BLAYNEY, Richard (d.1670), of Castle Blayney, co. Monaghan.

Family and Education

2nd s. of Henry, 2nd Lord Blayney of Monaghan and Jane, da. of Garret Moore, 1st Visc. Drogheda. m. (1) 9 Mar. 1654, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Vincent of London, 5s. 5da. (2) Jane, da. of --- Malloch, s.p.; suc. bro. (as 4th Lord Blayney of Monaghan) 1669; d. 1670.Lodge, Peerage, iv. 124-5.

Offices Held

Military: capt. (parlian.) army in Ireland, ?1641-aft. 1650. Capt. militia horse, co. Monaghan 1659–60.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 249.

Irish: custos rot. co. Monaghan 5 Aug. 1656-aft. Oct. 1657.Lodge, Peerage, iv. 124; Henry Cromwell Corresp. 323–4. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. assessment, Monaghan 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (1657). Escheator, Co. Tyrone by 1658; Ulster 9 Feb. 1659. Commr. forfeited estates, 7 July 1658.Lodge, Peerage, iv. 124. Member for co. Monaghan, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 183. Commr. poll money, co. Monaghan 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 626, 645.

: co. Monaghan.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BLAYNEY, Richard (d.1670), of Castle Blayney, co. Monaghan.

Will

Estates

In 1670 held 25,300 acres centred on baronies of Cremore, Dartree and Monaghan, co. Monaghan.J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English: the Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven, 2012), 308.

Oxford 1644

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