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command of the Irish forces. In January, 1641, he was one 

 of the commissioners, deputed by the counties of Kilkenny, 

 Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford, to take the city of 

 Waterford into their government, and to seize all the goods 

 of the English, for the maintenance of their rising, which was 

 called " The Holy War of the Confederate Catholics ; " but 

 the mayor and corporation of that city prevented the attempt, 

 and about the middle of March following, procured ships for 

 the escape of the Protestants. He acted in concert with his 

 father during the progress of the insurrection ; whose example 

 he followed in protecting the English, and endeavouring to 

 restore peace to that kingdom, which had been goaded into 

 rebellion by the fanaticism of Charles I. and the rapacity and 

 incapacity of his unscrupulous ministers. At the Restoration, 

 Viscount Mountgarret was restored to his estates, etc., and 

 obtained the necessary pardon in conformity with the Act of 

 Settlement. He married, ist. Lady Dorothy Touchet, second 

 daughter of Mervyn, Earl of Castlehaven, by whom he had 

 two sons and two daughters ; and 2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Sir George Simeon, of Brightwell, by his wife, the Hon. 

 Mary Vaux, one of the sisters and co-heirs of Henry Vaux, 

 5th Baron Vaux of Harrowden, and by that lady had an only 

 son, Edward Butler, upon whom he settled Ballyragget and 

 other extensive estates in the county Kilkenny. He died 

 in 1679, and was succeeded by his son Richard, 5th Viscount 

 Mountgarret. 



^■^•^ John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter — eldest son of David 

 Cecil, the 3rd Earl and Lady Elizabeth Egerton, daughter of 

 John, I St Earl of Bridgewater — born 1628, succeeded to the 

 honours and estates of his family on the death of his father, 

 April 18, 1643. He married, ist, Frances, daughter of John, 

 Earl of Rutland, by whom he had issue, John his successor, 

 David, who died young, and a daughter, Frances, married to 

 John, Viscount Scudamore. His first wife dying December 

 2, 1660, his lordship married, 2ndly, Mary, daughter of Mild- 

 may Fane, Earl of Westmoreland, widow of Sir Brian Palmes, 

 of Ashwell, county Rutland, but by her he had no issue. He 



