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 304 CLIFFORD CLIFFORD OF LANESBOROUGH /.f., " Clifford of Lanesborough, co. York," Barony {Boyle), cr. 1644; extinct i']S3- See under (previous article) "Clifford," Barony, cr. 1628. CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIGHC) BARONY. I. Thomas Clifford,s. of Col.Hugh C, of Ugbrooke, in Chudleigh, Devon, by Mary, da. of Sir George Chud- I. 1672. LEiGHjBart.jOf Ashton, in thatco.jWasiS'. i,and^rt/>. 12 Aug. 1630, at Ugbrooke; matric. at Oxford (Exeter Coll.), 21 May 1647, B.A. 1650; Barrister of the Middle Temple; M.P. for Totnes 1660-72; distinguished himself in several naval actions, and was knighted; Comptroller of the Household, Nov. 1666-68; P. C. 5 Dec. 1666; one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1 667-72 ; Treasurer of the House- hold, 1668-72. When the Dutch war was ended in 1669, ^^j ^^ ^ zealous promoter of the French interest, intrigued against the treaty, becoming one of the 5 Counsellors who formed the " Cabal^i^) The treaty of Dover, in June 1670, was mainly his work-C^) He is said to have advised the King to supply himself with money by stopping for a year all payments out of the Exchequer. In reward, doubtless, for this suggestion he was, on 22 Apr. 1672, cr. BARON CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIGH, Devon. Lord High Treasurer from 28 Nov. 1672 to June 1673, C^) when (having already declared himself a Roman Catholic) the test act having passed (against which he had made a most violent and injudicious speech), he felt bound to resign.(^) He m. Elizabeth, da. of William Martin, of Lindridge, Devon, and, in 1643, ^oh. of her br., William M., of the same. He d. a few months after his retirement, apparently by his own hand, 17, and was bur. 19 Oct. 1673, in Ugbrooke Chapel, aged 43.0 Will (^) "At Ugbrooke House is a splendid pedigree of the Clifford family, certified 12 May 1673, by Sir Edward Walker, Garter, Edward Bysshe, Clarencieux, and William Dugdale, Norroy, Kings of Arms." See MS. note in Pulman's Collections (" J.P." 2x8, p. 519) at the Coll. of Arms. (*>) See vol. i, p. 217, note " c." Hume says of him (vol. vi, p. 9, edit. 1848) that " his daring impetuous spirit gave him weight in the King's Councils," but of the five members of the Cabal, he probably was the least important. if) He lent himself to a discreditable shuffle, whereby he hid from his colleagues the object {i.e. the declaration of the Roman Catholic faith) for which certain sums were to be paid by the French King to Charles II. (^) For a list of the 7 peers who alone, since 1660, have held this great office, see vol. ii, Appendix D. (') He was able, however, to " pitch " on Viscount Osborne [S.], afterwards Duke of Leeds, for a successor, who doubtless paid liberally for being thus "pitched' into so high an office. See Burnet, as quoted in Collins, vol. vi, pp. 127-8. " Appears a very fine gentleman and much set by at Court for his activity in going to sea, and stoutness everywhere and stirring up and down." (Pepys,