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What title did Richard Talbot Tyrconnel attain in 1685?

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He was arrested and exiled for supposed complicity in the Popish Plot (see Oates, Titus ), but after the accession (1685) of James II, he was created earl (1685) and sent as commander in chief of the forces in Ireland.

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