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 FORBES. 158 litia foot, of the province of Ulster, two troops of dragoons, and six field-pieces, and encamping at Drumcliefe, about three miles from Sligo, sent an account to the Earl of Granard, who on the 18th September, 1691, joined the colonel with the forces under his command before Sligo, when his lordship caused batteries to be raised, and insi nuated to the enemy such flaming accounts of his artil lery, that they surrendered that strong fort on the 15th instant, six hundred men marching out under Sir Teige O'Ragan, and leaving sixteen pieces of cannon behind them; and Colonel Michelburne was made governor. October 20, 1692, he took his seat in parliament, and dying in or about the year 1695, was buried at the church of Castle Forbes, which edifice he erected. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert New comen, of Moss-town, in the county of Longford, Bart. widow of Sir Alexander Stewart, and by her (who died in Dublin, 8th December, 1714, and lies buried with him) had issue, five sons and one daughter. SIR GEORGE FORBES, Third Earl of GRANARD, was grandson to the above, and having entered very early in life into the navy, was, on the 16th July, 1706, promoted to the command of the Lyren, a small ship of war, when, in 1708, he was promoted to the Sunderland, a fourth rate of sixty guns; and in 1713, removed to the Greenwich, of the same rate. He served in the British parliament for Queenbo rough in Kent; and 27th of February, 1725, being sum moned by writ to the House of Peers in this kingdom, by the title of Lord Forbes, took his seat the 7th of Septem ber following. On 25th November, 1729, he was ap pointed captain-general and commander-in-chief in and over the British Leeward Caribbee islands in America, with full power not only to appoint a court of judicature, and nominate persons in the several provinces to administer the oaths, and to pardon or condemn any pirates or other