DUNBRODY, in 1447, and was sent on au important mission to Pope Eugenius IV. Ireland, and was ancestor of the Counts Clonard, in France. The eldest son, CHRISTOPHER HORE, esq. of the Pole, succeeded his brothers, and was probably THOMAS HORE, esq. of the Pole, had letborn after the marriage of his namesake, Sir ters of general pardon from HENRY VIII. Christopher Preston, with his maternal aunt. in 1540, and he alienated many of his town From his close relationship to the Morti- lands by deed dated 8th April. He m. in mers, and the HOUSE OF YORK, he fought un1552, one of the five co-heirs of John der the white banner during the wars of the Isham, of Bryanston, grand seneschall of Roses, and none of his family received a the county, (see Hore of Harperstown, p. single office during the time the LANCAS-718,) but leaving no issue, he was s. by TRIANS sat on the throne of England. He his brother, died, leaving by Maude, daughter of John Neville, Baron of Rosgarland, in the county of Wexford, a son and heir, WILLIAM LE HORE, esq. of the Pole, who m. Eylme, daughter of Philip Furlonge, esq. of Davidstown, by Margaret, his wife, dau. of Lord Keating of Kilcoan. His children were Richard, esq. of the Pole, who d. s. p. and THOMAS HORE, esq. of the Pole, who m. Jane, daughter of Sir John Roche, knt. of the Drynagh; a branch of the Viscounts Roche; and was succeeded by his son and heir, WILLIAM HORE, esq. of the Pole, who m. Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Rosceter, of Rathmacknee Castle, grand seneschal of the county of Wexford to HENRY VII. widow of James Rochford, esq. of Tagonnan, sister of Sir Walter Rosceter, and of Isabella, wife of James Esmonde, of Johnstown Castle, great-grandfather of Sir Lawrence, LORD ESMONDE, (see BURKE's Peerage). By this lady he had issue, THOMAS, of whom presently. Nicholas Hore, esq. of Growtown, of Nicholas Stafford, esq. of the Margaret, m. Nicholas Sutton, esq. of mentioned in a list, dated 1574, of the noble CHRISTOPHER HORE, esq. of the Pole, men and gentry of his country, as a “ man of power and name, and faithful to the queen;" his wife was Gennet, daughter of John Furlonge, esq. of Carrickmanon, and by her he had WILLIAM, Son and heir, living in 1598, NICHOLAS, who succeeded. The second son, wards of Mullinderry and Cooleboy; had NICHOLAS HORE, esq. of the Pole, afterpossession of, and chief rents from, four parishes, comprising Horesland, viz. Ardcandrish, Coolstuffe, Inch, and Horetown. In 1608, the whole barony of Shelmalier was owned by only ten gentlemen, four of whom held their estates of him, and three were of his name. Dying before 1641, he left by Isabella, daughter of Nicholas Hore, esq. of BALLYSHELANE, and Annistace, his wife, daughter of Sir Nicholas Devereux, sister of Sir Nicholas and Sir James Devereux, knts. of Balmagir, CHRISTOPHER. William. Edmond, of Mullinderry. Anne, m. 24th February, 1678, Oli- Bridget, m. Walter Neville, esq. of The son and successor, CHRISTOPHER HORE, esq. of Pole Hore, and Ardcandrish, born 1612, signed in 1642 the roll of the Holy Catholic Confederation. A small portion of his paternal estates, of which he had been deprived by Cromwell, were recovered in 1666, by the interference Mary, m. 16th October, 1680, to Mark His widow m. secondly, William Esmonde, ried. His brother (who continued the male line), CESAR HORE, esq. baptized at Wexford in 1715, s. in 1777. He m. in 1745, Anastasia, daughter of Thomas Clare, esq. and dying in Dublin, April, 1791, left issue, PHILIP, his heir. Thomas, b. in 1757. Hannah, m. in 1791, to Richard Fitz Gerald Seix, esq. of Fennor, in the county of Tipperary. Catherine. The elder son, PHILIP HORE, esq. born in 1750, m. in 1779, Elizabeth, daughter of William Wollett, esq. of Chislehurst, Kent. She died in 1793, and he in 1802, leaving an only child, Не PHILIP HORE esq. of Pole Hore, born 10th June, 1673, recovered part of his property in the court of claims in 1701, it having been forfeited by WILLIAM III. as the estate of George Hore, esq. of Pole Hore, M.P. for Taghmon, who had wrongfully obtained it. He m. in 1705, Jane, daughHERBERT WILLIAM HORE, esq. commander ter of Thomas Richards, esq. of Rathaspeck R.N. b. in 1787, captain of his majesty's Park, sister of Editha, wife of Henry Hat- ship Freija at the end of the last war. ton, esq. of Great Clouard, M. P. for Wex-resided at Clonattin, in the county of Wexford (whose grandson, Colonel Hatton, knight of that shire, m. Lady Anne Gore, daughter of Arthur, Earl of Arran, afterwards first Marchioness of Abercorn). He was high sheriff of the county in 1739, and having become a Protestant, d. in 1749, leaving issue, besides five other daughters, THOMAS. Henry, m. in 1730, Elizabeth, dau. CESAR, who s. his brothers. d. in 1793. The eldest son, ford, the seat of Colonel Ram, and m. in 1814, Eliza, daughter and co-heir (with Sarah, wife of Colonel Brandreth, R. A.) of George Curling, esq. of West Hatch, in the 1823, left two sons and a daughter, viz. county of Essex. Captain Hore dying in HERBERT-FRANCIS. Edward-George, b. 18th August, 1823, a midshipman in his majesty's ship Mary, b. at Clonattin, in the county Mrs. Hore m. secondly, in 1826, Henry Henry-Charles-Grosvenor Bedford, b. Hore, of Shandon. THOMAS HORE, esq. of Pole Hore, born in 1706, m. in 1737, Catherine, daughter of the Rev. William Harvey, of Bargy Castle, (aunt of Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey, who suffered for the rebellion of 1791, having acted as commander-in-chief of the rebel army); and Susanna, daughter of John Harvey, esq. of Killiane, M. P. for Wexford, by Elizabeth, daughter of James Stopford, esq. of Courtown (ancestor of the EARLS OF COURTOWN). He d. in 1774, leav-cester of LORD ing three daughters, his co-heirs, all mar- Peerage,) a son, SIR JOHN HORE, knt. of Shandon, in the county of Waterford; a fief from the Earls of Desmond, to one of whom he was seneschall, m. Elenor, dau. of Nicholas le Poer, Baron of Curraghmore, and had, (with Cardula, wife of Sir Mathew Browne, knt. of Malrankan, in the county of Wexford, anORANMORE; see Burke's whose descendant, SIR JAMES HORE, knt. of Shandon; knight of the shire for the county of Waterford in 1497, his great grandson, Mathew, left JOHN HORE, esq. of Shandon, who d. in 1602, leaving by Catherine Russell, MATHEW HORE, esq. of Shandon, d. 10th July, 1629, m. Margaret, daughter of Sir John Coppinger, knt. of Crosshaven, in the county of Cork, and had issue, among others, 1. JOHN, of whom presently, 1. Margaret, m. to Thomas Ronayne, esq. of Youghall. 2. Elenor, m. to John Nugent, esq. of Cloncoskeran House, in the county of Waterford. 3. Jane, married to Robert, brother of Sir Nicholas Whyte, knt. of Leixlip, uncle of the Countess of Carlingford, and the Viscountesses Dillon and Galmoy. The son and successor, JOHN HORE, esq. M.P. for Dungarvan in 1634 and 1639; had a grant from the commissioners of defective titles of the castles and lands of Shandon, Dungarvan, &c. in 1637, m. Mary, daughter of Thomas Waddyng, esq. and left MATHEW HORE, esq. of Shandon, who signed the roll of Catholic Confederation, and was dispossessed by CROMWELL, for being in arms against the parliament. He recovered on the Restoration, 4,287 acres of land; was justice of the peace in 1671, captain of Colonel Grace's regiment, afterwards lieutenant colonel in King James' army, and was knight of the shire for the county of Waterford in 1689, and indicted of high treason by WILLIAM III. Colonel Hore left by his wife Mary, in 1696, with others, mire, containing 3,987 acres. M.P. for Dungarvan, in 1689, and attainted by WILLIAM III. He left John, who lost his estates by the attainder. Dorothea, m. to in 1681, Richard Mansfield, esq. of Ballynamultena, in the county of Waterford. 1. Ismay, m. Colonel James Devereux, of Carrigmenan, in the county of Wexford, M.P. for Enniscorthy. 2. Margaret, m. Thomas, 7th Lord Bourke of Castle Connell. The elder son, JOHN HORE, esq. of Shandon Castle, and of Dunsandle, in the county of Galway, was high sheriff of the county of Waterford, M. P. for Dungarvan in 1689, and deputy governor of the county of Mayo, he was attainted in 1689. He espoused Catherine, one of the three sisters* called "the graces,' from their excessive beauty, daughter of Sir John Bourke, of Derrimaclaghtna, in the county of Galway, (by Mary, his wife, dau. of Richard, 6th Earl of Clanrickarde.) He left issue several children, of whom MATHEW HORE, esq. of Shandon, and of Aghrahane, in the county of Galway, had a son and three co-heiresses, by Mabella, his wife, viz. 1. John, who d. a minor in 1748. 2. MARY, m. 18th August, 1756, Sir 3. HONORA, m. 8th June, 1765, Michael, son and heir of Gerald Aylmer, esq. of Lyons, in the county of Kildare. The other two were the Viscountess Dillon, and the Countess of Antrim. HORE, OF HARPERSTOWN. HORE, WALTER, esq. of Harperstown, in the county of Wexford, b. 6th June, 1784, m. 13th October, 1806, the Honourable Mary-Elizabeth-Thornton Ruthven, daughter of the late Lord Ruthven, and has issue, 1. WILLIAM, lieutenant in the 75th foot. 11. James Stopford, d. young. 111. Ruthven, of Trinity College, Cambridge. IV. Walter, in the Indian army. v. Leslie Melville. vi. Cavendish Bradstreet, midshipman in His Majesty's ship Harlequin. 1. Mary. IV. Wilhelmina. 11. Elenor Catherine. v. Jane. III. Anne. VI. Georgina. Mr. Hore, who is a magistrate for the county of Wexford, and commandant of cavalry, served the office of high-sheriff in 1828; he succeeded his father in 1798. Lineage. The very early descent of this branch is, from the extreme scarcity of records in Ireland, most difficult to determine without liability to error;-but every following detail is a fact, for which distinct and uncontrovertible authority can be produced. THOMAS LE HORE, esq. living temp. EDWARD I. (1272) had issue, PHILIP LE HORE, whose son, WILLIAM LE HORE, esq. recovered in 1332, the estate of Tillaghdonan, in the county of Wexford, (possessed by his grandfather) against Isabella le Hore. We may venture to presume that he was identical with WILLIAM LE HORE, de Tillaghbard," in the same county, (which latter domain was a fief long held by the house of HARPERSTOWN, of the Le Bruns (or Brownes) Lords of Malrankan), so named in his summons to attend the Lord Justice of Ireland, in 1345, with his horses and arms. And also that he was father of STEPHEN LE HORE, esq. with whom the pedigree in the visitation of Wexford (dated 1618) commences, whose son, WILLIAM HORE, esq. of Harperstown, commissioner for the barony of Shermalier in raising money as a present to the grand prior of Kilmainham, for his warlike services in the county of Wexford, anno 1412; and was custos pacis or chief justiciary of the peace in the county, in 1427. He had to wife one of the co-heirs of John St. John, esq. of Taghmohagyr, in the county of Wexford, and was s. by his son, JOHN HORE, Lord of Harperstown, who is mentioned in the statutes of Ireland, of 3 and 11 EDWARD IV. as John Fitz-William Hore, esq. and is probably the same who was benefactor to the preceptory of Kilcloghan, in the county of Wexford. He was s. by his eldest son, WILLIAM HORE, esq. of Harperstown, who m. daughter of Nicholas Browne, Lord of Malrankan, in the county of Wexford, and grand seneschall of the county in 3 HENRRY VI. and had NICHOLAS, his heir, who succeeded. DAVID, who usurped the estates, as hereafter. The elder, NICHOLAS HORE, esq. of Harperstown, flourished temp. HENRY VIII. and was a great actor in the border warfare of that period in the county of Wexford. He m. first, Joan, daughter of Thomas Hay, esq. of Killiane Castle, secondly, a daughter of Mc Murrough Kavanagh, called by the Irish, King of Leinster; and lastly, a daughter of Edmond Walsh, of Castle Hoel, in the county of Kilkenny, Lord of the Walsh Mountains, by which last marriage he had an only child, EDMOND HORE, of Harperstown. A grand jury of the county of Wexford presented to the justices, "that in the 18th year of our Sovereign Lord King HENRY VIII. (1527) DAVID HORE, his uncle, broke violently into his house, and did kill and sley him and his wife, she being then greate with child of twoe children." This wife was a daughter of Gerald Kavanagh, of the house of Borres; and their orphan daughters, Katherine, were returned by a subMargaret, sequent grand jury as 'generall heyres to Harpistone, Edmond Hore, of all his landes." Their claims however, were not powerful enough to dispossess their uncle, DAVID HORE, who became lord of Har MATHEW LE HORE, esq. of HARPERSTOWN, apparently acquired that estate temp. EDWARD III. by marrying Agatha, heiress of Philip le Harper, Lord of Harperstown, according to the plea roll in Birmingham Tower, No. 210, 2 RICHARD II. By patent dated 4th April, 1390, the king granted to him, that he, during his life, should be exempt from assizes, juries, &c., and should not be made sheriff, coroner, collector of subsidies, or other minister against his will; -the importance of this privilege, probably a parliamentary exemption, may be esti-perstown, having slain his nephew, and promated when it is known, that at this period, peers were obliged to discharge the offices of sheriff, &c., in common with all other persons. Thomas, Duke of Surrey, was about that time sheriff of the county of Louth. He was s. by his son, cured the setting aside of the claims of that nephew's two co-heirs, in defiance of the presentment of the grand jury. He had the justification of an Act of Parliament, which made it treason and death to marry a woman of Irish blood, which was the case with ROBERT, his heir. WILLIAM, who succeeded his brother. Richard, of Taghmon, living in 1569, from whom descended, David Hore, esq. of Aghfada, M.P. for Taghmon in 1634, whose daughter Ellen, m. Christopher Bryan, esq. of Skarr. The eldest, ROBERT HORE, esq. lord of Harperstown, received two pardons from HENRY VIII. one in 1532, and the other in 1540. He died without heirs male, 1 EDWARD VI. 1547, and was s. by his brother, WILLIAM HORE, esq. of Harperstown, who, on his accession, had a grant of the custody of Taghmon Castle, from EDWARD VI. by letters patent dated 1547. He married Joan, daughter of Sir Nicholas Chevers, knt. of Balyhaly, in the county of Wexford, by Alison, sister of Walter Fitz Simons, Archbishop of Dublin, and wife of Sir Nicholas St. Lawrence, 16th baron of Howth, and died 26th January, 1570, having had issue, NICHOLAS, his heir. Katherine, m. in 1565, Thomas, third Joane. Ellen. Marion. Margaret. The eldest son, EDMOND. EDMOND HORE, esq. of Harperstown, born 1558, succeeded his grandfather in 1570, received letters of pardon from JAMES I. for alienating some of his property; married Elinor, daughter of Nicholas Turnor, esq. of the manor of Balyraly, in the county of Wexford, and died 2nd November, 1609, having had issue, WILLIAM, his heir. Nicholas, living 1636, married Cathe- John, d. 1618, m. Elizabeth Gwynn. daughter of Thomas, son of John James, of Wexford, married Margaret, Thomas, married Ellen, daughter of The eldest son, WILLIAM HORE, esq. of Harperstown, b. 1587, m. 10th December, 1607, Margaret, NICHOLAS HORE, esq. died in his father's daughter of Oliver Keating, esq. of Killifetime. He married before 1558, Marga- coan, by Joan, daughter of Honourable ret, one of the five co-heirs of John Isham, Pierce Butler, BARON OF KAYER, second esq. of Bryanston, grand seneschall of the son of Sir Richard, 1st Viscount Mountgarcounty of Wexford; whose cousin, Sir rett. He signed the great roll of the CaJohn Isham, of Lamport, Northampton- tholic Confederation, and took an active part shire, was created one of the earliest baro- | in the civil wars. In the depositions in Trinets. She married secondly, the Right nity College, he is stated to have been preHonourable SIR NICHOLAS ARNOLD, knt. of sent in July, 1642, at the siege of DuncanHyneham, Gloucestershire, lord justice of non; and that on St. Margaret's day, 20th Ireland, and CHIEF GOVERNOR of that king-July, 1642, being at Bourkstown, and heardom in 1564. He was custos rotulorum of Gloucestershire; and Hollinshed tells us in his chronicles, that "he bred the best horses in England." She died in September, 1616, (according to the visitation of Wexford) leaving ing some firing, he said to the party who were in arms with him, "This is our neighbour Redmond, that the English are firing upon, it is fitting we should help our neighbour;" he then marched to Redmond's Hall, with Colonel Devereux of Mountpill, |