198 CHICHESTER he was cr. BARON CHICHESTER OF BELFAST,^ co. Antrim [1.]. Lord High Treasurer [I.], 13 July 1616 till his death. From 2 May- till Oct. 1622 he was on an Embassy to the Palatinate; P.C. [E.] 31 Dec. 1622. He m., 8 Apr. 1605, Lettice, widow of Walter Vaughan, of Golden Grove, co. Carmarthen, and before that of John Lagharne, of St. Bride's, co. Pembroke, da. of Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1584-88, by Jane (widow of Lewis Pollard), da. of Hugh Prust, of Devon. She d. 27 Nov. 1620, and was bur. 10 Jan. 1620/1, at Carrickfergus. Fun. Entry. He d. in London, s.p.m.s.,{^) 19 Feb. 1624/5, ^g^d 61, and was bur. 25 Oct. 1625, in St. Nicholas church at Carrickfergus, when his Peerage became extinct. M.I.() "Will dat. 29 Oct. 1 62 1 (desiring to be bur. by his late wife at "Kmckfergus"'), pr. 21 May 1625. Fun. Entry. II. 1625. I. Sir Edward Chichester, next br. and h., ^. about 1568. He sue. to the family estates, and, to VISCOUNTCY [I.] perpetuate his brother's memory,("^) was, on i Apr. . , 1625, cr. BARON CHICHESTER OF BELFAST ^- ^^^~5- AND VISCOUNT CHICHESTER OF CAR- RICKFERGUS, both in CO. Antrim [I.], "the late King [James I] having assented." He had previously, 18 July 161 6, been knighted at Theobalds. Gov.of Carrickfergus, Admiral of Loughneagh,Gov. of Culmore, and P.C. [I.] 1625. Joint Commissioner of the Treasury [I.], 1632. Took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] 14 July 1634. Was in command of a regt., 1641, on behalf of the King. He m., istly, 4 July 1605, Anne, da. and h. of John Coplestone, of Egges- ford, CO. Devon, by Dorothy, da. of Sir George Biston, of Biston, CO. Chester. She, who was aged 1 8 in Nov. 1 606, d. 8 Mar. 1 6 1 6, and was bur. at Eggesford. He m., 2ndly, Mary, widow of Othwell Hill, da. of ( — ) Denham, of Wortham, Devon, but by her had no issue. She d. 2 Feb. 1638/9, at Belfast, and was bur. at Carrickfergus. Fun. (") He was the first Baron created, and the third person advanced to the Irish Peerage by James I. The preamble of his creation is given in Lodge, vol. i, p. 323. Sir Rory O'Donell had, previously, been cr. (in 1603) Ear/ of Tyrconnel, and Sir Theobald Butler (also in 1603), Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim. 1^) His only s., Arthur, b. 22 Sep., bap. 2 and d. v.p. 30 Oct. 1606, was bur. at Christ Church, Dublin. Fun. Entry. {^) This is of considerable length, and is printed in Lodge, vol. i, p. 326. The verses, at the end, begin as under: "Within this bedd of death a Viceroy lies, Whose fame shall ever live; virtue ne'er dies; For he did virtue and religion nourish. And made this province, rude, with peace to flourish." if) See the preamble in Lodge, vol. i, p. 328.
