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for its antiquity, estate, employments, and alliances, having flou- 

 rished for several generations at South Poole, not far from Kings- 

 bridge. 



Arthur, Viscount Chichester, was created, in 1647, Earl of Do- 

 negal, and was succeeded, pursuant to the limitation of the patent, 

 by his nephew, Arthur, second Earl. He m. Jane, daughter and 

 sole heir to John Itchingham, of Dumbrody, co. Wexford, Esq. by 

 whom he had four sons, Arthur ; John ; Edward, in holy orders, 

 who, by Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Chichester, had issue 

 the Rev. Arthur Chichester. b. Jan. 5, 1716; Charles ; and three 

 daughters : Anne, m. Dacre-Lennard Barret, of Bell-house, in 

 Essex, Esq. by whom she had three daughters and one son, viz. 

 Jane m. John Ranby, Esq. ; Dorothy, m. Hugh Smith, of Weald 

 Hall, in Essex, Esq. and had issue, Lucy, mother of Edward, the 

 present and twelfth Earl Derby ; Henrietta, d. unm. ; and Richard, 

 the son, m. Anne Lennard, daughter and heir of Thomas Earl of 

 Sussex, Lord Dacre, and dying in 1716, four months after his mar- 

 riage, left her (who became Baroness Dacre) with child of a son, 

 Thomas, Lord Dacre, who m. Anne Pratt, sister of the first and 

 aunt of the present Marquis Camden, and a daughter, who d. in 

 1749, and her father d. Dec. 13, 1785: her Ladyship m. 3dly, the 

 Hon. Robert Moore, sixth son of the third Earl of Drogheda, and 

 next brother of William, whose son m. one of the daughters and 

 co-heirs of M. Cassan, of the Queen's County, Esq. ; Catharine, 

 m. John Taylor, Esq. ; Mary m- Sir Robert Newcomen, Bart, by 

 whom she has issue, Sir Arthur, and five daughters. 



Arthur, the eldest son, succeeded his father, and was the third 

 Earl ; in 1705 he was Major-general of the Spanish forces, and 

 was killed on April 10, 1706, at the fort of Montjuick. He m. 1st, 

 Barbara, youngest daughter of Roger, first Earl of Orrery, by 

 whom he had a son, Charles, who d. young ; and his lady dying, 

 he m., 2dly, Catharine, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Granard ; 

 and by her (who d. in June 1743) left two sons and five daughters; 

 Catharine, m. Clotworthy, third Viscount Masserene; Jane, Fran- 

 ces, and Henrietta, were unfortunately burnt at the house in Bel- 

 fast ; Mary d. unm. ; Anne, m. James, fourth Earl of Barrymore : 

 the sons were, Arthur; John, b. in 1700, who, in 1726, m. Eliza- 

 beth, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Newdigate, of Arbury, co. 

 Warwick, Bart. He d. June 1, 1746, and his lady in 1747, leaving 1 

 two sons, Arthur, 1st Marquis; and John b. Dec. 26, 1750, who d. 

 Feb. 6, 1783 ; and a daughter- Arthur, eldest son of Arthur, third 



