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 ARDGLAss COMPLETE PEERAGE 193 by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He d. 1653, aged 59, and was bur. at Tickencote, Rutland. Will dat. 26 Mar. 1653, pr. 1661 in Prerog. Court [I.]. His widow d. the same year, and was also bur. there. II. 1653. 2. WiNGFiELD (Cromwell), Earl of Ardglass, ^c, [I.], and Baron Cromwell [E.], only s. and h., b. 12 Sep. 1624, at Throwleigh, co. Stafford. Ed. at Stone, co. Stafford, and after- wards at Finglas, co. Dublin. Matric. Trin. Coll. Dublin as Fellow Com. 20 Mar. 1637/8. D.C.L. Oxford, Nov. 1642. He was taken prisoner at Chester in the Royal cause, Apr. 1649. He m. Mary, da. of Sir William Russell, Bart., of Strensham, co Worcester, by Frances, da. of Sir Thomas Reade. He d. 3 Oct. 1668, and was bur. at Ham afsd. His widow (who had a jointure of ;^i,500 a year) w., between 1670 and 1675, ^^ '^'^ "^^^ wife, Charles Cotton ("), of Beresford Hall, Notts (the Angler and Poet), who was bur. at St. James's, Westm., 16 Feb. 1686/7. She survived him, though probably somewhat his senior, and was living 12 Sep. 1687. (**) III. 1668. 3. Thomas (Cromwell), Earl of Ardglass, &?c., [I.], and Baron Cromwell [E.], only s. and h., b. 29 Nov. 1653, at Strensham, afsd. Matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 29 Oct. 1668. He m. Honora, sister and in her issue coh. of Murrough, ist Viscount Blessington [I.], being da. of Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh and Lord Chancellor [I.], by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Dermot (O'Brien), 5th Baron Inchiquin [I.]. He d. s.p., 11 Apr. 1682, and was bur. at Ham afsd. (°) His widow ;;/., before 1687, Francis Cuffe, M.P. for CO. Mayo, (s. of Sir James C. of Ballinrobe) who was b. 12 Sep. 1656, and d. 26 Dec. 1694. She m., 3rdly, Capt. Thomas Burdett, of Garahill, CO. Carlow, who subsequently (1723) was cr. a Bart. [I.], and who d. 14 Apr. 1727. She d. in Dublin, and was bur. 14 Nov. 1710, in St. Patrick's, in that city. IV. 1682 4. Vere Essex (Cromwell), Earl of Ardglass, and to Viscount Legale [I.], and Baron Cromwell [E.], uncle 1687. and h., b. 2 Oct. 1625, at Throwleigh, co. Stafford. Ed. at Stone, co. Stafford, and afterwards at Finglas, co. Dublin. Ent. Trin. Coll. Dublin as Fellow Com. 20 Mar. 1637/8. He tn.y in 1672, Catharine, da. of James Hamilton, of Newcastle, co. (») He was h. 28 Apr. 1630, and m., as his ist wife, Isabella Hutchinson, 30 June 1656, at St. Mary's, Nottingham. She was living 1664, when he entered his pedigree at the Heralds' Visitation of that county. He d. in debt, admon. being granted, 12 Sep. 1687, to a creditor, his widow and five children having renounced. C") She was certainly b. before 1634, at which date her eldest br. was six years old. See Heralds' Visitation of co. Worcester of that date. (') A letter of 30 Mar. 1675, describing the loss of the packet 5 days before, when the Earl of Meath was drowned, says : — " We do not as yet hear of any saved but that drunken Earl of Ardglass, and he was the cause of the loss of the rest, for he carried many dozens of wine with him, and the captain and seamen drank excessively." V.G. 26