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his succession, was said to pursue the humble avocation of a His lordship d. unm. in September, 1702, when the title devolved upon (the grandson of Colonel Ferdinand Carey, uncle of the last lord,) his cousin,

WILLIAM FERDINAND CAREY, as 8th Baron Hunsdon. This nobleman was b. in Holland, the son of William Carey and Gertrude Van Oustoorn, but being naturalized in 1690, he inherited the honours of his family, and took his seat in the House of Peers on 1 March, 1708. His lordship m. Grace, dau. of Sir Edward Waldo, Knt., and relict of Sir Nicholas Wolstenholme, Bart., but dying 8. p. in 1765, the BARONY OF HUNSDON became EXTINCT.

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CAREY-BARONS CAREY, OF LEPPINGTON, CO. YORK, EARLS OF MONMOUTH.

By Letters Patent, dated 5 February, 1626.

The Honourable

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ROBERT CAREY, 4th son of Henry, 1st LORD HUNSDON, was elevated to the peerage by King JAMES I., by letters patent, dated 5 February, 1626, as Baron Carey, of Leppington, co. York, and EARL OF MONMOUTH. This eminent person, whose Memoirs, written by himself, were published by JOHN, EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY, in 1759, was b. about 1560. At the age of seventeen he accompanied Sir Thomas Leighton in his embassies to the States General and to Don John of Austria; and he soon afterwards went with Secretary Walsingham into Scotland, where he appears to have insinuated himself into the good graces of JAMES, the future King of England. He was on board the fleet, in 1588, at the destruction of the Armada, and he states, "that he won a wager of £2,000 the next year "After this,' by going on foot in twelve days to Berwick." goes on the memoir, "I married a gentlewoman, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Trevanion, more for her worth than her wealth, for her estate was but £500 a-year jointure. She had between £500 and £600 in her purse. Neither did she marry me for any great wealth; for I had in all the world but £100 a-year out of the exchequer, as a pension, and that was but during pleasure; and I was near £1,000 in debt. Besides the queen was mightily displeased with me for marrying, and most of my best friends, only my father, was no ways offended The tide of fortune, at it, which gave me great content." which he took in the spring, was the opportunity afforded him by the familiar intercourse with which his kinswoman, Queen ELIZABETH, condescended to treat him, of being the first to announce her majesty's decease to her successor. Visiting her (he says) in her last illness, and praying that her health might amend, she took him by the hand, and wringing it hard, replied, "No, Robin, I am not well," and fetching at the same time no fewer than forty or fifty sighs, which he declares, except for the death of Mary of Scotland, he never in her whole life knew her to do before. By those sighs the wily politician judged her majesty was near her dissolution, and with great candour he proceeds, "I could not but think in what a wretched state I should be left, most of my livelihood depending on her life. And hereupon I bethought myself with what grace and favour I was ever received by the King of Scots whensoever I was sent to him." Upon the decease of the queen, Carey immediately proceeded to Scotland, and was the first person to announce to King JAMES his accession to the crown of England, producing and presenting to his majesty in proof of his veracity, a certain blue ring.* The king received

Blue Ring.-The account of the blue ring which Lady Elizabeth Spelman (dau. of Martha, Countess of Middleton, who was dau of the 2nd earl of Monmouth, and grand-dau. of the nobleman to whom the anecdote refers) gave to Lord Cork was this :-King JAMES kept a constant correspondence with several persons of the English court for many years prior to Queen ELIZABETH's decease; among others, with Lady Scroope (sister of this Robert Carey) to whom his majesty sent, by Sir James Fullerton, a sapphire ring, with positive orders to return it to him by a special messenger, as soon as the queen actually expired. Lady Scroope had no opportunity of delivering it to her brother Robert whilst he was in the palace of Richmond: but waiting at the window till she saw him at the outside of the gate, she threw it out to him, and he well knew to what purpose he received it.-Banks.

him, of course, most graciously, and observed, "I know you have lost a near kinswoman, and a mistress, but take here my hand, I will be a good master to you, and will requite this service with honour and reward." Notwithstanding this royal pledge, however, full nineteen years elapsed before he attained the peerage, and in his Memoirs he observes, "I only relied on God and the king. The one never left me, the other, shortly after his coming to London, deceived my expectations, and adhered to those who sought my ruin. By the said lady, Elizabeth his wife, dau. of Sir Hugh Trevanion, Knt., of Correheigh, his lordship had issue,

HENRY, his successor, made a knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles, Prince of Wales, anno 1616. Thomas, one of the grooms of the bedchamber to King CHARLES I., and amongst that unfortunate monarch's most faithful servants; so faithful and attached, indeed, that upon the execution of his royal master, he fell sick of grief, and died about the year 1649, in the thirty-third year of his age. The Hon. Thomas Carey obtained celebrity as a poet, and his remains repose in Westminster Abbey. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Sir Thomas Smith, of Parsons Green, clerk of the council to King JAMES I., by Frances his wife, dau. of William, 4th Lord Chandos, and left an only dau., Elizabeth, who m. John Mordaunt, who was created Viscount Mordaunt, of Avelon, and left a son,

CHARLES, created EARL OF MONMOUTH.

Philadelphia, m. to Sir Thomas Wharton, Knt.

This nobleman,

His lordship d. in 1639, and was. s. by his elder son, HENRY CAREY, 2nd Earl of Monmouth. according to Anthony Wood, was noted, upon succeeding to his father's honours, as a person well skilled in the modern languages, and a generous scholar; the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of the rebellion, when by a forced retiredness, he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies, while others of the nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company's sake." He wrote much; but as Walpole observes, "we have scarce anything of his own composition, and are as little acquainted with his character as with his genius." His lordship m. Lady Martha Cranfield, dau. of the lord treasurer, Lionel, Earl of Middlesex, by whom he had issue,

Lionel, who fell ex parte regis, at Marston-Moor, in 1644,

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At Dugdale's visitation of Cumberland, in 1665, Sir William Carleton, of Carleton Hall, near Penrith, certified his descent, eighteen generations in all, from Baldwyn de Carleton, who flourished shortly after the CONQUEST, and "from that family (as Sanford says in his Cumberland MSS., deposited at the Chapter House, Carlisle) all the famous Carletons of England are descended." The representative of the above line is the present Lord Dorchester, whose ancestor Lancelot, of Brampton Foot, From the settled at Rossfad, in Ireland, temp. CHARLES I. same family also sprang Guy, bishop of Bristol, 1671, and of Chichester, 1678, whose line is represented by the Carletons of Guisons Farley, Sussex. A branch appears to have settled in Lincolnshire, where we find Adam de Carleton living temp. EDWARD I., and also in Nottinghamshire, where Thomas de Carleton held Whitehall, 10th EDWARD II., from John de Londham. Adam de Carleton was the ancestor of the celebrated statesman and ambassador, Baron Carleton, of Imbercourt, Viscount Dorchester (1628). Some other of his descendants settled in Surrey and Middlesex, and from them derived FRANCIS CARLETON, Esq., who settled in Ireland, temp.

CHARLES 1., and together with Thomas Hunt, Esq., had a grant | ham, Knt., and widow of Paul, Viscount Bayning, which lady

of lands in Beladare, Skahanagh, and Moyclare, barony Garrycastle, and Lehensie and Kilmucklin, barony Kilcoursie, all in Kings Co., and another grant in Tewistowne, barony Kells, co. Kilkenny. He was 8. by his son,

RICHARD CARLETON, of Knocknaming, alias Darlinghill, near Clonmel, Tipperary. He m. circa 1665, Elinor, youngest dau. of Capt. Francis Drew, of Kilwinny, co. Waterford, and dying 1682, was 8. by his son,

COL. JOHN CARLETON, of Darlinghill, high-sheriff for Tipperary, 1717. He purchased Butler's land (now Clare) in 1705, from the Hollow-Sword Blade Company, and also obtained the forfeited estate, Bardenshill, in Tipperary. He m. circa 1695, Jane, 5th dau. of Robert Stratford, Esq., of Baltinglass, and d. 1730, leaving issue,

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IV. John, b. 1742; m. 1776, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Thomas Hodgson, Esq., of Dublin, brother of Lorenzo Hodgson, of Coolkenno, co. Wicklow, who m. Elizabeth Hutchinson, of Knocklofty, great-grandmother to the 1st Earl of Donoughmore; John Carleton d. 1781, and left issue a son and dau., Francis, now of Clare, and Dorothea, who m. Edward Reeves, Esq., of Ballyglissane, co. Cork, and had issue.

1. Mary, d. 1769.

II. Isabella, d. 1771.

III. Rebecca, d. young.

IV. Rebecca, m. Hugh Millerd, Esq., and d. July, 1804, s. p. v. Anne.

VI. Sarah, d. 1766.

VII. Grace, m. Sampson Jervois, Esq., and d. 8. p.

The 3rd son,

HUGH CARLETON, Esq., b. 11 September, 1739, being brought up to the bar, became solicitor-general of Ireland in 1779; in 1787 was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in that kingdom; and raised to the peerage in two years after (7 November, 1789) as Baron Carleton, of Anner. In 1797 he was further advanced to be VISCOUNT CARLETON, of Clare, co. Tipperary. His lordship m. 1st, 2 August, 1766, Elizabeth, only dau. of Richard Mercer, Esq., which lady d. s. p. 27 May, 1794; and 2ndly, 15 July, 1795, Mary Buckley, 2nd dau. of Abednego Mathew, Esq., by whom, who d. 13 March, 1810, he had no issue. His lordship d. in 1825, when the title became EXTINCT, and his nephew, FRANCIS CARLETON, Esq., became his representative.

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CARLTON-BARON CARLTON, OF IMBERCOURT, CO. SURREY, VISCOUNT DORCHESTER.

Barony, by Letters Patent, dated 21 May, 1626. Viscounty, by Letters Patent, dated 25 July, 1628.

Lineage.

SIR DUDLEY CARLTON, Knt., son of Anthony Carlton, Esq., of Baldwin Brightwell, co. Oxford, b. 10 March, 1573, having been employed, for a series of years, as ambassador to Venice Savoy, and the Low Countries, was elevated to the peerage 21 May, 1626, as BARON CARLTON, of Imbercourt, co. Surrey, and in two years afterwards created VISCOUNT DORCHESTER; in which year he was constituted one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state. His lordship m. 1st, Anne, dau. and coheiress of George Gerard, Esq., 2nd son of Sir William Gerard, Knt., of Dorney, co. Bucks, by whom he had a son, Henry, who d. young. He m. 2ndly, Anne, dau. of Sir Henry Glem

survived him, and gave birth to a posthumous child, Frances, who d. young. Lord Dorchester, whose negotiations have been published, had the reputation of being an able diplomatist, and a polished statesman. He was master of different languages, and a good ancient and modern historian He composed some pieces, which are noticed by Walpole, and was esteemed a graceful and eloquent speaker. He d. 15 February, 1631, and his honours, in default of male issue, became EXTINCT. His estates, however, devolved on his nephew,

SIR JOHN CARLETON, of Brightwell, son and heir of George Carleton, Esq., of Brightwell, by Elizabeth his wife, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Brockett, of Brockett Hale, Herts; he m. 1627, Anne, eldest dau. of Sir R. Hoghton, Knt., of Hoghton Tower, and relict of Sir John Cotton, of Landwade, by whom he had one son and two daus., viz.,

George (Sir), Bart., d. unm.

Anne, m. George Garth, Esq., of Morden, Surrey.
Catherine, m. to John Stone, Esq.

Sir John Carleton d. 1637; his estates passed eventually to his daus. as co-heirs, Brightwell being now the property and residence of CATHERINE CHARLOTTE LOWNDES STONE. (See BURKE'S Landed Gentry.)

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CARLYLE-LORD CARLYLE.

Lineage.

SIR WILLIAM CARLYLE, 1st of Torthorwald, attended Margaret of Scotland into France, in 1436, on her marriage to Louis the Dauphin. He left issue, Sir JOHN, who succeeded him; Adam, the ancestor of the family of Bridekirk; James, rector of Kirkpatrick; and Margaret, who m. Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry. The eldest son,

SIR JOHN CARLYLE, Knt., of Torthorwald, was mainly instrumental in suppressing the rebellion of the Earls of Douglas, in 1455. For this service he was rewarded with the half of the lands of Pettinain, upon the Clyde; and in 1470-1, he was raised by JAMES III. to the peerage, and his residence styled the town of Cairleîll. Shortly after he appeared as chief justice of Scotland south of the Firth; and in 1477 he went on an embassy to France. By Janet his wife, he had issue,

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JAMES CARLYLE, 3rd Lord Carlyle, having d. 8. p. before 27 December, 1529, was 8. by his younger brother,

MICHAEL CARLYLE, 4th Lord Carlyle, in 1529. Michael d. in 1579, in comparatively reduced circumstances. He had five sons, William, Michael, Edward, John, and Peter, and a dau., Estote. William, Master of Carlyle, predeceased his father in 1572, leaving an only child, Elizabeth, who although she could not carry off the title, which was a male fee, was styled Dame Elizabeth Carlel. Soon after the death of her grandfather, she m. Sir James Douglas, son of George Douglas, natural brother to James, Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland; and after a litigation of fourteen years with her uncle Michael, she conveyed the family estates to the house of Douglas, through her eldest son, Sir James, who was created Lord Torthorwald, in 1609.

Michael, the 2nd son of Michael, the last Lord Carlyle, after losing all but the small property of Locharthur, which he acquired through his wife Grizel, dau. of Lord John Maxwell, did not assume the title which still remained in him, but his male descendants were careful to preserve and assert their right. The last Michael d. in 1763. Of the other sons of Lord Michael, viz., Edward, of Limekilns, John, of Boytath, and

Peter-no males but the issue of Edward survived. On the deaths of Adam Carlyle, last of Limekilns, and his six sons, the male representation of the family devolved upon the branch to which Professor Joseph-Dacre Carlyle, chancellor of Carlyle, belonged. On 6 February, 1798, he was served heir to Michael, last Lord Carlyle; but his only son d. in 1798; he himself followed in 1804; and John Carlyle, Esq., then of Jamaica, afterwards of Shawhill, in Ayrshire, succeeded to the claim, as belonging to a younger branch of the Limekilns family. By his death, s. p., in October, 1824, the claim to dormant peerage passed through a still younger branch, into the person of the then only surviving male representative, Thomas Carlyle, Esq., advocate, Edinburgh.

Arms.-Quarterly: 1st and 4th, arg. (the first Sir William bore the field or), a cross flory, gu., for Carlyle; 2nd and 3rd, or, a cross, gu, for Corsvie; and by way of surtout, arg., a saltier, az., to show their connexion with the family of Bruce.

CARMICHAEL-EARL OF HYNDFORD.

By Letters Patent, dated 25 June, 1701.

Lineage.

This ancient family derived its name from the lands and barony of Carmichael, co. Lanark.

SIR JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Carmichael, whose ancestors had possessed that barony for many generations, was one of the noble Scottish warriors sent to assist CHARLES VI. of France against the English. He signalized his valour at the battle of Bauge in 1422. He d. in 1436. By his wife Mary Douglas, a dau. of the house of Angus, he had issue,

L. WILLIAM, his successor.

II. JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Meadowflat, captain of the castle of Crawford. This gentleman was twice married. By his 1st wife he had issue, with a dau., Margaret, wife of David, Earl of Crawford, Duke of Montrose, a son, JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Meadowflat, who d. in 1507. His son, JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Meadowflat, captain of Crawford Castle, d. in 1567, and was 8. by his grandson, SIR JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Meadowflat, captain of Crawford Castle, who, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth Scott, a dan. of the house of Buccleuch, had issue a dau., GRIZZEL, wife of Walter Carmichael, of Hyndford. By his 2nd wife, Jane Wallace, he had issue a son, JoHN, whose son, SIR JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Meadowflat, captain of Crawford Castle, d. 8. p. 1638. The 1st JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Meadowflat, captain of Crawford Castle, m. 2ndly, Isabella Sibbald, widow of George, 4th Earl of Angus, and was mother of Earl Bell-the-cat," by whom he had a son, JAMES CARMICHAEL, founder of the house of Balmedie, in Fifeshire. His descendant in the 5th degree, SIR DAVID CARMICHAEL, of Balmedie, knighted in 1648, m. 1st, the Honourable Anne, dan, of James, 1st Lord Carmichael, and 2ndly, Cecilia, dau of Fotheringham, of Powrie, by whom he had a son, DAVID CARMICHAEL, of Balmedie, who d. in 1676. His descendant in the 4th degree was SIR JAMES CARMICHAEL SMYTHE, major-general R.E., governor of British Guiana, created a baronet in 1821. His son, SIR JAMES ROBERT, the 2nd baronet, dropped the name of Smythe, and resumed his paternal name of Carmichael only, and on the extinction of the male line of Earls of Hyndford, appears to be the male bead of the great house of Carmichael.

The eldest son of Sir John Carmichael, the hero of Bauge,

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L BARTHOLOMEW, who d. s. p. in 1510.

II. WILLIAM, his heir.

He had

IIL WALTER, of Park and Hyndford, of whom hereafter.
WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, of Carmichael, was alive in 1532.

His son,
JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Carmichael, m. Elizabeth, dau. of
Hugh, 5th Lord Somerville, and d. 1580. His son was

SIR JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Carmichael. He was warden of the middle marches. In 1588 he was one of the ambassadors sent to Denmark to negotiate the marriage of King JAMES VI. with the Princess Anne. In 1590 he was sent ambassador to Queen ELIZABETH. In 1598 he was warden of the west marches, in the exercise of which office he was murdered in 1600. By Margaret Douglas, sister of David, 7th Earl of Angus, and James, Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland, he had, with other issue, a son,

SIR HUGH CARMICHAEL, of Carmichael, a privy councillor, master of the horse in 1593, and ambassador to Denmark. By Abigail, dau. of William Baillie, of Lamington, he had a son, JOHN, and a dau. Jean, wife of James Lockhart, of Cleghorn. SIR JOHN CARMICHAEL, of Carmichael, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Patrick Home, of Polwarth. He had a charter, dated 1619. He d. s. p. about the year 1640. His affairs were in very great disorder, and previous to his death his estates had been transferred to Sir James Carmichael, of Hyndford. The line of the house of Carmichael was then carried on by the said Sir James Carmichael, of Hyndford, who was a descendant of Walter Carmichael, of Hyndford and Park, great-great-grand-uncle to the last Sir John.

WALTER CARMICHAEL was father of

GAVIN CARMICHAEL, of Hyndford, of which he had a charter in 1547. His son,

JAMES CARMICHAEL, of Hyndford, m. Marian Campbell, dau. of Sir Hugh Campbell, of Loudon, by Lady Elizabeth Stewart, dau. of Matthew, Earl of Lennox, and great-grand-dau. of JAMES II., King of Scotland, and Queen Mary of Gueldres. By her he had, with other issue, a son,

WALTER CARMICHAEL, of Hyndford, who d. in 1616. By his wife Grizzel Carmichael, dau. of Sir John Carmichael, of Meadowflat, captain of Crawford Castle, he had a son JAMES, and six daus., of whom the eldest, Marian, was wife of James Stewart, of Allanton, and from her are descended STEWART, of Allanton, HAMILTON, of Barns, HAMILTON DUNDAS, of Duddingston, and GRAY, of Carntyne.

JAMES CARMICHAEL, of Hyndford, was distinguished by the favour of King JAMES VI., to whom he stood in the degree of 3rd cousin, and to whom he was cup-bearer, carver, and chamberlain. He was created a baronet 17 July, 1627. On the death of Sir John, between 1640 and 1650, he became head of the house of Carmichael. He was lord justice clerk in 1634, and lord of session in 1639. In 1641 he was made privy councillor for life, and 27 December, 1647 he was created, by King CHARLES, LORD CARMICHAEL, to him and his heirs-male whatsoever. He m. Agnes, sister of John Wilkie, of Foulden, by whom he had issue,

1. WILLIAM, Master of Carmichael, in his youth one of the gens d'armes of Louis XIII. of France, one of the committee of parliament in 1644-5; fought in 1646, at Philiphaugh. against Montrose; d. 1657. By Lady Grizzel Douglas his wife, 3rd dau. of William, 1st Marquess of Douglas, he had issue,

1 JOHN, who 8. his grandfather as 2nd Lord Carmichael.
1 Mary, m. in 1665 to Sir Archibald Stewart, Bart., of
Castlemilk.

2 Rachel, wife of James Weir, of Stonebyres.

II. David (Honourable Sir), d. s. p. III. James (Honourable Sir), of Bonnytoun. His son, SIR JOHN, 8. him in 1691, and m. in 1684, Lady Hariet Johnstone, dau. of James, Earl of Annandale, by whom he had a son, SIR JAMES CARMICHAEL, Bart., of Bonnytoun, who m. Margaret Baillie, heiress of Lamington, by whom he had a son, SIR WILLIAM, who d. 8. p. 1738, and a dau. HENRIETTA, heiress of Lamington and Bonnytoun, who m. ROBERT DUNDAS, of Arniston, lord president of the Court of Session, and d. 1755. Her eldest dau. ELIZABETH, m. Sir John Lockhart Ross, of Balnagown, and had issue.

1. Mary, wife, 1st, of Sir William Lockhart, of Carstairs, and 2ndly, of Sir William Weir of Stonebyres.

Her

11. Agnes, wife of Sir John Wilkie, of Foulden. III. Anne, wife of Sir David Carmichael, of Balmedie. only child, Anne, was, in 1670, wife of John Dundas, of Duddingston, and was ancestress of John Hamilton Dundas, late of Duddingston, and of the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, of Carntyne.

Iv. Martha, wife of John Kennedy, of Kirkmichael.

James, 1st Lord Carmichael, d. 29 November, 1672, and was s. by his grandson,

JOHN, 2nd Lord Carmichael, b. 28 February, 1638, commissioner of the privy seal and privy councillor in 1689. He was high commissioner to the general assembly of the church of Scotland in 1690, and from 1694 to 1699; and secretary of state in 1696. He was created EARL OF HYNDFORD, Viscount of Inglisberry and Nemphlar, and Lord Carmichael, of Carmichael, 25 June, 1701, to him and to his heirs male and of entail. He was a promoter of the union in 1705, and d. in 1710, aged seventy-three. He m. 9 October, 1669, the Honourable Beatrix Drummond, 2nd dau, of David, 3rd Lord Maderty, by whom he had issue,

1. JAMES, 2nd Earl of Hyndford,

II. William, of Skirling, who m. 1st, in 1709, Ellen, only child of Thomas Craig, of Riccarton, and had issue,

1 JOHN, 4th Earl of Hyndford.

2 James, of Hailes, d. s. p. in 1781.

3 Thomas, d. young.

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