30 CARLINGFORD IV. 1704 4. Theobald (Taaffe), Earl OF Carlingford [166 1], to Viscount Taaffe of Corren and Baron of Ballymote 1738. [1628] in Ireland, nephew and h., beings, and h. of the Hon. John Taaffe, of Calliaghstown, co. Louth, by Rose, da. of Charles (Lambart), ist Earl of Cavan [I.], which John was yst. br. of the last Earl, and (being a Major in King James's army) was slain in the siege of Derry in Apr. 1689. He m., in 1696/7, before 15 Feb. (probably at Antwerp), Amelia, yst. da. of Luke (Plunkett), 3rd Earl of Fingall [I.], by Margaret, da. of Donogh (M'Carty), Earl of Clancarty [I.]. He d. s.p., at Lille, 24, and was bur. 26 Nov. 1738, in a chapel there. Will dat. 7 May 1737, pr. in Dublin 2 May 1739. His widow d. 4 Oct. 1757 at Brussels. Will pr. 1758. On his death the Earldom became extinct^ but the Viscountcy and Barony devolved on his cousin and h. male, whom he had constituted his heir and residuary legatee. See " Taaffe," Vis- countcy [I.], cr. 1628. i.e. "Carlingford," Viscountcy [L] {Carpenter), cr. 1761, with the Earldom of Tyrconnel [I.] which see; extinct 1853. BARONY. I. The Rt. Hon. Chichester Samuel Parkinson- T „ FoRTESCuE was, 28 Feb. 1874, cr. BARON CARLING- 1. i»74. FORD of Carlingford, co. Louth. On 27 July 1887, he sue. his br. as Baron Clermont of Dromiskin, CO. Louth [I.]. See "Clermont," Barony [I.], cr. 1852, fxft'«cr herewith 1898. CARLISLE Randolph le Meschin has often been wrongly described both as EARL OF CARLISLE, and Earl of Cumberland,(*) which County he is said to have exchanged with the King for that of Chester. In 112 1, he did in fact become Earl of Chester. He d. circa 1129. See "Chester," Earldom of. (*) "The old belief was that the Conqueror conferred the Earldom of Cumberland, or Carlisle, on Randulf le Meschin in 1072. This was corrected in the Introduction to the Pipe Rolh for Cumberland., cs'c. (184 7), and in Mr. Hinde's paper on the subject. {Arch. Journal^ vol. xvi, pp. 217, cs'c.) Freeman in his Norman Conquest asserts that 'Cumberland now [1092] became an Earldom.' But in his William Rufus (Appendix on 'Earldom of Carlisle') and in his 'Place of Carlisle in English History' {English towns and districts, p. 422) he corrects himself and refers to Mr. Hinde as proving that the Earldom was not of Cumberland but of Carlisle, and was not founded by William Rufus, but by Henry I. Even this, however, is wrong, for, as Eyton rightly observes (Addit. MSS. 31,930, fo. 171), Randulf was never 'Earl,' but merely "■Lord' of the district." [ex inform. J. Horace Round). It may also be added, as to the district, that he " was never Lord of Cumberland, but of the Lordship of Carlisle, which extended from the Solway on the north to the Duddon on the south. This was only a small part of Cumberland, which included, until 1239, the Bishoprics of Glasgow and Whiterne." {ex inform. E. Chester Waters).
