Proposition II. Page 12. Proposition II. Proposition III. Proposition IV. Proposition VI. The Letters Patent are duly recorded in the Patent Roll of the said year, which was recently (1856) produced to the House of Lords on the consideration of the WENSLEYDALE PEERAGE CASE. MURROUGH, EARL OF THOMOND, and FIRST LORD INCHIQUIN, who died in November, 1551, left by his wife ELEANOR (daughter of Sir Thomas Fitz Gerald, Knight of Glyn) his three elder sons, viz. : 1 DERMOD (DIERMITIUS), his successor in the Barony; 2 TEIGE (THADEUS), whose issue male failed in 1584, as hereinafter mentioned; 3 DONOUGH (DONATUS), the ancestor of the Claimant. The said Murrough, Earl of Thomond and Lord Inchiquin, gave his estates of Leameneh and Dromoland to his third son Donough, from whom they have descended to the Claimant, who is now in possession of them. DERMOD, SECOND LORD INCHIQUIN, died in or about 1557, leaving issue by his wife Margaret, the daughter of Donough Earl of Thomond, his relative, an only son and heir, MURROUGH, who succeeded as THIRD LORD INCHIQUIN. The said MURROUGH died on the 20th April, in the 15th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1573), having had issue by his wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack, Knight, Chancellor and Lord Justice of Ireland, one son only, viz. MURROUGH, afterwards FOURTH LORD INCHIQUIN, who was married to Mabell, the daughter of Sir Christopher Nugent (Lord Baron of Delvin), and by whom he left one son only, viz. :— DERMOD, afterwards FIFTH LORD INCHIQUIN. The said DERMOD married Ellen, the daughter of Sir Edmond Fitz Edmond Fitzgerald of Cloyne in the county of Cork. He died in 1624, leaving three sons only, viz. :— 1 MURROUGH, who succeeded to the Barony and was afterwards elevated to the Earldom of Inchiquin; 2 HENRY, who died unmarried ; 3 CHRISTOPHER, who died durante vitá fratris Murrough without leaving issue. Proposition V. Proposition VIII. Proposition VII. roposition VII. oposition IX. Page 28. MURROUGH, the SIXTH LORD INCHIQUIN, took his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland, on the 16th day of March, 1639, as recorded in the Journals of that House. He was afterwards, by Letters Patent, bearing date the 21st day of October, in the sixth year of the reign of King Charles the Second (1654), promoted to the Dignity of EARL OF INCHIQUIN in Ireland, and took his seat accordingly on the 11th day of June, 1661. He died about the year 1673 (or 1674), leaving issue by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Saint Leger, President of Munster, three sons only, viz. :— 1 WILLIAM, his successor in his Honours ; 2 CHARLES, who died unmarried; 3 JOHN, who died without issue male. CHARLES, the second son, was Captain of a man-of-war, and was killed at the Siege of Maestricht, unmarried. JOHN, the third son, died in consequence of a fall from his horse. He left by will all his property to his wife, making no mention of either sons or daughters. WILLIAM, SECOND EARL and SEVENTH LORD INCHIQUIN, died in Jamaica, in the West Indies, of which island he was the Governor, in the month of January, 1691, leaving by his first wife, the Lady Margaret Boyle, the daughter of Roger Earl of Orrery, three sons only, viz. : 1 WILLIAM, his successor in his Honours; 3 JAMES, who died unmarried. The said WILLIAM, the second EARL and seventh LORD INCHIQUIN, subsequently married Elizabeth, the daughter of George Lord Chandos, but there was no issue of such marriage. JAMES, the third son, by his Will dated 26th December, 1689, left all his property to his brother WILLIAM, afterwards the third EARL, and such Will was accordingly proved by that Lord in April 1693. WILLIAM, the THIRD EARL and EIGHTH LORD INCHIQUIN, took his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland, on the 27th day of August, 1695. He died on the 24th day of December, 1719, having intermarried with Margaret, the daughter of James O'Brien, Esquire, who died in 1688, without leaving any issue, and Proposition IX. Proposition XII. Proposition XI, Vide Act of Par- Page 36. Proposition XII. Proposition XIII. secondly, with Mary, the daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, by whom he had issue three sons only, viz. : 1 WILLIAM, his successor in his Honours; 2 CHARLES, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who died unmarried; 3 JAMES, who had issue as hereinafter mentioned. WILLIAM, the FOURTH EARL and NINTH LORD INCHIQUIN, took his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland, "on the death of his father," on the 23rd day of September, 1721. He married, first, Lady Anne Hamilton, the daughter of the Earl of Orkney; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Stephen Viscount Mount-Cashell. His son and heir, MURROUGH, died without issue, and all his other sons died in their infancy. The said Earl died 18th July, 1777. The said WILLIAM, fourth EARL, made a settlement, in 1753, of all his landed estates, wherein he enumerated all the members of his family, male and female, in succession, and in default of issue of those of his own immediate family, he limited them to Sir Lucius O'Brien, the grandfather of the present Claimant. On this occasion he wrote a letter to Lady O'Brien, the mother of the said Sir Lucius O'Brien, requesting particulars in regard to the names of her sons, as he considered it an act of justice to include them, as they might, on failure of issue in his brother's family (an event which has since occurred), succeed to the Barony of Inchiquin. It is submitted that this letter, taken in connection with the deed of re-settlement, negatives any assumption of the existence of male descendants of any of the ancestors of the Settlor other than those included therein. The said fourth EARL survived all his sons, and was succeeded in the Titles by his nephew, as hereinafter next mentioned. JAMES, the THIRD Son of WILLIAM, third EARL and eighth LORD INCHIQUIN, was married, and had three sons only, viz. : 1 MURROUGH, afterwards fifth EARL and tenth LORD; 2 JOHN, who died without issue male; 3 EDWARD, whose issue succeeded to the Titles, as hereinafter mentioned. MURROUGH, FIFTH EARL and TENTH LORD INCHIQUIN, succeeded his uncle WILLIAM in the titles; he was married to the daughter of the said fourth EARL, viz., Lady Mary, who upon her mother's death became the Countess of Orkney in her own right. He was secondly married, in the year 1792, to Mary, daughter of John Palmer of Torrington, Devonshire, and niece and heiress of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Proposition XIV. Proposition XVI. Proposition XVII. The said FIFTH EARL and TENTH LORD INCHIQUIN took his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland on the 14th day of October, 1777. He was afterwards, by Letters Patent bearing date the 29th day of December, 1800, created MARQUIS of THOMOND in Ireland, with a limitation to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten and to be begotten for ever, and in default of such issue, with a limitation to his said brother EDWARD and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten and to be begotten for ever. At the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, he was by Letters Patent bearing date the 2nd day of October, 1801, created a Peer of the United Kingdom, by the name, style, and title of BARON THOMOND, of Taplow Court, in the county of Buckingham, with a limitation to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten and to be begotten for ever, and he took his seat in the House of Lords accordingly, as such Lord Thomond, on the 29th day of October, 1801. An Act of Parliament for the sale of a portion of the settled estates received the Royal Assent 19th August, 1789, the various recitals in the preamble whereof confirm many of the foregoing allegations respecting the Pedigree of this family. The said Murrough, Marquis of Thomond, died on the 9th day of February, 1808, without leaving any male issue, when the Title of Lord Thomond, of the United Kingdom, became extinct, and the Title of Marquis of Thomond (under the special limitations contained in the said Letters Patents of the 29th December, 1800) and also the said Titles of Earl of and Lord Inchiquin, devolved upon his nephew WILLIAM O'BRIEN, the eldest surviving son of his aforesaid youngest brother EDWARD, as next. hereinafter mentioned. EDWARD O'BRIEN, BROTHER of the FIRST MARQUIS of THOMOND, FIFTH EARL and TENTH LORD INCHIQUIN, died in March 1801, in the lifetime of his said brother, having had by his wife Mary, the daughter of sons only, viz.:— 1 MURROUGH, who died unmarried in his father's lifetime; Carrick, five 2 WILLIAM, who succeeded as second MARquis, 3 JAMES, who succeeded his brother WILLIAM in the Titles, and died 4 EDWARD, whose only son died vitá patris. 5 JOHN, who died unmarried. Proposition XV. Proposition XVI. Proposition XVIII Proposition XIX. WILLIAM, SECOND MARQUIS OF THOMOND, SIXTH EARL and ELEVENTH LORD INCHIQUIN, succeeded on the death, in February, 1808, of his said uncle Murrough, as hereinbefore mentioned, to the above Titles He was afterwards, by Letters Patent bearing date the 3rd day of July, in the 7th year of the reign of King George the Fourth (1826), created a Peer of the United Kingdom, by the Title of Lord Tadcaster, of Tadcaster, in the county of York, with a limitation to the heirs male of his body, and he took his seat in the House of Lords accordingly on the 27th day of February, 1827. He died in August 1846, without leaving any male issue him surviving, when the said Title of Lord Tadcaster became extinct, but his Titles of Marquis, Earl, and Lord devolved upon his next brother, JAMES, THIRD MARQUIS OF THOMOND, SEVENTH EARL and TWELfth LORD INCHIQUIN. He died in July 1855, without ever having had any issue, and, on his death, the line of the first Lord Inchiquin from his eldest son terminated. TEIGE, the SECOND SON of MURROUGH, the FIRST EARL OF THOMOND and FIRST LORD INCHIQUIN, married More, the daughter of Sir Donald O'Brien, of Ennistymon, and had one son only, namely, Turlogh, who was born about 1570, and died on the 12th day of July, 1584, in his infancy. An Inquisition, held 26th July, 1578, states the period of his (Teige's) death, and that his son Turlogh was then seven years old, and by a subsequent Inquisition, held 10th April, 1612, his death, on 12th July, 1584, as aforesaid, at the age of fourteen years only, is proved. The estates given by MURROUGH, the first EARL of THOMOND and LORD, INCHIQUIN, to the said TEIGE, his second son, passed to TURLOGH's three sisters, and a portion are in possession still of their descendants. On the death of JAMES, the third MARQUIS, seventh EARL, and twelfth LORD the said Marquisate and Earldom became extinct, but the Barony devolved upon the Claimant, as the heir male of DONOUGH O'BRIEN, the third son of the first Lord, and whose descent we now proceed to deduce. The said DONOUGH was taken in an insurrection and summarily executed in 1582, leaving by his wife Slany, the daughter or widow of Macnamara Fuin (the Fair), Chief of his name, an only son, |