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38 GLENARM.
ing Mary, ‘(laughter of Sir John Bissett, claimedthe lands
"called Glcnshiesk, that is, the Baronies ‘of Carey ‘and
Glenarm; and thus it was that the Antrim family became ’
entitled to the ‘Bissett's property. The Barony of Dunluce
became the property of the M‘DonnelIs, in right of
M‘Quillan's daughter, who married a M‘Donncll, and so
the claim of the M‘Donnells to three Baronies ‘of the
county becomes perfectly ‘plain. This family was
M enhobled by the title of Viscount Dunluce, in the person
of Sir Randal M‘Sorley 'M‘Donne]l ‘of Dunluce, June
25th, 1618. Thersame distinguishedpersonage was, two
years after, raised to the Earldom of Antrim. His -son
Randal, afterwards Marquis of Antrim, was equally re-
markable for his abilities and misfortunes. He was
treacherously arrested on one ‘occasion, by .Monroe,
while entertaining him with hospitality at his castle of Dun-
luce,4and confined in" the castle. of Carrick-Fergns,'whence
he escaped to York, and complained to the ‘Queen.
Returning to Ireland again with -instructions, he’ was
‘seized once ‘more by the avaricious ‘and treacherous
general, ‘and committed to the same ‘castle, from which
he a second time effected his escape, and flying‘ into
England, by the assistance of the rMarq’uis of Montrose,
was commissioned ‘to raise a‘force ‘in Ireland for his Ma-
jesty, land transport it into Scotland to-oppose the “cove-
nanters. The Marquis married, first, -‘thewidow of George
Villiers, Duke of Bucldngham, andsecondly, Rose,=daugh-
ter of Sir Henry O’Neill, iof ‘Shane’-s vcastle ; but dying
without issue, thettitile of >Marquis1became <extinct,%a1id
theearldom devolvedron his?brot11er‘Alex'ander. '
T he‘ monastery of -Glenarm, -though founded by the
3Bissetts, ‘appears to have’ been retained by the Crown
from the time of Edward the Second,-and grantedto Alex-
