282 MEAFORD — M EATH. MEAFORD. i.r., "JkRvIB OF MEAFOBD, co. Stafford," Barony {Jerri*), cr. 1707, with the Earldom of St. Vincent, which Bee ; ex. 1S23. See "St. Vixckxt >f Meaford, cos Stull'onl," Viscountcy (Jrrvi.<), cr. (with a. spec, rem.) 1S01. M BATH. [See vol. i, |>. xi, for sonic remarks on tlie great Lorilslii|) of Mcatli from 1172 to 14tiU.J Earldom [I ] /, William (BfiAiMZoti), LotiD BrabazoX, Baron of I 1 fi°7 Audke [I.], s. and h. of Edward, Loud BkabaZoN, Baron ok Akdie, ' CO. Eouth [I.] (so <■<■. 1!) July 1616), by Mary, da. of Edward Smith, of Mitcliam, Surrey ; was b. ubont 15S0; was kniyhttti (v.p,) 22 Eeb. 1(30:3 4, by the Lord Deputy [I.] at lleban Castle ; sue. his father fin the peerage [I.] in 1(325, having liverv of his estate, 28 Jan. 1625,0, being then aged 46, and was cr., 16 April 1(327, (") EAKL OK MEAT 1 1 [I.] with »ptt. ran. failing beira male of his body, to his br., Sir Anthony Brabazoii ; was dittos Hot. of co. Dublin ; was present in the Pari. [1.] of 1634 and of 1(312, being a great sutl'erer by the troubles of those times ; was in 1(34 1 one of those sent to consult with the King at Oxford and was taken prisoner by the Pari, and confined 11 months in the Tower of London. He in. Feb. 1007, Jane, 1st da. of the lit. Hon. Sir John BlNGLET, Comp- troller of the Musters. She was bur. at St. Catharine's. Dublin, HI Dee. 1644. He- was bur. there (also ou) 111 Dec. 16-31. Admou. 28 May 1652. II. 1651. 2. Edwaud (Brabazox), Eahl of .Mf-ath, &c. [I.], s. and h., 4. about 1610; styled Loud Brahazon, 1627-52 ; said to have been knighted v.p.; M.P. for Athlone, 1034 ; Capt. of a troop of horse (cr parte Higis) 16-15, and again in 1661 ; sue. to the pecraye [I.] in Pec. 1051, taking his seat, 25 June 1661 ; B.C. [I ], 1602. He m. in 1632, Mary, yr. da, of Caleot Chamiikk, of Denbigh in Wales and of Carnowe, co. Wicklow. He d. 25 Marcli 1675, being drowned, oil Holyhead, in his passage to England. Will dat. 27 July 1674, pr. 27 April 1075. His widow was bur. at St. Catherine's, Dublin, 14 Sep. 1685. III. 1675. 3. "William (Brabazon), Eahl of Mf.atii, &c. [I.], 8. and h., 6. about 1635 ; stykd Loud BitAiiAZON,( b ) 1651-75 ; Cult. Hot. of co. Dublin, 1662, and again 1071. He was sum. to the House of Lords [I. J, v.p.( c ) in his father's Barony, by writ 30 Oct. 1005.(' 1 ) He sue. to the Earldom (10 years later), 25 March 1075. He m. before 1071, Elizabeth, sister of Thomas (Lknnaiid), 1st EARL of Sussex, da, of Francis, Lord Dacre, by Elizabeth, da. of Paul (Baynino), 1st Viscount Bayning of Sudbury. He d. s.p.ui.s., and was bur. 1 March 10S4/5, at St. Paul's Covent Garden. Will dat. 22 Feb. 1084, pr. April and Aug. 16S5. His widow, who m. before Oct. 1680, the Hon. William Moore, d. 28 and was bur. at St. Paul's afsd., 31 Dec. 1701. Her will pr. 16 Feb. 1709, by her said husband. (a) The preamb'e (declaring a descent of the grantee " ex oppido de Brabazou in Normandia " ) is in " Lodge," vol. i, p. 275. (t>) He is called " Lord Brabazon "(not " Lord Ardee ") in his father's will, dat. 1674. ( c ) In consequence of this summons his great grandson & (eventually) heir general Chidley Coote, of Mount Coote, co. Limerick laid claim hi 1762 to a Barony of Ardee [I.], as having been cr. in fee by this summons. See vol. i, p. 116, note " c," sub " Ardee," ( (1 ) The elate of the privy seal was 28 June previous. See vol. i, p. 2, note "a," sub " Abercom," for a list of the nine cases in which eldest sous of Irish Peers have been sum. to pari, in their father's lifetime of which cases the writ of summons in 1665, and that in 1714 to the h. and h. ap. of tho (then) Earl of Meath constitute two.
