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 BELASYSE 91 OF Richmond (who d. 27 May 1723, aged 50), and d. 9, and was bur. 16 Dec. 1722, at Deene, Northants. Admon. i Dec. 1727. BELASYSE OF OSGODBY BARONY I. Susan Belasyse, da. and coh. of Sir "William Armyne FOR LIFE. or Airmine, Bart., of Osgodby, co. Lincoln, by Anne, da. T r and coh. of Sir Robert Crane, Bart., (which Anne w., 2ndly, as his 2nd wife, John, Lord Belasyse, as abovesaid) ^° was cr., I Apr. 1674, BARONESS BELASYSE OF '/*3- OSGODBY, CO. Lincoln, /or ///"^.(^) She w., istly, (Lie. from Bp. of London, he aged 23, widr., she aged 18, spr.) 20 Oct. 1662, at Kensington, Sir Henry Belasyse, K.B., (s. and h. ap. of John, Lord Belasyse of Worlaby abovenamed). He d. v. p. (being killed in a duel by a Mr. Porter), and was bur. 16 Aug. 1667, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. Will dat. 6 Aug., pr. 26 Oct. 1667. She w., 2ndly,('') before 1684, James Fortrey, of Chequers, who was aged 25 at the Her. Visit, of co. Cambridge In 1684. She d. 6, and was bur. 13 Mar. I7i2/3,at Twickenham, Midx., at a good old age, when her life peerage became extinct. Will dat. 8 Sep. 1710, pr. II Mar. 1713. BELFAST See "Chichester of Belfast," Barony [I.] (^Chichester), cr. 1612; extinct 1625. (^) Among the statements of the persons who verified on oath the birth of the young Prince, James Francis [b. 10 June 1688), which included that of the Queen Dowager, and those of 40 ladies and gentlemen of high rank, 4 physicians, ^c, " the evidence of the following Protestant Ladies, Isabella, Countess of Roscommon, Anne, Countess of Arran, Anne, Countess of Sunderland, Lady Isabella Wentworth, Lady Bellasys, and Mrs. Margaret Dawson was so positive, minute and consistent with that of the Catholic ladies, that, if any real doubts had existed, it must have set them at rest for ever." See Strickland's Livei of the Queens of England^ edit, 1852, vol. vi, p. 247. (*>) "The Duke [of York] was now [1673] looking for another wife. He made addresses to the Lady Bellasis, the widow of the Lord Bellasis' son. She was a zealous protestant though she was married into a popish family. She was a woman of much life and vivacity, but of a very small proportion of beauty. . . . The King sent for the Duke and told him it was too much that he had played the fool once: that was not to be done a second time and at such an age. The lady was also so threatened that she gave up the promise, but kept an_ attested copy of it as she herself told me." (Burnet's History of his own Time, edit. 1833, vol. ii, pp. 15-16). It is said the lady received the peerage for her forbearance. The picture as " St. Cathe- rine " among the " Court Beauties " at Windsor Castle (probably by Huysman), is generally supposed to be of her and not of Lady Byron. See Mrs. Jameson's Court Beauties of the reign of Charles II; although, as may be seen above, Burnet thought nothing of her looks. V.G.