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 160 SLA NR. royal warrant, 30 Oct. 1629 (afterwords acquiesced in by the House of Lords), was declared, for himself and the heirs male of his body, " LORD BARON OF SLANE" [I.], during the lifetime of his eldest brother, Thomas, abovenamed.(') He was accordingly sum. by writ to the House of Lords [1.], and took his seat It July 161)4, being placed in the precedent:} of the old Barony. (h) He m. Anne, widow of Christopher NrGKNT, stolid Lord Delvis (s. and h. ap. of the 1st Karl of Westmeath [I.]), 1st da. of Randal (Macdonkll), 1st Karl ok Antrim [I.], by Alice ON kill, bis wife. He d. before his eldest br., the late Lord, in 1641, being in 1642 (i.e. after his death) outlawed, tho' said ( c ) to have been, Subsequently, declared innocent. XV. 1641, 15. Ciiaiu.es (Fleming), Baron Slaxe [I.], ». atidh., who, by the death, at some date after 1642, of his uncle, Thomas, the penultimate Baron, became the right hereditary heir to the family honours. He long maintained the King's cause in Ireland, and he anil his uterine br., the Earl of Westmeath, were the last Royalist! in .inns in that Kingdom. By Cromwell's Act of Settlement [I.], he was in 1652, excepted from pardon for life or estate. He afterwards entered into the French service, in which he lost his life, being slain in Italy in 1661. He d. num. XVI. 1661. 16. Randall (Fleming), Baron Slane [L], br. and h., was restored by the Court of Claims to the possessions of his family in 1661. He m. firstly before 1664 (<Jjr. 5 Sep. 166:1 t Eleanor, da. of Sir Richard BaRNKWALL, 2d Bart. [I.]. of Crickstown, by Julia, da. of Sir Gerard AvLMKR, 1st Bart. [I.] She d. B.p.m, about 1665 and was bur. at Slane- M.I. He m. secondly before 1667 Penelope, da. of Henry (MoORE), 1st Karl 09 DrooHEDa [1.], by Alice, da. of William (SpexcehI, Baron Spencer OF Worm LK1OHT0N, He d. in France, 22 Oct. 1676. Will dat. 18 Feb. 1674. Jm/. p. mortem held 1C76 at Navau. XVII. 1676, 17. Christopher (Fi.emi.vo), Baron Slake [I.J, c. to and h. by 2d wife, was seven years old in 1676. He sat in tlie 16-11. Pari, of James II. in 1689 and entertained him at Slane Castle, tbe night before the battle of the Boyne, 1 July 1690, being then Col. of a Keg. of Infantry containing 650 men. He was taken prisoner, VI July 1691, at the battle of AughriinC 1 ) but contrived to escape to France. He was consequently outlawed and attaiuttd, lti April 1691, whereby the pet rotjf, as well as the ancient family estate was /orbited. His attainder was confirmed by an act of Pari. [I.], 7 Dec. 1695, wherein he is styled "late I.oid llarou of Slant" and the estate was sold under an Act, II and 12 Will. III. Queen Anne, however, in con- sideration of his services in her army abroad, granted him, 7 April 1707, an annual pension of £500. In 170S his outlawry ami attainder was reversed by the KngtU Pari., but such reversal was, apparently, never confirmed in the Irish Parl(*) (») The extraordinary measure of passing over an incompetent heir of an Irish peerage in favour of his younger brother, occurs also in the case of the Viscountcy of Barrymore in 1581, and of the Barony of Athenry in 1641. ( b ) He was placed, according to Mr. Bryan's claim, "as a new Peer, between Lords Howth and Dunsany." Now, altho, his more proper ranking would appear to lure been immediately before, instead of after. Lord Howth, yet, with this trivial exception (il it be one) the Barony was in its right place, preceding all the Baronies a: by Ed. IV., Hen. VIII, KHz., and the numerous creations of the Stuart Kings. The list of this Pari, given in "Lynch'' (p. 355), places the Barons thus; vi:., (1) Birmingham ; (2) Courcy ; (:3) Kerry ; (4) Howth ; (5) Dunsany; followed by (no less than) 34 others. It is there added " that on the subsequent days the Baron of Slane and other Lords came in and took their seats " so that Slane would have hail the 5th place out of 39 Baronies, even if placed after (instead of before) the Barony of Howth. (<=) Strafford's " State Letters." ( d ) See vol. i, p. 311, note "b," mi " Bel lew," as to these prisoners. (o) On the reversal of his attainder the Irish House of CommoiiB unanimously addressed Queen Anne setting forth the fatal consequences of reversing the out- lawries of "persons attainted of treason for the rebellious in 1611 and 10SS."