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 ALiNGTON COMPLETE PEERAGE 107 his 1st wife, (") Dorothy, da. of Thomas (Cecil), ist Earl of Exeter, was bap. 14 Mar. 1610/1, at Horseheath, and sue. his father, who was bur. there 23 Dec. 1638. On 28 July 1642, he was cr. BARON ALINGTON OF KILLARD, co. Cork [I.]. (") He m. (post nuptial settlt. i Oct. 163 1) Elizabeth, da. of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Bart., by Elizabeth, da. of John (Stanhope), ist Lord Stanhope of Harrington. He was bur. 25 Oct. 1648, at Horseheath. His widow m., about 1651, the Hon. Sir William Compton, who d. 1% Oct. 1663. She was bur. at Horseheath, 14 Apr. 1 67 1. Will dat. 5 Apr. 1669, pr. 17 Apr. 1671. II. 1648. 2. Giles (Alington), Baron Alington of Killard [I.], 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h. He d. a minor and unm., and was bur. at Horseheath, 20 Mar. 1659/60. these 3 coheirs, (in right of ^ of the manor inherited by his wife and of the other f acquired by purchase), performed the office at the coronation of Geo. II, and it was again performed by his nephew Richard, ist Lord Grosvenor, at the coronation of Geo. III. In 1767, however, his Lordship sold the estate, when this honourable office, which had been some 350 years in his family, passed into the hands of strangers. See Clutterbuclc's History of Hertfordihire^ vol. ii, pp. 537-544. (') His 2nd wife, (another) Dorothy, da. of Michael Dalton (whom he m. 2 Dec. 1630, at West Wratting, co. Cambridge, he aged 58, she 24), was his niece, i.e. the da. of his half-sister, Mary (and wife of the said Michael), which Mary was da. of his (Sir Giles') mother, Margaret, by her 2nd husband, Edward Elrington. Several pedigrees mistake this Sir Giles A. for his 2nd son, Giles A., who d. in Feb. 1613/4 at the age of twelve. " Sir Giles Alington was censured and fined in the Star Chamber ^{^32,000, [^rectius, Eccl. Ct. High Com. ;^i 2,000.] only for marrying the da. of his sister by the half blood. He paid the fine to Sir Thomas Hutton, a young courtier. " (Ch. Caesar's Commonplace Book, cited in Clutterbuck, vol. ii, p. 540). He did penance in 1631. On 7 Jan. 1633/4 the offenders had " pardon for incest, provided they shall not hereafter cohabit. " (Privy Seal, 48th Rep. Dep. Keeper, p. 491.) _ex triform. J. H. Round.] The lady d. of the small pox before 24 Sep. 1638, the date of her husband's will. V.G. ('') Though Irish peers, none of these Lords was ever in Ireland. As regards the creations, by the Stuart Sovereigns, of Peers who had no connexion with Ireland, the following extract from th^ Lords' Journals.'], I Aug. 1634, is worthy of observation: — " The Lords of the committee of Privileges being this day met, upon reading a Draught of a Petition to be presented unto His Majesty for making such noblemen as are resident in England liable to all publick charges and payments taxed by Parliament in this Kingdom, from whence the Titles of their Honours are derived, it is thought fit and so ordered, that His Majesty's Attorney General, with the advice of some of the Judges, shall reduce the contents of the said Petition, ready to be presented to the House tomorrow morning, to an Act, with limitation that every Earl deriving his Honour from this Kingdom, shall within two years next after this present Parliament, purchase in this Kingdom three Hundred Pounds pr. annum at least, and every Viscount Two hundred and fifty Pounds pr. annum at least, and every Baron Two hundred Pounds pr. annum at least, with a clause therein contained that upon their Defaults of purchasing as aforesaid their Honours derived from this Kingdom to be void and annihilated to all intents and purposes whatsoever. " Of course nothing further was heard of this attempt to curtail the Royal Prerogative. _ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell]. V.G.