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io8 BELLOMONT III. 1 70 1. 2. Nanfan (Coote), Earl of Bellomont, fffc. [I.], s. and h., b. about 1681. Took his seat 25 Sep. 1707. He m., 17 Feb. 1 705/6, (") at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx., Lucia Anna {styled Countess de Nassau), sister of Henry (de Nassau), ist Earl of Grantham, and yst. da. of Henry, Count of Nassau and Lord of Auver- querque in Holland, by Frances, da. of Cornelius van Aersen, Lord of Sommelsdyck and Plaata, in Holland. He d. before his mother, s.p.m., at Bath, Somerset, of palsy, 14, and was bur. 16 June 1708, in the Abbey there, aged about 27.() Admon. 23 Aug. 1709, to a creditor. His widow, (who is mentioned in the will of her mother,(') dat. 20 Sep. 171 2), d. 4, and was bur. 10 Sep. 1744, at St. James's, Westm., though, by her will, dat. II Aug. 171 1, and 6 June 17 13 {sic)^ pr. i Dec. 1744, she directs her burial to be at Westm. Abbey. IV. 1708 3. Richard (Coote), Earl of Bellomont, ^c. [I.], to only br. and h. male. He took his seat 15 June I709.('^) 1766. On 23 Mar. 1729 he sold the family estate of Coloony, CO. Sligo, and other lands for a sum just short of ;/^ 17,000, and on 12 Mar. 1737 he sue. his mother in the estate of Birtsmorton, co. Worcester. Hew., istly, Judith, da. (whose issue became h.) of Francis Wilkinson, of Southwark, Surrey, "a dealer in coney wool." She d. v.p., 6 Apr. 1719, in Dublin, and was bur. at Christ Church there. He w., 2ndly, 4 May 1721, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Anne, widow of Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Bart. [1678], and da. of John Holloway, of Oxford, bar- rister. She d. s.p.m.s., 13, and was bur. 20 Feb. 1723/4, at St. Anne's, Soho. Admon. 8 July 1724. He d. s.p.m. s.,{) 10 Feb. 1766, aged 83, and was bur. at Birtsmorton. (*) Will pr. Sep. 1768. At his death the Earldom of Bellomont [I.] became extinct, but the Barony of Coote of Coloony [I.] devolved on his cousin and h. male, Charles Coote, afterwards (1767) cr. Earl of Bellomont [I.] as under. (^) " Miss Overkirk was married to Lord B. last Sunday at St. Martin's Church." (Lady Isabella Wentworth, in a letter dat. 23 Feb. 1705/6). V.G. C") Frances, his only da. and h., m. 28 June 1723 (as his 1st wife), Sir Robert Clifton, of Clifton, Notts, Bart., K.B. She d. 1733, leaving an only da., Frances, (sole h. of her mother) who m. Mar. 1747, George (Carpenter), 1st Earl ot Tyrconnel [I.]. (^) See note to burial of "the Countess de Nassau de Averquerque " 27 Jan, 1719/20, in Col. Chester's IVeitm. Abbey Registers. ^) He is said to have been P.C. to Queen Anne, but this is certainly not true as to England, and very doubtful as to Ireland. He seems to have been an unimpor- tant person. V.G. (*) Judith, his sole surv. child, inherited the estates of Birtsmorton and Berrow, which, on her death, unm., 10 Jan. 1771, she devised to her distant cousin, Charles, Lord Coote of Coloony [I.], to the exclusion of the descendants of her 1st cousin, Lady Frances Clifton (da. and h. of the 2nd Earl), who were the representatives of the old family of Nanfan, from whom the Coote family derived these possessions. (') " Of eminently fair character, upright, courageous and independent." (Macaulay). V.G.