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 CLANCY. 469 (we trust) will put us in a condition to contribute more to your service than our prayers. If your majesty shall think fit to advance this gentleman to an earldom, I con- ceive that of Dunnegall, a county in the province of Ulster, wherein he should have a good inheritance, is fittest, which I hombly offer to your majesty's considera- tion, as a part of the daty of Your majesty's, &c. ORMOND." In consequence of this representation, he was created in 1646, Earl of Donegal; and in the following year he was one of the four hostages sent by the Marquis of Ormond to the English parliament, as surety for his per- formance of the articles between them, for the surrender of Dublin, and the other garrisons, to their commissioners. Soon after the Restoration he was appointed custos rotu- lorum of the counties of Antrim and Donegal, and also restored to the government of Carrickfergus. In 1668, he founded a lectureship on mathematics in the university of Dublin. He died at Belfast, on the 18th March, 1674, 0 and was buried at Carriekfergus. MICHAEL CLANCY, M. D. THis gentleman was the son of a military man, of an ancient and once powerful family in the county of Clare; and appears to have been born towards the latter end of the seventeenth, or the commencement of the eighteenth century. When he had attained his eighth year he was placed at one of the first colleges in France, where he remained until the famous James, Duke of Ormonde, fled from England and went to St. Germains.On that occa- sion, he, with two of his companions, seizing an oppor- tunity, quitted the college, for the purpose of seeing an individual who had rendered himself celebrated all over Earope; which having accomplished, he was, either through fear or shame, deterred from returning to his pre