DUNSANY 553 Barnewall, of Crickstown, by Catherine, da. of Christopher (Fleming), Lord Slane [I.]. He d. between 29 May 1564 and 28 Aug. 1565. His widow m. O'Reilly. (*) VII. 1564 7. Patrick (Plunkett), Lord Dunsany [I.], s. and or h., whose wardship, being a minor, was granted, i July 1565. 1565, to Sir Christopher Barnewall. He was a person of great learning, and was one of the Masters of the Guild of the Virgin Mary of Killeen. During the rebellion of the Earl of Desmond, 1574-82, he appears to have been disaffected to the English Government. He sat in the Pari. [I.] of 1585 and received from the Queen a grant of 20 horsemen and other privileges. He was app. Gov. of the Barony of Kells, co. Meath, in 1599 by the Earl of Essex. He took an active part against the Irish rebels in 1600. He ;;/. Mary, iith and yst. da. of his abovenamed guardian. Sir Christopher Barnewall, of Turvey, by Marion, da. of Lawrence Sherle, of Shallon, co. Meath. He d. 17 Mar. 1601/2. Inq.p. m. at Drogheda 23 July 1604. C") VIII. 1602. 8. Christopher (Plunkett), Lord Dunsany [I.], only s. and h.() He wz., before 1595, Maud or Madeline, da. of Henry Babington, of Dethick, co. Derby, by his ist wife, Frances, da. of Sir John Markham. He d. 15, and was bur. 20 Dec. 1603, at Dunsany. () His widow d. 19 Mar. 1609, having been murdered.^) IX. 1603. 9. Patrick (Plunkett), Lord Dunsany [I.], s. and h., aged 8 years and 9 months at his father's death. He sat in the Pari. [I.] of 1634 and 1639. ^^ d°^^ '^o'^ appear to have taken any part in the Rom. Cath. Irish rebellion of 1641-43, and warmly protested his loyalty. He surrendered to Ormond in Mar. 1 641/2, and (*) "The great O'Reilly married my mother." (Patrick, Lord Dunsany, to Sir Robert Cecil, [Nov.] 1600). V.G. (*>) "Among those employed {circa 1600] to murder O'Neill [the celebrated Earl of Tyrone] in cold blood, were Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Lord Dunsany, and Henry Oge O'Neill, but they all failed." (MacCarthy's Life of Florence Mac Carthy). (■=) His father writes to Lord Burghley, 2 July 1592, about "the controversy into which my ungracious son brought me, who lies in the King's Bench for /^lOO debts and is ever like to do as he has done this half year except he be released and relieved by me." [State Papers [/.], 1588-92, p. 528). V.G. ("*) The proclamation of the accession of James I at Dublin in 1603 was subscribed by the following Rom. Cath. Peers of Ireland : (i) the Earl of Tyrone, (2) the Viscount Gormanston, and the Barons of (3) Killeen, (4) Trimleston, (5) Slane and (6) Dunsany. See Meehan's Earl of Tyrone, Jifc. (1868), p. 11, note. (') " A female servant was burnt for this crime, but not long afterwards a person, at execution, confessed himself guilty thereof." [Lodge, vol. vi, p. 206). 70
