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 BUTLER. 287 death of his father. At the age of seventeen he married the daughter of Lord Hyde, afterwards Earl of Rochester In 1684 he was present at the siege of Luxemburgh, which commenced on the 28th of April; and was terminated, by the sarrender of the town, on the 7th of June follow ing. The year following death deprived him of his lady. Shortly after which he was appointed lord of the bed- chamber; and served "in the tented field" against thie Duke of Mohmouth in the west. A treaty of marriage, which had formerly been entered upon, was now revived and happily concluded, betwéen him and Lady Mary So- merset, daughter to the Duke of Beaufort. On the 28th of Noveimber, 1688, he was élected a knight companion of the garter, and was installed on the bth of April following, in St. Gebrge's Chapel, Windsor, by the Düke of Grafton and the Earl of Rochester. About the same period he was elected chancellor of the university of Oxford, in the room of his grandfather, and was installed at his own house in St. Jamies's square. Oa the 17th of December, 1688, he attended King James to Salis- bury, near which place he had fixed the rendezvous of his army ; but, on the king's return, he joined the Prince of Orange at Sherbourne Castle, and entered Salisbury with him. From which city the Duke of Ormonde, with a party of the prince's troops, went to Oxford, and caused his declaration to be publicly read in that university. After King William and Queen Mary were proclaimed, and the privy council chosen, the Duke of Ormonde was made one of the lords of the bedchamber, and attended King William to Ireland. He was presenit at the battle of the Boyne; after which he was sent with nine troops of horse to preserve the tranquillity of Dublin. Thither he was fol- lowed by the king ;and, on his removing westward, was sent by his majesty from Carlow, with a party of horse, to take possession of Kilkeony, and to protect the inhabitants of the adjacent parts from the depredations of the enemy. Here he gave a splendid entertainment to his majesty, at