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 356 CORK. Temple, London (being Clerk to Ch. Baron Mauwood), but on 23 June 1588, emigrated to Ireland (with but £27), became, in 1590, Sub-Escheator to the Eacheator Gen., " a situation which he doubtless knew how to utilize to his special porsonal advantage. "(°) He was, indeed, accused of various charges of embezzlement, &c, and several times apprehended, and was, when he had returned to England after the rebellion iu Minister, imprisoned iu the Gatehouse for 2 months, but acquitted, to the discredit of his accusers,^) and made Clerk of the Council of Munster, 8 May 1600, making, through the mediation of Cecil, purchase of all the lauds of Sir Walter Raleigh iu Irelaud, 7 Dec. 1602 (some 12,000 acres in the counties of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary for the small sum of £15,000), and obtaining ratification thereof from the Crown, 10 May 1604, and again 5 March 1606. He was knighted (on the day of his 2nd marriage) 25 July 1603, at St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, by the Lord Dep. Carew ; P.C. for Munster, 12 March 1606 ; P.C. [I.], IS Feb. 1613 ; Gov. of Loughfoyle, for life, 1614. On 6 May 1616 he was cr. LOUD BOYLE, BARON OF YOUGHAL, co. Cork, and, on 26 Oct. 1620, VISCOUNT DUNGARVAN, co. Waterford, and EARL OF THE COUNTY OF C0RKE(°J [I.] Ou 26 Oct. 1629 he was made one of the Lords Justices [I.], and on » Nov. 1631, Lord High Treasurer [I.], holding office till July 1633, at which date Lord Wentworth (afterwards Earl of Strafford) was Viceroy, to whose measures he was mostly opposed, and by whose judgments against him he " was pre- judiced in no less than £40,000." Ou 14 July 1634 he first took his seat in the House of Lords. In the rebellion of 1641 he raised two troops of Horse, fortifying his Castle of Lismore, and, at the battle of Lisearroll, 2 Sep. 1642, no less than 4 of his sons( f ) were engaged, one of them Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky [I.] (who had been so cr. in his father's lifetime), being therein slain. He in. firstly, 6 Nov. 1505, at Limerick, Joan, da. and coheir of Capt. William Al'SLEY, of Limerick (5th s. of Nicholas A. of Pul- borough, Sussex), by Annabella, da. of John Browne, of Awney, co. Limerick. She d. B.p.s. at Moyallow, 14 Dec. 1599, and was bur. in the church of Buttevant, co. Cork. He m. secondly, 25 July 1603, at Dublin, Catharine, da. of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Prin. Sec. of State ft.], by Alice (widow of Hugh Brady, Bishop of Meath"), da. of Robert Weston, LL.D., Lord High Chancellor [I.], Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and (1570-73) Dean of Wells. She (by whom he had 7 sons and 8 daughters) d. in Dublin 16 and was bur. 17 Feb. 1629/30, in St. Patrick's Cathedral there, where a " very fair monu- ment "(B) was erected to her. He d. at Youghal 15 Sep. 1043, and was bur. in St. (°) The Editor is indebted for a good account of the numerous Peers iu the Boyle family (as also of those in several other noble families connected therewith) to the late Mr. Edmund Montagu Boyle (grandson of the 8th Earl of Cork), whose premature death at the age of 40, 11 Aug. 1SS5, deprived the world of a com- petent and ever most courteous genealogist. From his executors by his request, the Editor received two large MS. vols., containing (.'is far as practicable) the names of the ancestors in the "seize f/uartier" of all the Peers existing in 1884, compiled by Mr. Boyle with great care. Of this valuable MS. free use is made in this work. ( b ) John Boyle, the 1st son, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1618, d. at Cork 10 July 1620. (°) See an able article on him by " T. F. Henderson " in Stephen's " Nat. Biography." (d) The following extracts from "Pym's MSS." (printed in Ap. vi, p. 84, of the 16th Report of the "Hilt. MSS. Com.") shews the bitterness of many towards him, and as, since his marriage in 1595 he enjoyed an estate of £500 a year, it could not have, truly, applied to him at all events since that period, even if it did so previously. " The Lord Boyle made a Baron [1616] who they say not above 16 years afore, being a poore fellowe and in prison at Monster in Ireland, borrowed 6d., and now hath a great estate £12,000 yeerly of Irish Land." (°) The preamble of creation of the the Barony is given in " Lodge," Vol. i, p. 156. The title of the Earldom was spelt Corkc till the time of the 8th Earl, who first adopted the modern spelling of Cork Ex inform. — E. M. Boyle. See ante, note " a." ( f ) As to his sons, four of whom became Peers, see vol. i, p. 400, note " a." (s) This tomb was actually " fixed in the place where the high altar anciently stood directly facing the door of the choir, for the erecting of which, in that place, his Lordship was [not unnaturally] called in question by the Lord Di-p. Wentworth." It was removed to the south side of the altar. The action of the Lord Deputy, " tho' not unjustifiable, was sufficiently indicative of his sentiments" towards the Earl.