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 382 COLVILL or COLVILLE Margaret Colvill," the relict. His widow m. John Arthur, both being alive 13 Feb. i66t,.(^) She m., 3rdly, Nicholas Hooper. She d. 1686, and was bur. at St. Ibereus' Church, Wexford. Will dat. 11 Aug. 1686, leaving her property, subject to some small bequests, to her only child by her 2nd husband, Margaret, wife of Cadwallader Edwardes. III. 1654. 3. William (Colville), Lord Colville of Culross [S.], s. and h., who, in 1655, received the lands of Bally McLaughlin "as son and heirC') of James, Lord Colville, then deed., in satisfaction of arrears due to the said James for service in the field in i649."('') ^^ probably was a student at Trin. Coll. Dublin. He d. unm., 12, and was ^«r. 16 Apr. 1656, ('^) in Trin. Coll. afsd., "with Scutions and Pennons carried before him" (Fun. Entry), leaving, by will dat. 1656, and pr. in Ireland, his property " to his sole br. and h., John." IV. 1656. 4. John (Colville), Lord Colville of Culross [S.], br. and h., an " infant " at his brother's death, under the guardianship of his sister, Marjory (who m. Apr. 1662, Isaac Dobson), as, also, in Feb. 1663. He was granted the lands of Bally McLaughlin, co. Kilkenny, under the Act of Settlement, 17 July 1661. {^) He was living in 1678, but probably d. s.p. shortly after that date. [V. 1680.''] 5. Alexander Colville, of Kincardine, </(?_;'«/"i?(°) Lord Colville of Culross [S. 1609], being ist s. and h. of the Rev. John C, D.D., also of Kincardine, by Mary, 3rd da. of Sir George Preston, of Valleyfield, which John (b. about 1640, at Sedan, in France, and d. about 1677-78), was s. and h. of the Rev. Alexander Colville, D.D. (b. 1 6 10, and d. 1676), who was s. and h. of John C, Laird of Comrie {b. 1573, d. 1645-1650), who was s. and h. of Alexander C, the Com- mendator of Culross, who was yr. s. of Sir James C, grandfather of the 1st Lord Colville of Culross. (*) He was b. 1666. He was collector at (^) Records of the Court of Chancery at Dublin. C") His recognition, during the lifetime of his father's widow, almost precludes the idea (which has been suggested) that he and his br. John were bastards. if) If the statement on preceding page that he was the son of his father's 2nd wife be correct, he cannot have been aged over 18 at death, though leaving a will. V.G. {^) Irish Record Commission. if) According to the statements (so far as they have not been subsequently dis- proved) in the petition of 1723, whereon the House of Lords decided that the then petitioner was entitled to the peerage of Colville of Culross. (') In The Ancestry of Lord Colville (see ante, p. 379, note "e "), the following note is given: — "In the narrative of the life of Alexander Colville, Commendator of Culross, the accounts given in the older peerages have been adhered to, between which, however, and other documents consulted on the subject, unquestionable dis- crepancies have been found to exist." Such is, most truly, the case, and there appears e