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CLANCARTY 217 Infantry in the Irish Army, 1689; he was taken prisoner at the sieo-e of Cork, 1690, and confined in the Tower of London, whence he escaped to France in May(^) 1694, his immense estates (worth at their present value /, 200,000 a year) having been forfeited, and he hlmsdi' atiainteiJ, when all his honours he.ca.m& forfeited, 11 May 1691. He was in command of a troop of Horse Guards in France till 1697. Having come secretly to England in 1698, and obtained access to his wife, he was betrayed by his brother-in-law, Charles, Lord Spencer, again imprisoned in the Tower but pardoned at the intercession of Lady Russell, on condition of his livino- permanently abroad. () A Lord of the Bedchamber to the ;;V«/<;r James III, 4 Aug. 1707. He m. (he 16, she 11), 31 Dec. i684,('^) at Westm. Abbey, Elizabeth, 2nd da. of Robert (Spencer), 2nd Earl of Sunderland, by Anne, da. of George (Digby), Earl of Bristol. She d. abroad, June 1704. He is said to have been restored to his honours Sep. i72i.() He d. I Oct. I734,(^) at his residence on an island in the Elbe, by Altona, near Hamburg. V. 1734. 5. Robert Maccarty, j/)'/^^ Viscount Mlskerry 1 686-1 734, who, but for the attainder, would in 1734 have been Earl of Clancarty, i^c. [I.], and who appears to have been so designated, (^ s. and h., b. 1685. He was in command of a man-of-war in or before 1722 and as late as 1733; Gov. of Newfoundland, 1 733-3 5. (^) Being unable to obtain recognitionof his Peerage, he emigrated to France, in or soon atter 1741, residing many years at Boulogne-sur- mer, and being in receipt of an annual pension of ;(^ 1,000, which he must have forfeited owing to being implicated in the '45, for as " Robert Macarty, calling himself Earl of Clancarty" he was excepted from the Act of Indemnity, pardoning Jacobites, 1747. He »/., istly, 14 Dec. i 722, (*) " The town says that he left his periwig block dressed up in his bed, with this inscription, ' The block must answer for me.' " V.G. C') A drama by Tom Taylor founded on these picturesque incidents still keeps the stage. See also Macaulay's History. V.G. [f) In Evelyn's diary of that date it is said he " gives no great presage of worth." i^) See Crossly's Irish Peerage, 1715, p. 55, but query as to the fact. (') In the Historical Register for 171 7, under " Sep. 17" it is stated that " the Earl of Clincarty dy'd lately at Hamburgh" — while in that for 1734 among the deaths in October is " At Altena, near Hamburgh, the Rt. Hon. Donagh, Earl of Clencarty, ^c." The first entry seems to be an error. Among " the names of those persons who were excepted from the Act of Indemnity of 1747" there occur those of three Peers, viz. (i) The Earl of Traquair [S.]; (2) The Earl of Kellie [S.]; and (3) The Earl of Clancarty [I.]. (8) Lord Tyrawley writes from Lisbon, 29 Jan. 1734/5, "My Lord Muskerry is at present in this River, who is a brute beast, and been drunk the 24 hours round, now this week and more." V.G. 28