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 BOYLE 191 however, fortunately enabled to satisfy their demands, and in order to secure his property, returned to Ireland, where he lived in a retired manuer upon his own estates, which were considerably eneumbered in consequence of his late exertions in favour of Charles I. and the heavy composi- tion he had just been compelled to pay. During his residence in Ireland, which continued unti the restoration of Charles II. his generous disposition exerted itself in relieving those who had suffered from their attachment to the late king. He also endeavoured to support his establishment in the same state and magnif cence in which his father had lived, in consequence of which he was at length so much embarrassed, that his countess was reduced to the necessity of applying to the Protector for relief, which was liberally granted through the intercession of his brother, the Lord Broghill. No sooner had he received this assistance, than be applied a considerable portion of it to relieve the wants of Charles IL. then in exile; a circumstance, which certainly, how- ever it may evince his loyalty, does not tend to set his gratitude in the most favourable light. He also con- stantly laboured, as much as his property and interest would allow, to procure the restoration of that prince to the throne of his fathers; in consequence of which, in the sixteenth year of his reign, that monarch created him by letters patent, Earl of Burlington, or Bridlington, in the county of York. He also possessed the oflice of lord high trea- surer of Ireland, which had been rendered, through the interest of his father when in that situation, hereditary in the family. TML kl He On June 3, 1665, his second son, Richard, then a volun- teer on board the fleet commanded by his royal highness the Duke of York, was killed by a cannon-shot in the en- gagement off Solebay.. This melancholy accident afforded his majesty another opportunity of testifying his affection for his lordship, by appointing him, in 16066, lord lieu» tenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of the eity