JONES, Arthur (d. 1670), 2nd Visct. Ranelagh [I], of Roscommon Castle, co. Roscommon, Ire.

Family and Education

b. 1st s. of Roger Jones, 1st Visct. Ranelagh [I] and Frances, da. of Gerald Moore, 1st Visct. Drogheda [I]. educ. G. Inn 16 Mar. 1641.G. Inn Admiss. m. Apr. 1630, Katherine, da. of Sir Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork [I], 1s. 3da.N. Canny, The Upstart Earl: a study of the social and mental world of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, 1566-43 (Cambridge, 1982), 89. suc. fa. 30 Oct. 1643. d. bur. 14 Jan. 1670 14 Jan. 1670.Lodge, Peerage, i. 93.

Offices Held

Irish: MP, co. Roscommon 1634–5. 16 Oct. 1654H. Kearney, Strafford in Ireland (Cambridge 1989), 247. Commr. assessment, co. Roscommon, 12 Jan. 1655; co. Meath 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). commr. 1649 officers, 22 May 1662.NAI, Lodge’s MSS, I.A.53.55, f. 131.

: 2nd Visct. Ranelagh [I], of Roscommon Castle, Ire., co. Roscommon.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

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JONES, Arthur (d. 1670), 2nd Visct. Ranelagh [I], of Roscommon Castle, co. Roscommon, Ire.

Will

Estates

family land holdings amounted to 21,000 acres in 1641 and had risen to 28,600 by 1670, inc. extensive estates in cos. Roscommon, Wicklow, Meath, Kilkenny and Longford.J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English: the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century (New Haven, 2012), 308, 370; Down Survey website.

Oxford 1644

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