Sir Richard Butler of Mountgarret. Deces. Barons 20. 1 Lord Birmingham of Athenry. Fitz Maurice, alias Fitz Gerald, of Kerry. Lord Flemming of Slane. Plunket of Killein. Nugent of Delvin. St. Laurence of Howth. Plunkett of Dunfany. Barnewall of Trimblefton. Butler of Dunboyne. Fitz Patrick of Upper Offory. O'Neal of Dungannon. Mac Suretan, Lord Defart. Obrien of Inchiquin. Mac Coftilaghe, Lord Nangle. Mac William Burch, Lord of Ere Connaught, Total of Irish peers, in the reign of Elizabeth, thirty-two. A CATALOGUE of the IRISH NOBILITY in 1681, during the laft Adminiftration of the Duke of ORMOND. * For the revival and precedence of the earldom of Water ford, fee p. 193. Chaworth, In all one hundred and nineteen peers; which, with twenty-two bishops, make the total one hundred and forty-one lords in the year one thousand fix hundred and eighty-one. The number of the Irish peers, with the bishops, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, were two hundred. · The number of the commons in the year one thousand fix hundred and thirteen were two hundred and thirty-two. In the year one thousand fix hundred and fixty-fix, they were two hundred and seventy-fix, as appears from lifts in the Journals. After the Revolution they appear to be three hundred from the fame documents; at which number they have fince ftood, as no boroughs have been created and enabled to fend members to parliament in Ireland fince the Revolution. 1 |