Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst, in Sussex, August 12th, 1772, 12 George III.

Arms. Sable, two bars, Ermine; in chief, three crosses, pattee, Or.

Crest. On a wreath, a dexter arm in mail, embowed, and holding a club with spikes, all proper.

Supporters. Two stags, Argent, each gorged with a collar gemell, Ermine.

Motto. TIEN TA FOY.

Chief Seat. At Cirencester, in the county of Gloucester.

THE name of Hill hath been of great antiquity, worth, and distinction in the counties of Stafford and Devon ;a and, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth, of considerable note and esteem in the counties of Downe and Antrim.

MOYSES HILL, Esq. the ancestor of the present Earl of Hillsborough, was, during the course of O'Neile's rebellion in the North, one of those gentlemen who (in 1573), were associated under Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, to suppress it; and, after the fatal disappointment and death of that Earl, served under his son, Robert Earl of Essex, who, March 12th, 1598, was appointed L. D. and sent with a very considerable army, to prosecute the rebels: but he returning to England in September, 1599, Mr. Hill continued in the army under Sir Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who succeeded upon that Earl's disgrace, and by him was appointed Governor of Olderfleet-Castle, an important fortress in

a Among others, who were principal ornaments of the name, may be reckoned Sir JOHN HILL, of Hill's Court, in the suburbs of Exeter, and county of Devon, who was born there, and, being bred to the law, was advanced to the degree of a Serjeant on the Monday next after the Purification, 1383 (6 Richard II.) and September 30th, 1400, was constituted by King Henry IV. one of the Justices of the court of King's Bench. Contemporary with whom was Sir Robert Hill, of Shilston, in the said county, Knt. who being also bred to the Law, was made the King's Serjeant in the same year (1400), and about nine years after appointed one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas, in which he was continued by the Kings Henry V. and VI. and acquired a great estate, which he left to his posterity, who flourished there for about nine generations after him; when the estate being wasted and disposed of by Robert Hill, Esq. and his son Edward, the family dispersed.

those times, as it guarded the harbour of Larne from the invasion of the Scots.

After the suppression of that rebellion, and King James's aceession to the crown, he served under Arthur, Lord Chichester, who was for many years Lord Deputy of Ireland, and his Majesty King James I. in consideration of his sufficiency, valour, skill, and long experience of his service in Ulster, constituted him, December 15th, 1603, the first Provost-Mareschal of the forces at Carrickfergus, with the fee of six shillings a day; and (as the King expresseth it), "forasmuch as the multitude of malefactors, and other loose and idle persons within the Province of Ulster, required that his Majesty should correct and repress them by some speedier and sharper means, than by the ordinary course of common laws; and considering the martial law and orders thereof to be very necessary for the reformation of such loose vagrants; and having had good experience of the circumspection, industry, knowledge, and indifferency of Sir Moyses Hill, Knight," his Majesty, April 14th, 1617, appointed him, for life, ProvostMareschal of the whole Province of Ulster, with full power to try and examine all disorders and offences, and, upon conviction, to proceed by martial law to judgment, and punishment by death, or otherwise, as the nature of the offence should merit.

In the parliament of 1613, he served for the county of Antrim; and, having acquired very large possessions in the aforenamed counties, died in February 1629-30, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He left two sons.

1. Peter, his heir.

2. Arthur, who afterwards succeeded to the estate.

And three daughters; the eldest married to Sir James Craige, of Carrickfergus, Knt.; the second, to Arthur, son and heir apparent of Sir Charles Wilmot, Viscount Wilmot, of Athlone, who dying October 31st, 1632, was buried in the church of St. Nicholas, Dublin; and the third, first, to Sir William Brooke," Knight of the Bath, son of George, brother to Henry, Lord Cobham; and, secondly, to Edward Russell, Esq. youngest son to Francis, Earl of Bedford, and by him, who died September 21st, 1665, was mother of Edward Earl of Orford, Vice-Admiral of England.

PETER HILL, Esq. the elder son, in 1641, was Sheriff of the

bOne of the daughters of this match was ancestor to Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart.; and another was wife to Sir John Denham the Poet. See Memoirs of Count Grammont.

county of Downe, and Provost-Mareschal thereof; and (as he sets forth in his deposition), being in Dublin when the rebellion began, he was sent thither in a barque by the L. J. and Council with directions, that, if it was possible, there should be a quarter session sitting within the said county, for indicting of the rebels; wherein he took such care, and so far hazarded himself, that a session was first held at Killileagh, where a great many rebels were legally indicted, and in another session at least an hundred more; in the proclaiming of the writs of outlawry against whom, he was in great danger of his life, as well as those of his soldiers and servants, which he kept at great charges, and who attended him in that service. When he first heard of the general rising of the Irish, in the county of Downe, and how the Protestants were robbed and stripped, and many of them murdered, he furnished himself with arins for ninety-four men, having only powder, match, and shot out of his Majesty's stores; with which he freighted a barque from Dublin, and landing at Stranford, raised and armed a company, some horse, some foot, and kept them at his own expense for about a year and a half, in which time he drove many rebels out of those parts, and did other acceptable services to the English government, until about the mouth of May, 1644, that he and his family were driven from his dwelling-house by several parties of the Scotch army, who plundered his house and stock, to a very great value, and obliged him to fly to Dublin for safety.

He married the daughter of Sorley Boye Mac Donell, and sister to Randal, the first Earl of Antrim, by whom he had Francis, his heir; and Randal, who died unmarried.

FRANCIS was seated at Hill-Hal, in the county of Downe, and married Ursula, daughter to Sir Francis Stafford, of Portglenone, in the county of Antrim, Knt. privy-counsellor to King James I. and left issue by her two daughters, his coheirs; Anne, married as hereafter; and Rose, to Sir Robert Colvil, of Newtown, in the county of Downe, Knt.

ARTHUR Hill, of Hillsborough, Esq. the younger son of Sir Moyses, who succeeded to the family estate upon the demise of his nephew Francis, without issue male, being Colonel of a regiment for King Charles I. against the Irish, which he raised in 1641, by direction of the government, was one of those officers who were deputed, in the year 1644, by the army in Ireland, to apply to the King and Parliament of England for succours against the rebels; and was also one of those who gallantly refused to

take the solemn league and covenant, which Monro endeavoured to introduce by force into the northern army. After the kingdom had submitted to the parliament in 1647, he continued to servé against the Irish; and had an order, dated at Cork, June 17th, 1652, to receive the sum of 1001. towards defraying his charges in coming from Ulster to the head-quarters, attending at Kilkenny and other places, and for special service done by him touching the forces and stores, and other public affairs. He was that year made one of the Commissioners of the revenue for the precinct of Belfast; and was also appointed November 21st, 1653, a Commissioner in the aforesaid precinct, for examining the delinquency of the Irish. He had also an order, dated August 6th, 1656 ("in consideration of his many public and eminent services, together with his sufferings, both in and after the rebellion, to the great furtherance and advancement of the public interest"), to receive 10001. in full satisfaction for his said services and sufferings.

Upon the restoration of King Charles II. he was appointed, March 19th, 1660, one of the Commissioners of the court of claims, for putting in execution his Majesty's declaration of the 30th of November, for the settlement of Ireland, and satisfaction of the several interests of adventurers, soldiers, and others; and having been very early and eminently active, with the hazard of his life and estate, in his endeavours in Ireland to restore the King, he was sworn a member of his Majesty's Privy-council, on the establishment thereof; and November 18th, 1661, had a pardon, dated at Westminster, for all crimes, &c. committed by him during the course of the rebellion, which the most innocent were obliged, for their own security, to sue out at that time. He sat in several parliaments, which were called in Ireland, particularly in that of 1641, when he was zealous in the prosecution of the Earl of Strafford, for his arbitrary proceedings in that kingdom; and in the parliament, called by Cromwell in 1656, to represent the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, he was chosen for the counties of Downe, Antrim, and Armagh. In the parliament of 1661, he represented the county of Downe; and the King having had for some years many thousand pounds short of the estimated value of the customs and excise, appointed one of the members of his Privy-council to sit constantly with the Commissioners of those revenues, and assist in the ordering of those affairs; and October 21st, 1662, constituted him his agent and commissioner, for inspecting into his customs and excise.