ed,
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).

ANTRIM, a county in the north-east corner of Ireland, in the province of
Ulster. It is bounded N. and E. by the narrow seas separating Ireland
from Scotland, the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea, S. by Belfast Lough and
the Lagan river dividing it from the county Down, W. by Lough Neagh,
dividing it from the counties Armagh and Tyrone, and by county
Londonderry, the boundary with which is the river Bann.

The area is 751,965 acres or about 1175 sq. m. A large portion of the
county is hilly, especially in the east, where the highest elevations
are attained, though these are nowhere great. The range runs north and
south, and, following this direction the highest points are Knocklayd
(1695 ft.), Slieveanorra (1676), Trostan (1817), Slemish (1457), and
Divis (1567). The inland slope is gradual, but on the northern shore the
range terminates in abrupt and almost perpendicular declivities, and
here, consequently, some of the finest coast scenery in th