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WESTMEATH.

da. of Sir Lucas Dillon. He d., m aCid., in 1641. Hi* will, dat. 2 Oct. 1«40, pr. in th« Prerog. Ckmrt of Ireland. His widow m. Jamae Atlmib, of Dullardatown, oo. Heath.

[Christophbr Nuqbnt, dyled Lord Dblvin, 1st s. and k. ap. He m. Anne, Ist da. of Randal (If ao Donmill), lat Bakl ov Aniuim [I.]. He d., v.p., 10 July 1625, and waa hur. at Clonyu. Uia widow m. William (FuuciNo), Babon Slami [IL who d, 1611.]


II, 1641. 2. Richard (Nuobnt), £aul of WBtn'usATn, i&c. [I.], grandson and b., Iwiiig only a. aud h. of Christopher Nuqbkt, U^jid LoBD Dklyim, and Anne his wife aboveiiamed. He, who wtis h. about 1620, waa ttyltd Lord Dblyin after hia father's death. 10 July 1625, till he mc to <iU peerage [I.] as above, in 1641, taking his seat, 15 April 1644. He was, in 1650, General of the Leiuster forces mised for the King againat the rebels, and was excepted by Cromwell's act, 12 Aug. 1652, from pardon. He raised a regiment for the Spanish service, 1652 — 59. In 1666 he received several grants of landa as a reward for his loyalty. He rebuilt, in 1680, the Chapel of Foure, as a burial place for the family. He m. Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Nuobht, 1st Bart [I.J, of Moyrath, by Alison, da. aud b. of Robert Babmbwall, of Robertstown. She, who was h. 1628, d. 19 May 1672, and waa bur. at Poure. He d. 1684, and was bur. there. Will dated 6 Maroli 1682, pr. 25 Fob. 1684, in the Prerog. Court of Ireland. [Christophib Nugbkt, Btyled Lord Dblvin, let a. aud h. up.() He m. about 1665, Mary, 1st da. of Richard Botlbb, of Kilcaah, co. Tippei-ary, yr. br. of James, 1st DuKB or OuuoMOB. He d, v.p., before 1680, aud was 6ttr. at Foure. His widow d. at Clonyu, 28 March 1787> aged 96, aud was bur at Foure afiid.] III. 1684. S. Richard Nugent, de jure Earl ov Wxstmbatu, kc [I.], grandson aud h., being 1st s. aud h. of Christopher Nuobnt, tiyUd Lobd Dblvim, aud Mary his wife, both abovenamed. He, who was a Capuchin Friar in France, amieara never to have antumed ike peerage, in which, indeed, hia yr. br. sat in the Pari, fl.] of 1689. He d. num., April 1714, in the Convent of nis Order, at Wassey. IV. 1684, 4* Thomas (Nuobnt), Earl of Wbsi^mbatr [1.1621] or and Babon Dblvin [I. 1889 P] br. aud h. ; 6. 1669. He, in couse- 1714. quence of his elder brother's disability, appeal's to have been con- sidered to have sue. to the peerage [I.J on his grandfnUier's death iu 1684, and sat. accordingly, in King James' pari. [I.] of May 1689, tho' under age.(^) He, as Lieut. Col., was in command of a Reg. of Infantry aud of a Reg. of horse, in the Irish army of James II., and was cousequeutly outlawed, 11 May 1691, which act, however, waa reversed after the suri-euder of Limerick. It is uot, however, till the death of his eldest br. iu April 1714 that he cau, iu strict right, be considered to have mo. to the peerage [I.] He m., iu 1684, when about 16, Margaret, ouly da. of John (Bbllbw), 1st Babom Bbllbw of Dulbbk [I.], by Msry, da. and coheir of Walter BBBiOHOHaic. She d, 1700. He d. 8.p.m.s.(e) 80 June 1752 aged about 88. [Chbistophbb Nuobnt, styled Lord Dblyin, Ist s. aud h. ap.(<>) He d. unm. and v.p. at Bath, 12 and was bur. 17 April 1752 in Uie Abbey there.] (*) Hia next br., Thomas Nugent, of Pallas, was er., (by James II., after Ida disposition from the BnglUh throne) 8 April 1689, Baron Nugent of Riverston [[.] and is ancestor of the Earls of Westmeath, since 1871. (^) He, as well as the Barl of Claucarty, also under age, had royal dispenBation so to sit. (•) See vol. ill, p. 56, note «'b," eub " Delvin," for an account of his daughters and coheirs, aud of the petitions of some of their descendants in 1799 aud afterwards for the Barenv of Delvin, on the grounds of its being an ancient Barony in fee, and, as ■uoh, heritable by the heir general. i (d) John Nuffent the 2d. and yst son d. unm. and v.p. 21 July 1725 atTurlo- vaughan, oo. Qalway.