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 398 COMPLETE PEERAGE baltinglass BANTRY, CO. Cork, and VISCOUNT BALTINGLASS, co. Wicklow [I.]. He m. Ann, da. of Sir Henry Harington, sometime of Baltinglass, by his 2nd wife, Ruth, ist da. and coh. of James Pilicington, Bishop of Durham, which Henry was br. of John, ist Lord Harington of Exton. He d. at Roper's Rest, i8, and was bur. 20 Feb. 1637/8, at St. John's, Dublin. Will pr. 1637/8. His widow d. 7, and was bur. 9 Jan. 1 639/40, at St. John's afsd. Will pr. 1639/40, Prerog. Court [I.]. V. 1637. 2. Thomas (Roper), Viscount Baltinglass, tfc. [I.], s. and h. In 1660, he was petitioning for the command of a company of Foot, which he had held before the Commonwealth. He in., in 1637, Anne, da. of Sir Peter Temple, of Stowe, Bucks, 2nd Bart., being the only child, that survived infancy, of his ist wife, Anne, (*) da. and coh. of Sir Arthur Throckmorton, of Paulerspury, Northants. After great losses by the Irish Rebellion "and much more by the English," as also by extensive law suits, he d. s.p., about 1670. Admon. to the principal creditor, 15 Jan. 1677/8, and again 30 Mar. 1685. His widow, who was bap. 20 Jan. 161 9, at Stowe, Bucks, d. in the Fleet prison, London, 13, and was bur. 16 Aug. 1696, at St. Katherine's, Aldgate. (") Admon., 3 July 1702, to William Temple, Esq., "cousin once removed and next of kin. " VI. 1670.'' 3. Cary (Roper), Viscount Baltinglass and Baron to of Bantry [I.], only surv. br. and h., being 5th s. of the 1672. 1st Viscount. He was an Ensign of Foot. He </. unm., and was bur. about i Sep. 1672, (") at Castle Lyons, co. Cork, when his Peerage honours became extinct. (°) Lands of the value of ;^700 a year, on either side, were at her marriage settled upon the issue thereof, by indenture, 22 June (16 1 4), 12 James L This was the subject of a long lawsuit, and of a Bill being preferred in Pari., being " The Case and Narrative of the Sufferings of the Lord and Lady Baltinglasse, &c., " wherein it is stated that Sir Peter Temple, on his death bed in 1653, advised his eldest son (by another marriage) thus : " Dick, your sister is poor and sickly, if you do but enter upon her estate, the profits will maintain the suit ; you may soon weary her out, or if she dyes before the end of it, you are next heir. " Lord B. also states that he is " in great extremity of want, " having lost £ 1 0,000 by the Irish Rebellion " and 1 6 years suit in Chancery, " and that too " after at least j{^25,000 received out of the Lady Baltinglasse her estate, betwixt Sir Peter Temple and his son Sir Richaid. " C") She, " a heap of flesh and brandy, " is said, in the memoirs of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury, to have m., 2ndly, when in prison, the infamous Titus Oates. He, however, had lie. from the Vic. Gen., 10 Aug. 1693, as a bachelor, to m. Rebecca Weld. V.G. C) The King, i Oct. 1672, granted his estate to the Earl of Arlington, but this grant proved, apparently, to be " a mere compliment, for neither he nor his brother, that was lord before him, had j^ioo a year clear these 20 years past. " (Robt. Leigh to the Earl of Arlington, State Papers [I.]). V.G.