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 CLANRICARDE 233 was b. about 1617, was bur. as "the wife of Col. Burke," 25 Sep. 1655, at Bredon,co. Leicester. He w., 2ndly, Helen, widow of Sir John Fitzgerald, of Dromana, co. "Waterford (who d. 1662), da. of Donough (Maccarty), 1st Earl of Clancarty [I.], by Eleanor, sister of James (Butler), ist Duke of Ormonde. He d. Oct. 1687. Will pr. 1687. ^^is widow »?., 3rdly, before i Feb. 1 699/1 700,(*) Thomas Bourke, who d. between 29 May 171 8 and 5 Dec. 1720, at which dates respectively his will was dat. and pr. Her will, dat. 6 Aug. 1720, pr. 29 June 1722. VIII. 1687. 8. Richard (Bourke), Earl of Clanricarde, i^c. [I.],s.and h.by istwife.C") He conformed to the established Church in or before 168 i. P.C. [I.] to James II, after his flight from England, 1689. He was in command of a regt. of Infantry in the Irish Army of James II in 1689. He was not present in the Pari. [I.] 7 May i689;(') being Governor of Galway, he surrendered that town to Ginkel two weeks after the battle of Aughrim.('^) He was outlawed 11 May 1691. He m.^ istly, privately, 22 Jan. 1669/70, "the Court Beauty," Elizabeth, yst. da. of ( — ) Bagnall, Page of the Backstairs to James I. She was living 26 Apr. 1683.0 -H^ ^^ ^'^'^^ ^^ i2iV& m., 2ndly, Anne, widow of Robert (*) In a petition dat. i Feb. 1 699/1 700, of Katherine, Viscountess Grandison, she states that her estate is charged with the dower of " Helen, Dowager Countess of Clanricarde, relict and 2nd wife of petitioner's father, and now wife of Thomas Bourke Esq." {Hist. MSS. Com., House of Lords MSS., vol. iv, N.S., p. 78). V.G. ('') Charles II writes to his father, 23 June 1680, "Having out of our special grace and favour to your son, the Lord Viscount [i/V] Dunkellin thought fit to put him into several commissions of trust and honour in that our Kingdom, and to order our Chancellor there to issue out our gracious writ of summons to him whereby he may take his place as Baron in our House of Peers in the next Parliament to be holden in Ireland." The King then goes on to urge the Earl to make an allowance to his son for his support, and that of his wife and children. Charles also writes to him on the same date, congratulating him on "being thoroughly instructed in the Protestant religion as it stands established " and on " having forsaken that of Rome which hath always given jealousies to the Crown," and concluding the homily as follows : — " We have therefore ordered our Chancellor of that our kingdom [Ireland] to issue out our gracious writ of summons when a Parliament is called in that our Kingdom, whereby you may sit as a Baron in our house of Peers in the right of one of the ancient Baronies belonging to your family." [Hist. MSS. Com., Ormonde Papers, N.S., vol. v, pp. 340, 341). V.G. if) For a list of peers present in, and absent from, that Pari., see Appendix D to this volume. ('') He " inherited neither the courage nor the loyalty of his ancestor, the great Earl of St. Albans ; he compounded his honour for personal security, and quitting the service of James, remained at Galway, though by the capitulation, he was at liberty to march to Limerick." See O'Conor's Military Memoirs, as quoted in Dalton's King James's Irish Army List, p. 516. if) The Duchess of Ormonde writes that his " marriage has extremely troubled all his friends," further, of " the ruin that this unhappy young man has brought on himself and his family." V.G. 30