at his house near the Cockpit, Whitehall, 2 and was bur. 10 May 1711 in Westm. Abbey, in his 69th year.(a)[1] Admon., 16 May 1711.
V. 1714, to 1753. 2. Henry (Hyde), Earl of Rochester [1684], Visount Hyde of Kenilworth [1681] and Baron Wotton Basset [1681], s. and h., b. 1672; styled Lord Hyde, 1682-1711; suc. to the peerage, as above, 2 May 1711, and by the death of his cousin, 31 March, 1724, suc. as Earl of Clarendon (1661), Viscount Cornbury [1661] and Baron Hyde of Hindon [1660]. He d. s.p.m.s., 10 Dec. 1758, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller particulars, under "Clarendon" Earldom, cr. 1661, sub. the 4th Earl.
ROCHFORD.
Barony by Writ.I. 1495, to 1515.1. Thomas (Butler, otherwise Ormond), Earl of Ormond [I.], who suc. to that title 14 Oct. 1478, was sum, as an English Baron, Lord Rochford, to various Paris. held from 14 Oct. (1495), 2 Hen. VII. to 5 Feb. (1514/5), 6 Hen. VIII., by writs directed "Thomæ Ormond de Rochford, Chev." He d. s.p.m., 8 Aug. 1515, aged about 90, when the Barony fell into abeyance between his daughters and coheirs. See fuller particulars under "Ormond," Earldom [I.], cr. 1328, sub. the 7th Earl.
Viscountoy.I. 1525, to 1538/9, 1. Sir Thomas Boleyn, K.B., &. of Sir William Boleyn, K.B., by Margaret, 2d and yst. da. and coheir of Thomas (Butler otherwise Ormond), Earl of Ormond [I.] and Lord Rochford, next above named was b. 1477, was cr. 18 June 1525, Viscount Rochford. He was subsequently, cr. 8 Dec. 1529 Earl of Wiltshire [E.], with rem, to heirs male of his body, being at the same time cr. (or acknowledged as) EARL OF ORMOND [I.] (of which dignity he was a coheir) with rem. to his heirs. He (who was the father of Queen Anne Boleyn) d. s.p.m.a., 18 March 1538/9, when the Earldom of Wiltshire and the Viscountcy of Rochford became extinct. See fuller particulars under "Ormond" Earldom (I.), er. 1328, sub. the 8th Earl.
Barony by Writ.II. 1532/3, to 1586. 1. George Boleyn, styled Viscount Rochford, s. and h. ap. of Thomas (BOLEYN), KARL OF ORMOND [I.], EARL OF WILTSHIRE and Viscount Rochford above named, was sum. v.p. to parl. as a Baron, LORD ROCHFORD, by writ, 5 Jan. 1532/2 directed "Georgio Bullen de Rochford," thus creating a new Barony of that name.(b)[2] He was beheaded 17 May 1536 (two days before his sister, Queen Anne Boleyn) when, having been attainted, all his honours were forfeited. See fuller particulars of him under his Father, as above.
- ↑ (a) “The undisputed leader of the Tory party to whose highest principles in Church and State he shewed a constant and probably conscientious attachment." [Sidney's "Diary."] He was an effective writer and a good man of business, but was too fond of drink, and used (says Roger North) to swear like a cutter when in a passion. According to a ballad " Lamentable Lory," 1684],
"To those that ask boons
He swears by God's 'oons,
And chides them as if they came there to steal spoons."A portrait of him "after Sir P. Lely " is engraved in Doyle's "offic. Baronage."
- ↑ (b) His father, Earl Thomas, was, indeed, a coheir of the old Barony [1495], but the abeyance thereof bad never been terminated in his favour, nor, indeed, had the said Earl any Barony in him, in which his son could v.p. be summoned.
