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 CORK. 357 Mary's Abbey there. M.I.(>>) Will flat. 24 Nov. 1642 (in which are several interesting bequests), pr. in Dublin.(') III. 1643. :?. Richard (Boyle), Earl of Corke, Viscount"! DlTNOARVAN, VlSCOUNT BOYLE OF KlNALMEAKY, LORD BOYLE, Baron ok Youghal and Baron op Bandon Bridge, 2nd but 1st surv. 3 and h.,( k ) b. 20 Oct. 1612 at Youghall. By the death s.p. on 2 Sep. 1642 of his br. Lewis. Viscount Boyle ok Kinalmeaky, and Baron ok Bandon Bridoe, co. Cork [I.], who had been so cr. 28 Feb. 1627/8 with a spec. rem. failing the heirs male of ln's body, to those of his father, &c. (see under that title, vol. i, p. 404) he may possibly have sue. to those dignities, though at that date (1642) he was only heir apparent of his father ; anyhow on his father's death in the next year (1643) he sue. thereto, as also to his father's titles. Having m. Elizabeth, mo jure Baroness Ci.ikkord [162S], he was ou 4 Nov. 1644 a: BARUN I "b CLIFFORD OF LAXESBOROUGH, co. York, and on 20 March 1664 cr. 8 EARL OF BURLINGTON, alias Bridlington, co. York. He d. 13 Jan. 16f>7/3. [Charles Boyle, dylcd "Viscount Dungarvan, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., was v.p. sum. to the House of Lords [I.] 20 Feb. 1662/3 as Viscodnt Dungarvan and to the House of Lords [E.] 16 July 16SH as Lord ClifkorD ok Lanesdorough.(') He d. v.p. 12 Oct. 16U4.] IV. 1698. S. Charles (Boyle), Earl of Burlington, &c. [E.], also Earl of Corke, Sea. [I.], grandson and h„ being s. and h. of Charles Boyle styled Viscount Dungarvan aboveuamed. He d. 9 Feb. 1703/4. V. 1704. 4. Richard (Boyle) Earl of Burlington, &c. [E.], also Earl of Corke, &c. [I.], only s. and h. He d. s.p.m. 3 Dec. 1753, when the Earldom of Burlinytnn and the Barony of Clifford and Lanesborouyk (English Peerages by Patent) became extinct, the Barony of Clifford (1628) and the large estates of the Clifford and Boyle families devolving 011 his da. and h., but the Earldom of Corke, Sec. [I.] devolving as under. j VI. 1753. .J. John (Boyle), Earl of Corke, Earl of Orrery, Viscount Dungarvan, Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky, Lord Boyle, Baron of Youqhall, Baron ok Bandon Bridge, and Baron Boyle of Brogiiill [I.], also Baron Boyle of Marston [G.B.] cousin and h. ruale,( m ) being s. ( h ) The most interesting account of "the great Earl of Cork" (as he is usually styled) down to the year 1632 is, by himself, in his '' True Remembrances," printed in Birch's edition of the works of (his son) Robert Boyle, the Philosopher. " One of the chief causes of his success was the introduction of manufactures and mechauical arts by settlers from England. From his ironworks alone, according to Boate, he made a clear gain of £100,000." Sir Richard Cox, in his " Ireland," says of him that he " was one of the most, extraordinary persons, either that or any other age has produced, with respect to the great and just acquisition of estate that he made, and the public works that he began and finished, for the advancement of the English interest and the protestant religion in Ireland, as charities, almshouses, free schools, bridges, castle and towns, vis., Lismore, Tallaghe, Cloghnikilty, Tunyskeen, Castleton and Bandon, which last place cost him £14,000." (') A copious extract therefrom is in " Lodge," vol. i, p. 152. ( k ) His eldest br., Roger Boyle, b. at Youghall 1 Aug. 1606, d. at School at Deptford, Kent, 10 Oct. 1615, before his father's elevation to the peerage, and was bur. there. M.I. (') See Vol. i, p. 81, note "a," as to this probably unique instance of an eldest son being sum. v.p., both to the English and Irish House of Lords in one of his father's peerages in each Kingdom. ( m ) As to the smallness of the estates which he thus inherited, see Vol. i, p. 82,note "a," under "Burlington."