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Peerage of Ireland. 



1689. Duke and Marquis of Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, 



Earl of Tyrconnel. Died 1691, 



1690. Earl of Lucan, Patrick Sarsfield. Died, 1693. 



1689. Viscount Kenmare and Lord Castlerosse, Valen- 

 tine Browne, ancestor of the Earl of Kenmare. 

 Died, 1694. 



1689. Viscount Mount Cashel, Maccarthy. 



1689. Viscount Mount Leinster, Cheevers. 



1689. Baron Fitton of Gawsworth, Alexander Fitton, 



Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 

 1689. Baron Nugent of Riverston, Thomas Nugent, 



son of Richard, 16th Lord Delvin, Lord C. J. 



of King's Bench, Ireland. Died, 1715. 

 1689. Baron de Burgh of Bophin, John Bourke, son of 



William, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, afterwards 



9th Earl of Clanricarde. Died, 1722. 



In regard to the Irish creations it may be ob- 

 served that they were in a different situation 

 from the English and Scottish, as they were con- 

 ferred by James II. while de facto King of Ireland, 

 and before there had been any declaration by the 

 Irish Parliament or people that he had forfeited 

 his right to the sovereignty of that kingdom. The 

 patents passed the seals, and those ennobled sat in 

 the parliament which met 7th May, 1689. It is 

 true they were subsequently declared null and 

 void, along with the other acts of that unfortunate 

 monarch and his parliament. In the case of the 

 other kingdoms, the warrants ex necessitate never: 

 passed the seals, and were therefore incomplete ; 

 although, had the Stuarts been restored, they 

 might probably have been rendered valid as to 

 precedency, in the same way that Charles II. on 

 his restoration confirmed and validated several 

 honours granted by his father and himself during 

 the civil troubles. Louis XIV. had the courtesy 

 to recognise the titles conferred by James II., 

 and in consequence the titular Dukes of Melfort, 

 Perth, &c., enjoyed the privileges attached to the 

 ducal rank at the Court of France ; , but they 

 were never enrolled among the Dukes of that 

 kingdom, or considered otherwise than as foreign 

 noblemen. 



Among the Baronets created were the fol- 

 lowing : — 



John Graeme (afterwards Earl of Alford). 



1766. John Hay (of Restaling). Attainted, 1746. 

 John Lumsden. 



1784. John Roy Stewart. Attainted, 1746. 



Many persons attached to the Court of the 

 exiled Stuarts were termed " Sir," which might 

 apply to knights as well as baronets. Among 

 these were : — 



Sir Thomas Sheridan. 



Sir John Sullivan. 



Sir Thomas Geraldine. 



Sir John Macdonald. 



Sir John Constable, 



I observe that G. W. M. (2"^ S. ix. 364.) gives 

 the names of seven knights out of thirteen said to 

 have been made by Charles Edward in 1745-6. 

 Whether the young Chevalier exercised that right 



as Regent, I know not* ; but there seems to be a 

 mistake as to several of the persons enumerated. 

 Thus, "Sir Hector Maclean" was probably the 

 5th Baronet of Morvaren, who was apprehended 

 on suspicion and carried to London at the com- 

 mencement of the rising ; " Sir Wm. Gordon," 

 the 3rd Baronet of Park, who was attainted for 

 his accession to the rebellion in 1745 ; " Sir David 

 Murray," the 4th Baronet of Stanhope, who was 

 attainted and implicated in both the rebellions of 

 1715 and 1.745, nephew of the infamous John 

 Murray of Broughton; and " Sir Wm. Dunbar," the 

 3rd Baronet of Durn, who was concerned in the 

 last occasion, and excepted from mercy in the Act 

 of Indemnity, 1747. R. R. 



.CATAPULT. 



This age of progress may expect to be agreeably 

 surprised ere long by a great improvement, in the 

 form of an effective substitute for the art of 

 throwing stones, as at present practised in our 

 streets. The new engine, for such it is, is called 

 a catapult, sends a stone as straight as a bullet, 

 apd will knock off the head of a fowl, knock out 

 your eye, break the leg of a dog, or smash plate 

 glass. Two cases have lately come before our 

 metropolitan police courts. The Times of Tues- 

 day, July 24th, records a case at Marlborough 

 Street, where a boy was 'convicted of delibe- 

 rately sending a stone, by means of a catapult, 

 through the window of a private dwelling-house, 

 was fined Is., and released with a caution not to 

 do so again. In my own neighbourhood our at- 

 tention has been pointedly called to a great in- 

 crease of window-breaking within the last two 

 months ; the great window of our church has 

 been extensively holed, and two costly panes of 

 plate-glass have been perforated in an adjoining 

 manufactory. At length, an advertisement offer- 

 ing 21. reward having proved ineffectual, a watch 

 was kept, two lads were seen in the act of prac- 

 tising on a window, two panes were simultaneously 

 broken, and one of the offenders was taken. He 

 proved to be a youth of fifteen, *' respectably con- 

 nected," and strenuously protested that he was 

 " only shooting at sparrows on the roof;" but on 

 July 24th he was had up by summons to Worship 

 Street, where he got off by his father's paying 5*. 

 damages and 2s. costs. In consequence, no doubt, 

 of the pressure of more important business on that 

 occasion, the case was not very minutely gone 

 into, the catapult was not exhibited in court, and 



* Lord Milton, in a letter to the Marquis of Tweeddale, 

 6th Sept. 1745, says that Mercer of Aldie was knighted 

 for acting the chief part in proclaiming the Pretender at 

 Perth. This was the Hon. Robert Nairn Mercer, who 

 was killed at Culloden, and from whom descends Baroness 

 Nairn and Keith, wife of Count Flahault. I have never 

 met with any notice of him as " Sir " Robert. 



