L800

l800, together with lands in mayo. at the restoration antrim was excluded from the act of oblivion on account of his religion, and on presenting himself at court was imprisoned in the tower, subsequently being called before the lords justices in ireland. in 1663 he succeeded, in spite of ormonde's opposition, in securing a decree of innocence from the commissioners of claims. this raised an outcry from the adventurers who had been put in possession of his lands, and who procured a fresh trial; but antrim appealed to the king, and through the influence of the queen mother obtained a pardon, his estates being restored to him by the irish, act of explanation in 1665.[3] antrim died on the 3rd of february 1683. he is described by clarendon as of handsome appearance but "of excessive pride and vanity and of a marvellous weak and narrow understanding." he married secondly rose, daughter of sir henry o'neill, but had no children, being succeeded in the earldom by his brother alexander, 3rd earl of antrim. see _hibernia anglicana_, by r. cox (1689-1690) esp. app. xlix. vol. ii. 206; _history of the irish confederation_, by j.t. gilbert (1882-1891); _aphorismical discovery_ (irish archaeological society, 1879-1880); _thomason tracts_ (brit. mus.), e 59 (18), 149 (12), 138 (7), 153 (19), 61 (23); _murder will out, or the king's letter justifying the marquess of antrim_ (1689); _hist. mss. comm. series--mss. of marq. of ormonde._ (p. c. y.) footnotes: [1] strafford's _letters_, ii. 300. [2] _life of ormonde_, iii. 509; see also _cal. of state papers, ireland, 1660-1662_, pp. 294, 217; _cal. of clarendon st. pap._, ii. 69, and gardiner's _commonwealth_, i. 153. [3] hallam, _const. hist._, iii. 396 (ed. 1855).