i88 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IV. 



Privy Seal, dated at Newmarket, 14 February, i6i5[-i6], and 

 by patent at Dublin, 19 July, 1616, 21st of which month he 

 and the Lord Moore were created Lords by Deputy, after an 

 occasional sermon, preached in St. Patrick's church, by Dr. 

 James Usher. In 1620 he was commissioned, with Nicholas, 

 Lord of Howth, and others, to ascertain the number of ale- 

 houses in the county of Dublin ; and 15 July, 1624, appointed 

 one of the Commissioners to keep the peace in the province 

 of Leinster, during the absence of Lord D. Falkland on his 

 progress to view the plantation lately begun by the king in 

 Ulster, and to settle the government in those remote parts. 

 He married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Smith, of Micham 

 in Surrey, Knight, and, dying 7 August, 1625, had issue by 

 her six sons and eight daughters." William Brabazon,' i ith 

 and present Earl of Meath, now represents this Newmarket 

 creation. 



^^ Sir Garrett Moore — eldest son of Sir Edward Moore and 

 Mildred, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas Clifford, Esq., of 

 Chart, county Kent — obtained pardon, June 9, 1603, for all 

 treasonable and other offences committed by him in Ireland 

 during the preceding reign, whereupon he obtained from James 

 I. some subordinate administrative posts in that kingdom. In 

 the Irish Parliament of 161 3 he was member for the borough 

 of Dungannon ; May 20, 161 5, appointed a member of the 

 Council of Munster; and July 8, same year, he was rated at 

 100 marks {£^6 13^-. \d.), for the subsidy then granted to 

 James I. In 1616 Sir Garrett was captain of twenty-five 

 horse-soldiers at 4^-. a day, "and the King," says Lodge, 

 " taking into consideration his great and manifold services to 

 the crown, was pleased, in testimony of the favour he bore 

 him, to create him and his heirs male Baron Moore of 

 Mellefont, by Privy Seal, dated at Newmarket 1 5 February, 

 i6i5[i6], and by patent at Dublin 20 July, 1616 ; the day 

 after which (being Sunday) his Lordship and the Lord Ardee 

 were so created by deputy, after a sermon preached in St. 

 Patrick's Cathedral by Dr. James Usher, then chancellor of 

 that Cathedral, from these words, Acts xvii. 11, There were 



