DELVIN. 55 Kingsalo, Kerry, Slaue, and Delvin), ami next above Killeen.p 1 ) As the Barony of Slauu was declared by act 2 Ed. IV to be junior to that of Preston, which last cannot be placed higher than 1303, it follows that the creation of Delvin as a Peerage must beat a date subscjuciU to 1303. In some of the early Paris, however (particularly in that of 2 Eliz.) the Barony of Delvin is placed (apparently erroneously) immediately before that of Shine ; but in the warrant 1 Jany. 1615, of the Commissioners for executing the office of Earl Marshal, the Barony of Slane is placed next immediately below that of Kerry (and such seems its proper place) and consequently above that of Delvin. For more than 700 years, however, the Lordship or Barony of Delvin has been in the family of the preseut (1S89) owners. It was one of the subinfeudations of the Lordship of Meath, and. as such, was granted in 1171 (being then about 20,000 acres) by Hugh de Lacy to his kinsman Sir Gilbert Nugent, on whose death s.p.m.s. it passed to his br. Richard de Capello Nugent, whose only da. and h., Hose, brought it into the family of Fitz John*. John Fitz John is said to have been sum. as " Baron of Delrin " to Pari. [£] by writ dat. at Dublin 13 Feb. (1371/2), 46 Edw. Ill, while Thomas Fitz John was so sum. (tho' not under such designation) 20 Nov. 1371, 22 Jany. 1377/8, and 11 Sep. 1380.(*>) Katharine, da. and h. of this John Fitz John (possibly after the death of the said Thomas supposing him to be her br.) Ml. William Nc(ikxt( c ) (as below) and brought back the Barony of Delvin to the Nugent family.] Barony [I]. l. Sin WlLLUM-Fm-ElOHARD Nugent, Lord of the I i 389 1 Barony of Delvin, co. Westmeath, I'd s. of Kichard Nugent, of Balrath, co. Meath, having m. (when under age) Katharine, da. and h. of John Fitz John, acquired with her the vast Barony of Delvin, and was (under the name of " Baron of Ddiin ") in ward to the King in 13S9, as appears bv the pat. roll of 12 Rie. II. About that date( n ) he not improbably was cr. (or recognised as) a Peer, BARON( 6 ) DELVIN [I].(H He was Sheriff of co. Meath, 1101-02. His wife was dead in or before 1100. He d. before 1-115. II. 1115 I Richard (Nugent), Baron Delvin [I]., s. and b. He is styled in the pat. roll of (1106), 7 Hen. IV (when his father was apparently still alive) as " Richard, son of William Nugent, son and heir of Katharine Fitz Juhn, ' but in the pleas roll of (1112), 20 Hen. VI ( when his father was dead) as '•Richard Nugent, Kut., Baron of Delvin." He was Sheriff of co. Meath, 1121, and was in 1119 deputy to the Ch. Gov. of Irelaud.(=) In 1152 he was Seneschal of Meath. He in. Katharine (or Juliana), da. of Thomas Drake, sister and h. of Nicholas Drake, of Carlanstown, co. Meath. He was living 1150. III. 1460? 3. CiiRisToniER (Xugent), Baron Delvin [I], grand- son and h., being s. and h. of James Nugent, by Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of Sir Robert Hollywood of Drumcree, Dysert and Douure, co. Westmeath and of Tarlayne, co. Dublin, which James was 1st s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, but d., v.p. 1150. He had livery of his estate (1475), 15 Ed. IV. He is said to have m. Elizabeth (or Anne), da. of Sir Robert Preston, of Gormanston, possibly, Robert, 1st Viscount Gormanston [t] He d. ahout 1483. See some observations on the date of the early Irish Baronies, as Peerage dignities, vol. 1, p. 171, note "c," sub " Athenry." ( b ) See petition of Governor Nugent, 3 Nov. 1800, claiming to be one of the coheirs of the Barony of Delvin [I.] as set out in a " Letter from Sir W. Betham to G. Nayler, Esq.," ordered to be printed 4 June 1832 (folio pp. 34). ( c ) Petition of Andrew Nugent, 1814, claiming as set out in note "b," above. ( ,l ) "It would appear from the close roll of 46 Ed. Ill (1372) that not only tho peerage of Killeen, but those of Delvin and Howth were not as yet created." See " llcmaris upon the ancient Baronage of Ireland" 1829, p. 116 ; and see also, ante, vol. 1, p. 171, note " c," 8 k6 " Athenry." (°) See as to the distinction between " Baro " and " Dominus " in the early Irish Barouies, vol. I, p. xviii (preface), note "a," and p. 172 (sub Athenry), note "f." (') See " Lodge," vol. 1, p. 216, last note thereon. (*>') It has been conjectured, not without reason, that this date (1119) is more likely to be the true one of the peerage of Delvin.
