86 CASTLEHAVEN CASTLE HAVEN (Ireland) EARLDOM [I.] I. George (Tuchet), Lord Audley, s. and h. of Henry, Lord Audley, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William I. 1616. Sneyd, sue. his father 30 Dec. 1563, when he was aged 12, and was sum. to Pari, from 30 Sep. 1566 to 5 Apr. 1 6 14. Fellow of Magd. Coll. Oxford about 1570. He was sometime Gov. of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He was Governor of Kells, co. Meath, and in command of eight companies against the rebel Irish in 1599. He was wounded at the battle of Kingsale, 24 Dec. 1 60 1 . He resided chiefly in Ireland,(^) and (with other English and Scottish Peers) was sum. by writ to the Irish House of Lords, 11 Mar. i6i3/4.() On 6 Sep. 1616 he was cr. a Peer of that kingdom as BARON AUDLEY OF ORIER, co. Armagh, and EARL OF CASTLEHAVEN, co. Cork [I.]. He m., istly, before 28 Aug. 1584, Lucy, only da. and in her issue h. of Sir James Mervyn, of Fonthill Giffard, Wilts, by his ist wife, Amy, da. of Valentine Clark..('=) She was living 20 Jan. 1608/9, ^^^ ^- '^•P-i before Apr. 16 10. He »?., 2ndly, 29 Apr. 161 1, at St. Mary-le-Strand, Midx., Elizabeth, sister of Edward, 2nd Viscount Campden, da. of Sir Andrew Noel, of Dalby, co. Leicester, by Mabel, da. of Sir James Harington. He d. 20 Feb. 161 6/7. Admon. Jan. 1 6 17 at the Court of the Dean of Westm., and again In P.C.C. 1 1 July 1 63 1 to his da. Eleanor, wife of Sir Archibald Douglas. His widow »?., 6 Mar. 1 6 1 8/9, at St. Bride's, London, Sir Piers Crosby, of Maryborough, in Queen's County (who d. between Nov. 1 646 and Nov. 1 647), and was living 8 Dec. 1644. II. 1 6 17. 2. Mervyn (Tuchet otherwise Audley), Earl of Castlehaven, ^c. [I.], also Lord Audley, only s. and h. by ist wife. He was knighted 30 Mar. 1608; was 23 years old in June 1 616. He »z., istly, before 1619, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Benedict Barnham, Alderman of London, by Dorothea, da. of Ambrose Smith, citizen and mercer of London. He m., 2ndly, 22 July 1624, at Harefield, Midx., Anne, widow of Grey (Brydges), Baron Chandos of Sudeley, ist da. and coh. of Ferdinando (Stanley), 5th Earl of Derby, by Alice, da. of Sir John Spencer, of Althorpe, Northants. Having been found guilty of certain high crimes C) he was attainted of felony, and beheaded on Tower Hill, (^) Between 1 8 and 2 1 Eliz. he sold Audley, Tunstall, and the rest of his Stafford- shire estate. {Feet of Fines). V.G. C') See vol. i, p. 2, note " c " sub " Abercorn," Earldom of [S.]. {■=) See pedigree of Mervyn in Misc. Gen. et Her., N.S., vol. i, p. 358. if) This was for an unnatural crime committed with one Laurence Fitz Patrick, his page, who confessed and was executed for the same, at Tyburn, 6 July 1631: as also for the rape of his own wife, or rather for the assisting one Giles Browning in a rape said to have been so committed. Of this woman, the said Fitz Patrick said that " she was the wickedest woman in the world, and had more to answer for than any woman that lived." See State Trials, vol. iii, p. 401. The death of her unworthy husband was certainly brought about by her means, and her unquestionable adultery with one Ampthill and with Henry Skipwith renders her motive suspicious.
