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452 James II. iii Ireland, mid, accordingly, tho' he did not sit iii that King's pari. [I,] iu 1089, was made prisoner 2S Sep. 1090 at the surrender of Cork and taken to London. He Bt., 1054, Dorothy, 1st da. of Arthur (Annesi.ey), 1st Bawl ok Anglesey, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir oi Sir James AI.THAM. She was bur. in Waterford Cathedral. He d. in the Tower of London, 14 Oct. and was bur. 3 Nov. 1090, at Farnboruugb, Hants, with his wife's father. Y. 1690. 2. Jonx (Power), Eari, or Tyrone, &c. [I.], 2>1 tot 1st surv. .«. and h. ; b. about 1005 ; styled Viscount Decies, from 1073, till he sue. to the peerage [I.] as above, 11 Out. 1090. obtaining, on his petition in 109-!, a reversal of the outlawry pronounced against hiui by King James's Pari. [I.] in 1GS9.(") lu early childhood he was m. (thro' the influence" of his father, to whom the Bride was a ward) 9 May 1070.^, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Chapel, to his first cousin. Katharine (heiress of the vast territory called '' the Decies "), da. and b. of Sir John FITZGERALD, t>f Droniaua, co. Waterford, by his first wife. Katharine, da. of John (Poweii), 4th Baton Le Tower and Coroghuiore[I.]. Against this marriage, however, the Lady protested, 10 May 1075, as having been forced upon her, and obtained the dissolution thereof before Easter eve 1676/7(«) lie d. s.p. iu Dublin 14 Oct. 1093, iu his 09th year, and was bur, in the (Protestant) church of Carrick-ouSuir.('>) M.I. (*) Luttrell'a " Diary, " Nov. 1092. D' Alton, in his - Irish army list" (edit. 1S55. p. 501) states that the jirst Karl (the Colonel) obtained a pardon under the great seal 22 April 1097 [sir], but there must be some error iu that date, unless, indeed, it relates to the third Karl haviug obtained it for his deceased father. ( b ) This is the date (tho' that of 20 May 1073 is generally assigned to it) given by the Earl's father, iu answer to a bill tiled against him in Chancery [I.] 26 May 1070. by Kdward Villiers and the said Catharine bis wife, whose "marriage " dc fatto scd non dc jure " the Earl acknowledges, stating, however, that she was laicfuth/ married, when about 12, to his eldest son, then " Esq.," but now " Viscount Decies," then about 7 or 8 years old. See " A', mid Q." 4th S., vii, 105. (c) At that date she m. the Hon. Edward Fitzgerald, otherwise Villiers, s. and h. ap. of George (Villiers), 4th Viscount Grandisou of Limerick [I. He d. v.p. 1093. but she had, in 1700, a royal warrant of precedency 11s Viscountess (see that dignity) and was ancestress of Baron Stuart de Decies of DrOnwua ; so cr. 1839. C 1 ) This is the Earl of Tyrone, who was made posthumously famous bv the well known Ghost story, of which the following is a brief abstract. Having "long been intimate with a Miss Hamilton (Nichola Sophia. 2d da. and coheir of Hugh. Baron Glenawly [I.], b. 23 Feb. 1000) they, in discussing their religious doubts, promised that whoever died first should appear to the eurviver to point out to him or her the true religion. The lady, who had m. Sir Tristram Beresford. Hart., was startled one night by the appearance of the Earl, who informed her of his death (14 Oct. 1093). and added that ''the revealed religion is the only one by which we can be saved," predicting (at the same time) her re-marriage, the number of her children, kc. and her death iu child-birth at the age of 47. The lady, being incredulous as the reality of the vision, peimitted him, after other essays to convince her, to touch her wrist, tho' warned that it would irreparably injure it. This was the case, aud " For evermore that lady wore a riband on her wrist." Her age at her death, 23 Feb. 1713 on her birthday of 47, which, from a mistake as to the year of her birth, she had thought she had exceeded, was as predicted. Her son Marcus Beresford was, in 1720, cr. Viscount, and, in 1740, Karl of Tyrone [I.J, haviug m. Katharine, da. aud h. of 3d Karl of Tyrone, niece aud h. of the 2d (the ghost) Karl. Lady Betty Cobbe {b. 1730) the 0th da. of Earl Marcus, was possessed of the black riband and a pocket book in which the ghost Earl had written his name, and was ready, during her long life, to attest the truth of the story. The story of Thomas, 2d Baron Lyttleton, who d. 27 Nov. 1779, aged 35, at an hour predicted (by a ghost lady with a bird on her hand) 3 days previously, but which (the clocks having purposely been altered) he thought had passed, has a certain resemblance to this, more especially as he himself is said to have appeared, after his death, to a friend who had made light of the ghost ladv's prediction.