Transcript:Paul, James Balfour. Scots Peerage/Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn

The Scots Peerage

[volume 1, page 37]

Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn

For the origin and antiquity of the illustrious house of Hamilton reference is made to the article Duke of Hamilton. The Earls of Abercorn, the representatives of the house in the male line, belong to a family who are not the least distinguished of the name. Their immediate predecessor was a man eminent in his day, of whom we now treat.

Lord Claud Hamilton, fourth and youngest son of James, second Earl of Arran, and first Duke of Chatelherault^37.1 was born about 1543. By a papal bull dated 5 December 1553 he was appointed Commendator of the Abbey of Paisley by Pope Julius III. on the resignation of his uncle John Hamilton, a natural son of the first Earl of Arran. The bull^37.2 calls him fourteen years of age, but as he is found granting a charter on 6 August 1564^37.3 with consent of his father as tutor, it is clear he must have been under age at that time, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 1543. He also enjoyed the offices of Dean of Dunbar,^37.4 Canon of Glasgow and Prebendary of Cambuslang.^37.5 As was to be expected from his family connections he became a strong adherent of Queen Mary, and on her escape from the castle of Lochleven 2 May 1568 he met her with fifty men and conveyed her first to Niddrie and then to Hamilton,^37.6 and at [page 38] the battle of Langside on 13 May following commanded the vanguard of her army. He was in consequence declared a traitor and sentence of forfeiture pronounced against him in Parliament 9 August 1568.^38.1 The abbey fell into the possession of Lord Sempill, and the former commendator was cast upon his own resources. His uncle the Archbishop of St. Andrews was hanged at Stirling in 1571, and on 4 September that town was surprised by Lord Claud and four hundred companions shouting : ‘ Hamilton, God and the queen, think on the Bishop of St. Andrews.’ After a temporary success they were repulsed, not, however, before the Regent Lennox was shot through the back by a Captain Calder, who afterwards alleged that the deed was done at the instigation of Claud Hamilton and Huntly.^38.2 Hamilton after this led an active and troubled life for some time vainly endeavouring to get his Paisley possessions under his hands again : at last, in February 1572-3 he was admitted to the benefits of the Pacification of Perth :^38.3 a pardon was issued to those who had been concerned in the death of the Regent Lennox, and Hamilton was restored to his possessions, though not till force had been used to compel Lord Sempill to give them up.^38.4 As the Regent Morton grew in power he did not forget his enmity against the Hamiltons, and succeeded in getting an Act of Council passed on 30 April 1579,^38.5 ordering the immediate execution of the old acts against Lord Claud and his brother John, the seizure of their estates, the apprehension of their persons, and whatever armed action might be necessary for these purposes. These two were really the heads of the great Hamilton party, as their elder brother the Earl of Arran was hopelessly insane.^38.6 Although they garrisoned their castles of Hamilton and Draffen, they did not dare to remain and resist the overwhelming forces sent against them. Lord Claud after some time fied to the north of England,^38.7 and threw himself on the protection of Elizabeth, who interested herself so far in the matter as to send an envoy to Scotland to plead for him, but without success.^38.8 In October 1579 an act of forfeiture was passed on him in [page 39] Parliament.^39.1 He joined the party of the ‘ Banished Lords ’ in their futile attempt to upset the supremacy of Arran, and his heavy bonds of caution were forfeited.^39.2 In October 1584^39.3 Hamilton succeeded in returning to Scotland by a private arrangement with the king, but he was of too much importance in the eyes of Arran to be permitted to remain, and though he was virtually in the custody of the Earl of Huntly during his residence in Scotland, he was, on 6 April 1585, ordered to take his departure to France. The fall of Arran, however, soon after this date rendered his stay abroad but short, and on 10 December there was a general act for the restitution of the Banished Lords and their adherents.^39.4 He was at the same time admitted as a member of the Privy Council.^39.5 He returned to Scotland in January 1585-6,^39.6 and took his seat and oaths. He continued to take an active part in the politics of the time. The Abbey of Paisley was erected into a temporal barony, and he was made a peer of Parliament under the title of LORD PAISLEY 24 July 1587.^39.7 As he grew older he retired from public life, obtaining in 1598 a commission for his eldest son to act for him.^39.8 In 1597 he was visited at Paisley by the Queen, and on 24 July 1617 by James VI. himself. It is said that at one time he was not unsuspected of witchcraft.^39.9 He died in 1621, having married, 1 August 1574 (contract dated 15 and 16 June 1574),^39.10 Margaret, daughter of George, fifth Lord Seton,^39.11 by Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, High Treasurer of Scotland, and by her, who died in March 1616, had issue three children who died in infancy :—

1. Margaret, died 23 December 1577, aged three months and twenty-two days.

2. Henry, died 15 March 1585, aged three months and two days.

3. Alexander, died 21 November 1587, aged eight months and three days. All buried in St. Mirren's Chapel, [page 40] Paisley Abbey ;^40.1 and the following who attained maturity :—

1. James, created Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

2. Sir John Hamilton, married Johanna, daughter of Levimus Everard, Councillor of State to the King of Spain, in the Province of Mechlin, (who was married secondly, as his second wife, to Robert, fourth Lord Sempill, who died in 1611 ; thirdly, to Captain Patrick Craffurd of Tredonell, co. Donegal ; and fourthly, to Sir George Marbury, and dying 14 June 1638 at Letterkenny, was buried there in Conwall Church),^40.2 and by her had an only daughter :—

(1) Margaret, married in 1662, as his second wife, to Sir Archibald Acheson of Clonekearney or Glencairney, co. Armagh, Secretary of State for Scotland, created a baronet of Nova Scotia, 1 January 1628, ancestor of the Earl of Gosford.

3. Sir Claud Hamilton of Shawfield, co. Linlithgow, a Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber, appointed 11 February 1613 a member of the Privy Council in Ireland,^40.3 was granted as an undertaker the small proportions of Killeny and Teadane or Eden, containing together 2000 acres in the barony of Strabane and county of Tyrone to hold for ever as of the Castle of Dublin in common soccage.^40.4 A warrant was issued for a new grant 16 August 1614, but he died in [page 41] Dublin 19 October 1614,^41.1 administration of his estate, wherein he is described as of Baldony in the county of Tyrone, being granted to his son William 28 November 1629.^41.2 He married Janet, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Hamilton of Leckprevick and Easter Greenlees,^41.3 and by her (who died in September 1613) had six sons and three daughters :—

(1) Sir William of Manor Elieston, co. Tyrone, was born about 1604, being about fourteen years old when the King, on 20 October 1618,^41.4 directed the judges to admit him to suffer a common recovery against him and his heirs, being informed that it was the intention of Sir Claud to confer his lands on his second son, Alexander, but the King by his letter, dated at Westminster, 20 May 1625, directed him to be restored to the two proportions of Killeny and Teadan notwithstanding the fine and recovery suffered against him and his heirs by his uncle, Sir George Hamilton, Knight, to the use of his brother Alexander and Sir George Hamilton, inasmuch as the privy seal, dated 20 October 1618, was obtained from want of due information and upon false and scandalous suggestions, he being only a minor fourteen years of age.^41.5 These lands were by patent, dated 20 November 1629, granted to Sir William, being at the same time erected into the Manor of ‘ Eliestowne,’^41.6 so named from the lands of that name, co. Linlithgow, which belonged to Sir William.^41.7 He died 16 May 1662.^41.8 He had a charter on 28 June 1611 of the lands of Scheillis and others, co. Lanark.^41.9 By his will, dated 1 May 1662, and proved 12 February 1664,^41.10 he ordered his body to be buried in the Church of Baldony or Gortin, as he should afterwards appoint. He married first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Johnston of Johnston by Sarah Maxwell, eldest daughter of William, sixth Lord Herries (see that title and Annandale), and by her had two sons and two daughters :^41.11—

i. Sir James of Manor Elieston, who is styled lieutenant of a company of foot in the castle of Stirling on 4 September 1686, when he received a grant from King James VII. of a yearly pension of £100. He married [page 42] first, Mary, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Jacob, Solicitor-General for Ireland 1606 to 1611, and had a son :

(i) William of Manor Elieston, who married Deborah, daughter of … and died without issue, his will, dated 5 June 1700, being proved 14 July 1705.^42.1

(ii) John of Castle Damph, county Tyrone, died without issue.

Sir James of Manor Elieston married secondly, Eleanor, daughter of Sir James Innes of Thurston,^42.2 and is said to have had issue.

ii. William of Leat, in the co. Tyrone, who is said to have married Mary, daughter of … Walkingshaw, ^42.3 and had issue.

iii. Sarah, married to John Hamilton of Dulata, co. Tyrone, ancestor of John Stewart Hamilton, created a Baronet of Ireland 2 December 1780.

iv. Margaret, married (contract dated 1 November 1661) to Walter Innes of Ortoun.^42.4

Sir William married secondly, Beatrix, daughter of … Campbell, and by her, whose will, dated 11 June 1667, was proved 6 July following,^42.5 had two sons and a daughter :—

v. Claud of Montalony, High Sheriff of the county Tyrone 1671 and 1683, whose will, dated 1 October 1692, was proved 31 August 1695,^42.6 married Isabella, daughter of … and had issue, with five daughters, two sons :—

(i) William of Beltrim, county Tyrone, whose will, dated 2 May 1739, was proved 2 April 1747,^42.7 ancestor of the family of Cole-Hamilton of Beltrim.

(ii) Claud of Strabane, High Sheriff of the county Tyrone 1714, whose will, dated 11 June 1736, was proved 15 June 1737,^42.8 grandfather of Sir John Hamilton of Woodbrook, county Tyrone, created a Baronet of the United Kingdom 27 December 1814.

vi. Archibald.

vii. Elizabeth, baptized 29 July 1650.^42.9

(2) Alexander, died young. In his mother's testament he is named next after William. So also in a bond by Sir George Hamilton, his uncle and tutor, of date 9 March 1615, which gives the sons in the order as named.^42.10

(3) Robert, died before 1657, leaving two sons, living in 1663 :^42.11—

(i) Claud.

(ii) Alexander. [page 43]

(4) Claud.

(5) James, died unmarried.

(6) George, died unmarried.

(7) Margaret married, first, to Sir John Stewart of Methven, natural son of Ludovic, second Duke of Lennox ; and secondly, to Sir John Seton of Gargunnock.^43.1

(8) Grizel, married to Sir William Baillie of Lamington.^43.2

(9) Janet, named in her mother's testament with her sisters Margaret and Grizel.

4. Sir George Hamilton of Greenlaw, in the county of Tyrone, and of Roscrea, in the county of Tipperary, was granted the middle proportion of Largie alias Cloghogenall and the small proportion of Derriewoone, but this grant was never enrolled. In 1611 he was resident at Derriewoone with his wife and family, and had built a good house of timber, sixty-two feet long by thirty feet wide.^43.3 Being a recusant papist, the king directed the Lord Deputy of Ireland to call him before him, and in the event of his not conforming, to remove him out of the kingdom.^43.4 He was in 1627 appointed a commissioner for assessing the sum of £1000 English on the county of Donegal. He died before 1657. His wife, on 24 February 1609, was Isobel Leslie, who is named as his wife at that date in an edict of executry to her sister Agnes Leslie, both being daughters of James Leslie, Master of Rothes.^43.5 He married also, probably as his second wife, Lady Mary Butler, sixth daughter of Walter, eleventh Earl of Ormonde, and had an only surviving child.

(i) James, who died unmarried, his will being proved 2 February 1658-9, and execution granted to George, Lord Strabane, the sole executor.^43.6

5. Sir Frederick Hamilton, a gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber, was in early life in the service of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. He was, on the 8 December 1621,^43.7 nominated by King James I. to have [page 44] the command of the first company of Horse or Foot which fell vacant in Ireland ; this direction was renewed 10 September 1623^44.1 and 29 January 1627, after which date his name appears on the Irish Establishment as a captain of fifty Foot. He obtained a commission, dated at Greenwich 30 June 1631, authorising him to enlist 1200 men for the service of the King of Sweden, but the death of that monarch at the battle of Lutzen, 16 November 1632, terminated Sir Frederick's service with him. By patent, 18 March 1620, he had a grant of the quarter of land called Carrowrosse, in the barony of Dromahere and county of Leitrim, and other lands in the same county, amounting in all to 6549 acres, to hold in capite by knight's service, the whole being created the Manor of Hamilton.^44.2 In 1627 he was one of the commissioners for assessing the sum of £400 English on the county of Leitrim.^44.3 The king by his letter, dated at Southwick 18 August 1628,^44.4 granted him, on his petition, the right to nominate two baronets of Ireland, and by his letter, dated at Westminster 12 January 1630,^44.5 directed the Lords Justices of Ireland to accept a surrender of all his lands in the county of Leitrim, as well those formerly granted as those he had purchased, and to regrant the same. He accordingly surrendered on 17 May 1630,^44.6 and had them regranted the next day, with letters of denization, the whole being erected into the manor of Manor Hamilton, with the usual privileges, to hold to him, his heirs, and assigns for ever. Under the commission of remedy for defective titles he had new confirmation of his estate, 19 December 1636. He died 31 March 1646,^44.7 or end of May 1647,^44.8 when administration of his estate and that of his son James was granted, 5 June 1658, to a creditor.^44.9 He married, first, Sidney, daughter and heir of Sir John Vaughan, a Privy Councillor of Ireland, and Governor of the city and [page 45] county of Londonderry, and had three sons and one daughter :—

(1) Frederick, died unmarried before his father, being killed in the wars in Ireland.^45.1 He was allotted £2337, 9s. 1d. for his services.

(2) James of Manor Hamilton, died 27 December 1652,^45.2 married in 1647 or 1648, his cousin Catherine, daughter of Claud, Lord Strabane, and by her (married secondly, before 29 March 1661, to Owen Wynne of Lurganboy, in the county of Leitrim, who died in 1670 ; and thirdly, to John Bingham of Castlebar, in the county of Mayo), had two daughters and co-heirs :—

i. Sidney, born in 1648, died at Dublin 20 January 1685-6, and was buried 24 January in the chancel of St. Michael's Church, married before October 1668 to Sir John Hume of Castle Hume, in the county of Fermanagh, Baronet, and left issue.

ii. Hannah, born in 1651, died at Dublin 16 May 1733, and was buried in St. Mary's Church, married to Sir William Gore of Manor Gore, co. Donegal, Baronet, and left issue.

(3) Gustavus, born in 1642. Entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a Fellow Commoner, 17 April 1661,^45.3 aged nineteen, was a captain in the army in the reign of Charles II. had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him by the University of Oxford 6 August 1677, was sworn a Privy Councillor in Ireland in 1685, became brigadier-general 30 May 1696, and major-general 1 November 1703. He was created, 20 October 1715, Baron Hamilton of Stackallan, in the county of Meath, and Viscount Boyne 20 August 1717, both in the peerage of Ireland, and died 16 September 1723. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Brooke of Brookeborough, county Fermanagh, by whom he was ancestor of the present Viscount Boyne.

(4) Christiana, married at Coleraine in 1649, as his second wife, Sir George Monroe of Newmore, and had issue two sons and eight daughters. She died after 1700, and was buried within the Newmore chapel in the churchyard of the parish of Roskeen.^45.4

Sir Frederick married, secondly, Agnes — who married secondly, before 29 March 1661, John Maxwell.^45.5

6. Margaret, who was married (contract 11 July 1601), as his first wife, when he was only twelve years old, to William, first Marquess of Douglas,^45.6 and died 11 September 1623, aged 38. [page 46]

James, created Earl of Abercorn

James, eldest son of Claud, Lord Paisley, commonly designated Master of Paisley. Was highly esteemed by King James VI., who made him, 14 December 1598, one of the Lords of his Privy Council^46.1 (though he did not take his seat at the board till 10 February 1601) and gentleman of his bedchamber ; and gave him by a charter, dated 26 November 1600, the office of Sheriff of the county of Linlithgow,^46.2 with all the fees, etc., thereto belonging, to him and his heirs-male whatever ; and by another charter, 11 July 1601, the lands of Abercorn, Braidmeadow,^46.3 etc. He was created a Peer, by the title of LORD OF ABERCORN, 5 April 1603,^46.4 when the lands of Abercorn were erected into a free barony to him and his heirs-male and assigns whatever. The next year, 1604, he was one of the Commissioners, on the part of Scotland, to treat of a union with England, which did not take effect ; and, on the 10 of July 1606, he was advanced to the dignity of EARL OF ABERCORN, BARON OF PAISLEY, HAMILTON, MOUNTCASTELL, AND KILPATRICK, by patent, to him and his heirs-male whatever.^46.5

King James, purposing to hold a Parliament in Ireland, made choice of some eminent persons, capable of that honour and trust, for the nobility of their birth, and their estates and possessions in that kingdom, to assist the upper house, and to have place and voice as peers of that realm ; and therefore, by letter, from Westminster, 31 March 1613, authorised the Lord Deputy to call the Earl to the next Parliament, by Writ of Summons.^46.6 On 20 May 1615 he was appointed of the council of the province of Munster ; and had a grant of the small proportion of 1000 acres called Strabane, and the large proportion of 2000 acres known as Dunnalonge. At Strabane he built a very strong and fair castle, a schoolhouse and church round which the town was built.^46.7 He subsequently acquired 1500 acres, called Shean, from his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Boyd. He apparently doubled his holding in Ireland ere long, and proved himself a very energetic colonist, as on 24 August 1614 an Act of Council was passed acknowledging that he [page 47] had fulfilled all his engagements for his share of 6000 acres in the Irish Plantation and exonerating him therefrom.^47.1 He received King James in ‘ his great halls ’ at Paisley on 24 July 1617.^47.2 His last appearance at a meeting of the Privy Council was on 24 February 1618 : he died in the parish of Monkton, a month after, in the lifetime of his father, 23 March 1618, aged forty-three, and was buried 29 April following in the abbey church of Paisley. His will made 7 June 1616 was proved in Ireland 26 June 1624.^47.3 He married Marion, eldest daughter of Thomas, fifth Lord Boyd, by Margaret, daughter of Sir Matthew Campbell of Loudon, and by her, who died in the Canongate, Edinburgh, 26 August 1632, and was buried, 13 September, with her husband, had issue :—

1. James, second Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

2. Claud, Lord Strabane, of whom afterwards.

3. Sir William Hamilton, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1627, was long Resident in Rome on behalf of Henrietta Maria, Queen Dowager of England. He married before 1 April 1656, Jean, eldest daughter of Alexander Colquhoun of Luss by Helen, daughter of Sir George Buchanan of that Ilk, and widow, first of Alan, fifth Lord Cathcart (who died 18 August 1628), and secondly, of Sir Duncan Campbell, second Baronet of Auchinbreck (who died in 1645), but left no issue.^47.4 Sir William died at South Shields, 25 June 1681.^47.5

4. Sir George Hamilton, of whom afterwards.

5. Sir Alexander Hamilton, of Holborn, London, married Elizabeth, daughter of … Bedingfield, and died before 4 May 1669, when administration of his estate was granted to a creditor,^47.6 leaving, with three daughters, one son :—

(1) Alexander, settled at the Court of Philip William, Elector Palatine, who sent him as envoy extraordinary to King James VII. He accompanied the Elector's daughter, Eleanora Magdalena, to Vienna, on her marriage with the Emperor Leopold, which took place 14 December 1676, and was created a Count of the Empire with a grant of the [page 48] County of Neuburg, near Passau, and other estates in Moravia and Hungary. He left issue :—

i. Julius, Count of the Empire, one of the Chamberlains to the Emperor, who married Countess Maria Ernestina of Staremberg, and had issue by her, who died in 1724, three sons and several daughters.

6. Anne, married in 1611^48.1 to Hugh, fifth Lord Sempill, and had one daughter.

7. Margaret, married 1628^48.2 to Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, in the County of Ayr, Knight, and died without issue.

8. Isobel named with her brothers and her sisters Margaret and Lucrece as parties to an action in the Court of Session on 4 November 1620.^48.3

9. Lucy or Lucrece, contracted by her father, when very young, to Randal, Lord Dunluce, afterwards Marquess of Antrim, but he not abiding by the contract, she never married ; and by letters from Whitehall, 28 October 1627, the Earl of Antrim was ordered to pay £3000 to James, Earl of Abercorn, for his son's failure to implement the contract.^48.4

James, second Earl of Abercorn

James, second Earl of Abercorn, born about 1603, succeeded his father 1618, and his grandfather, as Baron of Paisley, 1621. In regard of his father's services, of his noble blood and lineage, being descended of one of the most ancient houses in the realm of Scotland, and because his Majesty was desirous to encourage him and his posterity to make their residence in the Kingdom of Ireland, for the good of his service there, not doubting but that he would tread in the footsteps of his ancestors, he was, in his father's lifetime, when about thirteen years of age, created a peer of Ireland, by the title of LORD HAMILTON, BARON OF STRABANE in the County of Tyrone, with limitation of the honours to the heirs-male of the body of his father, by patent under the Privy Seal, dated at Westminster 18 October 1616, and by patent at Dublin, 8 May 1617.^48.5 As the Irish estates were provided to his [page 49] younger brothers by the will of their father, he resigned the Irish title in favour of his brother, Claud, 11 November 1633. He was excommunicated by the commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1649, being a Roman Catholic, and ordered to remove out of the kingdom. On the death of William, second Duke of Hamilton, of his wounds at the battle of Worcester, 11 September 1651, his Lordship became male representative of the family of Hamilton, but the estates and titles of that house devolved on Anne, Duchess of Hamilton. He married about 1632, Catherine, daughter and heir of Gervase, Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromeswold, by Catherine, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Darcy of Leighton, relict of Esme, Duke of Lennox and Richmond (who died 30 July 1624). The Earl died about 1670, having had by his wife (who, by royal licence 28 November 1632, was authorised, notwithstanding her marriage, to retain her title, rank, and precedency as Duchess of Lennox, and who died in Scotland, and was buried 17 September 1637), three sons :—

1. James, Lord Paisley, who died before his father. He married 28 April 1653, at the Church of St. Bartholomew the Less, London, Catherine, daughter of William Lenthall of Burford, in the county of Oxford, Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament, and by her had only a daughter,

Catherine, married first to her cousin, William Lenthall, Esq. (who died at Burford, 6 September 1686, leaving two sons, John and James) ; secondly, to Charles, fifth Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

2. William Hamilton, colonel in the army, died before his father, being killed in the wars in Germany, without issue.

3. George, third Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

George, third Earl of Abercorn

George, third Earl of Abercorn, succeeded his father, but died unmarried at Padua, on his journey to Rome, whereby the male line failed in the eldest branch, so that we return to

Claud, Lord Strabane

Claud, Lord Strabane, second son of James, first Earl of [page 50] Abercorn, who, on his brother's resignation, had the title of Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane, in Ireland, conferred on him by Privy Seal at Westminster, 7 May 1633, and patent bearing date at Dublin the 14 August 1634,^50.1 with the precedency of the former patent and with remainder to the heirs-male of the body of his father, in failure of his male issue. Dying 14 June 1638, he was buried in the church of Leckpatrick, in the County of Tyrone.^50.2 He married, 28 November 1632, Lady Jean Gordon, fourth daughter of George, first Marquess of Huntly, by Lady Henrietta Stuart, daughter of Esme, first Duke of Lennox ;^50.3 and by her, who was taken prisoner by Sir Phelim O'Neile, in the rebellion of 1641, when he burnt and destroyed the castle of Strabane, but whom she afterwards married,^50.4 had four children :—

1. James, third Lord Strabane. {see below}

2. George, fourth Lord Strabane. {see below}

3. Catherine, married, first, in 1647, to her cousin James Hamilton, of Manor-Hamilton, eldest brother of Gustavus, Viscount Boyne, already mentioned ; secondly, to Owen Wynne, of Lurganboy, in the County of Leitrim ; thirdly, to John Bingham of Castlebar, in the County of Mayo.

4. Cecilia, married to Richard Perkins, of Lifford, in the County of Donegal.

James, third Lord Strabane

James, third Lord Strabane, born in 1633, succeeded his father 1638, being then five years old ; joined Sir Phelim O'Neile against the parliamentary forces in July 1650, and died, without issue, a Roman Catholic recusant at Ballyfatten, near Strabane, 16 June 1655,^50.5 being drowned bathing in the river Mourne, and was succeeded by his brother.

George, fourth Lord Strabane

George, fourth Lord Strabane, who, dying 14 April 1668 at his house at Kenure in the county of Dublin, was buried in St. Mechlin's Church, near Rush, in that county, under a large tomb, with this inscription : ‘ Hereunder lieth the [page 51] affabell, obliginge, exemplar, wise, humble, noble, pious, devot, most charitable, most virtuous, and religious, the Right Honourable George, Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane, who died the 14 of April, Anno Domini, 1668. This monument was erected by Elizabeth Strabane, alias Fagan, relict of the said Lord Strabane.’ His nuncupative will, made 9 April 1668, was proved by his widow 22 May 1668.^51.1 He married Elizabeth, daughter, and ultimately sole heiress, of Christopher Fagan of Feltrim in the county of Dublin, by Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas White of Leixlip, in the county of Kildare, and had issue by her :—

1. Claud, fifth Lord Strabane and fourth Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

2. Charles, fifth Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

3. Anne, married (articles dated 27 and 28 May) 1680, to John, eldest son of George Browne, of the Neale, in the county of Mayo, died 14, and was buried 19 August 1680, and had issue.^51.2

4. Mary, born after her father's death, married to Gerald Dillon, Recorder of Dublin, Prime Serjeant of Ireland, and Member of Parliament for Mullingar in 1689, and had issue.

Claud, fifth Lord Strabane and fourth Earl of Abercorn

Claud, fifth Lord Strabane, baptized at St. Audoen's, Dublin, 13 September 1659, succeeded his father in 1668, and succeeding also to the title of Abercorn, was the fourth earl. At the Revolution he went over to France to King James II., with whom he went to Ireland, and was sworn of his Privy Council there : was one of the lords of his bedchamber, and had the command of a regiment of horse. After the defeat of the Boyne he embarked for France, but was killed on the voyage in 1690. After his death he was outlawed, and his estate and title of Strabane forfeited,^51.3 but the earldom of Abercorn devolved on his brother.

Charles, fifth Earl of Abercorn

Charles, fifth Earl of Abercorn, who, obtaining a reversal of his brother's attainder, succeeded also to the title of Strabane and the family estate, to both which he was restored by their Majesties' letters, dated at Whitehall [page 52] 24 May 1692, and by patent at Dublin, 1 July 1693.^52.1 He took his seat in the House of Peers in Ireland 31 August 1695 ;^52.2 and 2 December 1697 signed the declaration and association in defence of the person and government of King William, and the succession to the crown, according to Act of Parliament. He died at Strabane in June 1701. His will, dated 7 August 1697, was proved 16 May 1704.^52.3 He married his cousin Catherine, only child of James, Lord Paisley, relict of William Lenthall of Burford, and by her, who died 24 May 1723,^52.4 and was buried in the Duke of Richmond's vault in Henry the Seventh's chapel in Westminster Abbey, he had an only daughter :—

Elizabeth, who died young, and was buried in the chancel of St. Michan's Church, Dublin, 22 February 1699 ; the male line of this branch failed, and the titles devolved on James Hamilton, descended from

Sir George Hamilton

Sir George Hamilton, fourth son of James, first Earl of Abercorn, who was seated at Donalong, in the county of Tyrone, and at Nenagh in Tipperary ; had a company in the army 16 October 1627.^52.5 On 7 February 1631 he had a licence to hold a weekly market and a yearly fair at Clogher, and a fair at Ballymagary, both in the county of Tyrone.^52.6 He was created a Baronet, though for this title no patent is on record, and whether of England, Ireland or Nova Scotia is unknown, before 5 June 1634, at which date he is so designated in a King's Letter ordering a regrant of his estate,^52.7 and in all subsequent patents. On 23 May 1639^52.8 the manor of Strabane and the rest of the Abercorn estate was granted to Sir George Hamilton of Donalong, knight and baronet, Sir George Hamilton of Greenlaw, knight, Sir William Stewart of New Stuarton, knight, and Sir William Semple of Letterkenny, knight, to hold to the uses, trusts and interests, expressed, limited and appointed in an order of composition made by the Commissioners for Remedy of defective Titles. On 25 June 1639^52.9 he was [page 53] regranted the great proportion of Donalong ; was in Scotland with Charles I. 1641 ; performed good service in Ireland for that monarch during the rebellion, as he also did in 1649 for Charles II., being then captain of horse, colonel of foot, and governor of the castle of Nenagh ; but, in 1651, he retired with his family to France, and there continued till the restoration of the king.^53.1 In recompence of his many services performed to the king whilst in foreign countries, his majesty, 20 December 1662, granted to him, for life, all the penalties and forfeitures which might accrue to the crown by reason of ploughing, drawing, harrowing, and working with horses by the tail, contrary to Acts of Parliament.^53.2 The king in 1671 appointed him joint patentee with James Roche, Esq.,^53.3 for granting licences to pedlars. He had in 1668 a grant of lands in Co. Cork, which he soon after sold, and in 1670, he had a grant of lands in no fewer than eight counties in Ireland.^53.4 He died in 1679.

He married (contract dated 2 June 1629), Mary, third daughter of Thomas, Viscount Thurles, eldest son of Walter, eleventh Earl of Ormond, and sister of James, first Duke of Ormond, and by her (who was granted the precedence of an Earl's daughter by royal warrant, dated at Whitehall 29 May 1669,^53.5 and who died in August 1680), had six sons and three daughters :—

1. James, of whom hereafter.

2. Sir George Hamilton, who was page to King Charles II. during his exile, and after the Restoration was an officer of the Horse Guards till 1667, when the King, according to his promise to parliament, thought fit to have them dismissed. Sir George Hamilton carried the soldiers of that regiment with him into France, and was made a captain-lieutenant in the French service. Lord Arlington wrote to Sir William Godolphin, 7 September 1671 : ‘ The Conde de Molina complains of certain levies Sir George Hamilton hath made in Ireland. I have told the Conde he must not find it strange that a gentleman, who had been the king's page abroad, and losing his [page 54] employment at home for being a Roman Catholic, should have some more than ordinary connivance towards the making his fortune abroad, by the countenance of his friends and relations in Ireland,’ and having to recruit his regiment of foot in the service of the French King, his majesty sent his directions to the Lord-Lieutenant, 12 January 1673, to give licence to him and his officers to raise 600 foot soldiers by beat of drum. This regiment, called from him the Regiment d'Hamilton, did active duty under Turenne on the Rhine in that year and the year following. He distinguished himself at the battle of Turkenheim 5 January 1675, and was made a brigadier of infantry by brevet of 12 March. He had the rank of Count, and was made Maréchal de Camp, or Major-General, 25 February 1676, but was killed soon after during the retreat of the French on Saverne.^54.1 Administration was granted to his widow 23 July 1703.^54.2 He and his elder brother James make a conspicuous figure in the Mémoires de Gramont. He married in 1665, Frances (frequently noticed in the same memoirs), elder daughter and co-heir of Richard Jennings of Sandridge, in Hertfordshire, sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, by whom he had three daughters :—

(1) Elizabeth, married, in December 1685 (as his third wife), to Richard, first Viscount Rosse, and died at St. Omers in June 1724.

(2) Frances, married, 1687, to Henry, eighth Viscount Dillon, who died 13 January 1713/4 ; and secondly, to Patrick Bellew, eldest son of Sir John Bellew of Barmeath, co. Louth, Baronet, who died vita patris, 12 June 1720.

(3) Mary, married, 15 May 1688, to Nicholas, third Viscount Kingsland, and died 15 February 1735.

Their mother was married, secondly, in 1679, to Richard Talbot, created Duke of Tyrconnell by James VII., who died 5 August 1691 ; and, dying at Paris, 17 March 1731, was buried in the Scots College there.^54.3 [page 55]

3. Count Anthony Hamilton, born about 1646, was a lieutenant-colonel in Sir Thomas Newcomen's regiment, 1686 ; was made a privy councillor of Ireland, and commanded a regiment of dragoons at the battle of Newton Butler, where he was badly wounded. He also held the post of governor of Limerick. At the Revolution he followed James II. into France ; became a lieutenant-general in the French service, and died at St. Germains, 20 April 1720,^55.1 aged seventy-four years, deservedly regretted by all who knew him. He was author of the Mémoires de Gramont, in which, with an easy and exquisite pencil, he has painted the chief characters of the court of Charles II., as they were, with great truth and spirit, described to him by his brother-in-law the Count de Gramont. He was the author of the well-known Tales, and is said to have translated Pope's Art of Criticism into French.

4. Thomas Hamilton, bred to the sea service, was captain of a ship of war, and died in New England.

5. Richard Hamilton, made colonel of a regiment of horse in King James's army, 15 February 1686, and brigadier-general. He retired with the king into France upon King William's victories, became a lieutenant-general in the French service, and died very poor with his niece the Abbess of Poussey, in 1717.^55.2

6. John Hamilton, a colonel in King James's service, lost his life at the battle of Aughrim, 1691.

7. Elizabeth, whose personal graces and mental accomplishments are the theme of unbounded panegyric in the Mémoires de Gramont, where she is styled the chief ornament of the court, worthy of the most ardent and sincere affection ; nobody could boast a nobler birth, nothing could be more charming than her person. After refusing the Duke of Richmond, Jermyn, nephew of the Earl of St. Albans, and Henry Howard, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, she married in 1664 the dissipated Philibert, Count de [page 56] Gramont, the hero of the Mémoires de Gramont. They left England in October 1669 (letter of Charles II. to his sister, the Duchess of Orleans, recommending them, 24 October 1669^56.1). She was appointed Dame du Palais to Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Louis XIV. Her husband died at Paris, 30 January 1707, aged eighty-six ; she died, 3 June 1708,^56.2 aged sixty-seven. They had two daughters, Claude Charlotte de Gramont, married 6 April 1694 to Henry Howard, Earl of Stafford ; and Marie Elizabeth de Gramont, born 27 December 1667, abbesse de St. Marine de Poussey, in Lorraine.^56.3

8. Lucia, married (by contract dated 24 July) 1674, to Donogh O'Brien of Lemineagh, co. Clare, who was created a Baronet of Ireland, 9 November 1686, and had issue, and died in 1676.

9. Margaret, married, in January 1688, to Matthew Ford of Coolgreeny, co. Wexford, and had issue.

James

James Hamilton, eldest son of Sir George Hamilton, is thus characterised in the Mémoires de Gramont : ‘ The eldest of the Hamiltons was the man who, of all the Court, dressed best ; he was well made in his person, and possessed those happy talents which lead to fortune and procure success in love ; he was a most assiduous courtier, had the most lively wit, the most polished manners, and the most punctual attention to his duty imaginable. No person danced better, nor was any one a more general lover ; a merit of some account in a court entirely devoted to love and gallantry. It is not surprising that, with these qualities he succeeded the Earl of Falmouth ’ (killed in the sea-fight in Southwold Bay 2 June 1665), ‘ in the king's favour ; but it is very extraordinary that he should have experienced the same destiny, as if this war had been declared against merit only, and as if this sort of combat was fatal to none but such as had certain hopes of a splendid fortune.’ He was one of the grooms of the bedchamber to Charles II., who made him colonel of a regiment of foot. In 1666 he was elected member of Parliament for the borough of [page 57] Strabane, and took his seat on 3 July in that year, Parliament being dissolved the 7 August following.^57.1 He was appointed Ranger of Hyde Park 29 November 1671. His regiment being embarked on board the navy, in one of the expeditions of the Duke of York against the Dutch, Colonel Hamilton had one of his legs taken off by a cannon-ball, of which wound he died 6 June 1673, and was buried 7 June in Westminster Abbey, under a monument erected to his memory by his uncle, James, Duke of Ormond. Administration of his estate was granted to his widow 5 January 1680. In 1661, King Charles concluded a marriage betwixt him and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John, Lord Colepeper, of Thoresway, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls, who died in July 1660, by his wife Judith, daughter of Sir Thomas Colepeper, of Hollingbourne, in Kent, Knight, and by her (who was maid of honour to Mary, Princess of Orange, mother of King William III., and died in 1709, aged seventy-two, and was buried at Hollingbourne^57.2) he had six sons, of whom three only survived their infancy :—

1. James, sixth Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

2. George Hamilton, a colonel in the Foot Guards, who fell at the battle of Steinkirk in 1692, commanding a regiment of foot.

3. William Hamilton, of Chilston Park, in Kent (an estate which his mother purchased and settled on his family) of which county he was deputy lieutenant, justice of peace, and colonel of the regiment of militia for the Lath of Scray (a division of Kent) and was always very strenuous for the Protestant succession. He died in 1737, and was buried at Lenham. He married Margaret, second daughter of Sir Thomas Colepeper, of Holingbourne, in Kent, sister of Frances, wife of John the last Lord Colepeper, and by her (who was buried with her husband, 22 October 1736) had four sons and one daughter.

(1) John, High Sheriff of the county of Kent in 1719, who much improved his seat of Chilston, married, in 1715, Mary, daughter of John Wright, M.D., and had several children, of whom the eldest son, William, was page of honour to [page 58] Frederick, Prince of Wales, and John, Captain in the Royal Navy, was created a Baronet of Great Britain, 26 August 1776 for his services at the siege of Quebec. He married, 3 October 1763, Cassandra Agnes, daughter of Edmund Chamberlayne of Maugersbury in Gloucestershire, and died 24 January 1784, leaving two sons, of whom the second, Edward Joseph, was created a Baronet of the United Kingdom, 26 January 1819. Both these titles are now held by Sir Edward Archibald Hamilton, fourth Baronet of Great Britain and second of the United Kingdom.

(2) George, married to the daughter of Monsieur Vasserot, merchant in Amsterdam (who got vast riches in the Mississippi and South Sea schemes, after which he retired to Switzerland, his native country, where he purchased a great estate). By her he had several children, who, with their mother, resided for some years at Geneva.

(3) Thomas, who had a command in the army, and died in Ireland.

(4) William, who died young.

(5) Elizabeth, married Edwin Stede of Stedehill in Kent.

James, sixth Earl of Abercorn

James Hamilton of Donalong, in the county of Tyrone, eldest son of Colonel James Hamilton, succeeded his father in the post of groom of the bedchamber to Charles II. at the early age of seventeen years, and was of the Privy Council to his brother and successor James II., in whose army he commanded a regiment of horse ; but no sooner did he perceive his Majesty's intentions to introduce popery 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 besieged by King James's army. By means of this supply the city was enabled to hold out till Major-General Kirke sent in further relief from England, which occasioned the siege to be raised. After his grandfather's death, he declined to assume the title of Baronet. He was elected member of Parliament for the county of Tyrone in 1692 and 1695,^58.1 and in June 1701 succeeded to the earldom of Abercorn, also to the barony of Strabane, in terms of the second patent of that title. He was created BARON OF MOUNTCASTLE and VISCOUNT OF STRABANE in the County of Tyrone by privy seal at Hampton Court 9 November 1701, and patent at Dublin 2 December following,^58.2 took his seat as such in the Parliament of Ireland 21 September 1703,^58.3 the [page 59] first summoned to meet by Queen Anne, of whose Privy Council he was a member, as he was also to their Majesties George I. and II. He was member of several committees of the House of Lords of Ireland, in the reign of Queen Anne ; took his seat in the Parliament of Scotland 3 October 1706,^59.1 steadily supported the union, voting in favour of that treaty on every division of the House.

By the twenty-second article of the treaty of Utrecht, Louis XIV. having engaged that he would forthwith, after the peace was made, cause justice to be done to the family of Hamilton concerning the dukedom of Chatelherault, the Earl of Abercorn preferred his claim as heir male of the first Duke of Chatelherault. Swift wrote, 24 September 1712 : ‘ I have been mediating betwixt the Hamilton family and Lord Abercorn, to make them compound with him, and I believe they will do it. Lord Selkirk is to be here in order to go to France to make the demands ; and the ministry are of opinion they will get some satisfaction, and they empowered me to advise the Hamilton side to agree with Abercorn, who asks a fourth part, and will go to France and spoil all if they don't yield it.’^59.2

The earl died 28 November 1734,^59.3 aged seventy-four, and was buried, 3 December, in the Duke of Ormond's vault in Henry the Seventh's Chapel in Westminster Abbey. His will, dated 5 May 1731, was proved 25 April 1735.^59.4

He married (by licence, Faculty Office, 24 January) 1683/4 Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Reading of Dublin, Baronet, so created 27 August 1675, by Jane, widow of Charles, first Earl of Mountrath, and daughter of Sir Robert Hannay of Mochrum, Baronet, by Jane Stewart his wife, and by her (who died in Sackville Street, London, 16 March 1754, aged eighty-six ;^59.5 and was buried, 22 March, with her husband in Westminster Abbey) had nine sons and five daughters :—

1. Robert, baptized 12 July 1687, died soon afterwards.

2. James, seventh Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

3. Robert, died very young.

4. John, died unmarried 1714, aged 20. [page 60]

5. George, died in infancy.

6. George Hamilton, was a cornet of horse ; appointed in October 1742, deputy cofferer to the Prince of Wales's household ; was member of Parliament for St. Johnstown in the county of Donegal, from 1727 to 1760 ; chosen in 1734, member for Wells in England, but declared not duly elected ; chosen for the same place in 1747, and sat till April 1754. He died 3 May 1775.^60.1 He married in October 1719 Bridget, daughter of Colonel William Coward of Wells, some time a Virginia merchant, with whom he got a large fortune, and by her (who died at Bath 24 August 1775),^60.2 had four sons and seven daughters :—

(1) George, born 1721, bred to the sea service, died unmarried.

(2) John, born 1726, matriculated at University College, Oxford, 17 March 1743/4, B.A. 1747, M.A. 1751, collated to the Archdeaconry of Raphoe 1754,^60.3 died unmarried in Merrion Square, Dublin, 12 August 1756, buried at St. Anne's Church. Administration granted to his father 13 October 1756.^60.4

(3) William, colonel in the army, died unmarried June 1793.

(4) James, equerry to Frederick, Prince of Wales, married twice, died without issue 1779.

(5) Elizabeth, married, first, contract 30 July 1754, to John Cameron, of Glenkindy, a colonel in the French service, nephew of Lochiel ; secondly, to the Comte de Fay.^60.5

(6) Bridget, married to the Rev. Thomas Finney, and died his widow at Alston, near Knightsbridge, 3 April 1789.

(7) Maria, born 7 January 1725, married, first, to Francis Marsh, by whom she had a daughter Elizabeth, married to Colonel Thomas Hervey ; secondly, 8 June 1756, to William Beckford of Fonthill, Gifford, in Wiltshire, Lord Mayor of London 1762 and 1769, and M.P. for that city 1754, 1761, and 1768, by whom she had one son, William, the author of Vathek. She died at Westend, Hampstead, 22 July 1798, aged seventy-four, and was buried at Fonthill.

(8) Harriot, married to the Rev. William Peter, and died 1787.

(9) Frances, married to William Tooker, of Chilcompton in Somersetshire, and died 1752.

(10) Charlotte, died unmarried.

(11) Rachel, married to the Rev. Neville Walter, grandson of George, eleventh Lord Abergavenny.

7. Francis Hamilton, born in Dublin, in 1700 ;^60.6 entered Trinity College, Dublin, 5 February 1714/5 ;^60.7 B.A. 1717/8 ; M.A. 1721 ; presented, 30 January 1737, to [page 61] the rectories and vicarages of Dunleer, Capocke, Disert, Moylare, Monasterboys, and Drumcarre, in the diocese of Armagh ;^61.1 and died 20 May 1746. His will, dated 23 October 1741, was proved 18 July 1746.^61.2 He married, 20 October 1733, Dorothy, second daughter and co-heir of James Forth of Redwood, in the King's County, Secretary to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue, and had issue by her (whose will, dated 3 May 1777, was proved 13 October 1780)^61.3 a son and a daughter :—

(1) James, died young.

(2) Frances, died unmarried ; her will, dated 16 July 1808, being proved 7 December 1819.^61.4

8. William Hamilton, baptized at St. Peter's, Dublin, 20 October 1703 ; lost off the Lizard Point, 10 November 1721, in the Royal Anne galley, going out with Lord Belhaven to his government of Barbadoes, as a volunteer in the sea service.

9. Charles Hamilton, baptized at St. Peter's, Dublin, 13 November 1704 ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 4 November 1720 ; appointed, 22 April 1738, comptroller of the board of green cloth to Frederick, Prince of Wales ; was member of Parliament for Strabane, in Ireland, from 1727 to 1760, and from 1741 to 1747 member for Truro, in Cornwall. He was chosen first of the seven commissioners for examining and stating the public accounts, 26 May 1742 ; and appointed receiver-general of the King's revenues in the island of Minorca ; on which occasion a new writ was ordered for Truro, 22 December 1743, and he was re-elected. He had the estates of Cobham and Painshill, in Surrey, which he sold before his death, at his house on Lansdown Hill, near Bath, 11 September 1786, aged eighty-two.^61.5 He married and left issue :—

(1) Jane, married, 17 May 1750, to Edward Moore, author of Fables for the Fair Sex, who died 28 February 1757, and she was appointed necessary woman to the Queen's private apartments.

(2) —, married, 25 June 1750, to Kenton Cowse, of the Board of Works. [page 62]

10. Elizabeth, married, first, at St. Peter's, Dublin, 2 January 1711, to William Brownlow, of Lurgan, member of Parliament for the county of Armagh, and by him, who died 27 August 1739, had issue. She was married, secondly, in France, in 1741, to Martin, Comte de Kearnie.

11. Jane, died in infancy.

12. Mary, married, January 1719, to Henry Colley, of Castle Carbery, in the county of Kildare, member of Parliament for Strabane.

13. Philippa, married, first, to Benjamin Pratt, D.D., Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 1710, Dean of Down, 1717, who died 6 December 1721, without issue ; secondly, to Michael O'Connell, of London,^62.1 issue, one son. She died at Paris 27 January 1767.

14. Jane, first lady of the bedchamber, mistress of the robes, and privy purse to Augusta, Princess of Wales, married (by licence, Faculty Office, 26 September 1719), as his third wife, to Lord Archibald Hamilton, youngest son of William and Anne, Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, and had issue.^62.2 She died in Paris 6 December 1753, and was buried at Montmartre.

James, seventh Earl of Abercorn

James, seventh Earl of Abercorn, was born 22 March 1685/6 ; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, 1715 ; succeeded his father 1734 ; was a lord of the bedchamber, and was sworn one of the Privy Council of England, 20 July 1738, and of Ireland, 26 September 1739 ; and dying in Cavendish Square, London, 11 January 1744, aged fifty-eight,^62.3 was buried, 16 January, in the Duke of Ormond's vault in Westminster Abbey. He died intestate, administration being granted to his son and successor 13 March 1744.^62.4 He wrote Calculations and Tables relating to the Attractive Power of Loadstones, 1729. He married (by licence, Faculty Office, 26 March), 1711, Anne, daughter of Colonel John Plumer of Blakesware, in Hertfordshire, by Mary, eldest daughter of William Hale, of King's Walden, in the same county, and by her (who was baptized at Ware 3 July [page 63] 1690, died at London 10 August 1776, aged eighty-six,^63.1 and was buried, 13 August, with her husband) had six sons and two daughters :—

1. James, eighth Earl of Abercorn. {see below}

2. John Hamilton, entered the Navy ; was lieutenant of the Louisa ; wrecked in a storm, in December 1736, attending George I. from Hanover to England. He was the last man who quitted the ship, and on going ashore he was presented to and graciously received by the King, and Queen Caroline complimented his father on his gallant behaviour. He was promoted to the rank of captain of the Royal Navy 13 February 1741 ; successively commanded the Kingsale, the Augusta, the Vanguard, and the Lancaster ; and was drowned, 18 December 1755, by the upsetting of his boat, going from his ship to Portsmouth.^63.2 He married, in November 1749, Harriet, natural daughter of the Right Hon. James Craggs, Secretary of State ; she was first married, 4 March 1726, to Richard Eliot, of Port Eliot, in Cornwall, and by him, who died 1748, had Edward Craggs-Eliot, created Lord Eliot 1784, and other children ; she died 1 February 1769, having had by her second husband :—

(1) John James, ninth Earl and first Marquess of Abercorn (posthumous). {see below}

(2) Anne, died, unmarried, at Highgate, 4 November 1764.^63.3

3. William Hamilton, died young.^63.4

4. George Hamilton, born 11 August 1718 ; matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, 19 March 1735/6 ; presented by his brother, in September 1753, to the rectories of Taughboyne, in the diocese of Raphoe, and Donagheady, in the diocese of Derry, in Ireland ; was afterwards a prebendary of Salisbury ; and, 30 August 1783, appointed a canon of Windsor. He died at Taplow, 26 November 1787, aged eighty.^63.5 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-General Richard [page 64] Onslow, and by her, who died in 1800, he had three sons and nine daughters :—

(1) George, died unmarried, 11 October 1782, in the West Indies.

2nd and 3rd sons died infants.

(4) Anne, born 6 October 1755 ; married to the Rev. F. H. W. Cornewall, Dean of Canterbury (afterwards Bishop of Worcester), and died suddenly at Delbury, in Shropshire, 18 December 1795, aged forty-one.

(5) Mary, born 26 November 1756.

(6) Harriot, born 11 January 1760 ; died 15 March 1788.^64.1

(7) Catherine, born 7 June 1763.

(8) Elizabeth, born 5 June 1765 ; married in 1793 to Glynn Wynn ; and died in 1843.

(9) Rachel, born 17 October 1766.

(10) Jane, born 26 February 1768 ; married, first, July 1791, to William Plumer, of Gilston Park, in Hertfordshire, member of Parliament for that county ; secondly, in 1825, Richard John Lewin, R.N. ; and, thirdly, 16 July 1828, Robert Plumer-Ward, of Gilston Park aforesaid ; and died in 1831.

(11) Cecil, born 15 March 1770 ; had the precedency of an earl's daughter granted to her by royal patent 27 October 1789 ; married, first, 4 March 1792, to John James, Marquess of Abercorn, from whom she was separated 1798 ; divorced by Act of Parliament, April 1799, for adultery with Colonel, afterwards Sir Joseph, Copley, Baronet, to whom she was married on 23 May 1799, and she died 19 June 1819.

(12) Isabella, born 28 September 1772 ; married at the Priory, Stanmore, 20 July 1795, to Lord George Seymour, Commissioner of Excise, youngest son of Francis, first Marquess of Hertford.

5. Plumer Hamilton, died young.^64.2

6. William Hamilton, born 18 February 1721 ; a lieutenant in the Royal Navy ; lost in the Victory man-of-war off Alderney, 1744. Administration granted to his brother, the Earl of Abercorn, 15 December 1744.^64.3

7. Anne, born 12 June 1715 ; married, 16 August 1746,^64.4 to Sir Henry Mackworth, Baronet ; and died at London 14 December 1792,^64.5 aged seventy-eight, leaving her fortune to Thomas Huddleston, Esq., who had married her only daughter, Elizabeth, 18 April 1768.

8. A daughter, born 27 February 1736 ; died an infant.

James, eighth Earl of Abercorn

James, eighth Earl of Abercorn, born 22 October 1712 ; was summoned by writ to the House of Peers in Ireland in [page 65] the lifetime of his father as Baron Mountcastle, 23 March 1736, and took his seat the same day.^65.1 He succeeded his father in 1744 as Earl of Abercorn and Viscount of Strabane ; was sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland, 20 April 1756 ; elected a representative peer of Scotland 1761 ; re-chosen 1768, 1774, 1780, and 1784 ; was one of the peers who, 11 March 1766, voted against the Act to repeal the American Stamp Act, and joined in the protests against the second and third reading of that bill ; he also voted for rejecting Fox's India Bill, 17 December 1783. He was created a peer of Great Britain 24 August 1786, by the title of VISCOUNT HAMILTON, of Hamilton, in the county of Leicester, with remainder to his nephew John James Hamilton. No new election was, however, ordered for representatives of the Scots peerage in room of himself and the Duke of Queensberry, who was in the same position, till it was determined, in a committee for privileges, 13 February 1787, ‘ that the creation of his English Peerage prevented him sitting in the House of Lords as a representative peer of Scotland.^65.2 The Earl had no property in Scotland, till he purchased, from Archibald, Duke of Argyll, in 1745, the barony of Duddingston, in the county of Edinburgh, which had formerly been in possession of the family, where he built a mansion-house, and made it his favourite residence. In 1764 he acquired the paternal inheritance of his ancestors, the lordship of Paisley, in the county of Renfrew, from Thomas, eighth Earl of Dundonald, whose progenitor, William, Earl of Dundonald, had bought it in 1653 for £160,000 Scots from Archibald, Earl of Angus, who had acquired it from the Abercorn family. He possessed a great estate in Ireland, where he built a magnificent house at Baron's Court, in the barony of Strabane. He had also a seat at Witham, in Essex, where he entertained Queen Charlotte, 7 September 1761, on her journey from Harwich to London. He died at Boroughbridge, while travelling from Duddingston to London 9 October 1789, in the seventy-seventh year of his age,^65.3 unmarried, and was buried in the Abbey of Paisley. His will, dated 24 May 1785,^65.4 with three codicils at subsequent [page 66] dates, was proved in London 14 Oct. 1789. He was succeeded by his nephew, John James.

John James, ninth Earl and first Marquess of Abercorn

John James, ninth Earl of Abercorn, only son of the Hon. John Hamilton, was born after his father's death, July 1756. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1776,^66.1 and was elected member of Parliament for East Looe, in Cornwall, on a vacancy in November 1783, and chosen for St. Germans at the general election 1784. He succeeded his uncle in 1789, as Earl of Abercorn in Scotland, Viscount of Strabane in Ireland, and Viscount Hamilton in Great Britain. On 19 July 1790 he took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland.^66.2 At the general election of the sixteen representatives of the Scots Peerage, 11 July 1790, the clerks refused to receive his signed list, as he had been created a peer of Great Britain since the Union. The question was carried to the House of Lords, where, 13 May 1793, in a committee for privileges, the point was decided in his favour. Meanwhile the Earl was created on 15 October 1790, MARQUESS OF ABERCORN ; and was sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland 7 February 1794. He was nominated a Knight of the Garter 17 January 1805, and installed at Windsor on St. George's Day, 23 April following. A curious account of the almost royal progress of the Marquess and his family through Scotland on their way to Baron's Court in August 1813 is given by Sir Walter Scott.^66.3

He married first, 20 June 1779, Catherine, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley, of Sprotborough, co. York, Baronet, by Mary, daughter of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall, and by her (who died at Stanmore Priory, Middlesex, 13 September 1791,^66.4 and was buried, 19 September, at Stanmore) had six children.

1. James, Viscount Hamilton, born at Petersham Lodge, 7 October 1786 ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 24 October 1805 ; elected member of Parliament [page 67] for Dungannon, 31 January 1807, and, Parliament being dissolved on 29 April following, elected for Liskeard, 8 May 1807, and sat for that borough until 29 September 1812. He moved the address of thanks for the King's speech in the House of Commons, 20 January 1808. He died in the lifetime of his father, 27 May 1814, having married, 25 November 1809, Harriet, daughter (by Lady Frances Lascelles, eldest daughter of Edward, first Earl of Harewood) of the Honourable John Douglas, son of James, fourteenth Earl of Morton, and by her (who was married, secondly, 8 July 1815, to George, fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and died 26 August 1833) had issue :—

(1) James, second Marquess and first Duke of Abercorn. {see below}

(2) Lord Claud Hamilton, born 27 July 1813 ; was educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge ; and was member of Parliament for county Tyrone from 20 January 1835 to 17 July 1837, and from 6 May 1839 to 26 January 1874 ; Treasurer of the Household, 27 February 1852 to December 1852, and again from 26 February 1858 to June 1859 ; Vice-Chamberlain to the Household, 10 July 1886 to 11 December 1868 ; Privy Councillor, 27 February 1852 ; Lieut.-Colonel Donegal Militia, 19 July 1867 ; married 7 August 1844, Lady Elizabeth Emma Proby, second daughter of Granville Leveson, third Earl of Carysfort, and died 3 June 1884. She died 24 June 1900, leaving issue :—

i. Douglas James, born 23 September 1856 ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 15 January 1875 ; major, Irish Guards, 8 October 1900 ; married, 6 July 1882, Lady Margaret Frances Hely-Hutchinson, daughter of Richard John, fourth Earl of Donoughmore, and has :—

(i) Granville, born 13 September 1883.

(ii) Claud Richard, born 26 April 1885 ; cadet R.N. ; died 18 February 1901.

(iii) Richard George, born 21 July 1886.

(iv) Jocelyn Campbell Patrick, born 3 March 1900.

(v) Betty Alice Adeline, born 17 May 1889.

ii. Louisa Charlotte, married, 29 February 1876, to John Tyndall, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., who died 4 December 1893.

iii. Emma Frances.

iv. Mary Stuart, married, 2 October 1878, to Wilbraham Frederick, second Lord Tollemache.

(3) Lady Harriet, born 21 March 1812, married, 15 May 1836, to Admiral William Alexander Baillie Hamilton, R.N., who died 1 October 1881. She died 19 March 1884, leaving issue.

2. Claud Hamilton, born 1 November 1787, at Petersham, Surrey ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 24 [page 68] October 1805 ; elected member of Parliament for the borough of Dungannon at the general election 1807 ; admitted a nobleman of St. John's College, Cambridge, in October same year ; sailed in the Eclipse brig for the Brazils in January 1808, on account of his health, but died at Madeira in June following.

3. Harriet Margaret, whose articles of marriage with the Marquess of Waterford were drawn up, when she died of an inflammation of her throat at the Priory, Stanmore, 30 April 1803, in the twenty-second year of her age, and was buried at Stanmore.

4. Katherine Constantia, born 7 October 1782, died 23 May 1783.

5. Katherine Elizabeth, born 10 January 1784, married at the Priory, Stanmore, 28 July 1805, to George, fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and died 29 February 1812, leaving issue.

6. Maria, born 28 February 1785, died, unmarried, 21 January 1814.

The Marquess married, secondly, 4 March 1792, his cousin, Lady Cecil Hamilton, daughter of his uncle George already mentioned, and by her had a daughter.

7. Cecil Frances, born 19 July 1795, married 15 February 1816, to William, fourth Earl of Wicklow, and died 7 July 1860, leaving issue.

The Marquess married, thirdly, at her brother Viscount Sudley's house in Dover Street, Piccadilly, 3 April 1800, Lady Anne Jane, relict of Henry Hatton of Great Clonard, in the county of Wexford, member of Parliament for the borough of Donegal, to whom she was married October 1783. She was born April 1763, eldest daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, in Ireland, by his first wife, the Hon. Catherine Annesley, only daughter of William, Viscount Glerawley. She died, without issue, at Naples 3 May 1827. The Marquess died 27 January 1818 ; his will, dated 18 March 1809, with four subsequent codicils, was proved in London 9 May 1818,^68.1 and was succeeded by his grandson.

James, second Marquess and first Duke of Abercorn

James, tenth Earl and second Marquess of Abercorn, born 21 January 1811, in Seymour Place, Middlesex, was educated [page 69] at Harrow, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 2 July 1829. He proved his right to vote for Representative Peers for Ireland 27 March 1833, and was appointed Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county Donegal, 1844 ; Knight of the Garter, 12 December 1844 ; Privy Councillor, 25 February 1846 ; and was Groom of the Stole to the Prince Consort from 1846 to 1859. He was made Honorary LL.D. of Cambridge, 5 July 1847 ; D.C.L. of Oxford, 4 June 1856 ; and LL.D. of Dublin, 21 April 1868. He was also a governor of Harrow School ; sometime colonel of the Donegal Militia, and major-general of the Royal Archers, the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland. He was served heir-male of the body of the first Duke of Chatelherault by the Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland, 13 January 1862, and, as heir-male of the first Duke, asserted his hereditary right to the original title of Duke of Chatelherault of 1549. By the edict of Louis XIV., May 1711, the descent of French dukedoms was declared to be to heirs ‘ descendus de males en males.’ Being appointed Lord Lieutenant-General and General-Governor of Ireland in 1866, on the 20 July he took the oath of Chief Governor, and the oaths of Abjuration and Supremacy in the Council Chamber in Dublin Castle, whereupon the Lords Justices delivered to him the Sword of State, and invested him with the Collar of Grand Master of the Order of St. Patrick. He made his public entry into Dublin in state on the 23 August following. On the 18 April 1868 he presided as Grand Master at the installation of His present Majesty, then Prince of Wales, as a Knight of St. Patrick, which was performed with great pomp in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In consequence of the resignation of the Conservative administration he left Dublin, 14 December 1868. By privy seal, dated at St. James's 4 August, and patent at Dublin 10 August 1868, he was created MARQUESS OF HAMILTON of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone, and DUKE OF ABERCORN in the Peerage of Ireland. He was for the second time sworn Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland on 3 March 1874, and made his public entry into Dublin on 18 April, and held this office till 6 December 1876. On 6 January 1875 he was installed Grand Master of the Freemasons of Ireland. He was Envoy Extraordinary to Italy for the Investiture, at Rome, 2 March 1878, of King Humbert, with the order of the Garter. [page 70] In 1881 he was appointed Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland. He died at Barons Court 31 October 1885.

He married, 25 October 1832, from Gordon Castle, at Fochabers Episcopal Church, Elgin, Lady Louisa Jane Russell, second daughter of John, sixth Duke of Bedford, by his second wife, Lady Georgina Gordon, fifth daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon. She, who was born 8 July 1812, is a Lady (third class) of the Order of Victoria and Albert. They had issue, seven sons and seven daughters :—

1. James, second Duke. {see below}

2. Lord Claud John Hamilton, born 20 February 1843, was member of Parliament for Londonderry city 1865 to 1868, for King's Lynn, 1869 to 1880, for Liverpool, 1880 to 1885, and for West Derby division of Liverpool, 1885 to 1888 ; a Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1868 ; sometime lieutenant and captain in the Grenadier Guards, and hon. colonel 5th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers since 17 January 1891 ; Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, 1887 ; married, 20 July 1878, Carolina, daughter of Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole, of Radborne Hall, in the county of Derby, and has issue :—

(1) Gilbert Claud, born 21 April 1879 ; lieutenant, Grenadier Guards, 28 October 1899.

(2) Ida, born 27 July 1883.

3. Lord George Francis Hamilton, born 17 December 1845 ; member of Parliament for the county of Middlesex from 1868 to 1885, and for the Ealing division since that year ; Under Secretary of State for India, 1874 to 1878 ; Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, 1878 to 1880 ; Privy Councillor, 4 April 1878 ; First Lord of the Admiralty from June 1885 to January 1886, and from 1886 to 1892 ; an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, 1887 ; Chairman of London School Board, 1894 to 1895 ; Secretary of State for India from 1895 to 17 September 1903 ; Captain of Deal Castle, 1899 ; was formerly lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and captain, Tyrone Militia ; married, 28 November 1871, Lady Maud Caroline Lascelles, Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, daughter of Henry, third Earl of Harewood, and has :— [page 71]

(1) Ronald James, born 26 September 1872.

(2) Anthony George, born 17 December 1874.

(3) Robert Cecil, born 31 January 1882 ; midshipman R.N.

4. Lord Ronald Douglas Hamilton, born 17 March 1849, died 6 November 1867.

5. Lord Cosmo Hamilton, born and died 16 April 1853.

6. Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, born 13 October 1856 ; Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service, 1883 to 1884 ; was M.P. for South-West Division of Manchester, 1885 to 1886, and for North Tyrone, 1892 to 1895.

7. Lord Ernest William Hamilton, born 5 September 1858 ; captain (retired) 11th Hussars ; M.P. for North Tyrone, 1885 to 1892 ; married, 2 June 1891, Pamela Louisa Augusta Ambrose, daughter of Captain Frederic Augustus Campbell, and has issue :—

(1) Guy Ernest Frederic, born 11 November 1894.

(2) John George Peter, born 15 October 1900.

(3) Mary Brenda, born 28 March 1897.

(4) Jean Barbara Bertha Elizabeth, born 6 September 1898.

8. Lady Harriet Georgiana Louisa, born 6 July 1834, married, 10 April 1855, to Thomas George, second Earl of Lichfield, who died 7 January 1892, leaving issue.

9. Lady Beatrix Francis, born 21 July 1835, married, 23 May 1854, to George Frederick D'Arcy, second Earl of Durham, and died 21 January 1871, leaving issue. He died 27 November 1879.

10. Lady Louisa Jane, born 16 April 1836, Lady of the Order of Victoria and Albert (third class), Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, and formerly to Queen Victoria, married, 22 November 1859, to William Henry Walter, sixth Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., K.T., and has issue.

11. Lady Katherine Elizabeth, born 9 January 1840, married, 26 October 1858, to William Henry, fourth Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, and died 3 September 1874, leaving issue.

12. Lady Georgiana Susan, born 7 July 1841, married, 16 March 1882, to Edward, fifth Earl of Winterton, and has issue.

13. Lady Albertha Frances Anne, born 29 July 1847, married, 8 November 1869, to George Charles, Marquess of Blandford (afterwards eighth Duke of Marlborough, [page 72] who died 9 November 1892), and has issue. Her marriage was, on her own petition, dissolved in 1883.

14. Lady Maud Evelyn, born 17 December 1850, Lady of the Order of Victoria and Albert (third class) and of the Crown of India, married, 8 November 1869, to Henry Charles Keith, fifth Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G., and has issue.

James, second Duke

James, eleventh Earl, third Marquess and second Duke of Abercorn, born 24 August 1838, at Brighton, was educated at Harrow, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 28 May 1857, became B.A. 1860, and M.A. 1865. He was appointed Hon. Colonel Donegal Militia in 1860, was member of Parliament for the county of Donegal, 1860 to 1880, High Sheriff of the county Tyrone, 1863, Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, 1866 to 1885, and Groom of the Stole, 1885 to 1901. He was made a Companion of the Bath (Civil Division), 15 June 1885. In the same year he was appointed Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Donegal, and in 1886 was installed Grand Master of the Freemasons of Ireland, in succession to his father. He proved his right to vote at the election of Representative Peers for Ireland, 13 April 1886, and was sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland, 21 October 1887. He is a Knight of the Dannebrog Order of Denmark, St. Anne of Russia, the Iron Crown, and order of Leopold of Austria, and was created Knight of the Garter by dispensation 10 August 1892. He is a Brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers. In 1901 he was appointed Special Envoy to the Courts of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony, to announce the accession of His Majesty King Edward VII., and at his Coronation, August 1902, was Lord High Constable of Ireland.

He married, 7 January 1869, at Saint George's, Hanover Square, Lady Mary Anna Curzon-Howe, youngest daughter of Richard William Penn, first Earl Howe, by his second wife Anne, second daughter of Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B., and by her, who was born 23 July 1848, has had issue :—

1. James Albert Edward, Marquess of Hamilton (for whom His Majesty King Edward VII. was sponsor), [page 73] born at Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, 30 November 1869, educated at Eton, member of Parliament for Londonderry City since 1900, Captain 1st Life Guards, 7 October 1896, Major, North of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry, 26 August 1903. He accompanied his father the Duke of Abercorn on his special mission to announce the accession of King Edward VII., 1901. He married, 1 November 1894, Lady Rosaline Cecilia Caroline Bingham, only daughter of George, fourth Earl of Lucan, K.P., by Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox, daughter of Charles, Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon, K.G., and has

(1) Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia, born 21 January 1896.

(2) Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix, born 16 August 1897.

(3) Lady Katherine, born 25 February 1900.

2. Lord Claud Penn Alexander Hamilton, born and died 18 October 1871.

3. Lord Charles Hamilton, born and died 10 April 1874.

4. Lord Claud Francis Hamilton, born 25 October 1878, died 25 December following.

5. Lord Arthur John Hamilton, born 20 August 1883, 2nd Lieutenant Irish Guards, 4 December 1901.

6. A son born and died 31 October 1886.

7. Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton, born 10 November 1889.

8. Lady Alexandra Phyllis (for whom Her Majesty Queen Alexandra was sponsor), born 23 January 1876.

9. Lady Gladys Mary, born 10 December 1880, married, 14 January 1902, to Ralph Francis, seventh Earl of Wicklow, and has issue.

Titles

Sir James Hamilton, Duke, Marquess and Earl of Abercorn, Marquess of Hamilton of Strabane, Viscount Hamilton and Strabane, Baron of Paisley, Abercorn, Hamilton, Mountcastle, Kilpatrick, and Strabane, and a Baronet.

Creations

Baron of Paisley, 29 July 1587, with remainder to heirs-male whomsoever and assigns ; Baron of Abercorn, to heirs-male and assigns whomsoever, 5 April 1603 ; Earl of Abercorn, Baron of Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastle, and Kilpatrick, 10 July 1606, to heirs-male whomsoever, all in the Peerage of Scotland : Lord Hamilton, Baron [page 74] of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone, 18 October 1616, and again 14 August 1634 with the former precedency, with limitation to the heirs-male of the body of James, first Earl of Abercorn ; Viscount of Strabane and Baron of Mountcastle, in the county of Tyrone, 2 December 1701, to the heirs-male of the body of the first Viscount ; Marquess of Hamilton of Strabane and Duke of Abercorn, 10 August 1868, to the heirs-male of the body of the first Duke, in the Peerage of Ireland. Viscount Hamilton of Hamilton, in the county of Leicester, 24 August 1786, to the first Viscount, with remainder to John James, afterwards ninth Earl, and the heirs-male of his body ; Marquess of Abercorn, 15 October 1790, to the heirs-male of the body, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Arms

No arms were ever officially recorded for the Earls of Abercorn in the Lyon Office, but the following were recorded in Ulster's Office, Ireland, in the ‘ Register of Knights,’ 20 July 1866, on the occasion of the late Duke, then Marquess, of Abercorn being sworn Lord-Lieutenant. In Lords' Entries, vol. i., the same Arms are recorded, but without Chatelherault, in 1767. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, three cinquefoils pierced ermine, for Hamilton. 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a ship with sails furled and oars sable, for Arran, over all an escutcheon azure, charged with three fleurs de lis or, surmounted by a French ducal coronet, for Chatelherault.^74.1

Crest

Out of a ducal coronet an oak fructed and penetrated transversely through the main stem by a frame saw proper, the blade inscribed with the word ‘ Through,’ the frame or.

Supporters

Two antelopes argent gorged with ducal coronets with chains affixed thereto, passing between their forelegs and reflexed over their backs, unguled and horned or.

Mottoes

Through.

Sola Nobilitat Virtus.

[G. D. B.]

Notes

^37.1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 30 January 1553-4.

^37.2 Quoted at length in Lees' Hist. of the Abbey of Paisley, App. N. clxxxiii.

^37.3 Reg. Mag. Sig., 24 March 1574-5.

^37.4 Ibid., 24 January 1565-6.

^37.5 Ibid., 10 March 1573-5.

^37.6 Diurnal of Occurrents, 129.

^38.1 Acta Parl. Scot., iii. 54.

^38.2 Sir James Melville's Memoirs, 242.

^38.3 P. C. Reg., ii. 193.

^38.4 Ibid., 241.

^38.5 Ibid., iv. pref. xix. 146.

^38.6 Ibid., 161, 162 n.

^38.7 Spotswood, 307.

^38.8 P. C. Reg., iv. 186 n.

^39.1 Acta Parl. Scot., iii. 125.

^39.2 P. C. Reg., iii. 650, 658, 665.

^39.3 This date is given in Reg. Sec. Sig., LII., f. 30 b., though Calderwood says 4 November.

^39.4 Acta Parl. Scot., iii. 383, and a special act of indemnity to Lord Claud. Ibid., 396.

^39.5 Ibid., 378.

^39.6 Calderwood, iv. 491.

^39.7 Reg. Mag. Sig., 20 March 1591-2.

^39.8 Lee's Hist. of Paisley Abbey, 234.

^39.9 Tytler's Hist., vli. 172.

^39.10 Reg. of Deeds, xiii. f. 154.

^39.11 Maitland's Hist. of the House of Seyton, 43.

^40.1 Lee's Hist., 213.

^40.2 Funeral entry, Ulster's Office.

^40.3 Calendar of State Papers (Ireland). He is confounded by Lodge with Sir Claud Hamilton of Castle Toome, in the county of Antrim, eldest son and heir of Sir Claud Hamilton of Cocknogh, and brother of Archibald Hamilton, Archbishop of Cashel 1640 to 1659. It was this Sir Claud who, by privy seal, dated at Westminster 6 October 1618, was made Constable of the Castle or Fort of Toome on the surrender of Sir Thomas Phillips. By his first wife he had no issue. He married, secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbery, in the county of Kildare, and had a son Robert, who died an infant, and three daughters. He died, 5 June 1640, at Roscrea in the county of Tipperary, and was buried in the monastery there. (Funeral entry, Ulster's Office.) He is not to be confused with Sir Claud Hamilton, second son of Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick, who was granted the lands of Clonyn, otherwise Taghleagh, in the county of Cavan, by patent dated 28 June 1610, and died vita patris before February 1618. He married Jane, daughter of Robert Lauder of the Bass, and left, with other issue, Sir Francis Hamilton of Killagh, otherwise Castle Hamilton, co. Cavan, who was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia 29 September 1628.

^40.4 Inquisition at Strabane, 5 Oct. 5 Car. I. This grant is not enrolled.

^41.1 Calendar of State Papers (Ireland).

^41.2 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^41.3 Reg. Mag. Sig., 28 June 1611 ; Laing Charters, No. 1507, etc. ; Edinr. Testaments, 17 December 1613.

^41.4 Patent Roll (Ireland), 17 Jac. I. p. 1 d. XCV. 19.

^41.5 Ibid. (Ireland), 22 Jac. I. p. 1 d. lxxxvi. 19.

^41.6 Ibid. (Ireland), 5 Car. I. p. 3, f. 49.

^41.7 Cf. Reg. Mag. Sig. 21 February 1654.

^41.8 Chancery Bill (Ireland), Hamilton v. Hamilton, 16 August 1664.

^41.9 Reg. Mag. Sig.

^41.10 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^41.11 ‘ Sir William Hamilton, a good scholar, was a Papist, and perverted his wife, a daughter of Lord Ards, who had been a Protestant.’ Information of the Bishop of Derry 1630 (Calendar of State Papers). Evidently a mistake for the daughter of Lady Ards ; her mother having married for her third husband Hugh, first Viscount Montgomery of the Ards. According to Pedigrees in Ulster's Office his first wife was daughter of — O'Donell, but there seems to be no evidence for this.

^42.1 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^42.2 Pedigree, Ulster's Office.

^42.3 Ibid.

^42.4 Gen. Reg. of Sasines (3 Series), ii. 175.

^42.5 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^{42.6 42.7 42.8} Ibid.

^42.9 Edinburgh Reg. of Baptisms.

^42.10 Reg. of Deeds, 234, 11 March 1615.

^42.11 Chancery Bill (Ireland), Hamilton v. Hamilton, 16 Aug. 1664.

^43.1 Acta Parl. Scot., vi. part 1, 180 ; see Reg. P.C., i., 2 ser., for her illtreatment by her first husband.

^43.2 Lives of the Baillies, 40.

^43.3 Pynnar's Survey.

^43.4 Calendar of State Papers (Ireland).

^43.5 Commissariot of Edin. Decreets, at date ; cf. Reg. Mag. Sig., 13 May 1610.

^43.6 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^43.7 Patent Roll (Ireland), 19 Jac. I. p. 2 d. liv. 29.

^44.1 Patent Roll (Ireland), 21 Jac. I. p. 1 d. lxxxv. 31.

^44.2 Ibid. 19 Jac. I. p. 4 d. xxvi. 38.

^44.3 Calendar of State Papers (Ireland).

^{44.4 44.5} Ibid.

^44.6 Patent Roll (Ireland), 5 Car. I. p. 1 d. 2.

^44.7 Inquisition p.m. at Jamestown, 18 June 1661.

^44.8 Chancery Bill (Ireland), Hume v. Maxwell, 31 Oct. 1666.

^44.9 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^45.1 A Short Account of the Family of Hamilton.

^45.2 Inquisition p.m. at Jamestown, 18 June 1661.

^45.3 Matriculation Book.

^45.4 Mackenzie's Hist. of the Munroes, 195.

^45.5 Chancery Bill (Ireland), Hume v. Maxwell, 31 Oct. 1666.

^45.6 Fraser's Douglas Book, ii. 413.

^46.1 P. C. Reg., v. 499.

^46.2 Reg. Mag. Sig.

^{46.3 46.4} Ibid.

^46.5 He was one of the ‘ undertakers ’ for the Plantation of Ulster in 1611 ; P. C. Reg., ix. 80.

^46.6 Patent Roll (Ireland), 5–11 Jac. I. lxv. 36.

^46.7 Pynnar's Survey.

^47.1 P. C. Reg., x. 263.

^47.2 Ibid., xi. 201.

^47.3 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^47.4 The Chiefs of Colquhoun, i. 237.

^47.5 Stodart MS., Lyon Office.

^47.6 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^48.1 Charter in implement of marriage-contract, 18 Nov. 1611, confirmed 18 June 1612, Reg. Mag. Sig.

^48.2 Charter in implement of marriage-contract, 5 Jan. 1628, confirmed 1 April 1629, Reg. Mag. Sig.

^48.3 Acts and Decreets, 343 f. 130 b.

^48.4 Patent Roll (Ireland), 3 Car. I. p. 3 d. 52.

^48.5 Ibid., 15 Jac. I. p. 1 d. 8, and 15 Jac. I. p. 1 f. 15.

^50.1 Patent Roll, Ireland, 9 Car. I. p. 1 d. 8 and 10, Car. I. p. 2 f. 30, 31.

^50.2 Funeral Entry, Ulster's Office.

^50.3 Spalding's Memorials, 28–30.

^50.4 By him, who was executed for High Treason in Dublin in 1652, she was mother of Gordon O'Neill, who went to France with James VII. and became a general in the French service.

^50.5 Inquisition taken at Strabane, 9 August 1658.

^51.1 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^51.2 Funeral Entry, Ulster's Office.

^51.3 Inquisition taken at Strabane, 6 August 1692.

^52.1 Patent Roll, Ireland, 5 Gul. III. p. 2 d. 24.

^52.2 Lord's Journals, Ireland.

^52.3 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^52.4 Polit. State, xxv. 570.

^52.5 Patent Roll, Ireland, 3 Car. I. p. 3 d. 24.

^52.6 Ibid., 7 Car. I. p. 4 f. 5.

^52.7 Calendar of State Papers (Ireland), 1633–47, 53.

^52.8 Patent Roll, Ireland, 15 Car. I. p. 5 f. 36.

^52.9 Ibid., 15 Car. I. p. 7 f. 34.

^53.1 Mémoires of the Count de Gramont, ed. 1889, xiv–xxii.

^53.2 Patent Roll, Ireland.

^53.3 Ibid.

^53.4 Ibid., 20 Car. II. p. 2 d. 8 ; 22 Car. II. p. 1 f. 12.

^53.5 Ulster's Office.

^54.1 O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades in the Service of France, 34 n.

^54.2 Prerogative Court of Ireland.

^54.3 Francisque Michel's Les Éccossais en France, ii. 408.

^55.1 Register of St. Germains cited in Les Éccossais en France, ii. 399.

^55.2 Dangeau's Journal, xvii. 216.

^56.1 Dalrymple's Memoirs, ii. 26.

^56.2 Les Éccossais en France, ii. 407.

^56.3 Dangeau's Journal, v. 140.

^57.1 Commons' Journals, Ireland.

^57.2 Hasted's Kent, vol. ii. 435.

^58.1 Commons' Journals, Ireland.

^58.2 Patent Roll, Ireland, 13 Gul. III. 1 d. 1, p. 21.

^58.3 Lords' Journals, Ireland.

^59.1 Minutes of the Parliament of Scotland.

^59.2 Swift's Letters.

^59.3 Lords' Entries, Ulster's Office ; Gentleman's Mag., 703.

^59.4 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^59.5 Scots Mag., 517.

^60.1 Gent. Mag.

^60.2 Ibid.

^60.3 Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae, iii. 35.

^60.4 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^60.5 Les Éccossais en France, ii. 410.

^60.6 Matriculation Book, Trin. Coll. Dublin.

^60.7 Ibid.

^61.1 Pat. Roll, Ireland, 11 Geo. II. p. 1 f. 39.

^61.2 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^{61.3 61.4} Ibid.

^61.5 Gent. Mag.

^62.1 His pedigree registered in Ulster's Office.

^62.2 See title Hamilton.

^62.3 Scots Mag.

^62.4 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^63.1 Scots Mag. Her will, dated 24 June 1771, was proved in London 10 Aug. 1776, and in Dublin 6 Sept. following (Prerogative Court, Ireland).

^63.2 Gent. Mag.

^63.3 Ibid.

^63.4 Lords' Entries, Ulster's Office.

^{63.5 64.1} Gent. Mag.

^64.2 Lords' Entries, Ulster's Office.

^64.3 Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^64.4 Lords' Entries, Ulster's Office.

^64.5 Scots Mag.

^65.1 Lords' Journals, Ireland.

^65.2 Robertson's Proceedings relating to the Peerage of Scotland, 430.

^65.3 Scots Mag., 517.

^65.4 Copy in Prerogative Court, Ireland.

^66.1 Graduati Cantabrigienses.

^66.2 Lords' Journals.

^66.3 Life of Scott, iv. 95. Sir Walter was a frequent visitor to Stanmore Priory, and while there in April 1807 was correcting a proof of the Introduction to Marmion, Canto I., which contains the complimentary lines on Pitt and Fox. Lord Abercorn suggested that the tribute to Fox should be heightened, and it is said he himself penned several lines of eulogy. Familiar Letters, i. 82. The Lady of the Lake was dedicated to the Marquess.

^66.4 Scots Mag., 468.

^68.1 Prerogative Court, Ireland (copy lodged).

^74.1 For an account of the claims to the Duchy of Chatelherault see Herald and Genealogist, iv. 97–107, and v. 92 ; also The Complete Peerage, i. 5 (a), 407.