356 FITTON — FITZ-ALAN. FITTON OF GOSWORTH. [Memorandum. This is oue of tlio seven Irish peerages cr. by James II., after his exclusion from the throne of England (11 Dee. 1688), but when he was in full possession of all his Royal rights ns King of Ireland . All these creations were duly inscribed on the patent rolls [I.], from which they have never been erased. See vol. i, p. 59, note " b," sub " Albemarle," for nn account of this and other Jacobite creations.] Barony [l], Sm Alexander Fitton, sometime of Gawsworth, co. I 1689 Chester, was 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. of William FiTTON,( a ) of . ' Awrice, co. Limerick, but afterwards of Gawsworth afsd., by Eva, Tf°QQ °f Sir Edward Trevor, of Brynkynalt. Ho was Student of "™ the Inner Temple, 1655 ; Barrister, 1662, about which time he was dispossessed of the Gawsworth estates by the heir general and was imprisoned for the fines and expenses in the legal proceedings thereon. He was, 12 Feb. 16S6/7, constituted Loud Chancellor [I.], and was cr. 1 April 1C89, by writ of 8ummons( b ) BA.UON FY/T'i'ON OF GOSWOBTH.O co. Limerick [I.], with rem. to the heirs male of his body. In 1689 he was one of one of Lords Justices [I.] He m. about 1655, Anne, da. of Thomas Jolikfe, of Cofton, co. Worcester. She d. 7 Oct. 16S7 and was bur. in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He d. s p.m., at St. Germaius, in France, Nov. 1698, when th; Barony, created became extinct. FITZ-ALAN (of Oswaldestre, &c.) Remarks. The castle of Oswaldestre (Oswestry), co. Salop, was granted by William the Conqueror to (1) Alan Fitz-Flkald whose s. and h. (2) William Fitz-Alan, of Oswaldestre, d. 1160 and was sue. by his s. and h. (3) William Fitz-Alan, of the same, who in right of his wife (Isabel, da. and h. of Ingelram de Say) acquired the Lordship of Chin also in co. Salop and d. about 1210. Their s. and h. (4) William Fitz-Alan, of Clun and Oswaldestre, d. s.p. 1216 and was sue. by his br. and h. (5) John Fitz-Alan, of the same, who m. Isabel, siBter (whose issue became coheir) to Hugh (de Albini), Earl of Arundel. He d. 1240. Their s. and h. (6) John Fitz-Alan, feudal Lord of Chin and Oswaldestre, inherited (jure matris), 27 Nov. 1243, the castle and honour of Arundel, whereby, according to the admission of 1433, (») he became Earl op Arundel. With this Earldom these Lordships continued united, passing, with it, to the Howard family (see tabular pedigree, vol. i, p. 152), till on the attainder in 1589 of Philip (Howard), Earl of Arundel, they were granted to (his uncle) Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton, who transferred them to his (the grantee's) nephew, Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk. They were, apparently, not in the possession of Thomas Howard, the restored Earl of Arundel (next below mentioned) in 1627, the date on which the titles of his ancestors were confirmed to him.] (") This William, who settled in Ireland was yr. br. of Sir Edward Fitton, of Gawsworth, President of Munster (who d. 1606), who was father of Edward Fitton, a: a Bart. 1617 {d. 1619), whose only son Sir Edward Fitton, the 2d Bart. d. s.p. about 1643, being he whose entail of the Gawsworth estates (in favour of the heir ■male) was (some 20 years later) set aside. ( b ) It is remarkable " that the only writs of Parliamentary BUmmous creating Jiereditary peerages by express words " are but four, viz., one in England, whereby in 1449, Henry VI., cr. Henry Bromflete,Zor<Z de Vcsci; and three others in Ireland whereby James II. in 1689 (after his deposition from the kingdom of England) created Sir Alexander Fytton, Baron Pytlon of Gosworlh, co. Limerick, Thomas Nugent, Baron Nugent of Riverston, co. Westmeath, and John Bourke, Baron Bourke of liophin, co. Galway. See " Lynch," pp. 359-360. (°) Gawsworth in Cheshire was the seat of this family for many centuries and is no doubt here indicated by " Gosworth." There is no place of either name in co. Limerick. The patent is set forth in full in " Lynch," pp. 359—360 were, however, (by mistake) it is printed "Gosnorth." ( d ) " Their issue was Anne an only child." See Stephen's " Nat. Biography." (•) See vol. i, p. 138, note "c," sub "Arundel."
