BELLEW loi BELLEW John de Bellew (de Bella-Aqua) was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I,(") by writ directed Johanne de Bella Aqua, which writ was actually held in the Mowbray case (1878) to have cr. an hereditary Peerage, and to attend the King wheresoever he should be, 8 June (1294) 22 Edw. I, but neither does this appear to have been a regular Writ of Summons to Parl.(*) He was again sum. 16 Dec. (1295) 24 Edw. I, to be at Newcastle with horse and arms in Mar. following. He was of Carlton, co. York, and in right of his wife, of Kentmere in Kendal. He m. Laderina, da. and coh. of Piers de Brus, of Kendal, Westmorland, and of Skelton Castle, in Cleveland. He d. 1301, leaving as his coheirs (i) Nicholas Stapleton, s. of Miles Stapleton, by Sibyl, his eldest da., and (2) Joan, his 2nd da., wife of Aucher Fitz- Henry. Inq. p. m. 29 Edw. I, on him and his said wife. BELLEW OF DULEEK BARONY [I.] I. John Bellew, s. and h. of Sir Christopher B., T ^r,r of Bellewstown, Governor of Louth (^. in or before 1660), by Frances, da. of Matthew (Plunkett), Lord Louth [I.]. His property, which had been sequestrated by Cromwell, was restored in Oct. 1660, after the Restoration; it was situated in Louth, Meath, and Dundalk. He was knighted between 1661 and Aug. 1663. P.C. [I.]. Gov. of Louth. He was, for his fidelity to James II, cr. 29 Oct. 1686, BARON BELLEW OF DULEEK [!.].(") He was in command of a regt. of Infantry in Ireland, and was one of the Peers who sat in James IPs Pari. [I.] in May i689.("=) He was outlawed by the new Government in 1691, but his outlawry was afterwards reversed.() He m. (articles dat. 28 Nov. 1663) Mary, ist da. and coh. of Walter Bermingham, of Dunfert, co. Kildare, by Margaret, 2nd da. of Thomas (Fitzmaurice), Baron Kerry [I.]. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim, 12 July 1691, and having been wounded there, he d. therefrom, in London, 18 months later, 12, and was bur. 14 Jan. i6()2/2, at St. Margaret's, Westm., but was removed to Duleek in Apr. following. (') As to the validity of these writs, see Preface. C") This was one of the 5 Irish peerages conferred by James II before his exile. See note sub UHck, Viscount of Galway [1687]. . (') For a list of peers present in, and absent from that Pari., see vol. iii. Appendix D. {^) The Commissioners on forfeited estates reported to the House of Lords that Henry Sydney, in 1694 Earl of Romney, and one of the greediest of our Whig deliverers, had been bribed by him "not to molest the passing of his pardon." V.G.
