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 WARRINGTON. 51 ■iroDgly opposed to the RoyRl Prerog. ; ittc to ike peerage^ ai above, od the death of hie father, 8 Aug. 1684. He had in 1688, been impriioned for a short time on ea»picion of eompiidty in the Rje Hnnee plot, and wm in Not. 1686 accaied, but aoqiiitterl of high treason as having sided the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion.(*) In 1688 he was one of most sottve of those " in arms'*(^) to sssist the Prince of Orance, and was one of the three deputed to James II., to request his removal from LfOndon;(") P.O., 1689 ; U-Lieut of Cheshire, 1689 ; Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, 1689'90, being on his retirement, (<l) 17 April 1690, cr. EARL OF WARRINGTON, oo. Lancaster ; Mayor of Chester, 1691. He m. 7 Julj 1670 (Lio. Fac), Mary, da. and h. of Sir James LAWaHAir, 8d Bart, of Cottesbrooke, oo. Northampton, by his first wife, Mary, da. and ooheir of Sir Edward Alston. She d. 23 March 1690, and was hur, at Bowdon, oo. Chester, aged 87. He d in London 2 and was bur, 16 Jan. 1693/4,(«) at Bowdon, aged 42. Admon. 1 March 1698/4 ; admon. revoked and will pr. July 1698. II. 1 694, 2. Okorgb (Booth), Earl of Wabbington [16901, and to Baroit Dblamrb of Dunham Massbt [1661], also a Baronet [1611] ; 1768. 2d bnt 1st surT. s. snd h.,(0 6. 2 May 1675, at Merehsll, co. Chester; 9lyUd Lord DsLAinn from 1690 till he me. to ik» peerage^ ss aboTo, 2 Jan. 1693/4 ; Ij.-Lieut of Cheshire (tho* a minor) 1694. He m. 9 April 1702,(«) at St QUee' in the adds, Mary ("a fortune of £40,000 ") da. and coheir of John Oldbubt April 1740. Hed bDBUBT, of London, Merchant (^) She d at Dunham Maassr, 8 . there ap.m.,(*) 2 August 1758, in his 84th year,(k) and was mir. (•) See full aooount thereof in '* State Trials," and in Luttrell's '< />iafy." Q») See Tol. i, p. 28, note " b," iub " Abingdon " for a list of these. («} These were the Marquess of Halifax, the Earl of Shrewsbuiy and Lord Delamer, of whom James II. afterwards remarked, that Deiamer "had treated him with much more regard than the other two Lords, to whom he had been kind and from whom he might better have expected it '* v') This was owing to his quarrels with the E!arl of Monmouth, the head of his department, whu, as well as himself, was soon superseded by the ever active Qoldol- phin, who was junior to both. His past services were sccordingly rewarded with an Earldom and " a grant of all lands belonging to the Jesuits in 5 or 6 oounties." This was a Tsry appropriate gift to one who was almost a Puritan in his religion. A contemporary satire thus dsscribes him — "His boding looks a mind diitraoted show, And envy sits engraved upon his brow.** Mscaulay states that " Delamere was gloomy and acrimonious, austere in his private morals and punctual in his devotions, but greedy of ignoble gsin.*' This last charge, however, seems founded on a mistake (see ** Nat, Biogr, ) He was the author of several political tracts, speeches, prayers, &a, as also of a vindication of (his friend) William, Lord lluasell. His portrait "after Sir Q. Kneller, 1689," is engraved in " Doyle," (e) Evelyn remarks (" Diary," 21 Jan. 1698/4) that *< Lord Macclesfield, Lord War- rington snd Lord Westmorlsnd all died within about one week.*' (') His elder br. James d. an infant and was bwr, in London. (S) He appears to have had previous essays at marriage. Luttrell {Diarp) writes, 18 July 1697, that he ie married to a da. of the Lord Crew, and sgain 12 Oct 1699 that " a marriage is agreed upon between the Earl of Warrington and Madam Offley, of Crew Hall, with whom he is to have £20,000." (^) It is probable that the mar. lie (Vic. Qen.), 9 June 1688, os under, relates to her parents, vis., " John Oldtury, of St Dustan*s in the East, London, Merchant, about 88, Bachr., and Mrs. Mary Boone, of new Fish street, about 26, Spinster. (0 Mary, his only da. and h., m. May 1736, Harry (Grey), 4th Earl of Stamford, and inherited the Warrington estates. Her son, the 5th Earl was er. in 1796, Earl of Warrington. {}) Macky, in his " Characters" says of him [1706 T] when psst 80, " Thia gentleman makes no great figure in his country, Pari, or person." Mrs. Brsdshaw (in the " Si^olk Letters ") writes of him in 1722 as " the stiffest of all stiff' things,** snd of his wife as "a limber dirty fool." His experience of an unhappy married life induced him to publish in 1789 a treatise on the desirability of divorce, for incom- patibility of temper. ^