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Collectanea.
date at Dublin , 1 st August , 1628 ;* and the 14 th Julv , 1634 he took his seat in the House of Peers . He departed this life before Sth January , 1649 By Anne , daughter of Theobald the first Viscount of Dillon , he hadfourteen sons , and three daughters . The eldest son was _ Sir Theobald Taaffe , the second Viscount and arterwards Earl ot Carlinoford : in 1639 he represented the county of Sligo in Parliament , and the of the rebellion he was constituted general of the
during course province of Munster , of which post being deprived by the peace , concluded by the Marquess of Ormond with the Irish in 1640 , he remained without employment during three years , until April , 1049 , when upon the death of Sir Thomas Lucas , he was made master of the ordnance . He improved this interval of three years , to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . He came in this peregrination through Transylvania , where he oined in particular friendshiwith the Grand Duke Sigismond
j p Batory of Transylvania , and with the Count Bethlehen , Grand Master of the Freemasons' High Lodge in Transylvania , from whom he has received as remembrance a Freemason ' s Ring , with a prismatical diamond , which was yet considered in that time as a valuable antiquity , and always highly estimated in the family . When Sir Theobald Taaffe had returned from his journey , he was made master of the ordnance , for which it is told that he was well quawell deserved hhis
lified by his capacity and experience , and whicli he y extraordinary affection and services to the Crown . In 1651 , he was sent with Sir Nicholas Piunkett and Geoffrey Browne , by the Marquess of Clanricarde , King Charles II . ' s deputy , to the Duke of Lorraine , to solicit his aid in favour of the ( then ) unhappy kingdom of Ireland , and was excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell s Act of I arliament for the Settlement cf Ireland . But after the Restoration , Kingestatesand accord
Charles II . gave the order for restoring him in his , - ingl y by the Acts of Settlement , Viscount Theobald Taaffe was restored to his estates , together with those of Christopher Taaffe of Braganstown , and Theophilus Taaffe of Cookstown , which they had respectively forfeited , and Theobald Viscount Taaffe had the benefit of his proviso confirmed by patent , 16 th April , 1007 , and by several future patents , a discharge of the quit rents imposed by those Acts . His Alajesty
new having a particular esteem for his lordship , was pleased , as an especial mark ofthe gracious sense he had of his eminent services for him and his interests , to honour him with the dignity of Earl of Carhngford , m the county of Louth , entailing that honour on the heirs male of his body ,
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Collectanea.
date at Dublin , 1 st August , 1628 ;* and the 14 th Julv , 1634 he took his seat in the House of Peers . He departed this life before Sth January , 1649 By Anne , daughter of Theobald the first Viscount of Dillon , he hadfourteen sons , and three daughters . The eldest son was _ Sir Theobald Taaffe , the second Viscount and arterwards Earl ot Carlinoford : in 1639 he represented the county of Sligo in Parliament , and the of the rebellion he was constituted general of the
during course province of Munster , of which post being deprived by the peace , concluded by the Marquess of Ormond with the Irish in 1640 , he remained without employment during three years , until April , 1049 , when upon the death of Sir Thomas Lucas , he was made master of the ordnance . He improved this interval of three years , to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . He came in this peregrination through Transylvania , where he oined in particular friendshiwith the Grand Duke Sigismond
j p Batory of Transylvania , and with the Count Bethlehen , Grand Master of the Freemasons' High Lodge in Transylvania , from whom he has received as remembrance a Freemason ' s Ring , with a prismatical diamond , which was yet considered in that time as a valuable antiquity , and always highly estimated in the family . When Sir Theobald Taaffe had returned from his journey , he was made master of the ordnance , for which it is told that he was well quawell deserved hhis
lified by his capacity and experience , and whicli he y extraordinary affection and services to the Crown . In 1651 , he was sent with Sir Nicholas Piunkett and Geoffrey Browne , by the Marquess of Clanricarde , King Charles II . ' s deputy , to the Duke of Lorraine , to solicit his aid in favour of the ( then ) unhappy kingdom of Ireland , and was excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell s Act of I arliament for the Settlement cf Ireland . But after the Restoration , Kingestatesand accord
Charles II . gave the order for restoring him in his , - ingl y by the Acts of Settlement , Viscount Theobald Taaffe was restored to his estates , together with those of Christopher Taaffe of Braganstown , and Theophilus Taaffe of Cookstown , which they had respectively forfeited , and Theobald Viscount Taaffe had the benefit of his proviso confirmed by patent , 16 th April , 1007 , and by several future patents , a discharge of the quit rents imposed by those Acts . His Alajesty
new having a particular esteem for his lordship , was pleased , as an especial mark ofthe gracious sense he had of his eminent services for him and his interests , to honour him with the dignity of Earl of Carhngford , m the county of Louth , entailing that honour on the heirs male of his body ,