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CLANCARTY 215 Lord Broghill in June 1651, near Dromagh, and being afterwards a staunch loyalist, commanded the forces in Munster against Cromwell. (^) As a re- ward for his services he was by patent dat. at Brussels 27 Nov. 1658, cr. EARL OF CLANCARTY, co. Cork [!.].(") He m., before 1 648, Eleanor, sister of James, ist Duke of Ormonde, da. of Thomas Butler, styledYis- COUNT Thurles, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Poyntz. He d. in London, 4 Aug. 1 665.0 [Charles Maccarty, s. and h. ao. in 1662, was sum. to the House of Lords [I.] in his father's Viscountcy as VISCOUNT MUSKERRY.(<^) He m., shortly after 2 Mar. 1659/60, and before May 1661, Margaret, only da. and h. of Ulick (de Burgh), Marquess of Clanricarde [I.] and 2nd Earl of St. Albans, by Anne, da. of William (Compton), Earl of Northampton. He d. v. p., being slain on board "the Royal Charles" in a sea %ht against the Dutch, 3, and was bur. 22 June 1665, in Westm. Abbey.() Will pr. 1665. His widow w., in 1676, Robert Villiers, other- wise Danvers, styling himself Viscount Purbeck, who d. 1684, aged 28. She m.y 3rdly, Robert Feilding (well-known as "Beau Feilding"), Col. in the Army, M.P. for Gowran in the Pari. [I.] of James II 1689, who d. 12 May 1712.0 She d. Aug. 1698, at Somerhill, near Tonbridge.(6) Admon. to her husband 2 May 1 700.] (*) He was tried for his life in Dec. 1653, and re-tried 2 Feb. 1654 for his share in Royalist conspiracies, but ultimately acquitted, owing his life, it is said, to Lady Ormonde's influence with one of his judges. (Carte, Life cf Ormonde, vol. ii, p. 162). V.G. C') For a list of peers cr. by Charles II while in exile see vol. v, Appendix E. (■=) Donogh, Earl of Clancarty, and his s. and h. ap. Charles, Viscount Musketry (so sum. v.p. in 1662), were, in 1663, among the Irish Roman Catholics who remon- strated with the King. See a list of these, ante, p. 28, note " d." i^) He was one of the few heirs apparent to an Irish Peerage (but nine in all) who were, in their father's life-time, sum. to Pari, in one of their father's peerages. The fact of it being a Fiscounhy, in this case, instead of a Barony, is remarkable. See a list of these, vol. i, p. 2, note " c," and for such summonses to the English House of Lords, see vol. i. Appendix G. (^) James (Ley), 3rd Earl of Marlborough, Charles (Berkeley), Earl of Falmouth, and Sir Edward Broughton, perished at the same time and were similarly buried. See Chester's IVestm. Abbey Registers. (') For a later and bigamous marriage of the Beau, see sub Cleveland, i Duke- dom. V.G. (8) In the Gramont Memoirs, cap. vii, she is said to have been cousin german to her husband, and described as having " the shape of a woman big with child without being so; but had a very good reason for limping; for of two legs uncommonly short, one was much shorter than the other. A face suitable to this description gave the finishing stroke to this disagreeable figure . . . Her two darling foibles were dress and dancing." She appears to have been a rich and silly woman who was made a butt of at Court. Her husband is mentioned in the same chapter as " a man of honour, rather serious, very severe, and a mortal enemy to ridicule." V.G.