1. Eleanor-Mary, m. George Hervey, Esq., of Tiddington, co. Oxford. II. Anne, m. the Rev. William Bertie, D.D., brother of William, 3rd Earl of Abingdon. III. Elizabeth, b. 1704, d. 21 August, 1778, æt. seventy-four, and was buried at Llanfôr, where there is a monument to her. She became the 2nd wife of William Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, by whom she had no issue. Viscount Bulkeley, d. 4 June, 1724, and was s. by his eldest son, RICHARD BULKELEY, 5th viscount, who was b. 1708; m. in January, 1731, Jane, dau. and heir of Lewis Owen, Esq., of Penniarth, co. Merioneth, by whom he had no issue. Lady Bulkeley, m. 2ndly, Edward Williams, Esq., 3rd son of John Williams, Esq., 2nd son of Sir William Williams, of Landfordd, Bart. Viscount Bulkeley, who d. 15 March, 1738, was s. by his brother, JAMES BULKELEY, 6th viscount, constable of Beaumaris Castle, and chamberlain of North Wales, b. in 1717; m. 5 August, 1749, Emma Bridget, heiress of Nant, co. Carnarvon, and of Castellor, co. Anglesey, only surviving child and heir (by Ellin, heiress of Caerau and Castellor, dau. and heir of William Roberts, Esq., of Caerau and Castellor) of Thomas Rowlands, Esq., of Nant, alias Ystrad-Ucha. By this lady, Lord Bulkeley, who d. 23 April, 1753, left issue, with two daus., Bridget and Elinor, who both d. young, an only son and heir, THOMAS-JAMES. Viscountess Bulkeley m. 2ndly, Sir Hugh Williames, 8th Baronet of Penrhyn, co. Carnarvon, derived, through Sir Griffith Williames of Marl, co. Carnarvon, who s. to the estates of his uncle, John Williams, archbishop of York, and was created a baronet, 17 June, 1661, from Ednyfed Vychan, Lord of Brynfenigle. Sir Hugh Williames, who d. 19 August, 1796, was father by Viscountess Bulkeley of an eldest son, Sir Robert Williames, 9th bart., who b. 20 July, 1764, m. in 1799, Anne, sister of William-Lewis Hughes, 1st Lord Dinorben, and had with other issue an eldest son, SIR RICHARD-BULKELEY WILLIAMES, 10th bart., M.P. for the co. Anglesey, and lordlieutenant for the co. Carnarvon, who assumed, by sign manual, 26 June, 1827, the additional surname of BULKELEY, having s. in 1822, by will, to Baronhill and the other estates of his father's uterine brother Thomas-James, 7th and last Viscount Bulkeley. The only son of Lord Bulkeley, THOMAS JAMES BULKELEY, 7th viscount, born posthumous 10 December, 1752, was created a peer of Great Britian, 11 May, 1784, as Baron Bulkeley, of Beaumaris. His lordship n. 26 April, 1777, Elizabeth Harriett, only dau. and heir of Sir George Warren, K.B., upon which occasion he assumed the name of Warren before that of Bulkeley. He d. s. p. in 1822, when all his honours became EXTINCT, devising Baronhill and his other estates to the eldest son of his uterine brother, the present Sir Richard-Bulkeley Williames, 10th bart., who assumed the name of Bulkeley. Arms-Sa., a chev., between three bulls heads, arg., armed, or. ANKETELL DE BULMER, gave twelve oxgangs of land, lying in Bramham, to the canons of Nostell, and was father of BERTRAM DE BULMER, sheriff of Yorkshire temp. King STEPHEN and HENRY II., and founder of the priory of Barton, in that county. This Bertram was 8. by STEPHEN DE BULMER, who, upon the aid being levied in the 12th HENRY II., towards the marriage portion of that monarch's dau., certified his knights' fees to amount to the number of five de veteri feoffamento, and ore-and-a-half, and fourth part, de novo, for which, in two years afterwards, he paid six marks and a-half. Stephen de Bulmer was s. by his son, 88 THOMAS DE BULMER, who, in the 18th HENRY II., paid a hundred shillings scutage for not joining the expedition then made into Ireland. He was s. by his son, ROBERT DE BULMER, living 26th HENRY II, who was s. by his son, BERTRAM DE BULMER. This feudal lord left an only dau. and heiress, Emme, who m. Geffrey de Nevill, and conveyed to the Nevills the Lordship of Branspeth, co. Durham, which had previously been the family seat of the Bulmers. The male line of the original feudal house thus failing, the next of the name met with is JOHN DE BULMER, who in the 53rd HENRY III., m. Theophania, one of the three daus, and co-heiress of Hugh de Morewyke, of Morewyke, co. Northumberland, whose son and heir, RALPH DE BULMER, obtained a special charter from the crown, in the 4th EDWARD II., enabling him to hold his park at Riceberg, and keep dogs to hunt therein, and to have free warren in all his demesne lands. In the 9th of the same monarch, we find this Ralph doing homage, and having livery of the estates which descended to him upon the decease of his mother; and in the next year he was in the wars of Scotland, and again in two years afterwards. In the 20th EDWARD II. he was made deputy governor of the castle of York, to William de Ros, of Hamlake, and upon the accession of King EDWARD III. was summoned to parliament (viz., 25 February, 1342, and until 10 March, 1349) as a BARON. In four years afterwards he had special license to make a castle of his manor-house of Milton, co. York, being the same year constituted sheriff of Yorkshire, and governor of the castle at York. His lordship participated again (the 8th EDWARD III.) in the wars of Scotland. He d. in 1357, and was 8. by his son, then in his sixteenth year, RALPH BULMER, who was placed under the guardianship of the king's dau. Isabel, and by her assigned to Ralph de Nevill. He had livery of his lands, upon attaining maturity, in the 36th EDWARD III., after which, 40th EDWARD III., he had license, together with William, a younger son of Ralph, Lord Nevill, of Raby, to travel into foreign parts. He d. at the close of that year, but does not appear by the existing enrolments to have been summoned to parliament, leaving a son and heir, then but a year old, RALPH BULMER, "whose descent," says Dugdale, "I shall not trace down farther, in regard that none of this family after the before-specified Ralph, who was summoned to parliament from the 1st till 23rd EDWARD III., were barons of the realm." The male line of this branch of Bulmers continued, however, to the time of PHILIP and MARY, when it terminated with Sir Richard Bulmer, Knt. Arms-Gu., a lion rampant, between twelve billets, or. HARLOWEN DE BURGH, m. Arlotta, mother of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, and dying before his father, left issue, ODO, bishop of Bayeux, created Earl of Kent (see ODO, EARL OF KENT), and ROBERT, EARL OF MORETON, in Normandy, who, participating with his brother, the bishop of Bayeux, in the triumph of Hastings, was rewarded by his victorious kinsman, Duke William, with the EARLDOM OF CORNWALL (anno 1068), and grants of not less than seven hundred and ninety-three manors. This nobleman m. Maud, dau. of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, and had issue, WILLIAM, his successor, and three daus., one of whom m. Andrew de Vetrei; another, Guy de Val; and the youngest, the Earl of Thoulouse, brother of Raymond, Count of St. Giles, who behaved so valiantly in the Jerusalem expedition. The period of the decease of Robert, Earl of Moreton and Cornwall, is not ascertained, but he appears to have been 8. by his son, WILLIAM DE MORETON, Earl of Cornwall, who, rebelling against King HENRY II., died a prisoner, having had his eyes put out by order of that monarch, and his earldom of Cornwall transferred to Stephen of Blois (see DE MORETON, Earl of Cornwall). This unfortunate nobleman left two sons, ADELME, from whom the extant house of CLANRICARDE, and the numerous families of De Burgh, Burgo, Burke, and Bourke, derive their descent, And JOHN DE BOURGH, whose son, HUBERT DE BOURGH, became one of the most eminent and conspicuous nobles of his time; and as a subject was considered the greatest in Europe during the reigns of King JOHN and HENRY III. "The first mention of this Hubert, I find," says Dugdale, "is that he was servant to King RICHARD I., as also to King Joas, being sent by the latter from Roan, in the 1st year of his reign, to treat of a marriage for him with a daughter to the king of Portugal; and had such great estimation from that king, that in the 3rd of his reign, being lord-chamberlain of the household, he was constituted warden of the marches of Wales, and had a hundred soldiers to attend him in those parts." In the next year we find him employed on an embassy to PHILIP of France, to treat for the restitution of Normandy, then seized upon by that monarch-and for some years after engaged in the important duties of sheriff for the cos, of Dorset, Somerset, Hereford, Berks, and Lincoln. At the period that the barons rose against King JOHN, this even then powerful nobleman was seneschal of Poictou, and, taking part with his royal master, he was nominated one of the commissioners to treat with the insurrectionary lords at Runnymede, in which capacity he witnessed the signing of MAGNA CHARTA, and was advanced by the king, before he left the field, to the high station of Justice of England. In ten days afterwards he was constituted sheriff of the cos. of Kent and Surrey, and governor of the castle of Canterbury, and within a month made sheriff of Herefordshire, governor of the castle of Hereford, and governor of the castles of Norwich and Oxford. In the October following he obtained a grant of the lordship and hundred of Hoa, in Kent, part of the possession of Robert Bardolph; and was again constituted, on 19 of the ensuing November, one of the commissioners upon the part of the king to treat with Richard, Earl of Clare, and others, then deputed by the barons, in the church of Erith, in Kent, touching a peace between the king and those turbulent nobles. He subsequently augmented his reputation by the gallant defence of Dover Castle against Louis of France, when King JOHN was compelled to fly to Winchester, and after the death of that monarch, by still faithfully holding the castle for the young king, HENRY III., although the highest honours and rewards were tendered him personally by the French prince for its surrender. In the 4th year of the new king he succeeded William Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke, just then deceased, in the guardianship of young Henry (at that time but fourteen years of age), and in the government of the kingdom; and he suppressed in the next year a dangerous insurrection of the Londoners, begun by one Constantine, a chief man of the city, whom he caused to be hanged. His great power soon after, however, exciting the jealousy of the barons, the Earl of Chester, and others of the discontented party, signified to the king, that unless he forbore to require their castles, and to hearken to the counsels of this Hubert, who then assumed a higher deportment than any nobleman in the kingdom, they would all rise in rebellion against him; but it does not appear that this cabal prevailed, for we find in the next year, when the king solemnized the festival of Christmas at Westminster, this Hubert, by especial royal appointment, proposing to the lords spiritual and temporal, then assembled, an aid "for vindicating the injuries done to the king and his subjects in the parts beyond sea." And soon afterwards, having executed the office of sheriff for the cos. of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the 1st to the 9th of HENRY III. inclusive, and of the co. of Kent, from the 3rd to to the 11th of the same reign, he was created (on 11 February, 1226,) EARL OF KENT, with most extensive territorial grants from the crown. Within the year, too, he was constituted, by the advice of the peers of the whole realm, Justice of England. His lordship afterwards, however, incurred the temporary displeasure of his royal master, as Dugdale thus states-"But before the end of this thirteenth year (about Michaelmas), the king having a rendezvous at Portsmouth, of the greatest army that had been seen in this realm (it consisting of English, Irish, Scotch, and Welch), designing therewith the recovery of what his father had lost in foreign parts, and expecting all things in readiness, with ships for their transportation, but finding not half so many as would suffice for that purpose, he wholly attributed the fault to this Hubert, and publicly calling him Old Traytor, told him that he had taken 5,000 marks as a bribe from the Queen of France, and thereupon drawing out his sword would have killed him on the spot, had not the Earl of Chester, and some others, prevented it, but displaced him from his office of Justice, whereupon he withdrew until the king grew better pacified, as, it seems, he soon was; for the next ensuing year, when divers valiant knights, coming to the king out of Normandy, earnestly besought him to land forces in that country, assuring him that it might be easily recovered, this Hubert wholly dissuaded him from attempting it, and prevailed with him to make an expe. dition into Gascony and Poictou, where he succeeded so well, that having little opposition, he freely received the homage of the inhabitants of those countries." His lordship subsequently so fully re-established himself in royal favour, that he obtained permission, under certain circumstances, to execute the office of Justice of England by deputy, and he soon afterwards had a grant of the office of Justice of Ireland; and was appointed governor of the Tower of London, castellan of Windsor, and warden of Windsor Forest. Here, however, he appears to have reached the summit of his greatness, for, sharing the common fate of favourites, he was soon afterwards supplanted in the affections of the king, and exposed to the hostility of his enemies, so that at one period his life was saved only by his taking sanctuary in the church of Merton. He was afterwards dragged from before the altar of the chapel at the bishop of Norwich's manor house in Essex, and conveyed prisoner, with his legs tied under his horse, by Sir Godfrey de Crawcombe, to the Tower of London; "whereof," (says Dugdale,) "when they made relation to the king, who had sate long up to hear the news, he went merrily to bed. Howbeit," (continues the same authority,) "the next morning, Roger, bishop of London, being told how they had dragged him from the chappel, went immediately to the king, and boldly rebuked him for thus violating the peace of holy church, saying, that if he did not forthwith free him of his bonds, and send him back to that chappel, whence he had been thus barbarously taken, he would pronounce the sentence of excommunication against all who had any hand therein. Whereupon the king, being thus made sensible of his fault, sent him back to the same chappel upon the 5th calend of October, but withall directed his precept to the sheriff of Essex and Herefordshire, upon pain of death, to come himself in person, as also to bring with him the posse comitatus, and to encompass the chappel, so to the end he should not escape thence, nor receive any manner of food, which the sheriff accordingly did, making a great ditch, as well about the bishop's house as the chappel, resolving to stay there forty days." From this perilous situation the earl was relieved through the influence of his stanch friend, the archbishop of Dublin, upon condition of expatriating himself, being conveyed in the interim again to the Tower; when the king, learning that the disgraced lord had deposited great treasure in the new temple of London, peremptorily demanded the same, but the Templars as peremptorily refused surrendering the property entrusted to them, without the consent of the owner, which latter being obtained, "great store of plate, both of gold and silver, much money, and divers jewels of very great value "were seized and deposited in the royal treasury. His lordship was subsequently committed close prisoner to the castle of Devizes, where, it is said, upon hearing of the death of his great enemy, the Earl of Chester (5 November, 1233,) "he fetched a deep sigh, and exclaimed, God have mercy on his soul; and calling for his psalter, stood devoutly before the cross, ceasing not before he had sung it all over, for the health of his soul." Soon after this the earl received a full and free pardon for his flight and outlawry, with a grant that his heirs should enjoy all the lands of his own inheritance, but as to such as he had otherwise acquired, they should stand to the king's favour and kindness, and such terms as the king should think fit." Whereupon, relinquishing his title to the office of Justice of England, and entering into obligation upon oath never again to claim it, he had restitution of numerous extensive lordships and manors. He did not, however, obtain his freedom, but was still closely confined at Devizes, from whence he eventually made his escape into Wales, and was ultimately pardoned, with the other English nobles who had joined Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, upon the conclusion of peace with that chieftain. Again, though, he incurred the displeasure of the king, in consequence of his dau. Margaret having m. Richard, Earl of Gloucester, a minor, without license, but was pardoned upon clearing himself of all cognizance of the matter, and paying a fine. He was, however, again in disgrace. and again mulct, and so on until he was stript of almost all his splendid possessions. The Earl's marriages are differently given by different authorities. Dugdale assigns him four wives, but Milles, three only. According to Milles, he m. 1st, Margaret, dau. of Robert de Arsic, by whom he had two sons; 2ndly, Isabel, dau. and co-heiress of William, Earl of Gloucester, and widow of Geoffrey de Mandeville; and 3rly, Margaret, dau. of WILLIAM, King of Scotland. By the last he is said, but erroneously, to have had two sons; his only issue by the Princess were two daus.. who both d. 8. p., Margaret, m. to Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Magota. The Earl had, however (besides these two daus., his only children by the princess), two sons previously mentioned, viz., 1. John (Sir), m. Hawyse, dau. and heiress of William de Lanvalay, and left issue a son, John. This Sir John de Burgh never inherited the Earldom of Kent. He fought under the banner of the barons at the battles of Lewes and Evesham, in the reign of HENRY III. The period of his decease is not ascertained. His son and heir, JOHN, d. in the 8th EDWARD I., leaving the extensive manors and estates which he inherited from his father and mother to three daus., as co-heirs, viz., 1 Hawyse, m. to Robert de Greilly. 2 Dervorgild, m, to Robert Fitz-Walter. 3 Margerie, a nun at Chiksand, co. Bedford. II. HUBERT, ancestor of the BARONS BOROUGH, of Gainsborough. Hubert de Bourgh, thus celebrated as Earl of Kent, d. 4 March, 1243, and his remains were honourably interred within the church of the Friars preachers (commonly called the BlackFriars), in the city of London. With his lordship the EARLDOM OF KENT, in the family of Burgh, EXPIRED, which Collins accounts for in his parliamentary precedents, by the allegation that the patent by which the earldom was conferred, was in remainder to his heirs male by the Scottish princes only, and that lady leaving no male issue, the dignity of course ceased. Arms-Gu, seven lozenges vairé, three, three and one. BURGH-BARONS BURGH, OR BOROUGH, By Writ of Summons, dated 1 September, 1487. This family sprang directly from HUBERT DE BURGH, younger son of the celebrated HUBERT de Burgh, EARL OF KENT, * but it does not appear to have attained much importance until the reign of EDWARD IV., when, SIR THOMAS DE BURGH joined Sir William Stanley in rescuing that prince from Neville, Earl of Warwick, whose prisoner he was at the castle of Riddleham, but allowed the privilege of hunting for his recreation, upon one of which recreations his escape was effected. Sir Thomas fought afterwards under the banner of the same monarch, and shared with him in the fruits of the victory of Barnet Field. He m. Elizabeth, dau. and coheiress of Sir Henry Percy, of Athol, Knt., son of Sir Thomas Percy (2nd son of Henry, 1st Earl of Northumberland), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of David Strabolgi, Earl of Athol, by which lady the Percys acquired the manor of Gainsborough, and thus it passed to the De Burghs. Sir Thomas de Burgh was s. by his son, SIR THOMAS DE BURGH, who was created a knight of the Garter by King RICHARD III., and was summoned to parliament as BARON BOROUGH, OF GAINSBOROUGH, I September, 1487, and until 14 October, 1495. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas, Lord Roos, of Hamlake, and widow of Sir Thomas Botreaux, by whom he had issue, THOMAS, his heir. Henry, m. Catherine, dau. of Sir Ralph Neville, and had a dau..., Anne, wife of Richard Vaughan. The elder son, THOMAS DE BURGH, 3rd baron, summoned to parliament from 3 November, 1529, to 8 September, 1552. This nobleman m. Anne, dau. of Sir Thomas Tyrwhit, of Kettleby, co. Lincoln, and dying in 1552, was s. by his son, THOMAS DE BURGH,* 4th baron, who m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir David Owen, Knt., but the lady proving faithless, and having children by another person, his lordship obtained an act of parliament to bastardize those children. By Alice, his 2nd wife, he had issue, Henry d. in the lifetime of his father, s. p. His lordship was 8. by his son, WILLIAM DE BURGH, 5th baron, summoned to parliament from 14 August, 1553, to 23 January, 1559, one of the peers who sat in judgment upon the Duke of Norfolk, in the reign of ELIZABETH (called 4th baron by Nicolas). His lordship m. Katherine, dau. of Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, and had issue, THOMAS, his successor. Henry, slain by Holcroft. John (Sir), d. in 1594, "late admiral of England, renowned for his exploits by sea and land; governor of Duisburgh. He was twice knighted, 1st, in Holland, by his excellency the Earl of Leicester, next by HENRY IV., King of France, on the victory of St André; but, unhappily, fighting the enemy, who fought with much courage, he fell by an untimely death, to the great grief of his men, and his country's loss, in the fifty-third year of his age, March 7, 1594.” Mary, m. to Bulkeley. Elizabeth, m. to Rider. Anne, m. to Sir Henry Ashley, Knt. The baron was s. at his decease by his eldest son, THOMAS BURGH, 6th baron, summoned to parliament 11 January, 1563. This nobleman was sent, in the 36th ELIZABETH, upon an embassy into Scotland to incite King JAMES against the Spanish faction there, and in four years afterwards succeeded Sir William Russell in the lieutenancy of Ireland. His lordship m. and had issue, 1. ROBERT, his successor. IL Thomas, d. in minority, s. p. I ELIZABETH, m. to George Brooke, 4th son of Lord Cobham, and had issue, Sir William Brooke, K.B., who m. Penelope, dau. of Sir HILL BROOKE, m. 1st, the Hon. Mr. Wilmot, eldest son of II. FRANCES, m. to Francis Coppinger, Esq., her heir-genera, is HUBERT DE BURGH, Esq., of West Drayton, co. Middlesexl one of the co-heirs of the Barony of Burgh. III. ANNE, M. to Sir Drew Drury. IV. CATHERINE, m. to Thomas Knevit, Esq., and d. in 1640. Her heir-general is LORD BERNERS, one of the co-heirs of the Barony of Burgh. His lordship, who was a knight of the Garter, d. in 1594, and was s. by his elder son, ROBERT BURGH, 7th baron, at whose decease, unm. in minority (his brother having d. previously), his estates devolved upon his sisters and co-heiresses, while the BARONY OF BOROUGH, OF GAINSBOROUGH, fell into ABEYANCE amongst those ladies, and so continues with their representatives. Arms-Az., three fleurs-de-lis, erm. BURGH-BARONS SOMERHILL, VISCOUNTS TUNBRIDGE, EARLS OF ST. ALBANS. Barony and Viscounty, by Letters Patent, dated 3 April, 1624. Earldom, by Letters Patent, dated 23 August, 1628. Lineage. RICHARD BURKE, OR DE BURGH, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, in the peerage of Ireland, was created a peer of England, 3 April, 1624, as BARON SOMERHILL AND VISCOUNT TUNBRIDGE, both in Kent, and advanced to the EARLDOM OF ST. ALBANS, 23 August, Sir Harris Nicolas omits this Thomas de Burgh as if he con sidered him identical with Thomas, the 3rd baron. Honora, m. to John Paulett, Marquess of Winchester. His lordship d. 12 November, 1635, and was 8. by his son, CLICK BURKE, OB DE BURGH, 5th Earl of Clanricarde, and 2nd Earl of St. Albans, who was created MARQUESS OF CLANRICARDE, in Ireland, 21 February, 1644. This nobleman, who was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland in 1650, took so distinguished a part against the rebels in the unhappy times of CHARLES I., that he was excepted from pardon for life or estate, in the act passed by Cromwell's parliament for the settlement of Ireland, 12 August, 1652. His lordship m. in December, 1622, Lady Anne Compton, then only dau, of William, Earl of Northampton, and by her had an only child, Margaret, who m. 1st, Charles, Viscount Muskerry, and had CHARLES JAMES, who s. his grandfather, Donogh, Earl of Frances, d. unm. Her ladyship m. 2ndly, in 1676, Robert Villiers, called Viscount Purbeck, by whom she had an only son, John Villiers, who claimed the Earldom of Buckingham. She m. 3rdly, Robert Fielding, Esq., and d. in 1698. His lordship d. in 1659, when the Irish marquisate, and the English EARLDOM OF ST. ALBANS, with the minor English honours, became EXTINCT; his other dignities passed to his heir at law. Arms-Or, a cross, gu., in the dexter canton a lion rampant, sa. BURGH-BARONS DOWNES. By Letters-Patent, dated 10 December, 1822. Lineage. The family of DOWNES, from which the last Lord Downes maternally descended, and through which he inherited the peerage, appears to have been of considerable antiquity in the eo. Suffolk, its progenitors having been seated there so far back as the 14th century. From this root branches subsequently spread into Norfolk and Northampton. Sir Ulysses Burgh, upon whom, at the decease of his lordship, 2 March, 1826, the dignity devolved. Lord Downes was vicochancellor of the university of Dublin. FAMILY OF Burgh. On the murder of WILLIAM, 3rd Earl of Ulster, his kinsman seized such portions of his daughter's inheritance as lay in the Irish districts, and adopted Irish names and habits, as it was only thus they could hope to hold them adversely to the heirgeneral, who according to Norman, but not to Irish notions, had a better right to them than the cadets of the De Burgos. Mr. Lodge derives McWilliam Eighter, represented by the Marquess of Clanricarde, and McWilliam Oughter, from whom the extinct viscounts and extant Earls of Mayo descend, alike from Sir William de Burgo, brother to the 1st Earl of Ulster; whilst he makes the Bourkes, Lords Castle Connell and Brittas, spring direct from the 1st earl himself A barony of Clanwilliam in Tipperary, and a barony with the same name in the co. of Limerick, bear testimony to the early period at which the Bourkes were settled in that country. But the name seems also to imply that they were descended from Sir William. The BOURKES, of Dromkeen, in Clanwilliam, however, known as "Sloght Meyler," are clearly of the MacWilliams, and were the senior branch of MacWilliam Oughter. EDMOND, the 1st MCWILLIAM OUGHTER, was s. in that Irish chieftainship by his eldest son, THOMAS. This rank henceforth went by tanistry, and hence it was enjoyed in turn by the eldest and 2nd sons of this Thomas. From the latter the EXTINCT VISCOUNTS MAYO descended. But Walter, the eldest son, left three sons. Of the 2nd, Lodge states that the male line is EXTINCT. The EARL OF MAYO descends from the 3rd, whilst the eldest, JOHN BOURKE, acquired Dromkeen, in Clanwilliam (co. Limerick), with the third part of that barony, from the Bourkes of Clanwilliam in exchange for his wife's territory of Coshma. He d. at Dromkeen, and his eldest son, WILLIAM DUFFE BOURKE, was father of MEYLER BOURKE, of Dromkeen, who gave a patronymic to this branch of the De Burgos. The early pedigree of this family is recorded in Ulster's office. But the change of name, temp. CHARLES I., requires two or three descents to be noticed. RICHARD OGE BOURKE, who d. 6 June, 1596, was then chief of this family, and was found by inquisition to be seized of Drom keen and Drumrusk, &c. WILLIAM BOURKE, the eldest son, inherited the chief part of the property, but it eventually passed to the grandson of his brother Meyler; which MEYLER succeeded to Drumrusk on his DIVE DOWNES, of East Haddon, d. in 1629, leaving an only father's death in 1596. His son, Ulick, was father of RICKARD son, THE REV. LEWIS DOWNES, rector of Thornby, father of DIVES DOWNES. This gentleman, having finished his education at Trinity College, Dublin, took holy orders, was made archdeacon of Dublin in 1690, and consecrated bishop of Cork and Ross in 1699. He m. four times. By his 1st and 2nd wives he had no issue; by the 3rd, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Becher, Esq, of Sherkin, co. Cork, he had one dau., Elizabeth; and by the 4th (whom he m. 19 August, 1707), Catherine, sister of Robert, 19th Earl of Kildare he left a son, ROBERT, his heir, and a posthumous dau., Anne, who m. Thomas Burgh, Esq., of Bert, co. Kildare, and Thomas Burgh, Esq., who m. Anne, only dau. of David The bishop was s. at his decease by his only son, BOBERT DOWNES, Esq., of Donnybrooke, M.P. for the co. Kildare; who m. 18 February, 1737, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Twigge, Esq., of Donnybrooke, by whom he had issue, Dive, in holy orders, LL.D., who d. unm. in 1798, and WILLIAM DOWNES, Esq., who was called to the bar of Ireland in 1786, elevated to the bench there in 1792, and constituted, in 1803, upon the death of Lord Kilwarden, lord chief justice of the Court of King's Bench, and sworn of his Majesty's most honourable privy council in Ireland. His lordship retired from the judicial seat in 1822, when he was elevated to the peerage of Ireland (10 December in the same year), by the title of BARON Downes, with remainder, in default of male issue, to his cousin BURKE, who adopting the established religion, and taking holy orders, anglicised, as was not uncommon, his name, and was the first to write it Burgh. He inherited the Dromkeen property under an entail, and it passed at his death to his eldest son, ULICK (anglicised to ULYSSES) BURGH, D.D., also in holy orders, rector of Grean and Kilteely (near Dromkeen), in 1672, and dean of Emly in 1685. He adhered to the Prince of Orange, and when he, as WILLIAM III., advanced to the siege of Limerick, Dr. Burgh received him at Dromkeen, and attended him throughout the siege, being of much service to the army from his personal acquaintance with that district. When that first siege proved abortive, the Irish party burned Dromkeen, but King WILLIAM rewarded the owner with the bishoprick of Ardagh in 1692, a preferment which he only held for a few months, dying soon after his consecration. He had m. Mary, dau. of William Kingsmill, Esq., of Ballyowen, colonel in the army, and M.P. for Mallow, by Dorothy, dau. of Sir Warham St. Leger, Knt., by Ursula, dau. of George, Lord Abergavenny, and grand-dau. of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. From this alliance spring the BURGHS of Dromkeen, the BURGHS of Oldtown, the BURGHS of Bert, of whom SIR ULYSSES BURGH, G.C.B., became 2nd LORD DOWNES, and, in the female line, the HUSSEY-BURGHS of Donore and Dromkeen. By Mary Kingsmill his wife, Bishop Burgh had issue, I. RICKARD, in holy orders, who 8. at Dromkeen, and was father of two sons, THOMAS, of Dromkeen, whose dau. and heir, m. Philpot Wolfe, Esq.; and RICKARD, of Mount Bruis, co. Tipperary, in holy orders, whose only dau. Mary, m. in 1781, Captain William Byam, 3rd son of William Byam, Esq., of Byams, in Antigua, and left surviving issue, 1 Richard-Burgh Byam, in holy orders, vicar of Kew and Petersham. 2 Edward-Samuel Byam. 2 Alicia-Juliana, wife of Major William Leeves, of Tortington House, Sussex. II. WILLIAM, of whom presently. III. Thomas, of Old Town, co. Kildare, engineer and surveyorgeneral, who m. Mary, dau. of William Smith, bishop of Kilmore, and had (with a son, THOMAS, of Old Town, grandfather of the late Very Rev. John T. Burgh, dean of Cloyne) two daus., of whom Elizabeth, m. Ignatius Hussey, Esq., and was mother of WALTER HUSSEY-BURGH, lord chief baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, whose grandson was the late WALTER HUSSEY-BURGH, Esq., of Dromkeen and Donore. (See BURKE'S Landed Gentry.) 1. Dorothy, m. to Thomas Smyth, D.D., Bishop of Limerick, ancestor of Viscount Gort. II. Catherine, m. to the Rev. Alexander Alcock, of Ferns, co. Wexford. The 2nd son, WILLIAM BURGH, Esq., of Bert, co. Kildare, m. in 1693, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Parnell, Esq., of Congleton, in Cheshire; and dying about the year 1744, was s. by his eldest surviving son, THOMAS BURGH, Esq., of Bert, who m. Anne, dau. of the RIGHT REV. DIVE DOWNES, bishop of Cork and Ross (as in the lineage of the family of DowNES), and had issue, 1. WILLIAM, LL.D., his successor. II. Thomas, comptroller-general and commissioner of the revenue in Ireland. III. Robert, of the E. I. Co.'s service, m. Anne, dau. of Hugh Hickman, Esq., of Fenloe, co. Clare, and left two daus., 1 Mary, m. to the Rev. John Hussey-Burgh, of Dromkeen. 2 Catherine, m. to Alexander Hamilton, Esq. 1. Margaret-Emilia, m. the Right Hon. John Foster, and was created Baroness Oriel and Viscountess Ferrard. II. Anne, m. to the celebrated WALTER HUSSEY-BURGH, lord chief baron of the exchequer. III. Dorothy, m. to John Rochfort, Esq., of Clogrenane, co. Carlow. IV. Harriet-Charlotte. Mr. Burgh, whose will bears date 15 November, 1754, was 8. by his eldest son, WILLIAM BURGH, LL.D., who m. Mary, dau. and heir of George Warburton, Esq., of Firmount, co. Kildare; but d. s. p., when the estate devolved upon his brother, THOMAS BURGH, Esq., of Bert House, co. Kildare, who m. in 1775, Anne, only dau. of David Aigion, Esq., and by her (who d. in 1831) left issue, ULYSSES, 2nd Lord Downes. Anne, m. to Nathaniel Sneyd, Esq. Mary, m. to John-Staunton Rochfort, Esq., of Clogrenane, co. Carlow. Elizabeth. Charlotte, m. 17 February, 1815, to the Rev. Zachariah Cornock, of Cromwell's Fort, co. Wexford; and d. in 1827. Mr. Burgh d. in 1810: his son and heir, SIR ULYSSES BURGH, G.C.B., K.T.S., and S.A., a general officer, colonel 29th foot, b. 15 August, 1788, s. his cousin, William, Lord Downes, as 2nd BARON DOWNES, 2 March, 1826, and became a representative peer for Ireland. His lordship m. 1st, 20 June, 1815, Maria, only dau. and heir of the late Walter Bagenal, Esq., heir male and representative of the great family of Bagenal, of Bagenalstown, and by her (who d. 20 August, 1842) had two daus., ANNE, m. 27 April, 1838, to John-Henry, Earl of Clonmel. CHARLOTTE, m. 12 February, 1851, to the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel James Colborne, now Lord Seaton, and d. 26 April, 1863. His lordship, m. 2ndly, 4 August, 1846, Christopheria, widow of John-Willis Fleming, Esq., of Stoneham, Hants, and dau. of James Buchanan, Esq. (which lady d. 18 October, 1860). In 1848, his lordship and his cousins, Thomas Burgh, Esq., of Oldtown, Rev. Walter Burgh, vicar of Naas, Major John Burgh, and Rev. William Burgh, were authorized to re-assume their ancient name of DE BURGH. Lord Downes d. without male issue 26 July, 1864, when the barony became EXTINCT. Arms-Quarterly: first and fourth, or, a cross, gu., for BURGH; second and third, arg., three pales, wavy, gu., for DOWNES. BURGHERSH-BARONS BURGHERSH. By Writ of Summons, dated 12 November, 1303. Lineage. In the 26th year of EDWARD I., ROBERT DE BURGHERSH had his commission renewed, as constable of Dover Castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports, and was summoned to parliament in six years afterwards, as BARON BURGHERSH; in which dignity he had summons from 12 November, 1303, to 13 June, 1305. His lordship d. in 1306, and was 8. by his son, STEPHEN DE BURGHERSH, 2nd baron, but never summoned to parliament; this nobleman had issue, BARTHOLOMEW, his successor. Henry, bishop of Lincoln, temp. EDWARD II., and in the reign of EDWARD III. Lord Treasurer and Lord Chancellor. This distinguished prelate d. at Ghent, in 1343, and his remains were brought over and interred in Lincoln Cathedral. A story subsequently circulated-that his lordship having incurred many a bitter curse, for despoiling his poorer tenantry of their grounds, to form a park at Tynghurst, appeared after his decease, to a certain person (who had been one of his esquires), in the habit of a keeper, with his bow, quiver of arrows, and a horn by his side, arrayed in a short green coat, and thus addressed him-"Thou knowest how I have offended God, and injured the poor, by my inclosure of this park: for this cause, therefore, am I enjoyned penance, to be the keeper of it, till it be laid open again. Go, therefore, to the canons of Lincoln (my brethren), and intreat them from me to make a restitution to the poor of what I thus wrongfully took from them." Whereupon having delivered the message to the canons, they sent one of their company, called William Batchelor, to see the desired restitution accomplished; who caused the banks and pales to be forthwith thrown down, and the ditches to be filled up. Stephen de Burghersh was s. by his elder son, BARTHOLOMEW De BurgherSH, 3rd baron, who had summons to parliament from 25 January, 1330 (4th EDWARD III.), to 15 March, 1354, latterly with the addition of "Seniori." This nobleman was in the wars of Scotland and France, temp EDWARD II., in the retinue of Bartholomew, Lord Badlesmere; but in the 15th of the same reign, joining Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, against the Spencers, he was taken prisoner with Lord Badlesmere, after the battle of Borough-bridge, upon the surrender of that nobleman's castle of Leeds, in Kent, and sent to the Tower of London. He was restored, however, to his freedom and rank, on the arrival of Queen Isabel and Prince Edward, and constituted governor of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque Ports-trusts confirmed to him by King EDWARD III., in whose reign his lordship became still more highly distinguished, participating in the glories of Cressy, and filling several important offices, such as lord chamberlain of the household, constable of the Tower, &c. Lord Burghersh, m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of Theobald de Verdon, a great Staffordshire baron, by whom he had issue, Henry, who m. Isabel, one of the sisters and co-heirs of Edmund de St. John, but d. s. p. BARTHOLOMEW, his successor. Joane. A dau., m. 5th Earl of Kildare. His lordship d. in 1355, and was 8. by his only surviving son, BARTHOLOMEW DE BURGHERSH, 4th baron, summoned to parliament from 15 December 1357 (31st Edward III.), to 24 February, 1368. This nobleman was one of the most eminent warriors of the martial times of EDWARD III., having served in the immediate staff (as we should now call it) of the BLACK PRINCE in the French wars, and attaining therein so much renown, as to be deemed worthy of one of the original Garters, upon the institution of that order. In a few years afterwards, he journeyed into the Holy Land; and he was subsequently, for several years, again in attendance upon his royal master, the BLACK PRINCE, during which period he participated in the triumph of Poictiers. His lordship m. 1st, Cecily, dau. and heiress of Richard de Weyland, by whom he had an only dau, and, eventually, heiress, ELIZABETH, who m. Sir Edward le Despencer, K.G., and carried the Barony of Burghersh into the family of her husband. The great-grand-dau. and representative of this marriage, Elizabeth Beauchamp, m. Edward, a younger son of Ralph |