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BATH 19 coheirs. Q) Fun. cert, at Public Record office. Will dat. i Mar., pr. i July 1636/7. Irtij. p. m. at Exeter Castle, 24 Sep. 1638. His widow m. Baptist Noel, who became, in 1643, Viscount Campden, and d. 29 Oct. 1682, aged 70. Her admon. 25 Jan. 1638/9. [John Bourchier, styled Lord Fitz Warine, s. and h. ap., h. 21 Jan. and bap. 20 Feb. 1630, at Tawstock, d. an infant t?./"., and was bur. there 5 Oct. 163 1.] VI. 1637 5. Henry (Bourchier), Earl of Bath, cousin and h. to male, being 5th and yst. (•") s. and h. of Sir George B., if) by 1654. Martha, da. of William (Howard), Lord Howard of Effingham, which George was 3rd s. of John, the 2nd Earl, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, abovenamed. He was b. about 1587; ent. Trin. Coll. Dublin as Fellow Com. about 1597; B.A. 1605; Fellow 1606; M.A. 1610; was knighted 9 Nov. 1621 ; P.C. 8 Aug. 1641 ; Privy Seal, 22 Jan. 1644, in which year he was one of the Commissioners for the defence of Oxford for the King. (<*) He w., 18 Dec. 1638, at St. Bar- tholomew the Great, London (marr. lie. at Bp. of London's off., he aged 45 and she 25), Rachael, 5th da. of Francis (Fane), ist Earl of W^est- morland, by Marj", da. and h. of Sir Anthony Mildmay. He d. s.p., 16, and was bur. i-j Aug. 1654, at Tawstock afsd., M.L, when the Earldom became extinct, as did also, apparently, the house of Bourchier. His widow, who was b. at Mereworth, Kent, and bap. there 28 Jan. 1612/3, m. (publi- cation at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Midx.), i May 165 5, at St. Bride's, London, Lionel (Cr.a.nfield), 3rd Earl of Middlesex, who d. s.p., 26 Oct. 1674. She obtained a roval warrant, 19 Mar. 1660, to retain her precedency as " Countess of Bath," her then husband being an Earl ot a later creation. ('^) She d. II Nov. 1680, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, aged 67, and was bur. at Tawstock afsd. M.I. Will dat. 8 Dec. 1679, pr. 17 Nov. 1680. (*) See note sub Fitz Warine. (•") Of his 4 elder brothers, (i) Charles, and (2) Frederic Philip, d. young and v.p., 17 Sep. 1584, and 8 Mar. 1587 respectively, and are so named in their M.I. at St. Canice Cath., Kilkenny; the latter oiFering by far the earliest instance which the editor has been able to discover of anyone bearing more than one Christian name. (See note sub John Christopher Burton Dawnay, Viscount Downe, and vol. i, p. 33, note "c "). (3) Thomas, d. s.p. between 1605 and 1610. (4) John, of the Manor of Clare, co. Armagh, knighted 24 Mar. 1610/1, M.P. for co. Armagh 1613 till his death s.p., 25 Mar. 1 614. {ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell). V.G. {'^) This George went to Ireland as a Captain in 1570, and had grants of lands in several counties; was knighted Sep. 1579; M.P. for King's Co. 1585-86; Master of the Ordnance [I.] 1592; P.C. [I.]. He d. 24 Sep. 1605. {ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell). V.G. {^) Clarendon suggests that he "neither had or ever meant to do the King the least service ; but only out of the morosity of his own nature " had opposed the parliamentary part}'. V.G. (*) She (as Countess of Bath) disbursed j^200 for books for the use of the