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90 CASTLEMAINE CASTLE ISLAND See " Herbert of Castle Island, co. Kerry," Barony [I.] (Herbert), cr. 1624; extinct 1691. See " Gage of Castle Island, co. Kerry," Viscountcy [I.] {Gage), cr. 1720. CASTLE LEOD i.e. " Macleod of Castle Leod, co. Cromartie," Barony {Sutherland- Leveson-Gower), cr. 1861, with "Cromartie," Earldom of, which see. CASTLE LYONS CoL. Daniel O'Brien was cr., 1 7 Mar. 1 725/6, by the titu/ar James III, BARON CASTLE LYONS [I.]; and on 11 Oct. 1746, EARL OF LISMORE and VISCOUNT TALLOW [I.]; See "Lismore," Earldom, and vol. i, Appendix F. CASTLEMAINE, TYLNEY OF CASTLEMAINE, and CASTLEMAINE OF MOYDRUM See "MoNSON of Castlemaine, co. Kerry," Viscountcy [I.] {Monson), cr. 1628; forfeited 1661. EARLDOM [I.] I. Roger Palmer, 2nd s. of Sir James P., of Dor- I ^^ ney, Bucks, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, being only s. by his 2nd wife, Catherine, widow of Sir Robert Vaughan, da. of Wilham (Herbert), istEARL ' -•" OF Powis, was bap. at Dorney 4 Sep. 1634, and was adm. to the Inner Temple, 29 Oct. 1656; M.P. for Windsor 1660-61. He was cr., 11 Dec. 1661, BARON OF LIMERICK and EARL OF CASTLEMAINE (=>) co. Kerry [I.]. With other "Popish Lords "C') he was committed at the Old Bailey 1678, released on bail {*) This creation recalls the French song: "Par I'ep^e ou par le fourreau Devenir due est toujours beau, Qu'importe la mani^re Lan Lan Laire." However well these verses may represent the feelings of the degraded Court of Charles II, they do not show Palmer's own, for he " to his honour felt the title of Lord Castlemaine conferred upon him as the price of infamy to be an insult rather than a distinction, and as long as he could declined to bear that name. {Life of Clarendon, by Sir Henry Crailc, vol. ii, p. 150). V.G. C") For a list of these see vol. i, p. 264, note "c."