174 DELVIN He m. Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Nangle, styled Baron of Navan, I St da. of Jenico (Preston), 3rd Viscount Gormanston [I.], by his ist wife, Catherine, da. of Gerald (FitzGerald), Earl of Kildare [I.]. He d. 23 Nov. 1559, having, in his will, directed that he should be bur. with his grandfather.() III. 1559. 3. Christopher (Nugent), Baron Dei-vin [I.], s. and h., came of age in 1565, before 22 Nov. Matric. at Cambridge (Clare Hall) 12 May 1563. Knighted in 1565. In 1567 he obtained a royal commission to extirpate the tribe of O'More, but in 1574 was in bad odour with the Government for refusing to sign the proclama- tion against the rebel Earl of Desmond, and in i 575 was reported by the Lord Deputy as having been " restrained." His integrity being suspected, he was committed a prisoner to the Tower of London in Dec. 1 58o.() He was released and sat in the Pari, of I585.(') On 7 May 1597, he received a crown rent of ;{[ioo a year, but the warrant was not executed. He m., in or before I582,() Mary, da. of Gerald (FitzGerald), Earl of Kildare [I.], by Mabel, sister to Anthony, ist Viscount Montagu, da. of Sir Anthony Browne. He d. " of an impostumacon," a prisoner at Dublin Castle, i, and was bur. 5 Oct. 1602, at Castleton Delvin. Will dat. 5 May 1602, pr. 4 July 1603, Prerog. Ct. [I.]. His widow, who was b. 13 Sep. 1556, d. I Oct. 1610, and was bur. with him. Will pr. 161 1. IV. 1602. 4. Richard (Nugent), Baron Delvin [I.], s. and h. On 4 Sep. 1621 he was cr. EARL OF WESTMEATH [I.]. He ^. 1641. ^ — > f^ 2 H R V. 1641. 5. Richard (Nugent), Earl of Westmeath and Baron Delvin [I.], grandson and h., being s. and h. of Christopher Nugent, styled Lord Delvin, who d. v.p. in 1625. He d. 1684. (*) He is by some said to have died 10 Dec. 1559, but it is shewn in Lett en and Papers [I.], 1509-73, p. 157, that he was dead on 8 Dec. 1559. ^.G. C') On 26 July 1580 he wrote from Naas to the Irish Chancellor protesting his loyalty. His " obstinate affection to Popery " is mentioned in a letter of Lord Deputy Grey, 22 Dec. 1580. He was under examination in 1582, matters being "very dark against him." V.G. (') In a letter to Burghley, 6 Sep. 1591, he mentions his favourite occupation, in the style of Whoi IVho, as being " books and building." V.G. (*) In this year interrogatories were being ministered to the Baroness Delvin while Lord Delvin was under examination. [State Papers [I.], 1574-85, p. 382). It would appear, therefore, that they were married earlier than 1584, the date given in the 1st edition of Complete Peerage, or else that Mary was a 2nd wife. V.G.
