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 228 BA LTINGL ASS — B A LVAIBD. V. 1627. 1. Thomas Rofbr,(°) Knighted at Christchurch, Dublin, 16 Sep. 1603, a member of the Irish Privy Council and :i distinguished commander in that Kingdom during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. obtained, 10 Star. 1626, a {(rant of the monastery and Lordship of Baltinglass and was, on 27 June 1627, a: BARON OF BANTRY, eo. Cork, and VISCOUNT BALTIXGLASS, oo. Wicklow [I.] He hi. Ami, da. of Sir Henry HaRISGTOS, which Henry was br. of John, 1st Loud Harisuton of Exton. He d. 15 Feb. 1637, and was bur. the 20 at. St. Johns Dublin. VI. 1C37. 2. Thomas (Kopek), Viscount Hawing lahs, Ac. [I.], s. and h. He m., in 1637, Anne, da. of Sir Peter TEMPLE of Stowe, Bucks.. 2nd Bart., being the only child that survived infancy of his 1st wife, Aune,( d ) da. and coheir of Sir Arthur ThrocKHOBTON of Paulerspury, co. Northampton. After great losses by the Irish Rebellion " and much more by the English, as also by extensive law suits, he </. s.p. in 1086. His widow who was Imp. 20 Jan. 1619 at Stowe, Bucks., «/. in the Fleet prison, London, 13 Aug. 1696. Admon., 3 July 1702, to William Temple, Esq., " cousin once removed and next of kin." VII 1665, J. Cauv (Roper), Viscount Baltinglass and Baiion to of Bantuy [L], br. and h. He d. uum. and was bur. 1696 at Castle 1696. Lyons, co. Waterford, when his Peerage honours became extinct. i.e. " VISCOUNT BALTIXl ILASS " [I.], see " Tyrconnbix," Earl of [LI a: 1685, attainted 1691. U: '< BAEON OF BALT1XGLASS ■ [I.], er. 21 May 1763, see " AldbokoUuh," Viscount [I ], er, 1776, ex. 1875. 1ULVAIR1). Barons (S.] /. Sir Andrew Murray of Balvaivd, 2nd, but, event- T 1641 "f 1 "}". 1st s. and h. of David M. of Baigony and Kippo, by Agues, da of (— ) Moncueiffe of Moncreilfe, was Knighted 1633, had a charter of the lands of Pitlochie, 1636, was a Member of the Gen. Assembly at Glasgow in 1638, in which his conduct was so favourably represented to the King by the High Commissioner (Marquess of Hamilton), that he was cr. 17 Nov. 1641, LORD BALVAIRD [S.], with rem. to his " heirs male." On the death, March 1642, of his cousin Mungo (Murray), 2nd VlSCOCKT of Stoumont [S.], he sue. as heir of entail to the lands of that Lordship. He m. Elizabeth, da. of David (Carnegy), 1st Eahl of Southesk [S.], by Margaret, da of Sir David Llndsay of Edzell. He d, 24 Sep. 1614. ( c ) It is difficult to suppose that he belonged to the Derbyshire family of Roper of Heanor, whose arms {Set., an eagle, or) differ bo entirely from those of his Lordship— which were " Erm,, 2 chevronels, paly of six or and iju." — yet in the Heraldic Visitation of Derbyshire, in 1634 at the College of Arms (C. 33, pt. 1, p. 27), some ground is given for such (the generally received) conjecture. ( ,l ) Lands of the value of £700 a year, on either side, were settled on her m iiringe upon the issue thereof, by indenture, 22 June (1611), 12 James I. This was the subject of a long law suit, and of a Bill being preferred in Pari, being " The Case unci Narrative of the Sufferings of the Lord and Lady Baltiuglasse, &e," wherein it B stated that Sir Peter Temple, on his death bed in 1653, advised his eldest son (by another marriage) tmiB ; " Dick, your sister is poor and sickly, if you do but enter upuu her estate, the profits will maintain the suit ; you may boou weary her out, or if she dyes before the end of it, you are next heir." Lord B. also states that he is "in great extremity of want," having lost ±10,000 by the Irish Rebellion " and 16 years suit m Chancery," and that too " after at least £25,000 received out of the Lady Baltingliuffli: her estate, betwixt Sir Peter Temple and his son Si* Richard.'