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8. My ſon Jeoffry born at Youghall the 10th of April, 1616. He died.

9. My daughter Dorothy, born the 31ſt of December, 1617. She was married to lord Loftus.

10. My ſon Lewis, born the 23d of May, 1619, and in the year 1628 he was created baron of Bandonbridge, and lord viſcount Boyle of Kenelmeaky.

11. My ſon Roger, born the 25th of April, 1621. He was created lord Boyle, baron of Broghill, 1628.

12. My ſon Francis (i), born the 25th of June, 1623.(i) Afterwards lord Shannon.

13. My daughter Mary (k), born the 11th of November, 1624.(k) Married to the earl of Warwick.

14. My ſeventh ſon Robert, born the 25th of January, 1626.

15. My eighth and laſt daughter Margaret (l), born in Channel Row in Weſtminſter the 30th of April, 1629.(l) She died unmarried.

The great God of heaven I do humbly and heartily beſeech, to bleſs all theſe my children, whom he hath in his mercy ſo graciouſly beſtowed upon me, with long and religious lives, and that they may be fruitful in virtuous children and good works, and continue till their lives end loyal and dutiful ſubjects to the king's majeſty and his heirs, and approve themſelves good patriots and members to his commonwealth; which is the prayer and charge of me their father in the 67th year of my age, 1632.

My dear wife, the crown of all my happineſs, and mother of all my children, Catharine counteſs of Corke, was tranſlated at Dublin from this life into a better the 16th of February 1629–30, and was the 17th privately buried in the night in the upper end of the choir of St. Patrick's church in Dublin, in the grave or vault, wherein Dr. Weſton, her grandfather, and good lord chancellor of Ireland, and Sir Geoffry Fenton, his majeſty's principal ſecretary of ſtate for this realm, were entomb'd. Her funerals were honourably ſolemnized in publick the 11th of March Anno Domini 1629. In the perpetual memory of which my virtuous and religious deceaſed wife, and of her predeceſſors and poſterity, I have cauſed a very fair tomb to be erected, with a cave or cellar of hewed ſtone underneath it.

I have purchaſed from the dean and chapter of St. Patrick's church the inheritance of the upper part of the chancel, wherein the cave or cellar under ground is made, and wherein the tomb is built, to be a burying place for me and my poſterity, and their children."

This noble earl continued in great proſperity till the breaking out of the rebellion in Ireland in 1641; and the county of Corke was the laſt that ſuffered under the violences of the Papiſts, being the beſt inhabited with Engliſh of any part of that kingdom, by the plantations made by his lordſhip, and was in a great meaſure preſerved by his generoſity and diligence. He was then juſt returned out of England, and on this irruption immediately raiſed two troops of horſe, which he put under the command of his ſons, the lord viſcount Kinelmeaky and the lord Broghill, maintaining them and 400 foot for ſome months at his own charge (m);(m) Cox's Hiſtory of Ireland. Vol. II. p. 95. and at the battle of Liſcarrol, on the 3d of September 1642, wherein the Engliſh obtained a compleat victory, had no leſs than four of his ſons engaged, viz. his eldeſt ſon the lord viſcount Dungarvan, the lord viſcount Kinelmeaky, the lord Broghill, and Mr. Francis Boyle, afterwards created lord viſcount Shannon. But in this engagement he had the misfortune of loſing one of his ſons, the lord Kinelmeaky, governor of Bandon, who in ſeveral encounters had defeated the rebels, and with his father and brothers preſerved the county of Corke (n).(n) Ibid. p. 112. At length this great man, in the midſt of theſe confuſions, departed this life at Youghall, and was interred there near the date (if not on the day)