CLANRICARDE 231 of Connaught; Constable ot Athlone Castle, and Keeper of the King's House, 1603; Lord Pres. of Connaught, 1604-16; Gov. of Galway, 161 6. On 3 Apr. 1624, he was cr. BARON OF SOMERHILL and VISCOUNT TUNBRIDGE, Kent. P.C. [I.] 1625. On 23 Aug. 1628, he was cr. EARL OF ST. ALBANS, co. Hertford, with the usual rem., and BARON OF IMANNEY AND VISCOUNT GALWAY in the pro- vince of Connaught [I.], the limitation of these last two dignities [I.] being, failing heirs male of his own body, to those of his father. Earl Ulick. He m., before 8 Apr. 1603, Frances, widow of Robert (Devereux), Earl OF Essex (who d. 25 Feb. 1600/1), and before that of Sir Philip Sydney, da. and h. of Sir Francis Walsingham (Sec. of State to Queen Elizabeth), by his 2nd wife, Ursula, widow of Sir Richard Worsley, da. of John St. Barbe, of Somerset. She was bur. 17 Feb. 163 1/2, at Tunbridge.C) He d. 12 Nov. 1635, ^'^'i ^'^^ ^'^- there, aged about 63. C") Will, in which he makes no mention of his wife, signed "St. Albans and Clan Rickard," dat. 5 Nov. 1635, pr. 15 Dec. 1635, by his son "Ulick Bourke, Viscount Tunbridge and Dunkelling."('=) V. 1635. 5 and I. Ulick (Bourke, otherwise DE Burgh), Earl of St. Albans [1628], ViscountTunbridge MAROUESSATE 1 ^^^ Baron Somerhill [1624], also Earl of Clan- ricarde. Viscount Galway, i^c. [I.], only s. and J jg g h., b. before 8 Dec. 1604, at Athlone.(^) He (or, possibly, his successor) appears to have sue. his cousin as Viscount Bourke of Clanmories 1657. [I-]-C) Lieut. Col. of his father's regt.; Gov. of Galway, 1636; was knighted by the King at Windsor (together with the Prince of Wales, tsPc.) 20 May i638;(') He was one of the few Rom. Cath. Irish peers who actively opposed their co- religionists in the serious rebellion of 1641-43. Lieut. Gen. and Com. in Chief in Connaught, 1644; P.C. [I.], 1645. He was, on 21 Feb. 1645/6, cr. MARQUESS OF CLANRICARDE [I.], though such creation was "suspended p' wan-' R' for 6 mo."(^) Lieut. Gen. of the (^) " On Friday my Lord Essex accompanied by my Lords of Warwick and of Holland was present at the solemnisation of his mother's funeral in the chancel at Tunbridge." (John Pory to Sir Thomas Puckering, Bart., 23 Feb. 163 1/2). V.G. (*>) See Manningham's Diary, where he is called "a goodly personable Gentle- man, something resembling the late Earl of Essex." (■=) Sic, perhaps, because [before he inherited the Earldoms) he was so styled in the will. [^) Dugdale, in his Summonses, pp. 556 and 558, alleges that he was sum. v.p. in his father's Barony as Lord Burgh, but there seems to be no ground for this state- ment. See ante, vol. ii, p. 251, sub Bourke or Burgh. V.G. if) See under that dignity, cr. with a spec, rem., 20 Apr. 1629. (*) See note sub Thomas, Earl of Elgin [1633]. (s) Creations, 1 483-1 646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records. As to the only record of this creation see vol. ii, p. 454, note " b."
