CROMWELL 559 ARDGLASS [I.], with which dignities the Barony of Cromwell remained united till the death of the 4th Earl, s.p.m., 26 Nov. 1687, when they all became extinct. See "Ardglass," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1645; ext'mct 1687. Lady Elizabeth Cromwell, only da. and h. of Vere Essex (Cromwell), 4th Earl of Ardglass and Viscount Legale [I.], and Baron Cromwell, b. 3 Dec. 1674, assumed the style of BARONESS CROMWELL on the death of her father, 26 Nov. 1687, in the erroneous belief that that Barony was one in fee, cr. by a supposed writ of 28 Apr. 1 539)0 i'lstead of one in tail male, cr. by the patent of 18 Dec. 1540. She, however, walked as a Peeress, both at the funeral of Queen Mary II and at the Coronation of Queen Anne. She m., 29 Oct. 1704, the Rt. Hon. Edward Southwell, who d. 4 Dec. 1730, aged 63. She d. of consumption, 31 Mar. 1709, and was bur. at Henbury, co. Gloucester, aged 34, when the assumption ceased. C') Admon. as the "Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, alias Cromwell," granted 7 Dec. 17 10 to her husband, the "Hon. Edward Southwell, Esq." CRONE Matthew Crone, " Brigadier Gen. in the service of his Catholic Majesty, and Governor of Lerida," in Catalonia, had a certificate from King James II, dat. 14 Mar. 1696/7, at St. Germain-en-Laye, that he was descended from a good family in Ireland. He was cr. LORD CRONE [I.], with the usual rem., 16 Feb. i-j2-ll^, by the titular James III. See also vol. i, Appendix F. CROSBIE VISCOUNTCY [1.1 William (Crosbie), 2nd Baron Banden [I.], was, 30 Nov. 1 77 1, cr. VISCOUNT CROSBIE OF I. 1 77 1. ARDFERT, co. Kerry [I.]. On 22 July 1776 he was cr. EARL OF GLANDORE [I.]. See "Glandore," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1776; extinct 1815. (») No such writ, however, ever issued; see ante, p. 557, note "d." V.G. (•>) Lady VVentworth writes, i Apr. 1709, that "she made a very good wife and he a fond husband." V.G. Edward Southwell, her s. and h., b. 1 June 1705, d. 16 Mar. 1755, having never assumed {jure matris) the style of Lord Cromwell. His s. and h. (another) Edward Southwell, b. 6 June 1738, likewise never assumed such style, but in his favour the abeyance of the much more ancient Barony of Clifford was, in 1776, terminated, he being (through his mother, Lady Catherine Watson) a coh. of that dignity.
