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 DERWENTWATER 227 when the male issue of the ist Earl came to an end, and all the honours [E.] granted under the patent of 1688 (which since 1716 had been under attainder) became extinct.^") For fuller particulars see " Newburgh," Earldom of [S.], cr. 1660, sul> the 4th and 5th Earls. DESART BARONY [I.] I. John Cuffe, of Desart, co. Kilkenny, s. and h. of J Agmondesham C, of Castle Inch, in that co. (d. Dec. 1727), '•^•^' by Anne, widow of John Warden, and da. of Sir John Otway, of London, ent. Trin. Coll. Dublin 7 Aug. 1697, as Fellow Com., B.A. 1701; LL.D. honoris causii, 17 18; Sheriff of co. Kil- kenny, 1708; M.P. forThomastown 1715-27; Mayor of Kilkenny 172 1-22. He was cr., 10 Nov. 1733, BARON OF DESART,^) co. Kilkenny [I.], taking his seat two days afterwards. He m., istly, 2 Sep. 1707, Margaret, da. and h. of James Hamilton, of Carnesure, co. Down, by Christian, da. of James Hamilton, of ToUymore, co. Down, but by her had no surv. issue. He w., 2ndly, 12 Feb. 1726/7, Dorothea, ist da. of Lieut. Gen. (*) In 1865 there appeared at Blaydon, in the Tyne valley, a remarkable character claiming to be Amelia Mary Tudor Radcliffe, sua jure Countess of Der- WENTWATER, then aged 35. According to her story, John, the 4th Earl, did not die a young man and unm. in 1 731, but fled to Germany, and there m. in 1740, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, the Countess of Waldstein. Of their eleven children all d. young but two, vix. (V) James, the 5th Earl, who sue. his father, but who d. i.p., and (VI) John James, the 6th Earl, who ot., 4 June 181 3, the Princess Sobieski. Of their six children the eldest (VII) — was the 7th and last Earl, who d. unm. in 1854, leaving his property to his only surv. sister (VIII) Amelia, the (soi-disant) iuo jure Countess a.hotna.mt6. On 29 Sep. 1868, this lady effected a lodgement in Dilston Castle, claiming it and some 4 other estates in the Barony as her own inheritance. From this she was ejected in two days, but she continued encamped, close by, some 40 days longer. In 1870, on refusal of a tenant to pay his rent to her, she caused his stock to be distrained and sold, of which acts all who were concerned therein were found guilty, while "the Countess" was adjudicated a bankrupt, 24 Mar. 187 1. From 25 Nov. 1872, till July 1873, she was in Newcastle Gaol for contempt of court. In 1874 she made a raid on the Whittonstall estates, and was mulcted in heavy damages accordingly. She d. unm., of bronchitis, 26 Feb. 1880, aged 49 (according to her coflSn plate), at Shotley Bridge, and was bur. at Blackill cemetery, CO. Durham. An interesting account, by William Longstaff, of her and her strange proceedings is in The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore (Apr. and May I 888), vol. ii, pp. 165-170 and 205-212. In Mar. 1870 and again in May 1871 her "heirlooms" were sold at Newcastle, including several copies of a lithographed pedigree (3J by 2s feet) which shewed "the title of Lady Amelia to the Derwent- water Estates." The result of this last auction (one of two days) was ^^275, though the effects were valued by "the Countess" herself at jr200,ooo! C") See the preamble to this patent (where the merits of his father and grand- father are set forth, as also the services of the latter " Protestantium successioni ") in Lodge, vol. vi, p. 62.