the fervice of K. Charles I. fon and heir of Sir Edward Wingfield Knt. deceased, whom the faid Sir Edward Wingfield Knight-martial, being his near kinfman in blood, and of his firname and family, conftituted heir to fucceed him in his eftates in England and Ireland, which eftates the faid Folliott Wingfield did enjoy accordingly, by the fettlement made by the said Knight-martial in his life time, was pleased, in order to continue the memory of his fo deferving ancestors, and to encourage him to imitate their noble fervices, to renew the honour to him and his heirs male by privy feal, dated at Oxford II January, 1664, and by patent 22 February 1665 On 2 May 1671 he was made Cuft. Rot. of the county T 2 of The Preamble. Cum nos regia mente commemorantes eminentia & acceptabilia fervitia regalibus progenitoribus & predecefforibus noftris, impenfa per Richardum Wingfield militem, nuper Dominum Vicecomitem de Powerfcourt, marifchallum regni noftri Hiberniæ, in Francia, Belgia, Hifpania, Portugalia, & in dicto regno noftro Hiberniæ, tam in fubverfione Hifpanorum archirebellis Tyrone apud Kingsale, quam in omnibus aliis locis, in quibus nuper præchariffima foror noftra Regina Elizabetha, feliciffimæ memoriæ, debellata fuit, ac etiam poftea perfoluta ad nuper præchariffimum Avum noftrum Regem Jacobum, inclitæ memoriæ, in vincendo & occidendo rebellem O Dohertye; etiamque confideran→ tes cum quam indefeffo labore in iifdem ferviciis, tam in bello quam in civili gubernatione perftetit, (viz.) bis Jufticiarius dicti regni nof tri Hiberniæ, & continue a juventute fua ufque diem fuum extremum gravidus ætate necnon meritis & honore coronoratus. Cumque etiam concepimus fpem magnam de prædilecto & fideli noftro Folliot Wingfield de Powerfcourt in comitatu Wicklowe in dicto regno noftro Hiberniæ, armigero, confanguineo & herede dicti nuper Domini Vicecomitis, filio & herede Richardi Wingfield armigeri, nuper defuncti in fervitio patris noftri glorioffimæ memoriæ, qui fuit filius, & hæres Edwardi Wingfield, militis, quem dictus Richardus Wingfield marifcallus fibi, ut proximum confanguineum & familiæ et cognationis exiftentem hæredem fui fucceffione in omnibus fuis terris, tenementis & hereditamentis, tam in regno Angliæ quam Hiberniæ conftituit; quæ quidem terræ, tenementa & hereditamenta prædictus Folliot Wingfield, virtute cujufdam stabilimenti facti per dictum militem marifcallum in vita fua, modo gaudet & tenet. Cumque etiam dictus Richardus Wingfield miles marifcallus & nuper Dominus Vicecomes de Powerfcourt prædictus ab hac vita difcefferit abfque hærede mafculo de corpore fuo procreato, & fuperinde titulus & honor Domini Vicecomitis de Powerfcourt modo extinctus eft ; Sciatis igitur quod nos regio affectu commemorantes defudata opera dicti prænobilis Vicecomitis Richardi Wingfield & ipfius memoriam futuris temporibus commendare intendentes, ac etiam ut prædictus Folliot Wingfield tot aut talia memoranda fervitia imitari incitaretur, De gratia noftra fpeciali, &c. (Rot. pat, Cane, Anno. 18o. Car. II. 1 p. D. R. 31.) * Rot, 23 Car. II, 1. p. f. Lewis. of Wicklow; and by his laft will bequeathed to the poor of St. Bride's parish, Dublin, 20l. for the rebuilding of which church in 1683, he had given 20l. the like fum to the poor of Powerfcourt, and 1000l. out of the refidue of his perfonal estate, for the founding and erecting a charity fchool in the parish of Powerfcourt, to teach poor boys to read and write English, and instruct them in the church catechifm gratis, until fit to be put to trades, as William, then Archbishop of Dublin and his fucceffors, for the time being, and his executor Edward Wingfield Efq. should advife---He married the lady Elizabeth Boyle, eldest daughter of the faid Earl of Orrery, but by her, who died 17 October 1709, and was buried the 20 in the Earl of Cork's tomb in St. Patrick's church, where his Lordship was also interred 17 February 1717, having no iffue, the title again became extinct, and the estate descended to his first coufin Edward, for of his uncle Lewis. Which Lewis Wingfield, Efq. had 400l. left him by the will of Richard, Lord Powerfcourt, and 1000l. by that of his father he married Sidney, fixth daughter of Sir Paul Gore of Manor-Gore in the county of Donegall, Bart. by whom he had Edward his heir; Thomas who died without furviving iffue, and Richard, who by Anne his wife, had a fon Richard, baptized 14 March Edward. 1707,-Edward Wingfield, Efq. Counsellor at law, fucceeded to the estate of Powerfcourt, and married first Eleanor, fecond daughter of Sir Arthur Gore of NewtownGore in the county of Mayo; fecondly, the daughter of Doctor William Lloyd, Bishop of Killala; and dying at his house in William-Street 7 January 28, was buried at Powerscourt with his last wife, who died the 12 of the fame month and year; having iffue, by his first wife, an only fon Richard, created Viscount Powerscourt, and two daughters. (1) (2) Isabella, married in April 1722 to Sir Henry King of Rockingham in the county of Rofcomon, Bart. and was mother of Edward Earl of Kingston. Sidney, married 17 April 1723 to Achefon Moore of Ravilla or Agħnecloy in the county of Tyrone, Efq. member of parliament for Bangor, and died roDecember 1727, having an only fon James, baptized 6 August 1726; and three daughters, Eleanor; Mary, married 26 June 1753 to Roger Palmer of Palmerstown in the county Mayo, Esq.; Prerog. Off, and Pedig, and and Sidney, born the day of her mother's death, who was married 25 April 1751 to Hodgson Gage of Macgillegan in the county of Derry, Efq. Richard Wingfield of Powerfcourt, Efq. the only fon Richard, was baptized in St. Michan's Parish 19 Auguft 1697, ferved in parliament for the borough of Boyle, until his majefty Viscount. was pleased to advance him to the honours of baron Wingfield of Wingfield, and Viscount Powerfcourt of Powerfcourt by privy feal, dated at St. James's 26 January, and by patent * 4 February 1743, and in April 1746 he was T 3 called *The Preamble. As honours and dignities are the proper and juft reward to perfons, who have eminently merited from their King and country, and as a continuance of thofe honours in their name and family is an incitement to their pofterity to perfevere in the practice of thofe virtues, that ennobled their ancestors. And whereas we bear in our royal mind a remembrance of the great and faithful fervices, performed for our royal predeceffors by Richard Wingfield, Knt., late Lord Viscount of Powerfcourt, who being by our late royal predeceffor Elizabeth, Queen of England, appointed Marefchal of her army, in this kingdom, under the then Lord Mountjoy, did defeat and difperfe at Kingfale the troops of the Earl Tyrone, and the other rebels affociated with him. And when, after the fuppreffion of the rebellion of the aforefaid Earl of Tyrone, and the establishment of a general peace through this Kingdom, the notorious rebel O Dogherty had burn'd the then new city of Derry, and raised great difturbances in the province of Ulfter, he, the above-mentioned Marefchal, with a small number of forces, conquered and flew the faid O Dogherty in open battle, and difperfed all his adherents; and after thefe fervices in time of war, the faid Marefchal being twice appointed one of the L. J. and chief governors of our kingdom of Treland, was no lefs eminent for his ability and services in the administration of the public government in times of peace. And, as upon the death of the faid Richard Wingfield, late Marefchal and Lord Viscount of Powerfcourt without iflue male (whereby the said honour and title of Powerfcourt was extinct) our late royal predeceffor King Charles II. bearing in his royal remembrance the above-mentioned fervices of the faid Marefchal and Vifcount of Powerfcourt, and being defirous to tranfmit the memory of the fame to pofterity, was pleafed to create Folliott Wingfield, late of Powerfcourt in the County of Wicklow, Efq., coufin and heir of the faid Marefchal, a peer of this kingdom, by the name of Folliott Wingfield, Lord Viscount of Powerfcourt; and as the faid Folliott, Lord Viscount of Powerfcourt is deceafed without iffue male, whereby the faid title and honour of Lord Viscount of Powerfcourt is again become extinct; and as we have the fame defire with our royal predeceffors, to preferve the remembrance of good and faithful fervices done to them and ourselves; and as we are fatisfied in our princely judgment, that Richard Wingfield of Powerfcourt, Efq., coufin and heir to the faid Richard Wingfield, Viscount of Powerfcourt, Marefchal of Ireland, and to the faid Folliott Wingfield, Lord Viscount of Powerfcourt, is a perfon, who, befides his noble defcent, and his poffefsing the Eftates of his faid ancestors, hath, by his own abilities and fervices (1) (2) (2) 2 called into the privy council.—30 August 1721 he married to his first wife Anne, daughter of Chriftopher Ufher of Usher's-Quay in Dublin, Efq. by whom he had no iffue; and fecondly, 13 April 1727, pursuant to articles dated 11 of that month Dorothy-Beresford, daughter of Hercules Rowley of Summer-Hill in the county of Meath, Efq. member of parliament for the county of Londonderry, who died 19 September 1742 2 and his Lordship departing this life, at Chelfea in Middlefex, 21 October 1751, was bu ried 17 November following at Powerfcourt; leaving iffue by her who died in London in July 1785 3 two fons and two daughters viz. Edward and fucceffive Viscounts. Richard, Daughter Frances, born 2 June 1728, to whom her father bequeathed 5000l. and was married pursuant to indenture, 26 November 1747, to John Gore, Efq. created Lord Annally, but by him who died in 1783 when that title expired, fhe had no iffue, Ifabella to whom her father alfo bequeathed 5000l.; 7 March 1770 fhe married Sir Charles Style of Wateringbury in the county of Kent, Bart. and by him who died 18 April 1774, has iffue a fon Sir Charles, fucceffor to his father, and a daughter Dorothy 4. Edward, Edward the fecond Viscount Powerfcourt was born 23 October 1729; after a learned education at home, he viViscount. fited the courts of many foreign princes; and on his return 3 was chosen to parliament for Stockbridge in the county of Hants; he fat first in the house of peers, 15 February 1762, and dying unmarried in London 6 May 1764, was fucceeded by his only brother Richard, Richard the third Viscount, who was baptized 24 December 1730, received 6000l. by the bequeft of his father, Viscount. and fat firft in the House of Peers on the decease of his brother, 22 October 17646.In September 1760, he married Lady Emilia Stratford daughter of John Earl fervices in Parliament, rendered himself to be no lefs regarded by Mentioned in his will dated 14 March 1747, and proved s 3 Idem Idem. 342. Earl of Aldborough, and deceafing 8 Auguft 1788, aged 58 was buried at Powerfcourt, having had iffue three fons and three daughters, viz. Richard, his heir; John; Edward, who died in April 1767; Martha; Emilia; and Harriot. Richard the fourth and present Viscount Powerfcourt, Richard, was born 29 October 1762; and 20 February 1789 he had his introduction to the House of Peers. TITLES.] Richard Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt of Powerscourt, and Baron Wingfield of Wingfield. CREATION.] B. Wingfield of Wingfield in the county of Wexford, and V. Powerfcourt of Powerscourt in the county of Wicklow, 4 February 1743, 17 Geo. II. ARMS.] Pearl, on a bend, ruby, cottifed, diamond, three pair of wings conjoined, of the field. CREST.] On a wreath, an eagle rifing with wings expanded, pearl, beholding the fun in its fplendor. SUPPORTERS.] Two pegafuffes, pearl, with expanded wings, manes, and hoofs, topaz. MOTTO. FIDELITE EST DE DIEU. SEATS.] Powerscourt in the county of Wicklow, 10 miles from Dublin, and Powerscourt-House, in WilliamStreet, Dublin. 4 Viscount. FLOWER, VISCOUNT ASHBROOK. THE family of Flore or Flower, an ancient and emi ent name in the county of Rutland, had a feat in the own of Oakham on a fair eftate of freehold, namely, ten meffuages, 100 acres of land, ten of meadow, with the appurtenances, held of the Lord of the manor by Fealty only; which eftate, or the greatest part of it, was fold in Q. Elizabeth's reign by William Flower, a cadet of the fa Ulfter. mily, 34 |