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CULLEN. 435 CULLEN. Viscountcy, l. Charles Cokavne of Rushton Hall, co. Nortliamp- _ antl rT . ton, and Elmesthorpe manor, co. Leicester, 2nd but only surv. s. and uarony Ll.J h. of Sir William C.( a ) of the same, sometime (1619-20) Lord Mayor of London, by Mary, da. of Richard MoRnis, sometime Master of the I. 1642. Ironmongers' Company, was b. at Cokayne Houso,( b ) Old Broad Street, London, 4, and bap. 11 July 1602, at St. Peter le Poer; sue. his father 20 Oct. 1626 ; was High Sheriff for co. Northampton, 1636, when he supported the royal measure for levying " ship money." Having to. 24 June 1627, at St Giles in the adds, Midx., Mary, 1st da. and coheir of Henry (O'Brien), oth Earl of Tiiomond [I.], by Mary, da. of William (Brereton), 1st Baron Brereton ov Leiofilin [I.], he was, owing doubtless to this consideration, cr. on 11 Aug. 1642, BARON AND VISCOUNT CULLEN,( C ) co. Tipperary, 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. Wilkmghby of Eri3by,() and the heires males of their bodies successively. Teste xi°. [die] Auausti, 1642."( e ) He raised a troop of Horse for King, and is said, including fines and sequestrations (he was a " compounder " for £7,515; to have lost abovo £50,000 in tbe royal cause, whereby he was compelled to sell his manor of Coombe Nevill in Kingston, Surrey, and other hi.s outlying estates. He survived the restoration but a few days,( r ) being bur. 19 June 1661, at St. Peter's Rushton. Will dat. 21 May, pr. 17 June 1661. His widow m. (as his first wife) George Blount of Sodiugton, co. Worcester, who d. May 1702, having, by her, no issue. She was bur. (with her first husband) 31 May 16S6 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', Cripplegate. He was introduced to the House of Lords [I.] by proxy, 2 Sep. 1662. He m. before 1 April 1657, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Francis Trentham of Rocester Priory, co. Stafford, by Elizabeth, 1st da. of Sir William Bowter of Knipersley, in that (*) His funeral certif. (1626) and the elaborate and much more interesting one of his father (1599) are both at the College of Arms (I. viii. 62, and I. xxiii, 12). In each are the six quarterings (Herthull and five others) brought into the family, temp. Jlic. II, by the match of Edmond Cokayne of Ashbourne, co. Derby, with Elizabeth Herthull of Pooley, co. Warwick, and each is signed by the ton of the deceased ; the first by " William Cokayne," the future Lord Mayor, and the last by " Charles Cokayne," the future Viscount. ( b ) This which, according to Aubrey, was "a noble house," was exactly opposite the Church of St. Peter le Poer, and was standing in 1770, and probably a good deal later, having thereon the Cokayne crest. It was sold in 1654 by Lord Cullen to Sir Eliab Harvey; was, in 1680, the Excise Office, and, subsequently, the {old) South Sea House (running back, at that period, as far as Threadneedle Street) and, finally, having been completely rebuilt, the City Club, No. 19, Old Broad Street ( c ) The Sept of Macnamara " hereditary Marshals of the O'Briens, Kings of Thomond," waB anciently the Lords of Clan-Cullen, 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 lauds, and possessing those of Clau-Cullen in Thomond, sought to be advanced to the honour of Baron of Clan-Cullen, with his place in Pari.," &c, and recommending him to the Royal favour. .See D'Altou's " King James' Irish Army List, 1689." Edit. 1855, p. 152. Cullen is three miles N.W. of Tipperary, on the western border of the Barony of Clauwilliam. ( d ) The mother of these four young men, and of their elder brother Robert, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, ancestor of the Dukes of Ancaster (1715-1809) was Martha, Dow. Countess of Holderness, wife to Montague (Bertie), Lord Willoughby de Eresby (afterwards, Oct. 1642, 2nd Earl of Lindsey) being 3rd da. of Sir William Cokayne abovementioned, and sister of Charles, 1st Viscount Cullen [I.] the grantee. ( 8 ) See " Partition Book," vol iv, p. 37, at the College of Arms. ( f ) His name accordingly occurs in a list (in the handwriting of Sir Edward Walker) in Addit. MSS. 12,614, fo. 1S7 of "Noblemen and their wives who have died since his Majesty's happy restauratiou, the 29 May 1661, to the 10th of Oct. 1661." 2 E 2