462 DRAYCOTE 25 Edw. I, by writs directed Ricardo de Draycote.(^) Sheriff" of co. Lincoln, 1298-99. He m. Lettice, da. and h. of Robert de Bek, of Tean and Hopton, co. Stafford, by Orabel, his wife.C") She d. before Oct. i292.() He was living in May I324.(^) DRAYTON See "Sackville of Drayton, co. Northampton," Viscountcy {Sackville- Germai»), cr. 1782; extinct 1843. DROGHEDA VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. Gerald, or Garret, Moore, ist surv. s. and h. of Sir Edward M.,(*) of Mellefont, co. Louth L 1622. {d. 1602), by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, widow of Capt. Humphrey Warren {d. 13 Nov. 1561), and before that of Capt. Christopher Blount, and before that of Sir William Brabazon {d. 9 July 1552), da. and coh. of Nicholas Clifford, of Chart, KentjQ was b. circa 1564. He distinguished himself in the Irish wars against the Earl of Tyrone in 1599, and was knighted by the Earl of Essex 6 Sep. 1599; Constable of Philipstown Castle (on his father's death), 1602; Seneschal of co. Cavan, 1603; P.C. [I.] Oct. 1604; M.P. for Dun- gannon, 1613; Pres. of Munster, 161 5. He was cr., 20 July 161 6, BARON MOORE OF MELLEFONT,(8) co. Louth [I.], and on 7 Feb. 1 62 1/2, was cr. VISCOUNT MOORE OF DROGHEDA [I.].(s) He »;., about 1590, Mary, da. of Sir Henry Colley, of Castle Carbery, co. Kildare, by Catherine, da. of Sir Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor [I.]. He d. at Drogheda, 9 Nov. 1627, and was bur. in St. Peter's Church there. Will pr. 1628 in Prerog. Ct. [I.]. His widow m., before 28 Apr. 1630, as 2nd wife, Charles (Wilmot), ist Viscount Wilmot of Athlone [I.]. She d. 3 June 1654, and was bur. with her ist husband at Drogheda. (•) As to the writ of 1296/7, see Preface in vol. i. (•») Robert, s. and h. of Lettice by this marriage, assumed the name of Bek, and was ancestor of a family of that name, of Tean and Hopton. [De Banco, Mich., 20- 21 Edw. I, mm. 52, 115, 1 15 d, 197 d; Mich., 21-22 Edw. I, m. 228 d; Mich., 23- 24 Edw. I, w. 112; Trinity, 22 Edw. Ill, m. 138: Assize Roll, no. 804, mm. 5 d, 16). (•=) De Banco, Mich., 20-2 1 Edw. I, m. 115 d. (^) Pari. Writs, vol. ii, part ii, p. 647. («) He was P.C. [I.] Sep. 1589, and had a lease of Mellefont Abbey 20 June 1566. Sir Garret Moore was, by patent 4 June 1611, granted Mellefont Abbey and all the rest of his estates, previously held by lease, to hold for ever as of the Castle of Dublin in common socage. V.G. Q G. D. Burtchaell is of opinion that the account of Gerald Moore's parent- age as here given is correct, and that the views he expressed in The Family of Moore are mistaken. V.G. («) The preamble to the patent is given in Lodge, vol. ii, pp. 96-97.
