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 90 COMPLETE PEERAGE albemarle of Barnstaple 1688. He was employed against Monmouth in June 1685, when he is said to have shewn neither capacity nor courage. He was appointed Gov. of Jamaica, 25 Nov. 1686. (') He m., 30 Dec. 1669, in the Cockpit, Whitehall, (Lie. Vic. Gen.) Elizabeth, ist da. and coh. of Henry (Cavendish), 2nd Duk.e of Newcastle, by Frances, da. of the Hon. Wil- liam PiERREPONT. He d. in Jamaica, s.p.s., 6 Oct. 1688, and was i>ur., 4 July 1689, in W^estm. Abbey, when his honours became extinct. Will dat. 4 July 1687. His widow (who was b. 22 Feb. 1654) m., 8 Sep. 1692, as his 2nd wife, Ralph (Montagu), ist Duke of Montagu, who d. 9 Mar. 1708/9. She was well known as " the mad Duchess." She d. s.p.s. y at Newcastle House, Clerkenwell, Midx., 28 Aug., and was bur. II Sep. 1734, in Westm. Abbey, aged 80, or, according to the journals of the day, 96. Admon. 4 Nov. 1734. Note. — So popular was this title of Albemarle, that, in 1661 (only a year after it had been conferred on George Monck), on the petition of John (Granville), Earl of Bath (so cr. 20 Apr. 1661), "the King passed a warrant, under the privy seal, whereby he obliged himself and recom- mended it to his successors, that, in case of failure of male issue to Gen. Monck, the title of Duke of Albemarle should descend to the said Earl OF Bath and be continued in his family. " (See Heylin's Help to English History, 1783, p. 183.) In 1688 this event happened. The validity of the King's warrant had expired with his Majesty in 1685, so that a royal recommendation to his successor was all that remained ; however, as will be seen below, this recommendation was acted upon, as far as it was in his power to do so, by the titular King James III, in 1721. TITULAR I. Henry Fitz-James, 2nd s. and yst. of the five DUKEDOM, illegit. children of James II, by Arabella Churchill, J ^ -. spinster, sister to John, Duke of Marlborough, and " ■ only da. of Sir Winston Churchill, was b. Aug. 1673. At the age of 16 he was made Col. of a reg. of infantry, which he headed at the battle of the Boyne. In 1695, he and his br., the gallant Duke of Berwick, were outlawed. He was commonly known as " the C) " An Expostulation " addressed to him contains these lines : — " Let a disbanded peer, kicked out of Court, And made some upstart statesman's common sport. Sneak like a dog, and beg he may be sent With a great character to banishment. " A note to Absalom and Achitophel^ part ii, is more complimentary. " Son to the brave General Monk, and President of Wales. He was liberal, loyal, and a leading man among the friends of the King and the Duke. " Of his wife her father writes, 16 Mar. 1682/3 : — "I saw, when my daughter Albemarle was here, she was not mad, but there was a great consternation upon her, I suppose caused by her own folly and pride, and the malice of others. " V.G.