SLANE. 159 XI. 1597- //. William (Fleming), IUiion Slane [I.], cmisiii nnil h, male, being a. and h. of George F., of Derpatrick, co. Meath, by- Mary, only da. ami b. of Walter Ci'sack, of Kilkarn, which George was s. and b. of William F. of Derpatrick, who was s. ami h. of Thomas F.( a ) of the same, who was third and yst. s. of James. Baron Slane [I.], the great-grandfather of the late Lord. He was agetl 10 in 1 597. lie was one of the Roman Catholic Peers [I.] who subscribed the proclamation of James I. as King, at Dublin in 1603 ( b ) He never sat in Pari, as none were snmm, from 1 f>5<7 till after his death, but is not only recognised as " William, hiiw Lord Huron of' .S'/'i/e," in the ioq. on the death of the last Lord, but is also styled '■our well beloved anil very noble subject. William Fleming, Lord Karon of Slane," in a grant of livery from the King (Pat. lioll., 3 Jac. 1.) and was allowed to answer in the Court of Chancery in 1607 "super houoitm luum." He m. before 1597, his consul, Elinor, 2d da. an, 1 coheir of Thomas (FtUUKO), Ha Run Slank, |L] by Catharine, his wife, both abovenamed. He d. 1612. His widow( c ) d. 24 Jan. 1616. XII. 1012. 12, Christopher (Fleming), Baron Slake [1.1, s. and h.. had livery of his estate, 24 Nov. 1612 (pat. roll, 10 Jac. I.), being therein styled '■Christopher, Lord Baron of Slane." He sat in Pari. [I.], IS May 1613, and 16 May 1615 (during his mother's lifetime) ami claimed precedency therein of the Barony of Kerry and Lixnaw [I.] but the Lords Commissioners for executing the office of the Karl Marshal on 17 Jan. 161:., decided against him.() By deed, 20 Oct. 1624. he settled his estates on his 2d and yr. sons and their issue male successively with rem. in tail male to almost every branch of the family of Fleming nnd with reversion " in fee to the Lord Fleming, now Kahi. ok Wigdon [i.e., tVlGTox], in Scotland, and to his heirs for ever.' e ) He w. Elinor, da. of Sir Patrick Barne- wall, of Tnrvey, by Mary, da. of Sir Nicholas Bagenall. He d. 9 June 1625, at Newstown. Ihq, post mortem 13 Jan. 1626/8, at Ardee. XIIL 162"). Thomas (Fleming), Baron Slane [I.], *. ami h„ aged 21 years and six months in June 1625, Being a Franciscan Friar he had been excluded by his father from the inheritance. His petition that his brother might enjoy the Peerage was granted, 30 Oct. 1629, by the King, and after- wards acquiesced in by the House of Lords [L] as under. He resided in his convent in the Netherlands until he was made [Roman Catholic] Archbishop of Dublin, when he returned to Ireland and took an active part there against the rebels of 1641. He was living 1612 but d. mini. XIV. 1029. Uf, William Fleming, next br. to I lie above, sue. to the family estates on the death of his father in June 1625, and by 1597, Pierce Butler, of Old Abbey, co. Kilkenny, and had issue; ami (2) Elinor, in. before 1597, her cousin William (Fleming), Lord Slane [I.] Between them and their descendants any Barony in fee possessed by their father would be in abeyance, and such, according to Mr. Bryan's claim, is actually the case as to what ho styles "THE FOURTH PEERAGE OF SLANE by the title of Lord Slaxe." See p. 157, note " c," ci'iva jincm. (') This Thomas had a 2d and yst. s., Edward Fleming, of Sydan, co. Meath, whose issue male is named as in rem. to the Slane estates in the settlements of 1625 and 1638. ( b ) See vol. hi., p. 223, note " c," sub " Dnnsany." (°) She pleads to a bill in Chancery in 1612 as " Elynor, Lady Dowager of Slane," thereby shewing her Peerage was in right of her husband aud not one suo jure. See case of James Fleming. ( d ) The fact of his making this claim against a Peer whose Barony was of the 12th or 13th century and of his being allowed to prove his Peerage from the first Baron of Slane (notwithstanding the numerous heirs general whose existence was urged by his opponent) shews clearly that his Peerage was the same as that of the first Peer and was, accordingly, one w hich had descended to him as h. mule, aud that it was not a Peerage cr. by writ temp. Eliz , to himself or to his maternal grandfather, of whom he was a coheir, andwhose Peerage (had it been one cr. by writ, 1585), might (accord- •ng to Mr. Bryan's claim) have been terminated in his favour. These evidences are at Lambeth Palace. See " Lynch," 205. C) " Lynch,- 706.
