creation of Scotch Baronetcies ceased. The remaining portion (1 Jan. 1664/5 to 1 May 1707) will be contained in the next volume.

• List of creations by Charles II.

[volume 4, page 196]

FOURTH PART,
VIZ., CREATIONS,
1 Jan. 1664/5 to 1 May 1707.(^b)

Note (^b).—The date of 1 Jan. 1664/5 has been arbitrarily selected as comprising (notwithstanding the chronological disparity of the division) the approximate half of the number of Baronetcies of the three realms, created between 30 Jan. 1648/9 (the death of Charles I.), and 1 May 1707, the date of the Union with Scotland, after which last named epoch the creation of Scotch Baronetcies ceased. The previous portion (30 Jan. 1648/9 to 31 Dec. 1664) of that period is contained in vol. iii.

[volume 4, page 222]

CREATIONS BY JAMES II.
6 Feb. 1684/5 to 11 Dec. 1688.

• List of creations by James II.

[volume 4, page 230]

CREATIONS BY WILLIAM III AND MARY II.
AS ALSO BY WILLIAM III ALONE.
13 Feb. 1688/9(^a) to 8 March 1701/2.

Note (^a).—During the interregnum, 12 Dec. 1688 to 12 Feb. 1688/9, no creations were made.

• List of creations by William III and Mary II.

[volume 4, page 232]

CREATIONS BY QUEEN ANNE.
8 March 1701/2 to 1 May 1707,

being the date of the Union with Scotland.

• List of creations by Queen Anne.

[volume 5, page 340]

FIFTH AND LAST PART,
VIZ., CREATIONS,
1707–1800,

Being the creations made between 1 May 1707, the date of the Union with Scotland, and 1 Jan. 1801, the date of the Union with Ireland, when these creations (as well as those of Great Britain) ceased, and the creations of the United Kingdom began.

CREATIONS BY QUEEN ANNE.
1 May 1707 to 1 Aug. 1714.

[volume 5, page 343]

CREATIONS BY GEORGE I.
1 Aug. 1714 to 11 June 1727.(^a)

Note (^a).—It seems extraordinary that for so long a space as eleven years (1710 to 1721) there should have been no creations of any Irish Baronetcy. This honour, however, was very rarely conferred by George I or George II, only indeed in three cases by the one during a reign of thirteen years, and in fourteen cases by the other during a reign of thirty-three years.

• List of creations by George I.

[volume 5, page 348]

CREATIONS BY GEORGE II.
11 June 1727 to 25 Oct. 1760.

• List of creations by George II.

[volume 5, page 366]

CREATIONS BY GEORGE III.
25 Oct. 1760 to 31 Dec. 1800,

when, owing to the Union with Ireland, 1 Jan. 1801, the creation of Baronetcies of Ireland ceased, being succeeded by that of Baronetcies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

• List of creations by George III.