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was stipulated that the tenants’ houses should, for the sake of security, be built in a group (vicinatim) and not in a scattered manner (sparsim).
By indenture, dated May 31st 1615, John Archdale purchased the lands of Curran- lurge, in Fermanagh, from Captain Philip Griffith of Enniskillen, “ for a competente some of lawfull Englishe money.” The purchaser’s father-in-law, Sir William Temple, was one of the four witnesses to this deed, which is one of the oldest in the possession of the family. ¹
It appears that this property passed into the possession of John’s next brother, Martin Archdale ; for by another deed, dated June 10th 1617, Martin sold Curranlurge to his elder brother for the sum of £412. It is not unlikely that the death of his brother Samuel, as well as of Lady Ayloffe in the same year occasioned the sale by Martin Archdale of his Fermanagh property, and his return to England.
John Archdale served as High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1616, and died on August 31st 1621. He was, by that time, lord of the two proportions, Tallanagh (or Archdale) and Drumragh, in the baronies of Lurg and Magheraboy respectively, each proportion containing its fortified manor house ; with 240 acres adjoining in the former barony, comprising the lands of Curranlurge. The Phillips MS, written a century later, states that the property thus acquired in Fermanagh contained “ many pleasant and fertile Islandes, excellent soyle for stood mares, for fattening oxen or weaders ; ye woods whereof might purchase a considerable estate.”
John Archdale married firstly, at Eye, Suffolk, on January 14th 1600-1 Frances, eldest surviving daughter of Edward Honings, of Carlton, Darsham and Eye, and great-granddaughter of Sir Anthony Wingfield, Knight of the Garter. By her, who was buried at Darsham on January 29th 1613-14, he had five children :—
1. Edward Archdale, of whom presently.
2. Martin Archdale (Ven.), baptised at Darsham, January 24th 1607-8. He became a Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin, May 1623 ; was Rector of Straboe, in the diocese of Leighlin, in 1634-5 ; and was collated Archdeacon of Ferns, February 28th 1639-40. In the Rebellion of 1641, he lost property amounting to £1104, and his livings, worth £200 a year (MS. Trin. College, Dublin, F. 2. 11). He died before 1660.
3. John Archdale (Ven.), ancestor of the collateral Irish branch of the family (see Chap. IV)
1. Mary Archdale, baptised at Darsham, January 2nd 1605-6 ; married the Rev. Randolph, or Randal Adams, of Mullingar, and had issue (see Monumental Inscription, Appendix E).
2. Barbara Archdale, baptised at Darsham, October 17th 1613.
John Archdale;s second wife, Katherine, was the eldest daughter of Sir William Temple, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and a sister of Sir John Temple, master of the Rolls in Ireland. Mrs. Archdale was an aunt of Swift’s friend and patron, Sir William Temple of Moor Park. She married, secondly, Sir John Veel (or Vell), by whom she had, with other issue, a son Cary Veel. She died on November 13th 1642, and was buried at St. Werburgh’s Dublin, on the 15th.
According to the Funeral entry of Katherine, his second wife, John Archdale had by her, “ divers children, but they are all dead.” One of these, Lettice Archdale, married Tobias Norris, of Dublin, and died on October 28th 1642.
EDWARD ARCHDALE, the eldest son of John Archdale and Frances Honings, was baptised at Darsham on April 15th 1604, and succeeded to the Fermanagh estates on his father’s death in 1621.
By an Inquisition taken at Enniskillen on the last day of February 1623-4, before Sir Paul Gore, Captain Atkinson and others, it appears that there were nine Irish tenants on the Archdale estate of Tallanagh.²
Edward Archdale had not long been in possession of his lands, when a dispute arose
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