BALMERiNocH COMPLETE PEERAGE 389 BALLYMORE See " Westcote of Ballymore, " co. Longford, Barony [I.] (Litlehon)y cr. 1776. BALLYMOTE /'.f. "Ballymote," Barony [I.] (Taaffe), cr. 1628, with the Viscountcy of Taaffe [I.], which see. BALLYSHANNON See " FoLioT of Ballyshannon, " co. Donegal, Barony [I.] (Foliot), cr. 1619, extinct 1630. BALLYTRAMMON i.e. " MoNCK OF Ballytrammon, " co. Wexford, Barony [I] (Monck), cr. 1797. See Monck. of Ballytrammon, Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1801. i.e. " Monck of Ballytrammon, co. Wexford, Barony " [U.K.] (Monck) cr. 1866. See " Monck. of Ballytrammon, " Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1 801, under the 4th Viscount. BALLYWALTER See "Dunleath of Ballywalter, co. Down," Barony {Mulholland)^ cr. 1892. BALMERINOCH BARONY [S.] I. Sir James Elphinstone, of Barntoun, 3rd s. of y , ^ Robert, 3rd Lord Elphinstone [S.], by Margaret, da. of Sir John Drummond, was b. 19 Aug. 1557. He was appointed a Lord of Session, under the designation of " Lord Innernochtie, " 4 Mar. 1586/7 ; one of the eight Commissioners of the Treasury in 1595/6, known as "Octavians ;" Secretary of State (*) in 1598, P.C. [E.] 4 May 1603, and on 1 Mar. 1605 President of the Court of Session. He acquired many grants of lands, of which those belonging to the Cistercian Abbey of Balmerinoch, co Fife, (^) were erected into a Barony in favour of him, his heirs male, and heirs of tailzie and provision, (') " Secretary Elphinstone was as wise a man as was in England or Scotland. " (Ant. Welldon, James I, p. 328.) V.G. (•") See note sub " Holyroodhouse, " as to lands of religious houses granted with a peerage [S.] to laics.
