PEIRCE, Sir Henry (c.1628-91), of Tristernagh Abbey, co. Westmeath.

Family and Education

b. c. 1628, 1st s. of Sir William Peirce and Martha, da. of James Ware. m. (c.1653) Mary, da. of Dr Henry Jones, bishop of Clogher, 8s. 7da.NLI, MS 2563, unfol. suc. fa. 1638. Kntd. 30 Nov. 1658. cr. bt. 18 Feb. 1661. d. 19 Sept. 1691.CB; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 116n-117n.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. regt. of James Castle (later Henry Slade, William Leigh), parlian. forces in Ireland, c.Sept. 1647-Oct. 1653.Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 188, 211; TCD MS 844, f. 45. Capt. militia, co. Westmeath 1659–60.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 247.

Irish: assessment, co. Westmeath 16 Oct. 1654, 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1657). Sheriff, cos. Longford and Westmeath 1657, 1658, 1662–3.CB; HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 95. Member for co. Westmeath, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 191. Commr. poll money, Westmeath 24 Apr. 1660–1, Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 622, 642. MP, St Johnstown 1661–6.CJI, i. 592. Licenser of gunpowder, 16 Oct. 1661.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 442. Commr. subsidy, 1663.HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 96.

: of Tristernagh Abbey, co. Westmeath.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PEIRCE, Sir Henry (c.1628-91), of Tristernagh Abbey, co. Westmeath.

Will

20 July 1691, pr. 1691.NLI, D.27163; P.B. Eustace, ‘Index of Will Abstracts‘, Analecta Hibernica xii. 309.

Estates

inherited estate at Tristernagh, Moygoish barony, co. Westmeath; and granted land at Kells, co. Meath, 1668.Irish Census, 1659, 511; NLI, D.7410. Also held lands in cos. Wexford and Kilkenny.Down Survey website; Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 191.

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