COOTE, Sir Charles, 2nd bt. (1610-61), of Castle Coote, co. Roscommon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1610, 1st s. of Sir Charles Coote, 1st bt. and Dorothea, da. and coh. of Hugh Cuffe of Cuffe’s Wood, co. Cork; bro. of Thomas Coote*.CP. educ. Trinity, Camb. Apr. 1622.Al. Cant. m. (1) bef. 1630, Mary, da. of Sir Francis Ruish of Ruish Hall, Queen’s Co.; (2) bef. May 1645, Jane, da. of Sir Robert Hannay bt. of Mochrum, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, 2s. 3da.Lodge, Peerage, i. 309-10. Kntd. 4 June 1626.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 190. suc. fa. 7 May 1642. cr. Baron Coote of Castle Cuffe, King’s Co., Visct. Coote of Castle Coote, Roscommon, and earl of Mountrath, Queen’s Co. [I], 6 Sept. 1660. d. 18 Dec. 1661.CP; Lodge, Peerage, i. 309.

Offices Held

Irish: MP, co. Leitrim 1640.CJI, i. 218. J.p. co. Antrim 1640.McGrath, Biographical Dict. Jt. collector and recvr.-gen. composition, Connaught 16 Feb. 1643.Lodge, Peerage, i. 305. Ld. pres. 12 May 1645–d.CJ iv. 133b. Commr. Irish affairs, 17 Dec. 1652, 19 Jan. 1660.CJ vii. 815b; Lodge, Peerage, i. 307. Asst. ct. of claims, 7 Oct. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 400. Commr. assessment, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Galway, Mayo, Londonderry, Cavan, Wexford, Kerry, Meath, Clare, Queen’s Co. 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655; Leitrim, Roscommon, and Galway 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (1654, 1655, 1657). allocation of lands, Loughrea 16 June 1655.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 521. Member, cttee. for arrears to maimed soldiers and widows, 20 Aug. 1655.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 538. Recvr.-gen. composition money, Connaught and Thomond 1660. Commr. poll money, Leitrim, Roscommon and Galway 1660;McGrath, Biographical Dict. managing affairs of Ireland, 8 Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 255. Member for Galway City, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 228. Ld. justice, 26 Oct. 1660.DIB. Gov. Galway 29 Mar. 1661. Recvr.-gen. composition, Connaught and Clare and gov. Queen’s Co. 30 July 1661.Lodge, Peerage, i. 308–9.

Military: provost-marshal, Connaught May 1642–d.PJ, ii. 455. Capt. of horse, 1643;DIB. col. of ft. and horse, c.1644-June 1653;SP28/93/1, ff. 92–3, 98–9. col. of ft. July 1659 – May 1660, 9 Feb. 1661–d.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 12–13; Lodge, Peerage, i. 309.

Civic: alderman, Londonderry 1657; mayor, Galway 1658.DIB.

: 2nd bt. (1610-61), of Castle Coote, co. Roscommon. 1610 – 61.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

COOTE, Sir Charles, 2nd bt. (1610-61), of Castle Coote, co. Roscommon.

Will

not found.

Estates

inherited 18,600 acres in cos. Cavan, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim, and acquired (mid-1650s) lands of earl of Clanricarde in Galway, earl of Gormanstown in Meath and Dublin, and Fitzpatricks in Queen’s Co. By 1670, family estates in Ireland amounted to 47,200 acres.J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English: the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century (New Haven, 2012), 297; DIB.

Oxford 1644

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