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 420 CORK 1 6 1 6 he was cr. LORD BOYLE, BARON OF YOUGHAL, co. Cork, and, on 1 6 Oct. 1620, VISCOUNT OF DUNGARVAN, co. Waterford, and EARL OF THE COUNTY OF CORKE [I.J.O On 26 Oct. 1629 he was made one of the Lords Justices [L], and on 9 Nov. 1631, Lord High Treasurer [I.], holding office till his death. In July 1633 Lord Went- worth (afterwards Earl of Strafford) became Viceroy, to whose measures he was mostly opposed, and by whose judgments against him he "was pre- judiced in no less than ;^40,ooo." On 14 July 1634 he first took his seat in the House of Lords. P.C. [E.] 28 June 1640. In the rebellion of 1 641 he raised two troops of Horse, fortifying his Castle of Lismore, and, at the battle of Liscarroll, 2 Sep. 1642, no less than 4 of his sonsC") were engaged, one of them, Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky [I.] (who had been so cr. v.p. being slain. He w., istly, 6 Nov. 1595, at Limerick, Joan, da. and coh. of Capt. "William Apsley, of Limerick (5th s. of Nicholas A., of Pulborough, Sussex), by Annabella, da. of John Browne, of Awney, CO. Limerick. She d. s.p.s., at Moyallow, 14 Dec. 1599, and was bur. in the church of Buttevant, co. Cork. He ;«., 2ndly, 25 July 1603, at Dublin, Catherine (dowry £ioo6),{^) da. of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Prin. Sec. of State [I.], by Alice, widow of Hugh Brady, Bishop of Meath, da. of Robert Weston, LL.D., Lord High Chancellor [I.], Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and (1570-73) Dean of Wells. She (by whom he had 7 sons and 8 daughters) d. in Dublin 16 Feb.,and was /^«r. 1 1 Mar. 1629 [i 629/30], ('') in St. Patrick's Cathedral there. M.I.(') He d. at Youghal 15 Sep. 1643, and was bur. in (^) The preamble of creation of the Barony is given in Lodge, vol. i, p. 156. The title of the Earldom was spelt Cork^' till the time of the 8th Earl, who first adopted the modern spelling of Cork, [ex inform. E. M. Boyle). C") As to his sons, four of whom became Peers, see vol. ii, p. 264, note "a." As to his daughters, all of whom married into the nobility, (i) Alice, /«., istly, David (Barry), ist Earl of Barrymore [I.], and 2ndly, John Barry of Liscarrol; (2) Sarah, and 2ndly, as his ist wife, Robert (Digby), ist Baron Digby of Geashill [I.]; (3) Lettice, m. George, styled Lord Goring, 1st s. and h. ap. of George (Goring), ist Earl of Norwich; (4) Joan, m. George (FitzGerald), Earl of Kildare [I.]; (5) Catherine, m. Arthur (Jones), Viscount Ranelagh [I.]; (6) Dorothy, m., in 1627, Sir Arthur Loftus, of Rathfarnham, father of Adam, 1st Viscount Lisburne [I.]; (7) Mary, m. Charles (Rich), Earl of Warwick. V.G. ("=) " I never demanded any marriage portion neither promise of any, it not being in my consideration, yet her father, after her marriage, gave me one thousand pounds in gold with her. But that gift of his daughter unto me I must ever thank- fully acknowledge as the crown of all my blessings; for she was a most religious loving and obedient wife, and the happy mother of all my hopeful children." V.G. (^) According to her funeral cert, as given in Foster's Collectanea Geneal. V. G. {f) This "very fair monument" was actually "fixed in the place where the high altar anciently stood, directly facing the door of the choir, for the erecting of which, in that place, his Lordship was [not unnaturally] called in question by the Lord Dep. Wentworth." It was removed to the south side of the altar. The action of the Lord Deputy, "though not unjustifiable, was sufficiently indicative of his sentiments " towards the Earl.
 * /!., istly, Sir Thomas Moore (yr. s. of Garrett, Viscount Moore of Drogheda [I.]),