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 274 CLARE. CLARE AND DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. (*) Lord Lieut, of Notts, 1094-1711. Ho entertained the King at Welbeek, Notts,( b ) for two days in Oct. 1695. El. KG. 30 May and inst. 7 July 1698 ; Lord Lieut, of the East Hiding, eo. York, l(i9S ; of the North Hiding, 1705-11 ; Keeper of Sherwood Forest, 1600-1711 ; I'.C, 1705 ; Loud TniVY Seal, 1705-11. Ch. Justice in Eyre, North of Trent, May to July 1711. Ho d. s.p.m. (two days after a fall from his horse) at Welbeek, 15 July 1711. when all his honours became extinct, and was bur. 9 Aug. following in Wcstm. Abbey, under a sumptuous monument. Will dat. 20 Aug. 1707 (directing his burial to be near his great grandfather, the Lord Vere of Tilbury), pr. 6 July 1715.( c ) His estates were valued at about £40,000 a year.('') His widow d. in London in her 65th year, 21 Dec. 1716, and was bur. with her ancestors 5 Janv. following, at Bolsover, co. Derby. Will pr. June 1717. Earldom. Tiiomas (Peuiam-IIolles), Baron Peluam of Lwrou- Y 1714- T0N > s ' * u - °^ Thomas, 1st Baiion Pelham op Lauohtos fso cr. 1706], by his 2nd wife, Grace, sister of John (Hollks), Marauessate DcKE 0F Newcastle, Marquess ok Clark, Earl ok Clare, and q ' Baron Haughton abovenamed, b, 1 July 1693, sue. to his Father's II. 1715, peerage in 1712, about which time, having inherited the estates of to the family of Holies on the death (1711) of his uncle, the Duke of 17G8 Newcastle abovenamed, he assumed the additional name of Holies, and was, 26 July 1714, cr. VISCOUNT HAUGHTON, co. Notting- ham, and EARL OF CLARE, with rem., failing his issue male, to his br. Henry Pelham in tail male ; on 11 Aug. 1715 he was cr. MAR- QUESS OF CLARE and DUKE OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, with a like spec, rem. On 17 Nov. 1756 he was cr. DUKE OF NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE with ( a ) "1694, April 26. A warrant lyes ready to paase for creating the Lord Shrews- bury, a Duke ; the Lord Carmarthen, Duke of Pontefract ; Lord Bedford, Duke of Bedford ; Lord Devonshire, Duke of Newcastle ; Lord Clare, Duke of Clarence, &c. See Luttrell's " Diary." This wholesale creation of Dukes took place accordingly, the titles selected being [1] Shrewsbury, by the Earl of Shrewsbury ; [2] Leeds (not Pontefract), by the Marquess of Carmarthen ; [3] Bedford, by the Earl of Bedford ; [4] Devonshire (not Newcastle, the title of a Dukedom, but 3 years previously extinct in the Cavendish family, the new grantee being heir male of the last Duke), by the Earl of Devonshire, and [5] Newcastle (not Clarence), by the Earl of Clare, whose wife was da. and coheir of the last Duke of Newcastle. It is worthy of note that, in the Bhort space of six years, William III created no less than nine Dukep, riz. : [1] Cumberland {Prince George of Denmark) ; [2] Bolton {Powlct', Marijueis of Winchester) ; [3] Scombergh (de Schombergh) ; [4] Gloucester (Prince William) ; [5] Shrewsbury (Talbot) ; [6] Leeds (Osborne) ; [7] Bedford (Russell) ; [8] Devonshire (Cavendish) ; and [9] Newcastle (Hoiks). ( b ) He appears to have chiefly resided there, leaving his paternal manaion at Haughton to become ruinous. His nephew, and successor as to the Holies estates, (Thomas, Duke of Newcastle) enlarged Clumber (which, previously, was 'hut a Lodge! and made it the family house. See an interesting account of " Haughton " in ' The Topographer," 1789, Vol. i, p. 142-154. ( c ) In " Macky's and Burnet's characters," with Dean Swift's remarks thereon in italics, it is said of him that " he is a black, ruddy complexioned man, near 60 years old. He hath the best eBtatein England, and employe most of his time in improving it ; is very covetous, yet makes a great figure in Yorkshire, is firm for the constitution of his country, and hath only one da. who will be the richest heiress in Europe, now Countess of Oxford, cheated by her Father." [See, as to this, Note " d," infra.] ( d ) The_ estates of the Cavendish family, with lands of about £5,000 a year in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland, he devised to his only da. who, as heir- at-law, had lands, worth £100,000, purchased since his will, besides £20,000 her portion under his mar. settl. This Lady m. Edward (Harley), 2nd Earl of Oxford, whose da. and h. m. William (Bentinck), 2nd Duke of Portland, conveying Welbeek Abbey and the other estates to the family of Bentinck. The estates of the Holies family were devised by the Duke, in 1707, to his nephew, Thomas I'elham, cr. Earl of Clare, &c, and finally Dr.ke of Newcastle.