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 562 CULLEN 1602, at St. Peter le Poer; sue. his father 20 Oct. 1626; M.P. for Reigate 1628-29; High Sheriff of Northants, 1636, when he supported the royal measure for levying " ship money." He raised a troop of Horse for the King, and is said, including fines and sequestrations (he was a "compounder" for ^7,515) to have lost above ;^50,ooo in the royal cause, whereby he was compelled to sell his manor of Coombe Nevill in Kingston, Surrey, and other his outlying estates. He was cr., 1 1 Aug. 1 642,(") BARON AND VIS- COUNT CULLEN,('') CO. Tipperary [I.], with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to "Peregrine Bertie, Richard Bertie, Vere Bertie, and Charles Bertie, 4 yonger sons of the Lo. Willoughby of Erisby,("') and the heires males of their bodies successively."('^) He m., 24 June 1627, at St. Giles's -in -the -Fields, Midx., Mary, ist da. and coh. of Henry (O'Brien), 5th Earl of Thomond [I.], by Mary, da. of William (Brereton), 1st Baron Brereton of Leighlin [I.]. He survived the Restoration but a short time,(°) being bur. 19 June 1661, at St. Peter's, Rushton, aged 59. Will dat. 21 May, pr. 17 June 1661. His widow m., as his ist wife, George Blount, of Sodington, co. Worcester, who d. May 1732, and was bur. at Mamble, aged 80. By her he had no issue. She was bur. (with her ist husband) 31 May 1686, at St. Peter's, Rushton. II. 1661. 2. Brien (Cokayne), Viscount and Baron Cullen [I.], only surv. s. and h., bap. 12 Sep. 1631, at St. Giles's, Eliab Harvey, merchant of London; was, in i68o, the Excise Office, and, subsequently, the [old) South Sea House (running back, at that period, as far as Threadncedle Street), and finally, having been completely rebuilt, 1833-34, became, and still (1913) is, the City Club, No. 19 Old Broad Str. C) In an undated letter to the Duke of Buckingham, he states that he has had so many " mulcts of monies for his Majesty " that he cannot pay the sums necessary on becoming an English Viscount. (State Papers [I.], 1625-1660, p. 64). V.G. C') The Sept of Macnamara " hereditary Marshals of the O'Briens, Kings of Thomond," was anciently the Lords of Clan-CuUen, of whom was Shedagh Cam Mac Namara, Lord of Clan Cuilein, the founder, 1402, of Quin Abbey. In 1543 the Privy Council [I.] advised the King that "an Irish Captain, called Shedagh Mac Namara, bordering on O'Brien's lands, and possessing those of Clan-Cullen in Thomond, sought to be advanced to the honour of Baron of Clan-Cullen, with his place in Pari., fs'c.," and recommended him to the Royal favour. See D'Alton's King James's Irish Army List, 1689, edit. 1855, p. 152. Cullen is three miles N.W. of Tipperary, on the western border of the Barony of Clanwilliam. if) The mother of these four young men, and of their eldest brother, Robert, 3rd EarlofLindsey, ancestor of the Dukes of Ancaster (17 15-1809), was Martha, Dowager Countess of Holderness (who d. 1641), wife of Montague (Bertie), Lord Willoughby of Eresby (afterwards, 1642, 2nd Earl of Lindsey), being 3rd da. of Sir William Cokayne abovementioned, and sister of Charles, ist Viscount Cullen [I.] the grantee. ("*) See " Partition Book," vol. iv, p. 37, at the College of Arms. (°) His name accordingly occurs in a list (in the handwriting of Sir Edward Walker) in Addit. MSS. 12,614, fo- 187, of " Noblemen and their wives who have died since his Majesty's happy restauration, the 29 May 1660, to the loth of Oct. 1661."