the Patriot Parliament summoned by James II in 1688. The younger daughters were born in France and baptised in the Catholic church. Frances and Mary married Catholic men. Henrietta does not seem to have married. Early in June 1676 comte Hamilton was killed by a musket-shot in a rear-guard action at the Col de Saverne and she was widowed. On 7 July Charles II created the widow Baroness Rosse and Countess of Bantry "for life". Second marriage Frances remarried in 1681 in Paris, taking as her second husband an old suitor she had previously rejected: Richard Talbot. Her husband was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland (viceroy) and the couple lived in Dublin. He oversaw a dramatic expansion of the Irish Army, transforming it from a mainly Protestant to a Catholic force. Talbot was created Earl of Tyrconnell in the peerage of Ireland in 1685 and she became Countess of Tyrconnell. In 1688 during the Glorious Revolution James II fled England and was replaced with Queen Mary and King William. However, in 1689 James II landed in Ireland trying to regain his kingdoms. Soon after his arrival, on 20 March 1689, he made Tyrconnell a duke and she became duchess. This title is in the Jacobite peerage. Nonetheless, Frances is frequently called Duchess of Tyrconnell. They had no children. In 1690, after James II's defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, the king fled to their home and was met by Frances. According to later sources, King James remarked, ‘Your countrymen, madam, can run well’ and Lady Tyrconnell replied, ‘Not quite so well as your majesty, for I see that you have won the race’. In August 1690 Lady Tyrconnell fled to France with her daughters and 40,000 gold coins. She became one of the ladies-in-waiting of Mary of Modena, exiled Queen of England at the Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Her husband stayed in Ireland and died during the Siege of Limerick on 14 August 1691. Later life In 1691 or 1692, after her husband's death, she was allowed to visit England to petition for the possession of the Irish lands that had been settled upon her as her jointure when she married Tyrconnell and which had been confiscated after his attainder in 1689. It might have been at this visit to London that, out of necessity, she had a dressmaker's stall at the New Exchange in the Strand in Westminster. She