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 252 CLARE rebellion of 164 1. At the age of 80 or upwards, he was cr.^O 11 July 1662, BARON MOYARTA AND VISCOUNT CLARE [or O'BRIEN OF CLARE], CO. Clare [I.]. His estates, to the extent of 84,339 acres, chiefly in co. Clare (which had been confiscated), were restored to him without reprisals. He m., shortly after 1600, Catherine, widow of Maurice (Roche), Viscount Roche of Fermoy [I.], da. of Gerald Fitzjames (Fitz- Gerald), Earl of Desmond [I.], by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, da. of Edmund (Butler), Baron Dunboyne [I.]. She was living 161 5. He was living June 1663, and J. about 1666. II. 1666.'' 2. Connor (O'Brien), Viscount Clare, ^c. [I.], 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., i. about 1605. He m. Honora, da. of Daniel O'Brien, of Duagh, by Ellen, da. of Edmund FitzGerald, the Knight of Glyn. He d'. about 1670. His widow was living 1 70 1. III. 1670? 3. Daniel (O'Brien), Viscount Clare, yc. [I.], to s. and h., was in attendance on Charles II during his 1 69 1. exile, and through his influence the peerage for his grandfather was obtained. In Jan. 1675/6 he was at the Hague in the service of the Prince of Orange. He was, like his grandfather, devoted to the Royal cause, and sat in the Pari. [I.] 7 May i689.('') He raised, for James II, in Ireland, in 1689, two regts. of In- fantry, and one of Dragoons, which was considered "the flower of James's army," but was, on 26 July 1689, "cut almost to pieces" near Lisnaskea;('^) P.C. [I.] 1689; Gov. of CO. Clare. He fought at the battle of the Boyne, I July 1690. He m. Philadelphia, sister of Thomas, ist Earl of Sussex, da. of Francis (Lennard), Lord Dacre, by Elizabeth, da. of Paul (Bayning), ist Viscount Bayning of Sudbury. He was out/awed 11 May 1691, whereby his estates (^) and the title became forfeited. He appears to have d. that same year. His widow, who was iap. 29 Jan. 1643/4, at Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, was living i699.(^) (") The preamble to the patent is in Lodge, vol. ii, p. 32, note. "This promotion was caused by the interest felt by the King in the younger Daniel the grandson [and successor] of the new Peer, who had not staid at home, but ventured life and fortune in foreign service for the sake of his exiled Sovereign." (O'Donoghue's The O'Briens, i860, p. 320). C") For a list of peers present in, and absent from, this Pari., see Appendix D to this volume. ('^) Dalton's King James's Irish Army list, 1689, pp. 314, 315. {^) These consisted of 56,931 acres, granted 26 Feb. 1698, to young Keppel, afterwards Ear! of Albemarle, the King's new (Dutch) favourite, who disposed of them at once, thereby escaping the (forthcoming) bill for the resumption of estates so recklessly granted. For a list of, and some remarks on, these shameful grants, see vol. i, p. 92, note "a." if) In this year she figures as "Philadelphia, Viscountess Dowager of Clare" in a list furnished to the Lords of persons outlawed for treason in Ireland [i.e. adherence to James II].