232 CLANRICARDE Army [1.] 1646-49 ; Lord Deputy Gen. [I.] 1 650-52. (*) In 1651 he was opposing Cromwell in Ireland at the head of a considerable force, and maintained an heroic resistance to him. In Oct. 1652, he left Ireland for Kent, his estate of ;{[29,ooo a year being sequestrated, and himself, by Cromwell's Act of 12 Aug. 1652, excepted from pardon. He m., Dec. 1622, Anne, da. of William (Compton), ist Earl of Northampton, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir John Spencer. He d. s.p.m., at Somerhill, Kent, July 1657, and was i>ur. at Tunbridgc^") Lim. admon. 3 Mar. 1664/5. -^t his death all his English honours, as also the Marquessate of Clanricarde [I.] became extinct, but the other Irish honours devolved as below.('^) His widow, who had her jointure, and house of Portumna, co. Galway, restored to her in June 1661, d. 17 Aug. 1675. Admon. 24 Aug. 1675, ^"'i 20 Jan. 1 699/1 700. EARLDOM [I.] 6. Richard (Bourke), Earl of Clanricarde, Vis- count BOURKE OF ClANMORIES, AND BaRON DuNKELLIN VI. 1657. [I.], cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of Sir William BouRKE, otherwise de Burgh, by Joan, da. of Dermot O'Shaugnessy, of Gort, which William was 3rd s. of Ulick, the 3rd Earl. He took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] 1661. In that year he was in receipt of a Govt, pension of ^T 1,500 till he should be restored to his estate. He m. Elizabeth,('^) da. of Walter (Butler), Earl of Ossory and Ormond [I.], by Helen, da. of Edmund (Butler), Viscount Mount- garret [I.]. He d. s.p.m., Aug. 1666. Will dat. 17 Oct. 1664. Her will pr. Prerog. Ct. [I.] 1668. f VII. 1666. 7. William (Bourke), Earl of Clanricarde, &€. [I.], br. and h. male, was, in 1640, a Colonel in the Royal Service ; Lieut, of co. Galway, 1680 ; Chief Gov. thereof, 1687; P.C. [I.] 30 Apr. 1 68 1. He m., istly, Lettice, da. of Sir Henry Shirley, Bart., by Dorothy, da. of Robert (Devereux), Earl of Essex. She, who {'■) His difficulties in his Irish Government are well described by Clarendon {^Hist. of the Rebellion, vol. viii), who pays a tribute to his generous nature. V.G. (*>) There appears to be some uncertainty as to the date of his death, which by some is put as late as 29 Apr. 1658, while in the histories of Carte and Clarendon it is given as 1652 and Oct. 1653. A note in Lodge, vol. i, p. 136, says that "it appears that he died as in the text from several Chancery proceedings and especially from bills filed by his da. and her husband the Lord Musketry, for the recovery of the estate." G.E.C. Lecky (vol. ii, p. 163) calls him "a man of the most stainless and sensitive honour ... at once a sincere Roman Catholic and a devoted servant of the English Government." V.G. if) The Viscountcy of Galway, ^c, ought, according to the spec. rem. in its creation, to have devolved therewith, but practically became dormant. See as to his da. and h. sub " Clancarty," ante, p. 215, text and note "g." (f) In a petition dat. 1661, "the now Countess of Clanricarde" is stated to have been wife of John Fitzgerald, of Dromana, co. Waterford, deed. [State Papers [I.], 1660-62, pp. 240, 241). V.G.
