ALTAMONT COMPLETE PEERAGE 113 of the childhood and the friend of the maturer years " of Mary Bea- trice (") of Modena (the Queen of James II), being one of her Ladies of the Bedchamber, and remaining with her till (to the great grief of her Royal Mistress) she d. at St. Germain, Apr. 1703. ALNWICK See " Percy of Alnwick, co. Northumberland, " Barony (^Pcrcy), cr. 1643, extinct 1652. i.e. " Alnwick, co. Northumberland " Barony (Percy), cr. 1794 with the Barony of Lovaine, which see. ALSOP-EN-LE-DALE See "HiNDLip OF Hindlip, co. Worcester, and of Alsop-en-le-dale, CO. Derby, " Barony (Alhopp), cr. 1886. ALTAMONT (") EARLDOM [I.] I. John Browne, of Westport, co. Mayo, s. and h. I. 1 77 1. of Peter B. of the same, by Mary, da. of Denis Daly, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas [I.]. Matric. Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 17 July 1725, aged 16 ; Sheriif of co. Mayo 1731 ; M.P. for Castlebar, 1744-60, and Governor of Mayo; and, on 10 Sep. 1760, was cr. BARON MONTEAGLE of Westport, co. Mayo [I.], taking his seat 22 Oct. 1761. On 24 Aug. 1768 he was cr. VISCOUNT WESTPORT of Westport, co. Mayo [I.], taking his seat as such 17 Oct. 1769. On 4 Dec. 1771, he was cr. EARL OF ALTA- MONT, CO. Mayo [I.], taking his seat on the Earls' Bench on the day (") She accompanied the unfortunate Queen on her escape to France, with her infant son, from Whitehall, soon after midnight, Sunday, 9 Dec. 1688, conducted by the chivalrous Count de Lauzun and his friend, M. St. Victor, of Avignon. Of this party, also, were Lord and Lady Powis, Lady Strickland of Sizergh (sub-governess of the Prince of Wales), Lord and Lady O'Brien of Clare [I.], the Marquis Montecuculi ^Query, her father or brother ?], the Queen's Confessor, Pcre Givelui, the Queen's Physician, Sir William Waldegrave, one of her bedchamber women, Signora Pelegrina Turinie (whose husband was on guard when the Queen passed), and two Pages. — See Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England. C') Four years before an Earl of Bellamont had been cr. Such names must be regarded as examples of phonetic degeneration, being Italianised forms on the analogy of ' Chiaramonte. ' They must not be looked on as indicating a then low ebb of classical knowledge in Ireland, nor as attributing a feminine gender to ' mons, ' for which, indeed, the quotation " Parturiunt monies " offers but a feeble excuse. Mount Eagle, otherwise Croagh-Patrick, is the high mountain (2510 ft) near Westport, from which the Earls of Altamont take their title, [ex inform. G.D. Burtchaell.) V.G. 16
