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 CORK 419 II. 1620. I. Richard BoYLE,(^) 2nd s.('') of Roger B., of Preston by Faversham, Kent, by Joan, da. of Robert (or John) Naylor, of Canterbury, was ^. 13 Oct. I566,at Canterbury; ed. at the King's school there; admitted to Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge, 1583; sometime Student of the Middle Temple, London (being Clerk to Chief Baron Man- wood), but on 23 June 1588, emigrated to Ireland,(') and became, in 1590, Sub-Escheator to the Escheator Gen.('^) He was repeatedly accused of embezzlement, and several times apprehended, being, when he had returned to England after the rebellion in Munster, imprisoned in the Gate- house for 2 months, but acquitted, to the discredit of his accusers,('") and made Clerk of the Council of Munster, 8 May 1 600. He bought, through the mediation of Cecil, all the lands of Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland, 7 Dec. 1602 (some 1 2,000 acres in the counties of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary, for the small sum of about ;/!^i,50o), obtaining ratification thereof from the Crown, 10 May 1 604, and again 5 Mar. 1 606. He was knighted (on the day of his 2nd marriage) 25 July 1603, at St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, by the Lord Dep. Carew; P.C. for Munster, 12 Mar. 1606; P.C. [I.], 15 Feb. 161 2/3; M.P. for Lismore 1613-15; Gov. of Loughfoyle, for life, 1614. On 6 May (*) The Editor of the 1st Edition was indebted for a good account of the numerous Peers in the Boyle family (as also of those in several other noble families connected therewith) to Edmund Montagu Boyle (grandson of the 8th Earl of Cork), whose premature death at the age of 40, 1 1 Aug. 1 885, deprived the world of a com- petent and most courteous genealogist. From his executors, by his request, G.E.C. received two large MS. vols., containing (as far as practicable) the names of the an- cestors in the "seize quartiers" of all the Peers existing in 1884, compiled by E. M. Boyle with great care. Of this valuable MS. free use has been made in this work. G.E.C. His Arms as entered in Ulster's office on his elevation to the Peerage were: — Per bend embattled Gules and Argent, a crescent Argent charged with a crescent Sable for difference. Crest. A lion's head erased per pale embattled Argent and Gules, a crescent Gules charged with a crescent Argent for difference. Supporters. Two lions per pale embattled, the dexter Gules and Argent, the sinister Argent and Gules. Motto. "God's Providence is My Inheritance." Shortly afterwards the tinctures of the Arms were changed from Gules and Argent to Argent and Gules. There is no authority in Ulster's office for the Cap Coronet until the investiture of the 9th Earl as K.P. in i860, {ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell). V.G. (^) John Boyle, the 1st son, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1618, (s^. at Cork 10 July 1620. (') With but £2J 3s., a diamond ring and a bracelet. V.G. (^) "A situation which he doubtless knew how to utilize to his special personal advantage." See article on him by T. F. Henderson in Diet. Nat. Biog. (=) The following extract from Pym'i MSS. [Hist. MSS. Com., loth Rep., App. vi, p. 84) shews the bitterness of many towards him. As, on his marriage in 1595, he enjoyed an estate of ;^500 a year, the account of his pennilessness cannot have been true at any rate after that date. "The Lord Boyle made a Baron [16 1 6] who they say not above 16 years afore, being a poore fellowe and in prison at Monster in Ireland, borrowed 6d, and now hath a great estate ;^I 2,000 yeerly of Irish Land." G.E.C. According to Gardiner's History of England, vol. viii, p. 33, he was "a prosperous man of the world, imagining that a nation can be governed in accordance with the rules on which a pettifogging lawyer conducted business." V.G.