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 BOYLE 265 He was subsequently Gov. of Bandon, and did good service to the Royal cause in co. Cork. He m., 26 Dec. 1639, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall (the King giving her in marriage), Elizabeth, da. of William (Feilding), ist Earl of Denbigh, by Susan, da. of Sir George Villiers, of Brooksby, CO. Leicester. He d. s.p., being slain in command of a troop of Horse, against the Rom. Cath. Confederate Irish, at the battle of Liscarroll, 3 Sep. 1642, and was bur. at Lismore. His widow, who became a Rom. Cath., and who was Principal Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen Dowager, Henrietta Maria, was on 14 July 1660, cr. COUNTESS OF GUILD- FORD,(^) Surrey, for life. She d. about 3 Sep. 1667, at Colombes, near Paris, when her Peerage became extinct. Will dat. 2 Sep., pr. 20 Nov. 1667. IL 1642 2. Richard Boyle, styled Viscount Dungarvan, or elder br. of deceased, who, as s. and h. ap. of Richard, 1643. Earl of Cork. [I.] was possibly, in 1642, entitled to succeed, under the spec, rem., to the titles of Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky and Baron of Bandon Bridge [L]. In Sep. 1643 he became actual h. to his father, and as such was unquestionably so entitled to these Peerages as well as to the Earldom of Cork, i^c. [I.]. In this Earldom these dignities continue merged. See " Cork," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1620. BOYLE OF LANESBOROUGH Charles Boyle, s. and h. ap. of Richard, Earl of Burlington, Baron Clifford of Lanesborough, was 16 July 1689, sum. v.p., to the House of Lords by writ directed to Charles Boyle de Lanesborough, and took his seat therein as Lord Boyle. By royal warrant, 10 Aug. follow- ing, this writ was amended, and he afterwards sat as Lord Clifford in his father's Barony of Clifford of Lanesborough, cr. i644.('') He sue. to his father's other dignities 1698. See "Burlington" Earldom, cr. 1664, extinct 1753, under the 2nd Earl. argument that a patent worded to " heirs male " means heirs male collateral. The express limitations, however, here considered necessary to extend the grant to such col- laterals, afford in reality an argument against such extended meaning of the words " heirs male." It is well observed by the learned John Riddell, in his Scotch Peerage Law (1833), p. 3, note — that the grant of this Peerage " although proving [what it is to be presumed no one ever questioned] that there could be a collateral male limitation in honours, is not, however, an example of one simply hceredibus masculis. The limitation is to Lewis Boyle and the heirs male of his body; whom failing, to the heirs male of the body of Richard, Earl of Cork, his father; whom failing, rectis hosredibus masculis dicti Comitis; the meaning, therefore, of heirs male under the last rem., is pecu- liarly fixed by the context; and, besides, it is expressly declared in the preamble, that the King wished not only to give the title to Lewis verum etiam omnibus hosredibus masculis tarn de corpore, quam A latere, dicti Comitis." (^) In this patent {only) the word " Guildford " is so spelt. The subsequent ones (1674, 1683, and 1752) have it "Guilford." (*) For a list of such summonses v.p., see vol. i. Appendix G. 35