Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 261
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troop of horse, which he continued to
maintain for eight years at a great ex-
pense, and finally joined with the Mar-
quis of Ormond against Cromwell, for
which his estates were seized, and con-
tinued under sequestration for six years
and a half, until at length he was in-
cluded amongst the Protestants with
whom the Protector capitulated for their
return and re-admission to their estates,
by paying an additional fine.
King Charles the First, in considera-
tion of his services and sufferings in the
royal cause, created him, by patent,
dated at Oxford 4th March 1644, Earl
of Clanbrassil in co. Armagh.
He married, in November 1635,
Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Henry
Cary, second Earl of Monmouth, by
whom he had issue :
1. James, Viscount Claneboye, who
predeceased his father.
2. Hon. Henry, who succeeded his
father.
3. Hon. Hans, who died without
issue.
1. Lady Jane, who died young.
The Earl of Clanbrassil died 20th
June 1659, and was buried in his father's
tomb at Bangor.
III. James, Viscount Claneboye, who,
as already mentioned, pre-deceased his
father on the 8th May 1658, at the earlv eaiil
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age of sixteen years, and was buried in _
the church of Rickmansworth in Hert-
fordshire, where a monument was erect-
ed to his memory.
III. Henry, second Earl of Clan- Arduiai).
brassil, was 12 years of age when his
father died, and was educated at Christ
Church, Oxford, where he took the de-
gree of A.M. in 1663. King Charles
the Second made him one of his privy
council.
He married Lady Alice Moore,
daughter of Henry, Earl of Drogheda,
(who afterwards married, in 1676, John,
Lord Bargeny), by whom he had no
issue ; and dying on the 12th January
1675, was buried in Christ Church,
Dublin.
The titles * became extinct at his death ;
but, as the title of Earl of Clanbrassil
was afterwards conferred upon James,
Viscount Limerick, descended from
another branch of this family, we shall
now proceed to trace his pedigree.
I. John Hamilton of Tullimore,
fourth son of Hans Hamilton, vicar of
Dunlop, Member of Parliament for
Killileagh in 1613, had issue four sohb
and five daughters :
1. James, his heir.
Ibid.
* There appears to have been, besides the title of Viscount Claneboye, also that of Baron Duf-
ferin of Claneboye. This title was conferred, in July 1800, on Sir James Blackwood, Bart., of
Ballyliedy, co. Down, son of Sir John Blackwood of Ballyliedy, and Dorcas, Baroness of Dufferin
and Claneboye, in her own right, eldest daughter and heiress of James Stevenson of Tilly leagh,
Esq., only son of Hans Stevenson, Esq., by Anne Hamilton, second daughter, and at length sole
heiress of James Hamilton of Neilsbrook, Esq., eldest son of Archibald Hamilton of Halcraig, next
brother of Sir James Hamilton, first Viscount Claneboye. — Dehrett's Peerage, vol. ii. p. 1274.
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