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LEEDS. 35 and was a: 2 Feb. 1672/3, VISCOUNT OSEBURNE [i t., OSBORNE] OF DUN- BLANK [S. , which dignity he surrendered in Aug. 1673 (in which month be obtained an English Viscountcyi in favour of his second son, Peregrine Osborne, afterwards 2d Duke of Leeds. l'.C, 1 673 ; Lord TkBasuhbR, June 1673 to March 167?/tl, being c>: 15 Aog. 1673. BARON OSIIOIiNK OF KIVKTON AND VISCOUNT LATIMKUp) OF DANDY,;'-) co. Yum, and. on 27 June 1674, EARL 01" D NUY,t b ) eo. Vurfc He was Lord Lieut, of the Wert Hiding, 1674 79 ; r.C. [S.]. 1674 ; el. K G., 21 March 1676 7, and inst. 19 April 1677. In 1679 being accused (by the House of Commons) of high treason lis was sent prisoner to the Tower of London for live years, whence be was released (with "the Popish Lords") in 16>4. He now took an active part in bringing about the Kevolution( c ) and was rewarded accordingly. PC, 16S9 ; Lout) President of the Council, 1689-95, being cr., 9 April 1639. MARQUESS OF CARMARTHEN,^) and live years later.i') 4 May 1694, DUKE(f) OK LEEDS. He bad in 1690 been subjected to an attempt of reviv- ing the impeachment of 1679, and an action was actually commenced in 1695 against him for receiving bribes. He was LOUD Hum Steward 3 Feb. 16!>3, for the trial of Lord Mohun ; Lor 1 Lieut, of the West Killing, 16S9, of the Hast Riding, 1691-99 ; fit* D.C.L. of Oxfi.nl, 8 Nov. 1695 ; Ch. Justice ill Eyre, North of Trent, 1711. He m. before 1655, Bridget, 2d da. of Montagu (Bertie), 2d Eari. of Lindsey, by his fust wife, .Martha, sister of Charles. 1st YisculNT Cl'I.I.EN [[.], da. of Sir William C'oKaVne, of Rnshton, co. Nortliampton, sometime (1618-19) Lord Mayor of Loudon. She, who was bun. 6 June 162;', at St. Peter-le- Poor, London, d 7 Jan. 1704, and was fur. at Eire ton. M.I. lie d. 26 .inly 1712, iu his Slst year, at Kaston Neston, co. Northampton. ;B) Will pr. April ljflfc (*) This ancient title he selected inasmuch as his mother was descended from (tho' in no way a representative of) the former Lords Latimer ; Elizabeth, 4th da. ami cohe«r of Joiill, Lord (.Nevill) Latimer (who d. 15771 having had by her husband, Sir Jol:n Danvers, besides three .sons (by whose issue she is represented) sev n daughter*, one of whom Elizabeth in. Thomas Wahnesley by whom she had bcsiiles a son and heir, Sir Thomas Yalni"sley (thro' whose issue this Klizabe*h is now represented by the Lords Petre) two daughters one ol wlloiD, Anne, by her second liu.-baud, Sir Edward Osborne, was (as stated in the text) mother of the grantee. ( b ) Dauby (in Cleveland i. the ancient inheritance of the Latimer family, passed, thro' the family of Nevill, Lords Latimer, to the family of Da U vera iu 1577 on the partition of the estates among the coheirs. It had, however, been gold by Sir Henry Danvers to live freeholders of the district, by whom, iu 1656, it was sold to John Dawnay, of Cowick, in whose posterity (Viscounts Down ) it still r mains. It was never possessed by the grantee or even by his mother's family, the Walmesleys, who derived no estates or representation (thro' the match with Danvers) from the families of Danvers, Nevill, or Latimer. ( c ) He, as were his two sous. Edward Osborne styled Viscount Latimer, aud Peregrine (Osborne), Viscount Dunblane [S ], was one of those ill arms for the Revolution See vol. i, p. 2S, note " b," nth " Abingdon," for a list of these. He, indeed, was one of seven who signed the im itation to the Prince of Orange in June 16S8 (the month in which the Prince of Wales was born; to come over to rescue the country from the role of its native Sovereigns. These seven weie (1) the Earl [afterwards, 1691, DukeJ of Devonshire (2) the Earl of Oanlnj. afterwards, 1691, Duke of Leeds (3 the Karl [afterwards, 1694, Duke] of ^hretcsbttri/ i* Viscount Lumlei/ [I.], afterwards, 1690, Karl of Searbrnugh (5) the Hithoft (Compton) of London 6) Henry Sidney, afterwards. 1694, Earl of Komney (7) Edward Rutted, afterwards, 1697, Earl of Orford. It will be seen that these seven were not unrewarded by the grateful Dutchman when he was enthroned as King of England. C) It does not appear that he had any "estate or interest in that county. See vol. iii, p. 69, note "A [circa tincm], sub " Derby." C) " To colour the dismissing him from business with the increase of title." [Burnet] ( f l He was 6th of the nine Dukes (2d iu a batch of five) cr. by William III. See vol, ii, p 274, note " a. tub " Clare." The title that was supposed would have been civen hiui was " Pontefrnct" but. this probably was abandoned as the Barony of Poute/ract was at that time vested in George (Kitzroy), Duke of Northumberland. (6) This is what Macky says of him in his " L'huractert," " wa3 of a good family in Yorkshire and brought to Court bv the late Duke of Buckinghamshire, He with D 2