Falktner — ^^Rememhrances of the State of Ireland, 1612,^^ 141 



The bfiron of delvyne''^' 

 The baron of gornistowne-' 

 Syr Patrycke BarnewelP'' 



Syr Chrystofer Plunket^" 

 Syr Thomas fytz wyllyams' 

 Syr Garratt Elmer^^ 



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Thes six are they that do not onely countenance popery by all ther 

 indevours, but most especyally by ther yll example, and thes sixe 

 are they who yf it would please hys ma*' to drawe over into Englande 

 and here to confyne them, he shuld so weaken the popysh factyon, 

 that the rest would becom to be more tractable. But for matters of 

 relygyon hys ma*' shall neu reform Irelande yf he do not fyrst 

 reform thes or at the least restrayne them. 



Xow is thg tyme for hys ma*'^ eyther to reduce the Irishe to be 

 conformable to hys lawes & proceadynges or to benyfyt hymself of 

 many thowsandes by the yeare by ther dysobedyence. 



Amongst other of our Irysh comodytyes that are raysed to a 



2^ Sir Richard Nugent, 15th Baron Delvin, afterwards (1621) 1st Earl of 

 Westmeath. See " Dictionary of National Biography," vol. xli. 



-'^ James, 5th Viscount Gorniauston. His mother was Catherine Fitzwilliam, 

 a daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, mentioned in this list, whose second 

 husband was Christopher, 4th Visf^ount Gormanston. See Lodge's "Peerage," 

 vol. vi., pp. 194, 195. 



Sir Patrick Barnewall, d. 1621, father of the 1st Viscount Kingsland. See 

 " Dictionary of National Biography," vol. iii. 



Probably Sir Christopher Plunk ett of Diinsoghly, an eminent lawyer, and 

 a member of the Dunray family of Plunketts. He also was a son of Catherine, 

 (laughter of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, whose first husband was James, eldest son 

 of Sir John Plunkett of Dunsoghly, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench from 1563 

 to 1582. 



•'^ Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, or Fitzwilliams, (treated (1629) 1st Baron Fitzwilliam 

 of Thorncastle, and Viscount Fitzwilliam of Meryon. See Cokayne's *' Peerage," 

 vol. iii., p. 383. 



Sir Gerald Aylmer, Knight, afterwards (1621) created a baronet. He was a 

 brother-in-law of the Lord Delvin mentioned in this list. 



The noblemen and gentlemen named in this list were all of them members of 

 the ancient territorial aristocracy of the Pale, whose several families were closely, 

 ind sometimes curiously, related and connected. It will be noted that the Viscount 

 Oormanston and the Sir Christopher Plunkett here mentioned were uterine brothers, 

 and grandsons of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam. 



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