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 1 u f) u 7. -a < c 3 ■^ « o u ^O en 3 o 1_4 £ rt o a--o Lm 1- JJ W W ,3 f -C "-t- 4-» > ^o 1 en u ii6 COMPLETE PEERAGE altham near Dublin, i6, and was bur. i8 Nov. 1727, at Ch. Ch., Dublin. (') His widow d'. 26 Oct. 1729, of paralysis, C) and was bur. at St. Andrew's, Holborn, London. Admon. 18 May 1743, to her s., " James Annesley, Esq. " V. 1727. 5. Richard (Annesley), Baron Altham [I.], br. and h., supposing the last Peer to have d. s.p. legit. He was b. 1694. His right of succession to the Peerage was acknowledged by the House [I.], inasmuch as he took his seat (as Baron Altham) 28 Nov. 1727. On i Apr. 1737, he (by virtue of the same descent) sue. his cousin Arthur as VISCOUNT VALENTIA, Csfc. [I.] (under which title he took his seat [I.] 4 Oct. 1737), and as EARL OF ANGLE- SEY, 6fc. [E.]. He d. 14 Feb. 1761, s.p. legit, according to the decision of the English House of Pari., (22 Apr. 1771) whereby the EARLDOM OF ANGLESEY and his other English honours became (under the English decision) extinct, but the Irish dignities devolved on his s., who, according to the decision of the hish House of Pari., 1765 (confirmed 1772), was b. in wedlock. Lord Altham [I.], by Mary, his wife (formerly Mary Sheffield, spinster), abovenamed, b. at Dunmain, co. Wexford, 17 15, being an obstruction to the grant of some leases, which his father's extravagance rendered necessary, was removed to an obscure school, whence his death was announced. On his father's death, his uncle Richard (who had assumed the title of Lord Altham [I.] as stated in the text), sold him, as a slave, to an American planter. (Smollett devotes a chapter of Perigrine Pickle to the story, and Sir Walter Scott has evidently made use of his adventures in the construction of Guy ■!Mannering.) He escaped, however, to Jamaica, and thence, in Sep. I 740, to England, Admiral Vernon taking him under his care. He began an action of ejectment against his uncle, then (as stated in the text) Earl of Anglesey, which came on for trial II Nov. 1743. The defence attempted was that, though s. of the 4th Lord, he was not by his wife, but by one Joan Landy, spinster. This, however, was confuted, and the jury on the 15th day of the trial returned a verdict for the Plaintiff, who recovered the estates accordingly. (See Howell's State Trials, vol. xvii ; Gent. Mag., xiv, pt. i, p. 503, pt. ii, pp. 405 and 605. See also an account of the trial in O'Flan- agan's Chancellors of Ireland, under 'Bowes.') Singularly enough, he appears never to have assumed the family honours either in England, or even in Ireland, where his legitimacy had thus been established. He m., istly, —, da. of — Chester, of Staines Bridge, Midx., who d. 22 Dec. 1749. He m., 2ndly, 14 Sep. 1751, at Bidborough, Kent, Margaret, da. of Thomas I'anson, of Bounds, near Tunbridge. He d. at Blackheath, 5, and was bur. 14 Jan. 1760, at Lee, Kent, as "James Annesley Esq. " yi. 1760. 6. James Annesley {de jure Baron Altham, isfc. [I.], and Earl of Anglesey, ia'c. [E.]), s. and h., only s. by 1st wife. He d. s.p. 6 Nov. 1763. yil. 1763. 7. [ ] Annesley {de jure Baron Altham, ^c. [I.], and Earl of Anglesey, ^c. [E.]), br. and h., only s. of his father by the 2nd wife. He d. unm., aged about 7 years, in 1764, when the legitimate issue male of the ^th Lord (assuming that it ever existed) became extinct. (See Burke's Romance of the Aristocracy (1855) vol. ii, p. 327, dffc. ; also Burke's Vicissitudes of Families, 3rd Series, (1863) vol. iii, p. 70, &c.) (') " So miserably poor, that he was actually bur. at the public expense. " V.G. ("') " Being reduced by disease and poverty to a state of extreme imbecility both of body and mind. " V.G.