CHOLMONDELEY 201 on 5 Mar. 1645/6, cr. EARL OF LEINSTER [I.]. He was a Com- pounder to Pari, for the large sum of £j,-]^2. He m. Catherine, da. of John (Stanhope), ist Baron Stanhope of Harrington, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, da. and coh. of Henry MacWilliams. She ^. at Cholmondeley, 15 June, and was l>ur. 3 July 1657, at Malpas. Admon. 18 Feb. 1657/8. He ^. s.p. legit.,(f) 2 Oct. 1659, aged 75, at Cholmondeley, when all his honours became extinct. Both were bur. in the chancel at Malpas. VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. Robert Cholmondeley, of Cholmondeley afsd., nephew and h. of the above, being s. and h. of Hugh II. 1661. C. (his next surv. br., who d. 11 Sep. 1655), by Mary, da. of Sir John Bodvile, of Bodvile Castle, CO. Carnarvon. On 2 Oct. 1659, by his uncle's (the Earl of Leinster's) death, he became the head of the family. On 29 Mar. 1661, he was cr. VISCOUNT CHOLMONDELEY OF KELLS, co. Meath [I.], and took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] by proxy 25 June following. He ;«. Elizabeth, 2nd da. and coh. of George Cradock, of Caverswall Castle, CO. Stafford, by Dorothy, da. of John Saunders, D.D., Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.C') He d. at his house near St. James's, 22 May, and was bur. 3 June 168 1, at Malpas. Will pr. Nov. 1681. His widow was bur. at Malpas 28 Feb. 1691/2. VISCOUNTCY [I.] 2 and i. Hugh (Cholmondeley), Viscount ,,. , Cholmondeley of Kells [I.], s. and h. Matric. at ^^^- ^^^^- Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 8 May 1678, being then aged 16. ■RAT? DTsl Y ^^ ^^^ one of the earliest to abandon the Royal cause, 15AKU1N I. ^^^ j^ jggg ^^^g (j^^^ ^^^^^ Nobility and Principal II. 1689. Gentry in arms with the Prince of Orange."('=) He was soon rewarded by being cr., 10 Apr. 1689, EARLDOM. BARON CHOLMONDELEY OF WITCH , , MALBANK alias NAMPTWICH, co. Chester ■ ^' ' [E.], with rem. failing his issue male, to George Cholmondeley, his next surv. br. He naturally did not sit in the Pari. [I.] of James II, 7 May i689.C^) Lord Lieut, of N. Wales 1702-13, and again 1714-25; Lord Lieut, of Cheshire 1704-13 and again 1714-25; P.C. 29 Mar. 1705. Governor of Chester 1705-13, and 1 7 14 till his death. On 29 Dec. 1706, he was rr. VISCOUNT MALPAS AND EARL OF CHOLMONDELEY, both in co. Chester, with a C) He settled the estate of Holford, which came from his mother, on Thomas Cholmondeley, his illegit. son, who d. there 6 Jan. 1667, leaving issue. See Lodge, vol. V, p. 65, for an account of this line. C") See Grazebrook's Fisitations of Stafford, 1614 and 1664, p. 100, note. (') For a list of these, see vol. ii, Appendix H. C) For a list of the peers present in, and absent from, this Pari., see Appendix D to this volume. 26
