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CASTLEHAVEN 87 London, 14 May 163 1, when his English Peerage (being descendible to heirs gen.) htZTimt forfeited, but the Irish Earldom and Barony (being in lail) were not thereby afFected.(^) His widow, who was L May 1 580, J. at Ruislip, and was I'ur. 1 1 Oct. 1647, at Harefield, Midx. Admon. 2 Mar. 1654/5 to her s., " William Bridges, alias Chandos." III. 1 63 1. 3. James (Tuchet), Earl of Castlehaven, &'c. [I.], s. and h. by ist wife, i>. about 161 7. On 3 June 1633 he was, as "James, Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland," cr. Baron Audley of Hely, with rem. "to his heirs for ever," and with the place and precedency of George, his grandfather, formerly Baron Audley of Hely.C") This patent was (as was necessary so far as it was a restoration and not a new creation) confirmed by Act of Pari. (29 and 30 Car. II) i678.('^) He joined in the serious Rebellion of the Confederate Rom. Cath. Irish, 1641-43, and was indicted for High Treason and imprisoned in Leinster, in Sep. 1642, but contrived to escape. He continued fighting under Preston against the Marquess of Ormond until peace was made with the Confederates in July 1646. He then fought in France under Prince Rupert till Sep. 1648, when he returned to Ireland, and vigorously opposed Cromwell's troops until Apr. 1652, when he was forced to fly the country. In a month or two he was fighting under Conde in the Fronde war. Being taken prisoner by Turenne, he was exchanged, entered the Spanish service as Major Gen. in 1653, and fought at Rocroy, Cambrai, and all the great battles, till the Peace of the Pyrenees in Nov. 1659. After the Restoration he returned to England, and on the outbreak of the Dutch war in 1665, fought against them as a volunteer, by sea and land, till the Peace of Aix la Chapelle, May 1668. In 1674 he went abroad again and fought 11 Aug. at Senef. He com- manded the Spanish Foot in 1676, and served before Maestricht, at Charleroi, and at the Battle of Mons 14 Aug. 1678, soon after which he again came back to England.() He m., istly, at Kilkenny, in his father's lifetime (she being but 12 years old), Elizabeth,(*) da. of Grey (Brydges), (^) "The Irish Earldom [of Castlehaven] wasaccording to modern opinions and the decision of Lord Northington in the Ferrers case [1760] protected by the statute Dt Donis which preserved all entailed honours against forfeiture for felony." See Courthope, p. Ixviii, in " Observations on Dignities," where it is stated that the s. and h. of the attainted Earl " was, notwithstanding, made Earl of Castlehaven by a new creation." This, however, is an error, probably a confusion with the English Barony of Audley of Hely, which was so cr. 1 633. See also vol. i, p. 448, note "c." C") See Creations, 1483-1646, in App., 47th rep., D. K. P. Records, p. 118. (■=) See fuller particulars under "Audley," Barony of, cr. 131 3. (<^) In 1680 he pub. his Memoirs from the year 1642 to the year 1651, which give an account from the Rom. Cath. Loyalist side of the Irish wars of that time. V.G. if) At the trial of the Earl, her father-in-law, 1631, her adultery with Henry Skipwith, her mother's paramour, was admitted by her. She was, however, at that time, very young, probably a mere puppet in the hands of the said Earl and his abandoned wife, the profligacy of whose establishment seems to have been over- whelming. G.E.C. The following extract goes to show that her character did not 'o